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Tubes and drip lines are the arteries of an irrigation system, carrying life-giving fluids to the plants that depend on them. At DripWorks, we carry a big selection of irrigation tubing, hoses and drip lines. You can find drip irrigation hose and tubing here suitable for everything from the home garden to commercial farms and vineyards.
Tubing: Polyethylene tubing is the backbone of any drip irrigation system. Poly tubing transports the water from your source to your plants. The water is then released by emitters, drip lines, sprayers or sprinklers. Emitters can be manually inserted directly into poly mainline tubing with the help of a punch.
1/4" Soaker Dripline: 1/4" poly tubing with emitters pre-installed every 6, 9 or 12 inches. It is flexible and can be used in garden beds, large containers and planter boxes, circled around trees and shrubs, and run down rows.
1/2" Emitter Tubing: 1/2" poly tubing with pressure-compensating emitters pre-installed every 9, 12, 18, 24 or 36 inches. It is great for long rows on hilly or flat terrain and is commonly used in orchards, vineyards, hedgerows and landscapes.
Oval Hose: Larger diameter poly tubing extruded into an oval shape so it can be coiled and shipped. Oval Hose is commonly used as a low-pressure supply line or a header line for rows of drip tape.
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In the most recent US National Election, Hispanics voted for the Democratic Party over the Republican Party, sending the Republicans into a panic over their future viability. Some pundits predict that the US will be up to 43% Hispanic by 2050, but I don’t see that happening.
From 2000 to 2010, America’s Hispanic population jumped by 43 percent, while our total population increased by just 9.7 percent. Or, to put it another way, from 2000 to 2010, America grew by 27.3 million people. Fifteen million of those faces—more than half of those new Americans—were Hispanic. (Pew Research)
America’s net annual immigration numbers started declining in 2006, sliding from just over 1 million in 2005 to 855,000 in 2009. Based on US Census numbers (and I believe that the data is reliable) shows that there has been a net flow of zero immigrants from Mexico as of 2012.
Mexico’s fertility rate—which has been heading downward on an express elevator since the 1970s—started nearing the replacement rate. And that the same is true of nearly every other country south of the American border. Add to that the Mexican economy grew last year at a rate roughly two times that of the tepid American economy, despite nearly a trillion dollars in largely wasted surplus spending by the Obama Administration. Mexico is creating jobs more rapidly than the US is able to as capitalism is taking hold on the other side of the US Border. Thus there is much less pressure on Mexicans to leave home for jobs in the US.
In the US, there are 1.2 private sector jobs for every 1 government job today. Though American economists don’t seem to be worried by that number because of the sense that we can borrow money endlessly with trillion dollar per year deficits projected off into the next decade — we’re in trouble and many Mexicans don’t need a piece of it.
While immigration from Latin America is not solely based on Mexico, that country has traditionally supplied the vast bulk of immigrants.
As Mexico comes to grips with its problem with violence by asking the drug cartels to police themselves and simply send their drugs into the US (taxed unofficially by MEXGOV), it hopes to be able to attract more American businesses to set up shop South of the Border. My sense is that this will become increasingly more attractive through the next three or four years as the American malaise deepens under the weight of the ObamaNation. This may even result in a net NEGATIVE immigration from Mexico as undocumented workers/illegal aliens find that there are better opportunities for them in that “border industrial zone” on the other side of the US Border. | <urn:uuid:4e48d358-c6ba-45d9-bbe0-8d1d5d9cd1f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.virtualmirage.org/a-discussion-of-us-hispanic-population/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958399 | 555 | 2.28125 | 2 |
When Charles II ascended the throne in 1660 he wasted no time in amassing a formidable art collection which, whilst not as celebrated as that of his father, Charles I, nevertheless included works by Bruegel, Leonardo da Vinci and Titian. He also commissioned a portrait of himself that is almost three metres high. The work, by John Michael Wright, is almost three metres high and depicts the king in parliamentary robes and the newly created regalia, displaying the return of regal power. The portraits and other works from Charles’ collection feature in an exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery that runs until 13 May 2018 and provide a counterpoint to the larger exhibition of Charles I’s works at the Royal Academy.
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Kalinak in Hindu mythology, is a monstrous thousand-headed snake. Vishnu sought to capture it, riding on his giant bird, Garndha. When the serpent saw him coming it hid in the river Jumna, whose water it poisoned. When Vishnu, in his ninth Avatar, was still a boy, he decided to deliver the world from this reptile and its offspring. The reptile encircled him with a thousand fangs, but the god walked on its heads and crushed them all but one. He then sent it to the infernal regions, where its poison is used to torture the damned. | <urn:uuid:a518b4ff-fdfe-4a8e-a930-f270c323a8bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/K/kalinak.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.976976 | 131 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Great Britain, United Kingdom or just UK is often just called England. However, it is not entirely correct, as England is only one of the countries in Great Britain.
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If you have acquired or purchased a smaller air compressor for your home or garage workshop, chances are it did not come equipped with a compressed air filter. Do you need a compressed air filter, then? If so, why?
In the market place drive to offer the consumer the cheapest possible off-shore manufactured air compressor, not including a compressed air filter saved the compressor company a few dollars per air compressor, and allows them to keep their wholesale prices, and ultimately the consumer sell price a little lower.
In so doing, for most users of air compressors, they have not done you any favors.
The cap in the compressed air filter directs the incoming compressed air down into the filter bowl, and against the filter bowl, which forces the air into a tight, cyclonic spiral inside the bowl.
The compressed air, reputedly moving at nearly the speed of sound (I say reputedly as I’ve never actually measured it’s speed) literally throws free water and debris against the side to the bowl. This contaminates runs down the inside of the bowl to the bottom quiet zone, where it’s either manually or automatically drained off, depending on the type of drain in the filter bowl.
The air continues spiraling inside the bowl while it also drives through the filter element, back up to the cap, and out downstream to the application. Any debris that hasn’t been thrown out will be captured by the filter element, as long as the debris is larger than the holes in the element, the holes were measured in microns of size.
About Compressed Air Filters – Why Install One?
Why would you consider adding a compressed air filter to a compressor air line?
Compressed air is filthy. Your air compressor is sucking in vast quantities of ‘fresh’ air, and that air is full of grit and dust. The intake filter on your air compressor filters out much of that debris. Some always gets through.
Dirty compressed air acts as an abrasive, wearing inner components of your air tools, particularly of concern if you use your air tools a lot.
Depending on the element capability in the air compressor filter, as the compressed air passes through the filter element, any debris still in the air line is removed down to the filter element size, thereby reducing particulates getting to the air tool.
The compressed air filter comes before other components!
Modern compressed air treatment units (FRL’s) are now usually modular, or they can be nippled together.
Ensure that when you assemble an FRL unit to treat your compressed air, that you make sure that the air travels through the filter before it arrives at other downstream components.
The filter will remove free water, and any airborne debris before it can get to and damage sensitive air-driven equipment.
Water Is Generated Right Away
Compressors turn water vapor in the intake air into free water inside the compressor. Compressors also increase the amount of water vapor in the compressed air in the tank. Both free water and water vapor laden airWater Is Generated Right Away enter your air line and through it to your air tools.
As soon as any air compressor starts pumping air into the tank, it is also pumping free water and water vapor into the tank too.
How much water ends up in your air compressor tank?
That is determined by a number of factors; how long the compressor is running at one time, how hot the compressor gets, the volume of compressed air being used, the ambient temperature and humidity of the air flowing into the air compressors intake port… many factors, few of which you have any control over.
Essentially, there could be lots of water pumped into the compressor tank along with the compressed air.
Water getting to an air tool is a problem. If your air tool is a paint sprayer, water getting to the sprayer is catastrophic to the paint job.
Compressed air filters remove much of that free water, and some of the water vapor from the compressed air stream, as well.
If you use your air tools a lot, or if you are working with an air tool that requires freedom from water spatters and water vapor, then you want to install a compressed air filter.
How Do You Use The Compressed Air?
What have you got hanging on the end of your air hose from the compressor? An air tool? A spray paint gun? Just a blow gun?
Regardless, whatever you are blowing compressed air into from the compressor will likely be negatively affected by the water coming from the compressor tank along with the air.
Do your equipment a favor and add a compressed air filter.
What Size Of Compressed Air Filter?
A rule of thumb is that the intake port on the compressed air filter should be the same size as the air line that is feeding it. That will work for most small air compressors, as the capacity of even a mini-air filter easily outstrips the amount of air that a small air compressor can deliver.
If your air compressor is more than a couple of HP in motor size, rather than use a mini-filter similar to the one shown in the photo above, consider purchasing a regular sized air filter that has the flow capacity of your compressor.
What’s flow capacity? Well, typically an air compressor can pump out about 3-4 CFM of compressed air at 90 PSI for each HP of motor size. The compressed air regulator will have a flow capacity shown on the box or the documentation that comes with the filter.
Just make sure that the capacity of the filter exceeds the flow capacity of the compressor and you are fine.
And yes, periodically you want to replace the filter element in the compressor filter as it clogs up with crud brought down from the compressor by the flowing compressed air.
About Compressed Air Filters – Where Install One?
As a rule of thumb of mine if it is a small DIY type air compressor, install a compressed air filter right at the coupler of the compressor. Rather than disassembling the piping, if you want to be crafty, by using another connector and coupler installed in the filter head you can then simply plug the filter into the existing coupler on the compressor with the connector in the filter, and plug the air line into the coupler on the other side of the filter head.
If you have long air line runs, know that water will condense out in the lines, and end up spraying out your air tool, even if you have a filter at the compressor.
I suggest you run the air line to a filter installed on the workshop wall, and then use another, shorter air line, to get air to your air tool.
About Compressed Air Filters – All compressed air has water in it
If water coming down your compressed air stream is a problem for your work or your air tools, and it almost always is, do yourself a favor. Install a compressed air filter.
The modest up-front expense may save you significantly in the long term.
Got a question about compressed air filters? Ask it below.
When To Use What Type Of Compressed Air Filter?
There are general purpose air filters, coalescent air filters and activated charcoal air filters. When do you use which type? This contribution by Norgren, with my thanks.
Three main types of filters exist: the general purpose filter for water and particles, the coalescing oil removal filter for oil aerosols, and the activated carbon filter for the removal of oil vapors.
Use general purpose filters for main headers, branch lines, tools, cylinders, valves and valve circuits, air agitators, packaging machines, etc.
Use oil removal filters when sub-micron cleanliness or oil-free air is required, such as for the supply to fluidic devices, painting or coating processes, instrumentation, air gauging equipment, air bearings, and medical applications or areas where typical synthetic compressor oils may damage commonly used Buna rubber such as non-lubricated power circuits.
Finally, use activated carbon filters for systems where the oil vapors in the air are not acceptable, such as instrumentation, medical, or packaging systems where the compressed air may come into contact with the product, such as pharmaceuticals.
“Filters have their flow measured in terms of the pressure drop across them. As the flow increases, the pressure drop also increases. These pressure drops are energy losses in the system.
A well-designed filter not only removes water and particles efficiently but also has a low-pressure drop at a given flow.
Be selective. Not all manufacturers quote their flows under the same conditions.
If a higher inlet pressure is used or a higher pressure drop is quoted then the apparent flow will be higher. This does not necessarily mean it’s a better unit. Often the only way to compare units is to test them under the same laboratory conditions.”
I have a Speedaire stock # 47028a I know it’s out of production. What can I do to change the filter, if possible. If not, what would be a comparable replacement?
First off, I’m guessing he’s asking about the filter element…as opposed to the whole air filter.
Unfortunately, as air components age, the manufacturer may drop or re-engineer a product, and all of a sudden, there is no support for it nor can you get parts; in this case, a filter element for a perfectly good filter housing.
Most general purpose compressed air filters have at 25-40 Micron air filter in them.
If you are replacing a general purpose filter, it will be OK to visit your local hardware store (better if it was a local fluid power distributor) and ask them for a general purpose filter that is the same pipe size as yours. And, to prevent this issue for the foreseeable future, ask them for a couple of replacement elements for that filter too.
Typically there is pressure drop across a compressed air filter. The element, even when clean, creates a flow impediment that lowers downstream pressure. If you are seeing an increasing pressure drop across that air filter, that’s the indication that the element is getting plugged up. When the pressure drop is negatively affecting the work, then the filter element needs to be cleaned or changed out.
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Dickey, whose background is manufacturing engineering technology, founded Dirty Beauty Cosmetics in the early 2000s.
The skincare line uses ingredients from her parents’ certified-organic farm such as sunflower, radish, apple leaves, honey and more in a collection of products that are based in both science and nature.
Core items in the skincare collection include Reveal face cleanser designed for all skin-types and made with organic oats and lavender flower. Strip, made from plant oils, is a makeup remover and Sheer is a light facial oil designed to seal moisture into the face.
Dickey had spent decades visiting schools to conduct workshops in science and engineering but she realized she could share her own love of both science and beauty to draw more girls into the field.
Women made up almost 50 percent of the workforce in 2015, but held only 24 percent of STEM jobs, according to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
“There were very few women at the time I was in an industrial setting,” Dickey said. “One of the things that I impress upon young professionals that are in technology is to embrace the fact that they are a woman and a nurturer and that makes you a better employee and engineer and team member, it is not a hindrance.”
Designed for girls ages 7 - 17, Dickey aligns her STEM Beauty Camps with Georgia Performance Standards for science to be sure she is offering relevant material. Three campers attend a recent session held during fall break in Cherokee County schools, including Dickey’s daughter, Ryahn, 11.
The first step is decorating their formula sheets using stickers, stencils and brightly colored markers. “Engineering is very creative but sometimes the classroom doesn’t demonstrate that,” said Dickey.
Once they’ve finished with the decorations, Dickey directs the girls to write their formulas on the sheet. She slowly reads the ingredients and amounts for the slime face mask and the other items they will be making.
The beauty lab is made up of several tables with a pink microscope and scale in the center. Jars filled with the empty containers to hold the completed mask, lip scrub and lip glitter sit in the center of the tables along with cotton swabs and other tools for mixing and blending ingredients. Each girl wears gloves and goggles as they work.
They start off with lip scrub each taking a turn to measure the correct amount of sugar on the scale.
“What is sucrose another name for?” Dickey said.
“Sugar,” said the girls before putting on goggles.
When Chloe, 12, adds more than the needed amount they have to figure out what to do. After a brief discussion, they determine that Chloe can either remove some of the sugar from her bowl or change her formula to meet the correct proportions. She decides to remove some sugar but has to subtract decimals to determine how much to take out.
After finishing their individual lip scrubs, they decide to make the slime mask as a group. Reading over the formula sheets, they see a few ingredients they have trouble pronouncing, Xanthan Gum and Optithen.
“Optithen is a preservative. Why are we using preservative? Have we used it in any other formula?” Dickey said.
“No,” said the girls.
“What is a preservative? What is something you use everyday that helps keep things preserved?” Dickey said.
“The fridge,” said S’vaan,10.
“What if you don’t keep food in there?” said Dickey.
“It will spoil?” S’vaan said.
Dickey goes on to explain that mold is fed by water and any product with water content has to be preserved in some way or it will spoil.
Once they begin mixing the slime mask, the debate turns to how disgusting it looks.
“It looks like mucus,” said Ryahn.
“It feels like mucus,” said Chloe. “Ewww. We have to put this on our face?”
“You totally don’t have to but you probably are already,” said Dickey adding that most of the ingredients in the slime face mask are already in body wash and some foods.
“I’m going to start reading ingredients now,” Chloe said.
At 1 p.m., they begin cleaning up their work spaces and packing their three new products into plastic bags. They are still not sure how they feel about the slime face mask but have already applied pink, purple and bronze glitter gloss to their lips from the roller ball tubes.
They are thrilled with their new products and Dickey was thrilled by the conversations that took place. “What I love the most is when they find solutions or teach themselves something new,” she said. “I try to let them find the answers because (the solutions) are always there.” | <urn:uuid:4332d1f8-e478-4d83-b614-514030b5532f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ajc.com/blog/talk-town/stem-beauty-camp-teaches-the-beauty-science/CEz0iQYgkttdcw5Rjwo7dO/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96728 | 1,067 | 2.375 | 2 |
A Japanese national described in court documents as “a major wildlife trafficker” was sentenced on April 30 to 21 months in federal prison for smuggling 55 live turtles and tortoises from Japan into the United States, all of which were concealed in snack food boxes when the protected animals were discovered at Los Angeles International Airport in January 2011.
Atsushi Yamagami, 39, a resident of Osaka, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George H. King. In addition to the prison term, King ordered Yamagami to pay a $18,403 criminal fine, which will paid to the Lacy Act Reward Account, which is used to finance investigations conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
On Aug. 1, 2011, Yamagami pleaded guilty to smuggling the 55 reptiles from Japan. The majority of the turtles and tortoises were species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), an international treaty that protects species being threatened by international trade.
In a sentencing memorandum filed with the court, federal prosecutors argued that the method of secreting the turtles in snack food packages stuffed into suitcases constituted animal cruelty, and the animals posed the risk of transmitting salmonella.
Yamagami has been held without bond since his arrest last year.
The case against Yamagami is the result of Operation Flying Turtle, an undercover Fish and Wildlife Service investigation. In July 2010, F&WS agents infiltrated the smuggling ring and purchased approximately 10 CITES-protected turtles and tortoises from a person linked to Yamagami.
During the investigation, agents discovered that Yamagami was a leader of an organized group of Japanese nationals who were responsible for smuggling CITES-protected turtles, tortoises, chameleons and lizards into and out of the U.S., primarily through airports in Honolulu and Los Angeles.
After the animals were smuggled into the U.S., Yamagami sold or traded them at reptile pet shows across the country, and used the proceeds to purchase snakes, turtles and tortoises native to North America. The animals acquired in the U.S. were smuggled by Yamagami and his couriers back to Japan for resale in the pet trade.
Yamagami smuggled reptiles himself, and he paid couriers to smuggle the wildlife inside their luggage, according to court documents. The investigation determined that from 2004 through 2011, Yamagami and his couriers took 42 trips to and from the U.S.
Two of Yamagami’s couriers — Norihide Ushirozako and Hiroki Uetsuki, both Japanese citizens believed to reside in Osaka — were arrested and prosecuted for wildlife smuggling in 2011.
Ushirozako was sentenced last August to time served, which was approximately seven months, in federal court in Los Angeles. Uetsuki was also sentenced to time served, approximately six months, in January 2001 in federal court in Hawaii.
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Although FNPs are a specific type of boost practice registered nurse ( APRN ), there are two possible career outcomes when becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner : FNP-BC v FNP-C. however, what is the deviation between these two titles ? When looking at the deviation between the FNP-BC mean vs. FNP-C mean, it very comes down to the specific certifications each FNP chooses to obtain .
What’s the difference between the FNP-BC vs. FNP-C certifications?
typically both FNP-BC and FNP-C certifications are obtained after completing an APRN degree focusing on class medicine. The main difference between FNP-BC and FNP-C is that the FNP-BC documentation is provided through the american english Nurses Credentialing Center ( ANCC ), while the FNP-C is provided through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners ( AANP ). Both of these organizations are credible and well respected within the field. however, the certificate exams focus on slenderly different content areas, so choosing which test to take is significant to the authentication you receive and your professional goals .
FNP-BC Certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
ANCC ’ s documentation for becoming an FNP-BC focuses more on policy, research, and nursing theory topics, and the test is longer than the FNP-C certificate test. many students choose to take this test if they are looking to pursue the academia or leadership route in their career. FNP-BC certifications tend to besides be more expensive due to the nature and length of the documentation. The cost for this examination is $ 270 for ANA members, $ 395 for non-members, and $ 340 for AANP, GAPNA, or NGNA members.
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FNP-C Certification Through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
The FNP-C authentication provided by the AANP is a bang-up choice for those who want to focus on the clinical aspect of rehearse, such as affected role appraisal, diagnosis, and evaluation. The FNP-C certification examination is slightly shorter and less expensive than the FNP-BC examination. This examination costs $ 240 for AANP members and $ 315 for non-members .
Both the FNP-BC and the FNP-C authentication command you to have a current RN license, a completed promote degree in family medicine, 500 hours of oversee clinical hours ( direct patient worry hours required for FNP-C ), and successful completion of specific APRN courses, such as health advanced pharmacology, physiology, and health judgment .
Which FNP credentials are better, and which board examination should you take?
fortunately, both FNP-BC and FNP-C credentials are credible and equally respected. Deciding which certificate to pursue is entirely determined by what students want to focus on professionally. As mentioned above, if you want to focus on more policy and theory-related shape and go down the academia road, then an FNP-BC may be the better option for you. Those that want to pursue the clinical route typically choose to obtain the FNP-C authentication.
FNP-BC vs. FNP-C: Where do you start on the journey to becoming an FNP?
As laid out above, one of the first steps in obtaining either of these certifications is pursuing an advance degree in family medicine, such as a Family Nurse Practitioner academic degree. Goodwin University ’ s on-line FNP broadcast is an excellent choice for those looking for a full-bodied, advance nurse course of study and elastic on-line degree options. The course of study covers everything from current nurse and leadership concepts, to pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment. This program will equip you with the cognition and resources you need to succeed as both an FNP-BC or FNP-C. For more information about Goodwin ’ sulfur FNP course of study, or the remainder between the FNP certifications, contact our advisors today. Call 800-889-3282 or request more information on-line .
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Canyon River (Ontario) facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsCanyon River
Location of the mouth of the Canyon River in Ontario
|Main source||Favel Lake
373 m (1,224 ft)
|River mouth||Wabigoon River
328 m (1,076 ft)
|River system||Hudson Bay drainage basin|
The Canyon River begins at Favel Lake, just east of the community of Jones and Ontario Highway 671, and heads east out of the lake at the settlement of Favel into the long Canyon Lake, which extends east–west for 20 kilometres (12 mi). It takes in the right tributary Shrub Creek at the lake, upon which the settlements of Canyon and McIntosh are located. The river heads out of Canyon Lake at Outlet Bay, heads over several waterfalls including Sixty Two Foot Falls, and reaches its mouth at the Canyon Stretch on the Wabigoon River. From Favel Lake to the eastern tip of Canyon Lake, the river is paralleled by the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line; Via Rail transcontinental Canadian trains travel on the line and stop at Canyon station.
- Shrub Creek (right)
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Architects: James A. Britton
Design and construction
Machmer Hall is an approximately 73,000 square foot academic building on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The building is located within the central campus and was originally designed to house the mathematics department.
The building has a c-shaped plan including a three-story central block and two two-story wings, all with basement. The building was originally sited facing the historic North College building with its primary façade as the south elevation. The flanking wings form a rear courtyard at the north, which originally faced the campus ravine prior to its infill for the parking structure.
The modern classroom building was constructed with a steel and concrete frame with interior partitions of structural-glazed tile. The three classroom blocks are each organized by double-loaded corridors. The rectilinear volumes of the building have flat roofs, continuous coping, and unadorned facades finished with common-bond brick veneer . The façade is unified through the spacing and composition of windows within a continuous frame of limestone window heads and sills. Windows are large doublehung 1/1 aluminum sash.
Two prominent entrance vestibules are located at the east and west ends of the south elevation. They are positioned at the joint of each wing feature double-height atriums with storefront glass walls and projecting, polished granite surrounds. Each vestibule has three pairs of tempered glass doors with aluminum frames.
The building entrances occur at a raised terrace elevation that is accessed via two exterior stairs. A large semi-circular stone staircase at the east is framed by brick retaining walls and originally provided linkage to the Olmsted Drive. The stair is now divided by metal handrails and leads to a small paved area for service vehicles. Two original exterior flagpoles are also prominent features of the south elevation.
Machmer Hall was constructed at the northern terminus of the Lincoln Road axis in 1957. The building was sited adjacent to the 19th-century North College building which survived for a few years before ultimate demolition. The location mirrored the Student Union across Olmsted Drive, which was sited to provide convenient access to both the male and female residential complexes. Although designed by separate architects, both buildings employed similar architectural details and contributed towards defining the central campus academic conference.
Following the completion of Hasbrouck Hall in 1950, the University adopted a modern approach to the design of all new academic buildings. Although there were virtually no distinctions in the building’s construction technology from other projects of the period (concrete and steel frame) the exterior form was a clear departure from the Georgian Revival style influencing the dormitory construction. Such a distinction was not uncommon to this period of post-WWII campus architecture, when academic facilities often embraced the symbolic connotations of modern design, while residential construction adopted the historic.
The southern end of the Lincoln Road axis was later terminated by the construction of Whitmore Hall in 1967. Historically, Lincoln Avenue was tree-lined and featured some open lots interspersed with athletic fields. New construction near Machmer Hall has changed the scale of the surrounding landscape. New construction includes W.E.B. Du Bois Library (1972) to southeast, Thompson Hall to the west (1968), and the Parking Garage to north (1970). Vegetation historically associated with the building, including trees over lawn and evergreen shrubs at the eastern entrance steps, remains intact.
Naming of the building
Machmer Hall was named for William Lawson Machmer (1899-1953), who held one of the longest tenures of any administrator in the history of the University of Massachusetts. Machmer served under five presidents across 42 years, helping to guide the university through an economic depression, two world wars, and three name changes. During his years as Dean, Machmer witnessed the growth of the university from fewer than 500 students to almost 3,800, and helped guide its transformation from a small agricultural college into Massachusetts State College (1931) and finally into the University of Massachusetts (1947). | <urn:uuid:7e5740e4-e5ad-4e22-a972-fa1abd3d08ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=m:machmer_hall&do= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964449 | 850 | 2.15625 | 2 |
During the enforcement of lockdown measures, the Ombudsperson’s Office reported more than 1,600 complaints of human rights violations, including over 620 of the best to freedom of movement. Girls and women accused of having abortions have been imprisoned for homicide and aggravated homicide. In conclusion, while El Salvador continues to make some legislative progress towards preventing femicide and ending widespread impunity for abuse and violence in opposition to women, the reality confronted by the common Salvadoran lady is altering considerably slower.
As in Mexico, the authorities to whom somebody might report, namely the police, are incessantly corrupt and customarily steeped in the identical patriarchal culture that condones gender-based violence in the first place. There have been quite a few instances of survivors in Latin America reporting sexual abuse to the police only to be furtherabused by the police themselves. Through the student-centered activities, college students strengthened gender concepts and women have been in a position to strengthen their leadership expertise and become extra empowered.
Womens Imply Years Of Schooling
Brazil’s Bertha Lutz, who was instrumental in securing voting rights for girls in 1932, was a outstanding zoologist and scientist. Both Luisi and Lutz had in frequent being from European immigrant households. And in addition they shared the international stage within the Pan-American context, where many women got here collectively in a transnational feminist movement.
The Trump administration is pulling funding from applications that help women in El Salvador and focusing funding and power on a border wall to keep them and others out. Women seeking asylum based mostly on home violence claims are now being rejected. In 2018, the United States committed solely $600,000 to anti-violence applications, which was 1 % of its assist price range to El Salvador. His increasingly violent and controlling habits, nonetheless, was allowed to fester for the 10 years they had been collectively with none authorized repercussions. That’s sadly widespread in a rustic that often dismisses crimes in opposition to women. Homicides of girls in El Salvador have greater than doubled since 2013 to 468 in 2017, according to theInstitute of Forensic Medicine. The violence is destabilizing the country and is considered a significant push factor in driving up migration to the United States.
She additionally served as a left-wing freedom fighter for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in opposition to the U.S.-backed government in the course of the civil struggle. In El Salvador, a Central American nation that is properly conscious of the importance of girls in its improvement plan, it is still a challenge to make significant inroads to handle societal norms that perpetuate disadvantages, biases and exclusion of ladies. Criminal gangs have attacked women and ladies with disabilities with excessive ranges of impunity. Yet, the Trump administration has placed the way forward for these USAID tasks in query by severely cutting the quantity of assist despatched to El Salvador.
In reality, the Dry Corridor, characterised by extreme drought, virtually utterly covers El Salvador . This not solely puts strain on El Salvador’s already precious water supply, but in addition extra stress on the women of the world when it comes to their home and agricultural duties .
Including Value: Womens Contributions To Reintegration And Reconstruction In El Salvador
Though I have much household within the states, I nonetheless feel an enormous a part of me missing as a result of I’ve never met my father. From what I’ve been informed he needed a relationship with me but for reasons I am uncertain of it did not happen.
Femicide charges stay extraordinarily excessive, and the limited scope of anti-violence programs–along with a severe lack of funding and systemic resistance on the judicial and regulation enforcement level–imply that even probably the most progressive legal guidelines can solely achieve this much. Social isolation for women facing bodily and sexual abuse is compounded by a police pressure that fails to acknowledge domestic violence as a criminal offense and does little to protect women from their abusers.
Radio Programme Referred To As Womens Voice
Farm and plantation work in El Salvador, an business by which most rural men, and a few women, used to be employed, is no longer viable labor. As the nation modernizes and will increase their industrial sector, many are pressured to leave the neighborhood to search out work in the capital, neighboring nations, or the United States. In their desperation, many young individuals have turned to drugs and gangs, whereas women, with a number of the men gone from the community to work, are forced to do anything they’ll to generate income, usually promoting small objects similar to soda in local markets. Poverty and malnutrition are rampant; youngsters and adults die frequently of treatable illnesses and but, based on Gonzales, the government has little interest in rural individuals. WFP enhances authorities efforts to provide food assistance and promote the early recovery of people affected by sudden and slow-onset disasters. Assistance is geared in direction of constructing longer-term shock responsive methods embedded into the national social protection programmes. WFP also supports the strengthening of institutional emergency preparedness and response, together with early warning and monitoring and analysis systems for meals security and nutrition.
Countries like Brazil, Peru and Guatemala saved literacy requirements for voting — which disproportionately affected indigenous and Afro-descendant women from rural areas. Dubbed the Brazilian Joan of Arc, Maria Quitéria fought for Brazil’s independence from Portugal in 1822 — one hundred el salvadorian women seventy years earlier than women had been officially allowed to join the military.
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This includes utilizing titles of respect earlier than individuals’s names and utilizing the formal “you” (” usted “). Women should present respect to men, should not elevate their voices to them, and should serve them food on demand. Greetings are essential upon coming into a retailer or, in small cities and communities, passing someone on the road. Basic education is obligatory until age thirteen, but half the kids ages six to sixteen within the poorest households don’t attend school.
La Colectiva, a nonprofit based mostly in El Salvador, aims to offer providers and sources to women going through and addressing gender-primarily based violence. The group’s founder, Morena Herrera, strives to abolish the nation’s abortion penal code. The group not only addresses domestic conflicts but additionally focuses on reproductive rights and training so that women feel empowered to retain all rights to their bodies and search help when needed. The smallest country in Central America, El Salvador has one the best rates of femicide and violence towards women in the world. In this episode, host Beatriz Nice talks with women’s rights and gender skilled Fernanda Vanegas on the challenges faced in El Salvador and the hope for change.
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The younger regulation scholar recalled the time she was instructing teenagers about reproductive rights at a faculty when a principal informed her the content material was not apt for teenagers that age. “There are nine and 10-year-old women giving start right now because they have been raped,” she continued. According to feminists and human rights activists, these are the ugly truths that are hard to reckon with as a society and are thus normalized. The issues La Colectiva rallies strongly round are sexual violence and abortion rights. According to a United Nations Population Fund report, there were 4,621 investigations into sexual violence circumstances in 2017 of which solely 488 resulted in sentencing of the perpetrators. With their intercourse ed trainings and grassroots organizing, the group hopes women and women will advocate for themselves, be able to identify abuse, and know the place to go to report it. El Salvador is a country where79%of recorded sexual violence circumstances this year have involved girls younger than 19, abortion is strictlycriminalized, andone in three pregnanciesbelongs to a teen woman. | <urn:uuid:5fa7b9c9-d1a0-4fe4-ba7f-41ba92a8dd91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://casebizness.com/2020/12/12/el-salvadors-femicide-disaster/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950498 | 1,629 | 2.25 | 2 |
Cumbria coal mine must not go ahead – MP tells public inquiry
Local MP Tim Farron has told a major public inquiry that if plans are approved for a new coal mine in Cumbria it will "squander" the UK's ability to lead on climate change ahead of COP26 later this year.
On the first day of the public inquiry into the mine, Tim said that opening a new coal mine would go against the steel industry's move to decarbonisation and implored the Government to be investing in renewable jobs in Cumbria instead.
Tim has long campaigned against the mine, presenting a petition to Parliament in 2019 opposing the plans and he led the calls asking for the Secretary of State to call in the application last year.
Speaking during the public inquiry this afternoon, Tim said: "In a matter of weeks time, the United Kingdom will host and lead COP26.
"Our ministers are going to need to look China, India, Russia, the United States, Brazil in the eye and urge them to decarbonise.
"They will not be ignorant to this discussion we are currently having.
"If we sanction the opening of a new coal mine in the United Kingdom then we will be laughed at and our ability to lead will be diminished.
"This moment - where we are able to potentially to bring with us a series of nations to make big decisions and decarbonise - will be critically undermined. We will have squandered our capacity to lead.
"So this is an incredibly serious decision. This is a massive issue. This is not just something for us Cumbrians to concern ourselves with. This is something which is potentially going to rob us of the capacity to push world leaders towards the radical decarbonisation that we desperately, desperately need." | <urn:uuid:3fbf18b5-e627-40ee-96f9-4968a414b697> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timfarron.co.uk/en/article/2021/1411881/cumbria-coal-mine-must-not-go-ahead-mp-tells-public-inquiry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957687 | 364 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Nutrition & Fitness Self-Help Resources
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2019 saw the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem make a paradigm shift. The country’s startup landscape saw the emergence of seven new unicorns and value creation of $90 billion. Little wonder, then, that India is globally ranked third in its number of startups, behind only the US and China.
The first half of 2019 saw $3.9 billion invested across 292 domestic investment deals, marking an increase of more than 44% over the same period in 2018. Emerging startups also benefited from the windfall. A recent Nasscom report, ‘Indian Tech Startup Ecosystem 2018: Approaching Escape Velocity’, highlighted the growth in early-stage funding in India. More than $1.6 billion was invested in newer business ventures, marking a year-on-year increase of 70%.
Go Forth The increasing maturity of the startup ecosystem is being complemented by the emergence of world-class Indian startups, such as Flipkart, Oyo and Zomato, going global. These developments are indicative of the massive growth potential of the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem, which is expected to be home to 100,000 startups and 100 unicorns by 2025. That said, these numbers alone do not paint an in-depth picture of entrepreneurial growth.
For instance, they don’t show innovations and disruptions that have been driven across industries, as well as interesting shifts within the startup ecosystem. Newer domains such as electric vehicles (EVs), biotech, agri-tech, human resources (HR) tech, retail tech, deep tech, drones, space and robotics all evinced investor interest in 2019.
With companies increasingly revamping their business infrastructure by integrating advanced technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), startups focused on delivering such services also achieved much faster growth.
Startups leveraged India’s rapid digitisation trajectory. But, more importantly, they focused on harnessing the potential of its $2.5 trillion economy. Digitisation not only opened up a huge market in tier-3-4 cities, but also enabled companies to build operations for scale and for customers with diverse behaviours. Such ‘from Bharat, for Bharat’ startups have attracted significant investor interest across sectors. In 2019, over 18 small-town startups raised $165 million in funding.
2019 also witnessed a significant shift in the entrepreneurial mindset. The new wave of entrepreneurs is building disruptive value propositions into fast-growth business ventures by focusing on revenue toplines and bottomlines. The trinity of disruption, differentiation and ‘dhanda’ has become the mainstay for both entrepreneurs and investors.
GoI initiatives have enabled innovative startups catering to critical market needs such as cleaner and cheaper transportation, and solar energy. Both central and state governments are competing with each other on various parameters to facilitate startup growth.
While talking about growth, the great contribution made by private players can’t be overlooked. In addition to dedicated high net-worth individuals (HNWIs) and angel groups, State-sponsored as well as privately funded accelerators and incubators are nurturing entrepreneurship. Indiais currently home to 335 of such enablers and cultivators of innovation.
Learn Fast Large organisations are extending mentorship opportunities, procuring services from emerging enterprises, providing grants and even equity.
Many established businesses have also started acquiring startups with unique intellectual properties (IPs). This opens up a very large pool of domestic capital for entrepreneurial ventures, unlocking invaluable and high-quality capital for the startup ecosystem.
On the GoI front, the axing of the ‘angel tax’ was handled very proactively by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (Dipp) and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). This development also paved the way for government and investors to partner and create an enabling ecosystem.
Beyond the policy level, GoI accelerated the establishment of dedicated resources for startups, such as the ‘Fund of Funds’ managed by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi), which has committed over Rs 4,100 crore to more than 110 funds. Furthermore, India is the only country to have a separate ministry dedicated to the development of the burgeoning biotech sector.
In the last seven years, the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (Birac), an academia industry interface agency created by the department of biotechnology, has invested Rs 978 crore in this space, along with garnering an industry commitment worth Rs 937 crore. Since its launch, more than 750 Birac-supported biotech startups have gone on to achieve a cumulative valuation of more than Rs 3,500 crore, while 33 such companies have achieved a valuation of Rs 365.4 crore in the last three years alone.
The number of startup funds has also risen. In 2019, the number shot up to 550, from 129 in 2014. Ten oil and gas public sector utilities (PSUs) have partnered to launch a startup fund worth more than Rs 300 crore. The share of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) alone stands at Rs 100 crore. State governments have also risen to the occasion. Under the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), for instance, the Kerala government has selected investment funds through which it will infuse Rs 300 crore into startups by 2022.
Indian startups are gaining support from not just stakeholders within the country but also from beyond. West Asia, Japan, China and Germany are among the top investors showing interest in domestic innovators today. Japanese investment giant SoftBank alone has invested $10 billion in Indian startups. For Chinese investors, India represents one of the most important markets.
Over the years, however, Indian investors have proved that they are not just enablers of the ecosystem, but also key innovation drivers. Let 2020 continue this trend. The writer is president, Indian Angel Network (IAN)
The internal work is done and the focus is on starting with a good volume of quality sellers so they are going aggressive on roping in independent sellers so it can be launched soon, one of the people mentioned above said.
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Clinical paper summary: effect of post-brushing mouth rinse solutions on salivary fluoride retention
The benefits of fluoride – inhibition of demineralisation, promotion of remineralisation and prevention of caries – are widely understood by dental professionals.
Mouth rinses are commercially available with fluoride concentrations ranging from 0 to 500 ppm (equivalent to 0.1% sodium fluoride). In a few countries, mouth rinses with sodium fluoride up to 990 ppm (equivalent to 0.2% sodium fluoride) are available. These products are generally marketed for use immediately post-brushing or at a time separate from when brushing takes place. Post-brushing mouth rinses have the capacity to enhance or diminish fluoride efficacy from toothpaste depending on fluoride level and usage pattern.1
This three-phase, randomised, cross-over study evaluated the effects of three post-brushing mouth rinses containing 0 ppm F, 225 ppm F, and 500 ppm F (equivalent to 0.05% and 0.1% sodium fluoride respectively) on salivary fluoride retention after brushing with 1450 ppm fluoride (as NaF) toothpaste and rinsing with water immediately after brushing.1
An ion-specific electrode was used to measure salivary F levels in thirty trial participants before brushing, and after brushing, rinsing with water, and then rinsing with one of the three mouth rinses. Time points evaluated after brushing were one, three, five, 10, 20, 30, 45, and 60 minutes. For saliva sample collections, subjects were asked to pool saliva in their mouths for 10 seconds before spitting out into a container for each of the time points.1
Salivary fluoride concentrations were expressed as area under the curve (AUC) over 60 minutes. The AUC0-60 means for F in saliva were 554, 252, and 20 for the 500, 225, and 0 ppm F mouth rinse groups, respectively.1
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Alternative Proteins: Identifying UK priorities (PDF)
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Recognising the emerging opportunity in the alternative protein sector, UKRI’s Transforming Food Production programme partnered with Growing Kent and Medway to explore the UK priorities for industry, academia, regulatory bodies and funders.
The aim of the workshop and subsequent analysis report was to bring together relevant stakeholder experts to determine a consolidated view on capabilities, capacity, barriers, and investment and collaboration opportunities in the sector.
This information then guided the development of a series of roadmaps for key categories of alternative proteins.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ever since the first police departments in the U.S. were formed in the mid-19th century, policing has been viewed by most as a traditionally male career path. In 1970, only about 2 percent of all police officers in the United States were women, as compared to 13-14 percent today. In 1974, 27-year-old Sandy Goss, along with two other female recruits, graduated from the Springfield Police Department’s police academy. Before 1974, women were not accepted into SPD's academy. “I spent two years trying to get into the academy … finally, the city manager at the time told the police department that they had to accept women,” Goss said. Upon graduation from the academy, Goss worked for the Springfield-Branson National Airport as an airport police officer for 16 years. While serving at the airport, Goss, at the time a single mother of two, began to feel drawn to working to put those who victimize children behind bars. “I felt that investigating child abuse cases was where I could be most useful in law enforcement,” Goss said. “I knew that it would be involve going back to school and a lot of training to learn interviewing and interrogation techniques, but I had to do it.” While continuing to work full time, she took night classes at Drury University to pursue a criminal justice degree. Goss joined SPD in 1991, after graduating from the police academy – again – at the age of 44, which was required because she hadn’t worked as a street officer. “The physical agility requirements were definitely more intense in 1991 than they were in 1974, but I was able to make it through and graduate,” Goss said. Goss served in SPD’s patrol division and was specially assigned to SPD’s mounted patrol in 1992 and 1993. In 1995, she achieved the rank of corporal and became a detective, investigating special victims cases (cases involving child abuse and neglect and child sexual abuse) for nearly 12 years. “Oh yes, it wore on me,” she said, about the job. “As a bailiff now at Municipal Court, I sometimes come across victims from my years investigating and see how the abuse still affects their lives as adults. But there are times when I run into a victim or a relative of a victim who tells me they’re doing well, and that’s very rewarding,” she said. “I describe the years I spent as an investigator as heartbreaking, but rewarding,” Goss added. “Heartbreaking, because of what those kids went through, but rewarding, because even when we were not able to put an abuser behind bars, we were often able to get the child out of the home they were being abused in.” In 1997, Goss became president of the Missouri Police Juvenile Officers Association, for which she continues to serve as a board member. Goss retired from SPD in 2006 and joined the Municipal Court as a bailiff, where she has continued to serve and protect. “Sandy actually told my mother one day that she would take a bullet for me,” said Judge Becky Borthwick. “Although this has been a ‘retirement’ job for her, she takes it very seriously and is very competent. She has had to defuse many situations in the courtroom in her time as a bailiff,” Borthwick said. After 41 years serving the City of Springfield, Goss will retire on Friday and plans to spend time on her farm near Mount Vernon tending to her horses and playing with her three grandchildren. She will be available for interviews at Municipal Court after 12:30 p.m. Friday. ### For more information, please contact Court Administrator Deanna Farley at 417-864-1360. Cutline: Goss, pictured front right on the paint horse, served in SPD’s patrol division and was specially assigned to SPD’s mounted patrol in 1992 and 1993.Download high-res SPD headshot. | <urn:uuid:f9e3e57b-d48d-4002-8875-7251ac06f318> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://health.springfieldmo.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3408 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.988947 | 866 | 2.1875 | 2 |
….And good old elbow grease! These 10,000L Mixers were delivered for a well-reputed domestic and industrial cleaning products manufacturer. Used to mix polishes and renovators these machines are capable of producing in excess of 25 Million litres of product each year – keeping many homes clean and owners active in the future.
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At the program of transnational cooperation INTERREG Central Europe, the town of Šibenik has been successfully applied project “Rosie”. The aim of this project is through international cooperation improve skills and competencies of entrepreneurs and innovators. The project will strive to alleviate inequalities and improve technical and management competencies of employees in the private and public sector. Implementation of the project will last 36 months and for implementation of activities the town of Sibenik will be awarded by funds of 110,000 euros.
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Nutrition is a complex topic in today’s world. The focus is often put completely on the amount we eat in regards to losing weight. However, it is essential to make sure you get enough nutrients, vitamins, and minerals often does not get much attention.Eating organically can help improve how nutritious your diet’s total nutritional content. These organic foods are healthy as they are straight from nature free from additives. You will understand better understanding if you give it a try.Do not wait until you feel stuffed.This will help you not to overeat and tell your body that it is time to digest the food.Proper nutrition is vital for nursing or pregnant women. Ample protein consumption is very important for pregnant women; however, pregnancy interferes with appetite. Having a smoothie made with egg whites can be a good way to get enough protein. Eggs have no fat, are low calorie, and each egg white has 3 grams of the protein needed. Therefore, for pregnant women they are a wonderful protein addition. Always use pasteurized eggs in the smoothie to avoid any problems.Oatmeal is a great breakfast choice that will get your day. The grains in one cup of oatmeal is very satisfying and will help to keep you full longer.A single medium stalk of broccolo contains an entire day’s worth of Vitamin K. It also has Vitamin C levels that are around two days. These nutrients help build healthy bones stay strong and might reduce cancer risks. To maximize the nutritional value, make your broccoli steamed instead of nuked or boiled.A diet good for your heart should include items that are limited in fat but have lots of protein. Poultry like turkey or chicken can help you to have these requirements, but that is only if the skin is not eaten. Poultry should be baked, boiled, roasted or broiled, but shouldn’t be fried.White meat is usually a healthier than darker meats.If you’re almost full, don’t eat anymore. This helps to prevent you from eating too much and signals to your body that it is time to digest the food. Stopping eating before becoming full can help you stay in control of your food so that you can keep being healthy.People with diabetes can have difficulty getting all of their nutritional needs met. Eating regularly addresses this because the day can help keep blood sugar is kept within range. They must eat a lot of vegetables, whole grain, and fresh produce. They need to be sure to eat at about the same time every day.
When you make food, the best cooking methods are grilling, broiling, baking, and grilling. If you are used to using butter, try a cooking spray in its place. Strain and rinse it off with hot water. This helps get rid of the extra fat.Use whole wheat flour instead of enriched white flour in order to increase your baked goods’ nutritional value. Whole wheat is higher in fiber and fiber.Avoid too many microwave meals. These meals often have high amounts of fat and sugar. It is always best to purchase your food fresh and to cook it yourself for it to have the best nutritional value.You don’t need to eliminate all treats, but you must watch how much you eat of them. Don’t feel bad if you do eat fatty treats once in awhile, but picking a nutritious option instead will benefit your baby in the long run.A good nutrition tip for expectant mothers is to ensure the presence of lots of vitamin B12 in the diet.Vitamin B12 has the chances of birth defects. Although it is not common for people to have a vitamin B-12 deficiency, women who frequently diet need to watch their B12 levels.Low-fat foods often have sugar or sweeteners to give back flavor loss from the fat reduction. Always pay attention to what has been added to foods that have had calories taken out.Add some salmon into eating regimen. Salmon contains lots of healthy omega-3’s as well as niacin. These things will reduce your risks of developing certain types of cancer, heart diseases and other health problems. Always purchase wild salmon instead of farmed salmon so as to avoid any toxic chemicals.You can heal your damaged hair by eating nutritious food rich in zinc, lean protein, and lean proteins. Keratin is a component of protein that makes up your hair. Folic acid and zinc helps your hair smooth and shiny. If you’re looking for healthy diet choices that provide these vital nutrients, stock up on foods like avocados, legumes, or seafood.As you already know, many people ignore the benefits of good nutrition. However, since you’ve read this, you should know more on the subject than you did before. Keep this knowledge in your head when you’re eating next because you’ll be able to feel healthier soon. | <urn:uuid:cc6bd40a-9389-4633-af91-141fbf4136da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fatlosscenter.info/the-top-nutrition-information-in-the-whole-world-3/?share=pocket | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963334 | 999 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The other day I was scrolling on Pinterest, looking at kitchens that I thought were pretty and gardens that I would love to grow one day. Every single picture consisted only of the colors black, white, gray, green, and some shade of wood, reflecting my ideal design: minimalistic, especially compared to the houses of most people I know. While I would be happy to have a small space with neutral colors and as few possessions as possible, this clashes with the American Dream that most Americans, and those coming to America, strive for. The American Dream rests delicately on having the right car, a large house, and enough money to do whatever they want. But should that really be “the dream,” a life based on objects?
Several studies and surveys have shown that clutter increases anxiety, and psychologists are publishing articles about the reasons and potential remedies. Unfortunately, the more anxiety there is surrounding a project, the harder it is to do it, creating a seemingly endless cycle of anxiety and avoidance of the issue. Personally, I can even get overwhelmed by lots of colors, which is why my Pinterest feed is full of neutral tones. So this is not just about items. Anything that overwhelms, distracts, or takes up too much time needs to be put to the test: is it worth it?
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, known for their various media— books, podcast, website— about minimalism, write that minimalism is not about seeing who can survive with the fewest number of items; it’s about reevaluating the value that we give to those things and weighing the worth of them in our lives. If something is taking up more time than it’s worth, shouldn’t we ask ourselves why we deal with it? Why is a part of us saying, “I need this”?
Why? Why do you need that? If the answer shows that the pros outweigh the cons or if the item “sparks joy,” as organizing guru Marie Kondo says, you have a good reason to keep it. If not, see how you do without it. Chances are you will save yourself a lot of time and stress if you are not constantly putting it back in its place or cleaning it. Those things also take up space, adding to the stress of maintaining an area and finding what you need when you need it.
Obviously, it is not a bad thing to have some luxuries and comforts. However, I think that if we look at how Christ lived, we will see that a minimalist lifestyle can be more freeing, fulfilling, and even a way to reach Western culture.
As Christ did ministry for three years, his only connections were people; he did not have items or a home to tie him down. His disciples lived the same way. This made it quite easy for them to focus on ministry and put God first. It also freed them to minister at any time or place. They were not responsible for lugging things around or keeping up with a house or even a donkey for transportation. They were encouraged to trust God even more, relying on him for everything because they all left their jobs and source of income. That life was not necessarily comfortable, but it was the best way to live out their faith while doing extensive full-time ministry.
Of course, Jesus and his disciples were able to live in this extreme state of minimalism because they had other supports. Mary, Martha and Lazarus were like family to Jesus and welcomed him into their home whenever they had the opportunity. There are even a few unknown supports that Jesus had, such as whoever hosted the Last Supper. Without these people, Jesus’s ministry would not have taken the nomadic form that it did. While Mary, Martha, and Lazarus had a physical home and material objects, they still strived to ensure that those were never more important than their relationship with Jesus.
Still, Christians are meant to imitate Christ. Based on the different instructions he gave to people who wanted to follow him, the most important part of that is to make sure nothing is more important than God. Take this passage in Matthew 8:
And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
This is not to say that having a home or family is not important, but God always comes first. Jesus calls out the one thing that he knows each person would choose over God and shows them that they need to change their priorities. Just because you value something over God, does not mean that God does not want you to have it. He just wants you to put Him first.
God is not calling every person to live the minimalist challenges, such as living with only 100 total items or 33 articles of clothing, as some in the movement do. He is also not calling every Christian to live exactly as Christ did, a preaching and miracle-working nomad. But that does not mean that we are not called to declutter our lives of worldly distractions to better focus on what is important, our relationships, health, and God. Minimalism is a way to reduce these distractions.
In addition to the biblical application of a minimalist lifestyle, the church can use this as a way to minister to the world. It is an opportunity for the church to use a trend and say, “We agree with that!” The possibilities and opportunities are limitless. Historically, the church has not always been the best at using cultural changes to preach the gospel, generally speaking, of course, but we could use this one.
When I was growing up, I would be thrilled every time I packed up all my things and they fit in a suitcase, a crate, two carry-on bags, and a backpack. As a missionary kid, I was part of a family that moved a lot, and packing all my things and seeing how little I owned made me feel free. I wasn’t tied down to any city or country because I had items there. I could pay for two extra checked bags, get on a plane, and go anywhere with everything I owned. This meant that connections I had to places I had lived or visited were based on people I knew and the memories made there.
I’m getting married next year and starting to build a registry to fill my future home with my husband. Now that I have to be the one getting plates, towels, and laundry baskets, I will no longer be able to pack all my things in five bags of varying sizes. Even so, I don’t plan on changing how I see my connection to places: through relationships and memories instead of physical items. The first house my husband and I will live in will most likely not be our forever home, as we are planning to go to the mission field shortly after getting married. So the registry items that I will fill it with are mostly temporary, just like that home, but the memories made there will last forever.
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It’s every business leader’s dream to predict the future of the market and their company. Using probabilistic models and machine learning artificial intelligence algorithms, predicting the future of sales and customer behavior is possible.
When you can predict customer lifetime value and buying behavior you can more accurately update your business plans, future budgets, and staff responsibilities to ensure you’re ready to meet the future needs of your customers and grow your business.
In this article, we will share the basics of how you can use machine learning to predict future customer lifetime value (often abbreviated to CLV, LTV, or CLTV). We will cover:
- How do you determine the lifetime value of a customer
- Does LTV include CAC?
- Predicting a customer’s lifetime value
- What is customer lifetime value for machine learning
- Sample machine learning models for CLV
- How to build your own machine learning model
- Choosing a customer intelligence solution
How do you determine the lifetime value of a customer?
The average revenue you can expect from a customer is measured as the customer lifetime value. The lifetime value of a customer is calculated based on the following formula:
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) =
[Average Transaction ($)] X [# of Transactions] X [Retention time period]
For example, if you are a SaaS company and you sell $20 monthly subscriptions for customers who stay subscribed for an average of 18 months, your CLV is:
$20 (subscription cost) x 12 (transactions per year) x 1.5 years = $360 CLV
Why is lifetime customer value important?
Knowing your CLV is important for business decision-making and getting a better understanding of your company’s financial health and future.
Customer lifetime value is essential for many areas of your company’s future:
- Advertising: Knowing your CLV helps you better understand your advertising spend to ensure you have a positive return on ad spend (ROAS) and that you’re not spending more than you’re expected to make from your average customer.
- Marketing team: When your marketing teams have data on when a customer typically churns, they can plan timely, personalized campaigns to regain loyalty.
- Sales: Your sales team needs to know how much time and effort to spend acquiring customers to ensure they’re not costing the company more than the customer is worth (from a monetary perspective).
- Customer support: When your customer experience teams have a deeper insight into your customer’s behavior, they can work to boost customer engagement and satisfaction. Increased customer satisfaction often leads to happier customers who will spend more and stay loyal longer, thus increasing your CLV.
- Business operations: Predicting future customer revenues and behavior can help you plan for the future more realistically. For example, if you know the average customer spends $1,000 on your business every year, and you want to increase revenues by $100,000 this year, you need to acquire approximately 100 new customers to meet that goal.
Does LTV include CAC?
No, the basic LTV (or CLV) formula does not typically include your customer acquisition costs (CAC). It purely measures how much you receive from the customer. However, you can modify the formula to get a better calculation of the lifetime value of your customer after taking into account your CAC.
Knowing your customer CLV after subtracting your CAC only tells part of the story. To get the full picture, as it relates to the growth projections for your business, you need to understand the ratio of customer revenue vs. acquisition costs. The ultimate goal is to ensure you’re not spending more to get new customers than you can expect over the lifetime of their loyalty to your brand.
CLV and CAC Formulas
To get your CLV and CAC ratio so you can understand the difference between your spending to acquire a customer and your expected revenue from said customer, first calculate your CLV:CAC ratio using the following formulas:
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) =
Average Transaction ($) X # of Transactions X Retention Timeframe
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) =
Total sales and marketing spend for period / Customers acquired
Then, divide CLV by your CAC, like this:
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) / Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
For example, if you have a customer lifetime monetary value of $500:
- …and you spend $500 to acquire each customer, you are spending as much as you can expect to make from that customer. This might be considered your break-even point (assuming you don’t have any other business expenses to consider).
- … or you spend $200 to acquire each customer, you are making a “profit” of $300 per customer acquired. This is considered a positive CLV:CAC ratio.
- … or you spend $700 to acquire each new customer, you are paying about $200 more than you can expect to earn from that client. This is considered a loss or a negative CLV:CAC ratio.
Predicting customer lifetime value
The algorithms can help you with quantitative data and values, but don’t help you predict the future, unless you maintain the status quo. Just knowing that you make an average of $500 over the lifetime of one customer isn’t enough without understanding what drives that customer to spend or lose loyalty.
Learn how to use this data to better understand your customers, so you know how to adjust your business processes, outputs, and interactions to either attract more customers or increase their spending on your brand.
You can take an educated guess at predicting your customer’s lifetime value in the future. But for a deeper understanding, machine learning can be applied to the data to discover trends and predictions not easily or quickly spotted by labor-intensive, manual data analysis.
What is customer lifetime value machine learning?
When you use machine learning to analyze and help predict customer monetary value, you can develop a potentially more accurate future picture of the business. By analyzing purchasing behavior of customers and actions or feedback you received during their time as a customer, you can apply algorithms and machine learning to this data to learn what these numbers actually mean for the future.
Information used for data analysis
The more transaction data and historical data you have available, the more detailed your probabilistic models can be. Here are a few examples of valuable data to use as live or test sets to calculate CLV for your machine learning algorithm:
- Invoice number
- Invoice date
- Order date
- Product code
- Product price (or unit price)
- Total order value
- Product description
- Customer ID (or Customer number)
- Customer location (city, region, country name)
If you have basic customer attribute information such as the above, your AI machine learning algorithm can use test sets of data to identify and create customer groups. Then, based on the customer ID data you have, your customer retention or CLV struggles, and your overall business goals, you can select the best AI models to analyze, interpret, and summarize the trends you need. Different models will give you different results:
Historical approach: Aggregate
This machine learning method aggregates individual customer data from previous or current transactions to predict a single future value. We assume a consistent average customer spend and lifespan with this AI model.
If your business has a wide range of customer spending (ie: $300 per person to $5000 per person), this method may not work well because the average won’t be an accurate representation of the average spend of your customers. In this case, a cohort approach may be more appropriate.
Historical approach: Cohort
With cohorts, the machine learning AI uses algorithms to group data (aka your customers) into cohorts (customers who exhibit similar characteristics or behaviors). Depending on your goals, your customer segmentation data may include geographical location, first purchase date, or product purchase history. Based on these customer segmentation clusters, you can develop unique CLVs for different groups to get a more accurate picture.
With this method, you can separate and analyze your high-value customers differently from your low-value customers and distinguish behavior based on region or other demographic data.
Both aggregate and cohort-based machine learning models are good at analyzing past performance. Still, they are not usually a good indicator of future performance for calculating the lifetime value of your customers unless you maintain the status quo in your business, which is unlikely.
Using probabilistic models in your machine learning can give better predictions using your past data as a base and probability to fill in the gaps and variables in your CLV formula. In this model, you will likely be separating transactional data and variables from their monetary value. This could include the number of future transactions and future monetary values of your customers.
Here are five common probabilistic models used in a customer lifetime value calculation using machine learning:
- Pareto/NBD Model: Determines active customers. If active, it looks at how often they purchase.
- BG/NBD Model: Predicts the expected number of transactions in a period.
- MBG/NBD Model: Removes inconsistencies by allowing non-active customers to remain inactive.
- BG/BB Model: Predict the number of repeat purchases from a single, active customer.
- Gamma-Gamma Model: Predicts average profit per customer.
Sample machine learning models for CLV
Here are a few samples of companies who have used machine learning to increase the CLV for their future and existing customers:
FabFitFun sells monthly subscription boxes of full-sized products. Each month the customers get a new box full of curated goodies. They had a lower average customer lifetime value than they wanted, as people would unsubscribe after several months. They used machine learning to look deeper into what triggered this churn.
These AI models analyzed customer surveys and support contacts data to determine the most likely factors causing customers to cancel their subscriptions. Using this data, they amended their processes to remove this factor. As a result, they were able to increase their overall CLV by:
- Decreasing complaints by 49%
- Increasing product satisfaction by 250%
- Decreasing contact volume by 28%
- Increasing in 5-star ratings by 6%
Instacart is a popular, peer-sourced grocery delivery platform where customers order their groceries online, and a personal shopper picks up their order and delivers it to their house. They struggled with proper routing and assigning the right specialized agents for each request. This led to high support call volumes, unsatisfied customers, and fewer repeat visits.
They used data from their existing systems, including their Zendesk customer support system. Then, they applied Idiomatic machine learning algorithms to these datasets to uncover what the data was really saying. The Instacart team was able to see exactly where they needed to make changes to address customer service inquiries faster and make their customers happier.
This led to increasing the average lifetime value of their customer in addition to:
- More accurately routing support experiences
- Increasing positive CSAT scores by 35%
- Saving $445k in annual support costs
- Receiving 20+ real-time spike alerts every month that they can now address immediately.
How to build your own machine learning model
Building your own machine learning model can be quite complicated and take months of planning, building, and testing. In addition to developing the AI code, you can also expect high ongoing costs to maintain and tweak the algorithms to meet different analytics and business goals.
The steps to build your own predictive approach machine learning model involve:
- Defining your timeframe to calculate your CLV.
- Identifying the appropriate features and characteristics to predict CLV in the future.
- Calculate your CLV training data to “teach” the machine learning algorithm.
- Build the AI model based on what you learned in the training phase.
- Check and verify the machine learning predictions for accuracy and revise the code, or feed it additional training data to develop a more precise prediction for your CLV.
You may also need to aggregate 6-12 months’ worth of data in your algorithm testing. Your predictive approach may require three months of real data for every six months of predictions you want, to increase the accuracy. But the more data you have, the better. To help get sample data for testing purposes, you can use the UCI Machine Learning Repository public dataset to start. However, whenever possible, use your own data to get more accurate results when testing new algorithms and AI systems.
What should be included in machine learning models?
When building your own machine learning algorithm, you’d normally include any data that’s quantified or has a numerical value. For example:
- How many support tickets has a specific customer had?
- How many dollars has a customer spent?
- How many engagements has your software had?
- How many complaint tickets has the company received in a specific timeframe?
- How many new customers have been acquired in a specific timeframe?
Things like customer comments wouldn’t be included in an algorithm as they’re qualitative (ie. don’t have a numerical value). Having said this, you can code qualitative feedback to turn it into quantitative data by assigning a label or numerical value to a specific keyword or sentiment in the comment.
Cost to develop your own CLV predicting algorithm
Developing a machine learning model like this could cost the equivalent of several engineers working for months, or $100,000+. Implementation in production, on-going maintenance to ensure algorithm model performance and technical support of a self-made predictive AI modeling system probably requires those same engineers fulltime and can be 10X the cost to build the model per year, or $1,000,000 per year.
As you are developing your own machine learning algorithms to calculate and predict your future CLV, you must also account for any human error in the development or interpretation of the data. That’s why we recommend starting with an AI-driven customer intelligence platform that is ready to use immediately and tweaking it to fit your unique needs.
Choosing a customer intelligence solution
With the Idiomatic customer intelligence solution, implementation typically takes one to two weeks for data preparation and setup. This includes integrating with your pre-existing software and data sources. It’s a ready-to-use product that’ll help you eliminate customer pain points confidently, taking the guesswork out of choosing algorithms and eliminating costly algorithm development in-house.
Not only that, Idiomatic eliminates the need to code qualitative data yourself to include in your machine learning model. Idiomatic unlocks a new set of data such as user comments, issues, and open ended feedback to be able to easily use in the model. Idiomatic categorizes customer feedback based on your business’s unique issues, turning feedback into meaningful, actionable insights.
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This is not your typical recession. Back in the old days, meaning three or four decades after the end of World War II, there was a textbook pattern to the business cycle. After a few years, an expansion would mature, the stock market would get exuberant and frothy, labor markets would tighten (meaning wages would start to rise more rapidly than the employing and owning class liked, because tight labor markets increase workers’ power), inflation would pick up, and the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates to provoke a recession.
Stocks would decline, the overall pace of business would slow, unemployment would rise, and wage and price pressures would ebb. The employing and owning class would then feel better about the balance of forces, the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates, and recession would turn into recovery and expansion.
All that began to change with the onset of the neoliberal era forty years ago. The deep recession of the early 1980s crushed labor and led to a massive onslaught on unions and deep cuts in social spending. Wall Street went wild with takeovers and restructurings that led to job cuts, wage cuts, and speedup. The capitalist class, firmly in the driver’s seat, demanded higher profits and higher stock prices above all other priorities.
This has undoubtedly been a great time to be rich. But things haven’t been so great for everyone else. And the whole system got more unstable. Instead of the neat boom and bust cycle I described earlier, we had insane bubbles, reckless speculative manias that would end in crashes.
The first was as the leveraging mania 1980s turned into the 1990s; the second, as the dot-com mania of the 1990s turned into the 2000s, and the third as the housing mania of the early 2000s ended in the 2008 crash. Each recovery from those crashes got weaker and weirder, with the very upper brackets making out like bandits and much of the rest of the population feeling like the previous recession had never ended.
The point of this compressed history is that the US economy was getting sicker for a long time. Neoliberalism, by which I mean the belief that markets should be insulated from any political influence and capitalists should be free to do as they please with little restriction, had seriously undermined the system’s integrity. (When I say insulation from political influence I mean of the humane sort. Intervention to make the rich richer, or bail them out when they hit a wall, was perfectly okay — encouraged in fact.)
The competence of the state, military and police functions aside, were consciously eroded. Public investment was squeezed, and our physical and social infrastructure left to rot. Class and racial disparities in health widened along with income inequality and economic precarity. Debt levels kept rising, and the cult of maximizing stock prices meant corporations didn’t invest or hire. Many borrowed money just to buy their own stock to raise its price, leaving them in weak financial shape when this crisis hit.
This economic crisis is different from both sorts I’ve been describing. It’s not the garden-variety recession of the post-World War II decades, nor is it like the financial crises of the neoliberal era. It’s the result of mass illness disrupting normal economic life, making it impossible for people to work (though of course many were forced to at great peril) or shop or do all the things that keep the wheels of consumption and production spinning.
But this crisis hit a system that had been structurally weakened because of systemic rot — the erosion of state capacity, declining health among a lot of the population, increasing financial fragility, inequality, precarity, and the rest. Fragility and precarity are widespread even in what are nominally “good” times.
According to an annual survey of economic well-being by the Federal Reserve — an institution that ironically shows more interest in the topic than most others in US society — done last October, when the unemployment rate was under 4 percent:
- 16 percent of adults were unable to pay their monthly bills in full, and another 12 percent said they couldn’t pay if they were hit with an unexpected $400 expense.
- Over a third couldn’t meet an unexpected $400 expense either out of savings or using a credit card they’d pay off at the end of the month. The rest would either carry a credit card balance or throw up their hands in despair.
- One in four skipped medical or dental care because they couldn’t pay.
- Almost one in five had unpaid medical debt.
These are averages. It will not surprise you to learn that white people did better than average, and black and Latino people did worse. For example, almost four out of five white people were doing okay or living comfortably, compared with about two out of three black and Latino people.
You could turn that around, though: even in a relatively good year, one out of five white people were barely getting by. Almost four out of five straight people (yes, I was surprised the Fed asked this question) were doing at least okay, compared with two out of three identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual.
Dimensions of the Crisis
So that was the situation going into this hell scape. In June, the official unemployment rate was over 11 percent, three times what it was when the Fed took that survey last year. Unemployment had come down from a peak of almost 15 percent in April, as people were recalled to work, but that 11 percent is higher than any month between May 1941 and April of this year.
It never got that high during the deep recessions of 1982 and 2008–9. Under this definition of unemployment, you have to have looked for work in the previous month. If you broaden the definition to include people who’ve given up the job search as hopeless and those who are working part-time but want full-time, it was 18 percent. Though down from April’s peak, it’s still higher than at any point during the Great Recession of a decade ago.
And it looks like the late spring recovery has run out of steam. Well over a million people a week are still applying for unemployment insurance, and over 30 million are collecting benefits. Not quite half those beneficiaries are on the rolls because of expansion of eligibility to freelancers and others who would not have been eligible under traditional programs.
That expansion of unemployment insurance eligibility was part of the first pandemic relief package, the so-called CARES Act. The CARES Act also included a $600 weekly benefit on top of the normal state benefits. Benefits vary widely by state, ranging from $550 a week in Massachusetts to $215 in Mississippi. (Most southern states pay well under $300.) The national average pre-supplement was $342. So that $600 supplement made a huge difference to millions of people. It has now expired.
As I wrote last week in Jacobin, the unemployment insurance provisions of the CARES Act were the most generous welfare state measures in our ungenerous history. Job losses from late March onward resulted in steep declines in wage and salary income — almost twice as bad as the declines after the 2008 financial crisis and exceeded only by the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.
But those declines were more than offset by the huge increases in unemployment insurance benefits, along with the $1,200 checks. These payments were so large that personal income actually rose overall despite the giant hit to wage and salary income.
Personal consumption spending collapsed in late March and early April but stabilized almost the very day the CARES Act passed and began rising when the payments started flowing. According to near-real-time tracking of debit and credit card spending compiled by the Opportunity Insights project, led by the extremely energetic economist Raj Chetty, spending nearly recovered to pre-crisis levels by mid-June. (The graph below is updated from the previous article in Jacobin. Opportunity Insights is now reporting weekly, not daily, data.) Since then, they’ve begun to slip — and now that the $600 emergency payments have stopped, we can expect them to fall sharply.
These numbers are, of course, aggregates. Lots of people almost certainly haven’t been so lucky. Many reported huge difficulties in filing for unemployment insurance because our systems are so antiquated. Bloomberg published a story that estimated that as much as a quarter of benefits went unpaid because of bottlenecks.
Despite the payments, food banks have been doing record business. According to a new experimental weekly survey from the US Census Bureau, there’s been a decline of over 30 million people in the number reporting that they’re getting enough of the food they want. Most, 25 million, say they’re getting enough food, just not what they want, and the rest, almost 5 million, don’t have enough to eat at least some of the time.
Still, there’s no question the supplemental benefits helped a lot. But no longer.
There will probably be a second COVID-19 relief bill, but the two parties are far apart on details and the Republicans are divided among themselves. Democrats are looking for a $4 trillion package; Republicans, a quarter that. The GOP is leaning toward another round of $1,200 checks, $200 in supplemental unemployment benefits and a cap at 70 percent of previous wages (something many states say would take them weeks to calculate), job retention tax credits, and liability shields to protect employers against suits from employees forced back to work.
They’re also trying to slip the Pentagon almost $4 billion to replace money shifted from its normal budget to build Trump’s border wall. Trump himself wants almost $2 billion to fund a new FBI building on its current site, rather than one out in the suburbs as had previously planned.
The reasons for Trump’s concerns, which he expressed right upon taking office, are not fully clear, but may involve assuring that nothing could be built on the current site that would compete with his hotel down the block. The Democrats want aid for busted state and local governments and school districts; Republicans don’t. The bickering is likely to drag out well into August, which means lots of seriously broke people for weeks on end.
And why do the Republicans want to put a tight lid on unemployment benefits? Because, as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, “We’re going to make sure that we don’t pay people more money to stay home than go to work.”
That attitude isn’t stopping Mnuchin from looking to forgive loans extended to businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Businesses who took the loans were supposed to keep employees on payroll; if they did, the loans would be forgiven. It’s not clear how many did keep employees on the payroll, or how many gamed the system by laying off and then recalling workers before the deadline, but Mnuchin wants to forgive the loans without auditing or knowing what happened.
That whole program was a disaster. Much of the money went to areas least affected by either the virus or unemployment. It was administered through banks rather than public authorities, and their decisions were often opaque, arbitrary, and slow.
ProPublica reported that temporary firms got PPP money to “retain” employees that they were renting out to their clients, meaning they got paid twice for the same work. The contrast with European job preservation schemes is striking. They paid employers promptly to keep workers on the job and they did. European unemployment rates have risen only slightly, and their economies look mostly to be recovering. Ours is a wreck.
The recovery in employment is also running out of steam. That same weekly Census Bureau survey reports a 5 percent decline in employment between mid-June and mid-July, almost 7 million people in numerical terms. As spending slips because the expanded unemployment benefits have expired, it’s hard to see how those employment numbers could do anything but decline further. Add to that the increasing COVID-19 toll in the south and the west, and we have a serious problem on our hands.
How long could this recession last? A long time, I’d say. Not only is a recovery dependent on getting the virus numbers seriously down, there’s a lot of damage to the real economy. As I said at the beginning, this is not merely not a conventional old textbook recession — the story of what the mainstream calls overheating followed by an imposed cooling followed by a normal recovery — nor a financial crisis recession, where recovery is inhibited by a huge debt overhang.
It’s one caused by immense damage to the real sector — supply chains broken, workers kept off the job by sickness and death (and the fear of sickness and death), firms bankrupted by months of closure who may never reopen and rehire. The Fed can pump money into the markets and the federal government can deficit spend on a previously unimaginable scale, but these problems will take time to heal.
And we haven’t really recovered from the 2008 crisis either. That led to serious long-term economic damage. Had the economy continued to grow in line with its 1970–2007 trend, GDP would be about 20 percent higher than it is now. GDP is a deeply flawed measure; it says little about distribution or quality of life, but it is what the capitalist system runs on. Listen to any pundit or propagandist, and growth is what the whole setup is all about. And by this most conventional of measures, American capitalism is failing badly on its own terms.
With all this gloom, why has the stock market been doing so well? I see at least four reasons.
One, the financial markets’ reputation for rationality is thoroughly unearned. The markets are populated by traders with the emotional volatility of fourteen-year-old boys. (Actually, I have a fourteen-year-old son and he’s far more stable than a stock trader.)
Second, the markets have been convinced the virus is going to go away and everything will be better very soon. That bounce back was supposed to begin in the second half of the year; we’re a month into the second half of the year and it’s not here yet. (A major reason to worry: Trump’s economic advisor Larry Kudlow, who is almost always wrong about everything, says we’re going to see 20 percent GDP growth in the third and fourth quarters of this year. The United States has never seen 20 percent growth over two quarters since the end of World War II; the closest we came was not quite 15 percent during the Korean War buildup of 1950. I’m tempted to put a negative sign in front of whatever Kudlow predicts.)
Third, the Federal Reserve has been pumping trillions into the markets for months; that’s potent fuel for a speculative fire.
And fourth, most of the market’s gains are concentrated in five big tech stocks: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google. They’re up 35 percent since the beginning of 2020; the rest of the market, as measured by the S & P 500 index, is down 5 percent. (See graph below, lifted from the Financial Times.) A 5 percent decline is not big, given the damage to the real economy, but it tells a much different story from the tech biggies.
So, to ask Lenin’s classic question, “what is to be done?” Most urgently, people need serious income support, at least $2,000 a month for at least six months. We need eviction and foreclosure moratoriums to prevent what looks like an inevitable wave of mass homelessness as people find it impossible to pay their rent and mortgages. State and local governments and school systems need big support; if they don’t get it there will be massive job and service cuts that will generate misery and deeper depression. Schools can’t reopen safely without a major infusion of resources.
Longer term, never has the Green New Deal (GND) seemed so practical, Nancy Pelosi’s “green dream or whatever” to the contrary. It has everything we need: the massive public investment program to repair our rotting infrastructure, and the kinds of social spending we need to make the poor not poor and the working and middle classes comfortable and secure.
For decades, civilian public investment net of depreciation has hovered just above zero, meaning that we’re doing little better replacing things as they decay. (See graph below.) This economic statistic can easily be confirmed just by walking around anywhere in the United States outside our richest neighborhoods.
We need massive investment in public infrastructure on the model of the New Deal, both to fight the slump and to make this country habitable for the bottom 80–90 percent of the population. That infrastructure investment must not simply be more of the same — not airports and highways, but clean energy and high-speed rail.
The investment program needs to be part of a conversion of an economy based on exploitation of workers and nature into something humane and sustainable. The New Deal also subsidized artists and writers, and the projects it created were often beautiful — not driven by the mean, philistine view of life that we usually associate with the public sector.
As an example of the new kind of investment we need, we could put now-unemployed auto workers back to work building vehicles that don’t threaten life on earth. A model to think about was the (sadly unsuccessful) proposal to transform a closed GM plant in Ontario into something earth- and worker-friendly.
We also need to think about industries we don’t want to see recover. The airline industry is in dire shape. It’s also ecologically destructive and we need to imagine a world in which we all continue to fly much less. The cruise industry is filthy and wrecks the towns where those giant ships dock, and it should be euthanized.
This would be a propitious time to nationalize the oil and gas sector, undertaken with the idea of putting them out of business. We must move as quickly as possible to stop the use of fossil fuels, and as long as these entities exist, the political and economic obstacles to that necessity are nearly impossible to overcome.
Because the price of oil has fallen so dramatically, the value of the major carbon producers has cratered. The five biggest US-based oil companies (Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and Valero) have a combined market capitalization of about $400 billion, which is equal to about an eighth of JPMorgan Chase’s total assets and less than 2 percent of GDP.
Shareholders will whine, but as the financial world wakes up to the inevitability of carbon’s obsolescence, the value of their investments will tend toward zero anyway. In all cases, workers should be protected, not displaced, but the underlying businesses should be wound down or severely shrunk.
The banking system is in decent shape now, surprisingly perhaps, but should the recession continue, as I think it will, this will change as more people and businesses go bankrupt. We should nationalize several of the largest banks — and unlike the nationalizations in Sweden in the 1990s and the UK a decade ago, they should not be undertaken with the idea of returning them to private ownership as quickly as possible, after the government eats the losses. They should be run on entirely different principles — something like a financial utility, that provides basic services like checking and savings accounts, but not incomprehensible financial products.
There’s no reason the nationalized banks couldn’t be run to finance the Green New Deal. Some of the GND will have to be financed with traditional tax- and bond-financed public spending, but there’s no reason these socialized banks couldn’t participate.
Along with the nationalized banks, we should create something on the model of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to finance the GND. It would be a publicly capitalized bank that would evaluate and fund projects like clean energy generation and new models of food production.
At the same time, we should severely rein in, with an eye to abolishing, the shadow banking sector of private equity (PE) and hedge funds. PE has saddled companies with crippling levels of debt, which enrich their investors but put them at great risk of failure even in relatively good times. (A subset of PE, venture capital, can play a more constructive economic role, but it’s quite small: there was less than $10 billion in early-stage financing from the sector last year.) Hedge funds do little but destabilize markets and serve no useful purpose.
And never has the need for Medicare for All been so clear. And the reason for that isn’t only the need of freeing people from the anxiety of not being able to pay for essential care, but also because there is little in the way of planning for the distribution of health care resources beyond what The Market demands.
A major part of the reason the United States is so unprepared to handle the coronavirus crisis is that hospitals are built and outfitted according to where the money is, not where the needs are. Hospitals in both cities and rural areas are broke and closing in the middle of a health emergency. They need to be built where they can serve people who need them.
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A physical quantities is a physical property of a material or system that can be quantified by measurement. A physical quantity can be expressed as a value, which is the algebraic multiplication of a numerical value and a unit. Wikipedia
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Physical quantities are the quantitative characteristics of physical bodies and phenomena. Examples of physical quantities: body length, time interval, body speed, body temperature, distance traveled by the body.
Different physical quantities are measured in different units. So temperature is measured in degrees Celsius (°C), time is in seconds (s), distance is in meters (m), speed is in meters per second traveled (m / s), area is in square meters (m 2 ), volume – in cubic meters (m 3 ). However, even the same physical quantity can be measured in different ways. For example, time can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, and other units. Length – in millimeters (mm), centimeters (cm), kilometers (km), etc.
To avoid ambiguity and misunderstanding, scientists agreed to use the International System of Units SI in physics. For example, the unit of length along it is 1 m. Various measuring instruments are used to measure physical quantities. For example, a ruler can measure the length of small objects, measuring cups and test tubes – small volumes of liquid, time is measured in hours.
Measuring instruments have a scale – divisions that have a certain numerical value. The price of division of the measuring device is the difference in the values of the physical quantity between adjacent divisions on the scale. For example, on a ruler, large divisions indicate centimeters. Between two adjacent large divisions there are smaller ones. The difference between two adjacent small divisions is 1 millimeter. For example, some division means 5 cm 3 mm, and the one next to the right will mean 5 cm 4 mm. So, the price of dividing the ruler is 1 mm.
Usually, using measuring instruments, it is impossible to measure a physical quantity very accurately. For example, if, when measuring the length of an object, its end did not exactly coincide with any division of the scale, but is somewhere between two divisions. Therefore, they talk about the measurement error, which is equated to the division price of the device.
Very small and very large physical quantities cannot be measured directly with instruments. How to measure the volume of ocean or even river water? How to find out how many kilometers from the Earth to the Sun? How many millimeters is the diameter of an atom? In the case of such measurements, scientists come up with various methods and indirectly measure the physical quantity. | <urn:uuid:5c1e41a2-4410-4df9-b3d8-376edce58841> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://readphysics.com/physical-quantities-measured/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924593 | 595 | 3.75 | 4 |
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Vasily Petrenko conducts Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840−1893) wrote the Manfred Symphony between his Fourth and Fifth Symphonies in 1885, based on Lord Byron’s dramatic poem Manfred. The initiative for the symphony came from two of the most influential men in the Russian cultural sphere, composer Mily Balakirev and the critic Vladimir Stasov. Tchaikovsky was not enthusiastic about their suggestion, but after reading Byron’s poem and contemplating young Manfred’s pangs of conscience he began to write. Manfred, which premiered in 1886, is Tchaikovsky’s longest symphony and the one that requires the largest orchestra.
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Professor Stephen Lea acknowledges that debt is heavily influenced by economic inequality, and that no psychological factor can prevent debt if excessive socio-economic disadvantage is not addressed.
Call for 'debt driving licence'
People borrowing money for the first time should only be given small amounts until they have proved their competence, a new study says.
The paper argues that new borrowers – especially young people and those of an "impulsive" disposition – need protection to prevent them falling into long-term debt.
It says lenders should have a duty of care, requiring them to consider age, experience and personality traits, which can be detected by psychometric tests.
The study, by Professor Stephen Lea of the University of Exeter, reviews evidence on the psychology of debt, and makes recommendations to help reduce debt problems.
"I argue that – similar to obtaining a driving licence – people should have to demonstrate their competence before taking out debts that could have long-term negative consequences," Professor Lea said.
"Some people are particularly susceptible to debt problems.
"This includes those of an impulsive disposition, but it particularly applies to young people – and debts contracted early in life can have long-term ill effects.
"Accordingly, steps need to be taken to protect people at this vulnerable life stage.
"Although this would involve a restriction of the financial freedom of people who are legally adults, the evidence suggests that access to credit should be controlled more carefully."
Speaking about rules relating to people of an "impulsive" disposition, Professor Lea said: "Lenders might well resist such regulations, but in fact financial advisors are already required to assess risk preference when advising people on investments.
"This shows that such a measure can be brought in without too much difficulty or expense to those who have to implement it."
Professor Lea acknowledges that debt is heavily influenced by economic inequality, and that no psychological factor can prevent debt if excessive socio-economic disadvantage is not addressed.
He also says the current Covid-19 pandemic is likely to increase debt problems.
His recommendations include tackling poverty (reducing the "decades-long drift towards greater inequality in almost all countries") and intensifying regulation of high-cost lenders.
Recommending better financial education of children, Professor Lea said: "Many people are shockingly bad at assessing credit deals.
"What seems to be needed is fluency in seeing, without effortful calculation, what is or is not a good deal when borrowing money."
The paper calls for policies to improve people's awareness of their credit position, and says debtors should be advised to seek independent advice before dealing with lenders to whom they owe money.
He study concludes: "If all these recommendations were adopted overnight, the problems of debt in society would not go away.
"Credit enhances consumer choice and is a necessary function in a modern economy, and so long is credit is available, some people will get into difficulties with debt.
"But, as is the case with poverty itself, neither the extent nor the level of debt is fixed.
"Appropriate policies, such as those proposed here, could reduce both."
The paper, published in the journal Social Issues and Policy Review, is entitled: "Debt and Over-indebtedness: Psychological evidence and its policy implications."
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The summit was held at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show on Monday
First Minister Mark Drakeford addressing the media after the summit
Wednesday 20th July, 2022
Mark Drakeford tells all sectors they must face up to and resolve their contribution to the problem of river pollution
On Monday, the First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, hosted a summit at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells on how to resolve the excessive levels of phosphorus in Special Area of Conservation (SAC)-designated rivers and the impact this was having on housing developments. The event was attended by representatives from local government, farming unions, the housing industry, water companies, regulators and eNGOs, including Gail Davies-Walsh, CEO of Afonydd Cymru.
In February 2021, Natural Resources Wales reported on five SAC rivers that were failing their limits for phosphorus. As a result, a planning embargo has been placed on any development (housing or agriculture) that would entail more phosphorus entering any one of them.
Excessive phosphorus in our rivers is caused by agricultural pollution, wastewater treatment discharges, sewer overflows, septic tanks and highways drainage. Afonydd Cymru is also concerned by the failure of planning decisions to protect our rivers and the lack of regulation in our catchments.
The First Minister gave a clear message on Monday that all sectors would be expected to face up to their own impacts on Welsh rivers and be responsible for fixing them. He had asked all the organisations present to come to the summit with solutions to water quality problems, saying beforehand:
“This is a complex issue and there is no one easy answer – we all have a part to play if we are to reduce the level of phosphorus and tackle the root causes of pollution.
We must work together with the farming sector, with food producers and the water industry to find solutions to these problems, which is why I have called this summit at the Royal Welsh” – Mark Drakeford, First Minister
In the very limited time available at the summit, Gail Davies-Walsh called for the following:
- That measures required to return rivers to favourable condition status were secured as a priority (i.e. to bring them within their phosphorus limits)
- Solutions required to offset the nutrients from new housing must be independent and not used to achieve SAC compliance
- That the Better Water Quality Taskforce, which has recently published action plans with commitments and timescales for sewer overflows, should now focus on producing action plans for all other sectors/elements identified as contributing to phosphorus compliance failure
- That we agree at a Wales-wide level processes to ensure a consistent approach across all rivers and all local authorities
- That we change the regulatory processes to make it easier to deliver nature-based solutions in Wales
Encouragingly, all five of these measures were accepted and endorsed by the First Minister at the summit.
Earlier on Monday, Welsh Government had announced that they were investing £40m over the next three years to tackle river pollution. At the summit, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water also confirmed an additional £100m for phosphorus reduction schemes.
However, we agree with the First Minister that every sector must step up and commit to actions that resolve their contribution to the water quality issue. Overall, we came away from the summit reassured by Welsh Government’s desire for the problems blighting rivers in Wales to be resolved quickly.
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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is study regarding how people use computers in their lives. The study completed in Georgia Tech’s Master of Science in HCI seeks to build up user interfaces which are helpful, functional, and enjoyable. It concentrates on activities varying from design to development to look at personal computers, having a objective of focusing on how computers and technology affect people and society.
The MS in HCI is definitely an interdisciplinary program offered collaboratively by four schools:
Students go into theMS-HCIprogram through the four participating units, the option of which often reflects that student’s intended section of specialization and general background. Students with different and eclectic backgrounds ought to apply, including individuals with previous experience.
This programprovides the sensible skills and theoretical understandings required to become leaders within the design, implementation and look at generation x of human-computer interfaces.Alumniwork around the world for national and worldwidecompanies.
Learn about program needs, faculty, students and much more around the MS HCI program website.
Go to theMS-HCIprogram website
Program of Study
The amount requires 36 credit hrs, that are usually absorbed four semesters (three should you push hard). A lot of students go ahead and take same corecourses, some courses associated with their selected specialization (Computing, Digital Media in LMC, Industrial Design, Psychology), a wider group of electives and finish a master’s project. Students do an internship within the summer time after their newbie of study.
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There is a variety of reasons you want to know the breed of your pet. In fact, you can find your rescue dog is purebred. Your dog also may be a mix of many different breeds. Let’s check out this post, we will help you learn how to determine your dog’s breed.
Rely on Expertise and Science
How much do you want to know?
In order to determine your dog’s breed, you can figure it out through their appearance. In addition, you can have to go to the experts to know if your dog suffers from any health issues based on their breed. It’s more useful to rely on expert assistance, documentary evidence, and scientific analysis.
Check your purebred dog’s pedigree
Most purebred owners know their prized pup’s pedigree. But, they may sometimes forget it. You can check for more information if you have a purebred dog.
Consult your vet about breed possibilities
In fact, your vet comes with a lot of experience with many different breeds. That’s why they can give you some valuable insights into your dog’s background. Ask your vet’s opinion about your dog’s breed. In addition, you can also ask a groomer about your dog’s breed.
Consider DNA testing
You will have DNA testing kits for dogs from several companies thanks to a quick online search. This can also determine the present breed in your canine. But, all home tests are not created equal. You can save money thanks to a less expensive test, but it offers a smaller database for less accurate information.
Order the DNA test
When it comes to this route, you will have several options varying by precision, price, and complexity as well. You can find tests ranging from $60 available online as well as in many pet supply stores.
If you want to swab your dog’s cheek, it’s important to check to make sure your dog’s cheek and gums are not stuck by food or debris.
This is considered as the most scientific and accurate way you should use to determine your mutt’s breed profile.
Guess Based on Physical Characteristics
Accept the limitations of identifying visual
If an expert just looks over the animal in order to identify a dog’s breed, the result may not be accurate. In fact, identifying a predominant breed may make you take about 27% of the time. Identification by visual appearance is one of the most popular methods for pet owners who want to satisfy a general curiosity. Most importantly, this method is free.
Write down your dog’s defining characteristics
We recommend you to make a list of your dog’s distinguishing features not only most prominent but also least prominent. Of course, this way helps you narrow your search for likely breed.
Determine your dog’s height and weight
For a pet scale, you need to weight your dog. In addition, you can weight your dog at any veterinary office.
Assess your dog’s build
Consider any defining characteristics you notice. If you get a puppy to your home, it’s important to wait until it is fully mature. And, all characteristics will become apparent.
You should think about the build of your dog. By this way, you can narrow down the breed group. For example, if you have aslender dog with long legs, you may own a herding dog.
Pay attention to other physical characteristics
This means you should look at your dog’s snout, back, tail, skull, legs, as well as any distinctive elements. There are some dogs that have round skulls as well as very short snouts such as Pugs and Bulldogs. But, some have narrow skulls and long snouts such as Collies and Greyhounds.
Evaluate the fur
Some breeds short legs have long backs, and three different types of fur-coat. But, other breeds have just one type of furs such as the American Eskimo breed and the Chinese Shar-Pei breed.
There are a lot of types of dog fur. Rottweilers have mahogany fur and short black. They come with specific markings on the head and chest as well. Many terriers come with wiry coats with stocky bodies such as the Miniature Schnauzer, the Cairn Terrier, and the Jack Russell terrier. Last, Poodles come with the distinction of having curly coats in many sizes and colors.
Assess your dog’s color
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Eds: Joel Matthews wrote to us in response to the article in EDN 121 about farmers and risk aversion. He shared, “Dick Tinsley highlighted an important cause of the failure of poor peasant farmers to adopt a labor intensive technology, and I believe he is correct in his assessment. I have been working on the same problem from the other end of the labor spectrum. My research has shown that many peasant farmers choose not to participate in labor saving techniques as well, but this phenomenon demands another explanation.” The article below explains Joel’s findings, based on his past development work (along with Tony Rinaudo) at the Maradi Integrated Development Project, and his current PhD research among the Hausa of Niger
Case study of a technique rejected by farmers
There is no doubt in my mind that West African farmers want development if that means, among other things, more productive farming. Of course they would rather harvest seven than three sacks of sorghum per hectare. If that is so, why do so many choose not to engage in development projects that are designed to increase productivity? Dick Tinsley offered an explanation in his article “Rethinking a Basic Assumption in Agricultural Development,” in EDN 121. His argument makes sense when the innovations require more labor than what farmers are already doing, because many subsistence farmers have run out of food by planting time and are short of the calories needed to implement labor-intensive innovations. But what explains the decision not to participate in an innovation that promises higher productivity but requires less labor than what farmers are already doing?
I lived on a ten-acre experimental farm situated just outside of a village in Niger, West Africa, where I worked with a small team of Hausa farmers testing solutions to common problems of low productivity. All of our innovations needed to have very low or no cost, and were based on what farmers were already doing, such as grafted Ziziphus, locally constructed bee hives, and live fencing. I have no doubt that many of these techniques, along with others developed by my colleagues at the Maradi Integrated Development Program (MIDP), were technically successful and culturally appropriate. Yet few farmers ever adopted the techniques. The one exception is the widespread adoption of natural regeneration (especially in non-project villages), as described by Tony Rinaudo in recent EDN issues.
Let me offer one example of an innovation that was rejected: the live fence. This is an important innovation because it solves several serious environmental and productivity problems with very little effort and no cost. Hausa farmers in the region have always battled to keep unwanted ‘visitors’ out of their dry-season gardens. These visitors range from stray cows to thieves in the night. The traditional solution is to cut branches from nearby thorn trees and bury these branches in shallow, closely-spaced holes on the garden boundary. Dry-season gardens are then planted in the low-lying heavy clay once the flood water has receded and the heavy soil is workable.
A fence made of thorn branches is mediocre at best; not an effective barrier for thieves who can simply push the branches over with a large stick. These temporary fences, constantly needing renewal due to termite damage, are ineffective, cause deforestation, and offer very little return for investment. Furthermore, due to the ineffectiveness of this barrier, farmers must spend cold nights in their gardens, or hire guards (an expense they can ill afford) to intercept thieves. One solution my team worked on for several years is live fencing. A live fence replaces dead thorn branches with living ones, is permanent, and provides additional benefits such as wood production and animal fodder.
In order to move from dead to live thorn fences, the traditional practice of building fences from cut branches has to be modified. First, thorn seedlings must be obtained before they can be planted. Since many farmers will not spend disposable income for thorn seedlings, they must plant their own. Seeds can be collected from local thorn trees and scattered in an upland sandy plot. This step requires very little time or effort and should be done in the rainy season, several months before the seedlings will be needed for transplanting, to eliminate the need for watering. Seedlings of thorn trees then must be transplanted along the boundary of the garden, about a month before the lowland clay is workable for garden planting, and when it is still moist enough to allow the seedlings to establish without any watering or care. This way no watering is ever required from start to finish.
We experimented with several varieties of local thorn trees and shrubs, and we found several combinations that provided an impenetrable fence within two or three years. The first three years some dead thorn branches must be placed along the fence line until the live fence is mature, but by the end of the third year a permanent and impenetrable fence has been established. Additionally, after the third year the fence can be harvested for animal fodder (always in short supply), edible fruit, nuts and leaves, firewood, thorns for sale (to others that continue with the dead thorn fence technique), and wood poles for construction or for sale. In terms of return for inputs, the process is not energy or time-intensive, does not require any cash outlay, and by the third year only requires wood harvesting to keep the fence trim and dense. Choosing the correct thorn species and keeping the fence trimmed minimizes competition between the fence row and nearby crops, and the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages, both in terms of usable products from the fence, and of savings that result from no theft or animal damage.
Once our fence was functioning well and we were sure that we had chosen some of the best species, we were ready to promote the innovation to local farmers. Of course the local farmers already knew about the live fence. They saw it established over the several years that we experimented with it; indeed they walked past it every day. Furthermore, as I sat and talked with local farmers, conversation would often drift into a discussion of some of our innovations, including the fence. Farmers often commented that no thief could get though our fence, but they never asked for our help in establishing one for themselves. This seemed odd, knowing that their fences were time consuming and ineffective, but necessary. It was also quite a disappointment as I watched the men deforest the area chopping thorn trees to build ephemeral rickety fences year after year.
At this point someone may offer familiar advice: “You should never try to promote innovations unless they are asked for.” That is a good general principle, but not always practical. Sometimes village mothers need to be taught about infant nutrition and disease even before they ask. And the natural regeneration that is so successful in our area was developed without asking the farmers whether they needed to restore trees on their farms—but is widely practiced by many of those same farmers today.
Why did the farmers decide not to adopt the thorn fence? At this point the perceptive reader will protest that he/she does not know enough yet about the context. Did I harbor secret racism? Was I incorrigible? Did the Hausa neighbors secretly despise me? Were we using a tree reserved only for sacred purposes? These issues can never be completely eliminated as possible factors, but the team that I worked with was made of local Hausa farmers, and they thought that people would adopt the fence idea. And if perfect harmony was required between adopters and possessors of new technologies, no innovations would have ever been adopted by Africans. But clearly this is not the case. When the issues already discussed above have been eliminated as factors, my research (which is still ongoing) suggests other reasons. One factor in particular, that stands out among many that are emerging, is irresponsible giving.
Irresponsible giving is closely related to a phenomenon that is very familiar to development thinkers and practitioners alike: aid dependency. In fact, I believe that one of the major factors that inhibit peasant farmers from adopting important innovations is dependency fostered by irresponsible giving. How and why does this happen? A dependency syndrome is created when people realize that they don’t need to solve their problems because wealthy foreigners regularly come to their village to offer gifts. These gifts can come from development facilitators, missionaries, or tourists. Of course giving itself is an important Christian principle, but uninformed and excessive giving does more harm than good. In fact, visiting Americans are probably the worst culprits, especially visitors from American churches that come armed with money to help the poor. Part of the problem is that giving makes the giver feel good, and the glowing report returned to the donor churches only increases the tendency to give irresponsibly. Finally, the giver does not realize that the gift will foster dependency, or that dependency is very destructive to constructive and sustainable problem solving.
What is the solution? Continue to give to the destitute, such as widows and orphans, but even then give in a way that does not foster dependency (this is not easy). In the development context, restrict giving to the giving of your time. Spend a lot of time with people: eat with them, buy their mangoes, attend their weddings, and visit them when they are sick. And advise the visiting Americans how and when to give. Do not let them give with indiscretion.
Further Reading Suggestions (by Editors)
When Helping Hurts by Corbett and Fikkert
When Charity Destroys Dignity by Glenn Schwartz
Western Christians in Global Mission by Paul Borthwick
African Friends and Money Matters by David Maranz
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Young adults Possess a tricky time securing low-cost auto insurance coverage. Although the price of a policy for a sixteen-calendar year-old driver is far greater than that of the Grownup, it can be decreased by including a teen to an existing plan. This selection will increase costs by an average of $one,461 a yr, but is usually less costly than obtaining a different plan. Furthermore, when you are a youthful driver, look for discount rates together with other approaches to save lots of.
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In Ny, the common person spends two.8 % in their earnings on car insurance policies, and that is slightly larger than the countrywide regular of two.40 percent. Persons of their 30s, 40s, and 50s pays marginally fewer than the normal. The 70+ age team can pay increased rates than motorists with a lot less driving experience. Those who are married will pay a bit higher premiums, but nevertheless lower than solitary individuals.
Together with lessen prices, drivers could also take defensive driving courses. These courses are 320 minutes in length, and incorporate conversations of driver Mindset and targeted visitors legislation. They also teach defensive driving approaches that may dramatically cut down the price of insurance policy. They might also enable to improve their driving history, so finishing a training course can decrease the price of an auto coverage quote. However, when you are unsure about the exact coverage you require, it is possible to Look at Along with the Insurance plan Details Institute.
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Missouri is the cheapest condition for whole-coverage car coverage, spending just $944 fewer than Louisiana. Furthermore, this condition has certainly one of the bottom prices for each capita, and it is rated fifth with regards to expense of dwelling. In contrast, Texas drivers fork out by far the most for his or her auto coverage, paying out as much as 33% in their yearly profits in full. This disparity can be resulting from The reality that the condition incorporates a substantial variety of uninsured motorists and plenty of lawsuits.
The countrywide typical for comprehensive coverage car insurance plan is $one,771 a year. The state with the costliest insurance top quality is Louisiana, having a premium of $2,839, a 19% increase from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s ordinary insurance policies premium is barely $858. This is due to no-fault states have increased insurance policies premiums. The expense of a car coverage policy in other states can differ significantly. There are numerous things to take into account, like your state’s guidelines on insurance plan.
Should you are searching for significant-chance driver vehicle insurance plan in close proximity to me, you could be pondering how to get a low-Price tag policy. High-chance drivers fork out higher insurance plan premiums than common drivers. It’s because they have a tendency to own a lot more incidents or violations on their own file. Dependant upon the state, the limit could be 3 a long time or 5 years. Occasionally, you can obtain bargains if you take a driver security study course.
Even though the nationwide averages for high-possibility driver car insurance coverage in close proximity to me are pretty dependable, you can find that premiums range wildly from condition to point out. Some providers alter their rates to diverse states, Therefore if you reside in a particular condition, chances are you’ll discover that 1 insurance company gives you the top protection for any minimal cost. The cheapest large-danger driver automobile insurance in the vicinity of me emanates from Condition Farm, that has a lengthy-standing status for delivering fantastic service.
The easiest method to look for a substantial-chance driver auto coverage in close proximity to me will be to enter your ZIP code and Assess offers. The price of high-possibility automobile coverage near me can differ from state to point out, but most massive insurers supply these kinds of coverage. A few of these organizations specialise in higher-chance protection, such as Countrywide Standard. Chances are you’ll even be able to find a cheaper coverage When you’ve got good grades plus a reduced-threat automobile.
There are lots of advantages of comparing auto insurance policy providers. In this post, We’ll talk about a number of the most important attributes, which include rankings, savings, and customer support. Picking out the greatest plan is essential for your basic safety and protection, so make an effort to match the various insurance policies from distinct providers. By the time you end reading through this text, you’ll need an concept of which insurance provider provides the most beneficial protection at the bottom cost. Here are several suggestions to select the appropriate a single for yourself:
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The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation has instructed vehicle insurers to support customers who Will not specify their gender. Discrimination in opposition to non-binary people is often grounds for unfair discrimination prices, and insurers will have to file costs for the people motorists setting up in January 2019. These costs might be larger than These for male and woman drivers. As long as they don’t seem to be excessive, Ladies can save cash. Also, Don’t be concerned regarding the “non-binary” level for young motorists.(car or truck insurance policy claim)(gap insurance plan)(vehicle coverage) | <urn:uuid:88a041be-134d-48e4-8a1b-a0f175907593> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://codesharehub.com/car-insurance-in-oxford-oh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95401 | 7,318 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Humankind and the Earth
through the eyes of Ilanit Illouz & Claudy Jongstra
Friday 3 September – Saturday 23 October 2021
For the occasion of this new gallery season, Galerie Fontana is pleased to present an exquisite selection of unique photographs covered with salt by Ilanit Illouz (b. 1977, France) at our main address at Lauriergracht 11. At our Garage location, at Lauriergracht 15, Fontana is proud to host the nomadic exhibition of Claudy Jongstra’s Woven Skin. Since 2016,
Ilanit Illouz has been fascinated by the geologic territory that borders Palestine and Israel, in particular the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea. Changes arise in the water volume because of drought and politics. Physically, the territory is unstable and riddled with craters and sink holes that have grown fossilized by salt. For Illouz, the salt evokes the paradox of the territory because as a material, it can burn, heal, preserve, erode, and take on the form of a solid or liquid. Onsite, she engages in repetitive methods of surveying, investigating, and collecting natural materials from the landscape. In the studio, Illouz works with the found materials, like salt to grow crystals on the images, rendering the photographs as unique works, resistant to reproduction. Her work is also currently shown at Les Rencontres d’Arles.
For the past three years, Claudy Jongstra’s Woven Skin, has travelled the world and various eco summits as a nomadic artwork that held the manifestation of Jongstra’s concerns in the field of climate change, biodiversity, social injustice, and the disappearance of artisan skills. Woven Skin embodies a powerful art installation and offers a nomadic platform where different generations and people from diverse backgrounds can gather. The work invites dialogue such as: who calls whom to order, when will justice be done, who does and who does not do justice to humankind and the earth?
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Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless unless the word “God” is given a coherent and unambiguous definition, preferably yielding falsifiable logical consequences.
Also, Ignosticism — a personal discipline that holds that the concept ‘god’ bears no deductive or falsifiable (Popper) definition (Wittgenstein), and therefore prohibits me from concluding or making further scientific comment on the matter (epoché). A personal freedom from antiquated, imperious and incoherent claims of traditional religion and atheism.
Distinction from theological noncognitivism
Ignosticism and theological noncognitivism are similar although whereas the ignostic says “every theological position assumes too much about the concept of God“, the theological noncognitivist claims to have no concept whatever to label as “a concept of God”, but the relationship of ignosticism to other nontheistic views is less clear. While Paul Kurtz finds the view to be compatible with both weak atheism and agnosticism, other philosophers consider ignosticism to be distinct.
- Conceptions of God
- Loki’s Wager
- Scientific method
- Conifer, Steven J. (June 2002). “Theological Noncognitivism Examined”. The Interlocutor. 4. Archived from the original on January 23, 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2007.
- Drange, Theodore (1998). “Atheism, Agnosticism, Noncognitivism”. Internet Infidels. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- Kurtz, Paul (1992). The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-766-3.
- Rauch, Jonathan (2003). “Let It Be”. The Atlantic. 291 (4). Retrieved 2007-05-24.
- Spiegel, Irving (1965-06-20). “Jewish ‘Ignostic’ Stirs Convention; Dropping of ‘God’ in Service Deplored and Condoned”. New York Times. p. 62.
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About one year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In India, domestic workers are among the most severely hit groups. In the initial stages of the lockdown, most domestic workers were laid off. Many did not get paid for months. Some of them were initially assured that they would be rehired and paid after the lockdown was over. But even as the lockdown eased, the condition of domestic workers has barely improved.
For many, like Shabana*, who has been working as a cleaner in Guwahati for almost a decade now, things have been rough. Shabana used to work in three houses before the lockdown but has been rehired in only one.
“I was told that I would be rehired after the lockdown, but then only one family did that. The other two families did not pay me during the lockdown and now have hired others,” she says.
As a result, her income has dipped substantially, but costs have not. While they cannot compromise on expenses such as rent, there has been a direct impact on their diets and nutritional needs.
“We have not had anything other than rice and chillies for months. We also skip meals. Everything is so expensive. We have a young daughter whose nutritional needs are getting severely impacted. As a growing person, she should eat well, but unfortunately, it is not happening. I hear on the TV that one needs good immunity to protect themselves against COVID-19. But how will we have immunity if we cannot eat anything good?” says Shabana.
Initially, her family received rice for free from the government, but now they have to buy it at a discounted rate in the market. Data shows that India is facing food inflation of 7.9 percent. In fact, food inflation was an issue much before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the situation has only worsened now.
Families like Shabana’s are forced to compromise on their nutritional intake. While fruits and vegetables have always been luxury items for them, now even daal (lentils) and potatoes fall within that category.
*Name changed to maintain confidentiality.
Rituparna Patgiri teaches sociology in Indraprastha College for Women (IPCW), University of Delhi. Ritwika Patgiri is a PhD student in the Faculty of Economics, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. The authors have been conducting research on domestic workers in Assam since August, as part of a research grant from Zubaan Books.
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12, December 2016
Syrian forces have reclaimed a major district in southeastern Aleppo as they push deeper into the last remaining militant-held parts of the northwestern city. “The army is now in full control of Sheikh Saeed,” Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the UK-based so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP early Monday. The army has been in control of Aleppo’s western half. Less than a month ago, it started a wholesale push to drive the militants out of their stronghold in the city’s eastern side, making great strides in the process.
The gain, Abdel Rahman said, has put the army in control of 90 percent of eastern Aleppo. On Friday, however, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the forces had wrested back 93 percent of the eastern sector. Russia has been lending airpower to the counter-terror push in Syria since last September. The militants have been carrying out indiscriminate attacks against western Aleppo amid the government’s drive to restore its control over the city, the monitor has reported.
According to the group, some 10,000 more civilians have fled Aleppo’s militant-held parts to areas controlled by the government during the past 24 hours. The Russian Defense Ministry, however, put the number at over 13,300 in a statement on Monday. Since the start of the Aleppo battle, some 130,000 people have managed to reach government-controlled parts, the Observatory added. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 728 militants have laid down their weapons over the past 24 hours and relocated to western Aleppo.
In recent days, Daesh, the most brutal of the terror groups operating in Syria since 2014, has resurfaced in the ancient city of Palmyra in the west-central province of Homs. The group was driven out of the city back in March after holding it for some 10 months. Recently, it mobilized more than 4,000 terrorists, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency, re-entering the city of Palmyra amid fierce clashes with the army. Homs Governor Talal Barazi has described the Daesh inroad as a “desperate” reaction to the government’s recent victories.
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Truck drivers show an increased presence on social media sites
For many commercial vehicle operators, the open road can become a quiet, lonely place. In an effort to combat the pitfalls of perpetual solitude, many of these professionals are turning to social media.
According to Truck News, many drivers have begun using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube to connect with friends, family and fellow operators while they are traveling. Their uses for these websites include staying in touch, updating other people on their wherabouts or meeting new people.
Some individuals use social media to discuss common interests with others or pursue new hobbies. In addition, some employers of commercial vehicle operators are enhancing their presence on these sites in an effort to communicate with their fleets or increase their recruitment efforts.
According to a blog called Ask The Trucker, drivers have used social media to teach and learn various new skills, such as organic gardening.
Operators who enjoy gathering information over the internet may benefit from online driver training courses, which could help them improve their safety practices while they are on the road.
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
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A Guide to Intergenerational Tax Planning (2020/2021)
In this guide we look at
- Passing on wealth to the next generation
- The benefits of gifting during your lifetime
- How to give away assets tax-efficiently
- Intergenerational tax planning for business owners
- Making gifts without giving up full control
When you have worked hard to build your wealth, it is only natural to want to pass as much as possible on to your family. But it can be a difficult topic to approach, particularly when your children are already financially independent, possibly with families of their own.
A good financial plan will help you look at the options in a positive way, allowing you to balance your own needs with providing a legacy.
Starting to plan now can help to ensure that more of your money ends up in the hands of your loved ones when they need it most.
How much money can be legally given to a family member as a gift?
Making a gift of cash is one of the simplest ways to pass on wealth, but there are a few points to be aware of:
- You can give away up to £3,000 per tax year, which is immediately considered outside your estate
- This can be carried forward by up to one tax year (i.e. £6,000 in the first year)
- A couple who have made no previous gifts could give away up to £12,000 within this exemption
- Regular gifts from surplus income are also immediately exempt
- Smaller gifts for Christmas, birthdays or weddings are also usually exempt up to certain limits
- Larger gifts remain in your estate for seven years. Inheritance Tax (IHT) may apply if you die within this period
- If the gift is over the value of the nil rate band (currently £325,000), any IHT liability will benefit from taper relief if you die from year three onwards
- Never give away more than you can afford. A cash flow model (https://blog.firstwealth.co.uk/the-fundamentals-of-cashflow-modelling) can guide you in making regular gifts while maintaining your own lifestyle
- Make sure you have an easily accessible cash reserve. This can cover any urgent bills or ad hoc expenses, as well as ensuring that you don’t need to make any unplanned withdrawals from your investments.
In some situations, it might make sense to gift assets rather than cash. The rules and exemptions above also apply to other types of gift. However, the various assets have different tax treatments and caveats to be aware of.
Do I pay UK taxes on gifted shares?
Funds and Shares
You can make gifts of funds or shares. This can be a little more complicated than gifting cash, for example:
- If you dispose of an asset, you are deemed to have sold it at market price for Capital Gains Tax (CGT) purposes, even if you give it away
- Any notional profit on the investment will be considered a capital gain. If you realise gains of over £12,300 in the current tax year, you will pay tax of either 10% (for a basic rate taxpayer) or 20% (higher and additional rate taxpayers) on the excess
- Assets transferred between spouses or civil partners are ignored for CGT purposes. You could pass assets to your spouse first before making a joint gift. You would then have two annual exemptions (£24,600) available
- If you give away assets that have made a loss, no tax will apply. Losses can be used to offset gains realised elsewhere.
If you die, your funds and shares pass into your estate. The new ‘base cost’ for the investments is the value at the date of death. This effectively wipes out any potential tax liability on gains.
Additionally, your estate and your beneficiaries will each have their own annual exemptions. Your estate could realise up to £12,300 worth of capital gains without tax liability. Each beneficiary could then realise a further £12,300. Remember, these exemptions only need to be applied to gains which have occurred after the date of death.
It can sometimes be more efficient to pass on investments via your Will rather than during your lifetime. A financial plan can help you to navigate the options.
Investment bonds are slightly different, as there are no immediate tax implications on giving them away. Bonds are split into segments, which means you can gift, for example, 1/10th of your investment at a time.
Instead, the gains remain intact and could result in a tax liability for the beneficiary when they eventually encash the bond.
Bonds must be encashed on the death of the last life assured, which may result in a tax liability for the estate or the beneficiary. If you are not the last life assured, the bond can remain in force.
As bonds work differently from other investment types, a financial plan can help to determine if they will meet your intergenerational wealth planning objectives.
Are pensions subject to IHT?
Pensions are not included in your estate for IHT purposes. The tax treatment of money purchase pensions (such as a Personal Pension, SIPP, or Stakeholder) on death is explained as follows:
- On death before age 75, the full fund can be passed on to your beneficiaries, free of tax
- After age 75, each beneficiary will be taxed at their own marginal rate on any money they receive. However, they will have flexibility over how and when they draw the pension and can even pass it on to their own children.
If you have other investments, it can be worth drawing on these for as long as possible, while leaving pensions intact. Not only do pensions benefit from preferential tax treatment on the funds, but they can also be passed on without IHT.
The rules are different for final salary or defined benefit pensions. Most schemes offer a spouse’s pension and some provide a lump sum in addition. While a defined benefit pension offers valuable guarantees, the options for passing money on to your loved ones are limited, and you may wish to make provision elsewhere.
Can I transfer my pension to my child?
You cannot pass a pension to your beneficiaries’ while you are alive. In order to pass value, you would need to withdraw money from your pension first, which could result in a significant Income Tax liability. For this reason, pensions are not usually the best option for giving away money during your lifetime.
Paying into a pension for a child or grandchild can be extremely efficient and ensures that they cannot access the money until at least age 57. You can contribute up to £2,880 per year into a pension for a child (or anyone else with no earnings) and tax relief of £720 will be credited, resulting in a gross contribution of £3,600.
Can I gift my home to my child?
The Family Home
Passing on the family home is an important goal for many people starting to think about estate planning. Tax legislation has taken this into account with the introduction of a Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB). This works as follows:
- Each individual has an additional nil rate band of £175,000 (on top of the standard £325,000 per person) to set against the main residence. Couples can use both bands, resulting in total relief of £350,000 (a total of £1million – including two lots of £325,000 also)
- The value of the property will be used if this is under the RNRB
- The property must pass to direct descendants
- The relief is withdrawn on estates valued at over £2 million at a rate of £1 for every £2 over the threshold
- The relief may still apply if the family home has been sold or downsized after 8 July 2015.
Alternatively, you may decide to give away your home during your lifetime. Remember, this is only effective for IHT purposes if you either move out of the property or if you pay a market rent to the person you gifted the property to. Assuming these conditions apply, the gift will drop out of your estate after seven years.
Helping Children onto the Property Ladder
Helping children buy their first home is a key milestone in many financial plans. There are a number of ways to do this:
- Gifting the money for the deposit
- Making a loan (remember, this stays in your estate unless written off)
- Acting as a guarantor so that they can access a more favorable mortgage deal
- A family offset mortgage allows parents to hold their savings alongside their child’s mortgage. This can improve the deal offered, as well as reducing interest payments.
Do you want to know more about securing your children’s financial future? Read our blog here.
How do you pass a business to the family?
Having your children carry on the family business can be extremely rewarding, as well as tax-efficient.
If you pass your business shares on to your children, you can potentially benefit from Gift Holdover Relief. This means that no CGT will be payable on the transfer. The business can be passed on indefinitely in this way, only becoming taxable if it is eventually sold. The first £1 million of any gains realised from business assets qualifies for Entrepreneurs Relief, which reduces the tax rate to 10% rather than 20%.
Gifting shares can be complex. The value of a company is not strictly apportioned according to shareholding – owning 60% of the company is worth more per share than 20% as it includes a higher degree of control. It is vital to take advice if you are gifting company shares, as the gift may be worth more or less than you think.
On death, most business assets will qualify for Business Relief, which offers either 50% or 100% relief from IHT.
Even if you don’t own a business, you can still benefit from Business Relief by investing in certain types of shares, for example, Enterprise Investment Schemes or Alternative Investment Market stocks. These are high risk and not suitable for everyone, but could offer tax savings as part of a diverse investment strategy.
Can you gift money from a trust?
Gifting money or assets into trust is a great way of reducing the value of your estate without giving up full control. A trust could benefit you if:
- You are prepared to make a gift now, but do not want your beneficiaries to receive all of the money right away
- You would like to have flexibility over how the money is distributed and for what purpose
- You would like to provide for a group of beneficiaries, for example, your children and other descendants. This can include grandchildren who have not been born yet
- You wish to protect your wealth against bankruptcy, divorce, loss of capacity, or even poor decision-making
- You want to provide an income for one party (for example, yourself or a spouse), while preserving capital for someone else (such as your children).
You can set up a trust even if you don’t want to make a gift from capital. A whole of life policy, placed in trust, can ensure that your beneficiaries receive a lump sum on your death. This is outside your estate for IHT purposes. Life policies can be a useful method of transferring wealth, particularly if it’s possible that your own assets will be spent during your lifetime.
It is always worth seeking advice if you are considering setting up a trust as the different structures vary in terms of flexibility, access, and tax treatment.
Can I gift money through a family investment company?
An increasing number of families are looking for alternatives to trusts that offer greater flexibility and tax-efficiency. A family investment company is one such option. This works as follows:
- A limited company is set up, with the family members as shareholders
- Cash is transferred to the company, usually in the form of a director’s loan
- This can be invested in shares, funds, or even property
- Shares are issued to family members which can include varying rights in terms of voting and entitlement to capital and dividends
- Over time, more shares can be transferred to beneficiaries, reducing the value of the donor’s estate.
An investment company may suit wealthy families who have already made use of trusts and gifting allowances and require sophisticated planning. There can be implications for CGT and IHT depending on the structure of the company. Business Relief is not available on pure investment companies i.e. non-trading companies. Tax advice is essential.
As you spend time with your loved ones over the festive period, think about where you would like to be next year or even ten years from now. What are your wishes for your family, and can you help them achieve their goals?
The period between Christmas and New Year is an ideal time for reflecting on what you have and making plans for the future.
We are a firm of Independent Financial Advisers based in London. Please don’t hesitate to contact one of our Chartered Financial Planners if you would like to find out more about transferring wealth to the next generation.
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Mall and Shopping Center Beginning Hours in the USA
There are several forms of shops you will discover on the nearby mall. Most large malls possess a department shop best known being an anchor. A mall because the name indicates has several departments say for example a shoes, cosmetics, men’s clothing, women’s clothing, etc. Additionally, there are many specialty stores through the mall, for example, you can feature cosmetics, another may sell only shoes and other may have products for your favorite pet. There are additional businesses at the same time, such as the food court which can be a location having an assortment of eateries and restaurants. Many of them sell take out and a few are sit down restaurants. Usually, the shoppers have numerous alternatives to choose for example burgers, pizza, ice cream, or fancy frozen drinks. Another type store which is often available at malls is called kiosks. Kiosks are often merely a wheeled cart which can be moved from place to place, sometimes they are even folding carts which can be disassembled in the evening. The kiosks are small businesses proprietors which keep the rent costs down but still be able to sell many making a profit. One vendor may sell only calendars; another stall may sell only candy or handcrafted jewelry.
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Some great benefits of a store, however, are wonderful. There is more room for inventory the ones have an overabundance options. These small portable booths usually only carry one type of product and either customers need it or they do not. Stores are only the contrary. They may be selling much that if someone will not tolerate one thing odds are good that they can find something different. When it comes to saying if one is far better than the opposite it is tough to tell. No-cost their very own multiple positives and negatives which is challenging to tell that’s greater or less.
Food courts are successful because those that shop generally stop for food. Should they need not leave the mall for food then why do they really? There are numerous different places from which to choose that odds are people will like a minumum of one ones. These are some reasons why the meals court is prosperous. The shops are not the size of a store, though not no more than a kiosk, although it is great size because of this type of business. There’s seating in front of the stores in order that just isn’t needed in everyone restaurant. There’s something for all at a local shopping mall whether it be a department store, toy shop, eateries or kiosks.
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WHY I HAVE TO RETURN
George Small, a UK-based freelance writer, spent a week in 2006 with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitionsa Summer Work Camp. He reflects on its impact on him.
Years ago, in the divided and occupied city of Berlin, in a Germany itself split into two halves by a Wall 1,393 kilometres long, I met a Palestinian refugee. He told me of conditions in his country, which was also divided and occupied. This was in 1986, before the first intifada. West Berlin, he said, was only his temporary home. His real home was in Nablus.
He told me of what life was like for Palestinians trying to exist under Israeli occupation. Their stories of suffering beggared belief. They seemed so outlandish because surely, I thought at the time, the world would not let the occupier get away with such things.
He said that _homea for those Palestinian refugee families in the mid 1980as, strewn across the world yet so emotionally close to each other, was Tunis, Algiers, Cyprus, European capitals or Middle East refugee camps. His accounts of the struggles of daily living in Occupied Palestine sounding like life on Mars. In the 1980as there was no internet, no instant e-mail or blogs to check his accounts. There was only his word.
His stories of life under Israeli occupation were so alien and unbelievable because I had no standard emotional reference points in my comfortable Western experience. If these people were short of water why didnat they just use a tap like the rest of us? I could not grasp what this man was talking about. So I decided he was a propagandist, making things up just to denigrate Israel. And when I moved jobs, this glimpse into a world so far away it canat have been true, drifted further into my past.
But there was too much on the News to allow indifference to grow_ the first Intifada, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin _ Sabra and Shatilla before that _ all these events kept pulling me back to asking why there were so many Palestinian émigrés scattered across Europe and unable to live in their own country. Like a muscle ache you canat quite pinpoint _ it nagged and pulsed yet couldnat be rubbed away.
Yet 20 more years would pass before I saw at first hand how truthful that Palestinian refugee in West Berlin had been, and how wrong I was to doubt him.
In 2006 I observed a woman peace activist at some stall in a northern UK town _ pushing leaflets to passers-by who would rather just pass by, thank you. _Come along to a meeting,_ she said. There was to be a speaker from Palestine. So I did, embarrassed and reluctant. The photos I saw on the display boards at this meeting couldnat surely be true _ surely they were propaganda of the Left _ Agitprop à laArabe.
But when the Palestinian speaker started to recount his story of living under Israeli occupation, his account shot through me like a lighting bolt, bringing all the telephone stories of Palestinian grief back from my past as though it were no further away than that morning.
The more literature I read, and the more I discovered on the internet, the more incredulous I became. How could so much wrong be done to so many by so few, with as many again so indifferent?
There really was only one way to go – either purge my past or listen to it, and I could only do that with any emotional authenticity by going to this land with a Wall splitting it in two and seeing it first hand. It was ironic that this journey began in a land similarly split in two, (Germany) along with its pre-War capital, Berlin, with the PLO Embassy on one side of the Berlin Wall and the Palestinian émigré population on the other .
So, at that meeting I signed up to go to the West Bank to join the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and help rebuild a Palestinian family home destroyed by Israeli bulldozers. This was the first turning point on a journey I now realised I had begun 20 years before.
That week with ICAHD last summer changed me. I saw the squalor enforced upon Palestinian communities, the official abuse they were subjected to, the checkpoints, the harassment, the humiliation and subjugation heaped upon them hour by hour. I felt burning shame at having ever doubted that Palestinian refugee in West Berlin 20 years before. I saw now why they couldnat get water from kitchen taps like you and I.
All of this reached through and awakened a sense of outrage and anger in the same way it would if you saw a loved one mugged on a street and like a slow-motion nightmare you just couldnat quite move fast enough to stop the brutality _ that same sense of powerlessness.
I was no artisan or craftsman but that did not matter. I could lift and drag and did so with a will, alongside some 25 other internationals who were, like me, learning fast how to become building site labourers united and bonded by a common moral purpose. To help put right, in a small way, the injustices heaped upon innocent families, whose _crimea was to have built a home without a building permit.
Our ICAHD hosts explained that many Palestinians had to build without permission because the Israelis practically never gave such permission to Palestinians. ICAHD shepherded and briefed us, opened our eyes to the _factsa on the ground, whilst our Palestinian hosts were kindness itself.
The work never fatigued us _ a few aches after the first daysa labour, but none of us ever felt tired. But we learned quickly to hide our anger and, when moving through the checkpoints, we role-played the polite and timidly co-operative tourist at the checkpoints.
This pretence was a small price to pay to have the honour and cathartic triumph of building _ physically rebuilding _ a home smashed by the oppressors. By so doing we, alongside many other Israeli peace groups, actively resisting this cruel Israeli occupation and rejecting its tyranny _ and right in the oppressoras own stolen back yard.
The other team members were of all ages, generations and nationalities, all of us bravely united in a common cause of righting a monstrous wrong. The daily lunchtime and evening talks arranged by ICAHD for the work camp (participants from both Arab and Israeli, Jewish and Muslim peace groups), bolstered and encouraged us all with their implacable commitment to fighting this hideous and totally illegal occupation of Palestine.
We won, with every brick we laid every day. We won with every bucket of cement binding the bricks. And we win by carrying the message back to our own countries on our return. And above all this, the Israeli occupiers unknowingly ignited within each of us a torch of such burning ferocity of indignation and refusal to accept, that no _Securitya measure could ever put out.
The house _ the home – was built and handed over to a grateful Palestinian family, after two weeksa of building. That was an emotional and tangible victory beyond measure. This is what ICAHD accomplishes.
I returned to the UK confident of the route before me _ to advocate, to inform, to educate, to add to the clarion call to shame our respective national governments to face up to their indifference to the suffering of the Palestinian people. And to return to join ICAHDas peace and rebuilding camp once again.
I am going back to the 2007 work camp, God Willing, to help, in just a very small way, the dispossessed, the humiliated and the downtrodden Palestinian people and build for victory again this year. And as our numbers grow as more attend the ICAHD work camp experience, so our voices grow louder so that one day the chorus of change will reach critical mass that will force our governments to call Israel to account.
I believe this can happen. Just as the Inner German Border and the Berlin Wall were wiped away, so one day will the current Wall. Regimes that divide by Walls never last long, and by joining ICAHD we can perhaps add to the process that will rid the region of this unjust occupation and all its trappings, so that Israel and Palestine can have a fair and lasting peace for all concerned. I just hope that Palestinian refugee I encountered in West Berlin 20 years ago will live to see that day.
Until we reach that point, as Winston Churchill so eloquently said:
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GitHub on Wednesday announced that it will require all of its users who contribute code on GitHub.com to use one or more forms of two-factor authentication by the end of 2023.
In a blog post, GitHub pointed out the need to take this step, mainly because 2FA adoption across the software ecosystem remains low overall. Today, only just 16.5% of active GitHub users and 6.44% of npm users use one or more forms of 2FA.
“At GitHub, we believe that our unique position as the home for all developers means that we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to raise the bar for security across the software development ecosystem,” said Mike Hanley, chief security officer at GitHub and author of today’s blog.
Hackers have long targeted code. However, recent events have highlighted the seriousness of the threat, said Casey Bisson, head of product and developer relations at BluBracket, who added that GitHub made a great move.
“This will help motivate any companies that haven’t yet enabled the option, but we also have to acknowledge the limits,” Bission said. “Developer productivity often requires broad access to code. Private repositories — even with improved authentication — provide little protection to companies that store keys, secrets, and other sensitive material in their code. Most of the companies recently attacked by Lapsus$, for example, also had strong authentication policies with 2FA, yet still saw their code — and all the keys and passwords in it — leaked publicly.”
Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at Delinea, said companies should use 2FA anywhere and everywhere possible as it’s the best “next-step” way to authenticate identities beyond simply using a username and password. Carson said strong password management, privileged access security, and MFA will make it difficult for attackers to succeed at gaining an initial foothold, forcing them to look for an easier target elsewhere.
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Please copy and paste the link into your browser to hear Leah read. This clip clearly highlights the importance of a child’s first few years of life. She has been exposed to lots of language opportunities. Her spoken language is very clear and she questions words she does not know the meaning of. She can… Continue reading Story time!
I have read and sang rhymes to my little one each day and she is certainly a clever little girl. We have had so much fun acting out rhymes and drawing characters such as a spider from ‘Incy Wincy Spider’. She used the stamper to create the circle and then drew lines with the pen. | <urn:uuid:e02cad35-74fa-4405-ad05-6fb76d8535fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learning-together.co.uk/2021/09/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975699 | 137 | 1.90625 | 2 |
acestrynchus s.p.p of the characidae family
One more sharpen teethed characidae, called peixe cachorro ( dog-fish) in Brazil, not to be confounded with the cachorra ( Payara), other huge jaws' owner. This kind of mini freshwater barracuda is incredibly agressive, and active. Constantly marauding along the grassy benches and foliages, he will not let the slightest respite to your flies. The only thing we could regret about it, is not to weight some pounds more, what would make it a game fish of prime order as the bicuda of which it shares the same name in many places of Amazonia where it is sometimes also called saicanga.
A n° 6 rod would be sufficient for this fish whose weight doesn't exceed 2 pounds, but as it swims in the same places than other fellows infinitely more serious, it's better not to descend bellow the n° 8.
There is not a specific technique for the dog-fish, still considered as an intruder that tirelessy attacks flies that are not destined to it. And passed its first captures that may be funny, especially when one discovers this fish, one rapidly tends to whish to know or to send it elsewhere.
All flies and poppers, whatever their size and appearance are always attacked and damaged with anyone complex.
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What are Letters Testamentary?
When a loved one passes away, an estate must usually be raised for the deceased person. An estate stands in place of the deceased so that the legal and financial affairs can be administered after death.
Letters Testamentary is the authorizing document issued by the Register of Wills appointing a representative. This representative is called the executor/ executrix. Letters Testamentary allows the estate representative to gather all of the deceased’s assets such as personal property, bank accounts and other assets to pay liabilities and make inheritance distribution.
Letters Testamentary are only issued when the deceased person left a will deciding who will handle the estate.
What are Letters of Administration?
If the deceased died without a will, then a different legal process is involved. A petition must be filed with the Register of Wills requesting issuance of Letters of Administration. Since there is no will naming the deceased’s representative, all of the heirs to the estate must sign a document called a “renunciation” deferring to a representative called an Administrator/ Administratrix.
If any heirs refused to sign a renunciation, then a petition must be filed citing the uncooperative persons.
What happens if the deceased’s heirs cannot agree with the surviving co-owner on what should be done with the property?
Without issuance of Letters, the legal and financial affairs cannot be settled for the deceased. Real estate, including a family, home cannot be sold or retitled, bank accounts cannot be accessed, and creditors will not speak with the heirs. If the heirs delay in obtaining Letters, penalties can be assessed against the estate for failing to pay the inheritance taxes on time.
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Washington, DC has played an important role in LGBT activism in the US.
Washington, DC is among the most gay-friendly cities in the US, and worldwide! With around 5% of its population identifying as LGBTQ+, the capital of the US has a vibrant and thriving LGBTQ+ scene with a rich history. From the country’s first gay bookstore, to the world’s only gay corner in a cemetery, to one of the most important marches in the history of LGBTQ+ activism – there are numerous places across the city that have played a significant role in LGBTQ+ history. Read on to find out some of the city’s most iconic LGBTQ+ hotspots and their stories!
The Dupont Circle Fountain honors Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont.
In the heart of the city, with a traffic circle and a fountain at its center, lies Dupont Circle. It is a popular residential neighborhood with quirky bars, international restaurants, cool shops and busy nightlife. It has also been a historical hub of LGBTQ+ life in Washington, DC since the 1970s, when the neighborhood took on a bohemian lifestyle. It became increasingly popular with the gay and lesbian community. Dupont Circle to Washington, DC is like Greenwich Village to New York City, or West Hollywood to Los Angeles. It gained nationwide notoriety when DC’s first gay bookstore, Lambda Rising, opened in 1974 (more about that later). Today many LGBTQ+ events take place in this neighborhood such as the 17th Street High Heel Race and the Capital Pride Parade. A stretch of 17th Street NW is named in honor of Frank Kameny, an American gay rights activist and astronomer who was dismissed from his position because of his homosexuality.
Most of Washington, DC’s LGBTQ+ nightlife takes place around Dupont Circle and Logan Circle, as well as the Adams Morgan neighborhood. We’ve handpicked some of the city’s most iconic bars, but make sure to check our Washington, DC gay bars page for a comprehensive list.
Pitchers DC is one of Washington, DC’s most well-known gay bars. This bar is sports-themed (you guessed it, baseball!) and has plenty of space for games indoors as well as a large patio. This is a true LGBTQ+ hotspot as it attracts a lively and diverse crowd with regular events and themed nights. Pitchers DC is open from Wednesdays to Sundays.
Pitchers DC is a sports-themed gay bar in Washington, DC.
Another established and popular sports-themed gay bar in DC is Nellie’s Sports Bar, located near Logan Circle. This place shows sports events on screens on the walls, and hosts weekly drag bingo, karaoke and poker nights. On weekends, Nellie’s is packed with drag lovers for their legendary drag brunch. You might be lucky and able to enjoy the show sipping on your Mimosa, or you might be asked to participate! Either way, this place should be on your gay DC bucket list.
Enjoy boozy brunches and drag performances on weekends at Nellie’s Sports Bar.
If you are a man and you like going to bars shirtless or in underwear and earning a free drink by doing so, you should check out Green Lantern. This gay spot has a big bar area downstairs, while upstairs has a dance floor and more of a nightclub feel to it. Green Lantern may be tricky to find, but it is definitely worth it once you stumble upon the alleyway it is located in near Logan Circle. They have daily happy hour specials and events – Shirtless Men Drink Free being one of them.
Last on our list of iconic LGBTQ+ bars in DC is Trade, located near Logan Circle. It’s known for its fantastic cocktails that turn GIGANTIC during happy hour. This is the place to go if you like RuPaul’s Drag Race as Trade hosts regular viewing parties, with queens from the show making an appearance sometimes!
Historic LGBTQ+ spots in Washington, DC
Lambda Rising was a notorious gay bookstore in Washington, DC.
As mentioned earlier, DC’s first gay bookstore opened in Dupont Circle in 1974. Lambda Rising was founded by Deacon Maccubbin, who reportedly contributed to the migration of LGBTQ+ members into the Northwest neighborhood. The discreet shop started out with only 250 gay titles and became known for its wide selection of books, ranging from queer theory and religion to erotica, as well as DVDs, music CDs and gifts. Lambda Rising soon gained notoriety across the US, especially when it ran the world’s first gay-oriented TV commercial in 1975. In the same year, it organized the forerunner of what we now know as Capital Pride – yes THE Capital Pride. A few celebrities held book signings at the store, including Andy Warhol in 1985. The store moved locations a few times throughout its existence until it sadly closed down in 2010.
The White House attracts thousands of visitors every day.
A visit to Washington, DC wouldn’t be complete without a stop at The White House, one of the most iconic and famous landmarks in Washington, DC and the US. It’s not only where the President lives and works, it is also an important historic LGBTQ+ site. There were several marches and protests in front of the White House in the 80s and 90s that were incredibly important in the LGBTQ+ movement at the time. Around 200,000 people joined the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (The Great March) on October 11 1987, one of DC’s most famous marches in history. It was also the first national coverage of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and was led by celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg. A few years later, on April 25 1993, the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation started at the White House and had an estimated attendance of one million. Speakers and performers at the rally following the march included Madonna, RuPaul, Ian McKellen and many more.
Around 200,000 people gathered in front of the White House in 1987.
On the other side of the Potomac River you will find the Pentagon. It is the headquarters of the United States Defense Department, as well as the location of the very first gay rights demonstration on July 31, 1965. Participants included the co-founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington, one of the earliest gay rights organizations in the US.
Claiming to be the world’s only graveyard with an LGBTQ+ section, the Congressional Cemetery has a ‘gay corner’ for LGBTQ+ rights activists. The cemetery is located near Capitol Hill and is the resting place for many Congress members who died in service, as well as other government officials. If you wander around the cemetery and reach its ‘gay corner’ you will find tombstones of many important gay rights activists such as Frank Kameny and Leonard Matlovich, a gay Vietnam veteran who was dismissed from the military for his sexual orientation. On his gravestone you’ll find the poignant words: “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
Leonard Matlovich’s tombstone is located in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC.
The section has become an inspiring gathering place for the living, with Matlovich’s grave being a shrine-like centerpiece. Many gay couples have married in front of the memorial, yoga sessions take place in the chapel, and even movie nights take place occasionally. But no matter how you choose to honor the dead, this site remains an important LGBTQ+ site in America’s capital.
What better place is there to learn about history than at a museum? Luckily, Washington, DC has over 100 of them! There is an interesting LGBTQ+ section in the Holocaust Memorial Museum about the persecution of gay men under the Nazi regime. Another great place to find out more about LGBTQ+ history is the National Museum of American History. They have fascinating records and collections of objects for a specific reason that later turned out to have LGBTQ+ connections.
Find out more about Washington, DC at Washington.org/LGBTQ.
Read more about Washington, DC on TravelGay! The Essential LGBTQ+ Travel Guide to Washington, DC and The best TikToks of Washington DC: Things to do in Washington.
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They’re in season now through March. Valencias, in season from April to summer, are used for juice as they’re more tart and not very easy to peel. Mandarin. These cover a broad range of fruits that include satsumas, clementines, tangelos and tangerines.
Similarly, you may ask, what month are grapefruits ripe?
Grapefruit should be harvested when at least half of the peel has started to turn yellow or pink. Mature grapefruit may still be green in color, but a better bet is to wait until the fruit turns hue. Remember, the longer the fruit stays on the tree, the sweeter it becomes; so be patient.
Is Lemon seasonal?
When Are Lemons In Season? Unlike other citrus, lemons don’t need a ton of heat to ripen. They also bloom and ripe concurrently – that is, they’ll have blossoms and fruit on the same tree at the same time. Trees in particularly temperate areas can have fruit ripening year-round (or almost).
What does grapefruit do to you?
The powerful nutrient combination of fiber, potassium, lycopene, vitamin C, and choline in grapefruit all help to maintain a healthy heart.
What is the season for oranges?
Their widespread distribution and long growing season have made navel oranges very popular. In the United States, they are available from November to April, with peak supplies in January, February, and March.
What kind of fruit is a cutie?
The Cutie brand name refers to two types of commercially available mandarin oranges: Murcott mandarins, which are sold between February and April, and clementine mandarins, which are sold between November and January. Both types of Cuties are seedless and contain no fat or cholesterol.
What is a winter citrus?
Winter is when most citrus fruits are at their sweetest and juiciest. Clementines are small, sweet oranges available from December through the most of the winter season. Grapefruit from California, Texas, Florida, and Arizona comes into season in January and stays sweet and juicy into early summer.
Is a pineapple a citrus fruit?
No, pineapple is not a citrus fruit. It’s a member of the genus Ananas in the Bromeliaceae family. It’s somewhat acidic, due to the presence of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), not the citric acid that dominates in citrus fruits.
Is a kiwi fruit a citrus fruit?
Citrus fruits contain large quantities of citric acid, which gives them their characteristic sharp, tart taste. For this reason the kiwifruit is actually considered a non-citrus subtropical fruit, in the same category as the fig and the pomegranate.
Are limes in season?
The Mexican lime’s main ripening season is between August and December. Mexican limes often ripen year-round, fruiting in late winter and spring as well as the main ripening period in summer through early winter. “Bearss” limes also become ripe around August, but can ripen right through to early spring, usually March.
Can you grow a lime tree in the UK?
Citrus. Citrus are not hardy in Britain but can be grown in pots outdoors in summer and brought inside for winter. Of all citrus, most gardeners grow lemons; kumquats are the most cold tolerant; others, like limes and grapefruits, need more warmth.
Where are lemons grown in the world?
Lemon trees (Citrus limon) love warm temperatures. The trees are thought to have originated in India and are usually grown in warmer climates, such as in Italy, California and Florida. If you live in an area that gets frost each year, you can grow a lemon tree in a container.
What is the Temple Orange?
The name “tangor” is a formation from the “tang” of tangerine and the “or” of “orange”. Also called the temple orange, its thick rind is easy to peel and its bright orange pulp is sour-sweet and full-flavoured.
What are satsumas in season?
In Season: Satsuma Oranges. Among the sunny-colored citrus fruits that brighten produce aisles during winter, satsumas hit peak season this month. Part of the mandarin orange family, which also includes tangerines and clementines, satsumas are one of the sweetest citrus varieties, with a meltingly tender texture.
Where are most of the oranges grown in Florida?
What citrus products are primarily grown in Florida? Florida growers produce several types of citrus, including oranges, grapefruit and specialty fruit including Temple oranges, tangerines and tangelos. The most commonly-grown varieties of Florida oranges are Navel, Hamlin, Pineapple, Ambersweet and Valencia.
What are Valencia oranges used for?
Valencia oranges are most commonly used for their juice but may also be cooked or eaten fresh. Use the juice and zest for marinades, syrups, vinaigrette, cocktails or to flavor sauces and custards.
Where are clementines grown in the United States?
Countries Growing The Most Mandarins In The WorldRankCountryTons of Tangerines, Mandarins, Clementines, and Satsumas Produced1China15,171,7002Spain2,198,9003Turkey942,2264Brazil937,819
Is it bad to eat a lot of clementines?
Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines. Generally, fresh citrus fruits, like clementines, are a healthy food to eat regularly. They’re full of fiber, high in vitamin C and have small doses of several minerals. With all the nutrients that clementines have to offer, you might assume you can eat as many as you want.
What is the season for clementines?
A: There are two varieties of CUTIES® —clementine and Murcott. Which one you find in the grocery store will depend upon the growing season. Clementines are available from November until February, and Murcotts are available February through April. Our fruit comes in different sizes as well.
Are cuties and halos the same thing?
Cuties and Halos are different types of mandarins depending on what time of year it is. They are not always the Clementine variety. In fact, Clementines are only available during the beginning part of the citrus season (from November to January). The other mandarin commonly used is the W. Murcott.
Are cuties genetically modified food?
For example, oranges are thought to be a hybrid between mandarin and pummelo(4). CUTIES® consist of two varieties: clementines from November to January and W. Murcott mandarins from February to April (6). Cuties are not without controversies. Many people worry that they are genetically modified, although they are not.
What is the season of lemon?
“Eureka” lemons can often be picked year round, but the primary season of harvest is from late winter to early summer. The “Lisbon” variety also produces fruit sporadically throughout the year, though the main season is in winter and early spring.
How do you pick lemons off the tree?
Don’t wait too long to pick your lemons — the fruit’s flavor will deteriorate if left on the tree too long.
Place a ladder on stable ground under the lemon tree.
Twist fully yellow lemons from the tree and place them in a bucket.
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One hundred years ago, in 1922, the City of Houston built a fence around a tract of land in Hermann Park to house its first animal, an American bison named Earl. The Zoo's first official animal was a part of the nationwide effort to showcase one of America's largest land mammals, which were nearly hunted to extinction at that time.
Although Earl was the first animal at the Zoo, the fence around it began to expand yearly. Now, the Houston Zoo is a sprawling 55 acres dedicated to conservation and animal protection with a legacy of saving animals in the wild. One of their first efforts was to protect the Galápagos tortoises from extinction, and in the 1970s, the Houston Zoo was the first institution in the world to successfully hatch a St. Vincent's Amazon parrot. In 1984, the Zoo spearheaded the launch of the Houston toad breeding and reintroduction program; their ongoing list of conservation efforts proves that the original intention of the Zoo's commitment to protecting animals remains steadfast into its next century.
The Houston Zoo draws in over two million visitors each year and is home to over 6,000 permanent wildlife residents. As the second most visited Zoo in the United States, and the most significant cultural attraction in the Houston region, it is able to support 49 wildlife conservation projects in 27 countries worldwide.
"In order to connect communities with animals to inspire action to save wildlife we're completing our work transforming the very heart of the Zoo and taking our visitors around the world from the far reaches of Central America and the islands of the Galapagos to our very own Texas Wetlands," said Lee Ehmke, President and CEO of the Houston Zoo. "What all began with a bison named Earl will now be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife."
As part of the Zoo's efforts to highlight wildlife and ecosystems worldwide through interactive exhibits and animal encounters, their next efforts will showcase the unique animal life of the Galápagos Islands. Slated to open in 2023, the Galápagos Islands exhibit spotlights sea lions, giant tortoises, sharks, and Humboldt penguins exemplifying the delicate balance of ecosystems and the need to protect its future.
To celebrate its centennial year, the Zoo will host "Centennial Saturdays" on the first Saturday of each month through the rest of the year. Guests can look forward to family-friendly interactive activities relating to the Zoo's first 100 years. The celebration will continue throughout the summer with the launch of a mural series by some of Houston's most well-known artists. The murals are in the inner loop neighborhoods of Houston Heights, Third Ward, Fifth Ward, Downtown and EaDo. Each mural was created by local artists GONZO247, Jessica Rice, Usagi Wasabi, Emily Ding and Mathieu Jean Baptiste, showcasing the Zoo's global conservation efforts in the Galápagos Islands, South America's Pantanal, Africa, Asia and the Texas Wetlands. houstonzoo.org
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It’s only been three years since UC Santa Cruz researchers proved that long-read human genome assembly using the same nanopore technology developed on campus could be done at all. At the time, it was a monumental effort, requiring 150,000 hours of computing time and weeks of work.
About a year later, using the PromethION nanopore sequencer, a similar effort proved significantly faster, cheaper, and easier, clocking in at about a week. “We sequenced eleven human genomes in nine days, which was unprecedented at the time,” said UC Santa Cruz Research Scientist Miten Jain.
Now, researchers at UC Santa Cruz researchers have collaborated on an algorithm designed to accurately and precisely assemble individual, complete human genomes from long-read sequencing data in about six hours and for about $70.
The researchers said they hope their assembler will increase the pace of genomics research and open opportunities. This includes enabling pangenome research to represent the true scale of human diversity, a decidedly more practical pursuit.
Until recently, genomic research has relied exclusively on the reference genome from a single individual selected to represent an entire species. To reflect true human diversity, UC Santa Cruz has embarked on a pangenomic initiative to sequence 350 new, individual human genomes.
As a part of this work, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute researchers developed a nanopore long-read sequencing protocol that consistently yields ~60X coverage (~200 gigabases) of a human genome at unprecedented lengths (median read N50 of 42 kb) using three PromethION flow cells. Additionally, ~7X coverage of the genome is in reads exceeding 100 kb in length. This method is highly scalable, both in terms of cost and the number of genomes that can be processed simultaneously. We are now improving this method for higher read lengths and throughput, which will further facilitate our goal of achieving complete, phased, reference-quality genomes.
This large inflow of data necessitated the development of highly efficient software tools, starting with an assembler. “Our new assembler was designed to be cheap and quick, with the goal to be on the cloud,” said UC Santa Cruz’s Benedict Paten. “It gives us the power to scale nanopore sequencing. Now, I’m confident that we’ll be easily assembling hundreds of de novo genomes in the next couple of years.”
An extensive team of researchers and developers that was led by Paolo Carnevali from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) — and included many at the Computational Genomics Lab at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute — contributed to this solution.
“When I saw the Jain 2018 paper, I was impressed and realized that I could contribute to the computational side of this line of investigation,” said Paolo Carnevali. “I had recently met Benedict Paten and decided I wanted to work with his team at UCSC.
The team were soon collaborating. Within months, they had developed and tested the special algorithmic sauce, which they called Shasta.
Shasta is an in-memory computing-driven algorithm that can now help complete a de novo (new, never before processed) human genome assembly in under six hours, the authors say, for an average cost of $70 per sample.
In their paper, “Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes,” published today in Nature Biotechnology, they describe how Shasta not only yields comparable or better accuracy as its contemporaries but also has the lowest number of misassemblies.
Not satisfied with this milestone, the team saw an opportunity to improve the draft assembly at an affordable cost and turn-around time. “To improve the base-level quality of the assemblies, we used a sequence polisher based on a deep neural network as the final assembly step,” explained lead author Kishwar Shafin. “This brought the total cost of the assembly process to less than $200 and 37 hours — which further reduced the computational overhead of generating long-read assemblies dramatically — by a factor of five.”
The researchers assessed the precision and then validated the accuracy, and noted that they had achieved 99.9% accurate assembly using only nanopore data, a first for the human genome. Further, they generated chromosome-level scaffolds for these polished assemblies using HiC sequencing data.
Research scientist and co-author Karen Miga, who is directing the Data Production Center at UCSC for the Human Pangenome Project, points out the significance of the team’s achievements in improved accuracy. “Our aim is not only to expand the diversity of the reference genome but also to resolve the hundreds of gaps that persist across the genome,” Miga explains. “Now that we can routinely include these uncharted regions, we have a truly complete assembly of a human genome, and we can begin to explore variations of unknown consequence.” | <urn:uuid:d75e6156-3917-4730-a649-52ffb6d51c54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sortiwa.com/dawn-of-good-fast-and-cheap-human-genome-assembly-sciencedaily/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.940278 | 1,052 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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Another article published recently in the Village Voice explores the connection between Detroit’s entertainers and it’s social history, focusing on the impact of artists such as Kid Rock
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. Reading these glimpses on our city from the outside is like noticing a building on your daily trip to work that you’d never seen before. You become a tourist amid your routine. Detroiters need to read such stories critically for exaggeration or exploitation, but perhaps this outside attention will add coals to the fires of drive within the Motor City to bring on a new renaissance, one where we don’t tear down our past, our architecture or art. Maybe we could even embrace the life that’s here and feed it and encourage growth and more life.
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Kwon Young-woo discovers 'Koreanness' in paper
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Korean artist Kwon Young-woo (1923-2013) spent his entire career pursuing the essence of Oriental painting, but not in the traditional ink-and-wash method. Instead, he devoted his life to exploring the unique properties of paper, especially "hanji" (Korean paper).
A posthumous solo exhibition "Various Whites" held at Kukje Gallery in central Seoul sheds light on Kwon's early years when the artist began experimenting the nature of hanji. Title of the exhibit is derived from the 1975 Tokyo Gallery show "Five Korean Artists, Five Kinds of White," featuring Park Seo-bo, Lee Dong-youb, Heu Hwang, Suh Seung-won and Kwon, which laid groundwork for the Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) movement.
These early works do not have colors like his well-known pieces from the 1980s, representing the artist's experimentation with formativeness and rhythm rather than color. Layers of hanji pasted on canvas create various shades of the achromatic color. Although all paper used is white, rough surfaces created by holes and lacerated patterns, different numbers of layers and discoloration caused by time give different depth and color to each piece.
Kwon was in the first class to study Oriental Painting at the prestigious Seoul National University in 1946, but he has defied conventional approaches to Oriental painting since then. He lived in Paris from 1978 to 1989 where his pursuit of paper bloomed. Despite the Western influence, Kwon's works have Zen-like qualities, completely different from strongly contrasted Western oil paintings.
To complement the understandings of the artist, the exhibit spared a section for archives. The most noticeable in the corner is an Oriental painting portraying a conch shell in a surrealistic way. The 1958 painting "Seaside Fantasy" has won the Artist Award from the Minister of Education and Culture at the National Art Exhibition for blazing a trail in abstract painting in Oriental style. The same conch shell that inspired the painting is also on view.
A leaflet for his first-ever solo exhibition at the Shinsegae Gallery in 1966 and photos from the opening of the exhibit give a glimpse of the artist's pioneering character. Also on display are the tools Kwon used to make his art ― wooden spikes used for piercing holes in the paper and uniquely shaped brushes ― helping the viewers to visualize the artist's work procedures.
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Praise be to … the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
—2 Corinthians 1:3-4
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Sailing for New York City, the captain had hoped to make record time and impress his worldwide audience. Instead, the voyage became an epic maritime tragedy.
On board there were also eight men hired to play classical music for the passengers. As the ship sank, the musicians played on. Remarkably, the men were not crew members, so they had no obligation to stay on board. It seems these brave men saw the need for music to ease the understandable panic.
Near 2:00 a.m. as the ship was about to go under, the men agreed to disband to fend for their lives. But as seven of them walked away, Wallace Hartley began to play “Nearer My God to Thee.” The others returned to join him, perhaps drawn by their own need for comfort. Together they rallied to offer spiritual care needed by more than 1,500 people at the close of their earthly lives. Not one of the musicians survived.
God often uses music to speak lovingly to us in times of distress. What songs or passages of Scripture comfort you? When we are strengthened by the great Comforter, we too can comfort others, bearing witness to him who is even stronger than death.
Almighty God, you raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and you promise us life after death. Comfort us in the trials we face so that hope may overflow from us to those who need it. In your name, Amen.
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Are we really witnessing a “seismic” shift in the Bush administration’s foreign policy—”the end of cowboy diplomacy” and the substitution of “patience” for “pre-emption”? Such is the claim of two articles this week: the cover story of Time and a news analysis in the New York Times. Both pieces infer too much significance from the moderating tone in Bush’s rhetoric—and not enough from the fact that his actual policies have barely changed.
Yes, Bush talks more about diplomacy than he did in his first term (though he always paid it lip service, even while discussing Iraq in the run-up to the invasion, long after he’d secretly decided to go to war). But where is the actual diplomacy? Where are the results—or even any serious efforts to achieve results? Where is the real, as opposed to the rhetorical, seismic shift?
The Time story found Bush’s temperate response to North Korea’s Fourth of July missile tests “even more surprising than the tests” themselves:
Under the old Bush Doctrine, defiance by a dictator like Kim Jong Il would have merited threats of punitive U.S. action—or at least a tongue lashing. Instead, the Administration has mainly been talking up multilateralism and downplaying Pyongyang’s provocation.
The Times analysis agreed. Bush “finds himself in an unaccustomed position: urging patience.”
But, in fact, there was nothing new, much less surprising. Bush did denounce North Korea as a member of the “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union Address; he has colorfully (and accurately) disparaged Kim Jong-il, the country’s dictator, before and since. But he never issued “threats of punitive U.S. action,” not even at the end of ‘02, when Kim crossed a truly serious “red line” by abrogating the Non-Proliferation Treaty, kicking international inspectors out of his nuclear reactor, and reprocessing his once-locked fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium.
Bush took no action three and a half years ago for the same reason that he took no action after the missile test: The Joint Chiefs of Staff told him there were no good military options; they didn’t know where all the nuclear targets were, and North Korea could retaliate by launching chemical rockets at South Korea and Japan.
As for “talking up multilateralism,” that’s not new either, and, when it comes to North Korea, it doesn’t mean as much as the reporters seem to think. Yes, Bush is urging the reconvening of the “six-party talks”—a Beijing forum at which the United States, China, Russia, Japan, and the two Koreas—discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear program. But the first round of those talks took place in August 2003, back when the Bush Doctrine was riding high, before Condoleezza Rice became secretary of state and supposedly pushed the president onto diplomatic avenues.
The thing is, Bush never took the six-party talks seriously. Every time they crept toward progress, Vice President Dick Cheney took care to tug at his envoy’s leash. When the envoy was finally permitted to meet face to face with North Korean diplomats, he was given strict orders not to offer terms of negotiation. He could talk—just not about anything meaningful.
To laud Bush now for “talking up multilateralism” is to ignore the real point—that he still refuses to engage North Korea in direct, one-on-one negotiations, though everyone involved has urged him to do so because, they all realize, that’s the only way progress can be made. He refuses because he doesn’t want progress to be made, or at least not that way. He still believes that it’s better to defeat evil than to negotiate with it—and so it is, but he hasn’t yet accepted that he has no alternative to negotiating with this particular evil. Again, there’s been no seismic shift.
The same is true with Iran. Yes, Bush finally endorsed, then joined, the talks that Britain, France, and Germany had initiated with Iran over its nuclear-weapons program. But he hasn’t put anything serious on the table.
With both Iran and North Korea, diplomacy may be futile; the leaders of both countries might simply want a pocketful of nukes, regardless of any American president’s overture. (My own view is that this is probably true of the Iranians but that the North Koreans want a deal.) Whatever the merits of diplomacy, it is simply untrue—or at least it has not been demonstrated—that Bush is suddenly hot on its trail.
The Time story states that Bush has been forced to “rethink” his doctrine, and it suggests that he has adopted a new modesty in the process. “Until recently,” the story reads, “Bush failed to acknowledge how much Iraq has eroded U.S. credibility or show that he takes seriously the criticisms lodged against his policies by the U.S.’s allies.” Until recently? Since when has he acknowledged this at all?
The Times analysis states the matter more accurately: “Mr. Bush is discovering the limits of his own pre-emption doctrine.” Yes, he’s bumping into its limits, not rethinking or overhauling it.
Whatever’s happened to the “old doctrine,” the Time story does pose a question that’s on the mark: “Can the U.S. find a new one to take its place?”
This is what’s really going on. Bush and his team have slowly discovered that their prescriptions for changing the world—regime change, preventive war, and spreading democracy by force if necessary—aren’t working and aren’t going over with the world. But they don’t know what to do about it; they don’t know how to go about their business differently. Bush is drifting, not changing.
Time quotes a “presidential adviser” as saying, “There’s a move, even by Cheney, toward the Kissingerian approach of focusing entirely on vital interests. It’s a more focused foreign policy that is driven by realism and less by ideology.”
This is preposterous. Where is the shuttle diplomacy? Where are the beginnings of a regional conference to stabilize Iraq? Where is the slightest nod toward talks—serious talks—aimed at keeping Iran and North Korea from joining the club of nuclear nations? These are “vital interests.” Where is the “focusing” and the “realism” to attain them? When the administration starts behaving in a way that suggests it’s asked these questions, then we can start to talk about a “seismic” shift in foreign policy. Until then, there’s only the rumble of hot air. | <urn:uuid:0a54774c-8c12-4a3e-ae84-ed25e14f4d4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/07/new-bush-doctrine-same-as-the-old-doctrine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968942 | 1,497 | 1.734375 | 2 |
By now everyone knows that talking on your cell phone and/or texting is considered distracted driving and it is against the law – prepare to be ticketed. But what if you aren’t texting or talking on the phone?
Let’s just say – hypothetically – a person get’s a ticket for distracted driving while they are neither distracted nor driving? How is that possible? Well, let’s say the person is stuck in construction traffic on the highway, not moving, and because of the traffic picks up their cell phone that they were listening to a book on – to pause it – specifically so they don’t get distracted. Is that distracted driving? Apparently so – because the key is in the ignition, the car is running and not in a driveway and the person picked up the cell phone…. Hypothetically of course…
Since that is a hypothetical situation I was curious just what the law views as distracted driving. Because my first thought was, what about those people who groom themselves while driving? Or eating – you know that illustrious fast food diet – while driving? And even using a hands free device – have you ever tried using one of them? It is far more distracting to fiddle with that device than to just press pause on my phone.
So here is the list I found – unbelievable. You can just about get stopped for distracted driving for breathing. Don’t get me wrong – I totally agree with the no texting and driving deal. But some of the other stuff is crazy.
Eating and drinking (not alcohol of course) is in fact, distracted driving. So hypothetically – if a person gets pulled over for distracted driving while neither distracted nor driving – if they take a sip of their diet coke while pulling over… Yup more distracted driving.
When your kids, partner, spouse, friend decides to strike up a conversation with you in the car – yup distracted driving. So no one can move or talk – or you may get distracted…
Brushing your hair? Yup… Shaving, putting on makeup, etc… Definitely – more distracted driving.
And no you can’t drive down the highway with your textbook on the steering wheel. You must do your homework at home.
Got a GPS? Forget it – even if it is hands free. Looking at a GPS is definitely a distraction and listening to one is just as bad. Forget it. Don’t leave home/work until you memorize your route. Because you can’t look at a map either – you will be guilty of distracted driving.
Sorry – you can no longer watch Big Bang Theory episodes while you are driving down the road. Besides all that laughing is definitely distracted driving.
And too bad the auto manufacturers include radios, CD players, and navigation systems into your car. They are neither to be looked at, listened to or even turned on. It is all Big Brothers’ grand plan to get you ticketed for distracted driving. And you singing along is a huge distraction anyway so why bother – there is nothing to enjoy…
Now to take this to the next logical conclusion…
Do not ever open your windows – bees, mosquitos, lady bugs – distractions.
Leave you kids at home – let them find their own way to school or daycare because that will absolutely be a distraction.
Make sure when you go to a shopping plaza you park at the farthest corner of the lot – trying to navigate around pedestrians, cars, bikes, motorcycles, wheelchairs – too much of a distraction.
Rip those rear view mirrors right off your car – they are nothing more than a distraction especially when some fool behind you decides to place their high beams directly into your mirror.
I am not opposed to certain laws and certain definitions but at what point does it become ridiculous. I make fun of some of the definitions above but I actually support some of them while others are just ridiculous. And just for the record – I could not find any research that hands free devices are any safer than activities that are not hands free. So those of you that think you are “safe” using those devices – think again… | <urn:uuid:a43bb7c7-8951-4884-8c5f-060503b4174d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thestuffofsuccess.com/2014/09/23/distracted-driving-know-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96597 | 855 | 1.929688 | 2 |
All Christians have been commanded by Jesus Christ to share the Gospel message with unbelievers so that they too may be saved. However, few Christians regularly share the Gospel with non-Christians, and there are eternal consequences to this disobedience for everyone. A Markov chain model is proposed for estimating over time the proportions of persons who are saved and receive eternal life in heaven and who are condemned to hell. An evaluation and an analysis of the model are presented. Simulation results for the model indicate that a moderate increase in present personal evangelism efforts will result in only modestly more salvations over time. Therefore, substantially more intense evangelism efforts must be undertaken and sustained to make a significant difference in the number of souls that are ultimately saved. Sadly, some persons will choose never to be saved, regardless of how many and how often Christians share the Gospel.
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International Fascination of Plants Day 2022
On May 18th, 2022 the world celebrates the Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD).
The fascinating world of plants will be once more in the spotlight thanks to the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO, http://www.epsoweb.org), which invites you to celebrate the sixth Fascination of Plants Day on and around May 18th 2022. For this purpose, scientific institutions, universities, botanical gardens and museums, together with schools, farmers and companies will offer a variety of plant-based interactive events and activities for all interested people from toddlers to grandparents.
The Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) was first launched in 2012, offers many events organised in over 51 countries world-wide and attracts many visitors. This coordinated activity aims to plant virtual and constantly germinating seeds in the collective mind of people, recalling that plant science is of critical significance to social, environmental and economic issues on our Earth today and in future.
In 2022, the Swiss Plant Science Web coordinates all activities in Switzerland related to this global event.
The importance of plants
Plants are crucial organisms. They can produce sugars just from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. This ability to directly synthesize their own food has enabled plants to successfully colonize, adapt to, and diversify within almost every niche on the planet. These abilities make plants the primary producers of biomass providing animals and humans with food, feed, paper, medicine, chemicals, energy, and an enjoyable landscape. Biologists estimate the total number of plant species to be about 250,000.
Institutions and companies in Switzerland are welcome to join this initiative by offering events for the public!
We invite you to organize an interesting public activity related to plants. May 18th will be the core Fascination of Plants Day and most events will be organised for this day. Events can also happen throughout the weeks of 1-31 May.
International plant day website
Country site for Switzerland: https://plantday18may.org/category/europe/switzerland/
Dissemination of events in Switzerland
The SPSW will publish events held in Switzerland on its website and will disseminate the information about your event through its media channels. In addition, all events will be posted on the EPSO global plantday website. EPSO will inform the media about the planned events.
In exchange we kindly ask you to display the official International Fascination of Plants Day logo and to link your event to the Swiss Plant Science Web as the national coordination hub.
Contact for FoPD activities in Switzerland
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Mayor Todd Gloria released San Diego’s first pay equity study Tuesday, finding city employees of color made an average of 20.8% less than white employees and female city employees earned an average of 17.6% less than male employees in 2019.
The study, conducted by a local, independent data analytics firm, Analytica Consulting, identifies some of the issues behind the gender and racial and ethnic pay gaps among San Diego employees and provides recommendations intended to address these issues.
“My administration is working toward creating a more equitable place for our dedicated, diverse workforce,” Gloria said. “Understanding the city’s challenges with pay equity is the first step and it won’t be our last. I’ve long been committed to ensuring equal pay for equal work and I intend to make sure the city lives up to this value.”
While the gender pay gap has narrowed slightly in the internal data analyzed from 2011 to 2019 — from 18.8% to 17.6% — the racial and ethnic pay gap has grown — from 17.0% to 20.8%.
These findings do not provide direct evidence of deliberate gender or racial bias in the city, according to the report. The analysis concludes that 90% of the pay gaps are explained by factors such as occupation, whether an employee has children and overtime.
Members of the city’s Performance and Analytics Department will share findings from the 2020 Pay Equity Study during Monday’s City Council meeting.
“This landmark study gives us additional insight on pay discrepancies and actionable steps to lead us to a future that is fair, equitable, and representative of the community we serve,” said Kirby Brady, chief innovation officer and director of the Performance and Analytics Department.
A citywide pay equity study is set to be conducted every three years.
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Car insurance has risen by $50 – $a hundred in the last 5 years, as health and fitness care prices have already been increasing. Motorists also are required to carry uninsured and PIP insurance coverage, which are previously mentioned-regular state needs. Numerous states only involve liability insurance policies, but Big apple demands motorists to carry both equally. These optional coverages increase the price of insurance plan, and can generally boost the total premium. Last of all, drivers should Check out their protection limitations, as some insurance policies Use a lessen least quantity of coverage than Other people.
In Big apple, the normal person spends 2.8 p.c in their income on car or truck insurance coverage, that is slightly larger compared to the countrywide normal of 2.forty percent. Men and women inside their 30s, 40s, and 50s can pay a bit under the typical. The 70+ age team pays better rates than drivers with significantly less driving expertise. Those people who are married will pay a little bigger rates, but nonetheless lower than solitary persons.
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While gasoline charges fluctuate by point out, the cost of an auto insurance coverage quote in other states could be better or lower than your own personal. Some factors may possibly account for this, together with The proportion of uninsured drivers, point out insurance plan laws, and the rate of theft. Also, the incidence of bad temperature can modify the price of insurance plan in various states. The subsequent table displays regular vehicle insurance policy premiums in several states. These estimates are according to a comparison of point out insurance policy requirements.
Missouri is the cheapest condition for total-protection car insurance plan, shelling out just $944 lower than Louisiana. Furthermore, this point out has certainly one of the lowest prices for every capita, and is rated fifth when it comes to cost of living. In contrast, Texas motorists pay back essentially the most for their car insurance, having to pay about 33% of their yearly money in total. This disparity could be as a consequence of the fact that the point out has a significant variety of uninsured motorists and many lawsuits.
The national typical for complete coverage automobile insurance policies is $1,771 a year. The condition with the costliest coverage premium is Louisiana, by using a top quality of $two,839, a 19% improve from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s ordinary insurance coverage quality is barely $858. This is because no-fault states have better insurance policy rates. The cost of an automobile insurance policy coverage in other states can vary significantly. There are many components to take into account, such as your state’s regulations on coverage.
In case you are searhing for superior-threat driver automobile coverage near me, you may be thinking ways to get a low-Expense coverage. Substantial-possibility motorists spend larger insurance coverage rates than normal drivers. It’s because they have a tendency to have additional mishaps or violations on their document. Dependant upon the state, the limit could be three many years or 5 years. In some instances, you will get discount rates if you are taking a driver basic safety course.
When the nationwide averages for top-chance driver car insurance policy around me are fairly regular, you will find that rates range wildly from state to condition. Some providers change their costs to different states, so if you live in a particular condition, you could learn that a single insurance provider features you the very best protection for your minimal price tag. The most cost effective substantial-chance driver auto insurance policies near me arises from State Farm, which has a lengthy-standing status for furnishing outstanding assistance.
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Value to Marketing Educators: These results demonstrate how the use of clickers can improve marketing education. The results suggest that eliciting performance from students (in this case, responding to questions with clickers) and providing feedback improves students’ learning, performance, and attitudes. This will help marketing educators know when and how to use clickers.
Purpose of the Study: Feedback is identified in many learning theories as a key component to successful learning. This study investigates the effectiveness of providing immediate feedback with student response systems (or “clickers”) on multiple measures of student performance, including exam scores, self-reported understanding and attitudes.
Design and Sample: Prior studies generally show that clickers improve student performance. However, most of these studies cannot identify what causes these improvements. Further, design limitations of many studies, such as lack of control conditions or a between-subjects design, have reduced researchers’ abilities to infer causal relationships between clicker utilization and student learning. The aim of the current research is to help fill this gap in the literature. The first study uses a within-subjects design in which two sections of an undergraduate marketing class used clickers at different times over the course of the semester. The second study replicates the results of the first study using a between-subjects design.
Results: When clickers were used to facilitate feedback, students reported a better understanding of the materials, read more chapters before class, were more likely to recommend the course to others, and had higher exam scores than when clickers were used just for attendance.
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By Eric Solis
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted so many lives and presented unprecedented challenges across all industries. As a result, 2020 will undoubtedly go down in history. Fintech, especially digital payments, quickly adapted and embraced the massive surge in demand from consumers pushing us closer to a digital cash society.
Thus, 2021 will be transformative for financial institutions (FIs) as they will be tasked with implementing secure digitized payment solutions that don't disrupt everyday transactions.
This article presents my top five predictions for what is on the horizon for fintech and FIs in the new year.
We have yet to see the full damage that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused. So far, every precaution we have taken to stop the spread of COVID—from wiping down door handles, wearing masks, sanitizing everything we touch, etc.—will not subside any time soon. Further, we are seeing fewer consumers handle actual cash, as it tends to carry the largest pathogens of germs due to the amount of circulation each bill endures through its lifetime.
With the COVID-19 pandemic putting digitization into hyperdrive, we will see much greater use of digital banking technologies across channels and outside the brick-and-mortar environment, eliminating physical cash reliance.
Technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and blockchain have been at the forefront of disrupting the banking industry for years. The pandemic has further exposed the holes in the banking industry as FIs rely heavily on dated legacy systems, leaving them vulnerable to fraud.
This will be the year that banks will be forced to implement a standardized body of regulations to regulate the emergence and use of technologies in digital payments.
AI has been a game changer in the fintech space. We will see a further shift in the implementation of AI in digital payments to create a neural network that intuitively knows how you want to spend your money before you do.
This will only be furthered by geofencing technology, which will track when you enter a store, save a debit/credit card on file for easy automatic payment, and remove the need for cashiers and POS systems.
The financial impact of COVID-19 will continue as businesses struggle to remain open and record numbers of US citizens fall further behind on their bills. On top of this, the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases are forcing people to stay in their homes, as they want to avoid a physical branch location.
As a result, we will see a massive expansion of the underbanked population and the rise of a digital payments economy. This transformation will be a forcing function that will need to remove the high barriers to entry you expect from traditional banking to bring in the underbanked consumer into our economy.
The idea of a global banking system takeover has been gaining traction for quite some time. COVID-19 has further accelerated the creation of a new global banking system that will transform banks into a digital bank platform controlled by a new global currency.
For a global currency to do this, it must be a trackable currency to eliminate fraud. This transformation will open new revenue streams, reduce friction and offer consumers new ways to bank.
The COVID-19 pandemic has expedited the fintech industry's digital transformation. As such, 2021 will be a pivotal year in further adopting technologies like AI, ML and blockchain—leaving no choice for FIs but to implement a body of uniform standards to keep up with emerging technologies and regulate digital payments and currencies.
This will create greater equity and safety in our evolved banking system. I look forward to remaining at the forefront of creating secure digital payment technology solutions that allow implementation alternative payment options and provide consumers new ways to bank.
For more than 15 years, Eric Solis has been a key contributor to the advancement of digital finance, including payments, micro-investing, securities, money transfer systems, transfer agents and record keeping. Today, as founder and CEO of MovoCash Inc., he is combining the best of banking and blockchain through MOVO, a highly secure payment card platform that empowers customers to instantly send and spend money right from a mobile phone, even without a bank account. Contact him via Amanda Miglio at email@example.com.
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Protea cordata is one of the rodent pollinated proteas. While many Proteaceae species receive pollination from visiting birds or insects (and some leucadendrons are wind pollinated), there is a group of species that depends on rodents for this service. Several kinds of mice, rats, gerbils and shrews living in the fynbos participate in what is known as therophilous pollination.
Proteas adapted to serve rodent pollinators have their flowers positioned low down, close to the ground and inside the bush where birds and insects will not notice them easily. The involucral bracts of the flowers are dark and unremarkable on the outside, again not attracting birds and insects. These bracts are pale on the inside, assisting the targeted nocturnal visitors to find the nectar, and of course, the pollen.
The distance between the pollen presenters at the style tips on top of the flowerhead and the nectar at the bottom of the individual flower tube is about the same as the length of the rodent’s snout; so they can reach. The rich sucrose reward received by the animal in the flowering season (from winter to spring, depending on the species), comes at a very opportune time when the rodents breed (protea.worldonline.co.za).
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Introduction to Cellular Biophysics, Volume 2
- From membrane transport to neural signalling
- Armin Kargol
- December 2019
All living matter is comprised of cells, which are small compartments isolated from the environment by a cell membrane and filled with concentrated solutions of various organic and inorganic compounds. Some organisms are single-cell, where all life functions are performed by that cell. Others have groups of cells, or organs, specializing in one particular function. The survival of the entire organism depends on all of its cells and organs fulfilling their roles.
Cells are seen differently by biologists, chemists, or physicists. Biologists concentrate their attention on cell structure and function. What the cells consist of? Where are its organelles? What function each organelle fulfils? From a chemists' point of view, a cell is a complex chemical reaction chamber where various molecules are synthesized or degraded. From a physics standpoint, however, some of the fundamental questions involve the physical movement of all these molecules between organelles within the cell, their exchange with the extracellular medium, as well as electrical phenomena resulting from such transport.
The aim of this book is to look into the basic physical phenomena occurring in cells. These physical transport processes facilitate chemical reactions in the cell and various electrical effects, and that, in turn, leads to the biological functions necessary for the cell to satisfy its role in the mother organism. Ultimately, the goals of every cell are to stay alive and to fulfil its function as a part of a larger organ or organism. The first volume of this book is an inventory of physical transport processes occurring in cells, and this volume provides a closer look at how complex biological and physiological cell phenomena result from these very basic physical processes.
Armin Kargol studied physics and mathematics at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and at Virginia Tech, USA, where he earned a PhD in physics. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) in Minneapolis and at Tulane University in New Orleans. Since 2003 he has worked at Loyola University New Orleans where he is currently a professor of physics and the Rev. James C Carter, S J, Distinguished Professor in experimental physics.
Table of Contents
2.1 From membrane biophysics to cell physiology
2.2 Review of cell structure and function
2.2.1 Cell biology
2.2.2 Cell biochemistry
2.2.3 Cell biophysics
3 Cell homeostasis
3.1 What is cell homeostasis?
3.1.1 Primary volume response
3.1.2 Cell volume homeostasis
3.2 Regulatory volume responses
3.2.1 Mechanisms of regulatory volume changes
3.2.2 Volume sensing
3.3 Models of a primary response
3.3.1 Semipermeable membrane
3.3.2 One permeable and one impermeable solute
3.4 Models of volume regulation
3.4.1 Pump-leak model
3.4.2 Steady-state solution to pump-leak model
4 Homeostasis and transport in epithelial cells
4.1 What is the epithelium?
4.2 Transport in epithelial layers
4.3 Models of epithelial transport
4.3.1 Epithelium as a single, homogeneous barrier
4.3.2 Curran model
4.3.3 Standing gradient model
4.3.4 Advanced models of epithelial transport and homeostasis.
5 Electrical properties of neurons
5.1 Biology of a neuron
5.2 Early neurophysiology
5.3 Resting potential revisited
5.4 Electrical equivalent circuit for a cell
5.5 The cable model
5.5.1 Derivation of the cable equation
6 Neuron excitability
6.1 Action potentials
6.1.1 The discovery of action potentials
6.1.2 Properties of action potentials
6.2 Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) model
6.2.1 Experimental basis
6.2.2 Model assumptions
6.2.3 The equivalent circuit and the current equation
6.2.4 Variable membrane conductance
6.2.5 HH model equations
6.2.6 HH model analysis
6.2.7 HH model meets ion channels
6.3 Simplified models
6.3.1 Phase-space analysis. A harmonic oscillator example.
6.3.2 Reduced HH model – the fast-slow phase plane
6.4 Propagation speed. Saltatory conduction in neurons
7 Synaptic transmission
7.1 What is a synapse?
7.2 Chemical synapses
7.2.1 Action potential in presynaptic membrane. Calcium release.
7.2.2 Neurotransmitter release and diffusion in the synaptic cleft
7.2.3 Neurotransmitter receptors. Action potentials in postsynaptic membrane.
7.2.4 Effect of drugs on synaptic transmission and neural computing
7.3 Electrical synapses
7.3.1 Gap junctions
7.3.2 Properties of electrical synapses
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What will the James Webb Space Telescope discover? Will it be able to detect alien life? How does it compare to Hubble?
Find out in this interview with Lee Feinberg, JWST’s Optical Telescope Element Manager.
Lee Feinberg has been the Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the past 20 years. Lee led the telescope technology development and led the telescope from architecture trades and design activities to manufacturing through integration and testing. He was also a member of the optics team that determined the optical prescription to correct the Hubble Space Telescope and performed independent testing of the mirrors that corrected Hubble.
The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity. The longer wavelengths enable Webb to look much closer to the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today.
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It is Holy Saturday—a day of waiting and expectancy, poised between the anguish of Good Friday and the exultant, full-throated joy of Easter. As part of my Lenten discipline, I have been learning to pray the Rosary. On Friday, then, I was meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries of Jesus’ suffering and death—a meditation driven home powerfully and poignantly by the readings and music of Good Friday worship.
The meditations set for Saturdays are the Joyful Mysteries—Gabriel announcing Jesus’ birth to Mary, her visit to Elizabeth, the birth of Jesus, his presentation at the temple as a baby, and Mary and Joseph finding Jesus, now a young boy, in the temple asking questions (see Luke 1:26—2:52). As I was praying, it suddenly hit me: the womb and the tomb and Jesus coming forth, from each, to new life!
When you go to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, you discover that the spot traditionally recognized as Jesus’ birthplace is in a cave.
The limestone hills of the region are honeycombed with caves, which were used in Jesus’ day for storage, as stables, and as homes, so it may well be that this is indeed the spot. Startling to think on that today, reflecting on the broken, abused body of Jesus, taken from the cross and laid in another cave: the rock-hewn tomb of Joseph of Arimathea (Luke 23:50-56).
The womb and tomb connections were driven home particularly by a song that has been in my head since Wednesday. In chapel that day, remembering Jesus’ tomb, we gathered around the baptismal font and heard, beautifully played and sung, this contemporary setting of an old hymn (I have given the original words below). The line “Standing at this tomb of water” has stayed with me, and meditating on the waters of Mary’s womb has given them a new resonance. Water of life, water of death; beginning and ending and beginning again.
The power of this image, its depth and richness, are that it is not just a story about long ago and far away. Jesus defeated death, not just for himself, but for us all. His triumph over sin, death, hell, and the grave is our triumph, too! Remember this, friends, when this day of waiting is over, and Easter morning dawns. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! And so are we.
Hast thou said, exalted Jesus,
Take thy cross and follow Me?
Shall the word with terror seize us?
Shall we from the burden flee?
Lord, I’ll take it, Lord, I’ll take it,
And rejoicing, follow Thee.
Sweet the sign that thus reminds me,
Savior, of Thy love to me;
Sweeter still the love that binds me
In its deathless bond to Thee.
Oh, what pleasure, oh, what pleasure,
Buried with my Lord to be!
While this liquid tomb surveying,
Shall I shun its brink, betraying
Feelings worthy of a slave?
Can I run from mercy’s wave?
No! I’ll enter, No! I’ll enter;
Jesus enter’d Jordan’s wave.
Should it rend some fond connection,
Should I suffer shame or loss,
Yet the fragrant, blest reflection:
I have been where Jesus was,
Will revive me, will revive me,
When I faint beneath the cross.
Then baptized in love and glory,
Lamb of God, Thy praise I’ll sing,
Loudly with the immortal story
All the harps of heaven shall ring.
Saints and seraphs, Saints and seraphs
Love and worship then will bring!
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This week, the state legislature is considering SB1241, a wide-ranging elections bill championed by Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa. Buried in this multi-pronged bill is a new and troubling provision that could ensnare thousands of Arizona seniors, voters with disabilities, students, and other absentee voters in surprise criminal investigations.
As any Arizona absentee voter knows, for your vote to count, you have to sign the ballot envelope. Elections officials then compare the signature on the ballot to the one on file to ensure the voter is who they say they are. If the signature doesn’t match, the vote isn’t counted. This is a normal part of election safeguards, in line with how most states verify absentee ballots, and generally results in thousands of ballots being routinely disqualified. In 2016, for example, 2,663 Arizona ballots were rejected because of a signature discrepancy.
But SB1241 takes this normal part of election security and dramatically heightens the stakes. Unless the voter actively contacts the elections office to fix a signature error, he or she would automatically and in all cases have their “ballot affidavit and related materials” referred to law enforcement. Shockingly, this means law enforcement could have access not only to the signed envelope, but also potentially the secret ballot itself, opening the possibility that investigation decisions may be informed by who the person voted for. No other state has such a provision.
This presumption of criminality, regardless of the intentions behind the bill, is disturbing, dangerously misguided, and will fall on some of Arizona’s most vulnerable voters. Signature verification is an imprecise process that balances attention to detail with the tendency of human handwriting to change over time—or of a careless signature to smudge, wobble, or warp.
As Tammy Patrick, a former Maricopa County elections official, said last year, there are countless reasons a signature may not match: “People had broken arms. They were signing with the other hand — that’ll change the signature right there. I had people that told me they had had a stroke; people who told me they were signing it on their dashboard while they were driving down the highway; they signed it on top of the blue collection box at the post office, or on top of their mailbox.”
Moreover, signature mismatches also tend to fall on four groups: senior citizens whose handwriting may have grown shaky, voters with disabilities, students and young people whose signatures change regularly, and voters of color. In 2018, a judge struck down New Hampshire’s signature matching law, arguing that “[v]ariations are more prevalent in people who are elderly, disabled, or who speak English as a second language.”
SB1241 ignores the messy reality of human signatures, assuming that every slip of the pen is evidence of wrongdoing. It replaces current practice—where election officials refer cases to law enforcement only when there is reason to suspect a crime—with a rigid and bureaucratic referral process that could result in thousands of unnecessary investigations after every election. (There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Arizona or any other state.)
If this bill passes, any absentee voter in Arizona who signs their ballot sloppily and fails to fix the error after Election Day could find themselves caught up in a criminal investigation. This would be a discriminatory burden on senior citizens, disabled voters, students, and people of color.
In a democracy, no voter should have to worry that messy handwriting will get them reported to the police.
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Ground-probing radar has a number of applications in the investigation of concrete structures. The principal applications include estimating element thickness, determining location and cover of reinforcement, locating prestressing tendons and locating voids.
To carry out a radar survey, transmitting and receiving antennae combined in a single head are moved along the concrete surface in a series of traverses. The transmitter emits a continuous series of electromagnetic pulses. These are reflected off boundaries or discontinuities in the concrete and are picked up by the receiving antenna. The time between transmission and receipt of the signal is a measure of the distance to the surface giving rise to the reflection. The reflected energy is recorded as a pattern on paper, on a television monitor or as a digital signal. It is possible to deduce useful information from the radar patterns but it requires skill and experience. Interpretation must be undertaken by a specialist.
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Fasten your seatbelts, as the world’s largest single offshore wind farm is on its way! Yes, you heard it right. Recently, Stockholm-based wind farm and solar developer OX2 made a big move by applying for authorization access to start working on their joint project of building the world’s largest offshore wind farm. This incredible offshore wind farm would be able to produce about 5.5 GW of electricity in the Baltic Sea. It is important to note here that the total capacity of generating electricity of Ørsted’s Hornsea is about 7.5GW in the North Sea, but it integrates this energy into its four separate farms. While the Swedish-based windfarm will individually produce 5.5GW of electricity once it gets approved by the authorities.
“Aurora” will be the name given to the Swedish offshore wind farm and is anticipated to finally generate energy by 2030. However, Aurora will also overpower the Dogger Bank wind farm, which will be completed by 2026 and be able to produce 4.8 GW of energy. The soon-to-be-completed world’s largest offshore wind farm will commence manufacturing in its first phase in 2028, just two years before it starts producing energy in 2030.
The site chosen for the construction of this largest wind farm is located about 20 kilometers from the island of Gotland and about 30 kilometers from the island of Oland. However, no announcement has been made yet by the OX2 company about the type of wind turbines that it is going to use in the manufacturing of this plant. But the most gigantic wind turbines that are accessible currently comprise a height of 242 meters (794 feet), developed by “MingYang Smart Energy”.
Furthermore, it has been estimated that the annual production of electricity by Aurora would be about 24 terawatt-hours. With this huge amount of electricity, around 5 million households can easily get power. Also, it makes up about 17% of the “total electricity consumption in Sweden.” That’s a major breakthrough for the decade. Also, apart from other permits, the grant for “Natura 2000” has also been applied by OX2. It says, “Natura 2000 sites have been designated specifically to protect core areas for a subset of species or habitat types listed in the Habitats and Birds Directives.”
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Can Rapid Weight-misfortune be used to be able to treat issues with ED?
Weight can be a risk cause for a variety of conditions that can cause or destroy barrenness, such as type-2 diabetes. Carrying around an unwelcome amount of weight can make the body more insulin-safe. This can accelerate the development of diabetes. In addition, the study suggests that more diabetics living in the United States regularly have erectile dysfunction(ED).
Stoutness also triggers an unbalanced jumble within the body that is known as an oxidative strain. This causes discord between the free extremists that may affect the tissues, as well as the malignant growth counteraction specialists that fight against the problem. Fitness can assist men to reduce the strain that is a result of a particular feature that is created within the body and is known as gas.
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Treatment or remedy is generally the most popular method of treatment for ED. However, there is no need to make this kind of a dramatic advancement in any way. Being thinner could alter a variety of aspects of your overall health. Here are three additional strategies that can help with treating erectile dysfunction. Many weight loss systems include eating less and doing more.
You must ensure that there is a perfect equilibrium between the calories that you consume as well as those you intake. For most people, this means reducing the amount of food we consume. However, it is essential to in any circumstance eat healthy foods. Whole grains, low-fat dairy as well as lean protein, and lots of mixed vegetables are necessary for a healthy food plan.
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In total, these men have lost 33 pounds. The thing to take note of is that those who participated in this exercise didn’t get more effective because of their mindfulness or drug-based strategies.
The study showed that the men could increase the real-world work that they performed consistently while eating fewer calories every day. However, having good eating habits alone doesn’t suffice. To plan your day it is recommended to review the routine dynamic exercises. Cenforce 100 assists you to get in shape by increasing blood flow throughout the body.
Because of the way Teacup could be a problem, in the event that you really need to become thinner and keep it from happening, you’ll need to work regularly. According to the American College of Medicine, your goal for the week should be 200-300 minutes of work or even more under certain circumstances. The moderate activity could comprise active walking, uninvolved traveling, and, if you want the time, you should be the raking leaves. If you’re seeking an exercise that is more vigorous increase the intensity of these exercises or takes a walk or swim, or the cross-country bob rope.
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As frequently as it is possible to see that a few of the ailments mentioned above could be fatal. If you are aware that you’re susceptible to these kinds of issues, seek assistance right away. Because putting off treatment can risk that put your life at risk. Sometimes, having issues with erections isn’t an indication to worry. In any event, if ED is a long-lasting issue, it could place you under a lot of pressure, alter your confidence, and cause problems in your relationship.
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In addition, it forces the cardiovascular system is forced to perform more than it has to. This can lead to hypertension and obstruction of conductors, not to mention those that are located in the heart. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that any additional point increase in BMI increases the chance of cardiovascular failure by approximately 5% in males. The reason is usually due to a blockage in the pathways that provide the penis. If you are suffering from an erectile disorder, do you check your cholesterol with your primary doctor? Have a pulse test to rule out any possible coronary-corridor disease. | <urn:uuid:af8200b0-ed90-4dd8-a788-5c57cdedf5dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://valueabletime.com/the-ed-problem-can-be-addressed-with-a-rapid-weight-loss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960725 | 948 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The World Room, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University
The Chinese government has set ambitious goals in expanding social policy in its 13th five-year plan, with a particular focus on six domains: health, education, housing, pensions, disability, and poverty alleviation. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in October 2017 reiterated these goals, with a specific emphasis to address the growing tension between "unbalanced and inadequate development and people's ever-growing needs for a better life." Against this backdrop, the China Center for Social Policy will host an all-day conference on "Expanding Social Policy in China" on March 21, 2018, at Columbia University in New York City.
The conference will invite leading social policy scholars and practitioners from around the world to come together and hold a dialogue on four themes: 1) recent trends and developments in social policy in China; 2) poverty, inequality, and public policies; 3) child development and well-being; and 4) future directions of social policy in China, taking into consideration the influences of political, economic, cultural, and other factors. The conference is free and open to the public.
The conference is co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, Columbia School of Social Work, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, the Confucius Institute, and the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University.
For more information, please visit https://chinacenter.socialwork.columbia.edu/events/conference-expanding-social-policy-china.
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Session 1
Expanding Public Services in China: Recent Trends and Developments
Expansion of Public Transfers in China: Who are the Beneficiaries?
When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up: Local Adoption of Social Policy Reform in China
China's War on Poverty: Will It Succeed?
11:10 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. Session 2
Poverty, Inequality & Public Policies
The Impact of Education Expansion on Wage Inequality in China
Educational Assortative Mating and Income Inequality in Urban China
The Effects of Rural Dibao on Poverty Reduction
Aging Challenge and Care Crisis in Rural China
2:00 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Session 3
Child Development and Well-being
Estimating the Effects of Educational System Contraction: The Case of China’s Rural School Merger Initiative
Migration and Children’s Psychological and Cognitive Development in China: New Evidence from a National Survey
Changes to State Child Welfare Institutions in Response to Mixed Welfare Expectations
Essential Basic Services for Early Child Development: Challenges and Opportunities
4:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m. Roundtable on the Future of Chinese Social Policy
Public Policies to Address Inequality in China: What’s Expected to Happen?
Fighting Urban Poverty: Extrapolating the Future from Chinese Politics and Views of the Indigent
Expanding Elder Care Services in China
Civil Society and Civic Engagement: Reflections and Policy Implications
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Using a Bitcoin ATM machine is easy and convenient. The first step involves choosing a location and filling in your Bitcoin wallet address, which you can scan with a QR code or manually enter. Once you have entered the correct information, you can proceed to insert bills into the machine and wait for the transaction to be processed.
Once the transaction is complete, you'll be issued a receipt containing your wallet address and amount in bitcoins.To use a Bitcoin ATM, you first need to set up an account. A wallet is a digital wallet that stores your coins. Then, you simply need to select the denomination that you'd like to purchase. Then, you simply need to scan the QR code with the machine. Once your account has been verified, you can withdraw the money from the bitcoin ATM. However, you'll have to wait a few hours for your transaction to be confirmed, so make sure you've planned. Check out here their company website for more details on this product.
Once you've opened your wallet on your mobile device, it's time to input your Bitcoin wallet address. After you've inputted your wallet address, the bitcoin ATM will ask you for some personal information. To verify your identity, you'll need to give your fingerprint or photo ID. Once you've provided your ID, you can start using the bitcoin ATM. You'll need to scan a QR code on the monitor to send your bitcoins. Some bitcoin ATMs take a few minutes to process your transaction.
To use a bitcoin ATM, you just need to insert your Bitcoin wallet address and confirm your identity. Then, you can go to your wallet and deposit your coins into your account. In some cases, you might need to provide a photo ID or scan your mobile phone for additional security. Once you've done this, you'll be able to cash out your bitcoins. If you have any other information, you can always check the customer reviews and feedback about the Bitcoin ATM machine in your area. For a better understanding how to use a Bitcoin ATM machine, click to view here for more info.
Although a Bitcoin ATM is a convenient way to buy and sell bitcoins, you should know that the prices will depend on the current Bitcoin exchange rate. Most BTMs will use the current exchange rate and charge an additional percentage for their service. The fees vary from one BTM to another, but the average fee is around 8.93%. This is a good place to start looking for a Bitcoin ATM. You'll find more information about them online and at the ATM's location. A Bitcoin ATM is a great way to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Once you've inserted your cash, you'll receive a confirmation message from the bitcoin ATM operator. Some machines even have a special screen to scan the QR code. After the transaction is complete, you'll need to confirm your purchase. Most Bitcoin ATM machines are designed to be fast and convenient for your needs. These devices are a smart way to buy and sell cryptocurrency. | <urn:uuid:35238870-74fc-4141-936e-e1c09375f28a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bitcoinatmuserstoday.mystrikingly.com/blog/how-to-use-a-bitcoin-atm-machine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941228 | 598 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Meyer Tool Inc. is a leader in supplying precision components to the aerospace and power generation industries. Each part is consigned by their customers, who rely on Meyer Tool’s expert staff to prepare the parts for assembly. It’s a delicate task – a small error could ruin the part, some of which cost upwards of $30,000. Many of the parts are rotating components of aircraft engines or gas turbines, so it would truly be appropriate to say that there are a lot of moving parts on the Meyer Tool manufacturing floor. Parts are processed as quickly as possible, with turnaround times of two to four weeks for more complex jobs and less than a day for routine jobs. Meyer offers many different machining services under one roof, and Chris explains some of the processes to us as we move through the plant.
One block of machinery handles electron beam (EB) welding. This welding method takes place in a vacuum and is completely automated, giving it uncanny precision and the ability to produce deep welds between dissimilar metals. Another block handles Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM), which uses an electrical spark to erode material away and shape the part. Chris says to think of it as “reverse welding.” Because of the level of control you can exercise with an electrical spark, the hardness of the material is irrelevant and you can work with materials that would deflect from a solid drill bit. All of the tooling is done internally, based on models submitted by the customers.
The Greenville facility offer many capabilities, including EDM, EB welding, conventional machining, airflow and Waterjet machining. These functions are divided into unique cells, and Chris explains that this is for more than just efficiency. “Each cell is treated like a business,” he says, with a leader and weekly performance evaluations. “We want to instill ownership in our employees,” Chris comments.
The positive workplace culture is on full display as we tour the facility; Chris knows the name of every employee we pass and they exchange pleasant greetings. “We’re looking for a person, not to fill a task,” Chris explains about Meyer Tool’s hiring process, “we hire for attitude and train for aptitude.” This is an employee-focused business that doesn’t believe in mass layoffs and has a low turnover rate. Employees don’t show up to work every day exclusively for a high salary, but because a job at Meyer Tools comes with great benefits, a positive work environment, stellar in-house communications, and long-term job stability.
Despite the current downturn in the gas turbine market, the Meyer Tool facility in Greenville is planning for growth. The newly renovated offices are bright and open, with spaces for training and new staff hires, and there is ample manufacturing floor space to add new technologies, such as three new brazing furnaces. As for the area, Chris has only good things to say about Greenville and the Upstate, with the one complaint that because it’s so easy to convince employees to relocate, it may be growing too fast. Meyer Tool is another great company that has chosen to call the Upstate home, and their technical precision and employee centered model will help them leave an indelible impact on the Greenville community.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — During the weekly update of the newly created Ohio Public Health Advisory System, two Northeast Ohio counties — Summit and Lorain — have moved up to Level 3 COVID-19 risk, and Cuyahoga County has been added to a watchlist for approaching the highest risk level, DeWine announced on Thursday.
DeWine confirmed Thursday that all counties in Ohio that are new Level 3 will be under a face mask mandate, among other measures, beginning Friday at 6 p.m.
Cuyahoga County has been listed at Level 3 since the system was announced on July 2, but on Thursday DeWine announced that the county is on the verge of tipping into the Level 4 category.
The decision to add Cuyahoga County to the state’s watchlist come due to the increase in weekly COVID-19 cases in Cuyahoga County — 999 from June 24 to June 30 — the average new cases in the day doubling from 66 to 151 between June 16 to June 28, the average of emergency room visits more than doubling from 19 per day to 50 between June 16 to July 1, the average hospital admissions per day doubling from seven on June 16 to 20 on July 2, and the average number of outpatient visits for confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients increasing from 41 to 233 between June 16 and July 1.
In addition to Cuyahoga County being marked on the state’s watchlist, several other Northeast Ohio moved from Level 2 up to Level 3, including Summit, Lorain and Trumbull counties, DeWine announced.
Moving up to a higher level means that in each of those counties four to five of the seven key indicators listed by the state have been flagged in the county. Level 3 counties are instructed to limit activities when possible and wear a mask when in public.
In Summit County, new cases increased, as did emergency room visits and outpatient visits. DeWine attributed the increase of COVID-19 in the county to faith-based settings, workplaces, and long-term care facilities.
Donna Skoda, Commissioner with Summit County Health, told News 5 three major factors played a role in plummeting her county into a level three red alert status.
“It’s that sustained increase over those five days," Skoda said.
“It’s looking at the number of cases that are not occurring in a congregate living situation. Meaning long-term care, a jail, a group home.”
“Our outpatient visits have increased. So we were pretty much tracking around 11 per day for COVID related systems, and now we’re at 29 per day.”
“If we can get people to wear a mask 80% of the time in public, we have a fighting chance of cutting this to almost next to nothing.”
“So it’s serious and we need to take it seriously. We don’t want to become like Texas, or California, or Arizona.”
Greta Johnson, Summit County Assistant Chief of Staff, told News 5 Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro met with 31 other county townships and municipalities on July 7, urging them to enact mask mandates of their own.
“I think everyone wants our children to go back to school safely this fall," Johnson said.
“I think she is hopeful that we will not be looking at another shutdown of businesses that have been hit, including small businesses.”
Trumbull County also saw increases in COVID-19 cases, emergency room visits and hospitalizations. DeWine attributed the increases in Trumbull County to an apartment complex outbreak and outbreaks at several longterm care facilities.
While 18 Ohio counties moved up a level, Huron County, which was previously listed at Level 3, moved down to Level 2, DeWine announced. He confirmed that now that Huron is out of Level 3, face masks will no longer be mandated there.
Following DeWine's order Thursday afternoon, the Lorain County Sheriff's Office announced on Facebook that it is asking residents to avoid calling its dispatch center to report individuals who are not wearing masks.
"Until we receive clarification and direct instructions on enforcement of this order, we can not respond to calls of this nature," LCSO stated.
However, LCSO said that businesses can ask you to leave a store if you are not wearing a mask, and if you refuse to leave, local law enforcement will get involved.
There are four levels with seven indicators, with three more to come, to determine the level an area is in, DeWine said.
The four levels include:
- Level 1 - Yellow: Zero or one indicator have been flagged active spread exposure, All current health guidelines to be followed as ordered. 53 counties are currently listed at Level
- Level 2 - Orange: Two or three indicators have been flagged, there is an increased risk for exposure and spread. There are 28 counties currently listed at Level 2.
- Level 3 - Red: Four or five indicators have been flagged, there is a very high risk for exposure and spread. Ohioans should limit activities when possible and wear a mask in public. As of Thursday, counties that are Level 3 include: Cuyahoga County, Trumbull County, Huron County, Butler County, Montgomery County, Hamilton County, Franklin County
- Level 4 - Purple: Six to seven indicators have been flagged, there is severe exposure and spread. Residents in these counties should stay home as much as possible. No counties are currently listed at Level 4, but Franklin County has been flagged as approaching this level.
The seven data indicators are:
- New cases per capita - When the data shows that a county has had an average of 50 cases per 100,000 people over a two-week period, that will trigger a flag for increasing case rate.
- Sustained new case growth - If the data shows at least a five-day period of sustained new case growth, that will trigger a flag.
- Proportion of cases that are non-congregate cases - When there are a large number of positive cases from those living in the broader community, more than 50% of new cases originating from non-congregate settings during at least one of the past three weeks, that will trigger a flag on this indicator.
- Sustained increase in emergency room visits - When there is an increase in the number of people who visit an emergency department with COVID-19 symptoms or COVID diagnoses over a five day period, that will trigger a flag on this indicator.
- Sustained increase in outpatient visits - When there is an increase over a five-day period in the number of people in outpatient settings, including telehealth appointments, with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 symptoms, that will trigger a flag on this indicator.
- Sustained increase in new COVID-19 hospital admissions - When the numbers show at least a five-day period of sustained growth in the number of county residents with COVID-19 who are admitted to a hospital, the county will be flagged for meeting this indicator.
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed occupancy- A county will be flagged for the indicator when the regional ICU occupancy goes above 80% for at least three of the last seven days.
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Pursuing innovation doesn’t compel us to understand the future, except to recognize that future business sustainability relies on our relentless awareness of how customer needs and goals are evolvingover time.
Successful innovations create value for customers, strengthening those relationships, while improving differentiation, increasing revenue, reinforcing company culture, and boosting employee pride and satisfaction.
Only the largest of organizations can afford to invest specific resources in innovation; but innovation is a must-have” for all businesses to drive progress and secure sustainability, so:
- Encourage your people to challenge widely-held assumptions, and discount those that inhibit curiosity and creativity. Establish a means where novel ideas may be shared and discussed.
- Make it easy to research and test a new idea or process improvement without fear of failure by defining failure as a learning opportunity; one idea may trigger another. People are more creative when they feel appreciated for sharing their novel ideas; and one idea may trigger another. Cultivate innovation champions.
- Celebrate successful innovations. Monitor the value a new idea creates in terms of new revenue, increased productivity, or reduced costs; make these results transparent to all.
If the pursuit of innovation is new for your company, these steps may help you to get started:
- Begin with a bias towards action;
- Confirm your innovation objectives and your expected, quantifiable benefits;
- Solicit and compile all ideas without pre-judging potential value.
- Choose a cross-functional team to periodically assess the proposed new projects;
- Direct this team to identify the top 2-3 ideas by comparing the estimated amount and timing of projected benefits;
- Clarify the stakeholders impacted by each idea and how they may be impacted;
- Use the projected benefit assessment to select the best concept to pursue
- Identify a project team and team leader.
Before proceeding, ask these questions:
- Do we have the necessary motivation and will to pursue the chosen innovation?
- Do we have the time, energy and resources to develop and implement it?
- What is the probability of a successful implementation?
If you decide to proceed:
- Build and evaluate a “proof of concept” model; if acceptable, continue;
- Develop a pre-production design and test the production process by building multiple units;
- Evaluate full production potential, resources required and expected barriers.
- Develop a cross-functional implementation team and a plan with goals, actions, success metrics and potential constraints;
- Gather cross-functional feedback on the plan, then refine and launch it; monitor progress.
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In today’s world where we’re seemingly forced to stay connected and always ‘on’ – it’s hard to take time to ourselves. This is especially true around the holidays, when obligations tend to double and our social calendars are full to the brim.
We talk a lot about balancing our personal and work lives, but balance isn’t always a given within our personal lives themselves. We have to strike a balance between keeping up with personal appointments and duties and finding time to indulge in ourselves.
Spend Time in Nature
For those really needing to get away from the holiday stress this year, a great way to spend the holiday solo without feeling any pangs of sadness or nostalgia is to break out of your usual holiday setting.
Go on a solo camping trip or maybe a long road trip!
Spending time in nature not only brings us back to the things that matter, allows us the time and space to reflect inward instead of prioritizing our availability to others.
Maybe spending time with friends and loved ones is important to you, and you just need to carve out an hour for yourself every day to maintain sanity.
A great way to implement this into your daily routine during the holidays is to start going for daily walks by yourself. Start your day with some alone time, or maybe just keep a mid-day walk as your back pocket option for whenever you’re feeling overwhelmed.
However you choose to disconnect from your setting and obligations, don’t forget to disconnect from technology as well. We may be physically removed from a space, but if our phone is blowing up, we are not able to fully take the time to ourselves that we need.
A great way to find balance during the crazy holiday season is to remember that you don’t have to participate in or agree to everything. With family coming into town, or stressful travel plans, or a different holiday party every weekend – oftentimes, our days get filled for us and suddenly the entire holiday is spent on things you feel you’re ‘supposed’ to do.
Everyone feels the stress of demands during the holiday, but it takes courage and dedication to ourselves to try and change it. Finding balance could also mean simply switching to a more peaceful activity, like staying home and learning how to make hot cocoa from scratch versus going out to a big event.
The most important thing to remember is that taking the time and space to prioritize ourselves and maintain balance during the holidays comes from a place of taking care of ourselves isn’t reflective of how we feel about our loved ones.
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Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by intellectual disability and sensory deficits, caused by epigenetic silencing of the FMR1 gene and subsequent loss of its protein product, fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). Delays in synaptic and neuronal development in the cortex have been reported in FXS mouse models; however, the main goal of translating lab research into pharmacological treatments in clinical trials has been so far largely unsuccessful, leaving FXS a still incurable disease. Here, we generated 2D and 3D in vitro human FXS model systems based on isogenic FMR1knock-out mutant and wild-type human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines. Phenotypical and functional characterization of cortical neurons derived from FMRP-deficient hiPSCs display altered gene expression and impaired differentiation when compared with the healthy counterpart.
Fig: Generation and validation of FMRP knock-out hiPSCs.
FXS cortical cultures show an increased number of GFAP positive cells, likely astrocytes, increased spontaneous network activity, and depolarizing GABAergic transmission. Cortical brain organoid models show an increased number of glial cells, and bigger organoid size. Our findings demonstrate that FMRP is required to correctly support neuronal and glial cell proliferation, and to set the correct excitation/inhibition ratio in human brain development.
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It's hard to get too far into a discussion about what to do with the nation's large and troubled banks without someone bringing up Japan (or Sweden; they're both popular). In debates over bank policy, Japan has taken on talismanic properties, making it a sufficient answer to just about any difficult question. Why shouldn't we prop up struggling banks? Japan. Why should we nationalize insolvent institutions? Japan. What will happen if we ignore the lessons of Japan? The dreaded Lost Decade.
The basic idea is this -- failure to properly resolve a banking crisis can leave an economy with zombie banks, insolvent but still operating, which do not lend and therefore prevent the economy from recovering fully. Given the situation in which we find ourselves, namely, one in which the government has determined to prop banks up rather than nationalize them or let them fail, this is fairly distressing.
But is it true? In fact, it seems that Japan's banking crisis isn't nearly as analogous to America's as you might expect. As John Hempton has explained, Japanese banks had tons of savings, few loans, and slim margins -- just the opposite of the big banks here. And they didn't impair recovery by failing to lend, but by continuing to provide credit, for political reasons, to large industrial firms that were in terrible shape. This was the zombie relationship. Japanese savers poured money into the banks, the banks rolled over old debt to busted property companies and industrial firms, and so necessary shifts in the economy never took place.
As James Surowiecki notes, political involvement in the banking system in America has not led to a similar outcome -- the banks aren't being told to keep sinking firms afloat. The results have been plain for all to see; old industrial enterprises have been hammered, as have firms tied up in the housing boom. The destruction in "creative destruction" is taking place, leaving plenty of room for creation later.
And that's where the analogy between Japan and America becomes more apt. Paul Krugman, for all his insistence on nationalization, has argued quite forcefully that it was an export boom rather than a banking fix that finally saved Japan. The worrying thing for most economists is that America is unlikely to export its way out of recession -- that's just not how our economy is structured at present -- and it isn't clear where else growth might sprout. Consumption has traditionally been our main engine of growth, but consumers remain saddled with debt and are unlikely to pull the economy out of its doldrums.
In our story, the banks are largely a side issue, dependent on margins to recapitalize themselves which they can only enjoy if the economy begins growing strongly again. But after decades of neglect of the real economy, it's just not clear how strong growth might quickly resume; too many workers simply aren't prepared to find employment outside of manufacturing or construction.
It's important to understand this, because there are ways the government can address structural issues. It will be politically difficult to spend money on the appropriate policies, however, so long as there are economists out there loudly demanding that we keep our powder wet for the bank nationalizations that will eventually be necessary. | <urn:uuid:32898f4a-8849-48e4-a634-6d7903dae03b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/05/bank-heal-thyself/17748/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972622 | 650 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Keep an eye out on what is happening in Birmingham and Bristol or you could find yourself out of pocket.
In April 2019, London got a new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which replaced the previous T-charge scheme. It currently applies to Central London and will be extended to all of inner London in 2021.
But in 2020, the policy could be adopted around other parts of the country. Birmingham will be introducing its own scheme in July and a Leeds scheme was expected to start in January but has been delayed.
Other cities interested include Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Newcastle, Derby and Edinburgh.
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The first step to playing online gambling is to access the internet. Earlier, gambling sites only supported Windows PCs, but gradually introduced Mac compatibility. Today, online casinos are compatible with almost any desktop, laptop, or smartphone. There are a number of factors to consider before registering and depositing any money. In this paper, we’ll take a look at some of these factors and how they impact online gambling. After all, the goal of this paper is to make online gambling as accessible as possible for people around the world.
States that have legalized online gambling vary widely. While the federal government does not have strict laws against gambling, many states have regulations in place. In the United States, for example, Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey regulate sports gambling. Moreover, the Federal Trade Commission imposes strict limits on the number of sites offering online gambling. While Nevada is the most liberal jurisdiction in terms of online gambling, New York is the most restrictive. If you’re from one of these states, check with your state’s gaming commission to find out whether your state has legalized gambling.
Although gambling is legal in all but two states, the morality of gambling has been an ongoing issue for decades. Some people consider gambling to be a harmless pastime or a way to spend a night with family and friends, while others view it as a threat to their wellbeing. Despite these ethical concerns, most online gambling sites aim to promote fair gaming and allow players to set their own loss limits. In addition, many sites also offer self-exclusion options, letting players limit their losses and withdraw from the site if they are experiencing issues with gambling. And finally, most of the laws that regulate online gambling require that reputable bodies oversee these platforms and address any misconduct.
Despite these problems, the research indicates that Internet gambling provides a largely conducive environment for responsible and socially responsible gambling. Several factors contribute to this, including player-focused tools and resources, self-limiting options, information, and time-outs. These factors help online gambling operators implement strategies for customer assistance. One example of these strategies is the ability to send targeted notifications based on patterns of play. Moreover, online gambling sites can even monitor a player’s behavior to detect when they are engaging in problematic behaviors.
While Internet gambling can be more convenient than land-based venues, it can still be harmful for some individuals. Due to the ability to place large bets and track results, online gambling can easily become addictive. In fact, 15 percent of people who engage in Internet gambling report that they become addicted to it. Some studies suggest that online gambling is more addictive than land-based gambling. If you have concerns about this, it may be worth trying it out.
Internet gambling is becoming increasingly popular, which may increase the proportion of people with problem gambling. As a result, we need to examine how to best incorporate online gambling into the study of traditional offline modes. One way to do this is to examine the characteristics of online gambling problem-suspects. If you’re concerned that internet gambling is affecting your children, then consider conducting a study on the subject. A longitudinal study involving internet and offline gambling will be necessary to determine the appropriate solutions. | <urn:uuid:2dcc7e5b-f5a2-46b0-86d9-65280159ed6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://italiantraditionalfood.com/index.php/2022/07/09/factors-that-affect-online-gambling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.943655 | 652 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Monosodium glutamate is a sodium salt of glutamic acid. MSG enhances flavor, particularly the savory, umami taste. MSG provides glutamate that is identical to the free glutamate found in savory, umami-tasting foods. Glutamate and glutamic acid occur naturally in virtually all foods.
A series of anecdotal reports associate MSG consumption with symptoms such as headache, heart palpitations, numbness, and weakness. Though these symptoms are not seen in formal studies where MSG is provided at a reasonable level. Food Standards Australia New Zealand indicates that less than 1% of the population may truly briefly experience symptoms such as headache and muscle tightness upon consuming a large amount of MSG in one sitting.
Formal studies have shown no negative effects of MSG; participants who described negative effects were self-reported sensitive individuals who were in fact receiving a placebo. Individuals who consider themselves MSG-sensitive, however, should take note of foods and ingredients with high levels of glutamate. See: Glutamic acid
Seasoning packets, spice blends, sauces, processed meats, prepared meals
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When it comes to a worker or a business professional, there is a variety of such people. There are so many things that you have to care about while in the business, it is obvious that you may forget about the auto deductions available to you.
Income tax deductions available for business professionals:
There are numerous fields of professional working professionals. In this section of the blog, we will talk about several expenses for which tax deductions are available.
Travel expenses if your work requires traveling:
If you are doing a job that requires a lot of traveling, you can claim a deduction here. There are several jobs when people have to travel frequently to meet new clients or going to different sites, tax deductions are applicable in all these cases. One thing that you should keep in mind is that you will not get any deduction for your travel expenses of going to your office.
If you use your personal car for this purpose, you should keep a record of all the expenses involved while traveling from one place to another.
Here are some other expenses where you can have tax deduction:
- Expenses involved in hiring a car.
- Road tolls.
- Train, taxi, and bus fares.
- The flights that you take.
Take a look at different professionals and the tax deductions available to them:
- If a designer works from home, they can claim the amount they pay like electricity bills and phone bills. There is a standard rate of deduction of 52 cents per hour for all those people working from home. If they make phone calls for office work, they can claim some deduction in this amount too.
- If an employee is paying for the subscription of a software, they can claim a deduction for it. But in most of the cases, companies pay for such subscriptions, so the employers have no authority to claim any deduction.
Professionals involved in marketing:
- In case you are a marketing professional and you take some classes to improve yourself. You can claim tax deductions in the amount of money that you pay for that course. But one thing you should make sure that you have to enrol in a course that is related to your job.
- If you work from home, you can claim some deduction in the amount of money that you pay as your electricity bills and phone bills. The rates will be the same as mentioned in the earlier section of this blog.
- If the IT professionals are working from home, they can claim tax deductions in electricity bills and phone bills as discussed above. For those who go to the office and use their car for office works, the deduction can be claimed in this case too. But you have to manage your logbook in this case very precisely.
- Here is a list of work-related tools, you can have a deduction in the following cases:
- Repair costs for the tools used in the work.
- Insurance premiums for your working equipment.
- Subscription fees for different software and tools.
- If you have bought computer accessories for work, you can claim the tax deductions.
What is there for the law professionals:
- Lawyers who buy a bog for carrying the important papers from their office to the courthouse, they can claim the tax deduction for the cost they paid for the bag.
- All money that you pay for gaining skills in your work, you can include them to get deductions. These expenses include the money you pay for attending a seminar, joining any short-term course, or training program. Just keep one thing in your mind that your money is being spent for your work.
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Louisiana is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 19th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties. The state’s capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans.
Much of the state’s lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. These contain a rich southern biota; typical examples include birds such as ibises and egrets.
Auction regulations generally
- No person, firm, auction house, or corporation, or combination thereof shall sell, dispose of, or offer for sale at public auction or cause or permit to be sold, disposed of, or offered for sale at any public auction any property of whatsoever nature unless said auction is conducted by a duly licensed auctioneer and if such sale takes place at an auction house, by a duly licensed auction house, if the owner of the auction house is not a licensed auctioneer.
- Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person, firm or corporation, or combination thereof, may sell, dispose of, or offer for sale at any public auction any property of whatever nature without the necessity of any other license, provided that the auction is conducted by a person who is a duly licensed Louisiana auctioneer or Louisiana livestock auctioneer or Louisiana apprentice auctioneer working under the supervision of a Louisiana licensed auctioneer, whichever is applicable, or otherwise meets the exceptions in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
Auction sales regulated.
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, auctioneer, and others as well to sell, dispose of or offer for sale in the city-parish, at public auction, or cause or permit to be sold, disposed of, or offered for sale at public auction within the city-parish, any and all types of goods, wares, merchandise, antique furniture, equipment, machinery, or any other type property, movable or immovable, regardless of the kind or description, except livestock, whether the same shall be his own property or whether the sale of the same shall be made by or through him as agent or employee of the owner thereof, or in any capacity, without first complying with the provisions of this chapter and obtaining and having a license issued by the director of finance of the parish, provided however, that this chapter shall not apply to judicial sales, sales made by executors or administrators under the administration of a court, to sales by trustees, mortgages or assignees under the terms of any instrument given to secure bona fide indebtedness under which he exercises the power of sale, nor to sales made by or on behalf of licensed pawn-brokers or bona fide unredeemed pledges, nor to sales of unclaimed freight or express as provided by law, nor to sales by sheriffs, constables, or other officers as provided by law, nor to sales conducted by an employee of the United States or the State of Louisiana or its political subdivisions in the course and scope of his employment, nor to sales conducted by a charitable or non-profit organization, nor to sales conducted by an individual of his own property if such individual is not engaged in the business of selling such property as an auctioneer on a regular basis, nor to sales conducted by sealed bids, nor to any other particular kind of auction sales expressly authorized by the laws of Louisiana or by the laws of the United States.
Any auctioneer desiring to conduct an auction sale or sales for the purpose of the sale of any of the goods hereinabove described, shall make application to the director of finance of the parish as herein provided for a license therefor, and the said director of finance shall issue to any such person a non-transferable license upon his complying with the terms of this chapter, such license to be made for a period of time to be designated therein, provided that no license shall be issued for a longer period than one (1) year from date thereof.
Any person desiring a license shall in addition to complying with the provisions of this chapter and before a license shall be issued, furnish a bond to the city-parish, duly executed by such applicant as principal in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or in lieu of said cash bond, a bond in the same amount issued by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana, which shall be payable to the city-parish, to be approved by the director of finance of the parish, and conditioned that the said principal shall pay all loss and damage which may lawfully be claimed against him on account of any material misrepresentation of fact or any material suppression of fact concerning the goods to be auctioned at such sale or auction at any sale, or which may grow out of violation of any of the provisions of this chapter. Such bond shall be valid for a period of time not less than the period for which the license shall be issued. Such bond shall inure to the benefit of any and all persons who sustain any loss or damage on account of any such misrepresentation or violation of this chapter and any such person sustaining any such loss or damage may bring suit in any court of competent jurisdiction in the parish to recover the same, and the provisions of said bond shall be construed liberally in favor of all such persons sustaining such loss or damage. All remedies upon or under such bond herein provided, shall be in addition to and cumulative of all other remedies the parties may have at law or in equity for recovery of any such losses or damages. Cumulative recoveries may be had on said bond to the full amount thereof. If this bond is cancelled or otherwise becomes invalid in the opinion of the director of finance, then and in that event the license issued in connection therewith on the basis thereof shall be terminated and invalid. | <urn:uuid:79f97811-3769-47de-bd71-b9a5e372b431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agentauction.co/louisiana-auction-law/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949927 | 1,298 | 2.125 | 2 |
Ottawa has approved the merger of Air Canada and Transat, signalling a post-COVID shakeup in the country’s aviation landscape.
Pre-confederation, we had no rail, we had no bus. Except for limited flights, that’s where we are now
With additional restrictions on international arrivals, Canada’s airlines entered their darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carriers suspend Mexico and Caribbean service, increasing pressure on their bottom lines, amid renewed calls for airline aid.
Transat shareholders approved a merger with Air Canada even as executives confirmed and rejected a competing offer.
“Where is the Canadian government?And why is it not acting more resolutely to support the aeronautics and airline industry in this unprecedented situation?”
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Trail Building (And Other Interesting Facts)
As hikers we spend so much time contemplating the trail, but so few of those thoughts focus on the work beneath our feet. When I began hiking, I gave very little thought to how the trail came to be. ‘Trail maintenance’ was a foreign concept to me. I assumed that the trail’s origin was due to a symbiotic ‘chicken and egg’ relationship with hikers; Hiking creates the trail, and the trail leads to more hiking. As I found out the hard way when I worked on a trail crew, I was completely wrong.
Actually, there is an endless tug of war game being played between trail workers and hikers (and I say this realizing that the two groups often wear each other’s labels). Hikers erode the trail as they hike, causing it to literally move downhill. This is known as ‘tread creep’ in the business (it would also make a great though probably undesirable trail name). The trail sinks and the slight leaning angle of it (which is actually an intentional design to keep water off of the trail) sinks down so that water pools on the inside of the trail and creates muddy trail (known in the business as ‘Vermont’*).
*Not actually true. Trail maintainers like humor too.
Once enough complaints have filtered in, trail maintainers hike their very non-UL gear into the woods and re-cut the trail. For a while, it is free of debris and mud. The pounding of thousands of feet slowly reshapes it, year by year – until a line of hard hats appears again. It is a balance, a cycle that repeats itself.
So really, the relationship between the trail and hikers is more like the chicken and Colonel Sanders. They may seem to be working towards opposite ends, but they need each other to exist (I didn’t actually poll any chickens before making this analogy.)
You might be wondering what exactly trail maintainers do – what does the ‘maintenance’ part consist of? Believe it or not, moving fallen trees and fighting overgrown bushes are not the most common tasks. Trail maintainers work with water on the brain. The goal is to imagine what the water will do and try to discourage it from staying. So most work is water related.
The purpose of this article is to arm you with a trail work lexicon that you can bust out at the next dinner party, campfire, or hiker eating contest.
I’m a simple person. I enjoy hobbies like climbing and trail building in part because, in a world of acronyms, the lexicon for these activities is extremely easy to grasp. Almost all technical words that you learn are self-explanatory and actually sound like what they are (In climbing, a ‘crimp’ is a small hold, a ‘jug’ is a large hold, and a ‘book’ is a piece of rock that looks like a book. It’s not too complicated.)
You won’t find too many exceptions to this rule as I highlight some important terms in trail building, so you should actually be able to retain all of it and wow your friends with your cool trail knowledge! (Or annoy them – whatever.)
Drainage Dip – Also a possible trail name, this is the most frequently seen design for managing water. You will step over, step on, and, if you’re like me, pee on hundreds of these during your hiking experience. They consist of an angled mound of hard packed dirt next to a depression extending off trail. If you need something to take your mind off of your wet boots during a rainstorm (If any thru-hiker has managed NOT to hike in the rain, please tell me so I can write a book about your amazing phenomenon), you can watch sheets of water get redirected and funneled off trail by these clever ugly betties.
Who put this rock in the trail? That’s right – that rock is not only intentional, it has a name. Those big, square, flat-topped rocks set in the trail serve an important purpose beyond acting as a staircase. Their primary purpose is actually also water control. What you see as a hiker is usually only the tip of the iceberg – a good check step is set several feet deep and is totally impermeable not only to surface water but to the water that has sunk into the earth. Without these ‘steps’ which appear to be exactly what they sound like, steep trails would become ravines and completely erode within a few years.
*Bonus word* Gargoyles – the ugly rocks you set on either side of a check step when there are gaps left over between the trail edges and the step. They have to look ugly as sin so you won’t step on them – they aren’t set as well as the main rock.
Water Bar – Guess what this does?! It keeps water off the trail!! If you didn’t like repetition, I’m assuming you wouldn’t have chosen a hobby that involves putting one foot in front of the other for hours at a time. Water Bars are basically reinforced drainage dips. Instead of having a mound of dirt, there is a log, stripped of its bark and buried enough to be set, or immovable. This redirects the water until the water has eroded the trail beneath it. Then it becomes a fun obstacle on the trail that you get to leap over.
Turnpike – These are a lot of work but don’t look like it. The unsung underdogs of the trail, turnpikes are a herculean effort to raise flat swampy sections of trail when all else has failed. The stratified wedding cakes of the trail, they are comprised of a layer of large rocks, a layer of small rocks, a layer of crush, and several layers of hard packed earth all contained within well set logs stripped of their bark. A good turnpike has moats to either side of it and a raised center that encourages water to flow off.
You won’t see a lot of these, but when you do, please take a moment of silence to appreciate the days of labor that went into raising the trail by a foot. Of course if you do see one you’re probably in a swamp, so maybe just enjoy a moment of silence later behind your tent’s bug netting.
Well, those are the most common trail structures. You’ll note a lot of other shadows of trail maintenance as you hike – the sawed off log ends, cleared brush, the ‘slough’ or organic gunk that gets removed from the upside of a trail, bog boards and bridges – but most of trail work is about not leaving a trace, or in other words, eliminating the obstacles.
This is something to think about as you walk through the woods on a seemingly featureless stretch of trail. Traces of trail work are like animal tracks – you don’t always see them, but you know the woods are full of life around you. Enjoy looking for a new animal’s prints now!
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The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form
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Most successful businesses start by fulfilling a need. When Nidhi Shah, WG’17, began her business, she set out to fulfill one of the most universal needs — toilets. After all, everybody uses them.
The idea is behind RevoLOOtion is to sell, install, and maintain non-networked composting toilets in both urban and rural communities in India. As a for-profit social enterprise, Nidhi’s venture has racked up support and awards, including the Santander Venture Award and Jacobson Global Venture Award, support from Wharton’s Venture Initiation Program, pilot funding from Infosys Foundation, and most recently the Social Impact Award in the Penn Wharton Startup Challenge.
Nidhi has been fascinated with reducing waste since she was a middle-schooler pulling recyclables out of her family’s garbage.
“Composting is just a natural process,” she said. “Whatever organisms live in the air in the environment just go at it and break down the material. Literally, it’s just time and things that already exist in the waste. You can increase oxygen and aerobic decomposition by mixing the waste, and of course there are chemicals and organics you can add that enhance the process. But composting is essentially breaking down waste into a dirt-like substance.”
The RevoLOOtion Begins
Nidhi recently graduated with a Wharton MBA and an MA in International Studies with a South Asia/Hindi concentration through the Lauder program. Prior to Wharton, Nidhi worked as a process engineer designing factories.
“Two years into working, I had this existential crisis. ‘What am I doing with my life?’” she said. In her work as a chemical engineer, she learned about Toilets for People, which was working with NGOs to provide composting toilets for rural areas in Latin American countries. Soon she started to work for the sanitation startup on the side.
She came to business school to gain skills to benefit Toilets for People, but around the time she was admitted to Wharton, she struck out on her own with the business plan that became RevoLOOtion.
“I knew that I wanted to focus on India,” she said. “The need there for affordable, ecological sanitation was pretty massive.”
Nidhi and RevoLOOtion are targeting informal urban settlements in India.
“Some may be illegally settled, but they’ve been there now for hundreds of years,” Nidhi said. “They have these haphazard sewage systems. When you have a flush toilet, you need an underground sewage network, but when you have a compost toilet, it’s just above ground. It fits into bathrooms that already exist but don’t have a solid waste receptacle yet.”
Why Wharton and Lauder
Nidhi chose Wharton and the Lauder program to gain better access to India, where she was born. She lived there for the first 11 years of her life, but she had never worked in the country and wanted to improve her Hindi skills.The two-month Lauder Summer Immersion in Delhi and Bombay got her to a flying start, allowing her to meet business people and cultural leaders while improving her Hindi language fluency.
“People always ask me why I’m taking Hindi. In the Indian business world, you can make do with English,” she said. “But sanitation affects the Hindi-speaking population of India disproportionately.”
Nidhi met her business partner, Swathi Sadagopan, through LinkedIn when Swathi was working on a business plan competition with a related sanitation idea. Nidhi advised her, and after Swathi won, they decided to join ventures, even though Swathi is based in Canada. While Swathi handles sales and marketing, Nidhi is in charge of the product side, which is still in development.
“We haven’t yet tested our toilets so far,” she said. “What we’ve been doing is working on new iterations, which we work with different people to design. We built one this summer and last summer. Eventually I’ll probably use some of my chemical engineering expertise to figure out the carbon-nitrogen ratios and things like that.”
Using Penn Wharton Entrepreneurial Resources
At Wharton Nidhi’s favorite courses were Entrepreneurial Marketing and Entrepreneurship, and Innovation and Product Design with Prof. Karl Ulrich.
“I learned that when the market has a need, you serve that need instead of trying to create a need for your product,” she said — pull rather than push. RevoLOOtion’s original design was innovative, but when Nidhi talked to users, she realized that it was too complicated. “We changed our design based on understanding how this would be used finally. So there was a little bit of push, which we transitioned into pull.”
She took full advantage of Wharton and Penn resources for entrepreneurship, working on her business during the school year through the Venture Initiation Program (VIP) and over the summer using funding from the Lauder-sponsored Santander Venture Award and other sources.
Building the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Community
As a constant resident of the VIP coworking space in Vance Hall, Nidhi noticed that Fridays in the suite were not as busy as she expected. She realized that it was difficult for some of her entrepreneurial classmates to avoid the siren call of recruiting, not just for the security of a job rather than a startup, but for a simple reason — free meals.
“You have so many employer information sessions where they serve you this really nice food, and there’s nothing like that for people who want to start their own company,” she said. She had the idea that the VIP program should serve catered lunch on Fridays, when MBA students don’t have classes and many spend time recruiting. She spoke to Valentina Goutorova, Senior Associate Director of Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship, and they worked to make it happen.
At first they had a tiny budget, but later gained structure as the VIP program grew. Nidhi planned the first couple meals, working with LocalStove, an Uber-like catering company for home cooks founded by three 2016 Wharton MBAs.
“I just wanted there to be more of an incentive for people to work on their company, and it turns out food is a good enough incentive. This place used to be empty on Fridays, and now it’s bustling,” she said. “It was a relatively easy way to build a community. Entrepreneurship can be kind of lonely, and we are building a support system that way.”
What’s Next for RevoLOOtion
Now that Nidhi has graduated, she’s working full-time on RevoLOOtion, while her partner Swathi is still part-time.
“We’re trying not to both need to draw a salary from the company until it’s absolutely necessary,” she said. “Our first step is to just pilot these toilets — not necessarily have people pay for them yet but have them pay for the maintenance of the toilet to see if that whole ecosystem works.”
For Nidhi, the primary driver is having a positive social impact, with profit and growth to sustain the company.
“We think that this business could prove profitable. A third of the world not having a toilet is an economic opportunity. When you buy a toilet you pay money for it,” she said. “But my larger goal is thinking about what would make a meaningful impact. I’ve benefited from all of these systems, not just in India but in the U.S., and that means I should do something for those who haven’t had a chance to benefit.”
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by Professor Richard Whitman
30th June 2017
This article was first published by “The UK in a Changing Europe“.
Discussion of foreign and defence policy was largely conducted in terms of generalities during the EU referendum campaign. Key themes were the EU’s historic role in bringing peace to the European continent, and claims that it was on the road to creating a “European army”. Remain campaigners argued that the prosperity created as a consequence of EU membership was integral to national security. Brexit, they argued, would undermine both UK and EU security and stability. These claims were echoed by key international figures, including President Obama and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Brexit campaigners, in contrast, made the argument that Brexit would provide the UK with greater freedom to fully utilise its diplomatic, military and “soft power” capabilities, and hence achieve enhanced international influence. They also sought to downplay the EU’s contribution to security, insisting that NATO and the United States, not the EU, have kept the peace in Europe since World War II. These campaigners also emphasised the dangers inherent in supposed EU moves to create a “Euro army” in place of national armed forces.
The Brussels bombings of March 2016 gave different security issues greater prominence. It focused attention on the issue of border and “homeland” security, and whether the UK’s security is enhanced, or compromised, through its membership of the EU. This issue gained renewed attention more recently following the terrorist attacks at Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge.
What has happened since the referendum?
The future of the EU-UK foreign and security relationship has been the subject of relatively little public debate since the referendum. This is partly because none of the alternative models for a future trading relationship come with a predefined model for foreign and security policy cooperation. In addition, foreign policy, and especially security policy, are areas in which Mrs May’s government has indicated that it wants to maintain close cooperation with the EU.
The Brexit White Paper and speeches by the prime minister have repeatedly stressed a desire for a close EU-UK security partnership. The Government has also promoted the idea that Brexit gives the UK an opportunity to reshape its place in the world. “Global Britain”, a slogan first used by Prime Minister May in her Conservative Party conference speech in October 2016, is intended to signify a “reboot” of UK foreign policy – actively promoting free trade and cooperating closely with allies to build a safe and just world.
How these priorities will differ from existing commitments is still unclear. Overseas visits and major international summits since the referendum offer little indication of major shifts in priorities beyond stressing the importance of new export opportunities. Further, the election of President Trump, and the UK government’s desire to seek a close relationship with his administration, have attracted unfavourable comparisons with the more critical stance of other European governments (notably Chancellor Merkel and President Macron). The UK has given the impression of downplaying President Trump’s ambiguous stance on matters of key importance to the UK, such as the stability of NATO and global free trade.
What might happen?
The relatively underdeveloped nature of the EU’s foreign and security policy means that Brexit will have less obvious impacts for the UK than in other policy areas. The UK has not integrated its military capabilities or its diplomatic infrastructure with the EU and, consequently, detachment post-Brexit does not require major institutional reform. However, the UK will lose its participation and the capacity to directly influence EU foreign policy making processes.
Further, it will have diminished influence on the direction of development of the EU’s nascent defence policy as a non-member. The referendum has already had a direct effect on the behaviour of the EU’s other member states. It coincided with the publication of the new EU Global Strategy (EUGS) that sets out how the EU intends to broaden and deepen its role in global politics. One aspect of the EUGS was to further develop the EU’s role in the security and defence fields. UK support for the EUGS was predicated, in part, on its ambition to deepen the EU-NATO relationship (subsequently agreed at the July 2016 Warsaw Summit).
As indicative of the diminished influence of the UK prior to completing the formalities of Brexit, some member states have already made proposals for deepening EU defence collaboration in a direction that the UK has resisted. The French and German governments have jointly proposed a series of measures that include a permanent military headquarters for EU missions, and the creation of a common budget for military research and joint procurement to be run through the European Defence Agency (an institution that the UK has resisted giving a substantive budget or a major role in defence procurement).
Finally, they have advocated reinforcing existing military formations, such as the EU’s Battlegroups, using EU treaty provisions that allow for smaller groups of member states to undertake deeper defence collaboration.These ideas have given energy to the ambitions of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for boosting the EU’s capabilities. They have also given impetus to the European Commission to earmark part of the EU budget for spending on defence research supported by all member states.
Proposals for greater EU defence integration have largely failed in the last two decades, partly because these have been resisted by the UK. Brexit, in combination with a US administration that appears less committed to European security, has given impetus to EU security developments that the UK is now in less of a position to influence. As a non-member, the UK faces the prospect of being a bystander to decisions on the future of European defence that directly impact on the UK’s national security but over which it has minimal influence.
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Ottawa – September 17, 2014 – More than 100 migrant agriculture workers will now receive the EI Parental Benefits they were wrongfully denied by an Employment Insurance tribunal, in the wake of a successful legal battle supported by UFCW Canada, the Agriculture Workers Alliance, and argued by Niagara North Community Legal Assistance and the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC).
On Tuesday, the workers were informed the denial of their applications for Parental Benefits had now been reversed after a review of the cases by the EI Commission. The review followed an order by the Federal Court of Appeal in 2013 requiring the Social Security Tribunal to re-hear the cases. "Justice has finally prevailed for some of the most vulnerable workers in Canada," says Paul Meinema, the National President of UFCW Canada. For more than two decades, UFCW Canada has led a campaign for the rights of migrant agriculture workers in Canada.
"The original decision to unilaterally deny their applications was arbitrary and unjust as the federal court pointed out. We are grateful that this latest decision rights that wrong. But we are also dismayed that since this case began, the Harper government stepped in to permanently deny other seasonal workers access to Parental Benefits, yet seasonal workers are still obliged to pay millions in EI premiums every year."
Despite paying into the EI system since 1966, migrant workers normally do not qualify for regular unemployment benefits. However they could access “special EI benefits” (including maternal, parental and compassionate benefits) – that was until 2012, when the Harper government clawed away even this limited right. The102 migrant workers impacted by this week's successful decision had filed their applications prior to the claw back.
"Migrant agriculture workers make a huge and positive contribution to our communities," said the UFCW Canada leader. "Migrant workers are parents too. The victory for the workers in this case is rightful and deserved. But shamefully, the same door has been slammed shut for thousands of other seasonal workers. The Harper government calls it regulation. The reality is, it is blatant discrimination and we will continue to fight it."
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To cleanse the palate, the most compelling thing you’ll see today unless Trump starts tweeting about CNN again. The main question I have is how this ended up on the History Channel. Is there a Hitler or “ancient aliens” angle to the Earhart story I’m not familiar with?
This recent Japan Times story on the 80th anniversary of her disappearance runs through all of the major theories about where she landed. Elderly people in the Marshall Islands have claimed for years that a plane crashed there when they were younger:
“Talk had turned to the war relics that can be found in the lagoons there,” explains [investigator Dick] Spink. “And as we talked, I said, ‘Didn’t Amelia Earhart disappear in this part of the world?’ and an old guy at the end of the table replied, ‘Yeah, she landed on our island; my uncle watched her for two days.’ I started laughing, but nobody else did.”
On subsequent visits, Spink began to document the stories of some of the Marshall Islands’ elderly residents, many of whom shared a thrillingly common tale: Two local fishermen, named Lajuan and Jororo, had been casting their nets when out of the blue a plane descended and landed on a nearby reef…
Earhart and Noonan were … taken to Jaluit Atoll, then known as Nanyo, a mandated territory of Japan, where they were ushered aboard a tramp steamer called the Koshu Maru and transported to Saipan, the Electra towed behind on the barge, Spink adds.
Jaluit Atoll is where the photo was taken, precisely matching Spink’s account. But there’s a wrinkle: Spink mentions the existence of the photo (which was discovered in 2012) to the reporter, making it unclear whether he got his information about Jaluit Atoll from eyewitnesses, independently corroborating the photograph, or if the photograph itself is the source of his belief that Earhart ended up there.
An obvious unanswered question: If the government had evidence of Earhart’s whereabouts so soon after she disappeared, why didn’t they publish it? One theory is that they might not have recognized her and navigator Fred Noonan in the photo they had, but that defies belief. The feds launched a massive search operation for Earhart; any contemporaneous spy photos from the Marshall Islands would have been scrutinized for evidence. The probable explanation is that they didn’t want to risk war with Japan in 1937 by making Earhart’s fate a flashpoint. If the government revealed that Japan was holding her — and, worse, had executed her — Americans would have been outraged and relations between the countries would have deteriorated. The feds could have revealed her fate after Pearl Harbor, but then questions inevitably would have been asked about how long the government had known what happened and whether they had tried to free her. And then, after the war, it benefited no one to reveal Earhart’s fate. The U.S. occupation of Japan was too fragile to risk upsetting it by revisiting unpleasant old business between the two countries. There was never a good time to reveal what had happened.
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