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Firefighters were called into action when a cat took its taste for adventure too far.
The ginger feline was rescued from a tree at De Montfort University’s Newarke campus today.
It's believed the animal was stranded in the branches for three days.
A crew from the city’s Central station used a 45ft ladder to carry out the rescue at about 12.30pm.
The cat, hungry, but none the worse for its stint up the tree, was handed over to the RSPCA.
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Geographical Index > United States > Illinois > Jackson County > Report # 23760|
Submitted by witness on Thursday, May 8, 2008.
Memory told of possible vocalizations and rocks thrown at Lake Kinkaid
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COUNTY: Jackson County
NEAREST TOWN: Murphysboro
NEAREST ROAD: Road to Lake Kinkaid / Highway 3
OBSERVED: In 1978 I went fishing with a friend in his boat which was an 18 ft aluminum fishing boat to Lake Kinkaid, southwestern Ill. We trolled around the banks of the lake all morning and all day fishing for smallmouth bass till just before dark. Then my friend says lets cruise around awhile at speed. We cruised around for awhile then to a large cove across from the dam and stopped approximately 50 meters from shore.
Then we both witnessed something on a rocky (where brush was so thick people didn't walk) brushy cliff shaking the trees very violently making grunting sounds about at least 60 meters away, but we could not see what was shaking the trees. I was thinking to myself it would have to be a huge buck with antlers just crashing the trees. But then from that place a huge rock was thrown at us and landed 15 feet from the boat with a giant splash.
From the size of the splash this rock was at least 5 to 10 pounds. my friend said what the heck was that!!! We both knew this rock was thrown many times further then any olympic shotputter could have thrown and NO HUMAN could have thrown a rock that size that far. Then more shaking of trees and another huge rock was thrown at us coming very close to the boat. My friend says lets get the hell out of here and started the motor and we took off. My friend has since passed away in early 2008.
ALSO NOTICED: I think a beast capable of hurling gigantic rocks that far could only be a momo or bigfoot. I am sure they live around there and could be encountered again in that area.
OTHER WITNESSES: 2 my friend has passed away. I'm only witness of this event left.
OTHER STORIES: I later saw a news report in St. Louis channel 2 Titled "Pertsborns people" Where Reporter John Pertsborn traveled to Murphysboro on the trail of Momo sightings. He interviewed local people in the Murphysboro area who had seen and encountered I think he said 25 reported sightings in the last nine years. But that is what made it dawn on me what the possible explanation was for Jim and my encounter.
John Pertsborn still works for Fox2 in St. Louis
TIME AND CONDITIONS: Dusk, spring nice evening, clear.
ENVIRONMENT: Lake Kinkaid shoreline and around the craggy, rocky, brushy cliffs in a cove across from the dam.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Stan Courtney:
I spoke with the witness by phone:
Although the witness did not have a sighting the details of the encounter suggests typical sasquatch behavior.
• While fishing heard loud grunting coming from the shore.
• Trees were violently shaken.
• Two large rocks were thrown from the shore and landed in the water close to their boat.
• Distance the rocks were thrown was about 150 feet.
• This article discusses John Pertsborn of Fox 2 in St. Louis visit to the area: Monster is drawing attention.
• It is an area of dense forests with many waterways, including the Big Muddy River and the Mississippi River. It is probably one of the best locations in Illinois to have a sasquatch encounter.
About BFRO Investigator Stan Courtney:
Stan Courtney has a special interest in wildlife audio recording. He has attended numerous BFRO Expeditions. See Stan's blog StanCourtney.com for recordings he has collected over the years.
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There are several web-based business models. Is micro-payments a valid alternative? Micro-payments can allow small payments for valuable intellectual property, which still preserve the generosity of the web, but without dependence on the advertising model.
The question is well addressed in this Stanford project on micro-payments
In my analysis at present, the predominant web-based business models are:
1) All web-site content is free and revenue is derived from data collection (i.e. via advertising based on consumer knowledge) and viral communication.
2) ‘Freemium’, (i.e. free, but pay for added premium value, which could be extra features, enhanced performance, better aesthetics, more user guidance…)
3) A join-up subscriber fee gives access to content, which is sometimes organised in categories according to the value of the subscription.
4) The web site is used as a shop window or as a marketing brochure, which is a supplement to traditional sales and marketing activities.
5) The web site is a service centre to support core activities and develop customer loyalty.
6) The web site as an integral part of the customer and supplier interface (i.e. in essence some effort and costs gets outsourced to customers and/or suppliers).
7) “Brand-me” aims to create a celebrity or brand effect with doses of excitement and ingenuity (it lies somewhere between the blog and the conference model, and often ties to a best seller.)
So the use of micro-payments is possibly an eighth model, and I'm sure there are many others.
Micro-payments compete against free, and like newspapers on the street compared to on-line newspapers, micro-payments can offer content and performance in an agreeable and easily accessible format.
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However, the newspaper on-line subscription model has struggled, perhaps because of the aesthetic appeal of paper, the habit and convenience of picking up a paper in a newsagent or due to competition from free news sheets.
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|PRICE:||$6.00 at a swap meet|
|REVIEWER:||Scott Van Aken|
|NOTES:||Loon models LO 48233 wing upgrade set and Ultracast 48166 109G-5/14 wheels (smooth tires) used.|
The 109G-10 was actually the last 'production' Bf-109 built. The plane first flew a few months after the K-4, using airframes currently on the assembly line. In the past it had been thought that the G-10 was made of rebuilt airframes, but this has since been shown to not be the case. These airframes were brought up to as close to K-4 standards as possible.
The result for researchers is that the plane is as difficult to identify from photos as just about any 109 variant. Early G-10s did not have the DB.605D engine in them and had to rely on the earlier DB.605AS engine. These 109G-10/AS airframes can be distinguished by the absence of two small 'bumps' under the forward cowling as on the later aircraft. Early G-10s also had the narrower 660x160 wheels and tires so didn't have the long wheel fairings in the upper wing. Those with the 660x190 wheels and tires had the longer fairings.
All G-10s had the Erla Haube canopy and tall wooden fin and rudder. Some had a short tail wheel strut and others the longer version. There were also two different rudders, one with two additional external trim tabs. In addition, there were two upper cowling designs, the type 100 with a smooth upsweep on the left side and the type 110 with a flat plate fairing instead. While many G-10s had a deeper oil cooler than the earlier G-14, this was not always the case. A final difference was that some had a short antenna mast and some had none at all with the antenna lead going right into the fuselage spine aft of the cockpit.
WHEW! That makes for a lot of different variations. Unfortunately, most profiles will not show the upper wing fairings and many photos are such that this feature is not visible. This makes it almost impossible to determine if an airframe is a G-10 or a G-14 or even a later G-6, especially if it had the 605AS engine. Only serials could tell. This has led to several aircraft being identified as a G-14 in one book and a G-10 in another!
This kit is probably the first really accurate Bf-109 that was created, though you may get an argument from some on this. First released in the early 1980s, it has engraved panel lines, cockpit sidewall detail and pretty accurate outline. The kit is undoubtedly based on the 109G-10 that has been at Planes of Fame for decades. That aircraft is somewhat unusual for a G-10 in that it has a short tail wheel strut, the wider wheels and corresponding wider upper wing wheel clearance fairings. After having done a lot of 109 reading over the years, I've realized that the tall tail wheel and the smaller upper wing wheel fairings were more the norm for the G-10.
There really isn't all that much more to comment about on the kit. It is devoid of the myriad of inserts one finds in today's more modern 109 kits and while it has a reasonable interior, it is not totally accurate as it has a separate seat and the nose cannon housing is the wrong shape. There are aftermarket sets available to spruce up the interior and fix some of the glitches found within. The exterior is pretty good. I found in previous builds that the drop tank rack is a bit too small compared to those found in Hasegawa kits.
On to the more mundane stuff; the instructions are well done with generic color information and the decal sheet provides insignia (no swastika) a Reich Defense band in blue and white and a yellow number 7. The date on the box is 1990 so this isn't the initial release.
This kit is basically being built to showcase the Loon Models conversion wings so is not getting much else in the way of upgrades. First thing I did was to see if the wings actually fit. They do, with a bit of fudging. It is not uncommon for resin parts to be different sizes depending on the temperature and humidity present on the day they were molded. In this case, the resin wings are a teeny bit undersize as the alignment holes don't match up. By removing the inboard pins, that situation was taken care of. I also found the the right wing's leading edge around the wheel well wouldn't match up. This was cured by sanding down the lower wing wheel well section until a satisfactory match was made. I found it odd that this didn't fit as the left wing was fine in this regard. Both looked to be the same in terms of the height of the wing. At this time, I also cleaned up the resin tail wheel.
Naturally, no seam shall go without filler and so filler was used on the leading edge. Meanwhile, I assembled the cockpit parts. I used RLM 66 and Black for most of the painting (handy brush, of course), using Testors enamel for the RLM 66 and Citadel acrylic for the black. The drop tank fuel line was painted yellow with an unpainted section to represent the clear window used to check fuel flow. Though the 109G series doesn't use a separate seat back, Monogram provides a full seat. Not accurate, but there you have it. The forward oil cooler radiator was glued into one half of the fuselage and I also assembled the drop tank and supercharger intake. The intake should have a raised seam and those who want to replicate that with a piece of stretched sprue are welcome to do so. I didn't and once dry, attached it. The exhaust were then painted using Vallejo Tinny Tin acrylics and set aside to dry.
Then the exhaust and interior were glued in place. When dry, the fuselage halves were cemented together. Going off track a bit, I have to comment on the 'problem' with water thin glue and engraved panel lines. It seems that no kit with engraved panel lines goes unbuilt without the glue seeping through the panel lines and under my fingers at least once during the build. It is something I don't think about until it happens, then I data dump that bit of info and do it again the next kit. Anyway, with the fuselage dry, I glued on the lower wing. There was a considerable gap between the fuselage wing root and the upper wing. Normally, I'd fill this with stretched sprue, but as the wing had little dihedral and it needed some, I used Gorilla brand super glue. This is rather thick glue that takes a bit to set. Doing one wing at a time, I filled the gap with glue, then, using tape from the wing tip over the fuselage, I set the dihedral where I thought it should be. With that dry, I did the other side and it turned out perfect. I didn't worry about the superglue bond breaking as all the stress is in one plane and that is the way super glue works best. I did need a second application of glue and followed that by some regular Tamiya putty. The putty was put to good use on the rest of the fuselage as well and eventually sanded down.
The next step was to add the tailplanes. I found that I had to slightly trim the small tabs to get them to fit fully. The tailplanes are keyed to keep you from installing them on the wrong side. At this time, I cut off the kit tail wheel assembly in preparation for the Loon Models replacement. That was then sanded smooth and a new hole drilled for the resin tail wheel strut.
Back in the cockpit, I installed a set of Eduard color photo etch belts from set 49002. The armored head piece was masked and painted, then installed. I then glued in a replacement gun site from QuickBoost as the original went flying off into the unknown after painting it and cutting it from the sprue. Next, the windscreen was masked and glued into position. I had to trim the bottom of the head armor piece to get the canopy to fit as the etched bits from the seat harness interferred. That was glued in place and it was off to the paint shop.
|COLORS & MARKINGS|
For this one, I chose a scheme from Eagle Strike 48055 "Augsburg's Flyers part III'. It is a 109G-10 of Oblt Seidl of I./JG 3 in RLM 83/75/76. For paints, I chose Testors Model Master for the RLM 75/76 and Agama for the RLM 83. All are enamels and all were thinned with lacquer thinner. The RLM 76 was painted on first, then the underside of the tailplanes was masked off the the upper surface sprayed with the RLM 83. Once that was done, the RLM 75 as painted in place. There was a lot of overspray, but going back over with RLM 76 after masking the upper surfaces of the flight surfaces took care of that. Then I went back and did the motting in RLM 75 and 83 in a pattern similar to what was in the kit instructions.
I then attached the main landing gear and the tail gear before giving the airframe a coat of Future in preparation for the decals. I should mention that there are rather large ejector pin towers on the gear pieces that will need to be cleaned up. These were then painted RLM 02 along with the wheel wells. Bare Metal Foil Chrome tape was used for the oleos.
Despite the 8 year age of the decals, they went on without a problem. I used Solvaset to help them snuggle down. It was then that I realized I'd forgotten the white fuselage band. Major dumm scheiße on that one. Carefully masking off the area, I sprayed on the white and only slightly tore one of the insignia when removing the masking. By the way, this plane had no underwing insignia so it is proper for them to be missing.
With the airframe close to done, I added on the antenna post, the DF loop, Morane antenna, pitot tube and the mass balances. Some careful paint touch up was done on those bit. Though not prototypical, I like the large mounting areas for the underwing bits. The spiral decal was put on the spinner and when dry, the prop assembly was done and attached. I then painted the exhaust using Vallejo 'Tinny Tin' and with a Tamiya weathering kit, put on the pastels. The flight control surfaces were outlined with a Rapidograph. The main gear doors were installed along with the Ultracast wheels. These need the mounting holes opened up quite a bit for the Revell axles. With all the bits in place, a coat of semi-matte clear (a mixture of Future and Tamiya flat base) was applied. A bit more exhaust stain and the tape was removed from the canopy. You can see the belts and whatever cockpit painting you did rather well even though the canopy is closed.
I often wonder why I gravitate to this particular kit when it comes to G-10s. This is the third one I've built ofer the last ten years or so. True, this build was more to highlight the Loon Models upgrade set for this kit than anything, but I find the old tried and true Monogram 109G-10 to still be an excellent kit and a good value for the money, even at its freshly reissued price of $14.95.
Good thing is for those that are frugal, you can find this kit between $5 and $10 at just about any model swap meet. It isn't fiddly, and while not cutting edge, builds into an excellent replica, as you can see.
Messerschmitt Bf-109G, Robert Peczkowski, 2000
Warpaint Special #2: Bf-109, edited by Alan Hall, 2001
German Aircraft of the Second World War, Smith & Kay, 1978
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Bias adjustment and downscaling of snow cover fraction projections from regional climate models using remote sensing for the European Alps
21 June 2022
Regional climate models not only provide projections on temperature and precipitation, but also on snow. Here, the authors employed statistical post-processing using satellite observations to reduce bias and uncertainty from model projections of future snow-covered area and duration under different greenhouse gas concentration scenarios for the European Alps. Snow cover area/duration decreased overall in the future, three times more strongly with 4–5° global warming as compared to 1.5–2°.
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Above the Grid: Thomas Aaron
Thomas Aaron’s (NAP #96) birds-eye visions of natural landscapes shift the viewer’s perspective instantly. His paintings offer us satellite-like images of the earth, highlighting both nature and man’s imposition upon it.
His work reflects something of a combination of photographic realism and fantasy, as Aaron’s forced positioning of structured order, gridlines, and commoditization of the earth is projected in subtle earth-tones and paintings that somehow evoke peacefulness and calm rather than violence and degradation. - Elen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor
Ellen Caldwell: Man’s use of the grid has always intrigued me, so I loved reading about the connections you make between man imposing a grid on land and nature's reaction to it. Can you discuss this a bit more, particularly in relation to your paintings?
Thomas Aaron: The western landscape is slow. I remember the first time I visited family in Virginia and saw trees sprouting up like weeds in an abandoned field. Land here in the desert keeps a record of human interaction much longer – it heals at a lethargic pace. A flight over the Great Basin will show you 150+ years of “western” history in strange trails and roads and current or abandoned projects of one type or another. (Native cultures were much softer on the land before that so their impact is harder to see.)
EC: That is a great sentiment that “western landscape is slow.” And I love the idea that you are tracing a history of the earth, much like counting and exposing the rings of a tree. Please discuss this more in terms of your grids.
TA: The PLSS (Public Land Survey System) established a paradigm in the minds of the people who came here to claim their piece of America. It created a way to conceptualize, divide, and control and by extension commoditize the vastness of the land. The lines were drawn. The fences and roads began to conform to the grid. Salt Lake City itself conformed rigorously to the original survey plat because it was a planned city and didn’t grow up naturally. Some divisions of the grid space were cultivated and other sections were left untouched. Fence lines and roads are barriers to livestock, and even native heard animals. Grazing takes place on one side of a fence and not the other affecting the mix of vegetation. Before long the flora of certain areas begins to conform to the grid.
This cadastral system is visually obvious in the aerial views of the Midwest where all the land is cultivated. But here in this slowly changing arid land, it’s tenuous and fleeting. The palimpsest of humanity is subtle, but it’s all here, layer on layer. There are few places that don’t bear the signs of our interruption. From trails to farms to nuclear testing sites.
EC: I really find the work fascinating. How did you first become interested in the grids as a means of exploring a human relationship to the land?
TA: I live in Salt Lake City and I grew up here in the west. Traditional landscape painting is pervasive and for good reason. The landscape is inescapable and from my earliest memories I have been attracted to it. I wanted to paint the landscape. But most expressions of the landscape are idealized and romantic. I saw that romantic landscape at times but never in isolation. I also grew up in suburbia so my concept of nature was always framed in terms of human control over it.
Our relationship with land is not just a visual panorama or an Arcadian farm or a strip mine but a complex stage of politics and ambitions that encompass all that and more. Land is at the heart of the history of humanity. So I began to search for a way to talk about the land as an amalgam of ideas and history and with this appreciation of the complexity of the landscape I wanted a more detached methodology to approach it. I decided on painting Townships and Sections of the PLSS as a way of separation. It let me treat my work more as a document. Not a document of exact quantifiable reality but of experiential reality.
EC: What kinds of media comprise your "mixed media" you use in these works?
TA: I usually use acrylics with spray enamels and spray primers to various effects. I like to stain the acrylic with oil glazes. Commercial acrylic latex sneaks in there in the right circumstances. I use a lot of graphite, ink, pastel, oil pastel, wax crayon, and charcoal. I’ll often add sand, coal, powdered marble dust or iron powder to the mix. I also use paper correction fluid quite a bit. I really enjoy that clash of materials. I just kind of pick stuff up that feels right and go. It’s all ad hoc. That doesn’t mean I don’t consider my choices but that consideration comes before and after the moment.
Right now my work isn’t focused on material issues per se so I let subject take a more prominent role than material.
EC: Will you explore similar subjects in your next shows?
I just finished some work for a show in Michigan where I pushed the prominence of the grid far more than in these NAP works. I think the future is filled with more back and forth between exerting prominence and dissolving the edges of the grid. I also want to make more mono-material works.
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The Prime Minister pointed out that a household energy crisis had developed in a number of European countries in the wake of the idea of Brussels bureaucrats that a changeover to renewable energy sources could be best achieved by raising prices. They are raising prices intentionally, Mr Orbán stressed, adding that this issue is also a battle between political camps, also now the Left keep pushing for market prices in Hungary.
He said the government rejected this and defended the low level of household energy prices in Parliament as well. However, had they accepted a return to where we were during the Gyurcsány-Bajnai era, today an average family would be required to pay over 360,000 to 370,000 forints more annually, there would be HUF 32,000 less left in the monthly family budget.
He said household energy prices are a sensitive issue for countries like Hungary, “household energy prices can take their toll on Hungarian families”. “We say that household energy prices must be reduced, the social situation of families must be protected.” According to Brussels, however, economies can be forced to change over to less polluting energy sources by raising prices, he explained. He added that Brussels “is not the solution, but the problem itself”.
He highlighted that Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic demand the revocation of the rules which have contributed to the present high prices. To this end, they have already tabled a number of proposals, and the issue of household energy prices must also be placed on the agenda of the next summit due to be held in two weeks’ time, he added.
Mr Orbán also said the Hungarian economy was able to reach its pre-pandemic performance, and this is a big joint achievement of the whole of Hungary. This is why it is now possible to take several steps which had previously been inconceivable: they are paying an eighty-thousand-forint pension premium to pensioners and families will be refunded the taxes they paid in 2021.
He announced that from 1 January 2022 they will raise “the salaries of nurses by 21 per cent, the salaries of creche workers by 20 per cent, the pay of social workers by 20 per cent, and also the salaries of those working in the cultural sector by 20 per cent”.
The Prime Minister said the exemption from the payment of personal income tax will be available to a million young people.
They are also making every effort to give back the entire 13th monthly pension, he said. The conditions for this are not yet available, but if in the coming months everyone does their job well in the country, it will be possible, he stated.
He observed that if they are indeed able to raise the minimum wage to HUF 200,000 – which would mean that the minimum wage will be higher than the average wage was during the Gyurcsány-Bajnai Governments – “then we will have had a wonderful year”.
The Prime Minister said teachers are right because they were the first who were given a pay rise in 2013-2014. It was a substantial increase at the time, but in the meantime the wages of others have increased, there has been inflation, and they have fallen behind. This is not fair, and teachers are right to ask for a pay rise, he stated.
He took the view that next year there could be a 10 per cent raise, and in January 2023 – if the performance of the economy remains at the present level – there could be an even higher pay rise. Teachers are now preparing to go on strike, and so they will have talks and will attempt to reach a long-term agreement, he said.
Mr Orbán pointed out that while the Hungarian economy is indeed in a good state, the sovereign debt is high, it is between 75 and 80 per cent. “When a country has a 75 to 80 per cent sovereign debt, the economy may well be doing well, but it is walking on thin ice,” he said, adding that “we must keep our wits about us, a single flawed economic policy decision, a single ill-timed action can break the ice beneath our feet”.
He was of the opinion that pay rises and the revenues arising from the performance of the economy must be used in such a way that the sovereign debt must be continuously reduced and lowered to below 50 per cent at the same time.
He said as regards the funds coming from Brussels, Member States decided to raise money from the world market together and to give it to them – to be used for specific purposes – so that they can swiftly recover from the crisis. Some of them, including Hungary, have still not received their share which is not fair, “it means that there are no equal opportunities,” he pointed out.
He said the EU’s position is that they will give Hungary its share of the funds if we let LGBTQ activists into our schools. “Luckily, the Hungarian economy is doing well, and we don’t want to accept money from them at the price of handing over the sexual education of our children to them,” he stated, adding that we are entitled to this money, but this debate is resulting in a delay.
The Prime Minister said he will have the third dose of the vaccine against the coronavirus next week, and advised everyone to follow suit. Covid-19 is a young virus, and so no one knows anything for certain, but a number of variants are causing devastation, and as expected others will follow, he said.
What, however, every doctor knows for certain is that the vaccine works, and it is better to have the third dose than to not have it, he pointed out.
He added that due to the autumn weather, the virus is spreading faster.
He observed that Katalin Karikó “is our hero, she saved the lives of many million members of humanity”. “Perhaps, this doesn’t warrant a Nobel Prize,” but she did a heroic job, and “we’re very proud of her,” he stated.
He said at the same time there is an international competition where young workers compare their skills, and in this young Hungarians did extremely well. The future of Hungary depends not only on Nobel Prize winners, but equally on whether we will have world-class skilled workers, the Prime Minister said. | <urn:uuid:c1a204d2-bbde-4c69-a81c-133062dee030> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.miniszterelnok.hu/we-must-stand-firm-on-the-reduction-of-household-energy-prices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.980801 | 1,324 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The UK government plans to “overhaul” the benefits system. A scheme to cut the enormous deficit caused by the misbehaviour of the very rich (the banking crisis) by taking from the very poor.
“Some unemployed people say they are better off on benefits than working – leading to accusations that the current system encourages long-term welfare dependency.” (from the BBC
The words “some..people say” are like a big red flag to indicate “we made this up on the spot.”
However, I’m going to take this at face value and pretend – purely for the sake of argument – that there are a fair number of people who are better off on benefits and who aren’t too physically or mentally ill to work. (These must be people who can magically pay for food, heat, light, water, fares, cleaning products, household goods and clothes from less money than the average City worker spends on an evening out and a few lattes.)
There are however many millions more people who are desperate to stay in work or to find work. Any alleged “recovery” will be sustained only until the full force of the threatened October cuts. The cuts will mean that workers from both the public and private sectors will massively increase the numbers of the unemployed.
Precisely the time when you’d think that a government stick to force the unwilling into work was least necessary. Not to mention, reducing the number of taxpayers by converting them to benefit recipients seems to be exactly opposite to the actions of a government that plans to cut its debt.
So, who would benefit by forcing the unemployed to seek work – thus making sure that there are EVEN more people fighting for every job?
I can’t see any sane answer to this. The immediate answer would seem to be “employers,” who will be able to force down wages. But, at the moment, even this doesn’t make sense. We barely produce anything in the UK. All goods and services that can be produced by cheap labour are already produced by cheap labour abroad.
UK business generally now expects to make its profits, not by producing and selling goods but by brokering foreign-made goods and services to the UK population. Which depends on there being a critical mass of the UK population with disposable income.
Despite the bullshit emanating from the government and the media, welfare benefits barely cover frugal heat, light and food. Replacing a winter coat constitutes a major drama. There’s precious little left to put toward a Bang and Olufsen home cinema or an i-Pod.
In fact, there’s bugger all left for any retail spending. Which must be a major issue for a country which has long been acting as if building massive new retail outlets constitutes a sustainable development strategy.
Even the financial sector – pandered to for twenty-odd years – will be hard pushed to get blood from a few million stones. Although the appearance of tv ads offering loans of derisory sums at rates of interest so high that you assume they’ve got the decimal point wrong (2,265% APR, ffs) suggests it’s going to have a bloody good try.
So English capital as a whole isn’t going to benefit by massive job cuts. It goes without saying that workers aren’t going to benefit. And, no matter how much I try to bend my head round this, I can’t see any rational way to see hammering the longterm unemployed as anything but a true anti-solution. | <urn:uuid:190dba4c-9bcf-4c9d-bdcb-8c5e6458c923> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/tag/benefits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964844 | 749 | 1.90625 | 2 |
COLLECTING ANCIENT GLASS
by RICHARD BROCKWAY
With LYNETTE MACLEOD
People think the place to see and admire ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian or Phoenician glass is in one of the great museums. In fact, Ancient Glass is available and undervalued. A caveat: to delve into its ancient history, let alone the plunder and international intrigue, prepare to become addicted. Study in out of way places and prepare for questions: what intrigued you first, where did you find it, do you know it’s real, is it expensive, why so cheap? A 2000 year old intact unique work of art is always a wonder to people who have seen absurd prices for mass produced pottery.
I founded Ancient Art International (AAI) in 1988 after more than 20 years of studying and collecting in the ancient world. Fortunately, my corporate career allowed for much travel in Italy, France, England, Persia and Japan granting me time to visit all the museums and archaeological sites within striking distance. AAI is ending its second decade offering high quality ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, Gandharan, Islamic, and Chinese antiquities.
When I started to do antique shows, I was unique in specializing in antiquities. People would actually ask if the items on display were for sale. Then the questions would begin. My time at these shows became almost non-stop lectures on the history and origins of the piece rather than trying to sell something. With reference books, catalogues, and museum brochures, the shows became more enjoyable, not work at all. In the process of establishing ancient art in antique shows, I used publicity to attract the antiquity aficionado who normally wouldn’t attend a conventional show. This effort of love paid off. I attracted customers for antiquities, including many who had never purchased a work of ancient art. Some auction houses and dealers credit me with starting good customers. I’m pleased to say my several thousand customers worldwide are more friends than business acquaintances.
Since this article is intended to introduce potential collectors to the universe of collecting Ancient Glass, I will spend a little time on fundamentals. I’ve given many lectures on Ancient Glass ranging from scholarly to my basic “Collecting Ancient Glass - what to look for and what to look out for!” at glass collecting clubs, which normally don’t consider this old subject matter. A collector of, say, Tiffany, Galle’, or depression glass is a candidate for delving into Ancient Glass since so many references start chronologically with ancient Phoenician glass.
When developing a new interest, it’s best to read a lot, study pictures, and visit museums. Visits to reliable dealers and antique shows are especially important for “hands on” education. When it comes time to make one’s own first purchase, it’s not necessary to splurge for a masterpiece. With my first boat, I bought a good used, inexpensive example to learn with, which could be easy to unload or upgrade depending on how my interest progressed.
The importance of dealing with a “reputable” dealer! I mean one who has been in business for some time, has considerable specific experience (not antique honey pots, for example), offers an unconditional money back guaranty of authenticity in writing! In this field where authenticity and condition are everything, I recommend against the internet.
Since authenticity is primary, Ancient Glass is rewarding as discerning a real from a fake is very easy and you can become quite proficient in a relatively short time. I keep a small collection of fakes so that my customers can have a hands on lesson. Patina is most important in Ancient Glass; in the Middle East, particularly in Israel, chemicals are used to add patina to a fake. Real patina is an oxidation which we call iridescence that can only occur over a very long time (i.e. 2000 years) and is a degradation of the glass surface. It requires impurities and chemicals in the soil. In the extreme, glass would
dissolve away to nothing. The ersatz patina, although pretty, is very obviously not the real thing. It looks chemical! Tiffany tried in vain to imitate ancient patina and succeeded in making attractive art objects but not close to the real glow.
Condition is extremely important in establishing value in glass collecting. Although since Ancient Glass is one of a kind, sometimes the only example in the world – such as the Portland Vase in the Boston Museum- will be repaired. See the photo in the winter-spring 2009 Antiques & Art Around Florida, p. 29, for description of the Portland Vase and why real Ancient Glass is the only way to go.
I personally stay away from any glass with repair unless it’s a rare example to flesh out my collection or I just can’t afford an intact example. It’s easy to spot repair in Ancient Glass with the use of a good light source or a blue light. A fiber optic probe is indispensable to easily spot a repair. A patch of dirt smeared on the side of a brilliant vessel is a dead giveaway.
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The hairs on the stems and leaves of stinging nettles deliver a vicious sting making them the scourge of the bare legged walker or unwary child. Stinging nettles grow everywhere in Britain so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find them. Wear a pair of thick gloves and pick the freshest leaves at the top of the young plants.
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You may or may not have pondered why your breakfast cereal tends to clump together or cling to the sides of a bowl of milk. Now there is an easy explanation.
Dubbed the Cheerio Effect by scientists, this clumping phenomenon applies to anything that floats, including fizzy soda bubbles and hair particles in water after a morning shave.
The effect has been known for some time, but an explanation for non-scientists has been lacking.
Dominic Vella, a graduate student now at Cambridge University and L. Mahadevan, a mathematician from Harvard University, decided to change that. In a study that appears in the Sept. 15 issue of the American Journal of Physics, Mahadevan explains the Cheerio Effect using three basic concepts from physics: buoyancy, surface tension and the meniscus effect.
Buoyancy determines whether an object submerged in water or surrounded by air will sink, float, or stay put. Buoyancy is what keeps ships afloat and balloons afloat. If an object is less dense than the water or air surrounding it, the object floats; if the object is denser, it sinks.
Surface tension is a property that makes the surface of a liquid act like a flexible membrane. It results from various weak forces acting between liquid molecules.
In a glass of water, most of the water molecules are surrounded by other water molecules and they all pull on one another. But like two equally matched opponents in a game of tug-of-war, the net effect is zero and nothing really happens.
Where it gets interesting is at the surface, where water meets air, and along the sides of the glass.
Water molecules at the surface experience a strong inward pull from water molecules beneath them but only a weak outward pull from the air molecules above. So the surface of the water caves in slightly.
On the edge
Water near the side of a glass behaves differently. It curves to form what scientists call a "meniscus." Depending on the properties of the liquid, whether it is attracted to or repelled by the glass, the meniscus either curves upward (concave) or downward (convex).
For water, the meniscus is concave since water is attracted to the glass. Viewed from the side, the surface of the water looks like a less exaggerated version of a skater's U-shaped halfpipe.
What's all this do to your breakfast?
Place a single Cheerio in a bowl of milk and its weight will cause the milk beneath it to dip slightly, forming a dent in the once smooth surface of the milk. A second Cheerio placed into the bowl will form its own dent on the surface of the milk, and if the two Cheerios drift close enough to each other, they will appear to "fall into" one another, as if pulled together by an attractive force.
Cheerios near the edge of the bowl float upwards along the curve of the meniscus to look like they're clinging the edge of the bowl.
In both cases, the movements of the Cheerios are determined more by the geometry of the surface of the milk than by any attractive force acting between them.
The same principles also apply to denser objects. A tack can appear to float on water because its weight is counteracted by the surface tension of the water. (Unlike the Cheerio, however, the tack is not really floating. If pushed downward, it would sink.) Place another tack on the water and the two tacks will likewise appear to fall into each other if they drift close enough to one another.
Mahadevan is known for studying natural phenomenon that most people take for granted. Combining scientific rigor with a childlike wonder, he has studied the patterns made by crumpled paper, the way fabrics fold and wrinkle, how a flag flutters in a gentle breeze and the lightning-quick reflexes of the Venus flytrap.
"Familiarity does not mean comprehension," Mahadevan told LiveScience. "The world around you is robust. I don't have to go into a laboratory to do these kinds of fancy experiments; it just happens in front of your face, so I think it behooves us to actually explain that."
Apart from the sheer satisfaction gained from figuring something out, some of Mahadevan's studies also have practical applications.
The crumpled paper study is helping scientists understand how mountain ranges form and the cloth studies have helped animators and Internet sales departments create more natural looking clothing. The fly study could have applications for the glue industry.
A better understanding of the Cheerio Effect could give scientists a clearer insight into how certain insects walk on water and could lead to the creation of micro-structures that use surface tension to assemble themselves.
- The New Mystery of Water
- Walking on Water: Insect's Secret Revealed
- The Surprising New Science of Splashes
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12: Energy Security Strategy
On Thursday the UK government finally published its much anticipated Energy Security Strategy, in response to recent soaring energy prices and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Strategy seeks to ‘supercharge’ the roll out of clean energy infrastructure to help the UK reach 95% low carbon electricity by 2030. But, at the same time, the Strategy supports the maximisation of North Sea oil and gas extraction. The document supports the maximisation, it also sets out some more ambitious clean energy deployment targets and also promises changes on consenting issues, to speed up the planning process for offshore wind farms and provide greater policy support for solar schemes. But, the Strategy does not offer much hope for a major deployment of onshore wind projects and tidal schemes, and nor does it provide much comfort to consumers that energy bills will stop rising and that the government is taking action to decarbonise domestic heating. The recently published IPCC report was clear in calling for drastic cuts in fossil fuel consumption, widespread electrification and improved energy efficiency in order to limit global warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels. So, is the Strategy ambitious enough to put the UK in the best possible position to reach Net Zero by 2050?
Does the Strategy go far enough to support clean energy infrastructure deployment?
References to specific, more ambitious clean energy deployment targets / ambitions – 24GW of civil nuclear by 2050; 50GW of offshore wind by 2030; 70GW of solar (utility scale, domestic & commercial) by 2035; and 10GW of hydrogen – have been widely applauded and should provide funders with further confidence to invest in UK clean energy infrastructure. In fact, the targets exceed the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) own proposed targets for the main low-carbon technologies! Having 50GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 would be brilliant but, at present, the previous 40GW target is shaky. Why is it shaky? Partially because the government hasn’t made an offshore wind planning decision on time for 7 years. Deployment targets are great, but we need a smorgasbord of regulatory, policy, and funding measures to reach those targets. Thankfully, the Strategy proposes to deal with planning delays to offshore wind projects by:
- cutting planning timeframes from up to four years down to one year – a streamlined planning process for ‘priority cases’ will require amendments to the Planning Act 2008 to allow the Secretary of State to set a shorter examination timetable;
- streamlining of the assessment of projects’ environmental impacts (including implementing strategic compensation environmental mitigation across multiple projects to reduce planning delays, considering environmental effects of multiple schemes at a strategic level, and simplifying Habitats Regulations Assessments from late 2023); and
- revising the Renewable National Policy Statements (NPSs) to reflect the importance of energy security and net zero in delivering offshore wind projects – the revised draft NPSs have already passed through consultation and are expected to be designated later this year, so hopefully any additional ‘energy security’, ‘net zero’ and technology-specific policy strengthening wording (including support for solar development on ‘non-protected’ land) can be slipped in without delaying designation.
The streamlined planning process idea has arisen from the government’s Project Speed initiative (see the November 2020 National Infrastructure Strategy), which the government set up in Summer 2020 with the aim of accelerating and improving the delivery of the UK’s infrastructure portfolio, and a further ambition of reducing planning timescales by up to 50% for certain projects entering the system from September 2023. The Strategy refers to a streamlined process for offshore wind projects, but it would be illogical for it not to apply to other clean energy projects, such as solar, if complexity and environmental effects thresholds are met. Developers and funders require greater certainty that solar, wind and nuclear projects are going to get consented, and consented quickly. If a fast-track DCO consenting process applies to solar projects as well several solar developers may be persuaded to promote much larger solar farms of 150-500 megawatts, which should allow us to reach the 70GW deployed solar ambition ahead of 2035. Having to wait another 17 months for the fast-track DCO process to begin will be hugely frustrating to all those wind farm (and hopefully solar farm) promoters who just want to crack on and start producing clean energy. Other than the reference to a 70GW solar deployment ambition and the policy strengthening to support the approval of ground-mounted solar on non-protected land, there is little else in the Strategy for large scale solar developers to rave about.
Nuclear was given a whole two pages within the Strategy (out of 38), allowing the government to reconfirm its support for low-carbon nuclear projects which it considers are ‘the only form of reliable, low carbon electricity generation which has been proven at scale’. Nuclear power plants currently amount to ~8GW of capacity, generating 15% of the UK’s electricity. By 2050, the government wants 24GW of nuclear which should be supplying ~25% of our electricity based on projected energy demand. On nuclear, the government is also proposing:
- that up to eight more nuclear reactors could be progressed, to be delivered at the equivalent rate of one per year. This includes Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), which are smaller, less complicated and less expensive nuclear reactors relative to conventional nuclear power stations;
- to maintain its support for SMRs, having previously announced £210 million of financial support to help develop SMRs;
- to set up this year a government body called Great British Nuclear to help nuclear projects navigate all stages of the development process;
- to commence the selection process in 2023 for further nuclear projects, before deciding which to financially support; and
- to explore the potential for any streamlining or removing of duplication from the consenting and licensing of new nuclear power stations.
Critics of nuclear continue to argue that nuclear is still too expensive and takes too long to consent and build when compared with solar and wind.
Finally, the government is also betting big on hydrogen and the Strategy doubles the previous hydrogen production capacity ambition, from 5GW to 10GW (with over half being green hydrogen) by 2030. Production capacity at present is close to zero. A Hydrogen Business Model and Net Zero Hydrogen Fund are being established to support the early development of the hydrogen market and to allow it to be scaled up. The government may also decide to permit the blending of natural gas with 20% hydrogen to partially decarbonise our gas grid, but a final decision won’t be made until the end of 2023.
How about other technologies and energy efficiency measures?
Onshore wind is one of the cheapest forms of low-carbon electricity, one of the fastest to deploy and, according to BEIS, is supported by 80% of the British public. However, the Strategy doesn’t propose any material additional support for more onshore wind capacity, including no proposed changes to unfavourable policies within the National Planning Policy Framework. Instead, the government proposes to consult on developing partnerships with a limited number of ‘supportive communities’ who will benefit from guaranteed lower energy bills in return for hosting onshore wind development. If ‘supportive communities’ want to host onshore wind (confirmed by a simple majority online referendum perhaps?) and benefit from lower energy bills why should new onshore wind be restricted to a ‘limited number’? I’m baffled by the perceived disbenefits of wind turbines. We’re facing a war and an imminent climate disaster and some Conservative MPs think Mr and Mrs Miggins are outraged by a minor mechanical hum and an offensive blot on the landscape! In fact restoring onshore wind to its previous status in the planning system would still allow projects to be objected to and refused, but give it more of a fair fight. Personally, I think wind turbines are things of beauty that should be celebrated.
In terms of other technologies, the Strategy pledges to ‘aggressively explore renewable opportunities afforded by our geography and geology, including tidal and geothermal’, but no further details of the proposed aggressive exploration were provided. I’m not sure the ringfenced £20m per year for tidal project ‘contracts for difference’ funding amounts to ‘aggressive’, but there are signs of green shoots for UK tidal projects; the Swansea Blue Eden project is looking to succeed where the Swansea Tidal Lagoon project failed after the government refused to provide financial support back in 2018.
On energy efficiency very few new commitments were announced. The government is doubling its innovation funding to £20 million for the development and piloting of new green finance products for consumers who want to make green home improvements. It is also setting up a £30 million Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition to support British-made heat pumps for homes. Energy efficiency measures are widely considered to be the quickest and cheapest way to mitigate the current energy crisis and assist decarbonisation efforts, as it would reduce overall demand for gas, reduce consumers’ bills and cutting the need for fossil fuel imports. But there has been criticism from several quarters with several commentators calling for a more ambitious energy efficiency plan. Mike Thompson of the CCC said on the day of Strategy publication: ‘Recognising the difficulties in implementing effective policy quickly, it is still disappointing not to see more on energy efficiency and on supporting households to make changes that can cut their energy bills now. Government has reiterated its commitment to do more and we look forward to seeing details in the coming months.’
A slippery, oily slope?
The Strategy states that the North Sea Transition Authority is expected to open another licensing round for new North Sea oil and gas projects in this autumn. Ged Barlow, CEO of Net Zero North West, argues that:
- natural gas will be an important transition fuel;
- UK natural gas has a lower carbon footprint than imported gas;
- reaching net zero will require contributions by carbon capture and blue hydrogen (hydrogen produced from gas); and
- additional tax income from UK-produced natural gas could be used to fund the transition.
However, any new oil and gas field production is unlikely to be contributing much to the net zero transition; it takes an average of 28 years for an exploration licence to lead to oil and gas production, so that will be the 2040s or 2050s for the autumn licencing round projects. Further, tax receipts from any new projects won’t be funding the net zero transition, for the same reason. Further, the government has ruled out windfall taxes on North Sea oil and gas companies as, according to Kwasi Kwarteng, it ‘would be a tax on jobs, would destroy investment and would add to the uncertainty in oil markets.’ Other arguments against new oil and gas projects are that they won’t have an impact on energy security in the present or near future; they will have little impact on gas and oil prices (gas and oil are traded on wholesale markets rather than being retained for sole UK use); and they may also divert skilled workers and supply chain away from future clean energy projects. The government also confirmed last week (but it wasn’t mentioned in the Strategy) that it is commissioning a review of the geological science of fracking, reopening the door to the possibility of this controversial gas extraction method.
Gonna get myself connected?
The Strategy acknowledges that ramping up clean energy deployment requires accelerating the connecting network infrastructure to support it. There will be a prioritisation of anticipating the need for connections created by new energy projects and also ensuring that there is ‘hyper-flexbility in the system to match supply and demand and minimise energy wastage. A new ‘Future System Operator’ is going to be set up to oversee Britain’s energy system and the integration of existing networks with new technologies, such as hydrogen. Grid connection constraints are currently one of the greatest issues for clean energy developers to deal with. When it comes to solar developers identifying new sites, close proximity to sufficient grid capacity is criterion number one. All being well the proposed integrated and strategic approach to connections (coupled with investment) will assist; Chris Hewett, CEO of solar trade association Solar Energy UK reckons 50GW of solar deployment by 2030 is possible if grid constraints are sorted out.
Final thoughts and suggestions to Boris
The Strategy was largely welcomed by the Climate Change Committee who considered that the proposals would bring the UK closer to meeting net zero targets. However, more could be done to speed up clean energy infrastructure deployment and, therefore, decarbonisation. A handful of my tiny adjustments to the Strategy’s proposals would be:
- ensure that the fast-track DCO process will apply not just to offshore wind farms, but to all types of project (including solar and nuclear) proceeding via the DCO route;
- become pro-onshore wind and facilitate any ‘supportive communities’ to host onshore wind developments in their back yard and front yard;
- use a tax mechanism of some kind (whether windfall or otherwise) to direct monies from oil and gas extraction development to nascent green technology / energy purposes;
- provide more funding to alleviate grid connection constraints for clean energy generators; and
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After having a miscarriage and hearing countless stories of loss from fellow mothers, psychologist and mom Dr. Jessica Zucker started the #IHadaMiscarriage campaign in 2014 (which we interviewed her about). Last year, she created a line of empathy cards for people who have experienced miscarriage and stillbirth. Now she’s back with another incredible project.
Zucker just launched a line of “rainbow baby”-themed T-shirts and tote bags for moms and infants on her website in honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. She told The Huffington Post why started this line:
The shirts aim to: de-stigmatize loss, put a face to the statistics and move away from shame, to own our stories, to foster connection and community. Furthermore, these shirts are not only for women with rainbow babies. They are in fact also for women who themselves are rainbow babies!”
The line includes shirts for adults, babies, and tote bags as a way for women to own their experiences and identities–as well as giving them another way to cope. Zucker understands this pain only too well, as she suffered a miscarriage at 16 weeks in 2012.
Zucker explained why she thinks going public can be helpful to women and their families:
“We need not be ashamed of our reproductive histories. Pregnancy after pregnancy loss can be quite harrowing ― these items also aim to stimulate conversations among women who have been there, who have struggled, who know what it’s like.
If we think our generation doesn’t talk much about pregnancy loss, we can only imagine just how quiet things were in previous generations.”
The rainbow baby T-shirts and tote bags are available for purchase at Zucker’s online shop–and even better, the totes are also included for free with any shirt purchase. All proceeds will be donated to The Birth Hour podcast, and Zucker is offering giveaways through her Instagram account. | <urn:uuid:94f58566-0e06-481b-ad1f-d35e34cd8db5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kveller.com/after-pregnancy-loss-mom-makes-shirts-to-honor-rainbow-babies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.966309 | 408 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The electro-oxidation of dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) on three low-index basal single crystal gold faces was studied in a phosphate buffer solution. The reaction was found highly structure-sensitive; the Au(100) and Au(111) faces showed a high electrocatalytic activity, while the Au(110) face was much less active. The high electrocatalytic effect was attributed to the oxidation-mediator ability of the partially discharged OH(1-r)- species on the gold surface. The structural effect of the gold faces on the electro-oxidation of NADH may result from the difference in the adsorption of NAD+, via its pyridine moiety as the adsorption site, on the different gold faces. The possibility of developing a highly sensitive NADH sensor based on the electrochemical faceting technique is suggested. | <urn:uuid:289561a9-6a11-4977-a1c0-75654d134a85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.ncu.edu.tw/zh/publications/electrochemical-oxidation-of-dihydronicotinadmide-adenine-dinucle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953642 | 189 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The Greenhorns, a national grassroots nonprofit organization of young farmers, will premiere their much-anticipated documentary film, “The Greenhorns,” all over the Northwest this fall, from small town independent theatres to college campuses. Two Screenings will be held in Spokane at 7 pm November 5 and 6 at the Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W Main Ave. Each screening will include a Q & A session with the film’s director and young people involved in the regional food system in and around Spokane.
"The Greenhorns" documents the decisive reemergence on our national landscape of a key cultural and economic force, the young American farmer. These new men and women in agriculture operate and thrive despite a longstanding trend of farmer attrition and aging, and the continued rapid loss of farmland to development. The average age of a farmer in America is 57, and USDA subsidies to huge agribusinesses dominate Farm bill spending. But many communities are experiencing a resurgence of activity among young, new and aspiring farmers. | <urn:uuid:0e4c0db4-5f71-4408-8d5c-6a6138ebd664> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greenplanetcleaningservices.com/another-green-monday-meet-the-greenhorns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.936284 | 215 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Opok provides premium organic performance apparel designed for working out, going out, and everything in between. Our products are sustainably made without toxic chemicals and pesticides, the way nature intended it to be. The clothing industry has become synonymous with synthetic chemicals and oil based fabrics that are often characterized as carcinogens and hormone disruptors. Pretty disturbing right? These chemicals are not only terrible for the environment but by wearing these materials, your body is continuously exposed to these toxins. These toxic chemicals for the most part do not wash out and continuously enter though your skin on contact. The founders of Opok want to change this. Opok clothing is lightweight, breathable, durable and made from the highest quality organic materials. We are confident that Opok will be your most comfortable clothes you’ve ever worn!
About Our Founders:
We grew up in South Florida, spending our summers surfing, fishing, spear fishing, wakeboarding, and developing a love for the ocean. We both attended Stanford University and went on to play water polo professionally, representing team USA. While studying nutrition, we discovered that eating organic food was healthier for us, and also made us feel faster and stronger in the water. Curious, we began researching how toxins enter the body and found that food wasn’t the only thing we should be thinking about. Surprisingly, most commercially available clothing contains high levels of carcinogens and toxins including pesticides, formaldehydes, and hazardous dyes, which end up in our bodies through skin contact and inhalation. We also noticed that workout clothing is mainly made from synthetic materials, like polyester and a trend is to use recycled plastic bottles to make a soft fiber. This trend sounds great, but these plastics contain BPA, Phthalates, and other harmful chemicals that shouldn't be worn. Ultimately, we became frustrated of only seeing synthetic clothing for workout apparel.
After years of research and dozens of prototypes, we created Opok [Organic + Epoch]. A new era of fashionable, non-toxic activewear has arrived.
The clothing industry has wreaked havoc on the environment. The global fashion industry emits 1.7 billion tons of CO2 per year — more than the amount produced by international flights and shipping. Most clothing facilities also produce large amounts of toxic run off that end up in our water systems killing our marine life and coral reefs. Studies also show that microplastic pollution caused by washing synthetic textiles is the MAIN source of primary microplastics in the oceans and that these particles pass through wastewater treatment plants with ease and ultimately pose a significant threat for marine organisms and humans.
On top of manufacturing, cultivating the materials are also destroying our planet. Most manufactures use non-organic materials which require the use of synthetic pesticides for pest control. These toxic chemicals end up poisoning our famers, killing our pollinators and birds, and end up in our water systems, food supplies, and bodies.
Opok is giving back a portion of our proceeds to saving the bees and coral reefs, two vital ecosystems that our industry has virtually destroyed. Our manufacturing facilities only use organic farming, clean energy (wind and solar), and we don't create any toxic runoff. We believe the only way to make a difference and help improve the horrific damages that the clothing industry has created is to develop a brand that educates the public, follows all the right guidelines for creating sustainable and clean clothing, and provides fashionable, stylish, and extremely comfortable organic clothing for the consumers.
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Just in time for all your gift making, I've got a beautifully textured pattern that works up quick!
The real life mystery of what really happened during the 11 days that Agatha Christie went missing remains unsolved, the truth dying with Agatha and perhaps her ex-husband, Archie. Still, the mystery has provided much speculation and spawned entertaining tellings of what might have happened, as in this novel.
The first thing you need to know about this fictional book about the real-life disappearance of Agatha Christie is that it NOT really a book about Agatha Christie. She is a secondary character in Nan O'Dea's narrative. The sooner you come to this realization, the more readily you'll enjoy this book.
What if every single decision you ever made branched off into a different version of yourself that exists parallel to the you right now? What if you were allowed to pick one of them and take over that life instead of your present one?
Smart writing full of humor and heart, this is a great book that doesn't make you think too hard but still surprises you.
When We Let Go is about loss, guilt, forgiveness, and relationships, specifically mother-daughter type relationships. Sometimes you're in the mood for a book that promises a good cry, which was why I requested this book, and it delivered. The book covers a lot of heavy subjects, but does so in a thorough way, allowing us to grow with the characters in our perception of those topics.
How do you feel about making hats? Never made one before? Does the thought of working in the round scare you? What would you say if I told you that if you can crochet a rectangle, you can make a hat? It's true! Turning a rectangle into a hat is the perfect way to step into the world of hat-making, and in today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to do just that.
I recently came upon this fun new stitch and I wanted to share it with you! Because I'm showing it to you in rows, I figured we could do a quick coaster pattern with it as well! Let's dive in!
A spike stitch is a stitch that is worked into a location one or more rows below the previous row. They can be worked directly below your current stitch position or to the left or right of it. You can spike any stitch because the way you work the stitch itself doesn’t change, only the placement. For this tutorial, we are focusing on the double crochet variation.
Well, I am going to be honest, this isn't my favorite Kristin Hannah book...not even close, but it's also not my least favorite. I spent the first half, yes, HALF, of this book absolutely hating the main female characters, but The second half of the book is where this story shines. | <urn:uuid:8303054d-dde2-4e98-b01f-8d356942e413> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hooksbookswanderlust.com/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.971247 | 585 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Many interesting jobs make it possible to work from home. The spectrum of home work ranges from simple part-time jobs to full-time work – whether in the form of self-employment or as an employee in a company. The Internet plays a role in most of the activities described in the following article.
Working from home: advantages and disadvantages of working from home
Many employees and self-employed people can imagine working from home. Because that means savings in travel time and travel costs as well as the individual division of working hours.
This form of work is also beneficial if you have to be flexible due to family obligations or if the commute is difficult due to a health handicap. The developments in the online world in particular have created many opportunities for interesting activities in the home office. Whether full or part-time job, simple or demanding, there is something here for many interests and talents.
However, working from home poses special challenges for self-organization. Even those who need personal contact with colleagues will not be happy if they work full-time from home.
Occasionally there are also dubious offers in this area. Refrain if you are supposed to pay money for material or training, for example, or if an unrealistically high salary is promised. Let yourself be inspired in the following by 22 possibilities and examples for reputable providers in the field of home work .
The best 22 works from home for 2021
The following table lists activities that are suitable for working from home. Many can be done both full-time and part-time. The table shows the typical length of time.
Investments are usually only made for self-employed activities. The table shows the minimum investments. A normal computer and an internet connection are required and are not included. However, certain professional groups need particularly powerful technology and software in order to be able to deliver the necessary quality.
1. Game tester
This type of home work is ideal for gamers, because you should have experience for it. It’s about testing new games for content and technical errors before they hit the market. Such jobs are relatively popular.
There are also offers for permanent positions, but these are mostly freelance extra earnings if you want to work from home.
For a job as a game tester directly to the software company, look up current job advertisements, for example at Joblift , Adzuna or on the corresponding placement portals. Note, however, that there is not always money for the tests.
2. Usability tester
The usability test is a special form of product test that deals with digital content. For example, they test apps, software or websites on behalf of the manufacturer. You evaluate speed, user friendliness and appearance and look for logical and technical errors. They are based on given test plans and document the results.
Apart from interest and general experience in handling the products to be tested, you do not need any specialist knowledge. Concentration and precise work are important. The job is good for students and for working from home. You can find offers for permanent positions or freelance work via job exchanges or search engines on the Internet. You will of course also find job offers on the relevant agency platforms. In our opinion, the following are particularly recommended:
The remuneration is usually performance-related. That means there is a fixed amount per test.
3. Create digital products
If you create e-books, audio or video courses, you can sell them to as many customers as you like without any additional effort. These digital products often generate passive income even after years. This is not a classic home work, with which you immediately generate regular income, but a self-employed activity with a high initial expenditure of time. Because the digital products must offer your customers benefits and meet their quality requirements.
Marketing is also very important for success, so that enough potential buyers become aware of your product. Use for example social media marketing or the support of Digistore24 or TradeTracker. You can sell e-books via the Amazon Kindle Store or ePubli, among others.
In this short video you will learn how the sale of digital products on Digistore24 works.
4. Working from home as a programmer
As a programmer, you can also work very well from home, although you must of course have the appropriate programming skills. It is an advantage if you have a command of several programming languages such as C ++, PHP and Java. Most programmers specialize in databases or app development, for example. Programmers work as employees or freelancers. In this way, students can gain practical experience.
The pay is very good. With larger jobs you can earn several thousand euros. At fiverr.com, you will find both programming positions and individual jobs. An additional income opportunity is the development of apps, plugins and themes that you sell yourself.
5. Graphic designer
Working from home is no problem for both freelance and employed graphic designers. In the case of an employment relationship, however, it depends on whether the employer allows home work. In order to work as a graphic designer, you need special skills that convey an education or a degree. However, the job title is not protected.
The tasks of a graphic designer include the design of logos, packaging or graphics for websites and publications. In addition to creativity, empathy is an important prerequisite for this job. Because the use of colors, shapes and fonts should always produce a certain effect. You can find job offers with an employment contract on the usual job exchanges. For self-employed there is order exchanges such 99designs.
6. Web designer
Web designers are self-employed or employed. It is possible to work from home as only one computer workstation is required. In most cases, communication with customers takes place online. In the case of an employee relationship, however, the employer can request presence in the office. A web designer creates and maintains his customers’ websites. He must be familiar with both the technical and the creative sides of these tasks.
Web designers are often themselves clients for graphic designers and copywriters. The job demands many skills and offers good income opportunities. The customer acquisition takes place at the self-employed normally through its own website, as this is also an important business card of their own work as well as online marketing activities, advertisements on portals and referrals.
7. Video producer
A video producer creates videos and films. Typical projects are image films, advertising clips or videos from private events. If you are filming yourself, you cannot work entirely from home. Editing, sound editing and inserting effects take up a lot of the time.
If working from home is important to you, specialize in these activities. To do this, work as a freelancer with partners who concentrate on filming. There are also companies that are looking for professionals for this work.
8. Write, correct or proofread texts
Whether for company publications, online shops, blogs or magazines, the need for content is great. Much of this is written by freelance copywriters and reviewed by proofreaders and editors. A corrector pays attention to spelling, grammar and typography errors. An editor also checks the content, structure and logic of the texts. A linguistic and, in the case of specializations, technical training is an advantage. But lateral entrants with the right talent can also familiarize themselves.
In this area freelance work dominates. But there are also employment relationships with publishers, advertising agencies or text service companies that allow you to work from home. Freelancers find jobs via their own website or placement portals. An alternative are portals such as textbroker, which take on a large part of the organizational effort such as customer acquisition and billing for a commission.
Check the following articles on the same topic:
As a translator, you can work from home without any problems. Because, unlike an interpreter, you only translate in writing. The job title is not protected. Nevertheless, the work makes high demands. You not only need a good knowledge of the respective foreign language and the cultural characteristics of the country, but also have to master the subtleties of the mother tongue. Furthermore, specialist knowledge is required if the texts deal with special topics.
It makes sense to specialize during your studies or training. Because literary translations have different requirements than the translation of technical texts or websites. The possible earnings depend on the language, your abilities and the type of text. Many translators work freelance.
10. Data and address recording
In some companies, it is occasionally or regularly necessary to manually collect data. These are, for example, addresses of mail items, lists or business cards, but also survey and research results. These tasks are often delegated to freelancers. However, permanent positions are also possible. Payment is based on the quantity, with a fixed price per data set being agreed.
If you regularly do this work as a freelancer, you must register at least one small business. For an employment relationship, you conclude an employment contract. This work is not difficult, but it does require a high level of concentration. You can find relevant vacancies on job exchanges and classifieds. Always check whether you can work from home.
11. Internet research
Both companies and research institutions occasionally outsource research work. These are often simple tasks such as finding company data or prices for market research. Some research work also requires knowledge of the relevant field, especially in the scientific field. This work works well for students.
A fixed price is paid for each information researched. You should therefore have sufficient internet experience. These research tasks are often performed by freelancers. Employment with an employment contract is possible in individual cases. Corresponding job offers and orders can be found on the common job exchanges, including on Joblift or Adzuna.
12. Virtual assistance
This involves taking on secretarial work for which no presence is required. Companies like to use this option at peak times or to bridge vacation phases. Even small companies without their own secretariat make use of this support. The tasks include answering calls, organizing appointments or answering e-mails.
Virtual assistants work from home as self-employed or are employed by a corresponding service company. In this occupation, working from home is often possible for employees. Payment is made according to time or at a fixed price for tasks taken on. This occupation is also suitable for a main occupation.
Examples of well-known job portals:
13. Customer support
Customer care is often, but not always, based on an employment contract. Because it’s about communicating with a company’s customers by phone, email or chat. This requires more extensive knowledge of the company’s products and services. You can find relevant positions on the job exchanges.
They answer questions, deal with customer concerns and receive complaints. Friendliness and customer orientation are therefore the most important requirements. Customer care can also be provided by self-employed home workers as part of virtual assistance.
Your own YouTube channel is also suitable for working from home. In the long term, you can achieve a good passive income and build your own business. But that also means that there is a lot of effort before success. You need to regularly produce interesting videos and use clever marketing to draw attention to your channel. Because this is the only way to reach enough subscribers to generate a decent income.
The income is generated by placing advertisements and through affiliate links in the video description. YouTubers with a very high reach can also receive product placement contracts. Operating your own YouTube channel is always an independent job.
If you want to know how to create your own YouTube channel in no time at all, you should watch the following:
15. Sell DIY products
Do you like to be creative in your craft? Then you can make money selling your homemade products. Sewing and needlework, self-made jewelry and decorative items bring in additional income or even a main income. You work from home and can turn your hobby into a profession.
Suitable sales platforms include Handmade at Amazon, or etsy.com. If you are very active, you can also set up your own shop, for example with Shopify. Pay attention to the offers and prices of the competition and use social media channels to attract attention. The regular sale of DIY products is considered a trade and requires registration.
16. Sell stock photos
As a hobby photographer, have you saved a lot of pictures and new ones are constantly being added? Use this treasure to make money. Certainly some of your works are suitable for websites and publications. About exchanges such as Alamy or iStock can be photo-rights sale.
Of course, you cannot only work from home because you are taking photos away from home. But you are not tied to fixed working hours and do a large part of your work at home, editing the photos and assigning the keywords. The best thing, however, is that the photos will still generate passive income even after a long time without you having to do anything. And apart from a good camera and suitable image processing software, there are no initial investments.
17. Make money as a blogger
You can also work from home and make money with your own blog. The income is generated through affiliate links. These are referrals linked on your page for products or services that you get paid for. Depending on the agreement, you earn, for example, on every click or purchase. Large online shops and other companies offer programs for this.
For affiliate marketing to be worthwhile, your blog needs to achieve a good search engine ranking. On the one hand, it is important to regularly publish interesting articles. Second, you have to take care of search engine optimization ( SEO ). You can make a lot of money with a good and extensive blog. The initial effort usually pays off in the long term.
Working from home is also possible with your own online shop, especially if you use the dropshipping concept. This means that the wholesaler sends the goods directly to the customer. You don’t come into contact with it and don’t need a warehouse. You don’t have to pre-finance anything either. Therefore, this variant is also a good start for founders.
Your task is initially to set up the online shop, for which you can use Shopify, for example . The most difficult thing is to find suitable wholesalers. But once the shop is up and running, you take care of product range maintenance, advertising and customer relationships. You can work completely from home.
If you want to learn more about how you can set up your own online shop, we recommend Biaheza’s dropshipping video course. Here you will learn step by step everything to do with dropshipping.
19. Take surveys online
There are some online portals that carry out surveys for the purpose of market research and pay for them with money, vouchers or bonuses. Some examples are:
- Place of opinion
- GFK scan projects
- Nielsen Digital Voice
You have to register to participate. The number of surveys allowed per person in a certain period is limited.
For a significant income, you would have to register with many of these portals. The very widespread payment with vouchers or bonuses also does not offer the same flexibility as money. But surveys are a good opportunity to earn a few euros on the side, while you can work from home or during the waiting times that arise in everyday life. Because a smartphone is enough.
20. Product Tester
Another option for working from home that is suitable as an extra income is to test products. You can do that via Pinecone, for example. Basically, however, paid tests are rather rare. For example, you can register at mysterypanel.de, where you will be selected for suitable tests. Most of the other portals, however, deal with the evaluation of purchased products for which you receive vouchers or reward points.
Registration on shopdoc.de/en can also be worthwhile . Here you can test products traded on Amazon. You need to apply for individual tests. You send feedback to the manufacturer after the test. There is no money for it, but you get the product for free and you can keep it.
21. Assembly, production and packaging work
Working from home is also possible without a computer. This is the classic form of home work where you carry out simple manual activities. In advertisements, jobs are sometimes offered for filling surprise bags or installing ballpoint pens. Do not accept such work if you are to pay money for the material supplied. Because there are also black sheep in this area.
It can be more worthwhile to ask local businesses about working from home. Due to the proximity, the delivery routes are not long and the employer provides you with the necessary work equipment. They also usually receive an employment contract. Payment for such work is almost always piece wages.
22. Micro jobs
When a larger project can be broken down into small tasks, it is called crowdsourcing. This creates micro jobs that you can do online via portals such as clickworker. These are small, simple tasks for which a fixed price is paid.
Typical tasks are internet research, categorizing photos or creating small texts. Usually the earnings are low in relation to the effort. Therefore, micro jobs are not particularly suitable if you want to make a living from working from home. However, they are a good idea for an uncomplicated additional income with free time management.
Which employers still allow home work?
There are numerous other opportunities to work part-time, self-employed or as a full-time employee from home in a wide variety of industries. In online job boards, you can search specifically for opportunities that enable you to work from home. To do this, enter “home work”, “home office” or “work from home” in the search bar. With the various offers, pay attention to whether it is an employment relationship or freelance work and, above all, a serious offer.
This is what you can earn when you work from home
As the above examples show, earnings can vary widely. The range extends from the occasional voucher for surveys to several thousand euros a month for the full-time programmer.
It doesn’t matter where you work, but what and with what effort. Certain forms of work such as creating stock photos or blogs with affiliate links also only generate income over time.
The following examples serve as a guide:
- Answer surveys: 5 to 20 euros / survey
- Usability tester: 10 to 30 euros / hour
- Virtual assistance: 15 to 20 euros / hour
- Assembly work: 9 to 15 euros / hour
You have to pay attention to the following when working from home: Tax office, taxes & Co.
If you have an employment contract for your homework, you do not have to worry about this topic very much. As with all other employment relationships, your employer pays taxes and social security contributions. It doesn’t matter whether you work from home or directly in the company.
If you are self-employed, it must first be clarified whether it is a commercial or a freelance activity. As a founder, you report this self-employment directly to the tax office using the questionnaire on tax registration. You must also register all other activities with the trade office, provided that you do them regularly and with the intention of making a profit.
The self-employed are subject to additional obligations in terms of bookkeeping and filing income and sales tax returns. In the case of low income there are certain reliefs. The best thing to do is to get individual advice and find out about special features under social security law.
If you are a full-time self-employed person, make sure that you work for different clients. Otherwise you will quickly fall into the category of bogus self-employment, which can have lasting consequences for you and your client. If you work full-time in the public sector, you must inform your employer in advance that you are taking on a part-time job – this is also recommended for all other employers, but depends on the agreements in your employment contract.
Conclusion: Many different options for working from home
Earning a few euros part-time working from home is no problem thanks to the Internet. But a full-time existence in a demanding profession can also be built up in this way.
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- 1 What do you clean Bulldog folds with?
- 2 How do you clean a dog’s face folds?
- 3 How do you treat an infected Bulldog wrinkle?
- 4 How do you keep English Bulldogs from getting wrinkles dry?
- 5 Can you use baby wipes on Bulldogs?
- 6 How often should you wash a bulldog?
- 7 How do I get rid of my dogs tear stains?
- 8 Can I put Neosporin on my dog?
- 9 How do I treat my dogs infected wrinkles?
- 10 How do I get rid of my bulldog smell?
- 11 Can I put Vaseline on my dog’s wrinkles?
- 12 Is coconut oil good for Bulldogs?
- 13 Why does my Bulldogs face stink?
- 14 Why do Bulldogs fart so much?
What do you clean Bulldog folds with?
Fill a small spray bottle with water and add 2-3 capfuls of hydrogen peroxide. Some bulldog owners choose to also apply a wrinkle ointment with ingredients such as shea butter, jojoba oil, and rosemary to help combat bacteria and treat/prevent irritation.
How do you clean a dog’s face folds?
Just moisten a cotton ball or a soft wash cloth with it and open your dog’s skin folds with one hand while you use the other to gently wipe the exposed skin clean. If you are not confident with just using warm water as a cleaning process: Add one drop of pet shampoo to a cup of warm water and mix it up into a solution.
How do you treat an infected Bulldog wrinkle?
Usually treatment includes frequent antimicrobial products based on the nature of the infection within the skin fold. Topical therapy is usually adequate. Some dogs may be prone to severe infections or recurrence of infection within skin folds.
How do you keep English Bulldogs from getting wrinkles dry?
After the application of soap or shampoo, rinse thoroughly to remove all traces of residue. Dry your bully’s wrinkles with a soft, dry cloth. For extra protection against moisture, use cornstarch, baby powder or a specialty grooming powder in the wrinkles.
Can you use baby wipes on Bulldogs?
Can you use baby wipes on an English bulldog? Yes, you can use baby wipes on the wrinkles of an English bulldog to keep them clean and free from infection. While medicated baby wipes are an option, it is better to use special pet wipes to keep their wrinkles and folds clean.
How often should you wash a bulldog?
A Bulldog does require regular bathing and grooming. This kind yet courageous dog can be bathed as frequently as every week up to no more than every six weeks depending on his lifestyle. With this smooth coated breed, regular bathing is essential to maintain healthy skin and coat.
How do I get rid of my dogs tear stains?
Flush eyes with an appropriate canine eye-wash, such as saline eye-wash solutions or Terra Septic eye drops. Moisten a cotton ball with the same eye wash or a contact lens solution, and rub underneath and around the eye area.
Can I put Neosporin on my dog?
The good news is that Neosporin is regarded as safe to use on dogs. This means that if your pooch trips and scrapes his elbow, that handy tube of triple antibiotic ointment you have in your bathroom cabinet will do the trick.
How do I treat my dogs infected wrinkles?
First and foremost, visit your vet if your dog’s wrinkles appear infected. Additionally, clean your dog’s wrinkles with a moist towel several times a day, especially after they eat or drink. Go back over wrinkles with a dry towel to remove any moisture.
How do I get rid of my bulldog smell?
However, a semi-regular bath every few weeks (or even months) using natural shampoo will help your buddy smell fresh and clean. If you are using water and shampoo, make sure you don’t leave your dog wet, because the moisture can get trapped in his wrinkles and exacerbate existing odor problems.
Can I put Vaseline on my dog’s wrinkles?
After you’ve dried the wrinkles, use a cotton swab with a tiny amount of petroleum jelly on it to swab a thin layer of the jelly over the skin in between the wrinkles. The jelly will prevent excess moisture from accumulating in between the wrinkles and will feel nice against the skin.
Is coconut oil good for Bulldogs?
Coconut Oil is a natural food product with lots of healthy benefits for English Bulldogs. Coconut Oil’s main ingredients: MCTs (Medium Chain Triglycerides) are also a primary ingredient in dog’s breast milk. MCTs are rapidly absorbed by dogs and start working immediately on a variety of processes in their bodies.
Why does my Bulldogs face stink?
If you have noticed a bad smell coming from your Bullies’ face, it is probably down to either skin fold dermatitis or pyoderma. Skin fold dermatitis is a common problem in Bulldogs and other breeds with wrinkled skin. A buildup of bacteria is caused by the warm, wet conditions in your pup’s skin folds.
Why do Bulldogs fart so much?
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Author ORCID Identifier
In 1996, the author published “A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness: Reflections on Body, Food, and Bulimia” (Tillmann-Healy, 1996), an account of her struggle with binging and purging from ages 15 to 25. She came to understand bulimia as a communicative act, expressing fear, anxiety, and grief. From 25 to 35, her recovery from bulimia involved learning to “purge” emotion through other forms of communication (e.g., dialogue, writing, and teaching). At 35, separation and divorce pose the greatest challenge to the author’s 10-year recovery, yet she does not return to bulimic expression. This article invites readers to sense and feel pathways in, through, and out of unhealthy relationships with our bodies and ourselves.
Tillmann, L. M. (2009). Body and bulimia revisited: Reflections on "A Secret Life." Journal of Applied Communication Research, 37(1): 98-112.
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The truth is you can’t be grumpy and grateful at the same time.
The saying goes, grateful people are happy people. There is always something to be grateful for.
Think about all the people in your life that you really love. As you open yourself to gratitude take a moment to really appreciate them.
Also look around, take a moment to notice the things in you’re life that you are grateful for. Notice if this brings a change within. By you being grateful, it helps remind other people to also be grateful.
To know in your mind that you are grateful is one thing, but to teach this to your body is where the real transformation takes place.
A daily gratitude practice is a wonderful way to teach your body to be grateful. Here are some ways you can incorporate gratitude into your daily life.
- Have the intention to connect with the energy of gratitude
- Be in a place of awareness so you can bring yourself back to gratitude when you are not in it.
- Place your hands on your heart and breath 3 things into your body that you’re grateful for. Let yourself really receive this.
- Create a gratitude journal.
- When you look in the mirror take a moment to be grateful for your beautiful self. See yourself through the eyes of gratitude.
- When you look at your loved ones let them feel your gratitude.
By doing your gratitude practice you are teaching your system to get into the habit of being grateful.
Love and gratitude, Kay Wilson
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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis make the annual trek to the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron to celebrate Lag B’Omer.
Join Yishai Fleisher and his brother Joshua Fleisher (videographer) as they share a previous year’s pilgrimage to Meron.
Meron, a northern Israeli village, is the site of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a first-century rabbi.
The Lag B’Omer celebration, marking the passing of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, was instituted by the great spiritual leader himself on his deathbed. It is marked by torches, song and feasting.
Bonfires are lit across the country to mark the occasion.
Watch and get swept into the fiery mysticism of the ultimate Jewish party!
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Purchase power beats flower power on canals
Once a favourite of the flower power generation, living on a canal boat has become a privilege for the young and affluent. Today modern houseboats are not longer dingy eccentric dwellings for the marginal, but fully equipped modern pads
Hendrika-Maria lives opposite number 296, Prinsengracht, and still bears the original features of a houseboat. Today she attracts tourists from around the world as Amsterdam’s only houseboat museum. After stepping on the boat and descending the small steps, I am practically standing in the bedroom, which consists of a big mattress edged into a cabin at the rear of the boat. Through a little round window I can see a tourist boat passing by, a few seconds before Hendrika-Maria starts shaking on the waves and leaves me a little dizzy.
A hippy way of life
“In the sixties there was a huge housing shortage in Amsterdam and living on a boat was very cheap in comparison. It was also cool to live an alternative way of life, so a lot of hippies moved onto houseboats,” says Marjet van Zadelhoff, a museum attendant.
Nowadays the hippies seem to have disappeared. Teti Verhoeff, who works at the local council’s department for houseboats, explains that the houseboat situation in Amsterdam went through a change over the years: “In the beginning living on the water was called ‘the freedom state’. There were no rules and no strings, which was the adventure of it. Living on the water was very popular and a lot cheaper, so it got more crowded. But when people started complaining about each other and water space got scarcer and scarcer, the council decided to imply some rules.”
“Nowadays living on the water is more sophisticated. People want to have a little boat to use during the weekend, they want to live on a houseboat, so in general everybody wants some water. It’s a real image thing in Amsterdam which made the water very valuable.”
What the flower power generation started as a trend is now a popular way of living for the young and affluent.
Luxury homes for the affluent
A little further up the Prinsengracht I visit Alessandra Enting who guards her friend’s home while she is away. “It’s always a perception that people living on houseboats are strange eccentric people, but that’s not true at all. We are normal people with great jobs who earn a lot of money. You need a lot of money to live on a houseboat. I would like to buy one myself, and I am expecting to pay between 230.000 and 250.000 Euro for a traditional boat”.
The ‘ark’ which Alessandra invites me onto looks like featured in a ‘beautiful living’ magazine. Elegant white book shelves decorate the walls and a fancy computer desktop silently buzzes in the corner.
“We have everything here: Internet, washing machine, television. The pole you can see outside provides us with the electricity, which we share with the neighbours.” To the right hand side stretches a wooden terrace covered with a little table and some garden chairs in between high plants. “It’s the feeling of freedom that attracts me most. You don’t have any direct neighbours, you can turn on your music as loud as you like and you always have access to outside areas. If you live on a second floor flat, you don’t even have a garden,” Alessandra explains.
André Aaldering has been living on his houseboat for twenty-five years. He pays a yearly fee of 800 Euro for his licence. But from his experience the maintenance of the boat is the most expensive part in the long run, and the most tiring. “The boat has to be painted every 2-3 years and it needs to be inspected every four years. It is a pain because I have to do everything on my own, while I am a bit lazy, especially during the summer.”
Canals in London
A situation, which seems perfectly accepted and more and more adapted to the ‘normal’ way of life in Amsterdam, is a different story in London. A city, which depends less on its water automatically attracts fewer people to live on it. But still, demand is rising. According to British Waterways, who deal with one fifth of the moorings in London, boat ownership in the UK is increasing by 2.5 per cent per year and their waiting lists for moorings bear over 300 people.
I meet Adam Slade at Battlebridge Basin near King’s Cross. He has been living on houseboats for over 17 years. “I love it! We’re in central London right now and yet there are ducks, geese, cormorants, there is great wildlife on the water. And plus, it’s a very harmless way of living. You can always ask a girl if she wants to come sit on your boat. Yes, you do have to do more than living in a house but you also get so much more for that.” However, the cost of living on a houseboat is quite expensive. Adam does not want to admit how much he pays, but he estimates that people in the King's Cross area pay £150-250 a week only for renting a mooring space.
For Dawn Menear and her brother Julian money is not a big issue. They would like to buy a houseboat and move onto the water. “I love the canals and the freedom. It’s a really friendly atmosphere and it can be a really cheap way to live. My children are all grown up now so I am ready to change my life,” Dawn says. “We have to find a mooring and then we want to buy a boat up north and bring it down to London. I would like a traditional looking boat with some nice red and green paint. We realise it is going to take a while but we are ready to wait,” she continues.
Looking at the price situation for houseboats in London, it is definitely not a cheap housing alternative. While for people who can afford it and are looking for a change in their lifestyle London offers a seemingly attractive location for houseboat residents.
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Alim Exam is for 12th-grade Bangladeshi madrasah students. Alim exam carries equal value as HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate). Madrasah students in Bangladesh attend 4 different board exams before the Fazil exam. The 5th grade (Class 5) Madrasah students attend in Ebtedaye exam which is equal to the PSC (Primary School Certificate) exam. Then they attend in JDC exam which is equal to JSC (Junior School Certificate). Then After Dakhil, which is equal to SSC (Secondary School Certificate), they attend in Alim Exam. This is the ending of Madrasah’s college life. Alim exam is as significant as the HSC exam in Bangladesh. Your GPA (Grading Point Average) of the Alim Exam will affect your future life for sure. That’s why we got the Alim Exam routine 2020 today for your comfort. You will find the routine as a table and an Image file and PDF format. There will be also the Subjects of Alim exam with Subject code.
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The Alim Exam routine of 2020 is not published yet. Approximately it will publish in March 2020. So we are providing the Alim exam routine of the past year. But whenever the Alim exam published we will update it as soon as possible. So stay tuned with us for the Alim exam routine 2020.
This is the Official Alim Exam routine which is published by Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board, Dhaka. This routine is verified and signed by the Exam controller of Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board. To know more about the Alim exam routine 2020, you can email at [email protected] For any of the latest updates of Alim exam routine 2020, you can directly call at Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board at 58610202.
Alim Exam Routine PDF
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Alim Subject With Code
|Hadis and Usulul Hadis||202|
|Arabic – 1st Part (Sadharon Bivag)||205|
|Arabic Sahitto (Biggan and Muzabbid Mahir Bivag)||223|
|Arabic – 2nd Part||206|
|Al Fiqh – 1st Part||203|
|Al Fiqh – 2nd Part||204|
|English – 1st Part||238|
|English – 2nd Part||239|
|ICT (Information Communication Technology)||240|
|Bangla – 1st Part||236|
|Bangla – 2nd Part||237|
|Balatak and Manotik (Sadharon Bivag)||210|
|Physics (Tottio) – 1st Part||224|
|Tazbid – 1st Part (Muzabbid Mahir Bivag)||232|
|Physics (Tottio) – 2nd Part||225|
|Tazbid – 2nd Part (Muzabbid Mahir Bivag)||233|
|Chemistry – 1st Part (Tottio)||226|
|Economics (Orthoniti) – 1st Part||213|
|Pouro Niti and Shushason – 1st Part||241|
|Urdu – 1st Part||219|
|Farsi – 1st Part||221|
|Chemistry – 2nd Part||227|
|Economics (Orthoniti) – 2nd Part||214|
|Pouro Niti and Shushason – 2nd Part||242|
|Urdu – 2nd Part||220|
|Farsi – 2nd Part||222|
|Biology – 1st Part (Tottio)||230|
|Biology – 2nd Part (Tottio)||231|
|Higher Math – 1st Part||228|
|Higher Math – 2nd Part||229|
Alim Exam Routine For All Madrasah
Dakhil Exam is for all Madrasah understudies in Bangladesh. As indicated by Wikipedia, there were 14,987 Ebtedayee, 6402 Dakhil, 1376 Alim and 1050 Fazil Madrasahs in Bangladesh. Furthermore, this routine possibly is for all the Madrasah understudies of tenth Grade. On the off chance that you are a Madrasah understudy and contemplating in class 10, at that point this routine is for you. Be completely certain about your organization. It will be more secure.
Important Notice For Alim Student 2020
- You have to attend the Dakhil exam before 30 mins of the exam starting time.
- First, you have to write MCQ and then CQ (Tottio)
- You can carry a General Scientific Calculator, and an analog watch.
- No one can carry a mobile device except the Kendro Sochib.
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The regulations on food waste disposal are becoming stricter. To reduce inconveniences on citizens, Seoul is implementing the Zero Food Waste, Seoul 2018 policy to minimize food waste generated and to turn it into resources.
Measures against Food Waste Problem Urgently Needed
Korea has been putting efforts to reduce waste such as food waste after joining the London Convention in December 1992, an international convention conmitted to preventing marine pollution by waste dumping of wastes into the sea.
Stronger Food Waste Regulation
In 2005, direct landfilling of food waste was banned and separate disposal of recyclables was implemented on a national scale. As food waste water was banned to be released into the sea starting January 2013, a few food waste disposal companies refused to treat the waste, causing much inconveniences on citizens. This was because of hike in disposal cost since the food waste water now had to be treated on land. Since both the citizens - the producers of waste - and the local governments pay for waste disposal cost, the food waste problem is, after all, a social issue.
Enormous Food Waste Disposal Cost
As of 2013, 3,070 tons of food waste is generated every day in Seoul, which is 0.03kg per day per person. Of it, 1,920 tons of food waste produced from the household category (single-family houses, multiunit buildings, and small-size restaurants) takes up 62.5%. Also, every day, 1,149 tons of food waste is generated from large waste-producing business sites such as food-serving places like big-size restaurants and hotels, and agricultural & fish markets. Of this, about 700 tons of garbage is utilized without changing its original form because of good condition.
In Seoul, the waste disposal cost is shared by most of administrative districts and citizens. It costs on average KRW 110,000-120,000 to treat 1 ton of food waste. If collection and transportation cost of about KRW 50,000 is added, a total of KRW 170,000 is required to collect, transport, and treat 1 ton of food waste. As of 1st quarter of 2013, residents only pay more or less 30% of the total disposal cost, equivalent to collection and transportation cost, even though they are the very producers of the waste. This means that the remaining 70% is covered by administrative districts. However, some districts in poor financial condition are burdened by the average annual cost of KRW 4-5 billion for food waste management.
If the food waste generated every year in Seoul is reduced by as little as 20%, KRW 20-30 billion of management cost can be saved annually, which is enough to build 30 public daycare centers.
Seoul’s Efforts to Minimize Food Waste
City-wide Implementation of Volume-based Food Waste Disposal System
In the past, a flat-rate food waste disposal system was applied to Seoul’s multi-unit buildings in which residents were able to dispose as much as food waste they wish once they pay a flat fee. A volumebased system, on the other hand, was implemented on single-family houses, which comprised only 70% of entire Seoul. To reduce food waste even more, in 2010 the city government began thinking about implementing the volume-based system to all multi-unit buildings and single-family houses in Seoul to reduce food waste.
Before implementing the volume-based system city-wide, Seoul carried out a pilot program with multi-unit buildings and single-family houses in some administrative districts for two years since 2011. After assessing the results from the pilot program and addressing related issues, Seoul enforced the system all city-wide. 18 districts implemented the ‘volume-based system per housing complex’ either by issuing a payment certificate or utilizing RFID to weigh the garbage on garbage trucks, and the other 7 districts adopted the ‘volume-based system per household in multi-unit buildings’ by utilizing special waste bags or RFID system.
Stable Disposal of Food Waste Water
In 2012, Seoul generated average 3,311 tons of food waste per day. Of this, waste water was 1,800 tons, of which 622 tons was released into the sea. However, as releasing food waste water to the ocean was banned starting January 2013, Seoul was in need of a solution. Preparing for the ocean dumping ban, Seoul invested approximately KRW 7 billion in installing food waste water injection facility and anti-odor facility to Jungnang and Seonam Water Treatment Centers.
Also, in order to consistently treat food waste water generated in the Metropolitan area including Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon, Seoul pushed forward a project of building a facility capable of processing 500 tons of food waste water a day in the Metropolitan area landfill that converts food waste water to biogas. As a result, the daily 622 tons of waste water that used to be released into the sea is now being treated 100%. In 2013, every day, 1,454 tons of waste water was generated, 89% (1,945 tons) of which was treated by public water treatment facilities and 11% (160 tons) by private contractors.
Also, the public food waste disposal and recycling facilities planned in the future will have a food waste water treatment facility installed on site, and food waste water treatment function will be added to the existing recycling facilities. As such, Seoul is planning to treat 680 tons of food waste water per day by 2020 by expanding the related facilities.
Installing Food Waste Reducer
Citizens started to make effort to reduce food waste due to the implementation of volume-based food waste disposal system which was enforced city-wide since 2013. Against this backdrop, there was a rise in demand for devices that reduce the volume of food waste. The city government carried out a pilot program for using food waste reducers for 2 years from 2012 to support citizens’ effort to reduce food waste. Seoul supported 19 administrative districts for their operation of large-size reducers, and decided to give the district KRW 2.5 million per reducer, which is equivalent to 5-month rental fee.
Seoul subsidized the districts with KRW 557 million for operating 231 large-size waste reducers from 2012 to 2013. Also, in 2014, Seoul also paid for the purchase of 20 large-size reducers for low-income families in multi-unit buildings in Guro-gu to use. After the 2-year pilot program, Seoul found the large-size reducers effective since they reduced 80% of food waste. Also, 83% of the residents surveyed said they were satisfied with the reducer.
Parallel to Seoul’s pilot program, administrative districts also carried out their own large-size reducer pilot programs. However, there was a problem that different types of large-size reducers with unequal performance levels were purchased by districts and supplied to multi-unit buildings. Being aware of this issue, Seoul formulated and recommended a quality standard guideline for food waste reducers in order to induce production and provision of reducers with reasonable quality. This guideline, which is applicable to large-size reducers with daily processing capacity of less than 100kg, is for administrative districts to use as a reference when purchasing and installing large-size reducers for multi-unit buildings.
Food Waste Shrinking Gradually
Ever since the city government started to aggressively implement the volume-based food waste disposal system in January 2013, the amount of food waste generated in the household category in 25 administrative districts, which recorded 2,197 tons per day in the first half of 2012, shrank to 1,978 tons in the same period of 2013. This means that, on average, 219 tons of food waste decreased every day resulting in a 10% reduction annually. Furthermore, the food waste produced in the household category also saw a 14% reduction, a KRW 1.8 million cost saving annually. (Large waste-producing business sites disposed food waste on their own.) Seoul’s RFID volume-based food waste disposal system was also introduced in The Guardian, a British daily newspaper, in March 2014. | <urn:uuid:9e813dbc-1e3a-4060-8583-01d968f230d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seoulsolution.kr/en/node/3412 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964123 | 1,669 | 3.609375 | 4 |
The FINANCIAL — Amgen announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted marketing approval for BLINCYTO (blinatumomab) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). BLINCYTO was developed in Japan by Amgen Astellas BioPharma K.K. (AABP), a joint venture between Amgen and Astellas Pharma Inc., a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo.
BLINCYTO is the first-and-only bispecific T cell engager (BiTE®) immunotherapy construct approved globally. It is also the first approved immunotherapy from Amgen’s BiTE® platform, an innovative approach that helps the body’s immune system target cancer cells.
Hitoshi Kiyoi, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine said, “The standard therapy for relapsed or refractory B-cell ALL has not been established in Japan and therefore different chemotherapy regimens have been selected, depending on the condition and background of each patient. BLINCYTO is a much-needed and important new treatment option for patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell ALL, as demonstrated by the efficacy and survival benefit seen in the TOWER study.”
The approval is based on data from multiple global studies, including the Phase 3 TOWER study and Japan Phase 1b/2 Horai study. In the TOWER study, BLINCYTO demonstrated a superior improvement in median overall survival (OS) versus standard of care (SOC) chemotherapy. Median OS was 7.7 months (95 percent CI: 5.6, 9.6) for BLINCYTO versus 4.0 months (95 percent CI: 2.9, 5.3) for SOC (HR for death=0.71; p=0.012).
Safety results among subjects who received BLINCYTO were comparable to those seen in the previous Phase 2 studies of BLINCYTO in adult patients with Philadelphia chromosome-negative (Ph-) relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor ALL. In the TOWER study, major adverse reactions were pyrexia (39.0 percent), decrease in white blood cell count (14.6 percent), cytokine release syndrome (13.5 percent), febrile neutropenia (10.9 percent), headache (10.1 percent), elevated liver enzyme (10.1 percent) and decrease in platelet count (10.1 percent). In the Phase 1b/2 Horai study, BLINCYTO was administered to 35 Japanese adult and pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor ALL.
The safety results from the Horai study were comparable to those seen in the global studies, including TOWER. In the Horai study, major adverse reactions in adult patients were cytokine release syndrome (46.2 percent), pyrexia (46.2 percent), decrease in white blood cell count (38.5 percent) and decrease in platelet count (34.6 percent), and major adverse reactions in pediatric patients were elevated liver enzyme (66.7 percent), pyrexia (66.7 percent), cytokine release syndrome (55.6 percent) and abdominal pain (44.4 percent).
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Ka Hikitia – Ka Hāpaitia
Ka Hikitia, the Māori Education Strategy, has been refreshed as part of the Education Work Programme.
- About the strategy
- How does this link to Tau Mai Te Reo?
- Resources to go with Ka Hikitia
- Continuing our kōrero about the future of Māori education
- Ongoing Engagement
Ka Hikitia is a cross-agency strategy for the education sector.
The agencies include the Ministry of Education, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu, Education New Zealand, Education Review Office, New Zealand Qualifications Authority, The Teaching Council Aotearoa New Zealand, Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand School Trustees Association. The education sector includes all early learning, schooling, and tertiary education provision.
It sets out how we will work with education services to achieve system shifts in education and support Māori learners and their whānau, hapū and iwi to achieve excellent and equitable outcomes and provides an organising framework for the actions we will take.
The framework has five outcome domains:
- Te Whānau: Education provision responds to learners within the context of their whānau
- Te Tangata: Māori are free from racism, discrimination and stigma in education
- Te Kanorautanga: Māori are diverse and need to be understood in the context of their diverse aspirations and lived experiences
- Te Tuakiritanga: Identity, language and culture matter for Māori learners
- Te Rangatiratanga: Māori exercise their authority and agency in education.
These outcome domains reflect key messages that we have heard from whānau, hapū, Iwi, Māori over an extended period of time and our evidence base about what works for Māori learners and their whānau.
Transcript: Listen to Minister Kelvin Davis talk about Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo
Kia ora whānau.
We want New Zealand to be the best place in the world for children and young people. We know that happy, healthy kids learn better. We know that children and young people who feel safe and confident in themselves and their learning environments engage better and are more likely to achieve in education, work and life. We also know that our education system has historically underserved Māori learners and that we have to do better.
We have been working on an education work programme over the last three years to support this direction of travel by building on the hard work of our educators and whānau and ensuring our education system is fit for purpose for 21st-century learning.
As part of this work, we have refreshed our Māori Education Strategy (Ka Hikitia) and our Māori Language in Education Strategy (Tau Mai Te Reo).
We want to provide clear direction about the importance of Māori enjoying and achieving education success as Māori, and what we are doing to support this.
In the Kōrero Mātauranga | Education Conversation that we have undertaken over the last three years, we heard consistent and familiar messages from whānau:
- Learners and whānau must be at the heart of our education system.
- Māori learners must be free from racism, discrimination and stigma.
- Māori are diverse and we need an education workforce with the right skills and capability to respond to all Māori learners.
- Identity, language and culture matter.
- Māori want to exercise agency and authority in education.
- We have incorporated these key messages into the vision and principles of Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo.
We have also connected this work with the Maihi Karauna (the Crown’s Māori Language Strategy).
It is important that the Ministry of Education and education agencies give effect to Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo.
The need to provide high-quality services and support for Māori learners and whānau will be particularly important as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategies set out clear actions for agencies that build on our recent investments in Māori education including:
Over $200m increased support for Kōhanga Reo in Budget 2019 and Budget 2020, to strengthen the network and improve pay for kaimahi.
$51m over four years to support Māori Learners and Whānau to engage better with local education providers.
Increased funding for te reo Māori ($150m announced in Budget 2020) to support the identity, language and culture of Māori learners.
Te Hurihanganui ($42m announced in Budget 2019). This kaupapa reboots and expands Te Kotahitanga and is being rolled out over six communities.
We are also updating our legislative and regulatory frameworks to give effect to the key ideas of Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo.
There is more work to do. We need to continue the conversation with whānau, hapū and iwi about what is important for them in Māori education and te reo Māori.
We need to get alongside local education providers and work with them to identify how things are currently for Māori learners, what is working well and how we can do better. This means that Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo will need to be living documents that we can update regularly.
With Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo, we are laying the foundation for ongoing conversations about how we can achieve the best outcomes for learners and whānau so New Zealand can truly be the best place in the world for tamariki and rangatahi Māori.
Kia kaha ki a tātau.
Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo are companion strategies and should be read in conjunction with each other. Ka Hikitia is a strategy for all Māori learners, while Tau Mai Te Reo is a strategy for all learners.
Below are some resources that provide further information about the experience of Māori learners in the education system. They include resources that will be useful in implementing and embedding Ka Hikitia.
Ngā Haeata Mātauranga
Ngā Haeata Mātauranga is the Māori education data profile to help track progress towards the vision of Tau Mai Te Reo. This has recently been refreshed, and is available on Education Counts:
Te Tāmata Huaroa
Te Tāmata Huaroa: Te Reo Māori in English-medium schooling by the Educational Review Office gives a snapshot of the current provision of te reo Māori teaching and learning in a representative sample of English-medium primary and secondary schools:
Ka Hikitia Measurable Gains Framework
There are a number of resources to help measure the extent to which activities and initiatives are making a difference to Māori enjoying and achieving education success as Māori:
To support the refresh of Tau Mai Te Reo we have reviewed a range of engagements that the Ministry has recently carried out, to capture what Māori have said to us.
We have collated these findings on the Kōrero Mātauranga site:
We have put together a list of supporting resources. These will be updated as new resources become available.
- Download Ka Hikitia Supporting resources for early learning [PDF, 126 KB]
- Download Ka Hikitia Supporting resources for schools [PDF, 178 KB]
- Download Ka Hikitia Supporting resources for tertiary [PDF, 112 KB]
In 2018, we had a conversation with Māori whānau and communities about what matters most in the education of Māori learners through a series of wānanga.
Over 2000 learners, whānau and educators came along and discussed a wide range of issues and opportunities for Māori education.
The information we gathered has been used to inform our refresh of Ka Hikitia and Tau Mai Te Reo and the overall Education Work Programme.
The feedback from these hui are contained in a series of regional summary reports available on the Kōrero Mātauranga site:
Ka Hikitia is designed as a living document so we can progressively update it based on our ongoing conversations with whānau, hapū, iwi, Māori and education services.
If you have any feedback get in contact with us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Read more about the whakapapa of Ka Hikitia, its past iterations, and further research that sits behind them:
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To understand what causes codependency in relationships, it is first necessary to understand what codependency is and what it is not. One dictionary definition of codependency says it is based on a psychological state of mutual dependence between two people, especially when one partner relies emotionally on support and care for the other partner.
This can sound a lot like normal care in a loving relationship, but in actual practice, it is something quite different. Perhaps the most important distinction between codependency and compassion is the element of over-responsibility.
What does over-responsibility look like?
Over-responsibility can be most easily recognized when one member of a relationship is hyper-vigilant about the emotional state of the other. Imagine a husband already at home when his wife arrives home from work. She throws her coat over the couch; he hangs it up. She walks into the kitchen, he starts making her a drink or closes the curtains to block the setting sun, all without asking if she wants any of this.
If they have a mutual arrangement that includes these behaviors, then he isn’t being over-responsible. If on the other hand, he’s trying to guess her mood and do things that will make her happy, that is over-responsible and therefore codependent. Later on, the husband has an idea about cleaning the garage on the weekend, but his wife was hoping to work in the yard.
Instead of voicing her desire, she suppresses it and tells herself what she wants isn’t important. She is allowing him to roll over her, and by putting his feelings above hers for the sake of his feelings, being over-responsible. As you can see, over-responsibility can be amplified by Christian ideas of compassion.
It may seem very Christian to make ourselves small and try not to have desires, but if we live only in relationship to the other, we will never be a whole person, with known needs and wants. Scriptures saying that we should consider other’s needs above our own are a good warning against selfishness and can be the basis for altruistic gestures, but they are not a good foundation for a mutual relationship between two fully formed, emotionally healthy, capable adults.
Over-responsibility then has two necessary components, 1) actions are taken on behalf of the other without verbal agreement, and 2) the person initiating the actions feels responsible for managing the other person’s emotional world by making them feel happy, or calm, or any other positive emotional state.
You are not responsible for anyone’s feelings.
When you tell some people that they are not responsible for anyone’s feelings, they look at you like a cow at a new gate. If their emotional structure is based on the premise that they are indeed responsible for the feelings of the people close to them, this will sound like heresy or at least a dangerous falsehood.
But we are not responsible for anyone else’s feelings. I may say or do things that evoke a response from someone, but their response is their responsibility. So, instead of saying, “You make me so mad!” it would be more accurate to say, “I’m having an anger response to what you just said (or did)!” Only you can get your anger or anxiety under control. No one can do it for you.
How many times have parents told their children that if they’re angry they should count to 10? If the child does so and experiences a decrease in angry feelings, it is because of their own actions. If a parent strokes the head of an anxious child and the child is calmed, the child is still having a response to the stimulus.
With adult words to describe it, the child might say, “I find that soothing” or more accurately, “I am having a soothing response to that.” To say, “you are making me calm” would be incorrect, because you are making yourself calm by your reaction to the soothing. You could resist it and not find it soothing at all.
What causes codependency in adult relationships?
In response to the question, “What causes codependency in adult relationships?” the easy answer here is “codependency in adult relationships is caused by codependency in childhood relationships.” We usually learn codependency at either our mother’s knee, our father’s knee, or both. We learn to be codependent when a parent expects us to alter our feelings on command (“Stop crying!”) or expects us to know instinctively what they need or want or treat us in a way that suggests that we had better know what they want, or we will pay for it.
A parent who shifts easily from calm to anger is likely to raise angry (internally, because they dare not show it), hypervigilant children prone to codependency. A parent who processes their negative emotions with their child (for example, confiding their pain in age-inappropriate ways or asking the child to say something funny to make the parent feel better), will likely raise dependent, hypervigilant children prone to codependency.
Some children will be predisposed to codependency based on personality. As lovely as it is for a child to want to please a parent, if that desire to please is based on a conditional system for receiving love and attention – that is, if the message from the parents is “I love you when you get good grades” or “I love you when you clean up your room,” – the child is likely to learn to be codependent.
A desire to make someone happy is not necessarily codependence. Wanting to see a smile on the face of a loved one in response to a gift is not codependence. Requiring them to be pleased by what you gave them, is.
The ways of relating we learn when we are young are carried into adulthood. If I learned to be responsible for my mother’s feelings as a child, I would feel responsible for my spouse’s feelings when I am an adult. How we relate is part of our formation. We may have learned a way of relating that is ultimately unsustainable in a long-term, committed relationship.
Staying on your side of the street.
You may have heard people in real life or in the movies say, “you better stay on your side of the street” when someone is being pushy. This idea of two sides of a street is useful when thinking of emotional interactions with others. I’m here, on my side of the street, with my thoughts and feelings, and you’re there on the other side with yours.
If I’m trying to guess what you want instead of asking, I’m on your side of the street because I’m making up what I think you’re thinking. If you’re crying and I tell you it’s nothing to be sad about, I’m on your side of the street because I’m telling you how to feel.
Some tools can help us stay on our side of the street:
Ask permission. If you walk in the room and someone is reading in light that seems too dim, don’t just turn the light on. Ask them if they would like the light turned on. If someone drops something on the floor, don’t just pick it up. Ask them if they would like you to pick it up. If someone is sad, ask if you can help, don’t just try to cheer them up.
Manage emotional assumptions. If someone close to you seems angry, don’t make up stories about it, or imagine reasons for it, ask them what happened. If you think they are angry at you, much better to find out and either repair or feel relief than to guess wrong and escalate the situation.
Watch for manipulation. We learn at an early age how to manipulate people around us to get what we want. As adults, we may find ourselves in a relationship with someone for whom a disapproving glance is all that is needed to make them do what we want. That kind of control is a form of manipulation and not helpful for the growth and health of a relationship.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made, astonishingly complex, and unique individuals. Learning more about our own ways of relating is a good beginning toward bringing a better version of ourselves into the relationship.
Undoing codependency in our own lives begins with awareness, which can lead to an understanding of our emotional past and bring changes that lead to a more individuated life, where we can learn to stay on our own side of the street.
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“I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do…”~ Oskar Schindler, Righteous Among the Nations.
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories near Krakow. These Jews were registered on what came to be known as “Schindler’s List”.
Thousands of descendants of “Schindler’s Jews” are alive today thanks to his brave actions.
Oskar Schindler died on the 9th of October 1974 in Germany, and is buried in Jerusalem. Before his death, a tree was planted in his and Emilie’s honor in Yad Vashem’s Avenue of the Righteous. He is pictured standing next to his tree on Yad Vashem’s campus.
Oskar and Emilie Schindler are among the 27,000+ heroic non-Jews recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.
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We see energy efficiency as a crucial piece of the effort to create both healthy homes and thriving communities. Investments in energy efficiency, when done right, can lower energy costs for families, make homes healthier, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, grow the clean energy economy and create jobs.
Energy efficiency can make our homes more comfortable inside and cheaper to light, heat, and cool, while making our indoor air cleaner. The cost savings are particularly important for low-income households, who pay nearly three times as much of their income for energy as do high-income households. But policies and programs to promote energy efficiency must consider the needs of low-income and environmental justice communities and be designed with their input and involvement.
Building electrification—converting from gas to electricity for things like heating, water heating, and cooking – is one area where energy efficiency, health, saving money for consumers, and fighting climate change all come together. Modern electric appliances are cleaner, more efficient and cheaper to operate than gas, and can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- one quarter of which currently come from the buildings where we live and work.
But to make this transition away from gas work, communities must be involved from the very beginning. In partnership with California’s Energy Efficiency for All Coalition, we’ve put together a five-part framework to do just that, showing policymakers how to align electrification efforts with community needs and the goals of health, job creation, and forging stronger connections between Californians and our climate change policies and goals.
In addition, energy efficiency programs can be a huge source of opportunities for entrepreneurship and for creating good jobs that can’t be outsourced. We work to ensure that energy efficiency programs create meaningful workforce pathways from our communities into rewarding careers in the energy services sector -- with jobs that pay family-supporting wages, provide benefits, and lead to opportunities for career advancement. To promote entrepreneurship in our communities, we work to make sure these efforts create more contracting opportunities for businesses owned by people of color, women and veterans and monitor the supplier diversity efforts of energy companies. | <urn:uuid:0a6ed383-1259-4ee8-80e1-5b26b4e9a1b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greenlining.org/our-work/energy/energy-efficiency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952151 | 424 | 2.625 | 3 |
Cold, dry environments tend to worsen most cases of psoriasis. In contrast, humid, warm climates may be helpful in controlling flare-ups. Sunlight tends to provide relief for psoriasis although it’s important to avoid sunburns. In temperate climates, where sunlight is not available all year, artificial ultraviolet light is frequently used in the treatment of psoriasis.
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The Golden Mount Temple (Wat Sakret) is revered in Bangkok and houses the ash of Buddha. The name Golden Mount (Pho Khao Tong) refers to the shape of the gold (tong) chedi which tops the hill (pho khao). Every November the temple area hosts week-long festivities starting 7 days and 7 nights before the Full Moon celebrations of Loy Krathong. The Temple Festival (Tadsakarn Ngan Wat) has been celebrated at Golden Mount Temple for more than 100 years. if visiting the Loy Krathong Festival Week at Golden Mount it is best to arrive at the less busy Phan Fa Lilat entrance and walk from here.
Arriving at the Phan Fa Lilat entrance the walk to the mount is full of fun. A carnival wheel (ching cha sawan), a ghost house (baan phii sing) and all the fun stuff expected at carnivals around the world. I eat candyfloss and throw balls at the Dunk Tank (sao noi tuk nam). Also along the walk are stalls and stalls of street food. Food everywhere. From more modern street food snacks to traditional Thai recipes and hard-to-find treats.
Climbing the Golden Mount
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People don’t have their own IP addresses- for example, it is not similar to a homeowner’s address connected to a plot of land or a structure. IP addresses can keep changing. They are not linked to your address or name in a manner that people can identify it.
However, this does not mean anyone can randomly select an IP address- such as the way we are allowed to create our own username for email accounts. Because when we involve something as massive as the Internet- along with its intricate networking and complexity- that kind of randomness will result in complete chaos and confusion.
For this reason, behind the global and extensive yet simple Internet, you will discover a system and order that ensures it keeps running smoothly, even when it comes to details as minor as IP addresses.
What is IANA?
For people who want to create private office or home networks and network administrators, there are private IP address blocks reserved for such use. However, everyone who requires global IP addresses needs to be a seamless ordering scheme that assigns individuals an IP address orderly, working, and logical.
There’s a single, global “allocation” process for the World Wide Web to ensure this. This process starts with an Internet-specific organization- the IANA or Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
So, What Does IANA do?
Based in the U.S, IANA is an organization that distributes (allocates and assigns) everyone an IP address in an organized, consistent, and systematic manner for the benefit of everyone.
IANA plays a very crucial administrative role. The Internet organization does the job of allocating the unique numbering systems and names based on the technical Internet standards and website addresses.
Even though the World Wide Web isn’t a centrally-administered network, certain core elements and features require global coordination. IANA took up this job with the Internet’s predecessor. This makes the organization one of the most dated institutions associated with the Internet.
Is IANA the Only Organization that Assigns and Allocates IP addresses?
With over four billion globally assigned IP addresses, the work can get somewhat overwhelming for only one organization to tackle. So, IANA receives help from several other Internet organizations.
The allocation process of IP addresses has been made easier and simpler by allocating huge IP address blocks to RIR or Regional Internet Registries. Each registry is required to manage these IP address blocks assigned to their particular region by the IANA.
Several other Internet associations are also involved with ensuring the network operates efficiently and smoothly. Each organization is responsible for a particular area of the World Wide Web. They must carefully follow the procedures and policies implemented by other Internet-specific organizations.
Summing It Up
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How Do You Spell Knaidel?
The National Spelling puts its spotlight on Yiddish. Is it a dying language?
Arvind V. Mahankali, a 13 year old from Brooklyn, won American’s 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 30 by correctly spelling the word knaidel. His win spotlighted Yiddish, the mamaloshen (mother tongue) of many Ashkenazi yidden (Jews) around the world.
Actually, his win made some people farblonget (confused), for as far as many are concerned, there’s no standardized English spelling of Yiddish words. Knaidel (dumpling), a tasty nosh (snack), might just as easily be spelled kneidel or knaidle – or even knaydl.
This is because Yiddish isn’t written in English characters – it’s an old language that grew out of Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe. Combining a bissel (little) Hebrew, some German, with a dash of Slavic influences, Yiddish reflects the unique nature of Jewish life in Europe. Some Yiddish words capture the nuances of Jewish life in a way that no other language can.
What’s a machatuna, for instance? It’s the parents of your child’s spouse. There’s no word for it in English, and reflects the importance of extended family in close-knit Jewish circles. A balabuste is a bustling homemaker, whose kitchen is always full of beautiful nosh for Shabbos (Shabbat). A mensch means person, and it’s used to mean the full measure of a man – someone who lives up to his (or her) potential: the full measure of what a person should strive to be.
There are some other colorful expressions that have endeared Yiddish to generations of people. For instance, what’s the difference between a shlemeil and a shlemazel? The shlemeil spills soup on the shlemazel. (This might cause the shlemazel to plotz – which means explode – in anger.) A piste kayleh’s an empty barrel: a person lacking gravitas. The gantse megilla means the whole story. A shtik holtz is someone with no personality. A gelaimter’s someone who drops whatever he touches. A trepsverter is the perfect retort you think of – after you’ve left the room.
In all the coverage of the spelling bee, some commentators have wondered how many Yiddish speakers there currently are. As the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors and elderly European-born Jews gets smaller and smaller, it can be tempting to view Yiddish as a dying language. When the last Yiddish bookstore in New York’s historic Lower East Side closed, the New York Times called it another nail in the language’s coffin. Lovers of Yiddish might have been ferklempt (choked up) at the news.
Yet reports of Yiddish’s demise are greatly exaggerated. In fact, Yiddish is having a gantse mazel (success) as its primary speakers – Chassidim and other Orthodox Jews – see a population explosion in Europe, the United States, Israel, and elsewhere.
I remember once reading an article in my local paper about the “death” of Yiddish in Chicago; it highlighted some elderly women who met to keep the language alive. Yet later that afternoon, I heard a conversation between a young Chassidic mother and her toddler – all in Yiddish. (My Yiddish isn’t great, but I think she was telling him not to get shmutz – dirt – on his new mantle – or coat.) It turned out the child spoke Yiddish not only at home with his tatte and mama, but in school, too, where all his Jewish subjects were taught in this beautiful language.
He wasn’t alone. Since then, I’ve heard Yiddish on the lips of little kindelach (children) on three continents. I’ve shopped in shopping malls in New York where the conversations were all in Yiddish, the kids ran around yelling in Yiddish and even the toys in the toy stores came with Yiddish instructions. I’ve ordered food in Antwerp delis where Yiddish mixed with Flemish all around me. (The food was geshmak – delicious – I fressed it all up and made a complete chazer of myself.) In Israel, I’ve tried to decipher Yiddish newspapers sold in kiosks on the streets, as families all around conversed in this vibrant tongue.
All these places where fellow yidden (Jews) were speaking Yiddish felt so heimish (homey). I thought of my great-grandmother, the last member of my family to speak Yiddish as her mother tongue. So much has changed in the world since she was alive, I’d gotten used to thinking that the world she came from – the Yiddish speaking world of pre-war Europe – was gone and forgotten. For a while, it seemed as if it might be. My great grandmother’s children abandoned the Jewish traditions she held dear; when she spoke to them in Yiddish they answered in English.
So hearing Yiddish on the lips of young children all around me was a mechaya. (From the Hebrew root “chai”, or life, it that means a revelation: a new discovery.) The language of my great grandparents skipped me and most of my friends: we never learned Yiddish, except as a few humorous phrases and insults. But it is continuing in new generations, and we all – the sandwich generations between the generations that spoke it in the past and those still to come – are links in that chain.
There’s one Yiddish word I know: Yiddishkeit. It means Jewish culture and practice. I’d hate to think of that going the way of a dying language, too. Perhaps that’s why I’m so freilich (happy) and leibidik (another word for happy – there are lots of them in Yiddish) that its future seems assured. To Yiddish let me offer a traditional blessing we say on birthdays: ay hundrid und zvanzig – you should last one hundred and twenty years. And to Yiddish, and all of us, whose grandparents might have spoken it, and whose descendants may still: L’chaim: to life! | <urn:uuid:d043a927-8e0b-44f7-995b-e4403aa07d87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aish.com/how-do-you-spell-knaidel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946196 | 1,421 | 3.0625 | 3 |
What’s I Need For Your Admission Essay Support?
What’s I Want For My Admission Essay Assistance?
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This can be a big reason why the SAT is really not the same as different tests. When a lot of students will learn much the same things when shooting the SAT, then it’s designed to divide the students that can succeed by enabling them to publish regarding their experiences as well as also the experiences of others. Students often desire to make use of the essay as a way to acquire advice for your own school. In several situations, they all may wish to create concerning their life narrative.
The writing of a composition is so different from that of an oral demonstration. You’ll find distinct principles that have to be adopted when working with writing as being a means of conveying a certain notion. For instance, you can find rules that state that any argument has to be presented in a logical manner.
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Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
Combat sports athletes are known for their dedication to conditioning with hours of footwork, mitt drills and sparring. Practice makes perfect, but without a solid strength component, a fighter won’t be all that formidable.
Many combat sport athletes are afraid to lift weights because they equate it with getting “bulky.” In their mind, adding bulky muscle mass makes them less fluid in the ring and more likely to get too large for their weight class.
The problem here is that strength training and bodybuilding are not the same thing. Strength training is simply the use of resistance to to get stronger. It doesn’t necessarily mean adding bulky muscle. Resistance can come in a number of forms including free weights, kettlebells, resistance bands, TRX and body weight. These are all tools, and no single tool is better than the other. It is how you utilize the tools and progressions to increase your strength.
When it comes to strength training for combat athletes, aesthetics is not the focus; function is. Combat sport athletes need to train in a manner that builds strength for wins in the ring or on the mat. Bodybuilding is all about proportioned, visual musculature. It’s about how you look, not how you move. Strength training for combat athletes is the opposite. It should focus on stability and function when fighting.
Conditioning is key, but combat sports athletes should set aside at least 2 or 3 days a week to focus on strength training, whether with a full-body approach or a split routine (push/pull & legs, upper body & lower body, back/biceps, chest/triceps, legs & shoulders).
Special attention should be paid to conditioning the posterior chain and core. Single-leg training with Deadlifts, Lunges or Bridges will help with stability. When working on the core, focus on Forearm Planks, Side Planks and rotational movements, not just hammering out Crunches. Rotational power and stability is especially important for striking movements.
You can get a look at how some combat sport stars integrate strength training into their routines in previous STACK features:
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Anti-cancer therapies often exhibit only short-term effects. Tumors typically develop drug resistance causing relapses that might be tackled with drug combinations. Identification of the right combination is challenging and would benefit from high-content, high-throughput combinatorial screens directly on patient biopsies. However, such screens require a large amount of material, normally not available from patients.
To address these challenges, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) present a scalable microfluidic workflow, called Combi-Seq, to screen hundreds of drug combinations in picoliter-size droplets using transcriptome changes as a readout for drug effects. The researchers devise a deterministic combinatorial DNA barcoding approach to encode treatment conditions, enabling the gene expression-based readout of drug effects in a highly multiplexed fashion. They apply Combi-Seq to screen the effect of 420 drug combinations on the transcriptome of K562 cells using only ~250 single cell droplets per condition, to successfully predict synergistic and antagonistic drug pairs, as well as their pathway activities.
Combi-Seq workflow and microfluidic pipeline
a Overview Combi-Seq workflow: (1) Cells were encapsulated with drug combinations and pairs of barcode fragments encoding drugs. (2) After off-chip incubation, droplets were reinjected into a chip for picoinjection to add reagents for barcode ligation and reverse transcription (RT), enabling barcoding of the transcriptome according to the drug treatment. (3) Upon droplet breakage, pooled libraries for sequencing were generated in which cells from the same treatment group share the same barcode. This facilitated demultiplexing of drug treatments and gene expression-based readouts for pools of 250 cells. b Barcoding strategy applied to encode and decode drug combinations for low input cell pools. Pairs of barcoded PCR primers (BC-PCR) and barcoded poly-dT primers (BC-RT) were joined in a ligation reaction to form functional barcodes, which were used for reverse transcription, thereby encoding a combination of two drugs. By breaking droplets, barcoded cDNA can be recovered and amplified for sequencing. c Microfluidic pipeline used to generate drug combinations in droplets. (1) Braille valves were used to generate sequences of 20 drug-barcode (BC-RT) plugs within the delay tubing. The delay tubing was connected to a drop maker (2) into which cells and drugs-BC-PCR mixtures from multiwell-plates were injected. Finally, injecting the plugs into the drop-maker by opening two oil valves, droplets containing drug pairs with barcodes and cells were generated. M1–M3 indicate positions where fluorescence signals were acquired. d Generation of drug-barcode plugs in the delay tubing: (1) Plugs spaced out by oil were produced by sequentially opening the corresponding valves, (2) resulting in a sequence of 20 drug-barcode plugs. (3) By opening two oil valves, the plugs in the delay tubing were injected into the droplet-maker chip. e Droplet production from a cell suspension, drug-barcode plugs, and drug-barcode mixtures injected by the autosampler, resulting in the co-encapsulation of cells with drug-barcode combinations. f Scheme illustrating the generation of drug combinations from 20 drugs from the valve module with drugs from a 96-well plate. Each sequence of 20 drug-barcode (BC-RT) plugs was combined with drug-barcode (BC-PCR) mixes from one well. | <urn:uuid:8056d815-7400-4a62-bae2-45275aae267c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rna-seqblog.com/combi-seq-multiplexed-transcriptome-based-profiling-of-drug-combinations-using-deterministic-barcoding-in-single-cell-droplets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.936141 | 763 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The DCNCC Youth Board’s asks for COP27
The Diet Change Not Climate Change Youth Board members came up with specific asks on how to push for a more sustainable food system at United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) and drafted a letter to be sent to policymakers. The group reviewed the letter during their second meeting in mid-May. The letter serves as a framework for youths around the world to send to policymakers in their countries to advocate a systemic shift towards a more planet-friendly diet.
Below is the letter or you can download the pdf here and fill in the blanks by clicking on the transparent fields on the pdf:
Dear [include the name of the person you are addressing in a formal manner/with their formal title],
I am [include which country you are from, the work and/or studies you do, your age if comfortable, and why you care about climate/food systems issues].
I am writing to you regarding COP27, which will bring countries together to discuss climate action in November in Sharm el-Sheikh, under the Egyptian Presidency.
As youth activist, I urge you to:
- Put food-systems change and plant-rich diets on the COP27 agenda as key mitigation and adaptation solutions to the climate crisis.
- Call for a Food Systems Day that covers plant-rich diets in order to fully integrate the topic into the COP27 agenda.
- Request that only climate-friendly and plant-rich food is served at COP27.
- Incorporate sustainable food production and consumption, as well as plant-based diets into the Nationally Determined Contributions.
We need a radical change in the way we make policy related to food systems and agriculture. Going forward, there is an urgent need for increased public awareness around sustainable consumption. As such, we need to increase education and support for plant-based diets and recognise that such consumption changes are key actions in resolving the climate crisis. Furthermore, it is vital that we protect biodiversity and the natural world.
I look forward to your response.
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Strength Training For Seniors: You're Never Too Old To Improve!
Strength training for seniors helps to improve the quality of life. By exercising the body with strength exercises, seniors can get through their daily tasks much easier.
The good thing is that you are never too old to do strength training. It's possible to improve well into advanced age.
The following benefits show why resistance training is the way to go:
-Preserves muscle mass
-Builds strong bones
-Reduces injury risk
-Manages chronic conditions such as arthritis, obesity, back pain
How to improve strength? You have options. Depending on your schedule and lifestyle, you can either workout at home or in a gym setting. At home you can easily use your bodyweight for many exercises. You can also use resistance bands. Light dumbbells are also ideal for home workouts.
In a gym setting you have a choice of free weights or weight machines. You may even consider all options for variety.
You only need to workout three days a week to get good results. The other days of the week can be used for other types of exercises, plus rest for your strength training.
Remember, you are never too old to workout. Consider strength training for seniors.
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WASHINGTON -- Tired of Republicans having all the fun, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) has introduced welfare drug testing legislation -- for rich people.
Moore's bill would require a drug test for any tax filer who claims itemized deductions worth more than $150,000. So a wealthy guy who wants to write off massive amounts of mortgage interest would have to prove he's not on drugs.
The bill is a response to the slew of Republican proposals in recent years to make poor people pass drug screenings in order to receive welfare benefits.
“As a strong advocate for social programs aimed at combating poverty, it deeply offends me that there is such a deep stigma surrounding those who depend on government benefits, especially as a former welfare recipient," Moore said in a press release.
"Sadly, Republicans across the country continue to implement discriminatory policies that criminalize the less fortunate and perpetuate false narratives about the most vulnerable among us," Moore said. "These laws serve only one purpose: stoking the most extreme sentiments and misguided notions of the conservative movement."
Republicans in dozens of states have pushed drug-testing bills for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and even for benefits under the much larger Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves 45 million Americans. The latter program doesn't allow states to make drug testing a condition of eligibility, but some Republicans in Congress want to change the law to let it happen.
The text of Moore's bill was not immediately available, but her release said rich tax filers could dodge drug tests if they avoid itemized deductions in favor of the typically much lower standard deduction, which can reduce a filer's tax liability by a set amount based on factors such as income and age. Mortgage interest is one of the biggest itemized deductions, costing the treasury roughly $70 billion per year. The Congressional Budget Office says three-quarters of that tax expenditure goes to the wealthiest 20 percent of taxpayers.
Moore told The Guardian her most direct inspiration for the proposal, which is unlikely to become law, came from House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who unveiled his poverty policy agenda last week at a drug and alcohol treatment center in southeast Washington.
“When he stood in front of a drug treatment center and rolled out his anti-poverty initiative, pushing this narrative that poor people are drug addicts, that was the last straw," Moore said.
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The News: Ericsson has established the Ericsson Open Lab, a new space to collaborate and innovate with Ericsson Cloud RAN customers and ecosystem partners to drive virtualized 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN) technologies. Ericsson Open Lab is accessible virtually to customers globally. It is co-located with the company’s Cloud RAN expertise at Ericsson’s R&D site in Ottawa. The company will support these activities from its locations around the world.
Ericsson Open Lab is built to enable fast and interactive collaboration that can deliver innovation to complement existing RAN solutions. Ericsson Open Lab also aims to help service providers pursue and realize new deployment and 5G use case scenarios, as well as create opportunities to increase automation and reduce manual intervention. The lab offers space to further explore Open RAN technologies, including aspects such as virtualization, management, and orchestration. Read the Ericsson release here.
Ericsson Open Lab Provides Foundation for Spurring 5G Cloud Innovation
Analyst Take: The unveiling of the Ericsson Open Lab broadens the ability of the mobile ecosystem to cultivate 5G cloud innovation, especially including virtualized 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN) technologies. To expand ecosystem participation, Ericsson is emphasizing that Open Lab collaboration is not circumscribed to only Ericsson cloud-native infrastructure and RAN software developments on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) servers and acceleration hardware.
Additionally, Ericsson seeks greater ecosystem-wide collaboration in areas such as optimization, machine learning (ML), and network automation with CSPs and other partners. To fulfill that end, Ericsson has already enlisted major CSPs such as KDDI, Ooredoo, Orange, Softbank, and Turkcell as well as 5G ecosystem stalwarts like NVIDIA, Red Hat, and Wind River. Ericsson anticipates onboarding more collaborators in parallel with supporting the evolving requirements of Cloud RAN networking.
I expect the debut of Ericsson Open Lab will strengthen Ericsson’s ability to support and drive CSP RAN journeys within unfolding Open 5G environments. Ericsson’s ability to harvest enduring partnerships in the spirit of open source collaboration bolsters its credentials in working with CSPs at their transitioning from traditional RAN networking to Cloud RAN (or Open RAN) implementations. This stance is important since many CSPs view traditional RAN as linked to proprietary, restricted practices and as a result, many are at the forefront of advocating Open RAN collaboration.
Ericsson Open Lab Underlines Ericsson 5G Portfolio Benefits
Ericsson needed to unveil Ericsson Open Lab to counter ongoing rival attempts from Open RAN players like Mavenir, Altiostar, and Parallel Wireless to position Ericsson as lacking the portfolio agility to meet emerging CSP Cloud RAN/Open RAN demands. The cooperation of a key group of major CSPs at the Open Lab’s inception I expect will help mitigate such competitive marketing.
Through its overall portfolio and Ericsson Open Lab, Ericsson is addressing the broader demands of Open 5G across the 5G value chain, including mobile core, OSS/BSS, IoT platforms, service orchestration, and professional network services. The Cloud RAN segment is an important starting point to collaborate and explore vital Open RAN capabilities and overall 5G requirements in areas such as management, orchestration, and virtualization.
I view the Ericsson Open Lab’s key objective of enabling continuous and rapid feedback to showcase prototype functionality towards customers for early feedback as crucial for strengthening Ericsson’s technical and business relations with CSPs and 5G partners. Moreover, the Open Lab debut bolsters Ericsson’s recent Cloud RAN portfolio enhancements that provides a stepwise approach to augmenting and scaling 5G networks.
To be clear, Ericsson Cloud RAN is wholly compatible with the existing Ericsson Radio System portfolio, which supports CSP 5G non-standalone and standalone builds. 5G Cloud RAN works as an additional tool in aiding customers in evolving and monetizing their 5G use cases in specific scenarios such as indoor, enterprise, stadiums, and centralized RAN applications that can benefit from cloud-enabled pooling capabilities like dynamic spreading of capacity during traffic spikes and assuring hardware/software orchestration across network domains.
Key Takeaways on Ericsson Open Lab Debut
Ericsson Open Lab boosts Ericsson’s virtualized 5G RAN credentials across the mobile ecosystem by accelerating interactive collaboration with CSPs and partners. Now customers can develop and validate 5G use case scenarios, advance 5G networking automation, and investigate emerging management, orchestration, and virtualization capabilities. 5G network rivals will need to bolster and broaden their Open Lab arrangements to counter the new Open Lab proposition.
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I’m super thrilled about the newest issue of Fashion Projects: On Fashion, Art, and Visual Culture, themed “On Fashion and Memory.” From the editorial letter:
In thinking of clothes as passing fashions, we repeat less than half-truth. Bodies come and go; the clothes which have received those bodies survive. They circulate though secondhand shops, through rummage sales, through the Salvation Army; or they are transmitted from parent to child, from sister to sister, from brother to brother, from sister to brother, from lover to lover, from friend to friend. (Peter Stallybrass, “Worn Worlds: Clothes, Mourning, and the Life of Things” The Yale Review 1993 vol. 81. no. 2, pp. 35-50)
The idea of dedicating an issue of Fashion Projects to the topic of fashion and memory started while reading Peter Stallybrass’s “Worn Worlds: Clothes, Mourning, and the Life of Things,” an engaging and lyrical essay on the author’s remembrance of his late colleague Allon White through the garments White wore.
Stallybrass’s piece elucidates people’s intimate relations with clothes—i.e. their materiality, their smell and creases—and the inextricable relations between clothes and memory. It traces the way in which clothes retain “the history of our bodies.” Wearing White’s jacket at a conference, the author describes the way clothes are able to trigger strong and vivid memories: “He was there in the wrinkles of the elbows, wrinkles that in the technical jargon of sewing are called ‘memory’; he was there in the stains at the very bottom of the jacket; he was there in the smell of the armpits.”
This issue’s focus on clothes and memory dovetails with attempts to promote sustainability within the fashion industry. It invokes a counter-tendency in contemporary fashion which reinstates the importance of materiality and emotional connections to our garments in the hope to slow down the accelerated cycles of consumption and discard promoted by current fashion models. As Stallybrass points out, moments of emotional connections with clothes and cloth become, in fact, rare in the accelerated rhythm of contemporary societies: “I think this is because, for all our talk of the ‘materialism’ of modern life, attention to material is precisely what is absent. Surrounded by an extraordinary abundance of materials, their value is to be endlessly devalued and replaced.” | <urn:uuid:940c397d-4dd9-4fa7-84fe-31df73c632f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/fashion-projects-3-out-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959358 | 544 | 1.851563 | 2 |
When You Hire iOS Programmers Your iPhone or iPad Mobile App WILL Succeed!
If you follow the mobile device market, you know that Android and Apple have been in close competition for years and, while every user has a favorite, some users now use both types of devices – perhaps an Android at work and an iPad or iPhone at home. Whatever your preference, if your organization wishes to develop a business or consumer mobile application, there are some interesting statistics to consider in the iOS realm.
According to BGR, Counterpoint, ‘90.5% of US iPhone owners have no plans to switch to Android.’ SamMobile research finds that, ‘85% of US teens own an iOS device’, and MacRumors states that, ‘‘88% of US teens expect their next smartphone to be an iPhone.’ Statista research states that ‘Apple’s iOS is the leading operating system for tablets in the United States, with a market share of around 56 percent.’
While much of this research is focused on users in the United States, two things are clear: First, that teenagers, as a generation that grew up on technology, have embraced the Apple devices and secondly that the tablet market reflects a preference for the Apple iOS.
‘Because the mobile application development environment is complex, it is important that your business carefully review qualifications and select the right IT consulting partner to accommodate its business and technology needs.’
If your organization is considering a mobile application, iOS may be the way to go, and if you choose to hire an iPhone programmer, hire an iPad programmer, or hire an iOS programmer to address needs for desktops, tablets and mobile phones, you are much more likely to succeed.
In this article, we discuss some of the considerations you will want to include when creating your project team and engaging resources for your iOS mobile application project.
Proven Track Record
Mobile application development is not something to be taken lightly. It can be expensive and time consuming and, if you don’t have the right resources, it can result in a poor outcome. An IT consulting partner with a proven track record will ensure that when you hire iPhone programmers or hire iPad programmers for your consumer or business mobile application, you are getting a team that has experience and knows how to get the most out of the Apple iOS environment. Hire iOS programmers with proven references and you will ensure that the design, development, configuration, testing, implementation, deployment and user training are the most effective and that your mobile application is secured for appropriate user access, privacy and industry and government standards.
Current and Future Skills Development
When you engage an expert IT consulting partner, you are assured that your partner has the resources and team members to build your software team with the right skills, and that skills development will continue in the future. Team members know the iOS environment and stay abreast of the latest releases, features and functionality.
Capability for Upgrades and Future Project Needs
When you build a mobile app for the iPhone, iPad, or Apple Smart Watch or a mobile application that will accommodate all three of these devices, you want to be sure that your IT consulting partner will be there in the future with the skills and experience and resources to meet your needs for upgrades, migration, expansion, etc.
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By Ben Rosario
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that will free volunteers in national emergencies, including the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) devastation, from liability for unintended acts of omission.
San Jose del Monte City Rep. Rida Robes, chairperson of the House committee on people’s participation, called for the swift approval of House Bill (HB) No. 6091 as the Philippines faces serious natural and medical threats.
With 248 affirmative and zero negative votes, HB 6091 or the Emergency Volunteer Protection Act was passed on final reading before Congress closed for the summer break two weeks ago.
Robes said volunteers have made relief and rehabilitation operations easier for the thousands of families displaced by the destructive Taal volcano eruption.
She said people who volunteer for medical emergencies such as the on-going COVID-19 threat have also started showing up at hospitals and local government halls to help.
Robes said Filipinos have the “fire of volunteerism deep inside them” but they should be protected against charges and legal harm for acts of omissions committed while in performing their duties.
HB 6091 is a consolidation of seven separate legislative proposals filed by Reps. Alfred Vargas (PDP-Laban, Quezon City); Yul Servo (NUP, Manila); Tyrone Agabas (NPC, Pangasinan) and Florencio “Bem” Noel (An Waray Party-list), among other authors.
To be known as the Emergency Volunteer Protection Act, HB 6091 provides that no volunteer will be held liable for harm on persons and property that are committed by them but unintended.
However, volunteers who commit acts of misconduct constituting a crime under the Revised Penal Code or an offense in any special penal law will not be covered, as well as those under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any dangerous drug at the time of the act or omission.
Vargas said volunteers covered by the protection are those acting in an emergency situation at the scene of an accident. Also covered are volunteers who are properly licensed, certified, and authorized by appropriate authorities to undertake activities that will assist persons during an emergency situation.
A volunteer will also be cleared of any liability for inflicting harm for acts that are not caused by “willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, or conscious flagrant indifference”, Vargas said.
“Volunteerism is a value that the state should recognize, promote, and develop among people,” the QC lawmaker said.
In filing his version of the bill, Servo said the proposal will “encourage people to participate in public and other civic affairs by eliminating the fear of being subsequently punished for any possible unintentional harm they could inflict unto others.”
“This also serves as a strategy towards that sustainable development of the state as it take advantage of available human capital while honoring the Filipino tradition of bayanihan,” Servo said. | <urn:uuid:8d00eb82-8691-456d-8b36-0e63ddef48dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mb.com.ph/2020/03/18/house-approves-on-3rd-and-final-reading-bill-freeing-volunteers-from-liability-for-acts-of-omission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950345 | 621 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Saboti D, Maver U, Chan HK, Planinšek O
Budesonide (BDS) is a potent active pharmaceutical ingredient, often administered using respiratory devices such as metered dose inhalers, nebulizers, and dry powder inhalers. Inhalable drug particles are conventionally produced by crystallization followed by milling. This approach tends to generate partially amorphous materials that require post-processing to improve the formulations’ stability. Other methods involve homogenization or precipitation and often require the use of stabilizers, mostly surfactants. The purpose of this study was therefore to develop a novel method for preparation of fine BDS particles using a microfluidic reactor coupled with ultrasonic spray freeze drying, and hence avoiding the need of additional homogenization or stabilizer use. A T-junction microfluidic reactor was employed to produce particle suspension (using an ethanol-water, methanol-water, and an acetone-water system), which was directly fed into an ultrasonic atomization probe, followed by direct feeding to liquid nitrogen. Freeze drying was the final preparation step. The result was fine crystalline BDS powders which, when blended with lactose and dispersed in an Aerolizer at 100 L/min, generated fine particle fraction in the range 47.6% ± 2.8% to 54.9% ± 1.8%, thus exhibiting a good aerosol performance. Subsequent sample analysis confirmed the suitability of the developed method to produce inhalable drug particles without additional homogenization or stabilizers. The developed method provides a viable solution for particle isolation in microfluidics in general.
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Hello all! I have a really fun post today about books set in libraries- because you should all know by now that’s my happy place 😉 And I cannot resist picking up books set there!
Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library/There’s a Lion in the Library/Library Lion/The New LiBEARian– okay let’s start off by talking about the *amazing* trend of picture books set in libraries- cos I AM HERE FOR IT! Obviously libraries are just as fun and colourful and full of animals as these books make out 😉
Unseen Academicals– I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t also mention a Pratchett book. And while this is technically mostly set on a football pitch, it does feature the infamous library Unseen University and its library (and my favourite character the Librarian 😉).
Matilda– every book starring a bookworm character has to have a library in it somewhere, so of course Matilda’s lifelong love of reading and her journey to independence from her horrible family begins in a library.
Neverending Story– naturally, all good stories begin in a library- and so it is the case with the Neverending Story. This isn’t a typical fantasy- it is a quest to fall in love with reading.
Sorcery of Thorns– an adventure in a magical library? YES PLEASE! This such a fun, escapist read for fans of YA fantasy 😊
Lirael– quieter than its predecessor, this coming-of-age fantasy is focused on a heroine who works in a library. And perhaps this is what makes it a more contemplative read.
Midnight Library– this life-affirming, soul-searching story features a very special library indeed. For every book in this library is a life the heroine could have lived if she’d made different choices. Written in Haig’s trademark poignant style, this is a unique exploration of what it means to have a life well-lived.
Fahrenheit 451– perhaps this doesn’t have a library in the traditional sense, yet what is a library other than a collection of books? Especially when such a collection is strictly banned. This firecracker of a novel is a testament to the importance of books (and indeed libraries 😉)
Book Thief– another unconventional “library” that bears mentioning is the stolen collection of books in this story. Snatched from book burnings, these books become a lifeline in the face of death and destruction.
Dear Fahrenheit 451– this collection of a librarian’s love letters and break up notes to books doesn’t just give you advice on what books to pick up (and which ones to avoid)- it is full of wonderful library anecdotes and gives the reader an insight into what goes on behind the scenes in the house of books. Plus, it’s also a double whammy for this list, as it’ll give you some more great books set in libraries to check out! (I may be planning to read some of them myself 😉)
That’s all… for now! I definitely want your suggestions- what are your favourite books set in libraries? And are you a fan of any of these? Let me know in the comments! | <urn:uuid:6b8f8f41-a70f-4322-aef5-fd57d1a3a4c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theorangutanlibrarian.wordpress.com/tag/books-set-in-libraries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945111 | 694 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Detasseling crews are hard at work in the heat
July 28, 2022
That summer rite of passage which many young people undergo in Mid West agricultural communities is well underway.
The job of roguing and detasseling seed corn fields is a thankless task. The job takes place in the heat of summer. Workers walk up and down rows of corn with little air circulation. That is just one of the trials the workers endure along with the blazing summer sun.
This summer a number of Nuckolls County youthful residents are earning money by heading to the fields.
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How do you melt down beef fat?
Place the fat into your pan, then add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan by about half an inch. Place the pan over a medium flame, until the water starts to boil, then turn heat down to low. Cook gently for 1-2 hours, stirring every so often until most of the fat has rendered.
How do you cook down fat?
Place the fat and water into the pot and turn the heat on medium low. Cook the fat on a solid simmer, stirring often and adjusting heat as necessary. Remember that hot fat will sputter as it cooks in water, so try to keep the heat on the lower end for your own safety. After 30 minutes or so, the fat will begin to melt.
What can I do with extra beef fat?
Beef tallow was used in cooking as it makes an amazing oil for frying or pastries. They would also use tallow fat for candle making, soap making, moisturizing, keeping cast iron pots from rusting and even for waterproofing leather.
How do you cook beef tallow?
You’re going to love cooking with beef tallow. You can fry it, bake with it, and basically use it for any savory dish that requires cooking oil. Try it for your next omelet. Sauté fresh greens with a little garlic, sea salt, freshly ground pepper, and beef tallow for a new spin on green leafy vegetables.
How long does beef fat last in fridge?
Fat goes rancid from oxygen, not heat FYI. It’ll stay safe even at room temp, but the flavor will turn over time. Heat and light will speed up rancidity, but even in the fridge, it’ll eventually go off. 6 months refrigerated sounds about right.
Is beef fat bad for you?
Meat is often considered unhealthy because it is high in saturated fat. For this reason, meat (especially fatty meat) has been demonized. But new studies have shown that saturated fat is harmless… and meat has been making a comeback as a health food.
What does it mean to render fat on a steak?
Sometimes a recipe calls for you to “render” fat out of a piece of meat. Rendering is what happens when fat is cooked slowly over low heat and becomes a liquid, rather than crisping up.
Can you reuse lard after frying?
Cooking with Lard:
Lard is particularly good for frying things that are a sticking problem. … When frying in lard, keep in mind that it’s a low temperature fat. It should not be heated beyond 360°F/185°C. It can be reused (after filtering and if it hasn’t been overheated) to a limited extent.
Is Crisco a lard?
What is the difference between lard and Crisco? Answer: Lard is actually rendered and clarified pork fat. … Crisco®, which is a brand name and part of the Smucker’s family of brands, is a vegetable shortening.
Can I freeze beef fat?
Fat can get freezer burn or otherwise lose its oomph, but it won’t get rancid. And since fat doesn’t freeze as hard as water, you can freeze it in bags and chip off bits as needed, hotoynoodle says.
What can I do with leftover cooking fat?
Capitalize on Clean Up. You can further minimize the grease that goes down the drain by scraping leftover scraps into the trash. Then wipe down plates, bowls, pots, and pans with paper towels to soak up any lingering grease, and wash them with hot, soapy water.
Should I save beef fat?
Yes, save all of your fat and combine it into one container. It does not matter whether it’s oil from cooking spiced chicken strips or fat from bacon, it all gets flavorful and it enhances whatever you fry on it. Just separate the burned particulates from the oil/fat and enjoy your dishes.
Can you reuse beef tallow after frying?
Cooking with tallow
But olive oil is about twice as susceptible to rancidity, so you can’t re-use it the way you can with tallow. Try to stay well below the smoke point. About 350° if you want to put a thermometer in it.
What can you cook in beef tallow?
Some cooks use beef tallow for frying, roasting vegetables, cooking french fries, and sautéing as well, but it’s still not as popular as other fats. It’s an ingredient that’s embraced by people who are very interested in using traditional means of using the entire animal for cooking and letting nothing go to waste.
How long does beef tallow last?
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Are you having enough sex? Don’t answer that – the stats speak for themselves. A 2019 study found that the number of British women who had had sex 10 or more times in a month fell from 20.6 per cent to 13.2 per cent between 2001 and 2012, and only 41 per cent of those aged 16 to 44 reported having sex at least once a week. Subsequent research suggests this downward trend will continue, unless we take steps to remedy it.
Enjoying a healthy sex life is as beneficial to our overall wellbeing as it is our mental health. When we have it, our bodies release happy-making hormones – like endorphins and oxytocin – which help us to feel closer to our partner. And we crave it too: a new national study by the beauty brand This Works indicates that 82 per cent of Britons consider intimacy an essential part of a successful relationship, and more than half would like to enjoy more sex with their partner than they currently have.
At the same time, we’re a nation obsessed with our phones, and it seems we take our tech habit into the bedroom. Over half of people surveyed admitted that a device – be it a smartphone or a TV screen – is the last thing they see before they close their eyes at night, and a third sleep closer to their phones than to their partner – not the ideal set-up for an amorous evening. It seems physical connection and touch have been replaced with texts, likes and blue light. | <urn:uuid:f462ed35-4d8d-466d-80cc-dce27b5e6e72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/this-works-love-sleep-spray | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974395 | 304 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Major fashion designer Chanel has announced it will stop using exotic animal skins.
These include fur, crocodile, lizard, snake, and stingray. While some products still exist in Chanel creations, they will no longer be used in upcoming collections.
According to Bruno Pavlovsky, President of Chanel fashion and Chanel SAS, it has become increasingly difficult to source skins that met the company’s standards in terms of ethics and quality, and the brand will turn its R&D towards fabrics created by ‘agri-food industries’.
He added: “We did it because it’s in the air, but it’s not an air people imposed to us. It’s a free choice.”
“The champagne corks are popping at PETA, thanks to Chanel’s announcement that it’s kicking fur and exotic skins – including crocodile, lizard, and snake skin – to the kerb,” PETA Director of International Programmes, Mimi Bekhechi, said in a statement sent to Plant Based News.
“For decades, PETA and its affiliates have called on the brand to opt for luxury, cruelty-free fashion that no animal had to suffer and die for, and now it’s time for other companies, like Louis Vuitton, to follow the lead of the iconic double ‘C’s and do the same.” | <urn:uuid:b7451a42-764a-4ffc-8f60-e1e080722a74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/chanel-ditches-fur-exotic-animal-skins-ethical-issues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.948046 | 306 | 1.726563 | 2 |
BSL Sign Language Dictionary
Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in British Sign Language (BSL). The largest collection online.
How to sign: make viscous or dense
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"thicken the sauce by adding flour";
Similiar / Same: thicken
Categories: change integrity
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What Type of Piping is Used in Plumbing?
If you’ve ever wondered what type of piping is used in plumbing, you’re not alone. A recent survey found that more than 10 million homes in the United States have some type of polyvinyl chloride piping installed in them. Originally seen as a futuristic material, polybutylene has been re-popularized as a low-maintenance, lightweight option for plumbing. However, it is not suited for carrying hot water or high-pressure water supplies. what type of piping is used in plumbing
Before plastic pipes became widespread, galvanized piping was the standard for residential plumbing. Today, however, it’s not a standard choice for homes. Rather, it’s used in industrial facilities and wastewater connections. Galvanized steel and copper pipes are relatively inexpensive options for homeowners who want tough piping. And unlike many other types of piping, galvanized pipes are highly resistant to rust.
ABS stands for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. While ABS pipes are similar to PVC pipes, they tend to be softer. They are also made from a chemical known as BPA, which is used to harden plastic. Although this chemical has gained a bad reputation in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration deems it safe for use in plumbing. ABS pipes are typically used for drainage and vent lines, but they aren’t as common as PVC.
Another type of plastic piping is PEX. PEX is made from cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) and is the preferred option for water supply lines. It’s rigid enough to resist pressure from the water supply, but flexible enough to weave through walls and other obstacles. PEX pipes are also less expensive than other types of piping. PEX pipes are commonly available in 1/2 inch or 3/4-inch diameters and come in different colors. They’re often color-coded to identify which piping is for hot or cold water.
Among the types of piping, PVC is the most popular, with many advantages. Its lightweight properties make it an affordable option for plumbing. It’s also durable, lightweight, and resistant to corrosion. Although PVC is the preferred choice for drainage and drain lines, it can be brittle when exposed to high water pressure. PVC pipes are also not appropriate for hot water lines. PVC pipes can warp and melt when exposed to heat.
There are a number of different types of piping available in the market today. Some of these are old standbys, while others are made from modern materials. Each type has its benefits and disadvantages. Understanding the difference between these types of piping will help you determine which one is best for your home. So, make sure you understand what type of piping is used in plumbing before attempting repairs. They will help you to save money and get the job done faster.
Traditionally, cast-iron pipes were used in drainage systems. They’re heavy and hard to cut, but they’re still used in some homes and commercial establishments. While they’re sturdy and durable, cast-iron pipes are susceptible to corrosion and rust. Therefore, they’ve been replaced by ABS and plastic piping in the past. However, it’s best to avoid rusty and corrosion-prone cast-iron piping if you’re remodeling your home.
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not simply […] a matter of our being able to accept the other, but of being in his place, and this means to imagine and make oneself other for oneself.
Julia Kristeva (1993)
How to be a Model Citizen was first performed in the Atrium of Dublin City Council Civic Offices in 2009, where the artist and four co-collaborators, who were at various stages of negotiating citizenship in Ireland, facilitated it.
The installation is recognizable to anybody who has spent time in Social Security Offices, Passport Offices, Immigration Offices and similar institutional environments. Visitors are invited to take a seat in the waiting room, where they will meet an official who will supervise a short multiple-choice examination, modeled on citizenship tests from around the world. The questions will test knowledge of democratic institutions and civic society in Ireland. On completion of the test the official will inform participants if they have passed the test or not and begin a conversation.
Migrant receiving countries such as Australia, the US and the UK have increasingly adopted citizenship tests. In 2008 the Minister of Justice announced that Ireland would adopt a similar test for immigrants to prove their language skills and knowledge of ‘national culture’ before being allowed permanent residency.
The audience was situated within a transformative dialogical process; drawing from Rancière’s statement that, ‘critical art intends to raise consciousness of the mechanisms of domination in order to turn the spectator into a conscious agent in the transformation of the world’ (2004: 83). By situating the spectator in close proximity to the position of the migrant subject a temporal shift in power relations occurs. The spectator was faced with the dilemma discussed earlier, and described by Kristeva as ‘not simply… a matter of our being able to accept the other, but of being in his place, and this means to imagine and make oneself other for oneself’ (Kristeva in Browne 2009: 96-97). The paradoxical question posed in this intervention, how to be a model citizen? poses a duality: a marginalized migrant wishing to be fully accepted by the host society and at the same time a demonstration of how a political (art) intervention can invite participation; an act of ‘political citizenship’.
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A splash of rain in the sweltering summer months does bring a sigh of relief but it also invites a number of infections owing to the sudden change of weather. During this time, most people are troubled with imbalances of the Kapha doshas which causes infectious diseases and respiratory anomalies like cough, cold, sore throat, asthma etc. Well, although one can go for modern medications, but if you entrust in Ayurveda, believe us when we say, a good boost to the immune system is what you need to evade these infections. One such incredible ayurvedic formulation that is hallowed with potent expectorant and bronchodilatory properties is Chitrak Haritaki.
What Is Chitrak Haritaki?
Chitrak Haritaki, also known as Chitrak Haritaki Avaleha is an ayurvedic proprietary medication that is available in the form of a herbal jam. It is extremely significant in treating respiratory anomalies like cough, cold, difficulty breathing (dyspnoea), asthma and chronic rhinitis. Additionally, it is also helpful in improving digestion, treating bloating, constipation and managing intestinal worm infestation.
It contains a plethora of powerful ayurvedic herbs like Haritaki, Chitrak, Amla, Giloy, Bael, Gokshura, Kantakari, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Ginger, Pippali, Dashmoola, Kalimirch, Jaggery and Honey. Hallowed with a host of medicinal properties including mucolytic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, detoxifier, carminative, antioxidant, immunomodulatory and antimicrobial properties, this Avaleha formulation is a boon for all sorts of Kapha- Vata vitiations.
How To Prepare Chitrak Haritaki Avaleha?
Chitrak Haritaki Avaleha Ingredients:
4.8 litres Chitraka – Plumbago zeylanica – Root
4.8 litres Amla – Emblica officinalis – Fruit
4.8 litres Guduchi – Tinospora cordifolia – Stem
10 medicinal roots – 4.8 litres each
Bilva – Aegle marmelos – Root/stem bark
Agnimantha – Premna mucronata – Root/stem bark
Syonaka – Oroxylum indicum – Root/stem bark
Kashmari – Gmelina arborea – Root/stem bark
Patala – Stereospermum suaveolens – Root/stem bark
Shalaparni – Desmodium gangeticum
Prishnaparni – Uraria picta
Gokshura – Tribulus terrestris
Brhati – Solanum indicum
Kantakari – Solanum surattense
96 g Pepper – Piper nigrum – Fruit – 96 g
96 g Long pepper – Piper longum – Fruit
96 g Ginger – Zingiber officinale – Rhizome
3.072 kg Haritaki – Terminalia chebula – Fruit rind
96 g Cinnamon – Elettaria cardamomum – Seed
96 g Patra – Cinnamomum tamala – Leaves
24 g Yavakshara – Hordeum vulgare
348 g Honey
4.8 kg Jaggery
Wash and dry the herbs seperately
Powder the herbs from chitrak to Dashamoola seperately and then mix together
Now, add jaggery and water to the mixture and boil till the jaggery completely dissolves
Now add the Haritaki powder and boil again with continuous stirring till it gets a semisolid consistency
Next add the other remaining herbs to the paste in fine powder form
Stir everything together to get a homogeneous mass
Let the Avaleha cool down a bit and then add powdered sugar to it
Store it in amber-coloured glass jars for future use
Chitrak Haritaki Avaleha Ayurvedic Indications
Time and again, this ayurvedic medication has been mentioned in several ancient scriptures of Susruta and Charaka for the following indications including Kasahara (Relieves cough), Kapha-Vata hara (treats Kapha and Vata imbalances), Balya (increase strength), Anulomana (improves breathing), Ama nashak (removes toxins), Svasha hara (treats asthma), Jwara hara (reduces fever), Deepana (enhances stomach fire), Pachana (helps in digestion), Rochana (stimulates appetite), Hikkanigrahana (treats incessant hiccups), Kantya (relieves sore throat), Triptighno (relieves pseudo-satiation), Kanthya (improves voice), and Rasayani (rejuvenates the whole body).
Chitrak Haritaki Uses
Asthma, also known as Swasa Roga in Ayurveda, is an inflammatory condition in which the airways to the lungs narrow and swell making it difficult to breathe and thus trigger coughing. According to Ayurveda, asthma usually occurs due to vitiations of Vata and Kapha. The vitiated ‘Vata’ combines with the deranged ‘Kapha dosha’ in the lungs causing obstruction in the respiratory passage and causing Swas Roga (asthma). Chitrak Haritaki imbued with powerful bronchodilatory qualities can help control the symptoms of asthma and provide relief in case of breathlessness. It balances the Kapha-Vata doshas and removes excess catarrh particles from the lungs and the windpipe thus providing relief from the various symptoms of asthma.
Treats Allergic Rhinitis
Allergic Rhinitis, also termed as Vata-Kaphaj Pratishyaya is actually hay fever. It is mainly a type of allergic reaction that is characterized by sneezing, congestion, an itchy nose, and a sore throat. It usually occurs due to disturbance in digestion and an imbalance of Vata and Kapha doshas. Thanks to the presence of a host of anti-inflammatory herbs in this formulation, it helps combat the various symptoms of allergic rhinitis.
Kasa Roga medically termed as Bronchitis is a condition marked by an inflammation in the windpipe and the bronchi and bronchioles (branches) of the lungs which results in the accumulation of sputum. The main causative factor of bronchitis is an imbalance of Vata and Kapha doshas. The vitiated doshas further results in congestion in the respiratory tract that obstructs the air pathway. Being a powerful expectorant and bronchodilatory formulation, Chitrak Haritaki helps in removing excessive dryness and gradually helps in expelling mucus out of the respiratory tract.
Enhances Gut Health
Chitrak Haritaki is a powerful digestive stimulant. The carminative and appetite-stimulant properties of the herbs in use help in breaking down food particles in the stomach and intestine, promote the secretion of the digestive juices and thereby increase the absorption of essential nutrients through the intestines. It is also helpful in eliminating abdominal gas which in turn reduces abdominal distension, bloating and gaseous cramps. It offers an amazing cure for a wide range of gastrointestinal disorders like esophagitis, diarrhea, flatulence, dyspepsia, heartburn, peptic ulcer and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
The abundance of antimicrobial, anti-bacterial, and antiseptic properties of the herbs, make Chitrak Haritaki the ultimate solution to ward off the various infections. The bio-active components in the formulation bolsters immunity and prevents bacterial infestation. It not only helps reduce the risk of various bacterial and fungal infections like fever, common cold, tuberculosis etc. but also prevents worm infestation within the stomach.
Chitrak Haritaki Dosage:
The effectual therapeutic dosage of Chitrak Haritaki usually varies from person to person depending upon the age, body strength, effects on appetite, severity, and condition of the patient. It is strongly recommended to consult an ayurvedic doctor or practitioner as he or she would evaluate the patient’s indications, past medical conditions and prescribe an effective dose for a specific time period. It is advised to consume it twice a day along with milk for better results.
Chitrak Haritaki Side Effects
Sanctified with immense health-promoting herbal ingredients, Chitrak Haritaki is extremely beneficial in recommended doses. But if it is consumed in excess or without prior consultation with a doctor, it can lead to stomach irritation and gastritis. It also strictly advised for pregnant women, lactating mothers, children below age 5 or people diagnosed with diabetes not to consume this herbal concoction without consulting a doctor. | <urn:uuid:9fd5d7fc-4bc4-414b-9ed2-40596b5587bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.netmeds.com/health-library/post/chitrak-haritaki-benefits-uses-formulation-ingredients-dosage-and-side-effects?utm_source=Blog-Post&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=NMSBlogPost | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.856243 | 1,921 | 1.671875 | 2 |
It can be hard and a bit sad to have to think about the mission of your organization and all the hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into it in such a clinical way. But there is a durable truth here: to get something we have to offer and give something in return. There has to be more of a give and take relationship between your nonprofit and your stakeholders than that of bank and ATM machine.
There is also a hard truth about finances and nonprofits that is directly related to this: no nonprofit can survive without a sustainable financial base. It is not free to do good work, have an office or website, and responsibly steward gifts of money, time and effort.
Whether it is called overhead, administration or management expenses, keeping the doors open and the work spinning requires costs as well.
The need to bring in funds is never ending and ongoing. Keeping that donor supportive requires more than constant asking, it requires some giving as well.
Withdrawal or Deposit?
To withdraw from an account, there has to be something there to draw against; further, deposits have to be ongoing to make sure there is no overdrawn account. That will result in a loss of support, financial and otherwise, maybe even some unpleasant penalties.
The good news is the deposits you need to make aren’t necessarily money. The deposits can include updated and current information about your work, how your donors make that work real and showing the visible, tangible results that are the result of the support they have provided. The current buzzwords of engagement and donor-centric giving practices (just because the words are horribly abused doesn’t mean they don?t have currency) are excellent examples of the kind of deposit your organization can make towards keeping your accounts with them active and vital.
How Do You Feel When You Are Treated As A Checkbook?
There are organizations to whom I have donated money and materials; a surprising percentage of them never even reply or that reply is limited to an email acknowledging my payment. But then I begin to and continue to receive requests and solicitations from them.I feel as though I am only an ATM to them.
Occasionally those letters are personalized with my name (and often that is not even correct) but otherwise there is nothing special in that communication with me. I gave because I cared and I felt that my gift at that time would make a difference. But seldom do I make a second gift when I feel as if I just paid to get my name and address on a list.
Your donors and supporters and board members and vendors may feel the same way. It may seem trite, but an account is the the relationship you build with that supporter.
What Is The Solution?
Spend some time thinking about what you can do to make a deposit into those relationship accounts you have. What can you do differently, what surprising effort can you include in your busy day to let your supporter understand how important that gift is to you?
Everyone?s time is tight, but there is always time for an unexpected and pleasant surprise. Maybe it is a handwritten or personal note on the official receipt, maybe it is a request for a quote in the newsletter, and maybe it is an invitation for a cup of coffee.
Sometimes a phone call,maybe not even from you, but someone else in the organization can be both unexpected and welcome. Even if you only leave a message, that call can make the withdrawal your donor made from their account feel more like a deposit with you.
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The Rainbow Coast is blessed with an abundance of National Parks. Ancient coastline and ancient forests, endless stretches of white sandy beaches, wilderness peaks and one of the most pristine places on earth.
One of the top six areas of in the world for terrestrial biodiversity, and one of the top ten for marine biodiversity. The National Parks of the Coast care for this uniqueness by protecting the habitat of the plants and animals.
Tread lightly, breathe deeply & explore the National Parks...
Fifteen kilometres west of Denmark, William Bay National Park covers almost two thousand hectares and has some of the most spectacular coastline including Greens Pool, Elephant Rocks, Elephant Cove, Tower Hill, Waterfall Beach, Mazzoletti Beach. Wow!
West Cape Howe National Park
West Cape Howe National Park contains the most southern point in Western Australia, Torbay Head. Almost completely covered in heathland and forest and bearing the force of the Great Southern Ocean, this National Park is worth the visit.
Two People's Bay Nature Reserve is a very welcoming place with much to see and explore. The visitors centre is well-kept and informative with a wonderful little gift shop packed with information on the area. Picnic tables and toilets are located a short walk from the car park. There is also access to the walking trails from here.
Torndirrup National Park covers almost four thousand hectares and is home to the famous 'Gap' and 'Natural Bridge' rock formations (below) which have formed over thousands of years. These granite outcroppings have been slowly worn away by the Great Southern Ocean.
Home to the Mount Martin Botanic Park, take a walk through the bushland to the peak of Mount Martin (152mtr) and get an incredible view of Middlteon Beach, Emu Point and Mount Adelaide in Albany City.
The Walpole - Nornalup National Park is expansive, covering over twenty thousand hectares of the Walpole Wilderness Area. The little town of Walpole sits nestled in the centre on the northern side of the Walpole Inlet in the heart of the National Park.
Mount Frankland is spectacular. The hike is unique. Starting at the feet of massive karri trees you wind up and through towards the top of the towering canopy. It is a short, yet relatively steep, well paved path onto Mt Frankland. This path will take you half way to the summit.
at the Walpole Wilderness Discovery Centre, the coast's most famous trees...
Our National Parks are our lifeline. Diversity requires protection and conservation. When visiting the National Parks you will find opportunities to give back to the land and support it's caretakers. Please give generously, remember you are contributing to the support of an internationally recognised area of bio diversity in Australia.*
The Department of Parks and Wildlife are the stewards of these lands. All official information can be found here: https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au
Our Joint Responsibility:
More information on the south-west coast in our other Western Australian travellers guides:
The Rainbow Coast is a national biosphere area and deserves our care and respect, please try to reduce your environmental impact when visiting the coast. Your safety while visiting the region iis your responsibility, please obey the signs and be careful. THANKS FOR VISITING!
Fremantle, the Port City, is located south-west of Perth at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle's vibrant nightlife, music scene and cafe' culture make Fremantle a perfect getaway from the bustle of Perth. Beaches, history, shopping, dining out, and more. VISIT FREMANTLE
The Margaret River Region is an area of magnificent beauty on the western coast of the south west of WA. From the expansive shores of Busselton on Geographe Bay, through Dunsborough & Margaret River to Augusta, the Margaret River Region is fantastic. VISIT MARGARET RIVER
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How To Grow Hydroponic Bell Peppers Effectively?
Bell Peppers are fruits that are native to Central and South America. They are botanically known as (Capsicum annum) belongs to the Nightshade family. Bell Peppers also known as Sweet Peppers or Capsicums are related to chilli peppers, tomatoes, and breadfruit. Bell peppers can be cooked or can be eaten raw. Also, it can be dried and made into powdered form, just like their relative’s chilli peppers. The powdered form of Red Bell Pepper is generally known as Paprika. Bell peppers come in various colors such as Red, yellow, orange, and green. They are considered healthy fruit as they have low calories and are rich in Vitamin C. Let us now look at How to grow Hydroponic Bell Peppers Effectively.
Bell Peppers are an excellent plant to grow with Hydroponic techniques and they are more advanced than tomatoes and lettuce. If grown properly with utmost care you will get great quality fruits with better yields, if compared to the soil-based Bell Pepper. For best results, you need to grow Bell Peppers in ideal conditions with proper light, temperature, and pH levels. It is an excellent plant for commercial growers and garden enthusiasts can too easily grow this plant in their backyard with the help of Hydroponics.
Himalayan Greens, Haldwani is a full-fledged hydroponic farm. We grow fresh strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, basil, rosemary, sage, green vegetables such as kale, swiss chard, bok choi, lettuce, etc. Our vegetables and fruits are rich in nutrients and chemical-free. One of our favorite vegetables is Bell Pepper that is quite healthy and grows easily with hydroponics.
Which Bell Pepper Variety to choose for your Hydroponic Farm?
A wide variety of bell peppers can be found in the market, but which one do you think is best suited for your plant? It might take some time for hydroponic growers to select the best variety for this type of farming. But we are here to help you and suggest to you some of the finest varieties that are usually available and are grown by the farmers.
One of the most popular hydroponic Bell peppers is the sweet bell peppers of California Wonder that produces more pepper fruits in a single plant. There are also other varieties that you can grow like Vidi, Ace, or Yolo Wonder.
Which Hydroponic system is best suited for Bell Peppers?
Bell Peppers can be grown in any of the hydroponic systems. But before choosing system research about the fruit size of the bell pepper plant. As some hydroponic systems would not be able to sustain the fruit size to its full potential. Deepwater culture and Ebb and flow are the two hydroponics systems that are best for Bell Peppers. These are the low-cost hydro mechanisms that provide enough watering and oxygenated nutrient solutions automatically.
To know more about different types of hydroponic systems click here.
What are the best conditions to grow Hydroponic Bell Peppers?
Just like tomatoes, the humidity levels required to grow peppers in hydroponics are generally high, i.e., from 55 to 65%. The humidity level should not be higher than this level. You can consider a range of 60 – 80% of humidity, but we won’t recommend it for growing pepper plants. If the humidity level increases than the suggested level then it may lead to the formation of deformed fruits.
In Hydroponic Farming pH value plays an important role in determining the health of the plant. The pH value for hydroponic bell peppers should be around 6.0 to 6.5. If it is lower or higher than this level then the plant won’t intake essential minerals from the water solution. Hence leading to unhealthy plants. Make sure pH remains the same and does not fluctuate very often to preserve the plant development at a consistent rate and proper pH.
Bell pepper plant needs a minimum of 14 to 18 hours of light every day for stable development. You can also use artificial lights such as HID or lead grow lamps that can also be used for indoor plant heating. For commercial growers, this type of lighting is best suited.
A specific temperature range needs to be followed for growing peppers. The temperature at night should be 18°C or more than that. The day temperature should be around 30°C. Never let the temperature be more than 34°C to maintain the growth of the plant. Even in a warmer climate, the temperature should be less than 35°C, else the flowers of the plant will fall.
One should use a nutrient regimen to feed the bell pepper plant that benefits vegetative growth. Mix one-part nutrient solution in water for bell pepper preparation. As the plant reaches the flowering stage, lessen the amount of nitrogen and switch to another one-part nutrient product. Adding potassium and phosphorus will enhance the production of Bell Pepper’s fruits, leaves, and flowers.
A bell pepper plant needs proper spacing for its full development. Keep a distance of 18 to 24 inches between the plants for the finest spacing condition. You can also place them closer, but there will be a potential risk of shaded lighting.
So, we at Himalayan Greens, Haldwani think that this article would have helped you to know ‘How to grow Hydroponic Bell Peppers Effectively?’ Whether you are a home gardener or a commercial farmer you can easily grow Bell Peppers with hydroponic. To learn about more hydroponic plants head to our blog section. | <urn:uuid:6060c76a-d5be-49e3-b237-19a8c366db1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://himalayangreens.co.in/blogs/blogs/how-to-grow-hydroponic-bell-peppers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935945 | 1,183 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A corporation is still the most popular legal structure for bigger business ventures. What makes a corporation stand out is shared ownership among multiple members and no liability for the shareholders for the company’s actions and problems. Similar to LLCs, corporations can be set up by individuals and legal entities alike. Yet, the company equity split is a bit different. Instead of capital contributions for LLCs, corporations issue stock and so-to-say sell it to the company members. This is also the easiest way to raise financing and engage investors when there is a need for added funds to finance business growth. In the meantime, unlike in LLCs, member shares in corporations are allocated strictly pro-rata to their financial infusions and the number of shares they own. As a legal structure, corporations are further divided into subtypes by the taxation approach. Thus, they distinguish between C-Corporations and S-Corporations. The latter is widely popular among startups and growing businesses.
Below, we’ll explain the benefits and drawbacks of S-Corporations and what business perspective this type of entity offers.
Subchapter S Corporation Definition
What is an S-Corporation? First off, an S-Corporation, Subchapter S Corporation, or an S-Corp as they call it is not simply a “smaller corporation”. It’s a sort of tax status assigned to the corporation by the Internal Revenue Service under the subchapter S, hence the name. In other words, an S-Corp is a corporation that mixes the benefits of a corporate business with the perks of pass-through taxation. In this case, the company owners are relieved from the heavier tax burden of C-Corporations. The company profits are transferred to the personal tax returns of its owners, and income taxes are paid under their individual tax rates. This is what makes S-Corps so appealing for smaller business owners and allows for optimized taxation so that you could better maintain your business growth at the start.
Historically, a subchapter S as a part of a tax code for corporations came into effect in 1958 to promote and maintain small business and family ventures by providing them with more favorable tax conditions. And this is what still gives S-Corps an edge over other entity types today and makes this legal structure so attractive for smaller business owners.
It’s worth noting that to file for an S-Corp status, there are certain requirements your newly-formed corporation should meet:
- The business should be formed as a domestic or home corporation, i.e. operating in the state of formation;
- Eligible S-Corp shareholders are individuals and legal entities, which are US residents. Non-residents and foreigners are not allowed to be S-Corp owners;
- An S-Corp can issue only one class of stock;
- The number of company shareholders should not exceed 100 persons, where husband and wife are considered as a single shareholder;
- Financial institutions, insurance agencies, and home sales corporations are usually not permitted to qualify for S-Corp status.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Filing Under Subchapter S
As with any other entity type, a Subchapter S Corporation has certain pros and cons to it. Thus, it mainly owes its popularity to a smart combination of limited liability protection with pass-through taxation. This way, corporate members are exempt from dual taxation by paying taxes only at a personal level and avoiding corporate withholdings. At the same time, they still have no personal liability for the company’s financial problems, debts, and lawsuits.
Other tax advantages pertinent to S-Corps include income tax reduction by cutting down self-employment tax payments through classifying the owner’s income as a salary. Besides, S-Corps are enabled to deduct some business-specific expenses from the taxable income, thus, reducing the whole revenue to be taxed by about 20%.
At the ownership level, S-Corporations can be legally designated by sole individuals. This entity status greatly enhances overall business credibility and trustworthiness with potential customers, creditors, sponsors, traders, and suppliers. Unlike LLCs, S-Corps are set up for perpetual existence and boast easy transfer of ownership, with no complicated procedures to follow and routines to complete. In the meantime, the personal assets and belongings of shareholders remain securely protected from the risk to be collected to set off the company’s financial liabilities.
When it comes to S-Corp disadvantages, this type of corporation should still follow complex corporate rules related to the company management and operation and observe strict compliance regulations. Should any violations or breaches in tax payments, wages accrual, expenses accounting, or filing compulsory reports occur, an S-Corp status can be immediately terminated by the state. For shareholders, it results in restrictions of their equity rights and authorities. Yet, the S-Corp advantages obviously outweigh potential downsides, which are easily avoidable subject to maintaining your business in good standing with the state.
S-Corporation Financial Reporting
Thanks to their pass-through tax status, S-Corporations are free from filing federal tax reports and corporate taxes. There will be no income tax expenses on the corporate income statement, and you won’t have to declare business tax liabilities on the S-Corp’s balance sheet. All those tax liabilities will be transferred to the personal tax returns of the business owners. The same is true for the company losses. Notably, business profits and losses are distributed pro rata to the shareholder’s percentage in the company equity. Besides, company owners with no stock are allowed to select a cash accounting method. It will let you pay an income tax only when you obtain revenue and, accordingly, deduct expenses only when those are paid | <urn:uuid:06db95be-2a07-495d-8231-943e089db748> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biznovice.com/what-is-a-subchapter-s-corporation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950761 | 1,198 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail covers the 54-mile distance along U.S. 80 between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. The trail follows the route of three marches held in 1965 to protest voting discrimination against African American citizens. The marches were a turning point in the civil rights movement; the Voting Rights Act was signed into law just five months after the demonstration. The National Historic Trail, intended as an auto route, is punctuated by a series of sites along the historic march as well as two National Park Service interpretive centers: one in Selma and one at the midway point in Lowndes County. The third and final interpretive center on the Alabama State University campus in Montgomery was completed in March 2017.
Selma was known for maintaining segregated schools and other facilities and for enforcing Jim Crow laws and customs with violence if necessary, including actions by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Nearly half of Selma's residents were Black, but because of restrictive electoral laws only one percent were registered to vote. In the 1960s civil rights workers had begun to organize in Selma to register Black citizens to vote in the upcoming elections. The first march, held on March 7, 1965, was organized in response to the shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama state trooper during a peaceful nighttime civil rights demonstration in Marion, Alabama. As a memorial to Jackson and a protest for voter’s rights, more than 600 demonstrators gathered at the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma to begin their journey to Montgomery, the state capital. The events of the march were memorialized as “Bloody Sunday” after a formidable wall of state troopers and local officers forcibly blockaded the nonviolent protestors’ progress at the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River. Without provocation, the officers violently attacked the marchers with tear gas and billy clubs
In reaction to the widespread media coverage of law enforcement’s brutality against the peaceful protestors, civil rights activists gathered once more in Selma to attempt the march. On March 9, Martin Luther King Jr. led around 2,500 activists to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On what came to be known as “Turn-Around Tuesday,” they were once again prevented from advancing by Alabama law enforcement. Activists sought and won an injunction in federal court to support the peaceful march, and the final attempt proceeded on March 21, 1965 under the protection of state and federal law enforcement. The journey, supported by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, took 5 days, with the 25,000 protestors averaging about 10 miles a day along U.S. 80. The group reached the Alabama State Capitol on March 25, and the march culminated with a rally that featured King’s iconic “How Long, Not Long” speech.
The Selma to Montgomery march is recognized as the apex of the civil rights movement. In response to the national and international coverage of the events in Selma, Congress rushed to create the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965. In 1996, Congress officially designated the route the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. Today, the trail pays homage to the sacrifices and perseverance of those activists who fought for their rights as citizens while memorializing the physical route traveled by them. The trail includes stops at Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church, which served not only as the starting point for Bloody Sunday’s harrowing march, but also as the host for the Southern Leadership Conference in 1965. The brick building, with striking twin towers in a strong Romanesque Revival style, was built in 1908 by A.J. Farley, an African American builder. The next landmark is Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the violence on Bloody Sunday, which was subsequently adopted as a symbol for the civil rights movement. The trail continues along the route, with markers at each of the four campsites along the way: David Hall Farm, Rosie Steele Farm, Robert Gardner Farm, and City of Saint Jude.
The Lowndes Interpretive Center serves as the halfway point of the trail, and pays tribute to the history of “Bloody Lowndes” County, a locus of the civil rights movement and the birthplace of the Black Panthers. The Center features an exhibit remembering Tent City, a makeshift refuge created when thousands of sharecroppers in the county were evicted from their land and fired from their jobs when they attempted to register to vote. Nearby is the Viola Liuzzo Memorial, which marks the spot where Viola Liuzzo was shot and killed by KKK members while driving marchers home from Montgomery on March 25, 1965. The trail ends at the state capitol in Montgomery, where King and other civil rights leaders addressed the crowd from a wooden podium in front of the building, as the governor would not allow them to speak from the capitol’s steps. Montgomery is home to a wealth of sites that played critical roles in the civil rights movement. | <urn:uuid:1ac113e7-6cca-41d4-b48f-6f330023591b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AL-01-085-8004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967659 | 1,029 | 3.859375 | 4 |
It is time for American Idol to come to an end. After 15 seasons of creating music mega-stars — and some winners that fell into the background, too — Idol is finally saying goodbye. There is no denying that Idol cemented its place in American culture, letting people live out the American dream; taking small town people working on their parent's farms and becoming multi-million dollar recording contracts (I'm talking to you, Carrie Underwood). So, it is no surprise President Obama opens American Idol and urged all of America to vote beyond their TV screens.
The two-hour long broadcast opened up with Obama making a direct address to the American people — but it wasn't on foreign policy or any of the current issues going on in the United States or the world. Nope, it was about saying goodbye to American Idol, which could technically still be a presidential-sized crisis.
While addressing the American Idol audience and viewers at home, Obama had a fantastic message for everyone, starting it out with a lighthearted congratulations to American Idol — as he should, giving it the presidential recognition it deserves.
"Congratulations to American Idol on an incredible 15 season run. This show transformed television, it transformed artists, and captivated audiences across the country — and it taught America what it means to be pitchy," Obama said.
Obama continued to address America, but on a more serious issue and one that the audience of American Idol should be paying attention to during a crucial time in our nation like this.
For over a decade this show has motivated millions of young Americans to vote, often and with enthusiasm. We should do the same in our lives as citizens for this country that we love. Voting is the most fundamental and sacred right for democracy. I believe that it should be just as easy as voting on American Idol, and we're working on that.
Can you imagine? Voting from your iPhone in the comfort of your own home over your morning cup of coffee instead of having to wait in line at your precinct?
All jokes aside, Obama makes a fantastic point. American Idol proved that Americans do have a say in outcomes — they've made small town singers like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood become huge celebrities all through the power of vote. Obama continued,
When we don't vote we surrender our voice to someone else. Not all of us can sing like Kelly Clarkson but all of our voices matter. This show not only reached historic heights because Americans watched it but because you participated in its success and that is true of America. We reach our potential when all Americans vote.
Obama's message comes with good reason. There have been more votes for American Idol than presidential elections in the years past. The Guardian reports that there were more votes cast in the Season 5 American Idol finale in 2006 than any presidential election, ever. The finale, which set Taylor Hicks against Katherine McPhee, drew out 63 million votes versus the election when Ronald Regan was elected in 1984, which drew 54.5 million votes.
It is the statistics like these that proves America is passionate and they're ready to back people they believe in. With American Idol off the air, lets hope the 2016 presidential election proves that America is still passionate behind something. | <urn:uuid:dad27600-840c-48c0-8e13-3f45046888ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.romper.com/p/president-obama-opens-american-idol-urges-america-to-vote-beyond-tv-8528 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96497 | 653 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Michel Boudart, chemical engineer and expert in catalysis, dies at 87 Professor Boudart taught at Princeton and Berkeley but was best known for his five decades at the heart of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford. His influence shaped catalysis during the post--war period when energy, defense and space industries demanded a deeper understanding of chemical reactions.
By Andrew Myers
Michel Boudart, a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Stanford University and for five decades one of the world’s leading experts in catalysis, died May 2 at an assisted living center in Palo Alto, California, of multiple organ failure. He was 87.
Boudart was the first William M. Keck, Sr. Professor of Chemical Engineering and one of a very few individuals who were responsible for establishing the reputation of Stanford’s chemical engineering department. The central theme of his research was the catalytic properties of metals, particularly small metal particles.
Boudart essentially brought catalysis, as a science, to chemical engineering in the United States. He was an international ambassador for the field over his entire career.
“Michel Boudart was a world renowned and influential expert in the field of catalysis who brought the Stanford University chemical engineering to prominence and trained several decades of students,” said Andreas Acrivos, a fellow professor at Stanford and now professor emeritus both at Stanford and at the City College of CUNY. “He left a legacy that would be difficult to replicate.”
As a professor, Boudart supervised what was consistently one of the larger groups of PhD candidates in the department, eventually guiding over 70 doctoral candidates to their degrees and mentoring over 100 post--doctoral candidates and visiting scientists. The diaspora of his former students would go on to lead and shape the field.
Le plus de saveur
An avid international traveller, Boudart and his wife, Marina, boasted friends across the world. His office sported Japanese shoji screens, abstract prints, and overstuffed sofas and – occupying one entire wall – an immense periodic table of the elements, printed in Russian, which he read with ease.
In a brief biography, Boudart cited as his personal philosophy a quote from French literary theorist Roland Barthes: “Nul pouvoir, un peu de savoir, un peu de sagesse, et le plus de saveur possible.” Translated loosely, it reads: “No power, a little knowledge, a little wisdom, and as much flavor as possible.” In this context, he will always be remembered as a man of real personal charisma and, one of the last “gentleman scientists.”
Catalysis is the study of chemical processes by which one substance, the catalyst, promotes a reaction between other substances without itself changing.
It is fundamental to the chemical, petroleum and pharmaceutical industries, among many others.
In the post--war era, the United States became the acknowledged leader in the field, mostly owing to advances flowing out of American academia and industry. Boudart was at the center of it all. He was an unabashed champion of catalysis. Though the field is obscure to most lay audiences, catalysis has a profound impact on our world and how we live.
In a published interview, Boudart once laid out his case: Without catalysis, he said, “[o]ur satellites could not be maneuvered, our autos would pour out all the noxious chemicals we’ve spent years guarding against. Our telephone links with the rest of the world would be seriously impeded.”
In 1975, in the wake of the first oil crisis, Boudart and two associates founded Catalytica in Santa Clara, California, which worked on highly complex catalytic problems for petrochemical, chemical, and pharmaceutical firms as well as government agencies. He served as a consultant to numerous well--known companies.
“[Catalytica] started in the catalysis consulting field, a service made clearly necessary by the oil crisis,” Boudart said at the time. “One of the critical areas was in synthetic fuels.”
Accolades and awards were showered on Boudart throughout his life, but particularly in the later years of his career, when the scale of his impact became clear.
In 1985, the University of Utah hosted a five--day symposium on catalysis solely in Boudart’s honor. In 2004, the Journal of Physical Chemistry dedicated an entire issue to Boudart’s legacy.
In their introduction, the journal’s editors wrote, “Michel Boudart has been the guiding force in the field of heterogeneous catalysis for more than forty years. He was known for elegantly stated concepts and his elucidation of catalytic sites, his experimental studies of new catalytic materials, and the activities of [his] many students and collaborators …”
The journal cited his foremost achievement as the quantification of catalysis as rigorous sequences of elementary steps. He focused attention on the need to report reaction rates evaluated under the most rigorous assessment techniques available and he introduced the concept of turnover rate – the number of molecules converted per site per second. He then perfected precise protocols for accurate measurement of reactions.
Boudart’s insistence on rigorous collection and reporting of data proved invaluable in comparing data generated by different laboratories throughout the world and enabled many subsequent advances in the field. His vision, leadership, and wisdom were credited as a major force in bringing catalysis to a point where the design of specific catalytic materials for environmental protection, production of chemicals, and energy conversion processes became possible.
In 2006, the Danish company Haldor Topsøe sponsored The Michel Boudart Award for the Advancement of Catalysis, which is administered jointly by the North American Catalysis Society and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies.
Michel Boudart was born on 18 June 1924 in Brussels, Belgium. In 1940, as Hitler’s Panzer divisions blitzkrieged his homeland, Boudart was just 16. He had been accepted to the University of Louvain, but the university was closed due to the war.
In order not to be drafted or sent to German factories, Boudart worked as a volunteer stretcher--bearer for the Red Cross. Meanwhile, he had private tutoring to prepare for Louvain. When the university reopened, Boudart graduated in three years at the top of every class, save mathematics, where he was outdone only by his dear friend, the late Professor Rene de Vogelaere of the University of California, Berkeley.
Boudart earned his B.S. at the University of Louvain in 1944 and his M.S. in 1947. He then left Belgium to attend Princeton University, where he took his PhD in chemistry in 1950. “He and his wife Marina were born in Belgium and were knighted by the crown, but America was their adopted home,” said Acrivos. “Their children are thoroughly American.”
After earning his doctorate, Boudart held faculty positions at Princeton until 1961 and, for three years, at Berkeley, before joining the Stanford faculty in 1964. He was Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford from 1975 to 1978. He also held visiting professorships at the Universities of Louvain, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and Paris. He became professor emeritus in 1994.
Boudart authored or coauthored over 280 journal articles and served on the editorial boards of at least ten journals. His book, Kinetics of Chemical Processes, is a standard reference and was translated into Japanese, Spanish, and French. His book, Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes, written with G. Djega--Mariadassou, was published in French in 1982 and translated to English in 1984. He was coeditor-- in--chief of Catalysis Science and Engineering, a series of twelve volumes.
Boudart was recipient of numerous awards, among them the Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1974), the Kendall Award (1977) and the Murphee Award (1985) from the American Chemical Society, and the Chemical Pioneer Award (1991) of the American Institute of Chemists.
His election to both the National Academy of Science and the National Academy of Engineering were reflections of Boudart’s leadership and his scientific gravitas. He was likewise a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member of the Academia Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux--Arts de Belgique and its Royal Belgian Academy Council for Applied Sciences.
Boudart received honorary doctorates from the University of Liege, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Ghent, and the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine.
He held four patents
Boudart is survived by a daughter, Iris Harris, of Whittier, Calif.; three sons, Marc, of Aptos, Calif.; Baudouin, of Atherton, Calif; and Philip, of Palo Alto; and grandchildren Marina and Clint Harris; and Jesse, Louise, and Noella Boudart. His wife, Marina d’Haese Boudart, died in 2009. A second daughter, Dominique, died in childhood.
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The Caddo Nation’s Community Health Program is funded by Indian Health Services on a yearly basis to assist Caddo tribal members with their health needs. The CHR Program’s purpose is to assist eligible Indian individuals and families within our service are to gain access to comprehensive health care services.
All CHR staff members are trained in CPR, First Aid and EMS First Responder.
The CHR Program is often a vital link to health care services for our Indian people in rural areas. Our work includes making and rescheduling appointments for clients, pick up and delivery of medications, home visits, case screening and management, monitoring of patients, and health education.
The staff transports clients who are without transportation to doctor’s appointments at the Anadarko IHS clinic or the Lawton IHS hospital, El Reno or Clinton. We can also provide transportation to outside referrals made by a doctor from IHS. The CHR Office needs to know 2 to 3 days in advance about appointments, refills of prescriptions, and transportation needs. There is a call-in procedure for requesting medication at the Lawton Indian Hospital; call toll-free 1-888-275-4886 for assistance, and allow 2 days before picking up medicines.
The I.H.S. clinics and Lawton Hospital are computerized and if you have refills on medications, they can now be filled at the Anadarko Pharmacy. You may call them in and let us know if you need a CHR to pick them up for you, or let us know and we can request them for you. Also the Anadarko & Carnegie clinics and Lawton Indian Hospital are doing same day appointments. You must call in each morning starting at 7:45 a.m. to get an appointment for that day. Any further questions please call the Community Health Office.
The CHR Director also handles Tribal Health Services, which provides assistance up to $100 for eyeglasses, dentures, health equipment, cost of prescriptions, and hearing aids. Assistance can be provided to individuals once per year.
The Caddo Nation’s Diabetes Program is also administered through the CHR Office. Funds are available to assist tribal members who have diabetes with eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, and medical supplies. Assistance can be provided to individuals once per year. See below for an application.
TRIBAL ASSISTANCE IN HEALTH SERVICES
The Caddo Tribal Council has appropriated funds from the motor fuel monies to assist tribal members in health services for the fiscal year beginning each October 1, and ending September 30. Assistance is a one-time only, per Fiscal year for eligible enrolled members, the limit will be $100. Dental, prescription and medical bills must be current, for a period of time, after October 1.
The categories which is approved for assistance is:
Eyeglasses may be obtained at any optometrist and any amount over $100.
Applications for assistance may be obtained from the Caddo Tribal Office and Health Department or you may download an application below.
Completed applications, along with the original bill and a copy of your CDIB or enrollment verification must be mailed to the:
Caddo Community Health Office
1514 S. Mission Street
Anadarko, OK 73005
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The first strand of this project collected reminiscences of the working lives of Sheppey people who have lived through or somehow felt the effects of key moments that have made Sheppey what it is today. People with different experiences of work (paid and unpaid, formal and informal) were involved in the study, particularly those with a connection to Blue Town and to the former naval dockyard at Sheerness. Men and women interviewees recount working in the launderette, newsagents or butchers on Blue Town High Street as well as having had a trade in the dockyard itself. And many tell fascinating stories of everyday life in Blue Town and the significance of the naval dockyard for them and their families.
The interviews were conducted by a group of local volunteers who undertook training in oral history, interview skills, audio recording and editing techniques at a series of workshops at Blue Town Heritage Centre and the University of Kent’s Medway campus by Dawn Lyon, Tim Strangleman and Clive Arundell. Interviewers were provided with topic guides, consent forms, digital recorders and cameras.
In total in 2009-10 thirty-two interviewees volunteered to tell their stories after appeals in local papers, on local radio, and talks to various community groups and visitors to the Blue Town Heritage Centre. A summary of the interviewees are listed below; they have been given pseudonyms for ethical reasons.
To read the transcripts of these interviews, you need to register through the Access to data page on this site. Once you’ve done that and received authorisation (including username and password), simply return to this page and click on the name of each interviewee to read their accounts.
To listen to excerpts of the interviews on particular topics, just click on the topics listed below.
- SHEERNESS DOCKYARD
- EVERYDAY LIFE IN BLUE TOWN
- THE 1953 FLOOD ON THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY
- THE CLOSURE OF THE SHEERNESS DOCKYARD (1960)
- BLUETOWN HIGH ST
If you would like to tell your story, there’s still a chance to Get involved.
Summary of interviewees
|Barry Alba||24.02.10||Mel Griggs||85||Barry Alba worked in the dockyard for 9 years as a Joiner||Dockyard Joiner|
|Charlie Arnolds||11.02.10||Cameron Beart||69||Charlie Arnolds was an informal errand boy in Blue Town||Blue Town; Dockyard|
|Olga Biggins||09.12.09||Jenny Hurkett||69||Olga Biggins worked in Blue Town as a secretary||Blue Town High Street|
|Hugo Bones||08.02.10||Alice Young||66||Hugo Bones was one of the last apprentices taken on at the Dockyard||Dockyard Apprentice; Blue Town; Closure of Dockyard|
|Yvonne Bowles||02.08.10||Alice Young||80||Yvonne Bowles grew up in Blue Town and worked in George Humphries Bakery in Blue Town||Blue Town; Community; George Humphries Bakery|
|Will Cary-Quentin||09.02.10||Pam Pomeroy||86||Will Cary-Quentin attended Blue Town School and worked in the Dockyard. He met his wife, Winnie Cary-Quentin through Dockyard connections||Blue Town; Community; Dockyard|
|Winnie Cary-Quentin||09.02.10||Pam Pomeroy||82||Winnie Cary-Quentin worked in the Fountain Hotel in Blue Town, she met her husband, Will Cary-Quentin through her family connections in the Dockyard||Blue Town; Dockyard; Family; Fountain Hotel|
|Sarah and Lindsay Coleman||03.03.10||Rebecca Davison||87 and 84||Sarah Coleman worked in Minerva Laundrette. Sarah and her sister Lindsay have memories of Blue Town and the Dockyard, where their father and brother worked||Blue Town; Dockyard; Family; Minerva Laundrette|
|Harry Coombes||12.03.10||Rebecca Davison||67||Harry Coombes grew up in Blue Town and worked in a newsagent. He also has memories of the Dockyard bike rush||Bike Rush; Blue Town; Community; Dockyard; Family|
|Christian Day||15.03.10||Alice Young||83||Christian Day was a Dockyard Apprentice and partook in the daily bike rush||Apprentice; Bike Rush; Blue Town; Dockyard|
|Hector Dill||05.02.10||Rebecca Davison||70||Hector Dill worked in the Dockyard and has many memories of Blue Town and the High Street. His father helped him get a job in the Dockyard||Blue Town; Dockyard; Family; High Street|
|Harriet Esham||16.12.09||Jenny Hurkett||74||Harriet Esham worked in a newsagent in Blue Town and has memories of the Dockyard bike rush||Bike Rush; Blue Town; Dockyard|
|Gavin Frinstead||22.01.10||Alice Young||85||Gavin Frinstead has memories Blue Town and performs a song he has composed about the Isle of Sheppey. He also had relatives that worked in the Dockyard||Blue Town; Family; Isle of Sheppey|
|75||Norman Folds’ father and uncle worked in the Dockyard, he has memories of how this affected his life||Blue Town; Dockyard; Family|
|George James||19.02.10||Pam Pomeroy||75||George James worked in the Dockyard and has memories of Blue Town||Blue Town; Dockyard|
|Marjorie Jenkins||09.02.10||Cameron Beart||89||Marjorie Jenkins worked in the Dockyard||Dockyard|
|Ralph Jermaine||01.03.10||Jenny Hurkett||68||Ralph Jermaine was a Dockyard Labourer||Dockyard Labourer|
|Scott Jiff||19.03.10||Alice Young||65||Scott Jiff was the Chief Engineer at the commercial dock after the Dockyard closed||Commercial Dockyard|
|Harvey Jones||22.03.10||Alice Young||75||Harvey Jones worked in the Dockyard, mainly on signs and flags||Dockyard; Flags; Signs|
|Dennis Kew||02.02.10||Rebecca Davison||77||Dennis Kew worked in Boreham’s the Butchers in Blue Town and has memories of the High Street||Blue Town; Boreham’s the Butcher; High Street|
|Richard Leons||04.02.10||Rebecca Davison||89||Richard Leons worked in George Humphries Bakery in Blue Town for over 20 years||Blue Town; George Humphries Bakery|
|Louise Marsden||24.02.10||Mel Griggs||78||Louise Marsden worked in the Dockyard Drawing Room||Dockyard Drawing Room|
|Sam Morris||19.03.10||Alice Young||68||Sam Morris was a Shipwright in the Dockyard Boiler Room||Boiler Room; Dockyard; Shipwright|
|Marvin Ramsey||25.03.10||Pam Pomeroy||78||Marvin Ramsey was a Dockyard Rigger||Dockyard Rigger|
|Winston Reginald||10.03.10||Cameron Beart||86||Winston Reginald worked in Yard Craft in the Dockyard||Dockyard; Yard Craft|
|84||Christopher Reynolds worked as a Dockyard Rigger||Dockyard Rigger|
|Kevin Riley||04.02.10||Mike Brown||77||Kevin Riley was born in Blue Town and worked in the Dockyard||Blue Town; Community; Dockyard; Family|
|Gareth Roberts||20.02.10||Robin Amos||85||Gareth Roberts was born in Blue Town and worked in the Dockyard as a Shipwright||Blue Town; Community; Dockyard; Family; Shipwright|
|Wilfred Ryan||17.03.10||Cameron Beart||85||Wilfred Ryan grew up in Blue Town and had relatives that worked in the Dockyard||Blue Town; Community; Dockyard; Family|
|Oliver Tide||11.02.10||Mike Brown||73||Oliver Tide worked in the Dockyard||Dockyard|
|Oscar Thomas||10.02.10||Cameron Beart||64||Oscar Thomas worked in the Dockyard||Dockyard|
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The first new soil sample from the Moon in decades is helping to lay the groundwork for “extraterrestrial photosynthesis,” a potential pathway toward producing water, oxygen, and fuel using sunlight and the rocky material on the lunar surface, known as regolith, reports a new study.
The concept is part of an array of emerging research into living off the lunar land, as nations such as the United States and China prepare to send humans to the Moon, and potentially beyond, in the coming decades. In anticipation of these missions, scientists are devising new techniques to use the available materials on alien surfaces for life support, fuel, and infrastructure—a process called in-situ resource utilization (ISRU)—instead of hauling supplies from Earth, which would take up valuable space and weight on crewed spacecraft.
Now, researchers led by Yingfang Yao, a scientist at Nanjing University, have tried out one of these methods on real lunar regolith. The team was able to road-test “a potential strategy to build an ISRU system that can accommodate the extreme lunar environment” using soil returned from the Moon by China’s Chang’e-5 mission which, in December 2020, became the first mission to bring lunar samples back to Earth in more than four decades, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Joule.
“Long-term survival on the Moon shall be the first milestone toward the long march of manned deep space exploration,” the team said in the study. “Maximizing the utilization of in situ lunar resources, including extreme environmental temperature (minus 173°C to 127°C) and strong solar irradiation, could help us build an extraterrestrial base on the Moon for life-supporting and spacecraft launch/manufacture proposes.”
While there are scores of studies focused on ISRU on the Moon, Yao and his colleagues had the relatively rare opportunity to use bonafide lunar samples in their work, as opposed to resorting to simulants, which are fake soils made to imitate extraterrestrial surfaces using Earth’s materials. The team’s study is also unusual in its pursuit of a process that would not rely on any energy sources from Earth, and would run only on resources available on the Moon, which they call a “zero-energy consumption’’ life support system.
To that end, the researchers experimented with extraterrestrial photosynthesis, which is more or less what it sounds like—a means of duplicating the ability of plantlife to convert water, sunlight, and nutrients into oxygen and other useful byproducts.
Water and sunlight can both be harvested from the Moon’s surface, and the soil sample in the experiment also contained traces of iron and titanium that are useful as catalysts for this artificial photosynthetic process. Meanwhile, excess water vapor and carbon dioxide gas could also be sourced from breathing equipment used by astronauts on the Moon. With those basic materials, the team was able to produce a photosynthetic process by electrolyzing water into oxygen and hydrogen, and combining carbon dioxide with hydrogen to make methane fuel, all while only using solar energy as a power source.
While the study offers a promising roadmap to lunar life support, the team cautions that “the current catalytic performance from the Chang’e-5 lunar sample cannot fully satisfy the requirement of extraterrestrial survival,” according to the study. That said, Yao and his colleagues added that “significant improvement could be achieved via structure optimization, morphological modification, and composition engineering of the lunar sample” in the future.
“Compared with catalysts on the Earth, lunar soil or components extracted from lunar soil, as the photocatalysts for splitting water on the Moon, can greatly reduce the load and cost of spacecraft,” the researchers said in the study. “Chang’e-5’s sample provides us a great opportunity to study the lunar soil from the [extraterrestrial photosynthesis] catalytic perspective.”
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05/07/2012 | Writer: Heber Tito Galvez
UN ambassadors for South Africa and Brazil demand more action and discussion of LGBT rights at UN Human Rights Council meeting
On July 2nd, the ambassador of South Africa to the United Nations delivered a statement on behalf of his country and Brazil to demand action against LGBT discrimination and hate crimes.
The statement was addressed to the United Nations Human Rights council as a follow up to the first global panel discussion on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), which was held on March 7th earlier this year.
SOGI was considered a milestone since it was the first discussion held at the United Nations level addressing specifically LGBT rights and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the world. Although it faced strong opposition and walkouts from OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) members, the panel affirmed the Council’s commitment to fighting human rights infringements against LGBT people globally.
The joint statement made by Brazil and South Africa comes at a time when discussions in the matter have been stagnant due to the above-mentioned disagreements. The statement calls for further and renewed discussions, as well as inclusion of LGBT rights as part and parcel of the universal declaration of human rights.
Furthermore, they called upon all countries not to shy away from dialogue and engaging with opposing views (of countries objecting the inclusion of SOGI as a universal standard of Human Rights) stating: ‘reconciling universal standards of human rights with local ideas of culture was challenging but necessary work.’
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On Monday 26th March Year 1 travelled to Bulstrode Park to work in the outside classroom of the environment. We studied Science through pond dipping, creating colour pallettes and hunting for mini beasts! The weather was very kind to us - it was like a summer's day! We had a great time flying our newly created kites and we loved eating outside on the verrandah. Daniel and Timothy thought it was such a brilliant idea to come to their home for a School Trip! Please see the photos below... | <urn:uuid:63d2a3e7-8311-4dce-834f-d0206c8836f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chalfontstpeterinfantschool.co.uk/a-day-out-at-bulstrode-park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968183 | 127 | 1.71875 | 2 |
One of our favorite nature studies ever was this one, Outdoor Hour Challenge #51: Wolf, Fox, and Dog. We watched part of a PBS show called In The Valley of the Wolves. It does have some graphic parts, but Kathryn didn’t seem disturbed by it. I’m always conflicted on those parts, and never can decide who to cheer for: the predator to get food and feed it’s family, or for the prey to get away and live another day. Either way, it’s life.
We read about wolves, foxes, and dogs in our Handbook of Nature Study. Kathryn has never seen a wolf or fox in real life, but I have. I’ve always had a fascination with wolves. One of my fondest memories is of meeting a domesticated wolf and spending at least an hour (I lost track of time) years ago just talking to her and petting her; I felt really special when the owner said the wolf seldom let anyone touch her and usually hid from people. Only once did I ever see a fox in the wild, and it was thrilling to see it bound away. When I lived in the mountains, a coyote ran down the road in front of my house, and my dad has seen wolves at his house in the mountains a few times in the past few years.
In the “METHOD” section at the end of the lesson the author says, “For the observation lesson it would be well to have at hand a well-disposed dog which would not object to being handled.” We just happened to have a well-disposed dog lying right by the couch, so we studied Lacy!
First we studied her paws, with thick pads and non-retractable claws. (We think it’s cute that some of her toe pads stayed pink.)
Then we talked about moist dog noses, how well they can smell, and how amazing it would be to be able to smell so many things from so far away! Guess I’d never really thought before about how the shape of the nostrils and the fact that they’re set right at the tip of the nose to maximize the ability to smell.
We talked about dog hair, differences between breeds of dogs and what they were bred to do. We talked about ears and how well dogs can hear, and held our hands up to our ears to imitate the shape of a dog’s ear to see how that helps it hear better. We looked at Lacy’s pretty eyes and talked about the similarities between the pupil of a dog’s eye and our own pupils, verses the slit-like pupils of the cat.
For Kathryn’s journal entry, she drew a picture of Lacy and labeled various parts with info about some of the parts we had discussed. To finish off our lesson, we went out in the back yard and watched Lacy run around and demonstrate the lean and muscular body of a dog. Thank you, WonderDog, for letting us study you!
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No Way to Make a Living.Net: Exploring the Possibilities of the Web for Visual and Sensory Sociologies of Work
by Lynne Pettinger and Dawn Lyon
University of Essex; University of Kent
Sociological Research Online, 17 (2) 18
Received: 1 February 2012 Accepted: 4 Apr 2012 Published: 31 May 2012
This article reflects on the possibilities and pitfalls of a website, No Way to Make a Living at: http://nowaytomakealiving.net, as a sociological space for exploring what work (paid or unpaid) is like in today's world. The site includes research projects, short thoughts on everyday working lives, and different kinds of textual (fictional, autobiographical and analytical), aural, and visual representations of work. It emerged as a collaborative project from our frustrations with some dominant representations of work in contemporary photography, and the limitations in the forms of knowledge we can convey in academic publishing. We argue that the contemporary complexity of work exceeds the dominant forms of sociological representation available to us, and illustrate how a website provides multi-media opportunities to gain new insights into work. However, we also problematise the status of visual and sensory methodologies as a panacea for the shortcomings in more conventional sociological practices. We discuss the analytical and imaginative potential of absence as well as presence. And in the final section, we frame the site as a contribution towards a more 'open sociology', and one which engages with a readership we can only partially know.
Keywords: work, blogging, web 2.0, visual sociology, digital methods
Introduction1.1 Understanding work in the 21st century is a tricky business. Work is complex, variable, unstable and uncertain for many, and yet crucial to our everyday lives and arguably our sense of selves. Sociologists trying to grasp how work is organised and lived at the present time (or historically) have quite a job on their hands. So how can we do it?
1.2 This special issue is about ways of understanding different aspects of work, with a particular emphasis on visual approaches. As part of this aim, the present article reflects on the possibilities and pitfalls of a website, No Way to Make a Living, at: http://nowaytomakealiving.net (henceforth nowaytomakealiving) as a sociological space for exploring the nature of work in the current world. The aim of the article is to think differently about academic writing, research methodology and the exchange and development of ideas within the research process. We argue that the contemporary complexity of work exceeds the dominant forms of sociological representation available to us, and illustrate how social media such as our website provide multi-media opportunities to gain new insights into work.
1.3 In what follows, we present the site and discuss how it came about. We consider the capacity of the web as a space for addressing the complexity of work sociologically. We critically discuss sensory methodologies and the ways they are employed in the site, arguing that sensory approaches can provide distinct ways of knowing the world of work, and generate new analytical insights. We use them flexibly and experimentally to reflect on work, and to provoke our audience to consider work differently. We are committed to 'open sociology' but the question of audience perplexes us. Whilst we are fully in favour of the public presentation of our academic work, a conundrum of many websites like ours is how little we know of our audience and their responses to our ideas.
The website: No Way to Make a Living2.1 Nowaytomakealiving is a web-based sociological space 'generating discussion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today's world', as per our tag line. The site is composed of different types of post: 'projects', 'thoughts', 'stories' (including autobiographical accounts) and 'reviews' which brings together information intended to be of particular use to visual sociologists and photographers. In addition, for each post, there is a comments space where, in principle, anyone can submit their reflections. Another way of describing the site is to emphasise that cutting across these different types of posts are different kinds of textual (fictional, autobiographical and analytical), aural, and visual representations of work. Indeed, a central ambition of the site is to make use of the relative freedom of the web to explore innovative approaches to understanding work and to experiment with the forms of representation the web makes possible.
2.2 We came up with the idea for the site on our way back from seeing the exhibition by the documentary photographer, Martin Figura, Work-Space-Work, about the changing industrial landscape in Dunstable (Norwich Arts Centre, April 2008; see also Figura et al., 2007). We were frustrated with the way Figura privileges the composition of the image over the activity that takes place in the space. Where workers are present, they are pictured as representing the job, and in static forms. Amongst the dominant representations of work in contemporary photography, this attention to the aesthetics of space is common. For instance, Bridget Smith's (2006) photo essay on the refurbishment of the De La Warr pavilion (Bexhill) also relies on an aesthetisication of spaces, decay, traces of labour, tools and materials. In the work of photographers whose images are known for the centrality of workers, we find a relatively narrow range of representations of workers with a focus on manual labour and an emphasis (sometimes nostalgic) on forms of work in decline. Whilst these collections include astounding pictures that are very evocative of particular experiences of work, they tend either to reveal harsh and exploitative working conditions as in the work of Lewis Hine, and more recently, Sebastiao Salgado (1993), or to glorify work through depictions of strong, active, heroic and usually male bodies (see Jean Gaumy's (2001) Men at Sea for instance). They are 'dramatisations which emphasise particular parts of a story' (Strangleman and Warren, 2008: 74). Amongst them, women have rarely been represented as emblematic of productive achievement (Wolkowitz, 2006: 44).
2.3 Alongside our frustration with the dominant forms of representation of work in contemporary photography, we were also dissatisfied with the limitations in the forms of knowledge and representation we can convey in academic publishing. The publishing queue is a general problem, notwithstanding some recent initiatives to create web-based discussion alongside peer-reviewed publication (e.g. in European Societies). In these print-based media, space is always at a premium however, and the inclusion of a photograph (table or diagram) means foregoing a spatially equivalent number of words. This constrains authors in their use of images while the nature of the medium and publishing practices limits them to using static and silent black and white images only. A notable exception is Visual Studies which does not restrict the number or type of images, and does not count them against a word limit. More generally, in mainstream sociology publications, there is only partial acceptance of visual modes of enquiry, even a 'blind spot' with regard to their relevance, as Strangleman (2004) has argued on the basis of his analysis of the material published in the journal, Work, Employment and Society. This is a curious failure to recognise the legacy of the past use of the visual in ethnography and qualitative research in the early twentieth century (Harper, 1988). These publishing practices also contrast with the instantaneous participatory culture made possible in a 'wiki-world' (Suoranta and Vadén, 2000; see also Les Back's 'Real Time Research').
2.4 Nowaytomakealiving went live in October 2009 and, at the time of writing, it includes around 135 thoughts about work, 20 projects, and several stories and reviews. We named the site after a mishearing of the Dolly Parton song, 9 to 5 (it should be 'what a way to make a living') to indicate our commitment to finding inspiration outside academia. (You can read more about work songs in 'Mr Walker, it's all over: gender politics in office songs'). There are currently close to 20 different authors with posts on the site and many other participants who have posted comments, including journalists, professionals in various spheres, and interested readers. The site can be searched under the main categories (thoughts, projects, stories etc.), through the 'tags' (part of the 'folksonomy' of the web, a mode of providing non-linear links between content (Beer and Burrows, 2007: 2.14)) that are used to mark each post, by keyword, or by contributor.
|Figure 1. Screen Shot of Site|
2.5 The different forms of post on the site make different kinds of contribution to it. Projects are ongoing sociological studies which present provisional findings or points for discussion. The posts in this category are usually elements of larger research projects. In some instances, they build on one another over time, e.g. Dawn's various posts on fishing, fishing communities, and fish markets. In contrast, some of our thoughts are written quickly and come from a sudden observation, a fleeting realisation - what Kathleen Stewart (2007) calls 'ethnographic happenings' (for instance, 'Ordinary Misbehaviour'; 'Work Undone' and 'Work Redone' - or responses to news items 'Care') or a critical engagement with policy announcements, 'The Emergency Budget'). None of these thoughts on their own amount to projects, although they may give rise to questions around which projects can be built, and may be inspired by ongoing projects. They might also arise from our sociological imaginations at play on the sidelines of our main interests, e.g. Lynne's posts on customer service work across a range of contexts, or Miriam Glucksmann's observations on Norfolk reedcutters and a tradition in decline. Several of our 'posters' have given us brief insights into their larger research projects too, including Lara Maestripieri's 'Work in the Time of the Knowledge Worker' and David Harris' comments on realist filmmaking in factories.
2.6 It is also worth noting that in addition to the visual, the site permits broader and different forms of writing in relation to the objects and subjects of sociological enquiry than in mainstream journals, including analytical, autobiographical, 'thick description', and autoethnographic forms. Furthermore, what we are doing on the site is not a digital replication of what we already do in print or by voice. It is a different kind of space in which other forms of thinking and writing emerge. Writing styles and the length of posts are flexible and varied, and in writing relatively freely we have found that our involvement in the site has impacted on our writing beyond it.
2.7 Over time a new kind of knowledge is accruing through the site. It is collaborative and cumulative, dynamic and open-ended. For example, to date we have inadvertently written a considerable number of posts about transport and published posts from four other contributors on this topic. In 'Paris Métro', the reader is positioned to see a driver's view of the tunnels and a sense of the speed and movement of the train in Luciano Spinelli's stunning black and white images. We get a different glimpse of movement through urban space in Lynne's reflection on 'Women Drivers', in this case, of taxis. In contrast, Mick Hutton's personal account of 'Being a Navvy in the 1970s' powerfully conveys the material weight and bodily exertions it takes to maintain the tracks for safe train travel. Transporting produce and goods is discussed in very different ways in several posts. In 'In the Orbit of the Tomato', Mark Harvey analyses his father's social documentary film footage from the late 1930s and we see 'the work of world-making' in which 'mostly men, mostly smoking, [are] engaged in manual labour of producing, lifting and transporting tomatoes'. This contrasts sharply with the unpeopled space evoked in Dawn's post on 'The Port of Felixstowe' since the advent of containerisation.
2.8 Less surprisingly, there are a large number of posts that in one way or another address the theme of work identity. Although not specifically intended as a collection, together they make for an interesting read alongside one another. For instance, there are connections across posts on the experience of unemployment in 'Work Identity and Worklessness', and the refusal of employment in the operation of the marriage bar in 'Congratulations on Getting Married, Now You Have to Leave your Job'. Readers can access a first-hand account of the everyday life of 'A Piano Tuner', alongside the research-based exploration of the creative labour of musicians in 'Silent Musician' .
2.9 There are also connections between posts which are about similar fields of work. For instance, in 'Bodywork', the aesthetic labour of flight attendants is depicted and discussed, which might be read alongside a reflection on the BA strike in early 2010, 'The Damage of the Strike' – and other strikes are discussed in 'Motor City on Strike' and 'The Postman's Uniform'. There are several posts about building work, from an analysis of Bob the Builder in 'The Fun is in Getting it Done!' to the labour that keeps the lifts of the Eiffel Tower in operation in 'Work at Great Height'. These are visible forms of work, accessible to ethnographic wanderers, whereas other posts on this theme include an ethnographic project carried out in a space hidden from public view ('Seeing Work'), and a visual narrative based on a partial and particular view of building work as seen from Dawn's office window ('The Construction of a New Building').
2.10 Reviews of events and exhibitions provide an opportunity for making explicit links or discussing tensions between how visual arts or professional media represent work and workers, as in the posts on 'Mesrine' and 'The Working Lives of Londoners'. Tim Strangleman's comments on the photographer Stuart Whipps' documentation of the move of the infrastructure of car production at Longbridge to Nanjing, China, in 'The Remembrance to a Lost Work' discusses nostalgia, labour and the visual. And the imaginative analysis of alienation and the division and labour in Bob the Builder by Victoria Tedder will make you look at Wendy or Scoop in a new light. We can also reread images put together as photo stories by photographers. For instance, Rogan Macdonald's Emergency Response on the London tube on his own website is brought into a reflection on temporalities and hidden spaces of work in 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight'.
2.11 Nowaytomakealiving uses blog software (Wordpress), and is cumulative and date-ordered like a blog. However, it avoids some of the defining features of blogs in practice. We do not publish for the sake of having a new post up that day or that week, unlike most blogs where frequency and currency are what matters. Our posts are written when there is something to say about work, and the time to say it. We endeavour to write well and to avoid stream of consciousness postings. Further, the site is not a project of self-identity, as Ewins (2005) suggests blogs, including academic blogs, tend to be. (See Melissa Gregg's http://homecookedtheory.com/ for an interesting academic diary-style blog. Gregg notes, with reference to her research into information workers, though not her own blogging practices, how 'digital technology exacerbates anxieties particular to middle class subjectivity' (http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2010/05/27/white-collar-intimacy.) (We, of course deny all middle class anxieties.) Whilst many of our posts are directly or indirectly political (Victoria Tedder's 'Working for an Occupation'; Rebecca Taylor's 'Should I Work for Free?'; or Lynne's 'A Hyper-precarious Labour Market' http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/1411), the site is not explicitly political (unlike say 'Sociology with a Militant Twist'). Nor is it written predominantly for an audience of academics and intellectuals, as is the very interesting and collaborative 'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made'). We do not (as does the often stimulating http://potlatch.typepad.com/) discuss intellectual ideas alongside diary-like happenings from our lives, unless the topic has a clear contribution to make towards understanding contemporary work. We are fans of http://joemoransblog.blogspot.com/ (tagline: on the everyday, the banal and other important matters), whose subject matter suits admirably the blog format. There are many other blog-style sites run by academics, though none (so far as we know) explicitly about work. http://workblogging.blogspot.com/, from which we get many visitors, collates research into work and has a listing of work blogs, that is blogs written by workers about work (see Ellis and Richards, 2009 for a discussion of work bloggers; we did not realise until writing this piece, that we do not write about our own workplaces).
2.12 The site is inclusive but also restricted (cf Hall, 2009). As authors, administrators and editors, we decide to approve (or remove) comments; we work with contributors giving editorial guidance on the content of their submissions; and we informally collaborate with people whose working lives we write about (e.g. in 'Working in the Family Tradition'). We steer the site to become what we envisaged, and we appreciate the unanticipated directions it has taken, including by one another. Sometimes we share ideas for posts, including suggesting things to one another, often in the informal spaces of our friendship. Mostly we write independently but in a way that feels like part of a longer conversation. Although we chose to host the site outside of either of our employing institutions in order to retain maximum control of content and operation into the future, we did have support from both our Universities (Essex and Kent), who provided funding for the original design and training for us to get up and running. The site is now being archived by the British Library.
The contemporary complexity of work and the capacity of the visual3.1 If the site emerged from our frustrations with dominant representations of work and mainstream sociological outlets for publication, there is also another level of concern to which we address ourselves. We argue that the contemporary complexity of work exceeds the central forms of sociological enquiry and representation available to us. Law and Urry contend that standard sociological tools (surveys and interviews) are not well suited to grasping current global complexity. They deal poorly with the fleeting, the distributed, or the multiple, and have particular difficultly in handling the sensory, the emotional, and the kinaesthetic (2004: 403-404). The nature of work at the present time is not a clear-cut object of study. A sociological understanding of work today recognises that it can be paid or unpaid, and formal or informal (Glucksmann, 2005; Pettinger et al., 2005). The same activity may therefore be carried out simultaneously in different socio-economic forms, or may shift between these forms in time or space. Alongside this, global divisions of labour mean that processes that are interconnected may be spatially dislocated, both in the production of goods, and in the provision of services, such as the global chains of care for children and the elderly (Hochschild, 2003). Furthermore, the problematic 'end of work' debate argues that work is no longer the primacy basis of identity as it once was, at least for those in stable occupations or professions (Strangleman, 2007). This all leaves us with something of a problem in understanding and representing work. However, in spite of these developments, at the present time we have limited understanding of how it feels to be embodied and of the deployment of the senses in working life (Wolkowitz 2006; Hockey and Allen-Colinson 2009: 218).
3.2 Visual methodologies, and more generally, sensory methodologies, are currently popular with qualitative researchers. Photography, whether produced by participants (sometimes called 'photovoice', e.g. Hillyard, 2007) or generated by the researcher, is the most common medium (see also Mizen and Ofosu-Kusi in this volume). The virtues of the photograph and the visual within social research are presented in a range of generalist methodology books (Banks, 2001; Knowles and Sweetman, 2004; Pink, 2006, 2007, 2009; Prosser, 1998) as well as in specialist journals (e.g. Visual Studies). As part of this general rise in visual sociology, there has been a growing interest in the role of the visual in researching work, mostly through the use of photography (Harper, 1998) and video (Hindmarsh, 2009). The visual is especially effective for documenting certain aspects and experiences of work. Change over time which might otherwise be taken for granted can be noticed in its particularity from visual records (film, photographs or drawings). For instance, in Tim Edensor's (2005) research on ruins, traces of work can be glimpsed in abandoned or forgotten materials, objects and spaces. More generally, spaces of work are amenable to visual exploration through which we might gain insight into the divisions, boundaries, and hierarchies in work organisations (e.g. Halford, 2004). Visual technologies can be used to explore the bodily complexity of skill in work, for instance by slowing or speeding time (Harper, 1987; O'Connor, 2007). Similarly, certain forms of interactions and relationships can be documented visually (Hindmarsh, 2009: 991). In addition, existing images, not necessarily produced with sociological intentions, can be used to generate sociological insights. Indeed, whilst acknowledging a tradition in sociology of drawing on different visual resources, Strangleman and Warren argue that 'the sociology of work needs to develop a capacity and language to deal with the variety of representations of work' (Strangleman 2008: 73). This includes social documentary and industrial or corporate photography (see Strangleman, this volume, for an analysis of images from the Guinness archive).
3.3 If the visual can help in the problem of understanding and representing work, that still leaves the question of the space of representation. Sidestepping the problems of publishing images in mainstream academic books and journals, as discussed above, digitisation in general, and the web in particular, offers opportunities for developing the potential of visual methodologies to explore work. Nowaytomakealiving has a particular (but not exclusive) commitment to the visual. Both the web-based character of the site that permits image (still and moving), sound and hypermedia (Pink, 2006), and our attention to documenting multisensorial dimensions of the organisation, appearance and experience of work mean that the site can be a space to discuss and represent some of the current complexity of work and working lives. It is very well suited to showcase visual methodologies in particular and sensory approaches more generally. For instance, time-lapse photography permits a slow motion unveiling of how 'The Carpenter's Body' moves whilst his head remains stationary. Embedding video, sound or image into text is technologically easy (as Sociological Research Online has showed for many years; see Lyon and Back in this volume), and offers us as researchers the chance to experiment with analysis of image-based material, and with the presentation of this material to different audiences. Overall, we are enjoying riding the wave of the current interest in sensory methodologies, and argue that the web provides a productive and under-utilised space for presenting such work. However, if the website provides multi-media opportunities to gain new insights into work, it is also a space which problematises the use of the visual and other sensory methodologies for producing knowledge about work, as we discuss in the next section.
Sensory methodologies as beneficial abstractions4.1 Justifications for researchers working to incorporate non-word methodologies tend to be twofold, and draw implicitly on a presumption that visual representations are accessible, even dominant in our experience of the social so that, 'not only do we confront the image at the scene of the screen but we confront the logistics of the image wherever we turn ... not only do the denizens of capital labor to maintain ourselves as image, we labor in the image' (Beller, 2006: 1). First are the methodological benefits: the merit of the photograph (or other visual media) is as a means of access to different dimensions of the research field, not only when images are directly produced by research participants. Some things can be more easily seen than spoken of, and an ethnographer with a camera holds a conversation starter in his/her hand that then allows him/her to visually document the research site as part of the ethnographic process. Further, the photograph is communicative and may convey an understanding of the social world more effectively (or at least differently) than text.
4.2 Those working with sensory methodologies have learned from the broader qualitative tradition, for example, in the development of ethical codes of practice (see the BSA Visual Sociology webpage at: http://www.visualsociology.org/about/ethics/ethics-statement.html; Papademas and the IVSA, 2009), and in discussions of reflexivity. Sarah Pink has written a series of accounts as to what incorporating 'the visual' into text based ethnographic and anthropological practices might entail (2007; 2009), inspired by Clifford Geertz and the turn to literary forms of ethnography. Pink's work is careful and sensitive to what visual methodologies can and cannot do 'just as reality is not solely visible or observable, images have no fixed or single meanings and are not capable of capturing an objective reality' (2007: 32). She offers reflexivity and attention to gendered subjectivities during research practice (2007: 24-7) as tools for managing multiple meanings and uncertainty. What we see here are sensory methodologies integrated into a longer standing research tradition.
4.3 We find Janet Wolff's arguments compelling for recognising the autonomy of the image. Against a sociological reductionism that implies the image is (straightforwardly and only) socially constructed and reflects a comprehensible social world, albeit one which requires 'careful interpretation' (Grady, 2004: 18), Wolff suggests 'we have seen the image strike back' (2008: 120). In recognising the presence and autonomy of the image we should avoid a narrow sociological reading that makes the image entirely interpretable by the researcher. An image with a text, within a research project, is too easily presumed to evoke a micro-world and be a shortcut to understanding. For Wolff, images are active in social processes, not mere reflections. They may speak directly to the viewer without an intervening researcher interpretation. We use the web to make this happen, to open our research work and allow for interpretations beyond our own. Wolff's work has been influential for how we understand what nowaytomakealiving is doing when presenting ideas about sociology of work to a student or non-university audience. It is a way of remembering that interpretations of images are not controllable. The texts we write in relation to images may prod a reader to share our interpretation, but may not convince them.
4.4 We use visual and other sensory material and methodologies on the site in several specific ways. First, images are used to illustrate text, for the prettification of the page. For instance, the photograph of a post box alongside the text in The 'Eternity of the Postman's Job' does not in itself move the argument along. Secondly, images are used to show something 'real' (see Mizen and Ofosu-Kusi in this volume for discussion of the complexities of the concept of realism in visual research). In some posts, the aim of the image is to show the activity or space of work. As Barthes says, 'it is always something that is represented' (2000: 28) and such images are supplemented with explanatory text. Third, we use images and other non-verbal forms to evoke. Luciano Spinelli's images bring to mind the feel, smell and sound of a journey in the Paris Métro, for instance. Dawn's soundscape of the San Benedetto fish market in Cagliari in 'The Sound of the Sell', draws attention to the layers of sound that compose the activities of the market. Fourth, in 'Scaffolding' , for example, the meaning of work is articulated through the ways that images are related or 'interact' with just a few words of context. Finally, we use images and sounds as 'imagination'. Sometimes sounds bring into mind places the viewer does not know, and collages and photo-animations stimulate new understandings of work. Across these different deployments of the visual and sensory, we explore interaction between different senses, in particular sound and sight.
4.5 As well as linking to each other thematically, posts are linked methodologically through demonstrating the possibilities and partialities of text, sound, and vision and various combinations of them. In Kat Riach's piece on sound, you hear people getting ready to go to work. Her respondents recorded their activities from waking to arriving at work. It is a surprising insight into ordinary noise, and it is the ordinary, taken for grantedness of the sounds that are so interesting to Riach.
'soundscapes have allowed me to not only think about the representation of sound, but the expressive experience of sound, something that now makes me hesitant to erase the noise I encounter in my other research interactions' (http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/632).
4.6 As well as containing material (an MP3 recording) that has no obvious publication outlet, Riach's post asks the listener to consider what ordinary sensory experiences they take for granted. Riach's piece prompted Lynne to write 'Noticing Work Spaces' , on how sound draws attention to work when workers cannot be seen and contrasts with studies of work which start by talking to workers themselves. Inside the noisy shed photographed for this post, all sorts of activities were happening. Such tensions between sound and silence are considered more extensively in 'The Silent Musician', which presents a detail from an ongoing photography project on musicians, where Lynne has been exploring the issues raised by the counter-intuitive use of photography to illustrate and stimulate reflection about the work of performance. The image here, and the set it belongs to, often prompts discussion about what can be seen (one viewer was certain they can tell what the band's music sounds like, despite never having heard it). In stripping out the obvious dimension of a phenomenon, this silent, immobile photographic work (Lury 1998: 173) actively produces an absence that contains both omission and a call to imagination and interpretation. Viewers might make an interpretation that is not about the work of performance.
|Figure 2. The Silent Musician|
4.7 Dawn's work with collage seeks to transcend the photograph's immobility. Inspired by David Hockney's photo-collages, the resulting compositions are at once analytical and imaginative representations of a place or activity. Dawn interacts with the printed photo (looking, cutting, resizing) and uses the manipulation and repetition of similar images, and in particular, the layering of time in space, to address the absence inherent in a solitary and static photograph, and to disrupt its apparently real character. The collage below is of the façade of a refurbished building ('Seeing Work') put together from photographs taken over the seven months of the process of refurbishment. The viewpoint is similar in each image although there is variation in distance and proximity and at times, angle. The collage brings adjacent moments (in time and space) into the same moment of seeing (now), seeking to create a heightened awareness of work through time for the viewer. This creates an opportunity for gaining insight into work that we cannot get through observation alone, or in a single image (Lyon, forthcoming).
|Figure 3. Building Work|
4.8 Each of these posts asks questions about the partiality of the representations produced by sensory methodologies. For Riach, the concentration on sound is a way of noticing what is otherwise ignored, and she prioritises one sense to generate imagination. Dawn's collages use multiple images to speak of movement or change over time, whereas Lynne removes movement and colour to concentrate attention. One of the pleasures of working with sensory methodologies is the way excess and lack can be used in analysis in such ways, and reflexive awareness of how the researcher influences this mutability is important. So too is consideration of how the different aesthetics produced might be received by the viewer.
4.9 We present research using sensory methodologies on the site in part to reflect on one of the dangers of the appeal of such methodologies which appear to counterbalance a previous omission. There is a risk of seeing the 'new' methodology as a panacea for the constraints of conventional methodologies. We see not only the compensations and benefits offered by sensory methodologies, but also their particular limitations. And although we find sensory methodologies productive, we are cautious about claiming that they are 'better' at abstracting or representing the social. Indeed, we are critical of sociological reductionism that makes images readily decipherable within a strong 'social constructionist' framework, arguing for the sociological significance of paying attention to absence as well as presence. In the examples above, sound negates silence, and generates reflection on silence, sometimes a number of images are needed and sometimes only one. In all cases, partiality remains. We argue that sensory methods 'overcome' some former absences, but produce and conceal other absences. This should remind us of the incompleteness of research narratives, but there is a further dimension to absence which is more exciting, potentially, than merely this reminder not to get carried away. In the case of photography, for example, the partiality of the photograph has been extensively discussed: Berger describes
… a photograph is a trace of appearances seized from the normal flow of the eyes. … photography is rather like memory … the problem is that an event, when it is isolated from all the other events that came before it and which go after it, is in another sense not very authentic because it has seized from that ongoing experience which is the true authenticity.' (John Berger, interviewed by Paul Willis, 1978, in Alvarado, Buscombe and Collins, 1978: 166).
4.10 This, like Sontag's 'thin slice of space and time' (1979: 22), is a reminder of the silence and selectivity, absences and exclusions (Neudorfl, 2010) inherent in using photography as a research medium. Such absences may invoke what, following Gadamer, can be described as 'the withheld' (Davey, 2006: 166-167), that is meanings which transcend direct words, interpretation and explication but which prompt imagination. This suggests that looking at the photograph demands consideration of what is withheld within the image as well as what lies outside of the frame. That is, the silence of the photograph calls attention to what is presented, represented and omitted. The withheld tells us that there are insights we might not verbalise, and personal connections and intimate imaginings that might be produced upon engagement with photographs or research reports, all of which may sink into our experiences. In Knowles and Harper (2009), images appear without captions, encouraging a different kind of reading from the viewer of the combination of text and image. We have experimented with ways of combining text and image, from minimal and descriptive stories in the cases of 'The Works' and 'Scaffolding', to text that is more extensive and significant – as in the illustrative images in 'More Small Encounters' - and even posts with no images, only words. This seems important to us in making the site more than a knowledge transfer point, but a place where feelings about work are evoked.
Promoting an open sociology5.1 As discussed above, we use visual images in different ways: realist, illustrative, evocative, interactive and imaginative, and our audience are likely to take different ideas, thoughts, and feelings from this work. We have found sensory methodologies inspiring in our research practices in offering new and distinctive avenues for analysis. We are also excited by the potential offered by sensory methodologies for collaboration and communication with a range of possible audiences, including interaction between researcher and participants, for teaching, and in academic writing. The combination of using sensory methodologies and presenting them to an unknown web-based audience demands accepting of a loss of control of how our abstractions – visual and textual – are decoded and interpreted. This is something we are not yet sure what to think about. Our comments threads have, fortunately, been free of 'trolls' (though not of critical comment), and so we have not yet had to confront an audience that dislikes our work.
5.2 Presenting sensory material to an unknown audience is nevertheless a peculiar delight, and we have not fully explored the interactive possibilities for co-creating knowledge. In the context of nowaytomakealiving, the partial presentation of the world that an image or a sound entails to an unknown audience involves reception and interpretation beyond academia. The potentially wider audience for the photographs and other ideas we present, and the potential for the audience to be involved in both the co-construction of knowledge (through comments, for example) and for using the site and its ideas in unpredictable ways, is motivating and challenging. We see benefits to presenting ideas as images (as well as alongside images), as this offers different ways to connect to our audiences. We celebrate the idea that readers will take unintended interpretations from our material: as Gadamer says, 'the participant belongs to the play' (Gadamer 1986: 26), that is, the image or post requires its audience to cooperate in playing along, to interrogate as they look, and for their responses to be free to complement or contradict the forms of knowledge produced by academics. This assists us in recognising how interpretation of research 'products' does not rely on sociological training but that these may contain something meaningful distinct from the professional speech acts that surround them. Interpretations exceed academic controls. Yippee.
5.3 We conceived of nowaytomakealiving as a form of 'open sociology', and we continue to curate the site as a collaborative space where sociological ideas about the world of work are developed and shared. We read with interest Burawoy's (2005a; 2005b) call for public sociology, a sociology that is 'an extension of our educative role, bringing sociology directly to diverse publics' (Burawoy, 2005b: 322), and the subsequent debates (see British Journal of Sociology vol 56, (3) for British sociology's reponse, or Deflem (2005) for a very critical perspective, also http://deflem.blogspot.com). We share with Deflem reservations about a 'public sociology' presented as standpoint, and which holds too tightly to a top-down notion of education. Our site is a collaborative feminist endeavour that is avowedly sociological, but seeks to include readers and writers who are not "sociologists" and in our writings we draw on other disciplines (art, history, economics, literature). We lay claim not to be doing public sociology, but are working towards an open sociology. As such we feel we work within the spirit of the discussions of the disciplinary boundaries of 'fortress sociology' (in this journal) held by John Scott (2005a; 2005b) and John Urry (2005). For us, an open sociology involves a commitment to doing work to prompt thought, to being stimulated by wide-ranging discussions and unexpected connections, and to being imaginative in how we delve into the social.
5.4 We are wary, following Beer and Burrows (2009), of claiming too much for what the site has done or can do. They suggest a rhetoric of democratisation pervades Web 2.0, but this is not matched by practice. The website does exist in open, accessible space – unlike most academic journals, access to which are controlled by publishers and university libraries – but the question of who accesses it, and what use they make of it is worth some consideration. We are a small site, even in comparison with other sites produced by academics, and recognise we reach a limited audience. We have a small amount of information on our audience, derived from personal communications with readers, comments made on the site, and the site's statistics.
5.5 We started the project with a commitment to speaking beyond the academy, and to open dialogue. Our academic friends, and those of our contributors, are a key audience, illustrated in the discussion prompted by 'Careers Advice', and we hear of the site being used in teaching. Whilst students are an important audience, we did not set the site up as an obviously 'educative' project. Non-academic friends also read the site, and some have proposed contributions (see Keith Hargreaves' cartoon 'A Librarian's View' for example), whilst others have given us suggestions about topics ('Sex at the Job Centre' ). This has to some extent helped us answer the questions friends and family sometimes ask, 'yes, but what does a sociologist do?'. In 'The Visibility and Invisibility of Washing' in Cagliari, comments came from a relative and from a Sardinian academic writing as a Sardinian more than as an academic. Through the web of links via facebook and twitter (Lynne tweets as gerrofmifut), the site, and specific posts, have a readership well beyond our immediate networks. Other professions have made use of the site, and have been involved to some extent. For example, the piece on 'Care' garnered comments by a carer, a campaigns officer for a carer charity and an academic interested in healthcare provision; and the argument in 'The Damage of the Strike' was used by Guardian journalist Aditya Chakrabortty. We never write posts directly targeting particular groups of readers, the web excites us most when it is unpredictable.
5.6 Our other readers are part of our unknown and unknowable audience. We use a facility called 'statcounter' which enables us to see what people were searching for when they found us, how long they stayed and what they read, whether this is their first visit or a repeat; we can also see the country and town their web service is hosted in (it's not big brother who's watching you, it's us). The numbers vary, but there is an average of 1500 visitors per month. These visitors come from all parts of the world; from Japan to Kazakhstan, from India to Canada. We have a small number of posts about work outside the global North and are currently gathering further international contributions. Many visitors come via our university webpages, and others by web searches, in addition to the links and social networking discussed above. Not all readers are looking for sociological insight, quite a few are interested in the price of seabass at Billingsgate market and find 'A Day's Work at Billingsgate Market'; others are looking for work as a bus driver or hotel inspector and find the related posts. We wholeheartedly enjoy the serendipity of this. Such visitors do not often stay long at the site, but we hope that they find something interesting! Our reading of the statcounter data points to a conundrum we face about audience. We are consciously 'audience facing' as a site, interested in speaking out to an audience beyond our academic peers. Whilst we do have a varied audience, we do not know very much about it, and have only limited dialogue with that proportion of it who are strangers to us. We know most about the effect our site has on people like us – our friends and colleagues – and far less about what the site's wider readership takes from it. On the one hand, we like the possibility of the anonymous reader enjoying our work and taking something from it that is beyond our knowledge. On the other hand, we are curious about how our sociological ideas are received.
Conclusions6.1 We're writing at a time of cuts, change and debate about the nature of the university as an institution. It looks as if there will be renewed restrictions in principle and in practice on who gets access to what kinds of learning resources. In this context, a project that has a life both within and beyond the university is one which allows us to keep our sights on the spirit of sociological engagement, and to take inspiration from Illich's (1971) notion of educational 'webs' rather than educational 'funnels'.
6.2 As we've made clear in this article, nowaytomakealiving is not just for or by academics. It can be read, navigated and used in different ways by different audiences. The site uses and showcases visual and sensory methodologies and we have considered what advantages and limitations are claimed for these approaches to gain insight into the social, and in particular about what work is like in today's world. Although not intended as educative in the sense of explaining concepts and ideas to students of sociology, the site is nevertheless a useful and cumulative resource where short thoughts and research in progress illustrate in specific ways some of the lived and observed examples of broader sociological debates that students may be grappling with. But it goes beyond this in ambition and reach in what we have discussed as a project of 'open sociology', addressing audiences and engaging publics in other disciplines and outside of the university.
6.3 Although work is the clear focus of the site, work itself is very broadly understood. We discuss areas we've not studied in depth, mobilising our sociological imaginations in a relationship of 'productive uncertainty' (Back, 2007) to some of the topics we explore. This is the experimental nature of the site and one which enables a different sort of encounter with research on contemporary work than is possible through mainstream journals. We intend to continue with the site and encourage interested readers of this piece to take a look, and to consider submitting their own work. Alternatively, they may consider setting up a comparable space themselves, one which encourages open discussion beyond the walls of a classroom or pages of a journal.
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Traditional Irish Music
Milwaukee Irish Fest have published a major article on the challenges faced by touring artists in the US. This year Milwaukee will present their 37th annual festival in August 2017. They state that as a major purchaser of foreign talent, they are seriously concerned that complying with existing non-immigrant Visa, tax rules and associated costs is now becoming a major challenge. Most importantly they state "it is a major disincentive for foreign artists who would like to perform in the US."
They go on to break down the costs and red tape that is likely to be encountered by artists thinking of travelling to the US and you can read the full article here.
Founded in 1981, Milwaukee Irish Fest has grown to become the largest such festival in North America. The festival averages over 100,000 visitors each year. It is acknowledged as one of the most successful international music and cross-cultural diversity festivals in the world. It is often referred to as the “mother of all Irish Festivals."
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Boeing delivered Garuda Indonesia’s 75th Boeing jet, a Next-Generation 737-800 fitted with Blended Winglets, on April 18.
Garuda Indonesia, the Southeastern Asian nation’s state-owned flag carrier, operates a fleet composed primarily of Boeing 747s and 737s. The airline plans to add 23 737-800s in 2010 from both Boeing and leasing companies, and will be operating 42 737-800s by year-end.
“The airline has an aggressive fleet-expansion plan that is part of its ‘quantum leap’ transformation strategy,” says Emirsyah Satar, Garuda Indonesia’s president and CEO.
Garuda Indonesia plans grow its fleet from 67 to 116 airplanes by 2014, almost a doubling of the fleet within four years. The carrier says its 737-800 fleet will support Garuda Indonesia’s expansion plans as it adds new domestic routes and increases frequencies on regional services.
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Nathan Law is a pro-democracy activist from Hong Kong. He was one of the student leaders of the Umbrella Movement of 2014 as well as the founder and chairman of Demosisto, Hong Kong's now disbanded pro-democracy political organization. Laxv was Hong Kong's youngest elected legislator before seeking asylum in the United Kingdom. Law was included by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020 in addition to being the winner of the TimelOO Reader's Poll in the same year.
You began advocacy when you were quite young. How did you get your start in advocacy?
I was inspired to start my advocacy when China's prominent dissent Liu Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. I was moved by Liu's long struggle for fundamental human rights in China, especially as he advocated for change in a context where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders routinely incarcerated those calling on the regime to honor its promises. His courage to tell the inconvenient truth under Beijing's iron grip was the catalyst that has motivated my advocacy for democratic changes and social justice in Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong as well as your broader pan-Asian pro-democracy coalition are predominantly young individuals like yourself. What is the impact of having a young coalition? Are there challenges to being a youth movement? As Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar show, the coalition empowers and strengthens democratic resilience among civil societies. It serves as an additional check and balance mechanism against authoritarian expansion in the region. Without a doubt, the coalition can raise public awareness and encourage youth participation. The key for youth movements to succeed is global leaders' determination to respond with actions. After all, world leaders are still vital players with state apparatuses to pressure authoritarian leaders to make compromises. As the case of Myanmar shows, the Milk Tea Alliance can improve domestic resilience against authoritarianism, but the coalition still needs state leaders to make tyrannical leaders come to the table.
You've called for a Pan-Asian Milk Tea alliance to fend off authoritarianism from China. Can you expand on what this may look like?
In recent decades, China has been working with authoritarian governments and expanding its influence in the region through Belt and Road Initiative and global propaganda programs. Hence, any discussion about authoritarianism should also pay attention to the geopolitical role that China plays.
During the recent Myanmar coup, China was relatively supportive of the military junta through diplomatic and technical support. With China's backing, military generals dare to ignore international pressure and cruelly suppress internal opposition.
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In many families, the question arises as to the appropriate procedure when one’s spouse cannot make it home from work by tzeit. Is it better to light at tzeit or to wait for his or her return?
Technically, it is not necessary for both spouses to be present for candle-lighting. When either one of them lights candles in their home, they have both fulfilled their obligation. Therefore, it would seem preferable for one to light at tzeit. Nevertheless, in practice it is preferable in most cases to wait for the spouse to return home. In general, there are three primary considerations that would lead us to delay candle-lighting until both spouses are home.
First, if the husband will not hear the berakhot of candle-lighting at the synagogue or elsewhere, although he will have fulfilled the obligation to light through his wife’s lighting, some maintain that as long as he has not heard the berakha of She-asa Nisim, he has not fulfilled his duty to thank God. Therefore, if there is nowhere else for him to hear the berakhot, it is preferable to wait for him. (The same is true if the wife is not home at tzeit, and the husband is waiting.)
Second, the husband or wife may feel insulted or upset if the candles were lit without them. Third, there may be a concern that the connection of the absent spouse to the mitzva will be weakened. This consideration is pertinent when one spouse regularly comes home late from work. If one will not be present for candle-lighting on all or most of the days of the holiday, one’s connection to the mitzva is liable to be weakened.
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What the Republican-supporting Chicago Tribune called the largest political meeting ever to be held in the United States took place at the Fair Grounds just outside of Springfield, Illinois. The gathering ended with a massive torch-lit procession past Abraham Lincoln's Springfield home. Many at the rally took advantage of the mild summer weather to sleep outdoors around the city that night. (By John Osborne)
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A little north of Lillooet the Fraser River narrows, forming a series of rapids that run between rocky shelves. Below each shelf is a quiet eddy, where the salmon rest before attempting to leap upstream. These shelves are known as fishing rocks, where the migrating fish can be efficiently harvested with dip nets, a simple technology that has changed little over thousands of years. The highly productive fishery found in this stretch of the canyon became the center of the ancient Lillooet culture.
The Fraser River cuts an impressive figure in southern British Columbia. (Photo by Alan Honick)
There are 22 fishing rocks along that stretch of the river. Access to them is obviously desirable, and some form of ownership that enables individuals or groups to control that access clearly confers an economic advantage. We spent three days in the area, hosted by Brian along with Suzanne Villeneuve, a colleague of Brian Hayden's who has taken over active supervision of the research program.
We were also graciously hosted by members of the Stl'atl'imx First Nations, whose ancestors built these ancient villages. They continue to fish from the traditional rocks next to the eddies, catching and preserving salmon in much the same way as their ancestors. Chief Arthur Adolph of the Xaxli'p First Nation took us to a spectacular overlook on the cliffs above the river. In this video, Chief Adolph explains how they manage access to the resource today. | <urn:uuid:0fc9b13a-6885-4c4e-b707-9db98a7b59d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://psmag.com/social-justice/fishing-rocks-45689 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967961 | 314 | 3.0625 | 3 |
With the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, many people now consider investing in them. The market is continually growing, with more than 11,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation. Therefore, people have numerous investment channels. If you are thinking of becoming such an investor, however, you should be careful; cryptocurrencies can be unpredictable. So, what should you know before you make that step? Keep on reading to find out.
Why are You Investing in Cryptocurrency?
There is a lot of hype in cryptocurrency, the market is receiving immense growth, and many investors are considering it. If you are one of them, the most fundamental question you should be asking yourself is why you are getting into the market. Why are you investing in cryptocurrency?
With numerous other investment options available, you should have your reason for opting for digital currencies. Remember, others are less risk involved and even more stable. Therefore, you must have a compelling reason and a particular goal in mind when investing in cryptocurrency. Don’t go there simply because it is a trend, and every investor is trying it out.
Nonetheless, your goal might be absolutely different from another investor’s. Thankfully, there is room for exploration in cryptocurrency.
Understand the Digital Currency World
As an investor, you should get submerged and get the real feeling of how the cryptocurrency industry works. This is particularly important if you are a newbie in the game. Therefore, you should research different currencies, the ones on offer, and how they work. Remember, other than Bitcoin and Ether, the big names in the industry, many other tokens and coins are available. Explore all these and see which you can invest in.
Furthermore, one other important aspect of cryptocurrency you should know is blockchain technology. Therefore, look into how a particular cryptocurrency uses this technology. You can do this for several others, so you make a worthwhile investment.
Read the White Papers
There may be a lot going around about digital currency. However, you shouldn’t rely entirely on this. Rather, get a hold of the cryptocurrency white papers, read them and understand its specifics. Among the key and bold steps, you can take as an investor in this space is finding the white paper of the cryptocurrency project. Also, you should easily access it.
When reading the white paper, do so carefully to know what the intentions of the project developers are and the timeframe they have for the same. You should get everything, from the overview to the specifics. There should be data and as much detail about the cryptocurrency project as possible. If this is not the case, consider it a red flag.
After going through the white paper and you feel like it misleads you or it is incomplete, you should be questioning the project in itself.
Have a Community of Crypto Enthusiasts
The digital currency world is always on the move, with new trends and rapid developments. Therefore, you should always stay in the know as an investor. To help you do this, you should be a part of an online community that deals in digital currency. Investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts are usually very active and communicate among themselves often.
Therefore, if you want to know what is going on in the market, no worries, simply join a community and learn more about the world of cryptocurrency. Are you wondering where exactly to plug yourself for such information? You can engage yourself in Reddit, which is a central place, or join any other online community consisting of crypto enthusiasts who are active and have discussions about the same all the time.
Bullish and Bearish Pattern; Know the Difference
Any newbie in cryptocurrency should always pay keen attention to the patterns, bullish and bearish. However, what is the difference, and what should you do?
There may be a prediction of a spike in prices in the cryptocurrency market. When this happens, there is a bullish pattern. Parameters like government regulation, current news, and trading activities have a role to play. They affect the cryptocurrency price. For instance, when the government accepts cryptocurrency as a legal tender, the prices will go up, and it is a bullish pattern.
On the other hand, when there is a prediction that the prices will fall, then there is a bearish pattern. Similar parameters apply here too.
Therefore, when you want to invest in cryptocurrency, ensure you get information from a trusted source or an expert to rely on these patterns.
Volatility of Cryptocurrency
When you are investing in cryptocurrency, don’t put all your focus on what you will gain. Rather, since you can also lose, you should put this into consideration. One thing with this space is how volatile it is, thanks to the lack of regulations.
It is, therefore, not surprising to see fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices. At one point, it can be high while the next it’s down.
Therefore, as an investor, do not overlook the volatility aspect of cryptocurrency. You should put strategies in place on how you will counteract it and eventually survive.
Invest What You Aren’t Scared to Lose
Whenever investing in cryptocurrency, you could lose all the amount. Therefore, only put what you aren’t scared of losing. Ensure you are 100% comfortable even if you lose it. Remember as a newbie; your first few trades might not bring you to the top.
As mentioned earlier, the cryptocurrency market is volatile, and many factors determine whether you lose or not. The good thing is, other than the charts and trends; there is a lot of things you will learn in the process of trading.
When investing, you are trading in real money, and chances are, you might even lose it, so place only that which you aren’t scared to lose.
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From June 13 to 15, a six-member delegation from the University of Potsdam, led by Vice President for International Affairs and Fundraising Prof. Dr. Florian J. Schweigert, visited two of the eight campuses of the University of South-Eastern Norway (Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge). The trip was occasioned by the intensified cooperation of both universities in the YERUN network of young research universities and the European Digital UniverCity (EDUC) alliance. The University of South-Eastern Norway joined the EDUC alliance this year as one of two new partners. The purpose of the Potsdam delegation’s first visit to Norway was to get to know the locations and to explore cooperation and networking opportunities for the future.
Founded in 2016 as a merger of several educational institutions, the University of South-Eastern Norway has set itself a clear goal with its slogan, “Regionally based and internationally recognized.” Thanks to the strong ties between the University of Potsdam and the University of South-Eastern Norway, many new opportunities for cooperation and exchange are opening up for students and researchers at both universities, especially in the areas of teacher education and technology. The University of South-Eastern Norway’s eight different campuses provide a multifaceted profile: from the smallest campus at Rauland, which focuses on culture and customs, to the research-oriented campus at Vestfold, which houses several laboratories as well as a training and assessment center with a ship simulator. Among other things, scholars conduct research here on future-oriented topics such as autonomous shipping and micro- and nanotechnology.
With regard to collaboration within the EDUC alliance, there are exciting intersections in seven thematic research fields, for example in the areas of health, sustainability, mobility and smart cities. Strong networking with local actors and companies at the various locations of the University of South-Eastern Norway ensures a close connection to the regional labor market, which can be further strengthened by networking with EDUC internationally. Both universities plan to take advantage of the synergy effects of working together within the EDUC alliance and the YERUN network, and will cooperate more closely on both an international and bilateral level.
EDUC is an alliance of eight universities from seven countries whose goal is to create a European higher education area in which students, staff, teachers and researchers from the partner universities can learn, teach and work together. With a focus on digitization, the alliance creates new spaces for European exchange, support and joint discussions.
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Nourou-Dhine Salouka | January 4, 2016
Jean Pascal Simporé is a man who loves challenges. After finishing school, he found it hard to find a job in his chosen field of public administration. So Mr. Simporé turned to farming.
He doesn’t see his “return to the earth” as a failure. Quite the contrary! He says, “I have always been passionate about agriculture. I am convinced that this is a promising sector.”
For the last three years, he has grown organic groundnuts on his three-hectare farm. He sells his produce to local processors, who transform the nuts into peanut butter to sell in local markets.
Growing organic groundnuts is not very lucrative, but the young entrepreneur still manages to make a small profit. Mr. Simporé says, “This year, I managed to grow about three tonnes of peanuts, from which I made a profit of about 300,000 [West African] francs [US$500].”
Mr. Simporé admits that his earnings are much lower that he’d like. He farms only for the three months of the rainy season, and hires two seasonal labourers. In order to expand his business, he needs to diversify and operate year-round. He says: “My current activity is dependent on the rainy season. This is a serious handicap to developing my business. This is why I am planning to fatten cattle in the coming years.”
Like Mr. Simporé, many other young people have become agricultural entrepreneurs. Seydou Ouédraogo has grown maize for the last ten years, and also fattens cattle. Venturing into farming was a natural step for Mr. Ouédraogo. He explains, “I worked on my parents’ farm when I was a child. I knew that after I finished high school, I would go back to farming.”
Mr. Ouédraogo wants to graduate from subsistence farming and start making a profit. He believes that this goal is within his grasp. He explains, “I am not earning a significant amount yet, but I am not envious of my friends in the public service.”
While many young entrepreneurs are doing well, they face several challenges. They have to pay operating expenses, they must ensure the farm is well-managed, and they must find a good market. Mr. Simporé says, “The entrepreneur has to know everything, and it is thoroughly time-consuming.”
Poor access to credit and inflexible policies also hamper entrepreneurs. To fight for their interests, young entrepreuneurs have created a national federation.
Jules Zongo is the general secretary of the Fédération nationale des jeunes professionnels agricoles du Faso, an agricultural pressure group. The group has documented a whole list of problems to be addressed. Mr. Zongo says, “We need the state to harmonize policies which concern farmers. Currently, there are three or four [which are incompatible].”
He is urging authorities to introduce financing arrangements which are more suitable for farmers. He explains, “There is not a single agricultural bank in Burkina. Commercial banks require guarantees that we cannot meet.”
The Federation is also calling for young farmers to obtain better access to land.
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Wiring a bonsai tree is an essential skill for every bonsai grower. Though it may seem intimidating, wiring can actually be really easy, as long as you know what you’re doing. In this guide, I will show you how to wire a bonsai tree.
You just bought your new bonsai tree, or you have a young plant that has started to grow. Now it’s time to take care of it and train the tree through wiring.
Wiring a bonsai tree is an art and with time and practice, you can master that.
If you are wondering how to wire a bonsai tree in order to shape it, this guide will show you the path. But it does require some patience and experience since you will be working with small branches.
What is Bonsai Wiring
Wiring a bonsai tree simply means putting wires around the branches and trunk of a bonsai to give it the desired shape.
The process of wiring a bonsai tree is an essential one. Without it, you would never have been able to create the shape that you wanted your bonsai tree to have.
If you are a beginner, wiring seems to be a bit of a challenge.
Pros and Cons of Bonsai Wiring
The main benefit of bonsai wiring is that you can force a branch to grow in any direction you want.
- You can force your tree to grow into any shape. Can control where new buds will appear on your bonsai tree. Your branches will be very strong.
- It takes years to get results (if ever). It’s difficult to use on older trees or large trees.
When wiring a bonsai tree, there are a few things you need to keep in mind.
Different Kinds of Bonsai Wires
There are several different kinds of bonsai wire available to choose from.
They all serve the same purpose: keep the branches of your bonsai tree in place and make it grow into the shape you want. Whichever one you choose will depend on your preference and which one you can afford.
Anodized aluminum wires are one of the best all-around wires for bonsai. These wires are soft enough to bend easily and form tight curves, but tough enough to endure years of use without breaking.
Because they are relatively expensive, they are usually used on smaller branches.
But the problem with aluminum wires is they will eventually lose their elasticity over time. If you use aluminum wires long enough without taking them off your bonsai tree, they’ll eventually become loose.
Anodizes aluminum wires are best for deciduous trees.
The second most common wire is copper, which has a slightly thicker diameter (0.024″) than aluminum. However, it is much more rigid, and will not lose its shape like a smaller gauge aluminum wire.
Copper wire is a traditional material for bonsai training. Annealed copper wire is hard and is excellent to use on thicker trunks.
It is available in different diameters and can be used for all types of tree branches, including thick trunks. When used on small branches, the wire must be applied with care not to damage the bark. 7 and 8 mm wire are most suitable.
Annealed copper wires are best for conifers and pine trees.
Most experts use plastic-coated wires because they are easy to remove and do the least damage to the plant.
Bonsai wire is not used to support a plant. It is only used to shape the branches.
Wire type will determine how fast you can achieve the desired shape, but you should always keep in mind to go slow.
You may rush things, but this will cause anchor wounds that will take time to heal, and may even kill small branches.
How To Wire A Bonsai Tree:
Bonsai is very sensitive to wires and can get easily damaged by improper techniques. So it is important for you to know how to do it correctly the first time.
Wiring a bonsai tree is not rocket science, but there are some techniques that need to be employed.
The basic principle behind the bonsai wiring technique is that you shape the tree by applying tension to the branch on a daily basis.
First of all, you’ll need to decide if you want to use aluminum or copper wire for your bonsai trees. Many beginners choose aluminum because it’s so easy to work with.
When your branches develop good strength, aluminum wire can over time cut into your tree’s bark and cause it undue stress and damage.
If you plan on keeping your tree for a long time (many years), I recommend using copper instead. It won’t damage the trunk of your tree in the same way that aluminum wire can.
Wiring The Bonsai Trunk:
Wire a bonsai’s trunk for aesthetic appeal. Choose a wire that is one-third the thickness of the tree’s trunk diameter.
Then, anchor one end of the wire to the soil and begin to coil your curves around the trunk. Make your curves narrower as you move up the trunk.
Wiring The Bonsai Branches:
When wiring bonsai trees, starting from the trunk and working outwards is a good strategy.
Bending two nearby branches with one wire can sometimes work, and you may need to experiment with wires if you want to accomplish this.
The bonsai wires come in different gauges; the lower the gauge number, the thicker the diameter of the wire. The higher gauge numbers are thinner and lighter-weight wires.
In Japanese, 0 gauge (zero) gauge is as thick as 1 millimeter and 20 gauge, which is a very thin wire with 0.34-millimeter diameters.
Why is It Important to Wire Train Your Bonsai Tree?
Wiring a Bonsai tree can be both a crucial and an artistic technique used in the art of Bonsai. Bonsai artists will push, pull, and manipulate their trees’ branches in order to create curved lines and curves.
It’s an important process for many beginners in bonsai, and it has its own set of safety precautions you need to follow.
When to Wire a Bonsai Tree
There aren’t any specific rules for when to start training your bonsai. A good rule of thumb is to wait until the tree has developed it root system completely and begins to grow its trunk.
This can take years, depending on the type of tree you’re working with.
When beginning wire training for a bonsai, it is important to make sure that the plant is ready. Wire training a weakened or immature plant can cause permanent damage and ruin.
How Long Do You Leave Wire on a Bonsai Tree
It’s hard to say how long you should leave the wire on a bonsai tree because it’s largely dependent on your bonsai.
It usually takes a few months, though, to allow the branches time to set into their new positions.
A good rule of thumb is to leave the wires for at least two or three months. This will give your tree time to grow around the wire.
As the bonsai tree ages, its trunk and branches continue to thicken, and the wire begins to bite into the bark. Cut the wires before this happens.
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Research shows that we often build closeness and status by sharing negative opinions about others.Gossip is pervasive throughout our society and our camps and yet steps exist that can beundertaken to eliminate it in a close working environment. Why Camp Staff Can't HelpGossiping and What We Can Do About It explains how to form a staff culture that provides supportand the feeling of belonging to a group while rejecting gossip. The DVD provides guidedactivities that are designed to help you create your own no-gossip policy. The DVD also featuresstaff training and supervision techniques that you can use to develop appropriate forums forventing troubles, while keeping the social atmosphere positive. Finally, the DVD explains how toestablish a transparent camp culture that reduces the need for "information creation."
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Discovering the Themes and Symbolism in Poem This is A Photograph of Me
In poetry it is important for meanings and themes to be conveyed to us in a unique and interesting manner. Margaret Atwood uses many literary devices so the reader can really feel her poems and come to a greater understanding through her wonderful narrative voices. In the poem, “This is a Photograph of Me,” Atwood uses haunting, ambiguous imagery to bring the piece to life and support its mysterious theme.
The first image we receive from the poem is in the title itself. The image is an actually “image” of the narrative voice. We get a pretty good idea that the “photograph” of the narrator will be revealed to us by the straight-forward title. As we begin to delve into the poem itself, we discover that it appears to be a “smeared print” at first. This imagery hints to us quite literally that there is much more to this photograph than “blurred lines and grey flecks blended with paper” and on a more hidden level it reveals something much deeper that we discover in the latter half.
In the second stanza the narrator, “she” if you will, begins to guide us through a deeper understanding of the cryptic blurriness of the print. She points out to us not a branch, but a “thing that is like a branch.” This adds to the mystery of the picture and begins to build a curiousness about our narrator. We are shown “part of a tree emerging,” which gives another hint to secrets which will soon “emerge” and be revealed. There’s also “a gentle slope, a small frame house,” which would normally have a positive connotation, but the “ought to be” in front of the two descriptions, gives the images the ambiguity and mysticism like the rest of the poem.
The third stanza consists of a two-line sentence which describes the background of the photo. We are told of “a lake, and beyond that, some low hills.” In its presentation as a short, separate image, it feels far away and dream-like. Then, in the fourth stanza, we are told by the narrator that this is a picture taken after she drowned. It is very shocking, especially after the still, silent images we have been painted, but not too surprising because the imagery prepares the reader for the true intent of the narrator’s voice.
In the fifth stanza, she tells us she is in the center of the picture, just under the surface. The imagery here is simple but very effective. We begin to piece together the “hidden” image of her body, already dead for a day in that calm, gray water. In just a simple description we wonder many things, which are not answered. Who is our narrator? How is she telling this “story?” Who took the picture? Her murderer? The search party? A photographer unknowing about what was “just under the surface?”
In the sixth stanza, the ambiguity continues with the narrator not sure exactly where her body was or how large or small. These are simple descriptive questions that move us with a subdued horror. Then there is the image that seems to sum up the whole feeling of the poem: “the effect of water on the light is a distortion.” The whole photograph is a distortion of the harsh reality of the situation. In the last stanza, we are informed that if we look long enough we’ll see her. Again, a line that doesn’t make sense and leaves us questioning the mysticism and blurriness of the piece. Will she really “emerge” if we keep looking?
With each stanza we are revealed a deeper meaning. Concrete imagery of the photo reveals the mysteriousness, and in the last half, the imagery paints the uncertain and the intangible. We are left uneasy and wondering, just like the blurry imagery presented.
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If you are a gourmet and enjoy all benefits of delicious food, then definitely you try to improve each subsequent meal. Gourmet food is expensively delicious not only for its quality ingredients and taste, but also for its aesthetics. Aesthetics in food are making a big comeback in today’s restaurants, and for good reason. While we eat, we may think that taste is all that our brain is processing, but it’s a much richer experience than that. The smell and the sight of the food are major points in the eating experience. One of the most natural and most appealing ways to brighten up and beautify a dish is the simple addition of an edible flower! There are many varieties which are edible, and add a subtle flavor into your dish. Cooking with flowers from your garden, though, is a cautious process, as you must be completely sure that what you are serving is neither poisonous nor chemically treated.
The Dahlia Flowers are native to Mexico and Central America. The Aztecs used them for food, decoration and ceremonies – and in 1963 they were named as the national flower of Mexico.
Dahlia Flowers grow from tubers, so they are part of the family of plants growing from bulbs, also called bulbous plants. They are also available as rooted cuttings, which are cuttings taken from the base stem from last years plants, and grown on in compost in specialist nurseries.
There is a great variety of form in dahlias, from the showy dinner-plate size to the bright, little single ones.
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Surveillance and diligence have prevailed in commercial real estate during rent ups, adaptive reuse and new construction. Contagion in schools and small and large gatherings have spiked virus data broadly as predicted. Prevention of local trends in behavior and contagion from spreading to built environment is the challenge for commercial real estate. Both schools and gatherings are behavior issues which are dependent on self-discipline and generally beyond the industry stewardship of the built environment. The lagging disarray from pandemic and vaccine uncertainty have disabled the forecasters.
We are getting closer, and the pauses are becoming more deliberate. Community measures and messages can move the needle. And as members of the community, commercial real estate operators can certainly support the effort aggressively to prevent a spiking contagion. Before the availability of vaccine, these efforts must ramp and cascade, and must create protocols to continue and expand the rebounding economies. Markets have improved gradually as safety and care have enhanced accessibility to commercial real estate. and preventive measures and protocols have been designed and implemented on site.
New patterns of commutation have evolved. Public transit has been slow to recover ridership and only sluggishly adapted to pandemic conditions and behaviors. Manufacturing and transportation facilities and construction sites have implemented elaborate protocols and testing that have generally been effective and facilitated robust resumption of work.
The functioning of virtual alternatives has mitigated the rush to return to the office and service employment facilities. Because of vulnerable populations and contagion most employment locations are otherwise still only marginally occupied and will probably continue accordingly until vaccine is available. Reduced density occupancy and effective virtual connectivity will continue to modify patterns of occupancy and probably persist post pandemic.
Healthcare, education, entertainment, hospitality, and public service are charting new terrain in utilization and occupancy which are yet dramatically changing.
Rollercoaster, upside down, keep an open window, benchmark, meet the market, beat the market.
Make the connection. Curiosity. Take the pause, the slack, maintain occupancy, cash flow, stability, and keep it clean, endorse the protocols, be firm, friendly and focused. Improve services. Type, quality, and frequency. Services versus rents. Talk to tenants. Tell me your plan. What do you need. What do you want. How do you do. Welcome to tomorrow. Get the elevator pitch. The word we use are changing, no more normal. Zoom. Teams. Meet. Think about stability, a better solution. Go forward. Not back. Reach out. Target goals. Reduce the turn. When is uncertain. What is next. Why is now.
The conversation is different. Getting beyond is not universal, every day. Can be refreshing. We do not have a vaccine yet and until we do, the uncertainty will persist pulling cash, depressing cash flow, and impacting behaviors. More to come. More is needed. Let’s understand the behavior. Let’s behave.
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A importância dos jogos e das brincadeiras na educação infantil
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Like all medicines, Velmetia may cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
Very rarely patients taking metformin (one of the active substances of Velmetia) have experienced a serious condition called lactic acidosis (too much lactic acid in your blood). This is more common in people whose kidneys are not working properly. Stop taking Velmetia and see a doctor straight away if you notice any of the following symptoms:
- feeling sick (nausea) or being sick (vomiting), abdominal pain, muscular cramps, unexplained weight loss, rapid breathing, and feeling cold or uncomfortable.
Very common side effects (likely to occur in more than 1 per 10 patients).
Common side effects (likely to occur in less than 1 per 10 but more than 1 per 100 patients). Uncommon side effects (likely to occur in less than 1 per 100 but more than 1 per 1,000 patients). Rare side effects (likely to occur in less than 1 per 1,000 but more than 1 per 10,000). Very rare side effects (likely to occur in less than 1 per 10,000).
Some patients taking metformin have experienced the following side effects after starting sitagliptin: Common: nausea
Uncommon: weight loss, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, low blood sugar, drowsiness
Some patients have experienced stomach discomfort when starting the combination of sitagliptin and metformin together.
Some patients have experienced the following side effects while taking Velmetia with a sulphonylurea:
Very common: low blood sugar
Some patients have experienced the following side effects while taking Velmetia in combination with rosiglitazone:
Common: headache, cough, diarrhoea, vomiting, low blood sugar, fungal skin infection, upper respiratory infection, swelling of the hands or legs.
Some patients have experienced the following side effects while taking Velmetia in combination with insulin:
Very common: low blood sugar
Uncommon: dry mouth, headache
Some patients have experienced the following side effects while taking sitagliptin alone: Common: low blood sugar, headache
Uncommon: dizziness, constipation
In addition, some patients have reported the following side effects while taking sitagliptin: Common: upper respiratory infection, stuffy or runny nose and sore throat, osteoarthritis, arm or leg pain.
During post-approval use with Velmetia or sitagliptin, one of the medicines in Velmetia, additional side effects have also been reported (frequency not known). These side effects have been reported when Velmetia or sitagliptin have been used alone and/or as part of combination therapy: allergic reactions, which may be serious, including rash, hives, and swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and throat that may cause difficulty in breathing or swallowing. If you have an allergic reaction, stop taking Velmetia and call your doctor right away. Your doctor may prescribe a medicine to treat your allergic reaction and a different medicine for your diabetes. Other side effects that have been reported include: inflammation of the pancreas; kidney problems (sometimes requiring dialysis); vomiting.
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It was 10 years ago as a reporter for the Chilliwack Times when I found out that Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan was planning a $3.8-billion twinning of its 1,150-kilometre pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the port in Burnaby.
It wasn’t exactly investigative journalism, but no one that I could see was writing about it.
“There’s an existing oil pipeline that runs across our community?” I asked.
“Kinder Surprise” was the headline.
Very few people outside city hall or other political levels seemed to know this pipeline existed. But it did and it does.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline runs from Rosedale to Yarrow, mostly across farm fields, but as it crosses the city, the right-of-way goes underneath school fields at Vedder Middle and Watson Elementary schools. It crosses the Kinkora Golf Course, which is closed, at least for most of this golf season as construction is underway.
And it goes through dozens of residential back yards.
The twinning of the pipeline, dubbed the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (TMX), is not just a doubling but will triple the amount of oil sands bitumen that can be shipped to Asia and elsewhere.
There is big money in oil, of course. Alberta knows this. In recent years, less so, but then there was more again.
As for now? The uncertainty and fluctuations in oil prices is hard to keep track of. The ups and downs are caused by numerous global, national and regional factors.
The world is, of course, moving away from oil. We have been for some time. Even in 2012, opponents of TMX complained about climate change and oil spills and aquifer protection. But there were also the practical and economic considerations, from peak oil to political decisions supporting technologies getting us off fossil fuels.
If you had told me in 2012 we would still be writing about TMX in 2022, I would have said you were crazy. And if you told me the project was literally putting pipe in the ground in Chilliwack in 2022, given the hurdles it has faced, I would have bet against it.
The initial estimated cost of $3.8-billion price tag has gone up more than fivefold to $21.4 billion. And Kinder Morgan? Four years ago, the Government of Canada purchased TMX for $4.5 billion. It’s ours now.
There has been and will continue to be Indigenous opposition. Environmentalists, and Indigenous land defenders, have sat in trees in Burnaby to stop the clearing to make way for TMX. In the process, they found bird nests, which pauses construction, something they also did just east of Chilliwack last month.
Other changes since 2012 include an electric vehicle revolution. We’ve also gone from talking about climate change as if it was up for debate to recognizing deniers as flat-Earthers.
More public recognition has come from seeing our world change before our eyes, not from identifying one-off weather events as climate-change related.
In the Lower Mainland, I mean that literally. We watched hundreds die thanks to last summer’s heat dome, and catastrophic flooding of farms in the Sumas prairie were the result of last November’s atmospheric rivers.
Continuing to build the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project may seem a little like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but here we are, forging ahead.
Ten years ago I took a photo of a horse looking at me behind the pipeline sign on Unsworth in front of a fenced grass meadow.
I went back there last week and took a photo of a cow in the same field, similarly looking at me in disbelief as if to say, “You still comin’ around here?”
Is TMX happening? Looks like it. Will it ever be completed? I’m not sure.
Trees are coming down in Chilliwack, shovels are in the ground, pipe is going in.
The only Kinder Surprise now will be if it doesn’t happen.
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She started experiencing sight problems in 2012, while she was a student.
“At school, I used to sit at the back of the class most of the time. I was perfectly normal, but then one day I couldn’t see the board well. I thought the problem could be solved by moving to the front of the class,” she says.
Her vision became weaker, especially in well-lit areas.
“I struggled to read white exam papers,” she says.
Ms Ambogo’s main challenge was accessing an ophthalmologist to diagnose her illness and the affordability of the services.
“I was a student in Kakamega, and there were no specialists near my home area. I had to travel to the neighbouring Kisumu to get medical attention, and even get a suitable pair of eyeglasses,” she says.
But even after seeing an eye specialist, it was still a challenge to afford suitable eyeglasses that cost Sh8,700.
Inadequate specialists and the high cost of treating eye problems have resulted in severe vision impairment in millions of people globally.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 28 million people worldwide have severe vision impairment, with 750,000 of them being Kenyans.
WHO data also indicates that of the 39 million people living with blindness in the world, 224,000 are Kenyans, with 80 percent of blindness in the country being due to causes that can be cured and prevented.
Data collected from Lapaire Group, a parent company of Lapaire Kenya, an eye-wear company based in Nairobi, indicates that eye problems detected amongst many people are preventable.
According to the company which has tested over 60,000 people across the continent, though there is very limited data due to the lack of local studies, 60 percent of persons with visual impairment are due to refractive errors, hence this is preventable.
Types of refractive errors are myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), presbyopia (loss of near vision with age), and astigmatism, a problem caused by an error in the shape of the cornea.
Diana Lang’at, an optometrist in Nairobi, says different factors have contributed to the high number of Kenyans with an impaired vision which includes poverty, lack of public awareness of vision problems, difficult and expensive access to ophthalmologists and optometrists, high cost of frames and lens for eyeglasses, and the non-coverage of optical care by many employers.
The ophthalmologist per population ratio in Kenya is 1:600,000 which is below the WHO recommendation of 1:250,000.
In Africa, it is estimated that 550 million people need eyeglasses but that barely one percent have access to them.
Further, the Ministry of Health estimates that 15.5 percent of Kenyans need quality eye care services, ranging from surgeries, treatments, and spectacle corrections, but only about a fifth do have access to eye health services.
According to Ms Lang’at, affordability has led to many people sharing or buying eyeglasses from the streets.
“One thing people should understand is even though you might be diagnosed with the same problem as the next person, the extent of the problem usually differs, thus the lenses prescribed are usually very specific,” explains Ms Lang’at.
There also lies the immense danger of getting just any kind of glasses from the streets.
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“If you have wrong glasses, there is a possibility of developing permanent damage retinal detachment, a condition that could be irreversible. This could create an even more complicated situation that even with the best glasses, you still will be unable to see well,” she adds.
With this, experts recommend that the best and the cheapest way to prevent such complications is prevention.
“It all comes to lifestyle, and specifically what you eat. It is important to have a healthy diet, drink plenty of water for your eyes to remain in good shape,” she says.
The shift to working on computers and TV binge-watching also harm the eyes.
“For people who spend most of their time on computers or phones, I advise them to use the 20-20-20 rule, where after every 20 minutes of working on your gadget, you break for 20 seconds to focus on things that are 20 feet away,” she says.
According to Ms Lang’at, almost everybody will get a refractive error in their lifetime, eyeglasses affordability must be addressed.
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Over many years, my performances have taken me into the lives of thousands of individuals. Many of whom live with various forms of dementia, and often this comes in the form of what we know as 'Alzheimer Disease'.
Having spoken to many caregivers, I've heard individuals tell me that even worse than losing your own memory, perhaps, is having your loved ones losing their memory of you.
For those who are living with this disease, music truly is a unique and fantastic tool, allowing individuals to temporarily, but very authentically, bridge their 'here and now' with memories of the past. It somehow has the ability to bring individuals out of a 'stale' state back into an animated one.
I'm just fortunate to be a part of bringing this music to those who need it most. To steal a sentiment from Helen Keller: I can't do everything. But what I can do, I will do.
Remember to care. Care to remember.
Dementia is a general term that refers to a variety of brain disorders. Physical changes in the brain cause dementia. Learn more in this section about dementia, its impact on the brain, and how to keep your brain healthy.
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Ohio Soil Recycling’s facility is centrally located on Integrity Drive in Columbus, Ohio with convenient access from two interstate highways. In 2010-11 the facility was expanded from 27-acres to 58-acres and a new treatment pad was constructed with the most modern and up-to-date environmental safeguards. This expansion effort has provided OSR with an additional 15-20 year capacity at the Columbus facility.
OSR’s 58-acre facility includes:
- 600’ x 1,800’ Lined Soil Treatment Pad
- (5) Perimeter groundwater monitoring wells
- Seamlessly lined collection trench and retention pond
- Sediment retention basin
- City of Columbus licensed and inspected weigh scale
- Secure and fully insured disposal facility
- Permitted by Ohio EPA
Treatment Pad Specifications:
- Compacted clay subsurface with 40-mil liner
- 3-foot compacted clay working surface on top of liner
- Soil-Cement stabilized pad working surface
- Lined run-off trench feeds into seamlessly lined collection pond.
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Why is there a hose ban?
South East England noticed simply eight per cent of common rainfall in July, with August and September anticipated to be sizzling, humid and dry.
What’s the penalty for breaking the hose ban guidelines?
Those that have damaged the foundations will most certainly obtain a warning from their water firm. In essentially the most excessive circumstances, the court docket can impose a nice of as much as £1,000.
What can you utilize your water for underneath the hose ban?
There are specific provisions to ban hoses, which means that whereas actions inside individuals’s every day routines could also be prohibited, others are permitted.
- Though you can’t water your individual backyard, vegetation on the market or business use should not restricted.
- Watering sports activities fields – however solely the “energetic” elements, not your entire discipline
- Washing a “public service car” corresponding to a bus or coach
- Filling swimming pools, ponds or fountains the place fish or different animals breed
- Cleansing partitions, home windows, paths or terraces with a hose for well being and security causes
The place else might he face a hose ban?
Thames and South West informed The Telegraph they could need to introduce restrictions within the coming weeks. Others within the south, together with Portsmouth and Wessex, stated they weren’t at present contemplating any restrictions.
Anglian Water stated its reservoirs had been 80 per cent full however it was “monitoring river ranges very intently” with dry climate forecast.
How will you assist save water?
If you wish to assist preserve water in the course of the dry summer time season, there are some things you are able to do as a part of your every day routine:
- Take shorter showers
- Do not wash your automotive – take satisfaction in retaining it soiled
- Do not wash your hair day-after-day or use dry shampoo
- Use the identical glass, mug or cup all through the day
- Let the garden brown and do not lower it too brief as it should dry out sooner
- Throw a light-weight material over the vegetation or placed on a parasol
- Set up the water cease
Will areas within the north be affected?
Rain is predicted within the north of England over the subsequent few days, resulting in water firms there hoping they won’t need to introduce restrictions.
Though momentary flood warnings have been issued in elements of the Lake District this week, officers should not positive there might be sufficient rainfall throughout the nation to cut back the necessity for extra hose bans over the summer time.
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Those who save money in India still hold a traditional view of gold, that it is simple, an excellent investment, a protector of bad times and that all households should consider investing in it. The only option for such investors was to purchase it in its physical form, but times have changed and with the rapid advancement of technology and such, gold can now be bought in its digital form.
Digital Gold is a boon to society that will leave investors free from worry about safekeeping and storage, which will allow them to trade it easily unlike physical gold and reduce all ancillary costs.
Not only that, the introduction of Gold ETFs has revolutionized the way trading of gold is being done. It can be traded on the stock exchange where profits are realized with ease unlike selling physical gold which can be cumbersome.
There is now another option within the digital gold sphere in which one can invest in gold in the Demat form, trade it on the exchange and earn interest on the same. These are known as Sovereign Gold Bonds which are issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in discourse with the Government of India.
- 1 Let’s understand what are Sovereign Gold Bonds;
- 2 Happy Investing!
Let’s understand what are Sovereign Gold Bonds;
Sovereign Gold Bonds were introduced by the Government in the year 2015 under the Gold Monetization Scheme. The purpose of offering such bonds was to enable investors to invest in an asset class that is not physical gold. They are issued between the months of October 2019 to March 2020.
The RBI announces the public issue of gold sovereign bonds in tranches which specifies date of subscription of bonds and the date of allocation.
For the year 2019-20, following is the tranche table:
|Sl no.||Tranches||Subscription Date||
|2019-2020 Series X||02-06 March 2020||11 March 2020|
|2019-2020 Series IX||03-07 February 2020||
11 February 2020
|3||2019-2020 Series VIII||13-17 January 2020||
21 January 2020
|2019-2020 Series VII||02-06 December 2019||
10 December 2019
|2019-2020 Series VI||21-25 October 2019||
30 October 2019
|2019-2020 Series V||07-11 October 2019||
15 October 2019
The sovereign gold bonds can only be bought under the specified subscription date slot and since they are issued on behalf of the Government of India, they carry a sovereign guarantee. Anybody who owns a Demat account can subscribe to these gold bonds. The minimum investment is 1 gram and the denominations are in the multiples of 1 gram gold only.
Before buying Sovereign Gold Bonds, here are a few things one must know about them:
Any Indian resident can buy sovereign gold bonds which also includes HUFs, universities, trusts, charitable trusts, etc. These bonds can also be bought by parents or guardians on behalf of minors. However, a Non-Resident of India cannot buy sovereign gold bonds
Also, if you became an NRI after purchasing gold bonds, you can hold them till their maturity but cannot trade them over the stock exchange nor can you repatriate the maturity value.
Investment in sovereign gold bonds is denominated in multiples of gram or grams. The least that can be purchased is 1 gram.
For example, an investment of Rs. 10,000 for a gold rate of Rs. 4,000 per gram will be denominated as 2.5 grams.
3. Maximum investment
There is also a limit on the amount of gold that can be held in sovereign bonds. Given below is the amount for each category of investor and the amount that can be held by them in a given financial year i.e, April to March.
|Trusts and other entities||
4. Issue Price
The price of the bond is fixed in Indian Rupees and is considered on the basis of the average closing price of the last three working days of the week preceding the subscription of gold having 999 purity. The closing rates are published by the Jewellers Association and Indian Bullion.
Also, the investors who subscribe for it online and pay digitally are given a discount of Rs. 50.
5. Interest rate
The interest rate is predetermined by the RBI and is announced at the time of the tranche launch. The present interest rate is 2.5% pa.
The amount of investment made will earn a certain amount of interest which is determined by the RBI for a given tranche at the time of its launch. Interest is paid semi-annually. The interest rate to date is close to 2.5 percent.
The redemption price is calculated on the basis of the simple average of the closing price 999 purity gold of the previous three days from the date of repayment. This is also published by the Jewellers Association and Indian Bullion.
The maturity period of sovereign gold bonds is 8 years with an option to exit in the fifth, sixth and seventh year. This is to be exercised on the date of interest payment. However, a transfer of bonds is allowed on the stock exchange platform making sovereign gold bonds highly flexible.
8. Loan Collaterals
If you wish to take a loan, then sovereign gold bonds can be put forward as collaterals. As per RBI instructions, the LTV (loan-to-value) ratio is on par with an ordinary gold loan.
9. Payment Options
Sovereign gold bonds can be bought using cash up to Rs. 20,000, by cheques, by demand drafts, or by online transfer. This is one of the few investment options where cash is accepted. However, on redemption, the money will be credited to the bank account.
If you are looking for a long term investment in gold, then sovereign gold bonds are recommended. One can avoid paying taxes on the redemption of sovereign gold bonds on maturity or after the fifth year. Also, since these are issued by the RBI, the chances of default risk are very low. Keeping the above-mentioned points in mind, one can consider investing in sovereign gold bonds. | <urn:uuid:cb31eec5-98d1-4de3-912a-9dad2e2eebf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crackaccount.com/how-to-invest-in-gold-bonds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950312 | 1,378 | 2.015625 | 2 |
ONTONAGON, Mich. (WJMN) – The town of Ontonagon is rich in history with ties to the lumber, mining, maritime, railroad, and farming industries that have helped shape it into the town we see today.
“Initially it was all Native Americans of course prior to 1600. And sometime in the 1600s the French came, and they got heavily into the fur trade industry,” Dean Juntunen with the Ontonagon County Historical Society said. “So the whole Lake Superior basin was French fur trading industry prior to the existence of modern day Ontonagon. Modern day Ontonagon came about basically because of Ohio believe it or not.”
After the State of Michigan acquired the Upper Peninsula in 1837 through the Toledo War, an abundance of natural resources were unearthed in the U.P.
“So immediately the Governor hired a state geologist Douglas Houghton to come up here and survey the U.P. and see what we got up here,” Juntunen said. “He found all kinds of minerals and copper in particular. So right shortly thereafter, the copper boom started so in the 1840’s a lot of development of copper mines up here in this area, including Ontonagon. The first one was 1848 over in Rockland at the Minnesota Mine, and that was our most profitable mine here in the U.P. until the White Pine Mine came later. The town of Ontonagon then had to grow up to serve as a port for the copper mines basically. So by the 1850’s there was a legitimate town here.”
With a town comes the need to build things and the lumber industry began to boom for the town of Ontonagon.
“The mining area needed timber,” John Doyle with the Ontonagon County Historical Society said. “You had to have timber for houses so that is where that started. John Parker started the first sawmill here in about 1855 and the first house that was built here and is still standing with lumber from his mill. So they had to cut stuff for the mines because you have to have timber and such for the mining effort, so that started the timber industry up here.”
Sharing natural resources with the rest of the country didn’t happen on its own. The Porterfield and Ellis Railroad Company found a unique way around the terrain of the western U.P.
“They had something called the loops on their railroads and what a loop was was just a big dip in the railroad instead of building just a giant, expensive railroad trestle up at the top of the river valley,” Juntunen said. “They would just go down the hill with the rails, make a small bridge across the river at the bottom and then go up a big hill on the other side and they called those loops. The loops were not only employed here in Michigan but there were also employed elsewhere. Supposedly our railroad loop had the steepest grade found anywhere and the engineer was named Gerald DeHut. He wrote a nice story that we have here on his days lumbering and he said that in order to make it up the far side hill he had to go 70 mph on the downhill grade. With the little old steam engine, they are just blasting down the hill with wind flying everywhere. DeHut wrote that they could not fire the furnace while they were doing the loop because it would suck in shovels and everything else. The suction was just way too great at the speed.”
Mining is no longer practiced, but logging, farming, and now tourism are still a part of the Ontonagon landscape today.
If you are interested in taking a deeper dive into the people, traditions, and things that helped shape Ontonagon into what it is today, you can visit the Ontonagon County Historical Society Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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