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People pleasing exercise
How many times have you said yes when you really want to say no?
It’s a predicament many of us face every day and it’s scary because many people don’t realise they are doing it.
We spend our lives pleasing other people, saying yes to accommodate and not comprehending the alternative of saying no.
We have choices and should never feel obligated to ensure someone else’s happiness or do someone else’s bidding.
True we have commitments but there is a big difference between being obligated and being obliging.
So go find a quiet place, grab a coffee, pen and paper and follow this people pleaser exercise to help you establish when you need to say no.
- Draw circle one (time) and break up how you currently spend your time on average over a month. Be honest. Categories are: sleep, work, travel, social, me time, family, friends.
- Draw circle two (time) and carve up how you would ideally like to be spending your time.
- Draw circle three (relationships) and carve up who you currently spend your time with: on your own, partner, kids, family (like), family (don’t like), colleagues (like), colleagues (don’t like), friends (you like), friends (don’t like), client’s (like), clients (don’t like).
- Draw circle four (relationships) and carve up who you would ideally like to be spending your time with.
- With circles one to four in mind compile a list which should identify (1) occasions when you are saying “yes” when in fact you want or need to say “no” or (2) people you are spending time with and don’t want to. Be brutally honest here.
- Bring in a close (sensible) friend or spouse who you trust to help you.
- Now go through the list and identify. Do I have a choice in this matter?
- If you have a choice (and nine times out of 10 you will), stop doing it or seeing that person. It’s really that simple. Rehearse what needs to be said and politely say it. If necessary write a letter or e-mail. Where you can, explain your reasons.
- If you don’t have a realistic choice (family, colleagues or work event) brain storm options as to how you can lessen the impact of that thing on your life. Take action.
Appreciate that your new stance may shock or offend people so anticipate how to handle delicate situations or people in advance. But be firm. This is not a debate. You don’t need anyone’s permission. This is about making your life happier. As I always say, life is too short to be living it any other way but happy. So don’t fill up your days doing things or seeing people you don’t want to! | <urn:uuid:50c44038-1b4b-4843-bddd-01c47c3b9c90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/people-pleasing-exercise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928493 | 639 | 2.046875 | 2 |
From decorated service in World War II to atomic testing in Bikini Atoll, USS Independence had a storied career. Scuttled in 1951 off of San Francisco, no one has seen this aircraft carrier since–until now. Nautilus will conduct the first visual survey of Independence since her sinking as well as image the ship for photomosaic and microbathymetry data. Learn more about the history of USS Independence, including eyewitness accounts, from our partners at the Naval Historical Foundation.
These USS Independence dives are part of an expedition to explore the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with our partners at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Recently expanded to protect 3,295 square miles, Greater Farallones NMS contains over 400 shipwrecks, unique deep water coral habitats, and is largely unexplored in the deepest portions. | <urn:uuid:5bc33c0e-8ac5-4c55-b2a6-825f00f785bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://deepoceaneducation.org/resources/rediscovering-the-wreck-of-uss-independence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916279 | 179 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Chances or opportunities are presented to us the day we enter this world. From birth to childhood and beyond chances are realities that await in the near future, a chance or opportunity to make a difference, to excel above and beyond. What we do with these chances when presented, often dictate the life and success of an individual to various extremes. Chances are gifts presented at any early age, a chance to achieve higher standards than our predecessors, a chance to develop and implement an extraordinary life full of rewards and accomplishments. |
We all have the opportunity to live an extraordinary life. Although defined or often perceived as part of the upper class socialites living status, we tend to focus on daily activities, raising families, seeking adequate employment there-by never focusing on the true meaning of an extraordinary life or how to live life on your own terms. What we perceive to be an extraordinary life is what we read and hear, never taking time or making a diligent effort to surmise a life that is truly extraordinary. We become satisfied with what has been accomplished to this point, although it often is routine, stuck in a quagmire suffocating with everyday rationalization.
To live an extraordinary life one must identify and fully appreciate all things associated with everyday life that have become a part of the individual as a whole. Stop comparing yourself to others or others to associates. Comparing is time wasted time, time that could have and should have been put to better use in appreciating all of the extra extraordinary blessings that have been bestowed on you. Clear out the disorder in your life, those things that are no longer important to you or have no bearing on your life. Excess baggage only wears you down from moving forward and upward.
Live life on your own terms not on terms dictated to you by others. Come to realize that the extraordinary life that you are searching for is right in front of you. Learn to let go. Release the tight grip that you hold on someone and ask them to do the same. Use personal space as a chance or opportunity to breathe, to experience all that has passed you by without you knowing. Release all inhibitions and the tight grip on material things that bring you happiness. Where absence makes the heart grow fonder, use the allotted extra new found time to explore and discover the true meaning of an extraordinary life.
To live an extraordinary life you, as the participating individual, must become extraordinary yourself. Go beyond the norm or what is expected of you. Live for the present, not the past or the future, you have no control over what should have been or what will be. Experience all that life has given you, the simple yet remarkable things that are right outside your front door. Thechanging of the leaves in Autumn with an overabundance of natural beauty is only the beginning of the extraordinary life that you deserve.
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Alessandro Perissinotto (born 1964 in Turin) is an Italian writer, translator and university professor.
After a number of jobs which helped funded his studies he graduated in 1992 in Italian Literature with a dissertation on semiotics and starts his research in multimedia, teaching instruments, the language of signs in fairytales, with Gli Attrezzi del Narratore. He publishes Il Dizionario Della Fiaba (Dictionary of the Fairytale) with Gian Paolo Caprettini.
He currently teaches at the University of Turin, having taught in Bergamo for a few years.
He plays football in the Osvaldo Soriano Football Club, the Italian writers' national team.
In 1997, Perissinotto started to publish crime fiction books.
The first novel is L'anno che uccisero Rosetta, set in the 1960s in Cantoira, a small village in the V…Read more on Wikipedia | <urn:uuid:879c98fb-18a8-4e75-b170-e169beb4cd73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bibliotheek.be/en/catalog/alessandro-perissinotto/het-jaar-dat-ze-rosetta-vermoordden/book/library-marc-vlacc_2012145 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.94344 | 205 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Free energy training and education
Training, talks and presentations
The Energy Partners Program offers free training to staff and volunteers to help organisations support their clients.
Training, talks and presentations can be structured to suit your needs, whether it’s a 10 minute overview in a scheduled staff meeting, or multiple short training sessions delivered over a number of weeks. Training can also be developed for partners to deliver. Topics can include:
- an overview of electricity and gas for consumers
- how you can help your clients with energy issues by directing them to services that can support them
- how to make energy bills more manageable
- assistance for people who have difficulty paying their energy bills
- how to improve home energy efficiency and reduce energy use
- how to use the Home Energy Toolkit.
Contact the Energy Partners Program for more information.
ConnectEd energy education
A group of community organisations deliver energy education under the name ‘ConnectEd’. Community education sessions provide valuable tools to help households to understand and better manage their energy and water usage. You’ll find ConnectEd at open days, fairs and community events. Utilities literacy training is also provided to community workers and volunteers. Training is available in metropolitan and regional South Australia. The course covers a range of topics including:
- electricity, gas and water in South Australia
- reading and understanding meters and bills
- using energy and water efficiently at home
- how to choose an energy retailer and get a good deal
- concessions, complaints, disputes and hardship
- how to share these skills in your community.
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In the US, ~50 billion robocalls were made in the year 2020. With the increase in the number of calls, the telephone network experience a loss of trust as most of the calls went unanswered. Robocalls are calls made by a calling system using an Auto Dialer with a Pre-recorded voice message.
Although the pre-recorded voice messages may be genuine, a higher percentage of these calls are likely to be fraudulent and fraudsters tend to spoof these calls using False Caller IDs to acquire vital information from the end-users.
Inappropriate measures for detecting and blocking robocalls have further complicated the issue allowing both good and bad players to impersonate calling numbers. To prevent this from happening, SHAKEN/STIR was introduced in the Telecom industry.
SHAKEN stands for Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information using toKEN and STIR stands for Secure Telephone Identity Revisited. SHAKEN was designed by Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) to prevent caller ID spoofing and STIR was designed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to enable end-to-end call authentication.
With the SHAKEN/STIR compliance, the caller IDs used in your campaigns will be tagged verified and contacts are more likely to pick up the calls. This will instill trust in your business and prevent any illegal entities from spoofing your calls.
How does SHAKEN/STIR work?
Let us consider the two carriers as Carrier A and Carrier B. When a call is placed, the originating carrier (Carrier A) receives all the details to verify the to and from phone numbers. Post this, it uses a signing service to authenticate the call. The call is now authenticated by Carrier A which means Carrier A has the details of the originating source and its parameters.
Further, the call is processed in the telephony network to the end user's network provider which we consider as Carrier B. Carrier B verifies all the details from Carrier A using a certificate authority. The certificate authority is a medium to acquire public certificates between the carriers and sign the calls as verified.
Once Carrier B has the certificates from Carrier A, Carrier B then marks the Caller(originating phone number) as verified and displays it on the end user's display as in the above image. The below flow chart represents how the call is processed through the SHAKEN/STIR process. The numbers represent the order in which the call flow is processed.
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A pair of new studies is pointing to the potential of personalized anti-cancer vaccine strategies in individuals with advanced melanoma.
For one of the studies, appearing online today in Nature, a German-led team that included investigators from the biotechnology company BioNTech used a combination of comparative exome sequencing and RNA sequencing to profile mutation patterns and predict neoantigens in tumor samples from more than a dozen individuals with stage III or stage IV melanoma. Using its pipeline for mutation detection, neo-epitope prediction, and prioritization, the group translated the results into personalized vaccines targeting a subset of each individual's tumor mutations.
With these so-called mutanome vaccines, they saw a range of T cell-mediated responses in the melanoma patients — including a significant dip in metastases and complete response in a small subset of patients treated with vaccination alone or in combination with checkpoint blockade chemotherapy.
The eight individuals who did have detectable tumor lesions at the time of vaccination did not experience disease recurrence over one to two years of follow up, the researchers reported. For the five patients with relapsed metastatic disease at vaccination, meanwhile, they saw objective responses in two individuals, while another patient responded to a combination of neo-epitope vaccination and anti-PD-1 checkpoint blockade immunotherapy.
"Our observations indicate that neo-epitope vaccines alone may prevent recurrent disease in high-risk patients," co-senior authors Özlem Türeci from the Cluster for Individualized Immunointervention and Carmen Loquai, with the Johannes Gutenberg University, both in Mainz, and their co-authors wrote. "Moreover, they provide a rationale for combining the vaccine with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade."
For the other neo-antigen vaccine paper, investigators from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and elsewhere outlined the approach they used to uncover as many as 20 targetable neo-antigen targets per person in half a dozen vaccinated individuals with melanoma.
"We hypothesized that vaccination with neoantigens can both expand pre-existing neoantigen-specific T-cell populations and induce a broader repertoire of new T-cell specificities in cancer patients, tipping the intra-tumoral balance in favor of enhanced tumor control," senior author Catherine Wu, a medical oncology researcher at Dana-Farber, and her co-authors wrote.
Members of that team began by doing exome sequencing on tumor and matched normal samples from 10 melanoma patients, verifying and investigating the expression of apparent somatic mutations in these data with tumor-specific RNA sequencing.
After taking predicted immune binding patterns and other factors into account, the researchers narrowed in on 97 neo-antigens for vaccine-based targeting in six of the melanoma cases, who were vaccinated in the weeks or months after surgery. Tumor samples from two other individuals did not show the enhanced mutation rate that is typical of melanomas, they noted, while two more individuals were not vaccinated despite the availability of personalized immunizing long peptides.
Based on stimulated T cell assays, the team estimated that patients' CD4+ T cells subsequently tackled some 60 percent of those personalized neo-antigens, while CD8+ T cells showed signs of activity against 16 percent of the neo-antigen set.
Over more than two years of follow up, the team reported, four of the six vaccinated individuals continued to be recurrence-free. The remaining two individuals had tumor recurrence that was effectively treated with pembrolizumab, a checkpoint blockade drug targeting PD-1.
Based on their results so far, the authors of that study suggested that neo-antigen vaccines may prove useful for not only targeting tumor tissue selectively, but also for tackling tumor heterogeneity.
"Future neo-antigen vaccine trials will take advantage of improved methods for predicting antigen presentation to increase the fraction of neo-antigens inducing tumor-reactive T cells," they wrote, "and will test for synergy with checkpoint blockade and other immunotherapies."
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Seattle Community College Teacher elected to city council
Socialist Kshama Sawant’s Win Signals New Openings for Political Change
By Mark T. Harris, political commentator reporting from Seattle for The Advocate
The city of Seattle has long benefited from the fresh ocean breezes that flow in from Puget Sound. Now, a different kind of breeze is sweeping through the state of Washington’s largest city. It’s the air of political change represented in economist Kshama Sawant’s new position as the first elected socialist to the Seattle City Council.
Sawant (pictured at left), a member of AFT Local 1789, is a part-time economics instructor at Seattle Central Community College. In a dramatic upset, the independent candidate garnered some 93,000 votes last November to defeat long-time Democratic councilman Richard Conlin.
What’s remarkable about Sawant’s victory is that her campaign did not downplay her openly socialist politics. Just the opposite. As a socialist, she championed raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour and implementing a new “Millionaire’s Tax” on the very wealthy to expand funding for public services, including mass transit and education. In media interviews and elsewhere, she also made clear her support for unionizing low-paid service workers, rent control, support for women’s and minority rights, and other progressive causes.
A Grassroots Campaign
Significantly, the newly elected city council member, who began to make a name for herself locally during the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, had the backing of a majority of unions in the M.L. King County Labor Council. This included her own AFT local, as well as CWA Local 37083, AFSCME Local 1488, IBEW Local 46, and the American Postal Workers Union-Greater Seattle Local. (A two-thirds “super-majority” vote would have been required to earn the Labor Council’s official endorsement.)
It’s a sign of a changing political climate that an avowed socialist, a member of the Socialist Alternative organization, could win election to citywide office in a major American city. In fact, Sawant is the first socialist elected to city office in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong, who later earned fame as a writer, won election to the school board in 1916.
Not surprisingly, her election has generated quite the media buzz. Despite the local nature of the election, news reports of her election victory went worldwide, including coverage in her native India. Even at the Jan. 6, 2014 swearing-in ceremony for the new city government, which included inauguration of the city’s first gay mayor, Ed Murray, much of the news coverage centered on Sawant. The swearing-in included a record crowd for such an event, most of them Sawant supporters with more than 1,000 in attendance.
Sawant is cut from a different political cloth in other ways, too. With a salary of $120,000 a year, Seattle City Council members are among the highest paid elected city officials in the country. Sawant has pledged not to take more than the average Seattle income, donating the rest of her salary to social justice campaigns.
But beyond any demonstrative measures, Sawant’s election appears poised to give a concrete boost to progressive activism in Seattle. Buoyed by a grassroots, volunteer base of hundreds of supporters, Sawant is pledged to build a new grassroots Fight for 15 campaign to raise the minimum wage in Seattle. It’s a proposal that’s already won voter approval in nearby SeaTac, where Seattle’s international airport is located.
The new living wage campaign got underway at a packed January 12 organizing rally, where 300 plus supporters of the Fight for 15 initiative met at the Seattle Labor Temple. There plans were unfurled to educate and train a small army of activists to begin organizing what is described as Neighborhood and Campus Action Groups to win support for the proposal throughout Seattle. The goal is to hold a week of political events, marches, and rallies from March 7 to 15th, with a large mass demonstration planned for May 1.
Of course, there’s strong business opposition to this living wage proposal, and a fight ahead, but the fact that the new mayor has come out in favor of the raise (as well as three other council members) testifies to which way the winds of grassroots change are currently blowing in Seattle.
It’s a refreshing turn of events to see a dedicated, pro-union activist elected to an important city position. In no small part Sawant’s election is a reaction to the dismal reality of long declining real wages and benefits for many working Americans, with cutbacks in public services and education resources having devolved into a kind of default setting for bipartisan politics in the United States today.
As Sawant herself noted in her January 6 inauguration speech, “This city has made glittering fortunes for the super wealthy and for the major corporations that dominate Seattle’s landscape. At the same time, the lives of working people, the unemployed and the poor grow more difficult by the day. The cost of housing skyrockets, and education and healthcare become inaccessible.”
Where is the Economic Recovery?
As a teacher, Sawant wants to increase corporate taxes to ensure schools and colleges get all the money and resources they need. With corporate profits at record levels, this should be an obvious solution. Instead, most politicians talk as if austerity and cutbacks and “no new taxes” (by which is usually meant taxes on the super wealthy) are our only viable choices. Why? The economic “recovery” has benefited the very rich, but the rest of us—not so much. Sawant is reminding us that the country is not poor; it’s just that wealth is hoarded in fewer hands than ever before.
Will Sawant’s election prove to be the first sign of new opportunities for independent activist politics in other cities? That remains to be seen. For now, it is certainly a promising development. As Kraig Schwartz, membership chairman of AFT Local 1789, remarks in a recent Seattle Times op-ed, “Sawant is a smart, articulate, fresh voice for the 99 percent. Her campaign, and the activism it has brought to the fore, has already enlarged our political space, offering new ideas with hopes of bringing a more balanced power equation to our city and country.”
Indeed. The ground-level activism that swept Kshama Sawant into office reflects the desire by many to challenge the austerity mind-set that has come to narrowly define mainstream politics. Her campaign both as a candidate and now as an elected official instead puts its hopes in the twin forces of grassroots activism and independent political leadership to reshape the American political landscape. Most important, the political message of her election victory is that it is possible for ordinary working Americans to get organized and make this country a better, more prosperous place to live. | <urn:uuid:d336629e-cde1-45b2-8abd-bd0f35519d09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://aft1493.org/february-2014-advocate-community-college-teacher-elected-to-seattle-city-council/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967282 | 1,456 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Question: As a result of recent and substantial digitization efforts, herbaria are becoming important sources of data for vegetation scientists. Are such data sets appropriate to describe composition gradients and β-diversity? When compared with phytosociological data, what are the differences in terms of composition (co-occurrence) gradients depending on the considered scale?. Location: Páramos (Neo-tropical alpine ecosystems) of Colombia. Methods: We compared vegetation patterns from phytosociological relevés and reconstructed pseudo-communities from herbarium collections in the Colombian high elevation páramo ecosystem using diversity partitioning and Mantel correlations. Results: Species composition differed in the two data sets, which could be explained by taxonomic bias towards charismatic species and overrepresentation of rare species in the herbarium data set, whereas common species were more frequently represented in the phytosociological data set. The two data sets showed a similarly preponderant importance of large-scale differences when we looked at species accumulation across different scales. Small-scale richness contributed more to total richness for the phytosociological data set, while richness at intermediate scales was more important in the herbarium data set. Finally, pairwise β-diversity analyses did not show correlations between data sets, and common species showed similar ecological distribution patterns. Conclusions: We recommend caution to researchers who wish to describe β-diversity patterns in local communities using only herbarium data. However, since the two data sets showed some complementarity in their composition patterns, we suggest that combining data from relevés (or plots) and occurrence data (herbarium records, citizen science, etc.) could be an efficient strategy for describing broader diversity patterns. We discuss the circumstances under which it could be advantageous to work with such combined data sets, in particular in relation to conservation issues.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
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Cambodian and Thailand railway authorities will meet on Friday for final discussions on cross-border rail transportation between the nations. Ly Borin, under-secretary of state of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, told Khmer Times yesterday that an agreement on cross-border rail transportation had been signed in April last year, but it had not yet been implemented.
The new connection will allow the carriage of cargo more efficiently, lower costs, improve security, reduce traffic jams and contribute to the development of both countries as well as to add a further link with the rest of the Asean members and the Mekong sub-region.
“On Friday the 14th of February, we will talk with our Thai counterparts about the cross-border transport via railroad and we will sign the final documents to make sure that people and cargo from both countries can cross the border via train,” Ly saidd.
Ly added that, in October last year, the two countries were about to start cross-border rail transportation but floods damaged the railway, so Cambodian authorities delayed the move. He added that now the track is fixed, both countries are nearly ready to start operations.
“We plan to start in March at the latest to ensure the cross-border rail transportation runs smoothly between Cambodia and Thailand,” Ly said.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart Prayut Chan-o-cha, in April last year, presided over the inauguration ceremony on the reconnected railroad network more than 40 years since the route stopped. Both leaders also attended the signing of an agreement on cross-border rail transportation at the ceremony.
Both governments expect it will improve transportation and boost trade. The Stung Bot-Ban Nong Ian Friendship Bridge was also inaugurated to facilitate cargo transportation between the two countries.
The agreement on joint railway traffic and the connection of our railroads again after they were separated in 1974 because of the war, will improve railroad transportation, which is an effective, cheap and safe transportation method, authorities said.
Thailand donated a diesel multiple unit (DMU) to Cambodia. A DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines that require no separate locomotive. It was manufactured by Japan’s Hitachi company and comprises four carriages, each able to carry 80 passengers.
“Now we will have both the agreement and the procedure completed. Customs and immigration have already reached agreement so we will finalise everything this Friday. We have to study some elements of the agreement closely but, in principle, we are all agreed,” Ly added.
Sun Chantho, minister at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, has pushed the authorities to prepare for the rail link between Cambodia and Thailand to boost bilateral trade and to upgrade to a better form of mass transportation than bus.
The northern rail link will connect Cambodia and Thailand starting at Phnom Penh and travelling to Poipet on the Thai border, a distance of 386 kilometres. At Poipet a Thai train engine will be fitted to allow onward passage to Bangkok. The Cambodian part of the track was refurbished and used temporarily in late 2018.
“This is another successful achievement between Thailand and Cambodia,” said Seang Thay, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce.
“We hope that once train is linked between the two nations, cargo transport will be more convenient and it will reduce the logistical costs involved.”
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Anyone who has worked in a scientific or medical lab is likely familiar with thermal cyclers. These devices are also referred to as DNA Amplifiers or PCR machines. In essence, these tools help researchers to work with the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) process. In specific, these machines amplify certain segments of a DNA sample. Learn more about how this type of device can be useful for your research purposes.
A Look at the Machinery
Thermal cyclers have a unique design that supports their intended use. Each model has fitted holes that are surrounded by a thermal block. It is here where test tubes containing samples are placed. During the process, the device cycles through different temperatures to carry out the reaction.
A Few Possible Choices
When considering whether to buy thermal cyclers, it can help to look at a couple specific machines. The SCI-100HM-Pro LCD Digital Thermal Mixer provides many features at a low cost of entry. This model is efficient at mixing. It makes use of a clear, TFT display. It also has a wide range of programming capabilities, such as a pre-heating mode. You’ll also get the benefit of real time feedback of critical data, such as temperature, time and speed. Overall, the SCI-100HM-Pro is a good choice for many different projects. If you need cooling capabilities, the SCI-100HCM-Pro LCD adds controls for lower temperatures.
You can learn more about a wide range of medical and scientific laboratory equipment by visiting NE LabSystems at the website nelabsystems.com.
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Branching out and growing together
The School Day
Our school day starts at 8:55. The playground is open from 8:45 but children should remain supervised by their parents or carers until the bell goes.
School day starts: 8:55
Lunch time: 12:15-1:15
School day finishes: 3:00
We have an assembly each day for children in both Key Stages.
Monday - Headteacher Assembly
Tuesday - No assembly
Wednesday - Celebration Assembly
Thursday - Church/PHSE assembly
Friday - Singing Assembly
Terms Dates 2021/22
Recommended in-service training days for teachers (school is closed):
Wednesday 1st Sept 2021
Thursday 2nd September 2021
Monday 1st November 2021
Monday 25th April 2022
Thursday 21st July 2022
In addition to dates above schools will be closed on
Bank Holiday Monday 2nd May 2022
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Tax Lien Lawyers in Cullman
In Cullman, Alabama, a "lien" is a security interest placed on a piece of property, normally land or a house, to secure the payment of a debt. It typically gives a creditor the right to take ownership of any equity that exists in the property, to secure the payment of the debt. If the owner sells the property, the creditor may also be entitled to the funds of the sale, up to the amount owed. It can also give the holder of the lien a higher priority status, giving them an advantage over competing creditors, if the debtor files bankruptcy.
As you might have gathered, a "tax lien" is simply a lien placed on property by the IRS or Cullman, Alabama tax authorities, to compile taxes that the property-owner has failed to pay.
However, a tax lien in Cullman, Alabama will be ineffective if the debtor doesn't own any valuable property to encumber with a lien. As with any debt, the creditor can't collect if the debtor doesn't have any assets. Nonetheless, a tax lien can be applied to property that the taxpayer gains after the lien goes into effect.
Tax Lien Procedure in Cullman, Alabama
Imposing a tax lien in Cullman, Alabama is usually an uncomplicated process. Typically, the tax authorities simply have to make a decision that the taxpayer is delinquent in their taxes, and that imposing and enforcing a tax lien will actually be worth the effort.
At this point, they will send the taxpayer a written notice stating that they owe a some amount of money in back taxes, and that they have a small window of time (commonly 10 days or less) to pay it.
If the back taxes are not paid before the deadline is up, the lien will normally take effect immediately, with no further action by the IRS or Alabama tax agency, giving them all the rights in your property that the law authorizes.
Nonetheless, if the federal government does not seek to enforce a tax lien in Cullman, Alabama within 10 years of imposing it, federal law dictates that the lien automatically expires. This is effectively a statute of limitations on a tax lien, meant to encourage the federal government to collect its taxes in a reasonable period of time, and guarantee that property is not encumbered by a lien forever.
How Can a Cullman, Alabama Tax Lien Lawyer Help?
If you find yourself on the receiving end of a tax lien in Alabama, you are going to have to wade through some substantial and intricate legal contentions.
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How Elon Musk and cheap oil doomed natural gas cars
The idea was nothing short of revolutionary: convert the nation’s millions of trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles to run on natural gas instead of gasoline and diesel.
Back in 2008, the proposal by energy magnate T. Boone Pickens had appeal. U.S. oil production was plunging, and the world’s biggest fuel-consuming country was ever more dependent on foreign crude. Oil jumped to a record near $150 a barrel, while natural gas was comparatively cheap. Pickens co-founded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to profit from the switch. The maker of natural gas filling stations was once valued at about $1.8 billion.
But there was a different kind of revolution. New drilling techniques led to a boom in oil supplies from the U.S., and electric cars took off. Tesla Inc., which had yet to deliver its first electric car a decade ago, now has 455,000 reservations for its Model 3 — almost 20 times the number of natural-gas vehicles on U.S. roads as of 2015. Shares of Clean Energy Fuels are down 90 percent from 2012, and the company concedes natural gas may only be a niche market as a transportation fuel.
“I’m not sure America is set up” for widespread use of passenger natural gas vehicles given all the infrastructure needed to get supplies to customers, said Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energy Fuels’ chief executive officer.
Pickens, who made his first fortune as an oil wildcatter five decades ago, had high hopes for natural gas because he believed crude supplies were peaking. In op-eds, media interviews and meetings with politicians including then-President Barack Obama, Pickens said the nation’s heavy-duty trucks and fleet vehicles should run on natural gas. The U.S. could reduce its reliance on oil imports and use more wind and solar power, he said.
Pickens, 89, wasn’t able to comment, according to Jay Rosser, a spokesman for BP Capital LLC, the energy hedge fund Pickens founded.
By 2011, U.S. oil output began to surge with the shale boom. Three years later, prices for crude, diesel and gasoline were tumbling. While natural gas has become a staple for domestic power plants, supplanting coal, the prospect of cheaper alternatives made it less attractive as a vehicle fuel.
In April, the most recent month for data from the Department of Energy, liquefied natural gas sold for $2.52 per diesel-gallon-equivalent, compared with $2.55 for diesel. That’s hardly a bargain, considering Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James Financial Inc., estimates that trucks that run on LNG cost about $30,000 to $50,000 more than a comparable diesel rig.
Though natural gas has remained relatively cheap, using it to fuel vehicles is “not something that has taken off,” said Salim Morsy, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance in New York. “Gasoline and diesel are undoubtedly the cheapest in total cost of ownership, but as technology improves and batteries get cheaper,” the number of electric cars will at least double.
The number of plug-in autos in the U.S. almost tripled between 2008 and 2015, government data show. Tesla, the company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has introduced three models since 2012, and other manufacturers are jumping into the market. Volvo AB has said all its new cars from 2019 will be hybrid or all-electric, and BMW AG is developing a self-driving electric to replace the 7-Series as the company’s flagship in 2021.
Natural gas vehicles have seen their share of the auto market shrink. Chesapeake Energy Corp., one of biggest U.S. gas producers, eliminated the team working on natural-gas vehicles in 2013. Honda Motor Co. discontinued a natural-gas-fueled model of its popular Civic sedan in 2015.
Last year, with oil locked in a prolonged price slump, Pickens sold about 4 million shares ofNewport Beach, California-based Clean Energy Fuels, which operates more than 500 natural gas filling stations across the country. While the company has declined in value, Tesla traded at a record high in June.
Still, Littlefair sees opportunities for growth, especially in the fleets of vehicles owned by municipal governments trying to reduce tail-pipe emissions and operating costs. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which uses 537 buses and 123 shuttles that run on natural gas, this month extended its operation and maintenance contract with Clean Energy Fuels. California cities including Los Angeles and Fresno also have contracts with the company.
Clean Energy Fuels is also seeking a way to expand its reach by using natural gas extracted from landfills and farms to supply filling stations.
While companies including AT&T Inc. and Ryder System Inc. use natural gas in trucks that make short trips and return to the same depot each day, limited infrastructure has prevented wider use. There are 1,828 natural-gas filling stations in the U.S., compared with almost 70 times as many conventional gas stations and around 38 times as many non-residential plug-in stations and charging outlets for electric vehicles, government and industry data show.
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Unterhalter, E. (2021). ‘A longer view: conceptualising education, identity and the public good in 1917 and 2016’, in S. Carney and E. Klerides (eds.), Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis. London: Bloomsbury (pp.203-221).
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Unterhalter, E. (2021). ‘Gender equality and girls’ education. Key challenges and opportunities.’ Presentation to Forum organised by Forum for Global Challenges, University of Birmingham, 18th May 2021.
Unterhalter, E. (2021). ‘What do we talk about when we talk about children, poverty, and education?’ Paper presented at PESGB seminar/webinar, 13th May 2021.
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In a sharply worded statement, the administration ripped the plan -- which conditions a debt limit hike on a constitutional amendment that would require the government to balance its books each year -- as "an empty political statement" with "unrealistic policy goals." The proposal also requires substantial spending cuts and a statutory spending cap as a precondition for raising the debt ceiling.
"Neither setting arbitrary spending levels nor amending the Constitution is necessary to restore fiscal responsibility," reads the statement released by the White House. "The bill ... would set unrealistic spending caps that could result in significant cuts to education, research and development, and other programs critical to growing our economy and winning the future. It could also lead to severe cuts in Medicare and Social Security, which are growing to accommodate the retirement of the baby boomers, and put at risk the retirement security for tens of millions of Americans."
The proposal also "sets out a false and unacceptable choice between the Federal Government defaulting on its obligations now or, alternatively, passing a Balanced Budget Amendment that, in the years ahead, will likely leave the Nation unable to meet its core commitment of ensuring dignity in retirement," the statement continues.
Ultimately, the bill "is inconsistent with this responsible framework to restore fiscal responsibility and is not an appropriate method of reducing the Nation's deficits and debt," it concludes.
The White House and Congress continue to struggle for agreement on a plan to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, the date the government is expected to run out of money to pay its bills. Failure to raise the debt limit would be a first for the country and would mean the government would have to prioritize what it funds and what it doesn't, a disastrous scenario that could result in Social Security recipients not receiving checks, among other things, and trigger major disruptions in global markets.
Despite their ongoing lack of agreement on how to proceed, both parties insist they won't let this happen, however.
In its Monday statement, the White House highlighted Obama's alternative fiscal plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion while "supporting economic growth and long-term job creation, protecting critical investments, and meeting the commitments made to provide economic security to Americans no matter their circumstances."
Details of that proposal remain murky, however. Obama continues to push for an aggressive debt reduction plan in his talks with congressional leaders, but the White House has yet to give specifics on where Obama might make cuts to entitlement programs.
Republicans have been pushing the Cut, Cap and Balance plan largely as a reaffirmation of their conservative principles. But such a proposal has little chance of becoming law; constitutional amendments require a two-thirds vote in both chambers of Congress, which is unlikely in a Democratic-controlled Senate and maybe even a stretch in the House. And even if it were to pass Congress, an amendment wouldn't take effect until it was ratified by at least 38 state legislatures.
Still, with an eye on 2012 elections, Republicans want votes on the proposal on the record. The House is scheduled to take up the bill on Tuesday, and the Senate is expected to follow later this week.
UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Obama's veto threat is "disappointing" and tried to pin blame squarely on the president for what he called out-of-control spending in Washington.
"While American families have to set priorities and balance their books, this White House obviously isn't serious about making the same tough choices," Boehner said in a statement. "This unfortunate veto threat should make clear that the issue is not congressional inaction, but rather the President's unwillingness to cut spending and restrain the future growth of our government."
"The House will proceed as planned with its vote on the Cut, Cap and Balance Act," Boehner added.
White House spokesman Jay Carney later came up with his own name for the GOP fiscal plan: "Duck, Dodge and Dismantle."
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Vaccinations Every Dog Needs in Pewaukee, WI
As a responsible dog owner, you know just how important it is to make sure your furry friend as all her shots up to date. But if you’ve never owned a dog before, or if it’s been a while since you have, then you might be a little out of the loop when it comes to knowing which shots your dog needs and when.
In this article, we’ll guide you through the most common shots your dog needs during the first two years of life and beyond. From there, you can call your vet in Pewaukee, WI to schedule an appointment or reach out for more information instead.
Common Dog Vaccinations
Here are the most common dog vaccinations for your reference:
The rabies vaccination is the most crucial of the shots your dog will need throughout her life, and it is required by law in the State of Wisconsin and most of the United States. Additionally, many landlords, homeowners’ associations, cities and towns require dogs to be vaccinated against rabies and require proof of vaccination every year as well.
Rabies vaccines can be given as early as 12 weeks of age. Dogs must receive a booster rabies shot every year, unless your dog is given the three-year rabies shot instead. Your vet will let you know which type your dog has received.
There are many different types of bacteria and viruses in Pewaukee, WI that can cause kennel cough, but most of them can be vaccinated against. Both canine influenza and Bordetella are known to cause kennel cough, among some other pathogens. Kennel cough is highly contagious, especially in close quarters, which is where it gets its common name. Dogs who suffer from kennel cough have a loud, “goose honk” type of cough and often vomit from it as well.
It is possible to begin vaccinating against kennel cough as early as 6 weeks, although some vets will recommend waiting a little longer if you have no plans to board your puppy.
Distemper is a very dangerous dog disease that most commonly affects puppies and senior dogs. It can, however, infect any dog, and it is a highly potentially fatal disease. Distemper is extremely contagious as well, and it can be transmitted through sneezing, coughing, or exposure to shared food bowls, leashes, and even shared human contact (although humans cannot contract the disease).
Distemper vaccinations can be given as early as six weeks. If a dog becomes sick with distemper, the disease can cause vomiting and diarrhea, seizures, fever, coughing, and usually death.
Parvovirus, usually just referred to as parvo, is one of the most contagious and deadly diseases for dogs and especially for puppies. Puppies who are less than four months old are extremely susceptible to parvo and should never be allowed to interact with dogs that you are not completely certain have been vaccinated against parvo.
Parvo causes extreme diarrhea and vomiting, which leads to severe dehydration. This condition is usually fatal within a few days and most dogs are incapable of recovering from parvo. Vaccinations can be given as early as six weeks in most situations.
Hepatitis in dogs is similar in symptoms to hepatitis in humans, although the two cannot be transmitted between each other. Canine hepatitis is extremely contagious to other dogs, however, and is usually rampant in locations where many dogs are kept in close quarters and aren’t vaccinated early or often enough.
Canine hepatitis causes liver pain and swelling and can cause long-term liver damage as well. If left untreated, it can sometimes become severe and lead to death. Dogs will never be completely cured from hepatitis, but flare-ups can be managed. Dog vaccinations, however, can prevent it entirely and can be given as early as 10 weeks.
Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness that can affect both humans and dogs as well as many other animals in Pewaukee, WI, although it can only be transmitted through the bite of a carrier tick. This disease is very dangerous for dogs and can cause long-term, ongoing health problems even in dogs that have recovered from it. Some of these issues include heart disease, kidney disease, arthritis, and neurological problems.
Dog vaccinations for Lyme disease can begin as early as 10 weeks. Depending on where you live, Lyme disease vaccinations may be much more strongly suggested than they are in locations where these ticks aren’t as common.
Staying Up to Date
Now that you know more about what shots to expect throughout your dog’s life, you should be better prepared to bring home your new family member. Remember to speak with your veterinarian at Pewaukee Veterinary Services at (262) 347-0787 if you have any questions or concerns about which shots your dog needs, and always work with a trusted vet to get your dog’s shots up to date.
Staying on top of dog vaccinations is crucial in providing quality care and a healthy life for your dog. A vaccinated dog is a happy dog!
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Does Job Quality Affect Occupational Mobility?
This new report by Cleveland Fed researcher Kyle Fee examines how job quality affects workers’ occupational mobility and investigates if the COVID-19 pandemic has brought changes to that mobility, especially among those in the lowest-quality jobs.
Among Fee’s findings:
- Those in the lowest-quality occupations tend to be less attached to employment and the labor market, a situation which suggests that employers might consider improving job quality in response to hiring and retention challenges.
- These are not new developments related to the pandemic but rather ongoing labor market trends.
- Taking job quality into consideration reveals that even when the unemployment rate is low, workers in the lowest-quality occupations can face bleak labor market prospects.
- There is evidence that some industry sectors, such as retail sales, healthcare, and social services, and accommodation and food services, limit a worker’s ability to move into a higher-quality job.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that along with the Board of Governors in Washington DC comprise the Federal Reserve System. Part of the US central bank, the Cleveland Fed participates in the formulation of our nation’s monetary policy, supervises banking organizations, provides payment and other services to financial institutions and to the US Treasury, and performs many activities that support Federal Reserve operations System-wide. In addition, the Bank supports the well-being of communities across the Fourth Federal Reserve District through a wide array of research, outreach, and educational activities.
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Tarot Card Prayer Flags merge the beautiful and ancient tradition of Tibetan Prayer Flags that are still hung throughout the mountains of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and northern India, with the mystery and symbolism of the classic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck major arcana.
The Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck was originally published in 1909. The cards were drawn by illustrator Pamela Colman Smith from the instructions of academic and mystic A.E. Waite and were published by the Rider Company.
The Tarot Flag set hangs over 6 feet wide * All of our flags are 100% cotton and Fair Trade * Handmade in Kathmandu, Nepal by traditional Buddhist Prayer Flag makers. Prayer Flags celebrate new beginnings of all kinds. They are hung with respect and the intention for peace and compassion.
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First Septenary Integrate the Self
Making sense of who we are based onwhere we have come from, what influences us, and how we begin the journey of self-actualization.
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A Coaching Power Tool Created by Ali Farahani
(Leadership Coach, AUSTRIA)
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!– Don Miguel Ruiz
Inquiry vs. Assumption power tool is based on the simple yet powerful coaching skill called “Reframing Perspective.”Reframing helps us break free from chains of limiting beliefs by looking at an event, situation, or our thoughts from a different angle or perspective, probably quite different from our own, leading us to new insights, ideas, solutions, and consequentially, new empowering perspectives. The coach’s ability to help the client shift from a disempowering perspective to another empowering perspective is crucial to the client’s forward movement.
According to ICF , a coach“reframes and articulates to help the client understand from another perspective what he/she wants or is uncertain about.” (Core Competencies, Direct Communication)
The assumption is something that you accept as true without question or proof (Cambridge Dictionary 2020). It is synonymous with guess, hunch, expectation, belief, acceptance, and suspicion.
The inquiry is the process or act of asking a question or asking for information about someone or something(Cambridge Dictionary 2020). It is synonymous with hearing, examination, analysis, study, and research.
Certainty is the quality or state of being certain, especially based on evidence. (Marriam Webster Dictionary). It is synonymous with assurance, confidence, positiveness, doubtlessness, and sureness.
The core idea behind the Inquiry vs. Assumption power tools to shift the client’s thinking from a potential disempowering perspective – my assumptions are the truth – to an empowering perspective – I inquire to know the truth so that a) they make decisions that are aligned with reality and b) make those decisions with confidence.
We go through life making all kinds of assumptions. We take our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs for granted without asking ourselves: “How do I know this? Who told me that? How true is this assumption?”. We make assumptions about people’s feelings, motivations, behaviors, what they think and feel about us, their intentions, strengths, and weaknesses. We even extend our assumptions to our strengths and weaknesses, and the reality: what is possible and not possible.
Because we can’t know everything, we assume what we don’t know. The ability to think, perceive, and imagine things despite our limited sensory organs, separates us from other sentient beings. Our brain seeks out and remembers patterns of cause and effect, and once it sees a pattern, it is impossible to unsee that pattern. Consequentially, using this pattern can fill in the blanks in similar situations, predict things, and make choices where there is not enough data. In time, those patterns, influenced by past experiences, culture, and other people, shape our tendencies and rule us from within all so subtly.
While some assumptions are safe to make, that is to say, their consequences are not of paramount importance– like assuming that the watermelon you bought is going to be sweet and juicy, other assumptions may damage relationships, block and limit possibilities, pore fear into hearts, and prevent us from moving forward– like assuming that our marriage is destined to fail just like our parents failed in theirs, or that our partner knows how we feel and so there is no need to show our affections.
Our assumptions are not disempowering by nature – only when we treat them as facts, except those to be accurate, decide and act upon them, lead us to unknown places. When it works, that is to say, we achieve the desired outcome, it feels empowering, and we feel confident, safe, and in control; “I am right!”. Even then, all along, we are anxious and uncertain. We don’t know it until we know it. But if we don’t get the desired outcome, we’ll doubt our abilities. Next time around, anxiety is all we’ve left with; “What-If I’m wrong again?”.
Maybe, the most disempowering assumptions are those we make about our strengths. They fill us with over-confidence or drain our self-esteem. In either case, they rob us from fulfilling our true potential and condemn us to live a life of illusion and disempowerment.
Similarly, our assumptions about events, situations, and people’s intent and behavior reduce our choices and affect our social skills. Assuming how others think and feel will stop us from listening intently, responding effectively, and asking the right questions, which leaves others feeling misunderstood and not appreciated; we lose influence and feel left alone. Assuming it is too late to start or quit something leads to no action; you feel like having no choice.
These self-imposed limitations lead us to dead ends, and despite our efforts, we won’t succeed. Assuming things not only does not bring us closer to knowing the truth but also takes us even further away from the truth. Fear, anxiety, uncertainty, depression, and loss are the results of unknowing. Fear leads to indecision and is disempowering. Reality is full of possibilities, only if we could look at things the way they truly are and not the way we assume them to be.
When we know something, we feel certain, confident, mighty, and in control. We strive for power and seek greater knowledge. This rare and precious good can be acquired or inquired. According to Prof Davis Kolb’s adult learning theory, we acquire knowledge through the experiential learning process:
…adults learn by having an experience, then reflecting on that experience, coming up with new insights or ideas, and then going out into the world to apply these new insights. Upon applying new insights, adults then have new experiences to learn from. In this way, learning goes on and on in an endless cycle. – ICA, Coaching Influences, Experiential Learning, 2019
Acquiring knowledge is our default mode, and we’re, unconsciously, always operating in this mode. We experience, reflect, conclude and decide. While acquiring knowledge is effective and powerful, when it comes to future events, thoughts, emotions, motivations, and intentions of others, the experiential learning process is deficient at best; not every knowledge can be acquired through experience. In the face of insufficient information, our cognitive process falls back on assumptions and will use them to fill in the blanks. Without them, our thought process will lead to no conclusion. At any particular time, the number of unknowns is way more than knowns and without the power to assume things, our brain will simply hang. Yet, any decision made based on so many unknowns would not be a confident one.
That is why, for example, if something didn’t happen in the past, we can’t conclude, but may assume, that it will not occur in the future. Similarly, If your boss is angry at work, it does not mean he is also angry at home. Or if your college doesn’t say hi to you, it doesn’t mean that she is mad at you, or is she?
Too much of anything makes us sick. Make too many assumptions, and you’re uncertain. Too much uncertainty breeds fear and anxiety. So what can we do?
Thou shalt ask, and thou shalt receive – Matthew 7:7
The process of asking with the intention of clarification, closure, certainty, and awareness is the inquiry process: “thou shalt inquire.”
Instead of making assumptions about others’ feelings, likes or dislikes, or expectations, we must simply ask them. After all, who knows better than them what is in their minds. Inquiring about others’ emotions, thoughts, and expectations towards oneself is a daring but enlightening experience.
Similarly, instead of making assumptions about our strengths or weaknesses, possibilities, emotions, and desires, we must gain awareness by inquiring about our beliefs, values, feelings, and intents.
To live a life of assumption is to live a life of limitations, lies, uncertainty, and disempowerment. A life of constant seeking is unlimited, free, daring, and joyful. Inquiring brings clarity and direction to our thoughts and helps us make informed and confident decisions.
Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows to the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. – Alan Alda
At any given time, we’re faced with two choices: to assume what we know is the truth or to seek out the truth. While we can argue that not all of our assumptions are false or harmful, they don’t bring us closer to reality. To be successful in life, one must be in touch with reality.
But how can we know that we’re assuming something?. Look at the following sentences. What have they in common? Yes, your assumption is correct! There is at least one assumption in each sentence. How do you think these assumptions help someone move forward and make confident decisions?
Most assumptions are very subtle and direct our lives from behind the curtains. They hold us back, move us away from reality and trick us into doing things unconsciously. And when we’re unconscious, we’re not in control, and we slip into the chain of negative conclusions and paint a dark picture of our circumstances and future.
To take back control, we must be conscious of reality. Asking a simple question before making any decision provides us with the certainty we require.
Asking yourself, “How do I know what I know?” is a good starting point for making any decision. Let’s assume your answer would be similar to one of the following responses:
Now check the source of your information: “How reliable is that source?”. If it is a person, ask yourself, “Is it her assumption, thought, feeling, idea, or it is a fact from another source?”. Inquire more; ask the person. If it is a book, article, video, or any other media, look at the author, her credibility, and references. Keep inquiring until either you know everything for certain. Then, and only then, draw your conclusion. Such a decision is a confident one.
- Pickup a decision that you’ve made in the past.
- Remember your thoughts and conclusions leading to that Write them down like the above table.
- Next, identify your assumptions in those thoughts, conclusions, and decisions by asking questions like “How do I know that?” or “How I came to that conclusion?”. Try to adopt your questions accordingly. Write them down.
- Now, answer those questions. If possible, avoid creating new assumptions while answering.
- Compare your answers with your assumptions. See how they may have impacted your decision.
Questions to ask yourself:
- How can I determine if my assumptions are accurate?
- How am I looking at my current situation and options?
- Looking at my decisions, what am I taking for granted?
- What are my potential biases towards my situation, options, and goals?
- What are some other possible perspectives on this issue? Have I considered them?
For the Coach
The coach’s assumptions about her capabilities and client’s strengths, values, beliefs, and perspectives could unarguably impair the coach’s ability to be present, confident, empathic, and non-judgmental and compromise coaching sessions’ success. Although we can’t always avoid certain assumptions, we must inquire about them to find the truth about ourselves and the client. Truth supports our forward movement.
Assumptions about Client
As coaches, we don’t know anything about our client—ICA
Situation: The client speaks in a slow, low pitch tone or fast, high pitch tone. The client uses negative and forceful language like “I can’t do it… it will not work…I have to do it…I hate … I had enough… it makes me crazy… I can’t control …”.
Assumption: Coach assumes to know the client’s feeling and ends up labeling it: “I can see that you’re depressed/ angry/ demotivated/ hopeless/ lost/ … “.
Result: This would either make the client feel worse, judged. It’ll lead to confusion and disconnect. What that could have been an opportunity for uncovering truth becomes an obstacle.
Inquiry: The coach does not assume to know the client’s feelings but acquires the truth through direct questioning. Coach shares her observation with the client and shows genuine curiosity by inquiring about her feelings. For example, the coach may say: “When you said – it makes me crazy- what did you mean by that? Or how does it make you feel?”.
Shift: Now, the client does not feel judged and tells the coach how exactly she feels. The coach and the client know the truth. The coach can support the client constructively unpack her thoughts and emotions.
Session’s Success &Client’s Progress
Situation: The client is either rambling or nonresponsive. Coach tries hard to help the client reach awareness and move forward. Nothing is working.
Assumption: The coach assumes that she is not doing a good job or that the client is not coachable.
Result: Coach blames herself and lose confidence or helps the client by telling and directing. Coach feels tired and demotivated after the session believing the session was a disaster.
Inquiry – Client: The coach does not assume anything about the client’s progress inquires about the client’s progress towards the session goal, invites the client to decide how she wants to proceed in the session, asks about what the client needs in the session, and supports her in achieving that.
Shift: The coach knows the truth about the session and can co-create the best path forward.
Inquiry – Coach: The coach does not assume anything about her abilities as the coach. Instead, she seeks the truth through supervision.
Result: After that session, the coach reaches out to her supervisor. The coach’s supervisor listens to the session’s recording and provides objective feedback.
Shift: Coach now knows the truth about her strengths and areas of improvement. She feels confident, empowered, and motivated.
For the Client
Often one’s version of reality is not in sync with outside reality. This disconnect causes shadowy gaps in our perception, gaps that get filled with assumptions. Coach’s ability to listen for those assumptions and invite the client to inquire about them will dispel the shadows; the client’s truth will fill in the gaps.
Clients may not always be aware of their biases. Listen to the client’s choice of words while expressing herself. Read those expressions back to the client and invite her to look at those through lenses of critical thinking: “How do you know something that you know and how certain are you about that?”.
Other useful questions
- There are lots of “I shouldn’t/ I mustn’t / I have to / I need to,” how do you know that you “shouldn’t / mustn’t / have to / need to” <do that>?
- You said: you need to <do/get that>to <get to/achieve your goal>, how are these two related?
- What makes your perception of your weaknesses accurate?
- When you tell me about <situation, others, yourself>, what is it that you take for granted?
A Case full of Assumptions
Tania was the youngest IT manager in an International Organization. One day, to her surprise, the board selected her as the new Chief Information Officer. Motivated but confused, she assumed that there must be a reason they have chosen her over other more senior managers. She thought: “What is the catch? I’m not senior enough to be a CIO.”Next, she heard a rumor that she was not the board’s first choice, and some managers and members of the previous CIO’s team were against her nomination. She assumed they didn’t like her or believe in her. Consumed by her dark thoughts, she decided not to trust the new team as they may be in cahoots with opposing managers. She decided to trust herself and prove that she was the correct woman for the job.
In the following months, she defined a comprehensive digital transformation plan and attended multiple CIO leadership workshops. She spent most of her time working on ways to improve IT’s image. But to her dissatisfaction, nothing worked as she planned. The board didn’t sign off on her initiatives, the opposing directors’ attacks took all her energy, and IT quality got worst. Her team couldn’t follow her instructions and didn’t support her when she needed them most.
Assuming that her employees are not the best in their job, she recruited new talents. Still, the quality didn’t improve, and managers kept sabotaging her initiatives until the board canceled them. She concluded that the CIO role is too big for her, but the admission will be a sign of weakness, so she blamed others.
Naturally, she focused her attention on the opposition. She assumed the board’s disapproval of her initiatives is due to the opposing managers’ false picture. Thinking that they see her as a weak leader, she answered fire with fire. Consumed by political fights, she lost her objectivity. Things got escalated, and people started to quit. All the whole organization suffered from indecision and inaction. As a last resort, assuming that the organization needs her, she threatened the board with her resignation. To her surprise, they happily accepted.
While reading Tanja’s story, what pattern keeps popping up? Yes, she made most of her decisions based on assumptions. She lost a fantastic opportunity and affected other people’s lives.
A Case for Inquiry
But what if Tania would not have assumed anything? Let’s explore:
She meets with the board and inquires about circumstances leading to her assignment. They tell her that she is a knowledgeable manager with the necessary grit for leading the organization to a new digital era. She asks whether she was their first choice. They might tell her that few managers were unsure if other IT managers would follow her leadership as she is young and less experienced. But the board decided to trust their intuition and give her a chance. Trusted by upper management and confident that her performance and skills made her the only viable choice, she realizes that the opposing managers’ objection provides her with a unique opportunity. By leveraging her knowledge, she can gain their support and use their experience and influence to become more effective.
This time, Tania has no dark assumption about hidden agendas. She meets with her new team and asks their opinion towards her assignment, the state of IT, and improvements in a confident way. Her self-esteem resonates with employees. They feel encouraged and inspired by their new boss. She knows now that she can count on her team. Tania does not feel the urge to prove herself, and no enemies are waiting for her to make mistakes. Focused, she moves her attention to the big picture: the organization’s mission. Together with other senior managers, Taniahosts workshops with the stakeholders to understand their priorities and ways to benefit from digital technology. Well-informed and supported by her team, her well-crafted initiatives receive the board’s approval.
Following several complaints from some senior management, she assumes nothing. She trusts her team, and they trust her. She asks for objective inquiry into the matter. Firm and factual, she demonstrates the fallacy of their complaints and questions their intentions. Tania’s correct posture makes her a formidable leader who worth strong alliance.
References / Resources
Why they are wrecking your mood and how to stop making them – Sheri Jacobson
Critical Thinking And Academic Research: Assumptions – William F. Ekstrom Library
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Last week, on 16 September, a legislative initiative on "gender-based violence" was approved by the European Parliament with 427 votes in favour, 119 against and 140 abstentions. No illusions: it does not mean any gender, only women's gender. In the preamble the text seems to leave room for equality when it associates that expression with 'domestic violence', along the lines of the Istanbul Convention, but in the actual text the deception is revealed in clear letters, verbatim from the first article: 'the elimination of male violence against women and girls is a prerequisite for the realisation of effective equality between women and men'. This would be enough to make any sincere democrat and any person with common sense jump out of their seats. The EU Parliament has certified in its own law a mere falsehood: the one-sidedness of violence. Or rather: the greater speciality and specificity of male violence against women than any other. Later in the text, the law expands the list of specialties, adopting an "intersectorial" vision (a word used several times instead of the typically feminist "intersectional") by which it also attributes specialty and specificity to violence against various other types of minorities (racial, religious, derived from sexual orientation, disability, etc.). At the end of the day, only one person remains outside the protection: the white heterosexual male. A culprit is needed, and that is him. However, and this is the turning point, it no longer happens only in the slogans of a few acolytes of lunatics, in the articles and pages of social media or mainstream media. This time it is a law of the European Parliament, and it is a different story.
The text of the law consists of 22 pages, which we cannot explain and comment on here point by point. There would be too much to say. We invite everyone to read it carefully, limiting ourselves here to highlighting just a few points. The most serious ones. The first is that this law intends to equate male violence against women with other 'euro crimes', i.e. those types of crime over which the European Union has taken competence, taking it from the member states. This means that 'feminicide' (with all its vagueness), harassment at work, mistreatment in the family and similar phenomena will be considered in the same way as terrorism, slave trade, mafia and money laundering. Like the latter, male violence against women, says the recently approved European law, is a violation of human rights. The other types of violence are not, but male violence against women (and homosexuals) is exclusive. It will be said: it is an illogical and clearly discriminatory rule. True, but the European Parliament has an answer to this: male violence against women manifests itself, in all its forms, "in a disproportionate manner" (art. F) throughout Europe and this is enough to sanction "positive" discrimination. We have often said it: it is false that there is a 'disproportion' and, even if there were, it is an ethical aberration to exclude certain phenomena because they are a minority. It is like saying that, because they are numerically fewer, the disabled (or immigrants, or psychiatric patients, etc.) and their reality can easily be neglected. It is madness to even think that. And yet this is what the European Parliament does: it sanctions 'positive' discrimination against the male world because its violence against the female world is presumed to be preponderant compared to the same phenomenon in reverse.
'Special courts' and 'treatment programmes' for men accused of violence.
Behind this reasoning there is an ideological paradigm that we have well explained in the recent podcast on homicides and feminicides: it is the infamous game of "who kills/does violence to whom". It is an analytical distortion designed to index a specific subject, always him: the heterosexual white man, guilty of all the "inequalities of power between men and women" (art.I) and of the "gender stereotypes in heteropatriarchal structures" (art.K). Yes folks, that's right, don't look so worried: these sentences are directly quoted not from a leaflet of a feminist movement, but from the law of the European Parliament we are talking about. We would like to stress your disbelief again by quoting article L. of the law, which states that male violence against women (and homosexuals) "is motivated by a desire to punish those who are considered to be violators of the social norms of gender hierarchies, gender expression and gender binary systems", and that it "aims to establish, enforce or perpetuate gender inequalities and reinforce gender norms and stereotypes". What is happening, therefore, are not individual criminal cases determined by contingent causes, the result of contextual factors or changing individuals: it is a generalised instinctive attitude of the white heterosexual male, who carries out in everyday life a sort of more or less conscious violent persecution against women and homosexuals. These are themes of petty intersectional feminist propaganda, known to all, but, we repeat, this time it is different: they are part of the articles of a law approved by the European Parliament, moreover (and this is also disconcerting) by a large majority. However, the rule does not stop with these observations, of course. It goes further, much further, extending into fields that explain much about the present and announce almost everything about the future.
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Male violence against women, the legislation says, often occurs in front of children. Therefore, member states must draw up post-separation custody laws 'designed so as not to grant custody rights to those guilty of violence against their partners' (Article N). In reality, this is already the case everywhere, including Italy, but the European legislator has something else in mind: custody must be denied not to those who are found responsible after a fair trial, but to those who are just accused. It is no coincidence that the word 'guilty', used only once initially, becomes 'perpetrator' in subsequent repetitions. Does this ring a bell? Yes, the "Valente amendments" in Italy: this is exactly what is happening at the hands of political feminism, which has probably already been informed for some time that this European law would be approved and would include everything that has been prepared in years of tests and attempts. For example, the indoctrination in education, where the European law requires "feminist self-defence courses" in schools (art. 20), but also a widespread indoctrination of statistical institutes and especially of legal operators. This is because it is necessary to increase the number of reports, but above all because, to put it bluntly, 'the conviction rates of those responsible for violence against women [...] are unacceptably low' (Article Z). Yes, we know it well, we who record the related statistics, noting how numerous are the dismissals and acquittals with full formula, probably result of false accusations. Well, for the European Union, it is necessary to train legal practitioners to always take women's word for it, in order to increase convictions. And to make sure this happens, the law calls for the establishment of 'specialised courts' (art. 55) to condemn male violence against women. As has already been the case in Spain for almost twenty years. But above all, as happened in Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia during the Stalinist terror, the last two scenarios of the modern era where 'special courts' were heard of before this European law. Consistent with those regimes, European law also establishes the obligation of 'treatment programmes for perpetrators of gender-based violence' (Art. 56). It is up to the imagination of each state to decide what those 'treatment programmes' will consist of.
Il vero conto alla rovescia è cominciato.
There is something else in the European law: there is the blind adherence to the insane theory of patriarchy (Art.7); there is the fact that it is always rape in the absence of explicit and continuous consent from the woman (Art.40); there is the incitement to close down opinion organs that contest the specificity of male violence against women and the patriarchy theorem and to prosecute those responsible for it (Art.14 ⇒16, art.63 et al.); there is the obligation to support and finance anti-violence centres (art.17); there are the snowflake policies (art.23) and the genderbread person (art. 27 et al.); there are the statistical forcing (art.26 and almost everywhere in the article); there is the gender paygap (art.8); in short, there is everything. The European law is a compendium of all the small or big attempts to impose a dictatorial anti-male regime made in the last ten years or so, denounced by us and by many other pages together and before us. It is the realisation of a path that goes back a long way, from the UN conferences in Cairo and Beijing and the others that followed, all of which, not by chance, are cited in the preface to the law, with the obsessive mention of the Istanbul Convention and, in the text of a previous EU law, even the condemnation and request for sanctions against "the elected governments" of the EU states that have not yet ratified it (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia) or, worse still, that have left it (Poland and Turkey). The European law we are talking about is also the result of a path marked by manipulated statistics or by the distorted reading of statistics that would fundamentally deny the need for such a law, such as those drawn up in 2014 and then in 2021 by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union. In short, everything we have been talking about and denouncing for years, ladies and gentlemen, is here, now, in this rule of the European Parliament which, having been approved by a qualified majority, becomes binding on the European Commission, which will now have to draw up a directive (as it says in Article 62) to implement it all. European directives, you should know, are superior even to national constitutions and immediately applicable in every member state.
What does it all mean? We have never been catastrophists on these pages, so you can believe us when we say that it is to all intents and purposes the beginning of the end. The dictatorial regime of which we have been denouncing the signs all this time is found, coagulated, within this European norm, which is destined in short order to become a body of law in all the member states, including Italy. And in Italy there is an army of politicians who are so anxious to implement it that they are acting in advance: let there be no doubt, for example, that the 'Valente amendments' will pass. And it will be useless to shout about their unconstitutionality: they will remain, however unconstitutional, until Italy will acquire (and it will do so in a hurry) the directive that the European Commission will issue on "gender violence", as required by the European law that we are commenting on, after which they will be perfectly legal. Political feminism has only moved a little bit forward on this, as it has been doing for ten years. In any case, one is incredulous that the European Parliament could have approved such an aberrant text with such a large majority, but this is a clear sign of two aspects that are always too underestimated: the polluting narrative of feminism has entered the deepest fibres of everyone, legislators included. If you were to ask an EU-MEP or an ordinary person on the street about the absurdities included in the law, they would both tell you with conviction that these are sacrosanct provisions. Then, of course, there are those who say this out of self-interest but, as we have long argued, the question of benefits or money is secondary. The goal is the change of the human paradigm and the establishment of a system where discrimination is enshrined in law, where the inhuman follies of neo-humanism are unquestionable pillars, and where the rights we consider most obvious are compressed until they explode. This is no longer a joke, ladies and gentlemen. This is no longer the senseless boutade of a feminist influencer or journalist, to be dismantled and criticised with a simple article, nor one of the many little laws to be challenged by mailbombing: we are talking about a binding regulation dropped from the highest possible point. We are talking about a set of provisions with which, at long last, the regime planned for years is taking its toll and showing itself openly. What to do now in the face of this? Nothing. It is too late now. We have done and will do, as long as we are allowed to, what was right to do: denounce with facts, figures and arguments. We have probably reached the maximum possible reasoning audience, and it is a laughable minority that, alone and disorganised as it is, can do nothing, especially in the disorder created by covid and its surroundings. The majority, which has not yet understood, will (perhaps) understand when this legislative madness comes into force, before long, and will affect them directly. At that point, we will carry with us the sad pride of being able to say: "we warned you". Small consolation. Those who have children, especially boys, should send them elsewhere quickly. Out of the EU and the Western sphere of influence. And do it quickly. This is the only further advice we can give, now that the real countdown has begun. | <urn:uuid:3f7fc41a-1880-4f36-95f0-2e26e861044e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lafionda.com/eu-parliament-dictatorship-revealed-and-now-no-more-jokes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966421 | 2,863 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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Any tourist is not averse to admiring a skyscraper if he finds himself in the city. Let's talk about the ten most famous abandoned skyscrapers.
Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea. The 105-storey pyramid was supposed to be a testament to the ambitions of this outcast country. A trendy but absurd building, intended as a luxury hotel. But was he needed in a country where its own people are starving, and there are practically no tourists? Construction began in 1987. When the Soviet Union collapsed, and North Korea no longer received outside support, the project was abandoned altogether in 1992. In subsequent years, the huge building was empty, while the Koreans themselves tried to pretend that it did not exist at all. For example, on the maps of Pyongyang there is no empty skyscraper at all; it is also removed from city photographs. In 2008, the authorities announced their intention to complete the building. For this, a $ 400 million contract was signed with Egyptian builders. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2012, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung.
Sathorn Unique, Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand experienced a real economic boom in the 1990s. Skyscrapers that appeared in Bangkok like mushrooms after rain have become a demonstration of the country's serious intentions. However, not all of them were completed in the end. The Asian financial crisis has dramatically changed the situation, the developer found himself with huge debts in his hands. In 1997, people left the 49-story Sathorn Unique. Its lower floors are now occupied by rats, while the upper floors are inhabited by crows and ghosts. I must say that all these creatures live here quite calmly. The fact is that the Thai people avoid the abandoned house. What will happen next with the skyscraper remains unclear. Bangkok in general is almost the world leader in the number of abandoned modern buildings. Although the country's economy has already recovered, the city still has several ghost towers.
Tower of David, Caracas, Venezuela. Tower of David, 45 stories high, was to become one of the tallest buildings on the continent. In the early 1990s, businessman David Brülemburg decided to build a new shopping center for the entire city and country. However, the death of the owner brought the unfinished building, along with other assets, into the hands of the state. The economic downturn led to the tower being left unfinished. The project was frozen in 1994, which caused a couple of thousand squatters to move into the skyscraper. These people occupied the empty premises without permission, without receiving any permission for this. At the same time, the squatters got a whole package of amenities at their disposal. The fact is that the skyscraper was originally planned not only for living quarters, but also for a beauty salon and a gallery. Only until the unauthorized invaders have mastered the floors above the thirtieth. But given the anarchy in the real estate market in Venezuela, you can expect the entire tower to be populated. After all, people often have no other choice but to move into abandoned buildings. They are not scared by the lack of elevators. At the same time, the government turns a blind eye to the problem of unauthorized settling, because otherwise people should be provided with a housing alternative. And the tower has no windows and the terraces have no fences. However, it is sometimes more dangerous to live on the streets. Communication between the floors is provided with the help of radios, and residents have also occupied the local power grid. Water is supplied up to the 28th floor, and some residents have even opened their own shops inside.
Book Tower, Detroit, USA. Who would have thought that abandoned skyscrapers would be found even in prosperous America? The 38-storey "Tower-Book" was built in Detroit in 1916. For many years the classic and old-fashioned appearance of this building, as well as the unusual copper roof, were the "highlight" of the city. But over time, the unfinished building became a sad monument to Detroit's former industrial successes. Over the past hundred years, the skyscraper constantly changed owners until people finally left it in 2009. At first, it was supposed to carry out major repairs in the building, but the latest news says that it was decided to abandon the reconstruction of the giant.
Sterick Building, Memphis, USA. Another famous American abandoned skyscraper is located in Memphis. This 29-storey building was built in the neo-Gothic style. The skyscraper had its own bank, pharmacy, hairdresser and beauty salon. Thousands of employees worked in the building. People were lifted upstairs by 8 luxurious elevators. But in the 1980s, the building fell into disrepair. The fact is that the rent for land has grown significantly. At present, the entrance to the skyscraper is boarded up, but destruction has begun inside. The only inhabitants of the buildings are homeless people and city ghost seekers. Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, its fate remains unclear. The area of 32 thousand squares is estimated at only 420 thousand dollars.
Edificio Sao Vito, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 27-storey building appeared in Sao Paulo in the 1950s. It was intended for the middle class and expats. 624 apartments were built here, three lifts led upstairs. The uppermost floor with an area of 800 square meters was intended for various kinds of events. However, over time, the building began to decline. Today it is essentially one large vertical favela for the poor. New tenants started their own order. They started throwing rubbish out of the windows, painting the walls. 80% of the electricity used is obtained illegally. In the 1980s, the plumbing ceased to be usable; of the three elevators, only one remained operational. And even then he barely climbed to the middle of the skyscraper. In 2004, the last tenants were officially evacuated from here. And the skyscraper itself now belongs to drug dealers and their clients who have gone out. City officials are planning to blow up the building, clearing space for new developments.
Szkieletor, Krakow, Poland. This unofficial name bears a 92-meter building in Krakow. It was supposed to be the highest in the city. It was originally planned that the office of the Main Technical Organization would be located in the skyscraper. Construction began in 1975, but was stopped in 1981. The reason was economic difficulties in Poland and political instability. For its appearance, reminiscent of a skeleton, the building was nicknamed. In addition, in the early 80s, a television show of the same name was on television in the country. Since then, the skyscraper has remained abandoned, even billboards cannot cover its ugly appearance. Although investors express their interest in the high-rise, they are deterred by the legal uncertainty of the land plot.
Michigan Central Station, Detroit, USA. This unique train station in Detroit is 18 stories high. The building has become a real symbol of a bygone era, when trains were more important than cars. The Big Station began operating in 1913; it was supposed to become part of a large project - a city transport hub. At the time of construction, it was the largest train station in the world. But in the middle of the last century, it turned out that machines are becoming more and more widespread. Railways have lost their importance. And the designers did not even foresee a single large parking lot in the gigantic project. The station building was eventually found inconvenient and non-functional. People left here for good in 1988. The city authorities have repeatedly tried to decide the fate of the building. It was decided to demolish the station, but the residents of Detroit through the court defended the right to life of the historical monument.
PacBell Building, San Francisco, USA. In 1925, a 132-meter tower appeared in San Francisco. At that time, the 26-storey building was the tallest in the city. It was originally the headquarters of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. The tower is a magnificent neo-Gothic monument decorated with huge eagles. They look at the city from above. In 2005, the last inhabitants left the building. In 2007, the telephone company AT @ T sold the high-rise for $ 118 million. The empty building began to be repaired. A new fire, mechanical and electrical system will be installed here. The restoration of the historic foyer is underway. It is hoped that the skyscraper will eventually reappear. Guards are still on duty here, and at night the skyscraper is illuminated.
Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo, USA. And this station, 17 stories high, is now abandoned. The Buffalo station was key from 1929 to 1979. The terminal is located 4 kilometers from the city center; the complex is designed to receive 3200 passengers per hour. The station is a real monument of the Art Deco era. After the closure of passenger traffic, the building was sold for only 75 thousand dollars. After 1986, the station began to decay rapidly. In addition, the owners, who were on the verge of bankruptcy, began to sell the building literally in parts. Locals claim that the station has become a haven for ghosts who are supposedly waiting for their trains. Not surprisingly, this is where the 2010 Ghostbusters television show was filmed. After that, the station became a place of increased attention of various lovers of the paranormal. Today it is not difficult to find a guide who organizes a tour of the abandoned building. As a result, the vandals are taking apart the famous station literally piece by piece. What saves the building from destruction is that the demolition will be quite expensive - $ 12 million. | <urn:uuid:6d5100da-10ad-4ff4-b4d5-f74de86a64ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gh.fatdaddysmarina.com/1102-the-most-famous-abandoned-skyscrapers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.980025 | 2,006 | 2.328125 | 2 |
EnChroma, Inc. – creators of glasses for colour blindness – today announced its expansion to Australia. Colour blindness affects one in 12 men (8%) and one in 200 women (.5%); 350 million people worldwide, and more than a million in Australia. While people with normal colour vision see over one million shades of colour, those with colour vision deficiency (CVD) only see an estimated 10% of hues and shades. Common colour confusions include green and yellow, gray and pink, purple and blue, and red can appear brown.
EnChroma’s patented lens technology is engineered with special optical filters to help people with colour blindness see an expanded range of colours and see them more vibrantly, clearly and distinctly. Recent studies by world-renowned colour vision scientists at the University of California, Davis and France’s INSERM Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, and the University of the Incarnate Word, demonstrated the effectiveness of EnChroma glasses.
The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney is the first Australian organization to offer the glasses to the public. Museum guests who are red-green colour blind can borrow EnChroma glasses and experience exhibitions – for example the vast array of blue hues in the Coastlines exhibition – in clear, vibrant colour for the first time. Find out more here.
“I was unable to join the police force or work in computer science because I’m colour blind,” said Mason Suljic, 24, from Nowra, Australia, a student at Griffith University. “In school, I struggle with classwork that uses colour-coded information. EnChroma glasses are absolutely amazing. They allow me to see and differentiate colours so now I better understand information and nature is so much more colourful and vibrant too.”
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“EnChroma leads the way in scientific innovation for assistive solutions for colour vision deficiency that help colour blind people overcome frustrating daily vision obstacles, and is enthusiastically embraced by users and eyecare professionals,” said Erik Ritchie, CEO of EnChroma. “Launching operations in Australia is an important step to meeting demand and growing our global footprint.”
EnChroma glasses are available at enchroma.com.au and through EnChroma Authorised Retailers with prices starting at AUD $325. To celebrate the launch, EnChroma is offering a super sale, with glasses up to $150 off. EnChroma plans to expand the number of retailers offering EnChroma to patients in Australia soon.
EnChroma continues to lead in advocating for “colour accessibility” through its EnChroma Colour Accessibility Program. The program helps public venues, schools, state parks, libraries, museums, and other organizations purchase and loan EnChroma glasses to colour blind students and guests to help make schoolwork that involves colour, colourful exhibits, attractions and/or experiences accessible to the colour blind. As part of the program, EnChroma encourages schools to test students quickly and easily for colour blindness, using its online colour vision test.
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John D. Rockefeller, IV
Links to Iraq Intelligence Phase II Reports
Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments
The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress
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Porsche Carrera GT turns 20
Where did the time go? And how much should you pay for one now…
By Sam Sheehan / Wednesday, November 11, 2020
It’s been two decades almost to the month since Porsche first showed the concept for its Carrera GT supercar. On 28th September 2000, it was left to Walter Rohrl (who else?) to drive Stuttgart’s pre-production masterpiece to the Paris motor show via the Arc de Triomphe and Louvre, with a police escort. While it wasn’t quite as unexpected as Ford’s surprise GT reveal at the 2015 Detroit show, the Carrera GT’s dramatic entrance created an enormous stir. And rightfully so – here was a car developed from a stillborn Le Mans machine with a Formula 1 derived V10 engine. That could be driven on the road.
You won’t need us to explain why the GT remains a notable engineering achievement. The numbers tell half the story; even by modern standards, the 2003 production car’s 612hp output is up there, especially as it's delivered by a natural-aspirated engine at 8,000rpm. And with a six-speed manual gearbox, as well. Moreover, and despite the car’s 4.6-metre length, it weighs only 1,380kg, and serves up 62mph in just 3.9 seconds – with rear-wheel drive. 124mph is reached 6.9 seconds after that. Top speed is 205mph. Those numbers are said to be conservative, too, as per Porsche tradition.
While the carbon fibre chassis wasn’t technically motorsport born, it did start life there as part of Porsche’s motorsport programme – to be used in an LMP2000 prototype (known internally as the 9R3). But thanks to a Le Mans rule change by the FIA and ACO (and, rumours suggest, pressure within the VW Group to not rival Audi’s then new R8 Le Mans car), the LMP2000 never made it past development. Instead Porsche saw fit to use the architecture in a supercar for the new millennium. Better still, the stillborn racer’s engine, a shelved ten-cylinder originally developed in secret for the Footwork team to use in the 1992 F1 season, was to be retained.
Imagine how excited the team were when that lot got signed off. The motor itself had been brought back to life before the LMP2000 project was canned, because engineers decided it was going to be easier to manage and cool than the originally planned turbocharged flat-six. It ensured that the Carrera GT would get one of the most celebrated engines to ever make production. It has genuine F1 ties – far more than those reckoned to have gone into the E60 M5’s V10 – yet it’s mated to a manual gearbox, with that 917-inspired beech wood knob. That was special back in 2000; these days, it’s even easier to get sentimental about.
There were changes, of course, evidenced by the road car engine’s larger capacity of 5.7 litres, compared to the 5.0 and 5.5-litre versions developed under the F1 project. Less power from a bigger capacity lump ensured reliability and easier operation in road use, but the 68-degree motor still required use of a motorsport-grade ceramic clutch to ensure the six-ratio manual could be consistently engaged without failure. The engine revved to 8,400rpm, after all, and despite Porsche’s road-bias tuning, the V10 must be approached with caution. To help keep it in check, the stopping power was provided by carbon ceramic brakes, which were still largely exclusive to racing cars at the time.
The aerodynamics borrowed much from the Le Mans car underneath, with the addition of an extending rear wing to aid stability at high speed, plus a flat floor and rear diffuser, the GT remains a force to be reckoned with. Delivered with no stability control the car demands respect; even Rohrl famously noted that the GT was "the first car in my life that I drive and I feel scared”. But he also adored it, and it's no accident that several other top-level drivers are said to have felt the same. Calling it the last of the hairy-chested hypercars would be overstating it, but 20 years on from the concept’s reveal, it seems no less extreme.
Which is handy because in 2020 it's still possible to experience the GT virtually as it would have been when new. Behold a 599-mile-old, £725k example in the classifieds. Needless to say, original components on a car like this aren’t necessarily a good thing – we’d be checking that the tyres are not still the factory set, for starters – but the mileage would suggest that this one has spent most of its life stationary in a collection. The most affordable car currently on offer has notched up a respectable 15k, and still retails at £575k. Between the two, expect to pay around £650k for a car which has recorded fewer than 500 miles per year. Any one of them will provide its new owner with a virtually peerless example of Porsche pedigree – and for several hundred grand less than its spiritual successor.
- Cayman GT4 (981) vs 718 Cayman GT4 | PH Video
- 991.2 Carrera T | PH Used Review
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator (Roving) at Save the Children Nigeria
Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator (Roving)
Job ID: 220001NV
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Post Type: National
Team: Programme Development and Quality
Reports to: Programme Manager
Technical line manager: Senior MEAL Manager
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
- Level 3- The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts because of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.
- The position holder will sit in Katsina state and support the three project’s implementing states i.e. Katsina, Adamawa, and Borno states, therefore, the role involves frequent traveling.
- He/she will coordinate the MEAL activities for an Integrated Health and Nutrition project with multiple locations (Katsina, Adamawa and Borno states).
- He/she ensures continuous documentation of lessons learnt for project adaptation.
- This project is gender-transformative with focus on adolescent nutrition, sexual reproductive health, education, and protection programmes in an integrated manner.
- The MEAL Coordinator will coordinate MEAL activities for the response, design, and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities for the SCI projects, especially the Integrated Health and Nutrition project in Katsina, Borno, and Adamawa state.
- He/she contributes to strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems, monthly review and analyze data and provide feedback to programme manager and prepare the M&E Project reports to the donors as at when due.
- She/he will provide a framework through which these measurements (M&E data) are fed back to those involved in the running of the various component of the development program and ensure that the information can support and guide the decisions of the management team to improve the quality and impact the program operations.
Key Areas of Accountabilities
Key Responsibilities for M&E:
- Work in close collaboration with the Programme Manager, MEAL Manager, Head of MEAL, and all project managers to develop an overall M&E framework for the development/humanitarian program
- Provide MEAL technical assistance to program teams and inputs into the design stages of program proposals, budgets, log frames, indicators, and measurement methodologies, plans, and tools.
- Provide technical and methodological support to programs for the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, data management (development of questionnaires for surveys, sampling, input method, extraction of useful data and interpretation), and integration of cross-functional issues.
- Ensure continued generation of accurate information about beneficiary reach, as per regional requirements.
- Develop the capabilities of program teams in the areas of collection and analysis of data (method, formats, software, etc.), indicator measurement, feedback and complaint mechanisms, negative impact analysis, etc.
- Develop indicator reference sheets, including a list of operational definitions of what is being counted for each indicator, and develop appropriate data collection tools for the development/humanitarian Response Program programmatic indicators.
- Ensure the consistency of tools and indicators across all offices, sectors, and programs as appropriate, maintaining a bank of key program indicators.
- Ensure that MEAL and program teams regularly review and accordingly adjust MEAL plans and tools in the light of changes and needs in the field context based on monitoring data and reflection sessions.
- Support on planning and managing internal or external program evaluations.
- Conduct regular field visits to track progress against indicators and put in place systems for routine data quality checks and validations
- Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting annual performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.
- Recruit, support, and oversee the technical quality of work by MEAL officers, supporting the officers and program teams’ implementation of MEAL systems.
- Collate case studies and/or help partners to collect case studies for tracking program results.
- Actively participate in M&E meetings with key stakeholders and other external meetings.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly progress reports and statistics as well as mid-/final reports to stakeholders
- Advice and put in place a system for promoting transparency and accountability Plan for stakeholders.
- Support the development of donor reports and document learnings across a project.
- Perform other tasks as required by the MEAL Manager and Head of MEAL.
- First Degree in Social Science / Management Sciences and other related discipline
- 3 – 5 years’ experience in M&E positions and/or program experience in field data collection in emergencies.
Experience and Skills:
- Detailed knowledge of M&E frameworks and M&E Plans, systems, and indicator reference sheets
- Experience in at least two of the following sectors: Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health.
- Good understanding of routine data quality checks/validation
- Experience in survey and qualitative interviewing, including supervising field data collection teams and writing research reports/case studies
- Proficiency in mobile data collection tools design and deployment
- Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Proficiency in the use of statistical analyses software e.g SPSS, STATA, Epi Info, etc
- Ability to assess problems and recommend solutions
- Have experience and/or knowledge about working with children on research issues and is aware of the local legal and child protection systems.
- Experience of working in a post-conflict environment/refugee/IDP situation
- Project management experience
- Ability to work as part of a team, Flexibility, adaptability, and patience
- Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines.
Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
- Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
- High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyze complex sets of relationships and situations
- Holds self and others accountable
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.
Application Closing Date
16th March, 2022.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
- Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process.
- Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as it is contrary to the values and practices of our organization.
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Ancient woven techniques, new scents and flavors coming from the richest local traditions and unique hand-craft products will awaken all your senses.
One of the highlights of this journey is the famous Otavalo Market. The marketplace dates back to pre-Inca times and will invite you to appreciate different textiles, woolen goods, tapestries and many more fine examples of craftsmanship strongly attached to their ways of life and ancestral roots.
On the way to Otavalo, you’ll stop for the famous Ecuadorian “bizcochos” in the Cayambe area, named after the nearby volcano of the same name. The bizcochos are a flaky and buttery biscuit accompanied by locally made mozzarella cheese and a cozy cup of hot chocolate or coffee that will fill your soul with delight. Following this stop, an explosion of color will surprise you at one of the famous Rose Plantations visited. Here you can learn about how roses are one of the leading exports of Ecuador and how these beautiful flowers are bred and grown. You’ll realize why they are so captivating, as each color and type of rose has a story, while discovering how the conditions of high altitude and Ecuador’s position on the equator allows the country to grow the most exquisite roses, exported to many parts of the world as a luxury item.
Lunch will have you tasting traditional dishes and local ingredients in a cozy atmosphere where the Quichua women will help you understand their weaving techniques and explain how they use natural materials and native plants. It is a wonderful opportunity to grasp many of their customs including the typical dress of Otavaleños, their cooking methods, music and dance, which are part of the great mosaic of indigenous culture in the Andes. Finally, you’ll arrive at the well-known Plaza de los Ponchos where you can feel the vibrant energy of an authentic indigenous market and the talented craftspeople who make it possible. The delicate embroidered blouses and shirts, beautifully carved figures, paintings, colorful tapestries, and the warmest and brightest alpaca sweaters, ponchos, and much more will amaze you! Otavaleños are very friendly, always with a smile on their face and will be happy to answer any questions you have about their handiwork. | <urn:uuid:24ceecb8-ee57-44d7-80e6-e0b51b722bb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.columbusecuador.com/our-destination/otavalo-indigenous-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.927453 | 485 | 1.78125 | 2 |
What happens after the sponsored party enters Canada?
Once your application has been approved and the sponsored party has entered Canada. Your duties to the sponsor party still continue. In order to get your application approved, you would have signed an undertaking, and depending on the terms of the undertaking, you still owe a duty to the sponsored party.
You are responsible for providing the necessities, which include housing, clothes, food or the money for pay these things. Usually:
- If you are sponsoring your parents or grandparents, you must support them for 20 years
- For spouses it is usually 3 years and
- For children it could 10 years or till the child reaches the age of 18, whichever is longer.
If you fail to abide by the terms of the undertaking, and the parties you sponsored apply for Ontario Works or for Ontario disability benefits, and get the benefits. You as the sponsor now owe that money to the government. You will not be able to sponsor anyone else in the future till you pay back the money.
For instance, you sponsored your wife, and after 1 year you both separated, and as a result you decided not to support her anymore. Despite the fact that you separated you have the obligation to pay for her necessities for at least 3 years. Since, she is new to the country has, and was depended on you for support, she applied to Ontario Works for support. Now the money she gets from the government is now a loan to you, as now you owe that money to the government.
Before you sponsor a relative, it is important that understand your obligations and duties as the sponsor. It is also necessary for you know what an undertaking is and what terms of an undertaking are.
I hope this helped, and if you have any further questions about your sponsorship applications. You can contact us, and our team of experienced professionals will be happy to answer your questions. | <urn:uuid:a60349cf-e97b-41ec-836a-cdb8b4a0e05a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thevisa.ca/immigration-blogs/what-happens-after-the-sponsored-party-enters-canada.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.971417 | 389 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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FAX (530) 458-4186
At NILL website. Table of contents. Gaming ordinance. (1995)
At Federal Register. Liquor ordinance (2000)
See NILL catalog record for print version of code.
At University of Oklahoma website. Constitution and bylaws. (1942)
At University of Oklahoma website. Corporate charter. (1941)
See NILL catalog record for constitution.
See NILL catalog records for other tribe materials.
At California Gambling Control Commission website. Tribal-state compact.
United States Tribal Courts Directory. By A. Schwartz and M.J.B. Hunter.
Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations. Tiller Research, Inc. (see older version online at the Internet Archive)
Tribal Leaders Directory. (BIA)
How to Build a Tribal Legal History. Indian Nation Archives | <urn:uuid:a5a6692c-2330-43ee-a55b-f2914f6a9e29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.narf.org/nill/tribes/cachil_dehe_wintun.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.729992 | 215 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Nigerian banks can also be regarded as heavyweight in the banking, financing, and investment industry all over the globe.
Nigerian banks can be called the “giant of Africa Finance Industry”, they are regarded as the strongest, reliable, secure, and efficient financial institutions.
The ranking of the richest bank in Nigeria is always based on the Bank assets, after all the banks were evaluated the bank found to be the richest is Ecobank.
Ecobank was established in the year 1985 as a private banking sector, with its headquarter located in Boulevard du Mono, Lomé, Togo
Research shows that the banks had an asset of approximately N 7.79 Trillion to about 9.67 Trillion Naira. | <urn:uuid:8e16d8e3-3b49-4214-9dac-88d47f2dee55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bestnewsnet.com/see-the-richest-bank-in-nigeria-today/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.978441 | 155 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Links to various places on the web that deal with sharpshooters:
My recent articles in the Washington Times about the battle of Fort Stevens and preservation efforts at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
My article in America's Civil War about the battle of Fort Stedman, in which the sharpshooters played a prominent part.
My article in America's Civil War about the friendship between Confederate general Dodson Ramseur and George Custer.
Noah Andre Trudeau's article on Blackford's sharpshooters at Gettysburg.
Who killed General John Reynolds at Gettysburg?
The death of Major General Sedgwick at Spotsylvania at the hands of a Confederate sharpshooter. Web site by a Sedgwick descendant.
Whatever his other faults, Hiram Berdan was a gifted publicist. Even today, when one thinks of sharpshooters in the Civil War they invariably think of Berdan's Sharpshooters. Two of the better sites dealing with this famous unit are here and here.
Tom Ledoux runs Vermont in the Civil War, a massive and comprehensive site featuring Ripley's History of Company F, 1st U.S.S.S., George Bendict's entire Vermont in the Civil War, including the volume on the sharpshooters, and much more.
Robb Brown runs this extensive site on Civil War Sharpshooters, both Union and Confederate.
Brady’s Sharpshooters was a Michigan outfit that served in Virginia.
The First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters served with the Army of Tennessee. So did the Second Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, who are ably represented by a re-enactment group (who also do the 64th Illinois, Yates Sharpshooters).
Rapley’s Sharpshooters, an Arkanasas battalion, also served in the West.
The source for all things Bucktail.
John Morrow's book The Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters remains the classic work on the subject. Good details on both the guns and the men who used them.
A reenactment unit dedicated to McGowan’s Sharpshooters, and another to the Palmetto Riflemen and the New York Zouaves.
A look at modern snipers and sharpshooters in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
A group of law enforcement officers from across the country run a site dedicated to supporting American snipers in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan. Donations of money or equipment will go directly to where they are most needed. | <urn:uuid:7faefa87-f7ba-4af0-82d6-3b46dfdd0528> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cfspress.com/sharpshooters/links.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924488 | 532 | 1.75 | 2 |
Despite Millennials having the reputation of being lazy and only living for the ‘now’, switching jobs regularly, and practising heavily within the gig economy to allow themselves a better work-life balance, they have proven themselves to be generally more financially savvy with respect to saving for retirement than older generations. Their increased financial responsibility is due to having entered the workforce during the Great Recession and discovering early on that even a life-long commitment to a company is no guarantee of financial security in later life. This realisation led many Millennials to make active in-roads towards financial freedom, even with the odds stacked against them. And this same responsible attitude towards money seems to be even more evident in upcoming Gen Zs.
With both these younger generations having come of age in uncertain economic times, they understand that financial safety is not a given, and that they need to make what little money they have work hard for them. To that end, these generations’ tech savviness is proving a game-changer in their ability to save.
That is, while their financial futures might be less certain than their older cohorts, they are embracing their ability to harness technology to track their savings through the use of nest egg calculators. They’re also far more likely to use gamification to make saving fun and motivate themselves through digital means to save more money wisely.
Since financial calculators and tracking apps help consumers visualise their saving and spending habits and set future financial goals, it becomes easier for them to take control of their finances and save effectively for their futures. This bodes well for these younger generations who, with time, may well begin making up current savings deficits and undoing the ravages on their future savings caused by multiple recessions and constant inflation. | <urn:uuid:7805c9d4-66e4-4d4e-a898-ce46919c3f72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=123955 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968678 | 356 | 2.328125 | 2 |
For the past decade, CrossFit has been a major player in the fitness industry (and it’s not showing any sign of slowing down). Part spectator sport, part daily gym routine—and total physical feat—this workout has often been the subject of stories with the words ‘injury risk’ in bold letters. Despite the warning, we’ve remained transfixed by the CrossFit Games (which still offer hefty prize purses to those who dominate the circuit) and the sport is top of mind for those searching for their new fitness resolution. With the surge in interest for the new decade, we are revisiting what CrossFit is—and isn’t—to clear up some myths the sport garnered in the past decade and help you decide if you’re ready to find a “box” (Crossfit-speak for gym) and take on the workout of the day (WOD).
What is CrossFit?
At its core, a CrossFit workout involves movements that we do every day—such as squatting, pushing and pulling, etc.—all done at a very high intensity and in variation (ensured by a new WOD, every day). You can expect to use barbells, kettlebells and dumbbells, along with performing plyometrics and gymnastics movements. In its broader scope, CrossFit is a lifestyle, in part because what you do in the gym can benefit your day-to-day movement outside of it, but also because CrossFit gyms have become social hubs for members.
Studies have shown there is a high sense of community related to CrossFit, which helps to further motivation among its members. In the same vein, at higher levels of competition it also has effects on people’s identity as an athlete (that may change their social identity). CrossFit’s success bringing together people of all fitness levels to work out together on equal ground within a solid community is something many newer gyms and studios are emulating (Orangetheory is just one example), with the difference being that CrossFit also gives these athletes a chance to compete (in both small and large competition settings).
How much does CrossFit cost?
The average price for an unlimited monthly CrossFit membership in the U.S. is $150, but depending on your city, the unlimited monthly membership could cost between $100-$260.
CrossFit and injuries—the real story
In 2013, a study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, a publication of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NCSA), found that 10 weeks of CrossFit improves body composition (among other things). But it also noted that among the study subjects, 16 percent had to drop out of the study early due to injury. That was a problem for CrossFit, Inc., says Tucker Jones, owner and head coach at Ballston CrossFit and CrossFit Route 7, because it was false.
Some of the “injured” athletes have sworn the information was fabricated, a retraction has since been added to the study and CrossFit, Inc. was awarded monetary compensation from the NCSA for the unsubstantiated claims (which the journal’s editor is said to have added in a later draft), the damage was done. The media was quick to publish stories about the injury risk—like this from CBS News and other extreme (and rare) stories of injured athletes—and the sport became known as dangerous.
If you’re one of those people who Google searches included CrossFit as the New Year approached, what can you do to avoid injury and find a gym that will help you safely progress in the sport?
How to find the best CrossFit gym
Jones says that preparing for your first class is as simple as putting on athletic clothes, grabbing a bottle of water and heading to a CrossFit gym. There are different certification levels of coaches, with Level 4 being the highest credential (you should care about the qualifications when choosing a gym). “I believe that CrossFit is extremely safe and effective when the CrossFit movements and workouts are performed under the eye of a highly-qualified coach with well designed programming/workouts,” adds Jones.
When looking for a gym, here are the questions Jones says you should ask to make sure it’s the right fit for you (because not all gyms are created equal):
- What are the qualifications of the coaches?
- What is the class schedule? (See if it works logistically)
- Who creates the gym programming and what is the focus?
- What do the owner(s) and coaches do to build the community at the gym?
- May I meet a member who has achieved similar goals to what I’m looking to achieve?
Keeping these things in mind will not only help you find the right fit in terms of atmosphere, but will help ensure your safety as you start your CrossFit journey. Of course, in order to avoid injury, you should keep your limits in mind and not push too quickly, too fast. The right coach can help guide you so that you progress, but do so at the right pace for your current fitness (while keeping your future fitness goals in mind). The good news? CrossFit isn’t as dangerous as you’ve heard. | <urn:uuid:aadcdae7-4cd7-418a-95c5-e384aa7d9aea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.crossfitcharlotte.com/blog/post/is-crossfit-as-dangerous-as-you-think-heres-what-you-probably-dont-know | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964466 | 1,102 | 1.851563 | 2 |
How do I Find a Permanent Visa Lawyer?
Non-citizens can enter the country and gain permanent resident status by using permanent visas and green cards in Boone County Kentucky.
Much of the process of receiving your Green Card or Permanent Visa involves paperwork and documentation.
Obtaining Green Cards or Visas in Boone County, KY
Most times, Green Cards are the only ways a person can become a legal resident if they were not born in Boone County or the U.S. If a person is seeking one of these documents, having a relative who lives in the United States can substantially speed up the process. Illegal immigrants sometimes can qualify for legal residency if he or she has lived in the United States for a period of time and has family who are citizens of the US.
Filling Out the Visa or Green Card Application in Boone County
Green cards and permanent visas are generally procured before entry into Boone County, KY.
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Denton and Reddish MP, has joined a Dogs Trust campaign which is calling on the Government to take urgent action to stop the illegal importation of puppies into the UK as the deadline for Brexit fast approaches.
With less than six months to go until Britain is due to leave the EU, the Dogs Trust have released their fourth investigative report into the cruel Puppy Smuggling trade to highlight the significant opportunity the government has to redraw the UK’s pet travel rules – which are currently regulated by EU legislation – and end this cruel trade.
The investigation exposes the magnitude and ease of trade routes into the UK for European smugglers:
- Found underage puppies and heavily pregnant bitches forced to travel over 1000 miles across Europe and into the UK in sickening conditions
- Uncovered corrupt vets providing falsified pet passports and fake vaccination stamps for underage puppies
- Witnessed one dealer in Hungary boast of 300 bitches producing puppies that are advertised and sold in the UK
- Revealed that after four years and as many investigations, the government has not acted effectively to clamp down on criminals illegally importing puppies
- Revealed that pet travel legislation is being abused and weak penalties are not a deterrent.
The Dogs Trust has warned that although there has been a rise in puppies illegally imported during the festive season, illegally imported puppies is a huge issue all year round. The organisation has issued advice to help anyone thinking of buying a puppy, to know what to look for, in a bid to stop buyers unwittingly fuelling the trade. The charity has also issued a plea to anyone thinking of getting a dog, to do their research or consider re-homing instead.
Andrew visited the Dogs Trust’s Manchester Rehoming Centre in Denton recently to pledge his support to the campaign.
Andrew Gwynne said:
“I’m very pleased to support this Dogs Trust campaign; we’ve got to raise awareness of the plight of illegally imported puppies, who suffer the most harrowing of journeys at the hands of these unscrupulous dealers.
“With Brexit just around the corner the Government has the opportunity of a lifetime to put robust measures in place that protect dogs and the public. I’m urging the Government to take forward the recommendations of the Dogs Trust to overhaul our pet travel legislation and increase the penalties for those caught fuelling this despicable trade.” | <urn:uuid:e070b102-130a-4d2f-a247-d002f6c68cdf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://andrewgwynne.co.uk/weve-got-to-end-puppy-smuggling-once-and-for-all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961978 | 483 | 1.679688 | 2 |
- School Meal Programs: How can we be more effective? - June 12, 2018
- Wolfgang Köhler and the Fight for the Psychological Institute - February 4, 2018
- Stories of a New Administrator - October 19, 2016
- Group Work and the Introverted Student - August 22, 2016
- To Test or not to Test: That is the Question - July 13, 2016
- Fostering an Independent Three-Year-Old - June 22, 2016
- A Letter to First Day Families - June 6, 2016
- The Benefits of an Individualized Approach - May 25, 2016
Due to the high number of students receiving their nutritional intake from school meal programs, the U.S. Congress passed the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act. The act increased school lunch funding by $0.06 per lunch with the hope that more fruits, vegetables, and whole grain products would be served. It also paved the way for pilot testing of After School Supper Programs in all 50 states. As poverty continues to rise, advocates look to these programs and the effect they have on students. Advocates are arguing that school meal programs put kids in “an awful and embarrassing situation". So, what is to be truly gained from these programs?
In 2016, the USDA reported that 14.6 million students in the United States participated in the federal School Breakfast Program (SBP) and served more than 2.4 billion breakfasts to students across the country. The SBP and the National School Lunch Program were designed to alleviate some of the short-term hunger faced by children living below the national poverty line and some even believe that these programs will help to increase attendance and academic performance. Instead, the only thing found to be beneficial about these programs is decreasing short-term hunger.
For younger students, meal times are full of demands from adults. Students are told how much to eat, in what order they need to eat things, bribed to eat, rewarded by food, and told when to be finished eating. Samantha Ramsay and her team observed lunch at several Head Start programs around the country and found that teachers were focusing more on time constraints and ensuring nutritional consumption and less on helping kids recognize what their body is saying to them about their level of hunger.Researchers believe that what adults say to kids regarding food can have a lasting impact on self-regulation skills when it comes to eating Click To Tweet
Researchers believe that what adults say to kids regarding food can have a lasting impact on self-regulation skills when it comes to eating. In the meantime, teachers are influenced by the fact that school meals can sometimes be the only meal a student eats that day. This puts pressure on the teachers to encourage kids to eat all of their food or start with their "healthy" food. But, what it is doing is teaching kids to ignore what their body is telling them about how hungry or satisfied they are. Rasay and her colleagues recommend speaking to children in a way that gets them to think about what their body is saying. Instead of asking, "are you done?" or "can you just try it?" teachers can ask questions like "are you full?" or "were you hungry?" This aids the child in recognizing bodily cues.
Cliona Mhurchu and her team researched the effects of SBP's on elementary school children in New Zealand. They primarily wanted to know if offering an SBP would increase school attendance and if that would, in turn, impact "academic achievement, self-reported grades, sense of belonging at school, behavior, short-term hunger, breakfast habits and food security." Over the course of one school year, they had schools introduce SBP's which offered all students free breakfast. For the public schools, breakfasts consisted of cereal, low-fat milk, spreads, a chocolate drink powder, milk powder, and sugar. For the private schools, breakfast was a cereal and low-fat milk. What they found is surprising. Instead of increasing school attendance, attendance gradually decreased over the course of the year which meant that the SBP had no impact on school attendance. As for achievement, self-reported grades, sense of belonging, etc. the SBP made no impact. The only factor that was positively affected by the program was short-term hunger, which should come as no surprise.
While this is just one study and it was not conducted here in the United States, it would be interesting to see how successful these programs are here. With over 14 million children eating free or reduced breakfast during the school year, it makes one wonder how those numbers would change and what impact it would have if there were some other motivation to attend school. We have to get the students there in order for them to benefit from programs like the SBP (School Breakfast Program) and NSLP (National School Lunch Program). Some of the issues lie in the stigma that comes with participating in such programs. How the school handles the free status of meals can contribute to the feeling of shame and embarrassment that students feel when they do accept the help they desperately need. It can become a source of ridicule and bullying if not kept confidential.
For example, at Conway High School in Arkansas, the art teacher has started to tackle this issue. In her classroom, she has created a food pantry stocked with snacks and easy to cook foods that students can take and not feel judged.5 The embarrassment has been removed by allowing any student, regardless of need or poverty level, to take food from it. Sometimes as many as 204 students will grab a snack from the closet and no one says a word because they are all getting what they need together. If you go to the local supermarket, there is a bin where people can donate to this project as they shop.
One of the ways that Mhurchu and her team evaluated the effectiveness of an SBP was by making breakfast available and free to all students who attended the schools. This made everyone eating breakfast equals and removed any possibility of students making fun of others. It allows those who need the help to reach out for it without feeling ashamed of needing it. While it may not be enough of a motivator to keep some kids in school, it would give the kids that are attending an opportunity to eat.
The School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program and valuable for students in need. However, they alone are not enough of a motivator to keep low-income kids in school and ensure that they are getting the nutrients they need each day. If teachers could focus on how to remove the stigma attached to needing assistance, more kids may feel comfortable accepting the help they might need when it comes to food. It is important that we work to remove the labels that society places on those receiving assistance. Small acts in our classroom and a change in the way we talk to kids during meal times can help push us in a more positive direction. These programs do help with short-term hunger needs. But if kids are embarrassed to receive free meals at school, then what good is it actually doing? Something as small as putting some communal snacks in a classroom closet can encourage those that truly need it to come forward. It's an easy way for the community to get involved and creates a safe space for those who may not feel comfortable reaching out. As Winston Churchill said, "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." The tools for helping fight student hunger are there, all we need to do is figure out how to use them. | <urn:uuid:c99028cd-f0ce-4fc9-8e2c-23eb499db39d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theeducatorsroom.com/school-meal-programs-how-can-we-be-more-effective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975759 | 1,518 | 3.328125 | 3 |
ANISE SEED TEA BENEFITS: INTRO
Anise seed tea benefits are becoming widely known! This amazing tea uses anise seeds as a primary ingredient. This post will briefly detail some of the main Benefits of Anise Seed Tea. If you would like a detailed discussion, check out my related post: Anise Tea Benefits.
ANISE SEED TEA BENEFITS: GUIDE
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Many people choose to consume anise seed tea on a daily basis to receive the significant Benefits of Anise Seed Tea. This section of the post will list some of the main benefits associated with this tea. It is important to remember that herbal tea affects people differently, and you should consult with your primary healthcare provider prior to consuming anise seed tea.
The List of Benefits
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We sequenced complete HIV-1 genomes from single molecules using Single Molecule, Real- Time (SMRT) Sequencing and derive de novo full-length genome sequences. SMRT sequencing yields long-read sequencing results from individual DNA molecules with a rapid time-to-result. These attributes make it a useful tool for continuous monitoring of viral populations. The single-molecule nature of the sequencing method allows us to estimate variant subspecies and relative abundances by counting methods. We detail mathematical techniques used in viral variant subspecies identification including clustering distance metrics and mutual information. Sequencing was performed in order to better understand the relationships between the specific sequences of transmitted viruses in linked transmission pairs. Samples representing HIV transmission pairs were selected from the Zambia Emory HIV Research Project (Lusaka, Zambia) and sequenced. We examine Single Genome Amplification (SGA) prepped samples and samples containing complex mixtures of genomes. Whole genome consensus estimates for each of the samples were made. Genome reads were clustered using a simple distance metric on aligned reads. Appropriate thresholds were chosen to yield distinct clusters of HIV genomes within samples. Mutual information between columns in the genome alignments was used to measure dependence. In silico mixtures of reads from the SGA samples were made to simulate samples containing exactly controlled complex mixtures of genomes and our clustering methods were applied to these complex mixtures. SMRT Sequencing data contained multiple full-length (greater than 9 kb) continuous reads for each sample. Simple whole genome consensus estimates easily identified transmission pairs. The clustering of the genome reads showed diversity differences between the samples, allowing us to characterize the diversity of the individual quasi-species comprising the patient viral populations across the full genome. Mutual information identified possible dependencies of different positions across the full HIV-1 genome. The SGA consensus genomes agreed with prior Sanger sequencing. Our clustering methods correctly segregated reads to their correct originating genome for the synthetic SGA mixtures. The results open up the potential for reference-agnostic and cost effective full genome sequencing of HIV-1. | <urn:uuid:83aef0a3-ef92-43c9-8358-5522bccef096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pacb.com/proceedings/complete-hiv-1-genomes-from-single-molecules-diversity-estimates-in-two-linked-transmission-pairs-using-clustering-and-mutual-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.914249 | 436 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism's confident return to the mainstream. Brexit, in the course of generating a historically unique standard of sociopolitical uncertainty and constitutional intrigue, tore apart the two-party compact that had defined the parameters of political contestation for much of twentieth-century Britain. This book offers a wide-ranging picture of the different theoretical accounts relevant to addressing nationalism. It briefly repudiates the increasingly common attempts to read contemporary politics through the lens of populism. The book explores the assertion of 'muscular liberalism' and civic nationalism. It examines more traditional, conservative appeals to racialised notions of blood, territory, purity and tradition as a means of reclaiming the nation. The book also examines how neoliberalism, through its recourse to discourses of meritocracy, entrepreneurial self and individual will, alongside its exaltation of a 'points-system' approach to the ills of immigration, engineers its own unique rendition of the nationalist crisis. There are a number of important themes through which the process of liberal nationalism can be documented - what Arun Kundnani captured, simply and concisely, as the entrenchment of 'values racism'. These include the 'faux-feminist' demonisation of Muslims.
and concisely, as the entrenchment of ‘valuesracism’.52 These include the aforementioned ‘faux-feminist’ demonisation of
Muslims.53 It also involves the weaponisation of an entirely imagined endangering of free speech and secularism that the accommodation of Muslim
demands engenders. Note for instance that those decrying the putative erosion of free speech are actually decrying the excess of free speech available
to critics. Put simply, the free speech warriors are exercised primarily by the
fact that others are able to deploy the free speech affordances available
these prized liberal
virtues, virtues that are foregrounded as constitutive of the national self.
The argument of Arun Kundnani and his concept of ‘valuesracism’ is
also helpful here, certainly in relation to liberal demagoguery vis-à-vis
European Muslims.44 This is the basic postulation that Muslim culture is
said to be uniquely adversarial to a liberal value base, the base that defines
the nation. The opportunistic recourse to certain putatively feminist themes
regarding gender and sexuality in propagating an ethnically aggressive
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AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.—The Air Force Academy in Colorado was investigating whether 40 freshman cadets cheated in a chemistry class by copying portions of a lab assignment.
“We are sorely disappointed in this extremely small segment of our 4,000-plus cadet population,” Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson said Monday.
Students who fall to meet the high standards at the school will be held accountable, she said.
Cadets caught cheating can be expelled, but the Colorado Springs Gazette reported (http://tinyurl.com/mchobbr) that freshmen violators are generally treated more leniently and can be placed on probation.
The disclosure followed an investigation launched in January by the U.S. Air Force after dozens of nuclear missile officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana allegedly cheated on their launch proficiency exams. It was the latest in a string of nuclear missteps revealed last year by The Associated Press.
The problems prompted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to launch two probes of the entire nuclear force to find causes for leadership lapses and other problems. Hagel said the steps were necessary to restore public confidence.
The latest investigation at the Air Force Academy is the fourth probe of cheating involving a group of cadets at the school since 2004.
Allegations are investigated by a cadet-run honor board that determines whether the honor code was broken.
In 2012, the academy said 78 cadets were accused of cheating on an online calculus test by getting help during the exam from a website. All but four accepted responsibility, and most were given remediation classes.
In 2007, 15 cadets were expelled and three resigned for cheating on a test of general knowledge about the Air Force. Another 13 were placed on probation.
Academy spokesman David Cannon said freshmen violators no longer face mandatory expulsion and can instead be placed on honor probation. They are generally confined to campus and assigned extra duty, including miles of marching.
First-time offenders who acknowledge wrongdoing get a one-time chance to stay at the academy if they undergo a months-long program aimed at improving their morality. | <urn:uuid:d5714ca3-5bcc-426c-828d-a80bca01d3c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.twincities.com/2014/03/03/air-force-academy-begins-another-cheating-probe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959858 | 439 | 1.585938 | 2 |
This day marks the first day of the four-year presidential term, swearing in the elected president and vice president at noon on January 20.
Inauguration day consists of a swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol put on by the Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies followed by a parade. It is not considered a public holiday, but many schools and workplaces watch the inauguration on television.
The first inauguration took place on April 30, 1789, after George Washington’s election. Franklin Roosevelt’s March 4th inauguration in 1937 was the last ceremony to take place on this date; since then, it has been observed on January 20th.
The typical schedule of events starts with the vice president’s swearing in, after which the vice presidential song, “Hail, Columbia,” is played by bugles and drums. The president is then sworn in at noon, followed by “Hail to the Chief,” a 21-gun salute, and an inaugural address. Afterward, Congress hosts a luncheon and the president walks down Pennsylvania Avenue with the parade. If inauguration day falls on a Sunday, the ceremony is private, followed by a public ceremony the next day.
The oath of affirmation is the only part of the ceremony that is mandated by the constitution. In the case of a new president mid-term due to death or another reason that causes the president to leave their post, only the oath is administered.
Other elements include song performances and poetry readings. The ceremony’s actual location as varied, taking place on the Capitol’s East Portico from Presidents Jackson to Carter, moved to the Capitol’s West Front in Reagan’s inauguration in 1981.
Inauguration Day Facts
- Attendees typically include government workers, including members of Congress, the Supreme Court, military officers, ex-presidents, and award recipients. Traditionally, the outgoing president attends the ceremonies.
- The phrase, “so help me God,” at the end of the presidential oath was improvised by George Washington.
- Traditionally, the oath is taken on a bible, sometimes the George Washington Inaugural Bible, but the Constitution does not name a specific text that the president must take the oath with.
- President Barack Obama’s inauguration was the most widely attended event in Washington, DC. This ceremony also featured the first female MC, Senator Dianne Feinstein.
- President Harrison gave the longest inauguration address in 1841 during a snowstorm, refusing to move the ceremony inside in order to prove his resiliency. He caught a cold, which turned into pneumonia, dying 31 days after taking office.
- The oath is often given by a Chief Justice or another high-ranking official. Chief Justice John Marshall holds the record of giving 9 presidential oaths.
- Theodore Roosevelt is the only president that did not use a Bible for the oath, sworn in after the assassination of President McKinley.
- George Washington gave the shortest inaugural address at 135 words.
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GELFAND’S WORLD-Somehow, a few people involved in Los Angeles neighborhood councils want to turn their personal disagreements into the equivalent of a crime.
They want people who insult them to be punished. The fact that the First Amendment is supposed to protect our freedom of speech is beside the point to them. And punishment of the offenders would be by suspension from elected seats on neighborhood council boards.
The city agencies that nominally have some control over the system are trying to help create just such a system for punishing disagreements and personal animosities.
That's a rather harsh way of summarizing things but based on statements made in a public meeting on Saturday, it's pretty much the reality.
As I mentioned in a previous article, the city's Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), working with the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners (BONC), has been trying to create a system in which members of neighborhood council boards can be punished or removed based on anonymous allegations. DONE would know the identity of the complaining person, but the rest of us wouldn't.
There has been an outcry among neighborhood council participants over the policy proposal. In a more recent article, I mentioned a resolution opposing the proposed policy which has now been offered to our city's neighborhood councils.
There have been, at last count, 11 neighborhood councils which have endorsed this resolution in opposition to DONE's proposal. Down here in the harbor area, several of the councils have adopted the motion by unanimous vote. That's a lot of people, and a resounding declaration of opposition.
There is a wider context which is even more troubling.
The City of Los Angeles is trying to create a policy for its own employees on what it calls Equity and Diversity. The proposed policy (currently in draft) would be binding on its employees, who will be required to take training so they can learn about their implicit biases. Then, the city will take action against employees who act out on their bias.
This sounds a lot like trying to turn thoughts into crimes, much like a George Orwell novel.
In response to the objections, DONE and BONC offered to create 4 online meetings which would allow us neighborhood council participants to give feedback. The first of these meetings was on Saturday.
It was all painfully predictable.
Saturday's discussion began with about an hour of presentations and speeches by BONC members Eli Lipmen, Len Shafer, (and later Ray Regalado) and by DONE staff members and the DONE General Manager. It was propaganda at its purest. The DONE staff and the BONC commissioners did their best to convince us that the new policy was not only necessary, it would also be legal under city statutes and the City Charter. They did this by putting up one screen after another quoting some element of the municipal code or the Charter.
There was no opportunity for rival debate or interruption during this session. It was purely a public show.
There followed another hour in which the public were invited to comment, but even then, the people running the meeting attempted to focus and limit the discussion to questions of their choosing.
In addition, the choice of who got to speak seemed to this participant to be rather slanted, in that a few people who wanted to speak in favor of the proposed policy got to speak repeatedly, but yours truly was limited in the number of times I was allowed to comment. DONE staffer Mike Fong did not distinguish himself in this regard.
When the terms of the debate are controlled by those who are adamantly on one side, and those who are opposed are limited in their chance to speak, the discussion is, to say the least, warped.
DONE certainly got the chance to present its side, but it was, overall, an unconvincing argument. Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the department will act in good faith and do its due diligence in considering complaints. But as many neighborhood council participants and critics have pointed out, the proposal does not include any specific due process rights on the part of the accused. As others have pointed out, there is plenty of reason to distrust DONE's honesty or legal competence.
For specific examples of that untrustworthiness, see the Appendix at the bottom of this page.
Let's summarize the argument set forth by the BONC commissioners and by the DONE staff.
In brief, DONE claims that they have had numerous complaints over the years where neighborhood council participants said that they were being bullied or threatened or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable. I wish I could offer you specific examples, but none were forthcoming. I even asked for specifics in the Q/A column but received nothing specific by way of answer.
We were left with a vaguely made claim that some neighborhood council board members bully other board members or members of the public. And this, by itself, was supposed to be reason enough to enact the extreme measures that have been proposed.
There was a side discussion which involved the discussion of acts of violence and credible threats of violence. I spoke on this topic myself. An act of violence by any person against another member of the public is a police matter and should be treated as such. Actual crimes should be prosecuted by the proper authorities. The City Attorney has the ability to file a request for a restraining order against someone who engages in such activities. But of course, the City Attorney won't get very far in asking a judge to grant a restraining order based only on an anonymous allegation.
But it should be possible upon an acceptable level of proof (say in a court of law, in establishing a restraining order) that the City of Los Angeles could then remove someone from a neighborhood council board. Perhaps such an action could even be part of the pleadings for the restraining order.
Note that City Attorneys and Judges are trained legal professionals. I'm not aware of any attempt by DONE to demonstrate that even one of its staffers has legal knowledge at the level to justify acting as a judge against a neighborhood council board member. Actually, what I've seen goes quite to the contrary. I've seen some remarkable ignorance, even in something as simple as elementary parliamentary procedure.
The justification of governmental bullying
Curiously, a lot of the DONE presentation was simply a listing of various statutes and ordinances. It was intended to prove that the city has the legal right to impose its will upon neighborhood council boards and participants.
None of the words they presented were fabricated, and much of the presentation was pertinent, but there were things that were missing.
In science, we use the term "cherry picking" to refer to a process by which some author tries to make a point by leaving out anything and everything that goes contrary to the desired point. You see this technique a lot in arguments by the anti-vaccine people, and I think I saw it in the DONE presentation. There is plenty in section 9 of the city Charter that seems to guarantee the right to political freedom by neighborhood councils. We didn't hear a lot about that from the DONE presenters.
A deeper question begins to arise out of the discussion, and DONE fails to notice
As the afternoon went along, I began to understand the crux of the matter, which I would like to discuss at this point.
To begin, I don't think that there is anybody who would defend actual acts of violence by board members or by members of the public. I don't think that there are a lot of people who would argue against the city taking action to prevent such people from returning to neighborhood council meetings. It's a fundamental element of our criminal law.
At the same time, there seems to be a lack of agreement what power DONE ought to have when it comes to simple speech. Suppose I were to point out that somebody's argument is stupid. Is that an actionable offense that should get me suspended from participation in the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council board? I don't think it is, but it was clear listening to some of the speakers at Saturday's meeting that they would want me suspended. They made their point clear in arguing that all board members should be held to the Code of Conduct that BONC has written (and now proposes to impose against all board members all over the city).
Suppose someone were to accuse me or one of my colleagues of discriminatory speech or practice? Would that subject her to the same kind of suspension (since it is a direct attack on our character to make such a suggestion) or would it instead result in my suspension on the simple basis of allegation?
Or suppose someone were to raise an eyebrow (even intentionally) implying disagreement with some particularly sensitive member of the board or the public. Would this be a "microaggression" under the city's proposed rules on diversity and therefore subject to suspension from a neighborhood council board for 90 days?
I'm not joking about this. One time I was sitting in the audience at a neighborhood council meeting and one of the board members looked up at me and said, "Don't roll your eyes at me, Bob." Which one of us would be judged guilty of a microaggression (or even an aggression) under the city's proposed diversity rules?
So here is the crux that I spoke of. If we are to hold to traditional freedoms including freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, then it shouldn't be enough to insult somebody or to mock their logic to reach the threshold for punishment. In truth, we have to draw a careful line when we speak about bullying, because sometimes what one person thinks of as bullying is simply a difference of opinion. Tone of voice gets turned into a crime under the proposed policy.
Yes, the city should step in against violence and against credible threats of violence. Calling somebody names on Facebook should be outside of the city's authority.
I repeatedly tried to ask the DONE staffers to be specific about what should be actionable conduct. I did not get an answer. If we wish to write and enforce laws against crimes, we need to be specific in defining those crimes. What DONE and BONC are currently talking about are currently undefined activities that would, at some time in the indefinite future, be made into the equivalent of crimes (because board members will be punished by governmental action).
The new rules invented by the current General Manager, or some future GM will be what this country's framers referred to as ex post facto laws. It's ex post facto because only when DONE and its General Manager get through deciding whether something ought to be an actionable offense will it be treated that way.
How bad is the proposed policy?
If I were to say in a board meeting that the DONE staffers I heard Saturday were making stupid arguments, would that be classified as bullying? If I were to make exactly the same comment in these pages, would it be considered actionable against me as an elected neighborhood council board member?
How about we create a test case here and now. DONE staffer Mike Fong, in my opinion, discriminated against me when I tried to get a chance to speak for a second time at Saturday's meeting. Arguments made by other DONE staffers were, in my opinion, stupid or ill formed. I am skeptical about the motives of DONE staffers in regard to this whole question.
I would expect that under the proposed policy, DONE would find my remarks in the above paragraph to be bullying. Perhaps they would use them to attempt to suspend me from participating in my neighborhood council board. If I (or somebody else) were to make like remarks towards a fellow board member or a member of the public, DONE would, under the logic adopted by several of Saturday's speakers, be obligated to punish us for violating some concept of forbidden speech.
We've seen lots of examples of exactly this policy all over the world. Somebody is in prison for insulting the dictator or insulting the state or arguing that it shouldn't be required that women wear head scarves. It hardly matters what the insult or microaggression is -- punishing people for disagreeing with our own political opinions is not an American tradition.
During Saturday's meeting, I offered the following question: "Under the proposed policy, is there any room in the city's neighborhood council system for supporters of Donald Trump?" There is a pretty good case to be made that somebody would find fault with an outspoken Trump supporter and would file a complaint.
Would Larry Elder himself be suspended from a neighborhood council board for one of his pronouncements made over a Los Angeles radio station?
The fact that we don't actually know the answers to these questions shows just how stupid and un-American the proposed policies are.
I'd like to finish by quoting a fellow CityWatch author. Jack Humphreville pointed out (referring to DONE General Manager Raquel Beltran), " My basic issue is that I do not trust Raquel, and for that matter, BONC. This whole process confirms my belief." In a later conversation, Jack pointed out that it's hard to do business with people you don't trust.
Let's consider a real-world example that happened not long ago right down here in San Pedro. The Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council (CeSPNC) had a president who was, to put it politely, a little less than competent in doing her job. She also got into some personality skirmishes with other board members. The board decided that it might like to replace her, so a motion was placed on their next board agenda to remove the president.
It should have been a simple question. Either there would be a quorum present or there would not be. If a quorum were present, then it would be a simple majority vote as to whether the president would be removed or not. This is what their bylaws allowed, and it is also the essence of democracy within an elected public board.
But this is also where a legal conflict arose, and, as you shall see, that legal question is also a part of the current debate.
On the day of that board meeting, members of the CeSPNC board got a message from DONE. It was signed by their new General Manager, Raquel Beltran. At the time, I referred to the message as an extortion letter. It explained to the board that a complaint had been made against some subset of them, and the board was advised not to take up the question of removing their president. Now it's of course OK for DONE to offer its advice, but this time they took it further. There was a thinly veiled threat that the whole neighborhood council could be taken over by DONE if they were to take up the removal question. The term that DONE uses for such a takeover is Exhaustive Efforts, a phrase that goes back to some original language from the early part of the 2000s.
One more thing about that threat to put CeSPNC into Exhaustive Efforts: The municipal code explicitly requires DONE to explain what violation of law or bylaws was committed by that neighborhood council.
Curiously, that same neighborhood council had been placed in Exhaustive Efforts a couple of years earlier. But when DONE was asked to explain the reason for its takeover (which went on, as I recall, some 4 months), they were not forthcoming with an answer. Specifically, a high ranking DONE employee by the name of Mike Fong used to attend meetings of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition (Lancc). I asked him repeatedly to tell us the specific violation of law or bylaws committed by CeSPNC that justified their being placed into Exhaustive Efforts, and Fong never answered that question.
So, we have a newer General Manager and a long-term high ranking DONE staff member who are willing to misuse and abuse the Exhaustive Efforts procedure -- one as a staff member during a time when it was actually applied to CeSPNC, and the other a new General Manager who used the threat of Exhaustive Efforts to force her will upon an elected board. These people have not shown that they are to be trusted.
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Humility is a virtue that many people value highly. It’s something we often look for in our leaders and expect from those who lead us. This means that humility can be one of the most important qualities for an effective leader to have.
Humility is a word that gets thrown around a lot in leadership circles, but what does humility really mean? Some people say it will help you feel less superior and entitled. The others claim it leads to less stress and more engagement.
In this blog post, I want to share with you what humility in leadership means, how to develop it, and why it is so important.
Give credit, accept responsibility
As a leader, you can develop humility in a few different ways. You can start simple. Give credit to others and accept responsibility for your own mistakes. A humble leader understands that the team they lead is more important than themselves.
If you give praise where it is due, it will provide you with more opportunities for developing a great workplace culture. Avoid showing off about your accomplishments.
As a humble leader, you should also take responsibility for your mistakes instead of trying to pass the blame on others.
Stay grounded no matter what
A leader can’t let their success go to their head, and they must stay grounded no matter what happens. This is one of the most important parts of humility.
I can think of a few scenarios where I learned firsthand what it means to stay grounded as a leader. My first exposure to the corporate environment was in the construction industry.
Winning a construction project bid in my first month of employment was an incredible feeling, but I couldn’t celebrate for too long. There were still a ton of things to get done and I had to stay grounded to do them.
We needed all the right equipment and material on site at once so that we could work fast without losing time or money. My team needed clear direction from me about what their responsibilities were.
I reminded myself daily that while we won the first step, there are many more to cover in the coming weeks and months, and that kept me grounded throughout.
See value of others
When you are humble as a leader, you can see the value of others. Instead of fearing their skills and abilities, appreciate them. Rather than holding individuals back, you have a duty to propel them ahead. Humility allows people to blossom into their full potential, which benefits the entire business.
I’ve experienced this personally with employees and in my personal life. I once had a teammate who was struggling with their part of our project. Our manager approached this situation with humility.
Instead of criticizing them for it, which would have been easy to do, she asked more questions about what they were doing and gave gentle suggestions on how we could be more effective.
World class leaders always see value in others and understand that if they continue to help and support people, those people will feel encouraged to do more.
Recognize and learn from your mistakes
We all make mistakes. The key to humility is being able to admit this and learn from it.
When you make a mistake, own up to it immediately so you can figure out what caused the error and how you can avoid repeating it in the future.
In my first supervisory role, it tempted me to cover up my mistake. However, I quickly realized that wasn’t the right choice and owned up to my mistake. As a construction site supervisor, I underestimated the work needed to be done by our masons. This negatively affected the project and delayed the completion by 2 weeks.
Don’t blame others or try covering your mistakes up. People will eventually discover the cover-up and they will lose trust in their leader.
Know that you don't have all the answers
It is okay to say “I don’t know” when asked a question. Even the best leaders in history understand that they don’t have all the answers.
Admitting it will open endless opportunities. People will have more respect for you, and they will help. Remember that project I made a mistake on?
After I made the mistake, I told the team what happened. They came together and their team lead provided some valuable insight into how we can adjust what we’re doing. It started a collaborative process and got people into problem-solving mode.
With this, we learned and eventually transformed our approach to estimating how much time to complete a part of the project. Humility can also help you gain fresh ideas from people with different backgrounds than yours. This will cause a more inclusive environment, which is beneficial.
Build a culture of authenticity
Creating a culture of honesty and sincerity is critical to your company’s success. This applies to any size company, big or small. To do so, focus on being your authentic self.
As a leader, it is your responsibility to develop and bring this up in your team. If you are being your authentic self with your team members, they will trust and respect you more.
As I transitioned my career from construction to hospitality, it tempted me to hide my past and paint a new picture to my new teammates. For a brief period, I became a person I didn’t know. This never works.
I quickly discovered this was the wrong approach. Some of my team members realized it was only a facade and after I spoke with a few of them, I changed back to being me. Be an authentic leader by demonstrating humility in leadership, and through action. If you are truly yourself, humility will come naturally, and your team will appreciate it!
Learn to control your ego
Learn to control your ego. A humble leader is someone who knows their strengths and weaknesses and acknowledges them both with humility. You can’t solve a problem unless you understand it fully; this includes your own issues. Your ego may delay learning from others – humility does not allow that!
Ego was an enormous problem for me. I quickly pick up skills and learn as I go. In my 20s, I thought this was a good thing. I would often brag about how I learned this and that in a month’s time, thinking it will elevate me in the eyes of others.
It did the complete opposite. I lost many opportunities and lost my way. Good thing I still had a few people that cared for me. They helped me realize and change my ways.
Leadership humility is a powerful quality that I believe will help you and your peers in both business and life. It’s not just humility or ego, it’s about balance – something we all must learn to achieve happiness and success at work!
Create a vision that will serve everyone
As an effective and humble leader, create a vision that serves the common good. To do so, you need to be attentive and combine different demands from people.
There are three qualities that captivating visions must possess to be effective. They must have substance, context, and trustworthiness. As a humble yet effective leader, you can provide all 3.
Have in mind that developing a vision doesn’t require you to do it alone. You can develop it through a collaborative process that involves key stakeholders.
Doing so will help your organization become more sustainable.
Why is humility so important to great leadership
Humility is at the core of all great leadership. While that’s true, it’s something many people find difficult to achieve.
You can start by accepting responsibility for your mistakes, learning from them, and recognizing the worth of others.
It also means knowing when you don’t have all the answers. In order to develop humility as a leader, you need to recognize these qualities about yourself and work on improving them one day at a time.
The humblest leaders I know are those who give credit and stay grounded no matter what happens. They also have an unwavering belief in themselves because of their vision, which serves everyone involved with it.
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FAQ: How Much Would The First Harley Davidson Motorcyxle Be Worth Today For A Collector?
- 1 What is the most collectible Harley Davidson?
- 2 How much is the first motorcycle worth?
- 3 Do Harley Davidson’s hold their value?
- 4 What was the price of the first Harley Davidson?
- 5 What are the bad years for Harley-Davidson?
- 6 How many miles is too much on a motorcycle?
- 7 Are motorcycles a good investment?
- 8 Is owning a motorcycle worth it?
- 9 Why you should not get a motorcycle?
- 10 Are Harleys difficult to ride?
- 11 What is the best selling motorcycle in the USA?
- 12 What is the average age of a Harley-Davidson rider?
- 13 Who owns Harley now?
- 14 What year was the oldest Harley built?
What is the most collectible Harley Davidson?
Here are the ten most expensive Harley Davidson motorcycles.
- Easy Rider – $1.35 million.
- Cosmic Starship – $1Million.
- 8-Valve Racer (1916–1923 – $1,000,000.
- Model 5-D Twin (1909) – $400,000.
- Unrestored Singles (Pre-1910) – $300,000.
- DAH Hillclimber (1932) – $200,000.
- JH “Two-Cam” (1928) – $150,00.
How much is the first motorcycle worth?
So, how much should you spend on your first motorcycle? For your first motorcycle, it’s best to spend around $3000-5000 on a used motorcycle. At this price it’s easy to find a mechanically sound and reliable motorcycle, one that has already depreciated in value.
Do Harley Davidson’s hold their value?
Bikes made by Harley-Davidson, BMW, and Ducati, in fact, seem to hold their MSRP value better than any others. By brand, according to data compiled by the Kelley Blue Book Official Motorcycle Guide, Harley -Davidson motorcycles retained an average of 84% of their value over a five-year period.
What was the price of the first Harley Davidson?
The Harley-Davidson Model 1 was the first motorcycle produced by the American manufacturer Harley-Davidson. The purchase price was 200 US dollars; 38 copies were made.
What are the bad years for Harley-Davidson?
The 10 Worst Harley-Davidson Motorcycles Ever Made
- 1 2001 Ultra Classic. via cycletrader.com.
- 2 1981 Sportster. via Sportsterpedia.
- 3 2014 Electra Glide. via ridinghighharleydavidson.
- 4 HD Street 500. via avante.
- 5 FXSTB Night Train. via BestCarMag.
- 6 1981 XR-750. via pinterest.
- 7 Road Glide Ultra.
- 8 2004 Dyna Superglide.
How many miles is too much on a motorcycle?
Generally, high mileage on a motorcycle is anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 miles. For sport bikes, the high mileage number will be on the low end (usually around 25,000), while cruisers and touring bikes typically become high mileage in the 40,000- to the 50,000-mile range.
Are motorcycles a good investment?
Tax Free Investment Returns Classic motorcycles are great fun to own and great value. Even today, there are still unique machines out there, stuck in the back of a garage. Like investing in art, classic cars and wine, all profits are 100% tax-free if part of a private collection.
Is owning a motorcycle worth it?
The cost of owning a motorcycle may be less than the cost of owning a car, but when it comes to protection from serious injury or death, a car is the definite winner between the two. In 2006, there were 35 times more deaths from motorcycle accidents than from car accidents.
Why you should not get a motorcycle?
Look, motorcycles are dangerous. In fact, motorcycles are 38 times more dangerous than driving a car and if you hit an immovable object or someone hits you, you’re the one that’s going to get hurt or even die. In the end, that’s not really helpful in building the motorcycle community.
Are Harleys difficult to ride?
IS IT HARDER TO LEARN TO RIDE A HARLEY® THAN OTHER TYPES OF MOTORCYCLE? Not at all. Larger, heavier Harley-Davidson® motorcycles are positionally stable, with wide tires that make keeping the bike upright a little simpler. You’re going to drop your bike.
What is the best selling motorcycle in the USA?
Motorcycle brands’ market share in the U.S. Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson reached a market share of around 30 percent. Harley-Davidson is the number one motorcycle manufacturer in the United States.
What is the average age of a Harley-Davidson rider?
But there is another statistic associated with these legendary bikes that is startling, all the more so if you don’t ride: The average age of a Harley owner these days is 44. In fact, more than eight out of 10 Harley owners are over 35; almost one in five is 55 or older.
Who owns Harley now?
Kawasaki Motor Company, LTD. is the parent company of Harley -Davidson Motor Company (as of now…
What year was the oldest Harley built?
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Exactly why any of this transpired, though, is a mystery. Scholars have suggested a number of potential reasons for the downfall of Maya civilization in the southern lowlands, including overpopulation, environmental degradation, warfare, shifting trade routes and extended drought.
What role did the Spanish play in the collapse of Maya civilization?
These diseases, together with typhus and yellow fever, had a major impact on Maya populations. The Old World diseases brought with the Spanish and against which the indigenous New World peoples had no resistance were a deciding factor in the conquest; they decimated populations before battles were even fought.
What did the Spanish do to the Mayans?
Shortly after their first expeditions to the region in the 16th century, the Spanish attempted to subjugate the Maya polities several times. The Maya leaders and people were understandably hostile towards the Spanish crown, and utilized bows and arrows, spears, and padded armor in defense of their city-states.
What caused the decline of Mayan civilization?
Scholars have suggested a number of potential reasons for the downfall of Maya civilization in the southern lowlands, including overpopulation, environmental degradation, warfare, shifting trade routes and extended drought.
What caused the fall of the Mayan civilization?
A mix of political and environmental problems is usually blamed for the decline of Maya cities. Analysis of speleothems, or rock structures in caves such as stalactites and stalagmites, shows that “several severe — multi-year — droughts struck between [A.D.] 800 and 930” in the southern Mesoamerica region, Lucero said.
What happened to the Maya after their decline?
Although the Mayan people never entirely disappeared—their descendants still live across Central America—dozens of core urban areas in the lowlands of the Yucatan peninsula, such as Tikal, went from bustling cities to abandoned ruins over the course of roughly a hundred years.
What wiped the Mayans?
Disease can drive human history
In addition to North America’s Native American populations, the Mayan and Incan civilizations were also nearly wiped out by smallpox.
Who broke the Maya Code?
NARRATOR: In the 16th century, the flames of the Spanish Inquisition scorched the New World, decimating the Maya civilization. One blaze was ignited by Diego de Landa, a zealous friar, bent on destroying one of the most original writing systems ever invented, Maya hieroglyphics.
What led to the collapse of Mayan urban centers quizlet?
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It is a matter of great honor and a privilege for me to deliver this lecture named after two of the greatest scientists of this century, namely Albert Einstein and Satyendranath Bose. I am particularly beholden, because on one hand, I have an opportunity to pay my tributes to these great scientists, who also represent a unique intellectual bond between these two great nations, as partly reflected by a relationship between these two giants of this century. On the other hand, I feel humble when I note the list of distinguished speakers, who have preceded me. I am deeply conscious of the fact that I cannot match their intellect, authority and eminence.
The Bose – Einstein intellectual bond was both imminent and durable. It is only apt that the first ever English translation of Einstein’s papers on relativity originally published in German, was made by Bose and his distinguished colleague Meghnad Saha and printed in Calcutta. The world ‘boson’ to describe elementary particles that obey the Bose-Einstein statistics is now a part of language. The recent Nobel prize winning work has put experimental seal on this inspired theoretical work.
In my lecture today, I will give some of my perceptions on the way science, technology and innovation is going to determine the economic and political power of the nations. The rapid paradigm shifts that are taking place in the world as it moves from super power bipolarity to multipolarity, as industrial capitalism gives way to green capitalism and digital capitalism, as information technology creates netizens out of citizens, as aspirations of the poor get fuelled by the increasingly easier access to information, as the nations move from ‘independence’ to ‘interdependence’, as national boundaries become notional, and as the concept of global citizenship gets evolved, we will be full of new paradigms and new paradoxes, there is no doubt that the rapid advance of science and technology will directly fuel many of these.
S&T INNOVATION : THE CHANGING PATHS
The paths in S&T innovation have undergone a remarkable change. In the pre-world war II scenario, the only driving force was the search for knowledge. No substantial government funding was available. Scientific research was done by a handful of small enterprises. There were very few industrial scientific research laboratories and very few industries that supported scientific research. Little interaction existed between academics and the industry. The post world war II scenario saw the parenthood of research change. On one hand, the research was entirely driven by the search for new knowledge and on the other hand by economics, defense and health. The government became a major funder for research. The science-based industries, such as biotechnology and information technology grew. There was also a growth of industrial scientific research. You could walk into a Bell lab and see Nobel laureates. There was an intense industry-academia interaction.
Then came the post cold war era. The defense base for science started declining. Economic growth and health became the primary drivers for generation of new knowledge. Industrial basic research started vanishing. Innovation driven by defense spending and its subsequent diffusion into society through technology ’spin-offs’ came in for a major revision.
Advances in knowledge during the post-cold war era also brought up new issues. Genetic engineering and the associated reproductive technologies on plants, animals and human beings brought forth-ethical issues calling for greater regulation by involving social scientists and environmentalists. The process of globalization, privatization and corporatization of research changed the dynamics of creation of knowledge. Issues of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and proprietary information and knowledge have begun to give rise to new debates on public good versus private profit. New models of the innovation chain and new paradigms of the science-economy and science-society contracts have begun to emerge.
S & T MODELS: THE PARADIGM SHIFTS
Some of the old models of science, technology and development are giving rise to new models. Francis Bacon, in his book ‘Advancement of Learning’ published in 1605 had established a linear model of scientific discoveries leading to technology development, which in turn, lead to economic development. We now know that this model is certainly not valid today. Technology is not always the offspring of science. Quite often, technology precedes science. Steam engine came before the laws of thermodynamics were understood. A major part of new technologies indeed evolve from already existing science and technology. Many advances and innovations in technology are essentially incremental improvements in existing technologies. A technology can give rise to new technologies, the so-called ‘spin-off’ technologies. It is not only that new science gives rise to new technology, but the reverse is also true: new technology gives us new science.
The other important model was put forward by Vannevar Bush in 1954 in his famous document called ‘Science : The Endless Frontier’. It remained the key framework of science policy in the west and was followed by many developing countries. The ‘Bush Model’ was a linear one, which assumed that ‘developed science’ will eventually spread into society as useful products.
This linear chain of innovation disregarded the socio-economic, organizational, cultural and other contexts including such factors as the character of the marketplace, both domestic and global. Hence, pure science was valued above applied science or technology and the connection of science to its societal context was devalued. As a recent historical evaluation of the Bush Report observed “Societal benefits (in the Bush mode) result not in spite of isolation from the broader environment, but rather because of isolation, as autonomy is a necessary element of the scientist’s ecology”.
Subsequent events have shown that the innovation chain is far more complex than this simplistic linear, unidirectional paradigm of science-push based development. Even in the context of the west, particularly with the emergence of Japan as a technological power, a mix of supply-driven and demand-driven science policy doctrines like the OECD reports and the Foresight initiatives modeled on the Japanese experience began to evolve. The boundaries between basic, applied and socially mandated sectors were becoming increasingly blurred and a hybridization of scientific communities, which divided tasks between the laboratory and the industry through contract research and consultancy, was taking place.
In the post-cold war era, the second element of the old contract, namely innovation driven by defense spending and its subsequent diffusion into society through technology ‘spin-offs’ has also come in for a major revision in countries like the USA, where defense spending has lead to investment in R&D.
In a global context, therefore, a major S&T issue of discussion is the ‘conversion of military to civil technologies’ and the new concept of ‘dual use technologies’, rather than ‘spin-offs’. Arguments of the past against a defense-led mode of technology innovation have now given way to economic arguments, based on the successes of the industrial policies of Japan and Europe led by explicitly civilian technology.
For example, the aim of the new US Strategy is to redirect the massive US defense investment so that it will become more effective and more supportive for a broader industrial base. As the 1993 US Technology Policy states: ‘We cannot rely on the serendipitous application of defense technology to the private sector. We must aim directly at these new challenges and focus our effort on the new opportunities before us, recognizing that the government can play a key role in helping private firms develop and profit from innovations’.
The US Technology Reinvestment Project of 1993 is a strong indicator of how dual-use technology development, instead of the notion of ‘spin-offs’, is intended to be pursued in cooperation with industry as a technology diffusion policy approach. This programme is aimed at stimulating a transition of defence technologies to a growing, integrated national industrial capacity.
Let us now turn the focus on the perspective of the developing world. The process of globalisation, dictated by the new global trade regimes under WTO, rapid advent and influence of information technology on all spheres of life, issues linked to intellectual property rights, the growing awareness of the value of the rich traditional and civilizational knowledge systems are becoming crucial in the new paradigm. Let us focus on some of these now.
THE IPR ISSUES: THE NORTH – SOUTH PHILOSOPHICAL DIVIDE
I was attending a meeting of the Third World Academy of Sciences in Trieste recently. Fedrico Mayor, the Director General of UNESCO made an interesting statement. He said “Knowledge flows from north to south and wisdom flows from south to north”. I remember making a small correction; ‘knowledge’ may flow from north to south but ‘usable knowledge’ does not flow that easily from north to south, since usable knowledge has the potential to create wealth. No country or no corporation gives a competitive advantage to another, excepting at a price. India itself has realized this in the post liberalization era.
The basic conflict between the north and the south can be simply summarized by the fact that whereas (usable) knowledge does not flow that easily from the north to the south, the wisdom flows from south to north rather easily’. Let us understand what we mean by ‘wisdom’ here. Many societies in the developing world have nurtured and refined systems of knowledge of their own, relating to such diverse domains as geology, ecology, botany, agriculture, physiology and health. We are now seeing the emergence of terms such as ‘parallel’, ‘indigenous’ and civilizational’ knowledge systems. In some sense, the flow of ‘wisdom’ form south to north encompasses all these and more. However, the issues that get linked to economics, such as hypothecation of traditional medicines based on indigenous plant resources, get a heightened and somewhat emotional attention.
With reference to these parallel knowledge systems, there is growing concern that dominance of a single view of the natural world as expounded by modern science will undermine these civilizational knowledge systems. There is a fear that the process of globalization would threaten the appropriation of elements of this collective knowledge of societies into proprietary knowledge for the commercial profit of a few. Hence, an urgent action is needed to protect these fragile knowledge systems through national policies and international legislation, while providing its development & proper use for the benefit of its holders.
THE DILEMMA OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD
There was a time when knowledge sharing was easy and crediting the original source of knowledge posed no problems. One can illustrate this by a number of cross-cultural examples. When the Arabs imported tamarind from India, they named it Indian date, because, like the date they knew so well, the new fruit also had a stone. To Europe, the numerals were Arabic, not because the Arabs had invented them but because the Europeans learnt them from the Arab world. For Europe, William Champion was the inventor of the process to produce metallic zinc, because it was he, who introduced it successfully. It did not matter that the process had been long known in China and probably still earlier in India; but this did not cause major conflicts.
India always looked at knowledge and especially useable knowledge in a dispassionate way. It is best exemplified by a controversy that arose in 1998 concerning Sir J.C. Bose, who is one of the founding fathers of Radio Physics. A story in Telegraph carried the rather sensational title ‘Bose Invented Marconi’s wireless’. The story was based on a report that the detecting device, called Coherer, an instrument invented by Bose two years earlier was used by Marconi in his development of wireless. Let us understand the background. As early as 1895, Bose demonstrated to an excited Calcutta audience the wireless transmission of radio waves over a distance of 75 feet through masonry.
An early admirer of the Bose cohere was the British navy which used it to establish effective radio link between a torpedo boat and friendly ships. In May 1901 he wrote to his friend Rabindranath Tagore: ” the proprietor of a reputed telegraph company came himself with a patent form in hand. He proposed to take half of the profit and finance the business in the bargain. This multi-millionaire came to me abegging. My friend, I wish you could see that terrible attachment for gain in this country, that all engaging lucre, that lust for money and more money. Once caught in that trap there would have been no way out for me.”
Exasperated by Bose’s approach towards money, two of his lady friends, British-born Margaret Nobel (better known as Sister Nivedita) and American-born Mrs. Sara Bull on their own initiative obtained in 1904 an American patent in Bose’s name. The irony of the situation is interesting. Here, in Nivedita we have a spiritualist advocating the cause of patents and royalties and a physics professor dismissing the idea. The reason must be sought in their backgrounds: Nivedita was a product of industrial Europe while Bose was a child of the orientalized east. To take this point forward, it is interesting to note that while Bose had this attitude, the contemporary scientists in the western world had a clear mind especially on usable knowledge, and that did not exclude the great Einstein. Many people do not know that with Leo Szilard, Einstein obtained about 40 patents on refrigeration. In a lighthearted way, I might emphasis that neither the refrigerator nor Einstein benefited from this exercise though!
The context decides the content. There is a new context now and the wealth- making prowess of knowledge is being recognised in the new India now. Why do I say this?
The list of 100 top billionaires of Indian industry based on net worth was published recently. The top five did not include the familiar names, except one. All the other four were people, who owned industries, such as Infotech or R&D intensive pharma. A new phenomenon is also beginning to be seen in India. An R&D savvy, pharma company has developed a new molecule. It is undergoing experimental trials. Even the news that the molecule has moved up the innovation path from phase-I to phase-II enhanced the share value of this company; even though the actual molecule may not even enter the market for the next few years! What is this phenomenon? This is the emergence of Indian knowledge industry.
World’s major growth industries – such as microelectronics, pharma, biotechnology, designer-made materials and telecommunications – are already brainpower industries. These knowledge industries stimulate other industries, in turn, to become knowledge based.
Tomorrow’s world will be dominated by knowledge industries. The emphasis in such knowledge industries is not on physical or tangible assets, but on intangible knowledge assets. Increasingly the traditional factors of production – land, labour and capital – have become less important when compared with technology; the economists have termed this as the ‘expansion of the production frontier’. The value of intellectual capital of an industry will determine its rank and competitiveness. The nature of intangible assets will include several commonalties such as research and development, patents, proprietary technologies, databases, brands and even relationships, people and so on. In knowledge industries, there will be a major shift from people, who handled information and did routine and unthinking work, to those who will use knowledge at every stage. For such people, information and knowledge will be both the raw material of their labour as well as its product.
Why are the physical assets such as machinery in a factory, becoming less important? Plant and machinery are tradable commodities today. Even capital was a scarce commodity until recently and was used as a competitive advantage. But with globalised markets the companies around the world have access to finances at inexpensive rates. So even capital is no longer a scarce commodity. It is the intangible assets, which are knowledge based and that are non-replicable, unique and proprietary, that will provide the companies with a competitive edge.
For a cash starved but intellectual capital rich country like India, emergence of knowledge industry is a good news. But harnessing the full potential of knowledge industry requires an aggressive and visionary policy framework, creative planning, daring and risk taking. In particular, heavy emphasis on a stronger IP protection will have to be given to reap the full benefit of the emergence of knowledge industries.
TRIPS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: THE WAY AHEAD
Transfer of technology at fair and most favorable terms to the developing world has been highlighted in all discussions and debates on sustainable development. The Rio Declaration of 1992 as well as most of the multilateral environmental agreements emphasizes the need for such technology transfers. The preamble of the WTO Agreement affirms the objective of sustainable development in a manner consistent with the respective needs and concerns of members at different levels of development. Thus, an obligation is cast upon the WTO to bring about easy access to and wide dissemination of technology relevant for sustainable development. It is interesting to reflect upon what happened in the recently held Seattle round, and especially, what the US President said while addressing the Ministers attending the WTO meeting in Seattle “We also must help these countries avert the health and pollution costs of the industrial age. We have to help them use clean technologies that improve the economy, the environment, and health care at the same time. And I will just give one example. Today is ‘World AIDS day’. And today USTR, our trade representative, and the Department of Health and Human Services are announcing that they are committed to working together to make sure that our intellectual property policy is flexible enough to respond to legitimate public health crises”. But the real issues, if I may say so, are truly complex.
We note that Article 7 of the TRIPS Agreement states “the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights should contribute to the promotion of technological innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of technology to the mutual advantage of producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare, and to a balance of rights and obligations.” Furthermore, Article 8.2 states “appropriate measures, provided they are consistent with the provisions of the Agreement, may be needed to prevent the abuse of intellectual property rights by right holders or the resort to practices which unreasonably restrain trade or adversely affect the international transfer of technology.”
Facilitating the access of developing countries to technologies required by them constitutes one of the key elements in accelerating the pace of their economic and social development. Such access is generally the result of licenses and technology transfer agreements. The fact of the matter is that the prospective technology seekers in developing countries face serious difficulties in their commercial dealings with technology holders in the developed countries. These difficulties arise for a variety of reasons. Some arise from the imperfections of the market for technology. Some are attributed to the relative lack of experience and skill of enterprises and institutions in developing countries in concluding adequate legal arrangements for the acquisition of technology. Some arise due to government practices, both legislative and administrative, in both developed and developing countries, which influence the implementation of national policies and procedures designed to encourage the flow of technology to, and its acquisition by, developing countries.
Some of these difficulties may be overcome by suitable safeguards in the domestic IPR laws of developing countries. In addition, the transfer and dissemination needs of the developing countries have to be seen from the point of view of the capacity of those in need of accessing technologies, particularly where the cost of technology may be prohibitive due to economies of scale and other reasons. In such cases, in order to implement the related provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, commercially viable mechanisms need to be found.
The denial of dual-use technologies, even on a commercial basis, to developing countries is another aspect that leads to widening of the technology gap between developed and developing countries. Under this guise a variety of technologies and products are being denied, which could otherwise have helped to accelerate their growth process. This issue also needs to be carefully examined and seriously dealt with as a trade distorting and restrictive measure.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, BIODIVERSITY, TRIPS, ETHICS AND EQUITY
Harmonization of the intellectual property rights with the TRIPS Agreement on the one hand and implementation of the Biodiversity Conservation Act on the other hand, are going to be rather crucial in times to come. Both raise serious questions of ethics and equity born out of inherent tensions between dominant concerns and value systems of the societies of the North and that of the South. In the perception of the South, the principal concern of TRIPS is the strengthening of patentee’s rights in the global market. This arises from the TRIPS requirements to extend the scope of patentability to all inventions, whether of products or processes, in all fields of technology. How some of these will serve the public interest, particularly in vital areas like availability and price of medicines and agro-products and protecting the domestic industry from unequal competition is a matter of concern that many developing countries worry about; India being no exception.
The issue of biodiversity is even more complex, contentious and tends to get emotional. It is inextricably linked with the means of daily survival (food, health, shelter, energy, etc.) of about 70% of India’s population and thus to the rights of the communities. Here one has a clash between two very different value systems. The traditional societies in the developing world value diversity of life and plurality of knowledge systems besides plant-animal symbiosis and a harmonious adjustment to the environment as the cherished way of living. The information as contained in nature is their principal property and they view the unlimited community as the rightful beneficiary of human knowledge and endeavor. In contrast, a modern, developed society in the typically western mould recognizes only one valid knowledge system, based on rigorous demonstration of causation and a common framework of communication. The nature of knowledge is intellectual and it is recognised as private property. The beneficiary is one who can pay according to market forces. Diversity is no more than a raw material. The patentee has monopolistic rights, and though there is a sea change in the items sought to be patented, the criteria of patentability have not changed for over hundred years. The concerns of the indigenous populations concerning the loss of both their material and knowledge, as biodiversity is increasingly appropriated by a few, and natural resource stocks deplete and disappear, will have to be addressed urgently and seriously.
Recognizing the impossibility of preventing cross border flows of genetic material in the age of globalization, one school of thought considers it prudent to build strong data bases on biodiversity and use them to levy charges on bioprospecting and royalties for their commercial use for sharing the benefits. This stand of opinion would welcome inflow of S&T inputs from outside to add value to resources and export for global market share. The counter-viewpoint sees this reasoning as succumbing to a colonialist option under pressure and argues that in the absence of legal rights for traditional innovators and the collective right of the communities as owners of biodiversity, bioprospecting degenerates into ‘biopiracy’. The truth surely lies in between. In order to change the notion of ‘biopiracy’ to the notion of ‘biopartnership’ between the North and the South, we need to move towards TRIPS PLUS which implies TRIPS plus ethics and equity, the latter taking care of the concerns mentioned earlier.
RELOOKING AT NATIONAL INNOVATION POLICY
With increasing globalization, privatization and corporatization, a question that is engaging the attention with regard to the process of innovation is as to where do the capabilities for innovation reside. Till the other day, it was believed that they reside in nation states. Certain nation states were able to create the climate and provide the infrastructure which spurred the innovative genius; certain other states failed to do so. This led countries to devote thought to building up a National Innovation System and evolve a National Innovation Policy going beyond the National Science policy or National Technology policy. A national innovation system was seen to be embedded in larger institutions, labor market, government policies and biases, regulatory framework, legal system and the way these elements related to and interacted with each other. While the idea of the Innovation System has not become invalid, the National part of it is losing relevance as R&D gets increasingly internationalized, the world becomes more and more integrated and the idea of the autonomous nation-state starts fading.
Different nations regard innovative capabilities as residing essentially in firms as these are characteristically a function of the intertwining of scientific and technological capabilities of a firm with its organisational and management capabilities and strategies. Some even thought that innovation flourishes in certain geographical regions with special attributes of history or talent, like Silicon Valley in the USA, or Bangalore in India, while some view global networks as the essential seat of innovative capabilities in the emerging R&D paradigm. These rival views are not necessarily mutually contradictory and they may be valid within their limited contexts. However, they do not point to the fact that while it may be appropriate to think in terms of ‘technology systems’ that encourage or inhibit a culture of innovation, it may be a bit artificial to seek such systems within the political boundaries of a nation. I will deal with this important point a little later again.
INNOVATION IN GLOBAL ECONOMY
Advances in communication and information technology have connected the people and the places of the world as never before. It made the vision of a global village a physical possibility. This was aided by the end of a bipolar world following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the aggressive pursuit of its economic interests and ideology by the developed world. The reality of Globalization is very evident in the sphere of economy. International economic integration has proceeded apace as seen by the galloping world trade, integration of financial markets and the changing character, increasing clout and expanding activities of the multinational corporations (MNCs).
An interesting feature of the world trade is the emergence of three powerful economic groupings, viz. The USA led NAFTA, The European Community and the Far Eastern Group of Countries led by Japan. All the three groups are technological powerhouses. That leaves out most of the developing and underdeveloped countries which have to evolve their own strategies to survive in a ruthlessly competitive world. The most far-reaching changes for global integration are, however, being wrought in the area of international finance. It has made 24-hour global trading a reality; it has also made it easy for foreign institutional investors to follow market developments and respond. It has facilitated internationalization of portfolios and helped the banks and securities houses in their role as managers of large-scale capital flows. The international finance sector has been extremely innovative creating entirely new financial products like Swaps, Futures, and Options for the market. The economical globalization obviously needs effective regulatory structures for global finance but such political structures at the international level have not emerged yet.
One would do well to take note of the geographic dispersal of R&D activities by multinational corporations (MNCs). It is important to understand the causes, nature and implications of this trend because technological change is central to economic growth. Also it is necessary to comprehend the corresponding structural changes that would be necessary to capitalize on the emerging opportunities. A fundamental change seems to be taking place in the nature of the MNCs. They are no more tied down to a home country in terms of a base for organisation, capital and R&D. Increasingly, they are ceasing to be the controlling and coordinating centers for a set of peripheral and independent national subsidiaries and acquiring the character of a network where national units are viewed as sources of ideas, skills, capability and knowledge to be harnessed for the total good of the company. International exploitation of national technological capabilities by major firms is on the rise. Let us discuss this issue further.
RESEARCH AS A GLOBAL BUSINESS
The compulsions of international trade and commerce and the phenomenal advances in information & communication technology have made a globally integrated world a reality and there can be no sequestered islands in today’s world. As technology is the prime mover of modern economy, the economic integration of the world cannot be complete if industrial research is not globally integrated. The globalization of R&D implies that the premium will be on research as a means of wealth creation, pursued as a business proposition, seeking exploitable knowledge in worldwide collaboration.
The globalization strategy now includes taking over of R&D intensive corporations. Japanese, for instance, have promoted a new concept of Techno-globalism, which is being interpreted as ‘the strong interaction between the internationalization of technology and the globalization of the economy’. It actually implies ‘widening cross-border interdependence between individual technology-based firms as well as economic sectors, especially through the restructuring of high and medium-tech industry’. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that the intensity of such transnational cooperation and setting up R&D facilities is the highest in high-tech areas, such as electronics, biotechnology, automotive industries, etc.
The innovation chains will increasingly cross-transnational boundaries today. Companies realize that to gain competitive advantage, they have to leverage their capabilities. Many companies across the world today consider it to be rather unwise to attempt self-sufficiency in technology development, particularly in an era, where the R&D costs are increasing rapidly. With trade barriers among countries disappearing fast, companies have to provide the best technology globally to their customers. As a part of the global innovation strategy, several companies world over are scouting for new ideas and patents, which the originator is unable to exploit for a variety of reasons.
There is another interesting and subtle aspect to the whole game. The globalization of R&D is closely linked to globalization of business and consequently to global competition of skills. The competitive advantage in high-technology business increasingly depends on underlying technical skills of the business rather than on particular products. As product life cycles keep on becoming shorter, skill-life cycles become longer. The product then is merely an intermediary between company’s skills and the market it serves. Rather than being the focus of corporate activity, products are actually transient mechanisms by which the market derives value from a company’s skill-base and the company derives value from the market. The high technology companies are therefore asking as to what skills, capabilities and technologies should they build up, rather than asking a stereotype question, as to which markets should they enter and with which products.
Several factors are helping to accelerate the globalization of industrial R&D, but the most important factor that is helping the process of creation of “seamless laboratories” around the world is the evolution of global information networks.
In this emerging scenario, India is well poised to become the global R&D platform of the 21st century. Why is this so? The first and foremost factor pertains to the lower costs of doing research in India. It is remarkable that the entire S&T budget of India in a year, which included space, defense, atomic energy research, did not exceed 2.5 billion US dollars, whereas the budget of Siemens alone is 5 billion dollars! This cost-effectiveness gives India a strong competitive position. Secondly, the high quality science base prevalent in India in certain select areas is a big attraction especially when one recognizes that industrial R&D is becoming increasingly science based. Thirdly, the companies perceive that such collaborations provide specific mutants of an existing technology or a new technology that is fully adaptable to the distinctive conditions prevailing in India. The fourth factor is the perception of the new environment in the post liberalization era in which Indian R&D institutes and industrial firms will operate, where factors such as improved freedom and flexibility, better communication and IPR protection, improved consciousness about quality and time of delivery, will improve dramatically. Paradoxically, the prospects for north-south partnerships in research and technology are thus looking more attractive than ever before.
THE POLITICS OF A GLOBAL VILLAGE
With the integration of global economy, the world is on its way to integration in other spheres. Some features of the post-bipolar world are already distinguishable.
Already there are enough pointers to indicate that only certain political philosophies and structures are acceptable to global community. Human rights are understood in the western context, and a democratic polity is the prescribed dispensations. Concerns of national, regional and global security are coming to the fore and new alliances are in the making. The threat of an all out nuclear war seems to have receded, though there is a proliferation of the nations having possession of or access to nuclear power. The number of regional conflicts has expanded and though the super power arms race has stopped, the motivation of smaller powers to acquire military might through acquisition, or by indigenously developing weapons and systems of modern warfare has increased. The UN is on decline as an overarching global mediator.
A net result of the strivings for globalization is the weakening of the nation state and a dilution of the concept of national sovereignty. States are becoming increasingly less important as political units to control whatever phenomena – economic, sociological, environmental or technological – is taking place in the world. The erosion of national sovereignty is seen in the proliferation of regional trade and economic agreements, growing economic power of the MNCs and the conditionalities imposed by international financial institutions for accessing resources under their control. These developments are redefining issues of power and authority over the control and management of resources for development and bringing to the fore inherent ideological and cultural tensions.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DEMOCRACY
We are in the early stages of a digital revolution that is changing the way information is generated, owned and used. This revolution will enable democracy to be more integral to all human endeavors, our government, our business and our personal lives.
The basis for democracy and a prerequisite for its long-term success, is an informed public. The fundamental political changes in Eastern Europe, Ireland, East Timor, and South Africa were all possible because, try as they might, those governments were unable to control the generation and distribution of economic, political and social information within their societies. Once that control is lost, democracy is inevitable. Chinese students found that fax machines were more powerful than rifles.
First the people must be literate enough to be able to read and understand the information that is relevant to their lives. Television and radio have been revolutionary tools in this sense. But the written word, plastered on a wall, passed out on the street corner, remains an essential tool for social change. People must be able to read and write in order for democracy to succeed. We need to take note of this in India.
Secondly, democracy requires that people have open access to certain basic economic and political data and to a diversity of opinions. This requirement means an access of information to all.
People must be able to share their ideas with others. Information technology is making it possible to reach beyond time and place to a wider community of citizens. The content creation is, therefore, going to be a crucial part of the strategy, since information could be now used for a variety of purposes, from propaganda to enlightenment.
Despite the crucial importance of access to basic social and political information in the democratic process, there is no public agreement concerning what information should be broadly accessible. Maybe we need to develop a Bill of Rights on Information, which will establish the public policy concerning the accessibility of certain basic information to all citizens, dealing with both our rights of access and our rights to privacy. The recent movement started by Anna Hazare in Maharashtra is interesting from this viewpoint.
Proponents of the current intellectual property system maintain that only the market economy can provide the appropriate incentives for efficient and effective distribution of information. They argue that large international publishers have contributed to making information a global commodity; that without the investment of these companies, there would be less information, it would be of lower quality, and would cost even more than it does, and that which did exist would be less accessible to potential users.
Not all information, however, is adequately served by the market economy. The basic infrastructure of knowledge, including history, philosophy and the arts, as well as minority opinions are essential to a healthy democratic society. These areas require a “social investment”, on the part of the community.
A monitoring system to measure the quantity, quality, and impact of different kinds of information upon the economy and society is needed. We have such information with regard to literacy today but not with regard to the issues of access and interaction. We need a set of indicators to serve as a basis for regular monitoring and reporting on the state of our information systems.
Technology is not value-neutral. Certain technical developments are more likely to serve open democratic processes than others. Government should create and implement a development strategy for information technologies that is supportive of democratic processes. Such a system should explicitly address the three goals of literacy, access and interaction and the roles of the private and public sectors in promoting those processes.
Finally, it is important to note that the advance of information technology will not only force a review of the legal and practical meaning of the notion of individual privacy, but also that of the ‘privacy’ of nations. Furthermore, the existence of inexpensive, multiple and worldwide network for communicating information will shift power from government to individuals. The netizens will have a world of their own. While information technology will vastly increase the power of a government to monitor its people, the government’s control over the information distribution will be diminished. Information will still be power – but it will be a shared power. The increased worldwide distribution of information will also lead to increased awareness in less developed countries of how the people with superior life styles live. This will provide interesting driving forces, both nationally and globally. The availability of information network will diminish the reliance on elected representatives and technical experts to make decisions on behalf of the public at large. The forum of public opinion rather than ministerial negotiation will control the final decision. This will also mean that greater attention to ‘quality’ of information available to electorate will be important.
As we come to the end of this millennium, it has become mandatory for every speaker to speak about the new millennium scenario. With the rate of knowledge doubling up every five years, it is becoming difficult to predict the future. As someone has said ‘A technology of the 20th century’ symposium held in 1895, based on the level of knowledge that existed at the time, might not have mentioned aeroplane, radio, antibiotics, nuclear energy, electronics, computers or space exploration! What are the equivalents of this that will be missing when we make predictions in technology, at the dawn of the next century?
In the first half of the twentieth century, physics occupied a dominant position. But, bio-sciences displaced physics in that leading role now. It is not cellular & molecular biology alone, but also ecology, that is taking biology to a different level of impact. The technological potential of biology will pose a new challenge due to its intimate connection with agriculture & health, areas of great political sensitivity & social importance. Technology transfer in biological fields does not relate to just sharing the luxuries of a consumer society but also to sharing the means of survival. The issues in trade & technology negotiations thus become far more complicated. The new shifts in the coming century will be hard to predict, but it is quite clear that the continuing wars of information revolution and the felt impact of the ‘gene revolution’ is shaping the future of the mankind, which will have a profound impact on global economic and sociopolitical scenario, that will be hard to anticipate today in its full measure.
Although I cannot predict the new millennium, I can certainly express a wish for the new millennium. Let me hope that no matter what progress science & technology makes, we will be able to network not only the minds but also the hearts of the ‘global citizens’. That would certainly mean a great future for our globe in the new millennium. If Bose & Einstein, those two great ‘global citizens’ were alive today, I am sure, this is exactly what they would have wished. | <urn:uuid:f65fcd88-46f4-4f25-b6f4-7bc11026cb25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://mashelkar.com/speeches/science-technology-innovation-their-impact-on-economic-and-political-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951863 | 8,290 | 2.265625 | 2 |
1. Stuart Scadron-Wattles says that waiting in expectation is a difficult balancing act. What experiences have you had of waiting with expectation? What makes it difficult? Do we recognize and accept what we’re waiting for when it comes?
2. Scadron-Wattles contrasts “getting into the Christmas spirit” with journeying through the desert of Advent to get to Christmas. Do you find yourself trying to get into the spirit of Christmas? How is that different from approaching Advent as a desert to cross? Do you find the image of Advent as a desert helpful?
3. Scadron-Wattles says the desert is very different from a contemporary city “that decks itself out for the holidays like a faithless man in a designer suit.” Is that what Christmastime feels like in your city? Do holiday decorations encourage us to ignore the things in our lives that need changing?
4. Why did many of the people who waited for a Messiah not recognize him when he came? Does the coming of the Messiah still surprise us? What does it mean to nurture the moment as we wait?
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Last Friday, the U.S. government published the National Climate Assessment supporting the claim that global warming may cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year, kill thousands of U.S. citizens and potentially lead to the extinction of some species of animals and plants. President Donald Trump continues to deny rising temperatures and claims that fighting the threat will only harm the economy. Janet MacFall, professor and chair of the department of Environmental Studies, explains the report’s implications.
Q: Can you explain what the environmental report that was released last Friday is and what some of the main points of the report were?
A: It’s a report by NOAA, which is a federal agency under the Department of Commerce, describing the scientific background for understanding global climate change and particularly focused on the United States. Greenhouse gases from human activities are extremely likely to be causing changes in climate. The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today is higher than it has been for the last 2.5 million years. We’re seeing climate today that is being recorded as being different from climate on earth for the last 2,400 years. And the scientific community is very much in consensus that it is very, very likely caused by human activity.
Q: Why was this report released, and how does it compare to the one in 2014?
A: It’s very consistent with the results that were reported four years ago in 2014. The main difference is that the certainty of the conclusions from the scientists is much higher than it was four years ago. So that there’s very, very little uncertainty about the effects of climate change and that it is caused by human activities putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The conclusions are pretty sobering that our average temperature has increased about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 15 years and they’re predicting as much as an 8-degree Fahrenheit rise by the end of the century if there is no change in the way we do greenhouse gases.
Q: What steps can be taken by the government, corporations and individuals to reduce their environmental footprint?
A: Many corporations actually have taken pretty significant steps in reducing greenhouse gases. This is going to sound really unbelievable but Walmart has actually been a leader in trying to reduce environmental footprints with greenhouse gases. Most of the greenhouse gases are coming from energy generation, from cars, and generating electricity through coal plants and burning natural gas. … We need to move towards renewables that are not greenhouse gas producing, and how we do that will be influenced a great deal by government incentives and by government regulations. … I’m trying to find ways to generate electricity, and moving towards an electric-based energy economy is really, really important. There may need to be more incentives for moving us in that direction rather than incentivizing oil production and incentivizing coal production.
Q: Are the current wildfires in California a result of climate change?
A: The scientists can’t say definitively that the fires in California are a result of climate change, but what they can say is the pattern of drought and the pattern of increased temperatures that California has experienced is consistent with climate change models. ... As we hear our federal government talking about we can’t afford to move to renewable sources and to reduce greenhouse gas production, it’s a false economic argument because we’ve already lost over a trillion dollars in economic costs and that’s just in the last 15 years. And these costs will only continue to escalate.
Q: Is the United States capable of making these drastic changes?
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Stress can be both positive and negative. As you face positive stress, you can see improved focus or increased energy. When you are confronted with negative stress, you face turmoil that can lead to poor health or more severe consequences. The way in which you manage stress determines how it will affect your life. There are numerous helpful tips in this article on how to deal with stress.
Deep breathing and thought control can also relieve some tension. Try to imagine a sensation of relaxation pulsing through your body. Another great way to wash away the stress is to let your imagination take you to a calm soothing place while taking long deep breaths.
Relax your jaw so that you stop gritting your teeth. Your jaw is a primary area in which you will express your stress. When you feel the tension in your face muscles, close your eyes and take deep breaths. Touch your jaw with your index finger, breathe in, then slowly breathe out. This should make a positive difference in how you feel.
Maintaining your health and taking steps to prevent any issues that may pop up will ease your mind and reduce some of your stress. Questions regarding your health can be nerve-wracking, along with not taking preventive measures for your health that can harm you later. Get regular check-ups and make appointments so that you can be less stressed and healthy.
Being active and exercising is one of the best ways to overcome stress and relax a little. You may not feel relaxed after every workout, but the ongoing process of getting in shape and moving your body provides something to anticipate and appreciate each day. In addition to relieving stress, exercise provides several other benefits. It boosts your confidence, and makes you feel like you are in control.
One of the best weapons to employ in your battle against stress is exercise. Although not a perfect solution, it will alleviate immediate stress, reduce physical tension and if you make it a regular part of your life, can really provide you with a positive activity to keep looking forward to. Exercise eases stress and gives you self confidence. You will feel better and more in control of your life.
Use music to help relive your stress. Music has a strong influence on people. Studies have shown that music can make a person much calmer. Everyone has different tastes in music. Take the time to find out what kind of music helps you to lower your stress levels and relax.
If something is frustrating you, like a video game, stop doing it right away. The idea in a hobby is to clear your mind while helping you feel calm. You do not want to replace being stressed with being frustrated.
There are some people who turn to drugs or alcohol when they are feeling stressed. This is a way people choose to temporarily relieve the negative and overwhelming feelings that they don’t have control over. However, chemical substances, which do encompass alcohol, are rarely effective in reducing stress. The negatives of these substances far outweigh the momentary benefits they may provide.
An effective way in relieving your stress and making yourself feel good is by taking a long, soothing bath. Adding some bath oil or burning some scented candles nearby will make the experience feel more luxurious. Try listening to some soothing music or reading a book. Having a relaxing bath is an excellent method of allowing your body and brain to properly rest so that stress can be eliminated.
A lot of activities can increase your stress even if you do not see the correlation. For example, many people enjoy playing video games to unwind. However, if you devote an entire evening to playing games, you are neglecting your body and your mind. This can be a reason for missing out on much needed sleep, or time spent preparing and eating a healthy meal.
Daydreaming is a nice way to break up a stressful day. Let your imagination go off on its own and visualize a stress-free oasis where you are simply free to be. Taking such a little mental vacation can really improve your overall ability to cope with stress.
The first step to getting a grip on your stress level is to take an analytical look at how you could improve your methods of dealing with it. Consider tracking how you react to stressful situations over a couple of weeks. See whether or not your reactions to different situations can be improved. If your responses weren’t as healthy as they should be, you can develop new ways of coping with your everyday stress.
Honesty is always the best policy so make sure you use this to ward off stress and anxiety. Research has indicated that even little lies can make people feel guilty, and they also start to fear that the truth may eventually come out.
A good heart-to-heart talk with a trusted confidant is often a good stress-buster. Venting and getting things out of your system will leave you feeling much better. Find a family member or trusted friend with whom you can have coffee or a talk over the phone.
An overall healthy lifestyle may be the best way to minimize stress. Good ways to begin include getting adequate rest, eating a nutritious variety of foods, and implementing an exercise routine into your daily schedule. Additionally, you will have more confidence about yourself in general, which will lead to better preparedness when you encounter your next high stress situation.
If something is frustrating you, like a video game, stop doing it right away. You should clear your head and let yourself relax, do not give into stressful feelings or frustration.
Enlist the help of a tutor if you are struggling in school. With the help of a tutor, you can learn the subject quicker and more thoroughly so that when the test time comes, you will be relaxed and familiar with the material. The best way to decrease anxiety is to make sure you are prepared for the situation that is coming up.
Spearmint oil can be used as a stress reduction method. Dab a bit on your neck and temples when you feel stressed. Sometimes it is the simple remedies that can be the most effective treatment for stress.
Breathing deeply is a great way to calm you and reduce stress. Sometimes, understanding how to breathe properly can make a significant difference in managing stress and calming someone down. This is a proven way to relieve stress and it can easily become a part of your day, especially when you want to reduce stress.
Forgiving others can ease your personal level of stress. When you obsess over the actions of others, it will have a negative effect on your day to day life. This can lead to higher stress levels.
Listening to your favorite music is an excellent technique of reducing your stress. It is commonly known that music therapy can cut down on stress if you find the music relaxing and soothing. Choose the music that you enjoy, as everyone’s taste in music is different. Music therapy can help you regulate your breathing and even elevate serotonin levels.
If you’re feeling particularly stressed out, limit your caffeine intake. Coffee can effect hormones such as adrenaline and dopamine to increase stress levels when you drink too much. Instead of coffee, replace that with green tea as a stress reducer.
Visual imagery can be a great stress reduction tool. It has been scientifically proven that visualization plays an important part in stress relief. Take time to close your eyes and imagine you are somewhere happy and calm where your troubles are wiped away. This of a steaming, scented bath or a tropical vacation where you are lazing away on the golden sands for example. Just shut your eyes and go to your happy places for a few minutes! Your stress levels should drop significantly – even with sometime so simple.
A good thing to think about when dealing with your stress is to breathe deep! Breathing deeply has been proven to reduce anxiety levels when it is enacted on a regular basis.
There is nothing like soaking in a hot bath, perhaps with mineral salts added, to relax away stress. It’s hard to beat soaking your body in a tub for an hour; the potential for stress reduction is incredible. If you simply cannot spare the time to soak your cares away, you can achieve a similar effect by thoroughly cleansing your face with hot water and a mild wash.
When you aren’t sleeping well, it affects how your body functions. Thinking clearly is more difficult, and you cannot manage stress effectively. To remain alert all day long and permit your body to work optimally, you should get sufficient sleep.
Try using a stress-relief tonic. Homeopathy could help you reduce your stress. Do your research to make sure the homeopathic remedy is safe and effective. Also research the benefits of Kava, a herb that many studies have shown to be just as potent as Xanax, a commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medication.
Find a comfortable spot, and listen to music. Anything you find soothing can help you to overcome stress. Soft music speaks to your mind and soul at many levels. While enjoying this music, let your mind drift to relaxing and positive thoughts. Similarly to the way shopping malls, grocery stores or doctor’s offices use background music to maintain a specific environment, you can select music that makes you feel calm or content or happy during the day.
Using aromatherapy is an excellent way to reduce stress. The sense of smell is very powerful. Soothing scents such as lavender and chamomile help relax your brain waves after they are transmitted to the brain by your olfactory senses. Scented candles can help fill the room with those relaxing fragrances.
Create plans. If you have something to be excited about, you will stop focusing on your stress. Plan to go to the theater or take a drive by the coast.
Short term doses of stress can be a positive. They motivate you, give you energy, and provide focus. Over the long term, stress can cause high blood pressure, obesity and depression. Don’t let stress get the better of you. Use the information from this article to keep from falling victim.
Yoga can be a very effective way to deal with stress. Your body and mind find peaceful union with yoga. In yoga, you empty your mind of extra thoughts to focus on your body. Holding yoga positions make your muscles more flexible. Your entire body and mind benefit greatly from all that yoga offers, and in the process your stress is minimized or even eliminated. | <urn:uuid:76b897e8-2be2-4c21-9216-00112aa4a97d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theasthmacures.com/theasthmacures/tips-on-how-to-effectively-relieve-stress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953153 | 2,116 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Destiny (Expression) Number 8
Nico Minardos has the power and potential to achieve great things. It is both her challenge and her birthright to gain dominion over a small part of the earth. Whatever her enterprise, Nico strives to be the best and most successful in her field. She is highly competitive and will not rest until she is satisfied that she has bypassed the opposition. Minardos enjoys challenges and rivalry.
She is a realist and a visionary planner. Money and authority are available to Nico Minardos if she is willing to discipline herself - generally an inborn talent - and persevere in the face of the considerable obstacles in her path.
Nico Minardos is dynamic and has a talent for efficiency. She understands the larger picture, sees the broader challenges, and knows how to marshal her collective resources to address the problems. Nico delegates responsibility well; it is best for her to leave many of the details to others.
Minardos is a great leader of people and an outstanding judge of character. She is demanding of those who work for her, often putting things in no uncertain terms: do it my way or do not do it at all!
At the same time, Nico Minardos does not hesitate to reward the faithful and hardworking employee. She is not a particularly tolerant leader; too much tolerance violates her sense of efficiency. Minardos goes directly after her goal with courage and tenacity.
Nico has a natural understanding of money, authority, and power. She is able to struggle consistently after her goal. Eventually power falls to her. Within her lies an innate balance between the higher and lower characteristics of mankind.
Nico Minardos' challenge in life is to balance her higher ideals and her understanding of the hard realities of the earth.
Much effort will have to be put out and many ups and downs experienced before Nico reaches the level of success she desires. Life will probably test her many times with obstacles that seem insurmountable. But in reality, these are merely opportunities for Minardos to learn how to use power and authority in the face of difficulties, and to find out just how much power lies within her.
It is crucial for Minardos' success that she balances the material and the spiritual. Nico Minardos has chosen a path that requires balance between giving and taking, reward and punishment, action and reaction. Despite the obstacles on her path, Nico is a true survivor.
When focused exclusively on her desire for results and success, Nico Minardos can become stubborn and intolerant; she can be driven by excessive ambition, causing her to be exacting and without perspective. Nico must guard her alcohol consumption, a danger-zone for her. Minardos can be a social drinker, mixing business with pleasure - a dangerous cocktail.
An excellent manager, organizer and administrator Nico Minardos has talents in many areas of life. Entrepreneurs, executives, bankers, brokers, negotiators, gamblers, coaches, collectors, heads of institutions, builders, art dealers, manufacturers, promoters, military officers, police detectives, smugglers, engineers, pilots or sea captains.
She has been entrusted with special gifts, the use or abuse of which has an immediate and often physical effect upon her and those around her! Nico Minardos should use these gifts for the good of mankind and accept her own good fortune with gratitude. This is Nico's rewarding stage in her evolution a lifetime of harvest.
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Position Paper on Platform Workers
Move EU brings together the leading actors in the field of new mobility services. Speaking with one voice, our members aim to foster sustainable deployment of on-demand mobility and ride-hailing in the European Union. As information society service, Move EU members act as online intermediaries between Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) or taxi drivers and passengers, efficiently pairing supply and demand. This enables drivers to maximise their revenue and passengers to access the best transportation offer while reducing the number of empty kilometers. In doing so, we provide revenue opportunities to hundreds of thousands of ride-hailing drivers in the European Union and provide access to modern and efficient mobility services to millions of European citizens.
The inherent openness of the ride-hailing sector contributes to social inclusion. During the COVID-19 pandemic, which unfortunately is still ongoing, and the subsequent economic downturn across Europe, our platforms have continued to create opportunities for a significant number of people to maximize the reach of transportation providers and to provide safe and reliable transportation options to European citizens.
This has been possible thanks to the flexibility that is at the core of our business model. We operate in a highly competitive market with a high degree of substitution, online or offline, since customers and drivers in most cases use multiple platforms in parallel to book and provide services, depending on the best offer. Ride-hailing platforms compete to attract customers as well as drivers by offering the best value proposition.
Flexibility ranks consistently as one of the top reasons why drivers choose to offer their services through platforms as they get to choose when, where, if and for how long they will provide their services. Yet, this flexibility is not detrimental to their income as many drivers have a higher degree of life satisfaction compared to other workers, earning more than the minimum wage in their countries. In addition, drivers use platforms to access a bigger pool of customers and thereby increase their income.
However, self-employed service providers face several challenges (irrespective of whether the provision of service is online or offline), given that “historically, national social protection systems have primarily been developed to protect people in standard employment”, which consequently exposes those in diverse forms of employment to vulnerabilities.
Therefore, we call on the EU institutions to set the groundwork and provide clarity with meaningful reforms to improve the working conditions of all workers and allow them to maximise their benefits and maintain their flexibility. Responsible behaviours and proactive measures by companies should be incentivised to ensure adequate protection for all platform workers.
Any change at the detriment of flexibility and independence, in order to fit the pre-existing boxes of employment policy, would be of great harm to all participants, in particular the drivers and passengers. Balanced proposals should also take into consideration that platform work as a whole does not represent a homogenous sector and cannot be approached in a single, uniform manner.
It is for this reason, that Move EU calls on the European Commission to explore different policy options:
- Issuing country-specific recommendations within the European semester to coordinate different policies
- Drawing up a Communication to provide guidance
- Drawing up Council Recommendations to provide line of action
- Industry-led Charter on good platform work including review and tangible KPIs
- Drawing up Charter on good platform work including review and tangible KPIs and voluntary collective representation nationally where parties wish to engage
- Drawing up a Directive to achieve a certain goal and allowing MS to identify national approach to reaching such a goal
With the aim to contribute to the ongoing debate on so-called “platform workers” at the EU-level, Move EU would like to point out several factors that should be taken into consideration during the discussion:
1. Employment status
Drivers in the ride-hailing sector are licensed, registered, and maybe self-employed or employed professionals, regulated by national and local competent authorities. Across the EU, PHV and taxi drivers hold a specific license, subject to local regulations. Generally, courts face difficulties in interpreting labor law for the digital age, which illustrates the uncertainty facing platforms and platform workers. In March 2020, the French Supreme Court ruled that a driver driving for a ride-hailing platform was an employee. However, since that decision, French courts ruled for drivers to remain self-employed several times, with the most recent ruling of Lyon’s Court of Appeal. That decision confirmed that a driver was self-employed based on the freedom of the driver to work or not with the app (main difference with an employment relationship). The ruling also underlined the fact that safety and quality standards imposed by the platform do not go beyond usual requirements in a commercial relationship. There is a need for action on EU level, as national rules and court decisions are creating a patchwork and uncertainty for platforms, drivers and passengers.
A key element of the ride-hailing sector is that drivers can connect to any platform they wish to, meaning that there is no exclusivity of the relationship between a driver and a platform. Most drivers are connected to several platforms, often simultaneously, when they are waiting for a ride in order to choose the journey with the best value. Additionally, drivers have no obligation to provide their service on any platform as they can choose unilaterally whether to work or not at any given moment. Taxi drivers also have the possibility to offer their service in the street or a taxi rank, while PHV drivers can also maintain an offline business. Ride-hailing platforms are in a situation where they compete to attract the drivers by offering the best value proposition, including additional perks and benefits. Changes to this non-exclusivity and self-employed status would likely impact this freedom of choice for drivers (PHV and Taxi) to switch between platforms, jeopardize the competition in the sector and result in the deterioration of the service for the consumer.
The majority of drivers operate their own business in the transportation sector. The relationship between the platform and such drivers is therefore already regulated by the recent EU Platform-to- Business Regulation (P2B) which provides for several protective elements for drivers towards platforms.
- In line with Commissioner Schmit’s recent comments, any EU intervention should focus on improving conditions of drivers in an upcoming platform work initiative while retaining the flexibility that is a key part of platforms’ value proposition.
- Legal clarity and certainty will unlock the sector and ensure harmonised opportunities for rider and passenger.
2. Working conditions
Drivers offering their services through ride-hailing platforms can connect and disconnect whenever they want. Some Member States, like Portugal, have introduced rules limiting the number of hours a PHV driver can work. In the case of taxi drivers, most are very strictly regulated concerning their working hours, which does not allow them to efficiently match supply and demand at a specific time of the day. Better accommodation of their working hours would allow taxi drivers to work more efficiently with greater utilisation of the resources, covering the demand when it really exists. This would be particularly important for periods with high demand, such as festivities, weekends or nights.
Therefore, and in particular in the case of PHV, working hours vary greatly among the drivers, depending on whether this is their main activity or whether it comes in addition to another professional activity or occupation. A high proportion of PHV drivers are connected less than 20 hours a week, either supplementing their income from other employment or are providing their services, fitting work in around study, child-care or care of sick or elderly relatives. It is important to note that the overwhelming majority of drivers say they need this flexibility - in comparison to conventional employment patterns such as shift work - and want to remain in full control of their working schedule.
Many drivers increase their earnings after starting in the ride-hailing sector and earn on average significantly more than the minimum wage in their respective countries. Drivers also use ride-hailing platforms to access a bigger pool of customers, which allows them to increase their monthly income. In line with that, many drivers have a higher degree of overall satisfaction compared to other workers (highlighted for example in a study from the University of Oxford).
Ride-hailing platforms strive to ensure the best working conditions for the drivers. During challenging times such as the coronavirus crisis, Move EU members have adopted several measures to maximise the well-being and safety of our driver-partners. These measures include:
- Collaborating with local health authorities;
- Requesting - and where possible supporting - drivers to keep their vehicles clean and disinfected;
- Ensuring that all drivers are duly informed and follow the latest recommendations by the WHO and local authorities;
- Financially assist driver-partners, in case of infections or asked to quarantine.
- The European Commission should create a framework to clarify and incentivize the sharing of best practices among platforms to ensure consistency of working conditions, social protection and safety among drivers.
3. Access to social protection and benefits
Ride-hailing platforms have invested in creating a safe and reliable framework for drivers to offer their services and for passengers to use them. Some ride-hailing platforms already voluntarily offer additional occupational insurance to drivers. However, offering occupational insurance beyond national provisions should not lead to a reclassification, as this disincentives ride-hailing platforms to take such voluntary measures. Instead, legal clarity can lead to more social protection to drivers and the question of classification should not be based on the provided level of protection. A key issue that platforms face is that national social protection systems have primarily been developed to protect people in standard employment, at a time when these were the absolute norm. Nevertheless, diverse forms of work (e.g. self-employed, agency workers, workers with a temporary contract etc.) have become very widespread (e.g., according to the OECD about 29%).
This has led to companies only being able to provide protection for workers in traditional/standard forms of employment, creating protection and/or pension gaps to the detriment of workers in new forms of employment. This greatly affects the many drivers who see our platforms as the best way for them to find clients and work, and who are primarily attracted by the flexibility and independence that our platforms offer.
We see the importance of continuing to improve work for everyone, including those who are seeking greater control of their working lives and choosing to work independently, whether online or offline. To do that, the EU should seize opportunities to modernize policy in order to adapt employment law to provide better conditions and rights for diverse forms of work, such as self-employment, part-time work and temporary work.
Allowing companies to partner with independent workers on a regular basis to provide benefits while securing legal certainty would deliver greater well-being to workers, not leaving them ultimately with an uncomfortable choice between flexibility and social protection.
The European Commission’s planned initiative to improve the working conditions of platform workers should support/incentivize responsible behaviour by companies and avoid creating additional legal risks when ensuring adequate protection for all platform workers. Additionally, it can set the groundwork for social system reforms that recognise the specificities of independent work and call for a framework that works for non-exclusive employment relationships.
As previously stated, platform work is very diverse, and a one-size-fits-all approach could carry weight on the business model of platforms and ultimately affect negatively the many independent workers relying on them.
- Ensure the enforcement of the Council Recommendations on access to social protection that aims to put in place reforms by the MS that will enable the provision of benefits to diverse types of work.
- Promote the exchange of best practices among member states to ensure that approaches that enable access to social protection to all types of work are communicated and promoted.
- Classification of drivers should not be based on the level of protection provided, as this disincentivizes voluntary measures taken by ride-hailing platforms.
Self-employed transport service providers offering their services on platforms or offline have always been able to create and join representation bodies, like all independent workers. Freedom of association is a fundamental right in the EU.
However, with drivers using online platforms for different purposes and for different amounts of time depending on individual needs and interests, it is important to note that the platform experience varies for each user as drivers using our platforms can be self-employed but can also be the employees of a company offering transportation services. Drivers’ profiles can be very diverse, and their intention to remain in the profession for a given period of time also differs depending on each driver's personal and professional situation.
Some ride-hailing drivers offer their services on a platform (or on multiple platforms at the same time) for only a few hours per week or even per month, while others do so more extensively. Some drivers can also offer their services in the street hailing market. This varies across countries and cities and reflects the many different ways in which drivers choose to use ride-hailing apps.
According to a 2019 European Commission study (“The future of work? Work of the future!”), many service providers do not develop a professional identity as platform worker and do not consider the option of common representation. The very diverse environment of drivers on ride-hailing platforms, combined with the lack of a professional identity developed by service providers on platforms overall, makes it impossible to simply copy-paste legal requirements of traditional employment with a much more homogenous workforce.
A new framework addressing lack of representativity and exclusivity can be part of the toolkit that governments, platforms and drivers employ to ensure better working conditions and targeted actions.
- The Commission should leverage best practices from different Member States to establish the representation tools and a framework that can be used by drivers while avoiding copy-paste templates from standard employment that would not be perfectly suited for the self- employed.
5. Transparency of algorithmic management
Algorithms have been a crucial factor in the rapid proliferation of new mobility options available to consumers in recent years. The underlying key advantage for ride-hailing companies is to efficiently and smartly pair demand and supply, i.e. combining requested trips by consumers with drivers. This process allows drivers to maximise their revenues and passengers to access the best transportation offer. Efficiency is therefore at the core of ride-hailing platforms. While some applications also offer the possibility of rating passenger-driver interactions, such ratings are never a factor in the allocation of rides, where efficiency is the key criterion.
To offer the best services to consumers and drivers, platforms spend significant resources to create the processes and infrastructures to properly analyse data and improve algorithms. It is therefore worth noting that this is not a cost-free exercise and that the involved information is the intellectual property of a company. The protection of such sensitive business data is crucial for business operations.
Ride-hailing platforms are working towards more transparent systems. However, it must be noted that algorithms are an essential part of their business model. Algorithms are also crucial to detect and address possible fraud and to increase safety of the passengers.
Additionally, platforms have also invested in meaningful human involvement in their processes. For example, a Dutch court recently ruled that a specific system used by Uber is not solely based on automated decision making (as was suggested) but included meaningful human action. Where improvements are needed, including changes to processes, of course, platform providers should take action, as Uber did in this case. This shows that it is important to have a complete and accurate picture of the situation regarding the use of algorithms, also bearing in mind the diverse ways that platforms operate.
Any initiative should build on the strong regulatory framework that the EU has already in place in the area of algorithmic transparency, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Platform-to-Business Regulation (P2B). In addition, the compatibility and complementarity with new initiatives such as the legislative initiative on Artificial Intelligence should be prioritized. Therefore, it will be important to ensure coherent legislation and workable rules for all involved actors going forward.
- Ensure the application of the existing legislative framework in the field of algorithmic management and transparency, including the P2B Regulation and the GDPR.
6. Skills and training
Move EU members believe that access to training and education opportunities are key for drivers, especially since working on mobility platforms might only be one stop in their professional careers. Well- developed skills and professional development have been particularly important for everybody since the beginning of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Therefore, some of our members have partnered with learning platforms and educational institutions, including the Open University initiative and Babel. Our members also support the general idea of a coordinated contribution of ride-hailing platforms to education and training funds supporting the individual development of independent workers.
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Matt Fountain describes himself as a social entrepreneur, and when his business, The Freedom Bakery, opens in Glasgow later this year he will be at the forefront of the changing face of social enterprise.
The Freedom Bakery has a traditional social enterprise mission: the baking business will provide employment and training to people who have recently left prison in an attempt to break the common cycle of reoffending. Fountain, a Cambridge graduate who has previously worked for a charity, has personal experience of the desperate need for such a service. "I grew up in a household with my mother's partner who reoffended so I had the experience of the damage that it can cause," he explains. "The Freedom Bakery is an experiment in trying to engage with recently released ex-offenders, to give them some training – in this case bread-making – to help bring out some of the social skills and motivation skills they need to go on to further work."
But unlike the early movers in the social enterprise sector, the bakery will only reinvest 65% of its profits back into itself and its wider social mission. The rest will be paid out in dividends to shareholders, most of whom, he hopes, will be business people and financiers rather than charitable or social funders.
Until now the majority of social enterprises have traded heavily on their social impact and have typically reinvested most of their profits straight back into the business as demonstration of that social commitment. Here, the Freedom Bakery is different.
Fountain is aiming to produce luxury bread and cakes which are competitive in the food industry. To that end the marketing of the business will reflect the product, not the social outcomes that it is aiming for.
"If I set up this company and we're trading on the fact that we're helping some people that have got out of prison, it's seen as a charitable cause and it doesn't sound competitive with any other for-profit business," Fountain says. "We are not pushing that aspect, but the product itself."
Nevertheless he will still pay a living wage and commit to accounting against the triple bottom line – commitments also made by most other social businesses.
Having spent a year working in the voluntary sector, Fountain says there is little future for traditional grant-dependent charitable projects thanks to increasing competition for shrinking funding streams. He believes that the third sector is held back by conservative trustees nervous to test out new revenue streams, and that is why it is important to design a social business model that is financially autonomous and independent of grant funding.
The Freedom Bakery is registered as a Community Interest Company (CIC) limited by shares. The number of CICs is growing rapidly across the country, according to Social Enterprise UK, with government figures suggesting there are now more than 8,000 registered businesses of this type. Government red tape has been relaxed to encourage more CICs to form. So does this mark a new era for the social enterprise movement?
Dan Gregory, head of policy at Social Enterprise UK, says there's been nothing to stop social enterprises paying large dividends in the past. "[Our] criteria for a social enterprise stipulates that, among other requirements, at least 50% of their profits are reinvested in their social mission. So while many social enterprises do reinvest all their profits in their work, others, like The Freedom Bakery, choose a different split, often paying a minority share to investors – who themselves may be social enterprises. [This model] is recognised across most membership bodies, government departments and indeed in the EU."
While Fountain's business plans mark a new, unashamedly commercial direction for social entrepreneurship, there's no suggestion that he is diluting the core values of the social enterprise movement. The definition of social enterprise has always been fluid and, according to Anne Mountjoy, marketing manager for for the Social Enterprise Mark, the business would still potentially be eligible for certification, depending on its constitution and governance.
Fountain describes his company as a new type of social enterprise which will, in his case, provide ex-offenders with "real employment opportunities in profit making businesses". He says it unites the principles of microfinance and impact investment (including corporate social responsibility) within a traditional commercial ownership structure. By focusing on the product and the profit it makes, his organisation can compete with business and improve the impact that social enterprise has on communities and the economy.
"It's not a care service; it's a real business," the founder says. "By setting up a business, for profit, with real investors and a strong drive, with ambition and the working conditions we wish to achieve, it helps to create the most realistic and value-added working experience for my staff. For me, it's about something that's sustainable." | <urn:uuid:fb7d2b54-bc27-454e-bde5-6e14a52013dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2014/feb/12/freedom-bakery-new-social-enterprise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967207 | 967 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Philadelphia — known as the "the birthplace of America" — will be hosting a number of activities celebrating Independence Day on Monday, July 4.
The fireworks display is the finale to Wawa Welcome America, a 16-day free festival from June 19 to July 4 that celebrates different perspectives on American independence. The festival has been a Philadelphia tradition since 1993 and has been sponsored by Wawa since 2010.
Prior to the fireworks show, an event with entertainment, food trucks, and games – known as Party on the Parkway – will begin at 12 p.m. on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., the festival will turn into a concert with performances by Jason Derulo, Ava Max, and Tori Kelly. The concert will conclude with music from DJ Ghost and Q102 that will sync up to the fireworks.
Wawa Welcome America also includes the Celebration of Freedom Ceremony and the Independence Day Parade on July 4.
The Celebration of Freedom Ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at Independence Hall. It will feature a reading of the Declaration of Independence as well as the presentation of several awards, including the Wawa Foundation Hero Award and Mayor Jim Kenney's Magis Award.
The Salute to America Independence Day Parade will begin marching at 11 a.m. at the intersection of 2nd and Market streets. The parade will then proceed on Market Street towards City Hall. The parade will feature floats, marching bands, and dance performances.
Throughout the weekend, free admission will be offered to a number of museums in Philadelphia. On Sunday, July 3, free admission will be offered to the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On Monday, July 4, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and the National Constitution Center will be free to visit.
From July 2 to July 4, the National Constitution Center will also offer a recreated Revolutionary War encampment on its front lawn from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is partnering with the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment to present this reenactment, where visitors can witness an Army soldier march, observe a blacksmith create tools out of steel, and talk with the surgeon.
On July 3 at 7 p.m., the Philly POPS concert will occur at Independence Mall in Old City. The concert will feature the nation's largest pops orchestra, playing a variety of patriotic songs and pop hits.
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The 1,600 meter Visakha Valley Road connecting National Highway-16 to Vizag-Bheemili Beach Road is going to widened under the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA) and the Department of Forests. This widening of the road was proposed by the VUDA during the tenure of the former vice-chairman, N Yuvraj three years ago.
The city traffic department has also suggested to widen the roads as a part of the smart city project. The VUDA officials have prepared an action plan with an estimate of Rs 1.5 crore to improve the road network. The project couldn’t be carried forward then due to the strong opposition from the Forest Department.
Divisional Forest Officer Alan Chong mentioned that the proposed widened road is in the reserve forest area and it has to follow a certain procedure. However, the Assistant Commissioner of Police for traffic said that the widening of Visakha Valley Road would benefit the public. The traffic police have also been requesting on the widening of the road by at least 60feet (18meters) in order to reduce the vehicle rush as the existing road is very narrow. This widening of the road would ease the flow on the national highway and those who want to go to the beach would no longer need to enter the city.
One of the senior official of VUDA said that instead of planning to lay new roads using tar, they are planning to improve the existing roads itself by widening them with an estimated cost of Rs 1.5 crore. VUDA has called for tenders for the project which helps in widening the roads without spoiling the flora and fauna of the place.
VUDA has also reportedly already made marks on the road along the stretch. One of the resident there said that this road widening is required to cease the traffic due to the presence of Visakha Valley School and the beach road.
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Hunting for eggs to finish the school term
Ahead of the Easter school holidays, pupils at a West Norfolk primary school were treated to a day of fun.
Ingoldisthorpe Primary School children were challenged to locate hidden Easter eggs through a hunt on Friday morning.
Hidden within the school grounds, the eggs proved to be an early surprise for the kids ahead of the visit from the Easter Bunny later in the month.
The school is well-set when it comes to the great outdoors.
Located on the edge of the Sandringham Estate, the entire school goes outdoors to learn in the woodlands once a week.
Some of the children ensured they were appropriately dressed with bunny ears for the hunt.
And every child was rewarded for their efforts over the term-and during the hunt-with an egg.
Smarties and Aero were the two types of eggs being eagerly traced by the pupils.
The origins of the Easter hunt are traced back to the late 16th century in Germany.
According to English Heritage, Protestant reformer Martin Luther organised egg hunts for his followers to find.
It held religious symbolism as a reference to the resurrection, in which the empty tomb was discovered without Jesus inside. | <urn:uuid:061afe74-03d3-4d0b-998e-c8c2aef5dc4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/hunting-for-eggs-to-finish-the-school-term-9066661/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.981867 | 248 | 3.09375 | 3 |
North Korea will almost certainly be able to reach UK shores with an intercontinental ballistic missile within six to 18 months, MPs have said.
However, the Commons’ Defence Select Committee report said there was as yet no evidence that North Korea could arm these missiles with nuclear warheads.
MPs, who have been investigating the threat posed by North Korea, added that such a strike seemed “highly unlikely”.
They described the country’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, as “ruthless but rational”.
He was “ruthless, like other Communist dictators before him, but he is rational” and could be “dissuaded from the use of nuclear weapons, by means of a policy of deterrence and containment”, the report said.
North Korea has carried out six nuclear tests, and has a ballistic missile that experts believe could put the whole of the US in striking range. In doing so, Pyongyang said it had achieved its mission of becoming a nuclear state.
However, last month, after months of mutual hostility, Mr Kim was said to be “committed to denuclearisation” as he and US President Donald Trump agreed to talks, in an unprecedented move.
Despite the developments, the MPs’ report said North Korea was unlikely to abandon its weapon programme and would achieve its goal of posing a nuclear threat to its opponents soon.
The committee said a North Korean nuclear strike against the UK seemed “highly unlikely”, given its focus on threatening the US.
“It is obvious to North Korea that launching such weapons would lead inescapably to devastating military consequences,” the report goes on.
If there were conflict in the region, the UK was unlikely to stand aside and would assist the US, it said.
The MPs’ report issued a further warning that the UK could be the target of cyber attacks from the regime.
North Korea was believed to be behind last May’s WannaCry attack, which affected NHS hospitals, businesses and banks across the world causing billions of dollars of damage.
Committee chairman Julian Lewis said the threats posed by the regime were typical of the intensifying dangers confronting the UK and underlined the need to spend more on defence.
He told the BBC he wanted to see spending increased from 2% of GDP to nearer 3% to cope with new cyber and nuclear threats, as well as older ones. | <urn:uuid:597a528f-8a0a-46b6-9a2f-ce48149c1891> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yerepouni-news.com/n-korea-missile-could-reach-uk-shores-within-months/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.984075 | 501 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Patricia is passionate about education and space exploration. So, being the Director of Education at Space Center Houston for 13 years was a perfect fit for her! During that time she worked with corporate, government and educational entities to improve education by utilizing the exciting world of space exploration. Currently, Patricia has her own consulting companies, one in the US and one in Canada. Patricia came up with the Story Time From Space idea one night while cooking dinner and worked with Alvin Drew to see if there was a possibility that this cool idea could work on orbit. Now it is not only a possibility, it’s happening!
Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr.
Well, what hasn’t Alvin done! Alvin is a Retired Colonel in the Air Force where he flew helicopters in Special Ops and was a Test Pilot where he flew everything else. He then became an Astronaut and flew on two shuttle flights, STS-118 & STS-133, that both went to the International Space Station. On his second flight he became the 200th human being to ever do a spacewalk. He has worked on interplanetary exploration and is now the NASA Liaison to the Air Force. Have you ever seen the American Airman commercial? Yup that’s him! Alvin co-founded Story Time From Space along with Patricia. He has a strong interest in education and owes that to his Mom who was a kindergarten teacher.
Astrophysicist, educator, textbook author, children’s book author, family man and a really nice guy, that’s Jeffrey Bennett. Jeff taught at Colorado University, lectures around the world and is passionate about space exploration and education. Jeff’s children’s books are now orbiting the Earth on the ISS. He also has his own company called Big Kid Science, you can learn more about him at www.jeffreybennett.com.
Debbie was a NASA educator that worked with the astronauts on their educational payloads. She then decided to start her own consulting company Education Pathways and worked all over the US on cool projects. She is now a science coordinator at a school district near her hometown. Debbie also brings a passion for education and space exploration along with curriculum development and educator training experience.
Bjarni is a retired Canadian astronaut who flew on STS-85. Not only did he fly but he was one of a few astronauts who get to take up their own experiments. To say Bjarni is passionate about science education is an understatement. He has worked on numerous educational projects always pushing educators to expand their knowledge and to accurately help their students explore science. Bjarni loves to read so combining his love of developing science experiments with literacy was easy! Bjarni also owns is own electronic company, QDAC. If you ever want to get Bjarni chatting, just ask him about his aerobatic flying- his ultimate passion.
Jack is a graduate student at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Jack has taken on the role of webmaster and user interface designer and using STFS as his masters program project. Jack is also a “new media cowboy” with a tactical focus on data driven marketing with over 15 years of experience in themed entertainment. In his day job, Jack is the public relations and digital media marketing specialist for Space Center Houston, the official visitors center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Talk about a hard working person with endless energy!
John’s interest in all things space started in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik and Comet Arend-Roland. He watched both events from his home near Portsmouth, England. John moved to Canada to work in electronics and computing in 1969 and retired as a computer consultant in 2000. He enjoys volunteering at Story Time From Space as it “helps me stay current with computer technology and hopefully inspires many young people to pursue a career in science and technology”. | <urn:uuid:dc516e40-6b59-4f02-b983-5ef6b69f29ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://storytimefromspace.com/team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974772 | 854 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Ping: “Oh Pong, listen to this! I’ve got a new idea for the next school year. Let’s use…”
Pong (interrupting): Now hold it right there. Did you just say a new idea? As in a NEW IDEA? Weren’t you the teacher complaining about feeling overwhelmed and tired?
Ping: That was me…
Pong: So convince me why I should even LISTEN to this new idea when you can stick with what you already have. Go ahead, let’s see what you can come up with.
Ping: It doesn’t require much teacher preparation time.
Pong: Not bad. Keep going.
Ping: Making small changes, even “tweaks” to the routine always boosts my work-related motivation level, and I really need some of that after this school year.
And the students might learn something…
Pong: Okay, okay, good points. Let’s hear the new idea.
Ping: You see, we’ll have “Grammar Pens” to… (Pong interrupts)
Pong: Wait a minute. “Grammar Pencils” are “A THING”. You can Google them and find sites to purchase them from. Those pencils have confusing grammar points on them, such as “to, two & too” or “there, their and they’re”. Are you already planning out-of-pocket purchases for the English Room?!!
PIng: No, no, calm down. Absolutely not. This idea was just inspired by those products. Our students prefer pens and purchasing things like pencils makes no sense as they aren’t made for long-term use.
Pong: Whew… (sighs in relief).
Ping: You know those students who never bring a pen to class? I once read that in such cases a student should leave something of his/hers until the pen is returned at the end of the lesson. Such a method would be problematic to implement with some of our Deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents (I don’t what anyone taking off their belt, for example!). However, I thought that perhaps I could still turn the situation into an educational experience.
So, before I let them use one of the English Room pens, they will have to tell me what the difference is between your/you’re, its/it’s, have/has, etc. I can add confusing vocab items such as long/no longer too.
Pong: What happens if they don’t know the answer?
Ping: We do what we always do, unrelated to this particular idea – I tell the student, and then the student has to tell it back to me.
Pong: How are you going to emboss/ engrave the target words onto the pens?
Ping: I’M NOT! Even if I knew how to do such a thing I wouldn’t. It’s the same principle that holds true for playing board games in EFL lessons – you don’t want the target item to appear in a fixed place. On a board game, if an instruction or a vocabulary item is written in the top left corner, the students quickly memorize what they need to say or do when they reach that corner, and stop reading the words written. If the words are permanently on “the red pen”, or the “large pen”, the students will just use such cues to retrieve an answer without focusing on the words written. The cards can’t have numbers on them, for the same reason.
I’ll place a little box with the target words on cards beside our pen holder. Easy to shuffle cards or pull out ones that are below/above a certain student’s level. You get a lot more repetition with cards, compared to “fixed words”.
Take a card, respond, get a pen – easy peasy!
I can use it with the highlighters/colored markers too!
Pong: If you’ve got all that worked out, why did you call me in? I usually only show up when there’s a problem.
Ping: (Sighs in regret)* There is a problem.
Actually, there are two problems.
Pong: Start with the easier problem.
Ping: It’s a learning center, so not all the students are doing the same thing. If a student began the lesson working on the computer, and then went on to something else, he/she may ask for a pen in the middle of the lesson, not at the beginning…
At the moment they just go over to the table and take one without my involvement.
Pong: Hmmm… What’s the other problem?
Ping: What about the students who ALWAYS bring their pens, pencils, erasers, dictionaries, markers, and anything else they might possibly need for the lesson?
They need to practice these items too…
Pong: Why don’t you ask your readers for advice? Maybe they can offer suggestions.
Do you have any suggestions for me to consider?
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Daily Archives: August 30, 2014
Volume 3, Book 44, Number 674:
Narrated ‘Urwa bin Az-Zubair:
That he had asked ‘Aisha (radiallaahu `anhaa) about the meaning of the Statement of Allah: “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry (other) women of your choice two or three or four.” (4.3)
She said, “O my nephew! This is about the orphan girl who lives with her guardian and shares his property. Her wealth and beauty may tempt him to marry her without giving her an adequate Mahr (bridal-money) which might have been given by another suitor. So, such guardians were forbidden to marry such orphan girls unless they treated them justly and gave them the most suitable Mahr; otherwise they were ordered to marry any other woman.” ‘Aisha (radiallaahu `anhaa) further said, “After that verse the people again asked the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) (about the marriage with orphan ‘girls), so Allah revealed the following verses:– ‘They ask your instruction concerning the women. Say: Allah Instructs you about them and about what is recited unto you In the Book, concerning the orphan girls to whom you give not the prescribed portions and yet whom you desire to marry…” (4.127)
What is meant by Allah’s Saying:- ‘And about what is recited unto you is the former verse which goes:- ‘If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry (other) women of your choice.’ (4.3) ‘Aisha (radiallaahu `anhaa) said, “Allah’s saying in the other verse:- ‘Yet whom you desire to marry’ (4.127) means the desire of the guardian to marry an orphan girl under his supervision when she has not much property or beauty (in which case he should treat her justly). The guardians were forbidden to marry their orphan girls possessing property and beauty without being just to them, as they generally refrain from marrying them (when they are neither beautiful nor wealthy).”
A common reader might find this weird – how can a guardian marry the orphan girl he’s upbringing? Incest? No. Because this is a case of sponsoring the orphan, that’s allowed in Islam, unlike adoption.
There is a difference between adoption and sponsoring orphans.
A – Adoption means that a man takes an orphan and makes him like one of his own children, calling him after him, so that the orphan is not allowed to marry one of the man’s daughters, and so the sons of the adoptive father are regarded as brothers of the orphan and his daughters are regarded as his sisters, and his (the father’s) sisters are regarded as his paternal aunts, and so on. This was one of the things that were done during the first Jaahiliyyah, and some of the Sahaabah carried the names of their adoptive fathers, as in the case of al-Miqdaad ibn al-Aswad whose real father’s name was ‘Amr, but he was called ibn (son of) al-Aswad, after the man who had adopted him.
This continued into the early days of Islam, until Allaah forbade that, according to a well-known story. Zayd ibn Haarithah was called Zayd ibn Muhammad, and he was the husband of Zaynab bint Jahsh, then Zayd divorced her.
It was narrated that Anas said: When Zaynab’s ‘iddah came to an end, the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to Zayd ibn Haarithah, “Go and tell her about me (that I want to marry her).” So he went to her and found her kneading dough. He said, “O Zaynab, good news. The Messenger of Allaah wants to marry you.” She said, “I will not do anything until I consult with my Lord.” Then she got up and went to her prayer-place, then the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came and entered upon her.
Concerning this, Allaah revealed the words (interpretation of the meaning):
“And (remember) when you said to him (Zayd bin Haarithah the freed‑slave of the Prophet) on whom Allaah has bestowed grace (by guiding him to Islam) and you (O Muhammad too) have done favour (by manumitting him): ‘Keep your wife to yourself, and fear Allaah.’ But you did hide in yourself (i.e. what Allaah has already made known to you that He will give her to you in marriage) that which Allaah will make manifest, you did fear the people (i.e., their saying that Muhammad married the divorced wife of his manumitted slave) whereas Allaah had a better right that you should fear Him. So when Zayd had accomplished his desire from her (i.e. divorced her), We gave her to you in marriage, so that (in future) there may be no difficulty to the believers in respect of (the marriage of) the wives of their adopted sons when the latter have no desire to keep them (i.e. they have divorced them). And Allaah’s Command must be fulfilled”
(Narrated by Muslim, 1428)
B – Allaah has forbidden adoption because it causes knowledge of people’s lineage to be lost, and we have been commanded to preserve people’s lineage.
It was narrated from Abu Dharr (may Allaah be pleased with him) that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “There is no man who knowingly calls himself after someone other than his father but he has committed kufr. Whoever claims to belong to people to whom he has no ties of blood, let him take his place in Hell.”
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 3317; Muslim, 61)
What is meant by “committed kufr” is that he has done an act of kufr, not that he is beyond the pale of Islam.
This may generate hatred and resentment between the adopted son and the children of the adoptive father, because it will cause them to lose out on something that is rightfully theirs, which will go to this orphan unlawfully who they know is not entitled to it as they are.
Sponsoring an orphan means that a man brings the orphan to live in his house, or he sponsors him somewhere other than his house, without giving him his name or forbidding that which is permitted or permitting that which is forbidden, as is the case with adoption. Rather the one who sponsors an orphan is doing a generous deed. So there can be no comparison between one who sponsors an orphan and one who adopts a child, because of the great difference between them and because sponsoring orphans is something which is encouraged in Islam.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“…And they ask you concerning orphans. Say: The best thing is to work honestly in their property, and if you mix your affairs with theirs, then they are your brothers. And Allaah knows him who means mischief (e.g. to swallow their property) from him who means good (e.g. to save their property). And if Allaah had wished, He could have put you into difficulties. Truly, Allaah is All-Mighty, All-Wise”
The Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said that sponsoring orphans is a means of being together with him in Paradise.
It was narrated that Sahl ibn Sa’d said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I and the one who sponsors an orphan will be like this in Paradise” – and he gestured with his index and middle fingers, holding them slightly apart.
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 4998)
But we must point out that when these orphans reach adolescence, they must be separated from the wives and daughters of the sponsor. We should not do good with one hand and do evil with the other. We should also note that the one who is sponsored may be an orphaned girl and she may be beautiful and may become attractive before adolescence, so the sponsor must watch his sons lest they fall into doing haraam things with the orphans, because this could happen and be a means of causing mischief which it will be difficult to put right.
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Rehabilitative exercises are the type of care that can help you get back at doing what you love to do and enjoying various physical activities. it will help you become more active and get you back to your pre-injured status if not better.
Rehabilitative exercises aim at restoring the injured person’s movement, decrease pain, increase strength and stability.
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When it comes to cold storage, a padlock may seem like a good idea, adding an extra bit of security. However, this is only “security theater.” It may make you feel safer but in reality, it does little to nothing in that regard. As my grandmother used to say, a lock does nothing but keep an honest man honest.
Every lock can be broken, given the right tools. With a quick internet search, even a determined amateur can find all they need to know to unlock the mechanism without a visible trace and the wallet owner is none the wiser. A lock does not tell a user whether their wallet has been tampered with and will leave them unaware that their data has been compromised.
Tamper-indicating seals are often used to help detect theft or alteration, but unlike locks, are not meant to hinder unauthorized access or entry. Instead, they are meant to record that it took place, according to security expert Roger G Johnston.
To put it another way, think of the warning on your favorite jar of peanut butter — “Do Not Consume If Seal Is Broken.” The seal didn’t stop the bad guy from opening it, but it did give you the knowledge someone else was there. You use that knowledge to take the next step, which in this case would be to not eat something that has been messed with.
Cryptosteel’s first product, the Cassette, had a hole that some people used for a padlock. Due to our belief that this is simply unnecessary, we decided not to include any misleading provisions on our new device, the Cryptosteel Capsule.
Instead of a place for a lock, we focused on providing the possibility of a DIY seal. How do you put a tamper-indicating seal on a Cryptosteel Capsule? If you have the tools and know-how, you can weld it closed. This has the added bonus of making the barrier seal fireproof.
If you can’t — or don’t want to — do that, here is a simple DIY solution: after securely closing the Capsule, paste a sticker where the cap and shell meet. Paint the border of the sticker with nail polish (glitter polish makes for a distinctive result). Once the polish has dried, take pictures of that spot and keep them safe. Should anyone open the device, it will be obvious.
The most important aspect in seal security is the inspection process. Seals must be examined to detect tampering. Defeating a seal means gaining access without notice so regular monitoring needs to be part of your protocol. Keep in mind that there’s no such thing as a tamper-proof seal and seals based on advanced technology don’t always provide better security. The good news is that seals can be very effective with correct use but as you can see, it takes some effort to do so.
Shamir Backup aka SLIP39 (SatoshiLabs implementation of SSS)
Even if you have sealed your Capsule, the possibility remains that someone can access the information contained inside. What then? You can protect your information using Shamir Backup with multiple Capsules.
Shamir Backup is a cryptographic secret-sharing scheme based on Adi Shamir’s algorithm. It’s an ingenious way to help protect data by allowing you to split your recovery seed backup into multiple independent parts called shares. A minimum number, called the threshold, is required to gain access to the master secret. Anything below that is, simply, useless.
What should you expect from Cryptosteel devices?
Our original belief is the same — the greatest risk to safety and prosperity today lies with the centralization of information, resources, and power. By letting people physically safeguard their own digital keys, we champion the decentralization of digital assets, virtual identities, and personal data. With SSS you can decentralize the Capsule itself and finally free yourself of the single point of failure (SPOF) anxiety!
To quote Winston Churchill, “with great power comes great responsibility.” Cryptosteel is putting that power in your hands. Use it wisely and protect what’s yours.
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We need to do something to combat global warming. The success of this endeavor is in our hands. We hold the key to the changes we want to see in this world. Unfortunately, not everyone is taking the right steps. On the contrary, many people even do otherwise. Instead of helping to fight global warming, they deny the problem exists and fan a false narrative.
The good thing is that we see a lot of children taking the lead. They organize climate strikes. They also spread information online. They convince their parents that global warming is a priority, and something needs to happen soon.
Greta Thunberg, a leading child activist, inspired a lot of people because of her actions. She didn’t let her age prevent her from doing the right thing. She even went toe to toe with other global leaders to send the right message. Her courage and ability to speak her mind are unbelievable. She did what a lot of adults don’t have the courage to do.
A step in the right direction
It’s great to see someone like Greta taking charge. It’s even better that there are many other children who are also doing their share. They have also started organizing. Around the world, climate strikes happen. Students walk out of their class to join protests on the streets to send the right message to adults.
These actions show us that we don’t have to worry much about the future. These children are taking the right steps and are taking matters into their hands. They also see the bigger picture. If they don’t do anything now, it’s their future that could suffer.
Although we need to appreciate the steps taken by these children, we also need to feel embarrassed as adults. For them to decide that something needs to happen is a sign that adults aren’t doing enough. They’re trying to correct the mistakes and salvage the situation. It’s also a message that we have to feel concerned about the future of the planet and not depend on our children to take action. We did a lot of terrible things over the years and benefited from those actions. Now that it’s time to protect the planet, we appear to have decided to abandon our responsibilities.
You have to introduce changes at home not only to feel good about yourself but to inspire your kids to do the same. It helps if you can partner with Evergreen Junk Removal to collect your trash at home and guarantee that it goes to the right places. You also need to be consistent in your efforts to inspire your children. They won’t believe you if you only tell them what to do, but your actions speak otherwise.
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Using Excel as a Reporting Tool in SOLIDWORKS PDM
Some SOLIDWORKS PDM administrators want to gain more use of their data. Installing and using Reporting in SQL Server can be very powerful, but it requires a foundation of knowledge in setting up reports, permissions, and additional installations that some companies are not willing to give a PDM administrator.
SOLIDWORKS PDM can also generate reports using the Report Generator, but it can only deliver the results in table format. Reporting in Excel can be more flexible and allow you to analyze the data with formulas and graphs without the need for installing and setting up the SQL Server Reporting Services. There are a few ways to import SQL data into Excel, but this is one way it can be done.
For this example, we will run a query to show what vault transitions are more frequently utilized. This example query is borrowed from SOLIDWORKS Solution S-070156.
First, you must create a data source file. To do this, navigate tot he Data ribbon and select From Other Sources > From Microsoft Query in the Get External Data section.
Select New Data Source and select OK to continue.
Next, select either SQL Server or SQL Server Native Client 11.0.
Enter the server name, login ID, and password. Select Options >> to choose your vault database. Once complete, select OK.
Select Cancel on the Query Wizard since it does not have enough power to create the query we need for this example. It will ask if you say Yes to the prompt asking if you want to continue editing in Microsoft Query. Select Close on the additional Add Tables pop-up that will come up. Click the SQL button in the top of the tool.
Enter the following query in the pop-up window:
select T.Name + ‘ (‘ + W.Name + ‘)’ as [Transition(Workflow Name)], Count(1) as [Count] from TransitionHistory TH
inner join Transitions T on TH.TransitionID = T.TransitionID
inner join workflows W on W.WorkflowID = T.WorkflowID
where W.WorkflowID > 1
group by W.Name, T.Name
order by 2 Desc
Select OK to submit the SQL statement. It will warn you that it can’t be represented graphically and will show the results of the query in a table. Select the Save button to save the file. This will be a reference for your Excel document so it must be kept with it. Finally, select Return Data to insert the data into Excel.
It will ask you what cell you would like to import the data at and if you would like it in Table, PivotTable Report, or Pivot Chart format. For this dataset, it makes sense just to use the Table format.
The result will be a table showing the most used states and how often they are used.
To ensure the data is refreshed every time the file is opened, click on a cell in the table and select Properties from the Connections section of the Data ribbon.
Then, select the Connection Properties button.
Finally, you can select the option to Refresh data when opening the file to make sure users are always viewing the most up-to-date information.
Now you can utilize your data in graphs, charts, and other calculations without needing access or knowledge about Reporting Services.
I hope you found this SOLIDWORKS PDM tip helpful. For more useful tips check out the related articles below.
Screenshots courtesy of Microsoft Office 2016.
About the Author
Lindsay Early is an Application Engineer Consultant and has been with Fisher Unitech for seven years. Lindsay is a Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert and Elite Application Engineer having earned over 14 SOLIDWORKS Certifications including Mechanical Design, Simulation, and Data Mangement. | <urn:uuid:e281df9d-efd6-492c-9a42-cae74c7ba033> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cati.com/blog/using-excel-reporting-tool-solidworks-pdm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.881379 | 805 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Matt showed me this earlier in the week but I had to blog it. This is a excellent example of remix culture… Imagine if Amen had claimed copyright over the break? Or if they had licensed it only to the top producers in the music industry.
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip. | <urn:uuid:11fa9f06-9abf-4ba4-a689-ccf6af104b49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cubicgarden.com/2010/01/02/the-worlds-most-important-6-sec-drum-loop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961779 | 168 | 1.804688 | 2 |
BORP Transforms Lives
Participation in sports, fitness and recreation activities have been proven to have numerous positive effects. For people with disabilities and vision impairments, however, there are multiple barriers that prevent them from engaging in these activities. BORP breaks down those barriers, and, as a result, our participants’ lives are transformed.
What Participants Say
In surveys about the impact of BORP programs, participants report the following outcomes:
Making a Difference for YouthFor young people, participating in sports and recreation is extremely important in supporting their health, social and emotional development, and promoting success in school. For these reasons, BORP’s programs are especially important for youth with physical disabilities and vision impairments.
What Youth Participants SayBORP’s youth participants report the following outcomes:
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In 1997, I was living in Cambodia, working for the U.S. government to help solidify the country’s fragile democracy. The air was hopeful: Civic groups were preparing to monitor upcoming elections, political parties were selecting candidates and drafting platforms, and newspapers had popped up to feverishly report on it all.
At his Fourth of July party, however, the U.S. ambassador to Phnom Penh warned of storm clouds ahead. The very next day, Hun Sen—a former military commander who at the time was Cambodia’s co–prime minister—marshaled the army and carried out a military coup. I stood on the rooftop of Hotel Cambodiana, where expats and government officials had fled for safety, and watched Hun Sen’s goons round up members of Parliament and political opponents, escorting them down to the Mekong River. It is reported that many were killed. I feverishly took Polaroid photos of the Cambodian opposition leaders hiding in the hotel, so that the ambassador could issue them the safety of U.S. passports.
The die was cast on that day. I returned to Cambodia many times as a visitor in the years that followed, and lived there from 2008 until 2014, and as time went on, the democratic space shrank and Hun Sen’s grip tightened. Yet, although we do not hear their voices much, many Cambodians are still fighting for their democracy from both outside and inside their country.
They are among millions of democrats who live in dictatorships, who press on and push for freedom, even as they feel alienated from and neglected by the world. In my 25 years overseas, I’ve met many of them, in Myanmar, Georgia, and elsewhere.
President Joe Biden has spoken of a world divided between democracies and autocracies, one where the United States must stand with its friends, against its dictatorial enemies, and so for his Summit for Democracy in December, the Biden administration determined that participants should be leaders of democratic countries.
Organizers thus inadvertently became bouncers at the night club of democracy, a messy business into which inconsistencies and subjectivity seeped. The invitation list was not always in line with independent democratic assessments. The Democratic Republic of Congo, an authoritarian regime, was invited, while Bolivia, a mid-performing democracy, was not. Zambia, Niger, and Angola were asked to join, though they are arguably no better than Sri Lanka, Tunisia, or Sierra Leone, which were not. This relative arbitrariness resulted in uncomfortable spokespersons for democracy: Rodrigo Duterte—who has eroded checks and balances, justified extrajudicial killings, created a deadly environment for journalists, and encouraged a culture of misogyny—represented Philippine democracy, for example.
Importantly, the summit also shut the door on democrats and activists from civil society, opposition parties, and other sectors who are unluckily living in uninvited countries. Ignoring these democrats is a mistake. They should be front and center in our battle between democracy and autocracy. The tendency to revert to an iron curtain, dividing the world into clubs of nations, should be resisted. The only way we win this battle is by engaging and increasing support to democrats in autocracies.
In my experience, these folks are the most innovative defenders of democracy—they have to be!—from whom we could learn plenty. I worked with North Korean groups in Seoul that ingeniously smuggled flash drives into products crossing the border from China into North Korea and even attached messages to hot-air balloons to penetrate the North’s sealed information space. On the Thai border in the 1990s, I helped the then-exiled Burmese government organize and communicate with activists still in the country, surreptitiously meeting in the jungle, sending coded handwritten messages through tribal communities and launching radio programs.
The underlying point is that the struggle between democracy and autocracy is based not on geographic delineations but on values and ideas held by people everywhere. Differentiating between democracies and non-democracies is as effective as relying on borders to stop a pandemic from spreading. Democracies are threatened by autocrats from within, such as the far-right Alt-Info movement gaining steam in my previous home, the Caucasus country of Georgia. And autocracies have brave democrats fighting for change, such as the heroic Russian journalist who held a sign up on live TV exposing Vladimir Putin’s lies. Country labels, further, do not always predict geopolitical cooperation: Singapore, not a democracy, supported sanctioning Russia over the war in Ukraine, whereas India, our supposed democratic bulwark in Asia, abstained. Dividing the world into friendly and hostile blocs also impedes cooperation needed to tackle global crises, such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
I have seen successful democratic advances against autocracy—including the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Saffron one in Myanmar—and they were due to the grit and stamina of civic and political actors within. Democratic work in closed spaces is fraught; the capacity to operate varies. In the 1990s, for example, I was in Malaysia at a time when democracy and human-rights organizations were unable to work legally, and opportunities to engage with political actors didn’t exist. So those of us at international democracy-promotion groups provided support to consumer-rights organizations instead. Advocating for safe food and products, after all, is a political process, engages citizens, and establishes a rights agenda.
Many countries and international organizations are doing this important, creative work, but governments need to prioritize and increase funding for these efforts. Democrats from Egypt, Cameroon, Venezuela, Central African Republic, and Belarus, to name a few, must be included in the global democracy coalition, and not relegated to capturing our attention through fleeting headlines. They desperately need alliances and solidarity, and can benefit from learning best practices and tactics from others.
They also show us that democracy is not a unitary or stable achievement. My experiences with besieged democrats abroad have held up a painful mirror to my own country, teaching me not to take freedom for granted.
Supporting them is not only the right thing to do; it is a matter of global security. Rising autocrats put our geopolitical order at risk, as we see tragically today with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In Cambodia, Hun Sen is still in power, unfazed by cuts in U.S. and European Union assistance and canceled trade deals. He has called the American ambassador a “liar” for his condemnation. Why would he care? His pockets are lined with Chinese money, and he shows little concern about the welfare of his citizens. The thing he does fear is the democratic movement inside the country. This is why he must keep imprisoning, exiling, and even killing the democrats who are obstacles to his rule.
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Refugee crisis: the terrible waiting in Lesvos
Refugee crisis: the terrible waiting in Lesvos
Greece is not prepared for the refugee crisis, reports Natasha Tsangarides.
Most refugees have to walk for hours to get to Lesvos' main city, Mytilene. © Natasha Tsangarides
Hamza is a 9-year-old boy from Hama, in west Syria. He was hit by a bomb a few weeks ago, and has injuries to his leg, hand and head. He cannot now talk or walk.
Like more than 4 million other Syrians, Hamza and his family escaped from the war that has destroyed their country. They travelled through Lebanon and Turkey and, then on a small boat with many people, went across the Aegean Sea to Europe.
When Hamza got to Lesvos, he and his family had to walk about 15 kilometres on mountain roads to the bus stop. The bus would take them to Mytilene, the island’s biggest city, where refugees have to register. But there are not enough buses, so most people have to walk another 60 kilometres.
At Mytilene, there were thousands of people waiting to be registered. There was only one photographer to register everyone, so they have to wait a long time - many people have to come back the next day.
Hamza is now waiting at the refugee camp, 3 kilometres away from Mytilene. He needs medical treatment but it is night and there are no doctors at the camp. There are also no tents, no blankets and no food.
Welcome to Europe
There are too many people in the two refugee camps on Lesvos. So many people sleep outside in parks. (Natasha Tsangarides)
In summer, with the calm Mediterranean sea, more than 2,000 refugees arrive every day in Lesvos. On busy days, 4,000 refugees arrive. Skala Sikaminias, in the north, is usually quiet, but now there are many old rubber dinghies (boats) and lifejackets.
Every day, the boats come in. And every day, there are no officials or NGO representatives on the beaches. When refugees reach Mytilene, 75 kilometres away, officials meet them there.
When the refugees arrive, they cry, laugh, sing, take selfies and pray. But soon they realize all the problems they face and they become sad, disappointed and afraid.
Lesvos has become hell: very hot and dirty. Refugees wait for a long time to be registered so they can leave the island and continue their journey. So many refugees are now arriving, there are not enough ferries to take them to Athens, so they stay on Lesvos longer and the island becomes more chaotic. There are now about 17,000 refugees on the island and the UNHCR has called for an emergency evacuation.
Each morning at 5.30, British citizens Eric and Philippa Kempson go to the coast and welcome the refugees. The Kempsons and their small team of volunteers give them water for the journey. Volunteers drive women with babies and people with disabilities to the bus station, in a car park in Molyvos.
At the bus station, volunteers give water and sandwiches to the people who arrive. Most people then walk to the city, but some wait in the car park - with no toilets - for a bus – with no timetable.
Recently local associations have put made them close the transit centre (run by volunteers). And refugees are not allowed to wait in the car park. Also, the authorities have stopped taking people by bus to the city because there are too many people. So people have to sleep in the open, or everybody, young and old, walks to the city.
The city of Mytilene is one of the most beautiful in Greece, with old buildings and hills. Now there are so many refugees in the port and parks of the city and tents everywhere. Some are waiting to be registered. Others prefer to sleep in the open – the camps are too dirty.
Eleni Kelmali is a junior Lieutenant of the Lesvos Hellenic Coastguard. They go on search-and-rescue missions and they now help the police with registration and crowd management at the port. Hundreds of refugees wait in the hot sun every day as the authorities try to keep refugees calm and form queues with no interpreters.
Kelmali says: ‘There is not enough support. If we had double the number of people to help, it would still be difficult. We should have unlimited people. We want more help from the EU through our Ministry.’
‘This is not the Europe I expected,’ a Syrian man told me. The refugees who arrive will not always find food, water and shelter. Greece has too many refugees and has it’s own economic crisis, so it cannot cope’.
‘Who will protect us?’
Kara Tepe camp is dirty and full of rubbish. Natasha Tsangarides
The city is dirty. The two refugee camps, Kara Tepe and Moria, are worse.
Anna Halford is the Lesvos Field Co-ordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières. She says: ‘We need to meet basic standards of living. On Lesvos, there is some organization to receive and transport people, but not enough. There are too many people. We don’t have enough resources. The country cannot cope.’
The Mayor of Lesvos set up Kara Tepe camp on a traffic education site. It was built for 500 refugees; but now there are about 2,000 people there. The camp was originally only for Syrians, but several other nationalities also live there now because it is difficult to control.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the only NGOs working in Greece for the first time to help in the refugee crisis. The NGO provides information, water and sanitation services in Kara Tepe camp. They are planning to do more inland too.
Simon Clarke, the Emergency Deputy Field Director for IRC, said: ‘The situation is terrible. There’s not enough shelter or food – they all get one meal a day. There are not enough toilets and showers.’
There is no camp management of the camp, it’s dirty and full of rubbish – but it is much worse in Moria.
When you walk into Moria camp, it is hard to believe it’s in Europe. It is a detention centre with space for 700 people and it is full. The area outside it is full of tents for about 3,000 refugees. It feels desperate. The few people who speak English ask the same questions: ‘Why is there no water?’, ‘How can I wash here?’, ‘Please, where is the doctor?’ and ‘Do people know we are here?’.
There is a faster system in Greece for Syrians. So their registration papers are usually ready in a couple of days. Other nationalities often have to wait 20 to 40 days.
They get food, but it is never enough. No-one was prepared for so many people. There is water from the tap, but it smells, so many people buy water from the kiosk. The lucky people have tents from international organizations eg. Médecins Sans Frontières; most sleep on cardboard boxes or mats. With no management or authority at Moria, people do not feel safe. There are often fights and some people have knives.
Amin is a 13-year-old from Afghanistan. On 20 August, we saw about 100 people fighting. Some of them had knives, and one man was stabbed. No security staff or doctor came.
‘Where is [the] UNHCR? Where are the guards? There are fights here. Who will protect us? It is not safe at all here. You can’t sleep at night,’ he says.
Antonios Gkagkarellis, a police lieutenant at Moria camp, says there are 8 or 9 police officers every day at Moria. But they only guard the interior detention centre.
‘We don’t have enough resources. Inside, we have about 750 people and outside about 2,500. This isn’t safe. Our lives are not even safe here. There are so many people outside that we can’t check for knives. With this situation, we can’t cope,’ says Eliza Goroya, Amnesty International’s Campaigner for Greece.
‘Greece cannot cope. Refugees are escaping war, rape, torture, and/or poverty. And they come to a support system that does not work. The refugees have to rely on the kindness of local activists even for the most basic things like shelter and food. Greece is on the news all the time, but we need to talk more about the humanitarian crisis. EU leaders need to be responsible.’
On the island of Lesvos, it is very clear that Europe is not protecting the refugees. People feel angry at EU leaders and the UNHCR.
This is the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War, but the UNHCR has not yet given even one tent. This year, the organization has given out 7,400 bottles of water - the same as the volunteer Kempsons give out in two days.
Something is very wrong. The smugglers are more organized than European states; and kind, untrained volunteers are helping more people than international humanitarian agencies.
The EU has not yet taken responsibility for the refugee crisis. As the situation gets worse and there are more refugees on the island, the EU urgently needs to increase emergency support to people who help refugees arriving in Greece.
On 14 September 2015, there is a meeting in Brussels of EU interior and justice ministers. This is an opportunity to make the European asylum system work and to create safe and humane routes for refugees - respecting their rights and protecting them.
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Please find below the abstract of the article written in English by Asok Kumar Ghosh under the title “Anaerobic Threshold: Its Concept and Role in Endurance Sport”, and published by Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2004 (24-36).
“Aerobic to anaerobic transition intensity is one of the most significant physiological variable in endurance sports. Scientists have explained the term in various ways, like, Lactate Threshold, Ventilatory Anaerobic Threshold, Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation, Onset of Plasma Lactate Accumulation, Heart Rate Deflection Point and Maximum Lactate Steady State. But all of these have great role both in monitoring training schedule and in determining sports performance.
Individuals endowed with the possibility to obtain a high oxygen uptake need to complement with rigorous training program in order to achieve maximal performance. If they engage in endurance events, they must also develop the ability to sustain a high fractional utilization of their maximal oxygen uptake (%VO2 max) and become physiologically efficient in performing their activity. Anaerobic threshold is highly correlated to the distance running performance as compared to maximum aerobic capacity or VO2max, because sustaining a high fractional utilization of the VO2max for a long time delays the metabolic acidosis. Training at or little above the anaerobic threshold intensity improves both the aerobic capacity and anaerobic threshold level. Anaerobic Threshold can also be determined from the speed-heart rate relationship in the field situation, without undergoing sophisticated laboratory techniques. However, controversies also exist among scientists regarding its role in high performance sports.”
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The Literacy Council is keenly aware that there are not just hundreds but thousands of adults in Frederick County who could use our help with literacy skills or learning English. So we have been working hard to find and train new tutors, and to let potential students know we are here to help them.
And we have been growing!
- From 2010 to 2016, the number of our volunteers increased by 29% (from 98 to 127).
- During the same period, the number of our adult learners increased by 119% (from 116 to 255).
- Last year, our volunteers gave over 12,200 hours of service. This amounts to approximately three hundred 40-hour workweeks. Employment statisticians equate this to a monetary value of $287,833.
One thing we have learned is that expanding an organization while continuing to do quality work requires staff. Until 2011, all support staff members were volunteers. These people were heroic and did a great job, but inevitably the office went unstaffed sometimes and things fell between the cracks. Imagine being the student who finally gets up the nerve to call the Literacy Council or stop by . . . only to find no one there.
In 2011 the Literacy Council was able to hire a part-time officer manager/volunteer coordinator. In 2014 we added a part-time executive director. What a difference these women have made! They have rendered the Council’s work more consistent and reliable, and both have engaged in serious outreach into the community structure and population of Frederick County. They have fueled our growth, enabling us to serve many more learners. | <urn:uuid:eff7367f-1808-4c9a-8c4d-1cf1aebd723f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.frederickliteracy.org/literacy-council-frederick-county-2016-volunteer-stats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.97419 | 328 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Myopia and the performing arts professional
In response to our Webinar with BAPAM and the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain on the subject of sustaining musical careers, we have decided to post a series of blogs focusing on performing arts eye care.
As the UK’s only performing arts eye care specialists, we know first-hand how eye disorders can have a detrimental effect on a professional’s career. This series of blogs will highlight the common eye condition which can seriously affect performing arts professionals. From Musicians to Presenters, Dancers to Camera Operators, Sound Technicians to Singers, the list of performing arts professionals who we have helped to see the music and more, is extensive and varied.
Most vision problems are caused by refractive errors. Sixty-one percent of those in the UK have vision problems requiring some form of corrective action, with just over 10 percent using contact lenses regularly, and over half wearing glasses.
The four most common types of refractive error are:
- Myopia or Short-sightedness. Myopia results from light focusing just short of the retina due to the cornea or the eyeball being too long.
- Hyperopia or Long-sightedness. Generally, hyperopia is a result of the eyeball being too short from front to back, or of problems with the shape of the cornea, (the top clear layer of the eye), or lens (the part of the eye that helps the eye to focus).
- Presbyopia or Old Sight. Presbyopia is caused by a hardening of the eyes crystalline lens, which occurs with ageing. As our lenses become less flexible, they can no longer change shape to focus on close-up images.
- Astigmatism or rugby ball-shaped eyes. Astigmatism causes blurred distance and near vision due to a curvature abnormality in the eye. A person with astigmatism either has an irregular corneal surface or a lens inside the eye that has mismatched curves.
Myopia: Perspectives and challenges
In this blog, we look at how myopia affects the performing arts professional and how we can resolve this refractive error effectively.
For a performer or performing arts professional a refractive error, eye disease and disorders can have a catastrophic impact on their career. For those working in production, there are many different visual demands. The production control room requires members of the production team to view multiple screens on the video monitor wall. In addition, the team follows a script and or running order and often a musical score. Focal distances can range from infinity to 30cm. In a fast-paced environment such as this, the challenge of focusing at multiple distances can be a problem.
For the musician and performer too, Myopia can present a challenge, from seeing the music on the stand, seeing the conductor, audience, the soloist and other sections of the ensemble. For the myopic musician, the conductor can often be a little blurred and in more extreme cases the sheet music on the stand can appear blurred.
#SeeTheMusic and more
As specialists in the field of performing arts eye care, we are frequently asked “What’s so special about musicians’ eyes?”. In short, there is nothing special about their eyes, but the way a performer uses their vision is. Musicians, performers and performing arts professionals are very much like athletes.
Good vision skills are necessary for most sports, both competitive and non-competitive, and different sports have specific requirements. The same is true for most performing arts professionals and amateur performers. With the help of advanced vision testing equipment, the team at Allegro Optical have developed detailed assessments of vision skills for performers and performing art professionals of all ages.
So, we hear you asking, “What special vision requirements does a performer need?” Well, it’s one or more of the following skills on display:
- Vision Focusing: The ability to change focus quickly and accurately between objects at different distances. For example, a musician needs to read the music on the stand, look at their conductor and other sections of the ensemble all at different distances clearly and accurately.
- Vision fixation: The ability to read sheet music, often at a fast tempo, no matter how fast it’s moving.
- Peripheral vision: The ability to see and observe out of the corner of your eye when looking at a fixed object such as sheet music on the stand. In an orchestra, a player must be able to see both their stand partner or another member of their section even when they may be unable to alter their head position due to their instrument.
- Focusing regulation: The ability to retain eye coordination during high-speed activities or while under high physiological pressure.
Effective treatment of Myopia
When wearing spectacles, myopia presents unique challenges, as peripheral vision is often impaired. The disadvantages of spectacles for myopia correction include reduced retinal image size, peripheral distortion, and a reduced effective field of vision. All of which presents the performer with performance-limiting challenges.
Thinned lenses are popular among myopic spectacle wearers who aim to improve the appearance of their glasses. Nevertheless, the denser lens materials can produce unwanted chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration occurs when a lens is unable to focus all colours onto the same focal point, causing distortion of the image. In turn, this causes the perception of undesirable colour fringes.
Contact lenses provide a viable alternative correction of myopic errors where spectacle wear can be a hindrance. Performers often choose contact lenses over glasses because they’re lightweight and almost invisible, but some find them uncomfortable or more of a hassle. Also wearing contact lenses for long periods of time and in dry and warm environments, such as on stage, can also exacerbate dry eyes. Symptoms of dry eyes are most frequent toward the end of the day, when patients experience the most symptoms. Unfortunately, this tends to coincide with most musicians’ performances, which are often late in the evening. Dry eye can lead to blurred patches of vision, making sight-reading problematic, particularly for the freelance or session musician.
Laser eye surgery
During laser eye surgery, small sections of your cornea are burned away to create a more focused beam of light on your retina.
Laser eye surgery can be divided into three main types:
Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK)involves the removal of a small amount of corneal tissue and reshaping the cornea using a laser to remove tissue and change its shape
Laser epithelial keratomileusis (LASEK) is similar to PRK, but involves using alcohol to soften the corneal surface to facilitate the removal of a flap of tissue and repositioning it afterwards, while a laser is used to change the shape of the cornea.
Laser in situ keratoplasty (LASIK) – similar to LASEK, except that a smaller corneal flap is created
In most cases, these procedures are performed on an outpatient basis. Local anaesthesia is used to numb your eyes while the procedure is performed, which usually takes less than 30 minutes
LASEK or LASIK are usually the preferred methods because they are virtually painless, and you will usually be able to see them again within a few hours or days. However, it may take a month for your vision to fully stabilise.
Lens implant surgery
Another viable treatment for short-sightedness is lens implant surgery. The procedure involves implanting an artificial lens into your eye through a small incision in the cornea.
The lenses are specially designed to focus light more clearly onto the retina.
People who are very short-sighted or who have difficulty wearing glasses or contact lenses can benefit from this procedure.
Lens implants fall into two categories:
Phakic implants are artificial lenses that are placed into your eye without removing your natural lens; they are generally preferred by younger people with normal natural reading vision
Refractive lens exchange (RLE) is the surgical removal of the natural lens and replacement with an artificial one, similar to cataract surgery.
The implants are typically inserted under a local anaesthetic and you can usually leave the hospital the same day. Each eye is usually treated separately.
Can myopia get better?
As children grow, myopia tends to worsen.
Myopia worsens as people age, usually faster and more rapidly when they are young, than in adulthood.
When you reach the age of 20 or so, myopia usually ceases to worsen.
As of now, no single treatment appears to be able to stop this progression.
Treatments involving eye drops containing atropine or special contact lenses may slow the progression.
According to research, atropine eye drops can slow the progression of myopia, but may cause side effects at high concentrations (such as trouble reading and sensitivity to bright light).
In the UK, low-strength drops are not commercially available.
All the above treatments offer potential solutions for performing arts professionals and amateurs. However all the above do have limitations and side effects. As performers ourselves we are able to provide balanced and impartial advice from a unique perspective.
We have a team of optical professionals who understand the demands of professional musicians. By working together our teams of dispensing opticians and optometrists are able to assist musicians in overcoming these difficulties so that their working and playing lives can be improved.
Many myopic musicians are unaware of the many solutions to their vision problems. Now thanks to our specialised performing arts eye exams, our optometrists’ broad knowledge, our cutting edge dispensing procedures and unique lenses these problems can be overcome.”
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February 27, 2013
Saugata Roy slams UPA
Sir, I will start from the beginning. I think that this rigmarole of a Presidential Address under article 87(1) of the Constitution has become an anachronism in a modern democracy like India. The President coming on a horse drawn carriage and into a procession in the Central Hall does not inspire anybody.
The only thing is, ultimately the President`s speech does not reflect his own opinion. He is bound by the advice of the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister. So, when he makes that speech, he is not speaking for himself. He is speaking on behalf of the Government. What is the necessity of this speech? In America when the US President makes his State of Union Address; he is speaking about the policy of the Government. I think the same thing should apply to the Governor of West Bengal and to all the other States. I am saying that this has become an anachronism in a modern democracy and needs to be considered.
Sir, I have read the President`s Speech very carefully. It consists of 114 points spread over 22 pages. But it is a cut and paste job. It does not reflect a broad holistic view of the problems facing the country. Different Ministries have submitted their report and somebody in his office has done a cut and paste. This does not reflect any view of the Government or the state of the country. What is missing in the President`s Address is that it does not reflect the recent realities of the country.
What are the issues, which have rocked the country recently? You know, Sir, Delhi boiled over against the rape and murder of a young girl. Thousands of civilians, with no connection from political parties, came out on the streets. Does the President`s Speech speak about that? No, it does not. It speaks about some law, which has been promulgated by the Government. The President`s Speech does not speak about the corruption scandal which has erupted on the purchase of 12 Agusta Westland helicopters for VVIP, a deal totaling Rs.3,546 crore and out of which Rs.357 crore are alleged to have been paid as kickbacks. Does the President`s Speech speak about that matter? No, it does not. It does not address the problems of corruption. Only in paragraph 90 of the Speech, he says, Government is doing this. He does not say that the Government has not been able to enact a Lokpal. He does not say it. The President`s Speech does not mention any of the corruption scandals bedevilled this Government.
Sir, we were also part of this Government when the Commonwealth Games scandal broke; we were also a part of it, when 2-G scam, where the Government is supposed to have lost an amount of Rs.1,76,000 crore, broke, over which, Ministers of the Government were arrested and over which you are presiding over a Committee to probe into. The President`s Speech does not mention about it. The President`s Speech does not speak of Coalgate, where according to the C&AG, Rs.1, 86,000 crore was the total loss to the nation over the allocation of the coal blocks. The President`s Speech does not speak of that. So, in general, the President`s Speech does not speak of the burning issues before the country. On the 20th and 21st, all the central trade unions went on strike. Sir, in our State, in our party, we opposed the strike and we kept West Bengal run. But, one cannot deny that the issues raised during the strike were right. The contract workers are not getting proper wages. Minimum wages are not enforced in this country; the companies are still resorting to retrenchment. The President`s Speech does not speak a word about labour matter. This is unfortunate. It does not reflect the State of the Union of India at all.
Sir, let me say something, as I said, it is a very long speech of 114 points. It lists the achievement of the various Departments. After Independence, as you well know, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru laid the basis of democracy and also of planned development. He set our heavy industrial base and also laid the foundation for advancement in science and technology and nuclear sciences. Indira Gandhi`s major achievement was in Green Revolution and carrying on some of the programmes of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Shri Rajiv Gandhi heralded the IT revolution in India. Since 1990, after Dr. Manmohan Singh, as Finance Minister, released the economy from shackle of the license control raj, the economy has grown in its own esteem. Now, the country has made a certain amount of progress in agriculture, in science and technology. No Government should appropriate the credit for that. If our scientists are able to explode nuclear bombs, if our scientists are able to send missiles, if we are able to send satellites into space, this is not the credit of any Government, it is the credit of the scientists.
Mr. Chairman, Sir, you were mentioning in your speech about 260 million tonnes of food production by the farmers. This production has been achieved irrespective of the vagaries of weather by the farmers themselves. No Government should appropriate the credit. In different States, different parties are ruling. It is to their credit that they have given the necessary inputs.
Sir, in computers and IT, our country has made phenomenal progress. Our IT companies have set up bases all over the world. Now, is it the credit of any particular Government? If any new Government comes, the progress will be the same because we have reached a base level. Now once you reach the take off stage, any economy flourishes on its own. So, when the hon. President lists all these achievements as if they are the achievement of his Governments, he is not presenting a realistic picture. In the advanced economies of the world, in spite of the instability of the Government, progress is taking place. Look at Japan. Every year they have a new Prime Minister. Does Japan`s progress stop because of that? Look at Italy. Just now Berlusconi has conceded defeat. Does the Fiat Company depend on who is the Prime Minister of Italy? It is not so because the economies progress, technologies progress irrespective of who is in power. So, to tom-tom the achievement of our scientists, our technologists, our farmers, our manufacturers and our IT specialists as that of the Government, it is appropriating the credit wrongly. It should not have been that way.
I am not saying that the Government has not done anything. After Dr. Manmohan Singh became the Prime Minister, MGNREGA was launched; NRHM was launched; JNNURM-I for the cities was launched; PMGSY, though it was started by the Vajpayee Government, was taken forward; IAY was launched; and RGGVY was launched. These are all good flagship programmes. But now in 2013, the time has come to assess whether they are reaching their goals because as Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav said, under MGNREGA, the benefits are not reaching the farmers or the poor people for whom it is meant. There is also a complaint that this is making our rural people lazy. No assessment is made how much permanent asset is created in our countryside through MGNREGA.
Sir, please understand that NRHM is a good programme, but today the ASHA workers are crying because they are not even given a cycle to go around the villages. The Government is trying to make no assessment. The JNNURM-I ended on 31st March, 2012. It is almost one year, but the Government has not been able to announce JNNURM-II for the development of cities. RGGVY has done good work in some places, while in some other places, like UP, it is very much behind scheduled. It is very much behind schedule in many States. In West Bengal, the programme has not made progress. Mr. Chairman, Sir, through you, I have a simple request to make to the Government. Why must all flagship programmes of the Government be named only after Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Smt. Indira Gandhi and Shri Rajiv Gandhi? They were great leaders. Shrimati Indira Gandhi and Shri Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed their lives for the country, but there have been other great leaders also in the country. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose has also been a leader in this country. Why can a national flagship programme not be named after him? The prerogative of doing good for the country should not belong – We were all in the Congress, but the prerogative of doing good for the country need not rest in one family. The country, as a mature democracy, must come out of the shackles of dynastic politics and show that the poorest of the poor can achieve and reach the highest place in the country.
Sir, there are certain other points that I would like to make with your permission. The President`s speech takes three paragraphs on the economic slowdown. The growth has come down to 5.4 per cent. The value of rupee has come to Rs. 57 per Dollar. Can you ascribe this whole slowdown to external factors alone, namely, slowdown in America, crisis in Greece and the Euro zone? No. There have been several wrong economic decisions taken by the Government of tightening credit that has led to this slowdown.
The Economic Survey, which was published today, admits this. Dr. Manmohan Singh, as Finance Minister — as Shri Mulayam was saying — was like a magician as he had turned around the economy. He unshackled the economy from the license control-raj. I am sorry to say that he has not been able to match his performance in his nine-years as Prime Minister. During his time, growth has come down from nearly 9 per cent to 5.4 per cent. What is the Government`s formula? It is a formula, which I totally oppose, that is, they say remove subsidies; put more burden on the poor; and invite Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Only FDI in every sector would change it. Sir, you know that in your State, the Government has opposed FDI in multi-brand retail — whatever you may have said over here — because it will affect 4 crore of small traders in this country and this has been done, I beg to say, under the pressure of Americans.
When I was speaking on FDI in multi-brand retail here, many people told me: `Why are you speaking? He is the Prime Minister and against Mrs. Hillary Clinton.` I told that I am a small man. Yes, I know that the Prime Minister has got the CBI and I know that Mrs. Hillary Clinton has got the CIA, but I have also got Madam Mamata and the people of Bengal. They are supporting is what I am saying. – I have said that we need not be afraid.
After we quit the Government, the Government was literally reduced to a minority. They had 273, and it became 254. It has survived due to various reasons, which I do not want to say. When we moved the No-Confidence Motion, some friends from the BJP said: – No, you do not move the No- Confidence Motion. You better let us pin them down on 184 and they may change. – But they did not change. They walked out to make the Government’s task easy. So, I told them, namely, my friends who had advised me not to move the No-Confidence Motion.
So, for them the things have remained the same. Sir, with your indulgence, I want to say that the President has not addressed the most complex question facing the country, which is that of Centre-State relations. Shrimati Gandhi had set up Sarkaria Commission to judge this problem. Today, there are different Governments of different Parties in different States. Now, you are trying to impose the NCTC after the Hyderabad blasts, which showed the Government`s failure to contain terrorism. It is being touted that NCTC is the panacea cure for use of terrorism. NCTC impinges on the right of the States. Why should not the States be taken together in the fight against terrorism?
Is the Centre alone powerful? In the United States, there was 9/11 in 2001. They set up a Department of Homeland Security. After that there has not been a single terror-related incident in the USA. Our Government has failed miserably. Today, it is Bengaluru, tomorrow it is Mumbai, day after it is Pune, then it is Hyderabad, then it is Delhi, the Capital; we are not able to control. I will wind up shortly. This is a major failure of the Government in controlling terrorism, which the President`s Speech has not mentioned.
Sir, let me also say that we had opposed the Lokpal even while we were in the UPA. We opposed the Lokpal because they included Lokayukta, whereas Lokayukta is the right of the States. Why should you impinge on the right of the State? The President has not clarified his attitude. Similarly, I read in the papers that the President is going to Bangladesh. He may well go. Bangladesh is our neighboring country and friend. We all participated in their freedom struggle. But no settlement on Teesta waters should be made without the concurrence of the Government of West Bengal. We suffered because of the Agreement on Ganga waters. Our Kolkata Port is dying. We do not want the whole of the North of Bengal to die. Sir, I want to say that we had quit the UPA on the issue of pressures on the common man, when diesel prices were raised, when subsidy on LPG was removed, and when FDI in Multi Brand Retail was introduced. Thank God that we came out because after that diesel and petrol prices have been increased again, and railway fares have been increased again. The President`s Speech speaks of only one rail factory in Raebareli. May I tell you, Sir, five or ten railway factories which had started work in Bengal have been given no money in the Railway Budget? We shall speak in detail on that. There is an effort in the Rail Budget which is pro-rich. It wants to create `Anubhuti` compartment for the rich people of the country. They forget that two crores of Indians travel on Indian Railways and when they increase the fare by 20 per cent, putting a load of Rs. 6,600 crore on the common man, it hurts the common man. They have not provided better services, but it is only promises. They are putting load on the common man by again increasing the charges on reservation, cancellation, tatkal, and everything else. This is leading the country`s poor to destruction and destitution. The rise of freight cost will also be inflationary. I do not want to speak at length on railways, but I want to say that the Government is acting in a vindictive manner, with vengeance, to destroy Bengal just because we dared to differ with the Central Government. People of Bengal will not tolerate it.
Where the question of national security is concerned, Bengal is not behind anybody. Where controlling is terror is concerned, it is a national problem. The Prime Minister called the Maoists the biggest internal security threat to the country. The only State which has controlled Maoist in a peaceful manner is West Bengal. Even after the death of Kishanji, there has not been a single Maoist related incident in West Bengal. How have we done it? We have done it by taking development to the Maoist affected areas.
Today I may say that the Centre has given Backward Region Grant Fund. But today we need money for development of those Maoist affected areas. The Centre is not coming forward to help us in developing the Jangal Mahal areas. Even the Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has proposed one railway line from Baduthala to Jharna. All allotment to that has been cut by this heartless Railway Minister. Is this the way to control Maoism? You are spending hundreds of crore by way of buying weapons, helicopters. You cannot give simple roads. What is the attitude of the Government? It is doing beautification of Delhi. What are you doing? You are taking away the forests. You are taking away the forests and turning the tribals into Maoists. The forests of India cannot be the home of multinational mining companies. Yes, we want development but the development should not be at the cost of forests; development should not be at the cost of tribals. Even the Tribal Affairs Minister has written to the Environment Minister saying that the Forests Rights Act is being violated in giving environmental clearance.
One of the major impediments to investment and development is that we have not been able to arrive at a consensus regarding two issues. One is the land issue and the other one is the Environment and Forest issue. There must be a consensus. We are against forcible acquisition of land for private industry. We are also against violation of forest and environmental principles but we want the Government of India to give its mind to these matters. Unless these two matters are solved, everywhere like it took place in Bengal, like it took place in Noida, like it takes place in Odisha sometimes, there will be protests by the people. You cannot ride roughshod over people in order to facilitate your so-called development for the capitalism. The advent of the capitalism is not the solution in this country. The President`s speech has admitted that in this country, 65 years after Independence, people still defecate in the open. We have not been able to provide latrines, sanitary toilets to all the villages. Half of the villages in this country are not connected by metal roads. Even with the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuthikaran Yojana, electricity has not reached the home of the poor and the dispossessed. So, what is the direction of development? Unfortunately, if the President had spoken on his own, he might have given his views. But these are the Government views, this litany of so-called achievement, yes it is the achievement of the missile scientists. They say that they can send a missile beyond 5000 kilometres. It should not be appropriated by the Government. The Government should tell us what they are doing for the poor to change their lives. I support all the amendments to the Motion of Thanks on the President`s Address and I say that we cannot support the Motion of Thanks which was unfortunately moved by a very eminent Member like you Sir. | <urn:uuid:6488366d-49af-4de3-a4c3-450644a19223> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aitcofficial.org/parliament/in-parliament-lok-sabha/trinamool-mp-saugata-roy-slams-upa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.979369 | 3,872 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Traditionally Muay Thai grading did not exist before 1977. Master Sken Master Toddy and Master Woody on arriving in the UK began to teach Muay Thai and saw the need to assess and grade their students on their abilities in the sport.
Following similar rigorous standards of other martial arts, they set up a syllabus using the Arm Band where other styles had used belts. The Prajeat/ Kuang Rang (Arm Band) historically the arm band was presented to warriors on the battle field by their Masters. In more modern times it has been presented to the fighter after being blessed believing it to have special magical powers, thought of as a charm or talisman. It was worn for good luck helping to keep the fighter safe during his battle/fight. The modern day fighter still wears the Arm Band usually presented to him by his Grand Master - Master or teacher
More recently the Muay Thai practitioners can be awarded his or her arm band through an assessment process called Rank. Each rank is awarding a student on his/her ability to show the technique clearly executing balance power speed and accuracy. The student will need to show that they have a good attitude and are humble and loyal towards their art and their Master.
Grand Master Sken - Grading The rank is determined by colour
White Arm Band /Kuang Rang Yellow Arm Band/ Kuang Rang Green Arm Band/ Kuang Rang Blue Arm Band /Kuang Rang Blue White Arm Band /Kuang Rang Brown Arm Band /Kuang Rang Brown 1 Arm Band /Kuang Rang Brown 2 Arm Band/ Kuang Rang Brown 3 Arm Band /Kuang Rang
Black/White Arm Band /Kuang Rang - Adult (18 years plus)
This Armband has been introduced in to the syllabus for the Adult student who does not wish to teach Muay Thai but has already achieved an extremely high standard in the various techniques used in the sport, including Muay Boran Ring Sport, Spectacular Techniques. It is the highest qualifying Grade before the MTQ Instructor Red Band Levels. Black/White Arm Band, qualified students can further their education by continuing on to the Red Band Instructor Levels or by taking certified MSA Courses which have been especially created to enhance their training ability in all the various aspects of the sport.
Red & Black Arm Band - Child (12 years – 17 years) Junior Leadership Red & Black Armband is a special award for young adults who wish to become mentors for the younger students. They are assed on leadership skills Muay Thai Techniques planning and helping in lessons. The first grades are traditionally held around every 2 months allowing the student to have time to develop their skills.
MTQ Instructors Red Adult (18 years) The Red band is given in recognition of being at a standard of which he/she can become an MTQ (Muay Thai Qualified) Trainee Instructor This level will allow the Trainee Instructor to be able to continue on to MTQ Instructor Level Khan Grade (Dan grade) his/her study will give the Instructor the opportunity to acquire the relevant Muay Thai Qualification to aquire accreditation, insurances for teaching with in his or her own school or at a facility
Grand Master Sken MTQ Instructor / Assessors The Khan grades are determined by rank and colour.
Red Arm Band Kuang Rang 1st Degree MTQ Trainee Instructor -Level 1
Red White Arm Band Kuang Rang 2nd Degree MTQ Instructor -Level 2
Red Yellow Arm Band Kuang Rang 3rd Degree MTQ Instructor Level 2 /Assessor Level 1.(1) Red Green Arm Band Kuang Rang 4th Degree MTQ Instructor Level 2 / Assessor Level 1.(2) Red Blue Arm Band Kuang Rang 5th Degree MTQ Instructor Level 2 / Assessor Level 1.(3)
Red Brown Arm Band Kuang Rang 6th Degree MTQ Instructor Level 2 /Assessor Level 2.(1) Red Silver Arm Band Kuang Rang 7th Degree MTQ Instructor Level 2 /Assessor Level 2. (2)
Silver Master Arm Band Kuang Rang 8th Degree MTQ Master Level 3 /Assessor Level 3. (1) Red Gold Master Arm Band Kuang Rang 9th Degree MTQ Master Level 3 /Assessor Level 3. (2)
Gold - Grand Master Arm Band Kuang Rang 10th Degree.
The MTQ Instructor will be presented by the Master or Grand Master and will be recognised by family and friends at the MSA Award Ceremony at the end of each year.
ON Line Grading
Recently Muay Thai Grading has been increasing under threat due to bad press and a great deal of miss interpretation. Most practitioners who train in Muay Thai have rarely been given the advantage of learning to grade through lack of availability and a lack of understanding and the values that grading can bring to the student.
It has been greatly overlooked due to many students being taught only to fight competatively. The education process of the fighter being different in terms of the processes that are being taught to the student for grading.
In real terms the two things integrate extremely comfortable if taught in the correct way and having the understanding of how these two processes complement each other. There is no doubt both need an extreme amount of dedication and commitment.
A Thinking Fighter
To learn from a grading perspective gives the student a very in-depth understanding of the techniques that are being taught over a longer period of time. Understanding why the technique works and what the techniques are best used for is the key to the development of a fighter and a student or instructor. In Grand Master Sken's words " You cant teach what you don't know" Grading is a formula or a process that can be remembered and studied at a pace that suits most people where competition is a fast learning process at an extremely physical pace that often cuts corners, understandably to help the fighter survive in the ring this is necessary to help the fighter think quickly and make decisions however to learn from the beginning at a slower pace gives an armoury of understanding of techniques and strategy that can help the fighter win or loose.
To teach the competitive side it is advisable to be able to break what you are doing down so therefore be in no doubt of how to use it properly.
The fighters careers can be short lived so it becomes a valuable resource when coming to the end of a fighting career to fall back on teaching. Martial arts students invariable do not give up but often find that although they have been fighting for many years and have a great deal of experience with in the ring sometimes do not possess the confidence to put that knowledge in to being able to teach others.
Grading in Muay Thai has generally been taught in live classes However as times are changing fast people are getting busier having time restrictions work family and other commitments To help bridge these gaps and bring Grading to the student
Grand Master Sken has now taken grading assessment one step further by offering ON Line Tuition with On Line learning resource that can be accessed at any time so that the student can learn 24/7
"I want everybody to learn as much Muay Thai as possible and maintain a high standard with quality techniques and understanding of the sport and its culture. This way is more convenient for the student fitting in with their lifestyle and mixed with live sessions can enhance their training 10 fold. All our MSA Instructors are taught throughGrading levels then continue on to the MTQ for teacher training this does not stop their ability to fight and get experience in the ring it only enhances their knowledge and will to win. | <urn:uuid:6b3a9b49-d885-49e4-9139-d21e38107bb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mastersken.com/post/muay-thai-grading-origin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949171 | 1,563 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Every one of this is covered in industry prominent certifications like the CEH and CompTIA Security+ of which Edureka is the official training partner. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Besides this, you additionally have certifications like the OSCP, CISSP, CISM and also GIAC.
Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently, these certifications are somewhat expensive without a doubt but all of it begins to come with each other and also make sense once you begin making up to 215,000 USD or 29 lakhs per annum in India from companies such as FireEye, HackerOne, Society Generale, Dell and NetApp.
You might also safeguard these companies from phishers, hackers as well as cyberattacks by obtaining the skills from the Advanced Executive Program in Cybersecurity from NIT, Rourkela and also Edureka. Next off, we have Cloud Architect.
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Currently, over the past decade, there has actually rarely been an location in IT that has generated as much hype, rate of interest or financial investment as Cloud Computin IDC forecasts an total compounded five-year rates of interest of 22% for all cloud provider which summarize to 277 billion USD.
Now cloud has become a long-term fixture for end users, company as well as companies of all dimensions, which is why it has actually gathered a lot interest and protection from cloud certification providers in addition to cloud-related product deliverers such as AWS, GCP, VMware and Azure. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently, there has been a skill void in the Cloud Computing industry which lends itself to a really high average wage of 153,000 USD in the US as well as 30LPA in India to competent professionals who can show their expertise making use of certifications.
Edureka has a variety of instructor-led training programs along with an Advanced Certification in Cloud Computing with E&ICT Academy IIT Kanpur aiming to develop professionals who can design develop and manage robust, secure, scalable and dynamic cloud services.
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So following, we have Project Management and also IT Service Management. Now, the worldwide development is estimated to be 5.4% for the year 2021. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Now, this leaves the GDP regarding 6.5% less than what was predicted pre-COVID.
At an economic anguish similar to this, stakeholders and customers alike, need that level of assurance that the individual handling their products has the capacity, has the experience along with expertise to specify, plan and deliver the products effectively. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. And what far better method to show this level of efficiency than a certification! Currently, there are a variety of various certifications in this area. You have PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP, APMG as well as ITIL.
Currently, these certifications don’t just show your expertise as a manager however additionally bump up those numbers in your income. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. And also best of all, using these certifications you are not simply constrained to one industry or field. As you can see from the vast number of task openings from companies such as Sunsilk as well as PnG to technology companies such as SEIMENS and Ubisoft.
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So next on our list, we have DevOps. Nowadays, most companies are checking out DevOps as a whole social adjustment in contrast to simply a buzzword. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently, with the raised demand for rapid developmental strategies as well as the constant need of application deployment, it is only noticeable that the requirement for DevOps specialists is just going to expand in the coming years.
Currently getting a DevOps certification is one method for possible candidates not just to verify their ability yet additionally get that one-upmanship over various other competitors for the exact same position.
Currently the top certifications on the market are for Jenkins, Docker, Puppet, Chef, and Kubernetes. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently Edureka’s DevOps Masters Program covers every one of these technologies in adequate deepness. Apart from that, there are likewise certifications from Azure and also AWS which are specifically the Azure DevOps Solutions Expert Certification and also the AWS DevOps Engineer Certification.
Currently the ordinary income for a Certified DevOps Expert rises to 155,000 USD in the United States and also 21 lakhs in India. As well as when you are licensed as a DevOps Expert or a DevOps Engineer, you can land a work in any one of the companies such as Honeywell, Wipro, Cisco, Dell and also IBM.
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Currently DBA certifications may not be as leadding-edge as cloud computing or computer forensics however savvY, skilled and well-informed DBAs and also professionals rate anytime anywhere. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Now IBM’s Professional Database Administrator, Microsoft SQL Server Database Certification, Oracle’s Certified Professional, SAP HANA and also Salesforce are several of market’s leading certifications in DBA.
Now, partially, this communicates the maturity of the database as a innovation as well as likewise its integral contribution to several computing tasks in companies such as Oracle, IBM, SAP, Salesforce as well as Society Generale. So, DBAs and also Database professionals earn money as high as 113,000 dollars in the US and also 15 lakhs per annum in India.
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Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Now these certifications are developed to make you proficient in areas such as Search Engine Optimization Social Media, Pay-Per-Click Marketing, Conversion Optimization, Web Analytics, Content Marketing, E-mail and also Mobile Marketing. All of these certifications get you industry ready to obtain employed in companies such as Etsy, Ebay, Walmart and Amazon for greater than comfy incomes.
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Next on our listing, we have Networking Certifications, Now prior to we start to recognize and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of Networking Certifications, allow’s damage this down a little.
Now basically, networking helps you evaluate, suffer and configure hardware and os. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. It assists you review and also alleviate risks on your system as well as select the technologies and also network design which will certainly assist avoid and also defend, also fix your IT troubles.
Currently, this is a broad capability which definitely puts networking professionals in addition to the food chain and also constantly sought after. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Now you could do it, as well, if you got certified by CCNA, CCNP, ISACA, CompTIA Security+, Network+ as well as Red Hat Certifications.
Now, when accredited you could land right into companies like Cisco, Tech Mahindra, Accenture as well as HCL for comfy salaries like 143,000 or 14lakhs in India on an standard.
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Next off, we have programs as well as Web Development. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. In this digital age, the majority of IT domains anticipate you to have a solid grip of one programs language as well as often much more. This makes coding a extremely bankable prospect and certifications only enhance your chance at that rewarding task deal.
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Next on our listing, we have Big Data and also Data Engineering Certifications. Now data has actually become a crucial business possession. It is redefining core competencies, core procedures as well as entire business models. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently, this is directly proportional to the rise in a number of certifications for Big Data and also Data Engineering. Some incredibly popular ones are Cloudera Certified Professional, Hortonworks Hadoop Certification, SAS, Big data Pro or IBM Big Data Engineer.
Edureka additionally has a selection of certification programs curated by industry specialists as well as an sophisticated executive program in Big Data Engineering from NIT, Rourkela. This takes you via the various tools and also technologies related to Big Data such as HDFS, MapReduce, Yarn, Sqoop, Flume, etc, in a highly in-depth and thorough style helping you land market giants like Facebook, Walmart, Societe Generale as well as JP Morgan for salaries as high as $155000 36 lakhs in India.
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Finally, on our list, we have Machine Learning as well as Artificial Intelligence Certifications Now, as humans what makes us so one-of-a-kind is our ability to make enlightened choices Now, that is exactly how we discover solutions to the majority of the world’s troubles today so isn’t it a fantastic idea of inhabiting our brain function in the more important tasks and letting smart machines deal with the dullness.
This is what makes AI such a prominent job option, otherwise the most, it has seen a development of 344% in the fads in the past couple of years. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Likewise, the base salary of AI and also ML Engineers has to do with 146,000 USD.
Now AI as well as ML have developed near 2 million work and also there is more to find. I’m talking about Data Scientists, ML Architects, AI Architects and also many more that come under the very same umbrella.
Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently market leaders like Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Paypal as well as Google have actually raised optimal wage numbers approximately 175,000 USD, around the world. Edureka uses a selection of AI and ML certifications in addition to the PG Program in Artificial Intelligence and also Machine Learning with E&ICT Academy NIT, Warangal that makes you efficient in concepts such as Unsupervised as well as Supervised Learning, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.
AI as well as ML are penetrating the industry at an unprecedented price and it is just wise for you to go with the flow on this. Developer focussed linux operating system certification. So, with that said, I am closing the listing of Top 10 Certifications for 2021.
Developer focussed linux operating system certification. Currently there are a couple of Honourable Mentions which we just had to discuss. We have certifications like Data Center Virtualization Business Analyst Certifications, Governance, Risk and Compliance along with Business Intelligence Certifications which practically made it to the listing.
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Philippe de Lacaze (below) was born in Argentina in 1962. The stark contrast between the pristine Argentinian landscapes and the polluted cities of South America struck him from a young age.
De Lacaze is not a marine biologist, his talents lie in business development. Nevertheless, from an early stage he knew he wanted to work towards positive action for conservation.
“I told myself, you can be active in making conservation changes or affecting research in many different ways, not just by being a marine biologist or an aquarist.”
After studying for an MBA at Wharton Business School, de Lacaze began working in strategic consultancy. He quickly realised that the field was not for him. It wasn’t long before he jumped into the aquarium world, where he has now worked for 25 years.
De Lacaze has developed a unique insight into the sector after designing, building and operating around 50 aquariums in more than 25 countries. He can track its history from the first appearance of aquariums in the 1890s in the US and Europe to today.
The boom in the industry began in the 1980s with the appearance of large stand-alone aquariums. Baltimore, San Francisco, New York, London and Paris were some of the notable examples.
De Lacaze said: “In the early 90s, we see the appearance of international chains, like Se Life centres or Parques Reunidos in Spain. Within a period of 20 years there was a shift from aquariums as small, scientific entities to a mass-market activity.”
Now into the modern day, de Lacaze wonders if the aquarium business is going to last. For it to do so, he believes it needs to be able to respond to several modern trends he has identified.
The first such trend is the impact of confusing information spread by the internet.
“At the end of the day, because of the internet, everybody is an expert,” de Lacaze said. “The scientific approach is deleted by a steamroller of confusing information from the internet. This is a deeply entrenched trend in our society, and it is one to which we have to react.”
A second trend is something he calls “the dictatorship of instantaneity”.
“Today, everything has to be instant. You have all the information you want instantly accessible through the internet. As aquariums, we are not racing for the instant, we are racing for the long term. So we have to adapt to this new fashion of the instant. The instant also means changes, and in an aquarium, we cannot change everything immediately,” he said.
“The fact that we put fish in aquariums, people can say, great, it will allow us to know more about conservation, about the fragility of our ecosystem. Others will say, no, you should do that by other means. Animals should not be kept in captivity and fish should be in their natural environment.”
Technology is something else aquariums need to compete with. De Lacaze wonders if virtual reality could kill aquariums.
“Aquariums must develop long-term strategies as well as day-to-day strategies to formulate an answer to these trends,” he said.
However, despite these challenges, he is optimistic about the future of aquariums. He pointed out that only 50 per cent of cities with a population in excess of 3 million have an aquarium, which provides a lot of room for growth.
“I think Europe is going to be a re-innovation market,” de Lacaze said. “Old institutions will have to reinvest massively in order to keep playing in our world. We are going to see a lot of refurbishment and reshaping of old aquariums.
“The new virgin markets are places like South America and India, which don’t yet have a single new style aquarium. China has already been developing a lot and this will continue, which is encouraging.”
Not to be too enthusiastic about the industry’s future, de Lacaze did add a qualification. It is not enough for aquariums to spread a conservation message. They must also reduce their ecological and biological footprint.
Conservation – practising what we preach
“This is a real trend: the trend of sobriety,” he said. “When you were in a hotel 15 years ago, your towel used to be changed each day. Today, they don’t change it because they don’t want to waste resources. Do we accept it? Of course we do. This is sobriety. And aquariums have to jump into this world, too.”
De Lacaze said that aquariums could spend less energy-intensive systems, such as life support and filtration. He added that the sector needs to work on reducing its electrical consumption.
“Will we be allowed, in 50 years, to showcase a tropical ecosystem in freezing zones of the globe? If we commit to the sobriety movement, then the answer is no.
“We have to make that decision. Say no, I will not show Red Sea fish in Stockholm. It would involve spending too much on a 25-degree temperature in the freezing cold areas of the world. That is unless we are innovating a lot in new technologies in order to reduce our ecological footprint.”
De Lacaze also believes that aquariums need to work with animal suppliers to establish how they are fishing.
“We have to reduce the transport of animals. We have to work on the selection of the species. Instead of taking animals from the sea and putting them into our aquariums, our trend is to do the opposite. To breed the fish in our aquariums and to feed nature by releasing them into their natural habitat,” he said.
“There are many issues that we need to tackle to reduce our biological footprint, to adapt ourselves in order not only to speak about conservation but to practice it.”
De Lacaze’s philanthropic foundation, the Clear Reef Social Fund for Marine Research and Conservation, is a consequence of everything about which he has been speaking. Its purpose is to practice what he preaches.
He said: “I have always had the feeling that the main driver in all this is you and me. Not an NGO, not an association, not an aquarium. It is you, me, and the choices we make.
Every year, de Lacaze sets aside $50,000 of Clear Reef profits and puts them towards the social fund’s projects.
“While there are institutions which help people in financial hardship, and institutions which give money for conservation, the Clear Reef Social Fund for Marine Research and Conservation does both.
“We want to focus on people who really need money for a project directly or indirectly related to conservation.”
Sponsoring 25 projects a year
The idea is to sponsor up to 25 projects a year, issuing $2,500 to each. Last year the philanthropic foundation financed projects across eleven countries.
A group of children from the deprived regions of Grenada in Nicaragua trained to became ‘Nature Ambassadors’. They learnt about conservation and spreading the message as they cleaned the shoreline, meeting monthly to keep the beaches rubbish-free.
At Juan Venado Island, Clear Reef’s fund provides equipment for volunteers caring for turtles, storing their eggs until they hatch.
“We have other programs, too,” de Lacaze said. “Research into the protection of reefs in Brazil as well as collecting marine debris in the Pacific Ocean. A teacher in Carolina requested money to buy an aquarium to teach children about the need to protect our ecosystem. We financed a woman who wanted to do a marine biology Masters in Florida.”
Any person can apply for funding, regardless of age, residency, employment status or any other factor.
“We want to spread the word, to give the chance to the greatest number of people possible,” he said.
“Last year, which was the first year, of all the amazing projects we financed, only 20% were really poor people. I want the chance to spread the word into those new and emerging countries that really need our help.”
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CLP Power proposes offshore LNG terminal for Hong Kong
CLP Power Hong Kong on Saturday informed it is taking forward the development work to build an offshore LNG terminal in Hong Kong waters.
The proposal comes as a response to the government’s policy to increase the use of natural gas in power generation by 2020, the company said in a statement.
To further study whether the proposed project can serve as a potential gas supply option to meet Hong Kong’s future fuel supply needs, CLP Power and the Hongkong Electric have agreed to jointly explore the feasibility of siting an offshore LNG import terminal in Hong Kong waters based on the floating storage regasification technology.
Currently, the Second West-East gas pipeline and gas sources in the South China Sea via subsea pipelines are the main sources of natural gas for CLP Power.
The proposal has been submitted to the Environmental Protection Department, the utility, a unit of CLP Holdings said.
CLP Power Senior Director Commercial Edward Chiu said, “An offshore LNG terminal is particularly suitable for Hong Kong as it occupies no land space. The construction is also simpler, cheaper, and it takes less time to build compared to a land-based terminal, hence less impact on the environment due to its small size and remote location.”
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Piano hammers are small felt tipped hammers located inside a piano. A piano is a percussion instrument, which means that sound is produced by vibrations made when two things strike one another. Inside a piano are many strings resembling a harp. When a piano key is played, it forces a small hammer into the strings to make a noise.
A piano works through a series of mechanical actions. First, a player strikes a key. This causes a hammer to fly upward and strike a string or set of strings. The hammer then falls back away from the string, leaving the string vibrating. This is called escapement.The hammer needs to fall away in order for the strings to produce the resonating musical sound that is associated with a piano. If it did not fall away, there would be a dead sort of "bonk" noise produced instead.
The part of the piano referred to as the "hammer" is only the felt tipped head that hits the strings. There are other parts connected to the hammer that are essential for it to function. Piano hammers are connected to a shank, or the area that would be the handle on a standard household hammer. This shank is connected to a flange, or the device that throws the hammer forward. If a shank breaks, it is possible to repair it with a specially made brass cover. If the hammer breaks, the best option is usually a full replacement.
Each instrument has a particular tone, or distinct quality of musical sound. When a piano is played very frequently, the felt on the piano hammers gets squeezed down and the tone of the piano can change. Professional piano tuners can loosen these felts with needles to keep the sound sweet.
There are other ways in which piano hammers can influence the tone of a piano. The type and tightness of felt or other material used to cover the hammer is the most obvious influence. The hardness of wood beneath the felt covering, the size and weight of the hammer, and the placement of the strike zone on the string can also change the tone.
Replacing piano hammers is a complex job. If all of the felts and hammers need to be replaced, it is recommended to replace the shanks and flanges during the process. If hammers are worn enough to warrant replacement, chances are the other parts of the device won't be far behind. Addressing all of these parts at once will save money in the long term and can improve the tone. Experts say that new hammers can create a darker sweeter tone even on the oldest of pianos. | <urn:uuid:da2590e3-8e28-46f3-b770-1ae70ca0ecaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.musicalexpert.org/what-are-piano-hammers.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950877 | 527 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Worth the trip: 'Pottery capitol of the US' located in heart of North Carolina
By Sydney Franklin, WRAL multiplatform producer
SEAGROVE, N.C. — About an hour-and-a-half drive from Raleigh is an oasis for North Carolina's potters.
Within a 20-mile radius are over 50 pottery shops for people to visit, according to Seagrove Area Potters' website, which claims it's the "largest concentration of working potters in the United States."
"These folks are truly craftsmen and artisans, and they're working to make a really beautiful product [and] a really useful product. They're, quite often, making it out of local materials -- whether it be wild clays or minerals that they use to make their glazes," said Lindsey Lambert, the executive director of the North Carolina Pottery Center.
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The Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber began production in 1938 and would later be known as one of the most famous bombers of World War II. The plane was equipped with a Jumo 210D engine and the HPA III propeller.
- 21 inches long
- Wingspan: 27+ inches
- 390+ parts
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Today’s technological world is empowered with various software tools. They are uplifting individuals’ living standards, enhancing business activities, and making the world more smart and automated than ever before.
Today, people enjoy flawless and defect-free software. However, it is important to note that most users avoid software that offers poor user experience and performance. To ensure that a software product functions properly, testers need to perform comprehensive software testing.
The term ‘software testing’ refers to the process of identifying and fixing defects in a software tool and verifying whether it functions according to the requirements of the client or end-users. Moreover, testers use either manual or automated testing to test various components of a software product. The principal aim of software testing is to detect errors and bugs in the source code and fix them as early as possible.
A software product undergoes various types of testing , starting from its initial phase of development to the end phase. However, testers are responsible for carrying out different testing procedures on software products. Therefore, the demand for testers in today’s software world is rising exponentially.
Through this article, you will get to know a variety of information about the Selenium tester job role. Also, we will highlight the most frequently asked Selenium interview questions along with their detailed answers. So, let’s get started.
Testing as a Career
As businesses and organizations understand the benefits of software testing, they want to hire skilled testers. Also, many IT aspirants today wish to become a ‘software tester’ as there are several growth opportunities in this field. Individuals can kickstart their journeys in the testing domain with the role of a test engineer.
Later, they can work as senior test engineers. Additionally, one can choose to become a test lead and grow into a test manager. Talking about the salary, testers can get good remuneration based on their professional experience. In many companies, testers and developers get paid equally, whereas they are even paid more than developers in some companies.
The most popular job in testing today is Selenium Tester. Selenium is one of the extensively used and industry-recognized automated testing tools. In addition, it is not a single tool; instead, it incorporates multiple tools. Therefore, you can refer to Selenium as a software suite.
Below are some key reasons why organizations adopt Selenium for testing purposes:
- Selenium is an open-source and non-proprietary testing tool.
- It works well with several frameworks and browsers.
- Selenium supports common programming languages and cross-browser testing.
- Testers use Selenium for testing mobile and web applications.
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Selenium Tester Job Roles
Different types of roles are available for Selenium testing. Some of the Selenium job roles are as follows:
- Selenium Tester
- Mobile Testing Lead
- Senior QA Automation Engineer
- Selenium Test Analyst
- Selenium Automation Engineer
- Java Selenium Automation Engineer
- Software Development Test Engineer
- Senior Quality Engineer - Automation
Selenium Tester Responsibilities
Here is a list of responsibilities that a Selenium Tester has to perform:
- Outlining the most effective approach required to carry out Selenium testing.
- Creating a test plan and generating test scripts.
- Maintaining previous test suites or test scripts.
- Regularly arranging or attending meetings with stakeholders.
- Implementing test scripts.
- Providing solutions to stakeholders, project managers, developers, and manual testers.
Skills Required for Selenium Tester
Whether you are a beginner, experienced, or professional Selenium tester, there are some skills that you must possess, depending on your level of experience. First, let us look at the expertise required to become a Selenium testing.
If you have up to 2 years of experience working with Selenium, you must:
- Develop test suites and record test scripts using Selenium IDE .
- Use the Jenkins dashboard to implement Selenium test scripts.
- Possess strong knowledge of CSS, By-ID selectors, XPath, and DOM.
- Get acquainted with source code management tools.
- Have in-depth knowledge of test scenarios required to validate a software product before its launch.
If you have two to five years of experience working with Selenium, you must:
- Know how to use Selenium Webdriver for carrying out web testing.
- Know about testing frameworks like TestNG or JUnit.
- Possess expertise in either of the programming languages - Python or Java.
- Have the ability to insert new functionalities into the existing testing framework.
- Manage broken builds and CI (Jenkins) jobs.
- Hold knowledge of Selenium WebDriver’s mechanism to manage AJAX calls.
If you possess five to ten years of experience, you should:
- Hold strong expertise in managing projects using WebDriver.
- Know how to use various behavior-driven testing tools, such as Cucumber, JDave, JBehave, Concordion, and many others.
- Have in-depth knowledge of SQL to perform testing on database validation.
- Have the ability to train juniors or other team members.
- Automate data-driven and localization test requirements.
Expert-level Selenium Testers usually have more than ten years of experience, and they should:
- Have expertise in using bug-tracking tools, such as JIRA or TestRail, in integrating automation outcomes.
- Know how to carry out the parallel implementation of tests from the test suite in a virtual environment.
- Possess the ability to use Selenium WebDriver to create reusable libraries and frameworks that can enhance the performance of a software product and minimize the test execution time.
- Hold the ability to deliver continuous releases for live projects and use Amazon Cloud infrastructure to handle automation agents.
- Have familiarity with the process of debugging the source code of Selenium WebDriver.
Top Selenium Interview Questions and Answers for a Selenium Tester
Usually, the difficulty of questions asked during a Selenium interview depends upon the candidate’s level of experience. Therefore, interview questions asked from freshers and experienced Selenium testers vary.
In the following sections, we talk about the fundamental selenium testing questions first. Later, we shall divide the set of Selenium interview questions into three levels, namely Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
Basic Automation Testing Questions
As Selenium is an automation testing tool, an interviewer is most likely to ask about automation testing first. Below are a few commonly asked questions about automation testing:
1. What is Automation Testing?
Answer: Automation testing, also known as test automation, is a software testing approach that uses readily available tools to create test scripts and execute the automated test suite without any manual intervention. The principal goal of automation testing is to run the automated test suite and compare the resulting outcomes with the expected ones.
Several automation testing tools , like Selenium, are available today. However, it entirely depends on testers to choose the automation tool for generating test scripts and implementing them. Moreover, automation testing is far better and more efficient than manual testing.
2. Explain the Advantages of Automating Testing.
Answer: The key benefits of automation testing are:
- As there is no human intervention in automation testing, the outcomes obtained after implementing the entire test suite are accurate and error-free.
- It enables testers to reuse the code. The code, once developed, can be reused again for many projects. Also, the effort to maintain the code is incredibly low.
- One of the substantial pros of automation testing is that it is time-saving.
- Generating the test result report in automation testing is way easier than in manual testing. When testers implement test scripts, the result report is generated automatically.
- Automation testing supports the integration of GitHub and Jenkins.
- As automation testing is time-saving, it helps the Quality Assurance team to deliver the product quickly. It facilitates frequent releases, instant modifications, and faster delivery.
- Automation testing enables the QA team to generate and run a large number of test cases. Hence, it ensures improved test coverage.
3. What is the latest version of Selenium?
Answer: The latest version of selenium is Selenium 4.0. 0 Alpha 5, released in March of 2020.
4. When do you automate the test?
Answer: Automating a test is essential in four major circumstances that are:
- If there are repetitive tasks.
- For Sanity and Smoke tests.
- For regression test cases.
- If a test has multiple data sets.
However, it is not feasible to automate a test when a software product under test changes regularly. In addition, one-time test cases and Adhoc-Random testing are two other reasons for not automating a test.
5. State the steps involved in performing automation testing.
Answer: Steps required to carry out automation testing are:
- The first step in automation testing is to decide the tool depending upon the software under test.
- Identifying all the application areas where we need to perform automation testing. Also, it’s important to recognize all the repetitive tasks related to testing.
- The next step is to plan an automation testing strategy and generate an automated test suite.
- The implementation of automated test cases is the fourth step.
- Finally, we need to verify whether new features added to a software product behave as expected. In addition, we need to check and maintain newly added test scripts in the test suite. Therefore, the final phase is referred to as Test Automation Maintenance Approach.
6. What are some common tools to carry out automation testing?
Answer: Some widely used and popular tools for automation testing are:
Basic-Level Selenium Interview Questions
Let us now discuss the most common basic-level Selenium testing interview questions for freshers.
7. What is Selenium?
Answer: It is the most admired and widely utilized tool to implement automation testing. However, it is not a single tool; instead, it is a pack of multiple tools. In addition, Selenium enables testers to implement function testing without requiring knowledge of the test scripting language. Selenium has its separate and dedicated language, called Selenese. Also, it allows users to develop test cases in various programming languages, such as Python, Ruby, C#, Java, PHP, etc. It consists of four different tools that are as follows:
- Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver runs a browser using Selenium Server on a local or a remote machine the same way a user would do it manually. Thus, it helps users to develop powerful and browser-based test cases. In addition, it supports the distribution of the generated test scripts across various platforms.
- Selenium IDE
It is a robust tool in Selenium that enables users to record and playback test automation. The Quality Assurance team uses Selenium IDE to develop scripts for exploratory testing and generate bug reproduction scripts.
- Selenium Grid
Testers use Selenium Grid to implement scripts developed using Selenium WebDriver on multiple remote machines. Therefore, it becomes possible to run various tests simultaneously, which in turn reduces the test execution time.
- Selenium Remote Control (RC)
8. Why should testers pick the Selenium testing tool for automation testing?
Answer: Selenium is one of the most robust tools used extensively to carry out automation testing. Moreover, it is a record and playback tool that offers a broad spectrum of benefits. The reasons why testers use selenium for automation testing are stated below:
- Selenium is open-source and free to use.
- Though Selenium has its unique language, Selenese, it is not limited to it. It also opens its doors to other programming languages, including Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, PHP, and C#.
- It is compatible with major operating systems like Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Selenium is compatible with all major browsers, including Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Opera.
- It can seamlessly integrate with other frameworks, such as Maven, TestNG, Jenkins, etc.
- Selenium has an interactive interface, allowing users to generate test scripts seamlessly.
- Simultaneous execution of tests is possible on multiple machines using Selenium Grid.
9. Highlight the dissimilarities between Selenium 2.0 and 3.0.
Answer: Selenium 2.0 involves the integration of Selenium Remote Control (RC) and WebDriver. On the contrary, version 3.0 of Selenium does not have Selenium RC but supports it indirectly via a back-end WebDriver. Therefore, the major dissimilarity between the two versions is that 2.0 involves Selenium RC, whereas 3.0 does not. Some other notable differences between versions 2.0 and 3.0 of Selenium are:
|Selenium 2.0||Selenium 3.0|
|This version involves the WebDriver API that supports Selenium RC technology and API.||There is no WebDriver API in this version of Selenium.|
|It performs mobile automation using iPhone Driver for iPhones and AndroidDriver for Android phones.||It carries out mobile automation using a tool called Appium.|
|Selenium 2.0 requires Java 1.8 or earlier versions.||Selenium 3.0 requires Java versions above 1.8.|
10. Explain Selenese.
Answer: Selenium’s IDE has its dedicated language for creating test scripts, which is known as Selenese. Alternatively, we can say that Selenese is a collection of commands, allowing users to implement test scripts in Selenium IDE. For instance, one of the Selenium commands is open (URL) .
We need to pass the specific URL as a parameter to the command. The open (URL) command will open the URL in the browser. Assertions, Actions, and Accessors are three different Selenese. However, each of these Selenese is used to perform specific activities. Furthermore, Selenium commands support four distinct parameters, that are:
Instead of binding Selenium to localhost, we can bind it to a particular IP address.
- Port Number
We can connect Frid Hub with Selenium tests specifying the TCP/IP port number in Selenium commands.
We can specify the name of the browser which we need to implement Selenium test scripts.
The Selenium test cases are triggered by an application URL.
11. Explain the Relative Path and Absolute Path.
Answer: Absolute Path in Selenium is a path that begins with ‘/.’ It is defined as an entire path starting from the root to the element that we need to identify. When writing the absolute path, one should be extremely careful. Any change in the attributes starting from the root node to the desired element will result in an invalid absolute path.
An example of the absolute path is /html.body/div/td/input. The relative path is opposite to the absolute path, as it does not start with the root node. Instead, it begins with an intermediate node and reaches the desired element. The relative path begins with ‘//.’ An example of the relative path is //input/example[@id=name]. The relative path is shorter and easier to maintain as compared to the absolute path.
12. What are Verify and Assert statements?
Answer: The Assert statement in Selenium is used to check if the desired element is present on the webpage or not. If a specific test case does not satisfy the Assert condition, it fails. As a result, the QA team aborts the implementation of the remaining test scripts. Thus, we can view the outcome of the test execution without invoking any method.
The Verify statement is used only to check if the given condition is true or false. As a result, all test scripts present in the test suite are implemented, even though assert conditions are not satisfied. The test execution result is produced after the completion of all test cases. Therefore, errors come to light after the complete implementation of the test suite. To view the result of test execution, we need to invoke the AssertAll() method.
13. What are the dissimilarities between findElements() and findElement() functions?
Answer: The findElement() function distinctively finds a single web element present on the web page. On the other hand, the findElements() method identifies all web elements on the given web page. Some differences between these two functions are:
- findElement() returns the first matching web element from multiple elements discovered. On the contrary, findElements() returns a set of web elements.
- If there is no matching element found, findElement() returns a statement ‘NoSuchElementException.’ Conversely, findElements() returns an empty list.
14. Explain the terms - Fluent Wait, Explicit Wait, and Implicit Wait.
Implicit Wait: It is used to instruct the web driver to wait for a particular time period to find the desired web element before it results in an exception - ‘NoSuchElementException.’ The default time period is set to zero. In the implicit wait, the web driver goes through all web elements and searches for a specific one in the given time.
Explicit Wait: It instructs the web driver to wait for the expected or specific conditions before resulting in an exception - ‘ElementNotVisibleException.’ However, the explicit wait is used only for particular web elements. It is way more powerful than the implicit wait.
Fluent Wait: It specifies the maximal time span instructing the web driver to wait. In addition, it states the frequency at which the condition should be examined prior to an exception - ‘ElementNotVisibleException.’ Here, frequency implies the number of times the condition is to be checked at regular time intervals.
15. Explain driver.quit() and driver.close() functions.
Answer: The driver.quit() command helps users to close all open windows in a browser, whereas the driver.close() function closes the current window in a browser.
16. What test types does Selenium support?
Answer: Testers use Selenium to test web-based software. Selenium supports functional and regression test types.
17. State the different ways to identify an element in a web page using Selenium.
Answer: We can identify elements in a web page using several parameters, such as Name, Tag, ID, CSS, XPath, Linktext, Attribute, or Partiallink Text.
18. Define X-Path.
Answer: The term X-Path refers to a path used to identify elements in the web page. In addition, we can find the desired element’s location on the web page using X-Path. Also, it allows testers to traverse through the webpage’s HTML structure.
19. What are the significant challenges with Selenium?
Answer: The main challenges associated with Selenium are:
- It only supports the testing of web applications.
- There is no scope for Bitmap comparison in Selenium.
- Selenium does not have any vendor support similar to tools like QTP.
- It becomes extremely challenging to maintain objects.
- Selenium requires testers to use third-party applications for reporting.
20. Can Selenium manage windows-based pop-ups? If yes, how?
Answer: No, Selenium cannot manage windows-based pop-ups, as it is an automation tool used for testing only web-based software products. However, the integration of other third-party applications can enable Selenium to manage windows-based pop-ups.
21. Explain different types of frameworks.
Answer: There are five types of frameworks :
This framework involves a tabular file or an external file, like XML, Excel, etc., for storing input data and the predicted output data.
As its name suggests, the keyword-driven framework uses keywords and data tables to describe actions that testers need to perform on a software product.
- Module-based testing
In module-based testing, testers divide a software product under test into several sections or modules. After splitting a software product’s source code, they generate test cases for each module and merge them to create larger tests.
- Behavior-driven testing
The behavior-driven testing framework is entirely dependent on the system’s behavior and majorly concentrates on tests to be executed. In addition, testers generate test cases in the English language that even non-technical people can understand easily.
- Hybrid testing
It is the combination of module-driven, data-driven, and keyword-driven testing frameworks.
22. State dissimilarities between getWindowHandle() and getWindowHandles() methods.
Answer: Each window created in a browser is assigned a unique identifier called window handle. The getWindowHandle() method is used to get the current window or tab’s window handle. A String is the return type of the getWindowHandle() method. On the other hand, getWindowHandles() is used to get all windows’ or tabs’ window handles. Furthermore, Set<String> is the return type of getWindowHandles().
23. Explain sleep() and setSpeed() functions.
Answer: When we wish to delay the test execution speed, we use setSpeed and sleep() methods. The setSpeed() function in Selenium sets the delay in the execution of each Selenium command. By default, the delay period in the setSpeed() function is zero. Furthermore, the thread.sleep() function terminates the implementation of the current thread for a specific time. It accepts the input in the Integer data type.
Intermediate-Level Selenium Interview Questions for Experienced Testers
The intermediate-level Selenium interview questions are for experienced testers, which are way more challenging than for beginners. Below are some of the most frequently asked intermediate-level Selenium interview questions, along with their answers:
24. Explain the steps for debugging tests using Selenium IDE.
Answer: Debugging helps testers find and fix bugs and errors in the source code. In Selenium, debugging can be done in four simple steps that are as follows:
- Firstly, we need to add the breakpoints in the source code where we need to perform debugging.
- After setting breakpoints, we need to execute the code in debug mode.
- Once the code starts debugging, the execution of the code terminates at the first breakpoint we added in the source code.
- After running the code in debug mode and checking the code’s behavior at all the breakpoints, we need to terminate the code execution in the debug mode.
25. Explain regular expressions and their implementation in Selenium.
Answer: One of the efficient ways to enhance Selenium WebDriver’s tests is using regular expressions. Regular expressions are referred to as search patterns. However, a unique and special text string is used to represent regular expressions in Selenium. We can use regular expressions when we need to retrieve the text from the web element’s text.
Moreover, if we need to check that the value or a URL matches the pattern, we use regular expressions. We can add the word ‘Regexp’ as a prefix to any text in Selenium to make it a regular expression.
26. How will you manage multiple windows using Selenium?
Answer: It is possible for us to work with multiple windows in Selenium by using the selectWindow() function. This function helps to switch among all open windows. The selectWindow() function takes the window identifier as its parameter. Moreover, the title of the windows will be the primary factor to distinguish among all.
27. Which command will you use to retrieve a message in the alert box?
Answer: The command used to retrieve a message from the alert box is storeAlert(). The storeAlert() command in Selenium reads the text message from the alert pop-up. Then, it stores this message in a variable. After holding a message in a variable, the command closes the alert pop-up.
28. What is the use of Selenium RC, and what are its benefits?
Answer: Selenium RC is more robust than IDE in terms of language and browser support. However, as Selenium IDE only supports the HTML language, it does not aid many other functionalities, such as conditional statements, iterations, test case result generation, etc. Therefore, to use other programming languages in Selenium, Selenium RC is used. Below are some of the main pros of Selenium RC:
- It can seamlessly manage Ajax elements and dynamic objects.
- Selenium RC supports reading the data from and writing the data to various file formats, like .xlsx, .txt, etc.
- We can improve an application’s performance by using two functionalities - Iterations and Conditional Statements.
- Finally, we can use any programming language with Selenium.
29. Explain breakpoints and start points.
Answer: A Breakpoint in Selenium is a point where it instructs Selenium IDE to suspend the execution of test scripts. The principle aim of using breakpoints in the source code is to verify whether it is working correctly according to the expectations. In addition, breakpoints are more helpful in debugging the code.
A Start point in a Selenium is a point where the execution of test scripts should start. Like breakpoints, start points are also beneficial in debugging. Start points are used when we need to resume the test execution from the middle of the code or after using breakpoints.
30. Why is Selenium used more widely than QTP?
Answer: The below table will help you understand why Selenium is more helpful and efficient than QTP.
|Selenium is compatible with almost all browsers. It supports Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge, and many others.||QTP is limited to working with only three browsers - Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox.|
|We can run Selenium on any operating system.||QTP is compatible with only Windows systems.|
|Strong support for several programming languages, like Java, Perl, C#, etc.||QTP only supports the VBScript language.|
|Selenium is not a proprietary tool.||QTP is a licensed and commercial tool.|
|The test case execution in Selenium requires fewer resources.||The resources required in QTP while executing test cases are higher.|
31. Explain different exceptions in Selenium WebDriver.
Answer: Below is some typical exceptions in Selenium:
This exception occurs when the web page does not include a specific element from the given attribute set.
This exception occurs when a specific element is deleted and no longer present in the Document Object Model.
When a specific operation is not completed within the given time, the TimeOutException occurs.
This exception occurs when a particular element is invisible on the web page but is present in the Document Object Model.
32. What do you understand about the same-origin policy?
Answer: The same-origin policy is one of the security measures in testing. In this policy, a web browser enables a specific webpage to access the content of another webpage on the condition that both the webpages are from the same origin. Here, we can refer to the origin as the combination of the URL scheme, hostname, and port number. Therefore, if a particular webpage contains the malicious script and tries to access the sensitive content of another webpage, the same-origin policy prevents it from accessing.
33. What are web locators? Enumerate the types of web locators.
Answer: Web locators in selenium are components that help Selenium scripts to uniquely identify WebElements, such as a text box, button, etc., on a particular web page. The following are different types of web locators in Selenium WebDriver:
- ID: It locates an element using the ID attribute.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.id (<element ID>))
- ClassName: It locates an element using the Class attribute.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.className (<element class>))
- Name: It locates an element using the Name attribute.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.name (<element name>))
- TagName: It locates an element using the TagName attribute.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.tagName (<htmltagname>))
- LinkText: It locates a link using LinkText.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.linkText (<linktext>))
- PartialLinkText: It locates a link using the partial text of the link.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText (<linktext>))
- Xpath: It loactes an element using a XPath query.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.xpath (<xpath>))
- CSS Selector: It locates an element using the CSS selector.
Syntax: driver.findElement(By.cssSelector (<css selector>))
34. Enlist navigation commands.
Answer: There are some basic commands in the Selenium driver that enable browsers to move backward and forward in the browser's history. These commands are as follows:
- driver.navigate().to(" https://techgeekbuzz.com ");
This command navigates to the specified URL.
This commands functions similarly when we click on the forward button of a browser. It takes you to the next page present on the browser's history.
This command refreshes or reloads the current web page.
This command takes you one page back on the browser's history.
35. How to take screenshots in Selenium WebDriver?
Answer: Selenium WebDriver provides the TakeScreenshot interface and the getScreenshotAs() method to capture screenshots. Syntax: File scrFile = ((TakeScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(outputType.FILE);
Advanced-Level Selenium Interview Questions
In this section, we shall cover Selenium interview questions for experienced professionals.
36. What is the pause feature in Selenium IDE?
Answer: The pause feature in Selenium IDE allows a user to pause the execution of statements that cause exceptions. Furthermore, it enables users to enter into a debug mode by clicking the pause button present at the top right corner of Selenium IDE. Therefore, we can say that the pause feature in Selenium IDE handles exceptions.
37. State the difference between '/' and '//' in XPath.
Answer: Single Slash '/': We use the single slash '/' when we want to create an XPath with an absolute path. i.e., it would create the XPath to start selection from the start of the document. Double Slash '//': We use the double slash '//' when we want to create an XPath with a relative path, i.e., it would create the XPath to start selection from anywhere within the document.
38. How to launch a browser using Selenium WebDiver?
The following is the syntax for launching a browser using Selenium WebDriver:
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
39. How can we get the text of a web element?
Answer: We use the get() function to retrieve the text of any web element. This function does not take any parameter but returns a string value. Syntax: String Text = driver.findElement(By.id(“Text”)).getText();
40. Can we use Selenium WebDriver for testing mobile applications?
Answer: No, we cannot use Selenium WebDriver for testing mobile applications since it is a web-based testing tool. However, we can test the applications that run on mobile browsers.
41. Explain setSpeed() and sleep() methods.
Answer: Both the functions, setSpeed() and sleep(), will delay the execution.
Thread.sleep(): This function forces the current thread to stop its execution for the specified time. It takes a single argument, the integer type, which specifies the time period for the delay of execution.
setSpeed(): This function sets the speed for every selenium command. If the speed is set to 2 seconds, there will be a delay of 2 seconds after the execution of every selenium command. Like the sleep() function, it also takes one integer argument.
42. Why should one choose Python over Java in Selenium?
Answer: The following are some major reasons for choosing Python over Java in Selenium:
- Java programs tend to run relatively slower than Python programs.
- Python uses indentation, while Java uses curly braces to delimit code blocks.
- Java is a statically-typed language, while Python is dynamically-typed. Therefore, when you use Python, there is no need to define the data type of variables while declaring.
- Lastly, Python is more simple and more compact than Java.
43. How can you switch between frames in Selenium WebDriver?
Answer: To switch between frames in Selenium WebDriver, we need to use the WebDriver's driver.switchTo().frame() method. This method takes one of the following three parameters:
- A number
- A name or ID
- Previously found element
44. Which API do you require to conduct database testing in Selenium WebDriver?
Answer: We require JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) API to conduct database testing in Selenium WebDriver.
45. What do you understand about a robot class in Selenium?
Answer: A robot class in Selenium provides us with control over the mouse and keyboard devices. The following are different methods in the robot class:
- KeyPress(): Use this method when you want to press any key on the keyboard.
- MousePress(): Use this method to press the left button of the mouse.
- KeyRelease(): This method is used to release the pressed key on the keyboard.
- MouseMove(): This method enables you to move the mouse pointer in the X and Y coordinates.
- MouseRelease(): Use this method to release the pressed button of the mouse.
47. Name the function used to scroll down to a particular element on a web page.
Answer: To scroll down to a particular element on a web page, we need to use the scrollIntoView() function.
49. What happens if you run this command driver.get(“www.techgeekbuzz.com”);?
Answer: If we run the command driver.get(“www.techgeekbuzz.com”);, it throws an exception since we have not used http or https as a prefix in the URL. The following is the correct command: driver.get(“https://www.techgeekbuzz.com”);
50. How can you execute a single-line command in Selenium IDE?
Answer: The following are the two ways we can use to execute a single-line command in Selenium IDE:
- Right-click the command that you want to execute and select 'Execute this command'.
- Select the command to be executed and press the 'x' key on the keyboard.
Selenium has made it easier for organizations to develop and deliver high-quality web applications to end-users. However, Selenium performs not only testing tasks but also web-based administration activities. In addition, it is not licensed and is free to use. Therefore, many companies use Selenium and as a result, they are in a constant search of talented and knowledgeable Selenium testers.
In this article, we have listed the most popular Selenium interview questions. Also, we have answered each question in detail so that you can impress the interviewers and crack the interview.
To find out some more Selenium testing interview questions, you can consider purchasing the course here .
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Is there a right way to sleep ?
This question is difficult to answer because it is both patient, and injury/condition dependent. Regardless, we might be making this topic a little more complicated than it needs to be.
Prone (face down)
Sleeping prone (on your stomach) can aggravate certain conditions, or alleviate pain in others. For example, if you have an acute disc herniation or “disc bulge”, sleeping on your stomach might actually have some benefit due to the common aggravation of pain with flexion of the spine. On the other hand, if your pain is due to some sort of facet joint problem, neck issue, or upper back problem, sleeping prone may increase the discomfort.
Supine (face up)
Regardless of the condition, sleeping supine (on your back) is a pretty safe bet. Your spine is in a neutral position and there is no added stress to the soft tissues. Adding a small rolled up towel behind your neck may be an added benefit and restore the natural curve of the neck. I would also recommend a pillow under your knees to take some pressure off the low back.
Side sleeping is another good option for most conditions. There is no added stress to the joints of the spine or the soft tissues. If you are going to sleep on your side, pillow height is an important factor to take into account. We want the thickness of the pillow to be roughly the thickness of the space between the shoulder and the neck. A pillow too thick or too thin will cause our neck to be laterally flexed and could cause some temporary stiffness upon waking.
If you have found a certain sleeping position that allows you to be comfortable, get adequate rest, and wake up feeling ok, then great. If you are having issues such as neck and shoulder pain, back pain, or numbness in the arms or legs there is most likely an underlying problem. Try these tips and see if they help your pain. But more importantly, go get checked out by a health professional. | <urn:uuid:7d45c04e-af96-4ac6-a95d-5e36a0ffe3d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.velocitychirorehab.com/post/is-there-a-right-way-to-sleep | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.939952 | 420 | 2.25 | 2 |
Hunter Residence Hall was designed to offer its residents more than just a place to live. There are many benefits to living on campus that can enhance your overall college experience, from convenience to safety to learning opportunities.
There is no need to worry about replacing a light bulb, setting up utilities, or bothering with monthly bills. When you live in the Hunter Residence Hall, your semester payment through student accounts covers electricity, water, sewer and garbage, cable TV in the lounges, laundry, and high speed internet (wireless and wired). In addition, living on campus means that you have a maintenance staff on-site to keep things running at optimal levels.
Each main entrance to Hunter Residence Hall has an electronic lock to ensure that those entering are residents of the building. Our UHCL Police Department is available 24/7, and live-in staff members are available seven days a week.
Resident Advisors, who are peer leaders, live on each floor and are supervised by a Residential Life Coordinator (RLC). The RLC is a full-time staff member who also lives in the building to offer support and is trained to handle issues that may arise while living on campus.
Live in a Community
With almost 300 people living in the Hunter Residence Hall and another 250 just across campus in University Forest Apartments, making connections with others is as easy as opening your door. There will be regularly planned activities to build community and help residents connect with those who have similar interests. Students who live on campus gain a sense of school pride and report greater satisfaction with their college experience.
Live and Learn
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In the above document dated 1771, Southampton Town Trustees answered the need to build a school for local area children. We don’t know how soon after this document the school was actually built, and we have no photos of that building, but logic says that if there was a need for a school building, then a classroom was already in session nearby. Our conclusion then, is that the first school classes in this area were most likely held in the Meeting House mentioned in this document. The Meeting House sat just west of the Presbyterian Church located next to the cemetery on Montauk Highway at “Beaver Dam” (now Westhampton).
That first school building was built about 1815-16 for a cost of $145.81. In 1856 the wooden building was replaced with the brick schoolhouse shown here, on the same site.
Then in the late 1800’s another school was built on Montauk Highway in Westhampton to serve students living further west of this area. Known as Tanners Neck School, it was located roughly across from the West Methodist Church. The building still exists, now a private home. The original schoolhouse structure was added on to and renovated over the years, yet it can still be found within the homes’ core. A few residents of the Tanners Neck area still remember attending this school.
The first schoolhouse within the limits of the Village of Westhampton Beach was located just north of Main Street, on Potunk Lane. Unfortunately we have no photos of that building.
Next came the “Red School”1861-1888, located on Main Street approximately across from The Patio Restaurant. This photo shows a very well dressed group of children considering that this was a farming and fishing community. Having your photo taken was a serious event in those days.
Then in 1880 an even larger building was erected on Mill Road to house the growing student body. It sat on the north side of Mill Road between Sunset Avenue and Woodland Avenue. This building was later moved to Church Street and Mill Road and became the home and office for our local Dr. Merle.
The Union School aka “Six Corners” School (on Mill Road at the intersection with School Street, Oak Street, Potunk Lane and Brook Road) was initially a wooden structure, built in 1902-03 and originally was for classes up to 8th grade.
Later it housed Kindergarten – 12th grade. This building was added on to several times. The additions were of brick with tall stately columns decorating the rear of the building. Eventually the entire building became brick as renovations were made.
By 1938 classes were being held in several building throughout the community while the new High School was being built at Mill Road and Oneck and further renovations to 6 Corners School were happening as well. When the infamous 1938 Hurricane hit the area some students (fourth grade) were taking classes in Mechanics Hall on Mill Road and Sunset Avenue, some classes were being held at the Beach Methodist Church, some at Parlato’s Garage, and some at the Main Street Apartment Building. Yet there were still about 200 students in this building. They were dismissed and sent home – just in time – reports were that the building took in nearly 5 feet of water!
Westhampton Beach High School was built in 1938-1940. This beautiful building complete with handsome cupola was the pride of the Village. During WWII the cupola proved quite useful too. Community members took turns in this “watchtower” watching the skies for enemy aircraft as well as the seas for any signs of submarines.
By 1959, another school was needed. The Elementary School on Mill Road and Oneck Lane was designed by architect George Dippell. It is still being used today in 2015, although several additions were made along the way; three classrooms, a science lab, library and media space, a new gym and new athletic fields were added in 1997, eight classrooms were added in 2005, and again athletic fields were improved and new fields added and parking was improved in 2007.
1965 meanwhile had seen the major construction of a new and very modern High School located on Lilac Road. This new school, designed for 1000 students held classes for grades 7 through 12. At that point, the old High School became the Middle School with grades 5 and 6.
When enrollment became too much for the Middle School building, a beautiful two story addition including a new gym and music suite, a new cafeteria and kitchen, 4 new extra large classrooms as well as 3 new athletic fields was added in 2007. The construction perfectly matches the original brickwork design.
One major addition was built onto the High School in 2005; it added 15 new classrooms, a beautiful fully equipped 800 seat auditorium, improvements to guidance offices, student services rooms, 2 new large group instructions rooms and enlarged parking facilities.
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Analytics are great at reporting what already happened. What if they could help predict the future --like which customers are most likely to buy from you again?
Say hello to predictive modeling -- analytics that can help you predict the future as forecast by mountains of your customer data. Modeling has been around for decades -- with a reputation for being powerful but complicated to apply. But software innovations are making it easier for marketers to put predictive analytics into play.
Modeling isn’t 100% exact, but it has helped marketers multiply their ROI. The process involves applying data-mining technology to your customer data to create a specialized model that gives every customer a probability score. The score predicts that a customer will take a certain action.
o Predict which customers are most likely respond to an offer
o Predict which customers are mostly likely to defect
o Predict if a customer is a big spender
o Predict if a customer will make repeat purchases
In this Special Report on predictive analytics, we explain what modeling is, how it can work for you, how it helped one marketer achieve a 172% higher ROI and where you can explore further to see if the tactic is right for you.How to Create a Predictive Model
A predictive model determines the probability of a certain outcome based on a target -- what you want to predict. You use data-mining software to sift through your customer database.
Every category of customer information -- age or favorite color or buying frequency or how many times a customer visited your store in the past year -- is a variable collected as a predictor of future behavior. A predictor is your model’s central building block.
For example, you want to predict which customers will visit your store at least five times in the next 12 months. Here’s a simplified version of what you need to do:
-> Step #1. Prepare your data
Preparing data is the most difficult and complicated step in the process. We’ll talk about why and what you can do about it later.
“It’s estimated that 70% to 80% of the time devoted to an analytical project is devoted to data preparation. It’s just getting the data in the one place in the right form to actually start building models,” says Richard Hren, Director Product Marketing, SPSS.
->Step #2. Set your target
Your target is the customers who will visit your store five times in the next year. For this example, the target is the same as one of the variables -- customers who visited the store five times in the past year.
->Step #3. Determine the most important variables
Determine which variables are most relevant to your target. Some types of data mining software will dig through data and tell you. Other packages depend on your judgment to determine which variables matter most. Some software will do both: tell you what it likes and allow a statistician to tweak it.
->Step #4. Run program to get a model
The software weighs the importance of each variable and creates a model -- think of it as an equation. You fill in each variable in the equation and then the model calculates and gives higher scores to customers with the greatest probability of visiting your store more times in the next year.
Usually, you don’t have to score one customer at a time. You can build a model to automatically score a database of these higher probability customers.How Can You Use Modeling?
Modeling can apply to marketing in lots of ways. Eric Siegel, President, Prediction Impact Inc., works with marketers through his firm’s predictive analytics consulting and training programs. Here are some examples he has seen:
- Targeting retention efforts
“Retention, to be effective, is generally going to incur costs. It can be pretty expensive, such as, ‘We’re going to give you a month for free,’ or, ‘We’re going to give you 20% off your next three orders.’ Whatever it is, it costs money, so you can’t offer it to everybody,” says Siegel.
By creating a model that will determine the probability that a customer will renew a subscription, you “don’t waste the offer on somebody who’s going to stay anyway. You only use it on people who are at greater risk of defecting. When you do that, you can use your marketing retention campaign budget much more effectively. The bottom line works out much better. In general, you take the scores and you use them to order your list. So you put the scores that are highest at the top, the people most likely to defect are the ones that you’re going to tackle first.”
- Selecting content
When customers are on your website, you can use their browsing history and their behavior to determine the content they see. Siegel has seen systems designed to deliver the one of 120 different promotions that a customer would be most likely to respond to. You can do a very similar modeling with email.
- Using A/B tests
The common reaction to an A/B test where A outperforms B is to throw away B and always use A. But there are potentially segments that would only convert with B, and you don’t want to lose them, right?
Well, you can create a model to predict which customers are most likely to respond to A and which are most likely to respond to B. Knowing this would prevent losing conversions by only using one or the other. “Instead of A/B testing, it’s A/B selection. You’re dynamically selecting A or B individually for each customer according to that customer’s chance of responding,” Siegel says.
- Applying survey data
Khosrow Hassibi, Senior Technical Director and Data Mining Architect, KXEN, provided an example from a car manufacturer who surveyed about 35,000 customers to gauge their level of interest in buying a cell phone-accessory kit for their cars.
“About 1% of the 35,000 individuals responded positively. It was recorded in a database,” says Hassibi.
Information then was purchased from a third-party data provider to add to the positive responders’ information. That created about 250 different variables for every responder, including hobbies, magazine subscriptions, number of homes owned, etc.
The car maker ran the modeling software over that data and set the target as a willingness to buy the cell phone kit. A model that predicted which customers were the best prospects for the kit was created. The model also indicated which variables were most important for hitting the target. Mini-Case Study: World Wildlife Fund
The World Wildlife Fund focuses on conservation in 19 areas of the world, which gives the nonprofit a massive file of members. They create 120 direct mail solicitation campaigns a year, which could be prohibitively expensive if they targeted their entire list for each mailing. A typical campaign will go to about 25% to 30% of their members to keep costs down.
“In the past, we had been using a more segment-based approach [to select whom to mail],” says John Schwass, Director, Strategic and Financial Analysis, WWF. “We would take the ROIs of various segments and then we would use that as a determination of whether to mail somebody or not.”
WWF did its first modeling-based direct mail campaign last fall. Because of the results, they now use predictive analytics to better target all their efforts, says Greg Smith, VP and CIO, WWF.
“The model-based approach really takes a look a lot more granularly at how people are behaving,” Schwass says. “If we sent them 100 pieces of mail, how many responses would we likely get? And then what amount of money likely get from them? Those are the kinds of giving variables.”
Here is the process they used for the first modeling campaign:
-> Step #1. Set a goal
Schwass and his team wanted to find the top 25% of their list most likely to respond to the direct mail solicitation.
-> Step #2. Organize customer data
Working with the IT department, the marketing team brought together databases, organized the data and formatted it. They also determined which variables they wanted the software to review. They did not depend on the software for that task.
“All the hard work is really getting the data together and getting the variables together and thinking through effectively creating variables in different ways and what positives and what negatives that will have on the ability of your model to predict accurately,” Schwass says.
The first information the team looked at was whether a member responded to previous solicitations and their giving patterns before 2006.
-> Step #3. Run the modeling software
After telling the software which were the top variables to consider, Schwass and his team scanned all the customers and their variables in the database. It then decided how important each variable was to the target and created a model.
-> Step #4. Use the model
“Once we have the model, we get new data, the most recent data we can, right before the mailing, and we score all the people we can. We just score everybody.” Schwass and his team arranged their mailing list by probability score.
-> Step #5. Send the mailing
Next, they mailed to the top 25% of the list -- about the same number of members they mailed to the previous year. There were six mailings in the series. “If we felt very strongly about the value that the model places on people, if for whatever reason we thought ‘wow, it’s not profitable to mail these people,’ then we might consider not mailing them. In this particular mailing, we didn’t have that issue.”
-> Step #6: Monitor results
After mailing to approximately the same number of members as the previous year, when they used RFM analysis (recency, frequency, monetary value), the model-based mailing showed:
o 172% higher ROI
o 25% more donations
o 28% higher average gift size
o 125% lower cost per piece mailed
“The result is that we don’t use RFM at all in this particular mailing program. So in all future mailings now we no longer use that approach. We just use the model-based approach,” says Schwass.
- Test the data
Schwass and his team took an additional step because they did not wholeheartedly trust the modeling process. They wanted to test it before spending thousands on postage and paper.
So, they ran a simple test: Once all the data was organized, but before the model was created, they removed a sample with members who had donated in the past and members who had not.
After they created the model and scored the list, they scored the sample. They checked if most of the members in the sample received scores that corresponded to their giving history. Seeing that everything appeared to be accurate, the team moved forward with the mailing.
“I think our comfort level comes at the base level from how a model performs on that hold-out set. It’s usually a pretty good indication if you’re over-predicting or under-predicting or just mis-predicting” the response, says Schwass.Analytics Expertise Required
Modeling software varies in ease of use, but every marketer and vendor we talked to said portions of the process require an expert.
Hiring a specialist to work on your team has a range of benefits. But it can be expensive. Specialized statisticians with PhDs and practical backgrounds can be paid $140,000 or more, depending on the region, says Matthew Schall, Senior Manager, Direct Marketing, Musician’s Friend, a musical equipment cataloger.
Here are some strategies where you might get tripped up without an expert on staff:
-> Strategy #1. Organizing the data
The most labor intensive part of the modeling process is gathering the right data and formatting it to be read by the software.
“Someone really has to have an eye for data and experience with data in order to see if the data makes sense. Most marketers don’t have enough experience with enough different kinds of data to really be able to catch it when there’s something screwy, ” says Schall. “You have to really have a knowledge and understanding of data to be able to construct the data in such a way that it corresponds to the analysis, and that can be something that is not obvious or intuitive.”
-> Strategy #2. Opening the black box
Plenty of automated modeling software simplifies the process (as long as your data is already organized and formatted).But only an analyst can tell you why a model came out in a certain way.
“You can trust the software to do the analysis for you, and you can actually get a good boost. You get a lot of insights from those default settings. But if you want to get in and do something different, you just want to put a little emphasis on that variable … [or] just find more insights and delve deeper. That’s where companies need to balance the idea of hiring their own analyst or just running off the software,” says Mary Grace Crissey, Analytics Product Marketing Manager, SAS.
-> Strategy #3. Selecting variables and determining importance
Not all modeling software will automatically determine which variables are most relevant to a target. You may need a skilled statistician to identify or create the strongest variables.
“A statistical person is going to dive deep and analyze every single one of those fields to decide which ones should go in the model,” says Dwight Mouton, Marketing Optimization Product Manager, SAS.
-> Strategy #4. Tweaking models
Modeling software knows the data it scans and nothing else. It does not know your business. If you know that a variable has more relevance than a model is accounting for, you’ll need a statistician to tweak it.
“You may want to tweak it to say that I’m really going to put double or triple power, or weight, on this age variable because it’s something I know that wasn’t true in the past but seems to be going on now,” says Crissey.
-> Strategy #5. Getting beyond the basics
Moving beyond basic modeling is insightful but extremely complicated.
“Let’s say, just as an example, there are people who buy frequently at low value. They buy pretty often, but they don’t spend very much each time they buy. Then there are people who buy pretty often, and they spend a lot more. Then there are people in the middle who buy pretty often, but spend a lower amount. And that’s not an unusual pattern. [Using models to discover those people] is not easy. It’s not something I’ve seen the typical MBA and typical marketer be able to do,” says Schall.
-> Strategy #6. Training others
The value of a good statistician can extend beyond organizing data, creating models and executing campaigns. Hiring an expert gives you someone to explain the process, train marketers, point out land mines and establish safeguards.
Also, “I like building models in house [because] that knowledge and learning stays in house, and that’s incredibly valuable. And that’s something you don’t get when you bring in an outside consultant to do everything,” says Schall.Start With a Pilot Initiative
So, you think you’re ready to dive into predictive modeling. You see the benefits; you understand its potential value relative to costs. But you still want to go slow. Start with a simple model to find a simple answer that can be easily applied and monitored.
“Set your sights on a doable project that can be done in a short time frame. You want to demonstrate some quick wins,” says Hren.
- Set up a simple test
“A great place to start can be putting together your data of customers the way they looked a few months ago. And then for each of those customers, track what happened over the next three months,” Siegel says. “Then you can apply that model to today’s world and see if you can predict what’s going to happen to every customer over the next few months.”
That test can reveal several things:
o Accuracy of your predictions
o Important segments of your customers
o Key variables to determining customer behavior
And it will build your teams comfort level with modeling.
- Try software for free first
“Pilot initiatives can be done relatively quickly and easily and can be done without any software costs since most of these vendors allow for evaluation licenses where you can just go with the free software,” says Siegel.
- Stay realistic
A model can predict that 60% of your list is more than 50% likely to respond to an offer. But don’t expect a 60% response rate.
“Don’t expect miracles. It’s not going to be 100% accurate, but it doesn’t have to be,” says Hren. ”If you’re getting a .5% response rate, it’s unlikely that the model is going to get you a 42% response rate. That’s just not going to happen. The world does not work that way. You can make lots of money with very small increases in effectiveness [and response].”Getting Help
Plenty of information on modeling exists. We put together a list of resources where you can get help and learn more. Check our hotlinks section, too.
Note: Predictive analytics has a range of uses and supporting services. Not every resource focuses exclusively on businesses and marketing.
- Modeling software companies
There are many types of modeling and data mining software. Some packages are very sophisticated. They’ll help to do everything from collect the data, manipulate the data and interpret the models. Other packages are simpler. They can be easier to use but offer fewer types of analysis and less flexibility.
“The smaller ones tend to be more technically adept, but have less data preparation support infrastructure, and they also tend to be cheaper,” says Siegel.
Below is a look at two of the most popular predictive modeling vendors, a specialty vendor and a free system. But do not take this as an all-inclusive list. There are hundreds of types of modeling software. (Check the KDnuggets hotlink below for a directory.)SAS
SAS’s software packages range from hardcore statistical workbenches to tools that do most of the work behind the scenes.Capabilities:
SAS products have a wide range of features. They can help retrieve and prepare data, identify valuable variables, build multiple types of models, provide graphical reports and manage many other problems.
“SAS will let you build out everything and anything you could imagine,” says Musician’s Friend’s Schall.Price:
As with most of the software packages, SAS’s pricing varies depending on the configuration. For small or medium sized businesses, the SAS Enterprise Miner Desktop version starts at $38,000. SAS Enterprise Miner, a client/servicer version used by larger organizations, starts at $162,000.SPSS
SPSS’s software packages also offer a host of capabilities. Their products range from the most technical and flexible to the more automated and simple.Capabilities:
SPSS software can help retrieve and manipulate data, build various types of models, analyze models, view graphical reports and offer many other capabilities.Price:
SPSS Clementine 12.0 starts at as low as about $10,000 for a desktop installation with additional costs per number of licenses (or seats) and modules. Enterprise-wide solutions can reach $100,000-plus.KXEN
KXEN’s software is more automated than SPSS’s and SAS’s. But it is not designed to be a major statistical workbench. Instead, it’s made to be an easy-to-use model-making machine. The tradeoff for speed and automation is less flexibility.
Capabilities: KXEN does not offer as much data-organizing architecture. But after the data is organized, it only takes a few clicks to set a target and generate a model. KXEN will automatically determine which variables are most important to the target and weigh them accordingly. KXEN also provides graphical analysis.Price:
KXEN offers three packages, all priced according to the number of users, servers and other factors. Prices range from the tens of thousands for “an individual user performing a single type of analysis to well over a million for large-scale use,” says Louis Olds, Director of Marketing and Communications, KXEN.R
R is one of the most popular free and open-source statistical analytics packages. It can conduct a wide range of statistical analysis, but it does not have the user-friendly GUIs that many other software packages offer. Capabilities:
You can see a graph comparing the features of SPSS, SAS and R from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in the hotlinks below. R is capable of doing many of the same calculations as SPSS and SAS, but its software relies on open-source add-ons instead of one consistent tool.Price:
- Online portals
KDNuggets is a good resource for data-mining information. At their website, you can find a consulting directory, a seminar directory, job postings, information about software and more.
TDWI specializes in business intelligence and data warehousing education. Plenty of free information and research is available on its website. TDWI also offers education and certification services.
- Classes, seminars & conferences
Classes are a great way to decide if modeling is right for your business. We’ve listed a few seminars in our links section. Also, every vendor we talked to for this article offers training -- on how to use their software or on modeling in general.
“While it will be painful for somebody, I would recommend that every marketer who is going to be doing analytics go through every training class that’s available at the ART, the advanced research technique classes at the ART forum. And that’s just well worth the investment,” says Schall.
- Consultants & agencies
Using a consultant is a good way to test the water. You don’t have to fully commit by paying for software, training and an expert. You can see the results of one campaign and decide how you want to move forward. Useful links related to this article
Past Sherpa articles –
How Gateway Created an In-House Model to Predict the PC Marketplace
The New Metrics Frontier: Predictive Modeling for Email Campaigns
University of Tennessee Knoxville: Comparison of SAS and SPSS Products with R:
The R Project for Statistical Computing:
useR!: The R user conference:
SAS: Support and training:
KXEN: Support, training and education:http://www.kxen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=194
KDnuggets - courses on data mining, analytics and Web mining:http://www.kdnuggets.com/courses/index.html
World Wildlife Fund:
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TennesseeFrom its varying geographical regions to its historical past, Tennessee is rich both in its land and its culture. Known for cities such as Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee boasts both fame and successful industry.
The 42,143 square miles (109,247 square kilometers) of Tennessee include six physiographic regions the Blue Ridge, the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Region, the Cumberland Plateau, the Highland Rim, the Nashville Basin, and the Gulf Coastal Plain. Additionally, the Tennessee River divides the state into three parts. Tennessee has hot summers with cool to mild winters.
Historically, what is now Tennessee was first part of North Carolina, and then the Southwest Territory. Tennessee joined the Union in 1796 as the 16th state. Later it became the last state to leave the Union during the Civil War in 1861. At the end of the war it was the first state to be readmitted.
There are approximately 6,403,353 people living in Tennesse, which is also the home to a number of major corporations. The corporations include, FedEx Corporation, AutoZone Incorporated, International Paper, Pilot Corporation, Regal Entertainment Group, Eastman Chemical Company, the North American Nissan headquarters, and Caterpillar Financial. Textiles, cotton, cattle and electrical power make up some of the important state outputs. Additionally, Tennessee has played a major role in the music industry. It is credited with the development of rock and roll, and early blues music.
The city of Memphis is considered the birthplace of blues with evidence of the style emerging from the early 1900s. It eventually became the home to Sun Records, responsible for starting the recording careers of musicians such as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbsin and Charlie Rich. Rock and roll began to take shape in Memphis in the 1950s. Memphis is the largest city in Tennessee.
Nashville is the capital city of Tennessee and well known for its contributions to the music world. Since the rise of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s Nashville has become the center of the country music recording industry. It is commonly called “Music City” and is the most populous city in Tennessee as well as a major vacation destination. Popular destinations include: Gaylord Entertainment, Opry Mills, Lower Broadway, Printer’s Alley, Music Row, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Nashville Zoo, LP Field (Home to the Tennessee Titans), Sommet Center (Home to the Nashville Predators), as well as Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, and Middle Tennessee State University. Luxury homes are found throughout the city and in nearby areas. The Forest Hills area has been known to house senators in the past, and other areas such as Belle Meade, Franklin, and Green Hills, offer a variety of luxury properties.
Tennessee’s music history and culturally thriving cities appeal to many interests. As the home to major companies it offers exceptional opportunity, and the possibilities within the state make it a perfect place to be. Supplemented by its luxury home market you are sure to find what you are looking for! | <urn:uuid:16c30654-6a13-4033-98b0-5a95249776da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.luxuryhomes.com/Regions/Tennessee.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957659 | 650 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Geology & Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals No. 2 (179) 2019, 55-67.
Mykhaylo YAREMOVYCHТзОВ «Геол-тех», Львів, e-mail: email@example.com
The paper describes the tectonic position of Marmarosh zone of rocks and determine its place in the structure of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Shown is the history of the study of igneous rocks. The comparative analysis of the views on the structure and position of the Marmarosh klippen belt in the structure of the Carpathians processed by the literature was carried out. At the end of the article the researchers compared views on the structure of Foreign Affairs, highlighted the main features of the geological structure and tectonic zoning area.
Some similar features of rocks composed of Marmarosh klippen belt, namely formational, to a lesser extent, the morphology of the folded and dislocations with a break of continuity history of even-aged species of complexes the Marmarosh zone of rocks is considered as NW continuation of Marmarosh massif that was torn from its substratum in the tectonic evolution of the region. These tectonic elements of different times and different phases of folding, but the final phase of tectonogenesis was manifested are almost simultaneously during the Miocene. MKB is a special category of tectonic structures associated with faults, of considerable length and long stage of development, is so-called near-fracture or suture structures and delineates two different areas with sharply different geological development history, geodynamic conditions of formation, stratified formations, independent tectonic regime. The structure is characteristed by the set of formations – sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic.
As a result of structural and tectonic studies the Marmarosh klippen belt is a consequence of Albian movements where appeared blocky dislocation and Post-Oligocene folding and formation of small intrusive bodies. Modern look of the band was formed in Oligocene time at neotectonic stage of development of the Carpathians. MKB is not correlated with any of the Carpathians area, although it has similarities with some elements, such as Marmarosh massif, but it different by a character of section and especially by peculiarity of the section of the Lower Cretaceous.
One of the conditions for further study of Marmarosh klippen belt is integrated research, including the study of facies changes of the nature of the thickness, more mapping of folded and discontinuous structures, further development of stratigraphic scheme of the area, the analogy of even-aged sediments and similar genesis formations of adjorning the territories both on the – territory and abroad of Ukraine. In this comprehensive analysis the Marmarosh klippen belt may get a proper understanding of its nature and place in the structure of folded Carpathians.
Marmarosh klippen belt, tectonics, overthrust, landslide, nappe, olistostrome, horst-anticlinorium, magmatism, ophiolite complexes.
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Deer are fascinating woodland animals with excellent hearing and an amazing sense of smell that helps them easily escape predators and find food for themselves.
They are herbivores with a pretty varied diet. Today we’ll learn more about how pumpkins fit into their menu and if it’s a good food choice for deer.
What Do Deer Usually Eat?
Deer are forest animals that feed on sedges, small shrubs, grasses, the shoots and leaves of trees and some other woody plants they come across. They eat berries and fruit from time to time and also tend to consume tree bark when they can’t find something better.
These animals are similar to cows – they have one main stomach and three “false” ones. Deer actually chew their cud in order to fully digest the food.
It’s really not that common, but deer have been known to steal and consume the eggs of ground-nesting birds. This probably happens when the animal is unable to get a proper source of all the nutrients it needs from its regular diet.
The eating habits of deer can negatively affect a woodland ecosystem. When deer are eating parts of young trees, they can stop the growth of new trees and a process of natural regeneration of new woodlands in general.
Also, big numbers of deer tend to consume plants which other animals like insects and birds depend on, whether for shelter or for food.
Can Deer Eat Pumpkins?
Despite being wild herbivore animals that prefer to feed in the woodland, they also tend to forage in trash bins or gardens when they can’t find food they need elsewhere.
So, what happens when they find pumpkins? Can deer eat pumpkins?
Deer can safely eat pumpkins. In fact, their diet mainly consists of fruit and vegetation, which means pumpkins are a great solution for them.
Pumpkins are a healthy and highly nutritious choice that are particularly rich in vitamins, potassium, manganese, and other nutrients animals need to function normally.
Deer will gladly eat both pumpkin plants and the fruit. Their favorite parts are mostly the guts and seeds inside, although the majority of pumpkin parts are edible, including leaves, flowers, and the squishy part of the rind.
Are Pumpkins Safe For Deer To Eat?
As we have already mentioned, pumpkins are a pretty good and healthy choice for deer.
The different parts of this fruit have different nutritional value. Together with some beneficial nutrients we’ve mentioned above, pumpkin is also packed with fiber—which is an element important for good digestion and better bone health.
The seeds are a great source of fats, which is especially important during the harsh winter conditions when there tends to not be enough food for the animals in general.
However, old rotten pumpkins can be unsafe for an animal to consume. They carry mold which can make deer ill and cause them health problems.
So, pumpkins are safe for deer, but only when they’re fresh.
If you see mold on your pumpkin, perhaps you should consider using it for compost rather than feeding deer with it. Also, if you have old Halloween pumpkins, make sure to remove any wax and candles so deer can safely eat them.
When Will Deer Eat Pumpkins?
Their feeding pattern changes along with the seasons. With this in mind, deer will eat pumpkins throughout the whole year, but with a focus on different parts.
During the hot summer months, deer are more likely to consume the leaves of the pumpkins. When the fall comes and as the pumpkin matures, deer will switch to eating the fruit itself.
People mostly harvest pumpkins around Halloween, so be ready to see deer coming for your supply during that period.
How To Feed Deer Pumpkins
If you want to get deer to eat pumpkins, you can pop open the fruit so they can easily access what’s inside. It’s definitely better to cut fruits and scatter them in forest areas rather than leaving them in your trashcans or on your porch.
Still, even if you don’t cut it, deer are perfectly capable of eating pumpkins without any help. The animal has a mouth specifically designed for the consumption of various vegetation and fruits such as pumpkin.
Deer will most likely start with the green parts like buds, leaves, and immature pumpkin fruits. When pumpkins get fully grown, it is harder for an animal to eat them.
However, deer will then gnaw away at the skin to get to those soft, delicious parts hiding inside.
When you’re offering pumpkins to deer, be prepared for other hungry wildlife that might get attracted to such a delicious meal. For example, you could expect animals such as foxes, squirrels, raccoons, bears, rodents, opossums, and more.
How To Stop Deer From Eating Your Pumpkins
Although it’s nice when an animal eats something it enjoys, we understand the frustration when you find out it caused damage to your garden and crops.
Deer are cute, but often rather hungry so they’ll eat the flowers off a bush, the leaves off a tree, and a bunch of other things in your garden.
For instance, during the summertime, deer can completely destroy a growing crop of young fruits and shoots. Otherwise, they’ll wait until the fruits are ripe and take them off their vines.
So, how can you stop deer from eating your pumpkins? Here are some ways to do that:
- Build a fence that will surround your entire pumpkin patch. However, not all fences will keep your crops protected.
Before jumping a fence, deer will try to go around or under it. This clever animal will easily leap over a classical chain-link fence. Go for an electrical wire fence that has horizontal wires placed at 10, 20, and 30 inches off the ground.
- Cover your patch with a tree net. Sometimes you can find it sold as a bird net.
This is a great choice if a fence is too hard to install or simply too expensive. Also, it will still be easy to water the pumpkins through the net.
- Plant marigolds around the perimeter of the area you want to protect. Deer are not fond of marigold’s scent, which is why they’ll probably stay away. You can combine this method together with any of the other ones.
- Buy a chemical deer repellent and apply it to the perimeter of the patch. This is another method you can combine with others in order to ensure better protection for your pumpkins.
Some Final Words
Deer can and really like to eat pumpkins. They are herbivores that like to eat various vegetation and tasty fruits. Pumpkins are a particularly safe and beneficial food for deer, especially because they’re so rich in valuable nutrients.
Pumpkins are also packed with fats, which is especially helpful when it’s cold outside. In harsh winter conditions, animals may struggle to find food, which is why they need extra fatty foods to help them remain warm and healthy.
If you have some extra pumpkins you’d like to share with deer in the forest, you can always cut them into pieces and serve them somewhere out in the woods. This is a better option than leaving the food around your house.
Avoid giving them rotten food, since it can make them ill.
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Apeejay School, Saket participated in the ‘Child Safety Awareness Campaign’ initiated by the Kailash Satyarthi Foundation. A workshop was conducted in the School for students of classes I to XII to create an awareness towards protection of children from sexual abuse and exploitation. It was conducted at three different levels simultaneously according to the varying age groups. Children in the age group of 6 to 10 years were made aware of the importance of ‘learning to say no’ to any person or situation that may make them uncomfortable. They were also taught about ‘Good & Bad touch’ and were equipped with measures to stay safe in school, at home and outside.
For children in the age group of 11 to 13 years, the session on ‘My Body and My Rights’ was conducted by their respective class teachers and for those in the age group 14 to 18 years, a comprehensive session on ‘Child Sexual Abuse, Prevention and Indian Law’ was conducted jointly by the school Principal and Counselor. | <urn:uuid:41a6d1a6-dbf2-4eb6-b5bc-7f5de886f8d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.apeejay.edu/saket/workshops/child-safety-awareness-campaign-2017 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.986567 | 209 | 2.28125 | 2 |
“A short drive from Portland, thousands of people, a rural health clinic, businesses, and senior housing are without safe tap water, while some places don’t have running water at all.”
That’s what Oregon Public Broadcasting recently reported from the Warm Springs Reservation. 19 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on the reservation last week, making the lack of water and low water pressure even more urgent. The latest shortage is partially attributed to a break near where a repair was made to address the Warm Springs water crisis in 2019, but infrastructure issues have persisted for many years.
Water is life, especially during the present public health crisis of COVID-19. While the federal government fails to act, you can help support the Warm Springs reservation by donating to the MRG Foundation’s Chúush Fund, which accepts contributions from foundations and individuals to directly benefit the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs as they work to restore their access and infrastructure for clean water.
From Amanda Squiemphen-Yazzie, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in a Facebook post: “In our culture, water is used for prayer, and of course to fuel our bodies every single day. It is used just like you use it, showering, watering plants, gardens and animals. This is all happening in the middle of a pandemic and every single one of us have a responsibility to help them.”
Learn more about the Warm Springs water crisis and take action:
- MRG Foundation Chúush Fund in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
- Water Crisis Returns To Warm Springs As Virus Cases Rise (OPB, 6/30/20)
- Oregon Senators Introduce Tribal Water Quality Bill (OPB, 12/13/19)
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Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues. It is composed of a fluid plasma in which hemolymph cells called hemocytes are suspended. In addition to hemocytes, the plasma also contains many chemicals. It is the major tissue type of the open circulatory system characteristic of arthropods (e.g. arachnids, crustaceans and insects). In addition, some non-arthropods such as molluscs possess a hemolymphatic circulatory system.
Oxygen-transport systems were long thought unnecessary in insects, but ancestral and functional hemocyanin has been found in the hemolymph. Insect "blood" generally does not carry hemoglobin, although hemoglobin may be present in the tracheal system instead and play some role in respiration.
In the grasshopper, the closed portion of the system consists of tubular hearts and an aorta running along the dorsal side of the insect. The hearts pump hemolymph into the sinuses of the hemocoel where exchanges of materials take place. The volume of hemolymph needed for such a system is kept to a minimum by a reduction in the size of the body cavity. The hemocoel is divided into chambers called sinuses.
Coordinated movements of the body muscles gradually bring the hemolymph back to the dorsal sinus surrounding the hearts. Between contractions, tiny valves in the wall of the hearts open and allow hemolymph to enter. Hemolymph fills all of the interior (the hemocoel) of the animal's body and surrounds all cells. It contains hemocyanin, a copper-based protein that turns blue when oxygenated, instead of the iron-based hemoglobin in red blood cells found in vertebrates, giving hemolymph a blue-green color rather than the red color of vertebrate blood. When not oxygenated, hemolymph quickly loses its color and appears grey.
The hemolymph of lower arthropods, including most insects, is not used for oxygen transport because these animals respirate through other means, such as tracheas, but it does contain nutrients such as proteins and sugars. Muscular movements by the animal during locomotion can facilitate hemolymph movement, but diverting flow from one area to another is limited. When the heart relaxes, hemolymph is drawn back toward the heart through open-ended pores called ostia. Note that the term "ostia" is not specific to insect circulation; it literally means "doors" or "openings", and must be understood in context.
Hemolymph can contain nucleating agents that confer extra cellular freezing protection. Such nucleating agents have been found in the hemolymph of insects of several orders, i.e., Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies), and Hymenoptera.
Hemolymph is composed of water, inorganic salts (mostly sodium, chlorine, potassium, magnesium, and calcium), and organic compounds (mostly carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids). The primary oxygen transporter molecule is hemocyanin.
Arthropod hemolymph contains high levels of free amino acids. Most amino acids are present but their relative concentrations vary from species to species. Concentrations of amino acids also vary according to the arthropod stage of development. An example of this is the silkworm and its need for glycine in the production of silk.
Proteins present in the hemolymph vary in quantity during the course of development. These proteins are classified by their functions: chroma proteins, protease inhibitors, storage, lipid transport, enzymes, the vitellogenins, and those involved in the immune responses of arthropods. Some hemolymphic proteins incorporate carbohydrates and lipids into the structure.
Nitrogen metabolism end products are present in the hemolymph in low concentrations. These include ammonia, allantoin, uric acid, and urea. Arthropod hormones are present, most notably the juvenile hormone. Trehalose can be present and sometimes in great amounts along with glucose. These sugar levels are maintained by the control of hormones. Other carbohydrates can be present. These include inositol, sugar alcohol, hexosamines, mannitol, glycerol and those components that are precursors to chitin.
This open system might appear to be inefficient compared to the closed circulatory systems of the vertebrates, but the two systems have very different demands placed on them. In vertebrates, the circulatory system is responsible for transporting oxygen to all the tissues and removing carbon dioxide from them. It is this requirement that establishes the level of performance demanded of the system. The efficiency of the vertebrate system is far greater than is needed for transporting nutrients, hormones, and so on, whereas in insects, exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occurs in the tracheal system. Hemolymph plays no part in the process in most insects. Only in a few insects living in low-oxygen environments are there hemoglobin-like molecules that bind oxygen and transport it to the tissues. Therefore, the demands placed upon the system are much lower. Some arthropods and most molluscs possess the copper-containing hemocyanin, however, for oxygen transport.
In some species, hemolymph has other uses than just being a blood analogue. As the insect or arachnid grows, the hemolymph works something like a hydraulic system, enabling the insect or arachnid to expand segments before they are sclerotized. It can also be used hydraulically as a means of assisting movement, such as in arachnid locomotion. Some species of insect or arachnid are able to autohaemorrhage when they are attacked by predators. Queens of the ant genus Leptanilla are fed with hemolymph produced by the larvae. On the other hand, Pemphigus spyrothecae utilize hemolymph as an adhesive, allowing the species to stick to predators and subsequently attack the predator; it was found that with larger predators, more aphids were stuck after the predator was defeated. | <urn:uuid:cbf74e05-8d6a-4774-aaad-777f4c0e1868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowpia.com/knowpedia/Hemolymph | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.943248 | 1,337 | 3.96875 | 4 |
EternalBlue, the stolen exploit lifted from the NSA by hacking group ‘Shadow Brokers’? You remember, the headlines from 2017, it targeted older versions of Windows and gave life to the malware known as WannaCry?
Researchers from RiskSense have now discovered similar exploits, that can be used to target all versions of Windows. To maintain the existing category, the threats are called EternalChampion, EternalRomance and EternalSynergy.
Mark James, ESET IT Security Specialist, discusses the danger of older exploits being repurposed to target new vulnerabilities.
“One of the problems with digital exploits is the ability to tailor them for current or future use. Although the original attack method may stop working, it may only take a small tweak in the code to recast it as a formidable weapon for reuse.”
“When it comes to protecting your environment one of the key pieces of advice is keeping your operating system and all your applications patched and up-to-date.”
“The worry is that you wave the advice away because it constantly pops up, but in some cases it really could mean the difference between getting compromised or not. Most exploits rely on an unpatched system, once it’s patched that entry (point) is gone.”
“Keeping your system up-to-date these days is not that difficult, programmes both free and paid for will help you make it easier and in most cases, will nudge or inform you about updates and when best to install them.”
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Run by School of Arts, Culture and Language
20.000 Credits or 10.000 ECTS Credits
Organiser: Miss Fiona Cameron
Overall aims and purpose
One in three books sold is a work of Children's literature. So what of its histories, its theories, its transition, and fragmentations into the most popular genre of all time? This module engages with a variety of classic, popular and current children's literature from a range of perspectives, exploring how they represent childhood as formative whilst considering the ways in which children read and receive literature from infancy. Thus this module aims to take stock of both what has traditionally been considered 'children's literature' and of texts tailored (through excerpting, adaptation and cultural adaptation) to suit a young audience. Students are encouraged to examine texts in relation to cultural contexts and social change and the changing politics of childhood as an identity category. There will be opportunities to explore the polysemic ways text and illustration interact; the relationship between the uncanny and the creation of 'other worlds'; the critical space that exists between writing for and about children; the role of the child narrator as the primary storyteller: and the major themes children's literature represents, from domesticity and family life, to innocence and 'knowing', to threat, violence and unknown worlds. Combining theory with creative practice, students will also be encouraged to submit their own works of children's literature, coming to understand the relationship between reader and text.
This module proposes to bring students closer to the debates surrounding, on the one hand, childhood as a category, and the historical context in which 'Children's Fiction' has emerged from and developed, and, on the other, the practice of writing Children's Literature. Thus we include analyses of a range of perspectives and representations of childhood and how they have altered over time, reflecting cultural contexts, societal categories, gender differences. From the point of view of the creative writer, this exploration will be particularly mindful of children's ever-changing reading habits. We will also explore the narrative distinctions between writing for and about children, including, but not limited to, how the novel places children in positions of power and responsibility and what effect this may have on the reader: the primary themes and subjects that continue to contextualise children's literature. We will examine the importance of identity (also a child's understanding of their own identity) and how this is formed and shaped through experience: the exploration of fantasy worlds and imagination and the ways in which they can be representative of larger, allegorical themes. For the creative writing students there will be written practice sessions, designed to enable them to apply the literary devices and narrative techniques used, including exploring the experience of childhood, whilst focusing upon language use and its educational properties to enhance learning.
Typically, the work of a first class candidate will show many of the following qualities:
Excellent levels of originality, vision and depth; striking and thorough engagement with ideas.
Excellent understanding and control of form.
Impressive linguistic control and/or innovation.
Sophisticated understanding of the creative process and assured control of decisions made in writing.
Dynamic work approaching publishable standard.
A 3rd class candidate’s work will show many of the following features:
Limited engagement with ideas and understanding of the texts.
Link between themes and form not always clear.
Limited sense of formal conventions. Inconsistent with regard to linguistic technicalities
Limited awareness of redrafting and editing process.
C- to C+
A 2(ii) candidate’s work will show many of the following qualities:
Some attempt at serious exploration of ideas.
Some link between themes and form. Good attempt to engage with form, but this may not be entirely sustained.
Use of language technically proficient, but not always focused.
Some awareness of the creative process and of decisions made in writing.
Good work, but its strengths need to be more fully sustained to reach publishable standard.
A 2(i) candidate’s work will show many of the following qualities:
Demonstration of a degree of vitality and originality.
Very good understanding of generic conventions; sound use of structures and forms.
Resourceful use of language
Sound understanding of the creative process and thoughtful control of decisions made in writing.
Very good work, which at times comes close to publishable standard
Demonstrate high level of understanding of the range of children's literature and the readers it is written for.
Demonstrate an awareness of research and writing techniques employed by writers to reach the younger audience
Show critical understanding of the representation of childhood through children's literature: its landscapes, contexts and historical development.
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Teaching and Learning Strategy
2 x 1 hour weekly lectures
1 x 1 hour weekly seminar on writing for children
Students will be expected to engage in wider reading to support their creative practice from both a creative and critical perspective, including research, illustrative work, and producing work for regular workshop.
Towards the end of term, there will be an expectation of a group study/practice for a group presentation as part of final assessment.
- Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
- Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
- Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
- Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
- Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sensitevely with others
- Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
- Presentation - Able to clearly present information and explanations to an audience. Through the written or oral mode of communication accurately and concisely.
- Teamwork - Able to constructively cooperate with others on a common task, and/or be part of a day-to-day working team
- Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
- Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others
Subject specific skills
- Awareness of how different social and cultural contexts affect the nature of language and meaning (English Benchmark Statement 2.1; 2.2; 3.1.3; 3.1.7; 3.1.11; 3.2.8).
- Command of a broad range of vocabulary and an appropriate critical terminology (English Benchmark Statement 3.1.9; 3.2.6).
- Broad knowledge of literature and the distinctive characters of texts written in the principal literary genres of fiction, poetry and drama, and of other kinds of writing and communication (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.1; 3.1.1; 3.1.2).
- Critical Skills in the close reading, description, reasoning and analysis and the ability to acquire substantial quantities of complex information of diverse kinds in a structured and systematic way involving the use of the distinctive interpretative skills of the subject (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.2; 1.3.6; 1.3.9; 2.1; 2.3; 3.2.1; 3.3.1; 3.3.3; 3.3.5; 3.3.8; 3.3.12; 3.3.13).
- Information technology and time management and organization skills, as shown by the ability to plan and present conclusions effectively (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.9; 3.3.14; 3.3.15).
- Rhetorical skills of effective communication and argument, both oral and written (English Benchmark Statement 2.3; 3.1.10; 3.2.5; 3.3.1; 3.3.6).
- The ability to work with and in relationship to others through the presentation of ideas and information and the collective negotiation of solutions (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.9; 3.3.10).
- Sensitivity to generic conventions and to the shaping effects upon communication of circumstances, authorship, textual production and intended audience (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.8; 2.3.; 3.1.2; 3.2.3).
- The capacity for independent thought and judgement; the ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories and to interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical positions and weigh the importance of alternative perspectives (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.9; 2.1; 2.3; 3.1.10; 3.2.2; 3.3.1; 3.3.7; 3.3.11).
- Responsiveness to the central role of language in the creation of meaning and a sensitivity to the affective power of language (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.5; 1.3.8; 3.1.5; 3.1.11; 3.2.4).
- The ability to comprehend and develop intricate concepts in an open-ended way which involves an understanding of purpose and consequences (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.6; 3.3.9).
- Understanding of how cultural norms and assumptions influence questions of judgement (English Benchmark Statement 2.1; 2.2; 3.1.6; 3.1.7; 3.2.9).
- Comprehension of the complex nature of languages, and an awareness of the relevant research by which they may be better understood (English Benchmark Statement 3.2.10).
- Recognition of the multi-faceted nature of literature, and of its complex relationship to other media or disciplines and forms of knowledge (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.7; 2.1; 2.2; 2.4; 2.5; 3.1.8; 3.1.12).
- Critical Skills in the close reading, description, reasoning and analysis of texts (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.6; 1.3.9; 2.1; 2.3; 3.2.1; 3.3.1; 3.2.1; 3.3.8; 3.3.12).
- Competence in the planning and execution of essays, presentations and other writing and project work (English Benchmark Statement 3.3.6).
- Conceptual skills developed by demonstration and discussion. (English Benchmark Statement 3.2.2; 3.3.14; 3.3.17; 3.3.18; 3.3.19).
- Study skills in researching concepts and contexts by directed reading. (English Benchmark Statement 3.3.22; 3.3.23).
- The ability to express ideas clearly in discussion and in organised written form. (English Benchmark Statement 3.2.5; 3.2.7; 3.3.11; 3.3.15; 3.3.16; 3.3.21; 3.3.24).
- The ability to analyse texts, using appropriate critical terminology. ( English Benchmark Statement 3.1.8; 3.2.1; 3.2.6; 3.3.12).
- The ability to situate texts in intertextual debate and as responses to and interventions in contemporary culture. (English Benchmark Statement 3.1.7; 3.1.10; 3.1.11; 3.2.3; 3.2.8).
- Translation skills (Middle English).
- Communicate effectively in interpersonal settings, in writing and in a variety of media; engagement with forms of critical analysis, argument and debate, expressed through an appropriate command of oral, written and other forms of communication (Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies benchmark 6.1.5; 8.2.6).
- Competence in the planning and execution of essays, presentations and other writing and project work; bibliographic skills, including accurate citation of sources and consistent use of conventions in the presentation of scholarly work and the ability to engage in processes of drafting and redrafting texts to achieve clarity of expression and an appropriate style; making use, as appropriate, of a problem-solving approach (English Benchmark Statement 3.2.7; 3.3.4; 3.3.6; Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies benchmark 6.1.7).
- Broad knowledge of a range of texts, genres, aesthetic forms and cultural practices, and the ability to produce close analysis of these and of the uses and implications of these approaches; an understanding of particular media forms and genres, and the way in which they organize understandings, meanings and affects (English Benchmark Statement 1.3.1; 3.1.1; 3.1.2; Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies benchmarks 4.1.5; 8.2.5).
- Ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories relating to English studies.
- Bibliographic skills appropriate to the discipline, including accurate citation of sources and consistent use of conventions in the presentation of scholarly work.
- Ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts through advanced knowledge of the Latin language.
- An understanding of creative and critical processes, and of the wide range of skills inherent in creative writing. (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.1).
- Knowledge of a wide range of canonical English texts, providing a confident understanding of literary traditions as well as the confidence to experiment and challenge conventions when writing creatively. (English Benchmark Statement 3.1).
- An awareness of writing and publishing contexts, opportunities and audiences in the wider world (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.1).
- Artistic engagement and ability to articulate complex ideas in oral and written forms. (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2).
- Ability to connect creative and critical ideas between and among forms, techniques and types of creative and critical praxis. (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2; English Benchmark Statement 3.2).
- Awareness of how different social and cultural contexts affect the nature of language and meaning (English Benchmark Statement 3.2).
- Reflective practitioner skills, including awareness of the practice of others in collaborative learning (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2; English Benchmark Statement 3.2).
- The ability to synthesize information from various sources, choosing and applying appropriate concepts and methods (English Benchmark Statement 3.3).
- Ability to formulate and solve problems, anticipate and accommodate change, and work within contexts of ambiguity, uncertainty and unfamiliarity (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2; English Benchmark Statement 3.3).
- Ability to engage in processes of drafting and redrafting texts to achieve clarity of expression and an appropriate style. (English Benchmark Statement 3.3; NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2).
- Ability to gather information, analyse, interpret and discuss different viewpoints (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2; English Benchmark Statement 3.3).
- Information technology (IT) skills broadly understood and the ability to access, work with and evaluate electronic resources (NAWE Creative Writing Benchmark Statement 3.2; English Benchmark Statement 3.3).
Resource implications for students
see above - purchase of some inexpensive primary texts will be necessary, though they exist in free kindle editions as well in most cases e.g. will students have to pay anything?
The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature, ed. by Immel and Grenby (2009) - free e-book through BU Library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, ed. by Carpenter and Prichard (1984), multiple copies in BUL
International companion encyclopaedia of children's literature, ed. by Hunt and Bannister-Ray (Routledge, 1996)
Courses including this module
Compulsory in courses:
- 2P17: BA English Literature and Creative Writing year 1 (BA/ENCW)
Optional in courses:
- W890: BA Creative&Professional Writing year 1 (BA/CPW)
- 2P78: BA English Lit with Creative Writing with International Exp year 1 (BA/ECI)
- 2D13: BA English Literature with Creative Writing year 1 (BA/ENGLC)
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Dr. Larry’s Guide to Eating Healthy on Vacation
Reviewed & Approved by Dr. Larry
For many of us, it’s a challenge to live a healthy lifestyle, eat well and stay active on vacation. Think about it. You’ve got a lot going on: you’re in the airport, traveling, staying in hotels, and you’ve got kids that are crazy and hungry. It’s easy just to feed them whatever you can find to keep them full.
I just took a five-day vacation with my 5-year-old daughter, my sister and her kids, and my dad. We went to San Diego. It was a great trip, lots of fun — and lots of sugar. Too much sugar.
It was definitely a learning experience for the whole family: how do you find time to still work out and eat healthy on the go? How do you make sure that when you take your daughter to the amusement park, she doesn’t get too much sugar and melt down later in the day? How do you survive the airport without going to McDonald’s every time? How can you travel, eat well, and still be active?
In this video series, I answer these questions and more to help you live a happier, healthier lifestyle — even on vacation.
How Can You Eat Healthy at the Airport?
It’s a trick question — you can’t.
I’m kidding, but it’s pretty challenging. You have limited options; it’s not like you’re going to the grocery store with a smorgasbord of wonderful produce and lean protein to choose from. You’ve got McDonald’s, Burger King, pizza… basically a lot of really unhealthy options. So what do you do?
I’ve traveled with my daughter a lot. Parents know that when you’re traveling with young children, you’ve got to be prepared, especially in the airport. Here are some things I’ve done to avoid temptation and keep myself and my daughter healthy in the airport terminal:
- Bring food with you. What are you going to get on the airplane? Peanuts, pretzels — high-salt, high-carb foods that are just not an ideal part of your daily diet. Typically, I like to bring a piece of fruit with me instead: an apple, an orange, maybe a banana. Almonds are also good, or maybe a little yogurt. These little snacks can often get you through until you reach your destination and have healthier meal options.
- Make the best of your options. Sometimes, especially if you have a connection, you have no choice but to eat at the airport. Like life, your diet’s not going to be perfect, but you can make the best of what you’ve got. If you have three different muffins to choose from and not a lot else on the menu, take the bran one instead of the one that’s topped off with sugar and blueberries. If you have restaurant options, seek out a salad or chicken sandwich instead of a burger and fries.
- Enjoy your vacation. Do the best that you can, but don’t get too hung up on your less-than-idea airport meal options. You’re on vacation, after all!
How Can You Go to Disneyland and Actually Eat Healthy?
In San Diego, we went to Belmont Park, an amusement park at Mission Beach that has roller coasters, rides, and lots of junk food. We were surrounded by junk food. Pretzels were probably the healthiest thing there, and those are loaded with salt and cheese.
You get into this environment, and you’re almost forced to say, “Oh, forget it. We’re just going to eat junk today.” But what can you do instead of doing that?
- Eat before you go. Try to eat a good meal and fill up before heading to the amusement park, ball game, or any other local attraction that offers limited healthy options. You might even plan to spend just half a day at the park so you can plan meals before and after rather than eating while you’re there.
- Plan ahead. Just like at the airport, it’s always a good idea to have some healthy snacks on hand. Fruit, nuts or yogurt can help curb your appetite so you don’t rely on the amusement park and fill up on junk.
- Give yourself a break. I’m going to be honest — I didn’t plan very well. I didn’t eat beforehand, I brought nothing with me, and I got hungry in the middle of our time at the park. So I ate a pretzel and got a Slurpee. But I still made good choices: I shared my pretzel instead of eating the whole thing myself, and I ordered a small Slurpee instead of the jumbo size. I was able to get my fill and get a little sugar rush without totally going off the deep end. Throughout the week, you can definitely work in some times to just enjoy the stuff that you like. Know that you’re not going to come back at the end of the vacation and be three or four pounds heavier because you drank one small Slurpee.
Remember, one cheat day at the amusement park is probably not a big deal. But if you’re going to Disneyland for five days, and you’re just going to rely on the theme park to provide your nutrition, you’re probably going to be eating too much junk — which is going to take away from your energy, and ultimately, the quality time that you have there. Eating well can actually enhance your vacation and make it more enjoyable, so do your best to make healthy choices whenever possible.
What Can You Do When the People You’re With Don’t Eat the Same Way You Do?
When my sister is on vacation with her kids, they kind of get to eat whatever they want. For them, it’s a vacation from eating well. There’s a lot of sugar, a lot of chips, and a lot of pizza.
And then there’s grandpa, who, I swear, is sticking sugar in my daughter’s mouth every time I turn around.
At first, I let it go…and what happened? My daughter had a total meltdown on our first day in San Diego. Sure, we had had a long day, and we were in a different place, but I know a huge part of it was that she was overloaded on sugar. She’d had the sugar high, and when it left her system, she just crashed, felt miserable and melted down. Vacation isn’t as enjoyable when you’re dealing with a meltdown every night — an hour of tears isn’t fun for anybody.
Finally, I had to say something. I told my sister, “I’m sorry, but we cannot do this much sugar. I respect what you’re doing with your children. You’re a great mother, and this is your vacation, so have at it. But we have to do it differently.”
My sister was great and respected that. I told my daughter we would have one treat per day, but we can’t have sugar with every meal. As a result, she did better, and I think she had a better vacation overall.
Compromise is good, but don’t be afraid to set limits about what you will and won’t eat on vacation. Navigating a healthy lifestyle can be challenging in a social setting, but this is your trip and your body. If you do your best to eat well, even when those around you choose to do it differently, you will thank yourself later.
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Welcome to Celine’s Teacher And Lord’s Foundation
Celine’s Teacher and Lord’s Foundation (CETALF) is an International non-profit Organization. This organization is duly registered with the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, with a 501( C) 3 status. This organization was created to improve on the Education, Health Care, Recreation, and Daily living challenges of underprivileged children. Our goal is to identify, and assist abandoned, disabled, orphaned, displaced babies, children, and their communities. We support and sensitize, to empower and enrich lives, one child at a time.
We hold several humanitarian activities throughout the year such as:
1. Outreach program to feed 1,000 less priviledge and provide inner city children with food.
2. Health items to vulnerable girl child in the inner city
3. Build a home for abandoned babies to house at least 30 babies.
4. Sponsor at least 30 abandoned children back to school.
Children and Education
Education provides children with opportunities to escape poverty, gain a voice in their community and experience a better quality of life. But worldwide, more than 120 million children are unable to attend school. This defines the niche of CETALF. We provide much needed academic materials to these students.
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Recessions don’t become real to most people until they start worrying about losing their own job.
What happens in a recession?
Since World War 2, there has been two common factors that have happened during every recession:
- The GDP that shows economic output goes down.
- Unemployment goes up.
Is the US in a recession 2022?
No, currently the U.S. is not in a recession, yet. A recession is defined as a period of temporary economic decline when trade, economic output, and industrial activity decline as quantified by a drop in GDP in two straight quarters in a row. This has not occurred so far in 2022.
In 2022, as the GDP for the U.S. goes negative the unemployment rate has not gone up with it.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.6% in the first quarter of 2022, according to the “third” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The U.S. unemployment rate continued to stay low at 3.6% June 2022 after declining after the pandemic.
The correlation between the GDP and unemployment has always been in place as they feed on each other. As people lose their jobs they have less discretionary money to spend in the economy so economic activity declines. Creating a negative feedback loop.
Inflation has been the catalyst for negative consumer sentiment as the cost of living has increased dramatically over the past year with a 9.1% core inflation rate that doesn’t accurately reflect the increase in food, housing, or energy costs.
Another thing that would be odd about this recession is that corporate profits are still in double digits on average and during previous recessions they were in single digits which caused businesses to scale back hiring, lay off workers, and invest less in growing their business operations.
U.S. corporations also have approximately $4 trillion on their balance sheets currently that could be a huge safety net and buffer for a decline in profits or sales in their business operations.
The lay offs may not be as severe as normal recessions. The labor force participation rate is currently at 62.2% and a 40-year low. Companies have placed a higher value on workers after all the difficulty they have had recruiting and retaining workers during the pandemic and great resignation they saw over the past two years with workers wanting to work from home, switch jobs for higher pay, or drop out of the work force entirely to do their own thing.
There are still currently 11 million open jobs in the U.S. that employers can’t find workers to fill. Very different situation from a normal recession. The U.S. has 4 million more job openings now than it did during the height of the last economic expansion.
Currently economic output is declining but companies are continuing to hire more employees. This is the odd current situation of a job full downturn during a recession in contrast to a jobless recovery after a recession is over.
Something must give, either companies will see declining sales and profits and start to adjust their labor force or the economy will turn positive again as employers stay staffed and hire.
If there is a true quantifiable recession in 2022 it will look like nothing we have seen before.
So far lay offs and hiring freezes have been primarily in companies in the tech sector and/or startups.
Companies that have laid off workers in 2022:
This recession will be like no other for many reasons.
To learn about things you can do to better manage the next recession check out my books The Working Dead here or Investing Habits here on Amazon if you are interested in investing, financial peace, financial independence, and financial freedom.
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Five ways to reduce presenteeism in the workplace
Like coffee machine breakdowns, train delays and printer jams, absenteeism is an unavoidable part of working life. Absence, however, is only one part of the picture when it comes to employee health.
Presenteeism, or sickness presence, is the act of showing up for work without being productive, generally because ill-health prevents it. Presenteeism in the workplace is not a new phenomenon – anyone who’s ever dragged themselves to work with a splitting headache could tell you that. But, while employee’s sickness absence levels are routinely measured as part of health and productivity monitoring, the less tangible levels of sickness presence are often ignored. One of the reasons that the CIPD’s most recent report on absence management found that a third of organisations have reported an increase in people coming to work while ill.
Why you should care about presenteeism
Those with more traditional views might hold that employees coming to work while under the weather is no bad thing: it shows a certain level of dedication, after all, and it means absence levels are down. However, the reality is that sick employees are likely to be ineffective, and their impaired performance could lead to errors in judgement that cost time and money to fix.
In fact, there’s a mounting body of evidence that the segment of work that’s lost to absenteeism is dwarfed when compared to the productivity lost to presenteeism. A report from the Work Foundation found that the cost of presenteeism in the workplace could account for one-and-a-half times the cost of sick leave.
Coming to work poorly is also linked to higher levels of employee sick leave in the longer term. According to the CIPD’s report, employers that notice an increase in presenteeism are nearly twice as likely to report an increase in stress-related absence. And they’re more than twice as likely to report an increase in mental health problems among staff.
Employees get sick – it’s how employers handle it that matters
So, why does it happen? CIPD’s findings show that presenteeism is more common in companies where long working hours are seen as the norm, and where operational demands take precedence over employee wellbeing. Sickness presence is also often a manifestation of job insecurity and, unsurprisingly, is significantly related to redundancies. Previous research from CIPD has found that organisations that are expecting layoffs in the coming six months are twice as likely to report an increase in people coming to work ill.
Five ways to tackle presenteeism in your workforce
Properly managing presenteeism not only saves companies money in the short and longer term, it vastly contributes to employee engagement and productivity. Here are five ways to help you reduce sickness presence in your company.
- Don’t ignore output in favour of input
In some organisations, employees who come to work when sick are viewed as dedicated, and it’s held as the norm that team leaders soldier through illness to get the job done. Feeling real or imagined pressure to come to work when ill reduces employee morale and negatively impacts physical and mental wellbeing. Make it clear that your company expects sick employees to stay home and recover.
- Time for a policy overhaul?
Absence management policies that focus solely on sick leave provide only a partial picture of your company’s health-related productivity losses. Punitive sick leave policies, especially, can do more harm than good as they may discourage employees from taking leave when they need to, leading to situations where absenteeism is simply substituted with presenteeism. Ensure that your line managers understand the relationship between absenteeism and presenteeism, that they’re supported to adopt a more flexible approach to absence, and that they provide support to employees making a return to work after a period of illness.
- Be aware of causes
High workload demands can cause employees to avoid taking time off when they need it because they’re worried about deadlines or overburdening co-workers in their absence. The ways in which line managers facilitate the management of employees’ workloads, and how they communicate and provide support play a big role in the amount of work-related stress people experience. It’s crucial your managers are aware of organisational and managerial causes of work-related stress and ill health and have the soft skills to promote positive working practice and wellbeing.
- Recognise the symptoms
Employees with health problems, especially mental-health related ones, often feel unable to disclose them to their manager. And managers are rarely trained to support them effectively if or when they do. It’s vital that your managers are educated to notice the signals associated with employees experiencing high levels of stress or mental health problems, and that they feel equipped to have open and supportive conversations with them about their health. Workplace training and awareness raising of common mental and physical health issues will help reduce stigma and provide people with a better understanding of workplace wellbeing.
- Examine your company’s wellbeing programme
Barclays estimates that poor employee financial wellbeing accounts for a 4% reduction in organisational productivity. Does your company’s wellbeing policy consider the stresses your employees face inside and outside of work? A strategic policy that takes account of social, physical, mental and financial stressors and offers appropriate support will go a long way towards reducing the impact of presenteeism. Programmes promoting exercise, counselling or financial management can help prevent illnesses and reduce the impact of long-term conditions, while access to consultations for common conditions like sleep disorders and allergies can have a huge impact on people’s productivity.
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Is it possible for BBQ sauce to go bad? Is it safe to eat bad BBQ sauce, and how can you tell if it’s bad? This article offers the answers to these questions.
You’ve had a cookout where your favorite BBQ sauce was used on practically every dish. So you save it till the next time you need it.
Today is the big day. You’re getting ready to make some handmade burgers. You’re concerned, however, about how long it’s been since you’ve used your BBQ sauce.
Looking at the best-by date on the bottle of the BBQ sauce, you wonder, “Has my BBQ sauce gone bad?” How long is it going to last?
So, here’s what you need to know about your BBQ sauce’s shelf life. Because it is high in preservatives, an opened container of store-bought BBQ sauce will last 4-6 months. However, if you make your BBQ sauce, it will only last 7-10 days.
What is bbq sauce?
Barbecue sauce is used as a marinade, condiment, basting agent, flavoring sauce, or meat topping (typically beef and pork ribs or chicken). Salt, sugar, sweeteners (honey or molasses), tomato paste, vinegar, liquid smoke, mayonnaise, mustard, onion powder, and black pepper are common ingredients.
The early barbecue sauces were often created with only salt, vinegar, and pepper. Later, sugar, ketchup, and other additives were added. It’s worth noting that evidence of early grilled meat dates back to 700 BC! In addition, many recipes for grilled meat can be found in English and French cookbooks from the early 1900s.
Let’s take a look at the nutritional information for BBQ sauce per 2 tbsp (36g):
As you can see, the BBQ sauce contains a lot of sugar and salt, which can be harmful to your health in large amounts.
On the other hand, BBQ sauce contains trace amounts of potassium, vitamin A, and vitamin C.
Although you are unlikely to reap significant health benefits, there are some. BBQ sauce contains tomato sauce, which contains an antioxidant known as lycopene. This antioxidant can lower blood pressure, minimize the risk of some malignancies, and protect the skin.
Furthermore, the sauce lacks fat, as plant-based ingredients typically lack this macronutrient. As a result, it is a fantastic way to add flavor to foods without adding fat.
Is it past its prime, or has it spoiled?
You should be aware that there are two stages to BBQ sauce. It will first pass its prime; it is still safe to eat in this stage but it is not as flavorful or high quality as it once was.
Then, it starts to spoil or ferment. At this point, it will begin to smell and taste strange, and it is no longer safe to eat.
While it’s fine to keep BBQ sauce that’s past its prime, you should probably throw it out because the flavor won’t be the same after this point. You’ll lose many rich, sour and spicy flavors that make barbecue sauce so special.
Check the expiration date on the store-bought sauce and keep it for no more than a month or two past the best-by date for the best flavor.
It’s important to note that if you leave a BBQ sauce out on the counter or in the sun for an extended period during a cookout, it will begin to spoil or ferment in the bottle. This will result in a bubbliness and a pungent vinegary odor. Even if the sauce is brand new, this will happen if left in unfavorable conditions for an extended period. When it reaches this point, it should be discarded.
How long does bbq sauce last?
|BBQ Sauce (unopened)||Best by + 6 months|
|BBQ Sauce (opened)||1 – 4 weeks||4 months|
|Homemade BBQ Sauce||7 – 14 days|
Please keep in mind that the times listed above are just for the finest quality.
The sauce will remain longer in most circumstances, but the quality may be subpar.
BBQ sauce has a best-by date of 1 to 2 years and can easily be stored for a few months past the printed date. If you refrigerate the condiment after opening it, it can last for up to 4 months.
The 4 months after opening isn’t a hard and fast rule, but it’s one that many BBQ sauce brands follow.
Of course, outliers exist at both extremities of the spectrum. As a result, don’t be shocked if yours lasts up to a year after opening, or that yours should be finished within a week.
Read the labels. The general rules I mentioned should work in most circumstances. However, certain store-bought BBQ sauces may recommend far shorter storage dates than I mentioned.
When you open a bottle of BBQ sauce, you usually have four months to finish the leftovers. As previously said, some brands have a considerably shorter term, while others have a much longer one.
Of course, the storage term provided by the brand is merely an informed guess as to how long the sauce should hold its quality, at the very least. That implies you’ll be fine if you leave your barbeque sauce in the fridge for a little longer than the manufacturer recommends.
How long, you might ask?
That is determined by the suggested storage period. If it’s the typical four months, an extra two to three weeks shouldn’t be a problem. However, if it’s only a week or two, I wouldn’t keep it for more than 10 to 14 days.
The date on the BBQ sauce bottle is a best-by date, which is concerned with food quality rather than safety. In other words, once that date has passed, the BBQ sauce does not “expire.”
And, as previously stated, as long as the condiment stays unopened, it can usually last months past the printed date. Sure, it might separate a little more over that period, but that’s all.
Of course, if you open a BBQ sauce bottle a few months past its expiration date, you can’t expect it to hold its quality for as long as a new bottle. To get the most out of it, you should utilize it within a few weeks.
Before consuming “expired” BBQ sauce, always check it for signs of spoilage.
Homemade bbq sauce
Homemade BBQ sauce has a shelf life of 1 to 2 weeks, depending on the recipe, and must be kept refrigerated at all times.
If you’re following a recipe you found online, follow the author’s advice. It will be a week of storage in most instances, possibly up to two weeks.
If you got the recipe from someone else, err on the side of caution and store it for up to 7 days.
(Without pasteurization a little vinegar, tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce won’t let your homemade bbq sauce last as long as a store-bought one.)
You can freeze BBQ sauce if that relatively short period isn’t long enough for your purposes or if you want to prepare a large quantity and save some for later.
Use an ice cube tray to portion it out so that each amount is enough for a single dish (whatever makes more sense for you).
Does bbq sauce need to be refrigerated?
After opening the bottle of BBQ sauce, keep it in the refrigerator. In most situations, leaving the sauce at room temperature keeps it safe to use, but it only keeps its quality for a couple of weeks. As a result, refrigeration is the better option.
When it comes to storage temperature, BBQ sauce falls between regular salsa (which requires refrigeration) and hot sauce (which typically does not). You can keep it out on the counter, but it’s far preferable to store it in the refrigerator.
However, if you know you’ll finish the bottle you just opened within a week, store it in the pantry or kitchen cabinet.
(Unless, of course, the label specifies that it must be refrigerated after opening.)
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about various BBQ sauce storage practices.
Homemade BBQ sauce should always be kept in the refrigerator.
Bbq sauce darkening
If your BBQ sauce contains chili peppers, it may darken or even turn brown if left uncovered for an extended amount of time. This is because oxidation-induced darkening is natural for chili peppers and does not render them harmful to eat.
The worst effect of the color shift may be a tiny change in flavor, but that’s about it. That rich crimson BBQ sauce can still be used.
Now, if the ingredients list of your BBQ sauce does not include chili peppers or one of its variations (e.g., tabasco peppers), be cautious if the sauce becomes brown. And if the label does not explicitly state that browning is a natural side effect of long-term storage, it’s usually best to err on the side of caution and toss the bottle.
It is typical for BBQ sauce to separate. And by separation, I mean that there’s a layer of liquid on top, with the rest of the sauce being noticeably denser.
If your sauce has been sitting in the cupboard for who knows how long, it will most certainly separate, which is fine.
Before opening the bottle of separated BBQ sauce, give it a good shake. It should aid in blending everything into a smooth texture.
If your sauce has been sitting unused in storage for months and has not separated, it most likely contains some artificial preservatives that help maintain its texture.
However, if your sauce has entirely separated, as the bottom is solid and the top is liquid, presume that the sauce is finished. If things got to this stage, I’m pretty confident it stayed in storage for a lot longer than the two years and change reported.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about the actual signs of bad bbq sauce.
Signs that your bbq sauce is expired
If you check in your pantry or refrigerator and notice any of these warning signs, throw it out right away!
1. Off-putting smell
BBQ sauce should have a tangy, sweet, and/or smoky aroma. That irresistible aroma is one of the reasons we love the sauce!
However, if that smell becomes intense, off-putting, or plain nauseating, throw it out. This odor is your first warning sign that your BBQ sauce has gone bad.
2. Change in Appearance
Several visual changes will occur as your BBQ sauce degrades over time:
- Color – Pay attention to the color of the BBQ sauce. You’ll notice a richer, darker tint as it draws closer to expiration. This is due to oxidation, which takes place once the bottle is opened.
- Mold – Do we really need to explain this one? Please don’t eat BBQ sauce or any other meal with visible mold.
- Liquid Separation – While some separation is natural, this change, combined with a color difference, is another clue that your BBQ sauce is nearing the end of its life. If separation occurs before the expiration or best by date, shake the bottle to re-mix the ingredients.
3. Altered texture
When produced correctly, BBQ sauce should have a smooth, spreadable, and viscous texture.
If your BBQ sauce becomes thick, slimy, or clumpy, it’s time to toss it. A change in texture indicates oxidation or moisture, both of which initiate the process of diminished flavor and quality.
How to store bbq sauce
Barbecue sauce comes in a plethora of flavors. The majority are vinegar-based, with tomato paste, spices, sugar, and other ingredients.
BBQ sauce from the store is shelf-stable. The storage instructions are the same whether it’s a Louisiana style, Texas style, Southern style, Kansas City BBQ style, or the alcohol laced style, such as honey-bourbon or BBQ rum sauce.
BBQ sauce that has not been opened can be securely stored at room temperature. Choose a cool, dry location away from heat and lights. Your pantry or kitchen closet is an excellent location. It’s the same as preserving other sauces and condiments like mustard or mayonnaise.
If you opt to make your recipes, keep your homemade barbecue sauce refrigerated at all times. However, efrigeration is not required for home-canned barbeque sauce.
If it is a cooked sauce, allow it to cool before transferring it to the refrigerator. Store the sauce in an airtight container.
Can you freeze bbq sauce?
Barbecue sauces can be frozen and they do so extremely well. If you won’t finish the bottle of barbecue sauce within six months or if your fridge is limited in capacity, freezing the BBQ sauce is an excellent choice.
You can store it in either an airtight container or a plastic bag when freezing barbecue sauce. An airtight container is preferred for many sauces, whereas a plastic bag is ideal for small amounts or individual servings of sauce.
It is important to not freeze the sauce in its original bottle, whether plastic or glass. The sauce will begin to expand as it freezes. Both glass and plastic bottles will crack as a result of this expansion.
Pour the sauce into a jar with a securely sealing lid, for storage in an airtight container. If not, the sauce will be exposed to air throughout the freezing process and develop freezer burn. Also, allow about a half-inch space at the top for the barbecue sauce to expand.
The best way to store the sauce in plastic bags is to flash freeze it beforehand. Simply pour the barbecue sauce onto an ice cube tray and freeze it until all cubes are frozen.
Transfer the frozen barbecue sauce cubes to the plastic bag. Before sealing the bag, squeeze out as much air as possible. Then place the sauce bags in the deepest part of the freezer.
Aside from plastic bags, you can store the barbecue sauce cubes in an airtight container. Either way, the barbecue sauce will stay fresh for up to a year.
How to keep bbq sauce lasting longer
Buying bbq sauce
When buying barbecue sauce at the grocery store, it is important to check the printed date on the bottle. Some manufacturers will stamp the bottle with the best by, use by, or expiry date. Each has a somewhat different meaning, but all dates indicate that it will remain fresh until the written date.
When buying barbecue sauce, search for ones that have recently been made and placed on the shelves. Most supermarkets keep new sauces in the back. BBQ sauces that have recently been created will taste the best.
You have several options when it comes to size, depending on how long you plan to keep the sauce. A big bottle is a good choice if you’re going to be doing a lot of barbeque cooking. On the other hand, small bottles are intended for folks who cook only sometimes.
Handling bbq sauce
When handling BBQ sauce, it’s critical to use clean utensils when scooping the sauce or putting any inside the bottle.
Of course, most people will use “dirty” utensils to handle the barbecue sauce since they forgot or were too lazy to get a clean tool. In any case, it’s not a big concern because the sauce won’t spoil. However, using dirty utensils with the same bottle of BBQ sauce repeatedly may lead it to spoil. As a result, it’s advisable to be safe and always use clean utensils.
Another thing to remember is that any leftover barbecue sauce should never be poured back into the bottle. Bacteria will begin to grow on the sauce after sitting at room temperature for a while. Pouring it back into the bottle will contaminate the entire sauce with bacteria and cause it to spoil.
Always inspect your BBQ sauce for signs of spoilage by tasting it, smelling it, and looking out for mold. If properly stored, this sauce can last for quite some time. Remember, if it’s unopened, keep it in the pantry; if it’s opened, keep it in the fridge. Alternatively, if your BBQ sauce did expire and want to know what alternative you can use than BBQ sauce for your ribs. | <urn:uuid:7de2904a-d67f-4c5d-84b8-d7bf438ba7d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allthingsbackyard.com/does-bbq-sauce-go-bad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.930801 | 3,592 | 1.820313 | 2 |
If you have driven through Antietam National Battlefield, or even passed through the park on Route 65 or Route 34, you have probably noticed the black and white cast iron tablets that are scattered throughout. Over two hundred of these tablets still mark the battle lines, and they provide a glimpse into the earliest years of battlefield preservation at Antietam. Antietam was one of the five battlefields that were preserved by the War Department along with Chickamauga/Chattanooga, Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg. Each site had a Battlefield Commission to oversee its establishment and early operation. Antietam was the second of these sites to be set aside by an act of Congress on August 30, 1890. Even as Congress debated federally preserving the park, marking the battle lines was a part of the plan; as The Committee of Military Affairs put it in their report on February 27, 1891: “A nation should preserve the landmarks of its history. The bill under consideration proposes to preserve and properly mark with plain, enduring tablets the field of Antietam, on which was fought, September 17, 1862, the bloodiest battle of the war.” At Antietam, the Federal Government purchased fewer acres than at the other 1890s battlefields—just enough to create a park road network. Along these thoroughfares, over 200 iron tablets, which were cast in Chattanooga, were erected to mark the lines of battle. The War Department also constructed macadamized roads and an observation tower to help visitors get a better perspective on the undulating terrain and to provide visual access to land that was still in private hands.
Since 2016, volunteers at Antietam National Battlefield have proved critical in restoring and preserving these War Department Tablets. The self-named “Iron Brigade,” a small cadre of about five volunteers, works closely with the Cultural Resources staff at Antietam to remove the tablets from their bases, bring them into a workshop, strip the paint off using electric drills fitted with a special wire brush attachment, prime them, paint them, use rollers to apply the white paint to the raised letters, and meticulously touch up the tablets with tiny brushes before returning them to the field.
The crew has also begun applying the same treatment to the smaller directional signs, which were erected at the same time as the tablets. As of spring 2020, the Iron Brigade had completed restoration on all but a handful of the tablets. They will continue their work on the directional sings, and will continue to rotate the tablets in for restoration and maintenance on a cyclical basis.
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DF-21D and DF-26B, China Carrier-Killers – The United States Navy is one of the most powerful maritime forces in the world. However, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has surpassed it in size, and Beijing will likely use it to increase its presence in the region and beyond.
At issue, however, is the fact that the U.S. Navy maintains 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, as well as nine amphibious assault ships (LHDs), which is used to maintain force projection around the globe. Yet, even as China recently launched its third, and largest, aircraft carrier, the Type 003 Fujian, a key to Chinese victory in a war with the United States wouldn’t likely be a Battle of Midway carrier slug match.
Instead of trying to go toe-to-toe – or more accurately carrier-to-carrier – against the United States Navy, the PLAN would more likely seek to remove the U.S. carrier force from the board entirely. That is where the PLAN’s DF-21D and DF-26B anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) could come into play. This is a threat the United States needs to take seriously.
In the late summer of 2020, China conducted test launches of both platforms into the South China Sea, and the move came just one day after Beijing accused the United States of sending a U-2 spy plane into a “no-fly zone” during a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) live-fire naval drill in the Bohai Sea off China’s north coast.
One of the missiles – the DF-26B – was launched from the northwestern province of Qinghai; while the other – the DB-21B – was launched from the eastern province of Zhejiang. Both of the missiles were fired into an area between the Hainan province and the Paracel Island, a source with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) told the South China Morning Post at the time. The landing areas were within a zone that maritime safety authorities in Hainan had said would be off-limits because of those military exercises.
That Sinking Feeling – Meet China’s Carrier Killers, the DF-21 D and DF-26
China first unveiled the road-mobile, two-stage solid-fueled intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) DF-26B (Dong Feng-26) during a military parade in September 2015. It has a reported range of 4,000km (2,485 miles) and it can be used in both conventional and nuclear strikes against ground as well as naval targets. The mobile launcher can carry a 1,200 to 1,800 kg nuclear or conventional warhead, and as it could directly strike a target such as the U.S. territory of Guam in the event of war it should be seen as a formidable weapon.
More ominously, the DF-26B has been described as a carrier killer due to how it could be used to target the U.S. Navy’s fleet of Nimitz– and Ford-class nuclear-powered supercarriers.
Especially noteworthy about the DF-26B is that it is a dual-capable missile, a type of weapon banned by the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the United States and the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. However, China was never invited to join the agreement, and the United States withdrew from the treaty during the Trump administration citing Beijing’s deployment of such weapons as a justification.
The other missile, the DF-21D has been described as the world’s first anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) or “carrier killer.” The DF-21D first entered service more than 30 years ago and replaced the obsolete Dong Feng-2 (CSS-1). It became China’s first solid-fuel road-mobile missile.
Able to deploy a 600 kg payload with a minimum range of 500 km (311 miles) and a maximum range of 2,150 km, the DF-21D’s warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP (circular error probable). That could make it instrumental in striking a vessel in the open ocean or denying access to a potential opponent in transiting to a conflict zone in waters that Beijing seeks to control, such as the East or South China Seas.
It isn’t just the United States Navy that could find itself in the PLAN’s crosshairs. The missiles could certainly be used to target India’s or Japan’s aircraft carriers.
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