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Is there any way to stop slugs naturally and safely without using harsh chemicals?
If you are experiencing cool, damp weather conditions, chances are you might also be dealing with slugs. Slugs are shell-less mollusks that secrete mucus for protection and to help them travel around.
While they might come across as harmless, slow-moving, slimy creatures, slugs can actually cause a lot of damage to garden crops and plants in your landscape if left unchecked. In fact, all of your garden plants from fruits and vegetables to annuals and perennials can become victims of slug damage.
Add to that fact that slugs can carry disease that can be transferred from plant to plant, and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Unfortunately, most home gardens contain the perfect mix of food, shelter, and moisture which happen to be a paradise for slugs to gather and reproduce.
Once you recognize slug damage in your garden, it doesn’t mean you have to immediately reach for the chemicals and harsh chemical sprays. Instead, check out these natural, homemade methods that work wonders to eliminate these slimy creatures.
How To Detect Slug Damage
Slugs are nocturnal, so all of their plant consumption and multiplying occurs during the nighttime. With the cover of darkness, they don’t have to worry about the harsh sunlight drying out their slime coating or the rise in temperatures.
It is important to know that not all slugs are dangerous to gardens. There are some varieties that live near compost piles and help to break down dead and decaying materials. However, this article focuses on garden slugs, which can certainly cause their share of damage!
Most garden slugs are gray or brownish in color and only grow between 1 to 3 inches long. During the daytime, they are hard to locate because they hide in damp and dark places.
Early in the morning, you can often find their slime trails near the base of plants or on low-lying foliage. Lettuce and other leafy greens, cabbages, beans, and tomatoes are their favorite plant victims, but as mentioned earlier, slugs will consume almost any type of plant.
Also, look for holes in your foliage and stems. They will tend to be odd-shaped and have ragged edges. Your small seedlings can even be completely consumed, almost as if they’ve vanished from thin air overnight.
How To Stop Slugs Naturally
From digging chipmunks to hungry rabbits, gardeners are always having to deal with different animals and insects. But even slow and silent pests like slugs can also cause major damage to garden crops!
While it might be tempting to reach for slug pellets sold in store, resist the urge. Not only will these pellets kill the slugs, but they will also poison any animal or bird that happens to eat the dead slug as well.
Instead, go for more natural ways to trap and kill slugs. The following methods work well at limiting your slug population and the damage caused to your plants. However, you might have to try a few of them to see what works best for your particular situation.
Just remember that persistence and early detection are key when it comes to managing slugs. Check your garden frequently to stay on top of any pest or insect issue. While doing a garden check might only take a couple of minutes out of your day, it will save you hours of work and heartache in the long run.
Melon Rind Traps – Stop Slugs Naturally
You can create a simple homemade slug trap by using melon rinds. After you’ve enjoyed a nice slice of muskmelon or watermelon, take the leftover rinds and lay them near areas in your garden where you notice slug damage.
Place the rind with the flesh down toward the soil and the rind up. Once morning comes around, check the rinds and you’ll likely have several hanging out on it.
You can then toss the rinds and slugs into your compost pile. Or consider giving your chickens a nice, cool early morning snack. (You can find other benefits of gardening with chickens here: “Gardening With Chickens – How Raising Chickens Can Help Your Garden & Flowerbeds!”)
Replace the rind traps daily until you no longer see signs of slug damage.
Beer Traps – Stop Slugs Naturally
Just like melon rinds, slugs also love fermentation gasses that are produced by beer or yeast. Unlike picky humans, any cheap beer will do the trick perfectly.
Choose a location that is on the outskirts or edge of your garden or raised beds. Sink the container down into the soil, leaving a small lip around the container to discourage other insects from climbing in.
Alternatively, you can use a very shallow dish and then fill it with an inch or so of brown ale. Again, the variety and brand do not make any difference.
The slugs will travel to the “homemade all-night bar” and will drown once they climb into the liquid. Be sure to remove any deceased slugs and replace the container with fresh beer each night.
Homemade Yeast Trap
While using beer is the easiest way to trap slugs, you can also create your own yeast-friendly solution as well.
To make, simply use one cup of water, 1 teaspoon of sugar or honey, and a half to one teaspoon of yeast. Mix well and sit in a container just like you would for the beer trap. Be sure to check the trap often and change the solution nightly.
Coffee Grounds – Stop Slugs Naturally
Coffee grounds are good for much more than just your morning coffee or an afternoon pick-me-up! Due to their sharp edges, the grounds will stop the slugs from traveling over any place you put them.
Simply sprinkle the grounds around the base of your plants. As an added bonus, the coffee grounds will also add small amounts of nitrogen and other nutrients to your soil.
Egg Shells – Stop Slugs Naturally
Similar to coffee grounds, egg shells can also detract slugs from climbing too close to your plants. This is due to the broken egg shells’ sharp edges.
To use, wash off empty egg shells in water and allow to dry. You can either crush and use them as is, or place them on a baking sheet in a 325º oven for 15 minutes to allow them to completely dry out. Then, gently crush the shells into small pieces.
Sprinkle the shell pieces in a circle around the base of each plant. The shells will start to break down eventually, adding nutrients back into your soil.
Hand Picking – Stop Slugs Naturally
While this method might take a little more manual labor, it is by far the best and most reliable method. After dusk or early in the morning before the sun rises, go out into your garden to inspect your plants. Choose a night that is warm and on the damp side.
Start with the area of your garden where you have seen slug damage and simply look for the slugs on plants. Pick them off and place them in a bucket to relocate to your compost pile or far away from your garden area (or, again, feed them to your hungry chickens).
You’ll need to hand pick the slugs for the next few nights. But you should quickly start to see a diminish in their population and damage.
Bonus Tips – Stop Slugs Naturally
Try to keep the low-lying foliage off of the soil as much as possible to prevent slugs from hiding and taking up residence. Prune up the first several inches of tomato and pepper plants. Keep the outlying grass around your garden as short as possible. Also, remove any dead foliage and weeds as soon as possible.
It is said that slugs do not like to cross copper, but the reasoning isn’t completely known. It could be that the copper creates a reaction to their slim coating. No matter the reason, create a border of copper using copper strips or tape. Fashion the tape like a collar around the base of the plants. This works really well with young plants.
Also consider attracting slugs’ natural predators to your property. Birds, lizards, and frogs all enjoy dining on slugs, so be sure to make your garden space welcome to them.
By following a few of these simple tips and tricks for making homemade slug traps and more, you will be on your way to a damage (and slime!) free garden in no time at all!
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GOING TO THE DOORS
One of the best ways to maintain safety on the bus ride is to walk the children from their door to the bus and to take them home in the same fashion.
When the children are being picked up, it is important to cross the street only in front of the bus (not behind the bus). Also, the parents need to know as accurately as possible what time their child will return.
Indecent dress is not permitted (e.g., miniskirts, tight clothing, revealing necklines, etc.). If riders come out of the home dressed indecent, they should be asked to go back in and change into appropriate clothes. Anyone who does not change is to be left at home. Above 4th grade, children’s clothing should be baggy and past the knee. No shorts of any kind are allowed in the auditorium.
When dropping the children off, observe the following guidelines:
When exiting the bus, the worker needs to be the first one off the bus, not the children.
Collect all of the children from that home at the door of the bus, so that everyone can cross the street at the same time.
Cross the street in front of the bus and not behind. Be sure to wait for the driver to signal before crossing the street.
Make certain that someone is home before leaving the children there.
Finally, leave a good impression with the children regarding their Sunday bus ride.
SEATING ON THE BUS
Children should remain seated while the bus is moving. The workers should help seat the children as quickly as possible so the bus can move.
An orderly method of seating the children on the bus is to have the children sit in the first few seats available when they first get on the bus. Before the bus gets to the next stop, their hands should be marked with the bus number. At the next stop, while the next children are coming to the bus, the first children should be moved to the back of the bus. In this way, the bus should slowly fill up from back to front with their hands already marked.
Shuttle vehicles help save time on the route and provide extra space for people to ride to church. At the same time, the biggest concern when using a shuttle vehicle is safety. The following guidelines need to be strictly observed:
Any vehicle used for shuttle must have the proper insurance form on file in the church office. These forms are available from and must be returned to Mr. Eric Ramos.
All drivers need to be prepared for the route before Sunday morning. The vehicles must be properly fueled and the driver needs a marker, a car seat, and some treats.
All shuttle drivers must obey the traffic laws. This includes stop signs and speed limits.
All the children in the car must wear a seat belt. A car should not carry more than its seat belt capacity, and car seat laws must be obeyed.
When approaching the bus to drop off kids, the driver should park in front of the bus, turn off the engine, empty the car on the curbside only, and walk the children safely to the bus.
After the children are on the bus, the driver should let the captain know the names of the children whom he dropped off.
All shuttle vehicles must be on time for church.
When the driver arrives at church, he should turn in his count and report to the bus with the children who rode with him. He should help unload the bus.
In the case of an emergency contact your captain and the church office immediately.
SNOWY AND COLD DAYS
When visiting on Saturday, it is effective to speak to each parent about the cold. Ignoring the weather never helps. The issue of safety needs to be addressed on the Saturday visit. The church’s safety policy should be stressed.
The shuttle drivers should be ready early and drive slowly when they have children in their vehicles.
The buses will be cancelled if the cold and ice are too severe. In the event of a cancellation, all the men on the route should meet at the church early that morning. If possible, the treat should also be ready at that time. Each driver will stop at a number of the homes in order to give them the treat and inform them that the buses have been cancelled for the day. If they are not home, a note should be left.
Faithful children can ride in cars to church if the parents permit it and cars have not been banned from the roads.
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Life is moving at an incredibly fast pace. For students, it’s doing endless assignments, tests, and quizzes. For office workers, it’s a never-ending workload, meetings, and family. It’s a harsh truth that we barely have time for ourselves. This eventually leads to a decline in mental health and physical health.
It’s necessary that in such circumstances, you take a break. Make a decision for yourself and do something to reduce the stress. However, it’s not as easy as it sounds, right?
IT’s even harder for people with the MTHFR gene defect. People who suffer from MTHFR must carefully consider the best time of the day to take L-methylfolate. Finding the right time to take L-methylfolate is crucial for optimal results for these people.
Want to know the best, easy, and perfect ways to reduce stress? Let’s find out together!
You must have heard of meditation once or twice in your life. However, are you aware that meditation can reduce the level of stress to a great extent? For those who don’t want to try meditation, follow breathing techniques. These techniques increase mindfulness and decrease the feelings of uneasiness.
You can sit down or either lay down. Choose whichever you want. Slowly close your eyes and imagine yourself in a beautiful place. This place can be a castle, garden, café, or therapeutic. Imagine casually taking sips of your delicious coffee. The garden, greenery, and trees are magnetizing. Birds are chirping; keep taking deep breaths in and out during this whole process. The optimum period for this technique is 5 to 10 minutes.
We all know the importance of eating three meals per day. However, you will be surprised to know that eating positively impacts the human body. Here, eating means intake of healthy, nutritious, and tasty food, fruits, and vegetables. Avoid eating fast food when you are feeling down.
We all know the benefits of exercise. It’s good for the body, physical health, and being in shape. However, exercise has many positive impacts on the mind and mood. Consistency is important in this case. Exercise daily for at least 30 minutes. Start by setting small daily goals for yourself. Increase your goals every week to see positive changes rapidly. Lastly, don’t forget to give yourself credit for the improvement.
4. Hot shower
Many physical changes occur when you feel anxious, stressed out, and depressed. However, when you feel a wave of stress, one most prominent thing that happens to your body is tensing of muscles. That’s why you might feel lethargic, tired, and weak. In such situations, take a hot bubble bath. Massages, showers, and sleep are also helpful in reducing stress.
No matter how busy you are, always spare some time for things you love. It can be your family, hobbies, or dream. You can watch movies, read books, knit, sing songs, play games, and do anything you love. Hobbies help people in relaxing and calm.
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May 19, 2022 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
New Jersey and Colorado DOTs are using crowdsourced data and private sector partnerships to deliver real-time information to commercial vehicles and improve the safety of all road users. Because commercial vehicles have far greater stopping distances, unexpected slowdowns on roadways pose a significant safety threat, particularly at the back of queues. Transportation agencies can now deliver in-cab alerts about road conditions through connected truck service providers to help commercial vehicle drivers approach and react more quickly to roadway incidents, work zones, and adverse weather conditions. Following are the presenters for this webinar:
- Craig Hurst is the manager for the Colorado Department of Transportation Freight Mobility and Safety branch, and he will describe how crowdsourcing data improves traveler information, weather management, and safety management on the I-70 corridor.
- Jarrod Del Prado serves as the Vice President of Operations at PrePass Safety Alliance, and he will describe how the agency works with the Colorado Department of Transportation to share data using in-cab systems for drivers.
- Bob Trent serves as Vice President of Communications for PrePass Safety Alliance and leads communications, public relations, and safety outreach efforts. He will support question and answers related to in-cab alerts and operator uses for crowdsourcing data.
- Salvatore Cowan is Director of Mobility for the New Jersey DOT, and he will discuss how crowdsourcing data helps the agency improve operations and the nexus with important road users like commercial vehicle operators.
- Amy Lopez is the Director of Public Sector Services and Smart City Strategy at INRIX, and she will describe partnerships with the New Jersey DOT that leverage crowdsourcing data for operations.
- Marc Nichols is the Director of Government and Industry Relations for Intelligent Imaging Systems and Drivewyze. He will describe how data is shared with commercial vehicle operators to promote safety and situational awareness.
Register for the upcoming Crowdsourced Data for Commercial Vehicles webinar to learn how New Jersey and the Colorado Departments of Transportation are improving roadway safety through in-cab alerts and broader truck information (e.g., parking or inspection). This webinar is a part of the Adventures in Crowdsourcing webinar series sponsored by FHWA Every Day Counts Round Six (EDC-6) Crowdsourcing for Advancing Operations Program. To learn more, reach out to Program co-leads, James Colyar, Greg Jones, or Ralph Volpe.
Understand agency perspectives about how crowdsourcing data has helped to improve traffic operations.
Moderator: James Colyar, FHWA Office of Operations
Operations Area of Practice:
- Freight Data / Analysis
- Freight Management
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of more than a dozen Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination, on Monday called for the scrapping of the electoral college, the method used to elect U.S. presidents.
It was the first time Warren has explicitly called to eliminate the system established by the U.S. Constitution, in which each state is allotted a set number of “electors” based on the combined total of the state’s representation in Congress.
Warren was participating in a televised CNN town hall in Jackson, Mississippi, when she was asked how, if elected, she would expand access to voting, including for those convicted of felonies.
Warren, 69, said there should be an amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing all citizens the right to vote, and called for the repeal of laws that make it more difficult to cast ballots.
She then lamented that White House candidates do not spend much time in places like Mississippi, which is conservative, and therefore not considered a swing state in U.S. presidential elections.
“Well, my view is that every vote matters. And the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting. And that means get rid of the electoral college and everybody counts,” Warren said, eliciting some of the most enthusiastic applause of the night.
The electoral college has 538 electors and 270 are needed to win the presidency. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election but Republican Donald Trump won the electoral college.
Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee introduced a constitutional amendment this year to eliminate the electoral college, but it has not been brought up for a vote in the House, which is controlled by Democrats.
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At the inaugural event of a three-day conference on “Women in Science” at Indian Institute of Science, Dr Manju Sharma, chairperson of the National Academy of Sciences and Former Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, spoke about women in science. Here she raised an important point. Times of India reported her saying: “What we see is a tragic waste of human capital. I attend convocations of universities across the country and find that 90 per cent of the toppers are women. Where do they go after winning gold medals?”
Dr.Sharma believes that just providing reservations for women in the sector, is not enough, adding academic institutions should nurture the female talent from the beginning. The Deccan Herald reported her saying, “Women constitute half the humanity, yet the number of women in mathematics, physics, engineering etc is low. We must identify them by their talent. Reservation is not the sole criterion. We have to go by merit and excellence and we can find so many such women”
She added that women in the science fields rarely rise up the ladder in academic or research branches, pointing out that on her recent visit to a conference of agricultural universities, she did not find a single woman among the 30 vice-chancellors present. She urged women at the inaugural event to continue working in the sector.
She also said, “Whenever young women join doctoral programmes, seniors should encourage them to continue in science. The role of directors of various science institutes is important. We need to move beyond talks of gender equity, reservation, etc. and utilize the talent of women as they bring in new perspectives. There’s a need for a change in mindset and attitude among policy-makers too.”
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Broadcast TV and Cable TV have traditionally provided in-home media to US households. We are experiencing a new paradigm in home entertainment as households are discontinuing their cable TV contracts in favor of streaming options, such as Netflix and Amazon. In this class we will examine:
•Technical details of how traditional cable, over-the-air TV and streaming options work, including Internet access and wi-fi.
•A comparison of the major streaming devices: Roku vs Apple TV vs Smart TV
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The political realities of the day and the rapid development of modern transport allowed tourism to expand exponentially in the 19th century. Many Europeans now found themselves able to live out their fascination with the “Orient” and to travel to the fabled places they had so far only been able to visit in their imagination. Wealthy individuals in the Middle East and North Africa, meanwhile, travelled farther across the region and also started to venture into Europe. Mostly, though, travel was not only for pleasure and relaxation, as might be the case today. In fact, many travellers had specific aims as they set off – educational, scientific, commercial, financial, religious or political, or indeed all of these. Once in the region, the tourists of the day made sure to record what they saw and secure an array of impressive souvenirs to take back home, as evidence of the “exotic” worlds and cultures they had managed to discover. Many travellers published books or sold pictures of their journey, thus fuelling further interest in the “exotic lands of the East”.
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In this episode, Dr. Lisa and Dr. Toni talk about the causes and therapies for constipation in you and your kids. They discuss what is expected or ideal with respect to your bowel movements, the causes of constipation, and some tests and treatments to consider if you or your kids are experiencing constipation.
What is constipation?
Generally considered when you have less than 3 bowel movements a week, or discomfort, even you have a daily bowel movement.
As naturopathic doctors, we consider at least 1 bowel movement daily with a Type 4 rating on the Bristol stool chart to be ideal. You want your stool to sink without mucus, blood or undigested food (with the exception of corn).
What are some causes of constipation?
- Not enough water
- Not enough fibre from veggies and fruit
- Lack of movement and proper circulation
- Stress, especially in the case of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Travel or another break in your routine
- High intake of constipating foods: rice, toast, cooked carrots,unripe bananas
- Hypothyroidism or sluggish thyroid function – see Episode 42 for more info
- Reduced stomach acid, digestive enzyme and bile flow, often caused by stress and stimulation of sympathetic nervous system response
- Gut bacterial imbalance
- Certain medications
- Allergy medication
- NSAIDs like ibuprofen and opioid pain killers like Tylenol 3
- Nerve damage
- Hormone imbalance or PMS – constipation then possibly loose stools when your period comes is a common pattern in Traditional Chinese Medicine called Liver Overacting on Spleen
Harmful effects of constipation can include:
- Discomfort, bloating, just feeling crappy
- Reabsorbing toxins and hormones in your circulation
- Megacolon or the abnormal dilation of the colon
- Encopresis in kids, which is the uncontrollable leakage of stool
Some medical tests to consider:
- HCl challenge in adults
- Thyroid blood test – see Episode 42 for more info
- Stool testing through specialized labs, like Comprehensive Stool Analysis or GI-MAP
- Small Intestinal Bowel Overgrowth (SIBO) breath test
Common treatments for constipation include:
Restoralax or Miralax, also known as Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) 3350
- Adverse effects can include abdominal cramps, diarrhea, bloating, gas, nausea
- Potential link to development of tremors, tics and obsessive compulsive behaviour
- Contamination with small amounts of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol
- Not meant to be used daily and over the long term
- The safety and efficacy of Restoralax for use in children under 18 years of age have not been established
Laxative herbs like senna
- Side effects can include developing a dependence causing further constipation and other digestive disturbance, electrolyte imbalance, darkening of your intestinal tract called melanosis coli, finger clubbing, kidney inflammation
What else can you do about constipation?
You can try one or more of the following:
- Increase fluid, especially pure water
- 8 oz (250ml) of water multiplied by age (number of years) up to 2 litres daily
- Increase fibre:
- Aim for 19g daily for kids 1-3 years, 25g daily for kids 4-6 years, at least 26 g and up to 31g daily for kids 9-13 years and up to 38g daily for kids over 14 years
- Beans or legumes – ½ cup = 6 g fibre
- Broccoli and other cooked veggies – ½ cup = 4 g fibre
- Apples, pears, berries – ½ cup
- Prunes or dates – see Episode 45 for more info on sugar balance
- Ground flaxseed
- Chia seed pudding
- Support stomach acid and digestive enzyme production
- Bitter foods and herbs like arugula, dandelion root/greens, artichoke, gentian
- Start your kids young with small amounts!
- Support gut bacteria with fermented foods or probiotic supplement and prebiotic fibre
- Magnesium citrate and vitamin C provides osmotic laxative effect
- Start with small amount and use only to bowel tolerance
- Support proper anatomical positioning with something like Squatty Potty
- Slippery elm found in powder, capsules, lozenges and teas, taken away from medications and other supplements
- Other herbs and homeopathy for relaxation
- Abdominal massage
- Clockwise on belly
- I Love You massage
- Can use castor oil for extra relief from discomfort
- Pelvic floor physiotherapy for kids with constipation
Dr. Aviva Romm’s fruit balls.
Dr. Toni’s breakfast bar recipe is on the show notes for Episode 32 on hot flashes.
This Week’s Mama Must Have:
Dr. Lisa is a big fan of her son’s Lunii storyteller audiobook device for screen-free entertainment.
Dr. Toni loves to have a light, easy read before bed and just read her first Bridgerton book! She highly recommends The Girl with The Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn.
Dr. Toni’s next HypnoBirthing info session for expecting parents looking for increased calm, confidence and comfort during labour and birth is March 29th. Join her at https://www.hypnobirthingcalgary.com/register
Dr. Lisa’s Wild Mama free virtual 30-minute info session is happening on March 17th – SIGN UP HERE. Program starts on March 24th!
Please tell your perimenopausal mama friends about us, too!
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The challenge: IT security risks due to increasing connectivity of vehicles
New functions in vehicles are increasingly created through networked connections of control devices both interconnected between devices and with other external communication partners. As this new complexity also creates new possibilities for attacks on the safety of traffic participants, their privacy or on the business model of vehicle manufacturers, IT security aspects must be incorporated into vehicle development in a target-oriented manner. Thus, an understanding of security needs, attack paths and defense options in vehicles is necessary to implement appropriate early measures.
The solution: Knowing and understanding the risks and solutions for vehicle communication
The workshop first covers the basic cryptographic mechanisms, presenting and discussing them, providing an introduction to the field of IT security in vehicle communication. Based on this, the participants familiarize themselves with the bus systems used internally in the vehicle, evaluating any possible improvements. For the vehicle-external side, examples of future V2X communication are considered and discussed in terms of risks and opportunities. This builds a fundamental understanding of the current problems, future risks and typical solutions to increase IT security in vehicle communication. | <urn:uuid:b388b8d9-3fbf-4474-961a-347023ee278b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.academy.fraunhofer.de/en/continuing-education/information-communication/cybersecurity/it-security-in-vehicle-communication.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928121 | 219 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Ishiuchi Miyako: What is a scar?
Miyako Ishiuchi: My parents built this house about forty years ago, and on the second floor is the darkroom. I didn’t start making photographs because I wanted to become a photographer. I had plenty of time and no money at the time, but I happened to have a lot of space in the house, so I was keeping my friend’s darkroom equipment here. I hadn’t learned photography, but I had a spare room, so I put all the darkroom equipment in there. And I thought, since I have time to spare, why not take photos around here?
It’s an odd space, the darkroom. It’s a trip. [laughs] It’s daytime, but you make it dark. Isn’t that weird? So the darkroom is a space for creation, a space where the world can surface. So for me, printing in the darkroom is like meeting a new world. There’s almost a sense of physical pleasure involved. The darkroom is something sexual.
I wasn’t intending to take photos my whole life. But when I turned forty, which was ten years after I’d started photography, I realized that all my personal stuff had been photographed. And while I was thinking about my future, I wondered where my forty years of existence lay. In short, I wanted to photograph time.
A scar is a display of one’s entire past. So I started the Scars series with a sense of retaking old photographs. A scar is like an old photograph. Behind every old photograph is a story that you either have in common, explain to others, or reflect on. An old photo is filled with memories. It’s the same with scars. And having a scar means you’ve survived. I think a scar is a testimony to your past. It symbolizes the passage of time. It’s proof of one’s existence, including life and death. In that sense, I’m not shooting the scar itself. But I’m also interested in what the person used to be like before getting the scar. In a sense, as long as you live, you keep receiving scars. I felt that by taking photos of scars I could accurately depict the present. That’s how the series began. But fundamentally, I’m still hoping to capture intangible things like time. | <urn:uuid:7a758785-3531-4b39-adbf-70bd04c9d6a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/ishiuchi-miyako-what-scar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966493 | 529 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Posted on 25th October 2017 at 10:31
In conjunction with Thames Valley Police, the parish council are able to offer Smart Water at a reduced cost of £8.95 per bottle. The product is enough solution to mark around 25-30 items. Each bottle of Smart Water has a unique forensic code making marked valuables identifiable. Smart Water is only visible under UV light. It is easy to apply and almost impossible to remove. The kit comes with 12 property labels and 2 window labels. Recognised by criminals, the “Smart Water thieves beware” signage sends out a warning to any would be thieves. The parish council will be purchasing 20 bottles of Smart Water and they will be available to residents on a first come, first served basis. Please contact the clerk to order a bottle. | <urn:uuid:ccbf12e3-ea1d-441f-93ca-f47e64b2c893> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://embertonparishcouncil.co.uk/news-events/latest/month=201710/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941018 | 162 | 1.726563 | 2 |
NACC NRM and our project partners, Tierra Australia, are pleased to have established the Chapman Catchment – Collaborative Landscape Scale Regeneration project with co-contributions from eight champion landholders in the catchment and supported by funding from the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program. From this cohort, six sites will be developed as demonstration sites, and the lessons learnt, as a result, will be shared more broadly.
The Chapman Catchment is a long-established, well managed, and highly productive dryland farming area (crops and pastures) that also incorporates some intensive diversification activities. This catchment presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate a broad range of regenerative practices across varying properties. Together, these properties will showcase the potential for ‘catchment scale’ agricultural systems change and landscape regeneration.
This project aims to demonstrate a range of practices that can increase farm productivity and profit while also protecting the landscapes natural assets. The activities achieved in this project will set the foundations for a long-term objective of landscape scale regeneration within the catchment, established in partnership with landholders. This project supports landholders to engage with the concepts of regenerative agriculture and sustainable farming, assess their environmental footprint, and take action.
This foundational project focuses on establishing ‘demonstration’ properties that represent functional components of the whole catchment. Mapping out a farm transition plan for these key farms will support landholders to evolve their existing practices based on sustainable and regenerative agriculture principles. The project aims to demonstrate a range of techniques supporting on-farm production whilst protecting and enhancing natural assets.
This project will demonstrate a path forward. For farmers, this is an opportunity to test and evaluate innovative practices that can address their challenges. For the general population and other industries which rely on the health of ecosystems and our natural assets, this project will demonstrate that our local farmers can address issues that the broader community is concerned about.
Stage one in the project’s scope is to complete farm management plans across the participating properties. These plans will focus on surface hydrology for landscape rehydration, restoring wetlands to improve water quality, remediation of local-scale problems, increasing on-farm biodiversity and creating opportunities for community participation. This will be done with landholders to prioritise on-ground works that support the conservation of natural resources. Farm plans will incorporate long-term transition pathways for on-farm practice change, directly linked to the triple bottom line, reinvigorating the social license of landholders, and operating sustainable agricultural enterprise.
Stage two will see the implementation of on-ground works that are high priority within each property. These works will be undertaken largely by landholders, with incentives available to landholders for revegetation works. At this stage of the project, the practical outcomes delivered with landholders will be used to promote and inform the broader community through participation, training and practical demonstration events.
Stage three of the project will be communicating these outcomes, striving for farming system change in the broader catchment. This is expected to continue beyond the life of this three-year project. With effective promotion and opportunity for landholder training, the project outcomes can then be extended to other catchments where landholders and grower groups are driven to participate.
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PORTO, PORTUGAL (March 28, 11 a.m. ET) — The European Waste Free Oceans (EWFO) project, which collects and recycles floating plastics marine debris, was officially launched in Portugal today.
The Waste Free Oceans Foundation will launch the first demonstration of floating litter collection in Porto, Portugal, in collaboration with Lipor (Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto) and APIP (The Portuguese Plastic Industry Association).
Alexandre Dangis, president of the foundation and leader of EuPC, Europe's umbrella trade group for plastics processors, said in a statement: “WFO has achieved great success during 2011 in other countries across Europe. Now it is time for Portugal. Our foundation is convinced that this initiative will be a great step forward towards the floating debris collection in Portugal waters bringing it back to landfill for recycling purposes. It is a fantastic solution.”
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When St. John’s Military School cadet Reece Turner looks back on his sophomore year of high school, a year he spent at a large public high school in Texas, he pauses, before saying, “I was surprised to see how the students in my high school were behaving. I had been enrolled at St.John’s Military School for the previous four years. I realized then that St. John’s had put me on a whole other maturity level. My family and I had decided I should go home to Texas for my sophomore year, but looking back, I regret that I left St. John’s for that year.”
Today, in his senior year at the all-boys, military boarding school in Salina, Kansas, Reece is the battalion executive officer- the second highest ranking cadet on campus. He’ll be graduating in the spring with offers from ten colleges, nearly $80,000 in total offered scholarships, and plans to study either political science, or neuropathology, while playing soccer.
The road that led Reece to his current place of earned success, was not without its challenges, but it was a road lined with family members and mentors who supported him every step of the way.
Reece was born in Tobolsk, Russia, the historic capital of Siberia, then home to about 93,000 people.
“The conditions of Reece’s early childhood were that of neglect,” said Shirley Turner, Reece’s adopted mother. “He was living in a very poor orphanage with barely any food, or toys. Such deprivation for children is devastating.”
Shirley adopted Reece when he was three, and the two formed an immediate bond. When asked about the most influential person in his young life, Reece doesn’t hesitate before answering, “It’s my mother.”
Shirley remembers with pride how Reece excelled intellectually during his childhood. Speaking with tones of unconditional love in her voice as she says, “When you adopt internationally, you pray for whatever God will put on your plate. I was so fortunate. Reece is extremely gifted.”
Reece, Shirley, and his five other adopted siblings were living in McKinney, Texas when Reece was ten years old. Looking back on his childhood, before enrolling in St. John’s, Reece is candid as he recalls, “I had a lot of anger and behavior issues. I was a kid who was just mad at the world.”
Shirley looks back on Reece’s childhood and recalls wanting to give Reece every opportunity to thrive, both academically and socially, in an environment that would offer him personal attention and structured discipline; something, she feared he would not receive if he attended the large, public high school in their town.
“As a single parent, I wanted to give Reece an opportunity to be exposed to strong, positive, male role models,” she said. “I wanted to put him in a system that would guide him through his growth and development. He was so gifted, I knew he would benefit from an institution that focused on developing the whole person—a program that focused on his character, and his spiritual and academic development.”
The summer after Reece completed sixth grade, Shirley enrolled Reece in St. John’s Military School’s summer camp, a four-week program that focuses on the tenets of physical fitness, character development, and individual and team leadership. Seeing Reece excel in the summer camp program, and understanding that full-time enrollment would offer him more of the same leadership opportunities, plus give Reece the benefit of smaller classrooms, more personal attention, a structured environment, and the presence of strong male role models, Shirley and Reece made the decision that Reece would enroll in the school for sixth grade.
Looking back on his first few weeks as a new boy at St. John’s, Reece remembers the struggles of adjusting to life away from home.
“The first six weeks were really hard,” Reece remembers missing his mother most of all. “I couldn’t just wake up in the morning and go downstairs and see her. That part was the hardest.”
As the weeks progressed, Reece’s feelings of homesickness waned, and he began to bond with his fellow cadets.
“I’m still best friends with my roommate from sixth grade,” says Reece. “Justin Gilbert. The two of us, Blase Whitting, and Chris Reilly have been friends since the very beginning. We’ve been playing soccer together, and now we’re all part of the cadet leadership staff.”
The desire to earn a leadership position at St. John’s Military School was a motivating factor that drove Reece to succeed from day one.
“When I came to St. John’s, the Battalion Commander was Enoch Lau,” he remembers. “I looked up to him a lot when I started. I wanted to be just like him. I wanted to earn the position of Battalion Commander.”
Reece knew that in order to earn a leadership position, he would have to earn it through his involvement in the school, and through academic and personal success.
According to Shirley, Reece’s determination to become a leader immediately caused him to flourish socially.
“He joined the drill team, the boy scouts, the advanced military skills team, the honor guard, the color guard, the cannon brigade, and the soccer team,” said Shirley. “He was a member of the chapel council, and he began volunteering in the community.”
Shirley laughs as she remembers, “Then one day he told me he had to go practice the trumpet. He had never even played an instrument before!”
Participation in such a wide variety of teams and activities put Reece on his intended path toward school leadership.
“Before he went to St. John’s, Reece was very individual,” said Shirley. “The first change I saw in him was his willingness to be part of a larger group. I knew such socialization was important for
Despite four successful years at St. John’s, Reece and his family decided that Reece would spend his sophomore year back home in Texas.
“We thought it may be an opportunity for me to be closer to home, and go to school in a less structured environment,” recalls Reece. “All of my public school teachers complimented my maturity, but after being at St. John’s, I wasn’t happy in public school. The classes were so big, and I didn’t like the way the other kids behaved. I was ready to go back to St. John’s for my junior year.”
Now a senior at St. John’s Military School, when Reece looks back on his personal transformation since he first stepped foot on campus the summer before sixth grade, he acknowledges positive changes that are both academic and personal in nature.
“I’m a totally different person,” Reece says with much sincerity and self-awareness. “I take my grades seriously now. I always shoot for As, and I always get my homework done. It’s a top priority for me. When I first came, I used to get mad at every little thing. I would have outbursts and throw fits. Now, I’m disciplined, and I respect my superiors.”
When asked about the faculty and staff at St. John’s who have had a positive influence on his life, Reece is happy to discuss a long list of mentors. “A lot of what I’ve learned about leadership, and a lot of who I am now, has come from Capt. Bell. One of the most important things he taught me was to praise in public and criticize in private. That’s how I choose to lead. I praise my battalion staff in public, but if someone isn’t doing what they should be doing, I talk to him about it in private. I don’t criticize him in front of others.”
Reece continues to name faculty and staff who have served as the strong, positive male role models in his life that Shirley had wanted him to find.
“There’s Gunnery Sgt. Mark Giles. He’s been like a father to me. And Sgt. Jordan- I’ve learned so much from him. And Maj. Stelljes, the Commandant, he’s been such a good influence on me. Our former president, Andy England, is a great person too. I used to meet with him frequently. And our headmaster, Dale Browning is one of the nicest, most humble, and most successful people I’ve ever met.” Reece pauses before adding, “That’s another thing that’s so great about St. John’s. There is no teacher you don’t like. They’re all amazing, and you get real face time with true leaders.”
As a member of the battalion staff, Reece is part of an influential group of cadet leaders who meet every Wednesday to talk about the welfare of the school.
“We get to weigh in on topics that get passed down from the president. It’s amazing what involvement and influence we have.”
Now in his sixth year at St. John’s, Reece, like Shirley, has become one of the school’s strongestadvocates. The greatest proof of Reece and Shirley’s shared confidence in the mission of St. John’s? Reece’s 14-year-old adopted brother Ryan enrolled in the school this past year.
“I wanted to go,” says Ryan. “My mom saw how it changed Reece. He used to have a lot of anger issues, but not anymore. Reece doesn’t get mad like he used to. My mom thought St. John’s would help me become a better person too.”
Like Reece, Shirley adopted Ryan, who was born in Guatemala, at age two. It was important for her that Reece and Ryan have the opportunity to bond through shared experiences. Shirley also felt that the structured environment and the wide variety of leadership opportunities at St. John’s would offer Ryan a foundation for his own personal development.
“Ryan is extraordinarily introverted,” said Shirley. “He wants to save the world. He has very strong Christian beliefs, and he’s always been very community-oriented. He was doing well academically, but I worried that in the large public school system he was getting overlooked because he was so quiet. He was never going to get called out to receive extra attention in that environment. I wanted him to develop better study habits, and bond with friends, and bond with his brother, and learn skills that would carry him into the future.”
Ryan shares his mother’s perspective about the opportunities in front of him at St. John’s.
“For me, being at St. John’s is not about changing myself,” said Ryan. “It’s about gaining a variety of experiences that I can use in the real world.”
While it’s early in the semester, Ryan has already made strides toward personal improvements.
“I’m a better, more academically responsible person compared to where I was last year,” said Ryan. “I used to have a lot of trouble keeping up with homework. I would stay up all night, but I don’t do that anymore.”
Ryan also has the support of his older brother, the battalion executive officer, helping to ensure his success. Reece speaks of Ryan with enthusiasm.
“He’s doing great so far. I would never want anyone to think that because I’m the second highest ranking cadet on campus that he gets shown any favoritism, so I watch him from a distance,” he said. “I want him to have his own experiences at St. John’s. I do check in on him though. Every Thursday I go see Ms. Wooten, our academic dean, and I ask to see his grades. I talk to his teachers too, and on Saturdays, I order him pizza.”
There’s a smile in Reece’s voice as he adds, “He’s getting good grades now. He’s a really good kid.”
Learning to be accountable for yourself, to be responsible for others, and that to lead, one must lead by example, are the principles of St. John’s Military School, and the foundation of its cadets’ academic and personal development.
For Shirley Turner, knowing her sons are developing such life skills is an affirmation that an education at St. John’s has been the right decision for each of her sons.
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FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Message from the Dean The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources Development (FERD) joins other Faculties to celebrate the climax of hard work by students and staff. We are proud of our graduands for their sterling achievements that will be acknowledged by the conferment of various diplomas and degrees in our 40th Graduation Ceremony. On behalf of our faculty, I wish to convey our warm regards and congratulations to our graduands for work well done. As a faculty we feel priviledged to be part of an academic community that has consistently kept its commitment to offer the best in terms of academic training, research and professional mentorship. FERD ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES FERD hosts a web of academic activities embracing training at the Diploma, Bachelors, Master and PhD levels. The undergraduate degree programs emphasize “hands on” broad based training in the management of Natural Resources, training in Forestry with strong entrepreneurial components, Ecotourism and Hospitality Management, Dry-land Resources Management, Fisheries and Wildlife Resources and Non-renewable Resources, Environmental Science, Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, Geography of pollution and Urban Geography and Geospatial technologies among others. Msc. and PhD programmes embrace thematic areas such as Rangeland Resources, Forest Resources, Wildlife Resources and Human Ecology, Urban Geography, Environment and waste management, Ecology and Environment, Environmental Impact Assessment and Audit among others. Postgraduate research and human capacity development at the Msc and PhD levels is heavily poised on development of innovations for sustainable management of Natural Resources. Research initiatives focus on ecosystem research underpinning Environmental Degradation and Food Production, Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Impact studies, Human settlement, Population and Development , Environmental Pollution Control, Desertification and methods of control, Demography and land use, Ecosystem Management and Modelling of Habitat change, Nature, Technology and Society, Environmental Policy and Advocacy, Effects of Agrochemicals and Ecosystems and Waste Management. COLLABORATIVE TRAINING INITIATIVES AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES FERD has initiated discussions on potential research collaborations between Stockholm Environment Institute (SIE) and Egerton University. Key areas for potential collaboration include training and capacity development using SIE tools such as WEAP, LEAP, REVAMP and EWI. In the collaborative arrangement, there is a proposal for creation of a Centre of Excellence in Egerton University for public education and demonstration on WASH and environmental issues. The Department of Geography has initiated a post-doctorate training on policy briefs writing involving staff of Egerton University. The Post doctorate training is sponsored by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as part of the AgiFoSe 2030 Project. The project targets recent PhD graduates with a desire to undertake policy relevant research and analysis; and disseminate research findings to policy makers and practitioners. Four members of staff of Egerton University are participating on the project. These are Dr. Amon Karanja, Dr. Humphreys Obulinji (Geography), Dr. Grace Kibue (NARE) and Dr. Olivier Kashongwe (ANSCI). As part of the initiative, the department organized a one-day workshop on systematic review on May 6th 2019 where twenty-four members of staff were trained. The members were largely drawn from the faculties of Environment and Resources Development, and Agriculture. We take this opportunity to thank the Office of the DVC-AA for facilitating the one-day workshop event. The Department of Natural Resources is in its initial stages of evolving an agreement with North East Forestry University of China for Capacity development of Kenyan professionals who wish to develop careers in Forestry Engineering and Forestry Economics Management. The NorthEast Forestry University of China and Egerton University have submitted a joint proposal to china, Scholarship Council aimed at securing thirty (30) students scholarships each year for the next three years. FERD SCOOPS TOP NOTCH RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD Dr. Wilfred Odadi is the proud recipient of the Future Leaders – African Independent Research Fellowship grant (FLAIR). The FLAIR fellowship programme is funded by the UK Government through the GLOBAL CHALLENGES RESEARCH FUND to support science tackling global development challenges and strengthen research capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Odadi will access Kshs. 35,000,000 from FLAIR to conduct research on Laikipia Rangelands in Kenya for a period of two years. The research activities will address socio-ecological effectiveness of cooperation between private ranchers and communal ranchers as well as determine optimal grazing intensities for livestock production and biodiversity conservation. | <urn:uuid:1666f9db-6314-4ec3-8027-0c2ceef9d461> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agec.egerton.ac.ke/node/44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.922378 | 976 | 1.632813 | 2 |
As girls volleyball teams are approved and assigned to divisions/zones, they will appear on the Standings page. Please note the following about how this process works.
6th-8th grade teams are registered by their coordinator into Level 1, 2, 3, or 4 with level 1 being the most competitive division and level 4 being considered as a recreational division which plays by a different set of playing time rules. Our girls volleyball commissioner reviewed the registrations and we had a league meeting on June 24th to discuss with all volleyball coordinators. Some teams were moved up or down a level from where they registered to try and find the best level of play for each team based on how that team finished last year and how their roster looks for the upcoming season.
A survey was sent out to all girls volleyball coordinators asking them to re-affirm (or not) the methodology used to group these teams into zones. The results of the survey overwhelmingly confirmed the approach the league has taken since its inception four years ago. Since all of the teams in 3rd-5th grade are considered to be "balanced" teams (i.e. talent is spread evenly across teams if a league member has multiple teams for a given grade), our member's first priority is to reduce travel time to away games for parents, players, and coaches. Thus, teams are assigned to zones mostly be geography. We would like to have fewer teams per zone (ideally 11 teams), however, it is also a high priority for our members to not play other teams from the same parish. Since some of the larger parishes can have 3 or 4 teams per grade, we are forced to create larger zones with enough teams to avoid intra-parish matchups and to also avoid a team playing another team twice in the regular season.
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Pathology Needs You
Neonates represent the greatest need for simpler, more sensitive – and preferably non-invasive – analytical methods.
Rich Whitworth |
I am the very proud father of a brand new human; Gray Winter Whitworth was born on 9 February 2017. And I am eternally grateful to all the wonderful healthcare professionals involved. The picture of health, he aced all tests but one... jaundice. I am sure many of you have been through a similar experience, but please allow me to detail our analytical journey...
It begins with a rudimentary test: “Does he look yellow to you, Val?”
“Hmm. He does a bit – hold him near the window.”
“Yes – a bit yellow-ish. What do you think, Val?”
“I’d send him down...”
“OK. Rich, May – you’ll have to take him down to Rainbow Ward...”
A friendly nurse bustles into the treatment room on Rainbow Ward, armed with a handheld, noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubinometer. I am impressed. (Later, I read that the device measures multiple wavelengths by spectral reflectance to determine the optical densities of bilirubin, hemoglobin and melanin.) Holding it to his forehead in various places and “zapping” him, she peers over her glasses at the LCD display and declares that the bilirubin level is “too high” for the device and that a heel-puncture blood sample will be required for further investigation.
Two hours later... An apologetic doctor enters the waiting room/play area to squeeze blood from a stone. Drip, drop... “OK – I’m going to have to do another little prick.” Gray, having been squeezed through a birthing canal, doesn’t cry at such trifles, but isn’t exactly smiling. Finally, the doctor has enough blood for the lab test – she dares not send too little for fear of sample rejection...
Later that evening, the doctor dutifully calls: “... it’s below the level of treatment, but too high to ignore – you’ll have to come in for another blood test tomorrow...” And so it all begins again on Day 5.
The outcome of the second test? The level (a number with no units) has risen but is below the treatment threshold on “the curve.” “Presumably, μmol/L,” I muse, “And I’m pretty sure two data points don’t represent a curve...” Back to “normality.”
Conclusions. The handheld transcutaneous bilirubinometer is a fantastic idea – exactly the sort of transformative technology needed – but when it outputs an overly ‘risky’ reading, healthcare professionals insist on the “gold standard” test. Unfortunately, the gold standard appears to require taking too much blood from too small a person – more than once.
Though I recognize that the whole experience is entirely trivial when compared with more serious health conditions or the total lack of healthcare in other parts of the world, it did make me think: “Analytically, can we do any better?”
Did you know we have a sister magazine – The Pathologist – that frequently covers areas of unmet need in the field? www.thepathologist.com | <urn:uuid:04e0bf33-4a04-4a16-9456-b4c34ca92c4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theanalyticalscientist.com/techniques-tools/pathology-needs-you | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.938414 | 740 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Overcoming Test Anxiety is a segment of the film, This is a Test...This is Only a Test.
“This Is a Test...This Is Only a Test: Test-Taking Techniques.” Films Media Group, 1992, fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=237536&xtid=8064. Accessed 28 Feb. 2019.
A transcript for "Overcoming Test Anxiety" can be found here.
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Many people with an extra property think about renting it out and becoming a landlord. However, there are many personalities that just are not cut out for that kind of work. Being a good landlord, without being a pushover is must, and many people just don’t have what it takes. The following are personality traits that ultimately make a successful landlord, and these traits should be kept in mind whenever thinking about going down the road of rentals. These traits and skills can always be honed, however, so those wanting to get good can do so, especially if they really need the income a rental property can generate.
Many landlords have learned to be decisive. They have either learned through hard experiences, from other people’s experiences published on blogs like FreedomMentors.com, or they have seemingly just been born with this trait. Either way, if something comes up, such as a broken window, the landlord needs to act immediately, taking method of damage and how much it will cost into consideration. This is just a small example, but when it comes to running a rental property, the landlord must be quick with decisions to keep tenants and themselves happy, as well as keeping the rental property in top shape.
Financial stability is freeing, especially when landlords can enjoy it while renting out their properties. Things can go awry, however, so a trait all landlords must have is the ability to roll with the punches of financial volatility. One or two months can bring peace, financial well-being, and enjoyment, and the next month can bring ongoing repairs or expenses that no landlord really has no control over. Collecting rent from tenants should never be a landlord’s only job, especially when starting out, but should be looked at as a fluctuating presence. Having a stash set aside for eventual problems, should they arise, is a great way to ensure that a landlord won’t break under financial stress.
Landlords who have become successful at what they do have honed their skills to detect and call their tenants out on nonsense and excuses. Why are they late on rent? Oh, their cat died and they had to spend a ton of money for extravagant pet funeral services? Yeah, right. A successful landlord (read Reach150.com) will be able to spot falsities, as well as being able to come to terms with the fact that money changes people in crazy ways. The lack of funds or a sloppy excuse as to why the walls are busted can put a damper on any landlord’s day, but a truly successful landlord will spot it all from a mile away.
The number one trait all landlords must have is patience. This skill can be developed over time, but generally, if a person is naturally an impatient person, being a landlord isn’t the job for them. Among the excuses, the stress of repairs and paperwork, and sometimes the nasty eviction processes, there is the need for patience. If a landlord can’t be patient, they’ll pull their hair out trying to run their rentals.
With all this being said, taking on the role of landlord isn’t a bad gig. Real estate markets are fluctuating so much that having a rental can mean the difference between making the mortgage payment or not. Any aspiring landlord’s best bet is to discuss their options with a real estate attorney, and maybe a Real Estate Investing Mentor, as well as utilizing these skills before the screening process, and after moving in the new tenants. One of the real estate coaches I recommend is Peter Harris. Another is Phil Pustejovsky (more about him at freedom mentor reviews). | <urn:uuid:74b0ae89-9064-44a2-9296-1d67f9f79a0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thelancastermarketplace.com/category/marketplace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969406 | 744 | 1.507813 | 2 |
FDA Launches precisionFDA to Harness the Power of Scientific Collaboration
Imagine a world where doctors have at their fingertips the information that allows them to individualize a diagnosis, treatment or even a cure for a person based on their genes. That’s what President Obama envisioned when he announced his Precision Medicine Initiative earlier this year. Now, with the launch of FDA’s precisionFDA web platform, we’re a step closer to achieving that vision.
precisionFDA is an online, cloud-based, portal that will allow scientists from industry, academia, government and other partners to come together to foster innovation and develop the science behind a method of “reading” DNA known as next-generation sequencing (or NGS). Next Generation Sequencing allows scientists to compile a vast amount of data on a person’s exact order or sequence of DNA. Recognizing that each person’s DNA is slightly different, scientists can look for meaningful differences in DNA that can be used to suggest a person’s risk of disease, possible response to treatment and assess their current state of health. Ultimately, what we learn about these differences could be used to design a treatment tailored to a specific individual.
The precisionFDA platform is a part of this larger effort and through its use we want to help scientists work toward the most accurate and meaningful discoveries. precisionFDA users will have access to a number of important tools to help them do this. These tools include reference genomes, such as “Genome in the Bottle,” a reference sample of DNA for validating human genome sequences developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Users will also be able to compare their results to previously validated reference results as well as share their results with other users, track changes and obtain feedback.
Through such collaboration we hope to improve the quality and accuracy of genomic tests – work that will ultimately benefit patients.
Over the coming months we will engage users in improving the usability, openness and transparency of precisionFDA. One way we’ll achieve that is by placing the code for the precisionFDA portal on the world’s largest open source software repository, GitHub, so the community can further enhance precisionFDA’s features.
precisionFDA leverages our experience establishing openFDA, an online community that provides easy access to our public datasets. Since its launch in 2014, openFDA has already resulted in many novel ways to use, integrate and analyze FDA safety information. We’re confident that employing such a collaborative approach to DNA data will yield important advances in our understanding of this fast-growing scientific field, information that will ultimately be used to develop new diagnostics, treatments and even cures for patients.
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Weapons of War Throughout Time
In the Mountains of Vermont,
Brad Martin finds rare ancient fakes buried in
Colonial Home sites
The Experiences of Green Mountain Detecting
Deep in the woods and high in the mountains of Vermont, detectorist (as well as storytell and naturalist) Brad Martin has found many traces of Colonial activity (and even Civil War remnants) buried in the loamy and undisturbed soil. Since the area has never been sprayed with nitrogen-rich chemical fertilizers, many relics and old coins are recovered with very little corrosion and damage — and some of these coins date back into the mid-to-late 1700s, when pioneers and rugged farming families eked out a living on the rocky land and evidence of old wagon roads still lace the hillsides.
Over the years that Brad and fellow hunters (such as Mike St. Pierre and Eddie
Pascucci) have traipsed into the unspoiled wilderness, they have located old homesites that are only marked by cellar holes (depressions and stacked stone) and the occasional stone fences that once marked grazing pastures. Brad carefully records his experiences and observations as he travels and often-times as he digs promising signals – and he shares these outings and discoveries on his Green Mountain Metal Detecting (GMMD) YouTube Channel.
A Gigantic Silver Coin –
A “Bucket-Lister” –
However . . .
One extraordinary find that Brad made recently was an eye-popping Eight-Reale silver coin, minted in the “New World” for the Spanish Empire – dating from the late 1700s. As Brad lifted it from the earth, he saw it was a hefty Silver Dollar-sized coin. It caused his metal detector to give out a tremendous high-pitched response — signaling something likely made up of precious metal, as a large silver disk would do. But this was improbable — there was no hint of commercial activity having been anywhere nearby — and Eight Reales was a lot of money to lose in 1800!!
(Brad knew before he dug down that it was unlikely that it was any recent trash, because of how remote the spot being detected was . . . all of the finds he made that day were well over 100 years old . . . it had been at least a century since the area was inhabited.)
But this coin — when gently cleansed — showed what appeared to be a silver wash that was wearing away from a more base-like (darker colored) metal. Brad quickly realized that this a COUNTERFEIT coin — one that had been minted and dropped long before the Civil War.
One article we researched asserted that England produced thousands of fake reales and flooded the Spanish Empire with those coins in order to create inflation — if so, then that is the same tactic that was used by the Union when millions of dollars in Confederate paper money was produced by Samuel Upton in Philadelphia (and others) to help fuel inflation in Dixie. It worked. Inflation has been effectively used to defeat the enemy in the field, by making it impossible to afford to feed and supply an army and starving the civilian population. | <urn:uuid:42049c56-8481-4816-bfef-278f15862686> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://talisman-coiner-productions.us/eight-reale/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975962 | 658 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Acclaimed writer Jay Griffiths offers a passionate defence of childhood, and mourns the loss of its 'kith' - its unique time, space and place, in Western cultures.
In her award-winning book 'Wild: an elemental journey', author Jay Griffiths explored the words and meanings that shape ideas of wildness, and argued that wildness is essential to the health of the human spirit.
While travelling the world to write Wild, Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. Over and again, she found herself asking - why are so many children in Euro-American cultures unhappy, and why is it that children in many traditional cultures seem happier?
Jay Griffiths visits the RSA to explore these questions, and to consider whether by consumerising childhood, and denying our children the freedoms, of space, time and deep play, we have lost sight of children’s affinity with the natural world and the essential quest element of childhood.
Speaker: Jay Griffiths, author of 'Wild: an elemental journey' and 'Kith: the riddle of the childscape'.
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Learn how to play “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis and rock out like Miles Teller in Top Gun: Maverick! This is a super fun song that brings together a plethora of useful rock’n’roll skills, so use it to impress your buddies!
There are three main parts to this song and they all have some exciting features:
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The song opens with a series of ascending and descending octaves. Octaves can be tough for beginners, especially those with small hands. An option around this is to split the octaves between two hands. The sound won’t be as “full,” but the effect is similar.
The main riff’s iconic sound comes to the subtle E-flat slide in your right hand. Simply slide into a C triad from a Cm one.
Glissandos look super cool. And they’re not super difficult either. But there’s a right and wrong way to gliss…
The right way: keep your thumb light and loose as you slide your thumbnail over the keys. Be careful not to hold your thumb too stiff—it’ll hurt!
To gliss back up, use the nail part of your middle finger and again, stay loose.
The rock shuffle is an iconic part of rock’n’roll music. It’s essentially rocking between fifth chords (aka “power chord”) and sixth chords, like this example shuffling between C5 and C6:
Tremolos are when you alternate between notes really quickly, creating a trembling effect.
C and E♭ played together doesn’t sound very nice (it’s the notorious tritone). Yet with the tremolo effect, these notes help build excitement and tension.
We end the B section on some powerful G chords…and then play them syncopated. In other words, we play them on the off-beat.
You can think of this as playing on the “and” rather than the number if you’re counting.
Or, just get a very good feel for the downbeat and play in between those beats.
The piano solo section brings together the skills you’ve learned so far, such as big chords and glissandos. Have fun here!
The walking bass in this section outlines 6 chords—C6, F6, G6 etc.
However, we’ll split them up into octaves like this. Try to avoid holding any tension in your hand.
That’s it for our tutorial. But this is just a starting point—make “Balls of Fire” your own! Add (or omit) more glissandos, vary the rhythm, experiment with syncopation, or even improvise your own piano solo!
Most importantly, remember to have fun 🙂
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Swell Crested Gecko Starter Kit - Gold
A premium juvenile Crested Gecko care starter kit
- A brilliant starter kit for juvenile Crested Gecko care
- Contains all the equipment needed
- Includes terrarium, heating and lighting
Our Crested Gecko Gold Kit is the next level of starter kit, and is suitable for any age of Crested Gecko. The 45cm x 45cm x 90cm glass terrarium provides them with ample space, giving them the ability to climb as they would naturally, as well as meaning that the temperature and UV gradient within the enclosure is more natural.
What's in This Kit?
This Crested Gecko Gold kit comes with an Exo Terra 45cm x 45cm x 90cm terrarium, along with a, adjustable stand, clamp lamp bulb holder and heat bulb, that is controlled using a dimming thermostat, so you can be sure that this is kept at just the right temperature. The dimming thermostat will not only keep your heat at the required temperature, but also ensure that it can't overheat, keeping both you and your Crestie safe at all times. There is a thermometer for checking of the temperature, as well as hygrometer to monitor your humidity levels as well.
For the UV lighting we have included an Arcadia ShadeDweller UV lighting kit, which provides the optimum low level of UV, whilst still being strong enough to penetrate effectively through the mesh top, and provide your Crested Gecko with a good quality UV light that will help them to stay strong and healthy.
We have also included a reptile spray bottle, so that you can easily provide the right humidity levels for your Crested Gecko, which is essential to ensuring that they stay healthy and hydrated. There is also a coco brick, which just needs to be soaked in water to expand and provide fresh coco soil for the enclosure, as well as Hydro Rocks and Hydro Matting, meaning you can easily set up a reservoir system underneath the soil. This reservoir is ideal for maintaining humidity levels, as the water stored here is soaked back into the soil, keeping it moist and therefore raising the humidity. This is also really important if you are using live plants, as they need this water supply, and it is easy to just top up the water to ensure the rocks at the bottom are submerged. The live plants themselves also contribute towards the humidity levels, meaning you are less likely to have highs and lows of humidity, when you spray for example, but a more stable long term humidity range throughout the day. For more information about setting up for live plants and how the water reservoir works, see our blog about Bioactive enclosures.
There is a couple of plants and a vine, though these are really down to personal taste, and more will be required, especially to allow your Crested Gecko to use all the space within the terrarium. Why not see what other reptile decorations we offer. We include a tub of pure Calcium Dust, though you will also need a good multivitamin, as well as disinfectant, to ensure your Crestie is in the best of health at all times. If you are looking for something bigger, or with more additional equipment, check out our Crested Gecko Platinum Kit, which includes a 60cm x 45cm x 90cm glass terrarium.
At A Glance:
- Glass Terrarium 45 x 45 x 90cm
- Heat Bulb, Holder, Bracket
- Dimming Thermostat
- UV Lighting Kit
- Digital Thermometer and Hygrometer
- Spray Bottle
- Soil Substrate
- Jungle Vines
- Hanging Plants
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SANTA MONICA, CA –Consumer Watchdog called for the California State Auditor to perform a comprehensive financial audit of the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) today after, as acknowledged in the Sacramento Bee, the state’s top toxics regulator admitted it had never billed or failed to collect $185 million in reimbursements of public funds from polluters for overseeing cleanup of their toxic messes.
“It’s outrageous that companies like Chevron, chemical companies, and junkyards didn’t get billed for cleanups and regulators stuck Californians with the tab,” said Consumer Watchdog advocate Liza Tucker. “This is financial malpractice and heads should roll at the DTSC.” Tucker said it was clear that the DTSC was trying to get out front of this problem to avoid the larger question of why it had failed for the past 26 years to bill polluters for tens of millions of dollars.
Consumer Watchdog had requested specific internal spreadsheets about companies that were never billed for cleanups and the DTSC had just denied the information on May 24 on grounds that the documents were “privileged” between attorney and client. “How a state agency spending public funds can claim that this information is privileged defies comprehension. This is about money that rightfully belongs to the public, and this department does not have the legal right to keep what has happened to that money secret,” she said.
Tucker said that the DTSC was leaving Californians to pick up a tab that actually runs into the billions of dollars. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Tucker. She said that the department rarely makes companies put up the money to follow through on any corrective actions the DTSC orders, and definitely does not demand enough money up front in the form of insurance policies, bonds, or other funds for the closure of facilities when it hands out permits. The California Integrated Waste Management Board estimates that the state could face a risk of $1.8 billion just to maintain closed facilities by the middle of this century.
Major polluter Exide Technologies, whose operations were suspended by DTSC in April, is a case in point. The company never put up financial assurance for corrective actions the DTSC ordered over the years and the $10 million it put up for closure is not enough, according to DTSC regulators, to clean up extensive groundwater and soil contamination, let alone maintain the closed facility for decades.
Tucker said that because California is prone to earthquakes, and anticipates a sea level rise of more than three feet this century, it was imperative to demand companies put up realistic sums to close facilities that cover not just the decontamination of hazardous waste units but also the cleanup of soil and groundwater contamination present at many sites.
In addition California law allows toxics regulators to demand companies demonstrate the financial capacity to pay for any corrective actions the DTSC orders along the way. “The DTSC virtually never requires that, arguing that companies don’t need to put up the money until the remedy is selected and that’s ridiculous,” Tucker said. “In practice it means, regulators have no financial leverage over polluters to make them do as they are told. So they drag the process out for years at a time and never clean up their contamination.”
Tucker said the gross fiscal mismanagement at the DTSC meant the regulator was putting the public in toxic harm’s way, instead of protecting the public against it. “This department has shortchanged everyone, including environmental justice communities who could have used the money to right a lot of wrongs done by both regulators and the business community.”
For more on the DTSC and communities under toxic siege see: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/golden-wasteland-report
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Where Do These Numbers Come From
The American Cancer Society relies on information from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database, maintained by the National Cancer Institute , to provide survival statistics for different types of cancer.
The SEER database tracks 5-year relative survival rates for breast cancer in the United States, based on how far the cancer has spread. The SEER database, however, does not group cancers by AJCC TNM stages . Instead, it groups cancers into localized, regional, and distant stages:
- Localized: There is no sign that the cancer has spread outside of the breast.
- Regional: The cancer has spread outside the breast to nearby structures or lymph nodes.
- Distant: The cancer has spread to distant parts of the body such as the lungs, liver or bones.
Breast Cancer Cell Growth
Cancer begins when there are genetic changes, called mutations, in a normal breast cell. These changes happen in genes that control the growth of the cell. These changes may occur over a long period of time, even decades, before a cancer cell forms.
These tumor cells multiply and divide exponentially, meaning that one cell becomes two, two cells become four, and so on. That’s why a tumor size will increase more rapidly, the larger it becomes.
That said, not all cells are dividing at the same time. The cancer’s growth can change at different stages as a tumor forms. Compared with many types of cancer, breast cancer has a “low growth fraction.” This means that the proportion of cancer cells that are in an active cell cycle is low.
Some tumors, such as lymphomas and some leukemias, have much higher growth fractions. They may be active for a much shorter period of time before they are detected, even in children.
If Cancer Is Found Tests Are Done To Study The Cancer Cells
- how quickly the cancer may grow.
- how likely it is that the cancer will spread through the body.
- how well certain treatments might work.
- how likely the cancer is to recur .
Tests include the following:
Based on these tests, breast cancer is described as one of the following types:
- TX: Primary tumor cannot be assessed.
- T0: No sign of a primary tumor in the breast.
- Tis: Carcinoma in situ. There are 2 types of breast carcinoma in situ:
- Tis : DCIS is a condition in which abnormal cells are found in the lining of a breast duct. The abnormal cells have not spread outside the duct to other tissues in the breast. In some cases, DCIS may become invasive breast cancer that is able to spread to other tissues. At this time, there is no way to know which lesions can become invasive.
- Tis : Paget disease of the nipple is a condition in which abnormal cells are found in the skin cells of the nipple and may spread to the areola. It is not staged according to the TNM system. If Paget disease AND an invasive breast cancer are present, the TNM system is used to stage the invasive breast cancer.
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Mammographic And Ultrasound Features Of Inflammatory Breast Cancer
The typical findings on screening for inflammatory breast cancers are thickening of the skin and connective tissues and an increase in breast density.
In around 30% of inflammatory breast cancers cases there is no lump . Rather IBC usually presents as a diffuse infiltration of cancer cells, so it is not as easily detected on mammogram or ultrasound.
So, the absence of a true breast mass on mammography does not always rule out cancer.
In addition, the high density of the breast might hide an actual tumor deeper within the breast.
Ultrasound can be helpful in the diagnostic process, as it may be able to detect masses hidden at mammography and on clinical examination.
Ultrasound is also useful to detect axillary adenopathy and this can help with taking more accurate biopsy samples. With inflammatory breast cancer, ultrasound images might show edema and skin thickening along with an ill-defined mass of some kind.
Stage Iv Breast Cancers May Be Recurrences Following Initial Treatment
Up to 5% of initial breast cancer diagnoses are of the most advanced or metastatic stage. However, this number has significantly reduced with the implementation of widespread breast cancer screening programs.
Metastatic breast cancer can appear to be a rapid deterioration of a disease that has been present for some time undetected.
But metastatic breast cancer can also be the result of a recurrence of breast cancer after successful initial treatment. Sometimes the terms local and regional recurrence indicate a return of breast cancer to the original tumor site or elsewhere in the breast or contralateral breast.
If the cancer returns in other areas of the body it is a distant metastasis or distant recurrence.
For more detail on Stage IV survival rates, recurrence rates and treatment please see our new post HERE.
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Signs And Symptoms Of Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer causes a number of signs and symptoms, most of which develop quickly , including:
- Swelling of the skin of the breast
- Redness involving more than one-third of the breast
- Pitting or thickening of the skin of the breast so that it may look and feel like an orange peel
- A retracted or inverted nipple
- One breast looking larger than the other because of swelling
- One breast feeling warmer and heavier than the other
- A breast that may be tender, painful or itchy
- Swelling of the lymph nodes under the arms or near the collarbone
If you have any of these symptoms, it does not mean that you have IBC, but you should see a doctor right away. Tenderness, redness, warmth, and itching are also common symptoms of a breast infection or inflammation, such as mastitis if youre pregnant or breastfeeding. Because these problems are much more common than IBC, your doctor might suspect infection at first as a cause and treat you with antibiotics.
Treatment with antibiotics may be a good first step, but if your symptoms dont get better in 7 to 10 days, more tests need to be done to look for cancer. Let your doctor know if it doesn’t help, especially if the symptoms get worse or the affected area gets larger. The possibility of IBC should be considered more strongly if you have these symptoms and are not pregnant or breastfeeding, or have been through menopause. Ask to see a specialist if youre concerned.
If Your Breast Cancer Has Spread
Even if your breast cancer has spread to other parts of your body, it does not necessarily mean its not treatable. If the cancer cannot be removed, the goal of treatment is to improve symptoms, improve quality of life and extend survival.
Some women live with breast cancer for several years as they learn to adjust and accept that theyll be on treatment for an indefinite period of time, explains Dr. Roesch. Your cancer team will help you learn and cope with what you can expect on this journey.
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Symptoms If Cancer Has Spread To The Lymph Nodes
Lymph nodes are part of a system of tubes and glands in the body that filters body fluids and fights infection.
The most common symptom if cancer has spread to the lymph nodes is that they feel hard or swollen. You might have any of the following symptoms if your cancer has spread to the lymph nodes:
- a lump or swelling under your armpit
- swelling in your arm or hand
- a lump or swelling in your breast bone or collar bone area
One of the first places breast cancer can spread to is the lymph nodes under the arm on the same side as the breast cancer. This is not a secondary cancer.
What Is Stage 3 Breast Cancer
Also known as locally advanced breast cancer, the tumor in this stage of breast cancer is more than 2 inches in diameter across and the cancer is extensive in the underarm lymph nodes or has spread to other lymph nodes or tissues near the breast. Stage 3 breast cancer is a more advanced form of invasive breast cancer. At this stage, the cancer cells have usually not spread to more distant sites in the body, but they are present in several axillary lymph nodes. The tumor may also be quite large at this stage, possibly extending to the chest wall or the skin of the breast.
Stage 3 breast cancer is divided into three categories:
Stage 3A: One of the following is true:
- No tumor is found in the breast, but cancer is present in axillary lymph nodes that are attached to either other or other structures, or cancer may be found in the lymph nodes near the breast bone, or
- The tumor is 2 cm or smaller. Cancer has spread to axillary lymph nodes that are attached to each other or other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breastbone, or
- The tumor is 2 cm to 4 cm in size. Cancer has spread to axillary lymph nodes that are attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breast bone, or
- The tumor is larger than 5 cm. Cancer has spread to axillary lymph nodes that may be attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breastbone.
Clinical Trials Are A Promising Treatment Option
For people with advanced stages of cancer, clinical trials can be considered the gold standard of treatment. I recommend clinical trials highly, says Rosen. You get access to medication and treatment that you normally wouldnt have.
A clinical trial could even have positive results on your cancer. We are living in an exciting time for cancer treatment, says Kimmick. There are myriad new drugs coming out that will improve the lives of all women with breast cancer, both metastatic and early stage.
However, its important to be realistic about the potential outcome of your trial. Rosen was recently enrolled in a clinical trial in which the medication proved toxic for her. But she has no regrets about participating. It feels like Im helping researchers who are working on cures for cancer, she says. When I had a bad reaction to the drug, they were able to put my side effects in their study. I feel like I did help, and that makes me happy.
People interested in joining a clinical trial for treatment should talk to their doctor about options that might be good for them.
Bowel Cancer: Symptoms Causes Diagnosis And More
What is bowel cancer? Bowel cancer also known as colorectal cancer, is a general term for cancer that begins in the large bowel. The cancer is usually preceded by growth called polyps, which is not easily detected. Bowel cancer is sometimes called colon cancer or rectal cancer, depending on where …
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
In a sentinel lymph node biopsy , the surgeon finds and removes the first lymph node to which acancer is likely to spread . A radioactive substance and/or a blue dye is injected into the tumor, the area around it, or the area around the nipple. Lymph vessels will carry these substances along the same path that the cancer would likely take. The first lymph node the dye or radioactive substance travels to will be the sentinel node.
After the substance has been injected, the sentinel node can be found either by using a special machine to detect radioactivity in the nodes, or by looking for nodes that have turned blue. Sometimes, both methods are used. The surgeon cuts the skin over the lymph node area and removes the node containing the dye or radioactivity.
The few removed lymph nodes are then checked closely in the lab for cancer cells by a pathologist. Sometimes, this is done during the surgery. Because there is a chance that other lymph nodes in the same area will also have cancer if cancer is found in the sentinel lymph node, the surgeon may go ahead with an axillary dissection to remove more lymph nodes while you are still on the operating table. If no cancer cells are seen in the node at the time of the surgery, or if they are not checked by a pathologist at the time of the surgery, they will be examined more closely over the next several days.
Based on the studies that have looked at this, skipping the ALND may be an option for:
Where Does Breast Cancer Spread To
Breast cancer cells seem to prefer to settle into:-
- long bones in the arms and legs
With an osteolytic metastasis, the cancer kind of eats away at the bone, creating holes.
With an osteoblastic bone metastasis, the bone mineral density actually increases, but this can cause the bones to fracture more easily. This requires a little more explanation. Breast cancer metastases tend to be lytic when they are untreated, and then they become densely sclerotic as they respond to treatment.
Even if no treatment is given yet, an osteoblastic metastasis from breast cancer generally indicates that the persons own body is trying to fight cancer with some success.
A CT scan may also be used to check for metastasis to the lungs or liver. A CT scan is essentially an X-ray linked to a computer. The breast cancer doctor injects a contrast dye agent into the bloodstream and this makes any cancer cells in the liver and chest easier to see.
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How Quickly Breast Cancer Spreads
Metastasis, the spread of breast cancer to other parts of the body, is responsible for the majority of breast cancer deaths. This makes it important to know how fast a breast cancer spreads.
Breast cancer usually spreads first to lymph nodes under the arm. This is called lymph node-positive breast cancer. Breast cancer is considered early-stage and potentially curable even with the involvement of lymph nodes.
When a cancer spreads to regions such as the bones, brain, lungs, or liver, it is considered stage IV or metastatic breast cancer. This means it is no longer curable.
Most breast cancers have the potential to spread. Carcinoma in situ or stage 0 breast cancer is considered non-invasive because of its limited spread. It is potentially 100% curable with surgery.
All other stages of breast cancer are considered invasive and have the potential to spread. Spread to lymph nodes, even when early stage, is very important because it indicates the cancer’s potential to spread beyond the breasts.
What Does It Mean If Theres Cancer In My Lymph Node
If cancer is found in one or more lymph nodes, it could mean that more tests are needed to know how far the cancer has spread. This information is used to determine the stage of your cancer and the best treatment options.
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Breast Cancer With Possible Spread To Lymph Nodes In Neck
Hi, I have been really worried. Last year I was diagnosed with BC Her2+ and I had chemo Fec-T and radiotherapy. I started zolendronic acid on Friday and I am still on Herceptin. Yesterday I went for an ultrasound to my neck. The radiologist spoke of finding 3 enlarged lymph nodes I think at the base of my neck. I am so worried it has come back and that prognosis will be poor. Has anyone had anything similar? IN other ways I am feeling well. Thank you. Xx
Im sorry to hear that the radiologist found some enlarge lymph nodes on your recent ultrasound. Its understandable that youre cconcerned about what these may be and what they may mean given that youve had breast cancer.
I would say that we seem to have a lot of posts here on the forum at the moment from people who have swollen lymph nodes so try to stay positive and remember that there could be a number of reasons other than cancer for this problem.
Have you spoken to your GP or Consultant about these findings? Its certainly worth giving them a call to talk things through and see if they feel further investigation is needed.
Keep in touch and let us know how you get on.
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Types Of Mammary Tumors
The diagnostic process of possible mammary cancer can identify the type of tumor your pet has. Some of the most well-known include:
- Inflammatory carcinoma: This is the most malignant type and could rapidly spread throughout the dogs body.
- Adenocarcinoma: One of the most common types of tumors
- Fibroadenoma: A type of benign tumor that is typically painless
- Mixed mammary tumor: The most frequently occurring tumor in dogs
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Stages Of Breast Cancer: Stage Iiic
Stage IIIc breast cancers basically involve tumors of any size with significant metastases to:-
- the lymph nodes behind the sternum
- lymph nodes under the arm
- the lymph nodes above or below the collarbone
The extent and depth of lymph node involvement make these patients unsuitable candidates for surgical treatment as a primary mode of therapy. Chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for women with stage IIIb and IIIc breast cancers.
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As part of the Natural Course project, Groundwork, along with the Environment Agency and other key partners, led the removal of the weir at Hall i’ th’ Wood on Eagley Brook in Bolton in October 2019.
The weir at Eagley Brook stood at 1.5m high and was made of a wooden framework. It was one of many failing physical modifications on the river which contributed negatively to the quality and ecological status of the river as defined by the EU Water Framework Directive.
Groundwork project managed the weir’s removal; liaising with key partners and instructing STEM Construction as specialists to remove the weir.
This project was a fantastic example of successful partnership work; with the Environment Agency providing technical assistance, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority enabling partnership funding to be released and the Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service surveying the weir and making photographic records.
Following the project’s completion, two kilometres of the brook was opened up to fish, including Brown Trout who can now pass and reach their spawning grounds.
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Grammarly Chrome Store: Grammarly is a cloud-based typing assistant that instantly checks your written texts for punctuation, grammar, punctuation, clarity, as well as engagement mistakes. With Grammarly, you can determine as well as fix blunders making use of artificial intelligence. A replacement is discovered if one is located. Throughout a large range of styles, it can determine as well as fix mistakes. Grammarly supplies a variety of useful functions along with examining your writing. There is a free variation readily available for people. Services can likewise acquire a premium version.
We have research and written an article to answer all your queries on Grammarly Chrome Store. Continue reading to find out more.
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Does Grammarly Supplies Free Trial?
Does Grammarly supply a cost-free test? Yes, Grammarly does provide a free test. There are two requirements to sign up for a test: you must be a complimentary user of Grammarly. You can either use a totally free test account or you can additionally enroll in a premium account. Both approaches work for examining the features and top quality of the service. Read on to learn exactly how to register for Grammarly free trial.
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Grammarly for Company?
While most individuals utilize Grammarly to check their personal writing, businesses must certainly consider purchasing Grammarly for Organization. The software application supplies a collection of writing tips that are customized to certain objectives. It uses tips on everything from spelling as well as design to how to exploit words and also mention sources in the long run. It can likewise offer you guidance on honest writing methods. Right here are some of the advantages of Grammarly for Company. Right here’s just how it functions:
Grammarly for company features an enterprise-level admin control board, analytics to monitor usage, and also systematized billing. With its innovative functions, you can easily share as well as collaborate with your group. With this item, you can create the perfect file with much less initiative and boost your interaction abilities. Grammarly for company is available for Mac, Windows, and Android, so it can be used on any one of these systems. You can additionally use the app to modify and also check your records from anywhere.
Is Grammarly Truly Worth It?
For individuals with hectic routines, grammarly can conserve time. The program flags sentences that are too lengthy or also unclear and suggests more straightforward words. You can also see your rating in the upper-right edge and obtain suggestions in numerous shades based on your level of strictness. Grammarly is an excellent method to prevent writing in an informal tone and keep your creating polished. However it can also capture some mistakes that you would certainly never ever see without its help.
Grammarly offers many handy insights. It can transform also the most effective written work into masterpieces. This program makes use of an advanced formula to flag possible writing or spelling errors and then provides a checklist of recommended adjustments to your text. You after that require to evaluate these pointers prior to you dedicate to them. Grammarly’s fabricated intelligence (AI) is really precise. It’s worth paying for this tool. | <urn:uuid:559da027-e06b-407a-98b1-3e22460c9dc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chelseymatley.com/grammarly-chrome-store/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.933965 | 1,206 | 1.625 | 2 |
When Ky Nichol founded Cutover in 2014, his transition to tech CEO may have seemed like an unlikely change of course. Formerly a space exploration scientist, Nichol had started his career at NASA and the European Space Agency, developing mathematical models for micrometeorite craters and leading work on the International Space Station.
After some time as a tech consultant, Nichol decided to bring his space experience to bear in the fintech world. Together with an experienced group of co-founders, he quit his job, put down some savings, and developed a prototype for what would become Cutover.
“We built a platform that didn’t exist in 2014, and took it to Barclays Techstars Accelerator,” says Nichol. “After we’d worked with our first major banking client on two use-cases that they found, we took our platform to about 20 global banks, including three out of the top five US banks, which are all now using Cutover.”
With offices in London and New York, Cutover has grown rapidly since its inception. In 2019, the company raised $17m in a Series A funding round led by Index Ventures. Less than 18 months later, it secured a $35m Series B financing, led by Eldridge. Today, it is eyeing Series C and maturing, in Nichol’s words, from ‘a gangly teenager to a young adult’.
“I think there’s lots more we can do to get to a business of a few hundred million in annual recurring revenues. We don’t need to be bought by Microsoft or Salesforce,” says Nichol. “We’re also doubling our product engineering capability to build the huge number of things our clients want to augment on the platform.”
So, what exactly might an enterprise such as a large banking institution have in common with a space agency? Simply put, it comes down to “Mission Control”.
Space missions require precision, automation and watertight risk management strategies. They rely upon seamless collaboration between humans and technology, and a centralised mission control, in which people make smart decisions based on real-time data. The requirements are very similar, Nichol realised, when undertaking complex workflows.
“When a spacecraft docks with the International Space Station, you need live telemetry to control the tremendous risk,” he says. “But there is just as much complexity and risk at an enterprise, for instance when you take an app that handles trillions of payments per day and update it to match new regulatory requirements. Our thinking was that organisations needed live telemetry, great control, and great ways of bringing together humans and machines.”
Currently, not many organisations plan their operations with quite the same finesse as a rocket launch. Although cutting edge software is often deployed, during time-sensitive scenarios many still rely on phone calls, emails, and what Nichols calls “5,000-line spreadsheets downloaded from clunky old enterprise tools”.
The thinking behind Cutover was to create an enterprise-wide orchestration and observability platform that works like Mission Control. It uses automated runbook technology to cut a path through chaos and complexity, compressing timelines, reducing risk, and improving organisational resilience.
“Whether it was taking a company to IPO, onboarding a complex new client, releasing some huge new banking app or recovering an organisation when it had a horrendous technology failure – all of these things felt like they could do with an orchestration capability,” says Nichol. “We wanted to make all of that easier – pulling data, people, and processes together in a way that would previously have been screaming across the trading floor.”
The initial use-case at Cutover’s first major banking clients was in the payments area, helping the bank orchestrate application releases. The stakes were high – the bank needed to go live with new code, without imperilling the payments. After that, the client spotted a different use-case in operational resilience – recovering operations if something goes down.
Cloud migration and platform implementation
As the platform’s user base began to grow beyond financial services (encompassing telcos, pharma companies and energy firms, as well as financial institutions), two additional use-cases emerged. These were cloud migration and platform implementation.
In each case, work is observable automatically without interruptions, bridging the gap between management and the teams doing the work. Repetitive tasks are automated, while leaving the oversight and decision-making to humans.
“Some organisations take the perspective that you can just automate everything and build it into an algorithm that will solve it for you,” says Nichol. “But complex engineered systems can still fail – look at Beagle 2. The things you can do together with a machine, like taking a human to Mars, are 1000 times greater than what you could achieve by just coding it in the machine.”
Nichol and his team have observed that companies starting down an automation path can sometimes get over-excited about the possibilities brought by automation alone.
“When humans log in to shut down a server, they’re probably not going to accidentally do it a million times, whereas when it’s a few lines of code you might accidentally run that a million times and shut down all your servers,” he says. “You expose yourself to some risks you didn’t have when it was manual, so you’ve still got to have Mission Control.”
As Cutover moves into its next phase, the company is aiming to augment each of its product lines, with a single thread of leadership behind each one. Generally, clients don’t buy the platform for its platform nature – they buy it for solving specific problems. Cutover wants to make sure it’s engineering the solutions they actually need.
“So far, we’ve just built the platform, as opposed to building specific features for specific use cases,” says Nichol. “I think we’re going to keep to that ethos, but we are going to start focusing on exactly what we build to improve our specificity in the products we have.”
He adds that, while the typical image of Mission Control is a group of flight controllers stationed in a room together, Cutover supports a more distributed concept. This is a more efficient use of time and resources, as well as being compatible with remote working.
“It’s not so much that everybody has to have their eyes on the screen at a particular point in time, as that this person will get involved if this thing’s wrong – you could be launching rockets from your bedroom,” he says.
Cutover’s brand of Mission Control is also highly scalable. It can be deployed at speed, both by large enterprises that need to use its solutions every day and small businesses that require complex project management a couple of times a year. Nichol hopes that it will free up enterprises to be a little more experimental in how they manage projects – testing out new approaches and discovering what works.
“We want to lower the bar to entry to try these experiments out, because we think that’s how we’ll work over the next five to ten years,” he says. “Even today, you interact with many more teams, geographies and applications in getting your job done than you did in the past. And all of that is just going to be a chunk easier.”
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„Double click“ is a simple repetitive participatory performance/discussion, which took place at the lake of Zurich representing a symbolic mourning for the loss of a collective boat. It was an endless act of making paper boats by myself as the performer and others were invited to join the action. One of my visual references in this work was the image of the dead Syrian child washed onto the coast of Turkey. This image which went viral and brought several positive and even opposite discussions about the refugee crisis. As a person who was born in the middle of Iran-Iraq war nothing could be more disturbing than watching the children in war.
In advance of this I had recorded 4 minutes of my personal story, a quasi fiction and memory of one evening of bombing Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War: the time, when I was exactly born. I asked strangers if they wanted to listen to my story while I was making paper boats. The story was played from headphones I was wearing, so in order to listen to my story they needed to sit closer to me. The aim of the performance was to have a public discussion around the subjects of solidarity, theatricality of humanism and its failures, “technologizing of action”, or just simply making paper boats and mourning.
For decades it has been challenging observing how humans „ citizens of planet earth“ deal with the subject and failures in realm of humanity. These discourses have led to post-humanitarian/anti humanistic approaches. The main question in all these related fields is to challenge „the practicality of humanitarianism“. In our modern age we are dealing daily with new forms of catastrophic phenomena which reflects the lack of political sufficiency, as well as the lack of discourse and practicality regarding humanitarian interventions and in general actions towards the distant others who are drowning in these catastrophes. There are „distant others“ who are the subject of political oppression of some other political regimes that have no connection to us even in our globalized culture and at times we might only relate to these stories through an image on Facebook or news.
The issue here might be is our perception, literally forged by those media forms (by those images) and if this is the case, it might need to be carefully reconsidered. Does the media bring awareness or change, or is it only a tool to make people get used to these catastrophes and live with them or in other words, make spectators able to bear them.
“Technologization of communication“ in this age plays a specific role in the context of action and performativity regarding humanitarianism, from Twitter to Facebook, online petitions, donations.etc.
However, nowadays our humanitarianism seems to mask itself behind our clicks, even when we donate money from our online bank accounts to help those distance others (dealing with earthquake for example), we are doing nothing but more than a click. It is similar to taking a photo on social media, we support that event, person, idea, we simply click. As Lilie Chuliaraki argues, we, as „Ironic spectators“ contribute, only to feel better about ourselves, and as Kristeva puts it, we care about the other‘s catastrophic situations because we are afraid of our own death.
We click and feel better, of course the valuable aspects of those clicks in many cases are undeniable (for example donations or online petitions that helped victims from being executed) however, the question here is not necessarily moral but more about what does solidarity really mean to us? In addition how practical could it be? Do we need to reconsider the humanitarianism in its very essence by considering its failures and asking questions such as what else than a click? Or in more complex way asking; „why do I really need to bother, to ask; what else could I do in addition to just clicking?
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being `an estate on the River (in this case, a lesser Trent) and from 1452, this particular one was owned by a man
called Brian. It is located approx. midway between Dorchester and Poole and lies a little south of the A35 main road.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NSF) - The city of South Miami and immigrant-advocacy groups on Tuesday sued the state over a controversial new law banning so-called sanctuary cities, alleging that it will lead to racial profiling, civil-rights violations and “unjust deportations.”
The sanctuary cities ban, which went into effect July 1, requires all law enforcement agencies, government entities and campus police in the state to make their “best efforts” in fully complying with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities, including performing some functions of federal immigration agents.
“This encroaches into an area of exclusive federal authority and will interfere with the comprehensive federal immigration system enacted by Congress in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution,” the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, said.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed for passage of the sanctuary cities ban, which was one of the most hotly debated issues of the legislative session that ended in May and was a cornerstone of DeSantis’ campaign last year.
The suit, filed by the city of South Miami and nine other plaintiffs, names as defendants DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody. It contends the law is “rooted in anti-immigrant animus” and that its primary motivation is to “correct the perceived failings of the federal government with respect to immigration enforcement.”
Sen. Joe Gruters, a Sarasota Republican who sponsored the bill in the Senate, called the legal challenge “reckless and irresponsible.” and argued it would waste taxpayer money to protect “criminals.”
“Banning sanctuary cities is about one thing and one thing only --- public safety,” Gruters, who doubles as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, said in a statement.
The legal challenge came as no surprise to Rep. Cord Byrd, a Neptune Beach Republican who co-sponsored the bill with Gruters. Byrd, an attorney, declined to comment further, however, saying that he wanted to read the full complaint first.
The plaintiffs want a court to deem the new law unconstitutional and keep the state from enforcing it. The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Community Justice Project and the Immigration Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law.
When he signed the bill, DeSantis said it would allow Florida officials to help ICE “remove criminal aliens.” Moody and DeSantis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The 72-page complaint alleges the law will allow for “impermissible discrimination by Florida state, local, and municipal officers and officials on the basis of race, color and national origin” because the bill passed by the Legislature does not define what it means for local officials to practice their “best efforts” to support federal immigration law.
“Black and brown Floridians who may be perceived as ‘foreign’ by state or local law enforcement will be in constant jeopardy of harassment and unlawfully prolonged detention and arrest by state and local law enforcement officers operating under SB 168,” the lawsuit said, referring to the Senate bill number.
Other allegations in the suit say the sanctuary city ban violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because it “fails to provide a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited, and its lack of standards authorizes, and encourages, arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
“Our police are responsible for maintaining public safety. And as soon as they are seen as somebody who might turn you in if you call for assistance, they are no longer treated,” South Miami Mayor Philip K. Stoddard recently said at a special city council meeting, where the city voted to join the lawsuit.
Plaintiffs, including the Farmworker Association of Florida, the Family Action Network Movement and the Florida Immigrant Coalition, argued that their resources have been strained since the bill passed because more immigrants are inquiring about what to do.
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Problems can arise in a mechatronics project because mechanical and electrical engineers often do not have sufficient experience or understanding of their counterpart’s discipline. Here is one application engineer’s advice on how to avoid five of these common problems when specifying parts for an electromechanical system.
Getting the right motor is critical, which means matching it up to the overall system’s mechanical components. In other words, electrical system design can only occur once the mechanical design has been fine-tuned to match the performance specs of the application.
Mechatronic systems require a complex inter-play of electrical and mechanical systems to accomplish increasingly demanding tasks. But, because mechanical engineers and electrical engineers are often educated within their single area of expertise, oversights occur that can lead to higher costs and less reliable performance. As a mechanical engineer involved in the sizing, selection, and start-up of mechatronic systems, I’ve seen these problems both during the design phase and in the field. To help bridge the gap, I’d like to offer my electrical colleagues five important things to consider in the design of mechatronic systems.
Complex mechatronic systems require careful advance planning to ensure optimum performance and the best total cost of ownership.
Consideration #1: Total Cost of Ownership is everything
Of course mechatronic systems should be designed to achieve the best possible performance for the lowest cost over the long term. However, the need to document cost-savings on an annual basis (rather than over the lifetime of the system) can be a powerful motivation to look for less expensive components to keep the up-front cost of the mechatronic system low. Indeed, the choice of seemingly simple components can cause painful headaches later. For example, the use of less expensive bellows-type couplings between the motor or gearbox and the actuator input shaft are a perfectly appropriate choice in many stepmotor driven applications. In fact, a slightly spongier coupling can provide a certain amount of damping in pick-and-place applications moving heavier loads. The sacrifice, of course, is precision, and in many mechatronic systems, which are typically servomotor driven, it is best to use stiffer elastomer-type couplings. Using less expensive couplings may save money in the short term, but if the required stiffness is not achieved, redesigning and retrofitting the motor mounting system can easily cost three or more times the money you initially saved with the “economy” coupling. Plus, you’ll have the added cost of downtime and lost production, which is not a good trade-off. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is really the single most important consideration in any mechatronic system design, and the four remaining points will also contribute, ultimately, to lower TCO.
Consideration #2: Always look at the mechanics first
It’s very important for electrical engineers to get involved in, or at least understand, the mechanical design of a mechatronic system before forging ahead with the electrical design and controls. Trying to size and spec the electrical components before the mechanics are defined can lead to wasted time and rework, since parameters such as inertia and torque are heavily influenced by the choice of mechanical components. Bosch Rexroth engineers use a system called LOSTPED to help size and select the mechanical components that are best matched to the performance requirements of the application. LOSTPED is simply an acronym that stands for Load, Orientation, Speed, Travel, Precision, Environment and Duty Cycle. It is a systematic review of all the performance and design attributes that need to be considered, with the end goal being the optimum system design for each application. Not following this process can result in larger or more expensive mechanical systems than are needed. For example, if an OEM or end user forces the design to accommodate a specific motor without considering the LOSTPED criteria, larger mechanical components may be required to handle the motor torque or inertia than those actually needed for the application. The same goes for control systems. If a ball-screw-driven actuator can achieve 0.01 mm repeatability, you need to make sure that the encoder can meet or exceed this spec; otherwise you won’t be able to take advantage of the ball screw’s precision. It is human nature to want to use components that are in stock or that the user is familiar with, but each system deserves its own review to ensure that the components and the overall system are optimized for cost and performance. Otherwise, you may leave money on the table or fail to get the system performance you need.
Clean and careful cable management is often overlooked, but can help you make sure that even tight spaces don’t cause problems. Failure to consider cable management can result in shortened system life, physical incompatibility with the ultimate operating environment, or even fires.
Consideration #3: Don’t try to fit a square peg into a round hole
The last example is common enough that it’s worth emphasizing as an important consideration of its own: Don’t try to fit a square peg into a round hole. Many electrical engineers are familiar with particular motors and drives, or are pressured to save money by using components they already have. Using a motor that’s physically too large, however, can cause mounting issues. It could supply too much torque for the linear module to handle (causing mechanical failure or breakage); or it could cause inertia and settling issues. Unpredictable settling can be a particular problem in precision applications, such as dispensing, pin insertion, or precision assembly in semiconductor and medical applications. If the motor is oversized and has too much inertia, the actuator may have a difficult time achieving the desired position, resulting in longer overall cycle times than required. Particularly in precision applications, you should try to size the mechanical and electrical components to achieve as close to a 1-to-1 inertia match as possible. Keeping power consumption to the minimum required for the application is also important for customers who are looking to reduce their environmental impact and make their manufacturing operations more green.
Consideration #4: Remember “Jerk”
“Jerk” is the rate of change of acceleration, or the “build-up” of the acceleration of the axis. It is the limitation of the jerk parameter (how fast you’re accelerating) that lets you experience the acceleration of the roller coaster without developing whiplash. Acceleration is important in mechatronic applications to achieve the desired move in the required time, but if the acceleration speed is too high, vibrations could result and cause a loss of positioning or premature wear of components. On the other hand, if electrical system designers don’t consider the magnitude of jerk required, the motor may be undersized and the system won’t perform as required.
Always look at the mechanics first. The LOSTPED acronym can help you consider every possible detail needed for sizing and selection of electromechanical components: Load, Orientation, Speed, Travel, Precision, Environment, and Duty Cycle.
Consideration #5: Cables must be managed
Cable management is one of the most frequently overlooked attributes in mechatronic systems; and it can be costly. Cables and cable tracks require physical space, and fast, multi-axis motion often requires cables that can handle tight bends and high duty cycles. Particularly when designing the cable management system, theoretical operation and space requirements can be very different from that required in the real world. Once installed in the machine or factory, the system’s active environment may include adjacent machinery, factory walls, posts or beams, and other parts or tooling that cause interference with the cable management system. Proper strain relief for cables is also critical, because cables that are bent and twisted beyond their specifications pose a safety hazard in the form of fire or short-circuits.
It all adds up to TCO
The ultimate goal in the design of any electromechanical system should be to achieve the optimum performance, mechanically and electrically, to get the job done with the lowest total cost. In the real world, many such systems are designed by teams of engineers from both disciplines working in tandem. This is the ideal model, but with the discipline of mechatronics being relatively young, the problems I’ve described here happen often because of insufficient experience or understanding of their counterpart’s discipline. These five tips aim to help bridge this gap and prevent costly, unwelcome and time-consuming surprises. | <urn:uuid:1f3cb152-7b10-44e3-9687-1782316e0f12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.therobotreport.com/the-top-5-mechanical-considerations-for-electrical-engineers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.929342 | 1,760 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Are you thinking about taking up a new role this year? Do you want to move to a new job or change your current one? Well, just like you would revamp every other field in your life, you need to take some time to plan your career. As such, you will be prepared to take up a new role when it arises. Here are the top 5 ideas to consider when planning your career.
1.Write A Career Plan
Take a piece of paper and write down what you want to achieve in the next 5 to 10 years. You might be planning to become a headteacher or a manager. If that’s so, how do you hope to get there? What are you expected to achieve in this career plan and how will you be able to get there? Even if that isn’t part of your long-term plan, you need to have an idea of what to do in the future and write it down in your career plan.
2. Research A Role
You need to do some research about the role you want to do and do your research on it. Visit a job website and look for a vacant position for the type of job you are interested in. Don’t look at the location of the job or the specific industry. Rather, you need to look at how you match the job descriptions and requirements for that job. What type of experience do you have and what is actually missing? You need to plan on what to do to fill these gaps.
3. Read More About Your Career
Once you have identified the areas you need to improve your experience, you need to read more about it. Look for guide books in your career field and look for the best way to forget ahead to achieve your career goals within the shortest time possible.
Also, you should consider reading some leadership books or career coach books to find the best way to advance in your career effortlessly. When reading these useful books, you need to make necessary notes on how to apply the information in the book for the best results.
4. Ask For Career Guidance
If possible, you need to get some mentorship on your career path. Look for an expert in your field and get the career advice you need to forge ahead in your field without any worries. Look for legitimate career coaches in your field who can help you gain the understanding and knowledge you need to improve on your career effortlessly. Take advantage of Twitter and LinkedIn to connect with other people in your field and get the best idea on how to advance in your career.
5. Think Of Projects
Look for a project that can help you advance in your career. It could be anything that helps you advance your current experience without any hassles. Even better, it can take any time from a month to a year but make sure you find ways to boost your career plans with the project. You can always ask for advice from people who have followed the same path previously to learn what you need to do to get ahead.
Most people choose careers they are passionate about. Therefore, if you want to advance in your career, you need to make sure that it is something you love and will actually advance without holding yourself back. Dunbar Education can help you to find your perfect career. Use these tips for the best results.
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The Wallace Ludwig Anderson Archive and Manuscript of the Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson
Wallace Ludwig Anderson, respected Robinson scholar and author of Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Introduction (1967), planned to publish a comprehensive collection of Robinson’s letters, transcribed and accompanied by annotations. A 1967 Guggenheim Fellowship enabled him to study Robinson documents held by numerous repositories as well as private individuals. The forthcoming volume was announced at the 1980 Modern Language Association Conference. The news was welcomed by colleagues thwarted by Robinson’s difficult handwriting.
Anderson died of cancer in 1984 with the transcripts largely completed but the manuscript unfinished. The Anderson family donated the materials to Colby College Special Collections in 2001.
The Wallace Ludwig Anderson Archive comprises 30 linear feet of research material, transcripts of Robinson’s letters accompanied by notes, photographs, and manuscript text related to the unfinished publication. The transcripts and accompanying notes, in particular, are an invaluable resource for Robinson researchers. The archive is arranged in five series that preserve Anderson’s original order.
Wallace Anderson was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1917 where he received his BA and MA from Trinity College. He studied at Harvard before attending the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D in English Language and Literature, completing a dissertation on Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Dr. Anderson became a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa (then Iowa State Teachers College) where he published Poetry as Experience and Introductory Readings on Language before becoming the Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
From 1957-58, Dr. Anderson taught in the Netherlands through the Fulbright program. In 1967 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to spend a year collecting and editing the letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson. Dr. Anderson became one of the foremost authorities on Robinson and published a book, Edwin Arlington Robinson, as well as several articles on the subject.
After 25 years, Dr. Anderson left the University of Northern Iowa to become Dean, and eventually Vice President of Academic Affairs, at Bridgewater State College (Bridgewater, MA). Upon his retirement in 1982, his lifelong love of art was acknowledged when the college chose to name the art gallery in his honor. He died in 1984. | <urn:uuid:78ff30d9-6503-4bf9-bd76-525f203f4e5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.colby.edu/specialcollections/about/wallace-ludwig-anderson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.955375 | 463 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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It’s a unique challenge to keep liquid storage tanks disinfected. The air space found above the liquid is an ideal environment for bacteria, mold, and other microorganisms to flourish and contaminate the stored liquid. The Tank Master™ will help maintain the quality of the air space, surfaces, and liquid content inside the storage tank. Ultraviolet is a safe, effective, and virtually hands-off technique of disinfection. It was developed with 4 elements that make it the smart choice for in-place liquid holding tank disinfection without the use of heat or chemicals.
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Sterile holding tanks can help reduce the amount of future disinfection liquid may need. They also drastically reduce necessary tank cleaning — saving time and giving peace of mind.
Lamp replacement recommended about once a year. No need to buy expensive chemicals. State-of-the-Art Surelite™ Ballasts are designed specifically for UV lamps, so that they operate at maximum efficiency.
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Basic Computer Repair and Maintenance Measure to relieve Expenses
Basic Computer Repair and Maintenance Measure to relieve Expenses. Every user must understand some basic computer repair and also maintenance measures to use the system conveniently and inexpensively. A number of the simple maintenances can raise the performance of the Laptop if these are applied based on a proper regime. Also, these uncomplicated basic maintenances will reduce the repair specifications.
If you have purchased a brand-new computer recently, it is usually important to understand the standard maintenance and cleansing measures required to improve the performance of your computer. Normally, some type of computer needs to be familiar with many aspects of physical upkeep and virtual maintenance. Both these maintenance sorts can make the computer usable over a longer period.
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and preservation options can be avoided by keeping the system bodily clean. When the personal computer is not cleaned frequently, it may show many problems related to auto-cooling. Further, the issue can lead to performance-related issues along with the usability of the individual factors. When you decide to clean a person's computer, you need to ensure that the PC is wiped clean from both in and out. You can always start cleaning the external parts of the pc by using a moist fabric. The computer needs to be washed immediately when you unintentionally spill soft drinks along with other acidic liquids.
You also need to keep the interiors of your computer thoroughly clean to minimize computer restoration and maintenance needs. It is also important to completely remove dust and also dirt from the pc interior. As dirt normally gets into the computer interior through the supporter placed at the back of the computer, you can buy good quality squeezes air products, in addition, to blowing it at the personal computer fan. The compressed air will assist in much better ventilation whilst the computer interior is clean.
Similar to the external and interior in the computer, you also have to consider some digital cleaning measures effective in avoiding expensive computer repair and maintenance companies. It is very much essential to arrange the data and folders in a very proper manner to the local drives of one’s computer. Similarly, it’s essential to install a set of dependable software to overcome various types of viruses, adware, spyware, and spyware. These types of programs need to be run frequently to identify the weather affecting the efficiency and functionality of this PC and reduce these completely from the unit.
Also, you must be sure that the hard drive memory space on the computer is not blocked with additional software programs and also applications. You must occasionally evaluate the software attached with the computer hard drive, in addition, to uninstall the products not used by an individual for quite some time. Similarly, you can consider transferring your multimedia files with the local drives of your respective PC to some additional digital storage devices like CDs, Dvd disks, and USB devices. The virtual routine maintenance options need to be carried out regularly to avoid recurrent computer repair and routine maintenance needs. Further, normal maintenance can be very a lot effective in boosting the actual performance of your Computer.
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Vic Carucci reads Night Night Buffalo: We sure do love our great city of Buffalo! This book takes us across the city to explore so much of what Buffalo has to offer! What is your favorite part of Buffalo? Our story is all about saying goodnight. What do you do as part of your bedtime routine? Do you think it is the same as your friends from school?
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Thurman and Patti Thomas read The Lamington Man by Kel Richards and If You Give A Dog A Donut by Laura Numeroff!
Tracy Snyder from the Theater of Youth reads Go Dog Go.
Deborah Krygier reads Walter and the Farting Dog written by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, and illustrated by Audrey Colman.
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The husband is not called to be a dictator. Ephesians 5 calls the woman to submit to her husband, yes, but the man is called to love the wife as Christ loved and gave Himself up for the church. The wife submits. The husband sacrifices. In fact, when Ephsians 5 says, “Husbands love your wives…” it is using the highest form, that of agape love.
Paul defines agape love in 1 Corinthians 13. One of its distinguishing factors is that agape love “does not insist on its own way”. So, I say it again. Husbands are not called to be dictators. They are called to love their wives by not insisting on their own way.
If the man sacrifices and the woman submits, then both are loving each other and there is no abuse.
Sure, a woman should align with her husband and the husband should be the head of the family, but there are times when the man sacrifices his dictations, giving way for the woman’s ideas. Ideally, both should act of one accord, discussing their life together and finding the best way to please the Lord.
In my post, A Simple Quiet Life, I spoke on how it would be nice to have the stay at home job of writing books and songs. Perhaps a wife could be a muse in helping me sing and working out the plots and adventures I write. But, I want so much more. I want a wife who has songs and book ideas of her own. I would love to support and give way for her artistic sensibilities should she wish it.
If such a thing were possible, we could travel the world. All we’d need are laptops, suitcases, and hotels with a working piano. We could see Viena, Florence, London, and Berlin; escape to Montreal or Quebec; steal away to Sydney Australia. Nothing could imprison us. And we’d write stories and ideas, sometimes together and at other times apart, sharing ideas and plots and characters and world building ideas.
If she approached me with an idea of her own, I would merely suggest (never insist) just talk it out and see where it leads. And, my goodness would I need help with my books! If she would but speak I would be silent and hear.
A good man listens to his wife, and a good wife feels safe enough to speak her heart.
My songs would also not be so set in stone. I need her input and thoughts… my songs would change with her around.
But where can I find such a soul, a woman with a vivid imagination that can write her own ideas and stories and songs; a woman who would feel safe enough to share them with me; a woman who would take a chance with me?
If I found such a one, I would do all that I could to help her find me. Even in the dark I would seek some sort of solid footing, maybe accidentally stepping on her toes at times. My only hope is that such a one would be gracious to me, take a chance with me, turn up the light a bit and let me see a little of what she is thinking.
If I knew her mind, I would not be a dictator to her. I would be an ear. But blindness I fear has overcome me. I cannot see the path before me. Even asking, “how do I not hurt you?” I have somehow hurt her.
Pull me out of this darkness, oh Lord. If such a woman exists, help me to find her, and when I do help me not hurt her.
And if in my attempting to help I hurt her, mercy, oh Lord, I pray for mercy and grace. I pray she’d also take a chance with me.
But, this is only an ideal, a very rare and uncertain thing. In either case, whoever God brings into my life, I will love her, listen to her, sacrifice for, and hope that she also submits and trusts and is open to me.
The one thing I will never be is her dictator.
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Did you know that between 40-60% of people who are in recovery for addiction end up relapsing at some point? Because of how commonly relapse happens to a person in recovery for a substance use disorder, many treatment programs offer help specifically for this situation. Several factors can contribute to why addicts relapse, making it important to learn what the potential triggers can be in order to avoid a relapse. If a person has already relapsed, understanding what contributed to it can help them get back into recovery and stay there. Here are five common reasons why addicts relapse:
1. Difficulty Dealing With Withdrawal Symptoms
Most people who enter the detox phase of trying to recover from addiction experience withdrawal symptoms. People who attempt to detox at home typically cannot withstand the withdrawal symptoms and end up relapsing, often before completing their detox process. Some withdrawal symptoms can last for weeks or months after detoxing, making it imperative to seek professional treatment to help manage them.
Medication-assisted treatment can be provided during the initial stages of recovery. This involves the use of FDA-approved medications combined with therapy in order to help control and lessen the impact of any withdrawal symptoms. When a person uses this approach, they may increase their odds of avoiding relapse.
2. Why Addicts Relapse: Toxic Relationships
A person who has lost themselves in the world of addiction usually has at least one relationship in their lives that can be defined as toxic. It may be a spouse or other romantic partner, a friend, or a family member. When a person enters recovery from addiction, their lives change dramatically. They benefit from taking a look at all of their relationships and determining if any of them prove toxic.
One big reason why addicts relapse is because they allow toxic people to stay in their lives. The toxicity may be due to the loved one struggling with their own addiction. As much as it can feel difficult to part ways with someone, at least temporarily, sometimes it’s necessary in order to stay sober. Someone who is still drinking or using drugs can easily tempt the person in recovery to use a substance again, even cajoling them to do it “just once”. This can quickly lead to a full-blown relapse.
Toxic relationships can also come in the form of someone not being supportive of the other person’s attempt at staying sober. It’s important for a person in recovery to surround themselves with positive people who support their goals and dreams, both those that are general and those that are sobriety-specific.
3. Co-Occurring Mental Illness
Approximately half of all people who have a substance use disorder also have at least one diagnosable mental illness. The two conditions can feed off each other. Seeking treatment solely for addiction while mental health issues like anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder remain untreated can increase the odds of relapsing.
Treatment programs often provide professional help for both addiction and mental health conditions. When a person learns how to manage their mental health better, the temptation to relapse often decreases. This is because many people use drugs or alcohol to alleviate uncontrolled mental health side effects such as feeling depressed or anxious.
In addition, the usage of some substances increases mental health symptoms. For example, alcohol is a depressant, which means abuse of it can contribute to depression. Similarly, the use of stimulants like Adderall and cocaine can increase symptoms of anxiety and panic. Addressing co-occurring mental illnesses while receiving treatment for addiction helps reduce the chances someone will end up relapsing.
4. Why Addicts Relapse: Leaving Treatment Too Early
Often the reason why addicts relapse has to do with leaving treatment too early. The recovery process is an ongoing event and happens in more than one stage. It typically begins with detox and either a residential or an outpatient program. Too often, people believe they have a handle on their sobriety soon after the initial stage of treatment ends, and they try to go it alone.
Choosing from several different outpatient programs can help keep a person from relapsing. Programs range from requiring just a few hours a week to several days each week. Sober living houses provide another option to help a person bridge the gap between their initial treatment and when they are ready to enter an aftercare program. Taking advantage of multiple types of treatment as a person moves through the recovery process offers the best chance of avoiding the pitfalls of relapse.
5. Why Addicts Relapse: Not Making Self-Care a Priority
Another common reason why addicts relapse is because while they may attend therapy appointments or support groups, they do not also include self-care as a regular part of their routines. Self-care can be done in several ways, many of them part of holistic treatments. Holistic care centers on healing the person not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually, too. Ways to engage in self-care include:
- Good nutrition
- Art therapy
- Music therapy
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NAFTA Talks Threatened as Mexico and Canada Reject New U.S. Auto Rules: Sources
Divisions over updating the NAFTA trade deal showed no sign of easing on Sunday as Mexico and Canada signaled they would not offer counterproposals to U.S. demands for far stronger automotive content rules, people with knowledge of the talks said.
The lack of movement on major issues such as autos rules of origin could put the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations in danger of grinding to a stalemate as an early 2018 deadline for revising the pact approaches.
A source close to the negotiations said Mexico had serious problems with a number of U.S. proposals, including Washington’s demand that regional content for autos be raised to 85 percent from 62.5 percent, with 50 percent coming from the United States.
The source also said that Mexico could not accept a U.S. proposal that would restrict imports of some Mexican produce at certain times to protect growers.
Mexico does not plan to make counterproposals in those areas, the source said, adding that the U.S. autos proposal was “unviable” and would “make the region less competitive.”
A Canadian source with knowledge of the negotiations said Canada also intended to refrain from offering an autos counterproposal and instead make a presentation on Monday arguing that the U.S. demands would cause serious damage to both U.S. and North American automotive manufacturing.
The United States, Canada and Mexico are holding the fifth of seven planned rounds of talks to modernize NAFTA, which U.S. President Donald Trump blames for job losses and big trade deficits for his country.
“The talks are really not going anywhere,” Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, the largest Canadian private-sector union, told reporters after meeting with Canada’s chief negotiator on Sunday.
“As long as the United States is taking the position they are, this is a colossal waste of time,” said Dias, who is advising the government and regularly meets the Canadian team.
For more on NAFTA, see Fortune’s video:
‘No Signs of Flexibility’
Hanging over the negotiations is the threat that Trump could make good on a threat to scrap NAFTA.
Canada and Mexico object to a number of demands the U.S. side unveiled during the fourth round last month, including for a five-year sunset clause that would force frequent renegotiation of the trade pact, and major changes to dispute- settlement mechanisms.
“Our internal view as of this morning is that if any progress is to be made, the United States needs to show some flexibility and a willingness to do a deal,” said a Canadian source with knowledge of the talks.
“We are seeing no signs of flexibility now,” added the source, who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation.
U.S. officials declined to comment.
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Jean Paul Favand
« Laughter is not taken seriously »
Jean Paul Favand
« Laughter is not taken seriously »
The history of the Pavillons de Bercy-Musée des Arts Forains is closely linked to its creator’s life, Jean Paul Favand , a collector of items in the performing and fairground arts, as well as an exhibition designer.
The Musée des Arts Forains was first established in Gentilly (1), then moved to the 15th arrondissement of Paris (2) and finally settled in 1996 in an ancient wine storage facility in Bercy, the “Chais Lheureux”. (3)
In the 19th century, the Bercy neighbourhood was known as a festive area. The Joyeux-Bercy, which was at the time beyond the borders of Paris, benefited from the privilege of tax removal on wine. Naturally, “guinguettes” were established there, along with the main wine traders. Wine was thus actively sold and drunk.History of Bercy
Now called Pavillons de Bercy, the site brings back to life past festivities by being a lively place full of memories of the most traditional performing arts. It welcomes over 300 000 visitors every year for evening events, guided tours and special openings (for example for the Festival du Merveilleux).
With its documentation centre and restoration workshops, the museum is a place of discoveries and preservation. Thanks to cutting-edge technologies, Jean Paul Favand is able to both restore and stage his prized objects here.
His artistic approach and his interest for curiosities led him to meet many artists. For instance, he interacted with surrealists such as Dali, providing him with objects for his museum in Figueres, and became among other well acquainted with Doisneau and César.
As his collection was constantly growing, it became of utmost importance to restore and properly store his authentic “objets d’art”. Thus the idea of a commemorative site for amusement artefacts bloomed, in order to keep his collection alive and preserve it for the future.
Using his experience in designing over fifty interactive exhibitions and creating a themed “bistrot” (bar) called the Tribulum, Jean Paul Favand gave birth to an innovating museography and created a lively museum.
This entertaining museum is different from traditional cultural institutions. It’s a bit disconcerting to discover a museum without labels or display cases where it is possible for the visitors to touch the pieces of art which are staged around them.A new kind of museum
In order to make these objects accessible to guests and to create a dialogue with the public, each item in the museum has been carefully selected among thousands in storage. After choosing the pieces, Jean Paul Favand worked meticulously on positioning and staging them, using lighting effect to even further reveal their evocative power to the visitors.
To fully comprehend the very special nature of the place, visitors must participate on a guided tour so that they can be fully immersed in each whimsical scene. During the tours, the visitors also participate in the scenes in each room, becoming actors as they enter through theater curtains. Each carousel presents a different scenario. For example, in the Venitian rooms, our visitors become mechanical dolls on a gondola ride inside a music box.
It is this interaction between the amusement artifacts and the visitors that makes Musée des Arts Forains such a lively and entertaining museum.
Just like the 1900s showmen who used techniques created during the Industrial Revolution, Jean Paul Favand is turned toward the future using the latest technological innovations to give life to his objects.
« Here, the past meets the future, which enables me to tame the modern technologies I use in my object-staging approach » Jean Paul Favand
Now, thanks to video projectors and multimedia shows, magic lanterns, Robertson’s phantasmagorias, and mechanical fairground theatres can come back to life.
Even though digital technologies offer many possibilities, they’re only one of the tools used by Jean Paul Favand, whose scenography has mainly traditional theatrical roots.The approach of digital creation
19th-century funfairs were a social phenomenon, as important as cathedrals in the preceding centuries and television today. The fairground was the cradle of most modern forms of entertainment: theatres, music hall shows, hawkers, sports, illusionists, acrobats, jugglers, puppeteers, and many more.A short history of Fairground Arts
During the Belle Époque, visitors came to be entertained but also to learn and discover. Through mechanical theatres, wax museums, cinemas, and scientific demonstrations, funfairs popularised innovations and technology.Fairground and science : Showmen as science popularisers
Although fairground arts were belittled for many years as “popular” art, they are now recognized as decorative art thanks to the quality and diversity of their ornaments. The past craftsmen are now considered artists. They hold workshops with students, and catalogues have been printed and exhibitions organized to present their work.A decorative art in its own right
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What is Salesforce Tower at Salesforce Park?
Salesforce Tower is the centerpiece of the Salesforce Transit Center and provides direct access to the 5.4-acre Salesforce Park. 11,000 LED lights make up the highest public art installation in the United States, titled “Day for Night” by local artist Jim Campbell.
What is the footprint of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco?
The footprint of Salesforce Tower rests on land fill near San Francisco’s original waterfront, an area prone to soil liquefaction during earthquakes. To account for this seismic risk, the tower uses a design that is modeled to withstand the strongest earthquakes expected in the region.
Where is Salesforce’s new headquarters?
Salesforce Tower, the 61-floor centerpiece of Salesforce’s urban headquarters campus in San Francisco, opened its doors to the first wave of employee occupants this week.
What is the Salesforce Tower made of?
The Salesforce Tower consists of a glass and steel curtain wall, surrounding a structural steel frame, which surrounds a reinforced concrete core. The footprint of Salesforce Tower rests on land fill near San Francisco’s original waterfront, an area prone to soil liquefaction during earthquakes.
Where is the new Salesforce Tower?
333 W Wolf Point PlazaSalesforce Tower Nears Full Height as Countdown’s Third-Place Construction Project. Under the address 333 W Wolf Point Plaza at the confluence of the Chicago River, the 60-story Salesforce Tower nears its full height.
Is the Salesforce Tower sinking?
The 645-foot-tall, 58-story tower was completed in 2009 and has been tilting and sinking ever since it opened. The issue stems from the building’s foundations—it sits on a 10-foot-thick concrete pad that it itself is supported by nearly 1,000 reinforced concrete piles driven 90 feet into soft clay.
Where is Salesforce Tower Chicago?
333 West Wolf Point Plaza DriveThe tower, to be located at 333 West Wolf Point Plaza Drive will rise 60 stories above downtown Chicago, on the premier remaining riverfront site at the epicenter of in-demand downtown neighborhoods and transit options.
Why is it called Salesforce Tower?
Salesforce Tower is named for its largest lessee, the cloud-computing company, which has taken thirty floors for its offices. The building resembles an enormous zucchini, and is mostly owned by Boston Properties, the real-estate investment trust.
Will San Francisco be underwater?
In the coming decades, sea levels around the Bay will rise by at least 2 feet. And new research from UC Berkeley shows that rising groundwater tables may cause flooding around the Bay Area even sooner. As a result, much of Alameda could end up underwater.
Is Salesforce Tower earthquake proof?
With a foundation system consisting of 42 load-bearing elements anchored into bedrock more than 300 feet below grade, Salesforce Tower is the first commercial office building in California designed to an enhanced level of seismic safety, making it one of the safest buildings in the country.
Is Salesforce moving to Chicago?
(CHICAGO) — Hines, the global real estate firm, today announced the completion of the concrete core and steel structure for Salesforce Tower Chicago, the 60-story, 1.2 million-square-foot office tower in downtown Chicago.
How many employees does Salesforce have in Chicago?
1,400 employeesSalesforce has more than 1,400 employees in the Chicago area and more than 32,000 employees worldwide.
How many locations does Salesforce have?
Salesforce Locations Salesforce is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has 26 offices located throughout the US.
Is Salesforce leaving San Francisco?
Although it’s a stretch to say that Salesforce is relocating out of the Bay Area, one could say that its new headquarters is the cloud. The company announced in February that it would make its pandemic-related remote work policy permanent and has canceled a lease at a forthcoming downtown office in San Francisco.
Can you visit Salesforce Tower?
Best of all, it is free. However, currently it is open to the public only one day a month when 4 tours are offered, each lasting one hour. So if you want to visit the Salesforce Tower when you are in town, prepare to be disappointed unless you have made your reservation months, or maybe a year in advance.
What building sank in San Francisco?
The Millennium Tower23, 2022 Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 6:01 p.m. The Millennium Tower on San Francisco’s Mission Street tilts to the west by around 2 feet. Millennium Tower’s sinking and tilting has created a 1-inch gap between the main tower and smaller 12-story podium structure, the building’s project engineer said on Wednesday.
Day for Night
11,000 LED lights make up the highest public art installation in the United States, titled “Day for Night” by local artist Jim Campbell.
The Gondola provides direct access up to Salesforce Park from Salesforce Plaza. There is no onboarding from the Park, so all guests must board from Salesforce Plaza.
Where is Salesforce Transit Center?
A state-of-the-art Salesforce Transit Center is adjacent to the Tower, and will connect eight San Francisco Bay Area counties and the state of California through 11 transportation systems, including the future high-speed rail line stretching from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
How many LED lights are there in Salesforce Tower?
The top nine floors of Salesforce Tower will showcase the United States’ tallest public art display, made up of 11,000 LED lights and created by world-class artist Jim Campbell. See the photos below, taken as the first group of employee occupants arrived at Salesforce Tower:
How big is Salesforce Park?
The tallest office building in the United States west of Chicago, it sets a new bar for sustainability standards and connects directly to Salesforce Park, a tree-lined, 5.4-acre public park.
Salesforce Tower, formerly known as the Transbay Tower, is a 1,070-foot (326 m) office skyscraper in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco, completed in 2018. It is located at 415 Mission Street between First and Fremont streets, next to the Transbay Transit Center site. Salesforce Tower is the centerpiece of the San Francisco Transbay redevelopment plan. The plan cont…
Developer Hines Interests Limited Partnership, with a proposal by architect César Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, was selected as the winner of a global competition in 2007 to entitle and purchase the site. A seven-member jury of development experts assembled by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) selected Hines over proposals from Forest City Enterprises and architect Richard Rogers; and from Rockefeller Development Group Corp. and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. …
At the time of the building’s opening in January 2018, the San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture critic John King characterized it as “Immense but understated. Overwhelming yet refined. A study in thick-walled minimalism that seems to hover more than soar. All of which makes for a nuanced tower, conscientious and self-assured even as it reorients the skyline and redefines San Francisco’s visual image.” King also reported that “[a]rchitecture buffs already dismiss Salesforc…
In popular culture
• Salesforce Tower’s first appearance in film was the 2014 animated film Big Hero 6. Although construction on Salesforce Tower had only started a year ago at the time the film was released, a stylized version of the completed tower appeared in the film.
• The tower can also be seen in several shots in the 2018 film Venom.
• List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
• List of tallest buildings in California
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• Transbay Demolition and Construction Blog
• Salesforce Tower construction webcam
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Another crypto scam has cost victims more than a million dollars, according to RCMP in the Comox Valley.
Investigators in the region are looking into “several reports” of cryptocurrency fraud, including two cases where victims were cold-called and offered an opportunity to invest in digital currency for dividends.
Those victims allowed fraudsters to gain remote access to their computers, which they used to gather personal information and access to online trading accounts.
“For some time, the victims received dividends from the scammer,” Comox Valley RCMP said in a news release. “When the dividends eventually stopped, the accounts were drained and the victims lost thousands of dollars more than they received back.”
Other victims were led to scams by Facebook ads for crypto brokers, who they transferred money to — only to have all communication eventually cease and their money become inaccessible.
“Once you’ve taken your money from the bank and transferred it elsewhere, you are responsible for where it goes and who is able to access it,” said Const. Monika Terragni, spokesperson for Comox Valley RCMP.
“Take your time to know where your money is going and don’t get lured in by fancy websites, online advertisements, or unexpected phone calls.”
The Comox Valley cryptocurrency scams follow a series of similar scams in Saanich in which victims lost approximately $1.4 million.
A handful of files investigated since mid-July started with a fake investor contacting their victims via online messaging platforms such as WhatsApp or WeChat, according to Saanich PD.
The prevalence of these kinds of sophisticated scams has even prompted the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre to issue a warning, saying in early November that losses so far this year more than tripled the amount lost last year.
The BC Securities Commission says that fraudsters are “adapting their techniques to the latest trends and technologies,” which include using social media and dating sites to target victims.
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If you believe you’ve fallen victim to a cryptocurrency scam, call your local RCMP or make an anonymous report to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Lies and Argentine statistics
Stalinist practices in Buenos Aires
MOST Argentines reacted with a shrug when their government began doctoring its consumer-price index in 2007. Cooking the books cost holders of the country's inflation-linked bonds at least $2.3 billion last year. But anyone else who needed to know the true inflation rate simply turned to a clutch of private economists who drew on their own price surveys, data from provincial governments and other official statistics. They reckon that inflation is now running at about 25%. That is far above the 10% reported by INDEC, the government statistics agency, but less than the 30% wage increases public employees have received in recent years.
A presidential election looms in October and inflation, and the government's denial of it, is perhaps the biggest threat to the prospect of President Cristina Fernández winning a second term. That may be why Guillermo Moreno, the thuggish commerce secretary, is moving to stamp out the unofficial, but widely trusted, price indices. To do so he has dusted off a decree, penalising misleading advertising, approved by a military dictatorship in 1983. In February he sent letters to 12 economists and consultants ordering them to reveal their methodology, on the grounds that erroneous figures could mislead consumers.
Some of Mr Moreno's targets refused; the rest were analysed by INDEC, which predictably found their methods flawed. Seven of them were then ordered to pay the maximum fine of $123,000 (all have appealed). The financial threat is especially serious for Graciela Bevacqua, who lost her job as head of INDEC in 2007 for refusing to tamper with the price index. She now publishes her own inflation estimate with the help of a business partner and former students.
“The others are companies or foundations,” she says, “but we don't have clients or assets. The only thing I own is my house where I live with my children. They'll take it away if they continue with this.” Only one firm has stopped publishing its inflation estimate. So far Mr Moreno has merely succeeded in drawing attention to his own mendacity.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Lies and Argentine statistics"
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Incentives are natural motivators — and sometimes, some "natural motivation" is exactly what your salespeople need to perform to the best of their abilities. That's why several companies leverage something known as incentive compensation: the practice of offering financial rewards for professional excellence.
Here, we'll take a closer look at the concept, see some examples of what it looks like in practice, go over how you can put an effective incentive compensation plan together, and review some of the preeminent incentive compensation software on the market. Let's dive in.
What is incentive compensation?
Incentive compensation refers to a category of compensation methods where a salesperson's pay is at least partially and directly connected to their individual sales efforts, the revenue they generate, their team's success, or the success of their company as a whole.
Incentive compensation plans often provide an effective avenue for sales leadership to motivate their teams and encourage overperformance. Meaningful incentives influence behavior in any context, and sales is no exception.
Without incentive compensation, reps might be less inclined to exceed or even meet quota routinely. By extending some sort of performance-based financial reward, you can provide some extra oomph to encourage your reps to stay on top of their sales efforts — well beyond the bare minimum.
There are several brands of incentive compensation. Let's take a look at a few potential methods you can leverage to get more out of your sales team.
Incentive Compensation Examples
1. Gainsharing Plan
A gainsharing plan is an incentive compensation model where an organization incentivizes employees to overperform by offering financial shares of the business gains that stem directly from their improved individual performance.
2. Retention Bonus
A retention bonus is a financial bonus a company offers an employee — typically calculated as a percentage of that employee's base pay — for staying with the business for a predetermined period.
Profit-sharing is similar to gainsharing in that it offers employees incentive payments based on a company's financial gains. The difference is that gainsharing rewards salespeople for their individual performance whereas profit-sharing rewards employees for a company's overall profitability.
4. Spot Awards
Spot awards are generally small incentives — either financial or non-monetary — offered to recognize individual employees for exceptional short-term performance.
5. Annual Incentives
The term "annual incentive" typically refers to a one-time, lump-sum payment made on top of a salesperson's normal compensation for a fiscal year based on how they performed within that time frame.
Long-Term Incentive Compensation
While most incentive compensation plans are generally employed on a short-term basis, there are some plans that companies leverage to incentivize loyalty and overperformance over more extended periods.
Incentives like restricted stock-based packages and cash bonuses — awarded to employees after reaching certain long-term goals or staying on at the company for specified time frames — are examples of long-term incentive compensation.
Now that you have a picture of what an incentive compensation plan might look like, let's see how you can go about putting one of your own together.
Incentive Compensation Plans
Any effective incentive compensation plan starts with considerable thought and extensive planning — winging it won't cut it here. You need to start structuring yours a few months out (at least) and create a definitive, predictable framework that your reps can understand and reliably work within. Getting there involves addressing a few key elements.
Aligning With Organizational Goals
Before you can start piecing your incentive compensation plan together, you need a solid grip on what you hope to accomplish with it. Consider your company's broader quantitative organizational goals. Are there specific numbers you're looking to hit?
Your plan is going to be guided, in large part, by those figures. They're central to setting realistic, effective quotas for reps — and incentive compensation plans often revolve primarily around reps attaining or exceeding quota.
Once you have this side of the plan drilled down, you can start to take a closer look at how you can most effectively motivate your reps to deliver on those objectives.
Determining How You'll Motivate Your Team
Different kinds of reps are going to be receptive to different kinds of incentives. A program that suits a team of account executives might not align with one that can most effectively accommodate a crop of SDRs.
For instance, lower-level reps might be interested in a performance-based competition for who can schedule the most demos whereas more seasoned reps might be more motivated by a program that offers a financial incentive for exceeding annual quota.
No matter what framework you elect to go with, make sure your plan is appropriately tailored to align with your team's interests and individual priorities.
2. Continuous Reporting
Structuring an effective incentive compensation plan is an ongoing process. That's why constant reporting is crucial to refining your program and keeping it running as smoothly as possible. You need to keep key stakeholders in the loop and have a pulse on how your sales org is performing if you want to get the most out of your plan.
Reports that let reps keep tabs on their performance relative to quota, track high-level organizational performance, capture manager evaluations, and give hard pictures of how effective your plan is all need to be accounted for when implementing an incentive compensation plan.
All told, you need consistent visibility into the ins and outs of your program. That starts with you identifying the most relevant metrics and reports — and continues with you tracking them intently.
3. Clear Communication
Your reps can't operate within your incentive compensation plan framework if they don't understand it. So if you want to see the results you're looking for, you need to thoroughly explain what's expected of them and what they can expect to receive if they perform to the standards you set.
Let your team know your organizational goals and how the compensation plan will play into them. Listen to any concerns they might raise. Your goals have to be realistic and reasonably attainable. If most of your team takes a look at your objectives and tells you that they don't think they'll be able to meet them — even with incentives — you might want to reevaluate your strategy.
Let's say you run your incentive compensation plan for a quarter. Once that window is up, you're going to need to determine whether the program was effective and worth repeating. That's where conducting comprehensive evaluations comes in — from both higher-level and ground-floor perspectives.
Take a close look at the key metrics you landed on for gauging the success of your program. Did you reach your goals on an organizational level? How did the figures you hit stack up against the ones you projected?
And how did your team fare personally within the confines of the plan? Did the program put too much strain on morale? Make sure you consider the impact of your incentive compensation plan holistically — considering both the program's broader efficacy and impact on employee wellbeing.
You'll also want to factor in elements beyond your sales org's control. Changing economic tides and shifting market circumstances will play pivotal roles in shaping your organizational goals and, in turn, how you structure your incentive compensation plan.
5. Calculated Improvements and Optimization
As I mentioned, putting together an effective incentive compensation plan is an ongoing process. There is almost always room for improvement as yours progresses. That's why optimizing your program is much more of a "need-to-do'' than a "nice-to-do."
Consistently collect feedback from any stakeholders involved in the process — from reps to management. That will help you identify gaps in your program like issues stemming from outdated tech or lack of direction from leadership.
From there, you can start to update and refine your plan at allotted intervals — usually on a quarterly, semiannual, or annual basis. Using the insight you've accrued through your evaluation, you can modify your plan to suit stakeholders' needs and adapt to changing circumstances beyond your sales org.
These changes can include upgrading your tech stack, developing a more structured governance model, adjusting goals, accommodating changes in company strategy, or building around product launches.
QuotaPath provides a centralized, accessible platform that covers all of the bases needed to structure and implement a productive incentive compensation plan — along with a range of other compensation-based applications.
The platform directly integrates with your CRM, allowing you to easily keep tabs on earnings and closed deals — providing you with a complete, responsive basis for your incentive compensation program.
Best for Versatility
QuotaPath is a dynamic incentive compensation solution that allows for a range of plans — and that kind of versatility is what really sets it apart from its competition. The platform offers the resources to structure self-guided and collective incentive compensation plans.
Its tracking, gamification, and team goal setting features can both create an air of incentive-driven competition and encourage teams to earn incentives together. If you want a first-rate solution that can reliably support virtually any kind of incentive compensation plan, look into QuotaPath.
CaptivateIQ is one of the preeminent incentive compensation management solutions on the market. It takes the legwork out of implementing and sustaining an effective incentive compensation plan through its powerful automation capabilities. And its seamless data sharing features affords both leadership and reps insight into team and individual performance.
Best for Ease of Use
CaptivateIQ really sets itself apart from its competition with its accessibility and ease of use. It has a straightforward interface that reconciles simplicity with powerful functionality. If you're interested in an effective incentive compensation management program that everyone in your organization can easily pick up, consider going with CaptivateIQ.
Xactly Intent is a solid incentive compensation management program. It boasts impressive payout time-saving figures — routinely cutting compensation administration time by up to 60%. The solution also has a bank of 15 years worth of pay and performance data to draw from for guiding effective plan design.
Best for Constant Accessibility
Xactly Intent's main differentiator is in its consistent accessibility for leadership and reps alike. The program is mobile-friendly and available on-demand — offering sales teams clear views into their results and potential earnings wherever, whenever. If you need an incentive compensation management solution that your team can readily access on a dime, check out Xactly Intent.
Spiff boasts an impressive customer base — including big names like Qualys, Qualtrics XM, and Lucid — and for good reason. The program provides real-time commissioning, personalized dashboards for individual team members, and adaptability when it comes to adjusting commissions and bonuses.
Best for Scalability
The solution's customer base isn't limited to the heavy hitters listed above — it suits smaller businesses just as well as large enterprises. And that's where the program's strength lies: scalability. If you're looking for an incentive compensation management software that can easily grow with you as your business expands, look into Spiff.
Anaplan provides an effective, sophisticated solution for businesses looking to model functional incentive compensation plans. The program offers refined modeling, real-time signals, and robust collaboration capabilities to help companies structure plans that deliver results.
Best for Scenario Modeling
While it boasts an impressive suite of other features, Anaplan distinguishes itself through its scenario modeling features. It allows sales teams to create unlimited "what-if" scenarios to help businesses reliably evaluate adjustments — providing insight into how changes will impact a plan's potential success.
Everstage offers a no-code commission automation solution that suits virtually any kind of customer-facing team — from SDRs to CSMs. Created by a team of RevOps professionals, the software is tailored to streamline the incentive commission plan structuring process with features like real-time data aggregation and in-platform exception requests and approvals
Best for an Extensive Suite of Integrations
One key element that Everstage nails particularly well is its suite of integrations. The program syncs with several other programs, including HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and Intuit Quickbooks. If you're looking for a powerful incentive compensation solution that lines up with your existing tech stack, check out Everstage.
See results with a well-structured incentive compensation plan.
The soundness of your incentive compensation plan could be the difference between fostering overperformance across your sales team and having your reps plateau or get complacent.
If you elect to leverage one of these kinds of plans, make sure it lines up with both your organizational goals and your team's bandwidth. If you can address both of those elements effectively, you can put together a plan that will pay off in spades.
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The newly formed alliance of three minor Tamil parties in Sri Lanka has decided to support the government party, United National Party (UNP).
The Democratic People’s Front (DPF), a minority party for the Western Province Tamils led by Mano Ganesan, the National Union of Workers (NUW) and Upcountry People’s Front (UPF) recently formed an alliance to represent the Tamils living in areas other than the Tamil-dominated northern and eastern part of the country.
The National Union of Workers is led by the Minister of Plantation Infrastructure Development Palani Digambaram and the Upcountry People’s Front is led by State Minister for Education S. Radhakrishnan.
In the wake of three upcountry Tamil parties deciding to join hands with the United National Party (UNP), Arumugam Thondaman-led Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said today it would continue as an ally of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
The Democratic People’s Front (DPF), the National Union of Workers (NUW) and Upcountry People’s Front (UPF) had earlier formed an alliance and decided to contest the election under the elephant symbol of the UNP.
CWC Leader Muttu Sivalingam told his party would stick with the UPFA. “We will announce our strategy when the election is declared. But as of now we have decided to stick with the UPFA,” he said. When asked about the new three-party alliance representing estate Tamils, he said ,”This is nothing new. They were together earlier. They have announced it as an alliance now. There is actually nothing new about it,” he said.
The TPA does not include the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) led by Arumugan Thondaman though it is the largest IOT trade union cum political party in Sri Lanka.
Asked why CWC is not included, TPA President Mano Ganesan told Express, that he had found it difficult to work with the CWC.UPF’s Radhakrishnan said that the CWC is politically inconsistant. The TPA,he explained, is a politically oriented outfit going beyond, but not excluding, wage issues.The CWC is more of a trade union than a political party.
Ganeshan pointed out that while the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Muslim parties have political agendas and fight for the political rights of their respective cimmunities, no party of the IOT has so far had a political goal, or a road map for the attainment of the political rights of the IOT. Their concern has been restricted to the wage issue in the plantations. Thigambaram said that even a critical issue like housing for the plantation workers had not been taken up.
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Will fear of the Tories be a decisive factor in the Scottish independence referendum?
If Scotland does vote to break away from the UK later this month, much of the blame will be laid at the Conservative party's door.
Support for the Tories north of the border is at historic lows, with fears about a future Conservative government playing a large part in the latter stages of the independence campaign.
If those fears prove decisive and the Scots do vote for independence, then David Cameron would face immediate calls to stand down as prime minister.
But how fair is this? How much of the vote for independence is simply a vote for Scots to free themselves from the clinches of the Conservative party?
"You can't over-estimate the extent to which your average Scot hates the Tories," leading commentator and Scottish historian David Torrance tells me.
"In her recent debates, Nicola Sturgeon repeatedly brought up Thatcher and the Poll Tax, all of which was a very deliberate attempt to push buttons deep within the Scottish psyche about their fears of a future right-wing Tory government."
This button-pushing is not always explicit.
"The framing is very much about the Westminster system but Westminster here is being used as a proxy for London, the establishment, the City, bankers, The Tories and dare I say it the English in general.
"All of that is quite effective as lots of people in Scotland do not really like those things.
"They've playing on a usually benign anti-Englishness essentially."
So will this anti-Tory, anti-English sentiment be enough to swing the result of the referendum?
"Generally I've been a bit sceptical about the effect of this as I'm sure most Scots can separate out the two issues [of identity and independence], but it definitely does have an effect," Torrance believes.
So how much of an effect does it have? Recent polls have shown a significant rise in support for independence, coinciding with the 'Yes' campaign increasingly playing on fears of future Tory cuts to the NHS.
So are the two related?
Tanya Abraham from pollsters youGov believes they could be.
"Our polling shows that significantly more Scottish people think the NHS would be worse under the union than if they vote for independence," she says.
"Our most recent poll found that only nine per cent thought the NHS would get better under a continuing union, with 42% believing it would get worse. By contrast 37% believe it would get better under independence."
So are fears over the NHS simply a proxy for fears over future Tory governments? Torrance thinks the two have been unfairly linked by the independence campaign.
"It's all complete nonsense, because the NHS budget in Scotland is not linked to the one in England and Wales and the NHS reforms in England have not happened in Scotland," Torrance tells me.
"It's all totally spurious but there's evidence that it's working because the average Scot is concerned about these things. The independence campaign is playing on those fears in a very cynical way."
So could those fears, spurious or not, be a decisive factor? Tanya Abrahams suspects they won't be.
"All of our polling shows that the biggest factor for voters is the economy. If they believe the economy is going to get worse, then they will vote on that basis.
"We've seen from our regular trackers that the economy and immigration are typically the biggest issue on a national level and that applies in Scotland as much as in the rest of the UK."
And it is precisely for this reason that the campaign against independence has so heavily concentrated on fears over the future of the Scottish economy.
Those fears appear to be particularly ingrained among the older generation. A recent YouGov poll found that support for independence was in a majority amongst all but the oldest Scots.
And with those voters far more likely to turn out, fears of independence currently look set to trump wider fears of the Tories.
It is for all these reasons that Cameron has appeared so reticent during the referendum campaign.
On the one hand, it's essential for him as prime minister to make the case for Scotland to remain in the UK. On the other hand, he is aware that most Scottish voters simply do not believe what he has to say.
A recent YouGov poll found that almost three quarters of Scottish voters do not trust Cameron's claims about independence. By contrast, 40% of Scots trust statements on independence made by Nicola Sturgeon.
Because of this, Cameron's involvement in the campaign has been decidedly low-key.
"Its always been a difficult position for him because he has to be involved but he and his advisors are acutely conscious of the feeling about him in Scotland," Torrance says.
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Until this week, this low-key approach appeared to be paying off.
But with the polls rapidly narrowing, Cameron will increasingly find himself under pressure to do everything he can to fight against the break-up of the UK.
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State law also has a special provision for “English only” policies. Under California law, an employer cannot prohibit nor limit employees from using any language within their workplace, unless the nature of the business necessitates a restriction. If this is the case, employees must receive notifications of when and where language use is restricted, as well as any consequences.
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With regard to disability, state laws differ from the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. California law has a broader interpretation of physical disabilities, mental disabilities, and medical conditions, and it does not have a requirement for substantial limitation on life activities.
Workplace harassment charges fall under the jurisdiction of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This federal governing body investigates all complaints of harassment or discrimination in the workplace and makes recommendations to employers who they determine are in violation of state and federal employment law. In many cases, you must file a complaint with the EEOC and receive a “go ahead” to file a claim against an employer for workplace harassment.
In California, you may file a workplace discrimination claim with one of two agencies: The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, or the EEOC. These two agencies have a “work sharing agreement,” which means they work together to investigate and process claims. As long as you indicate you want to “cross file” with both agencies, you don’t need to file a claim with both.
California anti-discrimination laws cover smaller employers who do not fall under the umbrella of federal law. If you work for a smaller company (between 5 and 14 employees), you should file your claim with the DFEH instead of the EEOC. The federal organization only covers employers with 15 or more employees. If your organization has at least this many employees, you may choose to file with either.
In order to file a claim with the DFEH, contact the headquarters using their toll-free hotline for employee discrimination. Once you speak to a representative, you will set up an appointment at a district office and talk about your harassment or discrimination in person.
Once you file a report with the EEOC or the DFEH, they will conduct an investigation into your claims and determine if your workplace was in violation of federal or state civil law. If they find evidence of harassment or discrimination, they will inform you and your workplace of any violation, as well as recommended actions. At this point, you will be able to file a private claim with the help of a California civil rights attorney. These claims seek to compensate for any economic and general damages you suffered resulting from the workplace harassment. Contact a local Los Angeles discrimination lawyer if you have further questions regarding your claim.
The first step in taking action against workplace discrimination is recognizing it. There are certain actions, situations, behaviors, and conduct that should be red flags for discrimination. Learning how to identify discrimination and take swift action is an important skill for any employee to possess. By definition, “discrimination” refers to any form of different treatment of one person than his/her peers because of a protected class. Common examples of workplace discrimination include:
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In our contingency fee arrangement, you will only pay attorney’s fees if we succeed in achieving favorable results for your claim. If we do not obtain a financial award on your behalf, you will not pay for our legal representation during your case. It will not matter how much time or work we put into your case; if we do not win, you will pay $0 for our services. Our law firm takes on the full risk of your discrimination case so you can take a negligent, dishonest or criminal employer to court.
If our discrimination lawyers do win your case, we will deduct our firm’s service fees directly out of your insurance claim settlement or verdict award. Our typical fee is one-third (33%) of the award secured. This may vary, however, based on the unique circumstances of your case. We take our fees from the award won on your behalf, not out of your personal funds. You can retain our discrimination attorneys for $0 upfront, with no hidden fees.
Handling your workplace discrimination claim alone could expose you to additional violations of your rights as a worker. Your employer may deceive you into thinking you do not have grounds for a claim, for example, or refuse to resolve the issue. If you hire a discrimination law firm, no one can take advantage of you during the claims process. Your lawyer will walk you through each step while keeping in mind your best interests. Instead of going up against your employer alone, your attorney can take care of settlement negotiations for you.
You may need a Los Angeles discrimination lawyer if you suffered serious harm because of an employer’s actions. If your employer’s unlawful conduct led to job termination, demotion, damage to your reputation or another adverse outcome that impacted your life, a lawyer could help you get back on your feet. You may need an attorney’s assistance in holding your employer accountable for discrimination. Your lawyer can argue for a favorable resolution while you focus on healing.
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If you have experienced any adverse employment action at work that appears to arise out of discrimination but are not sure what to do, talking to a local Los Angeles workplace discrimination attorney can help. The sooner you speak to a legal representative about possible discrimination at work, the better. Prompt action can help limit your damages, such as the amount of money you lose because of a demotion or job termination. It also ensures you meet all the deadlines for filing a discrimination claim against your employer if it becomes necessary. The Los Angeles employment attorneys at The Law Office of Omid Nosrati are always available to discuss a potential claim with you in Los Angeles (310) 553-5630 | <urn:uuid:e583ef65-43fd-4c30-9bd7-c3fdc95eba77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nosratilaw.com/discrimination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.944673 | 1,900 | 1.539063 | 2 |
"Zur Einführung des Narzissmus" (1) is a particularly fascinating text, but this fascination is a symptom. This text charms precisely because it is itself narcissistic, and seductive in the way that some beautiful women or Persian cats were for Freud (though in reality we know that, because they are sexual beings, they cannot be so). For this reason, Freud was always uncomfortable with his text (that is, with the narcissistic side of his theory), and later attempted to reject it. He was so uneasy with it that, just before sending an early copy to Karl Abraham, he wrote: "Tomorrow I will send you Narcissism, which was a very difficult birth... Of course, I don't particularly like it, but it's the best I can do at the moment." (2)Abraham's reply was praise for the text, to which Freud responded: "Your acceptance of my Narcissism affected me deeply and binds us still more closely together. I have a strong feeling of its serious inadequacy." (3) The reasons for his embarrassment were complex, and no doubt linked to the narcissistic relation the text establishes with the reader-and probably its author.
Many French philosophical books have been published in recent years about "virtual" relationships between Freud and Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's thought has become increasingly influential among French philosophers, though in a way quite different from the typical Anglo-American style of "analytic philosophy." Wittgenstein's growing prestige, however, clashes with (what remains of) the authority of Freudian psychoanalysis, which has dominated French thought for the past 25 years. How can one consider Wittgenstein an inspiration for a new way of thinking and, at the same time, claim to be Freudian? | <urn:uuid:3e60f8e8-65cf-42b2-aba9-37322799fc30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/jep/number-1-spring-summer-1995-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972558 | 366 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Bullinger was Zwingli’s successor. For 44 years he pastored Grossmunster in Zurich. Considering the important role he played, and the prodigious quantity of his writings, it is remarkable that Bullinger is one of the least known of the Reformers.
Born 18 July 1504, the fifth son of the priest, Henry Bullinger, Heinrich was sent to study at the prestigious Emmerich Seminary on the Rhine, at aged 12. At 15 years old, he enrolled at the University in Cologne, earning his Bachelor of Arts the next year. It was at this time that he was converted to the Reformed faith through studying the Latin and Greek fathers of the Church.
In 1523, Bullinger was called to teach at the Cistercian Monastery of Kappel, near Zurich. Here he taught on the Epistles of Paul and proposed to Anna Adlischweiler, a nun, who remained in a de-consecrated convent. Bullinger’s proposal in writing is still preserved: “Do you want to share with me sorrow and joy and, under my protection, live in love according to God’s Order?” Her “Yes” was uttered at Grossmunster, where Ulrich Zwingli was the pastor.
After the death of Reformer Ulrich Zwingli at the Battle of Kappel in 1531, Bullinger was chosen to become his successor as Pastor of Grossmunster. Appointed the First Minister (the equivalent of a Reformed Bishop) Bullinger and his family moved into the house of Zwingli, and he took responsibility for caring for the widow and two dependant children of the Reformer who had been killed in battle. Heinrich Bullinger’s marriage to Anna was long and loving and produced 11 children. All of their sons became Protestant ministers.
For the next 44 years, Bullinger presided over the destinies of the church in Zurich, consolidating the Reformation begun by Zwingli. Bullinger was a prolific writer and his widely published work included Decades of Sermons (50 sermons on Christian doctrine), The History of The Reformation, and The Diary. Because of his growing authority as a respected theologian, his concilatory spirit and his diplomatic gifts, he became the friend of Calvin and Beza, and the recognised head of the Reformed churches of Switzerland.
He maintained an important correspondence with political and religious leaders throughout the whole of Europe (more than 12,000 of his letters are preserved at the Zentral Bibliotek in Zurich. Through his sermons and publications, including Bible commentaries, he exercised a lasting influence on the Reformed movement worldwide. His Decades were many times republished and translated into French and English. Bullinger’s correspondents included Henry VIII and Edward VI of England. When, in 1570, Queen Elizabeth needed to prepare a response to the Papacy, she turned to Bullinger to draft her reply.
Bullinger’s contributions to systematizing the doctrine of Zwingli and organising the churches of Reformed Switzerland, were decisive. In 1537, he wrote The First Helvetic Confession, which was adopted by the churches of Zurich, Berne, Basle, Shaffhusen, Saint-Gall, Muhlhause and Bienna. In 1549, he, along with John Calvin, wrote The Zurich Agreement (Consensus Tigurinus) on the Lord’s Supper. In 1566, Bullinger’s Brief Exposition of The Faith became the basis for The Second Helvetic Confession, which remained for centuries the basis for the Reformed Churches of the Swiss Confederation. The Helvetic Confessions were widely known and respected amongst the Reformed communities of France, England, Scotland, Poland, Hungary and Bohemia. They also left an imprint on the Presbyterian Churches in the USA.
One historian commented about The Helvetic Confession “This Confession is the most natural and simplest of all…it says in the clearest way what it means.”
Zwingli wrote concerning Bullinger: “This young man is very learned… he compares everything, he reconciles everything.”
John Calvin praised Bullinger in these words: “After Melancthon came Bullinger, who has rightly earned great praise: because with doctrine he had an ease which made him most easy to read.”
Berthold Haller of Berne wrote: “God gave you the gift of explaining simply, of lifting the bushel and letting the light of the Holy Word shine.”
Conrad Pellician of Basle wrote: “A Bishop in his youth, pious, loyal, educated, true and devoted, an incomparable preacher, the words of whom act within as the pen of Christendom…a man of God.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1586, instructed ministers that they should read a chapter of the Bible each day and one of Bullinger’s sermons each week. The Foreword to the English translation of The Decades stated: “These sermons are comparable to a gold mine, the deeper you delve, the richer they are. They abstruseness of Calvin is here replaced with an extraordinary clarity of expression.”
The successor of Calvin, Theodore Beza, had been won to the Reformed faith at the age of 16, by a tract written by Bullinger. Beza wrote: “We are used to being strengthened by you” Beza referred to Bullinger as “our rudder” and as his” father” in the faith.
Bullinger was a devoted pastor whose home was constantly open to the hungry, the lost, the persecuted and the spiritual seeker. Although his salary was meager, he gave many gifts, giving of his own small income to hospitals and institutions of mercy. Bullinger’s preaching was powerful and his pen seldom rested. For 44 years, he maintained an average of preaching 7 times a week. His pastoral heart produced one of the first Protestant books on comforting the sick and the dying.
Bullinger built upon the solid foundations laid by Ulrich Zwingli and provided an ecclesiastical and theological order that was thoroughly Reformed.
“Therefore, My beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:58
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Apple described its personal assistant saying, “Siri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back.”
According to Engadget.com, hackers Grant Paul (AKA chpwn), Steven Troughton-Smith and Ryan Petrich have combined forces to release Spire.
This newly installed hack brings Siri to any jailbroken iOS5 device. This includes the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPod Touch.
In order to get Siri on older models, one must jailbreak their iOS5 device, which is illegal in theory. When a user hacks their product and unlocks it, thus becoming “Jailbroken”, they void all warranties provided by the manufacture.
Based on comments filed by Apple with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking, Eff.org said, “Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation.”
Engadget.com was first to report on the new Spire installer last night. According to the hackers themselves, this new version available through Cydia is “Legal, avoiding the copyright infringement inherent in previous hacks.”
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India needs to take special measures to ensure economic security for people with leprosy as situations like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have jolted the ostracised community, making them rely merely on handouts to survive, WHO goodwill ambassador against the disease Yohei Sasakawa has said.
Like always, people with leprosy have been ignored during these trying times and not many have come forward to check on their well-being, said Sasakawa, who was awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2019 for his fight against leprosy, especially in India.
“People affected by leprosy in India and many other countries are often economically vulnerable. Many are increasingly in need after having lost their source of income because of lockdowns or restrictions on movement associated with the spread of coronavirus. India needs to take special measures to deal with this,” Sasakawa told PTI.
Stating that India may have intensified its vigil against leprosy but its efforts to trace cases in the hinterland, particularly people in the mountain areas, are not sufficient, Sasakawa has rhetorically stressed that the government should bring leprosy-affected people into the mainstream and get them treated.
“It is important to do more to raise social awareness so that everyone, whether they live in hard-to-reach areas or are not part of mainstream society, have access to diagnosis and proper treatment,” he said.
Saturday is World Leprosy Day.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India has the highest number of new cases of leprosy in the world annually, followed by Brazil and Indonesia.
India reported 1,35,485 new cases in 2016, which is 63 per cent of the 2,14,783 new cases reported globally.
India officially eliminated leprosy, an infectious disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, in 2005 by bringing the prevalence rate below 1/10,000 at the national level.
However, it has not been able to eradicate the disease despite having it as a national target.
According to WHO, eradication refers to complete and permanent world-wide reduction to zero new cases of the disease through deliberate efforts.
Elimination requires continuous efforts to prevent re-establishment of disease transmission.
New cases have been reported from several parts of India, especially the rural belts of Bihar, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli. All the cases were attributed to late diagnosis.
According to Sasakawa, leprosy was for a long time treated as a special disease with diagnosis and treatment taking place at specialised hospitals and this contributed to discrimination.
Discrimination is usual for them; situation gets tough when they are not heeded during the problematic situations such as coronavirus pandemic, he said.
Lack of people’s willingness to give them employment during normal time gets worse when people from such community do not even receive any help from the government during pandemic type situation, he added.
His Nippon Foundation, has been providing emergency assistance to organisations of persons affected by leprosy in 18 countries, including India, to improve their situation.
“Our sister organisation in India, Sasakawa-India Leprosy Foundation (S-ILF), is actively raising funds to provide emergency assistance such as food and daily necessities to residents of leprosy colonies and ameliorate the impact of the coronavirus,” Sasakawa said.
“S-ILF also recognises the importance of education to empowering persons affected by leprosy and is operating online classes to keep up the academic abilities of students whose schools have been closed because of lockdowns,” he said.
The Nippon Foundation in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also prepared a flip chart that will help ASHA workers in the country to navigate and help disseminate correct knowledge about leprosy to households.
“By 2022, the flip chart will have been distributed to ASHA workers in six endemic states: Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand. Since the flip chart uses a lot of drawings and photos, and is designed in a way that anyone can understand, we hope it will prove effective and lead to early detection in as many cases as possible,” Sasakawa said.
Sasakawa has helped establish the Association of People effected by Leprosy and led several advocacy programmes in India.
His latest initiative is raising pension for those living with severe disabilities and working for improving their living environment.
“Until 15 years ago, the major focus was eradication of leprosy. But now another problem has come up and it is the stigmatisation of leprosy patients even after they get cured. Many in the society are not ready to accept them,” Sasakawa said.
The 82-year-old social entrepreneur said it was important for India to focus more on leprosy eradication programmes.
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1 in 3 users goes on Facebook to check out other people’s opinions about a place or business. Your customers’ opinions have a strong influence on other Facebook users.
You can now moderate recommendations on Facebook using NapoleonCat.
In 2018 Facebook introduced changes to increase the level of interaction between its users and local business. One of them was replacing the one-to-five star reviews on business pages with recommendations. Now Facebook users only have to choices: to either ‘recommend’ or ‘not recommend’ a place or business. The “old” reviews are still visible and included the overall rating on Facebook business pages.
What you need to know about Facebook recommendations
- Users can add photos to their recommendations as well as comment on other people’s opinions, which means that a recommendation can develop into a conversation thread.
- The number of recommendations on a Facebook page is just as important as it’s rating – a significant number indicates its popularity and makes the overall rating more reliable.
- Facebook page admins can’t delete recommendations. You can switch them off altogether, but this is not advisable as consumers have now learned to rely on other Facebook users’ opinions.
Why should you moderate recommendations on Facebook?
People love to give their opinions. Sometimes a little goes a long way when you want to encourage a customer to leave a recommendation. Ideally, you should mostly incite your happy customers to share their experience on your brand’s Facebook page. They are more likely to take the time to leave an opinion than those who had a ‘neutral’ experience.
When you receive a positive opinion on your Facebook page, take the time to thank for it. In fact, it’s worth going beyond the generic ‘thank you’ and adding something that will demonstrate your appreciation for each and every recommendation. Another small but helpful tactic is to add the user’s name tag in your reply.
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In the case negative opinions, the key is to treat them like a legitimate customer complaint. Address the issue at hand straight away by asking for more specifics – get to the root of the problem. Do this without delay to increase your chance of solving the problem and turning a negative opinion into a positive one.
Remember that by tackling a negative opinion on your Facebook page you’re not just helping one customer who had a bad experience. You’re demonstrating to others considering your product or service that you deliver solid customer service.
How to manage Facebook recommendations?
You can now moderate recommendations on your Facebook pages in NapoleonCat to together with all the other conversations that happen across your social media channels. This gives you a much greater chance at reacting to each customer opinion in time.
Additionally, thanks to intuitive colour tags, you will be able to quickly discern between positive and negative opinions.
To streamline this process even further, you can also use automoderation. This can be particularly helpful if you’re receiving a lot of opinions or if they often appear outside of your community management hours.
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Boulder County on Sunday reported 33 new COVID-19 cases, but no new deaths.
To date, Boulder County Public Health showed 22,116 total cases. The death toll remained at 251 people. As of Friday, there were 20 people in Boulder County’s hospitals due to COVID-19. A total of 762 residents have been hospitalized due to the virus. The seven-day average percent positivity rate was 4.5%, and the seven-day average of new cases was 66.
The University of Colorado Boulder reported 13 positive tests were discovered during Friday testing. There were also 135 diagnostic tests and 1,207 monitoring tests. The campus had 27 isolation spaces in use, which is 5% of the available isolation space on campus. Since Jan. 4, there have been 714 total positive test results and 10,366 diagnostic tests and 92,054 monitoring tests completed. Throughout the school year, which started Aug. 24, there have been 2,439 total positive tests.
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“‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.'”— Ecclesiastes 1:2 (New International Version)
“He said the truth was that I didn’t have one, a soul, and that I had no access to humanity or to any of the moral principles which protect the human heart”. This accusation, proclaimed by Mersault’s prosecutor, reflects the question at the heart of Albert Camus’s The Outsider — what makes a human a human, what makes him fit to be a member of ‘normal’ society and how this normal is defined.
In Camus’s novella, its protagonist Mersault is tried for shooting and killing an Arab man. At his trial, his prosecutor not only condemns him for the murder, but also insists that Mersault’s actions and lack of emotion regarding them are intertwined with the fact that Mersault shows no grief at his mother’s death: Mersault not only did not know her age and chose to send her to a home, but also smoked, slept and drank coffee at the wake, three apparently damnable actions for a man whose mother has just died. I argue that Camus chooses these ‘flaws’ and actions in particular because they are markers of a normal existence— a meaningful relationship with others based on arbitrary determiners (as if knowing how many years a person has lived is supposed translate love and care), and unthinking behaviors that offer reprieve in the course of the suffering that comprises a human life. The prosecutor therefore seeks to punish Mersault not only for his lack of appropriate reactions to an ‘unnatural’ event—crying and grieving— but also for his ‘natural’ actions which should have been suspended in the spirit of unnaturalness dictated by the death. Furthermore, not accepting Mersault’s garbled explanation that he shot the Arab because of the sun (indeed, it appears he does so more because of the sun leaping off the Arab’s knife into his eyes than the knife itself), the prosecutor constructs for the jury a narrative explaining that the murder was premeditated. To the prosecutor, the former misconduct is basically equal to the latter: “any man who was morally responsible for his mother’s death thereby cut himself off from the society of men to no lesser extent than the one who raised a murderous hand against the author of his days”.
Thus, he concludes, Mersault does not have a human soul and must be sentenced to death because he is “a man whose heart is so empty it threatens to engulf society”. From this, we can deduce Camus’s argument that to society at large, what defines a human is the fact that they abide by the dictums of unspoken social and moral contracts. In particular, that one performs the appropriate reactions to the appropriate events, which shows that one has understood the agreed narratives and rules attached to these events and reactions.
Mersault, who does not abide by these rules, is therefore an outsider. He is both existentialist and absurdist: he does not see the need to construct explanations for essentially meaningless human actions and experiences and he lives solely in the present moment, free from the past and accepting of the future. Therefore, he does not enact the necessary performances expected by the jury (society) that sits and judges him.
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus writes that “Living… (comprises) making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit”. Basically, that we only do things because we have been subconsciously primed to, and not because we truly understand what we are doing. Indeed, The Outsider makes it clear that things, actions and events in a human’s life do not have inherent meaning; they must be imbued with external meaning that is usually arbitrary and (barely) contextualised. This concept is dramatised and taken to its logical extreme in Mersault’s own interpretation of the world. He compares faces to flowers and apples; the mourners at his mother’s wake remind him of a jury; the actual jury reminds him of passengers on a tram, hearing a man crying reminds him of his mother “for some reason”. Every event, bereft of internal meaning, is randomly assigned one that is loosely related to another similarly random concept or experience. As such, the significance of taking coffee, sleeping and smoking only carry the meaning they do because people have collectively decided on them based on larger narratives they are loosely associated with.
Indeed, as readers views the narrative from Mersault’s perspective, we see that the actions of those around him and the beliefs they subscribe to— such as Salamano’s pointless ritual with his dog, and Pérez’s futile trek in the sun— are ultimately silly, even laughable. The same goes for more ‘profound’ or fantastical beliefs and rituals like religion and marriage.
Mersault does not conform to society’s norms because he refuses to submit to the illusion that they are meaningful. Although he is a man condemned by society and in jail, he is the one who is truly free. He tells the chaplain, so insistent on bringing him to God: “he couldn’t even be sure that he was alive. because he was living like a dead man. I (i.e. Mersault) might seem to be empty-handed. But I was sure of myself, sure of everything, surer than he was, sure of my life and sure of the death that was coming to me. Yes, that was all I had. But at least it was a truth which I had a hold of just as it had hold of me”. Compared to the others who catatonically exist beneath the sway of their fantasies, Mersault lives boldly in the harsh light of the truth.
As such, when his actions focus the public’s attention on him, they are offended not just by his actions, but also by the way his reactions to them painfully reflect the way their own lives are inherently meaningless and how their attempts at creating significance are ultimately absurd. Unable to accept, and even acknowledge or see this, they cast Mersault as an outsider. His real crime is the way he exposes their pointless pretence and make them face the absurdity of their own lives, rituals and beliefs, thus engulfing society in despair.
While Mersault is “the outsider”, the novel is titled after, he is not a stranger to the human heart. He is rather its hero because he faces the truth of what the heart seeks to do and avoid, and can live peacefully with these facts, as compared to the others, who are strangers to themselves. His execution is the stage on which this heroism is recognised and feared; the “cries of hatred” directed not only at him but also unknowingly at the pointless pantomime that is all their lives. | <urn:uuid:f698a30b-9245-4d0a-9300-81c17895625f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hephzibahgrace.com/2021/06/25/the-sisyphean-hero-in-albert-camuss-the-outsider/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.978659 | 1,485 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Sarkozy: Prospect slim finding plane survivors
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the prospects of finding any survivors from an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean carrying 228 people are "very small."
Sarkozy says "no hypothesis is excluded" in the search for causes of the disappearance of the Rio to Paris flight.
Sarkozy met Monday at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport with some of families of those aboard the plane, including "a mother who lost her son, a fiance who lost her future husband."
Sarkozy said, "I told them the truth. The prospects of finding survivors are very small."
He said finding the plane "will be very difficult" because the search zone "is immense."
He said France has asked for help from U.S. satellite equipment to locate the plane.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
SAO PAULO - A missing Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a tower of thunderstorms and heavy turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday, fearing that all aboard were lost.
The area where the plane could have gone down was vast. Brazil's military searched for the plane off its northeast coast, while the French military scoured the Atlantic off the West African coast near the Cape Verde Islands.
Chief Air France spokesman Francois Brousse said "it is possible" the plane was hit by lightning, but aviation experts expressed doubt that a bolt of lightning was enough to bring the plane down.
Air France Flight 447, a 4-year-old Airbus A330, left Rio on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. local time (2230 GMT, 6:30 p.m. EDT) with 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board, said company spokeswoman Brigitte Barrand.
The plane left Brazil radar contact, past the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, about three hours later (10:48 Brazil time, 0148 GMT, 9:48 p.m. EDT), indicating it was flying normally at 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) and traveling at 522 mph (840 kph).
About a half-hour after that, the plane sent an automatic signal indicating electrical problems while going through strong turbulence, Air France said.
The plane "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence" at 0200 GMT Monday (10 p.m. EDT Sunday) and an automatic message was received fourteen minutes later reporting electrical failure and a loss of cabin pressure.
That was the last communication sent from the plane, when it was about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of the Cape Verde Islands, according to the Brazilian Air Force.
Meteorologists said tropical storms are much more violent than thunderstorms in the United States and elsewhere.
"Tropical thunderstorms ... can tower up to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters). At the altitude it was flying, it's possible that the Air France plane flew directly into the most charged part of the storm - the top," Henry Margusity, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather.com, said in a statement.
Brazil's air force was searching near the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, about 180 miles (300 kilometers) northeast of the Brazilian coastal city of Natal. The region is about 1,500 miles northeast of Rio.
Portuguese air control authorities say the missing plane did not make contact with controllers in Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores Islands nor, as far as they know, with other Atlantic air traffic controllers in Cape Verde, Casablanca, or the Canary islands.
In Washington, a Pentagon official said he'd seen no indication that terrorism or foul play was involved. He spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject.
Sobbing relatives of people aboard the plane arrived at an airport in Sao Paulo to fly onto Rio de Janeiro, where Air France was assisting relatives. Andres Fernandes, his eyes tearing up, said a relative "was supposed to be on the flight, but we need to confirm it," Globo TV reported.
At the Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris, family members who had arrived to meet passengers refused to speak to reporters and were brought to a cordoned-off crisis center.
Air France said it expressed "its sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew members" aboard Flight 447. The airline did not explicitly say there were no survivors, but no sign of the plane had turned up more than 12 hours after it disappeared.
Air France-KLM CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, at a news conference, said the plane's pilot had 11,000 hours of flying experience, including 1,700 hours flying this aircraft.
"We are without doubt facing an air catastrophe," Gourgeon said.
Aviation experts said the risk the plane was brought down by lightning was slim.
"Lightning issues have been considered since the beginning of aviation. They were far more prevalent when aircraft operated at low altitudes. They are less common now since it's easier to avoid thunderstorms," said Bill Voss, president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation, Alexandria, Va.
He said planes have specific measures built in to help dissipate electricity along the aircraft's skin, and are tested for resistance to big electromagnetic shocks and equipped to resist them. He said the plane should be found soon, because it has backup locators that should continue to function even in deep water.
Experts said the absence of a mayday call meant something happened very quickly.
"The conclusion to be drawn is that something catastrophic happened on board that has caused this airplane to ditch in a controlled or an uncontrolled fashion," Jane's Aviation analyst Chris Yates told The Associated Press. "Potentially it went down very quickly and so quickly that the pilot on board didn't have a chance to make that emergency call."
Air France crisis center said 60 French citizens were on the plane. Italy said at least three passengers were Italian.
If all 228 people were killed, it would be the deadliest commercial airline disaster since Nov. 12, 2001, when an American Airlines jetliner crashed in the New York City borough of Queens during a flight to the Dominican Republic, killing 265 people. On Feb. 19, 2003, 275 people were killed in the crash of an Iranian military plane carrying members of the Revolutionary Guards as it prepared to land at Kerman airport in Iran.
The worst single-plane disaster was in 1985 when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into a mountainside after losing part of its tail fin, killing 520 people.
Airbus would not further comment until more details emerged.
"Our thoughts are with the passengers and with the families of the passengers," said Airbus spokeswoman Maggie Bergsma.
She said it was the first fatal accident of a A330-200 since a test flight in 1994 went wrong, killing seven people in Toulouse.
The Airbus A330-200 is a twin-engine, long-haul, medium-capacity passenger jet that is 190 feet (58.8 meters) long. It is a shortened version of the standard A330, and can hold up to 253 passengers. There are 341 in use worldwide today. It can fly up to 7,760 miles (12,500 kilometers).
Rick Kennedy, a spokesman for GE Aviation, expressed doubt that the engine was at fault. He said the CF6-80E engine that powered the Air France plane "is the most popular and reliable engine that we have for big airplanes in the world." He said there are more than 15,000 airplanes flying in the world with that engine design.
Keller reported from Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, France. Associated Press reporters Emma Vandore, Laurent Lemel and Laurent Pirot in Paris and Marco Sibaja in Brasilia, Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Belgium, Barry Hatton in Lisbon and Airlines and Transportation Editor Greg Stec in New York contributed to this report.
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M. J. Hardman
University of Florida, Gainesville
Aymara, a member of the Jaqi family of languages (Jaqaru, Kawki, Aymara), is a language of the high Andean plain between the highest peaks of the Andes mountains and of the shores of the world's highest navigable lake. Aymara is the first language of approximately one-third of the population of Bolivia, the dominant language of the southern area of Perú throughout Puno and down towards the coast in Moquegua, Tacna, with branches into Arequipa, and is the indigenous language of northern Chile.
Aymara is a suffixing language with complex morphophonemics. The bulk of the grammatical resources are found within the morphology. Syntax is morphologically marked; verbal person suffixes mark simultaneously object/subject; data source is marked at all levels of grammar. Within the nominal system inclusive/exclusive and humanness are marked.
The Aymara sentence is defined by the use of sentence suffixes. These sentence suffixes are independent of root classes and may occur on all classes. Every sentence must be marked by one or more sentence suffix, which serves to define the sentence type. Aymara has 26 consonant phonemes and three vowel phonemes. Fifteen of the consonants are voiceless stops which occur in five contrasting positions of articulation; and in three manners. Vowel dropping is significant, complex and pervasive, marking case and phrase structure as well as style.
MJ Hardman is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Florida. She began the study of Aymara in the sixties and has since been continually involved with one or another of the Jaqi languages for which she has written grammars, teaching materials and cultural studies. She founded INEL (Instituto Nacional de Estudios Lingüísticos) in Bolivia and the Aymara Language Materials Program at the University of Florida. Her current research also involves language and gender and the patterning of worldview in language.
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With each chapter, you close in your life comes the end of an old and the beginning of a new. These chapters are what we call cycles. You can feel the shift coming if you are in tune with these cycles. They usually come in 7-year intervals, meaning that at age 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 and 42 (etc) you will have completed 6 cycles.
Each cycle ends with positive and negative attributes, hard lessons, and immense growth. Upon each end, you will notice the energies amping up. Everything around you may shift dramatically at the close of a volatile cycle or fizzle out smoothly, depending on which milestone you have accomplished.
Take a moment, look back on your life, try to remember the major events surrounding these age markers, and notice these major milestones. Can you see the pattern? Once you do, you can prepare yourself for the next transition.
Each cycle ends with a period of reflection. This is where the should have, could have and would have come up. And to ensure that you reach your final cycle with a clear conscience,
Here are 50 Ways to Live Life Without Regrets
50. Speak Your Mind
Your thoughts are important, don’t undervalue yourself.
49. Be Yourself
You can only be you, don’t become a second-rate version of someone else.
48. Be Bold
“What would you do if you knew for 100% certainty that you wouldn’t fail?”– Alan Watts
47. Admit When You Are Wrong
Have the courage to admit when you are wrong. It will gain you respect and will allow you to become a strong leader.
46. Make Your Own Path
Don’t follow the trail; break free. Find your own path and leave footprints for someone else.
45. Find the Humour in life
Finding humour during the most serious of situations helps you to find non-attachment. The true nature of
the universe is playful, not serious. Strive to find the lighter side of every dark situation.
44. Be thankful
True prayer is not asking for what we want, the desires of the heart, but accepting all of life’s blessing and showing gratitude for everything in return. A cycle of love that continues to grow.
43. Be Courageous
If you don’t take risks somewhere in life, you will not accomplish much of anything. The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.
42. Be Vulnerable
Being vulnerable doesn’t mean being weak. Be willing to express your feelings.
41. Be Honest
It is not just about being honest with others; it’s more about being honest with ourselves. If we aren’t being true to ourselves, we suffer. Always live true to your heart.
40. Think for Yourself
You have been told how others think things should be done throughout your life. The way they have been done and should still be done. But each of us thinks differently, uniquely, so be unique. How you view, the world is different from every other person on the planet. So think for yourself; your piece to the puzzle may just be the one that solves the riddle.
39. Find Your Passion
What is it that gets that fire burning in your heart? What makes you tick? Grab a pen and a piece of paper, and write down all of your interests since you were young. Favourite books, movies, sports, anything. Spend time alone and rediscover yourself, find what makes you tick and take action.
“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
38. Do What You Love
If money were no object, what would you like to do? How would you enjoy spending your life? If you think that getting money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time.
If you truly like what you do, eventually, you will master it, and at some point, you will make money from it.
Do what you love first, and the money will follow.
37. Face Your Fears
When you let fear interfere with your life, you end up sitting on the sidelines. The only way to overcome fear is to face it. When you face your fears, you realize that what your mind built up wasn’t anything close to the reality of the situation.
Take a breath, count to three and do it.
36. Accept and Embrace Yourself
You find your innermost beliefs, values, ideas and emotions by exploring yourself. This gives us an understanding of how we carry ourselves in everyday life. You gain a better idea of understanding why you behave a certain way, and once you understand yourself, you can accept and embrace all aspects of your being. Embracing yourself means accepting your strengths and weaknesses, dark and light, yin and yang polarities.
Without acceptance, you can’t flourish.
35. Don’t Hold Onto Anger
When you hold anger, you will get burned. You may think that your anger to punish another, but you are only punishing yourself.
34. Change Your Perspective
When situations arise, you may immediately feel emotions, whether slighted, agitated or downright annoyed. Look for a new angle. By putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, you’ll be able to see it from a different viewpoint.
33. End Hurtful Relationships
Life is too short to stick around somewhere you are unhappy. If you are in a relationship that is not healthy, break it off. Clear your head, and get some alone time. Do whatever you must do to remove yourself from the situation to process your thoughts and emotions.
32. Let Go of Control
The idea that you have control is a fallacy. Life is an adventure meant to be experienced as you flow through the ups and downs of life. The more you try to control, the more “pushy” you become and the only thing you will do, is push everything and everyone away.
31. Live in the Present Moment
There is nothing like the present moment. There is no point in dreaming about the future or regretting the past. What you have is today, so make the most of it.
30. Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
The older we get, the more our comfort zones shrink. Things become regular, routine and stale. The rest of our lives are on schedule, following the same patterns. While it is comfortable, it doesn’t allow for growth. Experiencing new things catapults us and gives us new-found freedom and confidence.
29. Go with the Flow
When you are rigid, it’s like trying to swim upriver. You are going to struggle. When you are easygoing, you’re flowing like water, letting whatever the day might bring flow with you. Life flows, energy flows, music flows, dance flows; listen to the rhythm and the flow and dance with it.
28. Push Your Boundaries
Know your limits but don’t ever accept them.
27. Explore Yourself
Do you know who you truly are? Can you look in a mirror and say in one sentence more than just what defines you?
26. Make Heartfelt Connections
Never underestimate the impact you can have on someone else’s life.
25. Love What You Do
Your greatest work will come from loving what you do. When you don’t love what you do, you have settled for less and have given up on your dreams.
Don’t settle for less; create your masterpiece.
24. Find Satisfaction in the Simple Things
True happiness comes from freedom, and freedom comes from eliminating desire. When you desire, you suffer. The simple things matter most; it’s time to put them into reality.
23. Live True to Yourself
Living true to yourself means trusting yourself. Listen to your heart. It knows what’s best for you.
22. Express Yourself
We are all creators. Our minds are the paintbrush, and the earth is our easel.
21. Go Easy on Yourself
Life is a drag when you are constantly beating yourself up. Learn to let go and forgive yourself. Everybody makes mistakes.
20. Stay in Contact with Friends
Don’t let time slip away. Forgive, move forward and reconnect if you’ve fallen out of touch. One of the top 5 regrets people have on their deathbed is not staying in contact with their friends.
19. Let Go of Guilt
Guilt is something we invented to make us feel unworthy. The game of hiding and seek you created for yourself. Find the real you, the center of yourself, your Godhood.
The illusion is that until you feel you have suffered enough, you won’t wake up to your true power, identity, or eternal self.
18. Let Yourself Be Happy
If you are a parent, you know the most important thing you want for your children is for them to be happy. So give it to yourself.
17. When You’re About to Say No… Say Yes!
How many times have you held yourself back from something that could have been fun? How often have you said no to an opportunity that could have been a great adventure?
What really do you have to lose? Just do it!!
16. Be Patient
Patience doesn’t mean waiting; it means continually working hard on your dreams and keeping a positive attitude. Just because something isn’t happening for you right now in this very moment you want to doesn’t mean it will never happen.
15. Keep Moving
If you stand still waiting for the wave to come crashing down on you… you’re going to get swept away. Instead, grab a board and ride with the waves of life.
14. Don’t Worry So Much
95% of what you worry about doesn’t manifest into reality anyways, so don’t lose sleep over it. Lose the worry and replace it with trust.
13. Don’t Hold Grudges
Everyone has their own reasons, their perception of life, and their own path to follow. Holding a grudge only hurts you.
12. Show Compassion
Rise above the situation; showing compassion to others, it will lift their spirit and yours.
11. Give Openly
By giving, we are receiving. The more we give, the more we receive. You cannot give unselfishly because while you may not realize it on some level, you are getting something out of it. Whether it is just that nice warm feeling that you have done something good, you always receive it when you give. And that’s the beauty of giving! It is always a win-win, and nothing can beat it!
10. Love Freely
By learning to love others freely, we, in turn, are loving ourselves. Life is like looking into a mirror; every person, every teacher, is you. Love your teachers; they bring hard lessons and significant development. By existing in this state, we make a huge step in clearing negative energy blockages and increasing our ability to connect with others more deeply.
9. Put Yourself Out there
By embracing your vulnerability, you empower yourself. Don’t shy away from fear; instead, use it to show where you should go next.
8. Let People Judge You
Let people criticize you because anyone who says something negative to you has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with their own internal state.
7. Enjoy the Ride
Life is an adventure, and you are an explorer. Heading out into the farthest vastness of incarnations to learn, grow and experience. Soak up your surroundings. You may not be back for a while.
6. Be Understanding
Righteousness doesn’t mean being right; it means showing love, compassion and understanding, no matter what you think is right.
5. Don’t Wait for Tomorrow
The next moment in your life is not more important than now. Do today what you dream of later; live today like it was your last.
4. Follow Your Intuition
The flash of insight you get before you make that important decision, trust it. The subtle nudge or gentle pull.. you feel before the situation comes to a close and you still have time, follow it. You know more than you think; you just have to trust yourself.
3. Have Humility
You may feel you have made a thousand terrible mistakes, and you may make one thousand more. There are no mistakes; there are only lessons. You are learning and growing; it doesn’t matter what you’ve done. It’s only as big of a deal as you make it. Go easy on yourself.
2. Follow Your Heart
Your heart knows before you know. A complex organ that generates its own electromagnetic field, holding its own consciousness, producing subtle energy just below our average level of awareness. Follow the feelings of your heart, your
intuition, and this sixth sense that nudges you in the right direction. It will never fail you when you choose to listen finally.
1. Don’t Miss the Dance
Alan Watts believed that the true existence of the entire universe was playful. Without need or necessity, it isn’t going anywhere and doesn’t have a destination it ought to arrive at.
“In music, one doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of it. If so, the best conductors would be the ones who played the fastest or those who only wrote finales. You would go to a concert to only hear one crashing cord because that’s the end. If you are dancing, you don’t aim at one spot in the room, because that is where you should arrive… the whole point of the dancing, is the dance.”- Alan Watts
If this list seems large, remember that you will have gained a bit each time through each milestone.
From 21-28 you may have learned how to express yourself better, from 28-35 you may have acquired the confidence you lacked to speak you mind more. From 35-42 you may have learned to show understanding and compassion.
Life is a school for the soul. We are here to learn, and we are here to play, so don’t miss the dance!
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Early Political Career↑
Born into a successful commercial and agrarian family, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856-1921) studied law at university and, like his father and grandfather, rose to prominence in the Prussian internal administration. He became the youngest Landrat (district administrator) in the province of Brandenburg in 1886 and its youngest Oberpräsident (senior president) in 1899. In 1905 he was appointed Prussian minister of the interior and in 1907 he became both state secretary of the Reich Office of Interior and vice president of the Prussian State Ministry. Widely recognized to be a very competent bureaucrat who did not hold intransigent conservative views, he nevertheless owed his promotion largely to the favour of Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941) who shared his love of hunting and controlled all appointments to the higher state service. Bethmann was surprised to be offered position after position, effortlessly and indiscriminately. In the summer of 1909 he succeeded Bernhard von Bülow (1849-1929) as Reich Chancellor after the Reichstag rejected Bülow’s financial reform.
Chancellorship before 1914↑
Bethmann had never aspired to be chancellor and he struggled to deal with the intractable domestic and foreign policy problems he inherited. Although politically conservative, he accepted the need for moderate reforms. He tried to pursue a "diagonal policy", working with a coalition of right-wing parties and the Catholic Centre Party in the German Reichstag while not alienating left-wing liberals and the Social Democratic Party, which became the largest party in the Reichstag after the elections of 1912. Bethmann achieved a Reich financial reform and a constitution for the Reichsland of Alsace-Lorraine (annexed from France in 1871). But, unwilling to open the floodgates to democratisation in Prussia, he proved unable to reform Prussia’s inequitable three-class suffrage; and his staunch defence of army privilege in the Zabern Affair of 1913 cost him sympathy on the left.
In foreign affairs, Bethmann hoped to find a solution to the problem of Germany’s "encirclement" by the Entente powers. He lacked diplomatic training and necessarily relied on the expertise of his subordinates at the German Foreign Office, especially the state secretaries, Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852-1912) and Gottlieb von Jagow (1863-1935). After the Agadir Crisis of 1911, Bethmann was convinced that Germany had to achieve a rapprochement with Britain, but he could not modify Alfred von Tirpitz’s (1849-1930) naval armaments programme and he supported military demands for more resources. Bethmann was frequently excluded from decision-making by the Kaiser and he was not present at the "War Council" on 8 December 1912 when, under the impact of the Second Balkan War, Wilhelm II discussed Germany’s readiness for a European war with his military and naval advisers.
Bethmann and the War’s Origins↑
Bethmann’s role in the July Crisis of 1914 is highly controversial. While it was the Kaiser who assured the Austrians of Germany’s full support on 5 July 1914, the chancellor subsequently approved the decision and took steps during the crisis both to encourage Austrian action against Serbia and to quash attempts by other European powers to mediate. At the end of July 1914 he deliberately scuppered the Kaiser’s proposal that the Austrians should halt their military operations once they had taken Belgrade. Bethmann has consequently been seen by historians such as Fritz Fischer (1909-1999) as a warmonger. He was prepared to risk a continental war in 1914, even if he made a last ditch effort to secure British neutrality at the end of July 1914, promising in the event of a German victory to respect the territorial integrity of France (though not her colonies). Some contemporaries and historians have also seen Bethmann as a more elegiac figure, a dreamer and philosopher who did not want war but may have seen it as a way out of his political difficulties. The publication of the diaries of his private secretary, Kurt Riezler (1882-1955), appeared to substantiate this interpretation but they were substantially incomplete and subject to suspect editing. Riezler’s recently discovered letters to his fiancée indicate that Bethmann had no regrets when war broke out in 1914.
The War Years↑
Although Bethmann sometimes appeared to relish his role as Germany’s wartime chancellor, his power and influence suffered a decline. Military necessities immediately trumped political priorities, the Kaiser was sidelined, and the state of emergency at home gave significant powers to the deputy commanding generals. After the failure of the Schlieffen-Moltke Plan and the onset of a war of attrition, Bethmann had doubts about the military strategy of Erich von Falkenhayn (1861-1922), who replaced Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916) as chief of the General Staff in September 1914, but there was no institutional mechanism for the chancellor to intervene directly in military matters. Throughout 1915 Bethmann believed that a victory in the East was possible and he increasingly looked to Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) and Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) to achieve it. After the failure at Verdun in 1916, Bethmann supported Falkenhayn’s replacement by Hindenburg. But the chancellor’s authority was fatally undermined once Hindenburg and Ludendorff took over the Supreme Command.
Bethmann supported German annexations during the war even if these were relatively moderate compared to the far-reaching aims pursued by the military leadership and extreme conservatives in 1917-18. On 9 September 1914 he approved a significant memorandum, drafted by Riezler, specifying that Germany’s general aim in fighting the war was to gain security in the East and West for all imaginable time. Russia was to be thrust back to the Urals while, in the West, Bethmann supported aims that included German control of northern France, German fortifications along the Channel coast, the subjugation of Belgium and Luxembourg, and the creation of a central European customs area under German domination (Mitteleuropa). The speed with which Bethmann’s "September Programme" was drawn up has encouraged historians to see it as reflecting the pre-war ambitions of Germany’s economic, military and political elites. While it may have represented Bethmann’s maximalist negotiating position, Germany had not yet suffered the reversal of the Battle of the Marne and the chancellor’s hopes of a military victory were still high.
The military deadlock in the West eventually encouraged Bethmann to seek a political solution to the war, though not at any price. He welcomed the mediation of the United States in 1916 and, concerned about the impact on the United States, he also successfully opposed Germany’s recourse to undeclared restricted submarine warfare until March 1917 when he was overruled by the military. Bethmann’s efforts on the home front were focused on holding together the so-called “civil truce” and ensuring maximum domestic support for the war effort. Conditions at home became critical in late 1916 and Bethmann prevailed upon the Kaiser to issue his "Easter Message" of 7 April 1917, promising a reform of the Prussian suffrage and the Prussian upper house of parliament after the war. But this was too vague for the left and even Bethmann was now convinced that the three-class suffrage had to be abolished. At the same time the mere promise of reform created powerful enemies for the chancellor on the right.
So long as Bethmann commanded support in the Reichstag, he was politically useful to the generals. But when the Reichstag majority coalesced around a peace resolution in July 1917, calling for a peace without annexations, this utility came to an end. Having apparently lost the confidence of the political parties (though not of the Kaiser), Bethmann was effectively forced by the military leadership to resign on 13 July 1917. He retired to his estate at Hohenfinow where he subsequently wrote his memoirs.
Katharine Anne Lerman, London Metropolitan University
Section Editor: Mark Jones
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This is part three of a six-part series discussing the college process.
All advice and instruction are provided courtesy of Barbara Gottesman, whose company, College Help! Organization and Advising Services has helped hundreds of high school students in Montclair, Glen Ridge and surrounding towns and counties over the years. She helps navigate the application process, so students can find their place in the college or university that is right for them. It’s important to note that college isn’t for everybody. Barbara is also an excellent asset for students who feel that college is not the right place for them. There is a multitude of great options for students not interested in or ready for college immediately after high school.
And that number does not include Montclair students who attend high schools outside of the township such as Seton Hall Prep, Saint Peter’s Prep, Mount Saint Dominic Academy, Kent Place School, Newark Academy, and boarding schools. Many of these rising college freshmen are competing with the rest of the nation–and the world–to attend the country’s top colleges and universities. And every year, our high schools consistently send their students to top schools, some of which have acceptance rates as low as 5%.
For many students across the United States, the college process is often the most stressful aspect of their high school careers. Whether it’s the ACTs, the SATs, the Common App, the CAAS, the Universal application, a college’s individual application, garnering teacher recommendations, or writing supplemental essays, an enormous amount of time and energy can be devoted to landing at the right college or university. It doesn’t have to be so time-consuming.
Part three will illustrate the proper steps for your child to take while in the winter and spring of their junior year, choosing activities, thinking about which schools to tour and preparing to fill in those applications.
Based on your child’s GPA (grade point average) as well as any standardized test scores that may have been revealed, they should begin compiling a very flexible and undefined list of schools that they might be interested in applying to. While doing so, your student should also keep their list of activities and commitments organized. Barbara reiterates that this will make life just a little easier when the time comes to submit those applications.
As the spring of junior year rolls around, students and their parents should continue touring schools and should be keeping positive visits in mind. Students and families should also consider whether or not their child is well-suited for an interview with an admissions representative at a college or university of great interest. If so, then one interview preparation session with Barbara, lasting about an hour, would greatly benefit the candidate. However, Barbara stresses that students and parents should only schedule an interview if everyone involved believes it would help chances of admission. They are not required, and a poor interview performance could hinder the application process.
At this point, students are often preparing for Advanced Placement (AP) testing and final exams. Juniors should always remember to keep track of all of their exam scores, as many schools will ask for AP results, which could possibly result in college credit, and hopefully lighten a courseload! During this time, students are nearing the point at which to begin thinking of camps, employment, volunteering opportunities, and other activities to add to their application. Midsummer is an excellent time to start on essays and the application process to stay organized and stay on track.
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Science Was in Harmony with the Environment Not Against It
There’s no doubt that our ancestors perceived science and philosophy way differently than the modern high-tech world. The ancient Greeks in particular, who are considered the first organized scientists in history, may have thought of themselves as natural philosophers, as practitioners of a skilled profession, such as physicians for example. This is what we notice in the academic works of Aristotle, Archimedes, Hippocrates and Euclid among others. These works and the important commentaries on them were the wellspring of science which reveal their way of thinking about life, while their inventions were in perfect harmony with Mother Nature.
Ancient Greek scientists and physicians didn’t focus on illness and medication like doctors usually do today, but instead they tried to prevent all those things that lead to illness by suggesting a healthy lifestyle that is in harmony with our nature. Furthermore, they didn’t fear death but accepted it as a natural part of life. Interestingly, two Greek philosophers, Leucippus in the 5th Century BC and Democritus of Abdera (circa 410 BC) were the first humans in recorded history to come up with the notion that there were two real entities: atoms, which were small indivisible particles of matter, and the void, which was the empty space in which matter was located. According to Pythagoras and his students, matter was made up of ordered arrangements of atoms, arranged according to geometrical principles into triangles, squares, rectangles, and so on.
Even on a larger scale, the parts of the universe were arranged on the principles of a musical scale and a number. For example, the Pythagoreans held that there were ten heavenly bodies because ten is a perfect number, the sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Thus with the Pythagoreans we find number emerging as the rational basis for an orderly universe — as the first proposal for a scientific ordering principle of the cosmos. Most importantly, the Pythagoreans suggested that science should respect Nature and not destroying it. On the other hand, the majority of modern scientists not only won’t respect the planet but will go as far as inventing atomic energy and other “nice” little things that have ruined the environment as nothing else has in history. | <urn:uuid:80b19898-7e61-4f98-b70c-7c820b456ae8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historycollection.com/11-things-the-ancient-greeks-did-better-than-the-modern-hi-tech-world/8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.976205 | 473 | 3.5625 | 4 |
In the State of the Union speech last month, President Obama reaffirmed his priorities and his interest on passing trade agreements with Asia and the European Union. These agreements, he claimed, would “protect our workers, protect our environment and open new markets to new goods stamped ‘Made in the USA.'” Announcing his intentions, the President is now looking to Congress to help pass three main pieces of legislation, including:
- Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – the authority of the President to negotiate trade agreements from Congressional approval. It is a technique which has been used to block opportunities for dissenting members of Congress to amend or filibuster an agreement.
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership Act (TPP) – A trade agreement between 11 different countries in the Pacific Ocean Region. Congress and the public have not seen the trade agreement itself, making it difficult to know the final compromises and agreements.
- The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – A trade agreement with European Union members.
Trade may at times seem insignificant, but it affects many aspects of our daily lives: from jobs, wages, and benefits, to international relations and global poverty. In light of the globalizing economy and reality of these new agreements, we must ask ourselves as people of faith, “will these policies help all of God’s people thrive?”
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America supports policies which help promote holistic economic growth, recognizing the value of raising families out of poverty and fostering a “sufficient, sustainable livelihood for all” (see the ELCA Statement on Economic Life). We believe that everyone should be able to support themselves and prosper within an economy.
Proponents of TPA support the trade agreements because it shows a united government during trade negotiations, creating stronger leverage in the trade talks. However, there is concerned about haste in passing these agreements. Some have indicated that there won’t be enough time to read the agreement, debate it, or know what agreements will actually be upheld in the final version. Opponents worry that, if written carelessly, agreements may continue to weaken standards that harm workers (both domestically and internationally), enable policies which harm the environment, and prey on marginalized communities for their resources. With that being said, strong trade policy can be a chance to create regulations that benefit both businesses and consumers.
The Church has acknowledged that what is in our interest must be placed in the context of what is good for the neighbor.When making decisions in the economic realm how our actions affect our neighbors must also be taken into consideration.Sudden shifts in globalized capital and financial markets can dramatically affect the economic well-being of millions of people, for good or for ill (ELCA statement on Economic Life).
Some Members of Congress have also explained how TPP and TTIP could be a chance to set high-standard trade rules for the international community. These trade agreements could create regulations that benefit both American businesses and consumers. Although TPP and TTIP can be a chance to create regulations that benefit both American businesses and consumers, terms of trade often work to the disadvantage of developing countries. Furthermore, benefits of trade agreements hinge on whether or not the countries signatory to them honor them as well whether there are ways to enforce the trade agreements.
Trade agreements are important reflections of our values as a country and can have a positive or detrimental effect on the daily lives of billions of people. With TPP agreements to finish in March, we will continue to support policies that are inclusive and protect marginalized populations. Trade agreements should give everyone a chance to thrive and create a livelihood can be an agreement we all can stand behind. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus brings good news to the poor and releases the captive. God executed justice for the oppressed. As followers of Christ, we must ensure that the actions of our government do not cause dire consequences to those with less power. | <urn:uuid:80c2b207-2e6b-4fd0-977f-157ad1a3c0ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.elca.org/advocacy/will-tpa-tpp-and-ttip-create-sufficient-sustainable-livelihood-for-all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952987 | 789 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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Armenia should strive to normalize relations with Azerbaijan: President Aliyev
Armenia would have left occupied territories if international community had pressured them, says Azerbaijan's president
Armenia should accurately analyze the post-war period and make more effort to normalize relations with Baku, Azerbaijan's president has said, referring to the Nov. 10, 2020, Russian-brokered cease-fire agreement to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Ilham Aliyev evaluated Sept. 27, the first anniversary since the second Karabakh war erupted in the region, saying the war erupted last year when Armenia's provocations against Azerbaijan had become regular.
"Their statements towards us and the steps they took showed that Armenia was preparing for a new war. I have not been able to understand the reasons for this until now because if a state that has occupied the territory of another state for 30 years wants a new war, the reason for this should be investigated very seriously.
"In July (last year) on the Azerbaijan-Armenia border, Armenia made a military provocation where 13 soldiers and civilians lost their lives as a result. At that time, Azerbaijan gave the enemy the answer it deserved, but we did not cross the state border. We simply drove them out of the Azerbaijani lands they had entered and the conflict, which lasted several days, was over," Aliyev said.
The president recalled that a group of saboteurs was sent in August that year which crossed the "line of contact" -- which was formed in May 1994 and separated the Armenian forces and the Azerbaijan Armed Forces since the first Nagorno-Karabakh war -- and Azerbaijani soldiers disarmed them. He stressed that in his speech at the UN General Assembly the previous year, he had said that Armenia was preparing for a new war.
"Three days later, our positions and settlements were again under artillery fire. We had martyrs again, and under my command, we started a large-scale counterattack operation, and as you know, this operation resulted in a great victory," he said.
'Armenia would have left occupied territories if Minsk group had put pressure'
Aliyev said the war would have been prevented if the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) had put serious pressure on Armenia, which would have had to leave the occupied territories.
"Although the three states co-chairing the Minsk Group are permanent members of the UN Security Council, they did not apply this pressure. These are considered the most powerful countries worldwide. Didn't they have the political power and political means to send these serious messages to Armenia?" Aliyev said.
He said those countries preferred a policy of "neither war nor peace."
Aliyev said he had previously repeatedly applied to the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group and other "powerful states" to impose sanctions on Armenia.
"That would have prevented the war because these sanctions would have caused great difficulties for Armenia and they would have had to leave our lands. We used all means to solve the problem peacefully," he said.
"After the second Karabakh war, no offer has been given to us from the Minsk Group until today. Since there is no proposal, there is no place to talk about the activity of the Minsk Group," Aliyev added.
Normalization process between Azerbaijan and Armenia
After the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory, was liberated through a deal following a 44-day war with Armenia, it entered a period of an economic revival thanks to new transportation lines.
According to the deal, all transportation lines that were closed due to the Karabakh issue will reopen. In this period, the Zangezur corridor, which was mentioned by President Aliyev several times, came to the forefront.
He said the Zangezur corridor was a must for the normalization process, noting that this was declared in the Karabakh agreement.
"Armenia took this obligation. If it does not fulfill this obligation, then what kind of normalization can take place? Armenia should analyze the post-war period very accurately. Now the situation is completely different. The current situation clearly shows the ratio of forces. During the occupation, we knew what opportunities both we and the Armenian army had.
"We knew long ago that we had shifted the balance in our favor. Now the whole world sees it. Therefore, in the current situation, I think that Armenia should make more efforts to normalize its relations with Azerbaijan because this is important to them," Aliyev said.
He said Armenia should be willing to normalize its relations with Turkey and define its borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Aliyev underscored that Armenia must understand the reality today and should soon accept Azerbaijan's terms and resolve this issue so that everyone knows its borders.
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By Sergey Kutovoy
The huge expansion in the space industry, with a rapidly growing market and new satellite applications, is revolutionary but financing many of these projects is still a challenge, especially for small investors who have something to contribute to this revolution and want in.
The space market saw revenues of U.S.$8.8 billion in 2017, and is forecasted to rise to revenues of U.S.$27.18 billion by 2025. This said, the space market is considered to be very tough for entrepreneurs and investors in comparison with other, more traditional, sectors. New space systems require significant capital investments (hundreds of millions of dollars) and development time (several years). Governmental programmes still remain the main driver for the space sector, with even recently funded ventures by private investors reliant upon governments as the main customers for their services and systems.
What is the space industry to do under these conditions?
“The traditional space industry will begin buying up interesting start-ups,” said Mark Boggett, Managing Director of Seraphim Capital, in his interview in the Financial Times. “In addition to acquiring technologies and business models, they will be gaining people who have a different DNA from those in the traditional space industry,” he notes. “I would guess that in 10 years’ time the majority of revenues from some of these players will come from business lines that don’t exist today.”
An example of an emerging space technology is an experimental spacecraft built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, that was deployed in June 2018 and demonstrates a innovative debris-removal capability. The spacecraft, named Remove DEBRIS, was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) and is currently carrying out its Airbus designed-and-built active debris removal experiments. This is undoubtedly the right response to the problem of space debris that is growing exponentially around our planet. But, the commercial market for space debris removal does not exist as yet and nobody is paying for the service. Who, then, will be the customer for this service?
From another market altogether we have Blockchain, which is a unique technology whose main feature is the provision of indisputable proof of an event transaction or contract thanks to unique algorithms and the distributed processing and storage of information. Most people these days have heard about cryptocurrencies that are having a significant impact in the financial world, for better or worse. The Cryptocurrency/Blockchain market has generated U.S.$3.8 billion in 2017, beating out venture capital funding, and the majority of analysts hesitate to predict its growth by 2025. Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) seem to occur every week, but cryptocurrencies are just a fraction of Blockchain application possibilities.
Many executives from the aerospace sector do not take the Blockchain seriously and have little interest in getting involved. Many are afraid to touch Blockchain, because of the unfortunate number of scams taking place. That said, Blockchain is emerging as a very powerful instrument to raise money and there are a lot of positive examples of this that force us to treat this seriously (e.g. the recent ICO by Telegram).
The World Economic Forum describes Blockchain as one of the key technologies of the future. As a result, there is a proliferation of initiatives exploring the potential of Blockchain in a variety of contexts beyond the well-known Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency applications.
For the first time in the history of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), there will bethere is a special session dedicated to The Nexus of Blockchain and Space at the IAC69, Bremen, 1-5 October 2018. (Special Sessions Program, October 2, 2018).
Sergey Kutovoy, a Ukrainian entrepreneur, is one of the participants of this session. He is a leading advocate of applying Blockchain to space and satellite challenges. He is the founder of the JetSpecie and CleanSpecie projects that are committed to relieving investment tension in the aerospace sector by introducing a new way of fund raising – cryptocurrency crowdfunding. Sergey’s team is developing a new way to finance the future of the commercial space industry that anyone can participate in. No longer will huge institutional investors be the only ones to reap the rewards of the huge opportunities in commercial space. In other words, you can now personally or institutionally invest in space projects via an easy to access cryptocurrency medium.
You can find descriptions of JetSpecie and CleanSpecie here.
JetSpecie is the first synergy of Blockchain and space markets and applies cryptocurrencies and Blockchain as a crowdfunding method for launching entrepreneurial space enterprises as a means of overcoming the daunting financial challenges of traditional investment markets. Starting from May 2018, JetSpecie is accelerated non-exclusively by FasterCapital (UAE) to raise funds to conduct an ICO.
CleanSpecieis first project in the commercial marketplace for space debris removal based on Blockchain technology. CleanSpecie substitutes traditional crypto mining processes that are wasting computing power and electricity for virtual coins, with a space debris mining process that will clean Earth’s orbits, boost space technology development, and develop new markets. CleanSpecie is the winning startup of SEEDSTARS (Dnipro, Ukraine, 14 September 2018).
Making space rockets and satellites is not a new phenomenon, and even the Blockchain market, and its existing and emerging cryptocurrencies, is hardly new today. At the same time, there is an exciting opportunity and synergy to combine these two domains. Blockchain can serve as a revolutionary investment platform for the development of new space technologies and services. Similarly, space enterprises can help make the use of Blockchain technology more trustworthy and reliable.
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The history of the myth "The Gendered Brain" with Gina Rippon
From neurotrash and neurosexism to Charles Darwin, Gina Rippon gives a brief history of the brain.
Gina Rippon wants to debunk the gendered brain myth. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it. Gina was the Head of Neuroimaging at Aston University Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience where she spent her days studying brain imaging to reach some groundbreaking conclusions.
You can listen to episode 12 here.
The gendered brain myth
On today's Braincare podcast, Gina Rippon takes us on a whistlestop tour of the gendered brain myth, from the skewed metrics and willful ignorance of early neuroscientists, through Darwin's cognitive dissonance, right up to the neurosexist misconceptions that still impact science today.
There are some wonderful quotes very early on that said bright women were so rare, they were as rare as a two-headed gorilla.
Gender development and the human brain
Over the 20th Century, the 'Women are from Mars, Men are from Venus' trope was widely accepted with thanks, in part, to what Gina calls 'neuro trash'. Now, neuroscientists discredit those seductive fallacies, but has society caught up?
I'm not a sex difference denier. I do think that there are differences in the brain but they're generally very tiny, whereas the variability within groups of men and groups of women is huge.
Podcast episode takeaways
In this first episode with Gina Rippon we will cover:
What is the gendered brain myth?
Rewriting evolution: even Darwin was susceptible to a little cognitive dissonance
Do male and female brains actually differ?
How did gender discrimination cloud neuro-scientific discovery
Neuro-trash and neuro-sexism
How 21st Century neuroscience debunks the gendered brain myth
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Adults might think that poring over a dictionary wouldn’t be…
As a new school year begins, teachers and parents once again have the opportunity to introduce their students and children to new and exciting topics. Summer rain, hot days at the beach, and water sports on the lake make for an easy segue into one such topic on the syllabus of many teachers this school year: The Water Cycle.
Prior to learning the specifics of the water cycle, many students will already have a basic understanding of water’s role in our everyday lives. Students may recognize their own reliance on water when they reach for a chilled bottle after a soccer game, during bath time, or filling the dog’s water bowl each morning. Building upon this awareness as it relates to water’s overall production and existence is a major step in a child’s schooling.
Teaching the steps of the water cycle, however, can be a bit tricky to navigate as its multiple steps and large vocabulary words (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, oh my!) require an increased attention to detail on the part of the student, and also a concise, easy to follow message from the teacher. As such, it is imperative that the content be presented in a way that promotes deep understanding, while also remaining easy to digest and of course, fun! So, when it comes to teaching students the importance of water’s journey across Earth’s surface and beyond, what is truly the best method?
One mode of teaching that has proven successful time and time again is the use of interactive games. Researchers have studied extensively the role of interactive games in the learning environment, ultimately finding that the use of such games in classrooms enables students to better retain information across a variety of subject matters. Below are just a few of the many benefits to interactive gaming in the classroom:
- Interactive games introduce subject matter in an engaging, pressure-free way, making the information less intimidating to students just learning the basics.
- Interactive games are goal driven, instilling in students the understanding that goals are only met by following clearly defined objectives.
- While playing games with classmates, students develop social skills necessary for building relationships and understanding trust and cooperation.
- Interactive games develop much-needed problem-solving skills and critical thinking. Through trial-and-error, tracking their work, and self-evaluation, students learn to take a strategic approach to understanding unfamiliar information in a very hands-on way.
With the numerous benefits to interactive games in mind, it makes sense to apply this method to teaching the water cycle. By utilizing an interactive water cycle activity, students will remain engaged, thoughtful learners, retaining more information than they would from the traditional textbook or lecture styles of teaching. The use of water cycle games enables students to imagine themselves as a particle of water evaporating from the sea up into the clouds, cascading back down to earth alongside an army of raindrops, and flowing from the snow-capped peaks of mountains into the soil or a body of water.
As we know, and as our students will soon learn, water is vital to every flourishing ecosystem, and is the substance upon which all living organisms rely to grow and survive. Interactive games allow our students to build a sense of appreciation for this powerful substance, while also having some fun too! | <urn:uuid:9651a6fc-4a02-4dae-aac4-104ec452a610> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wp.turtlediary.com/blogs/interactive-games-to-teach-the-water-cycle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.94779 | 682 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Part of twisted.mail.relaymanager View Source View In Hierarchy
Known subclasses: twisted.mail.relaymanager.SmartHostESMTPRelayingManager
Manage SMTP Relayers
Manage SMTP relayers, keeping track of the existing connections, each connection's responsibility in term of messages. Create more relayers if the need arises.Someone should press .checkState periodically
|Instance Variables||fArgs||Additional positional arguments used to instantiate
|fKwArgs||Additional keyword arguments used to instantiate
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|Method||__getstate__||(internal) delete volatile state|
|Method||__setstate__||(internal) restore volatile state|
|Method||checkState||Synchronize with the state of the world, and maybe launch a new relay.|
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The maximum number of messages a relayer will be given responsibility for.Default values are meant for a small box with 1-5 users. (type:
Synchronize with the state of the world, and maybe launch a new relay.Call me periodically to check I am still up to date.
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Napa County MAD makes every effort to use the safest materials and methods available to control the mosquitoes and other vectors found within its service area. It is the goal of this District to minimize environmental impacts by using Best Management Practices, (e.g. targeting the immature stages of mosquitoes rather than the adults thereby reducing the total area treated for these pests). An effective Integrated Pest Management Program requires intensive monitoring with timely and effective applications of the safest materials and techniques.
Napa County currently has 20 species of mosquitoes, ten of which are intensively monitored and controlled. Five species are known carriers of the diseases encephalitis, dog heartworm or malaria, to humans and their pets. The incidence of mosquito-borne disease in humans for Napa County has been minimal, with the last known case of malaria occurring in 1939. Dog heartworm is prevalent throughout the wooded areas in the County. The virus that causes mosquito-borne encephalitis was last detected in 1996 but this District is not aware of any confirmed human cases.
West Nile Virus is a mosquito-borne disease that was introduced to North America in 1999 and detected in California in 2003. The effects of this disease have been devastating to wildlife, horses and humans throughout the U.S. including California. Researchers are discovering that many native species of mosquitoes, including some that were not known to vector diseases before, can effectively transmit this disease to humans. In Napa County there are four very common and widespread species of mosquito (the Little House Mosquito, The Foul Water Mosquito, The Tule Mosquito and the Western Encephalitis Mosquito) that are known to be excellent carriers of this disease. Two other species (the Fish Pond Mosquito and Western Treehole Mosquito) are presumed carriers although research is still pending. All of the aforementioned species of mosquitoes are specifically targeted by this District.
Ten species of ticks, three species of yellowjackets, numerous other types of wasps and bees, and of course rats and mice also enjoy the lovely environs ofNapa County. Although tick-borne diseases are rare, human cases of both Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever have occurred within the last few years. At this time it is unknown if Hantavirus and other rodent-borne diseases are present within the County.
The District has developed and implemented programs to assist the citizens of Napa County with yellowjackets, ticks and rodents in response to demands for these services. A benefit assessment was passed in July of 2003 to support these new programs and enhance the mosquito control and mosquito-borne disease programs. For more information about yellowjackets, ticks, and rodents follow the links to our web pages. The yellowjacket program was started in the fall of 2003. The tick and rodent programs were implemented in the summer of 2004. The disease surveillance programs for mosquitoes, ticks and rodents are coordinated with the California Department of Health Services. Go to our web pages for more information about mosquito, tick and rodent-borne diseases. | <urn:uuid:10c1c8a5-1507-405d-91bf-b21579ce8848> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.napamosquito.org/pest-management-methods | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959301 | 615 | 3.203125 | 3 |
A warm front was seen moving northeast across Ontario (Figure 1) on June 29th. Later that evening, the warm front would be situated east of Lake Huron, bringing with it thunderstorms. The direction of the tornado’s track was estimated based on geopotential height and surface analysis available from this day. No information is known about the tornado itself.
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (2018), an F0 tornado touched down at 11:30 pm EDT near Bracebridge, ON. The track and width of the tornado was not documented by ECCC. The tornado caused no injuries, fatalities or property damage.
NWS Weather Prediction Center Surface Analysis Archive. (2017). Surface analysis 21Z Mon Jun 29 1987. Retrieved from: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/archives/web_pages/sfc/sfc_archive.php
Environment and Climate Change Canada Data. (2018). Canadian National Tornado Database: Verified Events (1980-2009) – Public. Retrieved from: http://donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/products/canadian-national-tornado-database-verified-events-1980-2009-public/ | <urn:uuid:4b074f45-a192-4cb9-ad84-97047fbeb33c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://highwaysandhailstones.com/tornado/bracebridge-on-f0-tornado-of-june-29-1987/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.890996 | 254 | 3.65625 | 4 |
In 1811, England, free-spirited dressmaker Fanny Brawne (Cornish) and her neighbor John Keats (Wishaw) — at the time, an unknown young poet — grow close to one another after Keats's brother becomes gravely ill. Their bond strengthens over time, but social convention keeps them from marrying, so the couple restrict themselves to exchanging every form of intimacy but physical love. Keats’s friend and patron Charles Brown (Schneider), meanwhile, becomes a rival for Fanny’s attention.
Chaste but dizzyingly romantic, Jane Campion’s brilliant “Bright Star” re-imagines the famous real-life love affair between Keats, the great Romantic poet who died from tuberculosis at age 25, unknown and penniless, and the young, vivacious seamstress whose family occupied one half of his Hampstead house. The comely Cornish is the very picture of grace and independence, but Wishaw holds his own as the dreamy versifier who finds himself drawn into a blissful, tormented love affair with a woman he cannot have. Kerry Fox (as Fanny’s mother) and Schneider bring an earthier flair to their roles, allowing us to see the fog these young lovers drift into from inside and out. Catch a “Star!” | <urn:uuid:5a9eb755-6515-4835-acee-7612a6230308> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/movies/bright-star/2008 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952796 | 284 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Galera clustering replicates data between nodes synchronously. This way, all nodes in the cluster ensure data is consistent between each other. But what happens if one of those nodes leaves the cluster for a short period of time? This could happen for instance if you are taking a node down for maintenance, have a power outage in one rack or if network partitioning happens.
Galera provides a mechanism for this: once the node joins the cluster it will request an Incremental State Transfer (IST) from the cluster. This IST contains all transactions that were executed during the time the node wasn’t part of the cluster. If the node was away for too long, the IST will not contain all necessary transactions and the node will request a State Snapshot Transfer (SST). A SST is basically a full synchronization of the dataset of one of the nodes in the cluster. In ClusterControl, we configure the SST to be provided by Xtrabackup, but you could also use mysqldump or rsync as method.
During the SST the joining node will be unavailable for queries. Naturally the larger your dataset, the longer it takes to send the SST from one node to another. This means your cluster will not be in sync for a longer period of time, so avoiding the SST is one of the most important things in a Galera cluster!
Galera gcache and the Replication Window
The IST is provided by entries in the Galera gcache. The gcache is a circular buffer file (ringbuffer) acting as a temporary storage for all transactions executed on the Galera node. Once the ringbuffer is full, Galera will evict the oldest transactions from this file. The time between the first and last entry in the gcache can be referred to as the replication window. Also transactions that are too large to store in the file will be stored in a separate file on disk.
You can configure the size of the gcache using the gcache.size directive inside the wsrep_provider_options, and this is set to 128MB by default. You can read our Galera gcache blog post if you wish to know more about it and how to configure it. You can also read our blog post about determining the optimal size for the gcache setting.
If you are familiar with the MongoDB, you may have noticed a similarity between the Galera gcache and the MongoDB oplog. Similar to the gcache, the oplog is a circular buffer that contains all transactions executed on the master. There is a major difference though: in contrary to the persistence of the oplog, the gcache file will be removed and recreated everytime MySQL starts. Also the oplog facilitates a method of determining the replication window, while gcache does not.
ClusterControl Advisor for Galera Replication Window
With this blog post we want to bring to your attention our new Galera replication window advisor. This advisor, which we created in the developer studio, will constantly analyze your write workload and determine if the Galera gcache is still sufficient to sustain a desired replication window. We can only make an estimation of the replication window, as the gcache file does not give us information of the actual contents of the gcache file.
Instead of this we calculate the write rate per second of Galera in short and long term:
write_rate = (received_bytes + replicated_bytes) / time;
With the write rate per second, we can calculate how much storage we would need to satisfy a certain replication window. If the current write rate does not sustain the desired replication window, we can now preemptively warn the user.
In the past, someone determined the gcache size of their Galera cluster. Even though this gcache size might have been valid when the cluster was initially deployed, this may not be valid anymore for their current write workload. With this new advisor, we can give our users the benefit of continuously reviewing their gcache size.
You can download our new advisor directly from our advisors repository on Github, or wait for it to be included in the next version of ClusterControl. Let us know if you would like any assistance on how to write these advisors using our developer studio, we’d be happy to help! | <urn:uuid:58fa000f-cca1-4362-bca5-568d95930bd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://severalnines.com/blog/using-galera-replication-window-advisor-avoid-sst/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.915761 | 885 | 2.21875 | 2 |
“Another reason to love Dilly’s Tree House is that it is designed to be used for about 10-15 minutes, three times a week. In that time you will cover readiness skills in literacy, oral language, social studies, STEM, music, art, and physical and social-emotional development. You will literally be covering all the bases!”
Mom of three girls
Dilly’s Tree House is a 7-month series of stories and activities that lead parents and children through fun and thoughtful social emotional learning experiences.
Add a sibling pack during checkout for only $10.95
Most of the materials in each Dilly’s Tree House box may be used with more than one child. The Sibling Pack provides an additional Tree House Treasure and may include other selected components so that each child can have his or her own surprises with every box. | <urn:uuid:fda9039d-db30-4927-a74b-909dbadc6ef5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dillystreehouse.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951395 | 186 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Interactive Web Application: Well Log Prediction Using Various Machine Learning Algorithms
Maybe this is a common thought that after working with code scripts, you want to convert it to a shareable application with a graphical interface. I did not imagine how easy it can be for an unprofessional developer like me. Python is my preferred programming language.
Dashboard link: https://ml-pred-log.herokuapp.com/
In the initial steps, I learned that python scripts can be converted to GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications using some libraries like Tkinter or PyQt. Tkinter is an integral part of Python and you do not need to install it in your working environment. PyQt, on the other hand, is a python binding for Qt, which is a collection of C++ libraries and development tools that include platform-independent abstraction for GUI. To use the PyQt library, we need to install it first. To be comfortable with GUI application production, we need to understand object-oriented programming (OOP) and class elaboration. OOP is a type of structuring program that bundles required and related properties/behaviors into an object. Think of a class as a blueprint for creating objects (a particular data structure) to provide initial value for the state (attributes) and implementations of behavior (methods).
Do we still need to learn desktop GUI development?
This is a tough question to answer. There is still demand for GUI desktop applications, however, the software development market has been changed noticeably by emerging web and mobile applications. It depends on your situation and interest but as a geoscientist who has a passion for new IT developments, I would vote for web applications because I want to share them easily with users. On the other hand, by using cloud-based platforms, such as Azure (Microsoft) or AWS (Amazon), you will receive plenty of services that make your production and app deployment pleasurable such as database management or app scalability (though it requires subscription).
Web application development
By definition, a web app is an interactive computer program built with web technologies like HTML, which stores database and manipulate data by user(s) to perform tasks through the internet. One of the greatest examples of a web application is Google Docs that users can create, read, update and delete documents. To build a web app from scratch, we need to deal with the database, frontend, and backend steps and then have a host to deploy the web application.
To create a web app by python scripts, Django, a full-stack framework, or Flask, a micro lightweight web framework can be used. The former helps developers to build large and complex applications while the latter, Flask, is suitable for simple web applications.
For a Machine Learning interactive dashboard, do I have to learn Django or Flask?
Not actually, thanks to OOP, there are several service providers that eliminated these steps for us. One great example is stremlit, which is totally free. You can turn data scripts into a shareable web application in python. No front-end experience is required. It is completely compatible with major libraries such as scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Numpy, matplotlib …
I used streamlit and its library to build my app but deployed it on heroku.
Web App: Well log prediction using various machine learning algorithms
Motivation: well logs are a critical measurement of the physical properties of rock medium. Commonly, some logs are missing. In this example, we used Force 2020 well log dataset and tried to predict the Neutron Porosity log (NPHI). The predictors (features) are GR, RHOB, DTC, and SP logs and the target log is NPHI. We have chosen a smaller dataset to see the modeling results faster. We selected 3 wells (two for train and test, one blind (not involved in the training process)).
Remember, as well logs are a continuous variable, this is a regression problem and we should choose regression models. Normally, model performance for test datasets is better than those datasets that have not been seen by the model (blind).
Seven important algorithms have been selected including, AdaBoost, Multi-Layer Perceptron (Neural Network), K Nearest Neighbour, Support Vector Machine, Bayesian Ridge Regression, Decision tree, and Stochastic Gradient Descent regressor. If you want to study the logic behind these algorithms, you may look at scikit-learn documentation. The most important Hyper-parameters of these algorithms have been selected to be adjusted by the user. You can play around with parameters to see the prediction results.
We provided 4 evaluation metrics for model performances, 1 quantitative and 3 qualitative.
R2 Score is a square of the correlation. It ranges between 0 and 1. We also plotted the true NPHI log from the blind well which is over-laid by predicted NPHI resulted from the model. The distribution of NPHI porosity for true and predicted data is plotted on the up-right. A scatter plot of True and predicted NPHI is also plotted with a correlation fit line on it. If you want to study detail explanation of Machine Learning with a geoscience example, facies classification, you find this series in the blog practical.
In this post, I did not want to elaborate on this app scripting or the result of model evaluation in detail. I intended to show that object-oriented programming and cloud hosting provided a facility that everyone (with some basic knowledge of programming), can develop a web application and share it with others. Leave us a comment with any questions or concerns. | <urn:uuid:db3d11d4-6df7-49a9-986d-87b71a939c19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dataenergy.ca/post/interactive-web-application-well-log-prediction-using-various-machine-learning-algorithms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.925541 | 1,172 | 2.390625 | 2 |
In commemoration of the International Women’s Day (IWD), the Young Innovators of Nigeria (YIN) is advancing its advocacy to ensure gender parity in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) field.
Mr Andrew Abu, the President of the group, who disclosed this in Abuja, said that YIN would be spreading the advocacy through its TechX Innovation Hub in Enugu and discuss issues on gender balancing, the role of stakeholders, among other topics.
The IWD usually celebrated on March 8 annually is a day when women are recognised for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political affiliation.
This year’s celebration has “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change” as its theme, and focuses on innovative ways to advance gender equality, empower women in social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure.
“recently the parameters for determining the growth of any nation’s economy focused on conducive environment, education of citizens, manufacturing, innovation and
Information Communication Technology.
Abu said “women constitute half of the world’s population but more than 40 per cent of the workforce and less than 30 per cent of the IT workforce and customer base are females.
“Majority of the Information Technology industry products are designed and built by men.
“TechX innovation hub will celebrate the IWD by advancing advocacy and inspire young girls and women to consider a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM).
“We are deeply convinced that science and technology have the innate power to change the lives of women and lift them out of poverty.”
Abu stressed that bridging gender gap and celebrating IWD belongs to all groups, adding that it provides useful opportunity to reinforce the role of stakeholders in building a gender-balanced world.
He said that bridging the gender gap to technology education and training, equal opportunities in ICT-related fields should be promoted by all. | <urn:uuid:82cd9d09-49b8-4731-b691-34da05e4e1f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://technopreneur.com.ng/international-womens-day-young-innovators-advance-advocacy-for-gender-parity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.930681 | 416 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Documenting your findings and checking off completion
An essential part of the research process is to document your findings. This way, you can always refer back to your research documentation to analyse your findings further.
You also need to track your progress by checking off completed sections in the blog checklist template.
1. Create a Google Document for your research
Open your research folder in Google Drive. Create a Google doc within this folder, in which to save files to your search results and other relevant research. Remember to have your folders organised as we learned in this lesson.
2. Check off completion of Topic Research
In the checklist template, check the box relating to this topic as “Yes.” Add remarks or notes summarising what’s been covered.
Document any other relevant information helpful in creating your blog article.
The materials section contains helpful links to some of the tools highlighted in this lesson. | <urn:uuid:acb38511-60b7-45a0-a12a-a49c932e732d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mrkwp.com/topics/documenting-your-findings-topic-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.896542 | 197 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Opposition grows to putting citizenship question on US Census
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
Prerna Lal remembers how, when the last nationwide census was taken in the United States in 2010, her family decided not to fill out the form.
Lal and her family were living without legal status in the US at the time, and they were afraid of putting any personal information on a government document.
“My family wasn’t sure that … we’d be protected, or if this was the right thing to do, but it seemed like a calculated risk at the time,” Lal, who is now an immigration lawyer in Berkeley, California, recently told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview.
“We didn’t know what the implications were about being counted, the way we do now.”
The Department of Justice recently requested that a question about citizenship status be added to the 2020 US Census, a mandatory survey that is sent to every household in the US every 10 years.
The census aims to profile the country’s residents and collects data on demographics, income, housing, education and other social factors.
It is used to determine how more than $675bn in annual federal funding is allocated and how US congressional seats are distributed by state (according to population size).
The last time a citizenship question was asked on the nationwide survey was in 1950.
The US Department of Commerce formally announced plans to reinstate the question in late March.
The department said it would help the government better enforce the Voting Rights Act, which bans discrimination in voting practices, and “provide complete and accurate” data.
Fears spurred by Trump’s policies
But the decision has sparked anger and concern among US civil liberty groups and legal organisations, which say it will lead to millions of people not filling out the form, and therefore, not being counted.
Immigrant communities, in particular, have voiced fears that by disclosing their citizenship status, they may face grave repercussions, such as deportation or having their immigration status revoked.
Those concerns “have been amplified by the anti-immigrant policies, actions, and rhetoric” from President Donald Trump and his administration, according to a lawsuit recently lodged against the move to add the citizenship question.
Filed in New York District Court, the legal complaint was made by a coalition of 17 US states, including New Jersey, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, and several cities, including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Adding a question about immigration status to the census “will jeopardise critical federal funding needed by states and localities to provide services and support for millions of residents”, the lawsuit reads.
“Further, it will deprive historically marginalised immigrant communities of critical public and private resources over the next 10 years.”
The Department of Commerce has argued, however, that the American Community Survey, an annual survey sent out to a random sampling of about 3.5 million US households, has asked a citizenship question since 2005.
“Therefore, the citizenship question has been well tested,” the US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, said in a letter dated March 26.
The US Census Bureau is also banned by law from sharing information it gleans from the census with any other government agency and must only use the data for statistical purposes.
The government has shown over and over again that they’re interested in using data mining in any way possible to identify people and carry out [immigration] enforcement actions.
But that hasn’t dispelled fears, especially for those have undocumented family members or are from mixed-status families.
“The government has shown over and over again that they’re interested in using data mining in any way possible to identify people and carry out [immigration] enforcement actions,” said Brian Root, a quantitative analyst at Human Rights Watch.
“It’s a valid fear. It is something that legally should not happen, but it is completely understandable,” Root told Al Jazeera.
California also filed its own lawsuit against the decision, as did the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Root said states with larger immigrant populations, such as California, Florida and Texas, could also lose representation in Congress as a result of inaccurate counts on the census.
That would be politically beneficial to Republicans and detrimental to Democrats, Root said.
“The distribution of political representation and appropriations for things like healthcare and housing and other types of government funding will be impacted,” he said.
Adding the citizenship question could also come with a hefty price tag.
Studies have also shown that every one-percent decrease in census participation costs the US Census Bureau $55 million because it will have to gather additional data, Root explained.
“There’s a large likelihood that it’s going to have a massive undercount and lead to inaccuracies, which will be extremely costly and will only serve to damage communities,” he said.
Access to health, education services
Hannah Matthews, director of childcare and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), said she had grave concerns about what undercounting would mean for young children in particular.
As many as 10 percent of young children living in the US were missed on the 2010 census, she said.
With less funding going to their communities, youth may have more trouble accessing health, education and nutrition programmes like Medicaid or Head Start.
“Census data is used to determine the allocation for many different public programmes that are so vital to young children’s health and well-being,” Matthews told Al Jazeera.
A general atmosphere of fear under the Trump administration’s immigration policies is already having an effect on children, according to a recent CLASP report based on interviews with educators and parents in six US states.
More than five million children under the age 18 live with at least one parent who is undocumented, the report states. About 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the US today.
“You feel like you don’t know what’s going to happen,” an early childhood educator in Illinois said in the report. “That feeling of stability – emotional stability and security – is what most of our families have lost.”
Children are displaying anxiety at having a parent deported, or witnessing a parent arrested, the report found.
Their daily routines have been disrupted because their families are afraid to leave the house and many aren’t accessing social services because their parents are reluctant to sign them up for government-run programmes.
In this context, Matthews said the US government should be looking for ways to improve the accuracy of the census and it should “certainly not be putting barriers in place that would make people reluctant to answer these questions”.
‘We can’t not be counted’
The US Census Bureau must send the exact phrasing of the citizenship question to Congress later this year, where it will be tested. The bureau must also take public comments before coming to a final decision.
While US residents have a legal obligation to fill out the census, no one has been prosecuted for failing to do so since 1970, Politifact reported.
Under the law, the US government can issue a fine of up to $100 to someone who “refuses or wilfully neglects” to fill out the census and a fine of up to $500 if someone “wilfully gives any answer that is false”.
We can’t not be counted; we have to figure out a way to be counted while also protecting our communities, said Prerna Lal, a US immigration lawyer.
Lal, the immigration lawyer, advised people not to lie or misrepresent themselves on the census, since that could negatively affect their current immigration status or their ability to apply for citizenship later on.
Whatever people decide to do, she said there is a lot at stake.
“If we don’t count millions of people, we lose representation in Congress, we lose a lot of federal funding and we lose more power politically,” Lal said.
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On June 23, Britons will vote in a referendum to determine if the UK will withdraw from the European Union.
This British Exit—or more popularly known as the “Brexit”—is a hotly contested topic, and will have meaningful ramifications on the UK’s economy, should a withdrawal be approved.
How will this affect contemporary, online-based industries such as retail e-commerce? We examined our proprietary data and discovered some compelling key findings, particularly for companies invested in the online sector.
But first, some backstory. What’s the Brexit, anyway? The conversation surrounding the topic has become increasingly heated, but the perspectives on either side are pretty straightforward.
Proponents of the Brexit believe the EU’s size and bureaucracy have reduced Great Britain’s influence, and creates countless local economic challenges such as contested fishing grounds. Proponents also wish to “reassert national identity in the face of immigration,” a New York Times analysis recently said. (EU citizens have a right to live and work in other member nations.)
An annual post-rebate contribution of £12.9 billion to the EU budget stings too, many say.
However, Pro-EU pundits say staying in the Union will preserve UK influence and security on the world stage. Exiting the Union could wreck the UK economy, a perspective many economists share. (Indeed, the pound fell to a seven-year low in February, a by-product of recent Brexit-related uncertainty.) The International Monetary Fund warned last Tuesday in a statement that a Brexit would create “major challenges for both the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe.” Multinational banks including Goldman Sachs have warned that a Brexit would spark a departure of their jobs and headquarters from Great Britain.
Even proponents of the exit say growth would be affected for the next 15 years.
If Great Britain votes to leave the Union, a two-year exit negotiation will take place, focusing largely on the UK’s future relationship with the Union—particularly regarding trade. Economists expect that exports will get clobbered with tariffs and other economic measures, if the UK continues trade within the EU’s common market.
Making the topical pivot back to online business and revenue, it’s clear that a Brexit would impact e-commerce—a sector that’s become an increasingly important contributor to the British economy.
Last year, the UK generated £60 billion in B2C e-retail sales alone. Projections last September suggested that “the UK will remain the world leader when it comes to retail e-commerce’s share of total retail sales,” eMarketer wrote, adding that the UK’s global share of e-commerce sales would rise from 14.5% in 2015 to 19.3% by 2019.
Western European markets presently represent over 50% of UK e-commerce exports.
But those projections and percentages won’t be so rosy, should the Brexit occur. But by how much? We recently spoke with Erdem Tokmakoglu, a Global Online Strategist with our Global Growth team, to find out.
Erdem examined the website performance of key UK websites we localize for fashion retailers. Fashion retailers are generally more exposed to risk in situations of economic flux, due to possible adoption of tariffs, non-tariff barriers and expected increase in costs (as a result of depreciation of British pound).
“After accounting for annual and predictable seasonality factors on the UK fashion e-commerce sites we operate,” Erdem says, “we’ve already seen an average 1% reduction of online visitors over the last month, when the dialogue about the Brexit has been most intense.”
That’s barely a blip in lost visits and revenue so far—but it’s a loss nonetheless. Erdem rightly points out that this fluctuation is based solely on market reaction to Brexit news, and not a Brexit itself.
If the withdrawal is approved in June, revenues will drop based on models provided by the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), Erdem says. In those models, increases in trade costs between the UK and EU could immediately reduce the UK’s income by 1.1% of GDP to 3.1% of GDP—or up to £50 billion.
However, these projected losses are “based on a conventional static trade model that does not take account of the dynamic effects of trade on productivity growth,” the CEP wrote. “Recent research has found that dynamic effects may double or triple the size of the static effects.”
MotionPoint’s benchmark for UK fashion e-retailers indicate that 50% of UK site traffic hails from EU markets, led by France (24%), Germany (14%), Italy and Spain. UK e-commerce is clearly dependent on EU markets.
We applied CEP’s most optimistic scenario (a static 1.8% decrease in conversions) to MotionPoint’s UK fashion e-retailer benchmarks. For an e-retailer with a modest 5 million annual sessions and a £50 average order value (AOV), a 1.8% reduction from a solid 3% on-site conversion rate could make a £135,000 difference, compared to its base value.
Sites with far greater traffic and higher AOV stand to lose exponentially more.
This projection also excludes any dynamic effects the CEP warned about, which could triple those losses.
“Another important source of loss will arise from increased rules and regulations,” Erdem says. “We have seen that e-commerce shoppers in foreign markets are extremely sensitive to tariff limits—the maximum amount you can purchase before having to pay an additional cost to import the item.”
We believe European consumers will likely spend less on UK e-commerce sites, in a post-Brexit world. We can extrapolate the impact of this sensitivity by examining consumers in other overseas markets, Erdem says.
Take South Korean consumers. Thanks to prohibitively costly local products, Koreans love shopping on Western sites. They follow sales on these sites, and take advantage of discounts to maximize their purchasing power.
“What’s notable, however, is that even during sales events with the deepest discounts, the total price of their purchase approaches—but never exceeds—that free import threshold,” Erdem says. “The tariff ceiling has effectively limited just how much South Korean consumers are willing to spend on UK sites. We expect to see a similar effect among European customers.”
The takeaway: “We believe the Brexit will harm Britain’s fashion retail e-commerce,” Erdem says. “The costs for UK retailers will become large in scenarios with high uncertainty levels. The lowest costs come if the UK rapidly signs a free trade deal with the EU and with other major economies. But even then, there will be costs and losses.”Last updated on April 18, 2016 | <urn:uuid:2f04ccbd-c94c-42b1-b1b9-73c9f5065649> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motionpoint.com/blog/will-the-brexit-bruise-uk-e-commerce/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942007 | 1,465 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Eustace and Jill Pole are trying to escape a mob of bullies at the Experiment House, their ghastly boarding school. Jill has been crying, and the bullies can smell tears from hundreds of yards away. From their hiding spot, the two targets hear the angry shouts of the searchers. Eustace looks at Jill and wonders aloud if they might be able to escape to That Place. He begins calling out, “Aslan, Aslan, Aslan!” Jill follows his example: “Aslan, Aslan, Aslan!” The bullies draw near, and Eustace and Jill scramble through the laurels and up a steep slope. The weathered old door in the wall is always locked, but this time – miraculously – the knob turns. And the two children step into Aslan’s country.
Immediately after they arrive, Eustace falls off a cliff, but a lion arrives just in time and blows him to safety in Narnia. The lion – naturally – frightens Jill Pole. She tries to slip away, but the lion begins questioning her. Her showing off caused Eustace’s fall, she confesses. For that display of pride, the lion gives her a task to perform. “Please, what task, Sir?” asks Jill. “The task for which I called you and him here out of your own world,” says the lion. This response puzzles Jill. Nobody called them. They called out to – Somebody – a name she wouldn’t know. Wasn’t it she and Eustace who asked to come?
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” says the lion.
The lion is Aslan, and the task on which he sends Jill and Eustace makes up the story of The Silver Chair, one of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. This exchange between Aslan and Jill Pole from the beginning of the tale illustrates most vibrantly the foundational principle of a life of prayer. You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you.
The Catechism* in the back of the Book of Common Prayer states: “Prayer is responding to God, by thoughts and by deeds, with or without words.” When I first read this definition, I was flabbergasted. I had never thought of prayer as anything more than asking God for stuff. God, please give me a kitty that doesn’t scratch me. God, please help us win our soccer game. God, please make Grammy not sick anymore. Now, please don’t misunderstand, I am not condemning this form of prayer. There are many kinds of prayer, and they all have fancy names like adoration, oblation, intercession, petition – you get the idea. Rather, the popular definition that prayer is “asking God for stuff,” is several bricks up from the foundation.
That foundation is, of course, God. More precisely, the foundation of prayer is God’s presence in our lives and call upon our hearts. “Prayer,” says the Catechism, “is responding to God.”** Think of prayer as a phone call. We never dial the number: we only have the option to answer the phone when it rings. When we choose to answer, we enter into the relationship that God yearns for us. Prayer is another word for our part in our relationships with God.
Of course, the phone call is not a perfect metaphor because God is always present in our lives and always calling upon us to serve God in the world. In this context, Paul’s directive to “pray without ceasing” seems less unrealistic. Our striving to respond to God’s perpetual call in our lives is prayer. The collection of our words and deeds that emanate from our relationships with God is prayer. Anything we do in response to God’s movement in our lives is prayer. While prayer comprehends the kneeling-beside-the-bed-at-bedtime image that many associate with prayer, the act of praying is so much more expansive.
Monastics down through the ages have understood this. Even the lowliest jobs at the monastery – peeling potatoes or weeding fields – were prayer. Monks prayed many times a day in their chapels, but the labor they performed in the meantime was prayer, too. While we don’t have strict priors delegating our labors, we can still import the monastic example into our lives.
Look at your day, your week, your year. How do your engagements and actions display your response to God’s movement in your life? As a student, God calls you to learn about yourself and the rest of God’s creation. As a member of a family, God calls you to love and enjoy and forgive your parents and siblings. As a servant of God, God calls you to discover and enact that one way in which you can better the lives of those around you. When we respond to God in all these areas of our lives, we pray. We affirm our relationships with God. We live the abundant lives that Christ gives to us.
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” says Aslan to Jill Pole. “We love because he first loved us,” says the writer of the First Letter of John. Likewise, we pray because God first called us – called us into the expansive, abundant relationship with God. What will our response be?
* Also called “An Outline of the Faith,” an Episcopal F.A.Q. Most people know it as the thing you read when the sermon is really boring.
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Updated on 15th Oct 2020: Due dates of GSTR 1 Quarterly returns for tax period Oct 20 to Mar 21 is notified to be 13th of the month following the quarter | GST Notification 74/2020
Due dates of GSTR 1 Monthly returns are notified for tax period Oct 20 to Mar 21 | GST Notification 75/2020
Updated on 10th Nov 2020: CBIC extends the time limit of filing GSTR 1 | GST Notification 83/2020
GST is a complex law and it is thus common that taxpayers commit mistakes in GSTR 3B and GSTR 1 while filing the GST Return. However, once filed revisions aren’t allowed in these returns, the government has set out some rules to make rectify the mistakes in GSTR 3B and GSTR 1 for the ease and convenience of the taxpayers.
Off the GSTR 3B preparation process listed below, not all stages can be edited
Stage 1 – Confirm Submission,
Stage 2 – Cash Ledger Update
Stage 3 – Offset Liability,
Stage 4 – Return filed.
- Stage 1 and 2: Editing option is available
- Stage 3 and 4: Editing option is not available
If the errors are known before offsetting and filing then the same can be corrected by editing the respective liability side/input side etc. but on the other side if the errors are known after the offsetting and filing of return then in that case we need to follow the below:
General Rule of Rectifying Mistake after filing of GSTR 1 and 3B is done
Any invoice/debit note/credit note which is missed/under-reported/over-reported can be reported in GSTR 1 /Form GSTR-3B of the following month or before filing of annual returns
Also, liability is determined from GSTR 3B and not from GSTR 1. Hence, liability has to be paid through GSTR 3B
Here is a compendium of a few questions we have been repeatedly receiving around mistakes in GSTR 3B and GSTR 1 and our answers on how to rectify them:
1. I have under-reported tax liability in my GST returns:
When you have erroneously filed your tax liability and have under-reported it
The liability needs to be added in the return of the subsequent month and you also have to pay the appropriate interest amount as stated before.
If a taxpayer failed to report an invoice or some amount (liability) in the Form GSTR 1 and GSTR 3B in a certain month or quarter, then that liability needs to be reported and paid in the subsequent month’s/quarter’s FORM GSTR-1 and GSTR 3B with interest.
If a taxpayer has reported and paid the liability in GSTR 3B but has missed reporting the same in GSTR 1. The taxpayer can report the same in succeeding month GSTR 1, no liability and interest is required to be reported and paid through GSTR 3B
2. I have over-reported tax liability in my GST Returns:
When the tax liability has been over-reported mistakenly, then in such a scenario, the taxpayer can adjust the exceeding amount in the next month/quarter’s return. If this is not possible then GST refund may be claimed.
For example: if a taxpayer over-reported a bill or reported a bill twice then in form GSTR 3B, the over-reported sales amount needs to be deducted from the total sales amount (if possible) from outward supplies and inward supplies on reverse charge.
If a taxpayer over-reported a bill or reported a bill twice in form GSTR 1 then it can be revised in amendments under Table 9 of GSTR 1.
Liability, if any, is adjusted only through GSTR 3B, even in case there is over-reporting in GSTR1
3. I have used wrong tax rate in my GST Return
I have used wrong state while declaring intrastate or interstate liability:
Other probable mistakes can be – tax liability shown with low tax rate/high tax rate. Another case can be an interstate liability is shown as intrastate liability.
In such scenarios, the taxpayers must carefully calculate the liability or the balance tax liability and pay it rightly.
Excess paid tax liability can be adjusted or claimed as GST Refund. And lower-paid liability can be paid with interest.
To make these GST amendments, the taxpayers must file amendments Table 9 of the following month/quarter’s Form GSTR 1.
Kindly refer our blog on GST Amendments
4. I have under-reported ITC (Input Tax Credit):
If a taxpayer has under-reported his ITC for a month/quarter and wants to claim it, he/she can avail it in the return of the following period i.e. month/quarter. Only GSTR 3B’s needs to be changed and in that the required ITC can be added, in the following month.
For example: If A has mistakenly not considered a few of his purchases in a month then he can do so in the following month’s purchases and along with it, the ITC can be availed.
No actions required in GSTR 1 or 2
5. I have over-reported ITC (Input Tax Credit):
When ITC has been over-reported then the taxpayers need to reverse such excess ITC with interest in the following month/quarter. No need to change anything in GSTR 1.
Another situation can be if a taxpayer has over-claimed the Input Tax Credit and is also used the same then, the taxpayer needs to adjust or pay the same along with the appropriate interest duly in GSTR 3B in the following month/quarter
6. The cash ledger has been reported wrongly (only Stage 2 is affected):
Any mistake in cash ledger can be corrected through Challan PMT-09. Supposedly, you have paid cash in IGST instead of CGST same can be transferred from IGST head to CGST head through PMT-09
Kindly read our article on PMT-09 to know more on how to correct wrong reporting in Cash ledger:
So these were the mistakes in GSTR 3B and GSTR 1 and how we can resolve them in detail. You can also check out our other article which talks about Amendments in GSTR 1 and GSTR 3B in detail. The article helps you to amend GSTR 1 and Reset GSTR 3B step by step.
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The objective of this study was to compare fluoride levels in commercially available black tea, green tea, and matcha tea. Tea samples were purchased from a local supermarket in the United States and prepared according to the manufacturer’s directions to mimic consumer activity. The selected products included 3 black teas (Bigelow Earl Grey, Twinings of London Lady Grey, and Lipton), 2 green teas (Bigelow and Lipton), and 3 matcha teas (Mighty Leaf, Celestial Seasonings, and Matcha Love). For all products except Mighty Leaf and Matcha Love, 250 mL of deionized water (DIW) was heated to boiling. One tea bag was added and stirred for 2 minutes. For Mighty Leaf matcha, 300 mL of DIW was used, but the sample was otherwise prepared as previously described. Matcha Love was prepared by stirring 0.5 tsp of green tea powder for 2 minutes in 30 mL of DIW heated to boiling. A 10-mL aliquot was taken from each tea group and from DIW alone (control) and combined with 10 mL of total ionic strength adjustment buffer (TISAB II) before it was measured with a combination fluoride electrode and pH/ion meter. The sample size was 5 separately prepared and independently measured tea servings per group. Fluoride concentrations were calculated from a calibration curve constructed from appropriate fluoride standards and then statistically analyzed using analysis of variance followed by the Student-Newman-Keuls post hoc test (a = 0.05). The DIW control group had negligible fluoride content. All tested tea samples contained fluoride in amounts ranging from 0.521 to 6.082 mg/L. The mean concentration differed significantly among brands and types of tea. Matcha green tea powder had the highest concentration of fluoride. Most teas contain a higher fluoride concentration than optimally fluoridated water (0.7 mg/L). Dental healthcare professionals should consider this information when advising caries prevention regimens for patients and determining the potential for dental or skeletal fluorosis in at-risk patients.
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HADOOP interview Questions with Answers 2021
Hadoop is divided into HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Flume, ZooKeep, Pig, and Yarn Hadoop interview questions. Hadoop Interview Questions · What does ‘jps’ command do? · How to restart Namenode? · Which are the three modes in which Hadoop can be run? Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers for freshers and experienced cover latest interview question of Hadoop with answers,
Q1.Which of the following are the Goals of HDFS?
A. Fault detection and recovery
B. Huge datasets
C. Hardware at data
D. All of the above
Option D – All of the above
Q2.__ NameNode is used when the Primary NameNode goes down.
D. Both A and B
Option C – Secondary
Q3.The minimum amount of data that HDFS can read or write is called a _.
D. None of the above
Option C – Block
Q4.The default block size is __.
Option B – 64MB
Q5.For every node (Commodity hardware/System) in a cluster, there will be a _.
D. None of the above
Option A – Datanode
Q6.Which of the following is not Features Of HDFS?
A. It is suitable for the distributed storage and processing.
B. Streaming access to file system data.
C. HDFS provides file permissions and authentication.
D. Hadoop does not provides a command interface to interact with HDFS.
Option D – Hadoop does not provides a command interface to interact with HDFS.
Q7.HDFS is implemented in _ language.
Option C – Java
Q8.During start up, the _ loads the file system state from the fsimage and the edits log file.
Option B – Namenode
Q9.What is full form of HDFS?
A. Hadoop File System
B. Hadoop Field System
C. Hadoop File Search
D. Hadoop Field search
Option A – Hadoop File System
Q10.HDFS works in a __ fashion.
A. worker-master fashion
B. master-slave fashion
C. master-worker fashion
D. slave-master fashion
Option B – master-slave fashion
Q11.HDFS block size is larger as compared to the size of the disk blocks so that
A. Only HDFS files can be stored in the disk used.
B. The seek time is maximum
C. Transfer of a large files made of multiple disk blocks is not possible.
D. A single file larger than the disk size can be stored across many disks in the cluster.
Option D – A single file larger than the disk size can be stored across many disks in the cluster.
Q12.What is are true about HDFS?
A. HDFS filesystem can be mounted on a local client’s Filesystem using NFS.
B. HDFS filesystem can never be mounted on a local client’s Filesystem.
C. You can edit a existing record in HDFS file which is already mounted using NFS.
D. You cannot append to a HDFS file which is mounted using NFS.
Option A – HDFS filesystem can be mounted on a local client’s Filesystem using NFS.
Q13.Underreplication in HDFS means-
A. No replication is happening in the data nodes.
B. Replication process is very slow in the data nodes.
C. The frequency of replication in data nodes is very low.
D. The number of replicated copies is less than as specified by the replication factor.
Option D – The number of replicated copies is less than as specified by the replication factor.
Q14.HDFS stands for
A. Highly distributed file system.
B. Hadoop directed file system
C. Highly distributed file shell
D. Hadoop distributed file system.
Option D – Hadoop distributed file system.
Q15.When a file in HDFS is deleted by a user
A. it is lost forever
B. It goes to trash if configured.
C. It becomes hidden from the user but stays in the file system
D. File sin HDFS cannot be deleted
Option B – It goes to trash if configured.
Q16.The archive file created in Hadoop always has the extension of
Option B – .har
Q17.Which of the following is not a scheduling option available in YARN
A. Balanced scheduler
B. Fair scheduler
C. Capacity scheduler
D. FiFO schesduler.
Option A – Balanced scheduler
Q18.What is AVRO?
A. Avro is a java serialization library.
B. Avro is a java compression library.
C. Avro is a java library that create split table files.
D. None of these answers are correct.
Option A – Avro is a java serialization library.
Q19.You have loads of data that can be processed by you MRjobs. However you need the data to be available to Analysts and Scients in you organisation. What is the best format to represent the input?
A. Sequence File.
Option B – Avro
Q20.For the frequently accessed HDFS files the blocks are cached in
A. the memory of the datanode
B. in the memory of the namenode
C. Both A&B
D. In the memory of the client application which requested the access to these files.
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Latest ACECQA NQF Performance Report confirms ongoing quality increases and more in 2019
The Australian Children’s Education and Care Authority (ACECQA) have released their 2019 National Quality Framework (NQF) Annual Performance Report in which, amongst other things, confirms that the percentage of services rated as Meeting National Quality Standards (NQS) or above increased again, capping the seventh consecutive year of improvement since the NQF was introduced in 2012.
This year, 79 per cent of services were rated as Meeting NQS or above, up from 62 per cent five years ago, 73 per cent two years ago and 78 per cent last year.
Notably, this overall improvement in quality is replicated across all seven quality areas of the NQS, with the largest improvements over the last five years being for Quality Area 1 – Educational Program and Practice and Quality Area 3 – Physical Environment.
Commenting on the trend Judy Hebblethwaite, Chair of ACECQA, noted that one of the key benefits ACECQA has observed nationally since the introduction of the NQF is an increase in overall service quality.
Other important trends picked up in this year’s report include but are not limited to the following:
- Proportion of exceeding rated centres falls for first time in 2019 as new guidance introduced in 2018 starts to impact outcomes – Overall 31 per cent of all services were rated exceeding in 2019, down from 33 per cent in 2018 with the fall attributed to aspects of the new version of the NQS which came into effect on 1 February 2018 making it more challenging for a service to achieve a rating of Exceeding NQS.
- For the first time since 2013/14 more than half of FDC services now rated Meeting NQS or above – In the wake of efforts by Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments to address serious compliance breaches across the family day care (FDC) sector increased resource allocation to quality assessment and rating activity has driven an overall improvement in quality that is also evident across multiple areas of the NQS – (Page 9 of the report)
- Overall rate of serious incident and confirmed breaches ticks higher in 2018/19 although bright spots for LDC and FDC are evident – The rate of serious incidents increased to 102 per 100 approved services in 2018/19 up from 98 in 2017/18, with only long day care (LDC) able to avoid an increase this year and actually reporting the only decrease when measured on a per licence place basis. With respect to confirmed breaches FDC saw a decrease for the second year running but both Outside School Hours Care and Preschool/Kindergarten reported quite material year on year increases for the second year running.
- Quality Area 5 and 7 ratings strongest predictors of outperformance in Quality Area 1 – Standards 1.1 (Program), 1.2 (Practice) and 1.3 (Assessment and planning) remain amongst the most challenging standards in the NQS with 1.3 being the most challenging with 83 per cent of services rated Meeting NQS or above. That being said those services that tended to do better in standard 1.3 also performed well in Quality Area 7 which addresses governance and leadership, including the role of the educational leader.
- Services in the least disadvantaged areas report materially higher proportion of Exceeding NQS centres – Services located in areas defined as most and least disadvantaged as measured by the Socio – Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) showed marked differences in quality performance, particularly in the Exceeding NQS category. Overall 37 per cent of all services in the least disadvantaged areas were rated Exceeding NQS whereas only 28 per cent achieved the same rating in the most disadvantaged areas. (Page 35 of report)
- Awareness levels up but quality rating again found to be the least important factor for parents choosing an ECEC service – In the 2019 parents survey it was found that overall parents awareness of the quality rating system ticked up to 46 per cent signalling awareness up from 40 per cent in 2017 however when parents identified as being aware of the system a very high percentage, 80 per cent, noted that it was helpful or very helpful. That being said, the quality rating ranked last as an “important” factor for families when choosing a service. (Page 47 of the report).
- Location, cost and reputation are top three factors for parents making choices of service – Consistent with the 2017 survey, service location, service cost and service reputation in that order remained the most important factors for a family when evaluating an ECEC service for their children. Within settings there were variations with cost featuring as a key factor in OSHC and FDC but less so in LDC and Preschool / Kinder, the general “feel” of a service being important in LDC settings but less so in others and high quality program featuring very strongly in Preschool / Kinder but less so in others. (Page 46 of report.)
- Enrolments in Diploma qualifications show marked decreases with Cert III and teaching degrees broadly stable – The number of enrolments in educator qualification courses fell overall by 13 per cent in 2018, with a substantial fall, likely attributable to changes in funding and fee relief arrangements, of 22 per cent recorded in the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care qualification compared to the prior year. Cert III and ECT enrolments were down slightly on previous years but still lagging very materially the strong growth in new services opened over the last four years, particularly in the LDC setting. (Page 53 of the report).
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Allen Jackson - Tale of Two Cities - Part 2
It's an honor to be with you again. We're going to conclude our study today, "A Tale of Two Cities". It's a comparison between the city of Nineveh and the city of Jerusalem. Nineveh repented and God showed them mercy. Jerusalem stood in their stubbornness and their rebellion, and experienced the judgment of God. I don't want to do that. I'd like to just plant a seed if I could. You know, it's been popular in many segments of the Christian church through the centuries to say that the Jewish people rejected the Savior, the Messiah, and therefore God rejected them.
Well, that is really in clear contradiction to the message of the New Testament, particularly what Paul wrote to the church at Rome. God didn't reject the Jewish people, certainly we've rejected Jesus frequently enough that we don't want him to reject us. That idea has been at the root of so much of the hatred of the Jewish people. Let's not carry that forward. They gave us the scripture, the prophets, and the Messiah, we are deeply in their debt. We're not angry with them.
I want to come back to the question, the choice between those two cities, and I would submit to you that saying "Well, we're coming to church on a frigid evening, what do you want"? And I would submit to you the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, "We're the covenant people of God, and we keep kosher, and we go to the ritual bath, and we pay the temple tax, and we do our Torah readings on Shabbat, what do you want from us"? And I believe the answer is the same thing he said to the people of Nineveh, we have to repent, because on our watch, ungodliness has flourished. On our watch, we've sacrificed the children. On our watch, we've redefined marriage. On our watch, the most basic biology of our lives we call confusing, and God is not the author of confusion. On our watch, we said we don't want Jesus's name mentioned in the public square.
We don't want those prayers before our children play sporting events, and we don't want those prayers in our official gatherings of our leaders, and it's our watch. You can say, "Well, I'm not doing that". Well, I promise you there were godly people in Jerusalem, there were righteous people in Jerusalem, there were righteous people in Jerusalem in 587 when the Babylonians destroyed the city. You know some of them, Daniel and his friends. But they lived their lives as slaves in a foreign country. Within about 40 years of when Jesus spoke those words, the Roman legions encircled Jerusalem and did exactly what they said. He said they built siege ramps against it, they destroyed the city. They tore down the temple.
There was another rebellion in 130 that historians tell us by that point, the Jews were so plentiful in the Roman slave markets that they were almost worthless. Which city will we be? Our problem isn't because of the wicked. It's not the political party that you don't like, stop. It has to start with us. We're the salt and light. We're gonna talk about some responses, but I want to be certain we understand what's in front of us. An election isn't gonna fix us. An election isn't gonna fix us. Eighty-million of us voted for what's happening. You say, "Well, I didn't". Well, somebody you know well did. We're a very divided group.
Now, I'm gonna come back to those two cities, but I want to take a brief detour 'cause I want to give you a bit of the rest of the story from what Jesus said. It's still being played out on our world, those words that Jesus spoke on the Mount of Olives that day. It's still unfolding around us. In Matthew 21 Jesus makes a pronouncement over the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish people. And I'll tell you what it is before we read it, because I want you to hear it in his words. He places them under interdict. It's not a word we use a lot, the simplest definition, it's a ban that prohibits participation. You're not gonna be able to participate anymore, he said. The opportunities you've been given are gonna be taken away from you. You treated them shabbily. You presumed upon them. In your arrogance and your unwillingness to humble yourself, you have forfeited the right to the freedoms you've had.
Does it have your attention? He has mine. Listen to what he says, Matthew 21:43, "'Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.' When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus's parables, they knew he was talking about them". There weren't chief priests, there weren't Pharisees, the Pharisees were responsible for the synagogues and the teaching of the people in the synagogues, Nineveh didn't have those offices. They knew Jesus was talking about them. "They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet".
Your privileges are gonna be removed, he said. And the truth is, after 70 A.D., a series of Gentile empires and rulers held authority over the city of Jerusalem, from 70 'til 1948 with the city of Jerusalem until 1967 in the Six-Day War. In John 18, Jesus is talking to Pilate and he said, "'You're a king,' then Jesus answered, 'You're right in saying I'm a king,' and with that, Pilate went out again to the Jews and said, 'I find no basis for a charge against him, but it's your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release the King of the Jews?' Pilate, fully expecting them to say yes".
He believes Jesus is innocent. He understands he's standing in his judgment chamber because of the jealousy of the leaders. But now he has a crowd of people before him, "And they shouted back, 'No, not him, give us Barabbas". Barabbas was a murderer, a violent man, and God gave them a series of people with the Barabbas spirit in them to rule over the city of Jerusalem for almost 2.000 years. We have a choice to make. In Acts 3, this is Peter responding to the lame man that's been healed when the crowd gathers. It said, "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified his servant, Jesus. You handed him over to be killed and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go".
Did you hear that? Pilate would've let him go, but he was inconvenient for us. We had lives to lead, and plans were made, and vacations were scheduled, and he was intruding on it. "You disowned the holy and righteous one and asked that a murderer be released to you. You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this". Tragically, those passages have been used to incite antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people.
The greatest perpetrator of antisemitism through the centuries has been the Christian Church. That's lost on most of us, we don't know the history. But I assure you it's the facts, and if you sit in a classroom at Hebrew University, it's a very awkward fact to have to wrestle with, because they're very aware of it. The average Israeli on the street today is more comfortable with the Muslim world than the Christian world. They trust them more, because the Christian church has been responsible for the death of far more of the Jewish community. God didn't abandon them, he simply said you're gonna be prohibited from having the freedoms and liberties that you've had for a very long time, because you have treated them shabbily.
Again, he has my attention. We have had tremendous freedoms, and liberties, and opportunities, generation upon generation, and we lead presumptive lives. We make our plans based upon the trajectory we can see from our grandparents, and our parents, and ourselves, and we look at our children and our grandchildren, and we assume, we presume. The final chapter of this, it's worth noting, and I'll do it quickly, 'cause I wanna move someplace else. Ezekiel chapter 37, some of you may know that chapter, it's the valley of dry bones. The prophet's taken to a valley, and it's filled with dry bones, and he's asked a question. The Lord asked him a question, "Can these bones live"? And Ezekiel said, "Lord, only you know," and he gives him a message to speak to the bones, and the bones begin to come together.
This is kinda the bit of the punchline in verse 11. It said, "He said to me, 'Son of Man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say our bones are dried up, and our hope is gone, and we're cut off, and therefore prophesy and say to them, "This is what the sovereign Lord says. 'O my people, I'm going to open your graves and bring you up from them, and I'll bring you back to the land of Israel.'" Then you my people will know that I am the Lord, and when I open your graves and bring you up from them, I'll put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land, and you will know that I the Lord have spoken and I have done it.'"
Anytime the Lord says you will know I have done it, you will know it couldn't be done unless God did it. And in 1948, the modern nation of Israel was created in a day. There have been many, all the nations of the Middle East were, almost without exception, were drawn after the end of World War I, but Israel, the day they became a nation, there were five surrounding armies, standing armies, that declared war on them, and inexplicably they survived, but God. And they continue to flourish in the midst of that world. God is fulfilling his promise to Ezekiel. When we read the closing chapters of our New Testament in the scene just before the Lord returns, the Jewish people have stepped back to the forefront of the proclamation of the gospel.
The good news about Jesus is that as the age comes to a conclusion, it's not going to, that initiative is not gonna be led by the non-Jewish community, it'll be led by the Jewish community. That should make you smile. In Luke 21 and verse 24, it's Jesus, it's the parallel passage to Matthew 24. It's Jesus's lengthy prophetic discourse about the end of the age. He said, "They, the Jewish people, will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles".
Gentile is the New Testament word for everybody that's not Jewish. In the New Testament, there's two people groups, the Jewish people and everybody else. And he said Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles are fulfilled. There'll be a season when the Gentiles will have authority over this the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish people, but that season will come to a conclusion. And what follows after that is an outpouring of the Spirit of God upon the Jewish people, them having a revelation of Jesus as Messiah, and becoming the most remarkable advocates for the kingdom of God that our world will have ever seen. God isn't finished with the Jewish people. I hope you pray for them on a regular basis.
I want to come back to the question, the choice between those two cities. I won't ask you to answer out loud, but I want you to live with it a bit this week. The response you see taking place in our current culture, does it look more like Nineveh or more like Jerusalem? Are we maintaining clinging to our routines, and our habits, and our status quo, thinking our status is good enough, we've got it worked out? Are we humbling ourselves in very visible ways, disrupting our lives in pursuit of God? Do we recognize that the only possible future for us that's acceptable will come from the hand of God, or do we imagine we're pretty good? What will we choose?
I would submit to you that biblically we're instructed to have a concern beyond just our salvation. I think it's been pretty destructive that we've posed the discussions of Christianity in terms almost exclusively in terms of personal salvation. I believe in that, and I don't want to diminish that, but that's the entry point. It would be like describing the human experience as being born and showing everybody pictures of that newborn in the hospital. That's the beginning point, but that's not the epitome of the journey. We have an assignment beyond just the new birth. In Acts 26, Paul's been arrested in Jerusalem, he's been transported to Caesarea, he's been imprisoned because he's been falsely accused, and he has an opportunity to defend himself. He's on trial for his life before King Agrippa, and he uses the opportunity to try to influence Agrippa to choose Jesus. He's not nearly as interested in his own freedom and liberty.
In fact, by the time he's done, Agrippa said, "You know, if you hadn't made some other decisions, you could be free". It's Acts 26 and verse 28. "Agrippa said to Paul, 'You almost persuade me to become a Christian.' And Paul said, 'I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.'" You almost persuaded me, Paul. How many of you were on trial for your life would be witnessing to the judge? We chuckle because it's uncomfortable. We know the reality of it. He might not like your message. We understand there's antagonism to Christianity, and a lot of resistance to Jesus, and would you put your life at greater risk by advocating for Jesus as the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and the greatest opportunity presented to a human being?
The overwhelming answer is no, we wouldn't do that, but Paul did. Depends on the translation you read, this is the New King James, he said, "You've almost persuaded me". In some translations they use it to say, "Did you think in such a short time you could persuade me"? Both of them connote the same thing, Paul's making an all hands on, all out attempt to get Agrippa to give his life to the Lord. In Acts 2 and verse 36, it's the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem. Peter is closing his message, and it said, "'Let all Israel be assured of this, God made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.' When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, 'What shall we do?'" Some people say, "You know, we shouldn't talk about current events at church".
Peter stood on the streets of Jerusalem and said, "A few weeks ago, you murdered the Messiah". Might be a bit inflammatory. He didn't mince words, he didn't say you were deceived or confused. He didn't blame the Roman governor, he said you did it. You know what the liberal apologist will say? That the New Testament was written by Jewish authors that wanted the approval of their Roman overlords, so they made the Jewish people the bad guys. There's a Greek word that describes my opinion about that school of thought, bologna. It means I strongly disagree, and it's not really a Greek word, but if you fry it, it's really... never mind, that's another discussion. "The people were cut to the heart, and said, 'What shall we do?' And he said, 'Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins, and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.' With many other words, he warned them and he pleaded with them".
Again, they have a much more emotional presenter than Nineveh had. He warns them, he pleads with them, "'Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.' Those who accepted his message were baptized, 3.000 were added to their number that day". Folks, we have an assignment beyond our salvation. We've gotta stop this. We have got to humble ourselves over this arrogant, presumptive, "Well, I'm born again, it's not my problem". Excuse me, who told us that? What has caused us to accept that deception? In Acts chapter 5, "They called the Apostles in and they had them flogged". It's a fancy word for beaten. "They ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and they let them go". Very clear they'd been deplatformed, they'd been canceled. "They left the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the name of Jesus".
I've read that most of my life and I always thought they left and were thanking the Lord that they were worthy to suffer physically, but that's not what it says. It says they suffered disgrace, their reputation has been sullied. The most powerful organization in the city of Jerusalem, the ones that orchestrated Jesus's execution have cast doubt upon their character. They've arrested them, they said, "Don't you speak again". The messages is out. Don't listen to them. They're persona non grata. Take them off your invitation lists. Take down their channels for receiving income, they're disgraced. And the disciples's response was to celebrate that they were worthy to have that opportunity. We'll do almost everything in our power to avoid that position. We'll go dumbly silent. We'll look at the floor. We'll avoid settings where we have to publicly identify Jesus.
"Well, it could cost me a job, a friend, an invitation". It very well could. Folks, what we've been doing is not enough. I like the next verse, it's the punchline. "Day after day in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ". The temple courts were like these big public meetings. Every day they never stopped having public meetings. They'd been threatened, they'd been beaten, they never stopped. And then from house to house, every day, they kept telling the story Jesus is the Messiah. Which city are we gonna be? What's our response? I'll give you one verse and then I'm done. Whoo, I really am done.
Colossians 4 verse 5 says, "Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders. Make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt". When you talk to outsiders, your conversation is supposed to be seasoned with your faith, "So that you may know how to answer everyone". You say, "Well, I don't know how to answer everyone". Well, you can't wait to start until you got all the answers. You won't have the all the answers 'til you get to heaven and you'll have missed the opportunity. We're gonna start in the midst of our brokenness.
Now, I brought your prayer, I want you to stand with me. How many of you will be willing, if the Lord gave you an opportunity, to have a faith conversation with somebody? Look at y'all, you know what that would happen to our community? I'm expecting more people for Easter celebration than we've ever had anytime in our history. We're gonna mobilize. I mean, it is not about the sermon, folks, it's gonna be about the resurrection, who knew? It'll be because we make the effort.
But Easter is not about us, we know the story, we want to help those people who don't know. And if they don't wanna come to Easter, maybe they'll choose another week, or another week, or another week, but we're gonna begin to have some faith discussions in this community in ways we've never had before. And I believe if we'll give our heart to this, there'll be other communities take note, and we'll be able to help them do that. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could ignite a faith discussion from coast to coast and border to border? Thank you for that enthusiastic response. Folks, I'm lookin' for a Nineveh response. I brought you a prayer. I built it out of our Bible reading for the day, it's from the book of Colossians. I adapted it a bit, but let's read it together:
Heavenly Father, we humble ourselves in repentance. We need your help. Open our hearts to receive spiritual wisdom and understanding, that we might know your will. We ask this that we may live a life worthy of the Lord, and please you in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power that we might have patience to complete our assignment and ultimately to share the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light, amen. | <urn:uuid:728014f5-bbcd-4bd8-a5a5-4d289530766e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sermons.love/allen-jackson/11859-allen-jackson-tale-of-two-cities-part-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.98375 | 4,528 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The World’s Smallest Elephant Shrew Discovered
These animals look like snout-y mice but are more closely related to elephants.
In a remote area of northwest Namibia, scientists found a rust-colored shrew, which hides amongst the area’s reddish volcanic rocks. Further analysis found that it was a new species, and the smallest of a group of animals called elephant shrews. These (adorable) creatures look mouse-like but are in fact more closely related genetically to elephants, sea cows, hyraxes and aardvarks.
They also have some other bizarre features–they typically give birth to twins “which hit the ground running like the calves of some types of African antelope,” Reuters reported:
The scientists have named the animal Macroscelides micus. Adults measure seven inches long, including the tail, and weigh only 27 grams, about the weight of two tablespoons of sugar. And what sweet shrews they are.
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JURUPA VALLEY—The wave of vandalism against Catholic churches that has resurfaced this spring struck the Diocese on May 6 when Sacred Heart Parish in Jurupa Valley saw three of its stained-glass windows broken and a statue beheaded.
Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies later arrested a transient man on charges of committing the vandalism at the parish. He was identified through parish security cameras and later apprehended at an abandoned house on May 12.
The attack on the Mission Boulevard parish also included the breaking of windows at the parish office, religious education classrooms and restrooms. The vandal is alleged to have used a fire extinguisher to knock the head off a parish statue of San Juan Diego, the indigenous man who was first to witness the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Three, 100-year-old, stained glass windows donated by a San Francisco convent were broken with rocks.
The vandalism has created anxiety in the parish, says Business Secretary Alma Galaviz. Adding to that, on May 11 someone attempted to steal the painting of the Last Supper from the church, and the storage area for the parish food bank was broken into on May 17, Galaviz said.
“I feel worried because there have been several incidents,” she said. “There’s a lot of tension.”
But as with other parishes that have been the target of vandalism in recent months and years, the community is responding with prayer. Sacred Heart held a Rosary Rally on May 29. “We must make a public, peaceful act of reparation for this sacrilege, asking our Lord for mercy on our country,” read the promotional flyer for the event.
The parish is currently receiving bids to repair the windows and statue and did not have an estimated cost of the damages.
According to a report issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty, there have been at least 74 incidents of vandalism against Catholic churches across 25 states since May of 2020. Sacred Heart made reference to this troubling trend in their promotion of the May 29 Rosary Rally.
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The mediastinum: is the central compartment of the thoracic cavity surrounded by loose connective tissue. The mediastinum contains the heart and its vessels, the esophagus, trachea, phrenic and vagus nerves, the thoracic duct, thymus and lymph nodes of the central chest. The mediastinum lies within the thorax and is enclosed on the right and left by pleurae. It is surrounded by the sternum and chest wall in front, the lungs to the sides and the spine at the back. It contains all the organs of the thorax except the lungs. It is continuous with the loose connective tissue of the neck. The mediastinum can be divided into an upper (superior) and lower (inferior) part: The superior mediastinum starts at the superior thoracic aperture and ends at the thoracic plane. (thoracic plane: is a plane at the level of the sternal angle, and the intervertebral disc of T 4–T 5). The inferior mediastinum extends from thoracic plane to the diaphragm. It is subdivided into three regions, all relative to the pericardium – the anterior mediastinum being in front of the pericardium, the middle mediastinum contains the pericardium, and the posterior mediastinum behind pericardium
Sternal angle represents several important anatomical features: 1 - Beginning and end of the aortic arch 2 - Bifurcation of the trachea 3 - Bifurcation of the pulmonary trunk 4 - Left recurrent laryngeal nerve loops under arch of aorta 5 - Ligamentum arteriosum lies at this level 6 - Azygos vein drains into superior vena cava 7 - Cardiac plexus 8 - Thoracic duct empties into left subclavian vein
Superior mediastinum Bounderies • superiorly by the thoracic inlet; • inferiorly by the thoracic plane • laterally by the pleurae • anteriorly by the manubrium of the sternum • posteriorly by the first four thoracic vertebral bodies
Contents of the superior mediastinum muscles Origins of the Sternohyoid, Sternothyroid and lower ends of the Longus colli arteries Aortic arch, brachiocephalic artery, thoracic portions of the left common carotid and the left subclavian Veins brachiocephalic veins, upper half of the superior vena cava and left highest intercostal vein Nerves Vagus nerve, superficial and deep cardiac plexuses, phrenic nerve and left recurrent laryngeal nerve Organs Trachea with paratracheal and tracheobronchial lymph nodes, esophagus, thoracic duct, thymus gland some lymph glands
Lt. Brachiocephalic V Rt. Brachiocephalic V. Lt. Phrenic N. Sup. Vena cava Ligamentum Art. Lt. Vagus N.
Inferior mediastinum is divided into 1 -Anterior mediastinum Relations • laterally is the pleura • posteriorly is the pericardium • anteriorly is the sternum. Contents • A quantity of loose areolar tissue • Some lymphatic vessels which ascend from the convex surface of the liver • Two or three anterior mediastinal lymph nodes • The small mediastinal branches of the internal thoracic artery • Thymus (disappears in adults)
Middle mediastinum It bounds the pericardial sac Pericardium contains the vital organs and is classified into the serous and fibrous pericardium Contents • the heart enclosed in the pericardium • the ascending aorta • the lower half of the superior vena cava with the azygos vein opening into it • the bifurcation of the trachea and the two bronchi • the pulmonary trunk dividing into its two branches • the right and left pulmonary veins • the phrenic and vagus nerves • some bronchial lymphatic glands • Pericardial and phrenic vessels
Pericardial and phrenic vessels
Posterior mediastinum Is bounded: • Anteriorly by (from above downwards); bifurcation of trachea; pulmonary vessels; fibrous pericardium • Inferiorly by the thoracic surface of the diaphragm • Superiorly by the thoracic plane • Posteriorly by the bodies of the vertebral column from the fifth to the twelfth thoracic vertebra • Laterally by the mediastinal pleura Contents Artery: thoracic part of the descending aorta Veins: azygos vein the hemiazygos vein and the accessory hemiazygos vein Nerves: vagus nerve, splanchnic nerves, sympathetic chain Other structures : Esophagus, thoracic duct, some lymph glands
Contents of the posterior mediastinum
The Pericardium • Pericardium: Is a membranous flask shaped sac that surrounds and protects the heart. • It is formed by two principal portions: • An outer fibrous pericardium: Is tough, inelastic, dense irregular connective tissue. It blends inferiorly with the central tendon of the diaphragm and superiorly with the adventitia of the great vessels • An inner serous pericardium: is a thin, more delicate membrane that forms a double layer around the heart. • The outer parietal layer of the serous pericardium is fused with the fibrous pericardium. • The inner visceral layer of the serous pericardium, called the epicardium. It is combined with the underlying delicate areolar tissue and adipose tissue and adheres tightly to the surface of the heart.
• Between the parietal and visceral layers of the serous pericardium is a thin film of lubricating fluid known as pericardial fluid. • The space that contains the few milliliters of pericardial fluid is called the pericardial cavity. • The heart is suspended freely inside the pericardial cavity. It is only fixed by the junction between fibrous pericardium and the adventitia of the aorta, pulmonary trunk and superior vena cava superiorly and adventitia of pulmonary veins posteriorly
Layers of the Heart Wall • The wall of the heart consists of three layers: epicardium, the myocardium, and the endocardium. • Epicardium (external layer): is composed of two tissue layers. The outermost is the visceral layer of the serous pericardium (mesothelium). Beneath the mesosthelium is a variable amount of delicate areolar tissue and adipose tissue. It contains blood vessels, lymphatics, and nerves that supply the myocardium. • The middle myocardium (muscle 95% of the heart) is responsible for the pumping action of the heart and is composed of cardiac muscle tissue. • Endocardium (innermost layer): is a thin layer of endothelium overlying a thin layer of connective tissue. Provides a smooth lining for the chambers of the heart and covers the valves of the heart. The smooth endothelial lining minimizes the surface friction.
Pericardial sinuses There are two pericardial sinuses: Transverse sinus and oblique Sinus Transverse sinus: located between the aorta and pulmonary artery anteriorly and the superior vena cava posteriorly Oblique sinus: is a cul-de-sac sinus, enclosed between the limbs of an inverted U shaped pericardial reflection; it lies posterior to the left atrium. Pericardial reflection is a double layer of visceral mesoderm supporting the heart in the pericardial cavity. Transverse sinus Oblique sinus Inf vena cava Oblique sinus
Boundaries of the oblique sinus right (in ascending order): inferior vena cava, right inferior pulmonary vein and right superior pulmonary vein Superior: it is separated from the transverse pericardial sinus above by a double reflection of serous pericardium that extends transversely between the left and right superior pulmonary veins Left (in ascending order): left inferior pulmonary vein and left superior pulmonary vein | <urn:uuid:8dcbe4ae-b40c-4daa-a3d4-1adb716932ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slidetodoc.com/mediastinum-and-pericardium-prof-abdulameer-alnuaimi-email-a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.80862 | 1,808 | 3.515625 | 4 |
How to keep away conflagrations, dire epidemics and pestilence
The field of folk belief among our Pennsylvania German ancestors is a rich one, replete with words. Certain rituals go along with many practices used for healing known as pow-wow, but the words are also specific for each one. They are readily available in books such as John George Hohman’s The Long Lost Friend, probably purchased today mostly as a curiosity. I doubt that it has been out of print since it was first published in 1820.
Charms written by hand on little slips of paper seem to have been fairly common. In a previous post I showed a charm for good luck while hunting game. A friend found that scrap of paper rolled up and inserted in the stock of his grandfather’s shotgun.
Many editions of broadsides printed in German were produced and sold in the Pennsylvania German region, including York County, during the 18th and 19th century and perhaps later. Examples of these larger documents could be house blessings and “letters from Heaven” warning away all kinds of disasters. A friend recently shared the fire charm above, probably from a York County printer. See below for my recent York Sunday News column, which includes further description and translation:
Pennsylvania German fire charms—another form of fire protection
Pennsylvania Germans were, and in some cases, still are, a religious lot. Many believed in the power of healing by faith in God. Braucherei, or pow-wowing, is one aspect of this belief, using ritual and charms for healing and protection while giving God credit. An entwined component is printed broadsides, still to be occasionally found at antique shops and public sales. These include Himmels-Briefe (Heavenly Letters) and House Blessings. Many historical archives, including York County Heritage Trust, have original examples in their collections. Depending on their purpose, they could be kept in the home or carried on your person.
Although not as common as some of the other blessings and charms, fire charms can also be found in York County. A friend recently shared an original fire charm with me, noting that it was a form of “fire insurance,” for some of the groups of Pennsylvania Germans (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch) who settled in southeastern and southcentral Pennsylvania, including York County. Printers sometimes didn’t include their imprint on the broadsides they printed, but, working with identified imprints, the printer can sometimes be identified by the typefaces and type cuts (carved wood blocks or cast metal designs) used by known printers. Some early 19th century York County printers produced several kinds of broadsides, probably including fire charms. I have seen the crucifixion cut and the little tailpieces used to make the border on this piece on birth and baptismal certificates printed by Daniel Philip Lange and his successors in Hanover.
No matter who the printer was, the text is very similar in just about all editions. A translation of the most popular fire charm is below. This translation is taken from The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide, by Don Yoder, who it turn obtained it from an 1875 English edition of Albertus Magnus: Egyptian Secrets, published in Harrisburg. Some editions have an additional title at the top: “Eine wahre Geschichte,” or “A True Story,” perhaps to give the charm more validity. Some also start out crediting the invention of the charm to a “Christian Singing Master, King of Egypt” instead of a “Gypsy King of Egypt.” It reads:
“An Approved Method to Turn Conflagrations and Epidemics to Usefulness
The following is the invention of a Gypsy King of Egypt, who confessed Christianity. Anno 1714, on the 10th day of June, there were executed, in the kingdom of Prussia, six gypsies, by suffering death on the gallows; the seventh of them, however, a man of 80 years, was condemned to be beheaded on the 16th of the month. But a conflagration taking place, meantime, turned to be good luck for the aged man. He was liberated, and taken to the scene of the fire, for the purpose of having him try his arts and mysterious workings. What he accomplished, to the great astonishment of all present, he stayed the conflagration by a miracle, within the brief period of a quarter of an hour, and for this deed he was pardoned, and entirely liberated. Such was approved by the Royal Prussian Government and the Superintendent General at Koenigsberg, and made public in print.
First printed at Konigsberg, Prussia, by Alexander Bauman, Anno 1715.
Thou art welcome, thou fiery guest, do not grasp further, but spare the rest.
That fire I count to the ransom, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
I command thee, fire, by the power of God, who does all things well, and all things creates, that thou wouldst stand still, and not further proceed: as true as Christ stood in the river Jordan, when he was baptized by Holy Saint John; that I count to thy ransom, oh, fire, in the name of the Holy Trinity.
I command thee, fire, by the power of God, that thou wouldst allay the flames, as true as Mary remaineth so chaste and pure; for this cease thy rage, oh terrible fire. This I count to thee, oh fire, for ransom’s sake in the name of the Holy Trinity.
I command thee, fire, thou wouldst thy violent heat allay, for the blood which he shed for our sins and his death. All this I accept as a ransomed for thy sake, in the name of God the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost.
Jesus Nazarenus, King of the Jews, help us out of these dangers of fire, and protect this land and its borders from all epidemics and from pestilence.
Whoever keeps this letter in his house, he will not suffer from conflagrations, and if any pregnant woman carries this letter on her person, no sorcery, apparition or witchcraft can harm her. Also everyone who keeps this letter at home or carries the same on his person will be secure from dire epidemics and pestilence.”
Note that the ending paragraph doesn’t say that the Feuer-Briefe (literally translated fire letter) has to be displayed to be effective. As long as you had it in the house or on your person, the protection was supposed to be effective. In their book, Flying Leaves and One-sheets: Pennsylvania German Broadsides, Fraktur and Their Printers, Corinne and Russell Earnest state that they have been told that some fire charms were kept by the entrance door in a stoppered bottle. These may have been shorter, hand-written charms that were to be repeated while running around the house three times in case of fire. The Earnests canvassed many archives and private collections and determined that most of the examples of broadside Feuers-Briefe they discovered were printed in the first half of the 19th century. These probably grew out of the shorter charms, written on small pieces of paper by the mid-18th century. | <urn:uuid:406f0bfb-96f7-476f-833c-5f03f32ead8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yorkblog.com/universal/conflagrations-dire-epidemics-pestilence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968358 | 1,543 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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