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If I Could Speak to Medical School Students About Fibromyalgia, Here's What I'd Say
My experience with having fibromyalgia is that I am often not taken very seriously. It took me a long time to be diagnosed, and my pain and negative symptoms were often brushed off as not being serious when other diagnoses didn’t fit. Being invalidated has caused me to suffer through my symptoms longer than I should have. It is because of this that I am now very vocal about my experience with fibromyalgia and experiences testing out the different treatments that are available to help my symptoms.
With that being said, if I were invited to speak at a medical school about fibromyalgia, I would mainly like to discuss the seriousness of the illness. So many times, fibromyalgia is downplayed, even though it impacts every aspect of an individual’s life. I would urge medical students to look more into the illness and how it affects an individual’s ability to function on a daily basis. So many of us struggle with little understanding from professionals and it can often be difficult to find adequate medical care. I would highlight the importance of treating fibromyalgia as the serious illness that it is to increase the quality of life of those who live with it.
I would want to tell medical students my personal story of living with fibromyalgia and how it has limited my life and my ability to pursue many things. I would want students to realize how much the weather and temperatures greatly impact how I am able to function on a daily basis, and how I end up spending most of my time trying to figure out how to manage my symptoms. Telling medical students about the severity of my symptoms would make me feel as though I was being heard. I find that telling my story helps others to understand the condition better than any medical book ever could.
I would want medical students to know that when it is summer, I spend most of my time inside in the AC because heat causes my symptoms to flare up. I can’t go outside and enjoy the sunshine because the heat often ends up making me feel like I have the flu. I would also want medical students to know that when it is winter, the cold causes my body to ache as though it is being torn apart muscle by muscle. No matter the temperature, I am easily impacted by hot and cold temperatures, and this limits a lot that I can do with my life. I often feel like I am chasing my symptoms and anticipating circumstances that may make my symptoms worse.
But most of all I would want medical students to understand how fickle fibromyalgia is, and how small environmental changes can deeply impact how my symptoms react on a daily basis. I would want medical students to understand that there aren’t a lot of medical treatments available for those with fibromyalgia, and as someone with multiple mental illnesses, and as someone who is on various mental health medications, I am unable to take certain medications approved for fibromyalgia because of the interactions that would occur with the other medications that I am on. Most of the time I must manage my symptoms on my own using techniques such as using cooling towels in the summer, and heating pads in the winter, while also trying to use gentle movement and dietary changes along with herbal supplements to manage pain. I would also want to highlight how fatigue and brain fog are big parts of my illness and require me to pursue a lot of rest.
Living with fibromyalgia is not easy, and if I could talk to medical students, I would want to highlight the various aspects of the illness that severely limit what I am able to do with my life on a daily basis. I would want to highlight how severe this illness is, and how it impacts every aspect of my life. It is about time we take fibromyalgia seriously, and I hope that medical students can hear real-life stories from those living with the illness to create more empathy for those of us struggling on a daily basis.
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In March 2019, the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference was held at the University of Louisville and six remarkable Duke University seniors were chosen to present their work to their ACC peers.
During the 2019 ACC Meeting of the Minds, Qiang Zhang '19 presented a poster on "Music and Spirituality: The Psychological Impact of Music on Feelings of Spirituality and Connectedness "
Music is a staple of human culture, a powerful tool that has connected individuals across space and time. Within music psychology, the emotion of “spirituality” has gotten a particular amount of attention in recent years. However, there remains a lack of consensus on what spirituality entails, and although studies have sought to connect music and spirituality, these studies view spirituality primarily from a religious context and did not look at the intrinsic characteristics of music that evoked spirituality. To address these gaps, my thesis explores the effects of instrumental music on feelings of spirituality and connectivity in listeners. In particular, I seek to find the features of music that elicited strong reactions of spirituality in listeners, and additionally, study how this process is mediated by individual differences in personality, gender, spirituality, psychopathy, and empathy. To do so, I conducted a pilot study where I mapped 48 instrumental clips onto characteristics based on the 3 fundamental psychological dimensions of music- intensity, valence, and depth, found by Greenberg and colleagues, in order to locate each of the clips as a specific psychological “blueprint” point on a three-dimensional space. In the subsequent study, I determine how spiritual responses to music relate to the dimensions of each piece, and how individual differences moderate these effects. In essence, I hope to contribute to an unexplored area in music psychology literature and illuminate further directions through which to study music and spirituality. | <urn:uuid:cc64d9d8-1a88-46dd-bafa-441f23750826> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://undergraduateresearch.duke.edu/news/2019-acc-meeting-minds-qiang-zhang | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945838 | 362 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Kratom, a drug, has been in news because of the recent announcement by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The DEA announced that it is planning to put a ban on kratom. This has been taken into consideration because of the recent activities on drug abuse. However, most people and experts claim that kratom is a very essential painkiller for chronic pains. It is used in the medication of chronic pain. Kratom is currently legal in the United States and has proven results for killing the pain. However, DEA is in the process of banning it completely in the US. Here all the facts you should know about Kratom.
5 Facts About Kratom
Kratom is extracted from the leaves of Mytragyna Speciosa. It is used by the farmers to get an extra boost for working in the fields. However, this drug was banned in Thailand and Malaysia because of some harmful side effects. Besides proper medication, kratom has grown excessively popular in the western countries because of its proven features like an energy boost. This has led to the smuggling of this drug from the jungles of Thailand. Moreover, it is being legally used in drugs for killing chronic pains.
2. It is easily available
Kratom is used in various forms. It is crushed and used for smoking or as brewed beverages. Moreover, there are many coffee shops in a popular city like New York, where you can sit and enjoy the brewed Kratom drinks. Kratom is being sold at many bars and customers to use it because of its addictive nature. Since Kratom is currently legal in the US, it is easily available in Breweries. Additionally, Airtel very easily available at small stores and down and also online. The growing accessibility of this drug has raised concerns. This is why the drug enforcement administration has issued a draft for this drug.
3. It is similar to Opiates
The side effects of kratom are somewhat similar to that of opiates. It is categorised as a supplement in the United States, even after multiple instances of the FDA stated, that it has various downsides like vomiting and depressed lungs. The effect of using kratom for 5 to 10 minutes, can affect your body for the next five to seven hours. If taken in lower quantity, it gives you a feeling of boosted energy and increased social behaviour. People often start talking to strangers. Moreover, if taken in a significant quantity, it can cause sedation and reduce body pain.
4. Kratom is Addictive
According to DEA, kratom has an addictive nature and this is the main reason for its abuse. People who have taken this drug on a regular basis, cannot leave it even if they are forced. The body starts resisting if you are not taking the drug at the same time as earlier. However, the withdrawal effects and symptoms were seen only in 1 out of 10 people. Those who have already been treated with a substance disorder in the past, are recommended to stay away from kratom, because of its addictive nature.
5. Side Effects
Kratom is very harmful to health. Just like any other abusive drug, Kratom is being used for getting high. There how many side effects of using this drug regularly. Below are the proven side effects of Kratom.
- Nausea is a very common side effect of many drugs, including Kratom.
- Expecting and feeling of extra talkative is also a possible side effect.
- Additionally, dry mouth or dehydration can be the result of this drug abuse. Hence, rehydration therapy is very important.
- Loss of appetite and constipation is also counted as a side effect of Kratom
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Covid Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon warns of 'further waves' amid seven-week case spike
Nicola Sturgeon has warned of “further waves” of Covid-19 in the winter months amid a seven-week spike in cases.
While coronavirus restrictions have been eased in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon has urged Scots to take necessary precautions to prevent “serious illness” from the virus.
One in 15 people were estimated to have the virus in the week ending July 14.
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This is around 340,900 Scots – about 6.48 per cent of the population.
It is a slight increase on the estimated 334,000 people who had the virus in the week to July 7, with Scotland having the highest proportion of people infected of all UK nations.
Ms Sturgeon said it was difficult to look ahead at what may happen with the virus, but stressed “common sense” suggested the virus was not going to “suddenly disappear”.
Speaking at a medical centre in Parkhead, Glasgow, she added: “As we go into winter, we may well see further waves of Covid.
“It is a virus that is continuing to mutate and change and that’s causing real challenges.”
But Ms Sturgeon said taking measures for protection – such as receiving all doses of the coronavirus vaccine – would help Scots stay safe.
“The challenge in winter is always exacerbated by the other pressures that health services will cope with round about the winter period,” she said.
“This is something we’ve got to continue to take seriously.
“Life has returned more or less to normal, but with the virus still circulating it makes sense to take precautions and to protect yourself as much as possible.
“Crucially, make sure you have all doses of the vaccine. There will be an autumn booster programme for certain groups in the population, over-50s and people with particular conditions.
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By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent
The recent reunion of TV show Friends, and the return of its diverse mix of characters shows the range of different professions and personalities that can live together in a modern day flatshare.
New research from flatshare marketplace Weroom shines a spotlight on what makes the perfect flatshare. It reveals that 46 per cent of Londoners would like to live with people who work in different professional fields to them.
Why? Because Londoners believe a successful home environment makes the most of all its members’ skills, with 15 per cent preferring to live with a mix of professions so they can divide household responsibilities. If they had a choice, 45 per cent would like to live with someone ‘hands on’ who could do the DIY work around the house, while 26 per cent want to live with a legal professional to help manage rental contracts and dealings with landlords. A further 25 per cent value culinary ability and would prize living with a chef.
Of the huge array of professions, the research showed a favouritism to the medical profession – 20 per cent of Londoners would consider doctors, nurses and those in the medical profession to be the most appealing potential flatmates. Plumbers, teachers and lawyers are also popular choices. The research also found that 45 per cent of Londoners thought the ideal housemates would be those with skills and knowledge that can be shared.
The table below shows the top ten appealing professions for flatmates:
The diversity of characters in the Friends series – from Joey Tribbiani’s out-of-work actor and Monica Geller’s successful chef career, to aspiring musician Phoebe Buffay also highlights the vast personality differences that can exist between households.
Aline Bludau, aged 24 from London has been flatsharing for five years. She lives with a theatre worker, cleaner, marketer and actress. Living with a range of professionals, when asked about her flatshare experiences, she said: “I live with people that work in a variety of different professions but I have actually never chosen to live, or not live, with someone because of their job. When it comes down to it, someone’s profession is only really important if it negatively affects others – any arguments I may have had with a housemate have been due to personality and behaviours, not profession.”
From those surveyed, 50 per cent admitted to arguing with housemates on a weekly basis – but not because of profession. It showed that personal habits such as playing loud music late at night, being messy and not replacing communal items caused them frustration, not people’s jobs. Weroom’s research showed personality and characteristics, not professions are more important factors to ensure a happy home.
It shows that 61 per cent of Londoners argue about household cleaning and hygiene issues, 12 per cent bicker about housemates taking too long in the bathroom, 10 per cent hogging the TV, and 32 per cent of arguments caused by dirty dishes being left unwashed.
The table below shows the top ten most irritating behaviours:
Thomas Villeneuve, ceo of Weroom, commented: ‘‘At Weroom we know a thing or two about matching housemates together, so we were really interested to see that Londoners believe the perfect flatshare would consist of a doctor, plumber, IT technician and teacher. A flatshare like this could achieve great things on paper, but when it comes down to it, it would be the personal behaviours and traits of each person that would really make the home truly harmonious. I’m sure that if one member of the household had antisocial habits, their profession would not be relevant.
“As the cost of housing in the UK continues to spiral, we know that more and more people are turning to renting – and particularly house and flat sharing – as a long term housing solution. Weroom prides itself on meeting this demand for rental housing and in matching like-minded individuals together to create happy homes.” | <urn:uuid:fd9409d4-f804-406e-b997-1fb13e706714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/property/are-the-perfect-housemates-based-on-profession-or-behaviour-27293/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95663 | 838 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Software company founders face a range of paradoxes in scaling their company. One of them is thinking for the long term in product design. How should a founder design for the long term with a temporary material? It’s like asking an architect to build a classic landmark out of papier-mache. How is this possible?
An economics teacher of mine used to quote Keynes’s famous line, “in the long run we are all dead.” With sufficient time resolution, all products fail. Behaviors change, hierarchies evolve, cultures shift… This is not to say there aren’t constants that can be leaned on, but that the way these constants are used by individuals changes over time.
I visited our team in Saville a few years ago. The town is stunning. The architecture seems trapped in time and the walled gardens seem straight out of a Shakespearean play. Of particular interest is the Catedral de Sevilla (aka Cathedral of St Mary and the See or the Seville Cathedral) which towers across the street from the Puerta del Leon (the more modern entrance to the Royal Alcazar of Seville).
As the seat of power during Spain’s time of world dominance, Seville images the wealth of a bygone era. No buildings more represent this than the Seville Cathedral. Towering 138 feet above the street and covering 124K square feet, the Cathedral supplanted the Hagia Sophia as the largest cathedral in the world when completed in 1528.
The architects, Alonso Martinez et al, clearly had legacy in mind when building this behemoth. It is breathtaking in size, scale, and beauty. They were designing it for the long term. But for what function?
Cathedrals served several functions. In Christian practice, a cathedral is meant to hold and shelter a congregation for corporate worship. In political practice, however, the cathedral imaged political power and wealth. I some cases it served as a center of commerce for a region.
But despite these varied functions, the Seville Cathedral now serves as a tourist location. It no longer performs its designed purpose. A visitor might notice a pious observant in prayer or two, but the lion share of the visitors are there to behold what used to be; what was.
The rigidity of the design and the materials used, as well as the incredible cost, all serve as anchors to prevent the Seville Cathedral from morphing into what the culture around it needed. The Spanish economic might waned over time, the monarchy lost power, the church lost power, and the congregation dwindled. The culture shifted; the building stayed the same.
Thinking long term in design is mostly about flexibility. Software products are short lived creatures. When designed right, the human interface – the way the product enhances and stimulates human potential – should far outlive the digital manifestation of the interface. So, what is necessary for designing long term software solutions?
Principles of software design
Well-designed software should be as small as possible to achieve the proper human benefit. This can be expanded into the following design points:
- Small as possible
- Efficient with resources
- Collaborative / comprehensive (i.e., it works across all workflows)
- Value oriented
This list is esoteric and philosophical; and not as small as possible (ironic!).
Small as possible
Software cost is a function of size. Not only the initial build, but the ongoing maintenance. This is not a strict rule. It can cost more to build a highly efficient product, but in the longer term the efficient product will have less maintenance load than the larger product.
The maintenance liability tail isn’t the only reason to make software products as small as possible. It is a waste to build a product bigger than it needs to be. Furthermore, the qualifier “possible” suggests that it is built to the appropriate size, not larger. One benefit of this is it makes the psychological cost of walking away from the manifestation of the product easier.
Sunk cost fallacy is real. It is cognitive friction that costs energy to overcome. It isn’t easy. Smaller products are easier to drop and replace. And sometimes’ that is necessary. After all, the actual ‘product’ is the human interface, not the way it manifests on screen in this version.
Efficient with resources
Well-designed products are efficient with resources. Software products require and consume resources. From computing resources to energy to mindshare, magnifying human potential is resource intensive. Good products are efficient. They use the minimal amount of resources to achieve the desired result.
Here is a subset of the resources that a good product will use efficiently:
- Computing power
- Data storage
- User attention
- User clicks
- User’s memory
- User capacity for focus
There are more resources to add and more that will be added over time.
Good products are unique products. Uniqueness isn’t just a requirement for competitive advantage, but it is also a requirement for efficiency. Repetitive human interfaces serving the same culture is a waste of time and talent. Good products aren’t duplicative, they aren’t copycats, they are unique.
Good products are designed within context. The design recognizes the context of a culture: how it moves and operates. It meets the culture where it is with the added power of automation. This mix of new and old is delicate, hence the need for context.
Good design is inclusive. This isn’t about politics or ‘feel-good’ niceties. Inclusivity means that it is designed with the users. For further clarity, designing with the users doesn’t mean bouncing ideas off them or inviting them to sit next to your fiddle leaf fig tree and scrawl a screed on to a whiteboard.
Instead, inclusivity means the nuances of how people operate within a culture are considered and reflected. Software exists to magnify human output. This magnification requires buy-in from humans. If the product is not inclusive, it won’t get buy-in.
Collaborative and comprehensive
Good design is collaborative. This is tightly linked to inclusivity, but with a few distinct differences. Collaborative design means the product doesn’t just reflect one person’s ideas of how a culture operates, but that it reflects the culture at large. And the product works across workflows.
Cultures have many workflows, not just one. Collaborative products recognize the input processes and the output, post-product, processes, and work in synchrony with those processes. Good products collaborate across workflows so that the user doesn’t have to force a macro workflow.
Collaborative also means that the product operates well within the ecosystem of other solutions that serve the same culture. This is difficult. Often companies want to grow into other workflows instead of bloom in the workflow they own. This compulsion is not collaborative and results in tension and angst with the user. This tension kills buy-in and, hence, is not part of good design.
People adopt software because it makes an impact for them. This impact is value. In most business contexts, this impact can be quantified and promised. Good software products are value oriented. They recognize, track, report on, and deliver value.
In a value-oriented design process, the designer works with the understanding of how that value will impact the user, the company, and the ecosystem. The designer ensures that the value is clearly connected to the product and that the users can see, feel, and experience the value.
Good products are designed with a foundation that can be built upon. This design principle is in tension with the principle of “small as possible.” This tension means that a product should be built to be built upon, but not built upon unless necessary. Extensibility also refers to the product’s ability to stretch. In context, this means its ability to stretch into another workflow, but not at the expense of another participant in the ecosystem. This allows the user to stretch the use of the product to the point that another workflow starts. It ensures that there is coverage and comfort in the intersection of two workflows.
Long term design
Product spend is a primary area we see founders fail. The insecurities that propel them to greatness are short-circuited and bastardized by the rigid nature of product construction. The only antidote is viewing the real product as something greater than the ones and zeros on the page. The real product is the human interface; the way that automation can magnify human potential in the chosen workflow within the chosen culture. That is the real product. And when that product is manifested with the design principles here-in laid, it gets staying power and flexibility. That flexibility means it can influence the culture, flex with the culture, and find permanence despite being built on the sandy foundation of ever-changing technology platforms and frameworks.
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Degree requirements for psychology graduate programs in Wisconsin
A graduate degree in psychology usually requires you to have at least a Master’s degree in psychology, or have earned a bachelor’s degree with a major in psychology. If your undergraduate major is psychology, for all intents and purposes, you must have earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology before completing your graduate education.
Some graduate programs in psychology offer special degrees that are completely separate from those offered by universities. Special degrees may be offered by colleges or universities or could be part of a graduate program with the following options:
- Doctoral or professional degrees
- Graduate degrees from one or more schools of psychology (outside of the master’s degree offered by your University of Wisconsin-Madison program)
- Psychology research degree programs
Some doctoral and professional psychology programs also offer a Master’s in psychology. These degrees are entirely separate from the degree programs offered by the schools of psychology in which they are earned.
The graduate programs for psychology are usually the first degree programs in psychology students complete after they complete their first undergraduate degree programs. You may not receive a psychology graduate degree until after completing your first year of college. These graduate programs can take anywhere from three years to five or six years, so don’t be intimated by how long they seem.
Most programs in psychology require students to complete the core courses that set them apart. Courses such as psychology in a modern context, psychological decision making, psychology in health and behavior, and so on are common courses for psychology graduate degrees.
Because these courses often are in large numbers, you may want to plan time to take a few graduate courses from within your own major. For example, if you’re a visual arts major, you might enjoy taking some psychology courses that focus on visual design.
Wisconsin Psychology College Program Application Process
What is the Wisconsin Psychology College Program?
The Wisconsin Psychology College Program is a three year, full time residential graduate programs providing in-state students with advanced degree coursework, specialized internship training and professional clinical practice. The College also has a nonresidential program for students from other states.
The Wisconsin Psychology College Program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Psychology and has been approved by the Wisconsin Higher Education Licenses Division(WHEL) as a graduate school. In addition, the Wisconsin Psychology College Program has been approved by the New Jersey Board of Higher Education as an eligible post-secondary provider of graduate academic credit education.
The University is required to comply with the following requirements in our academic programs and in our graduate courses. If these requirements are not satisfied, we must request and seek permission from the Wisconsin State Student Affairs Commission to change or discontinue the programs.
Wisconsin Psychology College Applications:
The first step in applying to any graduate program is filling out the FAFSA form. That forms has some questions about your income and assets and may ask for your high school transcripts. The FAFSA and transcript information will be provided at the time of application.
The Wisconsin Psychology College Program is a requirement to graduate for all psychology students. The requirements for graduation are detailed on the Degree Completion and Accreditation webpage. Only psychology graduate students are given this option. Non-residents will continue completing a psychology degree after their program is completed.
The application for the Wisconsin Psychology College Program includes an online application for the Master’s program (online) and a printed application for the Doctorate program (print). The online applications should be submitted during the first week in October each year. The application deadline is March 1st of the previous year.
Wisconsin Psychology Doctoral Programs
Wisconsin psychology doctoral students are trained by UW-Extension in the study of psychology. From psychology to counseling, from child development to criminology, the graduate programs in psychology offer extensive training in both theories and applications of psychology.
The doctoral programs are grouped together under the umbrella of the Psychology Graduate Programs. The programs are in psychology studies and include masters’ programs and doctoral programs. The programs are offered online which is an important factor in the selection of programs offered on-line. All programs have a liberal arts base so they are all well rounded and well balanced in the academic training.
The psychology school of graduate study at the University of Wisconsin is highly regarded as a doctoral level program that offers exceptional training in the study of psychology. The school offers the doctoral degree in psychology, the Doctor of Philosophy in psychology, the Doctor of Physical Education, Specialization, and the Doctor of Education. These graduate programs give doctoral students the opportunity to explore and expand on theoretical and applied areas of psychology that range from psychology theory to applied psychology and clinical psychology.
Doctoral students who seek an academic psychology degree in the Wisconsin Psychology School of Study have the opportunity to explore many topics in the study of psychology and also the opportunity to expand and develop their own ideas and interests.
The psychology doctoral program is highly respected and successful. The program has a number of academic programs in several disciplines. Those from within Wisconsin who plan their education in the psychology graduate school have the opportunity to expand as their area of study grows or expands and have the opportunity to explore a number of theoretical areas of psychology that cover the entire range of issues from mental health to human behavior. | <urn:uuid:f26706f9-711e-437b-98d4-3460c19062af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://willsull.net/wisconsin-psychology-graduate-programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950644 | 1,075 | 1.820313 | 2 |
“Colours Do Not Mix”: segregated classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959.
Vahed, Goolam Hoosen Mohamed.
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This paper examines segregation in university education with special reference to the circumstances around which separate classes were introduced for Blacks in 1936 at the NUC and continued until 1959, some nine years after the institution achieved university status. It examines the roles of various individuals, most particularly Mabel Palmer (1876-1958) who, as organizer, was instrumental in persuading politicians, administrators, and academics to run segregated classes; and of E. G. Malherbe, who as Rector of the University of Natal from 1943-1965 defended them as the only practical alternative to a segregated university. | <urn:uuid:e0bfafad-6312-41eb-a2fb-94a0e14f50c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ukzn-dspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/8121 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930616 | 176 | 2.5625 | 3 |
GAP : Full form in Biology , its meaning and information is given below, so check it out some details on full form of the term GAP which is used in Biology.
The full form of GAP in biology is GTPase-activating proteins. It is also know as GTPase-accelerating proteins (GAPs).
GAPs are also known as RGS protein and this are very useful and plays an important role in controlling the activity of G protiens.
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Is There a Network Of Veterinarians for Pet Insurance Companies? When clients are thinking about getting pet insurance they often ask whether their vet or clinic is “in the network.” By this they mean that the vet is included in the group of care providers who work with insurance companies to provide and receive benefits.
In this crazy life full of stress and worries, everything we can do to rid ourselves of on more concern is worth the effort. We stress over money perhaps more than anything else. However, in times of duress, money is the last thing you should have to worry about. Every day we get emails from pet lovers who purchased pet insurance and have saved themselves the need to agonize over money when caring for an ill pet.
Are preexisting conditions covered under pet insurance? Preexisting conditions: those health problems that develop prior to seeking health insurance. Are they covered for pets? What happens if your pet has one? This is a common concern with an interesting solution. Bella, a 5-year-old Schnauzer, had been totally healthy until one week ago when her owner noticed that she was drinking a lot.
When our animals become ill, the price is high. We worry and wonder what we can do to help them and if they get better. Veterinarians know how hard it is on pet lovers to feel helpless when their animals don't seem to get better. We all work very hard to find solutions and treatments. However, sometimes all our best efforts are not enough.
Can I See a Specialist if I Have Pet Insurance? Most people know that pet insurance covers trips to a regular vet, but what about a specialist? These highly trained (and often expensive) doctors can treat unusual conditions but many owners fear their costs will not be covered by their insurance plan.
Pet Insurance is a growing way pet parents plan to care for their pet in case of an emergency. Just over a decade ago, there was one pet insurance company that predominated the United States. Now there are over 14 companies that offer pet insurance in North America to a growing number of interested pet owners.
Puppy or adult: when is the best time to buy pet insurance for your dog? Does it save money to do it later or is it best to start coverage as soon as possible? In a vet's opinion, the best time to get pet insurance for your dog is when you are able to afford it. Although it's good to have coverage at any age, the premiums are actually less if you start insurance when your dog is a puppy then if you start when he or she is an adult.
Understanding terms associated with any insurance can be confusing, including pet insurance. I'll fully admit that when I signed up for a property and casualty class, I had little to no clue what basic insurance terms meant. Concepts such as “deductible”, “co-pay” and “premium” went way over my head.
Colorado State University Veterinarian Offer Tips for Caring for Pet on a Budget During times of economic struggle, pet owners may be looking for ways to reduce the cost of caring for pets. But some measures that seem to reduce costs may end up being more expensive in the long term because of impacts on a pet's health.
Who are the Pet Insurance Companies that Insure Pets in Canada? A Vet's Review There are thirteen pet insurance companies that insure dogs and cats in North America. Three companies offer policies to both the United States and Canada: Petplan Trupanion Pethealth These companies offer pet insurance policies to Canada Only: PetsPlusUS Petsecure I hope this gives you more information on the Pet Insurance Companies that Insure Pets in Canada.
Today I'd like to share this story that I received from Sandy Kilian. It is a story filled with love and compassion…and it will touch your heart. It also contains a valuable lesson for all of us. Sandy Kilian wrote: “I have been receiving your emails for many months. I wish I had gotten them sooner. I ran across your site when my Black Mouth Cur, Zoe, became ill.
How Does Pet Insurance Work? Have you ever wondered “How does pet insurance work?” If you have been confused by pet insurance, you're not alone. There are at least 13 companies in North America which offer pet insurance and all differ slightly from one another. Plans vary within each company as well, with different levels of coverage, deductibles, and premiums.
Trying to figure out if pet insurance is right for you can be difficult. Here is the question…“Can you afford an unexpected thousand bucks expense?” Or even more? If not, and not many of us can, then you should consider pet insurance. Medical care for pets, including diagnostic tests and treatment options, is becoming increasingly more sophisticated.
Following Generation X, the “Millennials” (also known as Generation Y) represent approximately one-third of the US population. Those in this demographic have birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. Most Millennials are just beginning their careers, with the older Millennials in their early thirties.
Do Veterinarians Get An Incentive or Kickback for Selling or Promoting Pet Insurance? Do veterinarians make money by recommending vet insurance? Are they really looking out for your pet's best interests or are they just looking to make a quick buck? Today I want to address the question of vets and pet insurance kickbacks and incentives.
Jack Russell Terriers Made for Pet Insurance Some dogs seem to find ways to get into trouble that you could never even imagine. Of course, these are the most entertaining characters that ever grace our home. We love every moment of their antics. All the same, trouble-making dogs sometimes get themselves in over their heads.
Economic euthanasia is a term veterinarians use to describe the circumstance involving a pet getting put to sleep because the owner can't afford the care and treatment for the pet's medical condition. Doctor Primovic, editor in chief of , says “Economic euthanasia is very common and a frustrating part of being a veterinarian.
Pet Insurance for Cats - What is Your Financial Limit If Something Happens? Do you know what your financial limit is to save an ill cat? It is easy to say that no expense it too much, but what if the treatment is prohibitively expensive and there is no guarantee of recovery? Would you have $11,000 to spend on treatment?
Like our children, we give our cats our hearts, our time, and…our money. In fact, lots of money. In 2005, American pet parents spent $36.3 billion dollars on their furry friends. For many of us our cats are priceless, and we enjoy spoiling them with toys and treats; however, no one can pass up the opportunity to save some money.
What do you have lying around you house that might make a great toy? There may be things you already have that will work well as a new toy instead of spending money at the pet store. As you read the following list, please use caution. Any toy has the potential to become a risk if the dog is able to swallow, puncture, or chew off pieces of it. | <urn:uuid:f99a9ec4-4d5e-4b05-88c7-52670c1dfb74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rw.pets-howto.com/pet-insurance/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969496 | 1,492 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The architect’s palace in Szeged is larger and more imposingly executed, yet it is more modest in comparison with its counterpart in Subotica, failing to reach its outstanding unity of style and the elaboration of its details. Despite of this, it is a dominant and commanding looking building. At its construction, it rose above its environment, the trees did not cover its facade either, and from its current spectacle, the large wooden portals of the later closed down shops are missing. Its corner front offers the richest spectacle. The bay windows robustly formed and decorated with majolica ornaments expressively project out of the plane of the wall. Above them, we can find open balconies supported by knee-timbers and covered by wooden projecting roofs inspired by the Transylvanian architecture. Then come the Hungarian ochre ceramic ornaments, embellishing the pediments forming a corner turret. Added to the roof, a bastion like corner turret rises high. On the lateral facades, the spectacle is dominated by the folkish mosaic adornments shining in blue and gold in the pediments. Their variants are embodied in the embossed ceramic decorations shaping ornamental foliage or flowers which either frame windows or just fill in the smaller fields between the variably shaped windows. The smaller details – the lace like wrought iron balustrades, the plant holders on the window sills, and the wooden part on the projecting roofs of the balconies – also deserve our attention.
The architect designed and built it to be a private apartment building. Originally, its ground floor gave space for shops with vast portals, whose former appearance now is only represented by the entrance of the building.
Between 1911 and 1921, the Apollo Movie Theatre operated here. After the Second World War, it functioned as a dormitory; then from the 1970s on, it has accommodated the Ságvári Endre High School of the University of Szeged, and since 1986, it is the main building of the institution. In the building having been transformed into a school, some parts of the wrought iron balustrade of the staircase have been replaced; in the place of the shops on the ground floor, there are school rooms now. The attic spaces were converted into school rooms, and the chimneys were pulled down as well.
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A CSV file, which is short for a comma-separated values file, allows you to store vast amount of information in a file that can be opened with spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel, or Apple’s Numbers app just like other spreadsheet file types can be.
This is a great way to keep a backup of your Contacts information safe for whenever you have a catastrophic meltdown on your computer or iOS devices, and in this tutorial, we’ll show you how you can export your Contacts to either an Excel or a CSV file.
Exporting your contacts
You can actually do this whether you’re on a Mac, PC, or if you’re on an iOS device. This guide will show you both methods. Admittedly, exporting your contacts to Excel is much easier on your iPhone or iPad as it is a straightforward process. It is a bit more cumbersome to do from your computer, but fear not, our step-by-step tutorial will walk you through the entire process.
Making an Excel file or CSV file from contacts on your iPhone or iPad
For those of you who will be tackling this from your mobile device, whether it’s an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you can just use our app called Export Contact to make an Excel or CSV file for Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers instead.
To do this, follow these steps:
1) Download and install the app on your iOS device.
Note that if you only need to export your contacts to Excel, you can download the Contacts to Excel app, which will do the job just fine. However, if you need to export your contacts to CSV (and more file formats), then you will need the Export Contact app. Either way, both apps are virtually identical.
2) Launch the app, and when you’re asked to give the app access to your contacts, allow it.
3) Tap on the CSV or Excel file type. CSV will output a .csv file that can be opened with Excel. The Excel file type will output a .xlsx file that will also be compatible with Excel. For better versatility, I suggest selecting the Excel file format. Tap the Continue button, which will backup all your contacts.
4) Tap on Export and select the desired export source for the XLS file. We’ll be using Dropbox because it’s convenient for us. Select Save to Dropbox. Note that you can as easily select email, SMS, and more.
5) Tap on Choose a Folder to select the save location of your Excel file. Once you have selected a folder, tap Choose, then Save to save the file to the specific Dropbox folder.
6) Now on your Mac or PC, you can open your output source. In our case, it was Dropbox. The file should be sitting there and waiting for you to open:
7) Open the file to ensure that everything looks good. It can be opened with either Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers.
And that’s all there is to it! All of your contacts should show up in this XLS file and they will be organized by name.
Making a CSV file from the contacts in your iCloud account
The most convenient way to do this from a Mac or PC is from iCloud.com, which you can access from any device you want. You will follow these steps to make it happen.
1) Head over to iCloud.com in your preferred web browser and log in with your credentials.
2) Now click on the Contacts app from the list of provided services.
3) Next, wait for your contacts to load, and then click on the Settings cog at the bottom left of the webpage.
4) From the list, click on the Select All option to make sure you have all of your contacts selected before proceeding to the next step.
5) Once selected, click on the Settings cog once again, and this time click on the Export vCard… option.
6) A vCard file will now be downloaded to your computer’s Download’s folder.
7) Open your favorite web browser once again, and visit the following URL:
8) Click on the Choose File button and select the vCard file you downloaded earlier. Then, configure the following options as such:
- Format: choose CSV, choose Comma, enable Add Header Line
- Encoding: choose Unicode (UTF-8)
- Filter: don’t change anything
- Modifications: don’t change anything
Once configured, click on the Convert button.
9) A CSV file will now be downloaded to your computer’s Downloads folder:
10) Test the file by opening it in Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers. Everything should be sorted in an organized manner.
And you’re done! Your contacts will be organized by name and their information will be displayed in this spreadsheet.
Now that you have a CSV or XLS file backed up, you should really consider putting it somewhere safe, such as on a backup hard drive or flash drive. This will ensure that whenever you lose your iOS device, Mac, or other Apple device, you will always have a backup and can re-add contacts if necessary.
Although iCloud works great for keeping your contacts in sync across all of your devices, there are times when iCloud sees downtime and may not work properly, so having your own spreadsheet file is a great way to ensure you always have an offline list of your contacts and their information and makes re-adding it in the future a breeze.
- Transferring contacts from one iOS device to another
- Removing unwanted email addresses from the Mac’s Mail app
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So you have made the decision; you do not want to deal with the hassle of a genuine Christmas tree.
There are plenty of factors why you should have the move to artificial:
- Blaze threat. Actual trees often dry in a short time should you do not maintain irrigating the basic. When they dried out, they can be then quite flammable. You can find countless fires annually close to the United States that are generated by actual Christmas trees.
- You can utilize the identical tree again and again. As an alternative to spending the cash over a real tree each year why not buy an artificial tree and then use it every single year? For me, it is a no-brainer.
OK, so you have purchased that beautiful new Artificial Christmas Trees. What’s the initial thing you are doing? My guidance is going to be very careful launching the box, and be certain to lay down out every person item. You want to make certain that everything is in the package; there is nothing at all worse than attempting to place an entire tree jointly, along with an item is absent. Make sure to be prepared, and become quite delicate in utilizing the items out from the box, because they can easily be damaged.
Also, remember that most trees carry a 3-5 year warranty, but you have to make sure to actually fill out the signing up! That may be typically very easily done online, however you can mail it in, should you prefer. I might recommend creating your tree over a table that is a comfy level. It is very difficult to continue to be curved for an extended period of time when you build a tree. You could too be comfy! Also, it is much simpler to condition the divisions should they be at midsection levels. You would not get exhausted too rapidly, and you will be capable of set far more vitality into constructing the tree.
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Arya Vidyapeeth College library was started in 1958-in the year of establishment of the college. In the beginning it had very few books. Gradually, number of collection as well as services have been improved. Now, it has a collection of over 55,000 (Fifty Five Thousand) copies of text and reference books covering a wide range of subjects. Besides useful journals, magazines and newspapers are subscribed regularly. The institution is in the process of acquiring new online research journals to suffice the academic needs of the teachers and students. In the reading room, attached to the library, text books, reference books, journals, magazines and newspapers can be consulted. Besides, every department is having a Departmental Library where useful reference books are available for consultation. To increase reading habits among the users the library committee has introduced the "Best Library User" award which are distributed on the occasion of Librarians Day. Students can surf computer to check the availability of books they need personally. The college library is fully computerised with the help of ‘KOHA open-source software’. Moreover, internet facilities have been installed for research and advanced studies work. The college also have an institutional repository. A digital xerox facility is also available for the students. The College has access to many journals online and is also connected to N-LIST library facilities supported by Govt. of India. The library also takes feedback regarding library services from its users regularly. | <urn:uuid:0d3d10b6-4928-4118-862f-bb5a9ed7df20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://avcollege-opac.kohacloud.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971854 | 295 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Training course & study visit on “Sustainable Energy Policy” – Latvia and Lithuania
The objective of this combined workshop/study tour was to contribute to the development of integrated energy policy that develops renewable energy sources (RES), improves energy efficiency (EE) and brings economic benefits to the PCs.
This workshop improved the capacity of managers to understand the changes needed to improve energy policy, transferred concrete knowledge and improved relations between PCs and their counterparts in the EU.
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Bladder cancer most frequently begins within the cells (urothelial cells) that line the within of your bladder — the hollow, muscular organ in your lower abdomen that stores excreta.
Although it's most common in the bladder, this same type of cancer can occur in other parts of the urinary tract drainage system. Bladder cancer happens once abnormal cells develop in the bladder. They can be benign or malignant.
Blood cancer as known Leukemia is cancer of the body's blood-forming tissues, including the bone marrow and the lymphatic system. Leukemia usually involves the white blood cells.
Your white blood cells are potent infection fighters — they commonly grow and divide in an orderly means, as your body wants them.
But in human with leukaemia, the bone marrow produces abnormal white blood cells, that do not perform properly.
A tumour could be a mass or growth of abnormal cells in your brain. Many different types of brain tumors exist.
Some brain tumors are noncancerous (benign), cancerous (malignant). Brain tumors will begin in your brain (primary brain tumors), or willcer can begin in different elements of your body and unfold to your brain (secondary, or metastatic, brain tumors).
How quickly a tumour grows will vary greatly. The growth rate also as location of a tumour determines however it'll have an effect on the perform of your system.
Breast cancer is cancer the cells of the breasts. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States.. A breast lump or mass is just one of the possible signs of breast cancer in men or women.
Breast will cancer cause many extra changes to the skin on and round the breast. A sharp pain in breast, possibly with many tenderness, may have you wondering if it could be something serious.
A breast lump is commonly the primary issue that girls and even men notice that spurs a visit to their doctor.
Cancer pain may be a common complication of cancer diseases. Because of the chronic and progressive nature of the sickness, cancer pain may be a common reason for chronic pain.
Cancer pain results from tissue harm – either because of the sickness itself, or because of treatment (chemotherapy, radiotherapy).
The principles of management of cancer pain include:
Cancer pain may have many causes. Cancer pain could also be sensitive (affecting tissue) or neuropathic (affecting the nerves).
A tumor might cause pain by pressing on the membrane around associate degree organ. A metastasis within the bones can also cause pain.
Cancer patients expertise several normal aches and pains, like back pain and headaches, that aren't to try and do with their condition. Initial pain can also induce muscle cramps, or being in unhealthy positions and end in stress pain.
Cervical cancer could be a kind of cancer that happens within the cells of the cervix — the lower a part of the uterus that connects to the vagina.
Various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection, play a task in inflicting most cervical cancer.
When exposed to HPV, a woman's system generally prevents the virus from doing hurt. In a little group of girls, however, the virus survives for years, contributory to the method that causes some cells on the surface of the cervix to become cancer cells.
You can scale back your risk of developing cervical cancer by having screening tests and receiving a vaccinum that protects against HPV infection.
Childhood leukemia also affects teens. It is the most common type of cancer in children under the age of 15, Leukemia affects the blood cells. It causes white blood cells to develop in a person's bone marrow.
These then travel through the blood and suppress the production of healthy blood cells.A designation of cancer of the blood may be frightening, however survival rates still improve.
Colon cancer is cancer of the large internal organ (colon), that is that the final a part of your digestive tube.
Most cases of colon cancer begin as little, noncancerous (benign) clumps of cells referred to as adenomatous polyps. Over time some of these polyps can become colon cancers.
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The process of implementing Responsive Classroom at a schoolwide level is a multiyear, intentional sequence of coursework, workshops, application, reflection, and refinement involving educators and school staff. School leaders focus on creating a shared vision, ensuring that the conditions for change exist, and fostering the systemic implementation in both the schoolwide student community and the adult community.
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Key to launching Responsive Classroom as a schoolwide approach is engaging educators and school staff in understanding the goals of the approach and how Responsive Classroom aligns with the vision and goals for the school. Leaders use the staff meeting plan to engage school staff in a review of the components of Responsive Classroom as it aligns with current goals and needs of the school. A staff meeting lesson plan, PowerPoint presentation, and supporting resources are included. | <urn:uuid:1558a4d3-59a4-475c-bd5c-dbc6612ea39f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/schoolwide-responsive-classroom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951182 | 490 | 2.484375 | 2 |
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Workplace discrimination concerning race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and religion violates state and federal laws. Unfortunately, it is still extremely common. For victims, such discrimination can be devastating financially and emotionally. It can also be extremely difficult for victims to know where to turn for help.
If you are a victim of workplace discrimination, Brenes Law Group, P.C., will fight for you. Whether it concerns a large or small business, our attorneys have the knowledge and access to resources to take employment discrimination on. We litigate against employers who allow discriminatory conduct to take place and fight for justice and compensation for your injuries.
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Discrimination can involve a wide range of activities. In the workplace, it can impact a hiring, firing, treatment at the workplace, wages and compensation, promotions and workplace morale. Despite laws prohibiting such behavior, businesses often have the ability to retaliate against workers who voice concerns about discrimination. Workers also are not always familiar with the laws in place meant to protect them.
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Even Japan’s infamous mafia groups are helping out with the relief efforts and showing a strain of civic duty. Jake Adelstein reports on why the police don’t want you to know about it. For more coverage of Japan’s crisis.
The worst of times sometimes brings out the best in people, even in Japan’s “losers” a.k.a. the Japanese mafia, the yakuza.
Hours after the first shock waves hit, two of the largest crime groups went into action, opening their offices to those stranded in Tokyo, and shipping food, water, and blankets to the devastated areas in two-ton trucks and whatever vehicles they could get moving.
The day after the earthquake the Inagawa-kai (the third largest organized crime group in Japan which was founded in 1948) sent twenty-five four-ton trucks filled with paper diapers, instant ramen, batteries, flashlights, drinks, and the essentials of daily life to the Tohoku region.
An executive in Sumiyoshi-kai, the second-largest crime group, even offered refuge to members of the foreign community—something unheard of in a still slightly xenophobic nation, especially amongst the right-wing yakuza.
The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime group, under the leadership of Tadashi Irie, has also opened its offices across the country to the public and been sending truckloads of supplies, but very quietly and without any fanfare.
The Inagawa-kai has been the most active because it has strong roots in the areas hit. It has several "blocks" or regional groups. Between midnight on March 12th and the early morning of March 13th, the Inagawa-kai Tokyo block carried 50 tons of supplies to Hitachinaka City Hall (Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture) and dropped them off, careful not to mention their yakuza affiliation so that the donations weren't rejected. This was the beginning of their humanitarian efforts. Supplies included cup ramen, bean sprouts, paper diapers, tea and drinking water. The drive from Tokyo took them twelve hours. They went through back roads to get there. The Kanagawa Block of the Inagawa-kai, has sent 70 trucks to the Ibaraki and Fukushima areas to drop off supplies in areas with high radiations levels. They didn't keep track of how many tons of supplies they moved. The Inagawa-kai as a whole has moved over 100 tons of supplies to the Tohoku region. They have been going into radiated areas without any protection or potassium iodide.
The Yamaguchi-gumi member I spoke with said simply, "Please don't say any more than we are doing our best to help. Right now, no one wants to be associated with us and we'd hate to have our donations rejected out of hand."
To those not familiar with the yakuza, it may come as a shock to hear of their philanthropy, but this is not the first time that they have displayed a humanitarian impulse. In 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, the Yamaguchi-gumi was one of the most responsive forces on the ground, quickly getting supplies to the affected areas and distributing them to the local people. Admittedly, much of those supplies were paid with by money from years of shaking down the people in the area, and they were certainly not unaware of the public relations factor—but no one can deny that they were helpful when people needed aid—as they are this time as well.
It may seem puzzling that the yakuza, which are organized crime groups, deriving their principal revenue streams from illegal activities, such as collecting protection money, blackmail, extortion, and fraud would have any civic nature at all. However, in Japan since the post-war period they have always played a role in keeping the peace. According to Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Underworld and Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes, the US government even bought the services of one infamous yakuza fixer, Yoshio Kodama, to keep Japan from going communist and maintain order. Kodama would later put up the funding to create the Liberal Democrat Party of Japan that ruled the country for over fifty years. When President Obama visited Japan last year, the police contacted the heads of all Tokyo yakuza groups and asked them to behave themselves and make sure there were no problems.
But let’s be clear, the yakuza are criminals, albeit with self-imposed restraints, and in their way may actually keep street crime (muggings, purse-snatching, theft) down. Many Japanese still admire or tolerate them. In fact, a Nara Police Prefectural police study found that amongst adults under 40, one in ten felt that the yakuza should be allowed to exist or were “a necessary evil.”
There is an unwritten agreement amongst the police and the yakuza groups that is acceptable for them to perform volunteer activities during a crisis but not to seek publicity for it. Before the crisis the police were cracking down severely on the yakuza and any activity placing them in a heroic light might make the police look foolish. So they have been very quietly doing their part. It is not that the yakuza are not PR savvy, as is evidenced by their careful control and limited appearances in six fan magazines (three monthly, three weekly) that write of their exploits; it is that right now they care more about getting the job done than getting credit for it. As one members said, “There are no yakuza or katagi (ordinary citizens) or gaijin (foreigners) in Japan right now. We are all Japanese. We all need to help each other.”
A bit of background: Japan has 80,000 members belonging to these criminal organizations, which the police label shiteiboryokudan or literally “designated violent groups”; membership is not illegal although the police regulate their activities, much the way the SEC regulates Goldman Sachs. Their income is largely derived from protection money, security services, financial fraud, stock manipulations, gambling, blackmail, prostitution, and loan sharking. They call themselves “yakuza.” The word comes from a losing hand in traditional Japanese gambling: 8 (ya) 9 (ku) 3(za) which adds up to 20, and is a useless hand. Thus to be a yakuza is to be “a loser.” It’s a self-effacing term. They yakuza don’t call themselves “violent groups.” They exist out in the open; they have offices, business cards, fan magazines. The three major groups, the
Yamaguchi-gumi (40,000 members), the Sumiyoshi-kai (12,000) and the Inagawa-kai (10,000) all insist they are chivalrous groups, like the Rotary Club, that they are ninkyo-dantai.
Ninkyo(do), according to yakuza historical scholars is a philosophy that values humanity, justice, and duty and that forbids one from watching others suffer or be troubled without doing anything about it. Believers of “the way” are expected to put their own lives on the line and sacrifice themselves to help the weak and the troubled. The yakuza often simplify it as “to help the weak and fight the strong,” in theory. In practice, the film director Itami Juzo, who was attacked by members of the Yamaguchi-gumi Goto-gumi because of his films depicting them harshly, said “the yakuza are all about exploiting the weak and disadvantaged in society, and run away from anyone strong enough to stand up to them and their exploitive extortion.” He was primarily correct, I think. However, sometimes, like today in Japan, they live up to their original values.
Of course, most yakuza are just tribal sociopaths who merely pay lip service to the words. But in times like this every helping hand is welcome, and maybe, maybe for a few weeks, both the police and the yakuza can declare a peace treaty and work together to save lives and ensure the safety of the people of Japan. To some extent, the police have even given their tacit support to the yakuza aid efforts. That’s the spirit of ninkyodo. It’s also the spirit of many of the Japanese people. It is why I have no doubts that Japan will weather this crisis and come back stronger than ever.
Naoya Kaneko, the deceased Sumiyoshi-kai boss who was a friend and a source, once said, “In times of crisis, you learn the measure of a man.” To understand the real meaning of that you have to understand how the generally male-dominated and sexist yakuza define “a man.” The core of that is giri, a word that can be translated many different ways but which I interpret to mean: reciprocity. Today, the Japanese people and even the yakuza are measuring up very well to that standard of behavior.
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Many of my pre-algebra kids continually seek context, so I thought I’d head them off at the pass by introducing graphing systems of equations as an exploratory activity using a couple of word problems. Here’s one of them:
We’ve been graphing linear equations for a while so I purposefully added the “How could graphing each equation help you?” question to guide their thinking.
I came to learn that some students would rather not have the context and just be given the systems to graph–it’s a lot easier. “I hate word problems,” said several students.
That’s my fault. I need to do a better job of applying these skills in context. After we talked about context it was time for some graphing practice. As I checked their work I was reminded that a few haven’t improved their “number sense” when it comes to graphing. I wish I had snapped a photo of one student’s work, but I’ve recreated it below.
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In our lives we need to make a lot of decisions, most of them are based on our personalities, moods, strengths and weaknesses. For example, when we decide what to eat today, we will make decision based on our mood at that moment.
In order to make the right calls, we should learn how to know ourselves better.
Some people know themselves very well. They know what they like and dislike. The HR manager, Peggy, of my company is one of those people. She really knows what she likes and what she dislike.
For example, she loves outdoor activities, so she always goes out with her friends, enjoys the nature, takes a lot of photos of hiking, wakeboarding, etc and shares those photos to others.
Besides, she can always decide what to eat every day, instead of thinking for a long time but still couldn’t pick a restaurant.
If we are like Peggy, then congratulation and I think we can just see this blog post as reference. If we don’t, then what I am going to say might be a game changer to us.
I am going to show you how to understand more about yourself, so that when you need to make any decisions based on your personalities, strengths and weaknesses, you can make better ones.
We Are Making Decisions Every Seconds
What exact decisions are we talking about here? For example, imagine we were about to finish University, we needed to decide what kind of work we were going to pick.
Most of the people would pick the job based on the degree they got. For example, if we studied Accounting, we might want to start our career in Accounting Field.
However, some of the people just wanted to try something different from the degree they completed, but they might not be able to pick an appropriate one because they really didn’t know themselves very well even after living for 20+ years in this society.
This is one of the big decisions we will make in our lives. In fact, we are making decision every seconds. If we don’t know ourselves just like them, what should we do?
1. Make Our Own Schedule
Most of the time we think we don’t understand ourselves, but we actually do subconsciously. What we always do in our daily lives reflect what kind of people we are.
For example, David has a relatively standardized life. Every day, he always spend an hour on reading books, another hour on working out, another hour on watching sport channels, etc.
Based on his regular life, if he needs to look for jobs, I would recommend him to choose some jobs with regular job duties.
For example, Amanda doesn’t like to plan. She always follows her heart and does whatever she wants based on the mood at that particular moment. If she feels blue, she might just want to lie on the bed and do nothing; if she feels excited, she might buy a flight ticket and go to a short trip on her own immediately.
Based on her free style life, I would recommend her to run her own business if she is struggling on whether she should be entrepreneur or she should just work in a company. Obviously, the former can bring her more freedom.
Our lives are structured based on what we really are. If we are boring people, our lives will be kind of boring, which means we might be able to do some repeated work. If we are born-writer, our lives will be full of books and blogs-writing, which means we might go down to the path where we can do something related to words.
If we can keep our own schedule (eg, using Google calendars, handwritten calendars, etc), we can trace back our lives and understand more about ourselves.
2. What We Love? and What We Hate?
There is simple way to make decision – Just do something we love.
Although it is not 100% true, but most of the time (>80%), we will make good decisions if we do what we love.
For example, if we like to eat, we probably like delicious food and cooking., and you also have some talent to distinguish tasty food from disgusting food (eg, good tongue). It is obvious that you might be good at cooking, or you should even become a chef.
For example, if we are really good at computer games (not just always play it but we can also enter the top 100 list of the game), we should consider to join a e-sports professional gaming team, or join gaming company as one of the game developers.
In other words, if we love something, we tend to achieve success at that area eventually. Of course I have reason to say that “only 80% of the time we will make good decision” – sometimes we need to do something we hate to be successful, because something we hate might be something useful to us at the same time.
For example, Peter hates to work out in gym because it is too hard to him. However, because of this reason, he should go to gym so that he can overcome this difficulty and raise his life to another level.
3. Find Out Our ONE WORD
What is ONE WORD? Here Evan explains this concept to us.
Most of the time we don’t make right decision because we don’t know our ONE WORD…yet. We should have created a ONE WORD for ourselves when we are growing. All we need to do is to consolidate our mind to find this ONE WORD.
My ONE WORD is learning because I like to learn. Therefore, whenever there is something good for learning I should do it, which means doing it will be a good decision for me.
For example, Charles’ ONE WORD is money. He believes money is the king and he wants to earn A LOT of money. As a result, when he wants to make a career-related decision, he only need to consider what he does will bring him the maximum amount of money.
For example, Angela’s ONE WORD is family. Family is everything in her life and she will never betray her family. As a result, when she needs to decide where to go with her family, she can consider some places that she can spend most of the time with her family. (eg, some countries with theme park so that she can play with her family?)
ONE WORD is the summary of our lives, our personalities, our everything. It won’t be necessary to be a single word – we can make it a short sentence. If just shows us the way of lives we choose to have.
4. Use our true friends
Sometimes we might lie to ourselves. For example, we might lie to ourselves that we have no time to do exercises because we are too busy. However, the truth might be because we are too lazy.
We might reject some job offers, thinking that we cannot learn new things from it, or we think we are not suitable for it. However, deep down we know that it is because we simply want to earn more money from other opportunities.
However, most of the time our true friends can see all these. Not normal friends but true friends.
They might not know ourselves as much as we do, but they are always looking at us, subconsciously taking notes of what kind of words we tend to use, what kind of food we tend to order, what type of boys and girls we are paying attention to.
They are not stalkers, but they simply want to know more about us so as to keep the friendship.
That is why when we need some advice for making any decision, if we don’t mind to ask for help, ask our true friends. They know how to put themselves into our shoes and give us some useful advice.
5. Start Our Own Blog / Vlog
We can use writing to sharpen our thought and tidy up our ideas. Let’s see what Tim Ferriss said:
For me, starting my own blog is the most effective way of organizing my thought. I am not trying to win any prizes or to write some educational articles, but I am just using this blog to record my life.
Every time when I read my old articles I know more about my thought back then. I can also get back some of the ideas that I might totally forget already and might be useful to me now.
Most of the time we don’t understand ourselves because we have too much thought. Just recall when we were studying in colleague, when we learnt a new knowledge, we learnt it piece by piece until we sit for the exam.
We thought we might be OK in the exam but it turned out not. We thought that it might be because we don’t understand that subject well, but the truth is that we just haven’t organized the knowledge that we learnt into a big picture yet.
Blog serves the same function here. It helps us to consolidate our experiences, ideas, insight, feelings, personalities, etc, into a one big picture. When our readers read our blogs, they can know what kind of person we are.
When WE read our own blogs repeatedly, WE can understand ourselves more.
If we don’t think we are a writer, we may try vlog. I think as long as we find a way to gather our ideas and thoughts, it will be OK.
For those who are still concerned about the writing skills or presentation skills, I would only give out one advice.
Don’t Afraid of Making Decisions
This is so far the longest English blog posts in this blog. Before I wrote this I was concerned if it is the right call to do it. “People might not have time to read?”, “People might see more mistakes from my writing if it’s too long?”
Eventually I decided to write this long post simply because (based on the above ways)
- my one word is learning. I know this long blog post can deliver this message to others
- I like sharing my ideas to others, no matter it’s good or bad.
- I want to gather more of my ideas into this blog, so that some days in the future I might get some new insight from it.
There is no point of being afraid of making decision and eventually do nothing. Most of the time, we can only see if the decision is good or bad AFTER we make that decision. Therefore, just do it.
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This article was published originally on 12 May in the PLA Daily
Since ancient times, those who won people’s minds won all under heaven. Now, the main battleground to contend for people’s minds has shifted towards the Internet.
Mao Zedong said: “Whenever you want to overthrow a regime, you must first create public opinion, you must first do ideological work. This is the case with the revolutionary class, it is also the case with the counterrevolutionary class.” The collapse of a regime often begins in the ideological area, the loss of the ideological area is the most dangerous loss. If a military defence line is not stable, it will break down after one blow, if the ideological defence line is not stable, it will fall of its own accord, even without a blow, “political upheaval and regime change might happen in a single night”.
The online ideological struggle may no have gunfire and smoke, but it is full of “the blood and gore of civilizations”, it essentially is an opposition between two kinds of systems and two kinds of value views, and is a life-and-death contest between the enemy and ourselves. Foreign forces use this convenient tool of the Internet to build “value traps”, implement a “cultural cold war”, and foster “a fifth column”, befouling leaders, vilifying heroes, mocking the system and attacks against the army may be said to have reached a state of unbridled brazenness, making the Internet into “concession” to peddle Western ideology. The former director of the Central Documentary Research Centre Pang Xianzhi hit the nail on the head when he pointed out that: “whoever talks about Marxism or talks about revolutionary traditions is said to be ‘Leftist’, and is not allowed to hold their heads high. Even the people’s democratic dictatorship is made into a ‘Leftist’ thing by some people. Whoever criticizes mistaken words, is crowned with a hat of “Cultural Revolutionary Mass Criticism”, and attacked.”
What is regrettable and distressing is that, in the face of enemies “massing great armies” and launching savage attacks, some Party members and cadres “love to stroke their own feathers”, and act as “enlightened gentlemen”, they do not dare to stand up and fight with their banners flying clearly; there are also some people’s whose backsides aren’t sitting straight, they “eat the Communist Party’s rice, and then smash the Communist Party’s pot”, they rashly criticize Party media for “hitting people with a big ideological stick”. In reality, however, some Western countries are wielding the big ideological stick, and don’t even try and cover this up a little bit; in carrying out “invisible propaganda”, they are more energetic, more adept and less concerned about means than anyone else. Western anti-China forces deliberately provoke ideological conflict, they want to muddy the water, make us confuse our own position, and bind our own hands and feet, lose the online battlefield, lose discourse power and lose people’s hearts.
A sober analysis of the phenomenon of “slagging off China” and the “black-bellied army”, shows they are absolutely not purely played up by commerce, they are absolutely not purely emotional rants, they are absolutely not pure accumulations of contradictions, but they are planned and driven by “black hands” behind the scenes. A trick they often use is first to pick up a “magnifying class” to pick out splinters, and infinitely magnify negative matters, and then pick up an “oil drum” to add fuel to the flames, resulting in the detonation of public opinion, and so the tearing apart of Chinese cultural traditions, the tearing apart of social consensus, the tearing apart of the relationship between the Party and the masses, and between the Army and the people, in a bid to “overthrow China” through the Internet. Countless facts demonstrate that using colour revolutions to control the fate of other countries and overthrow other countries’ regimes, has become the primary method of these Western countries, because there is nothing more cheap, more concealed and more effective than that.
“To destroy someone’s polity, you must first upset their military. To upset their military, you must first sow doubt in their minds.” On this battlefield of the Internet, Western hostile forces are not only contending with us for the people’s hearts, they are also contending for soldiers’ hearts, they are making the military into a focus point of westernization and separation, vainly attempting to replace “red genes” with “political change genes”, to let the army change its nature and its colour, and become separated from the Party’s leadership. Think carefully, in these countries dragged downstream by “colour revolutions”, there were troops who, at the moment of calamity, were bogged down in an awkward situation of “not being able to deploy their strength”? As an armed organization to implement the political tasks of the Party, our Army must both firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests on the tangible traditional battlefield, and must firmly defend ideological security and political security on the intangible, online battlefield.
It is especially necessary to soberly consider that some Western military powers have brought online struggle into their national strategies and military strategies, and have committed to forge new kinds of online fighting forces. From the first use of strategic psychological warfare in the 2003 Iraq war to the establishment of “special media forces” in 2006, and the emergence of “network-centric warfare” in 2007, the US Army has engaged in several waves of network warfare theory renewal and tests in actual combat. In January of this year, the UK army decided to establish a “77th Brigade” of 1500 people, to “use social media to engage in psychological warfare. On 2 February, “Le Monde” in France reported that in the face of the “terrible influence” of “Muslim Countries” against the West, the French Army had established an online anti-terrorism body. On 23 April, the newly appointed US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter announced the Department of Defence’s new network operations strategy report, which for the first time made deterrence into a key component of online strategy.
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Choosing drinks, juices, and other liquids to consume on a low-acid diet can be challenging as most fruit juices are acidic. It can also be hard for coffee lovers to find a type of milk that doesn’t aggravate their acid reflux and GERD symptoms but still tastes great.
These days, there are many milk types available in stores, so you’re bound to find one that works for you and isn’t acidic. Let’s take a look at coconut milk; is it acidic?
Is coconut milk acidic?
Coconut milk can be both acidic and alkaline, depending on the preparation method. When coconut milk is made with fresh coconuts, it’s alkaline-forming, but the versions made with dried coconuts are acid-forming. Because of that, if you suffer from acid reflux or GERD, it’s important to check the ingredient list before buying coconut milk.
On the bright side, coconut milk is rich in many nutrients and minerals, so it helps you maintain a healthy, balanced diet. Some of these nutrients also help protect your stomach lining from inflammation, which reduces the risk of severe acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
What is the pH level of coconut milk?
Coconut milk has a pH level ranging between 6.10-7.00. If the milk is pasteurized, it has a slightly lower pH level and may be more acidic. Most coconut milk brands these days are made with fresh coconuts, though.
Because of that, they have alkaline-forming properties, so they can help you with soothing your acid reflux or GERD symptoms. In addition, coconut milk is rich in vitamins and minerals that help protect your digestive system from damage and inflammation, so it’s a great addition to any diet.
Another crucial thing to remember when buying coconut milk is that certain additives can lower its pH level and increase acidity.
Because of that, the best choice might be canned coconut milk, as the additives used don’t acidify the milk. You can also choose to make your own coconut milk, which will ensure it’s not pasteurized, consequently retaining all of its alkaline-forming properties.
By making your own coconut milk, you’ll also be able to control the ingredients, which is beneficial for tracking how many nutrients you’re taking in.
Is coconut milk healthy?
Coconut milk is not only very rich in ingredients but also calories. In fact, a half-cup serving of coconut milk contains around 222 calories, most of which come from fat.
While this might seem unhealthy, coconuts contain good fats that don’t clog up your arteries, so they don’t pose a threat to your cardiovascular system. It still does contain fats, so make sure not to consume too much as it may lead to weight gain, which has been proven to worsen acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
Coconut milk is also a wonderful source of iron. It contains nearly half your daily recommended need, and it’s also rich in compounds that help you absorb this mineral.
Iron is essential for growth and development, and it’s also used to make hemoglobin, which is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen around your body.
It’s also necessary for the production of hormones that help regulate all bodily processes. A lack of this mineral may also lead to anemia, so it’s essential to take in enough iron, and drinking coconut milk is a good way to do it.
Another mineral that this type of milk is high in is magnesium. In fact, just half a cup provides you with around 26% of your daily recommended need for this mineral.
Regularly consuming too little magnesium can lead to the development of various health conditions, including heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and osteoporosis. It’s also a mineral that’s easily flushed out of your body, so you should include magnesium-rich foods in every meal you consume.
Drinking coconut milk can also help reduce inflammation, which is beneficial for people struggling with acid reflux. A recent study indicates that even just half a cup of coconut milk (or coconut extract) can prevent inflammation and irritation in your digestive system.
Decreased inflammation, in turn, helps prevent more severe symptoms of acid reflux by soothing your esophagus and protecting your stomach lining. This makes coconut milk a good drink choice for people with acid reflux or GERD.
Can you drink coconut milk on acid reflux?
Most coconut milk brands use fresh coconut to make the finished product, which means that it’s alkaline-forming. Such products help neutralize stomach acids, thus preventing acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
What’s more, drinking coconut milk may even help soothe the symptoms when they appear, so it’s a good idea to have some ready in case of an emergency.
Nevertheless, it’s important to check the ingredient list to ensure that the coconut milk you’re purchasing is, in fact, made with fresh coconuts and not dried ones.
It’s also beneficial to check for any other added ingredients that can make the milk acid-forming, therefore bad for people with acid reflux.
While some preservatives are OK and ensure that the product doesn’t spoil, try choosing coconut milk with an ingredient list that’s rather short. That way, you can be sure that you’re consuming a product that’s as healthy as possible.
Is coconut milk better for acid reflux than other kinds of milk?
Coconut milk, including other kinds of milk from nuts, is great for acid reflux as most of them are alkaline-forming. On the other hand, cow milk and soy milk are acid-forming, so they should be avoided or infrequently drank if you struggle with acid reflux and GERD.
As always, some people might tolerate milk better than others, but it’s best to introduce potential trigger foods to your diet slowly to avoid heartburn and other issues.
Coconut milk is a great drink choice for people with acid reflux as it has alkaline-forming properties. While there are some coconut milk brands that use dried coconut (which is acid-forming), most brands use fresh coconut, which neutralizes your stomach acids.
Coconut milk also contains an abundance of minerals and micronutrients that help you stay healthy, making it a great addition to any diet.
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Keeping sensitive data and student information secure is a top priority
Student data is a hot topic these days, and as the new school year kicks off, educators and school leaders are examining their data storage and data security practices to ensure that sensitive student information remains private and secured.
Most school information security approaches are multi-layered and come together from different angles to offer protection from a variety of threats.
Schools deal with sensitive and private student information—information that is necessary to connect students with the right resources and opportunities. As the new school year begins, a quick data security refresher can help educators use, and protect, sensitive student information.
(Next page: Five data protection policies)
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An Ulu Pocket Knife is a handy must-have for anyone. However, it should always be handled with care to prevent accidents and mishaps. This allows you to make the best out of the pocket knife without harming yourself or your peers. Read the following safety tips when using an Ulu Pocket Knife.
Use The Knife Properly
The first step is to establish a “safety circle” whenever you use the knife. This simply means that there should be a wide berth surrounding you whenever you use the knife. To measure the recommended area, hold out the knife at arm’s length and spin around. It is safe to use when you do not make any contact with anything or anyone.
Additionally, it is best to cut away from you when using the knife. You must also handle the knife with your dominant hand so that you will have full control over its movements and pressure.
Learn How To Open And Close
The beauty of pocket knives is that you can easily open and close them, which makes them portable. As such, it is important to take advantage of this mechanism and to strictly follow it. Whenever you wish to use your Ulu Pocket Knife, make sure that the knife is fully opened and the blade is locked in place. Once you are done, the blade must be fully tucked into the handle and locked up.
Passing The Knife
Another golden rule is to only pass the knife when it is closed down. You may pass the knife while it is open, but you must do it properly. You must place the handle into the recipient’s hand, with the blade pointing away from them. The receiver should also be able to acknowledge that they are ready to receive the knife.
Your Ulu Pocket Knife will only be an effective tool if it is properly maintained. Proper maintenance ensures that it won’t malfunction and thus, it prevents any mishandling issues. The knife must be kept clean and it should be sharpened regularly. Dirt and grime may cause it to rust and degrade. A dull knife also means that you need to exert extra effort just to use it, and that will lead to accidents.
Avoid Improper Usage
The Ulu Pocket Knife is versatile on its own, but that does not mean you can use them for practically any task. It is still important to strictly use it for its intended purposes. For instance, avoid using it to pry open objects as the blade could snap and hurt you. Don’t use it to carve metal or cut hair since there are other tools designated for those tasks.
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The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.
The focus of this proverb is “the teaching of the wise” and the good it can accomplish. “The teaching (Hebrew torah or “law”) of the wise” represents what they already know, have practiced and are willing to pass along to others.
Our verse notes that this “teaching…is a fountain of life.” An ever-flowing (“living”) spring of fresh water would have been greatly appreciated in the ancient world and that’s how meaningful the teaching of the wise can be for others.
And, for those who do listen, it can “turn a person from the snares of death.” There are plenty of “traps” out there in life that can take us out — but the “teaching of the wise” helps us identify them and turn the other way.
This wise saying indicates we need to be connected with people — good people — and we’ll need to listen!
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Ministry of Environment Launches National Environment Day
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The Ministry of environment, in cooperation with the Arab office for youth and environment, launched the celebration of National Environment Day on January 27 every year from 2020 to emphasize the role of civil society to highlight its efforts in environmental conservation and development.
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of the environment, confirmed that the national environment day, comes under the theme "turning green… a path to sustainability." It aims to promote community participation in the spread of green bodies and the promotion of a culture of gardening among citizens and its importance in the face of air pollution and the effects of climate change.
The events include a series of activities carried out through the ministry of the environment and its regional branches in the provinces and in cooperation with ministries, various actors, civil society institutions, individuals and the private sector throughout the republic. Seminars, workshops, environmental competitions, clean and reforestation campaigns.
Environmental competitions are an effective mechanism in raising environmental awareness. The events include a poster design competition, the environmental photography, recycling School waste, the most beautiful district or environmental street, environmental messages are also broadcast in the visual, audio and media.
The celebration events are also an opportunity to raise awareness of the new waste system and support the publication of the idea of supporting the conversion of waste to valuable products through the implementation of workshops to transform waste into useful products, and the top three civil society associations working in the field of conservation will be honored. | <urn:uuid:12a29e48-63e0-4053-a118-efdb0888c705> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mciegypt.com/interesting-articles/environment/912-ministry-of-environment-launches-national-environment-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931156 | 321 | 2.796875 | 3 |
When back in the day I asked people to read my first book the feedback I got was: “Yeah, your world and your descriptions are really interesting, but I really don’t like the lead.” And they were right. He wasn’t meant to be likable. I wanted to see if it would work with an unlikable main character. Seeing as that book is now gathering dust at the bottom of a desk drawer, I can say with real authority that it does not (still, no regrets. There is nothing as good for developing your writing skills by working for some websites as practice).
And in hindsight that makes sense (oh 20-20 hindsight! You bastard!) Because if we can’t identify with your main character in any way, either because they intrigue us, because we admire them, or because we can identify with them, then we’re going to have real trouble appreciating everything else that happens around them. That’s why my idea of a stupid person who only thought about himself didn’t work. He was neither intriguing nor likable. One or the other might have worked, but not both.
So now that I’ve outlined what doesn’t work, let’s look at what does. To make a novel character charismatic they should:
1. Be other-oriented
If you really think about it morality is about being oriented towards other people, while immorality is about being self-oriented. So make sure your character pays attention to others, their feelings and what they want.
2. Be human
At the same time, don’t take that too far. If your character never has any selfish thoughts, then that makes them flat and unless you’re writing for somebody who doesn’t consume a lot of media, they are not going to be very interested. We want the people we’re reading about to have to at least struggle to overcome their demons.
3. But not too whiny
We like heroes, not victims. Characters that are constantly whining about how horrible things are are victims. That does not in any way make them endearing. I mean, how many of us like to sit around and listen to a friend complain about how horrible their life is? So why would we do it for a fictional character?
4. Be memorable
It helps if people can immediately conjure a mental picture. For this reason, many writers use tags, which can then be repeated when the character is reintroduced to help you remember who the writer is talking about. So for example, Harry Potter had a lightning shaped scar, Ron Weasley was gangly and had red hair, while Hermione Granger had bushy hair. Unique names help as well so that you don’t get the characters confused.
5. Be attractive
We like attractive people and are more likely to enjoy reading about them. This is in large part due to the halo effect, which makes us believe that pretty people are likable people. It isn’t just that, however. In some ways, we project ourselves into the shoes of the lead and it is much more fun to think of ourselves as attractive than as ugly when we do so.
6. But not perfect
We don’t still want the character to be within reach. If they’re good at everything, never have any doubt and are never surpassed by others, then they’re flat and – what is more – the story becomes uninteresting as you know the character is going to win without really straining themselves. That’s no fun!
7. Be vehicles or mouth pieces
A good character has their own opinion, which is separate and well defined. Now this opinion doesn’t have to be correct. In fact, quite often stories hinge on a character realizing that they believed something that turns out to be wrong. But they still have to have opinions.
8. Have a back story
Similarly, the more interesting characters feel like they are more than the story that they’re a part of. Like if you could ask them a question about something completely unrelated – like what they think of minimalist design or Greek philosophy – they’d have something to say, even if it isn’t that intelligent. This is best done by giving them a back story. This doesn’t actually have to come out during the novel but is always there to help you decide how the character will act.
9. Want something
Your character should have a drive or a goal. Now this might not get completed in your story, but it should be there pushing the character forward. Maybe they just want to get out alive. Maybe they just want all this to end, but they must want something. We are driven by our wants and our novel characters should as well.
10. Be like our readers
And last but not least, if we want our readers to like them, make the character like them! Are you reading for a teenage audience? Then create an affable teenager. Are you writing for women? Well then obviously you’ll need some kind of friendly woman. The trick here is that it’s much easier to identify with somebody like ourselves, which makes it easier for people to immerse themselves in your tale.
Now remember, not all your characters have to be likable! That’s not the point. There are villains, goons, background characters to help the story along, and more. But unless you’re a genius writer who can somehow get away with it (which I’m clearly not and you probably shouldn’t assume you are either, just for safety’s sake) somebody has to be likable! And if you follow some of the points I outlined above, some of them probably will be. | <urn:uuid:acbf420a-cc35-4582-a618-add49f947dff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.writehacked.com/writing/top-10-tips-create-charismatic-novel-character/?replytocom=11304 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972756 | 1,213 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities
In my quest to support new teachers who become employed in rural and disparate communities with varying degrees of support, I was interested in reviewing the book, Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities. Sonja Hollins-Alexander’s book highlights her experiences as a director of professional learning and her progress toward moving face-to-face professional development in a large urban school district to one supplemented and ultimately heavily supplanted by virtual learning communities.
Although this shift was a significant feat, the context of this book and its recommendations constrain the applicability of this text to a more limited audience, primarily that of professional development organizations, district level specialists, and possibly even those educators in larger systems that would have the capacity to implement such a program.
While some readers may neglect a book’s preface, it is necessary to read this one. Hollins-Alexander provides the context from which this book and its associated advice emerged. Without the preface, chapter 1 begins abruptly. The first chapter offers an overview of the structure and the general philosophy used to guide the development of the virtual learning communities. Hollins-Alexander calls this the learner-learner model. She situates the origins of the learner-learner model in Vygotsky’s social constructivism and Knowles’ androgogy (adult learning). At the heart of this concept, the teacher engages in professional development as a co-constructer of knowledge with other teachers in the group, including the facilitator, not as a passive recipient of information.
Chapters 2 and 3 provide an overview of 10 key questions that individuals beginning to develop virtual learning communities should ask and answer and 10 action steps associated developing such communities. Chapters 4 through 6 address several of the questions and action steps identified in chapters 2 and 3 in more detail.
First, the author discusses the process of transitioning from face-to-face to virtual professional development opportunities along with the general format of the professional development itself. This model focuses on a learn, discuss, learn, discuss structure with adequate reflection. Next, the necessary support structures to meet district priorities and move to this model are identified, including in-house instructional designers and course design. Hollins-Alexander describes the method used to support the building of capacity and sustainability: locating and training facilitators, creating school-based cohorts, and creating an online facilitator course to continue to support the virtual learning communities.
Chapter 7 identifies potential pitfalls to moving to a virtual communities learning model for online teacher professional development. The author provides a brief explanation of what was done to overcome these obstacles. The biggest challenge noted by Hollins-Alexander is identifying the impact of the VLCs on student learning. Indeed, at the time of writing, there was no evidence that this professional development model was effective in positively impacting teaching and learning outcomes. She indicates that this evaluation is currently taking place and will be provided as it becomes available.
(Editor’s note: In November 2013, Hollins-Alexander led a free webinar on this topic, archived at the Learning Forward website.)
Useful system-level information
Through outlining her experience in creating virtual communities of practice, Hollins-Alexander provides a useful justification and suggestions for moving to virtual communities. Those looking to justify such a transition can find some support in this book. Importantly, she also supports the call for professional development to transition from the sit-and-get process often experienced by teachers, to a more in-time and interactive experience. Additionally, the book presents information about challenges experienced and how those were overcome.
While this text provides a general outline for implementation of virtual learning communities in a large urban school district, the limited applicability of the book to a broad audience makes it less appropriate for the vast majority of the MiddleWeb readership. In addition, in an attempt to simplify the process into “steps,” the book at times becomes repetitive and disjointed. Though there are definite weaknesses in this book, given the right reader, it could provide some useful information to support the transition to, or development of, virtual learning communities.
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This story was updated December 5 to include replies from Stand.Earth on the methodology behind the report, and from Airlines for America on the U.S. aviation industry’s decarbonization promises.
A new report has pinpointed California as the destination for half of the oil drilled in the environmentally fragile Amazon rainforest, just one day after a high court in Ecuador overruled a resource extraction project that violated the constitutional rights of nature.
The shattering chain of custody research by San Francisco-based Stand.earth and Oakland-based Amazon Watch concludes that 89% of the crude oil exported from the Amazon comes from Ecuador, and 66% of it goes to the United States, half of that total to three refineries in Greater Los Angeles. “In California, where the majority of this oil is refined, an average of one in nine gallons of gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel pumped in the state comes from the Amazon rainforest,” the groups write. “In Southern California, the volume goes up to one in seven gallons.”
The report says major oil companies in California sold 1.9 billion gallons/7.2 billion litres of gasoline and diesel from the Amazon rainforest in 2019, with Arco, Chevron, Shell, Phillips 66, and Valero placing as the top five retailers. But “unbranded gas is the largest share of gas sold in the state, illustrating that real change will require state action to reduce gasoline consumption, not just actions by brands,” the report states.
Among the end users:
• Air carriers like American Airlines, Delta, United, Southwest, and Alaska Airlines consumed 123 million gallons of jet fuel at Los Angeles and San Francisco airports in 2020;
• Supermarket and big box chains like Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and Safeway used 43 million gallons of diesel and gasoline to power their fleets;
• Parcel delivery giants Amazon, UPS, and FedEx accounted for another 39 million gallons of diesel;
• The largest private fleet in the U.S., PepsiCo, consumed 4.4 million gallons of diesel.
An ‘Imperative to Act’
“As California is beginning to address its domestic oil industry and the impacts on fenceline communities and spills along its coasts, Indigenous communities in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia, who have also endured the oil industry’s toxic legacy, are calling for an end to the expansion of the oil industry into their territories,” the report states. “The experiences of these impacted communities presage our larger linked fate—that fossil fuel expansion leads to climate disaster that affects all our communities.”
That means California “has an imperative to act to protect the Amazon by eliminating its dependency on Amazon oil as part of a climate-smart strategy to wind down demand for fuel production and create a just transition away from fossil fuels,” the groups add, just a month after the state signed on as an associate member of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance during the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Some of the companies identified in the report were less than pleased with the publicity.
“When it comes to Amazon, this report is not accurate—the authors don’t understand how our business works, used hypothetical figures, and made no effort to fact check,” an Amazon.com spokesperson told The Energy Mix in an email. “Through our commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon is dedicated to finding sustainable solutions that challenge business as usual in order to protect the planet and prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis.”
“I’m confident that given the size of Amazon.com and their market in California, our estimates are very conservative,” Stand.Earth lead author Angeline Robertson replied in an email to The Mix. “For example, we did not have the time in the project to include their last-mile delivery, their business travel, or estimate the fuel consumption for the large number of subcontractors trucking their goods. Instead, we focused on Amazon Air and their own (small but growing) private medium to heavy duty fleet because that is where we could get reliable estimates of fuel consumption.”
Robertson cited the academic policy brief the research team used to model Amazon Air’s activity, the U.S. National Pipeline Mapping System as its source on pipelines from California refineries to airports, and laid out Stand’s own methods for calculating the proportion of the oil coming from the Amazon rainforest.
“I believe this is a defensible methodology based on detailed research and available data,” she wrote. “It is not a complete picture of their whole consumption of Amazon oil. That would be much larger. However, the point of the research is not to call out Amazon as somehow a unique culprit, but to show that Amazon.com, like literally every other company operating in California, is consuming Amazon oil. They can take this moment to show climate leadership.”
As of Sunday morning, Amazon.com had not replied to a folllow-up question on the volume of fuel it consumed from Ecuador last year. We’ll update this story as the responses roll in.
Three of the airlines identified in the report referred all questions to their industry lobby group, Airlines for America (A4A), whose spokesperson Carter Yang laid out the fuel efficiency improvements the industry achieved between 1978 and 2019 and its quest for an 80% emissions reduction by replacing conventional jet fuel with sustainable aviation fuels. “As part of our commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, A4A and its member airlines have pledged to work in partnership across the aviation industry and with government leaders to make three billion gallons of cost-competitive SAF available for use in 2030,” he wrote.
Yang’s email did not answer the question about fuel currently sourced from the Amazon rainforest, and he had not replied to a follow-up email as of Sunday morning.
A spokesperson for Delta Airlines cited her company’s “short-term goal” to derive 10% of its fuel supply from SAFs by 2030. She did not reply to a follow-up asking whether Delta planned any restrictions on sourcing biofuel feedstocks from the Amazon or other threatened rainforests, to prevent the airline from just transferring its impact from the oilfields beneath the rainforest to the trees that previously covered the land.
Ecosystems at a Tipping Point
Indigenous leaders and their allies at Stand stressed the severe impacts their communities are facing.
“Oil drilling in our Amazon has brought contamination, disease, deforestation, destruction of our cultures, and the colonization of our territories,” said Waorani leader Nemo Andy Guiquita. “As our ancestors and science now affirm, we must keep fossil fuels in the ground, in accordance with the commitments of the Paris Agreement and at COP 26 in Glasgow.”
“The Amazonian territories and ecosystems that we have lived in harmony with for centuries are under dire threat. We are at a tipping point,” warned Gregorio Mirabal, executive coordinator of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), in a Stand.earth release. “It’s now or never. We need to ensure protection of 80% of the Amazon rainforest before 2025 or we risk planetary peril. No one knows how to better protect these forests than we do, and the world should support and follow our lead.”
Governor Gavin Newsom “is making strides on curbing oil and gas expansion inside California’s borders, which is important and only one part of the puzzle,” added Stand.earth Executive Director Todd Paglia. “The next step must be to quickly reduce and then eliminate importing oil from the Amazon rainforest and to prioritize eliminating oil now from any supplier that is expanding oil production, something that is completely incompatible with a climate-safe world.”
A ‘Constitutional Obligation’ to Protect Nature
Stand and Amazon Watch say Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso plans to double his country’s oil production. But the decision Wednesday by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador might stand in the way. The magistrates prohibited mining in the Los Cedros Protected Forest on grounds that it violated the country’s constitutional protection for the rights of nature.
The ruling was triggered “by the issuance of mining permits that would harm the biodiversity of the forest, including species at high risk of extinction and fragile ecosystems,” writes the Spokane, Washington-based Center for Democratic and Environmental Resources (CDER). “To enforce the ruling, the Court ruled that the governmental authorizations granted to mining corporations to operate in Los Cedros are revoked.”
The release refers to Article 73 of the Ecuadoran constitution, which requires precautionary and restrictive measures to prevent species extinction. CDER adds that the court applied its ruling to the whole country, not just designated protected areas.
“Article 73 also establishes a duty of the State by indicating imperatively that precautionary and restrictive measures apply. It is not an option, but a constitutional obligation derived from the intrinsic value of nature,” the court ruled. “Indeed, the risk in this case is not necessarily related to human beings… but to the extinction of species, the destruction of ecosystems, or the permanent alteration of natural cycles.”
The case sets a precedent for threatened forests and species beyond the Los Cedros case, with the court stating clearly “that the rights of nature applies across the country of Ecuador, as do all constitutional rights within Ecuador’s constitution,” CDER Executive Director Mari Margil told The Energy Mix in an email.
“It would not be logical to state that the rights of nature, the right to water, and the human right to a healthy and balanced environment are valid only in protected areas,” the ruling stated. “On the contrary, the obligations of protection of these rights apply to public authorities throughout the national territory and must be analyzed in accordance with the Constitution and infra-constitutional regulations to authorize, restrict, or regulate such extractive activities.”
Carlos Mazabanda, Amazon Watch’s Ecuador field coordinator, agreed that the ruling “contains mandatory standards for the government,” at a moment when Ecuador wants to expand oil and mineral extraction “precisely in areas that constitute the best-preserved tropical forests in the country, and that are home to Indigenous peoples.” He added that the court’s concern about “serious and irreversible damage” to nature, water, environment, and health “could have consequences for future oil exploration plans in the Amazon if it is fully complied with,” since “the serious effects that oil activity has had on the environment are widely documented.”
The court decision would have produced a moment of celebration and joy for Canadian filmmaker and environmental visionary Silver Donald Cameron, whose Green Interview series included segments with Ecuadoran economist Alberto Acosta, a former energy and mining minister who led the fight to enshrine the rights of nature in his country’s constitution, and CDER’s Mari Margil. | <urn:uuid:7b7146cf-e7f6-4f5f-a253-467ea24f6583> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/12/03/oil-from-amazon-rainforest-goes-to-california-refineries-airlines-retailers-and-fleets-new-research-shows/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945145 | 2,317 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Rule No. 1 When you trash our community, it’s gonna make the front page of the Post. Rule NO. 2 When you play “the blame game,” it’s gonna be the focus of an editorial.
Case in point: Waste Management, the trash hauler that formerly served the Ridge communities of Paradise and Magalia, made the front page of the Feb. 23 issue when it was cited for violation of the Town’s nuisance code.
It was reported that Waste Management’s property on American Way was strewn with household trash and garbage. Tipped off by an anonymous caller, Town officials found dumpsters filled with water and trash in addition to discarded household furniture, paint cans and other containers of possible hazardous and/or toxic substances on the ground.
When cited for two violations – polluted water and refuse and waste matter, a representative for Waste Management claimed, “The trash was left by someone else.” Gee, that sounds a little like “the dog ate my homework” or “the check is in the mail.” Except in this case, the seriousness of a potential public health hazard certainly trumps the situation of the failing student or the deadbeat. The trash was on Waste Management’s property regardless of who placed it there. It was their responsibility to remove the refuse, dispose of it properly, and remediate any environmental damage that may have occurred.
The fact that there has been a trail of storm fronts hitting the Ridge with significant rainfall, increases the likelihood of stormwater carrying pollution into neighboring streambeds. This is reason enough, to be proactive in keeping your property from becoming a health hazard. But let us not forget that standing water mixed with sunny days between rain storms is a cookbook recipe for the breeding of mosquitoes and the threat of West Nile Virus.
We’re grateful for the concerned citizen who reported the unsanitary state of the property and we’re pleased that Town officials responded quickly. The job of the local code enforcement officer doesn’t win any popularity contests and it certainly isn’t as glamorous as wearing the uniform of a police officer or fireman.
However, protecting the health and safety of the community from dubious acts of property management or more precisely – lack thereof – is essential.
We’ve come a long way from the days when everyone burned their trash in a backyard incinerator. We understand the value of reducing our waste through recycling, making choices that conserve rather than consume and protecting our environment for future generations.
We’re encouraged that Waste Management is now attending to the clean up of their property. We hope they’ve learned a valuable lesson about community responsibility. All we’re asking is that Waste Management be “all that its name implies.” | <urn:uuid:5985cfc2-2757-467c-98b4-607009806578> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paradisepost.com/2008/02/28/being-responsible-means-not-making-excuses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950221 | 580 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Acrylic is roughly half as dense as glass. This means that not only is glass more expensive and difficult to transport larger works due to weight, it also requires special consideration when hanging or displaying the work. The increased impact resistance of acrylic is another critical factor that helps prevent breakage in transport as well as high traffic areas.
Types of Acrylic Sheeting
Standard clear acrylic is the most common option for everyday framing applications. It is the least expensive of the acrylic family, and it will give you up to 92% light transmission for an optically clear image. Clear acrylic sheeting is ideal for works that simply require the glazing to act as a physical barrier.
Frame Grade Acrylic:
Frame-grade acrylic sheet has similar properties as standard clear acrylic, however, this material is slowed down during production and held to much higher quality control standards to eliminate any imperfections within the sheet.
Non-glare acrylic sheet is another popular option for framing. It has a slight texture on the surface of the sheet that aids in reducing surface glare, resulting in a less obstructed view.
Abrasion Resistant Acrylic:
Ideal for high traffic areas, abrasion resistant (AR) acrylic has a specialty hard coating on the surface of the acrylic sheet that prevents small-scale surface scratches. Generally, anything with enough force to scratch the AR acrylic would also result in a scratch on the glass.
Ultra Violet Filtering Acrylic:
Commonly referred to as OP3, UV filtering acrylic sheet can block out up to 98% of harmful UV rays that will potentially damage the picture or artwork. UV filtering acrylic sheeting is most commonly used for more expensive and/or fragile works that would deteriorate if exposed to harmful light.
Tru Vue Optium Museum Grade Acrylic:
Widely known as “The Cadillac of Museum Grade sheets,” Optium Museum Acrylic takes many of the independent characteristics above and combines them into one sheet. Optium Museum Acrylic sheet is abrasion resistant, UV filtering, anti-static, and anti-reflective, resulting in quite possibly the most complete option for acute preservation. In fact, it is the glazing of choice for a number of priceless items such as multiple Da Vinci’s and Picasso’s. | <urn:uuid:dcbef568-7eea-4d2f-aa74-cdc7ee0be187> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acplasticsinc.com/informationcenter/r/picture-framing-facts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942562 | 484 | 2.421875 | 2 |
‘Constructing History 11-19 provides a diverse yet remarkably coherent array of case studies of constructivist history teaching. Its contributors—researchers, teachers, department heads—have a shared understanding of recent theory and research, and provide extended, close-to-the-ground narratives of active learning, supplemented by the voices of both students who participated and academic historians who observed. It is a welcome addition to a vibrant field’ — Professor Peter Seixas, Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia. ‘This book is full of hidden treasures. It is written by a community of practitioners who are all experts in creating history teaching that stretches and engages students. The book is designed to inspire action. It does this as ideas flow through the pages generating in the history teacher thoughts of how to apply and adapt. This book creates ‘spin off’: actual process that hits our classrooms’ — Katy Allen, Head of History, Lancaster Girls' Grammar School. This book describes and exemplifies strategies for teaching history across the 11-19 age range in rigorous and enjoyable ways. It illustrates active learning approaches embedded in pupil-led enquiries, through detailed case studies which involve students in planning and carrying out historical enquiries, creating accounts and presenting them to audiences, in ways that develop increasingly sophisticated historical thinking. The case studies took place in a number of different localities and show how practising teachers worked with pupils during each year from Y6/7 to Y 13 to initiate, plan and implement enquiries and to present their findings in a variety of ways. Each case study is a practical example which teachers can use as a model and modify for their own contexts, showing how independent learning linked to group collaboration and peer assessment can enhance learning. Social constructivist theories of learning applied to historical thinking underpin the book, with particular emphasis on links between personalised and collaborative learning and e-learning. | <urn:uuid:d068318a-1723-4c61-8811-0ba992e1da49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sk.sagepub.com/books/constructing-history-11-19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939505 | 402 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Zaria Forman, Wilhemina Bay, November 23rd, 2018, 2019, soft pastel on paper, 40 x 64"
The show was substantial. As I wandered through the corridors, I saw a splattering of contemporary art from the past 70 years although most of the work was fairly current. Represented were familiar favorites; Philip Pearlstein, Robert Lostutter and Clair Zeisler. But there was beautiful new work that was unfamiliar to me.
The work of Zaria Forman, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York and Seattle, was a clear standout. Her large-scale pastel drawings are globally relevant and powerfully beautiful. Signage appears with each of the gorgeously executed compositions, defining the project…
Forman’s latest work is an aerial exploration of some of the most rapidly changing places on our planet. Over the past two years Zaria has travelled with NASA’s science missions to track shifting ice, producing a collection that faithfully captures the range of ephemeral landscapes she observed while flying just hundreds of feet over Antarctica and the Arctic.
While her previous drawings are often recognizable as icebergs and glaciers, Zaria’s proximity to NASA scientists inspired work that is highly precise in its technical execution and yet visually more abstract. With an eye toward communicating the alarming rate that our polar regions are melting, Zaria portrays the vulnerability of thinning ice and heat-absorbing inkiness of the seas with profound detail and inherent drama. Each piece is rich in nuance, imbuing this series with great variation and thematic cohesion. In the sharpness of these birds-eye views drawn in her characteristic large-scale format, Zaria has created deeply intimate portraits of the environments we stand to lose.
I was captivated by the exhibit. Forman’s imagery was stunningly beautiful yet sadly horrifying. And I wasn’t alone. I found myself interacting with other observers having a similar emotional reaction. If the intent was to begin a dialogue, it worked. Winston Wächter Fine Art can be found in booth 414.
EXPO CHICAGO continues through Sunday at 6pm. Tickets are $30 [$50 with tour]. Parking is available on site. For additional information visit: expochicago.com | <urn:uuid:b69f1658-80b8-4abd-9797-59fa85253efb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chicagofineart.blogspot.com/2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948407 | 469 | 1.617188 | 2 |
A New Daily Federal Funds Rate Series and History of the Federal Funds Market, 1928-1954
34 Pages Posted: 29 Jun 2020
Date Written: June, 2020
This article describes the origins and development of the federal funds market from its inception in the 1920s to the early 1950s. We present a newly digitized daily data series on the federal funds rate that covers the period from April 1928 through June 1954. We compare the behavior of the funds rate with other money market interest rates and the Federal Reserve discount rate. Our federal funds rate series will enhance the ability of researchers to study an eventful period in U.S. financial history and to better understand how monetary policy was transmitted to banking and financial markets. For the 1920s and 1930s, our series is the best available measure of the overnight risk-free interest rate, better than the call money rate which many studies have used for that purpose. For the 1940s-1950s, our series provides new information about the transition away from wartime interest-rate pegs culminating in the 1951 Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord.
Keywords: money markets, Federal Reserve System, federal funds rates, call loan rate
JEL Classification: E43, E44, E52, G21, N22
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Almost one quarter of consumers say they’re purchasing more fresh juice now than they were a year ago, according to a new report by Technomic. Seven out of ten consumers answered “fruit juice” when responding to the question “Which of the following beverages do you drink at least occasionally?” Plain milk and regular hot coffee came in second and third.
The report declares juice—once seen as just for breakfast or as a specialty—to be “one of the biggest menu trends” in the industry. The new interest on the part of consumers blends in with the wellness-conscious message in the air today of “5 a Day” consumption of vitamin-packed fruits and veggies.
This is a happy convergence for onsite foodservice operations in every segment, be it healthcare, college, K-12 or B&I whose organizations make wellness a part of their mission statements.
“Juices can be a ‘secret weapon’ in the move to improve nutritional value (and parent appeal) of kids’ menus,” the report suggests.
“More students are looking for healthier choices and are drinking less soda products,” according to Gary Brautigam, director of dining services at Gettysburg College, where students can find mojito limeade and pomegranate lemonade (more on those later).
Half of the consumers surveyed by Technomic said they most often order “single fresh juice flavor.” One third of them said they go for “blended juice flavor,” and the other 21 percent said they had no preference.
“A lot of customers still like the standards—we offer grape, apple and orange juices,” says Patricia Ainsworth, foodservice director, Millsap College, Jackson, MS. In fact, orange juice is the reigning favorite of fresh juices, the survey noted, with 65 percent of consumers citing OJ as their top pick when ordering away from home, followed by 38 percent who seek out strawberry.
At the same time, Ainsworth has noticed students on the all-you-care-to-eat meal plan “putting in a little bit of this and a little bit of that” to make their own customized mix from the fresh juice dispenser bank. “Peach seems to go especially well with all the juices,” she says.
Creative Flavors in Blends
Today, blends don’t just “blend in” to the crowd. Fresh juice is especially appealing to today’s food channel-surfing customers when it’s blended with other juices, and in wilder combos than apple- cranberry.
Think mango-pineapple-coconut, watermelon-lime-guava, passion-orange, apple-ginger or pomegranate lemonade. Off-beat and on-trend veggies like kale, cilantro and celery can add even more dimension of flavor (and nutrients).
Customers follow their mood to choose juice throughout the day, sometimes feeling like a classic unadorned orange juice with a breakfast sandwich, and at other times up for lemonades with a major twist.
“We recently added a mojito lemonade and pomegranate lemonade,” Brautigam says. “We find that students require the basics: orange and apple juice, but look for interesting blends like citrus peach when they are not in the ‘breakfast’ mood.”
Need a Boost?
Specialty juice bars have long offered the option of “boosts” to juice concoctions, promising everything from energy to immunity to vitamins to probiotics and protein. But does the average consumer really go for that?
According to the survey, 49 percent of consumers said they never order boosts because they “don’t think they do anything (almost half cited this reason),” “are not available" (38 percent), are “too expensive" (15 percent), “add calories" (14 percent), or “change the taste" (13 percent). Of those who do order boosts, almost six out of 10 believe they enhance the juice’s nutritional profile.
Overall, “you will generate more customer interest with a variety of out-of-the-ordinary blends. But, failing that, even the standard juices could meet the needs of health-conscious consumers as well as those who want a break from soft drinks,” the report concludes. | <urn:uuid:24666865-e6c4-4372-9b34-0c3e515e89ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.food-management.com/beverages/not-blending-crowd-trends-juice-blends | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944792 | 944 | 1.5 | 2 |
Church Team #4
Discuss the Church's position on interpreting scripture with respect to astonomical observations and on who has the authority to interpret the Bible.
Familiarize yourself with the arguments of Team #3.
- Review and explain the 1616 decision of the Council of Trent on Copernicanism. Consider especially the views of Cardinal Bellarmine, his authority to interpret Church doctrine, and his openness to Copernicanism and studies of nature.
- Imagine yourself as Melchior Inchofer? Summarize and explain your report.
For more depth, also consider:
Tommaso Caccini's views and their relevance in 1614-1616
the implications of Galileo's materialistic interpretations for atomism and the doctrine of the Eucharist [consult with the Instructor]
Bellarmine's letter to Paolo Foscarini of 12 April 1615, in Finnochario's The Galileo Affair or Blackwell (1991), Appendix VIII. (Also online -- see Resources.)
Inchofer's report is Appendix 1 in Blackwell, Behind the Scenes at Galileo’s Trial. See also commentary in Chaps. 2-3. Also reprinted in Finnochiaro's The Galileo Affair
Blackwell's Behind the Scenes at Galileo’s Trial, Chap. 3
For background, see:
on Bellarmine, Chap. 6 in McMullin's The Church and Galileo and Ch. 2 in Redondi's Galileo, Heretic
Fantoli's Galileo: For Copernicanism and the Church, Sects. 3.2-3.5
Santillana's The Crime of Galileo, Chap. 6.
Feldhay's Galileo and the Church
Pera's Chap. 10 in Machamer (1998)
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SCHOOL bus drivers needed
Wednesday, August 8th 2001, 12:00 am
News On 6
The search for who will drive your children to school this year. Tulsa Public School students head back to school in a week, and the district is looking hard for bus drivers to get them there.
Schools nationwide struggle with the chronic shortage of bus drivers. KOTV's Glenda Silvey says driving children to and from school is an important job. So why do school districts nationwide have such a hard time filling it? Tulsa Public Schools says one reason is that it's a nine-month contract. Transportation director for Tulsa Schools Bob Haddux, "Many districts don't pay 12 month a year jobs. I know in Tulsa it's particularly bad because the economy is so good - the job market's tight - there's a demand for entry level people which we often attract."
Haddux says some people, including retirees and homemakers, like working only nine months a year. Training takes seven days and requires passing a written and driver exam. The job guarantees 25 hours a week, but drivers can turn it into a full time job by driving extra-curricular activities. Celia Morgan drove a school bus while living in California, and is training to drive here. "Well I enjoy kids, for one thing, and I like working with the public, so it's a great job. It's a great opportunity to get involved with the kids."
Tulsa will try some new ways to attract drivers, according to Haddux, "One of the things we're going to entertain this year on sort of an experimental basis is we're going to allow housewives who want to drive who can't afford day care because it just offsets what they make to bring their toddlers - and I'm talking about the age limit of probably two to four years - on the bus."
Concern about student behavior keeps some from driving a bus, but Haddux says the district is tough on discipline so there aren't many problems. And besides the usual employee benefits, there's another one, the opportunity to be a friend and mentor to children.
Tulsa Public Schools needs at least 25 drivers. The job pays $7.62 to start, then up to $8.42 after 45 days. Broken Arrow Schools needs 14 drivers, salary there starts at $8.53 an hour. Union Public Schools has openings for four drivers. Jenks Public Schools has no current openings but is still taking applications. | <urn:uuid:14ac09db-5460-4c9b-be03-cf294f9e04ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3681682f69d76f62095b5d/school-bus-drivers-needed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974672 | 516 | 1.789063 | 2 |
BOLD SIGNATURE OF KING GEORGE IV OF ENGLAND
GEORGE IV (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Fragment of a Partially Printed Document Signed, ”George R,” at upper center. No place. No date. [Circa 1822] The document reads in full: ”Our Will and Pleasure is, that out of such Monies as are in, or shall come to you hands, for the use of Our Land Forces, or out of such Monies as are in, or shall come to your hands, for this Use, you pay Unto Our dearly beloved Brother and Councillor [sic] Field Marshal His Royal Highness Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge K.G. ” Very fine condition. Excellent example for framing. | <urn:uuid:5d0ea365-8d8e-4aa2-a955-e02c49522026> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gajs.com/bold-signature-of-king-george-iv-of-england-for-sale/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.897342 | 172 | 2.21875 | 2 |
What is Food Insecurity?
The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as existing “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”. Food insecurity certainly isn’t a new thing, since the dawn of humanity there have been those who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. That insecurity can range in severity from occasional meal uncertainty to full blown famine. One factor in the IPC Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table that determines the breaking point between Phase 1 mild food security and Phase 2 stressed food insecurity is the likelihood that someone suffering from food insecurity might break the law in order to eat or provide food for one’s family.
According to the World Health Organization, food security is built on three pillars:
- Food availability: sufficient quantities of food available on a consistent basis.
- Food access: having sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.
- Food use: appropriate use based on knowledge of basic nutrition and care, as well as adequate water and sanitation.
With plenty of food on grocery store shelves in the United States, it’s not surprising that food access and poverty are the issues deeply affecting food insecurity in America. A USDA study indicated that in 2010, 17.2 million households in America had difficulty providing enough food due to a lack of resources. Among the Americans suffering from food insecurity are hardworking people who simply don’t always make enough to feed their family, children and seniors. With rising food prices, food insecurity in the US isn’t going away.
Map courtesy FeedingAmerica.org.
Why does it matter?
The fact remains that 16 million children in the United States lived in food insecure households in 2010, according to the USDA. Hunger isn’t just a matter of discomfort. Good nutrition, particularly in the first three years of life, is important in establishing and maintaining a good foundation that has implications on a child’s future physical and mental health, academic achievement, and economic productivity.
There are public assistance programs and food banks available to help Americans who are currently food insecure, but in a country where nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps last year, one might question the sustainability of such a practice. Addressing food waste may be one solution. A 1997 study by the Department of Agriculture figured that about 10 million people a year could be fed through the recovery of just one-fifth of food waste. Check out our post on the topic to learn some ways to cut back on your own food waste.
It is important to address food insecurity in our country now to make sure that the next generation of Americans have the resources they need to be the best they can be. | <urn:uuid:d4e68ff5-3d5d-4c77-bf8c-81c9567e8ef2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sustainableamerica.org/blog/what-is-food-insecurity-old/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94903 | 570 | 3.6875 | 4 |
The Resilience Fund supports local activists, NGOs and others in helping their communities to build resilience against organized crime. As COVID-19 has hit these communities and added a new layer of challenges, the Resilience Fund grantees have had to adjust how they deliver their resilience-building activities.
This third and last edition of the series explores how grantees and Fellows in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Serbia have been building resilience amid the pandemic.
Cultivating courage in times of COVID-19
MathMoms is an initiative that focuses on creating a safe space for children to learn maths, and to promote resilience among women in vulnerable communities. In these contexts, challenges such as gang-related violence, substance abuse, sexual violence, domestic abuse, unemployment and overcrowded schools lead to community trauma. MathMoms focuses on giving communities a tool to work through this trauma in a sustainable way, fostering positive relationships and providing safe spaces, role models and employment opportunities.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, MathMoms could no longer meet, provide or attend training, or teach mathematics to young learners. Their main focus, however, remains on building individual and community resilience. They continue to pursue this through their ‘Cultivating Courage’ programme, whereby participants were provided with a care package the day before lockdown. This package included some basic necessities; information on the virus, virus-prevention and government regulations; activity packs containing games, mindfulness exercises and maths and literacy exercises; the MathMoms textbook and a booklet filled with family activities. MathMoms want to keep children off the streets, staving off boredom by nourishing young learners’ minds and bodies.
Food security has emerged as a major concern at this time, and through the Resilience Fund, MathMoms were able to provide fortnightly support to participating women, allowing them to put food on the table. Food insecurity has also led to a spike in opportunistic crime in communities, resulting in theft from shops and individuals returning from school feeding schemes.
Find out more about the MathMoms initiative in this video:
Raising awareness and holding government to account in Zimbabwe
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) in Zimbabwe aims to support local communities affected by the extractive industries and organized crime. As an NGO with a strong interest in the public good, CNRG dedicates itself to ensuring ‘united, informed, organized and active communities’, and its response to the COVID-19 crisis has been no different. As the pandemic spread to Zimbabwe, CNRG monitored the situation and the state’s reaction. In this rapidly evolving context, CNRG issued informative updates to its community of readers, and also recommendations to the government.
Ahead of subsequent government decisions, the CNRG called on the government to impose a firm travel ban on people moving between high-risk countries and regions; to carry out awareness campaigns on the symptoms and prevention of coronavirus; and to communicate, with transparency, the extent to which Zimbabwe is affected by the virus, as well as its state of preparedness in dealing with the virus.
CNRG also published an overview of the impacts of the virus on rural communities in Zimbabwe, highlighting how communities are impacted by COVID-19, and how these measures affect issues such as community rights, women’s rights, wildlife conservation, the environment, human-wildlife conflict and climate change.
CNRG’s weekly reports on COVID-19 provide an example of how civil-society groups can serve the public and community interest through these difficult times. The reports can be accessed on these links:
Fostering civil-society action in the Balkans
The Balkan Security Platform (BSP) is a network of civil-society organizations from the so-called Western Balkans Six (WB6) group of countries. The BSP’s objective is to streamline the engagement of civil society and activists into more coherent set of advocacy efforts at the national and regional level. Overall, the project aims to generate bottom-up demand for the WB6 governments to bolster their responses to organized crime. Currently, many of these responses take the shape of scattered, anti-organized crime initiatives throughout the region. The BSP aims to align these.
With the spread of COVID-19, BSP has been closely monitoring the situation in the Western Balkans. Regional authorities reacted swiftly to the pandemic by closing borders and restricting the movement of people to prevent further spread. In such an environment, the main priority of the police is to enforce these measures, rather than suppress criminal activities. In the meantime, criminal activity continues. In its efforts to monitor criminality, the BSP identified a couple of trends amid the pandemic:
- The region has experienced a small increase in the price of marijuana, which is still very much present on the market. The same applies to stimulant drugs. There is, however, very little heroin.
- At the onset of the pandemic, prices of protective face masks, disinfectants and medicinal alcohol skyrocketed due to attempts at price gouging.
- There have been cases of scamming using mobile and digital technologies, as well as breaking into newspaper/cigarette kiosks, shops, pharmacies, exchange offices and similar facilities.
- No cases of sexual exploitation have been detected for online services, but there has been an increase in calls to civil-society organizations that provide victim assistance.
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Daniel: Liviing a life of faith in a faithless culture
Intro Story of Daniel and his friends being brought out of their nation, their culture. Daniel and his friends stayed true to their faith and enjoyed the culture and influenced it. Most people today think we have to choose sides… either give in to the culture or live a life if faith. As we look at Daniel,…
Main Point: Evil is a problem for us, but it is not a problem for God—nor does it disprove God or His power and goodness. A Brief Survey of What Constitutes Evil Evil is not a thing, it is a description about the perversion of what is righteous—EVIL is the opposite of Good. Evil is not an entity that…
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We learn from Nebuchadnezzar that humility is necessary for salvation and for thriving in a life of following Jesus. Today, we discuss three attitudes of humility and a call to action.
INTRODUCTION Read 1 Peter 3:8-12 Submission affects every area of life We are to submit to government We are to submit to employers We are to submit in marriage We are to submit in the church When Peter says, “To sum up” it’s not the conclusion of the letter It’s the conclusion of this subject that began… | <urn:uuid:f2a49308-7b46-4b4b-bdbb-d48ad66d4105> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sermons.faithlife.com/search?kinds=sermon&q=%28topic%3A%22Comfort%22+OR+tag%3A%22Comfort%22%29+AND+passage%3A%3CDaniel+4%3A34%E2%80%9337%3E&sso=false | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929934 | 349 | 2.375 | 2 |
Last week I heard about curling parents for the first time. My offspring is beyond the age of needing ‘curling’, but I can relate to this phenomenon. But – learning the hard way – I know this is ‘not a good idea’, to state it mildly.
Just in case you missed it – just like I did – this is what curling parents are: parents who try to sweep away all obstacles in their offspring’s path so that their child can go through life without the slightest bump.
From curling to helicopter parents
Doing some more research I discovered that besides curling parents there are also Helicopter-parents, who sweep away problems when they arise – while curling parents tackle their offspring’s obstacles in advance.
On the one side it makes me laugh giving a whole new interpretation to curling and helicopters, but it also makes me sad.
Of course you want to protect your loved ones. And yes – I have been there too, curling and helicoptering with all my heart. Despite all efforts my eldest daughter got a depression at the age of 13 and it took her years to get over it. My protection hadn’t been able to prevent this. Looking back, it probably even contributed to it.
The one thing we all need to face the future – to face anything that comes on our way – is self-confidence. Outsourcing confidence to the parents doesn’t help kids to get stronger. It deprives them from the opportunity to grown this confidence. A quality that is essential in life.
The fastest way to grow is to make mistakes
So the greatest gift you can give your child is to allow it to make mistakes, to face the obstacles and learn from all these experiences – good and bad.
And what if we translate this curling parent attitude towards business. Do you recognize the ‘curling manager’ (or helicopter manager – this may give a whole new meaning to the much-valued helicopter view…)
The manager who steps in every time things don’t go as it should? Or as he – or she – thinks it should. In these changing times the one quality that is essential for business is agility or resilience. Being able to move and change quickly. Curling cuts off the way to develop and strengthen these qualities.
From operational excellence towards a learning culture
Decades of focus on ‘operational excellence’ and ‘first-time-right’ (what curling and helicopter parents are aiming for too) have resulted in a company culture where making mistakes is definitely not the right thing to do. Curling managers believe this and act accordingly. Killing the learning capacity of organizations and it’s employees. A capacity that we must cherish and nurture.
Again here, the fastest way to learn it to make mistakes. Lots of them!
So let’s leave curling in the ice rink. Both as parents and in the workplace. And let’s make lots and lots of mistakes. | <urn:uuid:1a51d991-7a21-4613-ae97-b19c5d25123f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://margotvanbrakel.com/about-curling-parents-and-curling-managers%EF%BF%BC/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957195 | 624 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Abstract: Over the last 25 years Assyriologists have made great strides in collecting digital representations of cuneiform texts in transliteration. On the Data Science side, institutional developments and projects like Jupyter and Pandas have made computational methods more accessible to scholars of all stripes. The time has come, therefore, for these two developments to meet. The Computational Assyriology project (http://github.com/niekveldhuis/compass) aims to illustrate the potential of applying computational methods to cuneiform data by scaling up traditional Assyriological research questions and by building interactive visualizations of models (topic models, social networks, word embeddings) that can be explored in various ways. Will such models actually be used by practitioners in cuneiform studies? As it turns out, the challenges of data acquisition, data cleaning, coding, user interface, and social engineering are all intertwined.
BIDS Data Science Research Seminars feature Berkeley faculty and BIDS collaborators doing visionary research that illustrates the character of data science in this new decade. The series is offered to engage our diverse campus community and to enrich connections, discourse, and discovery among colleagues. All seminars are open to the public, and campus community members are especially encouraged to attend. Arrive half-an-hour early for light refreshments and discussion prior to the formal presentation.
Niek Veldhuis is Professor of Assyriology (cuneiform studies) in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. He received his PhD at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands) in 1997, and came to Berkeley in 2002. His primary interests are in the intellectual history of ancient Mesopotamia (History of the Mesopotamian Lexical Tradition, 2014) and Sumerian literature (Religion, Literature and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds, 2004). He is director of the NEH-supported Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts and is a member of the international Oracc Steering Committee, providing tools and standards for digital publication of cuneiform texts to scholars worldwide. Today, his main research focus is on developing computational text analysis scripts (primarily in Jupyter Notebooks) for cuneiform datasets. | <urn:uuid:dc1416db-4787-4729-8db5-b2e17f0ec591> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bids.berkeley.edu/events/data-science-hard-core-humanists-opportunities-and-challenges-computational-assyriology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916388 | 473 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Just to prove he is not out of touch with what average Americans need, President Bush delivered a tough speech yesterday against one of the great problems this nation faces: Cuba.
US President George W Bush has announced fresh measures designed to hasten the end of communist rule in Cuba.
They include tightening an American travel embargo to the island, cracking down on illegal cash transfers, and a more robust information campaign aimed at Cuba.
Mr Bush said the punitive measures were being introduced because the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, had acted with “defiance and contempt and a new round of brutal oppression that outraged world conscience”.
If this is really important to the White House, its obvious what should be done. Make up a bunch of lies about how Cuba poses an imminent threat and possesses weapons of mass destruction and invade the place. When I hear bush condemning Castro for “defiance and contempt and a new round of brutal oppression that outraged world conscience” I think that if he wanted to have this rhetoric believed, he shouldn’t have expended his credibility elsewhere. We are now rattling the saber at a country that clearly doesn’t affect us much one way or the other. Americans jobs are being lost, we have tens of thousands of reservists in Iraq indefinitely, we still have never found Osama bin Laden and yet we are worried about Cuba. That’s crazy.
Other than needing to kiss the ass of rich Republican Cuban expats, why is Cuba an urgent issue for us? Because our president needs the votes of the Cuban community in Florida. Whether or not a communist government exists in Cuba has very little effect on my life, and it isn’t one of my priorities to see that changed. Considering how much his father made of the end of the cold war during his term, it’s amazing to watch this administration do all it can to reinstate cold war rhetoric. “We must end communist regimes” doesn’t ring true with me. I’m not losing sleep over the fact that they exist. I think history has proven that the perils of the world slipping into communism were wildly overstated by those who benefited from having this enemy in place. Here’s an idea – forget about Cuba and finish the messes we started in Afghanistan and Iraq. | <urn:uuid:eacee50b-7af9-4f1f-ba83-1eb4c4a0a996> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/2003/10/11/bush-vs-cuba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968463 | 473 | 1.585938 | 2 |
This version of the documentation is NOT an official release. You are looking at ‘latest’, which is in active and ongoing development. You can change versions on the bottom left of the screen.
Cortical microcircuit model¶
This is a PyNEST implementation of the cortical microcircuit model by Potjans and Diesmann 1.
Here you can inspect all files belonging to this example:
README: documentation of this microcircuit model implementation and its usage
run_microcircuit.py: an example script to try out the microcircuit
network.py: the main Network class with functions to build and simulate the network
helpers.py: helper functions for network construction, simulation and evaluation
network_params.py: network and neuron parameters
stimulus_params.py: parameters for optional external stimulation
sim_params.py: simulation parameters
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MOSCOW – It is arguably the world's most widely talked about weapons, and one of the most elusive. The question of whether or not Russia has supplied the S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria has drawn a flow of opaque statements by senior officials in Russia, the United States, Israel and Western Europe. President Vladimir Putin finally offered an answer Tuesday, saying Russia signed a deal to deliver the missiles to Syria a few years ago, but hasn't fulfilled it yet.
Here is a glance at the weapon and the controversy surrounding it:
The S-300 has a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles) and the capability to track down and strike multiple targets simultaneously with deadly precision. Russian officials say it's also capable of shooting down warheads of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Russian officials have boasted that the S-300 is superior to the U.S. Patriot missile system. Putin on Tuesday described it as "perhaps the best such weapon in the world."
Along with the Russian military, the S-300 is in service with several other ex-Soviet nations and former Soviet bloc countries. Other operators include China, Venezuela and NATO member Greece.
However, the S-300 has never been used in combat, unlike the Patriot system which was used in the 1991 Gulf war and the 2003 war in Iraq.
Israel has warned that the S-300 shipments to Syria would cross a red line and threatened to attack the missile batteries if they are delivered. The S-300s would limit Israel's freedom to act even in its own airspace and pose a strong challenge to any possible air attack.
Israel also fears that advanced Russian weapons could fall into the hands of Hezbollah, a key Syrian ally in neighboring Lebanon.
The S-300 is not an instant game-changer: Russian military analysts say missile crews would need a year of training.
SYRIAN DEAL CONTROVERSY:
The talk of a sale of the S-300s to Damascus has been around for several years. Last month, Israeli officials asked Russia to cancel what they said was an imminent sale. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed to visit Putin to discuss the issue, but neither leader has spoken publicly about the issue until Putin's statement on Tuesday.
Last week, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov confirmed for the first time that Moscow has a contract to provide S-300s to Syria, but wouldn't say whether any had been shipped.
On Thursday, a Lebanese TV station said it had an interview in which Syrian President Bashar Assad said his government had received the first batch of S-300s. In the actual interview broadcast later, Assad made no specific reference to the S-300.
Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Monday that according to "Russian talk," the S-300s have not been delivered.
Finally, Putin said definitively that Russia hasn't fulfilled the deal.
Russia has shrugged off Western and Israeli criticism of its arms sales to Assad's regime, but it has clearly abided by certain limits and refrained from providing the most potent arms systems. It has refused persistent Syrian demands to deliver short-range Iskander missiles.
At the same time, the Kremlin's refusal to cancel the S-300 deal strengthens its hand in arguments with the West over Syria. If the United States or its NATO allies move to provide weapons to Syrian rebels despite strong Russian criticism, Moscow may respond by shipping S-300s.
Russia similarly played the S-300 card in the Iranian nuclear standoff, signing a contract for their delivery but eventually shelving the deal. | <urn:uuid:bdcc6fd1-6f6a-47d3-8b8e-58e41a1c6a37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foxnews.com/world/russias-s-300-air-defense-missile-system-in-focus-of-syria-related-talk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969617 | 761 | 1.765625 | 2 |
STV4282B – The Politics of Global Energy
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Ever since the Homo erectus tamed fire at least 600.000 years ago, energy has been vital for the whole range of human activity. It provided heating that increased resistance to changing climate conditions, contributed to settlements and building of human societies, increased meat consumption and calorie intake and was the basis for engineering tools and effective weaponry. With the industrial revolution, expansion of energy services was a major contributor to economic growth. Today, citizens in developed economies take ample access to affordable energy resources as granted.
Following a basic introduction to the role of energy in modern societies and today’s energy systems, this course provides an understanding of the global politics of energy, the key actors, the role of international energy institutions, and not least the interaction between energy politics and markets. The energy policies of all states are inextricably linked to concerns about energy security, the economics of energy markets and the environmental impact of energy use. Thus, the course is relevant for students interested in geopolitics, international institutions, international political economy. A particular focus will be put on the role of the vast oil resources in the Middle East and the Internal Energy Market of the European Union. Last, but not least, the course will address the crucial role of renewable energy in the global combat of climate change.
- have a basic understanding of the structure and dynamics of energy systems.
- have knowledge about the global oil market and European energy markets.
- comprehend the geopolitics of energy security.
- understand the challenges and opportunities in the transition towards sustainable energy systems.
- have knowledge of the energy challenges and policy profiles of the key global actors.
- use conceptual tools and frameworks for understanding and analyzing energy policies and the international politics of energy supply, distribution and consumption.
- present their own analysis of key global energy issues.
- can develop policy strategies and institutional designs to respond effectively to major governance challenges and policy dilemmas in the energy sector.
- understand the format and complexities of the challenges involved in governing an effective transition towards sustainable energy systems.
- grasp the dilemmas faced by many governments as well as non-governmental actors in the field of international energy politics.
- be able to identify the driving forces behind current world energy events and the dynamic interaction of economic interests and political governance underlying actors’ behavior.
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Apply for guest student status if you are admitted to another Master's programme.
For incoming students
All Master's courses in Political Science must be registered manually by the Department, they will not appear in Studentweb. Contact your international coordinator at UiO.
Recommended previous knowledge
Bachelor's degree in Political Science or equivalent.
Lectures are held during five weeks, with examination in the sixth week.
3-hour written examination and term paper.
The term paper must:
- be between 3500-5000 words
- be on a topic related to the curriculum but selected by the student
- meet the formal requirements for submission of written assignments
Submit assignments in Inspera
You submit your assignment in the digital examination system Inspera. Read about how to submit your assignment.
Use of sources and citation
Language of examination
You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Explanations and appeals
Resit an examination
If you are sick or have another valid reason for not attending the regular exam, we offer a postponed exam later in the same semester.
See also our information about resitting an exam.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
Special examination arrangements
Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.
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This week an astounding divulgation that Russian crime ring have stolen almost 1.2 billion user names and passwords and more than 500 million email address, as stated by researchers.
Alex Holden, Chief Information Security Officer for Hold Security whose firm revealed the breach stated that these cybercriminals have spent the last seven months amassing a bulk of personal data, stealing almost 1.2 billion user names and passwords affecting 420,000 websites.
“Their cache of stolen goods grew quite quickly,” said Holden, who has not proclaimed details about the websites that have breached or the names of other victims.
Hold Security is well-known for uncovering hacks comprising ten million records from Adobe Systems last year. Though it didn’t name the victims, pointing out non-disclosure agreements.
According to sources, the victims are likely to comprise Australians, along with nationalities along the world.
“This Russian cyber gang is formidable, and the lasting effects of how this data will be used are yet to be uncovered.,” stated Trend Micro’s Jon Oliver.
“The Russian underground is a dangerous place for personal data and many victims will be impacted as passwords and account information are bought and sold for criminal use.”
As per the security experts, businesses need to take a tackling step to these threats as the computerized gadgets and software make access to Internet and often puzzled with weakness that hackers can exploit.
“There is zero or very little corporate responsibility being taken to insure products in the market are safe,” stated Melissa Hathaway, a former top federal cyber security official with the National Security Council and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who now has a consulting firm. “If we continue to see the market the way it is, we’ll see more victims.”
“If you can get agreement from the local government, yes, we should go after them,” said Geoff Webb, senior director of NetIQ, adding there was a domino effect once one hacking group was exposed and charged.
“You can quickly have an impact on a hacking community. They know each other, and these guys quickly provide information on other hackers. It can be very, very effective” stated Mr Webb.
Several experts also told the government to work more with foreign nations so as to crack down the cyber gangs and an increment in penalties or U.S. companies that loose confidential information due to poor security. | <urn:uuid:cad984e5-a737-4ae4-bf4e-e1f84470d402> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thewestsidestory.net/russian-cyber-gang-reaps-1-2-billion-passwords/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952518 | 506 | 1.632813 | 2 |
- 1 How do I choose a fishing hook?
- 2 What size hooks for different fish?
- 3 What is the best hook to use for fishing?
- 4 Why are circle hooks better?
- 5 Can fish see hooks?
- 6 Which fish hook is larger 1 or 32?
- 7 Do fish learn to avoid hooks?
- 8 What color is most visible to a walleye fish?
- 9 Do the hooks hurt the fish?
- 10 What are the 5 types of hooks?
- 11 Are treble hooks illegal?
- 12 How do you fish for beginners?
- 13 What is the best freshwater fish bait?
- 14 Do fish like hot dogs?
How do I choose a fishing hook?
Hooks should be chosen that are large enough to penetrate chunky baits, and then into a taking fish’s mouth. Be sure to employ stout enough tackle to accomplish this. Hook size can be confusing because there is no industry standard for, say, a size 4 Mustad and a size 4 Eagle Claw or Owner.
What size hooks for different fish?
Use a smaller #6 or #4 for 1-2″ minnows and small leeches to target Perch and Crappie. Use the medium size #4 & #2 on larger 3-4″ minnows and jumbo leeches for Walleye. Lastly, the 1/0 is great with larger 4-6″ minnows used to target Pike and Bass.
What is the best hook to use for fishing?
10 Best Fishing Hooks for 2021 Reviewed
- Mustad UltraPoint Demon Wide Gap Circle Hook.
- Gamakatsu Octopus Hook.
- Mustad Classic 4 Extra Strong Kingfish Treble Hook.
- Owner’s Mutu Light Circle Hook.
- Gamakatsu 05413 Baitholder Hooks.
- Tokar Lancet Circle Non-Offset Fishing Hook.
- VMC Corporation Inline Single Hook 1X Coastal Black.
Why are circle hooks better?
Benefits of circle hooks Reduced deep hooking – improved survival of released fish and decreased loss of fishing tackle. Improved hook-up and landing rates for many species. The strike time is not as crucial for hook-up of fish.
Can fish see hooks?
Yes they can see hooks. I recently caught a 12″ crappie on just the hook. Had just lost a minnow on it and threw the bare hook back over the boat to do something else and I saw the rod bend and sure enough I done caugth me a crappie on a bare hook. Never happened before.
Which fish hook is larger 1 or 32?
Fishing hook sizes are generally referred to by a number from the smallest (size 32) to the largest (size 19/0). For hook sizes from 32 to 1, the larger the number, the smaller the hook. For fish hook sizes from 1/0 (called a one aught) to 19/0, the larger the number the larger the hook.
Do fish learn to avoid hooks?
A collaborative study between UQ and the CSIRO has shown that fish learn to avoid hooks that are a risk for their size – but they take the bait more frequently in quiet areas. “A small change in where you fish might greatly increase your catch.”
What color is most visible to a walleye fish?
A walleye lacks the blue and yellow cells, so it’s color vision is similar to that of the rare human beings with blue and yellow color blindness. What this means is a walleye most likely can see all colors as some shade of red or green.
Do the hooks hurt the fish?
Similar to how humans can’t breathe underwater, fish can’t breathe out of water. The trauma is so intense that some fish can’t handle the change in pressure, causing their internal organs to burst. Fish are left permanently wounded from hooks, or later suffer a slow and painful death.
What are the 5 types of hooks?
5 common types of essay hooks
- 1 Statistic hook.
- 2 Quotation hook.
- 3 Anecdotal hook.
- 4 Question hook.
- 5 Statement hook.
Are treble hooks illegal?
“Fish jagging is an illegal activity used by unscrupulous fishers where by a treble hook and weight are retrieved with a jerking action in an effort to foul hook a fish from a dense school,” Mr Tritton said. “ This method is prohibited in NSW as it can cause substantial injuries to fish that are not actually captured.
How do you fish for beginners?
How to Fish: Fishing Tips for Beginners
- Match your lure to the water color.
- Choose your lure shapes and sizes that let you “match the hatch.”
- Get fishing gear that appropriately size to the fish you’re pursuing.
- If you are trolling, make sure your lures are swimming in a lifelike manner.
- Choose your fishing line wisely.
What is the best freshwater fish bait?
Good natural freshwater fishing baits include worms, leeches, minnows, crayfish, crickets and grasshoppers. Freshwater bottom-feeders like catfish and carp are also attracted to cut fishing baits (cut-up bait fish) and prepared baits called dough balls.
Do fish like hot dogs?
Hot dogs are a common food taken along on fishing excursions and double as excellent catfish bait. Points to remember when using hot dogs as catfish bait include: Cheaper hot dogs seem to catch more fish. | <urn:uuid:83ae2d4d-f633-4c57-a679-913546cff10c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huntingfishingtech.com/fish/soru-what-hooks-for-what-fish.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.90771 | 1,191 | 1.625 | 2 |
Stone calculator has become the new mainstream.
You can build your own stone in minutes and save the money of a lifetime.
The stone calculator is a simple yet powerful tool to make any amount of stone you need in less time.
You need a piece of sandpaper and a knife.
You don’t need any special tools to make the stone calculator.
Just a sharpie, scissors and a piece, piece of chalk.
You make your stone calculator and you can do it in a matter of minutes.
The simplest way to make your own calculator stone is to start with a block of sand.
Then you cut out a circle, mark a spot on the sand and place it on the calculator block.
Next, you add your calculator block and the stone to the calculator.
The calculator stone will be the main part of your calculator.
So you can place the stone anywhere you like.
So if you want to put your calculator on a tree or something else, then you will have to make it with the calculator stone on it.
You can make a simple stone calculator stone in just 15 minutes using the stone from the calculator below.
To make a calculator stone, you first need to buy a stone.
You have to take a piece and cut it out of a block and then place it in the calculator with a knife, scissors or marker.
Then take a few pieces of chalk and place them on the stone block, mark your spot on it and then mark the spot.
Then you add the calculator to the stone and place the calculator on the block with a marker.
When you are done, you can put the stone in the stone with the stone tool.
To build a stone Calculator, you need to make three steps.
First you need a block that is sand.
You cut out three square circles and mark them on your sandpaper with chalk.
Then, you put a block on top of it and mark the spots on the chalk.
Next you add a stone on top and mark your mark.
Then, you place the block and mark with chalk and sand.
Next step is to make another stone.
This stone needs to be placed in the same spot as the calculator and marked with chalk on it too.
Then add the stone.
Then put the calculator in the place with the marker.
Then put the block, marker and stone on the stones and mark.
You should have three stone calculators.
You are ready to go.
To start your calculator stone: 1.
Make the calculator rock by sanding a piece that has a circle on it, and placing the stone there.2.
Take the stone, cut it in half and place one half in the middle of the stone so that it faces down and mark it.3.
Take one half of the sandstone and mark its spot with a chalk mark.4.
Mark the spot with the sand with chalk, sandpaper or chalk marker.5.
Put the stone on its side with a stone tool and mark on the corner with chalk chalk.6.
Add the calculator, stone and sand to the sand.7.
Mark your mark with a sandstone marker.8.
Place the calculator as usual.9.
Place a stone marker on the spot that you marked on the square and mark that stone stone calculator rock stone.10.
Take a piece sand and sand two square circles of the size of the calculator stones.11.
Take this sand and put the stones on the two square circle of the top of the stones.12.
Mark on the top with a piece chalk.13.
Put a piece on top to mark the mark on it from the sand stone.14.
Put chalk mark on stone on each corner with a square marker.15.
Place calculator stone with stone tool on the bottom of calculator stone.16.
Mark with chalk mark in the corner of the rock.17.
Put calculator stone into calculator stone tool, place the stones in the holes and make calculator stone again.18.
Repeat steps 8-17 for all stones.19.
Put stones in calculator stone and stones in sand and mark as you go.
You will have three calculators now.
You will have stones that can be made on any stone type, any size and any shape.
To have a calculator, stones, and calculators that are compatible, you should get all the materials you need at the right time.
If you have to buy one calculator, the material you buy should be compatible with your calculator and calculator stone.
The easiest way to do this is to buy your stones and stones that are used in your stone, stone calculator, calculator stone or calculator stone calculator separately.
Then when you buy them, you will get all materials that you need.
You buy stones from a stone, calculator, and stone calculator maker.
You buy stone from a calculator maker that uses calculators and stone from calculator makers that use calculators too.
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Our trees are one of the most valuable assets to the outdoor community. They provide a number of resources to the air, the ground, and other elements as well. They might look daring and protective in our yards or maybe they provide shade from the heat of the afternoon.
Whatever your tree does for you, it’s important to carefully consider the health of your tree. Trees live in a harsh environment. They are victims of the elements of weather, bugs, and people.
When our trees suffer, it’s often noticeable to the naked eye, although not always. So, how can we work to protect our trees and keep them healthy? Maybe you have a tree that you have noticed is struggling and just want to nurse it back to health.
We can help! At American Tree & Lawn Services, we provide tree injection services that are designed to promote the health of your tree and potentially save it from harm. Our staff is practiced in caring for trees and we would covet the opportunity to take a look at your tree.
What are Tree Injections?
It seems a bit scary to use the word injection here. The first thing that comes to mind is probably a sharp needle and a shot. As humans, we immediately think of vaccinations with this term.
A tree injection targets the tree in a very specific way. The injection might be a pesticide or a fertilizer. It could also be something geared towards the overall health of the tree or even just providing the tree with much-needed nutrients. Nutrient injections are some of the most common but there are many options.
Tree injections are one of the most proactive ways to care for your tree and resolve problems. This has become a common treatment for insect control as well as disease and illness control and treatment.
Understanding When to Use Tree Injections
Obviously, it is up to your personal preferences, but there are some things you may want to keep in mind if you are considering tree injections.
First and foremost, it’s not a bad idea to have a professional take a look at your tree and get their opinion or ask if they have any recommendations that may be beneficial to you.
Additionally, there are just some other minor factors to hash through. You will want to take note of the tree’s current health. Tree injection treatments do require a certain semblance of present health in the tree. You will want to be sure that the tree is healthy enough to accept a tree injection.
Next, consider the location of the tree. There are options like spraying and fertilization that you might consider but the location could impact the decision. For example, is the tree located in an area where spray may not be the best treatment?
Consider the environment and the immediate surroundings of the tree. What do the soil and local foliage look like?
Will this be a single treatment or something that will need to be repeated? Will your tree have time to recover in between treatments?
Finally, be aware of the injections and what are in them. It’s ok to ask questions and be familiar with what is being injected into your tree.
American Tree & Lawn Tree Injection Services
At American Tree & Lawn, our customers and their trees are of the utmost importance to us. We want you to have a positive experience and keep coming to us with your needs!
Our tree injection services are offered by experts in the field that have years of experience and will do their best to take the utmost care of your tree!
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Our company is licensed and certified as arborists in the Ohio area. Many cities surrounding Sidney fall into our footprint and we would be happy to have the opportunity to speak to you.
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According to scientists and conservationists, our planet is currently undergoing the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals and species going extinct at up to 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural rate.
Yet, even though they are in grave danger, we choose to believe that maybe it is not too late for everyone.
The recent spotting of the Formosan clouded leopard, a rare species of large cat, in Taiwan, was more than great news for all, as it hadn’t been officially sighted since 1983, and in 2013, it was declared extinct.
Historical records of this leopard date back to around the 13th century, when indigenous people brought its pelts to trade at the busy markets of port cities like Tainan. It is believed that the only non-indigenous person to have ever seen such a leopard was the Japanese anthropologist Torii Ryūzō, in 1900.
However, it has been seen in the wilderness by many people across the archipelago’s southeast, and it had been spotted prowling in the countryside near Taitung County’s Daren Township.
The Paiwan tribal authorities had formed indigenous ranger groups which are supposed to patrol the area and guard sensitive areas. They saw the leopard, known as Li’uljaw, which also holds a sacred status for locals when it suddenly climbed a tree before scrambling up a cliff to hunt for goats.
The Asian cat was again seen by another group when it darted past a scooter before quickly climbing a tree and disappearing from sight. This find is of extremely important significance for the local people in the area, and they are now holding tribal meetings to determine their next steps.
Tribal members believe they could stop the hunting by outsiders, and the elders of the village urge authorities to end logging and other activities that harm the land. National Taitung University’s Department of Life Science, professor Liu Chiung-hsi says that he believed this animal still exists.
Taiwan News reported that Pan Chih-hua (潘志華), head of the Alangyi’s tribal conference, confirmed that his villagers did indeed see the Formosan clouded leopard in the wild, but were reluctant to disclose the time and location of their sightings.
Liu said that this animal is vigilant, so it cannot be easily trapped or caught, so it is no surprise that t it has not been seen by a human being in more than two decades.
Professor Liu also noted that he has met hunters from the indigenous Bunun people who admitted capturing the animal several times in the late 1990s but burnt the bodies in order to protect them from any consequences due to violating Taiwan’s Wildlife Conservation Act.
A team of Taiwanese and U.S. zoologists surveyed the region during the period from 2001 and 2013 and did not see any of these leopards, so they eventually declared that the Formosan clouded leopard had officially gone extinct.
🔥 This is a Formosan clouded leopard from Taiwan, it was thought to be extinct until it was spotted this week. The last time it was seen was 1983 pic.twitter.com/ijme0W7VvQ
— Nature, You Lit! (@NatureSuperLit) March 1, 2019
The Taiwan’s Forestry Bureau released its latest Schedule of Protected Wildlife in January, and the Formosan clouded leopard is still listed as category I.
According to Chao Ren-fang, a professor at the Institute of Biology at I-Shou University, it would be a huge thing to remove the Formosa clouded leopard from the list, and it would require taking into consideration societal perceptions as there could be a backlash from the indigenous community.
This situation has drawn comparisons with the Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), the Australian marsupial constantly seen by surprised Aussies despite being declared extinct in 1936, but it is a fact that it is absolutely possible that an animal remains hidden for years and occasionally pops up again.
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The new MAP-200 based Swept Wavelength Test System (mSWS) series represents the continued evolution of VIAVI’s industry standard solution for measuring insertion loss (IL), polarization dependent loss (PDL), return loss (RL) and directivity of DWDM devices.
It provides the optical performance required for high wavelength resolution testing in both research and development (R&D) and production environments of next-gen DWDM devices.
Currently used at more than 100 customer sites, with over 9000 detector channels deployed, the SWS test platform validates optical performance for the latest in optical components and modules including: ROADMs, Wavelength Switches, Tunable Filters and Circuit Packs. The SWS system consists of a tunable laser source, a source optics module (SOM), a control module, a receiver chassis, one or more detector modules and application software
NOTE: Protect your investment in a VIAVI Swept Wavelength System by ensuring it is always operating at its best. VIAVI provides multiple mSWS Calibration service options designed to align with the diverse customer needs
- Increases manufacturing throughput without sacrificing performance – at twice the speed: mSWS enables full characterization of a high port-count CDC ROADM and does so twice as fast as competing solutions, while maintaining specifications at maximum sweep speed.
- Reduces the test station footprint by 50 percent and minimizes overhead OpEx: mSWS doubles the number of power meters in each test module.
- Minimizes the CapEx required to add test stations with with the industry’s most cost-effective solution: the mSWS helps quickly scale manufacturing with up to eight test stations that can be supported by one distributed tunable laser transmitter.…
- Optical component and module characterization in manufacturing, product development & research environments
- ROADMs,Wavelength Switches, Wavelength Blockers
- Circuit Packs
- Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), Coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM)
- Tunable Filters, Couplers, Splitters, Switches, Attenuators, Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), Interleavers, Dichroic Filters
- Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Waveguide Devices
- Scalable architecture – add up to an additional 7 measurement stations for a total of 8 supportable from one TLS/ SOM transmitter station
- ± 0.002 nm absolute wavelength accuracy
- Up to 256 detector channels available per station
- High speed scanning (user controllable) up to 40 nm/s
- Flexible easy-to-use software & Customized applications through dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
Complies to CE requirements plus UL3101.1 and CAN/CSA - C22.2 No. 1010.1. The laser source in the Source Optics Module (SWS20010) is a class 1. The Tunable Laser Source (SWS17101 and SWS18101) is a class 3B laser. Both are classified per IEC standard 60825-1(202) and comply with 21CFR1040.10 except deviations per Laser Notice No. 50, July 2001. | <urn:uuid:d963533f-acdd-40ba-8b93-7187f373715c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.viavisolutions.com/es-es/node/2542 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.84567 | 690 | 1.539063 | 2 |
ASCE’s 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, released March 3, assessed U.S. infrastructure with an overall C- grade.
And while that marks an improvement over the D+ grade on ASCE’s 2017 Report Card and is the highest overall grade in 20 years for the nation’s infrastructure, the report found that the long-term infrastructure investment gap continues to grow. That gap has risen from $2.2 trillion over 10 years in the last report to $2.59 trillion in the latest study, meaning a funding gap of nearly $260 billion per year.
“We have not made the investments to maintain infrastructure that in some cases was built more than 50 years ago,” said ASCE Executive Director Tom Smith.
“As this study shows, we risk significant economic losses, higher costs to consumers, businesses and manufacturers – and our quality of life – if we don’t act urgently. When we fail to invest in infrastructure, we pay the price.”
Using an A to F school report card format, ASCE's Report Card for America’s Infrastructure provides a comprehensive assessment of current infrastructure conditions and needs, evaluating 17 categories.
The individual 2021 grades ranged from a B for rail to a D- for transit. Despite incremental gains, 11 of the 17 categories received a grade in the D range. Five category grades – for aviation, drinking water, energy, inland waterways, and ports – went up from the last report in 2017, while one category – bridges – went down.
“I believe the overall grade of a C- shows that we’re on the right track but have a ways to go,” said Ruwanka Purasinghe, EIT, A.M.ASCE, member of ASCE’s Committee on America’s Infrastructure. “We’ve seen over the past four years that with proper resources, implementation, and funding, we can really make a meaningful impact on our infrastructure. I’m also excited to see how innovation and technology will continue to change the way we approach and provide solutions for our aging infrastructure.”
The 2021 Report Card found three overarching trends affecting infrastructure:
• Maintenance backlogs continue to be an issue, but asset management helps prioritize limited funding.
• Federal investments can significantly move the needle, as seen in the improved inland waterways, ports, and drinking water grades. Additionally, state and local governments have made progress, such as leveraging gas tax to fund transportation investments.
• There are still infrastructure sectors where data is scarce or unreliable.
ASCE revealed the grades through a virtual news conference, followed by the ASCE Solutions Summit. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) spoke during the Report Card release: “This is something that both Republicans and Democrats say should be a top priority. If we can’t come to a consensus on infrastructure across the aisle, I’m not sure we can find bipartisan consensus on anything. … I think it’s critically important for us that we invest in our infrastructure so we can be an example to the rest of the world.”
The ASCE Committee on America's Infrastructure, made up of 31 civil engineers from across the country with decades of expertise in all categories, prepared the Report Card, assessing all relevant data and reports, consulting with technical and industry experts, and assigning grades using the following criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation. In support of ASCE’s experts, a research team of EBP, Downstream Strategies, Daymark Energy Advisors, and the Interindustry Forecasting Project at the University of Maryland (INFORUM) helped develop the study.
Read more about the Report Card, including deep dives into each infrastructure category, in Civil Engineering magazine.
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Social media outlets have become indispensable resources to church leaders seeking to be faithful to the Gospel in the modern world. While there are practical reasons for implementing social media as part of our ministry models, the more fundamental reasons are theological. We were created to be in relationship with one another. Our need for relationship is part of the image of God in which we have been formed. Relationships help us embody the image of God in which we were created. By deepening our relationships, we convey our deep love for Christ. Social media can facilitate deeper interpersonal relationships by turning one-way communication into interactive dialogue among individuals, organizations, and communities.
In our changing world, these new technologies can enhance the mission of the church. Social media outlets have become important instruments of faithful and fruitful ministry as we seek to build relationships and make disciples.
As Christians, we enter into relationships with the hope and expectation that we will encounter the love and grace of God through our interactions with others — and that those with whom we relate will also. “Whoever sees me sees the one who sent me,” says Jesus (John 12:45). When we build relationships through social media, we give witness to the world about how God is working in our lives. And with an estimated 500 million on Facebook, and over 140 million Twitter users active each month, not to mention participants in the many other social media outlets, what a world we can open ourselves up to!
Building and maintaining relationships is also a missional imperative. Social media outlets provide new eyes to see and new ears to hear the needs of our neighbors and those in the surrounding community. On a larger scale, they help us discern the issues present within our society. While social media cannot replace personal interaction, network posts offer a glimpse of people’s current struggles. Social media outlets provide a new way of hearing and discerning these needs.
In our changing world, these new technologies can enhance the mission of the church by allowing us to initiate and cultivate new relationships among broader networks of people. Social media outlets have become important instruments of faithful and fruitful ministry as we seek to build relationships and make disciples.
This article was adapted from an article that originally appeared in the Virginia Advocate and is used with the permission of the author and publisher.
- Using Facebook Appropriately as a Ministry Tool by Thomas G. James
- Expanding Your Prayer Ministry Through Twitter by Thomas G. James
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Oxford Instruments is delighted to announce Dr Francois Parmentier of Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, Université Paris-Saclay, France and Dr Erwann Bocquillon of Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, France – as the joint winners of the 2017 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize. The Nicholas Kurti Science Prize promotes and recognises the novel work of young scientists working in the fields of low temperatures and/or high magnetic fields in Europe.
Dr Francois Parmentier is recognised for his contribution in research on electronic quantum transport in nanostructures at very low temperatures; in particular on the properties of noise and quantised heat transport in mesoscopic systems.
As the joint winner, Dr Erwann Bocquillon’s contribution to the field of topological insulators, in particular for evidencing the fractional Josephson effect in superconductor/topological-insulator weak-links, has been widely recognised by all. His radio-frequency measurements, performed on helical edge channels in HgTe quantum wells provide strong evidence for the expected 4π phase periodicity of Majorana-Andreev bound states.
“We are deeply honoured and delighted to share the Nicholas Kurti Prize together. We are grateful to the selection committee for the recognition of our works, and to Oxford Instruments for supporting young researchers. We also wish to warmly acknowledge the invaluable work of all our respective teammates and collaborators", commented Dr Parmentier and Bocquillon.
The winners will be formally presented with the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize trophy at the upcoming LT28 conference in Gothenburg in Sweden in August, where they will present their research work.
The Nicholas Kurti Science Prize selection committee was very pleased to recognise the winner’s efforts in quantum physics. The committee consists of leading European physicists, chaired by Professor George Pickett, Lancaster University, UK.
The objective of the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize is to promote and recognise the novel work of young scientists working in the fields of low temperatures and high magnetic fields within Europe. Oxford Instruments is aware that there is a critical and often difficult stage for many such researchers between completing their PhD and gaining a permanent research position. The company has therefore been helping individuals who are producing innovative work by offering assistance both financially and through promotion of their research work, through sponsoring the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for over 10 years, together with other such prizes for research in physical science in the Americas, Japan, China and India. The Nicholas Kurti Science Prize is named in honour of the late Professor Nicholas Kurti (1908-1998). Professor Kurti is known for his distinguished work in ultra-low temperature physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK which during his career earned the name “the coldest spot on earth” as a consequence of the ground-breaking research conducted there; using adiabatic demagnetisation Professor Kurti was able to create temperatures of a millionth of a degree above absolute zero.
The previous winners of the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize are Professor Dr Alexander Ako Khajetoorians, Dr Lapo Bogani, Professor Ronald Hanson, Professor Mathias Kläui, Professor Dr Christian Rüegg, Professor John Morton, Professor Lieven Vandersypen, Professor Kostya Novoselov, Professor Andreas Wallraff, Dr Silvano De Franceschi, Dr Isabel Guillamón and Dr Andrea Caviglia. | <urn:uuid:a9f5d179-fdab-45ac-8319-a5a1e7c136ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nanoscience.oxinst.com/about-us/science-prizes/nicholas-kurti/nk-winners-2017 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.920607 | 718 | 1.578125 | 2 |
This past weekend, Tucsonans and visitors to the Old Pueblo celebrated literacy at the ninth annual Tucson Festival of Books. Over 100,000 people attended the two-day festival.
From infants to the elderly, future and avid readers from all backgrounds and with varying literary preferences enjoyed immersing themselves in the power of story and the critical importance of literacy in their lives.
This year, I had the responsibility and pleasure of booking the storytellers and facilitating their performances at the Children’s Entertainment Stage. These performances were part of the Entertainment and Family Activities offered at the Festival.
In chronological order, Elly Reidy, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) Storytelling Institute tellers, Antonio Sacre, More to the Story Entertainment, Joe Hayes, and Carla Goody shared their love of story and their talents to eager audiences of all ages.
Elly Reidy and SMCC Storytelling Institute Tellers Mario Avent, Chantel Freed, Chrissy Dart, and Liz Warren shared stories from published traditional literature. Their stories spanned different cultures and their retellings reflected the personalities of the tellers. In addition to enjoying their live retellings, listeners could find their stories in the folktale section of their public and school libraries. Hurray for 398.2!
Antonio Sacre, who told stories on both days, shared personal family stories some of which have become picture books or part of a short story collection. One of the overarching themes in Antonio’s tellings is the power of family storytelling, Throughout his performance, he asked listeners to connect with their own stories/memories. Antonio shared his stories in Spanish and English and gave listeners a humorous and heartfelt window into his experiences as a boy, son/nephew/grandson, and father.
More to the Story Entertainment captured the attention and imaginations of the youngest TFOB audience attendees and their families. Through fairy costuming, song, audience participation, and magical moments they delighted their audience.
Joe Hayes once again captivated his loyal audience and made new fans, too, with his Southwest-seasoned tales and stories from beyond our region. Joe said he enjoys telling stories that blend cultures. He told a Cuban story about a family of white herons in Spanish and English and wove a chorus throughout the telling that reminded listeners of the African ancestry of a majority of Cuban people. Joe reminded us that stories connect people of various cultural backgrounds to a shared humanity.
C. A. Goody shared the story of her inspiration for her Charlie the Cat series, which now includes nine titles. Taking the point of view of Charlie, she recounted how a cat might experience various aspects of life. Written for third- and fourth-grade children, Carla’s stories invite readers to take up their pencils/pens/keyboards to craft stories of their own.
Thank you all for your part in making the Children’s Entertainment Stage an exciting part of the TFOB.
As a former school librarian, (school) librarian educator, and family literacy advocate, I am keenly interested in the literacy organizations that support Tucson’s literacy ecosystem, particularly those that impact early childhood education.
These were some of the booths I visited and the groups whose work I applaud (and support). In alphabetical order:
Expect More Arizona: “Expect More Arizona fosters a shared voice and collaborative action among partners statewide to advocate for all Arizona students to have the opportunity to succeed, from their early years and throughout life.”
First Things First: “First Things First is one of the critical partners in creating a family-centered, comprehensive, collaborative and high-quality early childhood system that supports the development, health and early education of all Arizona’s children birth through age 5.”
Literacy Connects, which includes Reach Out and Read Southern Arizona, Reading Seed, and more: “Literacy creates solutions to many of society’s most persistent problems. From reducing unemployment and poverty to increasing economic growth and opportunity, literacy is key to a better future for all of us.”
Make Way For Books: “Our mission is to give all children a chance to read and succeed.” MWFB serves more than 30,000 children and their families and 700 educators.
Worlds of Words: “Worlds of Words is committed to providing a range of resources to encourage educators at all levels to integrate global literature into the lives of children.” (More about WOW next week!)
It does take a village to support literacy and these organizations are doing vital work to elevate literacy in our community and improve the quality of life choices for our residents, particularly as they launch their literacy lives.
Thank you to the presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and most of all the readers who use their literacy skills every day to enjoy life, to improve their life choices, and to participate in the life of our village, our country, and our world. In doing so, you are an essential part of the literacy village we all need. Bravo to all!
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If you have hard or electronic copies of projects that demonstrate your skills and personality, bring them to the interview. Good portfolio pieces will help set you apart from other candidates.
I was very happy when a Computing Science student asked me if it was okay for him to create a portfolio. You can probably guess what my answer was. One Human Resources recruiter from Electronic Arts said that if a Computing Science student can demonstrate their coding ability and show that, it would be very impressive during an interview.
Here are some important tips from Co-op students, Co-op Coordinators and employers on showcasing your portfolio during interviews:
1. Ask to Show Your Work While you Answer Questions
Some employers will ask students to go over their portfolio at some point during the interview. But even if the interviewer doesn’t explicitly ask, if you are telling a story about a related project, you can politely say, “I actually have the project on my portfolio, would it be ok if I show it to you?”
I had one student go for an interview for a graphic design position. When the interviewer asked her to talk about some graphic design projects, she began talking about the merchandise she designed and said, “I have the mugs I made for the organization, would you like to see them?” The employer was very impressed.
2. Have your Online Portfolio Open and Ready to Go
If you are bringing your computer to the interview, make sure you have enough battery life and that you load the window with your portfolio ready to go to avoid any delays during the interview.
3. Talk About the Most Related Projects First
If the interviewer simply asks you to walk them through your portfolio, it is your responsibility to talk about the most related projects first. Be selective.
Some students have web design, print design, articles, video and 3D modelling projects on their portfolio. If you are applying for an Online Marketing Assistant position, you will want to showcase your web design projects and articles first. If you were applying for a Video Production Assistant position, then you will want to discuss your video project first.
Don’t walk through every single project on your website, just the most related ones. During my mock interviews with students, I simply ask them to walk through their portfolio to see which projects they talk about first or if they will keep talking until they are interrupted. One student went over more than 10 pieces when I did not stop her.
After you feel you have shown the most related projects, you can ask the employer, “Is there anything else you’d like to see on my portfolio?” If not, then wait for the next question.
4. Tell the Full Story
When you are talking about your projects, tell the full story including:
the project background
your role and responsibilities
your process (if related)
which programs you used (if related)
Remember to distinguish between “we” and “me.”After you tell the employer the number of people who were on your team within a group project, be clear on what you were specifically responsible for with that project.
Finally, the outcome can be how the project benefited someone else or how you grew as a result of the work you contributed. One student said, “I used Illustrator for the first time during this project and I fell in love with the program. Now I use Illustrator on my own time and am constantly learning new tricks.” What a great result! And she got hired.
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According to Tucson, the Life and Times of An American City (pages 108-110, opens a new window) by C.L. Sonnichsen, both electricity and gaslights appeared in 1882. However, the attempt to provide Tucson with electricity in 1882 failed within two years. Al Johnson, owner of an ice plant, attempted to provide the town with electricity via a ‘steam-driven, direct-current Edison bipolar unit.’ Johnson was not able to turn a profit and the company failed. The first successful electric company was organized in 1895.
Offering a somewhat different timeline, an August 1988 issue of Arizona Highways article says: "Tucson became the first Arizona city blessed with artificial lighting—not from electricity but from manufactured gas—in the spring of 1882. Three years later however the Old Pueblo's 600 residents were cast into the dark when the gas company failed and was sold at a sheriff's sale. The city lights did not come on again until 1892, this time thanks to electricity generated by steam turbine."
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Kansas Self-Management Education (KSME)
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Table of Contents
RESISTIVITY AND CONDUCTIVITY
The resistance of a wire maintain at a constant temperature is related to its length L and its cross-sectional area (A) by the expression
R = ρl
Where ρ is a constant known as resistivity of the material (its unit is ohm-metre, Ωm)
ρ = RA
R = resistance, A = cross-sectional area, l = length of the wire.
The resistance is the ability of a material to oppose the flow of current through it. The greater the resistivity of a wire the poorer it is as an electrical conductor. That is why conductivity is used to specify the current –carrying ability of a material. The greater the conductivity of a material, the more easily can current flow through the material. Hence, materials with high conductivity will have low resistively.
Conductivity, σ is the reciprocal of the resistivity
σ = 1
Electrical Conductivity: This is a measure of the extent to which a material will allow current to flow easily through it when a p.d is applied at a specified temperature. It is the reciprocal of the resistivity.
Conversion of galvanometer to ammeter (Shunt)
An ammeter is used for measuring currents. A galvanometer is used for detecting and measuring very small currents. We can convert galvanometer into ammeter by connecting a suitable resistor in parallel with the galvanometer, this is known as shunt. A shunt is a low resistance wire and is used to divert a large part of the current being measured but to allow only a small current to pass through the galvanometer
Conversion of Galvanometer to Voltmeter
A galvanometer used for measuring very small current can be converted to voltmeter by connecting a high resistance or multiplier in series with the galvanometer.
- A steady current of 1.5A flows through a copper wire of length 10m and cross-sectional 3.44×10-8m2. What is the voltage applied across the wire if the resistivity of copper is 1.72 x10-8Ωm?
- A galvanometer of resistance 5 ohms gives a full scale deflection when a current of 50mA flows through it. How will you convert it to an ammeter capable of measuring 2A?
- When a resistance r is a across a cell, the voltage across the terminals of the cell is reduced to two-thirds of its nominal value. The internal resistance of the cell is (a) 1/3R (b) ½R (c) 2/3R (d) R
- Which of the following does not determine the electrical resistance of a wire? (a) Length (b) Mass (c) Cross-sectional area (d) Temperature
- A wire of 5Ω resistance is drawn out so that its new length is twice the original length. If the resistivity of the wire remains the same and the cross-sectional area is halved, the new resistance is (a) 5Ω (b) 10Ω (c) 20Ω (d) 40Ω
- A cell of e.m.f 1.5V and internal resistance 2.5ohms is connected in series with an ammeter of resistance 0.5 ohms and a resistor of resistance 0.7ohms. Calculate the current in the circuit (a) 6.67A (b) 0.20A (c) 0.60A (d) 0.15A
- A cell of internal resistance 2 ohms supplies a current of a 6-hm resistor. The efficiency of the cell is (a) 12.0% (b) 25.0% (c) 33.3% (d) 75.0%
- A galvanometer of resistance 50Ω which gives a full-scale deflection for 1mA is to be adapted to measure currents up to 5A. (i) calculate the resistance of the resistor required (ii) if the resistor is made of a material of cross-sectional area 4×10-4cm2 and resistivity 2×10-6Ωm, calculate its length
- A battery of three cells in series, each of e.m.f. 2 V and internal resistance 0.5 Ω is connected to a 2 Ω resistor in series with a parallel combination of two 3Ω resistors. Draw the circuit diagram and calculate (i) the effective external resistance (ii) the current in the circuit (iii) the lost volts in the battery (iv) the current in one of the 3 Ω
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Iran's Raisi Says Ready for Nuclear Talks Revival, But Not Under Western 'Duress'
22:07 GMT 04.09.2021 (Updated: 13:23 GMT 06.08.2022)
Earlier, following a halt in negotiations after the Iranian elections in June, France and Germany encouraged Iran to resume the nuclear talks, with Paris pressing for an immediate restart amid Western concerns about Tehran's escalating nuclear activities.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that Tehran is willing to undertake discussions with participating countries to resurrect the 2015 nuclear agreement, but not under pressure from the West.
Raisi also underscored during a broadcast interview with IRNA news agency that Tehran is seeking negotiations that will eventually lead to the easing of US sanctions.
"I stated earlier that the issue of talks will, of course, be central for our government, but not with the pressure that they [the Western countries] are applying [against Iran]. The talks will not succeed if they continue under duress," Raisi is quoted as saying. "Talks are on the agenda ... We are seeking goal-oriented negotiations ... so sanctions on the Iranian people are lifted."
Earlier in the day, the spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, blasted the US for the newest round of sanctions imposed on Iranian nationals that Washington claimed were "intelligence operatives." Khatibzadeh stressed in his speech that "the current US officials are pursuing the failed path of the previous administration."
Iran Blasts Biden for ‘Pursuing Failed Path of Previous Administration’ as US Adds New Sanctions
4 September 2021, 17:45 GMT
Overall, more than 1,500 persons, companies, government agencies and armed groups linked to Iran have now been sanctioned by the US.
Last week, according to the national Mehr news agency, the president issued a proclamation selecting Mohammad Eslami as the new head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
The administration of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani selected Eslami as the minister of roads and urban development. Ali Akbar Salehi led the AEOI at the time.
Last month, France, Germany, and the UK expressed "grave concern" over UN nuclear watchdog assessments indicating Iran had produced uranium metal enriched to 20% fissile purity for the first time, and increased its uranium enrichment capacity to 60%. These actions, the countries claimed, amounted to "serious violations of Iran's commitments" under the 2015 nuclear deal, which limited Tehran's uranium refinement purity to 3.67%.
Furthermore, the European powers chastised Iran for restricting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access by pulling out of nuclear monitoring agreements.
In its turn, Iran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful, that it has informed the IAEA about its operations, and that any steps away from the 2015 agreement would be reversed if the US returned to the agreement and repealed sanctions.
The UK, Germany, China, Russia, the US, France and Iran signed a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. The deal included the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program as a guarantee of Tehran's non-development of nuclear weapons.
However, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump decided to unilaterally withdraw and reinstate tough sanctions against Iran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment.
Negotiations are currently underway in Vienna to restore the JCPOA and lift US sanctions on Iran, with the sixth round ending on June 20. According to the Russian Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, the work to restore the deal was completed by almost 90%, but political issues related to US obligations were unresolved.
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I will love who I want, kiss who I want, and no one should not respect me because of that. I don't care if you think it's wrong, it's right to me, and that's all that matters. If you like guys, girls, if you decide to be the other gender or love both, I will respect you and stand with you. We need to accept that this is how our world is evolving, and it's changing for the good.
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In the last days, the weather was warm and sunny and it finally feels like real spring. The first trees started to flower and the leaves will develop soon and the world will be green once again. And already the first fresh herbs can be found in garden and forest, like wild garlic, ground elder and salad burnet. Blended together this herbs yields an aromatic paste which adds a great flavour to this crusty bread and turns the crumb slightly green.
As preferment I used a poolish. A poolish is made with the same amount of water and flour and a tiny little bit of yeast. It rise for 14-16 hours and has to used while its surface is still doomed. In contrast to a biga, which is really forgiving when used half a day later then planned, a poolish has only a limited time window in which it can be used. After that it starts to degrade and collapse. But it helps the dough to rise well and adds a mild, complex flavour. The name poolish comes from the polish bakers who brought this kind of dough to France in former times. Here he is used often for baguette dough.
We love Gnocchi. And we love wild garlic. And combining both sounded delightful for us.
So we decided to cook wild garlic gnocchi when we meet to cook together with my sisters family. And this time we were not lazy when making gnocchi (like we are when we make ricotta gnocchi) and form them first to little balls and then roll them over a fork to got the authentic look. Petra linked a great Video showing the method very well. And when one is forming the dough into small balls and two a rolling the balls over a fork, the gnocchi are fast done.
We ate them with a mushroom ragout, it was a delicious dish and a great day with the family!
The Inspiration for this wild herb fans was Michas wild garlic pesto. But instead of using only wild garlic I used other wild herbs I found when I strolled through in my parents garden: wild garlic, ground elder, sorrel and salad burnet. From the domesticated herbs I choosed – like Micha – some leaves of mint and lovage. I can strongly recommend to make a bigger batch of the pesto, it is great for seasoning risottos or pasta dough, to season a salad sauce or for a spring time variation of remoulade.
But back to the wild herb fans… I decided to make another dough then for the herb fan rolls, using sweet starter and making the dough stripes a little bit longer, placing them as a “U” shape in the muffin form. This give the rolls a nice shape.
The rolls are delicious, perfect to start the barbeque season.
Wild garlic is still in and so some pepole wrinkle their noses if you admit that you like wild garlic, too. But luckily I do not have to run after trends and I do not have to run away from trends. I just eat what I like.
And I like wild garlic very much, so I was very happy when I found some in our Greenbag last week. Instantly I began to plan what to cook with it.
We had no homemade ravioli for a long time, so we decided that we would like to have some wild garlic ravioli. But when I check our fridge I realize that we had only two eggs left and that was the amount I needed for the dough. So I needed a filling without egg. Looking around in the kitchen I saw some bread that was going to become stale on the counter. Some months ago I bookmarked a recipe for ravioli with a bread filling on Mestolo (and I have not cooked it untill now). I take the inspiration for the filling there and mix a filling containing bread, wild garlic and a little bit cream. I soak the bread before in hot water to soften it.
Homemade Mayonnaise is very delicious and very simple to prepare. But I am always sad when I have to throw away the leftovers. But I do not dare to keep them, my fear of Salmonella is stronger then the pangs of conscience about wasting food.
I was thrilled when I read on Fool for Food about a egg free Mayonnaise. Claudia posted a recipe that used milk instead of egg. The only bad thing was that the recipe asked for an immersion blender. I do not own one, so I start thinking. And then I thought, why not use my beloved food processor. With its whisking attachment it whips perfectly all kinds of creams. I use it for normal mayonnaise as well, so I started a first attempt. | <urn:uuid:4c75ba3d-73db-45c6-b66a-d6b17116fdd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hefe-und-mehr.de/en/tag/barlauch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955113 | 988 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Exosomes are small membrane-enclosed delivery vehicles (40-150nm in diameter), which selectively package and transport molecules from host to target cells. Exosome-packaged molecules can be proteins, RNAs and non-coding RNAs such as microRNAs (miRNAs). MiRNAs are endogenous ‘master-regulators’ of gene expression and a single miRNA can control multiple different mRNAs, often found within similar biological pathways. The exosomal transfer of these molecules, particularly miRNAs, can therefore functionally alter the environment of target cells. Exosomes are paramount to the pathogenesis of a plethora of neurodegenerative diseases but their role in retinal degenerations remains largely unknown. At the Clear Vision Research Lab we study exosomes using several miRNA-centred approaches:
- We are characterising the molecular cargo of retinal exosomes, in particular their miRNA signature, to understand the relevance of these in the establishment and development of retinal degenerations.
- Exosomes are known to be efficient at delivering their molecular contents, including miRNA, to recipient cells. To utilize this high delivery efficiency, we are developing ways to enrich retinal exosomes with specific miRNAs of therapeutic potential in an effort to deliver these directly into the degenerating retina.
- Exosome-packaged molecules have high diagnostic potential. Exosomes also have the capacity to travel from their organ of origin, such as the retina, via biofluids such as blood. We are working towards uncovering the signature imprinted on blood-derived exosomes with the goal of establishing a panel of exosome-based biomarkers of retinal degenerations. This will aid the development of an objective and precise diagnostic kit for retinal degenerations. | <urn:uuid:0afecb36-d4b7-4e01-aba4-996ca18dab02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicalschool.anu.edu.au/study/postgraduate-research/exosomes-retinal-degenerations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937154 | 372 | 2.78125 | 3 |
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION and PRIVACY REGULATIONS
1. DEFINITIONS / TERMINOLOGY
Data or Personal Data: means any information relating to a Relevant Person.
Data subject: means an identified or identifiable individual who may be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier, such as a name, a registration number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more specific elements relating to the individual's physical, physiological, genetic, psychic, economic, cultural or social identity.
Applicable Data Protection Regulation: means Regulation 2016/679 / EU and amended Law No. 78-17 dated January 6th 1978 as well as all other applicable legal provisions relating to the processing and / or protection of private data.
Data ProcessingController means the individual or legal entity, the public authority, the service or any other body which, individually or corporately, determines the purposes and the means for the Processing of Personal Data.
Processing means: any transaction or set of transactions that may or may not be performed using automated processes and applied to Personal Data, such as collection, registration, organization, retention, adaptation or modification, extraction, consultation, use, communication by transmission, dissemination or any other form of disclosure, reconciliation or interconnection, and locking, erasing or destruction.
2. COLLECTION OF YOUR PRIVATE DATA
2.1. Name and details of the Data Processing Controller
Private Data are processed by the COMITÉ DU TOURISME DES ÎLES DE GUADELOUPE (« CTIG» or their « Responsable du traitement / Data ProcessingController»)
Local public institution, business and trade sector, registered under SIREN number 839 308 988, located 5, square de la Banque – BP 555 – 97166 Pointe-à-Pitre Cedex (Guadeloupe, F.W.I.)
Tel : +590 590 820 930
2.2 Collection methods
We may collect your Data in a variety of ways, including when:
- you register on the site
- you attend our events (ex: trade shows, contests, etc.)
- you contact us by email, mail or phone;
- you participate in a contest or promotional contest, etc.
- you give us permission to use such private information ("opt-in");
- you answer our requests (SMS, emails, questionnaires, surveys, social medias, etc ...);
- you interact with the Site in submitting an application form, providing a survey form, using online services;
- You interact with CTIG social media pages such as Facebook or Twitter;
More generally in all cases where you contact the CTIG and it is necessary to collect data about you to better understand your request and offer you an adequate response.
2.3 Classes and origin of data collected directly or indirectly
The types of data that we may collect directly or indirectly are:
- contact information (such as name, address, email address and phone number ...)
- identification information (such as passport identification number, tax registration number or social security number, ID card, driving license, date of birth ...)
- demographic information (such as age, age range, marital status, gender ...)
- geolocation data.
Data collected indirectly come from:
- Partners parties to agreements (associations, businesses, communities, etc).
2.4 Purposes and Lawful Basis for Data Processing
Data are processed by the CTIG for the following objectives (purposes):
- help you make a booking;
- provide and improve the use of the Website and provide you with technical support;
- update your awareness of our products or services;
- contact you about our products or services or other similar third-party products and services;
- comply with our legal obligations, settle disputes and enforce our contracts;
- contact you as part of our promotion and marketing campaigns of the Guadeloupe Islands;
- enable you to tender for public contracts;
- enable you to apply for new job offers at the CTIG;
- connect you to our partners (ex: hotels, lodges, photographers, etc.);
- help us to know you better.
These Purposes comply with the legal provisions of the governing Data Protection Regulations:
- The provision of a public service
- The legitimate interest of the CTIG in promoting its services and the Guadeloupe Islands
- The execution of a contract
- The performance of a legal requirement,
- Securing a consent when and where consent is required.
3. MANDATORY OR OPTIONAL COLLECTION
The CTIG informs you when the provision of information is mandatory (in particular because of a legal, regulatory, contractual obligation or simply in order to process your request or answer you). If you do not fill in this "mandatory" information, the CTIG may be unable to respond to the request.
Fields on a form that are not specified as mandatory are left to your discretion. It is up to you to fill them or not.
4. INFORMATION WE SHARE
We do not disclose the personal data we collect about you except to:
- our providers as part of their service on our Website,
- our partners in the tourism or other sectors (such as the partner in charge of VSEs);
- territorial authorities when so requested.
5. TRANSMISSION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Your personal details may be transferred, stored and processed in France, Germany, England, United States, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland. Some of these countries may not provide the same level of personal data protection as in the European Union and the European Economic Area.
When we transfer your information to a country that does not offer a sufficient degree of protection, we take the necessary measures to preserve the security of your personal data, in particular by applying all appropriate safeguards provided in the applicable Data Protection Regulations.
To know exactly how we ensure safe transmission of your data, please contact us via the "contact us" section of our Website.
6. DURATION OF DATA CONSERVATION
Be informed that for the following purposes,your data will be kept as indicated:
- Cookies: 13 months
- Contracts: 5 years
- E-contracts: 10 years
- Prospects: 3 years
- Invoices: 10 years
- Web analytics and stats: 6 months.
- Job offers: 2 years
- HR management: 5 year records after the departure of the employee
- Tenders: as time required for the award of the contract.
Other reasonable durations shall apply to other specific collections as the case may be.
7. YOUR RIGHTS ON YOUR DATA
7.1. About your generic rights terms and conditions
In accordance with the applicable Data Protection Regulations, subject to the provisions of the said Regulations, and once your identity established, you are legally entitled to:
- access your data (in particular to know what data are processed by the CTIG);
- amend (to modify wrong data or update obsolete data)
- delete your data (when you meet the conditions provided by the Regulations and you no longer want the CTIG to process all or part of your Data);
- recover (when you meet the conditions provided by the Regulations and you want to recover your data or have them recovered by a third party);
- revoke (when you meet the conditions provided by the Regulations and you want the processing of your Data to be suspended due to an event provided for in the said Regulations);
- issue a ban for reasons related to your specific situation (when you meet the conditions provided by the Regulations and you no longer want your Data to be processed by the CTIG);
- define guidelines on the use of your Data after your death (when you meet the conditions set out in the Regulations and you want to predetermine what should happen to your data after your death).
In addition, you are entitled at any time and with no further justification, to ban the processing of your Data for marketing purposes, including profiling, and to withdraw any consent otherwise given to the CTIG.
You may claim said rights by contacting us in the manner set out in clause "11. Contact Us".
Lastly, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with the CNIL:
- directly online;
- by mail: 3 Place Fontenoy - TSA 80715 - 75334 Paris Cedex 07.
8. AMENDMENTS TO THE PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY
9. CONTACT US
For any further information on the protection of your personal data, please contact us
- via the Website: in the "Contact" section
- by email: firstname.lastname@example.org
- by mail: CTIG, 5, square de la Banque – BP 555 – 97166 Pointe-à-Pitre Cedex
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Choosing a place to give birth is one of the most difficult decisions you will have to make during your pregnancy. There are a lot of factors to consider, and you might feel overwhelmed by all of your options (or lack thereof!). It’s important to visit any birthing centers you are interested in before making your final decision, and consult your physician to see if he or she has any recommendations.
Let’s take a more in depth look at some of the questions you might want to ask when you go to visit a potential maternity center:
- Nurse and Doctor qualifications: How many registered nurses are there compared to LPNs or CNAs? Make sure you’re going to have access to whichever type of staff you feel most comfortable with.
- Ratio of nurses and doctors to patients: Are there enough nurses so that you’ll receive as much individual attention as you’ll require? Is there anyone in the maternity center who teaches childbirth education classes?
- Ability to provide care catered to your wants and needs: Do you have a high-risk pregnancy that may require special equipment? If the birthing center isn’t equipped to provide a serious or minor emergency service, you may want to look elsewhere. Do you have any specific wants for your delivery? Can they provide a tub for a water delivery? Make sure you bring up all of the amenities you want to have access to during your delivery to ensure they can accommodate them.
Additionally, it’s important to have a maternity clinic that will be supportive of your after-birth choices, too. Whether you choose to breastfeed or not is completely up to you, although most doctors encourage it if you’re able. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that women who breastfeed may have a lower risk of heart disease, which is the number one cause of death in the United States.
The 290,000 women who participated in the study were monitored for 10 years after giving birth, and the women who breastfed had a 9% lower risk of heart disease. While more research is necessary to make the link certain, the study shows that breastfeeding may change the metabolism of women after giving birth, ergo reducing heart risk.
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The Lee-Enfield rifle was made in a number of calibers other than the .303 British with which most of us are familiar. One of the better ones for a hunting rifle was the .375 2½” Nitro Express. The .375 2½” Nitro Express is not to be confused with the .375 Holland & Holland Flanged Magnum Nitro Express as it was the rimmed (i.e. flanged) equivalent of the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum (with the belted case): the .375 2½” was not anything like either of those but instead, if you can imagine a .303 British case lengthened to 2½” and necked up to take .375″ diameter bullets then you’ve got it.
The .375 2½” was created in 1899. It was made for double rifles and single shots based either on the Martini action or on the Farquharson. It was also chambered by British arms maker BSA (Birmingham Small Arms) in sporting Lee-Enfield bolt action rifles. In a Lee-Enfield rifle the cartridge earned itself a reputation for accuracy and as a great Red Deer cartridge.
A Lee-Enfield rifle in this caliber, with its fast action and good magazine capacity, probably rates as one of the best wild pig rifles one could ever wish for. Short, fast handling, and fast reloading at the shoulder, with a cartridge that does not generate punishing recoil, but delivers a 270 grain .375″ bullet at 2,000 fps in the direction of the soon to be pork chops quarry with great efficaciousness.
Finding ammunition for the .375 2½” Nitro Express is not easy: the previous Kynoch loaded cartridges are listed on Midway USA for USD$52.99 per box of five. That translates to USD$10.60 per cartridge which takes all the fun out of the proposed pig shooting expedition. On the plus side however is that the ammunition is not hard to make. Dies can be obtained from Huntington’s (also Northern Shooter Supplies in Australia), and cases can be fabricated from a different parent case (Northern Shooter Supplies in Australia also list actual .375 2½” Nitro Express cases).
Although the .375 2½” Nitro Express shares much the same rim and head diameters as the .303 British, the .303 is shorter with a length of 2.222″. There are a couple of possible cases that can be used however; one is the .405 Winchester, and the other is the 40-70 Sharps Straight which has been undergoing a bit of a revival with Black Powder Metallic Silhouette shooters. The .405 Winchester is near perfect though.
The rim diameter of the .375 2½” Nitro Express is listed as being .523″ (by comparison with the .303 British which is .540″, the same as the .405 Winchester) with a head diameter of .456″ (the same as the .303 British and the .405 Winchester). Despite the slight difference in rim diameter the .405 Winchester case should work fine without the need to turn down the rim. The Lee-Enfield actions were mostly made for the .303 British chambering.
Load data is the next issue. There is only one reliable source for load data for this cartridge that I know of, and that is the Woodleigh Bullets Loading Manual: a manual you should really own if you are interested in classic British and Continental hunting rifles. You can get it at Amazon or directly from Woodleigh Bullets.
The original factory loading for the .375 2½” Nitro Express was for 40 grains of Cordite behind a 270 grain soft point bullet. The rifle pictured below is marked 40-270 MAX on the right side to indicate this is the loading it is proofed for. This was necessary as there was a more powerful factory loading for this caliber that used 40 grains of Cordite behind a 320 grain bullet. The 40-270 loading produced a breech pressure of 14 tons per square inch, the 40-320 loading produced 17 tons per square inch.
The Woodleigh manual lists loadings for their Catalog Number 42, 270 grain .375″ bullet as 46 grains of Varget (AR2208 in Australia), with a Winchester Large Rifle primer in a Bertram case, for a velocity of 1970fps. They also list 55 grains of H4350 (AR2209) for 1980fps. As these loads were worked up in Bertram cases which are not available anymore, you should reduce these if you are using cases made from .405 Winchester brass and work up, not exceeding the listed loads. Woodleigh recommends seating the bullet so that it has a sixteenth of an inch free movement before engaging the rifling. If you are not sure how to do that let us know via our Facebook page and we’ll do a short post on it.
There are two Woodleigh 270grain bullets, one for lower velocity calibers such as the .375 2½” Nitro Express (Cat. No. 42) and a different one designed for the .375 H&H (Cat. No. 43A) so its important to use the correct one for good expansion at the lower velocity of the .375 2½” NE.
The rifle pictured above is an original Watson Brothers made Lee-Enfield in .375 2½” Nitro Express. It is fitted with a handy tang safety catch and has a 24½” barrel. It also looks to be fitted with typical British folding leaf rear sights, with the front sight on a nicely integrated ramp. It is hard to tell for sure but the stock wood looks quite promising and might clean up and re-finish to become rather pretty, if you were going to re-finish the rifle.
The condition of this rifle is listed by Rock Island Auction as: “OE – GOOD: some minor replacement parts; metal smoothly rusted or lightly pitted in places, cleaned; lightly scratched, bruised or minor cracks repaired; in good working order. PRF – PROFESSIONALLY REFINISHED OR RESTORED“.
The Rock Island Auction description is: “Barrel rib marked “WATSON BROs. 29 OLD BOND St. LONDON”, with “375 EX/CORDITE 40-270 MAX” on the right side.”
You will find the sale page for this fascinating rifle if you click here.
Sale will be on February 17th 2018 and the expected price is in the range USD$1,100-$1,600
(All pictures of the Lee-Enfield .375 2½” Nitro Express rifle courtesy Rock Island Auction).
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Once we understand that it is not for us “to know the times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority”, we gain the freedom of no longer feeling pressured to conform the book of Revelation to any checklist of events. Instead, we can appreciate the character of the age in which we live, and accept that this time will be filled with all kinds of bad things as described in detail in various epistles, and in picture-book form in the Revelation.
As we leave the times and seasons in God’s sovereign hands, we can seek the fullest experience of the Holy Spirit who will empower us to be Jesus’ witnesses wherever we are. We can then participate in getting this gospel of the kingdom out to the whole world, both “waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God”, without becoming discouraged because of how bad things often look, since God’s word has made it very clear how bad it will be.
My contention is that everything the New Testament wrote about the future in reference to things taking place after Jesus’ ascension into heaven, can be divided into three distinct sections. We are presently living in the “last hour” until Jesus returns. Jesus’ return is the culmination of all life as we know it, ushering in the most radical changes the world has ever seen.
The Return of Christ is also a singular event, not broken up into many stages. In his first coming, Jesus did not come to condemn the world, but to save the world. In his second coming he does come to judge, and so his return will show his condemnation of the unrighteous, and the complete fulfillment of salvation for those who had experienced the righteousness of faith in his name.
Once Jesus’ return in judgment separates the sheep from the goats, the sheep and the goats both enter into their eternal state. There are many descriptions of what is ahead for those who repented and received Jesus Christ by faith. There is also a clear picture of what is ahead for those who refused and rebelled against the gospel of the kingdom. When we enter that final state, whichever is ours because of our response to Jesus Christ, it is where we remain forever.
Once we recognize that the future is characterized by these three events, or seasons, we can then let the Scriptures tell us what each of these experiences will be like. No matter which Scripture we read that speaks about the church’s place in anything that comes after the first coming of Christ, it will tell us either about the last hour we are in now, the return of Christ whenever it takes place, or what it will be like for us after we enter into the joy of our Master.
There should be comfort in this for the simple reason that we don’t actually need to trust what people say when they arrange Scriptures in their own series of time frames that try to tell us how the times and seasons will appear. We can tell anyone who tries to take us into their own series of markers that our Lord and Savior said that it is not for us to know those things, so we aren’t going to pretend we know them, no matter how masterful and creative their charts appear.
Life becomes simple (though never easy) when we focus on living for Christ until he comes. When we think that every day we want to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that we can be Jesus’ witnesses in our families, jobs, neighborhoods, and worlds, we will be right where God wants us when his Son returns, or when he takes us home because our work on earth is finished.
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Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)
Acts 1:7
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II Peter 3:12
Romans 1:18-32 and II Timothy 3:1-9 give detailed descriptions of the characteristics of this last hour.
I John 2:18
John 3:16-18
Matthew 24:30-31 shows how the nations will mourn because Jesus is coming in judgment, while the elect will be gathered to be with the Lord forever. Revelation 6:15-17 emphasizes how Jesus’ second coming will be one of judgment and wrath against the lost.
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Information security is inextricable from all aspects of IT and it must include everything from cloud-based advanced threat prevention to physical switches that automatically quarantine infected devices. Automating IT in order to simplify it, make it repeatable and allow multiple products to form a whole greater than any individual component, is the basis of Juniper Connected Security.
Juniper Connected Security combines inbuild detection of threats and the enforcement of policy with the capabilities of our partners to safeguard users, applications and infrastructure against advanced threats. Combining automation with a layered approach to defense provides our customers with the capabilities to answer both extant and emerging, internal and external threats.
In the world of information security, some things are as much a certainty as death and taxes. These truisms have been discussed ad nauseam by security experts, vendors and even governments – the information security arms race, too much data, too many workloads and not enough skilled staff to manage it all. Add in a few regulations and organizations are at security overload.
Traditionally, these perpetual challenges have been used to push information security products by playing on our fears. The world is full of bogymen, it’s unpredictable and you probably don't have enough skilled people to defend your organization. Be afraid!
These challenges have existed for decades and nothing has proven to be a magic wand that solves them. Meanwhile, today's enterprises also have to cope with an increasingly rapid move to multicloud infrastructure design, which necessitates planning for – and managing – distributed environments.
The future of IT is workload diversity. Soon, environments of even moderate size and sophistication are going to be multi-vendor – if they aren’t already – and this interconnectivity will have implications. A security monoculture is a single point of failure. Only by working together can we hope to effectively and efficiently defend our networks.
No vendor can be an island that magically prevents all compromise events. To successfully defend today's data centers, security teams need an architecture that acts as a connected force with products that enhance security while providing automation, orchestration and interconnectivity capabilities. Some vendors imply that the only way for organizations to achieve this is to replace their infrastructure with a homogenous stack of products. At best, they may "allow" interoperability with their equipment, but the end goal is always to replace what is already there with what they sell. Juniper Connected Security allows organizations to realize and build upon the full benefits of their existing security investments without having to rip and replace.
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Information security is increasingly dependent on automation. Automation enables reliability, reliability is vital to technology interoperation and successful information security requires an interconnected and layered approach that includes everything from firewalls to physical infrastructure. Juniper Connected Security automates and integrates security technologies from multiple vendors, enabling a defense-in-depth approach to security that is repeatable and greater than the sum of its parts.
An organization's security needs are not met by a distinct set of products that operate in a vacuum. Gone are the days when organizations could hunker down behind a firewall and pretend that this was "good enough." If you build security as an afterthought, bad things happen. If you build networking as an afterthought, bad things happen. Everything must integrate and work together at scale in order to safeguard users, applications and infrastructure. For Juniper Networks, that scale refers to some of the largest networks in the world.
Juniper’s vision is not just about offering best-in-class products, it's about being able to deliver battle-tested products that work regardless of scale and with unparalleled efficiency. We have always engineered solutions for the hardest problems first to meet the needs of the world's largest and most demanding organizations, and then gradually made these technologies easier to use and simpler to deploy.
Different customers have different, but interrelated, needs. Many of our customers are early adopters that are constantly operating at the bleeding edge of technological possibility. They need products that work and that do so at a scale that seemed impossible only a few years ago.
Most large organizations, however, require solutions that are more mature than those found at the absolute bleeding edge, even as they struggle with scale. The smaller the organization, the greater the need for solutions with a more refined user experience, a smaller minimum deployment size and a significantly lower minimum cost.
Organizations want to operate in a space where there is diversity in the underlying infrastructure, but uniformity in the operations. This allows people to match the tool to the job (cost, agility, location, what-have-you) without destroying their ability to manage it all. Simplicity and ease-of-use are important concepts, but they must not be achieved by sacrificing interoperability.
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All major security vendors make a firewall, usually sold as a "next-generation" firewall. All major security vendors offer some form of layer 4 through 7 protection and – to greater or lesser degrees – provide some form of networking.
Information security is not about point solutions, it’s about layering defense on top of defense. It requires combining technology with education, revising business practices and even modifying corporate culture.
Successful integration relies on automation. Automation enables repeatability. Repeatability makes troubleshooting easier. This makes it possible to roll back to a known good state when problems arise and allows everything to behave in a predictable fashion.
Integration without predictability is unreliable and successful information security relies on integrating multiple products from multiple vendors. In order to get a handle on the many moving pieces that are part of modern information security, Juniper automates security coverage from endpoints all the way to the edge, and every cloud in-between.
Securing Today, as well as Tomorrow
It's one thing to talk about Connected Security, and another entirely to deliver on it. In Q4 2018, Juniper demonstrated a 34 percent quarter-over-quarter growth in security, which amounted to an 18 percent year-over-year growth for our security products.
Juniper is ready to help organizations regardless of where they are in their security journey. From basic detection and prevention, to gaining actionable insights from security data, to event-driven and then behavior-driven security, each of these is a step along the path toward Juniper Connected Security.
Juniper offers a number of security products to meet the needs of today's organizations. Juniper Networks® Advanced Threat Prevention Appliance (ATP Appliance) and Juniper Sky™ Advanced Threat Prevention (Sky ATP) offer advanced threat protection while visibility, management and analytics are provided by Junos Space® Security Director and Policy Enforcer.
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Despite rapid development in the last two decades, Ireland's landscape is predominantly rural and agricultural. Artificial surfaces account for approximately 3% of the land surface, which has increased in recent years but is still below the European average of 4%. Agriculture and forestry land-use account for 67% and 9% of the national land area respectively with wetlands accounting for a further 15% (EPA, 2019). To view Ireland's land cover, go to the EPA map viewer and filter for 'Land & Soil > Corine 2018' - you may need to zoom in a little to see the land cover categories.
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The Discontinuity – we may say – equals ‘zero entropy’, ‘zero slack’, zero ‘time-lag’… We could also say that the discontinuity (or zero S) equals the absence of space-time, the absence of logical continuity, the absence of dimensionality. We ought to qualify this by pointing out that the discontinuity doesn’t actually ‘equal’ anything, not even itself! It doesn’t ‘equal itself’ because it doesn’t exist in the positive sense that the word exist usually has for us and so if the discontinuity doesn’t exist (in any positive sense) then it certainly can’t ‘equal itself’. Things that we can talk about as ‘positively existing’ DO on the other hand ‘equal themselves – they have self-identity (as all positive statements do) and that’s why we are able to talk so comfortably about them. But because they equal themselves (because they literally ‘are what they are’) these things are self-referential loops and as self-referential loops they contain zero information, and this means that they don’t REALLY exist at all…
Anything that does have positive (or defined) existence is tautological and as a result has only an apparent existence. This is true for everything that the rational mind believes in – it is true for everything that exists within the logical continuity, everything that exists within a framework. The Discontinuity however as we have said doesn’t have any positive existence, and this is why it is the only ‘thing’ (if we can be forgiven for calling it a thing) that actually does exist!
‘THE GROSSLY IMPUDENT LIE’
The negative description therefore presents the discontinuity in terms of ‘the fundamental absence of everything that is most basic and essential to our understanding of reality’ and for this reason it comes across to most ears as being unpalatably negative and objectionably nihilistic. This is not actually the case however because the ‘logical continuity’ that we cling to so tightly in daily life is a mere hoax –
The everyday taken-for-granted matter-of-fact ‘concrete world’ that we all believe in so unquestionably is no more than a scam that been perpetrated on so big a scale that we simply can’t see beyond it.
This is of course a very similar sort of idea to ‘Big Lie principle’ so famously (or infamously) set out by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf –
…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
The idea is therefore that if you tell a lie big enough and keep on repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. From a psychological perspective, the Big Lie Principle goes far deeper than this however and becomes more like the idea expressed in the film The Truman Show where Cristof (the director of the Truman Show) says that ‘We accept the world with which we are presented’. Something this big we simply cannot question! Although the positive reality that we accept is ‘not true’ therefore, it is undeniably true that we have accepted it and as a consequence it’s the only reality we have! It’s all we’ve got and so as far as we’re concerned it’s the only thing that stands between us having some kind of positive reality (however impoverished) and having nothing at all. Once we have accepted the Big Lie (as we inevitably will do) then we have allegiance to it, we have loyalty to it, and we will fear its loss more than we could fear anything else! If therefore someone were to come up to us and inform us that the Big Lie is a lie we would perceive this as an outright attack, not simply as ‘someone providing is with some information that perhaps we ought to know’. We see any such talk as being scandalously negative, reprehensibly nihilistic in tone, as we have already pointed out. Such accusations are of course simply not true! The Big Lie is vigorously protecting itself as it always does, that’s all! The system operates by ‘inverting truth’ and so when the truth comes along it is straightaway denounced as the bad guy, it is straightaway cast as ‘the villain of the piece’…
We are of course not the poorer for the removal of the deeply entrenched lie, no matter how attached we might be to it. The sense of catastrophic loss involved in the disillusion process has to do – we might say – with the loss of the arbitrarily imposed external authority which was enabling us to treat life as if it were a vastly simpler affair than it really is. As always, we fear and resist the removal of the convenient fiction, the comforting illusion, since we have adapted so thoroughly to it that there is nothing left of us that is independent of that spurious premise! One hundred percent adaptation to the ‘given reality’ puts us therefore in a situation where we are aligned with the Big Lie to such an extent that ‘its interests are our interests’ and ‘its well-being is our well-being’; we and the determinate reality we are adapted to cannot be seen separately at this point and so what this means is that the struggle for our existence becomes synonymous with the fight against the truth. Protecting ourselves is the same thing as denying the truth. The ‘truth’ of the discontinuity is really not that it is simply an absence of space and time, but rather that it is wholly beyond any limiting conditions whatsoever… From a psychological point of view, the loss of the limiting conditions represents a loss of security, but at the same time it also represents an absolutely unthinkable, absolutely unimaginable increase in freedom.
SKIPPING OVER THE GAP
The world as it is in its everyday, tangible manifestation corresponds to the ACTION or ‘swing’ phase of the pendulum – it corresponds to the continuity in other words, it corresponds to what we have been referring to as ‘the continuum of logic’. The tangible, measurable reality of the swing phase, of logical continuity, is therefore a manifestation of entropy. It only gets to be measureable because it is ‘agreeing with itself’ (i.e. my measurements are agreeing with the standards that I have put in place or assumed in order that there could be such a things as ‘measurement’) and if it is self-referential it contains no information. Something that explicitly contains no information actually does contain information (just as a lie that admits to being a lie is actually the truth) but when the absence of information deceptively presents itself as if it were information (which ‘positive data’ does) then what we are looking at here is entropy. [Entropy being (in the psychological rather than physical definition of the term that we are using in this argument) ‘the lack of information that we cannot see as such’.]
It might seem rather peculiar to say that the everyday world (i.e. the physical universe and the facts and figures that we derive from it) is a manifestation of entropy but the point is that we – when we are adapted as we are to this world – do not perceive entropy as entropy. In psychological terms (as we have just said) if redundancy presented itself straightforwardly as redundancy then it would not be redundancy at all but information. This principle also applies for physical systems. We do not – needless to say – experience the space-time continuum as some kind of ‘indefinitely extended redundancy’, or as an ‘infinitely expanded tautology,’ but rather we experience it as a field of possibility, a framework within which genuine development takes place.
From this perspective, which is for all practical purposes the only perspective we know, the REST phase has no existence at all. It is over so quickly that we can easily get away with paying no attention to it at all. It is a gap that is no gap, a gap that is so very small that we can completely ignore it with no apparent consequences. This is we might say like the Great Pyramid of Cheops, where the mighty slabs of stone making the structure up are so skilfully cut and so precisely placed together that there doesn’t seem to be any space between them at all. The whole pyramid is one solid structure, one continuous, unbroken mass, which is of course how we experience the movement of a pendulum or some other oscillator to be. We really don’t experience ACTION-REST-ACTION…, we experience ACTION-ACTION-ACTION-ACTION…; we experience unbroken or continuous movement in other words. And in the same way we do not experience the world we live in – which is made up entirely with oscillating systems – as having any breaks or logical discontinuities in it, it is all ACTION PHASE as far as we’re concerned. If we were to have the REST PHASE, the discontinuity, brought to our attention, so that we couldn’t keep skipping conveniently over it, then we wouldn’t like that at all! This would constitute a ‘falsifying awareness’ – just as the Big Lie has to be the only story in town if it is retain its integrity, the logical continuity (the positive reality) has to be the only story there is if it is not to be shown up as a tautological hallucination…
To say that it would be ‘disconcerting’ to have the discontinuity brought to our attention in day-to-day life is putting it mildly. The easily-neglected little fact of the discontinuity threatens everything. To be more accurate, it doesn’t just threaten everything – it erases it completely. It erases it so completely that even the act of erasure itself is erased. What the awareness of the discontinuity does is to entirely remove, with surgical precision, the possibly of us taking our normal everyday logic (which is to say, ‘positively defined reality’) seriously. This is utterly devastating for us because positively defined reality is the only sort of reality we believe in – we don’t trade in any other sort of commodity. If we can’t define it, i.e. understand it with our rational minds, then it simply doesn’t exist for us. It can’t be looked up in the ledger, and so it just isn’t there. End of story. Just as I might not be granted citizenship of a particular country – for whatever reason – then the element of experience that I cannot define or categorize is not granted existence by the system of thought, which is the absolute unquestionable tyrannical controller of the rational-conceptual side of our lives.
The territory presided over by the system of thought is the territory of ‘positive reality’ and positive reality is made up of lots and lots of ‘positive statements’. A positive statement is simply a statement that is ‘absolutely true’, which is to say, it is true no matter which way you look at it. It is true at all times, and under all conditions. It is independently true – its validity does not really upon any other factor. But the whole point of the discontinuity is that it the only truly ‘independent’ reality – it is wholly outside of all limiting conditioned and therefore its reality obviously doesn’t depend upon any conditions. If there were any rules governing the discontinuity (telling it how it should be) then the discontinuity wouldn’t be discontinuous! And if there aren’t any rules there then how can the discontinuity be dependent on them? On the other hand the logical continuum, which is the ‘realm of continuous, consistent and therefore measurable change’, undeniably, is dependent on certain underlying rules. The only way therefore that the continuum of logical, the system, can generate positive statements is if the rules underlying it are not arbitrary but absolute. This is the lynch-pin of the whole unspoken argument. But there is a twist and the twist is this –
The rules underpinning the existence of the system of logic are only ‘rules’ because the system itself takes them for granted, and is ‘predicated upon them’. The truth of the rules is something that is decided AFTER the event of us taking them seriously, not PRIOR to it!
THE SYSTEM OF THOUGHT AS A COLLUSION
Another way of putting this is to say that the system doesn’t permit any other viewpoint to exist (that is what a logical system is, after all – a set-up where only logically-consistent statements or elements are allowed) and in the absence of any disagreeing or discontinuous viewpoint there is no way of falsifying the set-up. It is true because it agrees with itself that it is true, and there are no dissenting voices here because no dissenting voices are permitted! In psychological terms, therefore, the positive reality generated by the system of thought is a prime example of a collusion, i.e. a closed and fundamentally dishonest’ circle of agreement.
The discontinuity represents a viewpoint from which the rules that are taken for granted by the continuity (the continuum) do not seem ‘necessary’ at all – from the viewpoint of the discontinuity it is perfectly clear that the rules elected as ‘special’ are no more special than any other rules, which is to say, they are not special at all… The discontinuity – because it is discontinuous, because it is not part of the continuum – sabotages the whole thing. A collusion can’t work if everyone doesn’t take part and the discontinuity is simply not part of the collusion! The discontinuity is a situation in which there are no special conditions, no rules, no limitations, etc and this negative fact, this lack of any conditions whatsoever, is enough to undermine the whole edifice of positive reality immediately, without any further ado. It is as if we live in a country where the tradition is for every person without exception to spend two hours each and every morning carrying out some convoluted ritual to supposedly ensure that the sun doesn’t fall from the sky half way through its journey – the fear of such a dreadfully catastrophic occurrence is pretty much guaranteed to make sure nobody ever forgets to put in the necessary work to offset the disaster, but if you were to travel to a neighbouring country, just over the other side of the mountains for example, and you see to your amazement that no one bothers with this all-important ritual, and that the sun travels through the sky quite happily anyway, then this lack of what you previously took to be an absolutely essential action or behaviour will straightaway disprove or falsify the whole hypothesis – the whole thing will be shown up as being a joke. The exception does not prove the rule at all, it falsifies it – it shows that there is no rule. As soon we are able to see that the rules are not universally valid at all, that there are situations in which they aren’t needed in the least (that they are of no particular importance at all in fact) then they can never be seen in the same way again. The rules underpinning the system of logic are now revealed as being not Universally Valid, but only valid for that particular system of logic (which up to now was representing itself not as ‘a particular system of logic’ but ‘the entirety of all that is, and was, and ever could be’).
Even the fact that the rules or assumptions are valid for that particular system of logic doesn’t mean a thing. Even this is completely unimpressive, like a drunk trying to impress you with a card trick you have seen a million times. After all, it doesn’t in the least bit matter what rules you pick, what starting-off position you chose, once you have picked your rules, once you have chosen your position, any further logical development you make on this basis will be dependent upon the validity of those rules, the legitimacy of that position. Suppose I am the sort of person who has to believe in something, who has to have some sort organized belief-system to hitch my wagon to. This being the case you can be one hundred per cent sure that I will believe in something, that I will be totally convinced that such-and-such a system of propositions is correct. But I can’t use the fact that I do believe so resolutely in whatever it is as evidence the system in question is true – after all, I would believe just as strongly in any old nonsense since it never mattered to me in the first place what I believed, only that I should have some ‘positive structure’ to believe in. My argument that X is true because I believe it to be true (which is a thoroughly ubiquitous argument, as it happens) is perfectly and utterly redundant.
QUALIFIED AND UNQUALIFIED PROPOSITIONS
We can also look at this business in terms of ‘qualified and unqualified propositions’. If I am aware of the discontinuity then this awareness cannot help but remind me that any statement or proposition that I might make has to be qualified. Normally, when I am thoroughly unaware of any discontinuous element to my experience, or to the universe at large, I can very easily get away with omitting any qualifications any time I go ahead and make a positive statement. I don’t say “Given certain underlying supporting conditions, X is true” I just say “X is true”. The underlying conditions are invisible to me, because they are always there, always underlying all statements no matter what those statements might be, I can afford to forget about them. It is only when I see that they don’t always have to be there, no matter what, that I start to see what is going on. I start to see that all of the propositions that I have taken for granted my entire life are only true when certain specific conditions are in place, and that these conditions are in place only because I have chosen for them to be.
I see the element of hidden intention that underlies the positive world, in other words and so I can no longer say, in the time-honoured positive fashion, “It is like this…”. All I can say is “It is like this if I choose to look at the world in the particular way that makes it possible to say it is like this…” This, needless to say, takes every last bit of positive force out of my otherwise impressive utterance and since the only reason I would make a positive statement is to be impressive, I might as well just not bother. It is no good coming out with a dogmatic assertion if you then go ahead and spoil the whole effect by qualifying what you have just said – that would transform you from being a traditional dogmatist (complete with long beard, distinctly humourless temperament, hectoring voice and fist pounding angrily on the pulpit) to being a reflective philosopher, which is a different kettle of fish entirely. If we are aware of the discontinuity then this reminds us that if we want to be honest about things then we have to preface all positive statements, all rules, with “It is as if…” – as soon as all rules are scrupulously and properly prefaced the Kingdom of Positive Statements (which we have also been calling ACTION PHASE) is shrunk down to its proper size and we can see it – in its entirely – as nothing more than an exercise in facile conjecture.
The exercise is facile because it is redundant – we can say that anything is the case, given that those particular conditions are put in place that allow it to be the case, but what is proved by this? I can make any statement at all to be ‘true’, if I agree with myself in advance that it shall be true, if I arrange this from the very beginning. If I am in control in this way of what does and does not constitute a true statement then the word true loses its meaning – it is simply a ‘rubber-stamp’ that apparently signifies authenticity but in fact signifies nothing at all, other than my own facile agreement with myself. Me agreeing with myself is in no way different from the situation where I find a handful of cronies who will agree in advance to agree with me – it is a collusion and a collusion is worthless. It is like a judge who has been paid off to find a certain defendant guilty; the judge appears to be a judge, he wears all the right clothes, but really he is no judge at all but a corrupted version thereof – he parodies the very principle of fair-mindedness that makes a judge worthy of the title in the first place. In other words, the apparently trustworthy image sneakily conceals behind it the very inverse of what it proudly proclaims itself to be.
Just as long as we feel that the exercise was not facile and that on the contrary it actually demonstrates something very important and impressive, then we perceive the statements that are made as a result as being substantial – we perceive them as genuinely ‘taking up space’, so to speak. The more statements are made, and the more they are developed and elaborated, the bigger the ‘Empire of the Positive’ grows until pretty soon it has taken up all the available space, just like a virulent software virus takes over all the space on the hard drive of an infected PC. But when we gain awareness of the negative reality of the discontinuity, which can never be infected, then we see that all of these statements come down to the same thing and that this ‘thing’ is the essence of perfect fatuousness, and thus the ‘Empire’ is abruptly shrunk down to its proper size, which is where it takes up no space whatsoever.
What we have arrived at here is a model of the system of thought – the ‘continuum of logic’ which is the much-vaunted rational mind – which is distinctly unflattering, to say the least. We have reduced a system that appeared to be synonymous (or very nearly synonymous) with reality itself, to a mere point in space, allowing us to see the unmapped, the undescribed, the unstated, in its proper and rightful place – which is not somewhere on the neglected and unimportant margins or outskirts of the known, but right at the very heart of everything. Even this is understating the matter: the truth is that there is nothing that is NOT the discontinuity! This sort of view of the rational mind is profoundly unsatisfactory to us – we like our psychological theories to say something about the mind, to provide us with an intricate maze of positive statements, not simply to drop the whole subject as simply being unworthy of consideration. We value the mind and all of the structures it has created. I don’t want to hear that rationality is an empty game, and that all of the prized positive structures that the rational mind has created are vapid self-referential loops of logic. One of those prized structures is me, after all! But even if it sounds very much like it, we are not saying here that the rational mind is without utility, that it is a worthless lot of nonsense that we would be better off forgetting about. The rational mind is clearly adaptive – the rules it takes for granted correspond to rules in the universe we live in and as a result of this flawless match between the rules of logic and the rules that underpin the physical universe we are able to interact with this universe in a rational way. We are able to predict what it will do, how it will respond to our action; we are able to understand the world around us and control it, to a certain extent at least. In this possibility of successful adaptation to a (largely) determinate reality however lies an absolutely tremendous pitfall–
The rational mind does not however do us any service when it assumes – as it must assume – that our essential nature is determinate (or ‘logical’) just as the physical aspect of the universe we find ourselves in is (superficially, at least) determinate or logical in its nature.
“THE WORLD WAS MADE WITH TIME AND NOT IN TIME”
There seems to be a serious snag in our argument here however. If we say that the rational mind is perfectly adapted to the collection of regularities that make up the physical universe then this necessarily means that the two constitute a single logical continuum. But if that is so then because we have already ‘deconstructed’ the system of logic, because we have already said that it is no more than an expanded tautology, then that in turn means that the physical universe itself must be no more than ‘an expanded tautology’… Although this might sound too ridiculous to consider one only has to read the following account of the development of the modern theory of cosmogenesis by physicist Paul Davies [see The Mind of God. 1992. P 49-50] to be struck by a starting similarity in what he is saying about the space-time continuum and our own discussion of the abstract continuum of logic –
There was a lot of resistance to the idea of a big-bang singularity among physicists and cosmologists when it was first mooted. One reason for this concerns the above-mentioned fact that matter, space, and time are linked in the general theory of relativity. This linkage carries important implications for the nature of the expanding universe. Naively, one might suppose that the galaxies are rushing apart through space. A more accurate picture, however, is to envisage space itself as swelling or stretching. That is, the galaxies move apart because the space between them expands. (Readers who are unhappy about the idea that space can stretch are referred to my book The Edge of Infinity for further discussion). Conversely, in the past, space was shrunken. If we consider the moment of infinite compression, space was infinitely shrunk. But if space is infinitely shrunk, it must literally disappear, like a balloon that shrivels to nothing. And the all-important linkage of space, time, and matter further implies that time must disappear too. There can be no time without space. Thus the material singularity is also a space-time singularity. Because all our laws of physics are formulated in terms of space and time, these laws cannot apply beyond the point at which space and time cease to exist. Hence the laws of physics must break down at the singularity.
The picture that we then obtain for the origin of the universe is a remarkable one. At some finite instant in the past the universe of space, time, and matter is bounded by a space-time singularity. The coming-into-being of the universe is therefore represented not only by the abrupt appearance of matter, but of space and time as well.
The significance of this result cannot be overstressed. People often ask: Where did the big bang occur? The bang did not occur at a point in space at all. Space itself came into existence with the big bang. There is a similar difficulty over the question: What happened before the big bang? The answer is, there was no “before.” Time itself began at the big bang. As we have seen, Saint Augustine long ago proclaimed that the world was made with time and not in time, and that is precisely the modern scientific position.
POSITIVE ‘CREATION’ IS AN INVERSION OF PERSPECTIVE
We might infer, therefore, that the space-time continuum is blown-up (or inflated) by entropy in exactly the same way that the continuum of logic is, and that both the space-time continuum and the logical continuum are self-referential bubbles of virtual reality that have existence only in their own terms. The much talked-about Big Bang of Creation, stupendously impressive though it might seem to us, is no more than a massive injection of entropy – it isn’t a creation at all but the very opposite, a catastrophic collapse, a loss of information on an unimaginable scale. The act of Creation by the Lord in Genesis is the uttering of a positive statement (the Word or Logos) but what is amazing here is not the actuality of the positive statement itself, but the fact of the inversion of perspective that allows the positive structure thus produced to replace, and thereby scurrilously simulate, the ineffable Negative Reality – the Pleroma of the Gnostics – itself.
Davies also points out that it is open to debate whether the rules or constants that underlie our universe are in any way special, or if they just happened to be ‘shaken out of the cosmic hat’, so to speak, during the process in which the space-time continuum – in its own terms – ‘came into existence’. Twenty years or so after The Mind of God was published the question of whether there are actually innumerable different types of universes, all existing within The Set of All Possible Universes (‘the Multiverse’), all based on different rules, is still a current and popular topic, and one that shows no signs of being put to bed in a hurry. The crux of the matter is whether one is happy or not happy with the idea that there is a prior uncollapsed state in which no particular set of rules has yet been shaken out of the Cosmic Top Hat. This idea is implicit in all symmetry-breaking models of cosmogenesis, such as the Weinberg-Salam theory, explained here by Stephen Hawkins (1988, p 79):
The Weinberg- Salaam theory exhibits a property known as spontaneous symmetry breaking. This means that what appear to be a number of completely different particles at low energies are in fact found to be all the same type of particle, only in different states. At high energies all these particles behave similarly. The effect is rather like the behaviour of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel. At high energies (when the wheel is spun quickly) the ball behaves in essentially only one way, – it rolls round and round. But as the wheel slows, the energy of the ball decreases, and eventually the ball drops into one of the thirty-seven slots in the wheel. In other words, at low energies there are thirty-seven different states in which the ball can exist. If, for some reason, we could only observe the ball at low energies, we would then think that there were thirty-seven different types of ball!
A very basic way of looking at cosmogenesis in terms of symmetry-breaking is to say – as we have been doing in this discussion – that the uncollapsed prior state is where there is no [UP] and no [DOWN], no [IN] and no [OUT], no [+] and no [-]. It has been found that in a very minute volume of space, small enough for quantum effects to come into play, a phenomenon known as a ‘vacuum fluctuation’ takes place. Two subatomic particles of a complementary nature (such as an electron and a positron) come into being – because the plus and the minus cancel out neatly the account books have been kept in good order and there is no reason for nature to object to this sudden, spontaneous creation of a pair of particles. Instants later the pair recombine and the dissymmetrical situation where there is a [+] and a [-] has been recovered, so to speak, and all is returned to the prior state of symmetry – for all the world as if nothing had ever happened.
We could also see the spontaneous production of opposites in terms of the separation of UP and DOWN in three spatial dimensions, and BEFORE and AFTER in the dimension of time, and say that the vacuum fluctuation involves not merely the production of two complementary short-lived particles, but the production of a short-lived mini space-time continuum. Particles or events clearly cannot exist without having a framework to exist within and so this is not really a contentious suggestion, particularly when it is remembered that vacuum fluctuations take place where one approaches the Planck distance of 10-36 M, which is, in a rough manner of speaking, close to the interface between our familiar space-time universe and unfathomable symmetry of the Discontinuity. Here, in this strange interzone, one might very well expect to find an innumerable profusion of pocket universes boiling up out of the Pleroma, and then disappearing almost immediately back into it, as if they had never been. There is no reason to imagine that our ‘giant-sized’ universe is any different in kind to these mini universes – it is simply bigger and longer lasting, and even these two criteria are only relative. After all, our notions of size and duration are only relevant within the terms of the particular space-time bubble we ourselves exist in and are trying to say something meaningful about – outside of this framework our notions, naturally enough, mean nothing at all. Size and duration are of course only meaningful locally and once locality has been thoroughly dispensed with we find that we are talking about nothing at all – all such terms are now revealed as being profoundly inapplicable, and therefore profoundly nonsensical.
We can’t help seeing the production of space-time (or the production of particular events / structures within it) as a positive phenomenon. The continuum of time and space seems as real as real can be to us – more than this, it is to us the ground of everything, the basis upon which everything that is real can take place. The discontinuity on the other hand, as we have said, does not seem real – or rather, we simply have no way of conceptualizing it since it is the continuum of thought that we use for conceptualizing everything, and the discontinuity is of course (negatively) defined in terms of it not being part of the continuity. The continuum of logic can map itself onto the continuum of space and time with perfect congruence but it cannot go beyond the framework. It cannot move out of the box because it is the box. It is because we take space-time (or logic-space) as the basis for everything that is real that the idea we have just looked at, the idea that a vanishingly small portion of empty ‘vacuum’ can fluctuate to produce a space-time continuum, which is ‘there’ for a period of time (all according to its own reckoning, that is!) and then ‘not there’ again, is so profoundly strange and unsettling for us to try to get to grips with.
Because of course what we are saying here is not just that the continuum of space and time pops into existence for a while and then pops out again, but that the very conditions which we use reckon ‘existence’ and ‘duration’ pop into existence. As Davies points out, the big bang cannot be said to occur in space and time because both space and time came into existence with the big bang. A naïve but perfectly natural question at this point would be – “So if the event – this Biggest of All Possible Events – didn’t occur in space and time then where did it occur?” The flaw in this question becomes obvious just as soon as we ask it, by asking ‘where,’ (or any other sort of questions, for that matter) we are still taking for granted the very conditions that we are talking about as not being there for us to take for granted. The point is that the event only took place within its own terms of reference, and that it is therefore only real within its own terms of reference. Outside of this framework, outside of this system of references, the event simply did not take place. and even to say ‘it didn’t take place’ is only a comment posted by the system of thought, which means that the comment itself ‘didn’t take place,’ and then of course we have to say that the comment about the comment (the meta-comment) also didn’t take place, since it to is a construct of the system of thought, and so on and so forth.
THE MAHAYANA SUPER-NEGATION
What we are coming up against here is the ‘Mahayana Super-Negation,’ which is a negation so complete that in its operation it also negates the act of negation itself (which means of course that there isn’t any operation). We don’t need to negate a tautology because a tautology already perfectly negates itself! If we take it upon ourselves to disprove a tautology then we are ourselves caught up in a redundant argument that we cannot see – we are asserting what we mean to deny, and yet there never was any need to deny anything in the first place. It is just that we thought there was. Because the event which is the grand appearance on the scene of the space-time continuum only takes place within the closed terms of that space-time continuum itself the whole shebang is quite clearly tautological. The thing is a self-created bubble, a loop of logic, and it is only when we are within the remit of that bubble, and can’t therefore see the redundancy that is inherent in all loops of logic, that we think something has been created. Within the bubble of space-time it seems completely meaningful to say that events occur in a particular place, and that they persist for a particular period of time. In other words space-time appears to exist as a genuine reality – it’s not ‘a way of looking at things’ but simply ‘the way things are’.
From outside of the bubble however, – which is to say from the point of view of the Discontinuity, if the Discontinuity can be said to have a POV – the bubble never happened. This a ‘self-erasing event’ – an event that occurs, and then runs backwards again in time so as to neatly erase itself, erasing even the process of the erasing, leaving not the slightest trace behind. At the time, if you were caught up in the process -in the thick of it, so to speak – you might be excused for thinking that something had happened, but with the benefit of hindsight it can be seen very clearly indeed that nothing really happened, that it was just a trick. The unreality of space and time was not produced, it was not created – the unreal positive reality did not ‘come into being’ because the whole point about unreality is that unreality DOESN’T ‘come into being’!
THE TREATISE OF THE GOLDEN LION
We have to be careful in our thinking here. We are not saying that actually ‘nothing’ was produced, that actually ‘nothing’ happened, or that ‘nothing’ is itself ‘unreal’. That would be a black and white statement, a purely ‘rational’ statement. This goes back to the point we made earlier in our discussion of information theory – the accurate perception of zero-information is itself genuine honest-to-goodness information and so, when it comes down to it, everything is information. There is no such thing as ‘zero information’, or as the words of the song have it “You can’t run away from the truth because the truth is all there is…” There is however the possibility of ‘producing’ a virtual bubble of tautological meaning which doesn’t appear tautological to itself. If the tautology were to be seen to be tautological, then there would be no bubble – because we perceive it accurately, the misperception would merge seamlessly back into the ocean of truth. Because the lie is admitted as a lie, it is as true as any other true statement.
So what we are saying here is that if ‘nothing’ was produced, then there would be nothing there to obscure that ocean of truth which is the unformed, the uncreated, the unbecome, but if nothing is produced and we actually see it as something, then the Pleroma is obscured, and hidden from our view by the illusion that we have fixated exclusively upon. There is a story that the Chinese Buddhist monk Fa-Tsang, in the year 699, was called upon to explain this idea to the Empress and he did so in his Treatise of the Golden Lion, the first two parts of which go as follow:
1. Clarification of Dependent Origination – Gold has no self-nature. Through the agency of a skilled craftsman there is at length the coming-into-being of this phenomenon of the lion. But since this coming-into-being is dependent, therefore it is called ‘dependent origination’.
2. Distinction of Matter and Emptiness – The character [phenomenon] of the lion is empty [of substantial reality]; there is nothing but gold. The lion is not existent, but the substance of gold is not nonexistent. Therefore they are called separately Emptiness. Also, Emptiness, having no self-character and manifesting itself through matter, does not prevent illusory existence. Therefore they are separately called matter and Emptiness.
Although there is nothing but gold, the golden lion appears to have an existence of its own because we focus on the form of the lion that the craftsman has created, and ignore the fact that actually there is nothing else there apart from the gold that makes up the form. Whilst it is the form that dominates our attention, because it is a ‘positive impression’ there is nothing very mysterious about it – there is nothing mysterious about it precisely because everything is stated, and because what is not stated is not worth bothering ourselves about. As we have said already, this is how boundaries get to be boundaries, by excluding everything that lies beyond them. If we were as interested in what is not stated as we are in what is stated, then the form would be lost – the lion would no longer exist as a discrete object. If we paid attention to what is not stated then the form would lose definition and without definition there is no form. But because the lion is entirely made up of positive statements this means that it is capable of being fully described with a finite number of descriptive terms. The matter of description is trivial, there is nothing to it. The lion can therefore be quite legitimately reduced to just a few lines of code – all we need to do is mark the surface of the lion with points separated by 1 millimetre (for example) and then map these points onto a three dimensional grid. We then read off the position of each point in relation to the X, Y and Z axis, tabulate the numbers obtained, and then – lo and behold – the lion has been translated into pure abstract data. This data can be stored in a computer and used to reproduce the original lion with perfect fidelity as many times as is required.
Now it might be argued that this proves that the form of the lion has a certain ‘information content’, which to our normal way of thinking about things, it does. It would take up space on the computer’s hard-drive, which is used for storing information. It can also be argued however that these few lines of code do not have any genuine information content at all since as long as we read them once (assuming that we are paying attention at the time and have a good memory) we will never ever be surprised when we read them again, and information – as we defined it earlier – is a measure of the unpredictability of a particular message. Of course it could be said that the message is unpredictable the first time we read it, but this isn’t really good enough – it is not enough to constitute complexity and if an object is not complex, which is to say, if it is fully representable in a fixed number of terms, within a particular framework of reference, then the matter is trivial. After all, even if I can’t guess in advance what coordinates are going to be read off when the form is being mapped, I do know that they are all going to be found within the closed remit of the X, Y and Z axes.
From the viewpoint taken for granted by this framework there is genuine uncertainty involved, and the coordinates obtained via the measurement process are indeed ‘a surprise’, but – as we have been arguing in the preceding pages – because all linear axes represent a tautological development of a single point, from the perspective of someone who is not looking at the world from the view point of the continuum of logic, this so-called ‘information, is actually entirely redundant. If I can’t see the tautology then different positions on an axis really do seem to be ‘different’, and a table of positions really will seem to constitute information, but once I do see the tautology then it is clear that there is no difference at all between any of the possible positions, and as a result the very notion of position (or location) becomes meaningless. The corollary of this is that if an object is capable of being fully represented within a three-dimensional system of reference, if there is no aspect of it which is not accounted for by the X, Y and Z axes, then that object is an abstraction – it is part of the ‘hyperreal that aggressively substitutes itself for the real,’ the banal ‘wise-guy’ over-simplification which, like a motor-mouth DJ on a popular radio breakfast show, insidiously covers over the pristine ineffability of the original article with its non-stop ‘yaketty-yak, yaketty-yak’.
What we have actually done when we manage to exhaustively describe or define the world is to successfully ‘pinch-off’ a portion of reality, like a clown who is making funny animals out of coloured balloons at a children’s party. We create a closed system, a sealed-off ‘sub-unit’ which, in the absence of the connection which it previously had to the bigger picture, somehow supplies itself with its own being. There is no one else there to tell me how I am doing, so I tell myself. The only problem here being that I am bound to agree with myself no matter whatever I say and so my self-bestowed validation isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. We can look also look at this in terms of a drastic ‘reduction of perspective’ – the more different ways I have of looking at something the more perspective I have and so if I only have the one way (which is by default ‘my way’) then I don’t have any perspective. The downside about having no perspective is that I can’t see the truth about anything, whatever I happen to be looking at or thinking about is blown up out of all proportion and so there is simply no accuracy in my perceptions; ‘the up-side’ – insofar as we can call it that – is that I can easily get to believe in any nonsense at all and can quite happily ‘agree with myself’ without any fear of contradiction.
A puny – which is to say virtual or non-existent – attainment can therefore seem like a tremendous triumph when there is no perspective on the matter and so there is huge scope for short-termism here, huge scope for obtaining ‘sneaky secondary gains’ in the otherwise dismal scenario presented by the situation of ‘zero perspective’. I get feel secure in an open-ended universe – a big, wide universe that does not actually support cosy, small-minded security. I get to be ‘right’ in a universe where there are no black and white categories. I get to be comfortably validated in an endlessly inscrutable universe where there is no easy option of ‘following the printed instructions on the side of the packet’. In short, I get to be ‘a big fish in a miniscule pond’. The miniscule pond is the ‘pocket universe’ and the key thing about a pocket universe is that it has absolutely no perspective and I can only be a ‘me’ under these special conditions. The ego or self-image that I unreflectively identify with and unquestioningly accept as an absolute datum only gets to be believable (i.e. subjectively real) as a result of the utter lack of perspective which the pocket universe provides. The pay-off of having no perspective is not just ‘valuable’ or ‘desirable’ to the self-image therefore – it is essential. Zero perspective and the self-image are the two sides of the same thing – a thing that doesn’t actually exist! When identified with the self-image we may talk about becoming more conscious, or increasing our level of consciousness, or something like this, but all such talk is ridiculous – consciousness is the same thing as perspective and, as we have just said, perspective is the one thing we DON’T want!
What we are looking at here is the idea that whenever we create a closed-system we always come straight back to the ‘problem’ of self-referentiality. The positive statement that exists within the closed framework of meaning that it takes for granted, and which lends it meaning, is not meant to be seen in terms of its relationship with the Whole. That relationship (the essential relationship that all phenomena possess) has been ‘chopped off’ or curtailed by the system of one-sided boundaries which make up the rational mind. One-sided boundaries are thus termed because this is precisely what they do, and if they didn’t do this, if they didn’t arbitrarily ‘chop off’ the field of our interest or concern, then we would have to say goodbye to all our cherished positive structures, to our entire system of knowledge. We would have too much perspective to be able to take such trivial games seriously anymore!
A closed system is closed because it has no relationship with anything outside of it, but if it lacks the possibility of such a healthy, out-going relationship then all it has left to relate to is itself, and in this case it is condemned to be irretrievably trapped in a self-referential loop which goes around and around forever without any chance of ever getting anywhere. If a statement has no relationship with anything outside of itself (which is to say, the closed framework of reference which it takes for granted, and which is its only possible source of authentication) then it only has a ghost-like existence, it only exists from the point of view of its own non-existent viewpoint and even this highly dubious form of ‘existence’ is marred – fatally so – by the un-correctable flaw of self-contradiction. In other words, if we do ‘pinch off’ a portion of reality (which by virtue of the fact that it is real and not an abstraction is always quintessentially open or ‘unfinished’ in nature) to produce a fatally constrained version of reality that is closed and ‘finished,’ then the positively defined statements that are created within that closed reality happily demonstrate their own inherent redundancy by being paradoxical.
The ‘Big Lie’ that we’ve been talking about here (the Big Lie which says that there IS a ‘Positive Reality’ and that this positive reality is ALL that there is) is the same thing as ‘The State of Zero Perspective’.
When EVERYTHING is a lie then we can’t question the lie and so the lie becomes ‘true’! When EVERYTHING is the Lie then we too become part of that all-encompassing Lie!
When we’re stuck in The State of Zero Perspective then only the Lie makes sense to us – anything else (anything that ISN’T the Lie) WON’T make sense to us. If someone comes along and tells us about something that isn’t part of the positive reality then we will laugh out loud. As we read in Chapter 41 of the Tao Te Ching,
When a wise scholar hears the Tao,
He practices it diligently.
When a mediocre scholar hears the Tao,
He wavers between belief and unbelief.
When a worthless scholar hears the Tao,
He laughs boisterously at it.
But if such a one does not laugh at it,
The Tao would not be the Tao!
According to the positive reality negative reality does not exist. According to the Big Lie, the Truth does not exist! If – being adapted to the Big Lie – we were actually to meet with the Truth our response would be utter terror. An encounter with the Truth would threaten everything we know, everything we hold dear, everything we depend on. Truth negates the Big Lie leaving not a trace behind and so inasmuch as the Big Lie is all we know, Truth will become ‘the unwelcome guest at the feast’. | <urn:uuid:8a244fb5-68a6-45be-9e98-17ce813ad884> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://radicaluncertainty.com/2016/01/17/the-big-lie-principle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965305 | 11,353 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Bison vs Buffalo
Is a bison a buffalo? What is a bison?
Whether you ask the question ‘what is a bison,’ ‘what’s the difference between bison and buffalo,’ or ‘is a bison a buffalo,’ the answer remains the same…….. American buffalo are bison. American buffalo meat is bison meat.
The confusion arose when Europeans first encountered these majestic animals. Our American bison looked to them most like their ‘water buffalo’ back home. That was the point in which American bison began being referred to as buffalo.
Just as humans, on a genus and species level, are Homo sapiens, American bison are Bison bison. The Bison bisoncategory is further broken down into two widely recognized subspecies, the plains bison (Bison bison bison) and wood bison (Bison bison athabascae).
The plains bison tends to be smaller with a more rounded hump and the wood bison is the larger of the two, having a taller squarer hump.
The wood bison is one of the largest species of bovid in the world. Wood bison tend to thrive in hilly, wooded areas whereas plains bison are the bison you think of from the movies, thriving throughout the Great Plains of North America. | <urn:uuid:7ba4b4d5-0479-4c08-b831-a1e42f50d8cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bearmountainbison.com/pages/bison-vs-buffalo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930723 | 305 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Damschroder column: What might have been
Ohio has failed to capitalize on its innovations
Wisconsin is debating the wisdom of a $3 billion incentive package for a flat panel display factory expected to invest up to $10 billion and bring as many as 13,000 jobs. The Foxconn announcement puts momentum behind Wisconsin’s one-word motto: Forward.
Apple’s largest supplier, Foxconn is a leading force in liquid crystal technology which has literally reshaped the world and put the internet on phones around the globe. It’s technology that Ohio birthed through the groundbreaking work of Dr. Glenn Brown at Kent State University, home of the 52-year-old Liquid Crystal Institute.
Ohio wanted the Foxconn plant and is trying to get the next one. But imagine the impact intellectual capital from driving research that created the industry could have returned, had linking technology transfer to Ohio-based manufacturing been a priority. Instead, flat panel technology drove Ohio’s TV manufacturing base out of business without creating a compensating position in the far bigger current market.
Poor return on intellectual capital is becoming a defining characteristic of Ohio’s economic development effort. In the late 1970s, when cable TV was just starting to emerge, Columbus was headquarters of Time Warner and spawned MTV and Nickelodeon as cable networks. Of course, now that these are multibillion dollar worldwide franchises there is no Ohio connection.
Simultaneous to the progress that puts the worldwide web in your pocket and cable creations that provide content, Columbus was ground zero for the network that launched the first online service provider, CompuServe. What could have been a powerful cluster of creative companies taking Ohio technology and creativity to the zenith of the information economy withered, because no applied economic development vision was used to build upon the emerging ecosystem, as the drivers of this opportunity were not connected to the powers that be and the political leadership was not attuned to future opportunity.
The Ohio story of lost opportunity gets even worse: We were once an international leader in electronic commerce. Before nearly anyone else in the world had seen automatic teller machines — ATMs that make 24/7/365 access to your cash possible — Bank One had them all over the state using Ohio-based Diebold and NCR to build the machines that made their consumer-friendly banking strategy roll. Bank One no longer exists, gobbled by JP Morgan Chase, and NCR has moved from Dayton to Atlanta while adding thousands of jobs.
The ATM is but one example of electronic commerce. The outstanding news of Amazon’s rapid growth in Ohio is rooted in another NCR innovation — the electronic bar code. The combination of Ohio-driven breakthroughs are behind a $22 trillion trading system that is still growing rapidly.
In keeping with our theme, when the economic impact was small, Ohio was big — but not so much anymore.
Had our state taken the foothold developed in any of these industries, we would be far richer today. Had Ohio linked these opportunities in formative stages and taken the commanding high ground, we would be one of the most prosperous societies ever known. In the 2017 State of the State Address, Gov. John Kasich advocated the creation of a chief innovation officer. This was all part of a bigger package the legislature failed to fund.
I would urge the governor to follow the lesson of Ohio history and create a chief connection officer at JobsOhio instead. Knowing what’s brewing in Ohio’s universities and businesses, seeing how to connect the developments, and then fashioning programs to keep them here as they go from small enterprises to future-shaping firms would be the acorn of an investment that builds a mighty oak of an economy.
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I came across a fabulous craft idea for Christmas from Rachel on Instagram! She is a 4th grade teacher who also has a great facebook page so make sure to follow her! She used a simple technique of bleeding markers to make gorgeous sun catchers. Here's a look into her classroom art project...
- Large coffee filters
- Spray bottle
You can see the size difference from a normal coffee filter and a large one!
Have the kids flatten out their big coffee filter and draw a Christmas tree on it. After that have them cut it out and decorate it with colored markers.
Once their whole tree is filled with color, fill a spray bottle with water and have them wet their coffee filters.
Let them dry for a couple hours/overnight and you will have beautiful Christmas tree sun catchers to put in your window! I LOVE them! | <urn:uuid:71d0bd51-49e3-46f2-aa62-4f59a3b055c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.craftymorning.com/coffee-filter-christmas-tree-suncatchers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957269 | 187 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Well intended phrases such as ‘it could be worse’, ‘stay positive’ or even ‘be thankful’ can possibly shut off further conversations with those facing emotional distress.
As mental health issues continue to rise amid the pandemic, employers and co-workers are taking proactive steps to create a more positive work environment to manage employees' mental health. More often than not, these measures include keeping regular contact with the team and making sure that managers are checking in on more than just work tasks.
According to lecturer and clinical psychologist, Asst. Prof. Dr Pamilia Lourdunathan, there is an art to checking in and that one should be mindful of one’s conversations.
“Perhaps it is perceived as a given that one should always strive to stay upbeat and optimistic. However, telling a person who is coping with emotional loneliness, mental stress and coping with pandemic fatigue during the lockdown to look at the bright side can be unhelpful and dangerous psychologically,” Pamilia said.
Pamilia added that focusing solely on the positives and ignoring topics or issues that may elicit negative emotions invalidates the true source of anxiety, feelings, and sadness.
She said, “Well intended phrases such as ‘it could be worse’, ‘stay positive’ or even ‘be thankful’ shuts off further conversations about one’s emotional state. It is a form of toxic positivity”.
It may lead to stronger negative emotions that if let to fester may manifest in the form of physical illnesses.
Instead, Pamilia suggests that it would be kinder to acknowledge the pain a person might be experiencing and allow them the space to embrace and express what they are going through without suppression.
The train of conversations, she said, should be moved from ‘everything will be alright’ and ‘you need to move on’ to ‘it’s okay not to be okay’ and ‘let’s work on this together’.
When we do this we are focusing on our internal locus of control and making these changes will help to improve the situation.
That, she said, is grounded gratitude.
“It is finding the balance between acknowledging the pain and making space for gratitude in order to form balanced emotional responses. Grounded gratitude is healthier than mindless gratitude as it shifts the sufferer’s attention towards achieving a more positive outcome.”
On grounded gratitude, a staunch advocate of conscious living and founder of Signature Market, Edwin Wang said that the practice made him grounded and in return, he is able to make better decisions and that leads to achieving positive results for his business in the face of pandemic.
“As a leader in the organisation, practicing gratitude is a must as what we believe, always becomes a reality. I always choose to believe that my team is awesome and they have done their best given the circumstances,” Wang said.
He added that having the mindset of leadership is very important. He is aware that sometimes the employees experience self-limiting beliefs; which affect their results and reputations.
He said, “95% of the time it happens subconsciously so as a leader I use the ‘Body Emotion Language’ (BEL) model in ontology coaching to coach them. We bring awareness to their concerns and self-limiting behaviour, and with that new awareness, new possibilities can arise.”
Building a positive workplace culture needs to be developed and practised, especially during a crucial time, like the current pandemic.
The direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce founder suggests having monthly all-hands sessions purely to acknowledge everyone. Every employee must feel that they are good enough and are unique by just being themselves.
In fact, this culture has been practised among the Signature Market team for three years. Currently, despite working remotely, they strive forward together towards their desired goal.
“Mindset is the key in creating an innovative world class company in Malaysia. Malaysian companies are still playing catch-up in this area. It is never about the fancy colourful bean bags or the fun ping pong table in the office. It is about how the leadership team treats their greatest asset which is their employees,” said Wang.
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THINGS TO DO IN OL KINYEI CONSERVANCY
Things to do in Ol Kinyei Conservancy : Ol Kinyei Conservancy is a 17,500 acres (65 square kilometers) conservancy stretching in the former cattle-land in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem which has been leased by the local Maasai community for wildlife conservancy, the conservancy is a brilliant example of a community-based run conservancy established in 2005 by members of the Maasai Community. The conservancy was formed by set aside some farming land to protect the wildlife and natural habitats from being encroached by human beings and their activities.
Ol Kinyei Conservancy is one of the 4 Big Conservancies of Maasai Mara national reserve together with Mara North, Naboisho and Olare Motorogi conservancies.
Visiting the Ol Kinyei Conservancy directly supports the local communities and region efforts of conservation, the conservancy in return has supported the community with a sustainable income sources and installed the spirit of conserving and protecting their sacred land.
Ol Kinyei Conservancy encompasses of vast open savannah grasslands, twisting rivers, rolling hills and deep ravine forests. The Conservancy is a home to an abundance of wildlife
Animals found in the Conservancy include lions, elephants, cape buffalo, several species of antelopes, wildebeests, gazelles, cheetah and giraffe among others.
Birds found in the Conservancy are recorded to be over 300 species and they include Secretary Birds, Kori Bustards, and Jaunty Crowned-Plovers, flocks of White Stork, flocks of Crowned Cranes, Saddle – Billed Storks, and groups of Yellow-Billed Storks and Sacred Ibis among others.
Ol Kinyei Conservancy is a breathtaking and memorable destination to visit on a Kenya Tour, the conservancy offers a variety of entertaining activities such as game drives, guided walks, bush breakfasts, picnic and sundowners experience.Therefore the things to do in Ol Kinyei Conservacy include the following
Game drives in the Conservancy is an ultimate experience for wildlife lovers, this activity offer an opportunity to see aplenty of wildlife living in the conservancy, enjoy views of the wonderfully diverse to topography. Animals to lookout during game drives in the Conservancy include lions, cheetahs, leopards, cape buffaloes, and giraffes, several species of antelopes, elephants, wildebeests, Grant’s zebras and gazelles among others.
The Great migration is present in the Conservancy in January and stay in the conservancy during their Calving season, they give birth to their young ones in the conservancy.
Ol Kinyei Conservancy is one of the great birding spots in Kenya hosting over 300 bird species recorded, birding is done in accompaniment of an experienced birder who knows where the find the birds and explain them to you thoroughly. Birds you will spot during Kenya birding tour in Kinyei Conservancy include Secretary Birds, Kori Bustards, Jaunty Crowned-Plovers and flocks of White Storks. Spectacular flocks of Crowned Cranes, Saddle-Billed Storks, groups of Yellow-Billed Storks and Sacred Ibis can be spotted in the swamplands. This is also a great place to spot the Goliath Heron, Grey Heron, Black-headed Heron and Great White Egret and many more.
BUSH BREAKFASTS, PICNICS & SUNDOWNERS
During your Kenya Tour to the Conservancy you have an opportunity bush breakfast, picnic and sundowners experiences, bush breakfast is set up at spot overlooking the plains of the conservancy or served after the morning game drive with a picnic under the shade of an acacia.
Foods and drinks served during bush breakfast and picnic experiences in the Conservancy are fresh prepared and kept cold in the cool box in the back of your safari car with chairs and tables use.
Sundowners experience is a memorable experience offering an opportunity to watch the sun sinking behind the hills from scenic rocky escarpments while sipping on an ice-cold drink.
Guided walks in the Conservancy are thrilling Kenya safari activity god for stretching your legs, this activity is done using several trails running the savannah plains of the conservancy with expert Maasai guides. Guided walks offer an opportunity to explore, enjoy and learn more about the wildlife and ecology in the conservancy.
WHERE TO STAY IN OL KINYEI CONSERVANCY
Porini Cheetah Camp
Porini Cheetah Camp is a beautiful eco-friendly lodge nestled on the Ol Kinyei’s northern edge, the camp is powered by solar. Porini Cheetah camp is decorated in the traditional safari style with reminiscent of a former era of exploration, the camp has a total of 6tents offering an intimate feeling during their stay. The tents are offered as single or double bed tents, all of the tents are en-suite and they are family tents suitable for families with kids over the age of 5.
OL KINYEI GAMEWATCHERS ADVENTURE CAMP
Ol Kinyei Gamewatchers Adventure Camp is one of the perfect accommodation facilities to stay at during your Kenya tour to the Conservancy, the camp is set under the shady canopy of acacia woodland offering a great experience in the wilderness. Ol Kinyei Gamewatchers are offers tented camps in domed safari tents boosting fantastic views of the savannah, the camp has 9 tents in total, each with an access to a private bathroom located just behind the tent.
WHEN TO VISIT OL KINYEI CONSERVANCY
The best time to visit the Ol Kinyei Conservancy is during the months between July and October during the Great Migration, Ol Kinyei Conservancy experiences relatively constant temperatures all year-round, however rainfall differentiates basing on seasons.
- January and February are the driest seasons in the Conservancy, these months offer excellent wildlife viewing and an opportunity to witness the Great Migration.
- March to May is a wet season in the Conservancy
- June to October is a dry season with intermittent short showers possible at any time of the day.
Note: temperatures in the Conservancy are typically cooler in June to October.
HOW TO GET TO OL KINYEI CONSERVANCY
The best way to get to Ol Kinyei Conservancy from Nairobi the capital of Kenya is either by road or by air, the Conservancy is about 240 kilometers from Nairobi city and by road it is a drive of about 4-5 hours by car. By air, domestic chartered flights are offered from Wilson Airport to Ol Seki airstrip found in Naboisho Conservancy. | <urn:uuid:2f804dc4-490d-453c-90ae-e6860500e064> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maasaimarakenyapark.com/information/ol-kinyei-conservancy-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939742 | 1,463 | 1.734375 | 2 |
New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Development Centre (NewGen IEDC) is the programme launched by National Science and
Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology
(DST), Government of India and implemented by EDII, Ahmedabad.
NewGen IEDC has a mission to “promote knowledge based and technology-driven start-ups by harnessing young minds and their innovation potential in an academic environment”
To motivate, support and mentor students for identification, development and commercialization of their innovative ideas
To initiate targeted number of innovative student projects each year for new product development
To organize Business Plan Competitions/Innovation Camps/ Hackathons with active involvement of industry and alumni
To organize Business Plan The Government of India has drafted the National Innovation Startup Policy for a country-wide implementation. IIIT Allahabad is towards adoption of the same policy and the necessary steps are being taken. The policy document can be downloaded form here.
The institute has an active IPR Cell. For any queries pertaining to IP, please feel free to contact Dr. Amit Prabhakar
New Gen IEDC
Coordination and Control Area
NSTEDB functions under the aegis of Department of Science & Technology. It has representation from socio-economic and scientific Departments / Ministries, premier entrepreneurship development institutions and all India Financial Institutions. The Programmes conducted by NSTEDB have created awareness among S&T persons to take up entrepreneurship as a career-->
Department of Science & Technology (DST) was established with the objective of promoting new areas of Science & Technology and to play the role of a nodal department for organising, coordinating and promoting S&T activities in the country. It gives funds to various approved scientific projects in India. It also supports various researchers in India to attend conferences abroad and to go for experimental works
IIIT-Allahabad organized various events throughout the year to promote knowledge-based and technology driven projects to ideate and innovate their ideas into projects. Also, events were organized to spread general awareness about technology and current happenings-->
I started PS-1925 last year and we aim to provide drone-based solutions for different sectors like agriculture, healthcare, defense, disaster management, etc. Being a part of projects and initiatives by the Government of India such as NewGEN IEDC helps us to explore new possibilities and domains possible for our drone. NewGEN has provided us a platform to achieve this with its on-going set-up of class-apart innovation laboratory at IIIT Allahabad, a dream of every technology startup. Moreover, the mentors at NewGEN has given a new definition of how we perceive entrepreneurship. I highly recommend all the young engineers at IIIT Allahabad to consider NewGEN IEDC as a kickstart for their entrepreneurial journey
CEO & Founder PS-1925
PS-1925 is a drone manufacturer, technology and service provider company that designs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our company has been working on drones for past 2 years in our institution and have developed designs for radio-controlled aircrafts and drones for different applications. We are proposing “Desi Drones” for 7 major sectors that govern major shares in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Indian Economy.
This model presents automatic switching of street lights considering the intensity of sunlight , brightness control of lights and automatically reporting to the nearby technician on faulty condition
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or “BJJ” is a martial art based on grappling and ground fighting, focusing on the skill of controlling one’s opponent through techniques that force him or her to submit. It prides itself in being known as the “gentle art”, allowing a smaller, weaker person to use leverage and submissions (chokes, locks) to defend himself against a bigger opponent. With origins in Judo (Newaza) and Japanese Jujutsu, it has since been adapted and modified by Carlos Gracie and his family (Carlson Gracie) to become the martial art it is today. The popularity of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) has been on a steady rise over the years, thanks to the growing audience of MMA. Typical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu jargon such as “rear naked choke”, “armbar” and “guard” have even become common vocabulary even among non-practitioners.
It is one of the most potent, real-life fighting systems on the planet.
Contrary to popular belief, studies show that 95% of street fights end on the ground. The techniques you learn in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, which focuses on taking your opponent down to the ground and keeping them there, enables you to attack or get into a more dominant position. This gives you the upper hand at all times in a real-life self-defense situation.
In the event that you find yourself in a precarious situation, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a great second line of defense in case striking doesn’t work. As mentioned above, a street fight will most probably end on the ground, thus enabling you to incapacitate your opponent with submissions should the occasion arise.
Anyone: women, men, and even children as young as four years old can practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Because it is an art that is designed for a smaller, weaker practitioner to subdue much larger and stronger opponents, virtually anyone of any size, age or sex can practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Also known as the “game of human chess”, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners utilize a lot of strategy and technique in order to beat their opponents. In fact, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu student will probably come across hundreds of techniques and concepts in just a few years of training!
One of the greatest benefits of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is how your body changes without you realizing it. Constant drilling sessions and sparring will certainly have an effect on your body! Because you’ve become so focused on learning new techniques, you don’t realize how much weight you’ve lost or how much flexibility you’ve gained in the process. Any workout that doesn’t seem like one is definitely a plus.
Whether you are a black belt or a white belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teaches you to accept that you will never fully become a master of your martial art of choice. Not only are there hundreds of techniques out there but there are also new ones being discovered everyday. You then realize that the only way to improve is to continuously work on it everyday and remind yourself that you have a lot to learn. By taking it one step at a time and acknowledging your achievements, who knows how far you’ll go?
The more you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the more focused you become on the bigger picture; an important lesson you learn on the mats. Now, nothing can faze you. Whether it’s stress from work or being dumped by a boyfriend or girlfriend, you realize that some things aren’t worth beating yourself up over, giving you an edge over those who aren’t used to experiencing duress on a daily basis.
Whether it’s to learn self-defense, the start of a new hobby or wishing to further your martial arts repertoire, there’s no doubt that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a beautiful art that is accessible to anyone. From its countless lessons to its physical benefits, it becomes clear: the more you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the more you realize that it is more than a martial art – it’s a lifestyle. | <urn:uuid:f53c1242-148d-428a-9e7a-ba5da8989152> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bttfl.com/what-is-brazilian-jiu-jitsu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963453 | 868 | 2.203125 | 2 |
In Joshua chapter 6 we read of God’s command to Joshua on how to take the city of Jericho. They were to march around the city once a day for six days. Then on the seventh day they were to march around it seven times. How would that help win a battle? It won the battle because God is in control. It won the battle because Joshua and the Israelites followed God’s plan exactly how He spelled it out to them. In Hebrews 11:30 we read that the walls fell down by faith. “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.” Let us all have faith that strong!
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Cuttings Wharf, California facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
|Elevation||7 ft (2 m)|
Cuttings Wharf is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 7 feet (2 m). Cuttings Wharf is located on the Napa River, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Napa Junction.
In 1893 Francis Cutting developed a wharf at this location so that ships could pick up fruit grown in Napa at the Cutting Fruit Packing Company. In 1924, Napa County purchased the site as a public boat landing
A fishing resort adjacent to the wharf was built by Ernest Lundy. Mae Norman operated the resort from 1928 until 1961. Most of the buildings of the resort were razed, though Charles Moore moved some of them to his resort also located adjacent to the wharf property.
Some of the World War II effort-era plywood houses from Shipyard Acres were moved a few miles west to the Cuttings Wharf area, resurrected, and as of 2009 were still in place near the marina.
In the 1950s, twenty four surplus military buildings were floated from Richmond up the Napa River and installed near Moore's landing. In 1969, a picket at the Napa County courthouse led to county supervisors touring housing at Cuttings Wharf investigating reports of substandard housing. In the early 2000s, the buildings were found to be in violation of health and safety codes. The renters were evicted in early 2011. The buildings were eventually demolished.
Cuttings Wharf is the final resting place of the SS Cabrillo, a wooden steamship used to transport passengers between Los Angeles and the Channel Islands.
The boat launch facility at Cuttings Wharf was rebuilt in the late 1970s.
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Lately, my boys and I have been riding our bikes together almost every day. It’s been enjoyable for all four of us to head out and take to the streets together. However, on one day, there was a minor incident.
We usually ride single file down the street. I do this to teach the boys what I learned when I used to ride in a peloton. Most importantly, I teach them to look back and be aware of the rider behind them.
The other day when we were riding, for some reason, my oldest decided to break off on his own and ride back for something but didn’t tell anyone. As we rode ahead, I looked back and realized he was quite a distance behind us but on the floor. Seeing this, we immediately all rode back to help him.
We asked him if he was O.K. and helped him back up. Fortunately, it was a minor fall, and he was able to get right back up and continue riding. The reason he dropped back was because he decided to do a “trick.”
This story reminds me of our lives as men. We always want to do life “on our own.” Although there are moments we need alone time for self-reflection, the majority of times, we should be in community with other brothers. We fail to realize the strength in unity and the potential dangers of isolation.
Read and meditate on Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 for yourself. What do these verses say to you? Meditate on it, memorize it, do whatever it takes for it to sink in.
What fellow brother can you turn to when trouble comes? Make a list. Journal the journey. Be real. Be honest.
Forge in Fellowship:
What will you do to strengthen a relationship with a fellow brother today for tomorrow’s troubles? Share this with that fellow brother and have them hold you accountable. | <urn:uuid:3f13dde9-8a50-4d8a-ab89-a3353be6216a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://faithfirefury.com/2020/04/23/lone-rider/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977731 | 413 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The National Milk Producers Federation today applauded bipartisan work that’s being done on legislation that would bolster the many conservation and environmental efforts dairy producers are leading as they continue their everyday stewardship of air, land, and water resources.
This week, Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) reintroduced their bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act. This important legislation creates a USDA certification program that would permit the Department to informally endorse technical service providers that can help farmers implement environmental stewardship practices that may generate carbon credits. The legislation, if passed, would be invaluable for dairy farmers seeking to achieve the sector’s goal to achieve carbon neutrality or better by 2050 through dairy’s Net Zero Initiative.
“We commend Chairwoman Stabenow and Senator Braun for continuing their bipartisan leadership on the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which would encourage greater farmer participation in environmental markets,” said Jim Mulhern, president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation. “This legislation will enhance the proactive, sustainable initiatives dairy farmers are expanding as our sector strives to achieve carbon neutrality.”
The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee held a hearing on the Growing Climate Solutions Act last June. NMPF submitted written testimony in support of the measure on behalf of Mulhern and Environmental Issues Committee Chair Mike McCloskey.
NMPF additionally commended the efforts of House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA), who last Friday put forward several measures to adapt farm bill conservation programs to help address climate change by: allowing private sector funding to meet conservation program demand; emphasizing soil health and increasing funding for Conservation Innovation Trials; and incentivizing the adoption of precision agriculture systems.
“We thank Ranking Member Thompson for furthering the conversation on climate and sustainability by putting forward several proposals for discussion,” said Mulhern. “We agree that farm bill conservation programs can be vital to helping producers reduce their environmental footprint, and we look forward to more closely examining this suite of legislation and other proposals that may be introduced in the coming weeks.” | <urn:uuid:119bfd64-4435-4dbb-9d70-53f4ec9771c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hoards.com/article-30097-nmpf-lauds-progress-on-bipartisan-growing-climate-solutions-act-welcomes-conservation-proposals.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932464 | 438 | 1.625 | 2 |
Automated Testing Playbook
A set of principles, practices, idioms, and strategies pertaining to automated software testing and its adoption.
WORK IN PROGRESS: This material is currently in draft form and under active development. See the GitHub issues page to examine progress.
This guide is a distillation of the principles found in Mike Bland's Unit Testing Perspectives presentation, licensed under CC BY 4.0, based on a high-level outline by Mike and Dr. Robert Read of 18F. It also contains content copied directly from several of Mike's personal blog posts as well as some of his posts on AutoTest Central; both blogs are also licensed under CC BY 4.0.
This playbook is divided into five sections:
A roadmap towards improving a team's automated testing practices, loosely based on Google's Test Certified program.
Fundamental automated testing and design concepts that inform the craft of writing automated tests and testable code.
Technical impediments to the automated testing of existing systems and how to overcome them.
When it's OK to get by without writing automated tests, and when it's time to switch gears and add them.
Models and strategies for driving adoption of automated testing throughout a development culture.
Generating the site/hosting locally
To run your own local instance:
$ git clone email@example.com:18F/automated-testing-playbook.git $ cd automated-testing-playbook $ ./go init $ ./go serve
This will check that your Ruby version is supported, install the Bundler
gem if it is not yet installed, install all the gems
needed by the playbook, and launch a running instance on
After going through these steps, run
./go to see a list of available
serve command is the most common for routine development.
- Fork the repo ( https://github.com/18F/automated-testing-playbook/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request
Feel free to ping @mbland with any questions you may have, especially if the current documentation should've addressed your needs, but didn't.
This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.
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Easton LaChappelle is a bit of a prodigy. At 19 years old, he’s already landed a job at NASA, and he’s part of a seismic shift in how technology is being used to change the world, but that’s hardly the entire story.
The project that’s brought LaChappelle into prominence involves a chance meeting he had with a little girl using a prosthetic limb that cost upwards of $80,000, and that got the young engineer and designer thinking. So he built her a prosthetic arm. For a fraction of that sum. For just $400, in fact.
While projects like RoboHand are driving down the cost of needed prosthetic devices, LaChappelle’s arm is an extremely sophisticated take on solving the problem. Over the course of three years and working with online resources and collaborators alongside 3D designer Chris Chappelle, the project ultimately took 2nd place at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. He and Chappelle launched a successful Kickstarter project for what they called the “Anthromod” robotic arm.
The first version was a wireless hand controlled by a glove which included “flex sensors” sewn into the glove. Custom PCB boards and a custom servo shield, along with a set of XBee modules for wireless communication, completed the device. The system uses a wireless, EEG-capable headset which senses 10 different channels of brainwaves to control the arm.
It’s considerably more functional than a traditional prosthesis – and stronger than a human hand. LaChappelle says the next generation of the arm was capable of sustaining 50 pounds of pressure on each individual finger.
“The strength of the hand is so great that it’s almost dangerous,” LaChappelle says of the device.
LaChappelle made his first robotic hand out of LEGOs, fishing wire, and electrical tubing when he was all of 14 years old, and it’s now, after considerable effort on his part, a 3D printed marvel capable of operating in conjunction with the user’s mind.
The prototype, a practical — and affordable — device, once shook hands with President Obama and led to the young man’s work at NASA as a team member on the Robonaut project.
He’s also founded his own company, Unlimited Tomorrow, Inc., and it’s dedicated to developing an exoskeleton to help paraplegics walk again. That device is now undergoing the patent process and seeking FDA approval.
But it’s the advanced, open-source robotic arms that are truly a marvel. They can be used as prosthesis or as a STEM learning tool, and the device is as disruptive as it gets. Now LaChappelle is seeking funds to expand the program and develop the product through a GoFundMe campaign.
“I am raising money to expand our resources which includes more 3D printers, material development, manpower, and testing equipment,” LaChappelle says. “This will all help contribute to getting this technology to the people who really need it.”
And it’s no small task.
As LaChappelle refines the designs, he’s also using bleeding edge tools like HP Sprout to help share his designs online. It’s an effort to introduce a wide range of people to engineering, and socially-conscious makers and business people like LaChappelle are on the forefront of that movement.
The wide adoption of 3D printing and 3D design technology has spurred innovation and interest in STEM education around the globe. Do you know of any other projects which have caused disruption to the way education and business are conducted? Let us know in the Teen 3D Prints a Prosthetic Arm forum thread on 3DPB.com.
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Surrounding yourself with positive support can make it easier to quit. Find out what you can do to create a network of smokefree support.
Telling the people in your life about your choice to quit smoking and asking them for help can make a big difference. It’s likely that people will be supportive and positive when you tell them you are quitting smoking. But, you may come across others who don’t understand or who don’t want you to quit. Learn how to deal with the different ways others might react.
Know Who’s on Your Side
Surrounding yourself with people who support your choice to quit will increase your chances of staying smokefree for good. Your family, friends, co-workers, and others can help celebrate successes with you, boost your mood, and distract you from picking up a cigarette. But, what if people you care about don’t seem supportive when you tell them you are quitting?
See if these types of people seem familiar, and learn how you can deal with their different reactions.
Non-smokers Who Don’t Get It
People who have never smoked might not understand how difficult it is to quit. They might think that smoking is just a “nasty habit.” Or they might say things that can make you feel bad if you slip and have a cigarette or you start smoking again. It might be hard, but try to be patient with these people. Here are some more ways to deal with non-smokers who may not understand:
- Tell them how to help: Say exactly what would make you feel supported. You could say, “It would help me a lot if you celebrated my smaller smokefree victories with me.”
- Be positive: Thank them for their help and tell them how important their friendship is.
- State your feelings: Tell them how you feel when they do something that bothers you. For example, “It makes me feel bad when you talk about a time when I’ve slipped.”
Smokers Who Don’t Want to Quit
Staying friends with smokers who aren’t ready to quit can be one of the hardest things you do while you quit, especially if you smoked together. Even if they’re supportive, it can still be hard to be around them because they might remind you of smoking. This can trigger you to want to smoke. Below are some ways you can stay strong and focused on your goal. Try this:
- Respect them: Tell them you respect their choice not to quit and let them know how important your relationship is.
- Respect yourself: Talk to them about how important quitting is to you and what you’re struggling with, like being around cigarettes and cigarette smoke.
- Work together on a plan: Decide on smokefree zones in shared spaces, and when you’re together, ask them to smoke outside. Try to meet in smokefree places.
Smokers Who Aren’t on Your Side
There may be people who aren’t ready to quit and don’t want you to, either. They smoke around you and leave their cigarettes out, even when you ask them not to. They may even tell you that they don’t think you can quit. This can be discouraging and frustrating, especially if it’s someone you want to, or have to, keep a relationship with. You may need a break from this person, but that isn't always possible or easy. If you can’t give yourself some distance, try one of these other strategies:
- Remind yourself why you’re quitting.
- Join the Smokefree Women Facebook group and connect with other women who will support you.
- Plan to spend time with this person in places where smoking isn’t allowed (malls, movie theaters, restaurants), or find smokefree places you enjoy going solo.
- Lean on the people who are supporting you when the going gets tough.
Social and Smokefree
When you quit smoking, you may need to make a few changes to your regular activities to avoid smoking triggers that could lead to a slip. You might be worried that these changes will affect your social life. Luckily, you can still do things you enjoy while working on quitting:
- Try to socialize with people who support your decision to quit, especially in the first few weeks after quitting. This period can be hard and seeing others smoke can be a trigger.
- You and your friends have plenty of things in common besides smoking. Remind yourself of what those things are and incorporate them into your social life.
- Spend time with people who make you feel good about yourself and want you to succeed.
You may need to avoid certain places while you are quitting—like bars, certain concert venues, or areas where groups of people are smoking. Explain to your friends that this change is temporary and that you're not avoiding them, but are avoiding situations that might make you slip.
If there’s someone close to you who smokes, ask them if they want to quit with you. It could be helpful to have someone who understands the challenges of becoming smokefree. Plus, you’ll have a built-in support system. If they’re not ready to quit, be understanding. Tell them that becoming smokefree is really important to you. Ask them to help you reach that goal by not smoking around you or letting you bum a cigarette, no matter how badly you may want one. | <urn:uuid:0fb813bc-983b-4080-9149-26dffe4323c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://women.smokefree.gov/your-relationships/build-your-smokefree-team | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959721 | 1,145 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Getting in shape can improve your life expectancy and overall well-being. Starting out a new exercise routine can be hard for a newbie, especially if you’re out of shape. To help you get started, here are some quick workouts for beginners. These exercises are simple, don’t need any complex equipment and can be performed easily in your home.
The Table Position
Kneel on the floor with your hand resting on the floor. Maintain a straight or flat posture. Push your belly out and inhale simultaneously, and pull your stomach in while exhaling. Repeat it for one minute.
The Super Plank
When it comes to tummy exercise, planking will never go out of style. Lie on the floor (facing down), extend your legs, support your body with your forearms, and gradually push up your torso and legs. Keep your knees or tummy from touching the floor.
Hold the position for 25 seconds or more and increase your time gradually. Rest twice a week for your muscles to recover. At first you’re going to feel extreme pain in your abdomen, but you’re going to get used to it after a week or two.
The Kettlebell Workout
Kettlebells are the perfect exercise equipment that can burn body fat, build muscles and boost power, if you use them regularly. Trainers from QLDkettlebells.com.au mention workout programs and trainings for small groups as some of your options to get better and stronger.
The Cardio Workout
According to studies in Duke University, aerobic exercise is one of the most effective workouts when it comes to burning fats. It burns 67% more calories and visceral fats deep inside the belly than other cardio workouts. Many full-time mothers love to do aerobic exercise since they can simply do it at home.
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The leaders of Cyprus’s Turkish and Greek communities agreed Wednesday the formula for each side to enter international treaties as part of a reunified, federal state, the Turkish Cypriot president said.
“The most significant issue we handled today was the authorization of constituent states to sign international treaties,” Mustafa Akinci said. “That part has already completed.”
Akinci and Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades are taking part in face-to-face talks this month as they try to reach agreement on issues where there is broad agreement before tackling more contentious issues such as territory and security.
It was the second meeting, chaired by UN envoy Espen Barth Eide, this week with a further meeting due Friday.
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COVID-19 related topics by far out-paced all other topics in cardiology in 2020 on the DAIC website. Several stories topped the list related to the cardiovascular issues with hydroxychloroquine being used as a treatment for the virus. Top new device technologies in 2020 included European approval of the Abbott Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve, FDA approval of Medtronic's new Micra AV pill-sized pacemaker, and FDA clearance of the first drug-eluting stent with short-duration dual-antiplatelet therapy (DAPT).
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Assignment: Designing a Training Program
Create a written proposal in which you detail the complete design of an employee training program.
Write a six to eight (7-9) page paper in which you:
- Design a two (2) day training program for a group of twenty (20) employees.
- Identify two to three (2-3) training needs though a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and justify an approach for this training.
- Develop the training objective for this program based on an analysis of the business.
- Determine the training cost for the training program you are proposing. Include a detailed breakdown of time allotted for each piece, the subsequent cost analysis, and the total cost for the project as a whole.
- Select key training method(s) to deliver the program to employees, such as an e-Learning module or a one-day face-to-face training program.
- Create an agenda of activities for the training program.
- Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
- Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
- Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
- Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Identify when to conduct a Training Needs Analysis (TNA).
- Analyze the various approaches to performing a Training Needs Analysis.
- Develop strategies for training design.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in training and development.
- Write clearly and concisely about training and development using proper writing mechanics.
A more detail break down. (think training and development proposal, NOT business management or administration).
The following is what I will be looking for in your week eight paper. Please check your work again before turning it in. No guarantee that you will be able to redo your work.
Design a two (2) day training program for a group of twenty (20) employees. This question requires a response similar to the material on pages 134 – 138, 194 – 195, 306 – 311, and 337 – 344. This is a lengthy response and contains parts of some of the following questions. It is not an agenda. That is question six. Please reread the pages to see how a proper Training Program of any length should be created.
Identify two to three (2-3) training needs though a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and justify an approach for this training. TNA’s are either proactive or reactive and both provide an organizational analysis, an operational analysis, or a person analysis. These items need to be identified in your response of the question. Pages 124 – 129
Develop the training objective for this program based on an analysis of the business. Based on the choice of proactive or reactive TNA, and an operational, organizational, or person analysis, your objectives need to address the training needs and be focused on either the trained reaction, learning, transfer of training, or organizational outcome. Pages 152 – 158
Determine the training cost for the training program you are proposing. Include a detailed breakdown of time allotted for each piece, the subsequent cost analysis, and the total cost for the project as a whole. This should be a chart or table similar to the one on page 151, or for e-training on pages 266 and 267. You should have a list of training items as well as personal costs listed with their respective costs AND a total cost. In addition to the chart, you must have a narrative explaining the chart or table.
Select key training method (s) to deliver the program to employees, such as an e-Learning module or a one-day face-to-face training program.Chapter Six was all on training methods with a table on page 237 and 237 listing lecturettes, open discussion, demonstrations, small-group discussion, equipment simulators, business games, memory games, in-basket and case studies, role-play, behavior modeling, task-related exercises or activities, coaching, and mentoring. Chapter Seven was all on electronic training methods with a table on page 253 listing CBT, PI, IM, ITS, and Virtual Reality.
Create an agenda of activities for the training program. An agenda should contain some of the following traits: Type the name of the training at the top of the agenda. Add the date, time, and location of the training. Make a list of the items you need to cover. For instance, if the training session is on Fire Safety, some of the items to be covered might include Electrical Safety, Fire Hazards, and Emergency Evacuation Plans. Organize the items in the order to be presented. Put them into a logical sequence. For instance, it may not make the most sense to start Fire Safety training by going over the Emergency Evacuation Plans before explaining how to identify fire hazards. Start the agenda with Introductions and end with Questions and Answers. Assign each topic item a bullet point or a numeral. Include the name of the individual responsible for presenting a particular item if more than one person is conducting the training. Review the agenda to verify it includes everything. Compare the duration of the training to the amount of information on the agenda. Adjust the agenda if you feel that the training will run over or run short. The agenda needs to be in chart or table form and MUST have a narrative.
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Those who are interested in opening a company in Irelandcan register a business following the standard registration procedure, or they can opt to purchase a ready-made company. The term “ready-made company” is the same with shelf company, another way to refer to this type of business. As a general rule, this type of company is usually incorporated as a limited liability company, because this represents the most common way to start a business in Ireland.
These types of companies are dormant and are not involved in trading activities which is why they have no liability. However, in order to make the purchase, company due diligence is advised and our experts in company formation in Ireland will provide this type of service. The main reason foreign investors purchase shelf companiesin Ireland is the required registration number that is allocated to a company upon incorporation and that will help them start their business activities right away.
Legal entities available for
Private and public limited liability company
Time required for purchasing
A few days, depending on the availability
of the desired structure
Types of features it includes (corporate bank account, VAT number, etc)
Trading name, company bank account, statutory documents, company director, VAT and tax numbers
The advantages of a shelf company
Easy acquisition, VAT number and bank account, multiple uses
Appointing new directors (yes/no)
YES, company director can be replaced
Capital increase allowed (yes/no)
Certificate of no commercial activities (yes/no)
Modify the objects of activity of the shelf company in Ireland (yes/no)
YES, specific business licenses may be required
Participants in the purchase procedure
The buyer or appointed representative
and the seller
The cost of buying a shelf company in Ireland
The cost depends on the age of the company, legal structure, and share capital
for the purchase
Taxes applied to a
shelf company in Ireland
12.5 % corporate tax
Changing the registered address (yes/no)
YES, it is recommended to change the address
of the company
Aged shelf company available (yes/no)
YES, old companies can be bought
The institution where corporate changes are registered
Irish Companies Register Office
The shelf company in Ireland - characteristics
Shelf companies are businesses registered and kept inactive with the purpose of selling them to those interested in skipping the company incorporation procedure in Ireland. Apart from this, a ready-made company has other benefits and is a great choice for investors who want to start their activities as soon as possible. Here are the main aspects to consider when buying an aged company in Ireland:
its statutory documents are all drafted up and only need to be amended;
it will have a trading name which can be changed very easy with the Companies Registration Office;
the company will also have a tax identification number, however, it may not have a VAT number;
it will have a registered address which is one of its greatest advantages;
the company may also have a history which can be used for integration in another business
Buying a shelf company in Ireland is not complicated as the procedure can be completed by signing a few documents followed by the actual transfer of ownership. Following that, the buyer can make the necessary amendments and then start operating.
If you want to acquire such a business, you can request the assistance of our local advisors.
You can follow the video below created by ourIrish company formationspecialists if you want to see the main steps for buying a ready-made company in Ireland:
What are the advantages of Irish shelf companies?
One of the main reasons for selecting a shelf company in Ireland is that, through this option, the investors can start their business operations in a fast manner, as the purchase formalities can be completed in only few days. Investors will be able to set up their corporate bank account right away and even buy assets.
Another advantage offered by the shelf company is that the investors will benefit from an increased credibility on the local market, given by the age of the company. Investors must know that the shelf company can be purchased by any type of businessman and that it can be suitable for any business sector.
Since the Irish shelf company is generally set up as a limited liability company, the investors can also enjoy the tax benefits available for this business form, as limited liability companies can be taxed with lower corporate taxes and they can also obtain various incentives;our team of consultants in Irish company formation can assist with advice on the taxes applicable to limited liability companies and can also provide information on the overall costs of purchasing a ready-made company. They can also help you in the VAT registration process in Ireland. The basic advantages of a shelf company are presented below:
•a suitable way to enter the Irish business market for foreign investors who are not familiarized with the incorporation procedure and the local laws;
•it represents a suitable way of starting a business in the case in which the investors plan to obtain funding from a local bank;
•the purchase procedure can be completed in a period of 1-2 days, as opposed to starting a new company (which generally lasts approximately 10 days);
•it can help in having a more reliable business image in front of business partners, clients and financing institutions;
•it can be of help in the case in which the investors want to participate in various contracts, as the age of the company can be a criterion for the applicant companies.
What are the main business forms for Irish shelf companies?
Companies that are available for purchase in Ireland are incorporated as limited liability companies. Most of the shelf companies are, as mentioned above, incorporated as private limited liability companies; however, shelf companies in Ireland are also available as public limited companies. The reasons why the private limited company is the most preferred option are given by its attractive characteristics – no minimum share capital requirements and no residency requirements for the company’s directors (however, they have to be citizens of the European Economic Area).
The public limited company, on the other hand, requires a minimum share capital of EUR 38,092, and a quarter of this sum has to be deposited during the incorporation of the company. In order to start this type of company, it is necessary to have at least seven shareholders, while the limited liability company (LLC) can operate with a single shareholder.
Why choose a LLC for an Irish shelf company?
Besides the above mentioned advantages, the LLC is the most suitable way to open a company in Ireland due to the fact that its shareholders are protected against the company’s liabilities. The LLC in Ireland can be registered with 100% foreign ownership. More importantly, this structure is taxed with a corporate tax rate of only 12,5%, which is the lowest corporate tax rate applicable in the EU member states.
As a general rule, the LLC is required to appoint an annual general meeting, but in the case in which the company has only one founder, this requirement is no longer applicable. LLCs can benefit from tax exemptions and tax reliefs. For example, when starting a business activity that was not previously developed here, the company can obtain a full tax relief on the corporate tax for a period of three years.
However, this depends on the charged amount, and the number of employees the company has. Companies can also benefit from an exemption on the payment of the withholding tax applicable to distributed dividends, and may obtain tax reliefs for investments in the field of research and development.
What are the procedures for purchasing an Irish shelf company?
In the case of a shelf company in Ireland registered as a private limited liability company, the investors will have to appoint minimum one director; the company can have a single shareholder. The main legal procedure involved in purchasing a ready-made company in Ireland refers to the share transfer, which will change the ownership of the company. The advantage of the procedure is that it takes much less time compared to when starting the procedure of company formation in Ireland.
As a new owner of the shelf company, its new shareholder will have the right to modify the company’s trading name, to appoint new directors, a company secretary and change the company’s registered office. In order to become the owner of a shelf company, the ownership transfer documents have to be signed, which will then be followed by the documents that must be signed by the new directors. If the company will modify its object of activity and will carry out import-export operations, it will need to obtain an Irish EORI number.
Provided that the company’s shareholder wants to change the company’s trading name, this issue can be addressed in the same day. Our team of consultants in company registration in Ireland can assist investors in this procedure through the power of attorney. Investors can purchase an Irish shelf company that was incorporated recently, but they can also request an older shelf company (that has been dormant over the years), incorporated with the local authorities a decade ago, for example.
The sale-purchase contract for a shelf company
The document that needs to be drafted and signed by the seller and the buyer of a shelf company in Ireland is the sale-purchase agreement which can be drafted as soon as the entrepreneur decides on the company he or she wants to acquire. It is possible for the contract to be written as a share transfer agreement, so the acquisition of the company is even simpler.
If you want to set up a company in Ireland and decide on a ready-made company, we can also provide due diligence services through which you can verify the entity about to purchase.
Due diligence when buying an Irish shelf company
Even if the companies offered for sale as shelf entities have had no activities, due diligence verifications can be made in order to know if the selected business is a good option, considering the variety of such companies is quite large.
Foreign investors can purchase several types of businesses which is why knowing the exact form that suits his or her activities is a good idea. Our Irish company formation agents can offer full support in choosing the appropriate business form to conduct operations in of the most prolific countries of the European Union.
Making changes in an Irish ready-made company
Even if not all the changes are mandatory, most businesspersons choosing to acquire such entities decide to make all the changes they can in order to make sure the companies respect their requirements.
The first and most important change refers to the shareholding structure and the management of the company. These amendments must be written in the Articles of Association and also notified with the Trade Register.
Following that, other changes can also be made, among which the legal address (if desired), the trading name (a verification of the selected name must be made in order to ensure its uniqueness). Share capital increases are also common when buying a shelf company in Ireland.
We advise clients to make all the desired changes at once in order to have the company up and running in the shortest time possible.
Our company registration consultants in Ireland can help you register these amendments with the Trade Register.
What to consider when buying an aged company in Ireland
The acquisition of a shelf company in Ireland is quite simple, however, after the purchase is completed, the new owner must also consider obtaining a VAT number and various licenses in accordance with the activities to complete.
Even if it is considered a ready-made business, it still needs to undergo various operations before it is fully functional and able to operate. So, while gaining time by skipping the company incorporation procedure, the shelf enterprise must still go through specific licensing steps which can take time.
Why invest in Ireland
Ireland remains one of the most appealing business destinations in the European Union, especially after Brexit when foreign investors were looking for alternatives. According to Enterprise Ireland:
- the country ranks 1st at a global level in terms of attracting young and talented workforce;
- at the level of 2020, Ireland was home to more than 1,600 foreign companies;
- the total number of employees of these companies was above 250,000.
If you want to buy a shelf company in Ireland and do business in one of the most attractive EU states, our local agents are at your service for guidance in acquiring one.
However, these modifications have to be notified to the Irish Trade Register, which maintains up-to-date information on any company registered in Ireland. Investors are invited to contact our team of specialists in company formation in Ireland for complete information regarding the purchase of a ready-made company.
Paul Sheridan is one of our company formation specialists. He can help you establish your company in Ireland fast and easy.
Call us now at +353 1 254 6150to set up an appointment with our lawyers in Dublin, Ireland. Alternatively you can incorporate your company without traveling to Ireland. All our clients beneficiate from the joint expertize of local lawyers and international consultants.
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The real estate industry is one of the oldest and most mature economic sectors. Despite this, it has been steady to adopt new technologies and innovations.
As a result, there is an opportunity for new companies and real estate agents to take advantage of these emerging technologies and change how homes are built, bought, and sold. This post will explore some of these changes:
Virtual reality in residential real estate.
Virtual reality is being used in residential real estate to show homes to prospective buyers who are too far away to travel there, or who can’t afford the flight. This technology has been around for a while, but it’s just now becoming more widespread.
Virtual tours allow you to enter a room and walk around it as if you were really there—you can even look up at the ceiling. It’s almost like being teleported into another world. If you were interested in buying a house, but couldn’t come to see it in person because it was too far away or expensive for you, VR could make all the difference between finding your dream home and not finding anything at all. It has made a big difference in the global real estate market.
3-D printing in commercial real estate.
One example of how new real estate technology trends are changing the way we do business is 3-D printing in the commercial real estate sector.
What is 3D Printing?
3-D printing is a process by which an object is created from a three-dimensional digital model using additive processes. The technology allows for the creation of objects using materials including plastic, metal, ceramics, and even food.
Why 3D Printing is Important
3-D printing has become a fast and affordable way for developers to create models of new developments prior to construction without having to invest time and money on expensive prototypes.
In addition to reducing costs, 3-D printing allows developers to create models that are more precise than other construction methods such as computer-aided drafting software or physical mockups made from wood or clay. This means that real estate developers can make adjustments earlier in the process so they don’t run into issues later when it comes time for construction or tenant improvements.
How this could affect commercial real estate
3-D printing could accelerate the construction process by allowing developers to make changes before they start building — saving time, money, and resources. It could also help them make better decisions about what materials they use in their buildings because they’ll be able to see how they look before they go through with them.
Big data and machine learning in commercial real estate.
Big data and machine learning are being used in a variety of ways to help commercial and residential real estate tech and companies make better decisions.
One way is by providing analytics that helps companies make predictions about the future. For example, one company uses big data to predict the number of new rental units needed each year for a given market or region.
Another way is by analyzing data about past transactions and other information about buyers or sellers (such as whether they are likely to sell their property at a loss) so that agents can target specific prospects with customized offers tailored to meet their needs.
This helps both sides because it increases competition between different buyers while also reducing risk on the seller’s end: if you know someone has expressed interest in buying your house but hasn’t agreed on terms yet, then you know there’s still time left before expiration so long as you don’t wait too long before making contact again.
Blockchain technology in real estate.
Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger, meaning that it can be used to track and verify the information. One of the most promising applications for blockchain in commercial real estate technology involves tracking and verifying property ownership. This could have big implications for the industry, as it would allow for more transparency and efficiency in managing land records.
Blockchain technology also has applications when it comes to tracking and verifying property management transactions—the transaction history is recorded as “blocks” on an unalterable ledger, which provides transparency for all parties involved.
An autonomous sharing economy in residential real estate.
An autonomous sharing economy is one in which goods are shared between private individuals, with no intermediary.
This can be accomplished through the use of a platform or infrastructure that facilitates transactions between users. The most well-known example of this is Grab Car, which allows you to order a ride from your phone and pay for it with cash or a card at the end of your trip.
In real estate terms, an autonomous sharing economy allows homeowners to rent out their properties on short-term lease agreements by using peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb and HomeAway. These services have made it much easier for homeowners, property managers, and real estate professionals to monetize their homes when they don’t need them anymore by renting them out to travelers or vacationers looking for somewhere new and exciting to stay while they explore a new city.
Smart systems in the residential and commercial real estate industry.
Smart systems are more efficient. They can reduce the amount of energy each home or building uses, thereby cutting down on costs for owners and tenants. Smart systems also allow for more control over the environment, meaning occupants will likely feel less stressed out.
For example, if you have a smart thermostat in your home that can be controlled by an app on your phone, you don’t have to worry about forgetting to turn down the heat when you leave for work in the morning or returning from vacation at 5 pm with no idea whether your house is still at 21 degrees Celsius or 29 C.
You could even set up alerts so that if it gets too cold or warm inside—as well as when someone else enters or leaves—you’ll receive a notification on your smartphone. This would allow you to keep tabs on how much energy is being consumed while away from home without having to check constantly.
Public-private partnerships with modular construction in real estate technology
Public-private partnerships are a way to finance infrastructure projects. The government may not be able to afford to build all the infrastructure it needs, but private companies want to invest in the future of their communities.
This technology allows for these types of partnerships and helps governments share risk with private investors who have expertise and innovation in building new technologies like modular construction.
Technology is changing the ways that homes and buildings are being constructed, bought, and sold.
Modular construction, public-private partnerships (P3s), 3D printing technology, and smart systems such as blockchain have already begun to enter the real estate market. These technologies are expected to become more prevalent in real estate transactions in the coming years as developers seek new ways to save time and money on projects.
The sharing economy creates an ecosystem of users who are willing to share their assets with others through a technology platform. This has allowed for ridesharing services like Uber or Grab to thrive by connecting drivers with riders who need transportation services for a fee. Similarly, autonomous vehicles could offer opportunities for home ownership through shared car fleets where people can rent out their cars when they’re not using them.
Real Estate Trends and Property Technology
The future of the real estate business seems to be a brighter one, with more options and opportunities than ever before. But it’s important to remember that while many of these new technologies have the potential to revolutionize the real estate business industry, they are still in their infancy—and they will take time before they can become commonplace in our daily lives. One thing is for sure though. We will see some exciting developments in real estate companies over the next few years. | <urn:uuid:39e99eb2-728b-464b-ad5d-40c04814a27b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allproperties.com.ph/real-estate-and-technology-trends-in-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95756 | 1,568 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Greece has been creating an artificial agenda against Türkiye to try to distract the world from focusing on its crimes, Türkiye’s Defence Minister Hulusi Akar says.
Türkiye’s Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has criticised Greece for continuing with its provocative, maximalist and expansionist actions, along with its inhumane behaviour towards refugees.
"For years, the world ignored the fact that Greece has been carrying out inhumane actions against innocent people. But, with the latest Frontex incident, Greece was caught in the act and finally the EU started to realise what Greece has actually been doing," Akar said on Saturday in Mersin.
"Since Greece was caught red-handed, it has been creating an artificial agenda against Türkiye to try to distract the world from focusing on its crimes,” he added.
“For years, world ignored the fact that Greece has been carrying out inhumane actions against innocent people. But, with latest Frontex incident, Greece was caught in act and finally EU started to realize what Greece has actually been doing”— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) May 7, 2022
Türkiye's Defence Minister Akar pic.twitter.com/4TAzBMhE97
Human rights advocates and leading media outlets have frequently reported illegal pushbacks and other rights breaches by Greek authorities violating EU and international law.
In 2021, the European Parliament published its own report into allegations that Frontex was involved in so-called pushbacks, including in the Aegean Sea between EU member Greece and Türkiye.
What is Frontex?
Founded in 2005, Frontex is an agency of the European Union tasked with managing the bloc's external land and sea borders.
It has been accused of involvement in illegal pushbacks of migrants and refugees at the bloc's external borders, including in Greece, Croatia, and Romania.
Pushbacks violate the EU's obligations under international humanitarian law, which prohibits returning people to where their lives would be at risk.
The agency has come under scrutiny from rights groups, along with several institutions and legal bodies.
It is currently subject to more than ten investigations by the European Parliament, the European Ombudsman and the EU’s anti-fraud watchdog (OLAF).
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The MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device for 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. The Sony brand audio players were on the market from September 1992 until March 2013.〔
MiniDisc was announced by Sony in September 1992 and released that November for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, Canada, the USA and other countries .〔(Sony history ) Retrieved 19 September 2009〕 The music format was originally based exclusively on ATRAC audio data compression, but the option of linear PCM digital recording was later introduced to attain audio quality comparable to that of a compact disc. MiniDiscs were very popular in Japan but made a limited impact elsewhere.〔(Music On The Move: MiniDisc )〕
Sony announced they would cease development of MD devices, with the last of the players sold by March 2013.〔()〕
== Market history ==
In 1983, just a year after the introduction of the Compact Disc, Immink and Braat presented the first experiments with erasable magneto-optical Compact Discs during the 73rd AES
Convention in Eindhoven.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=4492 )〕 It took, however, almost ten years before their idea was commercialized.
Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems, introduced in 1992, that were both targeted as a replacement for the Philips analog cassette audio tape system: the other was Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), created by Philips and Matsushita. Sony had originally intended for Digital Audio Tape (DAT) to be the dominant home digital audio recording format, replacing the analog cassette. Due to technical delays, DAT was not launched until 1989, and by then the U.S. dollar had fallen so far in relation to the yen that the introductory DAT machine Sony had intended to market for about $400 in the late 1980s now had to retail for $800 or even $1000 to break even, putting it out of reach for most users.
Relegating DAT for professional use, Sony set to work to come up with a simpler, more economical digital home format. By the time Sony came up with MiniDisc in late 1992, Philips had introduced a competing system, DCC (the digital compact cassette). This created marketing confusion very similar to the Beta versus VHS battle of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sony attempted to license MD technology to other manufacturers, with JVC, Sharp, Pioneer, Panasonic and others all producing their own MD systems. However, non-Sony machines were not widely available in North America, and companies such as Technics and Radio Shack tended to promote DCC instead.
Despite having a loyal customer base (primarily musicians and audio enthusiasts), MiniDisc met with only limited success. It was relatively popular in Japan during the 1990s but did not enjoy comparable sales in other world markets. Since then, Recordable CDs, flash memory and HDD-based digital audio players introduced in 1998 have become increasingly popular as playback devices.
The initial low uptake of MiniDisc was attributed to the small number of pre-recorded albums available on MD as a relatively small number of record labels embraced the format. The initial high cost of equipment and blank media was also a factor. Stationary MiniDisc player/recorders never got into the lower price ranges, and most consumers had to connect the portable player to the hi-fi in order to record. This inconvenience contrasted with the earlier common use of cassette decks as a standard part of an ordinary hi-fi set-up.
MiniDisc technology was faced with new competition (CD Consortium) from the recordable compact disc (CD-R) when it became more affordable to consumers in 1996. Initially, Sony believed that it would take a decade for CD-R prices to become affordable (starting at about $12 per blank CD-R disk in 1994). But the prices fell very quickly, to the point where CD-R blanks sank below $1.00 by the late 1990s, compared to around $2.00 for similar 80-minute MiniDisc blanks.
The biggest competition for MiniDisc came from the emergence of MP3 players. With the Diamond Rio player in 1998, the mass market began to eschew physical media in favor of file-based systems.
By 2007, because of the waning popularity of the format and the increasing popularity of solid-state MP3 players, Sony was producing only one model, the Hi-MD MZ-RH1 (also available as the MZ-M200 in North America packaged with a Sony microphone and limited Macintosh software support).〔(Sony MZ-RH1 User Manual )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sony MZ-M200 Hi-MD Recorder with Stereo Microphone )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hi-MD Music Transfer for Mac Ver.2.0 )〕
The introduction of the MZ-RH1 allowed users to freely move uncompressed digital recordings back and forth from the MiniDisc to a computer without the copyright protection limitations previously imposed upon the NetMD series. This allowed the MiniDisc to better compete with HD recorders and MP3 players. However, even pro users like broadcasters and news reporters had already abandoned MiniDisc in favor of solid-state recorders, due to their long recording times, open digital content sharing, high-quality digital recording capabilities and reliable, lightweight design.
On 7 July 2011, Sony announced that it would no longer ship MiniDisc Walkman products as of September 2011,〔(Sony To Wind Up MiniDisc Walkman Shipments )〕 effectively killing the format.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MiniDisc, The Forgotten Format )〕
On 1 February 2013, Sony issued a press release on the Nikkei stock exchange that it will cease shipment of MD devices, with last of the players to be sold in March 2013. However, they will continue to sell media and offer repair services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sony To End Shipments Of MiniDisc Players )〕
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Designed as a flexible and cost-effective mode of transport for busy urban environments, the new i-Road concept is essentially an electric three-wheeler with a closed canopy design.
But the i-Road has one very interesting feature, it’s new “Active Lean” self-leaning system designed to automatically balance the vehicle when cornering or travelling over rough surfaces.
The vehicle also features an electric drivetrain, which Toyota says provides a range of about 31 miles on a single charge and a top speed of 28 mph.
A lithium-ion battery powers a pair of 2-kilowatt (2.7-horsepower) electric motors driving the front wheels and takes about 3 hours to charge using an ordinary household power outlet.
But it’s the Active Lean technology that’s the real highlight here.
Designed to offer high levels of stability, safety and comfort, while also allowing virtually anyone to be capable of driving the i-Road, Active Lean uses a lean actuator and gearing mounted above the front suspension member, linked via a yoke to the left and right front wheels.
A computer calculates the required degree of lean based on steering angle, gyro-sensor and vehicle speed information, with the system automatically moving the wheels up and down in opposite directions, applying lean angle to counteract the forces of cornering. The system also operates when the i-Road is being driven in a straight line over rough surfaces. The actuator automatically compensates for changes in the road to keep the body level.
This design also allows for a more car-like environment, with the potential for features such as lighting, heating, audio and connectivity to be provided. Importantly, occupants--yes, two adults can fit inside via tandem seating--don't need to wear a helmet.
The three-wheeled i-Road measures 7.7 feet long, 4.7 high, 2.8 feet wide, and weighs just over 660 pounds.
Toyota hasn’t mentioned any production plans but says it could envisage i-Road-type vehicles replacing cars in busy urban centers in the very near future.
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