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The pack contains 48 square cards and the rules are simple: You form a square with the cards turned upside down (face down).
Each player turns over two cards. Whoever finds two identical cards keeps them. If the pictures are not identical, he turns them face down again. Players must keep the positions of the cards in their memory so that when it is their turn they can turn over as many pairs as possible. The winner is the player who has won the most cards at the end.
But the game doesn’t stop here! With the memory and knowledge game “Dinosaurs”, you have the opportunity to enrich your knowledge of the dinosaur era, as the package includes a brochure with information about known and lesser known dinosaurs with their characteristics, such as their species, size, age, eating habits, places and the period they lived in.
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Описание презентации What is ‘slavery? ’ What is ‘human trafficking? по слайдам
What is ‘slavery? ’ What is ‘human trafficking? ’ • Begin with a brief, small group discussion where students talk and write on note cards what they think the terms “slavery” “human trafficking” means. (5 mins max. ) • Teacher to mark roll while students workshop their preliminary ideas about these concepts.
Human Trafficking Definition “ A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harboured, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labour, or child soldiery. ” Who in this room thinks that slavery ended in the 1800 s?
Slavery Today – Bigger than Ever Intro Trailer: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=m. S-0 CHXfy. Ik&list=PLC 09 B 50 A 6 C 8 AB 88 A 3 Australian Context: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Fx 99 hz. Kj 4 i. E The modern slave trade generates nearly $32 billion each year. It is estimated that 27 million slaves exist in the world today. 80% are female & 50% are children. That’s more than twice as many slaves as there were at the height of the Atlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century.
Why does slavery still exist? Today we will look at the history of slavery and particularly the role of slavery in creating our modern world through the movement of large numbers of people. Slavery continues because it continues to provide an economic function and is very profitable for slave traders. By understanding the social and economic causes and effects of slavery, we can understand the reasons to oppose it and how to make it unprofitable.
History of Slavery When did slavery start? • Slavery has existed since ancient times. • In Ancient Egypt, captured soldiers were enslaved • It became common in Africa after the Bantu migrations spread agriculture to all parts of the continent.
History of African Slavery African law did not recognize individual land ownership so wealth and power in Africa only came from controlling the human labor that made land productive. Slaves were a form of investment and a sign of wealth.
Capture of Slaves As European demand grew, African chieftains organized raiding parties to seize individuals from neighboring societies. Some tribes launched wars specifically for the purpose of capturing slaves Captured slaves were force-marched to holding forts along the west African coast before being loaded on ships.
European Slave Trade 1500 -1870 When Europeans arrived in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 15 th Centuries, the slave trade was a well-established feature in African society A system for capturing, selling, and distributing slaves had been in place for over 500 years With the arrival of the Europeans and the demand for slaves for plantations in the Americas, the slave trade expanded dramatically
Slavery Expands to the New World As diseases like malaria reduced the native populations in South and Central America, the Spanish began relying on imported slaves from Africa. The earliest slave ships to the New World occurred in the early 16 th Century (1518). By the early 17 th Century, the British had introduced slaves to North America.
Triangular Slave Trade The demand for labor in the New World stimulated a profitable three-legged trade. 1. European manufactured goods, especially cloth, iron and firearms, went to Africa where they were exchanged for slaves 2. The slaves were then shipped to the Caribbean and Americas where they were sold for cash or bartered for sugar or molasses 3. The ships then returned to Europe loaded with American raw materials. Video:
Crash Course History: The Atlantic Slave Trade.
Typical Triangular Trade Route
Middle Passage Crews attempted to keep as many slaves alive as possible to maximize profits, but treatment was extremely cruel – Some slaves refused to eat and crew members used tools to pry open their mouths and force-feed them – Sick slaves were cast overboard to prevent infection from spreading During the early days of the slave trade, mortality rates were as high as 50%. As the volume of trade increased and conditions improved (bigger ships, more water, better nourishment and facilities), mortality eventually declined to about 5%.
Above is a picture of a typical slave ship from the Middle Passage. Slaves were forced to lie in chains with barely 50 cm space between them.
Arrival, Branding & Selling of Slaves On arrival, the slaves were taken off the ship and placed in a pen. They were washed and had their skin covered with grease or tar to make them look healthy (and therefore more valuable). Slaves were auctioned to the highest bidder and would be branded with a hot iron to permanently identify them.
Plantation Economics Plantations relied almost exclusively on slave labor supervised by small numbers of European managers. Apart from sugar, plantations produced crops like tobacco and cotton. High profits from the plantations would not have been profitable if wages had to be paid Brazilian sugar mill in the 1830 s
Conditions on Plantations Disease, brutal working conditions, and poor sanitation and nutrition resulted in high mortality rates (the average life expectancy for slaves in Brazil was 23 years). Owners imported mainly male slaves and allowed few to establish families which resulted in low reproduction. To keep up the needed numbers, plantation owners imported a steady stream of slaves – Of all slaves delivered to the western hemisphere, about 50% went to Caribbean destinations. – About 33% went to Brazil. – Smaller numbers went elsewhere in South and Central America.
Slavery in North America • Diseases took less of a toll in North America and living conditions were usually less brutal. • Plantation owners imported large numbers of female slaves and encouraged their slaves to form families and bear children. – Only about 5% of slaves delivered to the western hemisphere went to North America.
Volume of the Slave Trade • Late 15 th — 16 th Century… 2, 000 Africans exported each year • 17 th Century… 20, 000 per year • 18 th Century… 55, 000 per year – 1780 s… 88, 000 per year • All told, 12 million Africans were transported to the western hemisphere via the Atlantic Slave Trade • Another 4 million died resisting capture or during captivity before arriving at their destination
Forms of Resistance • Work slowly • Sabotage • Runaway – “ Maroons” gathered together and built self-governing communities • Revolt – Slaves outnumbered the owners and supervisors so revolt was always a threat – While causing much destruction, revolts were usually able to be suppressed because the owners had access to arms, horses, and military forces
Resistance: Saint-Dominique (Haiti) The only revolt to successfully abolish slavery occurred on the French sugar colony of Saint Dominique in 1793 The slaves declared independence from France, renamed the country Haiti , and established a self-governing republic in 1804 Francois-Dominique Toussaint was one of the military leaders of the Saint-Dominique revolt
Abolitionists Key Figures who led pushed for the abolition of slavery included: Former Slaves – Olaudah Equiano Politicians – William Wilberforce Religious Leaders – John Wesley Revolutionaries – Simon Bolivar
Former Slaves: Olaudah Equiano was originally from Benin and was captured by slave raiders when he was 10. He spent 21 years as a slave and eventually saved up enough money to buy his freedom. In 1789 he published The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano. He sold the book throughout Britain and actively campaigned to abolish the slave trade.
Politicians: William Wilberforce Elected to British Parliament in 1780. Delivered a stirring abolitionist speech to the House of Commons in 1789. Repeatedly introduced the Abolition Bill until it passed in 1807.
Religious Leaders: John Wesley Founder of the Methodist Church Published Thoughts Upon Slavery in 1774 On his deathbed he was reading Equiano’s narrative
Revolutionaries: Simon Bolivar Inspired by George Washington and Enlightenment ideas, Bolivar took up arms against Spanish rule in 1811 He freed slaves who joined his forces Provided constitutional guarantees of freedom for all residents of Gran Columbia (Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador)
Timeline for Abolition of the Slave Trade • 1803: Denmark abolishes slave trade. • 1807: Britain abolishes slave trade. • 1807: U. S. passes legislation banning slave trade, to take effect 1808. • 1810: British negotiate an agreement with Portugal calling for gradual abolition of slave trade in the South Atlantic. • 1815: At the Congress of Vienna, the British pressure Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands to agree to abolish the slave trade. • 1817: Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty prohibiting the slave trade. • Although the trade in slaves had ended, those people already sold into slavery were not yet free.
Slavery Continues Abolishing the slave trade did not end slavery. British ships patrolled the west coast of Africa to halt illegal trade. The last documented ship that carried slaves across the Atlantic arrived in Cuba in 1867.
Timeline for Abolition of Slavery • 1813: Gradual emancipation adopted in Argentina. • 1814: Gradual emancipation begins in Colombia. • 1823: Slavery abolished in Chile. • 1824: Slavery abolished in Central America. • 1829: Slavery abolished in Mexico. • 1831: Slavery abolished in Bolivia. • 1833: Abolition of Slavery Act passed in Britain. • 1842: Slavery abolished in Uruguay. • 1848: Slavery abolished in all French & Danish colonies. • 1851: Slavery abolished in Ecuador. • 1854: Slavery abolished in Peru and Venezuela. • 1863: Emancipation Proclamation issued in the U. S. • 1863: Slavery abolished in all Dutch colonies. • 1865: Slavery abolished in the U. S. as a result of the end of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, the President who abolished slavery in US
Impact of Slave Trade in Africa • Mixed – Some states like Rwanda largely escaped the slave trade through resistance and geography – Some like Senegal in west Africa were hit very hard – Other societies benefited economically from selling slaves, trading, or operating ports – As abolition took root in the 19 th Century some African merchants even complained about the loss of their livelihood • On the whole the slave trade devastated Africa “ Door of No Return” on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal
Impact of Slave Trade in Africa • The Atlantic Slave Trade deprived Africa of about 16 million people and the continuing Islamic slave trade consumed another several million. • Overall the African population rose thanks partly to the introduction of more nutritious food from the Americas Peanuts were one of several crops introduced to Africa from the Americas
Australia’s Slave Trade “ Blackbirding”
What was ‘ blackbirding’ and why did it come into existence? Even though slavery was abolished in the 1830 s, people were still captured and enslaved. From the early 1860 s there was a demand for cheap labour for plantations in Fiji and Queensland. Ship captains could profit from capturing South Sea Islanders, transporting them and selling them to sugar planters on the Australian coast. This was known as ‘Blackbirding’
How were Islanders kidnapped? They sank the canoes of curious islanders who paddled out to see the ships and trade fruit and fish. They enticed islanders with beads and axes. Blackbirders used force and trickery to get the islanders on board their ships. Raiding parties would go and take people from the beaches and villages, using their guns to fight off resistance.
Dangers of the voyage Once imprisoned in the hold, terrified islanders travelled up to 1600 km. The food on board was strange and the water often stagnant. The blackbirders were greedy and brutal. Some captives were injured, became sick and either died or were killed and were thrown overboard.
Arriving in Queensland On arrival, islanders were sold and forced to work long hours in the cane fields. Those who worked on inland farms struggled to cope with the cold climate They had no way of contacting their families.
The Scale of the System From 1863 -1875 10 500 islanders were blackbirded. In total, between 1859 and 1900 more than 100 000 Pacific Islanders were ‘recruited’. Most (62 500) went to Queensland About 5 000 went to Peru in South America. The rest went throughout the Pacific Islands.
The End of Blackbirding Following the public trial of Dr James Murray for shooting and killing 60 islanders on the brig Carl, public opinion put pressure on to end the slave trade. From the mid 1870 s the trade was replaced by a more regulated system of indenture with islanders agreeing to work in Australia for a fixed period of time. Many argued that this just continued some of the worst features of blackbirding. The system officially ended in 1901 with the establishment of the White Australia Policy.
Slavery Today: Despite the official abolition of slavery by the 1870 s, illegal human trafficking and slavery is the fastest growing criminal industry today. The US Government has identified eight major types of modern day slavery or human trafficking : 1. Forced Labour 5. Involuntary Domestic Servitude 2. Sex Trafficking 6. Forced Child Labor 3. Bonded Labour 7. Child Sex Trafficking 4. Debt Bondage of Migrant Laborers 8. Child Soldiers The estimated that the total yearly profits generated by the human trafficking industry are around $35 billion dollars View brief video: http: //www. unodc. org/unodc/en/multimedia. html? vf=/documents/video/psa/HT_PSA_Better_Future_2002_60 s. flv
What can I do to help? Human trafficking is often called an “invisible crime” because it happens right in front of us and we don’t notice because we don’t recognize the signs. As civilians, our best weapon against modern day slavery is increased awareness. Students should pair off and research key information and recommend ways they can take positive action, e. g. design an awareness poster, banner ad, letter to your Federal Representative, create a public service announcement or any other ideas. Pairs share in groups of four to plan and implement a group action to raise awareness about human trafficking and modern day slavery. Sources for further information: • Australian Institute of Criminology: www. aic. gov. au/publications/current%20 series/tandi/441 -460/tandi 441. html • United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN GIFT) http: //www. ungift. org/docs/ungift/pdf/knowledge/ebook. pdf • US Department of State Information: http: //2001 -2009. state. gov/documents/organization/33216. pdf • Other Sites: http: //www. dosomething. org/tipsandtools/11 -facts-about-human-trafficking www. worldvision. com. au/Libraries/DTL_fact_sheets/Factsheet_Human_trafficking. pdf www. polarisproject. org/resources-by-topic/human-trafficking? gclid=CJWE 3 Na. Hv 7 w. CFU 7 Ip. Aod 73 IA 2 w | <urn:uuid:975a730b-636e-44f6-918a-413e27f7e97c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://present5.com/what-is-slavery-what-is-human-trafficking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94543 | 3,309 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Lithium is one of the critical elements for the realization of electric mobility and energy transition. With a contribution to global Li-production and recycling of less than 1% (2017), Europe depends almost entirely on Li-import. To reduce the dependency, new and unconventional Li resources are explored in the EU. One resource are highly saline brines from geothermal reservoirs of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG), characterized by Li concentrations of up to 200 mg/L. Due to space restrictions, conventional production methods are not suitable and technologies for the direct lithium extraction (DLE), such as Li-Mn oxide sorbents, is needed. Lithium-Mn oxide sorbents have a comparably high Li adsorption capacity and due to ion-sieve properties a high selectivity for Li. Batch experiments with synthetic Li+-solutions and natural geothermal brines were conducted to investigate the sorption capacity and kinetics, and the role of competing ions on Li sorption. The batch experiments reveal fast sorption kinetics with an adsorption of >70% of the maximum Li sorption capacity within several minutes. In relation to Li+-solutions, Li sorption decreases for geothermal brines due to sorption of competing ions. While alkaline metals show a relatively little influence, Mn and Ba are the major competing ions. We prove successfully that Li-extraction from geothermal brines in the URG by Li-Mn oxide sorbents is technologically feasible at the laboratory scale. Upscaling into a pilot plant integrated into a power plant is in progress. | <urn:uuid:55168a65-e596-49c7-b28c-caea436c5114> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dggv.de/e-publikationen/performance-of-manganese-oxide-sorbents-for-direct-lithium-extraction-from-geothermal-brines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.914877 | 329 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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I have newly started coaching and I have never gone to any sort of coaching programme before. Can you please help me with a drill or two that will be most effective for children who are new to the sport. Age group 3 years to 6 years old.
And please do share what is the first thing I should consider doing?
You can start with some off table activities such as rolling the ball on the floor to each other. You will find that for a 3 year old it will be difficult to get them hitting on a table as it will be too high.
You could progress them to rolling the ball on a table, by using any table you have at home or at the venue that is a more appropriate height for them. Then you can do some bouncing to them to get them used to the flight of the ball. Even bouncing to each other and catching.
The main thing at this stage is to develop coordination and control of the ball and understanding the tracking of the ball. The more activities such ass this that you can do with them at an early age the better it will be for them later.
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Dr Bridget Juniper takes a look at the costs associated with employee wellbeing as an investment and the price employers could pay should they choose not to invest.
In this series of articles on employee wellbeing for Occupational Health magazine, we have explored various elements that relate to the concept. This article considers the costs of employee wellbeing to employers, both in terms of budget expended on efforts to enhance wellness and the price borne by the employer where staff wellbeing is lacking.
First, we will look at proactive spending that can be aligned to wellbeing. Companies that believe the one or two lines in their annual budgets that reference “wellness programmes” and “occupational health” are being rather naive.
In previous articles, we explored what we mean by the term “employee wellbeing“. Building on earlier research, organisations are encouraged to subscribe to the following meaning: “That part of an employee’s overall wellbeing that they perceive to be determined primarily by work and can be influenced by workplace interventions.”
Accounting for costs
This description gives rise to a variety of different dimensions, for example, advancement opportunities, impact on home life and relationships at work, as well as the more conventional areas such as physical and mental health. If a specific employee population, for example call centre staff, consider their wellbeing to be impaired because of poor workplace facilities, then specific efforts to improve these workplace conditions should be considered an employee wellbeing cost.
Obviously, every employee population is different in terms of its demographics and the roles that individuals are required to perform. It is therefore impossible to provide a finite list of all possible budget items that relate to employee wellbeing. However, in table 2 I have suggested the main ones that we come across regularly in our work with clients.
Table 2 provides food for thought and identifies a number of activities that might not be ordinarily assumed to reside in the employee wellbeing domain. For any organisation that wishes to add up their employee wellbeing costs based on these headings, it is likely to be surprised by the large figure at which they arrive.
However, in our experience, this is a comprehensive list of headings that are all fully valid considerations for an organisation wishing to get a realistic grip on employee wellbeing expenditure.
|Type of cost||Description|
|Direct costs||Salary, national insurance contribution, pension contribution, bonuses, healthcare benefits and other benefits, eg car scheme|
|Indirect costs||Supply staff|
|Absence management costs||Arranging and supervising cover, health referrals, capability hearings, tracking absence, return-to-work interviews|
Following on from this theme are the potential costs incurred by an employer where employee wellbeing levels are low. Again, these can be alarming if the true numbers are revealed.
The main cost conventionally associated with ill health is sickness absence. We would contend that costs of presenteeism and attrition should also be factored into this equation. We will consider each of these in turn.
Reducing absence levels is an increasingly hot topic in boardrooms. What is surprising is the paltry number of companies that keep an accurate record of attendance. More shocking is the way in which they put a number on the cost. According to the CBI, around 25% of companies track sickness absence and most of these attribute a cost by simply looking at the direct salary costs of people who are off sick. While a few do look at other, wider employment costs, these practices are rare.
Bill of health
A report on costing sickness absence by Bevan and Hayday (2001) provides a much more comprehensive guide to calculating the true figures. Their study shows that costs are likely to range from anywhere between 2% and 16% of annual salary costs, which is notably higher than most estimates. The authors arrive at this by factoring in other costs besides salary. Helpfully, Bevan and Hayday categorise these into three sections (see table 1) and show that a financial services company, for example, incurs sickness absence costs of £1,600 per employee – rather than the more traditional average estimates of around £670 reported by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in 2011, for example.
Next is presenteeism (or sickness presence). This topic is relatively new to the HR agenda and, as a consequence, the research on prevalence and cost is fairly weak. Best guesses by The Work Foundation (2010) suggest that presenteeism could equal or account for a sobering 1.5 times more working time lost to sickness absence.
And finally – what is the cost of attrition? While it is inaccurate to claim that employee wellbeing is wholly responsible for people quitting voluntarily, evidence shows a striking correlation between people’s general health and happiness at work and staying with their existing organisation. The major categories of spend are:
- administration of the resignation;
- recruitment and selection costs, including administration;
- covering the post in the period in which there is a vacancy; and
- induction training that may be required for the new employee.
Based on these, People First Solutions estimates that attrition costs companies 18 months’ salary for each senior manager or professional who leaves, and six months’ pay for each hourly paid employee who leaves.
So, what can we glean from this? Generally speaking, organisations woefully underestimate their spend on employee wellbeing activity. They also miscalculate the costs attached to the financial penalties associated with impaired employee wellbeing.
Based on these observations, it seems sensible for cash-strapped employers to revisit their numbers and review exactly how they can squeeze more return out of the former in order to tackle the latter effectively.
Dr Bridget Juniper is head of Work and Well-Being Ltd, which specialises in the measurement of employee wellbeing.
Bevan S, Hayday S (2011). “Costing sickness absence in the UK”. IES.
CIPD (2011). Absence management survey.
Bevan S (2010). “The business case for employees’ health and wellbeing”. The Work Foundation.
|Budget line||Link to employee wellbeing||Possible activities|
|Benefits||Health generally||Flexible health benefits|
Private medical insurances
|Engagement||Wellbeing is the best predictor of staff engagement||Annual engagement survey activity|
|Job characteristics||Impact on health generally|
Specific aspects (eg uniform and equipment review)
|Occupational health||Physical and mental health status||On-site health team and facilities|
Employee assistance programmes
Health checks and screening
Absence management programme
Access to health professionals
|Opt-in wellness programmes||Health education, promotion and prevention||Cycle-to-work schemes|
Fitness club memberships/subsidies
Healthy lifestyle programmes (eg nutrition, smoking cessation and stress management)
|Physical workspace and facilities||Physical comfort and convenience||Lighting|
Health and safety (hazards, slips and trips)
Ergonomics (eg seating)
|Social activities||Relationships with colleagues and managers||Get-togethers|
Sports teams, etc
|Training and development||Opportunities for progression||Skills training (hard and soft)|
Management training to encourage individuals to progress
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I love experiencing the tastes of different cuisines and I use any excuse I can find to switch things up a bit at the dinner table. Celebratory dates from around the globe are perfect for this and May fifth marks Cinco de Mayo: a celebration of Mexican Heritage and Pride.
A common misconception is that Cinco de Mayois Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually on Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayois simply Spanish for Fifth of Mayand is a regional holiday that commemorates Mexico’s defeat of the French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Regardless however, of this distinction, it is a perfect day to prepare and enjoy Mexican food.
I have tasted a number of homemade salsas and guacamoles and many of them have fallen short of being incredible, let alone worthy of being called Mexican cuisine. True guacamole (pronounced gwahk-ah-“MOLE”-lee) is not avocados that have been mashed together with an envelope of powders called “guacamole mix”. I know there are a number of people that may struggle in the kitchen, or don’t believe they have the time in their schedules, to successfully chop a few handfuls of ingredients, but once you try this recipe you will never want to go back to the powdered mix.
The only ingredient in this recipe that may seem foreign to you is “sambal oelek”. It is a crushed chili product that comes in a liquid/paste form that is basically a re-hydrated form of the dried crushed chilies you have on your spice rack. It can usually be found in any major grocery store down the Asian food aisle or imported food aisle or in any gourmet food store.
Even if you have always made your guacamole from fresh ingredients, I am certain that you will still appreciate the complexity and balance of flavour this recipe has to offer, as well as the texture. Eat, enjoy, and be merry this fifth of May… but try not to dance around the sombrero too much.
“Avocado Salsa at its best – chunky and full of flavour! The lime juice will help to keep the avocados from oxidizing (turning brown).”
2 soft avocados
Juice from 1 large lime
1/4 yellow bell pepper, finely diced
1/4 red bell pepper, finely diced
1/4 red onion, finely diced
1/2 jalapeno pepper, minced
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp sambal oelek
1/2 tsp sugar
Salt & pepper, to taste
Chef Dez is a Chef, Writer, & Host. Visit him at www.chefdez.com
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Adding artificial intelligence to 3D design
In this article we will give you an overview of how we created methods that allow users to design their gardens intelligently. We think these methods could translate nicely to domains outside gardening. We are curious if you feel the same after reading this article.
Draw Your Garden / Teken je Tuin
Partnered with our client we proposed to develop a number of prototypes aimed at assisting users in several areas which hitherto required extensive expert knowledge. Appropriately, we named this project 'Your GardenAssistant'.
For the project we focused on three areas of garden design:
- Advice on watering a garden; where to place different kinds of sprinklers, what kind of plants need more water, which types of sprinklers are suited to different parts of the garden and how sprinklers should be connected to what type of water source.
- The presence and influence of sunlight and shadow in the garden; to show which areas of the garden receive most light in different seasons and parts of the day, where to locate a terrace and where to plant different sorts of plant.
- Advice on the properties of plants and trees; which plants would prosper in different parts of the garden, how many plants flower this month, what plants are edible or poisonous.
Domain knowledge and user feedback
The first thing we concluded was that it would be crucial to involve different kinds of experts, gardeners and users in the project. We realized we needed to include them from the very start of the project, and to check back with them regularly to decide how to proceed.
The preliminary task was to create a suitable 3D design & drawing application based on our 3D Framework. Our approach is to use a full 3D environment with an top-down view for drawing. This view, a kind of orthographic projection, provides the advantages of 'flat', easy-to-use interaction during drawing & design, while the full 3D experience is just one camera shift away.
Drawing in full 3D with a top-down perspective.
The same garden, but rotated slightly
To be able to give advice about watering a garden we created a 'provided graph' and a 'moisture graph', to store how much water the sprinklers provided, and how much water different parts of the garden required. We used these to create a wizard designed to help the user choose both the right type of sprinker and a water source, and to connect these two, all in a few easy steps.
Provided graph: how much water is provided. Note that the sprinkler on the bottom-right is not connected to a water source.
Moisture graph: green areas receive enough water, red areas too little or possibly too much (if they do not require water, like the terrace).
Sunlight and shadows
The first thing here was to create a 'heat map' to represent the areas of the garden with the most sun exposure. To do this, we created a realistic simulation of the sun in the 3D representation of the garden. The result of the 3D simulation, the 'heat map', is used later on when the user adds plants to the garden design: we can quickly look up the amount of sunlight at the precise spot the plant is placed. Apart from the heat map we also created a nice user-friendly interface which allows users to instantly see which parts of the garden receive the most sun in a selected season and hour of the day.
3D sunlight simulation
Giving intelligent advice about which plants to use in your garden, and where best to place them, was arguably the most challenging part of the project. Especially since unwanted advice can very easily irritate a user a great deal.
Based on feedback from our focus groups and surveys we decided to adopt an approach inspired by knowledge-based systems. We created a modular system of multiple 'Advisors', all of which provide advice or warnings based on a simple rule. For instance, we created a GrowthAdvisor based on the simple rule that fast-growing plants should not be placed too close together. This way we could easily create many more advisors based on all sorts of simple rules.
An early mockup of the advice UI
In addition to our conceptual and technical efforts we also put a lot of thought into UI approaches, i.e. how to best present the most relevant advice. We hope to come back to this in a future blog.
Creating a design application is not an easy task. Creating a design application in which users receive meaningful advice during the design process is, well, a major challenge. The grant gave us the opportunity to seriously engage these challenges.
Looking back we are very happy with the results. The translation from data (i.e. plant properties as well as data generated from simulations) to guidance, by means of advisors, turned out to be both feasible and elegant.
Looking at other domains, we feel this approach is applicable to design apps and product configurators in a great variety of fields. Don't hesitate to contact us if you want to explore the possibilities. We look forward to working on a challenging project like this one in the future.
We would like to thank all the participants of this project, in particular:
- The province of Gelderland, for making the project possible
- Teken je tuin, our partner for this project
- All participants from the focus groups and test groups
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Eyetracking can be a powerful tool for improving user experience and understanding how people interact with your website or app. However, there are some major problems with using eye tracking that you should be aware of before you start tracking users' interaction data. By solving these problems, you can ensure that your eye-tracked data is reliable and useful.
One of the major problems with eye tracking is that it can be unreliable. This is because our eyes can move and change their focus easily. This makes it difficult to track the movement of our eyes accurately. You can hop over to this website to know about eye tracking problems.
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Another common problem with eye tracking is that it can be inaccurate. This is because our eyes can move and change their focus easily. This makes it difficult to track the movement of our eyes accurately.
There are also several ways to solve these problems. One way is to use a fixation point, which is a specific point on the screen that you keep your attention on. This helps to ensure that the tracking data is accurate.
Another way is to use a gaze tracker, which tracks the direction and speed of your gaze. This helps to ensure that the tracking data is accurate. Here are some tips to help you do this:
1. Use a large enough monitor. The more space you have on your monitor, the better your results will be.
2. Use proper calibration tools. If your monitor is not calibrated properly, your results will be inaccurate.
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A Pentagon report has attempted to explain an array of weird UFO sightings over the years; at least 120 in total.
Here, we look back at how we got to this point and how UFOs captured the imagination of the American public.
June 1947: 'Flying Saucers' over Mount Rainier
This was the first major UFO sighting and it happened in Washington State in June 1947.
Kenneth Arnold, a businessman and amateur pilot, was flying a small aircraft near Mount Rainier. He reported seeing nine objects flying at tremendous speed.
Mr Arnold told the media they looked "like a pie plate" or "like saucers skipping on water".
The story was widely reported and newspapers coined the term "flying saucers".
July 1947: The Roswell incident
A few weeks later in July 1947, debris was found on a ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico.
The US Army inspected the wreckage, took it away, and then issued a press release referring to it as a "flying disc", which gave credence to the UFO theory.
Military officials then hastily held a press conference displaying the debris and saying it was in fact a weather balloon.
The UFO theory disappeared until the 1970s when it was revived by media reports and drew widespread attention.
Later, the US military disclosed that the balloon had been part of Project Mogul, a top secret attempt to use high altitude microphones to listen for Soviet nuclear tests.
July 1952: 'The Invasion of Washington'
Also known as the "Big Flap", this example of Cold War paranoia brought UFO mania to the US capital.
Over a 17-day period in July 1952 numerous civilians, pilots and radar operators reported UFO sightings.
It included air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport, who spotted on their radar objects making radical movements.
The "saucer swarm" was front page news and President Harry Truman was briefed.
Military jets were dispatched and a pilot reported chasing white "glows" but were unable to keep up.
1955: Area 51
In 1955 the US Air Force started using a secret base in Nevada for testing aircraft including the U-2 spy plane and Project Oxcart, which produced supersonic reconnaissance jets.
The number of UFO sightings in the area was so high that Nevada officially renamed a nearby road the "Extraterrestrial Highway".
For decades Area 51 has fascinated UFO conspiracy theorists. The US Government only officially acknowledged its existence in 2013.
The following year the CIA tweeted: "Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? That was us."
1952-1969: Project Blue Book
Between 1952 and 1969 the US Government investigated thousands of UFO sightings under a programme called Project Blue Book.
It ended with the Condon Report, led by physicist Edward Condon.
The report concluded that the vast majority of sightings were caused by weather phenomena or celestial objects.
There was no evidence of aliens and UFOs did not represent a national security threat, it said.
2004: The 'Tic Tac' sighting
In 2004, several F-18 pilots based on the USS Nimitz off southern California reported seeing a giant "Tic Tac".
They said it was a white oblong, about 40ft in length, and moved in inexplicable ways, including in and out of water.
One of the pilots captured it on an infrared camera and it was also picked up on ship radar.
In 2007 Harry Reid, the Democrat leader in the US Senate and a UFO enthusiast, authorised $22 million in funding for a clandestine effort to solve the mystery.
A secret project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was established on the fifth floor of the Pentagon.
2017: UFO investigator goes public
Luis Elizondo, the official who led AATIP, resigned in 2017 and said the effort was not being taken seriously enough.
Mr Elizondo released videos of several of the incidents he had been studying.
He said there was no explanation for what he had seen.
It sparked a renewed wave of interest in UFOs.
2019: Flashing green pyramids in the sky
In 2019 flashing pyramid-shaped UFOs were spotted over a US Navy destroyer off the coast of California.
Leaked videos showed at least three pulsating objects moving, sometimes in unison, above the USS Russell.
They were filmed by military personnel from the ship for 18 seconds through a green-tinged night vision device.
The Pentagon later confirmed the videos were genuine.
2020: The UAP Task Force
In 2020 the Pentagon established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force to investigate.
Redesignating UFOs as UAPs was an attempt to reduce the stigma surrounding the issue, and to encourage pilots to do report sightings.
2020: Congress demands answers
Republican senator Marco Rubio, who in UFO terms is Congress's successor to Harry Reid, asked for a report.
Mr Rubio's concern is not aliens. Instead, he fears that China could have stolen a march on the US when it comes to aviation technology.
He had his demand inserted in Donald Trump's coronavirus relief package at the end of 2020.
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Plainfield students take first steps to fitness
Students at Plainfield Central and Plainfield Memorial schools took on a hefty challenge Friday: Walk 28 million steps collectively — the distance it would take to cross the United States — by the last day of school, June 16.
Students began the challenge Friday with a high-energy rally and ceremonial first walk with Robert Sweetgall, who has walked across the country seven times.
As part of the Northeast District Department of Health’s HealthQuest 2009, the 1,000 fourth- through eighth-grade students at the two schools will begin their school day with a 10-minute walk around the campus and will keep a journal about their walking.
“I think it’s pretty good for our community,” said Olivia Peasley, 10, a fifth-grader at Plainfield Memorial School. “Walking 10 minutes a day could make us healthier.”
The health district provided each student with a pedometer, so they can count the number of steps they take each school day until the end of the year, including the morning walk. Students hope the numbers will total 28 million by June 16.
Superintendent of Schools Mary Conway said the two schools were chosen because they share a campus, making the effort easier to coordinate. And starting healthy habits early — with younger students — will have the most effect, she said.
“It’s going to hopefully produce some really great results in the classrooms,” Conway said. “Because healthy, fit kids make better students.”
Sweetgall’s energetic rally Friday at Plainfield High School had students geared up for the challenge. Cheers filled the auditorium as groups of teachers and students walked, jogged, danced and even ran around the room during a competition to accumulate the greatest number of steps.
Plainfield Memorial School student Alexander Willard, 11, said the rally was inspiring, and he was looking forward to starting the challenge with his class.
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In the project "Ruhr Metropolis - European Green Capital: Analysis and Preparation of Factual Information (Data) for the EU-Application of the Ruhr Region", the Wuppertal Institute has compiled possible targets and measures for the Ruhr Metropolis within the 12 key themes of the European Commission's "European Green Capital" competition. These include: local contribution to global climate change, local transport, green urban areas incorporating sustainable land use, nature and biodiversity, quality of local ambient air, noise pollution, waste production and management, water consumption and leakages, waste water treatment, eco-innovation and sustainable employment, environmental management of the local authority, and energy performance.
In eight workshops and accompanying expert rounds, the results have been discussed and developed further by representatives of the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR, the Regional Association Ruhr), the local authorities of the Ruhr Metropolis, regional stakeholders and the Wuppertal Institute. The dialogue series "Strategies for a Sustainable Ruhr Metropolis" was organised by the RVR. Apart from the application as European Green Capital, this dialogue series is one element in the process of developing binding environmental targets for the Ruhr Metropolis by the RVR and the local authorities of the Ruhr Metropolis.
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Restoration and Design of the Pedestrian and Street Areas of via Dietro Corte in Savignano Irpino (Avellino, Italy).
This work is made up of a project that, overall, will redevelop the entire street length over time. A street, among the oldest in the town: in fact, underground pedestrian passages have been discussed which would link via Dietro Corte to the Castle. Thus, the street is important and fascinating for its historical features and its location. The intervention area is located next to the historic centre of the town. The area is currently semi-abandoned and is used as an access area “to and from” the Castle area in addition to being used as a promenade and rest area in the late spring and summer. Along the road, there are two-story buildings, developed in a particularly linear fashion, with plaster storefronts and several made from hard material. The buildings located along the road seemed to be typical constructions with a pleasing appearance. It is predicted that the other small constructions along the promenade that house businesses will be abandoned over time. The site has various interesting natural, botanical, historical and scenic elements. This plan is inspired by a series of needs, drafted and clearly defined by the Administration of the Municipality of Savignano Irpino: needs expressed in terms of a “final product" and “expected results,” that have allowed a first goal to be defined: show and quantify the unexpressed potential of a currently semi-abandoned road, making it usable and liveable. All this has lead to “project research” in order to find additional starting points, such as studying the more specific characteristics of the material used in the town in the past: this enormous data-base, a concrete and real point of departure for a comprehensive understanding and cultural comparison with the various cultures of Savignano provides a great deal of (but not the only) evidence. Other sources of inspiration came from the fascinating architectural characteristics that are particular to the roadway, whose potential to be a pedestrian roadway, i.e. a promenade and rest area, is very high and must still be taken advantage of. The routes that run through the rest areas to the pedestrian areas are marked and stand out because of “special" colours that are fixed in visitors' memories due to the effects of the light, image and texture, with passageway crossing areas aimed at providing a welcome rest area, stunning to walk through thanks to the view of the DauniMountains. The project includes a continual and harmonious promenade where the views and rest areas invite visitors to extend their stay without even realizing how long they have walked already. The project plans to create a new magical and popular urban location. The first goal of this study is to outline the renovation of the roadway that, through the redevelopment and adjustment of the urban and system components, guarantees proper operations to provide comfort, safety, manageability as well as the integration of all the necessary equipment to operate a “contemporary” promenade. By carefully studying the state of the roadway, a comprehensive renovation plan was developed that integrates several operational features: providing it with those urban and system development components necessary to make it comfortable, in terms of general and specific lighting and providing practical and simple features for its subsequent maintenance and management. The plan is currently in the implementation phase.
Questo intervento costituisce la prima parte di un progetto che nel suo complesso prevede, nel tempo, la riqualificazione dell’intero asse viario. Una strada, tra le più antiche del paese: si ipotizza, infatti, la presenza di passaggi sotterranei che mettevano in comunicazione via dietro Corte con il Castello. Quindi, strada significativa ed affascinante per caratteristiche, storia e per localizzazione urbanistica. L’area di intervento è situata nelle adiacenze del centro storico del paese. Il...
- Year 2005
- Client Comune di Savignano Irpino (Avellino)
- Status Current works
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Start learning the keyboard by joining a group class at Yamaha Music School!
Yamaha Music School Open Evening for 8-10 year olds on Monday 7th February at Fairfield Halls.
Develop a strong keyboard technique by working with your classmates to play well known songs by the likes of Bruno Mars, Queen and Sam Smith. Don’t worry, the classical greats such as Beethoven and Dvorak are involved too!
Students can even use these skills to work towards grades 1-8 with leading exam board RockSchool.
To book your place for a free session on 7th February, please email email@example.com
Slots available on Mondays at 6:10pm and 7:15pm.
Find out more about Yamaha Music School at https://www.fairfield.co.uk/news/yamaha-music-school-at-fairfield-halls-opens-its-doors-to-new-students
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What Is A Third Party Administrator In Health Insurance?
A Third Party Administrator or health insurance TPA is an entity tasked with the processing of health insurance claims. A TPA can either be an entity belonging to or affiliated with the health insurance provider or an independent organisation altogether. The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) issues licenses to TPAs.
The primary role of a health insurance TPA is to ensure that the entire process of health insurance claims is completed in a streamlined and time-efficient manner. Should you require any assistance in filing a health insurance claim, you can seek the assistance of the TPA affiliated with your health insurer.
What Is The Role Of TPA in Health Insurance?
The role of Third Party Administrators in health insurance is multifaceted. Although their main role is to process health insurance claims, they also perform several other tasks. Here are the various tasks performed by health insurance TPAs.
1. The issuance of health insurance cards
A Health Insurance Card is an important document that comprises significant details about your health insurance policy, including the policy number, sum insured, validity period, your date of birth, the details of TPAs, etc. When you go to the insurance desk at a hospital to start the health insurance claims process, you must produce your health insurance card. Although health insurance cards are usually issued by the selected insurance company, this task is sometimes outsourced to Third Party Administrators.
2. Streamlined settlement of health insurance claims
As discussed earlier, the primary responsibility of a health insurance TPA is to ensure that the claim applications submitted by policyholders are processed in a hassle-free manner. In addition to checking the aforementioned application and the necessary supporting documents, TPAs can also seek additional information related to the application from a policyholder (if necessary).
In case of a cashless claim for health insurance, you must submit the necessary documents to the hospital, which, in turn, shares them with the Third Party Administrator. For reimbursement claims, you must submit all the required documents directly to the TPA.
3. Offering customer support
If you require any assistance at any point during the claims process, you can reach out to the customer support team of the TPA via phone or email. The contact number for your health insurance TPA is usually listed on your health insurance card. However, you can look up this number online as well.
4. Provision of additional services
Health Insurance TPAs are also engaged in the provision of additional services, for instance, ambulance service and health and well-being programs, to name a few.
How TPAs in Health Insurance Help Policyholders
Since a Third Person Administrator in Health insurance is an intermediary between an insurance company and their policyholder/s, they serve as a link between the two. Whether you are filing a cashless claim or a reimbursement claim, a health insurance TPA can be of great assistance to you.
1. Cashless claims
If you wish to avail the benefit of cashless treatment available under your health insurance policy, you must inform the relevant health insurance TPA about your admission to a hospital (before a planned hospitalisation and within 24 hours of an emergency hospitalisation). The TPA shall ensure the provision of cashless treatment to you at the selected network hospital. Your hospital bills shall be shared by the hospital with the TPA for the processing of the cashless claim. You will not have to pay any bills as long as the treatment is covered under your health insurance policy.
2. Reimbursement claims
In the case of a reimbursement claim, you have to bear the expenses of the treatment yourself, and subsequently submit a health insurance claim with the relevant TPA. Such a claim should be accompanied by the required supporting documents, such as your hospital bills, doctor's consultation, medicine bills, discharge report, etc.
What Are The Benefits Of TPAs In Health Insurance?
Third Party Administrators in health insurance can make the claims process easier for policyholders. Here are the major benefits of TPAs in health insurance.
1. Standardisation of the claims process
Since health insurance TPAs follow a standard procedure to process and verify health insurance claims, the whole process becomes more streamlined. This leads to the swift settlement of claims, which is beneficial for both the insurer and the insured.
2. Support to the policyholders
Another benefit of TPAs in health insurance is that policyholders can seek their support through a 24x7 helpline number. Therefore, any doubts that policyholders may have vis-a-vis the claims process can be readily addressed.
3. Awareness of health insurance benefits
Policyholders can become more aware about the various benefits available under their health insurance policy with the help of TPAs.
4. Elimination of fake claims
With the expertise of health insurance Third Party Administrators, fake and fraudulent claims can be identified during the processing of the claims. This can be beneficial for the insurer in terms of savings of time and cost alike.
Cancellation Of TPAs In Health Insurance
It is important to remember that since a health insurance Third Party Administrator is appointed by your health insurance provider, they can be cancelled by the latter as well. Therefore, you must stay updated on the active TPAs affiliated with your health insurer and reach out to the insurer as your primary point of contact vis-a-vis claims.
During the claims process, however, if there are any documents missing or any other issue arises, then you must co-operate with your health insurance TPA.
List of Health Insurance TPAs
Here is the list of the popular health insurance Third Party Administrators operating in India.
United Healthcare Parekh TPA Private Limited
Media Assist India TPA Private Limited
MD India Healthcare (TPA) Services Private Limited
Paramount Health Services & Insurance TPA Private Limited
E Meditek (TPA) Services Limited
Heritage Health TPA Private Limited
Focus Healthcare Services TPA Private Limited
Medicare TPA Services (I) Private Limited
Family Health Plan (TPA) Limited
Raksha TPA Private Limited
Vidal Health TPA Private Limited
Anyuta TPA in Healthcare Private Limited
East West Assist TPA Private Limited
Med Save Health Care TPA Private Limited
Genins India Insurance TPA Limited
Alankit Insurance TPA Limited
Health India TPA Services Private Limited
Good Health TPA Services Limited
Vipul Med Corp TPA Private Limited
Park Mediclaim TPA Private Limited
Safeway Insurance TPA Private Limited
Anmol Medicare TPA Limited
Dedicated Healthcare Services TPA (India) Private Limited
Grand Health Care TPA Services Private Limited
Rothshield Healthcare (TPA) Services Limited
Ericson Insurance TPA Private Limited
Health Insurance TPA of India Limited
To Sum It Up
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(Editor’s note: This article is the third in a three-part series about how school systems can build on the progress and leverage the investments they’ve made in technology during the pandemic to achieve true digital transformation. Part 1 looks at how K-12 leaders can develop an effective blueprint for redesigning education in a way that’s more equitable, meaningful, and learner-centered, and Part 2 explores how leaders can obtain stakeholder buy-in and support for their vision.)
Building on the changes that school systems have made during the pandemic to achieve true digital transformation requires an adaptive approach to K-12 leadership, as well as a focus on successful change management. These are adjustments that have to take place at the administrative level. But real transformation won’t occur unless it reaches the classroom as well, with teachers embracing change and trying out new approaches to instruction.
For this to happen, teachers not only have to buy in to what their school systems are looking to accomplish; they also need effective professional learning.
From decades of research, we know what effective teacher development looks like. For instance, in 2017 the Learning Policy Institute published a review of nearly three dozen studies on teacher professional development that identified common success factors. Among other characteristics, effective PD incorporates active, hands-on learning; provides opportunities for teachers to collaborate; and is ongoing rather than just a series of unconnected workshops.
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In a recent article in this journal I challenged Szreter and Mooney’s account of a mortality crisis in English industrial and manufacturing cities in the period c. 1830–1850. I argued, first, that there was no robust evidence for a major fall in urban life expectancies in this period; second, that there was evidence for a rise in mortality in early childhood, but that this rise occurred in rural as well as urban populations, and persisted until the 1860s; and third, that an increase in virulence of scarlet fever made a major contribution to this rise. Szreter and Mooney contested these conclusions on two main grounds: that my methodology for estimating urban life expectancies differed from theirs; and that the geography and chronology of scarlet fever patterns did not fit those of early childhood mortality. Here I demonstrate that these criticisms are invalid. Using their methodology I still find no evidence for a dramatic drop in urban life expectancies in the 1830s–40s. I also present new evidence that scarlet fever was a major cause of childhood mortality by the late 1830s and 1840s, in rural as well as urban populations, and could therefore account for the observed rise in early childhood mortality in this period. | <urn:uuid:caf019aa-68a3-4157-a116-f9ebb60c7c95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ehs.org.uk/article/nineteenth-century-mortality-trends-a-reply-to-szreter-and-mooney/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965857 | 259 | 2.34375 | 2 |
To design a product using aluminum in a travelling context. The concept had to be a mass consumer product that was equally accessible and easy to use.
Within the contest’s rules, we had to highlight aluminum in a product that would reach a large public to make users aware of the ecological and mechanical advantages of this material. We wanted to reveal its primary assets; its lightness and its resistance through an object that meets consumers patterns and needs. From home or office to the grocery store, we wanted to ease the transportation of small purchases, as numerous as they may be.
- User study
- Competition study
- Trend study
- Gaps and opportunities identification
- Experience reinvention
- Product architecture
- 3D concept modeling
- Soft mock-up
- Validation mock-ups
- Color, Material, Finish
- Photorealistic 3D rendering
Everyone goes places everyday. Therefore, it was essential to focus on a specific travel mode while promoting aluminum in an application that made sense. We identified the opportunity to reinvent the long neglected wheeled tote and targeted it to a younger audience, injecting it with a cool, modern, and practical flavor. A technical and functional analysis of existing products and their usage gave us the necessary elements to carry out the concept generation phase.
[AL] symbolizes the material evolution into an innovative product, easy to transport and most of all, recyclable. Being less bulky on the way out, it fits easily into any kind of bag. Also, it unfolds in two simple movements for the return trip to the grocery store. It truly highlights the simple and common recyclable bag.
Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 14th edition of the Alcoa contest, [AL] is the ideal companion to help carry the grocery back from the store. Small but strong, [Al] is ambitious! Fortunately, aluminum is the material of choice for this purpose, giving it a sense of durability and nobility. [Al] is a perfect allegory of the eco-responsible industry and our way of life. | <urn:uuid:ad47ce66-5c29-4e35-bfc3-cc25af53bb78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brioinnovation.com/en/projects/alcoa-al/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.935311 | 445 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Magnussen, Daniel O.
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Born in Montreal, Quebec, Donald McIntosh was a lieutenant in the US Army who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana in 1876. Daniel G. Magnussen was a retired military officer, historian, and professor at Stout State University (now University of Wisconsin-Stout). Magnussen transcribed McIntosh's notebook, which he had kept from 1872 until his death in 1876. | <urn:uuid:c3e55ca5-0d9b-4280-92bc-ef37c5f31f78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://duarchives.coalliance.org/agents/people/9327 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969009 | 98 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Today’s teachers must navigate complex issues within the classroom, so it’s essential that each teacher is protected by the group and individual freedoms. Knowing a teacher’s rights and liabilities in the classroom may shape how you proceed as either an educator or a guardian.
1. Freedom of Speech
Like all other citizens, teachers are protected by the First Amendment. This means that teachers cannot be fired or otherwise reprimanded for having personal opinions on social, political, or other public matters. This freedom of expression does, however, come with certain limitations. A teacher should never deviate from the relevant class material.
2. Academic Freedom
Thanks to the First Amendment, the material that a teacher chooses to teach is equally protected by law. Though unlike freedom of speech, academic freedom is highly limited. A teacher should not share personal opinions or information with students. Courts may or may not recognize this protection depending upon various factors, such as student demographics and course guidelines.
3. Personal Privacy
In addition to classroom rights, teachers are protected against violations of personal privacy. Schools and school boards are not permitted to punish teachers for the lives they lead outside of the classroom. As with academic freedom, there are strict limitations. When a teacher’s external life starts to affect his or her job, disciplinary action may be pursued.
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Australia Post scores with instant stamps
By Glen Stephens
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games provided Australia Post with its greatest-ever stamp sales success. Australia Post debuted a world first by issuing instant stamps depicting each Australian gold-medal winner after the medal ceremony. The instant stamps were available for sale nationally coast to coast by midday on the day after the medal was awarded.
The use of modern digital camera technology and high-speed data transmission lines allowed the stamps to be produced next day for every gold-medal winner. There were no hitches, no exceptions. For each stamp this deadline was met.
Digital photographs were taken of athletes wearing their medals and several design possibilities were rapidly created into artwork and rush approved by the appropriate Olympic officials before the final approved image was transmitted electronically to six national printing centers in the early morning hours.
Australia ended the Sydney Games with a record 16 gold medals in 11 different sports, up substantially from the nine gold won at the 1996 Atlanta Games. A list of the 16 Australian gold-medal winners and the date of issue of the stamps appears below. Previous articles about the Australian stamps were published on the front pages of the Aug.21 and Oct.2 issues of Linn's.
The Australian general public quickly joined the stamp-collecting habit when these stamps were put on sale, and long lines formed at most of the 70 major offices nationally that had the digitally printed Gold Medalist panes on sale. Often the lines formed many hours before post offices were opened.
Each Gold Medalist stamp is an identical square size with a common outer border. Each bears a 45˘ denomination for the domestic letter rate, and each was issued for post office sale in a decorative pane of 10, measuring approximately 6 inches by 8 inches.
The Sydney Morning Herald of Oct. 3, in an article highlighting the enormous success of the Gold Medalist stamps, claimed that Australia Post had made a profit of A$135 million (approximately U.S. $73 million) from these stamps. David Maiden, group manager of Australia Post's philatelic division told me that the A$135 million profit figure was "a load of rubbish," stating it was substantially smaller.
Forty million stamps were printed initially, more than two for each person living in Australia. In early October, Maiden reported that a new printing was under way for all the offset versions. The general public swamped post offices for the 500,000 digitally printed Gold Medalist stamps for each Australian gold medal. Cathy Freeman, the popular 400-meter track victor, saw her stamps sold out in 43 minutes. Millions of the conventionally printed offset versions of the same panes were on sale for each stamp issue within three days of the gold-medal win.
Popular athletes such as Freeman and swimmers Ian Thorpe and Susie O'Neill also were a near instant sellout in the original digital-printed versions. Unlike the official policy in the United States and in many other countries, Australia, since 1996, permits images of living people to appear on postage stamps. This policy has proved popular with consumers.
At many post offices, lines started in the early hours of the morning, not long after the gold-medal ceremonies were broadcast live on television nationwide. Post offices were even open on Sunday in many Australian states to place on sale Gold Medalist stamps from Saturday events.
I spent the first week of the Olympic Games traveling throughout the United States and Mexico. The NBC coverage was delayed for U.S. prime time television viewing, and often events were 14 hours old before being screened for U.S. viewers. In some cases, the Gold Medalist stamps literally were on sale in Australia before NBC telecast to U.S. viewers the final of the event involved.
I spoke to Andrew Brown, operations manager of Federation Couriers, the company contracted by Australia Post to ensure that all designated post offices in New South Wales obtained the instant stamps on time. "It went very smoothly. I was very proud of our people and the highly organized Australia Post well-drilled operation," he said. "We had been planning this operation for several months.
"I remember the men's cycling gold medal was won very late evening. My staff collected the digitally printed stamps early next morning, and drivers were stationed with inventory at post offices before 9 a.m. waiting for PO staff to arrive. These stamps were literally on hand at those post offices well within 12 hours of the gold-medal event being decided, and often before NBC showed the event result on national television in the U.S.A."
Brown telephoned me Oct. 3 trying to buy several panes he had missed securing for his collection. He is typical of a new type of stamp buyer who previously didn't collect stamps but was determined to acquire a full set of these 16 Gold Medalist panes.
During the Sept. 15-Oct. 1 Olympic Games in Sydney, Olymphilex, a philatelic exhibition backed by the International Olympic Committee, was held in the center of the Sydney central business district. IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch officially opened the Olymphilex exhibition Sept. 15.
I attended the opening day and closing dinner of this exhibition, presented on three floors of the downtown Centrepoint Tower complex. A line of people stretched around the venue on most days waiting to purchase the Gold Medalist stamps, and then another line formed to have the stamps canceled with the special event pictorial handstamps.
Melbourne stamp dealer Tony Shields, who had a booth at the show, told me: "The long lines were ridiculous. They were always right in front of my booth and affected my ability to serve regular clients. However we had a good show despite this."
In addition to the stamps, special IOC first-day covers were on sale at Olymphilex. A total of 500 IOC FDCs were produced for each stamp. These FDCs, machine-numbered to 500, picture the applicable gold-medal winners.
Some of these 500 FDCs were presented to dignitaries and officials, and few complete sets are in collector hands. Several part sets exist because of the transient nature of the crowds at Olymphilex over the two weeks.
The IOC was strict on cover distribution. Leading dealers with booths such as Tony Shields and Max Stern received no automatic allocation. Standing in a long line was the only way to secure the prized covers.
Sydney cover and postal history dealer Martyn Grieve of A-One Stamps attended Olymphilex each day primarily to obtain these official IOC covers. He managed to assemble only three sets of 16, and had two sets presold.
Maiden of Australia Post said: "From our point of view, Olymphilex was a great success. The Gold Medal stamps being on sale generated large lines. We also had out special 'P' (personal photograph on a label attached to a stamp) booths in operation to long lines most of the time. I know this was a far bigger success than both [the Summer Olympics in] Atlanta and Barcelona."
In a final piece of news, I was told that Australia Post's annual collection of stamps for the year 2000 will contain a different version of the 16 Gold Medalist stamps not available elsewhere. This pane will include the 16 different Gold Medalist stamps se-tenant, or side by side. The pane will not be sold separately.
The annual collection, if ordered before Dec. 27, costs A$82.50 (U.S. $45), or A$87.50 thereafter until sold out. Collectors in the United States may order the annual collection from the official agent for Australia Post in North America, Unicover, 1 Unicover Center, Cheyenne, WY 82008-0010, or phone 800-443-3232.
Australia Post expects a fast sellout of the annual collection, and it may restrict the number purchased per client. I believe that the pane of 16 se-tenant Gold Medalist stamps will be highly sought as an individual item not only by Australian collectors but also by Olympic topical collectors worldwide. Australia Post has never before issued an item in any annual collection or other packaged product that was not itself freely available for individual sale.
I would not be surprised to see a retail price of at least U.S. $50 per pane reached soon in this market. Each annual collection contains A$68 in face value of mint stamps apart from the Gold Medalist pane, so the math is pretty simple. Issue price of the entire album is less than U.S. $50. The pane also will be a nice memento of the Games.
As a Sydney local, I was proud at the way the Games ran smoothly, with no serious threats, boycotts, bombs, road, air or rail transport chaos, and other afflictions commonplace in recent Olympics. I attended a day of track and field finals at the main stadium, and the atmosphere in that filled stadium was electric. Sydney 2000 was truly the "friendly games." Roll on Salt Lake City 2002.
Glen Stephens is a philatelic journalist and stamp dealer based in Sydney, Australia.
All content Copyright 2000 Linn's Stamp News, of Sidney, Ohio, USA and by the author Glen Stephens.
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Module A-107 is a completely new voltage controlled filter that has available 36 filter types: different versions of low pass, high pass, band pass, notch, all pass and filters with new response curves that have no name up to now. The frequency response curves of the 36 filters available in the A-107 are shown in the graphics at the end of this page. The filters are organized in two groups of 18 filters each. The transition between different filter types within one group can be soft (morphing) or hard (switching).
The filter was inspired by the ERWIK Musikelektronik Multimode Filter, which is based on the filter used in the Oberheim Matrix 12 resp. Xpander (thanks to Jesper Erwik Johansson for his assistance and permission to use his idea in our A-107 module). The possibilities of the A-107 go far beyond these filter designs as a lot of new filter types are available and the transition between filters can be soft (morphing) or hard (switching) and the filters can be arranged in 64 different voltage controlled filter chains.
The transistion between the different filter types is controlled by two parameters:
Filter Step (marked Step at the front panel)
Morphing Time (marked Morph at the front panel)
For both parameters manual control, one CV input with attenuator and one CV input without attenuator are available.
The 36 filter types can be arranged in filter chains (resp. filter sequencer or filter orders) so that this sequence of filters is passed through while the control voltage changes from 0…+5V. Each chain consists of 32 steps. 64 filter chains can be programmed by the user and stored in the non-volatile memory of the module. The following controls are used to program the filter chains:
Step: button to address the desired step (1…32) within the filter chain in combination with the value encoder
Filter: button to select the filter number (1…36) that is assigned to the current step within the chain in combination with the valueencoder
Chain: button to select one of the filter chains (1…64) in combination with the value encoder
Program: button to store the current filter chain in one of the non-volatile memories (1…64) in combination with the valueencoder
Value: endless rotary encoder to change the parameter selected with the buttons
3 digit Display (the first digit indicates of the current value shows Step “S”, Filter “F” or Chain “C”, the second and third digit display the number)
Additionally a “clocked” mode is available. This means that the steps of the currently selected filter chain are selected one after another. Each positive transition of the Clock signal calls up the next filter of the chain (jack socket marked Step Clock). A positive trigger at the Step Reset input (jack socket marked Step Reset) resets to the first filter of the current filter chain. This allows e.g. to switch between the filters of the currently selected filter chain in sync with a sequencer.
Of course the standard VCF controls are available: manual filter frequency control, one CV input with attenuator and one CV input without attenuator.
In addition voltage controlled resonance with manual control, CV input with attenuator and CV control without attenuator are available. For the filters of the first group (1…18) self-oscillation is possible, the filters of the second group (19…36) do not feature self-oscillation.
On top of it a final VCA is available (even with manual control, CV input with attenuator and CV input without attenuator).
The filter design is 100% analog (CEM filter chip). Only the morphing control and memory managing is carried out by a microcontroller.
Remark: Because of technical reasons the transition between the two filter groups (1…18, resp. 19…36) cannot be carried out soft as capacitors have to be switched. Soft transition (i.e. morphing) is possible only within the filter group (i..e. within the filters 1…18 or19…36). Switching between filters causes a “click” if the filters are from different groups.
For more detailed information please look at the English user’s manual A107_man.pdf
Width: 26 HP / 131.8 mm
Depth: 40 mm (measured from the rear side of the front panel)
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Strong on Corrosion - Super Gentle on Food!
For companies involved in the food and beverage industries, corrosion prevention is non-negotiable. Corroding equipment requires costly repairs and can contaminate the product it contains. Among other materials, aluminum, tin, copper, titanium, and mainly stainless steel are widely used in these industries. Processed foods contain diverse aqueous solutions such as syrups, and additives used to improve food appearance, quality, and preservation.
These foods have a wide pH range and varying salt, water, and vinegar content that impacts food corrosivity. Cleaning and sanitation agents used in the industry include alkaline, acidic and oxidizing chemicals to ensure a high hygiene level. This great variety of corrosive environments and aggressive chemical agents require extreme cautiousness when it comes to corrosion protection. Not only must the legal requirements for hygiene be adhered to, but occupational health and safety guidelines as well.
Thankfully, modern science has developed new corrosion protection methods such as patented Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibitors that enable these very delicate industries to safely protect their systems from this destructive force. Cortec® VpCI® inhibitors are among best technologies available to prevent equipment damage and food contamination. VpCI®’s can be used to protect cans, water tank containers, and exteriors of installations made with carbon and galvanized steel, concrete, or wood
S-8 - Corrosion Inhibitor for Food Can Protection is part of a wide range of Cortec®’s safe, USDA, FDA and NSF compliant corrosion protection products. S-8 is a unique, economical product formulated only from FDA approved ingredients. It can be used in very low concentration and still provide complete corrosion protection in water, its vapors and their interface. The product is especially useful for the corrosion protection of metallic cans with different food items during their washing or sterilization of the packed food. This non-toxic “green” filming inhibitor is compatible with most products used in water treatment. It is especially efficient against corrosion in the presence of disinfectants and does not hydrolyze during the application.
Sodium salt of fatty amino acids and amino alcohol are the active ingredients of S-8. Benchtop laboratory tests show outstanding film persistency and stability in a wide temperature range. S-8 is compatible with the majority of water chemistries and outperforms other “green” inhibitors due to its stability and ability to form a thin protective layer that will not cause sticky deposits. | <urn:uuid:a8d6bd96-e794-4af4-b3fd-ef2cd06ea44c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=45558 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919273 | 515 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Modern device management with a few twists
' My goal is to share my knowledge and experiences with community members on their own road to Modern device management. I love working with Microsoft technology and hopefully I can help a few people along the way.'
The Microsoft authenticator app that we know and love has been around for some time now and it gives us an additional layer of security to Azure AD working school accounts and our Microsoft accounts. When using the app it allows users to authenticate in a passwordless way when signing in but also as an additional layer of verification to SSPR or self-service password reset and also during an Azure AD mfa event.
The big news though is that Microsoft have now gone one step further with their latest release and have introduced some new security features for iOS and Android devices which includes 1 - The number matching experience with push notifications 2 - Additional context to authentication where it gives you information about the app and location the person is logging in from.
Example of Number matching
In episode 5 of out Bitesize series Dean introduces Attack Simulation Training and how to train your users against threats using your O365 environment.
In Bitesize episode #3 I demonstrate how to set up Temporary access pass (TAP) withMicrosoft Intune and discuss the features with @Dean_Ellerby as part of our GetModern series. Please refer to my recent blogpost on the topic for additional information. Move2Modern - MOVE2MODERN.CO.UK (weebly.com)
In this Bitesize episode @dean_ellerby demonstrates the benefits of MCAS and how it can help organisations take control of which Cloud Apps are used in the environment.
If you're like me you may have seen a few blog posts coming out around Temporary Access Pass or TAP recently. Anything around passwords grabs my attention so thought this would be a good opportunity to find out a bit more about it. As I work within the Modern desktop area I wanted to add a slightly different view of this and see how it integrates with Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM). | <urn:uuid:5f644616-82eb-4fff-86c2-5c4f768b0ce6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://move2modern.weebly.com/blog-posts/category/security | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939377 | 472 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Police chiefs have denied discussing the prioritisation of black and female job applicants – insisting they had only met to discuss meeting to discuss the issue.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) was reported to be talking today about plans to use affirmative action to create a more representative workforce.
Acpo is said to have been handed formal proposals to give preference to black, ethnic minority and female applications for police officer posts. It is understood that these plans come from work led by Suzette Davenport, vice-chairman of the British Association for Women in Policing.
But an Acpo spokeswoman told Personnel Today: “We have only been discussing whether to put this on the agenda for a future meeting.”
The Home Office has given the police force a target of ensuring 7% of officers come from ethnic minorities by 2009. The figure currently stands at 3.7%, and radical plans are being investigated to increase diversity. | <urn:uuid:a54adb39-1f8d-41f8-9908-db275696b4e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/police-chiefs-deny-discussing-positive-discrimination-but-admit-to-talking-about-talks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965279 | 190 | 1.570313 | 2 |
And while the idea of spiders falling from the sky like rain is not entirely accurate, well, you get the picture. Arachnophobes might want to skip Nadia Drake’s report for Wired Science:
When 20-year-old web designer Erick Reis left a friend’s house on Sunday, he saw what looked like thousands of spiders overhead, reported G1, a Brazilian news site, on Feb. 8. The large, sturdy spiders were hanging from power lines and poles, and crawling around on a vast network of silk strands spun over the town of Santo Antonio da Platina.
As creeptastic is it may be, “The phenomenon observed is not really surprising,” said Leticia Aviles, who studies social spiders at the University of British Columbia. “Either social or colonial spiders may occur in large aggregations, as the one shown in the video.” The reason, she and others say, is simple: This is how they hunt.
Er … yeah. I’m not a fan of spiders. Ironically, I had a dream the night before I saw this article that had something to do with a staggering number of spiders. I have no idea why, or what it means. Forgive me, please, if I haven’t paused to dwell on the Freudian or Jungian interpretive values involved. | <urn:uuid:cb78d1f3-bfb7-4435-974f-8c5e79b16018> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://novsci.wordpress.com/tag/nadia-drake/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.93477 | 285 | 2.46875 | 2 |
How I Use It
I really appreciate the templates that come with Prezi. They are perfect for starting and provide a great framework. I really like how the possibilities are endless once you learn how to connect everything via a path. I was overjoyed to see my struggling academic students thrive with being able to create without being held into a boundary. My ELL's were just as successful as my English only speaking students. I was surprised by my 2 students who don't usually put out much effort become totally engaged and offer to help others. They even went home and practiced more... one of them on his dad's phone! Prezi's can be a bit overwhelming if you try too much at one time. I really think the best tool on there is the undo arrow.. it saved us sooooo many times!
I love the creativity that Prezi elicits from my students. Regardless of academic abillity level, Prezi levels the playing field by allowing students to learn, grow, and create beautiful presentations. An amazing outlet for students who often get overlooked for any number of reasons. My 5th graders learned the basics in less than 30 minutes and within a day knew more than I did. A true breath of fresh air! | <urn:uuid:eb023327-4e4d-4e24-a855-8c220ddbdf7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/prezi-teacher-review/3938356 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.986393 | 253 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Variations on blood pressure readings have been linked to declines on brain functions in older patients, according to a recent investigation published in the American Heart Association’s health journal Hypertension.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 70 million American adults suffer from high blood pressure, that’s one of every three adults in the United States.
Only 52 percent of patients with high blood pressure in the U.S have their disease under control which, according to the CDC, costs the nation around $46 billion on health care services every year.
Recently, a team of researchers analyzed data from older patients and their regular medical appointments, finding that those patients with higher variability on their blood pressure had also faster decline on their cognitive functions.
“Blood pressure variability might signal blood flow instability, which could lead to the damage of the vessels of the body with changes in brain structure and function. These blood pressure fluctuations may indicate pathological processes such as inflammation and impaired function in the blood vessels themselves,” said Bonnie Qin, lead author of the study in a statement.
Blood pressure levels and brain functions
The investigation, held by Ph.D. Bonnie Qin from the Rutgers Cancer Institute, New Jersey, studied data facts from the China Health and Nutrition Survey which included 976 Chinese adults between the ages of 55 years and older.
Data facts covered five years of regular routine check ups on the patients, which included blood pressure levels and results from different cognitive quizzes like word recall exercises and counting numbers backward.
After analyzing the data, researchers found that patients with a higher variability of their systolic blood pressure – top number in blood pressure readings – had a faster decline in their cognitive quizzes results.
Diastolic blood pressure levels – bottom number in blood pressure readings – were associated with a higher decline in adults between the ages of 55 and 64 and not in older adults.
Although cognitive brain functions levels declined during check-up routines, high blood pressure levels were not associated with changes in brain functioning.
The study held by the team of researchers was observational and it is yet to suggest a cause and effect between the variations of high blood pressure and brain function decline, but Qin hopes these findings could help patients.
“Controlling blood pressure instability could possibly be a potential strategy in preserving cognitive function among older adults,” said lead author Bonnie Qin, who hopes physicians focus more on high blood pressure variability instead of blood pressure readings.
The findings of the study are one in many results that indicate high blood pressure variability could lead to more health issues in older patients, yet more investigations need to be made on the subject.
High blood pressure
Around 360,000 deaths in the United States have been attributed to high pressure as a primary cause or as a contributing cause of death, meaning that 1,000 deaths a day are due to high blood pressure in the nation.
High blood pressure readings endangered heart and health conditions, according to the CDC, seven out of ten patients suffer their first heart attack thanks to high blood pressure levels as well as eight out of ten patients have their first stroke because of high blood pressure readings.
Other complications can include chronic heart failure and kidney diseases in patients suffering from high blood pressure.
Specialists and doctors recommend older adults, especially 60 years and older, to maintain constant check-ups with their doctors to receive the correct treatment.
Recommendations for high blood pressure patients include reducing the amount of salt or sodium ingestion on a daily basis and a proper healthy lifestyle.
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Answer from: Guillermo Quea Campos
Usually, ovarian stimulation can take up to 10 to 12 days for the follicles to reach maturity, size and do puncture or during intrauterine dissemination it can be scattered in this procedure. But usually the stimulation can take 10 to 12 days until it is time to pick up the oocytes.
Answer from: Scott Nelson, Professor
For most people, it’s an injection for about 10 to 11 days and it says from of daily injections and then having that egg retrieval 36 hours later. For most people it would be done within two weeks in total. Some people can take a little bit longer than that and might take out 18 – 19 days. Certainly most people by the time they’re getting up to 21 days and it’s not responding to drugs, that I think we’d be thinking about canceling the cycle and thinking about other strategies.
What is the timeframe for ovarian stimulation?
Ovarian stimulation is a treatment with the goal of obtaining a larger number of mature follicles than in a natural cycle. What does the ovarian stimulation look like? What are the key factors that it depends on?
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M.M. Long Livery Stable
Built in 1860, the M.M. Long Livery Stable was once the stable for the “Austin Burnet Lapas Stagecoach Line.” The Austin Opera House moved to the upper floor of the building in 1871 and the local newspaper reported that a performers were overcome by the distinct odor of manure. The building was restored in the mid 1970s. | <urn:uuid:37477ebe-116b-4494-b0c7-b7b7b4d6900d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://goaustin.bar-z.com/283/location/mm-long-livery-stable | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980988 | 86 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Introducing a New Wellness Program that Mr. Ed Would Love – Therapeutic Riding Program
October 19, 2013For years horses have been used as part of senior wellness programs, providing benefits including increasing physical strength and cognitive function as well as fostering socialization. Recently, residents from Brightmore of Wilmington ranging in age from 84 to 92 enjoyed a morning of horseback riding at Randall’s Reach with the Coastal Therapeutic Riding Program, as an activity recently added to Brightmore’s wellness program. “Horseback riding is great exercise no matter what you’re age,” said Erin Rhyne, Fitness and Aquatics Director at the community. “Riding offers tremendous physical and emotional wellness benefits – improving strength, coordination, balance, joint mobility, flexibility, posture, circulation and muscle tone along with memory, sensation, self-esteem and confidence.”
According to the American Equestrian Alliance, “because horseback riding gently and rhythmically moves the rider’s body in a manner similar to a human gait, riders with physical disabilities often show improvement in flexibility, balance and muscle strength.”Resident Dorothy “Dottie” Weathersbee remembers taking her daughter to riding lessons and always thought it looked like fun. According to Erin Rhyne, “Dottie was nervous at first since it’s her first time in over 50 years being around a horse but as she approached the horse named Beans, she said, ‘Oh look at you, you’re not too bad. You’re such a gentle creature! And those big brown eyes are watching my every move.’ The entire time Dottie was riding, she was smiling from ear to ear!” Brightmore’s non-riding residents who attended got the chance to see the farm’s other animals including a Miniature Donkey, a registered American Miniature Palomino-Pinto horse, a Shetland Pony, a potbellied pig, hens, ducks and a Koi Pond. The horses are led by a PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) Certified instructor. Coastal Therapeutic Riding Program provides equine assisted activities and therapies for individuals with special needs along with Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy. Brightmore of Wilmington is proud to offer this program as a part of our overall wellness program, to learn more about the enrichment opportunities our residents experience each day visit our website. | <urn:uuid:ea0438ea-28f1-4d97-bf6d-e13378811548> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brightmoreofwilmington.com/news/introducing-a-new-wellness-program-that-mr-ed-would-love-therapeutic-riding-program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946267 | 511 | 1.632813 | 2 |
THE TRANSHUMANIST SCRAPBOOK: HUMAN SUSPENDED ANIMATION TRIALS
Here's yet another development to put in your transhumanist scrapbook, courtesy of Mr. V.T. who shared it. This weeks scrap for the scrapbook? Suspended animation trials on humans are slated to begin at a Pittsburgh hospital:
If all this sounds a little too much like crazed Dr. Walter Bishop from the popular TV series, Fringe, that's probably because it is. As the article notes, the central driving force here is that suspended animation has already been successfully performed, on a pig:
"The technique of suspended animation (or “emergency preservation and resuscitation” as non-sci-fi doctors prefer to call it) was first trialed on pigs in 2002. Hasan Alam, working with his colleagues at the University of Michigan Hospital, drugged up a pig, created a massive hemorrhage to simulate the effect of a massive gunshot wound, and then replaced its blood with a cold saline solution, cooling the pig’s cells to just 10 Celsius (50F). After the injury was treated, the pig was gradually warmed back up by replacing the saline with blood. Usually the pig’s heart started beating on its own, and despite the pig being dead for a few hours, there was no physical or cognitive impairment. Now, it’s time to try it out on humans. [Research paper: dx.doi.org/10.1067/msy.2002.125787 - "Learning and memory is preserved after induced asanguineous hyperkalemic hypothermic arrest in a swine model of traumatic exsanguination"]"
As the article indicates, current hopes for human trials are in a time frame of two hours, at most, but one can already envision a dramatic extension of this time frame, again as the article itself notes, to weeks, months, perhaps even years. The real success will be indicated, as the above paragraph suggests, not simply by "resuscitation", but by whether or not an individual's memory and cognitive ability remain... or, perhaps, even enhanced.
At this juncture, we can indulge in some high octane speculation, for let us suppose that such trials are successful, and that memory and cognitive abilities remain as they were before. One can imagine the adaptation of such techniques to the transhumanist agenda, with its stated desires to "download" and "upload" a persons memories. One can imagine the use of technologies while an individual is in a state of "suspended animation" to enhance, or otherwise modify, a person's memories, cognitive abilities, or even behavior patterns. Or even more horrifically, "downloading" one individual and uploading another, whether by deliberate action, or, perhaps, as an unintended consequence of phenomena we do not even understand.
See you on the flip side.
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QREDO: Reducing DeFi’s Risk Exposure
Users have access to a digital solution for safely storing and managing cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets through cryptocurrency wallets. Users are able to buy, sell, and receive bitcoins using these wallets. Many cryptocurrency wallets allow users to hold numerous cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, among many others.
While some cryptocurrency wallets may only handle a single cryptocurrency, others are multi-asset solutions. By demanding complex passwords and other security precautions, these solutions make sure that the only person or entity with access to the funds is the owner of the cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets.
As a “hedge fund manager”, it has never been simple to keep your Seed phrase (Private keys) safe in the face of all the fear and uncertainty that has plagued the past quarter 🙂.
Due to the high number of people involved, self-custody at the institutional level can be exceedingly risky and reduces the possibility of troubleshooting if a problem arises.
How do we Bring Institutions into DeFi;
We may all agree that institutional players are necessary for DeFi to grow, but where do they turn for security with this level of responsibility?
I think #QredoFixesThis but how? A case study on FBG Capital gives an insight.
FBG uses the Clearpool platform to access DeFi capital markets for lending and borrowing cryptoassets for use in its trading strategies.
Previously, the company used solutions such as MetaMask Institutional to interact with ClearPool, but found that the limitations of only having one single signer to approve transactions was incompatible with its institutional responsibilities.
With Qredo, FBG was able to maintain its access to MetaMask Institutional while gaining access to an institutional-compliant custody platform which offered as many approvers or signatories per transaction as needed.
Each trade typically involves multiple users including both portfolio managers and FBG’s compliance and back office teams, meaning that the firm could maintain access to its book of business on Clearpool while increasing the security for each trade.
If you read the case study above, you’ll agree with me that Qredo is a perfect option for Institutional player
- No private key risk; A customizable governance layer supported by decentralized Multi-Party Computation is used to replace vulnerable private keys (dMPC). Individual private keys for transaction signing are replaced by multi-party computation (MPC). The signature procedure is divided among several machines by MPC. Each computer is in possession of a piece of confidential information that corresponds to a portion of the key, and they work together to sign distributed transactions.
- Sophisticated governance; With controls and oversight permissions delegated to various organizational roles, including traders, approvers, administrators, and more, governance can be customized to meet the needs of your team.
The governance offered by dMPC, in contrast to multisig, is operationally flexible; signature thresholds can be simply changed, and permissions can be updated as the organization changes.
- Immutable logs; The Qredo blockchain immutably records every custodial activity, guaranteeing that transaction approval records cannot be changed. Additionally, the auditing logs may be immediately exported, which reduces the likelihood that suspicious transactions would go undetected.
Are you looking to create your own Qredo governance system?
When you open a Qredo Wallet, just choose an organization account and configure your signature methods and subaccounts to match your needs.
Qredo is a radical new blockchain infrastructure that delivers interoperability, lightning-fast settlement, and decentralized custody.
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In the business world, one company's pain can mean another company's gain. You can double that with recent developments in the COVID-19 vaccine market.
AstraZeneca (AZN -0.39%) has stumbled quite a bit in recent months with its COVID-19 vaccine program. There was a new development just last week that could further complicate matters for the big drugmaker. Also last week, German biotech CureVac (CVAC 0.44%) reported a serious setback for its COVID-19 vaccine hopes.
But the problems for these two companies present major opportunities for the two leaders in the COVID-19 vaccine market -- Pfizer (PFE -1.18%) and Moderna (MRNA -3.78%). Here's how Pfizer and Moderna could profit big-time from AstraZeneca's and CureVac's challenges.
Coming in second
A year ago, it seemed that AstraZeneca might be one of the biggest winners in the COVID-19 vaccine market. However, there have been some safety concerns for the big pharmaceutical company's vaccine. AstraZeneca also ran into problems delivering the number of doses expected. This ultimately led to the European Union filing a lawsuit against the drugmaker.
Now there's another wrinkle for AstraZeneca that could directly benefit Pfizer and Moderna. Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is recommending that anyone who received a first dose of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine receive a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine as their second dose.
NACI cited two reasons for this recommendation. It mentioned "emerging evidence of a potentially better immune response" from the mixed vaccine doses. The committee also said that getting a second dose of an mRNA vaccine could reduce the potential risk for blood clots.
Of course, only two mRNA vaccines are currently available -- one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech (BNTX 1.48%) and one developed by Moderna. Should other countries where AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine is available follow Canada's lead, Pfizer (along with BioNTech) and Moderna could see their sales increase.
Winning from an mRNA loss
There's another mRNA vaccine candidate that seemed to have significant potential. CureVac lagged well behind Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna but had lined up a supply deal with the EU for up to 405 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
However, CureVac announced last week that its experimental vaccine CVnCoV achieved an efficacy of only 47%. The company isn't throwing in the towel on CVnCoV at this point, but the future for the vaccine candidate is murky at best.
CureVac blamed the prevalence of new coronavirus variants for the low efficacy number. However, the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have appeared to be highly effective even with the emergence of these variants.
The difference in these outcomes could be that CureVac uses unmodified mRNA with its vaccine. Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, on the other hand, use modified mRNA in their vaccines with the goal of bypassing the body's inflammatory response to foreign mRNA.
It remains to be seen if this different mRNA approach is the culprit for CureVac. In the meantime, though, Pfizer and Moderna probably won't have another mRNA rival on the scene anytime soon. That means the companies will likely be able to extend their dominance in the COVID-19 vaccine market.
Lots of commas and zeros
In early May, Pfizer projected sales of around $26 billion this year for its COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer and BioNTech split profits equally on the sales. Around the same time, Moderna estimated that it would make $19.2 billion in revenue this year from its vaccine.
That was then. Since those updates, both Pfizer and Moderna have landed more supply deals. Pfizer and BioNTech signed an agreement with the EU to supply up to 1.8 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine through 2023. They also inked a deal with the U.S. to provide another 500 million doses for donation to poor countries at not-for-profit pricing. Meanwhile, the U.S. plans to buy another 200 million doses of Moderna's vaccine.
So far this year, Moderna has delivered much better results for investors with the biotech stock basically doubling compared to Pfizer's shares rising by only a single-digit percentage. But the commas and zeros in the revenue totals for Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccines could continue to grow, especially in light of the recent news for AstraZeneca and CureVac. If so, the stocks of both companies will probably move higher, too. | <urn:uuid:2f9409a8-3d16-447c-aab8-b0ac14a65f96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/06/23/how-pfizer-and-moderna-could-profit-big-time-from/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951758 | 1,005 | 1.507813 | 2 |
‘Its starts on the farm’: $20 million boost for on-farm biosecurity and traceability systems
The WA Government will work with the Federal Government to deliver boost on-farm biosecurity and traceability systems after the Commonwealth announced a $20 million investment in helping producers address biosecurity risks.
The biosecurity boon will be delivered over three years, with producers able to apply for grants co-funded by the State Government for activities improving on-ground biosecurity or enhancing livestock and agricultural product traceability within Australia.
Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said sound traceability and biosecurity started on the farm and was “foundational” to Australia’s national biosecurity.
“Effective on-farm biosecurity practices and the ability to trace agricultural products is critical to protecting farm gate returns and supporting new and continued access to export markets,” he said.
The funding will be delivered in up to three rounds of grants, which will be allocated to activities that will support industry and producers to prepare for, mitigate against and respond to biosecurity risks.
“These grants will be delivered in partnership with interested State and territory governments, so they will be able to tackle the issues of greatest importance in their respective jurisdictions,” Mr Littelproud said.
WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan said the State welcomed any additional funding into biosecurity and traceability.
“Last year our government injected an additional $15 million to boost our State’s biosecurity capabilities, and just last week we opened a new traceability grants program to reinforce existing industry systems,” she said.
“We will work with the Commonwealth to determine how we can further strengthen this work through the program.”
Mr Littelproud called biosecurity a “key pillar” of the industry’s $100 billion by 2030 goal and the new program was a “great opportunity” for producers to uplift their biosecurity efforts.
“Our ability to trace livestock and agricultural products quickly and effectively is fundamental to robust biosecurity and food safety systems, as well as critical to our agricultural export certification process,” he said.
The grants will be delivered in 2022-23, with guidelines for eligible activities under development.
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Video Aura Session
See the color of your energy body & how it can change in real-time using your own thoughts & feelings!
Sessions include use of an advanced bio-feedback device to assist with aura accuracy.
What’s an Aura?
An aura or human energy field (also know as Chi, Prana or Orgone) is a colored emanation which encloses a human body or any animal or object. The aura is described as a subtle body or energy body.
Your aura’s color can & will vary depending on the state(s) of your various bodies, (physical, energy & emotional body). The combination of these energies are often referred to as our aura.
When a person or animal is connected to bio-feedback equipment, a representation of their individual aura can be displayed over live video footage which is then displayed on a computer screen. Each session includes a printout of their individual aura, including tips for improvement.
Where did aura machine technology originate?
Dr. Valerie Hunt, a leading researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles, conducted studies using sophisticated methods to record subjects’ aura-energy data while clairvoyants described their aura. She discovered that data frequencies and patterns were indicative of aura colors.
Aura machine technology uses some of those lessons learned combined with a deep understanding of aura and chakra energy to create aura-energetic data graphs and reports to display a person’s chi-energy and aura and chakra state.
Some of the many positive benefits of aura camera devices are:
- Provide instant easy to understand information on aura-chakra states.
- Rapid feedback tool for educating clients about changes in aura depictions.
- Great way to create personalized aura-wellness readings.
- Log client aura-chakra changes over time and revisit for further analysis and comparison.
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Between HARP, TARP, HERA, ARRA, TALF, NSP 1, NSP 2 and the rest of the alphabet soup of stimulus funding, there's a lot of government money circulating around the country right now. How are communities using this money, and will the stimulus provide the springboard needed for equitable, sustainable change?
We must define the community development field in terms of impact and organizational structure and look at CDCs as facilitators of development, not just developers.
The story of the American foreclosure crisis begins with reckless and abusive lending that leads to a wholesale emptying out of homes. But the story is far from over.
Today's economic crisis is devastating neighborhoods and households across the country. Urban, low-income communities that were slowly recovering from the disinvestment of earlier decades are now falling back to where they were in the 1970s. Rural communities, walloped by the collapse of key economic generators, have suffered no less. Families that had begun to break the cycle of poverty and build small amounts of savings are now being plunged back into debt. Yet, at a time when the work of community development corporations is more needed than ever, there are growing questions about their long-term viability and efficacy.
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Director for General Government Programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget has a portfolio that includes HUD, Treasury, Commerce, Justice, Transportation, and Homeland Security departments, as well as the U.S. Postal Service and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All of these make a direct and profound impact in the community development world.
The functions of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- liquidity, stability, and access -- remain important for the housing economy. Indeed, the two companies today are providing more than 70 percent of all the financing for housing even while under conservatorship. But their collapse into the federal government's arms is causing a wholesale reevaluation of how best to provide those functions in the future.
Despite current economic woes, families continue to aspire to own their own homes. For many, homeownership represents a path to stability, community, and long-term wealth building. But achieving these social and economic goals requires a new policy regime and regulatory framework that mitigates the inherent risks of the process. If done right -- by matching buyers with appropriate mortgage products in a transparent and fair manner -- we can make homeownership work for a broad range of American families, even those with low incomes and few resources.
The current downturn in housing has seized the markets, pushed home prices down further than any time in generations and has sparked the worst recession since the Great Depression. At the same time, nearly 18 million households are severely burdened with housing costs that consume over half their household incomes. While few have escaped the fury of the recent downturn in housing, tenant, low-income, and particularly minority, households have fared the worst. | <urn:uuid:dc142752-7b8b-4eee-9986-e1cf2449bd71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shelterforce.org/series/158/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95644 | 596 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Is Marion Ohio under a Level 3 snow emergency?
Marion, Crawford and Wyandot Counties are all under a Level 3 snow Emergency! While under Level Three, all roadways are closed to non-emergency personnel.
What level is Marion County snow emergency?
Snow Watch: Forecast of 10 inches of snow prompts Marion County Level 2 emergency. With experts predicting more than 10 inches of snow over the next few days, Marion County has been placed under a level two snow emergency. Sheriff Matt Bayles announced the upgrade to a Level 2 early Monday evening.
Is Marion County under a level?
Marion County is one of the harder-hit areas and remained under at a level 3 snow emergency until Tuesday afternoon.
Is Marion Ohio under a tornado warning?
MARION, Ohio (WCMH)–The national weather service has issued a tornado warning for Marion, Morral, New Bloomington, and Green Camp at 7 pm.
What do the snow levels mean in Ohio?
LEVEL 1: Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. LEVEL 2: Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. Roads may also be very icy. Only those who feel it is necessary to drive should be out on the roads.
Does it snow in Ohio?
So if it’s a question of snow in Ohio, yes, it does snow. Snow happens in Ohio for about 3.6 months. It starts around the first week of December and ends around the end of March. There is a sliding liquid-equivalent snowfall for 31 days of about 0.1 inches. | <urn:uuid:d3d9c9fc-2b71-4873-bbaf-d152e9652345> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://polkfleamarket.com/marion-county/question-is-marion-county-marion-ohio-under-a-snow-advisory.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922407 | 332 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Warm Fuzzy Cut Outs – Name Label – Name Tag, Name Plate
These fun little cut outs have so many uses! Write your students names on them and create quick and easy wall displays. Use them on a door or bulletin board to welcome students to the new school year, put them on desks for quick name tags, use them on a chart or wall to track student progress in a subject area. The possibilities are endless!!!!
There are 2 printing choices. Print them in color, or use the black and white page and print them on your copier or printer on colored cardstock.
These are saved as a PDF and are not editable. However, I like to print my student’s names on mailing labels and stick them on these cut outs!
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>I had to drop off the fire surround today, which is very close to a timber yard. Well I have an order for a table coming up soonish, so thought I would buy some timber for this, and some for stock. For the table I want the top to be book-matched, so need to use a timber yard that still has its own sawmill, and that cuts its own timber. Here is the timber I have selected for the top.
They are quite pippy, and I can get a length of 72″ with a width of about 28″ and a finished thickness of a 1 1/4″. I will need to plane these by hand, because my machines can only handle 12″, and these boards are 15″. I don’t want to split them if I can avoid it, but might need to to get them flat. If I do this then I will process them through my machines.
These are the boards I picked for stock(although I’m thinking of making another table to sell).
These aren’t booked matched as they sit on my bench. As you can see, it is brown Oak. Here is an extract from John Boddy Timber to explain why it becomes brown in colour.
This is a very unusual characteristic obtained from a Native or European Oak tree, which has been attacked by the Beef-Steak fungus (Fistulina hepatica), it gains entry to the wood through an open wound where a limb has been blown off. Unlike many fungi which cause serious decay and eventually kill the a tree, the beef- steak fungus simply extracts enough nourishment for itself, and the wood is stained by the chemical changes occur. Some specimen trees also show brown penetrating from the tree root. This is particularly apparent in park grown trees. It is a highly prized and valuable timber, and most trees are cut into veneer.
Fortunately the timber yard I went to today was not that interested in this timber being brown, and because its very pippy they don’t see it as having any value. I paid £40 for all these boards that I’ve shown you, and the brown timber is 2″ thick. As soon as I’m paid for the fire surround, I’m going back to buy a lot more. | <urn:uuid:62fe9806-4346-4ffd-a7ac-5bd775093c5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://markrhodesfurniture.co.uk/some-nice-timber/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.975879 | 476 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Amid strong calls on the Georgian government to join international sanctions against Russia, the violent, pro-Russian extremist group Alt Info announced its intent to hold meetings in Moscow to ‘settle Georgian-Russian relations’.
On Monday, Konstantine Morgoshia, the founder of Alt Info, told Georgian TV channel Pirveli that their party, the Conservative Movement, planned to hold meetings in Russia ‘in the nearest future’.
Morgoshia did not specify who they were meeting in Russia, saying that they would hold talks with ‘political circles’ that were ‘able to settle Georgian-Russian relations’.
Leaders of Alt Info faced questions after their party chair, Zurab Makharadze, announced in a Facebook video address on Sunday that he would be absent from Georgia and the group’s namesake TV channel ‘for a month or two’ to ‘deal with the business from the ground’.
Makharadze’s vague statement raised suspicions among critics that the chair of the newly launched party that advocated for ‘direct talks with Russia’ might be going to Russia to secure financial backing in Moscow.
While Morgoshia denied his party chair was in Russia, the editor of online media outlet Qronika+, Eliso Kiladze, hinted that Makharadze’s absence could be related to the ‘frozen [bank] accounts’ of Russian lawmaker Kazbeg Taysayev as a result of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Taysayev is a Russian Communist Party MP and the First Deputy Chair of the State Duma for Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs — the Russian-led post-Soviet regional organisation that Georgia left following the 2008 August War.
Alt Info’s Conservative Movement similarly did not disclose whom they were meeting in Moscow earlier this year. Eliso Kiladze, who suggested she was familiar with a ‘one-hour recording’ of the Georgian-Russian ‘round table’ at the State Duma, claimed on 31 January that they were hosted by Taysayev.
OC Media has reached out to Taysayev for comment.
Alleged hacking attack amid growing national backlash
On Sunday night, Alt Info’s website became unavailable. While an anonymous account on Twitter claimed responsibility for hacking the group, OC Media has not been able to independently verify the claim. However, Alt Info’s website remained unreachable as of Monday.
[Read more about the latest from a series of Facebook clampdowns on Alt Info: Facebook takes down pages tied to Georgian pro-Russia extremists]
Alt Info faced criticism soon after their inception, especially for their homophobic campaigns in recent years that culminated in mass violence against activists and journalists last July in Tbilisi.
However, they faced an even larger backlash after setting up their political party, Conservative Georgia last November, quickly followed by opening dozens of regional offices throughout the country this year.
In February and March, their new offices caused public outcry in the central Georgian town of Gori, in the municipalities of Ambrolauri and Ozurgeti, Svaneti’s Mestia and Akhaltskikhe, as well as in Kobuleti, Khulo, and Shuakhevi in Adjara.
Protesters there either vandalised offices Alt Info had rented or convinced local landlords to oust them.
[Read more on OC Media: Svaneti residents attempt to oust pro-Russian extremist group from their town]
After actively spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and voicing opinions against women’s rights, migrants, and in favour of domestic violence against children, Alt Info has primarily focused on pro-Russian messages and disinformation around Ukraine since late February.
‘Either Georgia is going to end up in a large-scale war or a dozen people should be neutralised and someone may think that we are very strict, but in the interests of Georgia, the traitors of our homeland should be taken care of’, he said.
This was followed by unsuccessful calls to ban the political party, have their financing properly studied, and regulate their mouthpiece channel. But unlike some big tech companies with their intermittent crackdown on Alt Info, Georgian regulators have been relatively lenient to the extremist group.
[Read more on OC Media: Extremist group behind Tbilisi Pride violence granted 'national broadcaster' status]
‘[T]he entire narrative of Alt-Info’s broadcasting is to exculpate Russia’s crimes against humanity by using Ukraine’s pro-Western course as a supporting argument for such actions’, the Tbilisi-based Georgian Democracy Initiative said on 4 March, unsuccessfully calling on the Georgian National Communications Commission to impose sanctions on Alt Info for breaching Georgia’s broadcasting laws.
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A humongous sunspot — the biggest one seen since 1990 — produced no aurora-causing events despite firing off 10 intense solar flares in less than two weeks last month, scientists say.
"Supersunspot" AR 2192 was so big that it was visible on the sun to people without a telescope (and some viewers did indeed see it through eclipse glasses during the partial solar eclipse of Oct. 23). At a staggering 1.65 billion square miles (4.27 billion square kilometers) in size, it was the33rd largest "active region" ever observed on the sun by astronomers since 1874.
Between Oct. 19 and Oct. 28, the sunspot erupted with six X-class flares (the most powerful type) and four medium-class M flares. None of these events, however, included a coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs send clouds of superhot solar particles streaking through space at millions of miles per hour. CMEs that hit Earth can spawn geomagnetic storms that ramp up auroral displays (also known as the northern and southern lights) and can temporarily disrupt power grids and satellite navigation.
"Despite all the flares, this region did not produce any significant coronal mass ejections," said Alex Young, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in a statement. "You certainly can have flares without CMEs and vice versa, but most big flares do have CMEs. So we're learning that a big, active region doesn't always equal the biggest events."
AR 2192 rotated onto the far side of the sun on Oct. 30. It could come back into view again in mid-November, if it survives, scientists said.
While size can matter when producing CMEs, the sunspot that spawned the Carrington event — a monster CME that fried telegraph lines on Earth in September 1859 — didn't crack the top 50 of sunspot sizes ever tracked, researchers said.
Sunspots are measured in microhemispheres (MH); one MH is about 600,000 square miles (1.55 million square km). AR 2192 was 2,750 MH in size. The largest five sunspots ever measured ranged from 4,000 MH to more than 6,000 MH, and were all observed between 1946 and 1951.
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Exploratory Reports at IRSP: Guidelines for Authors
Exploratory Reports (ERs) is a format for empirical submissions that tend to address relatively open research questions, without strong a priori predictions of hypotheses. These studies are abductive (=often starting with an observation) and inductive/hypothesis-generating (=going from data to hypothesis). This means that authors can do as many analyses as they would like on a dataset, as long as they openly report it. These analyses should however generate predictions, and in some cases, these predictions can and should already be tested. At this stage, we are limiting the ER to two types: Machine learning and cross-validation (We include machine learning as a separate ER type, even though it often includes cross-validation (but not always, as in the case of conditional random forests or autoencoding)).
Cross-validation can be done using more traditional, inferential statistics, machine learning, or another analysis approach. For research using cross-validation, we expect authors to submit a results-blind submission for the validation part of their manuscript. At least one validation set is required, a second validation set highly encouraged. The analyses for the validation sets will be blinded to reduce publication bias. Authors are also asked not to analyze data in their validation sets prior to submission. For those unfamiliar with exploratory research, we recommend reading Yarkoni and Westfall, viewing Rick Klein’s primer and running through tutorials Klein made available. These tutorials include analysis scripts for cross-validation. An analysis script for a type of supervised machine learning (conditional random forests) applied in social psychology is available from IJzerman et al. (2018). Typical exploratory reports include multiple tests and variables that go beyond basic hypothesis-testing.
Central to ERs is the generation of hypotheses for confirmatory research. We therefore expect the discussions of ERs to include the following aspects:
- - A hypothesis generated from the research
- - A necessary sample size needed to test the hypothesis generated from the ER
- - A section constraining the generality of the authors’ hypothesis/hypotheses (see e.g., Simons et al., 2018)
One of the ways we plan to reduce the workload for authors, editors, and reviewers, is by letting our editors create a project on the Open Science Framework (OSF) after a first-page overview submitted to the journal. This will allow authors and reviewers to work more efficiently by adopting a transparent “research workflow”. All reviews and editorial letters will be stored and will be open to our readers. Initial submissions will be triaged by the editorial team for suitability in Stage 1. For this stage, authors are requested to e-mail (firstname.lastname@example.org) a one-page, bullet-pointed overview prior to submitting their ER for full review. We will invite authors of proposals that pass triage to submit a full manuscript for in-depth peer review (Stage 2).
Authors can collect their own data, but are also encouraged to use existing datasets (e.g., the ManyLabs datasets, see e.g., 1 or 2; the Human Penguin Project; the European Social Survey; LISS Panel data; Eurobarometer, International Social Survey Programme, British Household Panel Study, World Values Survey, American National Election Studies. A more comprehensive list of datasets can be found here; we are open to suggestions for other datasets to be advertised here).
Exploratory Reports Editors:
Hans IJzerman, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Lorne Campbell, Western University, Canada
Exploratory Reports Editorial Review Board:
Thomas Pollet - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Robert McIntosh - University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Samantha Joel - Western University, Canada
Rick Klein - Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Yizhar Lavner - Tel Hai College, Israel
Stage 1: One-page proposal of the ER
Authors are requested to e-mail (email@example.com) a one-page, bullet-point overview to the journal prior to submitting their ER for full review. One editor (Lorne Campbell or Hans IJzerman) will provide a quick turnaround on suitability of the proposed ER for the journal. If the proposal is deemed suitable for the journal, one of the editors will create an Open Science Framework (OSF; www.osf.io) component where the author(s) can prepare their Stage 2 manuscript. Only after approval of Stage 1 can authors move on to Stage 2.
Page overview preparation guidelines – Stage 1
The one page proposal should be (maximum) ¾ of a page with bullet points about the research and one paragraph making a brief case for consideration of the ER. Authors should consider whether they will have the necessary resources to conduct the research, as this is a criterion at Stage 2. The one-page proposal should be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Stage 2: Full manuscript submission and review
Stage 2 submissions will be prepared in manuscript form, together with an OSF project created by the editors after Stage 1 approval. The authors should prepare a brief cover letter for the journal submission system that includes their “view only” link to their project page. Once the study, or reanalysis, is complete, authors prepare and re-submit their manuscript for full review via https://www.rips-irsp.com/submit/start/, with the following additions:
Cover letter. The ER cover letter must confirm:
- - That the manuscript includes a link to the public archive containing anonymized study data, digital materials/code, and the laboratory log. The cover letter should state the page number in the manuscript that lists the URL.
- - The page number that includes the hypothesis generated from the research.
- - The page number that includes the necessary sample size to test the hypothesis generated from the research.
- - The page number that includes the Constraints On Generality.
- - Whether the manuscript is a machine learning or a cross-validation type ER.
- - In case of cross-validation, a confirmation that they did not yet analyze the second partition of the data.
The manuscript is comparable to most manuscripts written in APA. It should include the following information:
Background, Rationale, and Methods:
- - The background and rationale should provide justification for the proposed exploratory study, including the selection of variables, study design, and proposed analytic framework.
- - The proposed methods and procedures should be sufficient to enable direct replication. Close replication is facilitated by creating an OSF project along the lines of our exploratory research template.
Exploratory Results & Discussion
- - Authors should present their data fully, giving consideration to the most effective and comprehensive means of data visualisation.
- - Authors should present their data openly, including apparent anomalies, and explore the robustness and limits of the main patterns of interest.
- - Confidence or credibility intervals are encouraged, but should not be used to support binary existential claims. Such intervals can instead support estimates of roughly how much there is of something. The use of raw effect sizes, instead of or in addition to standardised effect sizes, is encouraged, to inform interpretation.
- - Exploratory results should be reported in one section, followed immediately by a section outlining the hypotheses generated from the research and a sample size calculation for follow up research that takes into account the precision of the obtained effect size estimate.
- - During cross-validation, hypotheses can be generated for testing in a second section entitled Confirmatory Results. Analyses of the hold-out set should not yet be conducted at this stage of the research process in order to reduce chances of publication bias. The hold-out set should be described fully in the analyses section, but XX should be placed instead of the results. The authors can choose to register their hypotheses on the Open Science Framework for a Confirmatory Results section. The results of the hold-out set will not be sent out for full review, but will be reviewed by the editor after the analyses are conducted following acceptance of the Confirmatory Results-blind manuscript.
- - For cross-validation, authors will have to certify in their cover letter that they did not run any analyses on the second part of their data and that they only ran analyses specified in their pre-registration, similar to the process of our Confirmatory Reports.
- - Parameter estimation rather than hypothesis-testing, whether Bayesian or frequentist, is encouraged in the exploratory datasets. Nevertheless, if authors utilize null-hypothesis significance tests as heuristics for their tests they are required to 1) report exact p values in two decimal places and effect sizes and 2) include a statement that p-values from their research cannot be used for meta-analyses.
The OSF project created by the editors will include the following components:
Component 1: Laboratory log (if available) and digital study materials
- - In case of original data, authors are required to submit digital study materials and laboratory log.
- - In the case of secondary data, authors are required to link to codebooks and study materials made available from the original dataset.
Component 2: Submission of anonymised raw data or secondary data
- - The default is that anonymised raw data and digital study materials is made freely available in a public repository/archive with a link provided within the ER manuscript. Authors are free to connect any repository to the OSF that renders data and materials freely and publicly accessible and provides a digital object identifier (DOI) to ensure that the data remain persistent, unique and citable. Potential repositories include (but are not limited to), OSF, Figshare, Harvard Dataverse, and Dryad. For a comprehensive list of available data repositories, see http://www.re3data.org/. Only in exceptional cases (and with proper justification and approval by the editors) are data allowed to not not made available. In such cases, a type of summary data should still be made available.
- - Raw data must be accompanied by guidance notes (i.e., meta-data), where required, to assist other scientists in replicating the analysis pipeline. Authors are required to upload any relevant analysis scripts and other digital experimental materials that would assist in replication.
- - Any supplementary figures, tables, or other text (such as supplementary methods) can either be included as standard supplementary information that accompanies the paper, or they can be archived together with the data. Please note that the raw data itself should be archived rather than submitted to the journal as supplementary material.
Component 3: Analysis Script
- - Full analysis pipeline, including all preprocessing steps, and a precise description of all analyses. Analyses can be restricted to a well-written and well-commented script and do not have to be described separately in the Wiki of the component.
- - Where appropriate, include proposed guidelines for how decisions will be made during the analytic process.
Component 4: Planned Analyses for Hold-Out Dataset
- - Hypotheses generated based on the exploratory dataset.
- - Sensitivity analyses to determine the smallest effect size that can be detected given the sample size of the hold-out dataset as well as the data analytic technique proposed to test the hypotheses.
- - Machine learning often, but not always, requires cross-validation. For those kinds of machine learning where cross-validation is required, the same logic applies here. For some machine learning approaches (e.g., conditional random forests or autoencoding) we will not require a hold-out set. Authors will need to justify however why they do not have a hold-out set and, like in the cross-validation approach, they will still need to generate a hypothesis from their analyses.
Component 5: Reviewer Component
- - Reviewers will be asked to use the commenting function on the OSF to give precise and concise concrete feedback on the individual components. This feedback will be used to address details that need to be fixed in the study. Reviewers will also be asked to upload a file to this component that contains more general and abstract feedback on the project, giving higher-level feedback on the research. All reviews will be stored and open to our readers.
When evaluating the confirmatory hypotheses for the hold out data in the cross-validation approach, reviewers will be asked to decide:
- Whether the stated hypotheses are reasonably generated based on the analyses.
- Whether the sample size calculation based on the exploratory analyses is reasonable.
- Whether the authors’ conclusions are justified given the data.
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- The number of job advertisements on the internet and in newspapers fell 0.9% in December compared to the previous month. Total job advertisements were 2.6% lower than in December 2010, the first negative annual growth rate since February 2010.
- The fall in total job advertisements was driven by a 1.1% fall in internet job advertising in the month. Internet job advertisements were 2.3% lower than a year ago. In contrast, newspaper job ads were 3.5% higher in December, the second consecutive monthly rise, but remained 9.3% lower than a year ago.
- The notable rise in newspaper job advertisements in December was driven largely by an exceptionally strong rise in job advertising in the Northern Territory. Excluding the Northern Territory, newspaper job advertisements rose 0.8% in December, to be 12.3% lower than a year ago.
- In trend terms, total job ads fell by 0.8% m/m in December and are now 3.4% lower than a year-earlier. Trend growth in job advertising has now been negative since April 2011. However, December does show some divergence in trend growth between internet and newspaper job advertising. While internet job advertising fell by 0.8% in trend terms in December, newspaper job advertising rose 0.1% in the month, the first monthly rise in this series since February 2010.
ANZ Head of Australian Economics Katie Dean said:
- The total number of job advertisements fell in December in seasonally adjusted terms. This however, reflected quite divergent patterns between internet and newspaper job advertising, with internet job advertising falling while newspaper job advertising rose sharply. This, the second consecutive monthly rise in newspaper job advertising, needs to be watched closely, as newspaper job advertising often leads developments in overall job advertising (and therefore employment growth).
- However, as the Christmas period shows the highest level of seasonal volatility in job advertising, we, as usual, do treat these seasonally adjusted December results with some caution. We will need to await the January and possibly February data before we can confirm these emerging developments. As usual, we therefore focus on the trend data in today’s release for implications for the labour market.
- The modest fall of 0.8% in the trend measure of total job advertisements in December points to at best modest employment gains for the Australian economy over coming months. Indeed, the current trend rate of employment growth is unlikely to be fast enough to absorb the forecast growth in the labour force in the short term. As a result, ANZ forecasts the unemployment rate to rise to 5½% by mid-2012. The unemployment rate is then expected to stay at this elevated level for most of 2012, before falling modestly in 2013 as broader economic activity continues to pick up in 2 ANZ RESEARCH response to strong mining and infrastructure investment and a likely extended period of relatively low domestic interest rates.
- Nevertheless, the sharp rise in the seasonally adjusted measure of newspaper job advertising in December does highlight that while total (internet plus newspaper) job advertising may be soft, there are some very notable ‘bright spots’. These, as expected, are concentrated in the resource-rich States and Territories. The geographical divergence in Australia’s labour market appears to be widening.
- The 3.5% rise in newspaper job advertising in December was driven by exceptionally strong double-digit growth in the Northern Territory, as well as double-digit growth in Western Australia and another strong positive rise in Queensland. While the large number of mining projects are no doubt a strong driver of job advertising in these regions, we would also point to ongoing flood-reconstruction as likely supporting job advertising in Queensland. The unusually high level of job advertising in the Northern Territory in December meanwhile also appears to have been driven by a sharp rise in advertising by the government sector in this location.
- In contrast, job advertising continues to weaken in Australia’s two most populous States, New South Wales and Victoria. This most likely reflects ongoing consolidation in the manufacturing and retail sectors, as well as some pull-back in advertising for professional services, which can be very sensitive to changes in business confidence, including increased concerns related to adverse developments in global financial conditions.
- Job advertising also remains weak in the other ‘non-mining’ States and Territories, contracting in Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. The fall in job advertising in South Australia in December meanwhile suggests that strong resource-related activity in this region is so far not enough to offset weakness in other parts of this economy.
- The ABS publishes December labour force data on Thursday. ANZ expects seasonally adjusted employment to fall by 2,000 and the unemployment rate to rise to 5.4%. Lower than usual seasonal hiring, particularly in the retail and hospitality sectors, is expected to more than offset continued strong labour demand in mining and infrastructure related projects.
- ANZ’s forecast for a further modest rise in the unemployment rate, together with continued heightened global risks, should keep domestic inflationary pressures relatively benign for now. This will provide the RBA with further scope to provide another modest easing of monetary policy. ANZ continues to forecast another 25bps cut in the RBA cash rate, to 4.00%, in February.
TOTAL JOB ADVERTISEMENTS
The ANZ Job Advertisements Series shows the total number of jobs advertised in major metropolitan newspapers and on the internet fell 0.9% m/m in December to an average of 179,970 advertisements per week (seasonally adjusted). Job advertising is now 2.6% lower than a year earlier. This is the first annual decline since February 2010.
In trend terms, total job advertisements declined by 0.8% m/m in December, recording their ninth consecutive monthly decline.
NEWSPAPER JOB ADVERTISEMENTS
The number of job advertisements in major metropolitan newspapers rose 3.5% in December, the second consecutive monthly rise in newspaper job advertising. Newspaper job advertisements do, however, remain 9.3% lower than a year ago, in part reflecting the continuing shift towards internet advertising.
In trend terms, the number of newspaper job advertisements rose by 0.1% m/m in December, the first monthly rise since February 2010. The trend number of newspaper job advertisements do, however, remain 14.0% lower than this time last year.
In December, newspaper job advertisements continued to rise in the mining regions of Queensland (+3.8% m/m), Western Australia (+10.3% m/m) and the Northern Territory (+64.7% m/m). Job advertisements fell in the more populous states of New South Wales (- 4.7% m/m) and Victoria (-0.9% m/m) as well as in South Australia (-2.9% m/m), Tasmania (- 4.5% m/m) and the ACT (-0.8% m/m). This suggests a return to the more geographical twospeed economy that was prevalent in the first phase of the commodities boom.
INTERNET JOB ADVERTISEMENTS
The number of internet job advertisements was 1.1% lower in the month of December, to be 2.3% lower than year ago levels. This is the first negative annual growth rate in internet job advertisements since February 2010 (see Table 4). Internet job advertising is now 7.5% lower than the recent peak in March 2011.
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From the beginning, many legends and stories have swirled around the 1706 discovery of Prussian blue. The highly lucrative and initially secret process was revealed in 1724, causing the Berlin alchemists to lose their monopoly.
After the London article, every halfway decently educated alchemist or chymist was able to produce Prussian blue. But how did Diesbach and Dippel come up with this recipe in the first place? Why dried blood? Why potash? Was it a stroke of genius, or a miracle sent from heaven?
8 Two Late Witness Reports about the Discovery of Prussian Blue
Diesbach and Frisch could have answered this question, but both remained silent and continued to produce Prussian blue in secret. Dippel, who was probably more qualified, was directly involved in the discovery, but could not talk because he was locked up in 1724, sentenced to a life term in prison on the Danish island of Bornholm. A number of second-hand versions of the story floated around until Georg Ernst Stahl, founder of phlogiston theory and personal physician to the Soldier King, introduced his version of the discovery of Prussian blue because it would be worth the effort “to capture the first experiment, how it is said to have happened, in a permanent memorial to the event.”
8.1 The Discovery of Prussian Blue, According to Georg Ernst Stahl (1731)
In his 1731 book “Experimenta, Observtiones, Animadversiones, 300 Numero Chymicae et Physicae,” Stahl described the discovery as follows :
“A paint merchant named Diesbach, who, in order to make Florentine lake, would mix a decoction of cochineal with alum and some iron vitriol, and then precipitate it with fireproof alkali, once didn’t have any alkali and thus borrowed from Dippel, in whose laboratory he was working, some potash, over which this chymist had distilled his animal oil several times. The lake that was precipitated with this alkali, instead of being red, was a very beautiful blue. Dippel, whom he notified of this phenomenon, noted that this arose from the nature of his alkali and tried to produce this effect by imparting this property to other alkali through a simplified process. The experiments that he undertook were successful, and from that time on, the discovery of Prussian blue was a famous thing.”
Stahl was no eyewitness. He was summarizing what was being said in scientific circles at the time. No one noticed that his account differed from those of Woodward and Brown [18,19]. In those procedures, absolutely no potash was used “over which this chymist had distilled his animal oil several times,” but potash that was first mixed with dried beef blood and heated to a red glow (see Fig. 12). This made a huge difference, chemically.
|Figure 12. 1732: The discovery of Prussian blue (Dippel’s version). Original transcription of the entry in Senckenberg’s diary from August 22, 1732: Pariter wolte ein mal zu einer arbeit Dippelius das sal volatile viel haben, calcinirte tartarum v. that ihn zu dem getrockneten ochsen-blut, v. trieb. Das residuum Sal, so wohl 6 Pfund waren in Capite mortuo, ex Sale alcali tartari constans et sale sanguinis, uti & portiuncula salis volatilis fixata, wolte C. D. wegwerfen, sed Rößer quicum admonebat omnia conservare | : der alles aufhub v. immer ein Register darüber hielte : | elixivabat, et conservabat im zuckerglas v. stellte es hin, ward feucht noch. Damals hatte C. D. bey sich Lieutenant Dießbach, der Florentiner lack v. andere farben machte, der wolte ex sale tartari, florent. lack machen mit Alaun, ochsenblut p ergriff diß glas, wo Rößer so schon weg war, aufgeschrieben hatte, allein, Sal tartari. Aber er bekam loco rubri coloris, caeruleum Berolinense, machte hinter C. D. her einen accord mit den Mahlern, ihnen so v. so viel zu liefern gerieth aber auf den strumpff, da das glas auß war v. es keine Farbe mehr gab so s blau aussahe mit dem gewöhnlichen gemeinen sal tartari. Kam zu C. D. v. referirte es ihm der wuste es, sagte ihm er solle nehmen sal tartari mit sanguine bovino so werde ers bekommen, v. gerieth, also. |
8.2 The Discovery of Prussian Blue According to Johann Konrad Dippel (1732)
Despite the contradiction, Stahl’s distorted version continued to be recounted, with a wide assortment of embellishments, for over 300 years. It was only a few years ago that new facts came to light from an unexpected place. The results of a research project entitled “Scientific Transcription and Online-Based Provision of the Diaries of Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707-72)” at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were made publicly accessible in 2016 [23, 20, 25].
In a years-long, arduous effort, two scientific collaborators, Dr. Vera Faßhauer and Dr. Veronika Marschall, transcribed the first 13,000 (!) pages of the handwritten diaries kept by this physician and natural scientist. He maintained his diaries scrupulously from the age of 23 onwards. The entries, written in code words and with his own abbreviations in a mixture of Latin, German, French, Greek, Hessian dialect, and occasional alchemical symbols are among the most unreadable documents in the history of the city of Frankfurt.
Johann Christian Senckenberg
On page 406 of the second volume, Senckenberg recorded Dippel’s report about the discovery of Prussian blue on August 22, 1732 (see Fig. 12). Although Dippel was accused of “having much too high an opinion of himself,” Senckenberg’s notes show that Dippel chatted modestly about his role in the discovery of Prussian blue in this informal conversation. If we trust Dippel, and there is no reason not to, his statements provide some clarity about the behavior of the chymists involved in the discovery (see Fig. 13):
Figure 13. First synthesis of Prussian blue according to Dippel (1732).
At one time, Dippel and Rösser produced a large amount of hartshorn by the calcination of potash with dried beef blood. This resulted in “about 6 pounds” of residue (Caput morbuum). Dippel wanted to throw the residue away, but Rösser leached it out, boiled down the leachate, and put the resulting solid into a container on which he wrote “potash”.
Lieutenant Diesbach wanted to produce Florentine lake. Unknowingly, he used the potash from the container labeled by Rösser. This did not make a red color, but made Prussian blue instead.
Diesbach continued to produce Prussian blue behind Dippel’s back and committed to “delivering a certain amount” to his clients. Diesbach thus found himself in a predicament when the container was empty because the “ordinary, nasty potash” did not produce any Prussian blue. Diesbach had to go to Dippel and ‘”report” to him. Dippel advised him to first calcinate the potash with beef blood, “that way he would obtain it, and so he did!”
9 The Search for the “Colored Material” in Prussian Blue
His unplanned reprocessing of the calcination residue from the hartshorn production process allowed Rösser to link the completely independent recipes for hartshorn (see Fig. 1, Part 1) and Florentine lake (see Fig. 4, Part 1). Why it was that a blue pigment was suddenly obtained despite the use of red cochineal pigment remained a mystery for a long time.
9.1 The Insatiable Curiosity of the Chymists
Let us enter the world of the chymists of the time. They were certainly proud of “their” Prussian blue, but it must have been demoralizing for them that the recipe essentially fell from the sky and that no one had the slightest idea why it worked. John Brown, who verified the recipe that was anonymously submitted to the Royal Society in 1724, clearly expressed how much this bothered him:
“One would really like to know what gave the first indication that this combination of different materials could produce such a fine color, especially when one considers that blood plays the main role in this surprising color change.”
He began to undertake experiments with Prussian blue himself and was able to demonstrate that alum was unnecessary, but blood and potash were essential, and that the iron could not be replaced with any other metal. Based on this, he proposed the following “reaction mechanism”:
- The blood confers its “colored material” to the potash during the calcination reaction.
- The blood leachate obtained from the calcination residue contains potash and “colored material”.
- The blood leachate transfers the “colored material” from the potash to the iron and gives it this splendid color.
At the time, there were also completely divergent ideas. For example, French chemist Abbé François Ménon was of the opinion that the color “is nothing more than a dark blue that is caused by the natural color of the iron.”
9.2 Over 100 Years of Research into Prussian blue
This reasoning, plausible at the time, inspired generations of chymists to search for the “colored material” in Prussian blue. They seized upon all chemical agents in attempts to break Prussian blue down and separate out the iron contained within. Progress was slow, however, and many clever researchers wracked their brains. Here are a few examples from over 100 years of Prussian blue research:
1725 Étienne François Geoffroy (1672 – 1731) heated Prussian blue. It gave off ammonia and a charred mass remained.
1752 Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1781 – 1784) stirred Prussian blue into a freshly prepared solution of potash. The blue color disappeared and a brown solid precipitated . He believed that the iron in the Prussian blue had given its “colored material” back to the potash and then precipitated out as brown iron hydroxide.
1774 Jean Hellot (1685 – 1766) presented to the Academie Royale des Sciences: “There may be nothing more bizarre than the method for producing Prussian blue. It must be admitted that if chance hadn’t played a role, a profound theory would have been necessary to conceive of this process.”
1771 Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742 – 1786) discovered the element nitrogen.
1774 Johann Georg Krünitz (1728 – 1796), natural scientist and lexicographer, got lost in all the confusion and under the heading “Prussian blue” in the fourth volume of his “Economic Encyclopedia” resignedly wrote, “After the chymists discovered this Prussian blue, they attempted to develop the theory of it and to explain what it is that happens in these various operations. However, because this work seems to be too far removed from the actual purpose of my work, I cannot enter further into it.”
1782 Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742 – 1786) boiled Prussian blue with sulfuric acid and distilled the “colored material” over with water. The “colored material” proved to be a water-soluble acid that he called acidum berolinense, which later became Prussian blue acid, blue acid, and acide prussique. By adding iron(II) sulfate to the blood leachate, Scheele obtained a solution of a yellow salt that consisted of “alkali, a little siderite, and the colored material” and which became known as yellow prussiate of potash.
1806 John Dalton (1766 – 1844) introduced his hypothesis of the atom.
1807 Humphry Davy (1778 – 1829) electrolytically isolated potassium from molten potash.
1811 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778 – 1850) synthesized pure acide prussique for the first time and coined the terms cyanogen (Gr. Kyanos “blue”; gennan “to generate”) and cyanide because of its relationship to Prussian blue. In 1815, Gay-Lussac proved that the composition of “blue acid” was HCN . The original details of the composition he proposed have to be corrected for the fact that it was not yet known that hydrogen and nitrogen are found as H2 and N2.
1832 Swedish chemists Jöns Berzelius (1779 – 1848) and Carl Gustav Mosander (1779 – 1858) recognized that yellow prussiate of potash is a double salt consisting of potassium cyanide and iron cyanide, and that Prussian blue is a triple salt in which some of the potassium ions in the yellow prussiate of potash are replaced by iron(III) ions.
9.3 Identification of the “Colored Material”
Thus, it took over a century to identify the “colored material:” It was cyanic acid (HCN), or more specifically its salt, potassium cyanide (KCN). In combination with the discovery of yellow prussiate of potash K4[Fe(CN)6], a double salt that forms from iron(II) salts and potassium cyanide in aqueous solution, these findings opened up an entirely new area of chemistry. Figure 14 shows a small part of this that involves “soluble” FeIIIK[FeII(CN)6] and “insoluble” Fe4III[FeII(CN6)3] Prussian blue.
Figure 14. The chemistry surrounding Prussian blue.
The solid-state structure of Prussian blue is complex, and the water and potassium content depend significantly on the conditions under which it is produced . Proposed general chemical formulas include: Fe4III[FeII(CN)5]3•x K4[FeII(CN)6]•n H2O with x = 0.3–0.8 and n = 3–17 or KxFeIII[FeII(CN)6][(3+x)/4] with x = 0–1 [30,31].
9.3 Where Does the Potassium Cyanide Come From?
This simple question leads to a chemical dilemma. If the “colored substance” were both a component of dried beef blood and cyanic acid or its salt potassium cyanide, blood would be highly toxic. This is clearly nonsense. However, Prussian blue is only produced if beef blood is used.
There is only one explanation for this: The “colored material” is not a component of the blood but is formed during calcination.
What Occurs Chemically in a Calcination?
Under dry heating, biological material is chemically decomposed through innumerable reaction cascades. The sequence in which the countless decomposition products are formed, the amounts produced, and the further reactions they undergo depend on the composition of the starting material and the reaction conditions, such as the temperature profile. The chemistry involved is highly complex and lies beyond the limits of our knowledge.
In the chemist’s crucible at temperatures above 850 °C, things become a little clearer, because few materials are stable under such harsh conditions. The products include mainly gases, such as water vapor, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and ammonia, as well as the solids that remain in the crucible, like carbon and various metal salts and oxides. In carbonization, another thermally stable gas can be formed, cyanic acid or HCN (b.p. 25.7 °C).
Today we know that cyanic acid is always formed when enough energy is added to a mixture of substances containing C, H, and N , for example, when smoking a cigarette. With every puff, a smoker inhales a small amount of cyanic acid .
In contrast to dry carbonization, the production of Prussian blue involves the calcination of dried beef blood together with potash (m.p. 891 °C). The cyanic acid that is formed immediately reacts with the strongly basic potash to make potassium cyanide, which accumulates as the calcination progresses. Potassium cyanide is very stable and melts and boils without decomposition at 634 °C and 1625 °C, respectively:
2 HCN + K2CO3 → 2 KCN + H2O + CO2
Now it becomes clear: After the carbonation, the residue in the crucible contains potassium cyanide as well as carbon and potash. This potassium cyanide can only form because dried beef blood contains so much protein, which consists of up to 14 % nitrogen. Upon calcination, the nitrogen is converted first to HCN, which reacts with potash to form KCN. After leaching of the cooled residue with water and subsequent filtration, the result is the potassium cyanide-containing blood leachate. After this is evaporated, we are left with potassium cyanide-containing potash, which was termed “Rösser’s blood leachate” or “Rösser’s potash”.
Because the formation of potassium cyanide is essential for the production of Prussian blue, the version of the discovery story proposed by Stahl can be ruled out (see Chapter 8.1). Potassium cyanide would have to be formed in the distillation of the animal oil over potash, but this is not the case. Even after boiling Dippel’s oil over potash at atmospheric pressure for several hours, no cyanide can be detected.
How Grave Was the Danger to the Health of the Chymists?
Potassium cyanide and cyanic acid were unknown to the chymists of 1706, and young Rösser could have had no idea what was dissolved in the blood leachate he was working with. To estimate the danger into which Rösser could have unknowingly plunged himself, we can analyze the preparation method for Prussian blue at the time.
Because Dippel, Diesbach, and later Frisch never gave away any details of the amounts they used, we must resort to using John Brown’s recipe from 1724 . After a two-hour calcination of 124 g dried blood and 248 g potash, he obtained a total of 31 g of Prussian blue, “or a little more.” The nitrogen balance of Brown’s reaction can be assessed as follows (see Fig. 15):
Figure 15. Nitrogen balance in Brown’s preparation (1724).
Because of the relatively imprecise amounts and unknown purities of the materials used and the resulting products, this nitrogen balance is only a rough estimate. It is based on the chemical formula for “insoluble” Prussian blue FeIII[FeIIIFeII(CN)6]3•15 H2O (M = 1,129 g mol–1).
- 31 g of the end product, Prussian blue, contained 6.8 g of nitrogen.
- 124 g of the dried beef blood used as a starting material contained 16 g nitrogen.
- The 6.8 g of nitrogen in the Prussian blue corresponded to 17 g of potassium cyanide.
- These 17 g of potassium cyanide were contained in “Rösser’s blood leachate”. At this point we shudder to think about young Rösser, completely cluelessly messing around with cyanide solution.
- The 17 g of potassium cyanide were produced during the calcination of 124 g dried beef blood.
- In all, 43 % of the nitrogen in the dried blood was incorporated into the Prussian blue.
This nitrogen balance indicates an impressive yield, given the brutal reaction conditions. It is not surprising that the production of potassium cyanide from potash and slaughterhouse waste (blood, hooves, claws, horns, bristles, leather, etc.) was a common industrial process in the growing cyan industry of the early 19th century .
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The article has been published in German as:
- Berliner Blau – Entdecker und Verräter,
Chem. unserer Zeit 2021, 56, 34–49.
and was translated by Caroll Pohl-Ferry.
Around 1700, Berlin was a colorful center of innovation – a scene that led to the discovery of the century: Prussian blue
How Johann Konrad Dippel almost ruined the Prussian blue business
Who leaked the secret recipe for Prussian blue?
Prussian Blue: Discovery and Betrayal – Part 5
Solving the case of the discovery of Prussian blue (will be published in September 2022)
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully entered Ceres' orbit early on Friday, making history as the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet.
Dawn was approximately 38,000 miles from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity at approximately 7:39 a.m. ET.
Ceres, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, is 310 million miles from Earth.
Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which is managing the mission, received a signal from Dawn at 8:36 a.m ET, showing that the spacecraft was healthy and thrusting with its ion engine. The engine thrust was a key indicator that Dawn had entered Ceres’ orbit as planned.
"We feel exhilarated," said Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in a statement. "We have much to do over the next year and a half, but we are now on station with ample reserves, and a robust plan to obtain our science objectives."
Launched in September 2007, Dawn has travelled 3.1 billion miles to reach Ceres. The spacecraft explored the giant asteroid Vesta for 14 months in 2011 and 2012, and began its final approach to Ceres in December. The Dawn mission is scheduled to end in June 2016, at which time the spacecraft will remain in Ceres’ orbit.
Scientists hope that NASA’s investigation of Ceres will boost our understanding of how the solar system formed.
Images of Ceres have already revealed craters and unusual bright spots that scientists believe tell how Ceres formed and whether its surface is changing. NASA says that as Dawn spirals into closer and closer orbits around the planet, researchers will be looking for signs that these features are changing, which would suggest current geological activity.
Since Jan. 25, Dawn has been delivering the highest-resolution images of Ceres ever captured, and they will continue to improve in quality as the spacecraft approaches, according to NASA.
The most recent images received from Dawn were taken on March 1 and show Ceres as a crescent, largely in shadow because the spacecraft's trajectory put it on a side of Ceres that faces away from the sun until mid-April, according to NASA. When Dawn emerges from Ceres' dark side, NASA expects the spacecraft to deliver ever-sharper images as it spirals to lower orbits around the planet
The dwarf planet has an average diameter of 590 miles and is the largest body in the main asteroid belt and is believed to contain a large amount of ice. Ceres is estimated to be 25 percent water by mass.
Sicilian astronomer Father Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres in 1801 and was the first object discovered in our solar system’s asteroid belt.
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The Dawn spacecraft was built by Dulles, Va.-based Orbital ATK.
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Sale of Surplus Lands
Threat Type: Sale of Celery Fields Properties
Next Event Date: Unknown
Three of the four parcels of lands known as the “Quads,” and located at the intersection of Apex Road and Palmer Boulevard are intended for sale by Sarasota County.
Through some process which we are still working to fully understand, these parcels were identified as “Surplus Lands,” and place on a list of properties which Sarasota County could sell.
Since these parcels are designated as part of the Celery Fields on numerous maps and County publications, including this Field Guide to Conservation Lands (see page numbered 18), questions have been raised as to the appropriateness of the “Surplus Lands” designation.
Sarasota County appears to be seeking input for possible changes to the Critical Area Plan for these properties, including possible future rezoning.
We are calling upon Sarasota County to revisit its process for determining “Surplus Lands” status for Public Property, and asking the County to reverse this designation for the Celery Fields properties, pending an open, public discussion as to the best use of these properties.
A Public Workshop has been proposed for some time in 2019.
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TST Ventures “Recycling Center”
Threat Type: Industrial Development
Next Event Date: Unknown
Local developer, James Gabbert, plans to combine 3 adjoining properties in order to build a facility to process construction and demolition debris and yard waste with concrete crushers, wood chippers, and dozens of inbound and outbound truckloads per day of waste. The combined properties will be bigger than 16 football fields and will operate 6 days per week, starting at 7AM.
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The Sarasota County Board of County Commissioners set aside an entire day on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017, to hear the petition as well as public testimony. In a 3-2 vote that concluded a nearly nine-hour long hearing, the County Commission voted to deny this petition.
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- This project was recommended for approval by the Sarasota County Planning Commission.
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A Guide for Planning Memorial Services
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Why Document a Memorial Service?
Why record a funeral service? As humans, we are much more likely to photograph and document the joyous times in our lives. But have you ever thought of documenting a funeral or memorial service. Most people don’t want to remember a time of sadness and grief. But there may be several good reasons to document such a time.
First, family and friends who cannot attend the funeral or memorial service in person will appreciate the ability to view it live or at a later time. In addition, you can experience the service in the privacy of your own home later on—remembering a family member either by yourself or with other friends and family members.
Having the memorial or funeral service on video tape can also help with the healing process. You’ll be able to preserve and enjoy the lovely testimonials about your loved one from family and friends. You’ll be able to catch anything you may have missed on that day. And the recording can be passed down to future generations, so they know who their descendant was and how much they were loved.
Tips for Planning a Memorial Service
Planning a memorial ceremony can be a stressful job for most people—at a time when emotions are high. Whether you are planning a memorial service for someone who has passed after a long illness or died unexpectedly, you’ll want to take the time to get it right. And if you are planning your own memorial service, this is your opportunity to remove the burden from your loved ones and ensure that your memorial service occurs just as you’d want it to.
This simple checklist will help you cover the basic elements of a memorial service and add your own personal touch as well.
- Craft a death announcement and/or write an obituary
- Establish a guest list, so no family or friends are left out
- Determine the location of the memorial service (funeral home, memorial park, public or public venue, etc.)
- Choose who should be involved in any necessary tasks
- Identify one or more persons who should facilitate any ceremonies
- Select someone as the main speaker (e.g., give the eulogy)
- Decide on cremation or if the casket should be open or closed
- Pick clothing and jewelry to be worn by the deceased
- Select pall bearers, if necessary
- Find items to be displayed: photos, works of art, flowers, military memorabilia, etc.
- Include a favorite quote, poem, scripture, song, etc.
- Incorporate the person’s favorite color, food, and drinks
- Specify the recipient of any memorial donations
- Arrange for a memorial, gravestone or grave marker to be installed
- Determine where ashes can be spread or who will keep cremation urn
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Elements Every Traditional Funeral Should Include
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There are elements that every traditional funeral should include. You may choose to incorporate some or all of these elements. You may also determine the order in which the elements occur.
Keep the following essentials in mind when you are planning a traditional funeral.
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Music is a great way to express gratitude and emotions, as well as celebrate the deceased’s life. You may want to select music that was meaningful to the deceased.
If the deceased was spiritual, you may want to choose specific biblical passages or readings, prayers, and hymns that were meaningful to them.
Usually someone who is very close to the deceased will write and read a personal eulogy to celebrate the person’s life, their outlook, sense of humor, successes, and more.
Symbols and Memories
This is perhaps one of the most notable ways to personalize a traditional funeral. Feel free to share photos, videos, albums, artwork, jokes, crafts, and anything else that might be appropriate to celebrate the deceased and share their true nature, hobbies, beliefs, etc.
Committal or Graveside Service
If your loved one is to be buried, then a committal service involves the transport of the body to the gravesite as well as the gravesite service itself. If there will be no burial or graveside service, then you may want to plan a small remembrance of the loved one as a final good-bye.
A reception may be held at a close family member’s home, at a church facility or at another public venue. This is a time of food, drink, and fellowship to remember your loved one. Guests can enjoy sharing memories, laughter, and mutual support.
Should I Involve Friends and Family in Planning a Memorial Service?
A memorial or funeral service is a wonderful time to include all those who were close to their deceased loved one. Participating in the events of the day can also help bring peace and a sense of closure to those individuals. And the memorial organizer can certainly be a lot less stressed when they are able to delegate responsibilities.
It’s also important to recognize that not including someone in a funeral or memorial service can cause additional pain and grief on top of the loss they are already feeling. This hurt can unfortunately last for many years. So, it’s often best to involve as many loved ones as possible to avoid any hurt or future family rifts.
There are many ways to get others involved in a memorial or funeral service. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
- Funeral/memorial service planning
- Pall bearers
- Eulogy, tribute, speech
- Speakers/readers (poem, prayer, scripture, literary selection)
- Music (play a music selection, sing a song, create a playlist of music)
- Technical equipment assistance (audio, visual, etc.)
- Host a reception
- Create a memory book
- Produce a slideshow
- Collect remembrances
- Arrange for flowers, decorations, candles, food/catering, music
- Creating a memorial service program, memorial cards
- Coordinate donations
- Plant a memorial tree
- And more!
The Most Memorable Parts of a Memorial Service
No two funeral or memorial services are alike. So, this is your chance to be unique and personal when celebrating the life of a loved one. The most memorable parts of a memorial service are those that leave a legacy behind. Whether the service is formal or informal, it often provides closure to those family members and friends in attendance.
A memorial service is a sacred time for family and friends to gather and recognize a death and celebrate and pay tribute to a loved one. Although a funeral service typically takes place within a few days of death, a memorial service can take place any time—even months or years later. This flexibility gives the organizer time to plan the memorial service and celebrate their loved one the best way possible.
By taking the time to plan a unique, memorable tribute for your loved one, you can create a tremendous impact with others. Here are some things you may want to consider to make the memorial service memorable.
- A remembrance table
- Photographs, artwork, writings or other creations of the deceased
- A memory keepsake for guests
- A biodegradable release (environmentally safe balloons, doves, ladybugs, butterflies, lanterns, etc.)
- Anything else memorable you can think of
Social media platforms, such as Pinterest and Instagram, are loaded with wonderful and unique ideas to memorialize a loved one. You can borrow these ideas or use them to spark your own.
What Most People Want to Be Remembered For
Death is something we all have no control over. What we do have control over is the way we live our lives, how we impact others, and the changes and differences we are able to make. We all want to be remembered for something after we are gone. No one wants to fade into distant memory to eventually be forgotten.
With that in mind, we’ve created a list of things that most people want to be remembered for.
- Finding the positive during a troublesome time
- Giving and receiving grace, especially when undeserved
- Encouraging and inspiring others toward personal success
- Giving of yourself, your time, and your energy to others
- Demonstrating forgiveness
- Showing unconditional love for family and friends
- Being faithful in religious beliefs
- Being kind, compassionate, and helpful toward others
- Doing good and being productive in the world
What do you want to be remembered for? What would your loved one want to be remembered for. Take the opportunity to consider these things when planning a funeral or memorial service.
Using Live Recordings to Document a Memorial Service
What was once—and still is—considered a very personal and private ceremony has now been transformed with modern technology. The first of modern technology to appear at a memorial service was a photographic slideshow. Then came collected videos from the person’s life.
More people today are using personal and professional recording devices to save the cherished memories of a loved one’s passing. Recording, or even live-streaming, a funeral or memorial service is a great way to lessen the miles between people and help others to feel as if they are there with other family members too. The good news is that it is definitely possible to incorporate a live recording of your funeral or memorial service without disturbing the integrity of the day.
Using Social Media to Document a Funeral Service
Now that the use of recorded and/or live video has been established, we look toward more modern ways of memorializing our loved ones. Social media has become more and more a part of our daily lives. And so, in turn, it is becoming a part of the death we experience in life and in a celebration of life service. Social media has made way for many more ways to provide a way to remember the deceased.
We have seen memorial pages set up on social media as well as websites. In addition, Facebook has also provided a way for you to designate someone to manage your page after you are gone. You can decide whether you want someone to close the page or keep it up for you.
Here are a few items of memorial service etiquette to keep in mind when incorporating social media into your memorial service.
- Be tasteful in your announcements.
- Assign an appropriate hashtag for online use.
- Create a virtual guestbook.
- Stay offline during the service.
- Designate an official Tweet bearer to document the memorial service.
How Lastly Can Help You Document a Life Celebration
Lastly.com is one of the best new ways to document and memorialize your loved one’s life, both for yourself and your family as well as future generations. We are your trusted partner in remembering your loved one and keeping your loved one’s information sacred and intact for all to enjoy. At Lastly.com, you can create a timeline of your loved one’s life, document your family history with a family tree, and upload photos, videos, and stories that coordinate with their timeline.
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As stated above, Trixie had utilized payday financing as a bridging investment whenever her work stumbled on a finish nonetheless it took somewhat longer than likely to find a fresh work therefore her ВЈ200 loan quickly spiralled away from control until she owed ВЈ860. Even though she discovered work, it had been nevertheless tough to repay your debt. As Trixie claimed:
it reached a point where whenever I began my work. . . where every . thirty days . whenever I got compensated I had about ВЈ2 to ВЈ3 left within my banking account therefore I quickly will have to re borrow to have it right back up so that it ended up being escalating, it absolutely was terrible, actually bad. But i really couldn’t head to my bank, i really couldn’t obtain a low apr, i possibly couldn’t get lower repayments or such a thing. Due to her escalating monetary issues, Trixie utilized a lot of payday lenders (up to five in the time that is same together with numerous loans to keep her going due to the shortfall left as a result of the repayments of past loans.
Discussion and policy implications
Drawing for an analysis associated with regime of accumulation together with financialisation of every day life views, this paper demonstrates an obvious and link that is fundamental payday financing and alterations in the labour market, welfare state and financialisation. Our brand brand new and rigorous qualitative interviews sexactly how exactly how lending that is payday the consequence of earnings insecurity and low incomes in both and away from act as people increasingly have little alternate but to borrow from high expense loan providers to try and pay the bills. Sometimes this leads to debt spirals therefore compounds the nagging dilemmas they face. However in other instances, payday lending plays a confident role in bridging gaps in earnings. Technical advances when it comes to fast credit scoring and online platforms are also essential right right right here and extremely valued by numerous clients, perhaps maybe not minimum for preserving anonymity and for that reason dignity.
Our paper additionally makes a rather specific share to scholastic debates in regards to the financialisation of every day life . Past studies in this industry (Langley, 2008; Coppock, 2013; Deville, 2015; Horsley, 2015) have actually centered on broad components of customer credit and financial obligation countries through the viewpoint of changing subjectivities and identities. Our concentrate on the lived experience of payday lending plays a role in this alternative and much more sophisticated image of the role of payday financing in individuals life. The main focus on lived truth is very important, because it facilitates a challenge to the dominant, though highly influential, portrayal of payday lending in itself as a contribution to knowledge, but even more so.
Certainly, this dominant depiction of payday financing led the FCA to tighten up legislation of HCSTC including brand brand brand new laws from April 2014 (see FCA, 2014a for complete details and Gardner, 2013 for conversation) with all the outcome that the amount of loans while the quantity lent from payday loan providers dropped by 35 percent when you look at the five months after the changes (FCA, 2014b). Numerous campaigners, but, argued for further regulation including a limit from the price of credit. The FCA consequently consulted about this and projected in November 2014, that 7 % of present borrowers some 70,000 individuals might not have access to payday advances following a introduction of the proposed price limit (FCA, 2014b). They further reported why these individuals could be https://www.installmentpersonalloans.org/payday-loans-in/ best off without usage of payday lending. We presented proof from our research to your FCA in 2014, arguing that, for many individuals, the proposed cost limit had been prone to have a far more harmful than good impact unless options were put in place (Rowlingson et al., 2014). This is for the true quantity of reasons. First, home obtained credit had been excluded through the cap, so some individuals might look for credit out of this likewise high priced supply despite having less privacy along with other features which our research revealed individuals respected. Individuals may also take advantage of overdraft facilities which our research additionally highlighted could be more costly than payday lending (because they, once again, aren’t susceptible to an amount limit). And even though credit unions are becoming funded to modernise and expand, they still lack the ability to supply the scale of loans, with all the most likely standard of standard that could be needed. Unlawful financing may may also increase as a outcome of the reforms though this really is hotly debated (PFRC/Policis, 2006; Gibbons, 2012). | <urn:uuid:71a5333b-5a24-44db-bd98-74fc18dad98b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lowbeds.co.zw/2021/02/05/this-paper-shows-a-clear-and-link-that-is/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960597 | 965 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Supplementary Materials1. among PTHrP+ chondrocytes inside the relaxing area from the postnatal development dish. PTHrP+ chondrocytes indicated a -panel of markers for skeletal stem/progenitor cells and distinctively possessed the properties as skeletal stem cells in cultured circumstances. Cell lineage evaluation exposed that PTHrP+ relaxing chondrocytes continued to create columnar chondrocytes long-term, which underwent hypertrophy and became osteoblasts and marrow stromal cells under the development dish. Transit-amplifying chondrocytes in the proliferating area, that was concertedly taken care of by a ahead sign from undifferentiated cells (PTHrP) and a invert sign from hypertrophic cells (Ihh), offered instructive cues to keep up cell fates of PTHrP+ relaxing chondrocytes. Our Ginsenoside F1 results unravel a unique somatic stem cell type that is initially unipotent and acquires multipotency at the post-mitotic stage, underscoring the malleable nature of the skeletal cell lineage. This system provides a model in which functionally dedicated stem cells and their niche are specified postnatally and maintained throughout tissue growth by a tight feedback regulation system. Ginsenoside F1 We first defined the formation PTHrP+ chondrocytes in the growth plate using a using a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) transgenic line (L909, Extended Data Fig.3a, see also Supplementary Information). Analysis of preferentially marks an immature subset of specifically marks resting chondrocytes (Extended Data Fig.3g). These PTHrP+ resting chondrocytes did not express Grem14 (Extended Data Fig.3h). Subsequently, we traced the fate of P6-labelled PTHrP+ resting chondrocytes (PTHrPCE-P6 cells). After remaining within the resting zone at P12 (Fig.2a, see also Extended Data Fig.3g), PTHrPCE-P6 cells first formed short columns (composed of 10 cells) (Fig.2b, arrowhead), then subsequently formed longer columns (composed of 10 cells) originating from the resting zone toward P18 Mouse monoclonal to MYST1 (Fig.2c, arrows). After a month of chase, PTHrPCE-P6 cells constituted the entire Ginsenoside F1 column from the resting zone to the hypertrophic zone (Fig.2d). The number of tdTomato+ resting chondrocytes transiently increased during the first week of chase and decreased thereafter due to the formation of columnar chondrocytes (Fig.2e). The number of short tdTomato+ columns peaked at P18 and decreased thereafter, whereas long Ginsenoside F1 tdTomato+ columns appeared at P18 and continued to increase toward P36 (Fig.2f). Thus, resting chondrocytes can give rise to multiple types of chondrocytes. Additional analysis of resting chondrocytes are the source of columnar chondrocytes.(a-f) Cell fate analysis of clonal analysis of resting chondrocytes behave as skeletal stem cells (Extended Data Fig.7c). We next isolated individual primary (Extended Data Fig.7d, see also Supplemental Information). While a small fraction of P9 self-renewability when the secondary ossification center actively develops. Further, individual (Control), (b): (DTA) distal femur growth plates (P6-pulsed). RZ: resting zone, PZ: proliferating zone, HZ: hypertrophic zone. Grey: DAPI and DIC. Right panels: H&E staining. Scale bars: 200m (left panels) and 100m (right panels). (c): Quantification of resting (left), proliferating (center) and hypertrophic (right) zone height. TOM: tdTomato. = 0.048, **= 0.0025 (center), **= 0.0051 (right), Mann-Whitneys 0.01, *** 0.001, Cont vs. SAG: mean diff. = 96.2, 95% confidence interval [41.6, 150.9], Cont vs. LDE225: mean diff. 138.6, 95% self-confidence period [91.3, 185.9], SAG vs. LDE225: mean diff. 42.3, 95% self-confidence period [?12.3, 97.0], One-way ANOVA accompanied by Tukeys multiple evaluation test. recombination. Light containers: untranslated area (UTR), black containers: coding area, former mate: exon. Blue pubs: homology hands, red pubs: help Ginsenoside F1 RNAs (gRNAs) within Sharp/Cas69 reagents. Crimson containers: cassette changing the native begin codon. Fifty percent arrows: primers, wild-type. 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Challenging The Blood Test In A DUI Case – (DUI Blood Alcohol Testing)
In Pennsylvania, police officers often ask people who they suspect to have engaged in driving under the influence to undergo blood tests. These chemical tests are used to determine whether people might have the presence of alcohol or drugs in their systems. When a blood test is administered, a certified officer, nurse, or technician will be asked to draw a blood sample from a suspect following his or her arrest for a DUI. The sample will then be sent to a forensic laboratory and analyzed to detect the presence of alcohol and drugs. People who are facing DUI charges and have submitted blood samples might think that the results are infallible. However, an experienced Chester County PA DUI lawyer at DiCindio Law understands how to challenge the results from blood tests when there are issues with how they are performed, transported, stored, or analyzed.
How Blood Samples Are Tested
When blood samples reach the lab, analysts use gas chromatography to test them. Gas chromatography involves using a heated column to separate the substances within the blood to measure a person’s blood alcohol concentration and the presence of any other substances that might be present in the sample. The device measures the levels of different substances in the blood and is widely used. While blood tests are more reliable than breath or urine tests, knowledgeable defense attorneys still understand how to challenge the accuracy of the results.
Laboratories are required to follow the procedures outlined by the Pennsylvania Department of Health when analyzing blood. The equipment and staff must also meet the state’s standards on how blood tests are performed before the results can be admitted in DUI cases. In many cases, the accuracy and reliability of blood test results can be challenged even though the test might have met the minimum standards outlined by the state.
How Blood Tests Are Properly Performed In DUI Cases
For purposes of admissibility, blood samples must be drawn, stored, sealed, transported, and analyzed under set protocols. Laboratory technicians and police officers often fail to follow the required protocols when testing samples for DUI cases. Some of the common errors that occur include the following:
- Contaminating samples with preservatives
- Failing to use anticoagulants
- Drawing blood from improper sites
- Improperly storing blood samples
- Failing to establish the chain of custody
- Failing to adhere to testing protocols
- Lacking the certifications to conduct blood testing
- Using antiseptics containing alcohol on the site where blood is drawn
Controlled Substances And Blood Testing
Pennsylvania’s drugged driving law is contained in 75 Pa.C.S.3802(d) Under this statute, you can be convicted of a DUI involving drugs when you have any amount of a schedule I controlled substance in your blood or a schedule II or III substance for which you do not have a valid prescription. This statute does not require you to be impaired by the substance in your system. The prosecutor simply has to prove that your blood contained drugs or drug metabolites within two hours of when you drove or operated a motor vehicle in Pennsylvania to secure a conviction.
Laboratories that perform tests for controlled substances must be approved by the Department of Health. The department has provided lists of the minimum detection levels of different drugs and metabolites before a test can be admitted as evidence in a DUI case. Some of the minimum detection levels for admissibility include the following:
- Cocaine – 1.5 ng/ml
- Hydrocodone – 1 ng/ml
- Marijuana – 0.5 ng/ml
- Morphine – 1 ng/ml
- Oxycodone – 1 ng/ml
Challenging Blood Tests In DUIs Involving Drugs
There are multiple ways to challenge blood tests in DUIs involving drugs. Attorneys can demonstrate that the substance detected in the defendant’s blood was not a substance listed by the Department of Health. In a drugged driving case involving an unlisted substance, a defense attorney might call a forensic toxicologist to rebut the testimony of the government’s drug expert.
Defense lawyers can also contest blood results involving listed substances. They might do this by showing that the laboratory failed to follow the proper protocols for handling and testing the samples. If the proper procedures were not followed, the results might be unreliable and suppressed by the court.
Independently Testing Blood Samples
Defense attorneys sometimes ask the state or laboratory to preserve the blood sample so that it can be independently tested by a defense expert. According to decisions by the appeals courts in Pennsylvania, the government is required to preserve samples under the following circumstances:
The sample must have had an apparent exculpatory value before being destroyed.
The defendant could not otherwise reasonably access the sample in the government’s possession.
When defense lawyers request independent testing of blood samples, they might use qualified forensic toxicologists to analyze them and verify whether the government’s results are accurate. An independent toxicology expert can also review the procedures and process to determine whether the proper protocols were followed by the laboratory personnel and law enforcement officers.
In some cases, the defense expert can show that the sample was contaminated by improper levels of preservatives or anticoagulants. In others, an expert might demonstrate that the sample was improperly stored or mishandled, leading to blood fermentation and an inaccurate BAC level.
Defense attorneys might also be able to successfully challenge the admissibility of blood tests by showing a break in the chain of custody. Blood samples must be properly logged each time they are moved in and out of the evidence room and while they are transported to the laboratory for testing.
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Sage Hills trails system will close for four months starting Wednesday, Dec. 1, to provide winter sustenance and quiet rangeland for mule deer and other wildlife. The area will re-open for outdoor recreation around April 1, 2022.
The first snow has arrived at higher elevations, and mule deer are already moving into their winter refuge in the Wenatchee foothills, said Von Pope, senior wildlife biologist at Chelan PUD. The first mule deer count showed about 20% more deer than normal for this time of year, he said.
Chelan PUD owns about 960 acres in the heart of Sage Hills. It manages Home Water Preserve as a wildlife preserve as required by its federal license to operate Rock Island Dam. Winter closures are a condition of the permitted seasonal trail use. This is the 15th winter closure.
“Over time, we’ve seen fewer reports of winter trespassers in recent years,” Pope said. “We are grateful for the community support. It takes all of us working together to be successful.”
Chelan-Douglas Land Trust and the City of Wenatchee also close public access to trails on over 2,200 acres of open space adjacent to PUD property to provide additional winter range for mule deer. The seasonal closure affects the Sage Hills and Horse Lake trail systems.
People are encouraged to use the Apple Capital Loop Trail, Saddle Rock, Lower Castle Rock, and the Jacobson Preserve trails. The main gravel road up Dry Gulch is open to hikers, however all side trails are closed for the winter. Please leash your dogs and clean up after them.
"We saw continued high use of our local trails by residents and visitors alike in 2021," said Hanne Beener, Trails Program Manager at Chelan-Douglas Land Trust. “This closure is an important part of responsible stewardship for this trail system and the open spaces protected for the benefit of both wildlife and people," Beener said.
Check the Land Trust’s website for all closure information. Wenatchee Valley TREAD’s website and app, TREAD Map, are also good sources of updated information on closures and trail conditions year-round.
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It’s out of scope for many of us in our professions and jurisdictions to recommend medications. However, it’s important to retain knowledge about the effects of drugs, especially extremely common NSAIDs, on musculoskeletal injuries in our clients.
A physiotherapists documents her experience of witnessing racism in the workplace. This acts as an important reminder to not just avoid passing judgment on our clients but to also be aware of the past experiences they may have had elsewhere due to marginalization.
As manual practitioners, we all know that physical touch is a beneficial thing to health. It’s great to be able to define what those are.
The sophisticated language of touch – Timothy Cocks
A summary of research that shows some detrimental effects from children’s TV programming that may be emphasizing many unhealthy attitudes and perceptions of pain in our youth. The takeaway from this should be contemplation on what we can do to mitigate this and educate our kids about pain in a healthy way.
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Introduction to Hot Analytics
What is hot analytics? It’s data that is fast, fresh, and for all. What we mean by "fast" is interactive ad hoc queries with sub-second query response times. "Fresh" is real-time data, no more daily or weekly batching. "For all" is getting the data to business people who may not be trained analysts. They’re marketers, product managers, and engineers and they expect a high level of performance and an intuitive experience.
Modern Analytics Applications in the Financial Industry
Join Eric Tschetter, Field CTO of Imply and co-creator of Apache Druid, Ravi Maurya and Shubham Gupta from Paytm in this inspiring virtual event
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Keynote – Building Modern Analytics Applications with Apache Druid
Fangjin Yang, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Imply, presents the opening keynote at the Druid Summit 2021 virtual conference.
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Technical deep dive into how Outbrain scales its real-time analytics
Because Outbrain processes billions of impressions and events a day, they risk running into scaling problems.
Imply x Kafka: Capture, interact and scale streaming data
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Apache Druid Engine Roadmap
如果你还在每天等待数据刷新，是时候试试Apache Druid 亚秒级数据库了。 该开源数据库在Twitter、Pinterest和Snapchat广泛部署。此次研讨会中， Imply的产品经理Will Xu将分享常见的应用场景以及Imply Druid企业版本的独特功能和未来产品规划。
Comparing drill-down workflows between Tableau & Snowflake with Imply
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METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL EXPOSURE PARAMETERS OF A HYPERSPECTRAL SCANNING SENSOR
- MUT, Military University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Geodesy Institute, Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry
Keywords: hyperspectral scanning sensor, exposure parameters, spatial resolution, terrestrial, GSD, Headwall, UAV
Abstract. The purpose of the presented research was to establish a methodology that would allow the registration of hyperspectral images with a defined spatial resolution on a horizontal plane. The results obtained within this research could then be used to establish the optimum sensor and flight parameters for collecting aerial imagery data using an UAV or other aerial system. The methodology is based on an user-selected optimal camera exposure parameters (i.e. time, gain value) and flight parameters (i.e. altitude, velocity). A push-broom hyperspectral imager- the Headwall MicroHyperspec A-series VNIR was used to conduct this research. The measurement station consisted of the following equipment: a hyperspectral camera MicroHyperspec A-series VNIR, a personal computer with HyperSpec III software, a slider system which guaranteed the stable motion of the sensor system, a white reference panel and a Siemens star, which was used to evaluate the spatial resolution.
Hyperspectral images were recorded at different distances between the sensor and the target- from 5m to 100m. During the registration process of each acquired image, many exposure parameters were changed, such as: the aperture value, exposure time and speed of the camera’s movement on the slider. Based on all of the registered hyperspectral images, some dependencies between chosen parameters had been developed:
- the Ground Sampling Distance – GSD and the distance between the sensor and the target,
- the speed of the camera and the distance between the sensor and the target,
- the exposure time and the gain value,
- the Density Number and the gain value.
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Boris Johnson faces perhaps the toughest day of his political career to date as outrage mounts over a "Bring your own spirit" event held on Downing Street at the height of the UK's first Covid-19 lockdown.
Health Minister Sajid Javid has been personally challenged by an unvaccinated doctor who works in the intensive care unit over the government's mandatory NHS vaccination policy.
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Several members of the Iranian community gathered at the Schuman roundabout in Brussels to call on the European Union to sanction the "Iranian terror regime" during a meeting between the Iranian community | <urn:uuid:5a7a5d66-8912-4bf1-b90e-40e3d4a13c10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cameroonmagazine.com/tag/health-policy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916173 | 308 | 1.59375 | 2 |
University of ConnecticutWith President Obama’s call earlier this week for $50 billion in spending on transportation infrastructure, the alliterative trio of roads, rail, and runways are in the news again, and the political jockeying has begun.
Let’s say the president gets what he’s asking for. What should we buy with all that money?
Presumably, we want to buy mobility. That’s the function of a transportation system — to provide the mechanisms and conduits that allow a society’s citizens to get around. But in this country, we’ve had a limited and flawed view of the best way to achieve that.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is going to get a little wonky. But it’s worth it.
One of the chief measurements of how well a region’s transportation system works has for years been the Urban Mobility Report from the Texas Transportation Institute. The UMR has been used to justify billions of spending on ever-wider roads and ever-more-extensive highway systems.
A couple of weeks ago, the think tank CEOs for Cities released a devastating critique of the UMR methodology. Entitled Driven Apart, the report concluded that the UMR’s method of measuring travel delays — which focuses on time spent stuck in traffic rather than overall travel time — fails to take into account the advantages enjoyed by commuters in more densely populated cities with better public transit. In other words, the UMR makes commuting in sprawl look a whole lot more appealing than it is in real life. And it has been used to justify more and more of that sprawl.
From Driven Apart:
Our detailed analysis of the methodology of the Urban Mobility Report suggests that it is an unreliable guide to understanding the nature and extent of transportation problems in the nation’s metropolitan areas.
The Urban Mobility Report’s key measure — the Travel Time Index — is a poor guide to policy, and its speed and fuel economy estimates are flawed. In the aggregate, the analysis appears to overstate the costs of traffic congestion three-fold and ignores the larger transportation costs associated with sprawl.
The CEOs for Cities report sent transportation nerds into a tizzy. You can read some excellent analysis of its implications at Streetsblog (full disclosure: I used to work there).
But at least one researcher in the field suggested that the critique didn’t go far enough.
Writing on Planetizen, Norman Garrick of the University of Connecticut said that we have been going about transportation planning wrong for generations:
Over 50 years ago, Lewis Mumford posed the question “What is transportation for?” Mumford felt that if we had asked this simple question at the start of the interstate era, we might not have committed billions of dollars to the creation of what he called a monochromatic transportation system. In his view, we supported highways to the detriment of transit and cities, mainly because transportation began to be seen as end in itself — rather than a means to an end. We lost sight of the fact that a transportation system affects almost all aspects of daily life and that its value should not be judged purely on the basis of how well it affords the easy movement of vehicles.
Garrick and his colleagues have been working on a different standard by which to judge the quality of transportation systems, the Transportation Index for Sustainable Places. It takes into account a number of different factors — including how those systems contribute to the economic well-being of a community. Here are four of the criteria they used to determine a region’s transportation health:
- transportation is affordable for individuals
- transportation system provides efficient movement of people and goods for economic activity
- transportation finance is locally self-sufficient
- transportation system does not contribute to economic vulnerability of society
What they found is that states with the least “monochromatic” systems — those that had good public transportation and denser development — ranked higher than those who depended heavily on roads. Not only that, their transportation systems were more financially self-sufficient and their citizens had much lower transportation costs:
On this map, the best-performing state is New York, and the worst is Mississippi. The differences between the states are stark — for example, in New York only 21 percent of the average household income is spent on transportation, while in Mississippi transportation eats up a crushing 41 percent of the average household income. In New York only 1% of the state’s GDP is spent on transportation fuel, while Mississippi devotes almost 5 percent of its state GDP to the purchasing of transportation fuel.
In addition, New York State is much less dependent on the federal government to support its total transportation budget — only 15 percent of its budget comes from the federal purse while Mississippi depends on the federal government to provide a whopping 41percent of total transportation budget. But perhaps more telling is the fact that in New York State, over a 10-year period, the GDP grew at a rate 3 times faster than the growth in vehicle miles travelled. In Mississippi we actually had the perverse situation in which vehicle miles grew at a rate three times faster than the rate of growth in GDP.
(In an aside, Garrick also notes similarities between his map showing “monochromatic” transportation states and the map that shows obesity levels in the United States.)
Many legislators, especially in the Republican Party, seem determined to finance highways at the cost of all else. We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Republican gubernatorial candidates and their resistance to financing high-speed rail connections between American cities. They’d rather spend the money on roads. Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) single-handedly scuttled the ARC tunnel under the Hudson River, one of the largest public transit projects in American history (although now he has condescended to reconsider) because he wants to spend money on his state’s roads instead.
This stubborn resistance to public transportation flies in the face of economic reality.
Home prices in New York suburbs with direct train commutes to the city have rebounded much better than suburbs farther out. Readers of NJBiz.com, a business publication that is anything but left-leaning, were highly critical of Christie’s decision to halt work on the ARC tunnel. Research suggests that funding mass transit produces dramatically more jobs than funding roads. And a poll by Transportation for America, a group lobbying for reform of the nation’s transportation system, shows that a majority of Americans want to see more financing for public transit.
There is a desperate need for more transportation options in this country. Whether politicians are willing to face that reality is another story. | <urn:uuid:82ccdc7f-bebe-447b-aaff-d3426a471421> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grist.org/article/2010-10-14-why-we-need-to-change-the-way-we-spend-on-transportation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955883 | 1,374 | 2.171875 | 2 |
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere" . . . So begins this classic Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. Beginning with just five fish and continuing into flights of fancy, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish celebrates how much fun imagination can be. From the can-opening Zans to the boxing Gox to the winking Yink who drinks pink ink, the silly rhymes and colorful cast of characters create an entertaining approach to reading that will have every child giggling from morning to night: "Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.
Theodor Seuss Geisel — aka Dr. Seuss — is, quite simply, one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. The forty-four books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into thirty languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss’s long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors for McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, and Bartholomew and the Oobleck; the Pulitzer Prize; and eight honorary doctorates. Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody. | <urn:uuid:c9e687f1-3f55-43ea-8ae8-bcbafb29afaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hc-hylib.kcbs.hc.edu.tw/webpac/bookDetail.do?id=16889 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954119 | 334 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Earlier this year, Visit Estonia carried out a series of social experiments in major European cities. The aim? To share the idea, based on scientific research data, that being around nature reduces stress. As studies have shown, it doesn't always mean sitting alone in the middle of the forest, it can be as simple as having a green and pleasant part of the city to enjoy – though a lush Estonian forest is probably better!
The idea to create a pop-up natural environment was partly inspired by the results of recent scientific findings. The idea was to monitor passers-by with the intention of selecting those most in need of a de-stress, approach them, ask if they wanted to spend a few minutes surrounded by the wonderful nature of Estonia, and see what effect it had on them. Dr Andre Weinreich, professor of psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, was on-hand to oversee the task.
To identify those most 'in need' it was necessary to turn to the latest technology. With such specific needs the options became sparse, identifying people who are stressed simply by glancing at them as they walk past in a busy city environment is not an easy task, if not impossible without the help of some cool technology.
Imagine recognition software is developing at an astounding rate. Many small start-ups are playing with the identification of objects or the auditing of a scene or picture; even with live video. However, one company has taken the challenge a step further. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, have developed a technology that can not only identify the age and sex of a person, but profile a range of emotions and record subtle facial changes to assist that. They call this technology SHORE, a pioneering facial analysis, primarily for Google Glass but possible to run through any PC with an HD video capture setup.
Based on Fraunhofer's proprietary SHORE software library, the software works by processing HD video in real-time to analyse facial cues, and can detect basic emotions or perform valence detection - the ability to glean deeper meaning from a range of subtle facial movements that might otherwise go undetected. As mentioned it can also accurately identify a person's sex and age using its 10 frames per second* real-time analysis.
Having the added ability to scan and analyse multiple faces in one frame lent itself perfectly to the task: to scan through a crowded street and, with the help of Dr. Weinreich, flag up those whom it deemed to be most likely suffering from higher stress levels.
The software doesn't save the frame images and neither does it make any attempt to cross reference them to the internet for identification, although in the wrong hands a mutation of this software could most probably do that. The parameters of the current software had recently been updated, with even more subtle valence recognition, head pose estimation, eye blink and mouth position detection, as well as increased accuracy in the scanning of facial profiles. | <urn:uuid:d70b12b0-5dff-4a25-8bb9-a1dea40b42d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitestonia.com/en/why-estonia/the-tech-behind-the-visit-estonia-social-experiment-on-stress-and-nature | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957171 | 609 | 2.453125 | 2 |
2510 INTRODUCTION #
Throughout its two thousand year history the Church through its teaching, tradition and iturgy has placed strong emphasis on the sacreuAess and respectful care which should be shown to the bodily remains of the deceased. This reverence and care for the dead has been reflected clearly in our Catholic funeral and ‘rnrial rituals as well as in the Christian burial practices and prayerful remembrance of our deceased.
In 1963 the Church modified its long-standing prohibition of cremation. The new directives allowed cremation to be chosen provided the choice did not reflect a denial or doubt about the Church’s teachings or traditions about life, death or resurrection. The Code of Canon Law (Can. 1176, No. 3) states: “The Church earnestly recommends that the pious custom of burying the bodies of the dead be observed; it does not, however, forbid cremation unless it has been chosen for reasons which are contrary to Christian teaching.” Canon 1184 directs that: “unless they have.given some signs of repentance before their death, the following are to be deprived of ecclesiastical funeral rite . . . (2 ) persons who have chosen the cremation of their own bodies for reasons opposed to the Christian faith.”
With these changes in the matter of cremation some confusion and many questions have arisen among our Catholic people. For pastoral reasons it is essential that our people know the law and be familiar with what is appropriate for liturgical services and burial of cremated remains.
2520 SERVICES #
Ideally, the wake service and funeral Mass are offered with the body present followed by cremation and proper burial or entombment of the cremated remains. If cremation takes place immediately after death, the cremated remains must not be present in the church for a funeral Mass. (Sacred Congregation of Sacraments and Divine Worship – Cremation and the Funeral Mass – January 1977).
2530 BURIAL #
Cremated remains should be buried or entombed in compliance with the directives which are prescribed in the Christian Burial Guidelines for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The scattering of cremated remains or the keeping of them in a place other than a cemetery are practices which are not in keeping with the Church’s long tradition of respectful care for the proper burial of the bodily remains of our deceased; cremated remains :=could be buried or entombed. The prescribed burial ritual should be used at the cemetery for the burial or entombment of the cremated remains.
2540 CONCLUSIONS #
Pastorally, it is important that our people receive proper instruction on the teaching and practices of our Church in the matter of cremation. Some of our people have experienced a great deal of unnecessary tension and pain because of decisions made about cremation based on misconceptions or ignorance. Hcpefully, appropriate instruction and good counselling will help to minimize some of these problems. | <urn:uuid:4700fcb6-1319-46d1-aed7-2b43b07c21bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sfparish.com/docs/archdiocesan-policy-on-cremation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950825 | 606 | 2.8125 | 3 |
When searching for a job as a freelancer, first impressions really do count – even digital ones.
Applying for jobs in today’s employment marketplace doesn’t just mean sending out resumes and applications. Now that we are entering a more digital world, Social profiles are a new and important way to companies recruit. Oomple recruiters are well aware that there’s no doubt time has been spent reviewing social media profiles as a standard part of their recruitment decision-making process.
Social Recruiting is growing rapidly, especially on LinkedIn and Facebook. This means that social media isn’t just being glanced at. It’s being actively used to recruit, interview, and consider applicants.
With a growing importance of social media in today’s business world, what can you do to keep your social networking profiles employer-friendly?
Professional Profile Picture
Love that profile picture where you’re dancing on the beach with a cocktail on your hand? Sorry, it’s got to go. Choose a profile pic that is friendly and approachable but professional at the same time.
Update Your Employment Info
This means updating your profiles to include your current and recent employment. It’s worth doing so on all of your accounts to demonstrate consistency and to show how important your career is to you.
Keep it Fresh
Sure, social media is a place to express yourself but also keep in mind that you’re effectively speaking in public. Avoid any inappropriate memes, jokes, swearing, stories about weekend benders, rants about your current boss, potentially offensive opinions… you get the picture!
Choose Personal Info Wisely
Decide whether you want to share all of your personal information online. For example, do you want to share your age on social media? Do you want to include marital status? Do you want to include your weaknesses?
Review Your Privacy Settings
Get to know your privacy options and adjust your settings to suit you. Not sure where to find these settings? Google can help with that! You don’t have to switch it to completely private but you have options!
Be an Active Candidate in Your Industry
Social media is the best place to share your passion about what you do. Share articles, share blog posts, connect with mentors. Posting positive comments about your team also helps boost your image as a positive candidate. OR create your own content, post articles on Linkedin, post pictures of you on Instagram at your job, doing what you love.
Connect with the Right People
Following and interacting with the mentors, role models, influencers in your industry is a great way of showing your enthusiasm for your work. Being a member of professional networks and getting involved in forum chats relating to your profession is another good way of boosting your employer-friendly digital footprint – as well as building potentially useful relationships.
Complete Your Bio
Spend some time editing your social media bios to present yourself in your best possible light. Showcase your skills, highlight your most interesting and relevant hobbies and aim to create a cohesive personal brand across all of your accounts.
Yes, recruiters and employers will search for you on google. This is exactly what potential employers will do and it gives you a great overview of your online presence. Inappropriate photos from the past of you showing up on a friend’s blog? Ask them to remove them. | <urn:uuid:6bd7d870-5d69-46f6-9fae-0e1cc1ad5578> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oomple.com/blog/2018/08/29/keeping-your-social-media-profiles-employer-friendly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932431 | 696 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The Producers Guild of America is launching an expanded version of its Green Production Guide, an interactive website that provides tools to help operate productions that are more sustainable.
The PGA guide, which debuted in August, 2010, will now offer additional resources to help producers run environmentally friendly productions. It gives access to a global database of over 1,500 vendors offering sustainable or environmentally sensitive services and products.
New or improved features include a refined search tool to find online green vendors; a graphically enhanced carbon calculator to quantify a production’s carbon emissions; and a new guide detailing best practices for sustainable production.
Several studios, including Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. – all of which helped fund the initiative – use the carbon calculator on at least a portion of their productions.
Film commissions linking to the Green Production Guide on their sites include those in California, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Florida, Indiana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Oklahoma, Ohio, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona, Maryland, Colorado, Maine, South Carolina, Nevada, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, and Georgia.
Production house Hollywood Center Studios is also going green. The complex has built two large solar power systems that will generate more than 350,000 kilowatt hours per year of electricity for its 11 stages – helping reduce its electricity bill.
“We hope to slow electrical consumption, especially during peak hours, and that could have a significant effect on our energy costs,” said studio exec VP/COO Tim Mahoney. “Solar energy also appeals to the environmental concerns that we have-as well as many of the production companies that use our stages.”
More than 700 solar panels have been installed on the roofs covering Stages 10 and 11, the facility’s newest stages, and some 384 modules have been installed on the roofs of Stages Five and Six, the facility’s original stages. Hollywood Center Studios has plans to add similar systems to other stages and buildings. | <urn:uuid:a7d5fd45-3778-4fad-ba0f-2b8ef38a45c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://variety.com/2011/biz/columns/hollywood-thinks-green-1118037799/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.91962 | 416 | 2.171875 | 2 |
groff belongs to an older generation of document preparation
systems, which operate more like compilers than the more recent
groff and its contemporary counterpart, TeX, both
work using a batch paradigm: The input (or source) files are
normal text files with embedded formatting commands. These files can
then be processed by
groff to produce a typeset document on a
variety of devices.
groff should not be confused with a word processor, an
integrated system of editor and text formatter. Also, many word
processors follow the WYSIWYG paradigm discussed earlier.
Although WYSIWYG systems may be easier to use, they have a
number of disadvantages compared to
troffis firmly entrenched in all Unix systems.
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On-Site (in-class max 6 Students) or Live Online Face to Face Classes!
This is not a workshop, but an intensive course that will adequately prepare you for the exam.
TOEFL stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language and is a US-based test designed to measure reading, listening, speaking and writing skills for further education purposes.
LETA’s TOEFL Exam Preparation Courses guarantee that you will get the highest quality preparation for these internationally recognised aptitude tests.
Further, the TOEFL proficiency exams are taken by students to apply for university degree programmes, or further education college courses of all disciplines where the language of instruction is English. It is also recognised by more than 9,000 colleges, universities and agencies in more than 130 countries. The countries where they are usually a prerequisite for university entrance include the UK, Australia as well as Canada and the United States. Furthermore, the TOEFL certificate also serves to prove skills and achievements needed for many kinds of jobs at international companies as well as for various categories of immigration and visa applications for living, studying and working in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia.
- Once you have signed up for class, this is what you will expect: The language trainer will work with the students to analyse their current capabilities and needs.
- The TOEFL preparation exam course shall cover the important aspects of English such as grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, comprehension and speaking.
- How to achieve a high score in the TOEFL Writing Task and what are the dos and don’ts of writing!
- How to achieve a high score in the TOEFL Reading Comprehension, Speaking and Listening tests.
- The course also comprises of stimulus materials including practice exam papers.
- Additional assignments will be given to the students in order to provide a concrete assessment of his or her progress.
- Assessment will be given on the writing tasks which will be marked. Feedback and advice will be given to the student.
- We teach in groups of up to eight students.
- We also provide personal private group and individual courses at your home within in the Northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
- Our staff is comprised of native English speakers who are certified language trainers and LETA has a proven track record of delivering high-quality English language packages to professionals.
Private group courses can be booked by companies, schools and universities.
Course (Level B1/2) begins:
- January 15th, 2022
- February 26th, 2022
- April 30th, 2022
- July 30th, 2022
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Price: 4699,00 Rand *Costs do not include exam costs.
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The Wrap Around Test
- Print this document at PDF 100%. PDF DOWNLOAD
- Make a small slit along the red line on the ring sizer below.
- Carefully cut out the entire ring sizer.
- Place the sizer around your finger and pull the pointed end through the red slit creating a snug fit.
- The number that aligns with the red slit is your ring size.
- Tip: Ask someone to help you, it’s a lot easier that way.
- Make sure you can still slip the tester size past your knuckle.
- Be careful not to wrap too tight or loose; it should be a snug fit.
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How do I clear the message "Cannot Detect" from the display?
The message "Cannot Detect" will appear on the display of the Brother machine after installing an ink cartridge(s) that is (1) installed too quickly or (2) broken or damaged or (3) a non-Brother cartridge that causes the message to display. Verify the ink cartridges are installed correctly by following the steps listed below:
NOTE: Images shown below are from the representative product and may differ from your Brother machine.
- Open the ink cartridge cover door.
- Push the 4 colored levers down and remove the ink cartridges from the machine.
- Check that the machine power is turned ON and install the ink cartridges. If the machine is power-off, it cannot detect the ink cartridges are installed.
- Each color has its own correct position to match the color of the cartridges with the color of the levers. Reinstall the ink cartridges one at a time. Install the cartridges slowly, in the direction of the arrow on the label until it clicks into place. Continue with the next ink cartridge.
- After all four cartridges are installed close the ink cartridge cover.
- If you replaced an ink cartridge, the LCD may ask you to verify that it was a brand new one. For example, Did You Change Black? For each new cartridge you installed, choose Yes. If the ink cartridge you installed is not a brand new one, be sure to choose No.
If you mix the colors by installing an ink cartridge in the wrong position, clean the print head several times after correcting the cartridge installation.
Once you open an ink cartridge, install it in the machine and use it up within six months of installation. Use unopened ink cartridges by the expiration date written on the cartridge package.
- Brother multifunction machines are designed to work with ink of a particular specification and will work to a level of optimum performance and reliability when used with genuine Brother Original ink cartridges. Brother cannot guarantee this optimum performance and reliability if ink or ink cartridges of other specifications are used. Brother does not therefore recommend the use of cartridges other than genuine Brother Original cartridges or the refilling of used cartridges with ink from other sources. If damage is caused to the print head or other parts of this machine as a result of using incompatible products with this machine, any repairs required as a result may not be covered by the warranty.
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- Removing the yellow protective cap from the ink cartridge with the cartridge upside down, could create air pockets in the cartridge. The correct position to hold the cartridge when removing the yellow protective cap is to hold it with the yellow cap to the side.
- Removing the yellow protective cap without twisting the green knob to pressurize the cartridge, could also create air pockets in the cartridge.
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Did you know, that when a baby is born, his brain is ½ the size of an adult brain? By the time he is 3 years old, his brain has grown to 80% size of an adult brain. This is incredible growth, in just 3 years.
How does the brain work, and how can we foster this development?
Within the brain are billions of nerve cells, known as neurons. The neurons have to connect with other brain cells in order to work. Some of these connections are present from birth – for example, the ability to breathe, to suck, to cry, and others occur as the baby grows and develops. The connections occur when experiences or skills are repeated over and over.
For example you don’t learn how to fly a plane with just one lesson – you need multiple opportunities to practise in order to be competent. Babies are the same – in order to learn to walk, or stack blocks or feed themselves – it doesn’t happen with just one instruction from us. This is why a young baby will drop toys (or food!) over the high chair repeatedly. Parents often think that the child doesn’t want the object. What the baby is learning, is when I drop this book, it goes bang, and when I do it again, it still goes bang. When I drop the orange it rolls away, sometimes it rolls left, sometimes right… they are looking to make the connection (in their brain) between action and response. Once they’ve dropped the book often enough, then they no longer need to do it, because they know it will go bang.
Whilst our skulls are hard, the brain within is fragile, and like glass, it can be easily damaged. This is why we need to ensure proper care of the brain, especially in the early months, when baby’s neck muscles are not yet strong, and they struggle to hold up that heavy head. Babies should never be shaken, as their fragile brain bangs against the inside of the skull and can lead to death or serious permanent damage of the brain and it’s function.
We also need to protect babies and children’s brains, by ensuring that they are securely placed in car seats, and later, wear helmets whilst bicycling.
Brain development is also fostered by diet. In order for those connections (known as synapses) to be strong in the brain, they need a protective coating of myelin. The myelin coating enables the brain cells to function more efficiently. Myelin occurs naturally in breast milk, and is added to formula milk. For this reason, formula milk should always be made up according to the directions (not diluted), to ensure the baby receives the correct amount of myelin.
Another thing which fosters healthy brain development, is to limit screen time. It is well documented, that TV, because of the fast moving images, affects the developing neural pathways. When these babies grow, they seem to require constant activity as they’ve grown to see this activity as the norm. Many Paediatric services now recommend no screen time before the age of 2 years of age, and less than 2hrs per day for ages 2+, due to the effects on the developing brain. I hear your shock…. what will I do with them? Think back to your childhood – more walks in the park, or playing in the backyard, digging in the garden, cooking with Grandma, craft work, collecting leaves and snails etc.
It does make you wonder, doesn’t it, with the huge increase in children on medication for ADHD, the children who have poor social skills and the children who have no impulse control, which we’ve seen increase dramatically over the past 20 years, since we have had more screens in the household – be they TV, DVD, computer, X-box etc – makes you wonder….
Being a parent is a huge responsibility, which includes, as far as possible, doing everything we can do to nurture that precious developing brain.
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Robert Wu was a well-respected figure who founded the Eslite bookstore chain. By fostering an urban environment filled with culture, art, and creativity, Wu's Eslite brand has become a beacon of culture enlightening Taiwan and other regions of the Chinese-speaking community.
Holding a degree in mechanical engineering from the National Taipei University of Technology, Wu worked in an interior renovation company for eighteen years. After becoming a successful businessman, however, Wu began pursuing a different ambition after an epiphany on how reading helps enrich mind and spirit.
In 1989, Wu founded the first Eslite bookstore in Taipei. Unlike most bookstores at that time, Eslite was born as a culture- and arts-oriented bookstore. Though many doubted his decision to open such bookstore, the most important thing for Wu was to promote the culture of reading in Taiwan.
The following year, Wu opened more stores, including the first 24-hour bookstore in Taipei. With the idea of respecting every single person who walks into Eslite, each store offers a refined environment with large collections on architecture, fine arts, music, literature, and photography for visitors to read and linger.
Eslite bookstores, however, were in deep deficits for their first 15 years. Despite the situation, Wu persisted because he believed that even if they lost money, the bookstores were doing their part in boosting the overall quality life of Taiwanese society.
Fortunately, Wu's persistence in bringing culture into everyday life was supported by major shareholders who also hoped to achieve the same goal, and the stores survived through budgeting difficulties and eventually turned profitable.
Over the years, Wu developed a new operational model for bookstores by integrating books with culturally creative products, fine goods, café, theaters, and galleries. Their bookstores became a hangout for hipsters and bookworms, and Eslite was selected the Best Bookstore in Asia by Times magazine in 2004.
28 years on, Wu turned Eslite into a cultural landscape that represents a certain lifestyle and attitude. Today, it has expanded to 48 branches, including three in Hong Kong and one in China.
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21.8 Series and parallel circuits by Benjamin Crowell,licensed under the .
I see a chess position; Kasparov sees an interesting Ruy Lopez variation. To the uninitiated a schematic may look as unintelligible as Mayan hieroglyphs, but even a little bit of eye training can go a long way toward making its meaning leap off the page. A schematic is a stylized and simplified drawing of a circuit. The purpose is to eliminate as many irrelevant features as possible, so that the relevant ones are easier to pick out.
An example of an irrelevant feature is the physical shape, length, and diameter of a wire. In nearly all circuits, it is a good approximation to assume that the wires are perfect conductors, so that any piece of wire uninterrupted by other components has constant voltage throughout it. Changing the length of the wire, for instance, does not change this fact. (Of course if we used miles and miles of wire, as in a telephone line, the wire's resistance would start to add up, and its length would start to matter.) The shapes of the wires are likewise irrelevant, so we draw them with standardized, stylized shapes made only of vertical and horizontal lines with right-angle bends in them. This has the effect of making similar circuits look more alike and helping us to recognize familiar patterns, just as words in a newspaper are easier to recognize than handwritten ones. Figure shows some examples of these concepts.
The most important first step in learning to read schematics is to learn to recognize contiguous pieces of wire which must have constant voltage throughout. In figure , for example, the two shaded E-shaped pieces of wire must each have constant voltage. This focuses our attention on two of the main unknowns we'd like to be able to predict: the voltage of the left-hand E and the voltage of the one on the right.
One of the simplest examples to analyze is the parallel resistance circuit, of which figure voltage difference across them. A battery normally succeeds in maintaining the voltage differences across itself for which it was designed, so the voltage drops `DeltaV_1` and `DeltaV_2` across the resistors must both equal the voltage of the battery:was an example. In general we may have unequal resistances `R_1` and `R_2`, as in /1. Since there are only two constant-voltage areas in the circuit, /2, all three components have the same
Each resistance thus feels the same voltage difference as if it was the only one in the circuit, and Ohm's law tells us that the amount of current flowing through each one is also the same as it would have been in a one-resistor circuit. This is why household electrical circuits are wired in parallel. We want every appliance to work the same, regardless of whether other appliances are plugged in or unplugged, turned on or switched off. (The electric company doesn't use batteries of course, but our analysis would be the same for any device that maintains a constant voltage.)
Of course the electric company can tell when we turn on every light in the house. How do they know? The answer is that we draw more current. Each resistance draws a certain amount of current, and the amount that has to be supplied is the sum of the two individual currents. The current is like a river that splits in half, /3, and then reunites. The total current is
This is an example of a general fact called the junction rule:
Coming back to the analysis of our circuit, we apply Ohm's law to each resistance, resulting in
from which we can determine the equivalent resistance by comparison with the previous expression:
[equivalent resistance of two resistors in parallel]
`=>` You turn on two lamps that are on the same household circuit. Each one has a resistance of 1 ohm. What is the equivalent resistance, and how does the power dissipation compare with the case of a single lamp?
`=>` The equivalent resistance of the two lamps in parallel is
`=(1/(1 Omega)+1/(1 Omega))^(-1)`
The voltage difference across the whole circuit is always the 110 V set by the electric company (it's alternating current, but that's irrelevant). The resistance of the whole circuit has been cut in half by turning on the second lamp, so a fixed amount of voltage will produce twice as much current. Twice the current flowing across the same voltage difference means twice as much power dissipation, which makes sense.
The cutting in half of the resistance surprises many students, since we are “adding more resistance” to the circuit by putting in the second lamp. Why does the equivalent resistance come out to be less than the resistance of a single lamp? This is a case where purely verbal reasoning can be misleading. A resistive circuit element, such as the filament of a lightbulb, is neither a perfect insulator nor a perfect conductor. Instead of analyzing this type of circuit in terms of “resistors,” i.e., partial insulators, we could have spoken of “conductors.” This example would then seem reasonable, since we “added more conductance,” but one would then have the incorrect expectation about the case of resistors in series, discussed in the following section.
Perhaps a more productive way of thinking about it is to use mechanical intuition. By analogy, your nostrils resist the flow of air through them, but having two nostrils makes it twice as easy to breathe.
`=>` What happens if we have three or more resistors in parallel?
`=>` This is an important example, because the solution involves an important technique for understanding circuits: breaking them down into smaller parts and them simplifying those parts. In the circuit resistors in parallel, we can think of two of the resistors as forming a single resistor, /2, with equivalent resistance/1, with three
We can then simplify the circuit as shown in/3, so that it contains only two resistances. The equivalent resistance of the whole circuit is then given by
Substituting for `R_(12)` and simplifying, we find the result
which you probably could have guessed. The interesting point here is the divide-and-conquer concept, not the mathematical result.
`=>` What is the resistance of `N` identical resistors in parallel?
`=>` Generalizing the results for two and three resistors, we have
We have alluded briefly to the fact that an object's electrical resistance depends on its size and shape, but now we are ready to begin making more mathematical statements about it. As suggested by figure resistors's cross-sectional area is equivalent to adding more resistors in parallel, which will lead to an overall decrease in resistance. Any real resistor with straight, parallel sides can be sliced up into a large number of pieces, each with cross-sectional area of, say, `1 mum^2`. The number, `N`, of such slices is proportional to the total cross-sectional area of the resistor, and by application of the result of the previous example we therefore find that the resistance of an object is inversely proportional to its cross-sectional area., increasing a
An analogous relationship holds for water pipes, which is why high-flow trunk lines have to have large cross-sectional areas. To make lots of water (current) flow through a skinny pipe, we'd need an impractically large pressure (voltage) difference.
A voltmeter is really just an ammeter with an internal resistor, and we use a voltmeter in parallel with the thing that we're trying to measure the voltage difference across. This means that any time we measure the voltage drop across a resistor, we're essentially putting two resistors in parallel. The ammeter inside the voltmeter can be ignored for the purpose of analyzing how current flows in the circuit, since it is essentially just some coiled-up wire with a very low resistance.
Now if we are carrying out this measurement on a resistor that is part of a larger circuit, we have changed the behavior of the circuit through our act of measuring. It is as though we had modified the circuit by replacing the resistance `R` with the smaller equivalent resistance of `R` and `R_v` in parallel. It is for this reason that voltmeters are built with the largest possible internal resistance. As a numerical example, if we use a voltmeter with an internal resistance of `1 MOmega` to measure the voltage drop across a one-ohm resistor, the equivalent resistance is `0.999999 Omega`, which is not different enough to make any difference. But if we tried to use the same voltmeter to measure the voltage drop across a `2 MOmega` resistor, we would be reducing the resistance of that part of the circuit by a factor of three, which would produce a drastic change in the behavior of the whole circuit.
This is the reason why you can't use a voltmeter to measure the voltage difference between two different points in mid-air, or between the ends of a piece of wood. This is by no means a stupid thing to want to do, since the world around us is not a constant-voltage environment, the most extreme example being when an electrical storm is brewing. But it will not work with an ordinary voltmeter because the resistance of the air or the wood is many gigaohms. The effect of waving a pair of voltmeter probes around in the air is that we provide a reuniting path for the positive and negative charges that have been separated --- through the voltmeter itself, which is a good conductor compared to the air. This reduces to zero the voltage difference we were trying to measure.
In general, a voltmeter that has been set up with an open circuit (or a very large resistance) between its probes is said to be “floating.” An old-fashioned analog voltmeter of the type described here will read zero when left floating, the same as when it was sitting on the shelf. A floating digital voltmeter usually shows an error message.
The two basic circuit layouts are parallel and series, so a pair of resistors in series, /1, is another of the most basic circuits we can make. By conservation of charge, all the current that flows through one resistor must also flow through the other (as well as through the battery):
The only way the information about the two resistance values is going to be useful is if we can apply Ohm's law, which will relate the resistance of each resistor to the current flowing through it and the voltage difference across it. Figure /2 shows the three constant-voltage areas. Voltage differences are more physically significant than voltages, so we define symbols for the voltage differences across the two resistors in figure /3.
We have three constant-voltage areas, with symbols for the difference in voltage between every possible pair of them. These three voltage differences must be related to each other. It is as though I tell you that Fred is a foot taller than Ginger, Ginger is a foot taller than Sally, and Fred is two feet taller than Sally. The information is redundant, and you really only needed two of the three pieces of data to infer the third. In the case of our voltage differences, we have
The absolute value signs are because of the ambiguity in how we define our voltage differences. If we reversed the two probes of the voltmeter, we would get a result with the opposite sign. Digital voltmeters will actually provide a minus sign on the screen if the wire connected to the “V” plug is lower in voltage than the one connected to the “COM” plug. Analog voltmeters pin the needle against a peg if you try to use them to measure negative voltages, so you have to fiddle to get the leads connected the right way, and then supply any necessary minus sign yourself.
Figure voltage measurements around the loop, we keep the same probe (the darker one) on the clockwise side. It is as though the voltmeter was sidling around the circuit like a crab, without ever “crossing its legs.” With this convention, the relationship among the voltage drops becomes/4 shows a standard way of taking care of the ambiguity in signs. For each of the three
or, in more symmetrical form,
`DeltaV_1+DeltaV_2 + DeltaV_"battery"=0,`
More generally, this is known as the loop rule for analyzing circuits:
Assuming the standard convention for plus and minus signs, the sum of the voltage drops around any closed loop in a circuit must be zero.
Looking for an exception to the loop rule would be like asking for a hike that would be downhill all the way and that would come back to its starting point!
For the circuit we set out to analyze, the equation
`DeltaV_1+DeltaV_2 + DeltaV_"battery"=0,`
The currents are the same, so we can factor them out:
and this is the same result we would have gotten if we had been analyzing a one-resistor circuit with resistance `R_1+R_2`. Thus the equivalent resistance of resistors in series equals the sum of their resistances.
`=>` If two identical lightbulbs are placed in series, how do their brightnesses compare with the brightness of a single bulb?
`=>` Taken as a whole, the pair of bulbs act like a doubled resistance, so they will draw half as much current from the wall. Each bulb will be dimmer than a single bulb would have been.
The total power dissipated by the circuit is `IDeltaV`. The voltage drop across the whole circuit is the same as before, but the current is halved, so the two-bulb circuit draws half as much total power as the one-bulb circuit. Each bulb draws one-quarter of the normal power.
Roughly speaking, we might expect this to result in one quarter the light being produced by each bulb, but in reality lightbulbs waste quite a high percentage of their power in the form of heat and wavelengths of light that are not visible (infrared and ultraviolet). Less light will be produced, but it's hard to predict exactly how much less, since the efficiency of the bulbs will be changed by operating them under different conditions.
By straightforward application of the divide-and-conquer technique discussed in the previous section, we find that the equivalent resistance of `N` identical resistances `R` in series will be `NR`.
In the previous section, we proved that resistance is inversely proportional to cross-sectional area. By equivalent reason about resistances in series, we find that resistance is proportional to length. Analogously, it is harder to blow through a long straw than through a short one.
Combining the results of examplesand , we find that the resistance of an object with straight, parallel sides is given by
The proportionality constant is called the resistivity, and it depends only on the substance of which the object is made. A resistivity measurement could be used, for instance, to help identify a sample of an unknown substance.
Thomas Edison got involved in a famous technological controversy over the voltage difference that should be used for electrical power lines. At this time, the public was unfamiliar with electricity, and easily scared by it. The president of the United States, for instance, refused to have electrical lighting in the White House when it first became commercially available because he considered it unsafe, preferring the known fire hazard of oil lamps to the mysterious dangers of electricity. Mainly as a way to overcome public fear, Edison believed that power should be transmitted using small voltages, and he publicized his opinion by giving demonstrations at which a dog was lured into position to be killed by a large voltage difference between two sheets of metal on the ground. (Edison's opponents also advocated alternating current rather than direct current, and AC is more dangerous than DC as well. As we will discuss later, AC can be easily stepped up and down to the desired voltage level using a device called a transformer.)
Now if we want to deliver a certain amount of power `P_L` to a load such as an electric lightbulb, we are constrained only by the equation `P_L=IDeltaV_L`. We can deliver any amount of power we wish, even with a low voltage, if we are willing to use large currents. Modern electrical distribution networks, however, use dangerously high voltage differences of tens of thousands of volts. Why did Edison lose the debate?
It boils down to money. The electric company must deliver the amount of power `P_L` desired by the customer through a transmission line whose resistance `R_T` is fixed by economics and geography. The same current flows through both the load and the transmission line, dissipating power usefully in the former and wastefully in the latter. The efficiency of the system is
Putting ourselves in the shoes of the electric company, we wish to get rid of the variable `P_T`, since it is something we control only indirectly by our choice of `DeltaV_T` and `I`. Substituting `P_T=IDeltaV_T`, we find
We assume the transmission line (but not necessarily the load) is ohmic, so substituting `DeltaV_T=IR_T` gives
This quantity can clearly be maximized by making `I` as small as possible, since we will then be dividing by the smallest possible quantity on the bottom of the fraction. A low-current circuit can only deliver significant amounts of power if it uses high voltages, which is why electrical transmission systems use dangerous high voltages.
Example 19: Two ways of handling signs
The figure above shows two ways of visualizing the loop rule and handling the signs involved. Panel 1, each circuit element is labeled with the voltage drop across it.
In 2, the crab is a voltmeter whose reading is the voltage on the white claw minus the voltage on the back claw. The crab can't flip over. It can only scuttle sideways as it moves around the loop that we've chosen, consisting of four resistors. The sum of the four readings is zero.
Panel 3 shows a visualization of the same circuit in which voltage is like height. The stick figure on the ledge wants to get down to the ground by doing a series of hops. He has two ways: do the 3 V drop and then the 1 V drop, or do the 2 V and the other 2 V. Here we treat all the voltage differences as positive numbers. This method works nicely if you're pretty sure for each resistor in the circuit which end is the higher voltage.
`=>` All seven resistors in the left-hand panel of figure are identical. Initially, the switch S is open as shown in the figure, and the current through resistor A is `I_o`. The switch is then closed. Find the current through resistor B, after the switch is closed, in terms of `I_o`.
`=>` The second panel shows the circuit redrawn for simplicity, in the initial condition with the switch open. When the switch is open, no current can flow through the central resistor, so we may as well ignore it. I've also redrawn the junctions, without changing what's connected to what. This is the kind of mental rearranging that you'll eventually learn to do automatically from experience with analyzing circuits. The redrawn version makes it easier to see what's happening with the current. Charge is conserved, so any charge that flows past point 1 in the circuit must also flow past points 2 and 3. This would have been harder to reason about by applying the junction rule to the original version, which appears to have nine separate junctions.
In the new version, it's also clear that the circuit has a great deal of symmetry. We could flip over each parallel pair of identical resistors without changing what's connected to what, so that makes it clear that the voltage drops and currents must be equal for the members of each pair. We can also prove this by using the loop rule. The loop rule says that the two voltage drops in loop 4 must be equal, and similarly for loops 5 and 6. Since the resistors obey Ohm's law, equal voltage drops across them also imply equal currents. That means that when the current at point 1 comes to the top junction, exactly half of it goes through each resistor. Then the current reunites at 2, splits between the next pair, and so on. We conclude that each of the six resistors in the circuit experiences the same voltage drop and the same current. Applying the loop rule to loop 7, we find that the sum of the three voltage drops across the three left-hand resistors equals the battery's voltage, `V`, so each resistor in the circuit experiences a voltage drop `V"/"3`. Letting `R` stand for the resistance of one of the resistors, we find that the current through resistor B, which is the same as the currents through all the others, is given by `I_o=V/3*R`.
We now pass to the case where the switch is closed, as shown in the third panel. The battery's voltage is the same as before, and each resistor's resistance is the same, so we can still use the same symbols `V` and `R` for them. It is no longer true, however, that each resistor feels a voltage drop `V"/"3`. The equivalent resistance of the whole circuit is `R"/"2+R"/"3+R"/"2=4R"/"3`, so the total current drawn from the battery is `3V"/"4R`. In the middle group of resistors, this current is split three ways, so the new current through B is `(1"/"3)(3V"/"4R)=3I_o"/"4`.
Interpreting this result, we see that it comes from two effects that partially cancel. Closing the switch reduces the equivalent resistance of the circuit by giving charge another way to flow, and increases the amount of current drawn from the battery. Resistor B, however, only gets a 1/3 share of this greater current, not 1/2. The second effect turns out to be bigger than first, and therefore the current through resistor B is lessened over all.
As with a voltmeter, an ammeter can give erroneous readings if it is used in such a way that it changes the behavior the circuit. An ammeter is used in series, so if it is used to measure the current through a resistor, the resistor's value will effectively be changed to `R+R_a`, where `R_a` is the resistance of the ammeter. Ammeters are designed with very low resistances in order to make it unlikely that `R+R_a` will be significantly different from `R`.
In fact, the real hazard is death, not a wrong reading! Virtually the only circuits whose resistances are significantly less than that of an ammeter are those designed to carry huge currents. An ammeter inserted in such a circuit can easily melt. When I was working at a laboratory funded by the Department of Energy, we got periodic bulletins from the DOE safety office about serious accidents at other sites, and they held a certain ghoulish fascination. One of these was about a DOE worker who was completely incinerated by the explosion created when he inserted an ordinary Radio Shack ammeter into a high-current circuit. Later estimates showed that the heat was probably so intense that the explosion was a ball of plasma --- a gas so hot that its atoms have been ionized.
A We have stated the loop rule in a symmetric form where a series of voltage drops adds up to zero. To do this, we had to define a standard way of connecting the voltmeter to the circuit so that the plus and minus signs would come out right. Suppose we wish to restate the junction rule in a similar symmetric way, so that instead of equating the current coming in to the current going out, it simply states that a certain sum of currents at a junction adds up to zero. What standard way of inserting the ammeter would we have to use to make this work?
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With cities across the United States moving to remove public monuments to Confederate figures in light of the white-supremacist rally and terrorist attack in Charlottesville, the Oneida Indian Nation and the National Congress of American Indians are prodding Washington’s NFL franchise to pull down memorials to another famous racist: the team’s original owner, George Preston Marshall.
The Oneidas, based in upstate New York, have waged a public campaign since 2013 against the Washington team’s name, which is widely considered to be a racial slur against Native Americans. But after last weekend’s events in Charlottesville, the tribe is hoping it can find common ground with the team and owner Dan Snyder in removing tributes to Marshall from FedEx Field, where the lower level of seats is named for the man, and from Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, outside of which stands a marble-and-bronze monument to Marshall.
“Specifically, we are asking you to join with other teams and end the practice of venerating segregationists who helped promote the Confederacy and its abominable legacy of slavery,” the letter reads. “We invite you and the Washington football team to officially join our effort to remove the statue and separate stadium memorial to George Preston Marshall—the founder of your franchise.”
Marshall’s racism was very public and well-documented from the moment he founded the team as the Boston Braves in 1932. The team’s name was changed after its first season to its current, more aggressively insulting moniker. Upon moving the franchise to DC in 1937, the team sprinkled its fan experience with paeans to the South like the “fight for old Dixie” lyric in its official song.
Most notoriously, Marshall brazenly refused to sign any black players until 1962—26 years after the rest of the NFL—after Interior Secretary Stewart Udall threatened to boot the team from federally owned DC Stadium (now RFK Stadium) unless it diversified its roster. Last weekend, members of the American Nazi Party marched outside the stadium holding signs that read “Keep Redskins White!” at the same time neo-Nazis and members of other white-supremacist groups flocked to Charlottesville last weekend nominally to protest the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee
While the letter to Snyder acknowledges their disagreement over the team’s name, the tribe is asking the Washington team’s present-day owner to follow the example of Boston Red Sox owner John Henry in taking down a tribute to an overtly racist predecessor just outside Fenway Park. Henry said Thursday he plans to ask Boston officials to rename Yawkey Way, which is named after Tom Yawkey, who owned the Red Sox from 1933 to 1977 and—like Marshall—made his team the last holdout against racial integration. (The Sox signed utility infielder Pumpsie Green in 1959, more than a decade after Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier.)
“As the owner of the Washington team, you are in a unique position to make a similar—and desperately needed—gesture in your own community,” the letter reads. “You can play a pivotal role by removing the Marshall memorial in front of your team’s previous stadium, and remove Marshall’s name from the stadium section at your team’s current stadium.”
Tony Wyllie, a spokesman for the Washington NFL team, says there are no statues or monuments to Marshall at FedEx Field. (The only tribute there is the lower bowl’s ceremonial naming.) Either way, taking down the multiple tributes to Marshall will be a bit trickier than the task Henry faces in Boston. While it’s Snyder’s prerogative to make alterations at FedEx, taking down the Marshall monument at RFK Stadium would require the approval of Events DC, the District’s sports and convention bureau, and the National Park Service, which owns the land under the site. DC Council member David Grosso, who is also pushing NPS to remove a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike from downtown Washington, is a cosigner of the Oneidas’ letter. | <urn:uuid:d8de494b-79e9-45e7-8db1-ccedcf319615> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/08/18/redskins-urged-drop-memorials-racist-former-owner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939248 | 860 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Some may be looking to buy their first home and know little about closing on a home. An approved buyer is quite busy leading up to the closing. From arranging a move to changing utilities, finding new medical professionals and more, there are many tasks that will be done in anticipation of moving into a new home.
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The Final Step to a Home Purchase
Closing on a home is the final chapter to buying a home. A lender will be involved if a buyer is financing their purchase. The closing or settlement requires the transferring of funds and an exchange of documents. Payments are made to cover the purchase price which may include:
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At this point, the buyer will receive the transfer documents, deed to the property and a clear title. The buyer will also get the loan amount, minus fees and initial interest, from their lender. A lien is placed on the property until the mortgage loan is repaid by the buyer. Any respective fees and costs are paid to various parties who helped with the services or documents needed at the closing. Expect to sign many documents at the closing. At the end of the closing, the buyer becomes the new owner of the home.
Location of a Closing
There are different situations that may occur that can affect where a buyer will close on their home with the involved parties. Those who buy a home for cash can decide with the seller on a convenient location. Some may choose to meet at the office on a buyer or seller's attorney. In some states, witness-only closings are permitted. In this situation, an attorney or notary will provide all the documents but will not have to explain them.
Most buyers will be taking out a mortgage. In many cases, the buyer and seller will meet at a settlement agent's office. In some states, parties will close at the office of an escrow company or lender.
Time Needed to Close on a Home
Those working with a lender are subject to their availability. Therefore, it may take longer than initially expected to close on a home. It can take as little as 30 days to close on a home with the majority of federally related mortgage loans. Longer periods may be required for those getting assistance with the down payment from first-time home buyer programs. Missing documents may lead to a delay.
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In the majority of cases, the home closing process is relatively quick. However, issues can arise which can frustrate Murfreesboro new home buyers and sellers. An underwriter may respond in an unusual way to the file submitted to them by the loan officer or request additional documentation. Situations that can cause a delay are:
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The Taming of the Shrew
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Washington State University
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
One oblique source for this play, Gascoigne’s play Supposes, was performed at Gray’s Inn on December 26, 1566 (Farina 73). Gascoigne had translated Ariosto’s Suppositi; he died October 1577 (Clark 102), just before it is thought that Oxford wrote an earlier version of The Taming of the Shrew, called A Morrall of the Marryage of Mynde and Measure, performed early January 1578/79 (Clark 102; cf. Farina 73).Petruchio, in our current version of the play, still soliloquizes over the “measures” he will take (Clark 107), “the measures planned to tame the wilful mind” (Clark 108). Perhaps a sketchy, very early version of what became this play was written at Gray’s Inn (Ogburn and Ogburn 158) and became The Taming of A Shrew, published in 1594.
Shakespeare begins with what seems as if it will be a framing structure: the Christopher Sly material called the Induction. Thus he sets up a “play-within-the-play,” a gimmick especially popular in the late 1580s and early 1590s, when The Taming of the Shrew is traditionally dated — although this dating probably errs to fit the Stratfordian scheme. More likely, the play is much earlier, Shakespeare the innovator, the later playwrights the imitators, though some Oxfordians think the Induction was a later addition (e.g., Ogburn and Ogburn 160).
- What might this kind of structuring device accomplish? How does it potentially enrich the experience of the play for the actual audience?
- Does this particular Induction work thematically somehow with the “taming” plot itself? If so, how: what are the resonances? If not, why: what is missing? [This is one of the first common critical questions regarding this play (e.g., Wells 47; Bloom 28).]
- Distinguish several theories as to why we do not get a return to the Christopher Sly framework, both textual (or historical) and artistic (or dramaturgical). Regardless of explanations, what are the effects of this odd imbalance?
For a digital facsimile of a 1631 printed edition of the text, click here.
The first words, “I’ll pheeze [fix] you, in faith” (Ind.i.1), which work thematically for the play, come from a belligerent drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, who, threatened with a call to the police by a justifiably angry barmaid, coins the phrase, “I’ll not budge an inch” (Ind.i.14).
A tinker was a solderer and repairer of kettle, pots, and other such household metalware, … It did not take much capital or much intelligence to be a tinker…. They were usually itinerant, … even smalltime thieves and con men. At any rate, tinkers were traditionally considered rascals and rogues. (Asimov 443).
Sly pretends to be better than he is, with bungled foreign terms and the insistence that his ancestors “came in with Richard Conqueror” (Ind.i.4-5) instead of William. It’s interesting that this is the name bungled. “Like the historical Will Shakspere, Sly has a tradesman background” (Farina 72), and the reference to being a “card-maker” means cards for combing wool (Farina 72). Oxfordians take Sly to be “a send-up of Shakspere himself” (Farina 72; cf. Ogburn and Ogburn 999-1000).
Sly falls asleep. A Lord enters with his servants, discussing the merits of certain hunting dogs. According to the Huntsman, who should know, the “better dog” is one who can pick “out the dullest scent” (Ind.i.24-25). One critic claims that this is the key to the play (Goddard, I 73): the worthiest have the talent to catch hints and subtleties. So as readers we need to keep alert for something one might otherwise easily miss.
As a(n im)practical joke, the Lord enlists the others to help make Sly think he’s a lord when he wakes. Everything around him — servants, luxurious surroundings, a wife (a male page in drag), the insistence that he’s been insane for many years — all will conspire to convince Sly that his sense of reality is mistaken. “Would not the beggar then forget himself?” (Ind.i.41). They will construct a new reality for him (a situation comparable to that in The Matrix or The Thirteenth Floor). The tale of a commoner tricked into thinking he is a nobleman appears in Arabian Nights, and Richard Edwards (d. 1566) reportedly was responsible for a work on this theme subsequently lost after publication in 1570 (Farina 73).
The Lord, a proto-Hamlet in this respect, welcomes a troupe of players: “This fellow I remember / Since once he play’d a farmer’s eldest son. / … / I have forgot your name; but sure that part / Was aptly fitted and naturally perform’d” (Ind.i.83-87). He also advises them not to crack up in the middle of their performance (Ind.i.94f).
In the Induction’s scene ii, the trick seems to work. Sly is promised pictures of Io and Daphne (note the Metamorphoses theme) and Correggio’s Io may have been in Shakespeare’s mind here (Anderson 106). And “the echoes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses will suggest the empowering possibilities of transformation” (Garber 58). Interestingly, Sly begins to speak in the iambic pentameter more typical of aristocratic characters:
Am I a lord, and have I such a lady?
Or do I dream? Or have I dream’d till now?
“The tinker’s language turns from prose to verse as he accepts the greatness that is thrust upon him” (Wells 46; cf. Asimov 446). So to a certain extent he is indeed transformed. Sly wants to go to bed with his faux wife, but excuses are drummed up that the doctors think Sly ought to take it easy and see a play — plays are good for one’s health (Ind.ii.131-136)!
Some say that although there is a vague thematic connection in Petruchio using imagination and words to transform Kate, this Induction contains no real intrinsic connection to the Taming story performed by the troupe of strolling players as entertainment. Sly fades out quickly, so the “play within the play” badly coheres. It is technically true that this Induction “would serve half a dozen other comedies by Shakespeare as well or as badly as it coheres with the Shrew (Bloom 28). But, since Sly’s language turns from prose to verse as he accepts greatness and adjusts to his new identity and treatment (vs. Kate’s inability to adjust), we will see not only the power of language to create illusion and to transform, but that that transformation is reflected in the language too. In that sense the partial frame does match the inner play. Additionally, Petruchio is likewise persuaded that he is a great lord — over his wife…. Is it possible that he too is in for an awakening?” (Goddard, I 73).
The Induction takes on some further significance when one credits the Earl of Oxford as the author. Christopher Sly, “by education a card-maker” (Ind.ii.19) — that is, a maker of cards for combing wool, a business Shakspere was involved in — is low-born and has pretensions: “the Slys are no rogues. Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror” (Ind.i.3-5). The moron means William the Conqueror. Sly doesn’t even know that the correct name is William.
So in a way, Shakspere doesn’t know his own name. Ogburn thinks that the Induction shows that de Vere not only knew of Will Shakspere but was bothered by Shakspere being given credit for de Vere’s work. Sly is Will, with the Shakspere pretensions to nobility (sought through the Ardens, his mother’s side); reference to “Burton-heath” (Ind.ii.18) where Shakspere’s uncle and aunt, the Lamberts, lived; and mention of an “ale-wife of Wincot” (Ind.ii.22), with its connection to Shakspere’s mother Mary Arden of Wilmcote — probably pronounced “Wincot.”
More importantly, Sly is contrivedly transfigured into a lord by a web of illusion and delusion. Yet, de Vere writes it so that this Shakspere cannot even stay awake for a play, much less understand one or write one!
The situational premise of the actual play focuses on members of a Paduan family: Baptista, Katherine (Kate), and Bianca. “Baptista is a family tyrant and Bianca is his favorite daughter” (Goddard, I 69), prompting the elder Ogburns to detect some Burghley in Baptista and Bianca with a touch of Anne Cecil (Ogburn and Ogburn 159). In any case, we all know how screwed up families are, and how confusing the tangle of blame as to how they got that way. Draw on your understanding of the family as a sick political entity to decode this batch.
- What on the surface seems to be the cause for the state of things among these family members? What would the general Paduan citizen say about the situation?
- Is there anything to say about the courtship of Bianca plotline? Why does Lucentio fall for her?
- What are the subtler dynamics operating here? If Kate expressed herself in “tamer” ways, what would be her perception of the problem?
- To what extent do issues of commerce influence matters in this play?
- What does “shrew” mean? Come to think of it, what does “tame” mean? And can one tame a shrew? If so, isn’t it still a shrew though?
Stratfordians strain to explain Shakespeare’s Italian settings, but the Earl of Oxford traveled there enthusiastically. In 1575 he was writing Lord Burghley for money. We know he borrowed 500 crowns from a Paduan banker named Baptista Nigrone and also received a remittance from a Venetian banker named Pasquino or Benedict Spinola. The name Baptista Minola with his representative Paduan concern for wealth seems more than coincidental (Clark 105; Ogburn and Ogburn 88; Farina 74).
Lucentio, from Pisa, arrives in Padua with his servant Tranio, announcing that he’ll study philosophy; Shakespeare knew that Padua was a “nursery of arts” (Asimov 447; Anderson xxx). The Earl of Oxford was called Phoebus at court, thus a bringer of light: Lucent E.O. (Ogburn and Ogburn 159). But Lucentio immediately falls in love with the sight of Bianca, daughter of Baptista Minola and much sought-after girl by other Paduans, chiefly old Gremio — a pantaloon stock-character from commedia dell’arte (Farina 74) — and dorky Hortensio. Daddy Baptista insists he’ll not consider suitors for Bianca until his older daughter Katherine is essentially off his hands. Kate acts nasty, but it certainly seems as if with good reason. Lucentio hears Bianca speak and gushes, “Hark, Tranio, thou mayst hear Minerva speak” (I.i.84) — an allusion to the Roman goddess (Greek Athena) of wisdom (but also of warfare, who sprung fully armed from her father Zeus’ head shouting a battle cry). Hortensio and Gremio, though rivals, join forces to address the Katherine problem (I.i.114f; cp. I.ii.276-277), as if it were a business venture. Lucentio will pose as a schoolmaster to gain entrance to Baptista’s household, and Tranio will meanwhile pretend to be him. (So who is master, or “who’s the boss,” is blurred, a factor operating in the other plotline coming.) Lucentio’s mention of killing a man (I.i.232) resembles a similar comment from Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (IV.i.) and Alcibiades about his gentleman friend in Coriolanus (Ogburn and Ogburn 120). Is this a reference to the undercook Oxford killed in what Burghley declared self-defense, or some other autobiographical incident of which we know nothing (Ogburn and Ogburn 973)?
A rebuttal of Sidney’s Arcadia may be operating. Instead of this being healthy “feminine” subordination — experiencing emotion and victimization to make them whole — Lucentio and Hortensio are not ennobled by love but rather demean themselves socially in wooing Bianca, and Lucentio lowers himself in status.
How does Lucentio fall in love? What are the preconditions and what exactly does he fall in love with? (See I.i.70-71, 84, 150-151, 174-175.)
Is Bianca — the name means “white” or “blank,” “as though to emphasize her colorlessness” (Asimov 449) — the docile embodiment of the implications of her name? “The next time Shakespeare uses this name it will be for a courtesan in Othello, whose external ‘whiteness,’ or purity, is at variance with her profession” (Garber 70). We value Bianca first simply for not being her ranting sister. She is the favorite and spoiled child of the dreadful Baptista, remade in her father’s image (or sprung fully armed from her father’s head). At best, she is insipid: “And as for Bianca, you can pick up a dozen of her in the first high school you happen on, any one of whom could act her to perfection by just being herself” (Goddard, I 71). Some find her ultimately to be the real shrew here.
Kate is on a rant when we meet her. But consider why this may be? She is a shrew only superficially, in reaction to her environment. “Shrewd” is the relevant term — she sees what’s going on but has become imprisoned within her own set of habitual reactionary behaviors. Look at it this way: what do you think Shakespeare thinks of the generic Paduan? Then if you had a brain and had the misfortune of being a woman, wouldn’t you find yourself inclined towards Kate-hood? “Kate’s shrewishness is superficial, not ingrained or congenital” (Goddard, I 69).
What do you think happened to the mother in this family? (Perhaps she died in childbirth? How would that shed further light on the dynamics here?)
What can we say about Baptista’s ruling that Katherine must be married first before Bianca can be wooed (I.i.50-51)? This may sound as if it’s merely customary, but what are the motives? (Daughters = expenses. If he withholds the much-desired Bianca, he can get rid of Katherine from his household. How that happens doesn’t seem to matter.) Why are schoolmasters sought? Teaching becomes a cover for courting (and Petruchio will be teaching under the guise of courting); I am appalled.
Petruchio comes on the scene, in immediate chop-logic contention with annoying servant, Grumio, over “knocking” him (i.e., knocking for him at a local door). He visits Hortensio. It has been said that his boasting about his mercenary motives is just big talk since these are immediately subsidiary to the game of taming. But does he boast of mercenary motives to begin with anyway?
Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:
Antonio, my father, is deceas’d,
And I have thrust myself into this maze,
Happily to wive and thrive as best I may.
Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
And so am come abroad to see the world.(I.ii.53-58)
It is Hortensio who in the next lines brings out the automatic Paduan assumptions: regarding a wife, “I’ll promise thee she shall be rich, / And very rich” (I.ii.62-63). Indeed, it’s the Paduans who perpetually make the most mercenary assumptions. Perhaps when Petruchio seems to confirm their assumptions (I.ii.68, 75-76), in direct contradiction with what he first has said, he’s playing along insofar as he knows that this is the way Paduans understand dealings in life. Grumio (I.ii.78-81) is crass; Hortensio is obsessed with wealth (I.ii.62-63, 118f); Hortensio volunteers his own and Gremio’s financial backing for Petruchio’s wooing — something never requested, and soon one wonders if needed (I.ii.214-215). Gremio dismisses learning (I.ii.159, 169-170). And everyone is vaguely connected — Paduans don’t know anyone well, but know of everyone or everyone’s father (e.g., I.ii.239). What does Shakespeare think of the Paduan worldview or value system?
Oxford’s fluency in Italian phrases shows in this scene, unlike the kind of phrasing one would have picked up in a tavern (Farina 74).
As the plots are set in motion, Gremio reveals much about Paduan values:
Hark you, sir, I’ll have them very fairly bound–
All books of love, see that at any hand–
And see you read no other lectures to her.
Books to this dolt are solely propaganda, advertising. (This is why the era of the rising mercantile class is called the Early Modern Period — because we’re still saddled with the same cultural values.) Later, Gremio brags about the schoolmaster he has found (the disguised Lucentio):
And by good fortune I have lighted well
On this young man; for learning and behavior
Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.
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Adopt ICM before CAP reforms hit
By Edward Long
ARABLE farmers should adopt an integrated crop management approach now, so they are up and running with a workable system before Agenda 2000 reforms are put in place.
That was the message agrochemical industry consultant Tony Pike and countryside minister Elliot Morley gave last weeks Suffolk FWAG conference in Ipswich.
"ICM balances the requirements of running a profitable business with responsibility and sensitivity to the environment," Mr Pike told the Bayer-sponsored event.
"It takes into account the need for profitability, produce quality, sustainability and environmental awareness. Farmers embracing it will be better placed to cope with whatever changes come with Agenda 2000." The ICM concept, which combines modern technology with best agricultural practice, has broad support from the various agencies involved in rural affairs, he said. "Co-operation has replaced the confrontation that existed 10 years ago."
On that point Mr Pike stressed that environmental groups had a responsibility to provide on-farm guidance and advice. Input suppliers are already playing their part. "Each year £1.3bn is reinvested to find new compounds that are more target-specific, less persistent, less prone to leaching and have a lower environmental load than existing ones.
Countryside minister Elliot Morley confirmed the governments support for CAP reform and its desire for the EU to redirect a proportion of the savings to measures targeted towards environmental and rural needs.
But sustainable farming must be profitable, he stressed. Calls for conditions to be attached to arable payments should not detract from the overall objective of market-orientated CAP reform.
"The UK government calls for less emphasis on production-related support, and more on the protection of the environment and wider rural issues." Agenda 2000 proposals are a step in the right direction. But they are not accepted without question. "We do not support the idea of putting a ceiling at EU level on total payments to farmers." | <urn:uuid:a18833d8-a9a0-41ef-b5b0-b3c901210296> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/adopt-icm-before-cap-reforms-hit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94486 | 391 | 1.679688 | 2 |
|Carson Sink Station|
39° 16' 51"N, 118° 47' 37"W - SOUTH OF FALLON quad
|VISITED||We Visited: 28 February 2003|
|DIRECTIONS|| From Fallon, south on U.S. 95 for 13.4 miles, west on local road 0.7 miles
From Fallon: 14.1 miles
Carson Sink Station was, at one time, a frame house inside adobe walls . It was mentioned that there was a "fine spring of water" within a few feet of the station. At the time, Carson Lake was much bigger and much closer, as they mention getting mud from the lake to make the adobe.
Arrived at the summit, we sighted for the first time Carson Lake, or rather the sink of the Carson River. It derives its name from the well-known mountaineer whose adventurous roamings long anticipated scientific exploration. Supplied by the stream from the eastern flank of the Sierra
Our conscientious informant at Sand-Springs Station had warned us that upon the summit of the divide we should find a perpendicular drop, down which the wagons could be lowered only by means of lariats affixed to the axle-trees and lashed round strong "stubbing -posts." We were not, however, surprised to find a mild descent of about 30. From the summit of the divide five miles led us over a plain too barren for sage, and a stretch of stone and saleratus to the watery margin, which was troublesome with sloughs and mud. The cattle relished the water, although
Remounting at 5 15 P.M. we proceeded to finish the ten miles which still separated us from the* station, by a rough and stony road, perilous to wheel conveyances, which rounded the southern extremity of the lake. After passing a promontory whose bold projection had been conspicuous from afar, and threading a steep canyon leading toward the lake, we fell into its selvage, which averaged about one mile in breadth. The small crescent of the moon soon ceased to befriend us, and we sat in the sadness of the shade, till presently a light glimmered under Arcturus, the road bent toward it, and all felt " jolly." But, " Heu, heu! nos miseros, quam totus homuncio nil est !" [“Alas for us poor mortals, all that poor man is is nothing."]
A long dull hour still lay before us, and we were approaching civilized lands. "Sink Station" looked well from without; there was a frame house inside an adobe enclosure, and a pile of wood and a stout haystack promised fuel and fodder. The inmates, however, were asleep, and it was ominously long before a door was opened. At last appeared a surly cripple, who presently disappeared to arm himself with his revolver. The judge asked civilly for a cup of water ; he was told to fetch it from the lake, which was not more than a mile off, though, as the road was full
I preferred passing the night on a side of bacon in the wagon to using the cripple's haystack, and allowed sleep to steep my senses in forgetfulness, after deeply regretting that the Mormons do not extend somewhat farther westward.
-Richard Burton, THE CITY OF THE SAINTS, AND ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO CALIFORNIA.
In 1960 it was said you could still see the faint remnants of four or five adobe walls facing north. Now, however, unless you knew exactly what you were looking for, you're not going to see much of anything at all. Luckily there are a couple of competing markers standing side by side to tell you that this is the site.
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The data center cooling system is the most maintenance intensive equipment within the site environmental support system exceeding that of generators/ATS, UPS/Battery, power distribution, fire protection and others. The long term reliability of the Computer Room A/C (CRAC) system is a function of several items;
1) Best equipment selection that meets the application,
2) System is installed utilizing industry best practices and proven refrigeration, condenser water or chiller water piping methods,
3) System start up and commissioning, and
4) Thorough on-going preventive maintenance. If we look at the definition of “Preventive Maintenance”, it can be broken down into;
Preventive: to stop or keep from happening; make impossible by prior action; hinder.
Maintenance: to keep in a certain condition, as of repair; means of support or sustenance.
One can believe that if you go to five different contractors to get a definition of “preventive maintenance”, you will get five different answers.
With this in mind, the following discussion will be centered on what and how preventive maintenance is done for a data center. Information technology / data center managers have a huge burden on their shoulders to provide a high level of reliability, computer system performance and uptime, so their efforts to retain a credible and data center experienced maintenance service contractor can be a challenging task.
he construction and on-going maintenance of data center support systems is very expensive but is necessary for today’s information centric business structure. The “Cost of Ownership” can be broken down into three parts;
2) Equipment installation, and
3) On-going maintenance.
If we assume an equipment life span of 15 years, then equipment maintenance can be the most costly of the three parts before equipment end of life (EOL). It is also true that a well maintained system has a higher efficiency and reliability, all while reducing the total cost of ownership.
The overall goal is to find a data center contractor that deploys a series of maintenance “best practices”. So the question arises on how and what to do in the selection process. A systematic approach to provide qualified maintenance has to start with the contractor’s field technicians. Data center level contractors must have a higher level of awareness when working inside a critical space data center. Not all contractors have this capability. Contractors have to be vetted and interviewed regarding their technical engineering office support/ operations and their field technician data center experience.
This can be summarized as follows:
- Contractors are to demonstrate their current and past work with data centers.
- Do they have any credentials within the data center industry such as a manufacturer’s factory training or IT technical group associations such as 7X24 Exchange, AFCOM and others?
- How many technicians are data center experienced and trained? How much of the technicians work schedule is data center versus non-data center?
- Perform onsite interview of technicians and have them demonstrate the operation of the CRAC system. Observe if they can navigate the display/operation panel without delay and discuss “Sequences of Operation”.
- What is the availability of equipment spare parts at service truck and office/warehouse levels? Parts availability has a direct correlation to low “Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)”. More on this topic will be discussed later.
- Does the contractor comprehend the risks associated with working in the critical space environment?
- Evaluate the contractor’s level of office support operations for their technical ability with data center mechanical systems. The office support should also have the ability to understand data center power systems as the power level input into the data center has a direct relation to the cooling load. Also, knowledge of any emergency power off (EPO) and clean agent shutdown control wiring needs to be demonstrate.
- Contractor field technicians must have experience with working in a clean agent protected space, where they exist. Data centers with clean agent should have a “bypass switch” that disables the agent discharge assembly so an accidental discharge can be avoided. If your system does not have a bypass switch, then one can be added. At no time is the contractor to perform work in the critical space with an active clean agent system. All contractors should ask prior to commencing any work if the clean agent is disabled. If a contractor performs work with an active system and doesn’t ask if it is disabled, then this contractor is inexperienced within the critical space and should be asked immediately to stop. At this point you should review the contractor’s prowess inside the critical space and set guidelines on the contractor’s actions. Contractor monitoring will be needed and having to schedule an employee to watch over your contractors can be very time consuming and costly, besides the interruption in your staff’s normal work schedules and commitments.
- Ask if the contractor can perform a complimentary audit of one or two CRAC units and provide a report on their findings. This can be very helpful in the contractor evaluation as to their technician’s ability, findings and depth of report.
Preventive maintenance (PM) agreements are site specific as to the number and the style of equipment that exist. Scopes of work (SOW) basically range from;
- FULL SERVICE: This type of contract is inclusive of parts, preventive maintenance labor and corrective action labor. Compressor coverage may be optional if the factory compressor warranty has expired. Note to check about compressor coverage inclusion of associated labor and material. Labor coverage should include all labor at any time, overtime, weekends, holidays, etc.
- INSPECTION ONLY: This type of contract provides only a maintenance review or “inspection” of the equipment. Corrective action labor and material is excluded and invoiced separately.
The following are items to consider that apply to both PM agreement types with reference to the inspection portion of the PM visit. These items are important to evaluate any quotation:
- What individual unit documentation will be provided depicting what PM items were checked with associated recorded component operating values?
- What is the number of techs dispatched to perform maintenance tasks and what is the estimated number of man-hours estimated per PM visit. Thorough maintenance is directly based on how many man-hours it takes to perform an in-depth review.
- What is the CRAC unit schedule for service shutdown and how will it impact critical systems cooling?
- Is there any specialty predictive testing to be performed such as infra-red scanning, vibration analysis or megger testing? If so, what, how often and what reporting will be furnished?
- What level of equipment failure forensics will be provided? Some failures are a result of an installation deficiency that will require the root cause of the failure to be corrected so the same failure doesn’t reoccur. Repetitive component failure such as a compressor can be directly attributed to an installation deficiency and requires identification and correction. This scenario requires engineering application typically provided by office support operations.
Each of the maintenance contract types will have caveats to consider such as the following:
- Most full maintenance contracts have a clause allowing the “right of 1st inspection”. This allows the contractor to inspect the equipment now under coverage as to the state of dis-repair. This is not considered out of line as the contractor must agree that the equipment is in reasonable condition before undertaking a full maintenance agreement. A list of needed repair findings will be presented with corrective action labor and material pricing. This list should be broken down into three categories, (urgent, necessary, and routine) as to their urgency of repair. Sometimes the needed repair list can be a challenge with the level of content and the cost of the repairs. This is a good point to break down the list, ask questions and fully understand the level of risk now present with the data center. This situation with a significant needed repair list is not the fault of the new service contractor but likely the one you are replacing. And now you know why.
- Create a method of tracking the repairs performed on each piece of equipment. A good service contractor should reduce frequency of repair especially repetitive repairs.
- Qualify how many man-hours are included within the maintenance portion of the contract? How many men and for how long are they going over the equipment and perform maintenance task such as tightening electrical connections, cleaning condensers (if they exist), checking superheat/sub cooling and document, check contactor contacts and so on. For example, there’s a big difference if your have 40 CRACs and one contractor provides one man for one week and another contractor provides three men for one week. In this example, the (3) men-week selection is the correct choice.
- All repairs are invoiced so the incentive to perform quality inspections may not be present. Qualify the man-hours to perform the maintenance portion as stated in #3 above.
- Be cautious of low pricing as the contractor will attempt to recover any costs on the repairs.
A large portion of your review of contractors competing for your work is the preventive portion stressed above for either full service or inspection only. If poor maintenance is performed, the frequencies of repairs are higher thus increasing the cost of ownership. For example, if maintenance is poor and a 3 phase compressor contactor fails and single phases the power input, the compressor may fail. If good maintenance is performed, the contactor deficient condition would have been identified and replaced ahead of any single phasing impact on the compressor. You just saved $8K to $10K. Compressor manufacturers have stated that over 80% of the warranty compressors returned failed because of some issue other than a faulty compressor. They reference poor installation and maintenance as the root cause of many returned compressors. This is all the more reason to be cautious and be more inquisitive in your review of the base proposal components of any potential service provider.
The availability of spare parts has a direct impact on cost and time to repair. Spare parts are considered those components that have a high frequency of replacement such as contactors, condensate pumps, condenser fan motors, condenser motor fan speed control, humidifier bulbs, humidifier float and others. Compressors are also to be considered with one of each size to be kept in inventory. Spare parts can be sourced independently or can be a part of the contractor’s responsibility to provide within the contract scope. If an independent parts inventory is purchased then the contractor would replace as the inventory is used for timely repair purposes.
Multi-year contracts typically come in a 3 year term. This can be an option from an annual price after you have determined from the aforementioned discussion that a viable contractor has been selected. Extended contracts have benefits for both parties such as;
- Lock in pricing for 3 years
- A cancellation clause with 30 days notice can be included.
- Allows opportunity to offer best pricing with applicable discounts for extended commitment.
- Instills confidence that quality service will be rewarded with extended commitment from client.
In summary, all service contracts of whatever type include the base procedures of general preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance is the foundation of a reliable and efficient cooling system. A well maintained system is also less expensive with the total cost of ownership. Review the content of the root components of what preventive maintenance is suppose to be all about. This will have a big return on overall satisfaction on system reliability with much less stress. | <urn:uuid:a00bc85c-6257-401c-9c93-551ff8e87c53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keystonecsa.com/selection-basics-of-data-center-cooling-preventive-maintenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935493 | 2,366 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Oil and gas majors are being warned they must plan for a “major production drop” in order to hit the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target.
Financial think tank Carbon Tracker has said that, as it stands, the world’s largest listed hydrocarbon firms “cannot be considered aligned” with global climate targets.
In order to reverse that, they need to plan for huge production declines, with half facing cuts of 50% or more by the 2030s.
In a new report, released today, the organisation said companies are still approving “billions of dollars” of investment in major projects that are inconsistent with Paris.
Even those with net zero commitments are continuing to explore for new oil and gas, Carbon Tracker said.
Mike Coffin, Carbon Tracker head of oil, gas and mining and co-author of the report, said: “Oil and gas companies are betting against the success of global efforts to tackle climate change. If they continue with business-as-usual investment they risk wasting more than a trillion dollars on projects which will not be competitive in a low-carbon world.
“If the world is to avert climate catastrophe, demand for fossil fuels must fall sharply. Companies and investors must prepare for a world of lower long-term fossil fuel prices and a smaller oil and gas industry, and recognise now the risk of stranded assets that this creates.”
Adapt to Survive – Carbon Tracker’s fifth annual analysis of the risk of investing in oil and gas producers – warns investors that companies have not woken up to the “seismic implications” of recent studies.
A report published by the International Energy Agency found that no investment in new oil and gas production is needed if the world aims to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Shale companies most at risk
According to Carbon Tracker, in order to hit climate targets, production at 20 of the world’s 40 largest listed companies needs to shrink by at least 50% by the 2030s, as existing projects run down with no replacements.
Most large shale oil companies would see production drop by over 80%.
US shale specialist ConocoPhillips is the major most exposed, facing a drop of 69%.
Saudi Aramco is the only one of the world’s largest listed oil and gas companies that would see increased production because of its large spare capacity from existing fields, the report said.
Net zero by 2050
BP announced last year that it planned to cut oil and gas production by 40%, or about 1 million barrels per day (bpd), and reduced emissions from its operations by about a third by 2030.
Eni, TotalEnergies and Shell have also acknowledged that their production will fall over the coming years, while most majors have pledged to become net zero by 2050.
Axel Dalman, Carbon Tracker associate analyst and report co-author, said: “In general, no new projects and a rapid decline in production could deliver a serious shock to company valuations, as new project options are rendered effectively worthless and future cashflows are reduced.
“Lower equity valuations would in turn increase the cost of capital and insolvency risk. It is crucial for companies to have a strong transition plan, winding down oil and gas activities in an orderly manner and either diversifying into low-carbon businesses or returning capital to shareholders.”
Concerns were also raised about companies invest in projects expecting a “business-as-usual future” of “stable or rising demand”, with the report predicting they risk being left with stranded assets.
Even amid the Covid pandemic, as oil prices collapsed and boards cut dividends, companies continued to make investments that “bet against” the 1.5°C target, Carbon Tracker said.
The report identifies five major projects approved in 2020 that are not even compatible with a 1.65°C target, with projected investments worth a total $18 billion over the next decade:
- ExxonMobil’s $5.5 billion Payara and $1.8 billion Pacora oil fields in Guyana;
- Petrobras’ $4 billion Itapu oil field in Brazil;
- Woodside’s $3.9 billion Sangomar oil field in Senegal;
- Petrobras, Shell and Total’s $2.7 billion Mero 3 oil field in Brazil.
Nevertheless, investors are putting increasing pressure on fossil fuel companies to align with the Paris target.
That is on top of growing scrutiny from the public about the part that oil and gas will play in the energy transition.
But despite their climate change commitments, the report found that Shell, TotalEnergies, Eni and Equinor have all picked up new exploration licences in frontier areas like Suriname and Norway’s Barents Sea.
Meanwhile, BP plans to develop new “advantaged” assets.
“Such moves call into question these companies’ commitment to transitioning away from oil and gas,” the report says.
‘Business-as-usual investment’ at risk
Analysing the impact of decarbonisation on assets, Carbon Tracker claimed that, even on a “slower pathway”, the majority of companies would see more than half their project portfolio at risk of being stranded.
More than a trillion dollars of “business-as-usual investment” is said to be at peril, including $490 billion in shale/tight oil projects and $200 billion in deepwater projects.
ConocoPhillips is the oil major that is most exposed, with 88% of its business-as-usual project portfolio likely to be uncompetitive, followed by ExxonMobil (80%); Chevron (60%); Shell (53%); BP (40%); TotalEnergies (39%); and Eni (25%).
Mr Dalman said: “Investors have a crucial role to play in driving the changes to the oil and gas industry’s behaviour necessary to reduce their exposure to transition risks. If they want to align with a 1.5°C climate target, it’s crucial that they only hold companies with robust plans to reduce production of oil and gas and approve no new projects. Investors seeking to align with other temperature outcomes must ensure that companies demonstrate how any projects they approve are compatible with a low-demand world, not just short-term prices.” | <urn:uuid:8c7081c6-4038-4d27-b002-300e28372144> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/348767/oil-and-gas-companies-told-to-prepare-for-a-major-production-drop-by-2030s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94892 | 1,338 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Identities that Bind Us
Date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Time: 7:00pm BST (London) / 2:00pm EDT (New York). Click here to find the time for your location.
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Cost: Free. Open to all.
To register, please email firstname.lastname@example.org by 1st September.
Our discussion will be led by Dr Rachel Cason with the focus on Identities That Bind Us.
Rachel wants to explore together the various identities we carry through our lives, those we are given and those we chose. ‘Binding identities' can be experienced as both containing where they connect us to others and help us have a sense of our own ‘shape' and as constraining when we feel limited by them or silenced by the ways others perceive us.
Before the session, Rachel wants us to consider
1. What identities are you carrying? e.g. National, career, gender, community.
2. Which of these have been chosen for you and which have you chosen for yourself?
3. Where do these identities bind us?
Dr. Rachel Cason uses Life Story Therapies to help people find their voice, their tribe and their place in cultural identity complexity and transition.
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Almost a third of pets will be left alone at Christmas by their owners, according to new research.
Data compiled by Opinium suggests 10 per cent of UK pet owners will leave their animals completely unattended over the festive period.
A further 19 per cent will merely arrange "occasional check-up by friends or neighbours".
Twenty-one per cent of pet owners have admitted leaving their animal home alone over Christmas, with the figure rising to 26 per cent in those aged between 18-34.
It has prompted calls from pet insurance company petGuard, which commissioned the study, to warn of the dangers of leaving cats and dogs unattended for long periods of time.
“This may be the season for jingle bells, but pet owners should be hearing alarm bells if they’re considering leaving their pet at home this Christmas”, said Alex Bennett, director of Thistle Insurance.
“It’s a prime window of opportunity for theft with dark nights and empty houses clearly visible from the street. While the majority of people will buy a gift for their beloved pet this year, a better present could be to ensure they are well looked after, protected from potential pet thieves and that their safety is not left to chance when it comes to being taken.
“Unfortunately for pet owners, thieves don’t subscribe to the spirit of giving around Christmas time and would much rather take, especially if your pet is an easy target.”
The research suggests that of people going away, 28 per cent will be taking their pet with them, 23 per cent will be leaving them with friends and family and 15 per cent will check them into a boarding facility.
Seventy-three per cent are set to buy their pet a Christmas present.
It follows the creation of a new Pet theft task force in the UK, set up to address the alarming trend of pets being stolen. According to data from the Kennel Club, there were an estimated 2,355 cases of dog theft in 2020, which is a seven per cent increase on 2019.
Data from the 2021 Cat Theft report shows the number of cats being taken has risen almost threefold in five years, with a notable 12.3 per cent in the last year.
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Buying and selling property is a major investment, so finding a no-money-down vendor can be a difficult task. It is important to find a vendor that offers low-interest financing to help you finance your purchase. But finding a legitimate low-interest vendor can be difficult, so be prepared to do some research on the internet. When you do find one, you’ll be glad you did. But it can be tricky to get a loan without a credit check.
In the United States, the value of the residential property is almost $34 trillion, equal to the value of all publicly listed firms. Last year people bought and sold property worth $1.5 trillion in the country. Buying and selling property is so complicated, and it is also extraordinarily expensive, that reality TV shows have starred estate agents who claim to have the best deals. But despite the high prices, buying and selling property in the United States can still be a frustrating and stressful process. Fortunately, there are some technological innovations to make the process easier and more efficient.
When buying and selling property abroad, the exchange rate is a major consideration. The IRS requires that foreign currency amounts be converted into US dollars. Exchange rates fluctuate daily, so you must consider this before buying or selling. A good way to estimate an exchange rate before buying and selling is to compare the current exchange rate with the spot rate that day. This difference can create a profit. Depending on the value of your property, you may end up owing less than you spent on the property to know more https://www.sellmyhousefast.com/we-buy-houses-weymouth-massachusetts/
Before purchasing a piece of property, think about your intentions. Your intentions will impact the taxes you’ll pay when you sell it. But don’t worry – you can buy another property and rent it out while you sell the first. A buyer’s market can make it possible to make money by renting out your second property. It’s just a matter of finding the right balance between the two. It can be a daunting process, so be prepared for anything! You can’t control everything, but you can use these five tips to make buying and selling a piece of property as easy as possible.
In addition to a home inspection, other steps must be taken before buying a house. A property appraisal determines the value of the home and ensures that you’re not paying more for the house than it’s worth. Also, a title search will confirm the ownership of the property. Finally, a home inspection is conducted by a licensed inspector and will detail any defects. A disclosure form will detail all the relevant information about a property.
When selling property, a buyer or seller should choose a realtor with experience in real estate transactions. This way, the transaction will go smoothly. It may involve other parties, such as mortgage lenders. If you are not comfortable with such parties, you should find a licensed attorney. A realtor’s fee may be less than the amount of money that you pay for an inspection. In addition, you can ask the agent to work on your behalf. If a buyer or seller has a fiduciary relationship with you, the agent will be able to offer you good advice. | <urn:uuid:34abc34b-aa60-4e0c-89a5-5d292ef7eecf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clementsenechal.com/5-tips-for-buying-and-selling-property-in-usa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.940688 | 675 | 1.726563 | 2 |
9. Allocation of sitting members. -
(1) On and from the appointed day, four sitting members of the Council of States representing the existing State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be deemed to have been elected to fill the seats allotted to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as specified in the First Schedule to this Act. (2) The term of office of such sitting members shall remain unaltered. | <urn:uuid:36aabccc-4c94-44ea-a0ec-e37624fc1214> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/bareacts/jammukashmir/9.php?Title=Jammu%20and%20Kashmir%20Reorganisation%20Act,%202019&STitle=Allocation%20of%20sitting%20members | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954621 | 86 | 1.78125 | 2 |
This morning, as I was on my daily routine commenting on blogs, I got this when I submitted to one.
This message was the only thing that was shown in the page. So it seems I was detected to be surfing “behind a proxy”, and my comment was disallowed.
First, I’m lucky to be computer trained. I know what proxy servers are, and I wasn’t using one. But for the layman, they’ll probably have no idea.
Secondly, “contact the blog owner”. Yes. Through what means? Do I have to click back and find an email address. I would at least put an email address there – or a contact form.
Thirdly and finally, the question is… would you bother? To go through all the trouble of contacting someone just to post a comment? I’d rather surf to a different site and post another comment.
The point is: If you want comments on your blog, make it easy for people to comment. I’ve seen lots of blogs that require you to create and account and login, just to post a comment. While I understand the motivation behind that (to screen away spammy comments), it is a huge hindrance for people. | <urn:uuid:ccfbcfb8-558c-448f-9315-7c57c883824c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blogopreneur.com/v1/2009/07/14/would-you-bother/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969387 | 263 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The Sons of Aaron
1 Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.
4 Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.
The Assignment of the Levites
5 The Lord spoke to Moses: 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. 7 They are responsible for his needs and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending to the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve in the tabernacle. 9 You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites. 10 So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death.”
11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 12 “Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me, 13 because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord.”
The Numbering of the Levites
14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai: 15 “Number the Levites by their clans and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” 16 So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.
The Summary of Families
17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19 The sons of Kohath by their families were: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.
The Numbering of the Gershonites
21 From Gershon came the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites. 22 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500. 23 The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west. 24 Now the leader of the clan of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
25 And the responsibilities of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 26 the hangings of the courtyard, the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard that surrounded the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, plus all the service connected with these things.
The Numbering of the Kohathites
27 From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites. 28 Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary. 29 The families of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle. 30 Now the leader of the clan of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
31 Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the curtain, and all their service. 32 Now the head of all the Levitical leaders was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible for the sanctuary.
The Numbering of Merari
33 From Merari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari. 34 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200. 35 Now the leader of the clan of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
36 The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, 37 and the pillars of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, their pegs, and their ropes.
38 But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were responsible for the needs of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death. 39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
The Substitution for the Firstborn
40 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And take the Levites for me – I am the Lord – instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.” 42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him. 43 And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totalled 22,273.
44 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the Lord. 46 And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, 47 collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs). 48 And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”
49 So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites. 50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. 51 Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. | <urn:uuid:cbb1b0ea-8147-4383-8f76-9a0a7527add7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gucu.org.uk/the-bible/the-old-testament/numbers/numbers-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975792 | 1,586 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The materials on a beach such as gravel, minerals, gravel, pebbles and sand help scientists learn about the environment.
The shoreline on a beach is not always the same and may shift by about 5 metres over a period of 70 to 80 years.
Many animals depend on the beach’s ecosystem to survive because they live in the sand, on the sand and the zones near a beach.
Beaches can come in many colours including purple, red, grey and black. This is because different deposits on beach sand like glass, lava and silt can come in different colours.
The longest beach in the world is more than 200 kilometres long and is located in Brazil.
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Functions and Features
Series PTT-004 Online Degree of Pollution Tester is an intelligent, portable and effective analyzing equipment. It could online test and display degree of pollution of oil from hydraulic and lubricating system, so that maintenance staff could take preventive measures in early period, avoiding abrasion and damage upon hydraulic components from containments. In this way, it not only helps you minimize maintenance expense, but also help decrease the shutdown time of equipment. Series PTT-004 could also help improve security of system and extend the performance time of your equipment.
PTT-004 adopts OLED display screen and display the degree of pollution of oil in digit. It could test degree of pollution in mineral oils or phosphate synthetic oils, such as vegetable oil, hydraulic oil, lubricant oil, transformer oil(insulation oil), turbine oil, gear oil, engine oil and so on. Currently, Series PTT-004 is widely used in the fields of Aerospace, Electricity, Petroleum, Chemical Industry, Transportation, Harbour, Metallurgy, Machinery, Automobile Manufacturing etc.
Major Technical Data
Operation under 20%~85%RH; Storage under 98%RH
2µm,5µm,15µm,25 µm or 4µm(c),6µm(c),14µm(c),21 µm(c)
Connecting Screw Thread
Standards of Pollution Degree
ISO 4406 01~29
NAS 1638 00~12
Online Oil Flow Rate
50mL/min ~300 mL/min
DC 9V ~ 18V (Power Supply Ripple Wave<30mVp-p)
Precision of Repeatability
±0.5 ISO Grade
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Water Shortages Drive Demand for Soy-Based Artificial Turf
The water-deprived West is quickly realizing the benefits of artificial grass as well. Water shortages have lawmakers, homeowners and businesses all facing brown and dead grass across neighborhood lawns, parks, cemeteries and golf courses.
In Las Vegas, Nevada, the average homeowner uses 73 gallons of water per square foot of lawn grass annually – the equivalent of 10 feet of rainfall, according to Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) Conservation Manager Doug Bennett. That’s why the region has been aggressive about water-saving solutions since 1999. The Water Smart Landscapes program, which provides cash incentives to homeowners who replace ornamental lawns with more efficient landscapes, has converted nearly 4,000 acres — 173 million square feet — of lawn space. That’s enough to cover nearly 3,000 football fields, according to SNWA.
Bennett reports than one in four residential landscape conversions in southern Nevada use artificial grass in some capacity. He points out that even the famed Las Vegas strip has acres of synthetic grass installed along the median and around the famous “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.
Bennett stresses the importance of integrating synthetic grass with living plants. “It looks better and creates a more appealing effect when turf is blended with living plants,” Bennett said.
Nevada’s program requires that water efficient landscapes include a minimum amount of living plants. For example, a typical lawn may consist of an area with artificial grass, a mulch or stone section, interspersed with drought resistant shrubs and trees.
“I was skeptical about synthetic grass at first because of the harsh UV environment here,” Bennett said. “I have been pleasantly surprised that artificial grass is withstanding the test of time and most has held up very well for more than ten years.” | <urn:uuid:cd4faa88-1908-475a-be23-3d1a6b17e029> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soynewuses.org/case-study/water-shortages-drive-demand-for-soy-based-artificial-turf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.942921 | 389 | 2.875 | 3 |
How To Tell If There's Cameras In Your Room. Where to look for hidden cameras. Once sure your smartphone camera can detect infrared lights, you can now turn off the lights in your room.
If there’s a gap between your finger and the image, it’s a real mirror. Scanning your wifi network for suspicious devices; How to tell if there is a hidden camera in your hotel room.
Detect The Rf Broadcast Of The Camera.
Once sure your smartphone camera can detect infrared lights, you can now turn off the lights in your room. Observe the gap between your finger and the mirror. Most spy camera detectors mainly offer 2 ways to find hidden cameras:
Scanning Of Radio Frequencies (Rf), Lens Detection, And Physical Search.
The easiest way to find hidden cameras is to look around and check your surroundings carefully. Any suspicious wires, lenses, or lights could belong to a hidden camera. Open your smartphone’s camera, and flip the lens to selfie mode.
You Can Also Use This Trick To Know Whether There Are Hidden Cameras In Your Hotel.
Typically the detectors will beep when they find. There are three telltale signs that'll let you know that you're impr. If the tips of your fingernails touch, that means it's a trick mirror.
Check Things Like Smoke Detectors, Air Filters, Electrical Outlets, Bluetooth Speakers, Shelves, Decor, Seating, And Tables.
From there, shine a light. If your finger and the image touch tip to tip, there would be a hidden spy camera in the mirror. Put your fingernail in the mirror.
This Could Include A Smoke Alarm Above The Bed, An Automatic Clock By A Bedside Table Or Even A Tv Unit, To Name A Few.
How to tell if there is a hidden camera in your hotel room. Use the front facing camera to scan areas of your room, if you find any lights you may have found a camera. If you see (on the screen) the led of the remote light up, then the camera can detect ir rays. | <urn:uuid:0d83b659-0957-432d-bd2f-6801fc0e79d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ryankillackey.com/how-to-tell-if-there-s-cameras-in-your-room/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.872487 | 440 | 1.648438 | 2 |
MADATAC aims to take the pulse on what is new in the international ever-changing environment and on each edition put forward an attention-grabbing and inspirational theme.
This special selection for HONG-GAH MUSEUM presents a caustic, peculiar, critical and enticing view to video art projects produced by Spanish audio visual artists, where oneiric and verity visions, oriented by animated grids, plateaus or intangible signs, collide with intenseorganic textures and are expanded towards heterogeneous ways of watching unveiled body landscapes and forgotten emotions.
On the other hand, the video pieces open as well the Pandora’s box of cybernetic culture, that enables radical new processes to storm the audiovisual creation, with the ambition to conquer and subdue the screen with groundbreaking pixels and a re-assimilation of the relationship between art, matter and technology.
VIDEOsPAIN is a video art exhibition presenting an extensive collection of thought-provoking perspectives and visually arresting video art works from contemporary Spanish artists who go beyond an assumed reality and a coveted virtuality. The works that are grouped around this topic display the dilemmas of fragmented societies, that are undergoing a transition towards new models not signposted. In this way, the objective is to present an audio-visual selection to recognize the changing territories, urban, wild or unreal, on which we move, create and exist.
With this pivotal status of absence-presence, the artists built a kind of memory of a time without anchors, that ensures continuity, frames of reference, guides to where transit and where to strengthen the invisible directions of an art (and civilization) based on technology that allows to address a complex spatiality, trying to imbibe information as creation, as done when exploring an unknown landscape or the objects deriving from an uncharted culture.
In some way, this collaboration between MADATAC and Hong-Gah Museum is an opportunity to establish a dialogue between both Spanish and Taiwanese cultures and societies.
Spain and Taiwan: a peninsula and a island who wish to circumvent the distance that separates them by the seas, by connecting their “Qi” life energy, an active principle forming part of any living thing. This flow of electromagnetic energy form a Microcosmic Orbit circuit between the Spanish video art works that will be exhibited and the Taiwanese public that will assimilate them. Spain is an ancient society which tries to impose herself on the evolution of the times with variants of modernity. Taiwan is a young society applied to new technologies but with a millenarian culture behind. Both countries share a common passion to discover unknown territorialities in the limits of their domains. Spain from its last colonial expansion and Taiwan with its current spirituality, dynamism and presence in international markets. Also unites them a brief historical past, of which perhaps only the name of Formosa stays, as well as a dependency on systems of control which civil society, and artists, try to debug and purify by means of interconnections.
The video art installation you will attend, allude to this flow of transformation from the real to the virtual and vice versa, a way of catching the past so that the present has the complex variety of an Orchid, a polyhedral, mutant and exotic flower, valued and cultivated by the Taiwanese, as well as by the Spaniards, whose imperceptible metamorphosis to the human perception is comparable to the selected works for this exhibition, in which nothing ever remains invariable, everything changes and varies, to reset, readjust and renew the awareness and imagination of the spectator-observer. | <urn:uuid:966e086f-cde0-497d-9bcc-69396b3f8989> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hong-gah.org.tw/476?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934115 | 740 | 1.835938 | 2 |
At the 2021 China International Import Expo (CIIE), Hanshow has announced a commercial AI camera-driven retail solution, developed through a collaboration with Microsoft and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony). This solution monitors out-of-stock occurrences along with product volume status, customer traffic flows, sales levels, and other store information.
With five million CCTV cameras so prevalent on so many urban centres, Britain is supposed to be one of the most surveilled countries in the world (actually, it isn’t: China and the US are way ahead). But what if those CCTVs started getting smart… and report you if you didn’t wear your mask when going into a shop in Lockdown conditions?
A research team from Osaka University has developed an innovative new animal-borne data-collection system that, guided by artificial intelligence (AI), has led to the witnessing of previously unreported foraging behaviors in seabirds. | <urn:uuid:8e9438c7-b9bf-49e2-8e8a-34fdd3224bc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rockingrobots.com/tag/camera/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.927285 | 200 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Visit the Computer History Museum’s online exhibit on The Babbage Engine. The site includes a historical overview of Babbage and his work, more detailed looks into the machines and their functions, the biographies of major contributors to – and beneficiaries from – the engines, and the Difference Engine’s recent construction in 1985. You can also access the REVOLUTION exhibit’s page on Babbage and his accomplishments.
Read a detailed biography of Charles Babbage from the History of Computers website.
This biography of Charles Babbage, hosted on Virginia Tech’s Computer History site, is achronological, and explores Babbage as he appeared to those of his own time: as an inventor, a politician, a misanthrope, and as a philosopher, among other things.
If you would like to go find out more information on Charles Babbage, check out this reference page.
IEEE: “The Inconsistent Youth of Charles Babbage,” David A Grier. This article is a careful biography of Babbage’s years at Cambridge, ending with his wedding, after a secret two-year engagement, a few weeks after he graduated.
The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage, by J M Dubbey
The History of Computers, by Les Freed, pgs. 10-11
Computer: A History of the Information Machine, by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, pgs. 4-14
The Universal History of Computing, Georges Ifrah, pgs. 189-201
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COVID-19 Outbreak Parliamentary Expert Database
We are encouraging academics with relevant research expertise to sign up to a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database.
Over the past few weeks, Parliament has seen a surge in need for access to research expertise as it engages with the COVID-19 outbreak.
In this rapidly evolving situation, Parliament needs quick access to researchers who can provide expert insights relating to both Coronavirus and the wider situation.
Parliament and Parliamentarians use these insights to help carry out their function effectively; that is to say, to represent the people, scrutinise the Government, debate important and pressing issues and pass legislation.
To speed up the process of Parliament accessing relevant research expertise, Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) are creating a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database.
Areas of research expertise
The KEU have identified a number of areas which Parliament may need to access research expertise, including:
- Behavioural Science
- Children and families
- Health economics
- Health services
- Legal aid
- Local government
- Public Health
- Social security and tax credits
- Social services
- Welfare benefits
To see the full list of research areas please visit the sign up form.
If you feel you have any expertise relating to the COVID-19 outbreak or its impacts, the KEU would be very grateful if you would sign up to the database.
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I created a workflow wherein bot reads the excel data and then created a loop for each row.
How could I:
- Read the excel column and write sender’s name dynamically in “to” of “send outlook mail message” activity?
- copy excel sheet header and a row in the outlook mail “body” and send to multiple users (each row to each user+ header which is common for all)
Please suggest some code which could convert the datatable to string such as its tabular format is not lost. Also, Screen scraping or copy is not working for that excel sheet.
Try this solution and change according to yours.
Just change the fields as per your column index and i have used outlook here. This is just a rough solution you can try exceptions and make the code more reliable.
- Read the whole data to a data table using Read Range Activity.
- Use For each row activity and read in loop.
- Assign to variables the fields by row index.
- Attach email app(outlook) then use selectors for the To,Subject and message fields.
- Type Into and click on send.
Note: Just check the property Add Headers while using Read Range activity otherwise first the header will be coming.
Hope this helpes.
Main.xaml (17.4 KB)
Hi, @jibanjyoti: I actually started with that only. There are 3 challenges with this approach:
- I have 17 columns and 15+ rows. I would need to add row(1) + row(2) +…row(17) in mail body
- The tabular format of row added is not preserved
- header row (common) also needs to be added in the body of each mail (15 rows of excel basically). As a workaround, I tried adding another activity “read row/ read range” to handle header row. But converting data table to string is not working
Could you please suggest an approach wherein I could preserve the tabular format of rows in mail body and add a header row to be sent to each recipient?
Also, I am using “send outlook mail message” activity to handle sending mails.
So you are trying to paste a data table into the actual body, huh? try this one out, it reads the table and save the structure.-
another method it will be to simulate the copy and paste directly from excel-
Mail.zip (10.8 KB)
Thanks for sharing it.
It acted as a workaround but still did not preserve the table structure as is. Attached the screenshot (email.jpg) for reference. It got further distorted in case of excel sheet I am referring since the column width is larger in it.
Also, Currently, it is sending entire data to each recipient.
I updated the script referring yours. Could you please further build on it?
In summary, I need to send entire row 2+ header to recipient 1, row 3+ header to recipient 3 -----row 15 + header while retaining the table structure.
Mail.zip (71.4 KB)
For converting Excel datatable into a table in body of email, you can try this out:
- Read the datatable ie dt.
- Count the rows and columns of the datatable → dt.rows.count and dt.columns.count.
- Create a html document with a table open tag using uipath (use activity write/append line to create a .html file and append the lines).
- Create a dynamic table using tag with the datatable content. → use for each activity and append line to the .html file.
- close the html tags.
- send the html file as body in the Outlook mail activity. (click on ishtml check box)
Thanks. It helped me to derive a solution.
Hello Igul, do you mind to share?
I have referred to the sequence attached in the reply 5d ago (which is on the similar lines as suggested by you). Only change I made is adding html tags
| etc. in the assign activities (already added in the sequence). Finally, clicked on ishtml check box in send mail activity.
Thank you so much…
You make my day
can someone please share a better example for this?
I want to add the html table within an outlook template. I can use the above code to derive the html table, but having issues while using it within the template.
Above code work for me very well. @harjyot123 please share your xaml
Hello @Dill, @aksh1yadav , @Dominic, @Laxman_Pratap
Could you please help me to add the HTML data table within the Outlook template.
New folder.zip (19.0 KB)
I want to embed the table within any template. (Include signature as well)
Need help asap. Thanks and appreciate all the hard help
Hi @harjyot123, Install and use this package,
to convert your datatable to a html.
Hi @akhi_s27 - I Used this code but it gives me datatable with all Headers and tags in it !
I used the above code, but my data table has a column of hyperlinks.
These hyperlinks are being sent in the mail as a simple string and not as hyperlink.
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Directed by Swobodnik, Sobo • Documentary • 2018 • 84 minutes
Four nuns, a formation director, twenty-six sheep and a convent. Seemingly far away from civilization at the edge of the Swabian Alps, the rules of St. Benedict are strictly observed here by the "Benedictine nuns of Our Dear Lady" as they have been for centuries. Ora et labora is the central guiding maxim, together with the ensuing question: How can God-fearing faith and open-minded convent life engage in symbiosis?
The film shows the ambivalence between the spirituality of the convent’s tranquility on one hand and the secularity of modern convent life on the other.
"Beautiful... The crisis of Christian monasticism in today’s secularized world has rarely been so simply and eloquently captured. Highly recommended." —Video Librarian | <urn:uuid:6a84e618-d5b3-4dfc-99b7-aea9e273cfe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ovid.tv/kimstim/videos/silentium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.897065 | 189 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Mourning the loss of Dr. John Ruggie
Humanity United joins countless others around the world in mourning the passing of scholar and global human rights leader Dr. John Ruggie, the guiding force behind the development of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – known colloquially as the “Ruggie Framework.”
We recently wrote a joint op-ed with the Business and Human Rights Resource Center on the 10th anniversary of their adoption.
I had the honor of first meeting Dr Ruggie about 20 years ago soon after UN Secretary General Annan unveiled the Global Compact, in which John Ruggie had a lead role. At that time, John was essentially already paving the way for conversations we have today, including moving from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, from corporate engagement to corporate accountability and the rise of ESG investments. The social economy has lost a visionary leader, but Dr Ruggie’s constant desire to create a more inclusive global economy will remain with us.
All those who work to help stop and prevent businesses from treating workers as a commodity and engaging in profit-first practices that embolden forced labor owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Dr. Ruggie. We must be steadfast in our efforts to bring life to his vision of a world in which businesses treat workers as humans to be treated with dignity, rather than a commodity to be obtained as cheaply as possible, and are held accountable when they do not.
Of the many writings on the passing of Dr. Ruggie, we encourage you to read the Business and Human Rights Resource Center’s tribute to his life and work, as well as this eulogy in Foreign Policy magazine. | <urn:uuid:aca4142d-84ea-4a53-af19-0c8c2bc01b4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://humanityunited.org/mourning-the-loss-of-dr-john-ruggie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96486 | 350 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Rich and elegant low FODMAP Crème Brûlée, inspired by the spanish version Crema Catalana. A custard-based dessert with a creamy pudding-like texture and topped with a thin crust of caramelized sugar.
Creamy, crunchy, and full of rich, caramelized flavor, this low FODMAP Crème Brûlée is made with five simple staple ingredients: lactose free milk, eggs, cornstarch, lemon peal and sugar. It’s the perfect dessert for a special occasion.
Differences between french and spanish Crème Brûlée
While french Crème Brûlée has become the more widely known of the two versions and the invention of the famous burnt custard is commonly attributed to France, the credit actually goes to the spanish region, Catalonia. Among Europe’s oldest desserts, Crema Catalana (catalan cream) dates back to at least the 14th century, whereas the earliest known recipe for crème brûlée (burnt cream) didn’t appear until 1691.
Both versions are similar but there are some differences:
- Crema Catalana is made with milk and cornstarch, not cream like the French version, resulting in a smoother and slightly less firm texture;
- Crema Catalana is not made using a water bath (bain-marie), which means it’s much easier than its French cousin.
- Crème Brûlée is flavored with vanilla, while Crema Catalana is flavored with lemon peal and cinnamon;
- Crème brûlée has a “greasier” texture whereas Catalan cream is lighter and more delicate.
Crema Catalana is also the favorite version in Portugal, and we call it Leite Creme. It’s a popular dessert in special occasions and an absolute family favorite! As you probably know, we invented and love Pastéis de Nata (portuguese custard tarts), which makes us kind of experts in egg custard! And I can tell you this version is sublime!
How to make the custart
The process involves making a creamy egg custard by cooking it on the stovetop, gently stirring with a spatula (preferably wooden if you have one). The constant stir of approximately 10 minutes might be the biggest difficulty of this recipe. It’s just a matter of patience, a small effort in order to get the perfect melt-in-the-mouth custard. When the custard thickens, it’s time to pour it into ramekins and to let it cool. Last step will be to let the custard set for several hours in the refrigerator before brûléeing the top, otherwise you’ll end up with soupy custard.
How to make the caramelized crust
After firming up for a few hours in the refrigerator, and while it’s still cold (straight out of the fridge), it’s time to pour the sugar over the top. You’ll need approximately 1-2 tbsp per ramekin. To form the burnt crunchy sugar crust you’ll need to burn it until it’s rich golden brown with some dark areas. You have four different methods:
- the traditional caramelizing iron like this one (affiliate link). Place the iron directly on your stopoven until it’s quite hot. Then simply burn the sugar until dark brown caramel starts to appear. A lot of smoke will come out, so make sure to do it close to a window.
- I used an electric caramelizing iron, but you can only buy one in Portugal. Same process as above but you just need to plug the iron to heat it. Be careful with the flames going up while burning the cream, so make sure to leave a safe distance.
- a small propane torch like this one (affiliate link). You can burn the cream top with a kitchen torch until sugar is caramelized.
- your oven’s broiler. To do this, place ramekins in a broiler 2 to 3 inches from heat source. Turn on broiler. Cook until sugar melts and browns or even blackens a bit, about 5 minutes. Even if it’s probably the simplest (and safest) solution, it will NOT get as dark and caramelized as with the previous methods.
Low FODMAP Crème Brûlée
- 4 tbsp | 48g sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 17 oz | 500 ml lactose free milk
- 2 tbsp | 24g cornstarch
- 1 lemon peal (approx. 1inch | 3 cm long)
- 1 cinnamon stick (optional)
- 4-8 tbsp sugar to caramelize on top
- In a bowl, beat milk with cornstarch, until well dissolved and set aside.
- In another bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar, until the mixture turns pale yellow. Slowly beat in the dissolved cornstarch and milk. Add the lemon peal and cinnamon stick (optional).
- Place the mixture in a saucepan on low heat and stir constantly and steadily until the cream begin to thicken, about 10-15 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, remove lemon peal and cinnamon stick (optional) and pour the cream into four 6-ounce | 9cm individual ramekins. Allow the custard to cool completely.
- Cover the ramekins in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for minimum two hours (preferably 4 hour, idealy overnight).
- Spread 1-2 tbsps of sugar per ramekin and caramelize top with on of the methods explained above: a small kitchen blowtorch, a hot iron or in the oven's broiler.
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“Solar can be a net benefit in terms of restoring a native habitat and improving ecosystem services, like storm water control and carbon storage and sequestration.”
In the summer of 2020, District Councillors unanimously approved a new solar farm on land to the south of Rockbeare Hill in Marsh Green – but with reservations:
“Food production, although it’s nice good land, there’s many more opportunities for food production than there are suitable places for solar sites. Personally, I’m not in favour of the industrialisation of the countryside and this is, I consider this sort of an industrialisation and urbanisation, but when you look at environmental concerns and the carbon neutral targets and considerations, I will be supporting it.”
In the spring of this year, the Mail and the Devon Campaign to Protect Rural England looked at the environmental costs of large scale solar farms:
A toxic blot on the landscape: Solar farms are ruining views and causing misery for residents – and, critics say, they’re filled with noxious chemicals, many are made by Chinese prisoners… and don’t even work in gloomy British weather | dailymail.co.uk
At the time, these news pages looked at the issues in quite some detail:
There is another solar farm looking for planning permission in East Devon:
21/3120/MFUL | Construction of 49 MW solar farm, with permission being required for 40 years, comprising solar arrays, equipment housing, sub-station, fencing, CCTV, ancillary equipment, and associated development | Land Adjacent To Peradon Farm Clyst Hydon | planning.eastdevon.gov.uk
Most of the public comments have been objections, many of which are based on ‘damage to the environment’:
We must preserve our heritage and wildlife . I totally understand the need for clean power , but I am sure this can be achieved without ruining our beautiful country.
The site provides habitat to several species of rare bats and birds. These are described as species of particular interest. We believe the proposal will damage this habitat.
The negative impact on the wildlife also causes me great concern, once we lose the wildlife from the area it will never return.
There will be a public meeting to consider the application on 21st January – at which LightRock Power will be presenting and explaining their planning application to the people of Payhembury parish and answering questions.
The developer is “working in partnership” nationally with the RSPB and claims to be “Bringing Renewable Energy And Wildlife Together”:
The question is, then, to what extent solar farms harm or are indeed of direct benefit to nature.
The Sid Valley Biodiversity Group’s social media pages reposted a piece from the Guardian recently:
Here are two recent reports from the United States which seems to support this:
Some solar operators are reimagining their facilities as prime protected habitats for native plants, bringing back key local species and potentially improving lands that humans have already disturbed. “Solar can be a net benefit in terms of restoring a native habitat and improving ecosystem services, like storm water control and carbon storage and sequestration,” said Leroy Walston, a landscape ecologist with Argonne National Laboratory who studies the relationship between renewable energy and the environment.
‘Farmers could identify unprofitable areas, such as low-yielding, highly erodible lands, as candidates for a pollinator-friendly solar farm. There’s the potential to increase their net income with pollinator incentive schemes.’
A small woodland owner in the UK puts the case:
When we applied for permission to build a solar farm in West Sussex the planners initially worried about the impact on wildlife and insisted that we do surveys of the bats and newts, but in practice the solar panels, now installed there, have created a haven for wildlife. Several surprising facts struck me as I walked amongst the PV panels… | <urn:uuid:4756395a-d325-488b-95ce-58b1443d958f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://visionforsidmouth.org/are-solar-farms-good-for-nature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.93209 | 830 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Triplanetary 4 – Chapter 2: The Fall of Atlantis
Welcome to the read! In the Critias of Plato, the story of Atlantis is said to take place around 9500 BCE, so while we are still deep in the past, we are picking up the story approximately two billion years after the last chapter ended. It’s an interesting technique to set up the Eddorians and their super-science shenanigans, then skip an unimaginable distance forward in time, and come to a period associated with prehistoric fantasy stories. For instance, the supposedly unrecorded Hyborian Age that Robert Howard’s Conan stories take place in is supposed to begin after Atlantis sinks.
“Members of the innermost circle, wherever you are and whatever you may be doing, tune in!” the All-Highest broadcast.
Using what are essentially radio terms for telepathic activity is something of a signature for this series, but while it works to increase relatability when the humans and other younger races do it, having the ancient cosmic big bad yell ‘tune in!’ damages its already tenuous mystique.
“Analysis of the data furnished by the survey just completed shows that in general the Great Plan is progressing satisfactorily.
This banal line also damages that mystique. Here’s a truly fantastical being, and he’s going on about survey data. It’s possible that juxtaposition could have been made interesting, but it isn’t.
There seem to be only four planets which our delegates have not been or may not be able to control properly: Sol III, Rigel IV, Velantia III, and Palain VII.
So it seems the Eddorians have by this point turned most of the actual work over to underlings. The four planets named eventually produce some very special individuals, and it seems like an open question as to whether the life on these planets has developed in a way that is particularly incompatible with Eddorian control, or whether organic lapses in that control allowed the planets to better develop the conditions for such individuals to arise.
Also, consider the term ‘only four planets,’ as opposed to ‘only four known planets’ or ‘only four influenced planets.’ The implication is that Eddorian control, however indirect or limited, touches every planet in both galaxies.
All four, you will observe, are in the other galaxy. No trouble whatever has developed in our own.
Location does make some difference, apparently. I’m not sure what the capabilities of the Eddorian operation are supposed to be at this point, so it could be a purely technical matter. I like to think that the Eddorians have retained some subconscious aversion to the Arisian’s home territory, so it gets less attention.
“Of these four, the first requires drastic and immediate personal attention.
First, go Earth! I think this is a deliberate ego-stroke for the human reader; our species is the most troublesome. Second, this is a strange statement in context. When you see what the solution is, and then later what some of the Eddorian minions are capable of, it doesn’t seem like this mission actually requires an Eddorian. Maybe it needed Eddorian judgement to decide on the most appropriate course of action, or maybe they have no minions nearby and haven’t shared their most advanced transport tech yet, so that only an Eddorian can get there in a timely fashion?
Its people, in the brief interval since our previous general survey, have developed nuclear energy and have fallen into a cultural pattern which does not conform in any respect to the basic principles laid down by us long since.
As far as I can tell, this may be the first published depiction of Atlantis as a nuclear power. Ignatius Donnelly, father of the modern Atlantean mythology, writing in 1882, portrayed Atlantis as being about as advanced as 1700s Europe; but my Google-fu doesn’t turn up any other published atomic Atlantean scenarios until the late 60’s, which this predates by ~20 years. So not only do we get to see a sci-fi Atlantis, we get to see what might be the first sci-fi Atlantis. I actually remember nothing about that part, so I’m now curious.
Our deputies there, thinking erroneously that they could handle matters without reporting fully to or calling for help upon the next higher operating echelon, must be disciplined sharply. Failure, from whatever cause, can not be tolerated.
I’m not planning to delve into the Eddorian operating principles until the text describes them better much later on, but I will say that they demand a really unreasonable level of judgement. You get punished for not passing matters that are beyond your abilities up the chain of command, but – spoiler warning – you also get punished for bothering the chain of command with something you could have handled yourself, and if you couldn’t have known which was which until after the fact, that’s unfortunate. That said, ‘disciplined sharply’ probably doesn’t mean killed; the Eddorians are evil overlord stereotypes, but they don’t usually speak in euphemisms. It could mean almost any other unpleasant thing, though.
“Gharlane, as Master Number Two, you will assume control of Sol III immediately.
So here’s Gharlane, who I think is one of only two named Eddorians (along with Krongenes from the last chapter), and who is the active Eddorian agent in the story, when he shows up at all. I’m pretty sure that his rank of ‘Master Number Two’ makes him the All-Highest’s second-in-command.
This Circle now authorizes and instructs you to take whatever steps may prove necessary to restore order upon that planet.
It’s a little strange that Eddore is explicitly a dictatorship, but orders are issued by ‘this Circle,’ even when the All-Highest is directly participating.
Examine carefully this data concerning the other three worlds which may very shortly become troublesome.
It’s a shame that we don’t get to hear what kinds of trouble the other planets are up to, because it would be a good opportunity to explore how different their inhabitants are from humans.
Is it your thought that one or more others of this Circle should be assigned to work with you, to be sure that these untoward developments are suppressed?”
This seems to be a genuine question and not just a dominance ritual; the Eddorians are capable of treating each other with some actual regard, if no one else.
“It is not, Your Supremacy,” that worthy decided, after a time of study. “Since the peoples in question are as yet of low intelligence; since one form of flesh at a time is all that will have to be energized; and since the techniques will be essentially similar; I can handle all four more efficiently alone than with the help or cooperation of others.
For an evil overlord stereotype, Gharlane sounds shockingly reasonable here; he prefers to work alone not out of raw ego but because he judges that the combination of factors involved make it a broth for which one cook is the optimal number. The process of ‘energizing’ a ‘form of flesh’ sounds interesting, but what it means is left obscure for the moment.
If I read this data correctly, there will be need of only the most elementary precaution in the employment of mental force, since of the four races, only the Velantians have even a rudimentary knowledge of its uses. Right?”
‘Mental force’ as used here is more specific than just telepathy – for instance, the Rigellians, as we will later learn, are deaf and mute, using telepathy for communication instead of sound. I suspect it refers to compulsion – mind control – which the Velantians, again as we will later learn, have had some exposure to.
“We so read the data.” Surprisingly enough, the Innermost Circle agreed unanimously.
It’s not at all clear why it should be surprising that the Circle is unanimous, I don’t think we’ve ever seen any arguments among them. They’re all extremely close in both ability and temperament, so agreement would seem more natural than disagreement, even if they didn’t exist in a dissent-punishing environment. In fact, I don’t think we’ve ever seen them disagree about anything.
“Go, then. When finished, report in full.”
“I go, All-Highest. I shall render a complete and conclusive report.”
So this is going to be our first demonstration of an Eddorian in action against ordinary people; one alien super-being against a human nuclear power; even if you have a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen and how from the setup, it should be good stature-building for our ultimate villains.
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