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“Christ forgave the bastards, but I can’t!” – Billy Hayes, the young American protagonist of the 1978 film ‘Midnight Express’ who was caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey in 1970 and sentenced to 30 years in prison, says these words of the brutal guards who beat, tortured and starved him for five horrific years.
Hayes managed to escape the prison and cross the border into Greece, and freedom, in 1975. He was risking his life in attempting to flee, but he knew he wouldn’t survive much longer in the unspeakable conditions of the jail.
The film is based on a true story, taken from Hayes’ book of the same name. It was filmed, perhaps presciently, in Malta, at Fort St Elmo in Valletta.
I was a young teenager when it first came out, but the scenes of vicious cruelty, both physical and mental, that it portrayed have stayed with me my entire life. I watched it again recently – noticing, once more, that for some reason, several of the policemen and prison guards use Maltese instead of Turkish at random moments in the film.
Forty years ago, this was just a curiosity. Now, though, it was spine-chilling to hear the Maltese words expressing the same type of alleged abuse so many inmates of Malta’s house of correction turned house of horrors have recounted.
The notorious prison director, retired army officer Alexander Dalli, ‘self suspended’ himself this week after the nation was shocked to learn that yet another prisoner had taken his own life. There have been 14 deaths in Corradino in the three years since Dalli was appointed in 2018 – half of them suicides, four from natural causes and three that are still under investigation.
Dalli’s regime was predicated on terror. Activist and broadcaster Peppi Azzopardi revealed that the newly installed director had put up a sign instructing guards to “teach fear” to the prisoners. That sign was taken down after Azzopardi exposed it, but it told us all we needed to know about Dalli.
He, and his few supporters, erroneously describe him as a “disciplinarian”. But of course, bullying and brutality are not discipline. Terror is not discipline. These tactics are used not by ‘strong’ men, but, just as with all bullies, by weak and insecure people.
The atrocious and inhumane conditions to which Corradino inmates are said to have been subjected since Dalli’s appointment have been well-documented, with Peppi Azzopardi and the Dean of the Social Wellbeing Faculty of the University of Malta, Andrew Azzopardi, leading a relentless campaign for radical reform of Malta’s prison system – as well as the removal of Dalli.
Reading descriptions of this man’s behaviour, as he strutted about his mini-fiefdom – lording it over the prisoners like the most ruthless of despots, allegedly taking potshots at pigeons and strapping inmates into a “punishment chair” similar to those used in the Unites States’ infamous Guantanamo Bay facility – is sickening and frightening.
Former and current prisoners have described being put into solitary confinement, sometimes for weeks, and subjected to constant verbal abuse and torment from the guards.
The devastated father of Kim Borg Nicolas Virtu, the 29-year old inmate who committed suicide in June, described how his daughter was put through such extreme mental and physical torment that she made at least four suicide attempts during her two-year incarceration, before her final, and tragically fatal, act – which took place when she had just three weeks left to go on her sentence.
Martin Borg Nicolas Virtu said his daughter had been “driven to insanity” by the relentless cruelty and bullying from warders, thrown into isolation – solitary confinement – for trivial reasons, and specially singled out by one particular prison guard, who did things like kick over the bucket of water just after Kim had finished washing the floor and then order her to do it all over again. They reportedly deprived her of her medication, took away her books, and even her fan.
Two prison officers have been charged with her involuntary homicide. Though – if these are the same warders who reportedly taunted her on the day of her fifth suicide attempt, and after she told them she was feeling suicidal, gave her a blanket and a pair of jogging trousers which she then used to try to kill herself in her cell – then there appears to be nothing ‘involuntary’ about this homicide.
Encouraging suicide, or suicide coercion, is dreadful enough in verbal or written form, as in the case of the American Michelle Carter, who at the age of 17 urged her boyfriend Conrad Roy, via text messages, to kill himself, even after he told her he was scared and had changed his mind.
But the allegation that the warders on duty that terrible day actually gave Kim the means to commit suicide, when they knew she was a suicide risk, and just after she’d specifically told them she was feeling suicidal, has to be much worse even than that – how can knowingly giving a vulnerable person the means with which to harm herself be described as ‘involuntary’ in any way?
Some people are worried that these two officers might become ‘scapegoats’ while Dalli himself will get off scot-free. They’re right, of course, that the ultimate responsibility lies with Dalli.
But as the post Second World War Nuremberg trials proved, if one needed a precedent, ‘just following orders’ is no defence at all. They are fully culpable. Convicting them, if they are guilty, won’t be ‘scapegoating’ at all. It will be justice.
Dalli must be hauled before a judge too, of course. The very idea that he’s been permitted to ‘self-suspend’ himself, whatever that means, is an outrage.
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri should have sacked him on the spot, referred the case to the police and done his duty to the country by ensuring that no one’s human rights are violated, no one’s lives considered worthless and that the Corradino Correctional Facility is finally transformed into a place not only of punishment but also of rehabilitation. Hopefully, the appointment of the Head of Detention Services, Robert Brincau, to replace Dalli, albeit in an ‘acting’ role, will help bring us closer to that ideal.
But in the meantime, Camilleri’s – and Prime Minister Robert Abela’s – failure to respond earlier to the alarming number of deaths in the prison, and their callous dismissals of myriad reports of the inhumane way prison inmates were being treated, should put them right there in the dock with Dalli and any of the guards found to have participated in this barbaric regime of terror.
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Quite often, we easily get confused between self-love and selfishness (though they are different). I was too. I had always wanted to be self-less; to be the reason for someone else’s smile and I had done these even at the cost of my own happiness. Parenting, somehow takes this selflessness to another level for most people, and I was one among those without realizing it was the perfect recipe for disaster. Down the lane I got to learn that what I was doing wasn’t helping any of us in the family and most importantly it wasn’t helping me at all. I had a lot of issues that needed to be addressed- stress, frustrations, frequent emotional breakdowns, etc. I came to understand that while I was running to make sure the needs of my family members were met, I had actually neglected those of mine. For the first time then, I began focusing on self-care. As a part of my efforts to help me handle my emotions I had done a course on emotional intelligence. In one of the lessons, the tutor had asked, “all of us speak of being empathetic towards others. But how often have we really thought of showing that empathy, love and care to ourselves?” That’s when I first thought of self-love and I haven’t stopped loving myself since then. Trust me, it has been so wonderful for me since then. That’s why I thought of covering the importance of self-love in this post.
What is Self-Love?
Self-love is about being kind and compassionate towards oneself. Based on the work of Dr. Sbarra and colleagues, it is considered to be made of three components; self-kindness, recognition of one’s place in shared humanity and mindfulness. Self-kindness is about being warm and understanding towards ourselves when we feel low. Recognition of one’s place in the humanity is all about acknowledging that people are not perfect and that personal experiences are part of the larger human experience. Mindfulness is about avoidance of over identification with painful emotions. So, that’s all it takes to love yourself!
Why is Self-Love Important?
There are several reasons why self-love is important. Keep reading to find those out.
- Helps Develop a Positive Outlook Towards Life
Self-love helps us to develop a positive outlook towards life. When we develop self-love towards ourselves, we learn to understand our strengths and positives. This helps our mind to naturally focus on the positives in everything around us too. And suddenly, without even realizing we develop a positive outlook towards life. Remember how everything in life appeared beautiful when you fell in love with someone. Imagine how magical it would be if you were that ‘someone’?
- Gives a Sense of Being Adequate
Self-love gives a sense of being complete by one-self. Self-love helps in understanding that nobody is perfect. It thus helps in one accepting their own imperfections rather than becoming a self-critic. That perfectionism is considered one of the major reasons for stress and self-criticism is a known thing. And self-love helps in accepting imperfections. Thus, self-love helps gives us a sense of being adequate and complete. Now that’s liberating, isn’t it?
- Helps us Pursue our Interests and Goals
Self-love is vital for us to pursue our interests and goals. When we don’t love ourselves, we are prone to neglect our needs. This is more so with parents, especially mothers who give up their own interests for the sake of their family. But, of late, I have come to realize that the reason we neglect our own needs and sabotage our interests is because we don’t value ourselves much. Self-love helps us in valuing ourselves. So, naturally, we learn to find ways to accommodate our interests and goals. Consequently, we push ourselves to pursue our interests and goals rather than sabotaging it for others.
- Self-love Helps in Building Healthy Relationships
Self-love helps in building healthier relationships. Quite often we look for others to make us happy and fulfilled. Well, these feelings do occur to us when we are in the initial stages of a relationship. But then they are temporary. That’s why with time in relationships, happiness fades. Consequently, love takes a beating and at times the entire relationship is jeopardized. But as a Happiness Life Coach and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner I have learnt that happiness comes from within. When we are not happy from inside, nobody or nothing can ever make us happy. When we are happy from inside, nobody or nothing can make us unhappy. And when we are
happy with ourselves, we don’t seek external validation, support or wait for others to give us joy. Consequently, we learn to build healthy relationships.
- Heals Our Inner Wounds
Self-love is vital in overcoming past painful memories and healing inner wounds. Self-love helps us understand that it is human to err. It helps overcome any guilt or grudge we may be carrying that have prevented our inner wounds from healing. Self-love is the ultimate medicine to heal those inner wounds. It helps you forgive and move on. It helps you find peace. It helps you heal your inner wounds.
- Helps us Develop Holistically
Holistic development is something that I have always insisted on and there is no better way to achieve it than self-love. In fact, my efforts towards holistic wellness and development started only after I started focusing on self-love. I also picked up healthy sleep routines and morning routines only after I began loving myself. Self-love is associated with loving our body, mind and soul. So, self-love obviously prevents us from doing things that will jeopardize the peace of our body, mind and soul. As a result, we start picking up good habits that helps maintain a positive frame of mind and body. Our body, mind and soul belong to the same system. We gradually align them with each other in the due process. Thus, we start developing holistically.
“You can’t pour from an empty cup,” said Tarryne West. How true? That we can’t make others happy if we aren’t happy ourselves, we can’t love others unconditionally if we don’t love ourselves unconditionally, is something that I learnt after being through some testing times. I can’t stress more on the importance of self-love. However, while it may appear simple, self-love like all things is easier said than done. In my next post, I will be sharing some simple ways in which we can practice self-love. Meanwhile, I would like to hear from you. What does self-love mean to you? If you have been practicing it, how has it benefited you ? Let me know in the comments section. I would be glad to read what you have to say.
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Culture is Digital: June 2019 progress report
The #CultureisDigital project was informed by an online open conversation and was borne out of the Government’s Culture White Paper commitment to review the digitisation of our public collections and enhance the online cultural experience. It also builds upon the Government’s UK Digital Strategy commitment to increase digital skills, digital participation and unlock the power of data. In responding to these challenges, the report showcases innovative projects in the creative sector, highlighting the extraordinary collaborations between our world-leading cultural and digital pioneers and makes 12 policy commitments. This is a progress report published in June 2019 detailing the development of the 12 commitments and how organisations can make the most of future opportunities.
By Jeremy Wright, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
As I set out in my Value of Culture speech: culture matters; it matters to us as individuals, as communities and as a Nation. The UK is renowned for its cultural and creative excellence and there is a growing demand for British content all around the world.
In the UK there are over 48 million internet users and Ofcom reports that the average Briton spends 24 hours a week online, with 62% of that time on a smartphone. Digital activity is increasingly becoming the new ordinary, playing a huge role in both how we connect with each other and with the world around us. The use of digital technology within the cultural sector has led to an increasingly integrated landscape of creative activity and unlocked new forms of artistic expression, methods of distribution and audiences.
But this is not a one-way relationship: culture transforms and is transformed by new technology. From the National Theatre’s Draw Me Close VR experience to the development of AI through videogames, culture grows alongside technological advancements to dream of new methods of use and to ask how we as a society should relate to them. As evidenced throughout this report, next generation companies working in spheres like immersive technology are seeking out cultural and creative partners to test the limits of their technology and create new experiences for audiences.
In this document I am able to outline the progress we have made on implementing #CultureisDigital. When DCMS published the initial report, it found evidence of a culture sector facing a number of barriers to greater digital adoption, such as skills, literacy, fragmentation or funding; but also a sector with the energy and drive to generate new solutions to these barriers and tackle them collaboratively. This document tells the story of this collaboration and highlights the tools, techniques and opportunities to help the sector build its digital literacy, embrace new opportunities and inform new technologies in the digital world.
My thanks go to the many individuals, organisations and advisors from across the cultural and tech sectors, whose energy, ingenuity and expertise meant Culture is Digital became a reality. I am also very grateful to the many commitment holders whose ongoing leadership in the Digital Culture space makes me believe that we are only at the beginning of our work together, with a long and exciting journey ahead of us. In no particular order, they are:
- Owen Hopkin, Nicola Saunders, Tonya Nelson, Ben Lane, Carl Stevens, Tiina Hill and Paul Glinkowski, Arts Council England
- Tom Steinberg, the National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Valerie Johnson and Susannah Baccardax, The National Archives and all the Taskforce members
- Cimeon Ellerton, The Audience Agency
- Fiona Morris and John White, the Space
- Sally Long, Laura Phillips and Margaret Haig, the Intellectual Property Office
- Annette Mees, the Royal Opera House
- Chris Michaels, The National Gallery
- Sarah Ellis, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Lamia Dabboussy, BBC Arts
- Anthony Lilley, Andrew Chitty, Kristine Zaidi, Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Hassan Bhakshi and Francesca Sanderson, Nesta
2. Executive summary
The UK is one of the most exciting cultural destinations in the world; boasting world class museums and galleries, with the British Museum, The National Gallery, Tate Modern and V&A in the top 10 most visited art museums in the world. The c.3,000 libraries on high streets and in communities across Great Britain provide a range of services to meet the needs of local people. The creative industries and digital sector contributed over £101 billion and £130.5 billion GVA in 2017 respectively and from Saatchi & Saatchi to Improbable, UK companies are known around the world for their creative excellence and technological brilliance.
The Digital Culture Project has been about bringing these success stories together, aiming to explore how culture and technology can work together to the benefit of each other. Born out of the Culture White Paper, the #CultureisDigital online consultation was launched in April 2017. Through this exercise we heard clear messages about the opportunities and challenges in digital culture as well as the ask from all parties for leadership, coordination and infrastructure. Ultimately this culminated in the publication of the 2018 Culture is Digital Report which contained research, evidence and commitments across 3 main themes: Audiences, Skills and Digital Capability, and Future Strategy.
We are now in the implementation stage of Culture is Digital and this document charts the progress that has been made in partnership with the commitment holders as well as opportunities for future development.
On Audiences the report noted that the collection, analysis and sharing of audience data would allow organisations to develop a more informed and responsive approach with both existing and new audiences. Since then:
- applicants to the Cultural Development Fund were encouraged to include digital engagement as part of their place-based strategies. In particular, Plymouth will receive £3.5 million to develop the use of immersive and digital technologies and bring to life the cultural programme to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower ship’s pioneering voyage
- the Arts Council have made it a mandatory requirement for all National Portfolio Organisations in the 2018-22 portfolio to contribute to Audience Finder and are continuing to invest in tools like the Impact and Insight Toolkit
- the National Lottery Heritage Fund are embedding skills development on the use of audience data within multiple workstreams as part of its new £1 million Digital Campaign (see below)
On Digital Skills and capability the report noted skills gaps in the sector, such as data analysis and intellectual property knowledge, and highlighted the benefit of increasing digital skills and maturity. Since then:
- the Arts Council have launched their new £1.1 million Digital Culture network, a 2 year initiative to increase the digital skills and capacity of arts and cultural organisations, providing practical hands-on support, developing partnerships with the technology sector and facilitating the sharing of resources and best practice
- DCMS have provided £200,000 to support the creation of a new Digital Culture Code and a Digital Maturity Index, a tool being developed by the Arts Council and National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership for the benefit of the whole culture sector
- the National Lottery Heritage Fund is embarking on a new £1 million campaign to build digital capability in the heritage sector. Over the next 2 years they will invest in new projects and learning opportunities that target heritage organisations that lack digital skills and confidence
- the Intellectual Property Office have delivered 6 free training seminars on intellectual property attracting over 100 organisations from across the culture sector
- the Space have worked with the sector to develop and agree a new IP rights terminology to make the contracting of contributors, creators and existing rights-holders easier and more standardised
On Future Strategy the report highlighted the UK’s competitive advantage in digital and cultural sectors and how, through greater coordination in areas like Research and Development (R&D) and use of online heritage collections, the UK could lead the way in creating new art and cultural experiences with technology. Since then:
- the National Archives launched their online collections taskforce in 2018, bringing together leaders from across the heritage sector. The taskforce is launching online resources that look at the issues organisations need to consider before digitising collections
- working with technology innovator, Magic Leap, the Royal Shakespeare Company have launched an exciting Fellowships programme. Each Fellow will benefit from a year’s long programme, including a week residency at Magic Leap exploring their technology, skills and expertise, and with the RSC working alongside their creative teams
- the National Gallery are launching their new innovation space, National Gallery X in the Summer of 2019. This space, will house a range of activity, leading with a collaborative R&D project with King’s College London
- the Royal Opera House have launched the ‘Audience Labs’, an exciting programme of experimental activity looking to explore Opera and Ballet away from the stage using cutting-edge technology
In the UK there are 48 million internet users, making digital experiences part of daily life. Ofcom reports that the average Briton spends 24 hours a week online with 62% of that time on a smartphone. According to the DCMS Taking Part survey 90% of adults in 2018 were recent internet users with 30.6% of adults having digitally participated in culture in the 12 months prior to interview. Our 15 sponsored museums received over 47 million physical visitors in 2017/18 and over 114 million unique visits to their websites. In 2017/18 The National Theatre had 8 million people engage through digital channels, with 60% of state secondary schools signing up to use of On Demand in Schools, their free production streaming service.
The Culture is Digital (CiD) report highlighted how the collection, analysis and sharing of audience data can allow organisations to develop a more informed and responsive approach with both existing and new audiences. The report also recognised the under-representation from Black, minority ethnic and disabled people, and lower socio-economic groups for many of the cultural sectors and emphasised how digital communications and data tools can support efforts around audience diversity in combination with the provision of cultural content and experiences.
- Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund (now the National Lottery Heritage Fund) will ensure that funded organisations get better at collecting, using and sharing audience data, including:
- collecting and understanding data on the reach and impact of their digital and nondigital work and using it to drive their audience engagement strategies ensuring it is done on a consistent basis across the arts and heritage sector
- encouraging the use of integrated databases, such as Audience Finder, and the sharing of audience insight research, so that all businesses in the sector can better understand digital and physical audiences
- The Space and The Audience Agency will work with arts and cultural organisations, Nesta, the BBC and other content publishers and partners to develop a metrics framework and best practice guidance for arts and cultural organisations to use when planning and assessing audience engagement across different digital platforms
3.2 Collecting, using and sharing audience data
Arts Council England (ACE) is currently consulting on its 10 year strategy, in which supporting artists and arts organisations in using digital technologies to create new types of content; reach new audiences; and build data driven businesses will be an important part. With 3 newly appointed Directors focusing on digital innovation, ACE aims to ensure new technologies are fully leveraged to enable creativity and cultural engagement to flourish across the UK.
The government expects the cultural sectors to represent our diverse society, in part through the audiences they attract. ACE invests £750,000 per year in Audience Finder, a national data driven tool that helps the sector better understand audience behaviours, motivations, experiences and demographics. Audience Finder provides useful data and tools to inform audience development activity and help increase and diversify audiences, and will enable ACE to report on the demographic profile of audiences across the National Portfolio as part of their annual report; “Equality, Diversity and the Creative Case”. ACE made it a mandatory requirement for all National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) in the 2018-22 portfolio to contribute to Audience Finder by January 2019 and it has been actively consulting, monitoring and supporting arts organisations, in partnership with The Audience Agency, to help ensure they use Audience Finder effectively.
ACE also invests £575,000 per year in the Impact and Insight Toolkit, a national data driven tool that helps the sector evaluate the impact of their work on the people who experience it. The toolkit builds on the audience data organisations are already getting from Audience Finder by providing additional information around what people think about different types of work and how this compares with the organisation or artists creative intentions. ACE launched the Impact and Insight Toolkit in October 2018, and despite only being a mandatory requirement for the 256 NPOs in Band 2 and 3, 337 NPOs are signed up with around 200 also choosing to participate in developing the toolkit over the next 3 years.
Both of these tools, combined with the support programmes attached to them, enable organisations in the sector to collect and share consistent and benchmarkable audience data that can be used for a wide range of purposes from audience development and programming to marketing and communications.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) announced in their new strategic funding framework that they would be ‘supporting organisations to embed digital thinking in every project to ensure that they can take full advantage of new technology to conserve heritage and to make it more inclusive’. To ensure that funded organisations get better at collecting, using and sharing audience data NLHF will develop and incorporate new guidance into several strands of its digital skills development funding (further outlined below). To lead on this work they took on a new Digital Lead, with a remit to drive change across all aspects of the way that digital interacts with NLHF as a funder.
In April 2019, NLHF also released its first batch of Open Data on the grants they awarded during their fourth Strategic Funding Framework (2013-14 to 2018-19). This is part of an ongoing commitment on transparency, ensuring that the data that NHLF collects and holds can be usable, integrated and fully accessible. There are many benefits and use cases of making grant funding data open and available including encouraging participation by ensuring applicants are more informed about decision-making, as well as allowing policy makers to better understand funding trends and the level and variety of heritage-related activity across the UK.
3.3 Audience Metrics framework
The Audience Agency, working with the BBC and The Space, are developing a new Digital Audience Metrics framework for the sector to use when planning and assessing audience engagement across different digital platforms. In developing the tool, the group has drawn upon its knowledge, understanding and experience of developing audiences digitally, and consulted other commitment holders and sector specialists, such as Nesta and Culture 24, to support the design of the framework.
The Audience Agency’s recent Innovate UK Design Thinking project Services for Data Haters’ provided quantitative and qualitative research into sector experiences of using analytics tools. This data allowed The Audience Agency to develop a framework concept to meet the main needs of being:
- widely relevant to what is a broad arts, culture and heritage sector
- easy to use for a varied range of skills and experience levels
- context specific to the particular objective or objectives of a user
The tool is based on a prioritisation and scoring algorithm that identifies appropriate measures for a given objective. This is based on the availability/priority of a given content type and/or digital engagement channel as defined by the user. The group believes this user-defined approach will provide the best solution to enabling the discovery of the most appropriate guidance, rather than a potentially overwhelming directory of digital metrics. A challenge for any solution going forward is the maintenance of the framework as digital platforms change rapidly.
Following the testing of the metrics framework itself, the user experience (UX) design and testing will be taking place over the coming quarter. The Audience Agency and The Space, as partners on the delivery of the Digital Maturity Index (further described below), will ensure that the framework aligns with this much broader tool. Currently in prototype stage, The Audience Agency hope to find a home for the Digital Audience Metrics tool within their wider suite of audience analytics capability for the sector. The Space plans to do the same when running its workshops on audience development and as a diagnostic tool within its programme of strategic digital mentoring.
Case study: social media
In April 2018, the Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL) transformed its profile and global reach through the success of a single tweet – an archival photograph of an Exmoor Horn aged ram, captioned ‘look at this absolute unit’. The resulting campaign has seen it become one of the world’s most successful museums on Twitter.
By the end of the month The MERL had grown its followers from 9,679 to 32,843, Impressions went from a previous average of 114,000 to 23 million and engagements from 3,000 to 1,500,000 (a 49,990% increase). Within less than a year The MERL would crack 100,000 followers.
The MERL did not have a strategy for dealing with a viral tweet, but knew how to react quickly. The Museum had just finished a project upskilling staff in digital marketing, creative software and processes for planning content. With this strong grasp of both digital marketing skills and knowledge of the collections, the Museum reacted by interacting with and talking to as many people as possible, creating weird new content to keep them interested, writing blogs on livestock genetics and even selling some t-shirts. Essentially, diverse content was made to drive people down the marketing funnel. The campaign resulted in print and online press features, industry awards and booming visitor figures – including international families from the USA and New Zealand, using their one free day out of London to visit Reading because of the Twitter account.
The MERL built on the success of the campaign by crafting a strategy which plays to the strength of the Museum and its staff, which has seen it go viral 4 more times. The strategy pushes the principle that social media should be a tool for the whole of the museum, but that our content needs to be adapted to what is popular on the internet and uses a single staff-member with a distinctive online voice to be the filter for our work. The MERL uses the objective-first framework to make sure digital content achieves useful objectives for the whole museum, as well as identifying important metrics for the broader goals of growing our audiences, having meaningful interactions, making useful connections, and nurturing relationships.
It takes creativity and a willingness to take risks to stand out on social media, but for the MERL it took an original voice to make it a success. It also required embracing the fact that social media should be social, and that as a museum we have to accept that a lot of people don’t find our content interesting at face value – we have to adapt it to the internet to make it relevant.
The approach The MERL has taken won’t work for all institutions, but at the core of making social media work is constant experimentation, trust between staff and strategy. It is also embracing digital marketing without forgetting the mission and point of what museums are for: engaging the public with our stories.
Cultural sectors make a crucial contribution to the identity, regeneration, health and wellbeing of UK cities, towns and villages. These sectors also have a role in supporting regions economically, for example the title of ‘UK City of Culture’ and £15 million of public funding investment to Hull in 2017 enabled over 2,800 events, over 5 million visitors, 800 new jobs, and contributed an excess of £300 million to the local economy. There was increased local cultural participation, with 9 out of 10 residents having attended or experienced a cultural event or activity during that year. This cultural programme led to wider investment in renewable energy, healthcare, telecommunications and the area’s longstanding port industries.
Digital technology and distribution methods can support UK regions by enabling new engagement with audiences locally as well as widening the impact of cultural experiences to eyes and ears around the World. Through a mixture of media and online channels, the Hull City of Culture 2017 programme enabled a reach of almost 37.3 billion people and an advertising value equivalent of at least £450 million. Digital initiatives in particular were a contributory factor in the increased audiences experienced by the cultural sector during the course of City of Culture, with digital taking 2 of the 3 top spots for how audiences found out about events and cultural activity.
- in order to further broaden cultural engagement and empower communities to share their voices, view and creative content digitally, ACE will ensure that its Creative People & Places programme makes use of digital communications and platforms and that any learning that emerges is shared
- we will encourage recipients of UK City of Culture and Cultural Development Funding to include ambitions to enhance digital audience engagement in their local place-shaping and growth strategies
Creative People and Places
ACE commissioned The Audience Agency to undertake a piece of research with all 21 of the Creative People and Places consortia to understand what digital activity they are currently engaged in, for what purpose and how they could make increased use of digital technology to further their aims. All reported using digital technology for a range of practical purposes such as marketing, communication and evaluation, albeit with differing levels of skill, confidence and success. Whilst some are making use of digital technologies within the artistic programme or participatory practice, there is room for development for others. A report will be published in Summer 2019 to ensure findings are shared as widely as possible.
Live to Digital
The CiD Report also recommended that ACE bring together a group of organisations working on Live to Digital projects to encourage collaboration and cross-working. Responding to this, ACE convened a Live to Digital sector forum in November 2018 to establish the significant issues and opportunities in this space, and published a series of reports and a blog that give new insights into Live to Digital work. In order to further develop this work, ACE will convene a series of themed sector workshops across England during June/July 2019 to address 5 important themes:
- the value and benefits of Live to Digital
- production for Live to Digital
- developing audiences through Live to Digital work
- distribution options for Live to Digital work
- funding Live to Digital
UK City of Culture
The UK City of Culture uses culture and creativity to transform and regenerate an area. As part of the bidding process, competing places are expected to build a high quality arts and cultural programme that reaches a wide variety of audiences including through digital channels) and leads to lasting social and economic regeneration. Coventry is a 5G test bed city and as part of their plans to be City of Culture in 2021, the city is currently developing programming ideas which include: the creative application of immersive technology and exploring how data (including audience and visitor insights) can be more effectively captured through the application of emerging technologies. Coventry will also enlist a ‘Digital Curator’, who will devise a series of exciting creative initiatives across the City.
Cultural Development Fund
On the 18 January 2019 we announced the recipients of the Cultural Development Fund (CDF). The CDF has been launched by the government in association with ACE to use investment in heritage, culture and creativity as a catalyst for regeneration. In the first government investment of its kind, Grimsby, the Thames Estuary, Plymouth, Wakefield and Worcester will use the funding to strengthen the local arts sector, increase cultural access and provide greater opportunity for people to forge creative careers.
As part of the application process, participants were encouraged to look at enhancing digital audience engagement as part of the bids as well as using technology as a delivery mechanism for cultural experiences. We were delighted to see an array of bids from across the country that embraced the digital opportunity for engagement. For example Plymouth will receive £3.5 million to develop the use of immersive and digital technologies to drive growth in the local creative economy and bring to life the cultural programme to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower ship’s pioneering voyage.
We have also announced there will be a Festival in 2022 to showcase creative and innovative strengths across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It will deliver an exciting future-focused programme of events on arts, culture, design, tech and heritage, celebrating the strengths, values and identity of the communities and places of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
We are in the early stages of planning the Festival, which is intended to be politically independent and delivered at arm’s length from government through a delivery body. There will be important opportunities for the cultural, creative and digital sectors to partner to showcase innovative strengths in these sectors, ensure extensive and diverse engagement in the Festival and drive growth in these sectors.
Case study: place and diversity
The Cambridgeshire Culture Card scheme (now rebranded XPlore and XP) is an ambitious project initiated by the My Cambridge Cultural Education Partnership, a cross sector partnership supporting children and young people to develop rich cultural lives that can substantially improve their life chances, both in terms of education and employment, and their overall quality of life. The project uses the arts and a place-based approach to address a range of social, economic, educational and engagement inequalities, underpinned by 3 core aims:
- increase children and young people’s access and participation in art, culture and creativity; particularly those from low-income backgrounds or who face inequalities of access
- recognise and acknowledge children and young people’s engagement in art, creativity and culture; and its contribution to their learning, skills and career development
- provide robust, relevant and visible evidence of the impact of cultural engagement on children and young people on a range of outcomes
Following a detailed feasibility study, the project successfully identified that these aims could be met in a scalable and replicable way by repurposing the free library card into a universal cultural passport, developed alongside mobile technologies and a bespoke digital platform. In 2018, we developed a prototype digital platform to live test major elements of the scheme with over 250 families living in the bottom 20% of local authority areas nationally for youth and school social mobility.
The prototype digital platform supported a range of functionality including cultural engagement tracking methods;offering enhanced incentives by auto-recognition of free school meal or pupil premium status; and gamification methods such as digital badges and reward points. At the prototype stage, the scheme successfully collected over 900 data variables including geo-demographic, cultural offer, engagement, activity preferences, educational attainment and non-academic skills, with 89% captured directly by the digital platform.
Registration to the scheme exceeded expectations in relation to both overall numbers, and the engagement by children and young people from low income backgrounds. Over a 22 week period, the digital platform recorded 171 activity and event participations by 114 individual children, with an additional 162 family members. A important test for the prototype scheme was whether it would successfully engage children and young people from low-income backgrounds, using pupil premium and free school meal eligibility as a proxy measure. The prototype proved highly successful with 43% of all children that went on to engage being in receipt of free school meals or Pupil Premium, and 52% of all primary aged children.
4. Digital skills
4.1 Skills and capability
Developing digital skills is at the forefront of the UK’s Digital Strategy and the UK’s Industrial Strategy. These set out government ambitions to ensure that we have the skilled and capable workforce necessary for an increasingly digital world. By 2024, the annual aggregate economic benefit of equipping individuals with Basic Digital Skills is expected to amount to £3.3 billion. The 2017 Digital Culture Survey reported that 70% of organisations saw a major positive impact from digital technology on their ability to deliver their mission but the majority of organisations viewed themselves as only having basic digital skills.
Over the last 12 months, the DCMS Digital Skills Partnership has developed and launched 6 Local Digital Skills Partnerships (Local DSP) which brings together public, private and charity sector organisations, both regional and national to collaborate and help increase the digital capability of individuals and organisations regionally. Working closely with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and Combined Authorities, Local DSPs have been established in Lancashire, Devon/Somerset, West Midlands, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Cheshire and Warrington and the South East which covers Kent, Essex and Sussex. Supported by a small initial grant from DCMS, all 6 regions have appointed a local coordinator to help build a strong network of stakeholders at a regional level and linking in industry partners and national stakeholders to support innovative digital skills programmes and initiatives.
- Arts Council England, working with the Heritage Lottery Fund and partners, will create and pilot the use of a Digital Maturity Index for the cultural sector, to enable organisations to understand and benchmark their own digital capability and set plans in place to make improvements
- Arts Council England, working with the Heritage Lottery Fund and partners, will work together to create a Digital Culture Code; a set of guidelines and principles which cultural organisations should sign up to in order to demonstrate a commitment to developing their own digital maturity and the maturity of the wider cultural sector
4.2 Digital Culture Code and Maturity Index
Using funding secured from the Digital Skills Partnership, DCMS has provided £200,000 to support the creation of tools and infrastructure that implement the digital skills and maturity commitments set out in the CiD report. This funding, has supported ACE and National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), in addition to their own resources, to work in partnership to create a new Digital Culture Code and a Digital Maturity Index. Both of these commitments support the increase of digital maturity across the whole cultural sector from large heritage sites to local museums and galleries.
Following scoping work by the partners, a decision was taken to deliver the 2 commitments together. Bringing these tools together allows the Code to articulate a broad set of guiding principles to achieving digital maturity that can be easily understood by staff and Trustees across organisations and support the development of digital strategies and plans. Positioned alongside this, the Index will be a self-help tool that will enable organisations to assess how mature they are in their use of digital technology. The design and build work are currently being undertaken by a partnership led by The Space, Culture24, The Audience Agency, University of Leicester and Creative Coop.
The Index is designed as a self-assessment process rather than a monitoring tool. It will include a standardised scale for measuring maturity, which users can apply to a range of areas and capabilities including:
- overall strategy and governance
- specific arts, cultural and heritage activities
- general activities such as digital skills development and operations
Whilst data collected by the index will aid ACE and NLHF in understanding the digital maturity of the arts, cultural and heritage sector, the primary focus is to help organisations understand their own maturity and to focus on areas they might want to improve, depending on their wider organisational goals. Using the tool, organisations will be able to customise the Index to focus on the areas relevant to them, record the current maturity of their digital capabilities and identify their targets for improvement. The tool will be designed to enable easy exporting and sharing of data and reports, including revisiting progress in subsequent years.
The Digital Culture Code and the Digital Maturity Index will be released as a freely available online tool in Autumn 2019. The Space and partners are currently designing and testing content with a series of workshops across the country, leading to a period of beta testing in the summer.
- Arts Council England will set-up a Digital Culture Network, investing £1.1 million over 2 years to create a network of expertise and sharing of best practice across each region in England in order to increase its sectors’ digital skills and capability
4.3 Digital Culture Network
This document coincides with the launch of ACE’s new Digital Culture Network, a 2 year initiative to increase the digital skills and capacity of arts and cultural organisations, providing practical hands on support, developing partnerships with the technology sector and facilitating the sharing of resources and best practice.
The network is supported by a team of 9 Tech Champions recruited with specialisms in e-commerce, digital strategy, SEO/SEM, Box office systems, social media, website design, analytics and video content production. The Tech Champions are based in each of the 9 regional ACE offices to provide local assistance, but crucially work as a national cohort offering support across the country.
In its ‘soft launch’ phase (March-June), the network has already been contacted by over 130 organisations wanting advice. It also delivered a successful pilot partnership with Google Arts & Culture with 2 digital marketing masterclasses in Manchester and Bristol. The events were oversubscribed within 24 hours of tickets becoming available and saw 150 attendees in total across both sites. The Digital Culture Network is currently working with Google on a roll-out of the training programme across England as part of the network.
A presence for the Digital Network on the Arts Council England website has been launched which features team profiles and a sign up page for support. A resources portal for information sheets and videos, case-studies, best practice and signposting is under development. Over the coming months, a number of launch events across England have been planned and work will continue on giving practical support to the arts and cultural sector following an excellent start.
In order to ensure the sector’s alignment with cross-sectoral efforts as part of the Digital Skills Partnership we will ensure that tech leaders in the Digital Culture Network work alongside and feed into local DSPs. DCMS is ensuring that the interests of the culture sector are being represented in the Digital Skills Partnership more widely through NLHF and ACE, who are contributing members of the Charity Digital Skills Partnership and are helping to coordinate their work on CiD with that of the wider group.
4.4 National Lottery Heritage Fund digital capability
NLHF has made digital a major feature of their business transformation programme. Their strategy states that they ‘will build digital capabilities in the sector and in our own organisation, including sharing our data openly’. They are already on the path to making this a reality, having recruited 5 digital service design roles to their organisation. The main purpose of these roles is to ensure that their funding is open to the widest possible group of applicants, and to ensure that any unduly difficult application processes that might disproportionately affect certain types of applicant are made easier and more welcoming. This team started to deliver user-facing improvements in April 2019 and substantial improvements will be rolled out to the end-to-end application experience over the next 12 months.
- In order to build the digital capability of the sectors it supports, the National Lottery Heritage Fund will:
- fund a £1 million campaign which will run over 2 years, to attract high-quality projects to build the sector’s digital capacity, starting in 19/20 with a grant budget of £500,000 per year
- make digital a major feature throughout the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Business Transformation programme, with a particular focus on upskilling staff
Digital transformation at NLHF goes beyond the experience of applicants approaching the organisation online, it also covers both its specific funding initiatives, and its in-house funding skills. As part of the commitment set out in the CiD report, NLHF has ringfenced £1 million over 2 years to support a series of interventions that target heritage organisations that lack digital skills and maturity. This support will be offered through 5 tailored packages that reflect that different heritage organisations have different needs and start from very different places. The 5 include packages that will:
- focus on engaging heritage organisations with close-to-zero digital skills or confidence with the value that developing skills can bring which will roll out in late 2019, and will rely on manual outreach to organisations without a digital presence
- focus on increasing the amount of local support for heritage organisations looking to attend classes or have one-to-one tuition on digital skill which will also be on offer by the end of 2019
- provide a new online resource for heritage organisations including the supply of answers to some of the most common digital questions that recur within the heritage sector – this will go live during 2020
Following on from these interventions, there will also be 2 further packages of support which will be announced later in the year.
As part of this support, heritage organisations will be encouraged to use the Digital Code and Maturity index to make decisions about their level of digital maturity as it relates to their wider organisational objectives. NLHF will also work closely with the Digital Skills Partnership to ensure that local interventions are coordinated with the planning of local Digital Skills Partnerships.
The fund is also taking steps to boost its own ability to make great grants in a digital era, by investing in its own skills. This will be led by a new Head of Digital Policy, who will have a remit both to help ensure that funding policies work for a digital era, and a remit to design a whole-fund approach to ensuring that all grant-making staff are given the skills and opportunities they need to spot when digital issues within funding proposals require special analysis or handling.
4.5 Intellectual property
The UK provides one of the very best intellectual property (IP) environments in the world and was ranked second in the latest US Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Index as of February 2019. Cultural and creative organisations depend on IP for remuneration and protection of their content and there is evidence that the sector faces specific challenges in exploiting IP; including lack of knowledge and legal expertise and vulnerability to losing control of their creative content online. The Digital Culture survey found that only 24% of surveyed cultural organisations feel well-served for skills relating to rights clearance, and only 26% in relation to legal advice around intellectual property rights.
- in order to support the cultural sector in its understanding of intellectual property:
- The Intellectual Property Office will work with the British Library’s Business & Intellectual Property Centres and representatives from the cultural sector to develop guidance and training so that cultural organisations can better understand the Intellectual Property framework and its relevance to them
- The Space will lead work with cultural organisations, cultural rights holders and seek guidance from the Intellectual Property Office to develop a Cultural Digital Rights Code of Practice
4.6 Intellectual property training for the culture sector
Over the last year the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), in collaboration with the British Library’s Business and IP Centre Network, successfully delivered 6 free IP training seminars around the country tailored to representatives from across the culture sector. The sessions provided training on the IP framework including creating and managing IP assets and the rules around copyright such as exceptions and obtaining permissions for use. The seminars also gave attendees opportunities to ask organisation-specific questions about IP rights.
Over 100 cultural organisations attended the seminars which were held in the central libraries of Manchester, Newcastle, Hull and Birmingham, Junction 3 Library Bristol, and the British Library, London. 98% of attendees said that from the seminars they had a better understanding of IP and found it easier to understand when to get permission to use somebody else’s IP. Attendees found information around copyright exceptions and the Orphan Works Licensing Scheme most useful, along with practical discussions which helped them put theory into practice. The overall impression was that the seminars were useful, informative and clearly expressed.
The IPO will ensure that resources and opportunities for further training such as their IP master class will be promoted to the culture sector, including through the Digital Culture network. The materials used to deliver these seminars has also been published on the [online hub](http://digitalpathways.weareculture24.org.uk/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-copyright-and-data-protection/ commissioned by the digitisation Taskforce and can be freely accessed online. Further resources can be found on the IPO’s GOV.UKwebpage. Of particular relevance to the cultural sector; the IP Equip e-learning tool that covers all the main IP rights, the Exceptions to copyright: Libraries, Archives and Museums publication, and the IPO’s events calendar that lists upcoming IP training and awareness events. These will likewise be signposted through the Digital Culture network.
4.7 Intellectual Property terminology and online toolkit
The Space has consulted widely with arts organisations and practitioners across the arts and cultural sector, to address and support the sector’s needs outlined in the CiD report. As a result of these discussions, it has focussed on simplification and clarity around IP terminology commonly used by the sector as well as the ways that content is used on digital platforms, to make the contracting of contributors, creators and existing copyright holders easier.
Some short guidance was published by The Space in Summer 2018, but the main focus of its work in this area has been around ongoing discussions and correspondence with the major rights representatives and talent unions, to explore how their existing framework terms can address these needs through further modernisation. Over the past year, The Space started with the performing arts sector and has held positive meetings with Equity, The Musicians’ Union, PRS for Music, and The Writers’ Guild, where it has sought a consensus (in the first instance) on some common terminology or a ‘lexicon’ of different digital uses and rights. These discussions have been predicated on the shared agreement that this terminology does not undermine any current rights framework or Union agreement(s) where digital use rights were already in place - rather, it aimed to complement them, by identifying the primary online uses and rights increasingly required by cultural organisations and developing some common language around them. This language may then be referred to and/or negotiated (for example, by UK Theatre) where not already covered under existing agreements.
The majority of the rights representatives and Talent Unions have now endorsed the draft terminology, covering digital uses such as “Live Streaming”, “On Demand Access”, “Distribution / Delivery”, “Interactive”, “Territory” and “Promotional Extracts”. Having achieved this The Space plans to work with the rights organisations to promote this terminology and guidance more widely. For example, UK Theatre are planning to adopt the agreed terminology in their next round of framework negotiations with the theatre Talent Unions.
As part of this work The Space will be creating an online toolkit for arts and cultural organisations. This will contain the guidance and lexicon cited above, as well as questions to ask yourself when embarking on digital distribution and self-publishing, tips for creating a contract, and templates for use. This will be available in September and will be published on The Space website in the resources section.
5.1 Research and development
The UK is a global leader in research and innovation. It is home to 4 of the top 10 universities in the world, and rated a strong innovator in the 2019 European Innovation Scoreboard. The cultural and creative sectors greatly contribute to the UK’s excellence in innovation and the fast rate of their growth is largely driven by a combination of creative risk taking and emphasis on R&D. This is increasingly being recognised by both the private and public sector, for example UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) 2019 innovation Roadmap programme, which aims to increase understanding of the UK’s current research capability and guide future planning, states that “the arts and humanities are instrumental in helping to shape skills, ideas and products at the interface between creativity and technology upon which that future turns.”
The last year saw the launch of the Audience of the Future programme, a £33 million investment, in innovative new practises and content in the field of immersive reality. The winners of the demonstrator programme were announced in February 2019 and we were delighted to see that 2 awards were made to collaborative efforts led by or heavily featuring cultural practitioners, a testament to the sector’s ability to push the boundaries and provoke new ways of thinking about and experiencing technology:
Dinosaurs and Robots
A consortium led by creative content studio Factory 42 including the Almeida Theatre, Natural History Museum, Science Museum Group and the University of Exeter. Set to launch in 2020 across both the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum, visitors will encounter a mixed-reality experience featuring iconic objects from the museums’ collections, bringing robotics, artificial intelligence and dinosaurs to life.
Immersive performance experiences
Led by the Royal Shakespeare company, 15 specialist organisations and pioneers in immersive technology including leading British arts companies, global technology giant Magic Leap and top British universities will use their expertise to shape how audiences will experience live performance in the future. For 2 years the group will work together to explore what it means to perform live using emerging technologies with the intention of delivering an immersive live performance on multiple platforms in 2020.
- The National Gallery and the Royal Opera House will open up new opportunities for the culture sector to experiment with new technology and cultural content:
- The National Gallery, working with data partners like Nesta, will create an Innovation Lab so that cultural organisations, and in particular museums, are able to make best use of advanced digital technologies in enhancing visitor experience and creating content, and can develop best practice in collaborating with the technology and academic sectors
- The Royal Opera House will create an Audience Lab to work with diverse talent, developing new skill sets to create innovative content using emerging technologies. The Audience Lab will strive to develop cross-sector collaborations to open up new experiences for audiences
- The Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council will share selected Research & Development prototypes and technical assets and will offer related capacity building and innovation support to cultural partners of all sizes across the UK
5.2 Innovation Lab
Over the past year both the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House have been working with partners to develop innovative new lab programmes in line with their commitments under the Culture is Digital (CiD) report. In creating their labs, both the Royal Opera House and National Gallery have sought diverging approaches - both a physical location and a distributed programme of activities - but both have sought to create opportunities for cultural organisations to experience the latest in digital technologies and techniques and learn from leaders in this space.
In the last year the Gallery has undertaken its first innovation projects and is preparing for the launch of its Innovation space, National Gallery X, in summer 2019. To begin building their Innovation capability, the Gallery partnered with StoryFutures, a Creative Clusters funded project led by Royal Holloway University and The National Film and Television School. As the first demonstrator in their new programme they ran an open innovation workshop with a variety of immersive media companies looking at how they could create an audience experience that puts one of our great masterpieces by Veronese back in its historical context. The results of this work will be tested at the Gallery in the coming months.
This collaborative activity has laid the groundwork for the opening of the Gallery’s innovation space, National Gallery X. This space, opening within the National Gallery’s London Piccadilly estate, will house a range of activity, leading with a collaborative R&D project with King’s College London. Their connected studio will take technologies in development in King’s Labs, from robotics to informatics to neurobiology, and ask what they might mean for art in 10 years time.
Working with artists, scientists, curators and community audiences, the National Gallery will create prototypes that both demonstrate the capacity of new technology and question its potential. This will feed back into live research at King’s and create a range of new experiences for Gallery audiences. Crucially, the Gallery will bring other cultural institutions into the creative process to make it a genuine national scale initiative. They will also focus on building the technical, strategic and procurement frameworks that can help them and other organisations to build immersive studios across the country.
5.3 Audience Labs
‘The Audience Labs’ was founded at the Royal Opera House in 2018. Its aim is to answer questions about the future of the performing arts and to make innovative experiences on new stages everywhere, including digital, physical and the emerging world in-between. The Audience Labs has been working with partners from across the creative and tech industries - both new partners from the technology industry and long-standing collaborators such as Arup - to uncover innovative ways to reach audiences beyond the Covent Garden theatres. In its initial stages, it has run several Creative Labs for artists and a series of round tables around the future of art and technology.
Over the next year the Royal Opera House will launch a series of exciting new programmes as part of the Audience Labs, including:
- an Augmented Reality ballet project exploring ballet and choreography away from the stage as well as a Mixed Reality project looking at choreography, the body and identity in digital spaces. Both projects will bring together leading choreographers with global technology companies
- a project aiming to create the first original opera in HyperReality - an advanced, wireless form of VR popularised by experiences like The Void’s Star Wars experience. This opera will be created by an all-female creative team as part of an award under the Audience of the Future programme.
- the introduction of the first Immersive Opera Development Award in collaboration with GUAP magazine aimed at highlighting and encouraging the use of technology in the sector as well as celebrating diverse talent
The Royal Opera House are making diverse talent development a central part of the Audience Labs. They will give a platform to a wide array of voices from inside and outside the cultural and creative industries. As the programme develops, they have committed to transparency and to share lessons learnt and knowledge developed with the wider sector.
5.4 Immersive Fellowships
Working with technology innovator, Magic Leap, the Royal Shakespeare Company have launched a Fellowships programme to explore the future of theatre innovation. Six students will discover the future of theatre using spatial computing technology. The Fellowships will give the candidates access to Magic Leap’s technology, skills and expertise, as well as the depth and breadth of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatrical knowledge and experience. Each Fellow will benefit from a year’s long programme, including a week residency at Magic Leap exploring their technology, skills and expertise, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company working alongside their creative teams. The Fellowships will focus on 3 main areas of skill and expertise:
- creative (actor, performer, designer, producer)
- narrator (writer, dramaturg)
- technical producer (photogrammetry, motion-capture and volumetric-capture), spatial computing programmer or coder
The results of this R&D exercise will shape the next stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Magic Leap partnership, including the development of major projects such as creating large-scale theatre performances using spatial computing. The journey will be followed through a series of blogs led by innovation foundation, Nesta, allowing the knowledge gained to be shared throughout the cultural and creative industries.
As highlighted in the CiD report, smaller creative organisations often lack the capacity for strategic, cross-sectoral R&D which, if properly recognised and supported, could propel growth within the sector. As evidenced by resources like the Creative Industries Sector Deal this is a barrier to sectors like the wider creative industries and digital as well.
Central to the R&D programmes featured above has been to build in collaborative programmes that enable creative organisations to absorb the outputs and lessons from cultural R&D programmes conducted at scale. However there remains a residual question about how best to distribute learnings from such programmes beyond the organisations that directly participate and ensure greater knowledge distribution into the wider sector? As demonstrated above, cultural organisations like the Royal Shakespeare Company are working with experts such as NESTA to build knowledge sharing into their R&D programmes, but more can be done to coordinate such efforts and ensure this information is findable by smaller organisations. To support this, DCMS will convene leaders from across the cultural, creative industries and digital sectors to discuss a common approach to sharing R&D outputs and knowledge.
Case study: sharing R&D
The goal is as simple as it is ambitious: the BBC is committed to being more open than ever before, acting as a major partner to the UK’s creative industries. In the past 12 months BBC Arts in particular has used its reach and platforms to showcase the UK’s incredible talent and helped open up cultural institutions and organisations to audiences in new ways. It has trialled innovative partnerships with both the museum and dance sectors, firstly with Civilisations then with #DancePassion, to explore how collaborative working can find new ways of storytelling.
Civilisations was a landmark programme on BBC Two described by the FT as ‘an educative extravaganza of Reithian scope and aspiration’. The 9 part series was accompanied by a sector-wide festival in partnership with hundreds of UK museums, libraries, galleries and archives to shine a light on their collections and inspire debate around them. There were more than 260 public events at partner venues, featured on Culture 24’s Museum Crush listings site, and each inspired by the themes of Civilisations.
Using technology to broaden the appeal of content, BBC Arts in partnership with BBC R&D opened a treasure chest of digital storytelling tools to be used and explored by the sector to help bring new audiences to their collections. Civilisations Festival Partners were offered access to digital technology with 95 organisations attending workshops to learn more about what was on offer, practical training in how to use them and crucially make the final results available not just on BBC platforms but also hosting them on their own sites and social channels.
The BBC launched its first augmented reality app for the festival, Civilisations AR. Developed by BBC Research & Development, BBC Arts and Nexus Studios, the app features more than 30 fascinating artefacts from museums across the UK that have been digitally scanned and made available to view in 3D as part of a new virtual exhibition. For the majority of institutions it was also a steep learning curve, supported by the BBC, to discover how to digitally capture items for augmented reality.At the heart of the Civilisations AR experience is a core ‘magic spotlight’ feature, which allows users to uncover annotations, audio and imagery that enrich the story of each exhibit. An X-ray function lets users see through or inside an object, while a restoration feature can be used to rub through the layers of history. Users can browse the exhibition geographically, using an AR globe, or via the themes of the series.The AR App, released on both iOS and Android, has had more than 725,000 downloads to date, with high appreciation scores from audiences.
The learnings from the Civilisations Festival in March 2018 were applied to the dance sector for #DancePassion, an on air and online celebration of the UK’s flourishing dance scene in partnership with One Dance UK and almost 50 dance companies and independent artists. Audiences were able to watch 11 hours of continuous live streaming, from hip hop to ballet, from 6 cities in each of the 4 nations. Trialling new software which by-passes the need for expensive outside broadcast equipment it significantly reduced the cost of bringing performances from companies big and small to a wider audience.
The UK’s world-renowned museums, libraries, archives, galleries and heritage organisations are a major asset for the UK, playing a central role in the country’s multi-billion heritage tourist economy, and contributing significantly to our global influence and reputation. About half of all visitors to the UK cite culture as their reason for visiting. There are over 236 million heritage related visits annually, bringing over £16.9 billion to the economy.
Digitisation offers the cultural sector the opportunity to dramatically increase access to their collections. As well as ensuring widest possible engagement with cultural objects, this enhanced access can lead to the discovery of otherwise hidden or inaccessible materials, new research and insights, and also to the reshaping of ‘thematic collections’. It can also lead to greater audience participation in culture, such as the creation of new content, as in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park ‘Sculpture Cam’ project.
Case study: Crowdsourcing
When BFI’s Britain on Film presented the UK with online access to an astonishing 10,000 heritage films, - geo-tagged to let the public find films local to them from 1895 to the 21st century - it became a hit. This large, but curated, selection of films, mostly unknown to audiences, represents all corners of the nation. Since its launch in 2015, Britain on Film has amassed 66 million video views with 78% reach outside London/South East England, making it a truly national audience.
As the views of Britain on Film racked up into the millions, feedback from our audience showed that they had found something directly meaningful and inherently rewarding to them in our online films – nostalgia for place and purpose. Increasingly we found an altruistic public appetite to share.
The difficulty was that the public quickly converted from ‘viewers’ into ‘local experts’ who wanted to correct, amplify and react to their local films. The immediacy of their response meant that conventional communication channels would not be sufficient to constructively collate their input. It became clear that direct contribution by the public themselves would be the most efficient and most engaging way for this ‘local expertise’ to find its way onto the Britain in Film collection. We needed to give audiences the freedom to be interactive citizens or ‘location experts’ while ensuring their new input was stored within the BFI’s Collection Information Database.
Britain on Film presents the public with an online interactive map of the UK in which each film is geo-tagged to let visitors navigate and search by geo-location. The viewer searches a location on the map which brings up any of the BFI’s collection of 10,000 digitised films, relating to that location. Britain on Film was built on the premise that any person looking at film is going to be curious about what films exist for their special places. This premise turned out to be good foresight about the public’s interests.
With the response from the public so strong, and so delightful, helpful and enlightening, we had to launch an evaluation scheme, to define how best to respond to the public’s urge to tell us more. We created a research pilot and with our Regional and National Film Archive partners evaluated audience engagement for such a new data-gathering initiative. The result was BFI Contribute. A new BFI crowdsourcing platform, associated with Britain on Film, launched in December 2018.
The BFI Contribute platform invites everyone to come and watch, pause and put their own location pins at scene level within a film’s timeline, be it to note their local high street, their great, great relative or favourite places. They can see their pinned location as it is today via Google Street View and leave their comments and stories. It is exactly the type of engagement that the original project hoped for, but on a greater scale than expected. Interest in our mapping mission has been steady and growing. BFI is using digital technology to attract a diverse audience, and digital technology to enable its audience to function as expert witnesses to their own heritage and share it with the rest of their nation.
- The National Archives will work with culture sector representatives to develop a new strategic approach to the digitisation and presentation of cultural objects, for example, looking at the common standards needed to make our nation’s great cultural assets more interoperable, discoverable and sustainable
The CiD report brought together policy recommendations from the Culture White Paper, the Strategic review of DCMS-sponsored museums and The Mendoza Review. It called on the sector to create a taskforce to tackle questions around digitisation.
Led by the National Archives, The Digitisation Taskforce was formed with representation from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, BFI, BBC, British Library, Collections Trust, Corsham Institute, Culture24, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Jisc, Natural History Museum, Oxford University, Tate, Wellcome. The objective of the group was to take a strategic view of digitisation: to identify challenges and opportunities, and to suggest ways to address both. Using facilitated discussion, presentations and workshops, the group surfaced and explored the main issues, as well as undertaking a national survey of cultural heritage institutions.
Collections Digitisation Survey
In October 2018, a qualitative questionnaire was issued to the members of the Taskforce, receiving detailed responses. This was used as the basis for a wider survey in January 2019, which received 86 responses from at least 66 institutions around the UK, including museums, archives and libraries.
What is cultural heritage digitisation? Almost all survey respondents saw digitisation in terms of digitised representations of collection items (such as 2D or 3D images); around half also included catalogue data and metadata about digital assets; and around 20% also included categories such as ‘born digital’ assets or wider workflows including conservation, preparation and digital preservation.
Why digitise? All institution types prioritised access as an important reason for digitising collections, followed by preservation. Reducing the use of originals was important to archives and libraries, though in Museums digitisation was recognised as sometimes increasing demand for objects. Interpretation, academic research and education were also important, with user request and commercial opportunities or partnerships as lower-scored reasons.
How could digitisation get faster and better? Respondents would most value support with funding and costings, and with best practice standards. Funding and guidance, as well as development of technical skills and digital storage, also topped the factors that would enable organisations to digitise more.
The survey also covered more technical areas around preferred formats for digitised material; means of digital publishing (with institutions in most or somewhat deprived areas less likely to publish digitised material); and current digitisation progress and plans. 65% of respondents do not publish open linked data, owing to resource and knowledge constraints – this limits the potential for digitised collections to be ‘more than the sum of their parts’.
Survey respondents felt that they would most value support with making funding applications, and the implementation of best practice. To address this the Taskforce, supported by funding from The National Archives, commissioned Culture24 and Collections Trust to create a series of 10 new online resources that together provide a central online hub with an overview of the issues you need to consider before you begin digitising your collection. The hub is part of Culture24’s Digital Pathways site, a new online resource bank funded by Arts Council England. It is freely available to all organisations including museums, libraries and archives and provides people with the tools and knowledge they need to build their digital skills and reach audiences.
Due to the benefits and value the taskforce found in collaboration, it has decided to continue as a network for issues around digitisation. They can be contacted through the online hub. As a network it will continue to share information on initiatives and best practice as well as to take forward work on other important themes identified through its questionnaire and survey, such as:
- content: to explore approaches to a strategic approach to content, which could acknowledge and address gaps in digitised content and collections
- funding and economic models: to look into partnerships and to create further tools and advice around funding models and applications
- skills and knowledge: to look into different models and disseminate resources for skills and knowledge sharing
- sustainability and preservation: to discuss ways to future-proof content and access to it
Case study: Digital transformation for public libraries
The British Library, commissioned by the Carnegie UK Trust and Arts Council England have been exploring what a new online platform (or ‘single digital presence’) for public libraries in the UK could look like, what it could be used for and how such an offer might fit in with existing digital library systems.
To do this the British Library looked at comparable models and best practice internationally, consulted with public library service providers, public library staff and carried out top level engagement with users to understand how their views on current services.
The report, published in June 2019 identifies and assesses 5 options for a new digital platform for libraries. These options are based on a number of considerations including: desirability, complexity and the ease of implementation. The scope of the research included functional systems and transactional services as well as current and future ways in which new and existing users can be engaged at local and national level.
The project will continue with a deeper look into user need and value with a team from the Home Office Digital Intern team, further research into best case models and examples of comparable digital innovation in other sectors as well as continuing meaningful engagement with major stakeholders to start discussions regarding the project’s future governance, design and delivery.
5.6 Collections and new technology
Increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring major social and economic benefits to the UK. It has been estimated that AI could add an additional USD $814 billion (£630 billion) to the UK economy by 2035, increasing the annual growth rate of GVA from 2.5 to 3.9%. AI can offer massive gains in efficiency and performance to most or all industry sectors, including the cultural and creative industries.
The Industrial Strategy placed AI and Data as one of four Grand Challenges with the ambition to “put the UK at the forefront of the AI and data revolution”. As part of this ambition, the Autumn Budget has announced that “the Office for AI and Government Digital Service (GDS) will review how government can use AI, automation and data in new ways to drive public sector productivity and wider economic benefits”. The Office for Artificial Intelligence and GDS have worked closely with Faculty and the Alan Turing Institute to publish a practical guide to understand, develop, and implement AI solutions in a safe and ethical way. The newly created Guide to Using Artificial Intelligence in the UK Government aims to help leaders across the public sector to better understand what AI is and how it can be used to solve problems within their departments. Using this tool, we will work closely with ALBs in the cultural space to explore what AI means for them and the sectors they work with.
The cultural sector has clearly started to look at implications and applications of AI and Machine Learning to extrapolate and enhance cultural data. This year we have seen the Natural History Museum exploring the uses of AI, including trials of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and image analysis on collections and content. The Alan Turing Institute and the British Library, together with researchers from a range of universities, have been awarded £9.2 million from the UKRI’s Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) for the ‘Living with Machines’ project. Led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), this will see data scientists working with curators, historians, geographers and computational linguists with the goal to devise new methods in data science and AI that can be applied to historical resources.
Alongside their role in engaging the public in the UK’s culture and heritage, the collections held by our museums, libraries and archives are a vital research infrastructure. The UKRI Roadmap Progress Report notes the importance of collections to the HEI and research community, as well as the public, and states that the “increasingly multimodal collections held in these institutions present a priceless and irreplaceable asset for future research.” However the siloed nature of cultural and heritage collections online means opportunities are lost for cross-disciplinary lines of research, and, as referenced in the CiD report, for curated content to be made available across institutions.
To better understand the applications and limitations of emerging technologies and complement the work of the National Archives taskforce, DCMS commissioned a feasibility study into a recommended “framework” for mapping and connecting digitised cultural collections within England, looking in particular at emerging technologies like AI, with the view of making them searchable across organisations and disciplines. Collections Trust, a member of the digitisation taskforce, was awarded this commission and took forward the research. The conclusions drawn were that a framework for linking collections is possible in the form of an aggregator, which could facilitate better data access and support the development of machine learning applications. This research will be published and made available on GOV.UK.
Better coordination and investment in new technologies like machine learning to bridge the gap between collections could create new opportunities for research across – not just within – collections as well as improving discoverability for audiences. The AHRC are planning to press ahead with plans for a major new research programme that uses the catalytic potential of new technology to dissolve barriers between different collections. In the future we will consider how to increase our collaboration with UKRI on initiatives such as this to support enhanced inter-disciplinary work across collections, both as a research infrastructure, and as an important resource for public engagement with the UK’s rich culture and heritage.
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Geneva, Jun 2 (EFE).- The Covid-19 pandemic will still destroy the equivalent of 100 million full-time jobs in 2021, the International Labor Organization warned in a report published on Wednesday.
Employment growth will not be able to make up for the lost jobs until at least 2023, the report added, pointing out that the so-called ‘jobs gap’ induced by the coronavirus crisis will reach 75 million this year, falling to 23 million a year later.
In its latest findings on how the pandemic will impact the labor market, the ILO lowered its initial forecasts from earlier this year due to the slow pace of vaccination in many countries, which is likely to delay economic recovery, as well as the spread of more dangerous variants.
“Recovery from Covid-19 is not just a health issue. The serious damage to economies and societies needs to be overcome too,” ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, said.
Including employees who have been forced to take on reduced working hours, the total related jobs gap is equivalent to 100 million full-time jobs in 2021 and 26 million full-time jobs in 2022.
“This shortfall in employment and working hours comes on top of persistently high pre-crisis levels of unemployment, labour underutilization and poor working conditions,” the ILO report found.
Ryder warned: “without a deliberate effort to accelerate the creation of decent jobs, and support the most vulnerable members of society and the recovery of the hardest-hit economic sectors, the lingering effects of the pandemic could be with us for years in the form of lost human and economic potential and higher poverty and inequality.”
In order to spur the job market’s recovery, the ILO recommends governments to invest in sectors that can be a source of decent, well-paying jobs, warning that many of the new jobs created in the expected recovery will be of poorer quality, which will be particularly damaging to the nearly 2 billion workers living in the informal economy.
“We need a comprehensive and coordinated strategy, based on human-centred policies, and backed by action and funding. There can be no real recovery without a recovery of decent jobs,” he said. EFE | <urn:uuid:65674e19-f489-4ea6-b741-a7767b9173ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laprensalatina.com/pandemic-to-wipe-out-100-million-jobs-in-2021-ilo-warns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947727 | 475 | 1.796875 | 2 |
We don’t need ‘social housing’. We need housing
There is indeed much to be criticised in the bill, especially the extension of Right to Buy to social housing associations, whose housing stock is not the government’s to give away. And yet overall, the quibbling over the Housing and Planning Bill is missing the point.
The bill’s main impact will be to transfer parts of the housing stock from one subsector of the housing market to another, with no impact on overall supply. Yet the basic problem with UK housing is one of insufficient overall supply, especially in places with good jobs prospects. There is no specific lack of council housing, or non-council social housing, or private rental accommodation, or homes for first-time buyers. Rather, there is an overall lack of inexpensive housing across all tenures, and the current dispute is an unnecessary distraction from that.
In Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands – all densely populated countries – the supply of housing (measured as total residential floor space) per household is between one fifth and one third above British levels. In France and Austria, housing supply is around 40% higher than in Britain. So of course housing is more affordable in these countries – they have a lot more of it. With this in mind, fighting over whether or not some fraction of our woefully inadequate, meagre housing stock should be transferred from one sector to another is a waste of time.
The claim that there is no specific lack of social housing in the UK may come as a surprise to some readers, given that we are constantly told that social housing is being “decimated”. Yet social housing (councils and housing associations) still accounts for one fifth of the UK’s housing stock. This is the third highest share in Europe, and a higher share than in the Nordic countries, which social housing enthusiasts often praise as role models.
Even the fact that there are nearly two million people on waiting lists does not indicate a specific lack of social housing. It indicates that too many people are being priced out of homeownership and private rental, thus turning to social housing not because they particularly want to, but because they have nowhere else to go. The solution, then, is not to preserve social housing, but to give people viable alternatives.
Those alternatives would probably be better anyway, because social housing is not especially “social” in its effects. It often leads to ghettoisation, creating clusters of disadvantage. Social housing tenants are less likely to be employed, and their children are more likely to drop out of school, than people with otherwise similar socioeconomic characteristics in different tenures.
There is a popular myth doing the rounds, according to which council housing holds the key to solving the affordability crisis. Proponents of this view argue that local governments are held back in their ability to build council housing by borrowing caps imposed upon them. If only that cap were lifted, the argument goes, councils would embark on ambitious housing projects again, just as they did in the 1960s and 1970s.
But this argument is unconvincing, because the vast majority of councils are not even making use of the borrowing powers they already have. Some 17 out of 20 councils could easily borrow another £1m ($1.4m), and would still be within their borrowing limits. The truth is that councils do not build houses, because they do not want to build houses.
There is a reason for that. Just like the national government, local governments in the UK are in thrall to well-organised anti-development groups. Our housing policies revolve around the sensitivities of groups like the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), whose members feel offended by the sight of houses other than their own. They are already well-housed, and now use their political muscle to deny the same housing opportunities to other people.
This means that regardless of whether you believe that the solution lies in more social housing, more private rental, more owner-occupation, or whether you are tenure-neutral, the main policy implication is the same: we must break the stranglehold of anti-housing groups, and make it much easier to build new homes. This must include cutting back greenbelt protection, easing height restrictions, and localising tax revenue so that local communities can capture the benefits of development.
Once we have resolved those issues, arguing over what the optimal housing mix should be would make a lot more sense. But by then, this would have become a luxury problem.
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Don’t let the title scare you, there’s no need to purchase expensive equipment. You can create your own display profile using calibration hardware that can be easily rented. Whether it’s for the internet or for printing, calibration hardware can help you get more accurate colors in your photos in the future.
The first article in this series covered the terminology related to calibration and answered questions about how everything works. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s a good idea to read through it so you know the differences between calibration and profiling, and the differences between the two main types of calibration hardware.
If you already have calibration hardware, or you are debating whether to rent or purchase it, read on to see how it’s used.
Calibration and profiling
Even though you can use universal software like ArgyllCMS with the user interface DisplayCAL, it’s not the best option for beginners due to the large number of options and controls. A much more straightforward option is to use software from calibration hardware manufacturers. There are several of these which vary depending on your operating system, so I won’t describe each software’s process step-by-step. Nevertheless, the software is made to be user-friendly, so the process is very similar:
- Let your monitor warm up to operating temperature, about 30 minutes. For the optimal calibration, you should not have the monitor in direct sunlight. Ideally, there should be stable, controlled ambient lighting. However, this is probably only possible for those in a studio or basement.
- Connect the hardware to the USB port and run the software.
- The software will direct you to select the monitor type and the target you want to achieve. The safest target setting is gamma 2.2 and a color temperature of 6500K. However, since your eyes quickly adjust to different color temperatures, it’s a good idea to choose “Native.” That is, a color temperature that is native to the monitor instead of a specific color temperature. Standard monitor luminance is 120 cd/m2, but it highly depends on ambient light. In some cases, it may be better to aim for higher values, but you may see an unexpectedly dark output when printing.
- After starting the actual measurement process, you will be prompted to fasten the device to a designated location on your screen.
- The first stage is manual calibration. Here the device will help you adjust the monitor’s controls to get the image as close as possible to it. This step is about as easy as playing a simple computer game. As you press buttons, the device periodically measures the area on the screen and tells you if it’s too blue or not enough blue and you adjust accordingly.
- Once you’re happy, confirm the current settings and you will go to the next stage automatically.
- While the colors below the device are changing, you have about 5-10 free minutes while the program automatically measures and calculates.
- Once complete, a color calibration file or ICC (International Color Consortium) profile is created. This file can make minor corrections to the monitor using a LUT and also tells the applications which colors to expect from the monitor.
From this moment on, you should not make any changes to the display settings in order for the ICC profile to match reality. Also, don’t touch the color settings in the graphics card drivers and so on.
- The device manufacturer’s software should automatically assign the display profile to the monitor. The same can be manually done in Windows when you open the old control panel and choose color calibration (it does not have an equivalent in newer control panels).
Be careful, the profile is not used automatically
Unfortunately, for reasons that go far back, Windows doesn’t modify program colors to match the display profile. It’s up to each application to request a display profile from the system, use it to modify the colors, and then display the modified colors. It’s best to have the monitor and computer using the profile.
There are a large number of programs that do not perform these steps at all and display the wrong picture. Nevertheless, calibration will still take effect because the monitor settings apply, but that’s only half the solution. Fortunately, more advanced photo editing software, including Zoner Photo Studio, doesn’t have this issue and uses the display profile automatically. You just usually need to restart after profiling. For other applications, you need to make sure they support ICC profiles (they aren’t common at all in video players). Also, make sure that ICC profiles aren’t disabled (for example the picture viewer XnView allows it to be enabled, but for faster speed, it is disabled by default).
It is possible to encounter even stranger issues such as when switching to or from full screen mode while playing certain computer games. The system clears the monitor‘s LUT table, completely changing the colors. This hopefully doesn’t happen much anymore, but if it does, there is a useful program called Color Profile Keeper that keeps the correct LUT in these situations.
Calibrating your printer
Advanced users might consider calibrating their printers, but that’s an entirely different topic that would require a separate article. A simple colorimeter is no longer sufficient for this purpose. Instead, a spectrophotometer must be used. The tricky part is that the calibration is tailored not only to the printer itself (and its system drivers), but also to the specific brand and type of paper. This means more work and a new calibration tool appearing each time you decide to use a new medium.
Calibration and profiling are worth the trouble
In recent years, higher quality monitors are much better than they used to be. But, they are still not perfect, and with most monitors, you have no guarantee. For peace of mind, it’s better to calibrate and profile so you have greater control over the photo editing results.
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5 Most Commonly Asked Questions Related To Bitcoin Answered
Bitcoin has become a digital entity with so much hold on the worldwide web that there aren’t many people today who can claim they are not aware of it.
At the same time, however, how to buy and sell Bitcoin is a question that remains uncertain for people who are unaware of crucial information regarding it. Because of its decentralized nature and concerns regarding the security of usage anywhere around the world, we have gathered a list for your understanding you can rely on any time you get an alert for the cryptocurrency.
1. Who is the creator of Bitcoin?
The official recognized creator of Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto, who started working on an open source code for digital currency in 2009 and concluded his work the year after. However, he himself was a borrower of an idea proposed by Wan Dei back in 1998, and although the Bitcoin is a lot more refined than that initial concept the ideology needs to be credited.
The open source code means that any developer can use the Bitcoin software to establish an ICO of his/her own.
2. Is Bitcoin legal or not?
The simple answer to this question is that the legality varies from region to region. Most countries following a command system of governance hesitate from allowing free flow of the currency in their country. However, even in the USA, it is difficult to decrypt how to sell Bitcoin legally because there is no definite statement from the government.
Bitcoin exchanges can be regulated in terms of how much of the currency they release into the country, but anything beyond that is not feasible at this point in time.
3. Can Bitcoin be hacked?
The present smooth functioning of Bitcoin is not an indication of a flawless program; it indicates the pace of security with which attempts at it being hacked and broken into are mitigated and resolved in this age. This means that with the increase in time if the Bitcoin has fewer stakeholders to protect its digital integrity, it is certainly possible to hack it.
However, with the amount of money invested in the currency, it seems unlikely that its security will be taken for granted.
4. Is it easy to make money using Bitcoin?
How to sell Bitcoin for money is quite a difficult concept for many people to grasp, and for those people, it is important to know that there is no guaranteed success rate. It is still a technology which is being developed into a flawless one, and despite its unreal attractive growth rate, you will find an equally detailed database having people who got disappointed by the currency. However, you can find many automated software and apps for bitcoin trading alerts and also many platforms to buy and sell bitcoins to make money. | <urn:uuid:79eca892-4647-48b8-8b01-3b935caa02b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://guestwritershub.com/2018/06/15/5-most-commonly-asked-questions-related-to-bitcoin-answered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972743 | 542 | 1.976563 | 2 |
With the arrival of tax season, comes along the creative ways that scammers use to try and steal your identity. These kinds of scams can be done at any time of the year, but happen more frequently during tax season.
Phishing, the fraudulent attempt to obtain someone’s sensitive information or data, is usually the tool of choice that most scammers use to trick victims into giving away their personal information. Below we will explain how some of these scams work and tips you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them.
Someone will call you, claiming to work for the IRS, usually stating a fake name and identification badge number. They will sometimes already know a few personal things about you – such as your name and address, and even mask their caller ID so it looks like the IRS is really calling you.
Email Phishing Scams
The IRS recently issued an urgent notice surrounding a new email scam, with the subject line: “Verifying your EFIN before e-filing,” that attempts to steal the targets Electronic Filing Identification Numbers, or EFINs. The email includes a link to a bogus website that mirrors the IRS website, requesting for taxpayers to send documents that disclose their identities and EFINs directly to the scammers. Remember, the IRS will never contact you via email, text message or social media.
Identity Theft Scams
Tax-related identity theft happens when the victim’s social security number is used to file a tax return and claim a fraudulent refund. Identity theft can have major impacts on your life if you become a victim.
We talk more about this and give tips on keeping your identity safe in our Identity Theft & Fraud Protection article.
Here are some tips for avoiding ID theft scams during tax season from the Better Business Bureau:
- File your taxes as early as you can to prevent the chance of a scammer using your personal information.
- Protect your Social Security number and avoid giving it out unless you know who you are giving it to.
- Be sure to research your tax preparer and feel confident that they are trustworthy with your information before filing.
- Consider getting an Identity Protection PIN, or IP PIN from the IRS.
You can find more information about these tips on BBB’s website.
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Story Contest 2017 #1 - Outstanding Stories » Rose With No Thorns
“Rose With No Thorns” is one of the outstanding stories of the first biannual International Short Story Contest 2017 written by Nilaya Nishad Mairal, Dubai.
Rose With No Thorns
Calla looked admiringly at the rose bushes, as she slipped and hurt her finger on its thorn, only to find out that what looked pretty didn’t feel the same way. She thought for a while then made up her mind, and she began her journey to find a rose with no thorns. Running across the meadows as the sunlight filled the sky she looked high and low in search of something that looked and felt pretty. Calla loved the feeling of the wind that blew her hair across her face, her lungs filling up with the cool air as her heart beat like a wild horse. She was cherishing this feeling, when whoosh! Her foot slipped and she fell on the ground.
She had somehow made her way into an odd parallel universe and no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t break the see-through wall that stopped her from reaching out to her world. The wall seemed to be resistant and ignorant to all her attempts. The sky was now upside down. Calla stared at the wall above with an abhorring gaze as she felt something. That something was the ground beneath her that had slowly started lowering and now with a faster pace, sinking into the ground and even further below. Startled by this sudden movement, she tried one frail attempt to hit the wall, as the ground slipped further she went down along with it.
The ground finally ceased its movement and came to a halt. Calla opened her eyes slowly to witness a completely different world. The sky was orange and the sun shone bright blue. The stems a bright red and the petals all green swam upon the faint blue grass. Puzzled by these peculiar characteristics, Calla delved deeper into this mystic world.
She heard a soft whisper and looked around trying to find where it came from but it seemed like the sound was in the air. Slowly a leaf quivered with life and Calla’s heart jumped into her mouth as she turned around to find the bright pink leaf smiling at her.
She stammered and said, “Wh…who…are you?”
The leaf replied politely, “I am a leaf. Garry, The Garimold leaf.”
She asked in bewilderment, “Well, do you mean to say you’re a Marigold leaf?”
The leaf replied, frustrated, “No, its Garimold for goodness sake.”
Calla nodded absent- mindedly and thought to herself about this odd place, the blue grass, yellow sky and green petals. It all seemed like an opposite world. The Garimold leaf screeched in its shrill voice,
“Hello! Won’t you introduce yourself?”
Calla finally heard the leaf and said, “Oh sorry, I’m Calla. Calla from a place which doesn’t look much like yours.”
Gary stared at Calla for a while then questioned her in a rather interrogative manner, “And might I ask what brings you to a place where you don’t belong?”
Calla looked worried and said, “Oh! I do not mean to offend anyone, but I slipped and fell into this place then the ground started lowering and now I want to get back home, to Earth. Can you tell me how?”
Gary stared at her in astonishment, “You are the first ever Earthling to have broken into Gourn”
Calla asked again,“Please tell me how to get back home”
“Oh don’t you worry. All you have to do is find a plump mushroom and jump hard enough on it to break the sky barrier so that you can reach your Earth.” replied Gary, making it all seem like a piece of cake.
“Isn’t there any other way, probably one that won’t end up with me jumping on a poor mushroom that might talk, just like you!”
Garry replied cheerfully, “As a matter of fact there is, but it’s quite tedious, the task is to find a rose with thorns.”
“A rose with thorns, how’s that supposed to be tedious? We’ve got them all over Earth” Said Calla.
“Yes, but not on Gourn, here we’ve only got roses with no thorns. I will not be able to assist you but I could give you the directions. You’ll first have to straighten your course right for the pink forest, and then move east towards the yellow river. There, if you’re lucky, by its banks you’ll find the rose with thorns” answered Garry.
“That sure is difficult, but I do need to get back home, thank you Gary!” Calla called out as she drifted into the supposedly pink forest and Garry wished her good luck.
It really was pink, (a rather bright shade). As she journeyed further into the forest she found the land getting wet and far in the front, a yellow river shone like honey, tinkling in the blue sunlight.
Overjoyed with this sight she ran straight towards the bank and there she saw a tiny little rose with a thorn that was barely visible, but the rose was being dragged into the river and she leaped and grasped the stem, the thorn pricked her palm and it began to bleed. As soon as the thorn pricked her hand she was sitting back on earth again, where the sky danced with the sun as the sunset spread out its mellow shades.
She was back on her Earth! And oh the joy she felt. The rose was still in her hand. As she watched the sun drown, she caressed the gentle rose in her palm; its frail stem and cool leaves. Calla realized, “Everything may not look pretty, but it’s up to us to make it feel beautiful.” | <urn:uuid:4e65607e-abaa-444c-a2f8-1ce729759d3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kidsworldfun.com/story-contest/2017-1/rose-with-no-thorns.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972994 | 1,319 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Although wombats are native to Australia, the are often referred to as pests by landholders and the farming community due to their burrows.
To help ease the conflict between man and wombat, WAO began assisting landholders to establish viable, non lethal management methods. The least invasive the better!
Wombats are easy to live with when they are allowed to live peacefully.
Wombats are culled and can be culled via a Destruction permit but things that we have found over the past 15 years show that culling is an ineffective form of management due to:
Wombats are very territorial and they self regulate their population. The removal or killing of the dominant male and/or female, increases the population as these dominant wombats within each family group controls who breeds, stops new wombats from joining plus pushes young wombats out that are born within the group.
Tampering with burrows creates more activity! Wombat burrows are designed to infiltrate water into the water table. They are highly beneficial to the land and are crafted in a very specific way. When burrows are tampered with, wombats will often go above and beyond their former structure to reinstate proper function. | <urn:uuid:d29a39c3-d133-4f47-a6e8-8b321f3ab7d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wombatawareness.com/how-we-can-all-coexist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972395 | 245 | 3.21875 | 3 |
As told by David Madrid
Art by Juliet Welsh
The cautious frog hopped into the cluster of canal reeds near a Hohokam village.
Why was he cautious? There were several reasons, but foremost in his mind was his effort to avoid becoming a meal.
Hunters sometimes scoured the man-made irrigation canals in search of the amphibians, whose meaty legs were tasty treats.
As the frog headed to the water, he heard a voice behind him say, “Hey frog. Can you give me a lift and help me cross the canal?”
It was a scorpion. That was the other reason the frog was wary. He made sure he kept his distance from the venomous arthropod.
“If I take you across, you’ll sting me and I’ll die,” the suspicious frog argued.
The scorpion was scary looking, but he was what is called a smooth talker.
“If I sting you, then we will both die because I can’t swim,” the honey-voiced scorpion reasoned.
It was solid logic with which the frog could not argue, but he still didn’t trust the eight-legged predator.
The scorpion pleaded with the frog in a most convincing way.
“You are trying to escape the hunters. So am I. The hunters fear me just as you fear me, and if they find me, they will kill me, just as they will kill you. If they catch us together, they will kill us both.”
Despite his better judgment, the frog decided to trust the scorpion. It was true that they were both in danger. Also, could someone with such a fine voice be untrustworthy?
“Promise me that you will not sting me,” the frog demanded.
“I promise,” said the scorpion, who had every intention of keeping that vow. “We must hurry.”
“Get on my back,” the compassionate frog said.
So the scorpion climbed onto the frog’s back, and the green amphibian entered the canal and began to swim toward the other side. What a tale he had for his frog friends.
Halfway across the canal, the scorpion stung the frog in the head. The stinger sunk all the way to the frog’s brain, rapidly paralyzing him.
“Why did you do that? Now we are both going to die,” the stunned frog managed to say before his voice froze.
As the dying frog sank under the water, he heard the scorpion say: “I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself. It’s my nature.”
Moral: Trust your instincts.
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upFront.eZine #1,131: Locating the Dystopia in Meta's Utopia
Opinion by Ralph Grabowski
Inside the Business of CAD | 30 May 2022
Nick Clegg’s 8,014-word manifesto “Making the metaverse: What it is, how it will be built, and why it matters” is confident that the metaverse will bend the arc of history towards a single future. It is, of course, what ought to be expected, when, from a plurality of outcomes, the final outcome — a metaverse of metaverses — is the sole destination under consideration.
That it took 8,014 words to say something that could have been said in 1,814 smacks, I think, of writing by committee. It seems to me that every committee member’s idea was to be included, and, as a result, similar ideas appear more than once in the manifesto — sometimes two and three times.
Here, in 1,814 words, is my response.
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The VR people are frustrated. VR [virtual reality] has been around almost as long as desktop computers. While fat desktop PCs have progressed to thin laptops, all-day tablets, awe-inducing smartphones, and the ultimate in miniaturized communication devices, smartwatches, VR has remained clunky. Here, for instance, is what a VR headset looked like in 1989, as illustrated by a portion of the cover of that year’s December CADalyst magazine (at left).
I admit the monster computer and thick bundle of cables feeding the low-count-polygon scenes to the late-80s headset have given way to wireless connections and hi-res graphics, but the chunky part that rests in front of the eyes still rests boot-like in front of our eyes (at right, above).
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I feel sorry for the manifesto’s author, Nick Clegg, the former head of England’s left-of-center Liberal Democratic party. As president of global affairs at Meta Platforms, it’s his job to justify the decision made by his boss, ceo and controlling shareholder Mark Zuckerberg, for Facebook to go all-in with XR (VR + AR = mixed reality) to the point of changing the corporate name to Meta.
Meta is Greek for “beyond/beside/with/after,” and in English it has come to refer to transcendence, such as metaphysics (beyond what physics can study) and metacharacter (outside literal programming code). I suppose someone at Facebook thought that if VR comes after R [reality], then “after” would be a good name for the company; even better, to Greek-ify it for greater gravitas.
Here is how all-in Zuckerberg put Facebook: there are nearly ten thousand employees in the division responsible for making the metaverse real, Reality Labs. Ten thousand is one-fifth of Facebook’s workforce, working on recreating the world in the image of Man.
As well as feeling sorry for Mr Clegg, I also feel bad for The Zuck. With Facebook faltering, what could he do for an encore, when 38 is too too young for someone to rest on laurels? He’d have gone looking for something that’s (1) next-gen, (2) as addictive as facebooking, and (3) able to generate far greater revenues than today.
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But, getting back to the feeling-sorry-for-Nick-Clegg part. He has to justify the metaverse to a skeptical world that already rejected 3D TV. How skeptical? Second Life was the forerunner in proving there is little life in a second world. Meta’s Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021, after losing $6 billion the year before. (By comparison, investors gave barely more, $12 billion last year, to the more important topic of automated cars.)
On that day in early February, 2022 when Facebook announced its name change and the pivot to VR, the FB share price fell by 26%. The price of a share is what investors feel is the future value of the company; investors were saying Facebook had little future in VR. The share price has continued to fall since then, down 49% from its all-time high as I write this.
As someone once said, “This dog don’t hunt.”
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In his manifesto, Mr Clegg patiently explains that just as we stepped from text-based Internet to pictures to streaming videos, the next step we take, naturally, ought to be into interactive environments; from 2D to 3D. (The step following this, I think transhumanists would argue, is Ray Kurzweil’s beloved The Singularity.)
What he didn’t note is that as we stepped from text to pictures to video, the form factor remained unchanged. The Netscape Web browser I used in 1994 is as familiar as the Opera one I use today; the UX [user experience] of the Palm Pilot I bought in 1996 is mimicked by my Android phone today.
The step he wants us to take — from streaming videos to interactive environments (VR) — is, in fact, blocked. He requires people to don bulky, expensive headsets, wrenching the familiar — Web browsers and smartphone interfaces — from our daily lives. It is, by far, a step too far.
He emphasizes the benefit of immediacy, where remote employees and clients are in the same virtual room. He misses the disappearance of immediacy when people physically in the same room wear headsets that deprive us of the subtleties with which we sense others in the room. As Epic ceo Tim Sweeney describes it, “It’s not very fun to sit around in 3D and just talk to people. It gets really awkward really fast.”
Mr Clegg mentions how Zoom made remote meetings normal, but didn’t take the next step in noting that people have come to despise Zoom. We CAD editors have written about how tired we are of remote conferences, and the pleasure we feel reacquainting ourselves with in-person events, even if they require ten-hour plane rides through nine time zones.
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The human experiment is continuously undone by our lust for power, and power is effective only when concentrated in the very few. To counter the worry that Meta wants to make its metaverse as much a walled garden as it attempted with Facebook and Instagram, Mr Clegg promises his company will cooperate with all competitors to create a metaverse of metaverses — the multiverse. The problem, of course, is that competitors will want their gardens walled, well and tight.
He admits not all functions would necessarily be exposed by APIs (my wording), and not all competitors will want to cooperate with Meta; as well, users can create ’verses exclusive to themselves. The meta of metas becomes an unfulfillable dream well before eight thousand words are up.
We see this in our industry, as CAD vendors desire to silo their customers. Some isolate them from the larger CAD community through pay-to-play subscription billing and software kill switches; some make putative threats against dealers and customer who gaze elsewhere; many lack a serious interest in unified file formats; and some even force their customers’ files into central design databases designed to be inaccessible by outsiders.
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The negatives Mr Clegg primarily sees in VR are the kinds a politician would see: Equitable metaverses for the (historically) disadvantaged! Subsidized headsets for the poor! $40 billion added to the African economy! Banning of undesirable behavior!
Mr Clegg does not consider the cultural barriers faced by a multiverse. Being from the western world, he probably favors some kind of secular liberal-democratic approach to ethics in VR Land. The manifesto does not take into account a Pentecostal Africa, a Catholic Latin America, an Islamic Middle East and Southeast Asia, a Hindu India, a Maori New Zealand. Their concepts of undesirable behaviors don’t necessarily coincide with his ideas regarding undesirable behaviors. They will be bemused at the white man’s attempt to enforce his secularism on their communities.
To reduce undesirable behavior between avatars, Meta recently added four-foot exclusion zones to keep others from bumping into you, deliberately or otherwise. In some parts of the world, distancing is considered safe, while in other parts, such as where males hold hands as a sign of good friendship, it is seen as exclusionary. In Meta’s VR Land, it appears we are going to be guilty until proven innocent.
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Whereas Mr Clegg writes that the metaverse will be like real life through three key factors — ephemerality [short-lived], embodiment [tangible], and immersion [absorbed] —, Peter Franklin counters that “Clegg has missed the bigger picture, which is that the Internet has allowed us to move away from ephemerality, embodiment, and immersion.” In short, we want our privacy.
The manifesto does not broach a distinction between synchronous and asynchronous communications:
Synchronous. Phone calls and VR sessions require all parties to be present all the time. This is one thing making Zoom calls exhausting. The advantage, however, is immediate feedback: we know the other parties got the message; we can work our way to decisions interactively.
Asynchronous (not synchronized). Leaving messages on answering machines and sending emails make us independent of others, enhancing privacy and efficiency, but we wonder, Did the other person get the message;how many back-and-forths (a.k.a. telephone tag)?
In CAD, sending around markups is asynch communications; real-time simultaneous editing needs synch’ed comms.
Sometimes we phone, sometimes we email. Neither replaces the other.
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Earlier in this piece, I wrote that Facebook thinks that VR comes after R, but in reality, VR is adjacent to R, being just one of many un-R options. I think about my son-in-law who loves bouldering: going up fake cliffs inside air conditioned gyms. My daughter converting the reality of pretty-good wedding photos into stunning ones with photo editing filters. And perhaps the ultimate in augmented reality, my son hiring and helping people who have a hard time figuring out the reality of life.
I suppose the most insidious part of the Zuckerman-inspired Clegg future is how VR ought to replace R: “The metaverse is coming, one way or another,” he warns. Novels like Neuromancer, which four decades ago predicted metaverses, described dystopias, not utopias; their authors understood the human condition.
In addition to solving the what-comes-after-facebooking problem, there is a second Meta motive. I haven’t mentioned autism yet, which is much more common in Silicon Valley than in, say, middle America. It leads programmers, who benefit from the concentration given to them by spectrums like Asperger’s syndrome, to think about worlds they can control, without having to interact with unpredictable humans made of flesh. As Christina Buttons, who has Asperger’s syndrome, explains, “The prospect of making an impact through arms-length electronic methods held considerable appeal” for her.
As a result, we have 0.5% of the population telling the 99.5% how, in the future, we ought to live.
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There’s a reason sales of ebooks fell below those of paper books, and LPs have resurged: people prefer the real over the virtual, particularly after the hideous lack of human-to-human interaction forced upon us by that invisible virus.
Take lesson from the failure of 3D TV. It failed because (1) it required people to wear glasses in a glasses-averse society (not wearing them meant being ostracized from the social event); (2) it required people to replace their recently-purchased big and expensive flat-screen TVs with TVs that looked identical but cost much more. That particular dog also didn’t hunt.
Mr Clegg should instead look at which Meta products are the uber-popular ones, the growing ones: WhatsApp and Messenger. From my neighbors, I hear that Facebook Market is popular; it’s for selling stuff. What people want is to communicate with one another conveniently, effortlessly, cheaply; the metaverse is far removed from all three.
Mr Zuckerman ought be proud of what he has accomplished, and be content with what he has. More is unnecessary.
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And in Other News
“As I listened to the Autodesk Accelerate speakers, it became clear that ‘digital transformation’ as a buzzword is almost meaningless. It’s marketing-speak from vendors trying to sell the latest and greatest and, like many things marketed at us, both aspirational and demotivating.” More commentary from Monica Schnitger at schnitgercorp.com/2022/05/20/digital-transformation-lets-talk.
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Matt Lombard reports on attending Realize Live 2022 at dezignstuff.com/realize-live-2022-report. I have always wondered how it came to be that Solidworks is the star in the Dassault firmament, while Solid Edge remains in the shadow of Siemens NX. Maybe it’s due to this: Solidworks benefits from being so different from Catia (and V6), but Solid Edge is too similar to NX.
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Could mythic “Putin Tax” be starting to have an impact on CAD software prices? Dassault Systemes announces 5% price increases as of July 1, 2022 on all software license formats (including perpetual, maintenance, yearly and quarterly subscriptions) on all its software, such as Catia, Simulia, Enovia, and Delmia. Dassault had earlier said that Russia represents fewer than 0.5% of non-IFRS revenues in 2021.
Letters to the Editor
Re: Careful How You Do New BIM
I think that BricsCAD BIM is a kind of fresh breath in this area. You can model or import dumb 3D solids, and then run the pretty smart Bimify command.
It’s interesting that BricsCAD seems to be faster than Revit to open IFC files, and of course better than Archicad at making useful DWGs.
- Ragnar Thor Mikkelsen, Norway
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A major issue underlying Dave Edwards’ editorial is, “Who/what has to get the design details right,” a.k.a. “Who is liable for errors?” Not architects, not software companies or software engineers, but definitely subcontractors and structural engineers.
We are not close to cramming all the knowledge of the diffuse players who end up taking responsibility for getting a building done right into software or other repository. Construction offers oh-so-many opportunities for errors based on minor details and arcane, highly specialized knowledge.
- Leo Schlosberg, USA
“Why does every bit of the [Facebook] metaverse look like the worst thing anyone has ever produced in all of human history and even within the realms of fiction and imagination itself.”
- Brendel (@Brendelbored)
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A report last week surfaced that suggested the Atrix 4G was being throttled by AT&T Wireless. According to the report, AT&T is capping data speeds at 300 Kbps which is much slower than the iPhone which boasts of speeds of about 1.5 Mbps. This is unusual as the Atrix 4G features an HSDPA radio that supports 14.4 Mbps while the iPhone has a radio that tops out at 7.2 Mbps. On paper, the Atrix should be faster than the iPhone 4.
PC Magazine conducted their own upload speed tests using a Motorola Atrix , an HTC Inspire 4G. Earlier tests were performed with the AT&T latest 4G modems, the USBConnect Shockwave 4G and the USBConnect Adrenaline. PC Magazine’s results mirror those of the above report. The online magazine found that the Atrix 4G and Inspire 4G recorded upload speeds at a rate comparable to UMTS (0.15 Mbps), while the iPhone 4 recorded speeds as fast as 1.56 Mbps. Similar results were previously observed for the USB modems.
Based on these results, PC Magazine suggests AT&T may be capping the upload speeds of these non-iPhone devices. The magazine does point out these test results could be a problem with the devices being tested and not the carrier’s network, but such a problem with multiple devices is unlikely. Any AT&T owners care to chime in and possibly do some speed tests and comment on what they see for download and upload speeds?
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7,858,265 views | Alex Gendler • TED-Ed
How tsunamis work
The immense swell of a tsunami can grow up to 100 feet, hitting speeds over 500 mph -- a treacherous combination for anyone or anything in its path. Alex Gendler details the causes of these towering terrors and explains how scientists are seeking to reduce their destruction in the future. [Directed by Augenblick Studios, narrated by Michelle Snow]. | <urn:uuid:c324863d-09d5-4c0b-8c1b-59219129a12b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_gendler_how_tsunamis_work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.909088 | 94 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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Water assessment can only be meaningful with a gender perspective. Identifying the factors that contribute to the inclusion or exclusion of women and men belonging to different social and cultural groups, and the ways in which they interact with water resources for different uses, could improve the provision, management and conservation of the world’s water resources for the benefit of all. The collection of sex-disaggregated water data is the first step towards a transformative process in achieving the goals of improving gender equality in the management of water resources and water governance.
UNESCO WWAP has created an innovative toolkit for the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated water data to address the data gap on gender and water issues at the global level. The UNESCO WWAP Toolkit on Sexdisaggregated Water Data (WWAP Water and Gender Toolkit) is designed to assist the UN Member States in: | <urn:uuid:f664fd47-bf31-4ac0-be11-f231737acd4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.empowerforclimate.org/en/resources/2/0/1/2019-water-and-gender-toolkit-2---methodology-for-the-collection-of-sex-disaggregated-water-data | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.890857 | 253 | 3.125 | 3 |
Quoting vs. Paraphrasing vs. Summarizing
If you’ve ever written a research essay, you know the struggle is real. Should you use a direct quote? Should you put it in your own words? And how is summarizing different from paraphrasing—aren’t they kind of the same thing?
Knowing how you should include your source takes some finesse, and knowing when to quote directly, paraphrase, or summarize can make or break your argument. Let’s take a look at the nuances among these three ways of using an outside source in an essay.
The concept of quoting is pretty straightforward. If you use quotation marks, you must use precisely the same words as the original, even if the language is vulgar or the grammar is incorrect. In fact, when scholars quote writers with bad grammar, they may correct it by using typographical notes [like this] to show readers they have made a change.
“I never like[d] peas as a child.”
Conversely, if a passage with odd or incorrect language is quoted as is, the note [sic] may be used to show that no changes were made to the original language despite any errors.
“I never like [sic] peas as a child.”
The professional world looks very seriously on quotations. You cannot change a single comma or letter without documentation when you quote a source. Not only that, but the quote must be accompanied by an attribution, commonly called a citation. A misquote or failure to cite can be considered plagiarism.
When writing an academic paper, scholars must use in-text citations in parentheses followed by a complete entry on a references page. When you quote someone using MLA format, for example, it might look like this:
“The orphan is above all a character out of place, forced to make his or her own home in the world. The novel itself grew up as a genre representing the efforts of an ordinary individual to navigate his or her way through the trials of life. The orphan is therefore an essentially novelistic character, set loose from established conventions to face a world of endless possibilities (and dangers)” (Mullan).
This quote is from www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/orphans-in-fiction, which discusses the portrayal of orphans in Victorian English literature. The citation as it would look on the references page (called Works Cited in MLA) is available at the end of this guide.
What is paraphrasing?
Paraphrasing means taking a quote and putting it in your own words.
You translate what another writer has said into terms both you and your reader can more easily understand. Unlike summarizing, which focuses on the big picture, paraphrasing is involved with single lines or passages. Paraphrasing means you should focus only on segments of a text.
Paraphrasing is a way for you to start processing the information from your source. When you take a quote and put it into your own words, you are already working to better understand, and better explain, the information.
The more you can change the quote without changing the original meaning, the better. How can you make significant changes to a text without changing the meaning?
Here are a few paraphrasing techniques:
- Use synonyms of words
- Change the order of words
- Change the order of clauses in the sentences
- Move sentences around in a section
- Make grammatical changes, such as:
- Word form
- Active – passive
- Positive – negative
Let’s look at an example. Here is a direct quote from the article on orphans in Victorian literature:
“It is no accident that the most famous character in recent fiction – Harry Potter – is an orphan. The child wizard’s adventures are premised on the death of his parents and the responsibilities that he must therefore assume. If we look to classic children’s fiction we find a host of orphans” (Mullan).
Here is a possible paraphrase:
It’s not a mistake that a well-known protagonist in current fiction is an orphan: Harry Potter. His quests are due to his parents dying and tasks that he is now obligated to complete. You will see that orphans are common protagonists if you look at other classic fiction (Mullan).
What differences do you spot? There are synonyms. A few words were moved around. A few clauses were moved around. But do you see that the basic structure is very similar?
This kind of paraphrase might be flagged by a plagiarism checker. Don’t paraphrase like that.
Here is a better example:
What is the most well-known fact about beloved character, Harry Potter? That he’s an orphan – “the boy who lived”. In fact, it is only because his parents died that he was thrust into his hero’s journey. Throughout classic children’s literature, you’ll find many orphans as protagonists (Mullan).
Do you see that this paraphrase has more differences? The basic information is there, but the structure is quite different.
When you paraphrase, you are making choices: of how to restructure information, of how to organize and prioritize it. These choices reflect your voice in a way a direct quote cannot, since a direct quote is, by definition, someone else’s voice.
Which is better: Quoting or paraphrasing?
Although the purpose of both quoting and paraphrasing is to introduce the ideas of an external source, they are used for different reasons. It’s not that one is better than the other, but rather that quoting suits some purposes better, while paraphrasing is more suitable for others.
A direct quote is better when you feel the writer made the point perfectly and there is no reason to change a thing. If the writer has a strong voice and you want to preserve that, use a direct quote.
For example, no one should ever try to paraphrase John. F. Kenney’s famous line: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
However, think of direct quotes like a hot pepper: go ahead and sprinkle them around to add some spice to your paper, but… you might not want to overdo it.
Conversely, paraphrasing is useful when you want to bring in a longer section of a source into your piece, but you don’t have room for the full passage. A paraphrase doesn’t simplify the passage to an extreme level, like a summary would. Rather, it condenses the section of text into something more useful for your essay. It’s also appropriate to paraphrase when there are sentences within a passage that you want to leave out.
If you were to paraphrase the section of the article about Victorian orphans mentioned earlier, you might write something like this:
Considering the development of the novel, which portrayed everyday people making their way through life, using an orphan as a protagonist was effective. Orphans are characters that, by definition, need to find their way alone. The author can let the protagonist venture out into the world where the anything, good or bad, might happen (Mullan).
You’ll notice a couple of things here. One, there are no quotation marks, but there is still an in-text citation (the name in parentheses). A paraphrase lacks quotation marks because you aren’t directly quoting, but it still needs a citation because you are using a specific segment of the text. It is still someone else’s original idea and must be cited.
Secondly, if you look at the original quote, you’ll see that five lines of text are condensed into four and a half lines. Everything the author used has been changed.
A single paragraph of text has been explained in different words—which is the heart of paraphrasing.
Next, we come to summarizing. Summarizing is on a much larger scale than quoting or paraphrasing. While similar to paraphrasing in that you use your own words, a summary’s primary focus is on translating the main idea of an entire document or long section.
Summaries are useful because they allow you to mention entire chapters or articles—or longer works—in only a few sentences. However, summaries can be longer and more in-depth. They can actually include quotes and paraphrases. Keep in mind, though, that since a summary condenses information, look for the main points. Don’t include a lot of details in a summary.
In literary analysis essays, it is useful to include one body paragraph that summarizes the work you’re writing about. It might be helpful to quote or paraphrase specific lines that contribute to the main themes of such a work. Here is an example summarizing the article on orphans in Victorian literature:
In John Mullan’s article “Orphans in Fiction” on bl.uk.com, he reviews the use of orphans as protagonists in 19th century Victorian literature. Mullan argues that orphans, without family attachments, are effective characters that can be “unleashed to discover the world.” This discovery process often leads orphans to expose dangerous aspects of society, while maintaining their innocence. As an example, Mullan examines how many female orphans wind up as governesses, demonstrating the usefulness of a main character that is obligated to find their own way.
This summary includes the main ideas of the article, one paraphrase, and one direct quote. A ten-paragraph article is summarized into one single paragraph.
As for giving source credit, since the author’s name and title of the source are stated at the beginning of the summary paragraph, you don’t need an in-text citation.
How do I know which one to use?
The fact is that writers use these three reference types (quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing) interchangeably. The key is to pay attention to your argument development. At some points, you will want concrete, firm evidence. Quotes are perfect for this.
At other times, you will want general support for an argument, but the text that includes such support is long-winded. A paraphrase is appropriate in this case.
Finally, sometimes you may need to mention an entire book or article because it is so full of evidence to support your points. In these cases, it is wise to take a few sentences or even a full paragraph to summarize the source.
No matter which type you use, you always need to cite your source on a References or Works Cited page at the end of the document. The MLA works cited entry for the text we’ve been using today looks like this:
Mullan, John. Orphans in Fiction” www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/orphans-in-fiction. Accessed 20. Oct. 2020
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Total size for an Access 2010 database (.accdb), including all database objects and data: 2 gigabytes, minus the space needed for system objects. You can work around this size limitation by linking to tables in other Access databases. You can link to tables in multiple database files, each of which can be as large as 2GB.
Total number of objects in a database: 32,768 objects
Number of modules (including forms and reports that have the HasModule property set to True): 1,000 modules
Number of characters in an object name: 64 characters
Number of characters in a password: 14 characters
Number of characters in a user name or group name: 20 characters
Number of concurrent users: 255 users
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Number of characters in a field name: 64 characters
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Number of open tables: 2,048 tables including linked tables and the tables opened internally by Access
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Number of characters in a validation message: 255 characters
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Number of characters in a field property setting: 255 characters
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Number of enforced relationships: 32 relationships per table, minus the number of indexes that are on the table for fields or combinations of fields that are not involved in relationships*
Number of tables in a query: 32* tables
Number of joins in a query: 16* joins
Number of fields in a recordset: 255 fields
Recordset size: 1 gigabyte
Sort limit: 255 characters in one or more fields
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Number of characters for a parameter in a parameter query: 255 characters
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Section height: 22.75 in. (57.79 cm)
Height of all sections plus section headers (in Design view): 200 in. (508 cm)
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Number of fields or expressions that you can sort or group on in a report: 10 fields or expressions
Number of headers and footers in a report: 1 report header/footer, 1 page header/footer, 10 group headers/footers
Number of printed pages in a report: 65,536 printed pages
Number of controls and sections that you can add over the lifetime of the form or report: 754 controls and sections
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Companies make important decisions around the clock. From big-ticket projects with wide-reaching implications to one-off undertakings, management is constantly faced with deciding among options that all seem equally viable. You may have wondered how these critical decisions are put together? The answer lies in a process called capital budgeting.
Capital budgeting is the act of allocating scarce capital across available projects and investments. We can dissect this definition further.
“The act of allocating” highlights how this is a decision implemented by decision-makers. The quantitative techniques are accessible to everyone but, ultimately, someone has to make the call.
“Scarce capital” points out the limited funds companies have at their disposal. Regardless of size, every business will have finite resources. Allocating them in the most optimal way is the essence of capital budgeting.
And “available projects and investments” underlines the fact that there are often multiple options on the table. The challenge, particularly when choosing projects with different traits, is determining which ones are worth pursuing. Moreover, initiatives can be mutually exclusive — going after one precludes you from investigating the other — or independent, which introduces another layer of complexity to the decision.
Fortunately, capital budgeting operates a collection of techniques to simplify the process.
There are many ways to assess and compare the viability of projects, but the main ones used in practice include the Payback Period (PP), Net Present Value (NPV), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). It is also worth mentioning alternative techniques like the Discounted Payback Period, Profitability Index (PI), and the Accounting Rate of Return (ARR).
The Payback Period defines the time it takes to recover (i.e., get back) your initial investment on a project.
If you spend $100K on a project that yields $20K each year, then your Payback Period is 5 years or $100K divided by $20K per year.
This is arguably the most straightforward and intuitive capital budgeting technique. Indeed, its main advantage is that it is easily understood and applied. Stakeholders across the company will know what its insights mean right away.
Unfortunately, the Payback Period fails as a project evaluation tool when the expected cash flows fluctuate. Consider two projects, A and B, and assume the following:
- The initial investment for both A and B is $100K
- Project A yields $100K in year 1
- Project B yields $50K in year 2
Using the Payback Period method, project A seems to be the superior choice with a PP of one year. But this reasoning completely ignores the expected cash flows after the first year.
The Payback Period also fails to account for the Time Value of Money. Although, the Discounted Payback Period addresses this concern by discounting the expected cash flows as a preliminary step to estimating the time needed to recover an investment.
Perhaps the most widely used technique for evaluating capital projects is Net Present Value. On a fundamental level, NPV tells us the dollar value a project adds to the business, net of what we expect to spend on it. If we expect to spend $100K on a project that will generate a one-time cash inflow of $200K next year, then we can follow the ensuing steps:
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Step 3: Calculate the net amount received. If we spend $100K today for a project that effectively gives $179K in today’s value, then the project is estimated to be worth $79K, or $179K minus $100K.
The $79K in our example is the NPV of the proposed project. Consequently, this capital budgeting tool is also easily interpreted — positive NPV projects add value while negative NPV projects diminish it.
While NPV is more computationally complex than PP, modern spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc make our lives easier by having the functionality built in. You can find more information on how to calculate NPV in Excel or take a look at our NPV Excel template for a deeper dive into NPV computations.
Alternatively, some managers and executives prefer the likeness of an IRR to the cost of capital. Both are expressed as rates, so comparing them is easy.
IRR is closely tied to NPV. Specifically, IRR is the discount rate that results in an NPV of zero. Therefore, the decision to accept or reject a project depends on whether IRR is greater than the cost of capital or not.
Despite its popularity, there are drawbacks to using IRR you should be aware of. For one, IRR is difficult to calculate freehand. Also, IRR doesn’t work for projects with unconventional cash flows, or cash flows that change direction more than once.
Nevertheless, IRR is a tool every financial analyst should have, so it helps to know the advantages and disadvantages of IRR.
Complex solutions aren’t necessarily better, and the same logic applies to capital budgeting decisions. First, we must consider the project’s cash flow and understand if it contrasts conventional cash flows. Based on our findings, we can then recommend the capital budgeting technique to use.
Conventional versus unconventional cash flows relate to the change in direction we can expect from our cash flows. When cash flows change direction once (i.e., from cash outflows to cash inflows), then the project’s cash flows are labeled as conventional.
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By Haleh Rabizadeh Resnick, Esq.
You’d figure we know ourselves better than anyone else. After all, we’ve lived with our selves since before we were born. So why is it that we don’t trust ourselves?
Look, I get it when we don’t trust ourselves not to reach for the next piece of luscious chocolate cake. I get it when we don’t trust ourselves to actually keep that promise to organize the closet. But what’s our excuse for not trusting ourselves on how we feel?
If you know something’s not right because your head’s been hurting lately or your stomach’s off or you’re just not yourself- TRUST YOURSELF. Did I just shout that? I meant it. So often we go to the doctor with a complaint and we walk out thinking we’re just imagining it or it’s just stress. Look, I’m not saying that it’s not because of stress but whatever you have, it’s there. It’s legit. Speak up.
Many times women walk into doctors’ offices knowing that something just isn’t right and we walk out demoralized. What’s happening is that our sense of instinct is being overwhelmed with science and pure logic. Not that I’m against science and logic it’s just that instinct is beyond logic and we’ve all been trained that logic must rule the day.
Women have a sixth sense. We have instinct. Trust it.
I just spoke to a mom who went to a doctor’s office with the feeling that her daughter just wasn’t right. Her doctor told her that her daugther was spoiled- that’s why she cried. The mom left that doctor and found another. Turned out her baby had a urinary track infection.
A friend of mine went to different doctors for years because she kept gaining weight. They told her to go on a diet and exercise. She was doing both. She finally found a doctor who belived her that something wasn’t quite right. He ordered some blood work and found that her thyroid was underactive.
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Every October, you can expect us to talk about the October Catch – a way for your school-wide teams to use referral data to identify students who might benefit from additional supports. The October Catch is the first step in a process to get students the resources they need when they need them. What comes next? How does a student’s name end up on a Tier 2 team’s meeting agenda? How do you know which intervention is a good fit?
In this episode of Expert Instruction: The Teach by Design Podcast, we’re talking about Tier 2 teams and the foundations of decision making at the Tier 2 level. Joining us in this conversation are Drs. Erin Chaparro and Ginny Joseph.
Dr. Chaparro is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. For more than a decade, she has worked with districts and schools to implement multi-tiered systems of support for literacy and PBIS. She works with states across the country consulting on explicit instruction, PBIS, implementation science, and the education of English language learners. Among her many projects, Dr. Chaparro currently leads the development of an online training for Tier 2 data teams using a framework called Team-Initiated ProblemSolving (TIPS).
Dr. Ginny Joseph is the Coordinator of PBIS and Mental Health at Orange County Department of Education. She trains and supports school teams implementing a multi-tiered framework for behavior supports. Her experience ranges from function-based support planning, to using data to drive decisions, to planning behavioral support for small groups of students.
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Congress designed the public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) program to reduce the student debt burden for thousands of borrowers with a decade of service in government or nonprofit jobs. But with a rejection rate over 99%, the program has been a clear failure.
One of 99% was Kelly Finlaw, a public school teacher in New York who recently testified about her experience with FedLoan Servicing.
“I was misled. Not just by FedLoan, but by other servicers. I was lied to,” Finlaw testified to Congress last week. “In what other sectors of government are you able to lie to the people that you’re servicing and then holding them responsible for the lies that you told them?”
‘I did what I was asked to do’
Created by Congress in 2007, the PSLF program — as part of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 — was designed to help various public sector employees, from teachers to public health and law enforcement public service workers.
The program promised to forgive student debt for those who worked with public service employers for at least 10 years, while making 120 payments via eligible plans. In 2017, many of those borrowers qualified. But only 1% had their loans forgiven, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
“I did what I was asked to do. I called, I made my payments on time. I paid every month,” Finlaw said, later adding: "After 10 years of making student loan payments, October 2017 was my month — my light at the end of the tunnel. I remember standing in my living room when the light at the tunnel went dark."
Responding to this extreme denial rate of the program in 2018, Congress approved funding to expand the number of borrowers in an initiative called the Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF).
But as of May this year, the DOE had received 54,000 requests for TEPSLF and only approved 1% of these requests.
“We recognize that the many restrictive eligibility requirements of PSLF and TEPSLF make the program difficult for borrowers to understand and navigate,” Jeff Appel Federal Student Aid U.S. Department of Education wrote in his testimony. “We are absolutely committed to helping borrowers navigate this complexity.”
“The very agency that is supposedly the champion of our nation’s education system has failed to live up to its role in administering this Program,” asserted the lawsuit, which was filed in July.
According to the AFT, thousands of teachers who are union members may be affected by the lawsuit.
“Large numbers of borrowers have pursued careers in public service, sometimes at lower pay than in the private sector, with the hope of one day achieving loan forgiveness through the PSLF program,” Melissa Emrey-Arras, the GAO’s director of education workforce and income security issues, wrote in her testimony. “Education needs to take action to better serve these borrowers and help smooth their long road towards loan forgiveness.”
‘I’m going to die with this debt’
As the first batch of borrowers qualified for forgiveness in 2017, including Finlaw, the hidden complexities became apparent.
“The regrettable, but unsurprising… result of all of the problems identified above, is that the number of borrowers who have successfully met all program requirements and received PSLF relief to date, in the initial years of eligibility, is low,” Appel wrote.
He said the most common reasons for rejection were not making 120 qualifying payments (55% of the cases), missing information on the application (24%), and not having eligible loans (15%).
And “among applicants with outstanding eligible loans, 80 percent had not even been in repayment status long enough – 10 years – to have qualified,” Appel added.
The AFT and Finlaw alleged the DOE and contracted loan servicers like FedLoan that didn’t properly inform applicants about the steps they needed to take to properly qualify.
“I have to resign myself that I’m going to die with this debt,” Finlaw said. “I have to accept that. I had to do this to get to where I am. I had no other option, and that’s my reality.”
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We have read books to Monkey since he was tiny. Both hubs and I love reading books to him and it has been a major part of the bedtime routine since he was just a few months old. As a result, Monkey loves books. He is constantly bombarding us with books saying “go read, go read, go read” until we comply with his demands!
Now that his speech is rapidly developing he likes saying words and pointing out the names of things in books. He’s also ‘reading’ or rather he has memorised some of his favourite books and joins in with reading them. One of his favourite books (at the moment) is one that Daddy doesn’t even like, “The Tiger who Came to Tea”. Monkey loves it. He goes through fits and starts with lots of his books, insisting on the same one for days at a time, and then moving onto another.
At the moment we are very much in a “The Tiger who Came to Tea” phase and Daddy has been impressed with how much of it Monkey has memorised and can read along with him. His pronunciation of some words is still really unclear but some of them are spot on. I am trying to get more videos of him talking, purely so we can look back at this cutie phase when he is older, so here is a little video of Monkey and Daddy reading “The Tiger who Came to Tea.”
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Long-term minsterial program for financing creation of the new main exhibition
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland will provide funding for the creation of the new main exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site. The letter of intent in this regard was signed on March 6 in Warsaw by minister Małgorzata Omilanowska and Piotr M.A. Cywiński, director of the Museum. Project costs are estimated at ca. PLN 100 million.
The creation of a special long-term program for the financing of the new exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site was announced by minister Omilanowska during the last session of the International Auschwitz Council.
"Creation of the exhibition which tells the story of Auschwitz in a modern, accessible as well as wise and balanced way will for sure be a key educational tool in formation of new generation of Poles and enabling them to understand what was the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, what was the Holocaust and what was the sacrifice of Poles imprisoned at this camp. This aim today received needed legal and financial foundation," said Prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska, the minister of culture and national heritage.
"The act was signed in a jubilee year of the end of the world war two and reflection about that war. The question how to pass the knowledge saved in facts, documents and museum objects is a world wide problem. It needs finances as well as a concept. The decision of Polish government and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage about the special support for creation of the new main exhibition is very meaningful. It seems that in Poland there is no difference of opinions about what was Auschwitz and how important this symbol is for the mankind," said Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski, the chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
The change of exposition is necessary for several reasons, connected in particular with the development of research on the history of Auschwitz but also with the generation change among visitors of the Memorial Site. What is also important is the fact that visitors who want to learn about the history of Auschwitz are coming from different new geographical and cultural areas. Moreover, current exposition has predominantly presented the mass scale of the crime committed by the Germans, whereas the new narration will also illustrate more the fate of an individual and the personal aspect of crime. Furthermore, today our resources include a significantly bigger number of accounts of former prisoners, witnesses and perpetrators. At present it is also possible to include a wider range of authentic objects in the exhibition and ensure their safety.
“The new exhibition will be to a large extent based on the experience of the old exhibition, in particular as far as such aspects as its dignity, tranquillity, certain austerity and minimalism are concerned. It will still aim at showing rather than narrating. For visitors it will constitute a fragment of the feeling of authenticity experienced while walking through the site of the former camp”, emphasized Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, director of the Museum.
The works on the new main exhibition began in 2008, when the initial concept was adopted. Museum employees, supported by a special International Consultation Group consisting of eminent experts in the field from Poland, USA, Great Britain, Germany and Israel, were working on the scenario. Special Office of the Representative for the New Main Exhibition was created in the Museum, coordinating the works on the entire project. Main designer of the exhibition was also selected through a competition. The International Auschwitz Council as well as the representative of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage were all the time engaged in the works.
"I am very happy that this project is already so advanced. In Junne the members of the International Auschwitz Council will see the complete version of the project. We are curious how this will look in reality. We support this actions with all our hearts. At every stage we are going to observe and consult the work," said Prof. Barbara Engelking, the chairwoman of the International Auschwitz Council.
The exposition will be constructed on ground floors of six historical blocks of the former camp Auschwitz I, marked with numbers 4-9. This solution will make the exhibition more accessible for the elderly and the disabled. Many groups will also be able to move around the exhibition area at the same time. But before the works connected with creating the exhibition can begin, the buildings will have to undergo conservation.
At present, design works connected with the visual aspect of the new main exhibition are nearing completion. In a sense, the new main exhibition will be in total opposition to modern trends in the art of exhibiting, based on the attempts to surprise the visitor, transport him into virtual realities, multimedia or interactivity.
The new exhibition will be divided into three sections. The first will present the perpetrators, the institutional aspect of the camp as well as the logistics and plans to transform the concentration camp into a centre of direct extermination of Jews in gas chambers. The second section will present the topic of the Holocaust from the perspective of the victims, innocent people sent in the vast majority to death in gas chambers. Personal belongings brought to the camp by Jews deported for death will also be presented here. The third section will be devoted to the prisoners of the concentration camp and will aim at showing the dehumanization of people planned by the Germans.
“It was of particular importance for us to preserve certain symbols which constituted the power of the old main exhibition created by former prisoners themselves. In the new exposition we want to use significantly bigger number of original camp exhibits which present the history of Auschwitz from the perspective of an individual”, said Alicja Białecka, Representative for the New Main Exhibition.
Further stages of works will continue for the next 11 years. It is connected with the need to perform conservation works in the authentic buildings of the former camp as well as with the fact that the creation of the new exposition cannot in any way interfere with the availability of the Memorial for visitors, as each year over 1.5 million people from around the world come to Auschwitz. Thanks to special planning of the works, Museum educators-guides will be able to present to the visitors all the most important aspects of the history of this German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp.
Exhibitions at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
The first plan of creating the Museum in the former Auschwitz camp, developed mainly by former prisoners, assumed that the remnants of the camp and the exposition should form a whole. On June 14th 1947, the first permanent exposition was inaugurated. It was realized in blocks number 4 to 11 and in crematorium I (which at the time did not include stoves reconstructed from original components in the autumn of 1947).
In the Stalinist years 1950-1951, the exposition was developed and it took up a dozen former camp buildings. Apart from the content related to the subject of the camp, it presented political and social issues of the time, which did not have much in common not only with the camp, but even with world war II.
The creation of the next permanent exhibition was also based on the idea that the area of the camp both in Auschwitz and in Birkenau should constitute the basic and main part of the Museum, as it commemorates the martyrdom of camp victims and constitutes the evidence of German crimes. The exposition was supposed to be treated as an additional element, illustrating the fate of prisoners from the moment of arriving to Auschwitz to the moment of extermination. It was inaugurated in 1955 and has not been replaced since then.
The main Museum exposition, located within the former Auschwitz I camp in blocks number 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, underwent numerous analyses, its replacement was suggested and preparatory works were undertaken several times, involving the creation of new concepts of the exposition. However, none of the suggested overall changes was realized, in particular due to insufficient funding and the modifications, additions and reductions were of limited character.
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If youre reading this, chances are you cannot grow a beard. And, unfortunately for you, some men just can't grow beards no matter how hard they try. They research how to grow facial hair in hopes of discovering a secret medication or vitamin they can take to begin growing a thick beard.
Below, we discuss the reasons why you may never be able to grow a beard, and the factors that may compel you to do so. Also, we show you exactly what steps you should take to grow a beard if you cant, including strategies for achieving a thicker beard quicker.
Why Are Some Men unable to Form Beards?
If you can't grow a beard, that doesn't necessarily mean that something is wrong with you. In fact, facial hair growth is a very complex topic that may not have anything to do with your health. To simplify things, here are three key factors that are most important when it comes to deciding whether or not to grow a beard.
It's a somewhat unfortunate fact that beard growth is heavily dependent on your genetic makeup. Not only can your genes determine whether or not you can grow facial hair, but they can also influence how much, how thick, and where your facial hair grows!
Most males have about the same amount of testosterone in their bodies, but studies have shown that men with long beards are more receptive to testosterone, thus developing thicker, fuller beards quicker! Simply put, not being able to grow a beard has to do with genetics, assuming you are completely healthy.
Nevertheless, guys who cant bear to grow beards may find relief in the fact that, men who are more sensitive to testosterone, are also more likely to lose their hair and become bald. Its no wonder bald men with beards are on the rise.
If your genetics isn't the problem, age is another possibility that might enrage you that all men can grow beards. Given that most guys finish puberty and stop growing around the age of 21, many men are misled that facial hair growth should reach its peak at that same age. Instead, your beards growth rate will peak at 30 years of age, although some researchers believe it continues to increase the longer you live.
Don't give up if youre under the age of 25 and have only grown a tiny patch of stubble in a few weeks. Will you ever develop a beard? Sure. Just be patient and don't let nature take its course.
A lack of testosterone in your body, as a result of poor diet, poor exercise, or stunted hormone function, is undoubtedly one of the most common causes of poor beard growth.
Change your lifestyle can help your body increase and maintain healthy testosterone levels. For example, studies demonstrate that weight lifting can increase testosterone levels, while a healthy diet and adequate rest can help ensure your facial hair grows at its strongest rate.
Beard Growth: Other Factors
When it comes to facial hair growth, there are three factors that are the most important. In brief, these are:
- Lack of sleep, which may stunt testosterone production
- Skin conditions, such as alopecia (when your immune system attacks hair follicles)
- Drug consumption
- Damaged skin
If you cant, here's how to get a bearded.
If your genetics aren't the issue, here are a few suggestions on how to grow a beard quicker. Ultimately, if you are capable of growing a full beard but cannot, the problem is with bad lifestyle habits.
Even those who are just 30 shouldnt be concerned about unfavorable beard growth yet. And if youre still in your teens or 20s, be patient during the process. Give yourself at least a month or several weeks in case it just takes your body longer than others.
Improving your lifestyle, from eating to sleep to stress relief, is sure to boost your chances of developing a real beard. Make sure you get at least seven hours of sleep every night to boost hormone production.
Certain nutrients and benefits are essential for healthy skin, nails, and hair growth. While VitaBeard is one such dietary supplement marketed to men who want to grow a beard thicker and faster, any quality multivitamin offers all of the same nutrients and benefits at a fraction of the price.
If you've tried everything and nothing works, you may want to see a doctor. The right doctor may be qualified to diagnose whether your facial hair lack is due to a skin condition, hormonal imbalance, or simply genetics.
Beards are possible to grow.
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Carr’s Hill Baptist church began in 1882. The congregation
met at various locations in its beginnings as Dunn’s Rock Baptist Church
(unrelated to the current Dunn’s Rock Baptist Church), ultimately building
their own meeting house in 1903 on land donated by Carr Landreth. To honor
Landreth’s generosity, the congregation renamed themselves as Carr’s Hill
Baptist Church, referring to the new location on a hilltop.
Passers-by on the Greenville Highway will notice the classic
look of the historic church building: white weatherboard siding with a green-gabled
roof and an entrance tower adorned with a distinctive diamond-shaped louvered
vent and topped with a pyramidal belfry. A two-story addition for Sunday School
activities was added in the 1940s and matches the style of the original
In the winter, fewer leaves make the church more visible,
and it draws attention with its annual nativity scene and message of peace. One
of the oldest churches in the county, the congregation still meets today,
albeit in a more modern brick building built just down the road in 1983 with
ample parking. The congregation still owns and maintains the historic building.
This well-loved sight is part of what makes the Cedar Mountain portion of the
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The History of The Sacramento Observer
If you happened to be passing a small building on the corner of 21st and X streets, in Sacramento in November 1962, you may have heard the slow peck of a typewriter, or the chatter of a few dedicated individuals as they stuck stamps to the outside of an unusual 4-page newspaper.
The several events during and before that significant week of Thanksgiving, marked the beginning of a Black publication that was destined to become one of the leading African American newspapers in America — THE SACRAMENTO OBSERVER.
The principal architect of the publication’s fantastic development and growth, one of the fastest in the history of Black journalism, was the late Dr. William Hanford Lee (1936-2019), a former successful real estate broker and businessman. In an amazingly short time, and with ever-increasing emphasis on “journalism excellence,” Lee, the newspaper’s inspiration and guiding light, pushed THE OBSERVER into the charmed circle occupied by only a few of America’s top publications.
Indeed, few if any, of this country’s Black newspapers can match THE OBSERVER’s record of publishing a publication the size of 300 pages and larger; or top the unprecedented recognition given to THE OBSERVER for its outstanding historical, governmental and youth coverage; or equal the consistent publishing leadership of the paper with its supplements and special editions.
Six times THE OBSERVER has been named the nation’s top Black newspaper, symbolized by receiving the John B. Russwurm trophy, given annually by the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
In fact, now after nearly six decades of service, THE OBSERVER has been honored with more than 700 local and national awards for journalism excellence and outstanding community service.
Playing major roles in the family owned OBSERVER’s tremendous growth, as a modern-day Black newspaper, has been Dr. Lee’s immediate family. The late Mrs. Kathryn Lee (1935-2013), and sons, Larry, Billy and Roderick (deceased), all have served in dedicated leadership roles at THE OBSERVER. Larry Lee has ascended to the role of OBSERVER Publisher and President.
In addition, there has been the hardworking “staff/family of THE OBSERVER.”
People such as Joe Stinson, director of advertising sales; OBSERVER co-founder John Cole, a retired Sacramento businessman; former editors and senior writers Wilbur Miller, Dr. Joe Dear, Bill Davis, Shawn Ortiz, Mel Assagai, Larry Hicks, Donna Burke, Joel Maybury, Kevan Carter, Mardeio Cannon, Curtis Haynes, Staci Bush, and what publisher Lee called, “a fine, dedicated staff.” That legacy has continued today with a team of OBSERVER veterans such as Genoa Barrow, Antonio Harvey, Wilma Whitfield, Percy Johnson and photographers such as Larry Dalton, Ray Johnson and Robert Maryland.
Many of the publication’s loyal advertisers and readers have also contributed significantly to the paper’s growth.
The key words in the history of THE OBSERVER has to have been “courage” and “dedication.” Most young publications, as did THE OBSERVER, found the early years of establishing readers and advertisers extremely rough. This is doubly so for Black newspapers. Breaking into budgets of major advertisers is not an easy proposition. As challenging as times have been, the newspaper’s advertising has steadily grown. With a second generation leading it, THE OBSERVER’s various offerings for both readers and advertisers continue to evolve as technology advances.
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Author: Albert Pollard
Publisher: Ozymandias Press
View: 1395It is perhaps a matter rather for regret than for surprise that so few attempts have been made to describe, as a whole, the life and character of Henry VIII. No ruler has left a deeper impress on the history of his country, or done work which has been the subject of more keen and lasting contention. Courts of law are still debating the intention of statutes, the tenor of which he dictated; and the moral, political, and religious, are as much in dispute as the legal, results of his reign. He is still the Great Erastian, the protagonist of laity against clergy. His policy is inextricably interwoven with the high and eternal dilemma of Church and State; and it is well-nigh impossible for one who feels keenly on these questions to treat the reign of Henry VIII. in a reasonably judicial spirit. No period illustrates more vividly the contradiction between morals and politics. In our desire to reprobate the immorality of Henry's methods, we are led to deny their success; or, in our appreciation of the greatness of the ends he achieved, we seek to excuse the means he took to achieve them. As with his policy, so with his character. There was nothing commonplace about him; his good and his bad qualities alike were exceptional. It is easy, by suppressing the one or the other, to paint him a hero or a villain. He lends himself readily to polemic; but to depict his character in all its varied aspects, extenuating nothing nor setting down aught in malice, is a task of no little difficulty... | <urn:uuid:49fd1bc5-ba93-4c3b-8f5d-9bd9a72c8f7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://findfullebook.com/download/henry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.981967 | 357 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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(1956- ) US author of the sf novel Time Capsule (1987), set in a post-World War Three America, through which two young protagonists wander, seeing and learning much; in some regions, they discover that Slavery has been reintroduced by the American army. The tale, conducted in a highly foregrounded style, is hallucinatory, simultaneously joky and earnest, often moving. Berman has also been involved in Hypertext projects: Instant Konkowsky (2003) for graphics, video, music and text; and Hyper Hyper (2005-current), a multi-media journal. [JC]
born Los Angeles, California: 29 May 1956
- Time Capsule (New York: Putnam, 1987) [hb/Bryn Barnard]
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BioVanguard QR is a high-end standardised cabinet that can be delivered in a short space of time
BioVanguard QR from Telstar
Telstar has developed a standardised version of its high-end ecological biological safety cabinets, intended for centres and labs that need to cover processes that are demanding but shaped by conventional and standard requirements.
After analysing customer needs, demands and conditions, the company has designed and manufactured a standard model based on the customised BioVanguard biological safety cabinets. The result is BioVanguard QR, a high-end standardised cabinet that can be delivered in a short space of time.
The Biovanguard is a range of Class II Biological Safety Cabinets designed to be used for high risk microbiological research and in highly toxic applications. They offer low noise levels, low power consumption and low maintenance costs. They have an integrated pre-filter system which ensures low maintenance and long life of HEPA filters.
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But what if the parent exaggerates and focuses excessively on the child?
Here are some care mistakes that parents make most often when caring for babies.
1. Feeding the baby as recommended by the milk producer or textbooks for young parents
Sometimes you can find parents who feed their children "for an hour" because that's what milk mix manufacturers recommend and most parent guides. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the fact that the baby is accustomed to daily and constant feeding times. In practice, however, flexibility must be maintained.
The child may show different appetite during periods of heightened growth, illness, important life changes (e.g. while learning crawling, walking, developmental leaps, going to nursery, the appetite may be smaller).
When, during the meal, the toddler does not show interest in food, the parent often gets irritated and the child responds with crying. Meanwhile, just watch the baby closely.
When a toddler clearly demands food, do not delay serving your mealbecause the child's body does not understand that it must wait an hour or more. Also, do not force the child to force food if he does not want to eat porridge (even though he has not eaten anything for 4 hours), nothing will happen if he eats it later.
2. Dressing the baby too thickly
Due to the fact that the child is small and not very mobile in the first weeks of his life, we think that it is necessary to dress warmly. We put on comfortable pants and a T-shirt at home, and the child's body, jacket, romper, sweater and wrap in a blanket or cover with a quilt. And yet a baby does not need so many clothes.
Just one layer more than assumed by an adult, and if we already cover the baby with a quilt, then give up warm clothes.
The effect of too many clothes is baby overheating. Consequently, this baby is often ill, is less resistant and also has cradle cap, prickly heat and the skin becomes susceptible to chafing. If we want to check if the child is too cold, just touch his neck, he should be slightly warm, but not sweaty. | <urn:uuid:4395bcc8-33c9-4773-91b9-1d3b1e89cfca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nz.ecuriesduboisvert.com/1896-the-8-most-common-mistakes-of-overly-caring-parents-o.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96084 | 469 | 2.359375 | 2 |
There is a range of what we mean by worship. As a parish, we frequently take part in formal worship together, known as liturgy - an example of formal worship is the Mass. But we also gather together for times of informal worship in different prayer groups etc.
Each year the Church celebrates the rhythm of the seasons of the liturgical year – always the same, yet ever new and renewing. At the heart of this yearly cycle is the Sacred Liturgy, especially the celebration of the Mass, which is the source and summit of the Church's life.
Annually the Church immerses herself in the whole mystery of Christ, from the incarnation and birth until the ascension, the day of Pentecost, and the expectation of blessed hope and of the coming of the Lord. For more information on our times of more informal worship, please see our news and events.
Our Lady of Lourdes has an active choir expertly led by Pauline Prior. Choir members practice on a Wednesday evening and new joiners are most welcome. Just introduce yourself to Pauline after Mass.
This team of parishioners work on a rota basis to welcome both regular parishioners and visitors to mass. Welcomers wear a lanyard to identify themselves and are responsible for distributing hymn and prayer booklets, managing the collection baskets and also act as stewards for the congregation. They encourage people to stay and have coffee and are on the look out for new parishioners or visitors to engage them in conversation.
.Altar Servers assist the Priest during mass. Adults and children who have made their First Holy Communion are welcome to be altar servers. To arrange a training session please contact the Parish Priest.
Before each Mass the Sacristan prepares the church for the service and clears away after it has finished. The Sacristan also ensures that all readers, Holy Communion Ministers and Little Church Catechists are in attendance, Should you have any special If you are interested in the role of Sacristan then do contact the Parish Priest.
Readers proclaim the word of God and are required for all masses. Training is provided for those that are interested. There is a three month rota and typically readers two or three times during this period.
The churches are kept clean, polished and free from candle wax by a dedicated team of volunteer cleaners on a rota basis.
New volunteers are always welcome.
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Today's tech-driven entrepreneurs know how to get stuff done. In the current entrepreneurial culture, it is essential that any successful entrepreneur understand and use online tools, apps, programs, interfaces, and systems to increase productivity and efficiency.
What kind of online tools do these entrepreneurs use?
There's no end of choices, but some reportedly work better than others. Smart developers have made sure that there's an online tool for nearly every task. There are certain qualifications that differentiate the potential of online tools:
- The online tool solves a real problem.
- The online tool automates a business activity.
- The online tool enhances productivity.
- The online tool contributes to business expansion.
- The online tool is scalable.
- The online tool is simple to learn and use.
Few tools meet these qualifications. To make matters easier, I've rounded up a list of the top tools used by entrepreneurs all around the world, including some of my own entrepreneurial colleagues.
Here are the tools we use to build our businesses.
I don't mean to be simplistic, but I want to make a point here.
Entrepreneurs use Google. Of course, everyone uses Google. Entrepreneurs, however, depend upon Google as a source for answers, solutions, hacks, tips, and information, and for finding other systems.
Google is the first stop for any entrepreneur who needs to learn anything, hire anyone, or find something.
Most businesses need a website, and there's no better CMS than WordPress. Themes are inexpensive. Developers are plentiful. Customization is simple. And it's easy to create and publish articles.
Using WordPress, you can have an impressive website up and running--bells and whistles included--within just a few hours.
You're going to need data, lots of it. Google Analytics is the source for the most reliable insights into your traffic and website performance. To interpret the raw stream of data and convert it into actionable insights, you can use additional analytics, SaaS, such as KISSMetrics, CrazyEgg, Mixpanel, and Chartbeat.
Google Search Console is the back door to your website's functionality. By using Google Search Console, you will be able to run diagnostics on your website, analyze backlink data, and take a look at under-the-hood SEO issues like your sitemaps and rendering.
Grasshopper is a virtual phone system that allows you to manage your startup via the phone. Grasshopper sets up an 800 number in order to produce a professional image. Plus, you can integrate mobile phones, get multiple extensions, and use the handy app to make and receive calls using your office number.
Google Alerts is your own free brand-monitoring system. Although it lacks the bells and whistles of paid services like Mention.com, Google Alerts is sufficient for most startups. To use Google Alert as a brand-monitoring service, simply set up an alert to notify you any time your brand is mentioned online. You should also set up a Google Alert (mentioned above) to notify you any time your own name is mentioned online.
Evernote is a widely used note-taking app, though to call it a "note-taking app" is a bit of an insult given its power and applicability.
Evernote allows you to gain control of all the paperwork coming into and flowing out of your business, to organize your lists, to store your memories, to archive your files, to research your business, and to browse the web. Evernote does it all--and then it does even more.
Trello allows you to ideate, plan, and engage projects with complete mastery. It's not a workflow tool as much as it is a project visualization tool.
Trello's interface is inspired by a board and organized with cards. Think Pinterest, except that it helps you get stuff done, not waste your time.
Many startup teams, including large and distributed teams, use the power of Trello to take ideas from conception to completion with surprising efficiency.
No entrepreneur is an island, accomplishing tasks by him or herself. Successful entrepreneurs access the best talent when they need it.
In any startup, you're going to need that talent quickly and inexpensively. Where do you get it? Many entrepreneurs turn to Upwork (formerly Elance) to find solutions to any work problem.
Regardless of your niche, need, or wacky request, there is probably an Upwork contractor who is able, experienced, and willing to do the work for you.
Any Gmail ninja knows the game-changing power of Boomerang. Boomerang allows you to schedule messages for later send dates, pop messages out of your inbox to be returned in the future, respond to messages when you choose, and create reminders for mission critical emails.
If email is your nemesis, Boomerang can help you tame the foe.
As your team grows, acquires clients, or uses employees, you're going to need a way to manage projects and personnel. Basecamp is a well-known and widely used workflow management app.
Take your email marketing to the next level with InfusionSoft, a nuclear tool. The primary focus of InfusionSoft is email automation, which allows you to create drip campaigns, schedule emails, produce click-based emails, and accomplish other email processes.
What do startups do with the crucial files that they must share, edit, send, and work on? They use Dropbox.
If you aren't careful, social media management can drain your time and suck your soul dry. There's never an end to the possibilities for growing your audience, customizing your approach, and engaging with your fans. Clearly, you need a solution that will automate your social media efforts and concurrently save you time.
Buffer's response to social media management can give you back hours. Simple scheduling makes it easy for you to turn it on and forget about it. Meanwhile, your scheduled social media posts are earning you fans and rewarding you with engagement.
Solving problems, automating processes, improving productivity, and growing business. None of these happens without the right tools.
Regardless of the nature of your business or your industry focus, you'll find that at least one of these tools will provide game-changing benefits for your business startup.
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The protein-tyrosine kinase Syk participates in signal transduction pathways downstream from multiple immune recognition receptors. Recent evidence indicates that Syk is also functionally coupled to cell surface integrins, which mediate interactions between the actin cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix proteins. The interactions of undifferentiated, promonocytic HL60 or U937 cells with fibronectin or anti-β, integrin antibodies leads to an apparent activation and tyrosine phosphorylation of Syk that is independent of tight cellular adhesion and spreading. In response to fibronectin or anti-β1 integrin antibodies, β1 integrins become associated with a complex of proteins that include the Lyn protein tyrosine kinase and endogenous kinase substrates of 29 and 75-80 kDa. Lyn becomes transiently activated following integrin engagement and co-localizes with the actin cytoskeleton. These studies suggest a major role for Lyn in coupling β1 integrins to the activation of Syk.
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A Trio of Black-necked Stilts
A trio of black-necked stilts wading through the salt marshes of North Florida's St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in search of juvenile fish and small crustaceans, just outside of Tallahassee on the Gulf Coast.
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July 15, 2022
Security vulnerabilities revealed in fingerprint sensors and crypto wallets
Security experts from paluno, the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have developed a new technique that, for the first time, enables fuzz testing of protected memory areas in modern processors. Their method revealed many vulnerabilities in security-critical software.
Intel's "Software Guard Extension" (SGX) is a widely used technology to protect sensitive data from misuse. It helps developers in shielding a certain memory area from the rest of a computer. A password manager, for example, can be executed safely in such an enclave, even if the rest of the system is corrupted by malware.
However, it is not uncommon for errors to creep in during the programming of the enclaves. Already in 2020, the paluno team from Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi discovered and published several vulnerabilities in SGX enclaves. Now, together with partners form the CASA cluster of excellence, the researchers have achieved another breakthrough in the analysis techniques: Their latest development enables the fuzz testing of enclaves, which is much more effective than the previously used symbolic execution. The idea behind fuzz testing is to feed a large number of inputs into a program in order to gain insights into the structure of the code.
"As enclaves are meant to be non-introspectable, fuzzing cannot easily be applied to them," paluno scientist Tobias Clooster explains the challenge. "Moreover, fuzzing requires nested data structures, which we dynamically reconstruct from the enclave code." His research partner Johannes Willbold from from the research college SecHuman from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum adds: "This way, the shielded regions can be analyzed without accessing the source code."
Thanks to modern fuzzing technology, the researchers were able to detect many previously unknown security problems. All tested fingerprint drivers as well as wallets for storing cryptocurrency were affected. Hackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to read biometric data or steal the entire balance of the stored cryptocurrency. All companies were informed. Three vulnerabilities have been added to the publicly available CVE directory. | <urn:uuid:63007fed-f464-4bcc-89ac-aad60627a46e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-vulnerabilities-revealed-fingerprint-sensors-crypto.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.929348 | 441 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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Kazaa Media Desktop (once stylized as "KaZaA", but now usually written "Kazaa") started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks. Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrinsic, Inc. As of August 2012, the Kazaa website is no longer active. According to one of its creators, Jaan Tallinn, Kazaa is pronounced ka-ZAH.
Kazaa Media Desktop was commonly used to exchange MP3 music files and other file types, such as videos, applications, and documents over the Internet. The Kazaa Media Desktop client could be downloaded free of charge; however, it was bundled with adware and for a period there were "No spyware" warnings found on Kazaa's website. During the years of Kazaa's operation, Sharman Networks and its business partners and associates were the target of copyright-related lawsuits, related to the copyright of content distributed via Kazaa Media Desktop on the FastTrack protocol.
Kazaa and FastTrack were originally created and developed by Estonian programmers from BlueMoon Interactive including Jaan Tallinn and sold to Swede Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (who were later to create Skype and later still Joost and Rdio). Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.
Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity. Eventually, the official Kazaa client became more widespread. In February 2002, when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees, Kazaa developers used an automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol. Morpheus later became a client of the gnutella network.
Consumer Empowerment was sued in the Netherlands in 2001 by the Dutch music publishing body, Buma/Stemra. The court ordered Kazaa's owners to take steps to prevent its users from violating copyrights or else pay a heavy fine. In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA. In response Consumer Empowerment sold the Kazaa application to Sharman Networks, headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu. In late March 2002, a Dutch court of appeal reversed an earlier judgment and stated that Kazaa was not responsible for the actions of its users. Buma/Stemra lost its appeal before the Dutch Supreme Court in December 2003.
In 2003, Kazaa signed a deal with Altnet and Streamwaves to try to convert users to paying, legal customers. Searchers on Kazaa were offered a free 30-second sample of songs for which they were searching and directed to sign up for the full-featured Streamwaves service.
However, Kazaa's new owner, Sharman, was sued in Los Angeles by the major record labels and motion pictures studios and a class of music publishers. The other defendants in that case (Grokster and MusicCity, makers of the Morpheus file-sharing software) initially prevailed against the plaintiffs on summary judgment (Sharman joined the case too late to take advantage of that ruling). The summary judgment ruling was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but was unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court in a decision titled MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
Following that ruling in favor of the plaintiff labels and studios, Grokster almost immediately settled the case. Shortly thereafter, on 27 July 2006, it was announced that Sharman had also settled with the record industry and motion picture studios. As part of that settlement, the company agreed to pay $100 million in damages to the four major music companies—Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music—and an undisclosed amount to the studios. Sharman also agreed to convert Kazaa into a legal music download service. Like the creators of similar products, Kazaa's owners have been taken to court by music publishing bodies to restrict its use in the sharing of copyrighted material.
While the U.S. action was still pending, the record industry commenced proceedings against Sharman on its home turf. In February 2004, the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) announced its own legal action against Kazaa, alleging massive copyright breaches. The trial began on 29 November 2004. On 6 February 2005, the homes of two Sharman Networks executives and the offices of Sharman Networks in Australia were raided under a court order by ARIA to gather evidence for the trial.
On 5 September 2005, the Federal Court of Australia issued a landmark ruling that Sharman, though not itself guilty of copyright infringement, had "authorized" Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs. The court ruled six defendants—including Kazaa's owners Sharman Networks, Sharman's Sydney-based boss Nikki Hemming and associate Kevin Bermeister—had knowingly allowed Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs. The company was ordered to modify the software within two months (a ruling enforceable only in Australia). Sharman and the other five parties faced paying millions of dollars in damages to the record labels that instigated the legal action.
On 5 December 2005, the Federal Court of Australia ceased downloads of Kazaa in Australia after Sharman Networks failed to modify their software by the December 5 deadline. Users with an Australian IP address were greeted with the message "Important Notice: The download of the Kazaa Media Desktop by users in Australia is not permitted" when visiting the Kazaa website. Sharman planned to appeal against the Australian decision, but ultimately settled the case as part of its global settlement with the record labels and studios in the United States.
Thomas-Rasset appealed the verdict and was given a new trial. In June 2009 that jury awarded the recording industry plaintiffs a judgment of $80,000 per song, or $1.92 million. This is less than half of the $150,000 amount authorized by statute.
The federal court found the award "monstrous and shocking" and reduced it to $54,000. The recording industry offered to accept a settlement of $25,000, with the money going to charities that support musicians. Apparently undaunted, Thomas-Rasset was able to obtain a third trial on the issue of damages. In November 2010 she was again ordered to pay for her violation, this time $62,500 per song, for a total of $1.5 million. At last word, her attorneys were examining a challenge to the constitutional validity of massive statutory damages, where actual damages would have been $24.
In 2006 StopBadware.org identified Kazaa as a spyware application. They identified the following components:
- Cydoor (spyware): Collects information on the PC's surfing habits and passes it on to Cydoor Desktop Media.
- B3D (adware): An add-on which causes advertising popups if the PC accesses a website which triggers the B3D code.
- Altnet (adware): A distribution network for paid "gold" files.
- The Best Offers (adware): Tracks your browsing habits and internet usage to display advertisements similar to your interests.
- InstaFinder (hijacker): Redirects your URL typing errors to InstaFinder's web page instead of the standard search page.
- TopSearch (adware): Displays paid songs and media related to your search in Kazaa.
- RX Toolbar (spyware): The toolbar monitors all the sites you visit with Microsoft Internet Explorer and provides links to competitors' websites.
- New.net (hijacker): A browser plugin that lets you access several of its own unofficial Top Level Domain names, e.g., .chat and .shop. The main purpose of which is to sell domain names such as www.record.shop which is actually www.record.shop.new.net.
Kazaa's legal issues ended after a settlement of $100 million in reparations to the recording industry. Kazaa, including the domain name, was then sold off to Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. Kazaa then operated as a monthly music subscription service allowing users to download unlimited songs, before finally ending the service.
Some users still use the old network on the unauthorized versions of Kazaa, either Kazaa Lite or Kazaa Resurrection, which is still a self-sustaining network where thousands of users still share unrestricted media. This fact was previously stated by Kazaa when they claimed their FastTrack network was not centralized (like the old Napster), but instead a link between millions of computers around the world.
However, in the wake of the bad publicity and lawsuits, the number of users on Kazaa Lite has dropped dramatically. They have gone from several millions of users at a given time to mere thousands.
Without further recourse, and until the lawsuit was settled, the RIAA actively sued thousands of people and college campuses across the U.S. for sharing copyrighted music over the network. Although the lawsuits were mainly in the U.S., other countries also began to follow suit. Beginning in 2008, however, RIAA announced an end to individual lawsuits.
Since 2012, Kazaa's website is inactive and displaying "We thank you for your interest in Kazaa. However we no longer offer a music service."
- This section is limited to those programs which are based on the official Kazaa Media Desktop client. For other FastTrack-compatible clients, see FastTrack.
Kazaa Lite was an unauthorized modification of the Kazaa Media Desktop application which excluded adware and spyware and provided slightly extended functionality. It became available in April 2002. It was available free of charge, and as of mid-2005 was almost as widely used as the official Kazaa client itself. It connected to the same FastTrack network and thus allowed to exchange files with all Kazaa users, and was created by third party programmers by modifying the binary of the original Kazaa application. Later versions of Kazaa Lite included K++, a memory patcher that removed search limit restrictions, and set one's "participation level" to the maximum of 1000. Sharman Networks considers Kazaa Lite to be a copyright violation.
After development of Kazaa Lite stopped, K-Lite v2.6, Kazaa Lite Resurrection and Kazaa Lite Tools appeared. Unlike Kazaa Lite, which is a modification of an old version of Kazaa, K-Lite v2.6 and later require the corresponding original KMD executable to run. K-Lite doesn't include any code by Sharman: instead, it runs the user's original Kazaa Media Desktop executable in an environment which removes the malware, spyware and adware and adds features. In November 2004, the developers of K-Lite released K-Lite v2.7, which similarly requires the KMD 2.7 executable.
Other clean variants used an older core (2.02) and thus, K-Lite had some features that others didn't have. K-Lite included multiple search tabs, a custom toolbar, and autostart, a download accelerator, an optional splash screen, preview with option (to view files you are currently downloading), an IP blocker, Magnet links support, and ad blocking, although the clients based on the 2.02 core abstract these functions to third-party programs.
Kazaa Lite Tools was an update of the original Kazaa Lite, with modifications to the third-party programs included, it is newer and includes more tools.
Kazaa Lite Resurrection (KLR) appeared almost immediately after Kazaa Lite development was stopped in August 2003. KLR was a copy of Kazaa Lite 2.3.3.
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- Spread some peanut butter on your whole-grain toast instead of butter or jelly.
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- Add ground flax or chia seeds to smoothies.
- Make scrambled eggs with healthy plant oil such as canola oil
- Enjoy seafood, especially fatty fish like salmon at least twice /week
- Garnish your salad with nuts
- Add chopped nuts or seeds to brown rice or quinoa.
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What does green chakra mean
GREEN governs the HEART chakra.
Green chakra relates to love/self-love – the ability to give and take unconditionally.
When balanced we are able to give love and also to love and nurture ourselves.
Helps relax muscles, nerves, and thoughts..
What does green mean in love
The Green Heart emoji 💚 depicts a classic representation of a heart, colored green. It is commonly used to represent love, support, close bonds, and admiration for things that have some relation to the color green, from nature to sports teams that use green.
How do you heal a green chakra
Opening the Heart ChakraBurn Anahata Incense and Essential Oils. … Repeat Positive Affirmations About Love. … Practice Yoga Poses to Open the Heart. … Use Healing Stones With the Vibrational Love Energy. … Recite Mantras to Shift Energy Toward Love.Mar 3, 2019
Why green is a bad color
The crux of the problem is that green is such a difficult color to manufacture that toxic substances are often used to stabilize it. Take Pigment Green 7, the commonest shade of green used in plastics and paper. It is an organic pigment but contains chlorine, some forms of which can cause cancer and birth defects.
What color means evil
BlackBlack is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery. Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes).
What is God’s real name
Yahweh, the god of the Israelites, whose name was revealed to Moses as four Hebrew consonants (YHWH) called the tetragrammaton. After the Babylonian Exile (6th century bce), and especially from the 3rd century bce on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons.
What is Jesus’s favorite number
888In Christian numerology, the number 888 represents Jesus, or sometimes more specifically Christ the Redeemer.
What color does green symbolize
Green is a cool color that symbolizes nature and the natural world. Perhaps because of its strong associations with nature, green is often thought to represent tranquility, good luck, health, and jealousy. Researchers have also found that green can improve reading ability.
What chakra is associated with the color green
Green is the color of the Fourth – Heart – Chakra. It is located in the centre of the chest, in the region of the heart. Note how Heart Chakra bridges the lower triangle (the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras) and the upper triangle (throat, third eye and crown chakras).
What does the color green mean in a dream
Green signifies a positive change, good health, growth, fertility, healing, hope, vigor, vitality, peace, and serenity. The appearance of the color may also be a way of telling you to “go ahead”. Alternatively, green is a metaphor for a lack of experience in some task.
What is God’s number
The term “God’s number” is sometimes given to the graph diameter of Rubik’s graph, which is the minimum number of turns required to solve a Rubik’s cube from an arbitrary starting position (i.e., in the worst case). Rokicki et al.
Is Green a healing color
Green is known to be universally healing. It is symbolic for the heart chakra because green light helps with opening our heart. … Green is in the middle of the color spectrum. It carries both physical and spiritual healing benefits.
What color represents the future
blueBecause of this a lot of movies used the opposite of these warm tones, i.e. cool tones, often blue, to represent the future. This has become a convention. So much so that most images that are supposed to represent hi-tech, i.e. the future has arrived, tend toward cool blue.
What color represents new beginnings
GreenGreen is a very down-to-earth color. It can represent new beginnings and growth. It also signifies renewal and abundance.
Is Green positive or negative Colour
Green, like any colour also has negative traits.
What does the color green mean biblically
Green is obtained by mixing yellow (trials) with blue (Word of God). Therefore, the biblical meaning of the color green is immortality. (The leaf shall not wither (psalm 1:3). Green is also symbolic of resurrection which we see each Spring.
What is God’s favorite color
GreenGod’s Favorite Color is Green.
What color represents forgiveness
Yellow roses: The rose is universally loved by all and is, depending on its color, representative of many qualities, including passion (red roses), purity (white roses) and friendship/forgiveness (yellow roses).
What is the spiritual color of love
GreenGreen is the color of the heart chakra, symbolizing love to others, forgiveness, compassion, understanding, transformation, warmth, sharing, sincerity and devotion.
How do you know if your chakras are blocked
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How do you align your chakras
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Located between the Eliel Saarinen and Richard Meier wings of the Des Moines Art Center, “Shadow (coal)” locates through material association the history of Des Moines as a center for coal resources in the Midwest. Early in the city’s history, local coal deposits were the readily available fuel for home industry and transportation. Underground mining in Des Moines persisted for about 100 years (1840-1947). Recorded production totaled 50,965,427 tons from reserves of 750 million tons.
32 tons of coal were placed in the former grassy space over a storage vault. This vein extends through to the west side of building, viewable from the glassed bridge between the wings and from vantage points outside the Center.
“Shadow” is a reference to time through the stark shiny blackness of the material. Like earlier works such as the “Tahualtapa Project” (collection of the Seattle Art Museum), material sources become the thematic image for reference to hidden histories and forgotten stories about the land.
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India faces a colossal waste management crisis due to lack of efficient waste management solutions, and this creates serious social, health, and environmental issues. As cities continue to urbanise and citizens adopt a more western lifestyle, the crisis only grows.
Several issues contribute to this. The current (road) infrastructure cannot handle the logistics, local banks do not finance projects and incineration, the default technology for most of the current or planned projects is not adequate to process typical Indian waste.
10%–20% inert materials like glass, and
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Due to this, waste processing plants struggle to run at 60%–70% of their designed thermal output, and often require additional fuels like Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to be expended. Incinerating Indian waste is like running a car on unrefined oil. | <urn:uuid:438b81d7-b25f-4d85-8d85-879f6b36109c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nexusnovus.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.885831 | 288 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Os mortos falam e a humanidade está ansiosa, aguardando a sua palavra. Primeiro livro psicografado por Francisco Cândido Xavier, Parnaso de além- túmulo. Parnaso de Além-túmulo’ foi o primeiro livro psicografado por Francisco Cândido Xavier. A obra, ditada por 56 poetas da língua portuguesa, é uma coletânea. Summary. Capa do livro Parnaso de Além-Túmulo, lançado pela Federação Espírita Brasileira em
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Some directions for mediumship research. Etudes sur l’Esprit des personnes vivantes. Proc Soc Psych Res. He is always in search of light, of vitality, of strength, of beauty.
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What does a Revenue Manager do?
Revenue managers oversee the process of collecting and organizing analytical data related to an organization’s revenue, sales, and other financial activities. They plan, approve, and supervise the deployment of systems and processes to manage and analyze financial data and other records. They often work in close collaboration with other teams, including developers, sales staff, and financial specialists. They confirm that all systems are designed to ensure compliance with regulatory standards. They train and supervise a team of revenue auditors and other specialists.
Revenue managers typically have a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, along with a background in auditing or revenue management. Supervisory experience is helpful. These managers must be highly organized, detail oriented, and able to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
- Prepare outline for and support the annual revenue budget process.
- Serve as the supervisor of revenue staff.
- Ensure efficient processing of billing claims, insurance follow up, collection activities, and denials.
- Grow a team of expert representatives.
- Provide strategic direction in support of critical revenue cycle initiatives and goals.
- Mentor, guide and provide oversight assistance of the team.
- Maintain and analyze revenue to ensure compliance with revenue recognition.
- Make appropriate changes to address any issues or trends after review with management.
- Prepare and review complex journal entries and account reconciliations.
- Responsible for revenue cash receipts for operated and non operated properties.
- Provide key reporting and actionable data across the revenue management teams.
- Oversee multiple operational teams responsible for the revenue cycle projects for one or multiple clients.
- Aid and assist in the integration of revenue, receivable and billing activities for future acquisitions.
- Partner with finance team to assist with budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning.
- Comply with all federal, state and local regulatory guidelines and laws.
- Bachelor's Degree in accounting, business, or computer science.
- Knowledge of commercial contracts, order forms, legal, and pricing.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
- Demonstrated strong leadership and problem solving capabilities.
- Extensive experience with common billing systems.
- Comfortable performing workflow analysis assessments.
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Learn how to become a Revenue Manager, what skills and education you need to succeed, and what level of pay to expect at each step on your career path.
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Researchers have linked a rare genetic mutation found mostly in Black Americans and other people of African descent to an earlier onset of heart failure and a higher risk of hospitalization. The findings suggest that earlier screening for the mutation could lead to faster treatment and improved outcomes for heart failure in this vulnerable group, the researchers said.
The genetic variant studied in the current research had long ago been linked to a higher risk of heart failure in people of African ancestry. Known as TTR V142I, the gene can cause a condition called transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, which is potentially fatal because protein builds up inside the heart. However, little was known about the impact of the mutation on important clinical-related factors such as heart structure, heart function, hospitalization rates, and blood biomarkers.
To learn more, the researchers studied TTR V142I in a group of middle-aged participants from the 20-year-long Jackson Heart Study, the largest and longest investigation of cardiovascular disease in Black Americans. Of the 2,960 participants selected from the study, about 119 (4%) had the genetic mutation, but none had heart failure at the start. Between 2005 and 2016, the researchers observed 258 heart failure events.
They found that patients who carried the genetic mutation were at significantly higher risk of developing heart failure, compared to those without the mutation. These patients also developed heart failure nearly four years earlier and had a higher number of heart failure hospitalizations. Researchers said they found no significant difference in death rates between the two groups during this study period.
“Identification of genetic susceptibility to amyloid cardiomyopathy is an important advance related to heart failure, especially given its disproportionate effect on older and multiethnic populations,” said Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, M.D., a medical officer in the Heart Failure and Arrhythmia Branch in NHLBI’s Division of Cardiovascular Sciences.
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In spite of claims that the Scripture is so unclear that it needs an outside infallible interpreter, Martin Luther found some of its passages clear enough both to rely on them with complete confidence for eternal life and to shed light on many passages that are otherwise less clear. Although many individual texts lack clarity in themselves, simple trust in the straightforward texts makes the doctrine taught by Scripture, including every article of faith, completely clear. Such texts are so lucid that they need no exegesis in the sense of clarification. No more open to different interpretations than ordinary human language, the clear passages make possible the understanding of many less clear passages, the unity of faith, and the rejection of false teaching. This is what it means for Scripture to interpret Scripture: many unclear passages of Scripture are clarified by passages of Scripture that need no clarification, neither from human interpreters, nor even from other Scripture. For example, the Ethiopian eunuch could not understand an unclear messianic prophecy without Philip’s interpretation, now recorded as perfectly clear Scripture that interprets the less clear prophecy (Acts 8:30-35). Many of those who deny this doctrine of the perspicuity (clarity) of Scripture claim that divisions among Protestants result from different interpretations of Scripture passages, …
An initial reading of John 6:22-71 leaves the impression that through the living bread discourse, Jesus taught his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood in the Lord’s Supper. This is not only the interpretation of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, but also that of orthodox theologians immediately following the time of the apostles and by some confessional Lutheran theologians today. (Except when explicitly indicating metaphorical, nonphysical eating and drinking, the words eat and drink will be used in the plain, oral sense, as Jesus meant them when he said, “Take, eat” and “Take, drink.”) This view will be vindicated by establishing these two teachings from the straightforward reading of the passage:
- John 6:51-58 speaks of the eating and drinking commanded in the words of the institution of the Lord’s Supper, as opposed to merely metaphorical, non-physical eating and drinking.
- In this passage, the objects of eating and drinking, referred to as “true food” and “true drink,” are the literal body and blood of Jesus, not merely the sacramental symbols or spiritual benefits of his flesh and blood.
On the night of his betrayal, the Lord instituted the Eucharist with the simple words, “Take, eat; this is my body… Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Matthew 26:26-28). A multitude of arguments have been employed against taking those words to mean that in the distribution of the bread and wine, he gave his disciples his body to eat and his blood to drink. Jesus could not possibly have done so while remaining truly human, according to Zwingli, Calvin, and a plethora of denominations following them. Other arguments are less philosophically sophisticated. Perhaps the most common seeks to cast doubt on a literal reading of the words of institution by pointing to figures of speech Jesus used, as when he said, “I am the door” and “I am the true vine.” This argument indeed proves that Jesus sometimes spoke metaphorically, as everyone already knows, but falls short of providing any evidence that he did so in his Last Supper. As relevant as such expressions may be to interpreting “I am the true bread” as non-Eucharistic, their structure is not sufficiently close to that of “This is my body” (Pieper 1953, vol. 3, 305-311) to take the argument as more than a rhetorical ploy. In fact, it has more force when reversed: there would be no need to use obviously metaphorical passages to bolster a claim that the words of institution are metaphorical if those words were just as clearly metaphorical. As much as these kinds of arguments are advanced in debate, the real reason for much of the opposition to a more straightforward reading of Christ’s words may lie elsewhere. Among Protestants, a particularly strong motive for taking the words of institution symbolically is the desire to distance themselves from Tridentine Catholicism, especially from its idea of sacrificing Christ in every mass. The doctrine of the real presence of Christ’s body in the bread and his blood in the wine is seen as synonymous with the doctrine of the priest’s offering Christ as a sacrifice, even though the former does not imply the latter …
A Puritan heritage
In response to an article maintaining that God made the covenant of grace only with the elect, a pastor in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church recently asked how he could attain assurance of election given that “The identity of the elect is one of those hidden things that belong to the Lord. I’ve been working for seventy-five years to make my calling and election sure, but I haven’t arrived yet” (New Horizons, July 2005, p. 21, Letters). Although Scripture teaches unconditional election and total depravity, it does so in order to strengthen confidence in Christ alone for eternal life. Misuse of these doctrines can have the opposite effect, as when Puritans desperately looked for their own faith, sanctification, or work of the Spirit within as evidence that they had been chosen. For example, 2 Peter 1 is inadvertently wielded against apostolic teaching whenever interpreted to imply that a new convert cannot have full joy in believing the good news until diligently assuring himself of his election by asking questions like, “Have I really added self-control to my knowledge?” or “Have I really added love to my brotherly kindness?” As even Calvin taught (on 1 John 3:19; 4:17), God does not give subjective signs of salvation as the foundation of assurance, which rests on the objective promise of the gospel, but as added confirmation. In Word and Sacrament, the Son of Man sincerely offers the free water of life to all who thirst, longing for them to simply accept his invitation (Matthew 23:37; John 7:37-38; 1 Timothy 2:1-6). He certainly will not turn away anyone who relies on his shed blood for the forgiveness of sins.*
If you have been baptized, you have been baptized into Christ’s death
Even long before the Puritans, it seemed reasonable that confidence of salvation would result from progress in sanctification (Romans 6:1-2). Paul reversed the order: he urged those baptized into Christ to walk in the Spirit by depending on the already accomplished crucifixion of their flesh with its desires (Galatians 3:26-29; 5:16-24). Indeed, to assure the members of the Roman congregation of their identity in Christ, Paul pointed them to their baptism: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:3-4). The idea is not that baptism saves apart from faith any more than the gospel saves apart from faith, but rather that faith relies on baptism as the Spirit’s work of uniting the believer to Christ (Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:12). Characteristically, Paul argued deductively (Romans 6:1-14):
- We who have received Christian baptism have been united with the death and burial of Christ.
- Since the slaves of sin, who belong to this age, were put to death in baptism, we have been freed from every obligation to serve sin.
- Those united with Christ’s death and burial have already been united with his resurrection, to culminate in the resurrection of the body in age to come.
- Because we are now alive from the dead, we are to present ourselves to God as instruments of righteousness.
Such dependence on baptism seems strange to those taught to see it as a human work, but Paul presented baptism as God’s gift of grace, as the tool he used to bring freedom from the curse of the law (Romans 6:14). Luther contrasted this objective certainty of baptism with the doubts that arise from probing into the secret things that belong to God:
As far as we are concerned, we now have God’s Word, and so we ought not have any doubt about our salvation. It’s in this way that we should dispute about predestination, for it has already been settled: I have been baptized and I have the Word, and so I have no doubt about my salvation as long as I continue to cling to the Word. When we take our eyes off Christ we come upon predestination and start to dispute. Our Lord God says, ‘Why don’t you believe me? Yet you hear me when I say that you are beloved by me and your sins are forgiven.’ This is our nature, that we are always running away from the Word.**
Luther echoed the good news proclaimed by Peter, who encouraged suffering believers by assuring them that they had been born again by the preached Word, that they had been saved by a visible Word, baptism (1 Peter 1:23-25; 3:21). Regeneration by water and the Spirit is certain precisely because it rests on the will of the truthful and loving God, not on anything in people (John 1:12-13; 3:5-8). Yes, the hidden things do belong to the Lord alone, “but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever” (Deuteronomy 29:29).
* A shorter version of this paragraph appeared as a Letter in the October 2005 issue of New Horizons, a publication of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Another Letter in the same issue shows how the doctrine of limited atonement undermines the assurance of consistent Calvinists: “… I’m not sure of my calling and election (2 Pet. 1:10). It seems to me that believing and knowing on the basis of God’s Word that Jesus died to save his people from their sins (Matt. 1:21; John 6:44, 65) is not the same as believing and knowing on the basis of some subjective decision, feeling, or act that he died to save me” (emphasis original). I hope to write more on this soon. [The planned paper was added on October 20, 2005.]
** Luther, M. (1999, c1967). Vol. 54: Luther’s Works, vol. 54: Table Talk (J. J. Pelikan, H. C. Oswald & H. T. Lehmann, Ed.). Luther’s Works (Vol. 54, Page 57-58). Philadelphia: Fortress Press. Emphasis added.
Christians of Reformed heritage, including Arminians as well as Calvinists, obviously differ from Lutherans on sacramentology. More foundationally, to the extent that they maintain their distinctive teachings, they disagree on exactly what gospel (good news) the apostles proclaimed:
Many evangelical Christians tend to think they disagree with each other only on what they consider minor issues such as whether to baptize infants and whether the gift of tongues is for today, but that they agree on how the forgiveness of sins is received: by grace, through faith alone. This illusion is dispelled upon the realization that different evangelical churches mean very different things by the word faith. Here are some of the most common examples:
- Faith really means deciding to accept Jesus as Savior by sincerely saying a sinner’s prayer.
- Faith really means making the decision to accept Jesus not only as Savior, but also as Lord.
- Faith really is not just belief in God’s promise that his Son died for our sins and rose from the dead, but includes a benevolent love for God, a pious hatred of sin, covenant faithfulness, an obedient heart, or some other commendable quality.
With all the differences of opinion, can anyone know with certainty what faith means? Does it matter?
Ongoing controversy between even some of the most conservative followers of John Calvin surrounding what has become known as “the new perspective on Paul” dispels the illusion that professing evangelicals, though disagreeing on minor points of doctrine, at least agree on justification by faith alone. Among the more influential denominations involved, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church recently commended for study a report that explains many of the points of contention, some concerning seemingly harmless definitions of terms. Noting that words in the phrase “justification by faith alone” mean different things to different people, the report criticizes what it calls “the Federal Vision” for redefining faith to include faithfulness, obedience, or other good works. On the other hand, the same document condemns baptismal regeneration as contrary to the Scriptures and the Westminster Confession of Faith. That regeneration by baptism as God’s visible word as well as by his spoken word was integral to Martin Luther’s understanding of justification by faith suggests that those who formulated the confession’s underlying system of doctrine may have, ironically, redefined justification by faith centuries before the Federal Vision.
In 1531, the first Protestants clarified some fundamental similarities between the preached word of God and the sacraments, the rites instituted by Christ:
Through the Word and the rite God simultaneously moves the heart to believe and take hold of faith, as Paul says (Rom. 10:17), “Faith comes from what is heard.” As the Word enters through the ears to strike the heart, so the rite itself enters through the eyes to move the heart. The Word and the rite have the same effect, as Augustine said so well when he called the sacrament “the visible Word,” for the rite is received by the eyes and is a sort of picture of the Word, signifying the same thing as the Word. Therefore both have the same effect. (Tappert, 2000a)
The Lord’s Supper was called the visible word, used in contrast to audible word by Augustine in an age of general illiteracy, when words were only written to be read out loud. However, in today’s culture of silent reading, visible word may convey no more than written word, whereas the concept of nonverbal communication, conveying thought by means other than words heard or read, is quite familiar.
What will I eat? How will I pay the bills? How will I have a happy marriage? How will I have a successful career? Everyone seems to be preoccupied with these kinds of concerns, but Jesus calmed his disciples by giving them a higher purpose. He told them not to worry about their needs in this world, but to instead seek God’s kingdom, having the promise that their heavenly Father would then also meet all those needs: “…do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well” (Matt 6:31-33, RSV). The parallel account omits “and his righteousness” and adds an assurance: “…seek his kingdom, and all these things shall be yours as well. Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:31-32). The first step in understanding what it means to seek the kingdom of God is to determine what Jesus meant by “his kingdom.” This is because Jesus used the word translated as kingdom in a way that is very different from the typical usage of kingdom in English as the land or people ruled by a king.
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DeKalb County is named for Johann DeKalb, who was a German who fought in the Revolution.
Surrounding County Courthouses:
S – La Salle County
Created: March 4, 1837
Orange (Sycamore) 1837
Cottonville 1837 – 1839
Sycamore 1839 – present
County Courthouse – Sycamore
Location: 133 West State Street / North Main Street
Built: 1904 – 1905
Style: Classical Revival
Architect: Herbert T Hazelton of Watson & Hazelton
Contractor: William J. McAlpine
Description: The building faces south and is a three story stone and concrete structure. The building is located on landscaped grounds in the center of Sycamore. The south front has four large Ionic columns rising from the second story to the parapet which is Greek style with a monument mounded above. The base is horizontal stone. A balustrade rounds along the base of the second story and along the roofline. In the interior, Tennessee marble, bronze and brass are used throughout. The second story has an atrium and two courtrooms. The main courtroom on the third story has stained glass, in the form of a skylight.The building houses the County Circuit Court of the 16th Judicial Circuit. The building was restored in 1987. A four story addition was constructed on the north side in 2011 to 2012. The architect was Dewberry and the contractor was Gilbane Inc.
History: The county was created in 1837 and Orange (Sycamore) was selected as the county seat. In 1837, the first court met in the home of Rufus Colton in Cottonville. The county seat was moved to Sycamore in 1839. A log structure was erected in 1839 in Sycamore and became the first courthouse. The second courthouse was a two story brick structure built by William Phelps in 1850. In 1864 a two story addition was built to house offices. The third and present courthouse was constructed in 1904 to 1905 at a cost of $137,000.
County Administration Building – Sycamore
Location: 110 East Sycamore Street / North Main Street
Built: 1981 – 1982
Architect: Burnidge Cassell and Associates
Contractor: Walker Structural Engineers and Klaucens and Associates Inc.
Description: The building faces north and is a two story concrete and glass structure. The northwest section of the building has a recessed entrance on the north side. On the northwest are horizontal windows on the first and second stories. The east wing descends a slight slope. The roof line is flat.
County Legislative Center – Sycamore
Location: 200 North Main Street / East Exchange Street
Built: 2000 – 2002
Architect: Wold Associates & Engineers
Contractor: Rockford Structures Construction Company
Description: The building faces south and is a two story buff colored brick, concrete and glass structure. The south front has a projecting one story section with the entrance on the west side entering the two story section. The roof line is flat.
County Courthouse - Sycamore
County Administration Building - Sycamore
County Legislative Center - Sycamore
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SALEM, Ore. – A majority of the Oregon House and Senate approved overtime pay for agricultural workers.
“Farmworkers have long been excluded from requirements for overtime compensation,” Oregon Democrats said. “When the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938 it excluded agricultural workers, and still today, agricultural workers remain exempt from both state and federal overtime protections.”
House Bill 4002 establishes pay requirements for agricultural workers in Oregon after 40 hours per week. If signed by Governor Kate Brown, the law will be gradually phased in over a five-year period.
HB 4002 also includes language that would create a refundable tax credit for employers who give farmworkers overtime pay. Oregon Democrats said the credit is designed to help out smaller farms.
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How To Be An Explorer Of The World: Portable Life Museum
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
- Book Category: Architecture and Design
- Format: Paperback
- Number of Pages: 208
From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists. The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you as if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to. Through this series of beautifully hand-illustrated interactive prompts, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world in ways they never even imagined. | <urn:uuid:3666e7fc-9c5e-4d8e-a055-11c1c22e6809> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artisfairkl.com/products/how-to-be-an-explorer-of-the-world-portable-life-museum-9780399534607 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.889686 | 198 | 2.625 | 3 |
An approach to some classical libration point orbit problems by means of artificial intelligence tecniques
Tutor / directorMasdemont Soler, Josep
Document typeMaster thesis
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Rapid developments in the last decade have demonstrated the potential of new techniques within the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field as an effective approach for different classical problems in the area of astrodynamics. Pathfinding strategies in multi-body dynamical regions of space implies some challenges which have traditionally relied on simplifications of the dynamical model or heavy computational loads. However, modern machine learning techniques are likely to provide more lightweight solutions that could be applied to automated on-board guidance systems in future missions traveling though complex environments. This work aims to leverage Artificial Neural Network techniques to study how they can be applied to Libration Point Orbits in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem. In particular, new ANN-approaches to compute heteroclinic connections between planar Lyapunov orbits are proposed, and their performance is compared to that of classic methodologies. In order to train, validate and test the ANNs used throughout the work, sufficiently large datasets containing information that accurately represents the dynamics of the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem are required. To this effect, the datasets are generated by means of solving the problem using well-known classic techniques, since it is the only way to acquire an ensemble of accurate observations of the model. The following steps are taken: first, the heteroclinic connections are computed with arbitrarily high accuracy by numerical propagation of the unstable/stable invariant manifolds of the departure/arrival orbits respectively, using a Runge-Kutta 45 integrator; second, the data from the propagations are tabulated and stored in datasets; third, the datasets are used to train and validate a series of ANNs; and finally, the performance of the obtained ANN models is analysed and compared to the benchmark results. Also, the influence of the sampling technique when generating the datasets and the robustness of the developed method are studied. As a result of this work, it can be concluded that the two new ANN methods developed here can be considered as good as the classical method on terms their fitness to be used as a seed in a realistic ephemeris model, since the Restricted Three Body Problem model used here as a reference is also not an accurate representation of realistic trajectories anyways, but it is an acceptable approximation in early stages of mission design. | <urn:uuid:2a96493d-8040-455a-a9d7-04c020f98359> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/357626 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.918541 | 588 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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Michigan hospitals are quickly reaching inpatient capacity as coronavirus variants spread throughout the state and contribute to a severe surge in COVID-19. The MHA continues to keep members apprised of pandemic-related developments affecting hospitals through email updates and the MHA Coronavirus webpage. Important updates are outlined below.
Chief Medical Officers Urge Michiganders to Help Prevent COVID-19 Spread
The MHA released a media statement April 9 on behalf of Michigan’s hospital/health system chief medical officers urging people to protect those who cannot be vaccinated by taking the responsible, proven preventive measures. The statement provides context on the increased transmission and risks of the virus and associated complications for children.
In addition, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer held a news conference April 9, which also featured Tina Freese Decker, Spectrum Health president and CEO and MHA board chair-elect, outlining Michigan’s COVID-19 caseload and the need to stop the spread of the virus. The governor is urging federal agencies to redirect resources, including a large influx of vaccine, to Michigan as soon as possible. Her administration has indicated it is focused on getting more vaccine supply to providers/mass vaccination clinics where it can be administered most quickly to stop viral spread.
The Protect Michigan Commission is also planning regional press events, some of which will include hospital/health system participants, to promote the need for everyone eligible to get vaccinated as soon as possible. The MHA will keep members apprised and share any messaging or materials that hospitals can use on their own platforms to amplify the message.
Questions on COVID-19 vaccines should be directed to Ruthanne Sudderth at the MHA.
Testing and Vaccination Key to Curtailing Viral Spread
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is offering free, on-site rapid COVID-19 testing in partnership with Michigan's intermediate school districts, local school districts and local health departments for residents returning from spring break travel. These fully staffed events are open to students, educators, district staff and community members, and will be scheduled prior to classes restarting. The current list of locations is available on the MDHHS website. Members with questions on testing sites should contact Laura Appel at the MHA.
As part of a virtual session with MHA staff April 5, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) outlined two strategies hospitals can follow to help address vaccine hesitancy in their communities. She encourages hospitals and health systems to use every patient interaction as an opportunity to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of the reason for the visit. In addition, she suggested facilities provide vaccine educational opportunities in the form of webinars, town halls and other events that feature physicians and can reach vaccine-hesitant groups.
As the vaccine becomes more widely available, hospitals are encouraged to revisit offers to vaccinate employees who declined vaccines when first made available to them. Some may have wanted to wait for a single dose vaccine or a more convenient time, were reluctant to get the vaccine while pregnant, or faced other circumstances that may have since changed. In addition, as the state receives media requests, it is expected to begin sharing data on healthcare personnel vaccination rates. To ensure healthcare organizations are accurately represented in any data sharing that occurs, members are urged to confirm their employee vaccine data is up to date in the state’s EMResource portal.
MDHHS Reinstates 14-Day Quarantine, Reminds Providers to Use Michigan EUA Fact Sheets
Due to increasing case rates and variant spread in Michigan, the MDHHS is reinstating a 14-day quarantine for anyone who experiences close contact with a COVID-19-positive person, removing the option for a 10-day quarantine. The department’s COVID-19 public health frequently asked questions document has been updated to reflect the change.
The department also reminds vaccinators that they need to provide the Michigan versions of the emergency use authorization (EUA) fact sheets available on the MDHHS website. Each fact sheet has been updated and includes information on the Michigan Care Improvement Registry.
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we were not the only ones left; the fig-tree stood by us. we were not the only ones left until the sky refused us a visa. sweet dreams, dear as we wait for another flower to bloom.
When, brother, will you be? How will you be? For you are not yet. A ‘boy' you are called by milk-plastered lips and you undo your hat to bare that musty dome. Yet a ‘boy' you remain. Your unpensioned thirty-year job - unpensioned even in kind - you have faithfully groomed, while bosses go and come, renewing that boyishness, inheriting you and the garden, but ever ‘boy', never ‘man'. Maybe a bigger garden will turn you to a field-man. Did you tell your boss you have fathered, husbanded like him? Does he know your son lectures to professors in exile? Booted on ancient buttocks by weak-boned madams who rob your humility implanting slavery and hate. Even yoking you with manufactured allegiances, yet your blood-left rhythm speaks When history chapters allow.
i am the only one you are the only one. the birds and the rivers sing to me, they speak in your voice. if i fall silent you will be silent too. if i fall silent your wounds will be named silence. i am a piece of you and you are a piece of me. the blood in my veins is you. listen to the rhythm of the stream of my blood and the echoes from the hills, mixed with gentle ripples of the waters in the fast stream. but with time you will hear your voice in the blue skies of my heart. in the dark clouds of my soul you will hear a voice that tells the story of your forgotten voices of birds long dead of elephants crippled by guns of orphans you do not deserve. | <urn:uuid:e6d9e85d-e9fa-4eb5-b7fc-04de09d33ae6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.poemhunter.com/poets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958326 | 386 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Alleviating the heat-island effect through introducing thermal regulation mechanisms in building elements can improve human thermal comfort and living environment in urban areas. Passive thermal regulation systems incorporated to roofs, windows or walls, and operating without the need for electricity, are an energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable solution.
Phase changing materials minimize the temperature fluctuations through the use of latent heat, but display some limitations. The application of these techniques has resulted in cooling during both day and night. Therefore, the research of new materials that reduce temperature fluctuations in both directions still needs to be developed.
Behaviour of the spin-crossover material during day-night cycles.
Researchers led by Dr. José Sánchez-Costa and Dr. Ana Espinosa at IMDEA Nanociencia have demonstrated that molecular materials can be applied for thermal regulation purposes in a novel approach. In their latest work, published in Advanced Science, the group tested molecular-based coordination polymers embedded in plastic matrices against several heating-cooling cycles. They observed a concomitant phase transition and colour change, from pink to white, that resulted in a cooling effect respect to other thermochromic materials. The measured temperatures indicated that the heated material was able to dissipate heat more efficiently via two effects: energy absorption that triggers the phase transition and optical reflection due to colour change towards white -reflecting more energy. Further, the cooled material (pink) produced a dampening of the temperature decrease due to the desorption of heat produced in the phase transition. This translates into lower temperature fluctuation during heating and cooling cycles.
The spin-crossover molecule materials were remarkably stable upon cycling; in this study up to 40 cycles were performed, arising similar results. These spin-crossover are versatile materials ready to be designed for specific intended properties, such as transition temperature and thermal hysteresis.
“Climate change is one of the most serious problems that we are going to face in the coming years, everything we can do to reduce its effects is almost a must as scientists” Dr. Sánchez-Costa says; “The results obtained in this work are very exciting and open the way to use these switchable materials in real applications, if we think in integrating these in roof or in windows of buildings, since they combine the action of optical reflectivity with the absorption of heat due to the material's phase change. This type of material had never been explored to regulate the temperature inside buildings”.
In this study, the researchers demonstrate that the heat generated by the Sun is sufficient to produce spin transition in a spin-crossover material. This, in turn, leads to a cooling effect respect to other similar materials, due to an increase in light reflection resulting from the colour change and the energy absorption associated with the spin transition. Therefore, spin-crossover molecular materials could be used to reduce temperature fluctuations, and could be potentially implemented in passive temperature control elements in buildings.
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Other things to be considered in narrative are: Movement, which, unless for special reasons, should be rapid, at least not slow and broken; Suspense; general Interest; and the questions whether or not there are good situations and good minor climaxes, contributing to the interest; and whether or not motivation is good, apart from that which results from character, that is whether events are properly represented as happening in accordance with the law of cause and effect which inexorably governs actual
The first of these theories, namely, that which regards discomfort and pleasure as actual contents in those who experience them, has, I think, nothing conclusive to be said in its favour.* It is suggested chiefly by an ambiguity in the word "pain," which has misled many people, including Berkeley, whom it supplied with one of his arguments for subjective idealism.
It remains to be examined whether they are actual qualities of such occurrences, or are merely differences as to causal properties.
This desire for beliefs, as opposed to desire for the actual facts, is a particular case of secondary desire, and, like all secondary desire its satisfaction does not lead to a complete cessation of the initial discomfort.
Some portion of this knowledge may, no doubt, be acquired in a man's closet; but some of it also can only be derived from the public sources of information; and all of it will be acquired to best effect by a practical attention to the subject during the period of actual
service in the legislature.
It was therefore a disagreeable reminder of the actual
situation when Joe said aloud:
"Yes, but there's not so much of that actual
fact about her as about me.
She was not an actual fact for him, but the interpretation of all that he lacked on earth brought warmly home to his conception; so that this mere symbol, or life-like picture, had almost the comfort of reality.
--this veil, under which far more of his spirit was hidden than revealed, and through which he so imperfectly discerned the actual world, --or was its gray texture woven of some dark calamity?
There is many a true word written in jest, and here in the Martians we have beyond dispute the actual accomplish- ment of such a suppression of the animal side of the organism by the intelligence.
It seemed infinitely more alive than the actual Martians lying beyond it in the sunset light, panting, stirring ineffectual tentacles, and moving feebly after their vast journey across space. | <urn:uuid:f0a5b0e6-ed57-4809-a60b-486befc24a58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Actuals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964181 | 514 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Nighttime in Transylvania is as atmospherically spooky as you would hope it would be. During the winter, a thick, low-lying mist covers thick forests of pine trees and firs. Above the fog, you can see the silhouetted turrets and spires of ancient castles and fortified churches. Many of the old homes there still burn wood fires, adding to the smoky air, while the towns are filled with gothic and baroque buildings that were once beautiful, but are now marked by peeling paint and crumbling facades.
It is common at night to hear howling in the forests, either from stray dogs or wolves. It’s easy to see why Bram Stoker chose this part of Romania to be a setting for his most chilling creation, Dracula.
The first section of Stoker’s gothic horror masterpiece takes the form of a travel journal, written in shorthand by a young English solicitor, Jonathan Harker, who is traveling across Europe to help conduct a land purchase on behalf of a noble client. Harker keeps a detailed diary of his journey from Munich to Transylvania, where he plans to meet the mysterious Count Dracula in his castle.
My plan was to follow in the footsteps of the fictional Harker, taking the same train routes—where possible staying in the same cities, towns and hotels—and ending my journey at the home of Vlad the Impaler, the real-life inspiration for Dracula. Partly encircled by the Carpathian mountains, Transylvania is still largely unexplored, despite its beauty and wealth of fascinating, centuries-old sites.
What better way to see Transylvania than by investigating if the novel that made it famous could be used as a travel guide today?
When Dracula was published in 1897, Munich’s Hauptbahnhof was just half a century old. It opened in its current location in 1848, with a glorious red and yellow brick grand hall designed in the style of the Italian Renaissance. It was largely destroyed by American bombers during World War II, but regained its status as Bavaria’s principal train station after the war.
In the book, Harker’s journey by steam train from Munich in the 1890s took the better part of 12 hours. Today Vienna can be reached in just under four, courtesy of the high-speed rail.
3 May. Bistriz - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
- Jonathan Harker’s journal
With more time at my disposal than Stoker’s young protagonist, I stopped in Vienna to visit a macabre landmark. St. Stephen’s Cathedral, over 700 years old, is one of Vienna’s most notable landmarks. Mozart was married here, and Joseph Haydn sang as a choir boy in the ornately carved stalls. But deep underneath the cathedral is something much more gruesome: catacombs filled with the bones of over 11,000 victims of the bubonic plague.
Walking through the cold depths of the cathedral surrounded by skeletons is eerie enough. That is until you reach the crypt. For here, in rows of sealed bronze jars, rests the hearts and viscera of 72 members of the Hapsburg royal family. It seemed a suitably gothic beginning to my journey.
From Vienna I booked a place on the evening train to Budapest, the snow falling as we headed east through Hungary. On the four-hour journey I thought of Harker’s diary entry:
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most Western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
It’s important to note, while following in the footsteps of Stoker’s protagonist, that the author never actually set foot in Romania. The Transylvania that provides such an ominous backdrop in Dracula was entirely imagined, although the Dublin-born Stoker almost certainly studied the region and its folklore at the British Museum in London.
While staying in the small English town of Whitby, Stoker came across a book in the town library called An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, written by a William Wilkinson in 1820. Stoker’s notes about the book contain a mention of a historical figure: Dracula.
Over the course of seven years, Stoker researched Transylvanian folklore and superstitions surrounding the Strigoi, the evil souls of the dead. But to these he married an actual historical figure, that of Vlad the Impaler.
Vlad III was the ruler of Wallachia (now part of Romania) at various times between 1456 and 1476. He was born in Transylvania to the House of Draculesti, and as a Voivode (the equivalent of a nobleman), defended his county against invading Turks. He was given the chilling nickname of Tepes, Romanian for Impaler, for his predilection for mercilessly impaling his enemies, and raising them aloft for all to see in the town squares.
In reality, Vlad the Impaler was not much worse than many other feudal rulers in Europe, and in Romania he was even celebrated for defending the area’s Christian way of life against the invading Turks. In doing so, Vlad Tepes built a line of imposing castle fortresses, including Poenari and Bran Castle.
According to historian Benjamin Hugo Leblanc, Vlad Tepes’ reign brought prosperity; “crime and corruption ceased, commerce and culture thrived, and many Romanians today view Vlad Tepes as a hero for his insistence on honesty and order.” Indeed, it is entirely possible that had Bram Stoker not chanced upon his name researching Dracula in Whitby library, that Vlad the Impaler would remain little known today outside of Romania.
For Bram Stoker, Vlad Tepes of the House of Draculesti, son of Vlad Dracul, provided a suitable character on which to hang his research on vampire legends. It also helped that in modern Romanian, Dracula means the son of the devil.
My first stop on the vampire trail was meant to be the Hotel Royale, where Harker stayed the night in the old city of Klausenburg. But looking at an atlas today, there is no city by that name.
Located roughly halfway between Budapest, Hungary, and Bucharest, Romania, the city shed the name Stoker knew it by after World War I, when Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Today it’s known as Cluj-Napoca, and it’s a bustling, bohemian university town.
The Hotel Royale doesn’t exist today, and maybe it never did. But nestled near the train station is an historic inn that claims to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker. The Hotel Transilvania, located on Ferdinand Street, is one of the oldest in the city, and has been an inn since the Middles Ages.
When the Klausenburg railway station was built in 1870, the venerable old hotel went by another name, the Queen of England—perhaps a regal sounding inspiration for a Hotel Royale. Harker’s diary reads:
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good… I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.
These days, the Hotel Transilvania in Cluj-Napoca isn’t shy about drawing on its possible legacy. The owners have a number of plans in development to emphasize the connection to Stoker and his masterwork.
“We would like to follow the book in creating a suite that resembles the era that the journey was told in the novel through painting, pictures, albums, old movies, items and furniture,” explains Adriana Sava, the hotel’s general manager. “Our project is extensive and complex.”
The hotel owners are also planning to open a restaurant that serves dishes from the era. “We feel that this will attract visitors who have a longing to travel back in time and follow the footsteps of Jonathan Harker,” Sava says. Perhaps soon it will be as easy to find that paprika-spiced chicken as Harker’s waiter promised.
From Cluj Napoca, Harker headed further east in the direction of Bistriz, today known as Bistrita. Nearly 120 years after Dracula was published, I did the same.
I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika…
To Victorian readers, the depths of Transylvania would have sounded as remote and mysterious as to seem possibly made up. As I headed deeper into the Carpathian mountains, there was a definite sense of entering a still wild and sealed off part of Europe. The trains are indeed as unpunctual as Harker described, and most are elderly relics from the Cold War.
Before I set off, a Romanian friend in New York gave me the following advice: Beware of stray dogs (they bite) and of people in general. Don’t trust anyone, authorities or the train employees. I noticed on the longer train journeys through Romania, that many people in the sleeper cars would lock themselves in with bicycle locks. My carriage was empty apart from a woman in a black cloak who decorated our compartment with religious icons, tucked her legs under her, and spent the hours with her rosary beads.
The train journey passed without incident, however, and the snow covered scenery looked nearly identical to what Bram Stoker imagined:
All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods…
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
Bistrita is a small town in northern Transylvania, built around a river and surrounded by mountain villages. There is indeed a hotel called the Coroana de Aur (Romanian for Golden Crown), but this one was built in 1974, during the dark days of Romanian Communism. Inside, you can dine at a restaurant called Salon Jonathan Harker, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
It was upon arriving in Bistrita that Jonathan Harker has his first contact with his mysterious client, in the form of a note left at the hotel.
My friend - Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well tonight…
Harker was to travel on the final stage of his journey by coach, through the Borgo Pass in the mountains. For the first time he encounters mounting tension and trepidation from local villagers, and notices they start crossing themselves whenever he mentions his mission.
Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a hysterical way: “Must you go? Oh! Young Herr, must you go?”
If the local villagers in the novel are terrified at any mention of Dracula, there is a hotel to be found in the mountains that very much delights in it. Situated in the Tihuta Pass in the Bârgāului Mountains is the Hotel Castle Dracula, which claims to be located in the approximate spot of the book’s castle.
But while Stoker’s Castle Dracula was, “a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky”, the Hotel Castel Dracula was designed in a hulking concrete style some three decades ago, as a tourist attraction.
The hotel is vampire themed, with an accompanying graveyard (not real), a bar in a tower, and Dracula’s “tomb” in the basement. While the overall effect is more theme park than Victorian, the hotel does highlight an interesting aspect of Romanian history.
It was built in 1983 during the totalitarian regime of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, in an attempt to lure Dracula tourists. Even though Romania was one of the most closed off countries behind the Iron Curtain, the Hotel Castel Dracula was reportedly commissioned by Ceaușescu himself. Romanians were no stranger to his follies; this was a man who bulldozed a huge section of the capital Bucharest to build the vast Palace of the Parliament, still one of the largest buildings in the world.
There were no traces of Dracula in Piatra Fântânele, the village where the hotel is located, so I headed south to find Bran Castle, just outside the city of Brasov.
If you were to search online for “Dracula’s Castle” you will invariably discover images of what the Transylvanians called Castelul Bran. An imposing fortress built on a mountainside dividing Transylvania from the region of Wallachia, surrounded by thick forests and dwarfing a small village, from the outside Bran Castle certainly looks like the kind of place where a centuries-old vampire might live.
As the young English solicitor made his way into the mountains, each villager he passed would point two fingers at him, “a charm or guard against the evil eye”, upon learning of his destination. Boarding a rickety decades-old bus in Brasov for Bran castle, I was pleased to see that the front window was covered with half a dozen, eye-shaped religious icons hanging from red ribbons.
Bran Castle, while having little to do with either Count Dracula, or Vlad Tepes, has become known as “Dracula’s castle” mostly on looks alone. Perched high on a ridge, the castle shadows the small village below, where market vendors sell wooden crosses and plastic fangs, and closeted with thick forests and swirling mists, it retains a definite aura of mystery and spookiness.
Visiting during the quiet winter months, I was reminded of the scene where the increasingly nervous Jonathan Harker first encounters Count Dracula:
He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.
Inside, Bran Castle contains narrow winding stairways, secret passageways, and a torture chamber. Beneath its turrets there’s a fair amount of 20th century furniture, dating to the castle’s days as a royal summer residence in the 1920s and ‘30s. The country’s Communist authorities turned it into a museum in 1956.
From his extensive research, it is likely that Bram Stoker would have read of Bran Castle, but Vlad the Impaler barely set foot in it, if at all, unlike Poenari castle, which is now a ruined mountain fortress.
Founded by Teutonic knights in the 13th century, nearby Brasov is a beautiful city, surrounded by the Southern Carpathian mountains, thick forests and fortified churches. Many of its streets are lined with faded Belle Epoque era buildings. Once painted in vibrant pastels of pink, yellow and teal, today they are gently crumbling, after a half century of neglect during the Communist era.
The city still retains the air of the medieval, aside from one peculiar feature: an oversized white town sign similar to Hollywood’s.
Still on Stoker’s trail, I headed further north to the ancient medieval city of Sighisoara, and the home of Vlad the Impaler. Sighisoara is one of the few intact walled citadels left in Europe. Climbing the steep cobbled streets and entering the city gates is like stepping back in time to the 1600s. Indeed, so much of Sighisoara has remained untouched that its whole historic center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Sighisoara was one of the seven walled citadels built by the Transylvanian Saxons to defend against a Turkish invasion. Popular with visitors in the summer, in the dead of winter the mountaintop town is silent and virtually empty, its cobblestones wet with fog and snow. A steep, dark wooded covered staircase, known as the Pupils’ Stairs, leads to the top of a hill.
After climbing 176 steps, I came to an early 13th century basilica, known as the Church on the Hill, where it’s possible to see the coffins of Sighisoara’s noblemen—Transylvania’s sole church crypt. It’s one of the most haunted-looking churchyards I’ve ever seen. Shrouded in mists, with the ever-present howling of dogs in the surrounding forest, the tumbled down gravestones and mausoleums could certainly be home to the undead.
Wandering around the citadel square, where witch trials and public executions were carried out, I came across an ochre colored home, with a wrought iron dragon hanging above the entrance. A plaque noted that the Romanian ruler Vlad Dracul had lived there between 1431 and 1435. His son, Vlad Tepes, was born there.
The medieval house is also a well appointed bar, where I tried the traditional Carpathian spirit palinka. The fruit brandy is so strong that there is a pot of lard on the bar, a dab of which is used to coat the tongue before sipping the fiery spirit. After visiting the bar, you can enter the first home of Vlad the Impaler, suitably draped in red velvet curtains and lit by candelabras, with a chilling oil painting of Vlad enjoying his breakfast in front of a forest of impaled prisoners.
Stoker was 50 years old when Dracula was published, in 1897. At the time, he was the business manager of London’s Lyceum Theatre, working under the celebrated actor, Sir Henry Irving. Irving was well-known for his dramatic portrayals of gentleman villains, and is thought to have been an important inspiration for Dracula’s mannerisms.
The novel went on to become the classic example of vampire lore, yet Stoker himself never enjoyed the financial success that its many film versions later enjoyed. By the end of his life, Bram Stoker was so destitute that he applied to the Royal Literary Fund for compassionate grants.
Although the author never saw Transylvania for himself, I was surprised by how evocatively he captured the beguiling landscape. In a country where horse drawn carts can still be seen on the Communist-built motorways, and where medieval fortresses are seemingly always emerging from the fog, Jonathan Harker’s journal proved to be as accurate a guide book as a Victorian Lonely Planet.
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This one-day forum will bring together scientific and technical experts to examine and discuss various issues regarding hydraulic fracturing — the mere words of which often conjure an emotional response. Some believe the promise of greater energy independence, job growth, and affordable energy supplies locked away in the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale formations overshadow other concerns. Others contend the potential, or perceived potential, for environmental or public health damage is too great a risk to take. Misunderstanding and miscommunication cloud the discussion further. | <urn:uuid:e5226132-01b3-47b0-932c-2d17f861933e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thewaternetwork.com/event-5F1/hydraulic-fracturing-scie-NCxohzAJYOlUeR6kuJwkOA/home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.874665 | 129 | 1.898438 | 2 |
There's been a lot of discussion online about Texas Senate Bill 7, which is a bill that Republican sponsors claim preserves election integrity. Democrats and other opponents claim it makes it harder for Texans to vote.
There was a tweet shared online making a claim that the law penalizes people taking non-relatives to go vote.
Does Senate Bill 7 make it illegal to drive more than two non-relatives to the polls?
No, the current Senate Bill 7 does not make it illegal to drive more than two non-relatives to the polls.
WHAT WE FOUND
Any language connected to the number of people someone can drive to a polling location does not exist in the bill’s latest draft.
However, in a previous version, in part "f" of section 3.09, it discusses driving three or more voters to the polls.
The bill says a driver has to submit a form that explains the reason for transportation assistance and his or her relationship with the voter.
It must be delivered to the secretary of state before the voter goes to the polling place. The bill does not prescribe a penalty or punishment for not submitting that form.
While this section is not in the current draft, that doesn't mean it's off the table. Political science experts say parts of previous versions can be brought back into finalized bills.
"In terms of the legislation where it stood when the legislative session ended last night, that was one of the proposals that was put forward," King said. "Assuming that the provision is in the legislation that was proposed, it is absolutely the case that we do not have clear guidance out of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding whether this kind of provision is lawful."
If this driving provision ends up in the final bill, political science experts say the way polling locations are staffed would also have to change.
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Bear Mountain Wind Park
How Peace Energy Cooperative Helped Build BC’s First Wind Park
Bear Mountain, situated 15km south-west of the City of Dawson Creek, BC, was considered by wind energy development companies to be one of the most attractive in BC due to its wind regime and closeness to existing infrastructure; roads, rail, highways and transmission lines. Wind data had been monitored and collected on Bear Mountain by BC Hydro until their release of the Investigative Use Permit (IUP) in 2003. PEC applied for and eventually received the permit to continue the collection of wind data with the vision of constructing an industrial wind energy facility.
PEC did not have the expertise to analyze the collected wind data, or develop and finance construction and sought partners to enable the project to move forward. Aeolis Wind Power Corporation of Sidney, BC, was selected from a number of companies PEC identified as potential partners. Aeolis analyzed the data, began the Environmental Assessment process, wind park layout and design, as well as submitted the project to the BC Hydro Call for Power. The project was successful in receiving and signing a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement with BC Hydro in August of 2006, and receiving Provincial Environmental Certification in May 2007.
Bear Mountain Wind LP was created by Aeolis for ownership of the project with AltaGas of Calgary, AB, Aeolis Wind Power Corporation and Peace Energy – A Renewable Energy Cooperative as partners in the LP. Under the agreements PEC received development fees as an original development partner and the right to invest in the development of the wind park.
In 2007 the original ownership shares of the LP were exchanged for a Royalty Investment Agreement, giving AltaGas whole ownership of the project. As project founding members PEC retained development fees and the right to invest further in the equity development and construction of the project. Further investment by PEC, through a Member’s Rights Offering, was undertaken in the fall of 2009, in a new Royalty Agreement with Bear Mountain Wind LP rather than an equity investment.
The Bear Mountain Wind Park is fully commissioned, having achieved that status in October 2009 and receiving Federal certification for ecoEnergy for Renewable Power. BullFrog power has an agreement with Bear Mountain Wind for green attributes from the project.
Peace Energy will receive revenue from the Bear Mountain Wind Park project through the investments in the original partnership and construction of the project throughout the BC Hydro 25-year power purchase agreement, as well as revenue from the sale of the green attributes of the project. These revenue streams have created a firm, sustainable financial future for PEC.
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Montana drone technology company acquired for $350M
BOZEMAN (AP) — An international electronic warfare company has acquired a drone technology company in southern Montana for $350 million.
CACI International purchased Ascent Vision Technology earlier this month, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. Ascent Vision Technology develops and builds drone technology for military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance based in Belgrade, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northwest of Bozeman.
The merger "brings unique advantages to our defense and national security customers," CACI International CEO John Mengucci said. "We welcome the talented and mission-focused AVT employees to CACI."
Ascent Vision Technology President Lee Dingman said that while CACI International now owns the company, there are no plans to move any operations or employees out of Gallatin Valley.
"They're really pumped to keep us where we are. The valley is great for laser photonics, optics, not only for research and development but manufacturing ... our plans are expansion, not contraction," Dingman said, adding that there are plans to expand into an additional building at the airport in the coming years.
Ascent Vision Technology made national news last year when a piece of counter-drone technology developed by the company disrupted an Iranian drone headed toward a U.S. Navy ship stationed in the Middle East. The technology is able to detect a drone once it flies within a 3-mile radius while a camera system identifies if the drone is hostile and sends a signal disruption. | <urn:uuid:2207c678-b262-4218-8805-92113be5ebf4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2020/08/28/montana-drone-technology-company-acquired-350-m/5655041002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.935546 | 314 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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CNET was the first to report on prospective tracking of American citizens using cell phone technology, but this week Barack Obama becomes the Dark Knight himself, seizing the opportunity to spy on every American through unfettered access to their cell phone records, physical locations and internet use.
In the movie the Dark Knight, Batman uses cell phone technology to spy on the citizens of Gotham, following their every move in his quest to locate his nemesis. On Friday, the Obama administration will argue in federal court for the right, without a court-ordered warrant, to gain access to cellular provider records documenting the time and location American citizens place cell phone calls. I know you’re thinking, “But what about my Constitutional rights against search and seizure?” Those rights will no longer exist. The Obama administration is advocating that, | <urn:uuid:0d2ce28d-ae73-41bd-8619-2793db9f0c0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wtpotus.wordpress.com/tag/tracking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.940585 | 189 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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Camping is an activity that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It is usually carried out in settings such as the woods, the beach, or in your backyard. Camping is a fun activity that involves food, scenery, and shelter by camps.
Some people may question the whole experience of camping, and what exactly it achieves. Essentially, it is an activity that can be done inside with the luxury of air-conditioning and packed food. However, camping allows an individual to appreciate nature and its surroundings. It is an experience that will develop memories that can be cherished forever.
It is also why children love camping so much. They love to have a little corner of their own, where they can share stories and create fun scenarios in their heads. So, if you are a parent or guardian of a child, bringing them camping can create a core memory for their lifetime.
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A tent is one of the more important parts of camping. It ensures that you and your family members are safe from the external forces of nature. Since you will be camping in the woods or on the shores of a beach, the natural weather may present to be harsher compared to when you are staying under a house. So, to avoid being a victim of the extreme weather, pack a sturdy tent for the trip.
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In this article, the benefits of using internet banking services in Malaysia are discussed. We’re on our way to a paperless future, according to estimates. Physical money will most certainly become obsolete, with internet transactions taking its place. But that future has yet to arrive. Notes and coins, as well as brick-and-mortar banks, are still significant. Online banking, on the other hand, is booming. People are growing increasingly reliant on internet financial services. This is due to the numerous benefits it provides over traditional banks.
Any environmental advantages of E-banking that are significant enough to make a difference are still a vision, but a paperless future is only achievable if online banking becomes widely used and popular. The internet may have its flaws and drawbacks, but it contributes to a more sustainable future. Paperless transactions contribute to environmental protection.
History of Transactions
Checking your transaction history using internet banking is extremely straightforward. That you can readily see what you’ve spent and when you’ve spent it, as well as make deposits and transfers. You can quickly keep count of your balance and expenditures, assisting you in budgeting and avoiding overspending. You can also readily discover inconsistencies in your transactions, allowing you to spot any fraud or security threats. It is one of the most significant advantages of internet banking.
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Five Retirement Questions To Answer
Published Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at: 7:00 AM EDT
How much money do you need to save to live comfortably in retirement? Some experts base estimates on a multiple of your current salary or income, while others focus on a flat amount such as a million dollars. Either way, the task can be daunting.
But there is no magic formula and every situation is different. What's more, your definition of "comfortable" could be different than someone else's. Maybe a better approach is to answer these five basic questions:
Q. What will your expenses be?
It's almost impossible to figure out what you need to save if you don't know what you'll be spending. Draw up a monthly budget based on what you think might happen. If you downsize your home or won't have to spend as much on clothes as you do now, you may spend somewhat less in retirement. But you also might travel more and make greater outlays for leisure pursuits. Just don't expect your expenses to be dramatically lower in retirement than they are now.
Q. How long will your nest egg have to last?
This requires you to analyze several factors, including your age, medical condition, and family history. No one can predict the future, so it's usually best to plan for the worst and hope for the best. And with life expectancies on the rise, it becomes easier and easier to outlive your savings.
Q. How are you investing your savings?
It's not just how much you save that counts, it's also what you do with that money. If you invest wisely, reflecting your personal comfort level with investment risk, you may be able to stretch your savings longer. Of course, no one knows for sure how the markets will perform, but the independent research firm Morningstar projects that savings of about $1.18 million invested at 6% annually (with a 2.5% inflation rate) will provide annual income of $40,000 for 30 years. Naturally, your needs may differ.
Q. How will taxes affect your investments?
Don't forget to factor future taxes into the equation. Long-term capital gains currently are taxed for most people at a 15% rate, while those in the top ordinary income tax bracket pay 20%. But income from some investments—including municipal bonds and muni bond funds—is exempt from federal income tax. Also, remember that the tax law requires you to start taking minimum distributions from most retirement plans after age 70½.
Q. What can I do now to avoid problems?
If you're still working, you could boost your savings, utilizing tax-advantaged retirement accounts such as 401(k) plans. The compounding of the money inside your plan can help you catch up in meeting your retirement goal. In addition, you might consider postponing your retirement until you've saved enough.
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Many Arizona families have relied on rental assistance from the federal government to stay in their homes through the pandemic.
A nonprofit found that across the country, allocation of those funds is moving slowly. It also found that among states and municipalities that report their progress, Arizona is lagging behind the national average, while Pima County well outpaces it.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition, a nonprofit organization focused on housing equity, is tracking the success of pandemic rental assistance programs across the country. It says that nationally, programs have only approved or paid 30% of the $25 billion dollars allocated for this purpose in the December 2020 relief package.
In Arizona, that number is 7%.
"There definitely needs to be more work done. It's worrisome about how slow the funds are getting out the door, and there’s a lot of work that can be done," said Rebecca Yae, a senior research analyst at the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The state program’s dashboard says of the over 6,000 applications it has received, only 2,700 have been approved. Yae said that could point to a program delay in processing applications.
A spokesperson for the Department of Economic Security said in an email that, “the department remains current in its processing of applications.”
Some of Arizona’s most populous counties—Maricopa, Pima and Yuma counties—opted to run their own programs, separate from the state. That means that the state program is focused on rural areas.
Pima County in particular leads nationwide in getting these federal funds to renters in need. The National Low Income Housing Coalition reports that Pima County has approved or paid nearly 80% of its share of the funds.
Jennie Grabel is the director of marketing and communications for the Community Investment Corporation, which partnered with the City of Tucson and Pima County to distribute emergency rental assistance. She said the program distributes about $1 million dollars in assistance every week.
"So we've been able to get rental assistance dollars out in our community at a really efficient and effective rate," Grabel said.
She also said that her team expects to have approved and paid 100% of the currently available funds by mid-October and is applying for more funds to keep the program going after that.
She credited the Pima County program’s success to an efficient use of technology and strong outreach, with a large focus on targeting Spanish-speaking residents.
The Urban Institute found in a recent study that more than half of renters nationwide haven’t heard of the national Emergency Rental Assistance Program. It also reported that only 40% of landlords were aware of the program.
Grabel said Pima County has already had over 20,000 requests for assistance. Still, she says the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s eviction moratorium last month created a lot of fear among renters who have struggled to make rent since the pandemic began.
"So, I think we're gonna see even more applications coming our way moving forward," Grabel said.
She said that also plays into the quickly tightening housing market in Tucson and across the country.
"There's really a huge shortage in affordable housing," Grabel said. "So there's not a lot of places for people to go if they are evicted from their current living situation."
The assistance includes up to twelve months of back rent and three months of future rent for qualifying tenants.
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How to View Next Page Path in Google Analytics
- Step 1: Go to Google Analytics > Customization > Custom Reports > Create New Report.
- Step 2: Set page & previous page path as dimensions and pageviews as metric.
- Step 3: Set your report filters to include the previous page path of blog AND exclude the page of blog*
What is Page Path Level 2 in Google Analytics?
If you have a URL structure on your website such as “www.companyname.com/blog/page-title”, then “Page Path Level 1” refers to “blog.” Going one step further, “Page Path Level 2″ refers to ” page-title.” This is a common URL structure that companies use to host their blog data.
What is Page path level in Google Analytics?
PagePath is a page level dimension, it is used to get metrics on a page by page basis. The Google Analytics view above is showing page path- the API Query made by Analytics Canvas uses landing page. That’s because the total number of pageviews per session where the home page was the landing page is six.
How do I group pages in Google Analytics?
Create a Content Grouping
- Sign in to your Analytics account.
- Click Admin, and navigate to the view you want.
- In the VIEW column, click Content Grouping.
- Click +New Content Grouping.
- Enter a name for the new grouping.
- Select the methods you want to use (tracking code, extraction, or rules) to create Content Groups.
How do I find my click path in Google Analytics?
Analyze Click Paths in Google Analytics to Improve Conversions
- In Google Analytics, go to Behavior > Behavior Flow.
- Search for the desired page in the list of “Landing Page” options and click “View only this segment.” Click image to enlarge.
- The “Landing Page” reports the first page touched in users’ first session.
How do I find my user path in Google Analytics?
Visualize your users’ paths through your site. To see the Users Flow report:
- Sign in to Google Analytics.
- Navigate to your view.
- Open Reports.
- Select Audience > Users Flow.
How do I track page navigation in Google Analytics?
First, you navigate to the All Pages report by selecting ‘Behavior’, then ‘Site Content’ and ‘All Pages’. Then you need to select the individual page you want to analyze and after you’ve selected a page click the ‘Navigation Summary’ tab at the top of the report.
What is second page in Google Analytics?
“Next page path”: the next page after visiting the page you have selected for analysis “Second page”: the absolute second page of the visit. Second page works if the page you are currently viewing, is indeed the landing page (first page) of the visit.
What is Page path in ga4?
Explore your user journeys in a tree graph. The path exploration techniques lets you do things like: Find the top pages that new users open after opening the home page. Determining the effects of an event on subsequent users actions.
What is Previous Page path Google Analytics?
Previous page path is a page visited before another page on the same property. It is typically used in combination with the Page path dimension.
What is Previous Page path?
Previous Page Path Definition: A page visited before another page on the same property, typically used with the pagePath dimension.
Why is Next Page path same as page?
It was designed so Previous Page Path and Next Page Path would be used in combination to show how traffic moved from one page (previous) to another (next) — for the navigation reports. The Page dimension was to be used with other page-level dimensions and metrics.
What are landing pages in Google Analytics?
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April 6, 2020
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The ALLIANCE has submitted views on what should be included in the Scottish Government budget for 2022-23.
The ALLIANCE has responded to the Equality, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on what should be included in the Scottish Government’s budget for 2022-23 (this link will take you away from our website).
The significant impact of COVID-19, and responses taken to it, will be felt for many years to come, including on the economy. The ALLIANCE believes that it is possible to embed equality, transparency, and people’s participation in Scotland’s economy in order to achieve transformational and positive change that works for everyone.
The response outlines how human rights can be protected and fulfilled in the way public money is raised, allocated and spent:
- Adopting a human rights based approach (HRBA) to Scotland’s budget would embed human rights based values like equality, transparency and participation in financial decision making. To facilitate a shift towards equality in the Scottish budget process, governments should explicitly recognise rights in their budgetary decisions. This should identify economic, social and cultural rights, as well as rights for disabled people, women and minority ethnic communities.
- COVID-19 – and responses taken to it – have disproportionately impacted the rights and lives of particular population groups across Scotland. A HRBA recognises that budgetary decisions have different impacts on different population groups. Particular emphasis should be placed on seldom heard people who are more likely to require state support, and who often tell us that their human rights are not fulfilled.
- Carrying out robust and timely Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments (EQHRIAs) would help to identify and mitigate the disproportionate impacts that we often see in financial decision making. This is a practical tool that should be used both at the early stages to inform economic policy, and after the policy has been implemented to assess its impact.
- Work is needed to facilitate meaningful and active participation of rights holders in Scotland’s budget process. This should be ongoing, accessible and inclusive to ensure ‘hard to reach’ and ‘seldom heard voices’ are heard, and barriers to participation are removed.
- More sustainable resources are needed in Scotland’s third sector, and in the social care sector. The contribution of the third sector to Scotland’s people, society and economy remains unrecognised and undervalued. Similarly, there have long been calls for greater investment in social care as part of the shift from acute services towards preventative, community-based support.
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Player name: Glovr
Player rank: Builder
Location name: Greenfields
Lore: Greenfields or Green Fields was a location in the Northfarthing of the Shire between the Norbourn and Brandywine rivers.
In the year S.R. 1147 there was fought the Battle of Greenfields between invading orcs from the Mount Gram and the Hobbitry-in-arms. The Hobbits claimed the victory after their leader Bandobras Took (nicknamed Bullroarer) stroke off the head of the goblin king Golfimbul. This was the only battle fought inside the boundaries of the Shire before the War of the Ring and the Battle of Bywater.
Subject to change. General layout of buildings. Occupations and important buildings such as post office, shirriff, etc will be determined as things are built.
“Greenfields” Most above marked fields will be pastures. Main focus of town will be lumber and herding. Crops fields will be small and and maybe inside empty space in town.
Houses will have bigger yardspace and will be more spread in most areas than current villages. Seeing as there’s such free space in the Northfarthing.
Also going to add some extensive gardens (display, and food) in town, some in Ben’s allotment style probably.
The town layout was actually taken from an English Village called “Snowshill”. And is the main source of reference.
Will be using many bree stone/plaster/tudor blocks. And will have multiple roof and plaster colors. As well as maybe some wooden homes, as the town will have lumbermills.
However, i want to use stone as the main block for building houses. As the town is so near to the hills of Annuminas, should i include a quarry?
Or, this is a theory i sort of made up.
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I’m writing an article that I’m submitting to the Harvard Business Review, and in the process I asked my subscribers for feedback on the latest draft.
In the process, I received a great response that was more than just a comment on what I had written. Instead, it was a thesis of sorts, about the ways in which technology should be helping us to become more efficient. The author argued that we need to figure out our true needs before looking for new technology. This is in contrast to buying technology and then figuring out how it can help… in a haphazard kind of way.
When it comes to smartphones, I agree. For example, I’d argue that many people who bought smartphones are actually using them as “time-saving” devices, when I’m not sure that’s what they were intended to be.
For example, a small device that allows you to get email wherever you go could be either a laptop, iPad or smartphone. However, the particular advantages of smartphone design have lead to professionals using them in unlikely and unproductive ways, all in order to save time.
Obviously, the inventors at Apple, Palm and RIM did not intend to invent devices that would lead to habits such as:
– dangerous distracted driving
– rude interruptions in mid-conversation
– holidays spent working instead of relaxing
– 3:00am games of email ping-pong
– people checking messages hundreds of time per day just in case something interesting has come in that they missed
– employees who believe that their management is forcing them into overtime work that intrudes on personal space
These new widespread practices are smartphone-specific. The technology itself calls forth new and different habit patterns. It’s clear that the technology needs to be evaluated in a unique way, especially as it’s not too hard to predict a time when all employees are either expected or mandated to carry these devices at all times.
The author of the comment, however, went further than that and made the point that a proper evaluation of one’s time management system needs to be made before technology is contemplated. This made me think of the book “The Goal” by Eli Goldratt.
In this business fable which is about optimizing the ways in which factories operate, the main takeaway is that it’s best to find the single, greatest point of weakness and work to improve it. Goldratt calls this his “Theory of Constraints.”
I believe that the same idea applies to individual time management systems. As Goldratt illustrates in his book, in complex system it’s easy to improve the wrong thing, leading to no overall improvement.
In an early paper I wrote after starting this blog, I made this point. In ”The New Time Management – Toss Away the Tips, and Focus on the Fundamentals” I argued that people were barking up the wrong tree by chasing down the latest list of “Top 10 Time Management Tips!!” Instead, they should be focusing on practicing the fundamentals of time management with a view to making incremental improvements.
The comment on my article went further, and made me think that the 2Time system of 11 components can be used as a method to find “Herbie’s” – Goldratt’s name for bottlenecks, or weak points. For example, if you learn that you have a Yellow Belt in 9 disciplines and a White Belt in 2, it probably makes sense to focus on improving the 2… rather than buying an iPad because ”they are just so cool!”
As cool as new devices are, they might do nothing for your fundamentals.
In fact, they might do some damage.
If the average person who upgrades to a smartphone ends up engaging in new, unproductive habits 6 months later then we are right to ask – “what’s the point?”
The fact is, smartphones are not all bad. In a prior post, I described the process I’m undertaking to decide whether or not to upgrade from my bottom-of-the-line, monochrome cell phone.
At the moment, I’m leaning towards the upgrade, but I have developed 2 principles –
Principle #1 – Do No harm
I want to make sure that I don’t pick up any nasty habits that are obviously unproductive. For example, I have made myself a promise to never use the device while driving (or in the bathroom, movie theater, while cycling, etc.)
I am simply barring myself from these habits. (Wish me luck!)
Principle #2 – Real Upgrades
So far, I haven’t been successful in finding real ways that the device will add to my productivity in terms of the fundamentals.
There are other some gains to be made by having a convenient way to access mobile email, instant messages and web browsing but these still don’t impact any of the fundamentals in a profound way.
However, I am confident that new innovations, apps and add-ons are coming that will make impact the fundamentals, and I do want to take advantage of them as they arise… and perhaps make a suggestion or two. This means that I have to get into the game at some point… but it’s hardly an urgent need on my part.
I might have to make some adjustments, however. For example, my primary manual capture point is currently a paper pad. Migrating to capturing on a Blackberry would be a major change, and I still haven’t found a Blackberry wallet that allows a paper pad to be carried within it. I am quite wary of entrusting my capturing to a tool that requires a battery and a charger, but I am thinking that if I can find a paper solution, that I could always take a picture of what I have captured.
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Shireen Abu Akleh, described as a Palestinian-American reporter, was killed while covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank.
She was the latest in a long line of reporters who put fame and glory above their own lives and wandered around fire-fights with nothing to protect them but a yellow shirt clearly marked “Press”. Some 69 reporters were killed in World War II, 63 were killed in Vietnam, 17 in Korea. Even today, reporters in the Ukraine are giving up their lives for the story, with at least 15 journalists dead to date.
Sadly, bullets can neither read nor see colours.
However, bullets, after having been fired, can be persuaded to speak. The US State Department, saw no problem in claiming that an Israeli bullet was “likely responsible” for killing the journalist. This was in direct contradiction of the State Department’s own finding that they could not determine the bullet’s origin. Their experts found that the bullet was too badly damaged. Even if the bullet had been perfectly preserved, there would be no way to tell who had fired it. Both the IDF and the terrorist groups have a wide range of weapons – both sides have M16s and Kalashnikovs.
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Afghanistan Minimum Wage Rate 2022
Afghanistan has a government-mandated minimum wage, and no worker in Afghanistan can be paid less then this mandatory minimum rate of pay. Employers in Afghanistan who fail to pay the Minimum Wage may be subject to punishment by Afghanistan's government.
What is the Afghanistan Minimum Wage?
Afghanistan's Minimum Wage is the lowest amount a worker can be legally paid for his work. Most countries have a nation-wide minimum wage that all workers must be paid.
The Afghanistan minimum wage rate is 5,000 Afghani per month for government workers with no minimum set for for private sector workers,but labor law forbids a lower wage. Informal sector day workers have no minimum wage set by law. Afghanistan's minimum wage was last changed in 1-Jan-2014.
Facts and statistics about Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a country located in the Southern and Central Asia region with a population of 22,720,000 and an average life span of 45.9 years.
|Gross National Product||$5,976.00|
|Government Type||Islamic Emirate|
|Current Leader||Mohammad Omar|
|Continent & Region||Asia, Southern and Central Asia|
|Surface Area||652,090 square kilometers|
|ISO 3166 Country Code||AF|
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Do you have to shower before Eid prayer?
On the morning of Eid, it’s sunnah to take a shower (i.e. perform ghusl) before you settle down to pray. It is also sunnah to start the day by eating dates after you’ve prayed.
Is there Sunnah prayer before Eid prayer?
The time for Eid al-Fitr prayer may be delayed while the prayer of Eid al-Adha is hastened. This is to ensure enough time to facilitate the distribution of the Zakat before the prayer or offer sacrifice after, respectively. This has been a proved Sunnah and has been well recorded in Hadith books.
What should I do before Eid prayer?
Things to do before Eid Al Fitr
- Before you go to the Eid Al Fitr prayer, You must pay your Zakat Ul Fitr. …
- Wake up early in the morning and take a bath, then perform Wudu and pray Fajr salah in mosque.
- Wear the new dress or the best clothes you have, Use good smell perfume.
Can we drink water before Eid ul Adha prayer?
The Prophet is said not to have eaten anything until he came back from prayer and then eat from his sacrifice. However, if a person is not planning to offer a sacrifice, then there is nothing wrong with eating before the prayer.
Is washing hair on Eid necessary?
There is no need to wash her hair fully. Another Hadith confirming this is reported by Aishah who heard that Abdullah ibn Umar advised women to undo their hair when they need to do the ghusl.
What are the Sunnah acts of Eid ul Fitr?
Take Ghusl (bath) before the Eid Salah (Eid prayer). Putting on Attar (perfume). Takbeer ul-Eid should be recited softly on Eid ul-Fitr.
How do you pray Eid namaz Sunni?
Eid Salah – step by step
- Make the intention to perform Eid prayer.
- Give the opening takbeer (‘Allahu Akbar’) with the imam.
- Say the opening supplication quietly to yourself.
- Give 3 more takbeer with the imam, raising your hands out for each.
- Listen to the imam recite Surah al-Fatihah and an additional surah.
Is ghusl required for Eid prayer?
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1950s women with natural curly hairs were considered blessed to adopt this hairstyle with ease. 1950s long pin up hair and make up.
These eye catching hairstyles were carried off by eminent film personalities and ideals of the 50 s although with a few tricks these innovating beehives teased hair and well styled curls and waves with personalized.
1950s womens hairstyles long hair. While the vintage finger wave style became famous in the 50s this popular hairdo is still ever present in the red carpet and fashion runway. 1950s hairstyles for long hair needed a lot of work by the women. However long hair was rarely left down.
Keep the wave big to really embody the 50s style. Subscribe to her channel and like her facebook page. Having wavy hair was crucial for most 50s hairstyles and this half up half down look is the epitome of retro glam.
At the beginning she does the make up first and the hair tutorial starts at minute 3 40. Vintage finger wave hairstyles long hair you usually see this vintage hairstyle mostly worn by famous celebrities. While long hair was rare for women in the 1950s but it was not unheard of.
She looks so pretty in this video. 1950 hairstyle tutorials for long hair 21. Styles like the faux bob were created so women with long hair could temporarily jump onto the short hair bandwagon.
Long hair was still popular with teens and young women as well as much older women who refused to follow short hair trends. Managing 1950s hairstyles for long hair is a rather effortless task because charismatic hairdos in those days were free from this era s heat styling and complications. The first thing to know about 1950s hairstyles for long hair is that it s all about waves.
While long hair could be left down like bettie page hair could also be tied back into a ponytail which was known in the 1950s as a horsetail. If your hair tend to be straight then the simplest and the quickest way to curl hair was to have the small curlers in the hair and then let them stay in the hair for some time or even at the night while sleeping. The ponytail was a popular look for western teenagers so much so that this hairstyle was seen on the early version of barbie.
The short bouffant hair style was the most popular style in prosperous phase of 1950s hairstyles and was regarded as perfect choice for keeping hairs in place through back combing and hairsprays. Like i ve said before the 50s were big on short hair. In this video kayley is doing a hair and make up tutorial on 1950s pin up style.
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Hickory Seeds - Shagbark
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(Carya ovata) Deciduous. Zones 4-8.
Hickory nut is arguably the finest native nut! Its sweet, smoky flavour is like a cross between a walnut a pecan, and it is a superior substitute in baking and salads. Toasting especially intensifies its rich flavour!
Shagbark Hickory is a majestic giant that can live for up to 200 years! Plant it now and future generations will enjoy sitting in its shade and foraging for nuts.
As the Shagbark matures, its smooth gray bark becomes beautifully textured and shaggy - a striking presence year-round. The greenish yellow Spring flowers of the Shagbark Hickory give way to sweet, edible oval-rounded nuts, encased in a thick green husk that splits when ripe.
Of course these delectable nuts are also favoured by squirrels, raccoons, and other wildlife.
Cross-pollination generally produces a more abundant crop of better quality nuts so its best to plant two trees.
Hickory wood is widely used to cure and smoke meats. It is extremely strong and makes heirloom quality tool handles, ladders, and furniture.
** Please note that all members of the Juglans family (Butternuts, walnuts, heartnuts, etc.) create a protective substance in their roots called Juglone. This can kill certain other plant species within the root zone. Juglone from Hickories and Pecans is very mild.
Cold Hardiness: Zones 4 - 8
Size: Large Tree
Growth Rate: Medium
Nitrogen Fixer: No
Native Plant: Yes
Germination: 70 - 90%
Sun Requirements: Full Sun for maximum harvest, but shade tolerant.
Soil Preference: Rich, moist, well draining. Tolerant of clay.
- Soak seeds for 4 days, replacing water every 24 hrs. Follow with 120 days cold, moist stratification. For more information on stratification, check out our article "How To Start Your Tree Seeds".
*If you are doing the cold period in your fridge, please check on your seeds. 120 days is an estimate & they may sprout sooner.*
- Plant stratified seeds in deep pots or a nursery bed using standard potting soil. Heat mats are NOT required & can hinder germination!
* Hickories send down a MASSIVE taproot so don't let them get too big in a nursery bed. Taproots can damage easily and a broken taproot can weaken or kill a young tree. *
- Protect young tree seedlings from slugs, cutworms & rodents. Slugs especially can eat primary leaves as soon as they come up, so be vigilant!
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This year, 13 research activities were initiated in India, compared with 11 in China, according to fDi Markets.
Currently, India is cheaper than China for R&D, but experts warn that with India’s salaries rising by about 15% every year, they could soon equal those of Chinese researchers. However, India lacks both the government incentives and an education system that could sustain this trend.
While the US and China award 1500 to 2000 computer science PhDs each year, India only awards about 100. China also not only provides funding for its students to continue scientific studies, but also offers incentives such as tax breaks for R&D and high-tech centres. | <urn:uuid:ab60ac60-120e-4c18-92d9-a6b98a04bd30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fdiintelligence.com/content/news/india-tops-china-in-rd-stakes-21336 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968867 | 144 | 2.25 | 2 |
Johannesburg - Power utility Eskom’s proposed tariff hikes, twinned with national load shedding woes, have undoubtedly placed a strain on South African wallets.
However, a few inexpensive gadgets could save households, even if a few rand are back in the pocket at a financially difficult time.
For many years, South Africans have implored innovative solutions to lessen financial burdens and save a bit more.
A simple example is how many consumers turn their geyser on and off to prevent it from consuming power all day.
This brings us to our first energy-saving solution – the HotSpot.
Given that the geyser is one of the highest consumers of electricity in the home, it’s a no-brainer to start attempts to alleviate financial strain here.
Last week, IOL reported that Eastern Cape-born innovator Sandiswa Qayi recently expanded operations to scale production of a smart geyser sleeve that aims to save electricity.
The invention is simple and saves households up to 27% of their geyser power consumption.
The HotSpot is fitted to a geyser’s element to heat water within the tank. It can efficiently heat only the required amount of water a household needs.
The saving is significant and can especially assist households with larger families.
Having a HotSpot installed on a household geyser will save but has the potential to save even more when being turned on and off, but why not make this a little easier?
The geyser switch is the second energy-saving product on this list that can complement the HotSpot very well.
The geyser switch is a simple and affordable unit that has to be installed by an electrician and connects between the geyser and main power switchboard without affecting the power supply in the rest of the home.
While the geyser switch is nothing new, with many consumers already making use of them in the home – coupling a geyser switch with the HotSpot will allow users to turn the geyser on and off without manually needing to do this, offering convenience while avoiding not having hot water, if a consumer forgets to turn the geyser back on.
Using the geyser switch in conjunction with the HotSpot should save upward of the 27% already offered by the sleeve.
Independently, the geyser switch has been reported to save by only supplying power to the geyser during specific times during the day.
However, automating the geyser switch to turn off and on at times it is needed will likely be the most efficient way to use each product together.
Instant Electric Water Heater
The last gadget on this list makes for an alternative to both the geyser switch and the sleeve.
Instant Electric Water Heaters are becoming more prevalent, with scores of brands and various suppliers offering consumers a variety to choose from.
While many are available online, instant hot water heaters have numerous applications within a household.
Some units promise 99.8% energy efficiency and save up to 50% on power consumption compared to using a geyser.
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Figure 1-47. Elgar Corporation, Model 6006B ( ), Voltage Regulator.
Elgar Corporation, Model 6006B ( ), Voltage Regulator (fig. 1-47) is supplied with a three-wire cord and two power outlets.
The voltage regulator is connected to input power line. Two equipment racks can be connected to voltage regulator
providing a stable power source to the equipment in use. The third wire in the cord plug circuit provides automatic
grounding of external metal parts as a safety feature.
Figure 1-48. Winslow Teletronics, Model 336, Decade Resistor.
Winslow Teletronics, Model 336, Decade Resistor (fig. 1-48) provides resistance values over the ranges of 1 to 999,999
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Last April Keith Gilmour, a School Teacher, spoke at an event organised by the Humanist Society of Scotland for the Edinburgh International Science Festival. The topic was “The Threat of Creeping Creationism in Scottish Schools.”. His approach was as follows:
- A summary of his school’s RME/RMPS curriculum
- Then he highlighted some of the unsolicited ID and creationist literature (books, DVDs, etc) that have been sent out to his school
- Then later went on to explain how similar Creationists and holocaust deniers are … both object that a minority of highly educated people reject what 99% of scientists/historians accept, and both are notorious for quoting experts out of context (to give the misleading impression that their crank view has some serious support)
As you might imagine, the creationist loons were all over him after the event. Dr Alastair Noble, Director of the risible Centre for Intelligent Design, claimed that it was “silly” and “scandalous” of him to draw this comparison. And so after the encounter they engaged in a written dialog, or to be more accurate a monologue, Keith sent a letter asking questions, and Dr Nobel refused to answer.
Now comes the fun part … as a reaction to his hounding by the Centre for Intelligent Design, Keith has come up with what is perhaps the best possible response to such lunacy, parody and satire. He has created a new website … The Centre for Unintelligent Design
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Hong Kong is having a good run: it has recorded no new cases of Covid-19 for four days straight, and six of the last 10 days have seen zero additional cases. The small number of new cases that have been confirmed are almost all imported.
In fact, new case growth has gotten so low that the team at the University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) school of public health decided on Tuesday (April 28) it would pause its dashboard that tracks the real-time reproductive number, an up-to-date measure of the coronavirus’ transmission rate.
“It doesn’t really make sense to estimate Rt when there are no local cases reported,” said Ben Cowling, division head of epidemiology and biostatistics at HKU. While Rt can be estimated with a small number of cases, it’s hard to estimate the coronavirus’ transmission rate when there is no transmission locally.
Rt tells us a virus’s actual transmission rate at a given time, t. It answers the question: in a particular population at a particular time, how many other people will catch the disease from a single infected person? If Rt is above 1, the disease could grow exponentially. If it’s below one, the disease eventually fades out. The last Rt calculated for Hong Kong, on April 13, was 0.48—the lowest figure since the HKU team started making estimations in early February.
Rt gives us crucial information about how well a particular society is responding to the pandemic. German chancellor Angela Merkel explained it clearly in a press conference, laying out how even edging up from an Rt of 1 to 1.1 would mean overloading the country’s health care system within months.
For societies that are beginning to ease lockdown measures after containing the first wave of infections, Rt serves as an important benchmark for governments following the strategy of “suppress and lift,” where social distancing measures are relaxed and tightened repeatedly in response to changes in transmission. The trick is to relax the social distancing measures just enough, and at the right time, to avoid another wave of infections. Germany, for example, is on high alert and will re-tighten distancing rules if Rt edges up above one, after it began to ease lockdown measures last week.
For now, Hong Kong appears to have Covid-19 well under control, with only 1,038 cases and four deaths in a population of 7.4 million. A sense of pre-pandemic normality is returning to the city, too: government workers will go back to offices next Monday (May 4), and commuters are once again crowding up the subway. But until a vaccine is developed, the risk of an outbreak is never far below the surface.
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Sheriff warns public about ID spoofing after scam calls appearing to come from local law enforcement
Scammers have now taken to impersonating local law enforcement in an attempt to fool people into forking over personal information. Becker County Sheriff Todd Glander says he was informed today that a few people in the area had received calls wit...
Scammers have now taken to impersonating local law enforcement in an attempt to fool people into forking over personal information.
Becker County Sheriff Todd Glander says he was informed today that a few people in the area had received calls with the ID showing his name and attempting to sell extended car warranties.
"I can assure everyone that I am not selling an Extended Warranty," Glander wrote in a Facebook post this morning.
These scam callers, whether they are automated or actual people, have been using technology to spoof phone numbers or make it look like the call is coming from a local number. Now, the technology is being used to look like calls are coming from the local sheriff's office, and it can also be used to look like calls are coming from other local entities and businesses.
"We want people to be aware that this is happening, so they can be cautious about what they say over the phone or if they even want to answer that phone call," said Glander.
"If the caller is not a contact on my phone, I do not answer," responded Joe Riewer to the sheriff's post, adding that people "can leave a message if it's important."
Scam calls seem to be on the rise, particularly "robocalls," which are automated calls from a software program that play a recorded message to whoever answers the phone. Calls offering to sell people extended vehicle warranties seems to be popular lately. Glander says he has received a number of them himself.
As with any new scam, Glander says people should just be very cautious about giving personal information out over the phone.
If a person feels they have been scammed, he says they should contact their bank or credit card company right away, and report it to local law enforcement.
Glander says the software scammers are using does make these cases difficult to investigate, but if they are made aware of new scamming methods, they can at least make the public aware. He says if someone is scammed and loses money, it is treated like financial exploitation that occurs in person and is investigated. | <urn:uuid:9e8903ba-d659-4160-85a1-03d7c1e901b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dl-online.com/news/sheriff-warns-public-about-id-spoofing-after-scam-calls-appearing-to-come-from-local-law-enforcement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977152 | 496 | 1.875 | 2 |
The second phase of the dry run for the Covid19 vaccination is going on across Tripura on Friday.
The first phase of the dry run was carried on January 3 in three places in the West Tripura district.
But the dry run on Friday is being carried out across the state, covering 152 places in all eight districts.
The dry run is being carried out in 38 spots in the West Tripura district, which is the highest in the state.
Tripura health official Dr. Asish Kumar Pal informed that the dry run is being carried out as part of the preparedness for Covid19 vaccination in the state.
“Vaccination mock drill or dry run has started in all the districts since this morning to check the final preparations on how the vaccines will be distributed, how the injections will be given and how to preserve them. The health workers are the beneficiaries of the dry run,” the health official said.
Two COVID vaccines have been given emergency use authorisation by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) recently.
The roll-out of COVID19 vaccine is expected to begin soon.
This milestone entails the need for testing of all planned mechanisms for conducting the vaccination drive in the country.
Two days ago, the state education minister Ratan Lal Nath said they were expecting that Covid19 vaccine is likely to arrive in Tripura by this month itself.
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- 37 commonly used sensor kit for Arduino R3, MEGA2560 --Perfect for arduino enthusiast.
- The standard interface can be controlled directly by micro-controller (8051, AVR, PIC, DSP, ARM, ARM, MSP430).
- 37 sensor modules and 1 listing paper in one plastic box also including a bag of resistor.
- With detailed tutorials, project introduction, code and datasheet in a CD.
- Different sensors combine multiple sensor modules for more enjoyment. Provide technical support and services via amazon buyer message.
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An exploratory study of the factors associated with an initial testing process: Testing the testing
Consistency in Ground Potential Rise estimation utilizing Fall of Potential method data
Cycling power profile characteristics of national-level junior triathletes
Estimating in situ compression parameters from remoulded and field test data
Experimental mathematics: examples, methods and implications
Instrumentation and experimental investigation of industrial DC machines for condition monitoring purposes
Test ordering in an evidence free zone: rates and associations of Australian general practice trainees’ vitamin D test ordering
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★The blocks are made of ABS material and the blocks are tightly connected to the blocks to make the built toy more stable.
Through some actions involving visual input, good hand touch, eye coordination ability also promotes overall body coordination and balance.
★The creativity and imagination can help children to try new ideas, and they can help to gradually develop innovative thinking and constantly find new ways to solve problems.
★Conducive for the development of “space wisdom”, children in the construction of toy building blocks constantly study the layout and structure, which allows them to capture the shape of the object, to determine the spatial orientation, to capture and capture the two-dimensional space and space his transformation.
★Help children draw conclusions, including mathematical, logical, scientific analysis and other ways of thinking.
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Sure, I’ve wanted to paint my mailbox for years. It was a basic, cheap white mailbox and I knew paint could make it fabulous. But none of the ideas I had before actually got me to paint the thing, until now!
Watch Paint Pouring a Mailbox on YouTube.
Want to know more about paint pouring? Check out the online workshop Paint Pouring FUNdamentals.
Start by mixing your paint and pouring medium. I chose Liquitex pouring medium and Liquitex soft body paints. Since this is going to be outside, I wanted a paint that I knew was lightfast and could handle being in the sun.
When you’re mixing the paint, mix gently. You want to avoid creating air bubbles in there.
The same tongue depressors/popsicle sticks that were used to mix the paint are also what is used to put small amounts on the mailbox.
The mailbox was moved inside for painting to prevent any leaves or other outdoor stuff sticking in the paint while it dried.
This mailbox has survived 5 months out in the elements without showing any signs of wear. The next big test for it will be winter with the freezing and thawing, but I have high hopes that it will do just fine!
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Papers of BAS, Humanities and Social Sciences
Vol. 3, No 2, 2016
CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, POLITICS AND STRATEGIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21 ST CENTURY: THE PLACE OF MUSIC
Abstract: Processes and phenomena from the beginning of the 21st century indicate a huge increase in the role of culture for bringing together people with different traditions. Policies and strategies for culture are developed as a bridge between them. They are a basis of cultural industries. The need for preservation of cultural traditions; conditions for hybrid events; and factors for transformation of culture into a commodity have been created. For that reason, the analyses of cultural (musical) policies and strategies as well as their reflections are very important. The aim of my analyses is to point out models of cultural politics, strategies and cultural diplomacy which are used in cultural industries. The cited sociocultural and financial facts in the study lead to several important conclusions about global markets, based on local regional specifics. Among the research examples are initiatives related to cultural heritage, cultural diversity, cultural tourism, and regional cross-border projects.
Goods and services related to the cultural industries are highly connected with education which also is in the research focus. Exactly the education is one of the main pillars that underpin the cultural industries. Education related to arts, proves once again that it is more necessary in contemporary world and does more than politicians. The dialogue between cultures in a situation of multiplicity, hybridity and mobility can largely be prepared by education in the arts and cultural heritage. Young people have a special place in the study. European analyses on the development of cultural industries and the current situation in the regions of Asia indicate that young people are interested in cultural industries as well as the youth is important for these industries. This part of the economy is open to the young generations – the higher percentage of young employees in this sector in the EU is a fact.
Music is the most direct means of contact with different cultures and contact between them. For its part, the music sector in the cultural industries is among the major developing and the most profitable in recent years with growing importance. Thus, the place and role of music in the cultural industries is observed, too.
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World fourth AIDS cured patient emerges after more than 30 years of HIV infection
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World fourth AIDS cured patient emerges: achieving long-term remission after more than 30 years of HIV infection
AIDS (HIV)is short for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , caused by infection with HIV virus .
HIV is a virus that can attack the human immune system. It takes the most important CD4+ T cells in the human immune system as the main target of attack, and destroys the cells in large quantities.
After several years, even as long as 10 years or longer incubation period The development of AIDS patients will cause the body to lose its immune function. Due to the extreme decline in resistance, various infections will occur. In the later stage, malignant tumors often occur, and even systemic failure leads to death.
According to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, there are currently 38 million people living with HIV and AIDS worldwide, and more than 35 million people have died accumulatively.
However, an effective AIDS vaccine has not yet been developed, and existing antiretroviral drugs (ART) can only suppress the virus, but cannot clear the HIV virus or cure AIDS.
On July 27, 2022, a research team from the City of Hope in the United States announced that a 66-year-old AIDS patient had been “cured” and became the successor to the ” Berlin Patient “, ” London Patient ” and ” New York Patient “. After that, the fourth patient achieved long-term remission of AIDS through stem cell transplantation .
Fourth cured patient – cured after 31 years of HIV infection
The 66-year-old patient was diagnosed with HIV in 1988. He said he thought he was sentenced to death at the time. He never expected to live to see the day when he was cured, so he is grateful to his treatment team.
The patient has since developed leukemia , and he received a bone marrow transplant in 2019, 31 years after he contracted HIV, from a donor with a rare genetic mutation, a deletion in the CCR5 gene .
CCR5 is the receptor for HIV virus to invade and infect human cells. After CCR5 Δ32/Δ32 gene mutation, cells lack CCR5 receptor, and HIV virus cannot infect.
For leukemia patients infected with HIV virus, the cancer cells are first killed by chemotherapy, and the hematopoietic stem cells with CCR5 gene mutation are transplanted.
It is possible to cure the leukemia while making the HIV virus in the patient unable to infect, so as to gradually eliminate the HIV virus and achieve Long-term remission, or even cure, of AIDS.
After a bone marrow transplant, his leukemia and AIDS were in complete remission. He has been off antiretroviral drugs for more than 17 months, and doctors have found no signs of HIV replication.
The patient is also the oldest patient to be cured of AIDS to date, and his cure brings new hope to the elderly who suffer from both AIDS and cancer.
The third cured patient – New York patient
On February 15, 2022, a team of researchers from UCLA and Johns Hopkins University presented an HIV treatment case at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) : A man receiving cord blood stem cell transplantation Female AIDS patients with acute myeloid leukemia have been HIV-undetectable for up to 14 months after stopping AIDS medication.
The study was the International Maternal/Child/Adolescent HIV Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT) P1107 observational study, led by Dr. Yvonne Bryson of UCLA and Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University.
The study, started in 2015, was designed to observe disease progression in 25 HIV-infected individuals who received CCR5 Δ32/Δ32 cord blood stem cell transplants for cancer, hematopoietic disorders, or other conditions.
The woman had been on AIDS antiretroviral (ART) therapy for 4 years when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia . After chemotherapy, her leukemia went into remission. Before the stem cell transplant, her HIV was well controlled, but HIV was detectable.
In 2017, she received a CCR5 Δ32/Δ32 cord blood stem cell transplant , and 100 days after the transplant, the stem cells were successfully engrafted, and the HIV virus was undetectable in the body.
At 37 months post-transplant, she stopped antiretroviral (ART) medication. Up to 14 months after stopping treatment, the HIV virus remains undetectable in the patient’s body, that is, stem cell transplantation achieves long – term remission of AIDS.
Prior to this, a total of 2 AIDS patients achieved long-term remission, or “cure” of AIDS through this stem cell transplantation, namely the ” Berlin patient ” and the ” London patient “, the former was a white male, the latter was a A Latino male.
The second cured patient – the London patient
On March 5, 2019, Nature published a paper titled: HIV-1 remission following CCR5Δ32/Δ32 haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation .
A HIV-infected Hodgkin lymphoma patient who received CCR5 Δ32/Δ32 hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was effectively treated for Hodgkin lymphoma, and at the same time, for up to 30 months, he did not have HIV was detected again.
“The London Patient” by Adam Castillejo
On March 10, 2020, the Lancet HIV journal published a paper that after 4 consecutive years of follow-up study of the ” London patient ” after treatment, the improvement of his condition was changed from long-term remission to cure. Announced the emergence of the world’s second cured AIDS patient .
The first cured patient – the Berlin patient
The Berlin patient is widely known, for a long time, he was the only cured AIDS patient on earth, his name is Timothy Ray Brown , who was found to have AIDS in 1995 and has been receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) ever since.
In 2006, he suffered from acute myeloid leukemia . In 2007, he received CCR5 Δ32/Δ32 hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, which not only cured the leukemia, but also completely disappeared the HIV virus in the body.
After 12 years, he has not detected the HIV virus again, so he is considered to be cured of AIDS. In September 2020, he died of a relapse of leukemia.
“Berlin Patient,” Timothy Ray Brown
For a long time, the Berlin patient was the only AIDS patient to be cured.
In addition, in August 2020 and November 2021, Professor Xu Yu of Harvard Medical School discovered two cases of AIDS patients who had achieved self-healing without stem cell transplantation and other treatments , and called them ” San Francisco patients ” and ” Egyptian patients” respectively. Speranza Patient “.
Both are elite controllers, and their own immune systems are powerful enough to suppress HIV and keep it within safe limits without the need for medication.
These two can be described as the elite of the elite controllers, and the HIV virus has been eliminated by their own immune system alone.
On September 11, 2019, the team of Deng Hongkui of Peking University, the team of Chen Hu of the Fifth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital , and the team of Wu Hao of Beijing You’an Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University jointly published a research paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) .
In this clinical trial, CCR5 gene editing was performed on human adult hematopoietic stem cells using CRISPR gene editing technology, and the long-term stable hematopoietic system reconstruction of the gene-edited adult hematopoietic stem cells was realized in the human body.
A 27-year-old man with AIDS and acute lymphoblastic leukemia was then treated . After treatment, the patient’s acute lymphoblastic leukemia achieved complete morphological remission, and the patient’s T cells showed resistance to HIV virus to a certain extent, and no off-target effects and side effects were found.
This gene editing is carried out on adult hematopoietic stem cells, so it will not affect other tissues and organs and the reproductive system.
This preliminary demonstration of the feasibility and safety of gene-edited adult hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in humans will promote and promote the development of gene editing technology in clinical applications.
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World fourth AIDS cured patient emerges after more than 30 years of HIV infection
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The mission of the Faculty of Social Economic Sciences and Management of Institut Catholique de Kabgayi is embedded in its general mission to advance and promote knowledge and development of skills in professionalism and innovativeness through education of quality, research and community services for transformation of society and sustainable development.
The main specific objectives are:
Train people who are able to analyze and study the transformation that affect human society everywhere in the world, especially the development of the continent and the country;
- Provide students with knowledge about new technological and scientific revolution, modifications of economic, social, cultural, demographic and political structures.
The objectives are achieved through the following departments:
- Department of sociology which gives people knowledge, skills and competencies to work in domains like rural and urban planning, management of institutions offering social and psychological help to individuals of any kind like victims of violence, child abuse, people living with disability, drug rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency. Owners of a bachelor degree in sociology can work as leaders at different levels of local Government (SEDO, Good Governance, social affairs..) In addition owners of a bachelor degree in sociology can be involved in research and consultancy activities related to elaboration, evaluation of public policy, welfare policy, impact assessment and related fields.
- Department of Management which gives people knowledge, skills and competencies to work as Business adviser; Business analyst; Business development manager; Chartered management accountant; Data analyst; Data scientist.
Under this programme of Management,we have options of:
- Department of economics which gives people knowledge, skills and competencies to work as Accountant; Bookkeeper; Budget analyst; policy analyst, Compensation and benefits manager; Credit analyst; Financial analyst. Moreover of can work as Market research analyst, Economic consultant. | <urn:uuid:d6b08f0c-3620-4b55-a90b-8c9842c1ff78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uck.ac.rw/faculty/about/sesm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.91612 | 364 | 2.03125 | 2 |
For most individuals in the world , they anticipate Christmas and all the joys associated with the holiday. As children, once the Christmas decorations appeared we could hardly wait for the big day. For many adults it is still true today. There are a few ways the features on our phones anticipate what we are saying when we voice text. You may have found that Siri adds or subtracts words based on how it was programmed. If you voice text, it often comes out wrong or garbled into nothing close to what you were trying to say. It occurs even when you speak slowly. When we are at work, often a co-worker will anticipate what we might say or do. It can be annoying and if you ask them politely to stop, some individuals seem unable to turn their minds to have the patience to be quiet. Many of the holiday movies involve individuals anticipating a specific action and when it fails, they are crushed. It can be about a woman expecting a marriage proposal, a person landing a new account, or a relationship that suddenly ends and the aggrieved person had no idea or anticipated it would happen. People who take chances such as sky diving, street racing, diving off cliffs, and base jumping just to name a few should anticipate the consequences. Just a few days ago, a man climbed a tall building in China and plunged sixty-four stories to his death. I doubt he thought that was going to happen. In the Good Gus series, many of the children I have read to over the years, often did not anticipate the endings. That made it fun for me! The series is available on Kindle, worldwide, and the first tow books for free on You Tube at Mae’s Story Time. If you are anticipating a good read, I hope you will consider “Misplaced Trust.” It is available on 24 Symbols, Apple, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Page Foundry, Scribd, Playster and Tolino. | <urn:uuid:d16fbab3-1e33-4758-ac69-bba1ad9616d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.goodgusbooks.com/24-symbols/anticipate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976701 | 397 | 2.125 | 2 |
Icomos calls for integration protection of heritage and protection of delta cities
The national Dutch committee of International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) convened the conference Protecting delta’s: heritage helps! from 23-28 September 2013 in Amsterdam, to contribute towards safe and sustainable communities in delta regions.
More than 100 water, heritage and planning experts from over 20 countries answered the call to share innovative strategies on heritage protection and water management, to build and promote linkages within and between communities, and to identify opportunities to collaborate for mutual benefits.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is the international non-governmental organization of professionals, practitioners, institutions, and other bodies committed to and supporting the conservation/preservation of the cultural heritage of all peoples.
The conference took place in Amsterdam that celebrates the 400th anniversary of its Canal ring area, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Flooded Chaiwattanaram Temple, a UNESCO
World Heritage site, north of Bangkok
in October 2011.
Impact of global climate change
Several experts from the field of Heritage Protection and Water Management explored the possibilities of bridging the global changes in climate and its impact to heritage sites and cities.
The presentations brought together both worlds in the perspective of climate change and sustainable development.
According to ICOMOS the conference was the beginning of such a holistic perspective in heritage and water management. Policies need to be created, international networks need to be organized and scholarly investigation on different sites need to be supported to fully understand the way for the future.
Statement of Amsterdam
The conference ended with the presentation of the 'Statement of Amsterdam', calling upon governments, intergovernmental organizations, the corporate sector and civil society to ensure adequate and concrete actions.
One of the actions mentioned, is to develop maps combining heritage and water information, to help raise the awareness of water experts, decision makers and the public about the heritage dimension of water management and the extent of waterrelated risks to societies and their natural and cultural heritage.
Another call for action is to share relevant information between agencies, early warning systems, protective measures, risk spreading measures including insurance, adaptation measures and even evacuation plans.
The statement will be forwarded to the ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in Florence, 2014 and the 7th World Water Forum in Korea, 2015.
This news item is based on news releases published on the special conference website Protecting Deltas, Heritage Helps.
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Publisher: Pegasus Books (February 1, 2022)
Length: 480 pages
“[Breaking the Maafa Chain] is powerful in detailing the cruelties of the transatlantic slave trade, and sensitive and intimate in its portrayal of the girls’ struggles to maintain their dignity and hold on to the memories of their African heritage. With descriptions rich in sensory details, a narrative that forms a swift, irreversible current, and conversations imbued with emotion, Anni Domingo’s story of the Maafa, the African Holocaust, is unforgettable.” —Foreword Reviews, starred review
“The story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, extraordinary even in extraordinary times, known to some in Sierra Leone, though virtually unknown elsewhere. Now Anni Domingo has brought her vividly to life in this richly imagined and compellingly told tale. Breaking the Maafa Chain is a gift to readers everywhere.” —Aminatta Forna author of The Window Sea
“Part fact, part fiction, Breaking the Maafa Chain is an important book, beautifully told. Domingo’s premise is a bold and uncompromising one—taking what is known, the story of Salimatu, the ‘Black Princess’, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and weaving through it the story of her fictionalized sister, Fatmata, Faith. Domingo makes an eloquent point: that although the sisters suffered different fates, both were unfree: Fatmata enslaved in North America and Salimatu gifted to Queen Victoria, and utterly at her whim. It is a story that has resonance today, where Meghan Markle was expected to shape herself to a white institution, to belong.” —Guinevere Glasfurd author of The Year Without Summer
“Anni Domingo brings great sensitivity to her fictionalized account of the remarkable young life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the ‘African Princess’, who became a god-daughter to Queen Victoria. The internal struggles of Salimatu (Sarah) are movingly explored as she struggles to remain true to her identity as an African after being taken from her homeland and brought to England as a gift from ‘the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites.’ A comparable story is told of Salimatu’s sister Fatmata (Faith) who is transported to the United States before emancipation. Carefully constructed with a keen eye for historical accuracy, Domingo reveals a compassionate and affectionate Queen Victoria who is devoted to her African god-daughter. This is also an epic story of two sisters who are separated towards the end of the transatlantic slave trade, but never forget each other.” —Stephen Bourne author of War to Windrush and Evelyn Dove
“Anni Domingo’s Breaking the Maafa Chain is so rich in detail and dialogue; it is simply seductive. She captures so well, a little girl, Salimatu, who recalls the security of her family life, who is transported to a bewildering future in England to become Sarah, where she has to stand strong and survive. Not only will this book be read for the sheer enjoyment of a beautifully written novel, but for the learning gained. It is a historical novel that cannot be ignored.” —Kadija Sesay literary activist and author of Irki
A richly imagined story of two sisters’ struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century as their paths diverge in the middle passage—one to the court of Queen Victoria, the other to an American plantation.
Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Forced to change their names to Sarah and Faith, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Faith is taken to America, where slavery is still legal and she is stripped of all rights. Sarah ends up in Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down? Will these once inseparable sisters survive without each other? And if they do find each other again, will they find the other changed beyond recognition?
Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Breaking the Maafa Chain is by turns epic and intimate and will take the readers on a journey of loss, survival, and hope.
Anni Domingo is an actress, director and writer. She is currently a lecturer in Drama and Directing at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham and Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. Anni’s poems and short stories have been published in various anthologies and an extract from Breaking the Maafa Chain won the Myriad Editions First Novel competition and was featured in the New Daughters of Africa anthology edited by Margaret Busby. | <urn:uuid:560b4239-ad21-440f-bf9a-ecc881f43385> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://casiascorner.com/2022/03/28/blog-tour-review-breaking-the-maafa-chain-by-anni-domingo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94689 | 1,016 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Jan 12, 2019-
Nepal has asked India for transshipment privileges and permission to use the electronic cargo tracking system (ECTS) on Nepal-bound cargo at Kolkata port too.
Nepal has been receiving transshipment privileges at Vishakhapatnam port and using the ECTS on cargo dispatched from there since August.
Containers sent from Vishakhapatnam are transported directly to the Birgunj Inland Container Depot. This facility is not available for consignments leaving Kolkata port.
The ECTS uses the Global Positioning System, a satellite-based radio navigation system, and allows the shipper to keep track of consignments. Traders have to pay Rs4,200 extra per container to fit the ECTS. But it helps to reduce the overall cost of trading since they can avoid paying demurrage and detention charges because cargo movement is faster.
The ECTS was implemented as a pilot project at Kolkata port last April. The scheme had to be discontinued because Indian shippers were not keen on using it, traders said.
According to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, a large number of containers dispatched from Kolkata port lack the ECTS and transshipment facilities.
Importers have to produce letters of credit and paperwork issued by the Department of Commerce and the Nepali Consulate General, among others, to get customs clearance at the Indian port. No such documentation is needed at Vishakhapatnam port.
“We are requesting Indian authorities to provide similar facilities for cargo at Kolkata port too,” said a ministry official. “Containers leaving Vishakhapatnam arrive at the Birgunj dry port in seven to 10 days, and the shipping company assumes the responsibility to take back the empty containers,” he said.
On June 6, 2017, the governments of Nepal and India agreed to pilot the use of the ECTS to facilitate traffic-in-transit between the two countries on selected routes by signing a memorandum of intent.
Freight forwarders said the implementation of the ECTS and transshipment privileges at Vishakhapatnam had helped speed up the movement of Nepali cargo at Kolkata port too.
“As a large number of Nepal-bound containers are being sent through Vishakhapatnam port, it has eased pressure at Kolkata port; and customs clearance has become faster,” said Rajan Sharma, former president of the Nepal Freight Forwarders Association.
According to Sharma, at least 800 Nepal-bound consignments used to get stuck almost every week. “The number has come down to 200-300 per week, and most of the importers are meeting the deadline of 14-21 days turnaround time” said Sharma. He added that the turnaround time of containers had gone up 120 days when the ECTS was not in place.
The Asian Development Bank, the financier of the ECTS programme, has appointed Transecur Telematics, a subsidiary of the Bhimsaria Group, to implement the system. Transecur Telematics was selected through a global tender.
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If you have been searching for employment, you have come to the right place. You may believe that you just cannot find a job, but if you change your mindset and use practical advice, you can. Read here for excellent advice that will help you locate the best possible job for you.
Before you step into a job interview, do some homework on the business you plan to work for. Use the company’s website, social media profiles, and search engines to research their purpose, history, and employees. There is nothing worse than having absolutely no knowledge about a company before you are interview by one of it’s employees, especially if the employee is a high ranking member of the company.
All you need to know for Finding Employment
Get to the interview 10 minutes before the appointed time. This will help you centre yourself before the interview and show you’re serious about the position. There is absolutely no reason for you to be even 5 minutes late. If you are late, have a really good explanation ready before you let the interview continue.
Many times your best plan involves getting an entry level job in the field of your choice. Most employers want to get to know their employees before placing them in a position of higher responsibility. Use the opportunity to prove yourself as a valuable employee, and your chances of advancement will be high.
Remember that you don’t have to take the first job that is offered to you. A lot of job seekers get desperate and forget that they do not have to jump at the first job offer they get. If you remember the place and you did not enjoy the interview, location or the interviewer, think long and hard before accepting such a position.
A common mistake people make when they are on the job market is to consider certain jobs as ‘beneath them.’ The bottom line is that you need to make ends meet. If you have considerable savings, that’s one thing, but you may want to consider accepting a job that may not be your ideal job but that would allow you to pay the bills while you look for another source of employment.
If you really want to land the job that you are interviewing for, do not be late. Make sure that the day before you are going, you plan your route to the interview. Make sure you know how to get there. Make sure you arrive early. There is no excuse for being late to a job interview.
No matter what your education or your work experience, do not be too picky about what kind of job you want. Sure, there may be a field you are very interested in, but you cannot discount another field if there are more opportunities in it. You can always take your second choice job until your first choice job becomes available.
When it comes to your future, you should do all you can to make it as great as possible, which includes finding your dream job. Do not just settle for a terrible job that you hate. Utilize the advice you have just read, and you can find a job you love! | <urn:uuid:556de8c8-53b5-454d-8ef8-8391d82fe6b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cavendish.ac.uk/finding-employment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968223 | 625 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Gabriela Sorto has not seen or spoken to her father in six months, since the Honduran government’s draconian Covid-19 measures banned most travel and prison visits.
Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, a 48-year-old builder and farm worker, is one of eight protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, a small low-income community on the country’s north coast, could also soon be sent to jail.
The massive open pit mine, owned by one of the country’s most powerful couples, was sanctioned without community consultation inside a protected national park in a process mired by irregularities, according to international experts.
In response to criminal complaints filed by the company Inversiones Los Pinares, 32 people, including one man who died three years before the alleged incidents, have been charged with multiple offences and the community’s grassroots group falsely accused of ties to organized crime.
The community has been militarized, and its leaders subjected to threats, harassment and smear campaigns. Several residents fled, seeking asylum in the US to escape criminal persecution, in a case widely condemned by lawyers, rights groups and US and European lawmakers.
“My dad has been jailed for defending a river which gives our community life, for trying to stop the exploitation of natural resources by rich companies who the government helps to terrorize us,” said Sorto, 28. “Every day that passes we know less about him. He’s weak, he’s had Covid symptoms, we worry about his health and safety in the prison.”
Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries in the world to defend natural resources and land rights after the 2009 coup ushered in an autocratic pro-business government – which remains in power despite multiple allegations of corruption, electoral fraud and links to international drug trafficking networks.
Since then, hundreds of defenders have been killed, and many others silenced as a result of trumped-up criminal charges.
According to a recent report by the UN Working Group on business and human rights, the “root cause of most social conflicts [in Honduras] is the systematic lack of transparency and meaningful participation” of communities affected by the exploitation of natural resources.
The highest-profile victim was the indigenous defender Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated in March 2016 after suffering years of threats and harassment linked to her opposition to an internationally funded dam.
More recently, the Guapinol case and the forced disappearance of land defenders from the Black indigenous Garifuna community have triggered widespread criticism.
Guapinol is a semi-rural neighbourhood in the fertile, mineral-rich Bajo Agua region, where for years subsistence farmers and indigenous Hondurans have been forcibly displaced, criminalized and killed in conflicts with powerful conglomerates over land and water.
The current struggle dates back to 2011 when the Botaderos mountain was declared a National Park by Congress, mandating protection of water sources which serve more than 42,000 people, including the Guapinol river.
Yet the following year, Congress reduced the park’s no-development zone to accommodate the mine, owned by Lenir Pérez, a businessman previously accused of human rights violations, and Ana Facussé, daughter of the late palm oil magnate Miguel Facussé , a major political powerbroker who before his death in 2015 was accused of land grabs, violent repression and links with drug traffickers.
Over the next few years, mining permits were issued and road construction began even as communities filed legal complaints, held protests and pleaded with officials to protect the rivers, records show.
In March 2018, shortly after the company started widening a road within the national park, the tap water in Guapinol turned chocolate brown and thick with muddy sediment. Residents were forced to buy bottled water to drink, cook and even bathe after children began suffering from diarrhoea, while some adults reported skin complaints.
“They ruined our river … We couldn’t use water for anything, that’s why we organized, that’s our struggle,” said Juana Zúñiga, 36, whose husband José Abelino Cedillo, a 36-year-old barber, is also imprisoned awaiting trial.
A peaceful protest camp to oppose the project was met with violence. On 7 September 2018, one young protester was shot and seriously injured when scores of armed security guards working for the mine attempted to evict the camp. The incident was never investigated.
Meanwhile, judicial authorities issued arrest warrants for protesters linked to the disputed events of that day, and an earlier attempted eviction of the camp.
A recent investigation by the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of Virginia concluded: “This case falls in line with a pattern of violence, harassment, and intimidation directed towards human rights defenders in Honduras … illustrating the government’s tendency to favor economic interests over human rights and its willingness to attack their citizens’ freedom of association, expression, and peaceful assembly.”
In addition to the eight men detained in 2019, a judge will soon decide whether five others, whose cases were originally dismissed, must also await trial in prison or at home. The accused men deny charges of arson and illegal detention of the mine’s security chief.
Leonel George, 41, a human rights defender supporting the Guapinol community facing pre-trial detention, said “They want to lock us up to scare the community and weaken the resistance.”
The mine company did not respond to specific allegations, but in an email said: “Inversiones Los Pinares is a serious, responsible company that respects human and environmental rights, and complies with all laws, regulations and operating standards … we have generated development, economic impulse, help with social works for communities and all our processes are environmentally responsible.” | <urn:uuid:085f3372-b52b-4b61-bd58-aa2cc701ed03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/06/how-honduras-became-one-of-the-most-dangerous-countries-to-defend-natural-resources?emci=b64a237a-dc07-eb11-96f5-00155d03affc&emdi=618c418c-dd07-eb11-96f5-00155d03affc&ceid=4630027&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cc46c0a6-d2e5-4c75-816a-a04509c909da | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962487 | 1,246 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Have you ever felt like one of your arms or legs had gone to sleep, or had that heavy pins & needles sensation? The most common reason for these sensations is a decrease in local blood supply. These symptoms can result from something as simple as sleeping on your arm “funny” or sitting with your legs crossed at the knees. This sensation is usually transient and typically only affects your arms or legs.
There are other processes that can produce similar symptoms in your limbs and around your body. These processes, which usually involve one or rarely two limbs, occur with the following disorders:
Healed fractures & scar tissue
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
TOS (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome)
T4 Waiter’s Syndrome
Some other processes, which are pathologic (not normal) in nature, can produce numbness, tingling, and weakness in multiple limbs. These processes occur with the following conditions:
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Iron Deficiency Anaemia
Vitamin B-12 Deficiency
Lou Gerrig’s Disease
While Chiropractic treatment cannot cure MS, Diabetes, or other such disorders, it has proven to be very effective in the treatment of neuromusculoskeletal (nerve-muscle-skeletal) disorders that cause numbness, tingling, and/or weakness.
As you can see, changes in sensation can occur for a variety of reasons. While numbness and tingling can produce discomfort and alert the fact that there is a problem, a decrease or loss of muscle strength can become a medical emergency. If you are experiencing the sensations of numbness and/or tingling, you should consult your Comox Chiropractor, Dr. Houlgrave, for a thorough chiropractic evaluation. Dr. Houlgrave can help to diagnose your problem and recommend the appropriate course of treatment. | <urn:uuid:e29f28d6-cc72-4ff4-bdf3-f5e6c74b7fc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.comoxchiropractor.com/numbness-tingling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.906991 | 408 | 2.359375 | 2 |
In the dark, outer reaches of the Sun’s realm lies a world unlike any other. Discovered in the spring of 1930, Pluto—named by an Oxford schoolgirl, who was fascinated by classical mythology—was for three-quarters of a century considered the ninth planet in the Solar System, before a major reclassification in 2006 demoted it to its present status as a dwarf planet, a trans-Neptunian object, and the largest known body in the Kuiper Belt. Since then, it has proven the butt of much cruel humor, with fierce debate on whether it should be reinstated as a “planet” or if it should retain its somewhat less lofty descriptor. Thirty-eight days from now, on 14 July, our final first-time, close-up glimpse of the last of the “classical” nine planets will be made, as New Horizons reaches the climax of its 9.5-year voyage. Over the coming weeks, AmericaSpace’s New Horizons Tracker and a series of articles by Mike Killian, Leonidas Papadopoulos, and myself will cover the discovery and exploration of Pluto to date, the many trials and troubles faced by those who desired to send a spacecraft there, and the unfolding developments as New Horizons seeks to make this unknown world known.
For many of us, born and raised long before 2006, it was simple and taught through nursery rhymes and schooltime songs: Pluto was the ninth planet in the Solar System, although it was known that the dynamics of its highly elliptical orbit—which carries it out of the ecliptic, the plane on which the other major planets circle the Sun—caused it to periodically draw closer to its parent star than Neptune, moving into eighth place for a while, then receding back to ninth. And since the dawn of the Space Age, humanity has long desired to visit each of these worlds, which had hitherto appeared as little more than points of light in telescope eyepieces. Mercury, the innermost planet to the Sun, was first imaged by Mariner 10 during a pair of flybys in March and September 1974; Venus by Mariner 2 in December 1962; Mars by Mariner 4 in July 1965; Jupiter by Pioneer 10 in December 1973; Saturn by Pioneer 11 in September 1979; and Uranus and Neptune, both by Voyager 2, in January 1986 and August 1989. And now, in the summer of 2015, New Horizons will pass and observe Pluto for the very first time.
Whichever way one looks at it—whether you believe Pluto to be a planet or not—our first visit by a machine fashioned by human hands promises to be an epochal moment in the history of our species; an illustrator of how far we have come, figuratively and literally, in just a handful of decades. Yet the discovery of tiny Pluto came about through a peculiar set of circumstances, influenced by the unexpected motions of its far larger sibling, Neptune. Discovered in September 1846, it soon became clear that Neptune did not appear to follow its predicted orbital path, even after experts in celestial mechanics had taken the combined motions and perturbations of the other planets into account. In the early part of the last century, the U.S. astronomer Percival Lowell tasked himself with finding an unseen “Planet X,” a new world beyond Neptune, and it is an unfortunate footnote of history that the man who founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and proclaimed that artificial canals existed on Mars never realized how close he came to finding Pluto.
Lowell conducted several telescopic and photographic searches of the heavens from 1905 onward, all within the level of the Solar System’s ecliptic plane and all without success, but a few years later he happened to attend a lecture by his friend, William Pickering of Harvard University, who described a graphical plot of the motion of Uranus as a predictor of a trans-Neptunian planet. Pickering nicknamed the hypothetical object “Planet O” and speculated that it might lie 52 Astronomical Units (AU)—about 5 billion miles (8 billion km)—from the Sun and take 373 Earth-years to accomplish a full revolution of its parent star. Drawing on Pickering’s theory, Lowell refined his own calculations and by 1909 was in a position to predict with reasonable confidence that an unknown planet lay 47.5 AU, or 4.4 billion miles (7.1 billion km), from the Sun and took 327 Earth-years to complete an orbit. He also suggested that it was less than half as massive as Neptune itself.
Lowell understood that Neptune, discovered just a few decades earlier, had simply not been observed for long enough in its 165-Earth-year orbit for full perturbations of its motion by another planet to be readily apparent. As a result, he relied upon the smaller and less obvious perturbations on Uranus—discovered in 1781 and whose 84-Earth-year orbit had therefore been fully observed during at least revolution of the Sun by Lowell’s time—to assist with his calculations. In July 1910, Lowell started a second telescopic search for Planet X, whilst in tandem Pickering published estimates for three more trans-Neptunian objects, which he labeled “P,” “Q,” and “R.” Unfortunately for Pickering, his prediction that Planet Q was 20,000 times more massive than Earth drew much scorn and criticism from his contemporaries. Sadly, his prediction of where Planet O may reside actually turned out to be tantalizingly close to where Pluto was ultimately found in February 1930.
As for Lowell, he spent the remaining years of his life, until his death in 1916, searching without success for the mysterious new world. He labored under the assumption that Planet X carried a mass seven times larger than Earth—approximately half as massive as Neptune—and took the form of a low-density object with a high albedo, similar to the giant gaseous planets and revealing an easily visible disk with a diameter of one arc-second and an apparent magnitude of 12-13. During his endeavors, he identified 515 asteroids, 700 variable stars, and—without realizing—in March 1915, two of his photographic plates revealed a faint object, somewhere between 15th and 16th magnitude, which later turned out to be Pluto. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems unlikely that Lowell even looked at the two plates, for the faint object was far dimmer than anything like the kind of magnitude he expected for Planet X. His brother, George, subsequently wrote with a hint of sadness: “That X was not found was the sharpest disappointment of his life.”
Thirteen years after Lowell’s death, in January 1929, a 22-year-old Kansan farmboy named Clyde Tombaugh joined the staff of the Lowell Observatory. He had no formal training in astronomy, but had so impressed the observatory’s director, Dr. Vesto Slipher, with his remarkable sketches of Mars and Jupiter that he was offered a job. Tombaugh’s first assignment was to search for Planet X, and, to achieve this end, he utilized the Lowell Observatory’s 13-inch (33-cm) telescope to acquire 14 x 17-inch (35 x 43 cm) photographic plates by night, in tandem with a “blink comparator.” The latter alternately shone a light through one plate, then another, so that any object which appeared in both plates—like an apparently motionless star—would appear steady and unmoving. On the other hand, if an object turned up on one plate, but not the other, or in different places on both plates, it would “blink” noticeably.
By thus enabling Tombaugh to flip backwards and forward betwixt plates, the effect was akin to perusing a picture-book and carried obvious benefits for finding a new planet, which would be expected to “move” against a seemingly stationary backdrop of stars. Significantly, he focused on the entire zodiac, rather than the regions suggested by Lowell, and over the course of his first year at the observatory he observed almost two million stars, before reaching the constellation of Gemini. His attention was drawn to a pair of photographic plates taken six days apart, on 23 and 29 January 1930, which revealed a faint speck, moving gradually across the sky, close to the star Delta Geminorum. A third plate, of somewhat lesser quality, served as confirmation of the new planet’s motion. “On 18 February 1930, I suddenly came upon the images of Pluto,” Tombaugh later wrote. “The experience was an intense thrill, because the nature of the object was apparent at first sight.”
He walked straight into Slipher’s office with the news. “Doctor Slipher,” he announced triumphantly, as described by Ken Croswell in Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems, “I have found your Planet X!” It lay just six degrees from one of two locations suggested by Lowell. After several more nights of observations, the discovery was verified and on 13 March—what would have been Percival Lowell’s 75th birthday—it was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and formally announced to the world.
In spite of the euphoria, the diminutive new world was far from what had been anticipated by Lowell, Slipher, Tombaugh, and the bulk of the astronomical community who fervently believed in the existence of Planet X. Occupying a highly elliptical orbit, which carries it out of the ecliptic plane, ranging as close as 30 AU (2.7 billion miles or 4.4 billion km) and as far as 49 AU (4.6 billion miles or 7.4 billion km) from the Sun, Pluto proved so tiny and so dark that it revealed no visible disc and was six times dimmer than Lowell had predicted. Right from the outset, it had a tough time earning scientific recognition as a fully fledged “planet.” The German-born U.S. astronomer Armin Leuschner suggested as early as 1932 that its dimness and high orbital eccentricity made it more likely to be an asteroid, its course severely perturbed by a close passage to Jupiter, or even a long-period comet, whilst others published mathematical presumptions that irregularities in Uranus’ orbital motion were probably not induced by a mysterious outer planet after all.
Notwithstanding its nature, the discovery of the new world prompted the search for a name. And not just any name, for it resided further from the Sun than any other known planet in the Solar System, in a dark and gloomy realm, where incident sunlight was the tiniest fraction of the quantity that we receive on Earth. It was this location, this darkness and this gloom, which led to the name “Pluto” being suggested: though not by a panel of academics, but, as will be described in tomorrow’s AmericaSpace article, by an 11-year-old schoolgirl from the English city of Oxford.
The second part of this article will appear tomorrow.
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MONDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Doing something nice for someone else often leaves people feeling good about themselves and positive about their place in the world.
But does that mean practicing random acts of kindness has scientifically proven therapeutic value in treating mood disorders like depression?
Yes, according to a growing body of research that has found that "positive activity interventions" -- like helping someone with groceries, writing a thank you note or even counting your blessings -- can serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for depression.
"They seem really trivial. They seem like, what's the big deal, you feel good for 10 minutes," said Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside, who co-authored a recent paper on the topic. "But for a depressed person, they aren't trivial at all. Depressed individuals need to increase positive emotions in their life, even a minute here and there."
After a rigorous review of research on the therapeutic benefits of positive emotion, Lyubomirsky said, she and her colleagues found widespread support for the notion that people with a tendency toward depression can help themselves by helping others or otherwise introducing positivity into their day-to-day lives.
Such a simple, low-cost path to well-being could have big-time implications, given that more than 100 million people worldwide suffer with depression, according to Lyubomirsky's study. That includes more than 16 million U.S. adults, of whom about 70 percent of reported cases either do not receive enough treatment or do not get treated at all.
Positive activity interventions come in a variety of forms, including:
- Being kind to others
- Expressing gratitude
- Thinking optimistically
- Meditating on the good things in life
"The major aspect is the positive emotion," Lyubomirsky said. "The most significant feature of depression is the absence of positive emotion -- just a feeling of nothing, of emptiness."
Not only can being positive improve your mood, it can develop into a self-sustaining "upward spiral," she said.
"You might be more approachable to others, or be more creative and imaginative," Lyubomirsky said. "It snowballs, and you are more likely to experience even more positive emotion." For example, your boss might be more likely to compliment you if you are happy in your work, or your husband or wife might be friendlier after an act of kindness.
Dr. Michelle Riba, former president of the American Psychiatric Association, a psychiatry professor and associate director of the Depression Center at the University of Michigan, agreed that positivity can have a dramatic effect on people's psychological well-being.
"There's a lot of good research that shows these kinds of actions can have a positive impact on life," Riba said. "In general, people who help others stop focusing on their own pains and problems and worries and feel good about themselves."
And perhaps the best thing about it is that people can pursue these positive actions on their own.
"They are simple," Lyubomirsky said. "They don't involve going to a doctor. They aren't a substitute, but they are a great alternative or addition to therapy or medication."
Researchers are still assessing the best ways to pursue and implement positive thought and action to help treat depression, Lyubomirsky and Riba said.
For now, those who want to improve their mood through positivity need to figure out what works best for them through trial and error. This may include thinking long and hard about the best ways they can help others and reminding themselves of the good things in their own lives.
"You have to do work," Lyubomirsky said. "It takes effort to continually remind yourself to do acts of kindness for others, although I think it gets easier over time."
It's also important, she said, to vary your activities, lest you fall into a rut.
"You want to do them in optimal ways," Lyubomirsky said. "You want to vary what you do. You don't want to do the same thing every day. You want to do them at a rate that's optimal to you."
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