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Less government and less tax are two widely held desires by many people of the world, regardless of whether they live in overtly repressive regimes or supposedly enlightened democracies. Around the world, we are drastically over-governed and over-burdened with excessive regulation and bureaucratic bullying from petty tyrants. As the Roman historian Tacitus wisely said: the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. On an energetic level, the preponderance of government cannot exist without the citizenry enabling it. It’s a codependent relationship; if you act like a powerless slave, you will manifest a harsh master – or, conversely, if you already have a harsh master, you can tend to fall unconsciously into the role of powerless slave. We cannot expect to magically have less government and pay less tax if we don’t also do something to address the underlying balance. However, there is a practical solution that is within the grasp of everyone: more participation.
More Participation is the Key to Freedom
By more participation, I don’t mean more voting. The US voting system is entirely rigged for many reasons, from programmed electronic voting machines to countless other acts of voter fraud (just ask Arizonans!). Going through another US election circus (as we do every 4 years) serves as a stark reminder that we need to stop wasting our time investing energy in finding the “perfect candidate” who’s somehow going to stop all the evils of the world – while inheriting a system of massive centralized power that makes them into an Emperor with the legalized power to kill. We are already aware of the gross criminality of Hillary Clinton and the Zionist-NWO connections of Donald Trump. Although Bernie Sanders has more principles than either of those two (e.g. by deliberately not taking money from big banks), he has been a longtime supporter of war when it comes to US military intervention. As Ryan Dawson pointed out about Bernie’s voting record:
[Bernie] wanted military intervention in Yugoslavia. He voted yes on Bombing Kosovo. (One of his staff members resigned over it.) He voted to finance the Iraq War multiple times. Supports the war in Afghanistan and voted for it.
The time has come to stop engaging with this circus. More participation means actively taking a part and having a say in how our community, society, state or nation is being run. Everyone has their own amount of skill and time that they can devote to this, so everyone will be able to help to different extents. However, the bottom line is that the more we take matters into our own hands and direct the course of society, the less relevant politicians become; the less politicians are able to justify Big Government with all its excessive taxes. The key is really to make politicians obsolete, because then we can turn to them and say, “We don’t need you. Go and find another job. The people will run the country.” Of course, we are only able to do effectively this if we are well-informed, aware and willing to give up some personal time to taking a stand for what is right.
Some at this point may argue, “I already have enough on my plate. How do possibly expect me to do more? I barely have enough time to pay my bills and spend time with my family.” Yes, that’s true – almost all of us are in that rat race. Why? Because we are excessively taxed to the point where we have to run around like crazy just to make ends meet. It’s not just the illegal IRS federal income tax. Do you realize you probably pay most of these 97 taxes every year? Are you aware just how much Big Government is bleeding you to death?
Imagine a world with less government and more freedom. Imagine a world with less tax and more dollars in your wallet. Imagine not being stressed about work and money. Imagine if we could break the dependency cycle with government and remove all the limitations that have been placed on us. Your life would change immeasurably! However, to get to that point, we first need to break the underlying relationship of apathy, ignorance and slavery with more enlightened participation.
The 3 Main Benefits of Increased Participation
What exactly this enlightened participation looks like is still an open question to be explored, but it could involve, for example, things like direct democracy (people voting on resolutions and bills directly) and reclaiming things like education so that entire branches and agencies of the Executive Branch could be abolished and disbanded. Here are 3 main benefits that we could achieve through increased participation in our society:
1. Less Government
The more jobs, roles and tasks we can take over and perform, the less government we need. It’s really that simple. If we homeschool our kids, we need less government schools with Common Core globalist propaganda. If we take more steps to defend ourselves, we need less government and its burgeoning “security” industry (TSA, DHS, law enforcement, military, NSA and all the others) to keep us “secure” (even though they basically just keep the .01% secure). If we demand to make political decisions ourselves, we need less government and “representatives” to vote and decide for us. If we raise our consciousness enough to the point where we get better at resolving our differences peacefully, without the need for lawyers, the less government courts and judges we need.
2. Less Taxes and More Money in Your Pocket
Taxation is a type of theft, especially when you have no real say in how your money is being used. People would have so much more money in terms of disposable income if government were cut back to a small size. It would significantly take the pressure off the lower and middle class, and improve their standard of living tremendously, if people were not subjected to the 97 or more taxes they are forced to pay. Whatever inconvenience comes with having to be more politically involved would be more than totally offset by a reduction in the size of government and amount of taxes.
3. More Power and Say in Local or National Affairs
A third benefit of more participation is that you actually get to have a say in the outcome of decisions that affect you. Aren’t you tired of faceless bureaucrats like those from the UN and ICLEI making Agenda 21-style decisions that affect your community – such as mandating that we all have to be linked up to the Smart (Surveillance) grid? Do you want to be another node on the digital network controlled by AI (Artificial Intelligence)? Wouldn’t you rather live in a world where the people of a certain area or community are the ones who actually make the decisions about what happens there?
Conclusion: Imagine and Create Less Government and Less Tax
Everyone has their own specific talents, abilities and skills. Everyone has differing amounts of time and money. The point here is that in general, we need more people to get involved – in whatever way they can. It’s an inescapable truth that the more we participate in deciding our how things are run, the less government we will inevitably have, the less taxes we will have to pay and the more time and freedom we will have to spend on the people, things and creative projects we truly love. How you can participate in this solution is uniquely up to you – but it starts with imagination, inspiration and the determination to be more involved.
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Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative news / independent media site The Freedom Articles and senior researcher at ToolsForFreedom.com (FaceBook here), writing on many aspects of truth and freedom, from exposing aspects of the worldwide conspiracy to suggesting solutions for how humanity can create a new system of peace and abundance. | <urn:uuid:3d0b19d4-7e49-4457-a66d-4032a107056e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.activistpost.com/2016/04/imagine-a-world-with-more-participation-less-government-and-less-tax.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941873 | 1,979 | 1.851563 | 2 |
There are only two ways you can save more: you can increase your income, or cut back on your spending. Here are seven great ways to save by spending less:
- Buy and sell second hand goods on trading websites. Have a rule that before you buy anything new, you have to get rid of something first. That way, you avoid accumulating clutter.
- If you have to buy new, use price comparison sites on the internet to find the cheapest deal. However, stay away from one-day deal sites to avoid impulse buying.
- Wait before you buy. If you have spotted a must-have pair of shoes in your lunch hour, wait until the next day or the next week before you think about buying. You might find they are not such a compelling purchase the next time you see them.
- Negotiate the price you pay. This is a lot easier to do if you pay cash. Negotiating can work well on a high value purchase such as a car, or something that has no value past a certain time, such as a last minute stay at a motel.
- Choose lower cost alternatives. Take your partner out for a romantic picnic instead of a swept-up dinner at a restaurant. Give hand-made or home grown gifts. It’s the thought that counts!
- Don’t pay extra for designer labels, expensive brands or the latest model gadget. Whether it is groceries, appliances, clothing, cars, haircuts, or mobile phones, let others brag about having the most expensive version while you bank your money.
- Try to make or fix things yourself. Better still, barter with your friends. Do you have skills, tools, or garden produce that are useful to someone else in exchange for something they can do for you? | <urn:uuid:037c2e25-d8a6-4a85-b40a-792ef00d7f21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://enrichretirement.com/top-tips-for-spending-less/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948242 | 367 | 2.21875 | 2 |
IP Conflicts on the NEC SL2100
Often NEC SL1100 and SL2100 phone systems are assigned a static IP address on a DHCP network. Without proper configuration this can lead to a scenario where other devices are sharing the same IP address as the phone system. This leads to IP conflicts and unpredictable behavior.
Common Signs and Symptoms of IP Conflicts
Both the SL1100 and SL2100 have the capability to determine if they have an IP conflict on the network, and will set alarms for the ip conflict condition. the simplest way to tell if you have an IP conflict is to log into the system via WebPro and look for IP Collision Alarms.
Alternatively, if you have set up program 90-50, digital multiline terminals will display the collision alarm as it occurs.
Phones Will Not Initialize
When you plug in a multiline phone and it gets stuck at “Initializing”, but never completely starts up, this is a sign of an IP conflict.
Random Disconnects/Unable to Connect
When two devices are sharing an IP Address, their network traffic will interfere with each other. This can lead to situations where PCPro disconnects at random intervals, or the installer is unable to connect to the system altogether.
Only Able to Connect with Direct Connection
If you cannot connect to the phone system over the network, attempt a direct connection by plugging you computer’s ethernet port directly to the phone system’s LAN or VOIP port with a patch cable. You may need to adjust you computer’s network settings to make this possible. If you can connect directly, but not over the network, this suggests that the phone system has an IP conflict.
How to Resolve an IP Conflict
Change the IP address of your phone system to one that is not in conflict. Higher numbers IP addresses are less likely to cause IP conflicts because most DHCP servers hand out IP addresses, starting from the bottom of the range, in ascending order. something like xxx.xxx.xxx.250-254 is usually a good option.
Create a DHCP reservation for the new non-conflicting IP address. A reservation will prevent the router/DHCP server from issuing that IP address to other devices. | <urn:uuid:19a5e089-91bc-416c-a8fb-185cc848ab6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://midwesttechnology.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1908253-ip-conflicts-on-the-nec-sl2100 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.904926 | 468 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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Transversely isotropic rheology in numerical models of large scale lithospheric deformation
thesisposted on 21.02.2017, 05:04 authored by Sharples, Wendy
Experimental and seismological studies have shown rocks with embedded faults and stratified rocks have a directionally dependent response to stress, dominated by transversely isotropic rheology. In mantle convection simulations, dynamically evolving faults and plate boundaries have, in the majority, been represented as isotropic shear bands and isotropic weak zones. Transversely isotropic constitutive models are regularly employed in the field of solid rock mechanics but have very seldom been used in the field of geodynamics. This thesis presents an exploration of transversely isotropic rheology in models of large scale lithospheric deformation. It was found that models using transversely isotropic rheology within a fault zone, produce more realistic results with regards to stress transference across the fault and displacement along the fault. The use of a transversely isotropic plasticity in time dependent models of extension resulted in more realistic lithospheric strength profiles, fault angle distributions and fault interaction. The use of a transversely isotropic plasticity in time dependent subduction zone models which include an overriding plate, facilitated asymmetric subduction from initiation to steady state subduction. In addition its use enabled the plate boundary interface to accurately evolve with time as a function of the plate boundary stresses, which led to a more accurate measurement of the stress state, dynamic topography and plate coupling in the subduction zone models. The results from all models discussed in this thesis show that a transversely isotropic rheology provides a more accurate representation of large scale deformation in the Earth's lithosphere. | <urn:uuid:7ce80c47-da72-4da0-8e7a-cffd5765579b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Transversely_isotropic_rheology_in_numerical_models_of_large_scale_lithospheric_deformation/4670389/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.908626 | 415 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Coronavirus outbreak created various problems for economies around the world. For example, the world’s second and third-largest economies are in Asia. In this situation, it is not surprising that the ongoing coronavirus outbreak had a huge impact on the stock markets.
On Monday, Asia Pacific markets traded mixed as investors are closely monitoring the situation to access the economic impact of this virus. Unfortunately, the number of infected surpassed 70,000.
Despite the problems, mainland Chinese stocks strengthened their positions. The Shanghai Composite added 2.28% to 2,983.62. At the same time, the Shenzhen composite gained 3.18% to 1,835.96. The Shenzhen component rose 2.98% to 11,241.50.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index gained 0.58% during the final hours of trading.
In Japan, stock indexes failed to deal with problems. The benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.69% to 23,523.24. Moreover, the Topix index declined 0.89% to 1,687.77. Based on the government’s data, the Japanese economy shrank at an annualized pace of 6.3% in the last quarter of 2019.
In Australia, the ASX 200 index closed fractionally lower at 7,125.10.
South Korea’s Kospi index dropped 0.06% to 2,242.17.
Stock Markets and Chinese officials
Chinese authorities are trying to minimize the damage to the economy. China is planning targeted tax cuts. Moreover, the government will increase spending to stabilize the situation.
Moreover, the Ministry of Finance decided to provide 8 billion yuan. The government will allocate the funds as part of the second round of support. This way Chinese officials would like to boost the economy.
As of Friday, the ministry allocated 90.15 billion in support based on the information provided by the central government.
Also, economists expect the People’s Bank of China to ease funding conditions in Chinese money markets. This move would allow countering the risks created by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
This virus coincided with Lunar New Year. As a result, millions of people had to modify their plans due to the outbreak. It will take time to access the economic impact on the local as well as the global economy. | <urn:uuid:06c607ed-8a48-4ad0-bdec-44f5370baf90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wibestbroker.com/stock-markets-in-asia-pacific-region-and-economic-problems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935578 | 486 | 1.757813 | 2 |
|Born||in Cairo, Egypt|
|Died||in Rome, Lazio, Italy (heart attack)|
|Birth Name||Farouk Foud Ismai'l|
|Height||6' 0½" (1.84 m)|
Mini Bio (1)
King Farouk of Egypt was the penultimate King of Egypt, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936. His sister Fawzia was Queen of Iran for a brief period. His full title was "His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and of Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur".
Upon his coronation, the 16 year-old king made a public radio address to the nation, the first time a King of Egypt had ever spoken directly to his people. His father, Fuad I, did not speak any Arabic and relied on representatives to make his wishes known to his subjects in their native language.
The teenage monarch was enamored of the glamorous royal lifestyle. Although he already had thousands of acres of land, dozens of palaces and hundreds of cars, the king never seemed satisfied with his wealth. He would often travel to Europe for grand shopping sprees.
During the hardships of World War II, criticism was leveled at Farouk for his lavish lifestyle. His decision to keep all the lights burning at his palace in Alexandria, during a time when the city was blacked-out due to Italian bombing, was deemed particularly offensive by some. The royal Italian servants of Farouk were not interned, and there is an unconfirmed story that Farouk told British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson (who had an Italian wife), "I'll get rid of my Italians, when you get rid of yours."
As he got older, the king began pilfering objects and artifacts while on state visits abroad, including a ceremonial sword from the Shah of Iran and a priceless pocket watch from Winston Churchill. Common people were also often the victims of the kleptomania cal monarch, and by mingling with commoners Farouk soon became a highly-skilled pickpocket. His well-known panache for thievery soon earned him the nickname "The Thief of Cairo". This excess would be one of the leading sparks that triggered the 1952 military coup.
The King's alleged corruption in Egypt and defeat during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, led to a military coup on July 23, 1952, directed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, who forced Farouk to abdicate and exiled him to Italy and Monaco, where the former king lived the rest of his life. Immediately following Farouk's abdication the monarch's baby son, Fuad II, was proclaimed king, but for all intents and purposes the monarchy had been de facto abolished. In 1953, it was formally abolished and a republic was declared.
The new regime quickly moved to auction off the King's vast collection of trinkets and stolen treasures. Among the more famous of his possession was one of the rare 1933 Double Eagle coins, though the coin disappeared before it could be returned to the United States.
Farouk continued to live a lavish life even in exile, and continued his obsessive accumulation of material goods. His gluttony for fine cuisine soon made the former king dangerously obese, weighing nearly 300 pounds, an acquaintance described him as "a stomach with a head". He died in Rome, Italy on the early morning hours of March 18, 1965 where he collapsed and died at the dinner table, following a characteristically heavy meal.
In addition to an affair with the British writer and siren Barbara Skelton, among numerous others, the king was married twice, possibly three times. His first wife was Safinaz Zulficar (1921-1988), a pasha's daughter who was renamed Farida upon her marriage; they married in 1938, divorced in 1948, and had three daughters. His second was a commoner, Nariman Sadeq (1934-2005); they married in 1951 and divorced in 1954; they had one son, Ahmed Fouad, a.k.a. Fuad II. In 2005, Irma Capece Minutolo, Princess of Canosa (1941-), a retired Neapolitan-born opera singer, declared in an interview published in Al-Ahram that she married to the exiled king in 1957, when she was 16, and that she was writing her memoirs of her life with him.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Patay
(6 May 1951 -
2 February 1954) (divorced)
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Originally Published on Divine Knight Gaming.
Earlier today, the news started circulating that Nintendo plans on monetizing videos that feature its video games. Not all videos mind you, just videos of certain unspecified lengths. Here is Nintendo’s statement to the website Go Nintendo:
As part of our on-going push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an appropriate and safe way, we became a YouTube partner and as such in February 2013 we registered our copyright content in the YouTube database. For most fan videos this will not result in any changes, however, for those videos featuring Nintendo-owned content, such as images or audio of a certain length, adverts will now appear at the beginning, next to or at the end of the clips. We continually want our fans to enjoy sharing Nintendo content on YouTube, and that is why, unlike other entertainment companies, we have chosen not to block people using our intellectual property. For more information please visit http://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/faq.html
It quickly became apparent that this was going to impact Let’s Players, or people who record and publish walkthroughs, tutorials and other lengthy game related material on Youtube, the most. Many Let’s Players and Nintendo fans were justifiably upset by this move from Nintendo. It seems that Nintendo underestimated its fans and how they would react to this move.
In response to this, Lars Doucet, the creator of Defenders Quest, started a list on Reddit of various game companies and their stance on the creation and monetization of Let’s Play videos. We quickly added our names to this list, although we have yet to release a game of any significant size. However, we seem to be in the minority in our stance of not having a written policy on this matter. I want to take a few minutes to explain why.
At Divine Knight Gaming, we believe strongly in Fair Use, or Fair Dealing in some countries. Fair use is a limit on the control that copyright holders have on the content they create but sell to fans. With fair use, someone can buy or otherwise legally obtain a copy of something covered by copyright, and the holder of that copyright is limited in what they can tell the customer in regards to what they can and cannot do with it. This fair use is one of the reasons why we have things like game rentals and a used market. It also covers other uses of games such as creating video reviews, walkthroughs and such. The key to fair use is that you either aren’t making a full copy of the work, or that what you do copy is limited in scope as to not infringe on the market for the original.
If you want to read more about fair use, you can check out the fair use clause of US Copyright law.
But for us, we don’t think that creating a video of you playing our game is anything but fair use. How can it not be? You are not creating direct copies of our games. So you are not infringing our right to be the sole distributor of our game. The videos are clearly transformative. Meaning, it is not a substitute for people buying our game as watching a video is a vastly different experience than actually playing it. Additionally, the majority of let’s play videos include content, such as commentary, that is not created by us. That is the copyright of the person creating the video. We provided a canvas, they made the painting. That is how we see it.
So why not write up an explicit license or statement allowing for such use? Because it is not in our right to grant you permission to do something in which you have a legal and natural right. That would be like me giving you permission to breathe or eat. We couldn’t stop you if we wanted to. Even if we wanted to, we would have no right to prevent you from doing it.
Of course, some people seem to side with Nintendo on this issue. But we can’t. Nintendo, while it created the games featured in the videos, has no right to the other creative aspects of the uploader. They did not write and record the commentary. They did not chose which scenes or in which order to include. They did not chose the sequence of actions of the player character. They provided a canvas for which they were legally and justly compensated for when the let’s-player bought the game. That is the extent of their claim.
So, if you are interested in creating videos featuring any of our current or future games, we are not going to give you permission. You don’t need it. Your desire to create is all that is required. | <urn:uuid:cfcc6430-e9f0-498e-adea-b32f7aa8e1ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://okgamedev.com/2013/05/16/divine-knight-gaming-whats-all-this-about-lets-play-videos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965513 | 967 | 1.554688 | 2 |
There are many websites and blogs for Citrix, but unlike other sites it will be unique with its content full of simple and basic concepts of Citrix that will be useful for certifications, troubleshooting and mainly for the fresher and the people who want to brush up the basics in Citrix.
Citrix is the current and future technology that facilitate secure access to virtual applications and desktops for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms. Applications and Desktops are on-demand services and run in a protected, virtual environment and are managed in a centralized way.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly Citrix WinFrame Server, Citrix MetaFrame Server and Citrix Presentation Server, XenApp and XenDesktop) in simple is an application and desktop virtualization and delivery product that allows users to connect to their corporate environment remotely from any where. Citrix can either host applications on central servers or allow users to interact with them remotely or provide the virtual desktops local execution. Citrix offers many reporting capabilities, either real time or historical data, monitoring the performance, configuration changes, application usage, resource utilization and server uptime etc. All the information is stored in a database (recent version of Citrix supports only SQL Database) and can be reported on at any time and formatted for executive summary.
Citrix utilizes Citrix Systems proprietary presentation layer protocol or thin client protocol called Independent Computing Architecture (ICA). to access the publish application centrally from the Datacenter and give better management over the server and application access.
The main features of Citrix technology are:
- Application and Desktop Publishing
- Seamless Windows
- Intelligent Load Balancing
- SSL Gateway / Proxy
- Intelligent Web Interface
- Smart Access
- Workspace Control
- Centralized management
Quotes from Mark B Templeton, Former CEO Citrix. | <urn:uuid:8af46dc9-ffa2-467f-bf73-14b1cc2446ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myxenapp.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.877891 | 382 | 2.40625 | 2 |
For the King and counsel. In some places they have swept both the houses and fields, and have not left a woman who lay in, so much as a posnet to boyl some milk for her child [London?, 1664?].
(Library reference: Hawkins vol. 32/49)
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HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T
Poison of the Toad
Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms marked. Lymphangitis of septic origin. Symptoms of paralysis agitans. Striking rheumatic symptoms.
Arouses the lowest passions. Causes a desire for intoxicating drink, and produces impotence.
Of use in feeble-minded children. Prematurely senile. Epileptic symptoms. Convulsive seizures occur during sleep at night. More or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come within the range of this remedy. Injuries to fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.
Mind.--Anxious about health. Sad, restless. Propensity to bite. Howling; impatient; nervous; imbecile. Desire for solitude. Feeble-minded.
Head.--Sensation as if hot vapor rose to top of head. Numbness of brain. Face bathed in sweat. Epistaxis with flushed face and pain in forehead, better, nosebleed.
Eyes.--Cannot bear sight or brilliant objects. Little blisters form on eye.
Ears.--Music is unbearable (Ambra). Every little noise distresses.
Heart.--Feels too large. Palpitation. Constriction about heart. Sensation of heart swimming in water.
Female.--Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody discharge at other times; watery leucorrha. Excitement, with epileptic attacks. Epilepsy at time of menses. Induration in mammary glands. Palliative in cancer of the mammæ. Burning in ovaries and uterus. Ulceration of cervix. Offensive bloody discharge. Pains run into legs. Bloody milk. Milk-leg. Veins swollen. Tumors and polypi of womb.
Male.--Involuntary emissions; impotence, discharge too quick, spasms during coition. Buboes. Disposition to handle organs (Hyos; Zinc). Effects of onanism.
Extremities.--Pains in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps, staggering gait, feeling as if a peg were driven in joints; swelling of bones.
Skin.--Panaritium; pain runs up arm. Patches of skin lose sensation. Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury. Pemphigus. Bullæ which open and leave a raw surface, exuding and ichorous fluid. Blisters on palms and soles. Itching and burning. Carbuncle.
Relationship.--Compare: Baryt carb; Asterias; Salamand (Epilepsy and softening of brain).
Antidotes: Laches; Seneg.
Modalities.--Worse, in warm room, on awakening. Better, from bathing or cold air; from putting feet in hot water.
Dose.--Sixth potency and higher.
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Qi is said to flow through meridians, or pathways, in the human body.
Acupuncture attempts to bring the energy flow back into proper balance.
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Know the Latest About COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies
Recent evidence and rising cases will renew focus on COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies...casirivimab/imdevimab (Regen-COV), etc.
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Using Qualitative Research to Study Social Justice (Online)
January 14 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
This class and waitlist are now full. We are no longer accepting registrations.
This one day course will be offered via Zoom only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.
This course will address how researchers can use qualitative research to draw attention to underlying mechanisms that define social problems. Once uncovered, deeper understanding of these mechanisms can guide large-scale surveys, direct responses to requests for proposals by private foundations and government agencies, inform policy briefs, and even influence new legislation. In this regard, it is important for qualitative researchers to think beyond simply highlighting problems in order to also develop skills that leverage our work in ways that more directly impact people’s everyday lives.
We will discuss qualitative processes to better position course participants in their efforts to design and collect data specifically aimed at contributing directly to social justice. Timely issues, including racial disparities in policing, will be used as examples of how decision-making across the methodological life of a qualitative project can be leveraged to address social problems.
Instructor: Rashawn Ray
Rashawn Ray is a Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ray is also one of the co-editors of Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in racial and social inequality with a particular focus on police-civilian relations and men’s treatment of women. His work also speaks to ways that inequality may be attenuated through social policy and racial uplift activism. Currently, Ray is working on a series of research projects creating innovative virtual reality experiments that focus on policing and other social outcomes.
- UNC-CH Students: $0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
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Entrepreneurs these days are getting younger. According to a recent study, up to 60% of teens would start their own business rather than work regular jobs. There’s no denying that entrepreneurship has become a popular career choice for many young people.
If you’re a young entrepreneur, you may be wondering how you can set your brand up for success. After all, competition is stiff, and the landscape is constantly changing. Here are four tips that can help you position your brand for success:
Embrace Sustainability Early On
You might think that sustainability and profit don’t mix. The truth is that sustainable practices can increase your profits while benefiting the environment. This is since consumers these days are willing to pay more for products and services that are sustainable. What’s more, sustainable businesses often have lower operating costs.
So, if you want to position your brand for success, embrace sustainability early on. This will help you boost your bottom line and make your business more appealing to consumers. One way to embrace sustainability is by choosing sustainable office spaces are your next workplace.
Sustainable business offices inside buildings use less energy and water and generate less waste than traditional office buildings. These can help you save money on utility bills while reducing your carbon footprint. Thankfully, many commercial offices are readily available for brands aiming to embrace sustainability. When choosing your next office, be sure to find one that gives you access to world-class clients and has facilities that can accommodate the needs of your business.
Another way to embrace sustainability is by marketing your business online. If your target market is millennials, for example, you can use social media platforms to show that your brand is committed to sustainability. You can do this by sharing content about your sustainable practices or partnering with other businesses with similar values. This allows you to reach your millennial audiences on their most beloved platform while reducing your marketing costs.
Build a Strong Team
You can’t do it all alone, no matter how talented or driven you are. This is why building a strong team of experts who can help you grow your business is crucial. The right team will have the necessary skills and knowledge and share your vision for the company’s future.
When building your team, make sure to hire people who complement your own strengths and weaknesses. For example, if you’re not very good at marketing, then hire someone who is. This way, you can focus on what you’re good at and leave the rest to your team.
It also makes sense to build a team of people who share your values. This way, you can be sure that everyone is working towards the same goal. The best way to find like-minded individuals is to look for people who are already passionate about your industry. You can do this by networking at industry events or searching for candidates on job boards that focus on your industry.
Finally, make sure you invest in your team. Provide your employees with the resources they need to succeed, like training and development opportunities to the latest tools and technology. Giving them amazing perks like remote work opportunities and flexible working schedules can also help you attract and retain top talent.
Investing in your team will show them that you’re committed to their success. They are likely to return the favor by working hard to help you grow your business.
Keep Up With the Latest Trends
Businesses sometimes have to undergo changes to stay ahead of the competition. However, in today’s rapidly-evolving marketplace, it’s more important than ever to stay on top of the latest trends. This allows companies to identify new opportunities and be the first to market innovative products or services.
Staying up to date with the latest trends in your industry can also help you identify new opportunities as well as threats. To do this, you can sign up for newsletters, read trade publications, and attend industry events. You can also follow thought leaders in your industry on social media to see what they’re saying about the latest trends.
It is also worth investing in competitors’ research without obsessing over them. Keeping an eye on your competition can help you stay ahead of the curve and make adjustments to your own business strategies. Just make sure you don’t just focus on what your competition is doing wrong. Instead, use their mistakes as learning opportunities to improve your own business.
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This chapter describes a small case study of differentiated instruction and inclusive design practices during a COVID-19-forced migration to online learning at a university in Hong Kong. Fourteen higher education instructors were interviewed, and their responses analysed thematically. The participants reported that they felt overwhelmed with the workload to consider differentiated instruction initially; their sole focus was on delivering an online teacher-centred class. As they become more confident and familiar with a range of technologies, they started to differentiate instruction. They used student response systems to facilitate learning and focused on engaging learners in smaller groups. Their experiences suggest ways to facilitate differentiated instruction and design inclusive online classes in the higher education sector.
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The University of Bamberg in the Funding Atlas 2015
The University of Bamberg’s professed goal is the cultivation of a clear academic profile: as University President Prof. Godehard Ruppert puts it, “the more specialised the area of expertise, the better the chances of securing third-party funding.” For years, the University of Bamberg has relied on an academic profile defined by four core research fields, of which the humanities and the social sciences form the foundational base.
The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) most recent funding atlas once again bears testament to this strategy’s success. The atlas, which is based on the years 2011 to 2013, provides information on the amount and distribution of public funding at German universities. And in order to aid in comparing the provided data, it also identifies the individual profiles of these institutions’ core funding areas. Based on this information, it is clear that on a national scale the University of Bamberg has found its place among the top performers in terms of research funding acquisition.
Frontrunners in education
The DFG has awarded the University of Bamberg grants totalling 11 million euros in the academic field of the humanities and social sciences. In this academic field, the University of Bamberg primarily acquired the largest amounts of funding in areas of social and behavioural science: among the Bavarian universities, a total of 8.3 million euros in funding from the DFG means that its acquisitions were second only the considerably larger Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich.
The majority of these grants can be traced back to the University of Bamberg’s research in educational science which, with its 4.7 million euros in funding from the DFG, was the frontrunner nationwide:
A three-year [nationwide] total of 42 million euros in DFG funding in the field of educational science represents a comparatively small amount of funds raised. Distribution is also quite broad and funds granted to any given institution generally amount to less than 2 million euros. One funding centre that does emerge however is the University of Bamberg (approximately 5 million euros), an institution that, due to its participation in the Germany-wide cooperative research programme focused on competency models for the assessment of individual educational achievement and the balancing of educational processes, and owing to its research group for educational processes, competence development and selection decisions in preschool- and school age (BiKS project), has been successful in acquiring larger-scale funding from the DFG. (translated from DFG-Förderatlas, p. 125)
University Vice-president Prof. Maike Andresen emphasises these results saying, “For a university characterised mainly by the humanities and social sciences, research funding in these areas is of truly vital importance.”
The strong focus on the social sciences can also be seen in the federal government’s funding of research and development: a total of 55.6 million euros in funding was granted to the University of Bamberg for use in the field of innovation in education – by far the largest amount granted to a university within a single funding area
Profile development made measurable
For the first time, the 2015 funding atlas addresses the development of universities’ DFG funding profiles over the last decade: using the Gini coefficient to statistically calculate uneven distribution, the evaluation is able to show whether a university has concentrated its focus on particular subjects or has tended more towards diversification. The process of research profile development is essentially made visible: unlike most universities, the University of Bamberg has been in the process of concentrating its focus on subjects in the social and behavioural sciences and in the humanities.
The upward trend is expected to continue in coming years: the 30.94 million euros in third-party funding of 2012 had risen to 32.31 million in 2014 – though one should bear in mind that the individual budget of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), which was established in 2014, was factored into this calculation. From the university president’s point of view, this performance remains remarkable, and Prof. Ruppert is clearly pleased when he points out that “The university and its affiliated institutes is responsible for bringing over 30 million euros in third-party funding to Upper Franconia!”
For more information (in German) on publicly funded research in Germany and on the 2015 funding atlas, please follow this link to the DFG website.
This press release was written by Antje Jaschik for the University of Bamberg’s press office and was translated by Benjamin Wilson. It may be used without restriction for journalistic purposes.
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Virtual Museum ID: 19-KUR18
The Kootenay King mine is 30 kilometres east of Sullivan, in the Hughes Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Kootenay King mine produced about 13,000 tons of ore (5.4% Pb, 6.6% Zn, 1.9 oz/ton Ag), equivalent to about a couple days of production from Sullivan, so it was pretty small. It is the only other stratiform deposit in the region outside the immediate Kimberley area. The Kootenay King, like Sullivan, is hosted by the Aldridge formation, however stratigraphically about 1 kilometre higher in the section. Good sedimentary layering overprinted by good cleavage indicated by remobilized galena is evident in this specimen. In this specimen, galena is grey and sphalerite is yellowish, non-sulphide sediment is black. Assay on this specimen is: 19.2% Zn 15.9% Pb, 5.1 oz/ton Ag,
The information listed below relates to the current holding location or collection that the sample is from, and whether the item is viewable at that location or is part of a private collection. Coordinates are given as guides, and we remind you that collecting specimens from these locations is not allowed. Caution is advised visiting such sites and Below BC assumes no responsibility for any injuries or trespassing charges that may occur as a result of the viewer entering these sites.
Original Collection:Kimberley Underground Mining Railway (KUR)
Virtual Museum ID:19-KUR18
Date Added to VM:2019-06-14
Sample Origin:Nelson, BC
Specific Site:Kootenay King
Datum:11 (NAD 83)
Primary Features:Galena Sphalerite
Primary Mineral Formula:PbS · (Zn,Fe)S
Secondary Features:Zn, Pb, Ag
Advanced Geological Information
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Geological Formation:Lower Aldridge Formation
Stratigraphic Age:1000 to 1600 Million Years Ago
Geological Terrane:Ancestral North America
The Kootenay King workings are located approximately 30 kilometres northeast of Kimberley on the east side of Lakit Mountain.
Regionally, the area is underlain by Proterozoic clastic Purcell metasediments intruded by syngenetic gabbro and diorite sills and dykes of the Moyie intrusions and later intrusions of felsic and lamprophyre suites.
The Kootenay King deposit is a stratiform lead-zinc deposit. Pyrite, galena and sphalerite occur as fine laminations at the top of a coarse sandstone unit (Kootenay King quartzite) within a buff weathering section of the Helikian Lower Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup). The deposit lies within the eastern overturned flank of a major anticline. The Kootenay King quartzite has a hanging wall of black argillites and a footwall of brown siltstones. The anticlinal structure plunges gently to the north.
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Debra Daniels, U of U Women’s Resource Center, on the power and importance of mentors.
Growing up in Ogden, Utah in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Debra Daniels, 63, was too young and far removed from the powerful events of America’s civil rights movement to truly follow or understand the social changes happening during that time. Even so, the ideas of social reform, social justice influenced her life from an early age.
Debra Daniels, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is the Director of the Women’s Resource Center at the University of Utah. A program within the University, the Women’s Resource Center has long been a critical link keeping women in higher education—advocating for childcare and for the hiring of women staff and faculty; offering counseling, grants and scholarships, support groups and tutoring. Reflecting on the path that brought her to this important place Daniels still seems a bit incredulous. Her story, as she tells it, reminds us how important it is to have people around us who support our dreams.
Powerful role models
“My parents did not have the luxury of a formal education,” Daniels begins. We are sitting in her office at the Women’s Resource Center. A copy of her bachelor’s in social work certificate from Utah State University (1979) and her masters in social work from the University of Utah (1984) hang on the back wall.
“My father, Willie B., was a cook on the Union Pacific railroad and was often gone for six to 10 days at a time,” she says. His long absences left her mother, Nellie Ruth—“a strong woman”— alone to provide both the necessary encouragement and discipline to keep the family of six youngsters in line.
Daniels was the second youngest and the only girl. She and her brothers were expected to lend a hand around the house, cleaning and cooking. “It wasn’t just women’s work,” she says, “my Dad was clear about that.”
But there was plenty of free time. Nellie Ruth worked as a domestic for the family of a local doctor. After work on long days of summer she would gather up the children and take the family fishing in nearby streams and ponds. It was, Daniels recalls, her mother’s favorite pastime.
Though neither of Daniels’ parents had a high school diploma, they did possess an innate emotional, social and political intelligence. They were tolerant, civic minded, even progressive, says Daniels.
“They voted regularly. They read the paper and kept abreast of the news in our community and the nation. Education was the most important thing for us [children] to have. And they had a welcoming home. I could invite home any of my friends and they were welcome even if I was not invited into their homes in return.”
In the evenings, when Daniels’ father was home from his long stints on the rails, she remembers him putting on vinyl recordings of speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Daniels listened intently to these speeches, absorbed their words. Today she still remembers the Fun Town speech, the origins of which came from Dr. King’s famous letter from Birmingham Jail, a letter snuck out and released to the public while he was still behind bars:
As we pass Fun Town so often in the car [my daughter] would look over to me and say: daddy I want to go to Fun Town. Well I could always evade the question when we were going by in the automobile because we were passing by and I could jump to another subject and I didn’t want to tell my little daughter that she couldn’t go to Fun Town because of the color of her skin.
Encouragement and opportunity in education
Daniels always did well in school. Education was a priority for the family and she was inspired by her teachers—like her 6th grade teacher, an African American man who told stories to the students about living abroad in England, who taught them how to play cricket and who loved to read books aloud to the class. As a debater in high school, she delved into the arguments behind equal housing laws and other social justice issues and wondered if she might be able to make a difference some day in politics. But she wasn’t really sure where her schooling would lead her or even how long it might last.
College, for Daniels, was an uncertain part of her future until, while in middle school, she was recruited to Upward Bound, a federally funded educational program with a special summer learning intensive through the Utah State University. The only catch, she recalls, was that the students would live on campus during the seven-week course. She could not imagine her parents, with their vigilance over their only daughter, allowing her to attend a co-ed boarding program. A few adults from the program, including the woman chaperone for the girls’ dorm, paid a visit to Daniels’ parents at their home. They answered all the Daniels’ questions about the program and made a strong case for allowing their exceptional young daughter to attend. To Debra Daniels’ surprise, her parents agreed.
Four years later, she found herself packing up her little blue VW bug and driving back to Utah State University, this time for college.
It seemed like all of the women in Daniels’ family, and those her family knew and were close to, were teachers, including her idol, Aunt Sarah. Fashionable, intelligent and charming, Daniels’ aunt was also beloved by the students she taught at the Intermountain Inter-Tribal School in Brigham City until the school’s closing in 1984. On the few visits she paid to her aunt’s classroom she remembers admiring the relationship she had built with her students. It seemed only natural for Daniels, as she began setting her life’s path, to declare her major in elementary education. It didn’t stick for long. After switching briefly to special education, Daniels settled on social work.
“I saw mistreatment, that there were voices that were not being heard. Society was saying, these people don’t matter and I knew that wasn’t right. Social work is a profession that requires compassion and humanity and personal accountability. You learn in this kind of work that you are not somebody’s savior. It tests your own humanity while making visible the humanity of others.”
Again, Daniels excelled in school. When she left, she received a letter from her college advisor. It was an unbidden letter of recommendation for graduate school. She recalls reading it and thinking incredulously: This is me?
Sometimes it can be difficult to recognize what is special about yourself without someone else shining a light on it for you. Again and again throughout our conversation Daniels, a profoundly intelligent, accomplished woman —approachable and warm—reflected on those who helped her continue reaching for what she was capable of. These mentors, teachers and parents alike, hold a special place for Daniels. “It is so important,” she says, “as we walk the path before us to extend our hands to those coming up behind.”
Daniels becomes the mentor
Along the course of Debra Daniels’ long career of service—with the Children’s Aid Society of Utah, Phoenix Institute, YWCA, Benchmark Behavioral Health, Rape Recovery Center—she has been recognized many times over for her work and dedication. She is a recipient of the YWCA Outstanding Achievement award and the Susa Young Gates Award from the Utah Women’s Political Caucus, for contributions to women and human rights, and of the Inclusion Center for Community and Justice 44th Humanitarian Award and the Linda K. Amos Award for Distinguished Service to Women of the University of Utah. Alongside her team at the Resource Center—“incredible people; they are real fixers”—she helps women find a safe and secure path toward an education with help of a strong and supportive community.
But maybe none of this would have happened without a few words from her father. Not long after she had left USU with her bachelor’s in social work, she was spending some time with her father when he turned to her and asked: “When will you be going to graduate school?” She remembers it being less a question than a statement. It was the first time she realized how much it meant to her parents to see her continue. With the support of her professors and her college advisor already pushing her in that direction, her parents’ blessing was the last piece.
As Debra Daniels reminds me at the end of our conversation, “We don’t do anything on our own.”
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The Henry Madden Library hosts two events to celebrate African American poetry in January. First is a writing workshop with assistant professor of English Venita Blackburn on Sat., Jan. 23 and then a poetry slam with former Fresno poet laureate Bryan Medina on Thurs., Jan. 28th. Both events are virtual, free and open to students, faculty and staff, and the community.
Madden Library received a grant from the Library of America’s Lift Every Voice project in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters is a national program dedicated to enhancing appreciation of the extraordinary range and richness of the 250-year-long African American poetic tradition.
“The library is a place of learning and discovery. With the Lift Every Voice programs we seek to expand, engage and honor the achievements of our African American community. These events offer our community an opportunity to gather in celebration and learning,” says Ginny Barnes, the First-Year Experience librarian who wrote the grant. “In light of our current challenges, our goal for these programs is to provide our campus and community with some catharsis through artistic expression and space to celebrate the power of our voices.”
Lift Every Voice programs are:
SOLD OUT! Sight Unseen: Poetics of Black Identity
Writing workshop with Venita Blackburn
Sat., Jan. 23 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Celebrate African American poetry with a reading, discussion, and creative writing workshop led by Fresno State professor and writer Venita Blackburn.
Poetry is a mysterious tool. It breaks apart our language in order to communicate. Poetry within the Black tradition must subvert all norms even the ones created for its own survival. Literature of this world is irreverent and divine, ecstatic and tragic. The workshop will investigate the range of Black Identities and experiences through the mystery of poetry. We will utilize the Lift Every Voice Project Reader developed by Kevin Young, which contains legendary voices such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Nikki Giovanni then explore the ecstatic language of new legends such as Morgan Parker and Danez Smith. The goal is to surrender ourselves to the sacred histories as we write and then imagine fiercely into the future.
Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared or are forthcoming in Apogee, Iowa Review, Foglifter, Electric Literature, the Paris Review and others. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. In 2018 she earned a place as a finalist for the PEN/Bingham award for debut fiction, finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award and recipient of the PEN America Los Angeles literary prize in fiction. She is founder of the literary nonprofit Live, Write ( livewriteworkshop.com), which provides free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Her home town is Compton, California, and she is an Assistant Professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.
Lift Every Voice: Poetry Slam
Community poetry slam with Bryan Medina
Thurs., Jan. 28 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Register for the Poetry Slam via EventBrite
Join us for an evening of Slam poetry! Ten poets will be competing. The guest judges will vote on their favorite and choose a winner.
Join us for an evening of slam poetry hosted by former Fresno poet l aureate, Bryan Medina. Not familiar with slam? We will introduce you to the roots of this oral performance through the voices of 10 poets connected to the California Central Valley. Five judges from the community will vote on their favorite poets and choose a winner.
Bryan Medina has been a fixture of the Fresno literary community for over 19 years. A former student of United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, his poetry has graced stages in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Kansas City. He founded the Inner Ear as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions, making it accessible to all. Bryan has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations for contributions to Fresno’s rich artistic and cultural heritage and has been featured as one of the four “Fresno Poets” from writer Nick Belardes’ Distinguished Valley Writers series as well as appeared in journals such as Poetry, Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets, In The Gove, The San Joaquin Review, Jubilee, and Invisible Memoirs and was an Honorable Mention in the ‘06 Larry Levis Poetry Prize. He is a recent graduate of Fresno Pacific University and plans to teach Special Education.
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As Of 2019, Nigeria Produced Most Of The Continent’s Petroleum (25 Percent), Followed By Angola (17.
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The Government Introduced Fish Farming In The Country In 1950, And By 1968 There Were About 12,000 Fish Ponds In Different Parts Of The Country.
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Nigeria Is Not Blessed By Abundant Natural And Human Resources, As Popularly Believed.
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By Kristin Jones
On Tuesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced that they will give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares—now valued at around $45 billion—to charity during their lifetimes.
The move sparked questions beyond the expected ones of how the money will be spent. (Zuckerberg and Chan said they’d take on disease, personalized learning, building strong communities and connecting people.) It also ignited a conversation about the role of billionaires in solving the great problems of the world, and philanthropy’s role in general—both what it is and what it should be.
While some defended philanthropy’s role in funding worthy goals that risk-averse governments might not take on, and others lauded Zuckerberg’s decision to spend his own money charitably rather than simply pass it on to his descendants, much of the immediate reaction was skeptical.
In Slate, David Auerbach wrote of the grand undertakings of rich men like Zuckerberg and Bill Gates:
“This magnificent magnanimity provokes two inevitable reactions: 1) What great guys! and 2) Wait—are they really so great? As much as we might appreciate the generosity of our software billionaires, their raining of money over good causes also highlights the direness of a world in which a handful of individuals, through a combination of skill and luck, end up with monetary resources beyond that of most small nations.”
Auerbach notes that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s huge investment in solving fixable public health problems (particularly his foundation’s efforts to fight communicable diseases in Africa) have been more successful than Gates’ endeavors in education (specifically, the backing of Common Core and charter schools). He attributes this difference to the underlying infrastructure, which was set up to receive a large influx of cash to fight disease in Africa, but unsuited to do so in the case of American public education.
But Auerbach goes on to argue that whether or not Zuckerberg or Gates spend their money well is somewhat beside the point. The real issue, as he sees it, is the massive public disinvestment that makes philanthropy necessary to begin with. It shouldn’t be left to billionaires to solve big problems like income inequality or climate change, he says; but the truth is, the government isn’t stepping in to solve these problems.
“We can’t set a safe emissions target, we can’t raise our debt ceiling without throwing a hissy fit,” Auerbach writes. “There’s only so much blame you can put on the billionaires for this.”
Writing in The Intercept last week—before Zuckerberg’s announcement—Michael Massing took on “hacker philanthropy” of the kind that’s born out of Silicon Valley wealth, in a review of sociologist Linsey McGoey’s new book No Such Thing as a Free Gift. McGoey is critical of the Gates Foundation; its championing of the school reform movement, in particular, is held up as a failed experiment whose premises (of performance-based pay, charter schools and increased student testing) are now deeply entrenched in U.S. public schools.
Massing notes the good that the Gates Foundation has done—cutting measles deaths by 90 percent in Africa since 2000, and decreasing new cases of malaria by a third in 12 years, for example. Massing’s main contention is that foundations are able to pursue grand experiments, and deploy huge amounts of cash, with little real scrutiny from the media. He attributes some of this to the fact that foundations are footing the bill for some news outlets that can no longer rely on viewers or advertising. (The Trust is among several Colorado foundations that, in recent years, have provided funding to help fill a void in reporting on health issues facing Coloradans.)
“The power of the new barons of philanthropy is only going to grow,” Massing writes. “The risks they take and the bets they make will no doubt become bolder. If journalists don’t hold them accountable, who will?”
The Washington Post took Zuckerberg’s announcement as a chance to examine the issue of outsized private spending on social welfare in the U.S. Citing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the newspaper writes that private spending by Americans on social benefits is four times the average of similar spending in advanced economies worldwide.
Is that a good thing? The Post revisits a 2010 interview in German newspaper Der Spiegel, in which shipping magnate Peter Krämer argues that it’s not: “You can write off donations in your taxes to a large degree in the USA. So the rich make a choice: Would I rather donate or pay taxes? The donors are taking the place of the state. That’s unacceptable.”
Krämer goes on: “Forty superwealthy people want to decide what their money will be used for. That runs counter to the democratically legitimate state. In the end the billionaires are indulging in hobbies that might be in the common good, but are very personal.”
At the heart of all of these critiques is a simple one: Philanthropy—especially the kind practiced by deep-pocketed billionaires—has too much power.
As a philanthropic organization, what do we do with that critique?
The Colorado Trust is in many ways a different—and smaller—animal than the initiatives created by rich men like Zuckerberg. But that doesn’t mean we’re immune to the criticism offered above.
First, the differences: The Trust was created from the sale of a nonprofit hospital group, PSL Healthcare Corporation, in 1985, and our resources are exclusively related to that initial sale; we aren’t led by donors. And compared with Zuckerberg’s $45 billion or the $37 billion in assets held by the Gates Foundation, The Trust’s $458 million (as of end of last year), while certainly enough to help create meaningful change in our state, looks like small potatoes. Our aim isn’t to solve all the problems of the world; it’s to improve health equity in Colorado—a big enough job.
There’s also been a fair amount of griping about Zuckerberg’s decision to structure his initiative as a limited liability company, which allows it to do the kind of lobbying and investments that IRS rules prevent foundations like The Trust from doing.
Nonetheless, tax benefits that shield the Gates Foundation and other U.S. philanthropies also protect The Trust. Our private funds are sheltered from taxes that would otherwise go to government, so long as we meet the IRS requirements for charitable expenditures.
And particularly in rural Colorado, we have the capacity to invest sums with an outsized impact on small towns—affecting their local politics, the distribution of resources, wealth and poverty.
Speaking of wealth and poverty, inequality is often at the very root of the problems we are trying to address. The Trust’s vision is to achieve health equity, meaning fair and equal opportunities for all Coloradans to lead healthy, productive lives, regardless of income, race or geography. We do that by addressing the social determinants of health—not just health care but things like child care, education, transportation. You can’t go very far down this road without slamming into the very fact of our institutional privilege—the fact that we have money to give away in places that are strapped for cash.
Do foundations have too much power? I know this is something with which my colleagues at The Trust and in other local foundations grapple. Some believe that we do.
The way we at The Trust have tried to address this lately is by attempting to upend some of the traditional rules of engagement in philanthropy. In our Community Partnerships work, four of our staff members have embedded themselves in rural communities around the state—not to detail and oversee The Trust’s plans for improving health, but to ask residents themselves what they want and need for prosperity and wellness.
Similarly, in our Health Equity Advocacy work, we bring nonprofits together to learn from each other and to set their own goals and objectives in promoting policy that improves health equity, with our financial support.
We’ve learned that approaching grantmaking this way takes much longer than simply giving away money to worthy nonprofits, but we believe that it is one way to honor the wishes and autonomy of the communities we serve.
In September, john a. powell, a professor of law and African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley and an intellectual leader in the movement for equity, spoke to audiences around Colorado as part of our Health Equity Learning Series. In his speech, he talked about what institutions and governments can do to achieve equity. Back in our office later that afternoon, we asked him what philanthropy can do.
“Philanthropy shouldn’t replace the role of government,” powell said. He used the example of Zuckerberg’s $100 million effort to remake Newark public schools as a cautionary tale; the private cash couldn’t make up for the failures of a system neglected and mismanaged by its public stewards, and besieged by poverty.
Instead, said powell, philanthropy’s opportunity is in taking on efforts that are otherwise ignored by government because they are too risky, too difficult or too costly, and providing models that can be replicated.
A few weeks ago, I visited southeastern Colorado along with Theresa Trujillo, who works as our community partner in that region. In the places where she works, including Avondale, a small town east of Pueblo, and Walsenburg, a bigger town in Huerfano County, the sense of political disenfranchisement is palpable. In a meeting at Avondale, volunteers at El Centro de los Pobres, which helps poor families with medical services, food and other basic needs, spoke about a lack of public services and a feeling that they weren’t represented by any government at all. At a coffee klatsch in Walsenburg, retired men said that power holders in Denver don’t know they exist.
Democracy is a great idea, and the truth is philanthropy is no substitute for it. The best we can hope is that by approaching our work with humility and transparency, we can invite the communities we serve to take the power from our hands. This is risky, difficult and requires substantial investment. And if it’s not followed by more public-sector attention and engagement with the issues that residents themselves raise, we will have failed. | <urn:uuid:309082cd-a982-48cf-9ff3-5f019085ed9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collective.coloradotrust.org/stories/what-should-philanthropy-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956306 | 2,222 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Destiny 2 has a total of 6 strikes, each with their own boss. The final strike is called “Last Wish,” and the hive boss it contains Aksis, who was also in Destiny 1.
The “strikes with taken destiny 2” is a question that has been asked many times. The answer to this question is the final strike of the game, called “The Leviathan.”
In Destiny 2, which strike features a hive boss?
The Destiny 2 Savathun’s Song Strike takes place on Titan, and it sees three players come together in search of a missing Fireteam, but they’re going to run against some terrible Hive monsters in the way.
Is there a king or queen in the hive?
Targeted Wiki (Games) Some animals are born with their responsibilities and allegiance imprinted on their thoughts. They are powerful, yet they also serve as slaves. Hive Knight is a boss in Hollow Knight that was first presented in Lifeblood. Defeating him unlocks Hiveblood, a new Charm.
What do I do now that I’ve defeated Hornet?
When you return to Dirtmouth after beating Hornet, you’ll run across Zote and a new character called Tiso. Tiso will challenge you to a fight in an underground arena situated deep beneath.
What is the odor that hornets despise?
oil of peppermint
What rapidly kills Hornets?
Hornet Killing Techniques
- Toxic Spray – The simplest option is to use a wasp killing spray, which can be found in most supermarkets.
- Windex – Another chemical alternative is Windex, which is significantly less hazardous to people and is readily accessible in most homes.
Is it permissible to kill hornets?
Yes, killing a hornet will attract other hornets to that particular spot. Hornets like to make big nests in trees or overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging overhanging After the winter, the queen either begins a new nest or returns to an existing one.
Should I kill hornets with a hairless face?
Because they eat other tiny insects, such as flies, bald-faced hornets are sometimes seen to be useful. However, the danger posed by a nest and a large colony usually outweighs any potential benefit.
When do hornets die, and when do they die?
Hornets, like honeybees, have a queen and a colony of hundreds of female workers who protect and maintain the nest from spring to autumn. When winter weather approaches, elderly queens and all workers perish, unlike honeybees who utilize the same hive the next year.
Is it possible for wasps to recall human faces?
The social life of golden paper wasps are demanding. They must identify and recall a large number of individual faces in order to keep track of who’s who in a complicated pecking order. According to new research, these wasps’ brains analyze faces all at once, similar to how human facial recognition works. | <urn:uuid:129001ff-44ae-4115-8859-993a3b4429fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://harmonicode.com/2022/02/12/which-strike-in-destiny-2-has-a-hive-boss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953462 | 645 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Organic farming has really boomed in popularity over the past years. With many people looking to choose the healthier option for their food and daily products, there is no denying that organics have really become the popular choice. In fact, you may be considering this for your own needs right now.
However, you may find that there are some people who insist that the organic industry is just a ploy to demand more money for the same kind of products that you get from any store. There is so much more to organics than a label. Read on to find out why you should choose organic farming food products for yourself and your loved ones.
Less exposure to chemicals
Many things that we put into our bodies are processed in some way or form. While some of these are processed for the sake of making things easier for us, other food and products are processed in ways that can be a cause for concern.
To grow fruits and vegetables quickly and in such a way that it meets certain consumer standards, commercial farms make use of chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers. While it helps them meet those standards, this leaves the fruits and vegetables covered in chemical residue. These chemicals are then introduced into our bodies, as they are present in the food that we eat daily.
With organic products, you don’t have to worry about the constant exposure to chemicals because organic methods of cultivation do not allow for the use of certain types of chemicals, which reduces the chemical content in organic food. This is an important point to consider if you’re thinking about switching over to organic.
Because of the lack of chemical preservatives in organic products, most organic fresh fruits and vegetables are produced and sold locally. This means that by choosing organic, you are choosing the freshest option for you and your family.
One important thing to learn about conventional farming is the fact that fruits and vegetables are cultivated with size and aesthetics in mind. This means that for these farms, the priority is on how big and pretty they can get their products.
While crops cultivated with organic farming don’t look as good as the ones that you will find in your local supermarket, the most significant thing that you will notice is that organic food contains better flavor. Since there is no pressure on commercial appeal, the farmer can focus on cultivating the best quality crops, which results in better flavor and nutritional content. | <urn:uuid:39e8a557-0cb0-4973-83cf-568c65075237> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bsranchandfarm.com/why-you-should-choose-organic-farming-food-products/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967758 | 488 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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The Connecticut Senate, in its first bill filed in the 2016 legislative session, is seeking to create “innovation districts” statewide to encourage creation of fast-growth startups.
The bill would extend an existing tax credit for “angel” investments in startups by individual investors, while expanding the applicability of that and other tax credit programs to support startups in newly established “innovation districts.” On a de facto basis, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy created innovation districts across Connecticut in 2011 by freeing up $5 million in funding to support a chain of startup accelerators, including the Stamford Innovation Center, B:Hive in Bridgeport and the Danbury Hackerspace among others, with the Stamford-based Business Council of Fairfield County also winning funding for its own efforts. | <urn:uuid:527b5a16-e835-458b-b16c-e1cf8ea36fc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Connecticut-bill-eyes-innovation-districts-6834565.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.937484 | 178 | 1.625 | 2 |
I had not previously been aware that the painting The Young Catechist by Henry Hoppner Mayer, now owned by Bristol Art Gallery
was actually an illustration to verses by Charles Lamb. Holding her Book of Common Prayer the white girl is instructing the African in the responses to the Anglican catechism, which will lead to his baptism.
In fact, now I look more closely, Lamb's lines were in fact a literary illustration to the painting.
both are lamentable productions, even if their aims were laudable,
However, both are useful examples of the racist aspect to Abolitionist sentiments and campaigns in the 19th century.
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Quality of life is a pretty nebulous concept. There’s a lot of coffee-table chat about which places have the best quality of life, but is it really possible to measure it objectively?
Well, yes it is, an one way to do it is to do what a team from The University of Arizona and Washington State University have just done.
They began by assuming that ‘Quality of Life’ is a thing that has effects and causes. It basically sits in between them as a mediating factor. They used a sophisticated model to unpick the relationships (if any) between these effects (in their model, these were life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate and suicide rate) and a basket of factors that might feasibly cause differences in life quality.
They found eight factors had a significant effect on quality of life: divorce rate, public health expenditure, doctor/population ratio; per capita GDP; food supply; female and male adult literacy rate, and population with access to safe drinking water. The model crunched all these, along with the effects, and spat out a Quality of Life rating for the 43 countries they analysed.
Belgium came out top, followed by France, Denmark, Spain and Germany. The USA came in 7th, and the UK was 11th. Bottom of the pile was Sri Lanka, the Dominican Republic and, at lucky number 43, El Salvador.
So I took their data and plotted it against the World Values Survey data on how important God is in people’s lives. And this is what the plot looks like.
You probably won’t be surprised to hear that the top nations tended to be the least religious (unfortunately there’s no data on this variable for Belgium or a bunch of the other nations, which is why some are missing).
This analysis joins all the others – the least religious countries are more democratic, more peaceful, have less corruption, more telephones, do better at science, have less inequality and other problems, and are generally just less dysfunctional.
Cue discussion over which causes what!
Rahman, T., Mittelhammer, R., & Wandschneider, P. (2011). Measuring quality of life across countries: A multiple indicators and multiple causes approach Journal of Socio-Economics, 40 (1), 43-52 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.06.002 | <urn:uuid:097aaff8-3bda-4708-89ec-930a215d59a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2011/05/non-religious-nations-have-higher.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957505 | 500 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Changes in Chapter 2 – Reading Section
Alright, I’ll continue my examination of the new edition of the Official Guide to the TOEFL by looking at all of the changes in chapter two.
Page 38 (important): The chart depicting question types now reflects the fact that there are fewer questions in total.
The specific changes are (old –> new)
- Factual Information questions: 3-5 per set –> 2-5 per set
- Vocabulary questions: 3-4 per set –> 1-2 per set
The other question types are unchanged. This confirms our earlier speculation that vocabulary questions have been heavily reduced.
Page 55 (important): As discussed earlier, the “table” questions can be worth 2 or 3 points. Tables with four correct answers are worth two points, and those with five correct answers are worth three points. Partial points are possible for both.
Question deletions in the practice sets are as follows:
Set 1: Factual information, Inference, Vocabulary
Set 2: Vocabulary, Negative factual, Inference
Set 3: Vocabulary, Factual information, Vocabulary
Set 4: Factual information, Vocabulary, Vocabulary
Set 5: Vocabulary, Vocabulary, Reference
Set 6: Reference, Vocabulary, Vocabulary
Indeed, vocabulary questions are far less common than before. Note that only three questions were deleted from each set as these sets did not have enough questions in the previous version of the book. | <urn:uuid:1662c095-f435-41ce-86ce-049814df6e90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.toeflresources.com/blog/changes-in-the-official-guide-to-the-toefl-6th-edition-part-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.901484 | 309 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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Developing effective elearning requires expertise in Project Management, Computer-based Instructional Design, Multimedia Design, Instructional Technology and Quality Assurance. It is rare for a single person to have mastered all of these skill sets. Therefore, developing effective elearning often requires a team approach which leverages the unique skills of each contributor.
A team approach also ensures an efficient elearning development process as each contributor can focus on their core competency rather than having to muddle through elements that they are not experts in. The following graphic highlights the five key skill sets required to develop effective elearning as well as the primary contributions of each team member.
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Holiday Program- Winter Wildlings
03/07/2019 @ 10:00 am - 09/07/2019 @ 1:00 pm
You are invited to explore Darebin Parklands to deepen your nature connection and natural curiosity with us these school holidays.
Do you have a wild child on your hands?
Would you love to see your kids more connected to nature?
Meet and play with other kids and nature connection mentors this winter in the magical bushland of the Darebin Parklands..
Learn and play some wilderness awareness and nature games, discover more about the plants, birds and creatures that share the city with us. We may have a go trying to light a fire by friction and wild crafting with bush materials.
Join with fun nature connection mentors; together we will explore, wander along the creek, taste some bush foods, listen for the language of birds, practice the art of camouflage, sneak to get a closer look at animals, follow tracks, to discover more about the plants, birds and creatures that share the city with us.
Our family friendly nature connection sessions are aimed at 4-11 year olds. Parent participation is optional. While younger siblings may attend at no cost, they will need to be supervised by their parents/guardians. Kids need to bring a backpack with water, snacks, raincoat and a picnic lunch for the end.
These school holidays we are running sessions on the 3rd and 9th of July check the booking link here: www.trybooking.com/BDIDC for current availability 🙂 Bookings essential.
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Hi, is it possible to write a cd-recorder program in masm? If yes, how? CYA, Folko
Sure, with your hands. betov.
(m)asm is not less powerful that any other language so you can write anything you want, now you have to find out how...
I know I can do almost everything with (m)asm but do you know where I can get a tutorial or something?
A number of internal CD-R and CD-RW drives use ATAPI for reading and writing. Some CD burning software require an ASPI layer, too. I currently do not have any other information on this stuff. Good luck.
GoldenHawk (the company that makes CDRWin) used to have some source and header files in C/C++ dunno if itīs still avail. maybe uīll have a look there
Hi, I heared something about a new part of DirectX - DirectCD which deals with CD-ROM reading and burning. Is this a rumor or is it real? beaster.
DirectCD is NOT a part of DirectX, it's just another CD-R(W) burnign app.
DirectCD is a part of DirectX. It makes CD look like other disk, so you can drag and drop file on your CD-R drive (in fact, it looks likes a burning app...)
There is a product called DirectCD, by Adaptec. It's now packaged as a part of their EasyCD product. This version of DirectCD makes CD-RW drive look like another writable drive with a Windows file format, similar to floppy and ZIP drives. However, to make a disc that's readable on a CD-ROM or CD-R drive, you still need to use the EasyCD portion of their package. HP packages the Adaptec software as part of their CD-Writer support. | <urn:uuid:81ef7d2c-afc8-4d02-a28e-bec99c4f0a9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.asmcommunity.net/forums/topic/?id=26439 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952825 | 388 | 1.75 | 2 |
Receiving a screening for a sexually transmitted disease, or STD, is an important step for a sexually active person to take to protect themselves and their partner. In many cases, those infected with a sexually transmitted disease may not even know because they aren’t showing symptoms. If left untreated, STDs can be spread to others and may even lead to infertility.
Getting tested for each type of STD during your annual visit is expensive and not necessary in most cases. Patients should speak with their doctor about their specific risk factors and lifestyle so that they can determine which tests are right for them.
It is recommended that you undergo an STD screening if you:
It isn’t always obvious when you have an STD. Symptoms can be minor or even nonexistent in some cases. Visit the doctor if you are experiencing:
If results determine that you have an STD, the type of issue it is will determine how it is treated. STDs are broken down into three categories:
Bacterial STDs. Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are good examples of STDs caused by bacteria. These issues can be treated with antibiotics and should go away after the antibiotic treatment is completed.
Parasitic STDs. STDs that are caused by parasites like Trichomonas Vaginalis can be cured using antibiotics, antiparasitic drugs or prescription shampoos.
Viral STDs. STDs caused by a virus cannot be cured completely, but they can be managed. The most common types are HPV, genital herpes, hepatitis B and HIV.
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I HAVE A RADIATOR FOR MY HEATING.
A hydronic system is a radiant heat system uses hot water or steam that is propelled through pipes to a radiator or in floor system to provide heat to many homes. At YellowBird Services we are experts when it comes to hydronic system repairs or service.
WHAT IS A HYDRONIC SYSTEM?
In the United States most homes are heated with either furnaces or hydronic systems. Hydronic systems produce hot water or steam created by a natural gas, oil, propane or solid-fuel-burning appliance. This hot water or steam is then circulated through pipes to heat-radiating devices in a room. Hot water or steam from the hydronic systems are used heating. Steam is distributed through pipes to steam radiators, and hot water is distributed via baseboard radiators or radiant floor systems, or can heat air via a coil. Steam are inherently less efficient because they operate at a higher temperature than hot water systems, but today there are high-efficiency versions of all types of furnaces and hydronic systems available.
There are advantages to hydronic systems that other home comforts systems do not have. First of which is that they use water and water is the best natural material for conducting heat. The temperature of water can be accurately measured and controlled so there is less wasted heat from “over-shooting” the setting on the thermostat. With the improved heat-transfer technology of todays compact hydronic systems, high-efficiency burners and state-of-the-art electronic controls, they are 30-40percent more efficient that systems that were installed just 10 years ago. Old coal burners that were switched over to oil or gas or older, oversized, inefficient systems are prime candidates for replacement. Even some newer systems that are a bit more efficient but are still oversized can be modified to to increase their efficiency and operating capacity.
The efficiency of a hydronic system is measured by its AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency) rating. AFUE measurement shows how efficient the appliance is in the energy it produces and its use of fuel over the course of a typical year. Federal Trade Commission(FTC) requirements state the all new hydronic systems display their AFUE so consumers can compare heating efficiencies of various models. | <urn:uuid:bbd8e7b8-e8c6-4e11-a9c4-581734591272> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yellowbirdac.com/products-services/radiant-heat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957294 | 472 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Genomics and Obesity: We Need Both Population and Individualized Approaches in the Prevention and Management of ObesityPosted on by
Obesity is a serious, global public health problem that has increased markedly in the last few decades. As of 2016, 795 million people were estimated to have been affected. Obesity is associated with leading causes of death worldwide—such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer—making the search for effective weight management strategies a global priority.
Obesity results from energy imbalance that occurs when a person consumes more calories than their body burns. Risk factors for obesity range from individual factors, such as behavior and genetics, to environmental and societal factors, such as food environment, education and skills, and food promotion and marketing.
Consistently following a healthy diet may lessen genetic susceptibility to weight gain
A recent prospective cohort study with 8828 female (Nurses’ Health Study) and 5218 male (Health Professionals Follow-up Study) participants showed the importance of genetic and environmental factors in obesity. The authors calculated an obesity genetic risk score (GRS) based on 77 variants associated with body mass index. They examined dietary patterns using validated dietary instruments and conducted five repeated measurements of changes in body weight and body mass index. Two decades of follow-up showed that the genetic association with their body mass index was significantly lessened when each group maintained a heathy diet. The authors suggested that consistently following a healthy diet may lessen genetic-associated weight gain. The beneficial effect of improved diet on weight was particularly striking among individuals with a high genetic risk for obesity. These findings are also consistent with previous studies showing that products, such as sugar-heavy drinks and fried food, can worsen the effects of genetic associations on increased body mass index.
Overall, this and other studies illustrate the importance of healthy diet in preventing weight gain, especially in people at greatest risk. They also support the importance of guidelines that promote adherence to healthy diet. Furthermore, they also help to address the misconception that people with genetic susceptibility to obesity do not benefit from weight management. Finally, the findings reinforce the importance of policy approaches to healthy food environments and systems.
Fighting the obesity epidemic requires multiple approaches
Even in obesity-conducive environments, not everyone will develop obesity. How people respond to these obesity-favorable environments may be related to psychological, social, and economic factors (to name a few) as well as genetic variations. Other proposed factors include interactions with the gut microbiome, and as well as early life exposures associated with epigenetic changes.
There are a few single gene disorders associated with severe, childhood-onset obesity. People with rare mutations of genes in the leptin-signaling pathway (e.g., complete deficiencies of leptin or its receptor) have a very high likelihood of developing obesity. For those people, tailored interventions have begun to pay dividends. For people with leptin deficiency, treatment with leptin leads to sustained improvement in adiposity. With additional insight into genes regulating body weight, more targeted treatments may be on the horizon.
Nevertheless, most people with obesity do not have a single gene causation. It is unlikely that a single approach can stop the problem of obesity; instead, fighting the obesity epidemic requires multiple fronts. CDC continues to emphasize population-level approaches to the problem, including the involvement of state and local organizations, business and community leaders, and school, childcare, and healthcare professionals. Partnerships are key to create environments that foster healthy lifestyles. Check out the CDC obesity website for ways state and local organizations can create a supportive environment to promote healthy living behaviors that prevent obesity.
The Journal of the American Medical Association recently revisited old approaches and reimagined new solutions to obesity in a recent obesity-themed issue. Ultimately, the use of individualized and population level interventions are needed, and not merely the search for ”obesity genes.” [PDF 153 KB] Identifying additional genetic, metabolic, behavioral, and environmental factors that make people susceptible to obesity and better clarifying the differences that affect the success of obesity treatment, could lead to newer precision approaches to obesity prevention and treatment.
For additional information on genomics and obesity, please visit our updated web page. Also, search our public health genomics knowledge base for the latest scientific information, guidelines, and tools on the impact of genomics on obesity.
As always, we appreciate your comments and feedback on this blog post.
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Welcome to the Natural History Gallery
Our biome is expanding! REOPENING IN 2022!
Get ready to meet many new Animal Ambassadors while you reconnect with some familiar faces like Loki the Magpie, Tom the Hermann’s Tortoise, and Rio the Ball Python.
We can’t wait to see you again!
Our Animal Ambassadors are the most unusual (and most popular) members of our team—those who sport exoskeletons and those who eat mice! They play a crucial role in connecting people of all ages with nature, environmental conservation, and the issues influencing each species and their native habitats.
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The tram system in Bonn, Germany dates back to the 1970s, and although the rolling stock is somewhat long in the tooth, it's structurally sound according to the city's municipal works: hence the decision to upgrade them with the latest technology including sound insulation foam fabricated using a flexible, open-cell foam made from melamine resin.
The foam supplier BASF (Ludwigshafen) is providing fabricator Hanno Werk GmbH & Co. KG (Hanover, Germany) with blocks that will be converted into panels for supply to the municipal works. Each of the trams will be clad with around 150 square meters of Basotect G grade in a thickness of 3 cm. In the driver's cab, the foam will be laminated with an additional aluminum sheet. The municipal works are able to renovate three vehicles in their workshop each year. The intention is that the first fully modernized tram is to run in the Rhein-Sieg district in 2012. Eventually, 25 old trams will be modernized.
"The prices of new [trams] have risen rapidly in recent years," explains project manager Alexander Wingen from Bonn's municipal works. "But our old trams are still structurally sound. This is why we have decided to convert them and equip them with the very latest technology."
|Insulation foam retrofitting solves noise, vibration, thermal issues in classic trams.|
"Another advantage of Basotect for us was that it is very easy to process without producing any dust," says Wingen. "This was important to us because we have created a special workshop in which we will gut the trams and completely modernize them. This means that we can cut the material to the exact size required on site using our own cutting tools."-[email protected] | <urn:uuid:a6df0f44-0f7d-42f7-84e8-449c38edbc56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.plasticstoday.com/melamine-foam-improves-ride-old-trams | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946575 | 375 | 2.734375 | 3 |
In addition, we were able to achieve incredibly beautiful graphics with the advent of programmable shaders, plus we reviewed multiple Unreal Engine systems to accommodate Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. This ushered in a new wave of quality and creativity in our games, as well as that of our licensees, and this was also carried over to the game development budgets. For developers just starting out in the industry, the task of choosing the best game engine can be daunting.
The Marketplace is a digital store that allows content creators and developers to provide art assets, models, sounds, environments, code snippets, and other features that others can purchase, along with tutorials and other guides. Epic offers some of the content for free, including previously offered Unreal assets and tutorials. Prior to July 2018, Epic took a 30% share of sales, but due to the success of Unreal and Fortnite Battle Royale, Epic retroactively reduced its stake to 12%.
Epic Games has done a great job of keeping all the information about the tool accessible and easy to find. As a new user, you can go through extensive documentation to find out how to do what you dream of. With the ability to create hyper-realistic environments, Unreal Engine is able to create immersive worlds that adapt to the virtual reality experience. Unreal Engine includes tools that create complex cinematics, allowing game developers to explore new ways to deliver a story. How cool would it be to watch a movie and be able to look around in a scene while everything is happening in real time? As I mentioned earlier, Unreal Engine made its debut in 1998 with the FPS game Unreal, the first generation Unreal Engine integrated many features into a complete package.
Its popularity is mainly due to the extensive customization options, cross-platform capabilities, and the ability to create high-quality AAA games with it. If you’re planning to start a career in game development, this is definitely one of the engines you’ll want to start playing with and build your portfolio with. One of its main features is Nanite, an engine that allows you to unreal engine requirements import very detailed photo material into games. Nanite virtualized geometry technology enables Epic to leverage its previous acquisition of Quixel, the world’s largest photogrammetry library as of 2019. The goal of Unreal Engine 5 was to make it as easy as possible for developers to create detailed game worlds without having to spend too much time creating detailed new assets.
Unreal Engine has also been used by non-creative fields due to its availability and feature sets. In March 2015, Epic released Unreal Engine 4, along with all future updates, free for all users. In return, Epic set up a selective royalty schedule, asking for 5% of sales for products earning more than $3,000 per quarter. | <urn:uuid:dd120183-c1af-47ee-92c0-5af152cc0044> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infinitelaughtss.com/what-is-the-best-game-engine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957637 | 566 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Hall A, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Kenneth M. Klemow
This series of posters will showcase a variety of resources cataloged in ESA’s EcoEd Digital Library to support innovative undergraduate ecology education. The first poster, presented by EcoEd Editors Ken Klemow and Kathy Shea, will provide a general overview of the EcoEd Digital Library and highlight the library’s special collection of resources for teaching global climate change. The second poster, authored by David Kirschtel, will highlight the special collection published in conjunction with the 2009 Millennium Conference: Water-ecosystem Services, Drought, and Environmental Justice. The third poster in this series is from an ESA section cooperating with EcoEdDL to highlight scientific resources relevant to their subdiscipline. Hal Balbach, and Kurt Buhlmann’s poster from the Applied Ecology Section will discuss resources that inform practical wetlands protection and mitigation needs, suitable for the K-16 audience. | <urn:uuid:d0224812-7f77-447e-942f-007bb3c34ae4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://programarchives.z20.web.core.windows.net/2010/Session5667.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.833063 | 229 | 2.78125 | 3 |
|title:||Defect Effect of Bi-infinite Words in the Two-element Case|
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|abstract:||Let X be a two-element set of words over a finite alphabet. If a bi-infinite word possesses two X-factorizations which are not shiftequivalent, then the primitive roots of the words in X are conjugates. Note, that this is a strict sharpening of a defect theorem for bi-infinite words stated in KMP. Moreover, we prove that there is at most one bi-infinite word possessing two different X-factorizations and give a necessary and sufficient conditions on X for the existence of such a word. Finally, we prove that the family of sets X for which such a word exists is parameterizable.|
|reference:||Ján Maňuch (2001), Defect Effect of Bi-infinite Words in the Two-element Case, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 4, pp. 273-290|
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Due to limitations of your local software, the two formats may show up differently on your screen. If eg you use xpdf to visualize pdf, some of the graphics in the file may not come across. On the other hand, pdf has a capacity of giving links to sections, bibliography and external references that will not appear with PostScript. | <urn:uuid:83db616a-c058-4b2e-a6ff-7de6b95a919d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.emis.de/journals/DMTCS/volumes/abstracts/dm040215.abs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.850529 | 465 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Poorly equipped schools, counterfeit medicine and elections decided by money are just some of the consequences of public sector corruption. Bribes and backroom deals don’t just steal resources from the most vulnerable – they undermine justice and economic development, and destroy public trust in government and leaders.
Based on expert opinion from around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide, and it paints an alarming picture. Not one single country gets a perfect score and more than two-thirds score below 50, on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Corruption is a problem for all countries. A poor score is likely a sign of widespread bribery, lack of punishment for corruption and public institutions that don’t respond to citizens’ needs. Countries at the top of the index also need to act. Leading financial centres in the EU and US need to join with fast-growing economies to stop the corrupt from getting away with it. The G20 needs to prove its global leadership role and prevent money laundering and stop secret companies from masking corruption. | <urn:uuid:8f96028e-e70f-43e7-9cb7-f5370c7f9231> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://transparency.ch/fr/korruptionsindex/corruption-perceptions-index-2014/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945861 | 224 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Apple’s new MacBook Pro has received endless praise for its high performance, power efficiency and impressive battery life thanks to its M1 System on a Chip (SoC). Apple is taking advantage of the tight integration of software and hardware, allowing optimization to achieve performance that has traditionally only been possible with a holistic approach to hardware.
The new combination of hardware and software is especially helpful for creating video content. In the Pro Mac, Apple used the ProRes codec to achieve workstation-level performance. Let’s take a look at why ProRes is important to the future of the Mac.
What is Prores?
Developed by Apple, ProRes is a popular video codec because of its image quality and ease of use during editing workflows. Depending on its quality, it can be used in a variety of ways, from the flexible Proless Raw to the more universal Proless 422 HQ. ProRes uses minimal data compression. That’s why the post-editing process is smooth. Instead, it has the disadvantage of increasing the size of the data file.
In general, ProRes is used in professional video cameras such as the Arri and Red, as well as external recorders such as the Atmos Ninja V. Now, iPhone 13 Pro is also supported as an option, and the user base is slowly increasing. The main reason for the rapid spread of ProRes is the ease of use of post-editing.Other video codecs, such as H.264/H.265, which are highly compressed, are generally slow on systems that lack adequate hardware support. At the expense of larger data volumes, ProRes offers superior performance in a wide range of environments.
prores and mac
Within its ecosystem, Apple directly manages critical aspects that affect performance, such as the operating system, chips, and ProRes. It manages the entire video workflow from acquisition of video files to editing and final distribution. That’s why a lot of content creators use Mac computers and prefer the portable MacBook Pro. As for software, Apple’s Final Cut Pro is also popular, but you can also use DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere Pro. On the other hand, if you move too far away from Apple’s Final Cut Pro ecosystem, Proless Raw support will be limited.
Aside from Proless, Apple R3D delivers incredible performance in a small piece of hardware with high efficiency for all users of RAW and other powerful codecs. The decision is to give up the flexibility provided by some non-ProLess codecs that are efficient and relatively easy to use in exchange for the impressive ProLess performance that Apple Silicon offers in the future.
Best ProLess performance on the 2019 Mac Pro requires a 28-core Intel Xeon W CPU and an Afterburner card to accelerate ProLess playback and decoding. The two powerful GPUs also help with advanced color grading. Of course, all this is very expensive.
Getting started with M1 Mac MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro’s M1 Max has two ProLess encoders and two decoders that outperform the single decoder on the Mac Pro’s Afterburner card. If you look at the benchmark results comparing ProLess performance between M1 Max MacBook Pro and Mac Pro with the best alternatives, you can see how important Apple ProLess is to performance.
M1 Max: ProRes export speed
As a result, the decoders and encoders of the M1 Max easily outperformed the top-end 2019 Mac Pros. In addition, the playback performance of multi-stream 8K content is greatly improved. It also helps with color grading in general, and Final Cut Pro’s noise reduction and stabilization speeds are even faster. This has traditionally been the domain of ultra-powerful workstations or Mac Pros with expensive GPUs, but thanks to ProRes, the entry cost of using this display has been dramatically reduced.
Of course, there are still drawbacks. When it comes to GPU performance, it lags behind the 2019 Mac Pro, which handles other workflows like R3D Raw, and 3D applications like Octane X. Future Apple silicon will fill this gap, and it will be interesting to see how fast Proless performance gets and whether Proless adoption grows.
iPhone 13 Pro: Proless for All
One more thing should be mentioned with respect to the potential for future growth. The fact is that Apple hasn’t developed the Proless codec just for professionals. The iPhone 13 Pro can shoot using the camera Proless. Mobile phones have already become the most popular cameras in the world, so it was only natural to integrate them into the iPhone for video optimization. For a 10-bit 422, you’ll generally get better quality in ProRes, and edit smoothly on Apple’s M1 Mac.
There are disadvantages too. ProRes content takes up a lot of storage space compared to the more compressed iPhone codecs. On desktop, you can work with NAS and RAID arrays, but on iPhone, when it comes to storage and bandwidth, you can reach the limit. Because of this, the current iPhone ProRes is more of a ‘novel feature’. However, it is also a useful tool for professionals depending on the situation.
As the storage capacity of smartphones increases in the future, so will normal users using it more often. So, you still have no need to sell used RED or Ahri cameras. The iPhone plays a very important role in Apple’s strategy for the Proless ecosystem. With its vast user base, the iPhone will be the driving engine for accelerating Proless adoption.
The Future Driven by Prores and Apple Silicon
Online content has already shifted from static images to video-centric. Indeed, Instagram has transformed from a powerful photo platform to a video platform. Macs play an important role in this content creation workflow and should lead to a more efficient and productive hardware ecosystem with ProRes.
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Civilian deaths attributed to pro-government forces rose in the first quarter of this year even as overall civilian casualties dropped to their lowest level in that period since 2013.
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“A shocking number of civilians continue to be killed and maimed each day,” Tadamichi Yamamoto, the United Nations secretary general’s special representative for Afghanistan, said in a statement. “All parties must do more to safeguard civilians.” The latest figures provided by the United States military show that American warplanes dropped 790 bombs and other munitions in Afghanistan in January and February. That was a slight decrease from the 847 that
“We reserve the right of self-defense of our forces as well as the Afghan security forces,” Colonel Butler said in a statement. “The best way to end the suffering of noncombatants is to end the fighting through an agreed-upon reduction in violence on all sides.” The United Nations report said the decrease in suicide bombings in the first quarter might have stemmed from an especially harsh winter. The agency documented just four suicide bombings, all attributed to the Taliban, which caused 178 civilian casualties. That was down from 19 suicide bombings and 751 resulting casualties during the same quarter last year.
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The report attributed the remaining casualties to crossfire and other causes. Ground engagements were the single biggest cause of all civilian casualties, accounting for about a third of the total. A single mortar attack by the Islamic State last month in Kabul was responsible for about a fifth of all first-quarter civilian casualties from ground engagements, the report said. The second leading cause of civilian casualties was improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. In a reversal from previous reporting periods, the majority of IED casualties were caused by non-suicide IEDs rather than those detonated by a suicide bomber, the report said. The United Nations attributed 529 casualties to the deliberate targeting of civilians. Addressing the Taliban, the Islamic State
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Visibility is important during aid delivery for a number of reasons, including accountability to the affected population as well as to donors. However, does excessive focus on visibility undermine dignity of the beneficiaries? National Public Radio (NPR? came up with an analytical article by collecting views from different people. HAI’s views were also obtained. Please read the detailed article here:
HAI is thankful to Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and Forum for Indian Development Cooperation (FIDC) for organising a seminar on 10 May 2018 on the topic of Localisation of Local Resources for Humanitarian Aid. This seminar provided an opportunity to present the highlights of the #HAI paper entitled, ‘International Humanitarian Aid and the Localisation Debate: Why is it important to have “Local Funds” for “Local Organisations”.
#HAI is championing the agenda of localisation since the World Humanitarian Summit. #HAI is trying to address the barrier restricting local organisations to access humanitarian funding. #HAI is also advocating with the Grand Bargain signatories for better delivery on their commitment to pass on at least 25% of global humanitarian funding to local and national actors. In this context, #HAI firmly believes that local fundraising by affiliates of INGOs defeats the very spirit of #localisation. National resources should be accessible to local and national actors.
The HAI presentation generated a good discussion. It is expected that a process will initiate now for a few legislative and policy reforms in India, which will eventually provide a favourable environment to local and national humanitarian actors. The presentation was made by the #HAI CEO Sudhanshu S. Singh. Afterwards #HAI president NM Prusty emphasised that Indian CSOs should now look for bigger global role to replicate Indian model of disaster response and management.
HAI CEO Sudhanshu S. Singh was interviewed by the Norwegian journal ‘Bistandsaktuelt’ on Localisation of Aid. The interview, in Norwegian, is published here:
HAI CEO S.S. Singh and President Mr NM Prusty participated in the event organised by Research and Information Systems for the Developing Countries (RIS) to launch Development Cooperation Review (DCR). DCR was launched by Hon’ble State Minister for External Affairs MJ Akbar. HAI CEO was part of the panel discussion, right before the launch.
Agenda for Humanity, a UN led process post the WHS, has come up with its newsletter. #HAI is glad that it’s very first news talks about #HAI and activities of its two member organisations, namely Anchalik Gram Unnayan Parishad – AGUP and North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS). Please do read this newsletter and share widely. This is a good global acknowledgement of our local actions.
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The Research and Information System for Developing Countries(RIS) has published #HAI CEO Sudhansh S. Singh’s paper, entitled International Humanitarian Aid and the ‘Localization’ Debate:
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Cro-Magnon man dominated Europe from about 45,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago. Although they are sometimes considered the first Whites, they are actually only one of three races that gave rise to the white race (the other two being Anatolian farmers and steppe pastoralists).
Draw-A-Man IQ test
Long ago I looked at their cave art, with an emphasis on drawings of people, so I could apply Dale Harris’s revision of the beloved Goodenough Draw-A-Man IQ test. The first drawing of a man I found was discovered in South-western France and believed to be 17,000 years old. It’s known as “The Wounded Man”.
The Goodenough Harris Draw-A-Man test has a maximum raw score of 73, but because this drawing depicted the man with the head of a bird, not a human, 13 of the items dealing with features unique to the human head could not be scored, so it ended up with a score of 22/60 which I then prorated to 27/73.
Unfortunately this too is a man-animal hybrid, and the animal features made some of the items inapplicable, in this case, the six items dealing with clothing (items #29,#55,#56,#57,#58 and #59), but out of the remaining 67 items, the picture scored 49, which I prorated into a score of 53/73.
Averaging the two drawings together, Cro-Magnon man scored 40/73 on the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Man test. The smoothed mean and standard deviation for U.S. 15-year-olds (considered adult level for the purpose of this test) is 45.2 and 9.83 respectively, so this equates to an IQ of 92 (U.S. norms) or 90 (U.S. white norms). But because these norms were published in 1963, I originally adjusted for the Flynn effect to determine how they might score by today’s standards, however further research (which I have not yet published) shows Draw-A-Man appears to have no Flynn effect. It may be one of the few genuinely culture reduced tests.
Of course with a sample size of only two people, we can’t be very confident that Cro-Magnon had a mean IQ of 90 (U.S. white norms). But there are two reasons why the figure is quite plausible. First Native Americans have a mean IQ of 92, and like Cro-Magnon man, Native Americans evolved as cold adapted hunter-gatherers so their IQs should be similar.
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– Each answer should be about a 200 word’s paragraph (Total: 600 words, 3 paragraphs) + a conclusion
1) What were the Nature components that drove him to drink? What were the Nurture components that drove him to drink?
(Draw from the articleNature Nurture None of the Above)
2) How did his peers contribute to his drinking problem? How did his peers try to intervene and stop his drinking problem?
(Draw from the articleThe Power of Peers)
3) Did Ryan seem to be thinking about the long-term consequences of his drinking? If so, how? If not, why do you think he did not?
(Draw from the article Epstein- The Myth of the Teen Brain)
· Please make sure you quote from the readings
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Music Performance Anxiety : Use of Coping Strategies by Tertiary Flute Players
Sinico, A. & Winter, L. (2013). Music Performance Anxiety : Use of Coping Strategies by Tertiary Flute Players. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion (ICME3), Jyväskylä, Finland, 11th - 15th June 2013. Geoff Luck & Olivier Brabant (Eds.). University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music.
This article presents part of a master´s degree research, which focused on investigating causes, symptoms, and strategies used by tertiary flute players to cope with music performance anxiety in the performance of an unaccompanied flute work in recital of evaluative character. However, it will present only the results on strategies of twelve flute students from three music colleges in Brazil to cope with music performance anxiety. Seven of participants were male, and five were female. The procedures of collection and analyses of data occurred as in the study by Siw Nielsen (1999), that is, through the behavioral observation of the participants in the recital, and verbal reports by semi-structured interview. Both procedures were recorded in audio and video. The data were analyzed in four steps, the first and fourth quantitatively, and the others qualitatively. The first step aimed to determine the profile of the participants of this research, and at the ending of crossing of the data the total number of causes, symptoms, and coping strategies. The other steps sought to identify causes, symptoms, and coping strategies through the behavioral observation, and verbal reports analyses. Finally, we performed the crossing of the data for comparison between the two data analyses, and arrived at conclusions about some coping strategies. Thus, the positive self-talk was reported as the main strategy used by tertiary flute players to cope with music performance anxiety in this study. ...
PublisherUniversity of Jyväskylä, Department of Music
ConferenceThe 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 11-15, 2013
Is part of publicationProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion (ICME3), Jyväskylä, Finland, 11th - 15th June 2013. Geoff Luck & Olivier Brabant (Eds.). ISBN 978-951-39-5250-1
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This is another Dodge Publishing Company edition, dated two years after the 1914 popular edition. The cover is a bold red.
This 1916 edition contains illustrations again by Adelaide Hanscom, though not marked as such. The illustrations in this 1916 copy are in color, again attached to the page. The decoration on the pages with poetry are also in color rather than grayscale.
Some of the artwork is identical between the two editions, however, the placements of the illustrations do differ between the common illustrations. There are a few pictures that overlap with the 1914 edition and it seems that the 1914 one has more illustrations period. Despite the lesser amount of them, because the 1916 edition ones are in color, they are more striking to behold. Quality over quantity.
One of the illustrations unique to this edition does elevate this copy further. It, pictured below, had the text of one of the quatrains on it. It was a unique way to present the poetry and the art together that captured my attention in a positive way.
Update 03/2020: More history was learned regarding Adelaide Hanscom and her editions, please see the 1905 edition
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While Tesla has suspended customers’ ability to pay for electric cars with Bitcoin, Canadian EV maker Daymak has announced technology that will actually add coins to your crypto wallet. The Daymak Spiritus, a small three-wheeled EV, will be the first in the world to actually mine Doge, Ethereum, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies while parked.
As Robb Report notes, mining is a way of earning crypto by using a computer program to solve cryptographic equations and algorithms. And that’s exactly what the Spiritus does automatically using Daymak’s patent-pending Nebula platform, which consists of two main components.
According to the company, the Nebula Miner runs an industry-leading GPU in mining price-to-profit. The idea is that whenever the Spiritus is parked on a wireless charging pad, plugged in, or trickle-solar-charging, owners will essentially be making money by mining cryptocurrency.
That crypto will be stored in Daymak’s Nebula wallet, which will be securely integrated in to the Spiritus interface.
“We envision a future where your highway tolls, your parking, and your drive thru order will be paid directly on the fly with crypto. Your online bills and your banking can be handled through the same software platform paid in crypto. And whereas most vehicles are depreciating while they sit in your garage, the Nebula Miner will make you money while your Spiritus is parked. The potential applications are limitless,” stated Daymak president Aldo Baiocchi.
“Daymak has been a champion for disruptive technologies since its inception, and the current crypto movement is a clear indication that by the 2023 Spiritus release date, we will be in the midst of the blockchain revolution. Everyone will be paying with crypto by then, and we are building these cars with that in mind.”
The Nebula system adds an innovative capability to an already impressive Spiritus spec sheet. The flagship “Ultimate” model gets an 80 kWh that pumps out 150 horsepower. The 370-pound two-seater will hit 60 mph in 1.8 seconds, or cover 300 miles when driven efficiently.
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NEW ROUNDABOUT FOR DANGEROUS LANCE CREEK INTERSECTION
The Andrews Labor Government has listened to the Lance Creek community and is installing a roundabout to reduce deaths and serious injuries at the intersection of Korumburra-Wonthaggi Road, Glen Alvie Road, West Creek Road and Bird Road at Lance Creek.
Member for Eastern Victoria Harriet Shing, MP welcomed the $3.4 million in funding to construct a single lane roundabout at the intersection as part of a number of safety upgrades for the dangerous intersection.
A number of other safety measures are being delivered as part of the upgrade, including a reduced 80km/h speed limit and raised safety platforms to further reduce vehicle speeds, rumble strips on all approaches, new street lighting and road widening.
The upgrade will reduce motorists’ speeds and sharp angles of approach, increase drivers’ lines of sight and allow for greater reaction times due to slowing vehicles, and will also provide a clearly visible roundabout that can be seen far in advance for approaching motorists.
The new roundabout and the safety improvements will reduce the number and severity of crashes by forcing motorists to slow down and give way before proceeding.
Over a five year period four serious crashes have occurred at this intersection, all caused by vehicles failing to give way.
The Lance Creek intersection has received several interim safety improvements over the past year including upgraded signs, removal of vegetation, ‘stop ahead’ road markings and additional rumble strips.
The project will be delivered by VicRoads as part of the Safe System Road Infrastructure Program, funded by the Transport Accident Commission to support projects across Victoria that achieve specific and immediate safety benefits.
The roundabout will be constructed by early 2017.
Quotes attributable to Harriet Shing, Member for Eastern Victoria
“The Andrews Labor Government has listened to the community and is making this dangerous intersection safer.”
“The Lance Creek community called for changes to this dangerous intersection following the most recent crash and this roundabout upgrade will improve the safety of these roads considerably”.
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Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
Explore moments where third-party candidates affected the outcome of presidential elections.
See the growing cartographic knowledge of North America.
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Explore the early mechanization of American agriculture.
A spectacular historical atlas refashioned for the 21st century
Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data—remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century.
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The mirror mechanism is a part of intelligence systems; stimulated when an animal acts or observes another performing the same action. Many animals have mirror mechanisms, including birds and primates.
From an evolutionary perspective, the adaptive advantage to the mirror mechanism comes in creating a biological basis for understanding another’s point of view, as well as fostering a feedback loop for following by example. Eating what another has eaten is a good guide to poison avoidance.
As with all biological hardwiring, successful mechanisms gain wide employment. The mirror mechanism is critical in engendering empathy.
A more primal part is played by envy and socially-motivated desires. People more highly value objects of desire desired by others. Thus the basis for all advertising, and all status seeking. The mirror mechanism factors in competitive urges of all varieties.
China, the world’s oldest civilization, is well practiced in mirror desire. Fakes are rife. 75% of Chinese buy knock-off luxury goods, as social emulation: wanting to wear and possess the same brands as the people they aspire to be. Status seekers seek counterfeits when the real thing is out of reach. Fake it until you make it.
People even view money through the mirror, placing a prestige value on currency units. They consider that “one currency is ‘bigger’ than another if one unit of it can be exchanged for more than one unit of the other,” observes economist Joseph Yam, reflecting on the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate for the Chinese yuan.
The lure of luxury brands is exclusivity, which knock-offs knock on. The result can be a cyclic covetous covenant: brand owners fight to distinguish themselves from fakes, while knock-off makers keep up by investing in better quality production. Lessening exclusivity ratchets expense. Status is, after all, positional.
There is an inherent wastefulness to covetous craving: diverting resources to the materially inessential, and creating trash out of goods that have lost only their status. As unemployment and economic struggle by the middle class grow while Western civilization declines, those driven by status can practice trickle-down economics by recycling. Thank goodness for Goodwill.
Maël Lebreton et al, “Your goal is mine: unraveling mimetic desires in the human brain,” The Journal of Neuroscience 32(21): 7146–7157 (23 May 2012).
Laura Sanders, “Thou just can’t help but covet,” Science News 181(13): 12 (30 June 2012).
“Fakes and status in China,” The Economist (23 June 2012).
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Eating Healthy Couldn’t Be Sweeter!
The Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate are many and it gets my vote for the best tasting healthiest treat on the face of this earth. Actually, I could of titled this article “The Confessions of a Chocolate Addict” because I LOVE dark chocolate, anything from 60% to 85% cocoa content tastes wonderful and it doesn’t hurt that it’s considered a healthier treat alternative.
Now don’t go running out and buy up all the candy bars on the shelf at the nearest gas station. Eating those won’t provide you the same benefits, see those candy bars are majority milk chocolate or white chocolate and there is a big difference. They don’t provide the same type of benefits of dark chocolate because the content of cocoa in them is far less and as the chocolate is processed to give that sweeter taste it also looses much of health benefiting flavanols, more about these in a moment.
Here are our suggestions for choosing dark chocolate with the best combination of taste and health benefits:
- Go with dark chocolate that is at least 60% or greater in cocoa content.. the higher the better.
- Avoid the dark chocolates with caramel, nougat and other fillings in them. The trade off is more taste for added sugar and fat. Go with the pure dark chocolate or dark chocolate with nuts, orange peel or other flavors.. these types will provide you with most overall benefits.
- Eat in moderation.. even though dark chocolate is good for you it is still a fairly high fat, high calorie food. Now a portion of the fat is made up of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat or good fat, but not all of it. The average bar of dark chocolate consists of between 400 – 500 calories, so it wouldn’t be wise to start scarfing down bars every day. Rather a half a bar or a full bar every couple of days should do you fine while helping you to quail that taste for the more unhealthier treats.
Now that you know which dark chocolate to choose and how to eat it, lets tell you why it’s ok too….
Most people don’t know this but chocolate comes from a plant and because of this, it has in it many of the same health benefits that you will find in dark vegetables. The first being Flavonoids which in plants helps protect them from toxins in the environment as well as repair any damage. These flavonoids can be found in fruits, vegetable and dark chocolate. This reparative benefit is also known by the name antioxidant.
Antioxidants as far as we can tell help our body’s cells defend themselves against free radicals, which arereactive and unstable molecules that can affect the body negatively during normal bodily functions or external influences. These free radicals help to speed up the aging process and can assist in bringing about illnesses like cancer and cardiovascular disease.
And this leads us too the last beneficial nutrient found in dark chocolate and that’s Flavanols. Flavanols are the primary type of flavonoid found in cocoa beans. Not only do the flavanols have antioxidants in them but they also have been shown to strengthen your vascular system by improving the flow of blood to your brain and heart as well as helping to lower your blood pressure.
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BillionBricks Homes with Architecture BRIO
A BillionBricks home is the world’s first self-financing home, that combines housing and solar energy into a single investible financial solution. It presents an extraordinary opportunity to shape the future of the world, where everyone can be a homeowner while mitigating climate change. The benefits of this are exponential when these homes combine to form communities. Each home feeds all excess energy and water produced to the community where it might be utilised for communal services.
A BillionBricks community is a triple bottom line solution that combines clean energy and social housing into a single financially viable business proposition.The community produces surplus solar energy which is then sold through Power Purchase Agreements, providing an essential guarantee to raise financing for the project. In addition to homes, it offers an ecosystem of facilities for education, jobs, healthcare, and recreation. The goal of a BillionBricks community is to bring families out of poverty in a single generation and help them achieve lower-middle-income standards.
There are three main objectives to the BillionBricks home and these include circular design principles, aiding the public service system and carbon neutrality. A BillionBricks home is designed to be self-sufficient, off-grid allowing residents to reduce their dependence on public utilities and curb the effects of climate change. Designed to last 60 years, the sustainable homes operate passively, add essential active sustainable technologies to become off-grid and achieve an almost zero footprint and homeowners are encouraged to care for consuming fewer resources and to keep their home and its systems well-maintained.
A typical BillionBricks community of approximately 500 homes can reduce the demand for public services significantly and the excess renewable energy harvested by the communities would then be able to aid areas where local governments struggle to provide basic services.
A BillionBricks home can achieve carbon neutrality in six years beyond which it becomes a carbon-negative home. A community of 500 homes would on average reduce the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by approximately 4,687 tons a year, which is equivalent to CO2 sequestered by 16.5 km2 of forest area per year.
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After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge
Emblems of Antiquity series
Oxford University Press, 2013
So why choose something of dubious validity for the center of a study? Cartledge uses the oath, inscribed between 350 and 325 B.C. describing an event taking place in 479 B.C., as a starting point to look at events, culture, and religion of both time periods while delving into the broader context of the fight for historical memory. The authenticity of the inscribed oath is almost beside the point:
[T]he main point of this book, which is to try to identify and to explain the function(s) the Oath of Plataea was designed to serve in its immediate monumental context. Those functional needs, I suggest, are to be located firmly within a retrospectively triumphalist narrative—or rather story, in the sense of a fabrication—that the Athenians had begun insistently to tell themselves and anyone else who would listen to them from the mid-380s BCE onwards. A story which acquired a new salience and urgency in the desperate times immediately following the Athenians’ calamitous defeat at Chaeronea in 338 [BC]. Those, I further suggest, are respectively the true overall context and the true specific context within which the monument as a whole is to be properly and fully understood. (30)All of which forms an extended whole in conjunction with my recent post on Professor Jeremy McInerney's lecture. This ideologically motivated commemoration was done by shaping history in many forms and relying on politics, religion, and other contexts to change how the battle was remembered. In recounting the battle, Herodotus gave the highest credit to the Spartans, which would be a major factor in how the event would resonate through history:
Plataea, indeed, could almost be called the great unknown battle in one of the great wars of history. One reason for Plataea’s relative lack of celebrity, as already noted, is that it was essentially a Spartan (and Peloponnesian), not Athenian, victory, and the Athenians have been far more vocal, far more influential over the surviving tradition of the Wars, than the Spartans… . Another is that Plataea was a small state… . Yet a third reason for the battle’s lack of its due meed of celebrity is more technical, and due to the nature of the surviving evidence for it. Herodotus’ account is not just the best that we have, but really the only usable one—in the sense that the others are more or less derivative from it rather than independently grounded and valuable. 88-9)Despite declaring the unknown qualities of the battle and even with dedicating a long chapter to it, the battle itself is not the major focus of the book and Cartledge emphasizes the paucity of detail. I’ve included a few links on the battle at the end of the post to help provide essential perspective for much of what happened during the long standoff and battle.
So what are some of the other contexts? Cartledge emphasizes the religious contexts, something he feels hasn’t been adequately examined to date. The monument was found near the ancient city of Acharnae, location of the only temple to Ares in Attica (and one of the few in the Greek world). The temple was also linked with Athena, at least the militarized version of her. While oaths were important throughout Greece, Cartledge goes into detail on the importance of oaths to Athenians, especially oaths that “fostered amity and collective endeavor, and particularly in the stasis-ridden atmosphere of the fourth century BCE.” (58)
There are also political and historical contexts tied to the faux-oath. The monument was erected about the time Athenian males were required to take a couple of years of military training. The trainees had to take the Ephebic Oath, also on the monument. Borrowing (stealing?) the glory from the victory of Plataea would have powerful symbolism and gloss over the principle role of the Spartans. It would also help hide the fact that the glory days of Athenian military glory were past. The monument was erected about the same time as the debacle at Chaeronea (the loss to Philip II of Macedon and loss of Greek independence). If erected after the battle, the oath would provide some salve for the loss. If dedicated before the battle, the oath would supply much needed hope in recalling past successes. In either case there had been radical changes since the Graeco-Persian Wars at the beginning of the 5th century B.C., when Greece was fighting to remain free of Persian influence. Subsequent history would show several Greek cities calling on help from the Persians (and receiving it). As part of reshaping history, was the oath similar to the Athenian post-oligarchic amnesty of 403 B.C., in a sense changing memory by choosing what to remember and what to forget?
Ironically, the oath reminds people that many Greeks fought alongside the Persians during the wars as well as portraying the ultimate victors as gracious to those traitors (or at least they meant to be). Cartledge highlights the amazing part of these wars, which Herodotus likewise emphasizes—the near miracle of Greek cities cooperating together in sizeable numbers against the Persians. The cooperation between Greeks that did fight together quickly dissolved after the wars. Regarding the shaping of memory, Cartledge has this to say:
In their art of memory, as with so many other key cultural artifacts of theirs, the ancient Greeks were quintessentially agonistic, indeed antagonistic: competitive to the ultimate degree. Competition affected not just the matter of how great deeds were celebrated and commemorated but also the issue of which deeds, which battles, were to be celebrated, and by whom. … [T]hough the Plataea victory was actually a Panhellenic accomplishment, almost immediately its memory or rather memorialization became a focal point of contention among eternally rivalrous Greeks and their cities. (123-4)Cartledge includes various means of competition for the way the Persian wars were to be remembered in several areas: monuments, commemorations, histories, myths, epigrams, and others. It’s a very entertaining book, geared toward the general reader. Cartledge foregoes footnotes but provides a “Further Reading” section highlighting sources and helpful details. While I think some knowledge of ancient Greek history is helpful, it isn’t necessary to enjoy the book. It’s a fun approach, using the oath as a means to explore what had changed in Athens and Greece during the 150 years between the Battle of Plataea and the date of the monument as well as unveiling some of the means the Greeks used to shape how history would be remembered.
Additional links and resources listed in the book:
- The University of Nottingham has a database of oaths. Go to the database page and click on “search the database.” The oath ID is 338.
- Cartledge reviews the Wikipedia entry on the Battle of Plataea and finds it “rather good” although he does go over some issues and problems in it.
- He is also complimentary on Nicholas Snow’s description of the battle in the historical novel The Shield.
- Cartledge includes a link to a review of the History Channel’s show on the Battle of Plataea. I would also like to add all posts at that site on the Battle of Plataea. There are plenty of videos posted on YouTube—just type in "Plataea" to search. I will add a link to the page about the battle posted at MilitaryHistoryOnline.com.
- The Onassis Cultural Center NY is hosting a lecture panel and discussion titled After Thermopylae: How Wars are Concluded and Commemorated on June 4, 2013 at the Morgan Library & Museum. In addition to Paul Cartledge the discussion is scheduled to include Bruce Cole, Eugenia Kiesling, and James Romm.
- Cartledge has provided a nice summary post of the book at the Heffers’ Classics blog. He will be a participant in their 2013 Festival. From his post:
Now, so far as the Oath of the Ephebes goes, that’s all fine and dandy – the reference of that oath is contemporary, and it was in 335 or thereabouts that the whole system of ephebic training at Athens was reorganised for the 18- and 19-year-olds performing a sort of national service at a time of grave crisis for Athens (following the Athenians’ heavy defeat by the Macedonians of Philip and Alexander at Chaeronea in 338). But the supposed Oath of Plataea, if genuine, would have been sworn almost 150 years earlier – so why inscribe it now, round about 335 perhaps?
If, that is, it was genuine?
If you have any other pages you think are helpful on either the Battle of Plataea or the Oath of Plataea, let me know and I’ll be happy to add them.
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This year, large numbers of baby boomers are retiring on Social Security, which turns 80 next year. That calls for a review of one of the federal governments largest Ponzi-type scheme, and that description is not a stretch.
In 1919, Bostonian Carl Ponzi promised investors a 50 percent return on their money within 90 days. He was soon raking in $200,000 a day but performed no investing whatsoever. He simply took money from new investors and paid off his earlier recruits.
Many investors lost their life savings, and Ponzi eventually went to prison. But his illegal venture seems insignificant when compared with Social Security.
As in Ponzis scheme, funds are never saved and invested but rather passed along to current recipients of Social Security to spend as they wish. No open fraud is involved but the federal government can do something Ponzi couldnt.
When Ponzis scheme was exposed, he was unable to attract new investors, and everything collapsed. In contrast, the federal government simply forces workers to pay the taxes to cover the promised benefits to Social Security retirees.
In 2012, Social Security outlays were nearly $770 billion and have doubled in size relative to GDP, increasing from 2.4 percent to 4.7 percent, from 1960-2012. They will continue to grow as more baby boomers retire.
As expenditures grow, so will Social Security taxes. Workers and their employers nominally share the cost of Social Security taxes equally, but the actual tax burden falls mainly on the workers. Half of the tax is deducted explicitly from their paychecks, whereas the other half is largely passed on to workers in the form of lower wages than they otherwise would have been paid.
The combined Social Security tax rates have soared from their initial level of 2 percent of the first $3,000 of earnings to 12.4 percent of the first $117,000 of earnings in 2014. While the percentage rates have been stable since 1990, the rate may rise sharply as more baby boomers retire.
Fully funded private retirement programs pay out according to what was paid in. In contrast, pay-as-you-go Social Security has allowed our elected federal officials to build a non-transparent welfare element into the program. Lower-income retirees receive proportionately more benefits relative to taxes paid sometimes a lot more than higher-income retirees.
Social Security also redistributes according to marital status. Social Security gives married couples a bonus even if only one partner worked outside the home and paid Social Security taxes.
Consider also the trophy bride rule. An older man who earned $100,000 in his last working year could retire, marry a younger woman, adopt her child, and add more than $1,000 a month to his $2,000 a month in Social Security benefits.
Baby boomers are also learning that Social Security substantially reduces the nations savings. Those savings enhance our economys ability to grow and prosper. Reducing savings lowers the standard of living we all enjoy. Personal savings as a percentage of disposable income has been declining fairly steadily since 1975.
The Social Security system substitutes for personal savings and reduces them by as much as 60 percent, according to Martin Feldstein, Harvard economist and director of the National Bureau for Economic Research. The overall losses in savings are likely in the trillions.
Politicians may tout Social Security taxes as a form of savings that will help fund retirement. But money from the taxes is not saved. The government simply passes it on to other people, in the style of swindler Carl Ponzi.
On top of that reality, and many other problems, Social Security adds nothing to U.S. productive capacity. Despite grand intentions, it is merely a promise to tax someone in the future. Current taxpaying workers and retiring baby boomers may find that future less rosy than they imagined. | <urn:uuid:f6e379c8-b55a-4c28-a1ea-dced4f5cd974> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=4908 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966388 | 787 | 2.421875 | 2 |
A Complete Overview
Oilfield cementing is known as the developing & pumping of cement into a wellbore. Cementing is committed to protecting and sealing a wellbore. Cementing provides zonal isolation, and Oilfield cementing pumps cement into the wellbore.
It is part of preparing a well for further drilling process and production or abandonment. This exclusive process is used for many reasons; usually, it is utilized to cut off water penetration into the wall permanently.
Purpose of Oilfield cementing process:
Also, it is a part of the whole process of a prospective production well, and cement can be utilized to close up the annulus after a casing string has been run in a wellbore. Furthermore, Oilfield cementing is used to shut off a lost circulation zone or an area where there is a possibility of reduction or absence of flow in the wellbore.
In the directional drilling process, cementing is utilized to plug a previous well in the case of running a directional well from that point. In addition, a cementing procedure is used to plug a well or sinkhole to abandon it.
The cementing process is performed in that scenario; when the cement slurry is deployed into the well through the pumps, displacing the drilling fluids still placed within the well and substation them with cement. The cement slurry flows into the bottom side of the wellbore through the casing.
It would gradually flow to the pipe through which the hydrocarbons flow to the actual surface. It fills in the space & holes between the casing & the wellbore and hardens. This process will ensure a seal so that outside materials can’t enter into the excellent flow and always position the casing in place.
What is Zonal isolation?
Zonal isolation is an essential part of Oilfield cementing that is not directly in link with the production, but this is an important task. It must be performed in an ineffective way to permit production or stimulation procedures. The victory of a well depends upon this primary procedure. Furthermore, it also supports isolating oil-and-gas- and water-producing zones. Cement also aids in the following areas;
- Shield the casing from corrosion
- Avoid blowouts by quickly forming a shut-off
- Protecting the casing from various shock loads in in-depth drilling
- Sealing off zones of lost circulations or thief zones
Oilfield cementing: 2 broad Categories
Primary cementing is an exclusive process that is used to provide zonal isolation. Cementing is a blending slurry of cement, cement additives & water. As well as pumping it down through the casing to main points in the annulus that are around the casing or in the open hole under the casing string. The two fundamental functions of the cementing procedure are:
To bound fluid movement in between the formations
Make a strong bond and support the casing
If these functions are achieved effectively, other requirements will be imposed while the life of the well would be met, including:
- Government regulations
Remedial cementing is a process that is usually done to solve many problems that are associated with the primary cement operation. The most perfect and economical approach to remedial cementing is to prevent it by thoroughly strategic planning, designing, and executing all drilling processes, primary cementing, and completion functions. Remedial cementing required to restore a well’s operation indicates that primary functional planning & execution were unproductive, resulting in costly repair operations. Remedial cementing operations consist of 2 main categories:
- Squeeze cementing
- Plug cementing
Cement placement procedures; step by step guidance:
Typically, five basic steps are needed to obtain a successful Oilfield cementing operation and meet the previously outlined functions.
- First of all, analyze the good parameters, explain the requirements of the well, and then design & structure placement methods along with fluids to meet the demands for the life of the well. Fluid properties, fluid mechanics, & chemistry influence the design utilized for a well.
- Let’s Calculate fluid (slurry) composition and perform required laboratory tests on the slurry designed in Step 1 to see that they meet the demands or not
- Use essential hardware to implement the design in the 1st step; calculate the volume of fluids (slurry) to be pumped; mix and pump the slurry into the annulus.
- Observe the treatment in real-time; compare it with Step 1 and make necessary changes.
- Determine the outputs; compare them with the design in Step 1 and make changes as necessary for further operations.
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What is Oilfield cementing?
Oilfield cementing is the complete process of developing & pumping cement into a wellbore. Cementing assists in safeguarding and closing off a wellbore.
What is the cementing process?
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The Henry Miller Memorial was created by Emil White, a longtime friend of Miller.
Emil White was one of Henry Miller’s closest friends and confidants. Miller, in fact, dedicated Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch to White, describing him as “One of the few friends who has never failed me.” While he is known primarily for his association with Miller, White was one of Big Sur’s most colorful characters, a brilliant painter (we sell many of his prints on our online store), and a remarkable person in his own right.
After Miller died in 1980, Emil decided to maintain his property as a memorial to his friend and as a gallery where local artists could show their work. In 1981, with the assistance of the Big Sur Land Trust (BSLT), he converted his home into the Library.
Emil spent the rest of his life as director of the new institution, which evolved into a local center for the arts. At his death in 1989, White bequeathed the “Henry Miller Memorial Library, Founded by Emil White,” to the Big Sur Land Trust.
“With this bequest,” White wrote in his Last Will and Testament, “I am encouraging support and maintenance of said Library, and to promote and enhance the scholarly research and worldwide enjoyment of Henry Miller’s literary and artistic works.”
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By Lynsey Fraser
Health and Fitness Professional/Personal Trainer
So, last year I badly injured my back and had to stop training. I have gone from training like a beast to not being able to tie my shoes. I have to spend a lot of time just lying on my back resting, which have given me some time to reflect and gain clarity – this is not a setback …this is an opportunity for a comeback!
So how do we turn our setbacks into comebacks?
- It’s time to remove the ego, the stubbornness, turn off beast mode, stop blaming other and accept whatever has happened. It may not be fair, it may not be your fault but don’t waste your energy getting upset about something you have no control over- you are going to need it for late
- Re-evaluate. Take some time to be honest with yourself – why did it happen? Was it just bad luck? Did you give it your all? Did you do too much or not enough? If I look at my own injury – it’s truly my own fault. I have a history of disc issues; I was over training and not listening to my body – It’s not surprising I got hurt. Time to re-evaluate. Could you be working on a different approach. Now is the time to do your homework.
- Set a new goal. Don’t be discouraged just refocus. If you didn’t make the team this season then what can you be doing to improve for next ? If your injured – what can you be doing ( safely ) to recover? I can compete but instead have booked a photo-shoot for a few weeks’ time – this gives me a new goal to focus on.
- Don’t give up! Bill Gates was a drop out, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, Walt Disney was told he had no imagination- one set back doesn’t stop you. Don’t be discouraged; if you really want something then just keep working for it. Not every attempt is going to go to plan but just keep working.
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First let me clarify that when I say this sourdough sandwich bread is yeast-free, I mean it's free of any added yeast. There is yeast in this loaf, but it's the wild kind, seduced from the air around your kitchen by the flour and the water and by the potent chemistry they create together.
This is the most perfect sandwich bread I've ever baked, and yes, it's mostly white flour, but I don't feel like the devil about it. Research shows that the healthiness of white sourdough bread far exceeds that of wholegrain and multigrain breads.
That's because sourdough has a powerful effect on blood sugar: when left to work its fermenting magic, it breaks down the starches in the foods it's added to, making them easier to digest. Sourdough is also probiotic, which means it is packed with healthy gut bacteria, so you can feel truly holier-than-thou when you smear this bread with some peanut butter or use it to cradle a delicious vegan burger.
Many sourdough breads need to be started a day before, but this one can easily be made in about eight hours from start to finish, including three rise times. So if you start your bread late in the morning, you can easily have some in time for dinner.
I understand that most of you probably aren't sourdough nuts and don't have a jar of bubbly starter sitting on your kitchen table or in the refrigerator, but that doesn't mean I won't try to convert you. Making sourdough starter is one of the easiest things you can do-- all you need to do is stir flour and water with a spoon. Nature takes care of the rest. I used a recipe from the King Arthur Flour website to make my starter and it's excellent.
I did change the hydration -- the ratio of water to flour -- of the starter. The King Arthur recipe has 50 percent hydration, which means it has ½ cup of water for each 1 cup of flour used to make and feed the sourdough. My sourdough has 75 percent hydration, meaning I add ¾ cup of water for each cup of flour when I feed my sourdough. I find the 50 percent hydration starter just a tad too firm for my baking.
I am in love with my starter. I've been using it almost every weekend to make my whole-wheat sourdough waffles and they are such a hit that Jay and Desi demand them every week. This bread is our new favorite way to use it. All I need now is to name my starter-- I read somewhere that sourdough aficionados do that, and my friend Margo told me the other day that her mother, who kept hers alive for more than 30 years, called him "Herman."
More sourdough recipes:
Sourdough Sandwich Bread, yeast-free recipe:
The Best Sourdough Sandwich Bread, yeast-free
- 1 ½ cups sourdough starter
- 2 cups lukewarm water
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 4-5 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoon salt
- Place the sourdough starter in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Add to it the wholewheat flour, 1 cup of all-purpose flour, and water. Mix well and set it aside, covered, in a warm place for four hours.
- Add 2 cups of all-purpose flour, olive oil and salt and mix. Add more flour as you knead until the dough becomes quite firm but still feels a little sticky to your fingers.
- Turn out the dough on the kitchen platform or any flat surface and knead by hand for 4-5 minutes or until the dough feels smooth and springy to your fingers and it barely sticks to the platform.
- Shape into a ball and place in an oiled bowl, turning the ball of dough around once to coat the top with oil.
- Cover tightly and place in a warm spot (like an oven with the light turned on) for at least two hours or until the dough has doubled.
- Punch down the dough and divide into two. Prep two standard loaf pans by spraying lightly with oil and then sprinkling on some cornmeal or semolina.
- Shape each portion of the dough into an oval. The dough should be very pliable and should shape easily.
- Place each loaf into the prepared loaf pans. Cover with a kitchen towel and let them stand in a warm place for at least two more hours or until the dough rises above the top of the loaf pans.
- About half an hour before baking, preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- Place the loaves in the oven and bake 40 minutes.
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As Ted and I reflect on our trip to Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand, highlights of the trip come to mind. We have many, but here are ten of them, in no particular order:
(1) Lazy morning coffee and hot chocolate in the Viking Winter Garden.
(2) Summer fruit and vegetables in December and January. (3) Komodo–our new standard for “how hot is it?” If it’s not as hot as Komodo, it’s not bad. (4) Ted’s birthday dinner.
(5) Talking with local residents. (6) Petting a koala.
(7) Seeing the Great Barrier Reef.
(8) The onboard Christmas Eve Service. It made us feel less lonely to be with nearly 1,000 other people who were also away from their families at this special time of year. (9) Sightseeing in a jet boat.
(10) Choco-fest times two. Two chances to enjoy the Viking chef’s creativity with chocolate.
Ted and I brought home three small souvenirs from our recent trip. The little basket is handmade and was sold at a local market in Mataram, Lombok (Indonesia).
We bought the orange dish in Melbourne, Victoria. It was authentically crafted in Australia by an Aborigine tribal member.
The kiwi bird–the national icon and unofficial national emblem of New Zealand–was purchased in Rotorua, NZ. It was mass-produced, but it comes with an interesting story. Here’s the short version of the Maori legend:
Tana-mahuta, the god of the forest, was worried about his children, the trees, because the bugs were eating them. He asked various birds to give up the gift of flight to live on the ground and eat the bugs to save the trees. One bird refused because he was afraid of the darkness in the forest; another didn’t like the dampness; and every other bird had an excuse. Only the kiwi bird said, “Great! I have a fear of heights and I hate to fly anyway, so I’ll be glad to live on the ground.” Because the kiwi sacrificed its beautiful wings and feathers to live on the forest floor, Tana-mahuta made it the most well-known and best-loved bird in all of New Zealand. New Zealanders have been called “kiwis” since Australian soldiers bestowed the name on them in World War I.
All automobiles are imported to Australia. There are no auto manufacturers or assemblers in the country.
New Zealand was the first country to introduce the forty-hour work week, but due to the high cost of living in New Zealand, many people need more than one job to meet their expenses, in spite of the fact that the minimum wage is considered to be sufficient to make tipping unnecessary.
We saw no huge McMansions in either Australia or New Zealand. Expensive homes have two stories instead of one and are more like a middle-size U.S. home with a very small lot.
Sign on a chocolate shop: You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy chocolate.
In Australia, snowbirds are called “gray nomads” and go north to Darwin for the winter.
Only fish and flightless birds are native to New Zealand. All other animals have been imported. As a result, there are no predators, and animal overpopulation of some imported species has caused problems.
I started with a checklist of six things I wanted to see and/or experience on our trip. Bonuses not included on that list were: ghost gums, wallabies, koalas, kangaroos, and hearing people say “No worries.”
On our way to Australia, Ted and I ordered a pizza for lunch at LAX. We were carded to get a beer with the pizza. When I asked the server “Really??!!” he said “Yes.” So we look like we might be under 21? Lucky us at our age!
Mark is beyond a doubt the best driver we’ve ever shared a car with. Maybe it’s because he is a retired policeman, but he handled a car more smoothly and safely than anyone in Ted’s and my experience.
Want to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit? Multiply by 2, then add 30. Fahrenheit to Celsius is the opposite: subtract 30, then divide by 2. The answer will be within 0-2 degrees.
Passengers were introduced to the Viking management staff at a short program in the ship’s theater. Each guest was given a glass of champagne, and each crew member also had a glass of champagne. When he introduced himself, the captain raised his glass, then set it aside with the comment, “Designated driver. Again.” The beverage manager closed by saying “Stay hydrated.” The chef claimed responsibility “for the one pound per day you will gain on this cruise,” and the doctor said, “I’d love to meet each of you socially.”
It’s been an amazing six weeks since we left home. I loved the summer weather and we’ve seen and learned so many beautiful and interesting things. Ted and I agree we’d like to re-visit this part of the world.
At the same time, we’ve been breathing smoky air from the bush fires in Australia since we got to Newcastle on December 26. The winds are blowing to the southeast, so smoke and particulates were in the air all the way around Australia from Newcastle to Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania, and also during our time in New Zealand. As a result, Ted and I are both coughing and want to get back to clean air. I’ll bet the doctors in this part of the world are doing a booming business from smoke-related illnesses. Like the Australians, we hope rain will come soon, and we wish the firefighters well as they continue to make progress in controlling the fires.
Tracey did an amazing job of selecting train times and getting all the information we needed to find our way to the airport. Mark and Tracey drove us to the train station to see us off. Tracey had already decided which would be the best car to sit in and where to sit in the car, so Mark helped with our luggage (he’s so nice) and got us into our seats. We got off at the right station in Sydney, found the connecting gate to the airport, and arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare. Thank you, Tracey and Mark.
As we were walking around the airport (exercising before our 16-hour flight to Dallas), we saw these kids. I asked their parents if I could take a picture of them. They are so cute, and they reinforce my point that kids are the same all around the world.
Several years ago, Ted and I decided to fly business class on long flights, and it’s worth every penny. Today’s flight put us on an Airbus 380–the first time we’ve flown on the really big plane with two levels of seating. We’re happy campers (or fliers). The panel beside my shoulder can be raised to the seat top for privacy, if desired.
Naturally, we were among the first to board and we were directed to the upper level where there are only six (large) seats across; the main cabin has ten.
Ted had three windows to look outside (one more is beside him) instead of one-and-a-half like the main cabin.
There’s plenty of legroom.
While the main cabin was boarding, we made our menu selections for our upcoming meals and snacks, put the mattress pads on our seats (it makes them a little softer), put our footrests up, accepted a glass of wine and a bowl of nuts to snack on, and got comfortable. I picked out a movie and started watching it. Yes, that’s a nearly twin-size quilted blanket over my legs (white and charcoal to match the decor) to keep me warm on the chilly plane.
The business class food is delicious! This is the first course. I selected steak for the main course, and then dessert–all pre-ordered as the main cabin boarded, then served on china dishes, not in cardboard boxes. The tomato soup was amazing. I wish I knew which spices they added to it. We had choices for snacks–fruit, ice cream bars, cheese plates, chocolates, etc.–instead of the dry cookie or mini-pretzels served in the main cabin. In fact, we were invited to go to the galley and choose whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted something.
Business class also includes a pair of warm socks and pajamas for overnight flights. This was a Qantas flight, and they have the nicest pj’s we’ve seen–knit fabric with sweatpants-like bottoms and a pull-over top in S-M-L sizes instead of one gigantic size. I think everyone in our cabin put them on within the first 2-3 hours, and they were very comfortable. During most of the flight, when people moved around, it looked like we were all at a big pajama party in matching pj’s.
When we got home–35 hours after leaving Mark and Tracey’s house–it was only two hours later than when we left Sydney on the same day. There were 50 messages on the phone and a warning that the recording space was filled. One message was a reminder about an upcoming appointment; two were from the St. Charles School District (where Ted volunteers) announcing school closings for snow; and 47 were hang-ups. Who knows how many more robo calls we’d have had if there had been more recording space?!
In the kitchen, we found love gifts from Kari: a gallon of milk, a box of cereal, a loaf of bread, and fruit (apples, bananas, and blueberries). Best of all, thank-you notes from her family (we love reading those) and some Christmas candy she’d made because she knew I didn’t. We must have done a lot more right than wrong when we were raising our kids, because they are all adults we are proud of and thankful for in so many ways.
Thom’s family’s Christmas gifts were in the accumulated mail we picked up. The Lego exchange between Thom and me continues. I had to build this right away.
It was a great trip and we’d do it again, but we look forward to being with our family again next Christmas. Now, good-night. I think we’re going to sleep for a week.
Author’s note: We used seven airports for this trip, and DFW wins the prize hands down for grumpiest employees and most inefficient baggage retrieval. Either everyone at DFW was having a bad day or they all work for terrible bosses and hate their jobs. Ted and I always look forward to coming home from overseas and hearing “Welcome home” from the customs officer, but that didn’t happen this time. The DFW customs officer was barely civil to the people passing through. They need to attend a workshop in Australia or New Zealand to see what friendly looks like.
Today, Tracey and Mark took us sightseeing in their area. We drove to some pretty beaches and ended the morning at Nelson Head Reserve, the highest point (175 feet elevation) at Port Stephens. Because there is such a good view of the surrounding water, this point was chosen for the original (now “heritage”) Port Stephens lighthouse.
In my picture below, taken at the top of Nelson Head, you can see a peninsula jutting into the water. Tracey and Mark live on the facing side of the peninsula very close to its tip. That’s what we walked across last night for dinner. The water beyond and in the port area is the Karua River; the village below is Port Stephens, New South Wales.
Moving to the right from the above photo, the space between the two large rocky hills (ancient volcanoes?–I forgot to ask Mark) is the entrance from Port Stephens to the Pacific Ocean.
After our morning driving tour, we bought lunch at another bakery (aka café) and brought it to Lighthouse Beach (near Port Stephens). We sat at a picnic table overlooking the beach.
It’s another hot day and it’s still summer break from school, so there were a lot of people swimming at the beach. Even though I was sitting in the warm sunlight and watching all those school-age kids swim, I couldn’t wrap my head around “summer in January.” My inner logic says this should be July because January is a cold month.
There were some surfers at the beach as well, but the biggest attraction (available in a number of places in the area) is camel rides. It was fun to watch people mounting the camels and then follow their course around the area.
From the mounting area at the parking lot, the camels slowly (and I do mean slowly) ambled behind some sand dunes, then emerged and headed for the beach. They walked in the shallow water a little way and then turned and made the return trip to the mounting area. It was probably a 30-45 minute ride for those who purchased tickets.
We worked our way back around Port Stephens to Soldiers’ Point (where Mark and Tracey live) and stopped at a post office to purchase train tickets for Ted’s and my trip to the Sydney airport tomorrow. The airport is about a 3.5-hour drive from Soldiers’ Point; the train tickets cost us $20 each, That’s much better than Mark and Tracey driving seven hours round-trip to take us to the airport.
Our final stop of the afternoon was at Mark and Tracey’s bowling club, about two blocks from their home. Both of them participate in lawn bowling leagues, and that’s one of the reasons they selected this place to live when they moved here from Newcastle two years ago. Tracey is pretty good, but Mark is nearly professional grade. He regularly wins high-level championships.
Lawn bowls take about twice the width and at least twice the length of bowling alley lanes, so a number of games can be in progress simultaneously on this field. Under the tented roof, it was surprisingly cool and comfortable, given how high the temperature was (upper 80s?). Mark started by placing a small yellow ball on the far end of the field. He then showed Ted how to roll the red balls.
Ted did a good job for his first time, but it was obvious that he’s more used to lane bowling. Mark (after years of playing) could drop the ball smoothly on the grass; Ted had to fight the urge to give it a good thrust so it would make it across the field. With just a gentle toss, the balls rolled surprisingly far. They also curved easily, which Mark used to his advantage and which made some of Ted’s attempts go where he never intended them to go.
The goal of the game was to have the red ball stop as closely as possible to the yellow ball. Ted threw the ball in the foreground, then Mark threw the ball that landed on the white line. Good job, Ted. It’s your first try, and you came really close to the champ’s throw.
After bowling, we went back to Mark and Tracey’s home to visit with them and to give Mark a chance to start dinner. (He’s the cook in the family.) He made a pork roast with cracklings. He roasted the meat in a convection oven after rubbing seasoning into the fat on the top side. The oven made the fat brown and crisp. Mark cut it off and broke it into pieces that tasted like thick bacon. I’ve never had cracklings before, but I might have to try to make them sometime.
While the pork roasted, we went to a neighbor’s apartment and enjoyed appetizers with two other couples who were friends of Mark and Tracey. We all had a very enjoyable and relaxing time. One of the things we discussed was Mark and Tracey’s upcoming trip to the U.S. with these two couples. In June, they are flying to Alaska for a cruise that ends in Vancouver. From there, they are going to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, where they will have four days on their own. We’re going to see if it’s possible for Ted and me to join them in Las Vegas, and I’m going to contact Cheryl and Dave to see if they can come too. It would be so much fun for the six of us to reunite as a group this summer!
We enjoyed our last evening together, but it was bittersweet to end our time with our friends. Here’s hoping we can see them again in June.
Author’s note: From the time we arrived in Sydney, Mark, Tracey, and their friends all called me “Di”–a nickname I’ve never used. When I mentioned that, they said the Australians shorten everything, so I paid attention, and it’s true. Tracey was “Trace” to Mark and their friends, and they all called it “San Fran” when discussing their upcoming trip. Lots of other words were similarly shortened. Tracey explained it as “same, same, different.” We all use English, but we have different names for many of the same things. It was fun exchanging some of the differences. Examples: road train = tractor-trailer truck; car park = parking lot; jam = jelly/jam; jelly = jell-o; lollies = candy; queue = line; petrol = gas; windscreen = windshield; thongs = flip-flops (never underwear). See? “Same, same, different.”
On our 2015 Grand European Cruise, Ted and I became good friends with five couples, and we all still keep in touch with each other. In the 2015 photo below, Ted and I are at the far end on the right side of the table. Since that cruise, we’ve exchanged visits (St. Louis and Las Cruces, NM) with Cheryl and Dave. Cheryl is in the center on the right; Dave is across from her in the baseball cap. Cheryl and Dave have visited Tracey and Mark (in the foreground on the right) in Sydney, and today, Ted and I met Tracey and Mark in Sydney. The other two couples are from Tennessee and California.
Our flight from Auckland arrived in Sydney around 6:00 p.m. We weren’t sure where to go to meet Mark and Tracey and didn’t see signs for “Passenger Pick-up,” so we asked two airport workers who were walking down the corridor near us. They were so-o-o friendly. (Author’s comment: Australians and New Zealanders are, beyond a doubt, the most friendly people we’ve met anywhere overseas. Not that the others are unfriendly, but the Down Under folks go all out.Even the customs officials laugh and joke with the people whose passports they’re examining.)
The two men thought we’d most likely need to go to a nearby doorway but, to be sure, they offered to call Tracey to find out where she was. Australians speak English, but they have their own accent and idioms, and they speak very quickly, so I often have to catch the main words and fill in the blanks. Especially for a phone conversation, it was better to have one Aussie speak to another. The man and Tracey had a brief conversation, determined where all of us were, and sent us to the door at which Mark and Tracey arrived simultaneously. Awesome!
Tracey and Mark live almost three hours north of Sydney, so Tracey made a hotel reservation for a two-bedroom / kitchen / living room / balcony suite for all of us in Sydney tonight. The plan was to spend the evening and tomorrow in Sydney, then go to their home in Soldiers Point for the next two days before Ted and I go back to Sydney to fly home. The hotel was right on the Sydney harbor, so the first thing we did was take a selfie of the four of us with the Harbour Bridge in the background.
After that, we had to take a picture of our 26th-story view of the harbor. You can see the Harbour Bridge in the center and the Sydney Opera House to the left of the bridge.
Ted and I ate on the flight, but Tracey brought some fruit, crackers, etc. for snacks, so we snacked a little bit, then took a cab to The Rocks–so named for the sandstone rocks along the Sydney shore. The area has been developed into an entertainment district. It was Sunday night, so there wasn’t much action, but it was a lovely night to take a walk. And there was a great view of the Sydney Opera House at night.
The next morning, Tracey and Mark performed just as Cheryl and Dave promised us–as an outstanding host and hostess. We started by visiting several wharves on some of Sydney’s quays (that’s pronounced keys in Australia). Each one had a variety of museums, restaurants, and entertainment venues. This one is the King Street Wharf.
A highlight for Ted and me was Bondi (pronounced bon’-dye) Beach. It’s a famous and fabulous beach in Sydney. It was a warm day and it’s summer break from school for the kids, so the beach was crowded.
It’s also a scenic beach . . .
. . . and it’s good for surfing.
We had lunch at a bakery. In Australia, bakeries are more like cafés than a place to buy breads and sweet rolls. Ted and I tried beef pepper pasties. I liked it better than Ted because I like pepper more than he does. It was an adventure for me, however. I had trouble figuring out how to open the ketchup packet. There was no little tab on the corner, but there was a raised hump in the top center. I bent the package backward to pop the hump open–and promptly squirted my shirt, my face, and my hair with ketchup! After a good laugh, Tracey told me you need to open them with the hump on the bottom, then squeeze the bubbles to release the ketchup. Lesson learned, although I didn’t encounter any more ketchup packets during our visit.
Mark and Tracey spent the past week caravaning (“camping with trailers” in the U.S.) with three of their four daughters and sons-in-law and eight of their eleven grandchildren about an hour-and-a-half north of Sydney. The kids were staying for another week, so we stopped to visit with them on our way to Soldiers Point after lunch. (Their fourth daughter’s family lives in the Blue Mountains, about three hours west of Sydney and wasn’t with the group this time.)
Tracey told everyone they needed to talk more slowly so their American friends could understand everyone. They were very hospitable and told the kids (all under 10 years old) that this was a great opportunity to ask us questions about America, so the kids did. Do we have license plates on our cars in America? Does it get cold? Where is St. Louis? After about an hour, one of the daughters said, “I-i-i’ve. Ne-e-ever. Ta-a-alked. Thi-i-is. Slo-o-owly. I-i-in. My-y-y. L-i-i-ife.” and we all laughed–but Ted and I understood every word that everyone said. How gracious and thoughtful of them!
When we arrived at Mark and Tracey’s house, they informed us that they’d invited three couples to join us for dinner at a local restaurant. Soldiers Point is located at the tip of a spit of land that juts into the Karua River. The spit is very narrow, so although Tracey and Mark live on the east side of the little peninsula and the restaurant was on the west side, it was less than a 10-minute walk. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting their friends and we had a delicious dinner and a lovely evening together.
Tracey’s food was so pretty, she wanted a picture of it.
The group eats here regularly, so they generously insisted that Ted and I take the open-air window seats at the table.
There were lots of pelicans in the water.
We watched the sun set while we ate.
The setting became even more romantic when the lights came on.
When we got back to Mark and Tracey’s home, I mentioned that I’d like to see the Southern Cross. We went up to the rooftop patio and Mark pointed it out to me. It’s not as bright as the Big Dipper, but it’s easy to find. Check! And that’s #6 of 6 on my checklist.
Today, Ted and I had a six-hour tour of Auckland and the nearby countryside. Mostly, the drive through the city looked very similar to driving through any American city.
Author’s note: Europe is very different from the U.S.–very old (dating back to medieval times), very crowded, and still using what are probably the original cobblestone streets. Australia and New Zealand are “new” to Westerners (1600s), and there’s lots of space, so we saw many SUVs and superhighways, skyscrapers, and not a single castle or ancient cathedral.
Cornwall Park, however, was unusual. There were lots of joggers, bicyclists, and walkers (Auckland must have a very fit population), but the unusual part was that the park includes a working farm–a condition of the land acquisition. As a result, there are many beautiful park vistas, and also grazing cattle and sheep.
New Zealand has a huge dairy industry. Its biggest customer is China, with a very high demand for NZ powdered milk.
NZ’s merino sheep are famous for their wool. Merino wool feels very soft and silky, and I would have loved to buy a merino wool sweater for myself. Unfortunately, even though it’s very fine/thin, merino wool is also very warm, and I knew I wouldn’t wear the sweater except on the one or two extremely cold days we get in St. Louis each winter. Darn!
After the morning city tour, we had lunch at the Soljan’s Estate Winery, just outside of Auckland. The food was delicious, of course, and so was the wine. We’ve eaten at a number of wineries on our overseas trips and it’s making me think that Ted and I should go to lunch more often at some of the Missouri wineries in the Augusta wine district, only about 20 minutes from our house.
After lunch, we went to Waitakere Ranges Regional Park, a nature preserve which provides a protected habitat for the kauri tree.
The kauri tree is unique because it produces very hard wood that doesn’t rot, making it ideal for building boats and buildings. It also grows very straight and tall–even the branches grow straight out from the trunk–and it is knot-less, so there is little waste when it is cut for lumber. Kauri trees are slow-growing and live for 600-1,000 years, so it takes time to replace them. The kauri tree used to be abundant in New Zealand, but it was cut to the point of near extinction (fewer than 19,000 acres of kauri trees remain) and is now protected by law.
There were several nature trails in the park, so Ted and I chose one and took a lovely walk in the woods. Before embarking on the trail, we were required to clean the soles of our shoes on stiff rolling brushes, then spray them with a disinfectant to avoid bringing contaminants into the forest. When we returned, we had to clean our shoes again before re-joining our group.
The park is set atop a high hill, with beautiful views from some of the trails and from the visitors’ center. If you need guidance, take your picture here.
Yes, it is a good place to take a picture. This is the view from inside the frame in the photo above.
The final leg of our excursion today took us to Auckland’s north shore, and then to Devonport Village, a quaint little town with lots of little shops. Neither Ted nor I wanted to spend our time shopping, so we sat on a park bench and talked with a young New Zealand man for an hour, which was far more interesting. His mother is currently visiting friends and family in Chicago and Toronto. It’s definitely a small world, isn’t it?
After leaving our ship and checking into our hotel, we spent today in Auckland on our own, walking around the city center. The weather was beautiful and the exercise felt good. This part of New Zealand has lots of dead volcanoes–there are 80 in the city of Auckland itself–so it’s a hilly place to walk. Here’s a view of Auckland’s skyline from across the harbor.
One of the first things we noticed downtown was the Farmers department store Christmas decorations. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bigger Santa or bigger reindeer. Of course, it’s Auckland, so there are palm trees along the sidewalk.
The main attraction for us today was the Sky Tower, the iconic landmark of Auckland. The Big Question: Shall we go up the tower during the day and see everything clearly, or shall we wait until evening, when the lights of the city will twinkle into the distance? No problem. For an additional $3 above the senior discount ticket price, we had unlimited access to the top of the tower for 24 hours (within operating hours, of course).
For $225 (NZD) you can also buy a ticket for the SkyWalk and SkyJump. I have a strong will to live, so I voted against that, but we watched other people do it. After you buy your ticket to drop, an attendant opens the locked gate and you climb a few stairs to a platform to be outfitted and tethered to the apparatus that will take you to the top of the tower. This takes 15-20 minutes. Surprisingly, you make the upward journey feet first. I assume the large weight keeps you from swinging around too much in the New Zealand wind.
Question: Why not take the elevator up?
Then it’s another 20-25 minutes before you actually make the drop. I assume this is how long it takes to walk the 360 degrees around the 630-foot high SkyWalk before taking The Plunge. Here’s the guy from the above photo on his way down.
We later talked to a man and his son who had made the jump/fall. They had previously jumped out of airplanes and admitted (slightly disparagingly) that this is not a free-fall. As in “anyone can do this.” (Not me.) They described it as a “very controlled drop.” Notice in the photo above that the person is tethered to a horizontal line that is attached to three vertical lines (one attached to the person). This would certainly make it possible to control the speed of the fall. Still, the drop is 630 feet, and my video of this guy’s drop was 12 seconds, so it’s a short-lived thrill for $225. There’s a point near the base where the brakes are apparently applied, because the falling man slowed dramatically before touching the ground.
Then it was time for Ted and me to go up the tower–in the express elevator, not by wires. The views (also 360 degrees) are great. See the hills in the photo below? Those are some of the 80 dead volcanoes in Auckland.
Can you find McDonald’s?
The pink road is part of the annual breast cancer run.
I have no idea what the dots signify at this intersection.
Auckland is known as the “city of sails.” It definitely has enough wind for sailboats. You can see the harbor bridge in this photo, as well as a marina filled with sailboats.
While we were on the Sky Deck, we took time to enjoy the view and some ice cream. As we were eating, another SkyFall daredevil dropped past this window, adding a little thrill to our ice cream treat.
When we went up the tower after dinner, we were glad we’d gone in the daylight. At night, it was obvious that the windows are filthy–not that I want to be the one to wash them. Even worse, the windows are angled outward so people can look almost straight down, but the interior ceiling lights are on, making it difficult to take a picture without the reflection of the interior lights. Making my best effort, here’s the pink road again–at night (on the right).
Yeah, whatever. What does that mean? Is it a company name? An expression of indifference? A social statement of helplessness?
Here’s a picture of the harbor bridge at night.
Moon over Auckland. A beautiful summer evening.
I took pictures of the Sky Tower by day and by night. It’s a pretty landmark either way.
After our Sky Tower time, Ted and I walked along the waterfront for a little while, then back to our harborside hotel. Last night was our final night onboard the Viking Orion–our home for the past 30 days. We’ve enjoyed our cruises and are sorry they will be ending, but our vacation isn’t over, and it’s always better to leave while you wish you could stay rather than staying until you can’t wait to for it to end. Here’s our ship, ready for its next group of passengers who will be cruising from Auckland to Melbourne–the reverse of what we’ve just done.
Tonight’s onboard entertainment was provided by a group called “Mana Maori.” Mana means a special essence of life, so the performance featured a selection of Maori dances interspersed with spoken information about the Maori culture and some of its dances.
This dance is a peaceful, “let’s have fun together” dance. The skirts are made out of flax, like the demonstration we saw in Rotorua yesterday.
Here’s a celebratory dance in which the women swing white balls on strings around themselves in a variety of patterns. To keep their hands and wrists loose for this, they kept shaking them rapidly between dances. I tried shaking my wrists that quickly, but it’s like belly-dancing or Polynesian hip-wiggling dancing–it obviously takes a lot of practice to make your joints that loose!
My final example from the performance is a war dance. The purpose is to pump up the warriors and to frighten the enemies. Maoris stick out their tongues as far as possible to look fierce. The guy on the right in the photo did a great job of looking fierce. I didn’t want to meet him on the battlefield. Strangely, at the same time, he looked like he could be a lot of fun.
Author’s thoughts: What would happen to racial relations in the U.S. if we followed New Zealand’s example? In 1987, New Zealand passed a law to recognize English, Maori, and sign language as the official languages of the country. After years of punishing Maori people for speaking their native language, Maori is now a required language course in all schools. In addition, New Zealanders recently recognized that history cannot be ignored or buried; it is an integral part of cultural development in a country. As a result, in September 2019, Maori history became a compulsory subject in all schools. What if American schools included the histories of the indigenous Native Americans, the imported African Americans, and other groups of immigrants–including their contributions to American culture–rather than simply mentioning wars, treaties, and laws related to those groups whose histories are embedded in our culture. We are all people, we all have value, and we all like to be recognized for our value as human beings. Think about it.
Ted and I spent today at Rotorua on the northern side of NZ’s North Island. The area is known for its geysers, steam vents, and hot mud pools. We had to drive over an hour to get to Rotorua, and we passed miles of pretty beaches along the way.
We had a five-part day at Te Puia in Rotorua: visits to the Maori cultural center, followed by the Maori heritage workshop, lunch, a walk through the active geothermal area, and a visit to the kiwi habitat.
The cultural center was very much like the New Zealand part of the Polynesian Cultural Center that we visited in Hawai’i two years ago, but with the addition of a welcoming ceremony in which we took part. We selected a chief from our group (George), and he received instructions about his role in the ceremony. To begin the ceremony, a warrior of the tribe attending the ceremony approached the chief (George), making war-like noises and actions. George did not react (indicating he wanted peace, not war), so the warrior offered George a leaf as a sign that the warriors are attending in peace. The chief (George) accepted the leaf, gave the warrior a strong handshake, and bumped noses with him twice. This is a sign of sharing the breath of life and reminds us that we all live in this air together. One of the Maori also told us this is why the Maori have flat noses.
Inside the building, a performing group did six or seven cultural dances–some with the men performing, some with the women performing, and some in which they danced together, including a love song dance used for marriages. The white streaks above the girls’ heads in the second photo below are sticks that they toss back and forth–training for quick hand-eye coordination which is helpful in battle. We were reminded that the Maori don’t lose wars. They are the only indigenous tribe in the world that was not defeated by its invaders (the British). We were also reminded that early Maori were cannibals.
A number of men from our tour group were invited to come onstage to learn a haka–a chant that warriors (including the All-Blacks, NZ’s famous rugby team) perform to pump themselves up before a battle or a game. Do these guys look pumped up?
The next stop was the Maori cultural heritage workshop. In recent years, the Maori people have been increasingly recognized as an important part of New Zealand history. The Maori language and history are now required school subjects for all students, and Maori is one of the three official languages of New Zealand (English, Maori, and sign language).
In the recent past, Maori were punished for speaking their native language in school and in public. To keep their culture alive, this intense workshop accepts only five students per term and teaches them to become master craftsmen in the Maori arts. As a nod to progress, some of the Maori objects are now made out of metals and other more durable materials instead of wood. Although most students are young, some older people also take the classes because they did not learn these arts when they were younger.
Our guide showed us how the Maori make clothing and other objects out of flax (the green leaf he’s holding). First, lay the leaf on the light-colored board in front of the guide and score it with a sharpened clam shell to determine a pattern, according to marks made on the board in advance. Then use the clam shell to scrape the green outer layer away from the fibrous inner layer (like running a scissors blade over gift box ribbon to make it curl). Doing this repeatedly separates all the fibers and also coats them with wax from the outer layer, making the fibers stronger (the tan drooping part of the leaf the guide is holding). The part of the leaf with the pattern (white marks on his leaf) remains and is stained to produce the desired pattern. To make stronger fibers for belts, etc., the guide rolled the fluffy, separated fibers together by holding the two ends and running the length of the taut fibers up and down his thigh. We had a chance to hold his finished product and to test its strength. Very soft loose fibers; very strong rolled fibers.
Here are some wrap-around skirts the Maori make from the flax leaves.
There are carvings of Maori gods along the pathways of Te Puia and each has its name beneath it. Our guide told us that the Maori alphabet has no f, but the wh makes an f sound. That means this god’s name is pronounced “Fera.” Sticking the tongue out as far as possible is a Maori gesture of fierceness.
After lunch, we walked through the main part of the geothermal field. The mud fields don’t look spectacular, but they are dangerous. What looks like solid ground in these areas probably isn’t. As our guide put it, the good thing about falling into these is that you won’t have arthritis anymore; the bad thing is that your bones will be very clean, because you will be that well cooked. The mud in the second picture was actually bubbling because it was so hot. The arrows point to some bubbles that are bursting at the surface.
There are steam vents everywhere in this area. We could feel the warmth as we walked by them.
This is the largest geyser in the southern hemisphere (i.e., New Zealand). It is very active and erupts for about 40-50 minutes, then rests for about 20 minutes before erupting for another 40-50 minutes.
The lake on the right in this picture ranges from 50-100 degrees. It is illegal to swim in it, but our guide said people have been swimming in it for hundreds of years anyway. It’s very sulfurous, so it’s probably good for what ails you.
Our tour did not include a steam-cooked picnic lunch, but that’s an option. When you arrive at the park, you can order your meal. It’s put into the oven that straddles a steam vent in the first picture below. When it’s lunchtime, your meal has been cooked in a natural pressure cooker and is served to you at a picnic table in the geyser field.
There are steam vents all around this area of NZ, including on private property. Some people fashion a lid for a steam vent in their yard and put their dinner into the vent before leaving for work. When they come home, dinner is ready–a natural slow-cooker. You can see by this picture how widespread the steam vents are–there’s steam everywhere. In fact, the entire city of Rotorua smells like sulfur, but the people living there don’t even notice it and we didn’t either after being there all day.
Our last stop before heading back to our ship for dinner was the kiwi bird sanctuary. Kiwis like to sleep during the day and come out at night, so the sanctuary has a dark indoor habitat for some of the birds. No photos were allowed in the darkened building and we were required to remain silent because light and noise disturb the kiwis. I settled for a picture of a stuffed kiwi bird on display.
Ted and I have now seen geothermic land features in Yellowstone, Iceland and New Zealand. In our opinion, Yellowstone is the best place to see them because there’s such a wide variety of geothermal features in that park. Iceland is second, and we rank New Zealand third. All of them were worth seeing.
One thing Ted and I have noticed about combining two consecutive cruises (Bali to Sydney; Sydney to Auckland) with the same cruise line is that there’s some repetition in shipboard activities. A happy repetition is the choco-fest event. Tonight was the night to repeat that one.
For about 45 minutes, we watched the chef’s staff bring in tray after tray of chocolate goodies. Whatever they brought and placed on the table was then moved–sometimes very slightly–by the head chef so everything would be perfect. That colored stuff (blue, green, white) is sugar, boiled and combined with frosting, then formed into shapes for decoration.
Ted and I chuckled when we saw the staff bring in a blue plastic crate that busboys use to carry dishes around, then wrap it in a tablecloth and set it on the table to use as a platform.
Here comes the chef’s pièce de résistance.
The chef helps the staff set it carefully on the table.
How do we know it’s tonight’s masterpiece? Because immediately after placing it, the chef and staff lined up to take pictures of it.
Here it is–a special cake bringing attention to the severe fires in Australia, with the Australian flag, a koala, and a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch.
Here’s the finished table with chocolate galore. But Mr. Chef, . . . I saw that “Great Barrier Reef” piece of chocolate two weeks ago. Remember that busboy crate I mentioned above? Look at what the fondue pot is standing on.
Let the gorging begin.
Author’s note: Comments overheard from onlookers during this process included “I think I feel a cavity coming on” and “If this were Carnival instead of Viking, everything would be gone before it was all set up.”
I saw some interesting things as we passed through Napier this morning. One was a restaurant called The Frying Dutchman. My high school was the home of the Flying Dutchmen and had a wooden shoe with wings as its logo.
I also got a kick out of the Donut Robot. The cashier was sitting in the front behind the raised awning. According to the message on the back, he offers “hot, freshly made donuts all day long and tomorrow.” I’m not sure about the next day.
When we returned to our stateroom after our morning city tour, Ted and I heard band music. We went out onto our terrace and saw a band, a row of antique cars, and drivers dressed in vintage clothing singing along with the band. One of the city excursions today was a four-hour city tour in an antique automobile. The cost: $249 per person. After the tour, I think the drivers and the band stayed to perform as a farewell from the city to its visitors.
Ted and I decided to have lunch at the Pool Grill today. It’s the most casual restaurant onboard, allowing people to come in swimsuits (with a cover-up). It’s also a pretty setting and has great hamburgers.
The Pool Grill seating is–where else?–poolside. In the photo below, you can see a man showering before entering the pool. He looks like it’s the best shower he’s ever had.
Our time onboard our ship will end in a few days so, after lunch, we made use of the ship’s free laundry (one on each deck) to freshen our clothes for our upcoming off-ship time in Auckland and Sydney. It was tricky getting to and from the laundry because the Pacific Ocean decided to get active. The swells this afternoon are higher than we had in the Tasman Sea.
As I was heading out of our stateroom with a load of laundry, I found myself doing a little quick-step run toward the door because the ship rolled in that direction. People are zigzagging down the hallways as the ship rocks back and forth. I thought the swells were big when we left the port of Napier, but they keep getting bigger. My camera captured a rainbow above a splashing wave. I took these pictures from Deck 5 and the swells always look much higher closer to eye level. I’m looking forward to the ship rocking us to sleep tonight.
Ted’s and my day started with a bus tour of Napier, NZ. Napier was greatly damaged by the 1931 earthquake. Every building in the business district collapsed, fires burned for 36 hours, the infrastructure was completely inoperable, etc., etc. As a result, much of the city needed to be rebuilt and so, it reflects the art deco architecture popular in the 1930s. These small houses (more like cottages in the U.S.) sell for $400,000-$500,000.
Notice how small the lawns are. They’re not any larger on the other sides of the houses, and much of the property is used for a small garden and automobile parking. I didn’t see any swing sets, swimming pools, or patios.
There are not many two-story houses in Napier because they are too expensive. The neighborhood in the picture below was described as “posh,” and these houses sell for about $1 million; if they have a pretty view, the price goes to at least $2 million. For all that money, they don’t have very much land either. Overnight street parking is not possible, so garages are often built in front of the houses, or cars are parked on the front lawns or beside the houses.
I’m amazed at the way housing is built on the mountainsides in NZ. Yesterday, we saw houses with nearly vertical funiculars to avoid climbing several hundred stairs from the street to the front door; today we saw a steep staircase with a lot more steps than I’d want to climb if I forgot something in the house or in the car. Ted and I have seen carports that are level with the front of the house and have support posts at least 40-50 feet tall on the opposite end. Photos don’t provide the depth of field needed to show how steep the hillsides behind these houses are, but notice that there are several levels of homes all the way to the top.
Moving on to the shoreline, Napier has a beautiful park that seems to extend for several miles. There are swimming pools (the ocean water is cold here), sports fields, playgrounds, gardens, sculptures, and more. The “junior bike track” part of the playground provides driving practice for young children. They can ride their bikes and learn to follow traffic lights, signs, etc. Our guide suggested the kids probably forget all of this when they get behind the wheel of a real car.
The first park sculpture below is “Freedom Lady” and honors the women who took care of everything on the home front while the men went to war. It also represents the strength of women. The second sculpture is called “Millenium.” Napier decided it was the first city in the world on which the sunrise could be seen on January 1, 2000, so the disc in this sculpture is placed directly above the spot at which the sun rose on that day.
Other places in the park are simply beautiful. There were a lot of people biking on the bike trail, swimming in the pools, skating in the skate park, and playing on the playgrounds. I was surprised at the number of young children in the park on a Tuesday morning until our guide mentioned that the kids are on their summer break now and will go back to school later in January. Of course: summer break over Christmas in December and January, right?
Napier has a temperate climate and can grow just about anything; however when an Englishman came to Napier and decided to grow tobacco, he built this city-block-size building before he discovered that tobacco might be the only thing that doesn’t grow well in Napier.
As we headed back to our ship, I had a pretty view of the city. You can see how steep the land is; you can see how the houses are built up the steep mountainsides; and you can get a good look at how the needles on the Norfolk (aka Cook) pine grow only upward and not in other directions on the branches.
“Welly” is the nickname for Wellington, the capital city of NZ. It has the distinction of being the windiest city in the southern hemisphere and the southernmost capital city of any independent nation. We also learned today that Wellington is the coffee and craft beer capital of NZ. Woo-ee!
Welly sits on the Cook Strait, the water channel that separates the north and south islands of NZ, contributing to its winds which average 36 mph or greater 270 days per year. Here’s a wind chart that I saw today. We felt like Force 7 on land and Force 8 on the jet boat on yesterday’s excursion.
Wellington sits on or near 10 major fault lines. Isn’t the Ring of Fire fun? There was a bad earthquake here in 2016, but the damage and loss of life was far less than that of the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch.
Welly is also the movie capital of NZ. “The Lord of the Rings” was filmed here and our cruise line offered several tours that took people to movie sites and studios used for the film. The director of that movie placed a Hollywood-like city sign on a mountainside overlooking the city. Because of Welly’s high winds, the “o” and “n” are blowing away. (Cute.)
Author’s note: There’s a city sign like this in Medora, ND too, but its fame doesn’t go too far outside of ND.
Every city in NZ seems to have a botanical garden, and Wellington is no exception. The garden was our first tour stop. There was a small fountain at the center of the garden. We were about 100 feet away from it when a strong gust of wind passed through and we could feel spray from the fountain–even at that distance!. As a windy city, Wellington beats Chicago, hands down. The trees with the red blooms are usually called “Christmas trees” because they bloom at Christmas. They were really pretty.
Wellington is known as a very bicycle-friendly city. The bike lanes are marked in green (first picture below). If you ride a bike, you also have the right to move to the front of the line in traffic without passing “Go” at stoplights (second picture below). In NZ, McDonald’s is referred to as “the American embassy.”
These houses are four of what are called the “Seven Sisters”–seven similar houses in a row. If you buy one of these, you must sign documents that say you may make changes inside the house, but must keep the exterior as it is.
The entire side of one building was decorated with fish. The red boards on top of the car at the bottom of the picture look fish-like too. Or maybe like lips.
New Zealand is made up of small islands, but they are mountainous, so there are very steep hills everywhere in Wellington. (So what makes the city so bicycle-friendly?) In many places, the house behind another house is higher than the roof of the house in front of it. People who can afford it often install personal funiculars to take them from street level up to their houses so they don’t have to climb all those stairs. The white tube on the right is a funicular track; the funicular car is parked at the house (red arrow), so I think the inhabitants are probably at home now. Notice how vertical the funicular track is.
This was the original Parliament building, now used by the university. It was thought that stone was too dangerous for the exterior because of earthquakes, so the building was constructed of wood. The architect, however, designed it so that the exterior looks like stone–more appropriate for a government building.
Our final stop was at the top of Mt. Victoria, named for the English queen, of course. From the top of the mountain, we could see the city beneath us in every direction.
At the top of Mt. Victoria, there is a striking sculpture. The opposite end of the structure has a flat face with a bust of Admiral Richard Perry.
Our driver told us that NZ is a very progressive country. They gave voting rights to women forty years before the U.S. did, and they have a woman Prime Minister who is very popular. After her election, she announced that she was pregnant, which led to many male leaders insisting she should have made that information public before the election and questioning how she would govern with a baby and toys all over the government buildings. Her response was, “I’m not dying; I’m having a baby.”
Another sign of NZ’s progressiveness might be the rest room doors. Gender identification issues? No problem.
Christchurch, NZ is named for Christ Church, Oxford (England). It is on the Canterbury Plains, a large, flat agricultural area that ends at the foothills of the Southern Alps. Christchurch is also a well-known gateway to Antarctica, so many Antarctic expeditions leave from the city. The USAF has an Antarctica weather simulator in Christchurch. It simulates any weather conditions that might occur in Antarctica and is used for training people who are going there.
Today, Ted and I had a two-hour ride through the Canterbury Plains on our way to the Southern Alps. Facts we learned on the drive: (1) There are more sheep than people in New Zealand; (2) dairy farms are prolific because China is a huge market for NZ’s powdered milk; (3) fields in NZ are paddocks; (4) farms in NZ are stations; and (5) forest fires in NZ are bush fires. The white spots in the paddock in the first picture are sheep. What else?
Strong winds are a daily part of life in this region, so the flat paddocks are broken by many, many windbreaks that enclose small areas. The windbreaks consist of a row of pine trees, trimmed along the sides and the tops by professional companies, usually annually. I had a glimpse of the top of a windbreak once and the full-size, sawn-off tree trunks were visible. They are cut off because, otherwise, they will become so tall that the winds will blow them over. The sides of the windbreaks are trimmed back so they will grow fuller. The windbreaks are 15-20 feet tall and 8-10 feet wide and they are so dense, you can’t see through them.
The field in the first photo below has windbreaks around three of its sides. The second photo is a “cloud picture” for my meteorologist travel partner. Note that both pictures feature lenticular clouds–indications of very high winds aloft. (That was meteorologist-speak.)
The real fun began today with a jet boat ride on the Waimakariri River through the Waimakariri Gorge. (Note to Jeff: You should have bought a jet boat instead of jet skis.Or maybe in addition to jet skis.) The weather is cold today (mid-50s) and the winds were 60-70 mph in the gorge–about 40-50 mph elsewhere. I think this area must have only one hairstyle: windblown. The boat pilots told us it hasn’t been this windy for weeks. (Yeah, right.) They also mentioned that the river is unusually low. Three weeks ago, it was flowing at 800 cubic meters per second; today it was flowing at 60 cubic meters per second. What a ride we could have had three weeks ago!
Here we are, outfitted in layers of jackets to keep warm, then protected by a “spray jacket” to keep us dry, and a life preserver. We were advised to wear sunglasses because of the wind blowing against the forward speed of the boat. There were times the wind blew so hard against my sunglasses that it was painful. I actually have small bruises on each side of my nose from the wind pressure against my sunglasses.
Our group was put into two boats. The boats go about 50 miles an hour–a little less upstream and a little more downstream–and are capable of spinning 360 degrees, creating a lot of spray. The pilots had fun spinning us around and zigzagging back and forth down the river as if we were slalom skiing.
The scenery was amazing. There was a beautiful view around every bend of the river. You can see how low the river is because the gray stoney material is usually underwater. The jet boats don’t need much water depth. They take in water through a port in the bottom and spew it out of a port in the back. Our boats launched at the point shown in the first picture and, yes, we went forward through that shallow water in the third picture.
This train bridge was built by the British because they didn’t trust the New Zealanders to do it (or so our pilot told us). The upright rails along the track are 15 feet tall and are separated to break the wind. Without them, there’s a strong possibility the wind would blow the train off the tracks.
After the fun of the jet boat sightseeing adventure (we did at least six 360-degree turns just for joy), it was time for lunch; then we piled into four-wheel drive vehicles for an off-road ride through more gorgeous scenery.
The “off-road” description was accurate: sometimes we drove across paddocks and, when there was a dirt trail, it had to be negotiated carefully by our drivers to avoid rocks, etc. that would damage the undercarriage. Our destination was a high point with amazing views in every direction. The river in the fourth picture below is the one we followed in the jet boats. Standing on a high point and seeing the Southern Alps in every direction reminded me of our views of the Swiss Alps from Gornergrat last summer, even though the mountains are different.
On the way back to our ship, our bus driver took us on a tour of Christchurch. We didn’t make any stops because we needed to return before the ship’s sailing time, but the Cardboard Cathedral was definitely a point of interest. The Transitional Cathedral was significantly damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and the Cardboard Cathedral was erected in 2013 as a temporary substitute. It is made of 24-inch diameter cardboard tubes, timber, and steel. The roof is polycarbon, and eight shipping containers form the walls. It has become the most iconic landmark of Christchurch.
We also saw an interesting bridge. The structure is located on an overpass on the approach to the Christchurch airport. The architect intended it to frame the mountains behind the airport. Unfortunately, a hotel was built between the overpass and the mountains, so the bridge structure now frames a high-rise hotel instead. C’est la vie?
The mountains we saw were, technically, the foothills of the Southern Alps. There is a train that runs from Christchurch to the west coast of the southern island of NZ, crossing the Southern Alps. Our guide said it’s a beautiful ride in the winter when the mountains have snow. Unfortunately, we spent only one day in Christchurch, so there wasn’t time to include the train ride in our schedule. It’s a good reason for us to come back another time.
For 65 hours, Ted and I sailed across the Tasman Sea on our way from Melbourne, Australia to Dunedin, New Zealand. Just so you know, it’s pronounced duh-nee’-din. Dunedin is a Scottish city and its name is a translation of Edinburgh; therefore, the city is named after Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Tasman Sea is situated in latitudes between 40 and 50 degrees south–otherwise known as the “roaring 40s.” Farther south are the howling 50s and the screaming 60s. The seas in these latitudes have high winds and high swells because of (1) the rotation of the earth, and (2) the lack of large land masses to break the winds. As a result, our captain, who gives us an update every day at noon, has been informing us of 30-foot swells and winds of 40-50 knots (gale force).
We haven’t been in danger, but it’s been difficult to walk a straight line on the ship. Last night, my dish of dessert was delivered on a plate and, due to a large swell and the rocking of the ship, nearly slid off the plate as the server reached to put it on the table in front of me. The server caught her balance by putting her hand on our table, thus avoiding falling into my lap. On the other hand, everyone has been commenting on how well we’re sleeping. It’s like being rocked in a cradle.
This photo was taken from Deck 7. The waves look much higher from Deck 2 when they are closer to eye level. The large swell on the right is probably a 30-foot one. When the swells are 6-10 feet high, the water looks calm from Deck 7.
Some of the very large swells are wide and curled on the top. We can often see wind-blown spray at the tops of the swells.
We expected to spend today in Dunedin, but had a surprise early morning announcement from the captain. The safety level for us to enter Port Chalmers (the port for Dunedin) is winds at 35 knots. This morning’s winds were blowing at 40-50 knots–gale force–and there was no indication of a change in the weather. We were unable to safely dock in Port Chalmers and will not be visiting Dunedin after all. The captain made arrangements to berth early in Christchurch, so we’re spending another day at sea and will be arriving in Christchurch this evening.
Ted and I went to the port talk about Dunedin yesterday. Port talks are presented by the cruise director and give us information about the city we’ll be visiting. At 19 degrees (35 percent), Dunedin’s Baldwin Street was the steepest street in the world until 2019, when it lost the title to a street in Wales that has a 37.45 percent slope. Baldwin Street is short (1.8 miles) and straight. Each year, the Cadbury factory in Dunedin sponsors a candy roll of 25,000 Jaffas down Baldwin Street. The candy roll benefits three charities, including the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The annual event is called “The Running of the Balls.”
We started the new year with a visit to Hobart, the capital city of the fabled island of Tasmania, located at the foot of majestic Mt. Wellington.
The city is currently considering whether or not to add a cable car line to the top of Mt. Wellington. Our guide compared the debate to building a casino: there are always some people for it and some people against it. Those in favor of the cable car think it will raise money and boost tourism; those against it think it will make Hobart like every other mountain city. They also think people should see Mt. Wellington as it is, not with a cable car scarring its face.
But back to Hobart. This city is the second oldest capital in Australia (after Sydney) and has the second-deepest natural harbor in the world (after Sydney). Tasmania, Australia’s smallest state, was originally founded as a penal colony for some 300 inmates. The island/archipelago is a picturesque setting of exceptional beauty.
As we crossed the Derwent River, our guide shared an interesting story about the Tasman Bridge, shown in the photo below.
In 1975, a zinc ore carrier went off course. (The captain was later charged for not paying attention to conditions.) Instead of going through the space between the two center pilings, the ship crashed into a piling in the wide space to the right of the center opening, causing a large section of the bridge deck to collapse on top of the ship, killing seven crew members. The bridge collapse also caused four cars to drop into the water, killing five more people.
It was dark and the bridge deck was unlighted, but one man managed to stop his car with the front wheels hanging over the edge of the broken deck. He escaped from his car and frantically tried to wave other cars to stop, but two drivers ignored him and even drove around him, falling into the river. The river is 115 feet deep, so the ship is still lying on the river bottom, stuck in silt. The name of the carrier ship was the Lake Illawarra, so locals like to say that this is the only river in the world with a lake at its bottom.
Our prettiest stop this morning was the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. This is a mixed garden, with things that will flower at various times of the year.
Here is some yucca and a beautiful azalea bush.
Japanese gardens are always pretty, peaceful, and have water features.
There was a mixture of plants around this pool.
This pretty display was in one of the greenhouses.
This afternoon, we left Australia to go to Dunedin, New Zealand. This is called crossing “the Ditch”–the Australian/New Zealand equivalent of crossing “the Pond” between the U.S. and England in the North Atlantic.
The Tasman Sea is known for frequent high wind activity, and our captain has cautioned us to “make good use of the handrails” over the next two days. The weather forecast is for winds of 45 mph or more, with swells of up to 30-60 feet. In the captain’s words, “the ship will experience some rolling.”
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The Liber Usualis is one of the most important publications of liturgical chant in the Roman Rite. Containing music for both Vespers and Mass for all Sundays and Feasts, it appeared in numerous editions between 1886 and 1961 and aimed to restore the original melodies of Gregorian chant, which had been subject to considerable simplification in the 1570 Missale. Since the Vatican II revision of the lectionary its place has been taken by the 1990 Roman Missal.
The 1961 edition is now available at Liber Usualis online.
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Data analytics is the process of using data to improve business decision making. By understanding your customers and their behavior, you can create better marketing campaigns that reach more people with greater impact. In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways data analytics can help your business and explain why it’s so valuable.
What is Data Analytics?
Data analytics is a field of study that uses statistical methods to extract meaning from data. It can be used in a variety of business settings, including marketing and sales. Data analytics can help you understand your customers better, identify trends and patterns, and make more informed decisions.
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In addition to marketing, data analytics can also be used in other areas of business such as finance and operations. By understanding how customers interact with your business, you can improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Data analytics is a powerful tool that can help you achieve your business goals. If you’re interested in using data analytics in your own business, start by learning about the basics of the field.
Types of Data Analytics
Data analytics is a key component of any successful business. By understanding your customers and their needs, you can create targeted content and advertising that reaches them in the most effective way possible. There are many different types of data analytics, so it’s important to choose the type that best suits your needs.
Here are four different types of data analytics:
1. Behavioral data analytics focuses on understanding how people behave and taking action based on that information. This can include things like tracking website visits or customer interactions to improve customer service or marketing campaigns.
2. Business intelligence (BI) is the use of data analysis to help businesses make informed decisions. This includes things like creating graphs and charts to see how sales are changing over time, or identifying patterns in customer behavior to design better marketing campaigns.
3. Data visualization is the use of graphic images to make complex information easier to understand. This can include things like presenting data in a way that makes it easier to see trends or correlations, or designing charts and graphs that are easy to understand and share.
4. Predictive modeling is a type of BI that uses statistical models to predict future events or trends. This can include things like
The Use of Data Analytics in Marketing
Businesses today rely on data analytics to help them make better decisions and improve their marketing strategies. Analytics can be used to analyze a company’s performance, identify trends, and recommend changes that can help optimize operations and growth.
While data analytics is not a new concept, its usefulness in business has increased significantly in the past few years. There are several reasons for this:
First, businesses now have more data than ever before. This wealth of information can be used to identify trends and patterns that previously went unnoticed. By understanding customer behavior and preferences, businesses can target their marketing efforts more effectively.
Second, technology has made it easier than ever to collect and analyze data. Today’s businesses can use tools like social media monitoring and web analytics to track the traffic that their websites receive, the keywords that are being used most often, and the number of leads generated by their marketing campaigns. This information can be used to make informed decisions about which campaigns to continue funding, which features to improve, and where to focus future resources.
Finally, businesses today are more aware of the importance of customer retention. By understanding what drives customer engagement and how best to serve them, businesses can keep
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Smartphone giant Samsung is all set to bring cryptocurrency and blockchain-related features to its Galaxy smartphones. This functionality is already available on Samsung S10, and the introduction of these functionalities to their budget phones shows the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies.
First reported by South Korean news outlet Business Korea, Samsung also plans to cooperate with telecom companies in blockchain-based mobile identification cards (digital identity authentication) and local currencies.
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Alabama Uses More Fireworks Than Almost Any Other State
It's almost that time of year! Online sales, firing up the grill for a BBQ, and the time of year where we hear fireworks bursting all through the night. This will be my first 4th of July in Alabama, and I'm looking forward to seeing the difference in how it's celebrated here versus Florida. It looks like I'm in for a treat because I've recently found that Alabama uses more fireworks than most states in the U.S.
According to Zippia, the state of Alabama uses the 4th most fireworks in the United States. Wow! Alabama is only outranked by Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas. My home state of Florida didn't even make it into the top 10. I'll definitely be looking forward to hearing a lot more fireworks this year than last year's 4th of July.
Alabama imports a massive amount of fireworks per year for its residents. It's more than 30,000, more than 3 million. Bama imports almost 20 million fireworks a year for its residents for the 4th of July. You'd think with almost 20 million fireworks, every person in Alabama would have plenty of fireworks to go around. With 20 million fireworks being imported in the state of Alabama, that only allows each resident to shoot off 4 fireworks each.
Be sure to listen to our station on July 4th as we celebrate the holiday! We will be on the scene at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater for the huge fireworks show. While the show is going on listen to our radio station to hear patriotic music to accompany the 20-minute show.
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#AceFoodNews – BRITAIN – April 16 – What can you taste when you swirl a mouthful of malt whisky around your mouth? Peaty flavours, honey, sea salt? Talk to any whisky drinker and they’ll be happy to discuss at length.
But it turns out that not all you are getting is down to your taste buds – or even your nose.
If you drink a glass of single malt in a room carpeted with real grass, accompanied by the sound of a lawnmower and birds chirping, and all bathed in green light, the whisky tastes “grassier”.
Replace that with red lighting, curved and bulbous edges and tinkling bells and the drink tastes sweeter.
Best of all, creaking floorboards, the sound of a crackling fire and a double bass bring out the woody notes and give you the most pleasurable whisky experience.
That’s all according to an experiment run for drinks giant Diageo – an experiment in a new field that is fascinating the food and drink industry.
This new discipline has been labelled “neurogastronomy” by its best-known apostle, Prof Charles Spence, who runs the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University.
“Neurogastronomy is based on the realisation that everything we eat or drink is processed by our senses,” he says.
“We see it, we hear it, we smell it, we taste it, we feel it. All those senses come together.”
He advises experimental chefs like Heston Blumenthal, who first introduced the idea of listening to the sounds of the seaside to enhance the flavours of a seafood dish.
Prof Spence found he could skew diners’ perceptions of Heston’s famous egg and bacon ice cream, by first playing chicken sounds and then the sound of sizzling rashers.
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Integrated Rate Laws
(a) Zero Order Reactions
Examples of zero order reactions:
Generally, decomposition of gases on metal surfaces at high concentrations follow zero order kinetics.
(b) First order Reactions:
First order growth reaction:
For bacterial multiplication of virus growth use following concept
Examples of 1st order reaction:
(c) Second order Reactions:
Second order reaction is determined by the variation of two concentration terms or rate of the reaction is proportional to the second power of the concentration of a single substance.
They are of two types:
1. When the concentration of the reactants is same,
2. When the concentration of the reactants is different,
(d) Pseudo first order reaction:
A second order (or of higher order) reactions can be converted into a first order reaction if the other reactant is taken in large access. Such first order reactions are known as pseudo first order reactions.
For A + B → Products Rate = K[A]1[B]1
Now if 'B' is taken in large access
'b' is very large can be taken as constant
K1 is pseudo first order rate.
K1 will have units of first order.
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Coursera Project Network의 Create a Supermarket app using OOP Features in Java 학습자 리뷰 및 피드백
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will create a supermarket app using OOP Features in Java. You will learn how to code using the main Java OOP Features including Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance and Abstraction. You will learn how to create a main method to test your code and finalize your application.
Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions....
Create a Supermarket app using OOP Features in Java의 1개 리뷰 중 1~1
교육 기관: steven v
2021년 6월 29일
Good first intro into OOP. Explanations remain fairly high level and I had some issues with the interface used (the coding section kept automatically hiding) | <urn:uuid:8f365471-061f-4472-87df-9279f3cb831d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ko.coursera.org/projects/oop-java-supermarket/reviews?authMode=signup | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.79542 | 301 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
On page 53, I chose the passage that is after Spade finds Cairo at the Theater when he wonders off, and is telling him about the guy following him. Spade asks Cairo if he knows who this guy whose following and Cairo responds that he swears he has no idea. Cairo “ Wet’s his lower lip with his tongue” and asks if it was wise if the guy had seen them together. Spade questions Cairo, but then he responses again with “ I give you my word I do not know him, Mr. Spade. I give you my word I have nothing to do with him. I have asked nobody’s assistance except yours. on my word of honor”. Instead of being in the normal state we have seen Cairo and Spade mostly in the begging of the book which is argumentative, Cairo is somewhat praising of Spade at this current moment. He is showing Spade how much his view has changed on Spade and how loyal he wants to be towards him. I primarily chose this passage, because although it isn’t written that Cairo is “ gay”, this passage kind of gives a clear image that he could be towards Spade. The way he licks his lips, how kind he is towards Spade now, and his attitude. Although before in the begging where Spade first meets Cairo, the altercation they have doesn’t show much of Cairo’s love towards Spade because he tries to pull a gun on Spade, but I believe over the time of the book Cairo begins to realize how in the end Spade will win more things over him and how just being close to him would make things better.
I think that the fact Cairo may be gay plays a big part to the book because during this period of the book, gay isn’t a word that most people know quite yet and thoughts of homosexuality to people is a gross thought. Cairo in fear of embarrassment doesn’t come out to the town or to Spade, but he tries to show it in ways that only Spade can catch on to. In this example that I chose, he licks his lips which to most people is a sign of affection or like attraction, a clear sign that Cairo could be attracted to Spade. As mentioned before, in the begging of the book Cairo clearly has something against Spade because he believes he’s hiding something very important which causes fighting between them and him to get knocked out. I think that Cairo learns something important from that fight that if he wants any chance with Spade, he needs to get on his good side and realize that Spade is clearly the one with more power. Spade knows that he has a more powerful mind than Cairo, it is just that Cairo has to realize that. I think he finally does when Spade is able to track him down at the theater. That is why he says he gives Spade his “ word of honor”.
From taking the advice from Writing Analytically about observing text and making inferences, I believe that by observing the way Cairo acts, is able to allow me to make clear inferences on his interactions with other characters in the books, primarily with Spade. I think Cairo, although not a big part to the book, is a character that deserves a ton of observation. He does certain things that allow you to make judgements on his overall characteristics. When he is brought up with Spade in parts of the story, you see him in many different lights. While in the begging in the story you see him fighting with Spade almost facing near death by being knocked out to the middle of the story where he is telling Spade he gives his “ full honor” to him. This can give the reader many different thoughts to think about Spade and Cairo’s relationship throughout the book and helps the reader pin point certain actions that lay out in events between them. | <urn:uuid:58393161-bd1d-4bc5-a5e2-105db32f8a81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.dickinson.edu/fysdetective/2013/09/11/writing-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.984962 | 823 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Testicles, breasts, internal condoms and sex toys abound in a guide to sexual health published last month by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Wellness Center, the department devoted to the physical and mental health of the school’s students. When Isabella Rotman (BFA, 2013) was selling her comics at last year’s student art sale, a former Wellness Center employee took notice. “She saw my ‘Animal Sex’ comics and suggested I make a safe sex comic book for the Wellness Center.”
The school’s Executive Director of Counseling, Health and Disability Services, Joe Behen, said the Wellness Center received a Garrett Lee Campus Suicide Prevention Grant to “tap the boundless innovation, ingenuity, and creativity of the SAIC community to positively impact student health.” Rotman was awarded a portion of the grant to produce a safe sex comic, and the result is “You’re So Sexy When You Aren’t Transmitting STDs.” Behen said part of the goal was to turn resources like the grant toward SAIC students, “and the comic does an excellent job of bringing really important information to the student body.”
In the comic, Captain Buzzkill, a.k.a. Dick McClean, discusses the importance of communication between sexual partners, STD testing, contraception and what STDs actually are. “My goal was to be funny, to be entertaining and to provide information without the reader really noticing, just like in ‘Animal Sex,’” Rotman says. Rotman’s series of comics about sexuality in the animal kingdom includes “Animal Sex (You Might Not Want to Know)” and three other comics detailing the curiosities abounding in the mating habits and sexual anatomy of Earth’s fauna: males carrying babies to term, corkscrew vaginas, homosexuality among species and prehensile “peni,” among many others.
What’s unique about “You’re So Sexy” is more than its use of whimsical drawings and colloquial language to address an important and sometimes grave subject. “Safe sex manuals are almost always aimed at hetero couples or gay men, in which case they’re only about HIV,” Rotman said. But her comic includes examples for sex partners of all kinds, including same-sex couples and transgender people. “If you’re a man, and you have a vagina, you still need to get a pap smear,” said Rotman.
“It really reaches all kinds of people in the student population,” said Fay Nowitz (BFA) during a recent talk given by Rotman at SAIC’s Neiman Center. “The health center at my undergrad school would never have done this,” said Josh Kibert (MFA, Writing). And Jack Carter, a software engineer and fan of Rotman’s work, said outside of Rotman’s comic, a resource about public health of this nature in a format so easily relatable to young people “just doesn’t exist.” In an ideal world, presumably one in which materials like “You’re So Sexy” are more available, Carter says he “can see this next to other sexual health materials at any health center.” The artist did months of research for the comic. “I didn’t know silicone lube breaks down silicone dildos,” she said, and a registered nurse at the Wellness Center fact-checked the entire book before it was printed. So far, around 800 copies, available for free to SAIC students, have been distributed on campus at events and at the Wellness Center, located on the 13th floor of 116 South Michigan Avenue.
Since graduating in May with a focus on printmaking and comics, Rotman has been marketing the comic to other colleges. Columbia College Chicago has bought rights to print 1,500 copies with others following soon, she hopes. New projects that incorporate art and science are also on the artist’s horizon. “What I like are the practical applications of art, art that’s useful in an immediate way.” | <urn:uuid:641a26d1-59e6-42fe-9a23-a5f26527be15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fnewsmagazine.com/2013/11/sex-ed-illustrated/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954279 | 899 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Spring (in Southern Hemisphere Autumn) 2022 is slowly coming and we are bringing continental updates of predicted weather patterns for Europe /https://mkweather.com/spring-2022-forecast-for-europe-early-dry-late-stormy-very-warm//, North America /https://mkweather.com/spring-2022-forecast-for-north-america//, Asia /https://mkweather.com/spring-2022-forecast-for-asia//, Africa (Spring + Autumn 2022) /https://mkweather.com/spring-and-autumn-2022-forecast-for-africa-mostly-stormy-and-hot-south-colder//, Australia /https://mkweather.com/autumn-2022-forecast-for-australia//, South America /https://mkweather.com/autumn-2022-forecast-for-south-america//, and Antarctica.
In this article, we will look at the forecast of Autumn 2022 conditions in Antarctica.
A few main teleconnection patterns will be affecting conditions during an upcoming Autumn 2022:
1. Still very strong La Nina: should be associated with colder Earth conditions and cooling effect into Antarctica. El Nino is forecasted only since September / October / November 2022.
2. AAO+: Higher probability of AAO+ phase means that during clear nights should be extremely cold, although overall temperature anomaly should be thanks to blizzards positive. Stormtrack in the Southern Ocean will be very strong, with severe storms and cyclones and unfavorable weather.
3. Shift to positive IOD: Positive IOD (IOD+) phase correlates with NAO+: A shift of cyclonic activity above the Indian Ocean from eastern to western parts. Should affect neighboring parts of Antarctica by ex-tropical remnants of cyclones.
4. Awakening sun activity: should be in contrast with a transition from La Nina to El Nino during the year 2022 and the year 2023. Overall, there are signals, that the last colder winters in the Northern Hemisphere / colder last years globally are associated with a weakening of solar cycles after 2000, especially during the last Solar minimum before a few years.
5. SST: Cold SST anomalies (Sea Surface Temperature) near many parts of Antarctica will affect some sectors of the continent. Cold SSTs are linked with the albedo effect, caused by melting ice from the Antarctic ice sheet, which re-freezes above Southern Ocean seas and cooling all wider regions (opposite feedback than in the Arctic with an Arctic Amplification).
Now, we should look at a forecasted map for Autumn 2022 in Antarctica and 6 main sectors, with similar regimes of weather:
A) WARM AND SNOWY SECTOR – CENTRAL AND SE ANTARCTICA (PINK): Thanks to AAO+ during clear nights extremely cold (the South Pole in 2021 the 3rd coldest year in history), but with alternating with blizzards (positive precipitation anomaly). Bad for expeditions. Minimum temperatures from -60°C in March to -80°C in May.
B) WARM AND DRY SECTOR – ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, E SECTOR (DARK RED): Good conditions for expeditions, possibly linked with a hot and dry anomaly in southern South America, but still with stormtrack between regions. In March, maximum temperatures up to +15°C, in May, minimum temperatures up to -50°C above the continent.
C) DRY – SW SECTOR (YELLOW): Good conditions for severe cold blasts. Minimum temperatures from -40°C in March to -70°C in May above the continent.
D) SNOWY – S/SW SECTORS (LIGHT VIOLET): Good conditions for blizzards, worse for expeditions. Minimum temperatures from -40°C in March to -70°C in May above the continent.
E) COLD SNOWY – WEST-INDIAN OCEAN SECTOR (VIOLET): Probably and effect of cold SST anomaly above neighboring part of Southern Ocean and IOD+ with ex-tropical cyclones in Western Indian Ocean. Very bad for expeditions. Minimum temperatures from -50°C in March to -75°C in May above the continent.
F) COLD DRY – NE SECTOR, SW FROM ANTARCTIC PENINSULA (LIGHT BLUE): Good condition for severe frosts, near Antarctic Peninsula worse conditions for expeditions. Near cold SST anomaly. Minimum temperatures from -50°C in March to -80°C in May above the continent.
Winter (Summer) 2021/2022 forecasts are available here: Europe /https://mkweather.com/winter-2021-2022-forecast-for-europe-early-extreme-arctic-and-siberian-blasts-and-blizzards-late-dry-and-very-warm-conditions//, North America /https://mkweather.com/winter-2021-2022-forecast-for-north-america-a-peak-of-winter-with-extreme-arctic-blasts-and-blizzards-in-february-2022//, Asia /https://mkweather.com/winter-2021-2022-forecast-for-asia-early-extreme-arctic-and-siberian-blasts-and-blizzards-late-dry-and-warm-conditions//, Australia and Oceania /https://mkweather.com/summer-2021-2022-forecast-for-australia-and-oceania-stormy-colder-la-nina-pattern-above-the-continent//, South America /http://mkweather.com/summer-2021-2022-forecast-for-south-america-stormy-north-hot-and-dry-south-cold-and-dry-pacific-coast//, Africa /https://mkweather.com/winter-and-summer-2021-2022-forecast-for-africa//, and Antarctica /https://mkweather.com/summer-2021-2022-forecast-for-antarctica//.
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Potential re-chargeable toothbrushes are easy to operate in comparison to a manual brush since the brush does all the work for that end user. An individual only delicately guides the energy toothbrush to each teeth. Using the typical toothbrush, the person has to transfer the remember to brush forward and backward throughout the teeth and calculate the volume of stress the brush push on the pearly whites. Based on Dr. Robert Shorenstein, DDS and also this author’s private encounter, those with particular actual physical disabilities, like joint inflammation, discover electric powered toothbrushes being ergonomic, far easier to utilize and less hurting for palms.
When toothbrushes are simple to operate, everyone is far more possible to remember to brush tooth 2 instances every day, as dental practitioner’s advice. If people clean properly twice daily, their two times-a-calendar year oral check out-ups are more likely to be cavity free, based on the Us Dental care Association. Most strength toothbrushes produced today provide intelligent electronic timers which pulse a soft indication each and every 30 second period of time. This indication conveys end users it’s time to relocate the brush to the after that quadrant of your tooth.
Most rechargeable electrical toothbrushes incorporate ergonomic add-ons from the commence-up package, including travel circumstances and rechargers, and also brush holders and restroom counter-top rated Electric Toothbrush. Each one of these usually is designed to maintain small areas and traveling bags. Once more, experiencing these services supplied in the startup package create the brush a lot more potential for use, because it’s simple and easy , fun. Every little thing is ready to go when users will need some of it. There is no frustrating dash on the store to look for any well suited necessary item. Not only do electrical toothbrushes often feature built in timers to permit consumers know when you ought to start working on one more portion of the teeth when scrubbing, they can have a electronic, wife tension detector which remarks when users are urgent too much around the pearly whites or gums.
For power toothbrushes, as verified around the Mouth-B brand dental products web site, the designs might have quite a few different cleaning activities, including all those for delicate the teeth, lightening, flossing activity, or gum restorative massage. Numerous appropriate clean heads could also be used with many different versions interchangeably, such as flossing motion, orthodontics, tongue sweeper, whitener, solution, vulnerable teeth, and more. | <urn:uuid:9f2ca27f-8e86-4524-a823-4fc36195f64f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://farmingstudio.com/2020/points-to-find-an-top-electric-tooth-brush.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.931511 | 530 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The School of Engineering offers the Master of Science in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering degree. The program utilizes the faculty and research facilities of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering to expose students to advanced and emerging technologies in mechanical and nuclear engineering. Research thrusts in the department include but are not limited to smart materials, micro/nanotechnology, energy conversion systems, sensors, aerosol science, nuclear engineering, fluid mechanics, medical devices, robotics and biomechanics. Distance learners enrolled in this program can take courses on-line and earn an M.S. in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering by successfully completing ten courses. | <urn:uuid:a801e29b-0239-44ad-82d5-9b03b71d9566> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://augmenting.me/blog/archives/category/school-of-engineering | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924758 | 121 | 1.898438 | 2 |
In addition, you might be able to resolve this issue by removing the device in Device Manager, and adding the device through Control Panel. This indicates that an exact (device-specific) driver is not available, and that a compatible driver has been installed.
Keep in mind that both PCs have to use the same version of Windows 10. Safe Mode is a special mode that uses only default drivers and applications and by using it, you’ll eliminate any possible interference from third-party apps. When Safe Mode starts, repeat the steps from Solution 1 to perform an SFC scan. Press the Windows key to launch the Start menu, click on the Power button, and while holding the Shift key, select Restart. If the tools are not capable of resolving the issue, then it is recommended that you and run the same commands in Safe Mode or even before Windows starts. Before running the SFC command, you need to check it is working properly.
You don’t have to try all of them in the order given. If you know what’s triggering the error for you, you can try first the solution you think would work. To understand the error, it is important to understand the terminology. In this case, a “Broken pipe” indicates that a connection between file descriptors of two processes what is Code 31 running was broken. If that explains little, there is nothing to worry about because we provide ways to fix System error 109 – ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE fully below. Repairing registry errors helps fix problems that causes your computer to slow down and hang. Booting problems are also fixed by executing this task regularly.
- Head down the list and check for an error symbol.
- Error loading operating system is one of the toughest task to resolve and without proper technician expertise it is very hard to crack.
- But I still want to remind you that any unexpected eror will cause data loss, thus please backup the entire disk or the specific partition having issues ahead of time.
Unfortunately, the kernel security check failure is a “serious” error resulting in a BSOD. Are you currently experiencing the Kernel Security Check Failure error when installing or running Windows 10? In this article, we’ll go over how to fix this stop code and resolve the error with ease.
In most cases, your computer will show some signs before it crashes. Learning to read signs of imminent failure can, therefore, save you money.
Advanced Solutions To File Syncing Issues
Finally, press the Check for Updates button and allow Windows to check for recently available updates that it can install on your system. Loose connections, broken, missing, and old network adapter drivers, interruptions from third-party programs, etc can all lead to network connection errors. Device drivers are computer programs that act as mediators or as an interface between the hardware or software components and the operating system of the PC. A problem with the hardware device itself might be causing the Code 10 error, in which case replacing the hardware is your next logical step.
What Is The Process Of Identifying & Removing Errors From Computer Hardware Or Software?
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Google are calling it a “new home for innovation” in Spain, a country where entrepreneurial spirit and the lack of state support provided to self-starters have been a matter of debate during the country’s economic crisis.
The American multinational announced on Monday that its third European campus after London’s and Tel Aviv’s will grant “unparalleled access to mentorship and trainings led by their local start-up community, experienced entrepreneurs, and teams from Google.”
“We decided to open a Campus in Madrid because of the thriving entrepreneurial spirit in Spain,” Google wrote in its European blog. “We have seen the booming entrepreneurial community in Spain and are excited to join the local community in making it even stronger.
In an interview with online Spanish daily Cinco Días, Google’s Director of Entrepreneurship Mary Grove said the London Campus had “helped 70,000 participants, set up 274 new start-ups, generated €43,31 million ($54M) in earnings and created 575 jobs, all in two year and a half years”.
Grove denied the search giant had chosen Madrid to try to win over the Spanish government over recent tax-dodging claims and other issues involving privacy and antitrust laws. | <urn:uuid:7136b489-2819-4bd6-9ce1-2c26f1045946> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelocal.es/20141007/google-to-launch-startup-campus-in-madrid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.955698 | 269 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Cars are not affordable for many Americans
Even median-income households in well-to-do Silicon Valley can't afford the $34,000 it takes to buy an average-price vehicle
U.S auto sales are on track to reach an all-time record this year of 17.7 million. But there’s a dark side to that story. A lot of Americans can’t afford the $34,000 it takes to buy an average-price vehicle. Yet many of them are doing it anyway by taking out longer, more expensive loans.
A recent study from the personal finance site, Bankrate.com, found that median-income households in each of the country’s 50 largest cities can’t afford a vehicle at Kelley Blue Book’s current national average price of $33,865.
That’s even in a place that’s oozing with money, like San Jose, Calif., where the median household income is $84,000. In San Jose, an affordable car, according to Bankrate.com, costs about $33,000.
In L.A., where the median income is $50,544, that type of income would only support buying a car that costs $17,630, according to the Bankrate.com survey.
Bankrate determined affordability by applying the 20/4/10 rule: 20% down on the purchase price, no longer than four years of financing, and no more than 10% of a household’s gross income going toward principal, interest and insurance combined.
Applying that formula to a passenger vehicle that’s the average price people are paying — about $34,000 — would require a $6,800 down payment. The amount that would need to be financed, then, is $27,200.
To pay that off in Bankrate’s recommended four years would cost buyers about $620 per month, presuming a 4 percent annual percentage rate.
And that’s just the car. It doesn’t include fuel and insurance.
“People are spending far too much money on their cars,” Steve Pounds, personal finance analyst at Bankrate.com, said in a statement. “There are many safe, affordable and stylish options on the market for people to choose from that won’t cut into more important budget items such as college funds and retirement savings.”
The credit reporting agency Experian is reporting the trend of unaffordabiilty is accompanied by an increase in the percentage of new car buyers who are financing the purchase, as well as the amount people are financing and the length of time for their loans.
The average new vehicle loan term is 68 months, according to Experian, or about six years. Almost a third of new vehicle loans are now between six and seven years — a 12 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the same period in 2015.
Cars’ unaffordability is also pushing more consumers into new car leases to help keep payments low. Leases were 27% of the new car market in the first quarter of 2015. A year later, they had jumped to 31 percent. The average monthly lease, as of early 2016, was $503. | <urn:uuid:f43cff66-a4ed-42e0-953f-57f2cd3612a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kpcc.org/programs/take-two/2016/07/12/50420/cars-are-not-affordable-for-many-americans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968547 | 674 | 2.140625 | 2 |
HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN (HYOO muhn kor ee ON ik goe NAD oh troe pin) is a hormone. HCG is used for different reasons in men and women. HCG is used in combination with other fertility drugs to increase a woman’s chance of pregnancy. In men or adolescent boys, HCG helps the production of testosterone and sperm.
Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is a hormone that supports the normal development of an egg in a woman’s ovary, and stimulates the release of the egg during ovulation.
HCG is used to cause ovulation and to treat infertility in women, and to increase sperm count in men. HCG is also used in young boys when their testicles have not dropped down into the scrotum normally. This can be caused by a pituitary gland disorder. | <urn:uuid:1e3be152-68e7-4cb3-bd9d-55fed3fc1f59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cheapedmeds03.com/medicine-category/hcg-injections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.913331 | 197 | 2.75 | 3 |
Shri Prashwanath Digambar Jain (Pahad) Mandir, Ellora (Verul), Maharashtra (Atishay Kshetra)
No of Temples: 02, Pahaad/Mountain: Yes, 350 steps, climbing height 5km. Historical importance: World famous Elora caves include caves belonging to Jain, Buddhist and Hindu religions architecture, artistic stone, caving and painting are simply the best, it’s a model heritage Kailash cave (no.16) is world famous 950 years old of Lord Parshwanathji in siting posture is worth to see. Annual Fair: On the day of Lord Parshwanathji is Moksh Kalyanak. Special Information: A 16 feet tall idol of Lord Parshwanathji on mountain is wonderful and magical. The Kshetra has hostel for 200 student, hospital guest house and a beautiful Temple. A Digambar Jain Gurukul is performing nicely under motivation of Aacharya Shree Samantbhadra Maharaj and Aacharya Shree Aaryanandi Maharaj. | <urn:uuid:a70d95d6-0151-450c-867f-ba306a6a406e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jaintirthtourism.com/maharashtra-jaintirthkshetra/shri-prashwanath-digambar-jain-(pahad)-mandir,-ellora-(verul),-maharashtra-tirthkshetra-in-aurangabad.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.867757 | 235 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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Cheap dinner ideas + ways to save money on food while still eating healthy
This list of budget-friendly recipes includes meals that you can prepare and eat at several budget-friendly prices points, including:
- Meals under $1 per serving
- Meals under $3 per serving
- Meals under $5 per serving
- Meals under $10 per serving
While these 35 cheap dinner ideas are a great place to start, there are plenty of other easy ways for you to save money on food when money is tight before you even start cooking.
In fact, you can start saving money right in your very own home before you even head to the grocery store!
Guide to eating well even when you are broke
Most of us have been broke at some point in our life.
No matter if you are a college student trying to juggle your studies and still eat a decent meal or if you are a family of four or more trying to stretch your food budget, saving money on groceries can be stressful.
That being said, there are steps you can take to make sure you can still eat yummy and healthy food, even when on a budget.
#1. Know the best foods to buy when you are broke
If money is tight, there are definitely certain foods that you can buy when you are broke that will help your money stretch further while still filling up your belly.
Because food is one of the biggest household expenses for most families, it pays to be as frugal as possible!
Here are some foods you can buy when you are broke but still want to eat well.
Many of these cheap foods are shelf-safe, so if you look for them when they are on sale you can stock up for the tough times!
The 20 best foods to buy when you are broke are:
- Dry beans
- Dry pasta
- Oats and grains
- Canned tuna
- Peanut butter
- Whole chicken
- In-season produce
- Frozen vegetables
There are so many cheap and delicious meals that can be made using a combination of these ingredients!
#2. Saving money by meal planning
Saving money on food and groceries starts before you even head to the grocery store.
The best way to save money on food every time you go shopping is to use meal planning.
You can create a basic meal planning menu around cheap staples, like the ones listed above, stocking up on those and then also buying more expensive items on sale and with coupons whenever possible.
After completing your shopping you can then go home, create a weekly menu, then start meal prepping for the rest of the week.
Meal prepping activities include things like cooking huge crockpot meals on the weekend (if your family is anything like mine, you will need the extra-large size) and putting it in containers for easy reheating the rest of the week or chopping veggies and fruits for easy-to-grab snack packs for your kids.
Kids are more likely to grab healthy snacks when they are presented in cute little packages!
Most grocery stores now offer online apps in addition to their weekly mailers of for-sale items; you can start by making a shopping list based on items that are on sale and also grab those that you need immediately to round out your supplies.
LEARN MORE: See how your grocery budget compares to the average family and find out how to plan your grocery on a budget from start to finish.
#3. Don’t pay extra for “convenience”
Convenience can be expensive!
Buying frozen dinners and pre-sliced and packaged food often comes at a price — namely, a higher price point!
Grocery stores also like to play sneaky tricks to try and get you to spend more money, like placing the more expensive brand-name foods right at your eye level so you are more likely to buy.
Take the time to around and spot the better bargains; often the cheaper brands taste just as good or better than more expensive ones.
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Now on to the cheap dinner ideas!
Here are 35 easy and cheap dinner ideas for every budget and diet, including some vegan, keto, and gluten-free options!
Remember, recipes can always be adjusted; if you don’t like any of the ingredients you can omit them (which can also help save you moolah) or substitute something else!
These easy dinner recipes have been divided into categories by proteins so that you can find what you are looking for based on your meat selection (or lack thereof), including:
Cheap dinners with chicken as an ingredient
Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas – Recipes from a Pantry
Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas are the kind of quick and easy make-ahead meal that’s perfect for feeding a crowd.
If you’re looking for a frugal meal that you can easily double or triple, these Instant Pot Fajitas are it.
One-Pot Creamy Cajun Chicken – Budget Bytes
Beth’s website is THE go-to place for cheap dinner ideas, as well as side dishes, desserts, and other dishes that will make your mouth – and your wallet – happy!
Her one-pot creamy cajun chicken is a quick and easy dish that packs a powerful punch of flavor.
This cheap chicken dinner is creamy, smokey, spicy, all in one perfect weeknight meal.
However, if you don’t like any of those flavors, Beth also offers a lot of custom variations to make it not-creamy, not-spicy, etc.
Chicken Tortilla Casserole – Savor the Best
In just five minutes, these delicious chicken tacos are in the crock-pot and cooking away!
Ridiculously easy with just a few common, budget-friendly ingredients – and sure to become your go-to lifesaver!
White Chicken Chili – Savory Bites Recipes
Ready in under 30 minutes, this White Chicken Chili is an amazing combination of chicken, beans, and veggies. This complete meal is totally customizable to suit your needs and can be frozen if you have leftovers.
One-Skillet Greek Chicken with Artichokes – All the Healthy Things
This one-skillet meal uses inexpensive chicken thighs and fresh lemons to get maximum flavor without a ton of cost.
Chicken and Rice Soup – Milk and Pop
Chicken and Rice Soup is a complete meal and gets especially tasty on winter days. The best part: you can use your leftovers to make it.
5 Meals – 1 Chicken – One Dish Kitchen
Joanie is going to show you how to get 5 dishes out of one delicious chicken.
Roasting a whole chicken is perfect for meal planning.
See how easy it is to roast a chicken in the oven with this easy recipe (she also provided several single-serving recipe ideas made with the leftover chicken to use throughout the week.)
Rotisserie Chicken + Mac ‘n Cheese – Mighty Mrs
This Tuscan-inspired chicken and pasta casserole is just about as easy as making regular mac and cheese, but even tastier!
This dish easily feeds a big family or a small crowd – if you have any leftovers, they are great to take to work the next day!
Rotisserie Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Peppers – Key to My Lime
Using only four ingredients, these rotisserie chicken enchilada stuffed peppers are the perfect way to turn basic and affordable ingredients into an easy and delicious dinner.
With only 10 minutes of hands-on time and 30 minutes in the oven, you’ll have dinner ready in no time!
Easy One-Pan Roasted Cornish Hens Over Veggies – Squirrels of a Feather
I used to think that Cornish hens were only for “fancy” people who ate dinner seated at tables that were so long they had to shout 10 feet to talk to each other.
Then Costco introduced me to their 6-pack of bulk Cornish hens package; each WHOLE HEN for around $2!
By chopping up cheap potatoes and other veggies and roasting it all in a pan, this dish is super affordable and quite the dinner – our family of four could typically get two meals out of this one dinner!
Cheap dinners using beef as an ingredient
Homemade Sloppy Joe Recipe – Easy Budget Recipes
Homemade Sloppy Joes is a classic dinner recipe that is easy to make and economical too!
It takes less than 30 minutes to make and costs just $9.34 for a serving for six people!
Homemade Hamburger Helper – House of Nash Eats
Now Hamburger Helper is even more satisfying!
The homemade Hamburger Helper recipe is classic comfort food that is a hit with everybody!
It’s made with inexpensive pantry ingredients like pasta, cheese, and ground beef, and it feeds a crowd so it’s a great budget-friendly meal.
Sopa de Albondiga – A Taste for Travel
This hearty meatball soup — sopa de albóndigas — is popular as a midday meal in Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and with everyone who tastes it!
Made with economical ground beef and fresh vegetables in a beefy broth, this satisfying one-pot meal is an easy-to-make, comfort food that’s very budget-friendly.
Cheap dinners using pork as an ingredient
Egg Roll in a Bowl (Paleo, Low-Carb, AIP Friendly) – Whole New Mom
Whole New Mom brings you a whole new take on the egg roll!
This Healthy Egg Roll in a Bowl (aka Crack Slaw) has all of the great flavors of Chinese takeout egg rolls but in a sure-to-please One Pan Meal form; all the taste of egg rolls but without the carbs and expense of traditional egg roll wrappers.
This recipe uses the humble cabbage and carrot as the main base, so it’s a super-frugal meal your whole family will love.
One Serving Vegetable Pork Bowl – Project Meal Plan
This One Serving Vegetable Pork Bowl is a simple stir fry meal that’s packed with flavor and perfect for one!
Seasoned ground pork and vegetables in a delicious sauce come together in just 15 minutes with zero leftovers and no food waste.
It’s a great dinner for single people dining on a budget!
Keto + Crustless Pizza Casserole Recipe – Dr. Davinah’s Eats
Keto can be budget-friendly!
Crustless Pizza Casserole gives you all the flavors of pizza in a low-carb & family-friendly package. This easy dinner uses just 8 ingredients, including meat you can easily get in bulk, and can last several meals.
Whole 30 + Keto-Friendly Pulled Pork – Amanda Seghetti
Amanda shares this pulled pork recipe along with 5 different ideas for how to meal prep using the pulled pork – if you grab it on sale like her and combine with in-season produce and dried goods like beans or rice, you can have an on-budget meal for under $15 ready in less than 2 hours.
Because it’s so much food, it’s probably close to$3 per serving!
Kid and Toddler-Friendly Meatballs Packed with Veggies – Squirrels of a Feather
These kid-friendly meatballs are PACKED with hidden veggies, making them a very cost-friendly meatball recipe.
It’s lighter on the wallet and your health because it uses turkey and lots of vegetables to lighten up both the fat and the cost.
You can even decide which vegetables you want to add to your meatballs – kale or broccoli make great options!
Cheap meat-free dinners (with vegan options)
Freezer-Friendly Black Bean Burgers – Project Meal Plan
Black beans are a frugal and delicious alternative to animal proteins. You won’t be able to resist these veggie-packed burgers filled with peppers, onions, garlic, and a can of black beans!
Freezer Friendly Black Bean Burgers are SO easy to prepare ahead, freeze, and reheat whenever you need a quick meal!
Super Easy 4 Bean Salad – Greedy Gourmet
Choosing dried over canned is the way to go when you’re looking save on your monthly food bill – you get so much bang for your buck than with the canned stuff (and it tends to be healthier, too).
This 4 Bean Salad is super healthy and fills you up right.
Go see which types of beans are used in this delicious recipe.
15-Minute Thai Vegan Thai Peanut Noodles – Drive Me Hungry
This cheap dinner idea is vegan-friendly on a dime!
Even better, these easy, vegan Thai peanut noodles ready in 15 minutes!
This cheap and easy meal uses affordable spaghetti noodles, a handful of veggies, and a flavorful peanut sauce to create a fast and delicious dish that is sure to satisfy the whole family, sans meat.
Potato Pasta Recipe – The Clever Meal
What to make when you’ve got next to nothing in the fridge?
This creamy and utterly delicious potato pasta is your go-to recipe.
It calls for a few humble and budget-friendly ingredients, takes less than 20 minutes of prep time, and comes out to around $1 per serving.
Winner, winner, potato dinner!
Easy Baked Ziti Recipe – Spaceships and Laserbeams
This easy Baked Ziti recipe is the best family dinner recipe. It is so simple to make.
I might be playing favorites here but I think this mostly one-pot recipe is the perfect pasta casserole.
Pasta Pangrattato with a Fried Egg – Simple Gray T-Shirt
Fried eggs have never felt so fancy!
This easy weeknight dinner is so simple, yet feels really elegant. Pasta, breadcrumbs and a fried egg, everything you already have in your fridge and pantry make a great meal!
Coconut Red Beans and Rice – The Food Blog
Dave Ramsey famously recommended red beans and rice as a money-saving cheap dinner – now this dish is going tropical!
Enjoy the warming Jamaican flavors of this easy Coconut Red Beans & Rice recipe; this dish can simmer in the slow cooker for a delectable meal in itself, or, a great side dish.
This hot take on the classic red beans and rice recipe will have you asking for seconds.
Italian Wonderpot – Budget Bytes
This one-pot pasta meal is magic in a bowl!
The Italian Wonderpost is easy, flavorful, and super easy to make.
You simply put all the ingredients as well as the right amount of liquid in one pot and presto! You get a perfect dinner with minimal mess and work (omit the cheese for vegan).
Tomato and Rice Soup – I Heart Vegetables
You can serve a family of 4 for less than $10 with this hearty soup recipe – that’s $2.50 per serving!
Brown rice takes this soup from side dish to the main dish and it’s super easy to prepare!
Easy Crockpot Potato Soup Recipe – Kim and Kalee
Do you have a crockpot?
This Easy Crockpot Potato Soup Recipe is the ultimate comfort food!
You can throw it together in a few minutes, and it’s so creamy and delicious! Plus it is meat-free, which makes it a cheaper family dinner!
Vegan Pho – The Food Blog
You don’t have to be vegan to appreciate this dish!
Vegan Pho is a quick and easy way to enjoy a big bowl of delicious steamy soup.
It’s packed full of veggies and loaded with flavor; best of all, it takes just 30 minutes to make.
Garlicky Spinach and White Bean Pasta – Rachael Hartley Nutrition
A simple bowl of garlicky spinach and white bean pasta gets a boost of flavor from a garlic oil made with a secret budget-friendly ingredient – anchovies!
Trust me, it adds a delicious nutty and umami flavor.
Parsley Parmesan Pasta – Brooklyn Farm Girl
Parsley Parmesan Pasta recipe that takes 15 minutes to make and costs less than $4.
Blend the parsley with other simple ingredients to make a nut-free pesto sauce and then pour on top of pasta!
Your entire family will like this fresh parsley pasta dinner.
Giant Rice Cooker Pancakes – Squirrels of a Feather
Never underestimate the power of BFD – that’s breakfast for dinner, folks.
Just because you are eating on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t still have fun.
Now you can have your pancakes and eat them too with this quick and easy giant pancake recipe.
It’s super easy, super affordable, and honestly a delight for the whole family; great for a budget-friendly Mother’s Day or other holiday meals, too!
Cheap dinners using fish or seafood
Slimming World Tuna Pasta Bake – Supergolden Bakes
Tuna is a very economical protein. This healthy pasta bake uses everyday cupboard ingredients, including cheap tuna and dry pasta, and is so easy a child could make it!
Meal Prep Shrimp Fried Rice – Mom Advice
Meal prep shrimp and rice is oh-so-nice!
Leftover rice, veggies, or meat can all be put to work in a batch of fried rice for a family meal. Make this takeout special at home using odds and ends in your fridge!
Tuna Tomato Pasta – Neils Healthy Meals
Tuna tomato pasta is a delicious healthy and easy recipe that only takes 20 minutes to make.
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Books are a fantastic way to explain and explore different emotions with children. From beautifully illustrated pictures books for younger readers to chapter books for older readers, read on to find some of the best books to start conversations on social-emotional learning in your classroom.
1. Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival
Ruby's worry is an endearing story about a girl who finds a worry which then follows her around getting bigger until she learns to talk about it.
2. The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
This best-selling book is an uplifting tale of the bond between siblings, experiencing new things, and having pride in who you are, even in the face of ignorance.
3. The Boy At the Back of the Class by Onjali Rauf
When Ahmet joins the class he doesn't talk or smile, which confuses his classmates. Eventually, they learn what he has been through as a refugee and decide to help him.
4. The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
At school, Zoey's teacher makes her join the debating club where she gains a new perspective on things in her life such as being a young carer, poverty, and gun control.
5. Serena Williams by Mary Nhin
This book tells the inspiring true story of Serena Williams' journey to overcome discrimination and doubt and how the constant support of her family helped her along the way.
6. The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter
This laugh-out-loud book follows the story of 11-year-old Billy Plimpton who has a stammer and wants to be a stand-up comedian when he's older.
7. Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud
This classic book is all about encouraging acts of kindness towards others by imagining everyone has an invisible bucket that holds good feelings and thoughts.
8. The Peculiar Possum: The Nocturnals by Tracey Hecht
Penny the Possum befriends the Nocturnal Brigade and teaches them about how they are all different and why these differences are what make them unique.
9. The Hunt for the Nightingale by Sarah Ann Juckes
This incredibly moving story covers the topic of grief in a clever and gentle way. Jasper's sister is no longer with them, so he sets out in search of her and a nightingale.
10. The Boy Who Made the World Disappear by Ben Miller
Harrison can't control his temper and when he is given a black hole he starts making things disappear and learns that needs to learn to control his temper, fast!
11. It's Okay To Not Be Okay by Emily Hayes
In this social-emotional learning book, children will learn through rhymes and relatable examples that emotions can be good and bad, and are totally normal.
12. Anger Management Workbook for Kids by Samantha Snowden
This workbook has 50 different activities for kids that will help to teach vital social and emotional skills such as identifying their emotions and strategies to handle them.
13. Train Your Angry Dragon by Steve Herman
With cute illustrations, this book helps children to manage their anger and frustrations when things don't go the way they want.
14. The Extraordinary Girl by Melanie Joy Harder
When a little girl compares herself to others, her friend sets out to show her how special she really is. This book demonstrates the values of kindness, confidence, and friendship.
15. All Feelings Are Okay by Emily Hayes
This easy-to-read book is great for teaching emotional skills to children of various ages and abilities, highlighting that it is ok to feel angry, scared, sad, excited, happy, and worried.
16. The Pigeon & The Peacock by Jennifer L. Trace
This book explores themes of friendship, bravery, and acceptance as Pepper the Pigeon discovers all the things his friends like about him.
17. Good Enough Dinosaur by Steve Herman
This book will help children learn important social skills and how to handle negative emotions as the characters learn to build self-confidence.
18. The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
The Invisible String is a beautifully illustrated book for children to help them deal with complicated emotions such as anxiety, grief and, loss.
19. Mum, Dad can you hear me? by Despina Mavridou
This story explores the difficult emotions that can arise when children experience their parents going through a divorce.
20. Lost in the Clouds by Tom Tinn-Disbury
Lost in the Clouds is a sensitively written book, exploring the challenging emotions that can come with some of the toughest circumstances life can offer - the loss of a loved one.
21. Me and My Feelings by Vanessa Green Allen
This is a fantastic choice for children who struggle to stay in control of their feelings as it teaches them strategies to keep calm.
22. My Body Sends a Signal by Natalia Maguire
With accessible language and clear illustrations of familiar situations, this book is a great resource to teach children about the connections between emotions and their bodies.
23. Teach Your Dragon to Make Friends by Steve Herman
Social communication skills are essential to making friends and this book teaches this to children in an accessible way, through the idea of teaching it to their pet dragon.
24. What to Do When You Feel Like Hitting by Cara Goodwin
This book helps explain the emotions to toddlers in a fun way and then shows them kinder ways to express feelings to others than hitting.
25. Gentle Hands and Other Sing-Along Songs for Social-Emotional Learning by Amadee Ricketts
This delightful picture book is packed with engaging rhymes and songs to make social-emotional learning fun for younger years.
26. Two Monsters and Me - Everybody gets Angry by George Nesty
With five techniques to deal with anger, this book shows children that it's ok to get angry, but that there are ways to deal with this that are better than others.
27. Kindness is my Superpower by Alicia Ortego
Kindness is my Superpower is a thoughtfully written book that explains to children that it's ok to make a mistake and that saying sorry is important.
28. Monty the Manatee by Natalie Pritchard
This adorable book teaches children the importance of friendship and kindness in a story about bullying.
29. My Way to Kindness by Elizabeth Cole
This book uses familiar examples to demonstrate the importance of sharing, being kind, helping others, and having good manners.
30. HAPPY CONFIDENT ME Life Skills Journal by Linda Papadopoulos & Nadim Saad
With 60 different activities, this book will help teach children 10 foundational skills from resilience to positive thinking and help them to have a growth mindset.
31. Be Brave by Poppy O'Neill
Aimed at helping children to overcome shyness, Be Brave teaches children mindfulness activities to better equip them to become more confident.
32. What's the Hurry, Murray? by Anna Adams
When Murray the dog is stressed, Hoots the owl teaches him some mindfulness techniques to help him calm down. This book will teach children strategies to calm down when they get stressed.
33. Listen Like an Elephant by Kira Willey
This book has a collection of mindfulness exercises to teach children to slow down and manage their breath, body, and emotions.
34. The Steves by Morag Hood
Two puffins get into a big, increasingly silly argument until they decide that it is silly to argue and they resolve their issues. This book is great for learning how to resolve conflict.
35. Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
This sweet book focuses on being brave and facing your fears as Jabari gets ready to jump off the diving board at the swimming pool, with his dad there to encourage him.
36. Enemy Pie by Derek Munson & Tara Calahan King
For children who are struggling with conflict or learning to make friends, it teaches them how to be kind and respect others, and even how an enemy can become a friend.
37. Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds
This encouraging and empowering book will show children that they alone have control over their words and actions, and thus the power to make a change.
38. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
This funny story, with its colorful illustrations, is perfect for children who are having trouble understanding when they are interrupting others.
39. The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
This book helps children to identify complex feelings and emotions and teaches them the vocabulary they need to express their feelings to adults around them.
40. Millie Fierce by Jane Manning
When the other children at school ignore Millie decides to be fierce, but she soon learns that being nice is better than being mean to others.
41. Believe in Yourself (Be You) by Lexi Rees, Sasha Mullen & Eve Kennedy
This book has many mindfulness activities to help anxious children become more aware of their thoughts and actions.
42. Dia's Power by Mina Minozzi
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43. B is for Breathe by Dr. Melissa Muro Boyd
This book has different strategies for children to learn to express their feelings and emotions from a young age.
44. The Amazing A-Z of Resilience by David Gumbrell
In this book are 26 objects and stories from A-Z to introduce wellbeing themes and start conversations to develop resilience in children.
45. Chiri The Hummingbird by Jo Blake
Through the story of Chiri, a hungry hummingbird, this book explores various themes such as our relationship with others, empathy, and how to take positive action to make things right.
46. I Am Stronger Than Anxiety by Elizabeth Cole
With lovely illustrations to catch children's attention, this book explains anxiety in a child-friendly way and gives tips to overcome worries.
47. Be Mindful of Monsters by Lauren Stockly
This book teaches children the importance of accepting emotions through the story of a child whose emotions have become monsters.
48. Feelings by Libby Walden & Richard Jones
This beautifully artistic book invites conversation around emotions and what they look like to different people.
49. All About Feelings by Felicity Brooks & Frankie Allen
This book teaches children to describe their feelings, how they can change and improve their self-esteem.
50. The Crayons' Book of Feelings by Drew Daywalt
This creative book links emotions with colors as children read a story about the different emotions that these crayons feel.
51. The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
This book is highly relatable for children with severe anxiety or who experience extreme emotions as it illustrates and shows ways to cope with the challenges they face day-to-day.
52. Kindness Grows by Britta Teckentrup
This peek-through book is fantastic for teaching younger children about the joys of friendship and how kindness can spread if we are considerate of each other.
53. What are Feelings? by Katie Daynes
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From every circumstance attending this matter, the ridicule of the claim became stronger. But suspecting that a gentleman 'of Mr. Mason's found sense and good character must have juster grounds to proceed upon than what appeared upon the face of his message, the publisher requested to be favoured with his address, in order to have a personal conference with him upon the subject; and at the fame time assured his agent, that he meant not designedly to invade or to injure Mr. Mason's property: Whether his messenger began to view the object of his mifiion in too ludicrous a view, is unknown, but it is certain he refused to comply with this civil requifition.
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3MISTAKES TO AVOID WHILE BUYING E-BIKE KIT Getting the right e-bike may be very challenging and there are just too many e- bike makers and they all claim their kit to be the best! If you are planning to get one, then you should try to avoid these mistakes: 1-GOING FOR FRONT WHEEL MOTOR It is a big mistake as most of the suspension forks are made of cast aluminium material. While aluminium is a strong material but it is not very flexible and has some brittleness. When you have a rotating hub motor on the front wheel it puts a lot of stress. And under such stress any dropout can crack the wheel and break the fork. When that happens the
wheel may no longer remain attached to the bike. That is why it is suggested to go with a rear wheel motor. 2-PREFERRING E-BIKE TO NORMAL BIKE WITH E- BIKE KIT There are many who assume that the factory made e-bike kits are better. Although they may be a great solutions for new-buyers but then e-bike kit may be good for some. In a new e-bike, there is place for the battery, and hardly will you find any wires running around. But when you go for an e-bike conversion kit same may not be true. Further an e- bike kit may have performance issues as it may have to comply with laws. But when you go for e-bike kit, there may
not be such restrictions and that is why you get better performance with an e-bike. Then there may be quality issue with some of the e-bikes as well. 3-BUY A KIT THAT HAS MORE POWER If you buy an electric bike kit that is overpowered then you may just be carrying more battery and power without any use. IN THE END If you can avoid these mistakes you will probably have the best kit! | <urn:uuid:d0ddfcf5-2be8-4848-afd6-7f7a59f086cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.slideserve.com/mtaylor0083/3-mistakes-to-avoid-while-buying-e-bike-kit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958046 | 402 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Finding a way to handle substance abuse or a mental health disorder starts with understanding the options available to address personal concerns in an insurance policy. When you or a loved one abuses a substance, seeking professional treatment in a rehabilitation program allows you to address the underlying cause of the condition and situation. In Connecticut, Aetna offers coverage for health and wellness through employers and group plans.
The basic coverage in an Aetna policy depends on the details of the plan and the goals of the employer. Generally, the policy covers most health concerns and mental health disorders. The exact amount of coverage depends on the specific details in the policy. For example, a basic policy usually covers emergency treatments or outpatient programs, but might set limitations on the in-patient options available. In most cases, you must pay the stated deductible before coverage applies to the situation.
A comprehensive policy usually offers more solutions and options for mental health disorders and addiction. If an employer provided or group policy offers comprehensive options, it will usually allow you to seek treatment for substance abuse and rehabilitation as long as you comply with the standards stated in your policy. For example, you might need to pay the deductible and stay within the Aetna network. Some policies do not pay for out-of-network treatment programs or limit coverage to the out-of-network options. Furthermore, the exact amount of coverage will usually depend on the type of program you select. Outpatient programs usually require a stated co-payment for each visit, such as $25 to $50 per visit. Residential care usually sets a percentage of the treatment costs, such as paying 80 percent of the costs and requiring a co-payment of 20 percent.
While Aetna offers policies in Connecticut, it is primarily available through employers, group programs or Medicare rather than individual policies. As a result, individuals must work with the options provided by an employer.
In most cases, employers offer one or more policies through Aetna that provide different levels of coverage. For example, the employer might offer a basic Bronze policy with basic coverage and a Silver policy with standard and more comprehensive coverage. The exact details depend on the specific employer and the options available through the employer, so individuals must evaluate the options available through the company to determine and appropriate option.
Limitations usually apply to any policy provided by an employer based on the needs and goals of the group. For example, the policy will usually cover addiction recovery and rehabilitation treatment, but it might set limitations on the duration of treatment or the type of treatment options available for your recovery goals. Pay attention to any exceptions, limits or details that impact your treatment goals to ensure that your Aetna policy helps with your recovery.
After identifying your coverage, consider the treatment options available for your situation. In most cases, you want to compare in-patient and out-patient programs based on your situation. If you cannot take time off work for treatment or you have obligations that limit the time available for treatment, then consider an outpatient facility. When you need more comprehensive treatment and have time available for the treatment, consider a residential, inpatient facility.
You also want to consider the treatment solutions available in the program. In most cases, evidence-based and holistic programs offer the tools you need to recover. For example, evidence-based treatments use tools like cognitive behavioral therapy to help address behaviors and thought patterns. Holistic treatments evaluate the entire situation and then develop a personalized treatment plan based on your needs and goals.
Traditional treatments use tools like counseling and group therapy to address substance abuse or mental health disorders. Consider programs that also offer detoxification services or that help connect you to a detox program to start the recovery process.
The best treatment program in Connecticut for your goals will depend on the situation and the underlying complications that contribute to substance abuse. Compare a variety of options before finalizing any plans for your recovery goals. To learn more about treatment options or to compare different programs, use the tools at DrugRehab.org or contact us today! | <urn:uuid:22c127f8-fa6f-4171-bdb1-c10d6a96f54e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drugrehab.org/aetna-drug-rehab/aetna-drug-rehab-coverage-in-connecticut/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.925608 | 810 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Wittgenstein proposed in his later philosophy the concept of family resemblance to describe groups which cannot be defined by a single (or simple set) of common features but instead display (from the SEP):
There is no reason to look, as we have done traditionally—and dogmatically—for one, essential core in which the meaning of a word is located and which is, therefore, common to all uses of that word. We should, instead, travel with the word’s uses through “a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing” (PI 66). Family resemblance also serves to exhibit the lack of boundaries and the distance from exactness that characterize different uses of the same concept. Such boundaries and exactness are the definitive traits of form—be it Platonic form, Aristotelian form, or the general form of a proposition adumbrated in the Tractatus. It is from such forms that applications of concepts can be deduced, but this is precisely what Wittgenstein now eschews in favor of appeal to similarity of a kind with family resemblance.
Now consider a typical pattern recognition/machine learning problem: We have a set of photos some of which are of trees and some which are not. We want to classify them into two groups "photos of trees" and "photos of other things". No single criterion ("trunk/no trunk", "leaves/no leaves" , "green/not green") exists for deciding whether the photo is that of a tree or not, but a suitable pattern recognition algorithm such as a neural network or support vector machine will easily be able to separate the two classes of photos.
The thing about how such algorithms work: there is a sharp boundary between the two classes, it's just that it's too complicated to represent with a simple function or set of if-then rules. It can only be represented in a high dimension feature space which can't be visualized in 2D or 3D, but a sharp decision boundary still exists, otherwise the algorithms wouldn't work.
Based on this consideration, does Wittgenstein's family resemblance really boil down to a lack of sufficient knowledge?
Is Wittgenstein wrong when he says that no boundaries or exact distances can be described for such notions? They can, they are just too complex to be described in a simple fashion?
Or are there examples of family resemblance where no sharp boundary can be found no matter how complex the representation we use? | <urn:uuid:19a0bdbb-820c-44e6-97b8-8253bfe37fbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/40581/on-wittgensteins-family-resemblance-and-machine-learning/40585 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959308 | 509 | 2.9375 | 3 |
A landmark study by McKinsey explores the potential benefits of transitioning to a novel US health policy centered on prevention. The cost of poor health in the United States is estimated at a whopping 16% of real GDP, driven both by premature deaths as well as lost productive years. If the US moves away from its traditional cost-reduction approach when shaping health policy and prioritizes prevention instead, this will reduce disease burden by one-third and boost GDP by 10% by 2040. While ongoing innovation in the field of preventive health will play its role in accelerating these outcomes, it is reassuring that known preventive health measures - smoking cessation, weight loss control, etc. - will be sufficient to alter the landscape of health and wealth within just 20 years. | <urn:uuid:a88c9faa-60f3-4946-95e2-bf2fa3d2a9e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.form.life/the-form-post/prevention-centred-health-policy-creates-a-healthier-and-wealthier-society | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966247 | 150 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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