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Exploring the instinct of panic with your students touches on both SEAL and PSHE issues. This assembly looks at the emotion within the context of national fuel crises
This assembly looks at the nature of ‘panic’ with reference to the recent petrol crisis.
Reader 1: Strike at Grangemouth Threatens Petrol Supplies!
Reader 2: Fuel Shortage!
Reader 3: Petrol will Run Out!
Reader 4: Food Supplies will be Interrupted!
Leader: In what ways could a fuel shortage affect you?
Reader 1: I have to get to school this morning on time because I’ve got my exam, so my Dad is giving me a lift.
Reader 2: After school today, I’m going to swimming practice. The pool is only twenty minutes by bus.
Reader 3: A group of us are going into town on Saturday − on the train − because it’s quicker.
Reader 4: I’m flying to Majorca with my family in the summer for our holiday. I can’t wait!
Leader: All these activities could be affected by a serious fuel shortage. Most of us enjoy our daily routines in life, and, even when we don’t − perhaps in times of personal crisis − it’s somehow reassuring to know that the rest of the world is carrying on around us, as usual.
One thing we’re all used to is the freedom to travel. Most of us use transport daily. It’s part of our routine. We catch buses. We ride in cars. We catch trains and, if we’re lucky, we catch planes, too.
The structure of our twenty-first century lives depends on this freedom and, most of the world outside of the UK, is a few hours’ travel away from where we live. Without the freedom to travel, our routines − and consequently our lives − would be very different. How different would your life be if you had to walk everywhere? [Pause]
Travel, as it is at the moment, depends completely on a constant supply of fuel − as do our food supplies. Often food and other goods come from hundreds of miles away to reach the shops nearby where we live. We’ve all heard about the recent petrol crisis. The spark that set this off was as a result of a dispute by workers who run the fuel depot in Grangemouth over proposed changes in their pension scheme. But, in fact, there are hundreds of reasons why the fuel supply could be interrupted in the future, one important one being that there are indications that the sources of oil that we use may well run out unless we find other sources of fuel.
Human beings thrive on routines. Most people like their lives to be as predictable as possible. It makes us feel safe and secure in the knowledge that things will go on as usual − and that our supplies of food and other essentials will not be interrupted. Unfortunately, anything that threatens our routines tends to lead to panic. The definition of panic is:
Reader 1: A sudden overwhelming fear…
Reader 2: …with or without cause…
Reader 3: …that produces irrational behaviour…
Reader 4: …and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
Panic leads to interesting human and animal behaviour because it seems to jump from one person to another − and sometimes it leads to irrational behaviour that makes things worse. You’ve all seen pictures of herds of animals − and people − running from danger.
For instance, imagine a crowd of deer grazing peacefully in a forest. One raises its head because it senses danger − perhaps it smells an approaching person who may, or may not, be a real danger. That one deer turns quickly and runs away − and, very quickly, the whole herd catch on and run, too. Even if there wasn’t any real danger, their sense of self-preservation doesn’t take any chances.
In the same way, however much people are told not to panic − and however real or imaginary the danger to their lives is − they often do.
Last week, the Daily Record Newspaper in Scotland carried the headline:
Reader 1: ‘Don’t fuel this petrol crisis!’
Leader: It urged people not to panic buy. However, it didn’t really help − because − like the herd of deer, some people panicked, particularly in Scotland, which was the most affected − and the panic spread. People bought more petrol than usual to make sure that they would have enough − sometimes filling up their tanks ‘just in case’ they couldn’t get petrol later − and sometimes queuing for hours just to do this. People who might not normally panic saw the queues and realised that, if they didn’t queue up too, there might be no petrol left for them − and so the petrol pumps ran dry − even though, if they had they all bought their usual amount of petrol, there would probably have been enough to last for everyone until the crisis was over.
Panic is, in lots of ways, a very useful − and sometimes vital − reaction. Many of you may have been in situations where you’ve been in real danger. Everyone, for instance, can imagine this scenario − a vehicle suddenly coming towards you, out of control. The panic you would feel − and the burst of adrenalin that comes with it − makes you react to save yourself. So the panic reaction is an important one. We sometimes have our own personal ‘panics’.
Reader 1: I’m going to be late!
Reader 2: I know I’m going to fail all my exams.
Reader 3: I’m going to look stupid!
Reader 4: I can’t do it!
Leader: As humans, rather than animals, in cases where there isn’t an immediate danger to life − and even in the recent fuel ‘crisis’, there are several things to consider. Panicking over personal insecurities is similar in that reacting too quickly can help spread unnecessary panic and make things worse. Panic can be a reaction to what ‘might’ happen − rather than to a situation where there’s obvious immediate danger.
It’s important to think of the needs of everyone in a crisis − not just our own. We live in a society where our own behaviour potentially affects everyone else − and vice versa. Nowadays, people talk about the ‘global village’. Increasingly it seems that we live in a world where things we do potentially affect everyone in the world. In the case of the petrol crisis, the wider picture is that everyone is likely to be affected by unnecessary panic.
So it’s important to assess the amount of real danger in any situation. Is there really a need for panic? A cool head − and an ability to ‘take a step back’ − is important at times of crisis in order to look clearly at the situation and consider the best course of action. What, for instance, are we being told by the people who know all the facts? People were warned not to panic and that, if everyone bought more petrol than they usually do, they would make the situation worse − but this is what happened.
Listen to the following quote from Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem, ‘If’:
Reader 1: ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…
Reader 2: If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you – but make allowance for their doubting, too…
Reader 3: If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same…
Reader 4: Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it’
This e-bulletin issue was first published in May 2008
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New York Harbor
New York Harbor, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean at the East Coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Although the United States Board on Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages.
The aboriginal population of the 16th century New York Harbor, the Lenape, used the waterways for fishing and travel. In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape. A party of his sailors may have taken on fresh water at a spring called "the watering place" on Staten Island—a monument stands in a tiny park on the corner of Bay Street and Victory Boulevard at the approximate spot—but Verrazzano's descriptions of the geography of the area are a bit ambiguous. It is fairly firmly held by historians that his ship anchored at the approximate location where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches down in Brooklyn today. He also observed what he believed to be a large freshwater lake to the north (apparently Upper New York Bay). He apparently did not travel north to observe the existence of the Hudson River. In 1609 Henry Hudson entered the Harbor and explored a stretch of the river that now bears his name. His journey prompted others to explore the region and engage in trade with the local population.
In 1624 the first permanent European settlement was started on Governors Island, and eight years later in Brooklyn; soon these were connected by ferry operation. The colonial Dutch Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, ordered construction of the first wharf on the Manhattan bank of the lower East River sheltered from winds and ice, which was completed late in 1648 and called Schreyers Hook Dock (near what is now Pearl and Broad Streets). This prepared New York as a leading port for the British colonies and then within the newly independent United States.
In 1686, the British colonial officials gave the municipality control over the waterfront.
In 1824 the first American drydock was completed on the East River. Because of its location and depth, the Port grew rapidly with the introduction of steamships; and then with the completion in 1825 of the Erie Canal New York became the most important transshipping port between the American interior and Europe as well as coastwise destinations. By about 1840, more passengers and a greater tonnage of cargo came through the port of New York than all other major harbors in the country combined and by 1900 it was one of the great international ports. The Morris Canal, carrying anthracite and freight from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to its terminus at the mouth of the Hudson in Jersey City. Portions in the harbor are now part of Liberty State Park.
In 1870, the city established the Department of Docks to systematize waterfront development, with George B. McClellan as the first engineer in chief. By the turn of the 20th century numerous railroad terminals lined the western banks of the North River (Hudson River) in Hudson County, transporting passengers as well as freight from all over the United States. The freight was ferried across by the competing railroads with small fleets of towboats, barges, and 323 car floats, specially designed barges with rails so cars could be rolled on. New York subsidized this service which undercut rival ports. Major road improvements allowing for trucking and containerization diminished the need.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument recalls the period of massive immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. The main port of entry at Ellis Island processed 12 million arrivals from 1892 to 1954. While many stayed in the region, others spread across America, with more than 10 million leaving from the nearby Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal.
World War II
After the United States entered World War II, the German navy's Operation Drumbeat set the top U-boat aces loose against the merchant fleet in U.S. territorial waters in January 1942, starting the Second happy time. The U-boat captains were able to silhouette target ships against the glow of city lights, and attacked with relative impunity, in spite of U.S. naval concentrations within the Harbor. Casualties included the tankers Coimbria off Sandy Hook and Norness off Long Island. New York Harbor, as the major convoy embarkation point for the U.S., was effectively a staging area in the Second Battle of the Atlantic, with the U.S. Merchant Marine losses of 1 of 26 exceeding those of the other U.S. forces.
Bright city lights made it easier for German U-boats to spot targets at night, but local officials resisted suggestions that they follow London's lead and blackout the lights of coastal cities. However, some lights were darkened, including those of the amusement parks in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and the Coney Island Light, and Sandy Hook Lighthouse.
The Harbor reached its peak activity in March 1943, during World War II, with 543 ships at anchor, awaiting assignment to convoy or berthing (with as many as 426 seagoing vessel already at one of the 750 piers or docks). Eleven hundred warehouses with nearly 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2) of enclosed space served freight along with 575 tugboats and 39 active shipyards (perhaps most importantly New York Naval Shipyard founded 1801). With a staggering inventory of heavy equipment, this made New York Harbor the busiest in the world.
Post-World War II
Deterrence and investigation of criminal activity, especially relating to organized crime, is also the responsibility of the bi-state Waterfront Commission. The Commission was set up in 1953 (a year before the movie On the Waterfront), to combat labor racketeering. It is held that the Gambino crime family controlled the New York waterfront and the Genovese crime family controlled the New Jersey side. In 1984 the Teamsters local was put under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) trusteeship, and in 2005 a similar suit was brought against the International Longshoremen's Association local.
In March 2006, the Port passenger facility was to be transferred to Dubai Ports World. There was considerable security controversy over the ownership by a foreign corporation, particularly Arabic, of a U.S. port operation, this in spite of the fact the current operator was the British-based P&O Ports, and the fact that Orient Overseas Investment Limited, a company dominated by a Chinese Communist official, has the operating contract for Howland Hook Marine Terminal. An additional concern is the U.S. Customs "green lane" program, in which trusted shippers have fewer containers inspected, providing easier access for contraband material.
Container shipping and air travel
The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest oil importing port and third largest container port in the nation. The commercial activity of the port of New York City, including the waterfronts of the five boroughs and nearby cities in New Jersey, since 1921 has been formalized under a single bi-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Since the 1950s, the New York and Brooklyn commercial port has been almost completely eclipsed by the container ship facility at nearby Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in Newark Bay, which is the largest such port on the Eastern Seaboard. The port has diminished in importance to passenger travel, but the Port Authority operates all three major airports in New York (La Guardia, 1939 and JFK/Idlewild, 1948) and Newark (1928).
Ferries and cruise ships
The harbor is still serviced by several cruise lines, commuter ferries, and tourist excursion boats. Although most ferry service is private, the Staten Island Ferry is operated by the New York City Department of Transportation. Passenger ship facilities are New York Passenger Ship Terminal, the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at Red Hook, and MOTBY at Bayonne.
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Just four years out of veterinary school, Sarah Probst Miller, DVM — the daughter of a pork producer and a teacher — has become an authority in swine farm employee education and training.
Employee training and its impact are often underestimated, says Probst Miller. “The owner or top manager knows training needs to be done, but it never becomes part of the system routine,” says the associate with Carthage (IL) Veterinary Service, Ltd. (CVS). “Or, the owner-manager expects to get in there with one training session, and if they don't see an impact right away, they think it doesn't work.”
Illinois pork producer Art Lehmann, Strawn, IL, says performance at the 1,500-sow farrowing unit at his home farm once suffered because employees didn't follow consistent operating procedures. PigChamp data from the farm indicated preweaning mortality hovered around 15-17% (Figure 1).
“Our preweaning mortality had been too high for too long, and we weren't making any progress at getting it down,” says Lehmann.
In December 2003, Lehmann turned to Probst Miller, based in Fisher, IL, to conduct training sessions a half day per month with the farm's five employees.
“My management role doesn't allow me to be out in that sow unit every day,” says Lehmann, who also operates four other Lehmann Bros. sow farms. The farm's day-to-day manager was also stretched thin — overseeing multiple finishing sites and a large feedmill.
Monitoring Sows at Farrowing
Probst Miller instructed the farm's farrowing team to intensively monitor each sow during active farrowing, including jotting down key information at least every 30 minutes.
“You have to get a feel for the (birthing) interval because that's the signal for when there is a problem,” says Probst Miller.
She also suggested turning off overhead lights to help keep sows calm during farrowing. And, she recommended split-suckling piglets by moving batches of four to five new, wet piglets into warming boxes (large Rubbermaid bins placed under heat lamps).
The methods Probst Miller taught were based on a combination of research findings and protocols developed at farms managed by CVS' Professional Swine Management division.
Craig Davis first thought the recommendations would be too time-consuming. A graduate of a junior college agricultural production program, Davis is responsible for sows in active labor or with litters younger than 3 days old — about 40 sows on any given work day. But Davis was quickly sold on Probst Miller's recommendations once he applied them for one simple reason: “You can save pigs.” The number of stillborns decreased immediately once they started observing sows more intensely, he explains.
“Bump” Fostering Initiated
Probst Miller also introduced the “bump” fostering concept for pigs three days and older. She instructed workers to wean the most robust litter in the oldest farrowing group (15-21 days of age at Lehmann's) to free up a nurse sow. Next, the most robust litter from the next age group (7 to 14 days of age) is bumped to the waiting nurse sow in the older group. That frees up a nurse sow in the middle group for a robust litter from the youngest group (3 to 6 days of age). The last bump frees up a sow for the fallout pigs from the 3 to 6-day old age group.
If there are more fallout pigs than one sow can feed, more weaning is necessary.
“I thought she was crazy because it meant moving several pigs for one fallout,” says Davis' co-worker, Jeremy Green.
Green, with experience in a farrow-to-finish operation, joined the Lehmann sow farm in late June 2004. He thought randomly swapping fallouts for thriving pigs was more efficient. But when preweaning mortality didn't drop below 15% for several months, he eventually bought into the bump fostering method.
Probst Miller says bump fostering is advantageous over continuous fostering because it keeps litters intact and puts more pigs and more pounds of pork out the door. There's less disruption to piglets that often favor a certain teat location, and it also prevents the spread of disease. Research has shown that continuous fostering results in uniform groups of smaller pigs.
There were a couple of setbacks at the farm that likely clouded the impact of training early on.
First, a PRRS problem, detected by Probst Miller on a pretraining health check, flared up from January to March 2004. Then, in June 2004, a key team member was called up for active military duty. Lehmann says it took Probst Miller's persistence to motivate the employees and turn things around.
“She held them accountable, even making a few surprise visits to see if they were following procedures,” he explains. “These are not new ideas, but it is a matter of how rigidly you apply them every day, to 100% of the litters.”
Now, Davis and Green work their rooms like short order cooks, challenging themselves with detailed wall charts and noting progress and projected performance. They're also quick to spot problems. “I've gotten much better at recognizing fallouts before they become emaciated,” says Green.
Last November, preweaning mortality dropped to 12% for four weeks in a row, then by early 2005 it dropped to just above 11%. The team is now shooting for single digits.
“We are not yet where we want to be, but we've made a lot of progress,” notes Lehmann.
Raising the Breeding Bar
Probst Miller is also helping the farm's breeding team fine-tune many of its procedures. The farrowing rate has risen 5% to 10%, depending on the season. Pigs weaned/mated female rose from 19.8 in December 2003 to 24.6 in May 2005.
Lehmann sees a direct correlation between the training and the improved performance and calculates the extra 4.8 weaned pigs will earn the farm $216,000 more income annually (4.8 × 1,500 sows × $30 per piglet) if the increased performance persists for at least one year. Since there are few added costs beyond Probst Miller's hourly consultation fees, “these are relatively cheap pigs,” says Lehmann, who has expanded the training across his other sow farms.
A “Virtual” Teacher
As an alternative to on-farm teaching, Probst Miller and her CVS colleagues have developed a series of training CDs called the Training Toolboxes, including a Breeding Toolbox and Farrowing Toolbox (See sidebar.)
Probst Miller narrates the lessons, walking through the same information that she would if she were in the barn instructing workers. In addition to her verbal instructions, there are diagrams, digital photos, video, animation and written descriptions to help workers learn. There are also quizzes to measure what they learn and what areas need more work.
Hord Livestock, Inc., in Bucyrus, OH, uses the toolboxes to enhance training for the 30 employees in its 8,500-sow operation. New employees are paired with mentors (senior employees or unit managers), to go through each Farrowing Toolbox lesson. The senior employee answers questions, supplements the lessons with training in the barn and points out any specialized procedures.
Hord employees are studying the Breeding Toolbox lessons as a group at the end of their lunch breaks. Each computer lesson takes 10-15 minutes to complete.
“The CDs give us value in helping us explain why we do things,” says Matt Davis, Hord's production manager. He says the CDs do a better job of explaining the rationale for procedures such as sleeving for assisting sows at farrowing or walking boars near sows to improve heat detection.
Davis says he has noticed that new employees are handling responsibilities, such as weekend coverage, sooner than they did when training involved only hands-on demonstrations in the barn.
But, Davis warns, “You can't just throw the CDs out on the table and say, ‘here.’” Someone must make sure the employee gets through the lessons.
Probst Miller agrees: “Someone has to be driving the training and asking on a daily and weekly basis, ‘Is this training getting done and are we implementing the tools?’ People will keep doing what is familiar unless you hold them accountable.”
Training Toolboxes Available
Two Training Toolboxes developed by Carthage Veterinary Service, Ltd., provide a series of computer-based lessons that can be used for individual or group instruction. The Farrowing Toolbox contains four CDs with 32 lessons in the following topics:
- Farrowing Preparation
- The First Few Hours
- Pigs During Lactation
- Sows During Lactation
The Breeding Toolbox features five CDs and 30 lessons in the following areas:
Artificial Insemination Technique
Maintaining Good Condition, Environment and Health
Managing the Department
Euthanization with the Captive Bolt Gun.
Each toolbox is sold separately by Carthage Veterinary Service, Ltd., with the cost based on the number of sows per farm. The base price is $1/sow for the first 2,500 sows (minimum order is $1,000), with significant discounts for larger units. Both series are available in booklet form, containing all the audio content, for $150/set. The toolboxes are available in English and Spanish. For more information, visit www.hogvet.com/training or call Carthage Veterinary Service at 217-357-2811, ext. 605. | <urn:uuid:730c83a5-d479-475f-9abd-2c0dcc3418bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/mag/farming_handson_teaching_pays | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958653 | 2,098 | 1.539063 | 2 |
When experiencing homelessness or navigating reentry to the community after prison, something as simple as having government-issued identification can ensure access to employment and/or financial assistance along with services critical to making independent living in the community possible. Yet, without a viable address or documents such as a birth certificate, obtaining an ID can be a significant challenge. For New York City residents, including our participants at CASES, IDNYC cards have made the reentry process a little easier.
CASES’ newSTART program in Central Harlem recently hosted one of several IDNYC Pop-Up Enrollment Centers, temporary sites stationed for 2-4 weeks in neighborhoods that may not have a permanent enrollment center nearby. The CASES-hosted Pop-Up helped 75 clients and staff to obtain an IDNYC, a government-issued identification card available to all New York City residents age 10 and older, regardless of immigration status. The card enables holders to:
- Apply for a public library card—critical given that many libraries offer job search and other relevant support services
- Avoid arrest by having a form of ID acceptable for summons issues or desk appearances
- Access the High School Equivalency (HSE) exam in New York City
- Open a bank account at select banks and credit unions
- Access public museums
- Obtain various discounts to entertainment, sporting events, and retailers
An IDNYC card is thus a gateway to accessing a range of available support services for CASES’ participants, many of whom may have never had an identification card or lack a current ID due to recent incarceration and/or behavioral health needs that can make navigating bureaucratic systems (e.g., to obtain an ID) challenging.
“Having official identification can be a contributing factor in the personal development of our clients,” says Reynaldo Lopez, newSTART Case Coordinator. “It affords them access to innumerable services previously denied for lack of an ID and can be a real impetus for change.”
Residents without permanent housing or survivors of domestic abuse can prove their residency status by obtaining a letter from a City agency, nonprofit organization, religious institution, hospital, or health clinic, stating that they live in New York City. The costs associated with replacing other legal documents such as state-issued identification cards, passports, and birth certificates can also pose a major barrier for individuals with limited resources. Lopez says this is another benefit of the IDNYC card: it’s free. Nevertheless, he says that the city-issued card is still different from a state-issued card, which he also recommends obtaining whenever possible.
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Knowledgeable clinicians agree that multimodal treatment plans are the gold standard in modern pain care. Conservative management is well-supported in research for treating chronic pain. Patients living with chronic pain frequently resist referral or report negative experiences after working with physical therapists. How do we reconcile the evidence base with lived patient experiences? This session will address the challenges that primary care providers and subspecialty clinicians, like surgeons, face when negotiating a comprehensive treatment plan with patients. Engaging in active self-management strategies is effective but takes commitment, effort, and time. Barriers to engagement in physical therapy are multifactorial and require clinicians to have insight, empathy, and skill to ensure a successful shared decision-making process. Communication tactics and psychosocial considerations will be discussed in this session, and participants will walk away with practical strategies they can implement immediately in their practice to improve outcomes for patients in pain.
Identify barriers to patient engagement in conservative, multi-modal treatment approaches for chronic non-cancer pain.
Identify barriers to patient engagement in conservative, multi-modal treatment approaches for chronic non-cancer pain
Cite evidence connecting patient expectations to treatment outcomes and treatment satisfaction
List strategies for exploring patient beliefs during face-to-face treatment planning
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Introduction: Fix a Zip With a Broken Tooth
Broken zips can be a right pain in the rear end, in this Instructable DoomMeister shows you how to effect a repair to a zip (zipper to all you Americans out there) that has one of its teeth missing.
In a country like Blairstrip 1 you need a good raincoat and DoomMeisters favourite one has a broken zip. Rather that buy a new one as the corporate overlords would have us do, or indeed to fully replace the zip DoomMeister will repair the missing tooth using his awful sewing skills and a piece of a cotton bud (Q-Tip).
Step 1: Reassemble the Zip
If the slider has come away from the teeth of the zip as it will be prone to do if a tooth is missing, reassemble the zip by pushing the slider back on to the teeth making sure to get the tape smoothly and un-kinked between the groove in the slider.
Push the slider as far away as possible from the missing tooth whilst you are working.
Step 2: Fashion an U Piece
In order to stop the slider coming away from the zip again we must replicate the effect that the tooth had in keeping the slider on the tape. To do this the DoomMeister used a small U section cut from the middle of a cotton bud. A small brass clip would be a superior solution
This U piece will not help the zip stay together, hopefully there are already enough teeth for this but will prevent the slider coming away again.
Step 3: Sew the U Piece in Position.
In order to retain the U piece, sew it to the tape. If the U piece is similar to the one the DoomMeister made then you can sew though it although you may need the help of a thimble or some pliers to get the needle through the plastic.
When you have tested the repair to check that it works and the slider does not foul on the repair then you can make it double permanent by covering your new sewing with cyanoacrylate adhesive (superglue). | <urn:uuid:3955181c-bdb2-4f7b-9b91-33854e00eafb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.instructables.com/Fix-a-Zip-With-A-Broken-Tooth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.927335 | 431 | 1.859375 | 2 |
How to operate on a specified parts of a matrix in a loop?
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I needed help with my script, all suggestions would be very helpful. Suppose that I have a 100x50 matrix. I need to partition it into 10 submatrices or blocks, and operate on the first submatrix (say 10 first rows) in a for loop, record the results; then move on to the next 10 rows, etc. In essence, these submatrices are my different resampled data sets that I need to treat as separate and operate upon in my for loop, and record the results for each sample. How can I index and refer to these samples? Thanks in advance for all help.
Alexandra Harkai on 13 Mar 2017
It would depend on the particular 'operation'. If your 'operation' works on a 10*50 matrix, and for example produces a scalar value, then you could record this for all 10 data sets:
size_of_dataset = 10;
n_datasets = size(myMatrix, 1) / size_of_dataset; % check how many observations are there
res = zeros(1, n_datasets); % initialise results as zeros
for k = 1:n_datasets
res(k) = myOperation( myMatrix(k-1+(1:size_of_dataset),:) ); % get all data for the dataset
It would be easier to keep track of the separate datasets if it were stored in a 10*10*50 array instead, then you could loop through a 'layer' each time. | <urn:uuid:caeb252c-5999-454b-93db-41863bd5b38a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/329643-how-to-operate-on-a-specified-parts-of-a-matrix-in-a-loop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.891452 | 359 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Do you want to help shape the provincial government’s policy’s on rural British Columbia? These policies could have a tremendous affect of Golden, so the Province is putting together an advisory council that will represent every region in B.C.
Applications to participate in the province’s Rural Advisory Council are now being accepted until Jan. 9, 2015.
The council’s mandate is to provide independent and impartial advice to government on matters related to rural development. As committed to in the report, Supporting Rural Development: Creating a Voice for Rural British Columbia, the initial focus of the council will be to provide advice on:
* Avenues to support greater rural access to capital;
* Stronger business development support for rural entrepreneurs and businesses; and
* Moving forward on the Rural Dividend.
Government is inviting individual British Columbians to apply for council membership by submitting a resume and cover letter, identifying relevant business, economic development and community experience, and expressing their personal vision for supporting rural economies. To submit an application, or for further details, visit: www.gov.bc.ca/RuralAdvisoryCouncil.
The council will include 10 to 18 members, representing a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and regions. Members will be appointed as individuals, not as representatives of an organization, business, or municipality. Donna Barnett, Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development, will chair the council. | <urn:uuid:30360148-12bf-4ae8-a25a-16584e08b56a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegoldenstar.net/news/bc-seeking-advisors-on-rural-issues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.926655 | 286 | 1.6875 | 2 |
For some Nigerians, there’s an inevitable feeling of deja-vu about their country’s former petroleum minister, Diezeani Allison-Madueke, being arrested in London on charges of money laundering.
That’s because in 1984, under the rule of current president Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian government tried and failed to abduct another former cabinet minister, Umaru Dikko, in London. Dikko had been accused of looting as much as $1 billion.
BBC World Service retold the caper in 2012:
On a summer’s day, Mr Dikko walked out of his front door in an upmarket neighbourhood of Bayswater in London. Within seconds he had been grabbed by two men and bundled into the back of a transit van.
“I remember the very violent way in which I was grabbed and hurled into a van, with a huge fellow sitting on my head – and the way in which they immediately put on me handcuffs and chains on my legs,” he told the BBC a year later.
Labelled “Nigeria’s most wanted man,” a plot was hatched to get both him and the money back.
The extraordinary plan was to kidnap Mr Dikko, drug him, stick him into a specially made crate and put him on a plane back to Nigeria – alive.
The messy incident involving ex-Mossad Israeli operatives, a brave British customs officer, and a major diplomatic fall-out with Britain, shows just how much the ruling Buhari has learned about the importance of soft power and diplomacy over the past three decades.
At that time, president Buhari was a 42-year-old, no-nonsense, rigid military dictator and strict disciplinarian.
While Buhari has retained a strict, no-nonsense approach to leadership (one that is sometimes considered too slow), he also appears to have become a team player when it serves his interests—for example, at his inauguration in May when he talked about working with Nigeria’s border nations in the battle against the Islamic insurgents Boko Haram.
Now, Buhari is targeting Allison-Madueke as part of his election pledge to hold senior government officials accountable for corruption. Allison-Madueke is at the center of a missing $20 billion oil scandal; the country’s central bank, along with other independent investigations, have flagged the national oil company’s suspect accounting on her watch.
Whereas in the Dikko case Buhari ran into trouble with the British government for attempting to abduct a resident on its territory without warning, this time Buhari appears to have been working closing with British authorities before Allison-Madueke’s arrest; The raiding of her home in Abuja by local anti-graft agents appeared to be synced with her arrest in London.
And it was a newly formed International Corruption Unit of UK’s National Crime Agency that made the arrests of five people (including Allison-Madueke) connected to the case. Those arrests came after concerted efforts by Buhari to pressure Western governments and financial institutions to help combat money laundering and recover misappropriated funds from corrupt regimes, particularly in African countries.
Buhari’s government will need the continued support of international heavyweights like Britain and the US to prove his resolve in eradicating corruption in Nigeria. Unlike in 1984, he now has the democratic support of the majority of Nigerians, which Western governments like Britain can feel more comfortable standing behind. | <urn:uuid:f126cde8-e6f0-4799-b6e2-2ce237efaa1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qz.com/africa/516630/behind-the-arrest-of-a-nigerian-ex-minister-in-london-is-a-maturing-nigerian-president/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972039 | 736 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Beth Din instructions go against principles of free trade
David Woolf, Johannesburg
“Now, in order to protect the business interests of kosher-certified caterers, the Beth Din has requested that certain venues refrain from using kosher-style caterers in future.”
The Beth Din sent out a letter that venues “must adhere” to a list of conditions.
Surely this is monopolistic and against free trade? Who gave the Beth Din the legal right to do the above? Jews regard kosher as:
- Not mixing milk and meat in food, crockery, and utensils;
- Not serving forbidden foods, e.g. pork and shellfish; and
- Not using crockery and utensils used for forbidden foods.
If a caterer claims to comply, surely the customer and venue owner can decide whether to believe him or not? | <urn:uuid:1078e6be-3f67-4896-84b8-f9bbe28d7694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sajr.co.za/beth-din-instructions-go-against-principles-of-free-trade/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.906305 | 189 | 2 | 2 |
Released just a few short months ago, our annual survey of school transportation and administration professionals revealed many things about the current state of school transportation. The results of the survey — published in our 2022 State of School Transportation Report — provide timely data and insights about top-of-mind school transportation issues and concerns.
The report also, however, highlights numerous things that survey respondents reported are going well in their school transportation operations today — a few of which are explored below.
School Staff and Communities Are Dedicated to Helping Students
Feedback and comments gathered by our State of School Transportation 2022 survey made it clear that school employees, contractors and communities are deeply committed to student success.
One anonymous survey respondent shared: “The bus driver shortage has really shown us the team spirit that we have within our school district and community. Not only did we have the athletic director and superintendent volunteering daily, we also had community members stepping up to get their license to help out.”
Supervisor of Transportation Taylor Perrington Ashley recognized the hard work of the bus drivers in her district. “I have some really great drivers who have stepped up to the plate to help out. They have doubled up on runs, covered other routes last minute and have been incredibly patient with changes on the fly.”
The important role of contractors in her district was mentioned by Angela Marshall, a transportation director. “I have a group of contractors who work their tails off for the sake of the kids,” she said.
Transportation Director Trudy Foster also mentioned the contracted drivers in her district, who stand ready to help out at a moment’s notice. “As drivers retire or separate, we always have contracted drivers without assigned routes who can move to that position,” she said. “In our district, the drivers go above and beyond to make sure all runs are covered, and they always offer to help.”
Districts, Schools and Staff Are Resourceful and Resilient
Numerous respondents to our 2022 survey emphasized that in spite of facing ongoing COVID-19 concerns, budget cuts, bus driver shortages and other school transportation pain points, districts and schools are still successfully getting students to and from school.
The credit for this goes in large measure to the resolve, creativity and teamwork of transportation professionals and school administrators.
Transportation Coordinator Dodi Young agreed that the job is still getting done despite the challenges. “We’ve had a solid percentage of on-time routes, even with shortages,” she reported of her district.
Positive news was also shared with this response from an anonymous survey taker: “Our route planning and overall operational organization has been working well.”
New Approaches Are Being Used — And Are Working
Schools and districts have been trying out new solutions to offset some of the many challenges they are facing, including those specifically related to bus driver shortages.
One anonymous survey respondent mentioned that efforts to get bus drivers trained more quickly have had a positive impact. “We are blessed with an incredible Driver Trainer who is getting drivers trained as quickly as possible.” Director of Transportation Gregory Dutton’s district is trying a different approach to speeding up the driver hiring process. “We’re now hiring bus drivers without CDLs, and allowing them up to 90 days to complete the training,” he said.
Increasingly, schools are also choosing alternative transportation solutions. More than half of the respondents to our 2022 survey disclosed that alternative transportation solutions have become a viable and dependable option for their school districts.
Incentivizing drivers financially is another tactic that has gained traction. “We raised our hourly pay, and we are willing to train any new hires who would like to get their CDL,” explained one CDL coordinator. “I give them their CDL written tests, we train them behind the wheel and I give them their driving exam. It costs us $1,500 to $2,000 per driver to help them get their license.”
Here at HopSkipDrive, we join the respondents to our 2022 State of School Transportation survey in applauding bus drivers, school staff, teachers and everyone else who works hard every day to make sure students have safe, reliable transportation to and from school. | <urn:uuid:26e508f5-be1c-49d5-ae08-628878f73622> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stnonline.com/partner-updates/school-transportation-triumphs-in-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975256 | 886 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1882. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7. Very Good. Item #15193
1882 2nd Edition of Frederick Douglass' 3rd and final autobiography, originally published in 1881.
Douglass' written life story was very similar to 'Leaves of Grass', by poet Walt Whitman, in that both were continually adding to their works as their lives progressed, and Douglass' 'Life and Times' itself went thru several iterations. This 1882 2nd Edition is more than 100 pages longer than the 1st printing published just the year before.
618 pp. This 3rd autobiography is nearly 500 pages longer than his first, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass..." (1845) and contains the historic events of the Civil War for the first time.
Brown cloth with titling in gilt to spine. Clean interior. Black and white frontis portrait of Douglass with facsimile signature. 18 plates.
This is a yeoman's copy which bears the signs of its use throughout the years. Binding somewhat shaken, with some play to the signatures but holding. Moderate rubbing, soiling and edge wear to binding, more so at corners. Occasional light dampstaining and sporadic foxing. A narrow chip to the gutter in between the frontis and title pages (See Photos). Pencil notations to front end paper.
Contemporary editions of Douglass' autobiographies are increasingly difficult to come by. Here we offer a competent volume which would make a nice addition to any modern-day Douglass collection. | <urn:uuid:a0c999df-18e3-4d3d-b36a-c3ef954cd8af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vintagebooksmd.com/pages/books/15193/frederick-douglass/life-and-times-of-frederick-douglass-written-by-himself | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958128 | 341 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The Journal of Cosmology has now posted 21 commentaries on the “Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites” paper by Richard Hoover that I have critiqued in my “Life from Beyond Earth on a Meteorite, or Pareidolia?” post.
The majority are uncritical (some don’t even seem to have read the actual paper), and zoom off on tangents assuming the Hoover’s paper is valid. Two posts are critical (commentary 5 and commentary 9), and bring up the same issue I do (but with more references), that abiotic minerals can imitate the shapes of bacteria, and that without further tests, there is no way to say these filaments are fossils of any sort.
As for the majority, well, largely I think they are sad. The near complete absence of any critical engagement with the paper is very telling, and there is much leaping to unsupported conclusions. I would dearly love for extra-terrestrial life to be found, but I’m not going to grasp at epsonite straws to pretend it’s been found. Hoover’s flawed paper is not evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
Oh, and the journal has added a long rant to before the main article:
Have the Terrorist(sic) Won? Only a few crackpots and charlatans have denounced the Hoover study. NASA’s chief scientist was charged with unprofessional conduct for lying publicly about the Journal of Cosmology and the Hoover paper. The same crackpots, self-promoters, liars, and failures, are quoted repeatedly in the media. However, where is the evidence the Hoover study is not accurate?
Few legitimate scientists have come forward to contest Hoover’s findings. Why is that? Because the evidence is solid. But why have so few scientist come forward to attest to the validity? The answer is: They are afraid. They are terrified. And for good reason. | <urn:uuid:c8af0527-0281-4120-bc3a-e3b747583de3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2011/03/commentaries-po.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953475 | 412 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Mass Schedule – Trinity 13 (August 30, 2015)
31, St. Aidan
01, St. Giles, Abbot
+ The life of St. Giles, known in early writings as Aegidius, is derived from a mixture of legend and history woven together around the deeds of a saint. He is reputed to have been born in Athens, the son of Theodore and Pelagia, in about 640. When he was twenty-four his parents died, and Giles, stricken by the double loss, and unconsoled by the pleasures of fashionable life, sold all that he had and gave to the poor in order to follow Christ. He took to sea and landed on the coast of Provence. On the shore he saw human footsteps, and following these, he found a cave in which an old hermit had lived for years on roots and herbs, and who was content to share his cave, his food and his prayers with the young man. After three days Giles began to fear his friends might find him, so he hailed a passing ship and sailed on further westwards to Marseilles. Still seeking solitude, he crossed the Rhone and travelled towards a rocky promontory above the River Gardon and here, in a cave, the entrance of which was hidden by a thicket, he found another solitary, also a Greek. He stayed only a short time before continuing his journey until, finally, in the depth of a forest near Nimes, he found a hollow of a rock in a green glade by a stream, shaded by four gigantic oaks. Here he was discovered by Flavius (Wamba), king of the VisiGoths. The king was out hunting and shot an arrow at a hind, missed it, and hit Giles, who was at his devotions. Though wounded, Giles continued at his prayers and refused all compensation for the injury done to his body. This incident made him a great favorite at Court, especially with Wamba, who pressed him to stay. The king would have given him lands for any foundation he chose, but no entreaties would persuade him to desert his life of solitude and prayer. Legend goes on to say that Giles consented to be the founder of the monastery near Nimes about 673, which flourished till the Saracen invasion, when it was burned down and he and his monks took refuge with Charles Martel, aiding him by their prayers in his great battle for Christianity in the West. St. Giles’ monastery was restored, and with the words, ” Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace,” he died on September 1st, 720.
+ Wednesday Agape & Christian Education for all ages resumes next Wednesday, September 9. We will begin serving our common meal at 5:45 p.m. and education classes will begin at 6:30 p.m. Classes are over by 7:15 p.m.
+ All Saints Men’s Group will met next on September 1, at 7:00 a.m. in undercroft.
+ The Holy Communion is celebrated this week Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m.
+ All Saints parishioner may obtain a Mass card from the Church office. A Mass card is a greeting card given to someone to inform him or her that a deceased loved one or friend was remembered and prayed for at a weekly Mass. It is a specifically Christian way to express one’s love. Call Julie McDermott at the Church office (434-979-2842) and she will help you fill out the form. The celebrant will sign the card and we will mail it from the Church to the family of the loved one. | <urn:uuid:20041513-a747-4995-9602-19578dfff3f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allsaintscville.org/this-week-at-all-saints-161/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.985765 | 781 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Estimation (or estimating) is the process of finding an estimate, or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. The value is nonetheless usable because it is derived from the best information available. Typically, estimation involves "using the value of a statistic derived from a sample to estimate the value of a corresponding population parameter". The sample provides information that can be projected, through various formal or informal processes, to determine a range most likely to describe the missing information. An estimate that turns out to be incorrect will be an overestimate if the estimate exceeded the actual result, and an underestimate if the estimate fell short of the actual result.
How estimation is done
Estimation is often done by sampling, which is counting a small number of examples something, and projecting that number onto a larger population. An example of estimation would be determining how many candies of a given size are in a glass jar. Because the distribution of candies inside the jar may vary, the observer can count the number of candies visible through the glass, consider the size of the jar, and presume that a similar distribution can be found in the parts that can not be seen, thereby making an estimate of the total number of candies that could be in the jar if that presumption were true. Estimates can similarly be generated by projecting results from polls or surveys onto the entire population.
The estimate released Monday is based on a survey of association members and represents the total volume of apples that will eventually be packed and sold on the fresh market. It does not include product sent to processors ... The estimate shows that five popular apple varieties make up the majority of the harvest ... .
(MENAFN) Oil prices dropped on Monday due to slower request indications in the world–s second-biggest oil purchaser, China, whereas Saudi oil firm Aramco stated that it could surge output because of ... .
More than 70,000 people are believed to have attended the revived Toledo Jeep Fest over the weekend and more than 1,400 Jeeps participated in the Grogan’s Towne & Charlie’s All-Jeep Parade, event organizers announced Monday ... . | <urn:uuid:b26a318b-eb93-4e5b-9d31-568a0891e9c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wn.com/Estimation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.91499 | 446 | 3.859375 | 4 |
As bottles of hand sanitizers and stacks of disinfectant wipes continue to fly off the shelves amid the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government issued a stamp of approval for another household cleaning product.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave Pine-Sol Original Multi-Surface Cleaner the approval "for kill claims against SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on hard non-porous surfaces," according to a press release.
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, those looking to use Pine-Sol are encouraged to apply the Pine-Sol multi-surface cleaner with a clean sponge or cloth on hard, nonporous surfaces. Once the surface is wet, let it stand for 10 minutes and then rinse, the press release says.
In March, the EPA released a list of household products that kill the coronavirus. They include Clorox, Lysol and Purell.
This story was originally published by KJ Hiramoto at WFTS. | <urn:uuid:cdd13b57-9f46-4740-ad97-1e681622f580> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/coronavirus/epa-approves-pine-sol-as-cleaning-product-you-can-use-to-kill-coronavirus-on-surfaces | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.919644 | 217 | 1.632813 | 2 |
August 1955 Popular Electronics
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
Most of us that have
any reason to visit RF Cafe know what a watt is both from a DC, Ohm's Law perspective,
and from an RF power perspective. Some, though, are not quite sure what an audio
watt is, as far as whether it is the same as a watt of DC power or a watt of AC
or not?). This short article from the August 1955 Popular Electronics
answers the question, including why it is necessary to drive speakers at
what seems like unnecessarily high power levels given how sensitive the human
ear is to sound.
What Is an Audio Watt? A question that puzzles many hi-fi enthusiasts is answered.
By Eugene F. Coriell, Major, USAF
To accomplish useful work, whether it be moving a car along the highway or
moving the cone of a loudspeaker to produce sound, power must be expended. The
more power expended, the more work done. Mechanical power is generally expressed
in horsepower and electrical power in watts or kilowatts.
These two instruments are typical of the commercially available units for
measuring audio watts. At the right is the Heathkit Model AW-1, which utilizes
the v.t.v.m. principle to measure a voltage across internal load resistors.
On the left is the General Radio Model 583A, a professional laboratory unit.
Both of these instru-ments have provisions for matching the impedance of the
amplifier under test.
Fig. 1 - This is the test arrangement for measuring
the power output of a hi-fi amplifier. The vacuum-tube voltmeter must be sensitive
enough to read the extremely small voltage input to the amplifier as specified
by the manufacturer, which may be only a few millivolts. Output wattage is equal
to the square of the voltage as measured by the v.t.v.m. divided by the value
of the resistance of the load resistor; this resistor is a substitution for
the speaker. The oscilloscope is not required for actual wattage measurements,
but enables the sine-wave pattern to be checked for distortion. Power output
is measured at various frequencies over the response range of the amplifier.
See text for details.
The concept of electrical power is important to the audio hobbyist because almost
every element of a tape recorder or hi-fi rig generates, transmits, or absorbs
power-electrical watts. The end result is the driving of the loudspeaker, and
since the air opposes movement of its cone or diaphragm, power must be expended
to overcome that opposition. In the case of the loudspeaker, the driving power
is furnished by the amplifier which is rated as having an output of 10, 20,
or more audio watts. It follows that the speaker must also be rated as to the
electrical power or wattage it can absorb. This value should be at least equal
to the amplifier rating, and in the case of several speakers, the combined power
rating should equal the amplifier rating.
Within the amplifier, the most obvious element important from an audio wattage
standpoint is the output transformer. This is the last component in the final
stage of the amplifier, and is the component that the loudspeaker "sees." The
output transformer is a device which matches output tubes to the speaker voice-coil.
If the amplifier is rated at 10-watts output, the transformer must be able to
handle this power. If it is too small, distortion or burn-out may occur.
Another element within an amplifier which is important, wattage-wise, is
the lowly resistor. There are many of these in the average amplifier, although
not all of them handle appreciable power. Resistors are available in many different
resistance ratings in ohms, and in various power ratings. In home amplifiers,
the resistor power rating may range from one-quarter watt to several watts.
The resistor rating is important at some positions in the amplifier circuit
since the current forced through the resistor by the applied voltage results
in absorption of power by the resistor. This power is dissipated as heat, and
a resistor of correct resistance value but with too low a power rating may fail
completely or cause noise in the amplifier output.
It might be well here to distinguish between the audio power input and the
115- volt house a.c. input to the amplifier. For 10 watts of audio output, the
house system must furnish several times that much power to the amplifier 115-volt
a.c. input. On the other hand, the microphone or record player furnishes only
an extremely minute amount of program power to the amplifier audio input. This
tiny audio input power, ranging from a few microwatts to milliwatts, in effect
controls the 115-volt power that the amplifier draws from the house a.c. system,
which is the real source of the power fed to the loudspeaker.
Continuous power of one watt delivered to the speaker will result in an uncomfortably
loud program in the average living room. The question then arises: Why use amplifiers
rated at 10, 20 or more watts? The cone-type speaker has a very low efficiency.
This means that only a small fraction of the electrical or audio power fed to
the speaker creates useful sound (horn-type speakers are more efficient but
are less common in home systems).
Another reason for building considerable power output into amplifiers is
the fact that there are many instantaneous peaks of sound in music which are
far above the average level; lack of power capacity in the amplifier will result
in distortion on these peaks. Still another reason is the need for reserve power
when a room full of guests creates a high background noise level - or when the
hi-fi fan insists on turning up the volume for better reproduction of the extreme
lows and highs. The need for reserve power becomes more apparent when it is
realized that doubling the audio output from the amplifier will achieve only
a moderate increase in loudness. While most amplifiers will deliver more than
their rated output, the distortion percentage will generally rise above the
manufacturer's stated value, which is the percent of harmonic distortion at
rated output. A really high-fidelity amplifier will deliver its rated output
with 1 % distortion or less.
Figure 1 shows a simple setup for measuring amplifier output power. A sine-wave
audio oscillator furnishes a steady signal at a particular frequency, perhaps
1000 cycles, to the amplifier input. Amplifier output is loaded by an appropriate
resistor in place of the speaker (see speaker impedance rating). A vacuum-tube
voltmeter - and an oscilloscope if available - is in parallel with the resistor.
Amplifier volume control is set at the point at which the output is to be measured
and the oscillator control is adjusted to obtain the amplifier input voltage
recommended by the manufacturer. Output of the amplifier in watts at this 1000-cycle
frequency will be the square of the voltmeter reading divided by the resistance
of the resistor. The purpose of the oscilloscope is to observe the output waveform
for distortion. When the waveform begins to depart from a smooth sine wave,
the amplifier output contains distortion which, as mentioned earlier, must be
considered along with the power output.
The method of measuring audio power just described is well within the capability
of the audio hobbyist who has an audio oscillator and a vacuum-tube voltmeter
sensitive enough to read the minute output of the oscillator as well as the
amplifier output voltage. For the hobbyist who desires to make his own wattmeter,
a simplified design using a crystal element is shown in the Sylvania Electric
Products Inc. booklet called "Forty Uses for Germanium Diodes." The Heath unit
shown in the photograph is sold as a kit for home construction.
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Arlin Troutt was born in the hills of Tennessee in 1950 and raised on a small tobacco farm North of Nashville. He started singing in a child gospel quartet and playing the guitar when he was 6 years old.
Arlin was swept up in an economic exodus from his simple southern farm life to the city life of Indianapolis, Indiana in the early 1960’s. He played in many groups of musical variety. Arlin calls this book in his life: “Read’in Right’in and Route 31 to Indianapolis/Naptown.”
Indianapolis changed Arlin and his music. By 1969 Arlin was caught up in the turbulence of the times and soon headed for Arizona to a new life of escape, adventure and excitement. While in Arizona Arlin became deeply involved in the political issues that started with the Vietnam War and evolved into the civil Drug War than now rages in our streets. Again. Arlin and his music changed with the times and terrain. In 1971 his first son was born and he moved to what is now known as Gold Canyon, Arizona, where he still lives today.
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Buying Fannie Mae stock is not for the faint of heart. The mortgage giant has been through the much since the housing and financial markets imploded in 2008. Fannie Mae is one of two of the.
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Japan's parliament has approved tougher penalties for criminal defamation in a move prompted by a bullied wrestler's suicide.
- Wrestler Hana Kimura took her own life after online abuse after appearing on a reality show
- At least two people were convicted of defaming Ms Kimura, and we fined $95
- The lenient penalty led to a wave of backlash in Japan
Parliamentary deliberations on toughening the defamation law began in January after Hana Kimura took her own life at age 22.
Ms Kimura faced bullying and insults on social media in 2020 after appearing on Terrace House, a popular Japanese reality show about three men and three women temporarily living together at a shared house in Tokyo.
She became a target of hateful and vicious messages on social media after she was criticised for her performance in one of the episodes.
Before her suicide, she tweeted that she received about 100 hateful messages every day and she was hurt by them.
Her death triggered a wave of discussion about anonymous bullying and hateful messages.
Fuji TV cancelled the rest of the planned production of the show and said the decision was to respond "sincerely" to the case.
At least two people were convicted of defaming Ms Kimura, but their court-ordered penalty — a 9,000 yen ($95) fine — triggered outrage from people who said the punishment was too light.
Ms Kimura's mother, Kyoko, was a driving force behind the legal change. She testified to parliament in April and said she had continuously faced insults and accusations of using her daughter's name to make money.
The amended law will be formally enacted later this year. It will add a prison term of one year with an option of forced labour, and fines of up to 300,000 yen to offenders.
The legislation was approved by the upper house on Monday after earlier passing in the lower house, the more powerful of Japan's two-chamber parliament.
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[Psalm 89] Faithful God
Friday, July 29
1[A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.] I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
2For I said, "Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness."
3You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:
4'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
5Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
6For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
7a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
8O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
9You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
11The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
12The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
13You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand.
14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
15Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face,
16who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted.
17For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.
18For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 15:22:06 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 50.39 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 06:22:06 / February 18, 2020 @ 6:22 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007s8k. Id of event: us70007s8k. Exact location of event, depth 50.39 km, 127.8965° East, 2.0609° North.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
Questions or comments?
How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 38 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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Last night I was in a Twitter discussion where SEO issues were discussed, and the issue of social signals came up.
Many SEO PRACTITIONERS will tell you that social signals have no influence on your search engine optimisation strategies in any shape manner or form, and personally I believe they are right. How ever the power of individual tweets is a whole other animal, and some tweets can have a truly astounding impact on your individual online assets in strange and devious ways that at first glance seem unrealistic.
To understand the power of an individual tweet there are many different things that need to be understood, with the two main issues bring
- Duplicate content
- Website architecture
Think subdomain.domain/folder where each tweet is considered as a folder within the subdomain
Think USER.TWITTER.COM/ORIGINAL TWEET/ REPLY
- where in the nested loops the comment resides
- What the semantic context of the tweet consists of
- are there any out bound links to pages that expand the conversation
- What is the site authority and page authority level of any such linked to page
- are there any inbound links to individual comments
- Is this comment stream part of an embedded twitter post
- Who are the folks commenting
- How fresh are the comments
- Are the comments relevant to the conversation
- Should the comment get spam treatment
- What was the purpose and intent of each tweet in the comment stream
Because each comment is seen by the search engine as a stand alone web page, the interlinking between each comment is evaluated, where the level within the site architecture is used as a link referral base and out bound links add tremendous value to the SEO link juice of those tweets which contain them, adding SEO value within the entire conversation chain.
This can thus add true value within the Search engine optimisation flow patterns to all the out bound links, with any out bound links in the original tweet getting the lions share of this link juice. The closer to the top of the conversation an out bound link is found, the more link juice it should carry, but this is not always true, as there are many different factors that influence the flow of link juice from a social media conversation.
It can thus be seen that the SEO value of a Twitter conversation can become a very powerful and much appreciated boost to the individual online assets which may be linked to from within the comment streams of a tweet
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“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
The first line in the verse says it all with just a few short words: “Be still, and know that I am God.” It feels like God is reminding us all: Hey, slow yourself down and listen. I am the one and only God.
It is interesting that there is a comma between the word “still” and the word “and.” Grammarians will tell you that you do not typically need a comma before the word “and,” except when there are two independent clauses. Also, a comma is used to tell a reader to just stop. It is as if God wants to remind us to completely stop and to rest in the Spirit.
In a full stop with God, perhaps we may finally rest and find identity in our Lord. When I think of stopping and resting with God or through God’s word, I think of meditation. To stop and think on God’s word is meditation. I often break this verse down and meditate on each word. I find it especially helpful whenever I am worried or alone.
It is here that the words from an ancient time can remind us all to rest and to know our God. Within such rest, may we find community in the divine. To mediate with God gives rise to hearing and knowing a loving and eternal God. Timeless and enduring, like the waves that return to the shore, or the rocking of a child, there is that gentle return. When I hear, “Be still, and know that I am God,” I also hear, You are loved; You are loved; You are loved.
By Barbara Carlson
For Pondering & Prayer
Following Psalm 46:10, I sometimes use a form of meditation that is known as lectio divina. This spiritual practice is the process of reading scripture, meditating on a word or words and contemplating its meaning. Often the scripture is broken down word by word as part of the meditation. With this verse, I often read each line and then gradually drop off the word at the end, so that I meditate on the shortened phrase. My mediation goes like this:
Be still, and know that I am God. Be still, and know that I AM. Be still, and know.... Be still, and… Be still. Be.
What scriptures do you meditate on? Which capture your heart? How does your meditation with God bring you to a deeper knowing of God’s love?
Prayer: Loving God, You are the great I AM, who calls us just to “Be still” and listen…. In the silence of our hearts, let us know you. In the silence of our hearts, let us know your loving grace. It surrounds us always and calls us just to be with you. Amen. | <urn:uuid:4d224ebc-9283-418e-98f9-97259eeec5cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medfordumc.org/fri-may-21-be-still/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951629 | 620 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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NATIONAL Water Supply and Sanitation Council (NWASCO) has threatened to penalise water utility companies that would not meet its requirements after concluding its ongoing water quality inspections across the country.
In an interview with the Daily Nation, NWASCO chief inspector Peter Mutale disclosed that the water regulatory council had been carrying out water quality checks in both private and public institutions across the country. Mr Mutale said that NWASCO had concluded inspections of water quality in most provinces and that they were waiting for a final compilation of its findings.
He warned that NWASCO would not hesitate to penalise utility companies that would not meet the required standards of water being piped to consumers.
Mr Mutale said that companies that would be found wanting would be charged a fee or even suspend their trading licences if they did not comply.
“We are done with water quality inspections in most provinces and now we are just winding up with Lusaka. Normally, it takes us 3 days to compile our findings, then the final outcomes would be made available. We will not hesitate to penalise any company that does not comply.
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“When it comes to being an architect of change, I don’t know of any more effective blueprint than education.” – Linda Katehi
The informative and interactive Orientation session organized for the parents of class IV, V and VII students threw light on significant facets of their ward’s education at school. They were familiarized with the extensive range of activities undertaken at school and the latest pedagogical innovations in various subjects and the continuous monitoring of the student’s progress through formal and non-formal methods. The parents were also acquainted with the newly acquired app, Entab, wherein the parents would get all information related to school at one place. The session proved insightful in setting the tone at the onset of the new academic session. | <urn:uuid:d48a2453-8634-4355-8ed5-9f1938d4c937> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://gdgoenka-rohini.com/event_dairy/induction-workshop-classes-iv-v-vii-april-26-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967438 | 155 | 1.601563 | 2 |
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." Micawber's advice to David Copperfield holds as true today as it did 170 years ago, but with one important caveat – much of the misery can be avoided by regular, step by step financial planning.
Step 1: Educate yourself
The journey to happiness begins with education. "Nobody really likes talking about money," says Davy financial planning specialist Fiona Haughey. "They don't even talk about details with their friends. But the less people talk, the less educated they are."
She advises people to carry out research and other sources to educate themselves about financial matters. "Be honest about the gaps in your knowledge. Google the topics you're not sure about. Tune into social media feeds like femolutionist. Type the topic into Spotify or another podcast provider and you'll find information on it."
Step 2: Take time out to plan
It takes more time than you think to review your finances. “We have some clients who schedule a family agm to discuss their household finances,” says Haughey. “If this requires taking a half day off work to do, so be it. You need to review it continuously after that.”
Step 3: Know what you spend
“Knowledge is power,” Haughey notes. “There are apps out there to help you keep track of your spending. Some banking apps can do that. Go through your card statements. Look at the big ticket items like car insurance that might come up just once a year and budget for them.”
Step 4: Know what you want
It is important to decide on your goals when reviewing your financial plan. In the short term that might be buying a new car. In the longer term it might be planning for retirement. And goals can change over time, according to Bank of Ireland head of pensions and investments, Bernard Walsh. "You may have had certain goals in the past, but circumstances may be different now," he explains. "Maybe you had young kids or no kids back then and you need to reset your goals."
And harmony is not guaranteed. “If you are part of a couple you need to recognise that goals may not always be shared and some compromises might be required,” Haughey advises. “You should also ask yourself what you are saving and investing for. You are more likely to build up savings and investments if have an end goal in mind.”
Step 5: Plan your savings
Ad hoc savings just don’t work and Haughey advises setting up a standing order to put away a certain minimum amount each month, but within reason. “Be realistic and don’t leave yourself short.”
A rainy day fund is an essential part of the plan, says Killian Nolan, head of product with Cantor Fitzgerald. "Depending on your circumstances you should have between six months and two years income held in cash in the event that you lose your job or get sick."
Step 6: Review your pension
If you don’t have a pension, set one up if at all possible. “That’s the only tax incentive that’s left in the Irish market for savers,” says Nolan. You can get tax relief of up to 40 per cent on what you put in and the assets within the fund grow tax free. It makes a lot of sense to maximise your pension contributions, but you need to be cautious about it as you won’t be able to access the money until you reach retirement age.”
If you do have a pension, make sure you know how much is in it and how it’s invested. “Look at the investment strategy and make sure it’s appropriate for you,” Haughey advises.
She points out that the lifestyling strategies which people sign up to at the start may no longer be appropriate as time goes on. “If you are 58 and planning to live to 98 that’s a 40-year investment horizon and switching assets into cash and bonds now may not be the best option.”
Step 7: Utilise your allowances
There are some tax allowances that can help people maximise the return on their investments. For example, everyone is entitled to a €1,270 annual capital gains tax (CGT) allowance. This would allow people with shares to sell some of them and take profits up to that amount each year with no tax liability.
Step 8: Personal protection
Protection and insurance are also very important. “This is about the what ifs in life,” says Haughey. “If you can’t work or if you die prematurely what would happen to your family? If you are a business owner, what happens if something happens to you? It’s about protecting you, your family and your business if you get sick or pass away. People often have income protection through their employment, but entrepreneurs may not have got around to that if they have recently set up a business.”
Step 9: Planning for what you leave behind
Most people don't want to leave an inheritance tax headache for others to deal with. "This is a key area to deal with for co-habitants," Haughey points out. "The inheritance tax treatment for them in Ireland is quite penal. You should educate yourself on the CGT thresholds and look at taking out section 72 insurance to cover the tax bill. Financial planning and estate planning go hand in hand and making sure you have a valid will is key."
Walsh advises people to look at opportunities to transfer wealth in the here and now. “There is the small gift exemption to children for example.”
Step 10: Turning intentions into actions
“The fortune is in the follow up,” says Haughey. “You can have lots of good intentions but poor outcomes if you don’t follow through. Personal finance can often be more personal than financial, and it can be helpful to bring in a financial adviser to help take an objective view and explore the various issues involved.” | <urn:uuid:856f2645-5c22-4038-9c64-d1ffcef65202> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.irishtimes.com/special-reports/financial-health-check/ten-steps-to-financial-happiness-1.4465336 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966766 | 1,300 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Dictionaries of the Scots Language is Scotland’s independent lexicographical body for the Scots language. We are responsible for the major dictionaries of the Scots language – see Our Publications for details.
Our organisation came into being in its present form in 2021, but we have a long and distinguished history under a number of guises. We began as two separate organisations: A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (founded in the early 1920s) and the Scottish National Dictionary Association (founded in 1929). These joined forces in 2002 to became Scottish Language Dictionaries, a name that reflected our (then) wider linguistic interests. The establishment of Faclair na Gàidhlig in 2003 enabled our renewed focus on Scots, but the broader scope of our name persisted until January 2021, when we adopted our current name to more accurately reflect the work that we do.
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As with everything we do, the safety and security of our participants is our number one priority. Sinai will have 24/7 security to secure our camp site this year. We will follow all measures that we are advised to take and are in constant contact with local authorities and police.
All of our events and camps have a no-nut policy. We will send out a reminder to all parents and leaders advising them not to bring snacks/confectionary containing nuts. Stimulants and energy drinks should also not be brought to camp.
If your child suffers from specific dietary requirements and you are providing special food please pack it appropriately remembering to label it clearly with your child’s name, year group and write medical on it. Please then hand it in with other medication on departure day.
Please reassure your child that they may come on camp even if they bed wet. We are experienced at dealing with this and ensure that they feel safe and comfortable at all times. We advise you to pack a waterproof sheet and label it “medication” and then hand this in on departure day. The Welfare Officer at camp will place it discreetly on your child’s bed. Please tell your child that the Welfare Officer has been informed and is used to dealing with this situation. Together, your child and the Welfare Officer can decide where to place a spare set of bedding so that your child can change it if necessary. Additionally, the two of them can discuss other strategies that will help your child to cope.
All medication brought to camp must be clearly labelled and handed in at the start of camp. The welfare officer will be in charge of handing out the medicine at the prescribed time each day to the participant. Any child who brings an epi-pen or inhaler to camp must bring at least two to camp in a clearly marked container, no plastic bags, one to be handed in and one to be kept with the participant at all times. | <urn:uuid:466eb680-6dcd-4c3d-a500-26dc5afa5c93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sinaiyouth.org/care-and-welfare/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916378 | 601 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Featured image: Jessica Lange as Fiona in American Horror Story: Coven
Witchcraft has long been associated with the paranormal and supernatural, and in Western societies has explicitly been gendered. For many, the prevailing image of the witch is an old, misshapen hag who rides a broomstick, curses her neighbours, and inflicts misery on all who cross her. Other societies differ in their treatment and perception of witches – in Africa, for example, the witch doctor is typically male and witchcraft is used to explain all events out of the ordinary. It’s interesting to explore whether mass media in modern Western societies continue to propagate this perception of the (female) witch.
It seems that witches are all over the television at the moment. While they served as popular symbols of the supernatural alongside dark sexuality and female power in the late 1990s, by the 2000s they had arguably given way to vampires, as conveyed in successful films and programs such as the Twilight series, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. But female witches had played a significant role in modern media far before this quick on-screen popularisation of vampires. From this perspective, a worthwhile place to start might be the 1996 film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible.
In the heavily religious society of late seventeenth century Massachusetts, young village girls engage in ritual chicken murder, drinking blood and wishing for the death of a fellow villager’s wife. Abigail (Winona Ryder) wishes for this death after previously enjoying an affair with the woman’s husband, fuelled by hatred, jealousy, and feelings of rejection. Eventually, Abigail and her acquaintances become outcasts, marginalised by their community after their plans go awry. Rather than presenting the female witches in this film as deformed and ugly elderly women, The Crucible seeks to emphasise the agency of adolescent girls who, in a climate of sexual jealousy, religious influence and societal pressures, take control of their own fates and attempt to control the fates of others.
That the portrayal of female witchcraft in modern mass media is complex and multifaceted is demonstrated by the 1993 American horror-comedy and Halloween favourite Hocus Pocus. Similarly drawing on the background of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, the themes of this film centre on jealousy and hatred and, above all, a desire for power. The film’s witches, three sisters, absorb the life force of children in order to fulfil their dreams of eternal youth. The agency and power of female witches in guiding their own destinies, therefore, is clearly a visible and recurring theme. Bette Midler, who stars as Winifred, clearly conforms to the dominant representation of the female witch as old, ugly, and wicked. The more sexualised portrayals of her younger sisters, Mary and Sarah, indicate a very different representation of the woman witch as sexual predator. They bewitch and seduce passers-by into walking, zombie-like, to the sisters’ household to become victims of their evil plots.
The uncannily terrifying 1990 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel The Witches subscribes to traditional stereotypes of the female witch as physically deformed, abnormal, and frighteningly ugly, yet rejects and challenges the archetypal broomstick-flying, cauldron-stirring hag. Although the Grand High Witch herself is the epitome of grotesque monstrosity, her human disguise is rather more complicated: played by Anjelica Huston, her dark hair, bewitching eyes and sensual costume render her a sexually mysterious, if unnerving figure who engages male figures in flirtation and fantasy. Her accomplices are well-dressed, even attractive women, suggesting that witchcraft acts both to disguise and create monstrous notions of femininity.
The attractively modern portrayal of witches in the U.S. television show American Horror Story: Coven, in which female witches are powerful, sexually independent and ruthless, coincides with the legacy of the feminist movement, which challenged traditional perceptions of women as domesticated, virginal and delicate beings, assigning them a much greater agency than hitherto. The show compellingly characterises Fiona, a coven’s leading witch, as the anti-hero of a heavily female cast. She stands out for her cruelty, promiscuity and ruthless ambition. At the same time, her character is multifaceted and complex, her personal troubles and battle with cancer leading us to a deep sympathy.
Tilda Swinton’s portrayal of the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) presents a somewhat unique perspective, for the witch here is unusual for her regal hegemony: she is queen. The competing roles of queen and witch are fascinating: as queen, the White Witch naturally holds dominion and authority over all who reside in Narnia. However, as a witch, she enjoys her own unique authority, not deriving from the status of queenship but from corporeal ability. It is too simplistic to render the White Witch evil or subversive: her character is complex, for while her white costume and icy demeanour confirm her as cold, ruthless and power-hungry, her own sense of agency and admirable decision-making suggest a being of other qualities: intelligence, resourcefulness, and leadership.
Although the stereotype of the female witch as a deformed and ugly old woman arguably remains dominant, the likes of American Horror Story: Coven indicate changing perceptions of the female witch as a powerful woman who is more complex than traditional stereotypes permit. Shifts in witchcraft portrayal indicate the exciting scope of possibilities for representations of the female witch in the media. This coincides with a new representation of women in cultural forms more generally: rather than being reduced to simplistic and sexually charged caricatures (whore or virgin, mother or prostitute, for example), female characters are complex and intelligent, negotiating their own decisions and enjoying power and autonomy. | <urn:uuid:dc40b5c6-fedb-4f26-b3c1-fd92f6702f09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exeteramagazine.com/witches-rule-ok/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945056 | 1,216 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Three high-profile American visits to Iraq indicate a renewed importance of the nation for Trump’s foreign policy
There have been three high-profile and surprise American visits in Iraq from Christmas into the first week of January. The first included President Trump’s surprise visit to Iraq, followed by an unprecedented stroll by a Marine general through the heart of Baghdad, to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip on 9 January.
The rapid fire visits raise questions about what Washington hopes to achieve by these spectacles, designed for public consumption in both the US and Iraq?
Each one of these choreographed events are an American declaration that despite Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria, which critics argue hands over the country to Iranian control, the US can still project its influence in the region.
While the visits are messages to Iraq’s neighbor Iran that American influence in Iraq is still paramount, they raise issues of violating Iraq’s sovereignty, which will only rile Iraqi public opinion and strengthen the hand of the pro-Iranian factions in power.
Presidential Visits to Iraq/Historical context
Trump’s unannounced visit to the Ain al Asad airbase in Iraq housing US forces during the holiday season caused controversy as he failed to meet Iraq’s prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, as diplomatic protocol usually requires.
The failure to do so was explained by the Trump administration as due to logistical difficulties, yet examining past American presidential visits to Iraq may provide a clearer answer.
George W Bush made a surprise visit to US forces stationed in Iraq in November 2003 for Thanksgiving, under the cover of secrecy, spending a total of two-and-half hours in the country. The visit was primarily a morale lifting gesture, dining with the 600 troops at an airport hangar.
Despite the secrecy of the visit, he still met with four members of the Iraqi Governing Council, the interim body ruling Iraq until the final transition of sovereignty in the summer of 2004.
Trump failed to meet a single Iraqi official during his visit.
The more famous, or infamous visit Bush made to Iraq was in December 2008, visiting former Iraqi prime minister Nuri al Maliki. During a press conference an Iraqi journalist threw both of his shoes at the American president, perhaps a precedent that Trump hoped not to repeat.
While Trump’s rationale for not visiting the Iraqi prime minister is speculative, what is definitive is that the trip was seen as a violation of Iraq's sovereignty.
The militia leaders sympathetic to Iran that now form the Bina bloc in the Iraqi parliament denounced Trump’s visit. Qais al Khazali, the leader of Asaib Ahl al Haq militia, tweeted: “Iraqis will respond with a parliamentary decision to oust your [US] military forces. And if they do not leave, we have the experience and the ability to remove them by other means that your forces are familiar with.”
Falih Khazali, another militia leader-politician in the Bina bloc declared, “The American leadership was defeated in Iraq and wants to return again under any pretext, and this is what we will never allow.”
There are 5,200 US troops in Iraq, serving in an advisory capacity to the Iraqi military, whose original mission was to help combat ISIS (Daesh) after its invasion of Mosul in 2014. With Daesh retreating to the peripheries of Iraq’s countryside, these Iraqi politicians, much to Iran’s approval, have called for the withdrawal of these US forces.
This bloc’s indignation only intensified when US Marine General Austin Renforth, accompanied by an Iraqi general, went through a walk in downtown Baghdad. The ability of an American general to do this with relative lack of concern for his safety declared that life has returned to a relative level of normalcy in the Iraqi capital, which had just opened the heavily fortified “Green Zone,” after 15 years, the quarter housing Iraq’s politicians and US embassy.
However, Asaib Ahl al Haq, the group that denounced Trump’s visit, also saw the General’s trip as a sign that American forces would return to the streets of Iraq, threatening that its militias would also redeploy if that were the case.
The rival of the Bina bloc, the Islah bloc led by cleric Muqtada al Sadr also denounced the walk through Baghdad as “barbaric behavior.”
Defending the Trump Administration’s Policies
The final surprise visit was made two days after the General’s, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise visit to Baghdad, adding this stop to his scheduled eight-day tour of Middle East capitals.
Perhaps to smooth things over after Trump’s Christmas visit, Pompeo met with the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and other leaders from Iraq’s parliamentary blocs.
Pompeo’s had two goals; first, to reassure regional allies of American commitment despite President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops in Syria, and second to rally regional allies against Iran.
While this third American trip to Iraq generated relatively little controversy in Iraq, it may do little to mend Iraq’s relationship with the Trump administration that had been strained from the outset.
His relations with Iraq were volatile to begin with after, first, including Iraq on the travel ban.
Second, he is not credited by Iraqis for defeating Daesh in Iraq, as that campaign was set in motion by the Obama administration.
It is no surprise that the expulsion of US troops are being called for from Iraqi MPs after Trump’s visit. The US withdrawal from Syria demonstrates Trump is not committed to maintaining an American presence in the region, and this might be the opportunity for anti-American Iraqi politicians, some but not all of whom are pro-Iranian, to end the US involvement in Iraqi affairs as well.
At the end of the third trip by an American to Iraq, Pompeo did not take any questions from the press during his trip, and he did not appear alongside any of the Iraqi politicians for a formal news conference, perhaps fearing that a shoe might be thrown at him as well.
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Another big perk of meal planning is that it’s a HUGE time-saver! Once you start preparing for the coming week, you’ll realize you have more time, and a tendency to eat healthier throughout the week without having to devote more time to planning and cooking your meals.
Other benefits of meal planning:
The work week can be stressful between getting yourself and your family out the door. By having a balanced and pre-prepped breakfast ready, you want one less thing to worry about! Similarly, having your dinner ready and planned out when you get home gives you a chance to unwind and relax rather than rush to put a meal together when you’re already tired from a long day.
Keeping Eating Habits Consistent
Eating well requires you to pay attention to how much and how often you are eating. If your meals and snacks are prepped, you run less risk of overeating or skipping meals—both of which can throw off your diet. Meal prepping and planning ahead to ensure your healthy meals will help maintain your new lifestyle, as well as helps you avoid temptations!
Food Shopping Made Simpler
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Money Saving Instead Of Splurging
Healthy meal prepping forces you to keep your purchases to exactly what you have on your list. Buying food in bulk whenever possible also helps to prep even more healthy meals and snacks in advance. Additionally, by prepping meals you’ll eat out less — and likely save more month per month!
Lighten Your (Work) Load
Finding a way to eat healthy every day may seem to use a lot of energy and effort, but once you start meal planning and prepping, your week actually provides you more free time to do other things — spend time with family, friends or hobbies.
The Best Ways To Meal Prep
Meal prepping is as simply as taking the extra time to prepare snacks and meals for the rest of the week. In fact, meal-prepping ahead in batches can actually be he key for meeting your wellness and diet goals!
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Create A List
A great tip to meal plan is to take the time to write out all the meals you typically cook, keeping in mind the dietary program you are on. By having a list, you make planning your weekly menu so much quicker and easier each week.
Set Aside A Day – Or Days – To Prep
An effective way to meal-prep is to devote one or two days to do all of the work at one time. For example, if you decide to do your weekly food shopping on the weekend, you can devote Sundays to begin meal prep. Just spending one-two hours in the kitchen prepping and cooking ahead of time reduces the amount of time to get your meals ready-to-eat for the week!
Small Steps Make Big Strides
Most complaints about meal-prepping for a week is that it feels overwhelming to think about seven days of meals. If that is the case, one suggestion is to focus on three or four days of prepping instead. This way, you still only need to cook twice a week, and can get into the swing of meal prepping that works for your lifestyle.
It’s OK To Be A “Repeat” Offender
You don’t have to come up with exciting new recipes every week. Sometimes familiarity is key to good food prepping and meal planning. Getting into a good routine of planning for a week’s worth of meals, and repeating it later, is a great way that meal prepping can work for some families. Going back and recycling an entire week’s meal plan, especially when you’re entering into a particularly hectic week, is a great technique to incorporate when you’re short on time.
Cook In Bulk
The simplest tip in Meal Prepping 101 is to cook bigger portions to save time! By just making two or three extra servings of a recipe, you already have tomorrow’s lunch, and without any additional effort. Additionally by cooking in bulk, you can store any leftovers in the fridge and use them the next day in a different way — for example, cooked roasted chicken leftovers can be chopped up and mixed into a healthy salad!
Stock Up On Storage
Always have enough containers in the house for storage, this way you can split out your servings and maintain portion control. Plastic is convenient but not always ideal, so check out environmentally friendly or BPA-free alternatives such as glass bottles (for shakes and smoothies), mason jars (ideal for oats, fruit or nuts) and stainless steel containers (perfect for salads and other leftovers.)
Utilize Your Freezer
After cooking in bulk, you may realize you are unable to use up all your leftovers before they go bad– in which case, it may be time to consider utilizing your freezer to store meals! Many foods, such as stews and soups for example, are easy to freeze in meal-sized portions. Just take out when needed, defrost, reheat and ready to eat!
Prep Healthy Snacks For In-Between Meals
Snacking has a bad rap, but snacks can be easily incorporated into any healthy diet program. The key is to prep your snacks, since it is easy to fall into temptation by reaching for unhealthy items like candy or chips. Snack prepping can be simple — keep cut up raw veggies, fruit and yogurt handy, portion out dried fruit or nuts into snack sized bags, or look for healthy snack recipes that can prepare keep your portions bite-sized and controlled.
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Thomas Charles Lasorda (born 22 September 1927 in Norristown, Pennsylvania – January 7, 2021) was a Major League baseball player and manager. In 1999 he marked his 50th year of involvement, in one capacity or another, with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest tenure of any individual in the Dodgers baseball organization.
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- Manny Mota and Vic Davalillo have 100 years between them. The average age of our bench is deceased.
- As quoted in Scholastic Coach (Vol. 48; 1978)
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This mask was adopted by San Ignacio Resort Hotel from the Museum of Belize & House of Culture.This mask was found at Cahal Pech along with 3 large jade celts (prehistoric stone or metal objects with beveled cutting edges used as a tool or weapon). and is dated to the Terminal Classic period around A.D. 800-900. This amazing ancient Belize artifact is made of jade and shell and was used as a belt worn by a royal ruler along with the accompanying celts that were found. Currently, both the mask and the celts are being installed in the Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed exhibition at the
Science Museum of Minnesota, along with other pieces from the Belize National Collection. The exhibition opens June 21st, 2013.
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So here I am, watching Dinosaur Train with my 4-year-old. He’s sitting with me, or, more precisely, on as well as around me, in a big armchair. He keeps moving around and poking me with his elbow, as he repositions and props himself up.
I learn about new dinosaur species. Scott the Paleontologist — who reminds me of one of my former students, and appears to be dying his hair these days — ends every episode by prompting the viewers to go into nature and make their own discoveries. In this episode, he tells the kids about what paleontologists do. He says that maybe they will become the next generation of paleontologists.
My first thought is, “Yeah, right. Like you can actually get a job working as a paleontologist. How many jobs are out there?”
Eldest’s high-school swim season is in full swing. There was an alumni meet recently, some former graduates came back and swam against the team. One of the most impressive alumni swims in college. During his high-school time, he was not only a state record holder in multiple swimming events, but was also a decorated track-and-field athlete. Some people are just born for sports; there is no amount of hard work or grit can make someone with no natural ability become comparable to a guy like this one. And he’s probably not even elite-level, Olympics material. But it sure was amazing to see how he cuts through water like a knife. A very fast knife.
We seem to believe that elite-level sports and arts are the province of only the supremely talented, who can then become great with proper training and hard work. But when it comes to academic pursuits, it seems to be a very bad idea to suggest that some people just don’t have enough talent to pursue certain fields of study.
I am not saying that everyone can’t learn some basic algebra, but let’s face it, you may have done OK as far as high school math goes, but that might be your limitation; maybe you should not be majoring in a field that requires a lot of math. Yet, it seems nobody is allowed to suggest that. As that student of whom Scott the Paleontologist reminds me said once upon a time, it’s very un-American to imply that someone cannot do something. It’s totally fine to say that, as long as professional sports are concerned and I suppose the arts, but math and physics are inherently learnable, arbitrarily well, by everyone? Puh-leez.
Being middle-aged is apparently a universally grumpy age. I hear Scott the Paleontologist calling out to young bone excavators, and the first thing I think about is how there are no jobs. On the one hand, that is true. There are no jobs. On the other hand, the world would be a crappy, crappy place if everyone played it safe and became hospice nurses, as that’s a pretty sure bet as far as jobs go, with all the aging boomers.
We spend a lot of time in the blogosphere lamenting how PIs don’t discourage their students and postdocs enough away from pursuing PI-dom. But here’s the deal: some people can and will become PIs. They mostly come from top schools, but there are good and successful people everywhere.
I am vacillating between wanting to be responsible, discouraging people from pursing what is for many an unattainable station, and not wanting to be condescending, not pretending to know what people want and are able to do better than even themselves.
But let’s face it. There are folks who don’t have what it takes to make it in a competitive and selective career. Sometimes, what they lack is talent. Other times, it’s the things that is attained by privilege or luck. Let’s at least tell them that it will be very, very hard.
There is a young faculty member in my department who came with a ridiculously fancy pedigree. He’s a great guy, smart and creative, and quite funny. The other day he was musing on how students should all TA (I agree!) so that they would see if they like teaching (I agree! Also, to become better at presenting in front of an audience!), and if they do like teaching, then they might want to become professors. I almost peed myself with laughter, metaphorically of course; I poker face held and I said nothing. What I wanted to say is that he thinks the only thing that stands between someone and a faculty position is the love of teaching because he came from the upper echelons of academia, recommended highly by the leading lights in the field. His own graduate students will not have such a pedigree. It is not impossible, but is certainly not a given that, just because his student likes teaching, they will become faculty. And let’s not bullshit ourselves; this is a research university, whether or not you can develop an independent research program and raise money is nearly all that matters. Whether or not someone enjoys teaching is an afterthought. It shouldn’t be, but it is.
Competitive endeavors are competitive. Professional trajectories are described by highly nonlinear differential equations; initial conditions matter a lot.
But talent matters in everything. Let’s please not trivialize intellectual pursuits as something that can be mastered with enough grit.
I remember a friend from college, who spoke several languages fluently. Initially, the friend majored in theoretical physics (same as me), but left the program after the second year, “Every A in the major takes me so much effort, while the languages and the writing are so effortless.” The friend went on to learn several more languages and is a freelance journalist living abroad.
Very few people succeed at anything competitive. They have the combination of talent, training, mental toughness, and luck. If holds for sports, it holds for the sciences. Please, please let’s not encourage the people who don’t have much talent to major in the areas in which their talents don’t reside.
But we have to have people pursuing dreams.
Perhaps the worst disappointments come when you are almost elite, but not quite. When you are better and more talented than so many, and everyone thinks you will make it to the top, and you give it your all, but you fall just a little bit short of the golden ring. Many kids swim in high school and happily so, knowing there is no competitive future for them beyond the team. My son is among these kids, and enjoys every second of his time on the team. He gets physical fitness and great memories. It’s the kids who win golds in high school but are never offered swimming scholarships, or those who start swimming in college but realize they are now out of their league and quit, or those who go to the Olympic tryouts but never quite make it.
The endeavor needs enough people starting out, so that enough good ones could almost make it and enough great ones do.
Chances of not succeeding at anything competitive are much greater than of succeeding. It’s heartbreaking to fail. But is it always the best idea to discourage the people from even trying? Should we as PIs at good but non-elite schools actively try to stomp out every inclination of all our progeny to even dream of a professorship because the chances are really slim? I try to let my students know as much as I can about what the job is; for most, that’s enough to turn them off. But there are some in whom I see the fire and the combination of skills and determination, and I think they could, with coaching and some luck, make it. Should I tell them to forget it just because, even for them, the odds of not succeeding are high?
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Weekly Scripture Reading
Torah: Genesis 28:1 – 30:43
Prophets: Amos 6:1 – 7:17
Historical Writings: Joshua 11:1 – 12:24
New Testament: Matthew 12:1-50
Wisdom Writings: Psalms 19:1 – 21:13
Non-Canonical: Jubilees 8:1 – 9:15
The following translation is from The Scriptures | ISR98
Genesis 28:1 – 30:43
28 | 1 And Yitsḥaq called Ya‛aqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kena‛an.
2 “Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan your mother’s brother.
3 “And Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples,
4 and give you the blessing of Aḇraham, to you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Aḇraham.”
5 So Yitsḥaq sent Ya‛aqoḇ away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Riḇqah, the mother of Ya‛aqoḇ and Ěsaw.
6 And Ěsaw saw that Yitsḥaq had blessed Ya‛aqoḇ and sent him away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kena‛an,”
7 and that Ya‛aqoḇ had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
8 So Ěsaw saw that the daughters of Kena‛an did not please his father Yitsḥaq,
9 and Ěsaw went to Yishma‛ĕl and took Maḥalath the daughter of Yishma‛ĕl, Aḇraham’s son, the sister of Neḇayoth, to be his wife, besides the wives he had.
10 And Ya‛aqoḇ went out from Be’ĕrsheḇa and went toward Ḥaran.
11 And he came upon a place and stopped over for the night, for the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going up and coming down on it.
13 And see, יהוה stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of Aḇraham your father and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq. The land on which you are lying, I give it to you and your seed.
14 “And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
15 “And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
16 And Ya‛aqoḇ awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in this place, and I did not know it.”
17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens!”
18 And Ya‛aqoḇ rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a standing column, and poured oil on top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bĕyth Ěl, however, the name of that city had been Luz previously.
20 And Ya‛aqoḇ made a vow, saying, “Seeing Elohim is with me, and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat and a garment to put on –
21 when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has been my Elohim,
22 then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be Elohim’s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to You.”
29 | 1 And Ya‛aqoḇ moved on and came to the land of the people of the East.
2 And he looked and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying by it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a large stone was on the well’s mouth.
3 And all the flocks would be gathered there, then they would roll the stone from the well’s mouth and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well’s mouth.
4 So Ya‛aqoḇ said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Ḥaran.”
5 And he said to them, “Do you know Laḇan son of Naḥor?” And they said, “We know him.”
6 So he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “Well. And see, his daughter Raḥĕl is coming with the sheep.”
7 And he said, “See, it is still high day, not the time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
8 But they said, “We are not allowed until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, then we shall water the sheep.”
9 While he was still speaking with them, Raḥĕl came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
10 And it came to be, when Ya‛aqoḇ saw Raḥĕl the daughter of Laḇan his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laḇan his mother’s brother, that Ya‛aqoḇ went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laḇan his mother’s brother.
11 And Ya‛aqoḇ kissed Raḥĕl, and lifted up his voice and wept.
12 And when Ya‛aqoḇ told Raḥĕl that he was her father’s relative and that he was Riḇqah’s son, she ran and told her father.
13 And it came to be, when Laḇan heard the report about Ya‛aqoḇ his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Then he told Laḇan all these matters.
14 And Laḇan said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a month.
15 Then Laḇan said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for naught? Let me know, what should your wages be?”
16 And Laḇan had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lĕ’ah, and the name of the younger was Raḥĕl.
17 And Lĕ’ah’s eyes were weak, but Raḥĕl was lovely of form and appearance.
18 And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥĕl your younger daughter.”
19 And Laḇan said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
20 So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
21 Then Ya‛aqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Give me my wife, for my days are completed, and let me go in to her.”
22 And Laḇan gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.
23 And it came to be in the evening, that he took Lĕ’ah his daughter and brought her to Ya‛aqoḇ. And he went in to her.
24 And Laḇan gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Lĕ’ah as a female servant.
25 And in the morning it came to be, that see, it was Lĕ’ah. So he said to Laḇan, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Raḥĕl that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?”
26 And Laḇan said, “It is not done this way in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
27 “Complete the week of this one, then we give you this one too, for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.”
28 And Ya‛aqoḇ did so and completed her week. Then he gave him his daughter Raḥĕl too, as wife.
29 And Laḇan gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Raḥĕl as a female servant.
30 And he also went in to Raḥĕl, and he also loved Raḥĕl more than Lĕ’ah. And he served with Laḇan still another seven years.
31 And יהוה saw that Lĕ’ah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Raḥĕl was barren.
32 And Lĕ’ah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Re’uḇĕn, for she said, “For יהוה has looked on my affliction, because now my husband is going to love me.”
33 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because יהוה has heard that I am unloved, He gave me this son too.” And she called his name Shim‛on.
34 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband is joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So his name was called Lĕwi.
35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now I praise יהוה.” So she called his name Yehuḏah. And she ceased bearing.
30 | 1 And when Raḥĕl saw that she bore Ya‛aqoḇ no children, Raḥĕl envied her sister, and said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Give me children, or else I am going to die!”
2 And Ya‛aqoḇ’s displeasure burned against Raḥĕl, and he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 And she said, “See, my female servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well.”
4 So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Ya‛aqoḇ went in to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a son.
6 And Raḥĕl said, “Elohim has rightly ruled my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” So she called his name Dan.
7 And Raḥĕl’s female servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.
8 And Raḥĕl said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have overcome.” So she called his name Naphtali.
9 And Lĕ’ah saw that she had ceased bearing, and she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Ya‛aqoḇ as wife.
10 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a son.
11 And Lĕ’ah said, “With Gaḏ!” So she called his name Gaḏ.
12 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.
13 And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr.
14 And Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And Raḥĕl said to Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”
15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥĕl said, “Therefore let him lie with you tonight for your son’s love-apples.”
16 And when Ya‛aqoḇ came out of the field in the evening, Lĕ’ah went out to meet him and said, “Do come in to me, for indeed, I have hired you with my son’s love-apples.” And he lay with her that night.
17 And Elohim listened to Lĕ’ah, and she conceived and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a fifth son.
18 And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because I have given my female servant to my husband.” So she called his name Yissasḵar.
19 And Lĕ’ah conceived again and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a sixth son.
20 And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present. Now my husband is going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zeḇulun.
21 And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And Elohim remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.”
24 So she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “יהוה has added to me another son.”
25 And it came to be, when Raḥĕl had borne Yosĕph, that Ya‛aqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Send me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land.
26 “Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you.”
27 And Laḇan said to him, “If I have found favour in your eyes, please stay, for I have diligently watched that יהוה has blessed me for your sake.”
28 And he said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”
29 So he said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.
30 “For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?”
31 And he said, “What do I give you?” And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “Give me naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks:
32 “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages.
33 “And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.”
34 And Laḇan said, “See, let it be according to your word!”
35 And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he put three days’ journey between himself and Ya‛aqoḇ, and Ya‛aqoḇ fed the rest of Laḇan’s flocks.
37 And Ya‛aqoḇ took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink.
39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Ya‛aqoḇ separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laḇan, but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laḇan’s flock.
41 And it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived, that Ya‛aqoḇ placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, so they would conceive among the rods.
42 But when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the weak ones were Laḇan’s and the strong ones Ya‛aqoḇ’s.
43 Thus the man increased very much, and had many flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Amos 6:1 – 7:17
6 | 1 Woe to those at ease in Tsiyon, and those trusting in Mount Shomeron, the distinguished ones among the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra’ĕl comes!
2 Pass over to Kalneh and see, and from there go to Ḥamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these reigns, or is their border greater than your border?
3 You who are putting off the day of evil, yet bring near the seat of violence,
4 who are lying on beds of ivory, and are stretched out on your couches, and are eating lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,
5 who are singing to the sound of the harp, having composed songs for themselves like Dawiḏ,
6 who are drinking wine from bowls, and anoint with the finest ointments, yet they have not been pained over the breach of Yosĕph!
7 Therefore they shall now go into exile, with the first of the exiles, and the feasting of the stretched-out ones shall cease!
8 The Master יהוה has sworn by Himself, יהוה Elohim of hosts declares, “I am loathing the pride of Ya‛aqoḇ, and I have hated his palaces. Therefore I shall deliver up the city and all that is in it.”
9 And it shall be, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.
10 And if a relative, or his undertaker, brings the remains out of the house, he shall say to one inside the house, “Is anyone with you?” and he says, “No,” then he shall say, “Hush!” For we have not remembered the Name of יהוה!
11 For look, יהוה is commanding, and He shall smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13 you who are rejoicing over a matter of naught, who say, “Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?”
14 “For look, I am raising up a nation against you, O house of Yisra’ĕl,” declares יהוה Elohim of hosts, “and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Ḥamath to the wadi Araḇah.”
7 | 1 This is what the Master יהוה showed me, and see, He was forming locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop. And see, it was the late crop after the mowings of the sovereign.
2 And it came to be, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, “O Master יהוה, forgive, I pray! How does Ya‛aqoḇ survive, for he is small?”
3 יהוה relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said יהוה.
4 This is what the Master יהוה showed me, and see, the Master יהוה was calling to contend by fire, and it consumed the great deep and did consume the portion,
5 and I said, “O Master יהוה, please stop! How does Ya‛aqoḇ survive, for he is small?”
6 יהוה relented concerning this. “This shall not be either,” said the Master יהוה.
7 This is what He showed me, and see, יהוה stood on a wall made with a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in His hand,
8 and יהוה said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb-line.” And יהוה said, “See, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Yisra’ĕl, no longer do I pardon them.
9 “And the high places of Yitsḥaq shall be laid waste, and the set-apart places of Yisra’ĕl shall be destroyed. And I shall rise with the sword against the house of Yaroḇ‛am.”
10 Then Amatsyah the priest of Bĕyth Ěl sent to Yaroḇ‛am sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Yisra’ĕl. The land is not able to endure all his words,
11 for this is what Amos said, ‘Yaroḇ‛am shall die by the sword, and Yisra’ĕl certainly be exiled from their own land.’ ”
12 And Amatsyah said to Amos, “Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Yehuḏah, and eat bread and prophesy there,
13 but do not prophesy any more at Bĕyth Ěl, for it is the sovereign’s set-apart place and it is the house of the reign.”
14 And Amos answered and said to Amatsyah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I a son of a prophet, for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.
15 “But יהוה took me from behind the flock, and יהוה said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Yisra’ĕl.’
16 “And now, hear the word of יהוה. You are saying, ‘Do not prophesy against Yisra’ĕl, and do not drop words against the house of Yitsḥaq.’
17 “Therefore thus said יהוה, ‘Your wife shall become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters fall by the sword, and your land be divided by a measuring line, and you die in a defiled land, and Yisra’ĕl shall certainly be exiled from its land.’ ”
Joshua 11:1 – 12:24
11 | 1 And it came to be, when Yaḇin sovereign of Ḥatsor heard, that he sent to Yoḇaḇ sovereign of Maḏon, and to the sovereign of Shimron, and to the sovereign of Aḵshaph,
2 and to the sovereigns who were from the north, in the mountains, and in the desert plain south of Kinneroth, and in the low country, and in the heights of Dor on the west –
3 the Kena‛anites in the east and in the west, and the Amorite, and the Ḥittite, and the Perizzite, and the Yeḇusite in the mountains, and the Ḥiwwite below Ḥermon in the land of Mitspah.
4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as numerous as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
5 And all these sovereigns met together, and they came and camped together at the waters of Mĕrom to fight against Yisra’ĕl.
6 And יהוה said to Yehoshua, “Do not be afraid of their presence, for tomorrow about this time I am giving all of them over to Yisra’ĕl, slain. Hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
7 And Yehoshua, and all the soldiers with him, came against them suddenly by the waters of Mĕrom, and they fell on them.
8 And יהוה gave them into the hand of Yisra’ĕl, and they smote them and pursued them to Great Tsiḏon, and to Misrephoth Mayim, and to the Valley of Mitspeh eastward. And they smote them until no survivor was left to them.
9 And Yehoshua did to them as יהוה said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
10 And Yehoshua turned back at that time and captured Ḥatsor, and smote its sovereign with the sword, for Ḥatsor was formerly the head of all those reigns.
11 And they smote all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, putting them under the ban. He did not leave anyone breathing. Then he burned Ḥatsor with fire.
12 And Yehoshua captured all the cities of those sovereigns, and all their sovereigns, and he smote them with the edge of the sword. He put them under the ban, as Mosheh the servant of יהוה commanded.
13 However, Yisra’ĕl did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, but Yehoshua burned only Ḥatsor.
14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Yisra’ĕl took as booty for themselves. But they smote every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave anyone breathing.
15 As יהוה had commanded Mosheh his servant, so Mosheh commanded Yehoshua, and so Yehoshua did. He did not turn aside a word of all that יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
16 Thus Yehoshua took all this land: the mountain country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the low country, and the desert plain, and the mountains of Yisra’ĕl and its low lands,
17 from Mount Ḥalaq that goes up to Sĕ‛ir, and as far as Ba‛al Gaḏ in the Valley of Leḇanon below Mount Ḥermon. And he captured all their sovereigns, and smote them and killed them.
18 Yehoshua fought with all those sovereigns for a long time.
19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Yisra’ĕl, except the Ḥiwwites, the inhabitants of Giḇ‛on. All the others they took in battle.
20 For it was of יהוה to harden their hearts, that they should come against Yisra’ĕl in battle, in order to put them under the ban, so that they might have no favour, but that He might annihilate them, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
21 And at that time Yehoshua came and cut off the Anaqim from the mountains, from Ḥeḇron, from Deḇir, from Anaḇ, and from all the mountains of Yehuḏah, and from all the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. Yehoshua put them with their cities under the ban.
22 There were none of the Anaqim left in the land of the children of Yisra’ĕl; only in Azzah, in Gath, and in Ashdoḏ some remained.
23 Thus Yehoshua took the entire land, according to all that יהוה had said to Mosheh. And Yehoshua gave it as an inheritance to Yisra’ĕl according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from fighting.
12| 1 And these are the sovereigns of the land whom the children of Yisra’ĕl smote, and whose land they possessed beyond the Yardĕn towards the sun-rising, from the wadi Arnon to Mount Ḥermon, and all the desert plain eastward:
2 Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, ruling from Aro‛ĕr, which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, from the middle of that wadi, and half Gil‛aḏ, even as far as the wadi Yabboq, the border of the children of Ammon,
3 and the desert plain from the Sea of Kinneroth eastward as far as the Sea of the Araḇah, the Salt Sea, the way to Bĕyth Yeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah,
4 and the border of Og̅, sovereign of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Repha’ites, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Eḏre‛i,
5 and ruled in Mount Ḥermon, and in Salḵah, and in all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Ma‛aḵathites, and the half of Gil‛aḏ as far as the border of Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon.
6 Mosheh the servant of יהוה and the children of Yisra’ĕl had smitten them. And Mosheh the servant of יהוה had given it as a possession to the Re’uḇĕnites, and to the Gaḏites, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh.
7 And these are the sovereigns of the land which Yehoshua and the children of Yisra’ĕl smote beyond the Yardĕn, on the west, from Ba‛al Gaḏ in the Valley of Leḇanon as far as Mount Ḥalaq that goes up to Sĕ‛ir, which Yehoshua gave to the tribes of Yisra’ĕl as a possession according to their divisions,
8 in the mountain country, and in the low country, and in the desert plain, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South, the Ḥittites, the Amorites and the Kena‛anites, the Perizzites, the Ḥiwwites, and the Yeḇusites:
9 the sovereign of Yeriḥo, one; the sovereign of Ai, which is beside Bĕyth Ěl, one;
10 the sovereign of Yerushalayim, one; the sovereign of Ḥeḇron, one;
11 the sovereign of Yarmuth, one; the sovereign of Laḵish, one;
12 the sovereign of Eg̅lon, one; the sovereign of Gezer, one;
13 the sovereign of Deḇir, one; the sovereign of Geḏer, one;
14 the sovereign of Ḥormah, one; the sovereign of Araḏ, one;
15 the sovereign of Liḇnah, one; the sovereign of Aḏullam, one;
16 the sovereign of Maqqĕḏah, one; the sovereign of Bĕyth Ěl, one;
17 the sovereign of Tappuwaḥ, one; the sovereign of Ḥĕpher, one;
18 the sovereign of Aphĕq, one; the sovereign of Sharon, one;
19 the sovereign of Maḏon, one; the sovereign of Ḥatsor, one;
20 the sovereign of Shimron Mĕron, one; the sovereign of Aḵshaph, one;
21 the sovereign of Ta‛anaḵ, one; the sovereign of Meg̅iddo, one;
22 the sovereign of Qeḏesh, one; the sovereign of Yoqne‛am in Karmel, one;
23 the sovereign of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the sovereign of the nations of Gilgal, one;
24 the sovereign of Tirtsah, one – thirty-one sovereigns in all.
12 |1 At that time יהושע went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And His taught ones were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain, to eat.
2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your taught ones are doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath!”
3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what Dawiḏ did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
4 how he went into the House of Elohim and ate the showbread which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
5 “Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
6 “But I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the Set-apart Place.
7 “And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.
8 “For the Son of Aḏam is Master of the Sabbath.”
9 And having left there, He went into their congregation.
10 And see, there was a man having a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it right to heal on the Sabbath?” – so as to accuse Him.
11 And He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, shall not take hold of it and lift it out?
12 “How much more worth is a man than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the Sabbath.”
13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored, as healthy as the other.
14 But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against Him, so as to destroy Him.
15 But יהושע, knowing it, withdrew from there. And large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,
16 and warned them not to make Him known,
17 in order that what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, might be filled, saying,
18 “See, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My being did delight. I shall put My Spirit upon Him, and He shall declare right-ruling to the nations.
19 “He shall not strive nor cry out, nor shall anyone hear His voice in the streets.
20 “A crushed reed He shall not break, and smoking flax He shall not quench, till He brings forth right-ruling forever.a
21 “And the nations shall trust in His Name.”
22 Then they brought to Him one who was demon-possessed, blind and dumb. And He healed him, so that the blind and dumb man both spoke and saw.
23 And all the crowds were amazed and said, “Is this the Son of Dawiḏ?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This one does not cast out demons except by Be‛elzebul, the ruler of the demons.”
25 And יהושע knew their thoughts, and said to them, “Every reign divided against itself is laid waste, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
26 “And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then does his reign stand?
27 “And if I, by Be‛elzebul, do cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges.
28 “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you.
29 “Or how is one able to enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he shall plunder his house.
30 “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
31 “Because of this I say to you, all sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven men.
32 “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Aḏam, it shall be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.
34 “Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
35 “The good man brings forth what is good from the good treasures of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked from the wicked treasure.
36 “And I say to you that for every idle word men speak, they shall give an account of it in the day of judgment.
37 “For by your words you shall be declared righteous, and by your words you shall be declared unrighteous.”
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answering, said to them, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.
40 “For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the Son of Aḏam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 “Men of Ninewĕh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here.
42 “The sovereigness of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shelomoh is here.
43 “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.
44 “Then it says, ‘I shall return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and decorated.
45 “Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”
46 And while He was still talking to the crowds, see, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him.
47 And one said to Him, “See, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.”
48 But He answering, said to the one who spoke to Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”
49 And having stretched out His hand toward His taught ones, He said, “See My mother and My brothers!
50 “For whoever does the desire of My Father who is in the heavens is My brother and sister and mother.”
Psalms 19:1 – 21:13
19 | 1 The heavens are proclaiming the esteem of Ěl; And the expanse is declaring the work of His hand.
2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech, and there are no words, Their voice is not heard.
4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He set up a tent for the sun,
5 And it is like a bridegroom coming out of his room, It rejoices like a strong man to run the path.
6 Its rising is from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the other end; And naught is hidden from its heat.
7 The Torah of יהוה is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of יהוה is trustworthy, making wise the simple;
8 The orders of יהוה are straight, rejoicing the heart; The command of יהוה is clear, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of יהוה is clean, standing forever; The right-rulings of יהוה are true, They are righteous altogether,
10 More desirable than gold, Than much fine gold; And sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Also, Your servant is warned by them, In guarding them there is great reward.
12 Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,
13 Also keep Your servant back from presumptuous ones, Do not let them rule over me. Then shall I be perfect, and innocent of great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be pleasing before You, O יהוה, my rock and my redeemer.
20 | 1 יהוה does answer you in the day of distress! The Name of the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ does set you on high!
2 He does send you help from the set-apart place, And does uphold you from Tsiyon!
3 He does remember all your offerings, And does accept your burnt offering! Selah.
4 He does give you according to your heart, And fills all your plans!
5 We sing of Your deliverance, And in the Name of our Elohim we set up a banner! יהוה does fill all your requests!
6 Now I know that יהוה shall save His Anointed; He answers him from His set-apart heavens With the saving might of His right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we remember the Name of יהוה our Elohim.
8 They, they have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and are established.
9 Save, יהוה! Let the Sovereign answer us in the day we call.
21 | 1 The sovereign rejoices in Your strength, O יהוה; And how greatly he exults in Your deliverance!
2 You have given him the desire of his heart, And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For You put before him the blessings of goodness; You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
4 He asked life from You, and You gave it to him – Length of days forever and ever.
5 Through Your deliverance his esteem is great; You have laid excellency and splendour on him.
6 For You have made him most blessed forever; You have made him glad with the joy of Your presence.
7 For the sovereign is trusting in יהוה, And through the kindness of the Most High he is not moved.
8 Your hand reaches all Your enemies; Your right hand reaches those who hate You.
9 You make them as a furnace of fire in the time of Your presence; יהוה does swallow them up in His wrath, And fire does consume them.
10 You destroy their fruit from the earth, And their seed from among the sons of men.
11 For they held out evil against You; They devised a plot; they do not prevail.
12 For You make them turn their back, When You aim with Your bowstring toward their faces.
13 Be exalted, O יהוה, in Your strength! We sing and we praise Your might.
Jubilees 8:1 – 9:15
8 | 1 IN the twenty ninth jubilee, in the first week, in the beginning thereof Arpakshad took to himself a woman and her name was Rasu’eya, the daughter of Shushan, the daughter of Eylam, and she bore him a son in the third year in this week, and he called his name Kainam.
2 And the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went to seek for himself a place where he might seize for himself a city.
3 And he found a writing which former generations had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon, and he transcribed it and sinned owing to it; for it contained the teaching of the Watchers in accordance with which they used to observe the omens of the sun and moon and stars in all the signs of heaven.
4 And he wrote it down and said nothing regarding it; for he was afraid to speak to Noach about it lest he should be angry with him on account of it.
5 And in the thirtieth jubilee, in the second week, in the first year thereof, he took to himself a woman, and her name was Melka, the daughter of Madai, the son of Yapheth, and in the fourth year he begat a son, and called his name Shelach; for he said: Truly I have been sent.
6 And in the fourth year he was born, and Shelach grew up and took to himself a woman, and her name was Mu’ak, the daughter of Kesed, his father’s brother, in the one and thirtieth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof.
7 And she bore him a son in the fifth year thereof, and he called his name Eber: and he took unto himself a woman, and her name was Azurad, the daughter of Nebrod, in the thirty second jubilee, in the seventh week, in the third year thereof.
8 And in the sixth year thereof, she bore him son, and he called his name Peleg; for in the days when he was born the children of Noach began to divide the earth amongst themselves: for this reason he called his name Peleg.
9 And they divided it secretly amongst themselves, and told it to Noach.
10 And it came to pass in the beginning of the thirty third jubilee that they divided the earth into three parts, for Shem and Cham and Yapheth, according to the inheritance of each, in the first year in the first week, when one of us who had been sent, was with them.
11 And he called his sons, and they drew nigh to him, they and their children, and he divided the earth into the lots, which his three sons were to take in possession, and they reached forth their hands, and took the writing out of the bosom of Noach, their father.
12 And there came forth on the writing as Shem’s lot the middle of the earth which he should take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity, from the middle of the mountain range of Rafa, from the mouth of the water from the river Tina, and his portion goes towards the west through the midst of this river, and it extends till it reaches the water of the abysses, out of which this river goes forth and pours its waters into the sea Me’at, and this river flows into the Great Sea.
13 And all that is towards the north is Yapheth’s, and all that is towards the Negev belongs to Shem. And it extends till it reaches Karaso: this is in the bosom of the tongue which looks towards the Negev.
14 And his portion extends along the Great Sea, and it extends in a straight line till it reaches the west of the tongue which looks towards the Negev: for this sea is named the tongue of the Mitsriy Sea.
15 And it turns from here towards the Negev towards the mouth of the Great Sea on the shore of its waters, and it extends to the west to Afra, and it extends till it reaches the waters of the river Giychon, and to the south of the waters of Giychon, to the banks of this river.
16 And it extends towards the east, till it reaches the Garden of Eden, to the south thereof, to the south and from the east of the whole land of Eden and of the whole east, it turns to the east and proceeds till it reaches the east of the mountain named Rafa, and it descends to the bank of the mouth of the river Tina.
17 This portion came forth by lot for Shem and his sons, that they should possess it forever unto his generations forevermore.
18 And Noach rejoiced that this portion came forth for Shem and for his sons, and he remembered all that he had spoken with his mouth in prophecy; for he had said: Blessed be YAHUAH ELOHIYM of Shem And may YAHUAH dwell in the dwelling of Shem.
19 And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the Holy of Holies, and the dwelling of YAHUAH, and Mount Ciynai the center of the desert, and Mount Tsiyon the center of the navel of the earth: these three were created as holy places facing each other.
20And he blessed the ELOHIYM of elohiym, who had put the Word of YAHUAH into his mouth, and YAHUAH forevermore.
21 And he knew that a blessed portion and a blessing had come to Shem and his sons unto the generations forever the whole land of Eden and the whole land of the Red Sea, and the whole land of the east and India, and on the Red Sea and the mountains thereof, and all the land of Bashan, and all the land of Lebanon and the islands of Kaftur, and all the mountains of Seniyr and Amanah, and the mountains of Ashshur in the north, and all the land of Eylam, Ashshur, and Babel, and Shushan and Madai, and all the mountains of Ararat, and all the region beyond the sea, which is beyond the mountains of Ashshur towards the north, a blessed and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good.
22 And for Cham came forth the second portion, beyond the Giychon towards the south to the right of the Garden, and it extends towards the south and it extends to all the mountains of fire, and it extends towards the west to the sea of Atel and it extends towards the west till it reaches the sea of Ma’uk that sea into which everything which is not destroyed descends.
23 And it goes forth towards the north to the limits of Gadiyr, and it goes forth to the coast of the waters of the sea to the waters of the Great Sea till it draws near to the river Giychon, and goes along the river Giychon till it reaches the right of the Garden of Eden.
24 And this is the land which came forth for Cham as the portion which he was to occupy forever for himself and his sons unto their generations forever.
25 And for Yapheth came forth the third portion beyond the river Tina to the north of the outflow of its waters, and it extends north easterly to the whole region of Gog, and to all the country east thereof.
26 And it extends northerly to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt towards the north, and towards the sea of Ma’uk, and it goes forth to the east of Gadiyr as far as the region of the waters of the sea.
27 And it extends until it approaches the west of Fara and it returns towards Aferag, and it extends easterly to the waters of the sea of Me’at.
28 And it extends to the region of the river Tina in a north easterly direction until it approaches the boundary of its waters towards the mountain Rafa, and it turns round towards the north.
29 This is the land which came forth for Yapheth and his sons as the portion of his inheritance which he should possess for himself and his sons, for their generations forever; five great islands, and a great land in the north.
30 But it is cold, and the land of Cham is hot, and the land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.
9| 1 AND Cham divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Kush towards the east, and to the west of him for Mitsrayim, and to the west of him for Put, and to the west of him and to the west thereof on the sea for Kena`an.
2 And Shem also divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Eylam and his sons, to the east of the river Chiddeqel till it approachcs the east, the whole land of India, and on the Red Sea on its coast, and the waters of Dedan, and all the mountains of Mebri and Eylam, and all the land of Shushan and all that is on the side of Pharnak to the Red Sea and the river Tina.
3 And for Ashshur came forth the second portion, all the land of Ashshur and Niyneveh and Shin’ar and to the border of India, and it ascends and skirts the river.
4 And for Arpakshad came forth the third portion, all the land of the region of the Kasdiym to the east of the Perath, bordering on the Red Sea, and all the waters of the desert close to the tongue of the sea which looks towards Mitsrayim, all the land of Lebanon and Seniyr and Amanah to the border of the Perath.
5 And for Aram there came forth the fourth portion, all the land of Aram Naharayim between the Chiddeqel and the Perath to the north of the Kasdiym to the border of the mountains of Ashshur and the land of Ararat.
6 And there came forth for Ludiy the fifth portion, the mountains of Ashshur and all appertaining to them till it reaches the Great Sea, and till it reaches the east of Ashshur his brother.
7 And Yapheth also divided the land of his inheritance amongst his sons.
8 And the first portion came forth for Gimer to the east from the north side to the river Tina; and in the north there came forth for Magog all the inner portions of the north until it reaches to the sea of Me’at.
9 And for Madai came forth as his portion that he should possess from the west of his two brothers to the islands, and to the coasts of the islands.
10 And for Yavan came forth the fourth portion every island and the islands which are towards the border of Ludiy.
11 And for Tubal there came forth the fifth portion in the midst of the tongue which approaches towards the border of the portion of Ludiy to the second tongue, to the region beyond the second tongue unto the third tongue.
12 And for Meshek came forth the sixth portion, all the region beyond the third tongue till it approaches the east of Gadiyr.
13 And for Thiyrac there came forth the seventh portion, four great islands in the midst of the sea, which reach to the portion of Cham and the islands of Kamaturi came out by lot for the sons of Arpakshad as his inheritance.
14 And thus the sons of Noach divided unto their sons in the presence of Noach their father, and he bound them all by an oath, imprecating a curse on everyone that sought to seize the portion which had not fallen to him by his lot.
15 And they all said, So be it; so be it for themselves and their sons forever throughout their generations till the day of judgment, on which YAHUAH ELOHIYM shall judge them with a sword and with fire for all the unclean wickedness of their errors, wherewith they have filled the earth with transgression and uncleanness and fornication and sin.
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There are ways you can retain your sanity as you embark on one of life’s greatest stresses – relocating.
Marie-Kondo your house
When your name becomes a verb, you know you’ve done something right. To Marie-Kondo your house simply means to spark joy in your life by tidying up. This also involves getting rid of excess stuff that weighs you down emotionally and clutters up your living space.
Before moving, one of the most beneficial things you can do is limit the amount of baggage you will be taking with you. The less stuff you have, the easier, and cheaper, it is to move.
If you struggle with letting go, enlist the help of friends and family who can help you be brutal with your belongings – they may even want to take some of your things off your hands.
Digitise whatever you can
Shipping CDs and DVDs across the world in 2019 is a ridiculous notion. There are places where you can easily get your precious home videos digitised. As for commercial DVDs, those are an entirely unnecessary weight to take with you and should be donated to a worthy cause.
Set up a WhatsApp group with your closest friends
When interviewed about emigration, almost every person who has made a move overseas will tell you that the thing they miss most is their friendships. Whilst almost all other aspects of living can be replicated, close relationships are hard to recreate, and a WhatsApp group that keeps you in touch with those you love will help you to feel connected – even when you are miles apart.
Book a holiday for a year’s time
Reward yourself for your big move by booking a holiday.
Depending on your budget, decide on the destination and then book somewhere special – either in your home country or somewhere new in your new country. It’ll give you something to look forward to, and when you go, it’ll give you a chance to reflect on all you have achieved in the first year away from home.
Make a scrapbook
This works well, especially if you have children who are moving with you. Get them excited about their new home by showing them pictures and videos of where they’ll be. Print pictures of places you’ll visit or your rental house. If you have information on their schools, print that out and add it to their keepsake.
Getting your children involved in your move will give them a sense of importance and will increase their excitement. Creating something they can keep will also serve as a lovely reminder of this period in their life.
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This weekend we saw three people get arrested. Two of them were Black. Out of the three people, the white man getting arrested was clearly treated more humane then the Black man and woman.
I have a lot of feelings around this but as we were discussing it with the kids and as I was processing through seeing these arrests, I realized we needed to talk this through as a family. I told the kids how I didn’t like that we saw more Black people getting arrested and how this doesn’t mean Black people are bad, it just means society doesn’t always give them the same choices I was given growing up.
It’s all those little choices that cause someone to have to make a choice that could get them arrested. Those choices could include not providing mental health services, providing shitty education to youth, or showing kids they don’t matter because their bedroom walls are duck tapped together and not fixed properly.
It’s those choices that make a zip code of people that others want to distance because of the decisions. But the decisions were due to the limited choices that so many in my zip code are given.
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An invaluable account of the first of the 19th century ‘Opium Wars’ between Britain and China for control of the debilitating and dangerous but highly profitable drugs trade. The author, an Indian Army officer of the Madras Engineers, witnessed many of the events he describes. The action moves from Hong Kong, to Canton, Shanghai and finally Nanking, where the outgunned Chinese are compelled to sign a treaty ending the conflict. The author is critical of the ‘ignorance’ and ‘cruelty’ of the Chinese character, but praises their courage and cultural artefacts – such as the Great Wall and Nanking’s Porcelain Tower. In his account of the Chinese astonishment at such western technology as steam-ships and horse-drawn guns he reflects the reality of a vast but backward civilisation encountering the fruits of the industrial revolution it would one day enthusiastically emulate. Well-illustrated with 53 engravings from original drawings by the author, and six maps.
CHINESE WAR, AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE OPERATIONS OF THE BRITISH FORCES (CHINA 1842)
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The Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last Saturday was most likely brought down by an explosion, a source close to the investigation told Reuters. Speaking with CNN, one U.S. official voiced a far more specific conclusion, telling the network that U.S. intelligence analysts now believe a bomb was planted on the airplane by militants from the so-called Islamic State.
“There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane,” the official told CNN.
The source who spoke with Reuters was more cautious in his analysis.
“It is believed to be an explosion but what kind is not clear. There is an examination of the sand at the crash site to try and determine if it was a bomb,” the source told the wire service. “There are two versions now under consideration: something stowed inside (the plane) and a technical fault. But the airplane could not just break apart in the air - there should be some action. A rocket is unlikely as there are no signs of that.”
Governments in the U.K. and Ireland are treating the possibility of foul play seriously and have canceled all flights from their nations’ airports to the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
“We can not categorically say why the Russia jet crashed but we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down as a result of an explosive device,” Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told the BBC.
ISIS claimed responsibility for downing the airliner shortly after news of the crash first broke, but Egyptian authorities dismissed those claims as mere propaganda.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, Lititz is a Borough that is located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at 40.16 degrees North and 76.31 degrees West.
The borough's time zone is America/New York, and the borough's primary telephone area code is 717.
The land area of Lititz is about 2.32 square miles, whereas the water area of the borough is about 0.00 square miles.
Lancaster County's land area is about 944 square miles, so the borough occupies about 0.2 percent of the county's total land area.
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The Census Bureau estimates that Lititz had about 9,465 residents in 2019, which is approximately 4,080 people per square mile of land area.
According to recent American Community Survey data, the median household income in Lititz was about $64,343 per year.
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A major company at the centre of controversies over facial recognition technology in the US and UK is working closely with the Government.
Tokyo-based NEC, which has resisted a Black Lives Matter-inspired ban in America, is updating passport systems here using its powerful NeoFace system.
NEC gets to run the system for 10 years till 2029, under a contract worth at least $4m with the Department of Internal Affairs, that is mentioned briefly in a parliamentary report.
NeoFace will be used from next January.
"It will be used to check photos against our database and help investigate potential fraud," the department said in a statement.
NeoFace is controversial for its other major use globally - identifying up to 1000 "persons of interest" per minute in real-time feeds from CCTV cameras.
In the UK this month, an appeals court ruled the use by police in Wales of NeoFace was unlawful and a violation of human rights.
NEC itself is on the wrong side of a pushback against facial recognition in the US.
There, tech giants Amazon, IBM and Microsoft in June called a halt to supplying the tech to US police in a moratorium over brutality against blacks.
But NEC, like some other major suppliers, has not followed suit.
"We are committed to developing technologies that help support efforts to end racial injustice in our society," NEC said in a statement.
The three that called a halt are relatively small players in facial recognition and a Washington Post tech columnist said the "publicity stunt" would make little difference, especially since the companies would still sell to other users.
'Particularly close' to NZ police
In New Zealand, NEC said it had a "particularly close relationship" with police.
This included supplying finger and palm print biometrics, though facial recognition was not mentioned in NEC's PR material.
It has been reported police here are using US company Dataworks Plus to replace their old facial recognition system.
Police got into trouble in May for trialling facial recognition from highly controversial firm Clearview AI without proper authorisation.
When RNZ asked for more information about NEC or NeoFace, police treated the questions as an Official Information Act request, which takes at least five weeks to answer.
NEC told RNZ none of its facial recognition technology in New Zealand was being used for "any form of surveillance" of individuals.
Its facial recognition algorithms were "embedded " in the Immigration Department, it said in PR material.
It promotes the tech as a way of fostering public safety and security, for instance, for air travellers.
However, the company has been criticised in the UK for being less than transparent about how these all-important algorithms "learn" who to raise the alarm about.
NEC said its products were highly accurate, and it went to "great lengths to ensure our facial recognition algorithms are accurate across racial and other demographic groups".
'Solely' for issuing passports
For the passport processing work here, NEC is partnered with US multinational DXC Technology, which won the contract.
The pair are strongly pushing biometrics online, including promoting how NeoFace can be integrated into lots of surveillance systems at once and use just about any camera technology.
"The opportunity to combine NEC's expertise in biometrics solutions, in particular, facial recognition technology, with DXC Technology's experience in delivering digital transformations through modern, integrated IT systems means our partnership will go from strength to strength," NEC said in its PR material.
It was common for facial recognition tech bought for one reason to "creep" into other areas, Dr Jathan Sadowski of Monash University, Melbourne, said.
"We see a lot of agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, taking something they said was only going to be used for something like passport control... and it's by design to not use them for only one reason," Sadowski said.
Internal Affairs said NeoFace replaced outdated facial recognition technology.
"It relates solely to securely issuing passports rather than their subsequent use."
RNZ asked the department how widely the data NeoFace collects will be shared, how it will be stored and what safeguards around its misuse there are, and awaits a response.
The Privacy Commissioner commonly assesses the impacts of such technology.
Airports are the biggest user of facial recognition technologies globally, and police second.
Sadowski advocates facial recognition's outright ban and calls the suite of surveillance technologies an "urban war machine".
But NEC in PR material defends them, and said many of its "solutions are the best in their class in the world", referring to high scores in independent tests by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In some trials, however, such as by the London Metropolitan police, Neoface returned high fail rates.
The pushback includes some US city councils - San Francisco and Boston among them - banning facial recognition that other councils use en masse to monitor public places.
Boston's ban followed an MIT study that found for darker-skinned women, facial analysis programmes were wrong about a third of the time.
Black Lives Matter campaigners are counting as a win the moratorium called by Microsoft, Amazon and IBM.
Microsoft called a halt "until we have a national law in place, grounded in human rights, that will govern this technology".
Amazon put a one-year moratorium in place on supplying facial recognition to US police.
"It's certainly a win," said Sadowski, but added only a ban would deal with the fact that regulation was too slow to rein technology in.
In the UK court case against South Wales Police, the appeals court this month found the police did an "obviously inadequate" assessment of whether there might be indirect discrimination over sex or race.
NEC has 1000 facial recognition systems in use in 70-plus countries - it was "blazing a trail" with new uses such as for "mega-event surveillance" in Japan, it said.
"We believe that public sector agencies should be able to use advanced facial recognition and other innovative technologies to help correct inherent biases, protect privacy and civil liberties, and fairly and effectively conduct investigations," it said in its statement to RNZ.
NEC declined a taped interview.
It is developing biometric software for frequent flyers with the Star Alliance, which includes Air New Zealand.
NEC counts DXC as one of its top-five partners.
DXC, which was once part of Hewlett Packard, in turn is a close partner of German payroll provider SAP, which has rolled out many government payroll systems in New Zealand.
Industry observers consider SAP is well placed with the government attempting to centralise payroll system processes.
As well as biometrics with NEC, DXC also implements what SAP calls its "Citizen Engagement Accelerator" that is promoted to the public sector and councils.
One key benefit is listed as: "Increase chance of re-election through higher citizen satisfaction levels."
Christchurch city had implemented this technology, DXC said.
DXC did more than $140m of business in New Zealand last year.
Another of NEC's top five partners is California company Juniper Networks that is under pressure over an investigation into an alleged backdoor into its encryption, and the security implications for users.
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The 16th floor of a building in New York City’s Garment District is where I find Dan Snyder, founder and designer of his burgeoning clothing company, Corridor. We’re in their production factory — a workspace they share with brands like Rag & Bone and Ball and Buck — and space is tight. Huge, cluttered sewing tables occupy most of the floor space, garments hang everywhere from high racks and guarding the aisles are bins of rolled-up textiles. As Snyder leads me to a cutting table in the back, the middle-aged women don’t look up from their sewing machines. There, he pulls out a few rolls of the Italian linens that’ll be used in Corridor’s next line, and tells me to touch them. Soft and patterned intricately with madras, checkers and colorful stripes, these high-quality fabrics are a point of pride and differentiation for Corridor. Ask Snyder, and he’ll say that Corridor is just as committed to making their clothes in New York as well.
“This made-in-New-York thing is really important to me,” says Snyder. “But it’s also important for me to be in New York and be part of the process.” At two years old, Corridor is essentially a startup. His company consists of about 10 employees, seven of whom are sewers, which forces Snyder to be very hands-on in every aspect of the business. In New York he’s able to meet fabric agents, attend fabric shows and purchase small-milled textiles from Italy, other parts of Europe and Japan. It’s an immersive process for Snyder, but it’s one that he’s grown accustomed to.
“People don’t realize that it’s expensive to make good clothing. They look at something from Uniqlo or from Gap, and there’s a reason why it’s so cheap.”
Before starting Corridor in 2013, Snyder had no fashion experience. Right after getting his Masters in International Relations from Tufts University, he had a three-year stint working for the FBI as a contractor. He then briefly worked for the NYPD in their Counterterrorism Division. But his heart was in fashion. While in D.C., Snyder befriended a tailor who in turn inspired him to borrow his aunt’s 1970s Kenmore sewing machine and start taking classes with a bunch of “old Korean ladies”. Soon he was tailoring his own clothes, his friends’ clothes and eventually he started selling original work in pop-up shops. He quit his job and began traveling between Washington D.C. (where his family lived), Boston (where he lived) and New York (where he bought fabrics and sold clothes). He called the space between the three cities his “corridor”, which became the name of his brand.
Coming into the business, Snyder admits, he was a fashion outsider. He never went to fashion school, and the past two years have taught him a lot about the industry — especially when it comes to cost. “People don’t realize that it’s expensive to make good clothing,” he says. “They look at something from Uniqlo or from Gap, and there’s a reason why it’s so cheap.” Most of Corridor shirts run north of $200, a result of buying the best fabrics and constructing each shirt in New York. Asked if he thinks their shirts are overpriced, Snyder replies, “Not at all.”
The central reason behind each shirt’s steep price is the fabric he uses. Snyder buys his textiles from fabric agents in New York who source their materials from mills in Italy and Japan. When choosing a textile, Snyder says he stays away from poplins and flat materials that don’t have any frequency. “I want materials that have texture and idiosyncratic elements.” Corridor’s past lines were made with Japanese cottons, indigos and Italian linens. “We make clothing that’s accessible and interesting, but not heavy handed,” he says. The look of each shirt is also unique. Corridor has a mid-Atlantic, preppy style, with many of their shirts adopting vibrant floral, nautical and checkered patterns. When asked what inspires him, the first thing Snyder says: New York City. “In New York, fashion is everywhere.”
But it’s not just about New York. Snyder is a self-professed cinephile who is also influenced by films like The Talented Mr. Ripley. “I think mid-century styles are fucking great.” He talks about clothes from that time period as being classic, interesting and not afraid of colors. Just to give you an idea, Corridor’s spring/summer 2016 line, which Snyder is currently designing, will have an Italian resort theme.
Try on a shirt and you’ll quickly realize that Corridor button-downs are just as much about fit as they are style. “When I talk about Corridor,” says Snyder, “I talk about these three elements: fit, quality and character.” All of Corridor’s shirts are made with a very specific ’50s-style fit. They have a tapered waist, so the shirts will never billow out, and are designed with Corridor’s exclusive three-panel fit. This signature fit is built with three concave panels on the back of each shirt. Along with being comfortable (shoulder and arm movements don’t feel constricted), the three-panel fit provides a more structured fit for men with broad chests and shoulders.
“The shirt is how you present yourself to the world. When you walk down the street, you see someone’s face and their shirt. A shirt represents you without saying anything, and I think that’s compelling.”
Corridor’s collection also includes pants, ties and, soon, jackets — but don’t expect them to branch out much further. Snyder is simply more interested in unstructured suiting and shirting. When asked why, he laughs before answering: “The shirt is how you present yourself to the world. When you walk down the street, you see someone’s face and their shirt. A shirt represents you without saying anything, and I think that’s compelling.”
In the past two years, Corridor has grown from being sold in three boutiques to 45 all over the globe. This season they will make about 2,500 total garments. Now Snyder is hoping to open his first store this September in New York’s East Village neighborhood. It’s a major leap for a company that’s grown organically in pop-up shops, boutiques and from e-commerce. But Snyder, who currently stores most of Corridor’s clothes in his six floor walk-up apartment, simply needs more space.
At the end of my visit, Snyder navigates me back through the factory’s labyrinth, between sewing tables and under hanging racks of cloth. The juxtaposition of the unglamorous factory floor with the beautiful, colorful shirts is stark and simple. There’s no elaborate branding or larger-than-life origin story. The novelty, if there is any, is in the transparency of the whole operation. “I’ve just worked really hard,” Snyder says. “There aren’t any gimmicks or corners cut. We just really have a good product, and people have taken to it.” | <urn:uuid:fc6a8dad-5f73-4b4f-90b0-b3fdd477aeda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gearpatrol.com/style/a136930/corridor-nyc-factory-tour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970023 | 1,610 | 1.828125 | 2 |
As the film Leonardo is released, Alexander Hope examines the artist
May 2, 2019, marked the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. Over the centuries, any number of critics have lauded him as the greatest of all artists. Leonardo himself would probably not have demurred.
Nor, one suspects, would those behind the 2017 acquisition of the Salvator Mundi – at £345 million, by some margin the highest price publicly paid for a work of art. And that despite the acknowledged complexities of its condition and the fact that there are vocal opponents of its attribution to Leonardo.
In the face of the latest doubts, the Louvre’s public reaffirmation of its request for the painting in its forthcoming Leonardo exhibition seems to undermine those detractors’ professed status as authorities on the artist.
There is a tradition of tenuous expertise questioning major artistic discoveries, particularly when involving huge prices: consider the wearying criticisms of Rubens’s Samson and Delilah in the National Gallery, London. Pecunia olet, it seems.
There is, of course, no greatest artist, and no greatest work of art. But it would be hard to dispute that Leonardo ranks among the greatest (and I would personally guess that the Mona Lisa is – certainly not the same thing – the most famous work of art in the world today). And what is particularly remarkable about his reputation is – an exquisite rarity in the richly fractious world of criticism – it has never been besmirched.
King François I of France, in whose arms Leonardo is apocryphally supposed to have died, said that nobody had been born who knew as much as Leonardo; not only in the arts, but also in philosophy. Vasari wrote, ‘Sometimes, in supernatural fashion, beauty, grace and talent are united beyond measure in one single person. Truly marvellous and celestial was Leonardo.’
Ernst Gombrich wrote, ‘There appeared no field of knowledge to which he had not made a contribution: anatomy, physiology, mechanics, hydraulics, botany and optics were all transformed by his magic touch. No wonder he was hailed as a genius who had transcended all the limitations to which human nature is prone.’
But there was one limitation that Leonardo never transcended: unreliability. Such was the range of his interests that his extraordinary mind seemed ever distracted by the next. Much was planned; little completed. Among contemporaries, he was notorious for it.
Vasari continued, ‘It is clear that Leonardo… began many things and never finished one of them, since it seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined; for the reason that he conceived in idea difficulties so subtle and so marvellous that they could never be expressed by the hands, be they ever so excellent.’
Much as today the boundaries between fine and applied art are blurred, so Renaissance artists were responsible for a range of activities far broader than painting and sculpture: architecture, armaments, design, pageantry, engineering and more. Leonardo’s own application to work for Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, focuses on his potential for Milan’s military might. It only mentions his artistic abilities as an apparent afterthought.Furthermore, court artists – as Leonardo was for a long time – were required to enhance the activities of the prince’s household. Leonardo was such an ornament (not just metaphorically: the early sources record his physical beauty and refinement, and the only known image of him supports them). His contribution to the courts of Milan and France, in manners, appearance and conversation, were celebrated.
It is unsurprising that much of his time was diverted from painting. But he wasn’t the only artist so engaged; and most of them produced more than the mere score or so known paintings by Leonardo. And none of them diverted so much of their energy into a maddeningly, extraordinarily vast corpus of notes, musings and sketchings that even today constitute roughly 6,000 pages.
Even the works that he did paint can be problematic: some unfinished, some (like the Salvator Mundi) in sad condition. The Last Supper is one such. It was hard enough to get him to finish it, and, when he did, disaster struck. Striving for new artistic subtleties, Leonardo decided to paint in glazes onto dry – rather than apply pigment into still-wet – plaster. Sadly, but not wholly surprisingly, the result was inherently unstable. With the damp Milanese winters, his paint has been flaking off ever since, leaving merely the ghost of his work, corrupted throughout by successive restorations.
Although Leonardo is frustrating, it would take an impossible obtuseness to deny his genius; and a similar wilfulness to deny his vexatiousness. His talent, however flawed, was, simply, astonishing: at its worst, agonising in lost potential; at its best, ineffable in quality.
There is, paradoxically, much to admire in his flaws. Vasari was perceptive in attributing his unreliability not to lack of focus, but the opposite. To read through Leonardo’s writings is to sense a genius capable of monomaniacal enquiry: optics, fluid dynamics, geology, anatomy… The list continues. There are flights of fancy, and moments of frustration and error, but the intensity and depth are extraordinary, even if the practical results are extremely limited.
But that knowledge hobbled him. Painting is, ultimately, a representational shorthand; Leonardo wanted – needed – to paint in longhand. But that is humanly impossible, an unsurmountable barrier before which, one suspects, he repeatedly ended up defeated, abandoning his pictures or projects either at inception or part-way through.
Leonardo is often perceived as the Renaissance Man, his Vitruvian Man a leitmotif of the universality of humanity. But he was self-taught, with an uncertain grasp of Latin, and with comparatively little interest in the lettered culture of antiquity – his knowledge was not the Renaissance ideal. His scientific works drew more on the scholastics than contemporary humanists, and his belief that knowledge could reveal to its master the fabric of existence reflects that.
Artistically, he was certainly a Renaissance man: the product of the extraordinary concatenation of some four centuries of philosophical, literary and scientific debate, infused by medieval courtly culture and a burgeoning nationalism that, loosely, is the Italian Renaissance. But he was very much a pioneer as well.
Over the course of his life, he developed an artistic vocabulary that, although dauntingly complex, nonetheless engendered a compositional vigour and expressional sublimity in art. Perhaps, his influence was most successful at a remove; emulators found his skill inimitable. The sublime quality of his finest work – the tonal subtleties, diaphanous flesh, evanescent expression and absorbing compositions – exposes the limitations of even his ablest pupils, the proximity of whose artistic vocabulary is too close to bear the comparison comfortably.
In the work of an artist beyond Leonardo’s immediate orbit, that influence is more nuanced – gentler. So, with Raphael, it doesn’t overpower him, but instead lifts him higher, imbuing the stately grace of his early style with the compositional life and psychological sensitivity evident in Raphael’s Alba Madonna.
This, then, was a prodigious talent, but flawed; as in a Greek tragedy, Leonardo’s hamartia was his extraordinary mind. Driving the relentless search for perfection that so enriched his natural talent, it raised for itself impossible standards that harried him to his own failures. He may not have been a Renaissance Man, but he is, perhaps, an artistic paragon of a deeper, more universal humanitas.
Alexander Hope was an Old Masters specialist and director at Christie’s
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing, the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, May 24 to October 13, 2019
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XpBonaire IslandLife Feature Story
We are expecting a new law in 2021, regarding sunscreen products containing chemicals such as oxybenzone that will be banned on Bonaire. It has been proven that oxybenzone, among several others, harms living coral and excess amounts in the ocean leads to coral bleaching and the death of our reefs.
Sun protection is very important for skin health and it is the number one anti-aging aid. Since the health of our reefs concerns the whole world and the pollution of our oceans is manmade, more and more companies now understand the need for more variety in coral safe sun products. Even though some products are called coral safe, reef friendly, etc., it doesn’t mean they are or that they might contain other harmful ingredients.
On Bonaire the company, Tropical Nature, offers an alternative that considers both, our environment and your skin health, with 100% natural skin care products, MADE ON BONAIRE.
Made on Bonaire
Dorian Crespo, the founder and owner of the Bonairean Company, Tropical Nature, was born in Ecuador, like her husband, Francisco, who first came to Bonaire in 2008.
Dorian studied to be a beautician in Ecuador and discovered for herself that all natural skin care is the better choice. When the couple became permanent residents of Bonaire and parents to their long awaited children, the business idea became reality.
Dorian’s love for the island and her children eventually developed into a skin care and sun protection product that wouldn’t harm the environment, nor her children’s health. After many experiments, she finally developed the perfect recipes for her skin care line.
The 100% natural, and even vegan options contain sun care, a shampoo bar, deodorant, lip balm and more.
Dorian also paid attention to the packaging of these products to be both biodegradable and sustainable.
With her company, Dorian has started an awareness campaign to inform and educate visitors, guests and residents alike why sun cream can protect our skin without damaging our environment and how the products currently being used are a threat to our reefs.
The sun protection products consist of a SPF 40 sun cream and a SPF 15 lip balm including a vegan option without beeswax. The active ingredients are non-nano zinc and titanium, which Tropical Nature reports was approved by STINAPA.
The sun products also contain natural oils to moisturize and hydrate your skin and have no added fragrances.
What you need to know
SPF 40 is the highest natural protection factor.
Sun protection needs to be re-applied every 2 hours, no matter the product or the SPF.
Spray is more harmful to the environment.
Chemicals are not only harmful to coral, but might also harm your own health.
New products to come
You will find the complete line of Tropical Nature among the other sunscreens in the DA Drugstore and at Warehouse, Van den Tweel and in some dive shops.
Dorian is busy developing more products for the future even including some beauty products. Follow Tropical Nature on Facebook.
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The crucible is a play about the American Revolution by British writer and poet William Shakespeare. The play revolves around John Adams, who leads an opposition movement in Massachusetts against King George III’s rule of the colonies. In Act 5, scene 2, Gabriel Oak enters to tell Adams that he has new orders from General Gage: “You know what they are now?”
The “the crucible act 1” is a play written by Arthur Miller in the late 1950s. It was first published on November 16, 1959.
22nd of January, 1953
With this in mind, where did the Crucible appear?
The Crucible (1953), based on the Salem witch trials of 1692–93, was written by Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright..
Why was the Crucible written in the first place? The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright. primarily to safeguard his career. He may have been put on the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities’ blacklist as a writer.
In this case, who was the first to publish The Crucible?
Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.
Is the Crucible based on true events?
The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright. is not historically accurate due to the change of characters such as ages, jobs, and events. This is done to make the play more interesting and to keep the audience engaged.
Answers to Related Questions
What was Miller’s intention when he wrote The Crucible?
Writer, Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright., in his play, The Crucible, recounts the struggles of a town obsessed with uncovering “witches”. Miller’s purpose is to detail the flawed processes often used to determined one’s guiltiness as a witch, as well as to provide a fictional description of the witch trials.
In the crucible, who is hanged?
At the end of Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.’s “The Crucible,” protagonist John Proctor was hanged as a witch. Also hanged with him were Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey and five others.
Why did Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright. call it the crucible?
The term Crucible is a metaphor used by Miller. Miller was a liberal who was suspected of being a communist due to his leftist beliefs. He was enraged, and it reminded him of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. He chose to write ‘The Crucible’ in order to demonstrate the folly of anti-communist hysteria.
What are the similarities and differences between the Crucible and the Salem Witch Trials?
“The Crucible” was written at a period when Communism was gaining ground and many individuals were being suspected of being Communist spies, just as many people in Salem were accused of witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trial was a court case held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.
What causes Proctor’s death?
hanging as a method of execution
Is Proctor going to die?
19th of August, 1692
When did the witch trials in Salem begin?
In The Crucible, how old is John Proctor?
Proctor is shown as being in his forties, while Abigail Williams is seventeen, but the actual John Proctor and Abigail Williams were about sixty and eleven or twelve years old at the time of the witch trials, respectively.
How long did it take to write The Crucible?
It took me roughly a year to write “The Crucible.” With five sets and a cast of twenty-one, it never seemed to me that producing it on Broadway would require a bold guy, particularly given the current atmosphere, yet Kermit Bloomgarden never faltered.
What occurred in Salem during the witch trials?
Between 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials took place in colonial Massachusetts. Over 200 persons were accused of practicing witchcraft (the Devil’s sorcery), with 20 of them being killed. Despite the fact that the Salem trials began just as the European enthusiasm was dying down, local factors explain their occurrence.
What was the duration of the Salem witch trials?
a year roughly
What happened to Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.?
A Playwright’s Death
On February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of Death of a Salesman’s Broadway debut, Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, surrounded by Barley, family and friends. He was 89 years old. In March 2018, HBO aired the documentary Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.: Writer.
Was The Crucible nominated for any awards?
Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actress wins the Critics’ Choice Movie Award.
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Coronavirus has stopped both the medical and economic worlds in their tracks. If last week’s preliminary data flashes are anything to go by, the global economy is en route to a recession that will surpass 2008 both in speed and in magnitude.
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) estimated last week that the shutdowns could lead to “a decline in the level of output between one fifth to one quarter in many economies”.
The longer term impact of course will be determined by the duration of the lockdowns and how businesses navigate these times.
No surprise then that we are seeing advanced economies unveil sizeable packages seeking to subsidise workers’ incomes, and provide tax relief and loans to affected businesses. The CARES package unveiled by the United States last week alone amounted to nine per cent of GDP, twice as big as the stimulus unveiled during the global financial crisis.
Citi economist Dana Peterson’s research estimates that in order for fiscal policy actions to have a significant effect in mitigating Covid-19 related shutdowns, the actions would need to be equivalent to five per cent of GDP or more. So far, most countries in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region are meeting that threshold.
But what about emerging markets? The risk here is twofold: first is one of a country’s healthcare ability and the second is the financial capability to deal with economic shocks of this magnitude.
An OECD study from 2018 showed that for every 1,000 inhabitants, South Korea has 12.3 hospital beds available. The equivalent number in India is 0.5 — a worryingly low ratio for a country that boasts a population of over 1.3bn people. As India has just started to see its number of Covid-19 cases rise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the unprecedented step last week of declaring a nationwide lockdown of the world’s fifth largest economy for 21 days — a measure that Modi deemed vital to protect the nation.
The medical challenge is thus huge, but so is the economic challenge. Teneo Intelligence screened emerging markets on various metrics including crisis management ability as well as monetary and fiscal policy space. Three countries stood out as high risk: Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey — all countries with limited financial firepower with the latter two having a relatively high hospitality exposure.
There is reason for optimism though. Citi’s David Lubin points out that many emerging markets today are much more resilient to capital flow shocks than they were in 2013 with the “median current account deficit unfunded by foreign direct investment at 0.5 per cent of GDP last year from two per cent in 2013.”
Leverage has also fallen across emerging markets and while external debt has risen, vulnerabilities arise only for idiosyncratic cases such as highly-indebted Argentina and foreign exchange unhedged Turkey.
The International Monetary Fund is keeping a close eye, last week calling for a doubling of its $1 trillion war chest of financing capacity to help deploy more funds toward emerging market economies.
Unfortunately, its plea has gone unheeded. If things get worse for emerging markets in the next few months, that might have to change.
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- Apple has its own environment and it could be difficult to see your Apple photos on Windows.
- You can install a powerful Apple photo viewer for Windows like Adobe Lightroom.
- Another method of how to open Apple photos on Windows is to create an Apple ID on your PC.
- You can also open the photos library on Windows using a dedicated tool.
Apple is notorious for locking down its products and services from outside access.
In the case that you’re a Windows user, you need only install a driver to allow access to your iCloud account from a PC in order to view your Apple photos on a Windows PC.
Photos are not the only thing you can download from iCloud: you also access emails, contacts, calendars, and reminders.
First of all, you need to create an iCloud account. Here are three easy methods to do that.
How do I view my Apple photos on my Windows PC?
1. Use Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom offers cross-platform functionality so you have access to all your photos regardless of the platform you use. Easily edit, manage and share photos with just a few taps or clicks.
This powerful software allows you to search, your library, do on-the-fly edits and it supports an impressive amount of cameras and mobile devices so you can edit your RAW files with ease.
Take advantage of all of these features for free with the Lightroom app for mobile, PC, and Mac.
Adobe Lightroom is a great cross-platform software that can view and edit most image formats.
2. Create an Apple ID using your Windows 10 computer
- Go to Apple’s official page to create your account.
- You will be directed to the personal information table (Enter an email that you want to be attached to the Apple account for recovery).
- Choose a strong password.
- Enter your personal information.
- Select and answer three security questions (Pay attention because these questions will be used for the account recovery process).
- Select your country.
- Check/uncheck if you want any notifications from Apple.
- Enter the captcha code and click on the Continue button.
- You will receive a mail with an activation code that you have to enter in the dialog box displayed on the Apple website to finish your account activation.
- Check if your account has been activated.
Open your browser and go to the Apple ID website. An Apple ID and the iCloud Account are pretty much the same things because through the Apple ID you have access to the iCloud storage.
3. Create an Apple ID using an iOS device
- Go to Settings. You can use this feature to sync your files from the device to your iCloud account.
- Tap on iCloud to open the iCloud menu on your iOS device.
- If an account is already signed in, you have to sign out to create a new one.
- After you signed out tap on the Get a Free Apple ID button to start the account creation process.
- Enter your birthday. This will determine what kind of content you can access.
- Enter your real name. The Account information must comply with billing information.
- Enter your e-mail address (Make sure that you still have access to that address because you will receive an activation mail, and if your iCloud account is compromised, you can recover it using this e-mail address).
- Enter a password (Choose a strong one and use a combination of letters and numbers. Remember that the iCloud account contains a lot of your personal information).
- Choose and answer 3 security questions (You will have to answer the same questions every time you want to change the account settings).
- Add a rescue e-mail address (Even if it is an optional feature, we strongly recommend you to do that because it increases the security level of your account).
- Finish the account configuration by accepting the Apple terms and conditions. After accepting, you will be logged in with your new ID.
iOS devices have a preset feature in the Settings app for activating the iCloud account.
4. Using an OS X device
- Click on the Apple menu button from the upper-left corner of your screen.
- Select System Preferences.
- This will open a window with different programs and applications installed on your device. Select the iCloud icon to open the iCloud settings menu.
- It will open a dialog box where you can sign in to your account, if you already have one, or create a new account. In this case, you must click on the Create new Apple ID.
- You have to fill out a form with your personal information (active e-mail, strong password and security questions). Make sure that you will remember all the information because with their help you can to recover your account if it gets compromised.
- Apple will send you a mail with an activation code.
- After you enter the code, you will have access to your iCloud account.
Depending on what kind of information you want to access from iCloud, you need to use different software packages.
For example, for mail, contacts, calendars, and reminders you will need any version of Outlook from 2007 until now.
For bookmarks, you will need Safari 5.1.7 or later, Google Chrome 28 or later, Firefox 22 or later or Internet Explorer 10 or later. And for documents, you will need to install iCloud Drive.
5. Set up iCloud for Windows 10
- Download iCloud for Windows from Apple. The installation process should start automatically. Otherwise, you need to go to File Explorer and manually open the iCloud Setup.
- After installation, restart your computer to let iCloud finish the configuration.
- Make sure that iCloud is running when you open your PC. Otherwise, you’ll need to go to the Start menu and search for iCloud.
- Double-click iCloud to open it.
- Enter your Apple ID to access your iCloud Account.
- Choose what kind of content you want to have synchronized with your iCloud account.
- Click on the Apply button to finish the configuration.
6. Download your photos to your PC
When you turn on the Photos feature, iCloud will automatically create a folder called iCloud Photos.
All the pictures or videos you add to the iCloud folder from your PC can be viewed on any Apple device connected to your account.
You can also access those files from iCloud.com. Through the iCloud Photo Sharing feature, you can share pictures and videos of your most important moments with friends.
Other useful information
Manage your iCloud storage space
iCloud is a free service that offers users 5GB of cloud space to store their data. For most of us, this space is often insufficient and because of this, Apple provides us with the opportunity to upgrade the storage space.
Depending on our needs and budget, you can increase the capacity of the cloud up to 2TB. You can find a price list right on Apple’s website. This upgrade is not permanent and comes with a monthly subscription.
Upgrade iCloud for Windows
All you have to do is open the Apple Software Update on your PC and it will notify you when updates are available. To receive update notifications, you need to configure the Apple Software Update.
From the software’s interface, click on the Edit button and go to Preferences. From that menu, you can choose how often you would like to check for updates (daily, weekly, monthly, or never).
Turn off or uninstall iCloud for Windows
- Type control in the search tab and click on Control Panel from the results.
- Select Programs and Features.
- You will see a list of all the installed programs on your computer.
- Click on iCloud and select Uninstall.
- Click OK to begin the uninstalling process.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can easily view photos from your iCloud on your Windows PC by downloading the iCloud for Windows app and signing in with your Apple ID.
There are several ways to do this, as shown in our guide, but using a third-party app like Adobe Lightroom, you will be able to manage and access your photos regardless of which platform you’re using.
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If you happen to need help writing an essay on a guide, a literary analysis essay, fear not! Literary essays are more than E-book Stories Mark Two. They’re important preparation for college coursework. The more you be taught earlier than faculty or work rolls around, the better prepared you’ll be for the problem. Embrace rigor, learn deeply and engage your creativeness with the textual content.
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Old Testament: Hos 2.16–20
To read the Bible in a year, read Hosea 1–4 on December 9, In the year of our Lord Christ 2020
By Don Ruhl
The Book of Hosea relates the sad story of Israel’s rejection of the Lord their God, and then His rejection of them. However, the Lord continued to love Israel, and He promised:
“And it shall be, in that day,”
Says the LORD,
“That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’
And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’
For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,
And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
In that day I will make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
With the birds of the air,
And with the creeping things of the ground.
Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,
To make them lie down safely.
I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy;
I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And you shall know the LORD.”
– Hosea 2.16–20
When you read the Scriptures from beginning to end, you find that the love of God never ends. His people sin against Him repeatedly, and He punishes them repeatedly, but He also shows His willingness to accept them again repeatedly.
It happens with the world also. The world has been sinning since the Garden of Eden, but thousands of years later, Jesus spoke the words of the Golden Text of the Bible, John 3.16, that God loves the world and gave His Son to win the world back.
- Have you gone back to the Lord?
- Do you strive to love God as He loves you?
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Andrea Padayachee Story
|1 November 2016|
Andrea was 9 years old and in gr 4 when she first got sick in July 2014.
It all started with a nosebleed from her right nostril at school. She was taken to a gp who plugged her nose. Thereafter we took her to an ENT who assessed her and again plugged her nose. The next morning the left nostril started to bleed so we rushed her to hospital; she was examined, blood tests were done and everything came back normal and we were asked to come back in a week for a check up. We took her back in a week and again she was given the all clear.
Soon after this she began to complain of severe headaches and constant neck pain. We took her to 2 different gps and she was treated with antibiotics. By the beginning of September 2014 she was not getting better so the gp told us to take her back to the ENT. He ordered a CT scan which showed a growth in her nasal cavity which he said he could operate and remove. A few days later he called us into hospital to do a MRI to determine the extent of the tumor. He was still convinced that he could operate and remove it; but after consulting with other colleages he told us he needed to perform a biopsy.
A few days later he called us in and gave us the devasting news that Andrea had a very rare cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma. He referred us to the Durban Oncology Centre the very next day where it was explained to us that Andrea would need Chemotherapy and radiation because her tumor is inoperable because it is in a very sensitive area.
We were told that. she needed to see an paediatric oncologist. Instead of hospitalising her immediately and starting her on some treatment the doctor at Durban Oncology was waiting for paperwork to be approved for the treatment plan.
While at home we noticed Andrea could not focus and her pains were becoming worse. We called them back and got a prescription for morphine patches. This relieved her pain but she became sleepy all the time. We noticed her eye drooping and called them back and was told it is the effect of the patch. A week later we got a call for an appointment with the paediatric oncologist who was upset to see Andrea in such a condition and yet she was not hospitalized.
At this time she examined Andrea and told us that Andrea had lost her vision in the eye that was drooping. She explained everything in detail to us regarding Andrea's condition and the severity of it. This is when reality struck and we were in shock. She immediately admitted Andrea into Capital hospital and began testing and treatment. Andrea was given a 20 percent chance of survival!
An ophthalmologist was called in to assess her eyes and at that point he said her eyes seemed fine but after seeing the MRI told us that the tumor was pushing onto the optic nerves and therefore was effecting her eyesight. Andrea continued to have aggressive chemotherapy over the following months. Although we saw improvement in her condition. Our child was constantly in hospital and was always having infections even though we had her in total isolation. Andrea was becoming so sad and depressed because she was not allowed visitors and couldn't go anywhere, and the fact that she could barely see or read anything made her very upset.
In March 2015 our doctor decided that Andrea needed to start her radiation. We were sent back to Durban oncology and her 28 day cycle to her head and nasal cavity started. The side effects of radiation were worse than chemo. Her mouth was so sore that she had to be hospitalised and the radiation had to be stopped until she was ok. The radiation also took away the little sight that she had. After radiation she had too many sinus infections and had to be taking into theatre twice for a sinus drainage. Andrea had a very compromised immune system and therefore she could not attend school so a braille tutor came home twice weekly to assist her.
She is coping well with braille and enjoying it, but Andrea still yearns for her eyesight to return. As a result of Andrea needing constant care we had to make the decision to become a single income home so that 1 parent will be home to care for Andrea and take her for her appointments. This has put a lot of financial strain on us with many unpaid medical bills.
Andrea finished her chemo in December 2015 and now only goes in for check ups to her oncologist, ENT and opthamologist. We contacted Open Air School which is the only school in Durban which caters for visually impaired learners in January 2016 but were told that they were full and will consider admitting her later in the year. We waited patiently but did not receive any feedback so we called them back and were told that she will be seen on 18 October 2016 for an assessment. We took her in and were relieved when we were told that she will be admitted into the school for 2017.
Andrea has had a few infections this year but we are thankful that it was nothing major. Andrea's next scan is scheduled for January 2017, we pray that this scan will be clear.
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Considering the scrutiny that the current commercial fuel is getting because of it’s ill effects to the environment, it is likely that interest in nuclear propulsion at sea will increase again. Let us go through certain points to decide whether or not nuclear technology will be considered as a mainstream fuel option.
Necessity of Nuclear Technology in the Maritime Sector
In the current scenario of extreme fuel shortages, nuclear ships could be the answer to what to watch out for. At present, there are very few ships based on nuclear power for ship propulsion that have been used experimentally. The merchant cargo ship American Savannah (1962-1972) and the German NA Otto Hahn (1968-1972), both nuclear-powered icebreakers, were used for a short time. However, nuclear-dependent ship propulsion has been found in the armed forces and navy, and commercial and domestic nuclear ships are becoming increasingly common. There is speculation as to whether the use of ship propulsion systems based on nuclear energy is a key factor that makes it a good idea, no matter how you look at it.
How long can a nuclear powered ship stay at sea?
Two papers on commercial nuclear propulsion were published in 2014 by Lloyds Register and other members of the consortium concluded that the technology is feasible, but that further maturity of nuclear technology, development and harmonization of the regulatory framework are necessary before it is commercially viable. A small fast neutron reactor with lead-bismuth-eutectic cooling could be operated for ten years without refueling and would be in operation for the last 25 years of the ship’s operational life.
Why Nuclear Technology a good idea ?
- The design of the naval reactor uses boron as a combustible neutron poison, and the fuel alloy (15 percent zirconium, 85 percent uranium) is enriched to a level where 93 percent is combustible without poisoning. Its high enrichment enables a long nuclear life and offers sufficient responsiveness to overcome xenon poisoning, even if the reactor is already dead by that time. Axial direction doping ensures a longer core life, while radial doping ensures a more even distribution of power and fuel consumption.
- Nuclear reactors operate with high reliability and maintain a constant temperature, thus promoting access to thermal energy storage. Access to heat storage improves the operation of small nuclear reactors, which can be adapted for mobile operation for maritime propulsion. The on-board thermal fusion technology generates steam that drives the engines and provides ships with a range of several hundred miles.
Maritime routes & Nuclear Technology
- International trans-oceanic shipping, including the operation of nuclear reactors, would be limited to routes where the Navy could ensure the safety of ships against piracy. For security reasons, nuclear-powered merchant ships have been banned from sailing to the southern Red Sea region, leaving them vulnerable to attacks by pirates and other terrorist groups. International ocean-going vessels using heat storage would connect with large tugs to push and steer large barges.
- As larger vessels require more than 80 MW of main engines, ships with 345 MW of electric-powered nuclear reactors could operate, which they would provide. The nuclear-powered Trans-Pacific Merchant Ships would likely include a large number of large cargo ships, such as the U.S.N.C.L.E. and the United States Naval Shipbuilding Company (USNSC).
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George Fuller Green
George F. Green had two careers—one to build up Kansas City and one to help remember Kansas City’s past. His first vocation as an architect and builder led to his later avocation as the city’s first historian and archivist.
Green grew up in Kansas City and received an architecture degree from the University of Michigan. He went to work in 1912 as a draftsman for city architect Henry Hoit. Just one year later, he was assigned the position of assistant superintendent of buildings. He married his wife, Nina, in 1914 and the couple had four children—three daughters and one son.
As a practicing architect, Green was responsible for designs for the University Club at Ninth and Baltimore streets, the Fort Osage restoration project, and Trinity United Methodist Church at 620 E. Armour Boulevard. Green served on the Kansas City Board of Park Commissioners from 1955 until 1959 and was heavily involved in the installation of the William Volker Memorial fountain.
After retiring from the field of architecture, Green pursued the documentation of local history. At the age of 72, he was appointed as Kansas City’s first historian and curator of the city archives by Mayor H. Roe Bartle. Green worked enthusiastically at this position, often six days a week, for no pay. His interest in local history and a desire to record it led him to his office in City Hall, the only occupied office at the time on the 26th floor. He also served as president of the Native Sons of Kansas City and of the Kansas City Museum association.
Green’s book, A Condensed History of the Kansas City Area, was published in 1968. The book was dedicated to his son, Lieutenant John J. Green II, who died while serving in the Navy during World War II.
Green continued volunteering as city historian until shortly before his death at 83.
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Next, swapping our your sugars (especially added sugars) for healthy fats can be a big win. This is as simple as replacing that afternoon sweet tooth craving with your favorite nuts or avocado slices. Why do we do this? Sugar fuels disease, affects blood sugar and mood negatively, and is the culprit for so many aches and pains in our physical body. Omitting it is GREAT and replacing it with a whole food fat will add energy & protein to our routine.
Plan ahead to make sure that you are getting protein at every meal!
Intentionally reducing your stress levels will give your endocrine system support so that it's not over taxed. We all have stressors in our life—most being things we can’t control—but how we manage stress is key! Unwinding at night with an epsom salt bath, spending time outdoors, or inhaling your favorite essential oil can help the stress leave your body.
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Forward your mail from Germany
Pretty much everyone hates the hassle of moving. When you leave Germany, you have to think of a thousand different things, like deregistration and forwarding mail to a new address. The forwarding services could also be helpful for you if you are planning to travel for a more extended period or leave Germany for a specific time.
Simplify your life & book our forwarding service when you leave Germany.
What is mail forwarding?
Mail forwarding is a service that allows you to have your personal or business letters redirected to your new address when you move. It is a convenient service that helps you settle in quickly to your new home. You can forward your letters to any other address in the world. It doesn’t matter if you move within Germany or leave Germany to go to the united states or any other country. However, additional fees may apply depending on postal regulations in the country.
What is a mail redirection service from Germany good for?
Once you leave Germany and move out of your old place, you are obliged to remove your name from the letterbox. The German postman will not deliver your letters anymore. But he will return them to the sender. To prevent this, you can book our mail forwarding service.
Having a reliable mail redirection service is important to have all essential letters, like bank statements, utility bills, and other necessary correspondence forwarded to your new address.
How do I forward mail in Germany?
You have two options for sending your letters to your new address:
- You can take care of it yourself and inform all important companies about your move and your new address:
You list all the companies, utilities, banks, etc., that have sent you information by letter. Then contact them, preferably in writing with your signature and the date. You inform them of your move date and new address.
2. You can book a mail forwarding service:
Often it is less time-consuming and easier to hire a service. You can choose between different providers in Germany. For example, German Post Office (Deutsche Post), Pin, DHL, Hermes, Ups.
- The problem: The Mail Forwarding application form is only available in German.
- The solution: Book our service, and we will fill out the form for you.
How does the Mail Forwarding Service work?
Mail forwarding is a service that allows you to have your personal or business mail redirected to your new address when you move. It is a convenient service that helps you settle into your new home.
It is best to book the mail service before you move. This can be done online very quickly and easily. The goal of our service is to make the process as simple as possible:
- Press “Book service,” & we create a support ticket with further details
- The booking is made through our English form
- Decide whether you also want parcels and packages to be forwarded
- Decide if you wish to use the service for six months or 12 months
- Please make the payment & we will create the mail forwarding order
- We will send you the booking confirmation within 48 hours
We take care of the communication with the mail forwarding provider. That’s it. All your personal or business letters that would have been sent to your old German address will get redirected to your new address. Please bear in mind that parcels and packages will not automatically be redirected.
For the mail forwarding order we need the following documents and information from you:
- A power of attorney (will be created in the order process)
- Your previous address in Germany
- Your new address
How much does mail forwarding cost?
Please note that for forwarding letters to foreign countries, the foreign postal companies may charge additional fees for delivery as specified there.
- Mail forwarding for six months: starting at 13,16€* per month
- Mail forwarding for 12 months: starting at 8,25€* per month
*We book the forwarding order for 6 or 12 months in your name and pay all fees. Prices are incl—statutory value-added tax. The payment for the six or 12-month order is made once, and this price includes only the mail forwarding. We are an independent service provider and place orders with companies such as the Deutsche Post, DHL, and many more.
- Continue to receive your mail in your new home
- You can order our mail redirection service from your home
- You will get an email with your order confirmation right away
How is our service different from other services?
With SympatMe, you can choose your mail forwarding service online, and our booking process is in English. If you have questions or any issues arise, you can rely on us to assist you and translate whatever you need to know regarding your mail forwarding order.
Can you extend mail forwarding past one year?
We are happy to support you with your mail relocation for longer than 12 months. Contact us, and we will extend the service for another six or 12 months. An extension of the forwarding order is possible at the earliest four weeks before the expiry of the existing order.
How to extend mail forwarding?
The extension of your order is a straightforward process with SympatMe. We will contact you about four weeks before the order expires and ask if you would like to extend the mail forwarding service.
If you want to extend, we will send you an English form, which you sign and return to us. Then you pay, and we send you another booking confirmation. That’s it. The service will be extended for 6 or 12 months.
How soon does the mail forwarding take effect?
Mail redirection needs a few days to take effect. So please plan to order the forwarding service in advance. The activation process typically takes 5 working days.
How long does mail forwarding take?
Please note that the transit time of your mail will be extended due to redelivery. Letters sent to the old address are recorded, provided with the new address, and forwarded to it. As a result, the letter may be on its way a few days longer and arrive later at the new address.
The delay also depends on where your new address is located. It is normal that letters take longer when they are sent abroad.
How to stop mail forwarding?
To stop mail forwarding, you can simply contact us. We will handle the process for you. However, we can’t refund money if you terminate earlier because our service is only offered in 2 packages, for six months or 12 months.
Mail Service – Tips from an Expat
I recently relocated back to Liverpool and want to share a handy insight on the topic of ‘How to redirect your German mail.` When leaving Germany, I had the challenge of finding a way of doing this with little effort.
What will happen to my mail once I move out of my German apartment?
Where does it go? Will my mail just be returned to the sender? And finally, is there any way to redirect my post to the new address in Liverpool? Through researching online, I found that this is possible; the postal service in Germany has a process called “Nachsendeauftrag,” which means redirection service. To use this service, you set up an account with the post office (Deutsche Post) or other companies, such as DHL, Pin, Hermes, or Ups, and they will forward your mail to your new address.
This new address can either be in Germany or abroad. I was so relieved when I found out about this. How awesome is that? And it is surprisingly cheap (a couple of Euros a month!).
The only challenge is that the application form is only available in German, which was not good for me and my basic German skills. In addition, if there is an issue with the redirected mail not being sent, you would need to contact the post office personally, which would also be tricky if you do not have a good command of the language.
That’s why I decided to use the service of SympatMe. The booking was simple and quick, and the mail redirection was set up without any complications. In addition, I also know that if I encounter a problem, SympatMe will step in and resolve it on my behalf.
Please keep in mind that we do our best to provide credible and up-to-date information, but we are not an official advisor (in the sense of the Legal Services Act, RDG) for taxes, legal matters, and the like. Our service does not replace an individual consultation with legal assistance, and we provide digital tools and automated workflows to assist with the residence deregistration and related necessary steps.
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Iranian authorities have denied the appeal of a Princeton University researcher who was convicted of spying for the United States and sentenced to 10 years in prison, the university said on August 17.
Xiyue Wang, a U.S. citizen and doctoral candidate specializing in Eurasian history, was conducting research for his dissertation in Iran last year when he was detained by Iranian authorities and accused of "spying under the cover of research." His family and the university strongly deny the charges.
"He traveled to Iran solely to study Farsi (Persian) and to examine historical documents from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He described his research plans in advance to the Iranian authorities and the libraries and archives he planned to visit, and he only sought access to materials that he needed for his dissertation," the university said.
The university said Iran's charge that Princeton had sent Wang to "infiltrate" the country and that Wang had "connections to intelligence agencies" is "completely false."
"He was not connected to any government or intelligence agencies," the university said. "We are distressed that his appeal was denied, and that he remains unjustly imprisoned."
News of Wang's detention in Iran and his 10-year sentence first came out last month. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hard line against Iran and has warned against "unjustly" imprisoning Americans.
Trump "is prepared to impose new and serious consequences on Iran unless all unjustly imprisoned American citizens are released and returned," the White House said last month.
A State Department official on August 17 repeated the U.S. demand "for the immediate release of all U.S. citizens unjustly detained in Iran so they can return to their families."
Iran did not immediately respond or comment on the Wang case.
"I am devastated that my husband's appeal has been denied, and that he continues to be unjustly imprisoned in Iran on groundless accusations of espionage and collaboration with a hostile government against the Iranian state," Wang's wife, Hua Qu, said. "Our young son and I have not seen Xiyue in more than a year, and we miss him very much."
Qu, who is a Chinese citizen, said she worries about Wang's health while he is held in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, sometimes in solitary confinement.
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Color, light, and thematic influences of Magritte and Dali are evident in the works of Tom Caggiano. But Caggiano takes surrealism to its next evolutionary phase, which he calls 'psyrealism.' Where Magritte and Dali painted what they imagined were the images of the unconscious, as expressed in the then-radical theories of Sigmund Freud, Tom draws on his many years of intense psychoanalysis to plumb the depths of his unconscious to create an imagistic symbology that is, concurrently, intensely personal and truly universal.
A low resolution PDF of all my work is available upon request.
Painting the Unconscious
The Artistic Vision of Tom Caggiano
By Howard Gimple
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Child Obesity has more than tripled in three decades and the increased health risk associated with being fat has wiped out progress in other areas, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
The annual report on U.S. child welfare from Duke University and the Foundation for Child Development also found that the poverty rate for families with children hit 17.2 percent in 2003, the worst it has been since 1998.
Those findings overshadow the overall gain for U.S. children, who were found to be having far fewer babies, Smoking less and using fewer illegal drugs. The report’s overall measurement, called the Child Well-Being Index, has improved 4.5 percent since 1995.
But an estimated 15 percent of U.S. children are overweight or obese, and studies show they are developing type 2 diabetes, high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure at rates that greatly raise their Heart disease risk.
Rising obesity has “completely obscured all progress made in the health category, dragging it 17 percent below 1975 levels,” the foundation said in a statement.
The index is based on various reports on health, income, educational status, safety issues, community involvement and emotional and spiritual well being.
A major plus, the report said, was the drop in the adolescent birth rate from a peak of 20.05 births per 1,000 teenage girls in 1991 to a projected rate of 11.5 births per 1,000 girls for 2003.
Fewer high school students were smoking or using illegal drugs. Just 15.6 percent of high school seniors smoked in 2004, compared to 36.7 percent in 1975. Illegal drug use has fallen from 30.7 percent of high school seniors in 1975 to 23.4 percent in 2004.
Violent criminal activity among adolescents fell by more than 64 percent since 1975, while the rate of violent crimes against children fell by more than 38 percent, the report said.
“If you took away the huge declines in crime, violence, and risky behaviors since the early 1990s, the picture for America’s children would be bleak,” said Kenneth Land, a sociologist at Duke University who developed the report.
Educational attainment, as measured by student test scores in reading and mathematics, has not changed despite efforts to improve U.S. education.
The median income for a family with children fell to $52,680 a year in 2001 dollars and is projected to continue falling as 2004 statistics are analyzed.
“In fundamental areas such as health, financial security, and education, our children are either doing poorly or barely treading water,” Foundation President Ruby Takanishi said.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar
|Value||50 cents (0.50 US dollars)|
|Diameter||30.61 mm (1.20 in)|
|Thickness||2.15 mm (0.08 in)|
|Silver||0.36169 troy oz|
|Years of minting||1936|
|Mint marks||None, all pieces struck at Philadelphia Mint without mint mark.|
|Design||P. T. Barnum|
The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar (also the Bridgeport Centennial half dollar or Bridgeport half dollar) is a commemorative fifty-cent piece issued in 1936 by the United States Bureau of the Mint to honor the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a city. Designed by Henry Kreis, the obverse depicts the showman P. T. Barnum, who was one of Bridgeport's most famous residents, was mayor of the city, helped develop it, and is buried there. The reverse depicts a stylized eagle.
Bridgeport authorities wanted a commemorative coin to help fund the centennial celebrations. At the time, Congress was authorizing such coins for even local events, and the Bridgeport half dollar legislation passed Congress without opposition. Kreis had designed the Connecticut Tercentenary half dollar (1935), and he produced designs showing a left-facing Barnum and a modernistic eagle similar to the one on the Connecticut piece.
The coins were vended to the public beginning in September 1936 at a price of $2. Too late for most of the centennial celebrations, the coins nevertheless sold well, though leaving an unsold remainder of several thousand pieces. These were bought up by coin dealers and wholesale quantities were available on the secondary market until the 1970s. The Bridgeport half dollar sells in the low hundreds of dollars, depending on condition.
Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, was named after a drawbridge that local residents were proud of. Settled in 1639, it was an important center during the 17th and 18th centuries, but was not incorporated as a city until 1836. Elias Howe, inventor of the modern sewing machine, built a factory there.
Among Bridgeport's famous residents was P. T. Barnum, the showman, who became mayor of the city, served in the Connecticut Legislature, and is buried there. He endowed the (now defunct) Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts University in Massachusetts, but as numismatic writer Arlie Slabaugh Jr. put it, "his greatest monument is the circus. Don't you see that sawdust ring, hear the calliope?" The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus survived until 2017.
Until 1954, the entire mintage of each commemorative coin issues issue was sold by the government at face value to a group named by Congress in authorizing legislation, who then tried to sell the coins at a profit to the public. The new pieces then entered the secondary market, and in early 1936 all earlier commemoratives sold at a premium to their issue prices. The apparent easy profits to be made by purchasing and holding commemoratives attracted many to the coin collecting hobby, where they sought to purchase the new issues. The growing market for such pieces led to many commemorative coin proposals in Congress, to mark anniversaries and benefit (it was hoped) worthy causes, including some of purely local significance. Among these were the Bridgeport piece, intended to fund local celebrations of the city's centennial; the designated group was Bridgeport Centennial, Inc., in charge of the celebrations.
A bill for a Bridgeport Centennial half dollar was introduced into the United States Senate by Augustine Lonergan of Connecticut on March 10, 1936. The other Connecticut senator, Francis T. Maloney, had been asked three or four weeks previously to introduce the bill, but Senator Maloney had chosen not to do so because of the many commemorative coin bills already before the Senate. The Bridgeport bill was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and was one of several commemorative coin bills to be considered on March 11, 1936, by a subcommittee led by Colorado's Alva B. Adams.[a]
Senator Adams had heard of the commemorative coin abuses of the mid-1930s, with issuers increasing the number of coins needed for a complete set by having them issued at different mints with different mint marks; authorizing legislation placed no prohibition on this. Lyman W. Hoffecker, a Texas coin dealer and official of the American Numismatic Association, testified and told the subcommittee that some issues, like the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar, first struck in 1926, had been issued over the course of years with different dates and mint marks. Other issues had been entirely bought up by single dealers, and some low-mintage varieties of commemorative coins were selling at high prices. The many varieties and inflated prices for some issues that resulted from these practices angered coin collectors trying to keep their collections current.
On March 26, Adams reported the bill back to the Senate, though with extensive amendments. The coins could only be struck at one mint; there would be a mintage limit of 10,000 coins and no fewer than 5,000 could be made at a time. They would have to be dated 1936, and Bridgeport Centennial, Inc., the organization designated to purchase the coins, had one year to do so. The net proceeds Bridgeport Centennial, Inc. received from selling the coins could only be used for the centennial observances. The bill was brought to the Senate floor on March 27, 1936, the second of six coinage bills being considered one after the other. Like the others, it was amended and passed without recorded discussion or dissent.
The bill reached the House of Representatives on April 1 and was referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. That committee reported back on the 16th, recommending an amendment to require that not less than 25,000 coins be struck. The amendment deleted the language requiring 5,000 to be minted at a time, as well as the one-year time limit. On April 28, Schuyler Merritt of Connecticut brought the bill to the House floor, asking that it be passed with the recommended amendment, and it was, without any discussion or dissent.
As the two houses had not passed identical versions, this sent the bill back to the Senate. On May 4, Adams moved that the Senate agree to the House amendment, which it did; the bill became law, authorizing not fewer than 25,000 half dollars, with the signature of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 15, 1936. The lack of an upper mintage limit or a time limit for production meant that Bridgeport Centennial, Inc. could have ordered as many coins as it wanted as far into the future as it cared to as long as they were dated 1936. Any such authority was removed by Congress with legislation passed August 5, 1939, directing that commemorative coins authorized before March 1 of that year be no longer struck.
On June 10, 1936, Bridgeport mayor Jasper McLevy wrote to Director of the United States Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross, informing her that Henry Kreis, designer of the Connecticut Tercentenary half dollar, had been hired to sculpt the Bridgeport coin, and enclosing sketches of the proposed design. McLevy noted that Barnum was the subject of one side of the coin, and explained that Barnum had presented Seaside Park to the city and had helped develop East Bridgeport. The following day, Ross wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. stating that the Bridgeport designs would be forwarded to the Commission of Fine Arts for its opinion before Morgenthau was called upon to give final approval. The commission was charged by a 1921 executive order by President Warren G. Harding with rendering advisory opinions on public artworks, including coins. She noted that while the question of whether Barnum should appear on the coin was not in the jurisdiction of the commission, that had not stopped it from weighing in against the appearance of Stephen Foster on the Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar.
On June 24, 1936, the commission chair, Charles Moore, wrote to Ross, enclosing comments from Lee Lawrie, sculptor-member of the commission, generally approving of Kreis's designs, but proposing that the words LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST be moved from below Barnum's head on the obverse to the reverse. This, Lawrie suggested, would allow space for the name CONNECTICUT (abbreviated as CONN. on the original) to be rendered in full. Revised models were approved by the commission, and on August 4, the completed models for the coins were sent to Morgenthau by Assistant Director of the Mint Mary M. O'Reilly. The models were converted to coin-sized hubs by the Medallic Art Company of New York in time for coinage to begin in September.
The obverse of the Bridgeport half dollar depicts the bust of P. T. Barnum, a subject that has absorbed much of the commentary on the coin's design. Michael K. Garofalo, in his article on Kreis, stated, "although the portrait bears a very strong likeness to Barnum, the rendering was merely average for the talented Kreis." Anthony Swiatek and Walter Breen, in their volume on commemoratives, aver that "the choice of P. T. Barnum, of all imaginable people ... has less to do with his 'There's a sucker born every minute' cynicism (however applicable this might have been to commemorative coin fanciers in the 1930s) than to his philanthropic benefactions to the city." Breen called Barnum the patron saint of coin collectors. Dealer B. Max Mehl, in his 1937 work on commemoratives, suggested purchasers of the coin were "suckers", and wrote, "we think that Barnum's likeness, in view of his famous remark, is certainly most appropriate".
Mehl also criticized the reverse of the coin:
The eagle (?) on the new Bridgeport half dollar is the biggest joke as a specimen of our noble bird that ever appeared on a coin. Not a feather appears on its tin-roof surface, and several beholders said it resembled an airplane. Turn it around and you have a fine shark with two dorsal fins, an open mouth and a tongue. The shark appears to be laughing. I wonder at whom? And how apropos that P. T. Barnum's portrait adorns the other side. He was right in his famous remarks years ago.
Q. David Bowers describes Kreis's eagle as modernistic and noted its resemblance to the one the sculptor had created for the Connecticut half dollar. Don Taxay, writing in 1966, concurred, considering the eagle the most modernistic seen on any coin. Coin writer Kevin Flynn called it an "ultra modern eagle". Garofalo stated, "Kreis' highly stylized eagle met with mixed reviews. Critically acclaimed by the art world, it bewildered the public, many of whom did not readily identify the bird as the nation's symbol." Kreis's initial K is found incuse in the lower right.
Swiatek and Breen deemed the coin a "very Art Deco composition". According to Garofalo, "From an artistic standpoint, Kreis' designs for the Bridgeport half dollar were an amazing success. The obverse was conservative and accurate, as a portrait should be, and the reverse was stylish and inspirational." Art historian Cornelius Vermeule, in his volume on U.S. coins and medals, stated that the Bridgeport piece "has been cited as one of the more successful commemorative coins within the broad tradition instituted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens". He described the piece as having "P. T. Barnum in large, thoughtful profile and a thrusting eagle of conceptual, metallic style", and praised the lettering, finding the placement of the patriotic mottos on the reverse done "not inartistically". Vermeule suggested that Kreis was unable to find a suitable Bridgeport-related theme for the reverse, and instead turned "to a new interpretation of elements, such as the eagle, used in the coins of the regular issue. A coin honoring P. T. Barnum could have featured a lion, an elephant, or a performing bear on the reverse, but this product of the civic enterprise of Bridgeport gains great merit for showing an exciting new form of the national bird".
Production, distribution and collecting
In September 1936, a total of 25,015 Bridgeport half dollars were struck at the Philadelphia Mint with 15 pieces reserved for inspection and testing the following year by the annual Assay Commission. They were sold at a price of $2, mostly through local banks in Bridgeport. Mail order sales were processed by the First National Bank of Bridgeport. By this time, many of the centennial celebrations had passed, having begun June 4, though they continued until October 3. Individual coins were sold in small cardboard boxes, with a limit of five per purchaser. Despite its relatively high price and the fact that it was released after many of the centennial celebrations, the coin sold well with both the public and collectors.
Several thousand pieces remained unsold, and transferred by the centennial organizers to the Bridgeport Community Chest, which sold them wholesale to coin dealers at a slight advance on face value. In the 1950s, Toivo Johnson, a coin dealer in Maine, possessed about a thousand of them, and rolls of 20 were sold at coin conventions for years after; many were acquired and then sold by a coin investment firm in the early 1970s.
By 1940 the Bridgeport piece sold for about $1.50 in uncirculated condition, though this went up to $2.50 by 1950, $12 by 1960, and $250 by 1985. The deluxe edition of R. S. Yeoman's A Guide Book of United States Coins, published in 2018, lists the coin for between $120 and $300, depending on condition. An exceptional specimen sold for $1,880 in 2015.
- In addition to the Bridgeport piece, they were: the Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar, Delaware Tercentenary half dollar, Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar, New Rochelle 250th Anniversary half dollar, House and Senate versions of the Long Island Tercentenary half dollar, and an unsuccessful proposal for a half dollar honoring William Henry Harrison. In addition, there was a proposal for a new design for the multi-year Arkansas Centennial half dollar, which would pass, and a similar request for the Texas Centennial half dollar, which would fail alongside bills for commemorative medals for Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, a proposal to revive the three-cent nickel, and a bill to declare it the policy of the U.S. to strike commemorative medals instead of commemorative coins.
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As soon as the cost is made, the fraudsters mechanically change into house owners of the cryptocurrencies. In some instances, they even switch the tokens into an account past the USA borders instantly after receiving them. Thus, authorities discover it additional difficult to disclose the crimes.
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Meet six friendly animals through interactive play and hear their unique sounds
Adjustable two-speed control switch on the wheels allows walker to grow with your little one’s needs; magic sensor triggers sounds and melodies as your child walks
Intended for ages 9-36 months; requires 2 AA batteries; batteries included for demo purposes only; new batteries recommended for regular use
This electronic walker for babies grows from a floor-play toy into a walker with tons of interactive features little ones love
Number of Pieces: 3
Dimensions (Overall): 18.11 Inches (H) x 13.11 Inches (W) x 17.7 Inches (D)
Weight: 9.46 Pounds
Suggested Age: 9-36 Months
Features: Multiple Modes of Play
Assembly Details: Adult Assembly Required, No Tools Needed
Educational Focus: Numbers, Large Motor Skills, Shapes and Colors, Physical Fitness
Battery: 2 AA Alkaline, Required, Included
Care & Cleaning: Spot or Wipe Clean
Item Number (DPCI): 204-10-4710
From floor play to first steps, the Stroll and Discover Activity Walker grows with your little one. The easy-to-remove activity panel is great for floor play and is packed with features and the legs fold for easy storage. Five light-up piano keys introduce colors and numbers, while spinning gears and a removable cell phone help develop fine motor skills. Meet six friendly animals by inserting the three shape sorter pieces, pressing the puppy button, sliding the mouse or batting the bird to hear their unique voices and sounds. Attach the panel to the adjustable two-speed walker as little ones grow, and watch them go! Intended for ages 9-36 months. Requires 2 AA batteries. Batteries included for demo purposes only. New batteries recommended for regular use.
STEM toys are Science, Technology, Engineering and Math based products that are geared towards developing useful skills in all areas of learning. This product focuses on the core subject: Math.
Estimated ship dimensions: 20.77 inches length x 16.33 inches width x 6.3 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 7.18 pounds
This item cannot be shipped to the following locations: United States Minor Outlying Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa (see also separate entry under AS), Hawaii, APO/FPO, Alaska, Virgin Islands, U.S., Guam (see also separate entry under GU)
This item can be returned to any Target store or Target.com.
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Base pattern of the gecko, generally a black or dark brown pigmentation, which changes based upon being fired up or down. When fired up, this is when the maximum amount of pigment is exhibited. When fired down, the pigment expressing cells are inactive and are either greatly muted or not visible. We have two main basic base pattern categories: Striped and Reticulated. From there, we have other forms that are also important to note individually: Super Stripe, Banded, Mosaic and Mottled.
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The head is unaffected by this trait.
This pattern is a reticulated form, but with a little bit of predicted pattern in the form of banding over the top.
The bands generally go from midpoint dorsally and fall down the sides laterally. They may start to move horizontal towards the lower half of the lateral surface, but if the pattern remains relatively unbroken, it is still classified as a banded.
Juveniles start off banded and as they grow the pattern spreads and forms more or less defined rows of irregular or wavy bands.
The belly is unaffected by this trait.
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Oats Recipes – If you are looking for quick and nutritious breakfast at the start of your busy day ahead then oats based dish is best option for you.
Yes, Oats are highly wholesome and nourishing as they are packed with complex carbs and many other vital nutrients that you should include in the very important meal of the day.
Here are some of the new and improved dishes made from Oats that you can make them in a jiffy.
Oats Recipes –
1. Oats Upma
We always prepare Upma from semolina or what is commonly known as Sooji but why not try another version of it which is made from Oats? You will be amazed to know how simple and easy it is to whip up this dish. Here is the recipe that you can prepare for your breakfast.
2. Oats Dhokla
This recipe is a spin on the original Dhokla recipe which is usually made or rice or semolina preparation. But this particular recipe will make your Dhokla healthier than ever and the best part is it tastes delectable too. Here is the recipe video.
3. Oats Idli
Idlis are undoubtedly one of the best and delicious breakfast options. And another healthy ingredient you can add to the already nutritious breakfast is Oats. So if you are craving for idlis but do not have idli batter ready then you can prepare this instant oats idli. Here is the video of the recipe.
4. Oats Chilla
Spicy pancake is staple breakfast in many homes.This permutation of chilla has healthy add-in which will make the dish only tastier. Give it a go and I am sure you will love this dish and prepare it again and again. Follow the recipe from the video embedded below.
5. Masala Oats
Oatmeal is a staple for many but again some of us do not always like the sweet version of oatmeal, so here is an amazing recipe for masala oatmeal which is savory and flavorful. Check the below video to know all the ingredients and step by step method to prepare the same.
6. Oats Omelette
Omelette and toast are what we commonly find on the breakfast table. And that’s why I have added this healthier oats version to this list. Oats are rich in fiber and many other nutrients and after eating this omelette your tummy will thank you for sure. An addition of oats has made this whole recipe healthier. Below is the video of the recipe.
7. Oats Cutlet
If you are craving for some comfort food but do not want to add unhealthy fats and calories then this is a perfect recipe. Generous helpings of Oats tikkis or cutlets will not only satiate your taste buds but also fill you up for long. Go to the below mentioned video to know the preparation.
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Patent Amendment Rules 2021: 80% Less Fees For Educational InstitutionsNovember 26, 2021 By Dinesh Parmar
On September 21 of this year, the Department of Protection of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) which falls under the purview of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry introduced the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021. The Patent Amendment Rule 2021 presents an exciting avenue for educational institutions because it brings about an 80 percent reduction in fees for patent filing and prosecution in relation to such institutions.
To begin with the basics, patents are a form of preserving intellectual property. They grant exclusive rights to an invention. And in order to be eligible for these rights, the invention should meet certain criteria. It should usually provide a new method of doing something or offer a new technical solution to an existing problem. To get a patent, however, crucial technical information about the said invention would have to be made public through the patent application. The Patents Act that includes guidelines about this intellectual property came into force in 1972 and was amended in 2005 to include more fields of technology like food, drugs, chemical, and microorganisms to the purview of product patents along with other amendments.
Academic institutions are the cradles of many important inventions because a wide number of professors, teachers, and students engage in extensive research. But the high fees of getting a patent create an unavoidable barrier. So, institutions are discouraged from promoting research and the development of new technologies. And even if they are created, many inventions never get patented.
To prevent such situations, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade are trying to create an environment that is conducive to innovation. They have been developing ways of promoting widespread collaboration between the domains of industry and academia. The amendment in focus achieves this goal to an extent, by paving the way for commercialisation of the research that is undertaken by various entities in educational institutions across the country. It provides motivation to file for patents, because now institutions can generate even more revenue and create thought leadership. Ultimately, this leads to the growth of the Indian economy as a whole, because more and more innovations will be generated and patented.
Along with this, a few other changes have also been brought into force in order to make the process smoother and more accessible. The resulting process is, thus, significantly shorter, time-efficient, user-friendly, meaningful, and compatible with e-transactions. The following are some of the initiatives that have been taken by the Department of Protection of Industry and Internal Trade towards this goal.
- The department has been recruiting new examiners for the last 2-3 years, in order to boost manpower
- It has switched to a process of applying for and granting patents that is completely online
- It has also begun to accept video-conferencing as a means of conducting hearings of patent cases to facilitate contact-less and rapid proceedings
- It will also provide real-time information about intellectual property to the stakeholders through a revamped, dynamic website
- Additionally, a Scheme for Facilitating Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) has been launched in order to help startups through the process of patent filing and prosecution. The professional charges of these facilitators for consultation during the application for a patent are usually reimbursed through the SIPP scheme.
- A mechanism has also been set up on the official website so that stakeholders can easily lodge feedback, suggestions or complaints with respect to issues regarding the functioning of the IP offices. Once such a feedback, suggestion or complaint is received, a dedicated team works to quickly address the concern. And the concerned stakeholders are also kept up to date with the progress through email.
- Through the Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), the DPIIT in collaboration with the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks (CGPDTM) regularly organises awareness activities related to intellectual property rights for proper and thorough dissemination of information and knowledge regarding intellectual property, to its stakeholders. These are usually conducted in schools, universities, industries, legal and enforcement agencies and all other touchpoints. Moreover, they are set up in tandem with industry associations across the country.
Moreover, the Department has also established an Expedited Examination System. Through this system, the application for the grant of patent is to be decided upon in a time period of up to one year from the date of filing the request for expedited examination. In comparison, the normal examination route usually takes a few years to reach the same culmination. This facility was initially provided only for patent applications made by startups. Now, from September 21, 2021, eight more categories of patent applications can avail of this option. These include SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), female applicants, government departments, institutions established by a central, provincial or state act, government companies, the institutions that are wholly or substantially financed by the government, as well as applicants under the Patents Prosecution Highway. The term Patents Prosecution Highway (PPH) refers to a set of initiatives that promote quicker patent prosecution procedures by sharing information across some patent offices.
The Patent Amendment Rule 2021 has already begun to make an impact on the way Indian patent registration functions. In the year 2015, the Department took around an average of 72 months for the examination of patents. This time period has been reduced to about 12 to 30 months now. This means shorter waiting periods and faster access to intellectual property rights for innovators.
Although the process has become more people-friendly than ever, there are still a few things to be kept in mind before applying for a patent. Does your organisation qualify as an educational institution? Make sure to go through the criteria properly. Remember to fill the Form-28 at the time of patent application if you wish to be considered as an educational institution and the Form 18A if you wish to file an expedited request. For more information about the process, it is better to consult an expert to ensure that all your documents are in order. This assures that your patent is the most likely to get approved. To learn more, get in touch with us.
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How to Convince Family & Friends to Invest In Bitcoin!
#Bitcoin #InvestInBitcoin #ConvinceAnyoneToInvestinBitcoin #LovedOnesandBitcoin
How to convince anyone to buy Bitcoin!
The opinions expressed in the video are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual or on any specific security or investment product. It is only intended to provide education about the financial industry.
Money is a medium of exchange and a store of value
Characteristics: Fungible, Durable, Portable, Recognizable, and Stable
1:00 What is Money vs An Asset
Step 1: Keep it Simple
Step 2: Don’t sell – Educate
Step 3: Focus on the technology adoption
2:00 What is FIAT
Fiat Money – Government-issued money that is only backed by the government’s that issued it
It’s not backed by anything like physical commodities, such as gold or silver
3:00 Will FIAT As We Know It Die?
4:00 FIAT is backed by Debt
The US Govt can never repay the debt. Too big too fast. The only way they can escape is to INFLATE out of debt. Make it valueless thru inflation.
5:00 What is M1 Money Supply
and Why Does it Matter?
Infinite Dollars – Infinity and Beyond
6:00 Impact of Money Printing
Think 100 people on an island and there are 100 apples. Each person has $1. Now give everyone an extra dollar. Does price of Apples go up or down?
Has your family household wealth gone up $125.8K over last 12 months?
8:00 Increase in Money Supply inflates everything including Hard Assets like Stocks, Real Estate etc. Trickle Down Economics? Surprised Gold has been flat for last decade. Over last 12 yrs household wealth has gone up 5.3X – has yours? The so-called Cantillon effect describes the uneven expansion of the amount of money. If a central bank pumps more money into the economy, the resulting increase in prices does not happen evenly. Closest to money printer reap the rewards
9:00 Impact on Stock Market
15% inflation today means the stock market needs to go up 15% to stay flat. As I always say, Money Printing Inflates Stock Market.
10:00 Talk To Me About Purchasing Power?
The Debasement of fiat, means the purchasing power of your money falls
11:00 Removing the Gold Standard – the impact of money printing
12:00 How Inflation Eats Your Wealth
13:00 Key Lessons
Saving FIAT is a losing proposition
Owning Hard Assets is winning
Bitcoin is the hardest asset
14:00 How is Gold Different to Bitcoin?
15:00 But isn’t Gold the Perfect Inflation Hedge?
This is the CPI Adjust Gold Appreciation since 1970 – FLAT!!!
16:00 Bitcoin vs Gold
From 139 BTC per Oz of Gold to 18.5 Oz of Gold per BTC.
17:00 If you put $1000 into BTC every year for last 10 years:
4.5M percent returns. Not saying this will continue. Some years are great some are rough. Avg gain since inception is 1487% a year based on Jan 1 prices.
18:00 If you put $1000 into Gold every year for last 10 years:
18:20 Appreciation before Inflation
14K vs 447M
Gold Appreciation LessLoss of Purchasing Power
US Govt Published CPI – Gold lost -9.70% over 10 yrs
19:00 But is CPI real???
19:10 US vs ROW
19:30 What True Inflation Looks Like
Inflation is the rise of prices over time where each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services.
20:00 Talk to me about Bitcoin Purchasing Power?
21:00 Why is Bitcoin Called the Hardest Asset?
Reason: Scarcity. Bitcoin’s core property is that there can only ever be 21 million coins.
BTC is technically deflationary due to lost coins
21:30 Is Bitcoin Legitimate?
Bitcoin is math
Legitimacy is based on based on an open system of cryptography
Open source to verify that the that the transactions are legitimate
22:00 But Isn’t Bitcoin Too Volatile?
This is true. Bitcoin historically has very high trading volatility.
This because it is a new asset whose market cap has grown to hundreds of billions of dollars, from 0 a decade ago
23:00 But Won’t Bitcoin be Banned?
Bitcoin is digital. Banning Bitcoin is like trying to ban the internet.
But Won’t Bitcoin be Banned?
24:00 Is Bitcoin Secure?
Bitcoin is the most secure computer network in history
It grows more secure as more participants join the network
Bitcoin price and hashrate across time:
24:30 Talk To Me About Smart Money
Some recognizable names who are all in on Bitcoin:
Paul Tudor Jones
25:00 Am I Too Late?
No, every new technology has an adoption curve, this shows Bitcoin still has a long way to go – but we are less than 1.5% adoption and bitcoin adoption is growing faster than the internet
225:30 Ok, I Get It Now…How Much Should I Invest?
The BTC Accumulation Game Plan
Ultimate BTC DCA Strategy
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Zircon is the oldest mineral on earth and is found in the crust of the earth. It is a colourful gemstone with high refraction and fire.
Zircon has many optical properties which make it bright and lustrous, and while best known for its brilliant blue hues, it can also occur in warm autumnal yellows and reddish browns, as well as red and green hues. Today, the most popular colours of zircon are the vivid blue and bright Caribbean Sea colours.
Zircon’s spectrum of beautiful colours alongside its rarity and affordability are why this gem is becoming more and more popular in the market today. Some gemstone enthusiasts and collectors solely seek zircon, aiming to source it from different locations and capturing it in every colour of the rainbow – colourless, green, blue, yellow, brown, orange, dark red, and everything in between.
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Tips To Protect Your Windshield Wipers in The Winter Storm
Good visibility is vital for safe driving, especially as low vision causes around 20% of road accidents. That is why, besides lighting and interior ventilation, windshield wipers are critical for driving safety.
All year long, wipers keep your windshield clear of rain, dust, pollen, and other airborne debris.
When the temperature drops below zero, they work extra harder to keep your windscreen clear of snow and ice, giving you the finest view possible.
But, to perform all this, they must be operational. So, how do you keep your windshield wipers in good operating order?
Simple: look at the preventative and maintenance measures listed below.
What To Do If You Find Yourself in A Parking Situation?
Remove your wiper blades from the windshield
If you park outside regularly and the weather forecast calls for snow or freezing rain, it’s a good idea to remove your windshield wipers. This keeps your wiper blades from adhering to the glass when it freezes, which can cause harm to the rubber blade when you reposition it. It also makes clearing your windscreen easy before your next automobile trip. Which camp are you in: blades up or blades down?
Deactivate Your Wipers
If you’ve been using your windshield wipers, make sure to switch them off before you park.
When you restart your automobile, the wipers will not start automatically, which might potentially shred the wipers if they become stuck to the windshield by snow and ice.
Because ice often forms when the vehicle is parked and not in use, wearing wiper blade protection coverings is a preventative technique to keep ice off the wiper blades. These coverings keep wiper blades from sticking to the frozen glass and keep ice and snow from accumulating on the wiper blade and arm. Covering your wiper blades with old tube socks is another technique to safeguard them. This protects them from all types of winter weather, including snow, ice, and freezing rain.
Get The Ice Scraper Out!
Use your wipers to clear ice, snow, or frost off your windshield. Melt the covering of snow and ice with an ice scraper or your vehicle’s defroster. Wiping the windshield with your wipers might create rips in your wiper blades. When scraping your windshield, be cautious with the wiper blades if they are down. You risk cutting or damaging the wiper blade with the ice scraper if you scrape it too forcefully.
Keep The Nozzles Clear
Keep the nozzles of your windshield washer fluid clean of ice and snow. If the nozzles freeze, they will be unable to dispense wiper fluid as needed. If the nozzles get clogged, you may clean them with a pin.
Keep dirt and debris off your windshield. Running your wipers across a dirty or grimy windshield may reduce its lifespan. Make it a practice to wipe your windshield every time you fill your car with petrol.
Sand And Salt Must Be Removed
We all know that road salt can corrode the body of your car, but did you realize that it may also harm your wiper blades? Salt may scrape and dry up your wipers, causing gaps and cracks to form. Wipe your blades with a wet towel dampened with warm water once a week to remove any salt or sand.
Fluid wipers with Heated Windshield Washers
A windshield washer fluid warmer can not only improve the functioning of your vehicle’s windshield washer system but will also save you money. Also, it will also aid in the removal of ice from the wiper blades. The device warms washer fluid to 130°F and dispenses it from the vehicle’s stock washer reservoir.
A device is attached to the vehicle’s battery and is mounted near the engine compartment.
When the car is turned on, the washer fluid heats up and is distributed anytime the driver engages the washer system. And an international firm that manufactures such a gadget maintains that it has been tested and will not cause harm when hot water strikes a cold windshield.
Windshield Washer Fluid De-icer
A more traditional option may be to use a windshield washer fluid that has been chemically designed to avoid ice.
Although this fluid has a lower freezing point and can handle severe weather, it may not keep ice chunks off the wiper blades. Yet, it will undoubtedly aid in the removal of ice or frost from the windshield. A de-icer can be manufactured from a variety of materials and homemade remedies.
Use something that will not harm the rubber on the wiper blades to work correctly.
Even if you follow all of these suggestions regularly, you may still see the effects of cold weather on your wiper blades.
If your windshield wiper blades get broken, don’t hesitate to replace them.
Wiper blades that have been ripped, torn, or split will not provide a clear, uniform wipe.
Don’t jeopardize your or your passengers’ or your personal safety– always drive with functional windshield wipers and rear wipers.
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What is the largest book in the world?
Studying, gaining knowledge, reading manga, entertainment etc…
Books are indispensable for enriching our lives.
Ordinary books are small enough to fit in your hand,
but in this world, there is the largest book that is very difficult to turn pages
This article would like to introduce the largest book in the world.
The title is “This the Prophet Mohamed“, which is an Islamic book and world’s largest book.
The specs of this book are
Vertical: 8.06 meters
Horizontal: 5 meters
Number of pages: 429
It is a super heavyweight book made by over 50 people.
If you are sandwiched by this book, you will be died( ﾟДﾟ)
It was brilliantly certified as Guinness World Records in Dubai on February 27, 2012 as the largest book in the world.
The book is so big that the certificate looks very small
Harry Potter Books↓
＼(ﾟ∀ﾟ)( ﾟДﾟ) ／
You probably won’t read the entire page except for those involved.
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– Vol. IX, No. 1: March 2003
Adaptions and Excerpts from
Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani
Note: The English translation of the IGMR that appears here is a provisional version, and should not be regarded as definitive.
Excerpt from Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani [IGMR] Chapter 9 – 387, 397 [Page 3 of the March 2003 AB]
387 The diocesan Bishop, who is to be regarded as the high priest of his flock, and from whom in some sense the life in Christ of its faithful is derived and is dependent, must foster, govern and watch over the liturgical life in his diocese. To him are assigned in this Institutio the governance of the discipline of concelebration (see n. 202), the establishment of norms about service to the priest at the altar (see n. 107), about the distribution of Holy Communion under both kinds (see n. 283), and about the construction and ordering of church buildings (see nos. 291294). However, his primary task is to nourish the priests, the deacons and the faithful with the spirit of the sacred Liturgy.
397 Furthermore, the principle shall be respected that each particular Church must be in accord with the Church universal not only as to the doctrine of the faith and the sacramental signs, but even as to the usages universally admitted by apostolic and unbroken tradition, which are to be maintained not only so that errors may be avoided, but even with the purpose of handing on the faith in its integrity, since the Church’s rule of prayer (lex orandi) corresponds to her rule of belief (lex credendi).
The Roman Rite constitutes a notable and estimable part of the liturgical treasure and patrimony of the Catholic Church, and its riches are of benefit to the universal Church, so that were these riches lost, this would be gravely damaging to her.
The Roman Rite has in the course of the centuries not only conserved the liturgical usages that had their origin in the city of Rome, but has also in a deep, organic and harmonious way incorporated into itself certain others, which were derived from the customs and genius of different peoples and of various particular Churches of both West and East, thus acquiring a certain "supra-regional" character. In our own times the identity and unitary expression of this Rite is found in the typical editions of the liturgical books promulgated by authority of the Supreme Pontiff, and in the liturgical books which correspond to them that have been approved by the Conferences of Bishops for their territories and accorded the recognitio of the Apostolic See.
399 Thus the Roman Missal, although in a diversity of languages and in a certain variety of customs, must in the future be maintained as a means to the integrity and unity of the Roman Rite, and as its outstanding sign.
External actions to convey "the true and full meaning" of the Mass, "common spiritual good" [Page 4 of the March 2003 AB]
42 The external actions, movements, and posture of the priest, the deacon and the ministers, as well as of the people ought to draw things together in such a way that the entire celebration shines with beauty and noble simplicity, that the true and full meaning of the different parts of the celebration is perceived, and that the participation of all is encouraged. Therefore, attention must be paid to what is determined by this Institutio Generalis and by the traditional practice of the Roman Rite, and to what pertains to the common spiritual good of the people of God, rather than to personal inclination or arbitrary choice.
The Posture of The People at Mass [Page 4 of the March 2003 AB]
43 The faithful should stand from the beginning of the opening song or when the priest enters until the end of the opening prayer or collect; for the singing of the Alleluia before the gospel reading; while the Gospel itself is proclaimed; during the profession of faith and the general intercessions; from the invitatory, "Pray that our sacrifice…", before the prayer over the gifts to the end of the Mass, except at the places indicated later in this paragraph.
They should sit during the readings before the Gospel reading and during the responsorial psalm, for the homily and the preparation of the gifts, and, if this seems helpful, they may kneel or sit during the period of religious silence after Communion.
In the dioceses of the United States of America, they should kneel beginning after the singing or recitation of the Sanctus until after the Amen of the Eucharistic Prayer, except when prevented on occasion by reasons of health, lack of space, the large number of people present, or some other good reason. Those who do not kneel ought to make a profound bow when the priest genuflects after the consecration. The faithful kneel after the Agnus Dei unless the Diocesan Bishop determines otherwise.
[Note: Bold type indicates US adaptations. A sentence in the un-adapted IGMR reads: "Where it is the custom that the people remain kneeling from the end of the Sanctus until the end of the Eucharistic Prayer, and before Communion when the priest says Ecce Agnus Dei, this is laudably retained".]
For the sake of observing a uniformity in gestures and posture during the same celebration, the faithful should obey the directions which the deacon or lay minister or the priest give during the celebration, according to whatever is indicated in the Missal.
Posture and gesture at Communion
The faithful may communicate either standing or kneeling, as established by the Conference of Bishops. However, when they communicate standing, it is recommended that they make an appropriate gesture of reverence, to be laid down in the same norms, before receiving the Sacrament.
As adapted for the United States, IGMR 160 now reads:
The norm for reception of Holy Communion in the dioceses of the United States is standing. Communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel. Rather, such instances should be addressed pastorally, by providing the faithful with proper catechesis on the reasons for this norm.
When receiving Holy Communion standing, the communicant bows his or her head before the sacrament as a gesture of reverence and receives the Body of the Lord from the minister. The consecrated host may be received either on the tongue or in the hand at the discretion of each communicant. When Holy Communion is received under both kinds, the sign of reverence is also made before receiving the Precious Blood.
NOTE: Before giving the required "recognitio" to this adaptation of the US bishops’ conference, the Congregation of Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments required that "communicants who choose to kneel are not be denied Communion on these grounds". The same letter stated, "the practice of kneeling for Holy Communion has in its favor a centuries-old tradition, and it is a particularly expressive sign of adoration, completely appropriate in light of the true, real and substantial presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ under the consecrated species". (see CDW letter dated July 2002, in AB Dec 02-Jan 03 – p 15)
Genuflection signifies adoration of Blessed Sacrament; Bow means reverence & honor [Page 5 of the March 2003 AB]
The Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR), the rules for celebration of Mass in the Roman Rite, explains the meaning of traditional Catholic gestures, genuflections and bows, indicating when these expressive gestures are to be assumed at Mass.
GENUFLECTIONS AND BOWS
274 A genuflection, which is made by bending the right knee to the ground, signifies adoration, and for this reason is reserved to the Most Blessed Sacrament and to the Holy Cross, from the solemn adoration in the liturgy of Good Friday until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.
Three genuflections are made during Mass by the priest celebrant: after the showing of the Eucharistic bread, after the showing of the chalice, and before Communion. Special features to be observed in a concelebrated Mass are noted in their proper place (see nos. 210-252).
If there is a tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament in the sanctuary, the priest, deacon and other ministers genuflect to it when they approach or leave the altar, but not during the celebration of Mass itself. Otherwise, all who cross before the most Blessed Sacrament genuflect, unless they are involved in a procession.
Ministers who are carrying the processional cross or the candles bow their heads in place of a genuflection.
275 A bow is a sign of the reverence and honor given to persons or what represents those persons.
a) An inclination of the head should be made when the three Divine Persons are named, at the name of Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Saint in whose honor Mass is celebrated.
b) A bow of the body, or profound bow, is made: toward the altar if there is no tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament; during the prayers "Almighty God, cleanse" and "with humble and contrite hearts"; with the Profession of Faith at the words "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit … made man"; in Eucharistic Prayer I (Roman Canon) at the words "Almighty God, command that your angel". The same kind of bow is made by the deacon when he asks the blessing before proclaiming the Gospel reading. In addition, the priest bends over slightly as he says the words of the Lord at the Consecration. | <urn:uuid:7c2a5ccb-48f5-4ddd-9eb7-19f19addcec4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adoremus.org/2003/03/adaptions-and-excerpts-from-institutio-generalis-missalis-romani/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949344 | 2,054 | 1.734375 | 2 |
What is eLearn?
eLearn is CIT's online learning environment which is designed to provide you with a variety of interactive learning experiences.
You can access your course material and interact with your teachers and fellow students using forums and messaging tools, complete your learning activities online, submit assignments, receive grades and feedback.
For eLearn to work at its best, please ensure you use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
How Do I Start?
Click on Go to eLearn above or enter elearn.cit.edu.au into the address bar in your browser.
Enter your login details:
Usernameis your CIT ID (e.g. CIT******). This can be found on your student card.
Password is the one you created when you activated your CIT Microsoft 365 account.
Note: if you haven't activated your CIT Microsoft 365 account, then the password is set to your date of birth in the format of DDMMYY.
Forgotten your CIT Number?
If you don't know your CIT number, or have forgotten it, you can recover it by calling CIT Student Services on (02) 6207 3188.
Note: You will need to verify your identity to recover your CIT number.
Haven't activated your CIT Microsoft 365 account?
As a current student, you will receive an email invitation from CIT Student Account to activate your Microsoft 365 account.
Check your details in CIT Self Service: you must have a valid personal email address and mobile phone number entered.
If either of these details is incorrect or missing, please update it and you will receive an email invitation to activate your Microsoft 365 account.
Note: it may take up to 24 hours for the email invitation to be sent to your inbox after you enrol. If you can't find the email make sure you check your spam/junk mail folder.
How Do I Reset My Password?
If you have forgotten your password for logging into CIT systems, follow this guide to reset it: Password Reset Instructions document here (PDF 519Kb).If you are unable to reset your password using the guide above, contact the Library, Student Services, or eLearn Support on (02) 6207 3833.
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Library Supports Distance Learners and Homeschooling Families
The Bonfield Public Library is looking for guidance/suggestions from students and parents that are Homeschooling or doing Distance Learning this school year. Please let us know how the Library and staff can support you. What resources do you need? Send us an email with books/physical resources or suggestions for services the Library could provide.
Covid Update – Bonfield Public Library will remain with Curbside until Further Notice
The Bonfield Public Library will continue to provide Curbside pick-up for the residents of Bonfield until further notice. The Library building continues to be closed to the Public but many of our services such as WIFI, copying and faxing services and borrowing of resources are still available. Please contact the Library at (705)776-2396 or email email@example.com to find out how to access our resources and services.
Thank you for your continued patience and support.
Gearing Up to Re-Open – Facemasks Mandatory
The Bonfield Public Library getting ready to re-open to the public. Date and further information to be announced.
In preparation, we would like to help our patrons and community members to be prepared for entering our space.
In compliance with the Government recommendations, all patrons entering the Library will have to wear face masks. Here are a few links to patterns to make your own cloth masks.
Craft Passion.com – Multiple sizes including instructions on how to sew
SewCanShe.com – child and adult sizes for Olson style masks
SarahMaker.com – Pleated Face mask
JenniferMaker.com – No Sew face mask using a T-shirt
Interlibrary Loan Service is Back!!!
The Bonfield Public Library is excited to announce that the Interlibrary Loan Service has returned.
The Library staff requests that patrons be patient when waiting for their orders. Libraries are working hard to reopen to their communities while opening services like Interlibrary Loans. Every reasonable precaution (as outlined by the Government of Ontario) is being taken to ensure that patrons are accessing materials safely.
Reminder: Interlibrary Loan restrictions include:
- Materials already available at the Bonfield Public Library. Check our catalogue first before ordering.
- Materials published less than a year.
- Audio Visual items (CD’s, DVD’s).
- Electronic items
Patrons may order Interlibrary Loan materials through ZPortal (link found on our website) or call or email your order to the Library directly at 705-776-2396 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Friends of the Bonfield Public Library Strike again!!!
An assortment of Graphic Novels will rotate among participating Libraries. Check out our New Arrivals for new titles.
Thank you to the Friends of the Library for their support in bringing these new materials into our library.
How to Put a Book on Hold
Parry Sound Public Library staff have done an amazing job putting together a short Youtube Video on How to Put a Book on Hold through our online Catalogue. Click on the 1/4 in the top right of the screen and select Bonfield Public Library.
Our website suffered a setback recently and has had to be rebuilt. Some of the Information on the current website it NOT up to date. If you have any questions about the content please contact us at email@example.com or (705)776-2396 during Library hours.
Curbside Pick-up available beginning
- Each household will be allowed 10 books, 5 children’s books and 3 DVD’s
- Each household may only place 1 order a week
- All patrons are asked to follow standard social distancing rules (6 feet apart) and not loiter in the parking lot
- All returned items are to be placed in our Drop box located outside out front door
- Library hours will be:
MONDAY 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
TUESDAY 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
THURSDAY 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
How it will work:
- Choose your books or DVDs. Provide us with the author and title. Or allow staff to choose by providing us with your preferred genre or authors.
- Three options for placing an order:
Place your order on-line through our Catalogue at https://olsn.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/bonfield
All you need is your library card number (14 digits) and the last 4 digits of your phone number.
Call in your order at (705)776-2396 during library hours.
Be prepared to provide us with your selections.
Monday 10:00 – 1:00
Tuesday 4:00 – 7:00
Wednesday 4:00 – 7:00
Thursday 4:00 – 7:00
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.org
Provide us with your full name, telephone number and your requested materials.
- Wait for a staff member to CALL you to arrange a pick-up time.
- Come to the library at your pre-arranged time to pick-up your order just outside our door.
This is a new venture for all of us and we ask that you be patient with us. Staff will work hard to get you the materials you have ordered in a timely and safe manner. These procedures are subject to change at any time; updates will be provided through our Facebook page or posted on our front door.
The Bonfield Public Library has been closely monitoring developments and information about the coronavirus (COVID-19). Out of care and concern for our staff, our patrons and the public, we will be closing the Bonfield Public Library Monday March 16, 2020 until further notice.
We want to assure you that we have not taken this decision lightly. We know how many of you rely on us, and the impact that these closures will have. But ensuring the health and well-being of our communities and the safety of our patrons and staff is – and always must be – our top priority.
During this temporary closure, we are taking several steps to support you as much as possible:
- If you have books currently on loan, you may hold onto them or return them to our drop box located just outside the Library door. If you receive email notification regarding late items, please disregard them at this time.
- If you have holds, they will be waiting for you when we reopen.
- All of our online resources will still be available, 24/7 and can be accessed remotely using your library card. Visit http://bonfield.olsn.ca to download eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines
- Interlibrary Loans will be on hold until further notice. If you have an Interlibrary loan book from another library please return it to our drop box but no new materials will be brought in.
- Access to Wi-Fi will is still available in the parking lot. The network name and password is posted on our door.
- If you have any questions or concerns, please send us an email at email@example.com and we will help you as soon as possible.
As you know, this is a constantly evolving situation. We will continue to monitor the situation keep you informed of any changes to services. We encourage you to stay informed about COVID-19 by referring to credible sources of information, such as https://www.myhealthunit.ca/en/index.asp
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The Supreme Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared the draft law submitted by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on the upcoming presidential elections unconstitutional.
The law was to regulate the upcoming elections and set the requirements candidates must fulfill.
According to Egyptian media reports, the SCAF's proposed law includes articles from the controversial Law 174/2005 on the amendment of Article 76 of the 1971 Constitution, which concerns the election of the country’s president.
The Egyptian constitution underwent historic amendments in 2005 and 34 articles were put up for a national referendum in 2007. The amendments aimed to ensure that power remained in the grip of the now dissolved National Democratic Party.
According to the state-owned Middle East News Agency on Wednesday, the court said a number of articles from Law 174/2005 on presidential elections did not conform with the provisions of the Interim Constitution issued on 30 March 2011. The court said the new draft law includes a reference to Law 174/2005 on the amendments made to the 1971 Constitution but the Interim Constitution had disabled the 1971 Constitution.
The court called for the draft law to be reviewed and for any articles that contradict with the Constitutional Declaration or any contradictions within the draft law itself to be removed.
A source within the government told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Tuesday that the SCAF referred its draft law to the Supreme Constitutional Court to review.
The source expected a SCAF decree announcing the law on Sunday, to precede the first session of the parliament on 23 January.
On 15 December, the SCAF announced it had prepared a draft law to regulate the presidential elections, which are scheduled to be held before the end of June, and on 4 January the cabinet approved the proposed law. | <urn:uuid:b3b2a52f-03c1-4fb9-a97c-d8520fc34321> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://egyptindependent.com/presidential-election-draft-law-unconstitutional-says-egyptian-court/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.955281 | 351 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Authorities in Nevada are treating the death of a man at the Burning Man festival as suspicious.
Shane Billingham, 33, was found unresponsive in his car at around 18:30 local time on August 29.
According to police, the New Zealand national had “poisonous” levels of carbon monoxide in his blood.
Bystanders reportedly attempted CPR on Shane Billingham before paramedics arrived.
The man was taken to a medical tent, where he was later pronounced dead.
Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said it was investigating the death as suspicious.
A post-mortem examination found Shane Billingham had “a concentration of carbon monoxide in his blood which would be considered poisonous to human life”.
The Washoe County medical examiner’s office said: “Preliminary toxicology showed the presence of controlled substances to be an exacerbating factor.”
A makeshift memorial for Shane Billingham has been set up at Beats Boutique, the camp where he was staying at the festival.
One of his friends, Steve MacWithey, told the Reno Gazette Journal he had been “one of the best people” he had ever known.
Shane Billingham’s sister has launched an online fundraising page to help with the costs of bringing his body home.
Burning Man is a music and arts festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately 100 miles away from Reno.
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When Hate Comes Your Way: Lesson Learned by the Greenspon Center
When hate comes your way or to an organization you know, which we hope it never does, there are things that one can do to respond in ways that are effective, if not, transformative.
When it comes to college campuses, the statistics are alarming. According to Hillel International, during the summer of 2021, 32% of college students experienced antisemitism on campus, 79% reported it happening more than once, and 15% of all students surveyed, are too afraid to even tell their friends, roommates, or teammates they are Jewish.
Sadly, our Queens University campus became part of that statistic in late April, as swastikas were scrawled on three doors of our Hillel students. The Stan Greenspon Center staff is part of a community team of first responders to antisemitism. Here are some of the lessons we teach as a Center, that we put into action and that may inform individuals and organizations you know that encounter the same.
Put safety first
Make sure students’ or victims’ physical safety and emotional wellbeing are secured. On our campus that meant immediately increasing security for all our Hillel students and providing counselors to those who were impacted.
Inform the police, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and your local Jewish Federation. Tracking hate crimes and bias incidents is critical.
Denounce the act and provide accurate information
If it is at a school, be certain the school administration denounces the acts in unambiguous terms. It is important acts are labelled (e.g. as an act of antisemitism, homophobia, racism or Islamophobia). Silence or lack of clarity creates confusion allowing anxiety, fear, misinformation, and distrust to grow. Dispel misinformation by sharing the facts you know.
Communication happens quickly as information unfolds. If your communication misses the mark, take time to author a next draft with input from community experts.
Work with community experts
There are many community leaders such as the ADL, the Stan Greenspon Center, the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte, the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, and Hillel International (for college campus incidents) that are ready to help. Utilize them to review your messaging, share best practices, and/or to stand with you in support.
Support targeted students
If the incident is at a school, create an open and direct line of communication between the administration and impacted students. On the Queens’ campus, our initial response included immediate emails of support to the students from the Dean of Students and the President of the University. The Campus Rabbi and Coordinator of Jewish Life were available with calls, emails, and a gathering around a fire pit for conversation. The President of Queens invited all of our Hillel students to meet with him on a Sunday morning. Our students felt fully supported.
Work with the media
For organizations, creating a media plan is critical. A minor incident might not make it to headlines but broader media attention can come one’s way. Writing a brief two to three sentence media statement can help to control the message.
Seek justice, avoid blame
Rumor mills can cause greater harm. Affirm the Jewish values (or your community’s values) of honor, respect, inclusion, not gossiping, and more. Remind community members of the importance of reserving judgment until all facts are in.
Offer support to the entire community connected to the victim. Other minorities can also be triggered by events aimed at one minority.
Every single person has a role to play. Ask yourself, “What can I do?” We are all part of the solution. We are all called to be alongside those who have been hurt and care for those who’ve been affected, in order to create a safe, inclusive, and caring community for all.
At Queens, we created a “Stand for Unity” gathering where 200 students, staff, faculty and community members came out in support. Student musicians played healing music, the victims spoke with courage, and the student body and campus community shared their understanding of the extent of the harm that was caused. For an hour afterwards, the community lingered to offer words of support, hugs, and commitments to engage with Hillel and to craft a safe and affirming community in the weeks and years to come.
The outpouring from the Jewish and interfaith communities, broader Charlotte leadership and Queens alumni helped the healing process. We embraced the community expression of concern that came our way and shared some of those messages as they were so moving.
We learned that far too many on our campus do not understand the meaning of antisemitism, the history of hate that the swastika holds, and the harm that chalk or a marker in one person’s hand can cause. Our Coordinator of Jewish Life, Noah Goldman, is leading a summer book group for the campus community on Deborah Lipstadt’s book, Antisemitism: Here and Now. Hillel International has created some short films to educate those who don’t have time to attend programs entitled, Understanding Antisemitism on Campus with short films on the topics of “What is Judaism?” (16:40 minutes), “History of antisemitism’ (9:45 minutes), and “Antisemitism today” (17 minutes).
We are working to secure funding to create a Jewish Student Ambassadors program and train our Hillel students how to share their own faith stories, teach about Judaism to their peers, and gain the skills to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate.
The Stan Greenspon Center offers support in crafting curricular responses so that hate crimes and bias incidents become an educational opportunity.
Let hate not be the last word
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Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte fostered warmer ties with his more powerful neighbour by setting aside the ruling in exchange for promises of trade and investment, which critics say have not materialised.
In his strongest comments yet on the longstanding source of tensions between the two nations, Marcos Jr said he would not “allow a single millimetre of our maritime coastal rights to be trampled upon”.
“We have a very important ruling in our favour and we will use it to continue to assert our territorial rights. It is not a claim. It is already our territorial right,” he told selected local media.
“We’re talking about China. We talk to China consistently with a firm voice.”
But he added: “We cannot go to war with them. That’s the last thing we need right now.”
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Beijing’s position on the international ruling had not changed.
“China is willing to continue communication and dialogue with the Philippines to appropriately handle differences, and together uphold the peace and stability of the South China Sea region,” Wang said.
‘Friends with everyone’
Marcos Jr, popularly known as Bongbong, secured more than half of the votes in the May 9 election to win the presidency by a wide margin and cap a remarkable comeback for his family.
His father and namesake ruled the Philippines for 20 years, presiding over widespread corruption and human rights abuses before he was ousted in 1986.
Marcos Jr formally takes office on June 30.
He and his running mate Sara Duterte, who also won the vice presidential race in a landslide, have embraced key policies of the elder Duterte.
But Marcos Jr signalled that on foreign policy he would not adopt the “slightly unorthodox approach” of Duterte, who rattled diplomats with his firebrand rhetoric and mercurial nature.
The president-elect indicated he would seek to strike a balance between China and the United States, which are vying to have the closest ties with his administration.
“We are a small player amongst very large giants in geopolitics. We have to ply our own way,” said Marcos Jr.
“I do not subscribe to the old thinking of the Cold War where we had this spheres of influence where you’re under the Soviet Union or you’re under the United States,” he said.
“I think that we have to find an independent foreign policy where we are friends with everyone. It’s the only way.”
The United States has a complex relationship with the Philippines — and the Marcos family.
After ruling the former US colony for two decades with the support of Washington, which saw him as a Cold War ally, Marcos senior went into exile in Hawaii in the face of mass protests and with the nudging of the United States in 1986.
As regional tensions remain high, Washington is keen to preserve its security alliance with Manila that includes a mutual defence treaty and permission for the US military to store defence equipment and supplies on several Philippine bases.
The South China Sea was a key obstacle in Manila’s ties with Beijing and needed to be resolved, said Chester Cabalza of the Manila-based think tank International Development and Security Cooperation.
If Marcos Jr and Chinese President Xi Jinping do not engage on the issue, “Beijing will have an upper hand in terms of our strategic relations with China”, he said.
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Hot Spot: Latin America
Greenwood Press, 2008 - 270 síđur
From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, imigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability. This is a must-have source for current coverage of trouble spots in Latin America, their origins, and subsequent development.
Over 30 security-based hot spots are analyzed within these geographical regions. They vary in severity, background, and degree of threat to the United States, the nation itself, or its regional neighbors. Hot spots covered include:
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And close to 75 percent of those polled in January 2006 said that the U.S. government is not doing enough to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States . " Efforts to tighten the borders in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks have ...
Despite a revival of Cold War reporting on candidate Ortega and the Sandinistas , Ortega won the presidential race with close to 40 percent of the national vote . President Ortega's electoral victory places him in a precarious position ...
... country in the Western Hemisphere , with extremely high rates of illiteracy along with staggering health and environmental problems . Close to six percent of the population has HIV / AIDS , and Haitian life expectancy is 52 years .
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology
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So in my last post I discussed the idea of the shared CDO – a chief digital officer who works across a few different organisations to help them transform their services and working practices.
One of the first tasks facing a shared CDO would be to get the multidisciplinary team together to make things happen. The CDO can’t do everything on their own, after all.
What are the skills needed for the team?
- delivery management
- service design
- user research
- content design
- technology architecture
- digital inclusion / assisted digital
- technology operations
Note that while these are all roles that need to be present on the team, they don’t necessarily map to full time roles.
The CDO being shared also means, I think, that the team should be shared as well, with people with the required skills from all the organisations involved being a part of the team. This means the councils sharing staff when needed, but also others, such as whoever delivers a shared back office, or other organisations delivering services.
It is likely of course that some of the roles or skills are not present in any of the organisations involved. That’s fine, and so part of the team must be made up of SMEs and freelancers, who are considered members of the team but come in as and when needed. It’s helpful if it is always the same people, or at least from a pool, so relationships and trust can be built.
It may well be that this team will operate virtually, with full time roles at their parent organisations, who come together – black ops style – to get stuff done when needed.
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Sun Shuwei (CHN)
Honor Diver (2007)
FOR THE RECORD: 1992 OLYMPIC GAMES: gold (10m platform); 1991 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: gold (10m platform); 1994 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: silver (10m platform); 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: gold (10m platform synchro).
Sun Shuwei was 16 years old when he won the 1991 Perth World Championship 10m platform defeating his teammate Xiong Ni. Two years later at age 18, he was the Olympic Champion in the event, becoming China’s first male Olympic diver to win the gold medal on the 10m platform. His score of 677.31 points was well ahead of the silver and bronze medalists, Scott Donie (USA) and Xiong Ni (CHN). At the 1994 Rome World Championships, Russia’s Dimitry Sautin beat him by only four points but Sun returned in 1998 to win the World Championship gold medal in the 10m platform synchro with partner Liang Tian.
Sun started diving at the age of nine at the Guangdong Provincial Sparetime Sports School. At only 1.55 meters and 45 kilograms, he was a small athlete who relied on perfect technique to score high points. From 1988 to 1992, he won platform gold medals at the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, Canada International Invitational and Chinese National Championships. He missed the 1996 Atlanta Olympics due to eye surgery caused by a detached retina. The injury prevented serious diving the remainder of his career.
Swimming World Magazine named Sun, the World’s Best Male Platform Diver in 1991. He was selected China’s best diver in 1990 as well as one of China’s national top ten athletes of 1993. Upon retirement, he was invited to coach on the national team becoming China’s only national coach who was an Olympic gold medal winner. | <urn:uuid:db16b953-1cdd-474b-abe3-66f35da2db88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ishof.org/honoree/honoree-sun-shuwei/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945776 | 398 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Our in-house manufacturing facility produces Motor Control Centres (MCC) to Form 1, 2, 3 and 4 using branded components. MCCs are assembled and wired within the enclosures to pre-approved designs.
Each MCC is thoroughly tested, with each circuit connected to a simulation test rig to check compatibility with control software programs and field control devices. Prior to dispatch from the workshop, a 2,000-volt flash test and 500-volt insulation test is carried out to ensure that the MCC complies with BS Electrical Safety Regulations.
- Our dedicated in-house manufacturing teams focus on effective design meaning we have complete control over production and offer a consistent build quality and faster panel build times
- Any change to a design, allows us to implement panel changes quickly off or on site
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TOKYO (AFP) – The US ambassador to Japan voiced doubt Monday on whether the upcoming Group of Eight summit would take action on climate change, saying that any solution must also involve developing nations.
Host Japan has expressed hope that the July 7-9 summit of the Group of Eight (G8) rich nations — Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States — will help shape negotiations on a post-Kyoto climate treaty.
But Thomas Schieffer, the US ambassador to Japan, said that any solution on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needed to bring on board major emitters in the developing world such as China and India.
“It’s an issue that goes beyond the G8 and you can’t have a G8 solution that will ultimately be effective,” Schieffer told a small group of reporters.
He acknowledged that Japan “obviously would like to have a statement of agreement” by the Group of Eight on climate change.
“That’s a harder thing to do than you might think because we view it as a broader issue than just dealing with the other seven governments of the G8,” Schieffer said.
The United States is the only major industrial power to shun the Kyoto Protocol, whose requirements to slash emissions expire in 2012. President George W. Bush has argued that it is unfair because it makes no demands of developing nations.
Japanese news reports earlier said the United States has opposed including any specific target for future emissions cuts in the G8 statement.
Schieffer said the United States preferred to work through the so-called “Major Emitters Meetings,” an initiative launched by President Bush that includes 16 countries that account for 80 percent of emissions.
Most countries of the Major Emitters Meetings are also expected at the July 7-9 G8 summit in the northern Japanese resort town of Toyako.
Japan has invited leaders of eight major emitters that are not in the G8, including China and India, for an “outreach” summit on climate change on the final day.
Japan said on Saturday that Chinese President Hu Jintao had confirmed his attendance at the summit.
Masaharu Kohno, Japan’s so-called “sherpa” helping arrange the Toyako summit, acknowledged a tough fight on climate change ahead of the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit .
“The process is getting more and more complicated,” Kohno, a deputy foreign minister, told a news conference.
“A lot of people are sceptical about how we can achieve results at Toyako as negotiations are still going on,” he said.
Japan is the host nation of the Kyoto Protocol but has shared the US position that any post-Kyoto treaty needs to include developing countries.
Last year’s G8 summit in Germany called for rich nations to “seriously consider” reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least half by 2050.
G8 environment ministers, meeting last month in Japan ahead of July’s summit, called for “strong political will” to go beyond last year’s statement but was silent on mid-term targets until 2020.
About 190 countries agreed at a conference in December in Bali to reach a deal by the end of next year on commitments for the period just after Kyoto.
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In September 2015 the pilot study was published in the Mental Health Review Journal. It recorded that, using 118 cases measuring the effectiveness of Cognitive Hypnotherapy for the treatment of depression and anxiety, 71% considered themselves recovered after an average of 4 sessions. This compared to an average of 42% for other approaches using the same measures (like CBT).
Key researchers into the mind-body connection
Dr Candace Pert – Dr. Candace Pert PhD was an internationally recognized neuroscientist and pharmacologist who published over 250 research articles. She was a significant contributor to the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research in the 1980’s, earning her the title of “The Mother of Psychoneuroimmunology”, and “The Goddess of Neuroscience” by her many fans.
Bruce Lipton – Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief
Evette Rose – Author, Life Coach and Trauma Release Practitioner. Founder of Metaphysical Anatomy and author of Metaphysical Anatomy and Finding Your Own Voice.
David Hamilton – Dr David Hamilton has a PhD in organic chemistry and spent 4 years in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Inspired by the placebo effect, he left the industry to write books and educate people in how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their health.
Neuroscience, also known as Neural Science, is the study of how the nervous system develops, its structure, and what it does. Neuroscientists focus on the brain and its impact on behavior and cognitive functions.
Wordweaving - The hypnotic language
Wordweaving™ is improving the ability to utilise indirect language patterns – but for a purpose; to deliver appropriate trance phenomena to a particular part of their problem pattern in order to change the client’s perception of that problem.
Evolutionary psychology is an approach that views human nature as the product of a universal set of evolved psychological adaptations to recurring problems in the ancestral environment.
Hypnotherapy is a form of complementary therapy that utilises the power of positive suggestion to bring about subconscious change to our thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
Trance States. Wolinsky shows us how we continue to recreate those traumas in our adult lives and how to stop creating them. Every uncomfortable emotional state, and many psychosomatic symptoms, are also states of trance. Trance is the “glue” that holds the problem in the present moment. Learning to identify the kind of trance state beneath a problem or symptom gives us the tool that finally dissolves the glue.
The NLP logical levels (also known as the logical levels of change, the logical levels of thinking and the neurological levels) are very useful for assisting with or understanding change from an individual, social or organization point of view.
CBT is a type of talking treatment that focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your feelings and behaviour, and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. It combines cognitive therapy (examining the things you think) and behaviour therapy (examining the things you do).
Emotional Freedom Technique
EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles.
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Stevia (glycoside) is a new type of natural sweetener extracted from stevia, a herbaceous plant of the family Compositae. It has the characteristics of high sweetness and low thermal energy. Its sweetness is 200-300 times that of sucrose, and its calorific value is only 1/300 of sucrose. A large number of drug experiments have proven that steviol (glycoside) has no toxic side effects, no carcinogens, and is safe to eat. Regular consumption can prevent hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, dental caries and other diseases. It is an ideal alternative to sucrose Sweetener. Stevia (glycoside) can be widely used in food, beverage, medicine, daily chemical industry, wine making, cosmetics, condiment and other industries, and can save 60% compared with the use of sucrose. Stevia (glycoside) has a pure white color, suitable taste, and no odor. It is a new sugar source with broad development prospects. Stevia (glycoside) is the natural low-calorie sweetener closest to the taste of sucrose, which has been found in the world and approved for use by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Light Industry of China. The highly regarded natural sweetener is internationally known as "the third sugar source in the world".
Green --- Stevia (glycoside) is a pure natural green sweetener extracted from stevia of the asteraceae family.
Safety --- Stevia has been eaten for more than 400 years in the country of origin. So far, no poison has been found. Stevia (glycosides) do not participate in metabolism, accumulation, and toxicity in the body. Its safety has been obtained by the international FAO. As recognized by organizations such as WHO and Japan, Japan has determined that it is a sweetener that does not require special limits. The Ministry of Health of China in 1985 and 1990 respectively approved stevia (glucoside) as an unlimited amount of natural sweeteners and pharmaceutical sweetener excipients.
High sweetness --- its sweetness is 200-300 times that of sucrose, its sweetness is pure, cool, and long. In natural sweeteners, the taste is similar to sucrose, and it can greatly reduce the production cost, which can save more than 60% compared with sucrose. , While also saving transportation and storage costs.
Low heat --- The heat value of steviol (glycoside) is only 1/300 of that of sucrose. It can be used to make all kinds of low-calorie foods and beverages, especially for patients with diabetes, obesity, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and dental caries.
Health --- Stevia (glycoside) is recognized by the international medical community as a good nutritional supplement and health food for humans. Indigenous people used it as an herbal medicine 400 years ago to treat colds, flu, fistula congestion and other diseases. Modern medical research Stevia helps regulate blood sugar, blood pressure, improve energy and brain power, and helps the body lose weight and regulate body weight. Good skin care and treatment of various skin diseases.
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"Isles de Saint Domingue ou Hispaniola, et de la Martinique", Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles
Subject: Hispaniola & Martinique
Period: 1750 (dated)
Publication: Atlas Universel
Color: Hand Color
20.3 x 18.9 inches
51.6 x 48 cm
Superb large map of Hispaniola with a sizable inset of Martinique. The nicely detailed map covers the area to include the tip of Cuba, Turks & Caicos, and part of the Bahamas. The map is decorated by a grand decorative title cartouche and scale of miles.
References: Pedley #480.
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If ARM notebooks can be equipped with RTX graphics cards, what kind of applications will there be? NVIDIA and MediaTek have teamed up to create a notebook reference platform that supports Chromium, Linux and NVIDIA SDK to answer this question. Although I don’t know if any manufacturers will build products based on this reference platform, if the new generation of Chromebooks has the function of chasing light, it should open up many opportunities for games and applications.
This is another aspect of NVIDIA’s increasing reliance on ARM. At the same time, NVIDIA today also released an ARM-based data center processor, code-named Grace. In addition to competing with Intel’s x86 architecture, AMD will also be a strong enemy of NVIDIA, especially if AMD also builds its own ARM chip with a built-in Radeon display, it will completely overlap in attributes.
MediaTek said that the company is the world’s largest supplier of ARM chips, providing a wide range of products from smart phones, Chromebooks to smart TVs. MediaTek also looks forward to working with NVIDIA to bring GPUs to the ARM PC platform to strengthen applications such as games and content creation. GPU acceleration will also greatly benefit the entire ARM ecosystem. | <urn:uuid:ea5a8af9-3b7f-4dbf-ba91-57bbdf8c2234> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://securykid.com/nvidia-and-mediatek-join-forces-to-bring-rtx-displays-to-arm-notebooks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.934819 | 250 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Stabell, Anette, Else Alfelt – Universets farver, Copenhagen, Borgens Forlag, 1990
Thage, Jacob, Else Alfelt, exh. cat., Holtegaard, Holte (June 17–August 27, 2000), Holte, Gl. Holtegaard & Kunstcenter Silkeborg Bad, 2000→
Lungren Nielsen, Hanne and Korshøj, Lotte, Else Alfelt – Tomhedens æstetik, Herning, Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, 2010
Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum (Opening Exhibition), Herning, September 13, 1976 – June 1, 1977→
Else Alfelt, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, June 17–August 27, 2000→
Else Alfelt, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, March 19–September 11 2022
Danish painter and mosaicist.
Else Kirsten Tove Alfelt was born in 1910 and came of age in a world hit by existential questions that arose from the two world wars. On the cusp between an old and new world, she looked towards nature and the universe and painted colourful compositions of mountains, moons, suns and stars, such as Fuldmåne [Full moon] from 1956 which, characteristically for her work, borders on abstraction and figuration.
From a young age E. Alfelt was determined to be an artist, and in 1925 she was admitted to a two-year programme at the Technical School in Copenhagen, which served as preparation for the Academy of Fine Arts. But when she applied to the academy, she was rejected. She was working as an autodidact artist when in 1935 she was introduced to the artist association Linien [The Line, 1934-1939] by the artist Egill Jacobsen (1910-1998), whom she and her partner, the artist Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913-2007), met at an anti-war demonstration. The social circle around Linien inspired her to explore abstract and surrealist modes of expression, which resulted in her exhibiting her first abstract works at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling in 1937. During her artistic career she participated in several left-wing artist associations such as Linien, Skandinavierne, Helhesten, Høstgruppen and CoBrA, all of which worked with abstract visual languages and a belief in the popular dissemination of art. E. Alfelt participated in debates of the time on social and artistic equality, but she remained in the periphery of the artist associations and maintained her own rigorous artistic style throughout her life.
After the Second World War, E. Alfelt embarked on a series of journeys that had great significance for her work. In 1945 she experienced mountain landscapes for the first time on a trip to Sapmí after having painted mountains for years. She drew inspiration from different cultures and techniques; through Japanese calligraphy, Italian architecture and Icelandic lava stones she found motifs that became part of her artistic language. In 1952 E. Alfelt presented her first solo exhibition, Rummet og Bjaergene [The space and the mountains], at Den Frie [The Free Exhibition], which showcased works such as Spidser, der raekker mod himlen [Peaks pointing towards the sky] from 1949. She curated the exhibition herself and wrote a poetic text printed in the exhibition catalogue to accompany her works. E. Alfelt continued to create her own independent exhibitions at Den Frie until 1968.
In 1973 E. Alfelt received the prestigious Thorvaldsen medal. A year later, she died suddenly at just 63 years old and was buried at Tibirke cemetery. E. Alfelt’s works can today be found in the form of several mosaic decorations on the Th. Langs Seminarium in Silkeborg and Langelinie Pavillonen amongst other places. Her works are represented in Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum in Herning, and in the collections of numerous other museums in Denmark. In 2022 ARKEN Museum of Modern Art dedicated the first large retrospective exhibition to the artist in the last 20 years.
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Else Alfelt, Stromboli, 1958, oil on Masonite, 150 x 114 cm, Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, photo: Ralf T. Søndergaard, © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Spidser, der raekker mod himlen [Peaks reaching towards the sky], 1949, oil on Masonite, 102 x 102 cm, Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, photo: Ralf T. Søndergaard © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Universets Blomst [Flower of the Universe], 1966, oil on Masonite, 107 x 107 cm, Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, photo: Ralf T. Søndergaard © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Abstrakt komposition [Abstract composition], 1944, lithograph, 20.1 x 26.1 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Abstrakt komposition [Abstract composition], 1938, watercolor, pen and black ink on yellowish canvas, 23.5 x 30.9 cm, SMK. © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, August-nat. Dolomitterne [August night. Dolomite], 1951, watercolour, 31.2 x 47.7 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Bjerge [Mountains], 1955, pencil and watercolour, 47.7 x 31.2 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Bjergsletten [The mountain plain], 1950-1951, watercolour, 31.2 x 47.6 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Composition in Yellow, Red and Green, 1944, oil on plywood, 101.2 x 102.1 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Fuldmåne [Full moon], 1956, oil on Masonite, Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, photo: Ralf T. Søndergaard © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Kloder i gyldent rum [Globes in golden space], 1960, watercolour, 31.4 x 48.4 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Picture Painted in 7 Blue Colours, 1972, oil on plywood, 91.5 x 91 cm, SMK © ADAGP, Paris 2022
Else Alfelt, Regnbuen [Rainbow], 1954, oil on masonite, 245 x 498 cm, sketch for mosaic decoration at Rungsted Municipal School, Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, foto: Ralf T. Søndergaard © ADAGP, Paris 2022 | <urn:uuid:174e526c-5259-46dc-9393-35bc50a2d1d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/else-alfelt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.894578 | 1,525 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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The full form of BAF is Bachelor of Accounting and Finance. The course lasts three years in total and it covers topics from B.Com in addition to accounting, finance, taxation, auditing, and risk management. Students who are interested in pursuing jobs in accounting and finance should take up this course. Because the course covers accounting and finance in depth, students frequently choose the BAF program. This is a popular option for students who have just completed their 12th.
A BAF degree typically costs between INR 20,000 to 3 lakhs. With a degree in BAF, graduates can progress toward attractive job profiles and make up to 2–5 LPA. BAF graduates can strengthen their academic profiles by enrolling in courses at the postgraduate level, such as M.Com Auditing & Finance, MBA Finance, etc.
The BAF course is available both in online and offline mode. Online distance learning universities like IGNOU, TNOU, etc. offer this course through distance learning. Merit-based criteria and entrance exams determine who gets into the BAF course. DUAT, SET, and NPAT are a few of the popular BAF entrance tests. Some top colleges to pursue the BAF course are Chandigarh University, Christ College, Chennai Loyola College, etc.
The highlights section will provide you with an overview of the BAF course and its important aspects like course duration, course fees, eligibility, etc.
BAF Course Level
Bachelor In Accounting And Finance
BAF Examination Type
10+2 with marks from a recognized board with 50%.
BAF Admission Process
BAF Course Fee
INR 20,000 To 1,50,000
BAF Average Salary
INR 3,00,000 to 8,00,000 (Varies Country Wise)
BAF Job Profile
Front Office Manager, Accountant, and Tax Policy Analyst
BAF Employment Area
Real Estate, Finance Organization, Bank, Audit Office, Stock Exchange.
BAF Top Recruiting Companies
Auditing Office, Budget Analysis, Real Estate Financing, and Stock Exchange Board of India.
BAF is a three-year undergraduate finance and accounting degree program. This course gets accounting professionals and top financiers ready for the job market. Many significant advancements in the nation's accounting and finance industry can be accomplished using this knowledge. This degree makes a variety of jobs available. One can pursue respectable careers such as accountancy, financial analysis, revenue management, assistant management, and marketing management after receiving this degree. Even a newbie can make between INR 3 and INR 8 lacs per year in this industry.
Since it covers both accounting and finance in-depth, the Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (BAF) is well-liked by students. Students take both options as their B.Com specialization rather than picking between accounting and finance. This is a good option if you recently graduated from high school and want a job other than the typical Bachelor of Commerce.
Students taking the BAF course get knowledge of cutting-edge marketable approaches. They also study how to efficiently manage the finances and accounting of an organization, a country, or other entities. The Admission is held once a year and is based on merit and an entry test. BAF Admission is offered by many institutions twice a year, including IGNOU. For merit-based entry, a student needs to possess a 10+2 diploma and a 50 per cent cumulative total of their earned marks.
Students must receive the appropriate counseling in order to determine whether they are a good fit for a certain subject. Following are examples of students who should pursue a BAF degree:
The optimum time to pursue this degree program is typically questioned after learning more about BAF. The right time to pursue this course, as in most situations, has been seen to be immediately following your intermediate. BAF is a program where students study accounting and finance; individuals taking a certificate or diploma program can also enroll in this degree program to further their education. If accounting and finance are your interests, you can learn them whenever you want, even with online learning programs.
The decision to enroll in a BAF degree course is up to the individual student, however, there are a few perks that make it worthwhile to continue after the 12th grade, some of which are listed below:
The following criteria determine who is eligible for admission to the Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (BAF) course.
The BAF application process depends on the college/ university to which candidates will apply. Most of the application process today is done online through the official website of a particular college or university to which a candidate is applying for admission. The general application process that follows is mentioned below:
The BAF application fee is different for different institutes. Some of the top colleges depend upon national-level and university-level exams to provide admission to candidates to the BAF course. Candidates are required to check the official website of their preferred institute to know the correct application fee for the BAF course.
Depending on the institute, the BAF Admission Process is different, however, it is based on merit and entrance tests. An applicant must first pass the 12th or an equivalent exam in order to be considered for admission. Then, candidates must be eligible to take the entrance test. The NPAT, STE, and DUAT are just a few of the entrance exams offered for this reason. There are a variety of entry tests, some of which are national, regional, and institute-level. A counseling session is held for qualified applicants before the merit list is published in order to make the final selection.
Following are a few of the key points regarding the admission process for the BAF course:
BAF admission details of various institutes are mentioned below:
IGNOU: At IGNOU, BAF Admission is held twice a year. Admission for the upcoming BAF academic session will start in January 2022, while the second session will start in June 2022. The distance learning style of the BAF degree is earned from IGNOU. Students who want to enroll in the BAF IGNOU must have a 12th grade diploma or a similar certification from an accredited institution or board.
Delhi University: The BAF Admissions process will shortly start at Delhi University in 2022. To narrow down the pool of applicants for admission to the BAF degree program, DU holds an entrance exam. The results of the entrance exam and the board exam will be used to determine admission to DU. Delhi University administers the CUCET entrance exam for admission to the BAF program. Delhi University conducts the DUET, a very well-liked university-level admission examination, at the institute level. BAF registrations at DU are anticipated to begin in June 2022.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is abbreviated as IPU. The IPU CET entrance exam is one of the reasons this university is well-known. IPU administers this exam once a year, and candidates' performance on the IPU CET will also be taken into consideration for BAF Admission at IPU. In addition to the admission exam result, a passing grade on higher school exams is needed. Thousands of students apply to be admitted to the IPU's full-time BAF course, which is offered.
Symbiosis International University: BAF Symbiosis University admission is determined by the results of the entrance exam. For admission to its several bachelor's and master's programmes, Symbiosis University sponsors the SET entrance exam. Once a year, plans are prepared for this entrance exam. Beginning in June 2022, BAF Admission application forms will be made available on the university's website. Through the SET Admission test, students will be accepted into Symbiosis University and its numerous affiliated colleges. The Symbiosis BAF application registration fee is INR 1,750.
Amity University: In Noida, Amity University is a well-known research institution. The University is accredited by the UGC and has a high ranking from NIRF. UGC accepts Amity's courses, including the BAF. Admission to Amity's BAF programme is merit-based, and candidates' performance and eligibility are also evaluated by an admission exam. Amity will shortly release the application materials for BAF Admission 2022. Each form will require an application fee of INR 1,100.
The Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (BAF) program has no specific entry exam. Prior to checking the university website for the entrance exam for the Bachelor in Accounting and Finance program offered by that specific university, students must first choose the college to which they would like to apply for admission. The website should be often checked by students for deadlines and significant information.
Admission is frequently based on the marks a candidate received in the intermediate. The following entrance tests, though, are relevant to the BFA admission:
IPU CET: A university-level test is the Indraprastha University Common Entrance Test (IPU CET). This exam is held to grant admission to many different courses, including engineering, law, management, and computer applications. Students will be admitted into undergraduate, graduate, and other courses through the IP University entrance exam. This university entrance test is used to narrow the pool of applicants to those who are most qualified. It is conducted for many other courses in addition to BAF.
VEE: Every year, the VEE entrance test is held by VELS University Chennai to determine admission to various UG and PG programs. Every year, this exam is given in an offline mode and only happens once a year.
NPAT: NMIMS NPAT is an entrance exam for BBA, BSc (Finance), BSc (Economics), BCom (Hons), and BA (Hons) Liberal Arts, among other undergraduate courses that is held after the twelfth grade. NMIMS offers UG admission based on the NPAT results at its several campuses in Mumbai, Shirpur, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Navi Mumbai, Indore, and Dhule. The test is administered using a computer at the testing facility.
LPUNEST: The National Entrance and Scholarship Test, or LPUNEST, is used to determine eligibility for admission to various programs at Lovely Professional University. For most programs, this test serves as the basis for eligibility and financial aid, but for some programs, the test is just relevant for financial aid. For admission to more than 150 programs, it is conducted yearly online. The test serves as a scholarship test as well as an entrance test.
SET: Symbiosis University administers the SET exam at the college level to admission students to its UG and Integrated Courses programmes. Admission will be available in the fields of management, law, economics, and more. Every year, a number of cities around the nation host the online SET exam.
The majority of the entrance exams for BAF Admission are aptitude tests. These entrance tests typically consist of four to five components. English, General Awareness, Analytical Ability, and Logical Reasoning are among the topics covered in the BAF entrance exam syllabus. Each topic in the test has the same number of points. For each section, roughly 20–25 questions have been developed. There are around 120 questions on the entrance exam paper. Each portion must be qualified for, so students should equally prepare for each subject. Most entrance tests also allow for negative marking.
Every student has a particular learning style and set of circumstances, therefore a single teaching method cannot be appropriate for all pupils. For a single study programme, there are numerous learning strategies that were developed with the needs of the students in mind. Following are the most typical BAF degree categories available in India:
Full-time BAF Course: The most popular degree program offered by practically every institution in India is a full-time BAF. Classes are given daily for this regular course. Most students prefer to enroll in the full-time BAF course because it is the most popular sort of degree program. A full-time BAF requires about 50% in the 10+2 and passing an entrance exam as requirements. There are several admission tests held for this reason. The most popular tests among them are DUAT, SET, NPAT, etc. In Indian universities, the average full-time BAF course fee ranges from INR 40,000 to INR 1,50,000.
Part-Time BAF Course: A degree program called the Part-Time BAF is taught part-time. The Bachelor of Accounting and Finance is appropriate for students majoring in business. Joining this part-time BAF program is an option for those who have completed their 10+2 education and wish to continue their education but lack access to the regular courses. Part-time courses are currently offered at several institutions. The working students who are enrolled in this part-time program will find it easiest to manage their time. They can work and learn at the same time when using this type of learning. Students receive the same work chances as they would in normal BFA courses, making it lucrative.
Online BAF: A bachelor's degree in accounting and finance known as an online BAF is offered through online classes in the field of commerce. Depending on the institute and the student, the online BAF can last anywhere between three and six years. Currently, several universities in India are using the online learning approach to teach a variety of courses, including BAF. These institutions include TNOU, IGNOU, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, and many others. The students who reside in places far from their college stand to gain the most from it. Additionally, this course is open to students with time or financial limitations.
BAF Distance Education Course: The previous few years have seen a rise in the importance of distance learning, which rose to the top of the agenda during the epidemic. Nowadays, conventional courses and distance learning are used in the majority of Indian colleges. There is no denying the numerous benefits of these courses. Students can receive instruction at a reasonable cost, in their preferred learning environment, etc. BAF distance learning courses include a merit-based admissions process. To qualify for BAF distant Admission, a student must receive a score of at least 50% or higher. Additionally, a diploma degree is also admissible for BAF distance admission.
IGNOU BAF Distance Education Course: The most well-known institution in India that provides online courses is Indira Gandhi NationalOpen University (IGNOU). IGNOU offers BAF as a distant learning option as well. IGNOU charges a BAF course fee of around INR 6000, which is significantly less than a standard BAF programme. IGNOU will consider students who have earned a 10+2 diploma or an equivalent qualification to be eligible for BAF admission.
A wide range of topics that are pertinent to the business world are covered in the BAF course. Accounting fundamentals, macroeconomics, fundamental mathematics, financial accounting, introduction to finance, cost accounting, and so on are some of the topics covered. Along with the chosen subjects, there are also a lot of other subjects.
Below is the Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (BAF) three-year course's semester-by-semester syllabus.
These are recognized as the top universities in India for accounting and finance. The location, course fees, and placement package are provided below in a tabulated form.
Average Annual Fees (in INR)
Average Annual Salary (in INR)
St. Aloysius Evening College
Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira Computer Center
Mansarovar Group Of Institution
H.B.Institute Of Communication And Management
H.A. College Of Commerce
City-wise college details for the BAF course are described below:
BAF Colleges in Mumbai: Numerous Indian students attend the colleges in Mumbai to complete their BAF degrees. 101 colleges in Mumbai provide the best BAF instruction. KJS College, HR College, ST. Xavier's College, and other renowned BAF colleges can be found in Mumbai.
BAF Colleges in Delhi: In Delhi, one can pursue a BAF degree in the field of commerce at one of the city's around 291 colleges. The best colleges in Delhi to pursue a BFA are The Hindu College, LSR College for Women, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Hans Raj College, and others. The typical annual cost for a BAF in Delhi Colleges ranges from about INR 12,500 to INR 2,10,000.
BAF Colleges in Bangalore: Bangalore has 199 colleges that offer BAF programs, including 22 public colleges and 177 private ones. These institutions include Christ University, Jain University, Mount Carmel College, and other UGC-recognized ones. In such institutes, the cost of studying BAF ranges from INR 75,000 to INR 2,50,000.
BAF Colleges in Hyderabad: In Hyderabad, there are 68 colleges that offer BAF programmes. There are 59 private institutions and nine state colleges among them. The annual tuition for BAF colleges in Hyderabad ranges from INR 11,000 to INR 15,5000. Osmania University, the Indian Institute of Management & Commerce, St. Joseph Degree, PG College, and others are some of the finest BAF colleges in Hyderabad.
A B.Com. Accounting and Finance graduates are qualified to work in a range of industries, including multinational corporations and international financial organizations.
The typical tuition fee ranges from Rs 20,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh for admission to the Bachelor of Accounting and Finance program. The BAF course fee tends to be on the higher side for private colleges and the BAF course fee for government institutions is comparatively lower. Most of the top universities/ colleges tend to take admission for their BAF course via popular entrance exams and most of the private colleges/universities tend to take admission for the BAF course on merit basis i.e marks obtained by candidates in class 12th.
Candidates can expect job offers for a variety of roles related to Finance, Accounting, and Taxation because this course is so versatile and dynamic.
A few of the popular job roles that BAF graduates can take up after the completion of the course along with their respective salaries are mentioned below:
Average Annual Salary (in INR)
Tax Policy Analyst
Sales And Marketing Executive
Lead Business Analyst
4 - 6 lakhs
Yes, BAF is a very good choice for all the CA aspirants as it focuses on finance and accounting providing candidates with focused skills in the field of accounting and finance which are the subjects included in the CA course as well. It will be like killing two birds with one stone.
Candidates for the BAF are only given training in the fields of finance and accounting, whereas BMS graduates can choose from a significantly larger range of specialities. BAF is a course for students who have a keen interest in the fields of accounting and finance. BMS is an option for those who have a stronger focus on management and business.
Careers in a range of banking and commercial areas are possible after completing the BAF course. In India, the scope of BAF and salaries are broad and expanding quickly. Students who successfully complete a BAF gain knowledge and credentials they can use in their accounting jobs.
No, math is neither a compulsory subject nor a mandatory requirement for admission to the BAF course. Candidates from science, commerce, and even arts stream can take up this course after completing their class 12th from a recognized board in India.
The BAF program assists students in learning about financial accounting, taxation, auditing, risk management, managerial economics, business law, and business communications. The BAF program is offered by a number of colleges around the nation.
Following completion of the BAF course, a number of job opportunities are open, including those of an auditor, accountant, manager of export or import, tax consultant, stockbroker, or manager of financial risk. All these jobs provide a rewarding career with higher average annual earnings.
BAF is a superior option because it provides a solid foundation in accounting if one is interested in chartered accountancy. Overall, it can be concluded that BAF is for people who have planned their careers and are aware of where they want to take themselves.
BAF is a better alternative for you if you're seeking for a more career-oriented education. B.Com would assist you in determining your specialization if you are interested in continuing your education but are unsure of what you want to study. The B.Com degree is thought to be a better option for courses like CA and CS.
The average annual salary of a BAF graduate is INR 5.7 lakhs.
An undergraduate degree in finance and accounting (BAF) focuses on topics including accounting, financial institutions, market systems, banking, and management. This course is recommended for those who want to work in accounting or finance. Students usually pick the BAF curriculum because it thoroughly covers both accounting and finance. This is a well-liked choice for pupils who have just finished their 12th grade.
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The fallacious sense of “slippery slope” is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. In this sense, it constitutes an informal fallacy.
Why is a slippery slope fallacious?
A slippery slope fallacy occurs when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event. In this fallacy, a person makes a claim that one event leads to another event and so on until we come to some awful conclusion.
Is the slippery slope fallacy really a fallacy?
In informal logic, slippery slope is a fallacy in which a course of action is objected to on the grounds that once taken it will lead to additional actions until some undesirable consequence results. Also known as the slippery slope argument and the domino fallacy. The slippery slope is a fallacy, says Jacob E.
What demonstrates slippery slope fallacy?
“If we take the step to legalize marijuana, then the people will come to believe that it is in fact an acceptable drug. Further, if that happens, then other states will follow, and that will lead to the legalization of the drug nationwide.
What is a slippery slope argument quizlet?
Slippery slope fallacy. An argument that rests on an unsupported warning that is controversial to the effect that something will progress by degrees to an undesirable outcome.
What is the slippery slope argument in ethics and philosophy?
The slippery slope argument views decisions not on their own, but as the potential beginning of a trend. In general form, this argument says that if we allow something relatively harmless today, we may start a trend that results in something currently unthinkable becoming accepted.
Why do many ethicists believe that it is unethical to use a control group when conducting medical experiments?
Why do ethicists believe it unethical to use a control group when conducting medical experiments? The believe increasing knowledge is not adequate to risk a human life.
What is red herring fallacy?
This fallacy consists in diverting attention from the real issue by focusing instead on an issue having only a surface relevance to the first.
What is the straw man fallacy quizlet?
Definition. The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.
Why is straw man a fallacy?
Straw person is the misrepresentation of an opponent’s position or a competitor’s product to tout one’s own argument or product as superior. This fallacy occurs when the weakest version of an argument is attacked while stronger ones are ignored.
What is poisoning the well fallacy?
Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a type of informal fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say.
What is a non sequitur?
Definition of non sequitur
2 : a statement (such as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog.
What means straw man?
Definition of straw man
1 : a weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted.
What is a false dichotomy give an example?
The terms “false dilemma” and “false dichotomy” are often used interchangeably. Example: You can either get married or be alone for the rest of your life. False dichotomies are related to false dilemmas because they both prompt listeners to choose between two unrelated options.
What is begging the question fallacy?
The fallacy of begging the question occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it. In other words, you assume without proof the stand/position, or a significant part of the stand, that is in question.
Can a question be fallacious?
A complex question is a fallacy in which the answer to a given question presupposes a prior answer to a prior question. Also known as (or closely related to) a loaded question, a trick question, a leading question, the fallacy of the false question, and the fallacy of many questions.
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When you find yourself facing a tough situation to rid your home of pests and diseases, it is better to consult a local exterminator to help you get rid of them. This is also true if you need some tips on how to get rid of insects. Local exterminators are also in a position to give you advice as to how to solve the problem and make your home pest-free.
Finding what to do first will be important so that you won’t mess up your situation further. Firstly you must know what type of problem you are dealing with. Identify which insects or bugs are causing your problem. Look for licensed pest controllers or you can check out the internet for their recommendation.
If you know the type of bug that is attacking your home, you can try calling a pest control company. They will take care of the problem and come up with some good solutions. You don’t have to wait for your pest problem to worsen. A professional will come up with some solutions that will help you get rid of them once and for all. Remember to always keep an eye on them and call them back after consulting the experts. This is necessary to avoid any damage caused by them.
Once they have completed their work, ask them to provide you with some recommendations and tips on how to get rid of these insects. A lot of people might be too busy dealing with the problems at home. For this reason, they tend to ignore the problem until a major problem happens.
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Cyberthreats aren't going away any time soon. Cybercrime is a big business, and it's still growing. The need to secure your business will continue to grow. But you can adopt the mindset of the most resilient businesses by preparing for a security incident to reduce the likelihood and severity of an attack. If you follow the strategies shared in this blog post, you can minimize your risk and handle what comes your way.
The Most Effective Security Strategies are Often the Simplest
Tackling even the most complex security challenges often starts with very simple tactics. Some are easy enough to quickly and easily integrate into your daily work routine. And that's the key to the most effective cybersecurity: keep it simple for employees, keep them informed with basic cybersecurity awareness and education, and automate as much as possible.
- Don't be complacent - develop a basic awareness about overall security concepts and risks.
- Hire a partner with security expertise to identify and address your security needs.
- Prioritize what you need to protect most.
- Dedicate a budget.
- Schedule regular employee education on basic cybersecurity practices.
- Employ multi-factor authentication that requires users to provide additional verification beyond just a username and password to confirm their identities.
- Have all employees use strong, unique passwords, or consider taking a password-free approach by using fingerprints or PINs for secure sign-ins.
- Change usernames and passwords on Wi-Fi connected devices like routers and copiers.
- Use anti-virus software to provide comprehensive protection against malware, spyware, and viruses across emails, applications, the cloud and the web.
- Backup critical data, preferably in the cloud, and have a system in place to do so regularly.
- Information protection, including data loss prevention, document protection and data classification
- Conduct periodic review of access, keeping track of who is accessing and sharing information, and revoke access to documents, data, and apps when required.
- Implement a detection system to make sure that you are getting a comprehensive and real time view of useful security data and activity.
- Institute a process and dedicate staff to monitor alerts and respond as necessary.
- Have an incident response plan ready in case of a successful cyberattack and share it among employees prior to (not after) a possible attack.
- Use advanced threat protection solutions that provide response and remediation, so you can minimize damage in the case of a successful breach.
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Education and livelihoods for youth also support elderly refugees
The elderly are in a particularly vulnerable position in Uganda’s refugee settlements. With access to education and livelihoods, the community can also create a better future for the family’s seniors.
Seven years ago, Elizabeth Kapinga and her family hid in the bush on their way to the Ugandan border. The family was fleeing the unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and had to travel on foot for three weeks without getting a lift by car.
“The shots were coming from all directions, and we hurried the children along. Looking back on it, I think about how life has been so hard for us, but I know others are still suffering and losing their lives,” says 80-year-old Kapinga.
Kapinga and her four children, son-in-law, and ten grandchildren have stayed in Rwamwanja refugee settlement since 2013. In the DRC, Kapinga lost her spouse, four children, and three grandchildren, and thinking about them makes her sad.
“I had a good life. I got married, and I was happy. Then the Lord separated me from my husband, and I was all alone,” says Kapinga.
Uganda hosts 1,4 million refugees. Most of them come from neighbouring countries, such as the DRC, where several armed groups fight each other. The conflict is dangerous to civilians. The unrest has cost people their homes and possessions, and particularly women face the threat of violence and rape.
Kapinga’s family is safe, but their daily life is challenging. The refugee settlement faces a shortage of many necessities, and for many families, the food assistance available is not enough for surviving. The availability of health care services and medicine is low, and the prices are high.
Kapinga’s family’s situation has improved since her son-in-law Lucien Kagoro graduated from the Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) centre established by Finn Church Aid (FCA) in Rwamwanja. Kagoro joined his extended family in Rwamwanja in 2017 after working as a teacher in the DRC. He could not find work in Ugandan schools because of language barriers, but the vocational training opened up a new career path for him and many other youths.
Kagoro trained to become a hairdresser, and he now runs a successful salon. His work secures a livelihood for the whole extended family and enables the children to go to school. Kagoro lost his parents in the conflict, and his wife’s family, including his mother-in-law, is the only family he has.
“I love my mother-in-law. She has given me so much. My family is doing well now,” says Kagoro.
After the hardships in his home country, Kagoro says that he now lives in peace in Uganda.
“I’m happy with the life we have now,” says Kagoro.
Grandmother Kapinga likes to spend her days with her grandchildren. Watching the children play takes her mind off unpleasant memories. A secure livelihood gives her the chance to enjoy her daily life.
“I’m happy for my son-in-law’s work. He enjoys it, and it enables him to take care of us. I don’t know how we would manage if Lucien didn’t have his salon,” says Kapinga.
In the vocational education centre, 70 per cent of the students are refugees from the DRC. Out of the young people who have completed their training, more than 70 per cent have found employment or started their own business.
“Educating children and youth is a way of building the future and investing in the sustainable development of entire communities. After the urgent emergency relief, we start building the future of families through education and livelihoods,” says Eija Alajarva, Head of Humanitarian Assistance at FCA.
Advanced age and life experiences bring with them injuries and illnesses that complicate mobility and access to information. It is essential to do outreach work and provide help in the home when working with the elderly and persons with disabilities.
“When people are forced to flee, families may fall apart. Members of a family may not end up in the same refugee settlement, and while families normally take care of the elderly, that can change in a crisis,” says Alajarva.
The constant threat of violence also drove Maria Nyrambagazohe, 67, to flee her home village in the DRC with her two grandchildren. They fled on foot, which forced them to leave all their belongings behind. Since 2018, the family lives in Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda.
Nyrambagazohe’s husband and two sons lost their lives in the unrest. Her daughter, the mother of her grandchildren, remained in the DRC. The family does not know whether she is still alive. Nyrambagazohe is now the guardian of Anarite, 8, and Sylvester, 10.
“I think about my family every day. The children keep asking when they get to see their mother again,” says Nyrambagazohe.
While the refugee settlement is peaceful, the family’s day-to-day life is tough. Nyrambagazohe and the children are often sick, and work exhausts her quickly, causing her all kinds of ache and pain. The children support her with household chores, such as cleaning and fetching water.
The elderly are respected and have an important role in communities, and people want to take care of their wellbeing. In times of crisis, they might still end up as caretakers. If the parents have died or are otherwise absent, the grandparents – often the grandmothers – have to take care of their grandchildren.
The biggest challenge of Nyrambagazohe’s family is hunger. Because of her age and condition, she cannot work, and the family lives in poverty. Like many other families in the refugee settlement, they all receive 21,000 Ugandan shillings per month as a World Food Programme (WFP) assistance for food. The money can get them 8 kilograms of cornmeal, an equal amount of beans or 1.5 kilograms of meat.
“It is not easy for the children to be hungry all day long,” says Nyrambagazohe.
For most elderly refugees, returning to their home country might not be possible. Nyrambagazohe misses her friends and other villagers back home. In Uganda, she often feels lonely, but she says she enjoys the peacefulness.
” I never used to be able to sleep before, but now I sleep well, she says.
Anarite and Sylvester are used to their life in the refugee settlement. They play football and skip rope with the neighbourhood’s children. Watching them play makes Nyrambagazohe happy. When her grandchildren can go to school, she knows they can have a future.
“We are grateful for the support for school materials, fees, and clothing. Education will enable the children to find employment and care for their families when they grow up,” says Nyrambagazohe.
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Text: Noora Pohjanheimo
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Thoughts on St Luke 10 : 25-37
Last Sunday we were looking at the parable of the Good Samaritan.
The surprise in this story is that the guy who stopped to help the unfortunate Jew left lying robbed and injured at the roadside was a Samaritan!
Jews and Samaritans hated one another.
They were rivals .
But when a need arose the Good Samaritan ignored these rivalries and helped.
We all have our own prejudices but to rise above them to do good to someone in need is, according to Jesus, right and neighbourly! After all we are, each one , part of the same human family on earth with God as father of all !
If only folk would live like that Samaritan what a different world we could all enjoy.
Actions can start with us!
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10 Best and Free Music Notation Software in 2022-2023
Notation software can be handy for composers, composers, arrangers, students, and professionals alike. Composing music with the help of notation software allows you to collaborate with other musicians and put your ideas down in an easy-to-read format that anyone can understand.
Notation software also gives you the option to hear your music as you are writing it, which helps guide you through the process of composition when compared to writing by hand or typing on a computer keyboard.
There are many types of notation software available. However, some are more useful than others when making good music.
1. Notion 6
This music notation software can open any PDFs and notate your music. You can also import MIDI files and edit them using various editing tools.
The app can then be exported back to PDF, MIDI, or MusicXML format and saved as an mp3 file. It also has support for typing in lyrics on top of the music. It is available on Android, macOS, and iOS devices.
- With a clear and easy-to-navigate interface, Propellerhead’s Note is a favourite for creating scores for music, film, and other types of media.
- Thanks to its cloud storage capabilities, it is also a perfect place to collaborate in real-time on large projects with multiple creators.
- Users can also preview their music with several built-in features, including one that creates entire mockups of sites and apps based on scores.
- It’s not surprising why more than 15 million people have downloaded Propellerhead’s Note since it was released in 2013: The app makes it easier than ever to create professional documents that are ready for use right away.
2. Sibelius’s First
A music notation program developed by Avid. Sibelius First offers students and educators several features designed to enhance learning, including practice capabilities that reinforce fundamental concepts, a personalized learning system with feedback on ideas users struggle with, and more.
However, some advanced features like video recording and editing are only available in other versions of Sibelius. The software includes a 70-day free trial, after which you can opt for monthly or annual pricing options depending on your needs.
- The significant advantage to Sibelius First is that, unlike Finale and MuseScore, it is not tied to any specific hardware platform, meaning you don’t have to buy a new computer or spend time trying to migrate files.
- All in all, it’s easy enough for beginners while still offering advanced capabilities.
- Of course, there are some caveats.
- Like its main competitor (Finale), Sibelius First only outputs PDF files rather than usable music notation documents – though you can export MIDI data directly from Sibelius if needed.
- Likewise, as with other free programs like MuseScore and LilyPond (more on them later), features like note input and chords are a bit clumsy compared to their paid alternatives.
3. Minitool MovieMaker
There are many reasons to want a simple, basic editor for writing out music. You might not need all of the bells and whistles that come with complete notation programs like Sibelius or Finale—you want something to get your ideas down without hassle.
It doesn’t hurt to look at some free options first in such cases. One great tool is Minitool MovieMaker . It has a comprehensive library of symbols, a clean interface (with an opportunity for an editing pad), print and export features, playback features, and more. If you’re looking for something simple to capture ideas in their early stages, Minitool is worth checking out.
- Minitool MovieMaker is a free application that lets you view and edit music scores.
- It’s available in multiple languages, supports different types of music notation (including guitar tablature), and comes with various sound effects.
- Minitool MovieMaker supports importing various file formats and exporting to PDF.
- Importing your images or graphics will allow you to create charts or diagrams for your scores that look good and are easy to read.
- The application is intuitive enough for beginners and offers advanced editing options for those who want them.
- You can add notes on any track to enter changes, adjust playback speed and add transitions between tracks.
MuseScore is an open-source, free software notation editor. MuseScore allows input and editing music in printed form and listens to it through synthesized sound or MIDI playback.
MuseScore has no native audio capability and requires an external program like FluidSynth, SF2, or LilyPond to playback score on a computer.
It is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. MuseScore can create an impressive score with little CPU use as a multi-platform application that uses OpenGL extensively.
- It’s free to download and use on Windows, macOS, or Linux.
- It also has features to create and publish sheet music as web pages or PDF files. However, it’s been criticized for having a steep learning curve.
- It takes time to figure out which aspects of notation are best suited for your project. Still, with help from tutorials, you can quickly learn how to master MuseScore’s many features.
- You can also get a crash course in music theory through tutorial videos covering everything from what sharps and flats are used for to how percussion instruments are written out on sheet music.
This notation software allows users to compose music, arrange it, and print it out. The program is based on MIDI files, so there will be no time spent manually entering notes. Instead, users can work with a virtual piano and create music as they go along, helping them complete tasks more quickly than ever before.
This program also features an impressive number of inbuilt instruments and samples, so users don’t have to make use of their own if they prefer not to. There are many other great features included in Impro-Visor. Still, we like that you can enter just about any chord structure and hear what it sounds like before committing it to memory or creating a document for others to see.
- Impro-Visor is a free music notation software that lets you create scores written in staves and lyrics and listen to them.
- Improvisor lets you share your scores with anybody on your network.
- It can export your score as a GIF image or a video and print it in LaTeX format (or PDF).
- All its features are free: no ads, no time limits.
- It’s straightforward and intuitive: by default, Improvisor uses treble clef for its staves; it also gives you various instruments at disposal: piano, flute.
- You can resize any team to make it smaller or bigger.
Which is simple and easy to use, perfect for a first-time notation user. It may not have every feature, but it’s free, making it great for students learning how to read sheet music.
Save your scores as midi files if you want to later export them into a video game or as an mp3 file for karaoke fun with friends. ABC staff: Writing music in standard notation has never been easier than with ABC Staff!
- EasyABC is a free music notation software program that’s easy to use and has an intuitive interface that’s quick to master.
- Though its main focus is simple songwriting, EasyABC can also be used to create basic instrumental and vocal arrangements.
- EasyABC integrates with other digital music equipment such as MIDI keyboards, synthesizers, sequencers, and various audio editing software packages for additional functionality and freedom.
- On top of these features, EasyABC is also compatible with both Windows and Mac computers.
7. Forte Home
Forte is a free, open-source tool for music notation created by MuseScore. This software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. The best thing about Forte is that you can use it to make notations on your computer keyboard instead of writing with a pen or mouse.
You can also select any typeface for printing scores, add numbers and lyrics, import MIDI files and even create an interactive piano score. Everything in Forte is simple to learn from scratch.
- The best free music notation software.
- Forte is designed to make it easy for anyone—professional or amateur, beginner or expert—to create a musical score that looks beautiful and sounds great.
- Whatever your skill level, Forte can help you learn more about music, express yourself creatively through writing and print stunning scores—and share your work with friends and colleagues worldwide.
- Forte is perhaps the most powerful yet user-friendly application available for musicians today.
- With over 25 years of experience creating digital tools for musicians and educators, Steinberg has created Forte with a mission: we want to empower all musicians to express themselves creatively.
8. Finale PrintMusic
Finale PrintMusic is a free music notation software program. It was formerly known as Sibelius Notepad and developed by Avid but is now part of MakeMusic after its purchase in 2016. PrintMusic offers several different templates for writing music, such as piano rolls, organ pedal diagrams, guitar chord charts, and orchestral parts.
It also provides many options for editing existing scores, including inserting notes and rests manually or using an ink tool to change their shape. Another helpful feature is a tool that lets you alter how musical instruments are placed on paper.
Hence, they line up evenly with other elements like lyrics or notes. PrintMusic also supports most audio file formats to make it easy to import songs into your compositions.
- The Finale PrintMusic program is a comprehensive notation package for amateurs and professionals.
- This music notation software offers more than 250 features, including a full array of editing tools, note entry, unlimited tracks and measures, auto-correction, flexible import/export options, and much more. Plus, PrintMusic allows you to output your scores in PDF format for easy printing.
- This free music notation software offers 30 days’ worth of trial use before you must pay USD 30 per month (or USD 360 per year) to continue using it.
- PrintMusic can be used on a single computer or shared by multiple users via LAN.
9. Cakewalk Sonar
Sonar is one of the more expensive free music notation software on our list. It turns out, though, it’s not just a stripped-down version of Cakewalk Pro Audio and their flagship SONAR platform. Its unique features make it a stand-out tool for both novices and advanced users.
For example, while many other free music notation software programs can only output PDF, SONAR will export directly to various more common file formats, including AAC (Apple’s M4A), MP3, and ACM (Audio Converter Manager), AIFF or WAV files.
- Cakewalk Sonar’s music notation features will work with several MIDI applications.
- It can be used for sequencing video and other audio files.
- Users can record their instruments using it as well.
- Cakewalk Sonar is quite intuitive and easy to use, even for those who have never had any experience with music notation software before.
- It’s pretty comprehensive and allows users to customize their layout in various ways (such as changing font sizes or adding new symbols) to make everything more valuable and accessible.
- Some advanced features include performance analysis tools, which allow musicians to work on improving specific aspects of their playing.
This free music notation software allows you to create musical scores. It’s used by thousands of people worldwide to compose songs, and it can be beneficial for creating sheet music, lead sheets, and chord charts. The program has many features that make it easy for beginners and advanced users alike.
For example, you can import MIDI files to play along with your favourite tracks or even customize them in various ways. NanoStudio allows you to control every aspect of a song’s dynamics, including instrument volume, panning, note length, velocity (attack) intensity, etc. You can also edit audio effects like reverb or echo, which will help polish your final creation.
- NanoStudio is a free program that makes it possible to edit music digitally.
- The user can do everything he needs right on his computer.
- He does not need any expensive hardware, as all he needs is a MIDI controller.
- Everything works seamlessly with all versions of Windows, as well as Linux.
- Once you get started with NanoStudio, likely, you will never use any other notation software in your life again.
- It has all you need and more!
Notation software is software that helps you create and edit music notation. You can use notation software to write music. You can also use notation software for editing music. Music notation software is also used to record music when you register your music using notation software. This blog has listed the ten best and free music notation software that is very useful for music learners and artists. | <urn:uuid:649af2db-8bc8-458a-93b7-b996637521de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hearteyesmag.com/10-best-and-free-music-notation-software-in-2022-2023/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.925983 | 2,806 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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