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CAPRICE, n. A sudden start of the mind; a sudden change of opinion, or humor; a whim, freak, or particular fancy.
CA-PRICE', n. [Fr. caprice; Sp. and Port. capricho; It. capriccio, a shaking in fever, rigors; also, whim, freak, fancy. I suspect this word to be formed, with a prefix ca on the root of freak, break; denoting primarily a sudden bursting, breaking, or starting. So we see in Italian, maglio, and camaglio, a mail. In early English writers, it is written, according to the Spanish, capricho. If formed from the root of capio, caper, the primary sense is the same.]
A sudden start of the mind; a sudden change of opinion, or humor; a whim, freak, or particular fancy.
- An abrupt change in
feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy;
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Today is Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2015. There are 364 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 1, 1975, a jury in Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the Watergate cover-up; a fifth defendant, Kenneth Parkinson, was acquitted, and Mardian's conviction for conspiracy was later overturned on appeal.
On this date:
In 1515, Louis XII, King of France, died; he was succeeded by Francis I.
In 1660, Englishman Samuel Pepys (peeps) began keeping his famous diary.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be "forever free."
In 1913, the U.S. Parcel Post system went into operation.
In 1935, The Associated Press inaugurated Wirephoto, the first successful service for transmitting photographs by wire to member newspapers.
In 1945, France was admitted to the United Nations.
In 1953, country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, West Virginia, while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.
In 1959, Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic.
In 1979, the United States and China held celebrations in Washington and Beijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In 1984, the breakup of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
In 1985, the music cable channel VH-1 made its debut with a video of Marvin Gaye performing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
In 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Sweden, Finland and Austria joined the European Union. Fernando Henrique Cardoso took office as Brazil's president.
Ten years ago: Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War. Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, died near Daytona Beach, Florida, at age 80. California Congressman Robert T. Matsui (mat-SOO'-ee) died in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 63. No. 6 Texas managed a wild 38-37 win over No. 13 Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Fifth-ranked Utah dominated 19th-ranked Pittsburgh 35-7 in the Fiesta Bowl.
Five years ago: A suicide bomber detonated a truckload of explosives on a volleyball field in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 97 people. Fifth-ranked Florida overwhelmed No. 4 Cincinnati 51-24 in the Sugar Bowl. In the Rose Bowl, No. 8 Ohio State defeated No. 7 Oregon 26-17.
One year ago: The nation's first legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado at 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. Actress Juanita Moore, 99, died in Los Angeles. No. 4 Michigan State romped to a 24-20 victory over No. 5 Stanford in the 100th Rose Bowl. No. 15 Central Florida pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the bowl season by outlasting No. 6 Baylor 52-42 in the Fiesta Bowl.
Today's Birthdays: Former Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., is 93. Actor Ty Hardin is 85. Documentary maker Frederick Wiseman is 85. Actor Frank Langella is 77. Rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald is 73. Writer-comedian Don Novello is 72. Actor Rick Hurst is 69. Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors) is 65. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is 61. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is 59. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is 57. Actress Ren Woods is 57. Actress Dedee Pfeiffer is 51. Actress Embeth Davidtz is 49. Country singer Brian Flynn (Flynnville Train) is 49. Actor Morris Chestnut is 46. Actor Verne Troyer is 46. Elin Nordegren is 35. Actor Jonas Armstrong (Film: "Walking With the Enemy"; "Edge of Tomorrow"; TV: "Robin Hood") is 34. Actress Eden Riegel is 34. Olympic gold medal ice dancer Meryl Davis is 28.
Thought for Today: "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey.
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(Natural News) For the past three years, the federal government has been prescribing ivermectin to all refugees entering the country from the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Despite now claiming that the off-patent pharmaceutical drug is just “horse paste” for “livestock,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reportedly been advising the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for years to give both ivermectin and albendazole to all refugees upon arrival to the United States.
Newly uncovered documents show that refugees are being told to take two doses of 200 mcg/Kg of ivermectin once a day for two days prior to their departure for America. The government knows that by doing this, refugees will be free and clear of disease because ivermectin works.
Mind you, the CDC and the IOM have been prescribing ivermectin to refugees to prevent viral infections, not just parasites. This completely debunks the fake news lie that ivermectin is strictly an anti-parasite drug when used in humans, and has no effect on the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).
This might seem like a shock, but not so much when considering that ivermectin has been used for decades to fight disease in humans. It was only when the plandemic arrived that suddenly it became “cow medicine” unfit for human consumption.
“In Africa, if we compare countries distributing ivermectin once a year with countries which do not give ivermectin … I mean, they don’t give ivermectin to prevent Covid, but to prevent parasitic diseases … but anyway, if we look at Covid numbers in countries that give ivermectin, the number of cases is 134.4 per 100,000, and the number of deaths is 2.2 in 100,000,” says Dr. Haruo Ozaki, one of Japan’s top health officials.
“Now, African countries which do not distribute ivermectin: 950.6 cases per 100,000 and 29.3 deaths per 100,000. I believe the difference is clear.”
Studies show that ivermectin is effective against covid
Even in a worst-case scenario, an ivermectin “overdose” might make someone feel nauseous or experience diarrhea. Death is not really a risk factor, in other words – though the same cannot be said for Chinese Virus “vaccines.”
Those, it turns out, are highly deadly. Untold thousands of people have died from Fauci Flu shots, while ivermectin has killed nobody, as far as we can tell. Why, then, does the mainstream media and government not want anybody to have it?
The answer is because ivermectin does not generate much profit for Big Pharma, seeing as how it is an off-patent generic medication that can be produced for just a few pennies a pill.
Another answer is because people taking ivermectin would put an end to the plandemic, which is not what the medical fascists want. Instead, they want you to suffer under endless lockdowns while wearing your mask and getting routine “booster” injections for the rest of your life.
Meanwhile, refugees who are not even American citizens are being handed ivermectin at the very same time that actual Americans are being told that they cannot get a prescription for it. This is why many Americans are buying the animal version at feed stores, where it is available over the counter.
“Merck, the company that produces ivermectin, is also developing a drug to treat Covid which will make them much more money than the cheap antiviral ivermectin,” reports Infowars about another reason why ivermectin is frowned upon as a covid remedy.
“Or, it could be that the Covid vaccines still being used under Emergency Use Authorization would no longer have that emergency approval if a legitimate low-risk treatment were available.”
The latest news about Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) tyranny can be found at Fascism.news.
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Monitoring progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) defined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a significant requirement for the development and implementation of effective development policies, which take into account the fully understood sustainable development and that no one is left out of the development processes. In this report the progress in achieving sustainable development goals in Serbia is monitored in a comparative perspective, in comparison to EU-27, whose membership Serbia aspires to and whose normative framework and development standards Serbia should comply with. The comparison was also conducted with the countries in the region, the candidate countries for EU membership: Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia, according to the possibilities enabled by the data availability. This report was initiated by the “Public Finance Reform – 2030 Agenda” project supported by the Governments of Germany and Switzerland and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and builds on previous initiatives carried out in cooperation with the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS).
The report was made on the basis of data from the Eurostat database, the situation at the end of April 2022.
You can download the bilingual report in Serbian and English HERE.
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[ vair-i-tahy-per ]
/ ˈvɛər ɪˌtaɪ pər /
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a brand of typewriterlike machine with interchangeable typefaces, for composing justified matter.
QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!
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Words nearby Varityper
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British Dictionary definitions for Varityper
/ (ˈvɛərɪˌtaɪpə) /
trademark a justifying typewriter used to produce copy in various type styles
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Rebels lose third of territory in eastern Aleppo as Assad forces advance
Thousands of Syrians caught up in intense fighting are fleeing areas being retaken by forces loyal to the Assad regime.
Monday 28 November 2016 20:56, UK
Syrian rebels have lost a third of their territory in eastern Aleppo after pro-government and Kurdish forces made gains.
Forces loyal to Bashar al Assad took the Sakhour, Haydariya and Sheikh Khodr neighbourhoods on Monday and Kurdish forces captured the Sheikh Fares district from rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Kurdish forces in Aleppo are not officially allied with the regime, but rebels regard them as co-operating with the government in a bid to recapture the city.
Observatory director Rami Abdul Rahman, who is based in the UK, said: "The rebels have lost control of all the neighbourhoods in the north of east Aleppo, and this is their worst defeat since they seized half the city in 2012."
Analysts said the taking of the Sakhour district could cut the area held by the opposition in two and it is just a matter of time before all of eastern Aleppo is under government control.
Syrian state media also reported that the Haydariya and Sakhour districts had been taken as it showed looped footage of some of the thousands of civilians fleeing parts of the city affected by fighting.
Government forces have been fighting a renewed campaign in the last month to take the rebel-held east of Aleppo.
Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in attacks that have seen every hospital in the east hit since July.
Thousands of people have fled the fighting, which has seen four districts seized from rebels in the last 24 hours with another six taken in the last few days, according to Mr Abdul Rahman.
Some have gone to government or Kurdish-controlled areas and others have headed south to the few remaining rebel-held districts.
At least 120 British MPs have backed a petition calling for the UK Government to carry out aid drops over eastern Aleppo.
Among those demanding the dispatch of "life-saving aid" to the war-torn city are senior Conservatives Andrew Mitchell, Michael Gove, Nicholas Soames and Alistair Burt.
Meanwhile, a Syrian girl who has been sharing the horrors of living in Aleppo on social media has revealed her home was destroyed and she narrowly escaped death in the fighting.
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3D TV will take off?
March 20, 2009
Media analyst Screen Digest says 10 percent of new TVs sold could have 3D capabilities by 2011, and 16 percent (2.8 billion) by 2015. That depends, however, on the industry developing a standard around the emerging technology – if not, only three percent (500 million) of new sets would pack the new tech.
BSkyB has been recording much of its material in 3D for an experimental service it demonstrated in December, and a growing number of cinemas are tooling up for 3D, too, with 17 movies due for a 3D release this year. But the early bets in the space require 3D glasses not unlike those demanded by 50s B-movies. Either way, the research firm says Blu-ray will be the main distributor of 3D content, as the discs pack enough capacity to carry the slightly different double images required to produce the effect. | <urn:uuid:53c24843-52ce-4289-95b3-c02f3e630405> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://advanced-television.com/2009/03/20/3d-tv-will-take-off/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951773 | 193 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Shortly after the start of the Indiegogo campaign for the Swiss SLS 3D Printer Sintratec, another affordable Selective Laser Sintering machine is on its way to a crowdfunding platform.
November 10, 2015: A group of former Google and ABB engineers founded a company called SinterIt, with the goal to build an affordable and professional 3D printer based on SLS technology.
“Our mission is to introduce the 5k$ SLS 3D printer into the market”, says Konrad Glowacki, co-founder and developer of SinterIt. The team of three plans to start a Kickstarter campaign at the beginning of 2015 to fund their project.
“We focused on using innovative components to make our device as simple as possible with maintaining high quality. We wanted to reinvent the concept of the SLS printer by changing and improving many aspects of its construction. We managed to achieve a smaller size of the device and lower production and cost with regard to high quality of printed objects.”
- printing with powder in any color at high speed
- print bed size of 150mm x 150mm x 200mm (5.9 x 5.9 x 7.6 in)
- print scan speed up to 500 mm/s (19.6 in / s)
- print bed temperature up to 180 Celsius degrees (356 F)
- fully assembled
- controlled over WiFi
- printing powder price under 100$ per 1 kg (2.2 lbs)
SinterIt has already released the pictures of a few objects produced by the device:
April 23, 2015: Update – More details and pictures
“The last few months, although silent have certainly not been idle. We have been working on redesigning parts of our printer, removing any malfunctions and introducing new functions that have turned out to be key to our specific process of printing.”
Today, Konrad Glowacki, Co-founder of Sinterit, contacted us with more details on their affordable SLS printer and explained what features are key to the device. The official launch is still planned for this year. Currently the team is finalising the development and preparing for production.
Sinterit considers the heating system the first and most important part of the SLS printer, not its laser, as many would expect. There are at least 3 zones to be heated: the “Feed Zone” containing the unused powder, the print bed and the “Cylinder Zone”, where the already printed part of the object is stored. Temperatures have to be precisely controlled: “If the temperature is off by 2C on a part of the print bed the print could be ruined.”
The second challenging aspect has been the requirement of slicing software and firmware. “Good software is key.”
The simplest but nevertheless relatively complex part is the laser system. There are various types on the market and the right one has to be chosen.
You can meet the team of Sinterit at the 3D Printing Europe, taking place in Berlin from April 28-29.
September 9, 2015: Update – “Sinterit Lisa” available for pre-order
Although the developer team is going to officially launch the affordable SLS 3D printer at Euromold 2015, Sinterit Lisa will be available for pre-order on their website as of tomorrow, September 10th at 2:00 pm GMT. First devices will be delivered in January 2016.
While Sinterit has originally set the price for their printer under $ 5,000, its retail price will now be $ 8,000 net. This makes Sinerit Lisa still an extremely affordable device compared to other SLS machines on the market. The product is targeted at professionals, small and medium-sized companies.
Currently, black Polyamide 12 powder is the only available material for the printer, however, further materials and colours are planned.
- Max. print size: 13 x 17 x 13 cm
- Print bed size: 15 x 20 x 15 cm
- Layer thickness: 0.06 mm – 0.15 mm
- Machine dimension: 65 x 55 x 40 cm
- Weight: 30 kg (66 lbs)
- Software: Sinterit Studio 2016
- Supported file types: STL, OBJ, 3DS, FBX
- WIFI communication, integrated camera
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They offer lower energy consumption, reduce dust, pollen and other airborne impurities, and when used for cooling, heat pumps lower humidity by removing excess moisture.
Heat pumps are safer too, with no exposed hot surfaces, pilot flames, fuel burners or gas tanks to worry about.
When you get a heat pump from Enviro Master, you're dealing with qualified experts who can spot the differences in heating and cooling efficiency between different heat pump models. That means we can help you choose the right system, to meet your specific needs and receive:
-A healthy and hygienic environment
-A reliable system, designed to last longer
Floor Consoles provide a great distribution of heat.
There are two shapes, some blow out air at the top only, while others distribute air at both floor level and the top when heating.
Floor Consoles can be installed directly at floor level, or mounted slightly off the floor or above the skirting board, some can be recessed into the wall.
Ducted Heat Pump Systems are designed with flexibility in mind, meaning they can be customised for your home. They are completely hidden, usually within the ceiling space and air is ducted into each room through vents in the ceiling, providing a constant temperature throughout the house.
A maximum piping length of up to 75m allows the system to be used in all buildings, no matter the size or shape. Both the indoor and outdoor units are compact and lightweight, making them easy to transport and install.
Hot Water Heat Pumps are a great way to save money on your hot water heating costs.
They use energy from the outdoor air or ground to heat water, which is stored in an insulated hot water tank. The tank is usually inside, or you may be able to use your existing cylinder.
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New Federal Energy Outlook Proof that Clean Energy is Best Way to Bring Price Stability to American Families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 7th, 2021
Contact: Jason Phelps, [email protected]
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Short-Term Energy Outlook, which found that prices for gasoline are expected to fall dramatically in the coming months while natural gas remains steady. This report comes after months of major swings in energy prices and record high profits for fossil fuel companies.
In response to the EIA report, Noreen Nielsen, Senior Advisor for Climate Power, released the following statement:
“Fossil fuel CEOs continue to put families on a perilous rollercoaster when it comes to their energy bills. Families have been paying unreasonably high prices at the pump and those price spikes are expected to land on their home heating bills too. As long as households rely on volatile fossil fuels for their energy, price spikes are certain to strike again. Instead of watching fossil fuel CEOs and lobbyists profit while American families suffer, it’s time to invest in a cheaper, more reliable clean energy future. The Build Back Better Act does that. In this time of rising costs, Congress must pass this vital bill immediately to reduce energy costs and protect American families from harmful price spikes in the future.”
Today’s Outlook projects that gasoline will fall from its November average of $3.39 to $3.13 in December, $3.01 in January, and an average $2.88 for 2022. Natural gas prices fell in November, but are likely to remain level through the winter amid high demand from overseas. The report cited volatility in the market surrounding the unknown impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 as a reason for uncertainty in the projections.
The Build Back Better Act will protect American households from this volatility by turbocharging the 21st century clean energy economy. International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol recently said that investment in clean energy was hovering around a third of what was needed to meet the Paris climate targets, and that “the longer this mismatch persists, the greater the risk of further sharp price swings and increased volatility in the future.” Expert analysis shows that the bill will save American families $500 per month on energy costs and deliver $9 billion a year in savings for utilities and their customers. | <urn:uuid:86d16142-188a-4ef3-aacb-c46ea4650248> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://climatepower.us/resources/new-federal-energy-outlook-proof-that-clean-energy-is-best-way-to-bring-price-stability-to-american-families/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951192 | 491 | 1.84375 | 2 |
What REIs Need to Know About Title Insurance and Closing Costs
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned real estate investor, closing is one of the most exciting parts of purchasing an investment property. But, the closing process can also be cumbersome, opaque, and difficult to scale for certain transactions.
Thankfully, modern technology has removed many manual, analog tasks, enabling a faster, more efficient, and scalable closing process. For example, companies like Spruce*, which focus on digital title and closings, can offer local expertise at a national level–while shortening the time to close on each transaction.
However, getting everything in order for closing, at any volume, involves a lot of paperwork and fees. It’s common for total closing costs, including title insurance and various fees associated with the purchase of a property, to add up to thousands of dollars per investment property. Because of this, it’s essential for real estate investors to prepare for closing tasks in their initial budget to avoid any surprises.
Let’s discover the ins and outs of title insurance and closing costs to help you prepare for your next investment property purchase.
Are You Required to Buy Title Insurance?
The cost of title insurance is typically part of the overall closing costs. There are two types of title insurance policies: lender’s title insurance and owner’s title insurance. The lender’s policy protects the lender issuing the mortgage or other financing loan. The owner’s policy protects the real estate investor against any claims or title defects that may be discovered after purchasing the home.
The lender’s title insurance is typically required. If there is a mortgage or loan involved, the buyer is usually locked into buying a lender’s title insurance policy because the lender wants to ensure it’ll get its money back.
While the owner’s title insurance policy is optional, it’s generally a wise purchase. Title insurance protects a real estate investor against potential issues that may only be discovered after closing on the home. Liens, relatives of former owners who claim to have a legal interest in the property, encumbrances, or other issues could be costly—or even threaten your claim to the home.
An owner’s title insurance policy generally costs somewhere from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars as a one-time premium charge, and the protection lasts for as long as you own the property. Who pays for the owner’s title insurance policy can depend a lot on local, state-by-state customs (or even region within a state) and the current housing market, so having the seller cover this cost isn’t guaranteed but is sometimes possible.
What Do Closing Costs Include?
A home property purchase often involves many more parties than the buyer and seller. Real estate agents, lenders, attorneys, inspectors, title insurance companies, and others play a part in helping the sale go through smoothly. For example, closing costs can make up about 2‒5 percent of the home's value, so a $500,000 home could cost $10,000‒$25,000 in closing costs.
Here’s what’s commonly included in closing costs:
- Attorney fees: Real estate attorneys ensure documents are legal and accurate and will explain closing steps for you.
- Home appraisal and survey: Assesses the property's fair market value, which can affect your property taxes.
- Property inspection: Real estate investors may set a contingency to proceed with a home purchase only if an inspection comes back clear of major issues or damage.
- Loan origination and escrow fees: Includes processing and underwriting of the loan.
- Lenders’ service fees
- Credit report fees
- Title search: The title search investigates property records to ensure the seller has full legal rights to sell the property.
- Title insurance policies: Lenders typically require a lender’s policy, and it often makes sense for buyers to have an owner’s title insurance policy as we;;.
- Taxes: The seller often pays certain taxes, including prorated property taxes and possibly transfer tax.
The buyer usually pays most of these closing costs. However, it’s sometimes possible to ask the seller to cover part of the costs (either as a percentage or a set dollar amount), but they’re typically already responsible for a number of costs on their end, such as agent commissions, prorated property taxes, HOA fees, and other expenses. Whether they’ll agree to take on some closing costs may come down to factors such as whether buyers or sellers have more leverage in the current housing market.
Escrow fees are often split evenly between the buyer and seller, although this may also be possible to negotiate. Some companies offer flat fees and might save money for the buyer or seller. For example, Spruce charges an all-inclusive flat settlement fee which includes the notary fee, wire transfer, overnight courier, eClosing software, and more. The fee usually starts at $400 per side.
How to Lower Closing Costs
Most closing costs and fees aren’t optional, but that doesn’t mean there’s no room to lower costs. Here are some ways you could try to edge down your upfront payment.
- Compare costs: Kiavi can provide a quote for items like interest rates, closing costs, and service fees.
- Find your providers: If you find inspectors or companies who offer a title search at a lower rate than the provider listed on your loan agreement, see if it makes sense to go with an alternate provider. For example, tech-enabled companies may be more likely to offer cost and time savings, among other benefits.
- Negotiate with the seller: This may depend heavily on your housing market, but if you have some leverage, you may be able to ask the seller to skim a little off the home’s sale prices or cover a portion of closing costs.
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Cap 3 to 5 cm. A fairly sturdy, brownish cap with a central umbo and paler whitish stem.
Unless identified by a recognised expert, a photo is required and the specimen should be examined with a microscope. In the comments box, state the key or ID method used and describe the size and identifying characters.
Grassland, often at the edge of woods.
Summer and autumn.
Although it is widespread in England it seems to be rather infrequent.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Enter a town or village to see local records
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Progress, for People™
The future of healthcare will be based on a deeper understanding of biology and artificial intelligence (AI), and how to effectively fuse the two. At BERG, we understand that health is a dynamic balance, constantly adjusting due to a myriad of factors, which is why we take a non-traditional approach to healthcare.
By taking a systems biology, agnostic approach using our Interrogative Biology® platform – instead of hypothesizing the mechanism of a disease and focusing on only a few related compounds, we profile the entire disease by analyzing various patient biofluids (OMICS) and cell models (Biosystems) as well as clinical information (EMRs). This data is fed through our analytics platform, bAIcis®, to create cause-and-effect networks that identify discriminators and drivers of disease that can be pursued as drug targets or biomarker candidates.
This unrivaled and unbiased method of profiling not only exposes therapeutically targetable aberrations but also allows for the stratification of patients for predictive modeling.
Leading the Next Generation of Data-Driven Drug Discovery and Development Platforms
The Traditional Drug Development Process
hypotheses generating data
- Rigid process for understanding a disease pathway mechanism yet culminates with broad toxicity and efficacy estimates
- Relies on tools that churn existing data and don’t improve productivity
- Treats a specific problem with little implication for the broader biological system
- Capital intensive and binary business model
- Broad treatments with little precision
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data generating hypotheses
- Platform identifies novel targets, phenotype and clinical correlates
- Capacity for identifying safer treatments
- Improved outcomes with declining costs
- Generates network effects of lower incremental therapy costs
- Requires a robust and diverse set of human sample, high-quality data, leading technology, and top talent
NEXT GENERATION MEDICINE™ THROUGH INTERROGATIVE BIOLOGY®, POWERED BY bAIcis®
BERG INTERROGATIVE BIOLOGY®
BERG’s Interrogative Biology is a disruptive platform for biopharma. It is based on hypothesis-free, data-driven philosophy applied to biomedical research. Interrogative Biology insight and findings are typically first-in-class molecular entities with a wide freedom to operate in a specific disease area. This platform utilizes human biological samples and employs a number of high-throughput molecular profiling technologies. It goes beyond genomics performing deep molecular phenotyping in proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics. Applications of Interrogative Biology in biopharma include, but are not limited to, target discovery, mechanism of action discovery, drug repositioning and biomarker discovery.
BERG Interrogative Biology in 6 Steps
(1) Mimic diseased & healthy environments
In vitro cell cultures
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Lipids, metabolites, proteins, genes
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Combine omic data with patient clinical information
(4) Process trillions of data using AI: bAIcis®
bAIcis® compares all the data, enabling the difference between healthy and diseased cells to become apparent. Outputs appear like an airline map, consisting of big hubs for most of the activity
(5) Derive insights
The hubs in the maps represent the molecules that are abundant or deficient in diseased tissue relative to healthy tissue, indicating potential treatments or biomarkers
(6) Pressure test
Potential treatments can be created that modulate the target lipids/metabolites/proteins/genes to help restore a healthy environment
The BERG Interrogative Biology platform is a novel and unique approach to understanding underlying disease pathophysiology by the employment of high throughput “omics” to mine disease and normal tissue microenvironments, which are further validated by functional assays. Moreover, pre-clinical in vivo and clinical data serve as building blocks of in silico modeling using artificial intelligence to assess the pressure points of biological networks and enable an unbiased and data-driven approach to identification of therapeutic candidates and biomarkers.
The platform offers a new direction and impetus to drug discovery initiatives by primarily engaging the juxtaposition of the disease biology and normal cellular (homeostatic) biology, which is comprised of characteristic signatures including genes, proteins, lipids, metabolites and their network of expression. The disease modeling efforts involve extensive ex vivo experimental work with human material such as cell extracts, tissue samples, and cell lines. BERG invented cellular interrogation mechanisms by environmental, chemical and biochemical perturbants that induce disease-specific molecular signaling. Such signaling mechanisms can be deciphered by BERG artificial intelligence engine, bAIcis.
Interrogative Biology enables a novel automated approach to biopharma research. It creates a top-down, artificial intelligence-driven workflow for conducting molecular pathway and molecular mechanism studies. Analyzing a molecular model of a disease now takes several months instead of decades with conventional methods. The platform has also been designed to pinpoint key regulatory mechanism and potential intervention points in an automated fashion.
Over the years, BERG developed an extensive therapeutics and diagnostics pipeline of assets by applying Interrogative Biology in disease areas such as cancer, diabetes, neurology, and autoimmune disease. In parallel, BERG has validated this method through rigorous and manual experimental work in its vitro laboratory.
In early R&D, BERG’s advantage is in the rapid development of new drug and diagnostic programs where the assets are discovered de novo. Many of these programs are first-in-class molecular entities creating additional commercial leverage in intellectual property. In late stages, BERG utilizes the platform for effective patient stratification in its clinical programs. Interrogative Biology is designed for discovery of efficacy and safety biomarkers that help BERG succeed in clinical trials by selecting the right patient populations and expediting the approval process.
This technology can be generalized to other disease areas and serves as a jumpstart for innovative and first-in-class R&D projects in biopharma.
bAIcis® is the heart of BERG’s Interrogative Biology®
Proprietary Bayesian AI-Based Software Technology
bAIcis® uses validated methodology to:
- Identify therapeutic targets, biomarkers, and MOA
- Predict efficacy and safety in individuals
- Optimize combination therapy
- View the potential impact of demographics and co-morbidities on outcomes
- Provide feedback to discovery programs
- Reposition existing assets (e.g., compounds, targets, etc.)
- Data-driven new knowledge
- Data source agnostic
- Manages extremely large data sets
- Efficiently parallelized and cloud scalable
- White box algorithms leading to mechanistic insights
- Based on the Innovative Bayesian Artificial Intelligence Theory
Areas of engagement
- Custom risk models and population management in digital health
- de novo therapeutic target discovery from complex molecular data
- Discovery of new-in-class predictive and companion diagnostics, patient-centric management of complex human disorders
bAIcis is a state of the art Bayesian artificial intelligence learning software used for patient stratification, precision medicine, target identification, and lead optimization of novel drug candidates. It is the leading AI platform in the industry driving commercialization of big data. BERG has used bAIcis to discover novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and complimentary diagnostics, and compounds mechanisms of action.
Novel insight revealed by bAIcis in life sciences:
- Novel therapeutic targets discovered directly from molecular data
- Predictive, prognostics, and complementary biomarkers
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In digital health:
- Population health management
- Custom risk models for adverse outcomes
- Clinical decision support
bAIcis is a highly parallelized software designed to derive knowledge from observational data. It is not limited to any particular data type and can operate with digital and molecular data.
bAIcis allows for seamless transition from data to biological or clinical insights. The workflow accepts numerous data sources from electronic medical records to multi-omics molecular data. BERG has integrated data processing and normalization algorithms for a variety of molecular and cell-based phenotypic data sources:
- Mass spectrometry proteomics data including activity-based proteomics and post-translational modification proteomics such as phosphoproteomics
- Mass spectrometry metabolomics data including small molecule metabolomics and lipidomics
- Genomics data including mRNA microarrays, SNP arrays, and next-generation sequencing data
- Physiological functional endpoints such as bioenergetics, electrochemical gradients, and biogenesis
Artificial intelligence can be used in the entire process of healthcare – from finding the right drug to the right cost-effective outcome, to improving the overall healthcare system as a whole.
BERG Analytics and Patient Intelligence
- BERG Analytics aims to provide real-time analytic solutions that predict the impact of treatment plans at the individual level to optimize population health strategies.
- Our Patient Intelligence™, brought about by our Interrogative Biology® program and bAIcis®, will drive this population-level efficiency.
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On the Tighten.co blog they have a recent post sharing a better dd() for your TDD - basically a better method for debugging the current state of object with a "dump and die" function.
An important part of every Laravel developer's debugging arsenal is the humble dd() helper function—"dump and die"—to output the contents of a variable and terminate execution of your code. In the browser, dd() results in a structured, easy-to-read tree, complete with little arrow buttons that can be clicked to expand or hide children of nested structures. In the terminal, however, it's a different story.
[...] Fortunately, it's simple to build your very own customized version of dd() to help tame your unwieldy terminal output—helping you find the details you're interested in quickly, without wearing out your trackpad (and your patience).
He provides two options you can use to help clean up the output of a "dump or die" method from the extensive results the current "dd" function provides:
- Option 1: Using Symfony's VarDumper (with custom configuration options)
- Option 2: Kint
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The Plant-Based Imperial campaign combines initiatives from Greening Imperial, Environmental Society (ESoc), VegSoc and Animal Protection & Education Society (APES). The main aim of the campaign is to reduce the carbon footprint of the college and work towards a more sustainable college. Throughout January and February Imperial will be holding various events relating to meat consumption and sustainability (see the accompanying timetable).
On Mondays and Fridays between 12-2.00pm, there are pop-up stalls in JCR and SCR so as to get engage the community and get feedback on Meat-Free Mondays. Comments and opinions are welcomed.
A screening of Carnage will be held in the Grantham Institute on Wednesday, 23rd of January. A satire mockumentary by comedian Simon Amstell, Carnage, set in a meat free future, makes light of both vegans and meat-eaters of today.
On the 26th VegSoc is organizing a trip to the FRIEND animal sanctuary, where you can muck in, for instance cleaning chicken sheds or helping livestock which have been rescued from abusive owners or found abandoned. There are limited spaces. Email firstname.lastname@example.org to register interest.
Is veganism healthy? This is a question that often draws a great deal of empassioned but also unsubstantiated debate. UCL and Imperial students have begun a campaign to make at least a half of food consumed at the university vegan by 2020. This campaign is launching with a talk on nutrition at UCL on the 28th. Well worth attending if you would like to be involved or are considering a vegan diet. Also a chance to see the “other” university.
Should the production of meat be banned? Expect a heated debate right here in Imperial, as four experts come together in early February to discuss this proposition.
Last but certainly not least, “Earthling Ed”, an influential activist with over 9 million views on Youtube will be visiting to Imperial in late February.
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Woodstock Times (August 28, 2014, pg 4)
The long view: Overlook, a lecture/dance/performance piece at Historical Society by Violet Snow
“When I first came up with the idea for a performance piece about Woodstock history, I pictured a lot more blurring of fact and fiction,” said choreographer, dancer, and artist Hélène Lesterlin. “But the facts are so much more fantastical than I expected, I’m not really needing fantasy. I use a lot of stuff verbatim.”
Lesterlin has been delving into the Woodstock Historical Society archives and interviewing local eiders to assemble a lecture/dance/performance piece entitled Overlook, which she will present as a work-in-progress at the Historical Society’s Eames House on Comeau Drive on Saturday, August 30, at 7 p.m. She has chosen to focus on the period of change when the Byrdcliffe and Maverick art colonies injected the creative, freewheeling spirit that has been the town’s hallmark since the early 1900s.
“A lot of people think of history as major historical events, like a war,” she said, describing a conversation with town historian Richard Heppner. “He made the point that Woodstock’s history is really the stories of individuals. And this place draws extraordinary people.”
Ninety-year-old Jean Gaede, who has written extensively about Hervey While’s Maverick Colony and its famous festivals, provided much material. She gave Lesterlin access to her published and unpublished writings, in addition to granting three interviews. “Her view of this history is both personal, since she lived it, and historical because she’s done research,” said Lesterlin, who is interested in “how stories encode wisdom. What are the things that come up when people look back on their lives?”
In the archives she found the diary of Florence Pepper, who kept a journal from 1914, at the age of 22, until her death in 1984. “This is where history starts to change into poetry,” said Lesterlin. “At the beginning, almost every day, she writes a line or two, talking about the weather and her tasks and social visits, how she just cut out her gingham dress. When she’s older, she notes, marriages, births, deaths. Older still, only deaths. It gets really minimal: name, died this morning. Name, had their funeral.” Continue reading ““Overlook” – great preview article in the Woodstock Times” | <urn:uuid:477f4c0c-81c3-435e-b6b4-3e692da7d5df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://studio-reynard.com/author/admin/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961663 | 561 | 2.078125 | 2 |
FACTORS AFFECTING FAMILY AND SCHOOL COOPERATION
University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava (SLOVAKIA)
Education of the child and the development of his/her personality is not determined only by living in the family, but after the child's entry to school, it is strongly influenced and to a certain extent modified by school and family cooperation. When the child starts attending school, the family becomes a member of the school community and the mutual school and family cooperation and family participation in the educational process affects the child´s successful social adaptation as well as his/her performance at school.
Currently, even despite the effort of educational institutions to involve parents in the co-decision processes, a number of barriers and prejudices persist in the relationship between family and school. Those barriers do not allow the creation of full relations between parents and teachers, those that are primarily based on trust, respect and reciprocal exchange of information. Due to the fact, school and family partnership yet remains an unreachable aim in practice.
An important fact in this context is minimum undergraduate teacher training during their studies, concerning the cooperation with the pupil's family. Within the professional training of future teachers but also the beginning teachers, theoretical knowledge may be absent as well as effective practical skills. As a consequence that affects cooperation with parents in a negative way is that parents do not consider the teacher sufficiently competent for the implementation of education and training.
In the world, especially in the USA, partnership and cooperation between families and schools play an important role and this is evident from many research studies. Family and school partnership programmes have already been successfully implemented in practice. In our conditions, the issue of partnership programmes are not developed at adequate levels. Research on the issue and teaching experiences point to the fact that cooperation of the both educational partners is determined by many factors. They arise not only from the specifics of the school environment but especially from the family one.
Lack of domestic provenance literature that would systematically elaborate the issue of school and family cooperation and its determinants stimulates us to examine the factors that result from the family and school environment, which affect – in a most significant way - cooperation of parents with teachers in the Slovak Republic. | <urn:uuid:e0b2bec6-d060-49cc-8f64-319d890a69c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://library.iated.org/view/FRYDKOVA2014FAC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.971096 | 462 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Space X to Ferry Four Astronauts:
Space X Crew Dragon to Ferry Four Astronauts to International Space Station on November 14. It’s a huge achievement for a commercial organization Space X because it has received NASA approval for ferrying four astronauts. Take off is from Kennedy space centre in Florida.
Also watch :
NASA Picks Boeing and SpaceX to Ferry Astronauts
American astronauts such as Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are the four astronauts travelling in Space x vehicle. There are 14 astronauts in total and Spacex will carry them in small groups. These astronauts are extremely thrilled.
Why Space X to Ferry Four Astronauts:
Space X used to deliver cargo and supplies to International Space Station (ISS) with a partnership with NASA. Because it was successful in flying a crewless demonstration flight and another flight with crew, NASA selected it for this mission. Space X feels its great honour and service to humanity to take up this mission.
NASA and Space X:
Space X designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and Space crafts. The company aims to revolutionize space technology. Elon Musk is a South African born American businessman and he owns Space X. Whereas NASA is the American government Space agency. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It has partnered with Space X to carry astronauts to ISS.
Meanwhile, Dragon Space x capsule will make a water landing:
Two months ago, NASA astronauts landed at the International Space Station. SpaceX took the flight into the space station. The Dragon Space capsule is now all set to make a return. The SpaceX craft landed on waters of the Mexican Gulf. The two astronauts informed that it was a smooth landing. | <urn:uuid:793f5d84-dcbc-4123-90a2-1aec8b45baa8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awareearth.org/space-x-crew-dragon-to-ferry-four-astronauts-to-international-space-station-on-november-14/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916886 | 359 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Marketing junk food to kids: new research
The April issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association carries three research papers on the current state of food marketing to children. One finds that websites targeted to kids carry advertising for junk foods. One compared breakfast cereals marketed to children to those marketed to adults; the kids’ cereals had more calories, sugars, and salt but less fiber and protein (oh, great). The third looked at Saturday morning TV and found 90% of the food commercials to be for junk foods. Hmm. Doesn’t sound like much has changed since the Institute of Medicine’s call for stopping all this (or at least slowing it down). Time to hold food companies accountable, I think. | <urn:uuid:e93baacd-da69-48f4-ab92-5e7ca0814d76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/04/marketing-junk-food-to-kids-new-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958174 | 150 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Glenn Creel feels that he has been called to minister physically and spiritually. Due to the financial pressures of medical school, that dream is out of reach, and Glenn teaches to earn a living. Because they don't have federally recognized status possessed by other tribes, Edistos like Glenn Creel don't have access to educational assistance that would help to pay the cost of medical school. They are unrecognized because their tribal governments were obliterated before the founding of the United States. To even survive as a people, they have joined with a small group of Mississippi Natchez, a history typical of South Carolina's native Indians. In this segment, we see the importance of an election for tribal chief. With the vote comes a chance to move the tribe forward toward state and even federal recognition.
- This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into how the lifestyles of those living in capitalist countries differed from those living in communist countries. This indicator was also designed to promote inquiry into how the rights of citizens differed in capitalist and communist countries.
- This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into military and economic policies during World War II, to include the significance of military bases in South Carolina. This indicator was also developed to foster inquiry into postwar economic developments and demographic changes, to include the immigration of Jewish refugees following the Holocaust. | <urn:uuid:72f5f501-f8d2-49d8-b58b-f6ed43523b84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowitall.org/video/those-who-remain-part-2-edisto | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982889 | 268 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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A MBROSE PHILIPS.
A Native of Shropshire-Educated at Cambridge Encouraged by the Earl of Dorset—Sides
with tho Whigs His friendship with Addison and Steele-Produces The Distressed Mother,' a Tragedy-The famous Epilogue to his Tragedy-Publishes his Pastorals--His Quarrel with Pope-Joins in 'The Freethinker'-Is patronised by Archbishop BoulterDeath and Burial in Audley Chapel, South Audley Street, London.
Or the birth or early part of the life of AMBROSE PAILIPS I bare not been able to find any account.' His academical education he received at St. Jobu's College in Cambridge, where he first solicited the notice of the world by some English verses, in the collection published by the University on the death of Queen Mary.
From this time how be was employed, or in what station be passed his life, is not yet discovered. He must have published his Pastorals before the year 1708, because they are evidently prior to those of Pope.'
He afterwards (1709) addressed to the universal patron, the Duke of Dorset,' a 'Poetical Letter from Copenhagen,' which was published in The Tatler' (No. 12), and is by Pope in one of his
1 Ambrosius Philips, fillus Ambrosii P. pannicularii natus Infra Saloplam ibidemqa literis Institutus sub Mro Lloyd, annum agens 18 admissus est subsizator pro Mro Conway, Tutore de fidejussore Mro Nourse. Junii 25, 1698.
Nov. 6. 1698. Ego Ambrosius Phillips Saloplensis furatus et admlssus sum in discipulum bujus collegii pro Domini Fundatrice decessore Gandy.
Electio sociorum Martil 27. 1699.
Admissio Martil 28. 1699. Ego Ambrosius Philips Saloplensis juratus & admissus in perpetuum socium hujus Collegii pro Domini Fundatrice decessore Mro Apperly.—Register of St. John's College, Cambridge.
In the 'Graduati Cantabrigienses' his degrees are given :--B A. 1696 (i. 6. 1696–7), M.A. 1700.
. This is inaccurate. (See •Life of Pope,' p. 827.) Philips's 'Pastorals' appeared simultaneously with those of Pope in the sixth and concluding volune o Tonson's 'Miscellany." The volume (8v0., 1709) begins with the · Pastorals 'of Philips, and ends with those of Pope.
* This is a mistake; the witty Lord Dorset was only an Earl. His son Llonel was the Orst Duke.
first letters mentioned with high praise, as the production of a man "" who could write
very nobly.” . Philips was a zealous Whig, and therefore easily found access to Addison and Steele ; but his ardour seems not to have procured him anything more than kind words ; since he was reduced to translate the Persian Tales' for Tonson,' for which he was afterwards reproached, with this addition of contempt, that he worked for half
The book is divided into many sections, for each of which if he received half-a-crown, his reward, as writers then were paid, was very liberal ; but half-a-crown had a mean sound.
He was employed in promoting the principles of his party, by epitomising Hacket's 'Life of Archbishop Williams.' The origina! book is written with such depravity of genius, such mixture of the fop and pedant, as has not often appeared. The epitome is free enough from affectation, but has little spirit or vigour.
In 1712 he brought upon the stage "The Distressed Mother,' almost å translation of Racine's 'Andromaque.' Sach & work requires no uncommon powers, but the friends of Philips exerted every art to promote his interest. Before the appearance of the play, a whole Spectator,'* none indeed of the best, was devoted to its praise ; while it yet continued to be acted, another • Spectator' was written, to tell what impression it made upon Sir Roger ;' and on the first night a select audience, says Pope," was called together to applaud it.
It was concluded with the most saccessful Epilogue that was ever
• Compare Pope to Cromwell, Oct. 28, 1710. I cannot find the words quoted by Johnson in any letter to Cromwell.
Philips went to Copenhagen with Lord Mark Kerr, and Mr. Mitford has printed in the Aldine edition of Swift two interesting letters from Swift to Philips while abroad. They are very Whiggish. “I wish,” says Swift, " the victory we have got, and the scenes you pass through, would put you into humour of writing a Pastoral to celebrate the Duke of Marlborough, who, I hope, will soon be your General."
The Thousand and One Days, Persian Tales,' vol. 1 8vo.: London, 1714.-Bodleias Catalogue • Spectator,' No. 290, Feb. 1, 1712.
Spectator,'No. 885, March 28, 1719. “Bat pray," says Sir Roger," yon that are a critic, Is this play according to your dramatic rules, as you call them ? Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why, there is not a single sentence in this play that I do not know the meaning of."-Spec. No. 888.
8 It was acted at Drury Lane and for the first time on the 17th March, 1712. It ran nize pights.
Spenco.JOHNSON. Ed. Singer, p. 46.
yet spoken on the English theatre. The three first nights it was recited twice ; and not only continued to be demanded through the run, as it is termed, of the play, but whenever it is recalled to the stage, where by peculiar fortune, though a copy from the French, it yet keeps its place, the Epilogne is still expected, and is still spoken." • The propriety of Epilogues in general, and consequently of this, was questioned by a correspondent of The Spectator," whose letter was undoubtedly admitted for the sake of the answer, which soon followed," written with much zeal and acrimony. The attack and the defence equally contributed to stimulate curiosity and continúe attention. It may be discovered in the defence, that Prior's Epilogue to Phædra' had a little excited jealousy ; and something of Prior's plan may be discovered in the performance of his rival. • Of this distinguished Epilogue the reputed author was the wretched Budgell, whom Addison used to denominate" "the man who calls me cousin ;" and when he was asked how such a silly fellow could write so well, replied, "the Epilogue was quite another thing when I saw it first.” 1 It was known in Tonson's family, and told to Garrick, that Addison was himself the author of it, and that, when it had been at first printed with his name, he came early in the morning, before the copies were distributed, and ordered it to be given to Budgell, that it might add weight to the solicitation which he was then making for a place."
10 The Epilogue to 'The Distressed Mother' was spoken no less than nine times by Mrs. Oldfield the three first nights. The Distressed Mother' was acted, and is still constantly called for by the audience whenever that play is represented on the stage. Lord Halifat sent for Mr. Budgell, then a stranger to him, and told him that from thenceforward he must be acquainted with him, and desired to be ranked among the number of his friends.-BUDGELL : Bee, vol. Il. p. 858.
Till then it was usual to discontinue an epilogue after the sixth night. But this was called for by the audience, and continued for the whole run of this play. Budgell did not scruple to sit in the pit and call for it himself.-CIBBER: Lives of the Poets, v. 8.
11 Spectatot,' No. 888, March 28, 1712. 12 Spectator,' No. 841, April 1, 1712.
13 Spence. --JOHNSON. Ed. Singer, p. 161. * 1* Pope In Spence by Singer, p. 237.
16 He (Johnson) told us [26th April, 1776) that Addison wrote Budgell's papers in Tho Spectator,' at least mended them so much that he made them almost his own; and thr! Draper, Tonson's partner, assured Mrs. Johnson that the much-admired Epilogue to The Di tressed Mother," which came out fn Budgell's name, was in reality written by Addison. Boswell by Croker, ed. 1847, p. 509.
Philips was now high in the ranks of literature. His play was applauded ; his translations from Sappho had been published in * The Spectator ;'" he was an important and distinguished associate of clubs witty and political ; and nothing was wanting to his happiness but that he should be sure of its continuance.
The work which had procured him the first notice from the public was his Six Pastorals, which, flattering the imagination with Arcadian scenes, probably found many readers, and might have long passed as a pleasing amusement, had they not been unhappily too much commended.
The rustic poems of Theocritus were so highly valued by the Greeks and Romans that they attracted the imitation of Virgil, whose Eclogues seem to have been considered as precluding all attempts of the same kind ; for no shepherds were taught to sing
! by any succeeding poet, till Nemesian and Calphurnius ventured their feeble efforts in the lower age of Latin literature.
At the revival of learning in Italy, it was soon discovered that a dialogue of imaginary swaing might be composed with little difficulty : because the conversation of shepherds excludes profound or refined sentiment ; and, for images and descriptions, satyrs and fauns, naiads and dryads, were always within call; and woods and meadows, and hills and rivers, supplied variety of matter, which, having a natural power to soothe the mind, did not quickly cloy it.
Petrarch entertained the learned men of his age with the novelty of modern Pastorals in Latin. Being not ignorant of Greek, and finding nothing in the word Eclogue of rural meaning, he sapposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own productions Æglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats. This new name was adopted by subsequent writers, and amongst others by or Spenser.
More than a century afterwards (1498) Mantuan published his Bucolics with such success, that they were soon dignified by Badias with a comment, and, as Scaliger complained, received into schools, and taught as classical ; his complaint was vain, and the practice, however injudicious, spread far, and continued long. Mantuan was read, at least in some of the inferior schools of this kingdom, to the beginning of the present century. The speakers of Mantuan car
I bave heard Mr. Garrick say that Addison wrote the celebrated Epilogue published in the Dame of Budgell; that this was a fact he received from somo of the Tonsona.-WARTOS : Essay on Pope, vol. II. p. 240.
16 Spectator,' No. 228, of Nov. 16, 1711, and 'Spectator,' No. 229, Nov. 22, 1711. Joseple Warton was of opinion that in these exquisite fragments Philips recelyed assistance from Addison.--Essay on Popo, 1. 800.
. ried their disquisitions beyond the country, to censure the corraptions of the Church ; and from him Spenser learned to employ his swains on topics of controversy.
The Italians soon transferred Pastoral poetry into their own language: Sannazaro wrote · Arcadia' in prose and verse ; Tasso and Guarini wrote ‘Favole Boschareccie,' or Sylvan Dramas ; and all nations of Europe filled volumes with Thyrsis and Damon, and Thestylis and Phyllis.
Philips thinks it “somewhat strange to conceive how, in an age 80 addicted to the Muses, Pastoral Poetry never comes to be so much as thought apon." His wonder seems very unseasonable : there had never, from the time of Spenser, wanted writers to talk occasionally of Arcadia and Strephon; and half the book in which he first tried his powers consists of dialogues on Queen Mary's death, between Tityrus and Corydon, or Mopsus and Menalcas. A series or book of Pastorals, however, I know not that any one had then lately published."
Not long afterwards'' Pope made the first display of his powers in four Pastorals, written in a very different form. Philips bad taken Spenser, and Pope took Virgil for his pattern. Philips endeavoured to be natural, Pope laboured to be elegant.
Philips was now favoured by Addison, and by Addison's companions, who were very willing to push him into reputation. The Guardian' gave (April 1713] an account of Pastoral, partly critical, and partly historical ; in which, when the merit of the modern is compared, Tasso and Guarini are censured for remote thoughts and unnatural refinements; and, upon the whole, the Italians and French are all excluded from rural poetry ; and the pipe of the pas.
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T-minus 10...9...8... and we have lift off of the Dragonship Endeavor! Okay so it wasn't those exact words, but SpaceX did make history when they launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the 30th of May.
If you didn't see the live stream you can catch the recap here but I do recommend watching the full stream, just fast foward to the key parts.
I watched it and it was awesome to be witnessing history like that. I had my son, wife and my dog Jarvis watching along side with me. I can only imagine what it was like seeing the Apollo missions that landed Neil Armstrong on the moon.
I won't be detailing the launch as there have been several articles written about it to date included a decent one on Business Insider and I think you can see the news was known around the globe.
One funny thing I will mention is that SpaceX mentioned on their stream that you too can see what it's like to dock the Dragon with the International Space Station (ISS) online for free. It was fun and I recommend you try it, no instructions, just give it a go. My first attempt with my younger brother did not go well at all as we flung Dragon around even failing to crash it into the ISS.
Let's get to the point. Endeavor is docked. What's next for SpaceX already happened as they launched shortly after dropping starlink satellites into orbit while landing the reused Falcon9 rocket onto a brand new drone ship. We are used to seeing "Of Course We Still Love You" catching the falcons from the sky, but now we have "Just Read the Instructions" joining the ASDS fleet (Atonomous Spaceport Droneship). We also know the return flight of the Dragon is the next key milestone.
With that being said, Elon Musk has recently stated that Starship is now SpaceX's top priority which means that all eyes are on the Moon and Mars from this point. Mastering the Starship and visiting both celestial bodies will be no small task of course and getting humans there a fair bit after. Consider SpaceX first got into orbit in 2008 with the Falcon 1, the Falcon 9 in 2010, dragon capsule in 2012 and then got humans in a crew dragon in 2020, 8 years later.
That's not to suggest that there's going to be another 8 years until SpaceX gets humans up there again but just some context on the flow of things. There is a bit of time between now and humans getting to moon or mars.
This brings me to my idea that I'm giving to Elon Musk and SpaceX for free. Please share this with them if you think it's a good idea.
First thing Elon and SpaceX should do on Mars
Elon has always said that part of the purpose of SpaceX is to get people excited about space again, particularly the next generation. Well for people to be excited about going to a place, they need to relate to it, see it is a possibility, even though its completely new, a literal other world, it needs to be familiar.
The completely new part is covered - Mars. The possibility is covered by Elon already - showing reusable rockets, sending humans, creating starship, etc. and for familiarity?
Well let me use simple logic here - when you move into a new house and invite people over before you even have furniture, what is the first thing people ask about?
Do you have water? gas? electricity? a fridge?
Think Maslows hierarchy of needs. Do you have everything you need to survive?
And this I see as the focus, we are going to make habitats, get water from atmosphere, farm, make food, use solar for electricity. Great. Good. Necessary.
But that's not exactly exciting. Let me ask a new question, same scenario, new home, etc.
What's the first question a child is going to ask?
WHAT'S THE WIFI PASSWORD?
Wait, thats not on Maslows hierarchy of needs? Correct. And it really isn't. But it is the first thing the younger generation wants to know AHEAD of food, shelter, electricity and running water.
So what's my bright idea?
Put WiFi on Mars.
Put WiFi on Mars. I'm talking a basic home router dell, netgear, belkin, whatever you recognize as your generic home modem/router. Then to really prove it you need to tweet back to Earth from Mars. Literally show that if you went to Mars, you'd already have WiFi and you would already be connected.
In fact, share the WiFi password as part of the marketing. Pick some cool phrase or nod to pop culture in typical Elon fashion.
I think it would be both hilarious and actually insightful, deploying some kit, establishing internet comms, with everyone experiencing the lockdowns this year they will feel comfort for the future of Mars having Earth's internet beamed to it.
Okay so it isn't all fun and games, there are some technical things to solve here (which is actually the fun and games for Engineers) so it's a win-win. Deploy some of those awesome Starlink satellites as part of the mission.
It would be a little tongue in cheek at the priorities of todays era while giving some comfort and excitement at the prospect of WiFi level internet on Mars.
So now you've heard my pitch, what do you think?
If you think its good be sure share this article so it gets the attention needed to grab Elon, SpaceX's and NASA's attention.
If not, be sure to share this article so it gets the attention needed to grab Elon and SpaceX's attention for a good laugh.
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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has released its annual Studio Responsibility Index, which reports on LGBT visibility in the movies during the previous year. While none of the major studios, including Lionsgate, Sony and Universal, did particularly well, Disney was among the few that received the lowest rating, Failing, on LGBT inclusion.
This is not surprising. For a production company that churns out one hit fairy tale after another, it makes sense not to rock the boat with alternative readings that go beyond the storybook magic most children (and parents) associate with the studio. But things came to a head for Disney. Apart from the GLAAD reprimand, Twitter was awash in the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend. Started by women’s rights activist Alexis Isabel, the hashtag asked Disney honchos to give the princess from the hit movie Frozen an explicitly queer identity in the sequel, which is in production.
For too long, the fairy tale genre has had a fixed template: a struggle between good and evil that can only be won when the protagonist undertakes an impossible task. In the stories of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, the damsel in distress is rescued by a Prince Charming, and the couple proceeds to live happily ever after. The story is set in a suitably distant past, captured in that evocative, if clichéd, phrase “Once upon a time...”
Yet, for all the surface straightforwardness, Disney movies and characters have had a long history of queer interpretations envisioned by eager fans. Writing in the Guardian, Nico Lang draws attention to the standard over-the-top Disney villain who hews to a certain stylised, effeminate representation that, if not gay, is most definitely queer. Lang mentions such classic Disney villains as Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Scar from The Lion King to make his point.
But why blame only Disney? Hollywood’s representation of homosexuality has gone through many hoops to arrive at the current situation, where films like The Kids Are All Right showcase stable gay families whose queerness is often apolitical. The premise of The Kids Are All Right was the normality of homosexuality, a welcome departure from its close precedent, Brokeback Mountain, which meticulously tracks the tragedy of alternative sexuality.
With all the new LGBT-friendly narratives now seen on television and in the movies, Disney remains one of the last walls to be breached. The studio continues to extend copyright on its famed properties, because of which we only have the company to rely on to give us more egalitarian representations of its classic characters. Disney’s history of lobbying to get its way is demonstrated in the protracted extensions it has engineered in the copyright law to ensure that Mickey Mouse, its most valuable property, stays out of bounds of others.
Even so, the company must look to give its stories a makeover, if for no other reason than to beat the competition. Disney’s lineup of innocuous girls waiting to be rescued is in immense contrast to the aggressive women of, say, Star Wars and Game of Thrones. The studio seems to inhabit a quaint universe divorced from the larger churn within the narrative space. Even its television show, Once Upon A Time, which brings myriad Disney characters under one roof, plumbs for classic fairy tale tropes rather than subversion, a pity since television is perhaps the most exciting medium for LGBT storylines today.
The tricky question of enforcing queer narratives on beloved films is perhaps best broached via Elsa, as popular a princess from recent Disney history as any. To be sure, there are risks galore in drowning characters in alternative politics in later phases of production. For evidence, look no further than Merida from Disney’s Brave, whose stridently feminist tone seemed an afterthought strapped to the film’s narrative scope. Unless the character is organically imagined as queer or feminist, there is the danger that the studio will yield a product that fails creatively.
Elsa, at least, is better imagined than Merida. Critics have already dubbed the Frozen heroine as a feminist icon because of her ardent desire to reunite with her sister, which is a marked departure for fictive princesses whose trials and tribulations are usually driven by the need for romantic consummation.
That Elsa must learn to control her magical powers has been read as a distinctly queer subtext about the slipperiness of coming out as LGBT. The superhit track “Let It Go” has been appropriated as a queer anthem. Some critics have wondered if the character of Oaken, as suggested by the scene in the lodge, is gay, though opinion remains divided on whether his partner, caught for the briefest moment inside the sauna, is a man or a mannish woman.
Frozen can rightly be called a slyly gay film. But should the film’s producers make this connection explicit? Applying queer theory to classic fairy tales raises hackles because it gets tied up with conservative criticism of pushing a “gay agenda”. On the one hand, there is something to be said for introducing kids to queer identities and love stories at an earlier age. With gay marriage now a nationwide reality in America, and with LGBT kids coming out earlier, there is little reason why the real world should not find reflection in fantasy land.
On the other hand, there is the question of the market served by Disney. The success of Disney productions relies on their ability to recreate an intimate space that can be shared across generations. It is moot how conducive such a setting is to queer themes that deviate significantly from traditional fairy tale tropes.
There is also the question of what representation of queer themes should aim for. Queer identity, by its very nature, is so fluid and vast that perhaps it is better served by keeping things unsettled. Why must Elsa have a girlfriend? Why not take her feminism a notch further and have her revel in her single status? The debate over having Elsa come out in Frozen 2 omits to look at a heroine beyond the constraints of romantic love, whatever its hue. Are we keen to label Elsa as gay because she, like Merida, is not girly enough? Isn’t such thinking problematic too, since it is also beholden to labels, although of a different kind? If queer politics is about alternative romance, surely it should also be about alternative lifestyles?
Finally, there is the issue of how diversity in film must be pursued. There is, for instance, an entire galaxy of material in the Arabian Nights stories waiting to be reconsidered, but all we seem focused on are Grimm’s tales. This question goes beyond Disney and is mixed up with other diversity markers, such as race. One of the criticisms hurled by GLAAD in its study is the poor representation of non-white queer characters in Hollywood films. Most LGBT-themed films of the last year, such as Carol and The Danish Girl, had all-white casts. The outlier was Tangerine, a genre-bending film about two transgender black women that was eagerly lapped up on the indie circuit.
The debate about queer Disney is a microcosm of the greater churn convulsing Hollywood. Responding to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Chris Rock, the host of this year’s Academy Awards, explained why the lack of black nominations is such a major deal when black actors have been routinely overlooked for Oscar nominations in the past. “You know, when your grandmother is swinging from the tree, it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short,” Rock joked.
The demand for a gay Elsa should be seen in this light. In an America of marriage equality and greater acceptance, demands for leading characters to be gay will only rise. There was a time when no leading man would want to play gay onscreen. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal tore down that wall in Brokeback Mountain. The wall looks set to be breached again, this time in animation. | <urn:uuid:768c567a-3cfe-4db3-a70c-ff4fc9015383> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scroll.in/reel/807774/the-debate-over-whether-elsa-from-frozen-is-gay-is-far-more-complex-than-we-realise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957556 | 1,637 | 2.03125 | 2 |
NEW! This amazing resource teaches teens how to deal with the day-to-day challenges of anxiety; showing them how to control their anxiety and worry (and not let those feelings take over their life). The Anxiety Workbook for Teens features simple activities and effective techniques that teens can use on their own – or with the help of a counselor or other professional. Includes helpful information about anxiety (including the brain chemistry of anxiety), prevention and intervention, anxiety patterns, worrying, overgeneralizing, cost-benefit analysis, perfectionism, letting go of control, positive affirmations, talking or writing it out, mindfulness, managing fears/phobias/panic, and much much more. Each chapter includes a helpful "you need to know" section, exercises with teen-friendly direction, and interactive "more to do" activities. Teens will learn how to recognize their anxious thoughts, develop a more positive self-image, and where / how to seek additional help and support if needed. A great resource for counselors, social workers, teachers, and parents who want to educate themselves on ways to help their teenagers. Excellent! | <urn:uuid:9a9a2dab-ad3c-48f1-913b-0573e279c7a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://therapyshoppe.com/specials/P5630-anxiety-social-skill-workbook-for-teens-autism-asperger-adhd-bfrb-perfectionism-fears-phobias | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939947 | 226 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The man who represents a majority of the rural areas in Utah is deeply rooted as an advocate for his far-flung district.
Rep. Michael Noel, R-Kanab, has represented Beaver, Garfield, Kane, Piute, San Juan, Wayne, and Sevier counties since 2002.
When he isn’t presenting bills on Capitol Hill, Noel works as a water manager and rancher.
He stays busy selling hay, managing his 150 head of cattle, and developing water rights in his hometown of Kanab, where he has lived for 40 years with his late wife, Sherry Noel, who passed away on Jan. 12 just before the 2016 Legislative session started.
Noel serves on the Natural Resources Committee, Agriculture and Environment Committee, the Native American Liaison, and the Education Committee.
As the original founder and chairman of the House Conservative Caucus and the Rural Caucus Co-Chairman, he often works on legislation geared towards agricultural and rural communities. Below are the bills he has been working this year and the eventual outcome of each during the final hours of the legislative session.
HB276: Public Lands Management Act. Of all his bill’s during the session that just ended, Noel feels that this is his biggest one. The bill requires the director of the Division of Oils, Gas, and Mining to make a report to the Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands, as well as authorizes fees and establishes funding. “If we get control of the land until the Public Land Transfer Act, then this is how we would manage the land for multiple use,” Noel said. This means that they would grandfather in all existing uses, mineral rights and grazing rights. This bill failed to pass.
HB266: Unclaimed Capitol Credits Amendments. Noel says that this bill allows unclaimed capitol credit from local phone companies and power companies to go back to the community so they can use it for schools, non-profit organization, or other community organizations. He originally started the bill for Garkane Energy, which Noel said has anywhere between $30,000 to $40,000 dollars in unclaimed capitol credit that originally goes back to the state, but he is trying to allow that money to be used locally. This bill passed the House and Senate.
HCR1: Concurrent Waters of the US. Waters of the United States. This bill seeks a resolution to the long-discussed definition of “waters of the United States.” The resolution would be to disapprove of the expansion of the term to include drainages, dry washes, gullies, coulees, and others vessels that only move water after rainfall. This bill has been signed by Gov. Gary Herbert and is now a law in Utah.
HB281: Bigamy Offense Amendments. This amendment was suppose to narrow criminal liability to only be applicable to those who both engage in multiple partner cohabitation and report to be married to more than one person. Noel said it clarifies and limits criminal liability and saves Utah Taxpayers $100,000 in attorney fees, but it failed to pass this session.
HB270: Constitutional Defense Restricted Account Amendments. This allows money to be distributed to a county commissioners, sheriffs, or other county officials to protect the health safety and welfare of the community. This bill passed the House and the Senate.
HB479: Jail Reimbursement Rate Amendments. This bill increases the reimbursement rate for county jail beds that house state inmates. Noel said that this increase will amount to be $3 million dollars. “This is huge for our rural areas because it provides jobs and helps people in my district” Noel said. This bill passed the House and the Senate.
HB363: Grazing Zone Amendments. This bill identifies grazing zones as part of our planting and establishes grazing zones. Noel has done this all over the state, and this particular bill establishes Beaver County as a Utah Grazing Agricultural Commodity Zone. “We feel it has a high value,” Noel said about the grazing zones in Beaver. This bill passed the House and the Senate.
HB367: National Forest Road Obstruction. Noel said that this bill prevents the Forrest Service from putting up road obstructions and shutting down roads in our forest, specifically for roads identified as part of the Utah transportation plan for Cedar City, Powell, Escalante, and Fremont ranger districts of the Dixie National Forest in Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Wayne counties. This bill failed to pass.
HB232: Scenic Byway Amendments. This is a property rights issue that deals only with private property. It requires the Utah State Scenic Byway Committee to segment a state scenic byway, National Scenic Byway, or All-American Road at the written request of the owner of property. Noel said it gives an alternative process to segment an area along a scenic area if that area is not scenic. This bill passed the House and the Senate.
HB391: Law Enforcement Revisions: This one ensures that the Bureau of Land Management is complying with certain provisions of federal law relating to agreements for local law enforcement to enforce federal law and regulations on public land. This bill passed the House and the Senate. | <urn:uuid:9cbf657a-4fd5-4498-a7a1-50ab4d6becea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://universe.byu.edu/2016/03/11/rep-michael-noel-is-one-of-rural-utahs-chief-advocates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956659 | 1,070 | 1.648438 | 2 |
We investigated the development of the whole skeleton of the soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis, with particular emphasis on the pattern and sequence of ossification. Ossification starts at late Tokita-Kuratani stage (TK) 18 with the maxilla, followed by the dentary and prefrontal. The quadrate is the first endoskeletal ossification and appears at TK stage 22. All adult skull elements have started ossification by TK stage 25. Plastral bones are the first postcranial bones to ossify, whereas the nuchal is the first carapacial bone to ossify, appearing as two unstained anlagen. Extensive examination of ossification sequences among autopodial elements reveals much intraspecific variation. Patterns of ossification of cranial dermal elements are more variable than those of endochondral elements, and dermal elements ossify before endochondral ones. Differences in ossification sequences with Apalone spinifera include: in Pelodiscus sinensis the jugal develops relatively early and before the frontal, whereas it appears later in A. spinifera; the frontal appears shortly before the parietal in A. spinifera whereas in P. sinensis the parietal appears several stages before the frontal. Chelydrids exhibit an early development of the postorbital bone and the palatal elements as compared to trionychids. Integration of the onset of ossification data into an analysis of the sequence of skeletal ossification in cryptodirans using the event-pairing and Parsimov methods reveals heterochronies, some of which reflect the hypothesized phylogeny considered taxa. A functional interpretation of heterochronies is speculative. In the chondrocranium there is no contact between the nasal capsules and planum supraseptale via the sphenethmoid commissurae. The pattern of chondrification of forelimb and hind limb elements is consistent with a primary axis and digital arch. There is no evidence of anterior condensations distal to the radius and tibia. A pattern of quasi- simultaneity is seen in the chondrogenesis of the forelimb and the hind limb. | <urn:uuid:005e69ad-f847-4d1d-a013-821ca49f3c09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23197/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.87336 | 469 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Mental disorders are still considered a tabu subject in today’s world, even though we all know at least one person suffering from one. There are also disorders and syndromes that people develop throughout their lives, be it because of pathological reasons or because of events that trigger their appearance. Either way, some of the mental disorders people suffer from can be quite strange for the rest of us.
Over the next few minutes, we’ll take a look at some of the strangest mental disorders people can suffer from, conditions that are beyond weird for people who never had the misfortune to experience them firsthand, no doubt about it. Here are ten of the strangest mental disorders a person can be affected by.
Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological response experienced sometimes by victims of abductions, a condition that makes the hostage show signs of sympathy, loyalty, and compliance with the hostage taker. Sadly enough, this condition is also associated with victims of child abuse and domestic violence, a condition that often prevents authorities to prosecute the perpetrators due to their victim’s attachment to them. | <urn:uuid:3a55dadc-00f1-4b8a-8a55-9e3f5bbe35e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.peimag.com/top-10-strangest-mental-disorders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96901 | 226 | 2.453125 | 2 |
In September 2020, HR&A Advisors, New Localism Advisors, and The Global Institute on Innovation Districts convened a group of experts to discuss the role that innovation districts might play in addressing America’s social, economic, and environmental challenges – and what a new presidential administration might do to better support these knowledge-intensive neighborhoods.
Based on this workshop, the group crafted a policy proposal calling for a federal Innovation Zone (IZ) program promoting investments in infrastructure, talent, and R&D in innovation districts throughout the United States, with an emphasis on places that have yet to benefit from the innovation economy. With a new presidential administration entering office early next year – and the country confronted by a range of moral, economic, health, and climate crises – we hope that this proposal will stimulate healthy discussion over the best approaches for addressing our shared challenges.
Participants in the workshop included: Mason Ailstock (HR&A), Scott Andes (Carnegie Mellon University), Deborah Crawford (University of Tennessee), Bob Geolas (HR&A), Will Germain (Ventas), Bruce Katz (New Localism), Julie Wagner (Global Institute on Innovation Districts), and Kate Wittels (HR&A Advisors).
Below, we provide a high-level summary of the proposal, which you can read in full here.
Following a challenging election season, the Biden-Harris transition team is now drawing up plans for their policy agenda. Their task is hardly enviable. As we enter 2021, the United States faces four epochal crises: a public health emergency, an economic downturn, climate change, and a reckoning with systemic racism. Addressing these challenges will require a new approach to investing in our communities that stimulates more diverse economic growth, promotes social equity, and taps into knowledge creation that solves, rather than compounds, our twin health and environmental crises.
Federal investment in innovation districts provides a significant opportunity to address these challenges. The antithesis of monocultural research parks, innovation districts combine academic institutions, corporate R&D, startups, and entrepreneurial support organizations in mixed-use neighborhoods that promote creativity and collaboration, often in service of urgent societal challenges. Decades of research now demonstrates that the innovation economy thrives best in porous, multisectoral settings. By leveraging geographic proximity in its allocation of research funds, the federal government can thus dramatically amplify the impact of its R&D dollars. Similarly, by linking educational and workforce programs in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods to nearby innovation districts, the federal government can create a more sustainable economic engine for communities that are currently disconnected from the knowledge economy. Finally, by embracing its role in supporting regional innovation ecosystems, the federal government can reshape the country’s economic geography on a more equitable basis, creating new opportunities for job growth and investment in the nation’s heartland.
To support the growth of innovation districts, federal policymakers must focus on three interlocking policy domains. First, investments in district development will provide the dense physical environments necessary for innovation economies to thrive. Second, investments in talent development will cultivate the expertise needed to drive cutting-edge research and diversify the talent pipeline of local workers and students. Third, investments in research and development will supercharge local and national competitiveness by channeling federal R&D spending to specific innovation geographies.
Building on recent Senate proposals, including the Endless Frontier Act and the Innovation Centers Acceleration Act, there are a number of important actions that the federal government should take.
The federal government should support the growth of innovation districts in communities throughout the nation by:
- Creating a federal Innovation Zone (IZ) program that funds programmatic and physical investments in districts with emergent innovation ecosystems that, barring federal support, would be unable to capitalize on these latent knowledge economy assets.
- Seeking competitive proposals from local consortia bridging private industry, higher education, and local government.
- Awarding funds to innovation districts that are distributed throughout the country, with an emphasis on supporting places that have yet to emerge as innovation hubs.
The federal government should support the upskilling and reskilling of the nation’s workforce by:
- Supporting the education and recruitment of diverse research and entrepreneurial talent in high-tech fields relevant to specific IZs.
- Requiring co-location of educational and vocational facilities within IZs to facilitate job placement and access to the innovation ecosystem across the skills spectrum and enhance connections to adjacent low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
- Funding the training of a diverse and resilient labor force with STEM skills through targeted partnerships with community colleges, four-year colleges, workforce investment boards, and the K-12 system.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The federal government should enhance domestic R&D activity by:
- Targeting R&D funding to universities and businesses within specific IZs and incentivizing partnerships between companies, educational institutions, federal research entities, and state and local governments.
- Encouraging commercialization within university settings by amending grantmaking criteria to incentivize applied research and restructuring Technology Transfer Offices into loss-leading, third-party entities operated independently from university administrations.
- Providing seed funding for the creation of IZ-specific venture capital funds that can increase access to financing for new companies.
With a new presidential administration preparing to take office – and the country facing a cascading set of crises – now is the time for the federal government to invest in the growth of innovation districts, particularly in regions that have yet to benefit from the new economy. With a thoughtful and intentional re-alignment of federal policies supporting innovation and economic development, place-based investments in infrastructure, talent, and R&D can leverage the power of proximity to supercharge American innovation and in so doing lay a foundation for a new and more inclusive era of prosperity. | <urn:uuid:b317e8fb-3304-47b4-8884-1d32925d9f09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.giid.org/innovation-zones-how-the-federal-government-can-create-thriving-place-based-innovation-ecosystems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919864 | 1,205 | 1.523438 | 2 |
This is my third post discussing a five stage continuum of growing cross-cultural competence that Mark DeYmaz describes in his book, Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church. He calls this third stage “Cultural Awareness”.
Cultural Awareness occurs when a person recognises and accepts cultural distinctives. To reach this point one crosses a tipping point away from the previous stage of Cultural Blindness. Once a person accepts that culture runs much deeper than the skin and actually makes up a large part of a persons identity they can no longer deny that cultural differences exist.
Churches positioned in the stage of Cultural Awareness will find themselves talking about their diversity. They will also take steps to address obvious cultural issues such as providing sign language interpretation for deaf members. Decorations and art around the church building may reflect racial diversity. Signs and announcements may be printed in multiple languages. The church might even provide English as a Second Language classes.
DeYmaz describes how Mosaic church has hung flags in their worship area to “communicate no only our awareness but also our appreciation for the individuals and nations represented in our body at any given time.” (104) This makes a public statement that other nationalities and cultures are wanted and welcome at the church.
My observation of this stage is that churches and individuals willingly make adjustments to accommodate differences they observe with people of another race or culture.
This stage cannot be the final destination on the journey of cultural awareness. Although it has crossed a tipping point it still deals mostly with surface issues and observed needs. At this stage understanding intangible cultural values is not a priority.
Although a church service might be bilingual, the attitude toward time and punctuality may still reflect the values of the majority group. A casual attitude toward punctuality on the part of the minority may be generally regarded as disrespectful and rude.
Cultural Awareness does not necessarily lead one to seek understanding of other cultures. The word “awareness” is key to this definition. People recognise differences, but probably can’t explain the differences or the heart issues and values of the other culture. At this stage a person might acknowledge the fact that racial discrimination occurs, but not sit down with a man or woman of colour and ask them to describe the feelings that come with being discriminated against.
If your church is at a place of Cultural Awareness, celebrate that perspective! This is the starting point for a positive dialogue. From this point growth is possible without requiring a new worldview. But don’t sit back as though this is the destination.
Encourage your church to explore cultural issues. Take the first step yourself. Whether your part of a majority or minority, take some time to sit down with someone and compare cultural notes. Find someone you trust and ask them questions you’re nervous to ask publicly.
Don’t think you’ve arrived because you can list those differences.
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Discarding or destroying a Will are ways in which a person might revoke their Will. RCW 11.12.040. Courts presume, barring contrary evidence, that a lost or destroyed Will was revoked by the testator (the maker of the Will).
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HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835–1894), English writer on international law, was the only child of William Hall, M.D., a descendant of a junior branch of the Halls of Dunglass, and of Charlotte, daughter of William Cotton, F.S.A. He was born on the 22nd of August 1835, at Leatherhead, Surrey, but passed his childhood abroad, Dr Hall having acted as physician to the king of Hanover, and subsequently to the British legation at Naples. Hence, perhaps, the son’s taste in after life for art and modern languages. He was educated privately till, at the early age of seventeen, he matriculated at Oxford, where in 1856 he took his degree with a first class in the then recently instituted school of law and history, gaining, three years afterwards, the chancellor’s prize for an essay upon “the effect upon Spain of the discovery of the precious metals in America.” In 1861 he was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, but devoted his time less to any serious attempt to obtain practice than to the study of Italian art, and to travelling over a great part of Europe, always bringing home admirable water-colour drawings of buildings and scenery. He was an early and enthusiastic member of the Alpine Club, making several first ascents, notably that of the Lyskamm. He was always much interested in military matters, and was under fire, on the Danish side, in the war of 1864. In 1867 he published a pamphlet entitled “A Plan for the Reorganization of the Army,” and, many years afterwards, he saw as much as he was permitted to see of the expedition sent for the rescue of Gordon. He would undoubtedly have made his mark in the army, but in later life his ideal, which he realized, with much success, first at Llanfihangel in Monmouthshire, and then at Coker Court in Somersetshire, was, as has been said, “the English country gentleman, with cosmopolitan experiences, encyclopaedic knowledge, and artistic feeling.” His travels took him to Lapland, Egypt, South America and India. He had done good work for several government offices, in 1871 as inspector of returns under the Elementary Education Act, in 1877 by reports to the Board of Trade upon Oyster Fisheries, in France as well as in England; and all the time was amassing materials for ambitious undertakings upon the history of civilization, and of the colonies. His title to lasting remembrance rests, however, upon his labours in the realm of international law, recognized by his election as associé in 1875, and as membre in 1882, of the Institut de Droit International. In 1874 he published a thin 8vo upon the Rights and Duties of Neutrals, and followed it up in 1880 by his magnum opus, the Treatise on International Law, unquestionably the best book upon the subject in the English language. It is well planned, free from the rhetorical vagueness which has been the besetting vice of older books of a similar character, full of information, and everywhere bearing traces of the sound judgment and statesmanlike views of its author. In 1894 Hall published a useful monograph upon a little-explored topic, “the Foreign Jurisdictions of the British Crown,” but on the 30th of November of the same year, while apparently in the fullest enjoyment of bodily as well as mental vigour, he suddenly died. He married, in 1866, Imogen, daughter of Mr (afterwards Mr Justice) Grove, who died in 1886; and in 1891, Alice, daughter of Colonel Hill of Court Hill, Shropshire, but left no issue.
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There are lots of causes of avoidable blindness. One that’s especially common in the countries where we work is what’s known as “poor eye health-seeking behaviour.” It refers to people who have problems with their eyes, but don’t seek medical attention. We’ve learned there are a lot of reasons for this, including a lack of awareness that help is available, myths or superstitions about eyesight and an inability to pay for services or travel to a clinic.
This behaviour is a major barrier to eliminating avoidable blindness in developing countries. That’s why we’ve adopted a community-based approach, part of which is the recruitment and training of local community health workers, who are often women and often volunteers. While these women can diagnose basic eye problems and refer people to an appropriate level of care, one of their primary jobs is conducting door-to-door surveys.
Why are these surveys important? Well, our partners conduct them before they even begin working in a region. Community health workers return multiple times to ensure that everyone in an area is screened for eye problems. Then, working with community leaders, our partners create and tailor an approach for action. The health workers visit every household that has a blind or visually impaired person (multiple times if necessary) to help reassure patients and their families and make sure they get the care they need to protect or restore their sight!
In India, this approach has already helped us completely eliminate avoidable blindness in 66 villages by the end of 2015. And many more communities are still to come! We’re the only organization in India doing door-to-door surveys to end avoidable blindness.
In Zambia, in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank’s Seeing is Believing program and the Ministry of Health, we’re planning door-to-door surveys in three shanty towns in the capital city, Lusaka. These surveys are expected to cover about 450,000 individuals in 90,000 households, with the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness in all of them.
In Kenya, we’re part of the Kenya Trachoma Elimination Program funded by the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust. To eliminate blinding trachoma, we work with village elders and local administrators to map villages. Armed with a list of every home, volunteer health workers make sure that every member of every household is screened for trachoma and treated if necessary.
These are just a few ways that going door-to-door can eliminate blindness… and thanks to our donors’ support and our innovative and dedicated teams, we won’t give up until all the world can see!
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Brief Description: This qualification builds a foundational entry into the field of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, specifically into the field of Systems Support and provides the learner with accessibility to be employed within the IT Industry.
It provides an introductory level of understanding about computer industry concepts and covers areas such as entry-level hardware, software, electronics and network support,
on mainly (but not limited to) desktop and hand-held devices and local area networks.
The qualification has a flexible structure to allow for changing requirements in the computer industry and also provides the learner with the flexibility to articulate in the IT environment with a wide variety of specialisation options within the Telecommunications, Information Technology and Electronic Industries and other industries where IT is a key component, like the Financial Services Industry
Entry Level Requirements: Communication and Mathematical Literacy at NQF level 3 and/or a Grade 11 pass.
Target Market: The qualification is designed for learners who wish to be employed in the IT industry and for those intending to study further in the field of Systems Support at Higher Education Levels
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Most patients will receive a tooth filling to address tooth decay at some point in their life. It is a routine dental procedure most commonly used to repair damage caused by tooth decay. When decay is caught in the earliest stages of development, a tooth filling is the most conservative treatment option.
Dental fillings are designed to prevent future decay or damage and to restore the integrity of the tooth structure. Dr. Raj Upadya of Metropolitan Center for Complete Dentistry near Summit, NJ strives to achieve natural looking, long lasting results. He uses tooth-colored resin or porcelain materials to blend seamlessly with your natural teeth.
A tooth colored tooth filling provides long term strength and durability with a virtually invisible appearance.
Tooth decay is an unfortunate dental problem especially widespread among children and adolescents. A tooth cavity is commonly caused by plaque buildup. Good oral hygiene and routine dental care are the keys to minimizing your risk of tooth decay, thus minimizing your risk of needing a tooth filling, and can provide the foundation for lifelong dental health.
Tooth Filling Process
Although many patients become slightly anxious at the thought of a dental filling, it is a relatively simple procedure that should produce minimal discomfort with the use of a local anesthetic. Dr. Upadya offers same day dentistry with the use of E4D technology which enables him to design, fabricate and place a porcelain dental filling in a single visit to our Summit, NJ dentist office.
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Citation: Lang, M.W., McCarty, G.W., Anderson, M.C., Hively, W.D. 2007. Monitoring forested wetland hydrology in the Choptank Watershed using radar images [abstract]. 4th Annual Science Meeting of the Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex. 2007 CDROM.
Technical Abstract: Wetlands provide many beneficial services, including water quality improvement and floodwater reduction, but Mid-Atlantic wetlands are at high risk for loss, with forested wetlands being especially vulnerable. These services are performed through the interaction of multiple landscape components (e.g., agricultural fields, forests, urban areas, and wetlands) and therefore should be considered at the watershed scale. Hydrology (i.e., flooding and soil moisture) controls wetland function and must be better understood to conserve remaining wetlands, monitor wetland function, and improve water quality management. Broad-scale forested wetland hydrology is difficult to monitor using ground-based and traditional remote sensing methods (i.e., aerial photography). C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data can improve the capability to monitor forested wetland hydrology. The information derived from SAR can be easily updated through time to better inform adaptive, watershed scale management using water quality models and other decision support systems. However, the full potential of these data needs further investigation. Research is being conducted to support the use of SAR for monitoring forested wetland hydrology at a watershed scale. Forest hydrology has been mapped for the Choptank River Watershed, Maryland and a hydroperiod time series has been developed to better represent the dynamic nature of this ecosystem variable. Results are encouraging and opportunities are being explored to include this metric, as well as other biophysical parameters, in spatially explicit water quality models and other decision support systems. | <urn:uuid:bfda2728-71a6-458f-80c5-e42c1c879c78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=208191 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917019 | 422 | 2.234375 | 2 |
A proposed Alaskan copper mine that would be one of the world's largest never had a chance with federal regulators, who made up their minds without giving Pebble Mine's backers a fair shake, according to a report released this week by a former Pentagon boss.
William Cohen, the former Republican congressman from Maine who served as secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, charged in the 346-page report that the Environmental Protection Agency "failed to address important considerations" during permitting procedures and relied on hypothetical outcomes in order to deny the open-pit mine on state-owned land 200 miles southwest of Anchorage.
"After a very thorough review, I do not believe EPA used the fairest and most appropriate process," wrote Cohen, who when hired by Pebble Partnership pledged to follow the facts and not an agenda.
"After a very thorough review, I do not believe EPA used the fairest and most appropriate process."
While the project generated vocal opposition from environmental groups and Native Americans in Alaska, the EPA should have given more consideration to the economic activity it would have created, the report said. It also should have considered steps the partnership, once a syndicate of international mining companies but now just Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty Minerals, would take to mitigate environmental impact, the report said.
Pebble still has not submitted a formal permit application detailing its specific plan, but a preliminary application for right to use water for the project prompted the EPA to commission an environmental impact statement that found it would violate the federal Clean Water Act. Pebble officials say the decision was based on gross exaggeration of the project's size and scope, including claims it would be nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon and generate enough waste to fill 3,900 football stadiums. Those "hypotheticals," according to the partnership, signaled that the project would not get a fair hearing. Supporters say it is the main reason several international mining companies backed out of the partnership. The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial, labeled the initial action as a "preemptive veto" of the mine.
Pebble Partnership is suing the EPA over what it charges is an abuse of the agency's regulatory authority.
Cohen's investigation included review of 42,000 documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request and interviews with dozens of stakeholders with various opinions on the mine, although the EPA and U.S. Department of Justice declined to allow current employees to talk to Cohen's team. The report from Cohen, a former politician and cabinet secretary respected on both sides of the aisle in Washington, may add heft to the position of Pebble Partnership, which is still fighting in court to revive the project.
"I hope it will be helpful to the (EPA inspector general), to members of Congress," Cohen said told The Alaska Dispatch News. "The best thing to do is have a congressional hearing and explore these issues."
But critics of the project dismissed Cohen's report as the work of a hired hand who broke no new ground.
"There's nothing new here except for the fact that William Cohen has now been added to the company's list of paid consultants," wrote the National Resources Defense Council. "The report reads like an extended Pebble press release and that’s exactly how the public -- and the EPA -- should treat it."
Pebble Partnership has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since 2007 studying what it believes is a copper deposit worth as much as $300 billion.
The EPA issued a press release following Cohen's report, maintaining that "no process could have been more transparent and inclusive of all views." The agency said it did not take any final action on the project and said there was never a "preemptive veto."
"Pebble can apply for a permit whenever it wants," the statement said.
Pebble Partnership spokesman Mike Heatwole told FoxNews.com the EPA has been anything but transparent and the only reason the agency "did not take a final action" is due to an injunction issued by a federal judge. He said the partnership is studying all the details to ensure that the project is viable and will pass the National Environmental Policy Act.
"We're not looking to rush anything," he said.
Pebble's lawsuit, which alleges the EPA's related decisions amounted to a de facto blocking of the overall project, could prove embarrassing for the agency. Opponents of the project have already been subpoenaed with Pebble attorneys trying to prove they colluded with EPA regulators. Phillip North, a former key EPA official based in Alaska, retired two years ago and the agency claimed that most of his government emails were lost after his hard drive crashed. North is due in court next month.
The EPA's inspector general has been reviewing the agency's role in the project since May, 2014, to determine that it followed its own policies during its assessment of Pebble Mine's potential impact on Bristol Bay. A spokeswoman said the inspector general took on the review after requests from members of Congress and others. A ruling is expected by early 2016.
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A friend of mine was in her last trimester of pregnancy when the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was passed by the Parliament. She was thrilled to be a beneficiary of the new law.
Like my friend, many women were appreciative of the move, and social media platforms were buzzing with posts about the new amendment.
The passing of this Bill meant that women would now be entitled to paid maternity leave from 12 to 26 weeks.
This indeed was a step forward in the right direction.
While my friend enjoyed the benefits of this amendment, once she went back to work, nothing was smooth for her. Every move she made was scrutinised and getting through to the top management became increasingly difficult. In conversation, one of her friends who was also a member of the Human Resource team mentioned that the new maternity policy wasn’t going down too well with the management.
A survey conducted by TeamLease Services indicates that the provision of extending paid maternity for women for 26 weeks with employers bearing the entire cost, could result in job losses and discourage small businesses, micro-small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and start-ups.
Taking note of several such surveys, the government has decided to pay 50 per cent of the salary of 14 weeks to women on maternity leave.
How will this work?
Earlier, under the Act, the company would have to bear the entire burden and pay maternity benefits for 26 weeks. According to a report published in NDTV, a Women and Child Development Ministry source said that an official level meeting was held on Wednesday with the Labour Ministry where it was proposed that the unutilised amount of cess will be used to reimburse the maternity benefit.
The report further states that, “The pending amount has been decided to be utilised for the maternity benefit scheme. The disbursement of the amount will be done by the state authority under the direction of the Labour Ministry.”
Any women drawing a monthly salary of more than Rs 15,000 will be eligible for this benefit.
In an official release, a Ministry official said, “We came across many cases where either the women were asked to leave the office owing to maternity or faced troubles in resuming office after [the] leave. Adhering to all these issues, our (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi had approached the Labour Ministry who agreed to the concern and suggested to use the unutilized cess fund.”
Here’s hoping that this eases the burden that companies are feeling and more women and recruited and retained in companies all over.
(Edited by Gayatri Mishra)
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May Is ‘Chip Your Pet’ Month
Worldwide, millions of pets go missing from their families each year. Chip Your Pet Month is an excellent time to talk to a veterinarian about microchipping your dogs and cats in case they ever get lost.
Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious viruses known to veterinary medicine. Although not a zoonosis, the disease has many indirect effects on human health with devastating economic consequences that keep vulnerable communities rooted in poverty.
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How is right triangle trigonometry used in real life?
Trigonometry can be used to roof a house, to make the roof inclined ( in the case of single individual bungalows) and the height of the roof in buildings etc. It is used naval and aviation industries. It is used in cartography (creation of maps).
What are real life examples of right triangle?
One of the most common examples of a right triangle seen in real life is a situation in which a shadow is cast by a tall object. For example, if a 40 ft. tree casts a 20 ft. shadow, at what angle from vertical is the sun shining?
Where do you see triangles in everyday life?
10 Real Life Examples Of Triangle
- Traffic Signs. Traffic signs form the most commonly found examples of the triangle in our everyday life.
- Truss Bridges.
- Sailing Boat.
- Staircase and ladder.
- Buildings, Monuments, and Towers.
- Finding the Height of a Pole or Mountain.
What are two examples of a right triangle?
The two special right triangles include: 45°; 45°; 90° Triangle. 30°; 60°; 90° Triangle.
Where do we use triangles in everyday life?
What is the formula for a right angle triangle?
A right triangle is a special case of a triangle where 1 angle is equal to 90 degrees. In the case of a right triangle a 2 + b 2 = c 2. This formula is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
Does trigonometry only work for right triangles?
The trigonometric functions are based on a measure of 90 degrees yes, but it is not restricted to work with only right triangles. You can use sine and cosine laws when the triangle isn’t a right triangle.
Why Cant triangle have two right angles?
If the first two add to 180 degrees, then the 3rd remaining angle must be 0 degrees, which doesn’t make much sense. So this proves that a triangle cannot have two right angles. Side note: if a triangle does have a right angle, then it is known as a right triangle.
Does right triangle have three right angles?
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The Obama administration on Friday gave final approval to a plan that opens up 285,000 acres in 17 zones in six Western states for streamlined utility-scale solar power development. The Department of the Interior said the fast-track sites are “characterized by excellent solar resources, good energy transmission potential, and relatively low conflict with biological, cultural and historic resources.”
The Programmatic Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development doesn’t limit such power plants to the solar energy zones, but the benefits to siting projects in them will be substantial. The government’s major land caretaker, the Bureau of Land Manaagment, has committed to “facilitating faster and easier permitting in the SEZs, improving and facilitating mitigation, facilitating permitting of needed transmission to the SEZs, encouraging solar development on suitable adjacent nonfederal lands, and providing economic incentives for development in SEZs.”
The Department of the Interior said that if fully built out, solar projects in the zones could produce some 23,700 megawatts of electricity, enough to power around 7 million American homes.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed the Record of Decision codifying the plan in Las Vegas on Friday, joined there by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), proving that even in the face of a recalcitrant Congress, the executive branch has tools to make things happen.
“Energy from sources like wind and solar have doubled since the President took office, and with today’s milestone, we are laying a sustainable foundation to keep expanding our nation’s domestic energy resources,” Salazar said in a statement. “This historic initiative provides a roadmap for landscape-level planning that will lead to faster, smarter utility-scale solar development on public lands and reflects President Obama’s commitment to grow American made energy and create jobs.”
There are zones in six states, but that’s a little bit misleading: Of the 285,000 acres, more than half – 147,910 – are in California’s Riverside County, which borders Orange County on its western flank and then stretches all the way east across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to Arizona.
Pre-Obama, no big solar energy projects had been permitted on public lands. But according to the Interior Department, under Obama 33 renewable energy projects have been approved for construction on or involving public lands, including 18 solar plants, seven wind farms and eight geothermal plants. In May, the first of those big projects – Enbridge Silver State North, a 50-megawatt solar PV array 40 miles south of Las Vegas – went online.
Additional information (PDFs) from the Department of the Interior:
- State-by-state list of Solar Energy Zones
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Here are some relevant facts that will help Tulsa Aerial drone operators.
1 Can not fly zones in Oklahoma, Oklahoma state statute Section 3 - 322. critical infrastructure facilities bordered by a fence this includes refineries, electric power generating facilities, chemical plants, water intake structures, Natural Gas compression stations, Telecommunications wireless communication, inner structure Port facilities, railroad switching yards, Natural Gas Distribution, and Airports.
2 Maximum altitude 400 feet.
3 Maximum Drone weight 55 lb
4 Dorne pilots must be 16 years old.
5 Daylight flight hours 30 minutes before and after sunrise.
5 Drone speed limited to 100 miles an hour.
6 Drones may not fly over people.
7 Drones may not fly closer than 5 miles from airports.
More information on the flying drone can be found here.
The Special Rule for Model Aircraft (P.L. 112-95, Section 336) (PDF) provides the definition and operating rules for flying a model aircraft.
Note: Model aircraft operators that comply with all of these operational requirements during flight do not have to register their UAs with the FAA.
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The trees, as well as the sky that hangs above it and the rocks beneath those trees, may have a lot of knowledge that we as humans wandering on the hills, may not know. How can we learn from them? What do we want to learn from them? Are we ready to hear what they have to tell us? How do we relate to them, how do they relate to us? What is their experience of the city? How would we develop the means to hear their stories? Asking the right questions, one can begin to hear the stories of the trees. And as with any conversation, by listening to others we listen to ourselves.
Maybe we share this knowledge, but we can’t know unless we take the time to listen. We, the Mouries – a circle of women with practices of divination and healing – are interested in building a conversation with the trees. We receive our guests in a picnic in the farangi, where we share our methods, thoughts and intuitions. We then guide each visitor to a different space in the grove where a mediator assists their connection with the trees. Let’s open our senses and new intimacies through one to one encounters, conversations, stories and songs in the forest.
Sketching rituals for the regeneration of forests.A three-hour workshop to imagine, discuss and put in practice ideas for rituals to mourn, accompany, and heal with our lost forests. This encounter is inspired by the recent fires in Greece, and is an open invitation to those who, like us, feel the need to do something without knowing exactly what. Maybe we will find out together.
Oi Mouries are a fluid group composed by different women at different times. Mainly Auriane Blanc, Thalia Dimitropoulou, Isabel Gutierrez, Maria Juliana Byck, Eliana Otta, Vasilikí Sifoustratoudaki and Sanem Su Avcı.
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Jumping to Conclusions: The Falling-Third Cadences in Chant, Polyphony, and Recitative
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This book concerns the cadences which reach their conclusion by jumping from scale degree 3 down to 1 or to 1-7-1. The chronological history commences in Gregorian Chant, where the falling third is often preceded by scale degree 4, forming the striking figure 4-3-1. The cadences move, along with the borrowed chant melodies, into the polyphony of the late 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Here, melodic figures with the shape of 4-3-1, but on any scale degree, become a significant element of style. At cadence the unbroken melodic progression 4-3-1-7-1 may lie entirely in the upper voice, or 4-3-1 may occur in a lower voice followed by 7-1 in the upper. The general effect of the falling third changes as the surrounding musical elements change and as polyphony itself evolves through time. The cadences are reborn in recitative, first in an unbroken form with 4-3-1-7-1 in the voice, later in a broken form with 4-3-1 in the voice, 7-1 in the instrumental continuo part. Many evolving rhythmic, harmonic, melodic, and other elements are important in the cadences, but two are especially significant, for they lead to difficult problems for later performers. These concern (1) the structure in which the accompaniment's V chord is notated directly below the voice's first or single scale degree 1, and (2) the possibility of an appoggiatura on scale degree 2 between the two notes of the falling third. The book suggests some new and unexpected solutions to both these problems and concludes with a brief history of the 4-3-1 figure. The book includes many musical examples by composers such as Dunstable, Dufay, Josquin, Palestrina, A. Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Handel, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Rossini.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part I The Falling-Third Cadences in Chant and Polyphony: Gregorian chant; Late 14th- and early 15th-century polyphony; Polyphony from Dufay to Palestrina. Part II The Falling-Third Cadences in Recitative: Monody and recitative in the 17th century; Later recitative; The Appoggiatura. The Conclusions: The 4-3-1 figure in history. Bibliography; Index.
Richard Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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Diaspora, division, occupation, prison, deportation, refuge have all been part of every Palestinian’s life, especially with a 50 year old occupation that keeps tearing families apart.
Sa’diyya Karaja, mother of seven, tells her story of occupation-torn family while in tears.
Originally from Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, Karajah was married in Gaza in 1981, where she had to change her place of residence from Bethlehem to Gaza.
When the family moved to Bethlehem in 1996, Israel refused to change her ID address back to Bethlehem. In 2011, the family applied to change their place of residence but Israel refused due to security ban.
Now, she and her family are considered to be living in the West Bank illegally, since Israel refused to change their address or give them permissions to go to Gaza.
Three out of her six sons were imprisoned; two of them are still in prison and one of them is deported. The three were reportedly charged with stone throwing and participating in protests against Israel.
Her oldest son, Mohammad Karajah, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2004 and is still in Megiddo Israeli jail.
The younger, Hassan, was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2006. When the family was waiting for him to return home after he finished his sentence, Israel sent him to Gaza since his ID said that the address was Gaza. He has been deported there since October 2016, and the family has not seen him or his two kids since then.
Hassan now lives in Nsseirat camp in central Gaza, unemployed.
Her third son, Mamdouh Karajah, aged 17, was arrested last year and sentenced to 10 months in jail and a fine of 12,000 shekels ( approximately $3,300), or else he would spend another six months in jail.
“Thank God for internet so I can see my child,” Sa’diyya told PNN. “I haven’t seen him or his kids for years, I haven’t had a single sit down or birthday celebration with them.”
“We feel paralyzed. We cannot move or do anything. We can’t leave the West Bank, and my son can’t leave Gaza.”
Sa’diyya said the only thing that would put the family out of its misery is having their address changed to Bethlehem so they can move and be able to meet, after years of deprivation and suffering.
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Starbucks continues to brew controversy, as opposing sides of the nation's gun debate clash over the giant coffee chain's policy to support state "open-carry" laws for legal firearms and, where permitted by law, to permit guns in their stores.
On Friday, the Newtown Action Alliance, a grassroots organization founded by Newtown, Connecticut, residents in support of gun policy reform, posted on its website an open letter to Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, encouraging him to ban guns in all Starbucks stores.
"If you make the decision to ban guns, your company has the chance to honor the 26 innocent lives lost here in Newtown and the 32,000 Americans lost annually to gun violence by becoming a leader in educating the public about firearm safety. We know by having observed and admired your continuing advocacy that your company not only understands but takes pride in its responsibility to promote the growth of a safe and just society," the open letter said.
"That is why we would like you to invite you to join us for a cup of coffee at our Starbucks in Newtown at a time and date of your convenience so we can talk about your company's policy and gun violence in America..." the letter continued.
The letter was signed by 13 family members of victims in the deadly December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including the family of Lauren Rousseau, a teacher and Starbucks barista who was killed. Many other Newtown residents also signed the letter, as did Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, Sen. Chris Murphy, Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson responded Friday by saying, "We welcome the opportunity to meet with the Newtown family members who have signed this letter to discuss their concerns."
On Wednesday, the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America -- an organization for what its members term common-sense gun reforms -- called for a national boycott of Starbucks stores on Saturday. On its website, the group is attempting to gather 25,000 signatures calling for a ban on guns at all Starbucks stores, and plans to hand-deliver the petition to Starbucks headquarters.
"Millions of American moms visit neighborhood Starbucks, often with their children in tow. But many moms don't realize that they may be standing next to someone carrying a loaded gun inside Starbucks," the group said.
The organization allied with the Newtown Action Alliance and other gun law-reform groups on Friday, placing its support behind the signers of the letter to Schultz.
Starbucks was most recently brought into the gun debate when gun rights advocates staged a national "Starbucks appreciation day," in support of the coffee shop's open-carry policy.
"Starbucks is allowing us to lawfully carry firearms in their store. Recently, they have been the target of unjust attacks from certain groups that do not support our right to bear arms. We will thank starbucks (sic) for standing up for our right to bear arms by going there on Friday, August 9th," said the Facebook page for the event.
The Starbucks in Newtown closed that day, but the debate raged on.
In a statement to CNN at the time, Starbucks spokesman Olson said, "These events are not endorsed by Starbucks. That said, our stores are gathering places for the communities we serve and we respect the diverse views of our customers...We comply with local laws and statutes in the communities we serve, abiding by the laws that permit open carry."
Friday's letter to Schultz further challenged Starbucks' stance.
"Since your company has been a champion of admirable causes in the past, such as LGBT rights and environmental sustainability, some gun owners in this country cite Starbucks' stance on this issue as justification of the reasonableness of their choice to carry guns anywhere and everywhere, even into a place as unthreatening as a coffee shop...we as a society must prioritize the sanctity of human life over the individual's 'right to carry," the letter said.
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Echelon announced Tuesday that it is currently conducting its initial deployment of so-called “white tunable” connected streetlighting with the municipal leaders of White Bear Lake, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota and design firm Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.
The new Lumewave by Echelon solution can dynamically regulate the amount of potentially unhealthy blue light emitted from outdoor lighting. With this innovation, city managers can adjust streetlight color from soothing warm yellow to bright blue-white based on activity levels, time of day, weather and events. Dimming levels can also be remotely adjusted, making the system ideal to aid visibility for first responders, security professionals and more.
This next-generation, connected LED lighting control technology enables municipalities to realize the full scope of LED streetlighting benefits, from improved public safety and reduced energy consumption and reduced maintenance and costs, to better health, quality of life and environmental comfort.
White Bear Lake’s implementation of Echelon’s new technology is an example of the company’s commitment to foster safer and more comfortable cities through IoT-enabled connected lighting.
“Being the first to try this new technology and see it in action was very rewarding,” said Mark Burch, Public Works Director/City Engineer, White Bear Lake. “We could raise the brightness and select a more vivid hue during an evening event. With a scheduled scenario, we could shift the lights in that same area to a warmer hue at 2:00am when there are rarely park visitors, other than our nocturnal wildlife. We could also program sensors along with the lights to automatically respond to higher foot traffic or certain weather conditions for optimal visibility. The new technology could give us the power to elevate the level of public safety and quality of life across our entire community.”
The American Medical Association issued a policy statement about the harmful effects of outdoor high-intensity, LED lighting on humans and the environment. The guidelines put forth a recommendation for communities to control blue-rich lighting to reduce glare and discomfort.
The AMA also warns that the blue-rich LED lights can suppress melatonin, which can negatively impact human circadian rhythmicity causing poor sleep quality, among other health concerns. According to the guidelines, outdoor streetlighting should have a color temperature of no greater than 3000 Kelvin (K) at nighttime.
On the flip side of the issue, lighting researchers and experts counsel that, if the lights are either too yellow or too dim, visibility and public safety may be compromised.
The Department of Energy supports the use of LED streetlights because they consume approximately 50 percent less energy than the common high-pressure sodium and metal-halide lamps. They also last longer which has cost-saving appeal for many municipalities. Each side of the debate has valid points, forcing city managers to believe they must make a choice between health or public safety.
While many municipal leaders and sustainability managers may feel the pressure to make the right choice, Echelon has engineered a solution that doesn’t force people to choose one set of LED streetlight benefits over another. Echelon is the first to give municipalities the power to adjust the white color and brightness level – as needed.
In its demonstration, the leaders of White Bear Lake were able to adjust both the light level and the white color range in its city park lighting. By being able to tune from warm white (2700 Kelvin) all the way to cool white (5500 Kelvin), city managers can modify outdoor lighting to enhance quality of life without compromising visibility or public safety. A warm white of 2700K was preferred for times with low activity, while higher color temperature of 4500K was deemed to provide better visibility for times with higher activity and during public events.
“There has been a lot of controversy in the industry regarding the color of light generated by outdoor lighting and the possible harmful effects it may cause to humans and the surrounding ecosystems. This issue forces agencies to select the preferred color temperature before installation of a lighting system,” said Ken Taillon, manager of Municipal Lighting Services, Short Elliott Hendrickson, who led the project engineering. “With Echelon’s innovative technology, agencies no longer have to choose the color temperature during the design process. Tuning the color of white light in conjunction with adjusting the brightness level provides opportunities we’ve never had before. Lighting systems can now respond to the dynamic needs associated with providing necessary public safety while rendering colors and light levels that are more appropriate for lighting the after-hour nighttime environment.”
Custom color tunable lamps, drivers and controls provide the capability to easily shift from cool white light to warm white light, offering endless options for smart cities.
Echelon’s smart streetlighting infrastructure serves as a platform that allows smart cities to integrate IoT applications as needed. Coming together to create this next-generation infrastructure is Echelon’s new CLP 4000 connected lighting controller, SmartServer 2.2 converged universal gateway and LumInsight central management system (CMS). The combined solutions can set color scenes based on a programmed schedule, sensor inputs or manual adjustment.
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Fundamentals of Weibull Analysis
The Weibull distribution is a versatile tool to analyze time to failure data. Like any tool, it could be wielded well or not so well. In this short webinar let’s discuss when and why you would use Weibull analysis, the basic process, and limitations.
Weibull analysis is very popular and has become a generic term for life data analysis. It is useful, has some nice features, easy to interpret. Yet, it has a dark side as well. Let’s talk about the basic use of the distribution, and when not to use it, and how to know when there are better tools available.
A great first step when faced with a pile of data is to plot it. Get a look at the data and get a sense of what story the data may have to tell. Another early step in any data analysis is to detail what question you are trying to answer. Are you looking for problems that you then can solve? Are you trying to understand the reliability performance of your product? Or something else?
Let’s discuss the fundamentals of Weibull analysis including the basic approach, when and why you would do such an analysis, and some of the problems that may arise. The idea is to help you understand this tool well enough to wield it confidently as you identify and solve reliability questions.
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 10 April 2018.
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Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975.
- The method of successive approximations is often applied to proving existence of solutions to various classes of functional equations; moreover, the proof of convergence of these approximations leans on the fact that the equation under study may be majorised by another equation of a simple kind. Similar proofs may be encountered in the theory of infinitely many simultaneous linear equations and in the theory of integral and differential equations. Consideration ofjkbni semiordered spaces and operations between them enables us to easily develop a complete theory of such functional equations in abstract form.
- "On one class of functional equations" (1936), as cited in: O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Leonid Kantorovich", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
- I discovered that a whole range of problems of the most diverse character relating to the scientific organization of production (questions of the optimum distribution of the work of machines and mechanisms, the minimization of scrap, the best utilization of raw materials and local materials, fuel, transportation, and so on) lead to the formulation of a single group of mathematical problems (extremal problems). These problems are not directly comparable to problems considered in mathematical analysis. It is more correct to say that they are formally similar, and even turn out to be formally very simple, but the process of solving them with which one is faced [i.e., by mathematical analysis] is practically completely unusable, since it requires the solution of tens of thousands or even millions of systems of equations for completion.
I have succeeded in finding a comparatively simple general method of solving this group of problems which is applicable to all the problems I have mentioned, and is sufficiently simple and effective for their solution to be made completely achievable under practical conditions.
- Kantorovich (1960) "Mathematical Methods of Organizing and Planning Production." Management Science, 6(4):366–422, 1960, p. 368); As cited in: Cockshott, W. Paul. "Mises, Kantorovich and economic computation." (2007).
- Once some engineers from the veneer trust laboratory came to me for consultation with a quite skilful presentation of their problems. Different productivity is obtained for veneer-cutting machines for different types of materials; linked to this the output of production of this group of machines depended, it would seem, on the chance factor of which group of raw materials to which machine was assigned. How could this fact be used rationally?
- This question interested me, but nevertheless appeared to be quite particular and elementary, so I did not begin to study it by giving up everything else. I put this question for discussion at a meeting of the mathematics department, where there were such great specialists as Gyunter, Smirnov himself, Kuz’min, and Tartakovskii. Everyone listened but no one proposed a solution; they had already turned to someone earlier in individual order, apparently to Kuz’min. However, this question nevertheless kept me in suspense. This was the year of my marriage, so I was also distracted by this. In the summer or after the vacation concrete, to some extent similar, economic, engineering, and managerial situations started to come into my head, that also required the solving of a maximization problem in the presence of a series of linear constraints.
- In the simplest case of one or two variables such problems are easily solved—by going through all the possible extreme points and choosing the best. But, let us say in the veneer trust problem for five machines and eight types of materials such a search would already have required solving about a billion systems of linear equations and it was evident that this was not a realistic method. I constructed particular devices and was probably the first to report on this problem in 1938 at the October scientific session of the Herzen Institute, where in the main a number of problems were posed with some ideas for their solution.
- The universality of this class of problems, in conjunction with their difficulty, made me study them seriously and bring in my mathematical knowledge, in particular, some ideas from functional analysis.
- What became clear was both the solubility of these problems and the fact that they were widespread, so representatives of industry were invited to a discussion of my report at the university.
- L.V. Kantorovich (1996) Descriptive Theory of Sets and Functions. p. 39; As cited in: K. Aardal, George L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel (2005) Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, p. 15-26
- The university immediately published my pamphlet, and it was sent to fifty People’s Commissariats. It was distributed only in the Soviet Union, since in the days just before the start of the World War it came out in an edition of one thousand copies in all.
- Soviet Union, since in the days just before the start of the World War it came out in an edition of one thousand copies in all. The number of responses was not very large. There was quite an interesting reference from the People’s Commissariat of Transportation in which some optimization problems directed at decreasing the mileage of wagons was considered, and a good review of the pamphlet appeared in the journal "The Timber Industry."
- At the beginning of 1940 I published a purely mathematical version of this work in Doklady Akad. Nauk , expressed in terms of functional analysis and algebra. However, I did not even put in it a reference to my published pamphlet—taking into account the circumstances I did not want my practical work to be used outside the country
- In the spring of 1939 I gave some more reports—at the Polytechnic Institute and the House of Scientists, but several times met with the objection that the work used mathematical methods, and in the West the mathematical school in economics was an anti-Marxist school and mathematics in economics was a means for apologists of capitalism. This forced me when writing a pamphlet to avoid the term "economic" as much as possible and talk about the organization and planning of production; the role and meaning of the Lagrange multipliers had to be given somewhere in the outskirts of the second appendix and in the semi Aesopian language.
- L.V. Kantorovich (1996) Descriptive Theory of Sets and Functions. p. 41; As cited in: K. Aardal, George L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel (2005) Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, p. 19-20
"Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives," 1975Edit
Leonid Kantorovich, "Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives " Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1975
- In our time mathematics has penetrated into economics so solidly, widely and variously, and the chosen theme is connected with such a variety of facts and problems that it brings us to cite the words of Kozma Prutkov which are very popular in our country: "One can not embrace the unembraceable". The appropriateness of this wise sentence is not diminished by the fact that the great thinker is only a pen-name.
- Lead paragraph
- In planning the idea of decentralization must be connected with routines of linking plans of rather autonomous parts of the whole system. Here one can use a conditional separation of the system by means of fixing values of flows and parameters transmitted from one part to another. One can use an idea of sequential recomputation of the parameters, which was successfully developed by many authors for the scheme of Dantzig-Wolfe and for aggregative linear models.
- A solution of newly appearing economic problems, and in particular those connected with the scientific-technical revolution often cannot be based on existing methods but needs new ideas and approaches. Such one is the problem of the protection of nature. The problem of economic valuation of technical innovations efficiency and rates of their spreading cannot be solved only by the long-term estimation of direct outcomes and results without accounting peculiarities of new industrial technology, its total contribution to technical progress.
- The accounting methods based on mathematical models, the use of computers for computations and information data processing make up only one part of the control mechanism, another part is the control structure.
Quotes about Leonid KantorovichEdit
- Linear programming was developed as a discipline in the 1940's, motivated initially by the need to solve complex planning problems in wartime operations. Its development accelerated rapidly in the postwar period as many industries found valuable uses for linear programming. The founders of the subject are generally regarded as George B. Dantzig, who devised the simplex method in 1947, and John von Neumann, who established the theory of duality that same year. The Nobel prize in economics was awarded in 1975 to the mathematician Leonid Kantorovich (USSR) and the economist Tjalling Koopmans (USA) for their contributions to the theory of optimal allocation of resources, in which linear programming played a key role. Many industries use linear programming as a standard tool, e.g. to allocate a finite set of resources in an optimal way.
- Michael L. Overton (1997) "Linear Programming", Draft for Encyclopedia Americana
- It is difficult to distinguish another scholar in the history of the twentieth century who contributed as much as him to the fusion of mathematics and economics, the sciences with the antipodal standards of scientific thought. Israel Gelfand pointed out that he can list only John von Neumann and Andrei Kolmogorov alongside Leonid Kantorovich among those few of his contemporaries who synthesized the mathematical and humanitarian cultures.
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Take 4 yoga asana breaks in a work schedule of 8 hours
What happens if you don’t?
1. Learning Yoga asanas is one part of your health story, and the other half is experimenting the postures in your daily routine
2. A sedentary lifestyle and long hours of screen time are straining for the neck and the back
3. Gadgets and screens also cause your eyes and temples to strain
What happens if you do?
1. Health breaks and yoga breaks are found to be increasing creative relaxation, according to recent studies
2. Posture correction and increased mind body awareness improves interest in work
3. It’s also a good disengagement from a heated discussion, an angry decision or a stuck thought process
How does it work?
1. The early humans were never as sedentary as we are and that is the reason our body inevitably likes activity
2. Yoga asana are actually postures that are observed in nature. Observing those in nature can help
3. A dog, a cat, a snake, and many other animals too are your yoga gurus! Recall and imitate
1. Simple urdhvabaddhangulyasan is a great stretch for the upper body
2. Chair twisting (but only with empty stomach) is good for the abdominal region and back muscles
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Parkinson’s Disease is a degenerative disorder observed in humans as far back the Egyptian and Biblical eras. Medical advancements have added to the knowledge of the ancients including the research in gene therapy and prescription drugs. Appreciate the integral importance of imaging modalities in the diagnosis and treatment of PD using Deep Brain Stimulation with description of the procedure. Learn about the normal brain and the pathological developments of Parkinson’s in this truly informative collection.
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The body of water, known by Victoria residents as "The Gorge," is a narrow tidal inlet between Craigflower Bridge and the Selkirk trestle.
It connects Victoria Harbour to Portage Inlet.
Historically, much like Howe Sound, it was heavily polluted by industry and sewage.
The Gorge Swim Fest Society's mission is to "promote and enable swimming in the Gorge Waterway by supporting initiatives that sustain the health, awareness, and vitality of The Gorge."
Rhymer grew up in Victoria and her mother is still there.
The idea for the swim came when she last visited Victoria and spent time with a family friend, Henry Leong, who is involved with the Gorge Swim Fest Society.
"We realized that we both had a common interest in swimming, so he took me to a few of his favourite swimming spots along The Gorge," said Rhymer.
"When I was a kid growing up in Victoria, The Gorge didn't have the reputation of being a suitable swimming spot at all; it was known for being polluted."
Now it is a great swim spot.
Pre-COVID, the Gorge Swim Fest was hosted there each year and it's one of the "go-to" spots for triathletes training, and it even sees a handful of dedicated winter dippers.
"I really love how the community came together to make this place special and beautiful again, and thought it would be an interesting challenge to try to swim it from end-to-end, Portage Inlet to Victoria Harbour. And why not support one of these fantastic local organizations in the process?"
Rhymer has launched an online fundraising campaign alongside her swim.
Money raised through the campaign, "Swimming the Gorge for GSFS," on GoFundMe, will donate 100% of the proceeds to the GSFS, she said.
Founder of the Swim Wild Squamish outdoor swim club, Rhymer swims year-round in the open water.
"In the summer, I can train longer distances when the water is warmer, and in the winter, I can acclimatize my body and mind to stand the cold water," she said.
She recently completed the 12-kilometre Skaha Lake swim from Penticton to Okanagan Falls.
The Gorge swim is about half that distance but more challenging in other ways.
The Tillicum Narrows will likely be the trickiest part of the swim, she said.
"At this location, the entire Gorge Waterway squeezes through a mere 45-foot-wide channel. As the tides go in and out, this can mean some significant rapids, standing waves, and strong currents. In fact, these rapids can go one way during the flood tide and the other way during the ebb tide, all in a single day."
She will attempt this swim at slack tide, when the water is going neither in nor out.
"At this special time, the currents should be minimal and hopefully, the Narrows will allow me safe passage," she said, adding safety is her primary priority.
She will get out and walk around if the conditions are not favourable for a safe swim.
"Otherwise, I'll plan to complete the entire swim without touching the boat, land, or any other floatation devices while wearing only typical pool swimming gear: swimsuit, cap, goggles, earplugs."
She said her other concerns about completing her goal are boat traffic and seaweed.
She will have a kayaker alongside to help her navigate through the boat traffic.
"The seaweed isn't harmful of course, but it freaks me out when it touches me when I'm in the water," she said.
"It was probably one of the reasons why I didn't pick up swimming until much later in life," she added. "I was scared of things like seaweed. For this swim, I'll try to stick to the deeper parts of the waterway where it will be less weedy, but I may just have to breathe, stay calm, and swim through it."
Rhymer is watching the tides to see when the very best day to do the swim will be this month.
Keep up with plans for the swim on the fundraising page.
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Colorado Sanctuary Rescues Lions, Tigers & Bears from Argentina
DENVER, Feb. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Wild Animal Sanctuary, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit Wildlife Sanctuary, has successfully rescued (3) Bengal Tigers, (2) African Lions and (2) Grizzly Bears from inhumane conditions at a closed zoo in Colon, Argentina.
The five big cats and two bears were the last remaining animals to leave the zoo after closing its gates nearly 4 years earlier. City officials contacted the sanctuary after closing their doors due to world-wide protests over the inhumane care and squalid conditions that existed at the zoo.
A team of four staff members including the Sanctuary’s head veterinarian, Dr. Felicia Knightly, visited the zoo in 2014 to determine if the animals were in sufficient condition to undergo the 6,400 mile trip to Colorado. The non-profit wildlife sanctuary was chosen after numerous attempts to find suitable homes within Argentina failed.
The initial team’s inspection determined the animals needed time to gain weight and receive medical attention in order to safely travel to the United States – which would be accomplished while international paperwork and import/export permits were pursued. As of January 2017, all seven animals were ready to make the trip, so a new rescue team was sent from the Sanctuary to retrieve the animals.
On February 11th, 2017 the team traveled back to Colon to begin the relocation process. Once the animals were crated and transported to Buenos Aires, both the animals and human caretakers flew to Miami, Florida where they connected with one of the Sanctuary’s ground transportation teams.
Within 28 hours the animals arrived at their final destination in Keenesburg, Colorado. Animal care staff at the Sanctuary had spent the previous week preparing special accommodations for the Argentinian refugees, and immediately released the cats and bears into their new homes.
All seven animals successfully made the trip to Colorado without incident, but some had lingering medical issues that would require attention. The male bear was virtually blind due to an advanced case of cataracts, while his female partner suffered from severe dental problems.
Before leaving Argentina, the rescue team discovered the female bear had a significant nasal cavity infection, which had been caused by numerous broken teeth. Now that both bears are under the care of the Sanctuary’s highly-experienced doctors, both issues will be corrected through specific medical procedures.
Once all seven animals receive medical clearances, they will begin a rehabilitation process that enables them to be released into large natural habitats where they will live comfortably and roam freely. The Sanctuary will continue to care for the animals, as well as feed and support their daily needs on a full time basis, just as they do for all rescued animals living at the facility.
Last year marked nearly 37 years of rescuing exotic and endangered animals for the wildlife sanctuary. The 720-acre facility is located 30 minutes outside of Denver, Colorado and is home to more than 450 large carnivores. The Sanctuary features a 1.5 mile long elevated walkway that recently received the Guinness World Records award for Longest Footbridge – which enables visitors to walk above and observe rescued animals living in spacious habitats.
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American Indian and Alaska Native women suffer some of the highest rates of violence and murder in the United States, a crisis that has diminished the honored status of women and safety in tribal communities. In spite of the high rates of violence experienced by AI/AN persons, only a small percentage reached out for assistance to The Hotline at the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
In 2012, The Hotline began discussing this issue with staff from the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children. Together, they developed a program concept for a Native hotline developed by and run by Native advocates to support tribal communities across the United States. With input from tribal leaders, a Native women’s council, domestic violence experts, and the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program, the two organizations began laying the groundwork to develop a Native-centered hotline staffed by advocates with a strong understanding of Native cultures, as well as issues of tribal sovereignty and law.
Their vision became a reality with the creation of the StrongHearts Native Helpline (StrongHearts) in March 2017, made possible by support from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Verizon. StrongHearts is a culturally-appropriate, anonymous, confidential service dedicated to serving Native American survivors of domestic violence and concerned family members and friends. By dialing 1-844-7NATIVE (1-844-762-8483), nationwide 24/7, callers can connect at no cost one-on-one with knowledgeable StrongHearts advocates who can provide lifesaving tools and immediate support to enable survivors to find safety and live lives free of abuse.
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How long have we been using composite materials?
The earliest composite materials known were made from straw and mud combined to form bricks for building construction. Ancient brick-making was documented by Egyptian tomb paintings.
Wattle and daub is one of the oldest composite materials, at over 6000 years old. Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction method in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, and the technique is becoming popular again in more developed areas as a low-impact sustainable building technique.
Plywood was used by the Ancient Mesopotamians in 3400 BC for gluing wood at different angles gives better properties than natural wood.
What is the most common composite building material used today?
1. Concrete is also a composite building material, and is used more than any other synthetic material in the world. As of 2006, about 7.5 billion cubic metres of concrete are made each year which is more than one cubic metre for every person on Earth.
Typically it consists of loose stones (aggregate) held with a matrix of cement.
Concrete is an inexpensive material, and will not compress or shatter even under quite a large compressive force. However, concrete cannot survive tensile loading (i.e., if stretched it will quickly break apart).
Therefore, to give concrete the ability to resist being stretched, steel bars which can resist high stretching forces, are often added to concrete to form reinforced concrete.
2. Another common building composite which we are all aware of is fibreglass, in which small glass fibre are embedded within a polymeric material (normally an epoxy or polyester).
The glass fibre is relatively strong and stiff (but also brittle), whereas the polymer is ductile (but also weak and flexible).
Thus the resulting fibreglass is relatively stiff, strong, flexible, and ductile.
3. Wood is a naturally occurring composite comprising cellulose fibre in a lignin and hemicelluloses matrix. Engineered wood includes a wide variety of different products such as wood fibre board, plywood, oriented strand board, wood plastic composite which is recycled wood fibre.
What are composite materials made from?
Composite materials are created from a mixture of individual materials. These individual materials are known as constituent materials, and there are two main categories of it. One is the matrix (binder) and the other reinforcement.
A portion of each kind is needed at least. The reinforcement receives support from the matrix as the matrix surrounds the reinforcement and maintains its relative positions.
The properties of the matrix are improved as the reinforcements impart their exceptional physical and mechanical properties. The mechanical properties become unavailable from the individual constituent materials by synergism.
At the same time, the designer of the product or structure receives options to choose an optimum combination from the variety of matrix and strengthening materials.
How do wood plastic composite materials work?
Teckwood’s wood plastic composite building materials are expertly extruded from a mixture two materials that have quite different properties. These being recycled plastics and FSC certified wood fibres.
The component parts are bonded together under high pressure to create an incredibly durable finished product that is designed to outlast traditional timber.
The sustainable building solution offers greater protection both from rain and the sun’s UV rays, without the need to treat it. It will not crack, split, splinter, go mouldy or rot over time. It does not need to be painted, stained or sealed.
Using additives you can create a European Class B fire rated decking and cladding which is particularly well suited for use in the commercial sector where ongoing maintenance of traditional building materials can be costly.
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Key among them is the corrosion resistance, design flexibility and durability.
Composites resist damage from weather and harsh chemicals that can eat away at other materials. They are very durable. Simply put, composites last!
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Researchers from LAAS-CNRS, in collaboration with the Toulouse Cancer Research Centre, have shown how μLAS microfluidic chip technology can concentrate and measure microRNAs, cancer biomarkers, in less than a minute.
MicroRNAs (miRs) are short fragments of RNA that play a role in gene expression. Their concentration is strongly altered in cancer patients, and this is why miRs are a target of choice for diagnosis and monitoring of patients, provided that a detection and measurement method is sufficiently sensitive and rapid to be used clinically. Researchers at LAAS-CNRS, in collaboration with the Toulouse Cancer Research Centre, have made a major breakthrough in this direction, by detecting miR-21 in less than a minute using a microfluidic chip. These results are published in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
The μLAS microfluidic chip technology enables the concentration and separation of nucleic acids of targeted sizes. The solution containing microRNAs, coupled with fluorescent molecular probes, is fed into a funnel-shaped microfluidic channel, while an electrophoretic force1 is created in counterflow. By adjusting the pressure and electrical voltage, the molecule to be concentrated accumulates at a point in the microchannel. Fluorescence measurements are then made at this point by placing the chip on an optical microscope.
In order to test a clinical use of this technique, the device was used to measure the concentration of miR-21 from biopsy samples of pancreatic cancer patients. The measurements performed showed that the results were consistent with those obtained by today’s gold standard RNA analysis method (RT-PCR). In addition, the μLAS technology achieves a sensitivity of 2 pM (picomole/L) in 30 seconds, which represents a good compromise between measurement speed and sensitivity compared to the technologies used today.
Researchers are now working to further increase the sensitivity of the technology. This could be increased by a factor of 1000 by optimising the geometry of the microfluidic chip to improve the accuracy of microRNA monitoring tests.
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Micro-RNA 21 detection with a limit of 2 pM in 1 min using a size-accordable concentration module operated by electrohydrodynamic actuation
I. Tijunelyte, R. Malbec, B. Chami, J. Cacheux, C. Dez, T. Leichlé, P. Cordelier, A. Bancaud.
Biosensors and Bioelectronics Volume 178, 15 April 2021
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Christchurch has woken to a scene of utter devastation this morning, with some 300 people missing following the horrific earthquake at lunchtime yesterday.
The death toll has hit 55 identified bodies, according to Mayor Bob Parker today, with another 20 bodies found but not yet identified. Authorities warn it will rise significantly. The first Australian casualty was announced this morning, a male Australian resident of New Zealand origin. Grave concerns are held for another for Australians, says PM Gillard.
We will be updating this breaking story throughout the morning as news comes to hand.
Update 3pm Rescue attempts have been stopped on the CTV building, with police saying there is “no chance of survivability” for those trapped in the building and it’s too dangerous to continue with the precarious Grand Chancellor hotel so close. A group of Japanese students is believed to be inside the building, amongst others.
There are worries that if the Grand Chancellor collapses, it will trigger other buildings collapsing as well. Three hundred people remain missing.
Queues have formed for locals attempting to get petrol or buy essentials at supermarkets. An incredible photo gallery of images from the last day can be found at The Atlantic.
12.30pm Another person has just been rescued from the collapsed Pyne Gould building. Earlier reports that it was Anne Voss, the Australian woman trapped under her desk, were false. Hundreds still remain trapped in buildings.
12.00pm Grave concerns are held for the Grand Chancellor hotel, a 26-storey building that is one of the highest in Christchurch. News website stuff.co.nz tweeted:
“Police cordoned four-block radius around the Hotel Grand Chancellor, which is sagging badly and appears to be on the brink of collapse”
Then a short time after:
“Hotel Grand Chancellor in Manchester St had moved about one metre horizontally during the past 10 to 15 minutes”
Thankfully, no one is believed to be in the building. An eyewitness tweeted that it was “noticeably sagging.” A photo from Sunrise — Kochie was there, noting how its collapse seemed imminent — shows a before and after of the building.
Remarkable CCTV footage has emerged of a Christchurch supermarket at the moment the earthquake hit.
10.45am Earlier reports that 15 people have been found alive and well in the Canterbury TV building are false, says a fire-fighter at the scene, but rescuers are continuing to try and search for survivors. However,
On 2GB Ben Fordham spoke to office worker from Geelong Anne Vos, who remains trapped under her Christchurch office desk, bleeding, with no light apart from her mobile. Anne says she can hear other workmates yelling and rumours that rescuers are on their way.
This photo, posted by 3AW on Twitter, shows the sheer joy of two men getting rescued.
A Melbourne doctor, in Christchurch for a conference, volunteered her skills to help the injured yesterday. She told ABC radio: “[There were] a lot of broken legs… We were getting splints and pieces of wood, picture frames, anything that we could from the stores surrounding the cathedral in order to try and splint their legs up.”
An interactive photo gallery comparing the streets and buildings before and after the quake makes it easier for those not familiar with Christchurch to understand the destruction.
Google quickly created a clever crisis response site, which shows constant news updates, videos, maps, emergency phone numbers and information. It also includes a ‘person finder’, where people can either look for someone or note that they have information about someone, keeping a constant live feed update on those that are missing.
10am: PM Key declared a state of national emergency, announcing that yesterday’s quake will be regarded by the government as a separate event to last year’s one. He also reiterated that the whole nation of New Zealand was supporting Christchurch through this tragedy: “Today I want Christchurch to hear this message: you will get through this. This proud country’s right behind you and we are backing you with all our might.”
Early reports say rebuilding may cost NZ $16 billion.
While not as gut-wrenching as the earlier account by The Press’s music critic, this personal blog post shows what it was like being in the suburbs of Christchurch during the quake, where supermarkets closed and earthquake noise sounded like a freight train driving through the house.
So the morning of the earthquake we were all going to be in town – she getting her passport renewed, 3 others to go around and do tourist things (like visit the cathedral), and I was going to take my mom around the tourist shops to get presents for my niece and nephews. Lucky for us, it was rainy in the morning and we were being very lazy. My brother wanted a sandwich before we left, so everyone had some lunch and we played a game of scrabble. Just as we were pondering to go into town the earthquake hit
Reports three people have been pulled alive from the Pyne Gould Corporation building today, though some 50 others remain trapped — and apparently alive — there.
9am: PM John Key said yesterday that “we may be witnessing New Zealand’s darkest day”, and undoubtedly much of the news was extremely tragic. The temporary morgue being used to house earthquake victims’ bodies has been move “for capacity reasons”. Police announced the gruesome detail that they have had to amputate limbs in order to rescue some people. There was a mother who died cradling her injured baby in her arms. A nine-month-old died when a television fell on him during the quake. Huge numbers of workers remain trapped in office buildings throughout the CBD, with grave fears for their safety. A NZ photo gallery surveys the devastated CBD.
Local newspapers reported this morning “cries from the rubble” with “hundreds feared dead”…
Journalists at Fairfax-owned The Press newspaper in Christchurch had their own building collapse, but set up a temporary newsroom at their printing plant. Music critic Vicki Anderson writes a compelling account of what the quake was like:
With no warning the earth roared and shook us ferociously. Like my colleagues in the features department of Christchurch newspaper The Press, I dived under my desk.
I’m a music critic and as we shook and my mind’s eye flashed images of my four children I was pelted with CDs including, ironically, an Underworld album. The same thing happened to me on September 4, I was even hit by the exact same CD, but this was completely different and a much more visceral and potently deadly quake.
Halfway through the 6.3 quake I wanted to see if my colleagues were OK so stupidly stuck my head out from under my desk only to be hit by a piece of roof. I said “F**k!” at the top of my lungs and it was drowned out by the sound of our building falling down around us.
Across the room from under their desk someone was yelling “yahoo” like it was a fun ride. I was certain we were all going to die. Things seemed to be happening slowly but quickly at the same time.
Schools are closed around the Christchurch district today after thousands spent last night sleeping in emergency refuge centres set up in parks and halls. Power remains cut around most of the city, although energy company Orion hopes two-thirds of the city will have power by the end of today. Christchurch Airport is expected to open for domestic flights this morning. TVNZ has a compelling blog with updates every few minutes of the latest earthquake news.
For a comparison of how this 6.3 magnitude earthquake rates, check out this interactive earthquake map showing quakes around the globe.
Experts argue this was technically an aftershock of the bigger — but less damaging and deadly — earthquake in Christchurch back in December. Scientist David Rothery, from the Open University’s volcano dynamics group, told The Guardian:
“The magnitude 6.3 earthquake was a very large aftershock following the 3 September magnitude 7.0 earthquake. Its focus was at a very shallow depth of about 5km, which doubtless contributed to the severity of the ground shaking that witnesses in Christchurch describe as more severe than in September. The rupture was also much closer to the city, and this too made it worse. Other, hopefully smaller, aftershocks are to be expected. These will be a hazard to people trapped in damaged and weakened buildings and their rescuers.”
This photo from @senaz on Twitter shows the the iconic Christchurch Cathedral reduced to rubble.
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Financial advisors are professionals whose job is to provide accurate and timely advice about financial strategies and products and to help you achieve your financial goals.
But choosing a financial advisor isn't easy. It involves a lot of different factors and considerations. But here are some key questions you can answer for yourself to help you narrow down the list and focus on finding a great financial advisor for you.
How Much Money Do You Have to Invest?
Many firms and individual advisors have asset minimums. Generally, the more “high-touch” individualized attention a firm provides to its clients, the higher the investment or asset under management (AUM) minimum is likely to be. Some firms have minimums of millions of dollars. Others have a very low minimum or no minimum investment.
If you have a relatively small amount available to invest, that will narrow down your available options considerably.
How Do You Want to Pay?
Obviously, financial advisors have to get paid, one way or another. Each revenue model has advantages and disadvantages for different kinds of clients. Here are some of the most common:
- Commissioned sales agents. These are commonly stockbrokers/registered representatives and insurance agents. The advantage with them is that there’s typically no money required out of your pocket: The financial firms pay their commissions. But they are incentivized to make recommendations that pay big commissions, not select the very best available financial products and solutions. Some are required by their employers to recommend "in-house" products marketed by their own firms. They may be required to meet a production quota – formally or informally – which may affect their recommendations to you.
- AUM fees. Some firms charge a percentage of the assets you give them to manage or an AUM fee. 1% to 2% of AUM is common. Many Registered Investment Advisor firms use this model. The richer you get, the more money you stand to make. So your interests and theirs are aligned in that sense.
But there’s a little-recognized conflict built into this model: They may not be inclined to advise you when it's time to pay off a big mortgage or other debt early or sell off assets they manage.
- Fee-only. Some financial planners are "fee-only," meaning they do not charge or accept commissions from anyone but the client. They may charge by the hour, by the appointment, or have a flat monthly retainer. Some charge an AUM fee. There are no hidden fees and usually no surprises. These advisors can be great for wealthy people with large portfolios.
- The drawback of fee-only advisors is that they can be expensive for people with small portfolios.
- Flat Fee. This is a variation of the 'fee-only model. A few advisors out there charge a flat monthly or annual fee, regardless of the level of assets under management. These can be an excellent fit for people with large portfolios (often around $5 million and up) because their annual fees are less than the AUM fee they would pay to some other firms. These advisors may also be a good fit for people who want someone to manage their assets but are concerned that an AUM fee might bias their advisor against making withdrawals.
- Fee-based. These advisors charge a combination of fees and commissions. They have a broad range of capabilities and often have access to the broadest selection of financial products to recommend and place. They may have some conflicts of interest, as do commissioned advisors in general, but they may be less pronounced.
Fiduciary vs. Suitability Standards
Some advisors are held to a higher legal and ethical standard than others. There are two basic standards that apply to financial advisors: The fiduciary standard and the suitability standard.
Advisors who are fiduciaries are held to the highest standards of all. Every fiduciary is expected to provide the utmost in good faith and fair dealing when making recommendations to a client. All recommendations must be solely in the client’s best interest, and they may not engage in self-dealing.
Fiduciaries are legally obligated to provide advice that is in your best interests. If there are any conflicts of interest between the advisor or their firm and you, they must clearly disclose it.
Other advisors are held to a lesser standard of suitability. That is, all their recommendations must be suitable for the client, given their overall financial situation. As long as the advice and financial product recommendations are suitable, advisors are free to recommend products that give them a good commission or help them qualify for bonuses, trips, or other perks.
Members of the National Association of Fee-Only Financial Planners (NAPFA) are required to adhere to the fiduciary standard, as are Registered Investment Advisor firms (RIAs) and their representatives (Investment Advisor Representatives, or IARs).
Suitability is a lesser legal standard than the fiduciary standard. But there are many excellent advisors operating at both levels.
Commissioned stockbrokers (often called “registered representatives, who typically work for broker-dealer firms) and commissioned insurance agents usually work under the suitability standard. In contrast, most fee-only financial planners, including advisors with the Certified Financial Planner designation (CFP), are held to the fiduciary standard.
The advantage of the suitability standard is that it makes it easier for advisors to offer services without charging the client any money out of their own pocket. The advisor can get paid in commissions.
The disadvantage is that sometimes the client may not be placed in the very best products for their particular situations. They may not even tell you about low-cost index funds, for example, or no-load mutual funds or annuities, since these wouldn't generate a commission for them. The advisor doesn’t have to disclose whether there is another product with lower fees that might do just as well or better for you.
Complete guide to finding and choosing a financial advisor
Need Help with Budgeting & Financial Management?
Some financial advisors focus strictly on helping you pick stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and insurance products. Others provide more personalized services, including assistance with budgeting, consulting on education decisions, career counseling, the psychology of money, and other services.
Are You Focused on Growth, or Safety?
If you're young and you have decades to go before you expect to retire, you may want an advisor who focuses more on growth investments – even to the point of aggressiveness. These advisors work with people who are willing to risk substantial market losses in the short run because they believe that approach will generate better returns in the long run.
Stockbrokers fall in this category, as do advisors who focus primarily on mutual funds.
If you want to put more emphasis on safety and security, rather than on risk and growth potential, you might want an advisor who focuses on retirement security, guaranteed income, and annuities. These advisors tend to have more of an insurance background, as opposed to an investment background.
Are You a Small Business Owner?
Business owners have some additional concerns beyond those who work full-time as W-2 employees. If you’re a business owner, you may want to choose a financial advisor with experience and expertise in some additional topics. Examples include:
- Setting up employee workplace retirement plans, such as SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs, and 401(k)s
- Advising on executive benefits for business owners
- Business risk management and insurance topics
- Advising on funding buy-sell agreements and succession planning
- Business income tax planning
These advisors may also be insurance agents, CPAs or attorneys, or partner with CPAs, attorneys, insurance professionals, and others to form a multi-disciplinary team.
Are You a High-Net-Worth Investor?
Like business owners, High-net-worth investors (HNWs) often need some special expertise that the mass market doesn't have to worry about.
For example, high-income or high-net-worth individuals may need individualized advice on topics like these:
- Asset protection
- Estate planning
- Permanent life insurance planning
- Income tax planning
- Non-qualified deferred compensation
- Business planning
- Employee benefits
- Workplace retirement plans
Talk with the advisors you are considering and ask them what expertise they have on any of these topics. Most won't be experts on all of them. But they may have professionals in their firms or whom they regularly work with who can fill in any gaps in their own knowledge.
Depending on the advisor, you may need to know when to call in a specialist.
Most experienced financial planners are accustomed to playing "quarterback" and helping you manage a multidisciplinary team of financial, insurance, risk management, legal, real estate, and tax experts.
Do You Want Them to Help You Pick Stocks and Bonds?
Some people aren’t content with general advice about asset allocation (e.g., hold 60% in a stock index mutual fund, 30% in a bond mutual fund, and 10% in cash and money markets). They want help picking individual funds, or individual stocks and bonds.
A stockbroker with a Series 6 license can advise you about mutual funds and variable annuities. But they can’t help you buy and sell individual stocks, bonds, or help you execute option strategies.
For those, you need someone with a Series 7 license from the SEC.
Do You Want a Virtual Advisor or Personalized Service?
In the internet age, you don't necessarily need to meet with an advisor in their office. But some people want that kind of high-touch, in-person relationship. Speak to your advisor about what level of service you can expect, and what might be 'too much.'
Generally, commissioned advisors love to hear from clients because it may create an opportunity for them to help you execute a transaction because it generates a sales commission for them.
AUM-type and flat fee planners need to limit the amount of time they spend with you in person or on the phone, so they can focus on managing investment portfolios and finding new potential clients.
Occasionally, financial advisors can and do "fire" clients they feel are disruptive or too 'high-maintenance' for them to continue serving, given the amount of revenue they generate for the term.
Robo-advisors are a relatively recent addition to the scene. These are online "bots" that have you answer a detailed questionnaire about your financial objectives, time horizon before retirement, and risk tolerance. They then use artificial intelligence to recommend an investment portfolio for you. You can then use their platform to buy and sell the funds or other securities they recommend
Fees are very low compared to other alternatives: They start at around 25 basis points (0.25%) per year, with no up-front commissions.
They also tend to have very low asset minimums, or no asset minimums at all.
These can be good for people with little or no savings, and who want to minimize fees and commissions.
The disadvantage to Robo-advisors is that you won't have anyone to call with any in-depth, detailed questions about your own personal circumstances.
However, when these questions do arise, you can combine the Robo-advisor with the services of a fee-only financial planner who charges by the hour or on a flat fee per consultation or appointment basis.
These outfits are one step up the cost chain from full Robo-advisors. With these firms, customers do most of their interactions and transactions online. But you may have access to a financial advisor or team of advisors who can answer questions and make more personalized recommendations if the need arises.
Compared to Robo-advisors, fees are higher, but not as high as with a full-service broker.
Minimum investments/asset requirements range from zero to a few tens of thousands of dollars.
Financial advisors may hold one or more certifications. If you look at their business cards and see a lot of letters after their name, these are usually what those letters refer to. Here are some of the most common and prestigious:
- Certified Financial Planner (CFP). This is a well-known and well-marketed designation with a lot of media visibility. To receive the CFP designation, financial advisors must have five years of experience providing financial services. They must take a series of courses and pass the exams with a minimum score of at least 70 percent. The CFP focus is broad and covers investing, insurance, income planning, estate planning, and income tax planning. The coursework focus is more on planning for individuals and families than for businesses.
- Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC). This is another very demanding and prestigious certification, positioned to compete with the CFP credential. ChFCs must take similar coursework as CFPs, and take some additional coursework on working with businesses. ChFCs are more likely to have an insurance/risk management background as compared to CFPs, who often come from investment houses, but this isn’t a hard and fast rule.
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). This is an extremely demanding certification, pursued by people who want to focus on analyzing company financials for investment firms and other clients. This is an excellent credential to look for if you want someone to advise you on an investment portfolio and who will be picking stocks on your behalf.
- Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). This is a respected credential among life insurance and annuity professionals. They specialize in helping individuals and families as well as business owners reduce exposure to various risks.
- Chartered Mutual Funds Counselor (CFMC). These professionals have taken a ten-week course designed to give them expertise in helping clients select and combine mutual funds to achieve their financial goals.
- Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). These advisors have special expertise in alternative asset classes— That is, investments other than stocks, bonds, mutual funds and CDs. Examples include real estate, hedge funds, limited partnerships, gold and precious metals, or cryptocurrencies.
- Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). These are professionals with particular expertise in tax planning and financial reporting. They can represent clients before the IRS.
- Enrolled Agents (EAs). These professionals are also experts on tax compliance, though with a narrower focus than CPAs. They can also represent you before the IRS, if necessary.
- Personal Finance Specialists (PFS). This designation is given to CPAs who complete approximately 200 additional hours of coursework and pass a detailed exam on providing more general financial advice on top of their tax specialty.
Do You Need Special Expertise?
Other professionals, like doctors and lawyers, often have areas of specialization. You don't want a foot doctor treating your brain tumor if you can help it. And if you are putting together a merger of two FORTUNE 500 Wall Street companies, you don't want to hire someone who's spent his whole career as a public defender in Whitefish, Montana.
Financial advisors have areas of specialization and expertise as well.
Depending on the specific expertise you want, look for certifications like these:
- Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP);
- Chartered Advisor for Senior Living (CASL);
- Certified Financial Divorce Practitioner (CFDP);
- Chartered Special Needs Consultant (ChSNC);
Investigate the Advisors’ or Firm’s ADV
Before handing over any money to a brokerage firm or financial advisor, you may want to look at their Form ADV, which you can access via the website www.brokercheck.com.
This is a form each firm and advisor files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On this form, you’ll find:
- A detailed description of the services the firm or advisor offers;
- Advisor and firm professional history, qualifications, and industry certifications held;
- Disciplinary actions against the firm or advisor;
- Discussion of fees and charges.
- The advisor’s outside business interests, if any.
If you are considering working with an insurance professional, check with your state’s insurance commissioner’s office. Insurance is regulated at the state level, not the federal level.
Questions to Ask Prospective Advisors
When you're interviewing potential financial advisors, here is a list of questions you can ask them to help ensure you're getting a good fit:
What’s your investment philosophy?
Most investment advisors should have a reasonably developed answer to this question. This can help you decide if the two of you are a long-term fit.
What’s your typical client’s portfolio size?
If you’re nowhere near typical for this advisor, you may be with the wrong firm. You don’t want to be the smallest client in the firm, because you might be the last priority for returned emails, new information, or access to the top planners in the firm. You might be relegated to the most junior financial advisor in the firm, instead of the top planner.
You also might not want to be the biggest client at the firm. If your portfolio is many times bigger than the advisors' typical client, you might benefit by talking to an advisor who works with people at your level.
How long have you been a financial advisor?
Age doesn’t matter that much, but it’s good for advisors to have experienced at least one major market decline while in the business.
How do most of your clients invest their money?
If you are primarily interested in using mutual funds and annuities to build a retirement account over the long term, someone who focuses on retirement planning, mutual fund investing, and asset allocation (balancing portfolios between major asset classes like stocks, bonds, and cash may be a great fit.
If most of their clients are speculating in options, futures, foreign currency trades, and cryptocurrencies, that may be a sign that your interests don't align well with theirs.
How do you get paid?
It’s important to be clear on what revenue model the advisor uses to understand any possible conflicts of interest.
Are you a fiduciary?
This should be a 'yes' or 'no' question for them. Be wary of any advisor who can't answer directly.
How will we be working together?
This question can help establish mutual expectations of how much phone and email contact you might expect from the advisor. Will they be available for phone consultations outside of scheduled appointments and formal reviews? The more general they are, the more you can expect to pay in fees and expenses, most of the time.
Who is your custodian?
The custodian is the company that holds the assets on your behalf. This is an important safeguard against crooked asset managers – such as Bernie Madoff – who may try to use your assets for their own ends. The custodian gives you an independent accounting of your money.
Will I have to pay taxes if I invest with you?
If you have to sell securities or other investments in order to move them into an account with your financial advisor, you may have to pay income or capital gains taxes. This is important to know since taxes can cost thousands and thousands of dollars in some transactions. Depending on your situation, it might make the difference between moving your money to a new firm or vehicle or leaving it alone.
You should choose advisors who are likely to stay in business and be available to work with you for a long time. You may not want an advisor who is decades older than you because at some point, your advisor will retire and you might not want to work with their replacement.
You also want one with similar views on risk tolerance vs. safety, socially responsible investing, retirement planning, alternative asset classes, and other major issues.
Where to Find a Great Financial Advisor
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In version 104 a LightProbe class has been introduced. I was curious and search a bit about the topic. If I understand correctly, light probes can be used to extract light information from a scene and use it “offline”, like using a lightmap. It’s not added yet to the documentation, thus I inspected directly the source and found that LightProbe class has a toJSON function, which let me think that you can export your lighting information to a json file and use it offline (meaning without the lights). Is that correct?
An official LightProbe example is available, but the toJSON function is never used. Instead it uses a copy function like the following:
lightProbe.copy( THREE.LightProbeGenerator.fromCubeTexture( cubeTexture ) )
My guess is the probe is storing light information from the cube texture…but what about the directional light? Is storing that light information too?
Could someone explain a bit about light probes in general and on this example in particular and which could be the use cases in three.js?
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Reformation Day is October 31st, 2017, and the Pope and the Lutherans plan to commemorate it by announcing that the wounds of division have all but healed. This comes on the heals of many other significant unifying events and we’re here to keep you informed and updated on the Present Truth concerning things which are coming to pass before our eyes.
In this video, we discuss, the Beast, His Mark, His wound, the Healing of that wound, the image and the enforcement of that mark.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Luther’s 95 Theses:
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50% of plastics manufactured to date have been manufactured in the last 15 years Production has increased exponentially from 1.5 million tons in 1950 to 359 million tons in 2018.
It is expected to double again by 2050.
A phenomenal growth to which the hygiene and cosmetics sector is not totally unrelated. Not only is plastic still massively used for packaging, but it is also used in the composition of certain products: cotton buds, exfoliating microbeads in certain cosmetics... or veils, films and absorbent microbeads in diapers and sanitary pads. A baby diaper can contain up to 90% of synthetic and plastic materials!
Commitments to health and the environment
We have developed a common base of health and environmental commitments for all products:
- Hypoallergenic products and our products are necessarily tested under dermatological control before being put on the market and we ban perfumes and allergens in almost all of our products (only our organic orange blossom scented wipes contain a light perfume)
- The use of the most natural ingredients and components possible: all our paper hygiene products have a contact with the skin of natural origin, we use in our diapers 50% of absorbent microbeads of natural origin (a real revolution!) ...
- The banning of any ingredient suspected of having the slightest impact on health, which we list in a regularly updated blacklist. We say no to: ingredients suspected of being carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors, allergens, irritants...
- A systematic environmental certification process for all our products, based on the most demanding existing standards In addition to this common base for all our ranges, we offer specific commitments for each type of product.
Specific commitments for diapers and sanitary pads
All our sanitary protection products are made by a single manufacturer: our trusted partner. Our baby diapers come from two production sites in Spain and the Czech Republic. Feminine protection and incontinence products are made in Italy.
Certified respect for the environment
Our diapers, baby pants and feminine hygiene products are certified by the European Ecolabel, the official European ecological label.
This certification is not available for incontinence protection. Green Family has therefore chosen to use the Nordic Swan label, a demanding environmental label created, maintained and regularly updated by the Nordic Council, a cooperation forum of the parliamentary institutions of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
The cellulose used in our diapers, pant diapers, feminine protection and in the support of our wipes is FSC ® certified. Since its launch, Love & Green has been committed to fighting deforestation by choosing cellulose from well-managed forests and other controlled sources.
Our cellulose is also TCF (Totally Chlorine Free) certified, meaning that it is not bleached with chlorine or chlorine derivatives. The vast majority of cellulose used in the world is bleached with chlorine derivatives. We use another method: oxygen.
We have banned lotions and perfumes from all our sanitary protection (diapers, pads and panties) because they can present irritation risks to some people.
Today, Love & Green offers the most natural diaper composition on the market. In 2008, we were the first to offer Ecolabel certified diapers with a natural skin contact layer. Today, we have gone even further by changing the composition of our absorbent microbeads. To date, all our diapers still contain 100% SAP of chemical origin. Love & Green now offers microbeads with 50% natural origin. Our diapers contain between 46% and 51% of natural materials.
Our feminine hygiene range contains between 75% and 85% natural materials. The veil in contact with the skin is of natural origin and the external veil is composed of vegetable starch.
Specific commitments for cosmetic products and wipes
Committed to not offering unnecessary products and encouraging overconsumption, we limit ourselves to a short range, composed of essential products for the health of babies and women.
A French manufacturing
Our 5 references of wipes are manufactured in Nogent-le Rotrou (Centre - Val de Loire).
Our 8 references of cosmetic products (baby care and intimate care) are produced in Flers in the heart of the Normandy region.
Certified natural origin and respect of the environment
Our wipes are Cosmos Natural certified since 2020 and our cosmetic products are all Cosmos Organic certified.
But also :
Our wipes and the wash base of our cosmetic products are biodegradable.
- Our wipes are made from 100% natural and FSC® certified cellulose (from well-managed forests and controlled sources), and they are bleached without chlorine.
- The backing of our wipes is compostable and biodegradable.
- Our toilet and intimate wipes can be flushed down the toilet and actually degrade! No clogged drains!
- The lotions used are between 98 and 100% natural.
- Our cosmetic products contain between 97 and 100% natural materials
Find out more about our certifications right here.
Laura Parker, The world's plastic pollution crisis explained, National Geographic (2019). Accessed April 2020.
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As the scientific community works to understand global climate mechanisms, new data sets are occasionally discovered that enhance our ability to understand and predict climate patterns. Few scientists understood the inherent link between earth science and baseball better than the late, but eminent, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. In this study, I build upon Gould’s shared passion for these subjects by investigating how the 2016 Kansas City Royals baseball season sheds new light on the global warming debate.
As a geoscientist and editor, I am familiar with global climate data, including temperature trends over time. These data are compiled from direct observations and indirect interpretation of ice cores, tree rings, and other sources of preserved information. With this background, while studying trends inherent in the 2016 Kansas City Royals baseball season I was able to recognize a significant pattern similarity, relying on methods laid out by Munroe, 552.
I conducted a correlation exercise between the two data sets with the understanding that “synchronous correlation and disrelation analysis seem to form a more natural pair as complementary techniques, because they share very similar sets of vector manipulations” (Noda, 2004). Data used in this study included baseline climate data for the past 2,000 years (Spencer, 2007) and Royals 2016 season data (Baseball Reference, 2016); for ease of display, the latter were recalculated to reflect the team’s daily record as a function of +/- relative to .500. I then used Adobe software to overlay the season data and climate data, using various sophisticated tools to establish best-approximation fit between the two data sets (Figure 1). For more examples of this technique, see Vigen.
Results & Discussion
Figure 1 shows a significant correlation between Royals team performance and climate data since the estimated birth of Jesus Christ. Correlation is least significant at the beginning of both data sets, where global tree-ring data may be compromised by the relative lack of Third-Baseman trees (Yost, 2013). Note the strong correlation between team record and global temperature during the transition between the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age (approximately mid-June through early August on the team scale). A cross-disciplinary collaboration between climatologists and historians may be necessary to determine whether the Viking colonization and subsequent abandonment of Greenland was the cause, or the effect, of the Royals’ prolonged slump during this period (as the team never played the Twins during the period, the potential Minnesota factor must be dismissed).
The most interesting and potentially controversial result of this study comes at the end of both data sets. While the Royals’ record and global temperatures both record an unprecedented rise during this period, their subsequent diversion is cause for pause. Traditional climate models assume that global warming will continue unabated, leading to record-high global temperatures. However, the Royals season record clearly levels off at this point before declining to remain within historical norms.
The mechanism driving this correlation is not, as yet, clear and requires further study. However, it may be worth considering that the geographic center of the contiguous United States (a central contributor to climate-altering global emissions) is located in north-central Kansas, well within Royals territory (NY Times, 2014).
The unavoidable conclusion from this analysis is that global warming may, in fact, be nearing its peak as part of a natural cyclic variation and will soon self-correct. Clearly, then, past projections and models for global climate are no more reliable than those for Royals team performance, such as PECOTA (Posnanski, 2016). However, if current climate models are correct and global temperatures do continue their current ascent, Royals fans may take comfort in the knowledge that the team’s record should also improve next year. In 2017, therefore, a situation commonly described as “win-win” in the literature will exist. Between a warming planet and a winning team, which would Royals fans choose? | <urn:uuid:7375bcb0-6e31-4183-82a3-56cd491c406e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.royalsreview.com/2016/9/30/13080142/how-the-2016-royals-season-disproves-global-warming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943698 | 803 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Daisuke Inoue has been honored with a rare, indeed almost certainly unique combination of laurels. In 1999, Time magazine named him among the “Most Influential Asians of the Century.” Five years later he won an Ig Nobel Prize, which honors particularly strange and risible developments in science, technology, and culture. Inoue had come up with the device that made his name decades earlier, in the early 1970s, but its influence has proven enduring still today. It is he whom history now credits with the invention of the karaoke machine, the assisted-singing device that the Ig Nobel committee, awarding its Peace Prize, described as “an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.”
The achievement of an Ig Nobel recipient should be one that “makes people laugh, then think.” Over its half-century of existence, many have laughed at karaoke, especially as ostensibly practiced by the drunken salarymen of its homeland. But upon further consideration, few Japanese inventions have been as important.
Hence its prominent inclusion in Japanologist Matt Alt’s recent book Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World. As Alt tells its story, the karaoke machine emerged out of Sannomiya, Kobe’s red-light district, which might seem an unlikely birthplace — until you consider its “some four thousand drinking establishments crammed into a cluster of streets and alleys just a kilometer in radius.”
In these bars Inoue worked as a hiki-katari, a kind of freelance musician who specialized in “sing-alongs, retuning their performances on the fly to match the singing abilities and sobriety levels of paying customers.” This was karaoke (the Japanese term means, literally, “empty orchestra”) before karaoke as we know it. Inoue had mastered its rigors to such an extent that he became known as “Dr. Sing-along,” and the sheer demand for his services inspired him to create a kind of automatic replacement he could send to extra gigs. The 8 Juke, as he called it, amounted to an 8-track car stereo connected to a microphone, reverb box, and coin slot. Pre-loaded with instrumental covers of bar-goers’ favorite songs, the 8 Jukes Inoue made soon started taking in more coins than they could handle.
“When I made the first Juke 8s, a brother-in-law suggested I take out a patent,” Inoue said in a 2013 interview. “But at the time, I didn’t think anything would come of it.” Having assembled his invention from off-the-shelf components, he didn’t think there was anything patentable about it, and unknown to him, at least one similar device had already been built elsewhere in Japan. But what Inoue invented, as Alt puts it, was “the total package of hardware and custom software that allowed karaoke to grow from a local fad into an enormous global business.” Had it been patented, says Inoue himself, “I don’t think karaoke would have grown like it did.” Would it have grown to have, as Alt puts it, “profound effects on the fantasy lives of Japanese and Westerners both”? And would Inoue have found himself onstage more than 30 years later at the Ig Nobels, leading a crowd of Americans in a round of “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”?
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook. | <urn:uuid:ca4f32fa-f21f-46d3-9e9a-d26c56fb0964> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.openculture.com/?p=1091224 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978061 | 838 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Flutters are the final form of Wigglers after transforming. They have a pair of wings and are friendly creatures.
Flutters are fully grown Wigglers. In the Nintendo 3DS game Paper Mario: Sticker Star, it is said that Wigglers grow into Flutters after they have eaten a lot of food. Flutters have large wings and has a flower on the top of their heads. They also lose nearly all of their legs in favor of two legs and two arms now with hands.
Flutters in this game only appear on one level. They will attack Yoshi once they get close enough to them. Yoshi can defeat them by either eating them or hurling eggs at them. In this game, they go under the name of Flutter Flies.
Mario Party series
In this game, Flutters only appear as capsules. They replace Magic Lamps from the previous Mario Party games taking any player directly to the Star. If a player places a Flutter capsule on a space, they would basically create another Star space.
Flutters appear in this game only as Flutter Orbs. Their purpose is exactly the same as in Mario Party 5.
Flutters once again appears as Orbs in Mario Party 7. A Flutter is also seen in the mini-game Spider Stomp where it is at the goal.
Flutters make several appearances in mini-games in this game. One is also seen racing in Moped Mayhem as an NPC.
One Flutter makes an appearance in this game. Mario and Kersti needed a way to get to Bowser's Sky Castle from Gate Cliff so they decided to go back and see their Wiggler friend. Fortunately, the Wiggler is now a Flutter after eating the non-polluted leaves of his home. Flutter agrees to take Mario and Kersti up to Bowser's Castle not before getting ambushed by Bowser Jr. After that, Flutter will never appear back at his home and will only appear on the world map taking Mario from Gate Cliff to Bowser's Sky Castle.
- Paragoombas. Flutter makes its first Mario & Luigi appearance as Wiggler. After being exhausted fighting, it takes the form of a Flutter and goes to the skies along with the
- 'Flutter' is a word to describe flying lightly.
- On several occasions Wiggler may become a Flutter directly and transform back, not going through a metamorphosis like real-world caterpillars do. | <urn:uuid:cbf23b6e-3b8e-4020-a0dd-ca0ec347e6ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/Flutter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975189 | 518 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Randwick Concussion Study headed for Berlin International Concussion Conference
The results of research at Headsafe with Randwick Rugby have been accepted for presentation at the 5th International Concussion in Sport Consensus Conference in Berlin scheduled for October 2016.
This conference is held every 4 years and allows experts from around the world to pool their knowledge and share innovations.
The SCAT (Standardized Concussion Assessment Test) is the result of a consensus panel from sports represented at the conference including Rugby, Football, Ice Hockey, Equestrian and the International Olympic Committee.
Two papers have been accepted:
- “Using neurophysiological measures to assess concussion” features the use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as an objective measure of concussion based on the work of Dr. Alan Pearce with AFL footballers
- “Impact monitoring and King-Devick Ocular testing” provide a relatively simple process for objectively identifying and managing concussion in sports participants and builds upon the work of Dr. Doug King in New Zealand with league and union footballers
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The Agency Says
It can't finish testing processes needed to carry out the mission before its launch deadline on Oct. 11
The Goal Was to Reach Its Target
In 2026, but owing to orbital position constraints, even a launch in 2024 means the spacecraft won't reach the asteroid until 29'
Which pushed the original mission timeline from August to beyond September, was subsequently fixed.
The Estimated $985
Million budget for the Psyche mission, $717 million have already been spent.
A metal-rich asteroid that is roughly 173 miles across at its widest point.
The Last Deadline
For mission take-off was October 11, but following the delay, the launch likely won't happen this year. | <urn:uuid:d37f1f5e-4525-4b64-a6d3-2d7b86bb5898> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lyricsvan.com/web-stories/nasa-psych-mission-just-got-some-bad-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97257 | 153 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Sri Lanka is another destination that has won the hearts of many travellers across the globe. The diversity and cultural heritage combined with various culinary traditions and the hospitality of the people have made the island famous. There are many attractions in the form of historical places in the country which draw a lot of travellers regardless of whether they are locals or foreigners. Anuradhapura is a sacred city in Sri Lanka that makes for a vast area of historical significance. The entire city of Anuradhapura which is located about 207 kilometers away from central Colombo, is interspersed with various ruins of shrines and temples built during the reigns of kings. Polonnaruwa is another city which is in close proximity to Anuradhapura that houses shrines of immense importance; the likes of Thuparamaya, Vatadage and the remnants of the palace of King Parakramabahu – a hugely influential ruler of ancient Ceylon.
Sigiriya is a world famous location that takes the credit owing to its colossal amount of character. The entire fortress has been carved out from a rock in the resemblance of a lion while beautiful frescoes coveted across the globes adorn the walls of the fortress. Sri Lanka holidays will never be complete without a trip to the historic city of Kandy. A beautiful little city that is built around a natural lake, the lovingly named “Hill Capital” houses the Dalada Maligawa where the tooth relic of the Lord Buddha is said to be safely resting. Kundasale, located on the outskirts of Kandy display even today the glory and splendour of the rulers that once ruled over the island. There are many such places in and out of Colombo that call for exploration and contemplation. Travelers could opt to take their own excursions or recruit the services of a well-reputed travel agent such as Walkers Tours and many others. A trip to the places in Sri Lanka that hold remnants from ancient eras during which Sri Lanka was still known as Taprobane, is sure to leave any explorer in wonder and admiration.
Auburn Silver is a travel writer who has a passion for fashion and a deep interest in admiring new and exotic attractions around the world. Google+ | <urn:uuid:a5d3d46d-f8b5-4e6a-afd8-f4a3012bfeaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wellknownplaces.com/historical-places-sri-lanka-journey-past-taprobane.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970117 | 458 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Proactive personalised healthcare through precision insights
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Big data exploration is a complex and expensive method of trying to discover things we didn’t know before, which may (or may not) help us to do things better now and in the future.
Intacare’s approach is different. By working with world-leading clinicians and academics across the world we continue to identify the clinical and patient-reported data that is necessary for defining, assessing and improving clinical outcomes in cancer care.
2. Let technology do the heavy lifting
Intacare’s sophisticated agnostic Software-as-a-Service solution (Precision Insight Engine – PIE) interacts with your data system(s), identifying and assessing only the pre-defined data that has been shown to be diagnostic and predictive.
3. Let Artificial Intelligence do the hard thinking
Intacare PIE applies sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce real-time outcomes insights, alerts or reports – including the presentation of individual or cohort current and historical health state, the prediction of future health state.
4. More informed decision making
Intacare PIE can be used to at-the-point-of-care to support clinical decisions and optimise outcomes across a patient’s cancer journey, or retrospectively to assess the root-cause of sub-optimal outcomes.
All insights are backed by academic evidence which is directly accessible to the end-user. This provides vital validation and ensures end-users have confidence in the validity and relevance of all insights presented.
5. How our Precision Insights Engine works
PIE analyses a variety of clinical datasets e.g. electronic medical records, research data and Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) and identifies the key data, based on our academic research, that enable the production of evidence-based insights relating to historical, current and future health state of the individual or cohort.
6. Taking Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) to a new dimension
Intacare turns traditional static PROMs into a dynamic outcomes assessment. By correlating the patient’s self-reported outcomes with precision clinical data PIE can give context to current health state, help identify route cause(s). These insights enable our end users to be more proactive in their management of patient needs, helping them to improve patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes and the assessment and optimisation of the benefits of healthcare innovation in the short and long term. | <urn:uuid:343330b2-8812-4ff4-99ac-74fbb61ad154> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intacare.com/our-model/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.871534 | 516 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Objective: This study compared the accumulated minutes of objectively measured physical activity in 1,790 boys and girls in Grades 3, 7, and 11 classified as healthy weight, at risk of overweight, and overweight.
Methods: Height and weight were measured and body mass index calculated. Minutes of sedentary, light, moderate, hard, and very hard physical activity were obtained from a seven-day measurement of physical activity using an accelerometer (Actigraph, mode 7164; MTI).
Results: In Grade 3, boys (p=0.000) and girls (p=0.012) classified as overweight obtained significantly fewer minutes of very hard physical activity compared with their healthy weight counterparts. Boys in Grade 7 considered overweight obtained significantly fewer minutes of hard (p=0.002) and very hard physical activity (p=0.006) compared with boys who were a healthy weight. There were no significant differences in minutes of sedentary, light, moderate, hard, or very hard intensity physical activity in the boys and girls in Grade 11, who were considered a healthy weight, at risk of overweight, or overweight.
Conclusions: Weak and inconsistent support was provided for the notion that boys and girls classified overweight are less physically active than their healthy weight counterparts. | <urn:uuid:ae2b589f-125f-48d8-b3db-0ebf2140b029> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19205979/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975351 | 258 | 3.03125 | 3 |
By Alex Grubb
JACOB KONST/Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tucsonan Anne Burns bows her head in remembrance of those left dead, injured or homeless in the wake of Dec. 26 tsunami during last night's candlelight vigil held on the UA Mall. The event was a multi-faith memorial service setup through the efforts of the Sri Lankan Student Association.
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, January 20, 2005
More than 50 people went out to the UA Mall last night to attend a candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia and hear speakers from different religions.
The vigil was organized by the Association of Sri Lankans at the UA and featured speakers from various religious groups including Islamic, Buddhist, Presbyterian, Jewish and Bahai Faith. Representatives from each group offered their stories and insights on how they are dealing with the catastrophe and also to offer hope to the community.
Pinnaduwa Kulatilake, geotechnical engineering professor, opened the vigil with a scientific look at the mechanics of the tsunami and commented on the victims.
"These people need psycho-social assistance. Pray that people get assistance and have a strong mind to cope with this difficult situation," Kulatilake said.
Azad, director of the Islamic Center of Tucson, said Muslims greet each other with "peace be with you," and said, in a time like this, it is important to recognize how people treat each other and the state of the world.
"The element of good is more than the element of evil. Goodness is the rule, evil is the exception," Azad said.
Rev. Arjahn Sarayut of the Dhammaratanaram Buddhist Temple offered his own words of inspiration and encouragement.
"One thing to never forget, united people all over the world bring love, kindness, compassion and harmony," Sarayut said.
Sarayut sang a prayer with other monks from the temple and presented a thought for the audience.
"Thousands of candles can be lit from one candle," Sarayut said.
Jean McClelland, director of community-based health information resources at the College of Public Health, was especially touched by Sarayut's words.
"The Buddhist monk's words were real human, more personal," McClelland said.
McClelland was impressed with the similarities and differences between the speakers, regardless of her or the speakers' religious views.
"It is interesting how the prayers were pan-religious and that there are so many different teachings and sayings, but they are all very similar," McClelland said.
Steve Ormsby, a political science senior, said he was also thankful for the opportunity to hear different voices.
"It's just nice to hear people talk about personal experiences, like the priest," Ormsby said. "It's amazing how in the blink of an eye everything changes. It makes us realize we're all human beings despite our differences," Ormsby said.
Jennifer Ellis, a journalism senior, said she looked at things differently after attending the vigil.
"It puts a new face on the situation, being able to see different religious perspectives. Sometimes we don't know how other people react," Ellis said.
Rachel Hughes, a science education liaison at the College of Pharmacy, was grateful for the chance to show her support by attending the vigil.
"It's a wonderful opportunity to show support for the (Sri Lankan) community," Hughes said. "Even if you're not religious, it was nice to take a moment to think a little."
Amila Wigerathne, a junior at Catalina Foothills High School, said he heard about the vigil from friends in ASLUA. He said he was interested in attending because one of his friends was visiting Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit and she passed away, he said.
"I'm happy they did it. It helps to cope with the disaster," Wigerathne said.
Samanthi Hewakapuge, an outreach information specialist at the Center for Toxicology, offered some insight into organizing the vigil, even though it is not something commonly practiced by Sri Lankans.
"Sri Lankans don't have candle vigils, but we did it to cater to the American and Tucson community. We did research about how to do one," Hewakapuge said.
ASLUA also accepted donations at the vigil for the relief efforts.
"World Care did a hell of a good job," said Thusitha Paluwatte, a second-year chemistry graduate student who was on the organizing committee.
"A doctor from UMC even went to Sri Lanka to help," Paluwatte said.
Paluwatte said support from the community has not stopped coming and everything is going to World Care, UNICEF or Americare.
McClelland hopes there will be updates on campus and opportunities to get involved in the relief effort.
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PS Koanapo met the media with the intention of the government is to brief the people on how much work government has undertaken on the issue of West Papua.
“I wish to say that the government has done a lot of work on the issue of West Papua since the Charlot Salwai government came in in 2016 and the issue remains high on government’s international political agenda.
“There are a lot of arguments that government has not done enough on the issue of West Papua, but when we look at the events that government through the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers have endorsed Vanuatu’s participation, there were many.”
In March this year, the Council of Ministers under the leadership of Prime Minister Salwai, appointed Honorable Ronald Warsal (Minister of Justice and Community Services) to attend the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva and Koanapo went with him when Vanuatu delivered a statement on behalf of the Pacific Islands Coalition for West Papua.
“May be, many people who have been dealing with the issue of West Papua, especially our former leaders like Barak Sope, Donald Kalpokas, the late Edward Natapei, Joe Natuman former Prime Minister now Deputy Prime Minister, have been walking with the people of West Papua for a very long time.
“And when we look at the political backup the people of Vanuatu give to the colonized people of West Papua, there’s only one country in the world that has been standing behind people who living under colonization by Indonesia. That country is Vanuatu. Vanuatu is the only country in the Pacific that is standing behind the people of West Papua.
“And then at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders’ summit held in 2015 in Honiara, at that time Solomon Islands government through Prime Minister Manasseh Sogovareh came on board. And then as PM Sogovareh said to me when I represented government at that time when I was Director General of Foreign and also represented the country at the minister’s level that the position or stand the government of Solomon Islands is taking is inspired by the position and stand the Vanuatu government has taken since day one on the since to West Papua to this day.
“So, instead of just one I the Pacific, there was two. That’s the Vanuatu government and the Solomon Islands government. Then the Solomon Islands government spearheaded with the support of Vanuatu on the margins of the meeting of June July last year when PM Charlot Salwai attended the establishment of what we call the Pacific Islands of West Papua (PIWP) and then other countries of Micronesia and Polynesia have come on board. Altogether eight countries – Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Tonga. So, Vanuatu, as the lone fighter, now has seven countries behind it for backup on the issue of West Papua.
“As a result in March this year, government through the Council of Ministers appropriated for Vanuatu’s participation at the Humans Rights Council meeting this year in Geneva. So, Minister Warsal and I went to the meeting where Honorable Warsal delivered a very strong statement. It was a political statement on behalf of BIGWIP members in the Pacific.
“I also wish to mention that when we have this coalition, Vanuatu’s strategy is for us to try shift advocacy for the issue of West Papua beyond the region. When we were introducing the issue at MSG, Vanuatu was the only country behind it.
“I am briefing us today as a former director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who has been behind much of the speeches and writings, to say that I’ve never seen before a government that has taken the issue of WP so strongly as the government of Charlot Salwai and Joe Natuman is making today.
“There are reasons for this. In the past governments tended to take different kinds of approaches. Some prefer for us to take a stronger diplomatic approach at the international level to lobby. Some prefer we have more dialogue with the colonizing power, Indonesia since 1962 to today that they continue to colonize the people of West Papua.
“So, the government of Charlot Salwai also appointed a special envoy. This special envoy was our Ambassador at the European Union, Ambassador Roy Micky Joy, to help lobby at the European Union jurisdiction and he also helped to lobby at the African Union. And he also helped to lobby at the Caribbean. We have divided this task and it is the first time.
“During my 16 years in office at the Foreign Affairs, I see that this government is very serious about the issue of West Papua.”
“Maybe the Opposition has some views that government may not be advancing, but I have not seen any opposition in the past with the credentials to advance this issue, except this government today has moved this issue on more than ever. I say this with a lot of confidence that the issue of West Papua today has already moved beyond the region,” the PS for the PM’s Office said.
“This government when it came in, it took this issue from being a bilateral issue just of Vanuatu, but a regional issue, which we have moved beyond the level of MSG in which we have differences of opinion on how we deal with the issue of West Papua because the diplomatic of Indonesia is strong. This made Vanuatu the only country in MSG to push the issue ahead. But the issue has now moved beyond the jurisdiction of MSG,” he said.
“It has moved to the level of the Forum and has become a regional issue. And if you see how the issue was listed in the South Pacific Islands Forum meeting last week to deal with out of 14 issues, one of them is West Papua.”
“I wish to take this opportunity to commend the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Dame Meg Taylor, a very proactive SG who understands the situation of the people of West Papua who are colonized and continued to face human rights abuses on the own land. I note too that when we were at the Pacific Islands Forum last year, PM CS made a lot of bi-laterals with many countries and he talked about the issue of West Papua, for it to come before the Forum Leaders retreat. And at the retreat, PM Salwai took the lead on the issue of West Papua. Because the PM of Solomon Islands was not present so PM Salwai had to do the lobby and he continued to put the issue on the table and he continued to advocate for the issue to come before the United Nations.
“On the level of the work that the government has done, PM Salwai also appointed me as his Special Emissary for me to undertake shuttle diplomacy in the region, starting last month when the Pacific Islands Foreign Ministers meeting was held in Suva, I went there special emissary of the PM to present a case at bi-laterals of member countries to talk about the importance of how PM Salwai and PM Sogovareh see the issue of West Papua.
“I also wish to mention to the people of Vanuatu to understand that when the government of today says that we are shifting the issue of West Papua beyond MSG and beyond the region, it simply means also the level of work government is making outside of the region. In around June this year, at the ACP Ministerial meeting in Brussels, the government assigned me to attend this ministerial meeting with Minister Ralph Regenvanu, and because Minister Regenvanu was engaged with other assignments, I undertook this assignment on behalf of Vanuatu where I tabled the issue of West Papua for the first time in history as an agenda at the ACP Ministerial in Brussels, Belgium.
“I also wish to place on record for the people of Vanuatu to know that government also assigned Ambassador Roy Mickey Joy to do this work in his capacity at the Committee of Ambassadors at the process of ACP to table the issue of West Papua at the Committee of Ambassadors level. The Committee of Ambassadors is comprised of Ambassadors and senior officials of countries based in Brussels to continue to discuss the agenda and formulate resolutions to come to the Ministerial level and at the Ministerial they took up this agenda before it reached the leaders’ level.
“It was the first time too I lobbied with the Secretary General of ACP to continue to maintain this agenda item at the ACP.
“I believe strongly that the government will continue to participate at upcoming ministerial meetings and this issue continues to feature prominently in the agenda of ACP.
“At the same too, with the help provided by the Vanuatu government mission in Brussels, we see a website totally dedicated to ACP and European members to access information on what is happening in West Papua. We all know that today West Papua is a flashpoint, an area of conflict between Melanesia and the Asians, but not country is willing to take this up. We all know too that West Papuans today face a reality of genocide including cultural genocide where thousands of Indonesians everyday flock into West Papua with their immigration policy, which means that the Melanesians will find themselves already a minority in their own land. This is the reason why the people at the time of the New Hebrides were afraid of at that time pushed to have our independence because our land was alienated so much that we were afraid of losing it and our identify. This is an opportunity that the West Papuans have today.
“West Papuans continue to be exposed to human rights abuse and it is sad to see that not every country want to take up this issue.”
“I wish to assure the people of Vanuatu that PM Salwai is making everything necessary and we work under him, the PM assigns us with the mandate to make sure that the voice of the voiceless is heard around the world. And today for the first time, in the last two months the lobby pushed by Vanuatu has reached the Caribbean and today I also wish to say that seven countries in the Caribbean out of 15 are behind the issue of West Papua today. And we continue to lobby with the African Union and I believe that in the coming months the government of Vanuatu will continue to push in the African Union so the countries of Africa are more aware of the issue of West Papua.
“Interestingly, when I conducted a bilateral in June with the government of Belgium, they said they were never aware of West Papua. The issue of West Papua is an issue hidden under a carpet because the press was never allowed to go freely to see the people and to hear from them what happened and their views on the destiny they see for themselves. It is a sad reality that is there.
“The issue now has progress to the international stage and I say this with a lot of confidence that the issue has never taken so much international attention as it is today simple because the government is serious about, there is no second opinion on it as to whether the government will take up the issue or not.
“The government has taken on this role because it is a global country and we are global citizens with obligations to defend such things as human rights, which are parts of the rights of a human being.
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The GUIDE program is a partnership between NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Gallatin faculty and advisers mentor several high-achieving BMCC students, preparing them to succeed as full-scholarship juniors and seniors in Gallatin’s rigorous liberal arts BA-degree program.
The GUIDE program is an invite-only program. BMCC will identify a cohort of eligible students who will be invited to attend an information session and submit an application.
GUIDE is tailored to students interested in studying social justice, which is understood broadly to include: social movements, law and governance, urban democracy, economics, identity formation, political literature and art, arts activism, and environmental studies.
Entry into GUIDE follows a substantive and highly competitive application process. BMCC students need to have strong GPA’s, at least one writing-intensive course, and a demonstrated interest in social justice.
In the Fall of the sophomore year at BMCC, up to 8 GUIDE Finalists will take one class each at Gallatin. The cost of NYU tuition, registration fees, and books for the course will be covered by Gallatin, and the course credits may be transferred back to BMCC and applied toward the AA degree. GUIDE Finalists will be welcomed into the Gallatin community, invited to participate in Gallatin and NYU events, and receive additional mentorship as they prepare to apply for transfer to Gallatin and other Bachelor's-degree programs.
In the Fall of the junior year, up to 5 of these students will transfer to NYU Gallatin as GUIDE Scholars. These students will receive full scholarships to NYU, covering all unmet need for tuition, fees, books and, if requested, on-campus housing for the next four semesters of undergraduate study.
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Estate planning is something we discuss regularly with our clients. We are all aware that we need to build a plan to protect our assets and to define how we want our family’s legacy to be passed on to the next generation. While we tend to start this process later in life, we are increasingly becoming bigger proponents of starting our initial estate and legal planning conversations much earlier.
When a child turns 18, many things happen. They will likely venture off to continue their education elsewhere or even get an early start to their careers. Some depending on when their birthday is might still be in high school, seemingly still a child, but legally they are considered an adult. So, it might seem peculiar to start an estate planning conversation now, but it could be less strange than it seems.
Health Care Directives
Upon reaching age 18, HIPAA Privacy Rules kick in. Essentially what this means is that medical records are required to be confidential despite whose insurance your child is on or who is ultimately paying those medical bills.
At this age – likely up until they are married or have someone else in their lives they trust – it is important that we teach our kids to indicate their willingness to share medical information with their parents, but what happens if they are incapacitated and can’t sign those forms?
Medical powers of attorney, or advance directives, allow adults to appoint someone to make healthcare decisions on their behalf if they are unable to do so. We always recommend married couples to do this with their spouses, but it is also important for us to do that for our children.
Most of us in our late teens and twenties didn’t have much in terms of savings or real financial assets when we were young adults, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need to protect ourselves or our families in case of an unexpected need. Besides liquid assets, young adults have cars, real estate, jewelry, and other real assets that are important to consider. Understanding what you have and what you want to do with them is a good exercise to undertake now so you are more prepared when your assets get bigger and entire families are involved.
Another important consideration when it comes to financial estate planning is keeping track of all the usernames and passwords we have for our various investment accounts. It’s easy to leave those in a digital password vault, but someone needs to know how to access that in case they need to distribute your assets upon your death. Living loved ones will also most likely have to prepare a final individual tax return. An income tax return of a decedent is prepared and filed in the same manner as when they were alive. All income up to the date of death must be reported and all credits and deductions to which the deceased is entitled may be claimed. You may also have to file individual income tax returns for years preceding the year of death if they weren’t previously filed and should have been. Having access to important documents and accounts will be crucial to submitting final paperwork.
Lastly, let’s talk about student loan debt. Federal loans are forgiven upon the death of the borrower, but not all private loans function that way. It’s important to understand the types of loans you have and put a plan in place to cover them in case of an emergency. Life insurance is the easiest way to protect our families from this debt – and it is often the cheapest and easiest to get at this point in our lives.
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Lentil vs Maize - In-Depth Nutrition Comparison
What are the differences between Lentil and Maize?
- Lentil is higher in Iron, Folate, Fiber, Copper, Manganese, Phosphorus, Zinc, and Vitamin B6, yet Maize is higher in Vitamin C.
- Lentil's daily need coverage for Iron is 35% more.
- Lentil has 5 times more Copper than Maize. While Lentil has 0.251mg of Copper, Maize has only 0.054mg.
We used Lentils, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt and Corn, sweet, yellow, raw types in this article.
Comparison summary table
|Lower in Sugar|
|Lower in Sodium|
|Lower in Saturated Fat|
|Lower in glycemic index|
|Lower in price|
|Rich in minerals|
|Lower in Cholesterol||Equal|
|Rich in vitamins||Equal|
All nutrients comparison - raw data values
Which food is preferable for your diet?
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Living in the moment, not through a screen
“Ok, Mom. If we are going to Itasca, I don’t want anyone on their phones. Phones stay off and put away.”
This is rich, I think. My 8-year-old son, who is constantly sneaking screen time, is laying down the law on screens. We are getting ready for our annual visit to Itasca State Park with my side of the family. It’s where the Mississippi begins! It’s a childhood favorite of mine- a place I cherish and want my kids to know and love, too.
“Well, I think you are right in your idea,” I say carefully, wanting him to know I am supporting him. “Remember that we will need our phones to get a hold of each other, because we are staying in separate parts of the park.”
He considers this. “Yeah, good point.”
“But I think what you are getting at is that you don’t want to see us all staring at our phones. We should be where we are.”
“Exactly, Mom. Like, we are in nature! Breathe! Look around! You don’t just sit there staring at a screen!”
Aside from wishing I was recording the conversation to use in later situations, I appreciate his thoughts about this. He’s right.
Adults talk a big game when it comes to screen time, but how many of us actually practice what we preach to our children? Take a look at this chart from the Pew Research Group. Parents say that teens are distracted, but teens say the same about their parents, and there are indicators throughout the study that adults certainly do their fair share of using technology to distract themselves. Socialmediatoday.com found enlightening information to see the average time spent on social media, and how its use ranks among time spent during daily activities.
The hypocrisy isn’t hard to detect; children can smell it a mile away. I know my husband and I are guilty of telling kids to get off the screens while we scroll through feeds on our own phones. Lately, I have made some changes to my screen consumption to help model self-regulation for my kids:
- I let my phone charge in another room while I am sleeping. The benefit is twofold- I spend less time mindlessly scrolling, and my eyes and brain are protected from stringing out its activity, and I can sleep better.
- I use my iPhone’s audit feature, “Screen Time.” Each week I receive a report showing how much time I was on my phone, and what sites I was visiting. There are other apps as well that can measure and report. Seeing the time I spent, without really thinking about it, has made me more mindful about how I choose to spend my time.
- Facebook doesn’t live on my phone. Twitter does, for now. I have Instagram too, but I don’t interact with it as much. Just unplugging from Facebook has been a breath of fresh air.
- In waiting rooms, or other times when I am waiting for an appointment or a friend, I keep my phone out (in case someone is trying to let me know they are late), but I don’t engage with it. I try to do this in front of my children, too, to show that they don’t need to be entertained every minute.
- I installed a “Self-regulation” app on my MacBook that will block me from certain sites for a determined time period if I am feeling easily distractible. It helps me stay on task and focused on my work. Sometimes, I find myself not even logging into the social media sites at the end of the day. I don’t miss it.
Overall, the changes I have made have been beneficial. Sure, I miss the occasional online meme or lively discussion, but I have found that I sleep better, pay closer attention to what or who is in front of me, and I’ve become a better listener. My true hope is that my kids learn from my example and learn when they should take breaks or adjust their usage.
Besides, there’s so much else in real life to engage with, like nature and fresh air.
Want to try your own self-audit to measure the amount of screen time you regularly get? Try this self-audit tool and challenge yourself. The data might surprise you!
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A lukewarm reception to Target’s first expansion outside the United States contributed to a nearly $1-billion loss for the Canadian operations of the discount retailer last year.
In the fourth quarter alone, Target Corp. said its Canadian segment suffered a US$329-million loss before interest and taxes. The retailer generated US$623 million of sales in Canada but said it struggled with gross margins of 4.4 per cent, reflecting efforts to lower prices to clear excess inventory.
Overall, the Minneapolis-based retailer said Wednesday that it earned US$520 million, or 81 cents per share in the quarter, down from $961 million, or $1.47 per share a year earlier.
Revenue fell to US$21.5 billion from $22.7 billion as revenue at stores open at least a year, an important retail measurement, fell 2.5 per cent. Analysts had expected a profit of 80 cents on revenue of $21.5 billion, according to FactSet estimates.
It said the costs associated with moving to Canada reduced the company’s quarter’s net income by 40 cents per share and full-year net income by US$1.13 per share.
Gregg Steinhafel, chairman, president and CEO of Target, told analysts that markdowns during the holiday period helped the retailer reduce average inventory rates at Canadian stores by 30 per cent in the quarter.
“While 2013 was a disappointing year financially, we’ve entered the new year with the right plans in place to grow profitably and generate meaningful improved financial performance in 2014 and beyond,” he said in a conference call.
For the full year, the Canadian segment lost US$941 million before excluded items on US$1.3 billion of sales, with its annual gross margin at 14.9 per cent.
Hopes had been high when Target opened its first stores in Canada last year after buying some of the properties from the now-defunct Canadian discounter Zellers.
But since its entry last March, the retailer has faced high expansion costs and disappointing sales as shoppers complained about near-empty shelves and notably higher prices than at U.S. Target stores.
Retail consultant Maureen Atkinson said competition for consumers’ dollars is fierce in Canada, as other retailers like Walmart and Shoppers Drug Mart ramped up their expansion plans in preparation for Target’s arrival.
“There have been fundamental issues here (with Target),” said Atkinson, who is with the Toronto-based firm J.C. Williams Group. “They have to do better.”
Atkinson said a more intense marketing campaign in Canada could work if Target is successful at portraying itself as a go-to value destination for “frequency categories” such as groceries, cosmetics and health products.
“Canadians aren’t used to coming frequently to a store like Target because they treat it more like a department store, whereas Target wants to be seen as a grocery store or drug store,” she said.
“Obviously it would help if people came to the store more times because there will be more opportunities for them to buy things.”
The company’s chief financial officer, John Mulligan, attributed the disappointing earnings to growing pains the company experienced with its rapid Canadian expansion.
Looking ahead, he expects Canadian sales to nearly double to $2.6 billion in 2014, with stores approaching a higher annual gross margin rate of approximately 30 per cent.
“But clearly, we will see some near-term volatility until the Canadian business matures,” said Mulligan, who is also the retailer’s executive vice-president.
Despite the rocky start, the retailer, the second-largest U.S. discount department store operator after Walmart, announced last month that it will open nine more stores in Canada this year. Two locations will be in Mississauga, Ont., with one store each in Toronto, Ottawa and Barrie, Ont. Stores will also be added in Edmonton, Victoria, Winnipeg and Candiac, Que.
By the end of 2014, Target said it would have 133 locations in Canada.
Meanwhile, the company also said a massive data breach over the holidays contributed to a 46 per cent drop in its overall fourth-quarter profit, and drove down sales at all of its stores by 5.3 per cent.
The breach resulted in US$17 million of net expenses in the fourth quarter, Target said, with US$61 million of total expenses partially offset by the recognition of a US$44 million insurance receivables.
It said it could not categorize how much the breach will cost the company in the future.
Target said as many as 40 million credit and debit card accounts at its U.S. stores were compromised between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. It later revealed that hackers also stole personal information — including names, phone numbers as well as email and mailing addresses — from as many as 70 million customers.
Canadians who visited U.S. Target stores during this period could’ve also been victimized, but unlike the affected U.S. customers, who had payment data from their debit and credit cards taken, the Canadian information was limited to contact information, according to the company.
The number of Canadians affected is estimated to less than 700,000 customers.
Since the discovery of the breach, Target has committed to providing a year’s worth of credit monitoring in Canada and the U.S.
It also said it will invest US$100 million into equipping its U.S. stores with Target branded chip credit and debit cards, and put $5 million towards a coalition with the Better Business Bureau that will help educate consumers about retail fraud prevention.
— With files from The Associated Press
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"Try just one bite, Mom. Please?" urged my 20-year-old son while waving a chunk of chocolate under my nose.
Home from college for the holiday weekend, he was starving for homemade treats decked in chocolatey goodness. His recipe of choice was Merry Mintini holiday bark, my own proprietary recipe.
It was also my own personal kryptonite.
I knew exactly how good it was — and just how dangerous. One tiny nibble couldn't hurt, reasoned the bad minion in my head. One bite is all it takes, cautioned the good minion.
My defenses failed and even though I knew better, I gave in to my son's plea to try just one bite.
The problem here is that one bite is all it takes and down the rabbit hole I go. Over the next 48 hours I managed to consume a whopping six pounds of holiday bark. Six. Pounds. I ate the equivalent of a masonry brick. Who does that?
I'll tell you who: people who live with binge eating disorder, an illness that wreaks havoc in our head and costly consequences on our health. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, binge eating is the most common eating disorder in the U.S. It also carries the greatest stigma, making it an illness marked by loneliness, self-loathing, and shame.
As embarrassing as it is, I'm confessing my secret for all the world to know: I live with a mental illness that is a very good dissolvent. It dissolves our health, our happiness, and our hope.
In retaliation for its destruction on my former fat self, I'm determined to open Pandora's box and free the myths surrounding binge eating.
The good minion in my head reasons that my honesty will pave the way for better support and possibly a cure, sparing future generations of binge eaters from the same shame and humiliation.
The bad minion taunts that it's an uphill battle because nobody listens to fat people. But I'm determined to tame the beast by busting the myths about binge eating disorders.
Myth #1: Binge eaters are just glutinous fat people
Fact: Binge eaters have a mental illness. True story. Binge eating disorder is classified as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association's fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Trust me, nobody wants to have a mental illness, but the APA did the right thing when they recognized binge eating disorder in their diagnostic bible. Inclusion in the DSM-5 paves the way for increased research funding, better support, and perhaps one day a cure.
Myth #2: Fat people make a choice to eat that Big Mac
People don't choose to get fat. If it were that easy, the diet industry wouldn't be in business. But they are, to the tune of $20 billion each year.
In 2012, ABC aired a "20/20" segment on TV called "Weight Loss Industry by the Numbers," featuring button-popping figures. Add to this another $147 billion the CDC estimates for obesity-related medical cost in the U.S., and Houston we have a problem that points to something more than just one too many Big Macs.
Myth #3: Fat people who lose weight are cured
I shed 100 pounds ten years ago, but I'm far from cured. When people learn I once weighed over 200 pounds they assume I resorted to gastric surgery. After all, aren't our species of the glutinous variety too lazy to do it on our own?
Lazy has absolutely nothing to do with it. But for the record, I didn't have surgery although I absolutely would have chosen that option if my bank account had agreed. Accepting the risks and postsurgical pain, binge eaters are willing to take desperate measures to help gain control of their illness.
So don't judge those who undergo weightloss surgery as unwilling to fight for their health. They are. Which is why they chose surgery.
Myth #4: Fat people are uneducated, poverty-stricken descendants of fat parents
First, BED is nondiscriminatory and strikes people of all intelligence. Yet fat people continually hear, "All that weight isn't good for you."
Some people believe such remarks can shame us out of our eating disorder and into calorie counting, yet such criticisms only serve to insult our intelligence and appearance in the same sentence.
Second, I'm not the poverty-stricken child of fat parents. A retired engineer, my dad is tall and thin. My mom is average.
Myth #5: Binge eating is simply overeating
Not all binge eaters are obese. And not all obese people suffer from binge eating disorder. BED is an illness characterized by a set of emotional, physical and behavioral characteristics. It is a disorder for which we're willing to hide food in strange places and lie to cover our sins. Oh, the secrets I could tell.
While binge eating results in overeating, it is so much more than a second helping of mashed potatoes. It is about a monster in our mind that makes it impossible to concentrate until every last slice, dice, and Chinese fried rice has been devoured.
Doesn't the fullness from an enlarged stomach stop me from eating more than I need? No, because I rarely feel full. I can eat a huge Thanksgiving meal and shamefully gobble up a turkey sandwich less than an hour later.
It's now been ten years since I successfully shed 100 pounds but make no mistake — the BED monster still lurks in the shadows just waiting to torment me when fatigue, hunger and stress lower my defenses.
And so I remain vigilant, lest the beast is unleashed and I'm back down the rabbit hole anchored by another six-pound brick of holiday bark.
It's not easy revealing my secret, but binge eating disorder is a nondiscriminatory mental illness that crippled me for years, and my former fat self is striking back at the villain who overpowered my sound reasoning and good judgment for much of my adult life.
Because no child ever says they want to grow up to be fat, including me.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell is an emotional healing expert and an award-winning author of Grief Diaries, a book series dedicated to shedding compelling insight on relevant issues. Learn more at www.LyndaFell.com
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Nineteen years ago on the year 2000 Bridgestone Firestone Tire and Rubber Company installed faulty tires onto Ford trucks and SUVs. In the U.S only it is stated that 271 deaths and 800 injuries were linked to these faulty tires. In Venezuela having 46 deaths linked to the tires and the Middle East having seven deaths. Firestone recalled 6.5 million tires and Ford recalled 13 million tires. It’s crazy how many tires and deaths had to occur for these defective tires to be noticed and I think its safe to assume that any company of any kind that produces something would test for defectiveness. Millions on millions of tires just went by these companies noses and if it weren’t for the legal cases Henningsen vs. Bloomfield Motors (1960) and Greenman vs. Yuba Power Products (1963), it is possible Firestone and Ford wouldn’t be held accountable if they weren’t be negligent, but those cases make manufacturer’s responsible regardless of negligence when a defective product causes injuries as a result. | <urn:uuid:f8364297-e5e3-49f6-a0af-ce20d086da91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessethics.community.uaf.edu/2019/06/29/m6-fajardo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95955 | 217 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Drenched in refreshing moisture, earth bursts into colorful melody-
Simi K. Rao
Monsoon in India is a special time. The overcast black skies, the drumroll of thunder, invoke the thrill of anticipation in the thirsty heart. This is then fulfilled by the downpour. And what a downpour it is!
Extending from June- September, the monsoon brings welcome relief from the stifling heat of the summer. The happiness is visible not just on the faces of the citizens but also on the parched earth– the fragrance of the soil, the blossoming of the vegetation, the songs of the cuckoo, the dance of the peacock.
The Grand Canyon. Who hasn’t heard of it? Everyone has. But you need to go there for yourself to realize it’s awesomeness! Grand doesn’t come close to describing it. I’ve been there a few times–still I catch my breath each time I lay eyes on it. Over two billion years of earth layers were cut by the mighty Colorado river and it’s tributaries.
My last trip there a few years ago was my most memorable one. It was part of a school trip– with my daughter and some of her classmates. We stayed in the Grand Canyon village at the South rim for two days and even hiked down the South Kaibab trail— only part of the way (it’s extremely steep and strenous). We also saw a mule train, the once almost extinct California Condor which the largest flying bird in North America with a wingspan reaching 10 ft—brought back by a dedicated captive breeding program.
As I have mentioned before I am inspired by my travels and the places I visit. I try to bring them into my writings whenever I can. You will find some of my experiences of the Grand Canyon in my books– Inconvenient Relations and its sequel- Now and Forever. You can check them outhere.
History is my hobby. And art and architecture is it’s most telling representation. I find modern buildings staid, lacking in variety– they are utilitarian, of course, but singularly boring. Some do make it out of the mould, but those are few and far between. Hence, whenever I travel I seek out old buildings. They are so much more attractive and compelling and come in so many styles– each narrating the story of the place and the era when they were built. And they seem so solid and permanent. So, when I heard about the Notre Dame fire, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it until I saw the live images on the news. That building besides being n invaluable example of gothic art, is a prominent part of history. It has witnessed the French Revolution and survived it and who is not aquainted with the famous Hugo classic ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’ or it’s English translation ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’.
At first, there was fear the entire structure would be destroyed. Fortunately, that didn’t occur but I understand most of the roof and the spire are gone. Now, I can say how lucky I was to have visited the place a few years ago and trudged up the narrow spiral staircase to get up close to the cathedral’s famous gargoyles which happened to be the favorite part of my visit. For those who aren’t aware, gargoyles are grotesque creatures that act as spouts to direct water away from the building. Apparently they are also supposed to ward off the evil eye. But were they able to protect themselves — I hope so… Below I share some precious snaps from my visit :–
The Banyan tree is the national tree of India and Bangladesh. The word Banyan comes from the Gujarati word Bania or trader. The word was picked up by the Portugese to refer to the Hindu traders who used to sit under the shade of these trees to conduct their business and passed it on to the English who began to refer to the ‘Banyan’ trees. 🙂
There used to be a time when one had to fly thousands of miles across the seas to get a taste of pure refreshing coconut water. Just the thought was enough kindle a picture of tall swaying coconut palms along virgin tropical beaches.
But no more! They are available right here in my grocery store — and flavored ones too! Cafe Latte anyone?
Marketed as ‘Mother Nature’s Sports Drink’ and endorsed by leading athletes and celebrities, this product has taken off!
It has fewer calories, less sodium and more potassium than the leading sports drink. All you need to do is like the taste which isn’t hard to do. It is slightly sweet and nutty in flavor.
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The Evolution of Lottery Online
The first recorded lotteries date back to Ancient China, sometime between 205 BC and 187 BC. Lotteries played by the Han Dynasty helped fund the Great Wall of China and other government projects. Later, the Roman Empire also saw the emergence of lotteries as a form of entertainment at dinner parties. In 117 BC, Emperor Augustus organized the first commercial lottery, with the proceeds going toward repairing the city. In the same way, today’s lottery draws are based on third-party lottery number generators.
In the US, most states offer an online lottery website with the basic utility of seeing the latest draw results and finding contact information. Recently, a small number of online lotteries have extended their services by offering Instant Games – casino-style games that allow players to wager. These Instant Games can be played on desktop and mobile devices. Nevertheless, players must be physically located in the same state to participate in online lottery games. A few states have even banned online lottery distribution.
In the UK, legalized online gaming has not spread to online lotteries, and online lotteries are not yet available in every state. The legal landscape, however, favors the expansion of lottery sales. Today, six states have legalized online lotteries, with several more considering the idea. Despite its lack of legal regulation, online lotteries are already outpacing online casinos. It is therefore possible for a state to benefit from online lottery games by regulating the gambling activity in its territory.
However, a few cons of lottery apps may make it less desirable for players. One of them is the fact that the lottery apps must be downloaded, and then update themselves periodically. Moreover, these updates might annoy the user, as they take up valuable space on their devices. Another drawback of lottery apps is that you can’t use them from your desktop. Hence, if you want to play online, you should look for a lottery betting site that does not have this problem.
During the Middle Ages, governments used lotteries to improve fortifications and prepare for wars. In the United States, for example, George Washington organised many lotteries. These tickets became collector’s items, and were sold for up to $15,000 each! In modern times, governments realize the benefits of lotteries, and most countries have monopolies on the market for lottery tickets. This prevents private businesses from competing with the state.
Online lottery purchasing is legal when done through an authorized vendor. In case of online lottery purchases, official lottery sites are the safest and most secure. You can buy lottery tickets and check your results directly from their sites or through mobile apps. However, make sure to check the results and collect your prizes from a legitimate vendor. This will save you time, energy, and money. You should also consider the safety and security of your money when playing the lottery online.
In the United States, lottery apps are available through the app stores. These apps allow you to play the lottery games of many states and countries. These lottery apps are very convenient and easy to use, so it is best to download a lottery app to play your favorite lottery games on your mobile device. You can also check the results of your selected lottery games using the apps on different countries. The lottery apps are easy to use and are very safe. They are also available for all major lottery systems. | <urn:uuid:cc0571a6-2025-4748-9e16-676bb33cc5dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chapter509tu.org/the-evolution-of-lottery-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963643 | 694 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Two weeks ago, outside a small cafe on Macquarie Street just up from NSW Parliament House, a couple of very well known Australians were engaged in an animated morning discussion.
Gai and Robbie Waterhouse sat across the table from Nick Santucci, a senior policy adviser in Deputy Premier Troy Grant's office.
It was apparent this was not a social catch-up; there were furrowed brows all round. Grant has responsibility for thoroughbred racing in NSW. So what was it all about?
When Fairfax Media asked Grant's office, this was the response: "Policy advisers meet with a variety of stakeholders relating to their portfolio areas."
Not very helpful at all. And, because it was a meeting with an adviser, not a minister, there is no requirement for it to be publicly disclosed. So we will probably never know.
The point is that there are many ways to get access to government other than seeing a minister.
But which avenues are actually available often boils down to who you are – and whether or not the government actually wants to engage.
This week's revelations about the lobbying that has been taking place over the issue of ethics classes in NSW government schools is a good example of how it can work.
Last year religious groups close to the Christian Democratic Party MP Fred Nile began agitating about a fall in enrolments for special religious education classes, also known as scripture, for the 2015 school year.
They blamed a change to the school enrolment form which allowed parents to opt out of scripture and also sign up to ethics classes as an alternative.
Documents obtained under access to government information laws by Primary Ethics – the sole provider of ethics classes in NSW schools – revealed the religious groups put forward a preferred change to the form.
It took almost no time for the change, in principle, to be agreed to – despite the fact that it removed any reference to ethics classes, which effectively hid their availability from new parents.
It also removed a parent's ability to "opt out" of scripture.
Instead, parents would be asked for their child's religion. This would have the effect of automatically enrolling the child in a scripture class.
It didn't take long for the Premier's office to take an interest. A policy adviser, Tom Payten, began urging the department to implement the change before last year's election.
Contrast this willingness to engage with the treatment doled out by Education Minister Adrian Piccoli to the chairman of Primary Ethics, Bruce Hogan.
Hogan is not just any old bloke. He's the former chairman of Snowy Hydro Ltd. His former directorships include Coles Myer, Metcash, GIO, Energy Australia. He was chair of NSW Treasury Corporation.
Yet despite repeated requests, Hogan could not get a meeting with Piccoli or even his senior staff. Instead he was directed to a departmental official.
Why? Because he had a point of view that didn't sit well with Nile – holder of the balance of power in the upper house. In 2011 said ethics classes taught secular humanism, "the philosophy that we saw during World War II with the Nazis and with the Communists".
So who was behind the push to change the enrolment form? If you ask Nile it was all Baird's initiative.
Indeed, Baird told Parliament he was "a supporter of special religious education in public schools. It has been in place for a long time and I have asked for the status quo".
Baird's office has argued that the "status quo" is aligning with a key recommendation of a 2012 upper house inquiry chaired by Nile.
It said parents should only be given information about ethics once they opt out of scripture.
But Hogan and other argue that's in fact what the current form does. Their argument is cogent, detailed and convincing. They also argue the proposed change would be contrary to the education act.
But Baird and Piccoli wouldn't know about that. They have apparently decided Hogan and his colleagues – bearers of apparently politically inconvenient truth – do not deserve equal access to government.
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As a new kind of high-magnetostriction alloy, MnCoSi shows large magnetostriction during a metamagnetic transition. However, this alloy suffers from low strength, which is caused by the cracks generated from a martensitic transformation during cooling. In this paper, we will report that curing the mixture of MnCoSi-based powders and epoxy under a magnetic field is a promising method to enhance the strength and, meanwhile, maintain good magnetostrictive property. The MnCoSi-based powders used here have a low content of Ni, which can sharply reduce the critical field needed to drive the metamagnetic transition and tune the metamagnetic transition to be second-order. Profited from this improvement, -textured Mn1-xNixCoSi/epoxy composites with enhanced strength and reversible magnetostriction are produced under a magnetic field of 1 T. The obtained magnetostriction is comparable to that of famous Terfenol-D and Fe-Ga alloys. Besides, the factors that can influence the texture and magnetostriction are discussed here. | <urn:uuid:d81bdb00-3dec-4784-a054-4fdf6a14541e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/publicationse330514 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.933217 | 230 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Selling sentence example
I wasn't thinking of selling it.
While we kidded about selling Howie out for a million buck reward, the increased outside interest in our activities was a serious matter.
Without selling the farm, she had no money.
Yet he was arrested last week for selling drugs to kids like little Nicholas over there?
I actually considered selling the ranch.Advertisement
You can make all the fun you want about that stuff, but I'm still working on selling it.
Selling his Baltimore works, he built, in 1836, in partnership with his brother Thomas, a rolling mill in New York; in 1845 he removed it to Trenton, New Jersey, where iron structural beams were first made in 1854 and the Bessemer process first tried in America in 1856; and at Philippsburg, New Jersey, he built the largest blast furnace in the country at that time.
The owner is selling it because he bought a truck.
What if you get a new job someday and stop selling drugs?
He.d thought he crossed the only line that mattered by selling out the Immortals but found there was another he wasn.t ready for.Advertisement
This Gruber fellow tossed me out of the house like a Fuller Brush Jehovah Witness selling life insurance.
His powers of organization were strongly exhibited in the Pastors' College, the Orphanage (at Stockwell), the Tabernacle Almshouses, the Colportage Association for selling religious books, and the gratuitous book fund which grew up under his care.
In selling my goods, is it enough not to disguise their shortcomings, or ought I candidly to admit them?
It was a singular experience that long acquaintance which I cultivated with beans, what with planting, and hoeing, and harvesting, and threshing, and picking over and selling them--the last was the hardest of all--I might add eating, for I did taste.
Closest relative was a sister who finally got around to selling the property in '55.Advertisement
Cynthia had volunteered a couple of hours selling tickets for the Ouray Chamber's Jeep raffle.
Look and see who's selling the other ones—the other Lucky Strike tins!
That there was a better chance of her selling art if she painted something no one else on earth could imagine?
Look, if it said they were moving to the south, I'd know they were selling their winter stuff.
My own flesh and blood, selling herself to half-drunk miners for a few gold coins.Advertisement
Worse—she's selling it to someone she knows is scum!
She made her living selling her art and guest lecturing at colleges.
I thought about selling him, but sometimes he's the only one I have to talk to.
It had nothing to do with Charlie illicitly selling PMF weapons overseas.
Except for buying and selling a couple of vehicles and getting here he's had nothing to do but train.Advertisement
How can he establish authenticity selling health products while he's smoking those things?
I can't bear the thought of selling it, and I can't afford to park it, buy another one and pay insurance on both.
The crime was selling a zillion newspapers as the bloodthirsty public read with glee details of the gruesome treasure hunt that continued throughout the week.
These two greatly alleviates the selling pressure on the USD since much of the trade deficit goes into " dollar strong hands " .
During the seventeenth century, astrological almanacs were some of the biggest selling books available.Advertisement
For example, is it a public relations tool, an information clearinghouse, or a direct channel for selling products?
Since it debuted selling books in 1995, Amazon has expanded to sell all kinds of products.
It doesn't matter that the person selling pencils doesn't know how the pencil is made; he only needs to know how to sell them.
We would then work feverishly on them for months before selling them for slightly less than we had paid.
At one time the count thought of giving her the Ryazan estate or of selling a forest, at another time of borrowing money on a note of hand.Advertisement
Natasha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately and heard suggestions of selling the fine ancestral Rostov house and estate near Moscow.
Hundreds of peasants, among them the Bogucharovo folk, suddenly began selling their cattle and moving in whole families toward the southeast.
Within four years he had paid off all his remaining debts without selling any of his wife's property, and having received a small inheritance on the death of a cousin he paid his debt to Pierre as well.
Whitstable 's wartime shop keepers were fantastic and helped many townsfolk through such periods selling goods 'on tic '.
He can't bear to pass up an antique bargain—buying or selling.Advertisement
That's no better than selling her child!
Especially if he buys the garbage Shipton is selling.
The death penalty was freely awarded for theft and other crimes regarded as coming under that head; for theft involving entrance of palace or temple treasury, for illegal purchase from minor or slave, for selling stolen goods or receiving the same, for common theft in the open (in default of multiple restoration) or receiving the same, for false claim to goods, for kidnapping, for assisting or harbouring fugitive slaves, for detaining or appropriating same, for brigandage, for fraudulent sale of drink, for disorderly conduct of tavern, for delegation of personal service, for misappropriating the levy, for oppression of feudal holders, for causing death of a householder by bad building.
The manufacturer had, therefore, a strong inducement to enhance by every means in his power the selling value of his glass after it had escaped the exciseman's clutches.
More freedom of trade was allowed at all times in the selling of wares by wholesale, and also in retail dealings during the time of markets and fairs.Advertisement
At Merry Mount, in that part of Braintree which is now Quincy, a settlement was established by Thomas Morton in 1625, but the gay life of the settlers and their selling rum and firearms to the Indians greatly offended the Pilgrims of Plymouth, who in 1627 arrested Morton; soon afterward Governor John Endecott of Massachusetts Bay visited Merry Mount, rebuked the inhabitants and cut down their Maypole.
On the contrary, so great was his respect for both that, when there was a question of selling the Medici library to pay that family's debts, he saved the collection at the expense of the convent purse.
Miserably poor, they subsist for the most part by selling firewood or other products of their jungle; but a few of them have patches of cultivated land, and many earn wages as day labourers to the Hindus.
In practice the selling of a seat in the town councils, or cabildos, did not have the bad consequences which might have appeared inevitable.
The inconsistency of selling funeral requisites in the temple of Libitina, seeing that she is identified with Venus, is explained by him as indicating that one and the same goddess presides over birth and death; or the association of such things with the goddess of love and pleasure is intended to show that death is not a calamity, but rather a consummation to be desired.Advertisement
These boards were now given the monopoly of the right to import certain wares (sometimes private buyers were allowed to purchase, but only on condition of selling the goods imported to the board); they were also entrusted with the reception of the instalments of raw materials already mentioned as released from bond in Germany.
Early in 1825 the government was victorious; Kolokotrones was in prison; and Odysseus, the hero of so many exploits and so many crimes, who had ended by turning traitor and selling his services to the Turks, had been captured, imprisoned in the Acropolis, and finally assassinated by his former lieutenant Gouras (July 16, 1824).
In August 1346, he prudently rid himself of the distant and useless province of Esthonia by selling it very advantageously to the Livonian Order.
Obliged, for fear of the Tatars, to go about with arms in their hands, these settlers gradually grew strong enough to raid their raiders, selling the booty thus acquired to the merchants of Muscovy and Poland.
In 1791 a revival began at Bala; and this, strange to say, a few months after the Bala Association had been ruffled by the proceedings which led to the expulsion of Peter Williams from the Connexion, in order to prevent him from selling John Canne's Bible among the Methodists, because of some Sabellian marginal notes.
There are three things which distress me very much - war, selling people, and drink.
The custom of the Boers has always been to cause people to be sold, and to-day they are still selling people."
The British admiral was accused of applying himself so entirely to seizing and selling his booty that he would not allow his second in command, Sir Samuel Hood, who had recently joined him, to take proper measures to impede the arrival of French forces known to be on their way to Martinique.
Though in favour of selling a portion of these lands to provide a fund for the existing needs of the Church, he secured the defeat of the proposal then before the government to dispose of the Clergy Reserves to the Canada Company.
Buying, selling or offering to buy or sell a vote has for penalty disfranchisement, and since 1891 the Australian ballot system has been used.
For three years, it is true, the founders of the "Free Press" went on printing, "not only without selling a single copy, but scarcely being able to get a single copy introduced into Russia"; so that when at last a bookseller bought ten shillings' worth of Baptized Property, the half-sovereign was set aside by the surprised editors in a special place of honour.
In selling yarn for export it is usual to allow the buyer only 11% for payment in 14 days, or in some cases the discount is at the rate of 5% per annum for 3 months, which is equivalent to 14%.
Smyth's record of this great family shows that, from the middle of the r3th century onwards, the lords were not only statesmen and warriors, but still more distinguished as gentlemen-farmers on a great scale, even selling fruit from the castle gardens, while their ladies would go round on tours of inspection from dairy to dairy.
In 1888 the Alliance Aluminium Co., organized to work certain patents for winning the metal from cryolite by means of sodium, erected plant in London, Hebburn and Wallsend, and by 1889 were selling the metal at 11s.
The opportunities for cheating in the fur trade are very considerable, and most serious frauds have been perpetrated in the selling of sables that have been coloured or "topped"; that is, just the tips of the hairs stained dark to represent more expensive skins.
The buying and selling was at that period conducted by young children.
As early as the second half of the 17th century the Dutch East India Company began the practice of selling portions of the land to private persons, and of granting other portions as the reward of good services.
Personal tithes, if not commuted or otherwise still payable, are regulated by a statute of Edward VI., which (except in the case of fishing and tithes for houses in cities and towns, which may be due by custom) restricted them to such persons exercising merchandises, bargaining and selling clothing, handicraft or other art or faculty in such places as had for forty years previously so used to do.
The reason is the enormous proportion of the retail selling price which is exacted by the government by way of duty.
He later introduced a bill regarding slavery in the District of Columbia, which (in accordance with his statement of 1837) was to be submitted to the vote of the District for approval, and which provided for compensated emancipation, forbade the bringing of slaves into the District of Columbia, except by government officials from slave states, and the selling of slaves away from the District, and arranged for the emancipation after a period of apprenticeship of all slave children born after the 1st of January 1850.
The efforts of the administration to better the condition of the natives without undue interference with customary law met with encouraging results, and the submission of the Aros to the government in 1902 brought to an end the system of tribal warfare for the purpose of making slaves, while the enforcement of a proclamation of 1901 prohibiting the buying, pawning or selling of slaves had a salutary effect.
Trade and Money.There is little evidence to show how buying and selling were carried on in ancient Egypt.
The selling value of land has shown a decrease in modern times on account of the agricultural depression.
It fell to the ground for want of adequate support; but another proposition, the fruit of secret discussion between the king and his confederates, which placed all fiefs under the control of the crown as regards taxation, and p rovided for selling and letting them to the highest bidder, was accepted by the Estate of burgesses.
He opposed Grant's Santo Domingo policy - after Fessenden's death Schurz was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, - his Southern policy, and the government's selling arms and making cartridges for the French army in the Franco-Prussian War.
In a petition presented to the privy council in 1684, complaining of the severe treatment of Scotsmen selling linen in England, it was stated that 12,000 persons were engaged in the manufacture.
Had they been the selfish misers they are sometimes painted, they could have realized a fortune by selling its contents.
The practice of offering, selling and buying Indulgences (see Indulgence) was everywhere common in the beginning of the 16th century.
Buying and selling in their aspects most characteristic of India are to be seen, not at these great towns, nor even at the weekly markets, but at the fairs which are held periodically at certain spots in most districts.
Meanwhile the council at Calcutta had twice found the opportunity they desired of selling the government of Bengal to a new nawab.
In the case of the annexation of the territories of the Transvaal republic and Orange Free State, a rather complicated situation arose out of the facts, on the one hand, that the ceding states closed their own existence and left no recourse to third parties against the previous ruling authority, and, on the other, that, having no means owing to the de facto British occupation, of raising money by taxation, the dispossessed governments raised money by selling certain securities, more especially a large holding of shares in the South African Railway Company, to neutral purchasers.
Penal codes depended rather upon shorter and more cruel methods; the scaffold was in constant use, with all manner of physical pain, torture before and after sentence, shameful exposure, hideous mutilation, exile, selling into bondage as slaves.
Khalid lived on a very rich scale and was extraordinarily liberal, and he was charged with having carried out all his improvements for his own interests, and upbraided for selling the corn of his estates only when the prices were high.
Crescent (1848-1849); afterwards he passed his time carpentering, building and selling small houses in Brooklyn (1851-1854) in the meanwhile writing for the magazines and reviews and turning out several novels, and finally revolving in his mind the scheme of his Leaves of Grass.
At the beginning of the 14th century Sir Alexander Percy claimed the hereditary right of buying and selling in Whitby without payment of toll.
In his treatment of slaves he was exacting, but not harsh, and was averse to selling them save in case of necessity.
The city is a jobbing centre and wholesale market for a considerable area in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, and is probably the largest loose-leaf tobacco market in the country, selling about 40,000,000 lb annually.
There are also special corporation taxes on car companies, express companies and foreign corporations producing, refining or selling petroleum or coal oil; and a system of licence-charges or business taxes.
The selling price is to be Rs.
As a matter of fact they were at the head of a combination for selling Menshikov's corn in preference to the corn of the Russian government and the bulk of the proceeds went into Menshikov's pockets.
So entirely was slavery a habit of the people, that as late as 1905, after the slave-trade had been abolished for three years, it was found that, in consequence of a famine which rendered food difficult to obtain, a whole tribe (the Tangali) were selling themselves as slaves to their neighbours.
But he soon began to abuse his p ower by selling public offices to the highest bidders, or conferring them on his followers.
For the most part this is founded on Dutch models, and testifies in a high degree to the king's progressive aims. Provision was made for the better education of the lower, and the restriction of the political influence of the higher clergy; there were stern prohibitions against wreckers and "the evil and unchristian practice of selling peasants as if they were brute beasts"; the old trade gilds were retained, but the rules of admittance thereto made easier, and trade combinations of the richer burghers, to the detriment of the smaller tradesmen, were sternly forbidden.
Under these acts their management is entrusted to the commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, who have certain statutory powers as to leasing, selling, exchanging, &c.
On a conviction of selling or exposing for sale, or having in his possession or on his premises unsound meat, the court may also revoke the licence.
In 1207 Maurice Paganel constituted the inhabitants of Leeds free burgesses, granting them the same liberties as Robert de Lacy had granted to Pontefract, including the right of selling burgher land to whom they pleased except to religious houses, and freedom from toll.
A husband owning a homestead is debarred from selling or mortgaging it without the joinder of his wife, and if the husband dies leaving a widow or minor children the homestead passes to either or to both jointly, and may be so held until the youngest child is twenty-one years of age or until the marriage or death of the widow.
But Ezra Cornell himself paid many salaries during early years, and provided much valuable equipment solely at his own expense; and because the state's land scrip was selling too low to secure an adequate endowment for the University, in 1866 he bought the land scrip yet unsold ' Ezra Cornell (2807-2874) was born in Westchester county, New York, on the i ith of January 1807.
There was hardly any selling and little letting of land in ancient times.
By De Donis the tenant for life was prevented from selling his estate, which could only pass to his lawful heir; if he had none, it fell back to his feudal superior.
When thousands after thousands are dragooned out of their country for the sake of their religion, or sent to row in the galleys for selling salt against law, - when the liberty of every individual is at the mercy of every prostitute, pimp or parasite that has access to power or any of its basest substitutes, - my mind, I own, is not at once prepared to be satisfied with gentle palliatives for such disorders" (Francis to Burke, November 3, 1790).
If he inquired, and there was no such negotiation, his question might be interpreted in a very troublesome way; moreover, we should put the idea of selling the shares into the khedive's head, which would be unfortunate.
Quotations arrive hourly in the selling season, and the superintendent keeps in close touch with his agents in the wheat-pits marketing.
Mercury became the god, not only of the mercatores and of the grain trade, but of buying and selling in general; and it appears that, at least in the streets where shops were common, little chapels and images of the god were erected.
Amulets are worn to ensure success in buying, selling, hunting, fishing and in war, as well as for protection against evil.
His name was, however, unknown to the general public till he was arrested on the 15th of October 1894 on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany, condemned, publicly degraded (January 4, 1895), and transported (March Io) to the Ile du Diable, French Guiana.
By his preaching at Bristol Wulfstan is said to have put an end to the kidnapping of English men and women and selling them as slaves.
They soon mixed in the domestic quarrels of neighbouring tribes, at first selling their protection, but afterwards as vassals, sometimes as allies, like the septs and tribes of the Goidel among themselves.
Grouped together on the council of affairs, they managed to control the policy of the common council, with its too mixed and too independent membership. They successfully strove to separate the grandeur and superexcellence of the king from the rest of the nation; to isolate the nobility amid the seductions of a court lavish in promises of favor and high office; and to win over the bourgeoisie by the buying and selling and afterwards by the hereditary transmission of offices.
Raymond Wellsted (Travels to the City of the Caliphs, p. 173, Lond., 1840) distinguishes two kinds of frankincense - " Meaty," selling at $4 per cwt., and an inferior article fetching 20% less.
A homestead of a head of a family to the value of $1000 is exempt from forced sale except for the collection of taxes, debts contracted for its purchase or in making improvements upon it, or fines for voting out of the election district, for carrying concealed weapons, or for giving away or selling intoxicating liquors on election days.
Two weeks was hardly long enough for the media to forget the arrest of a prominent doctor's son for selling drugs.
I'm not going to push Mom into selling the ranch she and Dad worked so hard to build.
He can't bear to pass up an antique bargain—buying or selling.
Look and see who's selling the other ones—the other Lucky Strike tins!
He began by selling some of his numerous mystery novels on a book finder's web site, then expanded to garage sale scouring for items of dubious value.
Worse—she's selling it to someone she knows is scum!
Maybe consumer apathy is the reason that, in my view, manufacturers feel they can get away with selling under-developed products.
The cars were not selling well, not a particularly auspicious start for a special edition.
He aims to make his product ubiquitous by selling it internationally.
He is selling a used vehicle that is five years old.
Although a commercial site, primarily aimed at selling its wares, this site offers some useful information about the history of drinking absinthe.
Short, catchy, top level domain names are selling for upwards of $ 5,000 on the domain aftermarket.
It shifted its mission from selling air conditioners to selling a certain level of comfort, however it was delivered.
She keeps a margin from selling airtime which makes up her profit.
Heaven knows who will take charge of the revenues that may accrue from selling off the old analog airwaves.
People are breeding and selling potentially dangerous species including anacondas and pythons.
Without his wife's hurricane Andrew in from selling startup evaluation of market.
This market, whose history can be traced back into the Middle Ages, is a huge antiques market, mainly selling English antiques.
I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Large warehouses selling an odd assortment of car parts and furniture line the main approach road.
Their debut album ITS NICE TO BE NICE is now selling well on its third pressing and has received national media attention.
She revealed all in her best selling autobiography, Ugly.
The Worlds best selling post - modern gang bang returns for round two.
Opposite the East gate was a covered bazaar selling things I really needed to take home.
He is the only commercial beekeeper in Derby, selling the by-products of his 40 colonies of two million bees directly to the public.
Another recently acquired customer is World Wheels, which specializes in selling Dahon folding bicycles.
They are also selling a second-hand gasoline blower - 4 HP (made by Briggs & Stratton) for £ 250.
Between the ages of 10 and 13, Martin stood outside the front gates wearing a straw boater and bow tie while selling guidebooks.
Oh yeah head shop selling bongs, pipes, scales, dutch cannabis seeds, lights hydroponics books and scales.
He's got a boring job selling boring job selling boring clothes to boring people.
A chic online lingerie boutique selling luxurious new brands.
For example, Charlotte opens a trendy boutique selling clothes aimed at the young adult.
Volunteers manned the stalls, selling bric-a-brac, books, toys, clothes and cakes.
Saturday, 28th July saw as on the ' Charity Stall ' at Walsall Market selling donated bric-a-brac.
Our longer term view is still bullish but in the short term, we could see some more selling first.
There is also a nursery selling plants propagated from plants on site including camellias bred by the late owner Miss Gillian Carlyon.
Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery.
There were many food vendors in the lot, including one selling cappuccino from the back of his van!
There's time to explore the town and browse the many craft shops selling ornate wood carvings and locally produced clothes.
I need to raise some cash, which means selling some things, probably on ebay.
I went to a baloon festival yesterday and the cpl had a stall there selling little bags filled with organic catnip.
I'll assume for now that you all have a unique selling point along with huge personal charisma!
He set about selling shares to those members of his workforce who had been his boyhood chums.
The world's best selling hand made premium cigars.
Selling Points Who wouldn't want a 3G clamshell for under £ 40?
Miami The celebrated streets of Ocean Drive and Washington Avenue are lined with fashionable boutiques selling one-off pieces, vintage clothing and cool accessories.
He then runs the popular trolley shop, selling confectionary and biscuits, before helping out with activities in the afternoons.
Group of congo tetra 11/05/05 Yes I'm selling a group of 10 congo tetra.
They also have a thriving on-line business selling a large range of funky cookie cutters, sprinkles, and cake cases.
Our online shop is now open selling high quality cookware.
I suspect no shopkeeper would take on the task of selling stuff without the old sucrose or high fructose corn syrup.
The literary world may not like it, but where the City is concerned selling books is no different to selling cornflakes.
I'm going to make this whole damn place look like you won it selling cosmetics.
A new European Directive seeks to enforce intellectual property rights with retailers facing jail for knowingly selling counterfeit or copied goods.
They had found Mr Frey selling counterfeit DVDs that included films that had only just gone on general release in the cinema.
Between 1984 and 1988 he also ran three successful businesses of his own, selling curios, fast food and clothes.
I really didn't want to use professional showbiz kids, because they're so cutesy and selling so hard.
It will simply discourage owners from selling, and the badly devised levy will make land still dearer.
Nonetheless, we are experiencing deflation in our selling prices of around 1% .
Planibel apartments were very handy for the main gondola, providing everything we needed, including a fantastic deli selling local Aosta Valley produce.
When combined with reinvested net dividends the average annual return has been 15.2% before any expenses of buying and selling.
Originally i was looking at an apple ipod official dock which was selling for £ 35!
So if you are selling diamond studded dog collars for example, ads promoting your listing might appear on dog related websites.
We then see young Clemenza is selling stolen dresses door-to-door for $ 5 a piece.
A born achiever, he started his sales career at age 10 selling rubber sponges door-to-door after school to earn pocket money.
Selling the business would be a rather drastic solution, would it not?
Officers visited over a thousand licensed premises during the two-week campaign issuing 47 warning letters to off licenses for selling alcohol to under-age drinkers.
They are unscrupulous salespeople earning fat commissions selling dud " investments " .
There has also been an increase in commissions earned from selling creditor insurance at point of sale on personal loans.
Instead, this Liverpool group were acclaimed as wildly eclectic, their 2004 debut album selling an astounding 600,000 copies.
By making the ephah small and the shekel great the crooked trader was selling less than he promised for more than he agreed.
Turn your covers into cash, or cash equivalents, by selling to Airmail Collector.
A man from Liverpool has been given a suspended jail sentence after selling fake Bristol University degree certificates.
We will be there selling lots of lovely CHAS logo goods great for stocking fillers plan ahead for Christmas!
The business of buying and selling recruitment agencies creates work for a variety of interested parties, including corporate financiers, lawyers and brokers.
Flexibility to adopt insurers selling fraudulent a network model.
Selling a simple garden glove to an avid gardener is not a taxing task.
Candidates should be comfortable moving past gatekeepers, speaking with decision makers and understand the process of selling over the phone.
In the long term, the gardens can be used for sustainable income generation by selling part of the harvest at local markets.
Always Porcelain Limited is a secure online shop selling top quality Royal Worcester porcelain and bone china giftware, figurines and tableware.
Anticipation for this homecoming gig was high, with tickets selling out in less than an hour.
He took us along the Grand Canal to the Rialto Bridge where I spotted a small shop selling beautiful glassware.
Upset some sad person by selling a perfectly legal golliwog and " You're nicked sunshine " .
I am selling two ball gowns 1. A long purple, backless, strapless satin gown with diamante detail - has a short train.
Does the industry feel guilt about selling harmful products?
By the age of 12, he was working in the family business, pushing a handcart around Hyde, selling ice cream.
Due to the loss of a steady source of income from the conflict, many women have turned to selling their traditional handicrafts.
During the day he donated his skills to a women's organization, selling native handicrafts.
Blue Trigger for sale hi, i am selling my Blue Trigger.
Word spread about the health benefits of the wild rose hips and Hansen began selling the powder to people all over Denmark.
It may suggest that Sheldons were no longer selling their cast iron holloware exclusively into the overseas market.
I met my sister, Charlotte, who was working as a Volunteer for the Cinema, tearing tickets and selling ice cream.
If the selling is successful, then the culture becomes an important image-maker in its own right.
They should also be completely impartial; never take the advice of an agent who is also selling you a property.
It seems an entirely inappropriate sideline for you to assist in the selling of weapons.
This could include items such as the estate agents fee if selling, stamp duty and other incidentals.
Martin Luther was nailed to the church door for selling papal indulgences.
Such processor designs are often called IP cores, because you you are actually selling intellectual property (IP) rather than anything tangible.
Employers must be able to thwart the sharing or selling of trade secrets and other matters of corporate intellectual property.
Live jazz takes place in the wine bar and there is also an extremely well-stocked shop, selling kitchenware and cookery books.
One of the UK's market leader in selling knitwear on country fairs and shows.
Like a form of pyramid selling it all sounds so laudable - at first.
We are experienced in selling all types of businesses, both large & small, leasehold & freehold.
Tip - Look to buy somewhere with over 85 years leasehold Legal This is the legal work required for buying and selling a property.
They are forced to migrate and often end up selling their bodies to earn a livelihood.
Which might not sound like a lot, but basically Serenity is selling bucket loads in the UK.
Richard Head longbows has over 20 years experience in making and selling English longbows and arrows.
Someone was selling quot Mafia quot taking aim at for her various.
Europe could on Wednesday come one step closer to selling a new genetically modified maize marketed by US company Monsanto.
Roses are the latest product to receive a fair trade makeover with Tesco's selling two bouquets sourced from farms in Kenya.
Who sells best, a linguist with no selling skills, or a sales manager who has acquired some foreign language?
It is based on the original manga by Ishikawa Masaru, with each of the four volumes selling for 2800 Yen apiece.
Other typical satellite industries include coal merchants, cattle marts and merchants selling agricultural foodstuff.
This field sales role will involve selling the companies dry waste and hazardous waste disposal services throughout a sales territory covering the west midlands.
Today there is a more pleasing deli, a few antique shops and a rather good milliner, selling some interesting ladies hats.
Ever mindful of the need to put on great shows we do nowadays have to be mindful of the need to put on great shows we do nowadays have to be mindful of selling tickets.
I started exhibiting and selling their exquisite miniatures in the UK, and sometimes invited Russian artists to come and demonstrate.
In the 1950s companies like Vespa in the UK started selling the first of their gas motor scooters.
The last two years has seen a dramatic increase in the number of shops selling magic mushrooms from only a handful to over 400.
Around 200 family farms, restaurants, butchers and abattoirs across Britain are now rearing, selling and serving mutton.
Narcissused some miniature narcissi, the first we had seen growing although we had noticed children selling them by the roadside.
I've traded as an authorized sales dealer, selling and delivering new (and reconditioned) Hoover washing machines.
During these years, he assisted in making the Daily Express the best selling national newspaper in the world.
You will also have the chance to meet best selling novelist Adele Parks, who will be joining us on the day.
The Courage Consort is the new novella from the acclaimed and best selling author of The Crimson Petal and The White.
Octagon Tank for sale 04/09/06 Yes I am selling my 40 gallon octagon Tank for sale 04/09/06 Yes I am selling my 40 gallon octagon shaped tank.
Police are also following up reports from the public of two other town center off-licences selling alcohol to under-age youths.
Sign up with eBay.co.uk and begin buying and selling bank items online.
That's where currency overlay managers have found their most valuable selling point.
A visiting journalist mentioned Tropical Wholefoods to women who were growing oyster mushrooms near the Rwandan border but having problems selling them fresh.
Shops warned about drug equipment bbc 13/5/05 Police are warning shopkeepers of the consequences of selling drug paraphernalia.
The road leading down to the Shore Temple was lined with stalls selling all types of tourist paraphernalia.
Other companies were selling this set for £ 899 or £ 820 which then did not include the parasol or base.
Every class striker needs, in marketing parlance, a Unique Selling Point.
A patent gives a patentee the right to stop others from making, using, selling or importing their invention.
Europe's Biggest Selling 3G phone Nokia said this week that the 3G 6650 phone will be Europe's biggest-selling 3G phone.
John Ross pianos was started over 25 years ago by John Ross, he started the business by selling acoustic pianos only.
John Ross pianos was started over 25 years ago by John Ross, he started the business by selling Acoustic pianos only.
Also on site is a coffee shop selling a wide range of delicious cakes, scones, quiches and savory pies.
He completed an extra year at Harvard, studying playwriting, but he never had any luck selling his plays in New York.
It will be a valuable selling point in attracting new members.
The most well-known ' free to advertize ' Internet property portal, relied for its profits upon selling its customer mailing list.
Peru's government are warning people against a fake medicine man who is selling a deadly cure-all herbal potion.
Not like selling washing powder where you can use direct sales figures.
One in four students (28 %) would also support on site facilities selling locally sourced produce.
The larger towns have traditional weekly markets with a variety of stalls, many selling local produce.
Multiple Streams of Income How to earn multiple streams of income from some of the top selling internet marketing affiliate programs.
Come up with a unique selling proposition that compels people to link to your site.
Selling to predominantly psychiatric Pediatricians, Child Psychiatrists and occasionally other specialist.
I ask of you, my dear readers, how much did the publican realize from the company that night by selling drink?
The first million selling record for this vocal quintet was a traditional song which originated from slaves in Georgia, Alabama.
You will be selling a full range of corrugated packaging solutions.
We will also redouble our efforts at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament to get the main export countries to stop selling landmines.
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In later life he worked a market stall in Blackpool selling jewelry (a far cry from the boxing ring ).
And the more installers selling roofline, the more the market grows.
Within the exhibition hall visitors will find a range of tradestands selling a variety of goods including saddlery, clothing and horse rugs.
Learning to enjoy selling your work doesn't mean becoming a sharp salesperson.
You will be an experienced medical salesperson, ideally selling devices, disposables or equipment to ITU or theaters.
To make meaningful European sales where the brand has barely scratched a selling surface.
Best selling novelist Thomas Harris has written the screenplay, based on his upcoming novel, Behind The Mask.
Personally if I found some low life scum selling drugs to my kids I would not stop at giving them a kicking.
Bits ' n ' Bikes - a UK-based service selling secondhand Honda parts, especially 400s.
Lose Weight Now was at number 8 in the UK's overall best selling self-help audio charts for 2003.
We're looking for an energetic self-starter who is proactive in driving revenue, increasing client base, and selling for Crosby.
Factors such as track record, client base, expertise, unique selling points and media appeal should all be taken into consideration.
Nice Little Runner, Selling 4 My Mate Lastly, some common sense is always a good thing.
The proceeds from selling the shares go to a wide range of UK charities.
By selling only shearlings, we endeavor to supply livestock which will achieve a long breeding life span.
Paterson Arran Scottish based company selling shortbread, oatcakes, chutneys and preserves.
Where do you think all the money from selling off the national silverware went?
By the 19th century, it was suggested that the lamb represented purity, obviously a good selling point for the local tin smelters.
Are they selling something or is it someone's personal soapbox?
Posting Coins to Us Selling gold sovereigns to us is very easy.
Their experience in selling fiber optic based spectrometers makes them ideally placed to promote the nkd in the Japanese market.
This is meaningless rhetoric, marketing spiel for selling ribbons, t-shirts and rubber wristbands.
His main area of work is the buying, selling and managing of agricultural and rural land and property including sporting and mineral interests.
It's well documented that Michael Yardy was selling sportswear at Gatwick Airport two years ago.
I can advise we are still selling Jerry springer the opera.
The markets create a Yuletide Paradise, with wonderfully decorated stalls selling all manner of festive fayre.
Dominican traders with makeshift market stalls try to scrape a living by selling goods on the border.
Selling prices of timber fire doors remained broadly steady with 57% seeing no change.
There's an art to selling stilettos and you'd better grasp it.
It also offers the added sweetener of plenty of face-to-face selling and the chance to join an excellent media company.
I'm finding it difficult to believe that tampax weren't selling enough tampons that they felt that they needed a new angle.
The Emperor is mainly selling the urine to cloth manufacturers and leather tanners to raise money for the treasury.
In 1817, the GLCC decided to process all its crude tar itself, instead of selling it.
Shops selling skiing tat, expensive bars, bare concrete architecture with wedges of frozen slush on each step.
My mother got him as a kitten of a hawker (gypsy or tinker) who was selling tea towels and other household goods.
Anyone selling a dose of heroin to a young girl like that for a mere tenner 's profit is surely beneath contempt?
Yet it misses the main selling point of the television series itself - namely, watching the thunderbirds themselves in action.
Loretta Smaller Crystal tiara - This is our best selling bridesmaids tiara.
Whitstable's wartime shop keepers were fantastic and helped many townsfolk through such periods selling goods 'on tic ' .
Marcus is a seller who trains not a trainer who teaches selling.
It could also raise funds by selling a further tranche of its remaining holding in Vivendi Environnement.
An Employe buyout involves owners of a company selling a majority of their stock to its employees through an ESOP structured corporate transaction.
We met riding round Paris at night selling herald tribunes hot off the midnight press to the expats.
Am selling the tank as I have a trigon 190, and could do with the space.
The people of Ephesus in Turkey became rich by selling silver trinkets to the pilgrims who visited the temple of the goddess Diana.
By the mid 1990s the flock had been built up and was regularly selling 50 tups a year, aimed at the commercial breeder.
The marginally younger Patrick Scott seems grossly undervalued by comparison, with work by him only occasionally selling above four figures.
With the advent of fall, there was fierce price competition among the stores selling fleece underwear.
On the other hand you find equally unscrupulous promoters selling germanium with only a few biologically useless micrograms in every dose.
One of our best selling jelly vibrators over a long period of time.
Study of samian ware found in the town, however, suggests the local potters had scant success selling their wares.
Why do I have adverts selling washing machines but also give free help to fix washing machines?
The process to master hypnotic selling is the same way you would eat a watermelon; one bite at a time.
Whelk stalls selling cooked whelk stalls selling cooked whelks used to be very common in the north of England.
Uncovered Sale Selling an option without possessing the wherewithal to meet the obligations implicit in that sale.
They will need strong willpower to resist selling tenants ' rights.
After an internal wrangle, it's selling its brewery site, ending 200 years of operations.
Dec 9th WARWAR MARKET a fair number of women selling yams, corn, cassava, and groundnuts.
They have 8 mares, selling the yearlings at Tattersalls annually.
Plus they are selling their own unique handmade zine.
On the voyage he became acquainted with a fur-trader, by whose advice he devoted himself to the same business, buying furs directly from the Indians, preparing them at first with his own hands for the market, and selling them in London and elsewhere at a great profit.
He visited London and Paris in 1771, selling lovephiltres, elixirs of youth, mixtures for making ugly women beautiful, alchemistic powders, &c., and deriving large profits from his trade.
The necessary money was to be found by the sale of all the public property in Italy which had been ordered to be sold by resolutions of the senate (in 81, or subsequently), but which the fear of unpopularity had deterred the consuls from selling; by the sale of lands, &c., in the provinces which had become public property since 88, and even of the domains acquired during the Mithradatic war.
He was often in pecuniary difficulties, from which at last he was obliged to free himself by selling the reversion of Langford rectory to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
For example, pyramid selling schemes are highly disapproved of.
A rapt audience heard O'Donnell expand on the themes explored in his recent best selling books on Emmet.
Unfortunately the prospect of selling virtual West Cornwall holidays lies firmly in the realm of science fiction.
Recourse variables would represent the liquidation (selling) of assets to meet liabilities.
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Regulation The regulation of the selling of the home reversion product has been the focus of much debate over the past year.
Retro irony works only if you are selling something new, not trying to revive what simply dated.
In later life he worked a market stall in Blackpool selling jewelry (a far cry from the boxing ring).
Snake oil salesmen have been selling all sorts of " cures " for many, many years, even up to the present.
Learning to enjoy selling your work does n't mean becoming a sharp salesperson.
The maximum fine for selling lottery tickets or scratch cards to any person underage is £ 5000.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ASKING QUESTIONS DURING THE TRANSLATION STAGE
Interviewer – If a translator is specialised in a given subject area, why will this professional raise queries?
MM – Queries are an essential part of the translation process. Asking questions is a sign that the translator is following the text and working to convey the message accurately. Translators will work with texts from many different authors and everybody expresses themselves differently. Sometimes, when a text is not clear it is essential to contact the author to clarify text meaning. Translation is about text interpretation and we must ensure such interpretation is correct. Sometimes that assurance can only come from raising questions with the author.
Interviewer – However, is the translator not meant to only translate the text as is? Surely, querying a text that was professionally written may upset the author or look unprofessional?
MM – In my experience, authors that speak more than one language understand the problems faced by translators. They know that language is not a straightforward science and that sometimes words have many different meanings in different contexts. This is why translators need to ask questions.
Interviewer – What sort of queries do you raise when translating?
MM – I do try to minimise the amount of queries sent to clients but all the queries I raise are intended to improve the original, making it clearer and therefore enabling me to provide a better translation. Queries can vary from meaning of very technical words not yet available in the target language market, to consistency issues. When a text reaches the translator it has been prepared and reviewed by different experts, however the translator is often the first reader to read it entirely and this reading may spot terminology or content inconsistencies. My queries aim at solving any such issues.
Interviewer – So would you say that your translation is better than the original you receive?
MM – No. My translation has to be as good as the original since it must reflect the original. However, my queries often help authors to improve their texts and then in that sense the translation will be better than it would be if there were no queries at all at translation stage.
Interviewer – On your website, you have an impressive feedback from clients. Does that mean clients don’t mind the queries?
MM – My clients appreciate my comments, be it on spelling, context or consistency. Some have worked with me for many years now and they trust my service. They know I will translate their texts as professionally as possible but will also raise issues when I think something could be improved in the original documents. If I receive a letter for translation with a misspelling on it, that slip is not relevant for translation. However, it is relevant to my client’s image as the original will also be used and read elsewhere, so that misspelling could have an impact, although not in the translation and not translation related.
Interviewer – From what you say, could I infer that sometimes raising queries is a value-added service rather than a sign of inexperience?
MM – Definitely. When I raise queries clients have the opportunity to clarify and improve their text. As queries are part of the translation service, clients will often end up with a better original and a translation that will help them making better business abroad. Better still, this query process is included in the translation rates so there is no added cost.
This interview was first published in Monica Machado Translation Services Quarterly Newsletter. This and other interviews with Mónica can be read here.
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core team • sponsors • catalogue & press • slide show
The Land is the Canvas
by Meredith Randall
From 22 – 29 May 2011, 13 artists were invited to Plettenberg Bay to take part in South Africa’s first international Land Art event, entitled Site_Specific. This artist-led project was conceived by Strijdom van der Merwe and Anni Snyman in an attempt to create more opportunity for Land Art in South Africa.
Land Art has always occupied a rather distinct space in the art world. Originating in the 1960s, it was considered to be on the fringes of the then radical Conceptual Art movement. Land Art is best categorised as a medium-defined art in the same vein as painting or photography. By its very nature, Land Art is typically created outside the gallery setting; it uses the land as its canvas, and anything from one’s hands to earth moving equipment as its tools. Creating art out of sticks, stones and dirt and leaving it outside, exposed to the elements, means that most projects can only be remembered. The works erode rapidly; this natural transformation frequently provides the conceptual underpinning of the work. Today we often know these ephemeral works only through photographs.
Working outside, directly into the land – and free of the gallery setting – allows artists to work on an epic scale. For example, an early icon of Land Art, Spiral Jetty, created by Robert Smithson was nearly a half a kilometre long. Visiting the art requires a physical journey often far away from urban settings. It is a destination in itself.
Land Art was in many respects intellectually fired by the counterculture movement of the 1960s, creating monuments in the expansive outdoors that could not be possessed and allowing for small, domestic photographs or other mementos of the site to be offered to the galleries, collectors and patrons. A few intrepid collectors have Land Art installed on their estates. As most iconic Land Art is spread across multiple continents, jet-setting enthusiasts must travel to see their favourite makers.
As with most definitions, there are always exceptions and often an artwork belongs in more than one category or defies labelling. Christo and Jean-Claude, who are well known for wrapping buildings or installations such as The Gates in New York’s Central Park, are often considered Land Artists although the artists themselves resist such classification.
Strijdom van der Merwe is probably the best known Land Artist based in South Africa. Motivated by the lack of Land Art related events in South Africa he and Johannesburg based artist Anni Snyman decided to create Site_Specific. The pair was soon joined by Heather Greig, Erica Lüttich and Margaret O’Connor to lead the organisation. They invited local and international artists who grasped the opportunity to be part of this project.
The invitees’ art typically included objects. In some instances they had already created individual pieces that could be considered Land Art. For each of the artists, coming to Plettenberg Bay took them outside their normal practice – they were forced to experiment. Each was rewarded by a distinctly interesting piece.
The landscape has its natural cycles: the sun rises and sets; the tides come in and go out; the rains come and go; living creatures grow and die. Some of the artists, such as Strijdom van der Merwe, Hannelie Coetzee, Gordon Froud, Anni Snyman, Angus Taylor and Andrew van der Merwe purposefully created artworks that could only be fully realized with the passage of time and in interaction with the natural cycles.
In agreement with the local municipality of Bitou, the artworks on public land were allowed to remain for two weeks: the week of the events surrounding Site_Specific and the following week. Within this limited time scale, artists created marvellous temporary installations.
Urs Twellmann from Switzerland came to explore the rich terrain of Bitou. Capable of producing tight, sharply defined strokes with a chain-saw, Twellmann created multiple vessels for temporary installation during the week of events.
Through a play of shadows and densely packed words, Marco Cianfanelli utilised his love of text to question how we read the landscape. Challenged by the invitation to explore the natural environs, Jan van der Merwe brought his installation art out of the confines of the gallery setting and let it face the outdoors for the first time.
Historically, Land Art has often been placed in big empty spaces; one can often imagine some miraculous force helped to create it. In a similar vein to fiction’s magical realism, standing near many of the artworks included in Site_Specific one could envision a world in which physical properties behave in a slightly different way. Joining the artists in Plettenberg Bay was the dynamic Italian based pair of Gabriele Meneguzzi and Vincenzo Sponga, that collaborated on Land Art projects since the early 1970s. They created a classic Land Art piece which, through humour, allowed the viewer to imagine that we hold the power to sew continents together.
Site specific art can also be its own distinct genre of art in which the location informs the creation of the art. When the art is outside, this designation can easily overlap with Land Art, as Site Specific Art describes geographically bound conceptual art and Land Art is a medium. Mark Wilby, who curated a series of Site Specific projects in the Karoo in the late 1990s and early 2000s was invited to participate in Site_Specific in Plettenberg Bay. He constructed an artwork that challenged the distinctions so often drawn between the various forms of art.
Land Art is inextricably bound to the landscape. Often environmental artists use Land Art to advance a cause. Carol Nathan Levin created two works, one independently and one in collaboration with Charles Levin. Each provoke the viewer to consider the vexed issue of how best to care for the world we inhabit. Charles Levin and Carol Nathan Levin collaborated to create a Site Specific sculpture in front of the contested desalination plant in Plettenberg Bay. Taking a JoJo rain water container as their material, they were able to create a dynamic twirling monument to the problems of solving water shortages.
In front of St Peter’s Anglican Church Erica Lüttich created a beautiful temporary memorial by wrapping 12 trees in red fabric to probe how we determine our sense of ‘belonging’. Lüttich also led the Hillbrow-based Boitumelo group to Plettenberg Bay. This community group created the “Veil of Hope” as an expression of self-empowerment.
Photographer, Elizabeth Olivier-Kahlau, was invited to Site_Specific to document the artwork. Because Land Art is often temporary and physically distant, it is shared through photographs. Photography’s role within Land Art is complex: sometimes it is considered an extension of the artwork, in other instances photography is a means of documenting what happens in a faraway location, often it is a combination of the two.
To best record the fifteen Land Art works on display at Site_Specific, Olivier-Kahlau often woke at dawn to utilize the morning’s soft light. In many instances, the artists collaborated with Olivier-Kahlau to further explore different aspects of their work. Marco Cianfanelli gathered passers-by to help move his logs into the waves to extend the concept that his driftwood hailed from another world. After the photo shoot was over, he returned the art further up the beach so it would not be washed out to sea.
A photograph freezes a moment. Olivier- Kahlau was able to capture Andrew van der Merwe’s remarkable capacity for mark-making with droplets of water. Her sensitive images capture the essence of the temporary installations that were created. At times, such as with Angus Taylor’s Los where she frames the sculpture against the backdrop of the homes of Plettenberg Bay and the sculpture’s reflection in the water, her photographs add another layer of meaning to the art. Olivier-Kahlau’s interpretation of the invited artists’ works is presented in this book.
Urs Twellman takes his own detailed photographs of his projects and offers them as “postcards”; he views this as an integral component of sharing his work. Twellman is very clear about differentiating his images of the work that he produces from those that are captured by other photographers. His expository visual statements are a continuation of his vision, while other photographers’ pictures are the beginning of a new vision, an alternative view of his work. Alternatively, Anni Snyman utilises some of the photographs that she took as the basis for a new artwork. To explore this often subtle differentiation, the artist’s website is included in each of the artists’ profiles.
During an interview on SABC, Hannelie Coetzee was questioned on what is the point of making art that so quickly disappears. The ephemeral nature of most of the pieces created for Site_Specific is a fair criticism. She replied: “When I have the opportunity to travel abroad and visit a famous gallery I see art that I might not ever see again. I leave with only a memory of what I experienced when I saw the work.”
There were so many parts of Site_Specific that were beautiful, poetic and heartrending. The memory of each proves the durability of the project in its entirety.
The purpose of the event was to open up the field of Land Art in South Africa and to artists based here. This book is to serve as a permanent document to record the outstanding creations of Site_Specific.
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Speakers: Jasper Gibson, author of The Octopus Man, and Jacqui Dillon.
About this event
An ISPS UK Webinar supported by Hearing the Voice, Durham University.
Fiction is at the heart of human culture. Now is a perfect moment to ask what we need from it, and our storytellers. – Nathan Filer, Asylum (winter 2020) p 11.
Jasper Gibson’s The Octopus Man is a novel about a man called Tom who hears the voice of the Octopus God, Malamock. It is a novel about surviving what gets called psychosis and surviving society’s response to it. It is a novel about sisters and friends, about psychiatric incarceration and medication, about tests of faith and lines of flight.
What challenges do writers and readers of fiction face when it comes to stories about madness?
Jacqui Dillon – activist, survivor and consultant on The Octopus Man – joins Jasper Gibson to discuss how this novel came into being and to explore some of the questions it poses around ethics and imagination, literary license and personal and political responsibilities.
Jacqui Dillon is an activist, writer and public speaker and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation and healing. Jacqui has co-edited 3 books has published numerous articles and papers and is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches. In 2017, Jacqui was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Psychology by the University of East London.
Jasper Gibson was born and bred in Parwich, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He now lives in East Sussex and is the author of one previous novel, A Bright Moon for Fools. Jasper has been writing professionally for over twenty years for magazines, TV, and online. He is the co-founder of thepoke.co.uk, and co-creator of the satirical chat show ‘Tonight… With Vladimir Putin’.
Their conversation will be introduced by Angela Woods, ISPS UK Trustee, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University and Co-Director of Hearing the Voice.
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The Newman Regional Library District is a tax-supported public library. This means that people residing within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Newman Regional Library District pay taxes to support the library.
Adults wishing to register for a borrower’s card, renew an expired borrower’s card, or replace a lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed borrower’s card at the Newman Regional Library District must bring with them two forms of identification, at least one of which bears their name and local address and at least one of which is a government issued photo ID. These forms of identification include (but are not limited to): driver’s license, utility bills, official mail, or voter’s registration card.
Upon initial registration patrons will be required to fill out a paper application for each individual in the household who will be obtaining a library card on that visit.
All children under the age of 18 must have a parent’s signature on their application form for a library card. The application must be completed with both the child and adult present in the library. Children under the age of 16 may use the proof of residency provided by their parent, or may choose to provide their own proof of residency.
Those people who live within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Newman Regional Library District need pay no additional fee to be eligible to receive their first library card that is good for 12 months. After that, library cards are renewed every three years without additional fees, provided the library card holder continues to reside within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Newman Regional Library District and is a patron in good standing.
Individuals residing beyond the jurisdictional boundaries of the Newman Regional Library District and not within the boundaries of another public library, and owning no property within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Newman Regional Library District, may purchase a non-resident fee card.
If the applicant owns a home, the fee will be $.0025 multiplied by the taxable value of the home property as shown on a recent tax bill. If the applicant does not have a recent tax bill, the librarian can call the county supervisor of assessments to get the latest information, if the applicant comes in while the assessors’ office is open. If the applicant rents a home, the fee will be 5% of the applicant’s monthly rent. The applicant must bring a recent receipt from the rent payment. This fee entitles the entire household to use the Newman Regional Library District and all other participating public libraries in Illinois.
If a non-resident’s principal residence is outside the service area, but he or she owns property within the service area of the library, no fee is charged for one card. Non-resident property owners must provide library officials with proof of property ownership, which would be a copy of a recent property tax statement. All non-resident cards, fee charged or no charge are for a 12-month period and renewable on the anniversary date.
Individuals presenting valid borrower’s cards issued by the Newman Regional Library District are eligible to borrow materials from the Newman Regional Library District when the following conditions are met:
No materials which are more than one circulation period are overdue on their card.
No outstanding replacement costs have accrued to their card.
No materials borrowed for them from another library are overdue in any amount.
The library staff may not waive these regulations without the specific permission of the librarian, however, the patron may request and receive a 24-hour hold on the item(s) he or she wishes to check out to allow the patron to correct the situation which has resulted in loss of eligibility to borrow.
Individuals presenting a valid card from another public library in Illinois may borrow materials from the Newman Regional Library District. The card must have the name of the individual presenting it, and an expiration date in the future. The card must be either a resident borrower’s card or a system borrower’s card to be valid for reciprocal borrowing and not have blocks set by patron’s home library.
Lost, Damaged, and Overdue Books
The Board of Library Trustees is invested with the specific power under the Public Library Act to provide, by ordinance, fines and penalties for injury to any book or other library material, or to any real or personal property belonging to or in the custody of the library, and for failure to return any book or other material or personal property belonging to or in the custody of the library and to exclude from the use of the library any person who willfully violates the rules prescribed by the Board. The purpose of this policy is to prevent, discourage, and prohibit the injury to any book or library material or property, real or personal, and the failure to return any book or library material or property to the library. Therefore, the policy of the Newman Regional Library is as follows:
Newman Regional Library District does not charge fines for overdue materials. However, patrons are expected to return items by the due date to ensure all library patrons have equal access to materials.
Materials are considered overdue if not received by the due date. Materials returned in the book drop when the library is not open are considered to have been returned on the last open day of the library.
A courtesy reminder will be sent each week the item is overdue.
Any item that is 28 days overdue will be considered “Lost” by the library system and the replacement cost for the item will be added to the patron’s card. The “Replacement Cost” is the price the library must pay to obtain another copy of the item. If the title is no longer available, the replacement cost is a figure based on the average price of such an item so that the library may obtain another title of a similar nature.
If materials marked “Lost” are returned undamaged, the Library will reverse all charges associated with that item.
If items are returned in damaged condition, but can be rebound, a bindery fee covering the cost of rebinding will be charged;
If items are returned in damaged condition that makes them unusable, a replacement cost will be charged for each item.
In addition to the foregoing, in the event that any person's failure to return any book or library material, in an undamaged condition, is determined to be willful, the Director of the Library shall report such violation to the State's Attorney for prosecution pursuant to the applicable terms of the Illinois Criminal Code and shall exclude such person from further use of the library or any privileges attendant thereto until full restitution to the library has been made. For purposes of this section, "willful" is to mean "without good cause."
All fines and penalties for the commission of injury upon the library, its grounds, or the property thereof shall be paid into the general fund of the library or the body enforcing this ordinance.
The “Circulation Period” of an item borrowed from a library is the time between loan and due date. If an item is renewable and is renewed on or prior to the due date, the circulation period is the time between renewal and the new due date. The circulation period is determined by the item’s owning library.
When patrons want material that is not available within the Newman Regional Library District, we ask other agencies to provide it. This is the process of interlibrary loan. Materials borrowed through interlibrary loan have a circulation period, which is determined by the lending library, not the Newman Regional Library District. We are happy to borrow materials from other libraries for you, but we ask that you respect the date by which those materials must be returned to their home libraries. When the Newman Regional Library District is lax in returning materials borrowed through interlibrary loan, the library can lose the privilege of borrowing materials in that way for any of its patrons. It is crucial, therefore, that materials borrowed through interlibrary loan be returned in a timely manner. Habitual failure to do so may result in individual loss of the privilege in order to preserve the privilege for other library patrons.
As a resident cardholder, the borrower identified on the valid borrower’s card may physically take his or her library card to another library to borrow materials. Those materials are the responsibility of the individual who borrows them, and are subject to all of the fines, rules, and regulations of the lending library. Often libraries limit the borrowing privileges of reciprocal borrowers, and it is best to understand local rules and procedures before making your selections.
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done”.
Our best school is not far away and accessible to all: it is nature.
It offers an exceptional pool of knowledge: "Nature is the only company that has never gone bankrupt in its billions of years of existence" explains Philippe Roch, former head of WWF Switzerland and the Federal Office for Environment.
Our future episodes will be the subject of reflections on subjects as varied and complex as the transport industry, solidarity entrepreneurship, but also the value for money, biomimicry of course, the spearhead of FinX, the blue economy, etc.
Great upheavals are followed by great changes
Rapid change is possible, provided that political will and citizen voluntarism are combined. With the pandemic that humanity is currently facing, we have found that we are able to adapt quickly, with humility. Because here we are, once again, faced with many challenges. Let us remember how difficult it was for the 16th century cardinals to accept the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun ... This major discovery led to considerable philosophical and religious upheavals!
Today, ecological awareness is growing more and more in all of us. The world that would be good to rethink has been shaped over the past 30 years, a period that some scientists call The Great Acceleration (the most recent period of the Anthropocene *), during which the impact of human activities on the planet (as well as the withdrawal of non-renewable natural resources), has increased dramatically. The invention of plastic packaging, only a few years old, is a notorious example. Another example is the ultra-polluting transport industry. The list is immense. However, everything we have done we can transform: humanity has reached a high level of science, intelligence and technical capacity to move in this direction. What are we missing? This ability to hear, absorb and accept the data and lessons transmitted by scientists: "It is a sad thing to think that nature speaks and that mankind does not listen", regretted Victor Hugo in 1870.
Indeed, the debt we see towards the climate is overwhelming, compared to the decisions endorsed in the Paris Agreement of 2015. July 29, 2019 was recorded as the day of the overstepping. The day when mankind had consumed all the resources the Earth could regenerate in a year. In France, March 5, 2020 was the day of the deregulation, during which we exhausted our CO2 quota for the year. In just over two months, France has emitted all the greenhouse gases tolerated in one year if it meets the carbon neutrality objective set for 2050. To achieve it, the global energy decrease must be noticeable from 2025 In France, we will have to divide our carbon footprint by six to reach less than 2 tonnes of CO2 per person per year. It will also be necessary to monitor the 2020 balance sheet of global CO2 emissions. “States have shown that they are able to react very quickly to a global crisis, by putting in place drastic measures; why are we not managing to mobilize so much on the issue of climate? "asks Sandrine Mathy, environmental economist at the Laboratory of Applied Economics in Grenoble.
Many economists agree that the next 30 years will be among the most life-changing mankind has ever experienced, in such a short period of time.
The first battle to be waged is no longer for the economy but for the ecology. A large family aboard the same boat, humanity must, in order not to capsize in these historically unprecedented times and in order to continue its fabulous journey, relearn how to feed the Earth with time and attention.
BaseX will enlighten on its point from 3 different angles which are all voices of reflection to prepare for this transition: the individual facing their climate responsibilities, the company facing its environmental commitments, the community facing generational issues.
Would the planetary invasion of Covid-19 not be an accelerator of consciousness for a humanity affected in its existential base? Doesn't humanity's state of health resonate with the suffering we have inflicted on planet Earth?
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today
that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, were recently
identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Pfc. Ernest V. Fuqua Jr., 21, of Detroit, will be buried Jan. 15, in Rochester Hills,
Mich. In late November 1950, units of the 35th Infantry Regiment and allied forces were
deployed in a defensive line advancing across the Ch’ongch’on River in North Korea, when
Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces enemy forces attacked their position. American units
sustained heavy losses as they withdrew south towards the town of Unsan. He was listed as killed
in action on Nov. 28, 1950.
Between 1991 and 1994, North Korea gave the United States 208 boxes of human remains
believed to contain the remains of 200-400 U.S. servicemen. North Korean documents, turned
over with some of the boxes, indicated that some of the remains were recovered from the area
where Fuqua was believed to have died in 1950, near the Ch’ongch’on River.
To identify the remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and
the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used circumstantial evidence, and forensic
identification tools such as dental comparisons, mitochondrial DNA which matched Fuqua’s
Today, more than 7,900 Americans remain unaccounted-for from the Korean War.
Identifications continue to be made from the remains that were returned to the United States,
using forensic and DNA technology.
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One of the roles of the Customs Department is the protection of the borders of our country. This includes protection from all goods or products that are deemed harmful to our nation. Harmful goods have traditionally been thought of as guns, ammunition and illicit drugs, but the category extends beyond that to include agricultural products which, if not properly monitored on importation, can result in the spread of disease and pests.
The Customs Department executes its role to protect our borders, by performing agency functions on behalf of other government departments and ministries. These departments and ministries are guided by laws, which dictate the necessity of using import permits or licenses for the importation of certain goods. If you attempt to bring these goods into the country without the required permits or licenses, Customs has the authority to confiscate them, as well as impose fines, as this represents a breach of Customs regulations.
Below is a list of some items that require permits/licenses and the agencies from which they can be obtained:
- Meat - Obtain a certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture, contact number- 927-1731
- Ground Provisions - Obtain a Phyto Sanitary Certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture, contact number- 927-1731
- Fruits & Vegetables - Obtain a Phyto Sanitary Certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture, contact number- 927-1731
- Drugs - Obtain a PSD Certificate from the Ministry of Health, contact number - 926-9220
- Firearms- Obtain a Permit/Licence to Import from the Police/ Commissioner of Customs/Trade Board 927-4421, 922-5140-8, 926-3130
- Used Tyres - Obtain a Certificate from the Bureau of Standards, contact number: 926-3140-6
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Electricians are skilled professionals who offer an essential service. They work with electrical systems to ensure that they are installed correctly and safely. When choosing an electrician, selecting someone qualified and experienced is critical.
Here are just a few of the most important factors to consider when choosing an electrician:
- Experience: It’s essential to find an electrician with plenty of experience. After all, electrical work can be very complex and dangerous. You don’t want to risk working with someone who isn’t up to the task. If you need an experience Electrician, click here.
- License: Make sure that you check whether the electrician is a licensed electrician to perform the work you need. This will help ensure that you get the best quality of work and that you’re able to hold the electrician accountable in case anything goes wrong.
- Insurance: This should be a no-brainer. You want an electrician who has plenty of insurance in place so he can compensate you for any damage if an accident were to happen on the job site.
- References: A good electrician will have plenty of references listed online or through his business card, and it’s essential to check these out before making a choice. You want to make sure that the person you choose is trustworthy and reliable and that he’s got references to back up these claims.
- Location: This is a significant factor you’ll need to consider. Are you just looking for someone local? Or are there electricians in other towns and cities you’d be willing to check out? You might have a job requiring exceptional electricians, such as one with experience working on boats or solar power.
- Make sure the wiring is up to code: Be sure that the job site is safe and up to code for electricity, especially if you’re working on an older building or home. Older houses and buildings typically contain old wiring that may be unsafe or even illegal, so make sure the electrician uses up-to-code wiring if this is the case.
- Trustworthy: This should be a no-brainer, but it’s also essential to find a person you can trust to complete the job you need to be done. You don’t want to go with someone who isn’t trustworthy, and you’ll want to make sure that the electrician you choose knows what he’s doing before he gets on your job site.
- Price: This is one of the most common things people wonder about when looking for an electrician. Of course, the job price will depend on many factors, including the work involved in completing it and any extra charges associated with it. Be sure to check out these figures before making a choice.
- Tools: Make sure the electrician has all the tools he needs to complete your job. Many electricians have their devices, but some will need to borrow from another tradesman, so be sure you know which one of these it is before making a choice. If you need, electrician in Costa Mesa, please call us right away.
- Cleanliness: When you hire an electrician, you want to make sure the work site will be safe and clean when he’s done with it. You don’t want to put yourself or your family at risk by having an electrician who isn’t careful about leaving his tools and other equipment behind on the job site.
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A total Lunar eclipse, also known as Purna Chanda Grahan ( चंद्र ग्रहण ), will be visible on January 31, 2018. The total eclipse will begin from IST 6:21pm to 7:37pm and the partial eclipse will start at 5:18pm to 8:41pm. Cycles of moon is known to impact body of a person, physically as well as mentally. It is highly advised by few people of religious faiths and science to follow some of the instructions that the person should follow. during the event On Wednesday, the lunar eclipse will be a combination. The shadow will approach from bottom right leaving the top part of Moon in sunlight.
The eclipse period is considered very good for chanting of the mantra which provides financial gains, education, power of conceiving. If a person is facing any health issues, the person should donate certain items like rice, sugar, jaggery etc. One must take bath after the eclipse is over. One should wash the clothes after the eclipse is over. One must worship God during the eclipse as it is considered very religious. One should be careful if any scare occurs during the eclipse, it will last for whole life.
Special care should be done for the pregnant ladies. They should not be allowed to do any work during the period of eclipse. One should not see the lunar eclipse directly as it is not considered good to see. One should avoid having intercourse during this time as it is considered very bad to conceive at this time. During the eclipse one should not eat anything. Even the medicine should be avoided at the time of eclipse. Pregnant ladies are not allowed to go out under the shadow of eclipse as it is considered harmful for the baby. Usage of any harmful thing such as knife, scissor is strictly prohibited for the women. One should avoid eating during the time of eclipse as it causes indigestion.
It is also said that during the lunar eclipse as the tides in the ocean rises, the blood pressure, pulse and the normal behavior of the person fluctuates. | <urn:uuid:2d6e6744-b2e8-4aba-88f8-8afcae5beaa3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newsfolo.com/lifestyle/dont-lunar-eclipse-details-check/137702/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971416 | 433 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Little Ways to Make a Difference
Being eco-friendly doesn’t need to be hard or even expensive. There are little things that we can all do around the house that can have a significant impact on the environment. It doesn’t need to happen overnight but every step counts in the journey towards preserving our planet. Here are 10 simple things that you can do around your home to make a difference:
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Looks and appearance
The domain of looks and appearance does not constitute one of the most important domains in the life of an adult, however, is the domain that affects mainly our mental health. Body image and perceptions about looks and appearance is a concept that is mainly influenced by sociocultural and other factors. The main component of the body image is the physical appearance. Stressful life, negative evaluation of physical appearance or dissatisfaction of the body image can result to other psychological factors like anxiety, depression, and decrease of confidence and self-image.
Furthermore, the researches concern mainly the older women’s body image and less of those of men. This means that this domain requires reflecting on age stereotypes and one’s own beauty standards, and maybe that is why women are affected more by this domain. The idea of getting older is associated with anxiety around ageing. In some cases, women may feel disconnected from their bodies as they feel “old” because of how they look.
Looks and appearance and actually body image related mainly with the age and what we want to represent to the outside world. The later life is a navigation in different sections and points, including retirement, changing family structures etc. These events can surely affect the lives of older adults, their mental wellbeing and can cause challenges to their routines. Do not forget that especially for women, age brings transitions in the form of menopause which of course can contribute to changes in body image (but it is varied among women with different cultural attitudes and backgrounds).
Last but not least, body image vary across people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The image of our body is a multi-dimensional construct and in different groups the ideals of body are opposed.
Key areas and categories of looks and appearance:
- Self-perception or body image: Body image is the subjective representation of physical appearance. Body image perception is the way we see and understand our body. Body image involves a lot of components and characteristics, such as weight, body satisfaction, body perception and esteem, body image etc. In more simple words, body image is both the mental picture you have of your body but also how you see yourself in a mirror.
It is important also to note here that the experience that has someone regarding his/her body image, either is positive or negative, can affect the behavior of a person. If an individual has a negative body image can easily exclude themselves from social events, or even physical intimacy. And here comes the connection of body image with self-esteem and perception. Self-esteem and self-perception is how an individual value and respect yourself as a person. This perception affects how someone is taking care of him/herself either emotionally and physically.
- Appearance (how I would like to look to others): The appearance of someone is more or less the same thing that the body image. Appearance is the act of appearing to someone. Personal appearance is a part of communication or presentation skills. People often make assumptions based on the personal appearance of an individual, including facial expressions, clothes, grooming and body image. In more simple words, physical appearance and characteristics are what you see with the naked eye. They encompass any way you can describe the physical traits of a person based on what you can visually observe. | <urn:uuid:b900bb92-8ea5-4951-8339-facedc917fed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://senquality.eu/looks-and-appearance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962593 | 666 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Connections may be initiated by the Client or by the Server when they create a TransportConnection and establish a communication with their peer. If the Client creates the TransportConnection, the first Message sent shall be a Hello which specifies the buffer sizes that the Client supports. The Server shall respond with an Acknowledge Message which completes the buffer negotiation. The negotiated buffer size shall be reported to the SecureChannel layer. The negotiated SendBufferSize specifies the size of the MessageChunks to use for Messages sent over the connection.
If the Server creates the TransportConnection the first Message shall be a ReverseHello sent to the Client. If the Client accepts the connection, it sends a Hello message back to the Server which starts the buffer negotiation described for the Client initiated connection.
The Hello/Acknowledge Messages may only be sent once. If they are received again the receiver shall report an error and close the TransportConnection. Applications accepting incoming connections shall close any TransportConnection after a period of time if it does not receive a Hello or ReverseHello Message. This period of time shall be configurable and have a default value which does not exceed two minutes.
The Client sends the OpenSecureChannel request once it receives the Acknowledge back from the Server. If the Server accepts the new channel, it shall associate the TransportConnection with the SecureChannelId. The Server uses this association to determine which TransportConnection to use when it has to send a response to the Client. The Client does the same when it receives the OpenSecureChannel response.
The sequence of Messages when establishing a Client initiated OPC UA Connection Protocol connection is shown in Figure 16.
Figure 16 – Client initiated OPC UA Connection Protocol connection
The sequence of Messages when establishing a Server initiated OPC UA Connection Protocol connection is shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17 – Server initiated OPC UA Connection Protocol connection
The Server application does not do any processing while the SecureChannel is negotiated; however, the Server application shall to provide the Stack with the list of trusted Certificates. The Stack shall provide notifications to the Server application whenever it receives an OpenSecureChannel request. These notifications shall include the OpenSecureChannel or Error response returned to the Client.
The Server needs to be configured and enabled by an administrator to connect to one or more Clients. For each Client, the administrator shall provide an ApplicationUri and an EndpointUrl for the Client. If the Client EndpointUrl is not known, the administrator may provide the EndpointUrl for a GDS (see OPC 10000-12) which knows about the Client. The Server should expect that it will take some time for a Client to respond to a ReverseHello. Once a Client closes a SecureChannel or if the socket is closed without establishing a SecureChannel the Server shall create a new socket and send a new ReverseHello message. When a SecureChannel is established, the Server shall immediately create a new socket and sends a new ReverseHello to ensure the Client is able to create another SecureChannel if it is needed. Administrators may limit the number of simultaneous sockets that a Server will create. | <urn:uuid:23b43e8a-8909-4bee-a06b-84a03bf29987> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reference.opcfoundation.org/v105/Core/docs/Part6/7.1.3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.846064 | 627 | 1.8125 | 2 |
A photographer marries the worlds above and below the water in a single frame
As the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Summit starts Nov. 1, NPR's Picture Show is taking a look at work by artists and visual journalists that highlight climate change.
The ocean surface is the thinnest of lines between two worlds—"molecular thin"— underwater photographer David Doubilet calls it. Below is what Jacques Cousteau called "the silent world," a realm as alien as outer space with galaxies of fish and kaleidoscopic corals as spectacular as the burst of a supernova. Above lies the world of human habitation with the clang and clatter of cars, factories, and fishing fleets, all of which imperil the world below.
Doubilet has married those realms in Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea (Phaidon) to be published on November 3. The images, relating those "two worlds," are a particular passion made over a trajectory of 50 years of underwater photography for National Geographic. We spoke with Doubilet by phone. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
A hat tip to Jacques Cousteau who inspired you: "Civilization vanished with one last bow," he wrote of moving from the cacophony of the world above to the silence below. But you also brought your own experience to the worlds of air and water at an early age. You were 8-years-old when you asked your parents for a mask and fins...
I had devised a daring plan to circumnavigate the jetty at the Ocean Beach Club on the Jersey shore. While I was out there, I was spotted by a screaming lifeguard. I sank until I could see, but not hear, him and discovered I could be in two worlds at one time. I could see him red-faced, blowing his whistle, and could look down at this world of green shafts of light and see tautogs admiring my new flippers. It was a world I wasn't just happy in, but comfortable in as well. It was all mine.
That was a first step on the road to what you call "the unalloyed joy of making images underwater." Talk about the role technology played in creating these over/under photographs.
They were made possible by the invention of an underwater camera housing called the OceanEye by National Geographic photographer Bates Littlehales. I began making these [above/below the sea] pictures on every assignment. I realized I could create a window into the sea, a way to invite people through a portal into a world just out of their sight.
One of your memorable half and half images was made in the Cayman Islands: stingrays below; clouds above.
Want to see the power of the photograph? When National Geographic ran the story, everyone went to the Caymans to see the stingrays. Now thousands of people a day get off cruise ships [before COVID, at least] to meet those gentle ocean ambassadors and go home thinking and talking about them.
With half a century of underwater photography and more than 77 stories under your weight belt, you've had an unprecedented opportunity to compare then with now. Let's consider the Great Barrier Reef. What changes have you witnessed?
We did a Great Barrier Reef story in 2001, then another in 2009. Reefs are the glory of the planet. They are the most vivid and visually diverse environment in the world. I always think of coral as weightless architecture if an architect didn't have to worry about gravity. One of the best examples was Opal Reef off Port Douglas [Australia] one of the places the snorkeling boats went to. It was dreamlike. When we went back in 2018 that section of reef was devastated. We made those 2009 pictures with the same crew, so we knew we were in exactly the same place — a 5,000-year-old reef dead in eight or nine years!
Climate change strikes again. Explain how that impacts reefs.
If you want to know what climate change looks like, look at a reef. Reefs are the thermometers of the world. When the water gets more than 89 degrees and does so repeatedly, the algae that lives inside and powers the coral—a kind of underwater photosynthesis—is expelled. The coral turns white, a process known as bleaching. The reef becomes a boneyard. But the ocean has resilience. Scientists like Peter Harrison in Australia are working on ways to reseed and reconstitute reefs.
So all is not lost?
There's always hope. We can change. We can improve things. As of January 2020, 80% of Palau's waters are protected— an island nation preserving their reefs for the next generation. In 2011, the Bahamas became a shark sanctuary, setting an example that a living animal is more valuable than a dead one.
Though you are most often associated with images made in tropical waters, the book includes some spectacular photos of icebergs.
I came late to the ice. An iceberg is a metaphor of the ocean. There's a little bit above which we can see and understand and the rest is out of sight. You are also talking climate change. As glaciers melt more and more icebergs are being produced.
You've called natural history photographers like yourself the frontline reporters of the world.
The greatest story on earth is the earth itself. It's all we have. There is no Plan B.
Cathy Newman is a former editor at large at National Geographic whose work has appeared in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Science. Follow her on twitter @wordcat12.
Zayrha Rodriguez photo edited and produced this piece. Follow her Instagram @zayrharodriguez.
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Russia sees its military coordination with Israel over Syria continuing, the Russian embassy said on Saturday, after Moscow signalled displeasure with Israeli statements about the Ukraine crisis.
Following the 2015 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel set up a “deconfliction mechanism” with the big power to prevent them clashing inadvertently during Israeli strikes against Iranian deployments and arms transfers in the neighbouring Arab state.
“Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work,” the Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement.
But while voicing support for Israel’s security needs, it also reiterated opposition to violations of Syrian sovereignty.
The Israeli military, asked about prospects for continued coordination with Russia over Syria, said only that its forces “will act when needed to counter threats, defend the people of Israel and our sovereignty”.
Israel, whose main ally is the United States, condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday as “a serious violation of international order” and has since remained largely muted on Moscow’s actions.
In response, Moscow - which calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” - summoned the Israeli ambassador for talks. Russia’s UN mission restated opposition to Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights. Israel captured the strategic plateau from Syria in a 1967 war and annexed it, a move that won US recognition in 2019.
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When making new friends, social media has also become a major part of the teenage identity-62 percent of teens are quick to nội dung their social media usernames when connecting with a new friend (although 80 percent still consider their phone number the best method of contact). Despite the negative consequences-21 percent of teenage users feel worse about their lives because of posts they see on social media — teens also have found support and connection through various platforms. In fact, 68 percent of teens received support during a challenging time in their lives via social truyền thông media platforms.
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This century has seen malaria deaths in Zambia drop steeply, through a historic effort to increase prevention, education and access to medical help. Zambia’s National Malaria Control Programme offers inspiration and hope.
In Zambia, malaria is accepted as a fact of life. The disease causes Zambians to miss work and school, further entrenching them in poverty and hunger.
The Government of Zambia and the US Government — through the US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) — has worked in districts, villages and remote communities to achieve historic reductions in malaria deaths and illness. The program has armed people with the tools to protect themselves from malaria and provided them with fast-acting medicines to cure malaria if they do become infected.
DORICA'S MALARIA JOURNEY
Losing a child to malaria is devastating. The pain is evident in the eyes of women and men who have lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, nieces and nephews, neighbors and friends.
Dorica Ncoma Zulu, a 43-year-old agro-business entrepreneur in Kafumbwe village, has a difficult time talking about her youngest daughter. Fourteen years ago, the girl died from cerebral malaria at less than two years old. Dorica watched her racked with shivers and fever, before succumbing to the disease.
These days, Dorica and her grandchildren sleep under insecticide-treated bednets and her home has been sprayed.
When both Dorica and her husband had malaria symptoms earlier this year, they were tested and treated right in the village. Her grandchildren have not suffered from malaria at all.
Today, my children and grandchildren are fine. There is no more sickness. My husband is in good health. We we are working and business is going well. All these put together is enough reason to sing and dance.
– Dorica Ncoma Zulu, entrepreneur and grandmother
ADRIAN BANDA: HEALTH WORKER
With a health system choked by a shortage of doctors, community health workers are essential in Zambia’s villages. As many villagers live far from health clinics and hospitals, these frontline health workers in their communities are often the first, and sometimes only, providers of health services like diagnosing and treating malaria.
Adrian Banda is one such community health worker, a position for which he receives no pay. He is also the headman of his village, Kalinde in eastern Zambia, and a farmer. As a community health worker, Adrian cares for about 1,500 people in 11 nearby villages. He is a vital link between his village and the rural health center, which is 5 miles away.
Adrian was 22 when he lost his father. He lost his mother to illness a short while later. “This is what motivated me to get involved and educated about health,” he said. “I was so proud to be chosen by my community as a health worker. Wherever I go, people praise me as a village doctor.”
Adrian attends to 15 to 20 people each day, most of whom present with fever. He’s been trained to administer a rapid finger-stick test to see if malaria parasites are present in the blood. When he started, community members didn’t know how to look for signs of malaria.
“Now, we are able to test and treat community members. We educate them on how to take the medicines, emphasizing on finishing the course,” he said.
My major role in fighting malaria has been educating the people on how they can prevent malaria by consistent use of mosquito nets and spraying of homes.
— Adrian Banda, community health worker
THE WORK TO ELIMINATE MALARIA IN ZAMBIA CONTINUES
A decade ago, malaria was almost certainly a death sentence for poor children in Africa. Now, many communities are creating a healthier, happier and more sustainable future by stopping malaria in its tracks.
But nearly 5 million malaria cases were reported in Zambia in 2015, so the work to eliminate the disease and to save lives must continue.
The National Malaria Control Program in Zambia – a partnership between Zambia’s Government, the US Government’s President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), USAID and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – will continue to play a major role in reducing malaria transmission. By distributing more mosquito bed nets, spraying more homes to eliminate mosquitoes, diagnosing and treating the disease, and administering preventative treatment for pregnant women — who are disproportionately at risk.
Zambia shows what progress can be achieved when malaria is tackled with concerted, appropriate action. Now is the time to renew our commitment to end it, everywhere.
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Apple created a monster. Every September, millions expect Tim Cook to change the world. Steve Jobs actually did a few times. But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase.
Fanfare is a poor substitute for sustainable results. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign.
Articles on product launches often lay out a start-to-finish strategy that applies tactics along a linear path to success. That rarely happens.
The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. This article details five unexpected lessons from real-world experiences to aid that preparation.
Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think.
(Wanna get better at product launches? Take the Product Marketing Certification Training program).
Lies, damned lies, and product launch statistics
As George Castellion and Steve Markham note, a common refrain is that 80% of product launches fail. The real number, they argue, is around 40%.
Why the discrepancy? Many who cite 80% include product ideas that never make it to market. Definitions of failure also vary. In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. (Only 3% of products “succeed” based on those terms.)
Perhaps the 80% figure endures because it rings true for marketers. There’s immense pressure to get a product launch right. But, ultimately, product launches are merely one event in one phase of the product lifecycle.
Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle
A successful product launch doesn’t require new marketing skills. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign.
However, the product launch often earns added scrutiny. It’s a transition point between the Introduction and Growth phases. The Introduction phase is rarely profitable, and product launches are expected to push products up a steep Growth curve—and into the black.
The process starts before your product exists, which brings us to the first of five unexpected lessons from real-world product launches.
1. You can market a product that doesn’t exist.
Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Successful product launches require similar collaboration between product and marketing teams.
Lucas Weber, who teaches CXL’s course on product marketing, emphasizes that product teams must first pitch the product internally to marketing and sales. Those teams can be persuasive only after they’re bought in.
You can argue, as Noah Kagan does, that activities during the pre-launch stage are the most important:
In case you haven’t noticed the pattern yet, most product launch failures don’t happen during the product launch, but BEFORE the product launch.
It’s much harder to rescue a failed launch than to prepare for its success. So how do you do it?
Write a pre-product press release to hone future messaging. This is a favored tactic of HubSpot and Amazon. “We write a mock press release before we launch a product,” writes Marcus Andrews, one of HubSpot’s product marketers. “The idea is that when you work backwards and start with the press release, it’s easier to put yourself in the customer’s shoes.”
Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process:
The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external) fail, and how the new product will blow away existing solutions.
If the benefits listed don’t sound very interesting or exciting to customers, then perhaps they’re not (and shouldn’t be built). Instead, the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Iterating on a press release is a lot less expensive than iterating on the product itself (and quicker!).
Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”
Vogels expands on the potential of pre-product documentation:
1. Write a Frequently Asked Questions document. Here’s where we add meat to the skeleton provided by the press release. It includes questions that came up when we wrote the press release. You would include questions that other folks asked when you shared the press release and you include questions that define what the product is good for. You put yourself in the shoes of someone using the product and consider all the questions you would have.
2. Define the customer experience. Describe in precise detail the customer experience for the different things a customer might do with the product. For products with a user interface, we would build
mock upsof each screen that the customer uses. For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. The goal here is to tell stories of how a customer is solving their problems using the product.
3. Write the User Manual. The user manual is what a customer will use to really find out about what the product is and how they will use it. The user manual typically has three sections, concepts, how-to, and reference, which between them tell the customer everything they need to know to use the product. For products with more than one kind of user, we write more than one user manual.
Among other benefits, that initial work helps create a succinct, powerful value proposition. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré, a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that
startups want to launch their products without at least trying to language-market fit. Their value proposition is vague, their supporting language is vague. Their ideal customers won’t know right away that their solution will solve their problem.
I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt. I go to their website, and their value proposition does not convey their product’s value. It’s generic, or vague, or not there at all.
There’s nothing that tells potential customers, at a glance, why they should be interested in the product or how it helps them solve their pain points.
Showcase behind-the-scenes work. Product launches often build expectations. Great product launches manage those expectations; failed ones let them run wild.
As screenwriting master coach Robert McKee explains, there’s a key difference between mystery and suspense:
- “In Mystery the audience knows less than the characters.”
- “In Suspense the audience and characters know the same information.”
Great product launches build suspense, not mystery. Suspense piques potential customers’ interest while also managing expectations.
Mahabis Slippers are a perfect example. Leading up to their product launch, they highlighted production images and videos of not-yet-available products on Instagram. The product teasers built but also limited expectations. A new product was coming, not a whole product line.
Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch. He notes that the behind-the-scenes content (of products and marketing collateral) connect the brand with consumers. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce.
That success contrasts with Pete McPherson’s experience. McPherson, who runs blogging courses, promised a course that “would challenge [participants] to take uncomfortable steps to ‘grow their blog.’” What were those steps? And would “growth” entail? There were dozens of possible interpretations and, as a result, a guarantee that some expectations would go unmet.
2. Product Hunt and Kickstarter darlings are pre-planned, not miraculous.
Brendan Sterne, who unearthed the above articles on Amazon’s process, notes that Amazon differs from the model advocated in Lean Startup, which “aims to put a concrete prototype in front of consumers to validate the product.”
The classic problem of not validating a product, David Skok explains, is that
Most products are built by engineers and product people, and they are often uncomfortable cold calling customers to get meetings for early feedback. The net result is that later, when they do start cold calling, they find out that what they are building doesn’t fit a need, or doesn’t have the right features to start selling immediately.
For a product launch, the need for validation extends beyond the product. It also includes the need to validate the product positioning and product launch campaign, too. Validation can take many forms—and doesn’t require full prototypes or expensive focus groups.
“You can conduct quick usability tests with internal experts and customers on prototyped marketing content: emails, landing pages, ads, etc.,” notes CXL’s Alexa Hubley, who has worked on several product launches. “It helps catch early positioning problems and draw connections between copy and desired actions.”
Validation, in turn, can pre-plan launch success, rather than leaving it to chance.
Test launch tiny products. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro, which sells brand management software. Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. He needed to test which were ideal for the pending launch.
His solution? Build and launch small, complementary products. The SaaS test balloons helped gauge the potential traction on social media and other channels. What earned likes and shares? What won upvotes?
They also got real experience pushing products out through platforms like Product Hunt. “You haven’t filled out a form until you’ve actually done it,” Woodhead noted.
Additionally, he explained:
When you launch a product on Product Hunt, you don’t automatically go on to the featured front page. We put [a test product] up, assuming that if it got votes, it would get to the top five and a lot of traffic, but you don’t automatically get that.
So we actually got in touch with them through an Intercom widget, asking a simple question of how do we get on the homepage. The response was, “Well, we look at each product individually and see what it’s like.”
If you really want to get on the front page, you have to build up a small relationship first. When we did our real launch a month or two later and put it on the site, we asked in the chat if they wanted to look at our launch, and then they put it on the front page.
Test products validated their concept. Promotion of those products validated their messaging. And they got hands-on experience of the process.
Securing pre-orders is another way to validate your product and ensure a strong start.
Seed your launch campaign with advance sales. KPOP Foods was the outgrowth of an MBA thesis. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter. But they also knew the value of generating pre-orders to validate their product and give it a lift at the time of launch.
“When we launched on Kickstarter,” Kim explained, “we hadn’t left much to chance.” To hit the $10,000 goal, they estimated an average order value of $25, then worked backward to calculate the number of pre-commitments they needed (400). They then “dialed for dollars” to secure 100 commitments beyond the estimated need.
Rather than hoping for a Kickstarter miracle, they ensured early success, which also boosted their visibility on Kickstarter. The initial 12,000 followers generated during that campaign have since grown to an email list of 20,000.
The experience parallels Hubley’s work on a product launch at Help Scout:
For a campaign to launch Help Scout’s new live chat tool, Beacon, we seeded the launch with teaser content and asked prospects to sign up to be the first to hear when it went live. As the list grew, it ended up being one of our best drivers of qualified sales leads because we could clearly see they had an interest in our product.
While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do.
3. Cheap acquisition is (too) cheap.
Aspirations for a “big” product launch are a casualty of Apple-like events. Growth does require large-scale acquisition, but a product launch may not be the best time to do it.
As KPOP Foods grew, Kim looked for ways to accelerate growth. The natural temptation was to expand that audience through paid campaigns on Google and Facebook during product launches. “We thought we could gather more emails or get more leads for cheap on social media,” Kim told me.
But cheap acquisition meant cheap leads. “That can be good for normal business activities,” Kim noted, “but I wouldn’t focus your effort on trying to get new customers to try a new product. It’s not efficient.”
Instead, KPOP Foods has focused on incremental growth of a loyal customer base. As Kim learned, segmentation can tailor marketing messages for small, loyal communities within a larger customer base.
For a given product launch, Kim explained, about one-quarter of his audience will account for 70–75% of launch sales. Segmentation allows Kim to market to likely buyers more aggressively while focusing on brand-based content for others:
A lot of businesses think “I don’t want to inundate customers with emails.” But if you’re providing value with humor, education, and segment your customers to see who wants a lot of emails and who doesn’t, it’s not an issue [. . .] Some people don’t like emails, some will respond to LinkedIn or Facebook.
Acquisition, in Kim’s experience, scales efficiently only if:
- You have the segmentation to keep pace.
- You don’t rely on new leads to buy a new product immediately.
One benefit of more people in the funnel: added feedback.
4. The need for feedback can guide a launch strategy.
When is a product ready for launch? The question returns to the paradox of validation: You can’t get real feedback until customers buy (or don’t buy) your product, but you can’t launch your product confidently until you’ve gotten enough feedback.
No matter how much feedback you have at launch, you can adjust your messaging and strategy quickly based on consumer responses.
Translate feedback into messaging. We wrote recently about using social media for market research. With product launches, encouraging users to share feedback can help validate or adjust early marketing messages.
Mahabis requests images from customers on social media, then “re-grams” them for the company’s Instagram account (while crediting the source). The effort builds brand connections but also aligns new product messaging with consumer use. As their marketing team explained to Macarthy:
In general our content is created in two ways, either planned based on our brand activity or ad-hoc and based on how people are engaging with us. This allows us to be both pro-active and reactive.
Adjust your go-to-market strategy based on feedback needs. When Pilcro first launched, they offered a free trial and a paid version. That initial go-to-market strategy helped answer the first burning question: Would people pay for the product?
The answer was “Yes,” but getting that answer limited their ability to answer other important questions:
- Which features are most important?
- Which aspects of the UX are confusing?
To answer those questions, Pilcro needed more users. Woodhead’s team rolled out a freemium model, which brought in a flood of new users to help them learn more about their product.
5. Big success can be terrible for your data (and maybe your product, too).
“Unless you have the most viral, sticky product ever,” Woodhead noted, “there’s a bit of ‘coming over the hill’ with analytics, and you hope for a soft landing. It’s difficult to identify launch noise versus value created.”
For data-driven marketers, that’s a challenge: Product launches are a big investment. The “noise” surrounding a product launch, however, can make it a blind one. What impact did major placements have on click-through rates? How representative are Product Hunt users who signed up for your SaaS trial?
Woodhead and his team, “try and hit a sweet spot of putting enough budget toward [the launch] that you can get statistically significant data, but not so much that you’re throwing money into something that you don’t know.”
For Pilcro, that’s meant trying to increase traffic “10 fold not 100 fold”:
If you go from zero to Product Hunt in one week, you can end up with a whole lot of noise without being able to see what’s going on underneath. Depending on the channel, delay until you’re ready for that channel.
We probably could’ve delayed Product Hunt. Exhaust the channels that are more repeatable, 5–10x. When you’re ready for the big bazooka, then go for that.
Big launch success can hurt growth in other ways, too. Pekka Paavonpera, a co-founder of VPR Media & Marketing, shared a cautionary tale:
The client wanted the launch to happen as fast as possible [. . .] as he had overspent his budget developing the service. There were also indications that some of his “competitors,” whose members he was hoping to lure to his site, had learned about the aspects of his service that made it unique and were about to offer the same.
He ensured us everything was ready to fire and that he could meet any demand generated. The media launch was very successful—in fact too successful. We obtained almost simultaneous coverage locally, nationally, and internationally, but unfortunately, the client had not been as prepared as he had led us to believe. His computer network crashed from so much demand from people attempting to sign up.
Although the system was restored with 48 hours, it was too late. He had lost forever what we estimated to be several thousand potential members because very few people would try several times to sign on to an online service they could not access.
Just a short time later his competitors, who already were successful and established, were offering their clients what he had hoped to. Our client tried to compete but that initial loss of potential members was too much to recover from, and after a few months he closed down the service.
Keeping up with physical demand is just as difficult as managing digital demand. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare.
A spike in sales forced a hasty expansion of production from the U.S.-based company to a Chinese facility. The new version of the product failed to work as intended. Customers got angry, and the company pulled the product.
American Biophysics, which had $70 million in annual revenue, was later sold to Woodstream for just $6 million. Woodstream still sells Mosquito Magnet profitably.
There are two high-risk approaches to a product launch:
- Skip the prep. Trust your instincts. Pray for a miracle.
- Pour your heart and soul into advance research and launch-day execution. Hope that the burst in sales sustains you for years—without destroying your company in the process.
A smarter effort puts in the work put also establishes a ceiling. Doing so maximizes the positive impact of the product launch without wiping out your data, crashing your servers, or compromising on product quality.
It’s the overarching takeaway of the five lessons shared in this article:
- You can market a product that doesn’t exist.
- Early launch success is pre-planned, not miraculous.
- Cheap acquisition is (too) cheap.
- The need for feedback can guide a launch strategy.
- Big success is terrible for your data (and maybe your product, too).
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