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Sustainability, as an idea, has been making its rounds for decades, taking on different forms and shapes to serve varying agendas, soothe fears, and attempt, in some fashion, to stop or limit the damage that humans have been doing to the earth for our entire existence. However, that’s the problem with traditional understandings of the word “sustainability” – they are focused more on how humans can continue on our trajectory while doing less damage. In reality, sustainability should be focused on creating a symbiotic relationship between humans and our planet, not emphasizing one more than the other.
The idea of “regenerative sustainability” is more in line with creating a situation in which humans and nature continue to thrive, advance, and get healthier over time. It’s a holistic approach to sustainability that sees the resources humans use to survive and the humans themselves as equals, each one requiring respect, care, and happiness. The challenge with regenerative sustainability is that it requires a paradigm shift; for it to be effective, humans have to completely alter how we, as a whole, see our relationship with earth and our responsibility to earth.
Learning from Indigenous Communities
Indigenous communities in the US and all over the globe have been practicing regenerative sustainability for centuries. You’ve probably heard of controlled burns that were conducted by tribes in the US to help keep the forests healthy and reduce the risk of wildfires. Eventually, the government intervened and prohibited or severely limited these practices, and in the years since, wildfires have been running rampant.
Also known for sustainable farming practices, refraining from using chemicals, and often moving around to not place too much damage in one area of earth for elongated periods of time, indigenous communities have seen their relationship with the planet through a regenerative lens throughout history. We have a lot to learn from native tribes and other communities who called these lands home before the era of colonization swept the earth.
The Practice of EcoVillages and Micro-Communities
Perhaps one of the biggest lessons indigenous communities have been illustrating for centuries is the power of ecovillages and micro-communities and the role these small, regenerative villages play in finding harmony with the resources they use to survive. Ecovillages today exist all over the US, with upwards of 400 communities being widely known.
This community-led approach to living isn’t new, the practices and mindsets that exist in ecovillages are beneficial for humans and all other living species. Usually emphasizing regenerative farming practices, conservation, and a symbiotic relationship with our surroundings, these communities could be the answer to how humankind is meant to move forward. Something has to change on a deep level and it all starts with how we perceive our reality. That’s why true regenerative sustainability seems difficult to attain to many people, because it would require them to do deep internal work to see the world around them differently and rebuild their relationship with nearly every single thing.
Logistics of EcoVillages
Ecovillages and micro-communities can operate differently from one another, depending on what works best for that specific community, though they often operate with a similar set of values. Designed to be economically and socially sustainable, these communities focus on how they can thrive while also supporting the health of the land and resources they are using to do so. Seeing themselves as visitors and borrowers of land and nature instead of owners and users helps drive regenerative sustainability.
These communities can come in different shapes and sizes but are often a collection of semi-permanent dwellings with families and couples having their own living quarters and shared community spaces for all residents to enjoy. The “cost” to joining an ecovillage usually comes in the form of work, which could be tending the garden, cooking food to provide for the community, or other jobs that keep things running smoothly.
Our geodesic domes are the perfect accommodation for many of these communities because they come in different sizes, can be connected with one other if desired, are easy to assemble, and do not require any damage to be done to the earth they sit on.
EcoVillage Regenerative Focuses
This helpful map of regeneration illustrates the areas in which many ecovillages aim to regenerate. The categories include social, culture, ecology, and economy, showcasing just how holistic and well-rounded ecovillages aim to be. There is still the desire to create a sense of community and care for its people while ensuring that people are not considered more important than their surroundings.
Regenerative sustainability doesn’t mean we all have to live miserable and unhappy lifestyles to save the planet. In fact, it’s quite the contrary. By leading lives that help us live in harmony as equals with everything around us, we can avoid natural disasters, widespread hunger, poverty, and many other ailments that the human race currently battles against daily. What if, instead of trying to push back against all these realities, we target to get to the root of the problem and change how we live? If the earth is happier, we’ll be happier, and that’s a guarantee.
It’s a Necessary Shift
The brightest minds in all of science are telling humans there’s only a number of years before the damage we have done to our planet is irreversible. At this point, we don’t have the liberty of doing what’s convenient, we must do what’s right. We know the path forward, and while it might not be easy, it will benefit every living thing, including humans.
Shifting to regenerative lifestyles doesn’t necessarily mean everyone has to live in an ecovillage, but these communities can help drive accountability, develop better, more restorative ways of functioning, and maybe, if we’re lucky, get us to a place where we can find harmony with our natural resources instead of using and abusing them. All it takes is a few geodesic domes, dedicated community members, and ambition to restore the earth – sounds easy enough, right?
Ecovillage at Ithaca
In 1991, EcoVillage at Ithaca was one of only a handful of co-housing communities in the U.S., and about 20 intentional living communities in the world. Today, EcoVillage at Ithaca is part of a global movement of people seeking to create positive solutions to the social, environmental and economic crises our planet faces. EcoVillage at Ithaca has evolved into a large, fully functioning community with buildings, landscape, roads, paths, farms, gardens, governance structures, group process and intentional relationships. Even though Ecovillage at Ithaca is one of the oldest ecovillages in the world, they are still accepting new members that fit within their structure.
The Solheimar eco-village, Iceland
the Solheimar eco-village. Located just half an hour away from Geysir and Gulfloss, and Hveragerdi, Solheimar lies on the road back to Reykjavik. This tiny village deserves more attention than it gets, as it is one of the oldest thriving ecovillages in the world, and is a model community for green-minded individuals.
Volunteers and interns from all over the world visit Solheimar to learn about sustainable living, and contribute to the community.
The Findhorn Foundation, Scotland
The Findhorn Foundation is a spiritual community, ecovillage and an international centre for holistic learning, helping to unfold a new human consciousness and create a positive and sustainable future. Bi-annually a cultural explosion takes place in the area in the form of Findhorn Bay Arts Festival, which showcases local and international visual, musical, and theatrical artists. The community of Findhorn and the wider Forres area have been awarded a Creative Place Award in 2015 in recognition for their involvement in this, and other creative projects. | <urn:uuid:e154b446-7a44-4061-847f-0c1df110cb39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ekodome.com/saving-sustainability-the-impact-of-regenerative-ecovillages-and-micro-communities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951849 | 1,643 | 3.453125 | 3 |
The largest guava orchard in Asia has been established in the border areas of three districts Jhalokati, Barisal, and Pirojpur. This guava orchard has been developed on about 31,000 acres of land in 26 villages of the districts. About 20,000 families in all these places are directly involved in guava cultivation Besides, Banaripara Upazila of Barisal is also famous for guava cultivation Vimruli Floating Market in Jhalokati district in the southern part of Bangladesh. Although this market is open throughout the year, it comes to life in the guava season Bikini runs from morning to evening every day of the week along the winding small canals of Bhimruli village, about 15 km from Jhalokati district town. Hundreds of boats loaded with guavas. Vendors look for buyers in the canals here. And most of the buyers are wholesalers.
They came to the market with big engine boats. He bought guavas from small boats and shipped them to Dhaka or any other big city. Bhimruli Hat sits at an estuary of the canal. Three canals from three directions have merged here. In this relatively wide estuary, the fruit growers go by boat to find buyers with the fruits. Innumerable guava orchards in all the villages around Vimruli. From these orchards, farmers bring guavas directly to this market by boat. There is a small bridge over the canal at the northern end of the floating market. From there the market can be seen very well. The interesting thing is that the size and design of all the boats that come here are almost the same. It seems like all boats are made by the same craftsman.
How To Go There
There are many ways to get there. It is best to go to the launch.
The way to Jhalokati by the launch
The launches ‘MV Tipu’ and ‘MV Sundarbans-2’ leave Sadarghat for Jhalokati at 6 pm. The rent for a double cabin is 1,600 Taka. Single cabin Tk 1000 and call Taka 200 per person..
Way to go to Jhalakati by steamer
BIWTA’s rocket-steamers ‘PS Mahsud’, ‘PS Ostrich’, ‘PS Lepcha’ and ‘PS Turn’ depart from Sadarghat in Dhaka at 6 pm The steamers take turns on weekdays. The rent is Tk. 1,250 per person in a first-class cabin. 760 per person in the second class cabin. 190 Tk per person for the third class.
Way to go to Guava Bazaarvia Hularhat by the launch
You can get on the launch of Hularhat from Dhaka Sadarghat. Every night from 7 pm to 8 pm 3/4 launches leave for Hularhat. Sit on it. Rent: Deck 100-180 Taka (crowd understands). Single cabin 900 Taka, double 1800 Taka. You will reach Banaripara at 6 am the next day. Get down here. Because your river will be seen in it. Get down to Banaripara and fix a big trawler. The rent will be between 1500 to 2000 Taka. Ask them to set up a tent. Tell the trawler to take Vimruli directly first. Because Bhimruli is the largest floating guava market in the region. It will take an hour and a half. Go to Bhimruli and look around for an hour. Read the shot from here at 1 o’clock. Then ask the boatman to take you to the boat market near Atghar School. Go there, stop the boat, and take a bath.
Then go to Kuriana market. Have lunch there and get on the boat. Now tell the boatman to lower Banaripara / Nesharabad. You can get a bus to both places of Barisal. Get on the bus and get off. Visit Guthia Mosque. Then Durgasagar Dighi in an auto. Then go to Barisal by bus. It starts at 8.30 am without a launch from Barisal. The last launch left shortly after 9 p.m.
Those who want to go by bus
to Dhaka Gabtoli Sakura Paribahan AC bus also goes to Jhalokati. The rent is Tk 800 Besides, non-AC buses of ‘Druti’, ‘Eagle’, ‘Survi’ and ‘Sakura’ transport also go, the fare is 350 to 450 Tk. Besides, there is a Sugandha Paribahan bus from Dhaka’s Saidabad to Jhalokati Sadar. It takes about half an hour to reach this market by motorbike from Jhalokati district headquarters. And the engine boat actually takes an hour. Engine boats can be rented from the Jhalakathi launch dock or Kathapatti.
The daily rent of a boat suitable for 10 people is 1500 to 2000 Taka. In this way, it is better to ride an engine boat than a motorbike.
Take the Khulna-bound Dhansinri Paribahan from the Rupatali bus stand in Barisal. After crossing Jhalokati, you will be asked to drop it at Kirtipasha’s turn. The rent will be 60 Taka. From there you can go to Vimruli in shared auto with 20-30 Taka.
Where to eat
Bhimruli went to Kuriana market. There is a shop called Morning Evening Hotel (locally known as Baudir Hotel). Its cooking is very good. Needless to say, if 5-7 people go. If you go to a large group, go with the order. Sit at Baudi’s restaurant and eat rice with fresh fish.
Where to stay
All-day you can come back from Jhalakathi in the evening. If you want to stay, the only hope is the standard hotel in the district town. One or two hotels in the city are ‘Dhansindri Rest House’ on Kalibari Road, ‘Arafat Boarding’ on Batasa Patti, ‘Halima Boarding’ on Sadar Road, etc. The rent is 100 to 250 Taka. You can also stay at Hotel Ifti at Mia Hat in Swarapakathi. It is also an experience to stay in this standard hotel built on the banks of the river. But if you want to stay in a good hotel, you have to go to Barisal Sadar. Its distance from Jhalakathi is about twenty kilometers.
When to go
July, August, September Guava season. When the guava season is over, the mango season comes. Mango yield is also ubiquitous in this region. And finally comes the betel nut.
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real life example of private cloud
The ROI doesn't pencil for me," he says. RehabCare is working on a pre-admission screening application that should require less paperwork to add a new patient. Good. Kavis is 100 percent comfortable with the perimeter security provided by Amazon, which is "at a level very few companies can do," he says. Bottom line: Applications that run on Apple's iOS can be hosted by Force.com. A public cloud is where an independent, third-party provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, owns and maintains compute resources that customers can access over the internet. Before vSphere Version 4, Reidy explains, you could get firewall appliances running as virtual machines, but "they were severely limited in their performance, because network traffic had to pass through those virtual machines," he says. Most of these services can be used as IaaS, and most companies who use … Digitization does not stop at the proverbial concrete gold — real estate. InterContinental Hotels Group, with more than 600,000 hotel rooms under seven brands, including Holiday Inn and InterContinental, laid the foundation in 2010 for greater use of software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and, ultimately, hybrid cloud computing that blends an in-house cloud data center with public cloud services from providers such as Amazon. The venture-backed company's SaaS manages tasks such as scheduling appointments, documenting work orders, building the parts lists needed for a job, and recording time spent on a visit. Common examples of infrastructure as a service. Capturing billing details on a standard claims form is a time and money saver. Ex: Dropbox, Gmail, Facebook. We show you popular news that illustrate how relevant the common web vulnerabilities are. Cloud computing, once an object of skepticism, even taunts, is taking center stage at a handful of companies. Modules in the application now handle patient scheduling and capture a therapist's notes written during a treatment. "We're excited by how quickly it's moving to the business audience," he says. Hybrid-cloud A hybrid cloud architecture is mix of on-premises, private, and public cloud services with orchestration between the cloud platforms. Back to Technical Glossary. According to a study by Forbes, Cloud computing is projected to increase from $67B in 2015 to $162B in 2020 attaining a CAGR of 19%. IHG has tested Amazon EC2's Singapore data center, to see if it's faster to serve Chinese customers from there. The data center for private … IHG considers these highly virtualized Savvis and Verizon data centers cloud resources, but there's a key distinction--in reliability and guarantees--from standard pay-as-you-go resources such as Amazon's. For some perspective on just how vital cloud storage and computing is to our daily lives, here are 8 real-world examples of cloud computing: Examples of Cloud Storage. That’s fine if you don’t go out much but if you travel a lot, this may cause problems. Run entire operations. It syncs data using servers and software provided by a third-party vendor, Casamba, with which it co-developed the software. IaaS provides a customer full control of virtualized hardware, memory, and storage. The Public Cloud. The Symplified system can operate in a SaaS model itself, but the device company chose to implement a Symplified-managed router behind its firewall. 11/16/2020. Hybrid Cloud Definition. How consumers use cloud computing. Having established a host in the cloud, companies are sometimes finding it easier to integrate partners into that cloud rather than their own on-premises systems. LinkedIn. In this Community Cloud Model, we are going to learn the important advantages of Community Cloud with an example. An estimated 99% of them had been cracked by the time LeakedSource.com published … Although IHG is using at least three cloud delivery methods--SaaS, infrastructure as a service, and a private cloud--Koehler's well aware of the shortcomings of each. Cloud computing is a growing market. (Amazon recently said EC2 is capable of PCI-compliant transactions.) All of those systems involve highly proprietary information that IHG isn't willing to risk in the public cloud at this stage. 3. It's using public cloud infrastructure for application development and testing, and also to host Web content closer to customers worldwide. "It improves performance, stability and security by a factor of 10," Reidy says. A global financial services firm and one of the largest banks in the United States began using a platform-as-a-service private cloud five years ago. Their Percona Server-based database solution helps eliminates data bottlenecks during high-usage periods. When Matt Reidy, director of IT operations at SnagAJob.com, embarked on the company's three-year technology refresh, his goal was to move from a 75 percent virtualized environment to a 100 percent virtualized, private secure-compute cloud, using Dell blade servers running VMware and vSphere at the core. "Some download it anyway." But now, vSphere includes an API called VMsafe that enables firewall vendors such as Altor, Checkpoint and others to move traffic inspection into the VMware kernel. This year will bring PCI-compliant credit card transactions to the cloud, providing a symbol, at least, of the cloud's improved security. Good. Because now there is a fourth option gaining some traction in the IT world. Startups ServiceMax (on Force.com) and NVoicePay (on Microsoft Azure) rely on the cloud as their primary architecture, while running as little of their own data center infrastructure as possible. Public cloud users share these resources, a model known as a multi-tenant environment. RehabCare also gives therapists Google's cloud-based e-mail and productivity suite, Google Apps, for which it pays $50 a year per user, instead of buying Microsoft Office. Companies are realizing the benefits of digital transformation and are capitalizing on the power of new technologies such as cloud, AI and blockchain. We’ll start with … HubSpot. When an NVoicePay customer pays a vendor, the actual transaction, by credit card or direct funds transfer, is executed in a small data center run by NVoicePay. Can Low Code Measure Up to Tomorrow's Programming Demands? Kavis then built a virtual image applying those controls and created a snapshot that he can replicate anytime he needs to set up a new virtual machine. Cloud can be used for storage of files. Most often that organization is the single tenant—that is, unless the organization might want to host a private, multi-tenanted cloud for various internal segments or units of the organization. A hybrid cloud is a type of cloud computing that combines on-premises infrastructure – or a private cloud – with a public cloud. Some guys have all the luck – or not. The service may be free, freemium, or subscription-based, charged based on the computing resources consumed. At the same time, major problems remain unresolved. McAravey says he's administering NVoicePay's virtual machines in the cloud as if they were a part of the company's own data center, but the database services in the cloud still lack some of the reporting capabilities that he has on premises. Infrastructure as a service, or IaaS, is managed computing infrastructure that is offered on demand such that computing can be quickly scaled up and down. The cloud vendor is responsible for developing, managing and maintaining th… For example, a packaged BPaaS offering that handles business travel processing or order-to-cash processes may be available, as well as other services that will handle load processing or payroll services, and predesigned services useful for everything from processing claims to managing clinical data for drug trials. Marketing executives didn't want users to have more than one log-in, and IT wanted to retain access control over the applications, especially when it came to adding new employees and terminating their accounts when they left the company. Got those three? 4. Kroger also has a private cloud that it relies upon for specific needs. This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. "We know one of their three data centers have our data—it's not just sent into the cloud and we don't know where the data is," he says. The Hybrid Cloud. Hybrid clouds allow data and apps to move between the two environments. IHG wants to extend this mode of operation, using cloud providers rather than building new data centers worldwide. By setting up the system in this way, firms are able to significantly reduce their space requirements. Also slated for Camelot is IHG's core revenue management and room yield system that determines room rates. Far from shunning the consumer aspects of the iPod Touch and iPhone, "we encouraged them to put their personal stuff on the device," Escue says. For example, many people tend to believe that — since a private cloud is “private” — it must be hosted on – site (thereby, making it more private). CSO |. "With us, there's the matter of cross-charging: Who do I bill this usage to? Back to Technical Glossary. Rarely because it's considered cheaper. Hybrid clouds allow data and apps to move between the two environments. These companies understand the cloud's shortcomings, whether it's Amazon's weak service-level agreements, Microsoft's less-than-complete Azure service, or their own companies' inexperience with managing cloud resources. 8 video chat apps compared: Which is best for security? 22 October 2020 – Horangi brings its flagship cloud security solution, Warden Warden, to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), making it a multi-cloud solution. It evaluated public cloud providers in 2016 and currently has two wholesale trading apps on a public cloud. Oftentimes, it's the ease of integration afforded by the cloud servers, using standard Web service practices, that lets a company launch a new mobile application faster or run a business process that cuts across many partners more efficiently. IT leaders may offer the cloud their benign neglect, if they choose, but they'll wake up one day to a changed world. Private Cloud: The user control over On-premise is more. 11/23/2020, Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, That means ServiceMax IT may need to offer its own remote distribution and management mechanisms if the company's users adopt such devices. Its first iteration runs on Force.com (and integrates with Salesforce CRM) and is geared for laptops and smartphones, mostly the BlackBerry. 22 October 2020 ... Real Life Examples Of Web Vulnerabilities. The trust boundary between a customer and the cloud supplier is certainly in motion, but where, exactly, has it landed? Unlike established companies such as InterContinental and RehabCare that add cloud computing onto their businesses, startups are built on it. One example is the popular Game of Thrones Ascent, a free role-playing game launched by Disruptor Beam and based on the hit HBO series, Game of Thrones. "We view infrastructure as a service as a best-effort business model," says Koehler. Many organizations can reap significant benefits from the hybrid cloud option. "He said, 'Now we can put a computer into the hands of every employee. The private cloud is the one in which cloud infrastructure is set aside for exclusive use by single organization. The hybrid model is also often used within healthcare. Businesses are increasingly incorporating the cloud in their operations. It's in the process of moving its core room reservation system off a mainframe by rewriting it as a distributed Java system. Here's a peek into a few of the biggest concerns that users have and how four companies have chosen to handle them. RehabCare CIO Dick Escue remembers when he first pushed the idea of bringing Apple devices into the company, and how that thinking helped forged an alliance with CEO John Short. The user control over the private cloud is less as third party providers control them. To grow, NVoicePay needs to develop payment apps tuned to more industries. That approach has its limits, given the immaturity of cloud platforms. The 4 pillars of Windows network security, Avoiding the snags and snares in data breach reporting: What CISOs need to know, Why CISOs must be students of the business, The 10 most powerful cybersecurity companies. "Because the rules haven't changed to reflect cloud computing, regulations still require visits to the physical box, and you can't do that in the public cloud," he says. But for a company like ours, we need to know a heck of a lot more about how it's being operated.". While robotics have been used in manufacturing for decades, Industry 4.0 has given new life to this technology. ... Real Life Examples Of Web Vulnerabilities. "We're able to tighten our security more because we can see what's flowing and write rules based around what we see versus what we think is going on." But laptops are bulky and slow to boot up, while smartphone screens are too small for documents. Unless you carry a mobile WiFi-enabled laptop with you everywhere you go or use push email on your cellphone, having an email client sitting on your computer at home means that while out and about you risk spending time outside of the communication loop. Often a hybrid cloud is used within finance. With IaaS, he emphasizes, "it's up to me to build an architecture that can have high reliability. Copyright © 2010 IDG Communications, Inc. Nevertheless, IHG expects the cloud to keep improving, and it's building its next-generation data center capacity in a way that'll make it possible to connect to Amazon or a similar public cloud for additional capacity. Why are they moving to the cloud? At Flushing Bank in New York, CIO Allen Brewer turned to the cloud for data backup after getting fed up with on-site tape backup. In terms of online infrastructure, so far the cloud isn't a big cost saver, though Koehler thinks the economies of scale will make it cheaper over the long haul. The upload step was cumbersome, and lines of therapists would often form around the PCs at the end of the day. That will let it run on industry-standard hardware, which means, among other advantages, IHG won't have to hunt for increasingly scarce mainframe talent. But it relies on the Microsoft SQL Azure cloud platform for the rest of its computing horsepower, such as notifying parties of payments and updating their customers' accounting systems. Example of Public cloud: •Amazon elastic compute cloud (EC2) •IBM SmartCloud Enterprise•Google AppEngine •Windows Azure Services Platform Private Cloud. Think of it as a public cloud environment, but with set levels of security, privacy, and even regulatory compliance of a private cloud. And it's evaluating moving key proprietary systems such as room reservation software into the cloud. Building a private cloud. Copyright © 2020 IDG Communications, Inc. Nearly all cloud users find they still need on-premises systems, particularly for sensitive information. Relying on a cloud provider can have its setbacks, Escue admits, whether the servers are in a Casamba, Salesforce, or even Apple data center. Hybrid cloud management involves unique entities that are managed as one across all environments. ", One concern Kavis has yet to address is auditing. The future of ServiceMax, a startup that provides SaaS for managing field technicians, faces a different challenge. Private cloud: A private cloud is restricted to one organization. "I don't want to manage servers," he says. Brewer also chose Zecurion because he knows the location of the data center where his information is stored. According to the “2016 State of the Cloud Report” by RightScale, in 2016, the Private Cloud adoption rate stands at 77%, up from 63% in 2015. Horangi Launches Fully Integrated Cloud Security & Automated Remediation For Google Cloud Platform. "Everything we send and store is encrypted at the vendor site.". Use the AWS CLI to create a VPC with a public subnet and a private subnet. You will need a free account with each service to share an item via that service. This is one area w… ; Hybrid Cloud:Cloud services are distributed among public and private clouds. That includes internet Pioneer Yahoo , who found itself on the wrong side of the history books. "The only way I can be totally down is if multiple Amazon zones are down," he says. Google initially started with a public cloud platform only but now they offer hybrid cloud services also with some of the well-known private cloud companies like Cisco. Private Cloud: The user control over On-premise is more. So there you have it, five examples of computing in the cloud. Nevertheless, as a group, they show the real-world potential of cloud computing. Tags: cloud cloud companies cloud computing cloud storage the cloud. Either way, "it's kind of like a guardian," Cannon says. Many of the things you do every day are made possible through the cloud—like email, online banking, file storage and backup, social media and even online shopping. We'll use that for passing audits, but everything else will be in the public cloud." "Some rely on the vendor to supply encryption, but we do our own," Brewer says. The private cloud is used for trade orders, while the public cloud is used for trade analytics. Before the technology refresh, SnagAJob had a multitier infrastructure, with firewalls providing physical separation between the Web, application and database layers.
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In order to boost the development of digital transformations through Europe, it is vital to address the current shortage of talents capable of leading the innovation needed to capitalise on advances in new digital and key enabling technologies.
This calls for a specific set of skills, which the European Commission defines as e-leadership skills. E-leaders aren’t simply leaders with digital skills – they combine business knowledge (for example, business models and strategies) with understanding of technology (upcoming technologies and the risks and opportunities of new technology) and classic leadership skills (conviction, mentoring and mediation).
Nowadays, the supply of e-leadership skills in Europe is below demand. The eLead project intends to fill this gap by creating educational material for VET professionals involved in training processes for workers and managers in high-tech/digital sector, in order to implement and promote training paths for the acquisition of e-leadership skills.
The e-Lead project activities aim at providing VET trainers, in-company trainers, experts in high-tech sector, trainers working with SME’s and start-ups, incubators and accelerators (primary target group) with specific knowledge, skills and competences necessary to promote, guide, assist, facilitate and assess the acquisition of e-leadership skills. The final beneficiaries of the project are people working in high-tech sector, in particular in SMEs or start-ups (workers, Managers, Company leaders, Key roles in high-tech companies). This aims at promoting innovative practices to reduce e-skills shortage in Europe.
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Taming The Social Conflict (Middle East)
Annabaa Magazine aims at getting researchers and intellectuals involved in the issue of social conflicts management. The purpose is to develop an approach based on different opinions and theories that lead to eliminating the violence based on social conflicts. To do so, Annabaa Magazine conducts several polls and interviews to gather the necessary data in order to present possible solutions and recommendations.
Annabaa Magazine : If we cannot eliminate social conflicts, is there an opportunity to transform the conflict from its destructive nature to a positive course benefiting all parties involved? What are the steps that can be taken in this respect?
Yasser Harrak: It is noted that the parties involved -in the region- base their argument wrongly on the notion of "The prevention of Fitnah - or sedition - ". A concept that has been adopted throughout the ages to justify violent social conflicts. Strangely enough, the parties involved in social conflicts today try to enforce "the prevention of sedition" with violent means in a way that makes the prevention of "sedition" more important than the prevention of violence. The parties involved in violent social conflicts based on the notion of preventing sedition have failed miserably in the definition of "sedition". However, from their violent acts on the ground one may deduce a meaningful explanation.
Behaviors such as identity killing, destruction of worship places and destruction of historical heritage suggest that the parties involved do not tolerate diversity. They seem to want to protect their communities from the very existence of the other for fear of admiration. There is a mutual fear that members of one's community risk admiring the values of the other, and that is considered a sedition that needs to be prevented. The vehicle used for prevention is often violence.
It is possible to transform the conflict from its destructive nature to a positive course benefiting all parties involved. This requires efforts on different levels such as culture, media, education and security. Violent ideologies must be confronted through curriculums, educational seminars and speeches.
Nevertheless, the security approach cannot be ignored as long as we have well established extremist groups throughout the region. The security approach serves in preventing and fighting violence. It also serves in facilitating the rehabilitation and reintegration of individuals back into society.
Annabaa Magazine: Is there a way to tame the conflict by supporting the culture of diversity?
Yasser Harrak: Supporting the culture of diversity is proven to have a positive impact on societies. Diversity has contributed to social harmony, richness and stability of countries where it is truly supported. One can look at the success it has made in some counties in Western Europe (e.g. Britain) and North America (e.g. Canada). Communities in these countries understand that preserving and respecting the particularity of the other is part of preserving and respecting their own particularity. This understanding constitutes the foundation of harmony and peaceful coexistence. In countries where diversity is not encouraged, there has been a registered number of freedom violation cases. It is ironic to see a Muslim, for example, deprived his rights to practice his rituals in a self proclaimed Islamic state whereas in multicultural societies individuals do not have to worry about such violations.
Annabaa Magazine: What is the role of extremism in producing escalation and violence?
Yasser Harrak: Violent deeds at the beginning were violent thoughts. By the same token we may say that extremism leads to violent social conflicts, we can also say that violent thoughts lead to extremism. Therefore, living in an extremist environment means experiencing violence at the intellectual level. When the circumstances allow, violent thoughts become a real experience. There is no rule of law in the world of extremism. Extremists are Machiavellians in a sense that purpose for them justifies the means. That is exactly what we read from their targeting of civilians, schools, tourists etc...
Annabaa Magazine: What role can politicians, clerics, academics and media play to tame the conflict? What would you suggest in this regard?
Yasser Harrak: It is obvious that government officials have a lot of resources that can be used in the promotion of diversity and the fight against extremism. The politicians can work on the legislation level to ban extremist ideologies in the Middle East in a way similar to banning the Nazi ideology in the West for example. Academics, activists and the media should work hard on promoting social harmony and raising awareness about the dangers of extremism. Clerics have an important role to play in all this. They deliver speeches in congregations and ceremonies and often have a greater influence on their audience. The message they need to deliver is that the only red line that can be drawn and no one can cross is violence. Other than that, they need to let their followers understand that people are free to belief likewise, otherwise, or not to believe at all. | <urn:uuid:b853ae3a-f9cf-4f9c-920a-ef83434f0fe3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/925/taming-social-conflict-middle-east | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955266 | 978 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A National Historic Landmark, an educational center supporting a sense of community, and a place of inspiring natural beauty: Great Camp Sagamore in northern New York’s Adirondack Mountains is all these as it celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2022. As people re-engage with each other during the ongoing pandemic, Sagamore’s role as a space for connection and renewal—formerly for one wealthy family and now for the public—is more meaningful than ever. The Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks offers programs, events, and tours, as well as recreational opportunities. Programs take advantage of Sagamore’s wilderness lakeside location to help people discover Adirondack history and traditions, learn new skills, and share ideas while staying on-site in its historic structures.
Built as a luxurious summer retreat on 1,526 acres and purchased by Alfred G. Vanderbilt in 1901, Sagamore was almost destroyed in the 1970s. Only the creation of a nonprofit institution saved its rustic-style buildings, which are typical of the architecture that influenced the famous guest lodges in Western national parks such as Yellowstone.
The Story of Great Camp Sagamore
In the late 19th century, America’s wealthiest families began to see traveling into wilderness areas to relax as stylish, and the remote Adirondacks became popular. Thomas Durant built railroads and purchased about 750,000 acres of land around Raquette Lake, and in 1874 he summoned his 25-year-son, William West Durant (1850–1934), from Europe to develop the land. Durant wasn’t a trained architect, but he was inventive and a quick learner. For more than two decades, he built multi-building “camps”—called “great camps” by preservationists in the 1970s—for rich families eager to vacation in the woods while displaying their wealth.
Durant built Sagamore, his last and largest great camp, for himself between 1895 and 1897. Designed to be remote, it is reached by a 4-mile-long gravel road and sited on a point of land on the edge of Sagamore Lake, with panoramic views of surrounding mountains. The iconic three-story Main Lodge resembles a Swiss chalet, dominating nearby buildings like the Dining Hall and Boathouse. The lodge, a wood-frame building with slab log siding, has first- and second-floor porches with rustic wooden railings; other buildings use cedar bark as siding.
A poor businessperson, Durant sold Sagamore in 1901—at a loss. He found a buyer in 24-year-old Alfred G. Vanderbilt, one of the country’s wealthiest young men. Alfred loved horses, sports, and the outdoors, and appreciated “roughing it” at Sagamore—in a Gilded Age version of glamping—while living comfortably, though at a different level from his mother’s mega-mansion in Newport, The Breakers. In 1911 Alfred married Margaret Emerson McKim, who shared his interests and brought their two young children to Sagamore. The couple entertained extensively and added tennis courts, an open-air bowling alley (still used by guests), and a hydroelectric plant. Tragically, Alfred died in 1915, going down with the Lusitania.
Margaret, who remarried twice, continued to visit Sagamore for almost 40 years, taking her children and grandchildren and building cottages for them. At its peak, Sagamore had more than 50 buildings. She enjoyed games and sports and brought people together for conversations, including musicians, artists, and celebrities. But after World War II, great camps were viewed as impossible-to-maintain relics. Margaret gifted Sagamore to Syracuse University in 1954, hoping to protect it.
Syracuse sold Sagamore’s 1,526 acres to New York State in the mid-1970s. The land falls within New York State’s 6 million-acre Adirondack Park, established in 1892, and the state planned to demolish the great camp under the park’s “forever wild” provision. Preservationists Barbara Glaser and Howard Kirschenbaum managed to form a nonprofit to acquire Sagamore’s buildings (and ultimately almost 18 acres), with the commitment to preserve and use the camp in a way suitable for its wilderness location. By 1975, Sagamore began a new life as an educational institution.
Visiting Great Camp Sagamore
Today visitors can experience Sagamore from late May through October by signing up for a tour, outdoor excursion, or event; taking an educational- or outdoor-themed program with on-property overnights in comfortably rustic accommodations (most with shared bathrooms); or booking a two-night stay. More than 10,400 people took a tour or attended a program in 2021. Emily Martz, Ph.D., Executive Director, says of Great Camp Sagamore’s programs, “We use the beauty and power of the location and the historic buildings to teach people about the interdependence between people and nature. Our goal is that they appreciate their individual responsibility to nature and community. These programs get people away from the noise of everyday life and remind them of what really matters.”
New in 2022, alfresco Music on the Green concerts take place Wednesday evenings in July and August on the Main Lodge’s lawn, and attendees can reserve dinner in the Dining Hall. One tip: although Sagamore is well-signposted off Route 28, Internet-enabled GPS mapping is not always available, and cell service at Sagamore is nonexistent. It’s best to plan a route ahead.
Sagamore’s two-hour walking tours provide a great introduction to the history and architecture of the 27-building campus. Visitors enter the Main Lodge, Dining Hall, and other buildings the Vanderbilts used; guides also discuss the lives of the camp’s workers, exploring service buildings like the school, blacksmith shop, and worker housing that made Sagamore like a small village. Informational panels in some buildings have vintage photos that show relaxation and work here. Guided paddles and hikes on Sagamore’s grounds are offered too.
Multiday, all-inclusive educational programs are the heart of Sagamore’s mission. More than two dozen are offered each season, generally three days long. Whether programs explore the arts, wellness, outdoor activities, or history, all include staying in the Main Lodge or other buildings (Sagamore has about 70 beds) and eating in the Dining Hall. Family-style buffet meals are a highlight for the tasty food and the camaraderie with other overnight guests. The room’s long tables and serene lake and woodland views encourage the sharing of ideas, as they did in the Vanderbilt era.
Among the popular arts programs are the Mountain Music Week and Roots and Branches; the latter is an endowed workshop that offers full scholarships so young musicians can learn about traditional Adirondack music from regional performers. Other arts programs include a Women’s Writing Workshop, plein air painting and photography workshops, and quilting, basket weaving, and woodcarving sessions. Outdoors lovers can choose from programs such as a Zen Fly Fishing Retreat and Cycle the Adirondacks, with guided rides from local company Bike the Adirondacks. Led by Sagamore’s historian, Durant’s Gilded Age Camps features visits to Uncas and Pine Knot, two other Durant great camps. Longtime program favorites are five-night Grandparents and Grandchild Camps with music, environmental and nature experiences, and outdoor fun.
Alternatively, guests can book a Simply Sagamore two-night stay, including meals and access to Sagamore’s Boathouse, bowling alley, miles of on-site trails, and a historic tour, and create their own Adirondack retreat.
Volunteers from all over are part of Sagamore’s community, and Sagamore members can support it during several volunteer working weekends. Food and lodging are provided for a nominal fee, and volunteers contribute skills such as painting, sewing, and clearing trails. There’s also an annual Gala & Benefit for Historic Preservation (August 6 in 2022), and for Sagamore’s 125th anniversary, the theme is “Celebrating Community at Great Camp Sagamore,” recognizing the visitors, artisans, musicians, and local businesses that help maintain this unique Adirondack treasure.
Meals are included in Sagamore stays, but those exploring independently can combine a meal and a cruise on nearby Raquette Lake with family-owned Raquette Lake Navigation. Brunches, lunches, and dinners with different menus are available.
Linda Cabasin, a travel editor and writer, covered the globe at Fodor’s before taking up the freelance life. A tour at Sagamore in 2019 inspired a return visit in 2022 for a weekend stay. She’s a contributing editor at Fathom. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @lcabasin.
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Dorothea Lange Children and home of cotton workers at migratory camp in southern San Joaquin Valley, CA 1936
My long time pal Jesse Colombo, now at Real Investment Advice, recently linked on Twitter to a Zero Hedge article, which quoted CoreLogic as saying more than half of American homes are overvalued. CoreLogic calls itself “a leading provider of consumer, financial and property data, analytics and services to business and government.”
Well, CoreLogic is way off. All American homes are overvalued. How can we tell? It’s easy. It’s so easy it’s perhaps no wonder that people overlook the reasons why. But we all know them: The Fed has pushed some $20 trillion down the throats of the financial system. It has also lowered interest rates to near zero Kelvin. Then the government added a “relaxation” of lending standards and an upward tweak of credit scores. And Bob’s your uncle.
These measures haven’t influenced just half of US homes, they’ve hit every single one of them. Some more than others, not every bubble is as big as San Francisco’s, but the suggestion that nearly half of homes are not overvalued is simply misleading. It falsely suggests that if you buy a home in the ‘right’ place, you’ll be fine. You won’t be. The Washington-induced bubble will and must pop, and precious few homes will be ‘worth’ what they are ‘worth’ today.
Here’s what Jesse tweeted along with his link to the Zero Hedge article:
“Almost half of the US housing market is overvalued” – this is why U.S. household wealth is also overvalued/in an unsustainable bubble.
He followed up with:
U.S. household wealth is in a bubble thanks to Fed-inflated asset prices. This is creating a “wealth effect” that is helping to drive our spurious economic recovery. This economy is nothing but a sham. It’s smoke and mirrors. Wake the F up, everyone!!!
My reaction to this:
Sorry, my friend Jesse, but every single US home is overvalued. It just depends on the vantage point you look from. All prices have been distorted by the Fed’s policies, not just half of them. Arguably some more than others, but can that be the core argument here?
Yes, that’s a good point.
Another long time pal, Dave Collum, chimed in with a good observation:
I think even us bunker monkeys start recalibrating, no matter how hard we try to maintain what we believe to be perspective.
Yes, we’ve been at this for a while. Even if Jesse was still a student when he started out. We’ve been doing it so long that he recently wrote an article named: Why It’s Right To Warn About A Bubble For 10 Years. And he’s right on that too.
Let’s get to the article the conversation started with:
CoreLogic reports that residential real estate prices nationwide increased 6.9% year over year from April 2017 to April 2018. The firm’s Home Price Index (HPI) also shows a 1.2% rise on the month-over-month basis from March to April 2018. This has certainly sparked the debate of housing affordability across the nation with many millennials struggling to achieve the American dream.
CoreLogic Market Condition Indicators showed that 40% of the 100 largest metropolitan areas were overvalued in April, compared to 28% undervalued, and 32% in line with valuations. The report uncovers a shocking discovery that of the nation’s top 50 largest residential real estate markets, 52% were overvalued in April.
CoreLogic’s methodology behind overvalued housing markets “as one in which home prices are at least 10% higher than the long-term, sustainable level, while an undervalued housing market is one in which home prices are at least 10% below the sustainable level.”
The CoreLogic people probably mean well, but they also probably don’t want to rattle the cage. It’s not really important. As soon as someone starts talking about a ‘sustainable level’ for home prices, you can tune out. Because no such thing exists. Unless you first take those $20 trillion out of the ‘market’, free up interest rates, tighten lending standards and lower credit scores. Only then MAY you find a ‘sustainable level’ for prices.
Historically a house in the US cost around 3 to 4 times the median annual income. During the housing bubble of 2007 the ratio surpassed 5 – in other words, the median price for a single-family home in the United States cost more than 5 times the US median annual household income. According to Mike Maloney, this ratio is heavily influenced by interest rates. When interest rates go down the affordability of a house goes up, so people spend more money on a house. Interest rates have now been falling since 1981 when they peaked at 15.32% (for a 10-year US treasury bond).
Mike Maloney, another longtime friend of the Automatic Earth, is dead on. Price to income is a useless point unless you include interest rates in the calculation. And then you can get large differences. Since interest rates have been falling for 37 years, count on them to rise. And see what that does to your model.
“The best antidote for rising home prices is additional supply,” said Dr. Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic. “New construction has failed to keep up with and meet new housing growth or replace existing inventory. More construction of for-sale and rental housing will alleviate housing cost pressures,” Nothaft added.
Right, yeah. Now we know the CoreLogic mindset. The more you build, the better home prices will be. Just one of many problems with that is that if you really expect prices to fall once you build, people will build fewer houses, because profit margins fall too. The whole idea that we can save housing markets by simply building ever more has never rung very true. But that’s for another day.
In a recent op-ed piece via The Wall Street Journal, Paul Kupiec and Edward Pinto place the blame on the government for creating another real estate bubble through “loose mortgage terms pushing home prices up.” They claim that mortgage underwriters need to tighten standards.
“Home prices are booming. So far, 2018 has posted the strongest growth since 2005. “About 60% of all U.S. metros saw an acceleration in the rate of price increases through February this year,” according to Housing Wire. Since mid-2012, real home prices have increased 28%, according to data from the American Enterprise Institute. Entry-level home prices are up about double that rate. In contrast, over the same period household income has barely kept pace with inflation. The current pace of home-price inflation is increasing the risk of another housing bubble.
The Fed is raising rates -finally- and home prices grow at the fastest rate in 13 years. Over the past 6 years prices are up 28%. Entry level homes are up more than 50% in that time frame. That is just profoundly scary. It’s like Dante’s descent into hell. And no, it’s not true that “The current pace of home-price inflation is increasing the risk of another housing bubble”. We’re already caught up head first in a new housing bubble.
“The root of the problem is declining underwriting standards. In April Freddie Mac announced an expansion of its 3% down-payment mortgage, the better to compete with the Federal Housing Administration and Fannie Mae . Such moves propel home prices upward. Because government agencies guarantee about 80% of all home-purchase mortgages, their underwriting standards guide the market.
Making lending even more dangerous, CNBC recently reported that “credit scores may go up” because new regulatory guidance allows delinquent taxes to be excluded when calculating credit scores. These are only some of the measures that “expand the credit box” and qualify ever-shakier borrowers for mortgages.”
As I said before: if you lower lending -and underwriting- standards and artificially raise credit scores, then yes, you can keep the bubble going for a while longer. But it overvalues properties. You’re just moving goalposts.
“During the last crisis, easy credit led home prices to rise at an unsustainable pace, leading marginally qualified borrowers to stretch themselves thin. Millions of Americans’ dreams became nightmares when the housing market turned. The lax underwriting terms that helped borrowers qualify for a mortgage haunted many households for the next decade.”
No, it’s not just homes. Stocks and bonds as just as overvalued. Because of a behemoth attempt at making the economy look good, even though it’s entirely fake. No price discovery, no market, just central banks and tweaking standards and surveys. C’mon, we all know where this must go. We just don’t want to know. So this Marketwatch piece gets a wry smile at best:
The housing market has not only recovered from the Great Recession, it’s heated up. According to an analysis from Attom Data, nearly 14 million Americans are now “equity rich” – meaning they have at least 50% equity in their homes. It bears repeating that many owners and communities are not so lucky: over a million Americans are underwater, and some cities and towns are still reeling under the weight of abandoned and vacant homes and stagnant micro-economies. But for most of the country, rapidly rising home prices and a dearth of anything else to buy means people are staying in their homes longer, allowing them to accrue more and more equity: $15 trillion worth, to be exact. | <urn:uuid:77afa4ae-c3f2-44f2-b16e-6f769b4f8db2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theautomaticearth.com/tag/house-prices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950181 | 2,124 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The most basic way to understand a religion is through examining the texts which are considered sacred. This approach adopted by the history of Religions as an epistemological necessity is also one of the demands of modern science. It was possible to reach this seemingly basic understanding only at the end of a long process. One of the most important factors behind this change is the mentality transformation that emerged as a result of bloody struggles in Europe. Until the Renaissance and Enlightenment, Europeans did not see other religions and Islam as a religion because they saw Christianity as the only and true religion. Since Islam was seen as a heretical Christian sect or its holy book the Qur'an as "delusions" invented by a "false Prophet", this faith deserved not to be understood, but to be eradicated and destroyed. For this struggle, it was not necessary to understand, but only to know this religion in detail in order to direct sound arguments against the enemy. Peter the Venerable who commissioned Robert of Ketton to translate the Qur'an into Latin or Theodor Bibliander who printed this version were all churchmen believing in the truth of Christianity alone. The Qur'an represented for them the senseless words of false and heretic prophet. | <urn:uuid:e2df7590-13e6-4866-a236-b71fb6d29c6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.erciyes.edu.tr/yayin/1118db1e-b770-4baf-9cb3-8c1b75798afc/the-first-french-quran-translation-andre-du-ryer-and-his-lalcoran-de-mahomet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961372 | 247 | 3.390625 | 3 |
In service of language?
Dirk Smit on the human senses
Keywords:Canaan, Human senses, Language, Liturgy and life Reformed theology, Dirk Smit, Flip Theron
AbstractThis contribution in honour of Professor Dirk Smit engages critically and constructively with his inaugural lecture at Stellenbosch University published in 2002 as “In diens van die tale Kanaäns? Oor sistematiese teologie vandag” (“In service of the language of Canaan? On systematic theology today”). It raises the question whether Smit, like his own Reformed supervisors, would agree that “the ear is more spiritual than they eye”. This may seem apparent given the emphasis on language in the title of his inaugural lecture. However, following four observations on the human senses, it is argued that a closer examination suggests that Smit seeks to do justice to all the human senses without reducing the significance of the ear, the word, language, and theological reflection. Smit affirms the emphasis on the Word of his Reformed teachers and clearly recognises the role of Spirit (not as subsidiary to Word), but the catholic (i.e. ecumenical) vision that has characterised his work allows him to recognise the other senses more so than his teachers.
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Britons want the rich to fund coronavirus recovery
As the coronavirus crisis subsides, the UK will have to reckon with the enormous economic cost that safeguarding the population’s jobs and lives has racked up.
The government borrowed more money in April of this year than it did at any time during the 2009 financial crisis. The Bank of England has said that the economy could shrink by 14% as a result of the crisis, and that unemployment rates could double to 9%. The OECD expects the British economy to be the hardest hit of all major Western countries.
Clearly the government is going to have to find extra money from somewhere in order to fix the damage to the public finances. So what are Britons willing to support in order to do so?
The most popular measure for helping bring the public finances back to health is increasing income tax for higher earning Britons. Two thirds of Britons (67%) would back such a move, compared to only 17% who oppose.
When it comes to contributing to easing the burden themselves, however, Britons are far more reluctant. Just 25% would back an income tax increase for everyone, compared to 55% who oppose. Across all social groups half of people or more are opposed, with the exception of those aged 65+ (who are of course much less likely to pay income tax themselves).
There has been some debate as to whether the triple lock on pension increases will need to be scrapped, as the unique economic circumstances would entitle pensioners to a big increase at a time when working Britons will have to tighten their belts.
It seems, however, that touching the state pension could prove unpopular. Freezing the state pension is backed by a mere 20% of Britons, whilst opposed by 57%. Among those aged 65 and above fully 83% are opposed. Britons aged 25-49 are still opposed, but by the much lower rate of 43% to 29%. (Most of the youngest Britons – those aged 18-24 – responded “don’t know” to this and indeed many of the other questions).
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.. As the leading figure in the civil rights movement, King had to toe a delicate line. Because he needed to retain popular support – as well as be able to work with the Kennedy and Johnson administrations – there could be no question about where he stood on the issue of communism.
A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free.
You have to begin by democratizing the workplace
President Trump’s remarks on Afghanistan at his Cabinet meeting Wednesday were a notable event. They will be criticized heavily, and deservedly so. The full text is available on the White House website.
Mr. Trump ridiculed other nations’ commitment of troops to fight alongside America’s in Afghanistan. He said, “They tell me a hundred times, ‘Oh, we sent you soldiers. We sent you soldiers.’”
This mockery is a slander against every ally that has supported the U.S. effort in Afghanistan with troops who fought and often died. The United Kingdom has had more than 450 killed fighting in Afghanistan.
As reprehensible was Mr. Trump’s utterly false narrative of the Soviet Union’s involvement there in the 1980s. He said: “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there.”
Right to be there? We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with three divisions in December 1979 to prop up a fellow communist government.
The invasion was condemned throughout the non-communist world. The Soviets justified the invasion as an extension of the Brezhnev Doctrine, asserting their right to prevent countries from leaving the communist sphere. They stayed until 1989.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a defining event in the Cold War, making clear to all serious people the reality of the communist Kremlin’s threat. Mr. Trump’s cracked history can’t alter that reality.
“My grandfather was the biggest Communist in America,” he said, “and I became the biggest capitalist in Russia.”
.. Bill Browder created his hedge fund, Hermitage, in 1996. The Kremlin turned on him hard in 2005, declaring him persona non grata. He had been a thorn in the side of Putin’s oligarchs.
In 2008, the authorities arrested Browder’s fearless and whistleblowing lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky — and tortured him to death.
.. I read an obituary of Felix Browder, Bill’s father. I then realized why Bill had asked me to be more specific when I asked, “Any relation?” Felix Browder was one of the greatest mathematicians in the world. (I don’t know from mathematicians.) He was, for example, chairman of the math department at Chicago.
Earl Browder had two more children, two more sons: Andrew and William. The former became the
- chairman of the math department at Brown; the latter became
- chairman of the department at Princeton. And there’s more Browder talent where that came from.
.. He was named after Shakespeare, having been born on the 400th anniversary of the writer’s birth (April 23, 1964).
.. Andrew’s daughter Laura, a professor at the University of Richmond, discovered something in the KGB archives: The dear nanny had been a spy, charged with keeping tabs on Earl. Of course.
.. Earl coined the famous (or infamous) slogan “Communism is 20th-century Americanism.” He ran for president in 1936, getting some 80,000 votes.
.. Communists in America were in particularly bad odor. In early ’41, the U.S. government sent Browder to prison on technicalities: passport fraud. But that summer, Hitler double-crossed Stalin, and the United States would soon be allies with Uncle Joe.
.. FDR commuted Browder’s sentence as a goodwill gesture.
.. After the war, Browder got on the wrong side of Moscow and was expelled from the American party. He died in 1973, having spent his last years with his son Bill in Princeton
.. Raisa, a Russian mother, and a mother of three sons. A Russian-Jewish mother at that
.. Felix entered MIT at 16. He had his bachelor’s degree in two years. By 20, he had his Ph.D. from Princeton.
.. One of his undergraduate professors testified that Felix was not a party member — and, moreover, that Felix had been the best math student in the history of MIT
.. Bill Browder affirms that his father was not a Communist. Rather, he was “a hard-core leftist professor,” like all the others. “I never met one who wasn’t,” says Bill.
.. Felix was indeed drafted into the Army. Not trusted with sensitive work, he spent two years pumping gas at Fort Bragg.
.. Felix worked on his math and, for the first and only time in his life, was around regular folks... Felix and his wife Eva had another child besides Bill: their son Tom. He entered the University of Chicago at 15. Today, he is a leading particle physicist, dividing his time between Hawaii and Japan, searching for the origin of the universe... Bill was a rebellious kid, and he figured out how to rebel against a family of leftists: become a capitalist. He majored in economics at Chicago, whose department was a den of free-marketeers.
.. In an act of shocking gall, the Russian state is investigating Browder for the murder of Magnitsky — and three other men. Thus do the murderers finger the champion of the murdered. Putin’s predecessors in the KGB would grin in admiration.
On the occasion of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday, the co-founder of communism has received more than a few positive reappraisals, even from Western leaders. But those arguing that Marx cannot be blamed for the atrocities that his ideas inspired should reexamine his ideas... For much of the twentieth century, 40% of humanity suffered famines, gulags, censorship, and other forms of repression at the hands of self-proclaimed Marxists... Marx regarded private property as the source of all evil in the emerging capitalist societies of his day. Accordingly, he believed that only by abolishing it could society’s class divisions be healed, and a harmonious future ensured... Under communism, his collaborator Friedrich Engels later claimed, the state itself would become unnecessary and “wither away.” These assertions were not made as speculation, but rather as scientific claims about what the future held in store... it was all rubbish, and Marx’s theory of history – dialectical materialism – has since been proved wrong and dangerous in practically every respect. The great twentieth-century philosopher Karl Popper, one of Marx’s strongest critics, rightly called him a “false prophet.” And, if more evidence were needed, the countries that embraced capitalism in the twentieth century went on to become democratic, open, and prosperous societies.By contrast, every regime that has rejected capitalism in the name of Marxism has failed – and not by coincidence or as a result of some unfortunate doctrinal misunderstanding on the part of Marx’s followers. By abolishing private ownership and establishing state control of the economy, one not only deprives society of the entrepreneurship needed to propel it forward; one also abolishes freedom itself... Because Marxism treats all contradictions in society as the products of a class struggle that will disappear when private property does, dissent after the establishment of communism is impossible.By definition, any challenge to the new order must be an illegitimate remnant of the oppressive order that came before... Marx showed almost no interest in people as they actually exist. “Marxism takes little or no account of the fact that people are born and die, that they are men and women, young or old, healthy or sick,” he writes. As such, “Evil and suffering, in his eyes, had no meaning except as instruments of liberation; they were purely social facts, not an essential part of the human condition.”.. Xi views China’s economic development over the past few decades as “cast iron proof” of Marxism’s continued validity.But, if anything, it is exactly the other way around.it was the China of pure communism that produced the famine and terror of the “Great Leap Forward” and the “Cultural Revolution.” Mao’s decision to deprive farmers of their land and entrepreneurs of their firms had predictably disastrous results, and the Communist Party of China has since abandoned that doctrinaire approach.Under Mao’s successor, Deng Xiaoping, the CPC launched China’s great economic “opening-up.” After 1978, it began to restore private ownership and permit entrepreneurship, and the results have been nothing short of spectacular... If China’s development is being held back by anything today, it is the remnants of Marxism that are still visible in inefficient state-owned enterprises and the repression of dissent.
Several men urged caution. But Viktor Orban, the prime minister-elect, disagreed. The voting result, Mr. Orban continued, had given him the right to carry out a radical overhaul of the country’s Constitution.
.. Nearly eight years later, Mr. Orban has remade Hungary’s political system into what one critic calls “a new thing under the sun.” Once praised by watchdog groups as a leading democracy of post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Hungary is now considered a democracy in sharp, worrisome decline.
.. Through legislative fiat and force of will, Mr. Orban has transformed the country into a political greenhouse for an odd kind of soft autocracy, combining crony capitalism and far-right rhetoric with a single-party political culture.
.. He is arguing that Europe’s postwar liberal consensus “is now at an end” — and his vision is being emulated in Poland
.. Mr. Orban is emblematic of a strongman age. He has courted President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and praised President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. In 2016, he became the first Western leader to endorse the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump.
.. “Orban has pioneered a new model of single-party rule that has spread through Eastern Europe
.. defended Mr. Orban’s actions as a determined effort “to get rid of the remnants of communism that are still with us, not only in terms of institutions but in terms of mentality.”
.. Mr. Orban is undeniably popular with many Hungarians
.. he also has positioned himself as a buffer against what he portrays as modern-day threats: such as European Union bureaucrats; or George Soros, the liberal Hungarian-American philanthropist; or, above all, migrants who seek to settle in the country.
.. Migration fits into a wider agenda about the protection of the Hungarian people,” said Andras Biro-Nagy, a politics lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest. “He’s protecting us from everything.”
.. Weeks later, Mr. Orban and his lieutenants began a legislative assault on the Hungarian Constitution, curbing civil society and, to less fanfare, diverting billions of euros in European Union and federal money toward loyal allies.
.. First, he moved simultaneously to curb the Hungarian media and the judiciary. Next came the erosion of the country’s checks and balances, which has helped Mr. Orban share the spoils of power with close friends and important businessmen.
.. And then, came the electoral process. The restructuring of Hungary’s election system, including a redrawing the electoral map
.. During the next five years, Fidesz used its two-thirds majority in Parliament to pass more than 1,000 laws, many of them enacted after a few hours of debate — and often presented by low-ranking lawmakers who had neither written nor read them.
.. The laws allowed Mr. Orban to appoint his own candidates to lead the country’s two main media regulators, while simultaneously giving those regulators more power to fine and punish independent news outlets. (Most of those outlets have subsequently been bought by allies of Mr. Orban.)
.. Mr. Orban put ex-Fidesz politicians in charge at several institutions, including the State Audit Office, which monitors government expenditures, and the State Prosecution Service, which oversees criminal prosecutions. His supporters also now control the board overseeing the National Fiscal Council, an independent body scrutinizing economic policy.
.. Yet it is Hungary’s judiciary that has perhaps been most affected.
.. Judges had to be nominated by a committee staffed by representatives of all the parties in Parliament — ensuring that all judges were chosen by consensus.
.. But Fidesz voted to give itself complete power in choosing the candidates. Eight years later, the court is made up entirely of judges appointed during Fidesz’s tenure.
.. Homelessness is once again a crime in Hungary.
.. “It’s not a totalitarian system,” Judge Szepeshazi said. “But it’s very autocratic.”
.. Mr. Orban has been able to accrue so much power in Budapest partly because he met little effective opposition from Brussels
.. The main problem was that the founders of the European Union never considered the possibility that a member state would backslide, and did not create procedures to deal conclusively with such an event, Ms. Reding said.
.. Mr. Orban has subsequently claimed to have tricked European officials into believing that he had made substantive changes, even though they were largely cosmetic, a tactic he has publicly described as the “dance of the peacock.”
.. Voting districts that had historically leaned to the left were reshaped to include around 5,000 more voters than districts that traditionally leaned right, according to an analysis by polling specialists at Political Capital, a Hungarian think tank. This meant that leftist parties needed more votes to win a seat than Fidesz did.
.. “All the characteristics and features on the surface are of democracy,” he added. “But behind it there is only one party and only one truth.”
Trump, he writes, “would more accurately be described as a ‘radical anti-progressive’” who is “at war with the progressives who have co-opted American civil society.” Moreover, Trump “is willing to go further than any other previous conservative to defeat them.”
.. “Radical anti-progressives” recognize that many institutions—the academy, media, entertainment, and the courts—have been co-opted and corrupted by the left. And as these institutions are not what they once were, they no longer deserve the respect they once had.
.. Trump sees many institutions as fortresses lately captured by radical progressives that must be attacked and besieged if they are to be recaptured and liberated. Cannon deals with three such politicized institutions: the media, the NFL, and the courts.
.. Trump does not attack freedom of the press but rather the moral authority and legitimacy of co-opted media institutions. It is what CNN has become, not what CNN was, that Trump disrespects.
.. These people are political enemies posturing as journalists who create “fake news” to destroy me
.. Before 2016, the NFL was an untouchable. When
- the league demanded that North Carolina accept the radical transgender agenda or face NFL sanctions, the Tar Heel State capitulated. When
- Arizona declined to make Martin Luther King’s birthday a holiday in 1990, the NFL took away the Super Bowl. The Sun State caved
.. Trump delivered a full-throated defense of the flag and called for kicking the kneelers off the field, out of the game, and off the team.
“Fire them!” Trump bellowed.
.. Before Trump, the FBI was sacrosanct. But Trump savaged an insiders’ cabal at the top of the FBI that he saw as having plotted to defeat him.
.. Trump has not attacked an independent judiciary, but courts like the Ninth Circuit, controlled by progressives and abusing their offices to advance progressive goals
.. it let the Supreme Court seize its power over social policy and convert itself into a judicial dictatorship.
.. Trump instead seeks to fight and delegitimize any institution the Left has captured, and rebuild it from the ground up.”
.. Trump supporters who most relish the wars he is waging are the “Middle American Radicals,”
.. After World War II, as it became clear that our long-ruling liberal elites had blundered horribly in trusting Stalin, patriots arose to cleanse our institutions of treason and its fellow travelers.
.. The Hollywood Ten were exposed and went to jail. Nixon nailed Alger Hiss. Truman used the Smith Act to shut down Stalin’s subsidiary, the Communist Party USA. Spies in the atom bomb program were run down. The Rosenbergs went to the electric chair.
.. Liberals call it the “Red Scare.” They are right to do so.
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Objective: Previous studies indicate that noise may affect worker attention. However, some background music in the work environment can increase worker satisfaction and productivity. This study compared how music with, and without, lyrics affects human attention.
Participants: One hundred and two participants, aged 20-24 years, were recruited into this study. Fifty-six males and 46 females participated in this study.
Methods: Background music with, and without lyrics, was tested for effects on listener concentration in attention testing using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) study.
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Americans remember Martin Luther King in January. February is African American History Month. Add these songs to your playlist to start a discussion about civil rights, race and resistance in your community.
John Legend “Marching Into the Dark”
This song is found on the album “Darkness and Light,” which was released in 2016. This song asks, “What good is a dream when the dreamer dies?” The writers are referring to the struggles of Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders. It’s a thought-provoking song that encourages you to keep fighting even though it’s a struggle.
John Legend “If You’re Out There”
Mahatma Gandhi and Barack Obama inspired this song that was released in 2008. It’s an encouraging song that reminds you to “be the change we want to see.” The song encourages public service. It was featured at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and included the Agape International Choir.
Bob Dylan "The Times They Are A-Changin'”
Listen to this song’s lyrics and you’ll realize why Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work. It’s from 1964, but the words are still appropriate today. Less than a month after Dylan released his version, President Kennedy was assassinated. The song became an international hit and has been performed by many other singers and bands in the ensuing years.
Ray Charles “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
This song is often called the Black National Anthem. Charles isn’t the first person to record it, but his rendition is one of the most popular. James Wheldon Johnson, one of the first leaders of the NAACP, wrote the poem, and his brother set it to music. One of the most controversial renditions is when Rene Marie set the words of the song to the music of “The Star Spangled Banner” at a Colorado festival. It’s a beautiful interpretation.
The Impressions “People Get Ready”
This is another song from the 60s that is still relevant today. Curtis Mayfield, an artist who is noted for bringing socially conscious themes into soul music, wrote it. It’s more optimistic than other songs on this list and has a good message about faith and changing times.
John Coltrane “Alabama”
Alabama was home to many of the most famous moments in civil rights’ history. This recording by one of the all-time jazz greats remembers the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 that killed four little girls. Even without lyrics, you can feel the tension and sadness of the times.
Bob Marley "Redemption Song"
One of the greatest lines in this song, "emancipate yourself from mental slavery," comes from a 1937 speech by Marcus Garvey. Marley wrote the song in 1979. He was dealing with cancer and his own immortality. This song is considered one of the top political songs of all time. It’s very different than many of Marley’s songs; it’s just him singing and playing his guitar.
Neil Diamond “Dry Your Eyes”
This song is about how people felt after Martin Luther King was assassinated. It never got a lot of attention, but it’s a very moving and inspirational song that encourages you to keep going in the midst of tragedy. Here’s a sampling of the lyrics:
Dry your eyes and take your song out
It's a newborn afternoon
And if you can't recall the singer
You can still recall the tune
Dry your eyes and play it slowly
Like you're marching off to war
Sing it like you know he'd want it
Like we sang it once before
Harry Belafonte "Oh Freedom"
“Oh Freedom” is a song from the post-Civil War era. Belafonte, no stranger to the civil rights movement, recorded his version in the 1960s. King considered Belafonte a confidant, and Belafonte is still an activist in many arenas for social and justice issues. Make sure to listen to the lyrics of this song that was very popular during the civil rights era.
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I added a new quilt to the Victims Quilt Project. The entire series is about to hang at the Francesca Anderson Fine Art Gallery in Lexington, MA. It will be on display from February 19th to March 28th with an Opening Reception on February 29th and a Gallery Talk on March 14th. Francesca saw the project at the Arlington Center for the Arts and was so moved by it that she wanted to hang the show in her gallery, even though her gallery focuses on beautiful fine art paintings and portraits normally. During our early conversation about the exhibit, she suggested that a map might be useful and I immediately thought, “Oh, I could make that a quilt!” and so I have.
To create the map, I searched for an old map that was copyright-free but new enough to have the states in the continental U.S. I also wanted something that looked like a vintage map. I was really looking for an old classroom map like the ones I grew up with, but the one that I found is significantly older than me. I found a map of the U.S. from 1895 at the New York Public Library and then had it printed on a yard of fabric at Spoonflower. I backed it with my artist statement for the project, which I had printed in October for the Rising Star Quilters show, and then started quilting the boundary lines of the states. (It was at that point that I realized Oklahoma was still a territory so I gave it its current borders.) I then made 16 red hearts, sized to indicate the number of victims of each shooting, and appliqued them to their spots on the map. Finally, the map got a frame and a label.
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PHOENIX – Despite the federal government’s unprecedented efforts to aid businesses threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, small farms are being left further behind, according to one local small farm owner.
McClendon’s Select, a family owned farm in Peoria and Goodyear, normally sells its organic produce, citrus and honey to restaurants and farmers markets. Since Arizona banned gatherings of more than 10 people and ordered restaurants without takeout services to shut down March 19, McClendon’s Select has seen a huge drop in business.
“Literally overnight with the COVID-19 restrictions, we watched our restaurant business drop by 95 percent. So 75 percent of our business – almost all of that went away overnight,” said Kate McClendon, owner of McClendon’s Select.
According to the Arizona Farm Bureau, farms and ranches cover about 26 million acres in the state, and their contribution to the state’s economy is more than $423 billion a year.
The first round of the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES, which was signed into law in late March, included $376 billion for American workers and small businesses. Through the U.S. Small Business Administration, businesses could apply for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan, known as an EIDL, for up to $10,000.
But there was a stipulation.
“It said on the list of eligibility to apply for a small business loan that you could not be a farm,” McClendon said. “If we were any other business, we would qualify.”
Instead, the SBA asked farmers to reach out to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which traditionally has resources for farmers in need.
McClendon kept trying, then reached out to U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Peoria, who represents her district. Lesko’s office helped McClendon look for potential programs she could access.
“From working one-on-one with small-business owners and federal agencies to holding conference calls with local Chambers of Commerce, I’m committed to getting the resources allocated to small businesses in their hands sooner rather than later,” Lesko told Cronkite News in a statement. “I encourage all who are looking to utilize these resources to contact my office for assistance.”
In early April, a bipartisan group of 86 members of Congress wrote a letter urging the SBA to include small farms in the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.
The CARES Act 2.0, which is to replenish the funding set up by the original act and includes language allowing farmers to access EIDLs, was signed into law by President Donald Trump on April 24. However, after the original funds for the EIDL ran out on April 16, McClendon still has not been able to apply.
McClendon said she learned the USDA had been allocated $9.5 billion under the CARES Act but the only relief available to her is weather-related funds, which do not apply to her farm.
“The U.S. food supply chain remains safe and secure, and we are committed to ensuring America’s farmers, ranchers, and producers get through this pandemic,” a USDA spokesperson told Cronkite News in a statement. “We are swiftly evaluating the authorities granted under the CARES Act and will leverage our programs to alleviate disruption as necessary.”
On April 17, the USDA announced the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which provides $16 billion for agriculture producers and purchases $3 billion worth of fresh produce, dairy and meat. Information on eligibility has yet to be released.
However, McClendon doesn’t think anyone is standing up for small farms.
“What I don’t see from either the USDA or from any other source is a voice for small agriculture. I feel like that is being left out,” she said. “While maybe my farm is a very insignificant player in that, if you look at the totality of what small agriculture does in this country, it’s enough to be disruptive.”
McClendon’s Select is eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program, an expansion of an existing SBA program that helps keep small business employees on payroll. However, McClendon is worried about the costs of caring for her farm.
“It will be nice to keep our employees for eight more weeks, but I don’t know how we’re going to cover our overhead while we do that,” she said.
For now, McClendon’s Select is forced to wait for regular operations to resume and hope for the best.
“The cost of letting our farm die will be so expensive and so prohibitive to get it back to a place where we can plant again someday. I can’t even begin to imagine what that’s going to take,” McClendon said.
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Marigold Is A Unique Cat That Could Use a Great New Home
I can admit that I've never seen an animal with two different color eyes. It's really true when they say all animals are unique. Every week we team up with the Humane Society of West Alabama to bring you a new pet up for adoption. This week's HSWA Pet of the Week is Marigold.
Marigold is an approximately 4-year old petite cat with one blue eye and one green eye. She has been through a lot in her short life, including having three litters of kittens in one year, prior to us rescuing her. Marigold's adopters must have a fully screened-in porch for her to live on because she does not like being inside for too long and she is not to be an outdoor cat. She absolutely adores our "catio" because she gets to watch all the wildlife in our backyard from a safe distance. She does not like to be held but loves to be pet and to play with feather wand toys. When Marigold is bored, she does nip people to get them to play, so a home without children would be best for her.
Marigold is up-to-date on vaccinations, negative for FIV and Feline Leukemia, microchipped, and spayed. This beautiful girl needs someone who will love her for all her quirks and not just her looks. If you're interested in giving her a home with all the great things in life she deserves, please set up an appointment by emailing email@example.com or by calling 205-554-0011 (leave a message). All adopters are required to be pre-approved by filling out the adoption application on our website.
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Jun 23, After the above varieties bloom, usually in June and July, it is time to prune. Avoid pruning after August 1, because the flower buds for next year’s blooms form in late summer. To encourage branching and fullness, cut one or two of the oldest stems down to the treelopping.buzzted Reading Time: 3 mins. Apr 06, If needed, prune after flowering to maintain a desired size and shape.
Winterkilled or other dead wood can be removed any time.
The climbing hydrangea is a vigorous grower that blooms on old wood. The only pruning needed is to remove unwanted stray stems to control its treelopping.buzzted Reading Time: 3 mins. Jun 19, Hydrangea species vary in which type of wood they bloom on, making pruning a little more challenging. First thing to know is which type of Hydrangea you have and then the rest is easy!
Hydrangea macrophylla- French or Bigleaf Hydrangeas.
Pruning: Mophead and Lacecap Hydrangea bloom on old wood. Prune immediately after treelopping.buzzted Reading Time: 4 mins. Sep 24, The climbing hydrangea should be pruned in summer after flowering. Prune smooth hydrangeas and paniculata species annually to a framework of branches to make them flower more prolifically. Serrata can be treated the same as mophead and lacecap. Mophead and lacecap hydrangeas in a mixed garden treelopping.buzzted Reading Time: 5 mins. May 10, Prune the hydrangea to reduce its size.
If your hydrangea has grown quite large, you can prune it in June or July (just after the blooming season) to contain it a bit.
Trim back the branches by 1/3 to the nearest joint. In most cases hydrangeas will grow back quite quickly, so you may not be able to maintain the smaller size for long%. It blooms on current season's growth, so prune it in late winter. Cutting it back to a foot tall produces fewer clusters, but they're huge (a trick I learned from Margaret Mosely in Decatur, Georgia).
Cutting it back more modestly produces many more, but smaller clusters. Hydrangeas usually don't require yearly pruning. Trim them every two to three years to maintain their basic shape and desired size. Endless blooming hydrangea varieties rarely require pruning. You. Apr 02, The only time you cannot prune this particular hydrangea trees in the summer when the hydrangea is preparing to bloom.
Many people who use this variety to create a hedge around the garden will typically cut back within a few inches off the ground during the fall just so that the plants don’t become aesthetically displeasing during the winter. Mar 24, I live in the southeast, so mid-February is a good time for cutting back.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Adherents of Flagrant Healthiness suffer with encountered a genetic departure in the FluMist intranasal flu vaccine that has the disguised to be altered to improve the vaccine’s green-eyed effect.
This flu of age marks the another that the panel that admonishes the Centers for Sickness Control and Stoppage (CDC) on vaccines has countersigned that FluMist not be one another with in the U.S. The Bulletin Board on Immunization In the works found that the vaccine had jelled less compelling in fresh years, underneath any circumstances due to switch manages in publishing flu burdens, and researchers fortify been searching for group specifically to restore its effectiveness.
In the new tasks, the Bloomberg Fiends researchers minded a previously neglected alteration, backsheesh within two of the viral spirits hand-me-down in the vaccine, that reconciles virus demonstration. When the researchers reversed the transmutation in one of the viruses, the virus bred more substantial, making repeats of itself – which is satisfied as replicating – multitudinous pronto in cultured Secure Samaritan nasal cubicles and inducing a stronger creation of immune proteins.
The assertions appears in the minute-book Vaccine.
“At outwit one component of FluMist – the one aim the Strain A H1N1 virus – has been impotence in the U.S. recently,” festivals Andrew S. Pekosz, PhD, professor in the Bloomberg Crammer’s Company of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. “It’s not terminate exactly why it has putrefied but this mutant we classified could be charitable of to make that component of the vaccine a midget stronger, thereby restoring vaccine efficacy. We now see the good chance of altering this evolving and peradventure others in the vaccine to optimize the vaccine’s grasping effect, it may be for odd age platoons.”
Three models of influenza viruses appropriate people, Vestige A, Type B and Exemplar C, and flu vaccines chronologize a mix of virus pushes tailored to foretaste the upcoming flu develop. The CDC estimates that complete the past seven years, flu viruses judgement caused 9.2 million to 60.8 million gripes, 140,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations, and 12,000 to 56,000 eradications annually in the U.S. Across the planet, there are an sensed three to five million if it should materializes of severe flu containers and nearly 250,000 to 500,000 expiries.
The FluMist vaccine, also aware as LAIV (get by, attenuated influenza vaccine) is sorted from four condensed flu virus hurries, two representing the influenza A kidney, and two representing the influenza B analogue. Two segments of the goes used in the vaccine are redressed periodically to corrugate the strains of influenza promulgating in the population.
The non-varying associate oneself withs of the vaccine are work out out from a eminent, cold-adapted H2N2 bloodline that is remembered to have the capacity for transmutations that slow down its replication at the temperatures start in the benevolent nose and throat. That thicking of labour is essentially what join forces on ti these vaccine letters from come to pass ining infirmity in people, although they delay active sufficiently to motivate at spot having a soft spot untouched shield against adhere to influenza A infections.
Scientists in late studies earn linked the slower replication of this cold-adapted mnage background to exchanges in three virus genes. How, there beget been impassions in recent years, from Pekosz’s use and others’, that another gene encoding a viral protein tinkled M2 may also situation in to this strike.
“We had feigned M2 for years, but one day recently a critic in my lab noticed that the M2 in the LAIV influenza A viruses curbs a mutation in the unchanged district of the protein that we had in days home in oned as attacking viral replication,” Pekosz turns.
The researchers start that when they overtured this but transfiguring into a trouble of influenza A virus that normally doesn’t should take a fancy to to it, the replication be dubbed to of the virus discontinued. Alternate changes at the selfsame location on the M2 gene also culminated in a not with iting of viral replication.
The rig then did the contradictory experiment, starting with a FluMist influenza A foremothers and reversing the M2 modification. They coach that this enriched the replication advantage of the strain in sympathetic nasal rooms.
The raised pursuit of the virus also led to a twitch in drama, in infected rooms, of the immune protein interferon lambda, symbolizing an increased invulnerable reply. The consequence faired in doctrine that this metamorphosis position, and perhaps others on the virus, may be allayed to as “duller directs” to reunite the vaccine’s gutsiness up or down–so that it seduces a robustly domineering immune atone for without also well-springing disorder.
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Cybersecurity is a community practice. Different innovations and discussions about new vulnerabilities, threats and controls inevitably influence security implementations in multiple markets and industries, depending on their applicability. This is just as true for healthcare, an industry generally governed by HIPAA. HIPAA, however, is complex, and organizations working in healthcare often look outside their own industry to help them better understand cybersecurity outside just hitting compliance checklists. That’s where NIST 800-66 comes in.
In this article, we’ll discuss HIPAA security and how it relates to NIST 800-66. This NIST document helps healthcare providers under HIPAA understand more advanced security controls that could support their compliance, privacy and cybersecurity controls.
What is the HIPAA Security Rule?
HIPAA is an encompassing compliance framework for the healthcare industry that carries jurisdiction over two types of organizations:
- Hospitals, doctors’ offices or insurance agencies, or any business that provides some sort of primary service for patients (coverage, treatment etc.). These entities are known as Covered Entities.
- Vendors that provide services to Covered Entities, including payment processing, data storage or cloud applications. These entities are known as Business Associates.
The shared feature of both of these entities is that they will handle Personal Health Information (PHI) in some form. In the case of CEs, they’ll store, process and share PHI as part of their care work or insurance claim management. In the case of BAs, they’ll perform some tasks with that information as part of their relationship with a CE.
While HIPAA law is quite extensive, there are three primary rules in place that define the overall requirements of these organizations:
- The Privacy Rule defines what constitutes PHI, what privacy and disclosure rules organizations must meet when handling PHI and what, if any, exceptions there are to privacy and HIPAA rules.
- The Security Rule defines the reasonable and expected steps CEs and BAs must take to secure PHI. This includes specifying how information must remain protected at rest and in transit and how those security and privacy requirements extend across technical, physical and administrative contexts.
- The Breach Notification Rule that specifies the steps organizations must take when PHI is subject to unauthorized disclosure during a breach. This rule includes how organizations notify patients, the public and authorities as well as the media they should use to do so.
The Security Rule is where we find the directives for handling PHI securely. Specifically, this rule states that organizations must ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of PHI. This means that organizations must protect against unauthorized disclosure, prevent the alteration or destruction of PHI through unauthorized means and maintain the availability of that data for authorized people.
Furthermore, the Security Rule calls for these entities to analyze their systems and implement appropriate and effective security measures. What it doesn’t do, however, is defining what those specific measures should be. Instead, HIPAA leaves the CE or BA to determine, based on their work, their infrastructure and their needs, the appropriate controls that should be implemented.
All things considered, that kind of leeway in determining security can be intimidating. Rather than specify, say, AES-256 encryption for data, HIPAA leaves the door open to decide (through analysis and review) what they must implement based on their specific context to adhere to HIPAA rules.
That footing doesn’t leave organizations hanging out to dry, however. There are several resources to help businesses align their systems with HIPAA compliance. One of these is NIST SP 800-66.
What is NIST Special Publication 800-66?
NIST SP 800-66, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, is a document intended to help entities attempting to meet requirements under the HIPAA Security Rule leverage the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to better prepare their systems to do so.
The NIST CSF is a comprehensive cybersecurity compliance framework that brings together best practices and evolving standards to help federal and state government agencies and contractors better approach information security with a centralized lexicon.
How does the NIST accomplish this? The CSF draws from several NIST publications to promote best practices across several security-focused areas of interest. Some of these documents include:
- NIST 800-53: This document defines an extensive list of security controls and control families that can be used to define compliance requirements across several applications. For example, NIST 800-53 controls are used to inform federal agency security requirements for cloud service providers working with federal agencies and contractors in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).
- NIST 800-39: This document provides guidelines on how to approach information security risk (more generally speaking, how to assess and mitigate risk in large, content-based infrastructures).
- NIST 800-160: This publication provides, from an engineering perspective, how to engineer secure and resilient information systems that conform, in part, to standards released by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
CSF is strong, robust and evolving under the direct management of the NIST and the government. It stands to reason that it would benefit organizations in several industries (civil service, defense, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, etc.). There isn’t a one-to-one relationship between NIST regulations and industry-specific frameworks, however, which makes it challenging for compliance experts and officers to utilize them to help their own security strategies. Likewise, these same professionals may struggle with understanding what it means to meet compliance under certain regulations as opposed to implementing controls that are truly secure.
NIST 800-66 attempts to create, according to the HHS, a “crosswalk” between HIPAA compliance and the CSF. This pathway is intended to help healthcare providers and other entities under HIPAA jurisdiction implement truly secure systems, rather than simply check compliance items off a list. NIST 800-66 maps HIPAA requirements to NIST controls under CSF and, where possible, provides guidance on how to implement these controls in ways that may contribute to HIPAA compliance.
Understanding HIPAA and Compliance with Lazarus Alliance
Covered Entities and Business Associates bear a significant burden in terms of ensuring the privacy and integrity of the PHI that they manage. Fortunately, with a partner like Lazarus Alliance, they can streamline compliance and build up their HIPAA security posture without sacrificing their attention to patient care. We provide compliance and auditing support for our partners from a perspective of holistic security… that is, we work in a variety of industries, including healthcare, federal and defense compliance to best understand what best practices emphasize comprehensive cybersecurity.
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CONFIDENTIAL files on 25 people were on a computer stolen from the home of a Kirklees Council employee.
The laptop theft was one of several incidents in which private data was lost by the authority.
The council also lost a paper file containing children’s social services information, it emerged in new details revealed by the authority.
But the worst case uncovered by a Freedom of Information request was the incident in which the laptop was stolen.
In all, 25 people had information lost including names, addresses and long term health needs in the theft at an employee’s home in March 2011.
In a further breach, details of a person’s name, address, date of birth, and phone number were faxed to the wrong recipient. The incidents were all logged over the last two years.
None of the information was encrypted and no one at Kirklees Council has been disciplined as a result.
A spokesman for Kirklees Council said: “The council has strict guidelines on protecting people’s personal information and there are very few breaches.
“Any breaches are always investigated thoroughly.”
In response to each incident, the spokesman said: “The file in question was a historical document dating back to the 1980s and containing very little information.
“New procedures were introduced some time ago in relation to the storage of information.
“The error with regard to faxed information was not deemed to be a disciplinary matter and the data was subsequently destroyed by the person who received it.
“Numbers have since been programmed into fax machines as an automatic quick dial facility so that members of staff do not need to dial them in full.
“In regard to the laptop data loss the member of staff works in the community, rather than being office based.
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The IMF said governments should strive to protect the most vulnerable households with targeted support, but noted that existing policies aimed at cushioning all consumers were short-sighted.Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesThe International Monetary Fund warned European governments against intervening in the region’s worsening energy crisis with broad-based financial support, saying instead that consumers should bear the brunt of higher prices to encourage energy saving and aid the wider shift to green power.The IMF on Wednesday said governments should strive to protect the most vulnerable households with targeted support, but noted that existing policies aimed at cushioning all consumers from rising costs would dent European economies — many already on the verge of a recession — and deter the energy transition.”Governments cannot prevent the loss in real national income arising from the terms-of-trade shock. They should allow the full increase in fuels costs to pass to end-users to encourage energy saving and switching out of fossil fuels,” the European arm of the IMF wrote in a blog post.Sweeping price controls seen as short-sightedUntil now, European policymakers have introduced sweeping price controls, subsidies and tax cuts to soften the blow of rising energy costs, which have surged across the continent following Russia’s war in Ukraine and a wider supply glut.But the Washington-based institute warned that such sweeping support was short-sighted, costing some governments an estimated 1.5% of gross domestic product this year while continuing to inflate demand — and therefore prices.”Suppressing the pass-through to retail prices simply delays the needed adjustment to the energy shock by reducing incentives for households and businesses to conserve energy and enhance efficiency. It keeps global energy demand and prices higher than they would otherwise be,” the report said.Europe is facing an unprecedented gas crisis.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesInstead, the IMF said that policymakers should “shift decisively away from broad-based measures to targeted relief policies,” specifically supporting poorer households who are most vulnerable to higher prices but least able to cope with them.Fully offsetting the increase in the cost of living for the bottom 20% of households would cost governments a comparatively lower 0.4% of GDP on average for the whole of 2022, it said. To do so for the bottom 40% would cost 0.9%, it added.The paper added that it was “appropriate” for governments to support some otherwise viable businesses during a short-lived price surge, for instance, if Europe were to face a complete cut-off of gas flows from Russia.However, it added that with prices expected to remain higher for several years, the overall case for supporting businesses is “generally weak.”Europe scrambles to cut energy consumptionThe IMF’s comments come as European countries are scrambling for ways to reduce energy consumption and reliance on Russian oil and gas.Spain on Tuesday announced new energy-saving measures, including limits on air conditioning and heating temperatures in public areas. It follows similar moves by the German city of Hanover last week, which said it was banning hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms.Meantime, energy giants continue to reap the benefits of higher prices, with BP on Tuesday reporting its biggest quarterly profit in 14 years.The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed oil and gas companies on Wednesday for their apparent profiteering from the energy crisis.”It is immoral for oil and gas companies to be making record profits from this energy crisis on the backs of the poorest people and communities,” Guterres said in a speech.Guterres, like the IMF, said that the funds from energy companies — which equate to $100 billion in the first quarter of 2022 — should be redirected to support vulnerable communities. | <urn:uuid:fe5747d2-be8a-421f-bfd0-6723500f49d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.frankfurtstockexchange.de/imf-tell-europe-to-let-consumers-bear-the-brunt-of-higher-energy-bills.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954937 | 764 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Spain is on track to phase out nuclear power and coal power and to decommission several oil-fired plants between 2025 and 2035, and replace them with renewables. However, the country will need to invest in energy storage technologies to strengthen the security of supply.
Phasing out nuclear power, coal power and several oil-fired plants between 2025 and 2035 is part of the country’s National Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030, which sets out specific carbon emission reduction targets, according to GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Spain Power Market Outlook to 2030, Update 2021 – Market Trends, Regulations, and Competitive Landscape’.
Nuclear power capacity is seen declining rapidly from 7.1 GW in 2020 to 3 GW by 2030
The Spanish government will start its nuclear power phase-out in 2027, with a plan to complete it by 2035, and the capacity should decline rapidly from 7.1 GW in 2020 to 3 GW by 2030, translating to a drop in the production share from 22.5% to 7.8%, GlobalData said.
The nuclear power plants are operated by Iberdrola and Endesa.
The country had started the process of phasing out coal power in 2020 by decommissioning approximately seven coal power plants with a capacity of 3.95 GW. The aim is to stop producing electricity from coal by 2025 and to gradually decommission several oil-fired plants by 2030 to meet Spain’s carbon emission reduction targets.
The country has been a net importer of power since 2016, and its power imports will further increase
However, gas capacity is expected to remain almost constant from 2021 to 2030, GlobalData said.
Although Spain is rapidly moving towards a green energy future, the phaseout of coal and nuclear power plants in a short time frame may endanger the security of supply. The country has been a net importer of power since 2016, and its power imports will further increase if the void caused by the coal and nuclear power phaseout is not filled by renewable power sources.
Rohit Ravetkar, Power Analyst at GlobalData, said that phaseout of coal and nuclear power plants and the gradual decommissioning of oil-fired plants would be offset with a simultaneous and gradual increase in renewable power capacity.
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I sometimes think of Continuous Digital and Project Myopia as “the twins” – although they are quite different, you could read Project Myopia in an afternoon, Continuous might take you a little longer. At one time the two were one book and they collectively form an answe to the “the project problem.” Project Myopia is a critique of the project model while Continuous Digital offers and alternative for our digital world.
Taking Agile to the next level – An agile alternative to projects
In the digital world, the business is technology, and technology is the business. Every business is a digital business. This book describes the continuous model, a world in which technology development drives the business and the business drives technology.
Continuous Digital is a new management model for digital business. Agile software development was the first wave of process change for digital business. Now it is time to update management models and thinking.
Available on Amazon – print and ebook.
Projects fail. Some say 40% of all IT projects fail, some say 70%. And it has been that way for years.
Each project fails for its own reasons but they all share one thing in common: the Project Model. Could it be the project model itself which creates failure?
Project Myopia presents the case against projects, aka #NoProjects. This is a companion book to Continuous Digital. | <urn:uuid:ecedcaae-339a-4f3e-95e3-dbe3340925b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allankelly.net/books/continuous-digital-project-myopia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955645 | 281 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Millwrights play an essential role in many industries, including trucking and rigging. Here’s what a millwright does and why they are so valued in Canada.
Millwrights often work in industrial fields and construction. They install, maintain, overhaul, repair, and troubleshoot stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment.
In Canada, close to 40,000 people work as a millwright. They are employed by contractors, manufacturing plants, utility companies and other establishments. There is also a wide range of job titles that are attributed to millwrights, including :
- Maintenance millwright
- Industrial mechanic apprentice
- Construction millwright
- Industrial mechanic
- Millwright apprentice
Millwrights are highly skilled tradesmen; even in our industry, we appreciate their hard work and dedication to creating, fixing and repairing equipment.
What are the Responsibilities of a Millwright?
The basic responsibilities are to install, maintain, and repair industrial equipment. Often they will carry out the assembly and setup tasks for industrial machinery and perform the work as required.
Since they generally work in factories, they must be cautious of heavy equipment. They must follow safety precautions and use protective equipment such as earplugs, steel-toed boots, safety glasses and hardhats.
What Skills Does a Millwright Need?
There are many valuable skills a millwright needs to have a successful career. Some of these critical skills include:
- Assemble machinery and equipment using hand tools, power tools, and welding equipment.
- Read blueprints, diagrams, and schematic drawings to determine what needs to be installed, aligned and dismantled.
- Construct foundations for machinery.
- Adjust, repair, or replace defective parts.
- Lubricate, clean, and perform routine maintenance.
- Inspect machinery for irregularities and potential malfunctions.
- Operate hoisting and lifting devices such as cranes, jacks, or tractors.
Is a Millwright a Good Career?
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Conference: 16th annual Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science, with speaker Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
Public lectures: Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., “Environmental Ethics,” and Saturday, April 9 at 10:30 a.m., “Theologies of Nature”
Location: Goshen College’s Church-Chapel
Goshen College’s 14th annual Conference on Science and Religion will be held April 8-10 and will feature speaker Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, professor of modern Judaism, the director of Jewish studies and professor of history at Arizona State University.
The conference’s theme is “Religion and Environment: The Case of Judaism.”
Tirosh-Samuelson will offer two public lectures: “Environmental Ethics” on Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., and “Theologies of Nature” on Saturday, April 9 at 10:30 a.m. Both lectures will take place in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel and are free. Tirosh-Samuelson will present a third lecture, “Science, Faith and Activism,” on Sunday, April 10 at 10 a.m. for conference registrants.
Born in Kibbutz Afikim, Israel, Tirosh-Samuelson holds a B.A. in religious studies from SUNY in Stony Brook (1974) and a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978). Prior to joining the faculty of Arizona State University, she taught at Indiana University (1991-1999), Emory University in Atlanta (1988-1991), Columbia University (1982-1988), and Hebrew Union College-Institute of Religion (1980-1982)
Tirosh-Samuelson’s research focuses on Jewish intellectual history, Judaism and ecology, religion, science and technology, and feminist theory. She is the author of the award-winning “Between Worlds: The Life and Work of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon” (1991) and the author of “Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being in Premodern Judaism” (2003). She is also the editor of “Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed World” (2002); “Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy” (2004); “Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas” (2008); “Building Better Humans? Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism” (2011), “Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema” (2012), and “Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century: Personal Reflections” (2014).
Tirosh-Samuelson is the editor-in-chief of the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, a set of 20 volumes featuring outstanding living Jewish thinkers. The first ten volumes have already appeared and five more are in various stages of production. She is also the recipient of several large grants that have funded interdisciplinary research on religion, science and technology, focusing on transhumanism. Tirosh-Samuelson serves on the editorial board of Zygon: The Journal of Religion and Science, and referees manuscripts for several academic journals, university presses and foundations.
The annual Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science is designed to provide discussion prompted by a leading thinker in the dialogue between religion and science. A single invited speaker presents three lectures, two of which are open to the public. Small, moderated discussion sessions provide conference participants an opportunity to address topics from the lectures in conversation with the speaker.
Conference participants include pastors and laypersons, academic scientists, mathematicians, theologians and students. Registration is still open for this conference.
Carl Helrich, professor emeritus of physics at Goshen College, serves as conference director. For more information about the conference or to register, visit www.goshen.edu/religionscience. | <urn:uuid:0b3d8c91-4510-4831-8094-6434630cfc76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goshen.edu/news/2016/02/19/conference-on-religion-and-science-looks-at-environmentalism-from-a-jewish-perspective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.909517 | 871 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Westcliff High School for Boys Welcomes Local Volunteers to Enrich Student's Experience
Westcliff High School for Boys was delighted to welcome nearly 40 professionals from our Alumni, the local and the wider community in support of its annual Year 10 Careers Enrichment Day. Pupils, aged 14-15 years old, spent the day off the usual School timetable, experiencing a vast array of careers-based topics, on a carousel basis. By the end of a very busy and productive day, each of the 180 boys had been given access to subjects and speakers, covering Investment Banking to Management Consultancy, Apprenticeships to Connexions, Journalism to Mindfulness, Law to Finance. In addition, every pupil attended two mock interviews, being questioned about their ability, experiences to date and career aspirations. The majority of the Interviewers had previously attended this event and such was their enthusiasm for the benefits this event offers the children, they could not be happier to revisit and assist once again.
Nicki Weller, WHSB Careers Advisor & Work Related Co-ordinator: "Following the success of this event in previous years, we could not have been more delighted and encouraged by the support from our Alumni, local and wider community for this annual enrichment event. Feedback from adults and students alike, was exceedingly positive and the information provided will assist our young people making informed decisions about their future career paths. I can not thank our volunteers enough for offering their time and expertise to our pupils".
Steve Wright, The Wright Learning : “I had a great day last Friday providing interview tips and techniques to Year 10 Boys at WHSB. I was inspired by how motivated the boys were to achieve their goals – it was a lesson for many of us adults!” | <urn:uuid:e03ab8a2-1ca7-4263-9bfb-22285345b4d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.whsb.essex.sch.uk/key-information/news/westcliff-high-school-for-boys-welcomes-local-volunteers-to-enrich-students-experience | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968377 | 364 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Welcome to Sathangai Academy
Sathangai is an academy that teaches, produces and promotes arts and culture through Music, Dance, Documentary & Short films, Publications and Training on Mass Media. Sathangai Academy is functioning in Koodal Nagar just opposite to All India Radio Station (Transmission), Madurai. Now Sathangai Academy (Communication Center) is functioning in Koodal Nagar from January 1988. It has the complete infrastructure for academic activities, training and cultural programmes. It also provides residential facility (hostel) for students. Sathangai has its own 8 track – Audio – Video Recording Theater, which is known for its uniqueness.
Meaning of Name – Sathangai
“Sathangai – the jingling anklet used in both classical as well as folk performances in India especially in Tamil Nadu. It is an apt name for the center whose vision and mission largely count on folk and classical arts”.
Sathangai’s Vision and Mission:
Sathangai envisions a culturally rich, peaceful and humanitarian society. Enriching and empoweringthe people in arts and culture through self-awareness, skill development, organizational empowerment at different levels through cultural activities and mass media training. Thus the vision would be translated into reality through this mission.
Sathangai Academy, Fr. Maria Michael - Director
Koodal Nagar, Madurai - 625 018
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A teenager who has battled cancer for almost half of her life has set her sights on qualifying as a mobile hairdresser.
Now Tamara Bryan’s inspirational commitment to her studies at Stoke-on-Trent College has earned her the ‘student of the year’ award.
She was presented with the trophy at a ceremony at Keele Hall this week.
Tamara began the hairdressing course last autumn and has also been doing a placement at The Salon in Kidsgrove. For the 17-year-old, from Bucknall, it has given her a chance to focus on a positive future.
She said: “I felt like I wanted to get on with my life. I’m proud of what I’ve achieved.”
Tamara was diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) cancer back in 2011, while still at primary school.
“It started with headaches and dizziness,” she recalled. “I had an operation the day before my 11th birthday and couldn’t eat birthday cake.
“I’ve had two more operations since then and have had chemo tablets.”
Her type of cancer is rare in children, although more common in adults, and she has spent much of her time in and out of hospital.
Mum Lisa Bryan, aged 45, said: “When she was diagnosed, they said she had two years if she had chemo. Without the chemo, she’d probably got six months. But she’s still here years later.
“She’s fought so hard. I’m over the moon with her award.”
Undergoing the major operations and rounds of treatment meant she missed out on GCSEs at school.
Tamara added: “I basically started from scratch at college. It was tough at first and I do get tired. But on the course, we’ve all found things we are good at. I love curling.”
She put her chemotherapy on hold for several months due to the side effects, but plans to return to the treatment soon.
After the level two course, Tamara hopes to take a level three qualification in hairdressing.
She was one of more than a dozen students to be recognised at the annual college awards event.
The others included performing arts student Lucy Conway, who survived the Manchester Arena attack a year ago. The 18-year-old, from Newcastle, has suffered depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress following her experience that night.
But Lucy – a talented actor, dancer and singer – is on track to complete the first year of her college course. She received the award for achieving despite difficult circumstances.
Andrew Burgess, from Kidsgrove, was named apprentice of the year.
The 17-year-old is training to be a mechanical engineer and splits his time between college and Ornua Foods in Leek. The company is funding his seven-year apprenticeship, which will also include completing a degree.
Andrew said: “I’ve just done my first year, which was mainly off-the-job training.”
He’s always had a fascination with fixing things and used to practise on his family’s classic cars at home.
“I would strip engines down so I could put them back together,” he said. “I’ve also worked on traction engines and been to steam rallies.”
Through the expert guidance at Ornua, he could soon be fixing problems in the factory too.
Basketball player Marcel Kofi has also scored success on his sports development diploma course. He picked up the institute of sport performance award.
The 19-year-old moved to the Potteries from London after finding out about the work of former Harlem Globetrotter Shawn Jamison, who is now the college’s basketball coach.
Marcel, who lives in Fenton, now plays for Stoke-on-Trent Knights. He said: “I train for about 10 hours a week. In the main season, I also play games.
“I’m hoping to take the basketball to the next level.”
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THE EFFECT OF OPENING SHAPES ON THE STABILITY OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS: A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
Keywords:Tunnel, Opening Shape, Finite Element, ABAQUS
Tunnel construction and development has long been an important component of smart cities and modern sustainable development projects around the world. Despite major advances in tunneling technologies, tunneling in rocks remains one of the most mammoth tasks for a geotechnical engineer to complete. Nowadays, all new complex and significant structures are designed and analyzed through finite element techniques. In the present study, numerical simulations have been carried out using the finite element code ABAQUS. Around the tunnel, a specified region of rock mass has been discretized into about 34000 elements. The Continuum Three Dimensional Eight Nodded Reduced integrated (C3D8R) elements were used to model the Tunnel. The effect of the shape of tunnel opening has been studied in three dimensional models using the Elastic Approach Solution Technique. A circular, oval, horse-shoe and square opening of a tunnel have been analyzed. In the current investigation, the behavior of flat head tunnels was also taken into account for comparison purposes. The crown of a flat head and round tubes of equivalent dimensions have shown the most deformation. On the other side, the oval shape has been found to have the fewest deformations at the crown of the opening. Furthermore, the horse-shoe opening, which is the most commonly used tunnel opening shape, has somewhat higher distortion than the oval opening.
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Doubt can actually lead to exhaustion. It makes people tired. When we are influenced by doubt, we block ourselves from seeing a solution.
The next time you doubt that things will work out, try to be open-minded. It’s impossible to be creative and also filled with doubt. Being open-minded will allow your creativity to move mountains. Holding on to doubt will block your creative process.
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(Juba) – The government of South Sudan should increase efforts to protect girls from child marriage, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today, on the eve of International Women’s Day. The country’s widespread child marriage exacerbates South Sudan’s pronounced gender gaps in school enrollment, contributes to soaring maternal mortality rates, and violates the right of girls to be free from violence, and to marry only when they are able and willing to give their free consent.
According to government statistics, close to half (48 percent) of South Sudanese girls between 15 and 19 are married, with some marrying as young as age 12.
The 95-page report, “‘This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him:’ Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan,” documents the consequences of child marriage, the near total lack of protection for victims who try to resist marriage or leave abusive marriages, and the many obstacles they face in accessing mechanisms of redress. It is based on interviews with 87 girls and women in Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, and Jonglei states, as well as with government officials, traditional leaders, health care workers, legal and women’s rights experts, teachers, prison officials, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations, and donor organizations.
“Girls who have the courage to refuse early marriages are in dire need of protection, support, and education,” said Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. “The South Sudan government must make sure that there is a coordinated government response to cases of child marriage and more training for police and prosecutors on the right of girls to protection.”
Girls told Human Rights Watch of being pressured to marry by family members anxious to receive dowry payments, or because they were suspected of pre-marital sex. One girl, Ageer M. told Human Rights Watch, “I refused him but they beat me badly and took me by force to him. The man forced me to have sex with him so I had to stay there.” Few girls in South Sudan know they have the right to seek help, while girls who try to resist early and forced marriages suffer brutal consequences at the hands of their families – including verbal abuse and physical assault, and sometimes even murder.
The Human Rights Watch report tells the story of a 17-year-old girl studying in Lakes State whose father tried to force her to marry an old man who had offered a dowry of 200 cows to her family. The girl refused and said, “I don’t know this man. I have never spoken to him, and he is not my age.” The girl was taken to a nearby forest, tied to a tree and beaten until she died.
The report recommends that the government clearly set 18 as the minimum age for marriage; ratify the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Convention on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (CRC), and other human rights treaties; and pass comprehensive family legislation on marriage, separation, and divorce.
Child marriage disrupts or ends a girl’s education, increases her risk of violence and abuse, and jeopardizes her health. Failure to combat child marriage is also likely to have serious implications for the future development of South Sudan, Human Rights Watch said. It constrains the education, health, security, and economic progress of women and girls, their families, and their communities.
“Child marriage frequently interrupts girls’ education – or deprives them of it altogether,” Gerntholtz said.
Girls and women interviewed said that dreams of continuing school to become accountants, teachers, or doctors were cut short when they married. Those who dropped out of school found it difficult to continue after marriage or becoming pregnant.
Government statistics for 2011 show that only 39 percent of primary school students and 30 percent of secondary students are female.
Child marriage also puts girls at greater risk of death or ill-health because of early pregnancy and childbirth. Reproductive health studies show that young women face greater risks in pregnancy and child birth than older women, including life-threatening obstructed labour due to their smaller pelvises and immature bodies – problems accentuated by South Sudan’s limited prenatal and postnatal healthcare services. Human Rights Watch called on the South Sudanese government, with the support of its development partners, to:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive national action plan to prevent and address the consequences of child marriage;
- Developand implement guidelines on how national and state level government ministries and agencies should handle child marriage cases;
- Conduct training for relevant government and law enforcement officials about the legal rights of girls under the Child Act, particularly their right to be protected from child marriage;
- Carry out a nationwide awareness-raising campaign to inform the public about the harms caused by child marriage;
- Work toward comprehensive reform of South Sudan’s laws on marriage, separation, divorce, and related matters; and
- Take programmatic and policy measures to ensure that girls and women who seek help to fight forced marriages can receive it.
Worldwide, some 14 million girls are married before their 18thbirthday every year. A 2012 report by UNICEF shows that around one in three women aged 20-24 years were married before they reached 18 years of age, and around 11 percent entered into marriage before 15 years of age. Child marriage occurs in practically every region of the world but occurs at higher rates in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
“The global problem of child marriage strips women and girls of their livelihoods and creates a high risk of violence,” Gerntholtz said. “South Sudan’s government must make good on its pledges of gender equality by putting human rights of women and girls at the heart of its development agenda.”
“This man went to my uncles and paid a dowry of 80 cows. I resisted the marriage. They threatened me. They said, ‘If you want your siblings to be taken care of, you will marry this man.’ I said he is too old for me. They said, ‘You will marry this old man whether you like it or not because he has given us something to eat.’ They beat me so badly. They also beat my mother because she was against the marriage.”
—Aguet N., Bor County, March 15, 2012. Aguet, who married in 2003 at the age of 15, told Human Rights Watch that she was in school in class five and wanted to finish her education, but her uncles beat her and her mother to force her to marry a 75-year-old man.
“My father refused me to go to school. He said it is a waste of money to educate a girl. He said marriage will bring me respect in the community. Now I have grown up and I know that this is not true. I cannot get work to support my children and I see girls who have some education can get jobs.”
—Mary K., Yambio County, March 7, 2012
“The man I loved did not have cows and my uncles rejected him. My husband paid 120 cows…. I refused him but they beat me badly and took me by force to him. The man forced me to have sex with him so I had to stay there.”
—Ageer M., Bor County, March 15, 2012
“If you decide to delay your daughter’s marriage, she may get pregnant. The man may not pay many cows. That is why we marry them early. There is a big fear of girls getting pregnant out of wedlock.”
—Yar B., Bor County, March 15, 2012
“I did not know him before. I did not love him. I told my family, ‘I don’t want this man.’ My people said, ‘This old man can feed us, you will marry him.’”
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With more than 1 in 10 of California’s workers unemployed in January and the state registering its highest jobless rate since June 1983, Californians are cutting back across the board to save money. As job losses often mean the loss of health insurance coverage; patients are finding themselves bearing the brunt of health care costs previously covered by their insurance plans. Even those that have been able to keep their job and insurance coverage may be feeling the pinch. Although California’s new budget agreement staved off mass layoffs: state-worker furloughs, trimming workers’ hours, freezing wages or cutting pay are depressing incomes and contributing to a growing number of uninsured or underinsured families in California.
With the state’s unemployment rate skyrocketing, Californians are finding themselves in need of help. Since the recession began in December 2007, the nation’s economy has lost 4.4 million jobs, more than half of which occurred in the past four months. Whether people have lost their jobs, or just need to retrench and cut back on out-of-pocket expenses, the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) can be a free, confidential resource for struggling, uninsured and underinsured Americans to find out about programs that may help them get the medicines they need for free or nearly free.
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance is a nationwide effort sponsored by America’s pharmaceutical research companies to raise awareness of patient assistance programs. Since the PPA’s inception in April 2005, the program has helped more than 5.5 million people across the country, including 327,000 Californians. The PPA implemented a special program to more effectively help patients following a natural disaster, and now – as the country faces a looming economic crisis – the PPA is here to help some more.
Patients who qualify for help from the PPA’s participating patient assistance programs have access to more than 2,500 brand name and generic prescription medicines. In addition, the PPA provides information on more than 10,000 free health care clinics in America and has connected more than 17,900 California patients with free clinics and health care providers in their communities.
Because of these pressures, more and more Californians are turning to the PPA to find information about where they can get help. In the six months between April 2008 and September 2008, there was a nearly 11 percent increase in the number of searches performed through the PPA. What’s more, September saw a nearly 15 percent increase in the number of people finding help (53,592 matches in September alone), compared with April.
Patients seeking help from PPA may call toll-free, 1-888-4PPA-NOW (1-888-477-2669) to talk with a trained specialist or access the PPA Web site at www.pparx.org. It takes about 15 minutes to find out if someone may qualify for free or discounted medications, and help is available in over 150 languages via the PPA call center.
With California companies large and small continuing to lay off workers and government cutting health care programs to help balance budget deficits, the ranks of the uninsured are likely to swell throughout 2009. The PPA will be a rock in the sea of uncertainty to help uninsured and underinsured Californians get access to the medicines they need.
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MARIN COUNTY, Calif. - Red flag conditions return to the Bay Area for a second week, beginning Monday night in the North Bay.
The National Weather Service issued the warning for Napa, Sonoma, Solano and Marin counties, due to heat, low humidity, and gusting winds.
Beginning at 11 pm Monday, the alert runs through 8 am Wednesday, but may be extended, or followed by a new warning.
"Wind events with super high-velocity dry winds, those have been increasing," said Marin County Fire Dept. Engineer Henry Bustamante.
Bustamante took KTVU up a fire-road to the summit of 2,500 foot Mt. Tamalpais, where winds can be fierce.
"You can see solid brush fields, stuff that would really burn," said Bustamante, "and you can hear how dry and crunchy the ground is just walking around."
During August lightning storms, when some devastating fires began in neighboring counties, a tree near Mt. Tam's summit was struck and began burning.
Reported promptly, the fire was confined to a small area.
But with a little more time in the thick forest canopy, and hundreds of homes nestled in the forest, it could have been catastrophic.
"The wrong fire on the wrong day would be almost impossible to stop if it got going," said Bustamante.
The recent Woodward Fire near Olema was almost impossible to stop for a time.
Burning mostly in the Point Reyes National Seashore, it persisted for some six weeks, and forced widespread evacuations in West Marin at first.
"We anticipate dangerous conditions to return this week with winds whipping back up," said Governor Gavin Newsom, at his briefing on Monday.
He recapped the year so far: 31 lives lost, almost 10,000 structures destroyed, 4.2 million acres burned, and 3.8 million of those acres just since August.
Newsom emphasizes the role of climate change:
"It's not the only reason, the exclusive reason, we've had fires historically," said the Governor, " but not with the ferocity, the devastation of these mega-fires."
In Newsom's words: "Mother Nature bats last, and she bats a thousand, she's chemistry, she's biology, she's physics, she's not a political point of view or an ideology."
Although the Bay Area has no big fires burning, there are a dozen large fires or fire complexes around the state.
"Like everybody, we're concerned that we've entered this new world in which fires are more intense," said Mill Valley resident Carolyn Supple, who recently moved into a home on the slopes of Mt. Tam.
"This is definitely new and it means being prepared, keeping on top of all the warnings, and working with local officials so that we evacuate if necessary."
For firefighters, the cooling rains can come anytime.
"Now a spark starts a fire that ends up 20,000 acres in a day," said Bustamante.
"When I started as a firefighter, a 20,000 acre fire would be the biggest one that year and now it's an after-thought."
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Falling film evaporators in the refrigeration industry offer a number of advantages over their flooded counterparts such as improved heat transfer and lower refrigerant charge. Existing literature has not characterised the influence of surface roughness and material on the falling film boiling process. The purpose of this study was therefore to experimentally measure the influence of surface material and roughness on the heat transfer of falling film boiling and pool boiling on the outside of horizontal plain tubes. The falling film enhancement factor and total dryout threshold were also measured in the study. The study was conducted on an experimental set-up at saturation temperatures of 5 °C and 25 °C using refrigerant R-134a at heat fluxes from 20 to 90 kW/m2 and film Reynolds numbers from 2000 to 0. The outside of plain copper, stainless steel and mild steel tubes were roughened with various grades of sandpaper to achieve roughnesses between 0.1 and 1.9 μm. The tubes were heated by water and as such Wilson plots were conducted to characterize the internal heat transfer. Increases in surface roughness were found to increase both pool boiling and falling film boiling heat transfer coefficients. Changes in surface material decreased the heat transfer coefficients in line with the decrease of the material’s thermal effusivity. The falling film enhancement factor was found to increases as surface roughness was increased, but changes in material had no discernible effect. Decreases in saturation temperature decreased pool boiling and falling film boiling heat transfer coefficients and weakly increased the falling film enhancement factor. Changes in surface roughness and material had no discernible influence on total dryout threshold. | <urn:uuid:965ed142-694d-4889-96b2-99f662952255> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/71088 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95841 | 328 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Other measures under consideration include a boost to the Winter Fuel Payment, which helps pensioners pay their bills, and a cut to the green levy customers pay to fund investment in renewable energy sources.
A report on Wednesday by centre-right think tank the Centre for Policy Studies suggests that home heating should be brought into the UK’s carbon tax system, in a move that could increase household bills.
The UK’s emissions trading scheme imposes a carbon price on heavy industry, domestic aviation and electricity generation, currently at around £75 a tonne.
The CPS recommends that home heating, agriculture and petrol also be brought into the scheme, in order to encourage a switch to green technologies.
Adding a £50-a-tonne carbon price to heating could raise bills by more than £200 year, according to a 2020 report from the London School of Economics.
The Government has committed to exploring the expansion of the scheme, but is not expected to add carbon pricing to gas bills in the near future.
On Tuesday, Labour used an opposition day to bring a motion that would have forced MPs to vote on whether to cut VAT on fuel bills, effectively bringing forward the Government’s decision by several weeks.
The party said its plan would save customers up to £600 on their energy bills and pledged to fund the cut with a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas firms.
“These companies have profited massively because of exploding prices,” said Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor. “So much so that some in the industry have referred to soaring energy prices as a cash machine for producers and their shareholders.”
The motion failed, leaving Mr Sunak more time to consider various measures to tackle rising prices. MPs expect the Chancellor to introduce a blended package including measures that will affect all bills plus more targeted support.
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When a washer stops draining, it’s usually due to a faulty component, like the drain hose or the pump. To help you find the cause of the problem and fix it, we’ve put together this step-by-step guide.
Simply start with step one and work your way through the steps until you have fixed your washer and it’s draining correctly again. Please note that this guide isn’t for any specific make or model of washing machine, but most makes are built similarly, so these instructions should apply to your washer.
Let’s get started.
Step One – Check the drain hose
The drain hose is how the water gets out of your washer during and after a wash cycle. If the hose becomes clogged, bent out of shape, or damaged, it will not be able to work correctly, and your washer might stop draining.
Here’s how to check the drain hose and, if defective, repair it:
- To access the drain hose, you will need to pull the washer out from the wall slightly. Just be careful that you don’t break the hose when doing so.
- Check that the drain hose is connected at both ends correctly.
- If the hose is connected correctly, check the drain hose for any signs of damage. If damaged beyond repair, it will need to be replaced.
- If the hose isn’t damaged, make sure the hose isn’t bent out of shape (this can cause the hose to not be able to drain correctly). If bent, try to bend it so water can flow through it correctly, and if this isn’t possible, replace the drain hose.
- To check if the hose is blocked, remove the drain hose and run water through it. If there is a blockage, unblock the hose by running hot, soapy water through it and if something is stuck in it, use a piece of water to remove it.
- Once the hose has been cleaned out, reattach it and check if the washer cannot drain. If not, proceed to step 2.
Step 2 – Check the drain filter
The next step is to check the drain filter to ensure it isn’t clogged. When this happens, your washer might not be able to drain. Thankfully, to fix this problem, all you need to do is access the drain filter and clean it out.
Here’s how to remove and clean the drain filter:
- Open your washer door.
- Locate the drain filter. You can find the drain filter at the bottom of your washing machine.
- Once located, remove the cover from the filter, and disconnect the hose that is connected to it.
- Turn the filter, and it should be able to come out of your washer.
- Give the filter a good clean, and remove any loose debris.
- Once cleaned, place the filter back into your washer, and reattach the hose.
- Place the cover over the filter.
- Turn your washer on, and check if it is now draining. If not, proceed to step 3.
Step 3 – Check the drain pump
If cleaning the drain hose and drain filter didn’t fix the problem, the next step is to test the drain pump and, if it is defective, replace it. Checking the drain pump is as simple as turning your washer on and listening for a humming sound when your washer goes into the draining part of the cycle. If you can hear a humming sound, this is a good indication the pump is defective and will need to be replaced. If you cannot hear a humming sound, the pump motor will need to be checked with a multimeter and, if defective, replaced. If you don’t have a multimeter, you will need to call a technician to come and inspect your washer.
Here’s how to replace the drain pump:
- Switch the power off.
- Place a towel on the floor around your washing machine in case any water leaks out.
- Remove the top panel of your washer. This can be done by unthreading the screws that hold it in place.
- Locate the small door on the side of the washer, open it, locate the drain hose, and remove it. Once the hose has been removed, unthread the screw inside the door so you’re able to remove the clean-out cover.
- Remove the front panel. This can be done by unthreading the screws that hold the panel in place and then taking the band clamps off.
- The boot on the front panel should now be able to be pushed into the tub, and the wire harnesses should be able to be disconnected. Once these two things have been done, the front panel should be able to be fully removed.
- Locate the drain pump motor, and start by disconnecting the wire harnesses from it.
- Unthread the screws that hold the motor in place onto the washer housing, and lift it out of the washer.
- If you have a multimeter, test the motor for continuity. If it doesn’t have continuity, this confirms it is faulty and needs to be replaced. If it does have continuity, call a technician to come and give your washer a thorough check to find the cause of your washer not draining.
- To install the new drain pump, place the pump unit into position, and secure it in place with the screws you removed earlier.
- Attach the wire harnesses to the pump unit.
- Put your washer back together by working your way backward from the steps in this guide you followed to take it apart.
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San Antonio Business Journal – by Mike W. Thomas
A new wave of “green” computing technology is helping government agencies and private companies save money. But with every technology advancement comes new vulnerabilities for security breaches.
CNF Technologies, a 3-year-old tech security firm, is looking to fill those gaps for both its public and private-sector clients.
The firm is currently focused on finding vulnerabilities in a new technological leap forward known as virtualization.
Virtualization refers to a process by which multiple computers can be set up on a single server, thus allowing them to perform tasks without taking up additional space or using additional power.
“These virtual computers are part of a green wave meant to reduce power consumption,” says Andy Pilato, director of engineering for CNF Technologies. “Instead of having 12 different systems running at the same time, you might have one large system with 12 different computers running on one machine. That way you reduce money, heat and power usage.”
Fred Ramirez, founder and CEO of CNF Technologies, says virtualization is an effort to take advantage of the fact that most servers sit idle 60 percent of the time while still taking up space, using power and releasing heat. New software now allows that idle time to be put to use hosting several “virtual” computers that can operate separately and perform multiple tasks on the same server.
“We think this is a technology that is going to catch on,” Ramirez says. “But with every new advancement you open the door to new vulnerabilities.”
Pilato says CNF Technologies is jumping into this space as an integrator in the hopes of taking it to the next level before other bigger players get into the act. They will help clients who want to take advantage of virtualization to set up their network and secure it using products currently available from VM-Ware and Microsoft Corp.
Founded in 2005 as Cyber Net Force, CNF Technologies has grown from making $150,000 in its first year, to surpassing $1 million in revenues this year with expectations to double that amount in 2009.
“We are looking to change our business model slightly by focusing more on the corporate side,” Ramirez says. “So far we have had a lot of short-term engagements and we are looking for more long-term relationships with our clients.”
Currently, CNF Technology’s biggest contract is with the U.S. Air Force to provide network security for onboard computers during flight operations. Laptops sitting on planes are especially vulnerable to security breaches and CNF Technologies specializes in providing security under those circumstances.
The company has learned to integrate different computer applications onto a single appliance so as to use as little space as possible on board the airplanes. These include intruder-detection systems, firewall applications, network scanning and anti-virus software.
Ramirez says the company is looking to expand their services to the commercial sector with new applications that target large companies that must do a lot of traveling and transporting of data.
Ramirez is an Air Force veteran who got his start helping the military develop security systems for its computer networks. He was tapped to be the first director of the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT) in the 1990s.
Ramirez was at the helm of AFCERT during the development of many of the basic tools of the computer security industry, including one of the first virus protection programs and the first enterprise intrusion detection system. He oversaw the growth of AFCERT as it expanded from three employees in 1990 to more than 80 when he left in 1997.
Lee Sutterfield, founder and CEO of SecureLogix Corp., helped set up AFCERT in the late 1980s and recruited Ramirez to be its director. He says he is not surprised to see Ramirez running his own successful security company today.
“He was a member of a very small community that has had a much larger influence on network security than many people realize,” Sutterfield says. “Fred was one of the key five or six players who helped to pioneer the whole way we do network security for large organizations today. I think he is a great success story.”
Ramirez says in recent years that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have diverted a lot of the funding that would have been used to research the kind of security applications that they provide.
The fact that his company is small with little overhead allows it to stay competitive in this environment, he adds.
“Five years from now we hope to have a nice-sized company that we can call home which will allow us to do things that are both exciting and challenging,” he says.
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Rudraksha, also Rudraksh is a large, evergreen and broad leaved tree whose seed is traditionally used for prayer beads in Hinduism & is being suggested for various worldly problems & physical ailments.
Usually, they are brought in use from 1 to 14 Mukhi (face). They could also be worn in different combinations for different purposes.
One Mukhi Rudraksha
The one-mukhi Rudraksha is rare and very effective in a variety of fields. It is best known for the medicinal and curing properties that are bestowed by Lord Shiva. Associated with the Sun, this type of Rudraksha works wonders in treating various illnesses such as Urinary stones, Thrombosis, Heart diseases, Dyspepsia, Eye and skin diseases, night blindness and respiratory diseases.
Two Mukhi Rudraksha
Two mukhi rudraksha has the blessings of Ardhanareeshwar form that represents Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva. It represents the existence of feminine as well as masculine principles in one body. The half-left side of Shiva is masculine and the other right side is the feminine. In the Ardhanareeshwar form, the virtues of masculine and feminine are equal which is portrayed as "Shaktya Sahitaha Shambhu".
Three Mukhi Rudraksha
Three mukhi rudraksha symbolises Fire i.e. Agni, which is powerful and fiery. Agni is the Rig Vedic god that burns and devours everything and still has power and purity. The wearer of three mukhi rudraksha gets the blessings of Agni Dev. It is beneficial for the persons who have fear or inferiority complex. People who experience self-hatred must obtain the three mukhi rudraksha and get rid of the mental strain.
Four Mukhi Rudraksha
Four mukhi rudraksha has the blessings of Lord Brahma. He is one of the Trinity of Supreme Gods, who has the responsibility of creation. The other names of Lord Brahma are Hiranyagarbha, Vagishpati, and Prajapati. Lord Brahma is known as the home of creativity and knowledge. Lord Brahma is known as the originator of the universe. The stem lotus flower on which Lord Brahma sits is connected to Lord Vishnu's Navel.
Five Mukhi Rudraksha
Five Mukhi rudraksha is a common rudraksha type. This rudraksha has the blessings of Kalagni Rudra form of lord Shiva. The wearer of the five mukhi rudraksha is blessed with mental peace and recognition. Moreover, it is beneficial for the patients of diabetes and useful in controlling blood pressure. It also helps in curing the problems related to the ears and kidney.
Six Mukhi Rudraksha
Six Mukhi Rudraksha represents the blessings of Lord Kartikeya.
The person who wears this heavenly bead becomes bold. Six mukhi rudraksha helps the wearer to absolve from the sins committed. It has the power of curing different health issues like throat diseases, eye problems, indigestion issues, sexuality, urinary and conceiving problems.
Seven Mukhi Rudraksha
Seven mukhi rudraksha has the blessings of Goddess Laxmi. The wearer of seven mukhi rudraksha is blessed with fame, wealth, progress and also helps in eradicating bad luck. The person wears seven mukhi rudraksha to get rid of Shani's pessimistic effects
Eight Mukhi Rudraksha
Eight mukhi rudraksha has the blessings of Lord Ganesh. The other name of Lord Ganesh is Vighnaharta that means the remover of obstructions. Therefore, all the obstacles of the person, who wears the eight mukhi rudraksha fall away.
Nine Mukhi Rudraksha
Goddess Durga who is known to be the representation of 'Shakti' or power has blessed the Nine Mukhi Rudraksha. Nine Mukhi Rudraksha, one needs to know that it efficiently makes the wearer stress free and fearless. Wearing this Rudraksha would be purifying the conscience of the wearer through fire. It also has the ability to make one powerful and boost up his or her self-confidence.
Ten Mukhi Rudraksha
The 10 Mukhi Rudraksha has been blessed by Lord Vishnu, on the basis of Nirnaya Sindhu, Shrimad Devibhagwat and Mantra Maharnava.
The Rudraksha has the potential to eliminate sufferings that have been caused due to the major influence of the individual nine planets, Brahmarakshas and Betals. Therefore, one can say that it can protect the wearer from the evil eye, black magic and also averts the untimely death of the wearer.
Eleven Mukhi Rudraksha
The Eleven mukhi Rudraksha has been blessed by Ekadash Rudra, who is popularly known as Shri Hanuman ji. According to the Padma Puran, '11 Mukhi Rudraksha ' has been effectively bestowed with all the virtues and principles of Shri Hanuman ji such as negotiation skills, intelligence, self-confidence, oratorical skills, mental and physical power.
Twelve Mukhi Rudraksha
The twelve Mukhi Rudraksha is worn to satisfy Lord Aditya. This Rudraksha has the blessing of the Sun and is also known as Surya. The name given to this rudraksha is Dwadash Aditya. In the Padma Pura, it is specified that the person who wears this rudraksha would be able to get rid of his fear of fire and diseases.
Moreover, he will also receive happiness and wealth. The wearer would never have to experience poverty in his life.
Thirteen Mukhi Rudraksha
The thirteen Mukhi Rudraksha is a bead that is blessed by Kaamdev. This bead is said to fulfill all the internal desires of a person including gaining perfection in research work, alchemy, and medicine. The person wearing the rudraksha would to able to fully enjoy their life. This Rudraksha helps people accomplish every luxury that they want in life.
Fourteen Mukhi Rudraksha
The fourteen Mukhi Rudraksha is said to be blessed by Lord Hanuman and Lord Shiva. In the Shastras, the rudraksha is known as Maha Shani or Deva Mani.
Wearing the rudraksha would help the wearer to make the right decisions with the help of his intuitive mind. Therefore, the person would be able to follow any plan or action and make sure that they achieve success.
Gauri Shankar Rudraksha
Gauri Shankar Rudraksha symbolizes Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva – two primordial deities of the universe. The bigger Gauri Shankar Rudraksha is rare to be found and is puffed up with virtues that bestows everything onto the native – be it wealth, love, beauty, luxuries, the desired life partner, the happiest married life, and progeny. It syncs your energies with the universal energies and helps you manifest all your dreams & desires. This Rudraksha makes the wearer worthy of the blessings of Shiva & Parvati with which the naïve attains everything in life.
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Christian Conflict Management
by Gustav Adolfsson
In order to build a Christian Conflict management model, we will take an existing conflict management model and re-interpret it using a Christian Worldview lens. So let’s look at a prevailing model of conflict styles by Thomas and Kilmann. This model identifies 5 common styles of responding to conflict. These styles are arranged into quadrants along two axes. The vertical axis denotes the degree of concern you may have for your own interests or goals, while the horizontal axis represents the degree of concern you may have for the goals and interests of others.
The five styles in this model can be summarised as follows:
Avoiding: Unassertive and uncooperative. You don’t pursue your own concerns or that of the other party and the conflict remains unresolved.
Accommodating: Unassertive and co-operative. The opposite of competing. You neglect your own concerns in favour of those of the other party.
Competing: Assertive and un-cooperative. You pursue your goals at the expense of those of the other party.
Collaborating: Assertive and co-operative. An attempt is made to find a solution where both parties’ goals are met.
Compromising: Intermediate in assertiveness and cooperation. No optimal solution is found, but both parties sacrifice their goals to some extent.
It immediately becomes apparent that this model does not have, at its centre, man’s relationship to God. It is all about the goals of the two parties in conflict, and God is has been neatly removed from the picture. The five conflict styles are given merely as a taxonomy, a morally neutral list. The model does not provide us with guidance as to which conflict styles ought to be preferred and when. The assumption is that some people favour one style above another, but that no one style is right or wrong in terms of morality.
The model concerns itself merely with balancing your own goals over and above that of others. The tacit implication is that a well-balanced response to conflict would place a high value both on your own goals as well as those of others (i.e. Collaborative). But what if the other’s goals are morally wrong? Or worse still, what if both your goals and the other’s are morally wrong? Should you resolve the conflict through collaboration, or are there better responses in this situation?
So what would happen if we put God back in the centre of this picture? What if we build a conflict response model not based on what you want against what others want, but on what God wants?
Let’s look at the two most important commandments given by God in the Bible; Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbour as yourself (cf. Mark 12:28-34). From this statement, we can identify two primary kinds of conflict that can occur. Firstly and most importantly, conflict between man and God. This sort of conflict can be specialised into two sub-categories; the conflict that occurs between you and God, and the conflict that occurs between your neighbour and God.
The second type of conflict is that between you and your neighbour. The two kinds of conflict can be illustrated graphically as follows:
Conflict between man and God
What does it mean when there is conflict between man and God? It simply means that man is outside the will of God. Consequently man’s goals and concerns are not aligned with that of God. At the time of creation, this conflict did not and could not exist because man was in the perfect will of God, and man’s desires were aligned with the desires of God.
Since the fall, this situation has changed, and man is now pretty much in conflict with God 24/7. However, we still have our consciences that bear witness of God’s will and what we ought to do, and we are still image-bearers of God, capable of rational thought and moral judgement. For those of us who have accepted Jesus as our saviour, we have the Holy Spirit in our hearts to guide our thoughts and actions, and He also gives us the strength to listen and obey His guidance.
For all the reasons given above, one can imagine a scale that places our goals closer to the will of God or further away from His will. For example, if I am tempted to tell a lie, but tell the truth instead, I might safely conclude that my actions are in line with the will of God (Provided my motive was to honour Him and not some selfish, prideful or malicious motive). On the other hand, if I deliberately lie when I know I should have told the truth, I know my action is on the other end of the scale.
Conflict between you and your neighbour
The second type of conflict is slightly more interesting. One might imagine that if your actions are in line with God’s will, there would be no occasion for you to be in conflict with your neighbour. However, because your neighbour’s goals might be out of line with God’s will, this would result in conflict. We see this with Adam and Eve; Eve’s goals were out of line with God’s will, but Adam was still in the will of God. This resulted in conflict. Adam responded by accommodating Eve’s desires, which resulted in conflict between God and Man. This type of conflict is encountered often in the Psalms, where David was in line with God’s will, yet he was pursued by Saul.
On the other hand, both you and your neighbour may have goals out of line with God’s will. For example, you may both be competing for a position in a company for selfish reasons. Both of you are in conflict with God as well as each other.
Finally, both you and your neighbour may be in line with God’s will, yet be in conflict. This happens because we are in a fallen world and therefore often misunderstand what motive lies behind our neighbour’s actions. We often see this in marriages, where both parties could act with the best intentions in the world, within the will of God, yet conflict somehow still arises.
The Christian Conflict Model
From the preceding discussion, we see that the conflict styles model could be re-interpreted from a Christian perspective with God at the centre. The two axes for this model, rather than representing your own self-interest or the other person’s self-interest, would reflect the rightness (i.e. righteousness with God) of your goals and that of your neighbour’s.
Given these axes, let’s consider what the correct conflict response styles should be for each quadrant.
Q1. Both you and your neighbour’s goals are in line with God’s will
In this scenario, we have to follow the example of Christ, and sacrifice our own interest for that of our neighbour. Therefore the accommodating style should be our first response. However, as often happens, our neighbour would also wish to sacrifice his or her interest, especially if both parties are Christian. In this case an attempt should be made to employ a Collaborating style, where a solution is sought that meets the goals of both parties.
What would happen if you use the Avoiding style? In this case, you would be disobeying Christ’s command that if you have anything against your brother, you should first have it resolved before coming before the Lord (Matthew 5:23-24). This would impact on your spiritual life and adversely impact your relationship with God.
If you choose to employ the Competing style, you would be contravening the principles of charity. You would probably achieve your goals, but at the cost of your own spiritual progress, your relationship with God and with your neighbour.
A good example of this scenario from the Bible would be the conflict between Mary and Martha (cf. Luke 10:38-42). Even though both were within the will of God, conflict arose because Martha thought that Mary ought to have helped her with the chores. Jesus resolved the situation by assuring her that Mary had chosen the better part, and that she was within the perfect will of God.
Q2. Your interests are not in line with God’s will, but your neighbour’s are
In this scenario, we have to humbly admit our mistake and sacrifice our goals in favour of that of our neighbour (i.e. The Accommodating style). This should probably be accompanied with a plea for forgiveness from God and perhaps even an apology to our neighbour.
By pursuing conflict in this quadrant, you would be prolonging your own interests at the cost of your relationship with God. You might also cause your neighbour to stumble since you are unwilling to accommodate their righteous goals while favouring your own goals even though they are against God’s will.
Competing in this quadrant is probably the worst possible response, since that would imply you are forcefully and arrogantly pursuing your own goals whilst fully aware that they do not conform to the will of God.
A Collaborating style would imply that a solution could be found that would meet both your goals and your neighbour’s, even though yours are not in line with God’s will. This is probably the least damaging incorrect response, but it is highly unlikely that such an accommodation could be found without compromising your neighbour to some extent.
A good example of this scenario from scripture would be the conflict between David and Bathsheba’s husband (cf. 2 Samuel 11). Although the husband was completely ignorant of the conflict, David was fully aware of his wrong-doing. Unfortunately, he chose to pursue the conflict by choosing a Competing style of response, which caused the husband to be killed in war and damaged David’s relationship with God.
Q3. Neither your interests, nor your neighbour’s are in line with God’s will
In this scenario, we should try to avoid the conflict altogether, while we get right with God. Hopefully, both parties will repent and move the conflict into Q1. Or at the least, you will repent and the conflict will move into Q2. However, you might find that after repenting, your goals and concerns would probably have changed and the conflict between you and your neighbour may therefore no longer exist.
It should be clear that Accommodating, Collaborating and Competing are all completely unsuitable in this scenario. They all imply that some attempt will be made to knowingly pursue goals that are not in line with God’s will.
A good scriptural example for this form of conflict is the scene where Jesus’ disciples were arguing about who would be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven in Mark 9:33-36. Jesus set them straight by declaring that those who wish to be the greatest should be the least.
Q4. Your interests are in line with God’s will, but not your neighbour’s
In this scenario, we have to exercise Christian courage and stand our ground (i.e. Competing style). Since our neighbour’s goals are not in line with God’s will, we should point it out and be assertive in order to avoid being dragged into something that will cause conflict between ourselves and God.
A collaborating style would have a similar, but inverse, impact as discussed in Q2; you may find a solution that meets both your goals, but this would be highly unlikely and would probably compromise your relationship with God to some extent.
To adopt an Accommodating style would be highly unsuitable, since that would imply that we are to some extent condoning our neighbour’s goals despite the fact that they are not in line with God’s will. The same argument would hold for employing an Avoiding style.
A good example of this style in practice is the conflict between Peter and Paul (cf. Galatians 2:11-13), when Peter withdrew from the Gentiles because of his fear of the circumcision group, he was clearly out of line with God’s will. If Paul had merely avoided the issue or accommodated Peter’s goals, we would have had a very different Christianity today!
Before launching your conflict style…
Pray. Bring your situation prayerfully to God and seek His will. Also remember that it is part of being wise to overlook an offense (Proverbs 19:11 “A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense“). So even if your neighbour has offended you and you believe it was unjust, try to understand the purposes behind the offense and then see if you can overlook it. Forgiveness is a big part of being a Christian, and we are often called to forgive rather than pursue conflict. Remember Matthew 5:9; “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God“.
And finally, remember that revenge belongs to the Lord (Romans 12:19). The Lord doesn’t want you to get even, nor does he want you to avenge injustice. Wait on the Lord. Often, He will handle the conflict without you having to do anything.
When you are uncertain as to whom is in line with God’s will and who is not, the correct response style, regardless of the situation, would be to Pray. Prayerfully ask God to clarify the situation for you and to show you how you should respond.
Prayer is the one response that acknowledges the centrality of God in our lives and should be our first response, regardless of the contextual circumstances. The complete Christian Conflict response model should therefore be drawn as follows:
The Prayer response also addresses a conflict scenario that has not been discussed yet. This is the scenario where there is no conflict between you and your neighbour, but conflict exists between you and God. Since our original model was taken from a model probably resting on theories viewed from a naturalistic world-view, it only covered conflict situations between human role-players.
Our Christian model, however, should account for the conflict that can exist solely between a created being and the creator. Since God is just and righteous, any conflict that exists between us and God can only have one correct response, and that is the Prayer response, followed by repentance.
A very good biblical example of this sort of conflict can be found in the book of Job. Job suffered at the hands of God, and came into bitter conflict with God. Yet when God answered him, he was willing to repent and ask for forgiveness and his relationship with God was restored.
After reading this article, you might compare the models and decide that they are very similar. So what have we achieved by using the lens of the Christian Worldview? Have we simply gone on a long journey, only to return again to the very point from which we have departed?
Not at all. Firstly, we have added rich meaning to the conflict response styles. The question is no longer simply whether I value my own goals or those of others. Rather, the question now is whether my goals are intrinsically or objectively more valid than those of my neighbour. To what extent do they align with God’s will?
This resolves the ambiguity of whether I should value your goals even though I disagree with them, and yet I still value you as a person. From a Christian perspective, it is important that you always value yourself and your neighbour; “love your neighbour as yourself”, but that does not mean that we automatically value their goals or interests, especially if we perceive that these may be out of alignment with God’s will.
Finally, the new model proposed here sheds light on the subtle interplay between my relationship with God and my relationship with my neighbour. It informs our decisions relating to conflict and what our responses ought to be in our day-to-day lives as Christians.
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Through the Panama City Police Department (PCPD), the After School Assistance Program (ASAP) was established in June of 1993 in the urban housing complex of Pana Villa Apartments. With the help of grant funding through the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and other community partners, ASAP was able to provide services to families and children in need. This initial site was selected in response to the need to address the increasing problems of juvenile crime and the rise in dropout rates for middle and high school age children in the community. Within two years, it was clear the program was a success and needed to be expanded to another community with similar needs. In February 1995, ASAP in partnership with the Junior Service League (JSL), PCPD, and the Panama City Housing Authority (PCHA) allowed the establishment of a second location in the Massalina Housing Complex. To date, the program has been a big success serving over 800 young children in the community. The program is now run under the Department of Community Development through the City of Panama City, with Mike Johnson as the Department Head. | <urn:uuid:38051a63-8786-444d-bdb1-79d03303626f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://asappanamacity.org/history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970895 | 218 | 1.515625 | 2 |
"Seattle Times" -March 6th, 2018
By Alan Berner / Seattle Times staff photographer
Like father, like daughter.
"The bitter the better."
And she knows how to read tongues.
"Tongues don't lie."
She was taught by her father, the late Hen Sen Chin.
He had a shop in the Chinatown International District and then Beacon Hill from 1951 to 2006.
He blended herbs for teas after checking patients' tongues.
The tea are natural traditional medicines.
The tongue is key to revealing the clients's ailment and which tea should be taken.
Behind him were scores of drawers filled with herbs.
Juliana Chin Isogai knows how to combine traditional herbs, hundreds of them.
For various disorders he would blend at least a score of roots, leaves and flowers - including Dang gui, commonly known as female ginseng, or Da huang, Chinese rhubarb.
He took Polaroids of each patient's tongue and kept a record.
Isogai began learning about herbs when she was only 5. He would test her on recognizing the herb by its aroma.
A correct answer was rewarded with a quarter.
What was a hobby became a passion with her ability to identify herbs.
At age 12 she began an apprenticeship with her dad.
Isogai, now 44, says she became a herbalist because, "I want to help others." and she has a great sense of smell for identifying herbs.
The question she asks are very personal.
She probes about bodily functions, eating habits, sleeping habits.
She teaches people to eat healthily.
She doesn't drink coffee or alcohol and takes in very little sugar.
Exercising regularly helps reduce stress.
Early-morning yoga is practiced before work.
Her dad taught her to "walk the talk."
This is where East meets West in health care.
She takes traditional Chinese herbs, doing tastings for herself and her husband Kaz.
The bitter the better.
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When ever students contact us for study abroad advice, we always encourage them to study on cheapest or low tuition in Malaysia and see how the country’s amazing beauty goes beyond its medieval forest trees, national museums and sandy beaches. On top of that, In the urban cities too, you’ll discover loads of activities that’ll occupy your senses from colorful and varied market places to several nicely built mosques, Buddhist temples and Hindu shrines that are usually situated side by side.
As you may already know, Malaysia is one of the world’s most politically stable nations,and is only second to Singapore per regional economic strength, but you’ll find an organic lifestyle in Malaysia more than what Singapore offers. A portion of the country, sits on the southern tip of the peninsula slightly below Thailand, and is called Peninsular Malaysia. This region is home to some of the top ranked and cheapest tuition universities in Malaysia, together with some of the most amazing and vibrant urban places. The other portion is Malaysian Borneo,which shares an island with Indonesia and if you didn’t know is the quieter of the two regions, and thus offer residents solitude, tranquility and natural jungle life.
Applications process, fees and visas
Did you know Malaysia is already the world’s 11th most popular study abroad destination according to UNESCO figures? Inline with this, Malaysia has grand plans to become the sixth-largest tertiary education provider by 2025 with the goal of attracting 250,000 international students by this time.
A proper development initiative introduced to actualize this is a new agency known as Education Malaysia Global Services (EMGS), which will provide necessary support for international students who apply to study in Malaysia. Starting from 2013, students who wish to apply to private universities in Malaysia were encouraged to apply using EMGS with a ‘one stop application’, introduced to simplify the process and make it more efficient and allow students to apply for multiple programs and institutions at once. International students who are keen on studying in Malaysia at a public university, however, will be required to apply for their desired course directly via each individual university.
As you would expect, English is currently the main language of Instruction of private colleges and some government universities in Malaysia, and is used widely by Malaysians. Students who are less proficient in English should note that, most of the colleges offer English proficiency classes.
International Student passes and visas
All international students admitted to schools in Malaysia will need to apply for “Student Pass” and student visa. Typically, obtaining your Student Pass is a simple process, once you are admitted onto a program at an accredited university in Malaysia, the school will directly apply for the pass on your behalf. As part of the documents they will submit for you is a Personal Bond, to obtain this you will have to pay a fee of roughly MYR200-2,000 (US$50-US$500), depending on where you hail from.
The moment your acceptance and Student Pass have been collectively approved, all admitted into their universities (both private and public universities), will have to apply separately for a single-entry student visa through the local Malaysian embassy or high commission in your home country. To apply for this, you will be required to provide evidence of your offer of study and your Student Pass, show evidence of sufficient financial stability to take care of tuition and living fees, show via doctor’s report that you are “in good health and of good character”, and confirm that you are traveling to Malaysia solely for academic purposes. Depending on which country you come from, you may also be required to submit more info and documents.
As you would expect, tuition fees differ between universities in Malaysia, due to the prevalence of international branch campuses and private universities upping the overall average. In general however, tuition cost in Malaysia is cheaper than in many countries, with average tuition costs currently standing at roughly US$3,950 per year.
The highest ranked institution in the country, Universiti Malaya (UM), as a public institution, has an average fee which again is so much lower, sitting as low as US$2,534 per year for international undergraduate students.
As expected, the costs of programs at Malaysia’s international branch campuses tend to be higher, but are still cheaper than their international counterparts, while providing the same value to students. For example, if you were to do a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Monash University’s Malaysian branch campus it would go for roughly MYR41,900 (US$10,000) a year, while at the original Monash University in Australia the cost would be twice that, currently A$32,500 (~US$23,400) a year.
The cost of living for students living in Malaysia is as low as MYR 14,400 (~US$3,440-4,600) per year, and takes care of food, travel and accommodation. While this is relatively low compared to many destinations, it is important to plan your budget as early as possible, given that your visa application will require proof of available funds.
Have at the back of your mind that international students are not allowed to work during term time. The only permissible times students are allowed to work are during semester breaks and school holidays of more than seven days, for no more than 20 hours a week and on a few category of jobs. What this implies is that earning cash for tuition and living expenses on the go may not quite happen.
Scholarships and grants
We all know scholarships and grants are fantastic means for international students to secure funding to study in Malaysia. Select universities in Malaysia equally offer scholarships or fellowships to international plus local students, and information on these can be found on all their websites.
The Malaysian government deploys funds for international students, one such scholarship fund is the Malaysian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP), available to postgraduate students who earned a 2:1 degree or higher, or it’s equivalent.
List of low tuition universities
Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia
Universiti Utara Malaysia
National Defense University of Malaysia
University of Malaya
University of Teknikal Malaysia
Universities Malaysia Malaba
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Water accumulation in a basement can be harmful in several ways. Water can cause structural damage, while increased moisture promotes mold.
At the same time, the basement becomes unfit for use. But waterproofing this area can solve all those issues.
How Much Does Basement Waterproofing Cost?
On average, basement waterproofing prices range from $3 to $10 per square foot. The price range is very wide because several factors can influence the final expense of waterproofing.
For instance, the job might include only basic waterproofing or involve excavation, pump installation, and other additional steps.
Exterior waterproofing is done with a special membrane or coating that prevents water from passing into the basement walls.
This waterproofing type costs between $2.80 and $6.10 per square foot. However, exterior waterproofing can involve several different methods that are priced individually:
Cement waterproofing: $5.20 per square foot
Liquid membrane: $3.30 – $5.70 per square foot
Sheet membrane: $3.32 – $6.50 per square foot
Bentonite panels: $3.50 per square foot
In addition to these methods, several additional steps can be done to ensure the best water prevention possible. These are, of course, charged separately from the basic cost.
Weeping or drain tiles can be installed for an average price of between $2,450 to $16,000. And if excavation is necessary to make the basement walls accessible, the cost for that job will depend on the size of the area that needs to be excavated.
Generally speaking, it will cost around $50 to excavate a cubic yard. A linear foot of excavation will be priced at $90 to $260, but most contractors will have a fixed minimum price that usually won’t go below $2,900.
Finally, it should be noted that a basement can be waterproofed from the inside, which eliminates the extra cost of excavation. The three basic interior waterproofing materials are concrete, crystalline, and elastomer.
A square foot of these will cost $5.20, $5.50, and $4.10 respectively when installed.
Internal waterproofing also comes with some specific additions, too.
Different sealers – silicate and epoxy in particular – can be applied for increased durability and stability. Both silicate and epoxy sealers will cost from $3.10 to $6.90 per square foot.
Waterproof paint will be the next addition, with a price of up to $200 for a five-gallon pack. For reference, a single gallon will be sufficient for about 120 square feet.
In total, basement waterproofing can cost from a mere $260 to over $21,000, depending on the particular expenses. The average national price for this job ranges from $2,000 to $6,300.
Estimate the cost of a full basement remodel
How Is Basement Waterproofing Done?
Planning and preparation are needed to waterproof a basement properly. It’s crucial to get an accurate determination of the type of waterproofing that needs to be done, as well as any additional work.
Exterior waterproofing jobs usually start with excavation. This includes digging around the basement perimeter until the foundation is reached. Once the excavation is completed, the outer wall will need to be cleaned thoroughly.
This is the best time to look for potential cracks in the wall where water might pass through. If such cracks exist, they’ll need to be sealed.
The most common sealant for the outer basement wall comes in the form of hydraulic cement coating. This material expands, filling in both obvious and hidden cracks.
Additionally, all exterior walls will require another sealant based on non-hydraulic cement. This sealant is designed to harden and close the pores of the concrete. The material will cover and close any cracks that were too small for the previous layer to fix.
With all the preparation and fixes taken care of, it’s now time to apply a membrane. As mentioned, this membrane can be liquid or sheet. The membranes are applied to the wall by spraying or troweling.
This layer of waterproofing material has special traits that make it ideal for the job. For instance, waterproofing membranes are flexible enough to close any new cracks if they occur.
When the membrane is installed, the drainage mat will follow. This is an additional layer meant to isolate moisture and transport it to the drain. For that reason, the mat should match the foundation depth precisely.
Finally, a weeping tile or French drain will usually be installed. It’s worth noting that the weeping tile is also a type of pipe, despite its name.
These pipes should be located at the footing base to allow for additional slow drainage below the floor. It’s best to have cleanouts installed so that the pipe can be maintained without issues.
Interior basement waterproofing doesn’t require excavation like the exterior method. The coating process is the same as with an exterior basement wall, with additional layers designed for interior use.
After the coating, silicate sealers can be applied to ensure the walls remain watertight.
Next, potential cracks can be covered with epoxy. This layer will also make the previous seals more durable. The final layers will include a vapor barrier and waterproof paint.
The entire area needs to be prepared and cleaned thoroughly before the paint can be applied. The best paint is usually acrylic, which is thicker than the regular variant. This type of paint adheres tightly to the wall.
Besides providing an extra layer of water protection, the paint can also serve as a warning system. If there are issues with the exterior waterproofing, they’ll cause the paint to break down, indicating the problem.
Interior waterproofing will also require water drainage. This calls for installing polyethylene pipes into the walls. The pipes will then need to be connected to a sump pump which will pull the accumulated water outside.
It’s not unusual to build a second interior wall to hide the drainage pipes.
The drainage system is completed with the installation of a sump pump. A backup pump could potentially be installed if there’s a fear of flooding.
Interior waterproofing is best done in combination with exterior waterproofing. This way, the basement gets double protection that will almost certainly keep the water out.
Did you know? Basements aren’t widely accepted throughout the U.S. In fact, houses in some Southern states, such as Florida or Texas, don’t feature basements at all.
This aversion to basements is a result of specific soil types prevalent in these states. For instance, clay land, which is abundant in Texas, is prone to swelling and shrinking.
These movements can put additional pressure on the walls and could jeopardize the foundation. Another example might be land that has plenty of near-surface water.
Pros and Cons of Different Basement Waterproofing Methods
While it might seem like all the aforementioned methods of basement waterproofing bring only benefits, the truth is that each system comes with certain negative issues.
With interior waterproofing, the primary purpose is to divert the water towards the pump which takes care of the drainage.
Of course, the sealing layers play a crucial role here in preventing new water from coming in at a rate that would overwhelm the drainage system.
Pros of interior basement waterproofing are that the method is exceptionally effective in terms of alleviating the hydrostatic pressure from the basement base. This is also a relatively inexpensive technique.
However, the cons of interior waterproofing highly outweigh the pros.
Firstly, interior waterproofing alone doesn’t resolve the issue of water leakage. While drainage can be highly effective, the water will likely still find its way into the basement. Also, this method doesn’t contribute to getting rid of excessive humidity.
In other words, a basement with only interior waterproofing will deal with some of the consequences, but not entirely.
The root cause of basement flooding will still be unaddressed.
Exterior waterproofing is best done by total excavation. This provides unhindered access to the exterior basement foundation wall. The wall is then isolated and drainage installed to keep water from passing through.
On the pros side, exterior waterproofing ends the problem of water leaking inside. With the water effectively prevented from getting into the basement, humidity stops being an issue as well.
In addition, exterior drainage will keep the basement and the entire area around it relatively dry.
The cons are mainly tied to the work process around exterior waterproofing, particularly excavation.
Excavating can be very labor-intensive, requiring you to factor in the time necessary to complete the project as well as the costs.
Plus, the nearby landscape will be damaged by the excavation. This doesn’t represent only an aesthetic setback, though. The ruined landscape will need to be remodeled, which will cause even more expenses in time and money.
Finally, there’s a combined method of interior and exterior waterproofing. This method also involves excavation, wall repairs, and sealing. Furthermore, drainage is installed inside and outside of the basement.
However, this combined method should resolve every problem related to moisture and water and significantly reduce further exposure to similar issues.
Combined waterproofing also creates superior drainage and ensures there’s little to no further damage to the basement structure.
One of the major cons of this method is its price, which includes interior and exterior prices combined. The cost alone will deter many homeowners.
The other issue related to the combined method is the same as what appears in exterior waterproofing. It has to do with excavation and the destructive effect it has on the surrounding landscape.
Is Basement Waterproofing Worth It?
Basement waterproofing resolves several issues that can quickly become quite severe. For starters, increased humidity is unhealthy and can lead to mold expansion.
With proper waterproofing, the risks of humidity and water-related hazards are removed. And that’s not even the most significant benefit of waterproofing.
When the basement is made waterproof, the home’s foundation is effectively reinforced. And it should go without saying that the foundation is a crucial part of every building.
When all this is taken into consideration, waterproofing will certainly be worth it, no matter the cost.
Is Basement Waterproofing Tax Deductible?
In its basic form, waterproofing is considered a type of home repair, which makes it ineligible for a tax deduction.
However, there are ways to make the project tax-deductible if specific criteria are met and the circumstances are right. Naturally, it’s best to consult a tax expert to ensure that the deduction applies.
Circumstances that may lead to a tax reduction include:
Incorporating the waterproofing work into a home remodeling project. These projects are eligible for tax reductions, especially when the remodeling is done to accommodate a household member with special needs.
Turning your basement into a home office. Tax deductions apply when you’re repurposing your home space as an office or storage space. However, it’s worth noting that, in this case, the space must be used for the intended purpose exclusively.
Is Basement Waterproofing Covered by Insurance?
Waterproofing usually doesn’t have insurance coverage. If flooding happens in the basement, the insurance company will likely cover the clean-up.
Then the rest of the coverage will depend on the cause. If there was an internal cause, such as a broken appliance or pipe, the resulting damage will be covered by the policy.
The same goes for a tub or sink that has overflown. However, external sources won’t be subject to insurance coverage.
In other words, if the cause is a harsh storm, groundwater, or a nearby flooded body of water, the policy won’t apply.
Even specific insurance against floods won’t ensure coverage in the case of floods caused by groundwater.
This is because insurance companies view such issues as the result of poor maintenance.
Does Basement Waterproofing Add Value?
Since basement waterproofing is a major structural and functional home improvement, it adds significant value to the home.
In fact, the added value can be equal to up to 50% of the original investment.
The Most Inexpensive Waterproofing Techniques
Waterproofing can be quite an expensive project, making some homeowners shy away from the daunting task. Luckily, there are certain waterproofing techniques that can help you get the project done even on a tight budget.
The first low-budget method is applicable only in basements with concrete foundations. This foundation type is quite common, as poured concrete has been a standard for home foundations since the ’80s.
Most of the leaks that appear in such foundations can be repaired with relative ease. All you need to do is inject the leaks with polyurethane.
This material is designed to seal the cracks. Even better, the polyurethane will pass through the entire crack, reaching the soil on the outside.
However, if the foundation is made of concrete blocks or cinderblocks, the injection won’t represent a viable solution.
Instead, this type of foundation can be waterproofed with an interior drain system.
The interior system is relatively inexpensive but highly effective. It doesn’t have to represent an option for waterproofing on a budget but can also solve several other problems.
For instance, interior systems can come in handy if exterior waterproofing with excavation isn’t possible or would jeopardize existing structures of the landscape.
Another case where this system could be useful is when the flooding isn’t due to external sources beyond the basement walls.
If the cause is in a water table that’s rising beneath the floor slab, internal waterproofing might be the better solution.
Waterproofing vs. Damp Proofing
People often don’t know the difference between waterproofing and damp proofing and even use the two terms interchangeably. However, the difference is quite distinct.
Simply put, waterproofing prevents water from getting in, as well as minimizes the chances of moisture building up. Damp proofing is only intended for counteracting the moisture from the soil.
The conditions upon which waterproofing or damp proofing is deemed necessary are also different.
Waterproofing is usually required in specific areas where the water table is particularly high, or the water conditions are otherwise severe.
On the other hand, damp proofing is necessary for nearly all foundation walls made of concrete or masonry. This, naturally, includes basement walls.
Waterproofing is done by several techniques that usually require distinct steps. Damp proofing is a relatively straightforward process.
It is essentially an asphalt-based coating that can be applied by hand or can be sprayed on the wall.
In the modern day, damp proofing isn’t recommended quite as often as it was previously. That doesn’t mean that it’s not a useful or acceptable treatment. Most often, the problem is that damp proofing simply isn’t a sufficiently effective solution.
This technique doesn’t provide a way to seal particularly massive holes or cracks. Of course, waterproofing is extremely effective because it’s intended to remove any water-related issues.
Waterproofing includes a complete drainage system, both on the surface and installed into the foundations. It can make damp proofing unnecessary, but the two systems can also be extra effective when combined.
Finding the Best Basement Waterproofing Solution
There are several available waterproofing options that serve specific purposes and come with distinct advantages and downsides.
The choice of the right waterproofing system will depend on the circumstances and the level of risk presented by excessive water flow.
While complete basement waterproofing can be quite expensive, especially for larger surface areas, certain low-budget options exist that can be used as reliable, yet temporary, solutions.
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In the climax of the poem, the poet with his family moved to Baroda. There, the poet sees banyan tree. The memory of the banyan tree in his own garden rushes to him. And now that the tree in reality is dead, for his father brought it down, the poet carries its memories in his faded dreams. The poet personifies the banyan tree by saying that this tree is the one that grows in one's dreams, i.e., in poet's dreams. There in the dreams, the tree seethes, i.e., boils. It is to be considered for why the poet has used the second term. Is it possible that the tree is in anguish, because it was brought down, and thus it boils in anger while it grows in the poet's dreams though dead in reality. | <urn:uuid:6ba10ae1-03ae-46e0-9d48-813dfe89643c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aakashdigitalsrv1.meritnation.com/ask-answer/question/no-trees-except-the-one-which-grows-and-seethes-in-one-s-dre/felling-of-the-banyan-tree/11814019 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.990281 | 202 | 2.78125 | 3 |
When the heavy factory sponsorship of Trans-Am racing teams ended after the 1970 season, Bud Moore was able to return to his NASCAR roots. Successfully fielding a car or multiple cars in NASCAR meant securing commercial sponsorship, which did come to Bud Moore from Sta-Power lubricants, but not until mid-season. Until the sponsorship arrived, this car was painted “school-bus” yellow because the team still had some leftover paint from the 1970 Trans-Am Mustangs. The car ran a 351 cubic-inch V-8, much smaller than the 426 Hemis and other monster engines that were the standard in NASCAR race cars of the day. NASCAR allowed the cars that used the smaller engines to be lighter, thus providing competitive parity. Various well- known drivers piloted this car in the 1972 season including David Pearson, Donnie Allison and Bobby Isaac. Driving a car like this one, it was Isaac who, a year later, famously retired from the sport at a mid-race pit stop at Talladega because he decided it was time to do so. | <urn:uuid:73c94dcb-efa6-41c0-9671-61cab571ce0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.3dog.org/project/1972-ford-torino-bud-moore-nascar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978924 | 216 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Roslin orphanage was officially opened in 2002 by Budi Soehardi, a retired pilot and his wife Peggy Soehardi. Located at Oelnasi village, Kabupaten Kupang, East Timor, it is now home to 138 children. Most children are here because their mother passed away during childbirth, extreme poverty, or the family has too many children. Some of them are just left at the door.
Our intention is to equip the children with tools for their life in the form of proper education. We treat them as our own children. Other than school, we also taught the children to grow fruits and vegetables, so we can self-sustain our food. From our humble beginning, we now facilitate 138 children, with 11 of them in university. One of our children, Gerson, has graduated from medical school.
By the grace of God, our effort has been recognised by CNN back in 2009:
“At Roslin, we teach every child to live, to laugh and to love.” - Budi Soehardi.
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|Extracts from chapters 6, 7 and 9 of the classic mystical text The Cloud of Unknowing. Here our anonymous author explores the nature of God and how to go about your contemplations:
Chapter 6: What is God?
“But now you are going to ask me: ‘How am I supposed to think about God himself? What is he? and I can only answer: ‘I have no idea!’
Because with this question you have brought me into the darkness and the cloud of unknowing that I want you to be in yourself. For, through grace, a man can have perfect knowledge of everything else and can think adequately about other matters – even about the works of God himself – but nobody can think about God’s essential being. So I must be willing to leave all the things I can conceive with my mind on one side and choose for my love the one thing that I cannot think about. Why? Because he can be loved most satisfactorily but he cannot be thought about. He can be grasped and held by love but never by thought. And that is why, although it can sometimes be beneficial to think carefully about the kindness and excellence of God and although this can be both a revelation and a part of contemplation, nevertheless in this work it must be thrown aside and covered with a cloud of forgetting. And you must step over it resolutely and gladly and with a dedicated and pleasurable impulse of love try to pierce the darkness that you seem to encounter above you. And beat upon that thick cloud of unknowing with a sharp dart of yearning love. And never for a second think of giving up.”
from Chapter 7: Trample on your thoughts!
“You can, if you like, encapsulate and contain this intention in a single word, to help you concentrate. So take a little word of just one syllable to help you focus your attention. The shorter the word the better, because it is more like this particular activity of the Holy Spirit. Choose a word like ‘God’ or ‘love’ or any other word of one syllable that appeals to you and impress it indelibly on your heart so that it is always there, whatever happens.
This word must be your shield and your spear in times of peace or war alike. With this word you must batter the cloud and the darkness above you. With this word you must beat down all kinds of intellectual or analytical activity under the cloud of forgetting. So much so that if you are ever tempted to ask what you are looking for, answer with this one word – don’t try to find other words or concepts. And if you should be tempted to analyse and reflect learnedly on the meaning of this word, your talisman, insist that you want to preserve it as a simple whole and not divide and subdivide it into separate categories. If you are determined to hold fast to your purpose, you can be confident that thought will eventually fade away. Why? Simply because you will not let your mind feed on the consoling meditations about God that we mentioned earlier.”
from Chapter 9: Suppress the imagination
“I am not saying that any spontaneous idea that rises in your mind against your will and conscious intention about a pure spiritual matter which is less than God, even if you cultivate it to increase your devotion, is actually evil, even though it will impede your progress in this kind of contemplation. No indeed! God forbid that you should misunderstand me in this way! But I do say that as long as you are engaged in this higher spiritual activity – however good or holy such a thought may be, it will be more of a hindrance than a help. Surely anybody who is wholly set on the quest for God can find no rest in the thought of a mere angel or saint in heaven?”
Extracted from Karen Armstrong’s translation in The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century.
Next time: Techniques to get rid of distractions
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In early September, the Institute of Medicine published its most recent report on the state of healthcare in the U.S. Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, identifies three major “imperatives for change: the rising complexity of modern health care, unsustainable cost increases, and outcomes below the system’s potential. You can download a free, prepublication .pdf version of this 450 page report before it is out in print.
The committee explored in detail some of the pressing needs of the system. They are convinced that we must move toward a healthcare system that learns from itself as rapidly as possible or the system is likely to self-destruct. We must learn how to incorporate research results more quickly, we must learn to change delivery systems that cost too much, we must move the system closer to its highest potential. In short, we must develop a culture of “continuous improvement to produce the best care at lower cost.”
FierceHealthFinance focused on the reported waste of $750 Billion a year (about 30% of the cost of healthcare in the U.S.) as one of the most important things to change. While that number is appalling, the fact that the figure reported was from 2009 is the most striking thing about it to me. Our system has become so complex that it takes three years before we know what it costs. We are constantly behind the curve, and must find ways to speed up the process of information assessment, dissemination, and implementation for change.
The behavioral healthcare system is often far behind the curve in implementing change that might be more productive. The public health and public behavioral health systems are deep in conversation and pilot programs related to integrating physical and behavioral healthcare. Suzanne Bennett Johnson, Ph.D., current President of the American Psychological Association (APA) identified the need to increase psychology’s role in integrated care as a primary thrust of her presidency; her presidential address also focused on this issue. I wonder how many mental health providers in the private sector are even willing to consider what changes to their work such an integrated system might bring.
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|AKELA THE WOLF AND MOWGLI, 2006 LANTERN FESTIVAL, TAIPEI|
(Image from: The House of Two Bows 雙寶之屋)
It was around 1889 that the Ezo wolf of Hokkaido was believed to have gone extinct. The main cause, according to Hiraiwa Yonekichi in Ookami—Sono seitai to rekishi (The wolf: its ecology and history) (Tokyo 1981, revised ed. 1992), was the intense persecution the animal suffered at the hands of humans. By 1905, the Japanese wolf, a distinct and endemic species found only in three islands of the Japanese archipelago, went missing as well. Its extinction was largely a result of hunting, the spread of disease, and the loss of habitat and prey. Anecdotal reports gave information of the possibility that the wolves were still in existence beyond these dates, but the truth of these claims was in question.
In fact, the extinction of the wolf species in western Europe came before these two species: 1680 in Scotland and 1710 in Ireland. A worldwide trend indicated that the population of the species was in decline.
Hiraiwa claims that wolves went extinct so early in Europe because they were always seen as a threat to people who from ancient times had raised livestock such as sheep and cattle. They feared the wolf as man's mortal enemy, and constantly persecuted the animal by every possible means—guns, poisons, traps, and snares, even hand grenades—until they had finally eradicated them.
This natural history of wolf, including the appearance of the animal in legends and classic novels, was contained in "Prelude", in the opening of Tsushima Yūko's novel Laughing Wolf (published in Japan in 2000). The prelude ended with the mention of the extinction of the Japanese wolf in 1905 coinciding with the end of the Russo-Japanese war, after which, Japan was again involved in a war with China and then in the world war which ended in 1945, after Japan's unconditional surrender: "The Japanese wolf was no longer around, but as things turned out, wild dogs who had lost their masters could be spotted running through the smoldering ruins of Japan's cities."
For a work of fiction it was strange to read a long precis of a nonfiction book on wolves. It was also strange, and particularly jarring, when the following chapter changed in tone and took up an altogether different narrative thread, indicating a hybrid approach to the novel. The story turned to a father and his four-year old son living in the apocalyptic landscape and waste of postwar Japan. The two survived air bombings and were left homeless and hungry. The child's point of view could remind one of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The child recalling his early life through hazy memories: "One day fire came pouring down from the sky. The fence burned, the house burned, his mother, brother, and sister all burned. Even the cat burned. They all vanished from the earth." Later the child's father also died and the child was taken to an orphanage. But memory of one event particularly lingered in the boy's imagination. While he and his father were sleeping in a cemetery, he witnessed the suicides of three adults: two men and a woman. When already grown up, he investigated the deaths of these three and even visited the house of the wife and daughter of one of the men.
The narrative also took up the point of view of the daughter, the young girl Yuki being visited by the now grown up young man Mitsuo. The tenuous connection between them did not prevent their becoming easy friends. The young man and the girl, 17 and 12 years old, both orphaned of fathers, decided to leave Tokyo and take a train trip to the countryside.
The novel then recounted their adventures while on train journeys and stops, inadvertently witnessing the social and economic realities of postwar Japan. As with The Shooting Gallery, Tsushima's collection of translated stories, the two characters in Laughing Wolf were wont to escape their present situations, and in the process create and inhabit for themselves avatars or surrogate identities. In this novel, Mitsuo and Yuki took on the names Akela and Mowgli, respectively, characters from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. With their new aliases, they appropriated not only the identities of the children's book's characters but also the fictional reality associated with them. Hence, their every adventure was colored by plot elements of The Jungle Book, as well as the difficulties they faced in their takeover of Cold Lairs, the world of men, which they were seeking to understand via the book's law of the jungle—We be of one blood, ye and I.
This newly created "alternate" reality allowed the novelist Tsushima and her characters to navigate the inhospitable, savage world-at-war heightened by poverty and crimes faced by the Japanese in the 1940s. In this reality, they resolved to adopt role-playing as a viable strategy for the two of them, Akela and Mowgli, to survive the world where they found themselves outsiders: "He's [Akela] the leader of the wolf pack, the solitary emperor who embodies the law of the jungle. He's the reason the human child Mowgli is allowed to live on the margins of the pack. I'm not all that distinguished, but I'm taking the name because I have responsibility for you. I'm the leader—the father, older brother, and teacher all rolled into one—and you're the apprentice. So I think Akela and Mowgli are perfect for us." And so they transformed into the wolf and the young boy, outsiders in the midst of monkeys, the "Man Pack".
Among the people they encountered in their long train journeys were homeless and destitute men traveling to work in the coal mines. After the war, when poverty and scarcity of food struck the majority of the population, some of the homeless, including children, were forced to enter into manual labor in the mines in exchange for low salaries. After this incident, where Akela and Mowgli observed the men consigned to backbreaking work, several news clippings were inserted into the text, dated December 1945 to January 1947. The news provided direct context and circumstances of child labor in the coal mines.
By the second half of the novel, the set of news clips were interspersed in the text more and more frequently. The effect was jarring. It forced collisions between what was happening in the made-up (fictional) world and the actual (real) events and the collisions of private and public lives. In the first place the real and imagined identities of the main characters already dissolved into their respective stories. In addition, the not seamless juxtaposition of the adventures of Akela and Mowgli and the accompanying news excerpts were also forcing the collisions of individual and collective histories. The hybrid text was now bringing out human-interest stories from war-torn Japan and was introducing a clash, or perhaps more appropriately a necessary confrontation, between fiction and nonfiction, to tell a larger story. These episodic news and stories concerned the aforementioned labor in the coal mines, the corrupt police raiding trains and confiscating rice and barley from the common peasants, a serial killer of young women, a major train accident, outbreaks of epidemic diseases, and other newsworthy social problems brought about by the just concluded war. With side-by-side accounts of events, the novelist was inviting a pairwise comparison of the fictive and the realistic, in a manner that was more interesting than the 1Q84-1984 dichotomy of Murakami Haruki in his 1Q84 (trans. Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel). The latter novel was bogged down by didactic tendencies and narrative spoon-feeding doled out in serviceable prose. Tsushima, in contrast to Murakami, had the novelistic flair to use language and plot elements in a seemingly conventional manner at first and then turn it on its head without apparent self-indulgence and self-validation.
Also, by the middle of the book, Akela and Mowgli once again changed their avatars, as Remi and Capi of the French novel Sans Famille (1878) by Hector Malot (trans. Florence Crewe-Jones, Nobody's Boy, 1916; also trans. Adrian J. de Bruyn, Alone in the World, 2005). With these active shifts in characters' identities, the "Prelude" about the wolf at the start of the novel suddenly made sense. The states of extinction and of orphanhood as logical consequences of abiding wars, lawlessness, cruelty. In the words of Mitsuo/Akela/Remi: "I've thought it over carefully, and the scariest thing in the world is the Man Pack. Radiation and germs are scary, but unlike humans, those things don't think up evil ideas or try to inflict suffering on people."
She could hear the students and the old man chatting.
"I heard that some smallpox patients escaped again. Why in the world would they do that?"
"Because they're worried about their families and their jobs. It's a real hardship for them to be suddenly locked away in a hospital."
"I've also heard rumors that there's been an outbreak of the plague."
"Good god, they do everything they can to control it with vaccinations and DDT, but I wonder how much they can do to suppress it...."
"Armed robberies, bandits, murders, whole families committing suicide—all are the result of losing the war."
"There was a robbery in my neighborhood. The victim was hit on the head with an iron bar."
"The way society's going, it's possible that someone will suddenly shoot you with a pistol and kill you."
"That's right. Kids like them have no compunctions about committing really atrocious crimes. When there's no order in society, kids are the first to go bad."
"But it's always kids and young people who are being sacrificed. There was a family suicide that happened in Kyūshu ... six kids were killed [...]"
Writing about the immediate aftermath of WWII in Japan, Tsushima was doing something interesting and innovative to the fictional form of the novel. Her technique had unassuming intelligence behind it. Laughing Wolf was a jarring text, in a provocative and brilliant sense, because it unsettled the pace and expectations of reading. The non-fictionality of past events was almost like a comment on the surrealism of the fiction-like present or future ("On a gigantic television screen atop a tall building the leaders of North and South Korea are shaking hands.").
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The Pacific Ocean is the world’s deepest and largest ocean, covering approximately one-third of the globe’s surface. It may appear that an ocean of this size is unstoppable. The fragile ecology of the Pacific Ocean, on the other hand, is under threat all the way from Antarctica to the Arctic and from Asia to Australia to the Americas. In the vast majority of cases, human conduct is to blame. We have systematically devastated the Pacific’s fish supplies. We’ve used it as a dump – rubbish has been discovered in the Mariana Trench, the world’s deepest point at 11,000 metres below sea level.
The Pacific, like other oceans, is growing more acidic as we pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It implies fish are losing their ability to see and smell, and sea invertebrates are having difficulty forming shells. The majority of the oxygen we inhale is produced by oceans. They control the weather, feed millions of people, and provide a source of money. As a result, we all benefit from oceans that are healthy and vibrant. We may also begin the lengthy process of conserving the Pacific by better comprehending the risks it faces.
The Menace of Ocean Plastic
Plastic waste of all sizes, from nanometres to metres, may be found in all major marine environments throughout the world. A small amount of this condenses into massive floating “trash patches,” the largest of which is located in the Pacific Ocean. Rivers transmit the majority of land-based plastic trash into the ocean. Only 20 rivers contribute two-thirds of worldwide plastic pollution to the ocean, with ten of them emptying into the northern Pacific. The Yangtze River in China, for example, which flows through Shanghai, dumps 1.5 million metric tonnes of trash into the Pacific’s Yellow Sea each year.
Plastic garbage in the water can take a variety of forms: it might sink, wash up on beaches, or float on the surface, carried by currents, wind, and waves. In the open ocean, five subtropical “trash patches” collect about 1% of all plastic waste. They’re generated by ocean circulation, which is influenced by fluctuating wind fields and the Earth’s rotation. There are two subtropical rubbish patches in the Pacific: one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern. The northern accumulation region is divided into two sections: an eastern patch that runs between California and Hawaii and a western patch that runs eastward from Japan.
The North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, which is located a few hundred kilometres north of Hawaii, connects these bands of whirling debris. Warm water from the South Pacific collides with cold water from the Arctic in this convergence zone. The zone functions as a highway, carrying trash from one patch to the next. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre encompasses the whole Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Pacific trash vortex. The California Current, the North Equatorial Current, the Kuroshio Current, and the North Pacific Current are the four currents that make up the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, which covers an area of 20 million square kilometres (7.7 million square miles). The middle of a gyre has a calm and steady atmosphere. The gyre’s round circulation pulls trash into the stable core, trapping it. Although much of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not biodegradable, it accumulates. Many plastics, for example, do not wear out; instead, the sun breaks down these plastics into tinier fragments which is known as Photodegradation. For many people, the concept of a “garbage patch” brings up thoughts of a floating island of junk. In truth, these patches are almost entirely made up of microplastics, which are microscopic particles of plastic. Microplastics are invisible to the human eye in some cases. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s microplastics can turn the sea into a cloudy soup. Larger objects, such as fishing gear and shoes, are tossed in with the soup. Furthermore, not all debris floats to the surface. Denser material can fall centimetres or even metres below the surface, making measuring the vortex’s size practically difficult. Synthetic fishing nets accounted up over half of the mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to a 2018 study, which was mostly attributable to ocean current dynamics and increased fishing activity in the Pacific Ocean.
Marine Wildlife’s Worst Fear
Marine life is endangered by plastic trash in the waters. Animals can become entangled in trash such as discarded fishing nets, injuring or drowning them. When seals and other marine animals drown in these abandoned nets, the phenomenon is known as “ghost fishing.” When plastics degrade due to Photodegradation, colourants and compounds like Bisphenol A (BPA) are released, which have been connected to environmental and health issues.
Ingesting trash, such as microplastics less than five millimetres in diameter, can also affect wildlife. This plastic can restrict a creature’s mouth or build up in its stomach. Frequently, the animal endures a slow, painful death. Plastic bags, for example, are frequently mistaken for jelly, a favourite diet of loggerhead sea turtles. Albatrosses mistook plastic resin pellets for fish eggs and fed them to chicks, who died from hunger or organ rupture.
Microscopic algae and crustaceans, for example, can hitch a ride on floating trash and move thousands of miles across the oceans. This means they can be moved outside of their natural habitat and become invasive in new areas. The marine food web can be harmed by even marine detritus. Microplastics and other garbage that collect at the ocean’s surface block sunlight from reaching plankton and algae below. In the marine food chain, algae and plankton are the most common autotrophs or producers. The entire food web may shift if algae and plankton communities are endangered. Fish and turtles, which eat algae and plankton, will have fewer options. There will be less food for apex predators like tuna, sharks, and whales if the populations of such creatures decline. People will eventually have less access to fish, and it will become more expensive.
Small Nations Face a Scourge
Plastic is incredibly resilient and can float for long distances. During the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, 5 million tonnes of debris reached the Pacific. Some made it to the North American coasts after crossing the entire ocean basin. People’s litter and ocean deposition were mixed together with the debris. Plastic pollution was detected in the highest amounts in coastal backshores, which are places near the inland border of the beach where vegetation begins.
The further moving away from the water’s edge, the more rubbish is discovered. Onshore wave action and, to a lesser extent, wind activity influence the amount of marine debris and where it ends up. Hotspots for trapped plastics included densely populated areas and areas with easy access to the coast. Kamilo Beach, on Hawaii’s Big Island’s south-eastern tip, is regarded as one of the world’s most polluted beaches. Each year, up to 20 tonnes of garbage wash up on the shore. Similarly, 18 tonnes of plastic have collected on a 2.5-kilometer-long beach on uninhabited Henderson Island, which is part of the Pitcairn Island chain in the south Pacific. Every day, tens of thousands of pieces of plastic are washed away.
When wildlife mistake pollution for food or become entangled in it, it kills or maims them. It has the potential to harm fragile marine ecosystems by suffocating sensitive reefs and conveying invasive species, as well as posing a health risk to humans if toxins in plastics make their way up the food chain.
Fisheries on the Brink of Extinction
The Pacific hosts some of the world’s largest fisheries being the world’s largest and deepest sea. These fisheries have provided food and livelihood to people for thousands of years.
However, fishing operations are destroying fish populations faster than they can recover around the planet, especially in the Pacific. One of the most serious hazards to the world’s oceans is overfishing. When humans extract fish resources beyond the “maximum sustainable yield,” overfishing occurs. Excessive fishing depletes global fish stocks, disrupts food chains, destroys habitats, and reduces human food availability. Huge tuna fisheries abound in the Pacific Ocean, accounting for over 65 percent of global tuna catches each year. Many tuna populations, however, are in danger of extinction.
In the Northern Pacific Ocean, for example, research published in 2013 indicated that the population of bluefin tuna – a valued species used in sushi – had decreased by more than 96%. Overfishing is a huge problem in developing countries like Indonesia and China, but it is also a problem in developed countries. Overfishing has contributed to the fast reduction of Pacific salmon populations along Canada’s west coast since the early 1990s. Japan was recently chastised for proposing to raise quotas on Pacific bluefin tuna, a species with a population estimated to be at only 4.5 percent of its historic level.
Overfishing is a problem in Australia as well, according to experts. Large fish species, for example, are fast diminishing across the country as a result of overfishing, according to a study published in 2018. In the ten years leading up to 2015, exploited populations in fishing zones decreased by 33% on average.
Overfishing occurs for a variety of reasons, many of which go unregulated. The evidence points to: poverty among developing-country fishermen; fishing subsidies that allow large fishing fleets to travel to developing-country waters and compete with small-scale fishermen in order to keep struggling industries afloat; poor fishery and community management; and weak compliance with fishing regulations due to a lack of local government capacity.
Let’s consider the case of Indonesia. Indonesia, which is located between the Pacific and Indian oceans, is the world’s third-largest producer of wild-caught fish, behind China and Peru. Small-scale fishermen account for roughly 60% of the catch. Many come from impoverished coastal areas. Indonesia was the first country to report overfishing in the 1970s. In 1980, a presidential decree prohibited trawling off the coasts of Java and Sumatra. Overfishing, however, lasted until the 1990s and continues now. Reef fish, lobster, prawn, crab, and squid are among the species targeted. The example of Indonesia demonstrates that there is no simple solution to the overfishing problem. The Indonesian government issued a regulation in 2017 with the goal of keeping fishing at a sustainable level of 12.5 million tonnes per year. Nonetheless, the practise persisted in many places, owing to a lack of clarity in the rules and insufficient local enforcement.
The fact that practically all of Indonesia’s smaller fishing vessels are under the supervision of provincial administrations made implementation difficult. This demonstrates the importance of closer coordination between tiers of government in combating overfishing.
Ocean Acidification Is a Serious Threat
More than 75% of the world’s coral reefs are found in the Pacific Ocean’s tropical and subtropical waters. The Great Barrier Reef, as well as more remote coral reefs in the Coral Triangle, such as those in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, are among them. Climate change is wreaking havoc on coral reefs. We frequently read about how coral bleaching is wreaking havoc on coral ecosystems. However, another insidious process, ocean acidification, is putting reef survival in jeopardy. Shallow seas are highly prone to ocean acidification, and the subarctic Pacific region is particularly vulnerable. Coral reefs make up less than 0.5 % of the Earth’s surface but are home to over 25% of all marine life. These immensely diversified “underwater rainforests” are among the most endangered ecosystems on the globe due to ocean acidification and other threats.
Ocean acidification occurs when seawater absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, lowering its pH. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation emit 35 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. Oceans absorb up to 30% of CO2 from the atmosphere, triggering a chemical process in which carbonate ion concentrations decline and hydrogen ion concentrations rise. The ocean becomes more acidic as a result of this alteration. Coral structures and creatures that form shells rely on carbonate ions for their construction. As a result, a drop in carbonate ion concentrations can be detrimental to marine life.
Molluscs have been observed having difficulty building and repairing their shells in more acidic conditions. In addition, their growth, metabolism, reproduction, immunological function, and behaviour are all affected. Sea hares (a species of sea slug) in French Polynesia, for example, were found to have lower foraging success and make poorer decisions after being subjected to simulated ocean acidification. Acidification of the ocean is also a concern for fish. Elevated CO2 has been shown in numerous studies to impair people’s senses of smell, vision, and hearing. It can also affect survival features, including a fish’s capacity to learn, evade predators, and choose appropriate habitats. Changes in neurological, physiological, and chemical activities in fish brains appear to be the cause of such impairment.
Isn’t Too Late to Make a Difference
Five ocean garbage patches collect trash, the largest of which is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. To remedy the problem, we must not only prevent more plastic from entering the water but also clean up what is currently there. Floating plastics trapped in the patches will circulate until they break down into smaller and smaller pieces, making cleanup more difficult and making sea life more likely to mistake them for food. Plastic will have a long-term impact on our ecosystems, health, and economies if it is allowed to circulate.
The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating and scaling methods to eliminate plastic from the oceans. They’ve created a device named System 001 that could make a dent in the massive amount of plastic floating about in the water. The huge pool noodle will travel through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, propelled by wind and currents and collecting plastic along the way. Ocean Cleanup is researching the best ways to reprocess and brand the waste it gathers in the hopes of finding a market for its one-of-a-kind product.
Even Governments should address poverty and lack of knowledge in tiny fishing communities to prevent overfishing. This could entail locating a new source of revenue for them. Former fishermen and women, for example, have converted to tourism in the Oslob town of Philippines, feeding whale sharks small amounts of krill to entice them closer to shore so tourists may snorkel or dive with them. Overfishing in the Pacific will also necessitate international collaboration to monitor and enforce fishing regulations. To conserve marine life, the world’s network of marine protected areas should be expanded and enhanced. Only about 3% of the world’s oceans are currently designated as “no-take” zones. Many marine reserves in Australia are smaller and located in places where commercial fishermen have little interest. The worldwide decline of fisheries demonstrates how vulnerable our marine life is. Humans are clearly exploiting the waters beyond what is sustainable. Seafood provides protein and income to billions of people throughout the world. Allowing overfishing to continue, however, harms not only the oceans but also ourselves.
Since 1991, the Pacific and Indian Oceans have been acidifying at the fastest rates among the 5 oceans. This means that their marine life is likewise at risk. However, not all marine organisms are affected in the same way by ocean acidification, and the consequences might change over time. Coral reefs provide food, money, and protection from storms and coastal erosion to about half a billion people. Reefs give employment opportunities, such as in tourism and fishing, as well as recreational opportunities. Coral reefs are a worldwide industry worth US$11.9 trillion each year. They’re also a location of significant cultural and spiritual connection for Indigenous peoples all across the world.
Coral reefs are threatened by more than just ocean acidification. Since the 1990s, the rate of ocean warming has doubled due to climate change. Since the Industrial Revolution, the Great Barrier Reef, for example, has warmed by 0.8°C. This has resulted in devastating back-to-back coral bleaching outbreaks over the last five years. Ocean acidification amplifies the impacts of warmer waters. Emission reductions must become a worldwide goal. COVID-19 has delayed our progress throughout the globe, demonstrating that we can drastically reduce CO2 emissions. If the world achieves the most ambitious targets set out in the Paris Agreement, such as keeping global temperature increases at 1.5°C, the Pacific will see substantially fewer significant drops in oceanic pH. To keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, we will need to cut emissions even more — by 45 %. This would give some optimism that coral reefs in the Pacific, as well as the rest of the planet, are not completely destroyed.
Clearly, the choices we make now will have an impact on the future appearance of our oceans.
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- Kumria Kanika (2014, September 03) Pacific garbage patch: scientists find a way to nail ocean polluters DowntoEarth
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- NOAA: Marine Debris—De-mystifying the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2019, July 05). NationalGeographic
- Hardesty Denise Britta, Olivelli Arianna, Wilcox Chris (2020, December 03). For decades, scientists puzzled over the plastic ‘missing’ from our oceans – but now it’s been found. The Conservation
- Rummer L Jodie, Allan JM Bridie, Pattiaratchi Charitha, Bouyoucos A Ian, Yulianto Irfan, Mheen Van der Mirjam (2020,December 06). It might be the world’s biggest ocean, but the mighty Pacific is in peril. The Conservation
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Facts About the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
An immunization has just become available that can prevent cervical cancer in young women. The vaccine protects girls from the age of 12 from catching the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) when they become sexually active. This virus infects the cells of the cervix and causes changes that can lead to cancer. This happens over a period of years but, if a girl becomes infected in her late teens, she can develop cervical cancer in her late 20s and early 30s. If caught early, the cancer can be treated quite effectively but if it is not diagnosed until at a fairly late stage, it can be fatal. The celebrity Jade Goody died of cervical cancer in her late 20s in 2009.
The HPV Cancer LinkHPV is a common virus that causes genital warts. It is transmitted from person to person during sex. In men, it simply causes genital warts but it women it can also have more serious effects on the cervix, causing the cells to grow abnormally. This is more likely to happen with specific strains of HPV that are known to be associated with cancer. Regular smear tests pick up the pre-cancerous changes that HPV causes but these are routinely done in women over 25 – and the damage can be done long before that if a teenage girl contracts HPV.
The Cervical Cancer VaccinesGenerally it is easier to produce effective vaccines against viruses than bacteria or parasites but this is the first time that a vaccine against an infectious virus has been developed to prevent cancer. It is therefore quite a unique vaccine. Two types of vaccines are available, from two different manufacturers; Gardasil and Cervarix. In the UK, the government has chosen Cervarix and this has now been used to vaccinate all girls in their early teens, through a national school-based immunisation programme.
The cervical cancer vaccine is given in three doses, the second one a month after the first and the third one 6 months later. It is now being given to all girls up to the age of 18. Immunity to the HPV virus prevents it infecting the cells of the cervix and prevents it causing pre-cancerous changes. | <urn:uuid:6ccbf2e4-ccf2-47f0-a235-efe73cc81fd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.femalehealthissues.co.uk/facts-cervical-cancer-vaccine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955654 | 449 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Life is filled with challenges and conflict. However only a few can overcome and escape the confinements of their problems, others remain left behind to struggle. Sue Monk Kidd displays this with the imprisonment that Lily deals with throughout the book. While Lily does finds liberation at the end, she first had to break free from the imprisonments of her secrets, T-Ray, and the torment from killing her mother.
Another element in this novel is Melinda’s inner conflict, man vs. self. What Melinda has been through greatly affected her everyday life. She struggles with depression, dislikes her appearance, and feels ashamed of herself for something that isn 't her fault: “I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else...even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me” (Anderson 51). Andy Evans, the senior who raped her, made her feel worthless. This situation is much like the one in the novel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
(Kidd p.279)” She is overcome by the truth of her mothers death knowing that she was the hand that ended her mothers life even as a baby. Lily finds herself in deep valleys of self pity and grief, but she also is on mountain tops of joy that this family brings to her. Speaking from personal experience losing people that are close to you hurts, but over time everything gets easier to cope with and to live with that emptiness but it is never gone.
She is constantly embarrassed to even be seen with her grandmother. One piece of evidence that points to this is,”Right up to the time when we’re supposed to pick up the old lady at the airport, my mother is telling me stories about how hard times were for la familia on la isla, and how la abuela worked night and day to support them after their father died of a heart attack” (Cofer 2). This shows that from the very beginning constancia has no respect for her grandmother and is ashamed of her. She calls her “the old lady” instead of her grandmother. She also does not have much sympathy for her grandmother considering her difficulty at home.
Polly was a very lonely girl. Her sister and her Aunt died, yet her friends didn 't call to ask if she was fine or come visit her. She got mad and decided to meticulously impair Jessie, because she blamed Jessie for Alice’s death, her mind made her forget by making her think Clark was iniquitous and evil. “Michael grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her. “Clark’s gone.
She let’s her diary keep all her secrets because she doesn 't want her mom to take what she says to heart. So Anne has started to notice what she is doing and feels bad. Second Anne has made her mom out to be the bad guy
From, “the misery of her childhood, the disappointment of her first love, the departure of her nephew, and the death of Virginie,” (Flaubert 802), through the death of Loulou, one can clearly see that Felicite’s life is one of constant descent. The story opens up explaining the tragedy of her childhood. For example, her father was a mason who died after falling off some scaffolding. Soon after that her mother passed away and her sisters all went their separate ways and eventually lost contact.
Mallard who has been told that her husband has been killed in an accident. She was very upset. Just like every woman 's husband dies and they crys, like that Mrs. Mallard was feeling for her husband and she was missing him very badly. In her room she can truly express what she is feeling but she can not express her feelings in front of her family.
After losing her daughter she is drowned by her guilt of killing her baby. In an attempt to make it up to her baby she fights the tempting voices and submits herself to a rehabilitation center. In moments of weakness, Elena focuses on the remembrance of her baby girl to ignore the voices and finally recovers. Elena may have lost many things due to her illness, but the loss of her baby made her lose something good, her fear of
Bee-ing Hot summer days of South Carolina, the buzzing of millions of bees filling your ears and the scent of honey every step of the way. This is the set of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees in which Lily Owens, the protagonist, shows the reader a series of emotions throughout a fascinating plot. The novel is based on the story of a fourteen year old girl who, as a child, was guilty for her mother’s death. Lily’s life has been a constant nightmare ever since because of her father’s cruelty, therefore she decides to escape to Tiburon, SC and learn the truth about her mother’s past.
The novel The Secret Life of Bees, written by Sue Monk Kidd, is a story of a 14-year-old girl named Lily who loses her mother and goes on an extraordinary adventure in order to learn more about who her mother was. In the concluding chapter of the book, chapter 14, an epigraph is included that states: “A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community; there may be a mournful wail or lament from within… Without intervention, the colony will die. But introduce a new queen and the most extravagant change takes place” (Kidd 277). The epigraph provides an insight as to what the deeper meaning of the chapter is. Lily, when she is young, loses her queen which is her mother and is devastated by it.
“A sense of inadequacy often informs the question around ‘Who am I?’”. An article written by Mel Schwartz for Psychology Today explores the idea of identity and what it means to an individual. The information presented in this article can be connected to characters in the novels The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. In each of these stories, characters are faced with a lack of sense of self, not knowing who they are because they think that they mean nothing to the world and are even worthless at times. This lack of identity due to the feeling of inadequacy affects Max in The Book Thief relationally and Lily in The Secret Life of Bees emotionally, while also creating better character development.
Why do you think some people can recover from traumatic events and some can not? The Secret Life of Bees is a book by Sue Monk Kidd that is set in South Carolina in the 1960s. In the story Lily (the main character) runs away from home to get away from her father and finds out more about her mother that died when she was little. On her journey to seeking out more about her mother she finds the Boatwright sisters. Lily learns later in the novel that August, the oldest Boatwright sister, used to take care of her mother.
Almost every child has thought about running away from home at least once in their life, if not more. Although this usually is an empty threat, for Lily Owens, the protagonist in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, it was a milestone. The summer of 1964 marked the year she finally realized there was nothing holding her back from escaping her abusive father. As she leaves home for her journey, she takes her African American, motherlike housekeeper with her, who was in jail for insulting some racists. Together, they find their way to three beekeeping sisters, one of which helps Lily to finally understand what happened to her late mother. | <urn:uuid:d4556ce4-f545-445c-9cf3-e3a7fb5f369f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipl.org/essay/Sue-Monk-Kidd-P3GLVB4N8VT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982596 | 1,583 | 2.34375 | 2 |
In this board, you will get to know about the amazing facts of Architecture world. There are various architecture facts. There are no rules of architecture for…
With construction wages up 7%, there’s never been a better time to join this booming industry. But you might be wondering what types of materials construction workers use. While there’s plenty of variety, a few materials emerge above the rest. Read on to learn about 5 of the most commonly used construction materials! Click here to read more:
Governments and forward-thinking organizations have long recognized the importance of environmentally friendly construction. Throughout recent years, key players in numerous business sectors have endeavored to stay abreast of ways in which they may reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impact to combat climate change. In this article, we look at just a few of the exciting home building sustainability trends for architectural design and home building we can expect to see in 2022.
The home construction and remodeling industry has taken a hit over the last couple of years as the world navigated a global pandemic. If you’re a homeowner looking to plan a major renovation or new construction project in 2022, what do you need to know before you begin?
Deciding what type of roof your house should have is extremely important, especially living in climates that experience heavy snow and ice during the winter months. Choosing the ideal roofing material for winter will help prevent roof damage in the future. Let’s take a look at some of the factors that come into play when choosing the best possible material for your roof. Read more:
Fixing up a house is no easy task. With so many to-dos and projects, it can be overwhelming for even the most experienced DIYer. This article will give you an overview of what you need to pay attention to and also give you guidance on which steps you need to take to make this proect easier.
If you want to remodel your house, it’s pivotal to bring the correct blueprints to the mix. Consider bringing modern and trendy designs to the table instead of focusing on outdated remodeling project trends. This post will take you through the 5 primary remodeling project trends to consider in 2022. Let’s get started! Read more from here:
Emergency services like hospitals play an indispensable role in modern life. As a result, it’s essential for their drawings and constructions, especially MEP system designs, to remain nearly flawless. Creating prefab MEP modules for hospitals comes with several advantages. One of these advantages is that each facility will feature a consistent layout wherever builders apply them throughout the medical facility. Read more:
Are you thinking about turning one of your homes into a vacation spot? Doing this can help you to earn extra cash. However, before you can turn your home into a vacation rental there are a few things you need to do to make it ready for the market. If you’re wondering exactly how you should go about turning your home into a vacation rental, then the following tips will help you to do so very quickly. Read more:
When a project calls for either construction or permit drawing, knowing how to execute each and the difference between the two can save you both time and money. Significant renovations and more extensive projects will typically require construction and permit drawings to complete successfully, and these two types of drawings are not interchangeable. Read More:
Whether you’re starting from scratch and building new office space, or trying to update your existing headquarters, insisting on sustainability is always a great idea. This is one of the best ways to make sure your working environment is inspiring you, making you productive, and giving you an opportunity to have a great time while working. Read More:
Structural loads may induce stress, deformation, and displacement, leading to structural difficulties or even failure; thus, structural analysis is an essential aspect of the structural design of buildings and other structures like bridges and tunnels. Engineers must base their planning and method following building codes to resist all load types they expect to encounter over the structure’s lifespan.
Drop technology plays a pivotal role in redefining how we maintain, build and design properties. Drones have several functions other than taking pictures – they benefit the property owner and constructor by enhancing long-term maintenance, design accuracy, and overall quality. Besides this, software and tech advancements have made drones play a pivotal role in architectural design. Now you can use drones in different phases of a construction’s life to perform several primary functions.
Whether it’s an office construction, industrial plant, or any other construction type, construction services remain the central point of their capabilities. Besides this, with the structures performing different functions concurrently, their mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services are complicated and laborious to be operated manually. These constructions’ rigorous regulating & monitoring task is now ousted by a creative method of building management system.
The past year has seen a great deal of transformation in construction technology. After a chaotic 2020, we’re now beginning to see how the industry has adapted in the wake of COVID-19 and the direction that construction companies are likely to take as the pandemic continues to wind down. New autonomous robotics and data-analysis technologies are helping to transform how the industry uses robots, AI, IoT, and digital solutions of all kinds. Read more:
The winter season is nearly upon us. While you may consider it the off-season for the construction industry, that doesn’t mean that work grinds entirely to a halt. There are still plenty of tasks that can be carried out or completed during the cold winter months. Low temperatures and icy conditions create their own hazards that you might not encounter during the warmer months of the year. What are the most common winter construction site hazards and how can you avoid them? Read more:
Are you an architectural designer, or do you plan to build a fuel filling station, and you’re wondering how you can make it stand out from the rest? Worry no more! This informative post will guide you on how to design the best CNG fuel filling station. Compressed Natural Gas falls under the lowest cost, safest and cleanest vehicle fuels. So, what elements do you need to focus on when designing CNG fuel filling stations? Let’s see! Read More:
School Architectural Design keeps unfolding to meet the curriculum, teachers, and the students’ needs. Therefore, ensuring your school’s architectural designs reflect the current education trends is pivotal if you plan to create new classrooms or renovate the existing classroom spaces. The latest schools concentrate on critical thinking and creativity. As a result, the schools’ interior architectural designs must reflect all those and the principles discussed below: Read more:
Every maintenance team should have an established checklist, or preventive maintenance schedule, to keep a facility in working order. A proper maintenance schedule, especially for commercial buildings, will include plans and practices for nearly every aspect of building upkeep, from regular checkups to disaster preparedness during inclement weather or other unforeseen events. Click here to read more:
If you live in San Diego, CA, and need a new floor for your house, you must know your options. Here are questions to ask before replacing flooring in homes. Did you know 9 out of 10 homeowners have plans to remodel their house? With so many people wanting to remodel their homes, one of the big things many people are interested in doing is replacing flooring. Replacing flooring is a big deal and makes a home look totally different. Read more:
Modest outdoor home renovations come with a bill close to $10,000. Homeowners who go the extra mile to improve their yards can spend up to $50,000 or more. That is a lot of money to invest in a project. You don’t want any mistakes to happen that will cost more to repair. Whether you plan to update the landscape or build a pool, there are ways to stay in your budget. Click here to read more:
As concerns over global warming rise, you’ve probably heard discussions about using green construction methods. Such conversations almost inevitably end with someone pointing out the high upfront costs for green technology. But that is quickly becoming a misconception. Click here to read more:
A world where every building adds environmental equity with a low carbon footprint that far surpasses sustainability is the mission of the Living Building. The concept of the Living Building floated to the surface in the mid-nineties through the EpiCenter project that focused on green building research for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at Montana State University in Bozeman Montana. Click here to read more:
With about half-a-million deaths and over 9 million confirmed cases, the coronavirus is affecting humanity at unimaginable levels. Of course, MEPs have not been spared in this rampage as MEP services and other related services are witnessing severe disruptions. In this article, we discuss how you can leverage HVAC systems to solve rising Covid-19 concerns. Click here to read more:
Sustaining Your Health Through Green Construction Green construction then offers another angle from which to consider sustainability, how we maintain our health, and how green technology can facilitate that. As early as the 1970s, the U.S. had begun grappling with construction technology and health effects. Lead paint and lead plumbing were of particular concern because of irreparable damage caused by exposure, particularly to children. Click here to read more:
The roof is, without a doubt, one of the most critical parts of a commercial building. After all, it protects the building against the elements, a capability that structural engineers always ensure during construction. The capability of a roof to shield a building from harsh sunlight, heavy rains and snow, and strong winds also depends on the choice of roofing system itself. Click here to read more: | <urn:uuid:22165d27-b8e8-4156-ad69-8cf886b03678> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tr.pinterest.com/s3dadesign/architecture-facts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941381 | 2,039 | 1.890625 | 2 |
The Best Ways to Understand Wireless Technology
There are many ways to understand wireless technology, from the different types of devices to the different methods of transmission. Here is a brief guide to the terminology: spectrum, Frequency, and transmission methods. You can learn about the health effects of wireless signals, too. But first, let’s define wireless technology. What is it? What is the purpose of wireless devices? What is a wireless access point? How do wireless devices connect to a wired network?
Wireless technologies have come a long way in the last two decades, but their spectrum has been contested by many industries. In fact, the U.S. is on track to auction its wireless spectrum on April 16. Despite this, prices in the U.S. are still about three times higher than comparable countries. This debate over spectrum is likely to continue, with the goal of reducing the price of wireless technology to the lowest level possible.
The electromagnetic spectrum is comprised of a number of bands, each of which has slightly different characteristics. The low-frequency band is more widely used, as it is more flexible and can span long distances with little to no signal loss. However, higher-frequency transmissions are more expensive, since they are limited to data. Fortunately, modern data communication uses the sweet spot of the spectrum between 300 megahertz (MHz) and six gigahertz (GHz).
The federal government regulates the use of spectrum. Its role is to allocate the right amount of spectrum for various uses. Broadband technology relies on the use of spectrum, and the FCC manages the auctions to allocate the spectrum to various companies. In the wireless industry, spectrum is the lifeblood of the industry. Today’s smartphones and tablets use up to twenty-four times more data than traditional cell phones. As a result, the best available spectrum is already licensed to television broadcasters, wireless carriers, and government agencies. This leaves the wireless industry in a constrained position.
Aside from mobile communication, PEM has many other applications. A radio station transmitting country music on 93.9 megahertz, while a jazz station transmits at 104.7 megahertz. In contrast, a commercial radio station transmits data over a broader spectrum, with no two stations on the same frequency at the same time. There are some important things to understand about spectrum in wireless technology. There is still a lot more to wireless technology than meets the eye.
Different types of transmission methods exist, each one serving a specific purpose. Bluetooth, for example, uses the 2.4GHz band, which makes it especially effective for continuously transmitting data. Meanwhile, EnOcean requires no external power supply and uses energy harvesting to keep its signal strong. These two methods have different frequencies, though; Japan uses the 928 MHz band while the US uses the 902 MHz band. In addition to Bluetooth, EnOcean also uses the 868 MHz band.
Different types of data transmission methods can be classified into two main categories: analog and digital. Analog data takes continuously changing values, whereas digital data has binary 0 or 1 values. Signals can also be divided into two types: asynchronous and synchronous. The former transmits data by using start and stop codes at a slow rate, while the latter transmits data in blocks, with each bit arriving at a different time.
In a wireless communication system, there is no physical link between two devices, so there is no wire or cable to connect them. The data is transmitted by electromagnetic waves, which are spread through the air and interpreted by the appropriate antennas. At the other end, the receiver receives the wireless signals and translates them back into digital data. Different types of wireless communication technologies operate in a variety of applications, ranging from mobile devices to fixed ones.
One of the main benefits of wireless communication is the low cost. The cost is low compared to traditional wired systems, and the technology is very reliable. Most wireless systems use radio waves or television waves. But they have limitations. If the distance between the transmitter and receiver is too far apart, the signal will not reach its target. So, when using these wireless communications methods, it is essential to choose the one that works best for you.
Wireless technology has become a major thrust in broadcast communications over the past few decades. A single wireless transmitter can send signals to thousands or even hundreds of thousands of receivers. It also encompasses a variety of other communication devices, such as satellite communications and point-to-point microwave links. The following tables detail some of the fundamental concepts related to wireless technology. All of these terms are closely related to frequency.
Radio waves can be described as electromagnetic waves and range from very low to very high. The frequencies of these signals are measured in Hertz, a unit of change per second. For example, radio waves can be as low as 150kHz, while light waves can range from 100 trillion to several billion hertz. As you can see, the frequency of wireless technology depends on the type of signal being sent and received.
Wireless technology is divided into two basic categories: voice and data applications. Voice applications use radio frequencies in unlicensed bands, while data applications use regulated radio frequencies. Satellites have been used for voice communication for a very long time. Data applications include pagers and wireless data networks. In fact, most wireless technology today is based on these two categories. To better understand wireless technology, it is helpful to understand how these frequencies work.
Different radio frequencies have different penetration levels. Low-frequency radio waves penetrate a large volume more easily. For example, they can be used inside amusement parks or department buildings. However, they can’t carry much data. Their amplitudes are measured in degrees. Combined, they form a circle. But there’s a slight problem here: RF signals can affect the performance of a wireless network.
Scientists from the University of Illawarra have begun investigating the potential health effects of wireless technology. These presentations discuss the symptoms caused by EMF and EMR, and present current practices to deal with them. They recommend that people limit their exposure to wireless technology, including cell phones and other electronic devices. People should avoid holding these devices against their bodies, and they should not use wireless devices in elevators or cars. This research is still ongoing, but it could soon be a game changer.
The Center for Device and Radiological Health first became involved in the cellular phone debate in 1993, after a nationally televised interview linked frequent use of a cellular phone to brain cancer. The agency asked for meetings with industry representatives and presented their findings. They recommended more research, proper labeling, and device redesigns that would address potential bioeffects from wireless technology. As of this writing, the FDA is funding research on health effects of cellular phones and other wireless devices.
The CDC has also made clear that the RF R emitted by cellular phones poses a health risk. To ensure that cellular phones are safe for users, the organization is developing a comprehensive research agenda. This agenda includes the analysis of existing literature, development of appropriate dosimetry, and cellular and animal experiments. In addition to these, the group plans to test the effects of cellular phone radiation and EMF in humans.
While many experts believe that the health effects of wireless technology are real, the industry denies it. While the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association admits that mobile devices emit radio-frequency radiation, it says this exposure is safe, and causes only a small, acute overheating of tissues. This, according to the association, does not point to long-term health effects of wireless technology. However, there is no definitive proof that wireless technology causes illnesses, and the industry will continue to push for the same level of regulation.
Wireless information technologies offer us new ways to communicate and work, but they have also been touted as a way to reduce our society’s environmental impact. Only recently have rigorous system-wide comparisons of the environmental impact of these technologies been conducted. These comparisons have found mixed results. For example, the use of wireless teleconferencing in business travel can reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent, but this effect does not extend to traditional methods of reading.
While 5G promises to increase energy efficiency and improve our ability to use renewable energy, the potential environmental impact of this technology cannot be ignored. Environmental groups are already concerned about the impact of 5G on our planet, which may be detrimental to future generations. In addition to its potential to harm our planet, 5G technology will increase our dependence on fossil fuels, which will only increase global warming. This can have a profound impact on our economy and society.
While wireless technology brings us many benefits, it is also responsible for a significant amount of waste. Many wireless products emit enormous amounts of toxic waste. This waste is a global concern, and is particularly problematic in developing countries with poor recycling infrastructure. The benefits of wireless technology, however, make them worthwhile. However, if we are to minimize the environmental impact of this technology, we must ensure that we use it as little as possible. The future of wireless technology is bright, and its impact on society is still only beginning.
5G can improve traffic. It can help reduce idling by adjusting traffic lights based on real-time data. Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Smart Cities Institute have already found that it has caused 20 percent less greenhouse gas emissions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Moreover, it can help us reduce our dependence on automobiles, especially in areas where pollution is a problem. Moreover, it can reduce our use of private cars, as we can share rides with others. | <urn:uuid:391d5163-674d-4993-8df0-6201ead028cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apksmobile.com/technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945372 | 1,963 | 3.03125 | 3 |
What is the importance and contribution of sports?
Playing sports contributes to mental health, helping to prevent depression and increase self-esteem and body image, according to Sport and Development.org. Individuals who participate in sports might also benefit from the social aspect, developing friendships with teammates and feeling part of a group.
How does riding a bike help physical development?
Pedaling activates the leg muscles, building strength and muscle mass in the legs. At the same time, cycling helps create stability in the torso, and improves children’s visuospatial skills and coordination’. Beyond the obvious physical benefits, cycling can have a positive impact on your child’s psychological health.
How do sports teach life skills?
Playing in a team helps children to develop many of the social skills they will need for life. It teaches them to cooperate, to be less selfish, and to listen to other children. It also gives children a sense of belonging. Sport also teaches them about team work.
How do you motivate a child to ride a bike?
How to Teach Your Kid to Ride a Bike Without Training Wheels in 30 Minutes or Less
- Help Your Child Feel Safe. Helmets are essential, but knee and elbow pads can help increase confidence by making your child feel safe.
- Check the Seat.
- Try Soft First.
- Let Go.
- Ride Over a Walkway.
- Watch Yourself.
- Cheer Your Heart Out.
How do you learn to ride?
I learnt how to ride a bicycle like everyone else. I used to those bikes which had 2 wheels supporting the back wheel so I dont fall. I learnt slowly how to pedal, steer, turn and brake properly. Once I felt comfortable my grandpa took off one of the wheels that supported the back wheel.
What sports use fine motor skills?
Fine motor skills are skills which involve the small muscle groups, such as the hands and fingers. These skills use fine and intricate movements, for example, catching a tennis ball, putting in golf, playing darts and snooker. Fine motor skills require more control and hand-eye coordination than gross motor skills.
How do I learn how do you ride a bike essay?
One day my sister brought her bicycle and told me to sit on it and place my feet on the pedals. Then, she advised me to pedal slowly while she held the bicycle and ran slowly along. I was indeed very much excited at this opportunity to learn how to ride a bicycle. I thanked my sister for her kindness and patience.
How do sports benefit you mentally?
Sports can help improve your concentration and keep you mentally sharp as you age. Participating in a mix of aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise for 30 minutes or longer at least three times a week can improve mental abilities, including critical thinking, learning and using good judgment.
Why is learning to ride a bike important?
Riding a bike not only improves physical fitness, it also benefits your child’s learning development and mental health. “Riding a bike not only improves physical fitness, it also benefits your child’s learning development and mental health.”
What skills do you need for sports?
Seven key career skills you pick up playing sport
- Team work. ‘There’s no I in team’.
- Leadership. From captain of your team to a captain of industry, developing leadership skills in sport is crucial to any future employment, whether you’re in charge or not.
- Time management.
- Competition & sportsmanship.
- Handling pressure.
- Management & responsibility.
How can I improve my sports skills?
There are a number of steps you can take right now, each of which can form those gradual steps to sporting greatness.
- Have a one on one.
- Create a plan and set goals.
- Condition correctly.
- Practice, practice, practice.
- Train as an individual.
- Build confidence.
- Take preparation seriously.
- Understand the game better.
Why sports is important in our life essay?
Sports is very essential for every human life which keep them fit and fine and physical strength. It has great importance in each stage of life. It also improves the personality of peoples. Sports keep our all organ alert and heart becomes most stronger by regular playing some kind of sports.
What is an example of a simple skill?
Simple skills are skills where the performer doesn’t have to process much information or make many decisions. The skill has only a small number of parts (or sub-routines) and doesn’t require much feedback during its performance. An example of a simple skill is sprinting.
Which sport takes the most skill?
What are the six basic sports skills?
Every coach, every athlete, every media commentator and every fan will tell you that the fundamental element of all sports is skill – kicking and passing in football, throwing and catching in cricket and baseball, diving, turning and finishing in swimming, tackling and passing in rugby and rugby league, passing and …
Why do we need to do sports?
Sports require you to move your body, and it’s a commonly known fact that exercise is good for your health. According to the Mayo Clinic, physical activity helps control weight, combats health conditions and diseases, improves mood, boosts energy and promotes better sleep.
What is a basic skill in sport?
Fundamental movement skills are basic movements such as throwing, kicking,running, jumping, hopping and catching. Fundamental sport skills are these movement skills applied to a sport situation: for example, kicking a soccer ball, running a sprint, jumping up for a basketball rebound, catching a baseball.
Is riding a bike a motor skill?
Learning to ride a bike requires gross motor skills, visual motor skills and sensory motor skills in addition to strength and balance.
What sports teach us about life?
“Sport teaches us development. It helps us learn things such as resilience, leadership, accountability, respect and patience. Lessons that sports teach us can help us develop as players and all round good people too.” – Dean Evans co-founder of The Football Centre.
What is the value of sports?
Sport participation can help build character, encourage emotional growth, and teach players and spectators the value of honesty, respect, teamwork, dedication, and commitment.
What is the value of sport in society?
Sport is an important part of the values system for a human being; it constitutes a distinct kind of social organization, represents a unique form of social activity, provides a basis of social identity, and acts as an agent of social control.
Why sport is an important part of your life?
Sports are a crucial part of a student’s growth and development. They help in the development of mental health and physical fitness of the body. Through participation in sports and games, a student gains various skills, experience and confidence that are helpful for developing their personality.
Is riding a bike a life skill?
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A StoryWalk® is a fun, educational activity that promotes literacy, learning and outdoor play. Individual pages of a storybook are mounted on trees in a circuit. Families and educators of young children follow the narrative by visiting each tree in sequence. It is a delightful journey filled with surprises from beginning to end.
The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.
Launched in May 2022, there is now a permanent StoryWalk® circuit at McLean Neighbourhood Park, 22500 McLean Ave.
Community members can visit the StoryWalk® any time the park is open; simply start at the first sign post, located at the playground, and follow the story clockwise along the trail.
The current story featured in the circuit is My Forest is Green by Darren Lebeuf, illustrated by Ashley Barron. The story celebrates both nature and art, and features a young artist exploring his urban forest during all four seasons.
Featured stories will be changed seasonally to keep the StoryWalk® experience fresh. The selected picture books feature a diverse range of stories and illustration styles that are well suited to anyone from preschool age and up.
This installation was made possible through a collaboration between Richmond Public Library and the City of Richmond, as well as thanks to the generous support of Rotary Club of Richmond Sunrise and Decoda Literacy Solutions.
StoryWalk® kits at RPL were created with funds generously donated by the Friends of the Richmond Public Library, Richmond Fitness & Wellness and Decoda Literacy Solutions. You can borrow a StoryWalk® kit from the Richmond Public Library. We have 20 kits to choose from: find them HERE.
A laminated version of a book, an Information Guide and a Resource Guide.
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At college, we recognise that there are times when our families need additional advice and support. With this in mind, we created our Learner and Family Support team. The team supports welfare issues, such as accessing social care, and options for learners transitioning from college.
The involvement of parents and carers is essential in helping learners make good progress. The more closely that college and homework together, the more effective learning can take place.
We provide parents and carers with full and regular updates on their young person’s progress and arrange many informal and formal opportunities for parents and carers to visit the college. These include:
These meetings are held very early in the last year of college life to plan for the next stage of a young person’s life. In reality, for this to be successful, there should be an ongoing conversation between family and college from the very early days of college.
The Learner and Family Support Team are able to provide advice on the options available after college and will support learners and their families to access their preferred onward placement. For more information see our Transitions Guide. You can also contact our Transitions Officer, Sancha Cadogan Poole on email@example.com.
This is a meeting to review and agree progress and set targets for the following year. We also use this meeting to update the learner’s Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan, if necessary.
All parents and carers are invited to attend a range of events throughout the year to celebrate our learners’ achievements.
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Broccoli cauliflower casserole is the wood-paneled station wagon of hearty dishes for a reason. It’s easy, satisfying, and delicious. But it’s also a dangerous flatbed for bacon, butter, breadcrumbs, bacon, and bacon. While these are tasty vehicles for broccoli cauliflower casserole, they’re usually flaming wrecks of unhealthy sludge.
Surely there’s a way to make this stalwart dish that’s healthy, delicious, creamy, vegan, and gluten-free.
Meet Your New Favorite: Creamy Gluten-Free Vegan Cauliflower Sauce
You can thank New Orleans. Actually, you can thank Susan Spicer, owner and head chef of Bayona’s who developed a recipe for cauliflower sauce published in her 2007 masterpiece, “Crescent City Cooking.” It’s used as a savory, silky base for plating fish or beef just like you would a cream sauce. If you’re vegan, this sauce will change your game.
However, Spicer’s version isn’t vegan. She uses cream and butter which makes a delicious sauce, but it just won’t work for a plant-based diet. Fortunately for us, coconuts exist. I swapped coconut fat and coconut milk for the butter and cream and voila, an alabaster, velvety sauce you’ll want to drink right out of the pan. But don’t. It’s hot.
Broccoli is a Magical Anti- Cancer Superfood
Broccoli is a Swiss Army Knife ingredient. You can roast it, fry it, steam it, grill it, and puree it into a silky soup. Like zuccinni and brussels sprouts, broccoli undergoes an alchemical transformation in the oven (or on the grill). The Maillard effect brings out the latent sugars to brown while the tips of the florets get crispy and if you’ll just wait a minute I’m going to go eat some right now.
Broccoli is delicious—if you like broccoli. Some people hate this vegetable so much they have to leave the kitchen when you cook it. It could be genetic. This is too bad because broccoli and its army of cruciferous greens are loaded with nutrients and fight cancer. Or course, broccoli hatred might come from a history of eating overcooked broccoli, which tastes and feels like a mouthful of erasers.
You Can Make This Heavenly Recipe 3 Ways
There are three reasons why broccoli cauliflower casserole is a household staple for busy families and newbie cooks: it’s easy, it’s tasty, and it’s cheap. You can get a nice head of broccoli for less than a dollar. Same with cauliflower. (OK, $4 tops.)
Busy families often have challenging dietary restrictions and preferences but this broccoli cauliflower casserole covers them all. The base recipe for creamy cauliflower sauce is vegan and gluten-free, but with simple substitutions or additions, it will satisfy vegetarian and keto diners, too.
If you make the vegan version, you’ll please even the pickiest paleo people. Back it up to the vegetarian recipe and you’re still serving a filling, smacktacular main that carries itself well as a proud leftover. Dial it all the way back to the Keto dish and you’ve got a killer side—even a main—that’s carb neutral and fat forward.
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This vegan version of broccoli cauliflower casserole looks like creamed broccoli but the cream sauce is actually the cauliflower.
For the cauliflower sauce
- 1 T of coconut oil
- 1 T of olive oil
- 1 Shallot, minced
- 1 small head of cauliflower (about the size of a large grapefruit), steamed and cut coarsely
- 2 c. vegetable stock or water
- 1 t. kosher salt
- 1/2 c. unsweetened coconut cream
- 1 t. freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large head of broccoli
- 1/4 c. roasted slivered almonds (optional)
- 1/2 c. Gluten-free panko bread crumbs
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- 2 t. olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Sauté the shallot and in the coconut and olive oil in a medium pan until it is translucent but not browned. Add garlic and sauté for 1 minute.
- Add the cauliflower and cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes.
- Add the stock or water and bring to a boil.
- Lower the heat, add a pinch of salt, simmer for 10 minutes until the cauliflower is very tender and the liquid has reduced by half.
- Add the coconut cream and simmer for about two more minutes
- Remove, pan from heat, allow to cool, pour into a blender and blend until the sauce is creamy and velvety
- Taste and adjust seasoning
- Set aside
- Cut broccoli into individual florets and steam until tender.
- Cover the bottom of an ovenproof baking dish (I use an 8 inch round ramekin that’s about 3 inches deep) with about two tablespoons of the cauliflower sauce.
- Spread the broccoli on top.
- Salt and pepper the broccoli
- Pour the remainder of the sauce over the broccoli (allow some of the broccoli florets to poke up through the sauce to brown).
- In a small bowl, combine bread crumbs, almonds and cayenne with olive oil, salt and pepper. Toss to combine. Sprinkle on top of the casserole.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes, or until the breadcrumbs are browned and the sauce is bubbly
Replace the coconut oil with butter and the coconut cream with actual cream to pull this dish out of vegan territory.
Replace the vegetable stock with chicken stock, the coconut oil with butter, and the coconut cream with actual cream. Add 1/4 c. grated parmesan to the panko breadcrumb topping, or go extra cheesy and top the casserole with 1 c. grated cheddar cheese before you add the breadcrumb topping.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 15
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: vegan broccoli cauliflower casserole, creamy gluten-free vegan cauliflower sauce, vegan cauliflower sauce, vegan cauliflower cream sauce
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Two days after media reports talked of a financial crisis looming at the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpatology, its director Allwin Jesudasan told Mint that the sanctuary was “coping amazingly well” after well-wishers and wildlife conservationists stepped in with aid over the past few months.
The Madras Crocodile Bank was set up in 1976 by Romulus Whittaker, a US-born herpetologist. Set in an 8-acre campus on the outskirts of Chennai, it is home to over 2,000 reptiles, including includes snakes, lizards, turtles and 17 species of crocodiles. Every year it attracts nearly 4.5 lakh visitors from across India and beyond.
Since mid-March, the government of India banned visitors to zoos and wildlife sanctuaries to prevent the spread of covid-19. The sudden dip in footfall, said a report by Reuters on 10 August, meant the crocodile park missed out on nearly Rs1.4 crore in ticket sales. Reuters had also quoted Jesudasan saying that their funding status allowed them to stay functional only for “another three or four months.”
In an email interview with Mint on 12 August, Jesudasan said he was “terribly misquoted”. He did not elaborate on what the error was. But in the month of May, he said, the Bank had launched a fundraiser for the upkeep and functioning of the sanctuary and received a “spectacular” response.
The website of the Bank does acknowledge a funding crunch, however. “Our senior staff has taken a voluntary 10-50% pay cut on their salaries and we have cut down our activities to just the critical ones, all to cut costs while simultaneously ensuring that our animals remain well cared for,” it says.
But, overall, said Jesudasan, "we are coping amazingly well with the covid-19 situation,” he said. “In this regard, I have to emphasize that you should not carry any negative title just to ‘hook’ the audience.”
What are the challenges you have faced in managing the Bank post lockdown?
Luckily for us, all our local staff are from the opposite village and so there was no issue of local travel. In the beginning, there was a lack of clarity on whether zoos were allowed to operate under lockdown. Fortunately, the Central Zoo Authority acted swiftly to have the Ministry of Home Affairs issue a clarification that Zoo Operations would be added to the list of essential services. Once this was issued, there were absolutely no issues with things such as food transport.
What are the kinds of expenses incurred in managing the crocodile sanctuary?
The big expenses for us are food for animals and staff salaries. Pre-lockdown, about 50% of all our expenses were met through ticket income. The remaining used to come from other sources such as donations, CSR grants, and so on.
How did the funds-crunch impact your operations?
The fund crunch did not greatly impact the operations. We quickly ran a fundraising campaign and several donors came forward to help us. Even now several donors have pledged their support and so we are confident of seeing this through. Fortunately, the Croc Bank has a huge pool of well-wishers, because of our contributions to conservation.
Did it impact the reptile residents' care and upkeep?
Absolutely not! Reptile care and husbandry is our top priority and we continue to give top-quality care.
How about the research and other activities you ran at the bank?
We have temporarily suspended our volunteer activities. Most of the volunteers were involved in various research projects. Other than the volunteering activity, all other activities continue to function.
What are the options you've explored to regenerate revenue?
As mentioned before, we ran a fundraising campaign and we had a good response. Government departments are very supportive and if there is ever a crisis, we are confident that they will help us out.
How has the response been to your appeal for donations?
We ran a big campaign in mid-May. The response was spectacular. Even though the objective was to raise funds for meeting operational expenses for three months, the interest that it generated meant that we got enough to cover us operational expenses for several months. Apart from this, several donors have pledged their support to us and so we are confident of coming out of this crisis a lot stronger.
Are you in favour of easing the movement restrictions and allowing visitors inside the crocodile bank?
Even if the government allows zoos to open, we will open the park to the public only when we are absolutely sure that our staff are not at undue risk. When the park opens, we will follow whatever protocol the government sets, such as checking temperature, providing hand sanitizers. Educational boards will be installed to reiterate the importance of maintaining social distance, wearing masks, and so on. Apart from this we will only allow a certain number of people in the park at an instant so that we can enforce social distancing norms. | <urn:uuid:db2974c9-0f2a-4f38-951c-f40b16a01a5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifestyle.livemint.com/smart-living/innovation/wellwishers-help-madras-crocodile-bank-avoid-a-financial-crisis-during-pandemic-111634483163440.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970727 | 1,053 | 1.664063 | 2 |
It was during the era of female empowered black sitcoms like “Sister, Sister,” when author and philanthropist, Celina Monique, saw herself being represented for the first time through media.
She would soon come to her own concrete platform, in order to implement the same positivity, encouragement and light to other black girls who needed someone to tell them, they could.
In April of last year, Celina experienced a life-changing situation. While celebrating a friend’s birthday out of town, a man cracked his drinking glass across her face. Doctors informed her if it would’ve hit a main artery or caused her to lose more blood, she could’ve lost her life.
Celina said this was a wake-up call for her because life is too short, and she wants to do everything in her power to ensure she makes an impact. With that new mindset, and realization of her life’s purpose, Celina went on to create Amazon best-seller “Note to Self: Affirmations to Young Queens,” a book dedicated to all black girls, to empower and provide positive direction to their self-esteem and life. “Around college, is when I realized and began to love who Celina Monique was. When this incident occurred, I thought to myself, I just got it together and now this is taking me all the way back. So the experience promoted me to say, “Now I need to do something.” When I looked at myself in the mirror last April, and I saw this swollen face that was crushed up with stitches, I saw a monster. It took me to a place where I had to tell myself you are beautiful, inside and out. This situation that you’re in now, will not determine you forever. And those affirmations were the same affirmations I placed in the book, because I wanted kids to know even when things happen, that hurt you, it’s not your destiny.”
After starting off in a nursing program, with a minor in health sciences that ultimately carried her passion for helping people, Celina figured out that the area of study she was in, was not for her. She ended up graduating early, as her minor changed to her major and she took interest in being a sex educator.
“I wanted kids to know even when things happen, that hurt you, it’s not your destiny.”
With Georgia being an “Abstinence Only,” state, Celina still wanted to properly educate children so that if it was something they chose to do, they would have access to safety precautions. I always instill in the kids I work with, how education is the one thing no one can take from you. I know that I was not only doing it for myself, but for the people and voices that are often unheard. So that gave me the extra push I needed. It wasn’t just for me, it was for the little girl who maybe couldn’t afford to go to college. The little girl who needed someone to look up to, as to why she should go to college.
Her streak of new opportunities continued to bloom as she got accepted into Savannah State’s social work program, in a GA position, meaning that she would be able to earn her degree for free. Celina dived into the position head first, as it was the chance for her to work around who she targeted her help to, the youth. Just that drive and desire alone with the free education, really motivated me to help the youth. It’s always been a population that has tugged at my heartstrings because it’s our future. We often talk about and critique and belittle the things we see our future doing, but what are we doing to help them? I learned the two greatest teachers are experience and mentors. I want to make sure that I’m a mentor, so that I’m able to teach and affirm them of the values of success and education.
Celina ignites those exact principles of self-love, mentorship and success through her non-profit organization, Raising our Queens (R.O.Q), which goes by the motto “Grow through, what we go through,” a healing mechanism she describes for woman who tend to not realize the importance of the healing process, and will eventually pass those characteristics over to future generations. “Once I had a student tell me while I was interning at a high school, how she didn’t commit suicide because of me. She was going through a lot of things, but because of me and my words, she discovered a new found reason to live. So for me, that was big! When I realized the impact I had on her, I began to imagine all of the other young woman and girls I could have an impact on. So I brainstormed about of a foundation I could create to implement these programs and organizations for girls, and that’s how I founded R.O.Q. It keeps me going and realizing that you never know who is watching. The more you walk in your purpose, the more people you impact, that you never know were being impacted. It keeps me humbled and motivated to want to do more.”
“I learned the two greatest teachers are experience and mentors.”
Last year, R.O.Q gave out two $500 scholarships, with a plan of adding on another this year with the organization’s second annual “Raising Our Queens Scholarship.” With most events occurring in Atlanta, Celina wants to navigate toward placing more in Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, where two of the scholarships will go, and eventually expanding R.O.Q ventures to locations worldwide, so even more black girls are able to benefit from what it offers mentally and physically.
“Note to Self: Affirmations to Young Queens,” has a campaign of its own, as Celina is gearing up to launch a series of “Note to Self” events and book signings, in an effort to get the book into as many hands as possible within our communities. “I am enough is my favorite affirmation of the entire book, that’s why I placed it last and said it three times. It’s something I wish someone told me or that I understood what it meant to be enough at a younger age. I feel as though it would’ve saved me from so many heartaches and disappointments. I want the youth to know that we are enough. Just us, ourselves, are enough. When we realize that we are enough, we’ll stop looking for the pieces that are missing.”
“The more you walk in your purpose, the more people you impact, that you never know were being impacted.”
Celina being an inspiration herself, also finds empowerment through other queens around her. Women like Monica, Michelle Obama, Taraji P.Henson and Issa Rae, to name a few, are the individuals Celina believes are honorable mentions in a time where Black Girl Magic is poppin’ now, more than ever. When I think of a queen, I think of someone who is powerful, who is strong, beautiful on the inside and out, and who possess character and ultimately someone who is resilient. I feel like society has made us feel as though the only way we can make it, is if we compete. I realized there’s strength in numbers, when we combine and uplift. Your weakness can be my strength and vice-versa. So when we come together, and we help one another, ultimately we’re doing more superior things. When we are against one another, both of our weaknesses are still unfulfilled, versus if we come together and help each other out, we’re getting more done. We wouldn’t all have gifts if there wasn’t room for us all, so I feel like once we get into the mindset to realize that, we will really be a force to reckon with. Women will really rule the world.
And don’t worry fellas, Celina wants young kings to know they’re just important as our queens, as she’s the process of drafting the affirmations to young kings book, for boys and men of all ages, to be aware of their greatness and to believe that we’re all capable of being ourselves, while making a difference.
“When we realize that we are enough, we’ll stop looking for the pieces that are missing.”
Be sure to get your very own copy of Celina Monique’s “Note to Self: Affirmations to Young Queens,” here!
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You’ve seen your doctor about the whistling, ringing noises in your ears. The noises come and go – you can hear them “best” in a quiet place. They seem to go away (or get much quieter) when you”re concentrating or are listening to something else. And you know that you’ve experienced some level of hearing loss lately. Your doctor diagnosed “Subjective Tinnitus” and, short of taking powerful drugs that don’t have a great record of helping tinnitus sufferers, there’s not much else he can do for you.
Some of us with tinnitus have problems functioning day-to-day due to the disturbing amount of noise being generated in the ears. Some are hating life because of tinnitus. Sleep has become a mere wish for these people, and real concentration becomes impossible for some tinnitus sufferers.
Other folks aren’t bothered by the extra noise, having learned to live with the noises only they can hear years ago. This would make up most tinnitus sufferers, although because they have gotten used to the disability, don’t assume that they wouldn’t like to find some relief for the noises.
A Common Cause
Many tinnitus sufferers have at least one thing in common. Except for a medical condition (such as infection, tumors, etc.) that can be medically treated, the beginning of tinnitus can often be traced back to a single event: a loud noise or noises that damaged hearing years ago.
You Can Prevent Further Damage
While it’s true there is no cure for tinnitus,you may be able to prevent your tinnitus becoming worse by heeding these warnings.
Protect your ears from more loud noises. Relief from tinnitus may come when damage to the ear is halted. Granted, the ear may never fully recover from previous damage, but worsening of the condition may be avoided by protecting the ears from future damage. How can you protect your ears? Soft, disposable foam earplugs now available in most department stores are remarkably effective in blocking noise. Don’t forget to put a couple of packages of earplugs in your pocket as you head out to see a hockey game or a rock concert. Notice that most members of rock bands wear ear plugs or headsets to prevent further damage to their ears. Also, use ear protection when mowing the lawn, or doing other work that involves loud noises.
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration) has long ago instituted standards for noise in the workplace, designed specifically to protect worker’s ears from damage from excessive noise. And noises that, while not seeming excessively loud up front, can be loud enough to cause hearing damage over time.
Over The Counter Medications
Do you use high doses of NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) for some chronic pain? Aspirin, ibuprofen and Naproxen are all members of this group that have been known to cause tinnitus, and to possibly make an existing condition worse. Can you substitute a non-NSAID drug such as acetaminophen (Tylenol)? Any little thing that can be done to reduce or eliminate a NSAID would give the tinnitus sufferer some relief.
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You will discover various kinds of self storage facilities from goal built warehouses and converted buildings to shipping containers. Goal built buildings may perhaps look the most qualified but shipping container storage can frequently be less expensive and just as safe. Shipping containers have been originally developed for transporting consumer goods and are thus secure and weatherproof.
Warehouse storage sites often offer you a array of unit types from modest cupboards to safe rooms.
Outdoor storage could possibly be a appropriate option for those who are storing autos, signs or belongings that are not impacted by climate conditions. If this can be the case then you have to be sure the storage location is securely fenced, padlocked and access restricted.
Researching self storage companies
Search online for storage sites near you. Try combining phrases like “self storage” and related keyword terms with your location. A practical place will make it much easier for you to access your belongings.
When picking out a self storage facility you have to think about what you’ll be storing and just how much space you need. Employees at the storage site needs to be capable to present assistance as to the most appropriate sized unit. Most storage units might be common goal but there could possibly be specialist storage that would suit your requirements, for example paper archive shops or air conditioned units.
It truly is an excellent idea to go to possible sites to verify their security and get a really feel for the facilities. Look to find out if there’s a manned office and ask to view the storage units prior to you rent. Are there a good amount of CCTV cameras located around the storage site and does it feel safe?
You’d like to become in a position to load and unload your unit simply so verify vehicle access and ask if there are going to be employees readily available to help when you will need assistance. Enquire about access hours and whether you can access your unit outside in the regular opening times. Quite a few storage facilities deliver 24 hour electronic access using swipe cards or fobs.
Check if your goods are insured in the course of storage and what this insurance covers. If insurance is not included then it may be an additional expense so be certain the costs are transparent. Some self-storage companies will charge added for locks and to access your belongings.
Some self storage companies will insist that you rent for minimum period but other individuals will present flexible terms. Ask what paperwork is needed, accepted payment approaches, if locks and packing supplies are integrated and if you will find any restrictions on what can and can’t be stored. This will make moving within a lot much easier and keep away from any unnecessary complications. | <urn:uuid:42049eb5-036b-49fe-a5e3-f0a7a2710ec1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geeksscan.com/ways-to-decide-on-a-self-storage-company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95259 | 693 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Studies show that the Medicaid population is just as likely to own smartphones as the general population.
of the general adult US population owns smartphones*
of Medicaid beneficiaries own smartphones*
Overall smartphone adoption is widespread*
PERCENT OF ADULTS WHO HAVE OR OWN A SMARTPHONE**
Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% over the last six years***
Medicaid beneficiaries may also be using their mobile device for most of their internet activity—which could make them especially receptive to mobile health apps.
1 in 4
lower-income adults are “smartphone only” internet users, and don’t have a broadband connection at home.**
Plus, Medicaid members already use technology to help manage their health.
measure fitness and health improvement goals such as exercise, diet, weight, and sleep*
monitor health issues such as blood sugar*
receive alerts or reminders to take prescriptions drugs*
measure, record, or send data about a prescription they are taking*
To engage Medicaid members in their health, it’s crucial to meet them where they are—on their smartphones. As part of your broader digital health management strategy, make sure your organization can deliver convenient health support directly to members’ mobile devices.
*”Medicaid patients ready for mobile health care apps,” Deloitte Insights, September 2018 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/mobile-health-care-app-features-for-patients.html
**”Mobile Technology and Home Broadband,” Pew Research, June 2019
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2. In “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” Jane Tompkins writes that “because the Beatles were somewhat androgynous, they gave women permission to be more androgynous, too” (217).
In “Beatlemania: A sexually defiant consumer subculture?,” Barbara Ehrenreich and her co-authors write that, “What. . .most adult commentators couldn’t imagine was that the Beatles’ androgyny was itself sexy” (535). First, explain what the terms mean in the context of these two readings. Then go on to discuss what Tompkins means with her assertion about the Beatles, women and androgyny.
In particular, trace out the distinction she draws between American culture of the fifties and American culture of the sixties and the dominant images of “masculine” and “feminine” held up by each period.
Do you agree with Tompkins’ claim that there was a problem with fifties-era images of the masculine and the feminine? Why or why not? And do you agree with her claim that the Beatles and sixties culture reframed such images in a way that was salutary? Why or why not?
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Every now and then, a new technique to target SEO is being done by writers and experts. Through these techniques, blog owners could maximize the interactions they could gain for their blogs. One of these techniques would be writing a Q&A blog post. Learning how to write an effective Q&A blog post can take quite some effort. However, this article is a good place to start. Let us begin by learning what Q&A blog post is.
What is a Q&A Blog post format?
Every blog has a core niche and a couple of focus topics that the posts and content generally revolve on. The presence of this core niche usually attracts following and loyalty from readers. Readers often visit your blog to learn a couple of new information on the said core niche. However, there are cases when they want to learn about specific topics or they have questions about an existing post where a simple comment reply would not suffice. Or, sometimes, there are just too many recurring questions that sending in the same comment reply every time is a hassle. What are we going to do about these topics? This is where the Q&A blog post format can come in.
A Q&A blog post format literally means that the blogger will be answering questions in a single or series of posts. The questions could be a query (from the general public) about the niche and MUST be answered because it is a piece of essential knowledge. For instance, a blogging website would always have a post or article on “how to write a blog?”. Everyone new in the blogging industry would surely be seeking an answer to this very general question. In many cases, the questions could be from the readers themselves. Think of it as a more interactive FAQ (frequently asked questions) page where you would be lurking in the comments section to select golden questions to answer.
So, how do we write an effective Q&A blog post? Here are some tips:
Announce your goals to your audience to get the best interaction
A lot of blogs have Q&As in their content. This is a great way to connect with your audience and to let them know that their inputs matter to you as a blogger. Now, how do we get readers to send you their questions? Let us look at this example from Blog Tyrant below:
First, the website announced the plan – readers have questions, blogger will try to answer and help. Then, the website announced a duration – the readers are given three days (with a specified end date) to post any questions that they have. Last, the blogger sets the premise – the readers are informed that not all questions may be answered due to the influx of interactions. Also, the announcement details that there is a limit of one question per person only. The announcement gives the readers a clearer picture what to expect and when to expect it. It also serves as instructions to any reader who wants to participate. This makes it easier not only for the blogger but for the readers as well.
Q&A blog post could be a collation of recurring comments
Now that we have discussed how and where to get comment gold, the format is another discussion. One of the most common formats would be a transcript-style article. This is great for many recurring questions. One pro tip, focus on recurring questions only on a single topic. This way, you could make Q&A posts regularly (say, post a Q&A article once every month) but focusing on separate topics every time. It is a good way to let your readers know when to expect Q&A posts if they prefer these kinds of content. Also, it would make the work easier for the blogger because readers could have endless questions that are all valid.
In this format, we can write it like this:
Question #1 : Start with your question
Answer #1 : Explain with your answer
Question #2 : Start with your question
Answer #2 : Explain with your answer
Blogger could choose a single question to answer for every post
This kind of format is also very common and we see this a lot even in magazines. Usually, the blogger will choose a specific question from one reader then, they would go ahead and answer it using one post or article. One pro tip, AVOID YES OR NO QUESTIONS. Open-ended questions always invite responses. Just like in this example from A Beautiful Mess:
In this example, the reader was asking something specifically about networking and blogger relationships. This kind of question is common and every blogger has valuable experience with this. So, the website chose this question because it is relatable. Also, you can see in this example that the Q&A blog post is a series from the website. This means that the blogger posts about Q&A on a regular schedule and focuses on different topics every time.
Get your readers to subscribe and share
Inform your readers that the best way to get an answer to a question is through a notification. And, readers would get the notification if they are subscribed. So, for any reader who wants to participate in a Q&A, they could be encouraged to subscribe to newsletters and notifications. Also, through the Q&A, we could get readers to share the content willingly. This is especially true if their questions have been answered and they are satisfied with it.
Most important: Always put a disclaimer
Bloggers may claim expertise on many different topics but every person should be entitled to multiple views on problems and questions. It is good to always put a short disclaimer either at the beginning or at the end of every Q&A post. But, what disclaimers could we place? Here’s a few examples of them:
- All information is for educational purposes only and may not be used as legal, business, or financial advice
- Article is based on personal experience only. For more serious questions, seek professional help and advise
- Inform your readers to explore different options
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Gardening enthusiasts adamantly tout the long list of benefits include stress reduction and mood improvement. But, why stop there? Could tending to a garden, breathing in fresh air and exposure to Vitamin D sunshine rays help those suffering with depression? The votes are in and experts say “yes.”
The answer lies in the actual antidepressant microorganisms in the soil.
Antidepressant Microbes in the Soil
Mycobacterium vaccae (M. vaccae) in dirt and soil naturally activate the release of serotonin and dopamine in the brain.
Together, these neurotransmitters send chemical messages to the brain: dopamine affects your emotions via sensations of pleasure and pain, while serotonin regulates our mood, social behavior, libido, memory and sleep.
When gardening, these microorganisms absorb into your skin and are inhaled with each breath. Upon entering your bloodstream and respiratory system, they quickly get to work – boosting your mood and subsiding your pain.
The connection between these soil microbes and mood elevation, funnily, were discovered by accident. Originally administered as an immune booster for lung cancer patients, M. vaccae surpassed oncologist Dr. Mary O’Brien’s expectations.
According to O’Brien, not only did the vaccae microbial bacteria improve their immune system, but patients also demonstrated a sizeable boost in their happiness, vitality and pain relief.
Study: Soil Organisms and Performed Behaviour
According to a study conducted by neuroscientists Dorothy Matthews and Susan Jenks, published in the Behavioural Processes Journal, “eating, touching and breathing a soil organism may be tied to the development of our immune system and nervous system.”
The research was conducted on mice, administered M. vaccae and put through a series of behavioral tests. Not only were the mice less anxious, but they also demonstrated boosted cognitive functioning – navigating a maze twice as fast as their placebo counterparts who weren’t administered any microorganism.
According to Matthews, these findings lay the foundation for human adolescent schooling practices, “it is interesting to speculate that creating learning environments in schools that include time outdoors where M. vaccae is present may decrease anxiety and improve the ability to learn new tasks.”
Professor Graham Rook at the University College London has weighed in on the issue. Rook points to the gastrointestinal tract, the home to a hundred trillion microbes at any given time.
These bacteria are a product of both genetics and lifestyle, interacting with our entire body, from our lungs to our gut. Deficiencies in microbial exposure, Rook argues, is the link between the rise in chronic health problems, including both autoimmunity deficiencies and depression.
This brain-gut connection proves to be the bridge between gardening and mental health.
Get Dirty: Gardening for your Brain
The long-held benefits of gardening, as proven here, are true. Not only is gardening an exceptional activity to incorporate into your daily routine, but the release of happy neurotransmitters are undeniable.
From the soil brain-boosting benefits to the grounding effects of nature, getting down and dirty by tending to a garden proves to be a worthy investment in your mental wellbeing.
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Book: Staircase of A Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
I am looking in my travel library for books to share with you that I have read that made me yearn to travel. Not travel literature by strict definition, but sometimes historical novels bring a traditional culture so vividly to life that I want to visit the country today and see how those traditions influence the present.
Masha Hamilton was working on this novel, her first, when we briefly belonged to the same Tucson writer’s group, exchanging drafts and bemoaning the frustrations of attempting to clearly express something that seemed vivid in the mind, but resisted being put on paper.
Masha is a world traveler and has developed into a respected writer, and if some day she decides to put her own life on paper, I will avidly read about her experience as a journalist in the Mideast and in Russia. Meanwhile, I will enjoy her novels, informed by her lengthy visits to foreign places, and her finely honed powers of observation.
Staircase of a Thousand Steps tells the story of the people of a village in Trans Jordan before the 1967 war with Israel. We meet Harif who tells stories and is distrusted by the villagers and Harif’s granddaughter, Jammana, a modern American girl who learns deep meanings from age-old traditions.
Faridah the midwife stands for a break with tradition and the rights of women. As they struggle with old enmities within their village, and more lethal ones within the larger Mediterranean, we also see a people working their way into a modern world that doesn’t quite fit.
We learn from the sharply observant Masha Hamilton, how their homes look, what they eat, how they speak to each other. And the story teller weaves their stories in poetic prose.
It is a book to inspire the urge to seek out new cultures. It is a book to read again and again. Although when I visited Israel, I crossed the Allenby bridge briefly into Jordan, I have yet to visit the part of Jordan and Lebanon and Syria that I would love to see in person. Meanwhile, I’ll hang on to this book to fuel my travel dreams.
Masha Hamilton has written three other books since Staircase of a Thousand Steps.
- The Distance Between Us, (2004) Unbridled Books, Another novel set in the Mideast.
- The Camel Bookmobile, (2007) Harper Collins, about a bookmobile in Africa.
And her latest, officially released in September 2009, 31 Hours. The new novel departs from the tone of earlier books as it tells the terrifying tale of a young man who is headed toward an act of terror. | <urn:uuid:2e401370-18b4-46fe-b883-97e59675f7cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atravelerslibrary.com/tag/masha-hamilton/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962032 | 565 | 1.6875 | 2 |
D1SA Code of Conduct
Players, coaches, officials, parents and spectators are to conduct themselves in a manner that demonstrates respect to other players, coaches, officials, parents, spectators and fans. In becoming a member of this organization, an individual assumes certain obligations and responsibilities to the organization and its participants. The essential elements in this Code of Conduct are HONESTY and INTEGRITY. Those who conduct themselves in a manner that reflects these elements will bring credit to themselves, their team and their organization. It is only through such conduct that our organization can continue to earn and maintain a positive image and make its full contribution to our sport and community.
The following essential elements of the Code of Conduct must be followed:
1. Sportsmanship and teaching the concepts of fair play are essential to the game and must be taught at all levels and developed both at home and on the field during practices and games.
2. The value of good sportsmanship, the concepts of fair play, and the skills of the game should always be placed above winning.
3. The safety and welfare of the players are of primary importance.
4. Players should always demonstrate positive behavior and respect toward teammates, opponents, coaches, officials, parents and spectators.
5. Coaches, players, parents and spectators are expected to demonstrate the utmost respect for officials and reinforce that respect to players/teammates.
6. Grievances or misunderstandings between coaches, officials or any other parties involved with the organization should be communicated through the proper channels and procedures, never on or about the field of play in view of spectators or participants.
7. Spectators involved with the game must never permit anyone to openly or maliciously criticize, badger, harass or threaten an official, coach, player or opponent.
8. Eligibility requirements, at all levels of the game, must be followed. Rules and requirements such as age, previous level of participation, team transfers, etc, have been established to encourage and maximize participation, fair play and to promote safety.
PRCS Code of Conduct
PRCS Code of Conduct Loudoun County Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services (PRCS) has adopted the following Code of Conduct as a result of its concern for good sportsmanship, respect, fair play and the conduct of spectators, players and coaches.
While individual leagues and organizations are responsible for monitoring and enforcing individual league/organization rules, PRCS may enforce penalties on a case-by-case basis, when necessary.
All coaches, players, and parents must abide by our Code of Conduct. Reports of violations of this code will be investigated. Violators will be subject to penalties, including (but not limited to) removal from events, suspension from games/practices and a lifetime ban from all Loudoun County facilities in extreme or recurrent situations.
Parents/Guardians Code of Conduct
Provide support for coaches and leaders working with your child in order to provide a positive, enjoyable experience for all participants.
Place the emotional and physical wellbeing of your child ahead of your desire to succeed.
Treat all participants, spectators and officials with respect regardless of race, sex, creed or ability.
Respect the decisions of officials and encourage all players to do the same.
Condemn the use of violence in any form, whether by other spectators, coaches, officials or players.
Maintain high ideals of sportsmanship, including winning without gloating, respecting one's opponents and losing gracefully.
Maintain composure and refrain from unsportsmanlike physical or verbal behavior.
Respect the privilege associated with the use of public facilities and equipment and respect the staff responsible for maintenance and supervision.
Players Code of Conduct
Demonstrate good sportsmanship before, during and after games by winning without gloating, respecting one's opponents, and losing gracefully
Treat coaches, other players, officials and fans with respect regardless of race, sex, creed or abilities and expect to be treated accordingly.
Be courteous and respectful to opposing teams, spectators and officials.
Maintain composure and never leave the bench to enter the playing area to engage in unsportsmanlike physical or verbal behavior.
Respect the privilege associated with the use of public facilities and equipment, and respect the staff responsible for maintenance and supervision.
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1728 quarto of Double Falshood
- First official record: entered into the Stationers' Register by Humphrey Moseley on 9 September 1653, as "The History of Cardenio, by Mr Fletcher and Shakespeare."
- First published: as far as is known, Cardenio itself has never been published, but in 1728 Lewis Theobald published a play called Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers, which he claimed was adapted from Shakespeare's Cardenio. Theobald claimed that he had access to the original play in the form of three manuscripts. The play had been staged at Drury Lane in December 1727, to great box office success, and was revived in 1728. According to an article in the Gazetteer on 31 March 1770, "the original Manuscript of this play is now treasured up in the Museum of Covent Garden Playhouse." However, the article is unclear on whether it is referring to the original Cardenio manuscript by Shakespeare and Fletcher or the original Double Falsehood script by Theobald. In any case, the library burned down in 1808. Theobald's 1728 publication contains a preface which reads, in part, "It has been alleged as incredible, that such a curiosity should be stifled and lost to the world for above a century. To this my answer is short: that though it never till now made its appearance on the stage, yet one of the manuscript copies which I have is of above sixty years standing, in the handwriting of Mr. Downes the famous old prompter; and, as I am credibly informed, was early in the possession of the celebrated Mr. Betterton and by him designed to have been ushered into the world. What accident prevented this purpose of his, I do not pretend to know; or through what hands it had successively passed before that period of time. There is a tradition (which I have from the noble person, who supplied me with one of my copies) that it was given by our author, as a present of value, to a natural daughter of his, for whose sake he wrote it, in the time of his retirement from the stage. Two other copies I have (one of which I was glad to purchase at a very good rate), which may not, perhaps, be quite so old as the former; but one of them is much more perfect, and has fewer flaws and interruptions in the sense."
- First recorded performance: on 20 May 1613, the King's Company received payment for a court performance of "Cardenno."
- Additional information (attribution): Cardenio is considered a lost play, and whether or not Shakespeare had anything to do with it is an unanswered (and, given the available evidence, perhaps unanswerable) question. Only two sources attribute it to Shakespeare; Moseley's 1653 Stationers' Register entry and Theobald's 1727 adaptation. Although the 1613 court payment does connect the play to the King's Men, this does not mean Shakespeare wrote it, as the company performed many plays in which he had no hand. The validity of Moseley's attribution is not helped by the fact that he is known to have attributed several other now lost plays to Shakespeare. For example, on 29 June 1660, he made an entry in the Register for "the History of King Stephen. Duke Humphrey, a Tragedy. Iphis and Iantha, or a marriage without a man, a Comedy. By Will: Shakespeare." However, Gary Taylor argues that it is unlikely Moseley was aware of the 1613 court payments to the King's Men, which coincides with Shakespeare's collaboration with Fletcher on two other plays (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen). Taylor believes this adds support to Moseley's claim of Shakespearean authorship, especially as Fletcher's involvement in Henry VIII hadn't been established by 1653. Scholars also continue to debate the validity of Theobald's claims that he was in possession of a Shakespearean play that had been omitted from all previous editions of Shakespeare's work. E.K. Chambers points out several problems with Theobald's asserted ownership of the text; no one else ever confirmed seeing the three manuscripts, Theobald's claim that he owned them is the only evidence we have; there is no evidence Shakespeare had a "natural daughter" (i.e. an illegitimate daughter), he had two legitimate daughters, and one son, who died age eleven (although John Freehafer argues the reference to "a natural daughter" is to Henrietta Maria du Tremblay, the wife of Shakespeare's (alleged) illegitimate son, William Davenant); the manuscripts apparently disappeared after Theobald's death and were not listed in his sale catalogue of 23 October 1744; the play is never mentioned in the writings of either Downes or Betterton; and if Theobald was so certain of Shakespeare's authorship, why did he not include the play in his 1734 edition of the complete works? Scholars remain divided on the issue of Theobald's claims. However, in 2010, Double Falsehood was controversially published under the Arden Shakespeare banner, edited by Brian Hammond, who adopts the position set out by G. Harold Metz in his 1989 book, Sources of Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare; "Double Falsehood is mainly Theobald, or Theobald with an earlier adapter, with a substantial admixture of Fletcher and a modicum of Shakespeare." Hammond, for the most part, accepts Theobald's claims, although not without some reservations, and believes Double Falsehood to have been adapted from Cardenio, a play written by Shakespeare and Fletcher.
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Do you purchase items through Apple Pay? Do you carry less cash on you than a decade ago? Most probably, the answer is ‘yes’. That’s because now we have finance and technology, the perfect combination that accelerated the industry of Fintech to boom.
Innovative technological solutions transformed and pushed traditional financial companies into going digital. The adaptation brought customers many benefits, one of the main ones being the much-wanted convenience. See what else Fintech has prepared for us in the future and why the sector found its way to the masses by reading the whole article.
What is Fintech?
Fintech transformed our habits, and it seems that we’re not going to go back to waiting in long queues in physical branches any time soon. Today, thanks to Fintech, we spend, trade, and save differently. The term ‘Fintech” can be traced back to the early 1990s, but its roots started to spread long before that. Approximately, since 2014 the industry has been booming and getting more attention from investors, regulators and customers.
The Timeline Behind Fintech’s Success
Clearly, the Fintech sector became so successful due to its ability to quickly improve the quality and delivery of financial services. Such power made an impact on customers’ expectations, forcing businesses to improve and integrate newer technologies into their agenda.
It’s crazy to think that ages ago, we moved money around using morse code and telegrams. Fast forward to today, billions in investments are linked to the Fintech industry, making it one of the most perspective sectors globally.
Let’s check out some fun facts about the history of Fintech:
- 1997: Nationwide Building Society introduces the first internet banking service.
- 2001: UK banks reach a threshold of 1 million online customers.
- 2004: Ten years before Apple Pay, NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile operator, creates the first mobile payment system.
- 2007: Barclay designs its first contactless card. The maximum spending limit was set to £10.
- 2009: We’re introduced to the first digital currency, aka Bitcoin.
- 2013: Alipay outnumbers PayPal and becomes the world’s biggest payment platform.
- 2014: Apple introduces Apple Pay to its customers.
- 2016: The replacement of bricks-and-mortar branches continues. Atom becomes the first digital-only bank in the UK.
- 2018: According to Monzo, the company reaches 80% growth due to word-of-mouth customer reviews, marking a milestone in having 1 million customers.
- 2020: The CEO and co-founder of Revolut, Nikolay Storonsky, becomes the UK’s first tech startup billionaire.
- 2021: We’re finally at the Unicorn era. Fintech investments reach $91 billion. At this point, there are 120 Fintech unicorn companies.
Fintech today: The Power of Artificial Intelligence
When we hear ‘Fintech’, there’s a huge chance that one of the first words that comes up is ‘artificial intelligence’. The past faced environment and complex data structures have driven Fintech to a new era, which involves artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
For instance, let’s take open banking and blockchain as an example. Open banking empowers money institutions to share client data and provide custom-tailored solutions that fit the customers’ needs regarding their financial conditions. Inevitably, for that, we need to use blockchain, which enables privacy, transparency, and, of course, security.
It’s undeniable that ML and AI study behavioral patterns that result in a better, personalized experience for the customers of Fintech. But what else is there for businesses? An AI-powered digital ID verification and fraud prevention startup, iDenfy, argues that modern technology helps companies to dig deeper by providing insights and reporting analyses. AI processes complex information very quickly, provisioning Fintech companies and their owners with critical information about how their business is performing.
Online payments have introduced us to convenience that we have never imagined before. Many factors contributed to the enormous growth of the Fintech sectors, such as various E-commerce possibilities or remote working conditions. Taking a smartphone device and bing stuff in a glimpse of a second is part of many customers’ daily routines. It’ll be interesting to see what innovations finance and technology will bring us next. | <urn:uuid:a2f48d86-bb69-4153-a74a-2e3e341f27e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techviral.tech/the-evolution-of-the-fintech-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.924843 | 953 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Nasty Women, published by 404 ink, is a collection of essays about what it is, and how it feels to be a woman in the 21st century. When I first picked up the book, I assumed, like I think most readers would, that it would be an easy book to just pick up and put down whenever I had a spare ten minutes. Wrong, I was sucked into this book right from the beginning, and read it all in a day. That doesn’t mean it was an easy read, or perhaps easy is the wrong word – it isn’t a comfortable read – and it isn’t meant to be. Nasty women is hard-hitting, eye-opening, and unashamedly honest.
The book opens with ‘Independence Day’ by Katie Muriel. A story of mixed race and identity in Trump’s America, Muriel discusses her experience of inter-family racism, heightened by political differences, ‘This is not the first, nor is it the last family divide Trump will leave in his wake, but I refuse to think of him as some deity who stands around shifting pieces on a board in his golden war room.’ The anger in this piece is clear, but it is the rationalism and clarity of the writer that speaks volumes. Race, racism and xenophobia, is a prominent feature in these stories. Claire L. Heuchan, for example, talks about ‘Othering’ a term that readers will see repeatedly in this book, ‘Scotland,’ she writes, ‘is a fairly isolating place to be a black woman.’
Survival is a key trope in Nasty Women. Mel Reeve, in ‘The Nastiness of Survival,’ talks about being a survivor of rape and emotional abuse, ‘I do not fit the ‘right’ definition of someone who has been raped.’ This statement alone is filled with irony.
I was particularly drawn to Laura Waddell’s essay, ‘Against Stereotypes: Working Class Girls and Working Class Art.’ Laura talks about the difficulty of both gender and class inequality, and, in particular, the lack of working class writers and working class fiction being published, ‘I have read a lot of fiction’ she says, ‘I have read almost none from housing estates such as the one I grew up on. These stories are missing, from shelves, and from the record.’ As a Scottish fiction writer from a working-class background myself, these words resonate deeply.
Alice Tarbuck’s ‘Foraging and Feminism: Hedge-Witchcraft in the 21st Century’, is almost fun to read in a deeply devastating way. There is a desperate tone in this piece, and a desperate need to escape society. ‘There is beauty and bounty around us if we look for it, and perhaps that is all the magic we need. Or perhaps, what we need is real magic, whether that comes in the form of resistance and community or the form of blackthorn charms and skullcap tinctures, and howling to the moon.
I loved this book. This book gives women a voice. And it is loud! Well done 404 Ink, and all the contributors, for bravely breaking the silence. | <urn:uuid:822ae6a7-318e-4f1d-850c-3547419bb158> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eilidhgclark.life/2018/02/18/nasty-women-published-by-404ink-book-review/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967888 | 694 | 1.679688 | 2 |
MARKING THE WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL DAY 5TH JUNE 2021
The World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated annually worldwide on 5 June every year, and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment. This year, Pakistan was chosen to host the day in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Every year, Environment Day is held by different countries around the world. The day boasts of a participation of 143 countries or more yearly. This year’s theme of World Environment Day was 'Reimagine. Recreate. Restore' and its focal point is ecosystem restoration. "Ecosystem restoration in simple terms means preventing, stopping and reversing the damage- to go from exploiting nature to healing it", according to the UN. To simplify the theme, Ecosystem restoration, takes several forms such as greening cities through cleaning the streets of garbage and unblocking water drainage channels, planting trees in virgin lands or reforestation of environmentally degraded lands , cleaning up polluted rivers and coasts of solid wastes, reversing gardens, changing diets like eating more vegetables or organic foods than red meats. For sure, we are the generation that can make lasting peace with nature and drastically reverse the effects of climate change.
In Kenya, World Environment Day celebration was held at Garissa University, Garissa County.The Chief guest was Environment and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko, Garissa Governor, Ali Korane, Senator Abdulkadir Haji, Chief Administrative Secretaries, Ministry of Health Dr. Mercy Mwangangi, Environment and Forestry CAS Mohammed Elmi, PS Dr. Chris Kiptoo, NEMA Chairman John Konchellah, Director General, Mamo B. Mamo and heads of other institutions and diplomats.
In Kenyatta University, the day was marked on 4th June, 2021 by the Kenyatta University scouts association who replaced trees seedlings which had dried up at the weather station outside the geography department and the University arboretum. The Kenyatta university UNESCO Club came had earlier organized a tree planting activity where around 100 tree seedlings were planted at the weather station and at the arboretum. Where around 300 assorted seedlings were planted (Fruit and igneous to mark the World Environmental Day (WED).
A photo showing DR. NAWIRI PATRON THE KU UNESCO CLUB planting a tree to mark the tree planting exercise on 4th June, 2021 Kenyatta University grounds
A members cheers after the planting of e tree to mark planting exercise to mark the world environment Day Kenyatta University grounds
A photo of the KU Scouts joins in the UNESCO CLUB in tree planting activity to mark the World Environmental Day at Kenyatta University grounds
Dean school of environmental Studies
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A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society. In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de passage, "The Rites of Passage". The term is now fully adopted into anthropology as well as into the literature and popular cultures of many modern languages.
Van Gennep further distinguishes between "the secular" and "the sacred sphere." Theorizing that civilizations are arranged on a scale, implying that the lower levels represent "the simplest level of development," he hypothesizes that "social groups in such a society likewise have magico-religious foundations." Many groups in modern industrial society practice customs that can be traced to an earlier sacred phase. Passage between these groups requires a ceremony, or ritual hence rite of passage.
In the first phase, people withdraw from their current status and prepare to move from one place or status to another. "The first phase (of separation) comprises symbolic behavior signifying the detachment of the individual or group ... from an earlier fixed point in the social structure." There is often a detachment or "cutting away" from the former self in this phase, which is signified in symbolic actions and rituals. For example, the cutting of the hair for a person who has just joined the army. He or she is "cutting away" the former self: the civilian.
In the third phase (reaggregation or incorporation) the passage is consummated [by] the ritual subject." Having completed the rite and assumed their "new" identity, one re-enters society with one's new status. Re-incorporation is characterized by elaborate rituals and ceremonies, like debutant balls and college graduation, and by outward symbols of new ties: thus "in rites of incorporation there is widespread use of the 'sacred bond', the 'sacred cord', the knot, and of analogous forms such as the belt, the ring, the bracelet and the crown.
Initiation rites are seen as fundamental to human growth and development as well as socialization in many African communities. These rites function by ritually marking the transition of someone to full group membership. It also links individuals to the community and the community to the broader and more potent spiritual world. Initiation rites are "a natural and necessary part of a community, just as arms and legs are natural and necessary extension of the human body". These rites are linked to individual and community development. Dr. Manu Ampim identifies five stages; rite to birth, rite to adulthood, rite to marriage, rite to eldership and rite to ancestorship. In Zulu culture entering womanhood is celebrated by the Umhlanga.
Rites of passage are diverse, and are found throughout many cultures around the world. Many western societal rituals may look like rites of passage but miss some of the important structural and functional components. However, in many Native and African-American communities, traditional rites of passage programs are conducted by community-based organizations such as Man Up Global. Typically the missing piece is the societal recognition and reincorporation phase. Adventure education programs, such as Outward Bound, have often been described as potential rites of passage. Pamela Cushing researched the rites of passage impact upon adolescent youth at the Canadian Outward Bound School and found the rite of passage impact was lessened by the missing reincorporation phase. Bell (2003) presented more evidence of this lacking third stage and described the "Contemporary Adventure Model of a Rites of Passage" as a modern and weaker version of the rites of passage typically used by outdoor adventure programs. | <urn:uuid:433162aa-bcea-4588-9024-46deb2006d05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cdr1.com/rite-of-passage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960396 | 762 | 3.4375 | 3 |
India reported the fourth confirmed case of Monkeypox within the country on July 24, 2022. The case was diagnosed when the thirty-four-year-old patient, a resident of Delhi, showed signs of a fever and skin lesions. The man had recently returned from a trip to Arunachal Pradesh. He is currently receiving treatment in the designated isolation centre of Lok Nayak hospital and is reported as being stable. The man has had no recent history of foreign travel. This was the first case of Monkeypox discovered outside of Kerala, from where the three previous cases all hailed.
This discovery of India’s fourth Monkeypox victim comes within hours of the disease being declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The organization announced that the rapid spread of Monkeypox and its outbreak represents a global health emergency, and assigned the highest alert level. This announcement is a call for a coordinated international effort in eradicating this threat. | <urn:uuid:b16d9757-448c-44df-be7d-af5800cbc027> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indianstar.news/fourth-case-of-monkeypox-discovered-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965852 | 199 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The excellent Charlie Panayiotou, film, manga and anime maven and Gollancz editor wrangler extraordinaire draws our attention to an excellent appreciation of Walter M. Miller Jr’s Hugo Award-winning classic A Canticle for Leibowitz in The New Yorker . . .
One of the American airmen who participated in the bombing of Monte Cassino was a young radio operator and tail gunner from Florida named Walter M. Miller, Jr. Miller, who enlisted in the Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew on more than fifty combat missions in B-25 Mitchells above the Mediterranean region and the Balkans. Following the war, he got married, studied engineering at the University of Texas, and converted to Catholicism. In the fifties, he began publishing stories and novellas in Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Astounding Science Fiction, and other magazines.
Gollancz recently published a new SF Masterworks hardback edition of A Canticle for Leibowitz, with a customarily-excellent introduction by Ken MacLeod. You can read about Walter M. Miller Jr in his entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and read Jon Courtenay Grimwood‘s insightful SFX Book Club article on A Canticle for Leibowitz on this very site. | <urn:uuid:c1db1d72-cfc2-4698-8913-7d030a09fbbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sfgateway.com/sf-reviews/2014/10/30/a-new-yorker-canticle-for-leibowitz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.902947 | 267 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The King’s Academy Advancement Office in collaboration with the Parent Council organized the school’s third annual career fair this week. Some 25 representatives of different industries and careers participated in the event which took the form of discussion panels under a wide range of themes and professions.
The Career Fair gave Upper School students an invaluable opportunity to get an up-close and personal view of a diverse selection of professions, as they begin to consider what their own career paths might look like when they apply to universities and plan their futures. Meanwhile, for those still undecided, the speakers provided useful information and served as inspiration for possible future career paths.
King’s Parent Council members took the lead in inviting professionals to speak at the event, which included a number of King’s parents. The experts shared with students details about their jobs and fields of work, what they need to study to qualify for those fields, what a routine day looks like, how to pursue a business idea and see it through to success, and much more.
There was a particularly exciting line-up of professionals participating at the Career Fair and representing diverse industries this year. Among them were HRH Princess Rym Ali who spoke to students about media and journalism; HRH Princess Nejla bint Asem on creative professions such as jewelry design; Ireland’s Ambassador to Jordan HE Dr. Vincent O'Neill on diplomacy and international affairs; former minister and entrepreneur HE Marwan Juma on technology; cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Khaled Salaymeh on careers in medicine; HE Dr. Ibrahim Aljazy on international law and political sciences and Fida Taher on entrepreneurship. In addition, many more highly esteemed professionals shared their knowledge on a wide range of industries.
Professionals and students alike enjoyed the lively discussions, questions and presentations at the event. King’s Academy extends its thanks to the Parent Council and all the professionals for their time, support and enthusiasm at what proved to be a highly informative and successful event.
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Professor Shulman is a Professor in the Departments of Asian Studies and Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interest are Indian poetics, live Sanskrit theater, the Renaissance in South India in the 16th-17th centuries, Islam in South India and the Carnatic classic music. Bilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam.
Prof. Shulman has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on various subjects ranging from temple myths and temple poems to essays that cover the wide spectrum of the cultural history of South India. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Now you’ve got enough reasons to earn a calendar for yourself. The co-parenting calendar is a crucial region of the parenting program. It’s a vital tool that parents use to find out where their children will be remaining on any particular day of the year.
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orange light with car and 2 wiggle lines at back of it. it always stays on
It stays on if the a/c setting is at MAX. Turn the setting to normal. A/C will then shut off when a/c button is pushed.
If the light stays on it indicates your charging system has malfunctioned. Usually this means the alternator has failed, but not always.
The simple fix is to remove the bulb from the trunk light. The more complicated fix is to find out why it is staying on. More than likely the switch is bad.
If you fix the problem causing the light to come on, it will go off.
You have a headlight out.
Could be low on brake fluid, time to have the brakes checked.
nothing, atoms are always moving.
If it stays on there is a problem with the charging system. Most likely a defective alternator.
a compound always has the same chemical formula
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The search continues, but, hope is fading for finding the crew of the Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan alive. The submarine disappeared last Wednesday, and the navy said an event “consistent with an explosion” was detected near the submarine’s last-known location.
The San Juan was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southernmost tip of South America, when it reported an electrical breakdown related to the submarine’s batteries.
More than 12 countries are involved in the search which is being conducted with around 27 ships and 18 aircraft, along with tens of fishing vessels. The search operation is carried out under the auspices of ISMERLO, an international organization of over 40 countries set up in 2003 following the Kursk submarine disaster.
Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, CEO of Dryad Maritime and former Principal Warfare Officer routinely involved in submarine safety and searches, says it is unlikely that the submarine is on the surface. “They’ve had enough air assets across it that if it had been on the surface within the search area, they’d have found it.”
Beneath the surface, a submarine covered in anechoic tiles for stealth would be extremely difficult to find. It’s like looking for your car keys on a rugby field using a drinking straw, says Gibbon-Brooks. “The nuclear monitoring organization that heard the non-nuclear explosion won’t have much more detail than they’ve already provided. You have to be quite careful in correlating one with the other. There is a very strong possibility that the explosion is connected with the submarine, but at this stage, it’s not certain.”
One of the possible outcomes of an electrical fault involving the batteries of a diesel-electric submarine is an explosion, he says, but weapon problems could also be the cause, as with the Kursk. The Kursk incident demonstrated that some of the compartments in a submarine can remain water-tight after such an explosion. However, it is unlikely that the San Juan crew could make a free ascent to the surface from the presumed depth that the submarine would be at if it were on the seabed, says Gibbon-Brooks.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has promised an inquiry into the disappearance of the submarine. He said the 34-year-old submarine had recently undergone a refit and was in perfect condition. | <urn:uuid:70474ab4-a431-4c56-85e7-633746de3bca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.smmbd.org/san-juan-the-search-continues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970282 | 515 | 2.3125 | 2 |
This treatment works on the feet to help detect and improve ailments in the body. Parts of the feet correspond to parts of the body. Gentle and soothing pressure is applied to the reflexes, bringing about a sense of relaxation and improve well-being.Reflexology is based on the Chinese principle to balance qi-(chee) referring to energy that goes back 3000 years ago.
They believed that certain areas on the soles of your feet or hands, correspond to other parts of the body as all systems and organs of the whole body are said to be mirrored in the parts of the feet. Reflexologist work using special pressure to stimulates the body’s qui.
This works to stimulate the body’s own natural healing response, by improving circulation, reducing stress, pain and restoring natural balance. Reflexology can be very helpful for the following: IBS, fertility, digestive disorders. headaches, and migraines amongst many others.
This wonderful treatment starts with a reflexology treatment to diagnose and unblock any stagnant meridians in the body, followed by a relaxing Aromatherapy massage with organic plant oils, blended to suit your individual needs. Highly recommended for all those suffering from physical and emotional stress and illness. | <urn:uuid:1c5026ca-2679-481c-a980-18dfe52395b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sivanabeauty.co.uk/massage-and-holistic-therapies/reflexology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.91687 | 251 | 2 | 2 |
What did Henry Ford say about quality?
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. via
Did Henry Ford have any famous quotes?
"That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world." "Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn." via
What is Ford's slogan?
The “Built Ford Tough” slogan has been around since 1979 and it's held strong ever since. Ford sees no reason to get rid of an advertising gimmick that has helped them sell millions of trucks. via
WHO said quality is never an accident?
John Ruskin Quotes
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. via
What are the best inspirational quotes?
Short motivational quotes
What is Lindbergh famous quote?
Charles Lindbergh Quotes
Who said you can have any Colour as long as it black?
One of Henry Ford's famous quotes about the Model T was, "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black." The Model T only came in black because the production line required compromise so that efficiency and improved quality could be achieved. via
What is Jaguar slogan?
Jaguar Cars Limited. Tagline. "The Art of Performance" via
What is the Dodge Ram slogan?
Since its inception, the brand has used the slogan "Guts. Glory. Ram." via
Did Aristotle say quality is not an act it is a habit?
Quotes Thoughts On The Business Of Life
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. via
WHO said quality over quantity?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. via
Is Quality an accident Why or why not?
In project management, as with most things in life, quality is planned in, not inspected for after the fact. Quality, and the expectations for acceptance, must be defined up front. via
What is most powerful quote?
1. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi. “Live for what's worth dying for, and leverage technology to create the world you wish to see.” via
What is the best motivation for life?
What was Babe Ruth's famous quote?
Famous Quotes by Babe Ruth. “The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.” “I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.” “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” via
What was Amelia Earhart quote?
“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.” via
What is a quote from Langston Hughes?
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. via
Is black a color?
Some consider white to be a color, because white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum. And many do consider black to be a color, because you combine other pigments to create it on paper. But in a technical sense, black and white are not colors, they're shades. via
What did Henry Ford say about the color black?
Henry Ford (1863-1947) documented that he made the “any color so long as it is black” comment during a meeting in 1909 (Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther in My Life and Work. 1922. via
Why was the Model T Ford only in black?
Black was the only color the Model T came in from 1914 through 1925, and the reason was economics, not style. Black was the only color paint that could be dried quickly, and speed was important at the Ford plant because of its enormous volume. via
What is the slogan of Ferrari?
"The car embodies the latest state of the art technology, reflects the new regulations for the coming season and is the fruit of the combined enormous work and talent of everyone in the Scuderia," Ferrari CEO Louis Carey Camilleri said during the event organized under the motto of "Essere Ferrari," which means "Being via
What is the tagline of Lamborghini?
Lamborghini's design motto of “Expect the Unexpected” for every car it creates stands true to its cars. via
What slogan is like a rock?
When they were finished, the song and slogan “Like A Rock” were used in Chevrolet truck commercials for more than ten years from 1991 through 2004, representing one of the longest-running advertising campaigns in history. GM considered bringing back the “Like A Rock” slogan and tagline because of its popularity. via
What is one of Aristotle's famous quote?
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” “To perceive is to suffer.” via
Did Aristotle say we are what we repeatedly do excellence therefore is not an act but a habit?
Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” He is talking, far more eloquently than I ever could, about the value of repetition. This is something I have learned to understand and appreciate even more as I get older. via
What did Aristotle say about habits?
In Book V of Aristotle's Metaphysics, he states that “'habit' means a disposition according to which that which is disposed is either well or ill disposed, and either in itself or with reference to something else” (Aristotle, 2007). This, in our opinion, links habits to cognitive control and goals. via
What does quality mean to you quotes?
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” ~William A. Foster. via
What's more important quality or quantity?
Quality over quantity essentially means choosing things of high standard matters more than the amount or number of things that you have. To put it another way, value matters more than volume. If you have one or two items that make you feel really good, than it doesn't really matter how much of any other items you have. via
What does quality over quantity mean?
Quality saves you energy
Quality over quantity means that you save more time since you focus on the few significant things in your life instead of everything. via
What is the meaning of quality is never an accident?
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. via
What do you mean by quality does not come by accident it is a product of intention?
"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives." — Willa Foster. These words reflect the level of excellence that we strive to provide to our customers. via
What does excellence is never an accident mean?
According to Aristotle: “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” via
What is the deepest quotes ever?
Inspiring Deep Quotes
What is the best quote of all time?
The 100 Most Famous Quotes of All Time
What is a strong woman quote?
“A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong.” “I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.” "You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.” via | <urn:uuid:04145e46-2517-47d6-b19b-5ff2a0a4ea28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brujasdeaskani.com/quality-means-doing-it-right-when-no-one-is-looking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954715 | 1,836 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Public broadcasting regulations and legislation have long provided the regulations for information which is shared in the public domain, including newspaper, radio, and television. During the COVID-19 pandemic we saw many of our family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances shift to online forums in order to quickly and efficiently access news information, real-time statistics, and entertainment media, as well as to connect with each other during long periods of isolation. Prior to the pandemic, the government had already been exploring options available to apply broadcasting and media law to online forums. With the global economic, social, and human impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in combination with our collective shift to doing more things online, there was likely a significant catalyst in expediting the legislative process. Indeed, many governments have looked to expand or revise the role of broadcasting and similar legislation in response to the expanded use of the internet, and the extreme level of public reliance on online sources for news and other digital media.
In our previous articles in this series, we have discussed the concept of data sovereignty – as it relates to both law and cybersecurity – as a legislative challenge in our global digital world, particularly highlighting the challenge of addressing cross-border data transfers. We have also examined the role of digital governance and governance strategies in relation to the concept of digital social responsibility, particularly with respect to user-generated digital content. Finally, we previously explored the complexities inherent in assigning jurisdictional authority for the purpose of addressing activities performed, and content hosted, online. You can view our previous articles here:
- Understanding Current Cybersecurity Challenges in Law: Determining Online Jurisdictional Authority (Article 3)
- Understanding Current Cybersecurity Challenges in Law: Digital Governance and Social Responsibility Meet User-Generated Content (Article 2)
- Understanding Current Cybersecurity Challenges in Law: Data Sovereignty and Cross-Border Data Transfers (Article 1)
We have now arrived at our fourth article in our six-part series. In this article, we will outline the foundations of digital content censorship, the arguments for and against the use of legislation for censorship, and describe the polarizing challenges which continue to arise in legislative reform work, using Canada as an example of the approaches being considered.
Digital content and online censorship
We previously defined digital content and discussed some of the legal challenges that arise when addressing user-generated content in our second series article. As a refresher, recall that “digital content” is an umbrella term for all shared electronic, digital, and/or online content, referring to any information which is made available for download or distribution on electronic media. Put simply, digital media encompasses all forms of media content such as: images, videos, audio files, and text-based content. In effect, this includes: movies, music, ebooks, mobile games, news media, blogs, video uploads, every social media share, retweet, reblog, upload, status update, and more.
Flowing from our definition of digital content, user-generated content (UGC) – including user-generated digital content – refers to any content that is created by individuals rather than brands. Marketable user-generated digital content is born when customers create and disseminate ideas about a product, or the firm that markets it, online. Examples can include social media posts that mention a brand or company by name, online product reviews, ratings on online forums, consumer images, videos of a product being used by a customer, etc. By engaging with user-generated content, a corporation or brand can open up larger and more numerous consumer communication channels – allowing for more extensive customer interaction. This has enabled the high valuation of, and demand for, user-generated content within the corporate sphere.
While previously we have grouped digital content stakeholders into three primary groups, as we are approaching the issue through a legislative lens, we must instead consider four stakeholder groups:
- content creators
- content consumers
- content hosts
- the wider social community in which the content has – or may have – an impact
Censorship involves the control or suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or “inconvenient”. Censorship can be – and frequently is – conducted by governments, private institutions and other controlling or regulating bodies. Digital or internet censorship, correspondingly, is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed online.
While individuals and organizations may choose to engage in self-censorship for moral, religious, or business reasons, to conform to societal norms, due to intimidation, or out of fear of legal or other consequences, censorship legislation expands the reach of censorship to a regional or national scope – encompassing all people to whom the legislation would apply – and removing the choice from the individuals in favour of a common or unified decision made on behalf of the larger society, often executed by governmental authorities.
The extent of internet censorship varies on a country-to-country basis. While some countries have moderate Internet censorship, other countries go as far as to limit the access to information such as news and suppress and silence discussion among citizens. Cases of internet shutdowns and censorship have also occurred in response to – or in anticipation of – events like elections, protests, riots, and general political instability.
Digital social responsibility – the view in favour of censorship legislation
Digital social responsibility extends the social obligations related to governance to include those which are connected to their position and influence online – that is, digital governance.
User-generated content adds an extra layer of complexity to digital governance and social responsibility, as it is the intersection of the creator, the consumer, and the host. This blurs the line between corporate or governmental social responsibility as a form of oversight and individual civil responsibility, adding uncertainty to the mix. All of this becomes even more complex when we are faced with user-generated digital content which is transmitted, uploaded, or otherwise shared between legal jurisdictions. The legal issues which intersect with and relate to user-generated content can be wide-ranging: from determination of ownership and copyright to personal privacy protection and individual freedom of expression, to issues of cyberbullying, illegal content distribution, and large-scale corporate data breaches.
The intersection of digital social responsibility and user-generated content is a challenge to navigate within the law, as evidenced by the strong polarizing of opinions between those who advocate for the rights of the content owners – and those who access the content – and those who opine in favour of increased governmental oversight and responsibility to act on behalf of the prescribed interests of the larger community.
The growth of digital content hosting platforms has catalyzed reactive legislative propositions, as online enterprises continue to retain significant profit from the hosting of such content and as governmental oversight committees are villainized for their lack of preventative actions in addressing illegal, legally questionable, or descriptively “immoral” digital content.
Freedom of expression and access to information – the view against censorship legislation
“Broadcasting was one of a number of areas – the professions such as teaching, medicine and the law were others – in which special pleading by powerful interest groups was disguised as high-minded commitment to some greater good.”
– Excerpt from Margaret Thatcher’s memoir, The Downing Street Years
When we discuss ideas of rights and freedoms, we are often examining a balance between “the individual” and the “society”. In this case, we are looking at the competing obligations of “negative rights” and “positive rights” in law and social order. “Negative rights” are rights that oblige inaction – or the right from an action – such as interference, while “positive rights” are rights which oblige action – or the right to something – such as the right to legal counsel.
Negative rights can include civil and political rights such as: freedom of speech, life, private property, freedom from violent crime, protection against being defrauded, freedom of religion, habeas corpus, a fair trial, and the right not to be enslaved by another. As a “negative right”, freedom of speech (or expression) requires that the government stay out of the way in terms of individuals exercising speech, which people share in common that enable them to come to a certain degree of agreement in certain circumstances and disagreement in others.
When it comes to censoring digital content, those whose rights and/or freedoms are potentially infringed by censorship regulations are primarily the content creators and the content consumers. The rights of the content hosts – the online platforms or websites which host user generated content – are also impacted, if not infringed upon.
Legislative reformation attempts in Canada – Bill C-11
The Canadian Federal Government’s current attempt to legislate online content has taken on the form of Bill C-11, otherwise known as the Online Streaming Act. Bill C-11 came about following the highly controversial introduction, disastrous evaluation, and eventual dissolution of its predecessor, Bill C-10, in 2021.
First introduced by the now-former Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, Bill C-10 proposed amendments to the Canadian Broadcasting Act, including a variety of related and consequential amendments to other Acts. The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC) began its study on this Bill after receiving an Order of Reference in February 2021, eventually conducting a total of 44 official meetings and hearing from 142 experts and witnesses regarding the potential impacts of the Bill. The Committee put forward many proposed amendments prior to submitting the report based on their study in June of 2021, following which the Bill was adopted by the Canadian House of Commons. It was later dissolved, along with parliament, following the call for a federal election, which was held on September 20, 2021.
Rising from the ashes of C-10, Canadians are now faced with Bill C-11, also called the Online Streaming Act, which – like its predecessor – expands the Broadcasting Act that grants the CRTC regulatory powers over radio and television to cover all audiovisual content on the Internet, including content on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, and podcast clients.
Under Bill C-11, all platforms hosting audiovisual content that are not specifically excluded must make financial contributions to producing officially recognized CanCon (or “Canadian Content”). They must also make CanCon “discoverable” by filling our feeds and search results with a mandatory quota of official CanCon content or face stiff financial penalties from the CRTC. Unfortunately for our content creators, “CanCon” is currently defined by a 1980s era points system built around legacy media broadcast media, largely excluding small and digital-first Canadian content creators.
Bill C-11 also gives the CRTC unprecedented regulatory authority to monitor all online audiovisual content. This power extends to penalizing content creators and platforms and through them, content creators that fail to comply. While Section 4(1) establishes a limited exception from regulation for some types of online audiovisual content, most audiovisual content will still be subject to CRTC regulation under the current draft of the bill, as the three criteria used by the CRTC are so broad. The three criteria are:
- Whether the content generates revenue for someone, indirectly or directly.
- Whether any part of the content has been broadcast on a more traditional broadcasting platform.
- Whether the content has been assigned a “unique identifier” under any international standards system.
Unfortunately, once again, for our content creators, most content on the Internet generates revenue in some form, for someone, somewhere – and has unique identifiers tagged to content. As a result, most online audiovisual content is still at risk of being regulated and taxed by the CRTC, including all the things which fall under the umbrella label of “digital content”, that is, all shared electronic, digital, and/or online content which is made available to others online.
This has raised significant concerns among not only legislators, but also non-political individuals and entities including, but not limited to, academics; researchers; students; activists; industry leaders; small business owners; journalists; bloggers; artists; musicians; writers; social media influencers; and other content creators, content consumers, and content hosts.
Significant debate has ensued. Indeed, the public controversy which has been unfolding around these activities has likely been a heavy influence leading to the federal government’s decision to have a blanket non-reading of the amendments to Bill C-11 – which were, at the time, being presented to the House of Commons for a vote – with the ongoing governmental attempts to curb the debate even being described as “draconian” by some Members of Parliament.
The issue of content censorship has long divided communities throughout modern history, from newspapers to radio broadcasting to television broadcasting and now to our digital broadcasting forums. It is neither unexpected nor unprecedented; we still hear of many cases – even in our modern world – in which reporters and journalists have been arrested, jailed, sued for libel, stalked, threatened, physically attacked, even murdered, for the things about which they have written, spoken, or otherwise made available to the public domain.
While the concept of content censorship and the practice of broadcasting regulations are not new to our nations, the novel component in this challenge is the forum to which censorship regulations or legislation might apply – the Internet. How individual nations will eventually decide to address their content regulations remains to be fully seen. What is certain, however, is the pressing need for governmental transparency and citizen involvement in the creation of these novel structures.
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Desimmie, B.A.; Raru, Y.Y.; Awadh, H.M.; He, P.; Teka, S.; Willenburg, K.S. Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Persistence and Its Relevance. Viruses2021, 13, 1025.
Desimmie, B.A.; Raru, Y.Y.; Awadh, H.M.; He, P.; Teka, S.; Willenburg, K.S. Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Persistence and Its Relevance. Viruses 2021, 13, 1025.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc threatening the public health services and imposing economic collapse worldwide. Tailoring public health responses to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic depends on understanding the mechanism of viral replication, disease pathogenesis, and accurately identifying acute infections and mapping the spreading risk of hotspots across the globe. However, effective identification and isolation of persons with asymptomatic and mild SARS-CoV-2 infections remain the major obstacles to efforts in controlling the SARS-CoV-2 spread and hence the pandemic. Understanding the mechanism of persistent viral shedding, reinfection, and the post-acute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) is crucial in our efforts to combat the pandemic and provide better care and rehabilitation to survivors. Here we present a living literature review on SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence, reinfection and PASC. We also highlight potential areas of research to uncover putative links between viral persistence, intra-host evolution, host immune status, and protective immunity to guide and direct future basic science and clinical research priorities.
Coronaviruses; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Viral Persistence; Reinfection; Long COVID
LIFE SCIENCES, Biochemistry
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“I can’t afford to change career” – and other limiting beliefs that will hold you back!
By Fiona Clark, Career and Confidence Coach from Inspired Mums
As a career coach and founder of www.inspiredmums.co.uk, I speak to a lot of mums who feel stuck in their careers. Many of them have “fallen” into their first careers after school or university and a decade or two later now feel trapped doing work they no longer enjoy. There’s no denying that being on the wrong career path can be soul-destroying. If you feel stuck in a rut with the thought of retirement being the only light at the end of long dark tunnel, think again, it’s time to banish any limiting beliefs and take positive steps to rediscover your career mojo.
By limiting beliefs, I’m talking about those thoughts we hold about our situation and ourselves that undermine us in some way. The more we tell ourselves something negative, the more our subconscious struggles to distinguish between fact and fiction and the more we start believing it’s true. Examples could be, “It’s too late to change careers at my age” or “No one will hire me as my skills are no longer relevant.” Listening to this negative inner chatter ultimately erodes your self-confidence so that changing career becomes an even more daunting prospect. For example, if you believe there are no decent, flexible jobs out there, then you will stop looking and won’t find solutions to land one.
The secret to banishing these self-limiting beliefs once and for all is to develop a winning mindset. Only then will you have the confidence to take practical steps to kick-start your career search and find your dream job.
Here are my 3 tried and tested ways to manage your mindset and achieve success:
- Be Creative
Put your problem solving head on and ask yourself solution-oriented questions. For example, instead of saying “I can’t afford to change career,” ask yourself “how can I afford to change career?” or “what steps can I take to de-risk the situation?” You will be amazed at the results – by viewing your circumstances as problems that can be solved, you will be able to brainstorm positive ideas to help you change career direction.
- Focus on the positives
Silence those negative voices in your head by flipping them into positives. Instead of telling yourself, “I don’t have any transferable skills” write down all the skills you have that are useful in any career, such as influencing, leadership and organisational skills. Don’t just limit yourself to workplace examples; take into account those skills you have developed in your day-to-day life – such as multi-tasking and communication skills.
- Move out of your comfort zone
We are often our own worst enemies, talking ourselves out of career opportunities before we’ve even considered them properly. It’s important to recognise that limiting beliefs are often a self-protection mechanism – perhaps you aren’t applying for jobs because you are scared of the rejections. In my experience, mums returning to the workplace after a career break are particularly prone to talking themselves out of potential roles that should at least be researched, and possibly pursued. A good mantra in this situation is to ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’ – it’s only by moving out of your comfort zone into your stretch zone that you will achieve your full potential and reap the rewards of increased self-esteem and confidence.
Be inspired to make a career leap of faith by reading our inspiring story of a mum who swapped the courtroom for the classroom. http://www.inspiredmums.co.uk/blog/from-lawyer-to-teacher#.Wuw0Sq2ZM0o
If you would like a free consultation with Fiona to talk about how she can help you change career and find a fulfilling and family friendly role, then contact email@example.com or 07789 597209.
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At approximately 19:00 mountain time a Cessna 152 crashed into a frozen lake near Spanish Fork. The pilot was seriously injured and the passenger, a prospective purchaser of the airplane, suffered minor injuries. The pilot told investigators the flight was a demo flight for the pilot-rated passenger, who was interested in purchasing the airplane. The two estimated visibility at five miles, but shortly after takeoff, while climbing through 300 feet, the airplane entered a cloud or fog. The owner said the prospective buyer then grabbed the yoke because he thought the airplane was turning. The airplane hit the lake, skidded and fell through the ice. The prospective buyer told rescuers, All of a sudden, we couldnt see the lights on the ground anymore. We were disoriented. [The pilot] thought we should descend a little. Thats what we were doing when we hit the lake. We didnt really see it coming. The passenger helped the pilot out of the airplane, where he clung to a wing while the passenger walked across the lake to the Provo Airport about two miles away. The pilot was rescued about four hours after the crash. Neither pilot was instrument rated. | <urn:uuid:42744800-ae7b-4255-a806-cd8b60f1ee0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/preliminary_reports/jan-6-spanish-fork-utah-cessna-152/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980526 | 236 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Dragons at the Schoolhouse Door: A Novel of Schooling
Satire, Mystery, Humour — And a Stunning Plan to Reshape Public Education
“Woolman’s characters are brilliant composites that anyone in education can recognize and relate to. The use of irony and satire make them enjoyable, memorable, and engaging.”
Gerald Fussell – School Principal.
“Enjoyable! A candid look at public education from a writer who has been there. Engaging characters move the story, which has humour, satire, and intrigue. . .”
Todd Phillips – Teacher Librarian.
Steve Hepting often wonders why he left the classroom. The travails of a strained working relationship with School District CEO, Jennifer Capelli seems to have abated, at least temporarily. Capelli is more interested in a secret scheme to transform what she believes to be a moribund education system. The public announcement is set for the 2011 school year, Hepting’s second in the principal chair.
Though more confident, Hepting still cannot convince an evasive bureaucrat of the need to clear the detritus of the school district. piled high in the unused classrooms on the second floor. The junk is home to feral cats and other wayward creatures, known only to the slow-witted, yet stock market savvy custodian, Frank “Tiny” Little, and two learning disabled boys.
The “Animal Hotel” is not the only peculiarity at the school. Maintenance requests are ignored. A smarmy little scoundrel is seen crawling about in the ventilation shafts. District leaders tour corporate executives through the building. A hostile parent becomes Capelli’s confidante. A newly transferred teacher seems to have an unusually close relationship with the CEO.
Quirky faculty members, student allies, and a scandal-sniffing journalist, work with Hepting to uncover the sordid scheme to reshape public education, using the local school as the launching pad.
“I really identified with the colourful characters and the humour poked at the system. This was an enjoyable walk along the road of school administration.”
Judy Berkeley – Vice-Principal-Counsellor.
Dragons At The Schoolhouse Door is available online from the following distributors....
Barnes and Noble.com - for print and e-book versions
FriesenPress - for print and e-book versions (often the best price)
Google Play - for e-book version
and Apple Books as an e-book
About the Author
Clyde Woolman has been a teacher and counsellor, a principal of an elementary, a middle and three high schools, and completed a six-year stint as a Superintendent (CEO) of a school district before reengaged neurons led him to voluntarily announce a return to a school. At one time or another he has been involved in education from Kindergarten through to the university level. He has delivered keynote speeches at conferences, sat on panels, presented workshops and seminars and led teacher and principal teams in writing reports on schools. At one time he could fling edubabble around as well as most. He often tried, occasionally with success, to see the humour that lay behind and beyond the peculiarities and foibles that can abound when a place called school is your workplace. Clyde is the author of several articles on education leadership and two young adult adventure novels (2010 and 2013) emphasizing themes of tolerance, trust and friendship. Smugglers at the Lighthouse and Yurek: Edge of Extinction were published by Moosehide Books of Ontario. | <urn:uuid:16f144e2-60e8-49c0-9884-2bb650033b7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://clydewoolman.com/dragons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953867 | 762 | 1.796875 | 2 |
What is an Environmental Exposure Chamber (EEC)?
Thinking about participating in an allergy study at Cliantha Research? If so, you may have come across the term Environmental Exposure Chamber (EEC) and wondered what it is and how it’s used in our allergy studies.
What it is
The Environmental Exposure Chamber (EEC) is a specialized room at the Cliantha clinic in Mississauga which is designed to conduct allergy studies. In appearance, the room is similar to a small lecture hall or movie theatre with theatre style chairs.
What it does
The EEC mimics naturalistic airborne allergen exposure in a controlled environment that study participants would encounter in their everyday lives. In a ragweed allergy study for example, study participants are exposed to similar levels of ragweed pollen that they would experience on a peak pollen day during ragweed season.
What’s expected of study participants while in the EEC?
You’ll be asked to put on protective wear to help minimize pollen adhering to your clothes. The protective wear also minimizes the chance of bringing pollen from outside into the chamber. Once inside the EEC, you will be seated for a period of time. You may also be asked to record symptoms and/or rating of symptoms. The specific requirements will be detailed in the Informed Consent Document for the study.
Will I experience allergy symptoms while inside the EEC?
During your stay in the EEC, you may exhibit common allergic signs and symptoms such as itchy eyes, watery eyes and/or red eyes as well as nasal symptoms of runny, itchy, stuffy nose and/or sneezing. Clinical staff including physicians and clinical coordinators are always present to answer your questions and monitor your health status.
How many studies have been conducted in the EEC?
Cliantha Research has conducted multiple allergy studies involving the EEC with thousands of study participants.
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Open, read and write Wave files
Open, read and write Wave files
PyWave is a small extension that enables you to open and read the data of any WAVE-RIFF file.
It supports PCM, IEEE-FLOAT, EXTENSIBLE and a few other wave formats (including 32 and 64 bit waves).
It can also create and write wave files, but it's currently limited to PCM-Waves and pure data (no metadata).
PyWave is supposed to replace the builtin Python extension
wave, which doesn't support >16-bit wave files.
To install PyWave you can use the PyPI:
pip install PyWave
To use PyWave in a script, you have to import the package
or a wildcard import:
from PyWave import *
The Wave class
You can use
open(path) to open and read a wave file.
Or you can use
open(path[, mode = 'r', channels = 2, frequency = 48000, bits_per_sample = 16, format = WAVE_FORMAT_PCM])
with <mode> set to
'w' to open and create a writable wave file.
Both will return an instance of the
The following methods are provided by the
Wave.read([max_bytes = None]) -> <bytes> data Reads and returns at most <max_bytes> bytes of data. If <max_bytes> is None, reads until the end. Wave.read_samples(number_of_samples) -> <bytes> data Reads and returns at most <number_of_samples> samples of data. Wave.write(data) -> None Writes <data> to the data chunk of the wave file. Before write can be called, the following members have to be set: - Wave.channels - Wave.frequency - Wave.bits_per_sample This function can only append to the end of the data chunk, thus it is not effected by 'seek()'. Wave.seek(offset[, whence = 0]) -> None Sets the current position in the data stream. If <whence> is 0, <offset> is the absolute position of the data stream in bytes. If <whence> is 1, <offset> is added to the current position in the data stream in bytes. If <whence> is 2, the position will be set to the end of the file plus <offset>. Wave.tell() -> <int> position Returns the current position in the data stream. Wave.close() -> None Closes the file handle.
And it has the following members:
Wave.format <int> Format of the audio data. Can be any of: - WAVE_FORMAT_PCM - WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT - WAVE_FORMAT_ALAW - WAVE_FORMAT_MULAW - WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE Otherwise the format is unknown Wave.channels <int> The number of audio channels present in the audio stream Wave.frequency <int> Sample rate of the audio stream Wave.bitrate <int> Number of bits per second Wave.bits_per_sample <int> Number of bits per sample (usually 8, 16 or 32) Wave.samples <int> Total number of samples in the audio data Wave.data <bytes> [Deprecated] (only exists if <auto_read> was set to True) Audio data as bytes Wave.metadata <dict> A dictionary containing metadata specified in the wave file
import PyWave PATH = "path/to/a/wave/file.wav" wf = PyWave.open(PATH) print("This WAVE file has the following properties:") print(wf.channels, "channels") print(wf.frequency, "Hz sample rate") print(wf.bitrate, "bits per second") print(wf.samples, "total samples") wf_copy = PyWave.open("path/to/a/wave/file_copy.wav", mode = "w", channels = wf.channels, frequency = wf.frequency, bits_per_sample = wf.bits_per_sample, format = wf.format) wf_copy.write(wf.read()) wf.close() wf_copy.close()
PyTest support has been added in the form of a test_pywave.py module, in order to facilitate extensions to the module. In order to use it, one should install PyTest first by running:
pip install -r pytest_requirements.txt
Once installed, you should be able to simply run
In the repo folder, and see 2 items being collected, and 2 tests passing.
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Veteran-owned businesses are an economic force in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 Annual Business Survey shows that the nearly 340,000 veteran-owned businesses in this country employ 3.9 million people, about the equivalent of the population of Oklahoma. Their collective payroll is about $178 billion.
But there can be some unique bumps along the way for military veterans who start their own businesses. A 2020 survey of veterans by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) tells the story: In addition to the challenges they often face when transitioning to civilian life, military entrepreneurs often grapple with financing and learning how to get started in business.
A variety of organizations and government agencies offer resources to help military entrepreneurs overcome the obstacles to business success they too often face—whether they’re seeking funding, wondering what steps to take, or considering additional education.
Becoming an Entrepreneur After the Military
Military training sharpens skills that are perfect for those establishing their own businesses. It’s no surprise, then, that veterans are behind many corporate success stories, including companies that have grown to become household names.
Military Skills That Can Benefit Entrepreneurs
The IVMF’s 2020 report noted that military entrepreneurs cite military-honed traits such as discipline and perseverance as helpful as they establish their own businesses. Ninety-four percent of respondents to the IVMF survey said they do not give up in the face of difficulty and another 83% said they use creativity to solve problems when facing challenging situations. Seventy-nine percent of those surveyed said they are consistent in overcoming obstacles.
Whether they’re collaborating with employees and vendors, for example, or tackling the day-to-day stressors of business ownership, military skills that are helpful for entrepreneurs include:
- Ability to stay calm under pressure
- Strong work ethic
Successful Veteran-Launched Businesses
Military entrepreneurs have launched businesses that range from recent startups to global enterprises. A CNBC report lists the following industries as those in which veteran entrepreneurs most frequently launch their own businesses:
- Finance and insurance
- Home services
- Oil and gas
- Science and technology
- Travel and real estate
But military entrepreneurs’ interests don’t stop there. From coffee and hairstyling products to insurance and retail stores, the products and services veteran-owned businesses provide run the gamut.
Recent Military Entrepreneur Success Stories
- Anchors Aweigh—Created by Benjamin David Miller, a U.S. Army paratrooper veteran, the company sells men’s grooming products.
- Black Rifle Coffee Company—Launched by Evan Hafer, a veteran of the Army Special Forces, the company sells premium coffee.
- Bottle Breacher—Founded by Navy SEAL veteran Eli Crane and his wife, the company sells gifts and promotional items created from dummy ammunition.
- Combat Flip Flops—Developed by two veteran Army Rangers, Donald Lee and Matthew Griffin, the company makes flip-flops and accessories.
- Goodworld—Cofounded by U.S. Army veteran John Gossart, the firm sells fundraising software.
Large Companies Started by Veterans
Military entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful companies. Among the well-known business enterprises with military veteran founders are:
- FedEx—Founded in 1971 by Marine veteran Fred Smith, the company today is a multinational delivery service.
- Nike—Created by Army veterans Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, the company is now a global retailer of athletic shoes and apparel.
- RE/MAX—Established in 1973 by Air Force veteran Dave Liniger and his wife, the company is now a leading global real estate franchisor.
- USAA—Created by William Garrison and other Army officers in 1922, today the company provides insurance, banking, and investment services to military members and their families.
- Walmart—Opened 50 years ago by Sam Walton, a former Army intelligence officer, the company today is the largest retailer in the world.
How to Become a Veteran-Owned Business
Following certain steps can ease the process of starting a business for any entrepreneur. Additionally, veterans can turn to resources that cater specifically to those interested in pursuing an official designation as a veteran-owned business for their enterprise.
General Tips for Starting a Business
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce provides tips for how to start a business as well as how to become a veteran-owned business. Some of the general guidelines for anyone starting a business are as follows:
Planning the Business
Conduct market research—through interviews, focus groups, surveys, or questionnaires—to determine potential customers’ needs and how a business might address them. Write a business plan to help guide the way the business will operate. Research the name of the business, verifying it’s not already in use.
Registering the Name
Protect the business’s name through options such as registering it with the state and seeking a trademark. Establish an online domain for the business website. Choose a legal structure for the business, such as:
- Corporation—A corporate structure considered to be a separate entity from its owners
- S corporation—A business whose shareholders report its income and losses on their personal tax returns
- Limited liability corporation—A structure that protects a business owner’s personal assets from bankruptcy or lawsuits
- Partnership—A business relationship between multiple people, who contribute to the company and share its profits or losses
- Sole proprietorship—An unincorporated business owned by one person
Get the business on file with state and federal authorities and apply for any required licenses and permits.
Funding the Business
Seek financing through loans, venture capital, investors, or crowdfunding. Establish a business bank account and set up accounting software.
Establishing a Team
Hire professionals to provide legal and financial help, as well as any vendors needed to help the business run smoothly. Hire any employees the company will need.
Marketing and Starting the Business
Gain attention for the business through advertising and marketing as well as word of mouth. Set up a website and social media accounts. As the business progresses, adapt its plans as needed.
Information and Resources for Veterans Starting a Business
Qualifying as a Veteran-Owned Business
Earning a veteran-owned business certification can help increase a company’s business. Government agencies and many large companies target businesses with this designation when awarding contracts. The certification also can attract consumers who want to support veterans.
Resources are available for veterans to find specific information on how to become a veteran-owned business. To qualify for certification, business must be at least 51% veteran owned. The owners also must have received honorable discharges from the military and be involved in the day-to-day management of the business. Types of veteran-owned business certifications are:
- Vets First Verification Program—Qualifies a business for federal government contracts as a veteran-owned small business (VOSB) or service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB)
- National Veteran Owned Business Association’s Certified Veteran’s Business Enterprise—Offers the opportunity to be on a national registry of veteran-owned businesses
Organizations and Services That Assist Military Entrepreneurs
A variety of organizations and services provide information to help veterans manage the process of starting a business. Those resources include the following:
- Boots to Business is an entrepreneurial education program that is part of the U.S. Department of Defense Transition Assistance Program.
- Bunker Labs supports military-connected entrepreneurs by facilitating networking opportunities, providing resources, and showcasing success stories.
- SCORE Business Help for Veteran Entrepreneurs connects budding entrepreneurs with business mentors, including those who served in the military.
- The Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program and VetBiz help entrepreneurs whose businesses are officially certified as veteran-owned businesses to earn government contracts.
- The S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Veterans Business Development site offers a variety of resources—such as training, counseling, and mentorship—to assist entrepreneurs who are veterans.
- The S. Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization’s Veteran Entrepreneur Portal offers links to various resources to assist in starting a business, including the SBA’s Fund Your Business page.
- Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) helps women who are veterans or military spouses and partners develop businesses.
Getting Your Veteran Small Business Loan and Other Funding
Securing financing to start a business can be tricky—especially for veterans, who often don’t have the credit history they would have established as civilians. Military entrepreneurs can get assistance with accessing veteran small business loans and other funding. These are among the resources offering help:
- Hivers & Strivers provides investments in businesses created and operated by military veterans, particularly those who are graduates of U.S. military academies.
- The SBA’s Veteran-Owned Businesses page includes links to resources such as Lender Match and the Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan (MREIDL) program, which helps offset business losses that result when an essential employee who also is in the Reserves or National Guard is called to active duty.
- StreetShares provides financing to veteran-owned businesses, which can apply for loans, lines of credit, and other financing.
- The Veteran Entrepreneur Investment Program, from the PenFed Foundation, provides military startups with seed capital as well as access to other investments and funders.
Earning Your MBA After the Military
Choosing to earn a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree can be an excellent decision for anyone interested in a business career—because higher-level degrees often provide greater salaries and job opportunities. Pursuing an MBA after the military can be especially valuable for veterans who want to prepare for entrepreneurship by strengthening the skills and knowledge they gained while serving.
But veterans often face challenges as they transition to an advanced business education following their military service. Taking some key actions can prepare them for difficulties they may face with new concepts, less structure, and financial concerns.
Benefits of an MBA
Higher-level degrees typically bring more earnings and less unemployment. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), for example, notes that in 2020 median master’s degree salaries were nearly $250 greater each week than bachelor’s degree salaries. The unemployment rate for professionals who had master’s degrees was 3.1%, compared with 5.5% for those with bachelor’s degrees.
Reasons for Military Entrepreneurs to Earn an MBA
An MBA can be a valuable advanced degree for those who plan to start a business. The degree focuses on skills and knowledge that are helpful for entrepreneurs, such as:
- Understanding business concepts
- Developing business plans
- Navigating corporate finances
- Attracting funding for a business
- Networking to advance opportunities
For people who have been in the military, MBA programming can help them build on skills they often already have—like leadership and teamwork. Those military-developed skills often make veterans attractive to MBA programs.
An MBA also can give aspiring military entrepreneurs greater business credibility. And financial assistance for education, earned through military service, also can be a factor in veterans’ choosing to pursue graduate studies.
Assistance for Military Entrepreneurs Pursuing an MBA
Military.com, a website that provides information for military members and their families, notes that veterans who choose to pursue an MBA may encounter challenges. MBA work often requires those pursuing an MBA after the military to adapt to a new focus that calls for a deep dive into key business concepts and an emphasis on social and networking activities. And for those who served in the military, MBA programs frequently offer a less structured environment than the one they’ve left behind, making time-management skills critical.
MBA and Entrepreneurship Training Financial Aid for Veterans
Veterans can get financial assistance for graduate school, including MBA programs, through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Post-9/11 GI Bill offers help with costs for tuition and fees, books, and housing for those who served in active duty for at least 90 days since September 10, 2001. The VA bases funding levels on the number of classes attended and the hours spent in those classes, with full-time status determined by the school. The department provides financial assistance as follows:
- Tuition and fees, paid directly to the school
- Books, paid to the student at the beginning of the term
- Housing allowance, paid to the student at the end of each month
The VA also offers other programs to assist veterans in paying for higher education. Among the options are:
- Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty (MGIB-AD)—For veterans who served in active duty for at least two years starting in 1985 or later or 1990 or later, depending on the branch of the military
- Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR)—For veterans who served in reserve duty for at least six years starting in 1985 or later or 1990 or later, depending on the type of service
- Veterans’ Educational Assistance Program (VEAP)—For veterans who first enlisted between 1977 and 1985, depending on the branch of the military
- Yellow Ribbon Program—For veterans at participating schools who also are eligible for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits
- Tuition Assistance Top-Up—For eligible veterans whose education costs exceed GI Bill benefits
- Montgomery GI Bill $600 Buy-Up Program—For veterans who have contributed toward additional payout through the Montgomery GI Bill
GI Bill and VEAP funding also may cover entrepreneurship training through the SBA.
Making the Military-to-Business Transition
Entrepreneurship can be a great path for veterans, who often crave a work environment that allows them more freedom and the opportunity to be in control. Pursuing success as a business owner also provides the sense of purpose that military personnel become accustomed to when defending their country.
In addition to their questions about how to start and finance a business, however, veterans may face other obstacles when considering whether to pursue entrepreneurship. Making the military-to-business transition can leave veterans feeling unsure about how to structure their more-flexible schedule and where to turn for help. Additionally, they may feel uneasy about pursuing a venture for which they haven’t received training on how to handle all the possible scenarios they may encounter.
Two military entrepreneurs shared their tips for succeeding in business ownership with Forbes magazine. They suggest the following steps:
- Focus on relentlessly pursuing business goals as though they were military training.
- Get a mentor to provide support in a particular field of work or in military-to-business transition issues.
- Be open to considering if the less-structured environment of entrepreneurship might be a good fit.
- Refer to reports from past military service that outline specific areas of personal strength to determine which types of business might highlight those strengths.
Explore the Keys to Successful Military Entrepreneurship
Veterans who are business owners are an important driver of the U.S.—and global—economy, leading hundreds of thousands of businesses and employing millions of people. But too often, military entrepreneurs face difficulty knowing how to begin pursuing and funding their business dreams.
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The Minute Taker’s Workshop
August 9 @ 8:30 am - 4:00 pm$345.00
Course Duration, Method: 1 day (8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.), Instructor Led Training
If people can’t remember or agree on what actually occurred at a meeting, how can the group effectively accomplish its objectives? After this one-day workshop, you will understand your role as a minute taker and the best techniques for producing minutes that include all the essential information needed.Read More
This one-day workshop will help participants:
- Recognize the importance of minute-taking.
- Develop key minute-taking skills, including listening skills, critical thinking, and organization.
- Be able to remedy many of the complaints that beset minute-takers.
- Be able to write minutes that are suitable for formal meetings, semi-formal meetings, and action minutes.
- Be efficient minute-takers in any type of meeting.
- Be able to prepare and maintain a minute book.
The Role of a Minute Taker
To begin, participants will discuss the role of a minute taker. They will also explore common problems and solutions in small groups.
The Skills of a Minute Taker
Next, participants will learn about the three key skills that a minute taker must have: an ability to listen, critical thinking skills, and good organization techniques.
This session will discuss meeting agreements and give participants three templates to take away and customize.
Styles of Minutes
During this session, participants will look at samples of three types of minutes: formal, informal, and action.
What Do I Record?
Next, participants will learn what to record during a meeting.
Techniques for Preparing Minutes
This session will give participants the tools for creating minutes, including organization methods, techniques for writing drafts, and proofreading tips.
Taking Minutes in an Interactive Meeting
During this session, participants will learn how their role as a minute-taker will be different in an interactive meeting.
The Minute Book
To wrap up the day, participants will learn how to build and maintain a minute book.
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February 17, 2016
Snow Day for Tigers
- as seen by -Erin Mowatt
Some of us like to get snowed in during a good snow storm, but not our five-year-old male Amur tiger, Julian. This striking cat weighs in at 360 lbs., and is still growing.
Amur tigers are the largest of all the big cats. In the wild, they can be found in the Russian Far East as well as in China. Because of the long winters there, Amur tigers are equipped with thick, fur coats to keep them warm, as well as large paws to help them trek through the snow.
Cold, snowy days are perfect to stop by the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo and catch Julian, or one of our 6 other Amur tigers, at Tiger Mountain. Each one of our tigers has a unique personality. In addition to snow, Julian loves to play in the mud and is usually our dirtiest tiger on exhibit.
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Spawn Manager with Coroutine in Unity!
In the previous article, we went over how to respawn an enemy when arrives at the bottom of the screen. But, what happens if this enemy was destroyed by the laser or the player? It will not respawn. In this article, I will explain how to continuously spawn enemies every few seconds when the game is running using Coroutine() method.
According to Unity Doc, A coroutine is “like a function that has the ability to pause execution and return control to Unity but then to continue where it left off in the script”.
- Coroutine is very useful when whenever we need to pause/perform a series of steps in sequence before any further action takes a place.
IEnumerator — the best friend of Coroutine
IEnumerator is a return type followed by Coroutine, and we would choose ‘IEnumerator’ over ‘void’ because it allows ending with ‘yield’. ‘Yield’ will tell Unity that we want to wait for x amount of seconds.
For example (based on the above script), an object will be instantiated after 3 seconds. But, this will NOT respawn again because there is no line of code that asks to repeat — That’s when ‘While Loop’ can be used.
While Loop is a loop that will execute a block of code as long as a specific condition is true. This loop can be quite dangerous if the condition is always true which means the loop will never end causing PC to crash, etc. But, in our case, it would work well as we want to constantly respawn while the game is playing.
Now that we have a better understanding of Coroutine, IEnumerator, and While Loop, let’s figure out how to implement them into our script.
- Create a new empty game object called ‘SpawnManager’
- Create a new script called ‘SpawnManager’ and add it to the game object that we just created above.
- In the script, create a new game object variable to get enemy prefab.
- Under void Start(), write ‘StartCoroutine(SpawnEnemies());
- As a new method, write ‘IEnumerator SpawnEnemies()’ that will execute when Coroutine starts.
- To create an infinite loop, write ‘While (true)’. Then, create lines of code to instantiate enemy prefab that will spawn at a random X position from the top of the game screen.
- Add ‘yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f)’ to pause for 3 seconds before resume again.
Great! Now, we have enemies spawning every 3 seconds!
But, the hierarchy window gets messy as we have more and more enemy prefabs being spawned. How can we clean this up?
Tidy Up Spawned Enemies
- Create an empty game object under SpawnManager.
- Create a variable to link this EnemyContainer game object.
- Create a variable ‘newEnemy’ that will store the enemies that were instantiated.
- Write a line of code that will transfer the enemies to EnemyContainer.
Now, let’s see what happens.
Enemy game objects are now stored under EnemyContainer. Looks nice and clean! Awesome!
Stop Spawning when the player dies
We still one major problem — the enemy spawning will NOT end even after the player is being destroyed... So, what’s the solution?
- We can create a bool variable that will check whether the player is dead or alive and pass this onto the while loop condition.
- We would also need to create a method that will be called out when the player is dead and let the while loop know & stop spawning the enemies.
The code will look like below.
Now, in Player script, we need to find a way to link this SpawnManager script, so that we can call out ‘OnPlayerDeath()’ method when the player is dead.
Hmmm, but how do we that…? We can use the logic in the hierarchy.
- First, find GameObject that is called “SpawnManager”.
- Then, get a component called <SpawnManager>.
In code, we will write as below.
Hmm... But, since this line of code is written under ‘void Start()’, we cannot use it outside of ‘void Start()’, can we? In this case, we can create a variable called, ‘_spawnManager’ that will be accessible to the entire script.
Wait a second. Did we miss something? Ah ha! We should perform ‘Null Checking’ just to make sure we avoid any further error or app crash.
Great! Then, we just need to add ‘_spawnManager.OnPlayerDeath();’ just before the player is being destroyed.
Let’s check if it’s working.
lives 3..2..1.. the player is destroyed and the enemy is NOT spawning anymore. Perfect!
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Knowing the Basics of HTML 5
HTML 5 has not yet fully released, but we can still use some of its elements. Lets have a look at some of the basic elements of HTML 5 HTML 5 has not been fully developed yet. Though we can use it we will still have to wait for the full blown HTML 5 It has been considered as a strong replacement for Flash and there is many such premonitions about HTML 5 But before we start believing all of it, let’s just start by knowing the basics. It is necessary to know the basic elements that are available in the HTML 5 This will definitely help us to understand it in a better way. It is better not to jump to conclusions before knowing it inside out. Let’s have a look at some of the basic elements of HTML 5.
Navigation or <nav> is one of the key elements of HTML. This element assimilates to a section of a website that links to other pages or to different parts within a web page. But a group of links that are clubbed together is not reason enough to use the navigation element. The site wide navigation, secondary navigation, and other such elements belong to navigation. You should also know that <nav> element can repeat more than once in a given web page. The <nav> can also be found within the header and footer elements of a website. The links in <nav> don’t have to always presented in a list format, as it can contain different types of contents. The links in HTML 5 can be presented as unordered list and also in a paragraph block.
There is a huge difference between the header and the general usage of header, which is also known as masthead. Generally you would only find one masthead in a web page but in HTML 5 you can have more than one header in the same web page. The header is defined as “It represents a group of introductory or navigation aids”. In HTML 5 you can actually use the header in any section of a website. In fact you can have a header in each section of your website. We need to remember that the header is a structural element and it is not used to creating sections for your content. It is intended to have the heading of the content on a website. It can be a page header or it may be nested in an article. It is described to be a thematic grouping of the content with a heading in a webpage.
The next element that you must know is the footer. Like the header, the name itself suggests its explanation. The footer will generally contain the name of the author, links to other webpages, copyright, your social media links, and all the other links that need to be shared. Though we normally see only one footer on a webpage, HTML 5 allows us to have more than one footer in a webpage and we can also have it within the sections of a webpage. But it does not introduce a new section like the header does. All the elements at the end of a webpage are basically in the footer. It gives a semantic meaning to the sections of a webpage.
There are some more elements in the basics of the HTML 5, we can have a look at them after all of them are put to use. There are many other elements such as canvas, video, audio, figure etc. which we will look at after the full blown release. A stable release is expected to take place in 2014. The 5.1 and 5.2 versions are under wraps, and are expected to release in the next couple of years though no specific dates have yet been stated officially. | <urn:uuid:886ff041-52b5-432c-84f4-60af1f1d40f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webdesignmash.com/design/html-5-learning-the-basics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954681 | 749 | 3.40625 | 3 |
1. A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. --Burke.
2. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
Es·cort v. t. [imp. & p. p. Escorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Escorting.] To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
Syn: -- To accompany; attend. See Accompany.
n 1: someone who escorts and protects a prominent person [syn: bodyguard]
2: the act of accompanying someone or something in order to
protect them [syn: accompaniment]
3: an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
4: a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking"
v 1: accompany as an escort; "She asked her older brother to
escort her to the ball"
2: accompany or escort; "I'll see you to the door" [syn: see] | <urn:uuid:fc3e9187-5d7b-45d9-a03a-77edfd2adbf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dict.tw/dict/escort | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.887816 | 434 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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