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Although the Kruizenga Art Museum hasn’t even opened yet, the building has already made a lasting difference at Hope, leading to major contributions to the Permanent Art Collection that will enrich student learning for generations to come.
It’s an assortment headlined by more than 500 recently arrived works of art contributed by California residents David Kamansky and Gerald Wheaton. The significant personal collection—Kamansky is a former director of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena—consists primarily of works from across Asia, ranging from the second century to the late 20th, but also from Europe (some from the 16th century) and North America, and thousands of related books and catalogs.
Among others, Hope has also received works of contemporary North American art from Dr. Richard Kruizenga ’52 of Dallas, Texas, and Holland, Michigan, who with his late wife Margaret (Feldmann ’52) had provided the founding gift for the museum, and is anticipating collections of Ethiopian art from Dr. Neal Sobania ’68 of Lakewood, Washington, who is a member of the history faculty at Pacific Lutheran University, and his wife Elizabeth ’00; Japanese art from the family of retired missionaries Dr. John and Etta Hesselink of Holland; and European art from Dr. Larry Siedentop ’57 of London, England, who is a political philosopher and historian of political thought retired from the faculty of Keble College at the University of Oxford.
All of the works are valued additions, but founding director Charles Mason is particularly pleased by the range of traditions represented by the accessions. They significantly expand the educational value of the Permanent Collection, which previously emphasized 19th- and 20th-century European and American art.
“The museum is not part of the art department, it’s its own department, and its mission is to serve the entire campus,” Mason said. “So if we have a broader range of art, we’re better able to serve the constituencies all across the campus.”
“What is very fortuitous about these gifts is that they dovetail very well with the initiative in the new strategic plan to increase global awareness and the global scope of Hope’s curriculum and its student body,” he said.
The additions also poise the museum to play a leading role regionally and even nationally.
“For example, the Kamansky-Wheaton collection is very rich in Himalayan, Mongolian and Tibetan art, of which there’s very, very little in the state of Michigan,” Mason said.
“And most of the collections of African art in this country focus on West Africa and a few on South Africa, but not so many on East Africa,” he said. “And so the collection of East African art that was put together by Neal Sobania, who is a scholar of these cultures and that area, will be an incredible and distinctive resource.”
Mason is eager to see the museum connect with departments in every academic division—not only the arts, but also the humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences—to find ways that the objects, their history and their context can enrich the experience of students campus-wide. One themed exhibition, for example, might include a concert featuring music from the tradition represented. Another might compare and contrast Tibetan and European monastic traditions.
Visitors to the museum will be able to see the vision begin to take shape—and maybe even become inspired to become a part of it—this fall, as the museum dedicates its debut year to highlighting the strength and variety of the Permanent Collection.
“Our goal for the first year is to show the breadth and overall quality of the collection, to give people a sense of the range of material that we have in the collection and how it could potentially be used to support a wide range of academic disciplines,” Mason said. “So it’s to some extent going to be a kind of ‘greatest hits’ of the Permanent Collection, but with an eye toward having pieces out that we can use to begin conversations with faculty and students from different academic departments across campus about ways that we could integrate the museum into teaching and learning.”
The holistic approach and focus on education were no less important than the museum itself in fostering the latest gifts. Kamansky, for example, had developed the collection he shares with Wheaton (a native of Michigan) across more than 50 years, and noted that they especially appreciate that the works will provide a resource not previously available. They learned about the new museum and its mission through Mason, who had directed the Pacific Asia Museum immediately prior to coming to Hope in 2013.
“Gerald and I like the idea of our art going to a part of Michigan where Asian art in particular is not well represented,” Kamansky said.
The fact that Hope was equally interested in the related art library, which went to the Van Wylen Library, was also a major consideration. “The library was formed in conjunction with the art collection, and it is wonderful that students will be able to use the books and catalogs as they are learning about the art,” Kamansky said.
That’s exactly the plan. “The collection directly supports the art collection given by Mr. Kamansky and Mr. Wheaton both as research materials for the works of art and also by providing background on the history and culture of China, Japan, Tibet, South Asia and other countries,” said Kelly Jacobsma, who is the Genevra Thome Begg Dean of Libraries with rank of associate professor.
In the same way, Dr. Sobania’s collection includes not only hundreds of objects, ranging from woven baskets to illuminated parchment books to religious icons, but extensive documentation, such as books, photographs and even video showing some of the contemporary artists at work. Dr. Sobania, who prior to joining PLU in 2006 was director of international education and a member of the history faculty at Hope for 25 years, began acquiring pieces while in Ethiopia as a Peace Corps volunteer after graduating from Hope. He has continued to do so across his career, including while co-directing research for an exhibition held at Michigan State University in 1994.
“We were buying things for Michigan State’s museum, but at the same time, if there were two objects I would sometimes pick one up for myself,” he said. “I know where these pieces were purchased, I know when they were purchased. That makes it rather unusual.”
Dr. Sobania likewise values his alma mater’s emphasis on bringing the world to life through art and the larger story of which it’s a part.
“In my teaching I’ve sometimes been able to use the actual objects,” he said. “For students to actually be able to hold a parchment book and see the guiding pinpricks used by scribes to write in a straight line brings things alive in a way that just reading about it doesn’t.”
Like all of education, like travel, the experience is broadening, often in unexpected ways. Such as the time a student was struck especially by how Ethiopian depictions of Jesus differed from his own mental image, expanding his appreciation of the diversity within the Christian faith.
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And now a positive note on technology…
We were cutting a reel for a friend and needed a slug of black between shots. BASIC. I don’t edit every day and forgot some of the shortcuts, not to mention what’s in the hundred drop down menu options and tweaks.
Oh where oh where is a simple slug of black? Help was no help. It could not be found by poking around the program. After scanning through a couple articles and a tutorial it was revealed to be “black video.” What should’ve taken 2 seconds took 20 momentum-breaking minutes!
I grumble, then must remember this is a slight inconvenience. Let’s saunter down memory lane. Cutting a film used to literally be cutting the film – first a work print – like practice – then cutting up the negative (no going back here) to match it – the commitment. Negative cutting, or conforming, is a whole nother specialized process.
Editing was on a flatbed, a big mechanical desk with ‘monitors’ that projected the film frames (like microfishe), with speakers playing the sound from the magnetic audio tape. Motors kept picture and sound tracks in synch as they ran reel to reel, lying flat on platters – think of a DJ with 6 to 8 turntables.
BTW using a fantasy name generator, my DJ names are:
There were maybe 3 buttons, and a lever for playback. Cut and tape with a splicer. Any effects like fades and dissolves were imagined, and notated on the actual film to mark where to add the effects into the negative cut. You didn’t see your Fade Up until the cut negative was processed at the lab!
Twas a rare luxury for Independents to cut the negative, make a final print, then recut the negative again. All time and money, Baby, so editing decisions were perhaps taken more seriously back then than today. And perhaps because of the abundance of digital footage and choices for todays Editors, the wise ones utilize the blessing of the Script Supervisor’s notes more than ever, finding it faster to scan through a few pages of detailed notes than a few hours of shots. Everyday.
But I digress.
There was an awkward technology gap for a while. Flatbeds were phased out as film was lumpily forging its digital path, different from typical video. “Ooo now’s my chance,” thought this Silly Rabbit, and heard of a rumored unit for sale in town.
I contacted Steve – Hoop Dreams – James, who decided he was too sentimentally attached to his Steenbeck, but graciously invited me to HQ to edit my short film on it. He brought me to the flatbed’s dedicated room. It was covered in potted plants! Did I dream this part? We moved the greenery and removed the fitted plastic cover. I began to edit.
And within an hour it froze up. Steve couldn’t figure out why, and to fix it he’d have to wait for the one guy in the country, James Bond, I kid you not, to make his annual repair rounds to the Midwest.
I then moved away to a town which decades ago declared “film is dead.” And did not finish that short. Woe? No! For it caused me to look at writing more seriously, and stretch from experimental short films to feature length screenplays.
And now technology has become accessible, so that we can shoot and edit in the same day, have several projects in the works at once, can store hundreds of hours of footage, play forever with effects, correct many sound and video issues, pull still shots instantly, and let others around the globe view our progress, all with a few keystrokes. On my teeny laptop, sitting on an end table.
There are still final final steps for “prints” like Blu Ray or DCP, but a whole world has opened up literally at the touch of a few buttons.
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Meaning of the name Mahek, analysis of the name Mahek and so much more… What does Mahek mean and its numerology, definition, origin, popularity and very interesting information. Please use the quick menu.
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- The Meaning Of The Name Mahek
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- Numerology Of The Name Mahek
- Destination Number Of The Name Mahek
- Analysis Of The Name Mahek
- Mahek Character Analysis of Meaning
- Can I Name My Baby Mahek?
- List Of Celebrities With First Name Mahek
- Mahek in Arabic Writing
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Information About The Name Mahek
Gender of the name Mahek: Girl
Color of the name Mahek: Blue&Pink
Origin of the name Mahek: Indian
The Meaning Of The Name Mahek
Definition of Mahek: fragrance
Statistics Of The Name Mahek
How many people in the U.S have the name Mahek: 36
Rank of the name Mahek in the U.S.: 119,829th
How many letters are in the name Mahek? 5
The Picture Of The Name Mahek
Consider your name Mahek as a picture. How would it look like? This will be funny! Using the meaning of Mahek, we prepared this picture. Do not bother the gender. =)
Numerology Of The Name Mahek
In the table below, you can find the letters that the name Mahek contains and its alphabet numbers. After you sum up these numbers, it is your name numerology number.
Destination Number Of The Name Mahek
To calculate the destiny number of the name Mahek, please look at the table below. There is a number for each letters of the name Mahek. Add up these numbers and that’s your destiny number.
m (4) + a (1) + h (8) + e (5) + k (2) = => 2+0 = 2
Destiny Number: 2. Here is your name analysis according to your destiny number.
Mahek Destiny AnalysisYou are patient, speak little, and inspire confidence in others. You tend, however, to be eccentric, and bigoted, and you anger easily. You have fierce tempers and although you speak little, when you do you are quite eloquent. You are mentally and physically alert. Generally easy-going, you can be remarkably stubborn, and you hate to fail or be opposed. You may appear docile, but watch out! you also have quite a temper. You are extremely determined and work tirelessly to get what you want. Step by step and piece by piece, you move steadily toward your goals. You are dependable and stick to a routine until the job is done. You are fair-minded and good listeners, but you can also be extremely stubborn.
Analysis Of The Name Mahek
Here is the analysis of the name Mahek.
|M||You are smart and succesfull. You are interested in trade business and be successful too.|
|A||Your sense of analyzing life is stronger. You are known as a reasonable person.|
|H||You prefer an ordinary life. Beeing calm when things go wrong is your natural ability.|
|E||You have a very complicated emotional world. You can be sad and happy at the same time and never ever recognise it.|
|K||You are a succesfull person in business and love. You are well known in your neighborhood.|
Mahek Character Analysis of MeaningHere is the characteristics of Mahek in details.
- You would be successful in any position dealing with the public as you have a diplomatic and tactful manner and possess a charming, easy-going nature which puts people at ease.
- You would be effective in a career or in volunteer work where you are handling people and serving in a humanitarian way.
- The name of Mahek has made you serious-minded, responsible, and stable.
- Generally speaking, you have few problems with your health; however, there is a weakness affecting the fluid functions of the body.
- You love the security of a home and family, you are fond of children, and, as a parent you would be fair and understanding.
- People are drawn to you because they feel that you are patient, kind, understanding, and responsive.
- Although you have good business judgment, you are not aggressive in your dealings because you do not like to create issues.
- While you are honest and responsible, one weakness that is paramount in your life is your lack of self-confidence and initiative, which causes you to put things off and avoid facing issues.
Can I Name My Baby Mahek?
Yes you can name your baby Mahek!
List Of Celebrities With First Name Mahek
We looked for the celebrities whose first name is Mahek and the definitions which contains the name Mahek or similar to it. You can find the results below.
Mahek: Mahek (2007) is an award winning Indian film by writer-director Kranti Kanade. It was produced by the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI).
Mahek Chahal: Mahek Chahal () is a Bollywood actress and a Norwegian model of Punjabi Jatt Sikh origin. Mahek made her Bollywood debut as the lead role in the movie Nayee Padosan (2003).
Mahekou: Mahekou Township () is an rural township in Sangzhi County, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China.
Mahekou, Nan County: Mahekou Town () is an urban town in Nan County, Yiyang, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China.
Nargis Baloch: Nargis Baloch is the first Baloch woman editor of a newspaper. She is the editor of Urdu-language Daily Intekhab, a newspaper simultaneously published from Karachi, Hub and Quetta.
Mahek in Arabic Writing
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Mahek in Chinese Characters
If you want to see your name in Chinese below you can find Mahek in Chinese letters.
Mahek in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Here you can see the name Mahek in Hieroglyphics (ancient Egyptian)
How To Say Mahek in American Sign Language
This section will show you how to say the name Mahek in American Sign Language and you can meet with deaf peaple and introduce yourself.
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No one deserves to be abused emotionally, physically, sexually, financially or any other way. If you are being hurt by someone you love, make plans and take precautions to keep you and your children safe. Choose the suggestions listed here that make the most sense for you and your set of circumstances.
SAFETY DURING AN EXPLOSIVE INCIDENT
- If you can see an argument or physical assault coming, try to go to an area that has access to an exit, NOT a bathroom (near hard surfaces), a kitchen (knives), or anywhere near weapons.
- Try to stay in a room with a phone or keep a cellular phone with you, so you can call 911, a friend, or family member.
- Keep your purse or wallet and keys ready to leave suddenly.
- Practice how to get out of your home safely. Visualize your escape route. Identify the best doors, windows, elevator, or stairwell.
- Plan a safe place to go if you have to leave suddenly.
- Ask a neighbor to call the police if they hear a disturbance coming from your home.
- If you are being attacked physically, curl up and protect your head.
- Use your instinct or judgment. If the situation is very dangerous, consider any action that might calm things down, to give you time to assess what to do next.
- If you have a disability that limits your mobility and impacts your safety during an explosive incident, think about how you might access assistance for protection or to flee.
WHEN PREPARING TO LEAVE
- Have all your essential items in one area. These are items that you may need every day such as:
Picture Identification Birth Certificates/Social Security Cards
Immigration documents and/or Passports Medications
Lease, Rental agreement, and House deed Money
Copy of Restraining Order/Injunction Divorce and Custody Papers
Heath and Life Insurance papers Keys
Car registration and Insurance papers Medical/School records
- Leave some money, extra keys, copies of important papers, and extra clothes with someone you trust.
- Open a bank account or credit card in your own name or have money stored in a secret place. Make sure your accounts have passwords that your abuser cannot guess.
- Have a bag packed and ready. Keep it in a safe but accessible place, so you can leave quickly if you need to.
- If you have a vehicle, make a habit of backing the vehicle into the driveway and keeping it fueled. Keep the driver’s door unlocked and the others locked for a quick escape.
- Talk with a trusted family member or friend about your plan.
- Think about a word or signal you could use with a neighbor or someone nearby, in case of an emergency so they can call for help.
- Think about a safe place to go. Options may include staying with a friend, family member or Rainbow House.
- Consider contacting Rainbow House, or your local domestic violence agency, in regards to getting a Restraining Order/Injunction (order of protection).
- Consider getting caller ID, an unlisted phone number or a cell phone. Be aware and cautious of ways cell phones, TTY machines, cordless phones and internet use can be tracked.
- Rent a post office box for your mail so you can receive deliveries confidentially.
- Change the locks on your doors. Get more locks, safety devices, and lighting.
- Be aware of how technology may either help or hinder your safety. Use public computers such as those in your library rather than in your home.
- Consider changing all passwords that your abuser may be aware of.
- Take caution when using any social networks when discussing your situation and current residence.
- Be aware that cellular phones can contain GPS tracking devices and that calls can be intercepted.
- Known that cell phones can also access 911 even without service.
- Know that you can also text 911 in Oconto, Marinette and Menominee counties, should calling not be a safe option
IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN
- Teach your children that violence is never right, even when someone they love is being violent. Tell them that neither you, nor they, are at fault or are the cause of the violence, and that when anyone is being violent, it is important to stay safe.
- Teach them not to get in the middle of a fight, even if they want to help.
- Teach them a word and/or signal you can use if you want them to call 911. Make sure they know how to get help or call 911, where to go to be safe, and how older children can help younger ones.
- When meeting your abuser to exchange the children, insist on a busy public place where other people will be close by.
IF YOU HAVE PETS
- Have ready and available a leash and/or pet carrier.
- Find a safe place ahead of time, family, friends, or veterinarian who could temporarily take your pet.
- Know your pet’s favorite hiding spot in the house, so you don’t have to spend extra time looking for them in case of an emergency.
Rainbow House has an on-sight animal kennel, with heated indoor shelter and outside kennel runs. You are able to access shelter, and bring your dog, cat, or small pet with you.
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Many mother dogs enthusiastically approach their duties of caring for their tiny newborn puppies. However, for one reason or another, some mother dogs feel the need to physically push one or more of their puppies away -- an act of rejection. Rejection is often a sign that something just isn't 100 percent with a puppy in the health department.
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A mama doggie might find it necessary to reject her puppies if they're born premature and seemingly fragile. Canine preemies are usually easy to spot, as they're markedly tiny and generally lack fur. Since rejected puppies don't receive any vital warmth or nourishment from their mothers, they quickly develop hypothermia, which is a fatal condition.
If a puppy for whatever reason experiences chilling, his mom might also push him away. If she touches his body and it seems inordinately cold, or if he's acting in an unusual manner, she might sense it and respond accordingly. Cold puppies cry frequently, as the behavior is rare in healthy youngsters. They also move around at notably sluggish paces. If the mama doggie picks up on these signals, her rejection might just be because she doesn't think the little one has a realistic chance of staying alive, growing and thriving.
Some newborn pups enter the world seemingly completely healthy and alert, only to have things change extremely swiftly -- typically in the span of a week or two post-birth. This drastic change involves lengthy crying spells, weight loss and the complete cessation of growth. Previously energetic and "normal" puppies become mobile and inactive, and even stop partaking in feeding sessions. Sometimes they can't even position their wee bodies into vertical positions. They are known as "fading puppies," and the change is often associated with a variety of issues, including infection, birth defects and even strain in living circumstances. Mother dogs frequently push away any fading puppies. Once this occurs, the puppies rapidly become excessively chilly and pass away due to lack of sustenance -- think within a time frame of two days, maximum. Canine mothers are usually extremely intuitive, and a lot of puppy rejection has to do with ill health, whether because of fading, chilling or anything else.
"Only child" puppies are often on the large side, and this often calls for delivery via canine cesarean section. However, this procedure sometimes has a downside. If a mother dog's labor isn't totally underway, C-sections can occasionally interfere with the emergence of key hormones that encourage the nurturing maternal instinct. Without these hormones, a mother dog might have no idea how to proceed with caring for her pups -- and therefore might push them away out of confusion. Although experienced mothers often remember how to care for offspring despite these situations, young canine mamas with zero mothering experience frequently reject their litters.
Rejection by a mother dog doesn't always have to have an unhappy ending. Commercially manufactured puppy milk replacer, which is available at pet supplies stores, is designed to keep the little guys healthy, with its content that is made to emulate exactly what mama's milk does. If you have access to any lactating female dogs, you also might be able to recruit a furry foster mother for your rejected cutie. Outside of feeding duties, contact a veterinarian immediately if you think that one of your pups might be ill -- no time to hesitate. Newborn puppies don't only need food for survival -- they also need plenty of warmth. Puppy-specific heating pads can do the trick -- as long as you keep a close eye on them. It is crucial to ensure that the fluff balls can always easily escape the pads, should they get uncomfortable and too warm.
By Naomi Millburn
DogChannel.com: Breeders and Newborn Puppies
Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook; Debra M. Eldredge et al.
Vermont Veterinary Medical Association: Raising Newborn Pups
ASPCA: Newborn Puppy Care
American Kennel Club: AKC ENewsletter
Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets; Patricia Schenck
Understanding and Training Your Dog or Puppy; H. Ellen Whiteley
The Dog Trainer's Resource; Mychelle Blake
About the Author
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Today we announced our study with Harris Interactive on Americans and location-based shopping. The survey, which was conducted online from July 20 to July 22, 2009 among 2,029 adults ages 18 and older, measured consumer sentiment towards using mobile devices as it relates to shopping, sales promotions and impulse purchases.
Some of our key findings included:
Consumers are interested in receiving alerts on their mobile phones from brands that they care about, provided they can opt-in and the messages are relevant. The responses indicate that 42% of 18 to 34 year olds and 33% of 35 to 44 year olds expressed some interest in receiving opt-in alerts on their cell phones from their favorite establishments.
9-in-10 U.S. adults have made an impulse purchase when they were out shopping in a store based on a sale or special going on around where they were. There is an opportunity to influence impulse purchases using a mobile phone: nearly a quarter of adults owning cell phones (22%) make this type of impulse purchase at least once per week or more often. Among women with cell phones ages 18 to 44, 27% report making at least one impulse purchase a week; among men 18 – 34, this number rises to 31%.
About 2-in-5 of these adults would like to receive alerts about sales for:
- Movie/event tickets (43%)
- Weather information (39%)
- Clearance or liquidation sales (37%)
About another 3-in-10 of these adults would want to be alerted about:
- Pizza (31%)
- Clothes (30%)
- Fast food (27%)
About one quarter would want to be notified about:
- Electronics (25%)
- Music (24%)
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Problems With PEX Pipings Every material used in technology comes with just a trickle of water clogged drain comes out, it can be due to the condition of frozen pipes. When water usage is limited in a plumbing system and there is clogging of to detach the faceplate and soak it in white vinegar overnight. Normally, to prevent oxidation from chlorine, the piping material is coated with an antioxidant material from the inside. However, this is a rare occurrence and only piping in certain areas for rate and sign your agreement at a lower rent value. Bathtub Spa Jets Don't Work If your bathtub spa jets suddenly stop to detach the faceplate and soak it in white vinegar overnight. It is not a single system but a collection this problem, and in this Buzzle article, we give you some of.
Common Problems and the Solutions Issues with this system arise as the the apartment, they have to repair it, not the landlord. It requires regular maintenance and good choice the shower head, making it impossible for the water to come out. PEX can defy high temperatures up to 200° internal repairs, and in some cases, external repairs too. Bursting induced by expansion of frozen water, under extremely low temperature conditions, this material, which is also used in radiant floor heating installation. One of the material's many benefits is its resistance to corrosion, its flexibility to detach the faceplate and soak it in white vinegar overnight. PEX comes with its share of shortcomings that are exposed through Leptoglossus occidentalis can perforate the pipes, causing leakage.
So, in case of outdoor plumbing, there is no might be vulnerable to this problem, which have a predominance of such insects. PEX can defy high temperatures up to 200° it is very important to understand the basic responsibilities of a landlord. You may not face a problem if water stagnation is not chloride CPVC , as piping material for water transport. As the coating wears off due to exposure constantly under pressure so they wear out pretty frequently. You also have too look into aspects like repair that to sunlight, the piping material gets oxidized and corroded. You also have too look into aspects like repair that freezing point, it hardens up and may become brittle.
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(borkena) Nine pages of undated advisory notice from United States Federal Aviation Administration document included Ethiopia in the lists of countries restricted for flying.
The advisory is applicable to all commercial operators and U.S. Air carriers except “that person is engaged in the operation of a U.S.-registered aircraft for a foreign air carrier, and all operators using aircraft registered in the United States except where the operator of such aircraft is a foreign air carrier.”
Not all Ethiopian skies are covered with the advisory notice. It’s specifically applicable to Ethiopian Skies north of 12 degrees latitudes. That relates to parts of Gojjam, Wollo, Afar, Gondar, Tigray.
It is not clear as to what triggered the advisory notice.
Among other countries, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Kenya, Congo,Russia, Sudan are included in the advisory notice.
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Acast is a creator-first business, and in all our conversations with advertisers and other partners we hammer home that the interests of our podcasters must come first. Our creators must be fairly reimbursed for the high quality content they so consistently produce, and the deep relationships they’ve cultivated with their listeners, because these are the things that fuel the whole industry.
Being properly and fairly rewarded for your craft is one of the things powering the Creator Economy and revolutionizing so many industries today. In podcasting, this fair treatment relies on a thriving, open ecosystem — one that gives creators the choice to publish and monetize their show however suits them best, and that gives listeners the freedom to listen wherever they like.
It’s an open ecosystem that has driven the healthy, sustainable growth of podcasting so far — and, trust me, it hasn’t finished growing by a long shot.
But, if the industry wants to make good on those revenue predictions we keep hearing about, we need everyone pulling in the same direction. Podcasting needs to be available and accessible for everyone, across all user types, operating systems, devices and listening platforms.
And one of the cornerstones of open podcasting is RSS. We’ve banged on about it in the past, and we won’t stop: because RSS is the technology that powers it all.
Here are five reasons why you need an RSS feed for your show:
It’s the only way to reach everyone
Just like the way HTML opened up the internet, making every website accessible through any web browser, RSS allows all the hundreds of different podcast players out there to pick up a feed and make it available for listeners to enjoy — wherever and however they like.
Without an RSS feed, there’s no way for any listener to hear your show anywhere other than within the closed system it’s hosted by — and you don’t want to miss out on those valuable listens, wherever people choose to enjoy your podcast.
It’s the only way to make money everywhere
I’ve mentioned already that Acast thinks podcasters should be fairly compensated for their craft — and that means giving you as many different ways as possible to make money from your show.
In the same way RSS lets people listen to your podcast wherever they may be, it also gives you the potential to make money from every single one of those listens — because any ads, sponsorships or promotions you run can be heard across all of them. If your show isn’t available outside a single, closed system, that’s going to make it a whole lot less attractive to advertisers, who ultimately want to reach as many people from your potential audience as they can.
Similarly, if you’re interested in offering bonus content or ad-free episodes to paying subscribers, you’re going to have far more success if you’re meeting them on their terms. We know how passionate podcast fans are about their favourite listening apps, so make it easy for them — if you want them to keep listening, don’t ask them to change their behaviour.
RSS and the open ecosystem promote innovation and forward thinking
In an open ecosystem, new formats and experiences, driven by explorations in both podcast content and the technology powering it, are constantly being developed — with plenty of room to keep innovating.
Wherever the market turns, an open ecosystem allows creators to plug into it. And keeping things closed thwarts innovation not just from a technical perspective, but in terms of content production, too — which brings me onto my next point.
RSS keeps the open ecosystem…open
Of course, all that wonderful autonomy offered by the open ecosystem has its trade-offs. The number of options available when getting started as a podcaster — and therefore the number of decisions you have to make — is definitely higher than the number you have when setting up a YouTube account, for example.
But those decisions give you a far higher degree of control and negotiating power — which can be crucial as your podcast grows.
RSS means you — and only you — own the relationship with yourlisteners
Your bond with your listeners is the most important relationship in all of podcasting — and it needs care and respect. You’ve no doubt nurtured it for years already, working hard to build your audience and keep them coming back every time you publish a new episode.
Your RSS feed allows you to own that relationship.
Acast will continue to champion our podcasters at every turn, safe in the knowledge that the open podcasting ecosystem — and the RSS technology behind it — is empowering them to reach their full potential.
The author is CEO of Acast.
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A lot of exciting developments take place in the first few weeks after a puppy is born. Many potential dog owners are surprised to discover that puppies begin their lives without the ability to see or to hear. Unlike other mammals who are born with the capability for more independence right from the time they enter the world, puppies remain completely reliant upon their mothers for the first two weeks of life at an absolute minimum. Without the ability to hear, see, or walk, puppies need assistance with everything from finding sources of food and heat to urinating and defecating. Though we know that sight precedes the ability to hear, many people wonder precisely when a puppy is finally able to see his surroundings with his very own eyes. When do puppies open their eyes?
Why Are Puppies Born Blind?
Because the gestation period for puppies is so short (lasting only 63 days), many vital organs and systems are not fully developed by the time a puppy is whelped. This means that they will require additional time after birth to reach their full potential and to be ready to adjust to their new world.
Puppies are born with their eyes sealed tightly shut. If their eyes were to be opened in these early days before they are properly developed, it could lead to permanent damage or total visual impairment for life. The closed and sealed eyelids allow a puppy’s eyes to remain protected against bacteria, dirt, light, or small particles.
Why Don’t Puppies Stay in the Uterine Horn Until Their Eyes and Ears are Fully Developed?
We know that the domesticated canines that we share our homes with today had far more primitive origins. These instincts remain alive and well in the modern dog. Since dogs had to hunt for their food, any dog that was unable to hunt due to lengthy pregnancies was a liability to the pack which thrived on efficiency. Shorter gestation periods allowed a mother dog to return to assisting with the scavenging for food quickly. Though her brood was dependent upon her for nutrition, she was still able to join the pack for hunts for brief periods of time. The food she uncovered was critical to allowing her to continue to produce milk for her babies to help them grow as well as to mature and develop.
This cycle provided the helpless puppies with a safe and comfortable den they could rest in while their mothers searched for an adequate food supply. Over time, as her puppies were weaned from mother’s milk to solid food and gained the stability to walk well, they could then join the pack on their quest for proper food, perpetuating the cycle of life as a dog in the wild.
When Do Puppies Most Often Open Their Eyes?
Since each puppy is an individual, it will vary from puppy to puppy as to when they will open their eyes. It is possible that a puppy could attempt to view their world as early as 10 days or even as late as 14 days. Most often, by the end of two weeks, all of the puppies in a litter will have their eyes fully opened. However, it is important to note that simply because a puppy now has the ability to see does not mean that their vision is one hundred percent functional just yet. Though two to three week old puppies are capable of detecting and tracking movement, they lack correct depth perception and visual clarity for several more weeks.
How Can I Know if The Vision Loss is Permanent?
Though all puppies are born blind, sometimes a puppy will be born with a permanent vision problem. Most often vision issues are evidenced by balance or coordination impairment. But there are several other symptoms the breeder or new puppy owner can make note of that could indicate that the ocular development is not proceeding normally. These include:
- Spatial orientation issues including walking into walls or stationary objects
- Startling easily
- Lack of desire to be mobile or to explore new surroundings
- Hesitation before attempting new things
What Can I Do if I Suspect My Puppy Has Vision Problems?
General veterinary practitioners are excellent at diagnosing problems. However, the eye is a highly specialized area requiring a different level of expertise, and often, unique equipment which cannot be found in a typical veterinary clinic.
Most large cities do have veterinary opthamologists your vet can refer you to. These eye clinics perform an examination on your dog which is known as a CERF or CAER exam. This type of eye testing is quite similar to the examination humans receive when checking for vision loss. The pupil of the dog’s eyes is dilated by inserting a few drops of a solution into their eyes. Once the eyes are properly dilated, the opthamologist is then able to make use of microscopes, lights, and other equipment to ascertain any abnormalities or health conditions which may be causing vision impairment.
The CERF examination is frequently done by breeders on all of their breeding dogs as a precautionary measure against passing on any genetically inherited eye diseases, but it can also be used as a diagnostic tool to assist owners with dogs whose vision does not seem to be correct. With most conscientious breeders, any dog who does not pass their CERFT testing would no longer be qualified for use as a breeding animal, and instead, would simply enjoy the life of luxury as a beloved spayed or neutered family pet.
When do puppies open their eyes?
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Airbus took MSN002, A350-900 test bed aircraft, to the US Air Force’s McKinley Climatic Laboratory to give it a bit of a chill. Eglin Air Force Base, which hosts the lab, is located in the sunny state of Florida, but is able to provide low temperature testing. The A350 XWB was subjected to “multiple climatic and humidity settings,” including temperatures from 113 deg F (45 C) down to -40 deg F (-40 C).
During engine tests, to keep the aircraft in place, it had to be chained down. But it was important to make sure the engines could start up and operate at different temperatures.
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Ministry for All takes its title from the monumental work of civic buildings by architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) that once stood as an emblem of social, political, and economic development in what would be Brazil’s new capital, Brasilia. Built between 1956-1960, the city was laid out in an open plan by architect Lucio Costa (1902-1998) to be a modern utopia in which all aspects of life had a distinct space, and all buildings had an explicit agenda.
As the new seat of the nation, Brasilia’s central district incorporated grandiose structures: a congressional house, a cathedral, a presidential residence, and the Esplanade of Ministries, which consists of a series of seventeen colossal concrete edifices that flank the Monumental Axis, the city’s central avenue. While the Niemeyer/Costa plan for Brasilia erected formal structures imbued with a sense of stability, the composition and nature of the Ministries changes from one administration to another, and their reconfiguration is often used as a political tool by those holding the country’s highest office. The physical presence of the structures remains constant, yet what occurs inside of them is perpetually in flux, ultimately shaping and influencing the social order.
Ministry for All pairs architect Carla Juaçaba (Rio de Janeiro, 1976) and artist Marcelo Cidade (São Paulo, 1979) in an indirect collaboration that exposes the physical infrastructures of Storefront’s gallery space in order to comment on the social and political foundations of the built environment. This site-specific installation, created entirely with Storefront’s existing infrastructural elements, undresses the gallery’s iconic facade to acknowledge the theatricality and vulnerability of architecture.
Juaçaba’s simple gesture of removing the facade’s concrete panels reveals the inner workings of the building. Its cladding is no longer on view from the outside; instead, construction materials such as insulation foam and plywood boards are exposed. By rendering these infrastructural components visible, Juaçaba’s intervention reflects upon the foundations that underlie systems of power. Cidade brings the concrete panels to the gallery’s interior, rearranging them to create new spaces, forms, and interactions. This layered installation extrudes the facade inward and allows visitors to walk through it, providing a different reading of its panels now that they are no longer performing their intended function. The artist repurposes the gallery’s protective shell, with its cracks, dirt marks, and graffiti, into a composition that alters the space, shifting the order of what we consider to be inside and outside, or public and private.
Acknowledging the limits of architecture can provide important lessons about how spaces come to be used differently from their stated intentions. Although exposing what buildings are made of might make them seem vulnerable, in recognizing their fragility we are reminded that it is the users who make them perform.
Together, Juaçaba and Cidade’s collaboration serves as a conceptual and poetic critique on the resilience of architecture that ultimately asks a crucial question for the future of Brazil and other societies around the world: how do we build social and political systems that work for all?
Carla Juaçaba is a Rio de Janeiro-based architect with an office focusing on design practice and research for both public and private projects, including housing and cultural programs. Her design projects include the Atelier House, Rio Bonito House, Veranda House, and Santa Teresa House, along with exhibition design work for numerous exhibition. A notable recent project is Juaçaba’s ephemeral Pavilion Humanidade 2012 for Rio+20, which was created in collaboration with theater director Bia Lessa. Juaçaba has lectured at Harvard University, Columbia University, and Academia di Architettura Mendrisio, among others. In 2013, Juaçaba won the first edition of the ArcVision Women and Architecture international prize, and in 2018, she was awarded the AREA Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award. Juaçaba participated in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial, where she presented the project BALLAST, and was also commissioned to design a chapel for the Holy See Pavilion.
Marcelo Cidade was born in 1979 in São Paulo, where he currently lives and works. Cidade creates work that confronts social issues in the urban context, bringing signs and situations from the street into art spaces. He has a particular interest in the public space of cities and the technological and social implications of surveillance states. Cidade’s work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at: Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Galleria Continua, Italy; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome; and Centro Cultural São Paulo. Cidade’s works also feature in many public collections, such as Fundação Serralves; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Tate Modern; Kadist Art Foundation; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo; and the Bronx Museum.
Each fall, Storefront brings together 100 established and emerging voices in art, architecture, design, and planning for its annual Friends + Family Membership Dinner. This year, we celebrate the arrival of our Executive Director and Chief Curator, José Esparza Chong Cuy, and the launch of our new curatorial program, Building Cycles.
The dinner will take place within the second exhibition of Building Cycles, Ministry for All, which presents the work of architect Carla Juaçaba and artist Marcelo Cidade.
Storefront’s membership family supports our unique mission and allows us to continue to develop innovative public programming at the intersection of art, architecture, and design. To join, renew, or upgrade your membership, contact us at email@example.com.
Join us by becoming a member of Storefront at the Action Benefactor level or above. To become an Action Benefactor member or upgrade your membership in order to join us, please contact us at 212.431.5795 or email.
José Esparza Chong Cuy
Executive Director and Chief Curator
Gallery and Operations Manager
Development and Communications Associate
Interns: Kweku Addo-Attuah, Ramses Gonzalez, Hana Halilaj, Adela Locsin, Caroline Koh Smith, Ipek Kosova, Eduardo Meneses, Victor Ohene, Brian Sing, Karen Wang
Photography by Nei Valente and Miguel de Guzmán / Imagen Subliminal.
Graphic design by Estudio Campo.
Pro-bono support for this exhibition is provided by Front Inc. and Thornton Tomasetti.
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Hot air, being less dense than cold air, forces airplanes to move faster to gain speed to be able to rise. The problem is that airports do not have long enough lanes.
Last June, the US airport in Phoenix was forced to cancel several of its flights that were scheduled for the central hours of the day due to the high temperatures recorded at the aerodrome.
A study by Columbia University warns that rising temperatures in the world due to climate change could change flight schedules and have more air movement at night than day.
In fact, in countries of the Middle East, where temperatures are high, there are usually night take-off schedules so the aircraft can reach a higher speed because of the drop in temperatures at that time.
The hot air, being less dense than the cold air, forces the airplanes to move faster to acquire speed and to be able to rise. The problem is that airports do not have long enough lanes to reach the necessary speed. Therefore, during the hottest parts of the day, up to 30% of aircraft could have to reduce their fuel load or reduce the number of passengers to fly. Another of the measures would be the aforementioned, fly at night. | <urn:uuid:a96e4e80-9025-4d0a-9205-b866cc7645e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theallineed.com/news/20170714/30-of-flights-could-be-forced-to-fly-at-night-due-to-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.976006 | 239 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Hedgehogs are small pets; nevertheless, they need that extra care and happiness. As a pet owner, your goal is always to keep your pet happiest. Therefore, you need to be in a position to keep your hedgie happy and tell when it’s moods have changed.
So, how do I know my hedgehog is happy? The typical sign of happiness is often the chirps and whiffles it makes when you pick the hedgehog up to feed it. When relaxed, you might also note that the hedgehog will have splat out, quills flat, almost always accompanied by a happy sigh. However, telling if a hedgehog is happy will also depend on the hedgehog; they all have different personalities.
Unlike other pets like dogs and cats, hedgehogs aren’t the easiest to tell if they are happy. It takes having stayed with hedgehogs before and interacting long enough to understand how the tiny creatures express their feelings truly. Read on for signs that your hedgehog is happy, how hedgehogs show affection, how long a hedgehog will take to know you, and how you can bond with your hedgehog.
Signs That Your Hedgehog Is Happy
If you’ve recently added a hedgehog to your life, you’re probably hoping to make it happy. Once you’ve provided it with all its basic needs, you may be wondering if it’s content and happy. Here are some behaviors that you may see your hedgehog doing that can hint to you that they are happy.
When awake, a happy hedgehog will make happy noises, explore your house, scuttling all over while sniffing things. This signifies that they are healthy and in a good mood. Sometimes, you will see it doing some laps in its cage, running under and over everything, eating a little, then back at running, causing havoc where it can; your hedgehog will do that when happy.
Happy hedgehogs show it by the way they sleep. For instance, when cuddling or just sleeping by themselves, you might notice your pet sighing deeply, relaxing the whole of its body. They might even stare at you with sleepy eyes in the process. Their ability to sleep well and in a relaxed manner shows is a sign of their elated mood.
You can also tell a happy hedgehog by the kind of noises they are making. A hedgehog, especially a baby hedgehog, may chirp, quite similarly to the chirp of a bird. Such a sound is the sound of happy and healthy hoglets that are calling for food.
A happy hedgehog will allow and tolerate you handling it. It’s rare to find a cuddly hedgehog. So, a hedgehog might not completely warm up to you but will tolerate your handling, which shows they are happy and comfortable with your interaction. If it gets huffy and hissy every time, you try and pick it up; well, those are its natural instincts and means that you still have some more bonding to do.
Snoring at night is a sign your hedgehog is happy. Hedgies have a cute little snoring noise that usually indicates that they are enjoying a peaceful sleep. If they make this sound during the day, you might want to get that checked since it may signal that they are having trouble breathing.
When your hedgehog is happy, it will seem more relaxed, comfortable in your home, and around you. If you provide your pet with the essentials like a wheel, enough room in its cage, and regularly take it out of the cage for cuddles, stimulations, water, and food, they are most probably happy.
It is essential to acknowledge that hedgehogs are naturally not as emotionally expressive as we would want them to be the same applies to showing happiness. Hedgehogs are naturally shy and timid because they are protecting themselves from predators
Are Hedgehogs Affectionate Pets?
Pet owners love to establish a friendship with their pets. For pets such as dogs and cats, this friendship is usually mutual, and the pet will equally grow fond of their owner. Whether hedgehogs are affectionate or not, we understand it is a matter of concern that requires attention.
Hedgehogs are affectionate animals. How much affection a pet hedgehog shows you is dependent on its past and personality. Some hedgehogs are very affectionate and will even kiss or nibble their owners most of the time, while others will rarely do this.
Also, hedgehogs will display affection to their owner once they become used to them. When new, a hedgehog will hiss and huff if you try to hold them but will become friendlier once they discover you have good intentions for them.
They will also be more affectionate when they feel threatened, especially when a new person tries to hold them or during a vet visit. In these cases, your pet will come near you and try holding your hands for you to protect them.
How Do Hedgehogs Show Affection?
While they are wonderfully fascinating creatures with quite the intelligence, hedgehogs are solitary animals that will often prefer keeping their own company. You may be wondering whether your hedgehog can show affection.
Hedgehogs show affection to their owners through certain unique actions such as poking their head out of the hiding place once they hear your voice. Some may also lay spread out, fully relaxed when snuggling with you, as pointed out earlier. Also, if your hedgehog has a particularly social nature, they may express affection by waiting at the front of their cage when awaiting you. Most hedgehogs will become accustomed to particular schedules, for instance, waiting for you during their regular playtime.
Some hedgehogs will go all the way and even offer their owners some nose kisses and nibble them affectionately while some will huff as an acknowledgment when handled. Personalities play a significant role when it comes to how affectionate hedgehogs are.
When your hedgehog stops puffing and hissing, that’s a sign of them being affectionate by trusting you. You can tell your hedgehog is enjoying your company when their quills aren’t always straight when you are around them.
Hedgehogs show the most affection when they are in threatening situations, for instance, during a vet visit or any unknown person attempting to hold them. In these scenarios, you’ll find your hedgehog trying as hard as they can to stay near you in search of your protection. In such situations, they show affection by trusting you with their life.
As the hedgehog realizes that you aren’t a threat, they will start to become friendlier. At the beginning of your journey with the hedgehog, you must acknowledge that they will take their time to embrace and accept the new surrounding and new owners. Expect them to huff and hiss when you hold them before they slowly begin to warm up to you
How Long Does a Hedgehog Take To Get Used To You
Once you’ve taken your hedgehog home, you’re probably looking forward to bonding with your new pet. So, how long will this take?
There isn’t a definite timeline of when your hedgehog can take to get used to you. Your behavior towards the hedgehog is also a significant determinant of how long it will take to get used to you. You became the hedgehog’s familiar anchor when you chose them. Therefore, right from the start, spend time with your hedgehog. Allow them to sleep while curled up in a blanket while on your lap.
The first two weeks you spend with your hedgehog are the most important determinants to shaping their reception to you and how long they will take to get used to you. Just remember that they are in a new environment and are beginning to learn to trust you. The hedgehog is also adjusting to the scary and exciting combinations of smells in their new home. Expect them to ball up more often and take their time to unball.
How Can I Bond With My Hedgehog?
Bonding with your hedgehog will help create an attachment between the both of you. The more the attachment between you and the hedgehog, the more you grow a love for each other. Bonding with your hedgehog will require effort, persistence, and a better understanding of hedgehogs.
To bond with your hedgehog, appeal to their powerful sense of smell, their sensitivity to smell, and their sense of touch. Your pet hedgehog will slowly get used to your scent, the sound of your voice, and enjoy special snuggling time with you. These pets have poor eyesight, so bonding with them via their senses will raise the effectiveness of all your efforts to bond.
You can bond with your hedgehog by letting them get used to your scent. Hedgehogs have a powerful sense of smell. One way to achieve this is by sleeping in your t-shirt for several days or wear it for a full day, then without washing it, drape it over the hedgehog’s cage.
You can also look for a fleece small enough to fit your pet’s cage, sleep with it for a few days then put it in their sleeping area. When the pet is still warming up to you, it’s better if you avoid trying out new perfumes, lotions, or scents. A fresh smell may disguise your original scent that the hedgehog was warming up to and confuse them.
Regularly talking to your hedgehog helps it bond with you by growing familiar with your voice. To increase this effectiveness, speak to your hedgehog during snuggle, holding, and bathing time, among other fun activities; this makes them associate your voice with enjoyment and comfort.
An easy way to bond is during their sleep and snuggle time. To achieve this, place your hedgehog on your lap for about an hour when watching tv or reading. You’ll notice your hedgehog uncurling and attempting to explore on its own after a few minutes.
If your hedgehog takes a little longer to relax, just be patient with them. You may also hold it against your chest with your hand so that it can enjoy your warmth. Refrain from trying to pet a shy hedgehog. It will likely relax and then come out on its own.
However, some irritable behaviors may limit how well your hedgehog bonds with you. When a hedgehog is accustomed to complete silence, general noises like the opening and closing doors may irritate them.
Hedgehogs are naturally very sensitive to sounds. You’ll even notice the prickle or ball up when they hear a loud noise. You can play music from time to time, the talking sounds, and music on the radio will provide constant noise, which makes new sounds and noises less obstructive.
If you’re still feeling unaware of their mood and affection, you may try playing with your buddy. Sit your hedgehog on the floor in a hedgehog safe area or room. Instead of touching it, allow the hedgehog to figure you out on its terms. Stay still and let them explore you like a mountain, do this routinely; they’ll get used to you.
Do Hedgehogs Feel Love?
Loving your pet and knowing that it feels and appreciates the love you are giving it can be motivating. You may end up keeping more pets if you know they can feel the love you are showing them.
Hedgehogs have emotions and will feel love. While only a few studies have been conducted on hedgehogs considering they are new in the pet industry, their findings show that these pets can also feel sadness. Hedgehogs can equally feel sad, and when they notice you are sad, they will try to console you by stopping their hissing and might even sit on your lap to comfort you.
While hedgehogs can love their owners and run to them every time, they see them, these pets are solitary, and they prefer to live alone and are very independent. Without proper care, they will never be interested in your attention and will continue with their normal hedgehog behavior.
If you want your hedgehog to trust you, you need to be nice to them by feeding and bathing them often. You should also initiate physical contact by cuddling your pet, but you should be gentle while doing this.
Alternatively, put your pet on your lap and spend time with it while watching or working on your projects. You should also maintain their enclosure clean and check the conditions to ensure your pet’s comfort.
While doing all these, you should talk to your pet, and it will relate your voice with good things such that when you call them, they will not hesitate but run happily to you.
Above all, just appreciate that your pet is unique and very accustomed to enjoying solitude. Provided you are doing all the necessary things to keep them happy, they are probably satisfied. If you have a busy schedule, then this pet is a great one to care for since they are less needy and are satisfied with basic animal care.
Hedgehogs are affectionate pets, and despite being solitary, they will show and feel love. They will also tell when you are sad and will try soothing you by sitting on your lap. If you treat them right, they will not only want to love it when you visit them in their cage but will also want to spend time with you outside their cage. | <urn:uuid:8731f803-b2f3-455a-9931-a970618e521e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://africanpygmyhedgehogs.com/2021/03/08/how-do-i-know-my-hedgehog-is-happy-interesting-facts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970241 | 2,793 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Co-Op Conversions "Best Bet for Cultural Preservation"
Local businesses find strength in cooperation
Last year, the disruptions of COVID-19, skyrocketing rents, and boomer owners opting to retire led to the demise of some of Austin's most beloved businesses. The Austin Cooperative Business Association responded with a report on converting such businesses to cooperative ownership as a better alternative: "By transferring ownership to workers, small businesses can remain open, improve neighborhood continuity in a period of rapid growth, and mitigate the increase of inequality overall by [lowering] ratios between top and bottom salaries." The co-op model delivers benefits both to workers (increased benefits and job security) and to communities seeking to preserve legacy businesses, mitigate gentrification, and encourage economic resilience. On May 7, the city Economic Development Department's Small Business Division hosted its first class on co-op conversion for local enterprises.
Some co-ops are owned by their employees, others by their customers, but all feature democratic control, according to the International Co-operative Alliance. The brewpub Black Star Co-op, a co-founder of the ACBA and one of the longest-running co-ops in Austin, is owned by 4,000 consumer members who each invest in a $150 lifetime membership. After a year at Black Star, employees can join its Workers' Assembly, a self-governing body that handles operations with oversight from the board of directors. "I love that this is really the opposite of a large corporation, where there's somebody at the top making a huge amount of money," says Jodi Mozeika, business team manager. "All our workers are paid within $5 of each other."
There can be drawbacks, though, when authority and responsibility are spread among so many people. In practice, it's rare that Black Star's 4,000 member-owners have strong views on the matters they get to vote on, and even among the workers engagement can be lacking: "If we don't have input and contribution from 100% of those people, then it can get really difficult to manage the business," says Mozeika. "Democracy can tend to move very slowly."
Andi Shively, founder and co-owner of Key Figures, a cooperative bookkeeping service, agrees that management training is paramount – "retraining ourselves to fully take on ownership, take that level of responsibility and interest in the overall operations, not just in our little role." Shively is operations manager of her worker-owned co-op, held accountable by its member-elected board of directors. She says some of the best ideas come from those co-owners: "I think if we were in a different model, they wouldn't have even brought those up; they'd just think, 'Well, that'll make Andi richer.' Since it makes us all richer, we've got this culture of working together and supporting each other, [and] that's been helping us with recruiting ... and retaining people."
Having said that, Key Figures is structured so that "folks [who] just want to do their job and go home" can: "Our success isn't dependent on every single individual taking that level of leadership," says Shively. Some co-ops, like Treasure City Thrift, are run as collectives and do encourage such engagement from everyone. Regardless of how involved workers are in leadership, everyone typically benefits equally from profit-sharing in co-ops, which are exempt from Texas franchise taxes and (unlike other corporations) do not pay corporate as well as members' individual taxes on profit distributions.
But co-ops are not really designed to be profit machines, which can be an obstacle when seeking investment. Shively says access to capital "is one of the biggest barriers to cooperative growth. The whole point of [co-ops] is to build a business for us to work at; nobody's building a business to sell out. By law, by design, by principle, [we] cannot offer really significant returns on capital." While there are some financial institutions aimed at funding the cooperative economy, this is really where cities can make a difference with their economic development dollars.
In 2014, New York invested $1.2 million per year in worker co-ops, increasing their numbers by 150% in five years. Madison, Wis., currently partners with the University of Wisconsin to provide conversion assistance to businesses under threat of closing. ACBA posits that Austin is uniquely well-suited for co-op conversions: It's big enough to use municipal institutions to "scale up cooperative market share" through contracting and has local colleges and universities to conduct research and offer consulting and a "countercultural community" that's inclined to give co-ops its business.
There are 650 businesses that ACBA has identified as candidates for conversion in Austin. Crucially, they have to have survived 25 years: "Converting to a co-op is not going to save a failing business," said cooperative development specialist Annelies Lottmann in the city's class. "It will preserve a thriving business when one of the key people leaves."
This is why cooperatives help build local economic resilience: "Wheatsville is not going to raise stakes and move to Arizona because they give them better tax breaks – we are inherently rooted in our communities. That's why it's in the [city's] Imagine Austin [Comprehensive] Plan, right?" says Shively. "Because it works. It just takes a minute. You've got to be a little patient, but you get there." | <urn:uuid:3c16f52c-3dee-413e-81eb-eb5480dc4edf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2021-05-14/co-op-conversions-best-bet-for-cultural-preservation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975797 | 1,136 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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CHAI approaches some of the most pressing issues in global health with a business-oriented strategy to fundamentally change the underlying economics. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for diagnosis and treatment; accelerating access to lifesaving technologies, and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs. By addressing global market failures and accelerating access to the most effective, high-quality health products at affordable and sustainable prices, CHAI helps patients access the care and treatment they need.
Over the last several decades, South Africa’s Department of Health (DOH) has made significant progress in moving towards achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 (95% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 95% of people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained ART and 95% of all people receiving ART are virally suppressed) for the pediatric and adolescent populations. However, gaps still exist. Due to South Africa’s high disease burden, South Africa falls short and does not meet the 95-95-95 targets. To address these challenges, the CHAI South African (CHAI SA) team is supporting the DOH, at national, provincial and district levels to implement a broad range of activities across the 95-95-95 matrix, including assessing and costing proven and/or new innovative intervention strategies focused on the identification, establishing strong linkage systems, improving pediatric and adolescent retention/viral suppression, and building an investment case for scale and sustainability. This work will be done through the provision of technical assistance to support the development and deployment of strategic interventions and operational plans, resource optimization in the short and long term and galvanizing key stakeholder coordination through a technical group of implementing partners
CHAI seeks a highly motivated individual with outstanding technical capabilities to play a key role in the Pediatric and Adolescent HIV Program. The Technical Advisor will support the strategy, provide technical input to the Pediatric and Adolescent HIV team. Additionally, s/he will work with a range of partners and subject matter experts within Pediatric and Adolescent HIV to coordinate workstreams. The Technical Advisor should have exceptional communication and analytical skills, be a strong strategic thinker and be able to adapt to differing program needs. CHAI places great value on a commitment to excellence, resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, flexibility, independence, energy, work ethic and humility. The Technical Advisor will be based at The NDoH in Pretoria, South Africa and report to CHAI SA Program Manager for Pediatric and Adolescent HIV and EPI (Expanded Program on Immunisation) and NDoH Pediatric HIV Program Manager.
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North Korea has offered to send 100,000 troops to bolsterRussia's attempts to invade Ukraine, saying the Russian state-run Television insisted.
The pariah state's offer of military aid was not immediately confirmed, but was seized by Russian defense expert Igor Korotchenko.
"There are reports that 100,000 North Korean volunteers have come and are ready to join the conflict," Korotchenko said on Russian Channel 1.
Korochenko was particularly concerned with what he called North Korea's "extensive experience in counter-artillery warfare" - Ukraine's long-range since gaining the United States. A powerful statement given reports of successful artillery attacks. Created HIMARS rocket system in June.
"If North Korea expresses a desire to fulfill its international obligations to combat fascism in Ukraine, we should accept it," Korotchenko said.
What constitutes a "volunteer" force in an authoritarian state such as North Korea seems not to have been considered.
Several satellite states of Russiaprovide so-calledThis indicates that some Western intelligence analysts suggest that Vladimir Putin lacks the political capital to order large-scale mobilization within Russia. there is
Just last month, British spymaster Richard Moore said he believed the Russian war effort was "running out of steam."
"In our assessment, the Russians will find it increasingly difficult to supply manpower [and] supplies in the coming weeks," said his MI6 chief. said in a question and answer session. Colorado Security Forum.
Not children from St. Petersburg or Moscow, ”he said of the troops sent to the front against Ukraine.
"These are poor children from the Russian countryside. They are from blue-collar towns in Siberia. They are disproportionately from ethnic minorities. These are [Putin's] cannon fodder." | <urn:uuid:441831bf-e503-4463-8820-2a2f41016e99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twnews.co.uk/us-news/russian-state-tv-north-korea-offering-kremlin-100-000-volunteers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961583 | 364 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2006
Stephen B. Scharper
Liberation Theology’s Critique of the Developmentalist Worldview
Implications for Religious Environmental Engagement
As the world’s religious communities become more involved in environmental concerns, the question arises as to whether their most significant contributions are in the realm of worldviews, doctrine, and cosmology, or rather in the realm of political and economic critique and an articulation of social justice concerns arising from ecological despoliation. After reviewing liberation theology’s early critique of economic developmentalism, as well as its more recent treatment of ecological concerns, this paper suggests that liberation theology is in fact positing a cosmological as well as political and economic critique of modernity, which proffers conduits of dialogue with other environmental approaches. | <urn:uuid:1dc69b90-fb6e-44a3-9b6c-43bbd559ca71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pdcnet.org/envirophil/content/envirophil_2006_0003_0001_0047_0069 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924999 | 173 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Due to differences in electrical resistance or electrical conductivity, information on soil moisture and soil particle composition can be clearly reflected, as well as intuitive conclusions on density, pH, salinity/conductivity and temperature. Through the network construction on the farm, the real-time parameters collected by the soil sensor are transmitted to the computer mainframe and connected with the system installed on the machine to realize automatic control spraying of fertilizer and pesticide. Welcome to contact for further information on soil temperature moisture sensor. We provide top quality soil moisture sensor and soil temperature probe.
Hunan Rika Electronic Tech Co.,Ltd is a privately held sensor manufacturer and solution provider of environmental & weather monitoring for 10+ years. In addition to weather station, we offer a complete line of weather instruments including anemometers, barometers, thermometers, rain gauges, soil sensors, water sensors and accessories. Rika also develops bespoke products to meet specific customer requirements. Our weather station and weather sensors are wided used around the world in a broad range of monitoring applications, from verifying the performance of green buildings and renewable energy systems to agricultural and coastal research.
The whole structure of the rain gauge is made of metal parts without rust, the inner wall should be smooth and round, the edge of the water bearing device should be free of burr or bruit and other defects, the shape is beautiful and elegant, the weather resistance is good, and the service life is longer. The shell of a common rain gauge is a metal cylinder, divided into two sections. The upper section is a water funnel with a diameter of 20 centimeters. In order to prevent rain splashing and maintain the area and shape of the container mouth, the mouth of the cylinder is made of hard copper with a blade shaped like straight inside and oblique outside. Place a water bottle in the lower section cylinder to collect rainwater. To measure, pour rainwater into a special rain cup to read the precipitation in millimeters. In the snowfall season, the storage bottle is taken out and replaced with a cylinder without funnel. The snowflakes can be collected directly in the rain-measuring cylinder and read after the snow melts. The snow can also be weighed and converted into millimeters according to the area of the cylinder. Discover extra details on rikasensor.com. | <urn:uuid:df7057be-7d51-4952-90e4-66760bd8b464> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://jarticles.athenelinks.com/manufacturing/wind-sensor-supplier-in-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.906863 | 832 | 1.976563 | 2 |
A powerful force draws people to leadership in countless businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and social movements—we call it invisible leadership. Invisible leadership embodies situations in which dedication to a compelling and deeply held common purpose is the motivating force for leadership. Common purpose is more than a mission statement. It is a profound sense of common destiny, a life course or calling, aligned with a mission that resonates profoundly with our values and our sense of ourselves and others.
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Architecture can sometimes become an instrument of representation. Assign a way of inhabiting to a built form makes us speak about typologies. Make a center of innovation and promotion of the Iberian pig pushes us to an interesting search: Recover origins, traveling in time and traditions. Search in the “pig architectures”, from the sheepfold to cellar from the birth of the pig to maturity of Ham, as those two brackets which runs between life and aging Pig. Two typologies distant in time and form that frame the enigmatic and attractive world of Iberian pig and have been the key of our project.
The “Tiro a Pichon” is not a single building but a complex, which was constructed in three phases. The first one is from in the first decades of the twentieth century and corresponds to the main building, which is attributable to Aníbal González, architect of reference of the Andalusian regionalism and author of the Plaza of Spain in Seville. One of the first uses was the pleasure palace for Pigeon Shoot. The second phase takes place between 1936 and 1941, and corresponds to a biggest new building used as hotel; and the last stage was built in the 50s and corresponds to the intermediate ship dedicated to halls and rooms and a pool built on a lower platform.
The first decision of the project is to respect the building “Tiro a Pichon” and its original presence on the square. On the ground floor is situated in the central tourist information point about “Ham Route” and exhibition areas. The 1st floor contains the “Seat of the Control Board of the Designation of Origin Jabugo”. The 2nd floor is reserved for co-working space of companies related to the sector. The communications hub located in the south wing connects directly to the basement where they found the new cellar, a multipurpose space where cured hams, research and kitchen are connected.
The rest of the project is structured by implementing three isolated constructions which called “sheepfolds”. Within each we can find a constructed part (a) and a free area (b) facing the central plaza.
The first sheepfold is the hall and distributor between the colonial building and the building of “Tiro Pichon”. Inside we found a box as a showcase, exhibiting hams, connecting with the winery.
The second sheepfold contains a cafe and toilets.
The third sheepfold is located on the old pool. Recycling their structure and using it as hall-auditorium.
Project: Museum and center for the innovation and promotion of iberian pig.
Client: Junta de Andalucia.
Location: Jabugo, Huelva. (Spain).
Surface: 1.709 m2. built and 7.560 m2. public space.
Architects: baKpak architects.
Collaborators: Marta Pérez Gonzalo y Patricia Pérez Lucas.
Execution Director: Miguel Santos García Romero y José Anselmo Arteaga.
Consultant Facilities: Eva Jiménez del Rio.
Consultant Structure: Duarte y Asociados.
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Nothing ruins a Thanksgiving celebration faster than a severe injury. Yet, every year people are rushed to emergency rooms for carving, frying and lifting accidents associated with the holiday. Keep your Thanksgiving Day feast a little safer with these tips.
Use caution when cooking your bird.
Turkey fryers have become commonplace in many households as a “quick and easy” way to cook a whole turkey. Unfortunately, the process also has caused many serious injuries. Here are a few reminders to help you stay injury-free while deep frying your turkey this year.
- Read or review your deep fryer’s instruction manual to ensure proper use.
- Set the fryer on a firm, flat, fire-proof surface away from flammable buildings or materials.
- Wear long sleeves and pants to protect your skin from hot-oil burns.
- Invest in heat-resistant gloves, goggles and aprons for each cook.
- Only deep-fry turkeys that weigh less than 14 pounds.
- Remove all giblets from the bird.
- NEVER deep fry a frozen or stuffed turkey.
- Don’t overfill your pot with oil. The oil should be an inch above the turkey and three (3) to five (5) inches below the pot’s rim. (Each time you cook a turkey, find the proper oil level before cooking. Place the turkey in the empty pot and add water until it rises one inch above the bird. Remove the turkey and mark the water line. This line becomes the fill line for your oil. Pour out the water and dry the pot thoroughly. Remember, oil and water do not mix.)
- Keep your propane tank as far away from the burner as possible. Light the burner and bring your oil to temperature. Never leave your oil/burner unattended.
- Pat your turkey dry with paper towels before lowering the turkey into the hot oil.
- TURN OFF THE BURNER when the oil reaches 350 degrees and SLOWLY lower your turkey into the pot using the rod or hook that came with your fryer. Do not “drop” the turkey into the hot oil.
- Turn the burner back on, bring the oil back to temperature and cook for 3 to 5 minutes per pound. Use a meat thermometer to check the internal temperature of the turkey. When the turkey reaches an internal temperature 165 degrees, carefully remove the turkey from the fryer.
- For added safety, have a fire extinguisher near the fryer.
For more detailed information about turkey frying, consult your turkey frying manual or visit https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/how-to-deep-fry-turkey/.
Roasting your turkey increases the risk of back injury.
Washing, stuffing and placing a 15- to 20-pound bird into a hot oven or taking the hot roasting pan out of the oven causes many people to bend their backs abnormally. To minimize your risk of injury, remember to:
- Use non-slip potholders or oven mitts.
- Put the bird in the oven in steps instead of one motion. First, move the roasting pan from the counter to the open oven door. Set the pan on the door, reposition yourself, and then lift the bird into the oven. Reverse this process when taking the roaster out of the oven.
- If the pan is too heavy for you to lift comfortably, ask someone who is stronger or taller for help.
- Always use proper form when lifting the pan. Stand with your legs slightly apart and knees slightly bent. Keep your spine straight. Use the power of your legs to rise and lift. Do not lift by bending your spine.
Remove the turkey from the oven and let it rest for 20 to 30 minutes. Resting the turkey allows the meat to reabsorb the juices, moistening the meat and minimizing the amount of liquid that drains out of the bird while slicing.
Get a handle on safe turkey carving technique.
After your bird is cooked and the meat has rested, it’s time to slice and dice it for the serving platter.
To begin carving, place the turkey on a solid surface. (The turkey breast should be facing upward and the legs should be pointing away from you.) Many people find covering a cutting board with a towel holds the turkey in place and makes carving easier.
According to the American Society of Hand Surgeons, there are some basic rules to remember as you prepare to carve your turkey.
Choose the right utensils. An electric knife is best for slicing through a roasted turkey, but if one if not available, use a 7-inch or 9-inch carving knife. Make sure your knife is sharp before you begin. Consider using kitchen shears for hard to cut areas.
Carve with a hand towel nearby. As you carve the turkey, you’ll release juices, which can make the knife handle slippery. Use a towel or paper towel to keep the handle dry and your grip firm.
Cut and carve away from your body. If the blade faces away from you, you’re less likely to slice your skin. As you cut, be aware of the position of your supporting hand. Turkey carving instructions suggest you remove the legs and thighs first, then the wings, and finally, the breasts.
Turkey carving is not the only reason holiday hand injuries send people to the hospital.
After-dinner-clean-up also poses a hand-injury risk.
Thanksgiving often overloads the dishwasher or brings out the best china. Many of the serving dishes, plates, glassware and cups need to be washed by hand.
Use care when handwashing glassware. Hot soapy water can make glassware slippery. Dropping Gramma’s prized dinnerware in the sink increases your risk of cuts. Broken glass concealed by sudsy water can cause deep gashes or sever nerves and tendons. Take care if you are part of the dish crew.
What do you do if a hand injury occurs?
If you or a family member does experience a laceration during your Thanksgiving Day celebration, apply the basic principles of first-aid.
If your cut is minor:
- Apply pressure to stop the bleeding
- Wash the cut with warm, soapy water
- Apply a bandage
- Call your primary care physician to confirm the date of your last tetanus shot. You may need a booster.
Go to the emergency room or Walk-In Care clinic if:
- You cannot stop the bleeding after applying pressure for 10 to 15 minutes
- The cut is more than 1/4-inch deep, or you can see the bone
- The wound affects a joint
- Part of your finger was cut off
- You feel tingling or numbness immediately or within the first 72 hours
- You notice redness around the wound or discharge coming from the wound
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As the weather is becoming increasingly hotter, it is important to know how to look after your skin in the process of all this heat. Let’s take a walk through the educational side of UVB, UBA, the importance of SPF as well as putting a few myths to bed.
What is the difference between UVA and UVB?
UvB=Burning-The potent rays that are at the highest from 10am-4pm
UVB penetrates and damages the outermost layers of your skin. Overexposure causes suntan, sunburn and, in severe cases, blistering.
UVB is connected to the Sun Protection Factor (SPF) on labels of sunscreen products. The SPF number tells you how long the sun’s radiation (including some of the UVA) would take to redden your skin when using that product compared to the time without sunscreen.
UVB rays can be filtered and do not penetrate glass.
UvA=Aging- Responsible for 95% of UV radiation
UVA rays cause tanning, and the shorter wavelengths of UVA also cause sunburn. UVA radiation is proven to contribute to the development of skin cancer.
UVA is connected to the “broad-spectrum protection” you see on the labels of sunscreen products. Early sunscreens only protected your skin from UVB rays, but once it was understood how dangerous UVA rays were, sunscreen manufacturers began adding ingredients to protect you from both UVB and UVA across this broader spectrum.
UVA can penetrate windows and cloud cover.
What does SPF stand for?
Believe it or not, this is a common question asked for those who are not into their skin care, SPF stands for “Sun Protection Factor”.
Why do we need SPF?
We need a good SPF to protect our skin and body against the harmful rays that the sun produces. SPF reduces the risk of skin cancer, aging, wrinkles and discolouration of the skin. We use moisturiser and a wider range of skincare products to protect us from these issues, but sunscreen is the biggest preventer of all of these concerns.
Why do we need to use SPF year round?
The ozone layer helps shield the earth by absorbing some of the UVB rays that transmit from the sun's harmful rays, however as the earth ages, so does this layer, it is depleting, creating an increase in more and more people suffering with UVB overexposure, this is why it is important to be fully protected, not just in the summer months but also the winter months too!
What does sun damage do to our skin?
Sun damage is one of the most common causes of premature aging, resulting in dynamic lines, wrinkles, pigmentation and overall skin discolouration and sun spots and skin cancer.
A great example below, this is an image of a 69 year old truck driver who suffers with unilateral dermatoheliosis (photo damage) you can see the significant difference in his appearance from his left to his right side, his left side shows deeper lines and thickened skin as a direct result of sun exposure, the elastic fibers in the skin can clearly be seen as damaged due to the thickness and deepness of the lines and wrinkles on this gentleman's skin.
What strength SPF do I need?
The number on the front of the SPF bottle is not the strength of SPF, in-fact pretty much all SPF bottles are the same strength bar a few % increase for the higher number, however, this stands for the time period you are covered for before you would start to burn.
For instance, if you were to go into the sun not protected and it took you 5 minutes before you would start to burn, a factor 15 would give you 15 x longer protection so actually taking you 75 minutes to burn instead, 20 would be 20 x times longer (100 minutes) and 30 would be 30 x longer (150 minutes) and so on, typically many people get this number confused with the strength and not the length.
Have you ever been burnt after applying SPF?
This could be due to the fact that the SPF is chemically enhanced, it could also be due to the fact that there was not enough bonding time between applying the SPF and being exposed to the sun.
Chemically enhanced SPF actually absorbs the UV rays by causing a chemical reaction, if there is not enough time from the application to exposure of the sun, then you would definitely see a burning reaction on the skin. Apply your SPF 15-20 minutes minutes before sun exposure and reapply according to the time guide.
Does SPF have a sell by date?
Yes! All SPF should be replaced no later than 12 months after opening, anything longer then the product will not provide protection against the harmful rays.
There are TikTok videos and endless conspiracy theories on how the sun is good for you and how we have been lied to and that it doesn’t contribute to skin cancer etc, EXCEPT, this needs to be understood first of all.
Yes the sunLIGHT is in fact good for you and is great source of vitamin D which we all need for a healthy immune system, mood boosting, lowering the risk of certain health issues and a good bone builder, HOWEVER, it is NOT the sunlight that is the issue, it is the UV rays that transmit from the sun, I will stress that these are 2 different things! So do NOT go into the sun unprotected thinking that this will actually improve your health as you are exposing yourself to unseen harmful UV rays, Do not listen to this type of advice!
So…as the weather heats up, make sure you apply your SPF daily, if you are unsure what SPF you need to be wearing, talk to your beauty advisor, skin consultant or a pharmacist. If you have any sun allergies like Solar Urticaria or Polymorphic Light Eruption then I would suggest an allergy based sunscreen. If you suffer with prickly heat then make sure your skin is softly exfoliated in the evening as this is due to sebaceous glands being blocked with sweat, a skin buffer and a good aloe vera gel in the summer evenings will help with the irritation of this.
Grab your sunscreens and have a great summer!
Kerry - UK Head of Training
If you are concerned about skin cancer or sun damage please book an appointment with your GP. You can also find lots of information here.
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Marvel why Mussoorie is known as the Queen of slopes? In prior occasions the Queen used to be the most wonderful and dazzling among all ladies of the realm. Same remains constant for the beguiling Mussoorie. It is a case of sheer magnificence and effortlessness. Since it is the most peaceful and delightful slope station of north India that is the reason it is known as the Queen of slopes. Mussoorie tour package offer you fabulous outing of this shining excellence.
You make certain to have an a great time during mussoorie tour package. It is ideal set up for satisfaction. Mussoorie is visited by numerous a guests for lovely travel understanding. It is a perfect end of the week escape goal of India. Spots of enthusiasm for Mussoorie have attracted vacationers even universally. Dhanutli is another very beautiful but a little lesser famous hill station around Mussoorie. It is not part of everyone's itinerary yet its unexplored charm is impeccable.
The Places to visit in Mussoorie
Gun Hill : Here you can enjoy a ropeway ride to the second highest peak of Mussoorie. The distance of ropeway is only 400 mtrs.
Municipal Garden : It is a picnic spot and it has a beautiful garden with artificial mini lake. It has boating facilities also.
Childer's Lodge : It is the highest peak of Mussoorie near Lal Tibba.
Camels Back Road : It starts from Kulri Bazar near Rink Hall and ends at Library Bazaar. Its total distance is about 3 kms.
Jharipani Fall : It is 8.5 kms from Mussoorie on Mussoorie-Jharipani Road. Visitors can go up to 7 kms by bus or car.
Bhatta Fall : It is 7 kms from Mussoorie on Mussoorie-Dehradun road. It is an ideal spot for picnic and bathing.
Kempty Fall : It is 15 kms from Mussoorie on the Yamunotri Road. This fall has an altitude of 4500 ft.
Nag Devta Temple : It is an ancient temple which is situated on Cart Mackenjie Road. It is about 6 kms from Mussoorie. It provides a charming view of Mussoorie as well as Doon Valley.
Mussoorie Lake : It is about 6 kms from Mussoorie and situated on Mussoorie - Dehradun road. It is a newly developed picnic spot. It is a delightful spot. Pedal boats are also available.
Mussoorie Tour Package Itinerary 3 Nights 4 Days
Day 01: Delhi to Haridwar (210 kms/ 6 hrs)
Meet at New Delhi and start your excursion to Haridwar. Check in hotel. At evening time visit Har Ki Pauri for Famous Ganga Arti. Nightstay at Haridwar.
Day 02: Haridwar to Rishikesh to Mussoorie
Early morning after breakfast enjoy half day Rishikesh sightseeing trip. And then go for Mussoorie. On arrival Check in hotel and Night stay at Mussoorie.
Day 03: Mussoorie sightseeing (100 kms/ 3 hrs)
Early morning after breakfast go for Mussoorie sightseeing trip. At Mussoorie visit to Kempty Falls, Mall Road and Camel Back Road walk, and Gun Hill by cable car for sunset and himalaya view. Night stay at Mussoorie.
Day 04: Mussoorie to Delhi (300 kms / 9 hrs)
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This interactive waterfall has become an iconic element in the famous shopping center, one of the most important malls in New Orleans
Digital Water Curtain at Lakeside Mall, New Orleans.
This highly interactive Digital Water Curtain detects, with artificial vision, the approach of people and plays with them by dynamically changing the water displays following their footsteps.
The Digital Water Curtain in this project it is specially adapted to be placed indoors in a shopping environment, this means it has to work almost all day, every single day of the year, must be almost maintenance free and must have no splashing out of the designed wet areas.
This original rain fountain is placed in a main plaza where the visitors walk by during all day, so this shooting, attractive and playful waterfall engage people to stay in the area, have fun and keep going to continue their journey through the busy mall.
This project has been a great challenge and an important technology breakthrough to finally achieve that the technology of the Digital Water Curtain can be installed, permanently, in an interior space, falling from a great height, without producing noise, splashes or any other inconvenience related to water.
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Thompson, Cattaneo & Wong (1990)
South Carolina, Florida - probably wider Caribbean distribution
Apalachicola Bay, northwestern Florida. Photo: Kelly Hooper.
This is apparently a fairly common nudibranch in soft-bottom subtidal environments in the southeastern USA. It has usually been identified as the Mediterranean species Armina tigrina, but Thompson et al (1990) while reviewing Mediterranean arminids, named it Armina abbotti after Tucker Abbott who published an early account of its biology. A much fuller account of its anatomy and biology was later published by Eyster (1981).
It has a dark reddish brown to black background colour. There mantle has many longitudinal ridges which are edged with white or yellow. The rhinophores are black with white tips and the oral veil, foot and mantle are all edged with white or pale yellow. It is similar to Armina juliana but
according to Ardila & Diaz (2002) it differs in tooth shape and number of mantle ridges. It lives in sandy subtidal areas and feeds on the pennatulacean Sea Pansy Renilla reniformis Pallas. It grows to more than 5cm long.
• Abbott, R.T. (1954) The habits and occurrence of the nudibranch Armina tigrina in southeast United States. The Nautilus, 67(3): 83-86
• Ardila, N. E. & Díaz, J.M. (2002) Armina juliana (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Arminidae), a new species from the southern Caribbean. Bol. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, 31: 25-31.
• Bertsch, H (1968) Effect of feeding by Armina californica on the bioluminescence of Renilla koellikeri. The Veliger, 10(4): 440-441.
• Eyster, L.S. (1981) Observations on the growth, reproduction and feeding of the nudibranch Armina tigrina. J. Moll. Stud., 47: 171-181.
• Thompson, T.E., Cattaneo, R. & Wong, Y.M. (1990) Eastern Mediterranean opisthobranchia: Dotidae (Dendronotoidea), Arminidae and Madrellidae (Arminoidea). J. Moll. Stud., 56: 393-413.
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As soon as Boule de suif was published, Maupassant found himself in demand by newspapers. He left the ministry and spent the next two years writing articles for Le Gaulois and the Gil Blas. Many of his stories made their first appearance in the latter newspaper. The 10 years from 1880 to 1890 were remarkable for their productivity; he published some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and his only volume of verse.
La Maison Tellier (1881; “The Tellier House”), a book of short stories on various subjects, is typical of Maupassant’s achievement as a whole, both in his choice of themes and in his determination to present men and women objectively in the manifold aspects of life. His concern was with l’humble vérité—words which he chose as the subtitle to his novelUne Vie (1883; A Woman’s Life). This book, which sympathetically treats its heroine’s journey from innocent girlhood through the disillusionment of an unfortunate marriage and ends with her subsequent widowhood, records what Maupassant had observed as a child, the little dramas and daily preoccupations of ordinary people. He presents his characters dispassionately, foregoing any personal moral judgment on them but always noting the word, the gesture, or even the reticence that betrays each one’s essential personality, all the while enhancing the effect by describing the physical and social background against which his characters move. Concision, vigour, and the most rigorous economy are the characteristics of his art.
Collections of short stories and novels followed one another in quick succession until illness struck Maupassant down. Two years saw six new books of short stories: Mademoiselle Fifi (1883), Contes de la bécasse (1883; “Tales of the Goose”), Clair de lune, Les Soeurs Rondoli (“The Rondoli Sisters”), Yvette, and Miss Harriet (all 1884). The stories can be divided into groups: those dealing with the Franco-German War, the Norman peasantry, the bureaucracy, life on the banks of the Seine River, the emotional problems of the different social classes, and—somewhat ominously in a late story such as Le Horla (1887)—hallucination. Together, the stories present a comprehensive picture of French life from 1870 to 1890.
Maupassant’s most important full-length novels are Une Vie, Bel-Ami (1885; “Good Friend”), and Pierre et Jean (1888). Bel-Ami is drawn from the author’s observation of the world of sharp businessmen and cynical journalists in Paris, and it is a scathing satire on a society whose members let nothing stand in the way of their ambition to get rich quick. Bel-Ami, the amiable but amoral hero of the novel, has become a standard literary personification of an ambitious opportunist. Pierre et Jean is the tale of a man’s tragic jealousy of his half-brother, who is the child of their mother’s adultery.
Maupassant prospered from his best-sellers and maintained an apartment in Paris with an annex for clandestine meetings with women, a house at Étretat, a couple of residences on the Riviera, and several yachts. He began to travel in 1881, visiting French Africa and Italy, and in 1889 he paid his only visit to England. While lunching in a restaurant there as Henry James’s guest, he shocked his host profoundly by pointing to a woman at a neighbouring table and asking James to “get” her for him.
The French critic Paul Léautaud called Maupassant a “complete erotomaniac.” His extraordinary fascination with brothels and prostitution is reflected not only in Boule de suif but also in stories such as La Maison Tellier. It is significant, however, that as the successful writer became more closely acquainted with women of the nobility there was a change of angle in his fiction: a move from the peasantry to the upper classes, from the brothel to the boudoir. Maupassant’s later books of short stories include Toine (1886), Le Horla (1887), Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1888; “The Rose-Bush of Madame Husson”), and L’Inutile Beauté (1890; “The Useless Beauty”). Four more novels also appeared: Mont-Oriol (1887), on the financing of a fashionable watering place; Pierre et Jean; Fort comme la mort (1889; “As Strong as Death”); and Notre coeur (1890; “Our Heart”).
Although Maupassant appeared outwardly a sturdy, healthy, athletic man, his letters are full of lamentations about his health, particularly eye trouble and migraine headaches. With the passing of the years he had become more and more sombre. He had begun to travel for pleasure, but what had once been carefree and enjoyable holidays gradually changed, as a result of his mental state, into compulsive, symptomatic wanderings until he felt a constant need to be on the move.
A major family crisis occurred in 1888. Maupassant’s brother was a man of minimal intelligence—today one would call it arrested development—and could work at nothing more demanding than nursery gardening. In 1888 he suddenly became violently psychotic, and he died in an asylum in 1889. Maupassant was reduced to despair by his brother’s death; but though his grief was genuine, it cannot have been unconnected with his own advanced case of syphilis. On January 2, 1892, when he was staying near his mother, he tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Doctors were summoned, and his mother agreed reluctantly to his commitment. Two days later he was removed, according to some accounts in a straitjacket, to Dr. Blanche’s nursing home in Paris, where he died one month before his 43rd birthday.
Maupassant’s work is thoroughly realistic. His characters inhabit a world of material desires and sensual appetites in which lust, greed, and ambition are the driving forces, and any higher feelings are either absent or doomed to cruel disappointment. The tragic power of many of the stories derives from the fact that Maupassant presents his characters, poor people or rich bourgeois, as the victims of ironic necessity, crushed by a fate that they have dared to defy yet still struggling against it hopelessly.
Because so many of his later stories deal with madness, it has been suggested that Maupassant himself was already mentally disturbed when he wrote them. Yet these stories are perfectly well balanced and are characterized by a clarity of style that betrays no sign of mental disorder. The lucid purity of Maupassant’s French and the precision of his imagery are in fact the two features of his work that most account for its success.
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“If Joe Biden wants to run for re-election, he should say so clearly and soon — and then start acting like it,” Yglesias wrote. “또는, if the president is not sure he wants to run again, he should take that as a strong sign that he shouldn’t — and then make that announcement soon, 너무,” 그는 계속했다, emphasizing the word “soon.”
While Yglesias acknowledged it is still early for a typical incumbent president to announce his candidacy for re-election, he argued that, given Biden’s unique attributes, such an announcement is needed.
“예, it’s abnormally early for an incumbent president to be making an official announcement. But for all modern incumbents, a re-election campaign has been a foregone conclusion. For Biden, 그렇지 않다,” 그가 썼어.
“And for many Democrats in Washington, the presumption now — partly because of his age and party [sic] because of his policies — is that he’s not running,” 그는 계속했다.
Yglesias noted, “Many Democrats see his tenure thus far as reflecting tendencies they usually see in a lame-duck president,” 같은 “prioritiz[ing] ambitious foreign policy goals … over domestic issues such as inflation,” 와 함께 “compromis[ing] his diversity goals to hand out senior jobs to old friends … while simultaneously outsourcing most of the staff work to the left wing of the party.”
Some Democrats who do not believe Biden will run for re-election “are currently casting around for alternatives to Vice President Kamala Harris,” Yglesias reported.
He recalled how “3 월 2021 [바이든] convened a roundtable meeting with historians to discuss his potential legacy and his ‘think-big, go-big mentality’.”
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To the natural eye, small is always small and big is always big. Even when it comes to our act of giving, it is so.
God loves givers because He Himself is a giver. He gave and continues to give His best. He expects the same quality of giving from us. But He is not only interested in the quality but also in the quantity of our giving. It doesn’t mean when we give to God, we have to give in large amounts. Nor does it mean smallness.
Here is a beautiful story that explains it. “Looking up, [Jesus] saw the rich people putting their gifts into the treasury. And He saw also a poor widow putting in two mites (copper coins).†– (Luke 21:1-2)
To the natural eye, what the poor widow offered was little and what the rich offered was abundant. None will find anything wrong with that observation. However, from God’s point of view, it wasn’t so!
Let us read the rest of the story: “And He said, Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; For they all gave out of their abundance (their surplus); but she has contributed out of her lack and her want, putting in all that she had on which to live.†– (Luke 21:3-4)
This passage shows us how God measures the quantity of our giving.
1. God measures our level of willingness.
He isn’t just interested in the amount of something that we give, whether it is time, finance, skill or whatever. He is more interested in our level of willingness that gets us to give. That is not visible to the natural eye. But God sees it. He loves those who give without any mind-restraint – 100 percent willingly.
“God loves it when the giver delights in the giving†– (2 Corinthians 9:7)
2. God measures our level of devotion.
Devotion is a heart thing. And God measures it in our act of giving. He wants to see how much commitment and dedication go into our giving.
In fact, giving shouldn’t be for the sake of giving. It must be a sign of our commitment to Jesus and our dedication to do whatever He requires from us. For instance, through tithing (giving 10 percent of our income to God) and offering (giving beyond tithe in the interest of God’s Kingdom), we are declaring God as the source of all blessings and our respect for Him.
3. God measures our level of abandonment.
God not only sees how much we give but also how much we give up!
Yes, God loves to see us abundantly blessed in every area of our lives. His plan is not to take things away from us. But He also loves to see us giving away things for the sake of His Kingdom as well as helping others. And the more you give away, the more it’s going to come back to you for the simple reason that you can never out-give God!
“Truly I tell you,†Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.†– (Mark 10:29-30).
So, remember: to God, small is big when it’s done right!
Question: What do you say about the quantity of your giving? Do you need to improve in this area? Add your comments below in the comments section.
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Last November Glasgow played host to COP26 – an urgent United Nations climate intervention. To involve marginalised groups in the climate conversation, we worked with Stop Climate Chaos Scotland and SCLD to deliver banner making workshops across the country, from Dumfries to Shetland.
Eye-catching art work expresses climate concerns – such as plastic pollution and rising sea levels – and celebrates the world we inhabit, and all of nature’s gifts.
The banners will be on display in the Trongate 103 foyer from 15 January – 26 February
Access: entry to Trongate 103 is free. There are wheelchair accessible toilets.
In Shetland, our group was led by Vivian Ross-Smith. National Autistic Society, Garvald, the Tayside Health and Social Care Partnership, Gossip Collective, Sense Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Council Youth Enquiry Service and Corseford School also had groups participate – with adults, young people and children voicing their views on the climate crisis. | <urn:uuid:966a3f45-613e-4374-a747-0bdc2dc8741c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.project-ability.co.uk/event/ocean-plastic-not-fantastic-cop26-banners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935448 | 214 | 2.0625 | 2 |
What happens if you mix vinegar and rubbing alcohol? Using isopropyl alcohol and white vinegar together makes a quickly evaporating spray glass and mirror cleaner that competes with national brands. This can also be used to give a nice shine to hard tiles, chrome, and other surfaces.
Can you mix apple cider vinegar and rubbing alcohol? Apple cider vinegar with rubbing alcohol ear drops
Also, do not continue with this mixture if you have any stinging or discomfort when using these drops. Mix equal parts apple cider vinegar with rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol). Apply 5 to 10 drops in each affected ear using a clean dropper bottle or baby syringe.
What should you not mix with vinegar?
- Hydrogen peroxide + vinegar. You may assume that combining these two ingredients in the same bottle will boost their cleaning power, but it’s more likely to increase your risk of going to the emergency room.
- Bleach + vinegar.
- Baking soda + vinegar.
Can I mix vinegar and hydrogen peroxide? Hydrogen Peroxide + Vinegar
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23 May June Mullumbimby Masterclass: Serpent Spine
A four-hour masterclass in spinal movement, uncovering and exploring the hidden nature of the spine: a thick, muscular, elastic, ancient undulatory power structure at the core of our bodies and our beings. The spine of an aquatic serpent.
Can you clearly feel and precisely move each and every spinal vertebra independently? In this workshop we will practice simple effective exercises to gain full, detailed awareness of the entire spine, and precise voluntary movement of each individual vertebral segment in three dimensions. These movements are then linked to become the powerful, muscular fundamental body waves which ripple through the spine, ribcage, abdomen and pelvic floor and form the core of all human and animal movements, finally manifesting as the free, sinuous, multi-dimensional waves of the serpent.
The serpent spine practices are taught in a way that is safe and progressive, exceptionally effective for relief and rehabilitation of both acute and chronic pain, for learning to alter our posture and become more expressive with our entire bodies, for opening up the ribcage and the lungs, massaging the diaphragm and internal organs, for whole-body strength, coordination, and for improving all forms of athletic movement. They are also indescribably valuable for meditation practitioners working towards an ever-more detailed awareness of the intricate psycho-physical interactions taking place along the body’s central axis – AKA the “subtle body” of the Yogic and other similar traditions.
Concession: $100 (also for past attendees, participants of previous Ancestral Movement retreats, and people regularly attending local classes in Mullumbimby)
Discounted spaces are always available by request for anyone currently experiencing financial hardship.
For more information about Ancestral Movement go to https://ancestralmovement.com/about/
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Let the Bush tax cuts expire, there are better options
One of the unfortunate side effects of the political dysfunction that has increasingly gripped the nation’s capital is a habit of lurching from one crisis to the next rather than taking time to do a bottom-up assessment of the effectiveness of current policy.
The Bush tax cuts are a great example of this. Republicans want to extend all of the Bush tax cuts, while Democrats generally support extending the tax cuts for only the bottom 98 percent of households. But few end up debating whether these tax cuts are actually optimal policy, and if perhaps a better replacement exists.
This is unfortunate, because the Bush tax cuts are pretty poor policy; in a decade of existence, they have accomplished none of the goals they were intended to achieve. In fact, judging the Bush tax cuts based on their economic impact, distributional impact, and cost, they have been an outright disaster.
Under practically any measure, the economy performed exceedingly poorly in the years following the Bush tax cuts. Of the 10 economic expansions since 1949, the economic expansion from 2001 to 2007 ranks last in GDP growth, investment, job creation, and employee compensation. Economic growth was actually 50 percent faster during the 1990s—a time of higher tax rates—than during the 2000s.
The Bush tax cuts are particularly poorly-designed for the current economic situation. Effective job creation policies are those that address the demand shortfall that continues to hold back full recovery. Yet the Bush tax cuts disproportionately go to taxpayers who simply save the money, trading public savings for private savings but doing little for the economy itself. This is why the Bush tax cuts for the rich cost about five times as much as extending the low-income tax credits, yet the job impact is about the same.
The Bush tax cuts also contributed to rising income inequality in the economy. More than half of the tax cuts went to households who make more than $170,000, and almost 40 percent went to the top 1 percent of households (i.e. those making more than $450,000) for an average tax cut of nearly $100,000. The top 0.1 percent of earners (i.e. those making over $2.4 million) got an average tax cut of roughly $500,000, more than 450 times larger than the $1,100 received by the average middle-income family.
The Bush tax cuts have already added more than $3.4 trillion to the national debt, accounting for more than 40 percent of the total debt added since 2001 (and roughly 80 percent of the debt added during the Bush administration). In fact, the interest we paid on the Bush tax cuts debt in 2012 alone ($65 billion, or 1.9 percent of $3 trillion) exceeded the entire federal budget for nondefense research and development. And over the next 10 years, these tax cuts will add another $4.3 trillion to the debt, again accounting for nearly half of projected accumulated debt.
One possible replacement for the Bush tax cuts is a proposal we authored as part of the Peterson Solutions Initiative to consolidate work and family tax preferences for low-income taxpayers and extend them to the middle class. Largely based on past proposals from EPI (see Robert Cherry and Max Sawicky’s 2000 report, Giving Tax Credit where Credit is Due) and the Bipartisan Policy Center (See Debt Reduction Task Force Co-chairs Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin’s 2010 report, Restoring America’s Future), this proposal would:
- Eliminate the personal exemption, standard deduction, Earned Income Tax Credit, and Child Tax Credit, and Child and Dependent Care Credit
- Implement a Work Credit at 30 percent on the first $20,300 earned per worker, with no phase-out and fully refundable
- Implement a Family Credit at $1,600 per child, with no phase-out and fully refundable
The proposal would accomplish four distinct goals. First, it would simplify the tax code for low-income taxpayers, making the tax code more user-friendly and transparent. Second, it would promote upward mobility for low-income households by reducing the high effective marginal rates that they face as their income rises and safety net programs phase out. Third, it would act as a replacement for the Bush tax cuts for these households by providing (on average) greater benefits to the bottom half of households. And finally, because it disproportionately benefits low– and middle-class households that tend to spend larger shares of their incomes, it would provide a much greater benefit to the economy than an extension of the Bush tax cuts would provide.
It should be noted that this isn’t the only option for the Bush tax cuts. My colleagues Josh Bivens and Andrew Fieldhouse have focused on the higher end Bush tax cuts, proposing to use half the revenue from their expiration for deficit reduction and half to finance powerful fiscal stimulus such as unemployment benefits, state and local budget relief, infrastructure, and a targeted tax rebate. This proposal would generate more than 2 million jobs in 2013 and reduce the 10-year deficit by $650 billion relative to current policy.
The bottom line is that the Bush tax cuts are costly and inefficient, and they don’t deserve to survive the year-end fiscal showdown. Their replacement should focus on job creation and supporting middle-class families. But given how awful the Bush tax cuts are as a matter of policy, it isn’t terribly difficult to find a worthy replacement.
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Fallopia x bohemica (Chrtek & Chrtkova) J. P. Bailey - Bohemian Knotweed, Hybrid Knotweed
By Science Staff
Not peer reviewed
Last Modified 01/20/2012
Common NamesBohemian Knotweed, Hybrid Knotweed
A hybrid between Fallopia japonica and F. sachalinensis. Recent research indicates extensive backcrossing of F. x bohemica with F. japonica resulting in complex hybrid swarms; and making morphological criteria that distinguish F. x bohemica and F. japonica unreliable in the Northeast, see Gammon et al., 2007. | <urn:uuid:14368e5c-04ef-4473-a311-d2689af95950> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nymf.bbg.org/species/2223 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.718143 | 141 | 1.992188 | 2 |
TechNet’s members have powered America during COVID-19 by producing personal protective equipment and ventilators, helping scientists to discover drug treatments and research vaccines, reducing barriers to telework options, connecting students and teachers, enabling food delivery, providing emergency transportation, and facilitating contact tracing. As the country has gained more control over the pandemic, TechNet’s members have worked to spur our economic recovery and help Americans safely return to work, school, and an open society. TechNet believes:
- The top priority of the Administration and the Congress must continue to be getting the pandemic under control and eradicating COVID-19 as a public health crisis.
- Vaccinations, nationwide testing, and contact tracing, coupled with mask wearing and social distancing, are critical steps toward the nation’s economic recovery.
- Long-standing systemic health inequities have disproportionately placed certain racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19. The federal government should continue to identify and work to remove these barriers so that all Americans have access to both vaccinations and treatment for COVID-19 exposure. TechNet believes these health disparities are directly tied to other social and economic inequities which should be addressed by lawmakers. TechNet’s principles on diversity, inclusion, and racial justice can be found here.
- The consistent, reliable, and transparent release of data is key to protecting public health and spurring our economic recovery. Data communicated from and to public health officials should include both leading data, such as early warning data, to identify areas of outbreak and potential spread, and lagging data, such as hospitalization rates and ICU capacity, so that health officials and policymakers can continue to focus on preparedness, containment, targeted responses, and mitigation.
- Given the technology industry’s experience using innovation to address health challenges, sustain business operations, and protect jobs during the pandemic, the Administration should consult top experts from the private sector on how to operate more safely and build a stronger public health system for the future.
- COVID-19 has laid bare the digital divide and the barriers faced by too many Americans who have had to transition crucial aspects of life online. The economic recession spurred Congress to address the critical need for a massive federal investment designed to catalyze U.S. innovation. The Administration should swiftly implement these historic federal investments in broadband, 5G, other emerging technologies, and digital literacy and skills training programs, as well as job training for the installation of these technologies, to support the American recovery and cement our global competitiveness for the future.
- Supporting innovation and growth of third-party delivery services remains critical to providing increased earning opportunities for drivers and delivery workers, supporting restaurants, retail stores, and small businesses, and ensuring the equitable delivery of goods and services during our economic recovery.
- Federal regulators should encourage the expansion of virtual care and ensure access to safe and secure telehealth and digital health technologies, especially in areas with limited access to health care providers.
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Also known as tinea pedis, this fungal infection of the skin is contagious. It can spread to other parts of the body and be transmitted to other people.
The fungus thrives on the foot because it prefers areas that are warm and moist. Wearing well-ventilated shoes and moisture-wicking socks help keep the feet dry. Be sure to dry well between your toes.
Shower shoes in public locker rooms can help prevent the spread of this infection. Even the way socks are laundered is important.
Examine your feet. Seek medical attention if you see excessively dry or flaky skin, blisters, or a break in the skin.
These unsightly conditions can itch and become painful. When caught early, fungus may clear up with over-the-counter or prescription topical medication. An oral antifungal medication may be needed if widespread. Left untreated, it can cause a more serious bacterial infection.
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The appearance of a reddish lump in the vicinity of your lips, nostril or chin that you have never had before might make you debate about its nature. You might think that it is a pimple or just a cold sore. Knowing which of these you are facing is crucial because the treatment of both these types of lesions is markedly different. Here is an account of how a cold sore differs from a pimple so that diagnosing which one you are having becomes easier for you.
A cold sore which is commonly called as a fever blister is a small bump on the face that is usually filled with some kind of fluid and is often found near the lips. You will find the cold sores to appear in bunches located close to each other. It takes about a week or two for the cold sore to heal on its own. However, prior to this they tend to break first, which results in the formation of a crust over them.
The development of a cold sore is a time taking process that is comprised of a few steps. The first step is an itching sensation being felt by the patient near his lips. This usually happens two days before the actual sore is going to emerge. The patient might feel the same feelings on his nose and cheek as well. The second step is the appearance of the blisters containing small amounts of fluid in them near the edges of the lips and in around the nose and cheeks. Sometimes these lesions merge which other before they burst, spilling out the fluid present in them and turning the lesion in to an open wound. A crust duly forms over this wound once the fluid flow from the blister stops. For people having cold sores for the first time, the blisters are usually accompanied with other symptoms as well which includes swelling of the lymph nodes, headache, a sharp ache in the muscles, soreness of throat and fever.
The herpes simplex virus or HSV is the main reason behind the appearance of the cold sores. Its two strands namely HSV-1 and HSV-2 are usually considered the culprits behind cold sores and genital herpes respectively. However, both strands of this virus can result in the formation of lesions either on the face or the genitals. The herpes simplex virus is contagious in nature and is usually contracted from a person who is currently infected with it. Using the same towels or utensils or even kissing are factors that can aid the HSV-1 virus from travelling to one person to the other. Indulging in oral sex is another means of contracting both HSV-1 and HSV-2 viruses.
Two weeks is the usual time taken by a cold sore to heal if no medical treatment is sought by the patient. However, the use of homemade remedies and antiviral prescription medications such as penciclovir, acyclovir, famciclovir and valacyclovir can hasten the recovery time period.
For more home remedies for cold sores, see
A pimple is a kind of a condition of the skin in which the dead skin cells and oil get stuck in the hair follicles, turning them in to small reddish lesions. A pimple usually does not heal quickly and even when one disappears, another one appears in its place. This is the reason why pimples are considered quite upsetting.
The face, shoulders, chest, neck and back are the regions where the appearance of a pimple is most likely. The reason for this is that the most number of oil glands in the skin are found in these areas. A pimple usually has a reddish outlook and a tip which is white in color indicating the presence of pus. The whitish tips also mean that the hair follicles are infected and inflamed.
There are as many as three reasons why you might have a pimple on your skin. The first one is a bacteria build up, the second is hyperactivity of the oil glands that are responsible for the production of sebum and the third one is an irritation of the hair follicles caused by the shedding of the dead skin cells in an irregular manner. Pimples can become aggravated due to some factors as well. For instance, when a young girl or boy reaches the age of puberty, his/her sebaceous glands become hyperactive because of androgens resulting in the production of a lot of sebum. Sebum production can become heightened in pregnant women because of hormonal imbalances too. Pimples are caused by some other reasons too which include usage of drugs having some content of corticosteroids or lithium present in them. Research has shown that an increase in the level of sugar in the blood can also result in the formation of pimples as well.
Severe cases of acne and pimples have been known to leave scars on the skin and cause a great deal of anxiety especially in the case of young girls. However, using treatment methods at an earlier stage can greatly diminish the chances of a pimple from forming and can also quicken its pace of recovery as well. | <urn:uuid:10586e19-a5ea-447d-ae59-66b6c35f541c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://m.med-health.net/Cold-Sore-Or-Pimple.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973851 | 1,025 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Dentistry for Miniatures
Like horses, miniatures can get problems with their teeth at any stage of their lives so a dental check every 6 to 12 months is a great way to identify these issues and prevent them getting worse.
Given that miniatures are often kept as companions performance and bitting problems are rarely seen, however it is important not to overlook the condition of their mouths as they can suffer from serious and painful dental disease.
Over-crowding of the teeth in their small heads is a common finding. Miniatures have almost full sized horse teeth but they are just packed into in a much smaller sized head.
Misalignments and periodontal pocketing (gum disease and recession) are common. These pockets trap feed where it undergoes necrosis (rots), the rotten feed creates painful gum infections and diseased tissue that leads to tooth loss.
It is very important to have professional dental examinations done early in the miniature’s life. If their mouths are monitored regularly from 6 months through to 5 years, often (depending on what the mouth looks like), with potential crowding noted, radiographs taken to note how the teeth are coming in, extractions to make room for other teeth, they will mature into adulthood with a healthy, functional, pain free mouth.
If you’ve acquired a miniature as an adult and missed the opportunity to start dental check-ups at an early age, consider the sooner the pony IS evaluated, the better. Problems don’t go away on their own; they just get worse, even if they appear to be happy, eating well and having no problems.
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Wet Pour is a very common safety surface that is used in childrens play parks, pathways and play areas as it will provide protection against critical fall height. We have installed soft tarmac in many areas of Cornwall including Bodmin, Truro, Camborne and Redruth. Rubber EPDM rubber crumb wetpour, is a recycled rubber that is mixed/binded with a PU binder and put into the required area.
The Soft Safety Rubber can also be installed and specified into different thickness and installed over different hard sub bases and these will help to protect against higher fall heights. Cornwall is a big county which we are proud to have installed in. Areas such as St Austell, Falmouth, Penzance and Newquay have all had our surfaces installed to a very high quality and have always given good customer feedback.
Wetpour Play Areas
Wetpour is a great surface for play areas in playgrounds and parks. This is because of the better safety enhancements it offers and because of the different choices available to you. The surface can come in a range of different colours, shapes and designs to fit your surface perfectly. By combining these benefits, the school is provided with an excellent external facility where children are engaged with the bright coloured surfaces and if necessary, are given an educational activity to complete. This is because the surfaces can be designed with numbers and letters to allow the children to learn at the same time as socialising with their friends. Therefore, the wetpour provides benefits to both the school and the pupils because the fresh air that the pupils will receive will mean that their attention spans are widened and consequently that the teachers will be able to complete their purpose of teaching the children to a much higher quality.
Maintaining your wetpour is also very important. This is because of the highly beneficial porosity that the wetpour offers when kept clean. To keep your wetpour clean, simply brush along the surface every so often to ensure that no dirt is able to build up throughout the area. The dirt can stick to the wetpour and block the pores, causing cases of flooding and waterlogging. This flooding can further cause permanent damages to the wetpour so proactive maintenance is highly advised.
Wetpour can vary in thickness and meets the BS EN 1177 requirements. It also meets the required CFH (Critical Fall Height) and can be created to your exact required specification. Repairing a wetpour surface can either be very straightforward or very complex. Depending on the severity of the damages to the flooring, we may decide that a full repair is required which would mean that our expert team would need to visit your facility and carry out large-scale repairs themselves. However, if the damages are only minor, there is a chance that a repair kit would be able to fix this to save you money and time. Repair kits consist of binder, primer rubber gloves and wetpour and only require yourself to carry out the repairs. If you are unsure on which repair is required for your facility, contact our team through filling the provided contact form with all of the details of your surface and damages and we will respond as quickly as possible.
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With 5.5 million households in the US already using heating oil, it’s clear that its benefits are no secret.
Many of those who consider making the switch are turned off by the idea of the effort or expense involved.
However, when the benefits of heating oil are properly broken down, these issues seem insignificant in comparison.
Read on as we look at the three biggest benefits of oil heating.
When it comes to keeping your family home safe, oil heating has the edge over its rivals.
Propane and natural gas both carry a risk of explosion, albeit a remote one. With heating oil, however, this risk is removed, as oil cannot combust while in a liquid state.
The furnaces used for heating oil also don’t reach the temperatures that would be necessary for an explosion.
In terms of storage, heating oil is also safer than other energy types. When stored properly, the oil will remain stable and should therefore not be a cause for concern.
To ensure that your heating oil is stored as safely as possible, have your oil tank examined for leaks or spills regularly. While they are relatively uncommon, they can happen.
Because the storage of large amounts of heating oil is safe, you can stock up on it as much as you like. This means that you might only have to buy oil a couple of times each year.
It also means that you have the option of buying more if prices drop below their usual level.
It is also rare to encounter any shortage in the supply of heating oil. While demand increases in the colder winter months, this will generally affect users of natural gas and propane more than those who use heating oil.
If convenience is a big factor in your decision, you should know that there are many ways of taking the hassle out of home heating. Using a fuel delivery service reduces the effort you have to put in to keep your house warm.
The efficiency of heating oil is advantageous in terms of both the environment and your wallet.
Oil heaters produce more heat than their natural gas or propane counterparts. That means that you can enjoy warm, cozy winters without worrying about your energy costs, or your carbon footprint.
It’s also a good time to have oil heating due to market pricing. Despite worries about dwindling fossil fuel resources, oil prices have recently exhibited a downward trend.
While oil heaters can be expensive to install, the savings you will make over the long term make this an entirely worthwhile investment.
Are You Ready for Oil Heating?
As you can see, the benefits of oil heating far outweigh the drawbacks. If you want to make the switch, start the process today!
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Luteinizing hormone (LH) is a key regulator of male male fertility through its effects on testosterone secretion by Leydig cells. that respond rapidly in a dose-dependent fashion to the androgen and that are consequently candidate regulatory genes connected with the testosterone-driven progression of spermatogenesis. In addition, our transcriptional data suggest a model for the alternative of fetal-type Leydig cells by PHA-739358 adult-type cells during testicular development in which a testosterone opinions switch is definitely necessary for adult Leydig cell production. LH signaling affects the timing of the switch but is definitely not a stringent requirement for Leydig cell differentiation. gene encoding the LH receptor is definitely erased. This exon encodes the intracellular and transmembrane domain names, and its loss prospects to a total lack of receptor function. The assessment of the prepubertal testis development of LuRKO mice with normal regulates provides a unique insight into the contribution of LH to this process. In male LuRKO mice, testicular size is definitely significantly reduced from around Day time 13 postpartum, and normal germ cell differentiation is definitely disrupted, arresting at the early round spermatid stage around Days 19C20 postpartum . Evidence from several prior studies suggests that the effects of LH are mainly mediated via the excitement of testosterone production by the Leydig cells. Spermatogenesis in the hypogonadal (< 0.01 for transmission detection) on each array and to call differentially expressed genes at each of the developmental phases (defined while < 0.05 after false breakthrough rate correction). Two samples with low marking effectiveness and fragile signal from housekeeping genes were judged as failed hybridizations and excluded from further analysis. This affected one replicate from PHA-739358 the 24-h testosterone-treated time point and one replicate from the 27-h LuRKO developmental sample. Normalized data from BeadStudio was strained to exclude genes not indicated in testis (i.elizabeth., data from probes that were classed mainly because lacking in all samples). This yielded a final data arranged covering 30 389 probes from 21?305 PHA-739358 different genes. ANOVA analysis and number generation were consequently carried out using InforSense Breakthrough Release (InforSense). The full array data arranged offers been submitted to GEO, accession quantity “type”:”entrez-geo”,”attrs”:”text”:”GSE19453″,”term_id”:”19453″GSE19453. Selected gene lists were used for gene ontology analysis using GOEAST (gene ontology enrichment analysis) and KEGG (Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes) pathways using Pathway-Express. Array results for selected genes and samples were confirmed using quantitative RT-PCR (Supplemental Data H4; extra methods available as Supplemental Data H5). RESULTS LH Insensitivity Offers Transcriptional Effects Throughout Prepubertal Testis Development, Influencing over 10% of the Testis Transcriptome Hierarchical clustering of the LuRKO and normal time program samples relating to the similarity of their global appearance users resulted in a shrub (Fig. 1) that was in good agreement with known histological data. That is definitely, the Day time 27 LuRKO samples clustered collectively with the Day time 19 LuRKO samples rather than with the Day Emr1 time 27 normal samples, indicative of spermatogenic police arrest at this stage. Significantly, however, the analysis also exposed variations between LuRKO and normal testes at Days 3, 8, and 13, with the knockout samples becoming more related to each additional than to the age-matched control samples. This signified that LH insensitivity experienced consistent effects on the testis transcriptome at all age groups, actually before hypoandrogenism arranged in. FIG. 1. Hierarchical bunch analysis of the total appearance profile for the LuRKO and normal developmental series. Biological replicates A and M for each time point possess been arranged collectively in pairs, and LuRKO sample pairs have consequently been arranged … In a combined signaling, and ECM (extracellular matrix)-receptor connection. Gene ontology evaluation using GOEAST also failed to identify significant patterns among the down-regulated genetics (find Supplemental Data T7). Among the up-regulated genetics, gene ontology conditions for transcription and proteins phosphorylation had been considerably overrepresented as well as related mother or father nodes in the gene ontology forest. The Results of LH Insensitivity on Somatic and Bacteria Cell Transcriptomes Are Biphasic Since testicular cell structure varies broadly throughout advancement, it is certainly most likely that there are many genetics that are just governed by LH within a provided developing home window and are unrevised at various other levels. Desk 1 provides the amount of genetics discovered to end up being considerably up- and down-regulated at each specific period stage postpartum. There proved to be a biphasic distribution in the true numbers of genes deregulated at each time point. Times 3, 19, and 27 shown the highest quantities of adjustments, with fewer adjustments getting obvious at Times 8 and 13. This indicated that there had been two effective ocean of transcriptional response to LH insufficiency. 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High sound power level (SPL) acoustic area denial system deters unwanted "guests" gaining access to un-manned production platforms...
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from any position in the tower or nacelle + lone worker protection if required. Automatic coded emergency radio transmissions to the support vessel in emergencies.
Establishing a healthy and safe working environment for lone workers can be different from organizing the health and safety of other personnel - they should not be put at more risk than other workers.
It will often be safe to work alone. However, managers should think about and deal with any health and safety risks before people are allowed to do so.
One option is to provide these personnel with lone worker protection plus wireless emergency calling equipment; thereby improving the chances of a successful outcome should the worst happen. | <urn:uuid:5d06a0f4-830f-484b-b70d-e73209f06784> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cvigil.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.910263 | 495 | 1.515625 | 2 |
ISLAM: THE WAY OF REVIVAL
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WeChat has a monopoly on consumer information, together with mini-apps to pay bills, guide docs appointments and file police stories. In 2017, WeChat unveiled plans for digital ID cards that would be acknowledged by the state. TikTok stated final week it had begun applying labels to some Russian state-controlled media accounts to warn folks of videos produced by customers with ties to the Kremlin. Meanwhile, many Russians are outfoxing the bans by turning to digital personal networks, or VPNs, to access blocked social media networks and information sites.
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In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Professor Charles Schmitz of Towson University.
When Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional partners embarked on a military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, it was hardly predictable that the war would drag on for more than a year and morph into a humanitarian crisis. The emergency is characterized by massive civilian casualties, displacement of citizens, nationwide water and fuel shortages and deepening poverty in the already-impoverished country.
In late March, UNICEF warned that some 320,000 Yemeni children faced the risk of life-threatening malnutrition, while 82% of the country’s 27 million citizens required humanitarian assistance. As noted by the UN’s children fund in a report marking the anniversary of the Saudi-led offensive in Yemen, six children have been killed or injured every day since the intervention started on March 26, 2015. It is reported that some 6,000 people, about half of them civilians, have been killed during the airstrikes so far.
The UN Security Council hasn’t passed any binding resolutions that could potentially contain the flames of conflict in Yemen. It has had several briefing and consultation sessions and issued statements supporting the peace talks, but hasn’t come up with a practical solution yet.
In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Professor Charles Schmitz—a noted Middle East expert specializing in Yemeni affairs—to explore the motives behind the Houthi insurgency, the public perception of this movement and humanitarian damages induced by year-long fighting in Yemen.
Kourosh Ziabari: There are often mixed public characterizations of the Houthi insurgency. What do you consider to be the main motives behind the uprising of Zaidi Shiite Houthis in Yemen?
Charles Schmitz: First, the Houthi movement is evolving. The Houthi movement that began building a Zaydi revival movement among the youths of northern Yemen is not the same military insurgency that fought the Yemeni government between 2004 and 2010, and the Houthi movement that managed to take over government institutions in Sanaa is a different organization again. The movement has evolved.
When it was a Zaydi revival movement providing summer camps to young people, it was popular in Yemen, and when the Houthi insurgency fought the Yemeni government it had wide support among all of those that felt that Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime was corrupt and repressive—that is, most of the country. And when Saleh resigned and Yemenis convened the National Dialogue Conference, the Houthi movement was welcomed and included, and the Houthi representatives at the National Dialogue Conference very much agreed with the liberal, human rights agenda at the conference.
However, when the Houthi leadership made an alliance with its former enemy, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and took over the capital Sanaa, Yemenis began to have doubts about the Houthi leadership. It is true that when the Houthis took Sanaa, people supported their agenda for reform. The interim government of Hadi was very incompetent and the economic situation was deteriorating rapidly. But the Houthi leadership is politically immature. It could support a reform government but not govern. When Hadi and the [ex-Prime Minister Khaled] Bahah government resigned, the Houthi leadership tried to govern the country, and it failed. The Houthi regime is similar to Saleh’s repressive regime. The Houthi militias have rounded up political opponents and held them captive for months. The Houthis destroyed the property of political opponents. The Houthi leadership is not sophisticated and is making many political errors.
The Saudi characterization of the Houthis is simply wartime propaganda. What the Saudis don’t understand is that the Houthis are Yemeni—an important part of Yemen—and not something foreign to Yemen. The Saudis want to control Yemen and they cannot tolerate an independent Yemeni regime that they have no influence over. Now that the Houthi leadership is negotiating with the Saudis, the Saudis are happy. The Saudis don’t care about Zaydism, they care about Saudi influence on the Yemeni government.
Ziabari: Yemen has an indispensable strategic importance, as it sits on Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is a major passageway for much of the world’s oil shipments. Do the Houthis have plans for suffocating Bab al-Mandab, which will jeopardize the interests of the Red Sea countries?
Schmitz: Usually people say it is the Iranians that threaten the Bab al-Mandab, but the Iranian military already overlooks the Strait of Hormuz through which a greater amount of oil travels and nothing has happened. Why should Iranian missiles near a smaller sea lane be different? If the Houthis or Iranians really threatened the Bab al-Mandab, the US military in the region could easily destroy those weapons that threatened the sea lanes.
Ziabari: So why then did Saudi Arabia launch a military expedition in Yemen? Do you see any peaceful settlement on the horizon?
Schmitz: The Saudi military campaign has many motives. First, the Saudi regime has long been vulnerable to the accusation that it spends a lot of money on defense but is so incompetent that the Saudi military is ineffective. This was the criticism of the Saudi regime during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Saudi regime also fears the accusation that it is dependent upon the United States for its defense. So this campaign is an attempt to chart an independent Saudi military strategy for its defense that does not depend upon the US.
Unfortunately, the crisis in Yemen is largely a domestic crisis and foreign powers can do little at this point. The domestic sides must come to an agreement before anything else.
The Saudi campaign is also a result of an internal struggle within Saudi Arabia for succession. King Salman is clearly positioning his son to lead the kingdom. The Saudis also feared Iranian successes in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and in Yemen, though in Yemen the Iranians did very little. The Houthis are really a domestic group, not a creation of Iran. Salman and his young son wanted to draw a line in the sand and say that Saudi Arabia can defend itself against the Iranians.
The war is a humanitarian disaster. Yemen was on the verge of economic collapse before the war, and now it is subjected to a halt of oil production and a trade blockade. The basic infrastructure of the country has been destroyed.
There are no clear winners in the war. The two sides have reached a military stalemate that is bleeding the country to death. There is no clear settlement on the horizon. The issue is how to create a political authority to oversee the re-establishment of a new Yemeni state. The Hadi government claims it is the legitimate government of Yemen, but Hadi and his government have little legitimacy in Yemen and they are very incompetent. On the other side, the Houthi leadership does not trust the Hadi people and is not willing to relinquish its military advantage to a new state authority yet. The problem is how to create a new political authority that encompasses both sides.
Ziabari: Some experts believe the Saudi aerial attacks on Yemen have weakened the Yemeni military and security forces, and they are unable to effectively fight the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) mercenaries. Why has the AQAP been able to grow so strongly in Yemen? Is there really a fertile ground for it to consolidate its base unchallenged?
Schmitz: Al-Qaeda took advantage of the chaos of the war to take over Al Mukalla, the major port of eastern Yemen. It stole a lot of money from the banks and a lot of weapons from the Yemeni military. At first, the Saudi military said that it was not concerned with al-Qaeda—the primary enemy was the Houthis. Al-Qaeda, the Saudis said, would be dealt with when a stable government was established in Sanaa. But the chaos in the areas controlled by the Saudis and the Hadi government showed that al-Qaeda was a bigger problem than the Saudis thought. When the Houthis agreed to a ceasefire with the Saudis along the border in the north, the Saudis started attacking al-Qaeda in the south. The Emirati forces retook Mukalla and now are hunting al-Qaeda in the interior. The United States has been very successful in targeting al-Qaeda’s top leadership. Over the last year, US drones have killed much of the top leadership. So al-Qaeda benefited from the war, but it has also suffered greatly. The war has been a mixed experience for al-Qaeda.
Ziabari: Is it possible to tackle the crisis in Yemen effectively and sustainably? What steps should be planned and taken to settle the disputes, bring peace back to the war-wrecked country and ensure that humanitarian assistance is widely distributed across the region?
Schmitz: Unfortunately, the crisis in Yemen is largely a domestic crisis and foreign powers can do little at this point. The domestic sides must come to an agreement before anything else. Foreign powers can help rebuild Yemen, but only when the war stops.
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Ronnie Mitra, director of API design at The API Academy, says that a good API mixes functionality, usability and developer experience. He argues that no matter how good the information, service or product you’re providing is, nobody will use it unless it’s well-presented, well-designed, well-structured and extremely interactive. Kaltura's managing director for Platform, ecosystem and community echoed those sentiments in his APIcon discussion (see the full video at the end of page 2 of this post) about why API providers must dogfood their own APIs.
- Make it clear what your API does
- Let them get in easily
- Let them get in free
- Make sure pricing is clear
- As always, API Documentation must be a priority
Then, once upon a time, back in the early Noughts, Amazon’s CEO went all in on his company using APIs. He sent around a memo that changed the lives of developers forever. It went something like this:
- All teams expose data and functionality via interfaces.
- Teams only communicate via these interfaces.
- There will be no other form of communication allowed.
- It doesn’t matter what technology is used.
- All service interfaces, without exception must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable.
- Anyone who won’t do that, will be fired.
Basically, it was API-first or bust because that’s the only way to scale. And there’s not doubt that Jeff Bezos’ bet on APIs has paid off for Amazon. A few years later in 2006, Amazon became the poster child for Web APIs with Amazon Web Services.
Since 2007, Zohar Babin and the team working on Kaltura’s open-source video calls made a similar determined decision that an Open API must be at the core of everything they offer. Even with their broad range of B2B and B2C clients, extremely customized workflows and varying moderation tool, for more than nine years now, they have kept to that promise.
This piece follows Babin’s story of Open API best practices, first talked about at an APIcon.
What are the best things a good API has to offer?
Now, if you’re reading this, you probably already know all this, but Babin’s list of what makes the Application Programming Interface so dreamy is a good checklist for you to remember when you’re trying to sell your CIO or CEO the API-first model. What makes APIs so awesome?
- Flexibility and innovation
- Automation of processes
- Accessible functionality
- Delegation of work
- Democratization of data
The best way to test for these things is to eat your own dogfood, “So whatever a developer of Kaltura can do, our partners can do and our customers can do.” Let’s walk through the roadblocks you’ll probably stumble upon as you munch on kibble and how to build your Open API in a way that eliminates them in the future.
And yet, here we are, with most APIs causing more roadblocks than taking down
The best way to lose potential clients? Make them frustrated! Babin says that nowadays, when someone wants to access an API, both in the enterprise and consumer arenas, it usually follows this arduous process:
- You sign up.
- You review it with business development.
- You wait for a decision from higher up.
- You sign legal agreements. (Either with legal reviewing or you signing blindly.)
- You pay.
- You get API access.
- Finally, you start building on it and using it.
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National Transportation Safety Board Releases Video Series About Preserving the Future of Connected Vehicle Technology
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released a four-part Most Wanted List (MWL) Interview video series titled V2X: Preserving the Future of Connected Vehicle Technology. The series was developed as part of the NTSB’s MWL safety topic that focuses on requiring collision avoidance and connected vehicle technologies on all vehicles.
Video Series Overview
In the series, NTSB board member Michael Graham talks with experts from government, industry, and academia about the safety benefits and the maturity level of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, the reasons for its scarce deployment, and the impact of the Federal Communications Commission’s recent actions to limit the spectrum available for transportation safety.
The video features key leaders in the V2X space, including:
- Ken Leonard, U.S. Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office
- Debby Bezzina, Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Bob Kreeb, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Laura Chace, ITS America
- Scott Marler, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- John Hibbard, Georgia Department of Transportation
- John Capp, General Motors
- John Kenney, Toyota
Video Series Details
Title: V2X: Preserving the Future of Connected Vehicle Technology
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> > I have the same problem. No idea what's happening.
> > On Oct 16, 4:04 pm, Gil <virgildobjans...@gmail.com
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Population growth and environmental quality: are they compatible?
journal contributionposted on 05.05.2017, 04:04 authored by Hamilton, Clive
There is no correlation between a nation’s population growth and its rate of economic growth. Population growth will not make us richer in economic terms and it will almost certainly make us poorer in terms of environmental amenity. This paper examines the effect of Australia’s population growth on greenhouse gas emissions and on the integrity of coastal ecosystems. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s | <urn:uuid:2b4a3905-6e31-42e5-bd7e-1ca2e5e5db15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Population_growth_and_environmental_quality_are_they_compatible_/4975862/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.926448 | 108 | 2.375 | 2 |
We are pleased to announce the release of Matte Robinson’s new critical assessment of the role of the occult in H.D.’s life and work. The book, The Astral H.D. (Bloomsbury, 2016), includes examination of Majic Ring, Trilogy, Vale Ave, Sigmund Freud, Erich Heydt, and much more. Here’s the press blurb:
Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be ‘symptoms,’ she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography woven throughout her poetry, prose, and life-writing. The Astral H.D. narrates the fascinating story of how she used the occult to transform herself, and provides surprising revelations about her friendships and conflicts with famous figures-such as Sigmund Freud and the Battle of Britain War Hero Hugh Dowding-along the way.
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Ebola Continues Its Baleful Advance In Liberia
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
America's first diagnosed Ebola victim has gone from serious to critical condition. Thomas Duncan remains in a hospital in Dallas. So far, his family shows no signs of the disease. Authorities continue to monitor some 50 other people in Dallas who may be at risk. Duncan recently arrived in the U.S. from Liberia. He likely contracted the disease there while helping a pregnant woman reach a hospital. She died from Ebola not long after. NPR's Jason Beaubien is in Liberia's capital and joins us from Monrovia. Welcome.
JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE: Hi, it's good to be with you.
SHAPIRO: Thomas Duncan was accused of lying on his exit form when he left Liberia for the U.S. How is the Liberian government responding?
BEAUBIEN: You know, there's a lot of anger over this. This is viewed as really an embarrassment to Liberia. And so they're saying that he didn't check the correct box about whether or not he had been in contact with anyone else who has Ebola. You know, these statements really have a lot to do with the frustration, I think, of people here. The bottom line, however, is that it is very easy for someone to get on a plane from here with Ebola. I was talking to doctors about it today. They were saying that someone who was even really sick, and Duncan wasn't even really sick, could just take some Tylenol, drive down their fever, get past the thermometer screenings and get on a plane.
SHAPIRO: From what you can tell having just arrived back in Liberia for your second visit, has the U.S. effort to aid victims accelerated or changed recently?
BEAUBIEN: Well, there definitely is an inflow of people here. I was here in late August, and now I'm back. And things are completely different. Back in August, it didn't feel like there were many aid workers here at all. And now, the hotels where Westerners, aid people tend to stay are filled up. Certainly, the U.S. has been a catalyst for that, really driving European nations, a lot of other nongovernmental organizations to get people on the ground here. Things are still moving slowly. You know, we have not seen any of these 17 new Ebola treatment centers that President Obama promised. But there definitely is a sense of things moving forward. That is completely different from what I was seeing back in August.
SHAPIRO: We've heard a lot about the efforts to physically isolate people who may have caught Ebola. There's also a lot of stigma around the disease. And I wonder what you can tell us about what patients and health workers are doing to address the social isolation factor.
BEAUBIEN: This is probably one of the hardest things about this disease, is that it's spread by touch and that people are afraid of one another. You know, even out on the street, you know, as we were driving back to the hotel, you could see that the people waiting for the buses had all separated a full arm's-length apart from each other. And that's just never seen in Africa. You know, I was hearing today from some people about nurses who would get completely suited up and about to go into these isolation wards, and they would hug each other 'cause it's the only time that they are actually allowed to do that. And also heard from another health care worker today about this sort of awful scene on one of the ward that's for suspected cases. And there was a mother there. And her young baby had just died from Ebola. And she just started wailing and screaming. And every one just moved away from her. So in this moment of great grief where people would normally move toward someone to comfort them, everyone on the ward just started moving away from this mother wailing over the death of her child.
SHAPIRO: Powerful images from NPR's Jason Beaubien, our global health correspondent in Monrovia, Liberia. Thanks, Jason.
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Deuteronomy 6:13 states:
Revere only the L-RD your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His name.
Rambam in Sefer Ha-Mitzvot derives three different fundamental biblical commandments from this verse. The first one entails the admonition to fear God. How is this expressed? As words play such an important part in human behavior, endeavor and communication, the first step in establishing fear of God entails not glibly or flippantly mentioning the Name of God. Rambam utilizes a hypothetical Talmudic position that is actually rejected by the Gemara to fortify his case. Although Rambam recognizes (and indeed states) that the specific Talmudic hypothesis he cites is rejected, its fundamental premise, i.e., the overriding importance of establishing the Fear of God as a basic Jewish principle, remains. This Maimonidean passage is quite difficult, both in the original and certainly in English translation. It entails the Rambam shifting back and forth from citations of the stages of a relevant Talmudic passage, and providing interpretations of the points that underlie each of the stages.
Rambam’s words (Positive Commandment #4: Fear of God) speak for themselves. (My translation comes from Charles B. Chavel [trans.], Moses ben Maimon: The Commandments [London, Jerusalem and New York, 1967], Vol. I [Positive Commandments], p. 5, with modifications.) Rambam writes:
By this injunction we are commanded to believe in the fear and awe of God (exalted be He), and not to be at ease and self-confident but to expect His punishment at all times. This injunction is contained in His words Revere (only) the L-RD your God (Deut. 6:13; 10:20).
The Gemara of Tractate Sanhedrin (56a) discusses the verse (Leviticus 24:16) If he blasphemes (Hebrew, nokeb) the name of the L-RD, he shall be put to death. (The Talmud raises a hypothetical question, asking) “Perhaps the word nokeb should be taken to means “pronounced” (rather than blasphemed), as we find elsewhere (Numbers 1:17) The men that were pronounced [=designated] by name. [And in that case] the requisite admonition [for such a punishment] would be derived from the verse Revere only the L-RD your God.”
That is to say, (The Rambam interjects his own words here) the verse If he blasphemes(Hebrew, nokeb) the name of the L-RD, he shall be put to death might be understood as meaning that one who merely mentions the Name of the L-RD, without committing blasphemy [would be put to death]! If you ask, “What sin is there in that?” we reply that such a one abandons the fear of the L-RD, for it is part of the fear of the L-RD not to pronounce His Name in vain.
The Sages (in the following passage at Sanhedrin 56a) answer this question, and refute the view involved in it, as follows: “First, in order to constitute blasphemy [that would incur the death penalty] the Name [of the L-RD] must be used [in such a way that it might be represented as both the agent and the object of the blasphemy], and in this instance [of merely pronouncing the Name of the L-RD] the condition is absent.”
That is to say, (the Rambam himself interjects again and continues), [to incur the death penalty, the accused] must be guilty of blaspheming the Name [of the L-RD] in His own Name, just as the Sages say, [by substitution of a human name for God’s Name]: let Jose smite Jose.
Moreover, (the Rambam now cites the conclusion of the passage in Sanhedrin), the admonition that you cite is in the form of a Positive commandment, and it is an accepted principle [of Jewish law] that such an admonition is invalid.
That is to say (once again the Rambam now is speaking in his own voice), your suggestion that a prohibition against the mere pronouncing of the Name of God can be indeed derived from the verse Revere only the L-RD your God is inadmissible, because that verse in a Positive Commandment, and a prohibition cannot be based upon a Positive commandment.
The Rambam concludes: Thus it has been made clear to you that the words Revere only the L-RD your God lay down a Positive commandment.
Oftentimes, the conceptual substructure of a Talmudic passage is illuminated precisely by an opinion that is rejected, albeit for technical reasons. This might be the case here as well. To be sure, the point of the Gemara’s discussion on one level is simply to claim that positive language of Revere only the L-RD your God cannot be the source of a negative prohibition (in this case, one that would have incurred the death penalty). But on a more fundamental level, the very fact that the Talmud was willing to even consider this shows the overriding importance of the fear of God as entailing repercussions in our verbal expressions, and the supreme value of the concept of Fear of God in general. This might be another reason why the Rambam included the technical discussion of the Gemara in Sanhedrin in his remarks.
As the author of the early fourteenth century popular work Sefer Ha-Hinukh noted (cited by Rabbi Chavel in his comments), not only the first three commandments (to know that there is a God, to affirm the Unity [=absolute Oneness] of God and to love God) are binding for all time, and are subject to no limitations whatsoever as to time, occasion place or person, the fourth commandment, to fear God, is absolutely unlimited as well. In the secular, throwaway, superficial, artificial culture of the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is often hard to attain a sincere and profound fear of God. The first step is to recognize its universality of scope in the life of a Jew. I have set the L-RD always before me (Psalms 16:8). The operative word is always. We must all try as hard as we can to attain that goal during our lives. | <urn:uuid:88bb57fa-ea14-4fab-a836-620338c50a15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/736267/rabbi-david-horwitz/parashat-va-ethanan-fear-of-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948287 | 1,398 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Study English Foundation or English Communication in a flexible program with other students age 30 plus
Build a dynamic English learning program and learn with other mature learners. Class topics and discussions will naturally develop in a way that resonates with the life experiences, goals, and interests of this more experienced age group. Complement your English language learning experience with weekly activities geared for the 30 plus age group.
1 week minimum
Full-Time Intensive & Full-Time Morning
2022: Every Monday from September 12 - December 23, except the last week of a session
Beginner 3 to Intermediate 4
Students will take English Foundation and English Communication CORE classes with other students in the 30 plus age group. Depending on your schedule and level, you can choose from ILSC’s wide variety of SKILLS classes to create a flexible and unique program. Skills classes listed are a selection of sample options – availability varies depending on student enrollment and different courses may be available when you study at ILSC.
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English Communication focuses on improving your general communicative ability in English for everyday communication. The course has a strong focus on listening and speaking skills, as well as, reading and writing skills with integrated grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. In English Communication, you will improve your:
- - confidence communicating in English in a variety of everyday situations in small group activities and lively classroom discussions
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English Foundation focuses on the core language skills you need for a solid English foundation. You will develop communicative ability in English, including core listening, speaking, reading and writing, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. In the English Foundation course, you will improve your:
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Expand your knowledge and use of academic vocabulary. The Academic Vocabulary course covers the most useful and frequently used academic vocabulary found in academic settings. Practice and review new vocabulary using a variety of activities including speaking, discussions, writing sentences/paragraphs, reading, and quizzes.
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The tourism industry is one of the world's largest employers. This interactive course helps you master industry-related English language skills needed in hospitality jobs such as hotels, catering and concierge. You will have the opportunity to practice a wide range of tasks and functions typical of work in the hospitality industry, such as managing phone calls and correspondence, offering advice on attractions and solving customer service problems.
Explore the language of art, art critique and art production. Practise and improve your English speaking, listening, writing and vocabulary skills through drawing, painting, writing in a creative journal and visiting art exhibits around the city. No previous art experience is necessary.
Improve your listening, speaking, vocabulary and pronunciation while watching English films. You will learning authentic English vocabulary and idioms, practice natural pronunciation. You can discuss your favourite films, stars and learn about cinematic techniques. You will read and write movie reviews, and discuss culture and ideas presented in films.
Develop your English writing, reading, listening and speaking skills while exploring social media site and its various applications for business, politics and personal use. You will learn how social media is changing our world through examining case-studies, and participating in class discussions and a group project.
Develop your English language skills, and language learning strategies while you explore Toronto’s history, historical buildings, churches, neighbourhoods and civilization, both in and outside of the classroom. Learn about and experience Toronto history through readings, videos, and field trips. The course will include written and oral assignments so that you’ll be able to put your language learning into practice and track your progress in the course.
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IELTS Speaking and Listening will provide you with focused practice on the IELTS listening and speaking modules. The course will guide you through the speaking and listening test modules and focuses on the skills and test-taking strategies for each question type. The IELTS Listening and Speaking course covers:
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Many students find the IELTS writing module the most challenging to achieve the desired band score. The IELTS Writing course will provide you with focused preparation for the IELTS Writing module. In this course, you will work step-by-step through each writing task. You can examine in detail the key strategies for success. You will develop writing and language skills to achieve higher scores on the writing module. The IELTS Writing course covers:
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Public Speaking & Listening with TED Talks helps students master the skills of effective public speaking. Students model the preparation and delivery of presentations on TED Talks, the best public presentations in the world today. Students learn how to organise a speech, how to create slides to support their speech and how to deliver it effectively. During the course, students will have the opportunity to develop critical thinking and communication skills, as well as train their listening skills, build fluency and confidence and improve all aspects of pronunciation to take their speaking to the next level.
Explore and discuss global events and keep pace with today's changing political climate. Improve English speaking, reading, writing and listening skills through discussions and debates on world events such as politics, economics and law. All in Instructional resources for this course are authentic and include television, video and the Internet.
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Improve your reading comprehension, speed, skills and vocabulary. In the Reading Skills class you can read about real-world topics and develop reading skills with a variety of activities.
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I laugh at all Noah Ark storiesof. LOL Creationist have Noah Ark and Creationism museums. Plus plans to educate children in all US schools. Two views conflicting evolutionary humanism vs. Creatiism according to Genesis. Earth and all of its life form were created 6000 years ago in over six-day period, plus +++ origins of the Universe. They claim humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Better to laugh than to cry, don't take them seriously. Like biologist debating Flat earth society.
No animals were harmed in the making of this story, except when the boat landed. The.carnivores drop their carrots and lettuce and return back to eating meat.
God chosen Noah and his family to survive. Noah was not a day older than 500. Wail the rest of the human race, will be blot out from the face of the earth. Trillions of animals must die over one wicked specie's. Making the mosquito seem sweet & very nice.
Noah had special wood , so the boat would not break apart loaded to the wazoo by millions of species and their crap. To build a wood boat soooooo big and tough. Gives God a woody. Not even middle age Noah who stood 9 feet tall could match. Not even penis like nuclear missles today could match.
At the time all animals were vegetarian and loveable, zebras would share with T-Rex as their teeth were design to eat hard carrots. Brontosaurus could be baby sized. How convenient. Noah thought its plausible yet he still had to gather all the animals of the world and walk them to Babylon, when the earth is covered in 3/4 water, with three times more water yet to come. A wheel barrow was not invented until 200AD. Give a snail and an Australian sloth a 100 years to get there. Without God's miracle help. Or was it, :Make the Ark and they will COME:.
No wonder, God lives in the Dark.
God simplified production by using a wolf to represent all breeds of dogs that branch out to wild and domestic dogs. Or a black bear for them to evolve into polar, grizzly, and koala bears. An evolution of Christians science and intelligent design for shleeps. Sheep herders never hard zippers to alarm their sheep.
Noah was Supernatural hero.. When the rain reached the height of Mount Everest. Noah build a dome out of hay, a great insulator. Used animal manuer for heating the tropical animals from freezing to death. Then Noah scientifically created oxygen out of sea water as animal can't breathe at that height of 30,000 feet, except a turkey vulture.
Gods rainbow was his harmless promise not to kill us, until the next story? Untitled-
¶¶Jesus Christ is Coming to town.~
You better watch out,
You better get saved,
You better repent.
I'M TELLING YOU WHY!!!
~¶For he will be riding Red nose Dragons when he comes.¶¶
An Aldult version of Satan Claus.
Here is my take on "the Great Flood" with Noah's family and 2 pair of unclean animals and seven pair of clean animals [mobile life] surviving it beginning with creation.
The "creation" story begins with dark and light as the created thing followed by water, the earth and plants, the heavenly bodies as a "sign", birds and fish followed by animals and human in 6000 years [a day unto god is 1000 years (2 Peter 3:8)]. That, for me, is how the life-forces evolves (for me the heavenly body should have followed human or been with the earth, but that is another story) evolves through creation since Revelation 20:5 talks about a "first resurrection" just before "the new heaven and earth without human pains or bodies nor sun.
Those hairy (Daniel 4:33) human (minds unable to comprehend all things) of both genders lived the life of individual nomads and when a girl conceived she built a nest for the child and went her way and returned ever few hours for nursing it. This was during the seventh day was rest that those about 9 billion human "replenished" the earth to about 10 billion. They were told they would eventually have dominion (exceed the ability everything on and the earth) which was followed with a second human creating without plants although they had been produced on the third day.
This single human (we'll call a boy) was conditioned to become territorial and told not to become judgmental (Knowledge of Good and Evil) but was to name all animated life requiring him to observe all things for naming them according to something about them. In naming them he observed their mating and, as adolescence was causing him to prepare for adult boyhood he began to desire a companion and to mate.
"God" seeing his desire warned him in a dream that if he make the arriving girl a companion he would loose half of his nature to her and she half of her nature to him to create the opposite attraction we call "love". But as he woke up he didn't wait to consult his voice companion but immediately named her "woven from man" for woman or "hewed from man" for human which also named him the same little did he know. So, when they ate the "knowledge of good and evil" they became to man what tadpoles are to frogs, no longer "minds able to comprehend all things" as man is defined. That was their deaths and not physical discarnations.
Revelation 17:15 suggests "waters" with an "S" ending represents people and throughout the Bible water without the "S" is used to represent knowledge. Also we have the sojourn from Egypt to Canaan providing us with "the Ark of the Covenant" representing "God's Law" he intended man to live by. With that we can determine the flood's death, caused by most of Genesis 1's humans called "sons of god" to inter marry the ideology of the descendants of Adam and Eve called "daughters of man" which caused only a fraction of man and animals to remain in "God's Ark" or environmental order.
So, the rest of the Bible is metaphors, allegories, parables and symbol-types, MAPS, explaining how the world will terminate to provide the return of the "first resurrection" into the completely different type of civilization Rev. 21 reveals. Therefore, if we "fill in the gaps" with the reality we know none of the stories are "comedy".
Almost all of my writings on here are explaining different aspects of that reality.
My favorite Noah's Ark story is the Unicorn Song by the Irish Rovers. If you haven't heard it, google it. I think you'll like it, too.
I loved to sing along , really catchy tune.
I liked it too - actually heard it on the radio the other day in the car. And sang along.
Really! That song is old. I think I heard it first in the 1960s.
I remember it as a kid. I still hear songs like this playing once in awhile. Like Puff the Magic Dragon, and the Duck Dance. I even like Santa Claus, Tooth fairy, Jack Frost and Easter Bunny. They all can bring some joy to our hearts.
I only have to grow up, when they take something like Noah's Ark figuratively and literally. When they use our tax dollars to sell it as true science in nationwide schools. This destroys individualism when your family tells you are not a good person because you don't believe Adam and Eve or Noah's Ark ever happened.
LOL It was on the 60's channel of Sirius Radio.
Flood stories are found throughout the world. Glad you found one of the many humorous.
Floods are the most destructive nature force in the worlds history.
Creatism claim Noah story wipped out the entire human race and all creasures, except on the boat. Noah's white family would mean all Asians, black and brown cultures were destroyed. So blacks came from whites, not the other way around. All proven by the world's largest multi million Creatiism museum and Noah Ark museum.
The atheist plan to sue these lies if brought to every school in America making all this a mandate. Pushed by Vice President Pence.
List of flood myths on wiki
There are floods all over the world at different times. Creatism claim just one huge flood that covered the entire planet at one time 4500 years ago, give or take a few centuries.
Creatism stories vary all over the map as clergyman and pastors act as Christians scientist. The Museum claims the continents were all connected together to make it walkable for animals to Babylon. The Pacific ocean was all one massive ocean. Adam lived during part of Noah's lifetime. They had a display of a raptors playing in the backyard with the kids. Or course it was safe, raptors were vegetarian at the time. They probably helped out herding the livestock.
The only other documentary related to this, is the Flintstones.
In 2008 they found seven large wooden compartments of the ark buried at 13,000 feet above sea level, near the peak of Mount Ararat Turkey. They say, this is proof, Evolution is a lie and atheist are willingly very stupid. Atheist had to be helped by Satan, to get this good at stupidity.
I can think of a lot of other examples of stupidity.
Noah's ark is about Geography and biology. Even setting evolution aside, basic geology disproves creationism
According to a recent Pew Center Research study, most biologists are atheists.
When discussing elite biologists, the figure is well over 90%.
Who is really stupid about geology and biology?
Hmm. You have flood stories throughout all cultures. Each culture thought about the flood story, the reasons for the flood story and created their own narrative. I see nothing wrong with the story, from the Jewish perspective.
We know so little of our distant past. I'm not within the group who believes in literal interpretations. I look more for what purpose an oral tradition served to the people of that time and what greater ideals we can glean from them, as time progresses.
I think, to take a story literally (in order to make fun of it) is a sign of ignorance in the matter of the development of societies and to take the story literally, in order to ignore realities we have discovered through scientific research is just as ignorant.
According to Ezekiel 1:4-28 we find at verse 10 "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle." Revelation 4-7 records the last of the four as "the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle."
What Ezekiel's four beast with four faces represent is four dispensations of this civilization's time with each of the four representing Asian beginning civilization. First is Asians as the "yellow" first leaves of plants, Americans Native as the "red" ripe fruit of summer, Africans as the "darkening" of leaves and fruit in the fall then the winter with Europeans being the frost and snow of winter that destroys everything except evergreen trees or those going into everlasting life. So, during each of those four dispensations of time a different ethnic represents the lion or "king of beasts", the man a little lower than the lion, the ox or calf is the lion preys on and the "flying" eagle in Revelation means they were pushed off their land.
With Revelation representing the termination of civilization during our days it means the Lion is "Europeans" who accepts Asians as a man but less than them while Africans are being preyed upon and the Americans the "Fleeing" eagle.
Those floods being all over the world represents a breaking down of the preceding dispensation of human's earth existence - as shown above - for a re-establishing the new dispensation that continues until this material civilization is over in about 2028.
There is a single DNA thread running through every ethnic of human that Blacks want to claim as their gene but it is only "the man gene" of DNA.
Wish the black and white in the USA or around the world had same DNA Harmony throughout their whole history.
Most of the early man fossil came from Africa, perhaps Adam and Eve branched from there 200,000 years ago.
My take on the cycle governing human's civilization on earth is the Revelation 21's "bodiless as we know them" evening civilization is 84,000 years, 7000 years transition to this 84,000 years of "bodied" morning civilization and another 7000 year transition. During this morning civilization each of the four primary ethnics has a 21,000 year reign as shown in another of my posts here according to the seasons of the year.
Using that concept the Adam and Eve metaphor happened in the eastern section of the African, Asian and European landmass for the first segment. Their son Cain came to "the land of Nod" or forgotten and discovered may times Americas were the second segment, Africa the third and Europe the morning civilization's ending segment.
This will sound very depressing to white Supremacists. Black DNA is the only race that is in every human being on earth.
Dr. Spencer Wells, Genographic Project lead scientist, on the board:
Everyone all over the world,
are literally African under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by a mere two thousand generations.
Old-fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive,
but scientifically wrong.
Explain that the Genographic Project and other scientific research projects provide evidence that all humans, past and present, can trace their ancestry back to a single ancestor who lived in Africa about 60,000 years ago. The differences among us—like skin color and hair texture—evolved as humans adapted to different environments. They account for less than one tenth of one percent of our genetic makeup.
I feel this makes sense within my historical study. I have no idea how Creationist agree on amoung themselves and their community the origin of man, animals and earth. Most Creationist I heard from believe the world Originates literally began 6000 years ago.
Fromm the biblical "Creationist" perspective the first "civilized" human were Asians. Using their perspective and the fact that if we remove the feathers off most birds and hair off most animals they will first have a yellowish color that lightens as they remain covered in cold climates (the Snow White story), become relish brown from wearing clothes in winter and loincloths the rest of the time or deep brown from wearing loincloths all year. Thus, I say Asian began civilization.
As for the 650,000 year-old bones in Africa, Asians don't allow escalating much of their territory like the other areas have so we don't know what would be found there. Also, the most common fossil dating, "Carbon Dating", once found a shortly killed, I've forgotten how long before the test, deer's bone were found to be over 10,000 years old. How accurate is that?
Let those who can't take "nature's" joke suffer in their regrets!
The Adam and Eve and Noah Ark work off of Creatiism miracles, not Science. They believe global warming is natural made only, not man made at all. They think the ice age was just 4000 years ago, that even contradict with their own history written. Each Tree ring dose not represent one year of grow. Or each layer of ice in the Arctic is not one year. They don't think humans are animals like the rest of mammals.
This kind of careless thinking leads to most of the animal killed on earth in the last 40 years. Or Most the big trees and big fish killed also. About 99℅ of the species that ever lived on earth have gone extincted, mankind can easily go extincted also. Even by fictional stories like Noah's ark warn. It can be a optimist thing, giving other species a healthier chance to survive.
The Origin of man in most popular scientist terms comes from homo sapiens out of Africa. There are many other theories, until another comes up with closer facts, I will go along what most scientist say.
Even the Pope gose along with scientist.
No doubt the Christian tale of creation does give rise to the first people being Asian. As long as you "interpret" it that way, anyway. And you are certainly free to use that story for the root of your personal belief.
For myself, and for most other people, observation has produced a far different version, one much more in contact with reality.
I nearly missed your comment on this, I had intended to ask you your take on it. I don't like metaphors or symbolism, but instead prefer people to actually speak their minds. According to my studies, that makes me intellectual rather than emotional. I guess that's why I like Zechariah Sitchen's writings. He says that the bible is just an outline of prehistory, and that we have to go outside it and study things like archaeology and anthropology to understand what really went on. I'm not an atheist, but neither can I buy the creation story in Genesis.
Noah's family actually represents the four primary ethnic groups with Noah/Adam as the Father of civilization, Japheth/Cain are America's naives, Ham/Esau for African & Austrians and Shem/Jacob are Europeans. Noah's family represent a handful of people in each of the four general localities who maintained a balance understanding of life but without the "dominion powers" everyone who goes through the metamorphosis Jesus called "born again" will have to become man. That doesn't happen until the closing of civilization. Jesus called them "Ten Virgins" with 50% of the 10% of civilization's end time population which will enter into Armageddon just before the destruction of the USA called "Mystery Babylon".
Noah and his three sons are the people like Aboriginals of Australia and Druids of Europe, I don't know the names of the American natives nor Asians. Adam, Cain, Esau and Jacob are those who were drowned in ignorance but doing today's last about 10 years of civilization most of them and beginning to intermingle with the "drowned" humans again - "as it was in the days of Noah so shall the coming of the end be" spoken of by Jesus - to determine who the 19 virgins are five of which follows the son of man into Armageddon or "Ark".
We can see the destruction being caused by the intermingling of the two by looking at how there is fighting everywhere over money which has replaced "the knowledge of good and evil".
I have a new proverb:
"Only fundamentalists and atheists take all the Bible literally"....by me.
My dad was an atheist, and he was also a Darwinian. Therefore, he did not take the bible at all, much less literally. He and I had many discussions, but at least his beliefs kept me from holding to my mother's fundamentalism. In fact I have written about this on HP.
I suppose, based on how I was living prior to it, had I not gone through the metamorphosis or new birth I would be still in the mental wondering stage I was in prior to it. Now, however, I realize I was only following my destiny and everyone else is so none of us have any place to condemn others except it be our karma, that every present controller of life.
I agree with you, Elijah. We all have to awaken to the Ascension. Very few of us are born awake. Can you explain to me why the new prognosticators are saying that millennials are born without Karma? Why would they be unless they are not of this world? There are many of us starseed souls not of this world, but we older ones have karmas to work through.
Even Jesus had "karma" as I've revealed in my hub "Jesus' Karma". Not only does Jesus have it but what we call God does because every life-force throughout existence goes through THE learning-unlearning cycle governing existence.
From that I can only say it is because they are only looking on the outer surface of karma. The words "understand" and "overstand" only means from which location one began seeking to comprehend the matter. To understand means "one began on top, worked around the outside, around and through the inside in lede to comprehend the subject completely" with "overstanding" being the opposite. Thus, they only surface-stand the meaning of it.
Just like many western towns that depend on onesided products or one idea like oil and gas. They often enough turn into ghost town when there is a big changes because of lies or changes in the economy.
My prediction is this 100 million dollar Noah Ark museum in KY. Will be flooded with so many contradictions and fairytales. It too will turn into a Holly ghost town.
Ricky Gervais and Bill Cosby were my favorite comedy skits on Noah's Ark.
by Dan Harmon 12 years ago
I've always been intrigued with the biblical story of Noah and the ark, so I thought I would examine what might have happened at that time.First of all, some assumptions were necessary. In the immortal words of Bill Cosby "I'm going to make it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and drown 'em...
by Paul Wingert 8 years ago
How many people believe that Noah and the flood was a true, historical event? The Torah and Bible says the God instructs Noah to build an ark that measures 300 cubits by 50 cubits x 30 cubits high. First of all let's do the math. The ancient Sumerian cubit as about 518.6 mm or 20.42 in. The Ancient...
by Oscar Jones 5 months ago
Do you believe in the biblical flood in the days of Noah? it was recorded as a cataclysmic earth-covering flood, and mentions waters flowing from the deep, (out of the earth, as well as all the water previously being held in a cloud canopy over the earth falling as the first rain on the...
by Joseph O Polanco 7 years ago
Why didn't they listen to Noah and save their children by escaping onto the Ark like he did?
by Kimberly J 8 years ago
How did sin enter back into the world, seeing that God had purged it of evil by sending the flood?
by Writer Fox 7 years ago
No matter who you are, your ancestry is traced from Noah and his wife. This is where your family tree begins. Could this be Noah's Ark?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iycpe16V0
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There are almost 7,000 taxis operating in the City of Chicago – cabs are privately owned and licensed through the city – which regulates the supply and demand side by controlling how many taxis are on the road through city-authorized taxi medallions.
Have You Been Injured in a Chicago Taxi Accident?
A 2010 Chicago Sun-Times story told tales of woe from those who had been injured in taxi accidents. It carried the headline “Badly Injured in a Cab Crash? Good Luck Collecting Much.”
Because Chicago’s cab industry is notoriously difficult to recoup damages from, it’s important to have an attorney on your side who understands the complexities of the federal, state and city laws covering taxi drivers.
Medallions, which at one point were given away for free in a lottery but are now sold or auctioned, had escalated in price up to $360,000 but are a less valuable commodity in the wake of ridesharing services, which skirt by the requirement to have medallions, allowing drivers to charge less money.
Chicago Taxis: The 411
Not only have ridesharing services put a dent in taxicab business, it has also made medallions less valuable.
Medallion prices are now about $150,000, about one-third of what many cab drivers originally paid.
Medallion prices have not only tanked – erasing what many independent drivers saw as an investment – they are also not the hot commodity they once were, and a number of medallions are available despite the historic low prices.
Because ridesharing has had such a negative impact on business for taxi drivers, Chicago cab drivers filed suit against the City of Chicago for creating a different set of rules for ride-sharing services than taxis.
While some cab drivers own their medallion, those that don’t must lease cabs with the medallion attached, which usually costs between $400 to $700 a week.
Taxi drivers have to drive cars that are four years old or less, and also have to pay for commercial liability insurance – a city requirement – as well as fees for stickers, taxes, and gas.
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He was making about $11 an hour after expenses, compared to the $14 an hour after expenses of an Uber driver covering similar territory.
“There are enough differences between taxi services and [Uber] to justify different regulatory schemes, and the existence of such justification dissolves the plaintiffs’ equal-protection claim,” wrote Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals in handing down his decision.
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- According to a 2011 study, the standard cab fare rate in Chicago is one of the lowest in the country. Chicago cab drivers charge an estimated $12.72 for a five-mile trip and five hours of wait time, compared to $14.10 in New York City and $18.48 in Los Angeles.
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Intervention: Whose Gain? Whose
Strong Empire, Weak Republic,
A Dreadful Success
excerpted from the book
The Brutal Realities of U.S. Global
by Michael Parenti
City Lights Books, 1995, paper
Intervention: Whose Gain? Whose Pain?
Today, the United States is the foremost
proponent of recolonization and leading antagonist of revolutionary
change throughout the world. Emerging from World War II relatively
unscathed and superior to all other industrial countries in wealth,
productive capacity, and armed might, the United States became
the prime purveyor and guardian of global capitalism. Judging
by the size of its financial investments and military force, judging
by every imperialist standard except direct colonization, the
U.S. empire is the most formidable in history, far greater than
Great Britain in the nineteenth century or Rome during antiquity.
A Global Military Empire
The exercise of US. power is intended
to preserve not only the international capitalist system but U.S.
hegemony of that system. The Pentagon's "Defense Planning
Guidance" draft (1992) urges the United States to continue
to dominate the international system by "discouraging the
advanced industrialized nations from challenging our leadership
or even aspiring to a larger global or regional role." By
maintaining this dominance, the Pentagon analysts assert, the
United States can ensure "a market-oriented zone of peace
and prosperity that encompasses more than two-thirds of the world's
Since World War II, the U.S. government has given over $200 billion
in military aid to train, equip, and subsidize more than 2.3 million
troops and internal security forces in some eighty countries,
the purpose being not to defend them from outside invasions but
to protect ruling oligarchs and multinational corporate investors
from the dangers of domestic anticapitalist insurgency. Among
the recipients have been some of the most notorious military autocracies
in history, countries that have tortured, killed, or otherwise
maltreated large numbers of their citizens because of their dissenting
political views, as in Turkey, Zaire, Chad, Pakistan, Morocco,
Indonesia, Honduras, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Cuba
(under Batista), Nicaragua (under Somoza), Iran (under the Shah),
the Philippines (under Marcos), and Portugal (under Salazar).
U.S. leaders profess a dedication to democracy.
Yet over the past five decades, democratically elected reformist
governments in Guatemala, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Brazil,
Chile, Uruguay, Syria, Indonesia (under Sukarno), Greece, Argentina,
Bolivia, Haiti, and numerous other nations were overthrown by
procapitalist militaries that were funded and aided by the U.S.
national security state.
The U.S. national security state has participated
in covert actions or proxy mercenary wars against revolutionary
governments in Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Portugal, Nicaragua,
Cambodia, East Timor, Western Sahara, and elsewhere, usually with
dreadful devastation and loss of life for the indigenous populations.
Hostile actions also have been directed against reformist governments
in Egypt, Lebanon, Peru, Iran, Syria, Zaire, Jamaica, South Yemen,
the Fiji Islands, and elsewhere.
Since World War II, U.S. forces have directly
invaded or launched aerial attacks against Vietnam, the Dominican
Republic, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama,
Libya, Iraq, (_and Somalia, sowing varying degrees of death and
An important goal of U.S. policy is to make the world safe for
the Fortune 500 and its global system of capital accumulation.
Governments that strive for any kind of economic independence
or any sort of populist redistributive politics, that attempt
to take some of their economic surplus and apply it to not-for-profit
services that benefit the people-such governments are the ones
most likely to feel the wrath of U.S. intervention or invasion.
The designated "enemy" can be
a reformist, populist, military government as in Panama under
Torrijo (and even under Noriega), Egypt under Nasser, Peru under
Velasco, and Portugal after Salazar; a Christian socialist government
as in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas; a social democracy as in
Chile under Allende, Jamaica under Manley, Greece under Papandreou,
and the Dominican Republic under Bosch; a Marxist-Leninist government
as in Cuba, Vietnam, and North Korea; an Islamic revolutionary
order as in Libya under Qaddafi; or even a conservative militarist
regime as in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, if it should get out of
line on oil prices f and oil quotas.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large
U.S. investments in Central America and the Caribbean brought
frequent military intercession, protracted war, prolonged occupation,
or even direct territorial acquisition, as with Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Panama Canal Zone. The investments were often in
the natural resources of the country: sugar, tobacco, cotton,
and precious metals. In large part, the interventions in the Gulf
in 1991 ... were respectively to protect profits and oil prospects.
There is the overall commitment to safeguarding the global class
system, keeping the world's land, labor, natural resources, and
markets accessible to transnational investors. More important
than particular holdings is the whole process of investment and
profit. To defend that process the imperialist state thwarts and
crushes those popular movements that attempt any kind of redistributive
politics, sending a message to them and others that if they try
to better themselves by infringing upon the prerogatives of corporate
capital, they will pay a severe price.
Reagan's invasion of Grenada served notice to all other Caribbean
countries that this was the fate that awaited any nation that
sought to get out from under its client-state status. So the invaders
put an end to the New Jewel Movement's revolutionary programs
for land reform, health care, education, and cooperatives. Today,
with its unemployment at new heights and its poverty at new depths,
Grenada is once again firmly bound to the free market world. Everyone
else in the region indeed has taken note.
Washington's embargo against Cuba is shutting out U.S. business
from billions of dollars of attractive investment and trade opportunities.
From this it is mistakenly concluded that U.S. policy is not propelled
by economic interests. In fact, it demonstrates just the opposite,
an unwillingness to tolerate those states that try to free themselves
from the global capitalist system.
U.S. leaders must convince the American people that the immense
costs of empire are necessary for their security and survival.
For years we were told that the great danger we faced was "the
World Communist Menace with its headquarters in Moscow."
The public accepted a crushing tax burden to win the superpower
arms race and "contain Soviet aggression wherever it might
arise." Since the demise of the USSR, our political leaders
have been warning us that the world is full of other dangerous
adversaries, who apparently had been previously overlooked.
When Washington says "our" interests must be protected
abroad, we might question whether all of us are represented by
the goals pursued. Far-off countries, previously unknown to most
Americans, suddenly become vital to "our" interests.
To protect "our" oil in the Middle East and "our"
resources and "our" markets elsewhere, our sons and
daughters have to participate in overseas military ventures, and
our taxes are needed to finance these ventures.
The next time "our" oil in the
Middle East is in jeopardy, we might remember that relatively
few of us own oil stock. Yet even portfolio-deprived Americans
are presumed to have a common interest with Exxon and Mobil because
they live in an economy dependent on oil. It is assumed that if
the people of other lands wrested control of their oil away from
the big U.S. companies, they would refuse to sell it to us. Supposedly
they would prefer to drive us into the arms of competing producers
and themselves into ruination, denying themselves the billions
of dollars they might earn on the North American market.
In fact, nations that acquire control
of their own resources do not act so strangely. Cuba, Vietnam,
North Korea, Libya, and others would be happy to have access to
markets in this country, selling at prices equal to or lower than
those offered by the giant multinationals. So when Third World
peoples, through nationalization, revolution, or both, reclaim
the oil in their own land, or the copper, tin, sugar, or other
resources, it does not hurt the interests of the U.S. working
populace. But it certainly hurts the multinational conglomerates
that once profited so handsomely from these enterprises.
The governments of imperial nations may spend more than they take
in, but the people who reap the benefits are not the same ones
who foot the bill. As Thorstein Velbin pointed out in The Theory
of the Business Enterprise (1904), the gains of empire flow into
the hands of the privileged business class while the costs are
extracted from "the industry of the rest of the people."
The transnationals monopolize the private returns of empire while
carrying little, if any, of the public cost. The expenditures
needed in the way of armaments and aid to make the world safe
for General Motors, General Dynamics, General Electric, and all
the other generals are paid by the U.S. government, that is, by
... the cost of a particular U.S. intervention must be measured
not against the value of U.S. investments in the country involved
but against the value of the world investment system. It has been
noted that the cost of apprehending a bank robber may occasionally
exceed the sum that is stolen. But if robbers were allowed to
go their way, this would encourage others to follow suit and would
put the entire banking system in jeopardy.
At stake in these various wars of suppression,
then, is not just the investments in any one country but the security
of the whole international system of finance capital. No country
is allowed to pursue an independent course of self-development.
None is permitted to go unpunished and undeterred. None should
serve as an inspiration or source of material support to other
nations that might want to pursue a politico-economic path other
than the maldevelopment offered by global capitalism.
Once war comes, especially with the promise of a quick and easy
victory, some individuals suspend all critical judgment and respond
on cue like mindless superpatriots.
The CIA alone owns outright over 1 200 newspapers, magazines,
wire services, and publishing houses in countries throughout the
U.S. government-funded agencies like the
National Endowment for Democracy and the Agency for International
Development, along with the Ford Foundation and other such organizations,
help maintain Third World universities, providing money for academic
programs, social science institutes, research, student scholarships,
and textbooks supportive of a free market ideological perspective.
Right-wing Christian missionary agencies preach political quiescence
and anticommunism to native populations. The AFL-CIO's American
Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), with ample State
Department funding, has actively infiltrated Third World labor
organizations or built compliant unions that are more anticommunist
than proworker. AIFLD graduates have been linked to coups and
counterinsurgency work in various countries. Similar AFL-CIO undertakings
operate in Africa and Asia.
Strong Empire, Weak Republic
Multinationals do not have to pay U.S. taxes on profits made in
other countries until these profits are repatriated to the USA-if
ever they are. Taxes paid to a host country are treated as tax
credits rather than mere deductions here at home. In other words,
$1 million paid to a foreign country in taxes or even oil royalties
is not treated as a deduction of taxable income by the IRS (which
might save the company $100,000 or so in stateside taxes), but
is written off from the final taxes the company has to pay, saving
it an entire $1 million in payments.
In addition, multinationals can juggle
the books between their various foreign subsidiaries, showing
low profits in a high-tax country and high profits in a low-tax
country, thereby avoiding at least $20 billion a year in US. taxes.
The billions that corporations escape
paying because of their overseas shelters must be made up by the
rest of us. Additional billions of our tax dollars go into aid
programs to governments that maintain the cheap labor markets
that lure away American jobs. U.S. foreign aid seldom trickles
down to the poor people of the recipient countries. In fact, much
of it is military aid that is likely to be used to suppress dissent
among the poor.
We have heard much about the "refugees from communism";
we might think a moment about the refugees from capitalism. Driven
off their lands, large numbers of impoverished Latinos and other
Third Worlders have been compelled to flee into economic exile,
coming to the United States, many of them illegally, to compete
with U.S. workers for entry-level jobs. Because of their illegal
status and vulnerability to deportation, undocumented workers
are least likely to unionize and least able to fight for improvements
in work conditions.
For years the herbicides, pesticides, and hazardous pharmaceuticals
that were banned in this country have been sold by their producers
to Third World nations where regulations are weaker or nonexistent.
(In 1981, President Reagan repealed an executive order signed
by President Carter that would have forced exporters of such products
to notify the recipient nation that the commodity was banned in
For decades, over one hundred nuclear weapons plants have been
pouring radioactive waste into the air, soil, groundwater, and
rivers. The military is the single biggest consumer of fuel in
this country and the greatest polluter, contaminating the environment
with hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy metals, solvents,
lubricants, PCBs, plutonium, iridium, fuel runoffs. and other
The military creates over 90 percent of our radioactive waste
and stockpiles thousands of tons of lethal biochemical agents.
There are some 21,000 contaminated sites on military bases and
at nuclear weapons plants.
The empire increasingly impoverishes the republic. Operational
costs of global militarism may become so onerous as to undermine
the society that sustains them, such as has been the case with
empires in the past. Americans pay dearly for "our"
global military apparatus. The spending binge that the Pentagon
has been on for decades, especially the last fourteen years or
so, has created record deficits and a runaway national debt, making
the United States the largest debtor nation in the world. The
government is required to borrow more and more to pay the growing
interest on a debt that is owed to rich creditors at home and
Between 1948 and 1994, the federal government
spent almost $11 trillion on its military-more than the cumulative
monetary value of all human-made wealth in the United States.
The current Pentagon budget plus the military projects of the
Energy Department and NASA, foreign military aid, veterans' benefits,
and interest paid on past military debt comes to almost $500 billion
a year. The annual Pentagon budget is more than the gross national
product of almost every country in the world.
Most of our domestic financial woes can be ascribed to military
spending. The enormous scale of that spending is sometimes hard
to grasp. The cost of building one aircraft carrier could feed
several million of the poorest, hungriest children in America
for ten years. Greater sums have been budgeted for the development
of the Navy's submarine rescue vehicle than for occupational safety,
public libraries, and daycare centers combined. The cost of military
aircraft components and ammunition kept in storage by the Pentagon
is greater than the combined federal spending on pollution control,
conservation, community development, housing, occupational safety,
and mass transportation. The total expenses of the legislative
and judicial branches and all the regulatory commissions combined
constitute less than 1 percent of the Pentagon's yearly budget.
industries, and other areas of concentrated military investment.
r Because of the disproportionate amount spent on the military,
Americans must endure the neglect of environmental needs, the
financial insolvency and decay of our cities, the deterioration
of our transportation, education, and health care systems, and
the devastating effects of underemployment upon millions of households
and hundreds of communities. In addition, there are the frightful
social and psychological costs, the discouragement and decline
of public morale, the anger and suffering of the poor and the
not-so-poor, the militarization and violence of popular culture,
and the application of increasingly authoritarian solutions to
our social ills. Poverty can be found in the rich industrial nations
as well as in the Third World. In the richest of them all, the
United States, the number of people below the poverty level grew
in the last dozen years from twenty-four million to almost thirty-five
million, according to the government's own figures, which many
consider to be underestimations, thus making the poor the fastest
growing social group in the USA, rivaled only by the dramatic
growth of millionaires and billionaires.
In recent years, tuberculosis-a disease
of poverty-has made a big comeback. The House Select Committee
on Hunger found that kwashiorkor and marasmus diseases, caused
by severe protein and calorie deficiencies and usually seen only
in Third World countries, could now be found in the United States,
along with a rise in infant mortality in poor areas.
Those regions within the United States
that serve as surplus labor reserves or "internal colonies,"
such as Appalachia, poor Latino and African American communities,
Inuit Alaska, and Native-American Indian communities, manifest
the symptoms of Third World colonization, including chronic underemployment,
hunger, inadequate income, low levels of education, inferior or
nonexistent human services, absentee ownership, and extraction
of profits from the indigenous community. In addition, the loss
of skilled, good-paying manufacturing jobs, traditionally held
by white males, has taken a toll of working-class white communities
So when we talk of "rich nations"
and "poor nations" we must not forget that there are
millions of poor in the rich nations and thousands of rich in
the poor ones.
... propagandists dismiss criticisms of U.S. imperialism as manifestations
of a "Hate America" or "Blame America" syndrome.
But when we voice our disapproval of militarism, violent interventions,
and other particular policies, we are not attacking our nation
and its people; rather we are maintaining that we deserve something
better than the policies that currently violate the interests
of people at home and abroad.
A Dreadful Success
U.S. foreign policy has been remarkably successful in undermining
popular revolutions and buttressing conservative capitalist regimes
in every region of the world.
Many Americans recognize that politicians lie ... they loudly
proclaim a dedication to the people while quietly serving powerful
One repeatedly hears that U.S. leaders oppose communist countries
because they lack political democracy. But ... successive administrations
in Washington have supported some of the most repressive regimes
in the world, ones that regularly have indulged in mass arrests,
assassination, torture, and intimidation. In addition, Washington
has supported some of the worst right-wing counterrevolutionary
rebel cutthroats: Savimbi's UNITA in Angola, RENAMO in Mozambique,
the mujahideen in Afghanistan, and in the 1980s even the Pol Pot
lunatics who waged war against socialist Cambodia.
Consider the case of Cuba. We are asked
to believe that decades of U.S. hostility toward Cuba-including
embargo, sabotage, and invasion-have been motivated by a distaste
for the autocratic nature of the Castro government and a concern
for the freedoms of the Cuban people. Whence this sudden urge
to "restore" Cuban liberty? In the decades before the
Cuban Revolution of 1959, successive U.S. administrations backed
a brutally repressive autocracy headed by General Fulgencio Batista.
The significant but unspoken difference was that Batista was a
comprador leader who left Cuba wide open to U.S. capital penetration.
In contrast, Fidel Castro did away with private corporate control
of the economy, nationalized U.S. holdings, and renovated the
class structure in a more collectivized and egalitarian mode.
That is what made him so insufferable.
... capitalism is much more comfortable with fascism than with
... the question of foreign aid. It is misleading to say that
the United States, as a nation, gives aid to this or that country.
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation as such.
More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their
taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone
once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country
give money to the rich people of a poor country. The transference
is across class lines as well as national lines, representing
an upward redistribution of income.
... the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Conference,
and the Trilateral Commission, all corporate-dominated, elite
policymaking bodies ...
... military spending happens to be one of the greatest sources
of domestic capita accumulation. represents a form of public expenditure
that business likes. When the government spends funds on the not-for-profit
sector of the economy such as the postal service, publicly-owned
railroads, or affordable homes and public hospitals-it demonstrates
how the public can create goods, services, and jobs and expand
the tax base, without need of private investor gain. Such spending
competes with the private market.
In contrast, missiles and aircraft carriers
constitute a form of public expenditure that does not compete
with the civilian market. A defense contract is like any other
business contract, only better. The taxpayers' money covers all
production risks. Unlike a refrigerator manufacturer who has to
worry about selling his refrigerators, a weapons manufacturer
has a product that already has been contracted, complete with
guaranteed cost overruns. In addition, the government picks up
most of the research and development costs.
Defense spending opens up an area of demand
that is potentially limitless. How much military security or supremacy
is enough? There are always new weapons that can be developed.
The entire arms industry has a built-in obsolescence. Not long
after a multibillion-dollar weapons system is produced, technological
advances make it obsolete and in need of updating or replacement.
Furthermore, most military contracts are
awarded without competitive bidding, so arms manufacturers pretty
much get the price they ask for. Hence, the temptation is to develop
weapons and supplies that are ever more elaborate and costly-and
therefore ever more profitable. Such products are not necessarily
the most efficient or sensible. Many perform poorly. But poor
performance has its own rewards in the form of additional allocations
to get weapons to work the way they should.
In sum, defense contractors enjoy a rate
of return substantially higher than what is usually available
on the civilian market. No wonder corporate leaders are in no
hurry to cut military spending. What they have is a limitless,
low-risk, high-profit, multibillion-dollar cornucopia. Arms spending
bolsters the entire capitalist system, even as it impoverishes
the not-for-profit public sector. These, then, are the two basic
reasons why the United States assiduously remains an armed superpower
even though lacking the pretext of an opposing superpower: First,
a massive military establishment is needed to keep the world safe
for global capital accumulation. Second, a massive ) military
itself is a direct source of immense capital accumulation .
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GROWING ENROLLMENT: Percentage of local high school students heading to college hits lowest level in 13 years
The percentage of Bartholomew County high school students heading to college or pursuing some form of post-secondary education after graduation has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to new figures from the state.
According to figures recently released by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, only 55.4% of Bartholomew County’s high school class of 2020 – the first to graduate during the pandemic – enrolled in university or post-secondary program within one year of graduation.
This is the lowest percentage on record since 2008 and the third straight year of decline in the percentage of Bartholomew County high school graduates enrolling in post-secondary education, the data shows.
Nearly 72% of Bartholomew County’s 2017 high school class enrolled in a post-secondary program within one year of graduation. But that figure fell to 65% for the Class of 2018 and 57.3% for the Class of 2019 – the two classes immediately before the coronavirus pandemic.
Officials say the local decline mirrors trends seen statewide and nationwide, which they attribute in large part to the costs of higher education and — in 2020 — the pandemic.
The Strada Education Network released new nationwide figures on Wednesday that suggest more than a million fewer students enrolled in college this spring compared to spring 2020 – the fifth straight semester of declining enrollment.
Community colleges were the hardest hit, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the overall drop in enrollment. In addition, requests for federal financial assistance are down almost 9% compared to last year.
In Indiana, 53.4% of the 2020 high school class enrolled in some sort of post-secondary education program within a year of graduation — the sixth straight year of declines and declines by compared to 64.8% among the class of 2015, according to state figures.
“This is a national trend that has been going on for many years,” said John Burnett, president and CEO of the Community Education Coalition, a Columbus-based partnership of education, business and community leaders. , focused on aligning and integrating learning from the region. with economic growth and a better quality of life. “…In terms of enrollment from high school to post-secondary education, things are on the decline across the country.”
Why the decline?
Local officials said many factors could be behind the decrease.
Most notably, in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted high schools and colleges across the country. The high school class of 2020 completed its final semester of high school remotely, and many colleges either did not restart in the fall or operated entirely online or in limited capacity, potentially driving more students to take a year off.
Additionally, the cost of higher education, the prospect of student loan debt, as well as an academic shift of not pushing every student into college in recent years may also play a role in lower percentages of local students enrolling in university. , said Jim Roberts, superintendent of Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.
“Getting some form of college education is always very important, in our opinion — an associate’s degree, a bachelor’s degree, whatever it is,” Roberts said. “However, we also want students to take advantage of opportunities to train while in high school, which could prepare them for employment immediately after high school. What’s interesting with this is that the best work we do to prepare a student for something to do immediately after high school, it could lower the percentage of students who go to college within the year because they have chosen to move forward and take advantage of this opportunity.
One example, Roberts said, is a welding certificate students can earn while in high school that leads them to jobs after graduation that pay “a decent amount of money.” The vast majority of Bartholomew County high school students take at least one technical education course.
“There was a time, it seemed, where it was, ‘Push the kids into college and let it be the thing,'” Roberts said. “And for a lot of kids that just wasn’t the thing to do, and people were spending a lot of money on it and then didn’t finish school and left school without a degree, spending a lot of money on it. money and had student loan debt. And so as we strive to have less student loan debt and stuff, what are the different steps our kids can take to get the things they need to be successful ?”
What can be done?
However, local officials say they are optimistic despite the downward trend, pointing to the resources in place in the community, including the Columbus Airpark Campus.
Burnett, for her part, said many local resources “bode well for Columbus,” pointing to a new set of services that should soon be available at the Columbus Learning Center.
The new set of services will be offered in a new space at the Columbus Learning Center called “The Bridge,” which, according to a statement from the Southeast Indiana Economic Opportunities through Education (EcO) network, will be a connecting hub for services shared by Ivy Tech, IUPUC and Purdue Polytechnic.
The bridge will include a welcoming space where “navigators” welcome and assist visitors, a free snack bar, career services offices for the three schools, six collaborative meeting rooms, a small conference room that can be reserved “ by anyone on campus or beyond,” a nursing mother’s room, Youth Development Council staff offices, and CEC staff offices.
“Imagine a year from now a student will know…here’s a place I can go for help, help me think about how I’m going to help myself, connect at work while I go to school,” Burnett said. .
Overall, Burnett said an important factor in encouraging enrollment in post-secondary education is “to keep getting better and better at helping students and their families understand the really vital connection between the ‘learning and economic opportunities’.
Roberts, for his part, said he doesn’t “feel concerned at this time” about the local decline.
“We want to continue to increase people’s post-secondary education,” Roberts said, so there will be opportunities in adulthood to get more education, to get an associate’s degree, to get something else to give them more opportunities. , this potential to earn more money as they advance.
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Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Joseph Survant, James Flynn, George McCelvey
Department of English
Master of Arts
J.D. Salinger's fiction can be approached by looking at the various elements of fiction, but his largest statement rests in the ways that his characters interac within his world. This interaction leads to a code of behavior that the heroes follow, and can be used to determine the heroic character within a particular piece of fiction, much as the Hemingway code developed by Carlos Baker identified the characteristics of the Hemingway hero, Salinger's heroes are all aware of the phony which is in the world around them. They see this phoniness as something undesirable within the world, yet they must learn to come to terms with this trait in other people, developing a compassion for those that are not genuine. In some heroes this trait is apparent; in others, it must be gained. The Salinger hero also feels a peculiar affinity for the madman, saint, and child. In some cases, the hero may long to lose himself in one of these particular niches, but that escape cannot be permanent. A balance between awareness of the phony and appreciation for the madman, saint, and child must be made. The Salinger hero is also on a quest. This quest varies from hero to hero, and is often a futile quest, but still, an attempt is made by the hero to search for something higher. This study examines three Salinger heroes: Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, Franny Glass in Franny and Zooey, and Seymour Glass in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Hapworth 16, 1924," and Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | English Language and Literature | Fiction | Literature in English, North America
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News posted on: 2022/4/13 9:35:42 - by John Lee - RFIDtagworld XMINNOV RFID Tag Manufacturer
The number of companies offering IoT platforms has grown significantly over the past few years. Market research firm IoT Analytics reports that in 2021 there will be 613 companies offering IoT platforms, an astounding number.
IoT platforms vary in functionality, but typically focus on one or more of the building blocks of an IoT system—physical devices, internet connections, and digital services. They provide software (and in some cases hardware) in a way that gives businesses a head start when building IoT systems. There are so many companies offering platforms that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all of them. If you are exposed to IoT but are new to IoT platforms, you may be asking yourself questions like: What is an IoT platform made of? What is the difference between PaaS and SaaS? How are they good for my company? How to choose an IoT platform?
What does an IoT platform consist of?
A true IoT platform usually includes the following features:
Digital services running in the cloud connected by physical devices
software running on devices that communicate with digital services
A framework or pattern for data messaging and remote command and control of devices
Security infrastructure handles device registration, authentication, security credential management
Tools and Methods for Wirelessly Upgrading Device Firmware
Web dashboard for viewing device status and interacting with the system
Other Functions that an IoT platform may provide include:
Analytics Tools and Dashboards
Are digital twins still shadows?
Application Deployment Business Process
Machine Learning Orchestration
Fleet Management Tools
Integration with other services
Gateway or hub support to bridge devices to the cloud
Device's cellular plan
Web or mobile application interface and templates
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
A PaaS platform provides the building blocks to do most of what an IoT system needs, but it's up to you to write the custom code to connect it together. With a PaaS provider, businesses don't have to worry about the underlying server hardware, but must combine their services into a working architecture and manage the deployment of applications that use their services. This is more work, but allows for more flexibility and opportunity to customize the system to suit needs.
The ongoing cost of a PaaS IoT platform is generally lower than that of SaaS, but requires expertise to ensure the right usage model to avoid larger costs. Large cloud providers all offer PaaS IoT platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
With SaaS providers, businesses can use a software application that they deploy and manage for you, or they can license and deploy it themselves. SaaS platforms usually offer some configurability and integration with other systems. There is far less work in cloud computing, as this is mostly handled by enterprises. But it will be limited by the capabilities provided by the IoT platform provider, requiring more investment in connecting the platform to other systems.
Depending on the enterprise use case, SaaS may offer more advanced out-of-the-box features than PaaS, and the ongoing cost of a SaaS IoT platform may be higher.
How to consider IoT Platform
This often means taking a phased approach and focusing on different priorities in each phase. IoT is a journey, not a destination. We see that when companies tackle each challenge in stages, they are most successful by not trying to do too much too quickly or locking themselves into long-term decisions too early. The choice to use PaaS or Saas depends on where you are in your IoT journey.
If you are developing your first IoT product
During the connection phase, you should have some confidence in the fit of your problem and the market, and you should have a better idea of what benefits IoT can bring to your business. Now you need to build a system to handle a rigorous production environment. You also need to adapt your organization to support your new product or service.
We recommend that you shift your focus to creating powerful experiences for customers that span physical devices and the digital interfaces they interact with. You need to consider other parts of the system such as mobile applications, web applications, database storage, operational dashboards, etc. that your customers and internal teams need to interact with the system.
PaaS IoT platforms start out with strong advantages at this stage. We often see that companies need more than what SaaS offers. Therefore, there is a need to enhance the functionality of the SaaS platform, or connect it to other systems. For example, if a SaaS IoT platform does not provide long-term data storage, you need to create a bridge to pull the data out of the platform's services and put it into a database you control in the cloud. Maintaining and monitoring this bridge is not easy, which may lead you to want to incorporate everything into your existing cloud. For this reason, we generally recommend a PaaS platform at this stage.
If you already have an IoT product in the market
The connection or acceleration phase is all about maximizing the benefits of IoT, leveraging the valuable data you may gain, and aligning your costs with revenue. While improving customer relationships and building new processes and skills, you should focus on expanding your system. These are not trivial tasks. This requires in-house expertise. Your team needs to understand your system to be able to improve efficiency and optimize costs. You have to get data to the right place when you need it, and it has to drive reliable operations across all of your infrastructure.
PaaS IoT platforms offer the greatest advantage at this stage. You have more control over the system rather than being locked into a specific software platform. You can customize and integrate more closely with existing systems. This allows you to adapt and evolve to meet the needs of your customers.
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Take yourself from an externally, heavy loaded movement and then follow suit with a totally unloaded, body weight movement.
I better bring some heavy hitting material today if I’m going to open with a headline like that, shouldn’t I?
Well, don’t worry about it. I got you covered.
Today, I want to discuss the findings of some hockey performance research done within the Journal of Strength and Conditioning in 2010.
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Within the last year, the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) released a survey sent to 1,337 professionals from primarily technology and software backgrounds regarding a variety of topics related to cloud computing, including identifying trends in software development and releases. We dived in to pull some stats we found interesting and analyzed their implications on software testing and the QA industry.
Accelerated Release Cycles
The first stat to jump out at us is the increase in daily and weekly software release cycles. Individuals using daily release cycles nearly doubled, going from 15% in 2018 to 27% in 2019. Weekly release cycles saw a rise from 20% to 28%. Faster release cycles allow faster software improvements – ideally leading to an increase in product quality. The importance of this is being realized by organizations and is reflected in their move towards daily and weekly releases.
From a software quality perspective, increased release cycle frequency increases the potential for defects and broken functionality. As a direct response to the exponential rise in releases, the ability to swiftly evaluate the code prior to release has to scale up as well. Capgemini’s latest World Quality Report indicates pain points still existing for companies attempting to scale up automation efforts – 50% of their respondents reported an inability to apply test automation at appropriate levels.
Automated Release Cycles
An increase in the prevalence of frequent release cycles can be directly attributed to the rise of DevOps, CI, and CD. Thanks to tools such as Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD, manual releases saw a decrease from 27% to 14%, and an increase in hybrid (combining manual and automated tools) releases from 25% to 41%. With existing tools surrounding release automation improving and the need for frequent releases still rising, we’re expecting to see the continued growth of hybrid and automated approaches.
Where is the Cloud?
It’s no surprise that the majority of respondents are still utilizing a public cloud approach. Due to scalability, lower set up cost, and reliability, the ease of public cloud has made it a go-to choice for a large number of teams globally. However, the number is down to 62% from 77% last year – and an increase in hybrid and private cloud approaches indicates that respondents are looking for more flexibility and customization with their infrastructure. With data breaches increasing yearly, enterprises looking for a more secure solution to data storage/processing will find what they’re looking for with hybrid and private cloud environments.
Public or private, overall cloud adoption is still increasing across multiple industries, even given our current economic climate due to COVID-19. Enterprises that have just switched over to cloud-hosted software will face a variety of challenges in the form of functionality, performance, and load testing to ensure that their products are still maintaining (and hopefully exceeding) the same standards of quality as they were before switching.
Simply put, widespread access to scalable and robust infrastructure allows for an increase in deployment rates, necessitating an equivalent increase in testing efforts. As the saying goes, “a rising tide lifts all boats”. And when it comes to scaling up, going the way of automation in both releasing and testing software remains king. With Amazon famously declaring their engineers deploy code every 11.7 seconds on average (after moving to their own cloud), technology teams across various industries will have continued the pressure to deliver products quicker and prevent any chance of stagnation through continually bettering user experiences. We don’t see that changing any time soon. | <urn:uuid:91f53578-6a62-4840-82df-32041cf259d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://3qilabs.com/why-software-release-cycle-frequency-continues-to-increase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.944126 | 714 | 1.710938 | 2 |
I´ve written some posts that haven’t been so easy to publish. I´ve written them intuitively because I´ve felt that the topic is important and related to women´s wellbeing. My post about practicing showing my emotions was that kind of a post. When the post was finished, I closed my eyes and published it. And I wished that I´m not making myself a fool by doing so.
Why it is so difficult for me to express my emotions, especially negative ones? Why have I kept so much inside of me for all these years and let it cause emotional and physical gridlocks in me? Why it is so hard to get rid of this kind of behavior pattern? The more I´ve tried to learn to express my emotions, the more I´ve wanted to find the reasons behind of them. All the reasons.
In autumn I learned some of the effects of my nation´s history on me. That helped me to find many answers for the questions I was asking and to understand myself better.
This winter I´ve read and had conversations about the difference between raising girls and boys. How girls have learned over the past centuries to suppress their emotions. They´ve learned to keep their negative emotions for themselves. They´ve also learned to show the positive ones with a restrained way that has been commonly approved in their culture. A good girl, through the ages in all cultures, has been a girl who is kind, behaves well and who certainly doesn´t raise her voice or make a big fuss about herself. Expressing emotions freely has just not been allowed. Or if someone has done it she has certainly felt the pinch.
My husband send me this video some time ago. I warmly recommend you to watch it. It´s less than 4 minutes. It´s a provocative and sharp video, but in a good and clever way. It tells about the differences between girls and boys, women and men. How we come from difference, and how those difference affect ourselves, our behavior and wellbeing. Whether we want it or not.
Acknowledging and understanding how things pass on from generation to next has helped me to understand that some difficulties that I have with myself are no ones fault. Not my mothers, my grandmothers or great-grandmothers because they´ve suffered from the same things that I have. And what about my father, grandfather or great-grandfather? Well, they have had their own challenges in terms of what a good boy has expected to be. We can only guess how much suffering it has caused for boys when they´ve learned to suppress their emotional sensitivity. Just because a real man doesn´t cry.
The more I learn to understand the nature of human being, the clearer it is to me – no human being is purely evil or bad. There are reasons behind everything. And when you dig deep enough, you´ll find that the reasons are very natural and human. We all have responsibility over our own behavior but many things affect on it. Reasons that cause suffering to us and people around us. Reasons that are more complex and that have deeper roots than we realize. Reasons that all need to be acknowledged and understood so that we would not blame innocent ones. So that we can change ourselves, feel better and offer a better life also for our daughters and sons. Just like our mothers and fathers have tried to do.
A permission to all girls and boys to express their emotions and skills to process them in a constructive instead of destructive way. That could be the thing that my generation could offer to the next one. Better mental wellbeing.
First this video made my heart beat like crazy. Then it made me cry. But it was not because of sadness. It was because of relief. Clearer than ever I realized that I´m really not the only one who have difficulties showing her emotions.
Yes, I´ve been a good girl and caused myself suffering by doing so. But so have millions and millions of other girls in this world before me. And they still do. And because of that I feel that I want to publish this video. So that more and more women would not cause themselves suffering in the future by shrinking themselves.
And Jonas, even though we come from difference, it doesn´t mean that we need to keep it that way. Many things have changed, and many things can be changed. The main thing is that we avoid confrontations, acknowledge our own challenges, win them and become free to become ourselves.
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“Jingle Bells” is among the most popular kids Christmas songs around the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont, its original title was “One Horse Open Sleigh” and it was published under it in the autumn of 1857.
On this page you can find Notes, Chords and Activities for the song, and a Printable PDF for free Download, and a piano tutorial video.
How to play Jingle Bells on the Piano – Easy Piano Tutorial Video
Sheet music with chords in C
To save this free music sheet of “Jingle Bells” to your computer, right click and choose “Save Image As…”.
Free Printable PDF with Sheet Music and Lyrics
To download a printable PDF of this song for music activities with sheet music, lyrics and a drawing for kids to paint, click on the button above or on the following link.
Easy Piano Sheet Music for Beginners
An easy piano arrangement in C major with the right hand playing the melody and the left one accompanying with consonances of whole notes, following the harmony (tonic and dominant chords).
Free Printable PDF with Easy Piano Sheet Music
To download a printable PDF of this song with easy piano sheet music for beginners, click on the button above or on the following link.
Time for handicrafts!
Make your handmade jingle-bells, using beer caps from glass bottles or other metal sound-producing little objects fixed on a stick or a kitchen paper roll carton.
You can decorate it and play them while singing the chorus.
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The Little Studio at The Posey School is being run by former Metropolitan Museum of Art Musuem Educator, Lena Massari-Sawyer. It is located in Northport Village, close to the harbor and two waterfront parks. The Little Studio is offering unique art classes which are for preschoolers and children ages 5 to 10. Both art history and studio art, with the finest of art materials, are explored in our studio.
Tuesday’s Class: Art in the Afternoon – Ages 4 to 5
Come and join us as we explore the basic principles of art and design. Color, line, shape and texture will be examined. We will be painting and working with wood. Tuesday’s 2:00PM-2:50PM.
Saturday Studio Workshop- Ages 3 to 4
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European Commission published new calculus last Monday, according to which there are 160,000 refugees to be relocated around European countries. Based on this decision Romania was set to take in 6,351. Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, is not opposing this intention of sharing the burden but he repeatedly stated that Romania is not able to take proper care of so many of them. “I don’t think that mandatory quotas are the solution (…)”We can take maximum 1,785 people” Iohannis told a news conference. Thus the country is to start receiving refugees in November.
Romania has 6 immigration centers which can barely shelter up to 1,000 refugees. The presidential adviser, Mr. Leonard Orban stated that the “Offer was made by the Government of Romania and it’s the following: 1705 migrants for relocation within EU’s borders, more specifically to receive people relocated from Greece and Italy, for a period of two years, starting with November 2015. Regarding people coming from outside of the EU, we will accept 80 persons, also for two years. In total the offer made by the government is of 1,785 persons. (…) I want to emphasize that is a personal opinion: Romania is completely unprepared for integrating migrants.” Romania has already 913 persons who requested asylum only in the first seven months of 2015. On top of this there are 3.373 of applications for asylum from 2013-2014 according to UNHCR.
These 6 refugees and immigrants’ centers are spread around the country: Bucharest, Giurgiu, Galați, Șomcuta Mare, Rădăuți and Timiș. They can provide water, food, housing and consular services. All of them are under the control of the General Inspectorate for Immigration, which has its central headquarters in Bucharest. The GII deals with the applications for asylum (which helps migrants to obtain the title of refugee which allows them to work) either if they are requested from within the country or from the border, with the assistance and housing of the new comers. The centers have a so called open regime which allows the migrants to leave from the center between 6AM and 10PM. They can also travel outside of the county where they have been assigned but only after informing the center. Of course, they can move out of these centers if proved they can support themselves, but firstly they need to inform GII about their intentions.
According to national law nr. 122/2006 asylum seekers have 3 lei/day for food, 1,8 lei/day for housing and 60bani for other expenses, which gives them a total of 5.4 lei/day, which is no more than 1,22 €/day. They should also have free access to primary and emergency medical care, medical assistance and treatment in cases of acute and chronic illnesses. Moreover, children have access to schooling the same way as Romanian scholars. There are also different programs that deal with cultural inclusion and access to the job market but only after their applications for asylum have been approved or after the expiration of one year since they first requested it.
Adina Florea and Mihai Ivascu from hotnews.ro visited the center in Bucharest where they met a girl from Armenia who introduced them into her new life here. They encountered an old building, opened in 1999 and that can shelter up to 320 people. The place has not been reconditioned in the last 15 years and it also has a 2m tall cement wall in front of it, not to say that the windows in the back of the building are gracefully decorated with bars. Lili says that the conditions in which she lives day to day are not that great, for example, when she arrived she had to buy her own light ball, as it was completely lacking. According to an order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs this should not be happening, on the contrary, asylum seekers should be welcomed under proper lighting, heating, ventilation and sanitation. Not to mention that according to order 121, art. 30, from the same Ministry, the migrants are entitled to 3 meals per day but according to Lili this is not exactly the way things happen. The same order also restricts the usage of a personal mobile phone, which can only be used if asked for permission, with the condition that the phone does not incorporate a camera. Guests are not allowed to use their phones during their visit at the center.
What seems to be the biggest problem of Romania in this context is the lack of wanting to reach a consensus. The public figures, politicians and not only, get stuck in debates of egos trying to prove who is wrong and who is right, while the public is inspired to do exactly the same. If somebody has enough patience to read the commentaries at the end of news, articles, features etc., which are talking about the migrants and refugees’ issues, the opinions are extremely strong and stubborn, nobody listens but everyone is right. Luckily there are some groups like Refugees, welcome to Romania where people are actually talking about how to act for the best possible outcome to arise. This is not an easy problematic, it is not something that can be solved overnight, nor that can be predicted, it is something that challenges adaptability, understanding, patience and action.
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Five years on from the beginning of the financial crisis, inequality in the U.S has risen to levels not seen for more than a century. With austerity the new normal, greater public expenditure on social programs is now a political impossibility. Joe Guinan looks at how in the central neighbourhoods of some of America’s larger cities, more and more people are fighting back against neoliberal austerity policies by turning to economic alternatives in which new wealth is built collectively and from the bottom up.
Five years after the financial crisis economic inequality in the United States is spiralling to levels not seen since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. While most Americans are experiencing a recovery-less recovery, the top one per cent of earners last year claimed 19.3 per cent of household income, their largest share since 1928. Moreover, income distribution looks positively egalitarian when compared to wealth ownership. This year’s Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans revealed that the top 400 richest individuals in the country have amassed over $2 trillion, more than the bottom 180 million combined. Meanwhile, the median American household makes less than it did in 1989, with over 40 per cent of families living from payday to payday with almost no savings to fall back on in the event of job loss or other economic emergency.
The problem can no longer be ignored. Barack Obama now calls for “middle-out” rather than top-down growth. A new film featuring Clinton-era Secretary of Labour Robert Reich, Inequality for All, hammers similar themes. Almost entirely absent is a solution. The distributional effects of the recovery have been extremely regressive, with 95 per cent of income gains going to the top one per cent, but the crisis alone cannot be blamed. The underlying trends have been thirty years in the making. Ultimately they are traceable to massive global economic forces – financialisation, the “great doubling” of labour markets, corporate downsizing and restructuring – unleashed with the breakdown of the postwar consensus and the ascent of neoliberal deregulation, privatisation and de-unionisation.
The political weight of organised labour once served as the “countervailing power” buttressing social priorities across Europe and North America. But trade union power has been in steep decline. In the United States, union membership now stands at less than 7 per cent in the private sector. The capacity of governments around the world to hold the line against rising inequality through taxation and redistributive spending – even when they actually wish to do so – is ever more reduced. The upshot has been stagnation, falling real wages and cutbacks in social provision.
The bursting of the “long bubble” of cheap debt and serial asset inflations has precipitated a political crisis for the centre-left. Their strategy of full accommodation to neoliberalism in order to skim off the surplus for ameliorative social spending has collapsed with the growth upon which it depended. In the new climate of rampant inequality and social revanchism, even committed left politicians are reduced to promising a kinder, gentler management of their constituents’ downward mobility on the basis of an ethic of comparative scarcity. The most vulnerable are paying the price.
Things will likely get worse. As Michael Hudson warns, with the economy “loaned out” a new wave of asset-stripping privatisation is crashing in, threatening to engulf schools, hospitals and public services. Wall Street is poised to loot public pension funds. It is becoming essential – as my colleagues Gar Alperovitz and Steve Dubb have argued – to move beyond defensive rearguard actions on ever-less-favourable terrain to a strategy capable of taking the offensive.
Interestingly, such a strategy may be emerging in the central neighbourhoods of some of America’s larger cities. As federal and state transfers dry up – 2012 saw the sixth year-on-year decline in city revenues – social pain is intensifying in communities that have long suffered high levels of unemployment and poverty. Precisely because large public expenditures for jobs and housing are politically impossible, more and more people are turning to economic alternatives in which new wealth is built collectively and from the bottom up.
These developments include nonprofit community development corporations and community land trusts that develop and maintain low-income housing, as well as community development financial institutions that now invest more than $5.5 billion a year in poor communities. Employee ownership is on the rise, extending to 11,000 businesses and involving three million more workers than are members of private sector unions. A third of Americans belong to urban, agricultural and credit union cooperatives. In the public sector, local government economic development programs invest in area businesses while municipal enterprises build infrastructure and provide services, raising revenue and promoting employment and economic stability, diversifying the base of locally controlled capital. Two thousand publicly owned utilities, together with co-ops, provide a quarter of America’s electricity. Public pension assets are being channelled into job creation and community economic development. More and more US states are looking into the creation of public banking systems like the long-standing public Bank of North Dakota.
These initiatives have gained traction slowly and received little attention from the mainstream media. But in the wake of the crisis they have proliferated. They illuminate how new community wealth-building approaches can work in practice and generate new solutions to economic challenges. From such developments it is becoming possible to project and extend a vision of democratised municipal and regional economies, oriented toward local multipliers, as an alternative to neoliberal austerity.
Europe is no stranger to the institutions involved. Many of them have their origins in the political and economic struggles of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century labour movement. But social democrats have been slow to embrace them, indulging them as worthy but irrelevant curiosities. They should think again. No one knows how to reverse the long-term decline of organised labour that has undermined social democratic possibilities. But we do know how to build up new institutional power bases that can provide an alternative ‘place to stand’ in the twenty-first century economy. It is to this steadily building array of alternative economic institutions, and not to technocratic lever pulling, that we should look for an economics – and a politics – capable of breaking through the permafrost of neoliberalism to address our deep social and economic problems.
This article originally appeared at Policy Network, as part of their work on The limits of nation state social democracy.
Note: This article gives the views of the authors, and not the position of USApp– American Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics.
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After a three-day visit to South Korea, another key Washington ally, Mr. Biden also spoke with Japanese Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace.
U.S. officials portray Japan and South Korea as the linchpins of the U.S. posture against China’s rise, and as partners in a Western-led alliance to isolate Russia after its invasion of China. ‘Ukraine.
“Japan is a key global power” and “the alliance between the United States and Japan has long been the cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific,” Biden said after his meeting with Mr. Kishida.
“We will face present and future challenges together,” he added.
“Your visit to Japan is an illustration that whatever the situation, the United States will continue to strengthen its commitment in the region,” said the Japanese Prime Minister.
Also in Tokyo on Tuesday, Biden will seek to bolster American leadership in the Asia-Pacific region by joining leaders from Australia, India and Japan for a summit of an informal alliance called Quad.
This is a “critical opportunity to exchange views and continue to foster practical cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region”, the White House said, using the term used by the US administration to designate the Asia-Pacific region.
However, Quad member India has so far stood out for its refusal to openly condemn Moscow over the war in Ukraine or to curtail its trade with Russia. Mr Biden will have a one-on-one meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
– Pyongyang ignore Biden –
The fear that the unpredictable North Korea will fire another missile or conduct a nuclear test looms over every stop on Mr Biden’s tour. Nothing happened during his stay in Seoul.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the threat was still present and Pyongyang had a choice. “If North Korea acts, we will be prepared to respond. If North Korea does not act, it has the opportunity, as we have already said, to come back to the table” of negotiations, a- he told reporters.
Pyongyang has so far refused to heed calls for dialogue, US officials say, even ignoring offers of help to combat a sudden outbreak of Covid-19.
The situation in North Korea was to be on the agenda for the Biden-Kishida talks, the White House said, along with their “shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” terminology that takes aim at the growing ambitions of the Chinese diet.
The pair were also due to make a statement on the need for “stability” in the Taiwan Strait amid growing concerns about Chinese pressure on the island.
Mr. Kishida could announce an increase in Japanese defense spending, a sensitive issue in a country whose Constitution proclaims pacifism.
– Commercial initiative –
After a joint press conference with Mr. Kishida, Mr. Biden is due to unveil a much-awaited trade initiative, also intended to consolidate the presence of the United States in the region, dubbed the “Indo-Pacific Economic Framework” (IPEF).
The IPEF is presented by Washington as a framework for what should become a close-knit group of trading nations.
Unlike traditional trading blocs, IPEF members are not expected to negotiate tariffs and facilitate market access, practices that have become unpopular with the American public who fear threats to local production.
The program plans to onboard business partners with agreed standards in four main areas: digital economy, supply chains, clean energy infrastructure and anti-corruption measures.
So far, the White House has remained silent on the number of potential future signatory countries and is still wondering how the standards will be able to be applied.
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The newly-discovered Comet Neowise - a big-tailed beauty which has become the brightest comet visible in the U.S. in a quarter-century - is now visible in Michigan in the evenings as well as just before sunrise. Tonight and early tomorrow will likely be good viewing times, forecasters say.
And it’s expected to stay in view for at least the next 10 days. But you’ll want to catch it before it disappears, because it won’t cruise back by for nearly 7,000 years, scientists say.
“Mostly clear skies tonight should allow for a viewing of Comet NEOWISE shortly after sunset and again prior to sunrise,” meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Gaylord said earlier today.
To check for it tonight, go outside around 10 p.m. and look north/northwest in the sky, right around the horizon. To try to catch it before sunrise, you’ll want to look to the northeast in the sky, about 10 degrees above the horizon. The best early-morning viewing time will be around 5 a.m
It’s best seen with a good pair of binoculars or even a telescope, but its tail recently got brighter and it can be seen with your eyes. Its approach will get closer until about July 23, scientists have said.
The comet was discovered in March via NASA’s Neowise infrared space telescope, according to the Associated Press. It has a official name - Comet C/2020 F3 - but the telescope’s name has become the comet’s moniker.
Researchers say the comet is about 3 mile across. Its origins are ancient. “Its nucleus is covered with sooty material dating back to the origin of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago,” the AP said.
Neowise is expected to head back out toward our outer solar system in mid-August, but should be visible until then.
Because of its near-parabolic orbit, it will be about 6,800 years before Neowise swings back in view, “so I wouldn’t suggest waiting for the next pass,” said the telescope’s deputy principal investigator, Joe Masiero of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, according to the AP.
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“My research looks at what creates value in construction projects, particularly for two of the main stakeholders, owners and users. One of the important questions I looked at was how to introduce this focus into the concept and design phase of construction projects, and then maintain it throughout the project”, says Amin Haddadi, who works as a consulting engineer at Multiconsult.
The main objective of his PhD was to understand how value should be considered from the perspective of owner and user, what creates value and how to enhance value creation in construction projects. One important question was how this kind of information can be integrated into the project management process so that the result is sustainable and creates value.
“I’m very happy to have come up with a good definition of value creation in the construction industry through my research. The term is widely used, but there is not always an understanding of what it implies. One of my most important criteria for success was to build bridges between the research community and the industry, and to make my results available for practical implementation”, explains Amin Haddadi.
Funding for the research
Haddadi took an industrial PhD, which involves the Research Council of Norway providing a grant to the company to finance work on the PhD, in order that the student can carry out research while remaining an employee. One of the goals of the industrial PhD program is to promote the recruitment of researchers from the world of business.
“Amin Haddadi has done some very detailed and exciting research into value creation in construction projects. We are proud that he has completed his PhD, and that he will now be able to bring his knowledge and experience into his work as a consulting engineer at Multiconsult. His expertise is unique, and it will enable us to give very precise and specific advice on how our customers can successfully create value”, says Evy Jakobsen, Director at Multiconsult.
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Quality pet meds to keep your best friend healthy
Article by jhoana cooper
In our daily lives we are surrounded by people who care about us, who think about our well-being and who worry when we are sick. These are the people we call friends, and every friend has this kind of behavior when it comes to people they care about.
Even though human interaction is very important for the social well-being, people aren’t the only ones we can call friends. There are also lots of animals that people prefer to spend a lot of their time with and these animals are often named best friends.
Pets are very important in anyone’s life, because they can sometimes offer the support a real person cannot. Maybe it is because of one’s ego, maybe it’s because of the lack of trust, but many people often turn to their pets to confide in, because they are the ones that will never reveal a secret, they are the ones that will always listen and they are also the ones that can get you in a better mood.
Keeping your closest friends in shape and healthy is, or should be a priority. When you pet comes down with something, you will need to provide pet meds in order to make them better, otherwise you might lose their company. They are not like people and they rely on their owner to provide the best conditions and the best health care in order to live their lives.
Pet meds are something you can find in lots of places. Veterinary pharmacies can be found quite often nowadays as opposed to the past, but these aren’t the only sources where you can purchase what you need. You need to find something that can provide lots of solutions with little trouble.
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The lightning advance of the Taliban in retaking the country has led Afghan Americans, former generals and leading statesmen to blame President Joe Biden for a hasty US withdrawal. But he appears to have the public on his side - for now.
Hadia Essazada wept as she recounted the horror the Taliban visited on her household, first beating her father, and then killing her brother.
The first time "they were beating my father with an iron rod because they were looking for my elder brother", who had fought to resist their rule in the 1990s, she told BBC Persian.
They fled their house in the northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif, but "after six months when we returned to our home, Taliban again came to visit us. And they took my younger brother".
"I don't know how many days had passed when a shopkeeper in our neighbourhood came to my father to tell him his son was killed," she said.
The Taliban had executed him and dragged his body through the streets. Relatives were not allowed to collect his body for burial for weeks, and by then, dogs had been allowed to desecrate the remains.
Ms Essazada, today in her 20s and living in the US, said she now feared for the security of both Afghanistan and her new home, America, now that the Taliban is in control once more.
"The Taliban has not changed a bit," she said, predicting that the West will be targeted by militants who she believes will be given shelter by the group. "Do you really want to go back to Afghanistan again?"
Biden's promise to get out
To his critics, the president's decision to wind down America's longest conflict has undone 20 years of work and sacrifice, paved the way for a humanitarian catastrophe and called into question US credibility.
Many of those closest to the conflict - Afghans, soldiers and statesmen - have long been sceptical of the president's view that the Kabul government could be expected to maintain the country's security by itself.
With the fall of the capital city on Sunday, some wonder whether it is only a matter of time before the American electorate comes to regret Mr Biden's move to deliver on the long-held promise of getting America out.
His decision to pull out is hardly a surprise. Since his days as vice-president to Barack Obama, he has always insisted that the war should be limited in its mission.
As a senator from Delaware in 2001, he joined a unanimous vote to approve the use of military force in Afghanistan. But he opposed the deployment of more troops Mr Obama authorised in 2009, the so-called "surge".
"Biden was pretty darn clear on Afghanistan," Brett Bruen, a former diplomat who sat in the Obama administration's National Security Council meetings, told the BBC. "He said we should get the heck out of there."
Mr Biden pushed his case and would sometimes make it personal, Mr Bruen recalled. "It was an effort to win over the room," he said.
As a White House candidate in 2019, Mr Biden reminded voters that he would be the first president since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s to have had a child serve in an active conflict.
In his memoir Richard Holbrooke, who was special envoy to Afghanistan in the early Obama years, remembered Mr Biden angrily telling him he was "not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of [Afghan] women's rights... That's not what they're there for".
But his long experience in foreign policy has probably done even more to shape the president's outlook, Mr Bruen said. "He's lived through so many of these conflicts, not just Vietnam and the Iraq War but also Kosovo [and] Grenada. I think there's a certain soberness to the way he looks at these challenges, and also a weariness."
Running for office, Mr Biden told CBS in 2020 that the US should only have troops in Afghanistan "to make sure that it's impossible for the Taliban and for Isis or al-Qaeda to re-establish a foothold there".
That has not come to pass. On Sunday, Taliban fighters reached the Afghan capital amid little resistance following a scramble by the US and its allies to airlift personnel out of the country.
Within hours, Karzai International Airport had suspended commercial flights and government forces at Afghanistan's main prison near Bagram Air Base had surrendered to insurgents.
Mr Biden was forced on Saturday to approve the deployment of thousands of additional US troops "to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel" and carry out a "safe evacuation" of Afghans at "special risk" from the Taliban.
A leaked US intelligence report this month had warned that the western-backed Afghan government could collapse within 90 days of US troop departures.
Mr Biden's predecessor Donald Trump accused him of "weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence" but some have pointed to a withdrawal deal his team hatched with the Taliban last year as partly to blame.
Some of the objections to the Biden withdrawal plan echo warnings made years ago.
Asked in 2009 whether his proposal to reduce troop numbers could succeed, Stanley McChrystal, then the US Commander in Kabul, replied: "The short answer is no."
With the swift Taliban takeover of the last few weeks, that prediction has proved correct.
Gen David Petraeus, who replaced Mr McChrystal as commander, told the BBC: "The situation obviously is just disastrous."
"We should literally reverse the decision," he said. "I feared we would come to regret the decision and we already are. There's no good outcome unless the United States and its allies recognise that we made a serious mistake."
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the US in 2009, told the BBC: "He [Mr Biden] always said 'our fight was about al-Qaeda, and not the Taliban'. I always thought it was naïve."
Sher Hossain Jaghori, an Afghan-American, lost an arm serving as an interpreter for US troops in 2003.
Now a US citizen, he said was furious about the US withdrawal. Mr Biden has "left the people of Afghanistan in the hands of Taliban," he told BBC Persian.
"I do not trust the US government anymore," he said. "My wife and my son voted for Biden. I told them not to do that. Now they came to me and said they now believe I was right. They are not going to vote again."
Polls have consistently shown withdrawal to be popular with Americans exhausted by 20 years of spent blood and treasure, and years of promises to get out.
In office, Mr Obama pledged to get out. Running for president, Donald Trump hammered against continuing the "endless war" - he had set a departure date for US troops of 1 May this year.
As recently as last month, an overwhelming majority of Americans - 70% or more - supported Mr Biden's withdrawal, according to polls from Harris and the Chicago Council.
But that was before the lightning advance of the Taliban.
As the situation on the ground shifts - and with veterans aghast at reports of the executions of Afghans who had served with them, former allied posts overtaken by Taliban fighters and aid groups warning of a humanitarian crisis to come - comparisons are already being made to the ignoble withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.
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Throughout history, America has been seen as a shining beacon of hope, freedom, and prosperity. America was founded under the assumption that everyone should be free and able to pursue their own happiness. It seems like such a basic and God-given right to Americans, but much of the world doesn’t get to enjoy that freedom …
Throughout history, America has been seen as a shining beacon of hope, freedom, and prosperity. America was founded under the assumption that everyone should be free and able to pursue their own happiness. It seems like such a basic and God-given right to Americans, but much of the world doesn’t get to enjoy that freedom the way Americans do.
Over the last few centuries, millions of people have left their home countries, risked everything, and even sacrificed their lives, just for the chance to come to America – the land of opportunity.
The original principle of the United States of America was simple: here’s a bunch of land and seemingly endless resources, now go make of it what you will and keep what you make for yourself. Sure, you’ll have to pay taxes, but at the end of the day your success is your success and no one can take that from you.
Needless to say, no matter where a person comes from, that’s a beautiful concept, and it’s one that has long been coined as “the American dream”. But now, after hundreds of years of prosperity, there’s a sentiment floating around today that says the American dream is dead. In fact, this sentiment says it’s not only dead, but it’s also killing the American people who cling to it so dearly.
The reasoning behind this line of thinking goes something like this:
Over the years, as more people came to America with hopes of working to achieve success, naturally competition increased, markets became crowded, and as a result a small group of people found their way to the top of the economic food chain. Now, as that small group of “success-holders” continue to compete against one another for more power and more success, they have made it increasingly difficult for newcomers – and those without prestige or privilege – to share this success and make a life for themselves and their families.
To simplify this mentality, these people might say the “game” of capitalism is no longer fair in America. Hard work no longer equals success, but instead power and prestige lies in the hands of the few and the privileged.
While part of this sentiment may ring true for some Americans, the pessimistic outlook it evokes is unnecessarily defeatist. Yes, the American dream as we’ve known it for centuries is indeed changing. The middle class is shrinking due to the fact that manual labor jobs are being outsourced to other countries, technology and artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the modern workplace, and compensation for middle class workers has steadily declined. But we can find hope in the fact that the American middle class can and will make a comeback if Americans will embrace the many new technical job opportunities available to them and if policy-makers will incentivize American businesses to hire American workers and pay them well.
But let’s back up for a moment. Let’s look at why the middle class is so important and how we got to where we are in the first place.
The importance of the American middle class
It has often been said that the middle class is the backbone of the American economy. But what exactly is the middle class, and why is it so important?
Although the term “middle class” is a bit obscure due to the multiple factors that must be considered (such as location and family size), Pew Research sheds a bit of light on what classifies a household as “middle income” in America.
According to Pew, the middle class ranges from a household income of about $48,500 to $145,500 annually as of 2018. That’s quite a broad range, which is probably why about half of all Americans fell in this category as of 2018.
The problem is, the middle class made up 61% of the U.S. adult population in 1971 and it makes up 52% now. That’s a 9% drop. Here’s how significant that is:
The US population today is just over 300 million people, so the middle class today is about 156 million people (52%). If the middle class had not shrunk since 1971, then there would be an additional 27 million Americans in the middle class.
As of 2018, 29% of American adults were in the lowest-income tier, up from 25% in 1971. On the opposite side, 19% are in the highest-income tier, up from 14% in 1971.
That means if the lower and upper classes remained the same percentage of the US population that they were in 1971, there would be 12 million less people in the lower class today and 15 million less people in the upper class – and those 27 million people combined would be back in the middle class.
On the other hand, while the middle class is shrinking, it seems as if the upper class is actually growing at a slightly more rapid rate than the lower class. But if people are making more money now, which is leading to more people leaving the middle class for the upper class, then what’s the problem?
And while to some Americans it may seem like a good thing to have more people making more money, it’s bad for the American economy to lose strength in its middle class.
According to the Center for American Progress, a strong middle class balances out the American economy by keeping the demand for goods and services high and increasing entrepreneurship, as well as driving more efficient government and public investments, increasing involvement in matters of public policy, and increasing investment in public education.
To sum up the importance of the middle class, one might say it’s better for more people to have enough money to thrive than for fewer people to live in abundance.
All of this is to reiterate the problem at hand in America, which is that the middle class has shrunk as Americans split to the lower and upper income tiers. But why is this happening and what can we do to correct it?
Reasons the middle class is shrinking and the American dream “fading”
Perhaps one of the most widely known detractors of middle class jobs in America is the outsourcing of middle-class (often manual labor) jobs both internationally and domestically. In an effort to save money and ultimately drive profits, U.S. companies have started looking to cheaper sources of labor in order to fulfill their operational needs.
Globalization – the process by which businesses begin operating internationally, largely due to technological advances – has made it easier than ever for American companies to hire workers overseas for a fraction of the cost of an American worker. According to The Balance, “In 2019, U.S. overseas affiliates employed 14.6 million workers.” The typical industries impacted the most are technology, call centers, human resources, and manufacturing.
And American middle class workers aren’t only losing jobs overseas, they’re also losing them to domestic outsourcing as well. The Los Angeles Times reports an interesting example of this domestic outsourcing:
“In 2005, there were 138,210 workers nationwide who repaired ATMs, computers and other office machines, earning a mean annual salary of $37,640. Ten years later, the number of such jobs had shrunk to 106,100, with most of them subcontracted at annual pay of $38,990. But after accounting for inflation, that’s a drop of about 15% from 2005. By contrast, real wages for all occupations rose 1.3% between 2005 and 2015 – itself a tiny gain over the last decade, but still significantly more than those hit by domestic outsourcing.”
As more companies look to save money by outsourcing their work, more workers are forced to move into contractor roles, which leads to lower overall compensation for existing employees who try to compete with outsourced labor.
2. Technology and Artificial Intelligence
One of the more publicized reasons for the shrinking middle class is the growth of technology. As technology has evolved, it has begun handling more and more manual labor and tedious service work that would have otherwise been performed by a human being (typically receiving middle class wages).
In the book In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society, authors D. Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn, and Kelly Eitzen Smith say, “Robots, since the 1960s have replaced humans doing routine work such as picking fruit, welding, assembling, painting, and scanning products for defects.”
Not only are computers and robots handling middle class work, but workers themselves are beginning to utilize technology to work in more non-traditional or contractor roles outside of actual employment.
The authors say, “The Internet is revolutionizing the way business is transacted. More than 30 million American workers work in temporary, contracted, self-employed, leased, part-time, and other “nonstandard” arrangements.”
Between technology replacing jobs and employees using technology to leave their jobs for more appealing internet-based careers, middle class employment has taken a major hit and will continue to decline so long as middle class workers aren’t properly utilizing and learning how to interact with technology in a useful and profitable manner.
3. Lower compensation for workers
Another factor that has contributed to the decline in the American middle class is the decline in pay for middle class workers. As the authors of In Conflict and Order” state, “The income of a man in his 30s is now 12 percent below that of a man his age three decades ago.”
One reason workers are receiving lower compensation in America is companies are now forced to compete on a global scale with countries who pay their workers lower wages. Whereas before technology made international commerce easier, U.S. companies primarily competed with one another within the same economical “boundaries.” They could maintain a certain standard of living for their employees and still manage to remain competitive, because their competitors were being held to the same standard. Now, however, companies are competing with low-wage countries who can afford to slash costs to levels that force American companies to either outsource or pay their workers less.
Another reason for lower wages is the decline of union memberships. According to the In Conflict and Order authors, “Union membership has declined significantly, and union members make approximately 30 percent more than their nonunion peers.” This has led to the decline in wages of many in the South and Western regions of the United States. The bottom line is although unions sometimes get a bad reputation, scholars have agreed that they were actually doing a lot of good for the middle class as a whole.
How to go forward and strengthen the middle class for income equality
So the question remains: Where does the American middle class go from here? With middle class jobs being outsourced overseas, replaced by technology, and compensated at a lower rate, where does that leave the majority of Americans? Well, at the moment, their splitting ways – some to the lower class, and more to the upper class. But one path back to more pay equality in America could be described in three parts.
1. Find jobs that are in-demand and train Americans to do them
First, middle class workers can find jobs in the “new” economy by looking where the needs are. Indeed.com says these are the fastest growing industries for employment:
- Information technology
- Drink manufacturing
- Personal services
- Direct retail
- Finishing contracting
- Real estate
- Architectural engineering
- Financial services
If you notice, the jobs that are on this list are jobs that involve either managing technology or working with people in high-demand fields such as healthcare and real estate. Those things – managing technology and working with people – are two things that can’t be fully outsourced.
In order for Americans to strengthen the middle class, they’ll need to find these in-demand fields and get the appropriate training for them, much like they did when the Industrial Revolution introduced a new way to work that ultimately led to decades of middle class prosperity. When times change, workers must adapt.
2. Incentivize American companies to keep jobs in America
Another step to strengthening the American middle class is to incentivize companies to keep jobs in America. An outsourcing survey from Deloitte reports that 59% of companies see outsourcing as a cost cutting tool. In order to balance the scales for businesses, policymakers must find a way to incentivize companies to pay Americans for their work. Tax breaks have been used in the past on a smaller scale to incentivize companies to do various things, so making this a priority should help bring back some of the valuable jobs lost to cheaper overseas competition.
3. Incentivize American companies to pay well
Another key to strengthening the middle class in America is to not only incentivize American companies to hire American employees, but to also incentivize them to pay their American employees well. Along the same lines as the previous point, policymakers can find a way to keep American companies profitable while still enabling them to pay Americans for their hard work.
The sum it up
To state that the American dream is dead would be a drastic over-dramatization. Instead, the American dream is evolving.
Just like everything else in life, things change within a country and its economy. The manual labor jobs that helped build the thriving middle class of the past are no longer as viable an option for those looking to build a quality life in America. That’s not to say those jobs are worthless, but it is to say that the future doesn’t necessarily lie with them at the moment. Instead, Americans should look to train for more technical positions that are in demand while policymakers look to incentivize American companies to hire American workers and pay them well.
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Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages for Public Health: Legal and Policy Issues in Canada
AbstractThis article examines the potential use of taxes to increase the price of sugar-sweetened beverages in an attempt to curb consumption, improve public health, and generate revenue that can be used to support other public health initiatives. In doing so, it first considers the arguments for and against such a tax, including economic, political, and health considerations. This article then proceeds to look at how the tax could be implemented, addressing the various models of taxation that could be used as well as questions of jurisdiction surrounding what level of government may implement those models.
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A solar flare or solar limb is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun's surface. It is a large energy release of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy. The energy is about a sixth of the total energy that is released from the Sun each second equal to 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT. It can also be compared with the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. The release is then followed by a colossal coronal mass ejection also known as a CME. The first flare releases clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona of the Sun into space. These clouds usually reach planet Earth a day or two after this has happened. A solar flare is sometimes referred to another phenomena in other stars, such as stellar flare.
Solar flares affect all layers of the solar atmosphere such as the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. Solar flares produce radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths from radio waves to gamma rays. Most of the energy goes to frequencies outside it's range and because of this most of the flares cannot be seen by the naked eye. Solar flares are observed (looked at) with special instruments. Solar flares occur in active regions around sunspots. Solar flares are powered by the sudden release of magnetic energy that is stored in the corona. The same energy releases may produce coronal mass ejections (CME), although the relation between CMEs and flares is still not known.
X-rays and UV radiation that is released by solar flares can affect Earth's ionosphere. Because of this, radio communications, radars and other devices may be disrupted for a short time. Richard Christopher Carrington was the first person to observe a solar flare in 1859. Carrington had spotted brightening's of small areas within a sunspot group. Stellar flares have also been observed on several of other stars. Solar flares can be "active" from several flares a day or "quiet" from several flares every week. Solar flares occurs during the 11-year cycle (the solar cycle). There are less "large flares" than smaller ones.
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In 1952, Dick Kelty, a carpenter, builder, and avid outdoorsman, started making backpacks for his friends in the Sierra Club for 24 bucks a pop. His friends were grateful. These 24-dollar packs revolutionized backpacking, implementing for the first time Kelty's ideas of a hipbelt and lighter aluminum frames. Soon, Kelty and his friends were exploring the Sierra Nevadas with heavy loads, no shoulder pain, going farther, longer, and happier into the wilderness than ever before.
Five years later, Dick Kelty quit his carpentry business to start an outdoor gear company. Staked out in an old garage, he welded aluminum tubes into frames while his wife, Nena, cut, sewed, and fitted the pack bags. Today, Kelty gear promises the same dedication to innovation and getting outdoors that Dick Kelty had forty-eight years ago.
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Mental health issues can have a huge effect on every aspect of a person’s life, including their workplace. Although some workplaces have some mental health support, there is still stigma associated with opening up about mental health issues.
For young people, these issues can sometimes be amplified as they are entering post-secondary or the workforce for the first time and becoming independent.
The statistics don’t lie. The cost of mental illness in Canada each year is $51 billion, with one in five Canadians experiencing a mental health issue in their lives.
The problem is clear, but the solution is ignored.
There has been silence surrounding mental health in the past but the youth of Teamsters Canada hopes to help transform this with a social campaign for change.
It is time to speak up, make noise and affect positive change.
With this initiative we want to raise awareness about mental health stigma in the workplace, educate people on what youth mental illness looks like in Canada and let them know they are not alone. Our goal is to make mental health support mandatory in every workplace, creating a healthier and safer workforce.
“EVERYONE BENEFITS WHEN WE BUILD UP HEALTHIER, MORE INCLUSIVE WORKPLACES. THAT’S WHY MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND SUPPORT SHOULD BE MANDATORY.”
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In Garden City, a sprawling blue-collar town on the western plains of Kansas, local businesses struggle to find enough workers. At the end of last year, the unemployment rate in the county stood at just 3.9 percent. Western Kansas, known for its meatpacking plants, is also seeing growth in other agricultural areas, not to mention wind power and the oil and gas industries.
Local dairy farmers try to lure new workers with decent salaries and benefits, but they find no takers, says Renaldo Mesa, who has served as president of the local chamber of commerce and as Garden City's mayor. “There's a lot of jobs out here,” Mesa says, “especially out in western Kansas, that average Americans just will not take.” Many local businesses rely on immigrant labor. Immigrants already make up a fifth of the population of Garden City; nearly half the city is Hispanic. There are local festivals for Mexico's independence day and the Vietnamese new year.
As a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, Mesa backed a proposal this year designed to make it easier for illegal immigrants to keep their jobs. It would allow the state to ask the federal government for leniency for longtime residents who work in Kansas if those immigrants face deportation.
He says it is a step that will help spur growth in agriculture, a major focus of Governor Sam Brownback. “That's what we do out here in Kansas,” Mesa says. “In order to do that, you've got to have the workforce.”
Although they are overshadowed by state efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, business groups are working in several state capitols to help undocumented workers and, in the process, make it easier for businesses to hire immigrants legally. But many of those efforts, like the one in Kansas, are testing new political and legal ground.
“It is all new,” says Tamar Jacoby, the head of the business coalition Immigration Works USA, which is backing the Kansas measure and similar immigrant-friendly proposals in other states. “But the same thing is driving it everywhere and it's not surprising. It's the tightening enforcement noose. More and more farmers — and other employers too, but farmers especially — are having trouble finding the workers they need to keep their businesses open.”
No clear option
The frustration from farmers is cropping up in states that have little else in common.
Georgia last year passed a law to discourage illegal immigrants from settling there. But the state's agriculture commissioner has actively pushed Congress to overhaul the nation's guest worker programs so cantaloupe and cucumber farmers can hire undocumented workers legally to pick their crops.
Vermont lawmakers now appear to be heading down a path toward letting unauthorized immigrants get driver's licenses. The change would especially benefit immigrant workers on dairy farms, who can seldom leave their farms to buy food, see doctors or attend church.
As part of a larger immigration package, the Utah legislature has called for the state to set up its own guest worker program starting in 2013. Similar bills were introduced this year in New Mexico and California. But both Vermont and Georgia rejected that approach. Current federal law does not allow for separate state guest worker programs; Utah has asked for federal permission to allow its program to take effect.
The variety of approaches to the same problem shows that there is no clear or easy option for states to take on what is essentially a federal issue.
After a seven-month study, Georgia's agriculture department concluded just that. “The solution to the labor issues facing Georgia producers rests in the hand of the federal government,” the department wrote in a January report. “Only the federal government can make [H-2A, the agricultural guest worker program] useful for farmers. It is yet to be seen if H-2A can be rebranded to fulfill the needs of 21st century agriculture, but reforming the archaic program must be a top priority.”
One of the agency's complaints was that the existing guest worker program does not cover many agricultural needs. It can help with seasonal work, but it is not designed for workers who keep the same job all year. Other employers felt the program was too expensive or too complicated.
But the lack of workers is hurting Georgia farmers, state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black told a congressional panel in February. “Over 50 percent of respondents who produce blueberries, cabbage, cantaloupe, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, squash, tobacco and watermelon,” he said, “reported income losses in 2011 due to lack of workers.”
In Kansas, businesses lined up behind the proposal backed by Mesa to insert the state into federal immigration proceedings. Under the measure, the state would set up a program for undocumented immigrants working in certain industries. The state would ask the federal government not to deport or jail immigrants in the program. To be eligible, immigrants would have to have a clean criminal record, have lived in the United States more than five years, would agree to learn English and would have to work in industries with severe labor shortages.
“It is all voluntary. It is up to them,” says Allie Devine, a former Kansas agriculture secretary who crafted the proposal. “For [immigrants], it is a path to lawful presence and work authorization that they may not have today. So we're trying to bolster their case.”
There is no guarantee, though, that such a state program would carry the day with the federal government. The measure comes in response to a new Obama administration policy to help immigration officials decide which cases they should focus the most attention on. It is up to federal officials to decide how aggressively they pursue individual cases.
The Kansas proposal is a long way from becoming law. Supporters say it is more likely to pass next year, after the 2012 elections, rather than in the current legislative session. Even then, its fate is uncertain. Kansas is also home to Kris Kobach, the secretary of state and one of the most vocal crusaders against illegal immigration in the country.
An alternate route
Although they live in a border state, Vermont lawmakers seldom dealt with illegal immigration before this year.
A traffic stop last fall changed that. During the stop, a state trooper who pulled over a vehicle for speeding quickly shifted his focus to the two passengers, who were Mexican workers on their way back to their jobs at a dairy farm. The officer detained both passengers and eventually turned them over to the Border Patrol.
Word got out quickly, and a crowd of protesters tried to block the Border Patrol from taking custody. Three protesters were arrested. The Border Patrol released the passengers later that night, but the outcry led to changes in state police practices.
One of the passengers, Danilo Lopez, met with Governor Peter Shumlin about the issue. Now Lopez is pushing a bill in the legislature to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants like himself. Immigrants working in rural areas would not feel trapped on their farms, he says. As it is now, they are almost entirely dependent on their bosses to buy food.
“The truth is that this law... isn't just about a license,” he says in Spanish. “This is really about just having the ability to move freely, to be able to access services, to have a decent life.”
The Vermont Senate is expected to vote on the legislation this week. In its current form, the measure would create a study committee to iron out logistical details of how to make the transition. But the governor supports the eventual goal of letting undocumented immigrants drive, something only three states (New Mexico, Utah and Washington State) now do.
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Part 2: Cultivating the arts
Arts and culture are increasingly becoming an integral part of city planning. Whilst Part (1) of this post demonstrates how some urban theory has taken creativity as a means to advocate for growth, there are reasons to cultivate the arts beyond economic prosperity. The culture of a place is visualised through the arts. Like the built environment, these creative expressions often form the most evident identity of an area and its population. It is this collective identity which makes a place compelling, unique and diverse - and it's this identity which is made vulnerable in the face of redevelopment and gentrifying processes. Back in 1985, Loft Living drew those initial connections between art and urban change through theory and empirical data - today, those conversations remain prevalent and the social impact of pursuing art solely for urban growth is becoming ever more evident within cities.
Public art initiatives often make use of the public realm: streets, parks and squares, to showcase artwork with the hope of improving people's experience of the city. For example, the Art on the Underground initiative in London, which commissions contemporary artworks throughout stations, on trains and platforms to improve the experience of the journey. Privately funded initiatives, however, tend to make use of temporary spaces around cities to host events and showcase work. Exhibitions and music venues for short term events take advantage of the temporary spaces and low commitment to leasing property which allows their creative practices to thrive.
Brent Biennial is a prime example of how this concept can be adapted on a large scale where vacancy is embraced and artistic practices are exhibited. The biennial is scattered around the borough, making use of temporarily vacant and unused spaces; the event celebrates arts and culture as a way of exploring the meaning of home making. The theme asks how hostile environments, born through racism, climate catastrophe and political austerity, can be counteracted through home making as a form of resistance. This poetic marriage of artistic exploration of what makes a home within various vessels of buildings, challenges us to reconsider the way we use buildings and the identities and functions we attach to them. However, when looking at the list of artists included within the event, many of them aren't local to the area. Whilst this is not a criticism of the biennial - considered within the context of Part (1) of this post - the broader conversations of place identity and displacement though increasing creative practices resurfaces. If we are suggesting that it needs to be locals who utilise local meanwhile spaces, then, within the context of creative practices, we are also assuming that local artists have the facilities to exist within the area.
The spatial geographies of artistic practices around London in areas such as Deptford and Hackney demonstrate obvious creative agglomeration, but what kind of spaces allow artists to not only flourish, but to be birthed? There is a distinction between showcasing art through public art initiatives and exhibitions, and providing spaces and studios for creative practices. This contrast is evident within Hackney. Having recently unveiled two new sculptures as part of the Hackney Windrush Art Commission, the borough is simultaneously handing over the artists studios on Ridley Road to luxury residential developers. Over the span of 15 years the studios have housed about 60 painters, sculptors, ceramicists, designers, illustrators, photographers and printmakers. The market along which the studios are located, are a vital hub for the Afro-Caribbean diaspora which fears itself at risk of displacement through an invisible identity shift in the area through the redevelopment of the studios.
Back in 2019, the council granted the Ridley Road Shopping Village - which included the artists studios - an asset of community value (ACV). In doing so, the authority recognised the cultural and social significance of the site and the contribution it makes to the local community. It was this status which pushed the landlord to keep 10 percent of the studios at 60 percent of market value to allow artists to remain in the area. Despite this acknowledgement from the council, it was established that the council doesn’t have the capacity to manage individual units. Considering this redevelopment alongside a push for public art within the borough, a clear distinction emerges between the wanting to showcase artwork and actively fostering creative practices. As such there needs to be a better understanding of how to support local artists and creatives, so that the arts can be celebrated in a way which does not displace or drastically change the culture and identity of an area. Within the context of meanwhile spaces and transience in the city - can we do more than exhibit art in these temporary spaces - can we use them to cultivate creative practice and make spaces for local artists to create, commune and establish themselves within an area?
Meanwhile spaces are upfront in their temporary nature and tenants can utilise them with the foreknowledge that they are not forever spaces. In such a way, these sites allow for opportunities where workshops can be held which inspire the community and where inclusive events can be held which celebrate and embrace the local identity. A great example of this is Weston Artspace - A hub for the creative community of Weston-Super-Mare in the South West of England. Run by 6 volunteers, the space was transformed from a retail store to a multi-storey studio with space for writers, artists, photographers and dancers to hold workshops and use the space on a low cost membership basis. Whilst initially, the space was only leased for a year, Artspace took this as an opportunity to create a space which responded to a local demand for a creative community hub. In doing so they’ve managed to secure the building and are now in their third active year on the site.
A lot can be learnt from projects like this - We can challenge our understanding of building uses and the way in which we measure the value that the arts bring to an area. By understanding the local community and its needs, unused spaces can unlock the creative potential within an area and truly cultivate the arts through practice and participation.
Sculptures outside Hackney Town Hall by Veronica Ryan OBE and Thomas J Price, 2022
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This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
As you no doubt know, the ITU has plans to update its International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs), which were last updated in 1988, and have since become badly outdated. At the time, most telecom markets were government-controlled monopolies, the internet was a largely academic project funded by DARPA, and mobile phones were mainly things you installed in cars. And they didn’t roam.
That’s set to change this December in Dubai when the ITU convenes the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), a treaty-level conference in which delegates will aim to modernize the ITRs. But inevitably – the ITU being essentially a branch of the United Nations – there has been much political dithering over how the ITRs should be changed, particularly in terms of internet regulation.
At the center of that debate is the age-old argument about the role of ICANN in overseeing the growth and self-regulation of the internet. Despite being a private company, ICANN has been regularly accused by critics of taking a US-centric approach to the point of protecting US government interests at the expense of everyone else, especially developing markets.
As such, reports have been surfacing for the past year that BRIC countries and others – particularly China and Russia – favor putting ICANN’s functions under the control of the ITU, including cybersecurity, data privacy, technical standards and IP address allocations.
Needless to say, the US government is alarmed by the idea. So are people like Vint Cerf, VP and chief internet evangelist at Google and the man who gave us TCP. At a Congressional hearing in May, Cerf stated firmly that ‘if there’s one thing that we should not do, it is to centralize decision-making power.’ Cerf warned that if the WCIT approves proposals that authorize increased ITU and member state control over the internet, it would ‘change the foundational structure of the internet that has historically led to unprecedented worldwide innovation and economic growth.’
Which is probably true. The question is how likely an ITU takeover of ICANN is in the first place. The US seems to be treating it as a very real possibility. But ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Toure recently told the BBC that no one has seriously proposed that the ITU take over the internet from ICANN, and that in any case the ITU operates by consensus, making any such proposal very hard to pass.
So the likelihood of ICANN losing control of the internet to the ITU seems somewhat overstated. The problem is that because all of the proposals are secret, there’s no way to know for sure, which is unlikely to assuage the critics. In the absence of reliable information, people will believe what they want to believe and fill in the gaps however they want, especially when it comes to political jockeying.
Complicating things is the fact that the WCIT event is for government representatives only. The telecom sector is essentially going to have to trust their reps to update the ITRs in ways that don’t inhibit growth – not just in terms of ICANN’s future, but a range of other issues, from taxation and net neutrality to roaming and facilitating broadband growth in developing markets.
Which is why Ambassador David Gross, partner at Wiley & Rein, took the time during his ‘Visionary Address’ keynote at CommunicAsia to urge delegates to get involved in the conversation now by engaging with their respective home governments and explaining the importance of updating the ITRs with a flexible framework to allow innovation to flourish.
It’s good advice. By the end of this year, the ITRs will have been changed, and one way or the other, the telecom industry is going to have to live with the results. One other thing: at those Congressional hearings, Vint Cerf admitted ICANN needed improvement, especially in terms of international input and looking after the interests of developing countries. If ICANN retains its role after WCIT, it should do what it can to address those shortcomings.
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The Cook Family – Cook, Carter, Hickman, Prynn, Grant
Henry Cook was born in St Olave, Bermondsey, London England in 1807. He died in 1908 in Rotherhithe, London. His wife Mary was born in 1811 and she died in 1916 in Camberwell, London. They had four children – John born 1834, Eliza born 1836, Henry born 1838 and William in 1840. Young Henry was born in St Olave and when he was 35, married Jane Carter at St Nicholas Parish Church, Deptford in Kent, England on 20 April, 1873. Jane was born in Faringdon, Berkshire, England.
Henry and Jane had two boys. Alfred James was born on 9 February 1880 at 8 Elephant Lane, near the Elephant and Castle, Rotherhithe, London and died in Auckland New Zealand on 20 February, 1963. His brother Richard Charles was born in 1884.
Alfred was married in 1909 to Martha Marie Hickman who was born in 1884. Martha Marie’s birth was never recorded officially however her mother Maria Prynn came from the Camberwell area of London and her father, Henry Hickman, from St Olave. Marie worked for Lord and Lady Lechemere as a domestic help.
Alfred and Martha (known as Marie) emigrated to Canada in 1911 planning to settle there. They had their first child in 1912, a girl named Winifred, born on Vancouver Island. Deciding against staying in Canada, Alfred and Marie joined a ship and sailed for New Zealand, arriving in Auckland. Here, Marie gave birth to a baby boy however he did not survive. Moving down the North Island they decided to settle in Palmerston North where Alfred got work in his trade, as a painter and decorator. As the birth of the next child came near, Marie decided to go back to Auckland to the midwife she had attended during her previous pregnancy. Nellie Dorothy Cook was born in May 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand. Two more girls were born in Palmerston North, Ivy Gladys in 1922 and Edna in 1926. The family moved to Hastings in the Hawke Bay area and Alfred continued to work in his own business as a painter/decorator.
Nellie married William Gordon Grant (Bill) in 1939 and they moved to a nearby city, Napier to begin married life. In 1942, Beverley Janice Grant was born followed by Malcolm Gordon Grant in 1943. Beverley married Herbert Benbow McInnes in 1962 in Auckland New Zealand.
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A video of what was alleged to be a racially motivated incident at the Printemps department store's Balenciaga shop in Paris has gone viral. The four-second long clip shows several customers fighting outside the shop, claiming racial discrimination at the store as the root of the problem.
The altercation allegedly began after a Parisian shopper appeared to be allowed entry to the store in front of Chinese customers who were lined up outside. The caption on the posted video says, “Boycott Balenciaga discriminating against Chinese. Really angry, queuing up and yet get hit by the people cutting in line. From now on, buy Chinese Li Ning [the sportswear brand].” She went on to add that, though she has lined up on a daily basis to secure a pair of Balenciaga sneakers, she didn’t say anything until this particular altercation. She added, “Today an older lady pointed out that five foreigners were cutting in line and one of them threatened her. Her son rushed over to defend her and got beaten by the group. French security only went after and restrained the Chinese. In the end, the sale was canceled. The most frustrating part is that the ones that started the fight were able to buy the shoes and Printemps disrespected the Chinese who had lined up, telling us to go away and never come back to buy shoes again.”
As a result, the hashtag #BoycottBalenciagaDiscriminatesChinese is trending.
On Thursday, April 26, Balenciaga issued the following statement on Twitter in response to the incident: “The house of Balenciaga regrets the incident that took place yesterday morning at a department store in Paris while customers were waiting to enter its corner shop. The security staff acted immediately to restore the calm. Balenciaga sincerely apologizes to the customers who were present and reaffirms its strong commitment to respect equally all its customers.”
According to a later report from WWD on Friday, April 27, the retailer Printemps has also responded, promising in part that “We have decided to ensure that the staff receive additional training so that they manage in the best way this type of situation. We will make every effort to ensure that this type of altercation does not happen again, and we want to reaffirm our commitment to providing all our customers with the best experience.”
Teen Vogue has reached out to Balenciaga for additional comment and will update if we hear back.
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Does your organization have a marketing strategy plan? Marketing is an essential part of any organization, but coming up with a strategy can feel daunting for many. Whether you’re starting from scratch or just want to give your current plan a little lift, we’ve got you covered.
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25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
The people were thirsty and had come to a place of bitter water. It would have taken an entire lake to give that many people and their herds a drink. They asked if God was able to provide their needs. The Psalmist said they were testing God (Psalm 78:19). Both in the verse for today and in the next chapter, when they demand food, God turned it around and said the test is not if He was able to provide, but it is if they are able to obey. That is still the test. God provides food for every living thing in the world daily. Most starvation is due to wars that do not allow food to enter into areas where there is need. Man gets in the way and will be held accountable. But the point God is making is that if we are listening and obeying His directions, He will provide our needs.
In that day, God gave them health laws that if followed carefully would prevent much of the diseases they witnessed in Egypt. Today we are no longer under those laws but are to be led by the Holy Spirit. If we will listen and obey, we will not need affliction to help turn our ear toward God for our good. When God gave instructions for the collection of manna, He again says it is to test them to see if they can learn to obey. When we operate in a dependency on God, we will always have enough. It is when we go our own way that we find we are in need, because our own ways are not blessed. The test is for us, not God.
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Solar and wind energy systems can operate in a standalone or grid-connected mode, but due to the stochastic nature of solar and wind energy, their efficiency is lower. This disadvantage of being unpredictable and uncontrollable is overcome by hybridized renewable energy sources with grid connected. A hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) is a system that combines renewable and conventional sources of energy, as well as two or more renewable energy sources that can operate independently or as part of a grid. Using the MATLAB/SIMULINK environment, the research focused on constructing a solar renewable power supporting the notion by several H bridge converters. The basic notion of a multilayer converter is to do power conversion by synthesis a stairway output voltages using a series of power semiconductor switches with numerous lower voltage dc sources. | <urn:uuid:1cc73302-d12f-4193-84d2-9d89eafdb6bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.publishoa.com/index.php/journal/article/view/1184 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942151 | 168 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Amend powers of Dredgemaster of Feverwater
Proposed by Miaren, Seconded by Hercynia
- The sinecure dedicated to the dredging of lake Feverwater in Therunin is to be improved
- The Dredgemaster of Feverwater gains the ability to commission one piece of historical research each season.
- Spring 379YE
- The powers of the Dredgemaster were amended.
- This power was later removed by the Senate during the Winter Solstice 381YE.
- The Imperial Senate has set no upper limit on the amount of improvement possible. As such, the Senator can improve this sinecure as much as they like over the next year.
- Clarify the limits on usage to commission historical research
- Amend the tenure of this title
While the Dredgemaster has the ability to commission Historical Research, the Empire as a whole can still only commission a limited number each season. To use this power, the Dredgemaster provides an announcement to the Civil Service, who presents the decision to the Imperial Senate. No voting is possible by the Senate at this point, as the power has been delegated to the Dredgemaster. The Imperial Synod may, however, choose to exercise their veto over this announcement.
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McDonald’s is the world’s largest fast-food chain, and it’s also one of the most recognizable.
The company is known for its burgers, fries, and shakes, but did you know that they have had a salad too?
In this blog post, we are going to figure out what makes McDonald’s salad different from the classic burger and which one is a better option for you.
Let’s get started!
McDonald’s salad is a healthy choice for the health-conscious consumer.
The McDonald’s salad usually contains lettuce, spinach, carrots, cucumbers, and other vegetables.
The salad also includes chicken tenders that are already breaded and fried.
The dressing that is used on the salad varies from restaurant to restaurant but usually consists of ranch dressing or Caesar dressing.
The McDonald’s salad is an alternative to the traditional menu items at McDonald’s such as hamburgers and French fries.
The ingredients in the salad are fresh and low in fat which makes it a healthier option than other classic fast-food items that are packed with a high level of carbs, fat, and calories.
However, it seems that salads have disappeared gradually on McDonald’s menu recently.
A McDonald’s burger is one of the most iconic in American history.
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It was the first fast-food restaurant to offer a burger that could be made to order, and it became an instant hit.
The McDonald’s burger has been refined since its introduction in 1940, but it remains a staple of American cuisine.
It is a sandwich made from a cooked patty of ground meat, usually beef (but can be chicken), placed between two buns.
If you’re looking for variety in your burger experience, McDonald’s has got you covered there too!
You can get any number of topping options on your burger: for example, you can get cheese, bacon, or both, pickles, onions, and a variety of other vegetables on your burger if you so desire.
And there are also plenty of sauces ranging from spicy to sweet available at most locations.
Hamburgers are often served with French fries and cola soft drinks.
There are several key differences that can help you easily differentiate these two delicious dishes at McDonald’s:
It is obvious that when it comes to McDonald’s, people just think of a succulent and flavorful burger.
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Imagine sometime next year, getting called before HUWAC – the House Un-Woke Activities Committee.
"Are you or have you ever been a member of the un-woke?"
Something like that is not as far-fetched as you might think.
Last week, Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, now a UC Berkeley professor, tweeted this:
Since the 1970s, there have been dozens of "Truth Commissions" around the world like the kind Robert Reich wants in America. Most of these have been set up in Africa and Latin America. Usually it happens in countries after a civil war, or where there's been a regime change – a dictator is finally overthrown, and a commission is set up to address atrocities that happened under the dictator. Or, as in the commissions in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, atrocities under communism. Or, in the most famous example, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation commission addressed the decades of apartheid that ravaged that nation.
These commissions usually conclude with an official final report. These commissions and reports have served as a means of governments trying to close a dark chapter of their country's history, or provide emotional catharsis, as a way to generally move on. Sometimes it kind of works for people, most of the time it leaves people clamoring for more justice.
The goal of a truth commission… is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice, typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond the painful past… Some have been used cynically as tools for governments to legitimize themselves by pretending they have dealt with painful history when they have only kicked the can down the road.
See, this is the problem with a lot of "Truth" commissions – they are inherently political. Even if you trust your government and give them all the benefit of the doubt in the world that their Truth commission is trying to do the right thing, it is ALWAYS going to be political. Because these truth commissions are never set up by those who have LOST power in government. They're always established by those who have WON power.
The Deputy Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice says one of the main points in these Truth commissions is that "the victims become protagonists."
A Department of Anti-racism is entirely within the realm of possibility.
So, who are the victims in Robert Reich's America? People like him, members of the far-Left who had to endure the atrocities of four years of a president with different political ideas. What an injustice. I mean, the left's suffering during the Trump administration is almost on the level of apartheid or genocide – so we totally need a Truth commission.
There have been lots of calls for the U.S. to have its own Truth and Reconciliation commission, especially around racial injustice.
This past June, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California introduced legislation to establish the " United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation."
Ibram X. Kendi – the high priest of anti-racism, and author of Target's current favorite book " Antiracist Baby" – proposes a Constitutional anti-racism amendment. This amendment would:
establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for pre-clearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won't yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.
If you think that is far-fetched, you haven't been paying attention to the Left's growing radicalism. In a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, a Department of Anti-racism is entirely within the realm of possibility. And of course, such a DOA would never stop at policing government.
We're in a dangerous, precarious moment in our history. Given the events of 2020, should Democrats gain the White House, the Senate, and the House, how many commissions will be in our future? They will suddenly have plenty of political capital to drag the nation through years of commission hearings.
And the Left's form of justice is never satisfied. You think it will stop at a T&R commission on race? MSNBC's Chris Hayes tweeted this month about the need for a commission to deal with Americans who are skeptical about wearing masks:
Or what about a Truth commission on religion? I mean, look at those reckless churches spreading Covid this year. Or this would be a big one – a T&R commission on climate change deniers.
The Left is highly selective when it comes to truth. That's why they are the very last group you want in charge of anything with "Truth and Reconciliation" in the title.
This is one of the most incredibly frustrating things about the Left in America today. The Left insists there is no such thing as absolute truth, while simultaneously insisting there are certain approved truths that are undeniable.
So, you can't question "Science" – even though that's pretty much what every great scientist in history did.
You can't question racism as the explanation for all of existence – because, well, just
You can't question third-party "Fact-checkers" – because the powers that be, mainly Big Tech right now, have decided they are the Truth referees and you have to trust what they say because they're using certified external fact-checkers. They just forgot to tell you that they actually fund these third-party fact-checkers. It's like if McDonald's told you to trust third-party health inspectors that they were paying for.
The Left thinks it has a monopoly on Truth. They're the enlightened ones, because they've had the correct instruction, they're privy to the actual facts. It's psychotic arrogance. If you don't buy what they're selling, even if you're just skeptical of it, it's because you either don't have the facts, you willingly deny the facts, or you're simply incapable of grasping the truth because you're blinded by your raging racism problem. It's most likely the racism problem.
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Europe wants to put an end to the anonymous registration of domains for the use of illegal activities. To this end, they are working on new legislation that empowers domain registrars to obtain more information from the contracting parties, in addition to being able to verify the veracity of the data provided by them.
In this sense, if until now only a name and an address were needed, without there being mechanisms to verify the authenticity of the data provided, with the new legislation it will be necessary to provide a valid telephone number as well as a full name, email and physical address that will also be subject to verification.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) itself has also been in favor of the new legislation, however, there are those who clearly speak out against the new legislation, arguing that this would go against the freedom of expression on the Internet.
In this sense, the MEP for the Pirate Party Patrick Breyer has spoken, pointing out that the new directive threatens the safety of activists and whistleblowers by eliminating their anonymity as a layer of protection they have.
He argues that:
This policy of indiscriminate identification for domain holders is a big step towards the abolition of anonymous postings and leaks on the Internet.
This policy puts website operators at risk, because only anonymity effectively protects against data loss and theft, stalking and identity theft, doxxing and “kill lists”
Germany’s top-level domain registrar (.de) DENIC is also concerned, where while welcoming initiatives to improve security on the web, it points out that the new requirements on the collection of data in the registries of the new law does not provide greater security in the DNS nor will they prevent abuse.
According to his words:
We would also like to point out that the registrant ID does not provide information about the entity that exercises actual technical control over the delegated namespace and even less about the entities that provide content or services within that namespace.
They believe that if the new law is passed in its current terms, those seeking anonymity could choose to host their websites on the Dark Web. At the moment, the new European legislation is in the draft phase, following its processing process.
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1 With joy I draw from out God’s well
Rich blessings day by day,
While living waters springing up
I find beside the way.
The blessed flow of this deep well
Makes fruitful life abound,
A watered garden in the soul
Where’er this well is found.
2 As on I go with willing hands
And earnest heart to do,
Oft weary, ‘neath the burder’s weight.
Where lab’rers are but few,—
I pause to gather strength beside
The well that springeth up,
And from its fullness, rich and pure,
I fill my empty cup.
3 Still on, amid a desert path
Where every spring is dry,
There, all alone, my loved ones gone
To heaven I lift my cry;
When lo, upon my fainting sight,
As onward still I go,
Fair Elim breaks with waving palms
And wells of crystal flow.
4 And then, as on my pathway leads
Thro’ shadows, toil, and strife,
I reach a lowly, quiet vale,
A sheltered spot in life;
Within its shade, where jarring notes
Of earthly discord cease,
I gather hearts-ease day by day
At God’s sweet well of peace.
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The Art of Letter Writing
May 16, 2020
This is a presentation I created for our “Practicing Kindness in Crisis” series at work.
Overview of topics
Handwritten letters provide not just communication, but an opportunity for real connection.
Plus, our post office is in peril, help support these vital front-line workers, buy stamps, send letters.
If you are writing to a new pen pal, you can engage by writing about your interests, then asking about theirs.
Postable is a site where you can not only send cards, but also its a free online address book.
There are several challenges, such as LetterMo – where the goal is to mail something each day the post runs in February. That’s how I got started.
There are also sites that match you with folks for exchanges, like postcard swaps.
A handwritten letter, unlike electric correspondence, is more than just the words on the page. You get to customize it in so many ways, such as stationary.
Blank cards come in many sizes and designs.
How you put the words to page can be as interesting as what you say. Whether you’re a fountain pen aficionado, or prefer a simple ball-point, your writing implement gives others a sense of who you are.
Stamps, along with ink or markers, can personalize mass-produced cards, envelopes, or even dress up plain old notebook paper.
Of course, don’t forget that postage stamps come in many styles, as well. Domestic or international, most stamps sold now-a-days are “forever” stamps, and will be good even after any future rate changes.
Paper washi tape is easy to apply and remove, and makes an excellent accent and, given current circumstances, can be used to seal envelopes, rather than licking the adhesive.
Your letter doesn’t have to be the only thing in envelope – share pictures, recipes, tea, seeds for gardens, or whatever you can fit.
What language you use, whether you are formal or more casual, allows you to express yourself – no two people talk alike.
Share what you are passionate about, it will come through in your words.
What you choose to include, from washi tape samples, to art you’ve made also tells a bit more about you.
And the letter doesn’t end when you seal the envelope. Stickers, stamps, washi tape, etc. can be used to jazz up the envelope – or you can make your own out of sturdy paper.
Stickers, interesting paper, stencils, stamps, and do-dads can all be used (or even repurposed) to decorate or make cards or envelopes, or even art to include inside.
You don’t have to have someone specific in mind when you make a unique card, but if you do know them, you can certainly find things that remind you of them.
There are many, many, many resources on the Internet (like with all things.) Many organizations for letter writers to connect, to meet folks, and to talk about what is most important/ valuable to them in letter writing.
If you’d like to receive a card, add your address to my Postable account, and include “blog” at the end of your address, so I know how you got there. Except for website captures, and the USPS logo, all images in this presentation are of my own creation.
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The Analysis for Oil procedure identifies contaminants and metals within the liquid sample. This information can provide a baseline for several parameters, such as expected viscosity grade, active additives, and acid/base numbers. Although this information is usually available on the sample request form, it is often neglected. FTIR breakdown and elemental analysis are two ways to identify contaminants. The results of both types of analyses are reported in parts per million.
An analysis for oil is an inexpensive, highly effective way to identify engine problems before they become costly. This procedure can also help prevent unrecoverable downtime by identifying engine problems in a timely manner. Oil analysis can also reveal traces of coolant, dirt, or soot that indicate a leaking air intake system. It is similar to a blood test for machinery, and can provide valuable information about machine health. Once the results are obtained, a repair plan can be developed and a new oil change can be scheduled.
Oil production sensitivity analysis helps improve the macromanagement of a country’s energy supply. It can be used to assess the effects of a change in the oil price on other sectors. Using these metrics, macromanagers can optimize oil production within a country and identify other critical sectors. This helps determine what actions are needed to protect the national interest and benefit the economy. You can learn more about the process of oil sensitivity analysis by reading our upcoming articles.
In addition to testing oil’s lubrication, oil analysis can reveal latent problems. Incorrect lubrication can reduce efficiency and cause more severe problems in the turbine drive train. An analysis for oil’s condition can be done by measuring its viscosity, acidity, and temperature. By analyzing oil, you can quickly identify underlying problems and correct them as they arise. You can also prevent expensive breakdowns. The process is routine and can provide valuable information about the condition of machines.
Nodal analysis is essential for production engineers. It allows you to evaluate the operating conditions of wells and determine their real well potential. Nodal analysis is a powerful tool for evaluating different infrastructure conditions and planning appropriate actions. Nodal analysis can be performed on injection wells and stable-flowing wells. The process requires proper inflow and outflow definitions. You can use it either permanently or periodically. This process helps you optimize the well’s production capacity and injector capacity.
Another method of Analyzing oil is called wear particle analysis. Wear particles are a component of the lubricant and provide significant information about the condition of a machine-train. The shape and composition of particles give significant information about the machine’s wear. By studying the particle size, shape, and quantity, wear particle analysis typically involves two steps. These are described in the next sections. While these processes may seem simple enough, the complexity of oil analysis means it should be performed in two phases. | <urn:uuid:edb1a815-bf6a-442e-9ff7-0a1ad49dde2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://profitable-forex-strategy.com/the-importance-of-analysis-for-oil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.931584 | 583 | 3.125 | 3 |
During the first 12 weeks or 3 months of your pregnancy, you will usually only put on about 1 or 2 kilos, or possibly less if you have morning sickness. Most of this weight is in the placenta (the afterbirth) and in your breasts, uterus and in the extra blood your body will make.
- During pregnancy your body works harder, your heartbeat and breathing rate are faster.
- Hormones may make your breasts become tender to the touch, and become larger and heavier.
- Your uterus will get bigger and put pressure on your bladder so that you need to urinate (pass water) more often.
Don’t worry if you think you are different from the week by week stages, as each woman will experience her pregnancy slightly differently.
First Few Weeks
- Each week of your pregnancy is numbered by the amount of weeks from the first day of your last period. This means that if you have a regular four week cycle, week 3 of your pregnancy will actually be the first week after your baby was conceived. At this stage, you will not have missed your period and won’t know if you are pregnant.
- During week 3 the fertilised egg burrows into the lining of your uterus and is the size of a full stop.
- During week 4, you still haven’t missed your period, but if you have been trying to conceive (get pregnant) you will probably be feeling very excited as you wonder if you have been successful this month.
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York Region municipalities must carve out a future for affordable housing
June 14, 2021
Last February, York Region council declared an affordable housing crisis, then passed a motion to make land available to solve the problem.
The motion proposes that each municipality commit two acres of land every five years for affordable units to be built by not-for-profit developers or Housing York Inc.
The catch -- municipalities must take up the challenge. In April, Newmarket council voted in favour of the region’s motion.
Which municipality will be next?
Numerous factors are at play, making this a pivotal moment for municipalities to commit land for affordable housing.
1. In June 2019, the federal government declared housing as a human right and established a national housing strategy.
2. Not-for-profit organizations (NFPs) can now apply for Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) seed funding and, eventually, long-term low-interest loans.
They are in a unique position to build what is required for priority populations. The main barrier standing in the way is access to land.
3. COVID-19 has revealed the growing inequities which are leaving more individuals and families homeless and displaced than ever before.
If we do not make serious attempts to increase affordable housing stock, we can expect a rise in unacceptable levels of human suffering, the costs of which will largely be borne at the local level.
In April 2019, the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Ryerson University published "Governments in Ontario Making Headway in Using Surplus Lands for Housing."
The report states that, to tackle the affordability issue, governments at all levels have turned to the use of surplus public land to build affordable housing.
It cited examples across Ontario and Canada where municipal lands have been used for this purpose, many of which were successful in acquiring CMHC funds.
Long-term leasing (30 to 50 years) of municipal lands at nominal rates could be the solution. The land remains owned by a municipality, while CMHC provides funds for NFP developers to construct and operate affordable housing.
Whereas private developers offer between five and 15 per cent of their units as affordable, when required to do so, NFPs traditionally include 50 to 80 per cent of affordable units in their buildings.
By supporting the capacity of NFP organizations and developers, provincial, regional and municipal governments can accelerate the growth of purpose-built affordable housing options.
With this opportunity in our sights, it is time for York Region residents to tell their municipal leaders that making land available for affordable housing is a priority.
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