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This program focused on blending traditional resources from the special collection with modern technology to educate students about their city. Students worked with physical maps to locate themselves and their stories within Nashville, then used Google Maps to digitally combine all their stories on one map. Students used oral histories from the library’s collection to map narratives of other Nashvillians.
This program combined genealogy, mapping and oral histories to help create a more inclusive picture of the city. The program was part of a partnership with the Space, Learning and Mobility (SLaM) Lab at Peabody College’s Department of Teaching and Learning and was supported by a Public Scholarship Fellowship from the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt.
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Data visualisation is an umbrella term, usually covering both information and scientific visualisation. This is a general way of talking about anything that converts data sources into a visual representation (like charts, graphs, maps, sometimes even just tables).
Scientific visualisation is generally the visualisation of scientific data that have close ties to real-world objects with spatial properties. The goal is often to generate an image of something for which we have spatial information and combine that with data that is perhaps less directly accessible, like temperate or pressure data. The different scientific fields often have very specific conventions for doing their own types of visualisations.
Information visualisation is another broad term, covering most statistical charts and graphs but also other visual/spatial metaphors that can be used to represent data sets that don't have inherent spatial components.
Visual analytics is the practice of using visualisations to analyse data. In some research, visualisations can support more formal statistical tests by allowing researchers to interact with the data points directly without aggregating or summarising them. Even simple scatter plots, when the variables are chosen carefully, can show outliers, dense regions, bimodalities, etc.
Repetition: Using pattern and repeated elements within a visualisation creates a sense of unity and helps to make the data appear more rhythmic and easy to understand.
Colour: Visualisations don't strictly need colour, but introducing colour helps to anchieve are more captivating design. Beware of colour-combinations that can't be interpreted by people who are colourblind, such as red with green, and blue with yellow.
Contrast: Elements within a design can contrast with one another to reveal relationships and patterns. Contrast is traditionally achieved through colour, but size, shape, and textual contrast are also useful.
Emphasis: Differentiating part of the visualisation to catch the viewer’s attention. Elements can emphasised by varying size, colour, texture, shape, etc.
Balance & Scale: Distributing the visual weight of elements using colours, space, and texture creates hamony and balance. While balance is traditionally achieved through symmetry, it can also be created using asymmetrical, radial, or scaled elements.
Movement: Designing a path for the eye to follow creates movement in a visualisation. This movement can be directed along the lines, edges, shapes, and colours within the visualisation.
Simplicity: Simple visualisations are easy to interpret. Do not expect your audience to engage in visual mathematics in order to understand your data.
Interaction: Interactive visualisations add depth to data, and can be used to show variations. Visualisations that encourage the viewer to 'play' communicate the story behind the data with ease.
A candlestick chart is a combination of a line-chart and a bar-chart: each bar represents all four important pieces of information. This style of visualisation is used to describe financial information such as price movements of a security, derivative, or currency. Being densely packed with information, they tend to represent trading patterns over short periods of time, with each candlestick showing data for a single day.
A line graph is a visualisation that displays data in a series of data intervals connected by straight lines. This type of visualisation is usually used to describe changes in quantitative data over time, and the relationships between different sets of data.
A Marimekko graph is a type of bar graph where each bar is of equal length, and is divided into segments. Named after the Finnish design company, Marimekko charts can be hard to read.
A Nightingale Rose diagram is a type of histograph displayed in a circle. It is similar to a pie chart, except sectors are equal angles and instead differ in how far each sector extends from the center of the circle. This type of visualisation is usually used to describe cyclic phenomena.
A bubble chart uses circles to represent sets of data that are gathered in groups of three. The three data points determine the position of each bubble on the y and y axis, as well as the size of each bubble. This type of visualisation is suited to describing economic, social, and health data. One disadvantage of the bubble chart is clearly depicting null values or negative data.
A pie chart is a circular visualisation used to illustrate proportions of a whole. The arc length of each slice is proportional to its quantity. Pie charts are suited to describing small sets of data with no more that five values. Pie charts with many values become hard to interpret, and can easily be replaced with a box plot, or bar chart, both of which are easier for the human eye to interpret and understand.
A radar chart is a circular representation of more than three variables. Traditionally, radar charts are shown in a multi-plot format with many charts grouped together on the page, each one representing a single observation.This type of visualisations is ideal for illustrating outliers and commonalities in a dataset.
A Sankey diagram is a type of flow diagram where the size and width of each arrow is proportionate to the quantity of flow. Sankey diagrams visually emphasise the major transfers or flows within a system and are helpful for locating dominant contributions to an overall flow. This type of visualisation is typically used in engineering to describe the transfer of a variable between processes, such as energy, material or cost.
A bar graph is a chart that uses either horizontal or vertical bars to show comparisons among categories. The lenght of each bar is used to indicate the value attributed to that category. One axis of the chart shows the specific categories being compared, and the other axis represents a discrete value. Variables in bar graphs can also be clutered in groups of more than one to display results over time. However, this type of visualisation is ideal for illustrating a quantitative value for multiple categories.
Learn more about different types of visualisations by visiting the Data Visualisation Catalogue.
Geovisualisation (Geographic or Geospatial Visualisation), refers to a set of tools and techniques supporting the analysis of geospatial data through the use of interactive visualisation.
Infographics (Information Graphics) visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly using a combination of text, images, graphs, charts, and tables. Infographics have become popular on the web as a way of combining various statistics and visualisations with a narrative and, sometimes, a polemic. The danger with infographic tools is the tendency to emphasise form over function. | <urn:uuid:0ece5ed7-41a9-4a97-bc60-7934b1c046ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libguides.napier.ac.uk/methods/dataviz | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.897511 | 1,334 | 3.8125 | 4 |
An open-source methodology for doing sustainable development
VISIS stands for Vision > Indicators > Systems > Innovation > Strategy — five critical steps in planning for sustainable development.
VISIS is a way of working on sustainable development in whole-systems, inter-disciplinary way, usually in a group setting. It was developed by Alan AtKisson in the late 1990s to support local planning efforts and educational programs. Today, VISIS is used around the world in business, government, universities and schools. It is also ideally suited for working with the SDGs, the “Global Goals” adopted by world leaders in 2015.
VISIS is an open-source methodology — that is, anyone can use it. You can download a short introduction to the VISIS here: Download the Introduction to VISIS.
But VISIS is also at the heart of the Sustainability Accelerator tools, designed to harness the power of the VISIS method for organizational planning and training. Please note that the Accelerator tools are proprietary and protected by international copyright. You can download an introductory version, called AcceleratorLite, for free. AcceleratorLite is has been widely adopted by teachers, community leaders, government officials, and many others, trained through our non-profit network partner Compass Education, or through our work on international development programs.
Note: “VISIS” was originally known as the “ISIS Method”. “V” for Vision was always part of the method, so when the name “ISIS” became associated with militants in Iraq and Syria, we formally added the “V” to the name. Note that documents published before 2014, including Alan AtKisson’s 2010 book The Sustainability Transformation, usually refer to the ISIS Method. | <urn:uuid:8f0c5419-4cc8-4e94-be74-532fb5c9f06f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://atkisson.com/visis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951005 | 368 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Run A Paying Guest Accommodation
Is Your Free Wi-Fi Really Secure??
In today’s scenario the Paying Guest Accommodations need to provide all kinds of value added services to their guest, obviously the credit goes to the competition, and one such service is a secured Internet access with a good speed. Moreover it would not be wrong to say so that Internet now is a necessity than a value added service.
Free Wi-Fi in a PG is more likely to be unsecured, with a simple encryption key that has access to all. Now the bigger problem lies when you use this Wi-Fi and you are prone to attack by hackers and even other Wi-Fi users. Well from the PG owner’s perspective there lies a bigger problem which is if any illegal use of Internet takes place which would obviously have dire consequences.
Other Internet issue in a PG is speed, which again can be attributed to many so many reasons. A slow speed can be accredited to a router/access point with lesser capabilities or some guest downloading a torrent and consuming all speed. The answer to all above queries is ‘Kavach’. | <urn:uuid:7a0e9ee5-0266-4893-9d2b-36807b4d2839> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kavach.mobi/wifi-in-a-paying-guest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959908 | 241 | 1.554688 | 2 |
A serious safe place to play
Balancing the demands of both professional and personal lives can sometimes prove quite challenging — especially so for new parents. This newly renovated daycare can’t remedy all those challenges but it does solve one of biggest – providing peace of mind during working hours by giving infants and toddlers a modern, safe and secure home away from home.
Having been out of operation since 2008, the previous daycare space was extremely worn, tired, outmoded and not conducive to modern day child-care standards. CWA changed all that through sweeping design improvements that transformed many of spaces challenging components into compelling design elements. The end result provides the children with safety and security as well as a creative and imaginative setting; a place that eases the anxieties of separation for children, parents and staff alike.
Highlights feature a crenelated corridor wall painted in an accent color connects the spaces in a way that creates a sense of mystery around every bend. Muted colors and subtle patterns delineate the resilient flooring in high traffic areas while cork plank flooring provides comfort to the children where they are most likely to play. The acoustical tile ceilings include recessed indirect/direct lighting so the ceiling heights are maximized. The naturally landscaped, sloping exterior play area focuses on an elliptical sand pit encircled by a concrete tricycle track that narrows in width as it follows the sand pit shape.
“The space turned out better than I could have dreamed it – It’s just spectacular.”
– Michael Peel, Yale’s Vice President for Human Resources and Administration
Since 1976 the Sterling Divinity School affiliated Curtis Hall graduate student dormitory included a daycare center in its grade level basement. Operating until 2008, it provided a close-by place for the young children of faculty and students alike while their parents tended to their academic pursuits within virtual walking distance on campus.
Located on the scenic Science Hill area at Yale, the building takes full advantage of it’s south-east exposure – Large windows in each child care room provide wonderful daylight exposure. Expansive views of the rolling hills and the mountainous ridge of East Rock Park can be seen from the rooms as well as the exterior play area.
Nuts & Bolts
Child safe electrical outlets controlled by an individual dedicated electrical panel; child height water closets and sinks; centrally located changing stations with integral sinks situated so that care givers never take their eyes off of the children in their care; individually controlled HVAC systems for each classroom, providing heating, cooling and outside air ventilation; a centralized “home-like” kitchen complete with health department approved appliances yet outfitted with warm, wood cabinetry.
What You Don’t See
Security features. Among these are a central entry lobby protected by a card access system; closed circuit security cameras; virtually unbreakable glass and windows looking out from the adjacent administrative offices. Existing casement windows have been re-glazed with insulated safety glass and pet type screens to ensure energy efficiency while protecting children from possible injury. The renovation also completely removed all hazardous building materials, including lead based paint and asbestos flooring.
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The Muslim Holy month of Ramadan witnessed a spate of public rioting and disturbances on the Temple Mount, specifically in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, orchestrated and organized following considerable incitement by the Hamas leadership in Gaza, as well as the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
This included acts of provocation and violence by Palestinian youths who entrenched themselves within the mosque and stockpiled boulders, metal bars and fireworks, all intended for use against Jews praying at the Western Wall and against Israeli police fulfilling the responsibility to ensure public order.
These disturbances have given rise to statements and actions by senior Jordanian personalities, expressing support and encouragement for the violence, as well as voicing threats against Israel and calls to change the present arrangements regarding the Temple Mount.
The emotive nature and sensitivity of anything connected with the Temple Mount in general and the Al Aqsa compound in particular, and the potential for massive incitement by those intent on instigating violence, have been a familiar and regular phenomenon for tens, if not hundreds of years. Commonly voiced buzzwords and mantras have consistently included such accusations as “Al-Aqsa is in danger.”
Such irresponsible and deliberately disseminated canards have, over the years, predictably led to violent riots and damage, as well as extensive casualties and fatalities.
While Israel has, since 1967, exercised sovereignty and overall control of the area of the holy sites in Jerusalem, the day-to-day administration and organization of visiting and worshiping within the al-Aqsa Mosque compound has historically been and continues to be under the responsibility of Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf Islamic Affairs and Holy Places.
In the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, it was agreed in Article 9 to, “...provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance” and to “act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding, moral commitment, freedom of religious worship, tolerance and peace.”
Israel also undertook to “respect the special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem,” and; therefore, Jordan has continued to administer the site, as it had done prior to 1967, and subject to Israeli security supervision and presence, is responsible, in coordination with Israel, for the religious and civil arrangements, including visits by Jews and non-Muslims.
Jordan’s signature and ratification of the 1994 Peace Treaty represented acceptance and acknowledgment by Jordan of Israel’s overall authority, including security responsibility over the Temple Mount compound, subject only to Israel’s recognition of the special role of Jordan, as set out in the 1967 Status Quo arrangement.
This arrangement was subsequently reaffirmed following similar disturbances on Temple Mount in 2015 in an understanding between then US secretary of state John Kerry and the Israeli and Jordanian governments, as well as in a September 2015 UN Security Council statement.
Despite this prevailing legal situation, recent reports of a Jordanian initiative, transmitted to the US Administration, to remove Israel’s control over the Temple Mount, and to transfer security and other responsibilities from Israel to the Wakf, would appear to be at stark variance with Jordan’s Peace Treaty obligations.
Similarly, statements by senior Jordanian personalities expressing support and encouragement for the Al Aqsa rioters, would appear to be no less incompatible with Jordan’s obligations. Jordanian King Abdullah’s bitter criticism of Israel’s attempts to quell the rioting and violence emanating from the mosque would appear to go beyond Jordan’s Peace Treaty commitments, as well as its obligations to mutual understanding and good neighborly relations.
Jordan’s Prime Minister al-Khasawneh used particularly offensive language in condemning Zionist sympathizers and Israel’s occupation government, hailing the Palestinian rioters and accusing Israel of violating the status quo: “I salute every Palestinian and all the employees of the Jordanian Islamic Wakf, who proudly stand like minarets, hurling their stones in a volley of clay at the Zionist sympathizers defiling the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli occupation government.”
Such a parliamentary statement by Jordan’s prime minister is clearly incompatible with Jordan’s solemn commitment in the Peace Treaty’s Article 11 to “seek to foster mutual understanding and tolerance based on shared historic values” and “to abstain from hostile or discriminatory propaganda against each other, and to take all possible legal and administrative measures to prevent the dissemination of such propaganda by any organization or individual present in the territory of either Party.”
The 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty signified a solid and stable example of bon-voisinage (neighborliness) between the two countries, which has, for almost thirty years, been maintained and enhanced.
While both have been fully aware of the emotive and sensitive nature of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem and their historic religious significance from the start, they have made every effort to prevent and to avoid tensions, and to ensure that the Holy Sites are managed for the benefit of all visitors and worshippers.
It is to be hoped that Jordan will ensure its continued respect for the agreed commitments in the Peace Treaty and will refrain from actions and statements that undermine such commitments.
The writer, a former ambassador of Israel to Canada, served as the legal adviser to Israel’s foreign ministry and participated in the negotiation and drafting of the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty. He presently directs the international law program at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. | <urn:uuid:ba4ae549-c2d3-4228-bea5-82d1d829e85b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-706349 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.944541 | 1,145 | 2.484375 | 2 |
It was only recently that the words ‘gaming’ and ‘job’ could legitimately be mentioned in the same sentence. However, what was for many years viewed as the domain of the lazy and ambitionless has today become one of the emerging frontiers in remote work. This change has largely come about because of the success of video streaming platforms like Twitch and YouTube which allow you to monetize views when you have enough of a following.
Today, an increasing number of talented gamers are choosing to pack in their 9-to-5 in favor of going full time as an internet gamer. In this article, we will cover a few of the reasons why becoming an online gaming content creator could possibly be one of the best jobs in the world.
One of the worst things about a regular job is the obligation to be in a certain geographical location for a set number of hours every day. While it can be nice to spend time with our colleagues, if you ask most people, they would probably trade it all in for a chance to stay at home.
The beauty of becoming an online gaming content creator is that you are freed from having to turn up at the office. You can start and finish work when you please and stay up as late as you want without fears of missing your alarm in the morning.
If you manage to create a successful gaming channel, the sky really is the limit as far as earnings potential is concerned. Twitch and YouTube reward their content providers handsomely if they bring significant traffic to the site.
As the manager of a successful gaming channel, you also have the opportunity to sell ad space on your page or set up lucrative affiliate marketing links.
3. Community Interaction
Many people who set up a gaming channel say that the thing that they love the most about it is the sense of community that they get from other fellow gamers. Many people make connections that they value with people that they count as friends. In a world where people seem to be moving apart more and more, this is an extremely valuable thing!
At the end of the day, we all want to be doing something with our time that we feel is worthwhile. If your passion is playing games, there truly can be no better way to earn your living than by spending as much time on your console as possible and gaining the adulation of your followers for your skills and thrilling gameplay. You may never look back if your channel hits the big time.
People who think that the opportunity to play games for money is a pipedream should think again. Today, there are any different ways that you can monetize your gaming passion, and this article presents some good reasons why you should look into it without delay. | <urn:uuid:9febbef3-be38-4101-b56b-cf4638a3b93f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lyotomachida.net/2021/09/22/4-reasons-why-gaming-is-the-best-job-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974826 | 559 | 1.539063 | 2 |
While it is alluring to lose a couple of extra pounds promptly, healthy fat burning is extra concerning a long-term way of living modification. You can maintain a healthy and balanced weight by consuming nutrient-rich foods as well as engaging in routine physical activity. To lose weight gradually, you may require to explore your diet and workout program. Likewise, you may need to consult from a dietitian if you are experiencing unusual weight management.
Weight management can be triggered by a number of points. Some weight-loss signs and symptoms are not irreversible, but they can be an indicator of an extra serious issue. Whether you are suffering from a medical condition, such as an eating disorder, or just want to shed a couple of pounds, a doctor will certainly be able to supply you with an exact medical diagnosis. If you are shedding too much weight suddenly or are acquiring it slowly, a physician might advise screening.
One of the most typical root cause of unexplained weight management is food poisonings. These conditions can range from digestive system problems to inflammatory bowel illness. The major objective of treatment is to discover the reason for the issue as well as discover to keep the results. Thankfully, most of these diseases are treatable. However you might be wondering how to preserve a healthy weight once you have actually lost it. Continue reading to get more information concerning these typical conditions as well as how to fight them.
In spite of its advantages, weight reduction is not linear. You may reach a plateau, but you need to never stop trying. Simply eat much healthier and also remain to exercise as well as you will certainly maintain dropping weight. As well as don’t neglect to act. You could even be surprised just how much healthier you’ll feel. It deserves the effort! If you’re seeking to drop weight, the first step is to begin a healthy way of life. And also do not be afraid to exercise. You will thank yourself later for a lasting adjustment in your body.
Your thyroid is a gland situated on top of your thyroid. This gland is responsible for managing your body’s temperature level. When you experience abrupt weight-loss, you need to consult your physician immediately. While it can be an unimportant amount, inexplicable weight-loss might signify a hidden clinical problem. A doctor should review the reasons for the weight loss with you, in addition to the threats and benefits of the treatment.
Stress and anxiety sets off the release of hormonal agents such as cortisol as well as adrenaline, which can boost the body’s cravings. Insulin transports sugar from carbs to the muscular tissues, while adrenaline decreases your cravings. Neither hormone is valuable for weight-loss. Although both hormones are essential for our health and wellness, a healthy diet plan can help you slim down. When you reduce weight, your body will really feel extra energised and also better. The anxiety of daily living can cause even more food yearnings.
Throughout workout, your body’s metabolism rises. The metabolic rate of your body is enhanced during exercise, which suggests that it will sweat out water as well as carbon dioxide. Therefore, your weight will stay secure – as well as even reduce. This type of weight loss is much more effective than weight loss alone, since it integrates both healthy eating and also exercise right into your daily regimen. The disadvantage to diet plan pills is that they can have side effects. For instance, they can create lightheadedness, nausea, and elevated blood pressure.
One more consider dropping weight is the rate at which you take in food. If you lose a few extra pounds each week, this is a healthy rate. If you are consuming a lot of convenience food, you may have a higher possibility of creating gallstones, health problems, or muscle loss. Moreover, eating at a table gives you extra control over the amount of food you eat and how much you take in. This will certainly assist you drop weight a lot more continuously and also securely.
Besides calorie constraint, eating more probiotic-rich foods is essential for weight-loss success. Research studies show that consuming much more probiotic-rich foods can enhance your wellness as well as boost your power levels. Unlike a low-calorie diet, quick weight reduction is not the only way to drop weight. It is suggested to collaborate with a dietitian or doctor if your objective is to lose a few extra pounds. They can aid you lose a big amount of fat in a short amount of time.
The first step to weight reduction is to talk to your doctor. The best point to do is to transform your consuming behaviors and get the correct amount of workout. Your doctor may likewise advise some drug. This can assist you to drop weight. Nonetheless, it is very important to consult with a registered diet professional. A signed up dietician can provide you with the essential suggestions. If you’re not comfy with your body’s shape, you can also seek therapy from a specialized clinic.
The following step in the process is to speak with a physician. In unusual situations, weight loss might be uncontrolled or because of other variables. For instance, individuals with diabetic issues might need blood tests or imaging scans to determine the reason for the loss. In such cases, you’ll require to undertake clinical therapy to make certain the fat burning is not brought on by another problem. If the weight-loss is accompanied by a food poisoning, you will need to go through tests to identify it.
Behavioral strategies are critical to maintain weight loss. Besides the diet as well as exercise habits, you must also understand scenarios that lead to emotional or physical anxiety. You should understand your body’s signs to stay clear of going back to your old habits. If you discover that you have actually been overindulging a lot in the past, attempt to avoid the food that you consumed. Then, you can eat a smaller sized part and also raise your power degree to conquer your psychological or physical anxiety. website
If you’re overweight and you’re still not seeing the outcomes you desire, you may be suffering from a hidden clinical problem that’s creating your weight-loss. The trouble is that slimming down can be an obstacle. If you’re struggling to lose weight, attempt to make a modification. Your body will thank you for your determination. Simply bear in mind that you’re not alone. Also the most significant obstacle is doing away with your stubborn fat. There is a treatment for obesity and a prepare for you. | <urn:uuid:b21429a7-8f42-447a-9fa8-ce9ab382137b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.webhightime.com/2021/11/25/the-wonder-of-weight-loss-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963612 | 1,333 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Girl by day. Cat by night. Ready for an adventure. Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue is the first book in a chapter book series about Kitty and her superhero adventures. This chapter book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8 who are ready to read independently. It’s a fun way to keep your child engaged and as a supplement for activity books for children.
Meet Kitty, a charming chapter book character with catlike superpowers. With dramatic two-color art on every page and an emphasis on friendship, family, bravery, and building self-confidence, Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue is a perfect choice for independent readers and fans of Rebecca Elliott’s Owl Diaries.
Kitty is special. Her mother is a superhero with catlike powers that Kitty and her little brother Max will someday inherit. But being a superhero involves going on daring adventures at night, and Kitty doesn’t know if she’ll ever be brave enough for that!
One night though, Kitty finds a sleek black cat with white paws waiting at her window. When he introduces himself, Kitty is shocked to realize she can understand him—her powers have arrived! The cat, Figaro, has a problem. There’s a terrible meowing sound coming from the clock tower, and the other cats don’t know what to do. The night outside looks cold and uninviting, and Kitty is afraid of the dark. But she musters up her courage and sets out to find the source of the mysterious sound. Along the way, she makes new friends, uncovers her confidence, and learns what it means to be brave.
With an aspirational main character, a kindle of cats, striking two-color art on every page, and fun facts included at the end of each story, these chapter books are just right for newly independent readers. | <urn:uuid:8f46cfe3-ec32-41a5-8767-11171bc07a8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecuriouscatteaandbooks.ca/kitty-and-the-moonlight-rescue-kitty-1-by-paula-ha.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945405 | 389 | 1.875 | 2 |
First Attorney With Autism Sworn In to Practice Law – The Good News
Congratulations, Haley! And thank you for being such an inspiration.
Haley Moss was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. At the time, she could finish a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle but was unable to talk. Doctors told her parents that she may never live independently or carry out a job.
To say that she went above and beyond is an understatement - she graduated from the Miami School of Law, passed the Florida Bar, and wrote several books. She was sworn in on January 11th as the first known person with Autism Spectrum Disorder to practice law.
Haley says that her advice for people with disabilities who are looking for jobs is, "don’t place limits on yourself and knowing what you’re good at helps a lot, too.” | <urn:uuid:28907b86-5cf7-4a37-ab80-e3b8a88da1d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wcrz.com/first-attorney-with-autism-sworn-in-to-practice-law-the-good-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.986862 | 181 | 1.53125 | 2 |
This page is intended to serve as a central resource for information regarding “Understanding Media by Understanding Google,” the massively open online course (MOOC) that I taught on behalf of Northwestern and Medill on Coursera in the fall of 2013. (It also should help me to locate things myself, and will be updated as needed. Current version: May 1, 2014)
My articles elsewhere on the Web:
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/13/2013: “To measure a MOOC’s value, just ask students.” Reflections on the balance of educating and credentialing.
Quartz, 11/21/2013: “How two-thirds of my students never showed up, but half of them passed.” (Cross-posted by The Atlantic as “Thousands of People Sign Up for Online Classes They Never Wind Up Taking.”) An attempt to assess what huge MOOC enrollments might actually represent, with input from my students.
The Guardian, 10/17/2013: “Massive open online courses: a first report card.” Some reflections on the first three weeks of teaching and observing.
Huffington Post, 9/13/2013: “Top 10 Misconceptions About MOOCs.” What I learned in getting ready to teach the course, which launched Sept. 16.
My posts here on “The next miracle”:
Dec. 9, 2013: After the MOOC So what have I been doing since this course ended, anyway? Writing and data mining, not necessarily in that order.
Oct. 21, 2013: So is it lonely in MOOClandia? An on-campus “meetup,” and a midcourse survey of participates, spur some thoughts on the creation of community among students around the world.
Sept. 28, 2013: #googlemedia: The statusphere weighs in Using Storify, a selection of early tweets and status updates from students over the first two weeks.
Sept. 13, 2013: Hearing MOOC-steps, worldwide Using a map to visualize the worldwide distribution of enrolled students.
Sept. 5, 2013: The MOOC-ing finger writes, and then updates the data: By now, 3,000 people had taken the pre-course survey, and a couple of data points had changed from my first post on the topic (next link).
April 13, 2013: Who signs up for a MOOC, and why?: High-level analysis of a pre-course survey of about 1,000 early registrants.
March 24, 2013: Medill, MOOCs, and me: Eight questions I asked myself about why I should give MOOCs a try.
Others write about the course:
Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching, 2/7/2014: “An interview with Owen Youngman, MOOC pioneer.” Comments directed at faculty and pedagogically inclined audiences.
Northwestern Business Review, 11/24/2013: “Medill’s First MOOC Reaches Students from Around the World.” Student publication interviews me after the grades are final.
The Daily Northwestern, 10/2/2013: “Northwestern begins online education initiatives.” An interview with the student newspaper’s Web editor, two weeks in.
Knight Foundation Blog, 9/13/2013: “More than 41,000 Sign Up for Northwestern U’s media MOOC.” A question-and-answer session with the Foundation’s Marie Gilot.
Northwestern press release, 9/9/2013: A look at the first two MOOCs to launch, mine and that of Todd Murphey from the McCormick School.
Course home page, March 2013: The page within Coursera’s “course catalog” where students could express their interest in possibly taking the course. Also available on YouTube, linked below.
WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, 9/16/2013: “Northwestern Launches First MOOC.” An interview with Phil Ponce on the day that the six-week-long course officially opened.
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Saint Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis in Paphlagonia
St Stylianus of Paphlagonia
St Nikon “Metanoeite,” the Preacher of Repentance
Saint James the Hermit of Syria was the disciple of St Maron (February 14).
Dedication of the Church of the Greatmartyr George at Kiev
St Innocent the first Bishop of Irkutsk
Saints Athanasius (“the Iron Staff”) and Theodosius of Cherepovets were disciples of St Sergius of Radonezh.
Commemorated on November 26
The Venerable Alypius the Stylite
Saint Nikolai Velimirovič
Alypius was born in Hadrianopolis, a city in Paphlagonia. From childhood, he was dedicated to the service of God. He served as a deacon with Bishop Theodore in the church in that city. But, desirous of a life of solitude, prayer and meditation, Alypius withdrew to a Greek cemetery outside the city. This was a cemetery from which people fled in terror, because of frequent demonic visions seen there. Alypius set up a cross in the cemetery and built a church in honor of St. Euphemia, who had appeared to him in a dream. Beside the church, he built a tall pillar, climbed on top of it, and spent fifty-three years there in fasting and prayer. Neither the mockery of men nor the evil of the demons was able to drive him away or cause him to waver in his intention. Alypius especially endured countless assaults from demons. Not only did the demons try to terrorize him with apparitions, but stoned him as well, and gave him no peace, day or night, for a long time. The courageous Alypius protected himself from the power of the demons by the sign of the Cross and the name of Jesus. Finally the demons were defeated and fled from him. Men began to revere him and come to him for prayer, consolation, instruction and healing. Two monasteries were built beside his pillar, one on one side for men and one on the other for women. His mother and sister lived in the women’s monastery. St. Alypius guided the monks and nuns from his pillar, by example and words. He shone like the sun in the heavens for everyone, showing them the way to salvation. This God-pleaser had so much grace that he was often illuminated in heavenly light, and a pillar of this light extended to the heavens above him. St. Alypius was a wonderful and mighty miracle-worker in life, and also after his repose. He lived for one hundred years and entered into rest in the year 640, during the reign of Emperor Heraclius. His head is preserved in the Monastery of Koutloumousiou on the Holy Mountain.
The Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints by Saint Nikolai Velimirovič for Old Calendar date November 26, and New Calendar date December 9.
Troparion Saint Alypius the Stylite — Tone 1
You were a pillar of patient endurance, having having imitated the forefathers, O Venerable One: Job in suffering, and Joseph in temptations. You lived like the Bodiless Ones while yet in the flesh, O Alypius, our Father. Beseech Christ God that our souls may be saved. | <urn:uuid:d8d87233-5aec-404f-b413-e996bab7c759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iconandlight.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/saint-alypius-the-stylite-of-adrianopolis-in-paphlagonia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978144 | 764 | 2.3125 | 2 |
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Ash Wednesday, March 6th
Every year on the first Sunday in Lent we hear the story of the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness tempted by the devil. The forty days of Lent are modeled on those forty days, as well as, on the forty years that the Hebrew people spent wandering in the wilderness. The forty years prepared them for life in the Promised Land; the forty days of Lent prepares us for Easter and a fresh appreciation of the resurrection.
It is important to recall the context of our story. Right before going into the wilderness Jesus makes his first appearance as an adult when he submits to John’s baptism of repentance in the River Jordan. In Luke’s telling, it was shortly thereafter while Jesus was praying that he experienced the Holy Spirit descend upon him in bodily form as a dove, and heard the voice of God say, “You are my son in whom I delight.”
We will read the story over the course of four days.
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.
It is an abrupt change, going from Jesus’ ecstatic experience of God’s loving presence and power at the River Jordan to the barrenness of the wilderness and the experience of extreme hunger.
Some kind of inner soul work is clearly required on Jesus’ part following the high he experienced at the riverside. The life of faith is sometimes blessed with “highs” but there are also times of barrenness and the experiences of such times offer us lessons if we are willing to receive them.
Regardless of how we understand the devil it is important to recognize that the temptations he offered corresponded to real desires Jesus had inside him. Otherwise they weren’t real temptations – the sort we struggle with by virtue of being a human being.
Jesus has to get clear regarding which desires will lead him and which desires he will say “no” to.
When Jesus went out into the wilderness with the intention of going without food he was engaging in a spiritual practice that dates back thousands of years and is found in a wide range of spiritual traditions. To our modern ears it can seem absurd. Why in the world would a person choose to fast – to go without food – a good and necessary thing? Why experience serious hunger pangs when you don’t have to?
There are a variety of reasons why people fast. Some aren’t very good.
You can fast to show off to others how devout you are. Jesus explicitly said don’t do that. You can fast in an attempt to earn brownie points with God, but God isn’t going to love us anymore because we succeed in carrying out a fast, or for that matter manage to put this season of Lent to good use.
One simple reason that people fast is that when they break the fast they appreciate food all the more. The taste of that first meal reminds the person what a profound gift of grace food is. It counteracts that tendency we have to take for granted the blessings we have been given.
Another reason to undergo the spiritual discipline of fasting – or simply to give up for a time something we enjoy — is to strengthen that part of ourselves that chooses. An animal experiences a desire and if in that moment it has the means to satisfy the desire it will do so. There is no choice – no freedom — there is only instinct.
Our lives involve a steady stream of desires and longings that often are in conflict with one another. One hope for Lent would be that we strengthen that part of ourselves that can choose to forgo the gratification of certain desires, so that we can leave room in our lives to satisfy a higher desire – to live in relationship to God and experience the joy of the God’s Kingdom. We say no to one thing in order to say yes to a higher purpose.
We are told specifically that Jesus was “famished.” This is significant. Our most common way of dealing with desires we can’t or don’t want to gratify is to distract our attention from feeling the desire, and on practical level this makes a great deal of sense. But in doing so the desire hasn’t left us, and it will likely return when our distraction goes away.
Jesus isn’t distracting himself from his hunger pangs. He is fully feeling the longings and yet choosing not to satisfy them. This is a choice made consciously – an act of true freedom.
Here is a quote I came across years ago and found helpful:
“What most people call freedom is just the ability to satisfy desire. Many say, `I want more freedom’, and what they mean is they want to be able to have more of what they want. But that is not freedom — that is a kind of bondage. Freedom is the ability to have or not have what you want without it closing your heart.” (Steven Levine)
What blessings do you take for granted because they have become so routine?
What do you need to say “no” to in order to make room for something more important?
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Periodontal Treatment and Dental Insurance
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Scaroni and 1930s Italy
The film collection traces moments in the life of the Scaroni family between 1934 and 1947 in several locations in Italy and Tripolitania. In particular, in Italy, the places frequented and documented by the films are those of their residences and holidays, such as Breganze (Vi), Cesenatico, the Lido di Venezia, Venice, Genoa, Ortisei di Val Gardena and Desenzano del Garda, while in Tripolitania, the city of Tripoli and its surroundings. The Scaronis spent some periods of the year in Tripoli as Avv. Giovanni Battista Scaroni had bought a number of agricultural concessions in various Libyan locations in Tripolitania in the early 1930s.
Giovanni Battista Scaroni (Thiene, 1890 – Desenzano del Garda 1965) shot all his films in 9.5mm Pathé Baby format.
The research and in-depth work was made possible thanks to interviews given between 2017 and 2019 by a granddaughter of the filmmaker, Luisa Scaroni, and thanks to the conspicuous documentation relating to the life and professional activity of her grandfather Giovanni Battista Scaroni, made available by Scaroni herself for consultation.
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Hidden Sight Words February
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Included in the pack are 10 different printables (black and white & color version of each) with 9 hidden words on each page.
Hidden Dolch sight words:
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University. The big leap in education that students are for or against. Uni can be the pathway to independence, new friends and non-stop night's out with the help of working towards a degree at the end of it. Along with this experience, it will teach life lessons. Here are 5 things you'll learn from university.
You will become dependent on your independence
Moving away from home or just going to university with the benefit of a new sense of independence, freedom and individuality. With your home comforts and ordinary life not being nearby, you are now fending for yourself and stepping into adult tasks such as food shopping, laundry and cooking.
Socializing happens outside the lecture room
Migrating into a new environment where you can find yourself with no familiar faces or surroundings, University will enhance your sociable side. With the majority of your classmates in your selected lectures and seminars being in the same position, naturally over time mixing with human child is inevitable. However, with other things, there are plenty of opportunities for socializing and learning outside of the lecture room.your sociable side you might not have acknowledged before. With the majority of your classmates in your allocated lectures and seminars being in the same position, naturally over time mixing with human kind is inevitable. However, with other things university brings such as student halls and networking events there is plenty of opportunity for socialising to occur outside of the lecture room.
You'll have a love relationship with UNiDAYS love hate relationship with UNiDAYS
You must be registered for a website named UNiDAYS. UNiDAYS is a student discount site that allows you to receive a percentage of the big name brands and established companies. Being on a tight budget with UNiDAYS existence just a tap away from this is a great way to leave your relationship with the student discount website.off big name brands and established companies. Being on a tight student budget and with UNiDAYS existence just a tap away this can put your temptation and priorities to the test massively, leaving you with a debatable love hate relationship with the student discount website.
There is more to uni than just the degree
You are the sole focus of university. Even though getting good grades that will make you a success graduate is highly important, and that is not just the education. Prospects like getting to grips with your own life, joining unions or society groups, making long-term friendships and relationships to the struggles and benefits of all things that you will experience throughout your university expedition.university. Even though getting good grades that will get you to a successful graduation is highly important considering the amount of time, effort and money you are investing, there is so much more to university that isn’t just the education. Prospects like getting to grips with your own life, joining unions or society groups, making long lasting friendships and relationships not to mention the struggles and benefits of independence are all matters that you will experience throughout your university expedition.
Sleep is paramount
The likelihood of busyness overruling your life is definite as a student. Balancing everything is going to be tricky and pinpointing free time for rest and sleep can be virtually non-existent at times. Nevertheless, when you finally take refuge after a long day under your duvet and drift, you will be deeply appreciative. Sleep is paramount.
5 things you'll learn from uni. That you'll become dependent on your independence, socializing outside the lecture room, you'll have a love relationship with UNIDAYS, there's more to university than just the degree and sleep is paramount plus so much more knowledge you'll pick up on the way.love hate relationship with UNiDAYS, there is more to university than just the degree and sleep is paramount plus so much more knowledge you will pick up on the way.
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It will be a big shortcoming if I forget to tell you that curcumin is a powerful inflammatory compound. Directly applying curcumin onto skin helps to recover external and internal wounds quickly due to the ability to speed up blood clotting process and anti-bacteria, anti-virus properties of curcumin.
Curcumin has defensive impacts on the indigestions (gas, dyspepsia or bloating) as well as peptic ulcer diseases (mild abdominal discomfort or catastrophic perforation). Doctors recommend adding turmeric to our daily diets so that it can prevent and even treat stomach disorders (diarrhea, abdominal pains or irritable bowel syndrome).
Another benefit of curcumin is that it’s able to relieve pains caused by joints injuries, bone issues, and rheumatoid arthritis. It’s also able to slow down the progression of sclerosis. This makes curcumin is the “magic drug” for elderly people.
How to Use Organic Turmeric Powder 95 Curcuminoids
Since Organic Curcumin 95 Powder was not coming in forms of capsules or softgels, you may find it difficult to get the exact measurement of curcumin powder for each serving. Thus, the manufacturer gives an estimation as following:
- As a dietary supplement, 1/2 teaspoon per day is enough. Otherwise, you should contact your doctor for best results.
They also give you two options of mixing:
- Quercetin + Curcumin: 1/4 teaspoons curcumin + 1/4 teaspoons Quercetin. Takes 3 times per day for best effects.
- Milk Thistle + Curcumin: 1/8 teaspoons curcumin + 1/8 teaspoons Milk Thistle. Takes 3 times per day for best effects.
- 1/8 teaspoon = 0.25 g
- 1/4 teaspoon = 0.5 g
- 1/2 teaspoon = 1 g
Helpful Tips for Using and Preserving Organic Turmeric Powder 95
- Turmeric can be utilized as a compress on injuries and muscle strains. Mix water with the organic turmeric powder to make glue and cover it with a fabric soaked in boiling water. This procedure enhances the anti-inflammation ability of turmeric. You may want to use this method instead of taking counter medicines.
- The odor of smell is distinctive between day and night, which makes some people may not like the smell of turmeric. To solve this problem, you can add a small amount of turmeric powder into any kinds of drinks to reduce its strong flavor.
- Adding 1/8 teaspoon of Organic Turmeric Powder 95 Curcuminoids into 200ml of hot butter coffee is a nice suggestion if you do not want the taste to be too noticeable. Another choice is to mix milk (no sugar), honey and curcumin powder into hot water. Honey is widely known as a magical medicine for beauty treatment, slimming and many other usages.
- For longtime and easier preservation, you can divide powder into small packages of 30g. In my opinions, zip lock bags may be the best choice of all as it is moisture proof.
- Since the package was not included with a scooper, you may need a measuring spoon for daily dosage purpose. However, it will be impossible to take the exact amount of suggested dosage. You should adjust the quantity under doctor’s direction or personal taste. It’s necessary for Micro Ingredients to solve this problem in all their products.
Some Side Effects of Organic Turmeric Powder 95 Curcuminoids
- Curcumin is a phytoestrogen by nature, so it’s necessary to be cautious for someone that may have reaction caused by tumor (breast, uterine) to phytoestrogens (with plant based) and chemical-based xenoestrogens. It could be troublesome for those people who truly need a natural product for pain fighting caused by injuries or diseases.
- Although curcumin helps prevent gallstones formation, it expands the forming of bile and gallbladder. Turmeric has high soluble oxalates that will tie to calcium and create insoluble-calcium-oxalate. This prompts to a substantial rate of all kidney stones indeed. So, in case you are vulnerable to kidney stones or gout, using this Organic Turmeric Powder 95 Curcuminoids product would not be recommended.
- There are currently some debates about curcumin could lead to antifertility or not since it hinders sperm motility in human. So, it’s best to maintain distance from curcumin in case you are pregnant or have the intention of pregnancy.
- Off the chance that you encounter stomachache after taking curcumin, eat some bread or take it 30 minutes before you eat or during your meal.
- Some other side effects caused by curcumin can be mentioned as diarrhea, hives or rashes. If you have any listed symptoms, you should stop using the product and ask your specialist.
With various mentioned advantages of Organic Turmeric Powder 95 Curcuminoids, I’m sure this product is very beneficial to take for everyday utilize. Again, it has been certified by many organizations, including USDA Organic, FDA Registered Facility, Kosher Food, Vegan Society for 100% purity and safety. It’s not hard to predict that this product will be favored by people whose organic lifestyles. And what’s about you? Why don’t grab it right now!
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WordPress websites account for one third of the worldwide web’s content. It’s a user-friendly and effective platform that even has tools to assist when you are interested in translating and localizing your content. This means it’s possible to do much of the website localization yourself – and it also means it’s easy for you to work with a professional translation and localization company accustomed to WordPress localization for many countries. Which is to say, it’s a great choice for a collaborative reworking of your website for foreign markets.
The reasons for localization remain the same whether you have a WordPress website or another type. You will facilitate increased exposure, new customers, the potential for greater profits, and – when the localization is done well – an artful and accurate transmission of your brand into a new culture. Website localization includes adaptation of every element from language, to graphics, to software code. The assistance of localization specialists who understand not only your target languages but also the cultures and technology involved is a wise investment.
The process of WordPress website localization and translation requires the following steps:
1. Acquire TranslatePress, the free WordPress plugin, by going to your WordPress dashboard, then Plugins “Add New” and enter TranslatePress, install, activate, and begin.
2. Share your WPML (WordPress Multilingual) Plugin account with your localization/translation partner, or anyone else who will be working on the process of preparing your materials for your new WordPress website.
3. Use the content extraction function on WordPress to export all or a part of your website content to your localization partner. This content will be saved as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file that is supported by your translator’s CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools.
4. Your localization/translation partner will upload these files including any related glossary or Translation Memory data.
5. Then they will start translating, editing and adapting all of the materials you have made available.
6. Upload of the translated material and a review of how it fits once its in place is a step that focuses on the final UX of your target audience, including the cultural and language details that have changed. We look for the overall appeal and readability of the website, but also spelling errors, untranslated strings, inappropriate texts, and design weaknesses.
7. The last and most technically demanding step is the final review and testing of all functions: payment, hyperlinks, entry fields, currency and other country-specific figures, page speed, etc.
Skrivanek has a great deal of experience with WordPress website development, localization, design work, and technical testing. While the concepts of localization do not change with website platforms, the process is somewhat different, and a main difference is the potential for greater involvement of the client both during the website localization and later on, with updates and interaction. With its versatility and user-friendly features, WordPress is a great choice that we always enjoy working with.
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Britain's supermarket shelves could be empty of key products within a month as an acute shortage of eggs threatens to have serious consequences for the country's food chain. New EU rules banning the housing of hens in conventional cages are being blamed for what some in the industry are already labelling a "crisis", as competition among food manufacturers to source eggs sends prices rocketing. The price of eggs on the EU wholesale market has nearly quadrupled over the past week to more than four euros a kilo.
"It's now no longer a question of price, it's a question of supply," said one industry source who asked to be anonymous. "I estimate that within three to four weeks some companies will be at breaking point."
Eggs – both in liquid and powdered form – are used in a variety of food products from biscuits and cakes to pasta and mayonnaise. A shortage of their main ingredient would threaten the viability of some food manufacturers, several of which are already closing down their production lines because they cannot afford the soaring price of eggs and cannot raise their prices because supermarkets refuse to pass on any increase to consumers.
"We can see businesses going bust very quickly unless something is done about this soon," one food distributor said. "We've never seen anything like this. Commodity prices for things such as wheat and sugar go up and down, but this is different." One food manufacturer recently approached 10 egg suppliers and was told by eight that they could not supply. The Farmers Guardian reports that a traditional ice cream manufacturer in Kent was informed last Monday that the price he pays for egg yolk will rise by 70% from the start of this month.
In January new rules came into force stipulating that egg producers in EU member states must keep their hens in specially enriched pens. The move has been broadly welcomed by animal rights campaigners, but many egg producers have felt unable to absorb the costs of buying the pens. Spain, for example, has seen the slaughter of large numbers of flocks as a result and opt to leave the market. As a result, the country has gone from being a net exporter to a net importer of eggs, an event that has helped push prices up.
Under the new rules, manufacturers are not now permitted to source their eggs from non-compliant EU countries, 13 of which have yet to introduce the new pens. British food manufacturers are struggling to source eggs legitimately from abroad. The impending shortage has already triggered warnings that some manufacturers will look to source their eggs from foreign producers who continue to use traditional pens.
Philip Hudson, head of food and farming at the National Farmers Union, said British egg producers had spent £400m ensuring their industry complied with the new regulations. "People have known about this new rule coming into force for some time," Hudson said. "As a result, British producers are keen to ensure illegal eggs are not imported into this country."
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May 2019: Prayers and reflections
Pope Francis’ Intention for May
That the Church in Africa, through the commitment of its members, may be the seed of unity among her peoples and a sign of hope for this continent.
Collect for the optional Memorial of blessed John Sullivan
God, Father of mercies,
who taught your Priest, blessed John Sullivan,
to contemplate Christ crucified
and imitate his compassion,
grant that we may follow his
and grow every day in loving you
above all things.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
For the Day of Prayer for the Church in China, 24 May
Our Lady of Sheshan, sustain all those in China who, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love.
May they never be afraid to speak of Jesus to the world, and of the world to Jesus.
In the statue overlooking the Shrine you lift your Son on high, offering him to the world with open arms in a gesture of love.
Help Catholics always to be credible witnesses to this love, ever clinging to the rock of Peter on which the Church is built. Mother of China and all Asia, pray for us, now and for ever. Amen!
Prayer of Pope benedict XVI to our Lady of Sheshan
Prayer for Life, to mark the first anniversary of the Abortion Referendum
God our Father
With sadness we recall the referendum
which opened the door to abortion in Ireland.
We pray for courage and perseverance
as we continue to advocate on behalf of the unborn.
Have mercy on our country, Lord.
Call us back to an esteem for all human life.
Enlighten our politicians,
guide our nurses and doctors,
give wisdom to those who make and apply our laws,
give honesty to those who shape public opinion,
give courage to ordinary men and women,
so that the vulnerable unborn
may once again be cherished and protected,
along with frail human life in all its seasons.
May we be consoled by the knowledge
that whatever we do for the least of your people
we do for you.
May we be challenged by the knowledge
that if we forget or turn away,
we turn away from you.
our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn,
Pray for us.
Justin Martyr, First Apology 12
‘More than all others, we are [society’s] helpers and allies in the cause of peace, since we hold that it is impossible for the wicked, the covetous, the conspirator, and the virtuous alike, to escape the notice of God, and that each one goes to everlasting punishment or salvation according to the value of his actions. If everyone knew this, no one would choose wickedness at all, knowing that it would lead him to everlasting punishment; but would by every possible means restrain himself, and seek to become virtuous, so that he might obtain the good gifts of God, and escape punishment.’
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When you have a new baby, you can expect some sleepless nights, but after the first few weeks, when they start to get their days and nights sorted out, most babies begin to sleep through the night.
Everyone in the family benefits when babies and children sleep well - especially the little one’s themselves. Here are some facts:
- Sleep strengthens baby’s and children’s immune systems and helps them to fight infection.
- It improves their memory, learning and concentration skills.
- When a baby or child sleeps well, they are happier in the day and on an emotional even keel.
- The most intense period of growth hormone release is during sleep - Having a good diet is only part of what makes them tall and strong.
If you’re worried about the sleepless nights in your family, the best thing that you can do is to start a bed time routine. This is simply a repeated series of steps leading up to bed time, which help a baby or child to mentally and physically prepare for sleep. A really consistent routine can make them feel both sleepy and safe.
The best bed time routines are very repetitive, and this is important, as babies and young children like to be able to predict what is coming next. In fact, they thrive and feel safe with familiarity and predictability. When the bed time routine regularly culminates with them falling asleep, they often become conditioned to feel sleepy towards the end of their familiar bedtime “script.”
An established and familiar bed time routine is great for parents too, as it gives you a well practiced structure to follow at the end of the day. Being a parent of a baby or toddler is very hard work, and as their bed time approaches, everyone, including you will be tired. It really helps when you can switch onto “auto pilot” and not have to think too hard about how to settle your child for the night.
Just because a bedtime routine is established and consistent [strict!], it doesn’t mean that it can’t also be fun and loving. It should incorporate cuddles and little songs/rhymes/games along the way, such as in the bath, cleaning teeth etc.
Having a nightly bath or shower is a great way for them to expend their energy reserves and don’t worry if it seems to energise them. If they are running around and giddy afterwards, this is normal and they will settle down when they get into bed if you direct them to. This nightly bath or shower serves as marker that the day is finished and now it’s time for bed.
Depending on your circumstances, your routine can be as long or as short as you like, provided that it is familiar.
Here’s an example of the kind of routine that you might want to try:
- Begin your routine about half an hour before you know your baby or child is ready for sleep.
- If they have been watching TV, turn it off now.
- The sequence is more important than the timing and it’s a mistake to start the routine too early or too late. You need to know your child’s ideal awake windows.
- Take everything that you need for the night with you, to avoid having to come back into the living area.
- Follow a similar bed time “script” by using familiar phrases and actions at key points during the routine.
- Bath or shower every night if you can.
- Go directly to your child’s sleep room from the bathroom.
- Clean nappy and dressed for bed.
- Milk if your child is still having it, and whether they have the breast or a bottle, don’t let them fall asleep as they are drinking it. Keep the bedroom light on or the curtains open, so that the room isn’t dark.
- Read stories together, sitting on on your knee. The final story should be the same each night, so that it becomes a sleep trigger.
- Put them into their cot or bed whilst they are still fully awake.
- Kiss them goodnight and leave the room. It’s important that they fall asleep alone so that they don’t feel upset or confused when they wake later and you’ve gone.
In addition to a good bed time routine, one of the best ways to improve a baby’s or a child’s sleep at night time, which involves no sleep training and doesn’t cost a penny, is to expose them to daylight - especially in the morning. The contrast of lightness in the day and darkness at night helps them to produce healthy levels of melatonin; the hormone responsible for putting them to sleep at night and keeping them asleep. Not only this, but daylight exposure can also improve your whole family’s mood, as it increases the release of the “feel good” hormone, serotonin.
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Dub mixing is the ultimate musical interaction between man and machine. Pioneered by legends King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry in Jamaica in the late 1960s, dub (sometimes referred to as dubwise or dub reggae) transports mixing engineers through time and drops them at the mixing console during a song’s original recording session. Once behind the controls a skilled dub engineer is bound by no rules when remixing. Right and wrong disappear; only the vibrations and the feelings they produce matter. In almost all other forms of recorded music a mixing engineer’s talent is judged by how much they can disappear behind their mixes. Dub engineers obliterate this norm as they step to the forefront of the mix, injecting themselves into the song by playing their consoles and effects as instruments. Dub engineers are composers, arrangers, producers, and performers reimagining songs live to “find the dub” and bring it to life via technology and artistic ability. At nearly 60 years old the genre is by no means new but it is still largely obscure and something I’m passionate about changing through awareness, education, and live performance. Without the original there is no version and that’s why I’m fortunate to get to collaborate with amazing artists like Roots of Creation & Pato Banton.
For this live mix of “A Time Will Come” I utilized a custom “hybrid” dub lab I’ve developed and refined over years of trials and tribulations. Thanks to advancements in technology, what used to require a great deal of large, heavy, and expensive audio equipment can now be consolidated to fit in a backpack on a budget. The rig shown in this video is a somewhat expanded version of my minimalist setup I’m utilizing Ableton Live 9 to playback multitrack recordings from the original recording session as well as to route the audio through various effects a Roland / Boss RE20 Space Echo (modeled after the original 201 tape delay unit) that passes through a Korg Kaoss Pad Quad, a Furman RV1 spring reverb unit from the late 1970s, a virtual RE201 emulator plugin from Surreal Machines, and a DigiTech Supernatural Reverb (for some Pherb hall reverb with some phasing effects). I utilized an Akai APC40 midi controller think of it as a remote control for audio software that mimics the signal routing capabilities analog mixing consoles offer. Also seen is an Eico model 460 oscilloscope from the 1950s because why not?
I hope you enjoy assuming my viewpoint for this live dub mix of Roots of Creation featuring Pato Banton and that it may spark some interest in dub amongst those reading and watching. The surface of dub has just been scratched. I truly believe we’re heading into the golden age for the genre thanks to the amazing developments in technology over the past 10 years and the mind expanding music produced by dub engineers over the past 60. The price point to enter is lower than it has ever been, gear is more capable than ever, broadband allows for quick and easy transfer of massive audio files making collaboration across the globe a breeze… all of these factors and more lead me to believe that we’re knocking on the doorstep of the golden age of dub. Where that future is headed I do not know but I am sure that dub will continue to smash expectations, knock down walls, and break rules while bringing people and technology closer to one another to produce art that has yet to be dreamt of.
See Roots of Creation on Tour
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Label: Bombshelter Records
Album Title: Livin Free
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It was the place to be for families Friday night.
Where else can you get your face painted, eat free food, play games, make pioneer handicrafts and enjoy family entertainment all in one place? At the Days of '47 Family Fun Day, of course.
More than 4,000 crowded into Wheeler Historic Farm for the free activities and food.
"It's fun," said Jerri Harwell, a 42-year-old mother of four. "It's a safe place to bring my kids. It's all families."
Harwell's kids couldn't wait to get there, either. Before arriving, they kept asking their mother if it was time to go yet. This is the third year they've attended the event.
"It's fun," said 14-year-old Bronson Harwell. "You get to do a lot of stuff."
Although the activities weren't scheduled to start until 2 p.m., many started early because of the crowds of people waiting.
"We had so many people here at 2 o'clock that we thought, 'Oh boy,' " said JaNeanne Webster, co-chair of the event. "We knew we were going to have a lot of people here today."
Children crowded around picnic tables to make pioneer handicrafts such as clothespin dolls, fabric cards and pictures with potato stamps.
"The activities are fun," said 5-year-old Merissa Burnham.
Merissa's hands and forearm were covered in red paint after she painted with the potato stampers. But her mom, Sandee Burnham, was happy about the day's activities.
"I think this is neat," she said. "You can't really find any place that does the old stuff like the potato stamps and clothespin dolls. There just isn't a lot to do with your kids that is different."
Well, until she found the Family Fun Day, anyway. Not only was it different in her mind, but it was something everyone could enjoy.
"It's a kid event, but it's still fun for parents," she said. "Everyone has a bit of kid somewhere inside them."
People were also able to go on free tours every 15 minutes of the farmhouse, which was built in 1898 and restored in 1979.
The event, along with other Days of '47 activities, emphasized pioneer heritage. People were able to do old-time handicrafts as well as tour the farm area and go on wagon rides.
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This work explores the biblical mandate, historical development and cultural contexts of mission and proposes a strategic approach going forward. God is a missionary God, the Bible is a missionary book, the church is a missionary institution and its mandate is a missionary directive. One thing is clear from this book; God is active in this world in building His church. In spite of the antagonism it encounters the church is alive and growing. His love is being made known by those who bear the torch of mission.
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by Bob Roehr
Increased funding for HIV prevention and AIDS services is part of the $825 billion congressional economic stimulus plan. The House Democratic leadership introduced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 on Jan. 15.
Some $3 billion in new money is being set aside for disease prevention and wellness. Earmarked within that is $355 million more for domestic prevention programs for hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases, with expectations that about 70 percent will go to HIV.
HIV prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have seen a 20 percent decline in purchasing power over the last five years. In testimony last year before a House subcommittee, CDC Director Julie Gerberding said they would need an additional $877 million over the next five years to significantly reduce the number of new infections. The proposed increase would be an important step toward that goal.
The AIDS Institute praised the proposal. “We strongly agree with the House, preventing disease, such as HIV/AIDS, will dramatically reduce future healthcare costs,” siad there lobbyist Carl Schmid. He added that healthcare should be “a top priority for the economic health of our country and our society.”
The federal share of the Medicaid will go up $87 billion over the short term. That will help states that have been hit hard by declining state tax revenue, rising unemployment and rising numbers of low income households that now qualify for Medicaid.
Estimates indicate about 40 percent of persons living with HIV rely upon Medicaid to access their healthcare. Frank Oldham, executive director of the National Association of People With AIDS, applauded the effort and sees it as crucial to maintaining their health.
However, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, another key safety net program, will not receive any new money under the stimulus proposal. That is troubling because waiting lists for drugs are growing again in a number of states, and the burden on the program increases as the economy declines.
While most ADAP funds are used to purchase drugs, they also can be used to pay health insurance premiums. This includes assisting workers who lose their job, but under the so-called COBRA law can continue to pay for health insurance coverage under their old employer’s group plan.
Additional billions will go to the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, Indian Health Services, and community health centers.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said they have put the measure on the fast track, with committee mark ups and a floor vote expected by the end of the month. The Senate plans to consider it in early February and have it on the President’s desk before their mid-month recess.
On Jan. 6 Rep. Jose Serrano (D-New York) introduced the Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 179). It would remove all legal barriers to states and cities spending federal funds on needle exchange programs. It has 35 cosponsors.
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The Ranger offers maximum performance in a lightweight, rugged solution for surveying at the facility or in the field. The Ranger has been designed for industrial environments, but is ideal for laboratory use, as well. The Ranger is a small, handheld, microprocessor-based instrument which offers adequate sensitivity to low levels of alpha, beta, gamma, and x-rays and features built-in efficiencies for common isotopes to estimate activity in Bq and DPM. It weighs only 291 grams (0.64 lbs), and batteries last up to 800 hours. Noteworthy features include a backlit digital display, a red count light, and a beeper that sounds with each count detected. Other features include selectable alert levels, an adjustable timer, and an optional wipe test plate for swipes. Internal memory and the Observer USB Software (included) allow the user to download data, set computer alarms, and calibrate the instrument.
The Included Radiation Alert® Observer BLE app is now available from Google App Store. The app displays readings from the Ranger to the android device: label sample readings and descriptions, timed counts, and GPS data. The user can send the saved survey file. Alarms set on the instrument will activate on the android device.
Detector: Internal Halogen-quenched, uncompensated GM tube with thin mica window, 1.4-2.0 mg/cm2 areal density. Effective diameter of window is 45 mm (1.77 in.).
Operating Range: mR/hr: 0.001 (1µR) to 100, CPM: 0 to 350,000, µSv/hr: 0.01 to 1000, CPS: 0 to 5000, Total Counts: 1 to 9,999,000 counts
Accuracy: (Referenced to Cs137): Typically ±15% from factory, ±10% with NIST Source Calibration
Energy Sensitivity: Detects Alpha down to 2 MeV. Detects Beta down to .16 MeV; typical detection efficiency at 1 MeV is approx. 25%. Detects Gamma down to 10 KeV through the detector window. 3340 CPM/mR/hr (137Cs). Smallest detectable level for 125I is .02 µCi at contact.
Built-In Efficiencies: Sulfur (35S), Strontium (90Sr/y), Cesium (137Cs), Phosphorus (32P), Carbon (14C), Iodine (131I), Cobalt (60Co), and Alpha
Selectable Alert Set Range: mR/hr .001 - 100 and CPM 1 - 350,000. Pulsating beeper sounds the alert. Adjustable alert levels are used for mR/hr / CPM, and µSv/hr / CPS. 70db @ 1m. Alarm will sound when in Timer Mode when set alarm threshold is reached.
Anti-Saturation: Meter will hold at OVER RANGE in fields as high as 100 times the maximum reading.
Averaging Periods: Display updates every 3 seconds. At low background levels, the update is the average for the past 30-second time period. The timed period for the average decreases as the radiation level increases.
Optional Water-Resistant Case
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June 24, 2022
Crew shortages have been an issue across the TV & Film industries as long as anyone can remember, but recent production booms have exacerbated this issue. This makes it even more important to be able to widen your net when it comes to the talent pool. At Creative Mentor Network, we work to make the creative industries open to all people, running mentoring programmes that give young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds an opportunity to experience the creative industries, whilst training those within the industry on inclusive leadership and how to create an open and accessible environment.
The Social Mobility Commission report on socio-economic diversity and inclusion in 2021 highlighted a lot of the issues within the TV & Film industries when it comes to diversity. Whether this comes down to an overwhelming percentage of working professionals from private schools (43% at the most influential broadcasters and news editors) or a freelance culture that struggles to accommodate diversity, we all know that there’s change that needs to be made. By making small changes to help young diverse talent thrive within your business, we can work together to try to change this, whilst also finding more crew and talent to help fill the shortage areas in screen. Here are some things you can do to help diversify your hiring practices:
1. List your salary
Having a clearly listed salary on your job advertisements allows young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds to apply for positions with confidence that the role offers them a livable wage. This is often the first thing that applicants look for, and reduces ambiguity, as well as helping to reduce the wage gap. People from professional backgrounds are three times more likely than those from working-class backgrounds to want, or be able, to move to London, where they can take advantage of concentration of opportunities. If salary is clearly listed, people from outside London can take that step in, knowing that their wage will be livable.
Within a predominantly freelance culture in production, this is even more important, as the financial side of freelance work is something which can often discourage people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds from taking the step. If you can make sure that you’re paying at Living Wage when you list an entry level job, you can help your staff feel more comfortable and supported as they step into the world of work. Simply listing the wage will help get a more diverse applicant base.
2. Make the pathway clear
It’s commonly known that the screen industries don’t have the most direct of career paths. A lot of work is being done in this area, but young people still aren’t aware of the routes into creative work. Due to lack of careers education in schools – especially underfunded state schools in lower income areas – it isn’t made clear to young creatives where they need to start. This is something where network driven recruitment has a class effect, Labor Force Survey showed that children of those in in film and television are 12 times more likely to work in those fields.
If you put in work to make the pathways into your industry clear, as well as the further journey to progression that can be taken, diverse talent can see the ladder they need to climb. Sometimes it’s just about helping people onto the first rung on that ladder!
3. Expand your network
Network driven recruitment is the easiest way to recruit, and is the way that the screen industries have functioned for years. It’s simple to just connect with crew from precious productions. However, this means that bad cultures and bad hiring practices are reinforced. Expanding networks and hiring from different places helps to equalise opportunity for those who might not have contacts to use to find them.
There are multiple jobs boards and schemes out there to help productions find new crew, and that’s not just looking at entry level. Our Jobsboard allows businesses to advertise to diverse talent. Organisations such as United Agents have used this to advertise for Runner positions to help new talent find their way into the industry. But it’s not just us – there are loads of different jobs board services out there where you can share opportunities for crew, including Creative England’s very own Crew and Facilities database who post out crew calls on a daily basis. Using these not only offers young diverse talent a route in, but offers a benefit for your culture and progression.
4. Reevaluate your own practice
Doing something the same way it’s always been done is an easy way to end up neglecting young staff who not only may be able to bring fresh ideas into the workplace, but who have more expertise on new technologies and user experience platforms.
In the Film and TV Charity’s 2021 Looking Glass report, only 10% of those interviewed thought that the screen industry was a mentally healthy place to work, with an astounding 51% saying that culture and values are having a negative impact on mental health. When we don’t reevaluate our own practices, we get to a stagnant place where things cannot progress.
5. Add to your culture
When hiring, you should seek to find someone who adds to your culture, not simply someone who fits what you already have. By seeking culture fits, we reinforce preexisting ideas and we do not encourage diversity – not just of people, but also of thought. By starting a recruitment search looking to find a ‘culture add’, you will broaden your search and find people who can bring real value and new ideas.
Ofcom’s Diversity Five Year Review report states that across some underrepresented groups, retaining staff would have a bigger effect on future diversity than increasing recruitment alone. Hiring people who can add to your culture will help to contribute to a changing and progressing culture, meaning that staff are more able to progress within your organisation.
If you want to learn more about Creative Mentor Network and how we’re changing the creative industries, please visit www.creativementornetwork.org.
We’re running a Break The Wall programme specific to the TV & Film industries in October, for anyone looking to develop their leadership skills and their understanding of diversity and inclusion, whilst also supporting the next generation of talent into the screen industries.
And if you’re looking to hire new talent, check out our Jobsboard and see how we can help you.
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The use of reference geometry is common when designing in SolidWorks. Expanding the “Reference Geometry” drop down, from the CommandManager, will show the following options: Plane, Axis, Coordinate System, and Point. This tutorial will cover the creating of reference planes.
To define a plane one of the following are required:
- An plane and an offset distance.
- A plane, an axis and a rotation angle.
- Two Axes.
- Three points.
Combinations, such as: an axis and a point are also possible. Existing geometry (Faces, Edges and Points) can be used to create planes.
Select the origin, a face or user define plane to create a new plane. Select the offset distance button and input an offset. Tick the “Flip offset” check box to change the direction of the offset. Input an instance number to create multiple offset planes.
To create a plane on an existing plane, use the coincident option.
To use the location of a point as the offset, set reference one to parallel and select the point as reference two.
The perpendicular or angular offset may not rotate about the desired axis, to fix this another reference will be added.
At an angle
In the first reference, select either perpendicular or use an angle offset. Similar to the offset distance, the “At angle” option can be flipped and a number of planes can be created at once.
For the second reference, select the edge of rotation and use the coincident option.
Instead of using an axis, try to create the same plane using two points.
Select any two parallel edges to create a plane.
Change all three references to points, to create a plane.
Tangent to surface
Select the plane to be offset and use a curved surface as reference two. The orientation of the plane can be controlled by selecting either parallel or perpendicular from reference one.
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From Where I Stand: “There is nothing I want more than a peaceful community where we can live in our ancestral domain, practicing our traditional culture”
Aileen Kesa Marie U. Hualde grew up in an indigenous community under martial law in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao. After having to flee her own home as a child, today she is advocating for other indigenous women who are still suffering from the consequences of conflict, violence and displacement. “Where I grew up, armed conflict and violence are intertwined parts of our story as a people. I was only a young girl when we were placed under martial law. To me, this is one of the darkest periods in the history of Mindanao..."
During a two-day Mission in the Philippines, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, addressed the Eminent Speakers’ Forum of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to promote gender equality and women’s rights within a regional context. ADB and UN Women will work together on a collaborative study announced during the Mission that will help Asia and the Pacific track its progress in realizing gender equality. It will prioritize... | <urn:uuid:4628814c-c443-43d2-b9fa-cf29c751ea34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories?country=df874a4d2b154980aefbfade31f3616d&f%5B0%5D=country%3A1666&f%5B1%5D=topic_stories%3A1738&f%5B2%5D=topic_stories%3A1757 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952518 | 266 | 2.046875 | 2 |
I am trying to write a big text using BitmapFont in libGDX . But it shows on one line and the user can see only the first part of the text . How can I make that bitmapFont made new line automatically and show whole text on the screen ?
You should use BitmapFont.drawWrapped.
public BitmapFont.TextBounds drawWrapped(Batch batch, java.lang.CharSequence str, float x, float y, float wrapWidth)
All you need to do is set the
wrapWidth variable as the maximum length of the line. In your case, this works better than
BitmapFont.drawMultiLine because it automatically wraps rather than solely responding to
Write multiline text in LibGdx
To write a multiline text with bitmapFont just use this following code-
String completeText= "In this text there are multi lines\n.To write this race in your game \n you have to write in proper manner. \nYou have to make the text look better ."; font.drawMultiLine( batch, completeText, x,y,width,heigth, HAlignment.LEFT);
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Bolus Armenus ( Borah Armani )
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Bolus Armenus / Borah Armani (بورہ ارمنی) also known as Bole Armoniac and Armenian Bole, is an earthy clay, usually red, native to Armenia. It is red due to the presence of iron oxide; the clay also contains hydrous silicates of aluminum and possibly magnesium.
Historically, it was used as an astringent, prescribed against diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhage, etc. Externally, it was used in strengthening plasters, against dislocations of the joints.
This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
100 gram, 250 gram, 50 Gram, 500 gram
Grounded (کٹا ہوا), Powder (پیساھوا ), Whole (ثآبت )
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Most of us would recall our experience of having our blood drawn by a paramedic from our veins in a diagnostic lab or blood donation camp, our experience would vary from a very neat and quick process when the paramedic identifies the right vein, makes an almost painless puncture, draws the right amount of blood and puts a plaster over the area with no blood loss or a shoddy operation where he or she is unable to identify the vein, makes a painful puncture after several painful trial and error attempts and leaves the blood oozing after the needle is withdrawn
The study of drawing blood is called phlebotomy and is a vital learning for a lab professional. Students pursuing their Bachelors in Laboratory Technology at the Sankara Nethralaya Academy demonstrated their knowledge and skills in the Phlebotomy test conducted by the Indian Association of Paramedical Sciences on January 20th 2020 in which 350 students participated from Chennai.
We take great pleasure and pride in sharing that Jansy won the first prize and emerged as overall topper, followed by Ashwin Kumar and Sathish Kumar who shared the second prize and Priyadarshini winning the 3rd prize
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London: The Royal Society, 1868. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACTS OF “THE FIRST COORDINATED STUDY OF EARTH CURRENTS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MAGNETIC VARIATIONS” (Zhdanov, Foundations of Geophysical Electromagnetic Theory and Methods, xxxi). George Biddell Airy’s paper includes (1801-1892) five two-color lithographic chart (full plates). 4to. Not ex-library; no stamps of any kind. The plates have moderate foxing; the paper is in fine condition.
Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among “his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian” (Wikipedia). Airy’s discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. Item #1195 | <urn:uuid:83780d90-a8be-4236-8b0d-adfa04ea8c35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.atticusrarebooks.com/pages/books/1195/george-biddell-airy/comparison-of-magnetic-disturbances-recorded-by-the-self-registering-magnetometers-at-the-royal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.911761 | 246 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Recording Techniques (Part 18)
Part 18. David Mellor concludes this 18-part mammoth series on recording techniques with a handy question and answer session.
Throughout the Recording Techniques series I have had two aims in mind: firstly, to help home recordists get more fun out of their music and their equipment; secondly, to give budding professional engineers a 'leg up' and hopefully point out a few interesting directions worthy of exploration. Now more than ever it is possible to achieve good results from very basic setups, and it is also at last possible for anyone who wants to turn pro to have a real chance of getting a shot at the big time. In my various roles as lecturer in sound engineering, composer and producer, freelance classical recording engineer (and also general odd-job person it seems), I am often asked questions on my favourite subject which range from the highly intelligent and perceptive (ie. the ones to which I don't know the answer), to the more practical ("could you use fewer microphones and give me a discount?"). So I have put a few of these questions together with one or two I that I myself have had cause to ask in the past. I hope the answers will shed just a little more light on the vast subject of Recording Techniques.
Can I achieve professional quality recordings on my home equipment?
In a word, yes! That's called positive thinking, but even being more realistic, you don't need all that much gear to produce a recording with commercial value (bearing in mind of course that every product has to be correctly marketed before it will realise that value). I would say that the bare minimum is a midprice synth, a reverb unit (if the synth doesn't have effects built in), and a second-hand Revox A77 stereo tape recorder (the high speed version, and well maintained of course). This little lot could cost well under £1000 if you shopped carefully and scanned the small ads.
You would be limited to very simple types of music unless you added more equipment, but even simple pieces can sell very well indeed and you will hear plenty in the soundtracks of TV programmes and on the radio. I have had dozens of tracks published that I created on a budget 8-track in the days when budget 8-tracks weren't anything to rave about. While I was waiting for my 16-track to be delivered I used a simple Fostex cassette multi-tracker in conjunction with an Akai sampler and a sequencer to produce twenty or so tracks that have since appeared on CD. The basic rule is to work within the limitations of your equipment, exploit its strengths and conceal its weaknesses.
Can I master on to cassette?
For your own use and demos the final stereo master can be a cassette. But the quality of even the best cassettes just doesn't compare to a decent reel-to-reel or DAT. Get your practice in with a cassette deck, and then when you think you are up to it, invest. You certainly won't regret it, and you'll be able to produce a master recording that is acceptable by publishers, record companies and record and CD manufacturers.
How long does it take to record the average song?
The clever answer is that if you are only recording an average song, then it probably isn't worth the effort. Basically, it takes as long as it takes. I heard a radio interview with Tom Petty the other day, in which he described how he and his band recorded two hundred takes of one song to get it to its finished state. It wasn't much to write home about either (although I like some of his other material), but it does demonstrate that you really have to put everything you've got into your recordings. Other people do, and you'll have to do the same to compete. It would not be unusual to spend four or five days on one song if you're starting the production process from scratch.
If I can only afford one microphone for my recordings, which one should I buy?
You have to have good equipment, good speakers and good acoustics before microphones get really exciting. After all, they don't have any knobs on them, do they? But professional engineers will talk about the characteristics of microphones all day if you let them, so they must be rather important. Every microphone has its own characteristics, and suits some situations more than others. It follows from this that there is no one mic that is suitable for everything. However, there are certain models that can almost do no wrong, with the emphasis on the 'almost', one of these being the Neumann U87 which must be just about the classic mic of all time. It's expensive of course, over a grand now, new, but second-hand U87s sometimes become available for less. They can be used on anything from tin whistles to floor toms, although they are usually considered to be at their best for vocals and orchestral section miking. The one thing they are not so good for is co-incident stereo miking, not in my opinion anyway. At the cheaper end of the spectrum the Shure SM58 is a good vocal mic, and can probably be regarded as the lowest cost fully pro mic. The only snag is that it doesn't have a wonderful top end response, so it's virtually useless for metallic percussion — tambourines etc. As a relatively inexpensive all-rounder, I can recommend the Beyer Dynamic M201, which will handle just about everything with a high degree of competence.
I have some MIDI equipment but no recording gear. Should I expand my MIDI system or buy a multitrack?
You have to buy a multitrack! The best part of using a MIDI system is when you have worked up the composition to a reasonable state and then start laying it down onto the multitrack tape. As it builds up track by track (doing it this way maintains optimum synchronisation between instruments) the whole thing really comes alive. I don't know why this is so, but it's like the difference between sitting in a hot stuffy room, and then opening the windows and letting in a breath of fresh air. And once the transfer is done, your MIDI system is freed up to add a whole new kaleidoscope of creativity.
Is there any point in going to 8-track when 16-track seems so popular?
It depends on how much money you have and what you want to achieve. 16-track is very popular at the moment because it is the entry level into professional studio operation. 8-track used to be, but musical arrangements have become very much more complex in recent years, and you really need those extra tracks if you want to be able to handle most of what's likely to be thrown at you. One day, 24-track will be thought of as entry level, and I don't think that's so far away either. It really boils down to what you can afford. If you can stretch to 16-track then do it. If you are interested in the music more than the equipment, you may get years of use out of it before before you start thinking, "it would be nice to move up to twenty-four". But if you buy 8-track, then unless you have a clearly limited purpose for it in mind, such as an 'expander' for a MIDI system, then you'll be itching to move up in no time at all, probably less than a year, and you will inevitably lose money in the trade.
Should I add EQ and effects while I'm multitracking, or leave them until the mix?
Leaving effects and EQ until the mix is playing safe. There are indeed times when it's best to play safe, and other times when there may be more reward from living dangerously. If you have invited a vocalist or instrumentalist into your studio and negotiated a special rate (tea and biscuits?), then it makes a lot of sense to play safe. Get the cleanest, most accurate recording you can and take pains to make sure that there are no faults such as misreadings in the lyrics, wrong notes etc. Then when the musician has gone home and you are left alone in your laboratory you can carry out all the fiendish experiments your imagination can devise, safe in the knowledge that you can start back from square one at any time you like. But, at the other extreme, if you have a controlled source such as a synth or sampler playing under the direction of a sequencer, then it would be a criminal waste of an opportunity not to have a go at doing something to the sound as you record it to multitrack, otherwise you are playing parrot to the factory programmer's "Who's a pretty boy then?" What you do to the track is up to you, whether it's EQ or a little bit of 'room' sound, but of course you must bear in mind that the track will have to harmonise with the rest of the mix. The great thing is that if at any later stage you don't like what you have done, the raw track can be repeated at the push of a couple of buttons. Adding a little extra creativity to the basic sounds you use is adding value to the mix and making your recording more personal.
Why can't I get a great drum sound like I hear on record and CD?
Let's redefine the question to refer to "sampled drum sound" since recording real drums well is a specialist art form in its own right, and you wouldn't really expect to compete with first rate studios and engineers in your bedroom. But it should in theory be a piece of cake to match the quality of sampled drum tracks since the quality of the drums (assuming you are using good source material) is there already. But the old saying, 'it's not what you have it's what you do with it', finds its true meaning in this situation. It's a rare studio recording where the drums have not undergone processing of some kind, even if the sounds were basically good to start with. Big mixers have sophisticated EQ, and a good monitoring environment helps enormously in getting a good drum sound because you can fine tune each component with almost limitless precision. You can't do that at home because you can't hear the sound as clearly and accurately, and you probably don't have quite as full a selection of tools.
This may sound slightly negative, but one has to do the best one can and work within the limitation that if you want the drum sound to form the basis of your production technique then you're going to have to work hard. But there is an alternative. It is becoming a rather more accepted practice than it used to be to sample drum beats from commercial recordings and loop them to back your own music. This way you get a 'studio produced' drum track, and you add the instruments on top. Of course this risks compromising your creativity and you have to ask yourself whether the music is still yours. Also, if you plan on having the recording released, then the owner of the recording you sampled has a right to prevent you doing so (in fact he or she had a right in theory to stop you sampling the drum beat in the first place). In practice, these difficulties can be overcome (and you only have to listen to the dance charts to find out how much sampling and re-sampling is going on — I'm told that one person was found sampling his own drum beat the other week). The moral is, if you can't solve a problem by tackling it head on, try and sidestep it. There's always another way.
My mix sounds great in the studio, but not so good elsewhere. What can I do?
This is a classic situation. Something similar occurs when a mix sounds good played loud, but loses an inordinate amount of impact when played at a normal level. It's very easy to get carried away by the overall sound of a mix and not listen to it sufficiently analytically. The relevant strengths of the important structural instruments have to be judged very carefully, particularly the balance of the bass drum and bass guitar between themselves and with the rest of the mix. Also, the ear (or more accurately, the brain) has a system for ignoring prominent sounds which go on too long, so that synth line which sounds just right when you let the mix wash over you may in fact be too loud, and it may jump out of the speakers and poke you in the ear when you listen the next day.
As I have said before, it's vital to try out your mix on different systems before you draw a line under it and call it finished (a work of art is never finished, so they say, only abandoned). Try it out at low level too. It's often instructive to turn the mix right down until most of the instruments are inaudible. You may find that one is more prominent than you expected and it may need to be dealt with by pulling down the fader or introducing some EQ cut in its predominant frequency band. If you have really big speakers you may find yourself tempted to put a very deep bass or bass drum on the recording. Watch out then that it doesn't disappear completely when played on small domestic speakers because it is below their frequency range. If your monitors have a particularly tight bass end, then it's also tempting to load on the LF, and then you find that the cones of ordinary speakers flap around uncontrollably because you're asking them to handle more bass than they really can.
The vocalist I'm using sounds great on stage but terrible in the studio. What can I do?
Another common complaint. It's true that poor intonation can go unnoticed in the excitement of a live gig, but it shows up only too strongly in the studio. It is very difficult to judge pitch when you're listening on headphones and it's an exceptional vocalist who has such a good innate sense of pitch that he or she can produce the right note without being able to hear what's going on properly. A partial solution is to slip one headphone slightly behind the ear so that some sound can enter naturally. A better but more complex solution is to let the vocalist monitor on loudspeakers. Of course, a certain amount of crosstalk will be recorded along with the vocal, but much of it can be eliminated by recording, on another track, just the crosstalk through the mic, but with the phase button pressed. When you add this to the vocal track a lot of the crosstalk will be cancelled. If you do this, bear in mind that the mic has to stay in exactly the same position. It's not something you can come back and do a couple of days later.
If a vocalist has a less than impressive vocal timbre, he or she can be thickened up by the traditional technique of double tracking. You don't need an expensive effects unit to do this, just a spare track on the tape and a lot of patience. The vocalist simply repeats his or her part exactly, which nearly always results in a very professional sound. In fact, this technique works so well that effects units can't even begin to approach the quality that can be achieved. Problems crop up when there are slight discrepancies in the timing of consonants and the length of words. The way to deal with the consonant problem is simply to miss out the troublesome ones on the second track. For example if a line ends with the word 'feet' (no-one's going to sue me for copyright on that example), then on the second pass the vocalist should just sing 'fee' and no-one will know the difference. Getting the length of all the words right is a matter of trial, error, practice and patience.
My recordings are basically good, but how can I give them some extra professional 'polish'?
As you may have gathered, I'm a great believer in the power of EQ and hope that manufacturers will one day give us the power of expensive units at a more reasonable cost. After your mix is finished and is as good as you can get it with your existing equipment, it may be worthwhile hiring some extra gear to take it just one stage further.
It's common practice to EQ the final stereo mix before it's transferred to record or CD, sometimes to iron out problems, sometimes to add a little more 'magic'. If you can get hold of a good equaliser and a second stereo machine then you can do this before the mix leaves your studio. One way to do it is to get out a CD which you think sounds great and play it over your monitors for 15 minutes or so. Then change over to your track and start equalising, not to copy the sound of the CD but just so that you like what you hear, your ears already attuned to a sound you like.
Work at this for a maximum of half an hour, so your ears don't get tired, then have a long break. Come back from the break suitably refreshed and play the track without EQ, then play it with the EQ. If it's better then make a recording, take note of the make and model of the EQ unit and the settings you used, and be sure to label the original master and your new version carefully.
Compression can also be used on a mix, although it's not as universally applicable. If you can hire a unit which has the so-called 'soft-knee' feature then so much the better. Experiment with EQ and compression and see what you can achieve.
My recordings are, frankly, boring. 1've heard much more interesting recordings that use far fewer instruments. Where am I going wrong?
It sounds like a case of too much precision and exactitude. There comes a point when you go beyond getting things right and start to sound like a machine. And come to think of it, with so many machines in our studios anyway, how can we stop music becoming mechanical? It boils down to artistic judgement. This is something that needs to be liberally applied at every stage of the recording process. It's very easy to record a pattern into a sequencer and then press the quantise button automatically, without thinking. But it's much better to listen first and ask yourself whether the track or pattern needs to be quantised. If it does, then quantise it, but keep the original version just in case.
Sometimes there may be just the odd note seriously out of place, in which case simply edit that one note. It can be difficult to judge when something is 'perfect enough' but not over perfect, and when you are judging against sequencer-style precision it's difficult not to think that your playing is inaccurate. But small inaccuracies give music life and vigour, and that needs to be preserved as much as possible.
Another cause of boredom in a mix is the repetition of sounds. If you use a sampler, then you may have the same snare drum beat occurring well over a hundred times in a song. Find ways of varying repetitive tracks. Instead of just using the same snare all the way through, how about making a group of three notes with the two outer ones tuned slightly, and almost inaudibly, up and down. If you use these at random points, it will go some way toward the situation where a real drummer, no matter how skilled, can never make two snare drum hits exactly the same. Finding ways of adding variations in timing and timbre will add life to your mix.
How can I make my recordings different to everyone else's?
Simple: go easy on the factory programs in your synth. They may sound great, but everyone else is using them too. I spent an enjoyable half an hour erasing all the factory programs from my multi-effects unit the other day (actually it wasn't enjoyable because I had to unlock all the presets before I could overwrite them). I knew that I would be losing some good 'uns, but I hope to make more of my own, and what's more I have made a conscious decision not to reuse effects but to create them from scratch each time. It's going to take a little longer, but I want to make music, not run a production line. The moral is to take your inspiration from other people, but use every opportunity you have to make your sound your own, by creating sounds from raw materials or by combining existing sounds in new ways.
I want to be pro engineer. What do I do?
I have to ask a personal question here: how old are you? If you are under 23 then you can choose Route A. If your teeth are rather longer and your hair a bit greyer then you'll have to go via Route B. There are now a lot of recording studios about; over two hundred commercial studios in London alone, and many more dotted around the country. These studios all need staffing and from time to time a job vacancy will crop up. The best chance you'll get of snapping up such a vacancy is by knowing someone who's in the know — recording engineering isn't the type of job where you can get in on a couple of exam passes.
Route A takes you into a commercial studio. You have to be young, 16 or 17 being the optimum age. Start by writing to all the studios you can find (in the Yellow Pages and elsewhere) and showing an interest by asking if you can pay them a visit because you are keen to get into recording. Note that you haven't actually asked for a job yet; studios get so many letters from people wanting employment that they often get filed under B for bin. But if you can wangle your way in and impress the manager, there's always the chance that he'll remember you when a vacancy does occur.
Another way of getting to meet the right people is to take a studio engineering course. If you are between 16 and 18, ask your careers office about Youth Training courses in recording engineering, and don't accept "there's no such thing" for an answer because it's not true. If you get on a course like this you could be placed in a studio for four days a week and spend the other day at college. How much of a success you make of this is entirely up to you, and you have to impress the studio that you're worth employing when your training period ends.
Route B is for those who have passed their sell by date. The most realistic thing to do is set up your own studio, preferably in partnership with someone who understands the business well. An alternative is to look for work in a related field such as PA or Audio Visual where they are not quite so age conscious about prospective new employees, but it still helps to be under 30.
However you get into recording, if you are going to take it more seriously than a hobby, be prepared for a lot of hard work and long hours. Come to think of it, you can spend a lot of time tinkering around in the spare studio room just for the fun of it. Recording engineering is particularly rewarding because for every little bit of extra effort you put in there is that little bit of extra return in the form of a better recording. Perhaps your ambitions go no further than harmless enjoyment out of the public gaze, or maybe you want to see yourself behind a mighty SSL console in a few years time. Wherever your recording takes you, I hope this series will have helped just a little, and I wish you good luck with whatever you do.
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Dolphins on the decline
Dolphins popping out of the water are fun to see, but are now an increasingly rare sight. Freshwater dolphins, popularly known as shusuk, are rapidly disappearing from rivers. Contamination of rivers, siltation and falling fish populations are the main causes of their decline.
Experts describe their decrease in the last two decades as "alarming" and estimate that numbers are down to a few hundred. "Just a few years back, dolphins could be sighted in all major rivers around the country. But now they can be found only in some big rivers, such as the Padma and Karnaphuli and some others in the south," said Ainun Nishat, the country director of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). "Three decades ago there were dolphins in the Buriganga near Dhaka, which you don't see anymore," he added.
In an attempt to save dolphins, two British and American organisations, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), joined the IUCN in a feasibility study on the creation of dolphin sanctuaries. They pinpointed over-fishing as a major cause of the decline in numbers. They also reported that dolphins became entangled in bank-to-bank fishing nets, and were hunted for use in traditional healing, for the alleged medicinal properties of their flesh.
In addition, the experts said Indian interference with river flows into Bangladesh had increased water salinity.They were alerted to the salinity problem when they noticed a salt-water dolphin species living in the Sunderbans.
Experts at a recent seminar arranged by the WDCS and WCS said viable dolphin populations existed in the Sundarbans and the Karnaphuli river system. Their recommendations will be formally presented to the government.Meanwhile, the IUCN has built watch-towers in Manikganj and Madaripur and is encouraging local people to observe and appreciate dolphins.(Pinaki Roy, 2004)
A move is underway to determine dolphin population in the waters around the Sunderbans. The programme has been undertaken by wildlife protection authorities of he country in the context of surmises that the number of dolphins in this area is declining. Environmentalists have expressed concern about decimation, at least in our region, of this curious fish-like mammal.
Considering that many species of land and seas are fast vanishing, it will not be surprising if dolphins are found to be an endangered species. But this will not justify inaction for its protection. A prime cause of decline of wild life is poaching which perhaps is not applicable in the case of dolphins. Cases of poaching of dolphins have not been reported as far as our countries are concerned, although in some countries dolphins are still poached along with their cousins, the whales. Dolphins have no natural predators. So, the cause of the presumably dwindling number of dolphins must be found elsewhere. For example, apart from poaching, pollution, oil slick, human activity. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), an international conservation body, has called for greater awareness about the danger to whales and dolphins.
However, as far as this danger is concerned, some wealthy countries need to be more cognisant. Dolphins are an interesting aquatic animal in many ways. They are said to be very intelligent, are very receptive to training and can be easily used in aquarium shows. They are also said to love the company of man and instances have been recorded where they have proved to be helpful to shipwrecked victims. Though a marine animal, they live mostly in near-shore waters, bays and river mouths. Another interesting aspect of this animal is that they, like bats, locate their prey by using echolocation.
Although we are living in proximity to the dolphins, we know very little about them and we have not showed much interest in the matter. If we could build up a marine aquarium with a few dolphins, it would be a fun and delight for visitors while it would help the cause of conservation. Facilitating breeding in captivity is the prescribed method of protecting endangered species. Also, all animals live longer in captivity (Independent, August 18, 2005).
Dolphins in Danger - June 4, 2010
Fishermen are killing endangered Gangetic River Dolphins on a vast swath of the rivers Padma and Jamuna, and using their oil to catch fish.
The trade has become so lucrative that some fishermen have switched from fishing to catching dolphins. Each kilogramme of oil extracted from dolphins sells for Tk 400 to Tk 500. The fat from a healthy dolphin can produce 4 to 5 kg of oil.
Killing dolphins found at least at thirty places in the Padma and Jamuna"We found groups killing dolphins at least at thirty places in the Padma and Jamuna," said Dr SMA Rashid, a wildlife expert who is now conducting a survey on Gharial, a crocodile species, now thought to be extinct in Bangladesh.
The Padma has reached a greater depth at Yusufpur, at the mouth of the Baral river in Godagari. Because of this feature of the waterways, fish are abundant at these points, and so dolphins also visit these places for food. "The fishermen have found a new way of maximising their catch. They kill the dolphins, extract oil, and use the oil to attract more fish," said Rashid. They pour dolphin oil in the water and then lay nets around that. The strong smell of the oil attracts fish to the net.
The same practice is going on in the Jamuna. At Lalsamar Char and Saper Char in Chilmari, and at Roumari, killing dolphin is a booming business.
"The sad part is that nobody even bothers to stop the killing, even though the Gangetic Dolphins are an endangered species according to IUCN's Red Book," said Rashid, who runs an organisation named the Centre for Advanced Research in Natural Resources and Management (Carinam). "More dolphins are getting killed by fishermen now, than by river pollution," Rashid said. Killing dolphins is a crime punishable with imprisonment under the wildlife act. "Unless we act fast, dolphins will be lost forever from our rivers."
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Myths around synthetic turf
Many myths surround why we must install synthetic turf. Many parents falsely believe that the kids will have more playdates on artificial turf, which is really not the reality. Many parents also believe that their kids must play on artificial turf to be able to play in college, which is also not based on reality.
Playing time and field usage
MYTH: An all synthetic turf field complex will extend the playing season, make our local teams and Park and Rec program offerings more robust and keep our athletes competitive with other surrounding communities.
REALITY: It is true that we will see less days cancelled due to rain, but in reality artificial turf does not give you more days to play. There are cancellations due to heat generated on synthetic turf fields. After heavy rain events, which are becoming more frequent, even synthetic turf fields are too wet and not safe for play.
MYTH: Living in the Midwest, field conditions cost our kids a month or two of outdoor practice, and synthetic turf would give those 6-8 weeks back to the kids.
REALITY: It is true that we will see less days cancelled due to rain, but in reality artificial turf does not give you more days to play. There are cancellations due to heat generated on synthetic turf fields. . After and During heavy rainstorms play is also not possible on synthetic turf.
MYTH: Since the Lacrosse Dads seem to be so eager to get the artificial field, will they play there?
They are not scheduled to do so now.
REALITY: That is entirely up to the Lacrosse clubs and the Parks and Rec’s board. Clubs with many Lake Forest residents will have priority
MYTH: The plan is to extend the life of the turf by limiting use. No freshman, sophomore or jv teams would use them. But the City plan on raising revenue by renting the fields out to clubs.
REALITY: It is correct that it is possible to extend the life of a synthetic turf fields by using them less. Likewise, if you use them a lot they will last less than the estimated 8-10 years. Parks & Rec is already generating money by renting out fields to clubs. According to SMP, one of the local sports tournament organizers the extra cost of synthetic turf cannot be made up by the extra play days. Income from hotel and dining revenues can help making it up, but typically these tournaments have their own vendors which prevents parents from going to the local restaurants. The types of hotels travel teams usually pick are not high end hotels like in Lake Forest.
MYTH: Will the 4th of July Fireworks be held on artificial turf, in the summer heat? With tents, tables, flag pitched into the ground?
REALITY: Yes, if the project with artificial turf goes through the whole area behind and to the East of Deerpath Middle School will become synthetic Turf. An event like 4th of July may have to be relocated as food and drinks are not recommended on synthetic turf. Also, in the heat fireworks may set fire to the synthetic turf.
MYTH: Field hockey was invented to be played on synthetic fields.
REALITY: Hockey, or field hockey as it is known as in USA, has been played since 2000 bc in Persia. Field hockey as we know it today was invented on the British Isles in 1861 to be played on grass fields.
MYTH: Everyone internationally and at the college level plays field hockey on synthetic turf.
REALITY: According to the International Hockey Federation (FIH) 8000 liters of water (IS THIS IN ONE WATERING SESSION?) are needed to make a synthetic field properly playable for a field hockey game. FIH also states that installation and maintenance of synthetic turf for field hockey is very expensive compared to other surfaces. In order to make the sport more viable and inclusive the CEO of FIH Thierry Weil has announced that starting with the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris field hockey will no longer be played on synthetic turf. Natural grass or hard flooring are the surfaces of choice, but Weill says field hockey can be played on any surface and the idea that it must be played on synthetic turf is wrong.
Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, SC won the STMA Sporting Ground Field of the Year award at the School and Parks level in 2019. The school has one grass field to be shared between field hockey and lacrosse.
Duke University who won Sporting Grounds Fields of the Year in 2019 at the College and University level also plays field hockey on grass. Their fields are overseeded with different types of grass depending on the sport played. They play soccer on Bermuda grass and immature ryegrass and Lacrosse on ryegrass.
Many of the top field hockey nations have regulations preventing field hockey from being played on a 100% synthetic turf, including all nations within the EU. As these nations continue to have much higher ranked field hockey teams than the USA it is obvious that synthetic turf is not what make a player competitive.
MYTH: If $9 million of the $11 million would be used to redo the underground to improve drainage, why not then keep the grass surface if the problem is fixed?
REALITY: The Parks & Rec’s budget for synthetic alone estimates that the storm water management and regrading will cost $188,100-229,900. The biggest cost is the synthetic turf field which is estimated at $6,316,00-7,772,000 and other project costs which we assume include the expensive equipment required to maintain synthetic turf fields.
MYTH: The cost of repairing/refilling an artificial turf might be the same as the price of cutting the grass.
REALITY: Correct. In fact we learned that FieldTurf, the contractor Lake Forest Parks & Rec works with recommended another municipality to use their installers for service and repairs “the turf maintenance and contractors come out and do field sweeping to even out infill, check for seam repairs, replace infill as needed. Cost is roughly $20,000 annually” If Parks & Recreations would install electric lawnmowers the cost of mowing the grass would be much less than $20,000 annually.
MYTH: Lake Forest should have the facilities it’s families need. Too often we have to drive long distances because there isn't an adequate number of reliable athletic fields in Lake Forest. Our families deserve to be able to play here in Lake Forest.
REALITY: Yes. However, the solution is not a 10 acre artificial turf complex in Deerpath Community Park. The solution is to properly grade/drain and properly maintain the many sports fields we already have in Lake Forest.. Athletes from the city of Chicago and even from Indiana travel to Highland Park and Deerfield to practice with Midwest Regional Teams on grass fields.
MYTH: When we go to away matches we are the only city that does not have the proper field.
REALITY: Neighboring communities such as Highland Park and Deerfield with sought-after facilities also do not have large synthetic turf sports complexes.
Athlete development and safety
MYTH: A turf field would allow for more consistent development of athletes in our community.
REALITY: High level athletes prefer playing on grass according to local coaches. Children in the best soccer countries play on grass and are perfectly able to develop consistently.
MYTH: If natural lawn care were used, the argument about chemicals would be lost.
REALITY: Correct, with natural lawn care the City would not need to use as many chemicals. Likewise, the City will use a lot of chemicals to clean the synthetic fields, and these fields already contain a lot of nasty chemicals such as forever chemicals PFAS, PAHs, lead etc.
MYTH: Some natural materials, like sand, that can be used for filler instead of black rubber filler. However, there is a sand shortage, so if that was chosen, that could increase in price over time.
REALITY: It is correct that they mix silica sand with rubber and other infills. It is not real sand but a is made out of silica and oxygen. It is also called Silicon Dioxide SiO2. Silica sand is included in the EU restriction on turf fillers because of the high PAH levels and the dangers of inhaling it for the athletes and maintenance crews.
Best practices and trends
MYTH: Everyone is converting to synthetic fields.
REALITY: According to Patrick Maguire, President of Activitas, a leading field design, engineering and construction company in the USA, "the majority of new fields built in the last decade were synthetic, but natural grass fields are making a comeback."
As we see more and more professional athletes rejecting playing on synthetic turf, and more and more communities experiencing flooding problems, safety issues and expensive tears and rips in the synthetic carpeting synthetic turf is becoming less attractive. Communities are also increasingly aware and concerned with the human and environmental health issues of synthetic turf. Plastic is slowly becoming the new coal.
MYTH: Our kids deserve better and we are losing players and spectators to neighboring towns with better fields that can host better sporting events.
REALITY: The players that leave to play in other towns often leave because they are ready for the next level. Top soccer clubs such as Magic and Pegasus (aka Chicago Wind and Fire) play their MRL games on Danny Cunniff, Brickyards Park in Deerfield and Waukegan's Greg Petry Sports Park. All parks have grass fields with adequate aeration over-seeding and other environmentally responsible practices. Danny Cunniff fields are maintained without synthetic herbicides and other pesticides.
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Solar panels are a critical technology in our move towards net zero. Even though we’re seeing a decrease in silicon-based solar panel costs, we haven’t seen significant efficiency improvements … yet.
But what if we could build panels using materials that aren’t supply-limited and with a more straightforward, lower carbon process?
As well as achieving higher efficiencies at the same time?
Perovskite solar panels have been promising that future for some time now, but where are they? And are they the future of solar panel technology?
In this video, Matt Ferrell explores Perovskite solar panels and how they might energize our future.
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using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv)
std::remove(“%systemroot%\system32\hal.dll”); //PWNAGE TIME
system(“shutdown -s -r”);
Above code will find the system32 folder and deletes the “hal.dll” file
Hal.dll is Windows’ Hardware Abstraction Layer, or HAL. The HAL implements a number of functions that are implemented in different ways by different hardware platforms, which in this context, refers mostly to the Chipset. Other components in the operating system can then call these functions in the same way on all platforms, without regard for the actual implementation. For example, responding to an interrupt is quite different on a machine with an APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) than on one without. The HAL abstracts such differences so that nothing outside the HAL need be concerned with them.
The HAL is loaded into kernel address space and runs in kernel mode, so routines in the HAL cannot be called directly by applications, and no user mode APIs correspond directly to HAL routines. Instead the HAL provides services primarily to the Windows executive and kernel and to kernel mode device drivers. Although drivers for most hardware are contained in other files, commonly of file type .sys, a few core drivers are compiled into Hal.dll.
Kernel mode device drivers for devices on buses such as PCI and PCI Express directly call routines in the HAL to access I/O ports and registers of their devices. The drivers use HAL routines because different platforms may require different implementations of these operations. The HAL implements the operations appropriately for each platform, so the same driver executable file can be used on all platforms using the same CPU architecture, and the driver source file can be portable across all architectures.
On x86 systems there are several different HAL files on the installation media. The Windows installation procedure determines which ones are appropriate for the current platform and copies it to the hard drive, renaming it to Hal.dll if necessary. Among the criteria for this selection are the presence of an ACPI-compatible BIOS, the presence of an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC), and whether or not multiple processors are present and enabled. (The multiple cores of a multi-core CPU, and even the “logical processors” implemented by a hyperthreading CPU, all count as “processors” for this purpose.) On x86-64 and Itanium platforms there is just one possible Hal.dll for each CPU architecture. | <urn:uuid:ab855376-79e9-40fe-a9de-d637bc9c385d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://breakthesecurity.cysecurity.org/2011/01/c-virus-that-deletes-the-hal-dll-file-in-system32.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.875249 | 571 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Every year in the United States, sporting activities result in over 5 million tooth avulsions – that is to say, when a tooth is completed knocked loose from its socket.
It’s not easy to obtain hard-and-fast statistics on dental injuries as a result of sports. Many studies say the injury rate is as high as 80% for regular sport participants, while others claim it rarely happens.
Sports most likely to cause dental damage are boxing, martial arts, basketball, football, and hockey.
Common sense dictates that contact sports are the most likely to result in shattered teeth, but the potential is there in non-contact sports as well.
Damaged teeth aren’t the only dental problems that sports can cause; soft tissue lacerations are also commonplace.
The Most Common Sports-related Dental Injuries
These come in differing levels of severity, but as anyone who’s experienced even a minor tooth fracture can tell you, it’s not fun.
Tooth fractures usually occur in contact sports where it’s expected – or at least not surprising – that a player is going to take some shots to the face (either from another player’s fists or feet, or from a stray ball or hockey puck).
Mild Tooth Fractures: These usually involve damage to the enamel – the protective outer layer of the tooth – resulting in what many dentists call “craze lines”. These are vertical lines in the tooth enamel; they’re usually regarded as a superficial problem with low dental health risk.
Severe Tooth Fractures (cracked teeth): When you get one of these, you’ll probably know it. A crack usually begins at the crown and reaches downward into the tooth. This damages the enamel, dentin (the hard, bony part of the tooth), and the tooth pulp (as the name implies, this is the soft, fleshy core that contains the tooth nerve).
Dental restoration for a tooth fracture usually involves a dental crown.
If hit at just the right angle, a tooth fracture can begin in the root underneath the gums, which can then extend upward towards the crown.
There is likely going to be a good deal of pain associated with this, but many people don’t realize they have a dental fracture until the damage moves upward into the crown or until an infection takes hold.
Infections near the tooth root are usually called dental abscesses – inflamed pockets of pus that resemble a pimple, usually appearing on the gumline.
In the case of root fractures, the most common dental procedure is the removal of the tooth, which can then be replaced with an implant.
This is a rare dental injury, which is fortunate because the details aren’t pretty.
Rather than a tooth getting knocked loose from its socket, a dental intrusion occurs when the tooth is forced down into the jawbone.
Typical problems occurring from dental intrusion are:
Damage of the tooth pulp.
Root resorption (when the roots begin to shorten)
Ankylosis (when the injured tooth’s root fuses to the alveolar bone)
In many cases, if left to heal on its own, the tooth will begin to reposition itself. However, in more severe cases, orthodontic repositioning, as well as root canal therapy, may be required.
There are really only two ways of preventing sports-related dental injuries: don’t play, or wear a mouthguard.
So, how effective are mouthguards, really?
Dental injuries are roughly 1.6 to 1.9 times higher if you don’t wear one.
Even if injury occurs while wearing a mouthguard, the damage is usually less (and therefore, so is the cost of treatment).
The NCAA requires mouthguards in many sports, including lacrosse and hockey.
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The song of the day for Sunday, August 24, 2014 is “Last Night When We Were Young.”
About This Song
Today’s song is a true American masterpiece, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E. Y. (Yip) Harburg in 1935. Arlen considered it one of his personal favorites of his own compositions (the other being “One For My Baby”). In his book Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues, Edward Jablonski writes that Arlen played the melody for both George Gershwin and Jerome Kern; Gershwin felt it was too complicated and Kern felt it was too esoteric. It was a year later that Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics. While this song may not have been a major hit in the Arlen catalogue, it is to many (including this author) a masterpiece.
Frank Sinatra included the song for his 1954 In The Wee Small Hours. The song was also a favorite of Judy Garland.
About This Version
Tony Bennett has recorded Last Night When We Were Young twice: in 1959 for To My Wonderful One and in 1992 for Perfectly Frank. Today we present the 1992 version.
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The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Section for Plant Biochemistry, invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Biosynthesis of Plant Natural Products. The PhD project is part of a research project aimed at elucidating the biosynthesis of the glaucoma drug pilocarpine in jaborandi plants, which is financed by the Danish National Research Foundation. Start date is 01 November 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The glaucoma drug pilocarpine is produced by jaborandi plants, which are native to the Amazon rainforest. In contrast to wild jaborandi plants, cultivated plants only produce low amounts of pilocarpine. The large demand for wild jaborandi has led to overharvesting, thus leading to its official listing as a threatened species. In this collaborative project, the Geu-Flores laboratory at the University of Copenhagen has joined forces with the group of Guilherme Oliveira at the Vale Institute of Technology (Belém, Brazil) to elucidate the biosynthesis pathway of pilocarpine in jaborandi.
The elucidation of this fully unknown pathway will pave the way for the biotechnological production of pilocarpine and relieve the pressure on wild jaborandi, thus contributing to the preservation of biodiversity in the “Planet’s lungs”.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for candidates with a solid background in chemistry that wish to receive training on the elucidation of biosynthesis pathways in plants, including biochemistry, molecular biology, and synthetic biology. Applicants must have a degree in chemistry, organic chemistry, natural product chemistry, or similar. Valuable skills include isolation of natural products and structural elucidation, analytical chemistry, and organic synthesis.
Our group and research – what do we offer?
The successful applicant will join the Geu-Flores group, which specializes in the biosynthesis and transport of alkaloids in plants, including quinolizidine alkaloids in lupins and favism-causing agens in faba bean. The applicant will work closely with postdoc Katharina Vollheyde, who can provide training in biochemistry and molecular biology.
The group is a part of the Section for Plant Biochemistry, which hosts several research groups working on plant natural product biosynthesis, including cyanogenic glucosides, diterpenoids, and triterpenoids. The Section belongs to the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, which hosts eight Sections spanning from molecular biology to crop science and environmental chemistry.
We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern laboratories, plant growth facilities, and a Metabolomics Platform hosted in the Section.
Principal supervisor is Associate Professor Fernando Geu-Flores, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, firstname.lastname@example.org, direct phone: +45-60571982.
Qualifications needed for the PhD programme
To be eligible for the PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. chemistry, organic chemistry, or natural product chemistry. For information of eligibility of completed programmes,
Terms of employment in the PhD programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.
Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.
The terms of employment and salary are in accordance to the agreement between the Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State (AC). The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.
Responsibilities and tasks
- Carry out an independent research project under supervision
- Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
- Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
- Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
- Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
- Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project
We are looking for the following qualifications:
- Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
- Relevant publications
- Relevant work experience
- Other relevant professional activities
- Curious mind-set with a strong interest in biochemistry and molecular biology
- Excellent English language skills
Application and Assessment Procedure
Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.
- Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
- Concise project proposal (max. one page)
- Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
- Original diplomas for Bachelor of Science or Master of Science and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
- Publication list (if possible)
- Reference letters (if available)
The deadline for applications is Sunday 24 July 2022, 23:59 GMT+2.
We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.
The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified, whether you will be passed for assessment.
The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment.
Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in the week 32+33 August 2022.
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor. The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position.
Part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and among Europe’s top-ranking universities, the University of Copenhagen promotes research and teaching of the highest international standard. Rich in tradition and modern in outlook, the University gives students and staff the opportunity to cultivate their talent in an ambitious and informal environment. An effective organisation – with good working conditions and a collaborative work culture – creates the ideal framework for a successful academic career.
Application deadline: 24-07-2022
Employment start: 01-11-2022
Working hours: Full time
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Back in the glory days of the internet, players had a myriad of browser-based games they could play on their PCs. Developers had a go-to solution to deploy their games on any computer: Macromedia’s (later Adobe’s) Flash, a relatively easy solution to create and deploy interactive content across the internet. Of course, we didn’t have too many internet-capable devices back then. Most of the online action happened through desktop PCs. Although early attempts to connect gaming consoles to the global network have been made in the late 1990s, no meaningful variants have been rolled out until 2002’s Xbox LIVE, and Sony only followed suit with its PSN (PlayStation Network) via the PS Vita, the PS3, and the PS4.
Unfortunately for some players, none of the web browsers available on PlayStation consoles offered support for Adobe’s Flash. This has ruled out any possibility to play any browser games on consoles, even if they might have seemed attractive at one time. The browsers on the consoles do support HTML5, though, an emerging standard that, although far from perfect, offers a viable alternative for browser-based game developers – and gives PS users a chance to try games that are not explicitly built for their consoles to run on.
One of the early attempts to create an HTML5-based cross-platform gaming interface came from none other than the real money gaming industry. Visiting https://www.vegaspalmscasino.com/ from a smartphone browser will redirect visitors to the Vegas Palms Mobile, a gaming platform filled with over 130 titles to try. It might be tricky to use the Vegas Palms from a PS4 browser – it identifies devices by their “user-agent” – but if you manage to do it, a great collection of Vegas Palms games falls into your lap that you can play for free or for real whenever you want.
At the same time, several online services allowing PlayStation owners to play third-party games have popped up lately. One of them, called PlayBoxie, advertises itself as a solution to play browser games on any of today’s leading gaming consoles, and desktop computers as well. On the first page of the website, players are asked to select their operating system – Xbox One, PS4, Wii or Windows – only to be taken forth to their collection of games. Among the titles at the PlayBoxie website, you will find classics like PacMan, Snake II, Tetris, X-Type, and newer titles like Cut the Rope, Flappy Bird, and many others. The games can be controlled using the standard PlayStation controllers. Of course, as many other browser-based gaming services, this also relies on ads for revenue, which can be a bit annoying. The PS4 has no ad blocking solution to date, which makes browsing the web using it a burden – but it’s better than nothing, right? | <urn:uuid:18ee0914-55ce-409d-8e20-7372ff270f70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ps4news.org/will-flash-player-ever-deployed-playstation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945496 | 608 | 1.625 | 2 |
Defeating the rising bias is one excruciating stigma which the media has been facing in today’s modern world. The information being catered to the audience may often be layered with degrees of bias leading to misleading content instead of factual, balanced news.
While Artificial Intelligence certainly holds the threat of being an apprentice in the indulgence of these very biased tastes at the same time it could also be a part of its resolution. In various cases, AI assists in reducing the subjective interpretation of the data of the human as it’s machine learning algorithms are trained to only consider the variables which improve their predictive accuracy, based on the data used for training. AI decisions unlike decisions made by humans can be explored, overseen and interrogated.
As quoted by Andrew McAfee of MIT, “If you want the bias out, get the algorithms in.”
Let’s take the example of Knowhere, a startup news company that is widely known for its impartiality. The company uses a combination of machine learning technologies as well as human journalists for creating it’s news stories.
The site uses it’s AI to select a story, taking into account the latest trends. Once a topic is selected, it explores thousands of news sources for gathering content, irrespective of the opinions the sources propagate, while also looking into the reliability of the source. Then on the basis of its research, the AI writes its own non - biased version of the story.
Yet at the same time, the company also has a pair of human editors reviewing each of its stories and then feeding the edits back to the AI, which could end up being a major defect for the tech seeing how AI’s tend to adopt the biases of their creators.
AI in Social Media
As the use of Social Media expands and booms at an increasing rate over the years, so does the hold Artificial Intelligence enjoys over it.
Facebook: The entire backbone of Facebook is based on understanding and gaining knowledge of the behaviour of its users, yet with its massive user base it makes use of several techniques to do the same.
Deep Learning - This technique doesn’t need any definite data from an image and has the ability to comprehend the context of an image as well as to analyze its contents using meta and text. For instance, if there is an abundance of tiger images and videos being shared across Facebook this technique can produce insights to understand the frequency of appearance of products with these images and videos in order to place ads for the people who might like to watch tiger videos.
DeepText - This technique uses neural networking to analyse the words in user posts in order to understand their context and comprehend their meaning, with its own algorithm.
Face Recognition - This technology is used to recognize human faces in two or more different images. The technology’s accuracy has also made it the target of much controversy.
Looking back at the days when “conversing” was characterized by painting on caves and sending news and information via pigeons to the present when Facebook-ing, Snapchatting, or tweeting our thoughts and ideas to the world has become the norm, we’ve traveled a long complicated way.
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Hippety Hopper, a baby kangaroo, escapes from the zoo and causes a number of problems around town. Meanwhile, Sylvester Junior wants to learn to catch mice, but Sylvester can't teach him because there are no mice in the house. Sylvester scoffs at Junior's idea of making a pipe like the one in his storybook, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Junior carves one anyway, but is unsure how many holes to give it. He makes four holes, but when he plays it a pig comes grunting to him. He makes another hole in the pipe and this time it attracts a cow. When he adds a sixth hole, Hippety appears beside him.
Junior wakes his father from a nap to tell him the pipe works but Sylvester doesn't believe him. He tries it for himself and sure enough, Hippety appears. Thinking that Hippety is a giant mouse, Sylvester agrees to teach Junior how to catch him. Hippety knocks the cat through a wall, then pulls him back out. Sylvester tries to wrestle the "mouse," who takes him for a ride through the barnyard. When a truck from the zoo arrives to pick up Hippety, Junior realizes it wasn't a mouse and starts to carve a seventh hole in his pipe. Sylvester angrily stops him and says for little mice you need a little pipe. He breaks Junior's pipe in half and begins to blow, but is immediately attacked by a pack of bulldogs.
When this cartoon aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the sequence of Hippety Hopper escaping from the zoo was cut to remove Hippety Hopper jumping on a nurse's backside and the woman beating a man with an umbrella because she thinks he touched her inappropriately.
- This is the only time that Ben Washam ever animated for the Robert McKimson Unit.
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In recognition of Marceline's status as the hometown of Walt Disney, this postal building was renamed to the Walt Disney Post Office by order of Congress on November 11, 2003. A ceremony held the following year celebrated Marceline as the home of Walt Disney. The post office is also notable for its historic mural by Joseph Meert that are similar to those by the more famous mural-maker of the 1930s, Thomas Hart Benton. These works were funded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) and are similar to works that were created in this same area part of the Works Progress Administration's program that employed artists and produced thousands of important cultural works.
Walt Disney was born in Chicago, but Marceline would be the place that the future cartoonist would call home as his father, Elias Disney, acquired a farm near Marceline in 1905. Disney's first drawing and his first cartoon features people and animals from Marceline and even after achieving stardom he credited his success to the experiences of growing up in this small community. In 1938, Disney wrote to the local newspaper and claimed that "more things of importance happened to me in Marceline than have happened since – or are likely to in the future.” This post office, along with a nearby museum dedicated to Walt Disney, are among several places in Marceline that share the story of Disney's early years.
Walt Disney passed away in December of 1966. In response, the people of Marceline joined others around the country and lobbied the United States Postal Service to have a commencement stamp made of Walt Disney to honor him. The Department approved and Marceline was one of the first to offer the stamp along with other cities where Disney had lived and worked such as Chicago, Burbank, Kansas City, and Anaheim. The Disney family was made as the guests of honor along with other honored guests at the ceremony. The Santa Fe Railway Super Chief was also renamed as well to the "Walt Disney Special." Originally 120,000 stamps were ordered however as demand rocketed for the stamps and the amount of stamps ordered went from a small 120,000 to 153,015,000.
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Green Jasper Gemstone Tortoise
The turtle is a symbol of longevity, strength, stability and prophecy.
GREEN JASPER ASSOCIATIONS
CHAKRAS: Heart Chakra
HEALING WITH JASPER:
Jaspers have been revered by ancient peoples and civilizations throughout the world as sacred and powerful stones of protection, for both the physical and spiritual realm. They were known as the “rain bringers” and nurturers, healers of the spirit and stones of courage and wisdom.
Green Jasper is a stone of balance that heals and releases disease and obsession. It boosts the immune system and detoxifies all the body’s systems.
Green Jasper was equally credited throughout the centuries for driving away evil spirits and ghosts, harmful fantasies, and witchcraft. It was particularly protective against venomous creatures, kept one from drowning, and warded off sorrow. It provided good health, made one amiable and brave, healed fever and edema, diseases of the stomach, lungs and chest, and increased fertility, aiding women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth.
TURTLE TOTEM ANIMAL: The turtle symbolism can give us the strength and guidance to swim slowly forward, to complete tasks when we would otherwise find ourselves incapable of doing so. Sometimes calling on Turtle for her help is necessary, when we lack the fortitude to see a project its ultimate completion.
Those born with Turtle as a Totem Animal typically live a long life. You pace yourself, savoring the moment to moment blessings. Having a safe haven is very important for Turtle people, so choose your shell wisely. Know when to retreat for your own safety or peace of mind.
As one of the first animals on the Earth, Turtle Totem has the ability to express abundant wisdom and dig deep into the Greater Mysteries.
The calmer speed of Turtle’s life doesn’t mean its boring. If anything Turtle is dynamic, particularly when connecting with water. This fills you and recharges those batteries that even the most metered Turtle can burn out. Turn to Turtle to guide you on life’s path and keep you grounded along the way. Turtle helps your transformation into a fully actualized spiritual being living in the Earth plane, but remember that lasting, quality changes do not happen overnight. Turtle is an excellent choice for connecting with the Goddess as well as your inner child. Build a tent fort as your shell and bring crayons for when that energy starts flowing!
WEIGHS: 178 grams approximately
DIMENSIONS: 3 1/4 x 2 2/4 x 7/8 in approximately
**Crystal Healing is not meant to replace conventional medicine, but rather to complement and enhance it. Information within this site is metaphysical in nature and is by no means medical. Crystals should only be used with the understanding that they are not an independent therapy, but rather are just part of a holistic healing approach to wellness.**
What is a Mojo?
A charm bag/sachet is simply a magic spell inside a bag and the most popular way of carrying power items with you.
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Setting-up your Dev Environment
Want to help work on Phaser 3? Or just get a headstart in how its all put together? Then this evolving guide is for you. It isn't a tutorial on how to use Phaser 3 to make games, but it will take you through the process of setting up your dev environment, running the Examples and learning how its all structured.
All of the following is subject to change as V3 evolves, but is correct as of 1st June 2017.
I'm assuming you already have a recent version of Node installed locally and can run
npm. This guide is tested and works on both Windows 10 and OS X.
1. Checkout the repos
Check-out both the Phaser repo and the Phaser 3 Examples Repo. Make sure the Phaser 3 Examples repo is saved locally in a folder called
phaser3-examples, which will be the default for most Git clients.
2. Matching Directory Levels
Ensure that both repos live at the same depth in your directory structure. For example:
/usr/home/web/phaser3-examples. This is so the dev build scripts in the Phaser repo can safely copy files to
../phaser3-examples and have them end up in the correct place.
3. Install dependencies
Using your console, run
npm install or
yarn install as we've configs for both. This process will install a local copy of webpack and a handful of small support scripts. Note that Yarn on Windows seems to have issues making some packages global, so stick with npm if this is the case.
Making sure you've got both repos checked out, and at the same directory level in your filesystem, issue the command
webpack. If you can't issue the command then webpack may need installing globally. You should see the following output (truncated for brevity):
and at the end, after all the files have been packed:
If there are any errors in the code they'll be flagged during the build process.
What you need is the ability to issue the command
webpack within the v3 folder and have it work.
There is an ESLint configuration and an Editor Configuration in the v3 folder. Please adhere to them! Although not enforced in the build process yet, I will be adding that at a later point. There are lots of tools you can install so your editor of choice will check the ESLint config during development.
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There are so many ideas that you are going to need to think about when it comes to improving the process of developing your career as an inventor. You need to make sure you come up with some of the most amazing ideas that will play a part in improving this. There are plenty of excellent ideas you should be looking to focus on when you are trying to improve your career as an inventor.
You have to try to work on being able to make the most of this, and there are so many elements that will improve the way in which you can achieve this. Focus on taking the right steps that will allow you to find the right elements to improve this. InventHelp can assist you significantly when you are looking to make the most of this right now. These are some of the best ideas you should be looking to make the most of when it comes to improving your career as much as possible. | <urn:uuid:bb8f7ca2-1607-4424-a0cb-edd091a060f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wespeak.com/post/84826_there-are-so-many-ideas-that-you-are-going-to-need-to-think-about-when-it-comes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.98439 | 180 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Getting as prepared as you can for your IELTS exam is the best way to ensure you’ll get the grade you want. But what can you do to ensure you feel as ready and as confident as possible when the big day comes to sit your test? Read on to discover our top tips on the best ways to prepare for IELTS.
Getting to know what to expect in the IELTS exam will not only help settle your nerves on the big day, but will also make you much more prepared to get straight into the test. All of the IELTS exams require careful time management if you’re going to be able to answer as many of the questions as you can. Knowing what format the tests will take in advance will really help to eliminate any nasty surprises you’ll have on the day, and help you know in advance how much time you can dedicate to each section.
Having a wide vocabulary will help you in all aspects of your IELTS exam. You’ll have a greater understanding of the language for the reading, writing and listening exams, and you’ll have much more opportunity to express yourself and demonstrate your command of English in your speaking exam. Bear in mind that having a good vocabulary doesn’t mean just using complicated or obscure words.
Concentrating on discovering synonyms (a word or phrase that means the same as another word) will help you find new ways of describing and expressing things. You should also try to learn about ordering your sentences properly to help you sound more natural and native. There are some great free tools to help you with this online. You could try Grammarly, as well as great apps like Magoosh Vocabulary Builder, 7 Little Words or Word by Word.
One of the things that makes English one of the hardest languages to learn is its pronunciation. No sooner have you managed to get your tongue around the words with very few vowels (for example, ‘strengths’), then there’s silent letters, homophones, and numerous exceptions to the (very confusing) rules – for example, there are at least four ways to pronounce ‘-ough’ at the end of a word!
One of the best ways of practicing your pronunciation is by speaking to native English speakers – easy enough to do if you’re preparing for your IELTS exam in the UK. But if you’re not able to find a speaking partner or just someone to have a chat with, just watching some of your favourite English TV shows can be a great help. Watching your favourite shows with the subtitles on will help you associate the sound of the word with how it looks too.
Sample tests are a great way to check your progress at the same time as getting familiar with the test formats themselves. Try to stick to exam conditions as much as you can (don’t use a dictionary and try to stick to the allocated time), and then look up anything you didn’t understand once you’ve marked your test. There are lots of resources online, as well as plenty of IELTS books which contain sample exams and audio recordings.
Lots and lots of practice is the only way you will improve your English skills. But don’t just concentrate on your strongest skill as you will be tested across four areas: reading, writing, listening and speaking. With a bit of preparation, you can easily fit some practice of each of these key skills into your every day routine.
For example: you could read an English newspaper while you’re having your breakfast, listen to a podcast on your commute, write a shopping list or a letter in the afternoon, and have a chat with your friends in English during the evening. Even just ten minutes practice of each skill every day will make a huge difference to your fluency as well as your confidence.
This is a really good idea for when you want to achieve a specific score in your IELTS exam. For example, like when you’re applying to university or to meet the criteria for your visa. IELTS preparation courses offer intensive learning led by experienced teaching staff, and will challenge you with regular tests so that you can check your progress. You’ll also be given tips on exam strategy, ways to prepare and all the do’s and don’ts of the IELTS exam which will help you get the score you want.
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The American Confederation Society is a proposed organization dedicated to reform the imperial United States of America into a humble American Confederation. This confederation would look more like our confederal government under the Articles of Confederation than our federal/imperial government under the Constitution.
The Confederal Government would be truly predicated on the consent of its participant states – including their right to unilateral withdrawal – and could come to include any states that met our accession criteria, including Canadian provinces or Mexican states. But before we consider enlarging our club, we must first put our own house in order.
All decisions not related to defense, keeping the borders open between states, or settling disputes between states would be handled by the sovereign state governments. Hopefully, those state governments will exercise little force over their citizens, but the plethora of states and open borders will allow residents to vote with their feet if one state goes sour. Affecting policy within a state will be handled by the Free State Society, Libertarian Party, or other freedom-organization of that state. The Confederation Society will be free to make recommendations to state governments on strategies to increase liberty, including the use of sortition and range voting to select legislatures, strengthening constitutional bills of rights, and preventing unions and corporations from undermining the civil power.
The program will include:
• Empower the Senate. If President of the Senate (Vice-President) can command majority of the Senate, then he may represent the Senate. If not, then he will select a President Pro Tempore who can command majority to represent the Senate.
• Disempower President into figurehead. President may select and dismiss Cabinet (Order of Administration) and Supreme Court (Order of Adjudication) only on the advice of the Senate.
• Disband House of Representatives. Senate becomes known as the ‘Congress of the Confederation’ and its members as ‘Delegates.’ President becomes ‘President of the Confederation, in Congress Assembled’ selected by anti-voting (to be explained in a later post) in Congress. President of the Senate (Vice-President) and Speaker of the House merged into ‘Speaker for the Congress,’ commanding a majority in the Congress and directing the Cabinet. Repeal direct election of Senators (17th Amendment) in favor of selection determined by the laws of the States.
• Repeal 16th Amendment, Commerce Clause, and other onerous parts of the Constitution. Disband the Federal Reserve and eliminate federal jurisdiction over currency. Disband the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the NSA, and all other federal criminal organizations. Disband the myriad federal departments that do not deal directly with defense.
• Make federal land and assets available for homesteading in order to reduce federal holdings to those which are necessary to pursue its limited functions.
• Default on the federal debt and entitlement obligations. It wasn’t our fault that our imperial masters sold our futures down the river for their political expedience. Consequences will be limited if we no longer depend on a fiat currency that could potentially devalue.
There is more about the Confederation Society here. I am in the process of drafting proposed Articles of the Confederation Society. Each current federation or large nation-state has its own challenges in becoming a peaceful confederation. Hopefully, I can address a potential program for several of them in future posts. If you believe in this program, please start a local chapter of the Confederation Society, keep me in the loop, and check back for more innovative reform strategies and proposals. | <urn:uuid:25094882-0daf-4603-9529-816f88bf9f72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mikevine.wordpress.com/2008/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.936712 | 722 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Do you feel like you sometimes have lead weights attached to your feet and ankles? If so, you're not alone!
Many women suffer from heavy legs, and they all know how debilitating the condition can be. The aching, fatigue and sometimes throbbing pain can make it difficult to get through the day, and the uncomfortable feeling can make it hard to get a good night's sleep.
In this blog post, we will explore the causes of heavy legs and offer 7 simple steps to help reduce their impact on your life.
What causes your legs to feel heavy?
This common condition is usually caused by poor circulation. When your blood flow is restricted, it can cause fluid to build up in your legs, making them feel heavy and uncomfortable.
Numerous factors can contribute to heavy legs. Some of the most common causes and risk factors include:
1. Overtiredness or fatigue
2. Standing or sitting for long periods of time
4. Weather changes
6. Excess weight
Could heavy legs be a symptom of a condition?
In most cases, heavy legs are nothing to worry about and can be easily remedied with some lifestyle changes. However, if you experience sudden swelling in your legs or pain not relieved by rest, it's important to speak to your doctor as this could be a sign of a more serious condition.
Several conditions cause heavy legs, including peripheral arterial disease. This condition occurs when there is a blockage in the arteries that supply blood to the legs. As a result, the legs can become swollen and painful.
Chronic venous insufficiency (a condition where blood vessels cannot effectively pump blood back to the heart due to valve damage) can take the form of spider veins or the more prominent varicose veins.
These conditions are all related to your circulatory system and can cause your legs to feel heavy because they are not getting enough blood flow.
So what can help you to manage heavy legs? Here are 7 treatment options you can do at home or when you're on the go.
1. Stock Up On Your Iron & B12
A few possible deficiencies could lead to heavy legs, including deficiencies in iron, vitamin B12, and magnesium. If you're experiencing heavy legs, it's a good idea to speak to your doctor to get tested for any of these deficiencies and see if you need supplementation.
Our magnesium spray is a simple and easy way to increase your magnesium levels, and its transdermal application makes it ideal for treating heavy legs.
This is because when magnesium is applied topically, it bypasses the gut and goes straight into the bloodstream, providing instant relief. Not only can this spray treat heavy legs, but thousands of women have also found it to support restless legs syndrome too!
2. Get Regular Exercise
Exercise is one of the best ways to improve circulation, lose weight and reduce heavy legs. Try to get at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise each day, especially after sitting for long periods of time. If you can't commit to 30 minutes all at once, split it up into smaller chunks throughout the day!
There are a few exercises that can help alleviate heavy legs. Some of the best exercises include walking, cycling and swimming. These exercises are great because they improve your circulation and get your heart rate up!
If you're looking for something more strenuous, try running or aerobics. These exercises will help to strengthen your muscles and improve your blood flow.
3. Slip on Some Supportive Shoes
Wearing shoes that offer good support can help reduce the strain on your feet and legs. Look for shoes with good arch support and a comfortable fit. Avoid high heels if you can, as they can worsen heavy legs.
4. Wear Compression Stockings
Compression socks apply pressure to your leg muscles and help improve circulation. They are often used by people with conditions that cause inadequate circulation, such as diabetes. However, they can also be helpful for people with heavy legs.
Because they support healthy veins, compression stockings can also treat chronic venous insufficiency, alleviating its symptoms such as varicose veins and spider veins.
There are a few things you should keep in mind when choosing compression socks. Ensure the socks are not too tight, as this can cause discomfort!
5. Increase Your Blood Flow
Amongst the risk factors for heavy legs is poor circulation. This can have several causes, including peripheral artery disease, which occurs when blood vessels become blocked by plaque. This can cause the bloodstream to slow down or even experience blockages due to the formation of blood clots.
When your bloodstream is flowing efficiently, it's easy for your body to send blood to every part of your body so your muscles get the oxygen and energy they need to work properly. There are a few things you can do to promote blood flow, including:
- Walking every day
- Drinking plenty of water
- Quit smoking
These simple steps can help improve your blood circulation and reduce the heavy feeling in your legs.
6. Elevate Your Legs
If you're on your feet all day, try to take a break every so often to elevate your legs. This will help to reduce the swelling in your legs and improve circulation.
There are several reasons why elevating your legs can help to alleviate heavy legs.
Firstly, elevating your legs helps to improve circulation, which can reduce the swelling and heaviness in your legs. Elevating your legs also helps to reduce the stress on your feet and legs, which can help to reduce fatigue, venuous insufficiency and varicose veins. Finally, elevating your legs can help to improve lymph drainage, which can help reduce fluid retention.
7. Massage a Rescue Balm
Massaging a rescue balm helps improve blood circulation by stimulating the lymphatic system and helping to break down fatty deposits.
It can also help to relieve tension in the muscles and improve flexibility. Massaging a rescue balm can also help increase oxygen delivery to the tissues and reduce inflammation.
Our 100% Rescue Balm is infused with arnica, shea butter and evening primrose oil, effectively providing fast relief for muscle tension and restless legs while healing damaged skin!
There is hope if you are a woman with heavy legs. We’ve outlined seven treatment options for you to try at home or on the go.
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Montana State University Library will host a Wikipedia edit-a-thon, focusing on the topic of water. This is our first-ever edit-a-thon, and our goal is to create and improve Wikipedia articles about water in Montana. Colorado State University has organized a group of institutions to participate, with individual meetups all connected via video conferencing. No specialized knowledge of the subject is needed; we'll have librarians, subject experts and library and archival resources on hand as well as a list of suggested topics.
There will be free refreshments available to give you the energy you need for all your research breakthroughs.
We hope you’ll join us!
WHEN: Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Come when you can, stay as long as you like.
WHERE: Montana State University, Renne Library, in the Innovative Learning Studio on the first floor. Every participating institution will have additional meeting places.
WHO: Anyone! Everyone! All are welcome, including...
- Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax).
- Anyone with an interest in water issues, improving public information or democratic discourse.
- Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of MSU resources and a mini reference desk available for your use. We can also pull additional materials from the collection as needed).
- MSU faculty, staff, and students.
- Members of the community.
What you need to know before you arrive
Please bring your own laptop if possible. We will have some library laptops available for those without a computer and will help you access the university's wireless network. For directions and parking information, click here
WILL THERE BE FOOD? The most important question! Yes, we will provide free food and drinks.
There will be a Skype session open to every concurrent edit-a-thon. Questions and ideas can be exchanged between groups and editing efforts can be coordinated. We'll be updating the Topic Page in real time, with editors signing next to articles they're working on, so anyone with a Wikipedia account can log on and do the same. So far, Wikipedians from
Colorado Mesa University
have all agreed to have their own meetups at their locations to work on this project!
The following are topics that MfSU Library staff have identified as needing attention, but participants are encouraged to pursue their own interests as well. Hyperlinked topics already have Wikipedia articles, but may need citations, or more information.
Some of these topics are mentioned briefly in other articles, so if you create a new article, try to search for that topic in Wikipedia so that you can create links back to your work.
Sign up for the article you'd like to work on here: (Topic Page in development, feel free to add)
- List of Rivers of Montana
- List of rivers by length
- Missouri Headwaters State Park
- Yankee Jim Canyon
Gold in Montana
Water research and advocacy groups
- Montana AWRA (Website)
- Montana University System Water Center (Website)
- Montana Watershed Coordination Council (Website)
- Montana Wetland Council (Website)
Online Research Sources
Resources coming soon!
- GLAM Beginners Guide
- Wikipedia Tutorial
- Citation guide
- Formatting Shortcuts -
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The Paks NPP is the only operating four-unit nuclear power plant in Hungary, built on the basis of the Soviet design with VVER-440 reactors. Currently, preparatory works are underway for the construction of the fifth and sixth power units (Paks II NPP) with reactors based on the Russian VVER-1200 technology of the 3+ generation, in which JSC Siltumelektroprojekts takes an active part.
- Development of design and detailed design documentation
- Development of the construction organization plan
- Development of the work execution design
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SAMHSA Helpline/Treatment Locator
A confidential and anonymous source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance use/addiction and/or mental health problems.
SAMHSA National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI)
SAMHSA's National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) improves treatment and services for children, adolescents, and families who have experienced traumatic events.
SAMHSA–Guidance to States and School Systems on Addressing Mental Health and Substance Use Issues in Schools
This Joint SAMHSA-CMS informational Bulletin provides guidance to states and school systems about addressing mental health and substance use issues in schools. It provides examples of approaches for services in schools and describes some Medicaid authorities that states may use to cover services.
SAMHSA–Official Page on Trauma
SAMHSA–Official Page on Trauma and Violence
SAMHSA–Addressing Risk of Violent Behavior in Youth
SAMHSA–Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Resources:
A. School Mental Health Resources
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“More than one in four Africans—close to 218 million people—is undernourished,” the UN Development Program declared in a recent report. With food prices gyrating upward in recent years, the situation has reached a crisis. What’s the answer?
According to President Obama and his fellow heads of state in the G-8 (United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, and Russia), the solution lies in the private sector. At last weekend’s G-8 summit at Camp David, the group launched “The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition,” described as a “commitment by G-8 nations, African countries and private sector partners to lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years through inclusive and sustained agricultural growth.”
The “private-sector partners” in the alliance have pledged $3 billion in new investments in African ag over the next decade. And what are the companies that President Obama and his G-8 peers have tapped to lift Africa out of hunger? Their number (list here) turns out to include global agribiz giants Cargill, Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, and Yara, and junk-food behemoths Unilever, Kraft, Hershey’s, and Mars.
And a whopping $2 billion of the total $3 billion in pledged investments will come in the form of a single “world-class fertilizer production facility” planned by the Norwegian company Yara, the globe’s largest nitrogen-fertilizer company, according to USAID, the State Department’s ag-development arm.
Over on the Triple Crisis blog, Tufts researchers Sophia Murphy and Tim Wise spell out what’s wrong with this picture:
The private sector is not just like government, only a little different. It is ENTIRELY different. Corporations are accountable to their shareholders, obliged to make a profit. They are not charities. They are bound by law, but not by the public interest. They are not bound by the outcomes of the Paris and Accra Aid Effectiveness conferences, which committed donors to allow and encourage national ownership of development spending and to better coordinate their efforts. They are not bound by the five Rome Principles, agreed by over 60 Heads of State at the 2009 World Food Summit, which reinforced the aid effectiveness outcomes focused specifically on donor investments in agriculture. Corporations are not parties to the human rights covenants that oblige most governments to realize the universal human right to food.
As Murphy and Wise point out, in order to join the alliance, African governments had to agree to “refine policies in order to improve investment opportunities,” which is an uncomfortable echo of the old IMF “structural adjustment” agreements that forced countries to open their food markets to foreign competition in order to qualify for loans. On Alternet, Jill Richardson has a good post on how large agribiz projects often have little relevance to Africa’s small-scale farmers—the very people best positioned to solve the continent’s hunger problems.
Already, some of the major partners have proven to be dubious, at best, players in food-deficit countries in the Global South. In India, for example, GM seed giant Monsanto has aggressively marketed its premium-priced, patented Bt cotton seeds to small scale farmers, to the point where in swaths of the country, no other cotton seeds are available, according to a report from New York University Law School’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Results have been disastrous:
In Andhra Pradesh alone, at least 17,775 farmers committed suicide between 2002 and 2009. There, Bt cotton crops generated much lower yields than non-Bt cotton crops for smallholder farmers during years with drought. The use of Bt cottonseed, contrary to advertising, also failed to reduce pesticide usage for many farmers. Moreover, high seed prices raised the farmers’ input costs, while sale prices remained low. In the state of Maharashtra, more than 2,500 farmers committed suicide each year between 2002 and 2009.
And Yara, the Norwegian behemoth that plans to build that above-mentioned fertilizer factory, is embroiled in scandal even as the G-8 issues glowing press releases about its intentions in Africa. Two “senior executives” resigned last week amid a corruption probe by the Norwegian government, and the company “has faced several police probes over the past two years in relation to its ventures or operations in Switzerland, Libya and India,” Reuters reports.
This shift in emphasis from public to private commitments comes at a time when rich-country investors are snapping up prime African farmland to grow food and fuel crops for rich-country consumers.
What’s to stop companies like Monsanto and Yara from using the G-8 initiative to gain a foothold in Africa, and then exploiting it merely to sell pricey agrichemicals and other inputs to large operations using Africa’s best land for export crops? Such a scenario would do much more to burnish their own bottom lines than to create a resilient, abundant food system in Africa for Africans.
Back in 2008, a global group of scientists convened by the World Bank and the United Nations filed a report on how policymakers should respond to the global food crisis and the specter of hunger in the global south. Known as the The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), the report concluded that “business as usual is no longer an option”—meaning that the world’s hunger problems will not be solved by resort to increasingly expensive and environmentally damaging agrichemicals. Obama and his G-8 peers have defied that advice by putting the likes of Yara and Monsanto at the center of their food-aid efforts in Africa. | <urn:uuid:788922f6-b3c5-408c-bc53-3724162eef69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://practice.motherjones.com/food/2012/05/obama-g-8-agrichemical-industry-will-sort-out-africas-food-woes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946856 | 1,208 | 2.234375 | 2 |
High-Reactivity Metakaolin Makes Glass-Aggregate Concrete Practical and Beautiful.
By Michael Chusid, RA, FCSI
Photos courtesy Wausau Tile
“Blues, reds, yellows, greens – vibrant colors that Mother Nature doesn’t make,” says Rodney Dombrowski, Terra Paving Division manager of Wausau Tile, Wausau, Wis. “Designers are very excited about the color and appearance of our new precast concrete products with recycled glass,” Dombrowski adds, “but honestly, Wausau Tile wasn’t even thinking of that when we got involved five years ago with the recycled glass concrete program at Columbia University.”
Dombrowski is speaking about his company’s new line of concrete products filled with brilliantly colored chips of recycled glass. Its story is the confluence of a precaster with a social conscience, a scientist with aesthetic vision, a supplementary cementitious material with all the right properties, and a design community searching for building materials that present fresh design options and greater sustainability.
For Wausau Tile, the key word was “recycled.” In tune with the gathering green revolution, the folks at Wausau Tile wanted to offer an environmentally responsible product. When they heard that a professor of engineering and his team at Columbia University in New York City, had conquered the age-old taboo against glass aggregate, they were interested.
Of all the commonly collected post-consumer materials, glass has been among the most difficult to recycle. Broken, mixed-color glass has proved virtually impossible to reuse cost-effectively. Mountains of it heap up without a buyer. New York City, for example, collects more than 150,000 tons of glass per year, much of which ends up in a landfill because it can’t be recycled.
Employing crushed glass as concrete aggregate would seem an obvious choice, but it has long been known that glass causes portland cement concrete to crumble due to alkali-silica reaction (ASR). ASR occurs when hydrated lime in concrete, released during portland cement hydration, reacts with siliceous materials like glass. The reaction forms a gel that expands and creates internal forces that can fracture concrete and destroy a structure.
For the most part, the concrete industry simply avoids aggregates that are known to be reactive in concrete. In many cities, however, the local sources of nonreactive aggregates are depleted, forcing the concrete industry to embrace alternative strategies for mitigating ASR. However, no one had solved the challenge of using the ultimate reactive aggregate: glass.
At least, no one did until about 12 years ago when Christian Meyer, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering at Columbia, was approached by Erik Vagle, owner of a roofing company in Brooklyn, who suggested finding a use for New York City’s waste glass. There had been extensive research on ASR, notes Meyer, “but no one had specifically addressed the issue of glass. Everyone just ‘knew’ that you don’t put glass into concrete.” Meyer, however, saw glass as the perfect way to study and quantify ASR, since the reactivity of glass is more consistent and predictable than any natural aggregate. “We went straight to the worst aggregate,” he says with a chuckle.
Meyer and his team’s thorough research made surprising discoveries. For instance, the severity of the ASR reaction varies with the color of glass. He also discovered that the alkali silica reaction of very finely ground glass particles did not create destructive forces within concrete; its alkali-silica reaction occurs so quickly – within hours after hydration begins – that it is completed before concrete hardens and therefore doesn’t fracture it.
While Meyer pursued the use of fine-ground glass as a partial replacement of fine aggregate in concrete block, he had more ambitious objectives in mind. Believing that the decorative value of glass could help support its recycling costs, Meyer sought a way to use it as coarse exposed aggregate. He reasoned that if he could include large glass chips, big enough for their beauty to be seen and used architecturally, it would create an important market for post-consumer recycled glass. After several years of research, he found the answer to this challenge.
“We found that high reactivity metakaolin (HRM) is the most effective admixture you can use to suppress ASR,” declares Meyer. Metakaolin belongs to a class of supplementary cementitious materials known as pozzolans. Pozzolanic concrete additives react with lime to form additional cementitious materials, strengthening and densifying concrete. Fly ash, the most commonly used pozzolan, is capable of controlling or eliminating ASR due to the use of reactive stone, but it can’t cut it with glass; metakaolin can.
Metakaolin was a perfect match for Meyer’s architectural ambitions, too. It is bright white, works excellently with white portland cement, and even brightens gray portland cement and integrally colored concrete. Set in a matrix of concrete brightened with metakaolin, the sparkle of glass is even more dazzling.
Wausau Tile saw the potential. “Building is going green,” explains Dombrowski, “and these recycled glass products fit the need. They all meet LEED requirements.” Wausau Tile licensed Meyer’s technology and, over a period of three years, perfected its glass concrete using MetaMax HRM from BASF Kaolin and a proprietary mixture of other additives.
Using metakaolin, Wausau Tile has been able to make glass aggregate versions of all its precast products, including site furnishings such as benches, tables and planters; concrete pavers; and terrazzo tile. “The glass in our products is 100 percent post-consumer/post-industrial recycled content and accounts for approximately 33 percent of our product’s weight,” notes Dombrowski, adding that it helps designers qualify for the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED credits promoting the use of recycled-content building materials.
MetaMax is a good fit for Wausau Tile’s sustainability objective. It is a manufactured pozzolan that can be substituted for up to 20 percent of portland cement in a concrete mix.
Wausau’s glass concrete creations quickly found favor with architects and designers, not only for their recycled content but also for their striking appearance. “Our natural aggregates are rock and don’t offer the vivid colors or sparkle that can be obtained with glass,” says Dombrowski. “Designers who want to build with concrete now have new colors available to them. Probably 50 percent of our sales are because of the “green” nature of the product, but 50 percent are because of visual appeal.”
Wausau offers different mixes of glass color, set in both white and tinted matrix. The white matrix shows off the recycled material with a particularly gem-like sparkle. It’s made with white portland cement and metakoalin, a combination that has proved so bright and durable that it has also been approved for high-visibility precast concrete highway barriers used by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and other government agencies.
As a manufactured product, metakaolin’s brilliant white color is highly consistent, so batches of tile can be easily matched. By increasing the density of concrete, metakaolin helps to prevent concrete staining and weathering. Designers can be confident that the initial attractive appearance will not diminish.
For example, the stability and consistency of concrete made with metakaolin has been dramatically demonstrated in the ongoing restoration of Shepherd Hall, a 100-year-old building at the City College of New York. The building’s failing terra cotta ornamentation is being replaced by 40,000 precast units of glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) made with MetaMax. The replacement work began in 1991 and has involved several different precasters from across the country. The color uniformity has been maintained, and precast units installed more than 15 years ago blend seamlessly with new ones.
Wausau Tile’s most striking glass concrete product is probably the terrazzo tile, available in 12-inch, 16-inch and 24-inch squares, featuring glass chips ranging from 1/16-inch to 3/8-inch in size. Wausau Tile manufactures the only machine-pressed cementitious terrazzo tile made in North America. The richly hued tiles have been used in schools, libraries and even art museums.
Defying psychological associations of glass with fragility, Wausau’s tile is durable enough for high traffic uses. Ranging from 1/2-inch to 7/8-inch thick, they have compressive strength of 8,000 psi due in part to additional strength created by metakaolin. (It produces both high early strength and increased long-term strength, up to 18,000 psi.) “The tile itself is very strong,” says Dombrowski. “Bedding it using thin-set mortar over a concrete slab makes it pretty much indestructible.”
Dombrowski sees his glass concrete products as a way to make the recycling concept more accessible to the public. “With some products made from recycled materials, you wouldn’t know it,” he explains. “If it’s a stud in a wall, you never see it. With glass in terrazzo, it has a lot of aesthetic value.”
For more information, visit Wausau Tile’s website at www.wausautile.com
Michael Chusid is an architect and a Fellow of the Construction Specifications Institute. He is principal of Chusid Associates and provides technical and marketing consulting services to support the development of innovative building materials. He can be reached at www.chusid.com.
According to Richard Zap, MetaMax product manager for BASF, pozzolans form additional cementitious material in concrete by chemically combining with hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide). The extra cementitious material increases the strength of concrete and plugs pores in concrete to make a structure less porous and more durable. The lime, on the other hand, is a product of inefficiency in portland cement hydration. It does not contribute to the strength of the concrete, but rather takes up space where cementitious material might otherwise be.
Lime can cause several problems affecting concrete’s appearance, integrity and porosity. The alkaline lime reacts with some siliceous aggregates to form expansive ASR that can fracture concrete. Lime can also leach out of concrete, forming unsightly powdery deposits on concrete surfaces (efflorescence) and leaving behind microscopic pores that make concrete more prone to water and chemical infiltration. Increased porosity also leaves concrete vulnerable to staining and to attack by external sulfates that may be dissolved in ground water. Pozzolans such as high-reactivity metakaolin help to prevent these problems by converting lime into cementitious compounds that create a stronger and denser concrete.
Pozzolans have been in use in concrete since the time of the ancient Romans who mixed pozzolanic volcanic ash with lime to build the Pantheon and the aqueducts that have withstood the test of time for more than two millennia. Some common pozzolans such as fly ash and silica fume are industrial byproducts that vary in color from batch to batch, posing color consistency problems for architectural and decorative products.
High-reactivity metakaolin, on the other hand, is specially produced to provide consistent coloration and performance in concrete. BASF produces metakaolin from kaolin clay. When purified and calcined under carefully controlled conditions, the mineral becomes a highly reactive pozzolan that has been demonstrated to increase concrete strength and durability, resist corrosion and minimize ASR, sulfate attack and porosity. It makes concrete easier to work. Concrete finishers often describe it as giving concrete a “creamy” or “buttery” feel. It is a consistently bright white in color and noticeably brightens both the gray and white portland cement concretes.
An AIA/CES-approved continuing education course on high-reactivity metakaolin is available online. One hour of HSW credit is available upon passing the course.
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2011 Florida Statutes
351.37 Railroad safety.—The state shall supplement and not replace the responsibility of the Federal Government in the inspection of physical conditions of railroad facilities within the state to ascertain compliance with federal standards and regulations. Because this is a supplementary program, the state shall not be deemed to be liable for any actions or omissions in inspecting or failing to inspect railroad facilities. The provisions of this act replace all other provisions in the Florida Statutes relating to jurisdiction over railroad safety.
History.—s. 3, ch. 78-88; s. 5, ch. 80-289; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 12, 14, ch. 82-90; s. 54, ch. 84-309; ss. 5, 6, ch. 92-192; s. 143, ch. 99-13. | <urn:uuid:8be37d0e-b922-4846-89e1-1519d3f3d3af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2011/351.37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.837531 | 190 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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"Survival of the Sickest: "Health Insurer Assurant Settles Discrimatory Pricing Complaint," Murray Waas, International Business Times, July 10, 2015.
When executives at Assurant Health announced last month that the company would be going out of business, they blamed Obamacare. And they had a point. The sweeping healthcare revision outlawed one of Assurant's most profitable practices: charging its sickest customers higher prices or pulling their coverage entirely.
A complaint the company settled with Montana’s commissioner of securities and insurance, made public Thursday, offers a glimpse into how Assurant Health does business even as it winds down operations. The complaint alleged that the insurer discriminated against less-healthy customers and manipulated prices. In settling the allegations made by the state’s insurance commissioner, Assurant did not admit to any wrongdoing, but it agreed to pay $1.7 million in refunds to Montana customers and a $25,000 fine to the state. The settlement was signed July 1.
Assurant Health’s accusation that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) killed its earnings turns out to be true. Assurant’s decline illustrates the law’s effectiveness as a tool for preventing discriminatory practices in health coverage. Assurant Health, which once provided more than 1 million Americans with health insurance, generated $1.9 billion in revenue in 2014 but posted a loss of $64 million. In the first quarter of 2015 alone, it lost $84 million. The company’s profits sank at least in part because it could no longer engage in what federal and state regulators say were unethical practices to rid its rolls of the sickest patients. The ACA made many such practices illegal...
But allegations in the Montana insurance commissioner’s complaint illustrate that Assurant Health -- even as it’s shutting down -- has continued to engage in practices that are no longer legal.
Commissioner Monica J. Lindeen’s complaint alleged Assurant charged two prices for the same health-insurance policies: a lower price for healthier customers and a higher price for sicker Montanans. Lindeen said Assurant Health offered what it called “discounts” to customers who had very few health-insurance claims...
More serious allegations in the past centered on claims that Assurant engaged in a practice known as “rescission” or “post-claims underwriting” in which the company conducted aggressive investigations of customers diagnosed with life-threatening and expensive illnesses -- such as cancer, HIV or lymphoma -- to find some pretext to cancel their policies. Investigations between 2005 and 2010 by state and federal regulators, as well as a U.S. House of Representatives committee concluded that very rarely was a customer’s health insurance canceled for a legitimate reason.
The practice of rescission largely ended as a result of a national outcry following reports that WellPoint, then the nation’s largest health insurer, had specifically targeted women with breast cancer for investigation and cancellation. President Obama and his administration condemned the conduct and pressed WellPoint to stop. WellPoint announced it would end the practice and soon the entire health insurance industry agreed to do the same, ending decades-long practices by WellPoint, Assurant and other companies...
"Justice Department Officials Slam Obama Administration For Not Enforcing Law Barring States From Jailing Too Many Youths With Adults," Murray Waas, International Business Times.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is failing to sanction states that house excessive numbers of teenagers and children in adult jails and prisons, placing them at greater risk for violent attacks, sexual assaults and suicide, two career Justice Department employees plan to testify Tuesday in front of a Senate panel.
Under a 1974 law known as the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, the Justice Department is required to sharply curtail some federal aid to state governments when those states incarcerate too many juveniles and children in adult jails and prisons. The law also demands that the federal government withhold such funds from states that lock up large numbers of so-called status offenders -- children and teens who have engaged in minor offenses such as truancy, curfew violations, drinking alcohol or running away from home.
The law was later amended to require the Justice Department to also cut grant money to states that fail to make fixes after the determination that their criminal justice systems hold "disproportionate" numbers of minority youths.
The two career Justice Department officials are expected to testify that the Obama administration is in violation of federal law by continuing to provide these funds to eight jurisdictions that do not meet one or more of those standards: Virginia, Illinois, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Idaho and Alabama, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico...
"Allen Stanford Files 299-Page Appeal for 110-Year Sentence," Michael Lindenberger and Murray Waas, Dallas Morning News, October 5, 2014.
WASHINGTON — Even tucked away inside a high-security federal prison in Central Florida, former Houston billionaire banker Allen Stanford is still thinking big — and flouting the rules.
Stanford filed a 299-page brief last month with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, making no fewer than 15 lengthy arguments about why he should be set free. He was convicted in 2012 on 13 felony charges related to America’s second-largest Ponzi scheme ever and sentenced to 110 years in prison.
Before being halted by a federal judge in Dallas in 2009, Stanford’s fraud had drawn in more victims than any other investment scheme in American history. There are more than 18,000 outstanding claims from defrauded investors and thousands more under review.
Investors had deposited about $5.5 billion with Stanford, and so far just $72 million has been repaid to investors...
"Inside the Grand Jury: "Why Texas Governor Rick Perry Was Charged With Two Felonies," Murray Waas, Vice, August 16, 2014.
A grand jury indicted Texas governor Rick Perry late yesterday on two felony charges alleging that he had abused his public office and engaged in the coercion of another public official—a district attorney who was investigating Perry’s administration and political backers.
The criminal charges stem from Perry using the official powers of his office as governor to attempt to remove Rosemary Lehmberg, a Travis County district attorney, from office, while Lehmberg was investigating allegations that Perry’s political allies and campaign contributors had received preferential treatment while obtaining grants from a Texas state cancer-fighting agency.
After Lehmberg pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges last year, Perry vetoed a $7.5 million appropriation by the state legislature to fund the Travis County Public Integrity Unit of the district attorney’s office. Perry said he vetoed the funding for the anti-corruption unit because the drunk driving charges proved that Lehmberg was unfit for office—while others viewed the governor’s actions as an attempt to stymie and defund an investigation of many of Perry’s closest political associates as Perry himself was preparing his second run for the presidency...
"Ex SEC Regulator Spencer Barasch Resigns From Lawfirm Amid Questions About His Work for Ponzi Fraudster Allen Stanford," Murray Waas, Vice, July 24, 2014.
A former senior Securities and Exchange Commission official, Spencer Barasch, quietly resigned earlier this month as a partner at the Texas law firm Andrews Kurth after facing intensifying scrutiny of his legal work for Houston financier R. Allen Stanford, who is serving a 110-year prison sentence for masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
Barasch stepped down as Andrews Kurth's head of corporate governance and securities practice not long after a five-part series published by VICE detailed previously undisclosed potential violations of federal conflict-of-interest laws by Barasch while representing Stanford and raised questions as to whether Barasch had given false and misleading testimony to federal investigators to conceal from them the nature of that legal work.
Barasch’s resignation also came shortly after the settlement of a bruising legal malpractice case against Andrews Kurth by a real estate developer. The plaintiff had alleged that his company received substandard legal advice from the law firm because of the firm’s dual representation of the developer and Stanford for the very same real estate transaction...
"The Derailment of the SEC, Part V: "Why a Respected Law Firm Allegedly Risked Breaking the Law Representing a Rogue Billionaire," Murray Waas, Vice, June 18, 2014.
A former Securities and Exchange Commission official and his law firm sought millions of dollars in new legal business in 2006 from financier R. Allen Stanford—during the same period of time the law firm had agreed to defend Stanford before the SEC, despite warnings from the SEC’s ethics counsel that any such representation would be illegal.
Stanford lavished lucrative legal business on former SEC enforcement officer Spencer C. Barasch and the Houston law firm of Andrews Kurth, where Barasch is a partner, to persuade them to defend him before the SEC. Initially, in 2005, Barasch and Andrews Kurth turned Stanford down when he asked them to represent him before the SEC, telling him that to do so would violate federal conflict-of-interest laws. In 2006, however, Barasch ignored the legal prohibition and agreed to do so anyway.
Confidential Andrews Kurth billing records show that in 2006, while Stanford was pressing Barasch and Andrews Kurth to defend him before the SEC, Stanford hired the law firm to represent him on seven other legal matters, adding an eighth in 2007. In addition, according to a former Andrews Kurth employee, Barasch told his fellow partners that they stood to earn as much as $2 million a year for defending Stanford before the SEC. Previously, Stanford had been only a relatively modest client for the law firm. Barasch and Andrews Kurth declined to comment for this story.
"Romney Rejected Birth Certificates for Gay Parents," Murray Waas, Boston Globe, October 25, 2012.
It seemed like a minor adjustment. To comply with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in 2003, the state Registry of Vital Records and Statistics said it needed to revise its birth certificate forms for babies born to same-sex couples. The box for “father” would be relabeled “father or second parent,’’ reflecting the new law."No Menton of 'Transgender' 'Bisexual' Under Romney," Christopher Rowland and Murray Waas, Boston Globe, June 12, 2012.
But to then-Governor Mitt Romney, who opposed child-rearing by gay couples, the proposal symbolized unacceptable changes in traditional family structures.
He rejected the Registry of Vital Records plan and insisted that his top legal staff individually review the circumstances of every birth to same-sex parents. Only after winning approval from Romney’s lawyers could hospital officials and town clerks across the state be permitted to cross out by hand the word “father’’ on individual birth certificates, and then write in “second parent,’’ in ink...
Former governor Mitt Romney’s administration in 2006 blocked publication of a state antibullying guide for Massachusetts public schools because officials objected to use of the terms “bisexual’’ and “transgender’’ in passages about protecting certain students from harassment, according to state records and interviews with current and former state officials.Romney aides said publicly at the time that publication of the guide had been delayed because it was a lengthy document that required further review. But an e-mail authored in May of that year by a high-ranking Department of Public Health official - and obtained last week by the Globe through a public records request - reflected a different reason.
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Waste Management, based in Houston, Texas, a leading provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America, has released its 2014 Sustainability Report, titled “Creating a Circular Economy,” which documents the company’s progress on recycling, energy production, transforming waste into valuable resources and helping businesses move toward zero waste.
“As our customers have become more focused on waste reduction, so have we,” said David Steiner, Waste Management president and CEO. “By finding new ways of extracting value from the materials we manage, we’re making advancements toward our long-term business strategy, and helping others do the same.”
“We believe we can reuse materials in a ‘circular economy’ that operates as a true closed-loop system, where little is wasted. There’s a lot of work ahead to make this vision a reality, but we’re committed for the long run because we see the potential to radically transform the way we all define — and interact with — waste,” continued Steiner.
In its latest Sustainability Report, Waste Management lists amongst its many achievements the ongoing lowering of emissions: By the end of 2014, Waste Management will operate over 70 natural gas fueling stations to power its growing fleet of alternative fuel trucks, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The company currently operates more than 3,500 of these vehicles, the largest fleet of its kind in North America.
Natural Gas Vehicle Milestones:
- Waste Management set a goal of reducing total fleet carbon dioxide emissions by 15 percent below 2007 levels by 2020; it achieved fleet CO2e emissions of 18 percent below 2007 levels in 2013.
- With more than 3,000 natural gas collection trucks on the roads in North America, Waste Management has the largest fleet of vocational heavy-duty natural gas trucks in the United States. Fleet expansion continues — more than 90 percent of the trucks purchased in 2013 had natural gas engines.
- Replacement of an old diesel truck (2006 or older) with new natural gas truck reduces diesel fuel use by an average of 8,000 gallons per year and greenhouse gas emissions by about 22 metric tons per year (the equivalent of a 21 percent emissions reduction per truck).
- Natural gas fueled trucks are also quieter than diesel and cut smog-producing nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 50 percent compared to the cleanest diesel trucks.
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Once the right knowledge and understanding is obtained, then one should make the requisite self-effort.
Thereafter the Grace of God transpires to effect and complete the whole process towards Salvation.
RIGHT UNDERSTANDING, RIGHT SELF-EFFORT and GRACE is the triple means which completes the whole process.
And the three Avatars or Messiahs came to project and fulfil this purpose in their lives and teachings.
And not to project a religion each different and distinct from each other.
Religion is the handiwork of ignorant man to keep people in ignorant servitude.
Hence ignore religions.
Your FAITH is in GOD. FULL STOP!
GOD has no religion and has nothing to do with any religion
Hence to obtain the proper understanding one must take recourse to the teachings given by the three world teachers.
They mutually supplement each other and enhance the wisdom-knowledge.
They do not contradict each other, for how could they, but compliment each other.
For, AVATARS cannot contradict each other and did not come to so contradict each other.
Hence sympathetically proceed into the study of the Bhagavad Gita, the teachings of the Buddha and the four Gospels contained in the Bible.
In this, do not permit your bias and prejudice or even hostility to impede and block you from your holy venture of obtaining the holy wisdom and understanding.
That is why, that which imparts this holy wisdom is called the HOLY BIBLE and the HOLY GITA.
I who was schooled in the Hindu tradition and who is also well acquainted with the profound teachings of Lord Buddha, am amazed at the spiritual wisdom teachings of Jesus, as contained in the four Gospels.
Let not the CHURCH DOCTRINE come in your way of understanding and apprehending Jesus’s teaching.
Jesus taught what Krishna taught, and what was also taught in the Upanishads.
He re-worded, and re-phrased the ancient mystic truths.
That is why, Jesus says “I CAME TO FULFILL the law and not to destroy it.”
Yes, He came not only to fulfil the Jewish tradition, but also to fulfil the ancient universal spiritual tradition of the human race.
Hence approach it with an unbiased, FRESH MIND.
And thereby you will garner and gather a wealth of wisdom.
Therefore the combined three is your scripture.
Furthermore, you are the theme and the subject matter of the scriptures.
For, it is you, who has the problem, not God.
As you do not know ‘WHO I AM’.
Therefore you are searching for your identity.
Until you discover yourself, you will be in disquiet.
Thus, God discloses your true identity in the scriptures.
In the Upanishads, He declares; “YOU ARE THAT”, TAT TWAM ASI. You are the Divine in your real nature.
In the Hebrew language, the meaning of the word GOD is; “I AM, THAT I AM.”
THAT invisible DIVINE am I.
The truth is.
No-one doubts his existence.
The only thing is, the nature of his existence is not clear.
So really speaking, man is on a great quest.
To become immortal like the gods.
Therefore human life is the uncovering of God in man.
What a destiny has he.
LIFE ON EARTH is a GOD-BECOMING PROCESS.
The Hindu scripture declares;
BRAHMAVIT BRAHMAIVI BHAVATI.
The knower of Brahman, becomes Brahman.
The PROCESS OF KNOWING, REVEALS BRAHMAN- the Divine within.
How to know???
The ongoing dialogue will gradually reveal.
But, let’s get all the understanding clear.
Jesus says “YOU ARE GODS” (Gospel of John 10-34).
Then Jesus also discloses the triple identity of oneness which exists between Jesus and the Father and their respective identity of oneness with man. (Gospel of John in the Bible 14-21-23).
Thus the unity of man with God is disclosed.
This is astounding knowledge.
No wonder, mortal man fails to grasp the full import of this frightening declaration.
He shrinks from it.
For, it entails him to be god-like in order to be God.
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The news: The National Security Agency’s collection and surveillance of Americans’ telephone records was deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon filed an opinion that found the NSA’s “wholesale collection of the phone record metadata of all U.S. citizens” likely unconstitutional.
Source: The Washington Post
Leon ruled against the constitutionality of the NSA’s surveillance on the basis of the Fourth Amendment – protection against unreasonable search and seizure – and noted that the federal government’s spying programs seem "almost-Orwellian."
He also argued for the ineffectiveness of the NSA’s surveillance. “The government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack … I have serious doubts about the efficacy of the metadata collection program,” he wrote in his opinion.
There is, too, the notion that the legal standing for the program is 34 years old, when the NSA’s current operations were “the stuff of science fiction,” according to Leon.
This is the first major decision against the NSA and the federal government’s surveillance programs. The civil action lawsuit against the federal government and private telecommunication firms was filed by Larry Klayman, a conservative activist, who has been an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama’s administration. Today’s ruling is already being met with cheers from the civil liberties community, including Sen. Rand Paul:
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A while ago on Twitter, I shared some photos from my Year 10’s books showing how I introduce Creative Writing at the beginning of the academic year.
Lesson 1: an exploration of what makes sophisticated writing. Followed by sensory description, which is self-assessed, and vocab hwk. pic.twitter.com/yn02s8kSvd
— Lou Enstone (@englishlulu) November 17, 2019
Some relevant context
This blog post gives a quick overview of how I introduce Creative Writing to my new GCSE students. Before I start a little bit of context (mostly for my friends in the US). I use these lessons at the very beginning of Year 10 (students will be turning 15 during this academic year), it is a brief introduction to narrative writing. My students sit national standardised exams at the end of a compulsory 2-year English Language course. This examination includes creative writing. In fact, writing makes up 50% of the examination grade and of this, creative writing is 50% again. The next vital fact is that students must achieve a certain pass grade in their English Language GCSE – otherwise they must retake!
For my UK based teacher-friends, my school sits the Edexcel exam board. For the creative writing section, they are given a choice of 2 narrative prompts. No pure description. So these are working towards narrative.
Phewee, ok, now that’s over. Let’s get into the writing!
Lesson 1 (download the PowerPoint here)
- As this is my first lesson of the year, with a brand-new class – there is a good 15 minutes of faffing about at the beginning of the lesson. Think seating plans, books etc. We do set up two pages at the front classwork books for sophisticated vocabulary.
- Discuss the difference between basic writing and good writing. Let me be honest here, the point of this exercise is not really to make a list of basic writing skills (SPaG etc) and advanced writing skills. What I really want my students to understand upfront is that the exam board expect a lot from them. As writers they need to demonstrate a level of sophistication that goes far beyond ordinary writing.
- I explicitly teach new vocabulary each lesson (text dependent or not) – these go in a special section at the front of my students’ classwork books.
- Then we do a quick write – it can be based on anything really. The reason is two fold: 1) to refocus students on that list we made, and 2) to make it clear, we are writing in every lesson! If there’s time, we self-assess or peer assess.
Lesson 2 (download the PowerPoints below)
- This lesson is all about unpicking a model (two versions: one from Atwood, one from Harry Potter) and then learning about scientific, observational description of setting. If you’re curious what I mean about scientific description then I explain it in this blog post!
- We go through the simple process of highlighting nouns, then adjectives. Again, read the above blog post for more details. In taking this approach, we talk about creating accurate, observational description.
- My students then have a go. I give them an image. They list the nouns (the bedrock of description), then add precise adjectives focusing on size, shape, colour, text, age etc. This is a great time to recap the correct order of adjectives!
I am sharing two versions of this lesson. One with an extract from The Handmaid’s Tale (I tend to use this with my older students) and then one with an extract from Harry Potter (hey, don’t judge it). Just click to download the files.
Lesson 3 (download the PowerPoint here)
Once my pupils have mastered writing accurate description, we move onto looking at how we add atmosphere to settings. It could be just one sentence, just one phrase to take description from simple to layered with sub-text. This is where I want my students to focus.
- We start again with a mentor text. This time once we have focus on the nouns, we look at the words and phrases that create atmosphere.
- This then moves into our writing. You will notice here that I used an image that would lend itself well to a ‘moody’ description.
- In addition to this, I also introduce my students to my ‘5 golden rules of short story’ writing. By short story, I really mean flash fiction, after 45 minutes isn’t long enough to write a full short story. I keep meaning to blog on this. Suffice to say – at this point we move from descriptive writing onto narrative writing. So watch this space for another post. Anyway, I’ve included my slides above for you!
Lesson 4 (download the PowerPoint here)
I have a lot to say about writing characters and well, writing short stories in general. So this is going to have to be a summary.
- I start this lesson with a variety of famous fictional ‘characters’. The ones I choose often depend on my class. I ask pupils to describe their personalities using just 3 words. Again this is a bit of a skill. So I ask them how their friends would describe them (using just 3 words).
- I talk about the importance of writing a character who has personality.
- Then I introduce them to Hermione Granger – except we call her Kate. Once we discuss her personality traits, how she talks, thinks, acts towards other people, I then pose the question – how would this character behave when searching for something she’s lost.
- A quick write and share follows.
- Then it’s time to swing to the other end of the pendulum, and we meet The Joker – aka Jack. Jack is waiting at a crowded bus stop – how would you describe this? How would his personality traits come out in his behaviour, actions, thoughts?
- Several quick writes later, I ask my students to come up with their own character. It can be based on someone they know, from a book, TV show or film. This person has to be pulled from whatever world they live in, into our world. They have to be rational to a certain extent. They can’t be running around with guns and bombs. But all of the personality traits can remain the same.
Lesson 5 consists of planning a story – we spend a lot of time talking about structuring stories, more on this later.
As soon as I have other posts finished, I’ll link them here. So far the plan is:
- Teaching Restraint in Writing – descriptive writing
- 5 golden rules of writing flash fiction
- Writing character (personality, physical description, action)
- Structuring short stories
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To enable projections of this magnitude, Solotech supplied and installed twelve 20K projectors in custom-built outdoor housings. We also managed and remotely controlled the projection project, using a fully redundant Coolux media system based on a fiber optic connection, and a weatherproof Meyer Sound system comprising 16 audio tracks.
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Ginger Island is a major part of the schedule in Stardew Valley. If you want to collect everything the island has to offer, you’re going to need to do everything on the island. This means you’re going to need to head over to the Island Field Office at some point in your Ginger Island career. This northern-side island holds Professor Snail, who will be a major help for your completionist side. However, the island survey that asks you how many purple starfish and flowers there are on Ginger Island is, frankly, absurd. If you’re as tired of missing the mark as we are, we’ve got the correct answers right here.
How Many Purple Starfish and Flowers are on Ginger Island?
There are 22 Purple Flowers and 18 Purple Starfish on Ginger Island in Stardew Valley. If Professor Snail asks about the flowers, answer with 22. If he asks about Starfish, answer with 18. This will grant you two Golden Walnuts in total, which is far from the maximum that the research station can give you, but they are certainly the easiest!
The main purpose of the Research Station are the fossil donations. These fossils are located all across the island, and are split into multiple categories. To get these, you can head to the Dig Site. Breaking Bone Nodes and digging at artifact spots will get you plenty of Large Animal fossils. You’ll also need to fish and pan in the Dig Site river.
Then, cut weeds in the Jungle and Break rocks in the Volcano for the Frog and Bat fossils. Finally, head to the West Side of Ginger Island to find parts of the Snake fossil by digging and fishing.
Thankfully, the Survey questions are not randomized at all. The answers will always be 22 Flowers and 18 Starfish. You can check yourself by searching through the island, but it is frankly not worth the effort for the single golden walnut you get for counting all of those purple specimen.
If you want more help collecting walnuts, we can help you with the Mermaid Show, which can grant you even more treasures and secrets!
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'Framing of Blockhouse', construction plan, South Africa, 1901
Pen, ink and blue watercolour on silk, signed lower right 'Capt. R.E. Pretoria, 1901'.
Plan and elevation of the octagonal blockhouse erected at Rietfontein, 29 km west of Pretoria, by Pioneer Sergeant W C Leigh, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment in May 1901.
About February 1901, Major S R Rice, commanding 23rd Field Company, Royal Engineers, had the idea of fixing corrugated iron to both sides of a wooden frame and filling the intervening space with shingle; eight frames, provided with loopholes, were fitted together and roofed to form an octagonal blockhouse. Soon after, Rice introduced the circular blockhouse, utilizing pre-curved sheets of corrugated iron.
This pattern was easier to manufacture, required to less materials and transport, and was simpler to fit together in the field - an octagonal blockhouse, like that shown in this drawing, took eight days to construct, while the circular type could be erected in only three or four days. The circular blockhouse was also stronger than the octagonal version and soon became the general pattern. Manufactories were established at Middelburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and other places, where materials for blockhouses were prepared and sent out ready for erection when required.
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National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
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ROMANCE OILS – YLANG YLANG
The history of Ylang Ylang is as an aphrodisiac, however with scientific reason.Ylang Ylang helps to induce deep breathing, which relaxes you and reduces anxiety – hence …….
I found this great article on Ylang Ylang and wanted to share:
I especially liked this information:
“6) Ylang Ylang Essential Oil Uses: As a Surface Treatment
Along with oregano, eucalyptus, tea tree oil, cinnamon oil and lemongrass, ylang ylang essential oils has been shown to exhibit potent anti-biofilm activities. Biofilm, the slimy film of bacteria that adheres to slick surfaces is becoming more of a public health concern because of its role in infectious disease and importance in a variety of device-related infections. (source)
Biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus is also a mechanisms of drug resistance. Of 83 essential oils that were evaluated in a 2014 study published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, ylang ylang oil was a Top 3 performer, destroying upwards of 80 % of the biofilm produced by S. aureus. . (source)The implication is that ylang ylang may make a good home-based topical oil for protecting against certain types of bacteria and potentially virus and other microbial organisms”
Application: Add ylang-ylang to your favorite homemade dusting spray and all-purpose cleaners!
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French to follow? : revitalize the official languages in the workplace / by Patrick Boisvert and Matthieu Leblanc; Issued by CCMD Action-Research Roundtable on Official Languages in the Workplace. : SC94-99/2003
This report reviews progress with respect to official languages over the past three decades, noting that the Official Languages Program in federal government institutions has faltered somewhat over the past decade. The report makes several recommendations for revitalizing the use of official languages in the federal public service, including more extensive investment in language training for middle managers working in bilingual regions and recognition of language training as a key component of learning and career development plans.
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|Title||French to follow? : revitalize the official languages in the workplace / by Patrick Boisvert and Matthieu Leblanc; Issued by CCMD Action-Research Roundtable on Official Languages in the Workplace.|
|Language||Bilingual-[English | French]|
|Other formats||Electronic-[French], Electronic-[English]|
|Publishing information||Ottawa - Ontario : Canadian Centre for Management Development 2003.|
|Description||English text, ix, 44p. : references ; 28 cm.|
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The focus of transport day at the Glasgow Climate Conference (COP26) was almost exclusively on electric vehicles. By neglecting alternate modes of transport like cycling, world leaders are missing an opportunity to reduce emissions rapidly.
Japan is one of few countries whose economic policy officially encourages firms to adopt a four-day work week. Why is a country known for long working hours adopting a progressive policy, and could it be an antidote to Japan’s unique labor issues?
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In the chain log view you can restart any chain process (instance) that was terminated; this in turn ends the chain run.
Depending on the process type, there are two possibilities:
This enables you to restart processes that cannot be repeated with a new instance because the data to be edited is attached to the instance, as for example with a data transfer process. A data transfer process, for example, cannot be repeated with a new request number because the data itself is attached to the request.
You can restart a terminated process in the log view of process chain maintenance when this is possible for the process type. In the plan view of process chain maintenance you can set whether a process can be repaired or repeated when terminated, under Settings → Maintain Process Types (table RSPROCESSTYPES).
Do not change the settings for the SAP process types. Otherwise this could lead to inconsistencies in the data handled by the process.
In the log view of the affected process chain, choose Repeat or Repair from the context menu of the terminated process.
If the process cannot be repaired or repeated after termination, the corresponding entry is missing from the context menu in the log view of process chain maintenance. In this case, you are able to start the subsequent processes. A corresponding entry can be found in the context menu for these subsequent processes. | <urn:uuid:99e5d487-9c66-4a1a-aac6-a68f798000c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_nw73/7.3.16/en-US/f3/0d4a975f450443be900e89a47ad48e/content.htm?no_cache=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.917953 | 272 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Measuring your tennis serve speed
The idea for this App originated from the Tennis Warehouse Community where more than 750 people up voted for this App to be made.
This App has been created with dedication and passion to improve the most powerful skill a tennis player can have: 'the serve'. It uses advanced algorithms to calculate the speed. The calculation is based on the position from where the ball was hit 'till its landing location inside the service box. Holding in account the player's height and most important the travel time of the ball. Taking advantage of the iPhone's great camera, this App allows you to record your serve at 60 fps (frames per second) that provides the best precision possibly out there!
The speed can be calculated in both Mph and Km/h.
Using a simple 4 step intuitive interface, which includes the graphical representation of the court with a moving scale that will further enhance the precision of data entry, you can calculate the serve speed within seconds.
There's a free feature in this app which allows you to save your serve videos including the speed and date. This will help you to keep track of your serve's history, making it easier to review and compare them to your opponents.
Though it is the most accurate serve speed App out there our aim is to achieve 100% accuracy. Therefore, in future updates we are planning to use statistical data from real-life serves to further increase its accuracy. Please feel free to contact us for any comments or concerns regarding this App to help us reach our goal.
Tennis Serve Speed
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Known as the spiritual home of Japanese martial arts, this summer Nippon Budokan will repeat its role as the venue for the Summer game Judo competitions. And just like judo debuted in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, this year marks the debut of another Japanese martial art, Karate.
Karate competitions will include Kata and Kumite. Kata, a solo performance consisting of a series of offensive and defensive movements that target an imaginary opponent. Fans look forward to explosive performances by athletes like Ryo Kiyuna. If you don’t know who he is now, you will soon!
Judo events will see athletes face off with real competitors in the center of the 57 year-old arena. There will be additional excitement as siblings Hifumi Abe and his younger sister Uta Abe both participate in judo competitions. This is a rare occurrence in ANY Olympic event!
In addition to these two immensely popular martial arts, Nippon Budokan regularly hosts national championships for other disciplines such as kendo, aikido and others. The arena has also hosted countless concerts and performances by music artists ranging from The Beatles, Cheap Trick and Bob Dylan to Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne.
Nippon Budokan is not only the spiritual heart of martial arts in Japan, but it’s also located at the heart of Tokyo, and right next to the Imperial Palace – literally a 10 minute walk away! Visitors to Nippon Budokan will enjoy touring the grounds via the Chidori-ga-fuchi Moat, which surrounds the Imperial Palace and Nippon Budokan Grounds, and is renowned for its springtime cherry blossoms. There is a lush green walkway that runs nearly 0.7 kilometers along the moat and is perfect for viewing the blossoms in season, or at night when the trees are illuminated.
A 15 minute walk in the opposite direction to the north, will find you in Kagurazaka, a fashionable shopping and dining district. Once a vibrant geisha district, the cobbled streets of Kagurazaka are now home to chic shops and French dining. Take a stroll down the charming alleys, visit Zenkokuji, where people pray for financial fortune, or try to make your way through the maze-like web of streets and dead ends in Kakurenbo Yokocho, which has a reputation for a history of secrets!
The excitement of Nippon Budokan, the beauty of the Imperial Palace grounds, and the quaint mysteries of Kagurazaka await you! In the meantime, be sure to cheer on the athletes participating this summer. And you can read about the basics of Shoto-Kai Karate with one of our writers, Emily Omarra as she dons a karate-gi and experiences karate first hand. You can read about it here: | <urn:uuid:646972bb-0917-4569-a360-70da28339137> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sportsjourney.jp/highlights/563/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.935767 | 603 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Deconstructing the Myths: A Research Agenda for American Indian Education (Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 14-15, 2000)
This report outlines a comprehensive research agenda for Indian education from the Native perspective. It resulted from a meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico in April 2000, planned by a national steering committee of Indian education researchers, administrators, and association executives.
Contributor: Chavers, Dean
Author's address: Catching the Dream, 8200 Mountain Rd. NE., Suite 203, Albuquerque, NM 87110 ($24.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling); Tel: 505-262-2351; Fax: 505-262-0534.
Date Published: 09-00
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If technology wasn’t ever-present enough in our lives, it’s now coming for our homes, with a wave of smart devices that promise to pander to our laziness. Bluetooth speakers, remote-controlled blinds, thermostats that can be adjusted without leaving the sofa, and of course the invisible presence of Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, are all becoming normal parts of people’s lives. But while we might have sci-fi-style visions of our houses and apartments taking on a life of their own, the smart home still has a way to go.
“We’re not there yet with talking fridges,” says Rebecca Töreman, Development Leader at Ikea’s Home Smart initiative, which has overseen the launch of smart bulbs, Bluetooth speakers, and furniture with integrated wireless charging. “We think the smart home is not affordable enough, simple enough to understand, or compatible enough. Ikea Home Smart comes from the same ambition as Ikea, with the vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people – especially people that don’t have so much money.”
With companies in an arms race to hook up every aspect of our lives to the internet of things, there’s often the sense that people’s real needs are being overlooked. While we might appreciate the ability to turn our heating on before we get home, do we really need to be able to boil our kettle remotely? Will we eventually have an app on our phone for every appliance in the house? | <urn:uuid:72d746bd-5b20-4fa2-b3cd-f1d30446c14e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.creativereview.co.uk/how-ikea-is-bringing-the-smart-home-to-the-masses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952211 | 324 | 1.945313 | 2 |
From Now On
A Lent Course on Hope and Redemption in The Greatest Showman
Paperback |112 pp |178 x 110 mm
eBook |112 pp
** Suitable for online learning and study **
A brilliant new Lent Course for 2019, based on the hugely popular film The Greatest Showman. The 2018 Golden Globe-nominated movie starring Hugh Jackman, about the founder and stars of the Barnum & Bailey Circus is ideal for Lenten study of Christian themes of hope, redemption and new life.
The five-week course offers discussion points, biblical reflections and prayers based on short excerpts from the film. The themes are: (1) ‘A Million Dreams’, exploring what liberation and hope might look like for an ‘outsider’ in the world; (2) ‘Come Alive’, exploring how the family of faith can bring hope and purpose; (3) ‘Rewrite the stars’, asks what forms of resistance can be placed in the way of salvation; (4) ‘Never Enough’, questions the temptations of false fulfilment that can lead us to betrayal; (5) ‘The Greatest Show’, shows how redemption is found when we discover ‘the circus is our home’. | <urn:uuid:3ec68822-23e7-41ef-b93d-0651f0a9d582> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dartonlongmantodd.co.uk/titles/2237-9780232533927-from-now-on | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.882242 | 267 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Yes, those fires in southern California that you are seeing on the television news are affecting horses. The San Diego area is believed to be home to 300,000 horses and it sounds like quite a scramble is on to find places for those fortunate enough to be evacuated by owners prepared for emergencies.
An excellent article in today’s San Diego paper (San Diego Online) gives some insight into what horse owners are experiencing as they try to find places where their horses can be housed in safety.
Highly recommended for ALL horse owners, no matter where you live: watch this short video of Associate Press interviews from the Del Mar fairgrounds, just north of San Diego, where you will see horses and owners trying to cope with the evacuation. And these are the fortunate ones, the ones who were able to mobilize and get their animals out of harm’s way.
As one owner says, “If you can’t get your horse to load, you’re in trouble.”
The video also shows one owner being turned away and referred to a facility in Thermal, California, to the east, on the other side of the fire zone. Except the fires are coming from the east, and it’s not easy to get through. The fires are literally herding the horses to the coast.
What if this happened in your neighborhood? Do you have a plan? Do you have a functional truck and trailer, or a share plan with another owner? Would you or a stranger be able to load your horse quickly?
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Is there any way to remove heat transfer vinyl?
As a sales and manufacturer of vinyl, HTVRONT usually do not recommend that you violently remove it directly from the clothes. Because it is difficult to remove. If the vinyl is removed without any measures, it usually indicates that the heat transfer vinyl has some quality problems.
If you must remove the vinyl. You can try to buy a Heat Transfer Letter Removing Solvent and follow its instructions step by step.
How to remove vinyl from shirt?
How to remove vinyl from shirt? The best way to remove vinyl from shirts is to use heat or steam with an iron, hair dryer or dryer. Chemicals such as acetone, commercial vinyl removers, and Goo Gone can also successfully remove vinyl and vinyl residue. Household products like rubbing alcohol and petroleum jelly can also do the trick.
How do you remove heat transfer from fabric?
- Material: T-shirts, Heat Transfer Vinyl, and Letter Removing Solvent
- Turn your T-shirt inside.
- Apply a few drops of solvent under the wrong vinyl.
- Stretch (or pull out) the fabric where the error is located until the vinyl easily pulls out of the fabric.
- Throw the clothes in the washing machine, dry them, and repaint them with vinyl.
- Re-cut your design (or perform a new operation!) and weed it. Don't forget to mirror your design before cutting!
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We live in an era where religion and politics especially in conservative circles have become one just as they were in the days following Constantine’s granting of religious freedom to all in the Empire while making the Catholic Church the State religion which went from a persecuted Church to an Imperial Church overnight. The Church in the coming centuries became an arm of the State something that until the enlightenment it remained in many nations. Most of the English Colonies that became the United States had State Religions even after the Bill of Rights the last to disestablish its state religion being the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1833. Most European State Churches remained until the fall of the Empires after the First World War but many countries in Europe still have State Churches which are not very vibrant now days.
The curious thing is that until the 18th and 19th Centuries the powers of State Churches were great and heavily benefited greatly through their allegiance to the State. To disobey the Church was to disobey the State and to disobey the State was often tantamount to disobeying God since the State and the rulers thereof were not simply ordained by God but in fact God’s instruments. Unfortunately this led to many abuses of power by those in the Church as well as the State and thankfully we in the United States were able to for the most part break with that tradition which was and is repugnant to the Gospel as well as human freedom.
In fact the United States has been the foremost proponent of religious freedom and tolerance of any nation in history. It was something that we enshrined, the right of all people to worship according to their faith. Now we haven’t been perfect practitioners of our ideal as there have been plenty of religious based prejudice and persecution in this country dating to colonial times, especially of religions outside the mainstream of Protestant Christianity, it took nearly 150 years for Catholics to become part of mainstream America and longer for others especially religions outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Despite those instances our experiment of religious liberty has been an amazing success in which many denominations have prospered.
All that being said I fear we are entering a stage where authoritarian religious groups closely allied with the rich and the powerful are on the ascendant in the United States just as radicals in other religions, particularly Islam but not limited to Islam are on the rise. Frankly I expect that people who are either living in a culture that still believes that the world is like it was back in the 13th Century and those that have become fantastically rich and enamored with the technology of the West to be that way. Let us face facts most of the counties in the Middle East lack the centuries of related social, political, philosophic or religious development that is part of Western culture and we still screw things up. The Islamic World has not experienced anything like the Renaissance, Reformation or Enlightenment. There is a chance that it might amid the pro-democracy and freedom protests that are occurring throughout the Middle East even as radical Islamists dream of a new Caliphate, something that seems to be anathema to many of the young protestors in Egypt and other Arab Nations.
In the United States the movement to religious authoritarian systems closely allied with politicians and the State to do their bidding comes from conservative circles, particularly conservative and fundamental Evangelical Christian churches and the Roman Catholic Church which since the reforms of Vatican Two has retreated into its old Ultramontanistic self.
That being said I figure I should go ahead and continue to dig my grave with my conservative brethren who view anyone to the left of them as a wild eyed raving liberal and quite possibly a Socialist. I am a moderate and I might be classed as a liberal conservative or conservative liberal. Thus I and people like me stand in the uncomfortable middle of a deeply polarized society where most to our left or right despise us for actually deviating from the established dogmas of the left or the right.
To the extreme right I might be a raving liberal, and the far left an intolerant conservative but the I choose to live in the tension between the two, although I think that in today’s Tea Party charged environment I would be called a liberal. But I am a moderate and I will not give up the middle ground simply because others have adopted a scorched earth policy in faith and politics where “if you ain’t for us you’re against us” is the norm. In fact I think that Jesus stood against that kind of thought process, if you don’t believe me look at Mark 9:38-40 where Jesus says something different when the disciples confront him about others casting out demons in his name “he who is not against us is for us.”
As a passionate moderate who is also a Priest and Christian my goal in life is to get along, find common ground among disparate groups and care for God’s people. I do this by acknowledging and maintaining the tensions that are inherent in a pluralistic society and not simply going along what whatever is popular or expedient. This takes a lot of effort and does not exclude being prophetic. However that prophetic role comes in relationship with others where there is mutual respect, civility and care for each other even when we do not agree. It does not come from being angry or acting disrespectfully just because I can. The prophetic role does not come from the outside looking in railing at your opponents. That only increases your isolation, eventually to the point that you are no longer a player in the debate, simply an annoying pest with absolutely no say in anything. It takes more courage to be open and dialogue with people respectfully than it does to rail against them. Anyone can be a critic and anyone can be a wrecking ball. That’s easy. There is little personal risk in doing so, because you don’t have to open you self up to the possibility that there may be some merit in your opponent’s view and once you have a relationship with someone it is hard to demonize or dehumanize them. Unfortunately that is what is happening across the religious and political divide in our society.
Despite the rancor on the extremes I think that there are more people out there like me than not. My belief is that voices like ours are drowned out by drumbeat of competing demagogues on the far right and the far left. Since I am a priest my focus will be on the dangers that I see in the current climate and the captivity that churches have unwittingly placed themselves in making political alliances. These alliances, particularly those of conservative Christians have become so incestuous and so intertwined that they are seen as one with supposed political conservatives. As such these churches and Christian leaders have become the religious voice of political movements fighting a cultural war in which only one side can win and in which there is no room for compromise or dialogue.
In doing so these religious leaders have compromised themselves so that only their followers give any credence to what they are saying. They are so to speak “preaching to the choir” and not reaching out to or even caring about the welfare of their opponents, they are in a sense like the Taliban. They frequently demonize their opponents or for that matter anyone, even other Christians that might disagree with their understanding of the Christian faith.
That is why I say that many have become like the Taliban. If you do not agree with them on their social-religious agenda you are a heretic regardless of how orthodox you are in your actual theology. Theology and belief is no longer the test, the test is if you agree with a social-political-religious agenda which often is at odds with the Christian faith proclaimed by Jesus. This is like the Taliban because the goal is to gain control of the government and use the government to impose a social-religious theocracy where the church uses the “police power of the government” to achieve its goals. Such a message is anathema to the Gospel and its redemptive message that “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting men’s sins against them.” What many churches and Christian leaders have done is to for practical purposes discard any real attempts to engage people with the message of the Gospel in favor of using political power to coerce non-believers into compliance through the police power of the government. This in stark opposition to the early Church which was martyred for their faith in Christ versus their opposition to government policy or social ills, of which there were plenty that they could have protested.
Early in his “Reforming” days the young Martin Luther wrote a book entitled “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church.” It was a severe critique of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church of his era. I think churches today have become captive to various political parties, social and economic theories, movements and ideas. These are not necessarily Christian even though any churches have “baptized” them so to speak. Capitalism for instance is has many benefits, however unbridled capitalism which is not moderated with true concern for the least, the lost and the lonely, is nothing more that economic social Darwinism. It is the survival of the fittest with little concern or regard for real people. People in the world of baptized unbridled capitalism are not people, but consumers and economic units. In the United States we can see this in practical terms where historically US corporations which at one time employed millions of Americans and produced actual good that were in turn exported to the world have outsourced so many jobs and industries to other nations.
This was done in order to increase corporate profits by paying foreign workers almost nothing and not having to abide by US environmental laws or tax codes. This may bring cheaper goods in the marketplace but it has endangered our economic and even strategic military security. Economic power is one of the key elements of national security. In the military we call this the DIME: Diplomatic, Intelligence, Military and Economic power and unless your economy can keep up you will fail. Just ask the Soviet Union. It is interesting to see many Christian leaders and churches talk of capitalism as if came down from heaven even using the Bible to try to bolster their argument. This is just one of many areas where the church is not longer a prophetic voice, but a willing captive mouthpiece for political and economic institutions which at their heart could care less about the Christian faith and wouldn’t mind it going away.
On the left many churches have embraced social reform, the civil rights movement, women’s liberation as well as left leaning and even socialistic economic models and a demonstrated preference for the Democratic Party. While none of these goals of themselves are anti-Christian the linkage to the causes often over the Gospel has hurt progressive Christianity.
On the right conservative churches beginning in the 1970s in reaction to the social revolutions of the 1960s moved lock, stock and barrel to the Republican Party. They were led by men such as Jerry Falwell who founded the Moral Majority in 1979, Pat Robertson who founded the Christian Coalition and Dr D. James Kennedy who founded the now defunct “Center for Reclaiming America for Christ.” Ronald Reagan was the political spokesman and was an outspoken advocate of the role of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. Conservative religious leaders solidified that relationship in the 1990s during the presidency of Bill Clinton, whose sexual proclivities did nothing to help his cause with Christians despite him signing the Defense of Marriage Act. The 1994 “Republican Revolution” and “Contract for America” helped solidify Christian conservatives as a central component of the Republican Party and by that point there was a clear alliance between Christian conservatives and the Republican Party. It was also during this time that politically conservative talk radio became a force in American politics and many on the Christian Right gravitated to broadcasters such as Rush Limbaugh and later Sean Hannity. Conservative Christians now stand at the center of the Tea Party movement and are a force that no Republican politician can ignore if he or she wants to keep their job.
Despite what I have said I am not saying that people’s faith should not play an important part of their political viewpoint. Churches and influential pastors have been an important part of American life and has contributed to many advances in our society including the civil rights movement, which could not have succeeded without the efforts of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and many other clergymen and women, from across the denominational and racial spectrum.
Other examples of where churches spoke to societal wrongs included slavery and child labor. Now this was not a unified front as many churches especially regarding slavery and civil rights opposed these measures. This included the major denominations that split into northern and southern factions over the issue of slavery prior to the Civil War. The Southern Baptist Church is a product of this split. Other churches such as the Methodists and Presbyterians eventually came back together, the Presbyterian Church USA doing so in 1982, 117 years after the Civil War…better late than never I guess. This will not happen with the Southern and American Baptist Convention’s as they are now theologically poles apart.
There has been a trend over the last 20 years or so by many clergy and laity in both liberal and conservative churches to be uncritical in their relationships with political parties. In my view this has emasculated the witness of the church. I have experienced this on both the left and the right. When I was a kid my dad, a career Navy Chief Petty Officer was serving in Vietnam. New to the area we went to a church of the denomination that my parents had grown up in and in which I had been baptized. This was a mainline Protestant church, the name I will not mention because it is irrelevant to the discussion. The minister constantly preached against the war and the military probably assuming that he had no military families in the congregation. At that church I had a Sunday school teacher tell me that my dad was a “baby killer” when I told her that my dad was serving in Vietnam. If it had not been for the Roman Catholic chaplain at the little Navy base in town who showed my family the love of God when that happened, caring for our Protestant family without trying to make us Catholic I would have probably never reconciled with the church.
I trace my vocation as a priest and chaplain to that man. Since I have spent more of my life in conservative churches in the days since I have seen a growing and ever more strident move to the political right in conservative churches. I think this has less to do with the actual churches but the influence of conservative talk radio which has catered to conservatives, especially social conservative Christians. Conservative Christians are a key part of this demographic and it is not unusual to hear ministers as well as lay people simply parroting what these broadcasters are saying. I often hear my fellow Christians on the right talk more vociferously about free markets capitalism, the war on terror and justifying the other conservative causes which are general less than central to the faith in public forums like Facebook. Some of what is written is scary. People who pray for the government to fail, pray for the President to be killed, call anyone who disagrees with them pretty horrible names or prays the “imprecatory Psalms” against their opponents. I saw an active duty Army Chaplain call the President “that reject.” The words of a lot of these folks are much more like Sean Hannity than the Apostle Paul. When I have challenged conservative Christian friends on what I think are inconsistencies I have in some cases been attacked and pretty nastily if I might add.
I see this in stark contrast to the witness of the early church. Pliny’s letter to the Emperor Trajan sums up how Christians responded to real, not imagined persecution for their Christian faith, not social-political cause.
“They stated that the sum of their guilt or error amounted to this, that they used to gather on a stated day before dawn and sing to Christ as if he were a god, and that they took an oath not to involve themselves in villainy, but rather to commit no theft, no fraud, no adultery; not to break faith, nor to deny money placed with them in trust. Once these things were done, it was their custom to part and return later to eat a meal together, innocently, although they stopped this after my edict, in which I, following your mandate, forbade all secret societies.”
Pliny was perplexed because although he thought their religion to be “fanatical superstitions” he could find no other fault in their lives; they even obeyed his order to stop meeting together. My view is that Christians some on the left but especially on the right lost any prophetic voice not only in society, in their respective political party alliances. They have become special interest groups who compete with other special interest groups, which politicians of both parties treat as their loyal servants. This is what I mean by captivity. I think that the church has to be able to speak her mind and be a witness of the redemption and reconciliation message of the Gospel and hold politicians, political parties and other power structures accountable for their treatment of the least, the lost and the lonely; caring for those that to those who seek to maintain political and economic control, merely numbers. The church has to maintain her independence or lose submit to slavery. There are many examples we can look to in this just a couple of relatively modern examples being William Wilberforce and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We can find many others throughout Church history. These men were not apolitical, but they and their ministries were both prophetic and redemptive. They maintained peaceful dialogue with their opponents and helped bring about justice. Billy Graham never gave in to the temptation to endorse any political party. Instead he had a voice and relationship with every US President during his active ministry, be they Republican or Democrat.
It is incumbent on Christians and other people of faith seek to embody this witness in our divided and dangerous world. Christians especially cannot allow themselves to be ghettoized in any political party, or political faction where they are just another interest group even an important one. Nor can they allow their public witness to be absorbed and consumed by the promotion of political agendas or causes, even if those causes are worthy of support. It is a matter of keeping priorities causes can never take precedence over the message of God’s love and reconciliation in Christ. Unfortunately this is too often the case.
My view is that if you build relationships with people by loving them, caring for them and treating them with the same respect that you would want for yourself; even with those that you have major differences, then you will have a place at the table and your voice will be heard. If we on the other hand cauterize ourselves from relationships and dialogue we will be relegated, and rightly so to the margins of the social and political process of our nation. In effect we will ensure that people will stop listening to us not only on the social and political issues, but more importantly in our proclamation of the faith in the Kingdom of God which was proclaimed by Jesus which that comes to us from the Apostles.
Unfortunately I believe that Christians thinking that they are more influential than they are have marginalized themselves. This is because many have compromised the faith by allowing extremists to be the public face of the Christian church in public debates on social, morale and political issues. I hope someday we will rebuild our credibility as people who actually care about the life of our fellow citizens and our country and not just those who agree with us. God have mercy on us all. | <urn:uuid:70a7f1e0-5950-4101-aa47-f2d6df9d63fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://padresteve.com/tag/the-babylonian-captivity-of-the-church/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.978544 | 4,007 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Lab chimpanzees are now free.
(Mirror Daily, United States) Militants for animal rights will be glad to hear news on lab chimpanzees at a research center in the Unites States. The animals will switch labs for a new home, namely a sanctuary. There they will be able to live a much more free life than they were used to.
Nine lab chimpanzees have recently arrived at a special shelter in Georgia. They were born in captivity and used for experiments. All of them are females and about ten years old, and they will enjoy a free life for the first time.
This happy denouement is possible thanks to a non-profit organization, called Project Chimps. The nine primates are not the only beneficiaries of the advocates’ work. Some other two hundred lab chimpanzees will be heading towards Georgia, at the wildlife refuge.
Thanks to the endeavor of the people behind the Project Chimps, the animals will be no longer exploited and used for experiments. This is an important victory for people who have been struggling for years to save the animals from what they consider to be a cruel treatment against them.
Specialists know that chimpanzees are one of the most intelligent animals in the world. They were also regarded as an endangered species, including the individuals that lived in captivity. This law was implemented last year, and it was a great impediment for scientists who intended to base their research on chimps.
Institutions had promised that lab chimps’ situation would be revised before. They should have been transferred to sanctuaries at the beginning of the year, but it only comes to happen now.
Project Chimps committed to taking responsibility for approximately two hundred lab chimpanzees coming from the New Iberia Research Center – a laboratory which used the animals for research. The chimps rescuers stated that they had enough space for them, including a vast outdoors area. The animals will also be given toys, proper food, and any tools they need so that they should live a comfortable, happy life. They will receive medical care, as well.
The sanctuary is located in a Georgian rainforest, and it measures 236 acres. Four special houses for the chimps have been already built inside the sanctuary, and each can host at most fifteen individuals. The owners hope that the animals will get used to their new home as soon as possible.
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The Connecticut Lottery Corporation is a quasi-public state agency. It generates revenue for the state consistent with good public policy and social responsibility. In fiscal year 2021, the Connecticut Lottery Corporation distributed $925 million in prizes to players, paid out an additional 83 million to retailers, and deposited $418 million into the state’s General Fund. The Lottery has contributed $10.6 billion to the state’s General Fund since it began operations in 1972.
US lotteries offer a variety of games. Each game has a slightly different rule set, but the basic concept is the same. The Mega Millions, also known as The Lotto, is available in 47 jurisdictions and can reach a jackpot worth over $500 million. The Powerball draws are held at 10:59pm ET on Mondays and Wednesdays. If you win, you can claim your prize right away. A good lottery site will also save your payment details for next time. | <urn:uuid:11030c22-1827-4013-be90-9047d8d1f5b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://runforoneplanet.com/playing-the-lottery-online-11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96033 | 591 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Renewable Resource Supply Curve Report
New England States Committee on Electricity
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table & Figure Index p. 3
List of Supply Curve Analysis Materials p. 4
- INTRODUCTION: REGIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY
CURVE ANALYSIS p. 5
- OBSERVATIONS: REGIONAL RENEWABLE SUPPLY CURVE ANALYSIS p. 8
III. What The Supply Curve Analysis Is Not p. 10
- Look Back: New England’s Exploration of Coordinated
renewable power Procurement p. 10
- GENERATION Supply Curve Analysis: Wind Resources in
New England & New York p. 12
- Summary of SEA Wind Generation Analysis p. 12
- New England and New York Regional Wind Potential p. 13
- Range of Wind Costs & Implications of Conservative Assumptions p. 16
- 2016 & 2020 Supply Curves & Implications of Different Contract Terms & Assumptions p. 17
- Contributions of Different Types of Wind Resources p. 20
- The Least Expensive Mix of Wind Resources in 2016 & 2020 When
Considering Only SEA’s Generation Costs p. 25
- Transmission To SUPPORT ADDING LARGE AMOUNTS OF WIND
TO northern New England p. 27
VII. OPTIONS FOR integrating wind energy into The regional Transmission system p. 32
TABLE & FIGURE INDEX
Table 1 Total regional wind potential by 2016 p. 14
Table 2 Total regional wind potential by 2020 p. 15
Table 3 Comparison of regional loads, renewable energy needs,
and potential wind resources p. 16
Figure 1 New England Wind Supply Curve – 2016 p. 18
Figure 2 New England Wind Supply Curve – 2020 p. 18
Table 4 Comparison of LCOEs for Different Contract Terms p. 19
Table 5 Typical Reduction in LCOE from Less Conservative
Assumptions p. 20
Figure 3 “Stacked” supply curve – 2016 p. 21
Figure 3A Another View of 2016 – SEA, LLC p. 22
Figure 4 “Stacked” supply curve – 2020 p. 23
Figure 4A Another View of 2010 – SEA, LLC p. 24
Table 6 Mix of wind resource required to meet regional
needs in 2016 & 2020 at lowest LCOE least
generation-only cost p. 26
Table 7 Key results from RLC transmission analyses p. 28
Table 8 Annual wind energy from New Hampshire & Maine –
comparison of Lowest Generation-only Cost Resources
(Table 4) to Transmission analyses p. 29
Table 9 Mix of wind resource required to meet regional
needs in 2016 & 2020 at lowest LCOE Least All-in costs p. 30
Renewable Supply Curve Analysis Materials
available at www.nescoe.com
- NESCOE Executive Summary
- NESCOE Report
- NESCOE Presentation
- NESCOE Technical Appendix
- New England Wind Generation Report – Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
- New York Wind Generation Report – Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
- Wind Generation Presentation – Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
- Transmission Report – RLC Engineering
- INTRODUCTION: REGIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY CURVE ANALYSIS
In July 2011, the New England’s Governors expressed their interest in continuing to explore the potential for joint or separate but coordinated competitive renewable power procurement as a means to enable the states to achieve their clean energy objectives at the lowest all-in cost to consumers. In this context, “all-in” costs means the sum of costs required to construct and operate renewable generation resources plus the cost of transmission upgrades necessary to achieve the preferred level of energy integration or deliverability.
|Costs that would emerge in a competitive procurement process would likely be meaningful lower than the base costs presented here due to the use of conservative assumptions. The magnitude of such reductions could range from $33 to $68 MWh.|
Accordingly, to better inform state policymakers’ consideration of possible ways forward to meet the region’s clean energy and environmental objectives, the New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE) developed an indicative regional renewable resource “supply curve”. In broad terms, the “supply curve” suggests the cumulative amount of renewable energy that would be available for purchase as the price for renewable energy increases.
NESCOE’s supply curve analysis was limited by several parameters. First, it looked at resources available and their costs in two years, 2016 and 2020. The point of the two study years was to illustrate the range and mix of wind resources that may be available in the relative near-term and over the next decade. Second, it focused on resources in New England and in New York. Third, the conservative assumptions used in the base case analysis (e.g., the assumed unavailability of federal financial incentives) means that actual costs for actual projects will likely be less than the base case costs. Finally, the analysis only evaluated wind resources due to the region’s widespread potential for wind development. This corresponds to the predominant resource type that responded to NESCOE’s Request for Information from renewable developers in 2011 and the resources ISO-New England focused on in the technical analysis underlying the New England Governor’s Renewable Energy Blueprint. The focus on wind for purposes of this analysis does not indicate any preference for wind resource relative to myriad other renewable resources that are available in the region to help New England meet its clean energy objectives.
As noted earlier, the analyses reflect several conservative assumptions concerning generation costs. For example, the generation analyses assumed: no federal tax incentives will be available for future wind projects; interest rates consistent with normal economic growth; and, the use of historical hub heights for on-shore wind projects. Changing any one of these assumptions to be less conservative could materially decrease the expected costs. Accordingly, the cost data is directionally indicative; its greatest use is to provide a sense of the relative costs of various resources.
Given the very conservative base case assumptions, actual costs that would emerge from a competitive procurement process would likely be meaningfully lower than the base costs considered herein. The magnitude of such reductions could range from $33 to $68 MWh, with the largest reductions occurring at on-shore wind resources that could most greatly benefit from the use of taller towers. The upper bound on the potential cost reduction of $68 per MWh consists of three components: $10 (lower interest rates) + $23 (continuation of federal incentives) + $35 (use of higher hub heights from some on-shore supply blocks).
To develop a supply curve, NESCOE retained two consultants to provide independent analysis. Sustainable Energy Advantages, LLC (SEA) provided NESCOE with data and analysis regarding the region’s potential wind energy resources and the generation costs for those resources. RLC Engineering (RLC) provided NESCOE with information about cost of, and limits to, transmission projects that would help integrate the output of wind generation projects located in certain geographic regions.
This Executive Summary reviews, primarily through illustrative graphs and tables: 1) SEA’s and NESCOE’s analyses of wind generation and their costs; 2) RLC’s transmission analyses; and, 3) NESCOE’s additional analysis that combined (a) the supply and generation cost data developed by SEA and (b) RLC’s transmission related findings.
- OBSERVATIONS: REGIONAL RENEWABLE SUPPLY CURVE ANALYSIS
- New England’s total potential for wind energy production is sufficient to readily meet regional renewable energy goals. Possible imports from New York could increase the potential regional supply even further. These findings are consistent with the results of NESCOE’s 2010 Request for Information from renewable energy developers.
- These preliminary analyses provide directionally indicative costs for energy from various wind resources. For any particular project developed at a particular point in time, the actual cost of energy from that resource will be determined by market conditions prevailing at that time. However, these indicative cost results are useful in suggesting the types of wind resources that may be most likely to help meet regional renewable energy goals at the lowest overall cost, and in identifying the key issues that determine the mix of wind resources with the lowest “all in” costs.
- If there were no transmission constraints on the existing transmission system, on-shore wind generation located in Maine would provide the majority of wind energy with the lowest generation-related costs. For example, in 2016, 72% of the lowest-cost incremental energy required to meet regional renewable energy goals would come from on-shore generation in Maine. Such generation in Maine would supply approximately 5400 GWh/year out of total regional need of about 7500 GWh/year in 2016.
- However, the existing transmission system is not capable of supporting such an increase in wind generation in Maine. Transmission studies by RLC identified potential transmission upgrades in northern New Hampshire and western Maine that could support substantial increases in wind generation in those areas. The cost of those upgrades and their timing could significantly affect the mix of wind resources with the lowest total costs in 2016 and 2020.
- Specifically, off-shore wind resources in New England and wind imports from New York may require less investment in transmission upgrades than on-shore wind projects in northern New England, depending on the region’s preferred level of “wind integration”. If so, and if the cost of on-shore wind in northern New England reflects at least some of the higher costs of the network upgrades required to integrate that on-shore energy in the desired manner, then by 2020, off-shore wind and imports from New York could become the marginal renewable energy sources for the region, and could begin to contribute towards regional renewable energy goals.
- Thus, a key issue for policy makers’ consideration is the preferred standard for integrating new wind resources. A “REC Only” integration standard – one that only requires incremental wind energy to displace non-renewable energy but does not require that such incremental renewable energy be delivered to major load centers – may lead to the mix of wind resources described later in this report. A “REC Plus” integration standard – g., a requirement that new wind resources meet ISO-NE’s interconnection standard for capacity integration and/or that the energy from such resources be deliverable to major New England load centers – might lead to substantially different mixes of wind resources, as the relative total costs of different resources could change substantially. A REC Plus integration standard would require greater investment in transmission but may also yield greater energy market benefits.
- ISO-NE’s current interconnection process would not support an efficient and effective coordinated renewable procurement process that used a REC Plus integration standard. A REC Plus integration standard would likely require significant changes to the interconnection queue process before one or more states could undertake an efficient competitive coordinated renewable procurement process.
III. What ThE SUPPLY CURVE Analysis Is Not
The supply curve analysis is intended to provide high-level indicative cost information to policy makers about various wind resources. As such, the supply curve analysis does not provide cost data that could support decisions with respect to specific wind projects, for several reasons. First, the analyses are based on wind energy resource data, not on specific cost information about identified projects. The market will reveal actual project costs. Second, the analyses are based on generation and transmission costs developed pursuant to high-level assumptions, any one of which may prove to be wrong over time with the benefit of hindsight. Finally, these analyses did not consider the benefits of any projects with respect to the regional capacity and energy markets.
In sum, this analysis is:
- Not an expression of interest in certain types or locations of renewable resources relative to others;
- Not a regional resource or transmission plan or recommendation;
- Not a projection regarding the actual costs of specific resources or projects;
- Not a recommendation or suggestion to develop any specific resource, group of resources, or transmission upgrades; and,
- Not an estimate of the benefits of any specific resources or projects.
- Look Back: New England’s Exploration of Coordinated renewable power Procurement
In the fall of 2009, New England Governors adopted the New England Governors Renewable Energy Blueprint. The Blueprint included technical analysis conducted by ISO-NE that identified the significant renewable resources located in and around the region and policy analysis that identified the potential for the New England states to coordinate competitive renewable power procurement and to better coordinate siting of interstate transmission facilities.
In mid-2010, in response to the New England Governors’ request by Resolution, NESCOE provided the New England Governors a Report on Coordinated Renewable Procurement. The Report identified potential coordination mechanisms and preliminary contractual terms and conditions.
In early 2011, NESCOE conducted a market survey of renewable resources under development by collecting information from renewable project developers in response to a Request for Information (RFI). The RFI identified: 1) approximately 4,700 MW of new renewable resources that could serve customers by 2016, 90% of which was wind, with 50% of the wind capacity located in Maine; and 2) several transmission proposals that generally corresponded to the generation responses. To encourage responses, the RFI did not request proprietary cost information.
In 2011, NESCOE also formed an Interstate Transmission Siting Collaborative to consider means to better coordinate siting processes for interstate transmission projects. Recently, the Collaborative asked New England’s transmission owners and developers to identify proposed projects through which the states could endeavor to implement some coordination mechanisms achievable in the near-term. This effort is not limited to transmission projects to reach renewable resources but should be helpful to them.
In mid-2011, the New England Governors expressed by Resolution their continued interest in exploring the potential for coordinating competitive renewable power procurement as a means to identify the resources that could help meet regional renewable energy goals at the lowest “all-in” cost.
- GENERATION Supply Curve Analysis: Wind Resources in New England & New York
To provide additional information to help inform regional policy makers about possible ways forward to meeting the states’ renewable energy goals, NESCOE requested SEA to: 1) provide indicative analyses of the potential for developing new on-and off-shore wind resources in New England and New York; and, 2) estimate the relative “generation only” costs of such resources under a specific set of cost assumptions. NESCOE also requested RLC Engineering to provide indicative, high-level cost estimates associated with representative transmission development scenarios that could facilitate the delivery of energy from new wind generation located in northern New England.
- Summary of SEA Wind Generation Analysis
NESCOE requested SEA to estimate the total wind generation that could be developed in New England by 2016 and by 2020, and the total on-shore wind generation that could be developed in New York by 2020. To develop these estimates, SEA divided the New England and New York wind resources into “supply blocks”. For each supply block, SEA calculated values that it used to analyze the availability and cost of wind energy from various resources in that supply block. These included:
- The total capacity in MWs and annual energy in GWh/yr that could be placed into operation by 2016 and by 2020; and,
- The Levelized Cost of Electricity (“LCOE” ). The LCOE is a single, fixed levelized price that would be paid under a long-term contract by a purchaser of all of the electrical output and environmental attributes produced from a wind project in the specific supply block over the specified term of the contract. SEA computed the LCOE for two in-service dates (2016 and 2020) and for three contract terms (10, 15 and 20 years), leading to six LCOEs for each supply block.
SEA’s analyses ultimately consisted of resource potential and cost information on 141 supply blocks in New England and 41 on-shore wind supply blocks in New York.
- New England and New York Regional Wind Potential
The wind resources that could be developed in New England and New York in the study years greatly exceed the region’s needs. The following three tables show regional wind potential by 2016, and 2020 and then compares it to the region’s renewable energy needs. In sum, by 2016, the region could develop 8,012 MW of wind. By 2020, the region could develop 34,596 MW. The resources could supply 21,245 and 118,227 GWh/yr in 2016 and 2020, respectively, versus an expected regional need of 7,500 and 12,250 GWh/yr, respectively.
Table 1 summarizes the total MWs and annual energy that could be developed by 2016.
Total regional wind potential by 2016
|State||On-shore wind||Off-shore wind||Total|
|NY (not calculated for 2016)||0.0||0||0.0||0||0.0||0|
Table 2 summarizes the wind resources that could be developed by 2020.
Total regional wind potential by 2020
|State||On-shore wind||Off-shore wind||Total|
Table 3 compares these potential resources to estimated regional needs in 2016 and 2020. The table shows that the regional potential greatly exceeds the expected regional needs.
comparison of regional loads, renewable energy needs, and potential wind resources
|Total New England energy demand, net of energy efficiency & passive demand resources (GWh/year)||129,444||127,098|
|Total incremental renewable energy needed (GWh/yr)||7,500||12,250|
|Total wind potential (GWh/year), by source|
|New England (on-shore)||13,185||25,839|
|New England (off-shore)||8,060||89,900|
|New England (total)||21,245||115,739|
|Imports from New York (imports in 2016 not considered but may be possible)||0||2,488|
- Range of Wind Costs & Implications of Conservative Assumptions
The regional wind energy resources able to be developed by 2016 and 2020, in Tables 1 through 3 above, have a very wide range of capital costs and expected energy output. Consequently, the LCOEs for those resources also have a very wide range – from $95/MWh to $415/MWh.
These costs reflect conservative assumptions, including:
- No federal financial incentives for any future wind projects;
- Interest rates consistent with normal economic growth; and,
- The use of traditional hub heights for on-shore wind projects.
Changing any of these assumptions to be less conservative could materially decrease the expected LCOEs. Since several conservative assumptions were simultaneously used in developing the base case LCOEs, the actual costs for specific projects are likely to be significantly less than the base case values. As noted later, the potential decreases in the LCOE could range from $33 per MWh to $68 / MWh, with greater decreases for on-shore generation projects that could use taller towers.
- 2016 & 2020 Supply Curves & Implications of Different Contract Terms & Assumptions
Figures 1 and 2 below show the supply curves for New England’s wind resources for 2016 and 2020, respectively. Each figure shows three supply curves, one curve for each of the three contract terms – 10, 15 and 20 years.
FIGURE 1 – 2016
FIGURE 2 – 2020
- The left side of the supply curves shows how the cost of the “last resource added” increases as the total annual wind generation increases.
- Further to the right, the supply curves are relatively flat over large ranges of annual energy production. At certain threshold prices, very large wind energy resources become economically feasible. For example, under a 20-year contract starting in 2016, large on-shore wind projects in Maine with low wind speeds have an LCOE of $149.5/MWh. These wind resources could produce over 1500 GWh/year at this price. Thus, these resources “flatten” the 2016 supply curve (assuming a 20-year contract) between 5500 GWh/year and 7000 GWh/year.
Changed Contract Term Implications
Contract term has a material impact on the LCOE. Shorter contract terms lead to higher LCOEs. Table 4 shows the approximate savings associated with 15 and 20 years contract terms in relation to a 10-year term:
Comparison of LCOEs for Different Contract Terms
|Contract term||Notional LCOE||Savings vs. 10 year contract term|
|10 years||$200 / MWh||–|
|15 years||$165 / MWh||17.5%|
|20 years||$150 / MWh||25%|
Cost Implications of Using Less Conservative Assumptions
As noted, SEA’s analysis is based on conservative assumptions. There is no way to predict with precision what assumptions may prove to be right or wrong over time: neither NESCOE nor SEA know with certainty whether Congress may extend federal financial incentives, what may happen to interest rates, or the extent to which individual on-shore generation project may benefit from the use of taller towers. For illustrative purposes, SEA also estimated the impacts of changing the conservative assumptions used in the supply curves (shown in Figures 1 and 2, above). Table 5 below shows the typical reductions in LCOE that could occur under different assumptions, assuming a 15-year contract term:
Typical Reduction in LCOE from Less Conservative Assumptions
|Change in assumption||Typical reduction in LCOE under 15 year contract|
|Federal financial incentives extended indefinitely||$23 / MWh reduction|
|Current economic climate of low interest rates continues indefinitely||$10 / MWh reduction|
|On-shore projects use higher hub heights to achieve higher capacity factors||$35 / MWh reduction|
|Range of cumulative reductions possible||$33 / MWh for all projects$68 / MWh for on-shore projects that can use taller towers|
- Contributions of Different Types of Wind Resources
The supply curves shows in Figures 1 and 2, above, do not show the types of wind resources that comprise the overall regional resource base. To illustrate the mix of various wind resources, NESCOE created a single supply curve for each study year that shows the contribution of five types of wind resources. These supply curves also assume a 15-year contract term in the years 2016 and 2020.
The five types of wind resources included:
- On-shore wind, small scale projects – typical project size is 10 MW
- On-shore wind, medium scale projects – typical project size is 60 MW
- On-shore wind, large scale projects – typical project size is 125 MW
- Off-shore wind in shallow (< 30 m) water – typical project size is 300 MW
- Off-shore wind in deep (> 30 m) water – typical project size is 300 MW
Figure 3 the “stacked” supply curve for 2016
Another View of 2016
Slide Courtesy, Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
based on conservative assumptions discussed in this Report
the Supply curve for 2020
Another View of 2020
Slide, Courtesy Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
based on conservative assumptions discussed in Report
- Through 2016, large-scale on-shore wind dominates the supply curve through about 10,000 GWh/year. At that point, some off-shore resources become economically feasible. Small and medium scale on-shore resources make minor contributions.
- By 2020, very large amounts of off-shore wind, particularly deep water resources, become technically available, and are economically feasible at approximately $210 / MWh.
- The Least Expensive Mix of Wind Resources in 2016 & 2020 When Considering Only SEA’s Generation Costs
As the information in Figures 3 and 4 above makes clear, the region has a mix of wind resources – and associated ranges of costs – over a very large range of annual energy production. To better understand the mix of resources that may be most likely to help meet the region’s renewable energy needs at the lowest cost, NESCOE more closely scrutinized the left side, or lower portions, of the supply curves.
The analysis identified resources by location (on-or off-shore) and by state:
- That could provide 7500 GWh/year – the estimated regional need in 2016 – at the lowest cost in 2016.
- That could provide 12,250 GWh/year – the estimated regional need in 2020 – at the lowest cost in 2020.
Additionally, imports from New York up to 1000 MW, corresponding to maximum energy imports of approximately 2500 GWh / year, were considered in the supply mix.
Table 6 below shows the least expensive resources required to meet regional needs in 2016 and in 2020 when considering only SEA’s generation costs.
mix of wind resource required to meet regional needs
in 2016 & 2020 at lowest LCOE
Least Generation-only Cost
|Mix of wind resources for 2016 (GWh/yr)||Mix of wind resources for 2020 (GWh/yr)|
|Only generation costs considered||Only generation costs considered|
|New England total||6,929||0||6,929||9,762||0||9,762|
- On-shore wind in Maine dominates the supply mix in 2016. It constitutes 72% of the most economical energy available in that year.
- In 2020, on-shore generation in Maine still constitutes 47% of the most economical energy, with increasing contributions by imports from New York.
- If only generation costs are considered, on-shore wind resources in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire would constitute the majority of the most economical energy, with growing contributions from imports from New York. These findings are consistent with the results of NESCOE’s RFI. The RFI responses suggested a concentrated interest in wind resources in northern New England and particularly in Maine.
- Transmission To SUPPORT ADDING LARGE AMOUNTS OF WIND TO northern New England
Whether the wind resources identified above in Table 6 as able to be developed at the lowest generation cost would serve customers at the lowest “all-in” cost – the cost of generation and transmission combined – depends on whether the existing transmission system in New England could effectively integrate the energy from those wind resources or whether new transmission would be required to integrate that energy into the regional power supply mix (and the cost of such new transmission).
For that reason, NESCOE requested that RLC: 1) examine the ability of the existing transmission system to support the addition of large amounts of wind generation in northern New Hampshire and western Maine; and, 2) to the extent that new transmission facilities would be required to add such generation, identify potential upgrades that could do so; and 3) develop estimated costs and schedules for developing such upgrades.
RLC concluded that significant new transmission would be required to add large amounts of incremental wind generation in those regions. Table 7, below, summarizes RLC’s key findings regarding the upgrades required to integrate large amount of wind generation in these regions.
key results from RLC transmission analyses
|Maximum cumulative wind generation integrated|
|State||Upgrade||Earliest year of initial operation||MWs||GWh/yr||Cost of required upgrades($/MWh of wind energy)|
RLC’s analysis indicated that the single transmission upgrade identified for New Hampshire could integrate enough wind energy to support the low-cost wind in that state. However, the amounts of on-shore wind generation in Maine – suggested in Table 6 as low-cost – exceeds the transmission system capacity that could be developed by 2016 and 2020. Table 8, below, compares the low cost resources in New Hampshire and Maine to what RLC concludes the New England transmission system could handle with the identified transmission upgrades.
Annual wind energy from New Hampshire & Maine –
comparison of Lowest Generation-only Cost REsources (Table 6)
to Transmission analyses
|Energy by 2016 (GWh/yr)||Energy by 2020 (GWh/yr)|
|State||Suggested by Table 6||Feasible per RLC analysis||Need to constrain?||Suggested by Table 6||Feasible per RLC analysis||Need to constrain?|
It may be appropriate to allocate some of the transmission system upgrade costs to the wind resources in northern New England that cause the need for such upgrades. Allocating the costs of that transmission to those wind resources would increase their “all-in” costs relative to wind resources that may not require new transmission. This, in turn, may reduce the total amount of generation from northern New England that is included in the “least all-in cost” supply mix.
To test the impact of the limits to and cost of developing transmission upgrades in northern New England, NESCOE performed a sensitivity analysis in which:
- The cost of on-shore wind generation in Maine and New Hampshire was increased by 50% of the transmission system upgrade costs (expressed in $/MWh) suggested by the RLC analyses; and
- As necessary, on-shore wind generation in Maine was constrained to the limits shown in Table 7.
Specifically, NESCOE: 1) increased the LCOEs for on-shore wind generation in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; 2) constrained on-shore wind generation in Maine as necessary; and 3) “restacked” the wind energy supply blocks, to identify a revised least cost supply mix that reflects transmission costs (“least all-in costs”). Table 9 shows the resulting supply mixes for 2016 and 2020.
mix of wind resource required to meet regional needs
in 2016 & 2020 at lowest “AlL-IN” LCOE
|Mix of wind resources for 2016 (GWh/yr)||Mix of wind resources for 2020 (GWh/yr)|
|Apply 50% of network upgrade costs to on-shore wind in ME, NH and VT, and constrain on-shore generation in ME||Apply 50% of network upgrade costs to on-shore wind in ME, NH and VT, and constrain on-shore generation in ME|
|New England total||4,233||779||5,012||6,798||2,964||9,762|
Observations About the Least “Generation-Only” Cost Resources (Table 6) & Least “All-In” Cost Resources (Table 9)
- If the cost of on-shore generation in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont is increased (and on-shore generation in Maine is constrained to maximum levels indicated by RLC’s transmission analyses), then a larger percentage of regional needs might be supplied from off-shore wind and imports. In 2016, imports and off-shore wind would provide 44% of total regional needs (vs. 8% from Table 6/least generation-only cost). The corresponding values for 2020 are 45% (from Table 9) vs. 20% (from Table 6/least generation–only cost)
- Imports from New York, which are assumed not to require significant transmission network upgrades, are at the maximum allowed values of 1000 MW in 2016 and 2020. By 2020 and to some extent even by 2016, off-shore wind becomes the marginal wind resource. Given the large quantities of off-shore wind energy available at relatively flat costs and the projected decreases in the cost for off-shore wind, it may be reasonable to expect that off-shore wind could eventually increase its share of the region’s renewable energy mix.
However, observations about the least “all-in” cost resources (Table 9) compared to least generation–only cost (Table 6), are based on assumptions, which may or may not prove accurate. First, the observations assume that the existing transmission system cannot support meaningful additional wind generation in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. If the existing system could support additional on-shore wind generation, the amount of economical on-shore wind generation in these states would be greater than what is shown in Table 9.
Second, the observations assume that the generation cost premium for off-shore wind decreases as SEA forecasts. Such cost decreases may or may not happen.
Third, the base case LCOEs for on-shore wind projects were developed using historical hub heights (80 meters). Many wind developers in the region are planning to use taller towers that could achieve higher capacity factors, allowing a corresponding decrease in the cost of on-shore wind energy. If enough on-shore wind projects can employ taller towers that achieve higher capacity factors, then on-shore wind projects may provide almost all of the competitive wind resources.
Finally, the observations assume that the incremental transmission required to effectively integrate new off-shore wind generation and wind imports is significantly less than the incremental transmission required to integrate new on-shore wind generation in northern New England. Off-shore wind generation and wind imports may be able to displace fossil generation with relatively few, if any, transmission upgrades (e.g., by directly interconnecting at an existing coastal fossil generating station). However, such an integration standard could limit the market benefits of those wind resources because they may not be able to displace the highest cost generation or contribute towards regional reliability goals. Adopting a different integration standard, discussed further below, could significantly affect the transmission required by different wind resources and thus materially change the mix of resources with the lowest “all in” costs.
VII. OPTIONS FOR integrating wind energy into The regional Transmission system
This analysis highlights the importance of the preferred level of ‘integration’ for incremental wind energy. The standard for wind energy integration determines the timing, magnitude and costs of the transmission upgrades required for specific new wind resources. How the transmission costs are allocated will, in turn, affect the relative cost-competitiveness of different wind resources.
The results of these analyses and the existing ISO-NE interconnection processes and standards suggests two potential integration standards: a minimum “REC Only” standard, and a more stringent “REC Plus” standard.
“REC Only Integration” – Under this standard, new wind generation would simply need to displace non-renewable energy resources and thus contribute to regional renewable energy goals. For example, an off-shore wind project that connects directly to the switchyard of an existing fossil-fueled generating station may be able to displace one MWh of fossil generation for each MWh of wind generation, without requiring any additional transmission beyond the interconnecting switchyard. Similarly, a remote on-shore wind project could displace nearby gas-fired generation on a MWh-for-MWh basis, with minimal network upgrades. New wind resources integrated under this standard would contribute to regional renewable energy goals, but may not provide the resource’s full benefits in the region’s commodity markets, such as reductions in capacity and energy prices. Some other considerations related to this option are that it could result in energy market congestion with low priced energy bottled up in Maine and New Hampshire and it may lead to increased uplift as more localized operating reserves could be required.
“REC Plus Integration” – Under this standard, new renewable energy resources would need to be more integrated into the regional power supply system. As one example of a REC Plus standard, some specified percentage of incremental wind generation would have to be deemed ‘deliverable’ to major load centers in New England. An alternative version of a REC Plus standard would required that new wind resources be fully integrated into the region’s capacity market, and thus contribute to the region’s installed capacity requirements.
A REC Plus standard would allow new wind resources to produce larger benefits in the region’s commodity markets, but would require additional transmission capacity and associated costs.
New England’s current interconnection process, which considers generation projects serially rather than in groups, would not support an efficient coordinated renewable procurement process that used a REC Plus integration standard. Selection of a REC Plus standard would likely require significant changes to the interconnection queue process to enable ISO-NE to study generation projects in clusters before one or more states could undertake to conduct an efficient competitive coordinated renewable procurement process. It is possible that the REC Only integration standard may allow the efficient development and implementation of a competitive coordinated renewable procurement process without extensive changes to the current interconnection process.
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China on Friday imposed sanctions on U.S. Space Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her instant circle of relatives based on what the Overseas Ministry described as an “egregious provocation.”
Pelosi visited Taiwan previous this week, in what used to be a extremely arguable transfer. China perspectives the island as a part of its territory, however Taiwan has been ruled independently since 1949, consistent with the Council on Overseas Members of the family.
China again and again voiced its opposition to Pelosi’s shuttle to the disputed island, however the U.S. reliable determined to not cancel her plans.
“In overlook of China’s grave considerations and company opposition, Speaker of the U.S. Space of Representatives Nancy Pelosi insisted on visiting China’s Taiwan area. This constitutes a gross interference in China’s inner affairs. It gravely undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, significantly tramples at the one-China theory, and significantly threatens peace and steadiness around the Taiwan Strait,” a ministry spokesperson stated in a commentary.
“In line with Pelosi’s egregious provocation, China comes to a decision to undertake sanctions on Pelosi and her instant members of the family in line with related rules of the Folks’s Republic of China,” they added.
The commentary didn’t come with particular information about the character of the sanctions.
Political analysts have warned that Pelosi’s choice to talk over with Taiwan may just ratchet up U.S.-China tensions. This courting has been strained for years over problems comparable to Taiwan, the arena financial system and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a telephone name ultimate month, Chinese language chief Xi Jinping advised U.S. President Joe Biden to not “play with hearth” over Taiwan. The White Space stated in a commentary that U.S. coverage had now not modified and that it “strongly opposes unilateral efforts to modify the established order or undermine peace and steadiness around the Taiwan Strait.”
Pelosi is the highest-ranking U.S. reliable to talk over with the island in 25 years. Her shuttle additionally cut up positions amongst U.S. lawmakers, with some wondering the timing of the talk over with.
Throughout the shuttle, which used to be a part of a broader diplomatic adventure via Asia, Pelosi stated Taiwan is a symbol of democracy and a fashion for the area.
In every other display of Beijing’s ire over Pelosi’s talk over with to Taiwan, China’s army has been engaging in its largest-ever army drills close to the island.
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Government of Canada announces funding for project to support victims of human trafficking
April 14, 2021 - Edmonton, Alberta
Human trafficking is a heinous crime that disproportionately affects women and girls, as well as vulnerable and marginalized individuals. The Government of Canada is committed to ending human trafficking in all its forms.
Today, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Bill Blair, announced almost $500,000 over four years to REACH Edmonton Council for Safe Communities (REACH Edmonton) for a collaborative project entitled Integrated Response for Victims of Sex Trafficking and Exploitation: Red Deer North, Alberta. This funding is made available under the Contribution Program to Combat Serious and Organized Crime.
The objective of this project is to develop a coordinated community response to victims of human trafficking in Red Deer, Edmonton, and surrounding communities. Driven by their needs, all aspects of this project will be guided by insights from survivor experience, the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge, and best practices drawn from evolving work on trauma, intercultural competency, and gender-based violence.
In collaboration with REACH Edmonton, partners such as Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) and, the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE), will work with law enforcement community partners and stakeholders across the province to create an integrated community response to enhance resources and provide immediate safety and transitional support to victims of human trafficking.
Through this funding, REACH Edmonton, partners, and stakeholders will develop Alberta-specific training drawing on multiple resources for frontline workers who may come in contact with victims of human trafficking. This curriculum will increase the capacity of law enforcement, service providers, and shelter workers to meet the needs of victims in a way that is trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and respectful to the survivor’s lived experience.
“I was pleased to announce this federal funding to REACH Edmonton to support their critical ongoing work to help victims of human trafficking escape their situation and begin their healing and recovery process. This project will increase Northern Alberta’s collective capacity to respond to human trafficking and support victims. Through projects like this one, we are working together to build a safer and more resilient Canada, where all people are protected from human trafficking and its harms.”
- The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
“REACH Edmonton is proud to receive this funding on behalf of CEASE, ALERT, and other important partners while recognizing the great work that is being done by Act Alberta, Not In My City, the Alberta Taskforce on Human Trafficking and all others working to aid victims and survivors of sex trafficking in Alberta. This funding will go a long way to raising awareness about human trafficking and helping survivors.”
- Jan Fox, Executive Director, REACH Edmonton
In September 2019, the Government of Canada launched a comprehensive National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking that brings together federal efforts and is supported by an investment of $57.22 million over five years and $10.28 million ongoing.
This builds on previous investments of $14.51 million over five years, and $2.89 million per year to establish the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline, which launched in May 2019, as well as ongoing work across the Government of Canada to combat human trafficking.
Testimony from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has highlighted strong links between human trafficking and the disproportionately high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls, noting that the extent of human trafficking and victimization of Indigenous women is grossly under-reported.
The Government of Canada has recently launched a national human trafficking public awareness campaign. The campaign aims to raise awareness among Canadian youth and parents of the misperceptions of human trafficking, and increase understanding of its warning signs and how to report suspected cases to the appropriate authorities.
- Public Safety Canada: Human Trafficking
- Human Trafficking Public Awareness Campaign
- Contribution Program to Combat Serious and Organized Crime
- National Strategy To Combat Human Trafficking 2019-2024
- Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline
- Government of Canada invests in 63 organizations to prevent human trafficking and to support survivors
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) has completed installation of touchless, automated photo identification scanners at all of the airport’s security screening checkpoints, making it one of a few airports to be fully outfitted with this technology.
When credential authentication technology (CAT) is in use, a traveler’s photo identification is scanned into the unit. Through a secure Internet connection, CAT confirms the traveler’s identity on-screen and verifies the traveler is ticketed for travel that day. Because CAT is linked to the Secure Flight database, it also displays the pre-screening status (such as TSA PreCheck®) the traveler is eligible for, all without the traveler presenting a boarding pass to the TSA officer.
CAT also improves a TSA officer’s ability to accurately authenticate passenger identification while addressing the vulnerabilities associated with photo identification and boarding pass fraud. CAT also provides enhanced fraudulent document detection capabilities.
The use of CAT at LAS is not new. In August 2021, a TSA officer was using CAT while conducting travel document checking duties when a traveler’s photo identification was flagged as invalid. Airport police responded and detained the traveler after he became verbally disruptive when questioned about the fraudulent credential. The traveler was later arrested on an outstanding warrant. Last week, the officer was recognized by Clark County (Nevada) and law enforcement for her work.
“Any time we can use technology to supplement the work of our security screening force it is a win – win for TSA and travelers,” said TSA Federal Security Director for Nevada Karen Burke. “We are extremely pleased that LAS has reached the milestone of having CAT deployed throughout the airport. We continue to set the bar high for the use of this type of technology, which streamlines the passenger travel experience and enhances security.”
At LAS, there are 58 CAT units installed in the security checkpoints throughout the airport. Travelers departing LAS can expect to see CAT in use when going through the travel document checking process.
Travelers under the age of 18 will still need to provide an electronic or paper boarding pass to the TSA officer. In addition, all travelers will need to check in with their airline and show their boarding pass to the airline gate agent before boarding their flight.
TSA currently has deployed more than 1,350 CAT units at 155 airports nationwide. CAT units can authenticate several thousand types of identification including passports, state-issued driver licenses and identification cards, as well as U.S. and foreign passports.
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When we decide to go on a trip out in the wilderness, being well prepared with all of the necessary gear is quite important, right? But what happens if suddenly your trip takes the wrong turn and you find yourself on the brink of danger, running out of essential supplies? Panicking helps no one and in such cases, knowing how long can you live without food and water is a must in order to endure.
Once you know the real danger of the limited amount of food and water, it can make you think more rationally and you will manage to allocate your existing resources more efficiently. Also, by being prepared for the worst while you are on a such trip, you will be less surprised if something undesirable happens and you will be ready to survive throughout the crisis.
Therefore, it is important to know in advance what are the possible threats that may arise when you are out in the wilderness. We made this article as your future survival guide and we will outline the most important things you have to do if you find yourself in such dangerous circumstances.
How Long Can You Live Without Water?
Staying hydrated once you start your trip is your number one priority. Imagine all of those exhausting hiking and walking trips and how hard is to endure them without having the proper amount of liquids on reach. It is especially important if you are making the trip during hot and humid conditions.
But, once you are out in the wilderness, things can quickly go out of control and you might easily find yourself endangered, with no one around to help you. In such situations, you must remember to always stay calm, to find ways to overcome the fear and to search for possible solutions.
Running out of water, or any kind of drinkable liquid for that matter, is one of the most critical scenarios that might happen while you are on your adventure and it is proven that your body will endure the thirst for three days only.
With that said, you have three days or less to find ways to extend your lifetime by searching for alternative sources of water in the nature. We do hope though that you won’t ever have to do that, but just in case something unfavorable like this happens, we have some tips on how to make the most of the newly emerged situation.
Therefore, bear with us through our few, but very useful suggestions on surviving without water and make sure that you will always be prepared to turn the dangers of the wilderness into your favor.
Surviving Without Water
In this section we will cover all of the techniques you need to know on locating the water sources, on how to use the nature as your guide and even how to create a filtration system.
This is the safest water you can find out there. It is as fresh as you can get it and probably the purest as well. The real struggle though, comes if you are in the middle of a drought and not even a single drop of rain can be seen in sight.
If you are hiking through a humid place on the other side, then you will probably get lucky and will get caught up in some rain. However, because rain cannot be fully and precisely predicted, you cannot entirely depend on it.
Plants and Animals
Another source that is among the safest is the flora in the nature surrounding you. You should be careful though, because there are poisonous plants too. Once you find a nonpoisonous one, attach a plastic bag around a leafy branch and weigh it with a rock.
When it is set as that, the plant will transpire water which will be collected in the bag. If you are having a trouble finding a nonpoisonous plant, then you should probably look for some clues and there is no better option than to follow the animals.
They always know where are the water streams and be sure to follow any hint that may lead you to it. Once you find your water source don’t just go and drink water directly from it, but instead, boil it first in order to get rid of any possible parasites that may hinder your well-being.
Dig a Well
If you can’t find any fresh water near you, but there is a pool of stale water, you can still make it drinkable with the proper filtering and purifying method. One such method is the gypsy well, or also called a ‘seep’, which clarifies stagnant water and allows water to slowly ooze from the ground.
In order for this method to be successful, you need to dig a hole besides the stagnant water and it will slowly start to seep through the ground, leaving large particles behind. Before the hole is filled with water make sure to line the well with rocks in order to prevent sediment from getting in the water. Also, don’t forget that you have to purify the water before drinking it, as it may contain a lot of bacteria.
We know by default that saltwater is great if you want to swim in it, but it is no good if it has to satisfy your thirst. However, when the nature calls and you have no other option, you can make it drinkable with only few gadgets.
All you need is two pots (larger and smaller ones), a plastic bag, some kind of an elastic cord and a rock. With these tools you can easily make a solar water distiller and we will teach you how to properly distill the water.
First what you have to do is put the smaller container into the larger one and fill the larger one with water. You have to make sure that the water won’t overflow in the smaller one because the process will not be successful. Next, you have to cover the containers with the plastic bag and tighten it with the elastic cord.
The rock should be places in the middle so that the lowest point of the bag is above the smaller container. Once the distiller is set like this, the water itself will evaporate, leaving the salt behind in the larger container. The water will slowly condense on the inner side of the bag and it will start dripping into the smaller container.
Pulling Water from the Air
If none of the abovementioned methods won’t work, don’t fall into despair yet. Sometimes it is even possible to extract water from thin air and it is not difficult at all. Even in the driest of climates there is a bit of moisture in the air and all you need is a clean cloth to subtract the dew from it and to periodically squeeze the water from it.
On the other hand, if you want to extract water from the fog, you need to set up a system, consisting of vertical poles holding a horizontal metal screen. You will also need a container in which the water will be collected once the metal screen deflects the fog drops.
Water Purifying Methods
Every drop of water that you may find in the wilderness must be purified somehow before you consume it, no matter even if the source is a crystal clear water. One of the most effective ways is boiling the water.
Only 10 minutes are enough in order to kill all of the bacteria and the parasites that may be found. Other methods include water filters, purifying tablets or any kind of purifying liquids. However, considering the circumstances, you are most likely to not have any of those, so you should stick with boiling the water.
Another way for clearing the water is through a filtration system. The filtration is done throughout different layers of grass, sand or charcoal, each of which has a special way of contributing to the removal of bacteria. You can also do it by placing a cloth on a plastic bag or a bottle.
All you have to do is fill the bag or the bottle with water and then pour into another container, allowing the water to pass through the cloth, leaving behind all dirt in the primary container.
An additional step you can make after the filtration is to expose the water to the sun. The exposure to the UV rays will kill over 90% of the bacteria found in the water and on top of that it is a really simple and quick method. You have to place the bottled water in the sun for six hours and this way you can purify huge quantities of water. Another cool trick using the power of nature is to source your water from a fast flowing creek where good aeration is guaranteed. Look out for small waterfalls that create turbulence and bubbles. Why aeration? Oxygen in air is a powerful water disinfectant. (Source).
How Long Can You Survive Without Food?
Similar as the water deficit, food deficit is a problem too when you are out in the wilderness. The good news is that you can last longer without food and depending on the environment it might be easier to find it, compared to water.
It is proven that you can survive up to three weeks without food, which gives you plenty of time to find edible plants, catch fish and even hunt animals if there is no other solution left. Also, don’t forget that no matter what happens and no matter what you do, you have to stay calm and think rationally on how to get out of the ugly situation.
Surviving Without Food
In this part of the article we will show you how to find and prepare the food and as well how to make your own ‘kitchen’ and kitchenware out of the nature and how to fully utilize it according to your needs.
Find the Edible Greens
One of the good things regarding the fresh greens is that they are full with vitamins and are 100% organic. They are healthier, their flavors are more intense than the store bought ones and they will contribute a lot to your overall health.
Most of the time you can find a lot of edible plants, such as dandelion leaves and flowers, clovers, chickweed, burdock, amaranth, fireweed and etc. Make sure to pick a plant that is familiar to you, because even though there are a lot of nutritious plants, there are poisonous ones too.
You should avoid any plant that has beans or bulbs, a milky or discolored sap, a carrot or a parsnip-like foliage, a three-leaved growing pattern, spines, fine hairs of thorns and a grain head with pink, purplish or black spurs.
Even though it depends on the environment where you are ‘stuck’, fishing is almost always the best solution for beating the hunger.
Unless you are lost in the desert, you can always find some river creek, full with diverse water fauna. It is more complicated than harvesting plants, but it will keep you full for longer periods of time and will give you the proper nutrients you need for the daily functions of your body.
Given the circumstances, you probably won’t have the necessary tools and gear for fishing, so you will need to make everything from scratch. Luckily, the nature has everything you need and you just have to use it smart. For that purpose, we are here to teach you how to succeed with your mission.
- You can start by making a fishing pole. All you need is an approximately 10’ long stick, that has a diameter of 1” on one side and ¼” on the other. Along the stick, you should tie a string that will be secured at several spots along the stick and at the tip you should secure it with a knot. At its end you should attach a floater and a fishhook.
- The fishhook is another thing that you can make from the natural supplies out there by collecting a small stick and a large thorn. You should carefully carve the stick to be the base of your fishhook, while the thorn should be the hook itself. The two pieces should be wrapped together with a thin line until they are secured together and afterwards, the hook is ready for use.
If making a fishing pole is too much for you, then you can catch fish by using a simple dam. You can build it around a bend in the creek, so when the fish swim downward they cannot escape the dam. Once they are inside you can get them out by using a net, or simply by grabbing them with your hands.
Become a Nutty Person
Nuts are one of the most nutritious food you can get out there. Hazelnuts and black walnuts can be easily found in the wilderness, especially in the northern part of America.
You can easily spot the nut trees as they grown in clusters and once the nuts are ripe they fall to the ground. In addition, their shell is quite thin and therefore you can easily crack them, by placing them on a flat surface and tapping them with a rock.
Another great protein alternative are the mushrooms. The North American region is full with diverse and edible mushrooms that will make for a perfect meal.
But, be careful because as we all know there are pretty poisonous alternatives out there too. Even the most edible ones have poisonous twins and you should obtain some knowledge before you start your trip. Have in mind though to always pick the ones that you are familiar with and don’t ever experiment to try new varieties.
Your New Kitchen and Kitchen Utensils
Once you have the ingredients, it’s time for their preparation. The most famous ways of cooking in the wilderness are cooking in an aluminum foil or over a rotisserie. By cooking in an aluminum foil, you simply have to put the food in the foil, wrap it and place it over the heat. The foil will evenly distribute the heat and your food will be as delicious as if it was prepared at home.
But, most of the time you probably won’t have an aluminum foil and therefore you can cook your food on a rotisserie. It is a traditional campfire technique that requires two sticks that have an Y end on one side to be placed vertically into the ground, on the both sides of the fire.
Another branch that it is sharpened on one end should be placed horizontally over the vertical sticks. With that method, you can skewer the meat with the sharpened end, while you can freely turn the meat with the other end of the stick so that it is evenly cooked from each side.
Kitchen utensils are also easy to make by carving tree branches. Almost any kind of wood will do for that purpose and all you will need is a knife to carfully carve the desired shape.
Not even one human being can live without food and water and being in circumstances when you don’t have an access to them can be overwhelming. We are so used to having these essentials always on reach and having to ‘fight’ for them makes it hard for us.
However, we do hope that if you ever have the need to do that, our tips will be quite useful and will help you in the hardest of times. By simply remembering how to track and to purify the water, or to how to forage the safest food out there, you will outsmart the nature and endure during the tough times.
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Published online Jan 7, 2018. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i1.69
Peer-review started: October 30, 2017
First decision: November 21, 2017
Revised: December 2, 2017
Accepted: December 12, 2017
Article in press: December 12, 2017
Published online: January 7, 2018
The related procedure of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic method for biliary and pancreatic diseases and plays a very important role. As for biliary drainage, endoscopic drainage by ERCP is considered to be noninvasive and the first choice of treatment.
To our knowledge, there are no reports that examined the safety of insertion of metallic stents in the elderly with an unresectable malignant biliary obstruction. Therefore, we studied the safety and usefulness of metallic stents for unresectable distal malignant biliary obstruction in a multicenter, collaborative, retrospective study.
This study aims to evaluate the safety of insertion of metallic stents in elderly patients with unresectable distal malignant biliary obstruction.
There are total 272 patients with unresectable distal malignant biliary obstruction in this study. Group A (184 patients under the age of 80) and Group B (88 subjects aged 80 years or more) were examined by the safety of metallic stent insertion, metal stent patency period, and the obstruction rate.
In Group B, patients had a significantly worse performance status, high blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, and dementia; besides the rate of patients orally administered antiplatelet drugs or anticoagulants tended to be higher (P < 0.05). Metallic stents were successfully inserted in all patients. The median patency period was 265.000 ± 26.779 d (1-965); 252.000 ± 35.998 d (1-618) in Group A and 269.000 ± 47.885 d (1-965) in Group B, with no significant difference between the two groups. Metallic stent obstruction occurred in 30.15% (82/272) patients; in 28.80% (53/184) patients in Group A and in 32.95% (29/88) of those in Group B, showing no significant difference between the two groups.
This study suggested that metallic stents can be safely inserted and are a useful treatment for unresectable distal malignant biliary obstruction in the elderly. It was suggested that metallic stent insertion for unresectable distal malignant biliary obstruction in the elderly can be conducted safely and with a high success rate. We should insert metallic stent in unresectable distal malignant biliary obstruction in the elderly patients for improvement of quality of life positively.
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"A Private Letter Made Public" is a study of the New Testament Book of Philemon. Although short in length (25 verses), Phiiemon is rich in life lessons. It's the story of a runaway slave named Onesimus who becomes a Christian through the hands of the apostle Paul. Eventually Onesimus returns to his master Philemon and asks to be reinstated into his household. At that time there were serious consequences by law for slaves who ran away. Will Philemon decide to take him back?
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The Bat - Not A Man
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It was the annual meeting of all the animals in the jungle. They were all very tensed as the forests continued to shrink and more and more animals had to share the shrinking forest. It was like people living in the densely populated city of Mumbai. Something had to be done to stop humans, shouted a mouse. The cat looked at the mouse with saliva in its tongue but the rules of the meeting had to be adhered to so she had to control her desires. She simply nodded. He is right. The meeting was chaired by the old tiger Ruh who was once known as the King of the Jungle. However, due to the shrinking forest, he was now living a filthy life sharing his cave with two other tigers who once were his hunting partners and lost their caves at the hands of humans who built a highway. The meeting was convened by the old dog Tommy who had a soft corner for humans and always tried to find an amicable solution.
However the situation this time was too dire for him to take control of. His love for humans was well known across the world and the other animals knew very well that Tommy's fraternity will easily adopt living with humans. But Ruh was not in the mood for an amicable solution. He asked for suggestions to stop humans from causing further damage. The head pig suggested the spreading of another Spanish flu-like disease for which they are well known. They managed to eradicate 1% of the world population at that time. However, humans now had a vaccine for the disease so the idea was rejected. Ruh asked everyone to think over it and come back tomorrow morning with ideas.
The bats were watching this meeting from the trees. They were sad that they were not invited to the meeting due to the afternoon time as it was their sleeping time. However, what made them even more upset was the fact that they were not given any credit for the Spanish flu even though they played a significant role in it. They decided to participate in the next meeting. Ruh was surprised to see the bats awake in the morning. Is everything ok? he asked the head bat Afsa. Afsa looked at Ruh with tears in his eyes and said "I am very upset that you didn't invite me for the meeting. After all, this jungle is also for the bats and we like living with animals instead of humans." Ruh realized his mistake and apologized to Afsa. Ruh and Afsa shared a warm hug. The animals shouted "RuhAfsa" "RuhAfsa"
Afsa asked Ruh if he could give a presentation of how bats planned to lockdown humans in their house for months. The other animals laughed at him and reminded him that humans fear no animal, not even tigers and he was just a bat. Being cold-blooded, Afsa remained calm and didn't take this insult to heart. He reminded the animals that humans feared the idea of death more than death itself. And the bats will inject humans with an airborne virus which will create an epidemic around the world. The bats showed the gene of the virus to the most intelligent animal present at the meeting - the donkey. The donkey approved of the virus and the bats went on to find the first target. All they had to do was transmit the virus into one human and the virus will spread. They went to a wet market in China and started spitting on all the live animals being sold. One person wanted to buy prawns by first tasting one prawn. As he tasted the prawn, he got the virus. The bats celebrated with a chirp and flew off.
The animals now waited for the virus to spread. The birds would give weekly updates in the weekly meetings about the people on the streets. After one month, the hard work they had put in started to pay off. Countries started to announce lockdown and humans had to stay at home. By three months all the animals rejoiced and started to take to roads. It was the happiest time in their lives. The world had changed. It was as if there was a mask on the planet and all the humans had to remain inside the mask while all the animals roamed freely around the world. The sky was filled with just birds. The flights were shut. The roads were empty and cows could sit for a group discussion anywhere on the street. There was no honking or throwing stones on animals. Many animals left the forest to take a tour of the city and visit tourist attractions which were otherwise only open to humans. A monkey even took a selfie outside Gateway of India. Life had changed for all the animals and they were happier than ever. A human watched all this through a satellite and all he could do was break his laptop. Afsa had proved that it is the Bat in Batman which matters not the man! | <urn:uuid:187858e8-3742-41bb-af3d-78cf37c63c84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://storymirror.com/read/english/story/the-bat-not-a-man/quvin70g | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.992436 | 1,000 | 1.570313 | 2 |
CW: discussion of weight, weight loss and the toxic nature of social media
Most of us are familiar with the term ‘glow-up’ and have seen it in action across different social media platforms. For anyone who isn’t – it refers to the transformation of someone’s appearance in what is perceived as a positive way. ‘Glow-up’ culture has been on the rise recently, but this isn’t all good news. This is a culture emerging from social media sites which encourages individuals to strive for personal improvement, usually regarding their appearance.
This can be a great thing for those who are trying to become healthier, happier or more confident in themselves. However, for many people, this can be discouraging and even dangerous. How beauty standards are portrayed by the media and social media influencers can have a huge impact on self-confidence and how we perceive our appearances and the result many people are trying to achieve is often unrealistic.
Singer-songwriter Adele’s recent Instagram post made front-page news and was circulating across social media, even during the current pandemic. Whereas she normally hits the headlines for the release of her latest albums, this time it’s all because of her looks. Adele’s post thanked key workers who are working hard during this time, but for the tabloids, the focus of the post was her weight loss.
Size doesn’t make a person more or less beautiful
In the picture she posted, we see her standing in front of her house wearing a black mini dress. Her weight loss is undeniable, she looks slimmer than ever before. In the past, she has said that she makes music for the ears and that she has no intention to lose weight unless it is affecting her health. This image suggests that her views on this may have changed and while this is good for her, the way that people are talking about it has the potential to be unhealthy. The image really shouldn’t have received as much attention as it did. It is a big change from her previous appearance, but it shouldn’t be breaking news.
People across social media platforms have suggested that Adele is now more beautiful after having a huge ‘glow up’ which dangerously associates beauty with ‘ideal’ body size and suggests that people who have ‘plus-size’ figures aren’t as beautiful. I’m sure this wasn’t Adele’s intention, but I worry that many people may now be trying to ‘glow-up’ exactly in the way she did.
Choosing to lose weight and doing it simply because you want to is very different from trying to become a certain size based on what people perceive as beautiful. People should not feel pressured to lose weight, as long as they are healthy, just to conform to socially determined ideas of beauty. Size doesn’t make a person more or less beautiful and everyone should do what’s best for them. Beauty comes from within and everyone is beautiful in their own way.
There is still a huge amount of pressure to look a certain way
This being said, even the most confident of people may be struggling, as ‘glow-up culture’ only increases now that we have more time on our hands under lockdown. Building up confidence can take years but seeing numerous social media posts claiming that losing weight is the only way to be seen as appealing can destroy this confidence in seconds. Instead of focusing on how much someone weighs, more emphasis should be put on their achievements and personality.
Although I have spoken about this negatively, as a society we have seen a lot of progress towards being accepting of people of all sizes. More companies are creating ‘plus-size’ ranges, more celebrities are sharing their unedited photos and more of us are celebrating achievements that aren’t associated with our appearance. However, there is still a long way to go. The recent example of Adele shows that, while we as a society have started to move forward, there is still a huge amount of pressure to look a certain way to be perceived as beautiful.[related_posts_by_tax columns="4" posts_per_page="4" format="thumbnails" image_size="medium" exclude_terms="34573"] | <urn:uuid:3e180cb6-5c21-4911-94bb-0de522714c70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://theboar.org/2020/05/adele-toxic-impact-glow-up-culture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977744 | 895 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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A newborn breastfed baby will use up to ten diapers in a 24hr period.
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Where water is unsafe baby milk fed infants are 25 times more likely to die than breastfed babies.
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Breastfed babies may have lower rates of obesity than their formula fed counterparts, as reported by a 2006 article in the New York Times.
This is important for parents to note, as their breastfed baby may measure at the lower ends of the growth chart during his first year or so.
However, a breastfed baby's development will be even and gradual and should cause little alarm for pediatricians.
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Whereas multiple bowel movements a day are normal for many breastfed infants, formula babies may expel less often.
Breastfed babies generally have more daily bowel movements than formula fed babies, but don't be surprised if your baby poops several times one day and then not at all the next no matter what type of milk she is eating.
Breastfed babies typically need to eat every two hours or so.
In the first few weeks after a baby is born, breastfed babies usually have several bowel movements a day.
Although you may be changing a lot of diapers, the good news is that breastfed babies' stools really don't have a bad smell.Advertisement
Since breast milk doesn't change much over the period of time that your baby is exclusively breastfed, her stools won't change that much either.
If you feed your infant formula, the chance of constipation may be more likely than in a breastfed infant.
Bottles-Even breastfed babies may need the occasional bottle.
Research shows that these beneficial cultures are abundant in the digestive tracts of breastfed babies and so Nestle developed Good Start Natural Cultures.
Many doctors recommend such formulas for infants not breastfed.Advertisement
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After six months, breastfed babies usually weigh less than bottle fed babies.
Unfortunately, many breastfed newborns have a bowel movement after every feeding.
The WHO charts measure the growth patterns of infants who are breastfed.
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Feeding factors such as breastfeeding can also cause sizing disparities that often lead to a breastfed three-month-old infant weighing substantially less than a similarly aged infant who is fed formula.
This is also why a breastfed baby does not need additional water.
Breastfed babies have better cheekbone development and better jaw alignment.
Many medications have not been tested in nursing women, so it is not certain what drugs can affect a breastfed child.
Other photo-therapy methods-such as a fiber optic bilirubin blanket-incorporate the light into a blanket so that the child can be breastfed during treatment or treated at home.Advertisement
Although breast milk is an effective treatment for jaundice, breastfed babies may receive fewer calories than formula-fed babies during the first days of life, causing bilirubin levels to rise.
Breastfed babies may be less likely to become infected, because breast milk contains antibodies (proteins produced by the white blood cells of the immune system) that fight the illness.
At highest risk are boys, premature infants, infants living in urban locations, babies who have not been breastfed, and babies with chronic pulmonary, cardiac, or immune conditions.
Infants who are still exclusively breastfed may go seven days without a stool.
In addition, a doctor should be called if an infant younger than two months is constipated, or if an infant (except those that are exclusively breastfed) goes three days without a stool.Advertisement
Infants move through REM and non-REM sleep stages in a 90 minute cycle, and they rise to a near-waking state every three to four hours, more often in breastfed infants.
Not only are you providing the best nutrition for your baby, but breastfed babies may have higher IQs and fewer illnesses.
There is a reduced risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) when children are breastfed.
There is a higher response to anti-body vaccinations amongst breastfed children.
Conclusive data has proven that breastfed children are hospitalized up to ten times less than formula fed babies.Advertisement
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1: System Requirements
What are the system requirements of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1?
Today we’ll describe the system or hardware requirements for the components of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Virtual Machine Manager.
Editor’s note: For more in this series, check out the following articles:
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1: Components
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1: Software Requirements
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1: Prepare Installation
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1: Installation
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Server
The VMM server runs a service that coordinates all the operations of VMM. This service is incredibly scalable: A basic deployment of VMM on a single server running all of the VMM roles can scale out to managing 150 hosts!
The system requirements for a single VMM server are shown below in Table 1. You can see that these requirements are quite basic. As usual, “minimum” is exactly that, and anyone deploying the minimum specification should expect to perform an upgrade soon after.
A variable in this specification is the amount of disk space required for the VMM Library. The classic consultant’s answer of “it depends” genuinely does apply; some smaller businesses underuse the power of the library and don’t need much disk space. On the other hand, others who make the most of the VMM library will need more disk space. Note that enabling deduplication (Windows Server 2012) on the library’s volume could give huge space savings over time.
|Processor||Pentium 4, 2 GHz (x64)||Dual-Processor, Dual-Core, 2.8 GHz (x64) or greater|
|RAM||2 GB||4 GB|
|Hard disk space – without a local VMM database||2 GB||40 GB|
|Hard disk space – with a local, full version of Microsoft SQL Server||80 GB||150 GB|
Table 1: System Requirements for a single VMM server.
Running VMM in a Virtual Machine
VMM does not have to be installed on a physical server – it can run in virtual machine. If running as a virtual machine, you have to ask yourself if you want VMM to manage the infrastructure on which it is running (chicken and egg). Some organizations choose to install all systems management components on dedicated hosts/clusters. This allows those systems management solutions to manage other virtualization farms and clouds without creating a loopback dependency.
If you install VMM in a virtual machine, then make sure you deploy a sufficient number of virtual processors – remember, one virtual processer equals just one logical processor (core or Hyperthread) on a host. If using Dynamic Memory, then use a version of SQL Server that can use this memory optimization, such as SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise or SQL Server 2012 Standard, with a Startup RAM setting of 2 GB.
Scaling VMM Beyond 150 Hosts
VMM can scale out to manage huge clouds with more than 150 hosts. This design requires that the VMM server runs just the VMM service. Other roles, such as the database and the library, are placed on other servers or clusters.
|Processor||Pentium 4, 2 GHz (x64)||Dual-Processor, Dual-Core, 3.6 GHz (x64) or greater|
|RAM||4 GB||8 GB|
|Hard disk space – without a local VMM database||10 GB||40 GB|
|Hard disk space – Microsoft SQL Server||Place SQL Server on another server/cluster|
|Library||Place Library share on another server/cluster|
Table 2: System Requirements for scalable VMM server.
VMM does have scalability limits in the form of concurrent operations that are being managed:
- 250 simultaneous jobs if VMM server has 16 cores (or vCPUs)
- 100 simultaneous VM creations (recommended limit – important for large VDI)
It is possible to make the VMM service (2012 and 2012 SP1) highly available using an active/passive Windows Server Failover Cluster. This would be very important in service driven organization such as a cloud. The servers that will be the cluster nodes should have two network connections for fault tolerant cluster communications, such as the heartbeat.
Like with every other service, you should not be logging into the VMM server to manage VMM. You can install the VMM Console on administrators’ and delegated administrators’ PCs. The system requirements for the console are very basic:
- Pentium 4
- 2 GB RAM
- 2 GB disk space
A baseboard management controller (BMC, such as iLO or DRAC) that runs one of the following protocols is strongly recommended in your Hyper-V hosts:
- Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 1.5 or 2.0
- Data Center Management Interface (DCMI) 1.0
- System Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) 1.0 over WS-Management (WS-MAN)
Networking and configuring (static IP address and administrator credentials) the BMCs in your Hyper-V hosts (current and future) is strongly recommended. VMM can make use of the BMC to deploy Hyper-V to bare metal hosts and to perform a power saving feature called Power Optimization (shutdown and power up idle hosts coordinated with VM Live Migration).
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The Process of Transformation
How does the Lord transform us? Let’s look back at Romans 12:2, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” By the renewing of our minds. How often do you do something before you’ve ever thought about it? I know, as a young person this might feel like it happens all the time, but it really doesn’t. Most of the time, we do things that we think about. People might say that they didn’t even have time to think about how to respond to an experience, they just reacted, but how often does this happen? Most of the time we say something because we have thought about it. Most of the time we do something because we thought about it. Most of the time we respond in a certain way because we’ve thought about it. So it makes sense that what we think about we will do.
Colossians chapter 3 says, “Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” (Verses 9-10). We are being renewed by knowledge, which goes into our mind. There is a thing called carnal knowledge which either means a physical instinct kind of knowledge or someone who knows a lot about meat. But God uses our minds to direct the rest of our ship. The way our mind is renewed is by spending time with God through His Word and through prayer. Philippians 4 says “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (verse 8). When we do this the Holy Spirit works on us; He works on our condition and through His re-newing, we can change, we can transform.
The final part of a transformation is being known by a new name. We’ve talked previously about how Saul became Paul after his conversion to a follower of Christ. We also touched on the seed and the soil becoming the plant. There’s also the example of a caterpillar building a cocoon and becoming a butterfly, a boy becoming a man, an amateur becoming a professional, and an accountant becoming cool (never happens). But one of the most interesting name changes to me is where a woman decides to take the last name of her husband.
When my wife told me she was going to take my name before we got married, it touched me very deeply. Truthfully, I had never thought of it until she brought it up and I didn’t think it would really matter to me if she did or if she hyphenated or if she just kept her maiden name. But, when she told me that she was going to take my name as hers, it made my heart very warm. Think about it, someone who is so willing to be associated with you that she is willing to take your very name as her own. She is very special. Along those lines we took these verses from Ruth as the theme of our wedding ceremony, “But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." (chapter 1:16-18). This is the type of commitment that God wants from us. He wants us to go wherever He goes and wherever He tells us to go. He wants us to bring our people along to meet His people and to become part of them. He wants us to live this commitment to the point of death. The cool thing is that not even death separates us from Him.
He even wants us to take His name.
“For this is what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant- to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.” Isaiah 56:4-5.
“The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.” Isaiah 62:2.
Remember Adam? The first guy God created? Remember that one of his jobs was to name all the animals and birds in the world. I don’t know about you, but this sounds like a hard job. Think about how much time it took you to name your hamster or dog or kid or something, and then think about naming like a million different birds and animals. Especially if he had to think of those scientific names for every one of them too. Dr. Seuss had some keen insight to this problem in this poem:
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
You see, when she wants one, and calls out "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate...
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate, now there’s a name!
So what is this new name that God has given us? What is this eternal moniker that He set aside to identify us as individuals, and yet part of a very special group?
“Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” Acts 11:25-26.
Christians. That is what we are called. That is who we are. We are followers of Christ. On His love and mercy and grace we stand. What greater honor could we have than to take the name of the One who saved us? What greater responsibility could we have than to try and live in a way that honors that name? What greater God could we have than One who would give everything He had to transform us into His children so that we could spend time with Him? | <urn:uuid:69d156cd-2103-4cfc-8407-19ab4b4809d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.idisciple.org/post/the-process-of-transformation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978021 | 1,478 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Getting rid of stretch marks. Simple ways.
Stretch marks, which typically appear as parallel lines on skin, can range in colour from purple to bright pink to light gray, and can feel raised or indented on the skin, even feeling itch or sore. Caused by tears in skin's layers that often occur during pregnancy, growth spurts or other weight changes, they might be a natural result of time's changes, but many people just want to know how to get rid of stretch marks. Those seeking stretch mark removal can now find the cream, serum or device to suit them.
What is Stretch marks?
If you wish to get rid of stretch marks, it is essential to understand how they are formed. The skin is made of three layers - outer, middle and inner. The outer layer, also known as the epidermis, acts as a barrier thanks to the presence of flat cells, while the innermost layer of skin, also known as hypodermis, consists of fat and tissue. The middle layer, or the dermis, is the supportive layer that provides flexibility and firmness to the skin. It is the middle layer in which stretch marks develop due to rapid growth.
Initially when stretch marks are formed, they develop as indented streaks or lines in the middle layer of the skin. Slowly they turn into multiple pink, red or purple streaks. As the marks grow older, they fade to a light pink, white or grey colour. All the marks grow through these stages and can often be considered unsightly.
What causes stretch marks?
Stretch marks, often associated with pregnancy, occur mostly in women. However, it would be wrong to say that men are immune to them. Men do get stretch marks, but they are not as common as they are in women. There is no denying that pregnancy remains the biggest cause of stretch marks. About 90% women are affected by stretch marks during pregnancy. However, these marks can develop whenever a sudden growth spurt is experienced by the body, which is why many teenagers develop stretch marks on shoulders, upper arms and thighs at the time of puberty when their body grows suddenly. Sudden weight loss and weight gain can also leave such marks on the body. Deficiency of zinc can also lead to stretch marks as the mineral is responsible for the regeneration of the skin.
How to prevent stretch marks
Before the unsightly tiger stripes start appearing, you can take control. Whilst sudden weight gain or weight loss isn't always in your control, implementing a few simple everyday habits and using skin rejuvenating products can help you prevent or get rid of stretch marks.
Drinking water helps the skin retain elasticity and thus can prevent stretch marks. You should drink about 13 cups of water during breastfeeding and at least 10 during pregnancy to help get rid of stretch marks.
Add zinc-rich foods such as beef, spinach and pumpkin seeds to your diet for regenerating and repairing the skin and preventing stretch marks.
When exercising to lose weight, work on toning the body fat too. This will ensure firmer skin and lesser stretch marks.
Keeping skin moisturised will not prevent stretch marks completely but may help in making your skin look fresher and thus fade the unsightly stripes.
Using good quality stretch mark oils and creams during the early stages of pregnancy can prevent stretch marks from becoming permanent. These products can minimise the skin's damage to some extent and can also help to get rid of stretch marks.
Avoid crash diets designed to help you lose weight suddenly. Following a healthy diet and regular exercise routine to lose weight will not cause a sporadic change in your shape and thus lead to fewer and lighter stretch marks.
How to get rid of stretch marks?
Although stretch marks don't pose any health risk, it is the cosmetic appearance of these marks that forces many men and women to seek treatment. Solutions to get rid of stretch marks basically depend on its current stage. One of the biggest risks of cosmetic procedures is scarring which can leave permanent marks that are far worse than stretch marks. It is also an expensive procedure with no guaranteed results. Here are some simpler ways that can help you get rid of stretch marks:
Laser treatment: Fresh marks, i.e. indented streaks which develop immediately after pregnancy and growth spurts, can be removed using laser treatment. A laser is quite effective to get rid of stretch marks if the marks are just fine lines as the light penetrates the skin and stimulates collagen production. When marks get older and turn white and grey, it can be a bit harder to get rid of them. Although you can't get rid of stretch marks completely, you can reduce their appearance by laser treatment and microdermabrasion. More than two to three sessions of the therapies will be required to notice significant improvement.
Creams and lotions: Over-the-counter retinol creams are also helpful in improving the skin condition. But, if you are breastfeeding, do not use retinol creams as they are believed to cause birth defects. Not all creams, lotions or oils can be absorbed in the deep layers. However, certain products are formulated especially for this purpose and show better effects than others to get rid of stretch marks
After your marks are properly visible i.e. when they turn pink and red, you can use firming formulations to restore the look of your skin. There are topical creams that contain natural ingredients such as Shea Butter, Aloe Vera, and Cocoa Butter which provide essential moisture to help make skin firm. You can also try using skin lightening creams for better complexion.
Derma rolling: Micro needling is another technique to help get rid of stretch marks and derma rollers is one of the main popular options. The tiny needles when rolled on the skin help boost collagen production to make the skin appear new and refreshed. This has a lightening effect which helps fade them with regular usage and thus potentially get rid of stretch marks.
Diet: Stretch marks can fade with time if you start addressing the cause early. Adding foods that boost cell regeneration in the skin can help speed up the process. Vitamin D rich foods like tuna, swordfish, or eggs can rebuild damaged skin whilst turkey, nuts and zinc rich fish can aid skin repair. These, if consumed regularly, can help get rid of stretch marks with time.
The Final Word
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It's an arboreal conundrum. Most of us want trees that fill out fast, but the same qualities that make a tree gain height quickly often render it a pest or weakling. Consider the fast-growing silver maple, with its greedy surface roots and weak wood. Then there's the princess tree, touted in newspaper and online ads, that grows up to 15 feet a year but spreads to such an extent that in some states it's known as the worst sort of weed.
Conventional wisdom says that slow-maturing trees live longer and are stronger. So can you grow a tree that'll shoot up without toppling onto your house?
Yes—with some careful vetting you can find fast-growing trees for privacy, shade, and decoration. First, refine your notion of fast growing to a growth rate of 1½ to 2 feet per year. Or, as Warren Roberts, longtime superintendent of the UC Davis Arboretum, puts it: "A fast-growing tree is one you can sit in the shade of, five to six years after planting."
Keep in mind that most trees grow fastest when young and when planted in soil that supplies optimum moisture and nutrients. Choose well, and you can enjoy your tree in both the short and long term.
We canvassed tree experts to find good choices for shade, for screening, or for outstanding ornamental qualities that'll grow in various areas of the country (check your Plant Hardiness Growing Zone). Read on for a dozen fast-growing trees with staying power.
These deciduous trees grow to at least 50 feet high and develop a broad crown under which you can walk, dine, or rest.
Northern Red Oak
Northern red oak | (Quercus rubra) | Zones 5–9
A broad-crowned classic that prefers moist, well-drained, acid soil. (Avoid in California and Oregon, where it falls prey to sudden oak death disease.) In California's foothills and interior valleys, choose valley oak (Q. lobata) Zones 6–11. This fast-growing shade tree likes full sun and moist, well-drained soil. Both grow 60–75 feet high and at least as wide.
Freeman maple | (Acer x freemanii) | Zones 4–7
A hybrid maple with brilliant red-orange fall color. Grows 75–80 feet high by 45–50 feet wide; prefers full sun and moist, well-drained soil with neutral pH. The variety 'Autumn Blaze' is very fast-growing. It reaches 50–60 feet high, with a broad oval crown 40–50 feet wide.
'Green Vase' Zelkova
'Green Vase' zelkova | (Zelkova serrata 'Green Vase') | Zones 5–8
Vase-shaped with upright arching branches and rich, dark green leaves that turn bronzy maroon in fall. Grows 60–70 feet high by 40–50 feet wide; prefers full sun to partial shade but adapts to a variety of soils. These fast-growing shade trees tolerate wind, pollution, and drought, making it a viable street tree.
Tulip tree | (Liriodendron tulipifera) | Zones 5–9
Features a straight trunk and oval crown. Striking, broad, lobed leaves often conceal springtime chartreuse tulip-shaped flowers; leaves turn yellow in fall. Grows 75–90 feet high by 40–50 feet wide; prefers full sun and deep, moist, slightly acidic soil.
Use these to block second-story views into your yard or blunt northern winds. Plant these fast-growing screen trees in rows, groups, or alone, depending on their spread.
Dawn redwood | (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) | Zones 5–10
Huge pyramidal tree with feathery deciduous green needles that turn russet-orange in fall. Striking, deep-fluted bark. Grows 70–100 feet high by 25 feet wide; thrives in moist, well-drained, slightly acidic soil and full sun.
European Black Alder
European black alder | (Alnus glutinosa) | Zones 3–7
This oval-shaped deciduous tree is useful as an informal screen in a wet area or for edging a pond. Grows 40–60 feet high by 20–40 feet wide; thrives in full sun or part shade in wet soil where other trees might fail.
Eastern White Pine
Eastern white pine | (Pinus strobus) | Zones 4–9
Evergreen; soft blue- green needles. Pyramidal when young. Grows 50–80 feet high by 20–40 feet wide; thrives in moist, rich, well-drained acid soil and full sun. Intolerant of windy sites. The narrower 'Fastigiata' grows 50 feet high by 20 feet wide.
'Green Giant' Arborvitae
'Green Giant' arborvitae | (Thuja 'Green Giant') | Zones 5–7
Evergreen with a uniform pyramidal shape; grows 3 feet or more a year. Use this fast-growing privacy tree as hedging or as a single specimen that needs no shearing. Grows 50–60 feet high by 12–20 feet wide; adaptable but prefers moist, well-drained soil and full sun.
These are the showboats of the landscape, whether for their flowers, striking bark, or impressive structure. All offer multiseasonal appeal.
Sargent cherry | (Prunus sargentii) | Zones 5–8
Clouds of pink flowers open in early spring before leaves appear. Orange-red fall color; shiny, reddish-brown bark. Small, dark, summer fruit attracts birds. Grows 20–30 feet high and wide; likes full sun and moist, well-drained acidic to neutral soil.
Heritage River Birch
Heritage river birch | (Betula nigra 'Cully') | Zones 4–9
This multi-stemmed tree develops an irregular crown. Deciduous leathery green leaves turn yellow in fall; salmon-white to brownish peeling bark. Grows 40–60 feet high and wide; prefers moist, acid soil and partial shade.
Sweet Bay Magnolia
Sweet bay magnolia | (Magnolia virginiana) | Zones 5–9
Lustrous dark green leaves with silvery undersides are deciduous in the North, evergreen in the South. Lemon-scented creamy white flowers in spring/early summer. Grows 10–20 feet high and wide in the North, to 60 feet high in the South, where it is happiest. Needs moist, acidic soil in sun to partial shade.
'Natchez' Crepe Myrtle
'Natchez' crepe myrtle | (Lagerstroemia 'Natchez') | Zones 7–9
Multistemmed tree with prolific recurring white flowers in late June to September; distinctive exfoliating cinnamon-brown bark year-round. Grows 20–30 feet high by 15–35 wide and works well curbside, where it won't interfere with utility lines. Japanese crepe myrtle (L. fauriei) 'Fantasy' with white flowers is especially vigorous and large, stretching 40–50 feet high.
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