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Every now and then, you should check for signs that your washing machine needs cleaning. Washing machines go through cycles daily of dirty clothes so it’s not uncommon for dirt and odours to build up. Our washing machine takes care of our clothes so it’s only fair we take care of it regularly.
To keep your clothes in good shape, you need to take care of the washing machine first. Here are signs that your washing machine needs cleaning!
1. The Clothes Aren’t In The Best Condition
You set your washing cycle on, you wait for your clothes to finish and then find out they’re not cleaned to a high standard. If you find yourself in this position, it’s a sign that your washing machine filter needs to be clean.
Leaving your filter unchecked will cause laundry detergent to latch on your clothes and your clothes won’t dry well. The rule of thumb is to clean your washing machine filter every six months to avoid clothes’ condition decaying.
2. The Washing Machine Has a Bad Odour
If you spot a bad odour lingering from your washing machine, it is a major sign that it needs to be cleaned. Expectedly, a washing machine contacts germs and bacteria from dirty laundry so it’s not surprising mould builds up inside.
Nonetheless, this mould can go on your clothes, which is extremely unhygienic, so it’s better to clean without delay.
3. The Rubber Seal Around The Door Has Black Stains
A major sign that your washing machine needs cleaning is noticing any black stains on the rubber seal around the door. In a damp environment, mould, and bacteria build up and these get stuck on the rubber seal. Always make sure you act fast and clean the rubber seal to avoid further dirt forming.
Sometimes, any stains left on the washing machine door could be from laundry detergents that haven’t been rinsed away. Always make sure you are keeping an eye out for any stains.
Our guide should help you to spot the signs that your washing machine needs cleaning and make your laundry experience better!
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We were delighted to stumble across a rather complimentary post about our online catalogue on the Illinois Pixels blog, a blog about visual resources from the staff at the University of Illinois Library. They have kindly allowed us to reblog their original post…
Getting Lost in Digital Archives: The Glasgow School of Art archives
One of my favorite discoveries during my research is finding new, awesome archives to dig through. Exploring archives can be the beginnings of a new research project, and a fun way to gain new information. Take for example, The Glasgow School of Art’s Archives and Collections. When perusing this website, an hour had passed without my knowing it. And while I got lost in the archive, due to their highly organized methods, I never felt over-whelmed by all the information.
The Glasgow School of Art is one of the oldest design schools in the UK, and their archives are packed with examples of art education pedagogy, records of design styles, trends, and fashions. The GSA was founded in 1845 as a government-sponsored Design school, and has continued on today to be a major player in establishing design trends. The archives show an excellent variety of images that speak to the school’s innovation. The archive can be explored thematically between art, architecture, design, and photography, or chronologically, with artifacts ranging between before 1889 up through the present day.
Within the archive, you will find a mixture of primary, text-based sources, as well as examples of the type of work produced at the school over the years. This comprehensive record makes prime research material for anyone writing about the Glasgow School of Art as an institution, or about some of the schools most prestigious graduates, including: Martin Boyce, Joan Eardley, and Annie French.
Of special interest is their archive of images of their Mackintosh Furniture gallery, an extensive collection of early twentieth century modern furniture design, created at the Glasgow School of Art.
The GSA archive even runs an excellent up-to-date blog that features in-depth looks at elements of their collection, including the Mackintosh Furniture Gallery, textile collections, and recordings. Their blog also features some excellent posts on using archives to re-create unrealized projects, using archives as teaching aids, and other useful information.
When navigating the archive, there are a number of useful resource guides that can help you navigate their extensive archive more thoroughly. Of these guides, my favorite is the Introduction to Using Archives, which is full of valuable information that extends beyond the scope of the Glasgow School of Art archives, including a great list of other amazing UK-based digital collections to keep you happily lost in the archives!
Many thanks to the staff at the University of Illinois Library for highlighting our catalogue! You can see the original post here. Why not visit the Illinois Pixels blog? It’s a great source of information about visual resources full of technical tips and explorations of new and existing web-based image collections, which will be of interest especially to those who use digital images in classroom instruction and research. Or why not spend an hour or so, like they did, browsing our collections for yourself?
Newsflash! We’re really pleased people have been so impressed with our online catalogue, which launched way back in December 2014. Now, four years on (how time flies!), we are in the midst of a migration project to move over to new collections and image management software. Our users won’t notice much difference in the early stages, but the new software will make our collections management processes much, much better, and as time progresses we hope to build on the user experience we’ve created so far. Watch this space! | <urn:uuid:48801580-a0ff-43b2-8d7e-41bb44967a87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsaarchives.net/2018/05/high-praise-online-catalogue-way-illinois/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947293 | 761 | 1.78125 | 2 |
4 Tips On How To Select The Best Diet When There Are So Many Options
Is that diet really good for you?
Low carb, high protein? High fiber, low sugar? Grains or no grains? Vegan or Paleo? Ketogenic or Raw Food? You can easily go crazy with so many options.
One of the biggest frustrations I hear when someone is telling me about their health goals is that they can’t figure out which diet to try when there are so many different options. Especially when each diet seems to conflict despite each having very strong scientific evidence. And to make matters more complicated, there’s also the advice that not all diets work for everyone and that you should find what works for you. But, how can you find what works for you when you aren’t sure where to start?
Should you go low carb, high protein? Or high fiber, low sugar? Grains or no grains? Vegan or Paleo? Ketogenic or Raw Food? Even though Veganism, Paleo, Ketogenics and the Raw Food Diet are trendy, the truth is that there are actually over a hundred dietary theories. There are diets for cleansing, diets for weight loss, diets for weight gain, diets for sports endurance, diets for diseases, ancient holistic diets, and so.much.more.
And, not only do you have to sift through all of this information, but you also have to figure out which option seems to be the most doable (and affordable!) while living in Japan. When you’re reading about health tips outside Japan that recommend ingredients like hard-to-find kale, quinoa, and bounds of expensive nuts and fruits, it can really make you feel limited in resources (and a bit heartbroken, too). So, let’s simplify the world of diets so you can determine which steps to take for your health goals, with the following four tips.
1. What does your body need to feel better right now?
Most people search for diets because they are looking to achieve a specific result, like weight loss. Instead, a better starting point is to search for the kind of diet that will help your body reach its optimal function. Finding what you need to feel better means identifying how you need to eat to help you feel well-rested, energized, have regular digestive cycles, have optimal circulation, feel clear headed, etc. When your body functions optimally, your body overall becomes balanced.
[S]earch for the kind of diet that will help your body reach its optimal function.
For example, back when I was at my peak weight and really struggling with diets, I was incredibly constipated. Since I heard that a high protein diet is supposedly good for weight loss, I had been getting most of my nutrition from animal protein sources and tried avoiding carbs as much as possible. But what I hadn’t realized was that the amount of animal products I was eating was taxing my digestive system. Once I recognized that I needed to focus on having better bowel movements, I decided to try a vegetarian diet with more fiber and less heavy animal protein and not only did my digestive system regulate, but I also lost the weight I was originally trying to lose as well. And the interesting part is that I’m not a vegetarian at the moment but my digestive system still is great and my weight hasn’t rebounded.
So the point, in this case, is to do a self-evaluation on what you need for balance first. If you need to, you can even do some functional nutrition testing such as intolerance tests, DNA or stool tests to help pinpoint what does and doesn’t work with your body. When you start thinking of what it needs to feel and function better, you’ll likely find that your other health goals start to take care of themselves. Knowing initially what ailments you’re trying to fix is going to take a lot of the guesswork out of which diets to select.
2. Think of your health journey in two parts: Healing & Body design
There are two reasons why there are so many different kinds of diets. The first is that they are each geared to help people at different starting points, and the second reason is that they’re designed for different end goals. For example, a skinny woman who wants to gain weight and muscle to be a bodybuilder is going to have a different starting and ending point than an overweight postmenopausal woman who wants to lose weight. They need different protocols that match where they’re at and where they want to be. That means it’s incredibly important to know where you’re at and where you want to go before you select your next diet.
One pitfall is thinking that your next diet is going to be the holy grail to creating the body you desire. Instead, it’s a lot easier if you think about your health journey in two segments: phase one is healing (rebalancing), and then phase two is body design.
[I]t’s incredibly important to know where you’re at and where you want to go before you select your next diet.
In other words, you can start off by giving your body what it needs to function at its best, and then once you’ve achieved that, you can alter your diet or exercise plan to start designing your body how you want from an aesthetic or fitness perspective.
The quickest place to get answers is to start with eastern holistic concepts such as Macrobiotics, Chinese medicine or Ayurveda, all of which are philosophies that help you understand what kind of foods to choose to alleviate any kinds of body ailments from inflammation to coldness to digestive issues and more. Once you’re feeling really great in your body, you can then start looking into more trendy diets that are designed for body design, such as eating less refined grains and sugar and consuming more protein to shape your body beyond what it would look like at its health base. In my case, I experimented with Macrobiotics and reaped the benefits of a strong digestive system and overcome sugar cravings, so it was a lot easier to make alterations to my diet later based on body design goals.
3. Know that at the end of the day, you need a bit of everything
Your body needs everything — proteins, carbs, fats, vitamins, minerals, etc. Selecting a diet that cuts out any food group might change your body quickly in the beginning but isn’t sustainable in the long run both from a nutritional sense and also for maintenance.
Instead, a fantastic way to create lasting habits is to start eating balanced meals now that will serve you beyond once you reach your health goals, instead of picking an extreme diet in the beginning and then getting confused on how to maintain your body after you’ve reached your goals. The Japanese teishoku is an excellent example of how to eat for balance because you have had small quantities of a wide variety of nutrition in each meal; it includes a portion of grains, protein, a few seasonal vegetable dishes, and some miso soup which is excellent for aiding in digestion. Even if you don’t want to eat Japanese foods, you can still take the principles of the teishoku to portion out and balance your meals regardless of the kind of cuisine you’re having. Over time, you’ll find your body adjusting even though you haven’t done anything extreme and satisfied all of your nutritional needs.
4. The way you eat should be applicable to wherever you travel
I remember being worried about traveling when I was on a diet because I felt that other countries wouldn’t have the food options that I was looking for. It’s scary to feel like you don’t have control over your diet especially when you’ve been seeing progress with a system you’re experimenting with.
Selecting a diet that cuts out any food group might change your body quickly in the beginning but isn’t sustainable in the long run.
But if you think about it, all countries you travel to will have the same categories of foods: fresh, seasonal vegetables, fruits, meats, seafood, and some kind of fermented item to help with digestion. The differences in culture is more around how people eat and less about the kinds of nutrition that is available to people. So if you can practice creating balanced meals now (like based on the Japanese teishoku concept), you’ll be able to portion out your plate while traveling to also meet all of your nutritional needs no matter where you are.
There are a lot of diets out there that can make the process of getting healthy seem daunting. But instead of researching the pros and cons of each and making decisions based on what logically seems best, it’s better to start by asking yourself what your body needs and aligning the diet you choose to solve balance and design your body according to your end goal.
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.
Taking the law into your own hands rarely produces results.
What about taking the law into your own feet?
In China, a truck driver settled on somewhat dramatic measures to retrieve his stolen phone. In an incident originally reported on China.com, the trucker was sitting in his cab when a man knocked on the door. The driver, according to Mashable's translation, said he thought the man was delivering the goods he was waiting for.
The driver said he called his boss to check whether this was, indeed, a delivery. At this moment, the thief snatched his phone and sped off on a motorbike.
Some time later, the truck driver spotted the biker. And that's when he chose to confront him. Thankfully, all the action was caught on closed-circuit TV and subsequently uploaded to various parts of YouTube.
The videos were posted around Christmas time and more than 2 million people have already been enthralled by the sight of the truck driver standing in the middle of the road as the biker speeds toward him.
He then channels his inner Bruce Lee -- not a great version, but spiritually passable -- and fells the biker with a little kung fu kick.
The biker is so stunned that he meekly gives the phone back to the trucker.
It's not wise to enact justice this way. In the case of this proto-Bruce Lee, he could have seriously injured himself, the biker and anyone else coming down the road.
Moreover, phone manufacturers have introduced security measures to ensure stolen phones can be quickly disabled.
This doesn't mean that phone theft isn't still a problem. Recent footage from a San Francisco Apple store shows that phone thefts sometimes even happen en masse.
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Google has announced the addition of a new feature to its maps application Google Earth allows users to prepare a guide for a trip somewhere in the world.
Google said in a blog post : “We humans have always been involved in sharing stories about places that matter to us. Today we use technology to celebrate our ancestors, raise awareness of the places we care about, and revive memories of the homeland.”
The American technology giant added: “For nearly 15 years, people have been turning to Google Earth for a comprehensive view of our planet. But our mission was never to show you a static picture of the planet; we want to salute the world. With the new build tools now in Google Earth, you can turn our digital ball into your storyboard, and create a map or story about the places you care about. ”
Google explained that the build tools in Google Earth allow users to draw place markers, lines, and shapes, and then attach those sites with their own information, including: text, images, and videos.
Users can also organize stories and make them narrative and collaborate with others. After the story is completed, the user can share it with others. By clicking the Present button, the public can travel from place to place in the user-created journey.
Google said: The new construction tools – based on (Voyager) program launched about two years ago – is now available for the web version of Google Earth. Stories can be viewed on mobile devices using the latest version of the app on Android and iOS. Stories can also be stored in Google Drive for viewing from anywhere.
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Does Life after Death Require Dualism? A Debate
Yes: Keith Yandell, University of Wisconsin at Madison
No: Clifford Williams, Trinity College
February 20, 2002
Trinity College, Deerfield, Illinois
Chris Firestone: The Department of Philosophy and the Honors Program at Trinity College are sponsoring this debate tonight. We are delighted to have with us two professors of some notoriety on a very interesting topic. The topic is, “Does life after death require dualism?” From Trinity College is Cliff Williams, whom you are familiar with. He is from Indiana University—that’s where he did his Ph.D.—and has written numerous books. I won’t go into all those details to save time. And professor Keith Yandell has graciously joined us here for the debate. He did his Ph.D. at Ohio State University, so we have a Big Ten rivalry here on Trinity’s grounds. I did a degree at the University of Illinois so I should be able to moderate with some efficiency here.
Here’s how we’re going to lay it out. We’re going to flip a coin to start, in the spirit of good competition. And then we’re going to give eight min or thereabouts to each person for opening comments. Then we’re going to have about twelve minutes for each person to ask questions of the other. If you’re a mathematician you’ll know this comes out to forty minutes, which will leave us with twenty minutes remaining. For those of you out there who are dying to ask a question, you can go ahead and raise your hand. For the purposes of longevity so that we can have this thing on tape for future generations, if you would be so kind as to come up after you raise your hand and are identified, come up to the microphone—that way we will be able to hear you. Prof. Yandell, since you’re our guest, would like to make the call?
Keith Yandell: Heads.
Chris Firestone: Is it heads?
Keith Yandell: Yes it is.
Chris Firestone: What would you like to do? Would you like to go first?
Keith Yandell: I’m happy to go any way you like. I am a little surprised at the influence of the National Football League at Trinity College!
Cliff Williams: Our subject is, “Does life after death require dualism?” Our subject is not, “Is dualism true or is Christian materialism true?” However, I would like to say that that’s the background for the debate. “Is Christian materialism compatible with life after death?” My position is “Yes,” and Professor Yandell’s position is “No.” But first a little bit of background.
Christian dualism has been the prominent position of most Christians. Christian materialism has been a minority position. Some of the Christian theologians in the first few centuries were Christian materialists, and recently Christian materialism has been enjoying a revival, “enjoying,” that is, according to the Christian materialists. It is probably accurate to say that the interlude has largely been one of Christian dualism. There are very few Christian materialists, but there have more in the last twenty to twenty-five years. And that raises our question for tonight—“Can the Christian materialist account for life after death?” I want to give a couple of definitions here, and Professor Yandell has agreed to amend them.
Dualism is the thesis that people consist of two sorts of substances—one matter and one non-matter. A nonmaterial substance is often called the soul or mind. Christian materialism is the thesis—no, materialism is the thesis that people in a sense are only one kind of substance—matter or what is physical. It is anthropological materialism. It is not atheism, and Christian materialists do not conceive of themselves as benign to the existence of God. They are Christians and they are theists.
The attack on dualism by Christian materialists has had three prongs. One thesis put forward by Christian materialists says that the Bible does not support dualism. Number two, Christian materialists claim that the philosophical arguments for dualism are inaccurate, and there are a number of those. And number three, a positive reason that has been presented for Christian materialism is based on science as its thesis, that the scientific account of human activity can be given in physical terms only. Christian materialists don’t use this as what might be called a truth-conferring reason, but as an indication that non-material souls are not needed.
I would like to give a quotation from John Locke, a well-known early modern philosopher. John Locke was a dualist. But he thought that Christian materialism was a consistent position. He writes, “All the great ends of morality and religion are well enough secured, without philosophical proofs of the soul’s immateriality” (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Dover, 1959], Book IV, Chapter III, Section 6, p. 195). In other words, he thought that all the things Christians have though and maintain about people are consistent with materialism, with the thesis that people are purely material. And he thought this also about life after death, which is our subject for tonight. Even if we were purely material God could restore us in another world and give us retribution according to our doings in this life. So, technically speaking, a dualist could maintain the position that I am maintaining tonight. Typically dualists do not, because one of the things that dualists appeal to in the portrait of dualism is the claim that we live beyond the grave and that in order to account for that we need to believe in dualism.
I would like to address the consistency claim. I’ve just been giving some background here to give a picture or a context to our question. The question is, How can you believe that there is life beyond the grave if you believe that people are purely material? After all, bodies die. And there doesn’t seem to be anything there. Well, the Christian answer here is that people will be resurrected. And the understanding—this comes from 1 Corinthians 15—the understanding of that resurrection is re-creation. Re-creation is God’s making new what has died. The question is, How can you say that what has been re-created is the same as what has died? Re-creation presupposes that God is going to judge us, and we can’t be judged unless we are the same person. So the attack by the Christian dualist is simply to say that it’s not the same person, and so we need to postulate a non-physical soul, a non-physical substance, that remains beyond the grave and which accounts for the identity of the person who lives beyond death with the person who lived before death, so that when God judges, God is judging the same person. After all, we are accountable for our own sins, and duplicates of us are not accountable for our sins. I would like to maintain that this re-created person is the same as the pre-death person.
What I would like to say is that there is parity here. There is parity in some respect. It seems to me that the dualist has exactly the same problem that the Christian materialist has. After all, the Christian dualist believes in resurrection, and so the Christian dualist wants also to believe that the resurrected person is the same as the pre-death person and must therefore believe that the body of the person is the same. And so whatever account that the Christian dualist gives of the post-death person’s body being identical with the pre-death person’s body is an account that a Christian materialist could also accept. So that’s my thesis with regard to the identity issue here. There are other issues that perhaps will come up in our discussion, but this is a central one that I know Professor Yandell is going to insist on.
Keith Yandell: First, it’s a pleasure to be here. As you may know, I am allowed on occasion to visit Trinity Seminary and I am even an adjunct Professor of Philosophy of religion there, which is a like to me and I am very glad to be here. I will not say much about the exegesis of the New Testament. I am not a biblical scholar. I agree that dualism was a very early Christian view, held I think by Jesus and Paul, to pick two winners. If you want what I think is the best discussion of the New Testament teaching regarding this matter is to be found in a book by John Cooper called Body, Soul, and the Life Everlasting. The evidence that the New Testament teaches a dualistic view of human beings is laid out there with a kind of exquisite care that frankly a philosopher always wishes that he or she could find in a biblical theologian but does not always.
I find myself unable to separate the question of consistency and the question of truth. But does the Bible’s view of death require dualism? No, it requires either dualism or idealism. Idealism is the view that human beings are minds of a certain kind, and that what we call physical objects are simply experiences that human beings have that have conscious content. While I am not an idealist, idealism is perfectly compatible, so far as I can see, with the notion of life after death.
Materialism, I think, is not, or if it is, it is in that peculiar sense that a self-contradiction is compatible with anything as well as being incompatible with anything. My essential problem with materialism is that I think that it is not really false but that it’s necessarily false. That there aren’t any possible worlds in which it is true. And I will now argue for that.
There are varieties of materialism. I’m not going to try in eight minutes even to describe each of the varieties. Let me simply take materialism at its most straightforward. At its most straightforward, materialism is the doctrine that you are identical to your body. And hence whatever happens to your body happens to you and whatever happens to you happens to your body because you’re numerically identical to your body. Now strictly we all know that that’s not true. I mean, none of us when we clip our nails or go get a haircut worry about our personal identity being threatened. The actual view is that you’re identical to some crucial parts of your body. I won’t go into how much of us has to be around for that—whether the brain in a vat will do or whatever. Prof. Williams is of course quite right that contemporary materialism has either like a bright sun lightened the day or like a cancer grown through the body—we disagree on which of those is the right metaphor—then spread through the Christian academic world. On the strict view of materialism, as I say, a person is identical to a body.
Now bad things are going to happen to you. You’re going die, and you’ll be cremated, or buried, or buried at sea, or eaten by animals, or like Jeremy Bentham almost mummified and put in a glass cage. But bad things are going to happen to your body. And on this field they’re going to happen to you.
There are two responses to that, or three, depending on how you want to count them. The Christian philosopher from Notre Dame Peter van Inwagen says what happens is this. You die, and a little speck of you remains. And in that speck your life is dormant. Then at the last day, at the Day of Judgment, that speck is such that its life no longer is dormant. It’s awakened. You used to be able at Walgreen’s to get this little package of dust, and these seahorses would come out. You poured the seahorses into the water and first it’s dust and then its seahorses. And I guess according to the van Inwagen theory that’s why there’s a river in the book of Revelation mentioned in heaven. Okay, there’s one view.
The other view is by Kevin Corcoran who teaches at Calvin College. On Corcoran’s view, what happens is that at the time of your death, or just before, God causes this body to cause both a corpse and another body that goes to heaven. And so suddenly your one body—zap!—causes two bodies, one of which gets buried and one goes to heaven or one goes to the other place. I’ve got to admit that the Christian materialists are inventive.
There’s a principle; in fact, there are two. Let me state them as quickly and simply as I can. Here’s one. There’s a thing in philosophy that’s called the principle of the necessity of metaphysical identity. What lies behind that fancy phrase is just this. Let’s suppose, which I imagine is probably true, that you are now the same person you were when you came into this room. What the principle of the necessity of metaphysical identity tells you is that there isn’t any other person you could be. If you’re identical to a person who came into this room then there isn’t any other person that you could be identical to than that one.
But now think about this a minute. Here’s a third view, by the way. It might just be that what happens at death is that various parts of you get scattered, and at the end God reassembles you. Resurrection is reassembly. On the second view, resurrection is the creation of a new body and a corpse—two for the price of one. On the first view, the middle view, your survival is the survival of the speck in which your life is dormant. And on the third view, when you die you just get scattered, your atoms get scattered throughout the world. On the second account, resurrection is the creation of two bodies, one of which is living and is you. Resurrection on the first view—you drop the speck in the water and you get, not the seahorse, but you. In this third one, you’re reassembled.
But now if that can happen once, it can happen twice. And so there could be two bodies, or two specks in which your life survives. Or you could be reassembled twice. The parts of you at 14 and the parts of you at 24 could all be brought back together. In each case there’d be two you’s, according to a physicalist or materialist view. You’d be identical to each of two things that were not identical to one another. It is logically impossible that any one thing be identical to two things that are not identical to one another. Therefore what materialism of this straightforward sort entails is that something that is logically impossible could happen. Nothing logically impossible can happen. Therefore this materialist view is self contradictory. Therefore it’s false. Therefore it follows both that you won’t be raised from the dead and you won’t anything false.
There’s a second difficulty. The second difficulty, if I can get it in quick, is this. It isn’t possible that the sheer existence of something other than you prevents your existence. Now look at the scenario. If we get one speck, we get you, according to materialism. If we get two specks, we don’t get you. If we get some other speck taken from your body, we still get you. So on the materialist view, the following can happen. The existence of “two you’s” can keep you from existing at all even though they don’t do anything to one another. They don’t hit each other, hate each other, think unkind thoughts about each other. Now that’s impossible. So there are two reasons why straightforward materialism is logically impossible. Anything logically impossible is false. Hence materialism is false. Amen.
Chris Firestone: We’ll turn it over to questions, if you have questions for one another.
Cliff Williams: Yes, I agree with you that the Christian materialists are very inventive. These views that you presented are so inventive that I must confess that I’m not tempted to believe them either. First, I think they all presuppose the thesis that there must be some sort of continuity, or some sort of material, that’s in both the pre-death person and the post-death person. But I’m proposing something different, something that I would think of as boring, perhaps even more common sense. I’m proposing re-creation. So I want to ask you a question just to test you. I think I know how you’re going to answer. But I want to ask the question anyway.
Just imagine that one of us up here disappears. Poof. Gone. Of course, the audience would have quite a bit of puzzlement and maybe even a good deal of consternation. But let’s suppose after twenty or thirty seconds Chris comes back and just resumes talking, without apparent knowledge of his disappearance. Would you be inclined to say that this is the same person that came back, I mean, the same physical person? I guess I want a yes or a no answer.
Keith Yandell: You’re not going to get a yes or a no answer. That’s one of the delightful things about this not being a courtroom.
I wondered what you meant by re-create in your talk and I figured you’d get around to that. It may be, and you can tell me, it may be that you mean the following—that it’s perfectly possible that some physical thing just becomes invisible. That, I suppose, is possible. Or you might mean that a thing’s atoms are scattered just thin enough for awhile so that it cannot be seen, or that it becomes completely transparent. But you probably don’t mean any of those things. If you mean by re-create, creation in a literal sense, then to create something is to make it the case that there is something new which is in no way made out of anything that pre-existed it. The doctrine of creation, as you know as well as I, is typically a doctrine of creation from nothing, where nothing isn’t thought of as a kind of very, very thin stuff, like tapioca with the lumps taken out. It means literally there not being anything. First there isn’t anything and then there is something. And the something there is isn’t made out of prior stuff. Now is that what you mean by re-creation, the creation of something—it is annihilated, it doesn’t exist anymore at all, and then it exists again?
Cliff Williams: Well, I’m happy to take that view. The kind of creation I mean is the kind of creation that God is going to perform on resurrection day. I’m not so sure what exactly that is. There is some indication that we are going to be different. After all, 1 Cor. 15 refers to us as having spiritual bodies. I’m not too sure, though, what a spiritual body is. I mean, if you take spiritual to mean incorporeal, then you get an outright contradiction, so it doesn’t mean that. But it does mean that there’s something different about us from what we were in the pre-death stage. And what takes place doesn’t seem like a reassembly. I’m not sure why God would have to use the parts of us that existed. In fact, God isn’t going to be able to use all the parts. If God wanted to, God could use most of the parts, and that certainly would be sufficient to satisfy the continuity requirement. But the point of my fanciful example is that if we’ve got the same personality, then we’ve got the same person, if everything else is the same. That was part of my question for which I did not get a yes or no answer. My supposition is that you would say, “Oh, Cliff, I’m glad you’re back.”
Keith Yandell: I would because I don’t believe it’s possible for you to be annihilated.
Cliff Williams: Thank you.
Keith Yandell: I don’t think it’s going to be happen that you’re annihilated. God could annihilate you, but no doubt he would never do this. You’re much too nice.
But, no, I would not believe you were annihilated. I would make something strange out of it. There are philosophers, though, who say what you are saying. If you want a good version of it, you can find it in a book called Objects and Persons by Trenten Merricks. Merricks teaches at the University of Virginia. He is a devout Christian and a fine philosopher. Merricks thinks that the following can happen—a material thing can exist at time t, not exist at all, not be scattered, not be thinned out, but simply be annihilated for the next few trillion years, and then be re-created.
Now I don’t know what to say. To prove something, you need to find something more evidently true from which it follows. And I don’t know anything more evidently true than that that can’t happen, from which it follows that that can’t happen. It seems to me that if I give you my only copy, the only copy in the whole world of Ralph Cudworth’s The True Intellectual System of the Universe, and you manage to utterly annihilate it, then the best you can do is give me a copy of it. The best you can do, the best that can be done, is that an exact copy be made, which is not the original. I don’t know any truth that is more clearly true than that. So I don’t think re-creation in that sense is an option.
But, by the way, on my view, my body is just whatever body I, that is, my mind or soul, is embodied in. So for me to get my body back is just for me to get a body which then is my body. And I of course agree with you about the peculiar, the unusual, the wonderful properties of the resurrection body, a body like unto the body of Jesus, after Jesus’ resurrection, which has very remarkable properties compared with the bodies we have now. I don’t think that reassembly is necessary; that’s part of one materialist doctrine. I think what is required for me to be resurrected is for me to again be embodied, in whatever kind of body a spiritual body is. But a materialist can’t possibly offer that account. Materialists can’t possibly offer the account that my resurrection body will be the body in which my soul is embodied, because of course the materialist doesn’t think I have a dualist sense of soul.
Cliff Williams: Maybe we have come to a parting of the ways here, a basic difference. As you say, it is difficult to prove it either way. I used my example to try to get you to have an intuition, to see that, yes, it is possible to have a re-creation. You cite the book case. But people are different from books, and it strikes me that if we’ve got a re-creation, and we encounter a recreated person, we ask this recreated person questions about their memories, and we look at who they are, we’d say, yes, this really is the same person. And it wouldn’t matter to us that there was different matter involved. In fact, scripture seems to indicate that there is different matter. So I think at this point we’ve just got different intuitions. And I’m not too sure how to prove it either way. You’ve got an example; I’ve got an example. And you claim that it’s, I think you claim that, it is logically impossible. That doesn’t strike me as true. It strikes me as possible for God to do because God will in fact do it. I’m not saying here that God is doing something contradictory. I don’t think I’m claiming that.
And I think there’s a parity here too because I think the dualist has the same difficulty. I’m puzzled about that. After all, suppose the non-material soul were duplicated. Which one would we say is the real you? So it’s puzzling that dualists use this argument against materialists when it really could be used also against dualism. So it seems that therefore it has no effect on either of them, on either side.
Keith Yandell: Well, I suggest it doesn’t apply to dualism at all. Dualism allows, if you’d like, cloning. The cloning of the soul is just making a copy. So if you’ve got a soul, it exists, and then if you make a copy of it, that would not have any effect whatever on the original. The question is, “Which is the one that’s been around?” Let’s suppose you can’t tell. Well then you can’t tell. But we’re doing metaphysics, not theory of knowledge. Whichever one in fact is the one that started out and is still around is the one that started out. The reduplication argument has no purchase on dualism at all.
In terms of just contrary intuitions, let’s now check that one out. Here’s a different kind of materialism. A different kind of materialism says, “Look, let’s forget material substances. What persons are is just material states. Here’s one material state, or one collection of material states, here’s another collection of material states.” And if you’re very generous to the materialists, and I will be, let’s just suppose that material states can have dispositions, tendencies, feelings, habits. I’m not at all sure that works out, but let’s not worry about it, okay? So personalities are identical to persons.
Personalities are sequences of material states, one after another with each member of the series caused by the preceding member. But then of course the states can branch, and the same kind of duplication issue arises, if you think a person is simply a series of states and if you think a person is a single enduring material body. Now here you can play the game on both sides of the street. It doesn’t matter whether these are mental states which are identical to physical states, or whether they are mental states which are not identical to physical states. What follows is that one ought to be a substance dualist, one ought to be a really robust dualist, down to the ground. What a person is, is a mental substance, a thing capable of self-consciousness. So for any view in which there is a series of states and that’s what a person is, you get the same problems as you do for the more straightforward materialism.
Cliff Williams: But therefore would not the materialist be vindicated since the dualist has the same problems? Isn’t that right?
Keith Yandell: A dualist thinks there are two kinds of substances.
Cliff Williams: Correct.
Keith Yandell: For somebody who thought a person resembles conscious states, and there aren’t any conscious states, then the dualist faces a problem. And they don’t affect each other, but they prevent the continuation of the first. Both of those suggestions apply. But to dualism it won’t apply. Dualism, it seems to me, is just not in any way whatever phased with the duplication problem. And the answer to what constitutes my survival in heaven is very simple. I exist as a mental substance and I go on existing and for a while I’m not in heaven and then I am in heaven.
Cliff Williams: Can I ask a question about that mental substance? Do we have more time for this?
Chris Firestone: We have about five minutes left. Maybe one more question for each of you.
Cliff Williams: Is this mental substance a person?
Keith Yandell: Yes.
Cliff Williams: Now that strikes me as something contrary to our everyday conception about what a person would be, and also contrary to the biblical conception of a person. You’re at the intermediate state, so-called, the time between death and the resurrection. According to dualists, in the intermediate state there’s just the soul. Well, it seems to me that dualists have to say one of two things. Either the soul is the person, the sum and substance of the person, which Professor Yandell has said, or it is a truncated person. If it is a truncated person, then at the resurrection, the soul and the body are going to be reunited, and we get the whole person. But Prof. Yandell is not holding to that position.
Both of those positions strike me as counterintuitive and contrary to biblical evidence. According to the Bible, what we’ve got is a picture of people, I’m going to use the word holistic here. This is the not just the psyche, but a whole person. So to say that the mental substance is the person doesn’t fit. And the dualist who says that the soul is a truncated person is really paying a high price, which a materialist doesn’t have to pay. This came out in Professor Yandell’s remarks about the resurrection. Let’s see if I’ve got this right. Maybe you can answer yes or no to this. In the resurrection we’ve got a whole person to which is added a body.
Keith Yandell: If you really want to know my view, my view is this. While dualists have done shockingly little to develop this point, I deny that the biblical teaching is holistic in your sense. But it is something like that. What dualists have shockingly ignored is the fact that according to the biblical data, it seems to me, the soul of a human person is a soul that has capacities and abilities for relationships and communications that are best exhibited in relations with embodied persons. The human soul flourishes best embodied, and it is different in that respect from other substances. I grant you that dualists have been shocking in their lack of development of that point, and it has laid them open, or to appear to be open, to criticisms which are not inherent to the position, but to criticisms which are appropriately directed at a lack of dualists developing this thesis.
Let me ask you a question in the meantime. The Christian doctrine of the incarnation entails, I mean, asserts, that Jesus Christ was perfect God and perfect man. One person, albeit two natures. According to materialism, the human person is identical to a human body. Clearly, God the Son is immaterial. God the Son is a spirit. How can one possibly give a logically consistent account of the doctrine of the incarnation in materialist terms without maintaining the impossibility that an immaterial person has become identical to a material person?
Cliff Williams: Materialists have two answers. Number one: the case of Jesus is different from the case of other persons, in that every other person is purely material. In the case of Jesus, we’ve got an immaterial deity residing in something material. That’s one possibility. The other possibility is that divinity is exemplified in sinlessness. Materialists don’t find any difficulty in thinking of brains acting, thinking, feeling, praying, choosing. And those are the sorts of things that will either go toward sin or toward sinlessness. I think I better stop there.
Chris Firestone: Okay, now it’s time to hear from you folks. I think we have a pretty good analysis of the positions given the time constraints. Is there anyone out there who has a question?
Student 1: The question’s probably more for Dr. Williams, but really either of you. I feel like a lot of the discussion has focused on the resurrection and the afterlife in terms of heaven. But how would Christian materialism in particular look at hell, or would it have a conception of hell?
Cliff Williams: Well, thanks for that really good question. I don’t think Christian materialists think about that too much. And I haven’t. I think probably what I have to say is that it’s the same as for heaven. It’s re-created persons who are being punished. We’re talking about the metaphysics here, and what we’ve got is something physical that’s thinking and feeling, and feeling pain in heaven. That sort of thing. So I would just go for an analysis that’s analogous to what heaven would be, but, of course, the opposite types of experience.
Keith Yandell: My account is that if you go to heaven, on the materialist account, the good news is that somebody very like you is going to make it, someone very like you is going to be there, and the bad news is you’re not. And regarding hell it’s just the reverse. Careful copies, closest continuers, and the like, are copies. They aren’t you.
Student 2: My question is primarily for Dr. Yandell. I’d like to know how you view the soul. Do you view the soul as something that is constant and totally unchanging, or does the soul change as a person progresses through life?
Keith Yandell: The soul changes.
Student 2: The soul changes?
Keith Yandell: That’s perfectly compatible with being nonmaterial.
Student 2: Now if materialism, if one of the things that’s against materialism, is that you cannot establish identity of the body, because of the fact that it changes, then how do you account for the fact that the soul is the same thing, but the soul is also a changing thing?
Keith Yandell: I don’t at all find it a problem with materialism that things change. After all, I’m a dualist. I think there are material substances, and they change a lot. So change presupposes identity.
There’s a very strange idea in the history of philosophy—that change and identity are incompatible. But as Aristotle and Kant, among others, pointed out, change is a matter of something gaining a property that it didn’t have or losing a property that it did. So if change occurs, there’s got to be something that remains constant. The distinctive feature of some worldviews, like a typical kind of Buddhism, is that there’s an absolute denial of change. In that view it’s just flat out replacement. One state comes and then it vanishes, and another one replaces it. But change requires continuity over time, requires that the same thing exists throughout the process of change. Material things change relative to the type of properties material things can have, and minds change relative to the kinds of features that minds can have.
Student 3: I assume that on the materialist view the soul is material parts of the body. My question is about moral responsibility. In dualism my soul has moral responsibility to make choices that are good. Materialism looks like just the chemistry of the bodythe mind or something is produced by action or choosing of my brain. How can moral responsibility be tied to material things? It is something more than the chemistry of my brain. It’s very hard to find moral responsibility in materialism, because we would be made up only of atoms.
Cliff Williams: The materialist response here is that there is parity. Number one: the materialist view is that brains think and feel, and if you believe in free choice, then brains have this free choice. The Christian materialist view is that God is capable of giving brains the ability to feel and think and choose, and once you’ve got those you’ve got moral responsibility. That’s the first point.
The second point in this claim about parity is that it does not explain moral responsibility to postulate the existence of a nonmaterialist substance. That is just as mysterious as asserting that the brain has moral responsibility or that it can think and feel. What do you gain as a Christian dualist by postulating a nonmaterial substance? It has no more explanatory power than brains, it has no explanatory power. If it’s a mystery how brains think and choose and how we have moral responsibility, it’s also just as much a mystery how nonmaterial substances think, feel, choose, and have moral responsibility. God, after all, is capable of creating nonmaterial substances—souls—that have these capabilities. And God is also capable of making brains that have exactly the same capabilities.
Student 3: In biology we know that human cells totally change in a certain period of time. If that’s the case, then the material parts of my body, which are my personality, would change, and I would be somebody else, because all the atoms in my body, which were there a year ago, would be discharged.
Cliff Williams: I’m not sure that’s any more of a difficulty for the materialist than it is for the dualist. Prof. Yandell was just talking about change. The real question is duplication beyond the grave. That’s where we have opposite intuitions. But if you’re talking about change, the change of atoms in the brain, sure, it’s a known fact. I think it’s every seven years that all the cells or all the atoms in the body change. But clearly we’re the same. In some sense we’re the same. In some sense we’re not the same. So that’s no objection to materialism any more than it would be an objection to dualism.
Student 3: [Question about replacement]
Cliff Williams: Why is that a problem?
Student 3: Because I’m not more than I was seven years ago. The old atoms were replaced, and they are not part of my body anymore. They were totally replaced, and new atoms came into us.
Cliff Williams: You’re clearly the same person as you were seven years ago, at least in some sense.
Student 3: In the materialist view, I’m not, because all the atoms from my material body have been discharged.
Cliff Williams: Well, that’s not the criterion of identity for materialists. Materialists, as far as I can tell, typically adopt similar sorts of identity criteria as dualists do. I guess I’d like to ask Prof. Yandell another question. What is the criterion for identity in the dualist’s position? Here’s my point. It seems to me that the identity criteria involve personality patterns, the sorts of things that we identify as desires and basic drives. The dualists would use the same sort of thing. It seems to me that the nonphysical substance is entirely irrelevant to determining identity. And no materialist is bothered by the fact that we change. That’s not the criterion of identity. If I ask you what makes you the same now as when you were eleven, for instance, you would tell me that you have some of the same personality characteristics, talk pretty much the same, you have some of the same ideals. Those are sorts of answers that introductory students commonly give, and they are independent of whether or not dualism is true. Somewhere in there I had a question.
Keith Yandell: Let’s distinguish between metaphysical identities in nature and epistemological identities. I can make the distinction very easily. Two things [holds up two pieces of chalk]: let’s suppose that both are the same except that one has scratches on it. This is lefty. This is righty. [Puts them behind his back, then brings them out front.] Okay. Is this lefty or righty? I don’t know and you don’t know. The question, “Is this lefty?”, I don’t know. Here’s something we do know. One of these things is lefty and the other of them is righty. And they’ve retained identity between the time we started and the time that is right now.
Now what makes them the same is metaphysical identity. And what we’ve been talking about is metaphysical identity. It seems to me that on any materialist’s criterion of identity of a body, you’ve got to tell a complex story. For you to have the same body on a typical materialist account, you’ve got to have continuity. And these days typically materialists don’t want to talk exactly about the identity of a body over time and make that primitive. What they want to do is to talk about a material life. So long as you’ve got the same material life over time, and it’s the right kind of life, you’ve got a personal time. So in what seems to me to be the most interesting version of contemporary materialism, it’s material life that’s the primary criterion, and bodies are simply particles caught up into that life. It’s the same body so long as you’ve got the same material life, which is, of course, subject to the difficulty we’ve already talked about and that we’ve already noted that idealism and dualism are in fact not subject to.
What’s the story about metaphysical identity for a dualist or an idealist? It’s a very simple and straightforward one. What it is to be a person is to be a self-conscious mental substance. That’s what it is to be a person at a time. How does one differ from another in terms of their properties? If you want that account I’ll be happy to give you that account. Those of you taking my class tomorrow will see that account in painful detail [laughter], I mean, in pleasurable detail. What makes the same person the same self-conscious substance over time?—that you started out as a self-conscious substance and you stayed in existence. So the metaphysical story is quite simple.
Now how do you tell if it’s the same person? The reason I wouldn’t give a yes or no answer to my disappearing colleague is that I don’t know. My guess is that if that were to happen, he would’ve somehow become invisible for a while. But the very point is that the description doesn’t give you enough metaphysical detail to give you an answer. And so if I give the answer that I’m implying to give, without my reason being able to give that answer, it’s going to look like, though it’s completely false, that I think there’s any plausibility whatever in the view that something exists, altogether ceases to exist, and then exists again.
There are possible implications in which visible stuff becomes invisible for a while and then becomes visible again. I want to know metaphysically what’s going on in the disappearance case. Tell me that and I’ll tell you whether the same person’s around at the end. But anyway, that’s my answer to the metaphysical identity question. A person is an essentially conscious and equal or subconscious immaterial substance, and that’s what a person is at a time. Over time, you’ve got the same one, as long as it just keeps existing. It doesn’t have to do any neat things, it doesn’t have to play violin or learn new music. It just has to continue existing.
Student 4: I was wondering if you have an account of mind-body, soul-body, interaction.
Keith Yandell: Sure. Minds affect bodies and bodies affect minds. The idea that this is somehow a problem is one of the grand superstitions of philosophy.
Cliff Williams: And I concur. We agree! I think dualism is a possible position.
Keith Yandell: The only time in philosophy that anybody still brings up the objection that mental events cannot cause physical events, and physical events cannot cause mental events, because they’re so different, which really requires the premise that A can cause B only if A resembles B, the effect in certain respects resembles the cause—the only time the causal-resemblance theory is ever brought out in contemporary philosophy is to try to support this age-old “difficulty” with dualism. That, Descartes answered perfectly well.
Suppose John has been courting Mary for 39 years, terrified of commitment. Finally John wakes up and says, I’m going to do it, calls Mary and asks her, “Mary will you marry me.” Mary faints from shock. Well, where’s the resemblance? What was it in John’s making that crucial phone call that resembled Mary’s shock?
The most interesting version, by the way, of the objection sort of behind your question that I know of is discussed in a book edited by Kevin Corcoran. The title of it, since it’s fairly similar to Cooper’s title, escapes me, but it’s a 2001 book published by Cornell University Press [Soul, Body, and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons], edited by Kevin Corcoran. There’s an article by E. J. Lowe [“Identity Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self,” 139-158]. Lowe argues that minds cannot affect bodies unless they’re spatially located. The view is more complex than that, but that’s the focus of it. Tim O’Connor [“Causality, Mind, and Free Will,” 44-58] replies to Lowe. I don’t think we’ll argue his [Lowe’s] view, but it’s at least a new objection and not just the old mental stuff and physical stuff are so different they can’t causally interact. I mean, I’ve got a cold. The cold bacteria don’t resemble the ache in my chest or my cough.
Chris Firestone: I’ve got one last question. It’s kind of a summary question and then we’ll be finished. I’m just trying to get my head around what’s been said so far. Prof. Yandell, if I understand your position correctly, it’s that the metaphysical continuity thesis cannot be maintained if you instill in the position annihilation at some point. You can’t have both of those two simultaneously. Even God can’t maintain metaphysical continuity. It’s a logical contradiction of terms.
Keith Yandell: I wouldn’t want to put it that way. There’s no reason God couldn’t create the moon and keep the moon in existence absolutely forever. My argument is simply that either materialism of the kind we’ve discussed—there are still other kinds of materialism, we haven’t gotten to them—but the kind of materialism we’ve discussed and the view that what a person is, is just a sequence of mental states, both entail that something is possible which is impossible, namely that one thing would have to be identical to two things which are not identical to one another. But I’m not at all claiming that God can’t sustain material bodies in existence for however long God wants to sustain them in existence, including everlastingly.
Chris Firestone: But if they go out of existence, then they cannot come back as the same.
Keith Yandell: Right.
Chris Firestone: Just by definition that’s not possible. Prof. Williams, why does metaphysical continuity matter for Prof. Yandell?
Cliff Williams: My example shows I think that it’s not important. Intuitively we’d say it is the same person. Also, God is going to resurrect bodies. They’re the same, and they don’t require metaphysical continuity. In general, what I want to say is that these questions of identity are controversial. They require discussion, and it’s not clear to me that dualists should hinge their belief in dualism on a principle that’s controversial with respect to Christianity.
Chris Firestone: I want to thank both professors for joining us. Let’s give them a big round of applause.
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5 Augmented Reality Shopping Breakthroughs for Businesses
Stiff competition drives companies to reimagining experiences for modern consumers. Along with social and voice commerce, augmented and virtual reality commerce are seen as viable solutions. Retail showcasing is a leading AR and VR spending trend. New technologies enable products to ‘come to life’ and to immerse users deeper into a shopping experience. Unique experiences empower businesses to entertain, educate, and engage consumers as never before.
As the availability of VR/AR to wider audiences is growing, forward-looking retailers and online stores should get ready to incorporate them into their business flows. It’s reasonable to take greater advantage of augmented reality first. It’s accessible without specialized gear on a shopper’s smartphone. This advantage is coupled with the growing number of purchases via mobile devices and shoppers using smartphones in stores.
This article offers some ideas for enhancing customer experiences and marketing with AR.
1. Augmented Reality Shopping Solutions for Ecommerce
AR enables potential customers to experience products and services at home and to make informed purchase decisions. They can examine a realistic 3D model of a product as if it was in front of them. AR functionalities are especially valuable where the decision depends on where the product is used.
Return of the goods often comes down to the consumer’s inability to visualize them within their setting. For example, HORNE sells unique furnishing items only online. Interior designers make up a large segment of their customers. People would frequently send in a photo of a room and ask ‘Would that lamp look good?’ Thanks to AR, now they can see it in their room, next to the pieces they already own. A designer can shoot a link over to their client. They’ll pop a product up on their phone, point it at their room, and make the decision.
The multi-channel Anthropologie released an eponymous mobile app with a similar feature. It empowers shoppers to customize the look of the furniture with different fabrics, colors, and finishes. It gives views from different angles and even with different lighting. Creatively visualizing a piece in their home, consumers get closer to the idea of owning it and feel more confident about purchases starting at thousands of dollars.
Cosmetics are also better to “try before you buy.” MakeupGenius app by L’Oréal Paris was the first to let consumers make up their face virtually. They could match and even mix products to create the desired look.
Sephora also offered virtual makeup and overlaying tutorials on selfies. If the user liked the look, they could buy it. (Notice how both applications are reducing the number of steps to make a purchase while showcasing products.)
Almost 70% of online shoppers still abandon their carts. Businesses must work harder to convince them to purchase. In some aspects, online shopping should feel more like being inside a physical store. Again, AR and VR provide an answer. Virtual stores and showrooms offer more immersive shopping experiences than most ecommerce apps.
Retail stores’ main advantage over ecommerce is that shoppers can see how garments fit and look on their body. AR apps are changing the game by offering virtual fitting rooms. GAP was one of the first to do it with the DressingRoom app. Users pick their body size, select an item, and see a digital mannequin wearing it. Users can see how garments look from different angles and purchase them from within the app.
Such solutions reduce the fit issues, decrease purchases returns, and increase customer satisfaction.
Design houses, uniform manufacturers, and others in the apparel industry should consider AR technology opportunities too. Augmented reality clothing applications will empower them to close the gap between online and brick-and-mortar stores. The apps will be able to determine the customer’s sizes, including length adjustments, across several product lines. Custom-tailored garments will be faster, easier, and more affordable to make and acquire.
Texas-based Rebel Athletic launched a mobile AR app in 2018. The smartphone camera takes a full-length body scan. From it, accurate measurements are derived and used to achieve custom-fit clothing. The app integrates with Salesforce and Customer Relationship Management platforms that can be used for individual and team business orders.
AR apps also mean apparel customization opportunities. They will empower users to design, customize, and ‘try on’ virtually garments even for unique body shapes.
The business potential unlocked by augmented reality is accessible for all. For example, Shopify AR’s toolkit empowers small businesses to create own AR experiences. There’s a marketplace of 3D modeling services and 3D Warehouse App to store the models of the products. It’s easy to add Apple’s AR Quick Look support to the store. The 3D models are viewable in AR through the Safari browser on iOS 12 devices. Neither a headset nor even a separate mobile app is required.
People may be reluctant to download an AR-enabled app and use it as the primary shopping tool. Having it baked into the browser solves the problem. Web-powered AR facilitates experiences readily available through mobile browsers. Safari retains nearly half of the U.S. market share for mobile browsers. That means that a significant portion of Apple users will be ready to shop with AR.
Finally, AR solutions seem to have a potential in attracting people to physical stores.
2. AR In-Store Experiences
Brick-and-mortar stores remain essential for most people’s regular shopping experience. However, with online shopping booming and ecommerce moguls venturing offline, physical stores have to adjust rapidly. Their evolution implies transitioning to a more frictionless environment and new ways to delight and engage consumers.
Customer apps and beacon technology are some of the tools that already enhance in-store experiences. AR headsets or dedicated mobile apps allow companies to project additional content and information about the displayed items. According to ‘The Impact of Augmented Reality on Retail’ study, that’s what 65% of shoppers use AR for. 77% want to see product differences, e.g., possible variations of colors and styles.
What’s unique about AR-powered solutions is the ‘infotainment’ edge they bring. For example, Lego had introduced AR in-store kiosks back in 2009. People would hold up a box in front of the kiosk and on its screen would see the contents ‘assembled’ on top of the box.
No wonder most users claim that shopping is also more fun with AR. It helps businesses to curate shopping journeys and more interactive in-store experiences, drive more foot traffic and publicity, and make their goods stand out. For example, in 2014, Timberland created a virtual fitting room and turned it into a main window display. People could try items on without even having to enter the store, search for their size, and so on.
Many shoppers might even pay more for a product which they could experience through AR. (Make sure to place purchase buttons at appropriate places in your AR shopping experience!) Finally, most consumers prefer stores that offer AR solutions and feel more positive about such retailers or brands.
Increasingly sophisticated AR and mobile technology can be leveraged to connect with customers, bridge the gap between mobile devices and physical retail, link together a brand’s offline and online shopping experiences, drive in-store visits, and increase sales. Zara released an AR shopping mobile app in 2018. The goal was to engage increasingly mobile-focused shoppers. When users point the camera at a mannequin or the screen of their ecommerce purchase, a model wearing the clothing appears. From there, they can click to shop the look and related items, as well as snap and share the holograms on social media.
AR solutions can directly facilitate purchase processes. In November 2018, at ComplexCon in Long Beach, Adidas Originals debuted an AR feature that assisted in buying limited-edition sneakers. The attendees had to download the ComplexCon app and enable push notifications. During the event, the app would direct them to beacons set up throughout the venue to ‘Unlock the Drop.’ At a location, they had to point the smartphone at AR-powered signs and follow the revealed instructions to pick a size and pay. Finally, they would pick up the purchase from a designated locker.
As the full potential of augmented reality shopping continues to unfold, in-store AR experiences will be increasingly accessible and valuable for companies and customers.
3. Augmented Reality Stores
Modern consumers expect to be able to shop online, in a store, or wherever they want. Back in 2010, GoldRun mobile app helped to create the world’s first augmented reality store for Airwalk. Geolocation, mobile, and AR technologies helped to bring limited-edition sneakers directly to the biggest skate and surf spots. Two ‘invisible stores’ were set up in Washington Square Park in NYC and Venice Beach in LA. Virtual versions of the sneakers were GPS-linked to each location. Users of a dedicated AR app would capture them and get a unique code link to make the purchase.
The campaign resulted in $5 million in earned media. Airwalk’s online store had its busiest weekend by that time.
Such ‘pop-up stores’ offer the opportunity to create engaging targeted shopping experiences, a cheap yet highly-effective sales channel, and a chance to increase brand awareness. The solution is especially attractive if coupled with a store- or product-specific game that encourages users to play with and experience the products.
4. Augmented Reality for Marketing and Promotion
The marketing area looks like a perfect environment for augmented and virtual reality implementation. At its simplest, AR provides an innovative way to spice up business presentations and to connect a brand’s catalog with the mobile experience.
AR technology helps retailers attract customers to stores, connect to and communicate with them. ‘The Impact of Augmented Reality on Retail’ states that 72% of shoppers have purchased items they weren’t planning on because of AR. 41% of AR users were allegedly using it due to deals and special promotions. Regularly updated exclusive AR content can combine with mini-games for loyalty point collection. That makes repeat store visits valuable.
Walmart’s AR app helped to bring in holiday shoppers in December 2018. The users would scan Zapcodes to activate AR content sponsored by consumer brands. The activities included a virtual sleigh-ride down the aisles, interactions with brand mascots, mini-games, and face filters. Shoppers could share the AR experiences on social networks.
The app’s five-star rating on App Store reflects the amount of holiday cheer. Simultaneously, it was driving traffic, boosted customer engagement, and reinforced Walmart’s retail identity as the home of major brands.
AR-powered solutions help to extend a brand’s reach. For example, millennials are looking for fresh ways to engage with stores and brands. Delightful AR experiences are just the way to connect with, market to, and serve such customers. Useful and fun features in a brand app also drive app downloads and usage, helping owners to build digital channels.
Apparel and accessories retailer Tilly’s has a website, mobile app, and 200+ stores, many based in shopping malls. In 2017, an AR promotion brought together animated 3D images, in-store video camera, and a huge video screen in one of those stores. 3D animation was overlaid on the shoppers’ images to show them interacting with a life-size dragon, octopus tentacles, dinosaurs, and so on. The video feed was projected to the front window. The results included a 30% store traffic hike and more consumers downloading the brand’s mobile app.
Tilly’s also used AR in a treasure hunt tied to back-to-school shopping. It encouraged store exploration, interaction with hero products, and instant sharing of social media content. The participants downloaded or updated the app and allowed location tracking and phone camera access. Then, they searched the stores for animated coins connected to marker images. Shoppers who found three coins received a discount coupon. The event drove “tens of thousands” of entrants to stores, who yielded an 80% coupon redemption rate. There was a 23% increase in app downloads.
AR and computer vision already allow digital teleportations. Once a person is filmed, the processed visual input can be sent to another’s smartphone as a life-like hologram. The technology may soon revolutionize the way we communicate with each other. Currently, it creates a new medium for fashion retail.
In 2017, fashion label RIXO London upgraded its digital marketing and sales. They created an AR catwalk with life-sized holograms of models wearing pieces from the latest collection. Imagine a personal fashion show, on demand, in your living room. As new designs become available, users will receive and project them with their smartphones.
Augmented reality clothing apps like this are going to impact the way fashion collections are showcased and marketed.
5. Augmented Brand Awareness and Loyalty
Although consumers are more willing to shop via a retail app than ever before, retailers need to create better personalized experiences to meet their expectations. In the overcrowded retail and ecommerce world, it’s also vital to find new and more sophisticated ways to stand out, engage customers, and establish new brands. Sometimes it means taking risks.
An AR application need not be useful to consumers. Generating buzz is enough. Outdoor clothing retailer Moosejaw once released a free app for iPhone and Android to be used for in-store signs and the printed and online catalog. It endowed the users with “X-ray vision” so they could see what the models were wearing — if anything — beneath the clothes. Notably, there were 250,000 downloads. The campaign allegedly drove a 37% sales hike during Thanksgiving weekend alone.
Augmented reality shopping solutions don’t even need to be profitable or convert users. It’s the customer experience that primarily matters. 7-Eleven uses AR, chatbots, and rewards programs to drive customer loyalty. Entertaining AR in-store experiences are becoming essential to its promotions. In April 2018, the chain received a 73% rating on the best in-store experiences. That may signal that the marketing efforts resonate with customers.
A recent one was tied to the 2018 NFL season kickoff. Scannable codes throughout the aisles let customers earn rewards and unlock selfie experiences. Points were earned while playing a mobile game and sharing face filters with friends on social media. The games and filters were team-specific in Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. For example, fans could snap an ‘autographed’ selfie with a virtual version of a local football star. Rotating AR features were driving repeat visits.
AR built into a product may assist in building communications that last long after the product was consumed. For example, in 2017, Danone employed AR technology for improving customers’ loyalty. A yogurt for children was coming with scannable magnets. A mobile app recognized them to animate planets, galaxies, aliens, and spaceships. Dino, the Danone mascot, would tell exciting facts about the Universe, educating and engaging the young consumers emotionally. To learn the whole story, they had to collect all the magnets. Photos with the 3D animations were shareable on Instagram or Facebook in one click. The AR app became a leader in the family category on the App Store.
AR may be instrumental in building brand identities associated with latest trends, top-notch technology, quality, care, and personalization.
In the data-driven world, businesses should collect every piece of information about the customers. There should be some measurement of AR usage within an app: what percentage of people used the feature, how long they used AR per session, where they went while using it, whether they bought (more of) the product, and so on. AR in-store implementations should augment measurement of customer behavior. Owners need to compare those who used AR with those who did not, any influence of AR experiences on their perception of the brand, and so on.
Augmented reality is expected to gain traction with consumers in a few categories in 2019. In retail, it may prove useful in improving customer engagement and retention, raising brand awareness, and boosting sales. AR features enhance traditional in-store experiences. Language barriers and other conversion obstacles can be removed. Retailers get new ways to interact with customers and strengthen customer relationships. AR which adds something unique to the customer journey motivates people to revisit the store.
AR applications are revolutionizing mobile and online shopping and bring ecommerce platforms to a new level. Augmented reality shopping features which bring products to life entice people to buy. Virtual visualization provides greater interaction with products for remote customers and more personalization options. Extended showroom experiences drive purchases and the ability to ‘try before they buy’ promotes informed purchase decisions. It’s not only increasing conversions and reducing returns. It’s fostering more happy customers. AR is also about to change the way the fashion industry creates, showcases, and retails its products.
AR-powered solutions and products help brands stand out and build awareness. Augmented and virtual reality commerce provides marketers with a completely new experience and marketing channel. An AR app can stimulate the consumers’ interest in a product, become a part of a smart marketing campaign, and attract new audiences. The exploration of data associated with AR experiences and related physical behavior provides valuable insights into customer behaviors.
The inspirational examples cited in this post prove that AR’s role is growing. So is the number of brands leveraging augmented and virtual reality. Together, they facilitate the global onset of AR and VR commerce.
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What can I use for a turtle basking area?
Add a large, flat pieces of stone (flagstone works great) as a basking surface, and at least one ramp to make it easy for your turtle to exit the water.
How do you build a land area for a turtle?
Add a large, smooth rock with a slanted top that sticks out above the water that your turtle can crawl up on. A ready-made fixture featuring different elevations of smooth rocks is another option. These are available for purchase from a pet store, or you may be able to find suitable rocks outside.
Do turtles need basking area?
Basking is essential for the turtle’s health. It allows the turtle to completely dry out and warm up. This makes it more difficult for fungal infections to develop because fungus needs moisture to grow.
Can you put bricks in a turtle tank?
Bricks will rub your turt’s shell and create raw spots. Also, generally stacking items for the basking area isn’t recommended. If they are uneven, like rocks as you mention, they can collapse and trap your turtle. They also take up a lot of swimming space.
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How big should a turtle basking area be?
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The hearing in the politically and religiously sensitive decades-old temple-mosque land dispute in Ayodhya was the second longest proceedings in the history of the Supreme Court which had lasted for 40 days.
The high voltage hearing in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute involving 2.77 acres of land had commenced on August 6 and concluded on October 16, and the apex court pronounced the verdict on Saturday.
In the unanimous verdict the court cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque.
In one of the most important and most anticipated judgements in India's history, a 5-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi put an end to the more than a century old dispute that has torn the social fabric of the nation.
The arguments in the matter were the second longest after the landmark Keshvanand Bharti case in 1973 during which the proceedings for propounding the doctrine of basic structure of the Constitution continued for 68 days.
On the concluding day of the marathon hearing, the bench had observed "enough is enough". The day was marked by high drama when Rajeev Dhawan, a senior counsel for the Muslim parties, tore a pictorial map provided by Hindu Mahasabha purportedly showing the exact birth place of Lord Ram in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
The third longest hearing in the top court was on the validity of Aadhaar scheme and had lasted for 38 days in the top court which came into existence in 1950.
The bench, also comprising Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer, had came out with schedules for Ayodhya dispute hearing more than once and the arguments were first fixed to be concluded by October 18. That was later advanced to October 17, but on October 16, the bench decided to wrap it all up saying "enough is enough".
The bench was racing against time since the verdict was to be delivered before Justice Gogoi demits office on November 17.
After wrapping up the hearing and reserving the verdict, it had granted three days to contesting parties to file written notes on 'moulding of relief' or narrowing down the issues on which the court is required to adjudicate.
The marathon hearing was marked by frequent heated exchanges between the lawyers of the Hindu and the Muslim sides, and midway the issue of settling the dispute through mediation once again cropped up.
The first mediation bid failed to find an amicable resolution leading to the commencement of day-to-day hearing from August 6.
Later, the panel, which comprised F M I Kallifulla, a former apex court judge, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of Art of Living Foundation and Sriram Panchu, an acclaimed mediator, was allowed to continue mediation proceedings. The panel submitted its report to the court on the last date of hearing.
Sources had said that the report was like a "sort of a settlement" between the Hindu and the Muslim parties.
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Football is a spectacular, intense, and unforgettable game loved and appreciated by millions of fans. There are many nuances in it, both known and not so much. Almost every fan knows or has heard about football transfers. They get a lot of attention, all the media, and Internet news websites such as Scores24.live closely monitor the players’ movements and post up-to-date and relevant data on their pages.
Fans enjoy following their favorite players, their play, achievements, careers, their movement from club to club, and the competition of famous top teams for the best players in the world. This is called a transfer. There are enormous amounts of money at stake in these transfers, which change hands from club to club.
The notion of a football transfer
The transfer is an essential part of every player’s career, and it plays an important role in professional and career development. During the transfer window, important questions are clarified as to which team and with whom the player will play in the future as a professional.
A football transfer is an agreement that takes place during a specific period for buying and selling players. It is called the transfer window. Usually, the window period falls between the summer and winter seasons. In European countries, the summer period is from the 20th of May to the 12th of September, the winter period is from the 1st of January to the 31st of January. During these periods there are numerous negotiations between the clubs, and directly with the players. The deal closes with the signing of the contract with the footballer.
The agreement stipulates a specific period during which the player has to defend the interests of the club that bought him, salary, bonus payments, rights and obligations of the parties, and the transfer value. However, it does not always depend on an objective assessment of the player’s performance, but more on the agreement of the representatives of the two clubs. In football’s past, there have been many situations where quite talented players were sold for less than those who were not as skilled and capable. In football practice, there are often cases where in addition to money for a player, they also give away their unwanted footballer.
Professional players sign contracts for a clearly defined period, but no longer than 6 years. If a player changes clubs before the contract expires, the new owner makes a compensation payment to the old club. This is known as the transfer price or transfer value. The most expensive transfers:
- Brazilian Neymar has moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for 222 million euros.
- Frenchman Kylian Mbappé from Monaco to Paris Saint-Germain for 180 million euros.
- Brazilian Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool to Barcelona for 160 million euros.
- Portuguese Joao Felix from Benfica to Atletico Madrid for 126 million euros.
Successful transfer deals are published in various transfer rankings and are made public. The fans are as much interested in transfer moves as in the results of the ongoing team competitions. This is particularly the case in the off-season, when teams do not have official tournaments, but spend time and focus on strengthening the team.
How the transfer process works
A party that intends to buy a player sends a request for a specific footballer to its owner. The latter, in turn, after reviewing the request, puts forward an approximate price for the player. Then begins the negotiation process, in which the interests of the desired player, the bonus payments, and many other nuances are taken into account.
Agents play an important role in the negotiation process. They are the so-called linking element between the player and his employer. Agents are often relatives and deal with all financial and legal issues that arise during the transfer process.
The negotiation part of the deal involves painstaking work with both the player and the agent, the club, and a team of lawyers who work through all the terms: contract duration, payment, loyalty bonuses, and signing bonuses. A player must undergo a medical examination to check his physical condition. If any injuries unknown up to that point are detected, the transfer value may change.
Almost every team has a scouting service. Their main task is to work on strengthening the team. They do a lot of analytical work and draw up a list of desired transfers for the club’s manager to consider. The opinion of the team’s head coach plays a vital role. Only after that does the activity to carry out the transfer begin. But negotiations do not always go smoothly. Many of them fail during the negotiation of the player’s price or because of other contractual clauses.
In some cases the transfer takes place on a free basis, namely when a player’s signed contract has expired, his transfer takes place on a free agent basis.
A common occurrence is transfer scandals. Often they arise as a result of a player’s conflicts within the team, with the coaching staff or the team management.
The best football teams around the world spend millions to strengthen and update their teams. There is fabulous money to be made in this field. Football has become a global market where professional players change clubs with regular frequency.
Every day the transfer amounts are tending to increase. This is due to the fact that clubs earn enough money on transfers and there is no cap on the number of transfers.
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The Crafty Kids offers traditional crafting with a modern edge!
At The Crafty Kids, children are taught traditional art concepts and techniques with unique, modern, fun, age-appropriate craft projects that also help improve confidence, independence, collaborative problem-solving, fine motor skills, and social skills.
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Events and parties hosted by The Crafty Kids are fun, engaging, and educational because of our unique, custom designed, proprietary arts and crafts activities. We design our one-of-a-kind craft projects so you will want to keep them around. The crafts are designed to be child-created mementos that families will want to share with friends and families as gifts, that is, if they don’t want to keep these sweet creations all to themselves. | <urn:uuid:85bacb6e-15bb-4348-b35e-8b22a5502f3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thecraftykids.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939251 | 260 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Wet Cupping vs Dry Cupping Therapy in Huntington Beach, CA
To Know the difference between dry cupping and wet cupping, please read below. Contact REPAIR Sports Institute in Huntington Beach, CA, for cupping therapy. We are conveniently located at 7146 Edinger Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92647. For more information, please call us or request an appointment online.
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Cupping therapy is a form of alternative medicine where small circular cups are placed on the skin to create suction. It is often used to relieve muscle pain, improve blood flow, and alleviate joint and back pain. There are several types of cupping therapy, including traditional suction cupping, flash cupping, static cupping, and dynamic cupping. Traditional suction cupping is the most common type of cupping therapy and is performed by placing small cups on the skin to create suction.
Wet cupping, also known as dynamic or massage cupping, is a type of cupping therapy that involves creating suction on the surface of the skin using cups. The surface of the skin is lubricated, such as with massage oil, so that the cups can be moved across the skin. The cups are moved very slowly to ensure that the positive effects of the suction are delivered evenly across the area being treated.
Another type of wet cupping exists that involves puncturing the skin with a needle to allow the toxins to leave the body via the tiny wounds. In some cases, a surgical blade is used to gently scratch the top layer of skin; this allows the toxins to leave the body, once suction is applied.
The purpose of wet cupping is to improve blood circulation, induce tissue healing, and remove toxins from the body. It is used to treat a wide number of conditions, from muscle soreness to arthritis. It can also treat:
– Neck, shoulder, back, and knee pain
– Skin issues such as acne and eczema
– High blood pressure
– Gastrointestinal disorders
– Blood disorders such as anemia and hemophilia
– Fertility and gynecological disorders
– Anxiety and depression
– Bronchial congestion caused by allergies and asthma
– Varicose veins
Cupping therapy has been shown to provide a wide variety of health benefits, including the reduction of pain and inflammation, the reduction of stress and anxiety, and the promotion of better blood circulation. Other benefits include:
Releases Toxins — While specific organs eliminate harmful toxins from the blood, modern lifestyles often highly overload the body with many toxins, leading to an accumulation. Therefore, cupping can be extremely beneficial for releasing the build-up of toxins.
Reduces Stretch Marks — Enhanced blood flow allows the body to heal more effectively, which can help decrease scarring to a great extent.
Improves Varicose Veins — Varicose veins typically occur on the legs and appear as bluish, bulging veins beneath the skin. In most cases, they occur when the vein valves are not functioning properly, such as the valves not pushing the blood effectively from the muscle to the heart. This causes the blood to congest, resulting in bulging and twisted veins. Cupping can reduce the appearance of varicose veins by delivering fresh oxygen and blood flow to the affected areas.
Clears Congestion — If congestion is caused by bronchitis, asthma, or a cold, it can be cured with the help of cupping. The suction from the cups expels congestion by breaking it up, bringing about lymph and oxygen-rich blood to many respiratory muscles, including the lungs.
Clears Colon Blockages — Cupping also helps in engaging the parasympathetic nervous system by increasing the flow of blood to the heart and digestive tract. Furthermore, cupping gently over the abdomen stimulates the inner sides of the digestive organs, aiding indigestion.
REPAIR Sports Institute offers cupping therapy, an effective method to improve circulation, increase blood flow, and promote tissue repair. Call us today or book an appointment for cupping therapy, or visit our clinic conveniently located at 7146 Edinger Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92647. We serve patients from Huntington Beach CA, Seal Beach CA, Newport Beach CA, Costa Mesa CA, Westminster CA, Garden Grove CA, Fountain Valley CA, Long Beach CA, Irvine CA, Santa Ana CA, and Anaheim CA. We look forward to serving you! | <urn:uuid:b93e88c4-f039-4345-9514-2bd507c3659d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.repairsi.com/wet-cupping-dry-cupping | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.930731 | 925 | 1.6875 | 2 |
If you’ve been tuned in to Dare 2 Share for any amount of time at all, you’ve likely heard me use the term “THE Cause” as our teen-friendly way of referring to The Great Commission. THE Cause Christ has called all of us to is making disciples who make disciples.
That means YOU! That means ME! And it also means our TEENS.
Can Teenagers Actually Lead the Way?
Do you sometimes wonder if your teenagers are actually likely candidates for the job of advancing the gospel and making disciples who make disciples?
Well, I’m here to answer that question with a resounding YES!! And here are 10 reasons why I passionately believe teenagers can lead the way in reaching their generation with the gospel:
- Hormones + Energy Drinks + Jesus = the rapid spread of the gospel!
- Teenagers can take the gospel further than adults (they average 425+ online and face-to-face friends each!)
- Youth groups tend to be underestimated and underfunded, perfect candidates to be used by God.
- Teens can spread the gospel faster than adults (they have already built relational bridges with the lost!)
- Text messaging makes teen fingers nimble for finding verses in their Bibles quickly as they evangelize.
- Jesus did (there is strong Scriptural evidence that most of the disciples were teenagers!)
- There are 67,342 mini-mission fields in America that we call middle schools and high schools.
- Teenagers are unrealistic idealists who want to make a difference – and can if we equip them!
- Teens are not the church of tomorrow but are the potential church transformers of today.
- God has used teens to win victories (David), save nations (Esther) and can use them to spark revivals!
Multi-Tasking, Less-Than-Focused Bundles of Energy
That said, it’s also true that teenagers are frequently multi-tasking, less-than-focused bundles of energy who could use some coaching. And that’s where you come in.
To make disciples who make disciples, your teenagers will need you to coach them on how to become more purposeful about sharing the gospel with their friends. This process starts with prayer, moves into initiating spiritual conversations with friends and progresses toward helping others explore Jesus’ message at a deeper level.
One approach to encouraging your teens toward more purposeful, relational efforts to share their faith is THE Cause Circle. The Circle is a tool designed to help your teens identify the friends they want to pray for with passion, pursue with love and persuade with truth. Here’s what it looks like.
Teens identify two or three friends they want to share the gospel with, and write their names in the “pray” section of the circle. As they find opportunities to pursue spiritual conversations with these friends, they advance their name to the “pursue” area of the circle. When they have opportunities to go deeper in their spiritual conversations with them, it’s time to move those friends forward along the circle to the “persuade” section. All with the hope and prayer that over time, they’ll be able to persuade their friends to…
- Accept Christ
- Belong to a Church
- Commit to THE Cause of making disciples, too.
THE Cause Circle provides a purposeful framework for the incremental steps that are frequently involved in sharing the gospel with a friend. It can help your students prioritize relationally sharing their faith—simply by keeping it on the mental and spiritual radar.
Remember, You’re the Coach
Because your job is to coach your teens as they share the good news, I’m going to be unpacking THE Cause Circle in greater depth in the next few energize articles. Together we’ll explore the Scriptural basis for each of these three “P’s.” But in the meantime, here a few personal action steps for you:
- Get familiar with this tool by watching THE Cause Circle video.
- Print the Cause Circle for your own use.
- Try it out for yourself. You can’t effectively lead someone else where you’ve never been yourself. Take the first step of identifying two or three people you want to share the gospel with and simply start by writing their name in the “pray section.”
- Start praying for them regularly.
And finally, spend some serious time this week thinking through the above list of 10 reasons why teens can lead the way in reaching their peers. Think about each one. Decide whether you agree or disagree and why. Determine in your soul whether you really believe God can use your teenagers to reach their friends. Then consider what you might start to change in your youth ministry approach based on what you conclude. | <urn:uuid:7da17d43-3167-4ebb-9488-ed605f1e0eea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dare2share.org/encouragement/do-you-really-believe-god-can-use-your-teens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946714 | 1,012 | 1.507813 | 2 |
There is something about Yakitori which epitomizes the taste of Japan, the umami of multiple flavors expanded by the use of sumi-binchotan, Japanse charcoal. You can see the charred areas due to the use of liquid fat and tare used to lubricate the foods, the chef is fanning the fire and flipping the food to avoid burning. The process is sped up and the foods cook to perfection.
There are numerous parts of chicken cooked over a red hot fire, sweat, smoke the dark atmosphere and the shinning fire, the informality of Yakitori warms your heart. It is one of the very best foods in Japan, and if you come to Japan make sure to try it, and don’t be afraid of the raw bits, it is not the something to afraid of, trust is key in Japanese cuisine.
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NALCO’s Sustainable Development Report based on GRI international guidelines released
Bhubaneswar, 30/04/2016: The Navratna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) released the 4th edition of its Sustainable Development Report today, based on the latest guidelines (GRI G4) of internationally acclaimed Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Headquartered in Amsterdam, GRI has developed an elaborate and critical framework for reporting on socio-economic and environmental aspects of an organization. It is an independent body that collaborates with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and United Nations Global Compact. Presently, about 7500 organizations across the globe are using the GRI guidelines.
“Sustainability reporting has emerged as an excellent management practice, adopted by progressive organizations world over. NALCO is one of the few such organizations in India, which has successfully undergone content index service assessment by GRI,” said Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, CMD of the aluminium major, releasing the publication in presence of Directors, ED(Production) and GM(SH&E) of the company. “We have comprehensively addressed the sustainability issues from organizational point of view, like socio-economic, environmental, ethical and governance, which greatly impact the society,” Dr. Chand added. The report shall also be hosted on public domain. | <urn:uuid:3d6bbdb3-866c-4d0b-92c1-56e5f37c35b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nalcoindia.com/pre-rel/nalcos-sustainable-development-report-based-on-gri-international-guidelines-released/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.940852 | 287 | 1.742188 | 2 |
ORLANDO, Fla. — According to the U.S. consumer product safety commission, every year electric extension cords cause about 4,000 trips to hospital emergency rooms. The misuse of electric extension cords and power strips also cause more than three thousand house fires every year, killing about 50 people and injuring over 250. Here are some rules on how to use power strips correctly to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Between all the cellphones, computers, tablets, t-vs, stereos, routers, and lamps, you may have an area in your home that looks like this.
To keep this from becoming a fire hazard, rule number one is to never overload your power strips. If the power strip or extension cord feels hot, that is a sign that it is overloaded and may start a fire.
Rule two: never plug high power capacity appliances, like space heaters, refrigerators, or microwave and toaster ovens into power strips or extension cords. These appliances have higher power capacity and need to be plugged into a wall outlet directly.
Rule number three: always plug power strips directly into the wall. It is o.k. temporarily to plug an extension cord to a power strip, but never a power strip to an extension cord. Also, do not connect multiple extension cords together. And rule number four: don’t use indoor power strips outdoors. If the power strip gets damaged by rain or snow, it can damage anything plugged into it.
Another tip: never place rugs over extension cords. They can get easily damaged while being walked on and since the cords are out of view, the damage is too. Thus leaving exposed wires that can cause a fire. | <urn:uuid:b18f4398-5522-4de9-8199-8357ac9ed291> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wmar2news.com/money/consumer/avoiding-fires-caused-by-extension-cords | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.931643 | 345 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The controversy over India’s demand that it be allowed to monitor online and mobile communications resurfaced again on Wednesday, with an Indian minister telling reporters that the government had asked Skype, Google, and several other companies to give it access.
Google said that it had not received any communication on the issue from the government. “Thereby we are unable to comment on it,” a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Skype was not immediately available for comment.
There is a whole list of companies that have been asked to provide monitoring solutions, as law enforcement agencies, the home ministry, and intelligence agencies want the information for national security, said Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and IT, speaking in Delhi, according to reports.
The government is worried that terrorist outfits are using the Internet and mobile communications to plot and execute attacks. A spokesman for the Department of Telecommunications said he was not aware of the comment by the minister, as he was not at the event.
The government has previously demanded that Research In Motion provide its law enforcement agencies access to communications, including corporate e-mail on its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). While RIM has provided “lawful access” to its consumer services like BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Messenger, it said that the encryption keys to access the mail on BES are with customers and not with the company.
RIM said in a customer update in February that it had been assured by senior Indian government officials that it would not be singled out, and that any policy relating to “lawful access” requirements for encrypted enterprise or VPN (virtual private network) communications would be applied to all products and services that use encryption in India.
This is not the first time that the government has said that it will ask other service providers like Google and Skype to provide access to communications. At a meeting last year of the Department of Telecommunications, which was attended by representatives of service providers, it was reportedly discussed that other online services besides BlackBerry should also be asked to give access to India’s security agencies.
Google, Skype and other companies providing communications services in India will have to make provisions for interception of these communications by India’s security agencies, former Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said in September.
Under the law, the government can demand access under specific conditions, but a blanket permission to access could antagonize the companies involved, as well as investors, and consumers in the country, analysts said.
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How to Increase Your Height by 185Cm to Feet and Inches
The difference in your legs’ length is measured by Vertical Leg Ratio’s Measurements, also known as the Vertical Leg Count. The formula for the Measurements of Vertical Leg Ratio is leg mass/body weight.
For people with less than ten percent body fat, the formula 185 Cm in Feet is leg mass/bodyweight x ten percent. These are only a few examples. This means that you will have to do a lot of research to determine the exact measurements for your height and weight.
185 Cm to Inches and Feet
There are ways to make yourself taller without buying special shoes or using enhancement pills or surgical procedures. You can also learn how to become taller without taking any supplements or drugs. First of all, you must maintain a good posture.
If you slouch while sitting at your workstation or sitting in your home,185 cm to ft you will end up being shorter than those who stand up straight. Slouching is a bad habit that we should try to get rid of. You can learn to sit correctly to make yourself taller.
Before you go out and buy shoes, try on a pair and walk around the store. You can also measure your foot height by standing on your toes and walking towards a wall. Stand on one foot in front of the other and count how long it takes you to reach the wall.
Convert 185 Cm To Feet And Inches
If you need to find shoes that will help you grow taller, you need to look for shoes with high heels. Women tend to be shorter than men. This means that if you are a woman, you will have to get shoes with high heels. If you are a tall man, you can get away with wearing shoes with low heels.
Shoes with wide straps are ideal for women. You can find this style of shoe in many stores. Women’s shoes with wide straps allow the women to put their feet in the most comfortable position. If you cannot find these shoes at your local shoe store, then look for them online. You will find the wide strap shoes online at a much lower price.
The most common way to grow taller is by using a treadmill. This is the cheapest way to increase your height. You can find many models of treadmills. The best part is that you can even find some that are battery-operated!
Some people are not naturally tall. For these people, there are many options for shoes. Tall men can use special shoes to make their legs appear longer. Women can choose from open-toe shoes or closed-toe shoes. You can also choose between sandals and high heel shoes.
Finally, you can change your look by wearing accessories. These include hats, scarves, bandannas, and gloves. Women can add bracelets, hair clips, sunglasses, and hats. Men can wear ties, socks, jackets, and caps. You can easily change your style to match your new heights!
When buying shoes, you need to make sure you buy comfortable shoes. They should be not only supportive but also stylish. They should not make you feel too weighed down or constricted. Make sure you try on several pairs. There are many stores with helpful staff members who can give you their opinion if you need help.
Next, you have to consider your posture when trying to get taller. Your posture must be correct because it will affect how your body frame looks. Those of you who need to stand up straight, try on a chair with good back support. You should also make sure that your feet are appropriately spaced apart. Remember to try on shoes that offer a broad base and wide heels.
To keep your legs and feet in proper alignment:
- Use a mirror to check your height.
- See yourself from the front and also from the back.
- Check to see if your shoulders are properly aligned and if they are facing the correct direction. You can also try to put on a pair of pants that allow you to bend your knees.
All these things will help you look taller and give you a taller appearance.Getting your height increased is easy. Do all of these things, and you can expect to get your proper proportions. This will make you look taller and more elegant. | <urn:uuid:3b05b002-32c7-4023-b232-261a4ffd15df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.funmixchat.com/185-centimeters-converted-to-feet-and-inches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960555 | 882 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Ready to capture gorgeously-lit images without expensive gear or complicated lighting setups? Join portrait and fashion photographer Lindsay Adler for an exploration of high impact, low-fuss lighting.
In this course, you’ll learn how to achieve a wide variety of visual styles using basic zoom reflectors, a beauty dish, and a soft box. You’ll explore dozens of possibilities for setups that require three or fewer lights. This one-of-a-kind learning experience will give you the tools you need to create dynamic, beautifully lit images -- without investing in crazy modifiers or breaking the bank buying multiple strobes.
Lindsay will be using Profoto gear during this class.
Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler has risen to the top of her industry as both a photographer, educator, and Canon Explorer of Light. Based in New York City, her fashion editorials have appeared in numerous fashion and photography publications including Marie Claire, Elle, InStyle, Noise, Essence, Zink Magazine, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer and dozens more. As a photographic educator, she is one of the most sought after speakers internationally, teaching on the industry's largest platforms and most prestigious events.
I got so much out of this workshop! so many wow moments. the set up with the light behind the model, was just wow wow wow, and the fun bit at the end just sealed it, thankyou so much!!!
Really fantastic. The thing which i liked most, is how Lindsay gave options on how to do each set up with speed lights, and shoots in smaller home studios.
John is also amazing as is his purple bandanna. Hope he gets his own creative live course at some point. I would be interested in what he would teach, and how?
He would have to wear the purple bandanna though!!!
But not just the purple bandanna?
Maybe that would work too..
Maybe we should start a crowd funder "John to teach a creative live course wearing nothing but a purple bandanna" .. It could be the future :)
This is about the 5th class I've watched of Lindsey. As a teacher myself, I am impressed with how great an instructor she is….she has a way of explaining a concept in a manner that the less techie person can understand. I love how she uses water as an analogy to light. I'm a retired Spanish teacher and one of my favorite stories is Isabel Allende's "La Luz es com el ague" (Light is like water). Bravo, Lindsey! Looking forward to watching even more of your videos. | <urn:uuid:deb7edb3-bc45-4ae4-9fd7-3f3e028d31a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.creativelive.com/class/high-impact-low-fuss-lighting-lindsay-adler | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.949262 | 539 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Doctors from Fortis Malar and Therukoothu Artists come together to fight Substance Abuse
Awareness programme to highlight risks of alcohol abuse among people
Chennai, 28th April 2018: Doctors of Fortis Malar Hospital and Therukoothu artists came together to create awareness about evils of substance abuse at Trustway Foundation – De-Addiction and Rehabilitation centre today. The informative awareness session was attended by 150 people who were made aware about ill effects of drug abuse as well as abusive alcohol consumption. The session was conducted by Dr. Nethra Balasubramaniam, Counselling Psychologist at Fortis Malar Hospital.
Therukoothu is a local art form comprising of storytelling, dialogue rendering, songs and dance. It was used to touch upon alcoholism and its related issues. The performance was intertwined with people’s emotions, values and attitudes to life, in such a way that the story being narrated became the expression of addicts and their dreaded experiences with alcohol.
Speaking at the awareness camp, Dr. Nethra Balasubramaniam said, “Alcohol abuse is one of the main reasons for many problems to a healthy way of life. Major health problems are a direct result of such abuse. India has highest number of deaths due to road accident and drunk driving is a major cause of these deaths. Apart from its effects on physical health, it leaves a very strained effect on one’s mental health. The family of such victims has to undergo a lot of mental turmoil.”
Dr. Nethra Balasubramaniam suggested the following tips to contain alcohol abuse swiftly and effectively.
Change your routine and make a serious plan to cut back on your alcohol consumption – This is really a good way to start.
Spend more time with your family and friends who support you.
Do activities that don’t involve drinking like involve in sports activities, go for a walk or bike ride, go to a movie or play, or go to a music show or art opening. This will not only make you cut back on your drinking, it will also make you healthier overall by getting you more active.
Start exercising as it is a great way to help you kick an alcohol habit. Also make sure that along with exercise, you eat well, get proper sleep, and generally taking care of yourself to be less prone to drinking.
If you cut back significantly on your alcohol consumption, you may start to experience some withdrawal symptoms like trembling hands, irritability, shaky and tired feelings, difficulty sleeping, poor concentration, and bad dreams. At this point, it’s very easy to give up. Be strong and try to seek professional help for further recovery.
About Fortis Healthcare Limited
Fortis Healthcare Limited is a leading integrated healthcare delivery service provider in India. The healthcare verticals of the company primarily comprise hospitals, diagnostics and day care specialty facilities. Currently, the company operates its healthcare delivery services in India, Dubai, Mauritius and Sri Lanka with 45 healthcare facilities (including projects under development), approximately 10,000 potential beds and over 374 diagnostic centres.
About Fortis Malar Hospital:
Fortis Malar Hospital was acquired by Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited in early 2008. The hospital founded in 1992, is established as one of the largest corporate hospitals in Chennai providing quality super specialty and multi-specialty healthcare services. Fortis Malar Hospitals, with 180 beds, focuses on providing comprehensive medical care in the areas of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Neuro Surgery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Paediatrics, Diabetics, Nephrology and Internal Medicine. Fortis Malar Hospital has a state of the art Cath Lab and multiple dedicated cardiac operation theatres and intensive coronary care units. Several rare and complex Adult and Paediatric Cardiac surgeries, Orthopaedic and Joint replacements, Neurosurgeries and Plastic reconstruction surgeries have been performed at this hospital. The hospital’ Obstetrics and Gynaecology services are among the busiest in the city, successfully performing many complicated deliveries and surgeries. They are supported by a dedicated Neonatology unit. | <urn:uuid:f54aa270-3d7f-4802-898e-3333eda0bdfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://chennaivoice.in/press-release-alcohol-awareness-programme-to-highlight-risks-of-alcohol-abuse-among-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957 | 861 | 2.125 | 2 |
Since 2010, 45 states, including California, have adopted the Common Core Standards. What is Common Core and what does it mean in relation to your child's education and readiness for the next grade level?
What is is the "Common Core Standards"?
- A single set of clear and consistent standards that provide all students regardless of location with a “college and career” ready education.
- The standards provide expectations for each grade level and will allow parents to track their progress through each grade level and progression into college.
- The standards are evidence and research -based and are set to provide students with the skills that they will need in the real world.
What it is not?
- The Common Core Standards are not a curriculum.
- Each district with the help of administrators and teachers will decide on the curriculum used in the classroom.
What does it mean for my child?
- Instructional shifts-More hands on project based learning, technology integration and facilitated education as opposed to the “sit and get” style seen in many classrooms today.
- Shifts in text types- Informational vs. literary text-More emphasis on informational text and using text evidence to support their responses both in question format and in their writing.
- End of the year exam-Online Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has created an exam that all students in the state of California will take at the end of the year to assess their knowledge of all standards.
What can I do to better prepare my child for the school year?
- Read to and with your child!!
- Make sure they are able to fully comprehend the text they are reading and support with textual evidence.
- Introduce your child to a variety of texts (non-fiction, fiction, news articles, and biographies, persuasive and argumentative pieces)
California Department of Education
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The main yield components of grass are the number of leaves per unit area and dry matter content. Higher yields come from optimising leaf numbers, maintaining a green leaf canopy and achieving a high dry matter content. A balanced fertiliser programme including all macro and micronutrients is essential to help manage all of these components.
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At least 10% of California’s public school classrooms are overseen by teachers who are not properly credentialed, according to a first-of-its-kind report released by the Department of Education on Thursday.
The new data shed light on the number of classrooms with instructors who are fully trained in the subject they are assigned to teach. It also shows how many classrooms are led by teachers who are working while awaiting full credentialing. The data come as California schools have been grappling with widespread staffing shortages, a problem compounded by the pandemic.
A vast majority — 83% percent — of classes are led by teachers fully authorized to cover the subjects they teach. Data are unknown for nearly 7% of classrooms. But the report did delve into classrooms without properly trained instructors:
- The 10% of classrooms without credentialed teachers represents 27,500 courses.
- 4.1% of the state’s teaching assignments are considered “ineffective,” meaning educators are using emergency permits or are otherwise teaching without proper authorization.
- 4.4% of classrooms are led by teachers who have a credential but have “not demonstrated subject matter competence” in the course they are assigned to
- 1.5% of courses are taught by teachers with an intern credential, the report said.
The inaugural report was mandated by legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 amid concerns about a lack of monitoring and accountability of “teacher misassignments.”
The new data, available on the California Department of Education website, allow the public to drill down to individual districts, schools and grade levels. But advocacy groups, including the Education Trust-West are pushing the state to provide even more information about how the data impact students of color and those living in poverty as well.
“We can’t fix what we can’t see clearly. That’s why the release of this data is a vital first step toward better understanding the quality of California’s teacher workforce,” Jana Luft, senior associate for the Education Trust–West said Thursday. “Now that we are finally starting to see clearly the equity gaps in teacher preparedness, it’s time to get to work fixing them.”
The state’s previous, more limited monitoring of credentials showed that such misassignments were disproportionately higher for courses such as special education and in schools located in low income zip codes.
Assemblymember Reggie Jones Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), who authored the bill that requires the state to provide the annual reports on teacher credentials and class assignments, said Thursday’s results shows why it was needed.
“This is the exact purpose of the legislation — to identify deficiencies in the system and make targeted investments in schools and communities most in need of resources to address these problems,” Jones Sawyer said. “Our main concern is whether or not students are being served and educated properly, especially in Black and Latino communities.”
In school districts like Montebello Unified, where 95% of students are Latino and 74% qualify for free or reduced price meals, less than half of classrooms are led by teachers properly credentialed.
Los Angeles Unified, the largest district in California, is about on par with the state, with 82% of classrooms overseen by teacher properly credentialed. Many of Los Angeles Unified’s highest-needs campuses remain significantly understaffed, and the problem has hit hardest at schools in parts of South L.A. and other low-income neighborhoods.
At San Diego Unified, about 89% of classrooms have adequately authorized teachers. At Oakland Unified, about 58% of teachers meet the state standards.
The California Teachers Assn. said the pandemic affected teachers’ ability to finish their credentials programs while at the same time there has been an urgent need to get teachers, even if not fully prepared, in classrooms lacking instructors.
“Exceptions were made during COVID in order to return to in-person teaching and learning,” said Lisa Gardiner, CTA spokesperson. “The state’s testing centers were closed, and the temporary solution was to give student teachers more time to complete the assessments and earn their credentials, in addition to granting them preliminary credentials to be able to move to the classrooms.”
The state budget finalized by Newsom and state lawmakers this week includes millions to increase the pipeline of aspiring teachers, expanding grants and residency programs. Nationwide, teachers have fled the profession, with a significant decline in education degrees and accelerated retirements because of pandemic disruptions partly to blame.
In a news release Thursday, the California Department of Education said that the data will be used to get more teachers properly certified. State officials pointed to $3.6 billion the state has provided in the last four years to improve teacher recruitment, retention and training.
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When it comes to machine translation — literacy is key
The best way to approach machine translation — Google Translate, for example — is from an informed and critical perspective. That’s according to Lynne Bowker, the latest participant in the Concordia Library researcher-in-residence program.
Bowker is a professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Translation and Interpretation with a cross-appointment to the School of Information Studies. She will act as researcher-in-residence from June to December 2019.
Her project while at Concordia will focus on machine translation literacy in the context of scholarly communication. As part of her residency, she will conduct research with non-anglophone student and faculty participants from Concordia to understand how they are engaging with machine translation with respect to scholarly communication and how it can be improved.
In addition, Bowker will work with Concordia librarians to develop a workshop on machine translation literacy for the university community.
Now in its third year, the researcher-in-residence program seeks to foster a strong research culture and promote evidence-based librarianship at the university.
It offers the opportunity for librarians, archivists, scholars or doctoral students to focus on an area of inquiry in a supportive and enriching environment, and to interact with Concordia Library staff and resources.
My goal is to help the scholarly community avoid the potential pitfalls of translation technology while optimizing its strengths
Can you tell us the meaning of machine translation literacy?
Lynne Bowker: On the surface, free online tools such as Google Translate seem straightforward. Open the application, copy and paste your text, choose your languages and click “Translate.”
Using machine translation (MT) technology may be easy, but using it critically requires more thought. Have you ever considered what happens to the text that you paste into the tool? Maybe you think it just disappears once you close the window? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. Confidentiality and privacy are some issues worth thinking about before choosing to use an online MT system.
And how reliable are the translations that come out? The most recent AI-based approaches use a technique called machine learning. Essentially, the computer program is fed millions of words of text and it uses this “training data” to learn how to translate new texts.
Depending on the texts that are used for training, the machine translation system might learn inappropriate things. For instance, there are already numerous reports of systems that produce texts with gender or racial bias.
Learning how to prepare texts in a machine translation–friendly way can improve the usability of the translated output. Thinking about whether, when, why and how to use machine translation is part of what I term “machine translation literacy.”
What inspired your interest and research in this area?
LB: As an anglophone, I am able to do most of my scholarly communication in my native language. The more interactions I had with international students, visiting scholars and colleagues at international conferences, the more I began to realize my privileged position.
Then I read an account by a group of Spanish researchers who documented their struggle to have their work published in English. They reported a success rate of less than 25 per cent. The science was fine, but it just wasn’t being linguistically packaged to the liking of the English-speaking journal editors.
It would be easy to see this as a problem for non-anglophones, but I think that English speakers have a responsibility in this situation too. If we want the best and brightest minds on the planet working together to solve problems such as climate change, cancer and energy crises, then we need to make sure that researchers from all linguistic backgrounds can effectively share their research findings with one another.
My goal is to use my own expertise in the area of translation technology to help all members of the scholarly community improve their machine translation literacy. That way they can avoid the pitfalls of this technology while optimizing its strengths.
I believe this research has potential to help others beyond the scholarly community too. For instance, a machine translation literacy program could be adapted for school kids or newcomers to Canada who speak languages other than English or French. Machine translation can make a significant contribution to achieving social justice.
What are a few misconceptions about your research?
LB: One big misconception is that machine translation is “easy.” But using the technology thoughtfully requires us to act thoughtfully, rather than acting on autopilot.
Another related problem is that people think machine translation is fully “automatic.” In most cases, it’s better to treat machine translation as a tool that can help with translation, rather than as one to do translation.
Human intervention, before or after the machine translation phase, can make a huge difference to the eventual quality of the text.
Another issue that most users don’t think about is that there are human beings behind the machine.
Even AI-based machine translation systems would not be able to function without the contributions of tens of thousands of professional translators. So there’s an ethical issue to confront: professional translators are not getting any recognition for their work because all the credit is going to the machine.
Finally, English-speaking scholars don’t always realize the critical role that they need to play to begin to level the playing field in the world of scholarly communication. It’s not a problem that non-native English speakers should be grappling with alone.
What do you hope participants will gain from a machine translation literacy program?
LB: My wish is for people to come away with a better idea of how machine translation works so that they can make informed decisions about whether to use it in a particular instance. And if they do use it, I hope they will be able to do so in a way that will maximize its effectiveness and minimize potential risks.
I hope they will also give a silent nod to the professional translators and software developers who have made this type of technology possible.
What is the best way for Concordians to connect with you?
LB: I would love to hear from Concordians who have an interest in multilingual communication, translation technologies, scholarly communication or other related areas. I have an office in the Webster Library (LB-505.02). You can also reach me at 514-848-2424, ext. 7758, or by email. Email usually gets the quickest response.
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After a quiet season, Growing Faith is back! As a ministry of Youthworks Media, with fresh energy and some new contributors, we’re on a mission to encourage and equip Christian parents and carers through our online magazine and monthly e-newsletter.
So why is Growing Faith committed to families? What are families for?
Families in God’s plan
Families are God’s idea. Since the beginning of creation, God has ordained the human family to be the primary institution for raising up the next generation to maturity; for handing down wisdom, faith, tradition, property and livelihood; and for reaching out to the elderly and those with no immediate family of their own.
Parents are their children’s primary carers, providers, role models, teachers and trainers; likewise children are their parents’ primary apprentices as they grow towards adulthood and eventually become carers and providers to their parents as they age. Paul makes the confronting claim that: ‘Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.’ (1 Tim 5:8)
Human families also paint a picture of God’s relationship with his people. The marriage between a man and a woman is designed to tell us about Christ’s loving union with his Bride, the Church. The relationship between human parents and their children is meant to teach us something about God, our perfect heavenly Father, and how we can relate to him as spiritual children. Other family relationships—such as those between brothers and sisters or between adult children and their parents—show us how to relate to one another in the spiritual family of God.
Families after the Fall
At Growing Faith we also recognise that family life is not immune from the effects of the Fall. Sometimes, sin and death make it impossible for a family to function as God intended; abuse or abandonment can leave both adults and children vulnerable. In these cases, our imperfect human families will depend all the more on the love and support that is found in the family of God, the only perfect Father. We are here for all kinds of families.
Families under pressure
Families are God’s idea and yet today, they face pressure on many sides. Our modern society has outsourced many of the family’s traditional functions to schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, government agencies … and even churches; this can weaken a family’s sense of unity, purpose and agency in the world. Many families also feel overwhelmed by the busyness of juggling the demands of work, school and home life; they face financial pressure from the rising cost of living and housing; they feel isolated from their extended family and support networks.
Under such strain, many family relationships—between husbands and wives, parents and children—are stretched to breaking point.
Growing Faith is for families
That’s why Growing Faith is here for families. We want to help your family to understand and embrace your God-given mission of raising up children who know, love and follow Jesus, of handing down everything they need for life and faith, and of reaching out to those who need to hear of and experience the love of God in Christ. We want to encourage strong relationships between husbands and wives, and between parents and children so that the world and the church can see a reflection of God, however imperfect, here on earth.
Growing Faith is for churches
At the same time, we recognise that the best kind of support a human family can find is in their local church—the spiritual family of God. No family can or should be spiritually self-sufficient. Growing Faith is a ministry of Youthworks Media and together, we want to see churches and families thriving in a mutually-beneficial partnership for the glory of God and the spread of the gospel. Our resources are not just for individuals, but for churches to use as they encourage families to take up their God-given purpose in the world.
Why subscribe? (It's free!)
In this age of information overload, many voices compete for our attention. Parents feel especially overwhelmed by an excess of conflicting and guilt-inducing advice about child-raising. Growing Faith is worth your attention because our articles are:
- Consistent and coherent, being grounded in a Christian world view
- Aware of good advice from secular experts
- Gracious about our human imperfections
- Helpful for growing your faith, and your understanding and motivation for parenting
- Short and easy to grasp
We plan to publish one new article every Friday; the month’s articles will then be collated and delivered to your inbox on the first Friday of every month.
For your weekly dose of encouragement you can ‘like’ our Facebook page and subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter at https://growingfaith.com.au
Harriet Connor is the Content Editor for Growing Faith and the author of ‘Big Picture Parents: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life’ (Wipf and Stock, 2017). She lives on the Central Coast of NSW with her husband and three sons.
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Plank challenges are so beneficial to your core strength. Doing planks strengthens not only your abdominal muscles, but your traps, spine, shoulders and rhomboids.
They also help to strengthen your posture which helps with back pain, less tension in your shoulders and neck, increased lung capacity, Improved circulation, and improved core strength.
As you can see planks help with so many different parts of your body instead of just your core.
That is why this 6 minute plank challenge should be added to your workout rotations.
- 30 Day Beginner Plank Challenge
- Standing Ab Workout
- Lower Ab Workout To Tighten That Pooch
- An Oblique Workout to Shape Your Waistline
6 Minute Plank Challenge
You should do this 6 minute plank workout as a warm-up to your other workouts. This would be great to do before a cardio workout or a weightlifting workout.
Another option for this 6 minute plank challenge is to do it 3 times with a 1 minute break in between each set for a full workout.
If you are a beginner a great modification would be to do the planks on your knees, just make sure to keep proper form and to engage your core to get the benefits from doing planks.
- High Plank x60 Seconds
- Low Plank x60 Seconds
- Side Plank x60 Seconds each side
- Reverse Plank x60 Seconds
- Plank with Leg Pull Through x60 Seconds
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Every year there are a lot of incidents of hikers running out of water, while out on the Phoenix trails. Typically, these hikers are unprepared visitors who are unknowingly not acclimated to our desert landscape conditions.
The Best Rules to Follow:
Always bring water, and then bring extra water
Turn around and head back, once your water is half gone.
If you find yourself way out on a hiking trail with absolutely no water, then you’re in a really dangerous situation.
Some people just think they could cut open a cactus and get water that way. Well, I got some bad news….that’s a desert myth. So put your knife away, because yes, while cactuses store water, it’s not like it will all come pouring out of the cactus. You can’t rely on this to replenish your thirst.
You cannot drink water from a cactus.
If you are seriously in need, then the only real option you may or may not have is to search the area for signs of water. Look for wash areas or areas with lush green plant-life. This is a sign that there may be a some water in the ground.
Your best bet is to always pack extra water.
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Dr. Nicole Cain Published in Alternative Medicine
The liver plays a crucial role in the health of your entire body by getting rid of waste and toxins. If you do not protect your liver or heal the liver from damage, it can cause serious problems. The good news is that there are natural and easy ways to support the liver!
There are 4 nutrients in particular that have been shown in the research to improve liver function (my previous blog on liver health mentions 3, however since more research has come out I have added a fourth nutrient to the list).
In my latest article in Alternative Medicine, I’m diving into the four best nutrients for healing the liver. Here’s an overview of what you’ll learn:
- What protects the liver and what can damage it
- The 4 best nutrients, why they help and how to take them
- Where to learn more about natural liver support
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W3C Policy Statement
The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to "realize the full potential of the Web." Since the Web is global, its technology must support a wide range of policy options that encourage all cultures to use the Web. To support this mission in the context of a global information space, the W3C must be aware of and apply an understanding of public policy (which may inhibit or promote the growth of the Web) towards Web technology. W3C works on behalf of and with its membership to build and maintain an inter-operable network architecture. This architecture must allow local policies to co-exist without cultural fragmentation or domination. In addition, W3C can provide feedback to policy makers regarding: what is technically possible; how effectively the technology can meet policy requirements; and possible unintended consequences of proposed policies. | <urn:uuid:91f5dab3-8585-4822-87f2-df58bd2672be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.w3.org/Talks/9704WWW6-Policy/slide13.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.892408 | 179 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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6 Reasons to Watch Good Films
All of us love spending a lazy day on the couch watching our favorite film and consuming a snack. Nonetheless, do you know that these thrillers can work wonders as far as your health is concerned? Therefore, in case you want a reason to relax on a scorching summer time day, we recommend that you simply check out an excellent move. Let's take a look at 6 reasons why enjoying good films is good for you.
Good for your Cardiac Health
Good motion pictures give you a reason to laugh. Based on doctors, laughing is good in your health. In fact, watching a funny film for a couple of minutes presents the identical benefits that exercise offers.
So, if you happen to or someone in your family is a coronary heart affected person, watching films generally is a good thing.
They may also help you Reduce your Stress
At this time, stress is one of the most common problems that folks should deal with. Steady stress can kill your mental and physical health in a brief interval of time. So, what's the way out?
There are various ways to reduce stress. Probably the most efficient ways is to look at movies. In response to researchers, comedies assist reduce stress levels and normalize blood pressure. So, this is one other nice reason to take this route.
They can assist Increase Creativity
Based on a study, kids that watch fantasy films, such as Harry Potter are more creative than kids that don't. Many creativity tests were designed for kids to seek out out if the declare is valid. And all the test outcomes have been convincing that watching films helps make kids more creative.
They help Improve your Immunity
Films will help you make your immunity stronger. Based on many research studies, for those who watch horror motion pictures, it can enhance the production of white blood cells in your body. We know that white blood cells are essential for recovery after a illness or injury. However, in case you are a coronary heart affected person, you need to keep away from these movies. The reason is that high blood pressure is bad for heart patients.
They are Therapeutic
In keeping with many therapists, Hollywood films might help patients get over with an addition, loss or trauma. Besides, it can assist them deal with completely different types of mental illnesses as well.
The truth is, watching motion pictures are useful for everyone besides these with psychotic disorders. Therefore, if you're looking for a good remedy, you need to create a list of your favorite films and watch them in your spare time.
They are Good on your Emotional Intelligence
When you watch drama movies, you possibly can enjoy higher emotional intelligence, says a 2015 study. All of us know that having good emotional intelligence is important if you want to make good selections in a timely fashion. If you do not have good emotional intelligence, it will make it harder so that you can develop good relationships.
Long story quick, these are a few stable reasons why you could want to watch good motion pictures in your spare time. Hope this helps.
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Cultural Industries in China and their Importance in Asian Communities.
In Chinese history, despite the many cultural and commercial activities of the country, the concept of cultural industries did not exist. In fact, the concept comes from the west. In 1947, two well-known representatives of the Frankfurt school of philosophy, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno used the term 'culture industry' for the first time in their book Dialectic of the Enlightenment to define what they considered the basic features of mass culture. In their view, culture is characterized by the importance of its industrial dimension, the force of its political and economic impact, and the fact that, although it may originate from a small number of industrialized countries, it is disseminated throughout the world. In "Culture Industry Reconsidered", Adorno elaborates on why they replaced the expression 'mass culture' with 'culture industry'. The reason was in order to exclude it from the outset of an interpretation agreeable to its advocates, that is, that culture may arise spontaneously from the masses themselves, like contemporaries form of popular art. The authors chose to distinguish culture industries from popular art forms. To them, culture industries fuse the old and the familiar into a new reality. Besides, in all branches of culture industries, products which are tailored for consumption by masses, which to a great extent determine the nature of that consumption, being manufactured more or less according to plan (Adorno, "Culture Industry" 98). That is to say, the cultural industry is an industry that makes cultural products by means of modern technology and planning production, different from traditional mass culture.
The term 'cultural industry' was used in singular form and eventually became 'cultural industries' (in plural) in the 1960s and 1970s. The French 'cultural industry' sociologists rejected Adorno and Horkheimer's use of the singular term 'culture industry' because it suggested a 'unified field', where all the different forms of cultural production co-existing in modern life were assumed to obey the same logic. Instead, they were concerned to show how complex cultural industries are, and to identify the different logics at work in different types of cultural production. For example, broadcasting industries operated in a very different way from the press, or from industries reliant on 'editorial' models of production, such as publishing, different also from the recording industry. As result, they preferred the plural term 'cultural industries' (Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries 15-16).
As indicated above, the Chinese case is a little different. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, culture was treated as a government affiliated business, and not as an enterprise affiliated business. During this period, cultural industries were regarded as a concept close to the bourgeoisie and had to be strongly controlled by the government. In 1958, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) had established a plan to replicate the communist model. It was called the 'Five-Year Plan' and it was replicated by means of people's communes and huge mass mobilization across the country. Economic production was reduced to single commodities in many cases, and although the plan was successful in some areas, where production increased, it many other regions, it was an economic failure because rural areas were lacking infrastructures and technologies. Many areas became much poorer and there was a great famine. The plan's failure reduced Mao's prestige within the Communist Party and in 1959 he had to resign as President of the People's Republi c of China. Some years later, in 1966, Mao, still Chairman of the Communist Party of China, initiated a purging campaign to eliminate what he considered remnants of capitalism in Chinese society. He claimed that certain bourgeoisie elements had infiltrated into the Party, the government, the army, society at large and, in particular, the spheres of culture, and insisted that they would try to create the conditions to seize political power. The purging movement was called the "Cultural Revolution" and it lasted from 1966 until 1976, when Mao died. The revolution marked Mao's return to power and the imposition of his communist ideology within the Party.
Mao's 'Cultural Revolution' isolated China from the rest of the world and, according to some scholars, it had a negative effect on Chinese society and economy. With the opening up in 1980s, China's cultural policy began to make major adjustments. One of these changes affects 'cultural industries'. Many government affiliated cultural institutions have gradually become cultural enterprise units. In October 2000, the proposal of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party on the 'Tenth Five Year Plan' was passed at the fifth plenary session of the fifteenth CPC Central Committee. The improvement of cultural industries was one of the most important items in the agenda. It was decided to strengthen construction and management of the cultural market, and promote the development of the cultural sector. In March 2001, this proposal was adopted by the fourth session of the Ninth National People's Congress, and was formally incorporated into the national 'Tenth Five Year Plan'. These concerns with China's cultural industries were written in the document of the party's and national policies for the first time, and have, since then, become an important national strategy in China. In the same year (2001), China joined the World Trade organization (WTO), showing that China's cultural industries would develop along with the process of globalization.
However, this initial proposal didn't define what cultural industries are. In those years until 2003, most officers and scholars in China's government had been employing UNESCO's definition, referring to "those industries that combine the creation, production and commercialization of contents which are intangible and cultural in nature. These contents are typically protected by copyright and they can take the form of goods or services" (UNESCO, Culture 11-12). It generally included industries such as "printing, publishing and multimedia, audio-visual, phonographic and cinematographic productions, as well as crafts and design. For some countries, this concept also embraces architecture, visual and performing arts, sports, manufacturing of musical instruments, advertising and cultural tourism" (UNESCO, Culture 12).
In 2003, China's Ministry of Culture issued a provisional document entitled 'Several Opinions to Support and Promote the Development of Cultural Industries', which defined cultural industries as "the business industries that produce cultural products and provide cultural services". It also pointed out that "the term 'cultural industries' is a juxtaposition of cultural undertakings, all of which are important components of socialist cultural construction. Cultural industries are the inevitable outcome of the development of productive forces, and the emerging industries that develop with the gradual improvement of China's socialist market economy and the continuous progress of modern production methods" (Wang, "Analysis" 41. translation by Qingben Li). In this definition of the Ministry of Culture, cultural industries include nine industries, such as acting, film and television, video, cultural entertainment, cultural tourism, Internet culture, book publication, cultural relics and art, and art training.
In 2004, China's National Bureau of Statistics issued another 'classification of culture and related industries' which provided additional details on the system of cultural industries. It defined 'cultural and related industries' as activities to provide cultural, recreational products and services for the public, as well as the collection of activities associated with these activities. Thus, the National Bureau of Statistics further divided culture and its related industries into 'core layer', 'outer layer' and 'related layer'.
* The 'Core layer' includes news, books, newspaper, journal, audio-visual products and electronic publications, radio, television, movies, theatrical performances, cultural performance venues, cultural relics and cultural protection, museums, libraries, archives, mass culture, cultural studies, cultural service organizations, other cultures, and so on.
* The 'Outer layer' includes the Internet, travel service, cultural services in tourist attractions, indoor recreation, amusement parks, leisure and entertainment, Internet cafes, culture broker, leasing and sale of cultural products, advertising, exhibition services, etc.
* The 'Related layer' includes stationery, photographic equipment, instruments, toys, recreational equipment, paper, film, film, tape, CD, printing equipment, radio and television equipment, film equipment, household audiovisual equipment, arts and crafts production and sales, etc.
According to the classification principle, the system of cultural and related industries is also divided into four levels. The first level is divided into cultural services and related cultural services in accordance with the importance of cultural activities. The second level is divided into 9 big categories according to the management needs of the department and the characteristics of cultural activities. The third level is divided into 24 intermediate categories based on the industrial chain and the relationship between the upper and lower levels. The fourth level includes 80 small categories, which are the industry's categories included in the third level, as well as the specific categories of activities in culture and related industries.
In 2006, 'the National Outline of Cultural Development During the 11th Five-year Period', issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, confirmed the 'core cultural industries' as follows: the production of film and television, publishing and distribution sector, the printing industry, the advertising industry, performing arts, entertainment, cultural convention and exhibition, digital content and animation. In this way, the Chinese concept and definition of cultural industries has gradually become more mature.
Compared with western countries, the Chinese concept of cultural industries still has its own distinctive features. Due to its different social and political system, China has special cultural policies whose goals are mainly to serve socialism and the people, and to pursue national scientific and popular culture. In the paper "China's Micro Film: Socialist Cultural Production in the Micro Era", Qingben Li, author of the present article, contemplated China's cultural industries as a 'Master Model' where the Chinese government plays the role of 'teacher' in the development of creative and cultural industries (67-75). The strength of this model lies on the fact that cultural units affiliated to enterprises receive government funds so that they are able to focus their creative energy to promote socialist cultural prosperity. The weaknesses of this model resides in the fact that cultural products experience difficulties in achieving international standards and exerting influence abroad, and those large cultural enterprises have easier access to government financing than small and medium cultural enterprises.
At the end of 20th century, China had become the biggest manufacturing country in the world. During this period, the resource depletion and environmental pollution have become very serious too. The development path of the 'high input, high consumption, high pollution and low benefit' would eventually face the development bottleneck. Vigorously developing the cultural and creative industries will provide a new way and mode for the sustained and healthy development of the economic society and realize the economic transformation from 'Made in China' to 'Created in China'.
Keane points out the shift from 'Made in China' to 'Created in China' includes innovation as a key element of cultural industries reform opened up a space for the import of another Western concept- the creative industries. The swift uptake of this idea in China's cities has been assisted by the political obligation to 'catch up' to the developed capitalist economies (Keane, Created 7).
Recent data shows that the cultural and creative industries play an active role in economic growth and structural adjustment in recent years. China's cultural industries grew at an annual growth rate of 21.3 percent during 2005-2014. In 2014, the added value of China's cultural and related industries was 2,394 billion RMB Yuan, growing up by 12.1 percent over the previous year, and 3.9 percent higher than the corresponding GDP growth rate in the same period. The share of GDP is 3.76 percent, growing up 0.13 percent from the previous year (Chyxx<http://www.chyxx.com/industry/201607/431903.html>). The latest statistics show that the added value of national culture and related industries increased to 3,025 billion RMB Yuan in 2016, accounting for 4.07% of GDP (Huang and Jiang, "The Spirit"). In recent years, the added value of cultural industries in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hunan, Yunnan has exceeded 5 percent of GDP. We can expect that the added value of the whole country's cultural industries will reach 5 percent of GDP in the near future, and the cultural industries will become the strategic industries and the new growth point of the economy.
At present, the whole country has formed six important clusters of cultural and creative industries: (1) the capital zone, where Beijing is the leading area, including Tianjin and Hebei province; (2) the Yangtze river delta zone, where Shanghai is the leading area, including Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing; (3) The pearl river delta zone, which is represented by Guangzhou and Shenzhen; (4) Yunnan and Hainan zone, which is represented by Kunming, Lijiang and Sanya; (5) Sichuan and Shaanxi zone, which is represented by Chongqing, Chengdu and Xi 'an; (6) The central zone, which is represented by Wuhan and Changsha.
"The creative economy, above all, is an economy of individuals eager to express themselves. It is based on individuals seeking to make sense of the world, and hoping to make an impact on the world" (Howkins, "Foreword" vi). Cities are the main space of the development of creative economy and cultural industries. In the 20th century, the development of the service industry, the promotion of cultural industries, the transformation of economic growth and the adjustment of industrial structure created the suitable conditions where certain cities are being pushed into world cities.
World or Global Cities are generally considered to be important nodes within the global economic system. In 1998, Jon Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor from Loughborough University, established the 'Globalization and World Cities Research Network' (referred to as GaWC). Initially, the network attempted to use the data definition in order to offer a classification of world cities. In 1999, GaWC published a classification and ranking of world cities based on the analysis of data extracted from international companies and advanced producer services, including supply and manufacture, accounting, advertising, finance and law. The ranking confirmed a world-class city with three levels and a plurality of sub levels ranging from high to low, and from Alpha (including four sub grades: Alpha++, Alpha+, Alpha and Alpha), through Beta (including the three sub grades: Beta +, Beta and Beta-), to Gamma (including the three sub grades: Gamma+, Gamma and Gamma-). Two other levels, 'self-reliant' and 'self-sufficiency' indicated whether or not the city provided a sufficient degree of service and no obvious dependence on other global cities. In the 2016 version of the latest ranking, London and New York were defined as Alpha++, Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Dubai, and Shanghai as Alpha+ (see GaWC official roster). That is to say, in the nine Cities ranked as Alpha++ and Alpha+, there are six cities in Asia. Beijing is the fastest-growing city, growing from the twelfth place in 2010 to the sixth in 2016.
In recent years, with the city's industrial transformation, Beijing's high-tech and high-end manufacturing and service industries have developed rapidly, providing good technical support and creating a huge market demand for the development of cultural and creative industries. According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics survey, in 2012, Beijing residents' consumption expenditure was 24,046 Yuan per capita, which resulted a 9.4% year-on-year growth. Of this, the average per capita educational and cultural entertainment service expenditure in 2012 was 3,696 Yuan, growing 11.8% from 3,307 Yuan in 2011, and accounting for 15.4% of all consumption expenditure. Per capita cultural and educational entertainment products and services expenditure of rural residents in the same period was 1153 Yuan, growing at 14.8% and accounting for 9.7% of all the consumption expenditure (of which the culture and entertainment consumption was 363 Yuan, grew 34.9%). These figures indicate that Beijing's cultural and creative industries are rapidly developing. The average annual growth rate of the cultural and creative industries was nearly 19.5% from 2004 to 2011, 4.3 percentage points higher than the growth rate of Chinese GDP, and higher than the finance industry, with an average annual growth rate of 17.6% during the same period. In 2014, the added value of Beijing's cultural and creative industries reached 282,630,000,000 Yuan, accounting for 13.2% of the total regional economy. By the end of 2014, the number of cultural enterprises in the city had reached 171,000, a year-on-year increase of 15.8%. These numbers show how cultural and creative industries have been playing a more and more important role in the economic development of China's cities.
From the trend of global cultural industries, Asia is rapidly becoming one of the most urbanized areas in the world. The new urban agglomeration offers a large number of capital, goods, technology, services, forming the main clusters of the cultural industries and the main market. Asian cities, as emerging markets, are driving force of the economy with a variety of professional ideas.
The development of the international cultural and creative industries has created more job opportunities and its contribution to the economy has been increasingly recognized. In 2006, the former British Chancellor Gordon Brown pointed out that, whereas 25 years ago the market value of Britain's top companies was based entirely on their physical assets, their market value today is five times their physical assets, which demonstrates the economic power of knowledge, ideas and innovation. In December 2015, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Association of Writers and Composers, and Ernst & Young (EY) jointly released a report titled "Cultural Times: the First Global Map of Cultural and creative Industries". According to this report, by the end of 2013, the market size of global cultural and creative industries had reached 2.250.000 million dollars, and the number of employees reached 29.5 million. One of the fastest growing regions is the Asian Pacific region, with a total of $743 billion, with employees reaching 12.7 million, making it the largest in the world. Latin America and the Caribbean also grew rapidly, reaching $124 billion and employing 1.9 million people. The cultural and creative industries in Africa and the Middle East have reached $56 billion and 2.4 million job opportunities (http://www.ey.com/es/es/home/ ey-cultural-times-the-firstglobal-map-of-cultural-and-creative-industries). It shows the profound changes of space layout of the global cultural and creative industries have undergone, the imbalance between east and west is being broken, and non-western countries are rising steadily.
These changes in the development of cultural and creative industries also highlight the patterns by means of which China continues to open itself to the world. For years, possibly because of Mao's regime, western scholars regarded Chinese culture as a closed culture. However, this has not always been so. There are many historical examples that show how Chinese culture has always been open and inclusive to the world. For instance, Indian Buddhism was embraced by the ancient Chinese, fitting well into the Chinese cultural framework in the first century. Marco Polo was probably the first European ever employed at Chinese emperor's court in 14th century. Marco Polo's route from Venice to China connected a number of very important cities between East and West, passing through Acre, Tabriz, Hormuz, Balkh, Kashgar, Shang-tu. From Beijing back to Venice the route passed through Yangzhou, Zaitun, South China Sea, Sumatra, Ceylon, Hormuz, Trebizond, and Constantinople (Istanbul). Marco Polo's descriptions of his travels inspired other explorers and merchants to follow in his footsteps to come to China, eventually opening up an international age. From the beginning of 17th century onwards, many European missionaries and other Westerners came to China, taking Western culture and technology to the country and deepening the exchanges between China and the West. The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci reached Beijing, becoming adviser to Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty in 1601. He was given free access to the Forbidden City. His 1602 map of the world in Chinese characters introduced the results of European exploration to the Far East. Ricci established Nantang Cathedral in 1605, the oldest Catholic Church in the city. He dressed in traditional Chinese robes, spoke Chinese, and explained the Bible in Confucius' terms. For example, Ricci borrowed an unusual Chinese term, Lord of Heaven, as the Catholic name for God. Thus, he was successful in explaining the Catholic faith to the Chinese. Apart from this, Ricci was also the first European to translate some of the Confucian classics into Latin, with assistance from the Chinese scholar Xu Guangqi. He made a really great contribution to cultural exchanges between East and West. Since modern times, especially since the 1980s, China's opening up policy has brought the country closer and closer to the world. The most powerful and visible proof of this integration was the successful hosting of 2008 Beijing Olympics, which enhanced the overall national self-confidence and tolerance towards the West, reflected in the slogan of 'one world, one dream'.
On October 18, 2017, in his report at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, the president of the People's Republic of China, confirmed once again that China would insist on the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, actively promoting the international cooperation of 'One Belt And One Road', to achieve policy communication, facilities connectivity, unimpeded trade, financing and people-to-people exchanges, to build a new platform of international cooperation, to support the multilateral trading system, to promote free trade zones, and to build an open world economy. It is stressed that China will increase assistance to developing countries, especially to the least developed countries in order to promote the narrowing of the north-south development gap (<http://www.gov.cn/zhuanti/19thcpc/baogao.htm>).
In China itself, Reform Policies between 2004 and 2014 have been carried out to increase public investment in the minority ethnic areas of the west in order to push forward their economic development. However, this is still a pending subject since the speedy development in eastern areas of China has contributed to maintain the economic gap between the west and east.
How can the unique Chinese cultural resources, combined with new technologies, stimulate economic growth in China and in the world? This paper argues for the importance and impact of cultural and creative industries upon the economy. Data collected from China Statistical Yearbook (2014-2015) demonstrates the large difference in GDP between the eastern area and the ethnic area. It has been argued that the development of cultural and creative industries with special particularities can help these deprived ethnic areas to grow (for more information see Liu Yi Xiao Jia-Yan "On the Culturalization of Ethnic Economy in China" in this thematic issue of clcweb). Indeed, a positive outlook by means of which education in culture is made a priority is necessary, as "China's future will be greatly affected by its confidence, gained over thousands of years, and its unique approach to ideas and the ownership of ideas and the commercialization of ideas" (Howkins, "Foreword" vi).
Examples of economic success are for instance those related to China's animation industry, which started relatively early. In 1970s, cartoons like 'Nezha Conquers the Dragon King' and 'Monkey King' were adapted from Journey to the West, a Chinese classical novel, and integrated into Chinese cultural resources, achieving a great success. In the 1990s, the global animation industry began to develop rapidly. The USA animation 'Mulan' and 'Kung Fu Panda' are films based on traditional Chinese culture. The Japanese video game 'Sally Wood 3', not only features the Guilin landscapes in Guangxi province of southern China; local characteristics of Hakka Tulou in southeastern China are also present. All of these prove that Chinese traditional culture can provide rich resources for the development of cultural industries in China and abroad. Thus, traditional forms of culture can help consolidate economic power, allowing the continuation of the historical context while expanding the national character at a global level. The collaboration of traditional forms of culture and new media can become a major force in economic growth. At present, there are more than 710,000,000 Internet users in China and Internet penetration rate has reached 51.7 percent.
Another example outside China is Japan, the world's largest producer and exporter of animation with more than 60% of the animation works in the world. The animation industry is concentrated in Tokyo and Osaka. The east Kyoto training area is also known for its animation industry. Facilities of business, culture and tourism in Akihabara are completed with tourist destinations for anime fans. Similarly, video games, TV shows and movies are the main cultural and creative products in South Korea, with Seoul an important center of cultural and creative industry. All these industries -games, thematic parks, film and television, and art- are important cultural and creative industries clustering together in key cities around the world.
In order to accelerate the growth of other cities in the Asian region and Europe, an important project is being developed that will revitalize the ancient Silk Road. In September 2013, Xi visited Kazakhstan to collaborate in the project of the Silk Road as economic and cultural belt (for more information on this project, please see Ainura, Aljanova and Manassova's paper "The Marginocentric Cultural Features of Cities along the Great Silk Road in the territory of Kazakhstan" in this thematic issue of clcweb).
In ancient China, the Silk Road, starting from Chang'an (now Xi'an Shannxi province in west China), the capital city of the Han dynasty (206BC-221CE), through the 'Western Region', later to be known as Central Asia, had opened up a path to the Roman Empire by the first century CE, and this trade route brought woolen and linen into China as well as coral and pearls, amber, glass and other precious stones. By the tenth century, the Silk Road had lost its appeal to long distance traders due to the likelihood of conflict; the focus of trade turned to the maritime route. The ocean had served to direct trade as early as the second century. Indian and Indian-Malayan merchant ships had plied the spice trade along India's east coast to Guangzhou, southern China. The Arabs and the Persians later used this Spice Route. Bagdad, Rome, Guangdong and Guangxi were accessible to Madagascar, providing a means to establish contact with India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), the Mediterranean, and the Persian Gulf. Chinese embroidery, pottery and porcelain handcrafts reached distant destinations, eventually arriving in Europe in the sixth century. Besides, Chinese textile designs were popular in Rome and Iran, while Iranian designs were introduced into the Chinese repertoire (Keane, Created 41).
The ancient Silk Road has left us with rich cultural resources along these routes. On March 28, 2015, China's National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued 'the Vision and Action on Jointly Building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road'. This document designed five economic lines: the key direction of the Silk Road economic belt is from China through central Asia and Russia to Europe (the Baltic sea); from China through central Asia, west Asia to the Persian gulf, and the Mediterranean Sea; from China to southeast Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean; from the coastal areas of China through the south China sea to India, extending to Europe; and from the coastal areas of China through the south China sea to south Pacific Ocean.
In his speech to the Indonesian parliament in October 2013, Xi suggested that China is committed to strengthening connectivity with ASEAN countries and proposing the establishment of an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He stressed that China is ready to develop the maritime partnership with ASEAN countries and jointly build the maritime Silk Road of the 21st century.
Further, in November 2014, Xi announced at the APEC summit in Beijing that China would contribute $40 billion to establish a Silk Road fund to provide financing support for the infrastructure construction, resource development and industrial cooperation of the countries along the 'One Belt and One Road'. The project is rapidly becoming a comprehensive industrial structure where cultural and creative industries will realize a breakthrough development, actively integrating with industries in other fields.
Based on the 'Belt and Road Initiative', China's State Council has successively put forward "Some Opinions to Promote the Integrate Development of Cultural Creativity, Design Services and Other Related Industries" and "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Foreign Cultural Trade", the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued "the Strategic Planning of the Silk Road Cultural Industries". All of these policies have created favorable conditions for the development of China's cultural industries, so as to enable the development of the cultural industries more room to rise.
Many Chinese scholars believe that the 'Belt and Road Initiative' is good for the development of cultural and creative industries. Jian Hua points out that it will enhance the possibility of improving the Chinese cultural Industries and promote them at an international level. Important research subjects to optimize and integrate strategic resources through interconnection and being put forth in order to expand cultural and creative industries. These will involve the cultivation of export-oriented cultural enterprises to optimize culture and trade structures, improving exports of cultural services, and strengthening transnational cooperation through the connection along Silk Road cities. Jian Hua believes that this research project will contribute to expand the global impact of China's cultural industries and the convergence of resources, as well as lead to the establishment of a mutually beneficial international community of cultural industries, in which the nations and people along the 'Belt and Road' can share more cultural wealth (Hua, "Promotion" 30-39).
Jianhua Fan also believes that the cultural industries along 'One Belt And One Road' have unique advantages manifested at several level. First, with the international development of cultural industries, strengthening cultural exchanges and trade between countries along the Silk Road, and disseminating the idea of harmonious development and peaceful coexistence across different cultures, regions and peoples. At a second level, the project will mean the diversification of cultural industries. Different economic development levels and socio-political backgrounds will enrich this cultural belt with a colorful economic base. These plurality will bring about more variables as well as greater space for development. The third aspect is the relevance of the development of cultural industries. The cultural belt is not only characterized by its own culture, but also features the bond between the cultural belts (Fan, "Ribbon Development" 84-93). In addition to these benefits, the development of cultural industries along 'One Belt and One Road' will also benefit the development and prosperity of Asian communities in general.
The 'Belt and Road Initiative' involves more than 60 countries, 4 billion people and 20 trillion Economic Aggregates. By developing the cultural industries of the Silk Road, we will accelerate the economic development in the areas along the Silk Road, especially in the western and central Asia, the Eastern Asia, and the Southeastern Asia, expanding employment and promoting consumption through the cultural industries, thus propelling the overall development and prosperity of Asian communities. Therefore, the 'Belt and Road Initiative' and the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to support the regional infrastructure construction in Asia, show China's desire to realize common prosperity of the Asian communities. In 1800, Asia contributed over half of the world's wealth. Only two centuries later, its share had fallen to 20 per cent. However, in recent years, Asia has become the world's biggest economic entity once again. In 2014, Asia contributed 36 per cent of the world's wealth, while America contributed 32 per cent, and Europe contributed 19 per cent. In this process, cultural and creative industries have played a fundamental role and China has made a great contribution.
Hangzhou Normal University
Acknowledgements: This paper is supported by the Key Projects of Philosophy and Social Science Research from Ministry of Education of P. R. China (13JZD032).
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Profits is actually secure for these businesses payday loans Fishers IN so long as expensive guidelines stays passed in adjacent reports; this extreme constraint in prices decreases the few running limbs in adjoining says and lowers cross-state competition. Reducing this ban by growing allowable costs reduces these barriers, raising the incentive for firms to populate within these markets and creating general market profit lower close to zero. 6 For present limbs, this lowers mortgage volume and industry percentage as consumers convey more options in lenders. The motivation to work and discover next to these areas where cross-state competition are barred is incredibly highest and can best lessen with any deviation away from prohibition.
3.2. No guidelines versus enabling guidelines
The absence of payday-lending guidelines at the state levels doesn’t always imply that the is actually unauthorized; the industry simply runs according to markets conditions and greatest procedures, if it runs anyway. 7 What exists within these industries, but is actually rules uncertainty. Shows posses yet to explicitly indication when the marketplace is authorized; consequently, any effects or differences when considering parts is uncertain. Agencies could have the inducement to preemptively populate these areas in expectation of policy techniques (or perhaps to even impact possible rules) or intentionally avoid these areas until specific plan is decided and introduced. However, a breeding ground without an insurance plan can existing a far more rewarding ecosystem in comparison with a situation with specific guidelines.
States with passed making it possible for regulations is explicitly allowing the industry to exist. The difference in plans in this subset can be wider. A situation may only call for licensing for record-keeping purposes or a situation may enact procedures that define and authorize particular financing words (such charges, loan amount, amount, etc.). Unlike prohibition, these procedures set up a€?limitsa€? that allow a to stay lucrative even when regulated. Variants inside the plan can cause considerably profitable problems relative to different shows, regardless if both explicitly approve payday financing operations. Including, a situation with greater fee limits or rollover restrictions would be less restrictive, hence most profitable while nevertheless explicitly regulating payday credit.
If shows create guidelines that currently reflect current marketplace conditions, the price of licensing in an allowing condition would still create operation higher priced relative to functioning in a condition with no specific plans. If a strong is actually selecting among border areas, a company could face larger opposition if adjacent to circumstances with no explicit guidelines mainly because of deficiencies in certification charge. But if rules enabled methods or financing conditions that were specially lax (relative to typical or recommendations), prices and items limits was relatively considerably binding and operations could possibly be more successful in an enabling coverage surroundings. Over time, it could be that these lax policies spillover across state borders and within regulation-free environments, but the initial incentive remains for firms to locate and operate within counties that have explicit regulations. 8
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A 12th century Tironensian abbey, overlooking the Tweed. It has been ruined since the 16th century, which may account for hte very scant remains at Kelso. The site hasn’t been excavated in modern times, but what remains suggests that this was an enormous building, possibly with a double-crossing. Most of the grounds have been encroached on my nearby development.
The remaining arches are substantial, but bulge and lean precariously, with metal bands in place to hold things together. This section of the main crossing is all that remains. | <urn:uuid:c3a6741c-9032-4d53-bc19-a37578408ffc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://drivingclockwise.com/scotland/1999/05/20/kelso-abbey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978204 | 122 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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By Darla McCammon and Darlene Romano
John Mellencamp is a Grammy-winning musician, singer, and songwriter, known for his catchy brand of heartland rock.
Did you know he is also a respected painter? We are going to explore his painting style and philosophy this week.
John Mellencamp was born Oct.7, 1951, in Seymour. By the age of 10, he was experimenting with oil paints. His painting took a back seat as his music career skyrocketed him to stardom in the 80s. In 1988, he joined the Arts Students League of New York and had his first formal training with portrait painter David Leffel, who taught him the technique of painting dark to light. Mellencamp was of German ancestry and said that it was significant to him when he discovered the work of German Expressionist artists Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, as they greatly influenced his style.
When asked why he paints, Mellencamp stated that he has ideas in him that he has to express and they come out in the form of making music, writing songs, or painting. He is down to earth and isn’t an artist who feels the need to tie his work to a deep philosophical meaning as some artists do, instead letting his work speak for itself. Portraiture makes up the bulk of his artwork and the influence from Dix and Beckmann is obvious in his melancholy and slightly haunting style. His subjects present an introspective expression that is left open to interpretation by the viewer.
When asked about his inspiration for his work, Mellencamp said that his head is full of ideas that manifest themselves through his songs, lyrics, or paintings. In an Artist Talk facilitated by the director of the Deland Museum of Art (Florida), Mellencamp made the comment that he will never live up to his full potential as a human being in this lifetime with the talent he has been given. He said that he will never create a painting or write a song that is as good as he thinks it should be.
This doesn’t mean that he lacks confidence; in fact, it’s quite the opposite. It means that he is always striving for improvement, looking for ways to make changes that advance his work. He said that he can find things in every one of his finished paintings that he would change, and his words are inspiring to all artists who think their work isn’t good enough to exhibit.
During the pandemic, Mellencamp had a lot of time on his hands since he wasn’t touring, and created three interesting self-portraits that are worth exploring. The first self-portrait has a dark background with Mellencamp’s likeness outlined in white, and looks the most like a traditional portrait. The next self-portrait is much different from the first, with a white background and contains a lot of contrast between black/brown and white. Mellencamp’s figure seems to jump off the page at the viewer in this painting. The thoughtful expression on Mellencamp’s face is similar in the first two self-portraits.
However, in the third self-portrait, Mellencamp has a dour expression on his face and the color palette is mostly neutral brown, and this portrait has a somewhat abstract background. All three self-portraits are meritorious on their own but it’s interesting to compare the different styles because it speaks to Mellencamp’s ability to interpret the same thing differently, which is a sign of a great artist. | <urn:uuid:fa59b107-9e4e-483e-9999-03b96ec5335d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inkfreenews.com/2022/08/04/art-in-action-surprising-hidden-artists-john-mellencamp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.990197 | 737 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Mentoring is a powerful way of lending support to a young person by teaching skills, listening to their perspectives and creating a sense of belonging and connection. Spending time with a young person may seem simple, but science tells us that healthy interactions and relationships with supportive adults can boost children’s brain development, mental health, and well-being.
Research tells us that children need a positive adult influence in their lives. Children who engage with adults in developmentally supportive ways are:
The mentorship program at Hull ensures the young people we support have the opportunity to build a healthy relationship with an adult, have a positive role model in their life, develop their strengths and build their self-esteem. At Hull Services, mentors are an integral part of our holistic approach to treatment and care.
“Being a mentor has been an incredibly rewarding experience. The connection I’ve made with my mentee is profound, and it is gratifying to know that our relationship is a building block to their successful future. I would encourage anyone to join the mentorship program, as it has given me a unique perspective on life and a heartening feeling about my role. ” – Emily Lucier, Mentor
A smile can brighten someone’s day, a compliment can make someone feel good – positive interactions affect how our brain develops, which is why it’s important to have positive role models in our life. Our Senior Director of Clinical Advancement & Trauma Informed Services celebrates National Mentoring Month by talking about the importance of mentors in a young person’s life and the correlation between positive relationships and brain development.
Dana Stan is a skateboarder and a mentor. But before she got involved with Hull’s Mentors Matter program, she was neither.
While these dual passions seem somewhat unrelated, the common factor is Abby, the young woman that Stan was connected to when she decided to volunteer. She wanted to offer a young person the kind of support she didn’t have while growing up. “I try to be the person I wish I had to look up to as a teenager. There weren’t a lot of role models for me,” says Stan. “It’s been such an interesting experience. You forget what it’s like to be a teenager — what they struggle with.”Read Full Story Here
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The Australian Natural Soap Company is against animal testing – all our products are cruelty free. We proudly carry the Cruelty Free (CCF) logo on our products. Our soaps are also vegan so we do not use any animal products, such as beeswax or any type of milks. All our soaps are also proudly 100% palm oil free.
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Are Australian Natural Soap’s soaps made in Australia?
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Our soaps are proudly handcrafted in Melbourne, Australia at our factory in Dandenong.
What ingredients are used in Australian Natural Soap Company’s products?
We use only essential, natural ingredients.
We believe that our environment knows best when it comes to nourishing, and sustaining healthy, beautiful skin. We only use the highest quality plant oils to create our soaps. These plant oils are similar to your skin’s own natural oils.
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Australia has a reputation for producing some of the best natural and organic products on the planet. It is no different with the plant oils and essential oils that we produce.
Australia produces some of the world’s best natural oils and our products are testament to the fact that they make really beautiful soaps. Most of the oils that we use are produced by Australian farmers – we can even tell you where in Australia the ingredients come from.
Our soaps are made using the cold process method rather than the hot process method. Many soap makers introduce heat to the saponification process to quicken the curing time. We believe that this unnecessarily damages the integrity of the plant oil. After mixing the soap, we cure it for four to six weeks for it to set and neutralise and so that the integrity of the plant oil remains.
We do not use palm oil or animal fats that are used in many other commercial soaps. And by using only plant oils, we don’t have to use preservatives such as parabens.
We don’t use micro-plastics as exfoliants in any products. Instead, we use exfoliants such as pumice, lavender buds, coffee, seaweed, salt, activated charcoal and pink clay. The added bonus, these natural exfoliants – like our plant oils – are packed full of minerals and vitamins that are essential to skin health.
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Our unique way of making our soaps in big blocks and cutting them down to smaller pieces, allows us to use a higher concentration of plant oil, which lowers the pH of our soaps (ph = 8-9 compared with up to pH 11).
During the saponification process, many soap makers remove the moisture boosting glycerine that is produced by the plant oil and water to use in other moisturising products – this is what causes other soaps to be drying. We leave the naturally occurring glycerine in to give our soaps their non-stripping properties. We even super fat our soaps (add extra oil) to ensure our soaps are the most moisturising that they can be.
Is Australian Natural Soap Company’s soap vegan?
Our soaps are also vegan, so we do not use beeswax or any type of milks.
Is Australian Natural Soap Company’s soap cruelty free?
The Australian Natural Soap Company is against animal testing – all our products are cruelty free. We proudly carry the Cruelty Free (CCF) logo on our products.
Is Australian Natural Soap Company’s soap eco friendly?
Sustainability actually matters to us.
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The shaky economy, volatile financial and real-estate markets make many of us wonder how to best use the money we still have. Many automotive enthusiasts turn to classic collectible vehicles as investments. We often read and watch highly desirable classics sell for 6 and sometimes 7 figures at auction.
This is nice, but is there a way to get into this action on a lower budget and without discovering the next Shelby barn find? Is it possible to purchase a modern car for a modest amount of money that will retain it’s value and possibly be an investment 10, 20, or 30 years into the future?
If there is a formula to determine collectibility of any vehicle, it has these three elements: desirability, rarity, and the condition of the specimen. Desirability is subjective in nature and is difficult to get a handle on, however there are a few rules to follow.
On the other hand, rarity can be determined in a more scientific way by taking the number of vehicles produced and subtracting the number of vehicles lost to attrition. Of course, the older the vehicle – the fewer surviving examples. As for the condition of the specimen – of course, all of us want a collectible car that spends most of it’s days in a vacuum sealed bag and is driven only a few dozen miles per year on dry, warm, and partly cloudy days.
Enter the Pontiac Solstice GXP and Saturn Sky Red Line. These two GM cousins have the makings of Modern Collectibles. Lets break it down.
Pontiac Solstice GXP:
Does this car have style? Yes, some people love it and some hate it – thus it has style. How many doors does it have? It has 2 doors, and this good in collector world. Does this car have power? Yes, the GXP has a magical 2.0 liter direct injected and turbo charged engine that produces 260hp and same number of torque.
When this engine appeared it was a pioneer among American manufacturers. Does this car have performance? Yes, it weighs less than 2,900 lbs; it has a manual transmission option and rear wheel drive. Is it fun? Yes, see previous. Does it have critical acclaim? Yes, just google it. These answers move the desirability meter to the top.
Between 2006 and 2010 there were around 62,000 Solstice Convertibles and around 1,200 Solstice Coupes produced. Now, lets zero in on the GXP variant. Out of all Coupes produced, 781 were of the GXP flavor. And there were around 13,000 Convertible GXP examples. Since, Pontiac no longer exists, we can be sure that these numbers will stay as they are.
It’s safe to say that the GXP Coupe has the needed rarity to qualify for the collectibility formula. Whether, the GXP Convertible qualifies is more up to debate. In the case of the convertible, more break down maybe needed: a rare year, a rare color or manual versus automatic transmission, etc.
If you see a low miles GXP Coupe with a manual for sale – you may have just found a unicorn. Just don’t let the seller in on this. It will be a good investment. If you found a nice GXP Convertible – it is still worth a buy.
Saturn Sky Red Line:
The sister car to the GXP Coupe the Saturn Red Line offers more muscular styling and sharper character lines.
Does this car have style? Yes, it’s angular style is different from the curvy Pontiac, but it has it’s own identity. Refer to GXP’s section for all other questions. This also combines for one desirable car.
Between 2007 and 2010 there were around than 34,000 Sky Convertibles produced. Out of all, approximately 12,000 were the high performance Red Line version. This number still looks a bit high, so a further breakdown may be necessary. For example, there were around 1,300 Red Lines produced in 2009, and this number makes this year more desirable.
If you find a nice Red Line for sale – it is worth a buy.
Solstice GXP Reviews
Saturn Sky Red Line:
Complete Solstice Specification PDF can be downloaded HERE.
Andre Smirnov is a Software Engineer by trade and a life-long automotive enthusiast. On the weekends – you may find him at a car show, an auction, watching a race, or tinkering in the garage. When not working or spending time with the family – he often scours the internet and other media for various automotive, mechanical, and computer related information. | <urn:uuid:4519ce3b-112a-4bc8-8ee5-ee984e495610> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tflcar.com/2011/11/modern-collectibles-revealed-pontiac-solstice-gxp-and-saturn-sky-red-line/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.943813 | 994 | 1.585938 | 2 |
“Montessori” is not a trademark or a franchise: any institution can hang a shingle over its door and claim to offer a Montessori education.
So how can parents tell whether a Montessori school is authentic?
Doctors have the AMA; architects the AIA; engineers the IEEE. Surely there’s an organization for Montessori teachers who combine a doctor’s awareness of neural development, an architect’s careful artistry in construction (albeit for children rather than buildings), and an engineer’s keen, logical approach to problem-solving.
AMI, the Association Montessori Internationale. Founded by Dr. Montessori herself in 1929, AMI is the most diligent of the various Montessori organizations in ensuring that Montessori schools and teachers are both well-grounded in the basic principles of the method and ready to carry those principles forward in the modern educational world.
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The laws of armed conflict are broadly divided into two branches—restrictions placed on the right to initiate war and regulations on the conduct of war. Jus ad bellum determines when military intervention is legal, while jus in bello, outlines the legal behaviour of soldiers on the battlefield. Up until the end of World War II, most emphasis was placed on the development and refinement of jus in bello and its core restrictive principles. Due to the historic level of human and physical destruction caused by the Second World War, along with the onset of the atomic age, attention since 1945 has been principally focused on jus ad bellum restrictions on the right to go to war. The separate standing of jus in bello and jus ad bellum translates into two legal questions for every armed conflict, namely (1) Was the war entered into legally? and (2) Was the conduct of soldiers during that conflict legal? To determine that a state legally entered into a war does not absolve the state and its military from scrutiny over its conduct during the war. For a state to remain within the confines of the laws of armed conflict requires both a legal entry into war as well as the use of force within the parameters established by jus in bello principles.
Jus in Bello
At the onset of the modern international legal system (1648), the core principles that define jus in bello today were already in place, the product of centuries of efforts aimed at reducing the horrors of war. The main jus in bello principles established over time remain in force and are codified in specific international treaties, including the Hague Conventions (1899, 1907), Geneva Conventions (1949) and a series of issue specific treaties dating to the 19th century. Each principle restricts conduct on the battlefield in an effort to humanize and standardized armed conflict. The Geneva Convention and its Protocols are also discussed in Chapter 5.
The first legal requirement placed on soldiers in the field is to differentiate, or discriminate, between lawful targets and unlawful targets. In time of war, soldiers and those who plan the conduct and oversee the behaviour of soldiers are legally required to separate targets into two categories—combatant and non-combatant. Combatants, those who actively take up arms, are legal targets. They may be killed, wounded, or taken captive at any time during the course of the war. Non-combatants, a category that includes civilians, humanitarian relief personnel, journalists, and international observers, among others, may not be targeted. While non-combatants may be detained, restricted or moved, they may not be intentionally injured or killed. The discrimination principle places an enormous burden on soldiers engaged in armed conflict, especially in urban settings. A wilful violation of the principle, however, runs counter to prevailing international law and may constitute a war crime that is punishable by a national or international court.
Prohibition on Unnecessary Suffering
International law allows for the lethal use of force against combatants. Professional soldiers are trained to capture instead of injuring, injure instead of killing, and to kill only as necessary. What soldiers are not allowed to do is inflict injury with the express intent of causing suffering that is unnecessary. The prohibition on unnecessary suffering impacts both the actions taken by soldiers as well as the weapons that are used in armed conflict. Twisting the blade of a bayonet in the leg of an incapacitated enemy combatant for no purpose other than to inflict additional pain and suffering violates the principle. Employing weapons that are designed to cause unnecessary suffering, equally, constitute violations of the laws of armed conflict. Customary international law and treaties have restricted the use of weapons whose sole or primary purpose is to cause suffering. An example of one such prohibited weapon of war is the expanding bullet, which due to its hollow head and soft jacket is designed to expand once it enters the body.
The principle of proportionality requires forces in the field to achieve a balance between the expected level of harm caused to civilians or civilian property and the anticipated military benefit of the proposed attack on a military asset. While it may be legal to target a combatant with a drone air-to-surface attack, those authorizing the operation must take into account the level of civilian harm that will likely be caused by the attack. This is especially the case if the individual being targeted is in the midst of a civilian population at the time of the attack. Proportionality is one of the most difficult jus in bello principles to apply to armed conflict because it requires foresight that may be difficult, if not impossible, to calculate prior to a military operation.
Using deceptive tactics to expose the adversary in armed conflict may constitute an illegal act of perfidy. While outsmarting the adversary is an essential element of war planning and execution, there are limits imposed upon combatants by the laws of armed conflict. False surrender, entering an enemy compound dressed as humanitarian personnel, hiding bombs in children’s toys and feigning non-combatant status, are examples of perfidy and are deemed to be illegal. The perfidy principle is also violated when soldiers intentionally use civilians as shields.
The Martens Clause
Found in the preamble of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions is the Martens Clause, which states that:
Until a more complete code of the laws of war is issued…populations and belligerents remain under the protection of international law, the laws of humanity, and the requirements of the public conscience.
The Martens Clause is designed as an underlying net to legally ensnare violations of the spirit of jus in bello principles that may not be specifically outlawed by custom or treaty. The use of civilian captives for medical experimentation by the Nazis during World War II is one of many examples of an act that is prohibited by the Martens Clause.
In addition to the general restrictions placed on the conduct of soldiers in the field outlined by the jus in bello principles outlined above, states have sought to deem certain weapons of war illegal. International treaties have been drafted to eliminate, for example, anti-personnel landmines (APL)), lasers that cause blinding, cluster bombs, asphyxiating gases, napalm and tumbling bullets. Efforts to ban other weapons of war have yet to reach a sufficient international consensus such that a treaty banning them could be produced and implemented. Attempts to renounce nuclear weapons as illegal have been undertaken for more than fifty years, yet due to objections from the nuclear weapons states such efforts have not produced a legal ban on either the existence or use of nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium shells, which are highly effective in destroying heavily armed vehicles such as tanks, have similarly been shielded from international condemnation by those countries that continue to employ them, despite the probable long-term dangers that the weapons pose to civilian populations.
Jus in bello, its principles and supporting legal documents, have greatly restricted conduct in the field and continue to be revised to take into account the new realities on the battlefield. Attention is now turned towards international efforts to restrict the right of states to enter into conflict, known as jus ad bellum.
Jus ad Bellum
The right to wage war has captivated the attention of policymakers, philosophers, moralists and lawyers for centuries. Up until the drafting of the United Nations Charter in 1945, most efforts since 1648 have resulted in only marginal restrictions on the legal ability of nation-states to enter into war. The Treaties of Westphalia (1648), for example, determined that a religious difference between states was no longer a valid reason for going to war. After the Napoleonic Campaigns concluded, the Concert of Europe (1815) dictated that territorial expansion in Europe required approval from the Concert, which was composed of the five most powerful European countries at the time. Thus, in the years leading up to the First World War nation-states possessed a nearly complete compétence de guerre, or right to wage war. This defining principle of international law at the time was referred to as the Doctrine of Intervention. Except for the few restrictions placed on nation-states in 1648 and 1815, sovereign states possessed the legal right to go to war any time that their leadership concluded it was necessary.
This broad compétence de guerre of states began to erode after World War I. The League of Nations (LON) was empowered to authorize sanctions against states, which threatened international peace and security in violation of its Covenant. The Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), which was ratified by 65 states, restricted states to the use of force only in response to an armed attack, elevating the concept of self-defence in world politics as the sole legitimate standard for waging war. The failure of the League of Nations to prevent the Second World War, along with the destructive nature of that conflict, lead to a major revision of the laws that regulate entry into war. The United Nations Charter introduced the principle of non-intervention principle in article 2, paragraph 4, which states that:
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
A revolutionary concept, non-intervention nearly eliminated the compétence de guerre of states. Only under the conditions of self-defence, collective self-defence and Security Council authorization could member states of the United Nations (UN) legally enter into war. In 2011, 193 nation-states were members of the United Nations. Since membership in the United Nations requires ratification of the UN Charter, including Article 2, paragraph 4, virtually every state in the international system is bound to the restrictions of the Charter as they relate to the legal entry into war.
Self-defence is a concept that dates to antiquity, holding that nation-states possess the legal right to enter into war in response to an armed attack. When Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990, Kuwait possessed the legal right to defend itself. Collective self-defence extends the self-defence to other nations, giving them the legal right to come to the assistance of victim states. The United Nations Charter does not legally require third parties to intervene in response to armed aggression against a victim; however, it provides them with the legal right to do so. As such, not only did Kuwait possess the legal capacity to respond to the Iraqi invasion in 1990 with armed force, so, too, did all other states. Security Council authorization is the third legal justification for entering into war. The Security Council, a permanent organ of the United Nations, is composed of fifteen member states. Five of those members—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—are permanent (P5), while the remaining ten Council members are present for two-year appointments. In addition to a permanent presence on the Security Council, the P5 enjoy veto power over any Council resolution. At any time the Security Council decides that one nation’s invasion of another constitutes aggression, it may authorize any or all UN member states to go to war on behalf of the victim state. As such, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, automatically Kuwait possessed the legal right to militarily defend itself (self-defence) and all other UN member states enjoyed the right to come to its defence (collective self-defence). When the Security Council authorized force against Iraq to liberate Kuwait, the third (and separate) legal recourse to war was extended to states to go to war against Iraq.
The willingness of the UN Security Council to authorize war has varied greatly since the organization’s inception. Only twice has the Council explicitly authorized war in response to an armed invasion, with both instances of Chapter VII war authorization happening under unique circumstances. In 1950, the Council deliberated the Korean War without the Soviet representative present, removing the veto from the calculation. Later, when the Security Council convened to consider expanding its original war mandate to include the reunification of the Korean peninsula, the Soviet representative returned to the Council and vetoed the effort. In 1990, the Security Council addressed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait during an historic period of cooperation between the superpowers resulting from the peaceful end of the Cold War. The result was an authorization for war and a diverse international military coalition that forced Iraq’s military from Kuwait. Despite numerous opportunities during and after the Cold War for the Security Council to take action in response to inter-state conflict, in most instances it either declined to do so or was unable to as a result of the veto. As such, Security Council authorization for war historically has been the exception rather than the rule.
The legal right of states to go to war, therefore, has been dramatically and qualitatively reduced by the revisions to jus ad bellum introduced in 1945 by the United Nations Charter. No longer may states legally attack other states except under the narrow confines outlined in the Charter. The purpose of the Charter’s restriction on the legal right of states to go to war is to reduce the indiscriminate use of force. The fact that states continue to opt for war without legal cause, including waging undeclared wars, indicates their ability to sidestep the Charter’s restraints.
The laws that regulate international conflict are in constant need of revision and updating as the global environment changes. Technological innovations create situations that traditional international law struggles to fully address. This is the case with both jus ad bellum and jus in bello rules. For example, Article 51 of the United Nations Charter authorizes states to use force in self-defence when an armed attack occurs against the state. Cyber attacks, which can cause devastating consequences for the targeted state, do not technically qualify as an ‘armed attack.’ The first ‘cyber war’ occurred in 2008 when Russia attacked the financial infrastructure of Estonia, crippling the country’s banking and credit system.
Jus in bello principles face equally daunting challenges on the 21st century battlefield. Robotic soldiers, and other forms of Automated Robotic Killing Machines (ARKM), attack drones that are controlled through satellite feeds, and the use of sound waves and other non-lethal defensive weapons are minimally regulated by existing treaty law. In order to maximize its role in the regulation of armed conflict, international law must quickly and consistently evolve to apply to new circumstances on and off the battlefield. | <urn:uuid:e54245c4-2718-48e7-b6a7-a78e374142ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Political_Science_and_Civics/Book%3A_Human_Security_in_World_Affairs_-_Problems_and_Opportunities_(Lautensach_and_Lautensach)_2nd_Ed./18%3A_Empowering_International_Human_Security_Regimes/18.4%3A_Laws_of_War | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.944688 | 2,962 | 3.875 | 4 |
Fourth Element Thermocline Shorts
An estimated 8 million tons of rubbish per year enters our seas. Dumped into our oceans daily, this threatens marine life, pollutes beaches and affects local tourism industries. Imagine if below the water there was no more coral reef to explore, unique plants are dying out, wildlife is scarce and, in some cases, becoming extinct.Being ‘Ocean Positive’ stems from not just what we do in the ocean but also what we do in our everyday lives. From the garments produced to the packaging they are in and the projects that we support along the way, everything we do leads to ensuring a more sustainable business that is good for the ocean.
Theromcline shorts are neutrally buoyant, lightweight, machine washable and equivalent to a 2mm neoprene wetsuit. Perfect for those allergic to neoprene. Designed to be worn under a wetsuit or on their own in warmer waters, the Thermocline shorts help to increase thermal protection to the body core. The shorts can also be worn with the short sleeved top to make a lightweight shortie wetsuit. The shorts are a smart alternative to board/swim shorts as the close-fitting material won’t ride up under a wetsuit. Worn under board shorts, the Thermocline shorts can provide that extra thermal protection allowing you to extend your season in the water with the freedom and comfort of shorts before moving to a full neoprene wetsuits. A high back means it won’t ride down when paddling or Swimming. | <urn:uuid:1e7ab0c8-dac6-48f7-923b-4fea65428d4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.divezonewhitianga.co.nz/shop/product/412185/fourth-element-thermocline-shorts/?variantId=969178 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.907922 | 336 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Green Peel can be described as a non-toxic and non-surgical facial treatment that makes use of natural plant ingredients to gently exfoliate and renew the skin. It was first developed in the year 1950, according to a German dermatologist and since then, it has been extensively used to treat skin problems that are diverse.
Over the years, advancements have led to the best green facial peels being more effective and adaptable. Nowadays Green Peel is a popular choice for treating a variety of ailments.
What exactly is meant by Green Peel is the difference?
In contrast to other methods of peeling, Green Peel does not make use of any synthetic substances and chemical peeling. Instead, it utilizes the natural extracts of plants and herbs that mix to gently pull out the undesirable skin layers.
How do you remove natural substances?
Peeling is performed by tiny particles of the grass. The particles gently polish the skin's epidermis or the upper layer and also other active substances penetrate deeper layers. In the following two weeks, the particles release vitamins, plant hormones, and enzymes that clean and refresh the various skin types.
Is it true that the Green Peel treatment hurt?
You won't feel anything as the product has been massaged into your skin. But, after the third or second day, your skin will appear more swollen and red and you might notice a slight burning sensation.
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If you have noticed, a lot of people are buying air purifiers these days. The reason is obvious, the air quality in our cities and towns is continuously going downhill. So much so, that the top cities with hazardous air quality are almost all in India. In the meanwhile, air pollution diseases are also on the rise. Which is not only bad news for the health of our loved ones but also puts a huge burden on our country’s public health infrastructure.
Moreover, studies have already associated air pollution with loss of productively, signs of depression and faster ageing of cognitive senses. Thus, self protection measures have become an essential need today. So, buying an air purifier can be an essential step towards a healthier and happier future for you and your family.
VOCs are among the most harmful air pollutants as they contain anthropogenic compounds, which are harmful for humans and animals. These air pollutants are mostly present in adhesives, paints and varnishes. Formaldehyde is a prime example of harmful volatile organic compounds. Prolonged exposure to formaldehyde fumes can even lead to cancer.
Air purifiers come with special filters to remove these volatile vapours from the indoor environment. Activated carbon air filters inside home air purifiers can trap VOCs in their carbon tunnels and remove them permanently from the air. nebelr has developed a special activated carbon filter called the car air purifier which provides advanced protection from VOCs.
While VOCs may seem extremely dangerous when compared to common dust, the threat from extremely fine dust particles is also hazardous. These fine particles, also known as Particulate Matter, can be up to 40 times smaller than the width of a human hair. PM2.5 particles can even reach the central nervous system and brain through blood circulation, causing a host of respiratory, cardio-vascular and mental illnesses.
Well, stating the obvious, having clean air to breathe means your family members stay healthy during the smog filled days during winters. Also, air purifiers can reduce the chances of contracting seasonal influenza viruses and other common bacterial infections, as the activated carbon can trap microbes like bacteria, fungus and viruses.
Often people resort to measures like blocking ventilation vents and doors and windows to prevent air pollution from seeping inside the house. Homes without ventilation end up using more energy for cooling and heating needs.
As indoor air pollution also has many in-house causes, like kitchen activities, dust hiding in upholstery and linen etc. Over time, these pollutants can combine to reduce the indoor air quality, making it unhealthy. Having an air purifier means the air inside your home is being continuously cleaned, thus allowing you ventilate the home properly and save more on your electricity bills.
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What is a binocular vision test?
The red line shows where Abby was looking before she played Engaging Eyes - and shows why she found reading so hard
Because you have two eyes, your brain receives two slightly different images. When your eyes look at the same point your brain can combine the images together to make a single 3D image.
What happens when your eyes don't work together?
If both eyes don't focus on the same point then your brain receives two different images at the same time.
The brain then has to decide which letter to focus on. If it alternates which image it processes the letters will appear to move. Alternatively it might use both images and the words will appear blurry or double.
The video shows what it's like for a child with dyslexia to read. It tracks where her eyes are looking. You can see she makes erratic eye movements and her eyes wobble all over the page. This makes bs and ds look the same to her.
It's important that you know if your child has this problem (also called convergence insufficiency). Unfortunately, it's not a test a regular optician does and so we have created this quick and easy test.
What is the Binocular Vision Test?
It's a 3d game to test how well you can see in 3d - or in other words, how good your binocular vision is. We will post you the 3d glasses needed to play.
The game is fun and takes around 10 minutes to play. The results are then analysed and you will have the results immediately.
Is treatment available?
The good news is that treatment is available and you can start now. If you think you or your child has problems with their binocular vision, the first step is to take the test.
If the results show there is a problem then playing Engaging Eyes will help. It takes 10 minutes a day and trains the eyes to work together. The training takes place in the form of games, like target practice and 'whack an alien'.
Children enjoy the games and start seeing improvements in a matter of weeks.
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The Buenos Aires-based photographer lends his cinematic background to the craft
Observing, distilling and capturing the human form is one of photography’s greatest challenges. Manuel Soria, however, achieves exactly this through his favoured analogue medium.
Film is the foundation on which he started taking pictures, and the constant playing around with texture, contrast and colour makes it an incredibly rewarding format. It’s plain to see how his photographs take on a special depth, “entwined with the moment at which they were taken”. The special mystique that arises from still using the same camera his mother gave him gives rise to emotionally profound images, stimulated by the same smells and sounds that make his tool so familiar.
The beautiful intimacy that Manuel conveys throughout his work is rooted, he tells us, in a real-world difficulty of getting close to people and breaking the ice with them. He notes that as a result, “photography is a way that allows me to overcome that and approach them”. The camera allows him to take on the “role of the photographer”, allowing him to interact with his subject and show something beyond what you can just see; “a gesture or a look that awakens some story”.
Past experience in film and cinema has taught Manuel how to really look at an image, and how to handle artificial and natural light, evidencing his versatility with different skin colours, surroundings and times of day. Nevertheless, the clarity of his photographs belies his ethos – rather it is the margin of error that exists in working with film that excites him: ‘overlaps, scratches and lint become elements that redefine each photograph, and always for the better’.
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Roundup Lawsuit Lawyers in Fresno
Filing a Roundup Cancer Claim or Lawsuit in California
Roundup, a popular herbicide originally manufactured by agricultural giant Monsanto, which was later acquired by Bayer, has been labeled a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The main ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, has been linked to various forms of cancer, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and other blood cell-related cancers. Roundup has also been linked to DNA and chromosomal damage in humans subjected to prolonged exposure to the weed killer.
If you or someone you love was diagnosed with cancer after using Roundup, you could be entitled to financial compensation. At Fowler | Helsel | Vogt, our Fresno Roundup lawsuit lawyers assist individuals and families with personal injury and wrongful death cases related to Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides and have successfully secured millions of dollars on behalf of our clients. We can help you understand your legal rights and fight for the justice and fair compensation you are owed.
What Is Roundup?
Roundup is a popular weed killer, or herbicide, widely used in the United States and around the world. It is available for both commercial and residential use and is often used to refer to all glyphosate-based or containing herbicides.
The toxicity of Roundup and related glyphosate-based herbicides depends largely on the formulation. For example, formulations for terrestrial use tend to be more toxic than those for aquatic use. However, recent studies have found a link between glyphosate and various health conditions, most notable cancer.
How Much Roundup Exposure Does it Take to Cause Health Issues?
Short-term exposure typically doesn't cause problems, but there is no set point at which it becomes harmful. You're at a higher risk if you:
- Work in agriculture, landscaping, gardening, or groundskeeping
- Regularly use it on your lawn or garden
- Apply roundup and then eat, drink, or smoke without washing your hands
- Touch freshly sprayed plants
You can also be exposed to the chemicals in roundup through eating non-organic produce.
What Health Issues Can Roundup Cause?
Roundup has been linked to a wide variety of illnesses and diseases, including:
- Birth defects
- Celiac disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Heart disease
The biggest concern legally has been with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, as it is the most researched, serious illness that has been linked to Roundup usage.
Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with cancer after heavy exposure to Roundup? Get in touch with an experienced Roundup attorney at Fowler | Helsel | Vogt for a free consultation.
Roundup has been found to pose numerous short- and long-term health risks for humans. In general, chronic exposure to Roundup or other glyphosate-containing substances carries a higher risk than limited or infrequent exposure.
Some of the most common health issues associated with Roundup include:
- Cancer, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Reproductive problems
- Developmental issues
- Liver and kidney damage
- Skin irritation
It is recommended that you wash your hands immediately after using Roundup and refrain from eating, drinking, or smoking after using the product and before washing hands. It is also recommended that you do not touch plants or other items/surfaces that are still wet after Roundup has been applied and change your clothing after handling or using Roundup or any glyphosate-based weed killer.
Note that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that there is no evidence that glyphosate has a heightened risk of causing cancer in humans, nor has it found a link between the substance and reproductive or developmental issues. That being said, numerous other studies have found that there is a link, making this a highly contested and controversial issue.
The client suffered severe injuries to his legs when the 2-story ladder he was climbing (which was affixed to the building), detached causing him to fall approximately 15 feet.
The client was rear-ended by a commercial work truck resulting in serious neck and back injuries. After months of conservative treatment, the client eventually underwent surgical repair to her cervical spine.
FHV filed a lawsuit against a local agribusiness on behalf of the father and dependents of a young man whose life was cut short following the release of ammonia gas from the company's refrigeration equipment.
Multiple Car Pile Up Results in $750,000 Recovery for Client.
The driver suffered severe burns due to a salvaged vehicle catching on fire. Settled to the plaintiff for damages.
In response to ongoing litigation—including high-value lawsuits and tens of millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts—Bayer has announced that it plans to remove glyphosate-based Roundup from shelves across the U.S. by 2023. However, as of 2021, the product remains available to both commercial and residential consumers and countless individuals have already suffered the devastating effects of prolonged glyphosate exposure.
If you believe that your cancer diagnosis, health condition, or loved one’s death resulted from using Roundup or another glyphosate-based or containing herbicide, you could be entitled to financial compensation for your damages. This includes costs such as medical expenses associated with treating or managing your condition, lost wages or income from time taken off work during your recovery, physical pain and mental or emotional suffering, and more.
At Fowler | Helsel | Vogt, our Roundup litigation attorneys in Fresno are prepared to stand up for you and your rights. We have more than 40 years of legal experience and have represented victims of all types of defective and dangerous products in standing up for their rights against the best interests of major manufacturers and other powerful entities. We know how to stand up for you, and we have what it takes to win.
We offer complimentary consultations and case evaluations to assess whether you have a case that we believe we can win. If we accept your case, you can rely on us to provide personalized and attentive legal support every step of the way. Our attorneys will work directly with you to develop innovative and customized legal strategies aimed at achieving your goals. We know that no two cases are exactly alike, which is why we tailor our services to meet your unique needs and concerns.
There are absolutely no costs associated with your initial consultation, and we only collect attorney fees if/when we secure compensation for you. Your time to file a lawsuit is limited to just two years from the date of injury or the date on which you discovered or reasonably could have discovered your injury (typically the date of diagnosis). Do not wait until it is too late! Contact Fowler | Helsel | Vogt today to learn how we can help you fight for the fair compensation you deserve. | <urn:uuid:06ad1201-ce7a-4d5c-9381-cfaf221a0be8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fhvlaw.com/personal-injury/product-liability/roundup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963794 | 1,468 | 2 | 2 |
Philosophers and poets have long praised gratitude as one of the most desirable attitudes and attributes. Surely, each of us has much to be thankful for. Gratitude can have a lasting positive impact if we work towards incorporating it into our daily lives. The expression of gratitude leads to a positive, self-renewing, feedback loop – the more gratitude we display, the more grateful we are likely to be. Showing gratitude is one of the simplest, yet most powerful things we can do for one another. To make sure the gratitude you’re expressing in return is worthy of the deed, use any of these creative ways to show you’re truly thankful and be sure your message is deeply felt.
Say something kind. The most simple way to demonstrate gratitude is to say thanks to another. If you don’t have a specific item to express thanks for, saying a few kind words is just as effective. If you want to communicate how much your friend or relative made an impact, expressing gratitude with extra enthusiasm can emphasize the extent of your thanks. Phrases like “you made my day!” or “you saved my life!” are more potent than simply saying thank you.
Get specific. What makes you particularly thankful for your sister, or your professor, or your best friend? It’s really easy to get specific when you are expressing gratitude – all you have to do is add “for” to the end of your initial phrase, and go thoughtfully on from there . “Thank you for…”, “I appreciate you for…”, “I’m grateful to you for…”, etc. Naming what you’re really grateful for is a powerful way to communicate to your friend, family member, or colleague what it is about them that is so special to you.
Give the gift of time. Nothing says “I appreciate you” more than an investment of your time. Think about what’s most important to others and make it a top priority. It could be going out to eat or to the newest movie, going for a walk, helping with a project, or even simply stopping by for a quick chat and taking the time to listen.
Put your phone away. While you’re spending time with someone, be fully present, by putting your phone away when you’re interacting with others. This isn’t always easy, especially with all the available digital distractions. Nothing squanders a well planned evening faster than someone constantly pulling out their phone. This small effort will show how important spending time with this person is to you and allow you to be more appreciative of the experiences you have with them.
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There has been growing concern that electric vehicles (EVs) are too quiet to warn the visually impaired as well as pedestrians and cyclists when a vehicle is approaching. The lack of sound thus far has limited safety for those who rely on vehicle noise to navigate and cross busy streets.
In 2021, the Government of Canada announced it may make amendments to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations, which would require all EVs and hybrid vehicles to produce a minimum level of noise while in operation. The proposal came after a series of consultations with stakeholders and Canadian citizens. Regulating sound emitters would ensure all EVs in Canada produced enough sound while driving at low speeds, including areas like parking lots.
However, it remains to be seen whether this law will be enacted by 2023 — or what the proposal could mean when it comes to a driver’s liability coverage under their car insurance policy.
Can mandatory EV noise prevent a collision with a pedestrian or cyclist?
A number of automakers have already placed Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems (AVAS) or sound emitters in their hybrid and electric vehicles to help alert other road users to their presence. And both the United Nations and the United States have already adopted specific regulations around minimum sound requirements for EVs.
Since AVAS can help improve awareness of EVs and help reduce injuries to pedestrians and cyclists, these systems could improve traffic awareness, which could play a part in reducing the likelihood of a pedestrian-vehicle collision altogether.
Could EV noise protect you from liability in a collision?
If a driver were to hit a pedestrian or cyclist under the proposed amendment and had their sound emitters on as required, how might this affect driver liability?
“In the majority of cases, when a driver [of any vehicle] hits a pedestrian, they are usually considered to be at fault,” says Anne Marie Thomas, director of consumer and industry relations at the Insurance Bureau of Canada. Since road safety is a shared responsibility, from an insurance perspective, the driver will still need to be in control of their vehicle.
Your third-party liability insurance would likely still be necessary to cover you for any expenses incurred from injuries sustained by a pedestrian.
What might the amendment mean for EV drivers?
Though EV sound emitters are currently not yet required by law, having this feature engaged while driving can help reduce the possibility of colliding with visually impaired pedestrians, and as a result, having to make an insurance claim.
If EV sound emitters become mandatory in 2023, insurance companies may need to decide if a refusal to keep them turned on will impact a policyholder’s coverage eligibility.
In any case, it's best to seriously consider the amendment to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations and get in the habit of prioritizing pedestrian safety while driving an EV.
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Although the talks out of Dishion’s participants occurred for the a university research, they appeared to calculate interchanges the young people were attending provides for the real daily experience. Instance, Gardner and you will Steinberg ( 2005 ) had samples of center kids, late teens, and you can people play a computer video game you to definitely with it driving a car over the screen. Brand new then it drove, the more factors they would earn, but in addition the apt to be it had been that they would stumble on good stoplight and you will eliminate all of their facts. Some professionals starred the video game alone, whereas anybody else played together with a couple of co-workers, who have been liberated to call-out advice on exactly what the user should do. Whether or not anybody, an average of, took way more dangers together with co-workers, the difference anywhere between behavior on fellow as opposed to solamente requirements was basically a great deal more ample (and you will high) getting late and you will, particularly, center teens compared to adults. Age X condition effects were way more noticable for non-Light than simply White respondents.
In order to regulate how adolescents are affected by peers during an attempt so you can “break-in” to an interacting with each other-based group, Cohen and you may Prinstein ( 2006 ) inside it a sample off American senior school boys off mediocre personal standing with what these were resulted in faith is actually a cam room stumble on that have e-confederates whom looked like often higher otherwise reduced in personal reputation. The newest experts made use of prior guidance built-up with the students throughout the university to create groups of elizabeth-confederates whose title (in the event maybe not revealed) new subjects could infer. The brand new e-confederates showed aggressive and you may health-risk routines, plus the experimenters monitored the degree to which victims decided in order to confederates’ choices. Subjects modeled that it decisions if it emanated from fundamentally high-status colleagues, but in fact rejected a similar conclusion when it came from what appeared to be low-updates co-workers.
4.2 Fellow Determine Processes
All about three of your the latter research is clever tries to manage managed surroundings which can need the sorts of habits teens carry out reveal into the peer connections within the sheer configurations. Just like their predecessors regarding decades ago (Costanzo & Shaw, 1966 ; Sheriff, 1961 ), these studies bring crucial wisdom into the techniques you to definitely underlie peer category affects. Curiously, not, for every single data probes an alternative process off peer determine. Dishion’s functions focuses on exactly how good buddy’s a reaction to an adolescent’s utterances reinforces particular thinking otherwise practices and never someone else. Gardner and you will Steinberg attract regarding items in which co-workers remind or at least even stress a teen to act in a number of ways, and you can Cohen and you will Prinstein’s digital talk room lets (ostensible) colleagues to display behaviors you to teens normally model (otherwise will scrupulously prevent).
Nonetheless missing, up coming, try an intensive build out of peer influence processes who suffice to help you link together with her results all over this type of individuals training. You to definitely effort to incorporate for example a framework stipulates five more modes out-of peer influence, in addition to a series of private and you can situational situations that may establish how just in case these methods is passed and taken care of immediately of the kids (Brown, Bakken, ainsi que al., 2008 ). Plus three of your own methods off influence already mentioned (reinforcement, peer stress, and you can behavioural monitor), new detectives consider two others: structuring opportunities, an often overlooked function in which peers promote occasions otherwise contexts towards quest for form of behaviors, and you can antagonistic conclusion, eg happens in many intimidation interactions. Most other actions was put into this number. Such as, it may be sensible to tell apart fellow tension, which involves a primary, overt, and you may express attempt to prescribe specific thinking otherwise factors and you will proscribe others, off peer encouragement, a shorter forceful efforts to help with certain practices. Obstruction-direct not fundamentally intentional disturbance which have an action to take-is an additional usually neglected kind of determine.
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Petition against the construction of the shark aquarium “Shark City”
Petition against the shark aquarium “Shark City”
Keeping sharks in an aquarium can in no way meet the animals’ species-specific and individual needs – irrespective of the tank’s size. The educational value of such an adventure aquarium is also very limited as the sharks cannot display natural behaviour in captivity. Lend your voice to those sharks that are threatened to be torn away from their natural habitat and be transferred to the aquarium, and help avert this highly questionable project.
Sharks are highly developed and intelligent animals. Their social life is differing from species to species. It’s not possible to provide a habitat meeting the species-specific needs in the planned aquarium “The Seven Seas”. Further, our knowledge of most shark species is very limited. According to the precautionary principle, we should abstain from keeping sharks in captivity. Part of the animals would be taken from the wild to be transported to Sinsheim, which is another reason for opposing the aquarium. The stress associated with the capture and transport of the animals is unacceptable.
In addition, the alleged educational value of the shark aquarium is highly questionable. The project is terming itself an “attraction” and “unique spectacle”, indicating that it is merely a commercial entertainment project. This is emphasized by plans to offer indoor diving as one of the main attractions. Imagine: Sharks are taken from their natural and infinite habitat, confined into a narrow concrete tank, and then even have to endure divers entering their cramped aquarium space several times a day.
OceanCare is therefore very critical of the planned shark aquarium in Sinsheim and suggests that the relevant authorities reject the project.
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data on placement of pollutants (industrial facilities of various branches of farms, about pollution of the air basin, soils, waters and lands heavy metals, radionuclides, mineral fertilizers and pesticides;
V. N. (197 as structural unit of the biosphere the biogeocenosis is offered. Biogeocenoses — the natural educations with a clear boundary consisting of set of living beings (a biocenosis, taking a certain place. For water organisms — it is water, for land organisms — the soil and the atmosphere.
Scales of ecosystems are various: microsystems (for example, a marsh hummock, a tree, the stone covered with a moss or a stub, a pot with a flower, etc.), mesoecosystems (the lake, a bog, a sandy dune, the wood, a meadow, etc.), macroecosystems (the continent, the ocean, etc.). Therefore, there is a peculiar hierarchy macro - meso - and microsystems of different orders.
System approach consists of the following stages: definition of structure of an ecosystem and objects of environment which make impact on it; determination of set of internal communications and communications with environment. In the system analysis use various methods.
Understand undesirable changes of physical, physical and chemical and biological characteristics of air, soils, waters which can adversely influence human life, as environmental pollution a plant, animals necessary for it and cultural property, exhaust or spoil its raw material resources. These negative changes are result of activity of the person. They interrupt or break processes of an exchange and circulation of substances, their assimilation, energy distribution, properties of environment, living conditions of organisms as a result change, efficiency decreases or ecosystems collapse. Directly or indirectly such transformations influence the person through biological resources, waters and products.
On modern representations, an ecosystem as the main structural unit of the biosphere — is the interconnected uniform functional set of live organisms and environments of their dwelling, or balanced community of live organisms and the surrounding lifeless environment. In this definition existence of relationship, interdependence, relationships of cause and effect between biological community and the abiotic environment is emphasized,
Methodological fundamentals of ecology is system approach in researches. On the basis of system approach study properties of high-organized objects, i.e. variety of communications between ecosystem elements, their raznokachestvenost and a taxonomy. Thus it is impossible to forget that ecosystems are in a condition of dynamic balance and are capable to resist to changes of environment.
Observed factors check on mathematical models, Often apply also biological models – ecosystems from the organisms created in laboratories. It is the intermediate stage between natural ecosystems and mathematical models.
Improvement of structure of land use has to be based on the concept of ekologo-economic balance of the territory. At the organization of the territory the balance between anthropogenous load of lands and ability of the territory to natural self-cleaning has to be surely observed. At the organization of rational land use it is necessary to consider ecological impact of agricultural production on land resources.
Modeling – a basis of the scientific analysis of system ecology. Translation process of physical, biochemical, biological ideas of ecosystems in a row of dependences and operation over the received mathematical system is called the system analysis.
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PURE Reef Balance is a unique combination of live marine-specific bacteria and enzymes. Ground-breaking technology and a unique delivery method ensures a population of live bacteria will instantly colonise filters, substrates and decor, tank water and other internal surfaces. PURE Reef Balance gets straight to work digesting waste as well as converting ammonia and nitrite.
PURE Reef Balance is suitable both for fish-only and reef aquariums and will work with or without live rock. Regular addition will encourage biological diversity within closed salt water systems and create the perfect balance for fish, corals and other invertebrates. Because it is so easy to dose it is perfect for newcomers to the hobby who want to keep Nemo for the first time, right through to experienced reefers and public aquariums.
• Live bacteria and enzymes
• Clears water
• Digests waste
• Reduces skimmer maintenance
• Improves biological diversity
• Cycles new aquariums
• Rapidly matures filter media
• Creates a balanced ecosystem
Use 1 PURE Reef Balance ball per 25 litres of aquarium water, every 2 weeks. Place the balls directly into a filter section or sump. For best results place in an area of water flow. PURE Reef Balance is also suitable for use in filter socks and net bags, fluidised reactors or refugiums.
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Nursing students’ beliefs and perceptions toward routine universal screening for intimate partner violence
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) has reached epidemic proportions in South Africa, prompting the government to pass the Domestic Violence Act 116 (1998). However, numerous scholars still believe that legislation is lacking due to inadequate implementation of protocol in the healthcare sector. In the healthcare setting, nurses are usually the first people that abused women make contact with and so they are in an excellent position to identify IPV victims and prevent further abuse. Routine universal screening in the healthcare setting is recommended as a means to identify women who suffer in abusive relationships. However, several problems have been encountered with the attempts to implement screening practices. In this study the various perceived barriers to IPV screening among nursing students were examined by use of a descriptive survey approach. The research participants were 103 nursing students from the University of the Western Cape. Data were collected by means of a selfadministered questionnaire and analysed using descriptive as a means to uncover the relationship between perceived barriers and the screening practices of the participants. The aim of this study was to identify the barriers that will discourage a nurse from routinely screening for intimate partner violence in a healthcare practice. The present study’s results indicated that the majority of variance in routinely screening for IPV can be explained by barriers related to HCP knowledge of managing IPV disclosure; the perceived responses of patients to screening; the privatisation of abuse; and whether HCP regard IPV as a healthcare issue. Information, regarding the beliefs of healthcare providers (HCP) with regard to IPV as well as the barriers they perceive toward screening, will be helpful in designing curricula that will successfully teach HCP how to screen for IPV and it will also be useful in making positive changes to the screening conditions in healthcare settings. | <urn:uuid:21d2c9db-fbc8-4f43-9674-bbd1a5fd225e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11394/3406 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95878 | 386 | 1.851563 | 2 |
What are Package Managers?
Package managers are helping applications that provide developers an easy way to install packages and dependencies into your project. Apart from installing it also helps in configuring, upgrading, and removing any dependencies or packages. NPM, YARN, Bower, Homebrew, Snappy, etc., are some common examples of package managers.
What is NPM?
NPM got released in 2010 and is a well-known JS package manager among JS developers that comes by default when developers install Node.js on their systems. It is a Command-line Interface (CLI) tool that helps developers install, update, manage, and delete JS libraries, packages, and dependencies. This package manager also contains three different components:
- A website to handle and customize different NPM experiences
- A registry that can lead developers access to a comprehensive public database of JS components
- The Command Line Interface (CLI) to interact with the package manager
What is YARN?
YARN is another well-known JS dependency manager designed to offer more comprehensive features lacking in the NPM package manager, such as security and performance. It got released in 2016 by Facebook and is a popular alternative to NPM because it is stable and consistent.
How are NPM and YARN different from each other?
The typical differences between NPM and YARN are:
|NPM comes as a default package manager with Node.js.||YARN is not a default package manager. Developers have to install it explicitly.|
|It fetches packages and dependencies from the NPM registry each time the developer uses the 'npm install' command.||It fetches all JS packages and dependencies from the locally stored area, i.e., it brings them from the secondary storage each time a developer uses the 'yarn add' command.|
|It got released in 2010.||It got released in 2016.|
|Developers use the command npm uninstall <package_name> to uninstall a package using this package manager.||Developers use the command yarn remove <package_name> to uninstall a package using this package manager.|
|NPM performs a serial installation process for installing packages and dependencies.||YARN can perform a parallel installation process for installing packages and dependencies.|
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How To Draw A Cute Bunny :
Step 1: Draw a circle with an overlapping pear shape, the circle will work as the head, and the pear shape is the body of the rabbit. Draw the bottom part of pear shape little fatty
Step 2: In this step draw the guidelines of the head as you see in the image below, it will help you to draw facial features in the right place. Draw 2 intersecting cross lines, an oval nose on the intersecting point, and 2 eyes on both sides of the long line.
Step 3: Draw a big bulky cheek with 2 long ears on the top of the head, you can little differentiate with the shape of the ear.
Then draw the arms which are a little curved in the center, draw 2 similar types of parallel lines joining them on the top, follow the given image for reference.
Step 4: Use your pencil tenderly dont over press on it, and then draw a curved leg that is flat at the bottom. Similarly, draw a small tail at the back or bulky part of the pear shape. Until this step, your cartoon rabbit is clearly visible.
;Step 5: Now pay attention to the face, double the ear lines, pupils inside the eyes, and give a triangular shape to the nose. Draw broad teeth inside the mouth.
Step 6: Draw a carrot in between the hands of the rabbit as also it is a favorite fruit of the animal. Add eyebrows and fingers to legs.
Step 7: Now its time to contour, erase all the mess, and outline drawing with a dark and thick pencil.
Rabbits For Easy Drawing
Rabbits for easy drawing are those that can be traced with simple and simple shapes. These drawings of rabbits for coloring are very cute and it is also with rabbits to draw for those who are not very skilled with the pencil. This is because the drawings are very simple. For example in the rabbit above, it is the big eyes that determine the rabbits face. From there it is to copy the different features and thats it.
In this other case, we go that rabbits to draw sometimes are not exactly with the ways we know them. The shape of the head of this drawing rabbit looks more like an onion, but by adding the different elements of the face, the expected results are achieved.
On our website you can find many other themes of drawings to color, but if you want for specific themes, we offer you these:
Draw A Bunny Step By Step
For the first step, were going to make a round shape with curved bumps for the cheeks.;
Draw the ears by making a U-shaped line, up and then down on one side of the top of the head and then the same on the other side of the head.
Draw a large curve. This will be the bunny body.
See the picture below.;;
Next, draw a line from the bottom of the head going down to make the legs.
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Learn How To Draw A Bunny Step By Step With This Very Easy Drawing Tutorial For Kids And All Beginners
There are a large number of rabbit drawing lessons on the net, but most of the drawing lessons are not informative, or very difficult. Here you will learn and learn how to draw a bunny.
As we already wrote in previous lessons, animal drawing lessons are one of the most popular and important for beginners.
We present for readers a step-by-step, easy and interesting lesson in drawing a cute bunny. Such a step by step drawing lesson will help anyone looking for a way to learn how to draw a bunny easily. Welcome to the cute bunny drawing tutorial!
Time needed:;20 minutes.
How to Draw a Bunny
The first and important step. We draw by the example of the picture. It is quite simple to draw, the main thing is not to forget to make a pronounced part where the bunnys nose and mouth will then be.
Draw lines in straight lines from the head until the moment when you need to round off the ends of the bunnys ears. Do not forget that the ear, which is visually closer, should look larger in the drawing.
From above, go down in a semicircle to the place where the tail will be. There select the tail in the same way as shown in the picture. After that, you can even draw the lower part with a ruler, but closer to the head the line needs to be broken and made round.
Learn How To Draw A Cartoon Bunny Easy Enough For Beginners Start A Sketch With This Tutorial Step By Step Cute Rabbit Drawing
Hi friends! In this drawing tutorial, you will learn how to draw a cartoon bunny. In this simple tutorial, we will show you how to sketch a cute cartoon bunny that can be drawn by an artist of any level of drawing. Besides the cartoon bunny, you can draw an elementary hare drawing or many other animals!
Rabbits are mammals that belong to the order Lagomorphs. In the course of evolution, rabbits acquired super high speed, which helps these animals escape from rivals. Usually, rabbits live in meadows, glades, mountains, and forests. Rabbits live in the countries of Eurasia, Africa, North, Central, and South America. Rabbits are herbivorous mammals that mainly feed on grasses, leaves, flowers, flowering plants, and so on. Rabbits, unlike hares, are social animals, and hares love loneliness. Now that you have learned some facts about rabbits, you can start enjoying the drawing process!
Time needed:;45 minutes.
How to Draw a Cartoon Bunny
Start by drawing the bunny with a circular outline of the head.
Now add the shape of a bunny muzzle to the outline of the head. Erase the guidelines after this step.
Draw the bunnys face detailing with the addition of the nose, mouth, and teeth.
Draw the almond-shaped cartoon bunny eyes.
Draw a small eyelash near the bunnys eye.
Draw a little cute bunny eyebrow.
Draw the typical large bunny ears.
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Putting Together The Sketch
In the first step, we will construct the sketch. When doing this, you can follow the basic processes outlined below:
Tip: When drawing the sketch, use an H or HB pencil and never press too hard. This will allow you to erase guide lines and errors later on.
- At first glance, a bunnys head can seem quite complicated, but if you break down the motif into geometric shapes, you can easily construct your sketch. Breaking the parts down is the best way to learn how to draw a bunny face.
- To do this, draw an elongated ellipse in the center of your paper to suggest the bunnys face. Next, draw two more ellipses as ears that start in the upper third of the first ellipse and stick out a bit. Use your printed photo as a guide to get the angle of the ears right.
- Another ellipse marks the cheeks of the bunny.
Tip: Break down your motif into simple basic shapes to learn how to draw a bunny face. This will help you to get the proportions right. This works for every motif!
- On my sketch, you can also see that the head is divided by a cross in the middle. The horizontal line shows you exactly where the eyes are and the vertical line shows you where the center of the face is. This will help you later when drawing the eyes, nose, and mouth.
- You can also roughly draw the outline of the body. Follow my sketch.
Crafts To Make With A Bunny
The nice thing about digital drawings is that you can upload them to a cutting machine and make print and cut designs for lots of craft projects.;
Here are some crafts that you can make with your bunny drawing:
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Those are just a few ideas to get you started.; Check out some of these ideas for easy crafts that you can try.;
If you have a Cricut or Silhouette machine and a heat press, you can make iron-on t-shirts. Of course, you can use scissors to cut out the bunny but a cutting machine will make it even easier.
You can take your drawing and put it on tons of different surfaces to make crafts!
Feel free to add a photo of your drawing to the pin so that I can see your cute bunny.
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How To Draw A Bunny That Looks Real
Drawing a bunny that looks real is quite a bit more difficult than drawing a cartoon version and it requires way more step.
However, if you want to learn how to draw a realistic bunny I recommend you try out the excellent tutorial tutsplus that can find by .
I gave it a try myself and here are my results. Im not showing all the steps though, so make sure to check out tutsplus tutorial for that.
Bunny Drawing How To Draw A Bunny
If you are looking for bunny drawing, here we will present several different models. These are easy drawings for children, something to draw that children find simple and make them want to learn to draw. Our drawings of bunnies are basically easy drawings, with which you can have a good time enjoying an activity as healthy as learning to draw.
If instead of drawing, you just want to color rabbit, you can print a rabbit drawing of the ones shown here, and you can paint it any way you want.
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How To Make An Easter Bunny Drawing
Skillshare student Meire Fortunato made this bunny drawing. With his proper posture and cup of tea, he might just be a creative rendering of an Easter bunny. ;
If youre wondering how to draw a bunny for Easter, follow the same general steps of drawing any other bunny: Choose your inspiration, sketch out the rough shapes, define them, and then add colors and details. Then, take it one step further to make it an Easter bunny drawing by adding seasonal touches. You could draw the bunny inside of a basket, give it eggs and spring chicks to hold, or sketch it in a beautiful, flower-filled garden.;
Adding Details To The Easter Bunny Drawing
Now it is time to add details.
- Add a cloud shape connecting from the side of the lower body to the paw for a fluffy tail.
- Under the bunnys chin, add a bow-tie shape.
- Add two lines inside each of the bunnys ears to create an inner ear area. Add a pattern design inside the details. Stripes are used in the example.
- You can get creative with the details here and allow your students to draw their details from a few ideas that you share with them . Let them choose the pattern for inside the ears, and on the bowtie or egg, they draw. Patterns like polka dots, stripes, and zig-zags would look great!
- Use a fine point black marker or Sharpie pen to trace all the lines of your Easter Bunny. Erase the pencil lines with a good white eraser.
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The Meaning And Symbolism Of The Rabbit
Before we get stuck into the easy bunny drawing tutorial, it is nice to know a little more about the different symbolic meanings associated with rabbits. Bunnies are often associated with the freshness, new life, and fertility that comes with spring. Many cultures also associate bunnies with the circle of life, as a result of their incredible abilities to reproduce in great numbers. Bunnies can also bring good luck, so if you think you need a little luck in your life right now, perhaps this was meant to be!
How To Draw A Bunny Easy Video Tutorial
This is such an easy tutorial to draw a bunny. Youll be ready to color this drawing in just a few minutes. Ive also added lots of ideas for crafts that you can make with this bunny drawing.;
This simple technique uses less than 10 steps. To make the drawing of a bunny, well start by drawing the basic round shape to make the head, then add the body, the ears, and a cute little tail.;
This short tutorial can be done by both digital and traditional methods. This means that you can use a digital drawing tablet or a pencil and paper.;;
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If youre looking for cartoon animal drawings, then this is a good place to start. Once youre done, youll be able to upload your finished drawing to your cutting machine and cut a template using your simple bunny drawing.
You can print the instructions and the template below. Follow this tutorial and watch the video to learn how to draw a bunny drawing.
Want to make a whole bunch of cutes bunnies?; Copy and paste or just duplicate the first bunny that you made and move them around the canvas any way that you like.
For a step by step tutorial on how to do this in Inkscape, sign up for my free So Simple SVG Quotes course.
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How To Make A White Bunny Drawing
Skillshare student Chris V. uses grey shading to add depth and dimension.
Again, using a single color makes it a little difficult to create depth and dimension, though white is an easier choice than black. Simply create the outline of your bunny, then add shading with grey or other tones to enhance the image.;
Constructing The Bunnys Ears
In the third step of this easy bunny drawing tutorial, you are going to draw the construction shapes for the bunnys ears. Begin by drawing a vertical oval shape that slopes slightly to the left. You want this oval shape to be more elongated than the other ovals you have drawn so far. It is also important that you make sure that the bottom of this ear oval overlaps with the head oval that you drew in the last step.
Now, using a slightly smaller elongated oval shape just in front of the first ear oval. This smaller oval shape should overlap with the bigger ear oval quite a lot, and the top of it should be ever so slightly higher than the larger one.
The difference in size is essential for achieving realism in your bunny drawing, because this second ear is going to be further away from our perspective.
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Acrylic Colors Watercolors Or Coloring Pencils
If you want to color your drawing then you will need a coloring medium. I usually use Acrylic Colors or Watercolors for most of my drawings. For this drawing, however, I used Copic Markers.
Coloring Pencils are also a very good option for coloring your drawings. It totally depends on your preferences.
Constructing The Bunnys Front Feet
In this step, you will see your bunny drawing come to life. For the front feet, you can draw a U shape with a slight point at the end. The front line of the U shape should begin inside the main body oval, just in front of the middle. Just above the other end of the front foot that is closest to you, draw another, slightly smaller foot.
Remember that the features of your bunny that are furthest away from your perspective need to be slightly smaller than the ones that are closer. If you nail this difference in size, you will nail the overall realistic perspective.;
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How To Draw A Bunny: Easy Step
Learning how to draw a bunny is best broken down into simple steps. Start by deciding what kind of bunny you want to createa lifelike creature, an adorable animal, or a rabbit with human-like expressionsthen sketch out the bunnys outline using into simple shapes. Finally, go in and add detail and colors.;
Skillshare instructor Patricia Caldeira does an incredible job of breaking this process down and showing students how to draw a bunny step by step.
How To Draw A Rabbit Bunny Easy Step By Step
Its very easy art tutorial for beginners, only follow me step by step, if you need more time, you can make pause. I use a black marker to show the picture better, but it will be easier to begin drawing with a pencil, so that you can correct it with an eraser. Then the drawing is perfect, you can outline it with a black marker.
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In This Drawing Guide I Will Tell You How To Draw A Bunny For Kindergarten This Is A Very Simple Tutorial Adapted Especially For Beginner Artists
Everyone loves rabbits, right? Every person who draws animals has probably drawn this cute fluffy at least once in his life. That is why I created this drawing guide today. Here you can see a lesson in drawing a rabbit for beginner artists and for those who first picked up a pencil.
This cool drawing consists of a few rounded shapes and a couple of flowing lines. The lack of details and shadows made my drawing lesson even easier.
So lets try to draw this lovely bunny with this 5 step drawing tutorial. Im sure you can do it.
How to Draw a Bunny for Kindergarten
First sketch out the head and body of our bunny. Place it horizontally as in my reference.
Depict the eyes, nose and mouth of our bunny.
The ears appear as four oval shapes that sit on top of the head.
Use some smooth, rounded shapes to represent the bunnys tail and legs.
Gray and pink are optimal colors for a rabbit. You can choose any colors you like.
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Adherence to a healthy diet did not reduce the risk for developing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), analysis of data from the Nurses' Health Studies found.
Compared with women who scored in the lowest tertile of the 2010 Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010), those in the highest tertile had no significant decrease in lupus risk, with a hazard ratio of 0.78 (95% CI 0.54-1.14, P=0.23), according to Medha Barbhaiya, MD, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, and colleagues.
There also was no difference in risk depending on whether the individual was seropositive for anti-double stranded (ds)DNA antibodies (HR 0.78, 95% CI 0.45-1.36) or seronegative (HR 0.78, 95% CI 0.47-1.31), the researchers reported in their study online in Arthritis Care & Research.
Multiple studies have demonstrated lower risks of rheumatoid arthritis with healthy diets such as the 2010 Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010), but the association of overall dietary pattern has been little studied in SLE.
Nonetheless, there are mechanistic rationales for considering diet as a potential influence on SLE risk: "Oxidative stress and other environmental exposures, including diet, can contribute to lupus onset and flares through epigenetic mechanisms that modify CD4+ T cell gene expression," Barbhaiya and colleagues explained.
To explore this, they analyzed data from the two Nurses' Health Studies, including 79,568 women enrolled in the first study from 1984 to 2012 and 93,554 in the second study from 1991 to 2013.
Participants filled out a food frequency questionnaire every 4 years, and were rated according to adherence to three dietary quality scores. The AHEI-2010 is based on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and includes 11 foods such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains that are considered healthy and others such as sugar-sweetened beverages (including fruit juice), red/processed meat, trans fat (% of total energy), and sodium intake considered unhealthy. Scores range from 0 (worst) to 110 (best).
A second diet was the modified Mediterranean diet, which measures nine components including vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains, legumes, and fish as well as undesirable components including saturated fats and red or processed meats; scores can range from 0 to 9. A third type was the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, which is similar to the Mediterranean diet but with scores ranging from 8 to 40.
A fourth dietary evaluation used the Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Index, which rates food groups according to plasma inflammatory biomarker levels including C-reactive protein and interleukin 6. Nine food groups were considered pro-inflammatory, including processed meats, refined grains, and high-energy beverages, while nine others were considered anti-inflammatory, including dark yellow and leafy green vegetables.
The analysis was adjusted for multiple factors, including age, race, income, smoking, alcohol use, menopausal status, and body mass index.
There were 194 incident cases of SLE, with 91 being anti-dsDNA positive and 103 anti-dsDNA negative. Mean age for the participants was 50, more than 90% were white, and mean body mass index was 25.
On multivariable analyses, there were no significant differences in SLE risk for the averaged highest versus lowest tertiles of scores on the three scores other than the AHEI-2010:
- Mediterranean diet, HR 0.82 (95% CI 0.56-1.18)
- DASH diet, HR 1.16 (95% CI 0.81-1.66)
- Dietary inflammatory index, HR 0.83 (95% CI 0.57-1.21)
There also were no differences according to anti-dsDNA status on any of the scores, or in baseline scores.
The only lower risk identified was on cumulative average intake of nuts and legumes in the AHEI-2010, with a hazard ratio for SLE risk of 0.59 (95% CI 0.40-0.87, P=0.006) for the highest versus lowest tertile. "Nuts and legumes are a rich source of alpha-linoleic acid, an anti-inflammatory polyunsaturated fat associated with reduced risk of inflammation and cardiovascular disease," the researchers explained, adding that the 41% decreased risk for SLE seen with high intake of nuts and legumes should be investigated further.
As to why the researchers were unable to detect associations between dietary quality and SLE, they suggested there may have been changes in secular trends in lifestyle and diet over the years of the two studies, and that diet in early life may be more influential (the youngest dietary assessment in this analysis was at age 27). The study also was not powered to evaluate interactions between diet and other potential risk factors such as current smoking.
An additional limitation was the possibility of recall bias with the food questionnaire.
"Our findings warrant replication in large, prospective, general population cohorts, with younger participants and increased racial/ethnic variation," Barbhaiya and co-authors concluded.
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
The authors also reported support from the Rheumatology Research Foundation, the Lupus Foundation of America, the Brigham Research Institute, and the R. Bruce and Joan M. Mickey Research Scholar Fund. One co-author reported financial support from Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Inova, Janssen, and Optum.
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Beethoven & Freedom
Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image arises from a relatively small circle of heroic works from the composer's middle period, most notably the Eroica
Symphony. However, the freedom associated with the Promethean hero has also come under considerably critique by philosophers, theologians and political theorists; its promise of autonomy easily inverts into various forms of authoritarianism, and the sovereign will it champions is not merely a
liberating force but a discriminatory one. Beethoven's freedom, then, appears to be increasingly problematic; yet his music is still employed today to mark political events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the attacks of 9/11. Even more problematic, perhaps, is the fact that this freedom has
shaped the reception of Beethoven music to such an extent that we forget that there is another kind of music in his oeuvre that is not heroic, a music that opens the possibility of a freedom yet to be articulated or defined.
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This increases your memory capacity and Compassion.
I hardly think your Compassion?
You know what does work? Empathy and Compassion.
How do you build Compassion?
You show such Compassion!
How Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy.
Only help and Compassion.
Every religion teaches Compassion to all living beings.
These negative feelings are the opposite of Compassion.
The level of effort and Compassion that those.
Now they had Compassion on him and relented.
Insights, Compassion and empathy: I, C, E.
Cox Prize for Rare Compassion.
The Philippine Cannabis Compassion Society.
Compassion as Key to Happiness 2015.
This year's theme was“Compassion through Poetry.”.
NGO Compassion in World Farming.
Hence my Compassion and my sorrow.
What drives her: money or Compassion?
Compassion and connection make us human.
Compassion should be our outcome.
Compassion makes life beautiful and worth living.
But why does Compassion make us happy?
Freedom Compassion and Coexistence in the Human Age.
They need your Compassion.
Some people just lack Compassion.
The LORD is famous for his Compassion.
Learn to see Compassion as strength.
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THE TRADITION OF New Year’s Resolutions goes all the best way once again to 153 B.C. Janus, a legendary king of early Rome was positioned on the head of the calendar.
With two faces, Janus power look once again on previous occasions and ahead to the longer term. Janus turned the traditional image for resolutions and lots of Romans appeared for pardon from their enemies and additionally changed presents earlier than the start of every yr.
The New 12 calendar months has not all the time begun on January 1, and it would not start on it date in every single place now. It begins on it date just for cultures that use a 365-day exposure voltaic calendar. January 1 turned the start of the New 12 calendar months in 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar developed a calendar that will extra precisely replicate the seasons than earlier calendars had.
The Romans named the primary calendar month of the yr after Janus, the god of beginnings and the guardian of doorways and entrances. He was all the time delineated with two faces, one on the entrance of his head and one on the once again. Thus he power look for and fro on the similar time. At midnight on December 31, the Romans unreal Janus trying once again on the previous yr and ahead to the brand new.
The Romans started a convention of exchanging presents on New Year’s Eve by giving each other branches from sacred bushes for luck. Later, nuts or cash imprinted with the god Janus turned extra widespread New Year’s presents.
Within the Center Ages, Christians modified New Year’s Day to December 25, the delivery of Jesus. Then they modified it to March 25, a vacation referred to as the Annunciation. Within the sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar, and the celebration of the New 12 calendar months was returned to January 1.
The Julian and Gregorian calendars are exposure voltaic calendars. Some cultures have satellite calendars, nonetheless. A yr in a satellite calendar is lower than 300 and sixty five days as a result of the calendar months are based mostly on the phases of the moon. The Chinese language use a satellite calendar. Their new yr begins on the time of the primary full (over the Far East) after the star enters Aquarius- someday between January 19 and February 21.
Though the date for New Year’s Day shouldn’t be the identical in each tradition, it’s all the time a time for celebration and for impost to make a point good luck inside the coming yr.
Historic New Years
The celebration of the New 12 calendar months is the oldest of all holidays. It was first detected in historical Babylon about 4000 years in the past. Within the years round 2000 BC, Babylonians celebrated the start of a brand new yr on what’s now March 23, though they themselves had no written calendar.
Late March really is a logical alternative for the start of a brand new yr. It’s the time of yr that spring begins and new crops are planted. January 1, alternatively, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It’s strictly arbitrary.
The Babylonian New 12 calendar months celebration lasted for eleven days. Every day had its individualal specific mode of celebration, nonetheless it’s secure to say that fashionable New Year’s Eve festivities pale compared.
The Romans continued to watch the New 12 calendar months on March 25, nonetheless their calendar was often tampered with by many emperors in order that the calendar quickly clothed of synchronization with the star.
With the design to set the calendar proper, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the start of the New 12 calendar months. However meddling continued till Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be often better-known as the Julian Calendar. It once again established January 1 because the New 12 calendar months. However with a purpose to synchronize the calendar with the star, Caesar required to let the earlier yr drag on for 445 days.
International Good Luck Traditions
With New Year’s upon us, this is a get a load at among the good luck rituals from around the globe. They are believed to convey luck and prosperity inside the coming yr.
AUSTRIA – The cochon de lait is the image for good luck for the brand new yr. It is served on a desk adorned with tiny edible pigs. Dessert typically consists of new peppermint ice cream inside the form of a four-leaf clover.
ENGLAND – The British place their fortunes for the approaching yr inside the fingers of their first visitant. They consider the primary client of every yr ought to be male and bearing presents. Conventional presents are coal for the hearth, a loaf for the desk and a drink for the grasp. For good luck, the visitant ought to enter by the entrance door and go away by the once again. Friends who’re empty-handed or undesirable ordinarily are not allowed to enter first.
WALES – On the first toll of midnight, the once again door is opened after which shut to launch the previous yr and lock out all of its dangerous luck. Then on the twelfth stroke of the clock, the entrance door is opened and the New 12 calendar months is welcomed with all of its luck.
HAITI – In Haiti, New Year’s Day is an indication of the yr to come back. Haitians put on new apparel and trade presents inside the hope that it’ll bode nicely for the brand new yr.
SICILY – An previous Sicilian custom says good luck will come to those that eat lasagna on New Year’s Day, nonetheless woe when you dine on macaroni, for every other dome will convey dangerous luck.
SPAIN – In Spain, when the clock strikes midnight, the Spanish eat 12 grapevines, one with each toll, to convey good luck for the 12 calendar months forward.
PERU – The Peruvian New Year’s custom is a spin on the Spanish custom of overwhelming 12 grapevines on the flip of the yr. However in Peru, a 13th grapevine have to be eaten to guarantee good luck.
GREECE – A particular New Year’s bread is baked with a coin belowground inside the dough. The first slice is for the Christ baby, the second for the papa of the family and the third slice is for the home. If the third slice holds the coin, spring will come early that yr.
JAPAN – The Japanese beautify their houses in tribute to fortunate gods. One custom, kadomatsu, consists of a pine department symbolising longevity, a bamboo stalk symbolising prosperity, and a plum blossom exhibiting the Aristocracy.
CHINA – For the Chinese language New 12 calendar months, each entrance door is adorned with a recent coat of pink paint, pink being an emblem of fine luck and happiness. Though the entire home prepares a feast for the New 12 calendar months, all knives are put away for twenty-four hours to maintain anybody from reduction themselves, which is believed to chop the home’s good luck for the ensuant yr.
UNITED STATES – The kiss shared on the stroke of midnight in the US is derived from cloaked balls which were widespread all through historical past. As custom has it, the masks symbolize evil hard liquor from the previous yr and the kiss is the purification into the brand new yr.
NORWAY – Norwegians make rice pud at New Year’s and conceal one entire Prunus dulcis inside. Assured wealth goes to the particular individual whose serving holds the fortunate Prunus dulcis.
Chinese language New 12 calendar months
Aside from a only few amount of people that can hold monitor of when the Chinese language New 12 calendar months ought to be, the vast majority of the Chinese language now need to depend on a typical Chinese language calendar to inform it. Therefore, you can not speak of the Chinese language New 12 calendar months with out mentioning the Chinese language calendar at first.
A Chinese language calendar consists of each the Gregorian and satellite-star methods, with the last mentioned dividing a yr into twelve calendar month, every of which is in flip equally divided into thirty- 9 and a half days. The well-coordinated twin system calendar displays the Chinese language ingenuity.
There can also be a system that Simon Marks the years in a twelve-year cycle, naming every of them after an animal similar to Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Canine and Boar. Individuals born in a specific yr are believed to share among the individualalities of that exact animal. | <urn:uuid:c33bfd5f-a2c1-4ffc-9ad5-68ab4ba3af6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://planocoin.com/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.935954 | 1,813 | 2.296875 | 2 |
File Explorer is a built-in application in Windows operating system. It allows you to access all the files present in your system with ease. Due to some processing issues in the OS, file explorer takes time to respond. A restart of File Explorer is required to run the File Explorer smoothly.
This article presents five different ways to restart the File Explorer in Windows 10.
The Task Manager Method
Right click on the Start menu icon of Windows 10 and click on Task Manager.
In Task Manager window, navigate to Processes and scroll down for Windows Explorer. Click on Windows Explorer process and then click on the Restart button at the bottom right of the window. The File Explorer will restart.
The Taskbar Method
Hold Shift + Ctrl buttons on your keyboard and Right Click on the Taskbar. A list with multiple options will pop up, click on the Exit Explorer option.
Now hold Shift + Ctrl + Esc buttons on your keyboard to open the Task Manager. Proceed to the File option and click on Run new task.
Create a new task window, type explorer.exe in the command property space in front of the open option. Check the administrative privileges and click OK at the bottom of this window. File explorer will restart in a few seconds.
The Notepad Method
Click on the Search icon on the taskbar. Search for Notepad and open the notepad application.
Write or copy the following commands in Notepad.
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe start explorer.exe exit
Click on the File and save this file by clicking on Save As.
Give the file name as Restart File Explorer.bat and save it in your PC.
An executable file is created in your system. Double-click on this file will automatically restart the File Explorer.
The Command Prompt Method
Click on the search icon on the taskbar. Search for the Command Prompt and click on the Run as Administrator option.
In Command Prompt window, type taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe and hit enter to run this command. Now, type start explorer.exe to restart the File Explorer.
The Windows PowerShell Method
Search for Windows PowerShell in the search bar of Windows 10. Click on Run as Administrator to run this application as an admin.
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Site Navigation Page
Please be aware that this needs updating to reflect the changes to the Medway Council and Kent Registation Services websites.
Some of the links no longer work
If you are looking for a marriage in Kent, either from family hearsay, maybe because you have a GRO reference beginning with V (1837-1851) or 2a (1852-1946) you should be able to find the same marriage on the Kent Registration Services website; unless it occurred in what is now the Medway Unitary Authority area or in one of the London Boroughs that used to be part of Kent.
Kent Registration Services have indexed (nearly) all of their marriage records from 1837 into a searchable database, though for some odd reason marriages that occurred in 1850 and 1890 are not searchable. There are also known ommissions in the Sevenoaks area, in the Shipbourne/Hadlow area and the Canterbury areas.
It used to be that the exact date of a marriage and the name of the partner could be worked out from the Kent Registrations Services website, but this is no longer possible. However the church in which a marriage (in Kent) took place can usually be determined from the register code found from this website. Most of the Kent PRs are filmed and accessible at one or more of the Kent Archives, from Medway Archives in Strood ,or at any LDS Family History Centre. The Parish Registers of the Rochester Archdeaconry are freely available on-line through CityArk
It may also help if the marriage can also be identified using FreeBMD. The GRO reference is of no significance to the local register code but the registration district may be useful as some of the Kent local register codes are very similar to each other.
Marriage Finding exercise
I will use my gt grandparents marriage to explain how to get the most from the two sources. I am fortunate in that this marriage can be found in both the Kent Registration Services and CityArk databases.
My great grandparents were Richard MUNN and Helen LOVEL. I know from censuses (and other sources) that their eldest child was born c1875 so search for the marriage on Kent Registration Services website backwards from 1875.
Click on 'marriage certificates' then type in either surname (choose the least common surname, though for this exercise I am going to search for MUNN) and the year 1875 and click 'search'. Two Munn marriages are returned but neither is a Richard. Press the back button and change the year to 1874 and search again. Again two Munn marriages but no Richard. Back again, change the year to 1873 and search. This time there is a Richard MUNN listed and that the marriage is recorded in the register coded as C32/4, entry No 2.
Select the C tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet and scroll up and down to find C/32, (in the Gravesend Registration District list). It is shown as being the parish church of Milton-next-Gravesend (dedicated to St Peter & St Paul) in the Gravesend Registraton District. The /4 indicates that it was the fourth register book used by that church since 1837.
With help from KFHS and NWKFHS members I have compiled a partial list of register codes as an Excel file. Download this file,
This is good news, because Milton-next-Gravesend comes into the Rochester Archdeaconry area and the old parish registers are held at Medway Archives in Strood, but more importantly, thanks to a National Lottery grant, they have been filmed and put on-line as Medway Ancestors by CityArk. Rochester Archdeaconry covers the Medway towns and Dartford and Gravesend areas.
Click on the City Ark link and scroll down to see the list of parishes covered. It includes
Milton next Gravesend, St. Peter and St. Paul CMB 1558-1889 (P252) click here
That indicates that they only hold the parish registers to 1889 (presumably the later ones are still with the incumbant) but late enough for this exercise. Click on the link and scroll about a fifth of the way down the page. You will see that they have a marriage register for 1858-1873 and another for 1873-1889. The marriage search results showed that the Richard Munn & Helen Lovel marriage was entry 2 in the register which indicates that it will be at the beginning of the later book. Click on 'view image' for the 1873-1889 register and you get a long list of .jpg images. It is trial and error to find the right image, but since this was entry number 2 it is going to be at the beginning of the list. The first couple of images are the title pages and the image including the Munn-Lovel marriage is 00000140.jpg
Marriage registers are two entries per page, so most images show four marriages, but as this marriage happened to be right at the beginning of the book there are only two entries on that scan; on the right hand side.
The scans are high quality, but large files, about 1MB. With 512 broadband it takes about 20 seconds to download each image but once downloaded the file can be saved; just drag the image to the desktop on a Mac, or File -> Save Picture As on Windows. Then use any suitable software to crop the image to just the one entry before printing the "certificate" for your own records.
Caveat and disclaimer from the CityArk website.
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Physiognomy of symbolical emotions.
Hexagram of the canon of changes YiKing 24.
If you are engineer who build and design robots, and including animated humanoid machines or androids, then facial features and movements of mimic expressions of robotized characters or artificial acting persons can be constructed according to hexagrams of the canon of changes and to the shown physiognomic symbols of human emotions. And also emotional reactions in faces of humanoid robots or otherwise tell anthropomorphic automotive machines and androids on events of world around can be programmed according to values and meanings of emotions in logic formulas which are given in commenting texts of this gallery, or are described on other pages of this website.
Emotions of social relationships.
Eyebrows: individual mind corresponds with public consciousness.
Eyes: personal volition corresponds with collective will
Mouth: private needs subordinate to social requirements.
Individual consciousness and personal volition are identified with collective mind and corporative will, and consequently private wants of a man or woman depend on requirements of society.
Personal mutual relations.
Eyebrows: you think of people and-or companions regard you.
Eyes: you see people and-or companions notice you.
Mouth: you can not speak and-or companions do not listen to you.
Eyebrows: your notion is equivalent to opinions of people.
Eyes: your point of view is equivalent to sights of people.
Mouth: your words are caused by assertions of people.
There is a lot of people with you, but you learn unwillingness to communicate with you in words of companions.
Following 25 physiognomic symbol in gallery.
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Occasional Depression: Common But Treatable
In the event that shorter days and moves in climate destroy your vitality and make you feel blue, you have exemplary side effects of a regular state of mind issue. Regular full of feeling issue (SAD) is a type of occasional dejection activated by the adjustment in seasons that happens basically in winter. Why do a few people get SAD? Specialists aren't sure, yet some believe that occasional changes disturb the circadian beat: the 24-hour clock that controls how we work amid dozing and waking hours, making us feel invigorated and alarm here and there and lazy at different circumstances.
Another hypothesis is that the changing seasons upset hormones, for example, serotonin and melatonin, which direct rest, state of mind, and sentiments of prosperity. Around 4 to 6 percent of U.S. inhabitants experience the ill effects of SAD, as per the American Academy of Family Physicians, and upwards of 20 percent may have a gentle type of it that begins when days get shorter and colder. Ladies and youngsters will probably encounter SAD, just like the individuals who live more remote far from the equator. Individuals with a family history or analysis of misery or bipolar issue might be especially powerless.
"It is vital to treat SAD, in light of the fact that all types of sadness constrain individuals' capacity to experience their lives without bounds, to make the most of their families, and to work well at work," says Deborah Pierce, MD, MPH, clinical partner teacher of family prescription at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. Here are a couple of SAD treatment alternatives you might need to consider.
Attempt Light From a Box
Light treatment boxes emit light that copies daylight and can help in the recuperation from occasional full of feeling issue. The light from the treatment boxes is altogether brighter than that of consistent lights, and it's given in various wavelengths.
Ordinarily, in the event that you have SAD, you sit before a light box for around 30 minutes per day. This will invigorate your body's circadian rhythms and smother its normal arrival of melatonin. A great many people observe light treatment to be best if utilized when they initially get up in the morning, as indicated by specialists at the University of Michigan Depression Center in Ann Arbor.
An investigation distributed in 2014 in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that one week of light treatment might be as viable as two, however the vast majority proceed with light treatment all through the whole season that they're influenced.
Utilize Dawn Simulators
First light test systems can help a few people with occasional emotional issue. These gadgets are wake up timers, yet rather than waking you unexpectedly with uproarious music or beeping, they deliver light that steadily increments in force, much the same as the sun.
Distinctive models of first light test systems are accessible, yet the best ones utilize full-range light, which is nearest to common daylight. Russian specialists found that sunrise test systems were as compelling as light treatment for individuals with gentle SAD, as indicated by an examination distributed in 2015 in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
Chat With Your Doctor
Since SAD is a type of sadness, it's best determined by conversing with have a psychological well-being proficient. "There are various screening questions that can help decide whether somebody is discouraged," Dr. Puncture says. "Your specialist will have the capacity to deal with whether you have SAD rather than some other type of sadness."
On the off chance that you have SAD, treatment can enable you to work through it. Around 12 years prior, Arlene Malinowski, PhD, 58, remembered she had SAD when she read about the side effects in a magazine article.
"I would see a drop by they way I felt and saw the world in the winter," the Chicago inhabitant reviews. The therapist she had been seeing for despondency affirmed it.
In the event that light treatment or psychotherapy does not adequately support your temperament, medicine antidepressants may enable you to beat regular misery. However, stay away from prescriptions that may make you sluggish, educates the Royal College concerning Psychiatrists. A few people believe it's just important to take antidepressants amid the winters when they're feeling the blues, however they should do as such every winter, the association says.
It's essential to perceive when the side effects of SAD begin, and to see your specialist for a remedy before they raise, says Ani Kalayjian, specialist of instruction and subordinate educator of brain research at Columbia University in New York City, who represents considerable authority in horrendous anxiety.
Fragrance based treatment may likewise assist those with occasional turmoil. The basic oils can impact the zone of the mind that is in charge of controlling mind-sets and the body's inside clock that impacts rest and craving, Dr. Kalayjian says.
You can include a couple of drops of fundamental oils to your shower during the evening to enable you to unwind. Fundamental oils from the poplar tree specifically were found to help depressive issue in an investigation distributed in 2015 in the Journal of Natural Medicines.
As it does with different types of discouragement, exercise can help lighten occasional full of feeling issue, as well. Outside exercise would be generally useful. In any case, on the off chance that you can't practice outside in light of the fact that it's frosty or blanketed, pick a treadmill, stationary bicycle, or circular machine near a window at the rec center.
Exercise can likewise help balance the weight pick up that is regular with occasional full of feeling issue, Kalayjian says. Malinowski says she's more careful in regards to staying with her activity and yoga routine in the dead of winter.
Give the Sunshine Access
On the off chance that you have regular sadness or wintertime occasional emotional issue, you'll need to get outside as much as you can amid the day and exploit what daylight there is. In the event that you live where it's frosty, make certain to wrap up, however go for a walk around the square at twelve or before long — that is the point at which the sun is brightest.
Likewise, when you're inside, keep your blinds open to let as much normal light in as you can. You need to be in splendid situations at whatever point conceivable, as per the University of Michigan Depression Center.
Adhere to a Schedule
Individuals who live with SAD frequently experience difficulty dozing around evening time and getting up in the morning. Keeping up a normal calendar enhances rest, which can help lighten manifestations of regular misery.
"Keeping a customary calendar will likewise open you to light at steady and unsurprising circumstances," Pierce says. What's more, eating at consistent interims can enable you to watch your eating routine and not gorge. Many individuals who live with SAD discover they put on weight in the winter, as indicated by the University of Michigan Depression Center.
Take a Vacation
Taking a winter get-away to hotter atmospheres can help individuals who have regular full of feeling issue, Kalayjian says. Travel accomplishes more than offer you a reprieve from your day by day schedule; it can likewise enable you to escape frosty and cloudy skies. That can't resist the urge to lift your spirits — even a couple of days in a sunny place can be useful with winter dejection.
"The fervor that can lift your state of mind can begin as you get ready for your get-away and wait for half a month after you return," Kalayjian includes. Malinowski designs visits to warm-climate companions in winter for simply that reason.
Keep a Journal
Recording your considerations can positively affect your state of mind, Kalayjian says. "It can enable you to get some of your negative emotions out of your framework."
Plan to compose for around 20 minutes on most days of the week, the University of Michigan Depression Center prescribes. Incorporate your considerations, sentiments, and concerns. The best time is around evening time with the goal that you can think about all that occurred over the most recent 24 hours.
Get More Vitamin D
Low levels of vitamin D were connected to regular emotional issue in inquire about detailed in 2014 in the diary Medical Hypotheses. What's more, an investigation distributed in 2014 the diary Nutrients found that individuals who took vitamin D supplements saw critical change in their sorrow.
Converse with your specialist about testing your vitamin D levels and whether supplements would be appropriate for you, Kalayjian recommends. Malinowski increased her vitamin D amid the winter at her therapist's proposal, and has discovered that it makes a difference.
Malinowski tries to get the bounce on treating SAD. "Proactive is the approach," she says.
A dramatist and instructor, she packs her calendar firmly come winter with the goal that she can't simply slither under the spreads and stow away until spring. At the point when she's not playing out her performance play, "A Little Bit Not Normal," she stacks her datebook with meals out, film and theater evenings with companions, and gatherings to have. She additionally takes an interest in a written work gathering and book club.
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How to choose the best rocks and stones for your pond
Decorative rocks are great for beautifying a garden pond and helping the pond to blend into the surrounding landscape.
Placing rocks around your pond also helps to hide the pond liner and encourages wildlife to visit your pond.
Installing pond rocks is a tiresome job, so it’s important to choose the right rocks and stones.
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Before purchasing your rocks, it’s a good idea to sketch out a design so you’ll have an idea of how many rocks you need.
When choosing your rocks, consider the color of your brickwork and paving to ensure that the colors blend in to the surroundings.
Do you want a natural looking pond with different shaped rocks or a formal looking pond with rocks of a similar shape and size?
Do you prefer smooth rocks or jagged rocks? There are so many options to consider!
You also need to think about how the pond will look from the house.
Too many large rocks and boulders can block your view of the pond from indoors.
Best rocks for ponds
There are many different types of pond rocks to choose from including:
Granite is commonly used as an edging stone around ponds and it can also be used as stepping stones to create an attractive pathway in the backyard.
Flagstone is another type of stone that can be used around the edge of a pond. It makes good paving stones as well.
Sandstone is one of the softest rocks and it absorbs water, so it’s not the best choice for wet areas like waterfalls.
In cold climates, sandstone can easily crack as the absorbed water freezes and thaws.
Slate is a durable stone that is a good choice for water features.
You can stack several flat pieces of slate to create a beautiful waterfall in your pond.
Limestone can crumble easily, so it’s not a good choice to use near a pond.
If small pieces of limestone enter the pond, it can make the water too alkaline, which is harmful for fish and other wildlife that visit the pond.
Artificial rocks are another option for pond edging. You can make them yourself in your backyard or buy them pre-made.
Using artificial rocks means that you can create the exact shaped rocks that you want, while also saving on transport costs.
Installing pond rocks
Handling rocks is a laborious job with lots of heavy lifting and re-positioning the rocks to get the right look.
Flat rocks can be placed around the edge of the pond to create an overhanging shelf. This will provide shade for the fish and a place for them to hide from predators.
Rounded rocks with a smooth surface also look great placed around the edge of the pond and they’re ideal for lizards to sun themselves on.
You can also place a few large rocks in shallow areas of the pond for birds and small insects to land and take a drink.
Use gravel or small pebbles to fill the gaps between rocks or create a beach leading into a shallow area of the pond.
Pavers can be extended out to be used as a border around the pond and you can create a seating area to sit and enjoy the pond.
You can place a few large rocks or boulders on one side of the pond and plant marginal or bog plants on the other side.
Once you’re happy with the position of your rocks, you can cement any large boulders and rocks into place to keep them sturdy.
So there are my tips for using rocks and stones in your pond design.
Pond rocks not only give your pond a natural look, they’re also beneficial for visiting wildlife.
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What type of rocks do you use for your pond? Let me know in the comments below.
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What states require separate cars for each passenger train?
Alabama – The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs.#N#Maryland – All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers.#N#Virginia – The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power, and are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger his or her respective car, coach or compartment. If the passenger fails to disclose his race, the conductor and managers, acting in good faith, shall be the sole judges of his race.
What is the Virginia Act?
Virginia – Every person…operating…any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate…certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof , or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons.
What is the law in Georgia for serving white people?
Georgia – All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license .
How much is a fine in Oklahoma for teaching?
Oklahoma – Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Jim Crow Laws. From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members …
Can a colored militia be a white militia?
North Carolina – The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same organization. No organization of colored troops shall be permitted where white troops are available, and while white permitted to be organized, colored troops shall be under the command of white officers.
Is it illegal to have a white child in South Carolina?
South Carolina - It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro.
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A bill to legalise gay marriage is being published by the government on Friday.
The legislation is likely to provoke strong debate in the House of Commons, where a significant number of Conservative MPs are opposed to same-sex marriage.
But the culture secretary, Maria Miller, insisted it would ensure "equal and fair" treatment of gay couples, while providing adequate protection for religious institutions that do not want same-sex weddings to take place on their premises.
Miller told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We feel that marriage is a good thing and we should be supporting more couples to marry and that is exactly what the proposals being brought forward today do.
"But it is about making sure that not only do we recognise the rights of same-sex couples in civil life, but we also recognise that some churches won't want to participate in same-sex marriages. We are trying to make sure that there are the protections there for churches who feel that this isn't appropriate for their particular beliefs. We know that there are churches who do want to take part in same-sex marriages, so we have made sure that there are provisions there so they can."
The legislation sparked controversy after it emerged that a "quadruple lock", designed to protect religious institutions from being forced to conduct gay marriages against their wishes, would make it illegal for such ceremonies to be conducted by the Church of England and Church in Wales.
Miller said: "At the end of the process, there will be the same freedoms there for the Church of England and Church in Wales, but they have to be achieved differently, because the Church of England and Church in Wales have a common-law duty to marry people, and that is quite different from any other religious institution in the country. Therefore you would expect there would have to be slightly different provisions there."
She added: "I don't think it is for any government to tell the Church of England what they do when it comes to something which is so central to religious belief."
Miller rejected claims that teachers could face disciplinary action if they refuse to "promote" gay marriage in schools.
"Teachers are able to, and entitled to, express their views about same-sex marriage and there is no requirement at all for them to promote it," she said. "But obviously we wouldn't expect teachers to be offensive or discriminate in any way about anything."
Miller added: "Of absolutely paramount importance to me is that when it comes to civil society, we should be treating people equally and fairly and the measures we are putting forward today are doing that."
MPs will have their first chance to vote on the proposals when the marriage (same-sex couples) bill has its second reading in the Commons on 5 February.
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All Saints' Church, Thorp Arch facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsAll Saints'
|All Saints' Church|
|Location||Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire|
|Denomination||Church of England|
|Heritage designation||Grade II listed building|
|Architect(s)||G. E. Street|
|Architectural type||mixed, with Gothic Revival elements|
|Completed||1872 in current form|
|Materials||Magnesian limestone with red tile and Welsh slate roofs|
The church is of twelfth century origin (the south door being the sole remaining aspect of this era); although is mentioned in the earlier Domesday Book of 1086. with a fifteenth century tower; the remainder of the church was built between 1871 and 1872 to designs by G. E. Street.
The church is of dressed magnesian limestone with a red tile and Welsh slate roof. The church has a fifteenth century west tower with offset diagonal buttresses, a three light west window and large square sundial, gargoyles to the north and south with a shield beneath the papapet. The south porch is of twelfth century origin. There is a four bay nave of gothic revival style, a two bay chancel and a north vestry. The church has an ornate lychgate on the southern side of its boundaries.
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July 13, 2014
MIAMI HERALD STAFF REPORT
Children have arrived in the United States without their parents for decades, but over the past two years the number of unaccompanied minors — primarily from Central America — has become so large, it has been characterized as a humanitarian crisis.
The number is unprecedented — more than 50,000 within the past eight months, and rising quickly.
President Barack Obama has asked Congress to provide almost $4 billion to set up new detention facilities, conduct more aerial surveillance and hire immigration judges and U.S. Border Patrol agents to respond to what he calls “an urgent humanitarian situation.”
The crisis is being felt across the United States, with Miami being one of 10 cities where children are being sent for immigration proceedings as border shelters in the Southwest fill up.
Most of these youths — from toddlers to teens — are largely coming from three countries: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the Centeral American nation with the highest murder rate in the world and one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
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Australia: Investors and corporates take the ESG steps the government won’t
Australia is not the first country that comes to mind with regards to climate action. But away from the political rhetoric, the exceptionally powerful superannuation funds and corporates are pushing change. The key is an acceptance that in Australia it’s all about transition.
Australia doesn’t have a strong international reputation on climate action. Several of its recent leaders, including incumbent prime minister Scott Morrison, have sounded dismissive or even cynical about climate change. Others, notably Malcolm Turnbull, have been ousted from office for trying to do something about it.
But this country-level reputation masks real progress elsewhere. A combination of sharpened attitudes among pension funds and a willingness to change among corporates, prompts many bankers and investors to speak of a sea change over the last 18 months or so.
This is visible first of all in the capital markets. “On the green and sustainability-linked bond side we’ve seen tremendous growth over the last few years, from both the public sector and the corporate side,” says Max Thomas in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) solutions team at HSBC. “Corporate issuance is almost double 2019 volumes and we still have three months of the year left to go. On the loan side the growth has been even more dramatic.”
Indeed, figures from Dealogic show that for bonds from Australian corporate and sovereign, supranational and agency issuers, the A$7.8 billion ($5.6 billion) of issuance year to date by September is well on track to double the A$4.49 billion of 2020 and A$4.6 billion of 2019.
And according to LoanConnector, the sum of green and sustainability-linked loan (SLL) volumes from Australian borrowers in Australia stands at A$12.6 billion, compared with A$6.32 billion in 2019 and just A$4.41 billion in 2018. Hamish Kelly, HSBC’s head of global banking in Australia, says that in 2021, 20% of syndicated loans have been in sustainability-linked or green format. “That’s roughly one in five mandates and a big change.”
At the heart of this change has been a shift in demands of investors. This manifests itself most clearly in the powerful superannuation (pension) industry: an A$3.3 trillion asset pool as of June 2021, one of the largest pension fund pools in the world, despite the country’s modest population of 25 million. And the super funds are themselves being pushed to change by new attitudes in their underlying membership.
“Four years ago, it was a tiny sliver of the general membership of super funds [that cared about climate] and the focus was just thermal coal: if you’re exposed to thermal coal that’s a no-go area and we’re going to storm your offices,” says John Pearce, chief investment officer of Unisuper, one of the largest industry funds with over A$100 billion in funds under management. “Four years on it’s not just thermal coal but the whole fossil fuel spectrum. And it’s not just a cohort of the member base that is passionate about climate change; it’s well and truly mainstream.”
Government policy will be important, but it’s the consumers and major corporates that are going to drive this momentum at a global scale
One can measure the shift quite precisely through Unisuper’s regular reports on its commitment to becoming a net-zero emissions fund by 2050, a common promise among super funds. In a report on August 18 this year, Unisuper said 40 of its top 50 Australian investments had set targets aligned with the Paris Agreement and a further five have committed to doing so by the end of the year. Four years ago, Pearce says, only a handful would have had Paris-aligned targets. In 2017 only 6% of companies in the fund’s global portfolio did so and they were mainly in Europe.
“CEOs and chairs don’t wake up in the morning and find religion on climate,” says Pearce. “They respond to pressure from shareholders.”
In time, these forces push their way through every level of industry and investment. Kate Vidgen, head of industrial transition and clean fuels at Macquarie Group, speaks of a multiplier effect. “That is, the large corporates have had to set targets and those targets will filter down. Already, it’s not just the big end of town that’s looking at emissions, but targets are being set across all value and supply chains.”
And the speed of action is another shift. “A big change of the last 18 months is that previously executives would set a target and think: it’s the next generation of executives who are going to have to deal with executing on that target,” says Vidgen. “But now there is accountability today. CEOs who go and do investor presentations to investors say that what they’re being asked is: ‘Tell me what you’re doing today, not just your targets.’ The super funds have really led the charge on this.”
The whole industry is seeing this and everyone has an informal metric to illustrate it. Jason Steed, head of Australian equity research at JPMorgan, says that in the August reporting season, the number of slides in results packs related to ESG matters roughly doubled. “There has been a tectonic shift in the past 12 to 24 months,” he says.
And Ian Campbell, head of debt capital markets for Australia and New Zealand at Citi, says: “My time spent on ESG has gone from maybe 20% to 30% last year and before to 50% of my time being spent talking about issuance strategy and financing and integration frameworks.”
It wasn’t always like this, and we should be careful of presenting Australia’s progress as anything more than catching up with many other developed markets. But the shift is real and the capital markets offer the most visible illustration. This year has brought several landmarks that wouldn’t stand out particularly in Europe but are significant steps in Australia.
One example was a A$750 million green mortgage-backed securitization by Australian non-bank lender Firstmac, arranged by JPMorgan and backed by the Japanese bank Norinchukin and the public-sector Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).
“It was a meeting of three like-minded parties,” says Joonas Keranen, associate in the securitized products group at JPMorgan. “We came together and created a completely new green mortgage product.”
You can hand on heart say: these home loans are green
The homes funded through the securitization are among the most energy efficient in Australia. There is an Australian standard called the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme, which has a ranking from one to 10 on energy efficiency. Whereas New South Wales standards, for example, are broadly in line with a standard of six, the new green home loans on this deal set the target at seven or higher. The securities themselves comply with the pre-issuance requirements of the Climate Bonds Standard for Green Bond Issuances. “You can hand on heart say: these home loans are green,” says Keranen.
It is hoped this will be the first of many to use the structure. “On the back of the Firstmac trade, we went on and spoke to the majority of non-bank lenders here in Australia and it seems there is a huge push from all the stakeholders in these institutions to launch something quite similar to this deal,” Keranen says. Non-banks are starting to originate green home loans that can be distributed to investors both in Australia and offshore, and those investors are lining up with ESG mandates. It looks promising.
In September Australian supermarket operator Woolworths launched a €500 million 2028 sustainability-linked bond, its first, in the European market, a closely-watched deal. The bond is linked to emissions reduction performance, with, as is commonplace in these bonds globally but rather newer to Australia, penalties for failing to meet these targets. The deal was structured by HSBC with Citi, BNP Paribas, MUFG and SMBC Nikko as joint bookrunners.
It went well. The deal was upsized to €550 million by the time it launched, with widespread demand. But its significance was more about what it represented: taking Australia to an extremely discerning and experienced ESG base.
“The European market is still the most advanced ESG investor base in the world,” says Thomas. “In tapping into that market they engaged with some of the most forward-thinking investors and many dark green investors in Europe came in strongly.”
In truth Woolworths had a reasonably smooth ride in Europe. “We probably expected a higher degree of questioning on ESG than we ended up getting,” says Campbell at Citi. Partly this was because there was a lot of interest in Woolworths as an established green bond issuer but a first-timer in the European markets. It was also well credentialed on ESG standards and used a structure that investors were familiar with from Tesco’s sustainability-linked issues.
“It’s pretty clear Woolworths did a good job based on the demand, the lack of questions on the structure and the ultimate price outcome,” Campbell says. “They achieved what they set out to achieve, including diversification of funding.”
That should then have a knock-on effect on other issuers. “It’s not as scary when someone has done it before you,” says Campbell. Woolworths was actually the third deal of its kind: engineering firm Worley brought the first with a €500 million five-year Eurobond in June. There are now reasons to have confidence that the right Australian issuers can brave the European markets with sustainability-linked structures.
And that’s a big step forward. “When we were suggesting clients do a bond with KPI [key performance indicator]-based penalties built into it two years ago, no one was willing to support that,” says Campbell.
The shift from green bonds to sustainability-linked, which we have seen in multiple markets now, appears to have been particularly transformational in Australia.
“Green bonds are use-of-proceeds bonds: you need to have assets that meet certain criteria,” says Campbell. “But for the majority of Australian companies, unless you have a wind farm, a solar farm or other eligible assets that you can ring fence the money for, that’s difficult to build critical mass, which is why we haven’t had that many green bonds from corporate Australia.” Many of the larger green assets are yet to emerge or are owned via agreements or sold internationally, so there is a shortage of supply.
“But sustainability-linked, where the use of proceeds can be fungible and where there is a broader application such as decarbonizing my business, that is starting to attract more focus.”
We are at the turning point where investors are willing to take the tight spread because of their ESG mandates
That’s a natural alignment of assets and priorities. “We don’t have many companies knocking the door down saying: ‘I’ve got a billion dollars of green eligible assets today,’” Campbell says. “But we have a lot of companies saying they understand ESG, they’re eager to understand best practice and get their organization aligned, they don’t want to be the last mover that impacts the cost of capital, they want to decarbonize.”
Again like other markets, now Australia has to undergo an evolution in pricing.
“The challenge with all these green transactions has been: how do we come up with a transaction that means the consumers get a cheaper loan for being green, so you reward the consumers?” says Stephen Magan, head of the securitized product group at JPMorgan.
Historically, in Australia a green label has not led to any tighter pricing, so the originator won’t have any cost savings to pass on to borrowers. “Without that tighter pricing, you’re not really going to get things moving, nor get to the overall design objective, which is to get people into greener homes.
“But we are now at the turning point where investors are willing to take the tight spread because of their ESG mandates,” says Magan. “You will see green transactions price tighter, that price will go through to the consumer and then you will see meaningful growth.”
In mainstream debt, a similar evolution is under way.
“Does this become the normal market, where if you are not issuing in ESG format, you pay a wider spread and ESG becomes the new fair value?” asks Campbell. “Yes, I think that’s possible, because the volumes and interest from investors and the broader community is going to continue to rise.”
And even if pricing doesn’t move, Woolworths shows how an ESG bond can open a whole new investor base. “We wouldn’t expect a dramatically different pricing outcome, but where we do see the difference is in the investor engagement and distribution,” says Thomas. “With ESG investors participating in these deals you have the potential for broader and more granular demand, which gives clients more options for executing the deal.”
‘Commodities are key’
The climate journey has been challenging for Australia because of the nature of its economy. Resources and commodities have always been a key part of Australian prosperity and despite the progressive talk one hears in Sydney and Melbourne, there are plenty of other voices too. This journalist spent half of 2020 researching a book amid the Queensland coal mining industry and can report that not everyone is on board with ideas of climate change mitigation or even the idea that man-made climate change exists.
In this environment it is crucial that transition, rather than outright replacement, is to the fore: that there is recognition that not everyone can flick a switch and go green overnight. Also, mining is going to be more enduringly important than one might think. “For example, for the world to decarbonize, the world needs steel, the world needs copper,” says Pearce. “Producing these things is emission intensive. We have to accept that.”
[Climate] has been an incredibly divisive issue in the political arena
A good example of this was BNP Paribas refinancing a bond for Pilbara Minerals in order to develop a lithium project. The $110 million senior secured debt facility it arranged was put together in partnership with CEFC.
“The interesting aspect of Pilbara, in addition to its own decarbonization ambitions, was to underline the role Australia has to play in supplying metals of the future,” says Chris Ruffa, co-head of investment banking in Australia for BNP Paribas, with a focus on energy and infrastructure. “That’s lithium, for obvious reasons, but also copper and nickel. You can’t build transmission lines and wind farms and contribute to the electrification of the global economy without those basic commodities.”
Thomas at HSBC, one of the biggest lenders in the sustainability space, agrees. “Commodities are key,” he says. “Without the extraction of certain metals, the energy transition won’t happen. We won’t achieve the levels of electrification required without copper and tin, and we won’t be able to decarbonize our energy systems.”
Thomas says that there needs to be recognition that helping companies become greener, if not outright green, is worthwhile and in fact essential. “We need to work hard to structure deals supporting those companies and clients with good, robust, ambitious strategies and methodologies to transition to a low-carbon economy,” he says. “These are deals where we can make a significant difference, hitting the heart of issues where our clients are setting ambitious targets.”
That message does appear to be getting through and with it come opportunities for banks. One is to look beyond the wind farm and the solar panels and to think what else that infrastructure needs.
“Australia has had a pretty remarkable run in terms of the level of renewable penetration,” Ruffa says. “So increasingly, banks are turning their minds to adjacencies to support current and future green penetration.
“That could be reinforcing the network to accommodate the shift in generation mix in the market. It could be capacity, dealing with the fact that solar plants aren’t able to generate electricity in the evening so you have to capture excess electricity generated during the day.”
BNP Paribas has been involved in a host of groundbreaking ESG transactions in Australia. Examples include the Downer sustainability-linked loan, which was Australia’s largest SLL in 2020, and a A$140 million equity-linked green bond linked to Australia’s first forward-looking climate index, known as Project Green Kangaroo.
Vena was a unique project … It shows to the market how the private sector and banks are ready to step up
Another example is the Wandoan battery project developed by Vena Energy, a A$120 million battery energy storage system, the first of its kind to be funded with a privately procured financing in Asia Pacific.
“Vena was a unique project,” says Ruffa. “It was a standalone battery not linked to a specific renewable project; it was connected to the grid. But there was significant lender appetite, recognizing the pivotal role it plays in supporting renewable generation penetration in Australia. That appealed to the bank market.”
Although the public capital markets are beginning to embrace ESG, most financing of renewable assets themselves to date has been from private markets. This has a tendency to become self-fulfilling: quite often, listed renewable stocks are acquired by private capital seeking exposure, whether super funds or dedicated infrastructure funds.
Often, major institutional investors like super funds prefer to go direct. “Australian super funds have not traditionally been material direct investors in primary market bond or loan transactions, with investments instead flowing through outsourced investment mandates,” says Kelly at HSBC.
There is an interesting twist here. As super funds have started to bring their portfolio management in house, they can express their environmental preferences more clearly through public markets. “Why’s that important?” asks Jason Steed head of equities research for Australia at JPMorgan. “Unisuper, for example, has a member base of university teachers and professors, which generally speaking is a segment of society that is more active in looking at ESG-related matters and willing to voice their concerns. That means more money is concentrated in the hands of those who would tend to have a more active mindset around climate, social and governance issues.”
Many expect these funds to become more active in primary and secondary credit markets in particular. But in the meantime, there is a plainly insufficient stock of investable green assets in Australia.
“The universe of available assets is not large enough to satisfy demand. That has to change,” says Pearce. “At the moment there is too much money chasing not enough assets.”
For super funds, this presents a challenge: it never really makes sense to pile into clearly overvalued assets. “You can’t just do something because it fits in with a nice thematic,” says Pearce. “It has got to make sense in terms of economic outcome and some prices are not justified.”
Instrumental private sector
One of the interesting things about ESG progress in Australia is that it has come in spite of, rather than because of, the position of the federal government. The private sector has been absolutely instrumental because it has to be. Note that in the Vena battery transaction there was no government subsidy and no government offtake. Few deals like this have got away anywhere else in the world. As Ruffa says: “It shows to the market how the private sector and banks are ready to step up.”
Like it or not, climate is controversial with voters and industry. “This has been an incredibly divisive issue in the political arena: it has accounted for at least three prime ministers,” says Steed at JPMorgan. “So this has been less the political class, which has been very fearful of extending too far in terms of how they legislate around carbon and renewables, but about companies and investors doing their very best, in my view, making a meaningful effort to improve the emissions profile of their businesses.”
Consequently, market players who want to make a difference haven’t necessarily aimed at the government when seeking change.
“A lot of the tension in Australia is directed towards the government and the fact that Australia has not formally committed to net zero by 2050,” says Pearce.
“The message we give is: we understand the frustrations but we are not going to spend much time lobbying the government over this, because at the end of the day the fund doesn’t vote governments in and out. What we have influence over are corporates, investee committees. That’s where we are directing our attention.”
Vidgen at Macquarie agrees that there are other drivers beyond state direction. “Government policy will be important, but it’s actually the consumers and major corporates that are going to drive this momentum at a global scale,” she says.
But she thinks the idea of Australia being absent at a government level from ESG is too simplistic.
“Australia, like other jurisdictions around the world, does suffer in the division between state and federal government,” she says. “That makes it more complex.
“But we have some amazing conversations with all of the state and federal governments. The reality is if you’re doing something like trying to build a hydrogen hub, you want the right regulation around it; and we are finding governments flexible about the ways they can help beyond pure subsidies in a true public-private partnership.”
Nevertheless, legislation does matter, as it is hard to operate without clarity of rules. “Without legislation,” Steed says, “AGL and Origin have no certainty about what their regulatory landscape looks like in three, five, seven years; and that makes it very hard for boards to sign off on investments.”
Whether government stipulates it or not, Australia is moving towards the E of ESG in a way it never has before. The coincidence of direction between key investors and their investee companies is a powerful force.
And the pressure’s not going to let up. Vidgen notes that many investors have been pushing for remuneration to be linked to ESG targets. “These investors see that as an executive, when your short-term incentives are linked to emissions reductions, you reduce them in the coming year, not in year 10.”
Renewable energy the Macquarie way
Macquarie Group occupies a unique position in Australian ESG. The bank has invested in renewable energy through the infrastructure part of the business for many years. But the 2017 acquisition of Green Investment Bank, now Green Investment Group (GIG), accelerated the bank’s focus. There are now 450 people in this group worldwide and it has $17.6 billion of renewable energy assets under management, with more than 50 gigawatts of green energy projects in development, construction or operation.
Through this division, Macquarie: “Typically has invested in the development of new green energy assets, developing projects that we want to be attractive for long-term investors,” says Lachlan Creswell, executive director and head of the Green Investment Group for Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes Macquarie brings in partners as the development progresses, such as the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF), which invested in the Kwinana thermal energy from waste project in Western Australia after GIG had brought the development to financial close. “As we develop and de-risk assets, we will then sell down to experienced investors,” says Creswell. In a presentation in June, Macquarie said GIG had more than 240 green projects in development.
Then on the advisory side, Macquarie arranges capital for renewable projects. An example is the bank’s advisory work for the Western Australian electricity generator Synergy, where it brought in DIF and the superannuation fund Cbus to build out renewable energy projects. “We approached that knowing that there is long-term capital looking for a particular type of investment,” says Creswell. “So whether it’s advising on funding structures for our clients or developing assets ourselves, we have that market interest in mind.”
Macquarie, therefore, can play this theme from many sides: investor, seller and investment banker. Either way it has been at the forefront for so long, with so much international experience, that it is uniquely connected, embracing green projects at a far earlier stage than almost any major investor.
It has therefore become a more than popular partner in renewables. Euromoney is aware of one recent opportunity Macquarie had identified in Europe, where there was a bidding war not for the asset for itself but even just to line up with Macquarie. Potential partners had to pitch with a fee structure, just to get to the start line.
So what’s the key to a successful project?
“The basics are risk allocation and access to relevant technical and commercial expertise to manage assets through the various phases of their life from construction into operation,” says Creswell. “And increasingly it’s a focus on: is there a growth pathway? Is there an opportunity to continue to invest in that particular strategy, rather than having to go off and compete to buy more assets and put them together?”
Macquarie’s track record makes it interesting to watch to get a sense of where industry priorities might go next. Right now, for example, Kate Vidgen, head of industrial transition and clean fuels at Macquarie, is spending much of her time on hydrogen projects. Again, this is partly about the gas and its applications, partly about adjacencies: one of the major barriers to the industry developing is sufficient storage and distribution technologies.
“There’s lots of funds being raised for projects in hydrogen, but at the moment the deals we are doing are, at most, A$10 million to A$20 million,” says Vidgen. “We do believe there’s going to be a J-curve in the deployment of capital in this sector. So our strategy is to invest small to establish options, get them developed and plan now for more significant capital deployment when we’ll need it in years three, five, seven.”
And the fact that a technology is difficult or not yet commercially viable is no longer a reason not to pursue it.
“There are projects where 12 months ago I would have said: ‘That’s nice, it’s a good site, but the economics don’t work,’” Vidgen says. “And now you’re seeing, because of societal pressure and people wanting to show a tangible path to decarbonization, these projects are being supported by long-term offtakes.”
Vidgen’s perspectives are particularly valuable because of the number of hats she wears in the industry. She is a member of the Australian Clean Energy Regulator board, which administers schemes legislated by the government around carbon emissions; and she is a non-executive director and chair of the remuneration and HR committee at Aurizon, Australia’s largest rail freight operator.
The GIG division is in a very good place: there’s decent money to be made in saving the world. “Sustainable finance is becoming the norm,” says Creswell. “Almost all banking covenants will start to have very significant disclosures around emissions.”
Vidgen adds: “The reality is super funds, like everyone else, are having to move up the risk curve. There is no shortage of capital.” But there is a shortage of assets, hence investors need to move their risk position if they want to deploy funds.
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By Natiya Ellison
My name is Natiya Ellison, and I go to Southeast high school. I am in the 9th grade. This is my first year with the YAHL program. I will be talking about the CounterAct Tobacco campaign and the policies that affect youth.
The YAHL staff educated us about tobacco policies during our training. We learned that minors get in more trouble if they buy tobacco products from stores, and if they get caught, the store just gets charged a fine. Learning this highlighted for me why the policies are very important. I believe this also isn’t right because people are dying from this. Cigarettes are one of the most dangerous tobacco products. Tobacco can cause cancer and so much more. Some Oklahomans are ok with this because they probably do not know this is happening.
The CounterAct Tobacco Campaign works on helping youth stop and prevents others from using Tobacco and vaping products. I think this will stop others and help them make better choices. I know joining the YAHL program helps you realize that it’s terrible for your body when you smoke or vape, such as your lungs, heart, etc. My part in the program is to help by educating people about YAHL, collecting surveys, and teaching my peers how we are purposely targeted with ads and products. I am willing to help them stop before it’s too late. You never know if your family members could be next.
The CounterAct Tobacco campaign helps people understand the effects of using Tobacco. The tobacco industry tries to get young children to smoke to make a profit off of youth by getting them interested in smoking at an early age. They do this every year because the people are dying from Tobacco, so they target new people in new ways. They don’t care about your health. They care about your money. | <urn:uuid:d565b65f-10cd-422a-b8ae-4674cf02536a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yahlok.org/2022/04/22/what-i-learned-about-the-counteract-tobacco-campaign/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957416 | 380 | 2.390625 | 2 |
It is an acknowledged fact that human beings spend approximately 30% of their lives sleeping and though the body needs to rest, the brain remains active and is led by their imagination.
The mystery is however very deep as is there something else that people perceive while sleeping and what does science opine about it.
Most important is that how dreaming is viewed in popular belief system.
There are those who believe that dreams contain predictions of something that is about to happen. From the earliest dawn of human civilization, sleep has been attributed tremendous
symbolic value. Dreams were believed to be a fundamental way of predicting the future and also to clarify certain aspects of reality. Humans sought in dreams the answers to what they could not explain in life.
For centuries it has been considered a magical territory.
The scientific research has now made it possible to understand sleep in a very different way than from earlier times but dreams still have a mystical character.
There is something inexplicable, poetic even, of a dream’s ability to transport us to fantasy worlds. There is no dearth of people that claim that they have dreamed of something that came true.
It is curious how, even today, this ancestral belief persists.
The fact is that by reverberating memories of the past, the dream reflects the dreamer’s expectations about the future.
This also implies that the ability to predict the future is, in part, real. The human brain’s capacity for memory, manages, through dreams, to project a possible future.
It is also mentioned that dreaming is a kind of training for upcoming events. For example, when people dream that someone has had a terrible accident, it means, among other things, that they are preparing for a similar situation.
Sleep is a safe exercise particularly where people learn to deal with the most terrible things. The problem remains however that if the accident people dreamt about actually happened then how would people react.
Researches show that it would not be that surprising as human brain always builds each dream from real experiences and sometimes even imagines the probable and anticipates.
Through dreams people know how to make hypotheses about the future that, sometimes, come true.
It is often declared that dreams are wish maps as people in dreams also try to satisfy small or big desires that perhaps cannot be fulfilled in real life.
This means that dreams represent a repressed desire and that dreaming is a way of accessing the unconscious.
When people sleep their social and mental filters are more relaxed, allowing the free expression of the unconscious through memory tools and it is therefore described that
all the material that makes up the dream is formed from experience.
Usually, bad dreams generate a strong feeling of fear, with unpleasant events, from which people would like to escape.
The most potent example of such justification is that people hardly forget their childhood nightmares.
Unlike the nightmare, the good dreams fully satisfy the dreamer.
Many people dream of the experience of flying, for example, describing it as an extremely
joyful feeling.This usually happens when people really want to achieve something but fail to do so, Often, at a certain stage of life, the dream is repeated for a period of time.
When this occurs, it is worth trying to interpret it but only the dreamer has the key to unlock the meaning of the dream.
Describing dreams immediately after waking up is a simple practice that greatly enriches dream life and may have all kinds of feelings compelling people to remember their dreams.
Just after waking up is the moment that a dream is fresh in the memory and sometimes after 5 minutes people are no longer able to describe it.
Therefore, it is a good idea to keep a notebook and pen by the bed as it may seem difficult at
first but it is about writing down the first thing that comes to mind: a feeling, a colour, a place.
It must be kept in view that whether the dream is good or bad, it is worth writing about, as it is a useful reflection of people’s inner life.
As for predicting the future, the method to carry out such a task with scientific precision
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“I really don’t know if there is hope beyond the black hole; if there lies a future beyond the immediate future”
The black hole to which Franco Berardi refers is the state of late capitalism and perhaps specifically the financial crash of 2008, the most recent global catastrophe before the present SARS-CoV-2 moment. Now we live in the bubble of an immediate future whose parameters shrink nearer to a simple present by the hour. Perhaps for capitalism this state is its ultimate aim: do not consider the future at all, hopeful nor hopeless – just believe in the lie and live with it.
But we all know now that capitalism is no future. In a novel virus-ridden world seemingly without end the vast bulk of the structure of capitalism is of no purpose. As a universal organising principle it has failed disastrously. Investment in anything not real or of benefit to the planet is revealed as an obscene, genocidal farce. All that matters now is global public health, food supply and the implementation of systems capable of stopping (or mitigating) climate breakdown, the biggest black hole of all.
To have any impact on global health it’s perfectly clear there must be an international transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor, because when consumerism is necessarily dead and money becomes irrelevant for its own sake, all resources available need to be mobilised to defend humanity against its own destruction. The only jobs that matter will be in farming, science and education, health, and social provision. If this redistribution doesn’t begin now when it has been made so abundantly obvious by the pandemic then as a species we’re essentially doomed to scrabble around helplessly in an eternal present, too afraid to face the dark looking glass of the future for fear of what we know we’ll see. Food, clean energy (if such a thing exists), housing, education and health for all, planet-wide now. Let innovation flower not in the service of profit but for the construction of a living future that inspires, rather than terrifies. We cannot survive the black hole. We require a black hope. | <urn:uuid:7560aa57-69ea-459d-95e6-8491291d143a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://justincurrie.com/black-hope/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.925343 | 439 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Mitochondria are considered as the power-generating units of the cell due to their key role in energy metabolism and cell signaling. However, mitochondrial components could be found in the extracellular space, as fragments or encapsulated in vesicles. In addition, this intact organelle has been recently reported to be released by platelets exclusively in specific conditions. Here, we demonstrate for the first time, that blood preparation with resting platelets, contains whole functional mitochondria in normal physiological state. Likewise, we show, that normal and tumor cultured cells are able to secrete their mitochondria. Using serial centrifugation or filtration followed by polymerase chain reaction-based methods, and Whole Genome Sequencing, we detect extracellular full-length mitochondrial DNA in particles over 0.22 µm holding specific mitochondrial membrane proteins. We identify these particles as intact cell-free mitochondria using fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis, fluorescence microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Oxygen consumption analysis revealed that these mitochondria are respiratory competent. In view of previously described mitochondrial potential in intercellular transfer, this discovery could greatly widen the scope of cell-cell communication biology. Further steps should be developed to investigate the potential role of mitochondria as a signaling organelle outside the cell and to determine whether these circulating units could be relevant for early detection and prognosis of various diseases.
Keywords: blood; circulating DNA; mitochondria; mitochondrial genome; respiratory competent.
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The lottery has a long history in the US, and the earliest evidence points to the existence of hundreds of lotteries as early as the colonial era. In fact, newspaper ads from the 18th century indicate the existence of hundreds of lotteries. The first state to offer a lottery was New Hampshire, and in 1934, Puerto Rico joined the fray. Today, lottery operations are regulated by 45 states and Washington DC, with the Virgin Islands planning to start operating its own lottery in 2021. There are both instant win games and drawing games, with different odds and payoffs, which make it a highly lucrative investment.
Most people choose to play the lottery in person, for obvious reasons. People like to know that everything is legitimate, and they will get paid. Moreover, playing online may make them nervous because the odds of winning the jackpot are almost nonexistent. Nevertheless, there are still some advantages to playing the lottery in person. First and foremost, if you can get to a lottery drawing in person, you can be assured that the jackpot will be higher than if you were to play from home.
Second, joining an official lottery is the safest way to play the lottery. You’ll be playing against other lottery enthusiasts, and you can rest assured that your money is in good hands. The downside to online lottery games, though, is that they don’t have the competition that a traditional lottery offers. As a result, they can be low-quality. Oftentimes, the service isn’t as competitive, so you won’t get generous promotions or bonuses. And you can’t take your winnings elsewhere.
Once you’ve downloaded an app or registered with an online lottery website, you’ll be able to check the latest lottery results. You’ll be able to see what numbers have won in a game and how much you won in a previous draw. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to check how many winners have yet to claim their prize amounts. Many of the top lottery websites also offer lottery games on mobile devices. In this way, you’ll be able to play lottery games on the go and keep up with the latest news.
Multi-state lotteries are renowned for their massive jackpots. Mega Millions and Powerball are just two of the many such games. Various states participate in MUSL and share their pools to increase ticket sales. However, some lotteries are limited to a few states, and others are spread across the entire country. So, before you start playing the lottery, check with your state’s laws before playing. The rules and regulations will determine if you’re eligible to play the lottery.
One of the biggest misconceptions about the lottery is the gambler’s fallacy. The gambler’s fallacy is the belief that random events are related and affect each other. Even though the lottery is a game of chance, there’s no way to predict which numbers will win, or whether or not the numbers you’ve picked will come up again. Many lottery enthusiasts fall into this trap by claiming that the numbers they’ve won in the past can affect the next draw. | <urn:uuid:6cb43218-8da3-4b1b-8698-01be9c5313ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agelessalluremedispa.com/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-gambling-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969577 | 658 | 1.679688 | 2 |
ASTIER DE VILLATTE
Commune de Paris 1871 Cologne
Commune de Paris Eau de Cologne by Astier de Villatte. For Commune de Paris – the rebellious and edgy label created by three Parisian creators of fashion and product design – Astier de Villatte and Françoise Caron have imagined Cologne 1871, a subversive Eau de Cologne.
At first, it hits like an explosion of Sicily lemons, with rosemary and bergamot. But under its acid and cheeky exterior, Cologne 1871 hides the ineffable charm of the powdery scents characteristic of its time. Suave labdanum, benzoin, cedar wood and patchouli are combined with the first two synthetic molecules ever created by man – coumarin that smells like cut grass, and benzalehide that smells like almonds – giving it a unique flavour.
Handblown glass bottle.
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Crosswords can be an excellent way to stimulate your brain, pass the time, and challenge yourself all at once. Of course, sometimes the crossword clue totally stumps us, whether it’s because we are unfamiliar with the subject matter entirely or we just are drawing a blank. We have all of the available answers for Boston-born literary lion crossword clue if you need some help!
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Boston-born literary lion Crossword Clue Answers
A clue can have multiple answers, and we have provided all answers that we’re aware of for Boston-born literary lion. This clue last appeared August 6, 2022 in the Newsday Crossword. You’ll want to cross-reference the length of the answers below with the required length in the crossword puzzle you are working on for the correct answer. The solution to the Boston-born literary lion crossword clue should be:
- POE (3 letters)
Below, you’ll find any key word(s) defined that may help you understand the clue or the answer better.
Crossword Clue & Answer Definitions
- POE (noun)
- United States writer and poet (1809-1849).
- LITERARY (adjective)
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing.
- knowledgeable about literature.
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MBI researchers receive $250,000 to study cell-based epilepsy treatment
University of Florida researchers will receive $250,000 to study an inventive cell-transfer therapy to treat cortical dysplasia, a condition where the brain develops abnormally before birth, causing severe epilepsy in children and adults.
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, also known as CURE, has given its 2010 Falk Medical Research Trust Award to neurosurgeon Steven Roper, M.D., to collaborate with the laboratory of McKnight Brain Institute Executive Director Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., to study the use of a versatile type of brain cell to restore brain function in an animal model of the disease.
Cortical dysplasia causes seizures due to problems with the electrochemical connections in the brain. Currently the only treatment options are anticonvulsive medications and surgery, both of which have shown limited effectiveness in people with cortical dysplasia.
Using tissue surgically removed from epilepsy patients, Steindler’s lab will isolate and grow a population of cells known as adult human neural progenitors, which have the ability to develop into a variety of brain cells needed to treat neurological disease.
Roper and his team transplant the cells into a rat model of cortical dysplasia. The goal is to replenish a type of brain cell called an inhibitory neuron, which is in short supply in these animals.
“There are different theories about what causes seizures in these individuals, but many researchers believe it is because of an imbalance of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the brain,” Roper said. “Taking cells from the adult human brain and having them turn into functional neurons in a rat is a novel approach. If this can be done for individuals with epilepsy due to cortical dysplasia, it would provide an important new treatment option.”
The researchers want to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of the technique in animals first, with the goal of eventually moving the research to humans.
“This grant allows our cells to be used in Dr. Roper’s lab’s exquisite epilepsy models, and learn how to mobilize a patient’s own population of these cells to treat their own epilepsy, truly personalized neuroregenerative medicine,” Steindler said.
CURE is a volunteer-based, nonprofit organization founded by parents of children with epilepsy who were frustrated with their inability to protect their children from the devastation of seizures and the side effects of medications. Unwilling to sit back and accept the debilitating effects of epilepsy, these parents joined forces to spearhead the search for a cure.
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Below is a list of tips to help you achieve this.
- Allow extra time for older patients.
- Avoid distractions.
- Sit face to face.
- Maintain eye contact.
- Speak slowly, clearly and loudly.
- Use short, simple words and sentences.
- Stick to one topic at a time.
What do you do when an elderly parent refuses needed care?
Aging Parents Refusing Help: How to Respond
- Evaluate Your Parent’s Situation. Before anything, take a look at your parent’s living conditions, activities, and mental health.
- Focus On The Positives.
- Make It About You.
- Enlist Experts (If You Have To)
- Give Options.
- Start Small.
How do you communicate with difficult elderly and older adults?
How to Communicate With Difficult Seniors and Older Adults
- Exercise Patience and Compassion. It goes without saying that patience and compassion are often needed when dealing with the elderly.
- Ask Instead of Order.
- Ask Instead of Assume.
- Use “I” instead of “You” Language.
- Offer Choices Whenever Possible.
- Set Consequences.
What do you do when a loved one refuses treatment?
What to Do if Your Loved One Refuses to See a Doctor
- Be transparent and direct.
- Convince them that it’s their idea.
- Make it a “double-checkup”
- Make the rest of the day as enjoyable as possible.
- Get someone who is an authority figure to help.
How do you communicate with older clients in aged care?
Be positive in your approach to communication. Greet the older person you are caring for by name, address and speak to them; do not ignore or talk over them. Include the older person in their care to the extent they are able and want to be involved. Allow time for the older person to express their needs.
How do you help an elderly person who doesn’t want help?
What to Do When an Elderly Parent Refuses Help
- Make a rational diagnosis of the problem.
- Understand their fears and anxieties.
- Give them back some control.
- Be aware of stigmatising effects of elderly care.
- Be realistic about the risks.
- Accept that some carers may not be appropriate.
How do you help a parent who doesn’t want help?
What to Do When Elderly Parents Refuse Help: 8 Communication Tips
- Understand their motivations.
- Accept the situation.
- Choose your battles.
- Don’t beat yourself up.
- Treat your aging parents like adults.
- Ask them to do it for the kids (or grandkids)
- Find an outlet for your feelings.
- Include them in future plans.
What is the key to communicating with the elderly?
20 COMMUNICATION TIPS Sit face to face with the patient. Don’t underestimate the power of eye contact. Listen without interrupting the patient. Speak slowly, clearly and loudly.
What are six communication techniques you should use when communicating with a person with dementia?
6 nonverbal dementia communication techniques
- Be patient and calm.
- Keep voice, face, and body relaxed and positive.
- Be consistent.
- Make eye contact and respect personal space.
- Use gentle touch to reassure.
- Observe their nonverbal reactions.
How do you keep a conversation going with old people?
Remain calm and talk in a gentle, matter-of-fact way. Speak louder, if necessary, but do not shout. Make sure to enunciate clearly and avoid mumbling and talking too quickly. Focus on one idea at a time, and keep sentences short and simple.
How do you get a delusional person to seek help?
Ways to cope with someone who has delusions
- Pay attention to the emotions of the person.
- Discuss the way you see the delusion.
- Express that you are concerned about the person.
- Offer to pursue therapy together but be strategic.
- Ask the person why they believe as they do and be open-minded.
Can you force a loved one to get medical treatment?
You may think that your loved one needs treatment, but legally, what can you do if he or she absolutely refuses? Often, there is not much that you can do. An adult is allowed to make his own decisions regarding medical treatments. Usually, you can’t force someone to go to therapy or get psychiatric treatment.
What can you do if someone with a serious mental illness refuses treatment?
If the person refuses to follow the treatment plan, he/she can be sent to jail. Mental health courts have been shown to be very effective in keeping people on medication, and in reducing rehospitalizations, incarcerations, and violent behavior.
How do you communicate effectively with patients?
Communicating Effectively with Patients
- Assess your body language.
- Make your interactions easier for them.
- Show them the proper respect.
- Have patience.
- Monitor your mechanics.
- Provide simple written instructions when necessary; use graphics where possible.
- Give your patients ample time to respond or ask questions.
What are the 7 barriers to communication?
Let’s dig in.
- Communication barrier #1: Physical barriers.
- Communication barrier #2: Cultural barriers.
- Communication barrier #3: Language barriers.
- Communication barrier #4: Perceptual barriers.
- Communication barrier #5: Interpersonal barriers.
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For any home project, be certain to follow local code and permitting requirements.
Whether you’re looking to add ambiance or functionality to your outdoor space, the right deck lighting is one of the most impactful enhancements you can make to your deck. Learning how to install low-voltage deck lighting is fairly simple, provided only that you use a low-voltage lighting system and carefully read all manufacturer instructions.
Installing low-voltage deck lighting is inherently safer than installing household line voltage fixtures inside your home. And unless you need to run additional line-voltage circuits to feed a transformer, you probably won’t need an electrician or contractor for even a fairly elaborate deck lighting installation.
First, you’ll want to position your lights so that they’ll illuminate the appropriate areas. Each light will need to connect with a 12V transformer. Planning your deck lighting installation prior to installing any low-voltage deck lighting is essential to making sure you achieve both of those goals.
Start by identifying the locations of AC power sockets for plugging in the transformer. Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to start making approximate measurements for the length of wiring necessary to run your lights, and how many transformers you might need for your project.
Installing Trex deck lighting can make this easy because the LightHub connection system allows for the addition of a variety of accessories, including splitters, adapters, and customizable lengths of extension cabling. Trex also has an interactive online Lighting Transformer Calculator to help make sure you don’t overload the transformer. Overloaded transformers can fail prematurely and potentially cause fixture performance problems.
Low voltage deck lighting systems will require a deck lighting transformer, which is used to convert the ordinary household “line voltage” (120V) produced by an electrical socket. Most installations call for 12V transformers, so you only have to concern yourself with ensuring the transformer you choose can withstand the total wattage of all connected lights (most manufacturers have more than one sized transformer).
One important note: Not all 12V transformers are created equal. Some, often less expensive transformers, are simple “step-down” units that simply take 120VAC and step it down to 12VAC. The other option is to use transformers that change the voltage type from AC (Alternating Current, like your home uses) to DC (Direct Current, like your cell phone charger) while reducing the voltage from 120V to 12V. It’s important to know which type of voltage (i.e. AC vs DC) your lighting fixtures take, as the wrong voltage type can cause major component failure and other performance problems (and may even void your warranty). Also, it’s absolutely critical that you never mix AC and DC fixtures on the same circuit. For this reason, it’s highly recommended to use the same brand transformer as the light fixtures and to stick to one brand of fixtures.
One last power supply consideration: if you have an excessively long wire run (for example, over 300 feet) you might consider sourcing your own wire and stepping up to 16GA UL-listed outdoor rated 2 conductor wire. The issue this potentially solves is a problem called voltage drop. In basic terms, the longer the electricity has to run the more energy it loses at the end of the run. If you use a thicker (or lower gauge) wire you will minimize the chances that this can happen. If the system you’re installing uses a proprietary plug and play installation system, it’s normally appropriate to cut and hardwire the connections (but always check with your manufacturer for more information).
Some systems, such as the Trex Lighthub® system, use wire splitters to eliminate the need for cutting and splicing. Wire splitters transform one female connection into several, which makes adding them necessary along every post base where you want lighting. You’ll get a 5’ wire with each light fixture from Trex, so all you need to plan to buy are the splitters and the wires that connect each splitter together. Also, don’t fully attach the splitters to the joist. Leave them loose so you can maneuver them as you insert the Lighthub plugs.
More importantly, do not use an extension cord between the electrical outlet and the transformer, rather, connect the transformer directly into the power outlet. If the transformer cable does not reach the splitter, then you may need a wire extension cable, one which is designed to connect after the splitter.
Lastly, you’ll need to ensure the circuit the lighting is installed on has active and functional GFCI protection. This helps ensure spikes and other electrical anomalies won’t fry your lighting system (although massive spikes like lightning strikes are impossible to fully protect against).
Hiding away wiring is critical for both safety and aesthetics. In most circumstances, your best option is attaching the wiring directly to your deck’s frame – almost any place that’s out of sight. Always use cable-safe staples or fasteners. Typical metal staples (for example, T50 type) have a high likelihood of penetrating the insulation of the wire and causing shorts.
Depending on the type of deck lighting options you choose, there are some best practices to keep in mind when installing each one. The #1 tip for Trex® DeckLighting™, whether using plug and play or splicing wires, is to install with the power on. It’s essentially troubleshooting while installing. Always check with the manufacturer if you plan to use a different brand - just to double check that this method is safe with their system.
The wiring that powers post caps comes up from below your deck. To install it, it’s best if the post sleeve isn’t on the 4X4 post. If your post is there, the process is much more difficult as the passage you have to run the wire is very small. Cable staple (or simply use painter’s tape) to hold the included 5’ wire in place and slide the post sleeve over the post. Connect the wire under the deck to the splitter, then plug in the cap light, making sure it works before moving on.
Remember to leave slack at the wiring towards the top of the post cap, ensuring you have room for installing post cap light without a struggle. Start with the post nearest to your power source, and finish by placing the sleeve back on the post.
Before you install the railing, slide your post sleeve over the 4X4 wood post. Mark the desired height and location for the light on your post sleeve, then drill a 1” hole through the sleeve and into the wood post underneath with a Forstner bit. Remove the sleeve. Then drill a series of three one-inch holes in a vertical line to create space to tuck away the wire to run along the post, allowing the wiring to eventually connect with the splitter once the post lights are assembled. (Do not make this “pocket” horizontal, the screws that hold the post lamp will hit the wires and cause a short.)
Tuck the rest of the included 5’ Lighthub wire into the pocket, secure it to the post with painter’s tape and fish it under the deck. Connect it to the splitter and slide the post sleeve back on. Connect the light, screw the base into the sleeve and rotate the lens cover in place.
Different kinds of stairs and lighting fixtures can call for different kinds of installation. As long as you follow manufacturer recommendations, you can use your judgment about the placement or riser lights.
However, for most designs, risers are typically installed 4” above the track. Mark your selected location on the stair, then drill a 1” diameter hole to all the way through the riser. Feed wiring through the hole and connect the riser lighting cable to splitter behind the stairs.
Identify the deck board where you want to install thre recessed lighting. Avoiding joists, drill a hole with 1” diameter through the chosen board. The depth of the hole should match the depth of the lighting fixture you’ve selected, which will allow the lights to rest perfectly recessed in your deck. Drill an additional 1/4” hole to feed wiring. Be sure that the light remains flush against the boards before finalizing the installation.
Make sure if the install temperature is warm that the light fixture slides in place. If you have to tap or mallet it in place when the board is hot, the board can deform the light when the weather turns cold. Also, if you accidentally make the hole too big, simply add a dab of silicone to the side of the light to keep it in place.
After you’ve finished connecting your lights, you may still have unused female power connections. Unused splitter ports can be vulnerable to the elements, so all unused female connections should be closed using the plastic caps provided by the manufacturer.
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Assuming from the image and design that the "prod server" is the primary OLTP server and that the "report server" is for reporting only. The AGs are probably set up with different Primary locations.
- "prod server" has "PrimaryAG" as the Primary in normal run time.
- "report server" has "ReportingAG" as the primary in normal run time
The current configuration is bad, while failover happens at the AG, voting is set and occurs at the cluster level. The Microsoft Recommendations indicate the "report server" should both have a vote "Each WSFC node that hosts an availability group primary replica" AND not have a vote "Each node that could host a primary replica, as the result of an automatic availability group failover or FCI failover, should have a vote" You are either giving a vote to a node that can not be primary as the result of an automatic or you are taking it from a node that hosts a primary replica.
Switching to sync commit with auto failover, would allow proper voting, but could complicate fail back.
Recommended Adjustments to Quorum Voting
When enabling or disabling a given WSFC node’s vote, follow these guidelines:
No vote by default. Assume that each node should not vote without explicit justification.
Include all primary replicas. Each WSFC node that hosts an availability group primary replica or is the preferred owner of an FCI should have a vote.
Include possible automatic failover owners. Each node that could host a primary replica, as the result of an automatic availability group failover or FCI failover, should have a vote. If there is only one availability group in the WSFC cluster and availability replicas are hosted only by standalone instances, this rule includes only the secondary replica that is the automatic failover target.
Exclude secondary site nodes. In general, do not give votes to WSFC nodes that reside at a secondary disaster recovery site. You do not want nodes in the secondary site to contribute to a decision to take the cluster offline when there is nothing wrong with the primary site.
Odd number of votes. If necessary, add a witness file share, a witness node, or a witness disk to the cluster and adjust the quorum mode to prevent possible ties in the quorum vote.
Re-assess vote assignments post-failover. You do not want to fail over into a cluster configuration that does not support a healthy quorum. source
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Celebrating the Planet Through Fitness
By Amanda Richert
Earth Day is quickly approaching and we hope you will consider spending April 22nd outside getting fit in the sun! Ready to make your workout green? Here are some ways to do it:
Be sure to get outdoors!
Take a Hike: Hiking combines the benefits of a treadmill and stair climber into one. You can intensify the hike with a jog or a harder trail if it seems easy.
Do Yoga: Though yoga is usually done inside a studio, it can be even more gratifying outdoors. Practicing yoga outside means you lose the safe and familiar space of a studio and are vulnerable to what's going on around you. This forces you to control your reactions, deepening your practice.
Go Swimming: Swimming is an excellent way to work your entire body and cardiovascular system. An hour of swimming burns almost as many calories as running, without all the impact on your bones and joints.
Hit the Track: Visit your local field or track to do line drills, sprints, inchworms and lunges.
Find Inspiration in nature.
Believe it or not, there are quite a few exercises you can do with common items you’d find in the forest or anywhere else outdoors. Use a park bench or a low tree branch for triceps dips. Or make a curb your temporary gym step with sets of step-ups. Even try picking up a few rocks!
Be one with the trees.
Why not head to the park? Find a tree with bark that won't cut you or rip from the trunk, and reinvent the wall sit OR try a military press. Start in a pushup position facing away from the tree. Keeping your chin tucked, walk your hands toward the tree while walking your feet up the trunk. Finish in a handstand position.
Keep the car parked.
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London Tube’s Official Art Project By David Hockney Incites Jokes Online
By Alexa Heah, 13 May 2021
Image via Mayor Of London
Commissioned for a tourism campaign by the city of London, the Piccadilly Circus Tube Station’s latest art project has left the community baffled.
The artwork by famed English painter David Hockney, whose 1972 portrait stands as the most expensive work by a living artist to be auctioned off, is currently on display. It features a yellow ‘O’-shape and “Piccadilly Circus” over it on a purple banner, with the last ’s’ of “Circus” dropping to the next line.
The project was tweeted about by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, which has since drawn over 10,000 replies and 8,000 retweets from the public.
Here’s what the British public had to say about the tube’s latest artwork—they certainly had a field day flexing their skills on Microsoft Paint.
Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new #LetsDoLondon campaign. Lots more to come very soon! #DavidHockney pic.twitter.com/djW8BGSNuu— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) May 11, 2021
Bollock— Ross McGinnes (@rossmcginnes) May 11, 2021
You think that's good...wait till you get a load of Paddington!! pic.twitter.com/SMRp8NREiL— Notorious N.A.T. (@Helio_Spherical) May 11, 2021
Is this a joke?— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) May 11, 2021
London: “David, you said you’d have something to us by today?”— Luke Benson (@Mr_LukeBenson) May 11, 2021
London: “David? Are you there?”
*panicked scribbling sounds*
David Hockney: “Yes, yes. Just sending it…”
[via Mashable, cover image via Mayor Of London]
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James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, KT, PRS (1702 – 12 October 1768) was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death. He also became President of the Royal Society (24 March 1764), and was a distinguished patron of science, and particularly of astronomy.
He was born in Edinburgh as the son of George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton and his second wife Frances Adderley. He graduated MA from King's College, Cambridge in 1722. In 1746 he visited France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille, probably as a Jacobite. He had a long lasting tendency to protest the actions of the British government.
He was twice married: first to Agatha, daughter of James Halyburton of Pitcur, Forfarshire, by whom he was the father of three sons, two of whom died young, while the second, Sholto Charles Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton, succeeded him; and secondly to Bridget, daughter of Sir John Heathcote, bart., of Normanton, who bore him a son and daughter, and who outlived him thirty-seven years.
Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia was named after Lord Morton by Lieutenant James Cook (the spelling being an error in the published account of Cook's voyage in HMS Endeavour). Lord Morton had been influential in obtaining a grant of £4,000 to finance the voyage. Cook had been instructed by the earl to regard the native populations of the places he might visit as "human creatures, the work of the same omnipotent Author, equally under his care with the most polished European ... No European nation has the right to occupy any part of their country ... without their voluntary consent“.
- Emerson, Roger L. (1985). "The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 1768–1783". The British Journal for the History of Science. Cambridge University Press. 18 (3): 255. doi:10.1017/s0007087400022391.
- Anita Guerrini, 'Douglas, James, fourteenth earl of Morton (1702–1768)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2005. Retrieved 26 August 2008. So also the original DNB
- "Douglas, James (DGLS720J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- "Moreton Bay (entry 22810)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- King, Michael: The Penguin History of New Zealand, location 1237/6839 Kindle edition, Penguin Books 2003.
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Immediately after the Russian troop withdrawal in 1994, the USA began the eastward expansion of NATO
Yeltsin then reproached the USA: the "domineering" USA would "try to divide [the] continent again" through NATO expansion. Clinton repeatedly assured Yeltsin that any NATO expansion would be slow and without surprises, building an inclusive, not exclusive, Europe in "partnership" with Russia. In a telephone conversation on 5 July 1994, Clinton told Yeltsin: "I want us to focus on the Partnership for Peace programme, not NATO". At the same time, however, "political entrepreneurs" in Washington were pushing the bureaucratic process for faster NATO enlargement. On 31 August 1994, several months before the agreed withdrawal date, the last soldiers of the Western Group were finally seen off in the presence of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In Moscow in December 1994, Yeltsin berated Clinton for NATO expansion, seeing it as "nothing but a humiliation" for Russia: "If I agreed to extend NATO borders to Russia, it would be a betrayal of the Russian people." The "strong domestic opposition across [Russia's] political spectrum was against early NATO expansion." Gore and then Clinton assured the Russians that no NATO action would be taken on new members before the 1995 Duma elections or the 1996 presidential elections in Russia. However, Yeltsin also realised that Clinton would do everything to secure Yeltsin's re-election in 1996, and that was the most important thing for him.
Washington, D.C., November 24, 2021 – The biggest train wreck on the track to NATO expansion in the 1990s – Boris Yeltsin’s “cold peace” blow up at Bill Clinton in Budapest in December 1994 – was the result of “combustible” domestic politics in both the U.S. and Russia, and contradictions in the Clinton attempt to have his cake both ways, expanding NATO and partnering with Russia at the same time, according to newly declassified U.S. documents published today by the National Security Archive. The Yeltsin eruption on December 5, 1994, made the top of the front page of the New York Times the next day, with the Russian president’s accusation (in front of Clinton and other heads of state gathered for a summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, CSCE) that the “domineering” U.S. was “trying to split [the] continent again” through NATO expansion. The angry tone of Yeltsin’s speech echoed years later in his successor Vladimir Putin’s famous 2007 speech at the Munich security conference, though by then the list of Russian grievances went well beyond NATO expansion to such unilateral U.S. actions as withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the invasion of Iraq. The new documents, the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the National Security Archive, include a series of revelatory “Bill-Boris” letters in the summer and fall of 1994, and the previously secret memcon of the presidents’ one-on-one at the Washington summit in September 1994. Clinton kept assuring Yeltsin any NATO enlargement would be slow, with no surprises, building a Europe that was inclusive not exclusive, and in “partnership” with Russia. In a phone call on July 5, 1994, Clinton told Yeltsin “I would like us to focus on the Partnership for Peace program” not NATO. At the same time, however, “policy entrepreneurs” in Washington were revving up the bureaucratic process for more rapid NATO enlargement than expected either by Moscow or the Pentagon, which was committed to the Partnership for Peace as the main venue for security integration of Europe, not least because it could include Russia and Ukraine. The new documents include insightful cables from U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Thomas Pickering, explaining Yeltsin’s new hard line at Budapest as the result of multiple factors. Not least, Pickering pointed to “strong domestic opposition across the [Russian] political spectrum to early NATO expansion,” criticism of Yeltsin and his foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, as too “compliant to the West,” and the growing conviction in Moscow that U.S. domestic politics – the pro-expansion Republicans’ sweep of the Congressional mid-term elections in November 1994 – would tilt U.S. policy away from taking Russia’s concerns into account. Pickering was perhaps too diplomatic because there was plenty of blame to go around on the U.S. side. Clinton wrote in his memoir, “Budapest was embarrassing, a rare moment when people on both sides dropped the ball….” Actually, the drops were almost all in Washington. White House schedulers led by chief of staff Leon Panetta tried to prevent Clinton from even going to Budapest by constraining his window there to eight hours, which meant no time for a one-on-one with Yeltsin. Clinton himself thought he was doing Yeltsin a big favor by even coming and expected good press from the substantial reduction in nuclear arsenals that would result from the signing of the Budapest memorandum on security assurances for Ukraine (violated by Russia in 2014). National Security Adviser Tony Lake gave Clinton a prepared text that “was all yin and no yang – sure to please the Central Europeans and enthusiasts for enlargement, but equally sure to drive the Russians nuts….” The author of that phrase, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, wasn’t even in Budapest, paying attention to the Haiti crisis instead (“never again” he later wrote, would he miss a Yeltsin meeting). The new documents include a previously secret National Security Council memo from Senior Director for Russia Nicholas Burns to Talbott, so sensitive that Burns had it delivered by courier, describing Clinton’s reaction to Budapest as “really pissed off” and reporting “the President did not want to be used any more as a prop by Yeltsin.” At the same time, Burns stressed, “we need to separate our understandable anger on the tone of the debate with [sic] Russia’s substantive concerns which we must take seriously.” Similarly, the Pickering cables recommended using Vice President Al Gore’s previously scheduled December trip to Moscow for meetings with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to also meet with Yeltsin, calm down the discussion, and get back on a “workable track.” Mending fences would include Gore’s description to Yeltsin of the parallel NATO and U.S.-Russia tracks as spaceships docking simultaneously and very carefully, and Gore and then Clinton assuring the Russians (but not in writing, as Kozyrev kept asking for) that no NATO action on new members would happen before the 1995 Duma elections or the 1996 presidential elections in Russia. The final assurance was Clinton’s agreement (despite Russia’s brutal Chechen war and multiple domestic pressures) to come to Moscow in May 1995 for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the victory over Hitler. In Moscow, Yeltsin berated Clinton about NATO expansion, seeing “nothing but humiliation” for Russia: “For me to agree to the borders of NATO expanding towards those of Russia – that would constitute a betrayal on my part of the Russian people.” But Yeltsin also saw Clinton would do whatever he could to ensure Yeltsin’s re-election in 1996, and that mattered the most to him. Only after that Moscow summit would Yeltsin order Kozyrev to sign Russia up for the Partnership for Peace. The new documents only reached the public domain as the result of a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the National Security Archive against the State Department, seeking the retired files of Strobe Talbott. Thanks to excellent representation by noted FOIA attorney David Sobel, State set up a schedule of regular releases to the Archive over the past three years. The full corpus of thousands of pages covering the entire 1990s will appear next year in the award-winning series published by ProQuest, the Digital National Security Archive, which won Choice Magazine’s designation as an “Outstanding Academic Title 2018.” The Archive also benefited from State’s assignment of veteran reviewer Geoffrey Chapman to the task of assessing the Talbott documents for declassification. Chapman ranks among the most thorough, expert, and professional declassifiers in the U.S. government.
The Russian army is pulling out - what remains?
Status: 14 December 2020, 12:31 p.m.
The Soviet army was an integral part and permanent guest of the GDR. A state ceremony seals the withdrawal of the Russian Western Group of Troops (WGT) on 31 August 1994. How will the abandoned barracks be used after 1994? What will happen to the soldiers of the Western Group?
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The legacy of the Red Army (31.08.1994)
In the Two-Plus-Four Treaty, which was concluded on 12 September 1990 between the four victorious powers as well as the FRG and the GDR (officially the "Treaty on the Final Settlement in Respect of Germany"), it was agreed, among other things, that the reunified Germany would become a member of the Western defence alliance, NATO, that the future Bundeswehr would be reduced to 370,000 personnel, that Poland's western border would be guaranteed and that the Western Group of Russian troops (WGT) would be withdrawn from Germany.
In return for these far-reaching concessions by the USSR (Germany's membership in NATO was particularly controversial), the Federal Republic agreed to provide funds to finance the withdrawal and to build housing for returned soldiers in the USSR. These funds initially totalled about 12 billion Deutschmarks, of which about DM 7.8 billion was for housing construction. Accordingly, the withdrawal of the WGT was to be completed by the end of 1994.
In a German-Soviet partnership treaty signed on the first anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the two states also agreed to reduce group sizes of the Bundeswehr, to cooperate extensively on economic, cultural and human rights issues, and to mutually respect and maintain memorials and war graves.
Uncertainty about the withdrawal existed during the coup against Gorbachev in August 1991 (for detailed information on the political events in 1991, please click here), when it was not clear how the WGT would position itself politically. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 31 December 1991, the Western Group fell under the command of the President of the Russian Federation in March 1992, who pledged to carry out the withdrawal as planned. An armed coup attempt against President Yeltsin on 4 October 1993 also caused no delay in the withdrawal.
On 31 August 1994, several months before the agreed withdrawal date, the last soldiers of the Western Group were finally seen off in the presence of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In Berlin, a final parade took place at the monument to the fallen Soviet soldiers in Treptower Park. Before that, there had been an official ceremony at the Gendarmenmarkt, where General Matwej Burlakow, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, signed off his troops in East Germany. | <urn:uuid:98f4a73e-2fc3-4d2b-ae5e-712c1b6af88c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.internationale-friedensfabrik-wanfried.org/post/immediately-after-the-russian-troop-withdrawal-in-1994-the-usa-began-the-eastward-expansion-of-nato | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963882 | 2,354 | 2.34375 | 2 |
School sports are one of the most exciting school-year activities for most kids and teens. It’s a fun way for them to get fit, socialize with friends, and learn how to be part of a team. One important item needed to play a school sport is a sports physical. Here’s a little information about what to expect from a school sports physical and why your child needs one.
Why Does My Child or Teen Need a Sports Physical?
Sports physicals help determine whether it’s safe for a child to participate in a certain sport. As a result, most schools require kids and teens to have a sports physical at the beginning of the sports season. A sports physical can help student-athletes identify any potential health problems, consequently helping them find a way that can help them avoid injury. For example, if a child has asthma or a previous injury, a physician may recommend certain exercises or medication that can make training easier and safe. A sports physical also allows physicians to identify potential risk factors associated with the specific sport your kid or teen will be participating in.
What Should My Child or Teen Expect?
The first part of the exam includes questions about Medical History:
- a history of serious family illnesses
- illnesses that kids had when they were younger or may have now, such as asthma, diabetes, or epilepsy
- hospitalizations or surgeries
- allergies (to insect bites, for example)
- past injuries (including concussions, sprains, or fractures)
- whether the child has ever passed out, felt dizzy, had chest pain, or had trouble breathing during exercise
- any medications taken (including over-the-counter medications, herbal supplements, and prescription medications)
During the physical part of the exam, the doctor will usually:
- record height and weight
- take blood pressure and pulse
- test your child’s vision
- check the heart, lungs, abdomen, ears, nose, and throat
- evaluate your child’s posture, joints, strength, and flexibility
Although most of the exam will be the same for males and females, your provider may ask girls and boys different questions if they’ve started or already gone through puberty. They will also ask questions about the use of drugs, alcohol, or dietary supplements, or weight-loss supplements because these can affect a person’s health. At the end of the exam, the provider will either fill out and sign a form if everything checks out or, in some cases, recommend a follow-up exam, additional tests, or specific treatment for medical problems.
When and Where to Go
Some athletes go to their own doctor for a sports physical; others have one at school. MainStreet Family Care offers both! You can pre-register online for a sports physical. If you’d like to schedule physicals for an entire team, we can do that too! Email us at firstname.lastname@example.org to learn more. | <urn:uuid:ef825e2e-19c0-4995-83fb-24434d5c3372> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.mainstreetfamilycare.com/why-your-child-needs-a-sports-physical/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.934537 | 612 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Two Concepts of Liberty
In December of 2010, the FCC passed a network neutrality order mandating, among other things, that ISPs allow content to be passed through their networks. Proponents of network neutrality have called it the “First Amendment for the 21st Century.” Opponents have responded by arguing that it is the FCC’s network neutrality order that violates the First Amendment. How can this be?
This ongoing debate has many legal and policy elements, but it seems to come down to an old philosophical divide involving differing conceptions of liberty. In his famous lecture, analytic philosopher Isaiah Berlin described the two concepts of liberty as negative and positive. To simplify, negative liberty is freedom from external inteference. Positive liberty, on the other hand, is freedom to do something, which includes having the power and resources necessary to do that something.
For example, negative liberty means that no one may rightfully take my property away from me without my consent. On the other hand, an example of positive liberty would be that I have a right to health care which must be provided for me if I cannot afford it on my own.
Necessarily, positive rights, like the right to health care, involve at least some subjugation of the rights of others. It would violate the rights of those who must provide the health care without their consent, and also those who must provide the means to pay for such health care. Further, it would also infringe upon other positive rights insofar as there are scarce resources available to pay for all such rights. It is also important to note that Berlin described a dangerous rhetorical affinity between demands for positive liberty and justifications for totalitarianism, because it allows those in power to argue their schemes are just providing true liberty for the people.
Conversely, negative rights are compossible with one another, which means all people could hold them simultaneously. These rights apply only against aggressors, i.e. rapists, murderers, and thieves, and not against those who are respecting the rights of others. This is why most libertarians and classical liberals prefer the negative conception of liberty to the positive.
Proponents of net neutrality promote a positive conception of liberty. Opponents of net neutrality promote a negative conception. As a result, the two sides talk past each other. Proponents argue that end-users should have the ability to access anything on the internet by using the networks provided by ISPs. This is a freedom to surf the internet. Opponents argue that the ISPs have a right to manage their networks, just as one would have the right to manage one’s own property according to the terms and conditions one chooses. This is a freedom from external interference with one’s network management.
The First Amendment Case Against Network Neutrality
With few exceptions, our Constitutional rights embody the negative conception of liberty. This includes the right of free speech protected by the First Amendment. Unless there is state action involved, one would not be able to bring a successful First Amendment challenge against another person for stopping them from speaking. For instance, I have the right to kick you out of my home for something as menial as saying the word broccoli, and this would not violate your right to free speech under the Constitution’s negative conception of liberty. My right to property trumps your right to speech, which is really your right to use your property (your voice, tongue, etc.) to say what you want insofar as it does not invade my property right.
Consistent with this negative conception of liberty, First Amendment jurisprudence does not allow the government to compel speech. In Miami Herald Pub’g Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974), the Supreme Court unanimously held that a Florida law mandating that a newspaper carry responses from political candidates when the paper published editorials critical of them was unconstitutional. The Court stated that:
[a]ppellee’s argument that the Florida statute does not amount to a restriction of appellant’s right to speak because “the statute in question here has not prevented the Miami Herald from saying anything it wished” begs the core question. Compelling editors or publishers to publish that which “‘reason’ tells them should not be published” is what is at issue in this case. The Florida statute operates as a command in the same sense as a statute or regulation forbidding appellant to publish specified matter. Governmental restraint on publishing need not fall into familiar or traditional patterns to be subject to constitutional limitations on governmental powers. Id. at 256.
In this case, FCC’s network neutrality order would compel ISPs to post, send, and otherwise allow access to any content of a subscriber’s choosing. This makes the order similar to the compelled access statute rejected in Tornillo. ISPs make editorial decisions, just like newspapers, when providing content on homepages and other specialty pages. They also provide network management, which involves editorial discretion when dealing with smut, malware, and other potentially unlawful or dangerous online content.
Ironically, one of the big fears driving proponents of network neutrality is that ISPs will use this editorial discretion to limit the viewing options of end-users. Yet they argue that ISPs are mere conduits of speech and not akin to newspaper editors. That ISPs do not generally restrict content is true. But what network neutrality proponents fail to grasp is that in a competitive market, ISPs cannot profitably restrict valuable content to end-users.
While the FCC and other proponents view network neutrality as the First Amendment of the 21st Century, it is not consistent with the First Amendment of the Constitution. This is because the Constitution’s conception of liberty is primarily negative, consistent with the classical liberalism of the Founding Fathers. Internet enthusiasts need not fear this conception of liberty. In a free market, ISPs who wish to make money will always be subject to the desires of consumers. | <urn:uuid:132b80a5-58be-4cc8-82b5-19143c5d711f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cei.org/blog/net-neutrality-two-concepts-of-liberty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946047 | 1,201 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Only the bridge of Beauty will be strong enough for crossing from the bank of Darkness to the side of Light - Nicholas Roerich
The United Nations General Assembly in resolution A/RES.62/90 proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures “to promote universal respect for, and observation and protection of, all human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Cultures encompass not only the arts and humanities but also different ways of living together, value systems and traditions. The need for real opportunities for dialogue among cultures remains vital. It is true that to an unprecedented degree people are meeting together in congresses, conferences and universities all over the globe. However, in themselves, such meetings are not dialogue and do not necessarily lead to rapprochement of cultures. There is a need to reach a deeper level. Reaching such deeper levels takes patience, tolerance, the ability to take a longer-range view, and creativity. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures. | <urn:uuid:036f2fb8-5619-40e7-ab2b-879abaf86e17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theoservice.org/bridge-beauty-and-understanding | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.913087 | 221 | 2.15625 | 2 |
To dream of the Pope is to adhere to a type of sacred belief system that can provide spiritual and emotional advice when one has begun to feel lost.
This is also reflected in a hierarchical society with structures that need to be focused.
The Pope is the highest ranking member of the multi-infamous Catholic Church. If you have dreams in which you are the Pope this reflects your desire to be communicating directly with God as the Pope, in this religion the direct representative of him and of all his glory.
Being the Pope in your dream is how you allow yourself to communicate in this direct way. You find that with this energy you are perfectly confident in asking God to tell you all the questions you have. God, of course, often finds it ironic that you have to put yourself in such a high position to communicate, because of course you can at any time, but many of us feel that we are too humble to speak to God directly. While you probably won’t have a problem with this, the fact is: You need to talk to God to get this advice to help you move forward in your life.
In this dream you can have
- The Pope thus has the ability to communicate directly with God to find the answers that are most useful to him in his personal life.
- The pope has instructed others on how to communicate with God, showing his belief in the almighty connection we can all share with a higher energy source.
- Blessed by the Pope, making you feel reverent and secure in your position within a sense of religious and spiritual renewal.
- He was angry and argued with the Pope about the way he runs the Catholic Church, thus showing his desire to focus on the malaise of the world’s religions.
Positive changes are afoot if
- His conversation with the Pope ended up being relatively polite and comforting.
- Like the Pope, you had conversations with God in which you received divine assistance for waking life problems.
- You advised others in a humble and peaceful way.
- You found yourself in the peace and quiet of the Papal Chamber, thus giving you time to reflect on all that you wish to achieve in your life.
The detailed meaning of sleep
If you dream that the Pope refers to you, then this is a symbol of your respect in the higher orders of the world and the Universe.
When you are afraid of religion and in the presence of the Pope, you will find that your anxiety is trickling into your waking life as a result of feeling infringed upon by authority figures around the world or in your particular area. In general, the Pope represents a person who is regaining faith in him or experiencing a certain level of spiritual awakening.
This dream is associated with the following scenarios in your life
- religious confusion.
- Angry with religious leaders.
- Lack of faith.
- The desire to communicate with the divine freely.
Feelings you may have encountered during a Pope dream
Welfare. Clarity. religious conviction. Certainty. Understanding. Lack of communication. divine assistance. Inspiration. Happiness. Renewal. Spirituality. Contemplation. | <urn:uuid:815bc17f-200a-49fd-862d-d49b9e762add> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dreamsrack.com/dream-of-the-pope/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965018 | 646 | 1.710938 | 2 |
In a 24/7 world, customer engagement strategies can not afford to take a nap. Customers already prefer live chat on another communication channel, and why not?
It's fast, it's unobtrusive, and it makes a lot more sense than clinging to a call while an automated voice tells you how important you are to them.
The problem is, the customer support 24/7 is expensive to maintain; too expensive for most small and medium level businesses. The solution is, of course, chatbot. You can also use chatbot with the help of experts of companies like Business Builders Connection.
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Chatbots, interactive software or robots are already sophisticated enough to manage conversations and fundamental questions.
Some of the more advanced can even hold simple conversations, adding elements of fantasy and fun for even the most learned responses by heart.
In addition, since each good platform chatbot is the heart of a powerful learning algorithm of the machine, it will become more intelligent and better with time.
A platform to chatbot is there to provide support. It can make them faster conversations and more precise answers. In fact, only the most generic conversations and requests a chatbot is supposed to manage the entire conversation itself.
Anything more difficult can be transferred to a framework of service to the human clientele. In fact, most major platforms ChatBot already offer this feature "live agent", making it easier for companies to have a hybrid system in place.
As we can see, chatbots are extremely powerful and flexible tools that have a significant impact on customer satisfaction and therefore business growth. | <urn:uuid:0aa19537-2dec-486f-9284-e975cf8796e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://armchair-theology.net/obsolete-customer-engagement-with-the-help-of-chatbots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938681 | 325 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A friend, coworker or family member is caring for someone with pancreatic cancer. You want that person to also feel cared for, supported and loved through what can be a challenging time. But you’re not sure what to do or how to help.
This is an all-too-common scenario, but the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) has suggestions.
Below are seven ways you can show the caregiver in your life just how much you care for them:
- Offer to help in specific ways. Drop off a meal, clean the house, pick up their kids from school, or grab their dry cleaning, groceries or a prescription.
- Have patience and listen attentively to pick up on subtle or indirect ways they may be asking for help.
- Plan a fun activity you can do together. Make an appointment for a manicure or massage, sign up for a restorative yoga class, have a coffee date, go to a movie or plan a movie night at home.
- Offer to spend time with the patient so your friend can have a break to do something on their own.
- Tell them how special they are to you. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner – drop off a simple bouquet of flowers, a care package filled with their favorite things, or even a heartfelt, handwritten card.
- Listen attentively and without judgment. Caregiving can feel isolating. Ask how they’re doing and create a safe space for them to share their thoughts and feelings about what they’re going through.
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Recorded in many forms including Gros, Gross, Grose, Grosse, Groz, Groos, and compounds such as Grossbauer, Grooskopf, Grosman, Groseman and Grossman, this is a surname recorded in the British Isles over many centuries, but essentially of Germanic pre 6th century origins. Gross means big or large, and in most cases with the surname it originally meant what it says. For example as Grossman, this could indicate either a big man, or more likely a friend or servant of a person called Gross. Compound surnames were not necessarily descriptive at all, they were often purely ornamental.As such they were given either to refugees from foreign parts, Germany being considered for centuries the most liberal part of Europe, or sometimes to people who had a very popular name like Schmit or Schmidt. This name was even more popular than in the British Isles and the government encouraged nameholders to adopt other identifiable names, of which this is a good example. Perhaps the earliest recording in any form is that of Johan der Grosse of Dresden in the charters of that city in the year1309, with Kunz lin Grosman of Eblingen being recorded in 1352.
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Vaxholm Fortress Museum
Vaxholm Fortress Museum (Kastellet, Vaxholm) – this fortress has seen its share of drama. Built in the 16th century, it repelled a Danish attack in 1612, and in 1719 the Russians were prevented from reaching Stockholm. In the 1870s, the defensive emphasis shifted from Vaxholm Fortress to the strait Oxdjupet. In 1876, Oxdjupet was opened to traffic and a new fort – Oscar-Fredriksborg – was built. Since the turn of the century, the forces defending the archipelago have moved their positions outwards, ultimately reaching the outermost perimeter of the islands.
Midway in the the 20th century, the fortress became a museum, going through restorations in 2003. The museum’s indoor department occupies thirty beautiful rooms and halls on both floors of the west section. Visitors see the fortress as it was in 1854, and can enter one of the Citadel’s bombproof vaults and see how things were during the Crimean War. In other settings you can call in on the Commandant, follow the issuing of orders ain a mine battery or visit the World War II coastal defence artillery post.
Here you can watch a movie about Vaxholm Fortress Museum and Vaxholm Citadel.
Admission: SEK60. Free admission for children up to 19 years. Hours vary according to month. Check the Museum’s website for an updated schedule: www.vaxholmsfastning.se | <urn:uuid:5dc01e77-65e6-4f7d-ad57-63d850e5e65c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.swedenvip.com/blog/content/vaxholm-fortress-museum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950157 | 316 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Often girls likes to play with their pink-dressed barbie doll and they are accompanied by their mom, whereas boys don’t have much interest in indoor games. They like to play outdoor games like football, basket ball etc and they are sometime accompanied by their fathers.
While playing father and son share a very special type of tuning which later becomes the sweet memory to cherish. It just become a father-son moment only.  A father can teach his son how to snag a foul ball or show him how to score a baseball game by hand. This proves that Father and Son share a special type of bonding.
A father understand his son more than anyone else. Their are few problems that son can share only with father, not even with mom, and vise-versa. Father always have a internal trust on his son that whatsoever come up, his son is there on his back and will not let him fall. This proves that Father and Son share a special type of bonding.
There’s nothing like watching sports to bring men together and discussing latest automobiles feature on a cup of coffee. Father love to take the latest updates on automobiles features. These little conversation keeps the tuning between father and son.Â
Son can go on random shopping with mom but when son wants to buy some electronic gadgets like mobile phone, mp3 player or any other expensive thing, he will take his dad along with him because he know he is capable enough to convince his dad, but not mom because generally mom argues and negotiate a-lot. This proves that Father and Son share a special type of bonding. | <urn:uuid:734d9462-d74f-408c-9c09-29be1f8c078f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aboutfeed.com/3-reasons-proves-father-son-share-special-bonding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.97695 | 334 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Anchor bolts are used to connect structural and non-structural elements to the concrete. The connection is made by an assembling of different components such as: anchor bolts (also named fasteners), steel plates, stiffeners. Anchor bolts transfer different types of load: tension forces and shear forces. A connection between structural elements can be represented by steel column attached to reinforced concrete foundation. Whereas, a common case of non-structural element attached to a structural one is represented by the connection between a facade system and a reinforced concrete wall.
The simplest – and strongest – form of anchor bolt is cast-in-place, with its embedded end consisting of a standard hexagonal head bolt and washer, 90-bend, or some sort of forged or welded flange (see also Stud welding). The last are used in concrete-steel composite structures as shear connectors. Other uses include anchoring machines to poured concrete floors and buildings to their concrete foundations. Various typically disposable aids, mainly of plastic, are produced to secure and align cast-in-place anchors prior to concrete placement. Moreover, their position must also be coordinated with the reinforcement layout. Different types of cast-in-place anchors might be distinguished:
- Lifting inserts: used for lifting operations of plain or prestressed RC beams. The insert can be a threaded rod. See also Bolt (climbing).
- Anchor channels: used in precast concrete connections. The channel can be a hot-rolled or a cold-formed steel shape in which a T-shape screw is placed in order to transfer the load to the base material.
- Headed Stud: consist of a steel plate with headed studs welded on (see also Threaded rod).
- Threaded sleeves: consist of a tube with an internal thread which is anchored back into the concrete.
For all the type of the cast-in-place anchors, the load-transfer mechanisms is the mechanical interlock, i.e. the embedded part of the anchors in concrete transfers and the applied load (axial or shear) via bearing pressure at the contact zone. At failure conditions, the level of bearing pressure can be higher than 10 times the concrete compressive strength, if a pure tension force is transferred. Cast-in-place type anchors are also utilized in masonry applications, placed in wet mortar joints during the laying of brick and cast blocks (CMUs).
Mechanical Expansion anchors
The force-transfer mechanism is based on friction mechanical interlock guaranteed by expansion forces. They can be furtherly divided into two categories:
- torque controlled: the anchor is inserted into the hole and secured by applying a specified torque to the bolt head or nut with a torque wrench. A particular sub-category of this anchor is called wedge type. As shown in the figure, tightening the bolt results in a wedge being driven up against a sleeve, which expands it and causes it to compress against the material it is being fastened to.
- displacement controlled: usually consist of an expansion sleeve and a conical expansion plug, whereby the sleeve is internally threaded to accept a threaded element.
The force-transfer mechanism is based on mechanical interlock. A special drilling operation allows to create a contact surface between the anchor head and the hole's wall where bearing stresses are exchanged.
The force-transfer mechanism is based on bond stresses provided by binding organic materials. Both Ribbed bars and threaded rods can be used and a change of the local bond mechanism can be appreciated experimentally. In ribbed bars the resistance is prevalently due to shear behavior of concrete between the ribs whereas for threaded rods friction prevails.(see also Anchorage in reinforced concrete). Bonded anchors are also referred as adhesive anchors or chemical anchors. The anchoring material is an adhesive (also called mortar) usually consisting of epoxy, polyester, or vinylester resins. The performance of this anchor's types in terms of 'load-bearing capacity', especially under tension loads, is strictly related to the cleaning condition of the hole. Experimental results showed that the reduction of the capacity is up to 60%. The same applies also for moisture condition of concrete, for wet concrete the reduction is of 20% using polyester resin. Other issues are represented by high temperature behavior and creep response.
Tapcon screws are a popular anchor that stands for self tapping (self threading) concrete screw. Larger diameter screws are referred to as LDT's. This type of fastener requires a pre-drilled hole—using a Tapcon drillbit—and are then screwed into the hole using a standard hex or phillips bit. These screws are often blue, white, or stainless. They are also available in versions for marine or high stress applications.
Their force-transfer mechanism is similar to mechanical expansion anchors. A torque moment is applied to a screw which is inserted in a plastic sleeve. As the torque is applied the plastic expands the sleeve against the sides of the hole acting as expansion force.
They act transferring the forces via mechanical interlock. This fastening technology is used in steel-to-steel connection, for instance to connect cold-formed profiles. A screw is inserted into the base material via a gas actuated gas gun. The driving energy is usually provided by firing a combustible propellant in powder form. The fastener's insertion provokes the plastic deformation of the base material which accommodates the fastener's head where the force transfer takes place.
Modes of Failure in tension
- Steel failure: the weak part of the connection is represented by the rod. The failure corresponds to the tensile break-out of steel as in case of tensile testing.In this case, concrete base material might be undamaged.
- Pull-out: the anchor is pulled out from the drilled hole partially damaging the surrounding concrete. When the concrete is damaged the failure is also indicated as pull-through.
- Concrete cone: after reaching the load-bearing capacity a cone shape is formed. The failure is governed by crack growth in concrete. This kind of failure is typical in pull-out test.
- Splitting failure: failure is characterized by a splitting crack which divides the base material into two parts. This kind of failure occurs when the dimensions of the concrete component are limited or the anchor is installed close to an edge.
- Blow-out failure: failure is characterized by the lateral spalling of concrete in the proximity of the anchor's head. This kind of failure occurs for anchors (prevalently cast-in-place) installed near the edge of the concrete element.
In design verification under ultimate limit state, codes prescribe to verify all the possible failure mechanisms.
Modes of Failure in shear
- Steel failure: the rod reaches the yielding capacity then rupture occurs after development of large deformations.
- Concrete edge: a semi-conical fracture surface develops originating from the point of bearing up to the free surface. This type of failure occurs, for an anchor in the proximity of the edge of the concrete member.
- Pry-out: a semi-conical fracture surface develops characterize the failure. The pryout mechanism for cast-in anchors usually occurs with very short, stocky studs. The studs are typically so short and stiff that under a direct shear load, they bend causing contemporarily crushing in front of the stud and a crater of concrete behind.
In design verification under ultimate limit state, codes prescribe to verify all the possible failure mechanisms.
When contemporarily tension and shear load are applied to an anchor the failure occurs earlier (at a less load-bearing capacity) with respect the un-coupled case. In current design codes a linear interaction domain is assumed.
Group of anchors
In order to increase the load-carrying capacity anchors are assembled in group, moreover this allow also to arrange a bending moment resisting connection. For tension and shear load, the mechanical behavior is markedly influenced by (i) the spacing between the anchors and (ii) the possible difference in the applied forces.
Service load behavior
Under service loads (tension and shear) anchor's displacement must be limited. The anchor performance (load-carrying capacity and characteristic displacements) under different loading condition is assessed experimentally, then an official document is produced by technical assessment body. In design phase, the displacement occurring under the characteristic actions should be not larger than the admissible displacement reported in the technical document.
Seismic load behavior
Under seismic loads and there would be the possibility that an anchor is contemporarily (i) installed in a crack and (ii) subjected to inertia loads proportional both to the mass and the acceleration of the attached element (secondary structure) to the base material (primary structure). The load conditions in this case can be summarized as follow:
- Pulsating Axial load: force aligned with the anchor's axis, positive in case of pullout condition and zero in case of pushing-in.
- Reverse Shear load (also named “alternate shear”): force perpendicular to the anchor's axis, positive and negative depending on an arbitrary sign convention.
- Cyclic Crack (also named “crack movement”): RC primary structure undergoes in severe damage condition (i.e. cracking) and the most un-favorable case for anchor performance is when the crack plane contains the anchor's axis and the anchor is loaded by a positive axial force (constant during crack cycles).
Exceptional loads behavior
Exceptional loads differ from ordinary static loads for their rise time. High displacement rates are involved in impact loading. Regarding steel to concrete connections, some examples consist in collision of vehicle on barriers connected to concrete base and explosions. Apart from these extraordinary loads, structural connections are subjected to seismic actions, which rigorously have to be treated via dynamic approach. For instance, seismic pull-out action on anchor can have 0.03 seconds of rise time. On the contrary, in a quasi-static test,100 second may be assumed as time interval to reach the peak load. Regarding the concrete base failure mode: Concrete cone failure loads increase with elevated loading rates with respect the static one.
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