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Animal Health ETT (SIKAVA) has worked intensively from the 1990´s with disease eradication programs and developing national animal health care system. We are practically nationwide Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) considering enzootic pneumonia, salmonellosis, atrophic rhinitis, mange, swine dysentery and PRRS-virus.
Our core expertise areas are chain integrated actions within animal health, welfare and food safety. The chain management is based on health and welfare classification of pig farms. The SIKAVA system is recognized as a national quality system defined by EU regulation 2010/C341/01 and certified ISO9001 standard quality management system. The system covers over 95% of Finnish pig production.
Production results such as low mortality, high daily gain and intact tails are strengths of Finnish pig production.
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Oddly, last night Manchester, Connecticut Shooting.: Several Dead; Omar Thornton Identified As Shooter, at the LA Times, was at the top of a Google news search for Thornton. The fact that Thornton was black was mentioned three or four paragraphs in. On page 4 the significance of the Hollander family was mentioned. Unfortunately I did not excerpt the story, and cannot find any archive of it.
Today that LAT link redirects to a two page report, Manchester Shooting: 9 Dead; Omar Thornton Identified As Shooter at Courant.com, which omits both facts.
Searching again today it is possible to find other stories that make Thornton’s race and race-based motivation clear, eg. Omar Thornton: “I Killed the Five Racists” – Crimesider – CBS News.
However, most mainstream stories have, as of now, reduced the jewish angle to orthodox jew Louis Felder being amongst those killed.
The Hollander reference remains at Jewish father of 3 killed in Conn. rampage | JTA – Jewish & Israel News:
Steve Hollander, the company’s head of marketing, and a member of the Hollander family that founded and owns the company, was reported to have been shot, according to the Hartford Courant.
“The Hollander family is probably one of the most venerated families in the Hartford area in the Jewish community,” U.S. Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) told the Courant. “There isn’t a charity that they haven’t contributed to.”
The LAT and Courant may have memory-holed this aspect of the story, but the New York Times hasn’t: Behind Hartford Distributors, a Charitable Family.
When Whites commit crimes, nobody in the media makes excuses. If there’s a racial angle it is magnified, not suppressed. Such incidents produce immediate calls to pathologize and silence “conservatives”/”teabaggers”/”haters”, however tenuously linked to the incident. The insinuation, if not outright accusation, is that any expression of collective interests by Whites is immoral, unethical, and evil. Even when Whites don’t explicitly identify or organize by race we are cynically accused of deviously hiding our true motives.
Of course the broad-based anti-White “anti-racism” pumped out by the media 24/7 can be measured by the same yardstick. The media uniformly treats “people of color” as having legitimate grievances both as a whole as as various independent non-White “communities”. They serve up numerous narratives concerning suffering and perennial victimhood at the hands of Whites, encourage activism on this basis, and generally defend those who do act. Taken as a whole it constitutes a deliberate incitement to violence against Whites. And that’s exactly what it produces.
Sometimes this impacts jews. To the extent Thornton was acting on a hatred of Whites he’ll be painted by the media as a victim and “racism” will be blamed. On the other hand, if it is determined that Thornton was acting against jews he’ll be demonized and the most politically incorrect form of “racism”, “anti-semitism”, will be blamed. Either way, “anti-racism” is both excused and validated at the same time.
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Wood pallets are one of my all-time favorite craft supplies.
Mind you, they’re not convenient. First, you’ve got to source them (we have a local shop that’s given us permission to pick up wood pallets from them whenever we see them on their loading dock–perhaps there’s a store near you that will do the same?).
Then, you’ve got to break them down, a labor that requires so much muscle that I sometimes can’t do it myself, even with my demolition saw, and have to get my husband to help me.
Finally, you’ve got to sand the heck out of them, both because you don’t know where they’ve been and because the nice grain of the wood is hidden underneath that dirty, rough exterior. That sanding takes a mind-numbingly long time, even with my palm sander. I don’t even want to guess how long it would take to sand by hand.
And then, and ONLY then, can you actually start to construct whatever it is that you want to construct with pallet wood.
Pain in the butt, for sure.
But there are some major benefits to crafting with wood pallets, benefits that 100% make up for the labor of love that using them costs. For one thing, pallet wood is free for the taking. Buying new wood is no joke, especially if you’re thinking of making something large. If you can build your project entirely from pallet wood, then yes, you’ve worked harder for it, but you’ve for sure saved yourself some money.
More importantly, though, is the fact that pallet wood is far more sustainable than new wood. A tree gave its life for the built-in bookshelves that my husband and I just finished building last weekend, but with pallet wood, that ship has sailed–sometimes literally. It’s not your fault that a tree gave its life to make that wood pallet, and by crafting with it, especially if you’re sourcing it from a store that’s just trashing them, then you’re actually diverting that wood from the waste stream.
Good job, Eco Warrior!
So yes, many of the projects in Crafting with Wood Pallets, by Becky Lamb (a book that I received free from a publicist), are quite a lot of work to build, because that’s just the way it is with wood pallets. The particular project that I built, however, is one that I was able to construct, other than the painting, in the course of a single two-hour playdate that my kids had. While they and a friend ran shrieking through our woods and around the drive-in next door, I stood out on my driveway and built myself this lovely porch star!
To make it easier, the wood that I used for the star was already dismantled from its wood pallets. Whenever I need pallet wood, I of course disassemble an entire pallet at a time, and set the surplus aside, so that every now and then, on some lucky day, I’ll go to pick out the wood that I need for a project and find that it’s already ready for me!
Most of the time that I spent on this porch star was, of course, spent sanding. The book’s instructions state that since the star is for outdoor use, it really only needs a light sanding, but because I wanted to paint it metallic gold, I went ahead and gave it a thorough sanding, so that the metallic paint would look nicer. If you want to leave the board unpainted, with perhaps just a clear sealant to preserve it, I’d also suggest sanding it thoroughly.
I have a habit of putting obscure references on my home, and then getting irritated when nobody notices. I painted the front door of our former house green, and spent seven entire years unhappy that nobody connected it with Bilbo Baggins’ house and HIS green door. Never mind that the door wasn’t round, the house wasn’t set in a hill, and I’m not a hobbit.
It was a green door, damnit! Tell me that it looks like Bilbo Baggins’ house!
And that is why, the next time you come over to visit me, you’d better be sure to mention the gold star on my front porch.
Because our house! It earned a gold star! Get it?
Just say you get it.
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oren at capella.co.il
Wed Sep 1 17:04:12 BST 1999
David Megginson <david at megginson.com> wrote:
>... The problem is that a DTD does (and XML Schemas will
> do) two entirely different things:
> a) supply default values and types; and
> b) specify a set of validation rules.
> (a) is an essential layer in the interpretation of a document
> (assuming that the document author takes advantage of it); (b) is
> simply one of many processes that can be applied to an XML document,
> and calling it a layer is rather confusing.
Is there's no practical way to specify them separately? For example, suppose
that it was possible to use some form of PIs embedded in the document to
specify (a), while keeping (b) in a separate DTD document.
> As far as I know, the three HTML 4.0 variants differ only in (b), not
> in (a), so the differences are not really an essential part of
> interpretation -- they affect only one specific type of process,
> structural validation.
<Stunned>?!%!%$#</Stunned> If that's true, then why on earth would one even
consider using three separate namespaces, instead of just three alternate
DTDs? I thought the problem was that all sort of defaults were different in
each variant (even if these defaults boil down to "which stylesheet to
use"). Otherwise, what's the point?
> This is something that SGML got wrong and XML got right -- SGML
> assumed that there was always a *single* DTD that applied to any
> existing document (though that never worked in practice, so we always
> had to invent kludges for non-trivial systems), so that a document
> instance could not exist independently of its schema and vice-versa
> (external DTD subsets are not independent objects in SGML, but simply
> part of the document that includes them).
> By allowing documents without explicit DOCTYPE declarations, XML (and,
> eventually, WebSGML) acknowledged that document instances can exist
> independently of schemas, and thus, that there can potentially be
> *many* schemas applied to any existing document.
Doesn't this contradict (a)? That is, must all these schemas agree on the
default values? Or is it intentional that you can replace the default values
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i have a simple problem i am trying to automate the testing of a website that has a lot of dropdown lists that are populated dynamically. I wish to be able to obtain all of the ID's (They populate once every day, unless a new item that was not previously in the inventory is entered.) so i can make my script target the ID to test them.
I am fairly new to this, however some info i am using Python 3.x with Selenium and Chromedriver. If you need any more info please advice and i will respond as soon as able.
Last but not least sorry for the english, not a native speaker.
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In a series of deals signed at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Trajectory, a digital publishing, distribution and technology developer, announced partnerships with China’s People’s Education Press and Xiamen Bluebird Cartoon Company to distribute more than 50 popular Chinese kids digital titles.
Trajectory, which specializes in digital content for children, said the deal with the People’s Education Press, a press under the direction of China’s Ministry of Education, will provide worldwide digital distribution to seven titles in the PEP’s Great Society series of colorful illustrated children’s fairytales. The series will also be translated into the English, French and Spanish. Trajectory also inked a deal with the Xiamen Bluebird Cartoon Company of China to distribute more than 50 e-books based on Xingxing Fox, a popular Chinese animated TV series about a brave quick-witted fox that lives in a magic forest.
Yin Zhongmin, president of PEP, said “being a leading children’s text book publisher in China, we also offer a large variety of story and activity books to young readers in China. We are pleased to have this opportunity working with Trajectory to introduce our award-winning books to the children around the world in e-book format. The world is flat. We look forward to sharing and exchanging quality books and diverse culture among the young readers worldwide.” Bluebird Cartoon general manager Ecco Lin said, “It is our great honor to establish a partnership with Trajectory. This partnership means we start a new step in the internationalization of our platform. We feel Trajectory provides a great opportunity to expand our reach.”
PEP’s Great Society series offers illustrated fairytales about kids experiencing life and growing up; while Xingxing Fox is one of the most popular kids’ characters on Chinese TV and winner of numerous broadcasting awards.
Trajectory CEO Jim Bryant said the new deals focus on Trajectory’s plans to curate and distribute children’s content from around the world, “We’re trying to find titles that best reflect each countries values. We think kids’ stories can help other kids around the world to better understand world cultures,” he said.
In addition, Trajectory is also releasing a One World Kids App, launching with about 50 titles aimed a kids published by Trajectory and its international partners. The app will include a selection of Trajectory digital titles including Classic Illustrated comics and The Sally Discovers series as well as titles from the Great Society series and Xingxing fox. The app is free to download form the Apple App store and allows consumers to make in-app purchases priced 99 cents to $3.99. Bryant said more titles will be added to the app each month. The app also features previews of selected books as well as “discovery” pricing with staff favorites priced at 99 cents.
And Bryant also noted that Trajectory is releasing, Sally Discovers New York, a new digital-first publication created as part of the late Vermont artist Stephen Huneck’s Sally Discovers Series, which looks at the antics of big black Labrador retriever, and is included in the One World Kids app. Bryant said the new work has been created through a collaboration between Stephen’s widow Gwen Huneck and Amanda McDermott. Huneck's books are illustrated with woodblock prints and Bryant said, "Gwen is using existing artwork for most of the images," and has "modified some of it to fit the storyline." The project was also supported by Kickstarter campaign that raised $8,700 to fund its publication and will include images of the project’s backers dogs. The book is also sponsored by a Orvis, the outdoor clothing and gear company.
Bryant said using Kickstarter to fund the book also served to market the title and “brought in more fans from around the world.” Bryant said Trajectory continues to add new publishing partners and distribution accounts around the world. “Our message is that we have a global network and we can help make your frontlist and backlist easily available globally.” | <urn:uuid:c3bfaea9-e1b3-4488-b7a8-3b1fc647e4f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/56513-trajectory-inks-e-book-deals-with-chinese-publishers-at-bologna-book-fair.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949763 | 883 | 1.609375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The nation’s political divide was never going to be solved by the final tally of presidential votes or when the political signs came down.
And the talk of moving forward and finding healing, or at least turning down the vitriol, can seem an unsurmountable task for a nation still reeling with the pandemic with its rising death count and economic fallout.
Catholic leaders have acknowledged the long road ahead and the need for calm resolve.
No one is saying there will be an instant “Kumbaya” moment of collegiality, but in discussion about where the nation stands right now, a U.S. woman religious and a bishop used that very word to describe where the nation definitely isn’t.
“I doubt that any of us expected to wake up on November 4th ready to hold hands and sing ‘Kumbaya’ with the neighbors whose yard signs offended us for the last several weeks,” wrote Bishop John E. Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, in a Nov. 4 statement.
Similarly, Sister Marcia Hall, vocation director of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore, said prior to the election that even if it were to go smoothly, “we won’t all be holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya,’ no matter who wins. … It’s going to take more than the election for us to start talking about coming together.”
Sister Hall and other women religious told Global Sisters Report, a project of National Catholic Reporter, no matter how the election played out, Americans would still have to find a way to live together, something that politicians can’t do for them.
Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, in a Nov. 5 statement on the election, pointed to an ideal postelection view, but said it will take some work to get there.
“The task we face is not fully captured in the data, the numbers, charts and graphs, the task is also a spiritual challenge,” he said. And quoting Pope Francis’ recent encyclical “Fratelli Tutti,” he said people are called to promote “friendship and an acknowledgment of the worth of every human person, always and everywhere.”
“An election is never only about who wins and loses. It is always about a moment in time when a new beginning is possible,” he said, noting the nation is “now at a moment when a new beginning is not only possible but urgently necessary.”
The Boston archbishop said the work ahead “calls us to respect the opinions of others, to dialogue about differing perspectives, to seek reconciliation where there has been estrangement, to work for healing among the people of our country.”
That’s not all though. He also said it means not giving in to “resentments based in divergent political views and divisions that have emerged from the stress of recent months.”
That starts right at the kitchen table and in conversations with friends, said Sister Carol Zinn, a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, who is executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group representing 80% of U.S. sisters.
“When I try to think about talking to a friend or a family member, this space that has grown to a gap between us did not just tap in with this most recent campaign,” she said. “It has been happening, and we have to learn again how to be in relationship with each other.”
She told Global Sisters Report the way Americans currently talk to each other “is clearly not working, so we have to find another way” which she said involves listening to each other and not shutting out others’ points of view.
The danger of not doing this, she said, is that Americans’ intolerance for one another could continue to grow, lessening the sense of community and shared humanity and possibly leading to violence.
This same idea was reiterated at a Nov. 4 webinar at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, about moving forward after the election.
Jesuit Father David McCallum, the school’s vice president for mission integration and development, said: “These times are not easy, loving those who hold very different perspectives than ourselves is not easy; loving at a time when the conditions don’t seem to support love is not easy and yet this is what we are called to.”
Dialogue with those we disagree with calls for humility, he said. He also said to give it time and that Thanksgiving dinner might not be the best day to start this.
Divisions were clearly pronounced in this year’s election, but they aren’t new.
The “Prayer after an Election,” in the 2007 “Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers” from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, seeks God’s blessing on the country and its leaders but it also prays for healing.
“Heal us from our differences and unite us, O Lord, with a common purpose, dedication, and commitment to achieve liberty and justice in the years ahead for all people, and especially those who are most vulnerable in our midst,” it says.
Many turned to prayer both before and after the election.
Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, held a postelection interfaith prayer service for “Hope and Healing” Nov. 4, bringing together students, faculty and staff outside the campus chapel. The service included a prayer for forgiveness for not living up to Gospel challenges, a Jewish prayer for the country and a passage read aloud from the Quran.
At the end of the service, participants recited together one of the prayers in the last section of “Fratelli Tutti,” where Pope Francis invites believers to ask God to “pour forth into our hearts a fraternal spirit and inspire in us a dream of renewed encounter, dialogue, justice and peace.”
Taking action is another step forward and for some students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, this has meant looking straight on at stereotypes people have of each other based on where they live or their age.
Carol Costello, former CNN anchor and broadcast journalism teacher at Loyola Marymount, helped come up with the course she teaches that examines this: “Project Citizen: Transforming America.”
The main idea, she told Catholic News Service Nov. 6, is for students to recognize differences without demonizing the other.
“The country’s still going to be incredibly divided,” with the likely new president, she said. “Joe Biden has a big job. Maybe he can start to heal the wounds, but they are too large to heal quickly.”
“That’s why Jesuit education is no important right now,” she said, adding: “At root of it, love for one another is what we need.”
Contributing to this story was Global Sisters Report, https://www.globalsistersreport.org.
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For many in the field of technology and computer science, the future doesn’t exist without artificial intelligence. That was the topic of discussion and interest at the AI & the Future of Houston Conference in April, where professionals and science educators, including University of Houston-Victoria faculty, gathered to discuss the future of the field.
The two-day conference was held April 29-30 in Houston and hosted by Houston Community College. Representatives from HCC, Houston-area universities, businesses and health care facilities and HCC students attended the event. UHV participated in the conference as sponsors and vendors, and UHV faculty also spoke at the event.
The purpose of the conference was to explore the technological advances and innovation brought by artificial intelligence, as well as discussion of how academia and industries in the area can partner to build a local talent pipeline.
“Technology is becoming a trending topic of discussion in the workforce in the Greater Houston area, and we are working on expanding our partnership with Houston Community College. Through our partnership, UHV hopes to help students and working adults transfer to complete bachelor’s and master’s degrees in technology,” said Karla DeCuir, UHV assistant provost for distance learning. “This conference opened doors for those who are interested in careers in technology or would like to expand their skills, and we are excited to partner with Houston Community College to expand those opportunities.”
Speakers and representatives from UHV included Hardik Gohel, an assistant professor of computer science; Aobo Jin, also an assistant professor of computer science; and Yun Wan, chair of the UHV computer science department and professor of computer information systems.
“In both academia and industry, there is a consensus that there will be many job opportunities and more potential for students who are studying the field of artificial intelligence,” Wan said. “I think the field is expanding as artificial intelligence, cyber security and more can apply to so many different fields. Houston Community College has a large student population, and it was a great opportunity for us to meet students who could possibly transfer to UHV. It was a successful conference.”
During the conference, Gohel participated in a panel discussion about educational leaders in artificial intelligence. Gohel spoke about what the next generation of students can expect when studying artificial intelligence in a four-year university program, and the job and career possibilities with artificial intelligence. He also spoke about research UHV students and faculty are using artificial intelligence.
“There was a major discussion about the needs of the industry and what companies are looking for in the workforce,” Gohel said. “It was very beneficial for us to be part of that discussion, and to learn the needs of the industry and what is missing and how we can fill those needs and close those gaps.”
Jin gave a presentation during the conference about artificial intelligence in gaming and spoke about how the technology is being used in gaming animation. He showed examples of games that use artificial intelligence, including Dota 2 and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. He also spoke about what students need to prepare for a career in gaming through artificial intelligence.
“This conference was really good for students to learn what artificial intelligence can do for the industry and what they need to learn in order to pursue jobs in artificial intelligence,” Jin said. “Artificial intelligence will continue to be used in the future, and everybody will use technology that uses artificial intelligence. It is important that people understand the basic knowledge of artificial intelligence and what it can do. I believe that artificial intelligence can help us in our everyday lives.” | <urn:uuid:9f445d48-114c-41b0-93ad-a299c20f94e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://perigiduit.com/uhv-takes-part-in-houston-artificial-intelligence-conference-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969756 | 753 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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Lithofacies maps may be prepared in numerous ways, and this paper emphasizes a statistical approach which brings out the magnitude and rates of change in lithologic characteristics for selected stratigraphic intervals. The interval is divided into percentages of clastics (conglomerate, sandstone, shale) and non-clastics (limestone, dolomite, evaporites), which are combined into a "clastic ratio" and a "sand-shale ratio." The data obtained are numerical and provide a basis for contour-type maps on which the two ratios may be combined to obtain the distribution of statistical lithologic associations. For the more detailed analysis of lithofacies variations a series of ratios based on sandstone, shale, and limestone types is available, which helps differentiate basin, shelf, and geosynclinal deposits. Combinations of lithofacies and isopach maps afford data for interpretations of contemporary tectonics, paleogeography, and to some degree the distribution of environments during the depositional cycle.
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Exploring Paradiso within the context of Morrison’s Paradise, Dante’s Canto 19 is the main canto location where Dante is using the eagle of divine justice to explain earthly/divine justice. To begin, the eagle of divine justice seems to be ever-moving, and continually constructed to be in harmony. The eagle of divine justice’s continual movements are juxtaposed with the idea of “Primal will” or “Supreme good”. This “Primal will” is ultimately described as God’s goodness on earth included as scripture, and is deemed to be never moving by Dante. By having God’s earthly teaching be never-moving but the eagle of divine justice be ever-flowing and in-movement, Dante is preparing to unfold his main idea behind the boundaries between justice on earth and divine justice. Dante first lays out God’s manifestation in man, creating a difference between man’s justice and the personal souls’ justice. By highlighting the difference, Dante is engaging with the belief that earthly justice cannot be introduced to eternal justice, because the two cannot be viewed in the same light. This idea of “viewing” is a focal point in Canto 19, undoubtedly related to the strength of an eagle’s eyes. Dante uses the eagle of divine justice to explain how easy it is to judge others without thought but have no idea about the life of that person being judged. The eagle of divine justice is engaging the idea that even if you are a believer of God’s kingdom, your earthly judgement on others and how you view your perception of the world will be taken into your soul’s divine justice. Toni Morrison’s Paradise includes a number of examples of earthly vs. divine justice, as well as defining justice as both a force in the universe as well as a force in one’s personal soul.
Within the context of the novel as a whole, I believe the oven to be the carrier of time for both Haven and Ruby, as well as a site where inter-relational conflict dwells. Within the course epigraph, Morrison’s statement “Black literature is taught as sociology” is the first sentence noted. I believe that through the oven, Morrison is constructing the sociological functions of Ruby and its society similarly to her conventions of how black literature is taught. When considering the oven as a bearer or holder of time, it is important to follow the chronology of the oven and how it has been physically changed. We learn when the oven is first introduced that it has been brought from its original town of Haven by its founding fathers to the new town of Ruby. It is also said to have been a place of socializing, even towards the latter decline of Haven. With the slogan on the oven being not fully visible, the eventual conflict between the youth and elders of the town rises with reverend Misner’s meeting. With the elders lashing out on the younger generation of Ruby for believing they could believe in a God-mimicking slogan, there is an overall theme of time being explored. Morrison’s usage of time within the oven creates a difference between the elders and youth, a difference that can be seen between the town of Ruby and of the Covenant. With time, both the covenant and Ruby became their present selves, with one location being on the grounds of acceptance, while the other being on the grounds of difference and solitude. With time, the “disallowing” of Haven founders and the creation of Ruby to combat light-skinned/dark-skinned prejudice had come full circle, with the oven being the center of the city’s changes.
The oven as a site is dominantly shown as a breeding ground for complications and conflict. It is the site where K.D. and Arnette’s relationship first declines, as well as where the Covent’s members are first outed as odd by dancing around the oven. Placing the oven as the center of disruption for Morrison’s plot, she is actively using the oven to engage and bring to light the concealed problems of Ruby. The physical appearance of the oven can be related to the relevance of Dante’s eagle. With the oven being marked with a black fist with red fingernails, along with eventual foundation destruction, I believe that the oven’s physical appearance is an explanation into the individual justice vs. overall justice within the town of Ruby. Dante’s eagle explains that the individual’s idea of justice cannot penetrate God’s divine justice, which maybe can be representative in the state of the oven. With each fingernail marked in red over a cast of a black fist, I think that the women of the Covenant could represent individual justices, intertwined within the overall justice structure of Ruby. Although I am still tackling this idea of individual justice being seen within the covenant, I plan to expand my ideas in the upcoming move.
Ruby’s residents interpret the text on the oven’s lip in different ways, focused mainly around the idea of age and generational differences. On one hand, the elders of Ruby believe that the oven says “Beware the furrow of his brow”, with the younger generation believe the slogan says “Be the furrow of his brow” or just “the furrow of his brow”. Through the text, we can see the overall reasoning behind the argument intersecting both history and respect. Although these interpretations of the oven are not the same, the connotations behind why the residents take sides and why they argue their points are extremely similar. Beginning with the older generation, we have a distinct opinion that Reverend Pulliam displays, shouting “Beware the furrow of his brow. That’s what it says clear as daylight. That’s not a suggestion; that’s an order!” (86). This quote in my opinion best encapsulates the relationship between the older Ruby members and their beliefs regarding the history of Haven/new presence in Ruby. With an adherence to preservation, I believe the elders in Ruby interpret the oven as a message from their past, a past that although they have left physically (Haven), the oven still stands as a message. A message that proves important to them because of its reminder; that they founded Ruby on the principles of justice for themselves, and to have anyone but the divine power of God over the townspeople would be a destruction of the freedom they set out to gain in Ruby. With the elders message directly pointed towards the younger generation in opposition to what they believe, Destry stands up to defend the youth- saying “Sir, but we are obeying him, if we follow his commandments, we’ll be his voice, his retribution. As a people-” (87). Destry best describes the notion of acting out justice, with a focus on not trying to imitate or replace God but to live life with a direct correspondence to his proclamations. If the youth is interpreting the oven as “Be the furrow of his brow”, then the conversation must include a shift in power that both the younger generation need, and the elder generation do not want. It is obvious that both sides have different representations and beliefs when it comes to what the lip of the oven says/means, but their fight is actually quite similar. On one hand we have the youth fighting for freedom/power over authoritative figures representative in acting out the “Be” in the slogan. On the other, the elders trying to reclaim their past identity tied within the oven, an identity that previously had been fought for so that they may live in peace. Both arguments are similar in the way they are fighting for a group, a group that has been discriminated against in which they are trying to reclaim what they believe is rightfully theirs.
The townspeople of Ruby try to reconcile their interpretative disagreement through an engagement of collaboration. Although this point may seem untrue due to the language and oppositional viewpoints being stated, it must be recognized that this meeting between citizens should be ruled as a collaborative effort (although eventually broken up into plain argument). In the beginning of the ovens discussion, reverend Misner seems to be the mediator between the two groups. When Pulliam asked reverend Misner to keep the young Beauchamp from interrupting, Misner replied, “Why would I want to? We’re here not just to talk but to listen too” (85). Just from this quote, we can see Morrison creating a somewhat balanced dialogue of collaborative disagreement. By at least engaging with one another’s thoughts, we see a connection of two ideas that previously were never brought to light. Within the debate on what the oven’s lip phrase may see, there is cooperation between the two parties to debate their points. Looking at Morrison’s use of collaboration and interpretation as a whole in Paradise, I ultimately see the covenant as the center of misunderstood collaboration. Creating an intersection between interpretation and collaboration, Morrison uses the covenant as a place of “looking-in” to see collaborative use. To the eyes of the men of Ruby, the covenant was a place that was good for nothing but enchantments and satanic worshiping, deemed unfit for society and needed to be exterminated. However, Morrison structured Paradise in a way that engages readers to view the covenant not just as a place of solace, but as a collaborative tool. The servitude of the covenant as a place for the women to divert from the implications of their past lives and start anew can and should be the main thought behind its reasoning. By constructing the covenant as a place of both paradise and evil for certain individuals, Morrison is using personal interpretation as a craft into what can be deemed collaborative. To the women of the covenant, this place provided them the strength to speak their minds and engage with each other (collaboration); to others, to fostered lawlessness and a disdain towards religion. Through a larger scope, this collaboration can be linked to the collaborative efforts made by my fellow peers during this pandemic.
Morrison creating Paradise’s appropriation of Paradiso tells you not only the both/and of interpretation and collaboration, but the purposefulness to Morrison’s craft. The way in which Morrison has intertwined these works had produced an effect that could be best described as an understanding of possibilities. From looking into divine justice through the scope of a mortal man to the residents of Ruby looking into the view of the distant covenant, interpretation seems to be the focal point for actions made. This both/and logic when resonating Morrison’s work is a steppingstone into the bigger picture; to use the work presented to us in order to sought out truth. To find the reasoning and truth behind the problems we are given, interpretation and collaboration is a necessity. For the individual, it is important to engage personally with your interpretation, because without your own views to display for others to take notice, collaboration cannot happen. However if people work together and are not afraid to collaborate, make mistakes, and understand other viewpoints- beautiful things can happen. As a hopeful future educator, I feel as if this collaboration of peers to explore Morrison’s craft will stay with me, and will not be forgotten. I have always believed in that the truth will be better and more accurately found through working together, and with this collaboration with my peers I am now certain of it. Although this semester had been cut short and the complications in which individuals endure are complex and disheartening, this collaboration still survived. I admittedly had anxiety from the first time switching from a in-person to an online format to collaborate, but then I realized. I realized that even though everyone is going through personal issues, the collaboration continued. We still met as a group, still cared and listened to our peers opinions, and were able to grow as a student even amid stagnation in our world. The only thing I wish I could have done on a deeper level is to encourage motivation to others in my life. A collaborative space helped me stay on top of my daily motivation, and I just wished I had encouraged those around me to engage with their peers more often and find the motivation I have been feeling. Through this class and the collaborative space we all share, I feel as if I look at multiple outcomes for the future. I have destroyed my definition of the rigid absolute truth, happy to look forward to the future in a more inclusive way. | <urn:uuid:792e449f-5a1c-49ac-a14d-c3cfe9759219> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2020/05/11/distant-engagement-understanding-the-importance-of-collaboration-within-the-scope-of-toni-morrisons-paradise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967692 | 2,574 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda
BEFORE the Congress (or Parliament) of Religions met in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition in 1893. members of various Churches volunteered to ask into their homes as guests delegates to it. My grandmother, Mrs. John B. Lyon, was one of these, requesting, if possible, that a delegate who was broad-minded be sent to us, as my grandfather was much interested in philosophy but heartily disliked bigots. Our home was 262 Michigan Avenue, a pleasant somewhat old-fashioned frame-house, painted olive green with boxes of red geraniums across the front. It was full of guests all that summer as my grandparents were naturally hospitable and this World's Fair was a very exciting and fascinating affair. So all our out-of-town relatives and friends were eager to come to Chicago to see it. When word came that our delegate was to arrive on a certain evening, the house was so crowded that my grandmother had to send her elder son to a friend's house to have his room for our guest. We had been given no idea who he would be, nor even what religion he was representing. A message came that a member of our Church — the First Presbyterian — would bring him after midnight. Everyone went to bed except my grandmother who waited up to receive them. When she answered the door-bell, there stood Swami Vivekananda in a long yellow robe, a red sash, and a red turban — a very startling sight to her, because she had probably never seen an East Indian before. She welcomed him warmly and showed him to his room. When she went to bed, she was somewhat troubled. Some of our guests were Southerners, as we had many friends in the South, because we owned a sugar plantation on the Bayou Teche in Louisiana. Southerners have a strong dislike for associating with anyone but whites, because they stupidly think of all people who are darker as on a mental and social plane of their former negro slaves. My grandmother herself had no colour prejudice, and she was sufficiently intelligent any way to know that Indians are of the same Caucasian inheritance as we are.
When my grandfather woke up, she told him of the problem and said he must decide whether it would be uncomfortable for Swami and for our Southern friends to be together. If so, she said he could put Swami up as our guest at the new Auditorium Hotel near us. My grandfather was dressed about half an hour before breakfast and went into the library to read his morning paper. There he found Swami and, before breakfast was served, he came to my grandmother and said, "I don't care a bit, Emily, if all our guests leave! This Indian is the most brilliant and interesting man who has ever been in our home. and he shall stay as long as he wishes." That began a warm friendship between them which was later summed up — much to my grandfather's embarrassment — by having Swami calmly remark to a group of my grandfather's friends one day at the Chicago Club "I believe Mr. Lyon is the most Christlike man I ever met!"
He seemed to feel especially close to my grandmother, who reminded him of his own mother. She was short and very erect, with quiet dignity and assurance, excellent common sense, and a dry humour that he enjoyed. My mother, who was a pretty and charming young widow, and I — who was only six years old — lived with them. My grandmother and my mother attended most of the meetings of the Congress of Religions and heard Swamiji speak there and later at lectures he gave. I know he helped my sad young mother who missed her young husband so much. Mother read and studied Swamiji's books later and tried to follow his teachings.
My memories are simply of him as a guest in our home — of a great personality who is still vivid to me! His brilliant eyes, his charming voice with the lilt of a slight well-bred Irish brogue. his warm smile! He told me enchanting stories of India, of monkeys and peacocks, and flights of bright green parrots, of banyan trees and masses of flowers, and markets piled with all colours of fruits and vegetables. To me they sounded like fairy-tales, but now that I have driven over many hundreds of miles of Indian roads. I realize that he was simply describing scenes from the memories of his own boyhood. I used to rush up to him when he came into the house and cry "Tell me another story, Swami", and climb into his lap. Perhaps, so far from home and in so strange a country, he found comfort in the love and enthusiasm of a child. He was always wonderful to me. Yet — because a child is sensitive — I can remember times when I would run into his room and suddenly know he did not want to be disturbed — when he was in meditation. He asked me many questions about what I learnt in school and made me show him my school-books and pointed out India to me on the map — it was pink. I recall — and told me about his country. He seemed sad that little Indian girls did not have, in general, the chance to have as good an education as we American children. Imagine how interested I was when Swami Shankarananda, President, Belur Math, told me he founded a girls' school in Calcutta!
My grandmother was president of the Women's Hospital at home, and he visited it with lively interest and asked for all the figures in infant mortality etc. So again it showed how much he was learning in our country to be used in helping his own people, because I was told that a maternity hospital was also founded later. How very happy that would have made my grandmother!
I was fascinated by his turban which struck me as a very funny kind of a hat, especially as it had to be wound up afresh every time he put it on! I persuaded him to let me see him wrap it back and forth around his head.
As our American food is less highly seasoned than Indian, my grandmother was afraid he might find it flat. He told us, on arrival, that he had been told to conform to all the customs and the food of his hosts, so he ate as we did. My grandmother used to make a little ceremony of making salad dressing at the table, and one of the condiments she used was Tabasco Sauce, put up by some friends of hers, the Mrs. Ilhennys, in Louisiana. She handed him the bottle and said, "You might like a drop or two of this on your meat, Swami". He sprinkled it on with such a lavish hand that we all gasped and said, "But you can't do that! It's terribly hot!" He laughed and ate it with such enjoyment that a special bottle of the sauce was always put at his place after that.
My mother took him to hear his first Symphony Concert on a Friday afternoon. He listened with great attention but with his head a bit on one side and a slightly quizzical expression. "Did you enjoy it?" mother asked at the end. "Yes, it was very beautiful", he replied, but mother felt it was said with some reservation. "What are you thinking?" she asked. "I am puzzled by two things", he answered. "First, I do not understand why the programme says that this same programme will be repeated on Saturday evening. You see in India, one type of music is played at dawn. The music for noontime is very different, and that for the evening is also of a special character. So I should think that what sounds suitable to your ears in the early afternoon would not sound harmonious to you at night. The other thing that seems strange to me is the lack of overtones in the music and the greater intervals between the notes. To my ears it has holes in it like that good Swiss cheese you give me."
When he began to give lectures, people offered him money for the work he hoped to do in India. He had no purse. So he used to tie it up in a handkerchief and bring it back — like a — proud little boy — pour it into my grandmother's lap to keep for him. She made him learn the different coins and to stack them up neatly to count them. She made him write down the amount each time, and she deposited in her bank for him. He was overwhelmed by the generosity of his audience who seemed so happy to give to help people they had never seen so far away.
Once he said to my grandmother that he had had the greatest temptation of his life in America. She liked to tease him a bit and said, "Who is she, Swami?" He burst out laughing and said, "Oh, it is not a lady, it is Organization!" He explained how the followers of Ramakrishna had all gone out alone and when they reached a village, would just quietly sit under a tree and wait for those in trouble to come to consult them. But in the States he saw how much could be accomplished by organizing work. Yet he was doubtful about just what type of organization would be acceptable to the Indian character, and he gave a great deal of thought and study how to adapt what seemed good to him in our Western World to the best advantage of his own people. I can see that Belur Math and his many charities are the result of this period in his life. I spoke earlier of his delightful slight Irish brogue. I recall that this came as a surprise to Swami Shankarananda. My grandfather used to joke him about it. But Swami said it was probably because his favourite professor was an Irish gentleman, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.
After Swami left us, my mother was eager to do some studying along the lines of Oriental philosophy, as she realized she had not enough background to understand his teachings as fully as she wished. A Mrs. Peake held some classes in Chicago that following winter and, in the course of them, mother discovered much to her surprise that if she held a letter torn up into fine bits between her hands, she received a brief but vivid impression of the writer, both physically and mentally. When Swamiji returned to Chicago a year or so later to give lectures, mother asked him about this strange gift, and he said he had it also, and that when he was young, he used to have fun doing it to show off, but that Ramakrishna had wrapped his knuckles and said, "Don't use this great gift except for the good of mankind. Hands that receive these impressions can also bring relief from pain. Use this gift to bring healing."
On this second visit, he only stayed with us for a short time. He knew he could teach better if he lived in his own regime of food and of many hours for meditation. It also left him free to receive many who came to him for help. So my grandmother helped him find a simple but comfortable little, flat, bur I do not recall that I ever saw it.
Swamiji was such a dynamic and attractive personality that many women were quite swept away by him and made every effort by flattery to gain his interest. He was still young and, in spite of his great spirituality and his brilliance of mind, seemed to be very unworldly. This used to trouble my grandmother who feared he might be put in a false or uncomfortable position, and she tried to caution him a little. Her concern touched and amused him, and he patted her hand and said. "Dear Mrs. Lyon, you dear American mother of mine, don't be afraid for me. It is true I often sleep under a banyan tree with a bowl of rice given me by a kindly peasant, but it is equally true that I also am sometimes the guest in the palace of a great Maharaja and a slave girl is appointed to wave a peacock feather fan over me all night long! I am used to temptation, and you need not fear for me!"
After having talked with Swami Shankarananda and been encouraged by him, I wished I had talked to my mother's younger sister, Katharine (Mrs. Robert W. Hamill) about her recollections of Swamiji. So when I reached home I asked her what she could add to my scattered memories. She was a bride and had her own home. So she was not at her mother's and father's so very much. She recalled Swamiji much as I did, but never heard him lecture. However, she and her husband were "young intellectuals" and had a group of young professors from our university, young newspaper men, etc. around them. One Sunday evening she was telling them how remarkable Swamiji was, and they said that modern scientists and psychologists could "show up" his religious beliefs in no time! She said. "If I can persuade him to come here next Sunday evening, will you all come back and meet him?" They agreed, and Swamiji met them all at an informal supper party. My aunt does not recall just what subjects were brought up, but that the entire evening was a lively and interesting debate on all sorts of ideas — Aunt Katharine said that Swamiji's great knowledge of the Bible and the Koran as well as the various Oriental religions, his grasp of science and of psychology were astounding. Before the evening was over, the "doubting Thomases" threw up their hands and admitted that Swamiji had held his own on every point and that they parted from him with warmest admiration and affection. —
When I was taken to meet Swami Shankarananda, I fell my memories were too childish and trivial to put down in black and white. I fell very humble and apologetic for taking up others' time. But the Swami said something infinitely kind and gracious which I shall never forget: That every great man is like a jewel with many facets. That each facet is important as it reflects a different aspect of his character. That I had come to him to offer a facet that was lacking in his records of Swamiji — of the weeks he had spent in our home when he first left India. So here is my very tiny "facet" offered in memory of someone I have loved for all these 62 years — not as a teacher, nor a great religious leader — but as a wonderful and vivid friend who lived in our home.
(Prabuddha Bharata, May 1956)
Courtesy: Partha Sinha
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Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Published: January 2021
People with kidney failure typically receive KRT in the form of dialysis or transplantation. However, studies have suggested that not all patients with kidney failure are best suited for KRT. Additionally, KRT is costly and not always accessible in resource-restricted settings. Conservative kidney management is an alternate kidney failure therapy that focuses on symptom management, psychologic health, spiritual care, and family and social support. Despite the importance of conservative kidney management in kidney failure care, several barriers exist that affect its uptake and quality.
Respondents from 160 countries completed the survey, and 154 answered questions pertaining to conservative kidney management. Of these, 124 (81%) stated that conservative kidney management was available. Accessibility was low worldwide, particularly in low-income countries. Less than half of countries utilized multidisciplinary teams (46%); utilized shared decision making (32%); or provided psychologic, cultural, or spiritual support (36%). One-quarter provided relevant health care providers with training on conservative kidney management delivery.
Overall, conservative kidney management is available in most countries; however, it is not optimally accessible or of the highest quality.
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Amaryllis – Pollination
Q: My boss bought a dozen amaryllis for the office for Christmas. We now have six in a sunny window. My question has to do with pollination. Before the first flowers started to fade, I cut a stamen from a flower of one stalk and pollinated the pistils in the flowers of another stalk. Will my “playing bee” bring any seeds? I’d want to leave the stalks alone for a while wouldn’t I?
A: You may be a new plant parent and not even know it! You used just the right technique to pollinate the flower. Amaryllis flowers are so big it is easy to clip out a stamen and rub it on the sticky pistils nearby. If all goes as it should, the stem will begin to swell just below the flower. This seed pod (the ovary) is where the pollen grains went after you did your “bee business”. Leave the stalk alone and treat the amaryllis like a houseplant in your sunny window. When the pod dries (in mid-summer) you can crack it open, remove the seeds and plant them outdoors. Those seeds that sprout will yield plants which will be big enough to flower in May three years from now. | <urn:uuid:f4d9eceb-4087-4c2a-b359-001a3ca515b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/amaryllis-pollination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947079 | 273 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution Changes in society, politics, and economy were found due to the Industrial Revolution. Due to industrialization, towns and cities grew so fast with towns and cities increasing their population such as a twentyfold increase in Manchester. The Industrial Revolution led to an increase in deforestation so that land would be cleared to make new factories. Industrialization offered new opportunities for work, however, few were successful and the jobs were boring and repetitive along with the long work days. Industrialization made society change to distinguish people as either the rich or the poor.
The Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle 1700s, then it subsequently spread throughout Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually the whole world. During the Industrial Revolution, workers became more productive and items were manufactured. In general, living improved, but the Industrial Revolution was also detrimental to the environment. Pollution reached to the level human had not imagined and working conditions were terrible and dirty.
England's primary fuel source in the late 1600s was wood, but as the steam engine entered mass production, coal became a popular fuel. The development of the steam engine acted as a catalyst in the Industrial Revolution, placing England on top of the world in production and exportation of coal. This new piece of technology would allow England to improve her communication with the established and growing colonies. Beginning in the early 1700s, three British scientists invented and enhanced the steam engine as technology improved to allow the British Empire to increase and revolutionize coal mining.
After the Civil War, the American Industrial Revolution made the Americans the most industrialized people in the world. This economic phenomenon was unprecedented in history. There were several factors that led the American economic prowess and prosperity. The Americans were blessed with natural resources. A liberal immigration policy insured a steady work force.
The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1700’s within the textile industry. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes by using different machines. Before the Industrial Revolution people made different things by hand or simple tools. For example, people wove textiles by hand, and after the Industrial Revolution machines were used instead. The Industrial Revolution began in England because of many reasons.
The Industrial Revolution occurred in America during the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. It was a period of great change, including advances in business, technology, and the growth of cities. These events produced a change that would forever alter the US's standing economically. The Industrial Revolution had both positive and negative major effects on America and the world.
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In researching for this article, I came across the usual suspects, and the hundreds of charities they represent. So far, after looking at literally hundreds of charities collecting money from people around the world to help aid the innocent people of Syria, the legitimate ones are less than a handful.
None of them carrying the green red black colors are aiding the real Syrians, but aiding the terrorist organizations (or their supporters), in Syria.
I’ll show you a few to show you what I mean. Years ago, I did a video about this charity. Their facebook page has long since disappeared as many of the terrorists did. The people behind these charities now live in nice houses (some within Turkey), and elsewhere other than Syria.
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Google’s newest replace to the Chrome browser fixes a various variety of bugs, relying on whether or not you’re on Android, Home windows or Mac, and relying on whether or not you’re operating the “steady channel” or the “prolonged steady channel“.
Don’t fear in the event you discover the the plethora of Google weblog posts complicated…
…we did too, so we’ve tried to provide you with an all-in-one abstract beneath.
The Steady channel is the very newest model, together with all new browser options, at the moment numbered Chrome 103.
The Prolonged Steady channel identifies itself as Chrome 102, and doesn’t have the newest options however does have the newest safety fixes.
Three CVE-numbered bugs are listed throughout the three bulletins listed above:
- CVE-2022-2294: Buffer overflow in WebRTC. A zero-day gap, already recognized to the cybercrime fraternity and actively exploited within the wild. This bug seems in all variations listed above: Android, Home windows and Mac, in each “steady” and “prolonged steady” flavours. WebRTC is brief for “internet real-time communication”, which is utilized by many audio and video sharing companies you utilize, similar to these for distant conferences, webinars and on-line telephone calls.
- CVE-2022-2296: Use-after-free in Chrome OS Shell. That is listed as making use of to the “steady channel” on Home windows and Mac, though the Chrome OS shell is, because the title suggests, a part of Chrome OS, which is neither Home windows nor Mac based mostly.
Moreover, Google has patched in opposition to a bunch of non-CVE-numbered bugs which might be collectively labelled with Bug ID 1341569.
These patches present a slew of proactive fixes based mostly on “inside audits, fuzzing and different initiatives”, which very in all probability implies that they weren’t beforehand recognized to anybody else, and due to this fact by no means had been (and not will be) become zero-day holes, which is nice information.
Linux customers haven’t had a point out on this month’s bulletins but, however it’s not clear whether or not that’s as a result of none of those bugs apply to the Linux codebase, as a result of the patches aren’t fairly prepared but for Linux, or as a result of the bugs aren’t thought-about vital sufficient to get Linux-specific fixes.
Bug varieties defined
To present you a really fast glossary of the vital bug classes above:
- Buffer overflow. Which means that knowledge equipped by an attacker will get dumped right into a block of reminiscence that isn’t sufficiently big for the quantity that was despatched. If the additional knowledge finally ends up “spilling over” into reminiscence house already utilized by different components of the software program, it might (or on this case, does) intentionally and treacherously have an effect on the behaviour of the browser.
- Sort confusion. Think about that you’re supplying knowledge similar to “worth of product” that the browser is meant to deal with as a easy quantity. Now think about that you may later trick the browser into utilizing the quantity you simply equipped as if it had been a reminiscence handle or a textual content string as a substitute. A quantity that handed the verify to ensure it was authorized worth in all probability isn’t a sound reminiscence handle or textual content string, and would due to this fact not have been accepted with out the ruse of sneaking it in underneath the guise of a a special knowledge sort. By feeding in knowledge that’s “valid-when-checked-but-invalid-when-used”, an attacker might intentionally subvert the behaviour of the browser.
- Use-after-free. Which means that one a part of the browser incorrectly carries on utilizing a block of reminiscence after it has been handed again to the system for reallocation elsewhere. Consequently, knowledge that’s already been checked for security (by the code that assumes it “owns” the reminiscence involved) might find yourself sneakily modified simply earlier than it will get used, thus treacherously affecting the behaviour of the browser.
What to do?
Chrome will in all probability replace itself, however we at all times suggest checking anyway.
On Home windows and Mac, use Extra > Assist > About Google Chrome > Replace Google Chrome.
On Android, verify that your Play Retailer apps are up-to-date.
After updating, you’re on the lookout for model 102.0.5005.148 in the event you’re on the “prolonged steady” launch; 103.0.5060.114 in the event you’re on the “steady” monitor; and 103.0.5060.71 on Android.
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If you’re noticing more hair in your hair brush, pillow or shower than usual, your stress levels may be to blame. Stress compromises the health of your body in a variety of ways, the retention of your hair being one of them. Although stress is considered an accepted part of modern-day life, pressure from work, relationships or family traumas take a serious toll on our emotional, psychological and physical well-being and can manifest in all sorts of ways, including hair loss.
What is Stress?
Stress is the body’s natural defence against threat or danger, which causes the blood stream to flood with hormones that activate the body’s fight-or-flight mechanism. The body produces large quantities of a hormone called cortisol, that prepares the body for potentially dangerous or harmful situations.
Cortisol also helps limit other bodily functions that aren’t essential to survival. Once the threat passes, hormones return to their usual levels. However, if you are under constant stress, long-term exposure to stress hormones can wreak havoc on many of the body’s processes, including the hair growth cycle.
Stress Impairs the Hair Growth Cycle
There are around 100,000 hair follicles on the adult scalp. Each hair follicle is constantly and independently cycling between three stages of growth. Hair loss is a normal part of our hair growth cycle. We lose between 50 and 100 hairs every day, without cause for concern.
- In the anagen (growth) phase, hair strands are active and push through the scalp. During this phase, the hair is attached to the follicle and is continuously nourished by surrounding blood vessels. Normally, more than 80% of our hairs are in the anagen phase.
- In the catagen (transitional) phase, hair ceases to grow and the follicle at the base of the hair strand shrinks. Approximately 3% of our hairs are in the catagen phase at a time.
- In the telogen (resting) phase, hair falls out and the process begins again.
Research indicates that increased cortisol levels, produced by periods of stress, inhibits hair regrowth. A prominent study from Harvard University in 2021 illustrating the link between stress and hair loss found that:
- Exposure to stress hormones over many weeks reduces hair growth as hair follicles remain in an extended telogen (resting) phase.
- Cortisol prevents the dermal papilla (a cluster of specialised cells that reside at the base of the hair follicle) from secreting a key molecule that activates hair follicle stem cells.
- Inhibiting the production of cortisol leads to rapid cycles of hair regrowth in mice. Hair follicle regeneration doesn’t slow as they grow older. Instead, hair follicle stem cells continue to enter the anagen (growth) phase and regenerate hair follicles throughout the lifespan.
Types of Stress-Related Hair Loss
Telogen Effluvium refers to a sudden onset of hair loss that is usually triggered by stress, trauma or serious illness. It results in an excessive amount of hair loss in which up to 70% of anagen hairs can abruptly shift into the telogen phase (versus the normal 15% that elicits shedding before a new anagen phase).
Hair loss usually occurs 2-4 months after the eliciting incident. However, it does resolve itself over time. As opposed to gradual and regressing hair thinning, stress-induced hair is ‘reversible’, in that the shed hair can regrow with time. In this case, hair loss is experienced diffusely throughout the scalp.
The good news about this form of stress-induced hair loss is that it is temporary, and hair should return to its pre-effluvium density if you manage your stress and bring it under control. It can take less than 6 months for the shedding to stop, while new hair growth can begin in a matter of months.
Trichotillomania is a compulsive hair pulling disorder that is usually accompanied by a number of emotional states, including stress and anxiety. People with this disorder experience an irresistible urge to pull out hair from their scalp, eyebrows or other areas of the body as a way to soothe negative or uncomfortable feelings. Trichotillomania is generally triggered by periods of intense stress and usually manifests in unusually shaped bald patches on the scalp.
Constant hair pulling from the scalp can result in patches of hair loss, as well as scarring and infected hair follicles. It can also lead to scarring alopecia, where the pulled-out hair doesn’t always grow back. Hair pulling and subsequent hair loss can be very distressing for the person suffering it, and can interfere with their day to day lives and self-esteem.
Read Hattie’s Trichotillomania story here.
Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune condition in which the body’s immune system attacks the hair follicles, leading to patchy hair loss. Although the exact cause remains unclear, this autoimmune response may be triggered by periods of stress, among other factors.
How Does Stress Affect the Scalp?
Not only does stress affect our hair follicles directly, it also plays a part in the condition of our scalp, and in turn, the retention of our hair. According to our resident dermatologist, Dr. Sue Ann Chan, "Stress raises levels of androgens (male hormones) in our body. This causes our scalp to become oilier, which dandruff-causing yeast love to feed on (hence the itching)."
Treat your Stressed-Out Scalp
The MONPURE range is formulated to improve scalp and hair health holistically, working to create the best possible environment for hair to thrive. Our solutions work to improve the condition of the scalp after bouts of stress, provide a sensory experience that relieves tension and stimulate follicular activity to optimise hair retention.
The scalp is a delicate microbiome and incubator that requires balance and nourishment to support the health of hair follicles. Introducing a gentle scalp scrub into your routine removes build-up, excess oils and dead skin cells that leave a residue on the scalp, and ultimately clog follicles and impede healthy hair growth. A scalp scrub also works to hydrate and moisturise dry, itchy skin and buffs away any flakes that may have been exacerbated by bouts of stress and anxiety.
The Clarifying Scalp Scrub, starring biodegradable jojoba beads, argan oil and shea butter, is the perfect gentle exfoliant to improve scalp health and prime the scalp for much needed nutrients and ingredients that will allow hair to prosper.
During a stressful period, there’s nothing quite like a relaxing scalp massage to ease the tension. Introducing a weekly treatment, like the Nourish and Stimulate Scalp Mask, will work to improve scalp health by delivering an intense hit of nourishment and essential vitamins to the scalp and follicles that stimulate healthy hair growth.
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With record-breaking cold temperatures, humane agents are reminding pet owners to keep animals inside where it’s warm.
Libre’s Law increases penalties in animal neglect cases. The new Pennsylvania state law could make pet owners felons if they mistreat or neglect dogs and other pets — that includes leaving them outside in the cold for too long.
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Abstract: according to relevant research forecasts, due to the excellent performance and role of aluminum, the global aluminum market will continue to grow, by 2040, the global demand for aluminum will reach 163.7 million tons / year, a net increase of 65.8 million tons / year from 97.82 million tons in 2018. It grew by 67.3%, with an average annual growth rate of 2.37%.
Bai Ke (Chris Bayliss), deputy secretary-general of the International Aluminum Association, delivered a speech at the "Aluminum Packaging and Sustainability Forum" and the "Aluminum processing Forum" at the Shanghai Aluminum Industry Exhibition, introducing the results of the International Aluminum Association's forecast for the future global aluminum market. The challenges and risks faced by the aluminum industry at present and in the future are described.
According to relevant research forecasts, due to the excellent performance and role of aluminum, the global aluminum market will continue to grow, by 2040, global aluminum demand will reach 163.7 million tons / year, a net increase of 65.8 million tons / year from 97.82 million tons in 2018, an increase of 67.3%. The average annual growth rate is 2.37%. Although the growth rate will slow over the next 22 years compared with the average annual growth rate of 5.43% in the past 2008-2018, it is conceivable that there will be a cumulative global aluminum market demand of 2.96 billion tons between now and 2040. This will be a huge market increment, which will continue to bring room for the continuous expansion of the aluminum industry. But at the same time, it will also bring a lot of challenges and risks.
In terms of consumption structure, transportation, construction and structure, packaging are still the main areas of consumption. By 2040, aluminum consumption in these three areas will reach 48.79 million tons, 43.58 million tons and 19.29 million tons, respectively, accounting for 30 per cent, 27 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively. Among them, the automobile industry is still the most growing application field. In particular, the development of new energy vehicles in China is considered to be one of the most important sustenance points for the growth of aluminum consumption.
In terms of product structure, aluminum products are divided into four categories: aluminum rolled materials, aluminum extruded materials, aluminum castings and others. By 2040, production and sales will reach 53.74 million tons, 61.28 million tons, 37.69 million tons and 10.99 million tons respectively, an increase of 73.3%, 76.3%, 52.3% and 46.7% respectively over 2018.
On the global aluminum supply side, global aluminum demand and product structure will still be dominated by raw aluminum supply by 2040, but the proportion of recycled aluminum will increase significantly, from 32.8% in 2018 to 43.8% in 2040. Global demand for primary aluminium is expected to be 92.06 million tons per year in 2040, an increase of 27.72 million tons, or 43%, from 64.34 million tons in 2018. In 2040, the supply of recycled aluminum will reach 71.87 million tons per year, an increase of 40.47 million tons, or 129%, from 31.4 million tons in 2018. Among them, the old waste aluminum recovered from scrap products will be 49.55 million tons / year, and the new waste aluminum recovered from aluminum processing and production will be 22.31 million tons. It is expected that the global recycling of waste aluminum will exceed the supply of primary aluminum around 2050 in the middle of this century.
The report predicts that China's combined aluminum production will reach 75.8 million tons in 2040, up 73% from 43.81 million tons in 2017 and an average annual growth rate of 2.41%. Although production growth has slowed significantly from the past decade, China will remain the world's largest aluminium producer and marketer, accounting for 46.3% of global aluminium production in 2040, compared with 46.8% in 2017. In 2040, the output of aluminum rolled materials in China will reach 22.3 million tons, an increase of 62.3% over 2017, the output of aluminum extruded and pressed materials will reach 32.69 million tons, an increase of 92.4%, the output of aluminum castings will reach 15.4 million tons, an increase of 59%, and the output of other products will be 5.4 million tons. Up 59%.
In 2040, China's aluminum supply was 43.65 million tons, an increase of 11 per cent over 2017, accounting for 57.5% of the supply. The supply of recycled aluminium was 3215 tons, an increase of 192% over 2017, accounting for 43.5% of the supply, compared with 24% of the supply in 2017. With the increase of aluminum reserves in Chinese society, scrapped aluminum products have entered an accelerated cycle period, and the amount of recycled waste aluminum will increase significantly compared with the present, while the increase in the demand for primary aluminum will be very limited. This will be an important change in China's aluminum raw material supply.
The International Aluminum Association believes that while aluminum demand and industry continue to develop, The development of the global aluminum industry also faces three major risks and constraints: sustainable supply of bauxite raw materials, excessive emissions of red mud and electrolytic aluminum overhaul slag, and greenhouse gas emissions. As a result of the above sustainability problems, the aluminum industry is facing some negative comments, and it also affects the position of aluminum materials in the market competition. From now on, the aluminum industry as a whole needs to respond actively, take action, shoulder social responsibility, and firmly embark on the road of sustainable development.
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Media releaseMay 06, 2021
Sulzer partners with Swiss AVA Biochem to expand its technology portfolio for renewable, bio-based and recyclable materials production
AVA Biochem AG is a pioneer in enabling the decarbonization of traditional chemical and adjacent B2B industries, and it is known for its proprietary COBRIS™ process (Conversion of Biomass to Renewable Industrial Substances). The process turns sugar-rich biomass into a renewable and non-toxic compound (the platform chemical 5-HMF) used to produce a broad range of widely used chemical products such as adhesives, food additives, textile fibers, packaging, films as well as alternatives to formaldehyde used in chipboards.
Sulzer Chemtech will commercialize the licensed technology along with its proprietary key equipment for the purification of 5-HMF. Chemtech’s separation equipment is already being used in the unique demonstration plant in Muttenz, Switzerland, where 5-HMF is produced in different forms for a total capacity of six metric tons per year.
The partnership supports the large-scale production of bio-based materials, enhancing the sustainability of both the manufacturing and processing sectors.
- Division President Sulzer ChemtechWe are proud to expand our portfolio of technologies for the production of renewable, bio-based and recyclable materials with AVA Biochem’s technology. This new solution, which includes our advanced separators, is an excellent fit with Sulzer Chemtech’s offering. We look forward to implementing this technology globally to support companies in the manufacturing and processing sectors interested in improving the sustainability of their operations with this unique, green system.
- Chief Executive Officer of AVA Biochem AGWe strive to create a circular economy that will contribute to a positive environmental future. We are at the right time and place, with a suitable commercial and industrial technology at the ready. Key topics like CO2 footprint, conversion of biomass according to Green Chemistry principles are more prominent than ever. Mindful consumers are increasingly aware of biodegradability, the impact of plastics and alternatives to fossil resources. They care about reducing waste, recycling or upcycling. AVA Biochem AG pioneered the Hydro-Thermal Technologies (HTx) for various applications more than a decade ago, accompanied and financed by a group of private entrepreneurs with both a sustainability mindset and a long-term perspective. Together with Sulzer Chemtech, we are bringing proven fully scalable eco-excellence to the table enabling sustainable and renewable technologies.
The technology serves the ever-increasing demand for circular applications in the chemical sector, with companies looking for biodegradable products, alternatives to fossil resources, and recycling or upcycling technologies to reduce their CO2 footprint and waste.
AVA Biochem is the global leader in the industrial development, production, sale, and licensing of the 100% bio-based platform chemical 5-Hydroxy Methyl Furfural (5-HMF), a renewable and non-toxic alternative to a range of fossil-based materials. 5-HMF has a broad range of applications in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food industries. Since 2014, Swiss-based AVA Biochem is producing high-purity 5-HMF for research purposes and specialty chemicals markets, as well as technical-grade 5-HMF for bulk chemistry applications and downstream chemicals like PEF. www.ava-biochem.com | <urn:uuid:2e8cdc23-405e-4ab6-97f7-810d75424089> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sulzer.com/en/shared/news/210506-sulzer-partners-with-swiss-ava-biochem-to-expand-its-technology-portfolio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.915705 | 704 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Credit market of the Chuvash Republic and prospects of its development
Current economic situation in the Chuvash Republic and its adaptation to the crisis are analyzed. The causes for reduction in the number of credit organizations in the region are established. The article determines the influence of innovative banking development through active introduction of client relations practice by all оmnichannel directions: Internet banking, ATMs, mobile apps, etc., as well as market "penetration" by credit services of numerous startups. The analysis of change in assets of credit institutions registered in the Chuvash Republic as a result of improved macroeconomic indicators of socio-economic development of the Chuvash Republic is performed.Surplus liquidity of credit institutions is defined, volumes of loans, deposits and other funds placed in rubles and foreign currency by credit institutions registered in the Chuvash Republic are analyzed as well. Reserves of loan growth in the region are revealed. The reasons for decrease in overdue arrears of loans, deposits and other funds placed by credit organizations are analyzed. The conditions and prospects of loan growth in the Chuvash Republic by category of loans are determined.
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- Kurenkov D.V. Model’ ustoichivogo ekonomicheskogo rosta [A Model of sustainable economic growth]. Aktual’nye problemy ekonomicheskoi teorii i regional’noi ekonomiki [Actual problems of economic theory and regional economy], 2015, no. 1(17), pp. 61–66.
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- Tsentral’nyi bank RF: ofits. sait [The Central Bank of the Russian Federation: site]. Available at: http//www/cbr. EN.
- Kurenkov Dmitry
- candidate of economics, finance, credit and economic security department associate professor, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (firstname.lastname@example.org; )
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In general, only final judgments may be appealed. In other words, interlocutory orders entered during the course of the litigation are usually not appealable until the case is concluded. North Carolina appellate courts restrict review of interlocutory orders to prevent “fragmentary appeals.” In other words, the appellate courts would prefer to review a case for errors a single time, after it is over.
There is an oft-litigated exception: whenever the appellant can show that the interlocutory order “affects a substantial right.” See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-277(a); N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-27(d)(1). Suppose an interlocutory order resolves multiple issues, some of which affect a substantial right and some of which do not. Can you ask the court to accept immediate review of the entire interlocutory order?
You could certaintly make a good case for comprehensive review of the interlocutory order. First, both “substantial right” statutes allow immediate appeal whenever the order affects a substantial right. An order containing an issue affecting a substantial right should itself affect a substantial right. In addition, the primary policy justification for limiting interlocutory review–preventing fragmentary appeals–is mitigated if there is going to be an interlocutory appeal anyway. Why not allow the parties clarity on all issues presented in the interlocutory order now, instead of waiting for the conclusion of the litigation?
In an important decision issued this week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals declined to review the entirey of an interlocutory order on appeal because one of the issues decided did not itself affect a substantial right. See Richmond County Board of Education v. Cowell et al. In Richmond County, the Plaintiff county board of education challenges a 2011 amendment to the North Carolina general statututes purporting to require counties to collect $50.00 from each person convicted of “an improper equipment offense” and transfer the money to the state coffers. See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-304(4b). (For the uninitiated, you are guilty of an “improper equipment offense” whenever you are caught speeding, but the ADA allows you to blame it on a faulty speedometer. Car manufacturers should really look into this widespread failure of dashboard instruments.) Plaintiff challenges the statute on the ground that the North Carolina constitution requires penal penalties to remain in the hands of the county that collects them. See N.C. Const. Art. IX, Section 7.
Defendants moved to dismiss on two grounds, asserting sovereign immunity from suit and that plaintiff lacked standing. The trial court entered an order denying the motion to dismiss. On defendants’ appeal, the Court of Appeals found that defendants had a well-established right to appeal the denial of their motion to dismiss on sovereign immunity grounds. Because sovereign immunity protects the state not only from paying damages, but from being sued in the first place, the state would lose its right to be free from unwarranted litigation if a trial court improperly denied a motion to dismiss on soveregin immunity grounds and immediate appeal were not available. In other words, the interlocutory order affected a substantial right of defendants and was immediately appealable, at least as to the sovereign immunity issue. The trial court’s decision on the standing issue, however, did not affect defendants’ substantial rights. The Court of Appeals therefore dismissed “defendants’ standing argument as interlocutory and not affecting a substantial right.” (emphasis added).
That is, even though the interlocutory appeal was heard on Issue 1 (sovereign immunity), it was not heard on Issue 2 (standing). The decision may not foreclose the argument that an interlocutory order on appeal should be reviewable in its entirety if any part of it affects a substantial right, as the court did not address the issue head-on. But appellants beware: in your next interlocutory appeal, you should explain to the court why each issue decided in the order on appeal affects a substantial right. And while you are at it, have your mechanic verify that your speedometer is in safe, working condition. | <urn:uuid:4c48db41-8f19-4c65-83ff-ba22ad5c79be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ncapb.foxrothschild.com/2013/02/20/no-bootstrapping-allowed-court-of-appeals-only-reviews-part-of-immediately-appealable-interlocutory-order/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.939412 | 880 | 1.585938 | 2 |
As I mentioned in the fall, we opted to move our kids out of our local school district and place them in charter schools. Our daughter went to a local brick & mortar charter, while our son started with a virtual charter school in Massachusetts called TEC Connections Academy. We had a lot of questions before we got started and have had a lot of people ask us things since. Let’s be honest – you don’t hear about kids doing online schooling all that frequently (yet). Here are the 10 top things people should know about TECCA.
1. It is not homeschooling.
Yes. You’re at home, but it’s a public school. There’s a set curriculum, a minimum number of hours to be completed each week, teachers assigned to help out, and a general schedule you’re expected to follow. It’s flexible, but you still have to answer to someone else.
2. TEC Connections Academy is a charter school.
I sort of gave this one away in the intro, but not everyone knows what it means to be a charter school. TECCA is “free” to you (in Massachusetts), just like your community school would be. In fact, your local district pays TECCA to teach your child. Here in Massachusetts, we have two online charter schools to choose from, but TECCA is part of the Connections Academy umbrella that is available internationally. Because it’s a charter school in Massachusetts, it acts as its own school district and students must apply to attend. If there are more applications than spaces, they will hold a lottery to assign seats in the spring. Otherwise, people can register on a first-come, first-served basis.
3. It’s not a hands-off option for parents.
If you’re avoiding homeschooling because you work full time, have other kids to take care of, or otherwise can’t invest the time, be forewarned. TEC Connections Academy requires a responsible adult to help kids learn. The amount of time depends on the age of your kids and their abilities and motivation, but expect anywhere from 4-6 hours for little ones to 2-3 for middle school and an hour or two for high school. You’re basically walking younger kids through the curriculum. For middle schoolers, you’re helping with planning, accountability, study skills, etc. Some kids may need a lot more support than others, especially if they’re new to online schooling. The same goes for high school students.
4. There is a big learning curve.
If you and your kids are extremely comfortable with technology, that’s certainly going to help. But even so, it takes some time to learn how to navigate lessons, manage your time, take notes, etc. Learning to work efficiently without a structured school day is also challenging for a lot of kids. Those who are less comfortable with tech will have even bigger hurdles, of course, although the staff will help as much as they can. Expect an adjustment period for many families where kids and adults figure out how to work together.
5. TECCA provides learning materials.
They provide textbooks, workbooks, some literature, science kits, art kits, a DVD for PE, etc. Some grades provide a Chromebook for kids to work on. Keep in mind that some books may be entirely online. You can print or order them if necessary.
6. You can bring your child’s IEP with you.
Just like any other public school, they are required to provide accommodations where necessary for your chilld’s education. That may look different for online learning and you may need to revisit it as you go and learn.
7. TECCA follows a regular school calendar.
Here in Massachusetts, we are required to have 180 days of school. TEC Connections Academy does as well, and you’ll record the hours your child works each day to prove you’re getting in the time. They have the same school vacations and holidays for the most part.
8. Sick days don’t count for much.
Since kids are at home as usual and can work from bed, don’t expect any kind of lighter course load for sick days. The work can be postponed, but it still needs to be done. For kids with chronic illnesses, this does provide a certain amount of flexibility to keep up on their on schedule, but if your kid gets the flu, they are likely to fall behind. Unlike a traditional school setting where kids might just have homework to make up, they will need to get in all of their work. The same is true for other absences like bereavement days, family vacations, etc.
9. There are field trips.
TECCA hosts a few all-school gatherings during the year where almost the entire staff is present. There are also a bunch of regional field trips where one or two teachers are hosting. The field trips are a great chance to connect with teachers and with classmates, and also get out of the house. Do know, however, that while you can use the hours to count toward a completed school day, you’ll still need to complete any assigned work.
10. There are clubs.
Much like in a traditional setting, TECCA has interest clubs like yearbook, robotics, gaming, literary magazine, etc. Most of these are hosted by the greater Connections Academy program and are populated with kids across the United States (and likely beyond), but TECCA had a few that were locally based, including a community service club.
Attending TEC Connections Academy has a lot of things in common with the brick and mortar schools you may be familiar with, but there are plenty of differences as well. The more you know, the better prepared you’ll be to make a good decision for your family. | <urn:uuid:2f2bb2f4-e702-48fd-b1e2-31c06ce120f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://quirkyfusion.com/10-things-you-should-know-about-tec-connections-academy-online-public-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967075 | 1,232 | 1.875 | 2 |
Rules & Regulations
Please read our guide below before you start your journey in Finland.
- Drive on the right-hand side and overtake on the left.
- The blood to alcohol limit in Finland is 0.05%.
- The use of mobile phones whilst driving is not allowed unless you use a hands-free system.
- Seat belts are compulsory for all occupants of the vehicle.
- Children under 3 years of age must have a child restraint on them. It is compulsory to have infant child car seats determined by the child’s weight for children who are less than 135 cm. Children over 135 cm tall can use seat belts.
- Winter tyres are required when driving in Finland from December to March and preferably studded tyres. Road conditions in the winter months can be icy and hazardous so drive with extra caution and care.
- Engine heaters in the winter are recommended.
- Headlights must be used at all times.
- Drivers are not allowed to remain stationary for long periods. Unless you’re stuck in unavoidable traffic, you shouldn’t leave your engine running for more than two minutes, or four minutes if the temperature is below -15 degrees Celsius.
- Trams and buses have right of way.
- At many unregulated intersections, you should yield to traffic on-coming from the right, unless there is a “yield” or “give way” signposted for the right on-coming traffic.
- Radar detector devices are prohibited.
Here are the speed limits to abide by when driving in Finland:
- 50 km/h in built-up areas
- 80 km/h – 100 km/h outside of built-up areas
- 100 km/h on motorways and 120 km/h in the summer
Things to Bring Along
The following documents should be carried at all times when driving in Finland:
- Full UK driver’s license
- Fire extinguisher
- First aid kit
- Reflective vest
- There are no toll roads in Finland.
- If somebody flashes there headlights at you it could mean that there is an accident ahead, there is a moose on the road or that you haven’t got your headlights on.
- Most cities have metered parking areas. However, sometimes parking is free, but others it’s time-limited. In this case, you need a parking disc, which can be obtained from petrol stations, kiosks and most shops.
- Make sure you’re prepared to present necessary documents when stopped by a police officer.
- To contact the emergency services call 112
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By Jake Withnell, CFP®
There is no doubt that personal finance can be a complicated topic. Between all the different financial instruments and the almost 7,000 pages of the U.S. tax code, (1) it’s incredibly easy to get overwhelmed. Luckily, there are two financial lessons that I think are the most critical to reach your financial goals. With just these two pieces of financial advice, you are going to be in a much better position than the majority of Americans to make the most of your hard-earned money.
Engage in a Financial Team
If you have ever tried to cut your own hair, you definitely know the value of reaching out to a professional barber or hairstylist. Not only do they have extensive training and experience, they also have a better viewpoint and can see your head from every angle.
Looking after your finances by yourself is the same. As a dedicated professional in your field, you don’t have time to learn the ins and outs of investment strategies and tax planning. Having an experienced financial team consisting of a CPA, wealth manager, and attorney that you can trust and lean on is vital to achieving your financial goals. Outsourcing your tax strategies, investment management, and estate planning allows you a better perspective on your finances and frees your time to focus on the things that are important to you.
Stay the Course
We all think the grass is greener on the other side. Maybe not all the time, but you must admit you’ve felt that envious feeling before. When it comes to your financial plan, it’s exactly what it sounds like—your plan. Not your neighbor’s, not your uncle’s, but your plan, and it should be uniquely tailored to your goals. If you have a cookie-cutter plan that says “insert name here,” it’s time for a change. An excellent financial advisor builds a plan based on your life and your ambitions. JGP Wealth Management will keep you on track to your destination.
But if fear and greed crop up in the meantime, your advisor and your plan should keep you on target. There will always be a shiny new tech stock or an undervalued energy stock, but should you be jumping on the bandwagon? Is it right for you? That’s the big question. If early retirement is your goal, should you be tinkering with your asset allocation at age 55 and buying stocks not appropriate for your portfolio? Probably not.
Greed and fear are two sides of the same coin. Greed makes you jump into the market, and fear makes you sit out of the market. There’s a compromise somewhere in the middle, and your financial advisor should know the psychology of investing and be able to get you out of trouble when you are in over your head, or gently nudge you when fear takes over. Professional money management based on science, history, and numbers prevent you from floating away into the abyss of greed or fear
How We Can Help
Having experienced professionals you can trust are looking out for your best interest is a crucial component of both financial lessons. At JGP Wealth Management, we are dedicated to helping you reach your financial goals and increase your confidence in your financial future. If you have any questions, reach out to me at 503-446-6450, email email@example.com, or schedule an introductory phone call online.
Jake Withnell is a financial advisor at JGP Wealth Management, an independent, fee-based financial advisory firm in Portland, Oregon. Jake is known for going the extra mile for his clients and for his passion for working tirelessly to help his clients find solutions to their financial concerns so they can confidently live out the life they want. He prioritizes listening and understanding as the foundation of his relationships with his clients, and his highest hope is that they can spend more of their time and energy on their passions knowing he is watching over their financial future. Jake specializes in serving business owners, Nike executives, and retirees, and plays a key role in JGP’s portfolio management process, building and analyzing financial models, and conducting client cash flow analyses.Jake graduated from Eastern Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in professional accounting and finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® (CFP®) professional. Jake’s claim to fame is his time playing tight end for the Eastern Washington University Eagles, all while earning four-time Big Sky Conference First Team All-Academic honors! Jake values giving back to his community and does this by volunteering with the Children’s Cancer Association, Family Building Blocks, and New Avenues for Youth. In his free time, Jake takes advantage of the many outdoor activities the Northwest has to offer, such as trail running, mountain biking, and hiking. He loves traveling and spending long weekends at his family beach house in Seaside, OR. To learn more about Jake, connect with him on LinkedIn. You can also watch his latest webinar on 6 Ways to Maximize Your Nike Employee Benefits. | <urn:uuid:c2a5d03e-8d9c-43c9-8f0e-eb17baf01821> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jgpwealth.com/blog/if-i-could-only-teach-two-financial-lessons-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96111 | 1,064 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Most festival wristbands are still made of plastic. And festivalgoers often continue to wear theirs until well after the festival has ended, as a memento. These two facts gave Tessa the idea for her biodegradable festival wristband with flower seeds inside. As soon as they are back home, festivalgoers can take off their wristband, plant it in some soil and see it flower. At the Paradigm festival, 100 artists were the first to test the flowering wristband. Tessa got nothing but positive feedback before, during, and after the festival. At present, she is in talks with Dutchband on a follow-up test and on large-scale production of her wristband. | <urn:uuid:36088a63-f826-4477-8eb1-74638884ed44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://innofest.co/en/cases/plantjebandje/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973564 | 142 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Fall 2021 Workshop Series: Implementing active learning strategies in your classroom to enhance student learning
Description: In this workshop, we will explore various active learning strategies used to engage students and improve their understanding of the course materials. We will discuss how to effectively integrate active learning into small and large classrooms across different disciplines. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to create and incorporate active learning strategies that align with the learning objectives in their course.
Location: AIRB 1030
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Andrew Bolt's recent "expose" of the Gospel nativity stories and the Genesis creation story reminds me of the overreaching first-year Arts student - every year has one - who has stumbled across questions he himself has never considered, but who then has the temerity and naivete to pose them in class as fresh problems not yet confronted, let alone resolved.
There are contradictions and irreconcilable differences in the Bible's most important narratives, Bolt tells us, and millions of Christians throughout the centuries have failed to spot what Bolt has only just discovered upon reading the latest populist tome by Robin Lane Fox.
Inconsistencies and plausibility
Before looking at the specific scriptural errors exposed by Andrew Bolt, something more general needs to be said. Serial naysayers ought to realise that Christians could concede every one of the alleged problems proposed by Bolt and others and it would make very little difference to the broader plausibility of Jesus' life.
Inconsistencies of this kind would only pose problems for a particular view of scriptural inspiration. It would not change the overall historical trustworthiness of the narrative, since even our best sources for Greek and Roman events contain numerous inconsistencies and apparent factual errors. The same is true of modern works of history.
But there is no avoiding the fact that, once you move beyond reading one or two of your favourite sceptics' writings, the overwhelming majority of specialists in secular universities around the world agree: Jesus lived in first-century Galilee, taught about a coming "kingdom of God," fraternized with "sinners" and tax-collectors, gathered a group of twelve disciples as a symbol of a renewed (twelve tribes of) Israel, enjoyed an unusually wide reputation as a healer - however that is explained - clashed with the Jerusalem temple authorities, was crucified by order of Pontius Pilate under the mocking charge of "king of the Jews" and, shortly afterwards, was hailed as the resurrected Messiah by the first generation of his followers.
Attempts to deny these accepted facts have roughly the same credibility in historical scholarship as six-day creationism does in professional science, and only someone unaware of the vast body of literature on this subject, which probably eclipses the literature on Alexander and Caesar combined, could suggest otherwise.
The point of this is to say that a robust theory can still hold together even if there are inconsistencies in the details. If a theory, whether historical or scientific, has enough evidence from other lines of reasoning, it will continue to garner trust even if difficulties remain. I freely admit there are problems in the New Testament that remain unresolved. But not for a second do I think this undermines the New Testament account of Jesus. It just means we need to wait for more data.
This brings me to the second thing worth remembering. Historians of antiquity offer their judgments on the basis of a very limited data set. Specialists will freely admit that we possess today less than one percent of the documents, inscriptions and buildings that existed in the first-century Graeco-Roman world.
Acknowledging this leads to one of the golden rules of historical analysis: absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. Just because an event mentioned in one source can't be corroborated by another source does not mean that the event didn't happen. When 99% of our information from the period has been lost, one must be very careful adjudicating over what did not happen.
Bethlehem or Nazareth?
All of this said, the problems raised by Andrew Bolt are both trifling and by no means insurmountable - and we have been aware of them for more than a century!
First, he says that, whereas Matthew has the holy couple living in Bethlehem, Luke has them in Nazareth, only travelling to Bethlehem for the census and then returning "home." Herein, supposedly, lies a contradiction. But a quick read of Matthew 1-2 shows that Matthew does not say Joseph and Mary were residents of Bethlehem, only that this is where they were when Jesus was born.
In other words, Matthew picks up his story in Bethlehem, whereas Luke picks it up earlier in Nazareth. Incidentally, the fact that Luke can say that Bethlehem was Joseph's "own town" may suggest that the living and property arrangements of the holy family were more complicated than we usually imagine. In any case, there is no contradiction here - just an unwillingness on the part of Bolt to read the Gospels with the same subtlety and respect he affords to documents in his journalistic sphere.
The differences between Matthew and Luke, by the way, are one of the reasons most specialists are confident these Gospels were not copied from each other. This makes the things they have in common all the more significant. As with testimony in a court of law, absolute agreement between witnesses is usually a sign for the historian of collusion, but basic agreement with significant variation - as we find in Matthew and Luke - is a sign of independent testimony to real events.
Both Gospels agree Jesus was born before Herod the Great died; both agree on the names of his birth parents and the fact that they were unmarried; both agree on the place of his birth; both agree that the family descended from King David (as did thousands of others, by the way); and both agree that some time afterwards the family went (back) to Nazareth. That's a lot of agreement for sources that are independent of each other.
Andrew Bolt endorses the old chestnut that Luke and Matthew invented Bethlehem as the birthplace because they needed to secure his connection to King David's family town. This is unconvincing. The fact is, neither Mark (the first Gospel written) nor John (the last one written) say anything about a birth in Bethlehem. If Bethlehem was so important for Jesus' credentials that Matthew and Luke had to make it up, why didn't the other two Gospels bother to mention it?
And, if Bethlehem was in fact not important enough for Mark and John to invent a reference to it, what reason is there for thinking that Matthew and Luke were so motivated? Jesus' birth in Bethlehem is not proven but it certainly isn't discredited.
The census under Quirinius
The only real historical problem with the nativity is Luke's mention that Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem during an imperial census associated with Quirinius, governor of Syria. Andrew Bolt rightly points out that the only census we know about in this period was in AD 6. It caused a mini-revolt, which is why we hear about it from the first-century Jewish writer Josephus. But Jesus was born before the death of Herod the Great in early 4 BC. Most scholars give the date of Jesus' birth as 6-5 BC (five years before himself; a consequence of a small mistake in the establishing of the western calendar during the sixth century, not any biblical funny business).
Those who rush to find a mistake here should recall two things. First, Luke actually says "this was the first census while Quirinius was governor." It is true that we only have evidence of a single census in AD 6, but Luke obviously knew of more than one. Presumably, he knew of the one in AD 6 and a former one around the time of Jesus' birth. The fact that he can so casually call it the "first census" suggests that he expected his readers to know about the two censuses.
Allied to this, secondly, is the need to remember that we have less than 1% of the documentation from this period. It is overzealous to disqualify Luke's evidence when 99% of the relevant evidence is missing.
But what about Quirinius himself? He was definitely governor of Syria in AD 6 and, as best as we can tell, the governor in 6-5 BC was either Saturninus or Varus. So did Luke simply get the governorship incorrect, misnaming the man in charge of the "first census." If so, this is a tiny error, on par with those found in our very best Greek and Roman sources (not to mention in the work of modern historians). It certainly isn't cause for sceptical gloating. The fact that the naysayers get so excited about this one, is an indication of how meagre the arguments against the Bible really are.
That said, in the published literature there are at least six solutions to the problem of an earlier governorship for Quirinius, including the proposal that Quirinius co-administered the census with Saturnius or Varus but was singled out by Luke because of the fame he acquired from the later AD 6 census. We have no evidence for this but it is a possibility one could propose if one thought Luke was usually a reliable source.
Personally, I wouldn't want to endorse any of the scholarly "solutions" - even the one just mentioned - because I am perfectly happy living with an unresolved historical question about such a small feature of the Gospels. Perhaps future discoveries will confirm a mistake on Luke's part; perhaps they will exonerate him.
There is a long, long list of examples of sceptics denying certain details of the Gospels only to be embarrassed by later discoveries: a five-colonnade pool of Bethesda, the baths of Siloam, the "prefecture" title of Pontius Pilate, residences of first-century Nazareth and numerous others. It would only take the chance discovery of a document placing Quirinius in Syria ten years earlier and all the naysayers would be moving their sceptical tomes to the back of the library book shelves.
Similar considerations apply to the claim that Augustus would not have required subjects to return to their home towns. We just don't have enough information about censuses in antiquity to make that judgment. From the little we know, we can say that this would have been unusual, but we cannot say it is an implausible fiction.
After all, it must be remembered that Luke was writing within the Roman empire itself and relatively close to the events described. Whether he invented the census or accurately reported it, he obviously would have known - certainly better than any contemporary writer - what would and wouldn't have sounded plausible to his readers.
Andrew Bolt's second attempt at biblical criticism requires only brief comment. From the opening narrative of the New Testament he winds back to the opening story of the Bible itself:
"I'm embarrassed to admit that I learned only for the first time from Fox's book this week that the very first pages of Genesis are also internally contradictory - and about the most fundamental story of all."
He goes on to point out that Genesis 1:26-27 speaks about Adam and Eve being created simultaneously and Genesis 2:5-22 has Eve being fashioned after Adam. He lays out the Bible passages for us and urges, "Check for yourself."
Well may Bolt be "embarrassed" because, while all this may be a revelation to a journalist, it is Old Testament 101. In fact, my Sunday-schooled 16 year-old could point out that there are two accounts of creation, and that they've both been placed at the front of the Bible to draw out different points about the creation.
The first stresses macro-issues like God's ordering of the cosmos; the second zeros in on the special place of humanity in God's creation. These are not "internally inconsistent accounts of the creation," but rather they are deliberate snapshots taken from different angles and with different zooms. And, obviously, the original author of Genesis was perfectly happy to place these accounts side by side.
Unless Bolt thinks the biblical writer was an idiot - unable to spot the differences between things that fall within three paragraphs of each other - we have to conclude that the "contradiction" is itself a modern fiction.
Worse still, had Bolt paid attention in Sunday School, he would have learnt that many mainstream scholars believe the first few chapters of Genesis were never intended to be read in the clumsily literalist way that Bolt reads them.
This is not a nervous backtracking in the face of the awkward discoveries of modern science. It is a way of reading Genesis that goes back to Augustine in the fifth century, Clement in the second and Philo in the first. None of these towering ancient theologians read Genesis in a literalistic fashion. They all believed the "six days" of Genesis 1, for example, was a literary device designed by the author to convey order and beauty.
If they were right - and most biblical interpreters today would say they were - then obviously the original author or compiler of Genesis would have had no problem putting two highly literary accounts of creation side by side in order to make different points about God's good creation.
In the end, Andrew Bolt's neophyte epiphany about biblical contradictions has all the sophistication of an engineering student sitting through an English literature class and then remonstrating about the impossibility of "Juliet" being the "sun."
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Avocado farmers take up arms as Mexico violence spikes
A convoy of vigilantes snakes along a road in western Mexico, vowing to defend their avocado orchards from gangs sowing terror in a country reeling from a new wave of bloodshed.
Armed with assault rifles and other firearms, the masked men travel between plantations and maintain checkpoints in Ario de Rosales in Michoacan state, the scene of a bloody cartel turf war.
Before they began patrolling the area, residents lived in fear of kidnapping, extortion and theft of avocados, according to a member of the self-defense group Pueblos Unidos, which says it has 700 members.
“We need to be armed to defend ourselves,” he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity, wearing a badge reading “Down with injustice, no more dead.”
Previously, criminals “came to do what they wanted to us, and that doesn’t happen anymore,” he added.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador opposes such self-defense groups — a phenomenon that dates back to 2013 — saying that some of them have become fronts for criminals.
Such comments are not well received in Ario de Rosales, where another Pueblos Unidos member says the president should “get his shoes dirty” to discover the reality of life in the area, where the Jalisco New Generation and Los Viagras cartels operate.
The police and military “feared the criminals or were paid by them to do nothing,” said another vigilante who gave his name as Martin.
‘Hugs not bullets’
It is estimated that there are around 50 such self-defense groups in Mexico, which has seen intensifying violence in recent months, notably in Michoacan and the northern states of Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.
Mexico registered 14,243 murders in the first five months of the year, and the bloodshed has shown no sign of stopping since then.
On June 19, alleged members of the Gulf Cartel shot dead 15 people described by the government as innocent victims in the border city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas.
Four attackers were killed by the police.
One hitman who was arrested said that the massacre sought to “heat up the plaza” — a form of random killings to divert the attention of the authorities away from other areas.
On June 29, nine bodies were found near Ciudad Miguel Aleman, also in Tamaulipas, where criminals are fighting for control of a border bridge used to smuggle drugs, weapons and migrants, according to an intelligence source.
And a shootout between alleged gang members left 18 dead in Zacatecas, where the bodies of two policemen were hung from a bridge.
Despite the escalation in violence, Lopez Obrador refuses to declare war on the cartels, arguing that this policy failed in the past.
Instead he has maintained a strategy of “hugs not bullets” and fighting crime at its roots by attacking poverty and inequality.
More than 300,000 people have been murdered since the government of then president Felipe Calderon deployed the military in the war on drugs in 2006.
Since then the dominant cartels have splintered to the point that around 200 gangs now operate in the country, according to the think tank InSight Crime.
Lopez Obrador has told the United States that he wants to end military cooperation in fighting narcotics trafficking.
“You cannot confront violence with violence,” he said on Friday about the situation in Aguililla, another Michoacan town terrorized by warring gangs.
In April, former US ambassador Christopher Landau said that Lopez Obrador saw the cartels as a “distraction” from a domestic agenda mostly focused on social programs.
“So he has basically adopted a pretty laissez-faire attitude towards them,” said Landau, who was ex-president Donald Trump’s envoy in Mexico City.
Lopez Obrador’s policy of non-confrontation with the cartels has left “power vacuums” exploited by gangs, according to Jose Reveles, a drug trafficking specialist.
In Aguililla, residents recently attacked a garrison with homemade explosives to try to pressure the military into reopening roads that had been blocked by rival gangs.
“We were trapped in the village and getting food was very difficult,” said Eugenia, a mother of two living in the town.
Aguililla is at the center of a turf war between Carteles Unidos and Jalisco New Generation, whose leader Nemesio Oseguera was born there.
“While the government said that things were fine and there was no organized crime, we saw them on a daily basis, with high-powered weapons,” another resident who did not want to be named told AFP.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — SNAP and P-EBT benefits can now be used at all Knoxville farmer’s markets according to Nourish Knoxville.
The Ebenezer Road Farmers’ Market began accepting SNAP/P-EBT benefits and joined the Double Up Food Bucks program. This market joins Nourish Knoxville’s Market Square, New Harvest, and Winter Farmers’ Markets and National Women in Agriculture’s Eastside Sunday Market in using the Double Up Food Bucks program. This means that SNAP and P-EBT recipients can shop at any Knoxville farmers’ market and receive free produce.
People who are in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can swipe their EBT or P-EBT cards at a market and the Double Up program will match up to $20 per day to be spent on fresh fruits and vegetables. For example, a family who spends $10 in SNAP benefits receives an additional $10 in Double Up tokens to spend at the market for fresh produce.
“With Double Up Food Bucks, federal nutrition dollars work harder—simultaneously reducing hunger and supporting healthier diets for SNAP households, while also supporting farmers,” says Charlotte Tolley, Nourish Knoxville Executive Director.
The Double Up program was started by the nonprofit Fair Food Network in 2009 in Michigan to help low-income families have greater access to fresh food while supporting local farmers. In 2019, Nourish Knoxville joined the FFN and 20 states to bring Double Up to East Tennessee. There are currently 14 participating farmers’ markets, one grocery store, and one farm store offering Double Up Food Bucks across the region. For a full list of participating places, visit doubleuptn.org. | <urn:uuid:76971eff-b7ad-4217-8639-1edb46a17bc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/snap-p-ebt-benefits-usable-at-all-knoxville-farmers-markets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.92218 | 364 | 1.523438 | 2 |
BA Student Research Assistant, Tufts University, Boston, MA
The Pink Fish girls understood why they were at this camp, bluntly asking each other “Who died?” and “How are they dead?”
Some camp activities were traditional camp adventures while others, including a symbolic stone craft, a hand drawn pillowcase, and aromatherapy, were guided by the grief counselors. When all of the campers gathered for the first time, I could feel tension, sadness, and silence in the air. I admired the respect and support seen among the campers during the first activity, which was creating a large memory board honoring all of the campers’ loved ones. Personally, I found their stories to be an immense amount of information to hold. I wanted to cry for the boy who left hyperventilating. I wanted to hug the groups of siblings, as I could imagine their family as a whole. In the back of my mind, I feared that this weekend would be too much for me, but at the same time I wanted to give these campers my all, especially after hearing firsthand what they have been through. At first, I worried I would say the wrong thing or freeze when a child needed comfort. However, I saw the appreciation in campers’ faces when I told them their memories sounded lovely and their artwork honoring their loved ones was “beautiful” and “important.” I learned how to encourage children to be open by reassuring them that they were “special” and “brave” for being present. I found myself naturally repeating these words of encouragement frequently throughout the weekend.
Grief camp taught me how to empathize to a greater extent. It made me realize you cannot always say the right thing or fix sadness, but being present and supportive means more than anything. I had worried it would be uncomfortable to face the reality and permanence of death with these campers, especially the young girls to whom I was assigned, but I learned to not avoid the blunt, harsh words such as “dead.” Instead, I learned to redirect back to the campers and see what they had to say or how they felt about things. I found the easiest way to encourage 6- to 8-year-old campers to express their feelings or share their stories was through arts and crafts. It was easier to ask open-ended questions—who or what a drawing was of, what was taking place, why it was special—to allow the campers to reflect on the happy memories more so than the loss. I was really able to gain insight on what their losses meant to them by how they remembered their loved ones.
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One in ten Dutch people suffers burns during a holiday. The barbecue is often the cause. This is apparent from research by the Dutch Burns Foundation.
“These are high numbers,” says Annebeth de Vries, surgeon at the burn center at the Red Cross Hospital in Beverwijk. “We know that the change of routine increases the risk of accidents, but we did not expect this.”
The burn centers (Groningen, Beverwijk and Rotterdam) are busy every summer. Many of these accidents can be prevented, says De Vries. “In addition to the minor burns, we are expecting children again this summer with serious burns they suffered during the holiday.”
For adults, the barbecue is often the source of misery. De Vries: “Very annoying, because these patients are often scarred for life.”
The Dutch often ‘forget’ that the daily routine is different during a holiday. “That increases the risk of accidents,” says Kees Hoogewerf, prevention expert at the Burns Foundation. “Things are in a different place and the atmosphere is relaxed. Then it is easy to not pay attention, especially with young children. Think of tea on a rickety camping table, a kettle on the floor or spirits on the barbecue.”
The foundation is starting a national campaign to make people aware of the risks on holiday. Hoogewerf: ,,Are you going camping? Then pay extra attention to hot liquids and the connection of the gas tank. Never use methylated spirits to light a barbecue and make sure you have a good first aid kit with you.”
Parents are wise to keep a close eye on their young children. “Children’s skin is thinner and therefore they are more prone to burns than adults. At high temperatures, children’s skin can burn from a hot car seat, bicycle seat or metal slide. But standing water in the garden hose can also become dangerously hot.”
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Produce grown at St. Luke’s Rodale Institute Organic Farm on the St. Luke’s Anderson Campus.
St. Luke’s University Health Network is the first health system outside of the Philadelphia area to sign the Good Food, Healthy Hospitals pledge. SLUHN signed the pledge after the initiative secured a five-year national grant to expand the program statewide.
The president of each SLUHN campus signed the Good Food, Healthy Hospitals Pledge, taking the next step to promote good healthcare through good food choices in all the hospital settings: patient meals, cafeteria meals, catering and vending machine operations. The guidelines are based on existing evidence-based standards to ensure they follow the latest dietary guidance. These commitments include purchasing locally sourced and sustainably produced foods and increasing the overall nutritional value of the snacks, meals and beverages offered at the hospital campuses.
“Ensuring access to fresh, unrefined, locally-sourced food in our hospitals demonstrates our health system’s commitment to preventive care,” said SLUHN’s Amy Previato, MPH, CHES, Network Director, Employee Wellness Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine.
“Improving the food environment will not only improve the health of our community, including nutritionally vulnerable populations such as the chronically ill, youth and seniors, but also lessen the economic burden of healthcare costs associated with Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other diet-related illness,” said Bonnie Coyle, MD Chair, Community Health and Preventive Medicine.
St. Luke’s participation also serves as a model for other large institutions, employers and programs, Previato said.
Facilities that have signed the pledge work closely with the Good Food, Healthy Hospitals team, including the Pennsylvania Department of Public Health, Philadelphia Department of Public Health and The Common Market Mid-Atlantic for technical assistance.
Since the program started in 2014, 39 hospitals representing eight large health systems mostly in the Philadelphia area have signed the pledge to participate. SLUHN is proud to be one of the most recent additions to the statewide initiative, Previato said. The collaboration will extend through the end of the grant funding period.
Funding is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health through the State Physical Activity and Nutrition grant and Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To increase the availability of healthy foods, St. Luke’s offers:
- The SLUHN Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, implemented through the Employee Wellness Department. By partnering with local farmers, St. Luke’s offers weekly shares of locally grown produce to employees across the network for a 20- week growing season. This program has grown from one farmer delivering weekly to three locations to 10 farmers delivering weekly to 18 locations throughout the Network. In 2019, the program had nearly 600 members generating $220,000 back into the pockets of local farmers. More than 11,000 bags of vegetables were distributed in the growing season. Unclaimed shares are donated to local soup kitchens and food pantries, offering an additional nutritional benefit to some of our community’s neediest members.
- St. Luke’s Rodale Institute Organic Farm: Produce from the farm is distributed to all network cafeterias and used in the preparation of food for patients, employees, and visitors. The farm also provides produce for several distribution sites of the SLUHN CSA Program.
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AN IRISH senator has suggested that Ireland should consider returning to the Commonwealth.
Speaking at the Seanad yesterday, June 21, Fine Gael senator for Roscommon and South Leitrim Frank Feighan said since that there are many Irish people living in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Ireland "should not fear rejoining [the Commonwealth]".
He suggested that Ireland should rejoin the Commonwealth, which comprises of 53 countries, because "relations [in the Commonwealth] are now at an all-time high" and Ireland could take advantage of the Commonwealth's population of 2.2 billion, representing a little under a third of the world's population.
"Now there is support for world peace, liberty, human rights, equality and free trade so it would be a good time to have a debate on whether the Republic of Ireland should consider rejoining the Commonwealth," he added.
In response to Senator Feighan's request, the Fianna Fáil spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Irish Overseas and the Diaspora Mark Daly said: "I did not see that in the Fine Gael Manifesto."
"We will see how Brexit goes," added Daly.
The Commonwealth is a group of 53 countries that are or were colonies of the British empire and its goal is, according to its website, to "support each other and work together towards international goals".
Ireland became part of Commonwealth when it was formed in 1931 but had left in 1949 when Ireland became an independent Republic.
Earlier today, Senator Feighan appeared on the Pat Kenny show on NewsTalk FM to discuss his comments.
He told Kenny that his suggestion was sparked by the possibility of Britain leaving the EU. "We need to start looking outside the EU... [and] ask ourselves where our future lies," he said.
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sea of daffodils
the green tick in your window
tells us you’re OK
© Xenia Tran
Across the Highlands community groups are doing their best to look after the most vulnerable among us, as Covid-19 is spreading here too. In the village of Ballachulish every household received flags for display in their window or front door. A green tick means you’re healthy and able to go about your business, a red cross means you’re not so well and need help. Volunteers monitor the displays and arrange assistance where it is needed.
This haiku was first published in Haiku Dialogue: The Haiku Mind – Signs of Spring, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 25 March 2020. A very big thank you to guest editor Tia Haynes and post manager Lori Zajkowski for featuring my poem and putting this beautiful edition together.
Wishing you a blessed Sunday and may you all stay safe and well,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
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Tedisco, Santabarbara to Launch New Bi-partisan effort to examine recent population loss reported in the Empire State
Senator Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara announced a new bi-partisan effort they are leading to examine the New York State population loss according to federal estimates.
The latest data released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed New York with an estimated population of 19.5 million people as of July 1, 2019, making it the fourth largest state in the country, but also showed that New York’s population dropped 76,790 over the previous year. New York’s yearly loss ranked fourth in the US just behind West Virginia, this is compared to an increase in the US population of 1.6 million from 2018.
Although the numbers are up an estimated 75,000 over the last Census, the loss was the fourth straight year for New York’s population. “It means New York lost more people than any other state in the nation for the second year in a row in 2019, according to the new federal estimates,” Santabarbara said.
Since 2010, New York lost a net total of about 1.4 million residents to other states, more than any other state in the country, according to the analysis by the Empire Center. The 2019 report found that the largest share of people that left New York State are middle class workers and high income earners. According to United Van Lines, those who left New York earned more than $150,000 and only 8.4 percent earned less than $50,000. New York is also facing a skills gap where 42 percent (5.65 million) of New Yorkers have a high school diploma or less and are being left out of the technology and clean energy jobs that the state has made a push to attract.
In response to these alarming numbers Senator Tedisco and Assemblyman Santabarbara, who both represent areas of upstate New York, are teaming up to find out some of the reasons why this is happening.
“Let’s reach out to New Yorkers to find out what’s happening,” said Assemblyman Santabarbara, who is the Assembly Chair of the Commission on Rural Resources. “More than 80 percent of New York State is made up of rural communities with around 3.3 million residents in 44 rural counties, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.”
“If this continues we could face the possibility of losing a seat in the 2022 redistricting, reducing our representation in Washington DC. New York State must address the needs, interests, and concerns of these communities if we are serious about stopping the population decline,” he added.
“The elephant in the room that our state government’s not talking about is why New York State is number one for highest population loss in the nation? ‘I love New York!’ is New York’s slogan. Unfortunately, in New York State and in our Upstate communities, too many people are saying ‘I’m leaving New York!’ When enough people who can afford to leave New York State are gone, who will be left to pay for the infrastructure, health care, schools and other necessities?” Tedisco explained.
“This is a bi-partisan effort to shine the light on this problem that’s causing people to leave our Upstate communities and to find out why the Empire State is fast becoming the ‘Empty State’ so we can change the agenda to keep them here,” he added.
For the data collection phase of the initiative, Senator Tedisco and Assemblyman Santabarbara will launch an online questionnaire on the issue that will be targeted to the upstate areas they represent, but will be open for all New Yorkers to respond.
Following the data collection phase of the Tedisco-Santabarbara initiative, a series of roundtable discussions will be launched on the issue (date and location TBD) to listen to representatives from small businesses, manufacturing, technology, workforce development, health care, education and economic growth and development to find long-term solutions aimed at addressing the issues affecting population loss and attracting people and talent to the rural areas of Upstate New York.
“This bipartisan initiative can provide valuable information about the issues facing our upstate families and identify the significant factors that can lead to population decline.” Assemblyman Santabarbara added.
“From here we can assess the impact of existing laws and regulations on the unique needs of upstate in areas like agriculture, energy needs and opportunities, healthcare, economic development, the environment, education, and mandate and tax relief,” Santabarbara explained. “The goal is to support policy and promote efforts that can enhance and protect our upstate communities.”
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These cancers make up some of the most common and most fatal diseases that women face, but despite this, gynaecological cancer is neither high profile, nor well funded.
One of our main aims is to fund locally based research into gynaecological cancers including ovarian, uterine, cervical and vulvar cancer, principally at the University of Surrey in Guildford, and within the Gynaeoncology Department.
GRACE has recently been accepted as an NIHR-partner charity. This means that some of our research projects are open to applicants through a competitive interview process. These projects undergo a strict peer review evaluation and are eligible for support from Clinical Research Network. The projects that are currently endorsed by CRN are listed below. Our next funding call will be announced in the next few months.
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Did you know that dedicated BBQ enthusiasts have created meat smokers forums? With everyone searching for that perfect smokey flavor, these meat smokers forums have become very popular.
In our search to deliver quality information to our readers, we decided to look into the best ones.
Garry Howard, known for excellence in smoking meat for a great BBQ taste, created the Smoke Ring Forum. Smoking meat forums provide a discussion board for BBQ aficionados. They allow you to exchange ideas, learn from one another and talk everything BBQ.
With various communities of meat smokers you can find information and make contributions in areas of your expertise. Meat smokers forums for chicken, turkey, beef, pulled pork, brisket, ribs and many others are available to join.
These spaces allow dedicated meat smokers to learn from and spend time with like-minded experts. In fact, meat smokers forums have members ranging from expert chefs to those just starting on their journey.
As a member, you can learn new techniques, tips and tricks and even get access to some terrific recipes. Get more enjoyment out of lighting the grill, having an excellent time outdoors and impressing your friends and family with your culinary skills.
Does Meat Smoking Cook The Meat?
No, the smoke does not cook the meat. In fact, the heat of the fire or heating element cooks the meat.
When smoking meat at home, the role of smoke is to impart different flavors into meat or whatever you are cooking. These flavors come from the woodchips or pellets that are slow-burnt to create the smoke.
Whether you use charcoal, pellet, electric or gas food smokers the process is the same. Often meat is marinated or seasoned before being placed into a pre-heated home food smoker.
The smoking process usually takes many hours as it uses low heat to cook the meat through. Dedicated meat smokers forums take the guesswork out of the all-important temperature and time elements for this process.
The Difference Between Old-School And Modern Meat Smoking
Traditionally, meat smoking was essential for food preservation. Our hunter/gatherer ancestors needed to consume what they could and preserve the rest to survive. Burning wood was used for cooking and heating. They also discovered that smoking meat over low heat removed moisture and killed bacteria which allowed them to have protein available for many months.
In contrast, modern methods of smoking meat have become less about need and more about taste. This is due to refrigeration and convenient access to meat from butchers and supermarkets.
However, this convenience does not equate to complacency. Meat smoking enthusiasts are truly passionate about the smoking process. They also argue and debate the best home meat smokers for ease of use and flavor.
Passion and expertise is what drives these meat smokers forums.
Are you a member of any BBQ group? Are you looking to find the best meat smokers forums?
Read on for our list of the best meat smokers forums and join any that suit your interests.
Top 10 Free Meat Smokers Forums
While the chat board is very involved, the admin also appears to know what he’s talking about. Best of all, he’s shared images and videos of how to process meats at home.
We found this meat smokers forum rather difficult to navigate though they do provide a search button. Some of the content is locked to non-members so this gives the reader incentive to join.
Join this forum and you have access to ask a butcher questions and get a reply.
Our Verdict: There is some terrific information here but you really do have to search to find it.
The Smoke Ring Meat Smokers Forums
Garry Howard is the founder of The Smoke Ring, a loose network of hundreds of barbecue-related websites. This forum has many brilliant people who use it regularly, so it’s a great place to get quick answers to your questions.
The site is easy to navigate even with a huge amount of information available. Garry has planned the site with categories for
- Cooking Barbecue
Within each of these is a multitude of click-through sub-categories covering everything you will ever need to know. With over 25 000 registered users there is a wealth of information in this top meat smokers forum.
Find tournaments, catering information, cookbooks, and even BBQ restaurant reviews.
Our Verdict: Easy to navigate, mountains of information, and up-to-date. We love it!!
This is a sub-category in the vast smoking meat forums site dedicated to WSM users.
While most members have a Great Outdoors Smoky Mountain Gas Smoker, there is a lot of useful general information. Bill Martin, who is still grumpy and cranky, is a guru on many forums. He spends his time in the group almost every day.
Anyone can access the threads of inquiries and responses however, you must join to be able to post anything.
Our Verdict: If you are a Weber enthusiast you will find lots of useful information here. From “How To’s” to “What went wrong”.
This forum is specifically for pellet food smoker owners. It includes direct links to MAK, Memphis Smokers, and a special guest, Candy Sue Weaver, one of the experts on the globe.
The site is sponsored by Big Poppa Smokers and obviously leans toward this brand.
With over 9 000 members, this specialized meat smokers forum offers a lot of information. It also appears to be kept quite up-to-date.
You do have to scroll to find the category you are looking for however, the home page is not huge. We found this site easy to use and loved the Hall Of Fame Recipes.
Our Verdict: If you own a pellet food smoker this is the standout in meat smokers forums for you.
Smoked-Meat.com is a vibrant group that excels in places where others fall short. This includes cold smoking and sausages.
Set out very similar to most of the other meat smokers forums in our list, you will again have to scroll to find what you are looking for. However, it uses clear categories and sub-headings to make navigating fairly easy.
There are almost 9 000 members and most categories have recent posts and comments. You can find discussions on Sous Vide Cooking, cheese, seafood and sausages, wild game, and even desserts.
Our Verdict: An extensive site that is fairly easy to get around. It offers up-to-date information and deserves its place in our list of best meat smokers forums.
Are you looking for meat smokers forums that specialize in barbecue and smoked food? Then look no further!
As with all the listed forums, you must be a member to post or comment. The majority of members own a Cookshack electric food smoker however, most of the information is relevant to any home food smoker.
A directory makes navigating easy with topics ranging from a beginners section to using commercial smokers. Categories include pellet smokers, grills and charbroilers, and recipes.
With a fun and friendly atmosphere, learn authentic barbecue and smoking techniques plus how to create some smoked food favorites.
Our Verdict: Members are very active with both new posts and comments. We suggest you use the directory for any queries to avoid having to scroll through the mammoth home page.
BBQ Brethren is simple to use – once you register. Unfortunately, you are not able to even read any of the threads until you join. However, with over 100 000 members, this suggests it is one of the meat smokers forums that you may want to join!
The BBQ Brethren’s mission is to teach, grow and promote the art of BBQ from enthusiasts to veterans. Their aim is to have members create their best-ever barbecue while building friendships and creating a brotherhood (hence brethren).
This almost 20-year old forum has get-togethers – the Brethren Bashes – and even a sales section. Members can post personal items for sale.
A huge player in the meat smokers forums niche, it can be a little daunting when you first land here. There is a lot of acronyms used as many members are veterans of the site. For newbies, the moderators have posted 2 stickies explaining these acronyms and providing a roadmap for common searches.
Our Verdict: Join the many thousands of BBQ aficionados for terrific advice, recipes, and “low and slow” techniques. Once you have spent some time navigating this forum, you will not only be a backyard BBQ expert but possibly have made new friends.
With over 2,000 users, this is the most popular BBQ forum in Australia. Typically Aussie, this is a laid-back platform where people exchange knowledge on all things about smoking food.
The site is well run with very clear instructions on what is and what is not allowed. That is how it should be.
I highly recommend international forums because they provide an excellent opportunity for new ideas.
Our Verdict: Site navigation could be aided by adding some categories or a directory. There is a search function but if that is unsuccessful, your only option is to scroll through the 16 pages!
Another massive player in the meat smokers forums space, this site has over 130 000 members. A lot of these members are posting regularly which means this is a huge site and we found it reasonably difficult to navigate.
Smoking Meat Forums does have some cool new features such as videos and a wiki. It also includes “Hot Threads” and “Latest Posts” widgets to see what is new and trending.
You are also given the privilege to include a link to your commercial website in your signature.
Our Verdict: A huge site with massive amounts of valuable information. However, due to the immensity of the site, navigation is not easy.
Amazing Ribs is run by Meathead and his team of pitmasters and barbecue experts. You will be hard-pressed to find a more helpful forum on the Internet related to BBQ and grilling.
Recipes, tips and strategies, product information, and more are all available. This is not just a top meat smokers forum but a full website for “the science and art of BBQ and grilling.”
Meathead enjoys cutting through a lot of the BS in the BBQ/grilling setting, such as “Beer Can Chicken [did you know the beer does nothing?].”
Our Verdict: Since 2005 Meathead has amassed a huge amount of articles, reviews, recipes, and techniques for smoking meat and BBQ. Be prepared to spend many hours as you explore this terrific site!
What Are The Best Meats For Smoking?
Smoking is ideal for harder cuts of meat with a lot of fibrous tissue in the form of keratin, like beef brisket. Because it’s a slow cooking method, the keratin melts into tender collagen and the fat keeps the meat from drying out during the long smoking process.
Further, marbled meat ensures more fat is spread around the muscle, which is ideal for BBQ.
Some good choices include:
In terms of complexity to prepare, spare ribs are somewhere between pork butt and brisket. They spend less time in the smoker and cook at the same temperature all the way through.
The fat will burn, and the cartilage will break down during a 12-hour cook. This makes brisket an ideal option for low and slow meat smoking.
A pork butt is a cut from the upper part of a pig’s shoulder. It is known as a Boston butt.
A fairly cheap and generous cut of meat, it is commonly eaten as pulled pork in barbecue joints.
Tips To Smoke Meat For Great BBQ Taste
Smoking does not require decades of practice. However, it is more challenging than making grilled cheese!
First is to get the heat right and then you may need a periodic reduction in temperature and the smoke to get the job done.
1. Since wet wood can cause inconsistent smoking, make sure your wood is dry.
2. Smoke that is bright blue in color gives the best tasting flavors, so don’t worry if your smoke is barely noticeable.
Pulled pork, a whole turkey, or a full brisket need to have consistent temperatures.
4. Smoked meat requires hardwoods such as oak, apple, mesquite, pecan, or hickory for flavor. However, whichever sort of wood you use, soak it in water for an hour before adding it to the fire to achieve the best smoke.
5. Finally, to smoke ribs, you’ll need a rib rack. This is a metal frame that keeps the ribs on their edges instead of flat on the grill so that they cook through and don’t burn.
If you are facing some challenges trying to smoke meat at home look to guidance from the best meat smokers forums. You will find the best food smoking equipment to use, top smoking techniques and tasty recipes.
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The Compassionate Allowances program quickly identifies claims where the applicant’s condition or illness clearly meets the legal standard for Social Security disability. Due to the serious nature of many of these conditions, these claims are often only allowed on the basis of a medical confirmation of the diagnosis. To date, more than 800,000 people with severe disabilities have been approved through this accelerated policy-compliant disability process, which has grown to a total of 266 conditions.
“The Social Security Administration is committed to reducing barriers and ensuring that people who qualify for benefits receive them,” Acting Commissioner Kijakazi said. “Our Compassionate Allowances program allows us to reinforce that commitment by speeding up the application process for people with the most severe disabilities.”
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This section provides a detailed review of the main milestones or most representative approaches developed in recent years to bring the process of object localization and classification to devices with limited computational and memory resources. We will start this review with a holistic view of the main detection frameworks collected from the related literature. In total, Table 1 lists thirty detectors conceived as CNNs with small size (number of parameters) and modest computational complexity (computational volume). Specifically, for each detection framework analyzed, we will examine in detail the different techniques or methods adopted at the architectural level for their construction, not only pointing out which main building blocks or network architectures are chosen as the main constituent elements for each of the different stages or components of its structure, but also comprehensively analyzing which specific topological adjustments or improvements were applied to each of the parts to achieve the desired efficiency-accuracy trade-off.
Given the relevance of the backbone as the detection system’s key structural element, we will spend a large part of the section studying the main architectural approaches and design principles that have led to the development of lightweight yet expressive CNNs appropriate for the extraction of features with the quality required to effectively perform bounding box regression and class prediction, both of which are tasks involved in the detection process. However, this review will not be limited to the backbone networks listed in Table 1. Supported by a second table (Table 2), we will extend the discussion of those networks beyond the items presented in the first table, analyzing the most relevant general-purpose CNN architectures designed from scratch for mobile or embedded devices. Although, as we will see, most of them have not been used so far as part of any detection framework, they all represent perfectly valid approaches for this purpose. Moreover, due to their convolutional nature, they are based on structures and topological principles similar to those comprising the foundation of detectors, so their incorporation into the analysis will complement the global discussion, providing further relevant information, both at the micro and macroarchitectural level.
Lightweight object detection frameworks
The data collected in Table 1 provide context to the current mobile scenario, chronologically locating recent research efforts focused on studying and creating lightweight object detectors in the last 5 years. In a first superficial inspection of the works analyzed in the table, focusing exclusively on the first three fields that provide more general data, it is possible to identify certain aspects of interest that outline the evolution of this new trend in the last few years. Specifically, the increasing number of related papers published (from only two in 2017, to fifteen in the last year and a half) clearly highlights a significant growing interest in the application of this new on-device paradigm to object detection. Those numbers further confirm the massive adoption of a single-stage pipeline configuration as the predominant architectural model, with ThunderNet being the only two-stage detection framework of all the lightweight detectors and base detection frameworks listed.
Maintaining the same level of abstraction, but extending the analysis on Table 1 to the columns that contribute with specific data regarding each of the components that comprise the architecture of the different detection systems considered, we see that there is a marginal number of papers, namely MAOD , CornerNet-Squeeze , and LightDet , that explore the joint application of adjustments on backbone, neck, and head. The remaining majority is evenly split between work that explores enhancements on two of the elements that form the detection system in its different permutations [91, 95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106], and approaches that choose to focus on just one component [48, 107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117]. The main object of interest in the latter case is the neck, and, to a lesser extent, the backbone. If we delve deeper into this classification and extract the number of studies per individual component examined, it is possible to establish a ranking or prioritization of the three based on the level of attention they received in the different studies considered. The resulting list, in decreasing order of interest, is as follows: neck > backbone > head. Therefore, it is clear both that the emphasis on the development of specific approaches is aimed at improving the neck and the relative absence of actions focused on the detection head, whose structure, in general terms, is directly defined by the detection framework used as base macroarchitecture. The remainder of the section will include the main contributions made in relation to the three components in the last few years.
Neck-specific design considerations
We will now increase the level of detail of the analysis to focus the discussion on Table 1, dealing with specific architectural aspects of the different networks used as neck within the several ultra-compact detectors studied.
Classification according to the multiscale-detection-enabler mechanism used
We start the discussion with the Base Network field, which contains the most relevant CNN microarchitectures adopted as base structure for designing the final actual neck architecture. Setting aside the RPN intended for the synthesis of RoI within two-step detection frameworks and not for the enhancement of the representational power of the features involved, it is possible to group those microarchitectures into three differentiated categories or approach types according to the type of multiscale-detection-enabler mechanism used: (i) the exploitation of a pyramidal feature hierarchy, (ii) the recovery of high-resolution representations from low-resolution representations, and (iii) the maintenance of high-resolution representations throughout the entire network. This classification does not include HyperNet , more specifically, the Hyper Features extraction network used as neck. Although it relies on the fusion of different feature maps, thus being excluded from (i), the performed feature aggregation does not involve the generation of higher resolution representations, making it also non-categorizable in (ii) or (iii). Setting aside this exception, we will now discuss the specific features that characterize each of the three approach types indicated, and we will also address specific aspects concerning the different related architectures to clarify the underlying design principles.
i. Pyramidal feature hierarchy This is the simplest approach of the three categories identified, purely focused on detecting objects of interest with different sizes due to the exploitation of pyramid-shaped multiscale feature maps. It is represented in Table 1 by the SSD and SSDLite detectors. SSD, as mentioned in Sect. 2, constitutes one of the more paradigmatic architectures within this approach, while SSDLite simply represents a lighter version of SSD, explicitly conceived for mobile devices by replacing conventional convolution operations with depth-wise separable convolutions, a practice that has been extensively adopted for alleviating the computational complexity of traditional CNNs, as shown below. Aside from this particular point, SSDLite does not introduce additional architectural concepts of interest beyond those already materialized in the original SSD architecture.
ii. Recovery of high-resolution representations This approach involves the fusion of multiscale feature maps to solve the lack of accuracy problem when detecting small objects, upsampling low-resolution representations to recover high-resolution representations progressively. This category possibly encompasses the most widely used neck-specific methods among those reviewed, covering mainstream pyramidal architectures such as FPN or Hourglass , more compact alternatives such as Depth-wise FPN (D-FPN) —which incorporates more efficient depth-wise convolutions into regular FPN—or YOLOv3-Tiny’s neck , and even more differentiated proposals such as NAS-FPN —exploiting feature-fusion building blocks automatically derived using Neural Architecture Search (NAS)—or FSSD —an improved version of the SSD architecture. Among the approaches just mentioned, FPN is undoubtedly the most representative architecture for pyramid-like feature representation generation in object detection. According to the data presented in Table 1, FPN represents the architectural option that has been selected by more authors (ten papers out of a total of fifteen, including the D-FPN and NAS-FPN variants) as the foundation for building the neck part in the lightweight detection proposals.
D-FPN and YOLOv3-Tiny’s neck are particularly interesting, since both of them follow the current on-device trend of exploring computer vision solutions tailored to low-power devices. D-FPN shares the same dual-path architecture as FPN (an initial downsampling stage followed by a second inverse stage) but it also succeeds in reducing upsampling path's computational complexity by exploiting a more optimal structure consisting of a bilinear interpolation layer followed by a depth-wise convolution. With regard to YOLOv3-Tiny’s, the final implemented network results from a profound structural simplification, as is the case with the detector’s global architecture. That structural simplification is performed by means of aggressive optimization practices such as the significant reduction in both the number of considered scales and integrated layers on the original YOLOv3 network , or the fusion of only single-scale features, which is certainly to the detriment of the semantic richness of the extracted features and, ultimately, the detection accuracy.
iii. Maintenance of high-resolution representations Along the lines of the previous approach, this strategy pursues a convolutional architecture design aimed again at the generation of high-resolution representations; in this case, however, communicating those representations throughout the entire detection network in order to avoid transitions between high and low resolutions, common in multiscale approaches. Specifically, High-Resolution Net (HRNet) , the only architecture listed in Table 1 corresponding to this paradigm, goes beyond multilevel fusion and, as an alternative, proposes taking a high-resolution convolution stream directly as a starting point, subsequently connecting in parallel one stream per considered resolution, thus exchanging information between multiple streams. In this way, multi-resolution fusion can be performed recurrently, resulting in high-resolution representations with great semantic richness and spatial precision.
Classification according to the enhancement type produced
The architectural solutions space just discussed clearly indicates a strong presence of pyramidal CNN models, originally designed as building blocks of standard unified detectors, halfway between the current on-device approach and the more complex traditional architectures. Those models, although able to produce better representations than those generated by ultra-compact networks, typically feature both a complexity and size impracticable for systems with modest capabilities, as well as an accuracy level lower than what is commonly reached by two-step detection frameworks. In that regard, the use of a pre-existing base CNN architecture, even though it is a practice that can lighten and, in certain occasions, completely bypass the study and design of specific solutions, streamlining the design of new architectures for the neck, does not itself constitute an optimal solution. As noted in Sect. 2, a twofold effort to advance in the direction of an improved speed-accuracy trade-off, with emphasis on techniques for size and computational complexity reduction so as to consequently reduce latency (i), but also exploring methods toward more expressive networks and therefore with greater detection capacity (ii). Next, we present the key strategies and methods adopted in both directions to obtain a structure compliant to on-device paradigm’s efficiency principles, omitting overly specific design details in order to keep a desired level of abstraction to facilitate the applicability of the adjustments required in different architectures or future cases.
i. Size and latency reduction This approach pursues building network architectures that could result in models with fewer parameters and lower computational complexity, that is, with smaller size and higher inference speed. The use of factorized convolutional filters represents the most paradigmatic mechanism related to this approach [48, 91, 92, 95, 97, 108, 111], constituting in itself a CNN-compression-specific subcategory of techniques that encompasses several lighter and faster variants of the standard convolution operation such as depth [48, 91, 92, 95, 97, 111] and group convolutions . In addition, this group also embraces techniques based on the integration into the architecture of building blocks such as attention modules, used in to both reduce the number of pixels to be processed in region-based detection and thereby increase the speed of object detectors, and Fire modules, explored in [96, 108] to, again, lower the number of parameters while preserving accuracy. Along the same lines, supplementing the exploitation of such blocks, Wang et al. report the application of the recent CSP design to the various structural components of a detector as a highly beneficial alternative to the more traditional residual connections able to reduce the number of parameters, the computations and the inference time. Finally, this category also includes more simplistic techniques such as the direct reduction of the quantity of weights in the network, for instance, removing larger feature maps as in ; the use of layers based on 1x1 filters instead of fully connected layers to perform predictions ; or the simple optimization of the number of filters used, even if that involves breaking the ruling microarchitectural homogeneity in CNN building blocks, as in .
ii. Detection performance increase This is a significantly more heterogeneous approach than the one presented in (i) aimed at achieving better classification performance but mainly focused on increasing detection accuracy, especially in complex applications such as small target detection. It is possible, therefore, to identify, two differentiated strategy types: general-purpose methods [91, 92, 97, 107, 108] applicable for any CNN and grounded in concepts that shall emerge again in the discussion of the backbone; and object-detection-specific methods [91, 94, 97,98,99, 102,103,104,105, 109, 115, 117], primarily focused on improving localization tasks.
Since the emergence of CNNs, there has been a well-known and long-standing interest, regarding general-purpose methods, in improving the performance of vision-based systems in classification tasks, exploring solutions aimed primarily at increasing the representation capacity of the built networks and, consequently, improving learning and accuracy. Although many of the actions taken to that end, such as making the network deeper, are largely impractical in the on-device context, the underlying philosophy remains completely applicable, and it also constitutes the foundation of a considerable body of more specific approaches or subcategories seeking lightweight solutions. As shown in Table 1, various studies can be found in the literature, such as: , which explicitly seeks to provide CNNs with a better and more efficient representation learning capacity by leveraging group convolutions, as in the referenced work; studies that perform more simplistic practices, for instance, exploiting larger convolution filters and removing subsampling layers , to achieve or maintain a large-sized receptive field, enabling the subsequent encoding of a larger volume of information; approaches [107, 108] that, for example, rely on the addition of shortcut connections (residual blocks) in the network architecture in order to alleviate the vanishing gradient problem; strategies for increasing nonlinearity, such as the use of 1x1 pointwise convolution operations or the use of the Hard Swish (h-swish) activation function instead of a more standard option such as Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) ; and, finally, mechanisms for better information flow, such as the aforementioned shortcut connections [107, 108].
In terms of detection-specific enhancement solutions, these are usually methods that, based on multiscale feature maps [98, 109] (essential for the detection of multiple targets with different sizes), aggregate low-level high-resolution features with high-level semantic features to achieve greater semantic richness [91, 94, 97,98,99, 102,103,104,105, 109, 115, 117] as a result. Apart from two specific contributions that propose efforts directly related to the exploitation of multiscale features—increasing the number of different scale levels considered for the output and using encoder–decoder structures for feature generation at different levels —we identify table methods in the lightweight-detection-architecture-devoted that are essentially located in the space of solutions aimed at obtaining more valuable features, semantically speaking. More specifically, data presented in the table in this respect create a scenario where the fusion of multiscale feature maps constitutes the dominant approach and where related works primarily focus both on different information transfer and exchange structures, namely dense connections [103, 115] and inverted residual blocks [99, 104, 105], and on attention mechanisms, an approach primarily aimed at extracting more discriminative features, mainly channel-wise [98, 104, 105] but also simultaneously at the spatial and channel level . Additionally, several other approaches that also seek to improve the network's expressiveness can be identified, but, in this case, they are achieved by enriching intermediate features due to the use of the convolution on dimension-reduction blocks or by using attention modules to adjust the feature distribution and thus facilitate the distinction between background and front features (spatial attention) .
Detection head architectural principles
Twenty-one [47, 95, 96, 99, 100, 102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117] out of the thirty papers reviewed show no action explicitly focused on the design of the head for lightweight detectors other than the study and selection of the base network architecture to be used. It is possible to go a little further and even state that there is no trace of apparent activity in this regard since the different microarchitectures used for this purpose (at least, the ones reported in Table 1) are merely the structures proposed as detection head of the corresponding base detection frameworks. This is even extended beyond this group of publications that do not address head-specific enhancements and remains as a constant throughout all the works listed, with the dual exception of BMNet, which does not provide head-specific information at all, and LightDet, which proposes its own microarchitecture conceived from scratch.
Regarding the different architectural alternatives used as a reference for the design of the head in lightweight object detectors, Table 1 shows a general scenario very similar to the one described in the previous point for the neck, dominated by networks initially conceived as structural elements of unified detectors, but a scenario that, in this particular case, features a slightly broader range of options. An initial superficial exploration of the data collected in the table makes it possible to infer a predominant network type or profile characterized not only by its unified architecture but also by its ability to detect objects with different scales and aspect ratios due to multiscale feature processing and the use of anchor boxes in the detection process. Thus, fitting the profile outlined, a total of six base head designs (originally part of SSD, SSDLite, YOLOv3, YOLOv3-Tiny, RetinaNet, and RefineDet) adopted in eighteen of the twenty-five works studied can be found in Table 1. There are also microarchitectural alternatives that do not, albeit almost marginally, conform to the well-known anchor-based approach, either because they have been implemented as a part of a two-stage detection pipeline (Faster R-CNN and Light-Head R-CNN), despite relying on anchors, or simply because they have been conceived as part of non-anchor-based detectors (YOLO, CornerNet, and FCOS ).
Regarding any modifications applied to the base architecture, the two-fold approach already identified during the neck-related discussion in Sect. 3.1.1 (and present in the backbone analysis as well) emerges again. Thus, it is possible to classify the neck-specific enhancement methods into the same two categories or approach types: a first group focused on size and latency reduction (i) and a second body of techniques with an emphasis on increasing or at least maintaining detection accuracy to make up for the potential harm caused in this respect by the techniques in the first category (ii). Overall, there is a major gap in terms of prevalence distribution between neck-related adjustments and those targeting the detection head. More specifically, the data presented in Table 1 show that there is an evident polarization of head-centered techniques into two distinct groups that did not emerge in the analysis of neck-related approaches. Thus, except for a couple of papers that can be simultaneously associated with the two different approach types considered [92, 94], every single modification can be located in one of the two indicated solution spaces. That divergence becomes even more pronounced if we take into account the size of those spaces: quite even for the two groups when it comes to the neck while significantly uneven when talking about the head. Furthermore, regarding the latter, the subgroup of methods that seek to lower computational and memory cost have an evident prominence (approach embodied by five publications [48, 91, 93, 98, 118] referenced in Table 1) compared to the method that encompasses accuracy-centric modifications (with only two representative works [97, 101] in the table).
Turning now to specific approaches, we identify in group (i) strategies that are mainly aimed at reducing the number of parameters in the models produced, and thus are able to initially reduce the models’ size, and consequently in many cases, their computational complexity as well. Among them we can distinguish techniques eminently focused on the inner configuration of layers and, therefore, on the modifications of filter-specific aspects: the use of depth-wise separable convolutions instead of standard convolutions , the decrease in the number of channels , or the use of smaller-sized convolutional filters [93, 94]. Also included in this parameter-reduction-oriented subgroup are methods that address more general layer-related considerations, such as replacing fully connected layers with convolutional layers or simply omitting a subset of the layers that can be found in the original architecture . Finally, to complement the different approaches just mentioned, we also associate to group (i) a different subcategory or approach type that directly pursues computational complexity reduction, represented in Table 1 by a single paper that proposes the addition of dedicated layers for removing the background of the given input image (suppression of non-useful information) to reduce the number of pixels to be processed.
The second head-specific- category or group (ii) is monopolized by the exploitation of residual blocks as a constituent part of the head’s structure [92, 94, 97, 101]. Such an approach is able to both increase the detection accuracy and contribute to reducing the resulting network’s memory requirements. Used as an enhancement mechanism also for the neck’s architecture, as indicated in Sect. 3.1.1, this type of block integrates the so-called shortcut connections to allow the flow of information between shallow and late-stage layers and thus keeps the semantic richness of features . The value of residual connection goes beyond its accuracy-enhancement ability; it has also been adopted as the base structure for conceiving architectural alternatives equally advantageous in terms of detection accuracy, such as the bottleneck residual block , capable of fusing high-level multi-scale features, the inverted residuals and linear bottlenecks that enable increasing the representational power of channel-wise nonlinear transformations, and a lighter version that, inspired by group convolutions and comprised of two different branches, leverages channel shuffle to allow information exchange between branches.
Efforts for a more efficient backbone
Specifically, concerning the architectures integrated as backbone in the detection frameworks under examination, the related data collected in the table confirm the predominant, but not exclusive, use of simplified CNN architectures. Excluding FRDet —with no representative data reported in Table 1 about the network or architecture used as backbone—twenty-four frameworks of a total number of thirty use a lightweight subnetwork as backbone. Furthermore, in that group we can identify just ten distinct alternatives, a number that could be even lower if grouped into families of detectors: MobileNets [47, 48, 92, 99, 111,112,113, 115, 117], ShuffleNets [91, 94, 97, 104], SqueezeNet [96, 108, 118], PeleeNet [102, 107], and DarkNet-19 [103, 109, 114, 116]. Google's MobileNets emerges as the most dominant lightweight architectural solution. This observation, although it ignores configuration or structural efficiency matters (they will be addressed in the next section), is entirely consistent with the evolutionary sequence of on-device vision models reported in the literature, where MobileNets, first introduced in 2017 and with three different versions, stands as the most mature compact alternative as well as one of the main drivers of the growing attention generated by ultra-compact vision models in the research community during the last few years. Finally, regarding the rest of the backbone-specific architectures referred to in the table, apart from the lightweight alternatives, it is possible to identify a second group that encompasses five standard CNN architectures [93, 95, 98, 101, 110], where, beyond the mere intuition of a more specific nature, it is not possible to infer any pattern that might be of interest in this analysis.
In a joint review of the several architectures adopted as backbone and the adjustments applied to them, it is possible to extract observations that, while not backed by specific metrics and measurements, provide valuable intuition about the performance and, in general, the suitability of the architectural solutions proposed. In that sense, even though lightweight CNN architectures have been designed from scratch, bearing in mind the hardware limitations of the target devices, and have largely succeeded in deriving models of extremely reduced size and complexity, they may still be insufficient or inadequate solutions depending on various factors such as the hardware platform and the application domain. This reality is reflected in Table 1, where few studies report directly employing compact CNN architectures as backbone of the detector [47, 48, 97, 105, 107,108,109, 111, 113, 118], while a fair majority proposes specific enhancements or optimizations [91, 92, 94, 96, 99, 102,103,104, 106, 112, 114, 116, 117] for the architectures previously selected. Going into more detail, a closer look at the data on such modifications allows us to identify an approach that is fundamentally oriented at obtaining greater precision [91, 92, 94, 99, 103, 104, 112, 114, 117], which confirms the need to make up for the accuracy degradation typically resulting from the structural simplification or miniaturization of the network.
Limiting our focus to the modifications applied to the architecture selected as the starting point for building the backbone, it is possible to categorize the strategies and methods listed in the table into the same two groups we considered for this purpose in both Sects. 3.1.1 and 3.1.2. Hence, we identify once again a group of techniques on one side of the table that respond to a size and latency reduction approach, and, on the other side, a collection of methods focused on preserving ad increasing accuracy.
The first group contains techniques basically aimed at reducing the computational cost of the network. As we pointed out in relation to the mechanisms designed for enhancing the head’s structure, it is possible to identify two different types of solutions within this group according to the architectural level they operate on. In particular, in a first microarchitectural subgroup, we find (i) approaches based again on the exploitation of more efficient variants of the convolution operation, such as depth-wise convolutions [95, 98, 102], depth-wise separable convolutions [93, 116], and group convolutions ; and in the second group we find (ii) strategies that have a direct effect on the configuration of the convolution filters used in layers or blocks of the CNN, i.e., both methods targeting the number of filters—reducing the number of filters of the first layer of the network , selecting an optimal number of filters specific per building block , and the choice of a better compression rate for Fire modules —and additional techniques focused on the number of channels—linearly increasing the number of channels as the network deepens , or assigning the same number of channels both to the input and output of residual blocks such as Res2Net . Finally, in addition to the slimming strategies pointed out, there is a second collection of solutions that address the same problem, but, through a macro lens, exploring different design options such as the removal of some layers present in the original architecture, the CSP-ization of the network , the use of Fire modules [93, 103] (with greater ability to reduce the number of parameters), the thinning of layers and building blocks , and more appropriate distribution of subsampling layers across the network [93, 101].
Closing this review of the specific tweaks performed on the backbone, we can also identify in Table 1 a substantial number of studies that explore alternatives in the search for greater accuracy in object detection. Among the options listed, the residual block structure, based on shortcut connections, is revealed as the most versatile approach in this regard, constituting an effective solution for increasing accuracy both in classification and detection tasks and also the preferred option [98,99,100, 103, 114] among the several related alternatives presented in the table. Interest in the ability of residual connections to enable better feature propagation and guarantee maximum information flow across the network goes beyond the residual block. Thus, that type of connection has been successfully incorporated into other building blocks, being used, for example, as an upgrade of Fire modules or as an integral part of the inverted residual blocks exploited in to achieve better multi-scale detection. In addition to the detection-specific techniques for better accuracy just mentioned, the accuracy-focused approach also encompasses a second collection of methods primarily designed to provide better class predictions. In the table, we can distinguish the following: (i) approaches that seek to increase the size of the receptive field due to, among other practices, the use of larger convolution filters [91, 104, 117], the insertion of bottleneck layers for subsampling at different stages of the network , and the use of dilated convolutions in the network stem [92, 94]; (ii) studies such as or , which by using either dilated convolutions or convolutional filters with a higher number of channels in early stages of the network, seek to extract and preserve more low-level features; and, finally, (iii) alternatives of a more punctual nature, already mentioned in the two previous analysis made correspondingly on the neck and head-oriented modifications, such as the use of the h-swish activation function , the inclusion of attention modules to increase the representation power of the network [92, 117], or the application of channel shuffle after group convolutions to enable information exchange between groups.
High-efficient CNN architectures for backbone build
The analysis of the mechanisms and design strategies adopted for conceiving lightweight detection frameworks reveals a constant interest in finding a better trade-off between accuracy and detection speed. In this context, the backbone constitutes the key component within the object detector architecture, not only because it lay downs the structural guidelines for detectors but also because it is the component responsible for processing input images in the first stage of the detection pipeline in order to extract the features that are supplied later on to the two remaining components of the detector. Backed by the data collected in Table 2, we extend the analysis performed in Sect. 3.1.3 with additional lightweight CNN architectures that, despite not having been used to date for building detection frameworks in the on-device context, have been entirely conceived under the design principles of this paradigm. As in the different subsections included in Sect. 3.1, we will address the structural specificities of the different CNN architectures considered, focusing our efforts on identifying the principal techniques and methods applied in each case.
In a first superficial review of the data included in the table, which was focused only on the first four columns, it is possible to derive several general points that add further detail to the on-device scenario so far presented. The architectural developments, with the exception of the study from 2016 by Iandola et al. , are temporally located between 2017 and 2021, just like the different detection frameworks above analyzed. Once again, it confirms the chronological parallelism between lightweight-CNN-specific and ultra-compact-detector-specific development approaches already pointed out in Sect. 3.1.3, and it also reinforces the key role that recent general computer vision progress has played in developing ultra-compact detection systems. Regarding the CNN architectures used as a reference for conceiving algorithmic solutions deployable on low-powered devices, except for a handful of authors working on conventional CNNs [47, 49, 54, 55, 101, 105, 107, 125, 128, 129], the mainstream focus has been on exploiting lightweight architectures as the starting point. Moving on to the detail of the specific architectures used for that purpose, a family-based grouping of the several approaches considered can be easily observed (MobileNets [48, 130,131,132,133,134], ShuffleNets [50, 52, 135], SqueezeNet , and CondenseNet ) bearing a strong similarity to the approach laid out in the previous section, emerging again as the most used lightweight architectural solution the MobileNets family. The residual structure also stands out as the design pattern with the more significant presence in these architectures, either directly as part of the base standard CNNs [54, 55, 101, 107, 125, 128, 129] or as the base structure of the novel building blocks resulting from the enhancement techniques and methods applied.
If we turn our attention to the various adjustments made, the first thing that stands out is the significantly higher number of enhancements listed in Table 2 for each study if we compare it with the number of entries that we can see for the same concept in Table 1. Those data highlight the complexity of the miniaturization and rational simplification of CNN architectures for use on edge devices, as well as the enormous research efforts undertaken in this line in recent years, which has made it possible to enhance and streamline the design of specific on-device solutions in different vision-related application domains, such as object detection. There is, however, a gap between the predominant backbone-focused adjustment type found in Table 1 and the type derived from Table 2. More specifically, in the first case, we mostly find techniques and methods that emphasize achieving greater precision for producing a lightweight backbone design (mainly defined by the base CNN architecture), yet with an effective expression capacity to properly act as a structuring element in detection systems. In contrast, for the adjustments listed in Table 2, the focus is placed on obtaining more efficient CNN architectures (in particular, in seventeen [47,48,49,50, 52, 54, 55, 104, 107, 125, 128,129,130,131, 133, 135, 136] of the twenty-one works under study), also considering new avenues of exploration in this respect such as the reduction of memory access cost or the exploitation of more efficient optimized-implementation-based operations at the code level.
In terms of scope at the architectural level, we can make a first classification of the enhancement techniques and methods considered in two different types of approach: those operating at the microarchitectural level, i.e., at the inner level of layers and modules; and those working at the macroarchitecture level, defining arrangement-specific aspects regarding the different modules or layers within the CNN architecture. Beyond the data collected in the Architectural scope field in Table 2, which aims to capture the general essence of the several related works listed, a more detailed analysis of required adjustments provides a much more accurate picture of the trend in terms of structural design, especially with such an important body of information as the one presented in the table. Thus, although a majority of microarchitectural adjustments can already be noted from the data in the Architectural scope field, that becomes even more evident when the data included in the Adjustments column are incorporated into the study. Numerically speaking, only fifteen macroarchitectural adjustments are identified compared to the fifty observed at the microarchitecture level. More specifically, the first group of approaches encompasses strategies to enhance the CNN’s overall architecture by (i) replacing a certain type of layers or building blocks with more lightweight alternatives [49, 131, 132] or variants with greater capacity to maintain or even increase the expressiveness of the network , (ii) implementing guidelines governing how certain network properties or elements evolve as it becomes deeper [49, 55], and (iii) appropriately configuring the connections between layers or modules [48, 55, 105, 125, 129]. Within the group of micro approaches, we find a wide range of options that can be categorized into two distinct subgroups: an initial collection of techniques that focus on convolutional-filter-specific aspects or properties such as the number of filters , the size of these in the spatial dimension , the number of channels [49, 52, 101, 105, 107, 130], the communication between them [50, 54], or the number of channel groups ; and a second subgroup encompassing methods targeting the internal structure of layers or modules such as the exploitation of alternative operations to convolution [47, 48, 50, 52, 54, 105, 107, 128, 130, 131, 133,134,135,136], the replacement or omission of nonlinearity, or the application of an attention mechanism [53, 132, 133].
Keeping structural consistency with the different subsections in Sect. 3.1, we establish a second categorization of the adjustments under consideration, according to the targeted network-accuracy-specific features or aspects. Thus, we identify techniques that respond to a size and latency reduction approach and as well as methods focused on preserving and increasing accuracy as much as possible.
In the first category, the usage of less costly convolutions—depth-wise convolution [47, 48, 54, 105], separable convolution , and depth-wise separable convolution —stands out again as the most common approach, extended in this case by the exploration of other practices that revolve around additional efficient operations: replacing costly standard convolutions with memory shift operations [50, 128] for information fusion, information exchange between channels, and channel concatenation; replacing 1x1 group convolutions with a less complex channel split operation ; using simpler linear operations for partially generating feature maps instead of fully using convolutions for that; or designing a novel building block to encode spatial and channel information with higher efficiency than depth-wise separable convolutions . Precisely in relation to channels and, specifically, to the introduction of sparsity in the connections, we identify a second large group of adjustments that encompasses some of the strategies already observed in previous analyses such as the replacement of pointwise convolutions with group convolutions [54, 132], but also unseen related techniques, such as the replacement of pointwise convolutions with channel wise more sparse convolutions , or the conception of a novel type of convolution that extends group convolution and, in contrast to the latter, allows an output channel to depend on an arbitrary subset of input channels, thus obtaining greater computational efficiency and reducing the number of parameters. Also related to channels, but in this case, focused on the number of channels handled, we identify additional enhancement strategies that pursue channel reduction [49, 136] and some others that lead to interesting guidelines about what the ratio between the number of input and output channels should be in order to lower the computational cost [105, 107] or the memory access cost . Rounding this collection of efficiency-focused adjustments, there are several solutions of a more precise nature, such as exploiting convolutions with a more efficient software implementation [107, 136], using more efficient residual structures [125, 129] or downsampling strategies , omitting h-swish nonlinearity due to its high latency , merging successive element-wise operations, and thus lowering this type of costly operation in terms of memory access , removing redundant connections , using smaller-sized convolutional filters , or replacing heavy layers with a lighter alternative .
Finally, regarding refinement approaches expressly designed to preserve or increase accuracy, it is possible to distinguish a considerable range of different techniques, which are, however, practically evenly distributed. Specifically, except for just one of the adjustments in consideration, it is possible to cluster the options listed into seven distinct groups, each comprising two specific strategies or methods. We have identified the following groups in the table: (i) approaches aiming to prevent feature map size reduction in order to avoid harming the network expressiveness, either by delaying subsampling, i.e., moving subsampling layers or blocks to deeper stages of the network , or by using transition layers—composed of convolution and pooling operations—without compression ; (ii) methods that, like channel shuffle already introduced in Sect. 3.1.3, enable information exchange between channels, either via more efficient memory shift operations , or in a more straightforward way replacing point-wise group convolutions with alternatives that do not block the above-mentioned information exchange between groups ; (iii) techniques based on the exploitation of the residual block structure, adding to the network architecture not only the already well-known shortcut connections , but also dense connections to boost feature reuse ; (iv) strategies that rely on the gradual increase of the growth rate in dense-connection-based networks [55, 107] to cost-effectively increase feature expressiveness; (v) approaches focused on the receptive field that, in line with some of the practices already identified for neck and head refinement, aim to both increase its size and also generate variations with different scales ; (vi) the integration of attention mechanisms [132, 133] to boost representational power; and even (vii) simpler practices such as removing nonlinearities in shallow layers to preserve the representativity of the network as well . | <urn:uuid:e9dce34e-b6fe-4c14-a7f5-fc7900d8afa8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-021-06830-w | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.923243 | 8,793 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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1 Samuel 12
Samuel’s Farewell Address
1Then Samuel addressed all Israel: “I have done as you asked and given you a king. 2Your king is now your leader. I stand here before you—an old, gray-haired man—and my sons serve you. I have served as your leader from the time I was a boy to this very day. 3Now testify against me in the presence of the Lord and before his anointed one. Whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe and perverted justice? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong.”
4“No,” they replied, “you have never cheated or oppressed us, and you have never taken even a single bribe.”
5“The Lord and his anointed one are my witnesses today,” Samuel declared, “that my hands are clean.”
“Yes, he is a witness,” they replied.
6“It was the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron,” Samuel continued. “He brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt. 7Now stand here quietly before the Lord as I remind you of all the great things the Lord has done for you and your ancestors.
8“When the Israelites were*12:8 Hebrew When Jacob was. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often interchanged throughout the Old Testament, referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and sometimes to the nation. in Egypt and cried out to the Lord, he sent Moses and Aaron to rescue them from Egypt and to bring them into this land. 9But the people soon forgot about the Lord their God, so he handed them over to Sisera, the commander of Hazor’s army, and also to the Philistines and to the king of Moab, who fought against them.
10“Then they cried to the Lord again and confessed, ‘We have sinned by turning away from the Lord and worshiping the images of Baal and Ashtoreth. But we will worship you and you alone if you will rescue us from our enemies.’ 11Then the Lord sent Gideon,*12:11a Hebrew Jerub-baal, another name for Gideon; see Judg 6:32. Bedan,*12:11b Greek and Syriac versions read Barak. Jephthah, and Samuel*12:11c Greek and Syriac versions read Samson. to save you, and you lived in safety.
12“But when you were afraid of Nahash, the king of Ammon, you came to me and said that you wanted a king to reign over you, even though the Lord your God was already your king. 13All right, here is the king you have chosen. You asked for him, and the Lord has granted your request.
14“Now if you fear and worship the Lord and listen to his voice, and if you do not rebel against the Lord’s commands, then both you and your king will show that you recognize the Lord as your God. 15But if you rebel against the Lord’s commands and refuse to listen to him, then his hand will be as heavy upon you as it was upon your ancestors.
16“Now stand here and see the great thing the Lord is about to do. 17You know that it does not rain at this time of the year during the wheat harvest. I will ask the Lord to send thunder and rain today. Then you will realize how wicked you have been in asking the Lord for a king!”
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Technically, there are two “hobbit” books, but Peter Jackson only holds the film rights to one of them, according to the film’s official website.
Are there 3 books for The Hobbit?
It goes without saying that there is The Hobbit — which has been released in three different editions — (1937, 1950, and 1965). In addition to The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Road Goes Ever On (which was released in two versions in 1967 and 1978), and Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, there are several additional “Hobbit” works available.
How many books are in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series?
Try to put this in context for a moment. Paperback versions of all three volumes in the Lord of Rings trilogy, as well as The Hobbit, are among my possessions. Here’s how long each of them is (excluding appendices) in words: The Hobbit has a total of 304 pages.
Why is The Hobbit a banned book?
The book has been banned multiple times over the years, most recently in 2001 in Alamagordo, New Mexico, when a Christian rights organization staged a book burning protest in protest of the book. People who were hunting for witchcraft and “satanic themes” were distracted from the themes of friendship and overcoming hardship, and the book as a result suffered as a result.
Should I read LOTR or The Hobbit first?
The book has been banned multiple times over the years, most recently in 2001 in Alamagordo, New Mexico, when a Christian rights organization staged a book burning protest in support of the author. People who were seeking for witchcraft and “satanic themes” became distracted by the themes of friendship and overcoming adversity, and the book suffered as a result.
How many books in the Lord of the Rings?
Internally, the work is structured into six volumes, two each volume, with various appendices including historical background information. A number of later versions print the whole work in a single volume, in accordance with the author’s original intention of doing so.
Are there 2 Hobbit books?
Technically, there are two “hobbit” books, but Peter Jackson only holds the film rights to one of them, according to the film’s official website. It is also possible to claim that The Lord of the Rings is a “hobbit” novel, because it was clearly intended to be a successor to The Hobbit (see Why Did J.R.R. Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings? for more information).
Who are the 5 armies in the Hobbit book?
That’s all there is to it. The Goblins, Wolves, Elves, Men, and Dwarves are represented by the five armies.
Is The Hobbit Part of The Lord of the Rings books?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, directed by Peter Jackson, is a prologue to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, which the vast majority of people who rush to see The Hobbit will have previously watched.
Is The Hobbit worth reading?
Originally Answered: Is it worthwhile to read The Hobbit? The Hobbit is unquestionably a book that should be read!!! In its role as precursor to The Lord of the Rings, it narrates the account of how the One Ring was discovered and how it came to be in the town of Bag End. It is a much simpler read than The Lord of the Rings, yet it is still a fantastic work by Tolkien.
Is The Hobbit Part of The Lord of the Rings?
The Hobbit Trilogy, which serves as a prologue to The Lord of the Rings, takes place 60 years before Frodo sets off on his epic quest, and Peter Jackson’s use of breathtaking New Zealand settings will make the story all the more captivating.
How many pages is the Hobbit book?
Religious discussions about J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of books are centered on assertions that the novels include occult or Satanic subtexts, which are denied by Rowling. In the United Arab Emirates, the books have been banned from all educational institutions. Not all religious responses to Harry Potter have been negative, as some have suggested.
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Build up to 2- or 3-step directions. During tidy up activity, ask the child to place the picked objects only on TOP of the shelf (use the word, TOP, for each object). Use these 6 straightforward exercises at home to add the building blocks of occupational therapy to your child's treatment plan. Introduction: Falling is not a disease or an injury by itself, but the consequences of the fall are severe, especially for the elderly. 4-Toss a balloon in the air and don't let it drop. Occupational Therapy: Children, Young People & Families Department 4: Visual-Perceptual Skills Intervention Programme for Schools . 3-Play the Floor is Lava!-Hide beads in putty.-Make a to-do list for today's activities.-Stack rocks outdoors.-Yard work: mowing the lawn, raking grass/leaves, pushing wheelbarrow. When the processing and integrating of sensory information interferes with a child's performance in school activities, occupational therapy practitioners2 may use sensory-based interventions or . 3. Planning ahead of time and communicating with the parent or caregiver is often necessary but takes time for the therapist. Use these no-prep, simple, follow the directions worksheets to promote fine motor, listening, and reading skills. Simple meal prep is a highly functional intervention and helps you gauge your patient's safety at home post-discharge. Increase the level of difficulty and work on sequencing while playing by adding in multi-step directions. Down a Curb or Single Step Using a Walker Down Steps with a Rail Using a Cane . If you are feeling overwhelmed, short on time, and lacking motivation, these free occupational therapy worksheets and activity ideas will help you get back on track and ready to work. As the babies grow, they learn to walk, run, and jump. They can also be used for reinforcement during therapy sessions when doing drill work. Give one direction at a time. Child will demonstrate improved motor planning by completing 3-step novel obstacle . Therapy should include tasks that focus on semantic processing, including semantic cueing of spoken output, semantic judgments, categorization, and word-to-picture matching. Snehal Vaidya in the video talks about different Activities for occupational therapy for children with disabilities. Speech Therapy. Here are some TBI occupational therapy activities that will improve your memory skills. Executive functioning allows our brain to help us plan, act, and problem-solve. First, draw and cut out large arrows from the cardstock. In this chapter, we describe the components of each stage and delineate the roles of the OT and the OTA throughout the process. Directions: Select an activity, and using the Do-What-How style, list the major actions (in sequence in 10 steps or less) required for you to perform this activity. Occupational Therapy Assistants are directly involved in providing therapy to patients; occupational therapy aides typically perform support activities. Laura Evangelist | Director of Extension Therapy Services. He or She then glues each square/step in the appropriate order to sequence the given daily living task. 4-Toss a balloon in the air and don't let it drop. -Sandwich game 12 Quick & Easy Articulation Activities | Teaching Talking. As we all know, dementia is progressive and presents differently in each person living with the disease. In fact, occupational therapy cooking activities is a great way to teach direction following with cooking by reading recipes with kids, and asking them to follow instructions at various levels. Have him grab his backpack. I need some advice/ need to rant a little. There are so many ways to use these arrows to work on following directions and directionality: 1. Level #1 is the least challenging, while Level #3 is the most challenging. Speech Language Pathology. First, cut the felt scraps into 1/4 inch strips, and then cut those strips into two to three-inch-long pieces. Have the students answer the questions and circle the right answer. Within each stage of dementia, a person's ability to process incoming information slowly deteriorates, resulting in visual deficits, challenges with auditory processing . Posted. Send this page in and email. Planning and sequencing is important to enable a child to perform many everyday tasks such as walking, running, playing on a playground and playing sports. Suggestions for various game play ideas are provided. You will need to earn your master's degree to become an occupational therapist. Conditions Occupational Therapy Treats. playing games with peers, engaging effectively with individuals during out-of-school activities such as playing sport). Babies learn from neck control to side turning, crawling, sitting, and standing. 7) Engage in a repetitive activity as a warm-up. Here are some examples: "Simon Says do jumping jacks then sit down". Occupational therapy can be distinct from other telehealth professions in that it often requires clients to have some sort of materials on their end. Chair Push Ups: Sitting with upright posture in a classroom chair, the child put his/her hands on the side of the seat. 4. Follows direction to count of 3 Overcoming effects of gravity . Occupational therapy interventions purposes are to help students with autism to gain. The children can then cut out different sizes and shape leaves from . Patients that are sick have to give more than 36 hours notice or else they get charged for their missed session. Find these Cut & Paste Sequencing Activities Here! Occupational Therapy Assistants work under the . for your child to listen to, process and then go do! independence in daily living activities, feeding and oral functions, play skills, task organization. OT Teletherapy ideas will be covered in this blog. Pop The Pig Ok, this game is so funny and ridiculous! Print Page. Repeat the exercise after observing someone else perform the same activity. Part-time + 1. Occupational Therapy Toolkit Treatment Guides - Section 1 ADLs and IADLs . 7. This product is designed for speech-language pathologists working with adults in a rehabilitation setting. Search Occupational therapy jobs in Midland, MI with company ratings & salaries. Finally, bind one end of a pipe cleaner around the felt pieces tightly. Relevant The function the goal aims to achieve. Gradually command the child to place the picked things only at the BOTTOM of the shelf. Next, place them along the floor in a path and start playing! Simple meal prep works on SO much: balance, reaching, problem solving, attention, upper extremity range of motion, and more. 4. What this article adds: Engaging children and youth in occupations and activities; providing guidance in goal direction, planning, and feedback to enhance their participation; coaching caregivers in effective carryover; and providing technology-based intervention can improve the occupational participation and performance of children and youth. The content and format have proved to be an excellent therapy supplement for trained professionals, clients' families, and clients. I wasn't aware before coming into this but my job requires us to have more billable hours than most. The pig is a bit like a jack-in-the-box. Brushing Teeth 2. language pathologists and other specialists (e.g., cognitive therapists, occupational therapists) with a wide variety of clients. The most effective therapies that help the children to improve their overall learning includes speech therapy, occupational therapy, therapy on reading and writing, vocational skill development, physiotherapy, etc. Occupational Therapy Goal Bank. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable participation in the activities of everyday life. We start to learn these skills from the very beginning. Using the Shape Tapping Direction form, the therapist will provide verbal directions to tell students which shapes he/she is to tap. In this executive functioning task, you are presented with the steps to daily activities and must drag these steps into the correct order. Behavior Checklist for Students Importance of Occupational Therapy Printable If you've ever thought that you would really love to change something about your life but are worried about sticking with it, this worksheet is for you. The outcomes process includes measurement of outcomes and decision-making related to the future direction of intervention (i.e., continue, modify, or discontinue). Beads, straws, and strings of . Next, turn the cards over in numerical sequence (3, 4, 5, 6). Individuals Assigned: 13,633 Percent of Users Identified As Living With Dementia: 45%. A 3-Step Workout for Life trainer led the training in groups of four to six participants in a common room of the residential building. Occupational therapy services may include: an individualized evaluation, during which the child/family and occupational therapist determine the child's goals, customized interventions to improve the child's ability to perform daily activities and reach the goals, comprehensive evaluations of the child's home and other environments .
The percentage of children with disabilities in the United States (U.S.) is increasing at an alarming rate. Check out this web search for some creative and colorful ideas to reinforce learning. Step 3: Advance Your Education. This might include things like puzzles, card games and word finding sheets which all work on attention, concentration and focus, which can be affected after brain injury or stroke. Jot down 10 one step directions you want your child to follow. Among the American Indian population, these . Locations. -Sandwich game We use this for all physical activities in our daily lives. Appointment: 651-290-8707 Refer a Patient: 651-325-2200 Pediatric Expert Consult More Ways to Contact Us. The child lifts and holds his/her bottom up off the seat for 3-5 seconds and then slowly lowers back down into the chair. 6. 3-Play the Floor is Lava!-Hide beads in putty.-Make a to-do list for today's activities.-Stack rocks outdoors.-Yard work: mowing the lawn, raking grass/leaves, pushing wheelbarrow. Give specific feedback. Meeting this need by facilitating and enhancing communication in any form can be vital to a patient's well-being. Put steps in order: Sequencing steps to daily activities often affect people living with dementia. Objectives Participants will be able to demonstrate the following skills: -adaptation of the environment to facilitate maximum performance -matching the challenge of the activity to the person's cognitive capabilities . . Students must listen to or read the directions to complete the coloring pages correctly.These worksheets can be printed for use at school or be sent home for remote learning. After five seconds turn the cards face down. Here are some simple ideas to get you started: Carrying groceries from the car to the house Carrying laundry up and down the stairs Pulling a blanket with toys or pillows on top for added weight Jumping on a trampoline Animal walks Vestibular Sensory Diet Activities According to the 2000 census, 3.9% of all families reported having a child with disabilities. Therapy Essentials Inc. Orlando, FL 32828 (Alafaya area) From $30 an hour. Our pediatric occupational therapy team works with children and families to develop the skills they need to be successful in their everyday life.
As always, if you have any questions about your child's reactions to certain activities or positions, please ask your child's therapist for further explanation or recommendations. Work with your child to make a person. Help a child to understand and complete routine and unfamiliar tasks appropriately around the house or at school. Variations 1-3: Fill the backpack game with one step, two-step and three-step directions. Child will demonstrate increased comfort with imposed movement, including use of suspended equipment within therapy sessions. Providing multi-step, complicated instructions is very difficult to follow and can lead to frustration. Leveraging digital technology, having flexible activities handy, and . Giving one-step, simple directions is much easier for someone with middle stage dementia to follow. 1. Bear hugs - Wrap your arms around your chest or knees and give yourself a big, firm hug. Urgently hiring. Occupational therapy can be distinct from other telehealth professions in that it often requires clients to have some sort of materials on their end. When faced with a multi-step project, a child with ADHD may have a tendency to shut down. TMV's Sequencing and Time Management Collection includes a variety of activities that allow children to build skills related to memory, mental flexibility, planning, allocating time to perform tasks, and more! These worksheets with real photos for Autism, Special Ed, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, ESL are a great activity to target when questions, good for students with autism and special needs.There are 13 pages to be printed on photo paper and laminated. We love crafts that will help your child to retell, reenact, or reinforce the characters or activities in a story. It is especially helpful for patients with impaired cognition. For children this includes daily living skills such as feeding, dressing and toileting as well as skills required to successfully participate in school activities. . Occupational Therapy Toolkit Treatment Guides - Section 1 ADLs and IADLs . -Peel stickers.-Draw 3 things you did today at night. Contact Information. Occupational therapy addresses occupations that fill a person's day, and for our pediatric population this includes but is not limited to play, self-help skills, socializing, and learning. Functional Cognitive Activities - Therapist Resource Tips to Improve Attention They are also appropriate for special education and speech therapy, for students who are working on developing vocabulary, matching or general game play. 48 open jobs for Occupational therapy in Midland. "Simon Says lookup, then run in place and finally do a silly dance.". Occupational Therapy. Functional Cognitive Activities - Therapist Resource Tips to Improve Attention What this article adds: Engaging children and youth in occupations and activities; providing guidance in goal direction, planning, and feedback to enhance their participation; coaching caregivers in effective carryover; and providing technology-based intervention can improve the occupational participation and performance of children and youth. Our pediatric occupational therapy team works with children and families to develop the skills they need to be successful in . Tackle one step at a time and give help where needed with the other steps of the task, e.g. -Color a picture inside the lines. The quick, informal assessment is a 2-page eval with yes/no questions and 1, 2, and 3 step directions. After rolling the die, the player feeds the pig a hamburger with a number on the underside. Standing with one leg on a step stool or higher surface and leaning and bending to pick something from surface outside base of support (more high level client) 3. The child must then push the head of the pig as many times as is indicated on the hamburger. Place objects around perimeter of patient and have them reach and place objects in multiple planes and direction 4. Planning ahead of time and communicating with the parent or caregiver is often necessary but takes time for the therapist. Activities: I-Spy Play I-Spy, but rather than looking for items that begin with a particular letter, look for
5. 4. Folding Clothes. Call it cooking therapy! Figure 12-1 Framework collaborative process model. Fold the paper in half to make the card. Pediatric Occupational Therapist: A Step Ahead in Pierce County: United States: PRN . Success is important; therefore begin with breaking the dressing activity into small, straightforward steps. The "Love Potato" Valentine's Day Craft Activity. Helps occupational therapy clients by providing rehabilitative services, under the direction of occupational therapists, .
Occupational Therapy Care and Treatments. Work place pressures. Let them know they are able to choose the way the face looks by choosing certain eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. Scissors This is a simple activity (perfect for the classroom or homeschool when teaching directions!). Numerous risk factors for the occurrence of falls are known, of which it is crucial to indicate and identify the Showering Without Hair Washing (3) VISUAL SEQUENCE CARDS: . Speech-language therapy combines a lot of the foundational skills that OT's address, and vice versa. Use Graphics and Rewards to Avoid Overload and Reward Perseverance. Pediatric occupational therapist, Dr. Cara Koscinski, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, author of The Pocket Occupational Therapist Book Series, is a veteran clinician of 20+ years specializing in Sensory Processing Disorder, reflex integration, trauma-informed care, and autism. Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana .
Bundle together a few strips of different colors, and squeeze them together in the center. As of the 2010 census, there were 53.9 million school-aged children (aged 5 to 17) in the U.S with about 2.8 million (5.2%) reporting a disability. Using cooking activities to higher level cognitive skills can be fun with delicious results! Behavioral The behavior occurrences the goal aims to address. Occupational Therapy FAQs. Michigan Occupational Therapy Association 2017. There are three levels of complexity. We actively seek to strengthen the development of fine motor skills, visual motor, activities of daily living (ADLs), sensory processing integration, motor coordination, executive functioning, and . Start by engaging your child in an activity that encourages repetition, such as throwing a ball back and forth to one another or tossing bean bags back and forth. Motor planning is addressed through: Gross motor skills - large muscle movements that help us do things like walk, jump, and . Child will demonstrate increased independence in grooming tasks by performing hair care activities, including brushing and combing hair, with verbal prompting only. It's one of many great ABA therapy activities, but also doubles as a great speech therapy activity as well. Child will demonstrate improved motor planning by completing 3-step novel obstacle course with verbal directions only. Understandable Ensuring the child and their parents will understand the goal. Supplies: construction paper, googley eyeballs, writing/drawing utensils, scissors, glue, pipe cleaners or other item for arms/legs, imagination.
More information. So I'm currently 12 months intp my first job as an OT. Given 10 words, STUDENT will recognize the differences between same or different words with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 opportunities. Aphasia Therapy. Given multi-step directions, STUDENT will follow 2-step, 3-step, and 4-step directions of increasing length and complexity with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 opportunities. Ask the child to receive the objects using only the RIGHT hand. Occupational therapists help counter this propensity . Open card to do message first. Free. Washing Hands 4. -Color a picture inside the lines. Showering 3. Call out the directions slowly and almost a bit louder (not yelling!) It ensures the goals are understandable and measurable. Student is to face forward with eyes facing the Sequence Mat. Self-Contract. 5. . 10) Make-A-Person Activity For this activity, you'll need a paper plate, four popsicle sticks, and cutouts of different eyes, noses, mouths, and ears. She obtained her Master of Occupational Therapy degree in 1997 from Duquesne . Occupational Therapy Speech Therapy One-step directions that feature the words "right" and "left." Great practice for helping kids master these directional words and strengthen listening skills. Type: staff-training by CentralReach Marketplace. This NO PREP product is all you need for following 2-3 step directions with basic concepts, spatial concepts, negation, temporal concepts (before and after), sequential concepts (first, then, next, last), serial order (first, second, third, last), and conditional concepts. Activity demands An occupational therapy specific framework for practice Page 14 (4) Theories, models and framework for practice Analysis of impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions Theories and methods in the study of cognition and cognitive impairment Analysis of occupations: tasks, activities and roles Frameworks of Change of movement direction: Practicing activity movements in one direction versus different directions. Developing Sequencing Skills. Articulation cards aren't just for speech therapy . Directions: Choose color of card paper. Occupational therapists working with children to develop finger muscle strength and functional grasp will love this activity shared at OTPlan (Twitter: @OTPlan) Occupational therapists can help the children add colorful pom-poms to wooden clothespins using tweezers and glue. Find this Pin and more on NEURO SLT by Lenyuktha Bang Bang. help the child to pull the t-shirt over their . However one uses WALC 1: Aphasia Rehab, it is my sincere hope that the exercises are If you have earned a bachelor's degree in a related field, like biology or physiology before continuing education to a master's degree, then you can directly apply for a master's degree at many schools. Leveraging digital technology, having flexible activities handy, and . . OT Teletherapy ideas will be covered in this blog. Occupational Therapy Assistants help patients develop, recover, improve, as well as maintain the skills needed for daily living and working. 1. In reality therapy, a behavioral self-contract might be one way of enhancing a client's commitment to a desired change. Observation of Another If your patient is sexually inappropriate or aggressive, this is almost always due to the disease progression. This FREE download includes dress up dolls as well as instructions to help develop simple sentence structure in children. -Peel stickers.-Draw 3 things you did today at night. Share to Facebook. Mobiles - Take lacing and threading to a new 3-D level by creating a mobile of highly visually engaging materials. and . Repetitive activities activate the part of the brain involved in regulating our emotions. 1. Gross motor skills are the abilities to use the big muscles of the body for standing, walking, jumping, running and more. For more detail on specific games to play based on your patient's cognitive and physical deficits, check out this helpful article, Promote . "Simon Says touch your nose before touching your belly". Planning and sequencing skills are also required for everyday self care tasks such as dressing and eating, and impacts on a child's ability to organise themselves and learn new routines. Using the command RUN for certain activities. Occupational Therapy. 4. Leisure Activities. Therapy Worksheets Kindergarten Worksheets Printable Worksheets Free Printable Following Directions Activities We Are Teachers Teacher Helper STEP ONE: EVALUATE THE patient USING THE GLOBAL DETERIORATION SCALE. new. for more . Contact Chicago Occupational Therapy or call (773) 980-0300 to learn more about our services and how we can help your child flourish and grow. 4. K You can help children succeed with these creative, fun freebies. Hiring multiple candidates. Occupational Therapist's use their understanding of . Treat patients by using therapeutic and self-care activities designed to improve function under the direction of the occupational therapist (OTR). In celebration of Occupational Therapy month and our appreciation for our wonderful South Shore Therapies OT's, here are ways you can incorporate your . Therapy Center for Special Needs Children - Enhancement centres ensure that the special needs children get appropriate therapy to perform at par with the normal children. 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thermal energy (Q); unit of measure: calorie: amount of heat energy required to raise one degree Kelvin the temperature of a gram of water (from which 1 kg to: 1 kcal = 4.18 kJ)
exchanged thermal energy unit of time (W = Q / t); Unit: watt: J / s (1000 kcal / h = 1.16 kW)
Specific heat of a material:
amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of one degree Kelvin of a gram of material (Ce); Unit: J / kgK (1 kcal / kgK = 4.18 kJ / kgK)
Capacity or thermal mass:
in a body of mass m, the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one degree Kelvin; Unit: J / K (1 kcal / K = 4.18 J / K)
The Cork Lis
(See data sheet of the panel)
0.043 W / mK
RESISTANCE TO THE SPREAD INDEX VAPOR
? = 10
ABSORPTION WATER DIVING WITH CONSTANT TEMPERATURE
After 3 days. 19.4% vol.
After 28 days 34.4% vol.
WATER ABSORPTION FLOATING WITH CONSTANT TEMPERATURE
After 3 days. 1 1.9% vol.
After 28 days. 28.8% vol.
ALTERATION DIMENSIONAL SHIFT FROM ENVIRONMENT FOR DRY WET (35% RH 90%)
DIMENSIONAL ALTERATION TO MOVE TO DAMP DRY (35% – 90% Ur)
-1 1, 7%.
The coefficient of linear expansion is 62 x 10-6 mm / “C.
In ambient temperatures between 20 ° C and 65% Ur subjected to conditions of 20 ° C and 95% Ur agglomeration accuses a variation max of 0.60% in 12 days. with a tendency to stabilize.
At the end of 12 days. It tends to recover decreasing to about 0.26% of linear expansion up to return to the initial conditions.
The speed of sound through the CORK LIS is 450-500 m / s. >
For airborne sound, with a thickness of 3 cm. we have a reduction of 32-35 dB.
For noises underfoot we in a reduction of about:
– 20 dB in low frequencies
– 40 dB midrange
– 30 dB in the high frequencies
– In the empty romm of 200 cubic meters. 0.5 sec.
– In the empty room of 500 cubic meters. 0.6 sec.
Cork is anti-static.
COMPRESSION TENSION WITH SHORTENING 10%
0.22 N / mm2
TRACTION RESISTANCE VERTICAL
The surface of the platters 0.16 N / mm2
SPECIFIC HEAT (CAPACITY THERMAL MASS)
1900 – 2100 J / kg K (at 20 °)
RESISTANCE TO HUMIDITY
Its permeability to water vapor at 23 ° C with Ur 85% 0.21 g / m h mm Hg.
Weakly flammable and slightly smoky. It ‘very important to emphasize this physical characteristic about the reaction of natural cork compressed LIS to the fire! Naturally the flames never destroy the cork, and in the TEST now made in the entire ilmondo, the results were always the same: the surfaces with a velocity of propagation of the flame very low or almost nothing.
REACTION TO FIRE (ITALY)
Class 2; self-extinguishing.
NORMA TI VE AFNOR
Class M 2 = Without fire
Class F 2 = No smoke
To limit and reduce the vibrations caused by industrial machines or moving machines, you may want to use the cork with the highest density (300 Kg / mc.) Because it is able to better withstand high pressures without deformation.
STABILITY TO AGEING
Virtually UNLIMITED, even under harsh conditions.
RESISTANCE TO CHEMICALS
Good water resistance, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and lactic acid to 1 O%; concentrated citric acid, benzene and ethyl alcohol; slightly degrades to acetic acid, ammonia at 10%, to ethyl acetate and to trichlorethylene.
Degradable by soda used to 0% 1
RESISTANCE TO BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
Development cryptogamic after 28 days. (According to evidence AFNOR X 41-504).
RESISTANCE TO COMPRESSION
(See data sheet of the panel)
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The Irish name for Cuilnagleragh is Coill na gCléireach
Cuilnagleragh is on Logainm.ie: Cuilnagleragh.
It is located at 54° 3' 15" N, 8° 16' 17" W.
Cuilnagleragh has an area of:
Nationwide, it is the 41216th largest townland that we know about
Within Co. Sligo, it is the 866th largest townland
Cuilnagleragh borders the following other townlands:
Curious to see who lived in Cuilnagleragh in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns?
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Side Slip Tester LDV & HDV
The universal UNC-8 equipment for assessment of truck and passenger car wheel alignment is used for carrying out fast diagnostics which enables preliminary determination of wheel alignment.
The Slide Slip Tester UNC-8 most of the time is placed as a first device in the test lane Uniline Quantum 5000. Fast and easy-to-run measurement opens collecting information about the vehicles and wheels toe-in. What important: when the indications are within the admissible values Slide Slip Testers test might exempt conducting precise and time-consuming total wheel alignment. This might be the crucial factor whenever the time is a key to run an efficient test station or service.
Measurement of the wheel toe-in starts automatically after a wheel drive at the measurement plate and ends after tested vehicle axle lefts the plate.
The outcome from the measurement is expressed in [mm] – but might be shown in [mm/m] or [mm/km] as well.
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This page aimed to help you fix the common problems encountered while using Spaceship prompt.
What's the weird symbol for
You need to have a powerline patched font in order to properly display
git branch symbol.
- Install any powerline compatible font like Fira Code or others.
- Configure your terminal emulator to use that font.
What's the weird character in front of a section?¶
This is not an issue with Spaceship prompt. Spaceship uses Unicode symbols to represent
SPACESHIP_*_SYMBOL in sections. To solve this problem:
- Verify your terminal emulator support Unicode characters with this command:
curl -L https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt # or wget -O - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
- Configure your terminal emulator to use UTF-8 as character encoding.
In case Unicode symbols aren't supported, you can replace them to those that are compatible with your terminal with
SPACESHIP_*_SYMBOL options. Check out Options page for more information.
What is the
[I] before prompt character ?¶
vi_mode section indicating
insert mode. You can disable that with following line in your configuration,
Why is my prompt slow?¶
Spaceship may work slower in big repositories since status checkings are quite a heavy operation. In this case, try to avoid having many uncommitted files.
grep to fetch package version wasn't returning accurate information. So now we use
jq with fallbacks to
node, Which might slightly affect performance. In that case install jq (see #439, #441 for more information).
Prompt also may slow down because of loading of unused sections. Spaceship loads only sections mentioned in
SPACESHIP_RPROMPT_ORDER. If you think some sections might be useless for you, try to disable them by omitting their names in order options.
In the example below,
vi_mode sections are disabled so that they won't be loaded at all.
# Just comment a section if you want to disable it SPACESHIP_PROMPT_ORDER=( # time # Time stamps section (Disabled) user # Username section dir # Current directory section host # Hostname section git # Git section (git_branch + git_status) hg # Mercurial section (hg_branch + hg_status) # package # Package version (Disabled) node # Node.js section ruby # Ruby section elixir # Elixir section # xcode # Xcode section (Disabled) swift # Swift section golang # Go section php # PHP section rust # Rust section haskell # Haskell Stack section # julia # Julia section (Disabled) # docker # Docker section (Disabled) aws # Amazon Web Services section gcloud # Google Cloud Platform section venv # virtualenv section conda # conda virtualenv section pyenv # Pyenv section dotnet # .NET section # ember # Ember.js section (Disabled) kubectl # Kubectl context section terraform # Terraform workspace section ibmcloud # IBM Cloud section exec_time # Execution time line_sep # Line break battery # Battery level and status # vi_mode # Vi-mode indicator (Disabled) jobs # Background jobs indicator exit_code # Exit code section char # Prompt character )
Disabling a lot of unused section may achieve a significant performance boost. Here's a comparison of rendering Spaceship prompt 100 times with all sections enabled and with
SPACESHIP_PROMPT_ORDER from example above:
|All section||With disabled sections|
|Inside Git repo*||
|Outside Git repo*||
spaceship-prompt repo is used in this test.
Some section icons overlap each other?¶
This issue is related to how your terminal emulator renders Unicode 9 characters. To fix this issue:
- Make sure terminal uses Unicode Version 9 Widths.
- Let your terminal render ambiguous-width characters as double-width.
In iTerm follow these instructions:
- Go iTerm → Preferences… (⌘,) → Profiles → Text
- Check Unicode Version 9 Widths.
- Check Treat ambiguous-width characters as double-width.
- Reload terminal's tab.
Why doesn't my prompt look like the preview?¶
spaceship prompt setup with:
- Hyper as terminal emulator.
- One Dark color theme from Atom editor.
- Fira Code with with ligatures as primary font (16px size).
- zsh-syntax-highlighting to have commands colorized.
- zsh-autosuggestions to have browser-like autocompletions.
See screenshots wiki for more color schemes examples.
Does not help?¶
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In preschool, the alphabet is so important. It is the first step to literacy. There are so many ways to learn the alphabet, but here are 10 unique activities from last week’s Mom’s Library that help promote literacy and develop a love for reading.
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This Week’s Featured Posts…
This free printable combines art and literacy! A 2 for 1, my favorite!
A search and find game that goes along with a book!
It’s called vowel farm, but you could have your children pick out any letters that they are learning.
A simple game to practice blending letter sounds.
If you’re not on Pinterest yet, here’s one idea that you can take advantage of for free!
Really cute idea that helps with concentration too!
I’ve seen these, but haven’t tried them yet!
Are you doing crafts and books for each letter of the alphabet? Here’s a cute one for the letter E.
These look so fun! Go check out how to use these free alphabet printables.
Match these activities up with our Phonics Reading eBook Set!
Would you like to participate?
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This post was written by Charlene Chiu, an intern and alum of The Spike Lab. It is a thought piece based on the carefully crafted curriculum by our top coaches.
We previously explained how to craft a pitch. In this blog post, we’ll show you two example pitches and explain what works (and what doesn’t), using the guidelines we introduced in the first article of this two-part series. These examples have been inspired by the Spike projects done by our amazing students. Note that these examples are formatted as 30-second elevator pitches, but you can use the same guidelines to structure pitches of any length. These example pitches were written by Larry, a coach at The Spike Lab.
Let’s take a look at this first example:
“My name is Michael, and my father is a famous cardiovascular surgeon. His example has inspired me since I was very young. My mother, grandparents, and two uncles are also doctors, so you could say I have medicine in my blood. My dream of becoming a doctor is why I want to create an internship program that matches students with local medical opportunities. This way, these students can get real hands-on experience with the medical profession, which will improve their chances of getting into a good college and also help them decide on medicine as a future career. There are so many high schoolers who want to enter the medical field, but they don’t know whether or not they truly want to study medicine. They might give it a try in college but then abandon it not long after. This is such a waste of some of the most precious years of a person’s life.”
Were you excited by the pitch? No? Here’s why: it doesn’t follow the “problem, pathway, hero” structure. Instead, Michael flips it into “hero, pathway, problem”. When you ask for someone’s attention, you’re already on borrowed time. You want to dive right in and hook their attention. Introducing yourself and your family won’t do that (unless you’re some top-notch celebrity, then, good for you). Your audience doesn’t know what exactly you’re talking about until they are four sentences in, and by then, you’ve lost their attention. The lack of imaginative and exciting language further exacerbates the situation. By leaving the problem(s) until the very end of the pitch, your audience won’t know why they should care about what you’re saying. And when you do get there, they’re thinking of what to eat for dinner.
Here’s an example of what you should do:
“Middle school is such a challenging time. Judgment is everywhere: your clothes, your friends, your grades, your activities; everyone is trying to fit in. Now imagine you use a wheelchair every day. You can’t even dress yourself in the morning, and the clothes that you own were designed for someone standing up and never quite fit right because you spend all day sitting. What if there was a way for these young wheelchair users to feel comfortable yet stylish in clothes that are not only tailored for a sitting posture but designed to be put on and taken off without the need to stand up? My name is Peter, and I love fashion. Although I personally do not use a wheelchair, my mom and 12-year-old cousin do. After that horrific car accident that took the use of their legs, I’ve been on a mission to help them and others like them feel a little more comfortable and a little more confident.”
From the first sentence, Peter has already tugged on your emotions. Remember middle school? The judgment you felt about everything? He thrusts you into the daunting situation of using a wheelchair in middle school every day while trying to fit in. The difficulties of dressing stylishly in clothes that fit right. Then, he offers the lifeline: a way for young wheelchair users to feel comfortable and stylish in clothes tailored for a sitting posture and designed to be worn without the need to stand up. Problem: check. Pathway: check. Finally, he introduces himself and explains why he is uniquely situated to solve this: his mom and cousin are both wheelchair users. Hero: check. By following “problem, pathway, hero” and using engaging language, Peter gains the audience’s attention and holds it for the entire duration of the pitch. He navigates the problem with his solution during “pathway” and reveals his personal connection to the problem and in “hero”, why he’s the best fit for the job.
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This article focuses on how to use debates to foster metacognition, metacognitive reflection and metacognitive development in your students. You can download our free Metacognitive Debate Starter Activity here.
Nothing drives critical and higher-order thinking harder, deeper and faster than a debate: the ego gets involved, adrenaline gets pumping, and students capacities are pushed to the limit as they are forced to defend their position. There is something inherently competitive about it - a debate has a loser and a winner, whether or not it is made explicit who the victor really is; suddenly a topic that seemed unimportant and uninteresting to a student has them riled up, passionately defending their opinion, nervously engaged and frantically searching for reasons and arguments to back it up.
Classroom debates can nurture rational thinking, citizenship, manners, organisation of thoughts, persuasion and public speaking; they can also be a fantastic way to help more shy students become comfortable expressing their views in class.
As a learning activity, debates are highly flexible. Debates can be formal or informal, they can be more involved (giving students plenty of time to reflect, collaborate as teams and write speeches) or they can be casual (where students are given multiple prompts and asked to debate them quickly). There are many formats a debate can follow: active debates where students move around, debates involving role-playing, formal debates with lengthily speeches, 'balloon debates' where students get eliminated one by one, or even silent debates that take place on paper! Discussing all of these formats is beyond the scope of this article: there are plenty of articles on other sites that already explore them. In this article we want to focus on how to use debates to enhance metacognition.
If you're already convinced: why not try our FREE Metacognitive Debate Starter Activity?
Examples of Debate Topics that Drive Metacognition
The following are some examples of statements that students might debate that can foster metacognitive reflection; which is to say that by engaging in these debate topics students will reflect on how they learn best and how they can maximise their learning-power:
"Intelligence is not a fixed trait but something a person can develop over time"
"Regular exercise is more important than a healthy diet in maintaining a healthy brain"
"The overuse of technology is having a negative impact on the learning of students in this school"
"The most important study skill one can develop is the ability to research information online"
"Some revision activities are more effective than others"
"The biggest obstacle for most students in this school is their lack of confidence and the negative beliefs they have about their own abilities"
"The student, not their teacher, is ultimately responsible for their success or failure"
"Meditation can help make students more effective learners"
"All students have their own, unique, learning-style"
As you can see: a number of these debate-topics refer to pedagogical theories (such as Growth Mindset and the now quite unfashionable theory of 'Learning Styles'), others refer to factors that influence learning-power, whilst others still refer to study-skills: there is a huge variety of possible debate topics that can trigger metacognitive reflection.
Advanced Teaching Resources for Metacognitive Debates & Discussion
Aside from our free resources, we've also made some more substantial resources to facilitate metacognitive debates with your students. They are:
Each resource is suitable for students aged 11-16 and can be used by teachers of any subject. All our downloads include a whole-school license meaning that you can share the resource with other teachers in your school*
Let's have a closer look at them one-by-one!
1. The Metacognition Debate Generator
Each of the 101 prompts in this resource is designed to trigger reflection on a metacognition or learning-power issue, examples include:
"A health body leads to a healthy mind"
"It is possible to know too much" and
“Everyone is born with an equal capacity for success in school.”
Debates take an ‘agree or disagree’ format: students are asked to move from one side of the room to the other depending on their response to the statements that appear.
This format allows teachers to foster debates and discussions between students, it can be helpful to ask students to justify their reasons and use sensible arguments. Questions you might ask include:
“What is wrong with the other position in your view?”,
“Why did you choose to stand where you’re standing?”,
“Why do you think people disagree so much about this question?”
It is best to encourage students to pick a side rather than float in the middle: but it can also be fun to allow students to change side as the debate progresses, so that students can try to persuade one another to move.
This is a great resource to use at the end of lessons if you have a few minutes left, it can be used as an entire lesson.
2. The Metacognition Group Debate Worksheet Kit
This resource uses A3 Debate Worksheets to foster discussions about learning and metacognition amongst small groups of students. The intention is that students are in groups of 3-5 and that the debate worksheets circulate around the room, with groups rotating the worksheets every five minutes, so that different groups can discuss them and add ideas.
It covers five topics, each contains eleven debate worksheets. Each topic comprises a learning session, though the resources can be used as shorter learning activities. The five topics discussed are:
Thinking Deeply About The Value of Education
Thinking Deeply About Thought
Thinking Deeply About Memory
Thinking Deeply About Concentration
Thinking Deeply About Independent Learning
A short instructional PowerPoint is also included so as to guide the learning sessions.
3. The Metacognitive Thunk Generator
This products features 101 metacognitive 'thunks': mind-expanding philosophical questions to make students think. It also includes a randomisation feature that allows you to generate seemingly random statements that the students cannot anticipate!
Like our other resources, this resource is focused entirely on matters pertaining to metacognition and learning. Example questions include:
"What is a thought made of?"
"What does the word 'intelligent' really mean?" and
"What is the difference between knowledge and belief?"
It's a highly flexible tool that allows students to practice their philosophical, critical-thinking, discussion and debating skills: teachers can experiment using different discussion formats as they see fit and practice their own questioning skills in the process. It's a fully editable presentation file so you can add your own questions if you want to!
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Historic preservation topic of 'Heart City Heritage' talks in Elkhart
ELKHART — Historic preservation and how to research historic places will be the theme of four "Heart City Heritage" monthly talks starting in March.
The talks will be at 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in March, May, July and September at the Dr. Havilah Beardsley House, 102 W. Beardsley Ave. The talks are hosted by Indiana Landmarks Inc. and Ruthmere Foundation.
The series begins March 14 with the topic: "From Maintaining Your Home to Preserving a Community," featuring Brad Miller, community preservation specialist, Indiana Landmarks, and Ann Linley, president, Elkhart Historic & Cultural Preservation Commission.
Future lectures will be: May 9, "The Elkhart Project: Deep Building Research"; July 11, "Historic Cemeteries in Indiana"; and Sept. 12, "Hoosier Highways: Indiana Byways and Heritage Tourism."
The attendance fee for each lecture is $10 per person ($5 for members of Indiana Landmarks and Ruthmere) and requires registration in advance online: at heartcitytalks.eventbrite.com or by calling 800-450-4534.
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Ethereum has a scaling problem. This has become clear at different times since the beginning of the year: This problem was more noticeable in the first few months. If you wanted to perform a smart contract transaction, like a token swap on a decentralized exchange like Uniswap or Sushiswap, you were in the unfortunate situation that the transaction costs alone sometimes amounted to over US$100.
The reason for this can be found in the so-called blockchain trilemma. According to this, a blockchain must make compromises in terms of security, scalability and decentralization. To put it very simply, developers have to decide which of these two properties they want to optimize for. For example, if you want to provide some level of security, you should be aware that scalability is inversely proportional to decentralization in this case. Comparable to Bitcoin, the Ethereum blockchain has been optimized for security and decentralization while sacrificing scalability.
With an increasing number of transactions, the Ethereum network is increasingly used to capacity – if users still want to use the Ethereum blockchain, they are forced to pay excessively high transaction fees. Optimized scaling of the Ethereum blockchain and lower associated transaction fees would lead to increased usability and the development of new use cases. In either case, new users would enter or use the network (see Figure 2).
compromise of competition
Competing blockchains such as Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot and Co., who like to call themselves Ethereum killers, often optimize in terms of blockchain scaling and accept an increased level of centrality in return. The following graph shows a comparison of transactions per second (TPS):
Rollups – the solution to the blockchain trilemma?
If Ethereum wants to keep up with the growing competition, innovations are needed. According to Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum), the key to Ethereum’s scaling problem lies in rollups. But what exactly is behind this technology?
Rollups are a scaling solution where transactions are bundled and compressed off-chain before being verified at the consensus layer. Ultimately, multiple transactions can be “summarized” into a single on-chain transaction. The consequence of verifying multiple transactions simultaneously is increased efficiency; At the same time, the number of possible transactions that can be performed increases, resulting in increased scalability.
Suddenly, Ethereum can scale from formerly 15 transactions per second (tps) to over 3000 tps – without having to compromise on security.
There are two types of aggregates:
1. Upbeat roll-ups use so-called evidence of fraud (used for example by Arbitrum, Optimism)
Optimistic cumulations assume an “optimistic” view of the world. The basic assumption is that the rollup data, i.e. the compressed groups of transactions mentioned above, is correct. Based on this basic assumption, these data are published without verification of their accuracy. Driven by the prospect of a financial reward for discovering a faulty publication, each market player can then use proof of fraud provide evidence that the new data published by an aggregate is wrong. Evidence of fraud is therefore only used when it comes to assessing whether fraud has taken place, i.e. whether incorrect transactions have been posted, for example. As long as there is no dispute, no proof of fraud is required, nor necessary.
Assuming the data is correct increases the likelihood that a rollup will release fraudulent datasets. To avoid this, a dispute period (known as a dispute window) is inserted. If, for example, the parties involved in a transaction suspect errors in the data, they can launch a dispute within this time window.
The longer this challenge period, the greater the likelihood that incorrect data will be prevented from being published on Ethereum Layer 1. Logically, it is directly in the compromise that it takes longer for the transaction to be finalized on Layer1. In practice, this means that it takes up to seven days if you want to withdraw your funds from Arbitrum. Intermediaries can remedy this situation by disbursing the user their funds immediately on Layer1 for a fee and accepting this waiting time and the risk of an incorrect transaction.
If there is a dispute after the rollup is published and the proof of fraud is found to be correct (i.e. the data published by the rollup is incorrect and has been proven by the proof of fraud), all data will be uploaded up to the last known. undisputed whole. This means that all swaps, trades, and other interactions that were in the erroneous stack stack are reversed.
2. ZK aggregates use so called Validity Profs (used by ZKSync, StarkNet, Polygon Hermez)
Validity evidence assumes a “pessimistic” worldview. They are used to prove that a dataset generated by the rollup is correct. Unlike proofs of fraud, proofs of validity are generated with each batch and presented with Layer1 data to prove that all data is correct. This cryptographic proof (called ZK-SNARK) can be easily verified on-chain for its correctness, regardless of the size of the data packet or the computing power required for the transactions it contains. This is where the benefits of stacks come into play; the decentralization is maintained by the fact that a conventional laptop computer, which itself would not have enough computing power to carry out these bundles of transactions, can nevertheless easily verify the accuracy of the result of this on-chain computing power with minimal effort.
Due to the simultaneous existence of the proof of validity, it follows that no challenge period is required here – the transaction receives the finality directly on the Layer1 blockchain (so no 7 day timeout if want to withdraw your funds from Layer2).
The disadvantage here is a loss of efficiency due to the fact that proof of validity must be produced with each cumulation – in contrast, proof of fraud is only produced if the accuracy of the cumulation is disputed.
Ethereum scalability – what next?
Everything indicates that the future of Ethereum scalability lies in rollups. Without a doubt, they are the first and best way within the blockchain industry to achieve mass adoption without having to compromise on security and decentralization at the same time. It remains to be seen how important decentralization really is for end users and the market. Faced with the choice between the abysmal transaction fees on Ethereum Layer 1 and the less decentralized Ethereum killers like Avalanche and Solana with extremely low transaction fees, many investors and retail users opted for the latter option.
In the long term, however, the chances seem good that the decentralized variant will prevail due to its superior properties – it will become dangerous if Layer 2 solutions develop so slowly that new users despite the centrality of these protocols due to the effects of advanced networks because Ethereum killers decide.
However, this chance is relatively small – the ecosystem of protocols available on Ethereum L2 is growing day by day. (see below, for example, dydx or loopring, on which huge volumes are already processed) And unlike Ethereum’s L1, transaction fees do not become more expensive as the number of users increases, but cheaper. One reason is that the more user transactions go into an aggregation dataset, the cheaper it becomes for individual users, as L1 fees can be shared between multiple heads.
So we can not only prepare for a scalable DeFi future, but also for a decentralized future – long live DeFi!
About the authors
Manuel Jungs is a German language researcher Newsletter Insight DeFi. Known for his detailed analyses, he wants to competently and concisely inform a broad mass of people about the events, opportunities and risks of the new decentralized world around Bitcoin and Co. He is also active on Twitter On my way.
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Other than their final release from Murcia and the train ride from Murcia to Albacete with Marion, not much new information is given on this page of the diary by Merriman.
He did, however, feel that the “lecture” given by Stember and left in the files of the XVth Brigade were worth transcribing in a careful hand. The comment at the bottom says that this was published 12 days after Stember wrote it. Merriman says “all was forgotten” but that is not true.
Recall on the 27th of February, Stember had gone back up into the lines to put down a rebellion of the men who felt that they had been sent into a slaughterhouse. Stember ordered the men forward at the point of a pistol and was not successful in restoring order since the men hooted him down.
Cecil Eby picks up on this note as evidence that American mutineers were tried and sent to a labor battalion.¹ Eby says that the missive was run off on a mimeograph and put into the Brigade official newsletter and quotes “Notre Combat” (the French version of Our Fight newsletter) as the source. Eby says “The Lincolns merely scoffed at the leaflet — so much “ass paper”.¹ Eby quotes Harry Fisher in his book Comrades as saying ” ‘That son of a bitch Stember’, wrote a recruit. ‘If he ever comes back here we’ll shoot him’ “.
Peter Carroll picks up the story further:
And the men never forgave Stember for remaining in safety far from the front. Twelve days after the protest meeting, their anger exploded when Stember published an article, “Single Command,” in the brigade newspaper Our Fight. … He warned that a recurrence by these “disruptive elements” would result in “severe measures”. Outraged by this threat, the men voted no confidence in their commissar, forcing him from his post. “The [political] commander,” the Daily Worker would announce a few months later, “was sent back” to the United States “on the vote of the battalion to tell of their needs and to make the American people understand what they are fighting for.” Such gross distortions rankled the men in Spain, but none would threaten the Republican cause by exposing Stember’s weakness.²
It should be noted here that March 31 is a very memorable day in International Brigades history as in 1938 (one year after this diary page was written) the Brigades were decimated by a massive onslaught of Italian-led fascist troops between Batea and the Ebro River. Each year a memorial march is held to commemorate this event and video of the event can be seen here (Video 1, Video 2 and Video 3).
One year after this page was written, Bob Merriman would be executed after capture above Gandesa. Bob Merriman, presente!
¹ Cecil Eby, Comrades and Commissars, ibid. pg 86.
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Surviving the blazing heat of summer is a most arduous task if you live in Australia. That’s why people rush to electronic stores to buy air conditioners and other cooling alternatives for their homes and offices. One issue is common for many people, “we don’t have space for a cooling system”. Yes, that’s a common issue; you are not alone in this problem.
Suppose you don’t have a spacious place to install a cooling system; no need to worry. There are multiple compact options that can fit almost any location. So, without any further delay, let’s discuss 5 different cooling systems that can be installed almost everywhere.
1) Window Air Conditioners
Window ACs are the simplest form of air conditioners. One little box-shaped unit contains all the essential components and parts required for its optimal functioning. These are usually preferable when wall size space is minimal. These are mainly installed in windows and plugged into the traditional electrical system without any fancy addition. Their exhaust system pushes all the warm air outside while providing a cool environment for the inhabitants.
2) Hi-Wall Split System
Hi-wall split systems tend to increase air circulation in the required space while keeping the temperature and humidity at optimal levels. This whole process ensures healthier and cooler air for the people inside the house. If you have a little space for placing your cooling system along with some additional space outside the house for the outdoor unit, then the Hi-wall split system is made for you.
3) Mini-Split Systems
Mini-split systems are a perfect solution for all of your needs. If you are looking for an all-in-one combo of heating and cooling while having very little space, then these systems are ready to install in your house. Their heating system is usually positioned outside while other components, including the cooling system, are installed inside.
4) Ducted Cooling
If you have a small space, it doesn’t mean you have to bear the blazing waves of heat. There are multiple options, but ducted cooling is the optimal one. You might have a different view of these ducted cooling systems in your mind, but these systems are best manufactured to meet the needs of every type of place, especially tiny ones. This flat ceiling system maintains the cool indoor conditions of your living space without any indoor unit.
5) Portable Air Conditioner
Since their inception, portable air conditioners are considered the best option for compact and cramped spaces. Small places like apartments or mini-shops can’t accommodate permanently installed air conditioners due to a lack of space. So, these portable ones provide cool air, and then they can be removed once the summer is over.
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If you have made up your mind to wipe out all the fuss that comes during the summer months with a cooling system, then choose the best location in your house. Choosing a proper place and installing these units requires experience and expertise so they can work in optimal conditions. If you are unsure about the most suitable location, or need someone to properly install these units, feel free to contact our professional team at 1300 730 896. | <urn:uuid:0300f76e-5bc9-4b33-b71e-9d9dde893795> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://getquickair.com.au/blog/5-different-kinds-of-cooling-systems-for-tight-spaces/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.92806 | 655 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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An oversight in Apple's iOS 12 allows unauthorized users to bypass the device’s passcode exposing their photos and contacts, a researcher reported.
Independent researcher Jose Rodriguez posted a demonstration in a Spanish-language YouTube video revealing how an attacker with physical access to a user’s device could partially unlock the person's content as long as Siri is enabled and Face ID is either disabled or physically covered.
While the procedure is somewhat complex and involves more than 30 steps, a dedicated attacker could easily exploit a device running iOS 12 or higher by using Siri to enable voiceover, using another device to call the target device and going to messages. An English version of the attack demonstration is also available.
The attacker must then go through a series of swipes while listening for audio cues from Siri until they are ultimately able to ultimately scroll through photos and see contacts on the device.
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Astronomers think there should be 5 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter – a shadow universe that makes up most of its mass.
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Large Hadron Collider, world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, restarts to hunt for Dark Matter
This illustration shows Earth surrounded by theoretical filaments of dark matter called “hairs.” The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought.
It might look that our universe is haunted on this dark matter map.
A new Johns Hopkins University study suggests dark matter may have existed before the Big Bang.
For decades, scientists are working to find the missing part of our universe known as dark matter.
Scientists measure where and how dark matter structures grow from the early days of the Universe.
A ‘Dark Matter hurricane’ is passing right now over Earth and it’s moving at high speed.
This featured image highlights one example of how pervasive dark matter might haunt our universe.
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§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Marquess of Lansdowne.)
§ LORD AVEBURY
My Lords, before-this Bill is read a second time I hope your Lordships will allow me to call your attention for a few minutes to the enormous and growing expenditure of the country, both national and municipal. As chairman of the English Bankers, and president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce for the last four years, I have had exceptional opportunities of observing how these great burdens weigh upon and injure our trade and commerce. This Bill, of course, does not deal with rates, but it is obvious that the pressure of rates is aggravated by the increase in our taxation, and the burden of the taxation by that of the rates.
Twenty years ago, in 1884, our national expenditure was £86,000,000; in 1894 it was £92,200,000; in 1904 it was no less than £154,200,000. But even this does not show the real amount. No doubt in any exact comparison various allowances would have to be made, which it would take too long to go into completely now. On the whole, moreover, they would only make the matter really worse. For instance, in 1884 the amount allocated to the National Debt was £29,650,000. In 1904 it was only £27,000,000. If we had applied as much to debt in 1904 as in 1884 our expenditure would have been even greater. Indeed, we have to add on, as Mr. Bowles has shown in a very able and convincing pamphlet, the revenue intercepted and not paid into the Exchequer which is not included in the £154,000,000, but which is really expenditure, and which last year amounted to no less than £22,600,000. In fact, the total State revenue was not £154,000,000, but in reality £176,953,000, showing an addition of over £80,000,000 in ten years. Moreover, what makes matters worse is that in spite of our heavy taxation we do not make both ends meet. It 32 is true, no doubt, that mainly by the action of the terminable annuities we may be said to have reduced our debt in one direction by £7,600,000, but then we borrowed for Army and Navy purposes £9,800,000, so that in the year we have actually increased our National Debt by £2,238,000.
Now, how has this enormous increase arisen? The Civil Services, including education, have increased £9,500,000, and the collection of revenue £8,300,000 That the cost of the Civil Services should increase is inevitable, but the actual growth is excessive. Sir M. Hicks-Beach on more than one occasion called attention to and deplored it. The cost of collection of revenue also demands the serious attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the most serious item of all is undoubtedly the increase in our military and naval expenditure, which has risen from £36,600,000 ten years ago to no less than £86,600,000, an increase of £50,000,000. I am glad to see that there is this year some reduction in the Naval Estimates against increases in the Army and Civil Services. As, however, we always have supplementary expenditure it is safer to take actual results.
We did not murmur at the taxation in time of war, but the present expenditure and the present income-tax in time of peace are altogether excessive. Of course it is necessary to be well armed. But assuredly the present portentous expenditure is excessive and unnecessary. We have no important question open with Russia. She is not likely to pick a quarrel, and her fleet has been seriously weakened. France is friendly; she knows that we are her best customers, and that no other nation would take her clarets and her silks. There can surely be no question of war between us and Germany. Yet we are arming as we have never armed before. In doing so we not only weaken ourselves, but incur the moral responsibility—I might say the guilt—of additional armaments in Europe.
In 1841, when our expenditure on the Army and Navy together was only £11,000,000, Sir Robert Peel thought it much too great. More recently Lord 33 Beaconsfield spoke of our "bloated" armaments. What epithet would he find strong enough to describe them now? In 1899 Mr. Goschen, then First Lord of the Admiralty, and speaking on behalf of the Government, threw out an important suggestion to other European States. He said—We have been compelled to increase our expenditure as other nations have increased theirs, not taking the lead, not pressing on more than they. As they have increased, so we have increased. I have now to state, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, that, similarly, if the other great naval Powers should be prepared to diminish their programme of shipbuilding, we should be prepared on our side to meet such a procedure by modifying ours. The difficulties of adjustment are no doubt immense, but our desire that the Conference should succeed in lightening the tremendous burdens which now weigh down all European nations is sincere.That was a wise and statesmanlike suggestion. Unfortunately, however, it has not been acted on.
If other countries were increasing their armaments as we are there might be some justification for the course we are adopting. But this is not so. What are the figures? In Italy the expenditure on the army has increased in ten years from 264,000,000 of lire to 296,000,000, and of the navy from 118,000,000 to 124,000,000, or, taking the two together, an increase of 37,000,000 lire£1,500,000. In Russia the expenditure on the army has increased from 280,000,000 roubles to 343,000,000, and of the navy from 55,000,000 to 100,000,000; taken together, an increase of 107,000,000 roubles, or about £10,800,000. In Germany the expenditure on the army has risen from 618,000,000 marks to 649,000,000, and on the navy from 78,600,000 to 222,000,000, an increase of 174,000,000 marks or about £8,700,000. In France the expenditure on the army has risen in ten years from 648,000,000 francs to 726,000,000, and of the navy from 274,200,000 to 344,000,000, an increase of 149,000,000 francs or about £6,000,000.
In our own case there has been—on the Army an increase of £24,800,000, and on the Navy an increase of £25,000,000; or, taking the two together, in round figures an increase of no less than £50,000,000, of which, however, only 34 £39,000,000 is shown in the ordinary Estimates. In other words, while Italy has increased her naval and military expenditure by £1,500,000; Russia, £10,800,000; Germany, £8,700,000; and France, £6,000,000; we have increased ours by £50,000,000. Thus these four great countries put together show an increase of £27,000,000, while ours by itself is £50,000,000, or nearly double that of Russia, Germany, France, and Italy put together. My noble friend Lord Brassey has always been a powerful advocate for a strong Navy, but regards our present force as excessive and involving the nation in intolerable burdens, and has suggested various ways in which we might effect economies.
As regards the protection of commerce at sea, not only ours, but that of the whole world, the real remedy would be the extension of the Declaration of Paris, and the placing of private property at sea on the same footing as property on land. This policy has, I understand, been now adopted by Mr. Roosevelt and the Government of the United States, who have proposed it as one of the subjects to be considered at a conference of the Powers. I trust our Government will give him their supportat—least I know that the late Lord Salisbury would have done so—and I hope that France and Germany will also agree.
One result of our enormous expenditure is that we have to a considerable degree lost the elasticity and financial reserve which were so great a strength to the country. If we are spending £177,000,000, paying Is. income-tax, and borrowing over £2,000,000 in time of peace, what is the prospect in time of war. The only way to remedy this state of things is to reduce these crushing burdens and lighten the springs of industry. Some years ago Mr. Atkinson, the eminent American economist, said—The burden of national taxation and of militarism in the competing countries of Europe, all of which must come out of the annual product, is so much greater that, by comparison, the United States can make a net profit of about 5 per cent, on the entire annual product before the cost of militarism and the heavy taxes of the European competitors have been defrayed. Such is the burden of militarism, which must be removed before there can be any competition on even terms between European manufacturers and those of the United States in 35 supplying other continents, and in sharing in the great commerce of the world.This was written some time ago, and matters are now far worse. The difference now probably gives manufacturers in the United States and our Colonies an advantage of something like 15 per cent, over those at home. If the United States had not, unfortunately for themselves, adopted a policy of so-called protection, and deprived themselves as far as they could of the advantage of cheap materials, it would have been almost impossible for our manufacturers to have competed with them in neutral markets.
Your Lordships, of course, have no control, and recent changes have very much weakened the House of Commons' control over rational expenditure and the opportunities of enforcing economy. The proportion of permanent Votes, i. e. those levied under standing Acts of Parliament and not requiring to be annually voted by the House of Commons, has greatly increased. Appropriations-in-aid have much increased. These do not require a House of Commons vote. The amount for capital expenditure for works is formed by loans authorised under various Acts, once for all. In fact, so far from our annual expenditure requiring the annual sanction of the House of Commons, as I believe is still popularly supposed, a comparatively small part of it now does so. In these and other ways the power of the House of Commons over expenditure and the forces tending to economy have been fatally reduced.
Unless some serious effort is made, not only can we not hope for any reduction of taxation, but we must be prepared for an addition to our present very heavy burdens. This is a serious position, and the moral aspect of our present policy is also most grievous. Of course, my Lords, we know that we are not going to attack any foreign country. We are sincerely anxious to maintain the peace of the world. But let us suppose for a moment that France or Germany had increased their armaments as we have increased ours. What should we have said? What an outcry there would have; been. We should have inevitably have felt, that we must also increase our forces. If one nation raises its armaments, 36 others follow suit, and so on. This is, in fact, not merely a British question; it is an European question. I have more than once quoted Gambetta's saying to me that if the military mania of Europe were to continue we should all end by being" beggars in front of barracks." Little did he then think, little did I think, that we should be the greatest sinners; that we, who claim to occupy a position in the front rank among civilised nations, should incur the responsibility—I had almost said the guilt—of setting so evil an example to the rest of the civilised world.
The position of Europe is most serious. Even without any war European nations will be crushed by the weight of their own armaments. A Japanese statesman is reported to have said that as long as they only sent us beautiful works of art, we looked on Japan as a semi-barbarous country; now that they have shot thousands of Russians we recognise them as a truly civilised nation. Unfortunately, we are the country which of late has taken the lead in the mad rivalry of armaments. Europe is an armed camp; we have most of the evils of war (except bloodshed) even in times of peace. In fact, it is not really peace; it is only a truce, embittered by jealousy and suspicion. Unless we retrace our steps, unless our neighbours also reduce their expenditure, it will be impossible for European manufacturers to compete with those of America and other countries.
We do not sufficiently realise what great interests the European nations, and, indeed, the whole civilised world, have in common. Moreover, the enormous increase in expenditure of recent years affects all classes, the poor perhaps even more than the rich. It has been a surprise to many that while our commerce is undoubtedly flourishing the number of those out of work last winter should have been above the average, and some of the supposed remedies are likely, I fear, to make matters worse. But that it has been above the average can hardly, I think, be doubted. It is also an unfortunate fact that pauperism is on the increase. I cannot doubt that both these unsatisfactory features are in great measure due to the increase in our national and municipal expenditure. 37 We ought to take these warnings seriously to heart. Being once more, happily, at peace with all the world, our policy should be to reduce expenditure, pay off debt, increase our financial reserves, and lighten the taxes which now press so heavily on the springs of industry.
§ LORD WELBY
My Lords, there is great uneasiness throughout the country among financial authorities and thinking people as to the state of our finance at the present moment, not only as to its actual condition but also as to its prospects, and I am very glad that my noble friend has expressed that uneasiness to your Lordships, because his wide experience and great authority in almost every branch of finance make his remarks of particular weight both here and elsewhere, and entitle him to the serious attention, not only of your Lordships' House, but of the public generally. I venture also to think that it would be an omission of duty on the part of your Lordships' House if you were to pass without any comment whatever the Finance Bill of the present year.
The Budget of the present year is what I should call a hand-to-mouth Budget. It just provides for the current wants of this particular year, and so far it can hardly be regarded as satisfactory in presence of the enormous amount of taxation which we have to bear. In fact, my Lords, I can only describe it as a Budget of drift. We have now been three full years at peace. In the year 1903 all reasonable people would willingly have granted the Government time to reconsider the financial situation in order to place our peace expenditure again upon a sound and moderate footing, but that plea will not apply to 1904, and still less will it apply to 1905. Here in 1905—three years after the establishment of peace—we find ourselves with a load of war taxation upon us, imposed only since 1899, amounting to no less than £25,000,000 a year.
The criticism which I venture to make of His Majesty's Government is this, that with this immense weight of taxation. Budget after Budget passes without any general review of our financial position, which certainly ought to be the first duty of the Government. There has been 38 no endeavour to lay down the lines upon which our peace expenditure should be regulated; there has been no endeavour to co-ordinate the ways and means of the country, the financial power and resources of the country, with the demands of those experts who naturally wish for large expenditure and to whom the Government appear to have given carte blanche. I have heard it said that much of the present embarrassment of Russia is due to certain debility of mind in the nation—a debility of mind which is represented by the expression "Nicheoo": It is no matter; things will come all right" I ask your Lordships whether there are not some symptoms, in financial matters, of that kind of listlessness in this country—not only in the great Departments of the State, but also, I think, to a great extent in the country itself. But surely listlessness on this important branch of our policy is a fatal thing for this country. If it is bad for Russia, how much more so is it for a country which holds the commercial supremacy of the world? If this country is careless about its finance, about the taxes which weigh upon its industries and upon the well-being of all classes, surely it is neglecting the great means which it has in its power of maintaining that commercial supremacy.
I should like to draw your Lordships' attention to two points showing the effect upon the country of this tremendous taxation. The first point to which I wish to call your attention is this, that this immense weight of taxation which has been placed in the last six years upon the tax-paying public has checked consumption, and the second point is that it has hampered the springs of industry and is, therefore, most ominous for the future of this country. With regard to the first point, I would remind you that from 1842 to 1899 this country pursued a very sound policy. It endeavoured during that time to promote the welling of all classes by a reduction of taxation on articles of consumption, and it is impossible to look at the Reports before parliament without seeing what an admirable effect that had, and how the poorer classes of our countrymen, who at the beginning of that time were really sunk in misery, emerged from that state, 39 and to what extent comfort and well-being increased among them. But since 1899, that policy has been reversed, and out of the £25,000,000 of taxation which has been imposed no less than £15,000,000 has been derived from indirect taxation, and £8,000,000 of that sum is derived from the two great articles of prime necessity to the country—namely, tea and sugar.
Now, what is the result of that? The result has been to increase the price of prime necessaries of life. Not only do I apply that to tea and sugar; it also applies to all the other articles which have been made the subject of increased taxation. It is curious to observe that in almost every case the effect of this has been to check increase of consumption. It has checked an increase of consumption of beer and spirits—matters in regard to which many of us do not care very much; but it has also diminished the consumption of the first articles of necessity, and if you look down the whole line you will see that whereas the consumption of these articles up to 1899 was steadily increasing—the consumption was increasing year by year, and in a larger proportion than the population increased—since that time it has beer a question of retrogression, not of progress, and the amount consumed per head of the most important articles of consumption has actually diminished.
That is a very serious matter for us to consider, especially when we reflect that the highest financial authorities and statisticians who have studied the state of the working classes have told us that a very large proportion of our population is insufficiently fed. Of course, there are differences of degree in these calculations, and I am not in the least wishing to press the view taken by such an eminent man as Mr. Charles Booth, who has calculated that in London something like one-third of our enormous population is insufficiently fed. But, at any rate, it must be admitted that there is a very large proportion of our immense population insufficiently fed. The remedy for that is very difficult to find. We see the difficulty which His Majesty's Government have experienced in dealing with the question, we see the difficulty which besets Bills like that for the unemployed 40 but, at all events, there is one simple thing which the Government could do and which they have not done. They ought not to increase the taxes on the articles of prime necessity. At the first opportunity they had they ought to have regulated the expenditure of the country so as to enable them to relieve the working classes of that war taxation, which I think I have shown has already checked the progress and well-being of our population. I think most of your Lordships will agree with me that the first object of statesmen, the first object of the Government of this country, ought to be, as far as lies in their power, the advancement in comfort and well-being of all classes of His Majesty's subjects. Can we ever look at a situation otherwise-than as most unsatisfactory in which we are obliged to admit that a large proportion of our countrymen are absolutely underfed? If we only think of that as applied to the younger generation we must come to the conclusion that we who are taking year by year larger Imperial duties upon our shoulders ought to spare no effort to secure that the rising generation shall be efficient to undertake those duties.
I turn to the second point to which I wish to call your Lordships' attention—that excessive taxation hampers our industries. The population of Germany and the United States is increasing very rapidly and faster than our own, but this curious fact accompanies it, that in Germany in the last fifteen years or more the whole of the increased population have gone into the towns, and that in the United States a very large proportion of the increased population have gone into the towns. Now, what does that mean? It means that a very large proportion of the increased population of these two great countries are turning their attention to manufacture; the result, of course, is that our competitors are increasing in number and the competition they are bringing against us becomes more serious. But that is a natural development which no act of ours could possibly check. What, then, can be done? I venture to think that the first duty of His Majesty's Government is to take care that the traders and the manufacturers of this country have 41 a perfectly free hand, and that, having a free hand, they shall be able to produce as cheaply as possible, bearing in mind the maxim, which I think is now pretty well established, that "Trade follows the price list."
Consider for a moment what has been the effect of our legislation of late years. I do not deny the necessity during a war of imposing considerably increased taxation, but after the war we ought to be in a position to reduce that taxation. I notice that the actual taxes, apart from those additional sums to which my noble friend has referred, have risen from £89,000,000 in 1899 to £118,000,000 in the current year after the reduction which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made in the tea duty. That is really an increase of nearly £30,000,000. That £30,000,000 has been diverted from employment which might have been of very great use to our traders and manufacturers, to uses which, at all events, are not remunerative. I am not supposing for a moment that the whole of that could have reverted, if I may say so, to the pockets of the people, but at all events a very large proportion of it might, and to whatever extent that could have been done it would have had a tendency to make production easier and cheaper. The whole question is, Can our manufacturers and traders produce and carry on their business cheaper than those in other countries? If we load them with taxation so that they have very little margin left which they can employ use fully in the improvement and extension of trade the case will go very much. against us.
My noble friend alluded to Mr. Atkinson's statement of the burden of national taxation. I have interested myself in a calculation which shows that the taxes levied by the United States come to about £1 7s. per head, whereas the taxes levied in this country come to £3 per head. I notice that both those calculations omit our local expenditure, to which my noble friend alluded, and also the local expenditure of the United States; but as the local expenditure in both countries very nearly balances, the position is left thus, that in the United States, with their enormous advantages as our competitors—happily 42 they do a great deal to tie up their own legs and arms—they are only hampered by Government taxation to the extent of £1 7s. per head, while we are hampered to the extent of £3 per head. I look with very great alarm at such a situation. I may say at the same time that I have read, though I do not accept it without confirmation, that German taxes are only £1 7s. 6d. per head.
If there is any force in what I have ventured to lay before your Lordships, may I ask whether the Government have really done their duty in the manner in which they have dealt with finance? If there are these dangers before us—and I think they are real dangers, dangers which affect the well-being of our population and the progress of our trade and our means of competing with our neighbours—ought not the Government, within the time which has elapsed since the war came to an end, to have taken serious review of the whole financial situation, to have suggested to the country the lines upon which a peace Budget ought to be established, and to have made it clear to the country that the expenditure, so far as it is incurred, is really required? After what we have heard elsewhere can we really say that what I call the surrender of the expenditure of our great Departments into the hands of the experts has been a success, at all events economically? When we remember the Return which was placed before us at the beginning of this session, which showed that something like 120 ships had been taken off the active list—some of them barely finished and most of them in what I may call the prime of life—may we not fairly put forward the argument, until it is disproved, that there has been an expenditure a great deal in excess of what was actually necessary?
I do not want to touch upon other subjects to-night, but I was struck very much, on reading the other day the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General on the South African expenditure, to find one page, consisting of fifteen or sixteen paragraphs, every one of which calls attention to grave matters connected with the administration of funds in the South African War. I think it is not quite creditable to the Government 43 and to the War Office that, although three years have elapsed, not one of those important references have been answered by the War Office. I fear that that is proof that, at all events under present arrangements, the country has very little security that when this great expenditure is being carried on there is due regard to that economy which ought to be proved and shown to us to exist before the country consents to bear longer the enormous load of £25,000,000 of war taxation.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (The Marquess of LANSDOWNE)
My Lords, both noble Lords who have addressed your Lordships this evening speak with special authority upon financial questions, and I am sure that the House has listened to them with the respect to which they are entitled. I have certainly done so, and I go further and say that I am not here to differ from either of them with regard to what I conceive to be the main point of the argument which they have addressed to us. Both of them have dwelt upon the rapid increase of the national expenditure; both of them have warned us of the serious results which may arise to the country if some means are not found of arresting that increase. Up to that point I do not think there will be any difference of opinion on either side of the House; but, my Lords, I feel that the two noble Lords have not, perhaps, been so successful when they attempted to show us in what direction we should look for the retrenchment which they consider so essential. The fact is, that retrenchment in the abstract is always popular and easy to suggest; it is when you get to close quarters with the expenditure, and endeavour to find the particular points at which a million or so may be saved here or there that the difficulty of the task commences.
When one looks at the principal heads of expenditure, I think one is struck with the feeling that, after all, the area which is offered for retrenchment is a comparatively small one. Take the great heads into which our national expenditure is divided. You have, in the first place, the service of the Public Debt. That is an expenditure of which 44 we are not masters. The noble Lord suggested, I think with great force that we should endeavour to reduce the Debt as rapidly as possible, but a more rapid reduction means, of course, an increase of the annual appropriation for the reduction of the Debt. Then there is the Civil Service expenditure. I think my noble friend Lord Avebury, if I correctly understood him, admitted the great difficulty of making a reduction under that head. I, at any rate, am persuaded that the difficulty is very great. I believe there is not a single Department of the Government service in which the work has not steadily increased for many years past, and in. which a claim may not be made out for the assistance of a staff larger than that which used to suffice in bygone years.
The noble Lord opposite, Lord Welby, told your Lordships that in his opinion the reduction should be made in the military and naval expenditure of the country, and he gave your Lordships figures showing how expenditure of that class has mounted up. With regard to the Navy, I may remind your Lordships that the Naval Estimates this year do show a very considerable reduction over the Naval Estimates of last year. The difference in favour of this year's Estimates is no less than £3,500,000 sterling—a saving arrived at by the courageous scheme of Lord Selborne, adopted by His Majesty's Government, before he left this country, a scheme which had for its main object the getting rid of a large number of vessels which were costly to the public, but added little or nothing to the fighting efficiency of the Navy. The noble Lord (Lord Avebury) reminded us of the proposal which was once made by my noble friend Lord Goschen, who suggested that it might be possible for this country to reduce its naval expenditure if an understanding could be arrived at with other great naval Powers for a similar reduction. My recollection is that that proposal, the spirit of which, I think, everyone must appreciate, did not meet with any response sufficiently definite to enable us to take action upon it; and I am afraid that one must add that since the time when that proposal was put forward the tendency of other 45 Powers has been to add largely to their naval strength and their naval expenditure. And, my Lords, it is surely our duty to remember, when we compare our naval expenditure with the expenditure of other Powers, that there is no country in the world to which a strong Navy is so vital and so essential as it is to this country.
In respect of Army expenditure, the noble Lord (Lord Welby) suggested that when the war came to an end some means should have been found for at once making an impression on the Army Estimates. Those who have had anything to do with Army administration, however, know only too well that rapid and sudden reductions of Army expenditure are so difficult as to be virtually impossible. You cannot suddenly get rid of men, and, if you do, it can only be on terms which will be really extravagant and costly to the country. We are obliged as a Government to do what we can to effect a reduction in the expenditure on the Army, and my right hon. colleague who has charge of the War Office is, I know, deeply impressed with the necessity of keeping down the Estimates for the Army; but I notice that whenever he puts forward a proposal for applying the pruning knife with any approach to vigour there is an immediate outcry, not from the Army so much as from the public Press and the public generally, in defence of that particular section of our military machinery with which it is proposed to interfere. I do not think I am wrong in saying that if it had not been for pressure of that kind my right hon. friend would have been able to submit to the country proposals more economical than those which are actually embodied in this y ear's Army Estimates.
I take one other item of increased expenditure which is perhaps typical—the increase, which, I think, reaches to about £500,000, in the Post Office Vote. Some of your Lordships may recollect the history of that question. There was a Committee presided over by Sir Edward Bradford, and that Committee' recommended a considerable addition to the emoluments of the Post Office employees. Here, again, there was a general demand, certainly not from one side in politics alone, but a 46 general demand pressed from both sides, in support of that proposal, and the Estimates went up by the sum which I have mentioned. The fact is that the age in which we live is, I will not say an age of extravagance, but it is an age in which the Government of the day is expected to do more and more for the people of this country, and to do that more and more in a more costly and expensive fashion.
I was very much struck by what was said by the noble Lord who spoke first (Lord Avebury) who reminded your Lordships that we have to bear in mind not only the growth of Imperial taxation, but the growth of local taxation also. To my mind the growth of local taxation is at least as serious as that of Imperial taxation, for, after all, the country has only one pocket, and, although there may be two sets of hands at work at that pocket, there is only one pocket which has to pay in the end. I noticed the other day a statement which goes to show that while in the last forty years our Imperial expenditure has increased from. £70,000,000 to £140,000,000, our local ex-expenditure has increased from £36,000,00) to £144,000,000; that is to say, that while the Imperial expenditure has doubled within that period of forty year local expenditure has quadrupled. In that connection I would venture to make an appeal to the noble Lord who spoke second, Lord Welby, who has been extensively, I might say expensively, concerned with the financial administration of the London County Council. I am not fully convinced that he has always been found a successful advocate of economy in administering the large resources with which that body has to deal.
§ LORD WELBY
I beg the noble Marquess's pardon for interrupting, but I could show him that the increase there has not been so great. I would also like to remind him that Parliament withheld from London municipal rights for something like fifty years after granting them to the rest of the country, and London then had to make up very great arrears.
§ THE MARQUESS OP LANSDOWNE
In spite of that I cannot help thinking 47 that the London County Council will be found to have allowed itself a very considerable number of certainly not inexpensive luxuries—I refer to such matters as tramways, buildings for housing the working classes, and I am Even under the impression that the noble Lord has allowed himself a little navy of his own which will run into a good deal of money.
§ THE MARQUESS OP LANSDOWNE
With regard to the actual proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer I do not gather that either of the noble Lords were disposed to criticise them at all severely. It is true that Lord Welby described the Budget as a Budget of drift. I should have been inclined to describe it as a transition Budget, intended to deal with a period of transition which must take place at the end of a great war and before the national finances revert to their normal condition. At any rate, the two main features of the Budget—I mean the reduction of the duty on tea and the additional contribution to the Sinking Fund—fall well within the canons which the two noble Lords have impressed so earnestly on the House.
I wish to say one word before I sit down upon a point which was touched in passing by the noble Lord who spoke first. He told your Lordships that although under the financial arrangements of the year the fixed debt was diminished by £7,500,000 owing to the operation of the Sinking Fund, we have, so to speak, with the other hand increased our indebtedness by additional borrowing for the purpose of naval and military works. His argument, therefore, is that we have not really reduced the Debt, but that the net result of our operations has been to increase our indebtedness by something like £2,000,000. Of course it is possible, if the noble Lord likes to do so, to refer to those two transactions in juxtaposition, but I submit that they should be treated as entirely distinct, and that the connection between them is not as close as the noble Lord would have us believe. Borrowings for special works, usually of a naval and military kind, 48 have always been treated as something outside the normal financial arrangements of the year.
This is what happens. Some expenditure of a novel kind is suddenly found necessary. Let us say that the developments in the art of naval warfare render it necessary, for the safety of our commerce, to build a new harbour; or let us say that a proper feeling for the comfort and welfare of the soldier impels us to embark upon an expensive scheme of building barracks. In these cases you have to find an amount of money which it is impossible to throw on the Estimates of the year. It would not be fair to the taxpayers of the country that the whole of that expenditure, which represents a more or less permanent improvement, should be thrown upon the finances of a single twelve months; nor, on the other hand, is it right that for such expenditure the fixed debt of the country should be permanently burdened. Accordingly the custom has grown up of providing for the necessary expenditure, in cases of that kind, by means of loans repayable in a comparatively short term of years by an automatic sinking fund. That is what has been done in the present case. Each of these loans gives effect to a policy which has been submitted to, and sanctioned by, Parliament, and each of them provides for a sinking fund by which the loan will eventually be paid off. The sums thus raised ought not to be set against the reduction of the permanent Debt by means of the natural operation of the sinking fund. I do not know that there are any other points that I can usefully notice. I admit that it is right and proper that the financial proposals of the Government should be criticised as they have been criticised by the two noble Lords who have spoken, and I can only say that, so far as I was able to follow their remarks, they criticised them in a spirit to which none of us need take exception.
§ EARL SPENCER
My Lords, I reel that we owe a debt of gratitude to my noble friends behind me for having initiated this discussion. The noble Marquess who has just sat down admits, the importance of the subject and 49 applauds in a sense the fact that they have brought it before the House. When we look around we must deplore the emptiness of the benches to-night, and the apparent want of interest which the House feels in this great subject; but perhaps the House did not realise that my noble friends were going to speak this evening on the Finance Bill. We on these benches view the enormous increase in the expenditure of the country with the deepest concern. We think that His Majesty's Government have been remiss in not making a difference between the expenditure in peace and the expenditure in war.
I quite admit that there has been apathy in the country with regard to this. There has been apathy on the part of the Government. That has been shown on more than one occasion, and in its latest phase it has been shown in connection with what are called the stores scandals in South Africa. We may hear more of that. An important debate is going on at this moment in another place with regard to the heavy responsibility which rests on the Government itself, apart from the individuals who may have had the administration of these funds in South Africa. There is also considerable apathy in the Houses of Parliament. This House has not the charge of finance, though it has, as the noble Marquess admitted, full right to express its opinions. But in another place there does not seem that desire for economy and vigilance over public expenditure which used to prevail there in old days. I remember well that during the short time I was in the other House—it is nearly fifty years ago—there were always one or two Members who made it their particular business to bring financial matters continually before the House. There is nobody who fills that rôle now. There is also apathy in the country itself. It is very often carried away by a warlike feeling, or by a desire to spend money on some particular object, without recognising the need of economy, which is so necessary if we are to increase our commercial prosperity.
The noble Marquess alluded to the question of retrenchment. He referred to expenditure generally and he began with the Civil Service, and to the difficulty there was in retrenchment in that service 50 at the present day. He said that we were living in an age when the Government were more than formerly expected by the people to lay out money in a costly way. That may be so to a certain extent; but it is, however, none the less the bounden duty of the Government to try and retrench in the various branches of the public service. The noble Marquess referred to the difficulty there was in carrying out Lord Goschen's policy of inviting other Powers to reduce naval expenditure. One of the difficulties was that we had ourselves so largely increased our expenditure, in far greater proportion than any other Power. As regards the Army, the noble Marquess said very truly that sudden and rapid reductions were often very disastrous. I quite agree; but no one has asked for a sudden and rapid reduction. We have asked that some difference should be shown between a peace establishment and a war establishment. We look in vain for a sign of retrenchment. Perhaps I may say there was one indication. The Prime Minister recently made a notable speech in another place. A good deal may be said as to whether it was politic for the Prime Minister to make a clean breast of everything that was felt on the most delicate matters connected with the question of defence, but the speech may have been an indication that the Government did not intend to make larger demands for military expenditure. That speech, however, has been followed by no practical result in the direction of reduced expenditure.
I do not propose to go at length into this matter. My two noble friends have shown the great necessity there is for retrenchment, and I hope that the wisdom of their words will be taken to heart, not only in this House but elsewhere. The noble Marquess referred to local expenditure, which is a matter of the highest importance. Local expenditure has no doubt increased enormously, and requires careful watching, but, at the same time, we may say that a large part of this local expenditure is made for purposes which are remunerative. I know there is a difference of opinion on that point, but still that circumstance must be borne in mind. In his reference to the London County Council the 51 noble Marquess forgot that my noble; friend behind me (Lord Welby), in his financial statement, which was one of great lucidity, pointed out that, with the exception of the education rate, there was hardly any increase in the county council rate this year. I associate myself with the opinions of my noble friends who have brought forward this subject, and consider that the thanks of the House are due to them for the clear and able way in which they have done so.
§ THE EARL OF WEMYSS
y Lords, I think it would be as well that we should have clear statements of the growth of these large items. Take the Army. The Army Estimates in 1853 were £9,000,000; in 1870 they had risen to £17,000,000; and noble Lords know what they are at the present time. I think it would be very useful and interesting if we could get a Return from the War Office and from the other Departments setting forth the causes of these extraordinary increases of expenditure, and what we have to show for them.
§ On Question, Bill read 2a; Committee negatived and Bill to be read 3a tomorrow.
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FOREST protest groups have slammed the axing of a moratorium due to start today that would have halted all logging in Tasmania’s high-conservation-value forests.
The Still Wild Still Threatened organisation and the Huon Valley Environment Centre held demonstrations outside the Executive Building in Hobart this morning, calling for the promised moratorium to be implemented immediately.
Huon Valley Environment Centre spokesperson Jenny Weber said the deal agreed to last week by the three environment groups engaged in the forest peace talks did not protect Tasmania’s ancient forests.
Mediator Bill Kelty announced last Friday that 550,000 hectares of public HCV forest identified by environmental groups would be protected for the next six months.
But the deal allows Forestry Tasmania to log these forests if necessary to meet existing wood supply contracts with customers such as Gunns and local sawmillers.
Ms Weber called the arrangement a “fake moratorium”.
Protestors climbed the historic wall in front of the Executive Building and erected a banner, accusing Premier Lara Giddings and Forestry Minister Bryan Green of “executing our forests”.
Ms Weber called the lack of a definite end to logging within the three-month time frame established last October – in the original roundtable Statement of Principles agreement between environmentalists and the forest industry – a “huge bungle”.
“This is not a moratorium, it’s not even a B-Grade moratorium,” Ms Weber said.
“We feel betrayed that HCV forests continue to be logged. That’s not what the state and federal governments promised last December.”
Ms Weber said her organisation stood by Environment Tasmania, the Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation groups that had signed the latest deal.
But she said that did not mean the Huon Valley Environment Centre or Still Wild Still Threatened, supported their decision.
“They’re representing forest protection but have different tactics and strategies to us,” Ms Weber said.
“So while we support them being engaged in these talks, we are deeply concerned there is no moratorium and can’t support the Kelty [agreement].”
Greens leader Nick McKim said it was disappointing no absolute moratorium had come into force today, on the expected March 15 deadline for logging to end in more than 600,000 hectares of HCV forests.
“It’s not a full moratorium and while you are still logging, it could be argued you don’t have a moratorium at all,” Mr McKim said.
The Greens have also demanded the Government advise if Forestry Tasmania has in the past three months signed any new wood supply contracts using native forest logs or woodchips. | <urn:uuid:cb56f46a-679b-483b-8b00-2cf0c363a60a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://earthfirstjournal.news/2011/03/15/tasmania-enviros-scramble-to-defend-ancient-forests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.93098 | 562 | 1.640625 | 2 |
May 08, 2008
1967: Leafs, Canadiens Face Off In Canada's Centennial
The year is 1967. All of Canada is celebrating the centennial year of the country's existence. What better way to celebrate than to have an all-Canadian Stanley Cup final between the legendary Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens.
The Canadiens had won the previous two Stanley Cups, and were in the midst of what would quietly become another dynasty as they would win 5 Cups in 7 years.
The Leafs were the previous dynasty, winning three successive Cups from 1962 through 1964. Much of those teams remained in tact here in 1967, and many of the players were into their 40s.
Regardless, the "Over The Hill Gang" had a centennial surprise in store for the Habs. The Leafs would win the finals 4-2, becoming the oldest team in history to ever win the Stanley Cup. The Leafs were led by the likes of Johnny Bower, Frank Mahovlich, George Armstrong, Tim Horton, Red Kelly and Jim Pappin. Dave Keon became the only Leaf player in history to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
I previously wrote an article entitled "Celebrating the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs" where I have much more on the Leafs much-celebrated 1967 team, including profiles of every player. | <urn:uuid:2535779d-e4a8-4551-9342-96f4cfe0f340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com/2008/05/1967-leafs-canadiens-face-off-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.982729 | 271 | 1.851563 | 2 |
We’ve had two optical microscopes and a hand-held magnifier available to the kids. A small Bausch & Lomb (i.e. high quality optics) ‘scope we got off eBay for about $30, list price around $90, was the first purchase. It had a single 50X objective and the quality of the image was good. But it was small and fiddly to focus and the illumination was limited to indirect lighting. Plus we found that only our eldest could actually squint down the barrel and see anything. Our younger two (under 7 at the time) just couldn’t reliably see through the barrel. It takes a fair bit of concentration and mental ability to train your eyes to see down a single barrel. They tried the hand-covering-other-eye trick (since they couldn’t wink) but that didn’t seem to help much, and it just left them unbalanced as they leaned over the scope, covered one eye and tried to adjust the focus with the other hand. The whole endeavour was just exhausting for them and frustrating.
We have brought home the medical clinic scope on a number of occasions. It’s a professional quality scope with high magnification (suitable for micro-organisms like bacteria and yeasts) and an oil-immersion lens. Large, sturdy, great lighting. Our eldest saw a few interesting things with it, but the younger kids had the same “squinting down a tiny hole” challenges. Sometimes Noah (then 6) thought he could see something. Sophie (then 4) never did. The depth of field at high magnifications is negligible, so slide preparation has to be done properly (thin samples, maybe using a microtome, slide and cover slip, etc. or else just buying and using prepared slides). What happened was that the adult would spend 20 minutes in slide preparation, slide-gazing and fine-focusing, and then would get the kids to peek in and see what we’d found. It definitely didn’t maintain child-led enthusiasm!
We gave up on the medical scope (will use it again when the kids are older), packed away the little Bausch & Lomb and I bought an inexpensive hand-held magnifier (15X magnification, I believe) and they seemed to like that more. With that lower magnification it had a large depth of focus and it could be brought to the eye, rather than vice versa, so my then-6yo was able to use it reasonably well. Also, at low magnification, things bore more resemblance to their unmagnified images, and that somehow made the viewing “realer” and more exciting for the kids.
I still had microscope dreams for the kids, so I did a lot of reading about kids & scopes. I decided that if we could afford to be a microscope at some point, it would probably make the most sense to buy a high-quality binocular dissecting microscope (i.e. relatively low magnification, two barrels to look down for relaxed viewing, large depth of field, easy-to-use focusing knobs). But these ‘scopes are expensive. So we waited.
Then I stumbled across reviews and images from the Digital Blue. Debbie posted some of her kids’ images for me on a message board. I was really impressed. So we used Grandma’s Christmas-and-birthday-money-for-the-year to order one. We bought a slightly older version on sale and got it for about $50 (the best price I’ve seen lately is about $150). We’re really happy with it.
It has low to medium magnification (10X, 60X and 200X). The barrel can be removed so that, like a hand-held magnifier, it can be used to examine things you can’t easily fit on the stage — fingerprints, eyeballs, the winding on the strings of a violin, the surface of a rock, etc.. There is none of the exhausting squinting down the barrel — you’re looking at an image as big as your computer screen. At low magnification the depth of field is vast and focusing is dead easy. Medium magnification the kids can use easily with a bit of practice. “High” (i.e. 200X) magnification focusing is of course fussy (that’s just the nature of the physics) and it is difficult to get sharp images without doing real glass-and-coverslip slide preparation, but it is possible with patience. Using the scope is no longer a solitary taking-turns endeavour … three or four kids +/- adults can watch in real time as something leaps into focus. They can point on the screen (“what’s that?” or “move over this way”). The image is not inverted as in a regular scope, so moving around the image is easy and intuitive. We can capture images to save and share (later, with daddy, or with a friend, or to insert in another document like a website or newsletter). We can save video clips of little critters in motion. When you can retrieve and re-examine images, everything stays more real and present in your memory.
The microscope software installed beautifully in a minute or two with no hitches in both WindowsXP and W98. The microscope has proved sturdy enough for our use. I don’t worry about supervising, and sometimes the barrel gets treated a little roughly — no problems so far. It continues to interest the kids. While is does run through the computer, unless you are capturing and exporting images, you don’t have the sense while you’re using it that you’re “using the computer”. All the activity is at the microscope end, with the computer screen simply being a real-time video feed of what the scope is seeing. In other words, your hands can stay totally on the microscope and your specimens, and you don’t need to fuss with the mouse or keyboard except for, say, adjusting lighting off the “auto” setting, or viewing previously-captured images. Really I can’t say enough great things about this microscope and its developmental suitability for kids.
The above post was written 18 months ago and I stand by everything I wrote then. Our microscope is still functioning well. The QX3 we own has now been replaced on the market by the nearly-identical QX5. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, that’s a J-cloth in the image above, at 60X magnification. | <urn:uuid:c1ada8d7-173f-4ac4-83c8-2b07dc369e1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nurturedbylove.ca/blog/?p=1265 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957733 | 1,380 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Whats the difference in managing disciplinary issues between intentional misconduct and conduct due to negligence and lack of training in Malaysia?
In managing disciplinary issues it is vital to discern the difference between intentional misconduct and conduct due to negligence, and lack of training.
Intentional misconduct has the element of deliberate action that requires decisive disciplinary action.
As for negligence the understanding of underlying cause, severity and implications of a negligence behavior are vital.
For example a behavior of person who deliberately breaks a lock in the store,to get things out, should be differentiated from a person breaks a lock to save something or to meet an emergency need of guest.
On issues of negligence it is vital to distinguish a person who panics and multipliers a mistake and being new to the job, and person who has been long time in a job and yet negligent.
But than again there are cause and context . The zeal to punish without understanding the nature and complexity of a problem leads to victimization.
Many managers take black and white approach to solving disciplinary issues that invites action at industrial court.
The basic understanding of natural justice and the ability to discern grey areas is vital to maintain good industrial relations.
The continuous improvement of processes and human skills helps mitigate issues of misconduct.
Mr. Ronald Benjamin – Human Resource ER/IR Specialist at WEIL HOTEL
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When you buy The Other Bar, an experimental new chocolate bar designed to fight global poverty, the candy comes with a choice: Inside the package, you can scan a code to donate a blockchain token to the farmers in Ecuador who produced the cocoa, or use it to get a discount on the next chocolate bar you buy, sending more business their way.
“This is an experiment in what we can do to drive conscious consuming towards impact goals,” says Guido van Staveren, founder of the FairChain Foundation, a Dutch organization that partnered with the United Nations Development Programme on the pilot, a limited run of 20,000 packs of dark chocolate or milk chocolate bars made from Ecuadorian cocoa that will go on sale online October 14. “The whole idea is to use technology to influence consumer behavior and basically turn every product into a capitalist impact engine.”
When a consumer decides to send funding back to farmers, it goes to the local cocoa farmer’s association, which uses the funds to plant new cacao trees. Each token is equivalent to a quarter of a cocoa-producing tree (so four chocolate bars equals one tree). The pilot, with 20,000 bars and 10 participating farmers, could lead to the planting of 5,000 new cocoa trees, which can provide extra income for farmers. The donations are tracked on the blockchain, so consumers have proof of impact. “Consumers don’t have to trust an NGO to create an impact . . . they only need to trust themselves,” says van Staveren.
The tokens are funded with money that other brands would use for marketing. It’s a model that the team hopes to prove in the pilot so that it can convince other companies that redirecting marketing budgets toward social impact marketing is an effective way to grow business. “If we can show that this proof of impact drives customer loyalty, and marketing spend given to consumers turns into impact, then we can reach out to all these large companies that now spend millions on Kim Kardashian and say, ‘Don’t spend your marketing on these famous faces, spend your marketing dollars on your own crowd, your own customers, and let them invest in impact,” says van Staveren. Around $800 billion is spent worldwide on marketing, he says—but only $170 billion is necessary to end global poverty.
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Billionaire Launches Startup to Reprogram Human Gene Expression
Billionaire Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong has launched a new “epigenetic reprogramming” company, called NewLimit, with the goal of greatly extending the human lifespan.
Armstrong is collaborating with Blake Byers, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a Stanford PhD in bioengineering, to stop aging in its tracks.
“NewLimit will start by deeply interrogating epigenetic drivers of aging and developing products that can regenerate tissues to treat specific patient populations,” reads a press release.
The company says it will use machine learning models — what else — to understand how human cells change with age. NewLimit will “finally develop therapies that could slow, halt, or reverse this process,” an “incredibly ambitious” task.
Reversing the aging process has been a Holy Grail for scientists, although despite decades of research, we have yet to find the fountain of youth. But that’s why NewLimit is willing “to get started today” despite its mission possibly taking “decades to achieve.”
It’s yet another instance of billionaires trying to escape death by essentially throwing money at the problem.
Even Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is famously investing in anti-aging technologies. In fact, the company he’s investing in, called Altos Labs, is similarly trying to reprogram genes to turn back the biological clock.
Not every billionaire is a fan, however. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is of a very different mind when it comes to anti-aging tech. During an interview at The Wall Street Journal‘s CEO Council Summit last week, Musk said that it “is important for us to die because most of the time people don’t change their mind, they just die.”
NewLimit wants to stop aging with a deceivingly simple process: by assigning existing cells an entirely new task.
“Put simply, we want to figure out a way to restore the regenerative potential we all had when we were younger, but somehow lost,” the statement reads.
The science may still be in its infancy — but that isn’t stopping the wealthy in investing in endeavors like NewLimit in droves. The company raised over $100 million to “get the company off the ground.”
“We expect capital will not be the limiting factor for the next few years,” Armstrong and Byers boast in their statement.
But whether the nascent company will be able to deliver on the lofty premise remains to be seen, of course.
READ MORE: Announcing NewLimit: a company built to extend human healthspan [NewLimit]
More on anti-aging: Elon Musk Says That Immortality Tech Would Be Very Dangerous
The post Billionaire Launches Startup to Reprogram Human Gene Expression appeared first on Futurism.
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The shelter will provide accommodation, security and other supporting services to people who experience physical and psychological abuse and who are in danger from their immediate family environment.
The financing contract for the project “Construction of a new shelter for victims of domestic violence” under the Norway Grants was signed in Nicosia last year on 5 February 2014.
Working to break the cycle of violence and reintegrate victims smoothly into society, the project aims to empower victims in order for them to become financially and psychologically independent and be confident in pursuing their goals and exercising their rights.
Moreover, the implementation of the project will contribute to the bi-communal cooperation between the Greek/Cypriot and Turkish/Cypriot communities, by accommodating victims from both communities, as the shelter will be committed to the relief and support of victims of domestic violence, regardless of their ethnicity, political beliefs and religion.
The project contract, which is implemented under the Norway Grants 2009-2014, was signed between the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development and the Association for the Prevention and Handling of Violence in the Family. | <urn:uuid:9604c52e-ad93-476d-99e9-935956cce1aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://norway.gr/news_and_events/the-eea-and-norway-grants1/eea-and-norway-grants-cyprus/eea-and-norway-grants-in-cyprus/nicosia-shelter-for-victims-of-domestic-violence-to-be-built-with-norways-support/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956669 | 224 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Sometimes you’re so close to a problem you can’t see how it will ever be solved. This situation is so common, it even has it’s own cliché – “you can’t see the wood for the trees”. Here’s a brainstorming game to help you see things differently, and aid the problem solving process.
Show these shapes to your team, and ask them to individually write down what they can see. You may find descriptions such as; three coloured shapes, or a green circle with a diagonal line, a red hexagon and a yellow thought bubble etc.
Some may have made a small creative leap and seen the top left figure as a green “forbidden” road sign. Others may have taken bigger creative leaps and see a winking, bearded face or an imminent solar eclipse on a cloudy day. It doesn’t matter if you can or can’t see these more outlandish images – there’s no right or wrong answer.
Looking at things in a fresh, new way can trigger a whole train-load of thoughts, and that’s the essence of effective brainstorming.
Get the team to look at the shapes again and see how they describe them differently, second time round. | <urn:uuid:33fb279b-695e-48d9-bc9b-0e843a04da8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iandickson.co.uk/performance-coaching/brainstorming-can-you-see-the-wood-for-the-trees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.931893 | 264 | 2.359375 | 2 |
New Bill Would Allow Michigan Lotto Winners to Stay Anonymous
Do you enjoy playing the lottery? If so, Can you imagine hitting an almost-billion-dollar jackpot and not being able to conceal your identity? People who were acquaintances suddenly want to hang out again and family you haven't talked in a while are now interested in how your life is going. But even worse, it could pose a situation of danger from outsiders.
It was last month when a Michigan man won $760M playing one of the biggest jackpots in Mega Millions history. Unfortunately, because the Mega Millions is played through multiple states, winners are not allowed to stay anonymous in certain ones, including Michigan. In fact, there are only seven states who allow winners to stay private [regardless of the game]: Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas. The same applies for the Powerball.
Because of this a state legislator, Pat Outman has introduced a bill that would add Michigan to that list. Outman is worried of the increased accessibility to people's personal information due to the internet and social media. He says the objective is to keep people safe.
Allowing a privacy option gives people a more secure feeling and does not leave them open to harassment or a flood of requests for funds, loans or donations (via FOX 17).
Michigan currently does allow residents to stay anonymous when playing the state's own lottery as long as the payout exceed $10,000.
FOX 17 reports that the bill is now under review by the committee before it can move forward. | <urn:uuid:ea094e28-7ef5-4e57-b44a-5fb77880ef5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://us103.com/new-bill-would-allow-michigan-lotto-winners-to-stay-anonymous/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967074 | 320 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Spacial awareness is a skill I have not yet mastered. Living in, Bronx, New York, in a neighborhood with people, who for the most part look like me, never led me to ask myself about how I took up space.
But what do I mean, when I talk about “taking up space?” Do I mean the fundamental physicalities of one’s body being in a particular environment? Do I mean the presence, impact and influence that someone leaves on their community, their society? Could I mean both? When I think about how I take up space now, I am more aware of my mannerisms, my choice to speak in certain environments, how much room I create for others, and what influences I place on the world outside of me.
The dance lecture from Dr. Broomfield paired with Professor Amanda Roth’s Philosophy of Women’s course had helped me to ask myself how do I take up space as an African American young women. These experiences have made me reflect on how personal themes connect to the work and artwork of Steve Prince, a printmaker, educator and evangelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, and the man of subject in the INTD 288 class marked The Art of Steve Prince.
When Steve Prince came on residency to Geneseo it was clear that he was a man who took up as much as he could, and to add, he felt comfortable in that space. Me however not so much. For instance I constantly contemplate my position in this secondary institution. Being in a class or social setting where I am constantly second guessing the words that I am using in order to explain myself is exhausting, but it’s what i’ve been doing my entire life to some degree . There is always that doubt of not being competent or not having a certain “level” of competence as my peers.
As an African American college student, in a school that is predominately white there is a lot of unfamiliarity that makes me uncomfortable at times. There are moments when I notice i’m the only African American person in a room, or when in a meeting, or in a group. Race is the first difference that I notice but why is that? Why don’t I feel comfortable in certain spaces. Why do I create more space for others and allow myself to me shrunken down. When discussed in the context of both classes, we talk about the internalization and the teachings of subordination. In my philosophy class we had an introduction to the patriarchal world that has manifested itself into American society, it has also lead women to be at the feet of and to upmost practice the passive individual.
Growing up as a black young woman in a patriarchal society, where at the top white men rest, is something that I have well been aware of to an extent.
Growing up as child I had not fantasized about being a white person for no reason, I had done so because they were the ones in the magazines, on tv, and in person were the ones seen as beautiful, intelligent, and desirable. But if women were at the bottom of patriarchy, then where does that leave other groups who are non-white and why would I want to be a cog in such a machine? Why would I want to take up that societal space?.
Young women are trained to take up less space. African Americans were told to be nonexistent, i.e. to not be seen when company comes but do the work anyways. So where does that leave the African American women and every intersectional group that has been excluded from this narrative of demand, command, and power?
I enjoy the artworks of Steve Prince because he is able to address the lasting influences of such a system and the unjust, subordinating spaces in which African Americans are forced to fill . For instance Prince’s piece “Nine Little Indians” tells a story of the Little Rock 9 a reference to to the 9 African American children in 1957 Arkansas, who integrated the public school system. Generally speaking, school systems now are a result of the effort to push integration and diversity by many before us. This lack exposure of one group of people to another, and because of historical context, specifically segregation, slavery, all of these important aspects have and still influence the modern world we see now. Those events are the reasons why i’m the only African American in room full of 30. Of why sometimes I choose to give more room to others, and play to the nonexistent role.
Beyond all the horrible institutional and patriarchal systems, there is still a choice in which I am given, where I have to be forceful and willing to disrupt the cycle. Attending SUNY Geneseo, a predominantly white institution (PWI), has given me the opportunity to actively exercise that ability to stir change . Being here I plan to start taking up as much space as I can. I want to work on breaking the stifling cycles of the past, and recognizing that it can only be accomplished by talking about the world, and working against those factors meant to suppress, To continue resisting, and fighting. | <urn:uuid:b4c6f787-d4a5-44d0-9137-5566594599de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2019/04/27/space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.971766 | 1,045 | 1.664063 | 2 |
HÀ NỘI — Although Canada is a major producer of seafood, it still imports a variety of sea products from Việt Nam, especially black tiger shrimps.
According to Việt Nam’s General Department of Customs, last year, Việt Nam’s seafood export turnover to Canada reached more than US$183 million. This was the highest figure for agricultural products exported to the Canadian market.
In the first 10 months of this year, seafood exports to Canada have leapt significantly. Turnover so far is more than $186 million.
Nguyễn Như Tiệp, director of the National Agro-Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD), said Canada had one of the strictest import regulations for farm products, especially seafood.
However, as it is a high value market, learning to comply with the system gives Viet Nam an advantage when selling to other countries.
In terms of seafood, Tiệp said Vietnamese shrimp products had the biggest sales opportunity in Canada because demand was quite large.
The standard of many shrimp raising and processing enterprises in Việt Nam now meets the requirements of Canada. However, the same is not true for farming in general.
In particular, Canada has shifted to management from the bottom up. Therefore, not only processing enterprises must be inspected, but also raw material areas must be assessed by Canadian authorities visiting Việt Nam to approve export licences.
To promote Việt Nam shrimp exports, Canada recently backed a $15 million technical assistance project to help businesses and farmers control food safety.
Nguyễn Đức Hòa, Vietnamese Ambassador to Canada, said Canada is a country with favorable natural conditions for agriculture and the world’s leading agricultural technology. Therefore, there is optimism that Vietnamese businesses will soon be allowed to directly invest in Canada’s agricultural production.
At present, a number of Vietnamese enterprises are visiting Canada to lease agricultural land. In addition, Canadian firms are interested in Việt Nam’s agriculture, including its adaptation to climate change.
The biggest problem with the Canadian market is that information and two-way understanding between Vietnamese and Canadian companies is still limited, according to Hòa.
Hòa suggested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development should organise trips for delegations from Việt Nam to meet Canadian enterprises to seek specific co-operation opportunities. — VNS | <urn:uuid:112b4597-af4a-4fda-a49b-221eff83cc5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/417887/canada-holds-promise-for-vn-farms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949258 | 533 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The federal government is introducing new regulations to protect employees from harassment and violence in the workplace.
The regulations, which take effect on Jan. 1, 2021, outline the necessary elements of a workplace harassment and violence prevention policy and the procedures employers are required to have in place to respond to any incidents. They apply to federally regulated workplaces, falling under Bill C-65, which is aimed at strengthening workplace harassment and violence prevention efforts. The bill, which went into effect last year, also brought political employees under the cover of the Canada Labour Code’s occupational health and safety and harassment and sexual violence protections for the first time.
According to the regulations, employers’ policies should include timelines for complaint resolution that support both the victim and alleged perpetrator, requirements for confidentiality for all parties throughout the process and protections for employees who’ve been victimized by a third party, such as a client.
The policies should also specify qualifications of a person considered competent to investigate incidents and provide recommendations, lay out the employer’s obligations in administering corrective measures following an investigation and outline the support employees should be given if they’ve experienced workplace harassment and violence.
“Today, we’re taking an important step forward to ensure that federally regulated workplaces — including the federally regulated private sector, the federal public service and parliamentary workplaces — are free from harassment and violence, including sexual harassment and sexual violence,” said Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi in a press release. “Every worker deserves a safe workplace, and by working together, we can make that a reality.”
In its 2018 budget, the federal government allocated $34.9 million over five years to support Bill C-65, with an additional $7.4 million per year afterward. Of that, an annual $3.5 million has been put toward Employment and Social Development Canada’s workplace harassment and violence prevention fund.
Five projects received grants through the fund last March. In July, the government invested $2.7 million in an online tool, created by the Canadian Women’s Foundation, AfterMeToo and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, to educate employees who’ve experienced workplace harassment or violence about their legal rights. | <urn:uuid:0b0d69a4-b8f2-4e8d-8774-9914c9b48262> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/benefits-law/feds-introducing-new-regulations-to-prevent-workplace-harassment-violence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947063 | 452 | 1.960938 | 2 |
One of the striking phenomena of the advertising business during the past decade has been the emergence of the internet as an advertising medium. But this has shown two puzzlingly contradictory features.
In the first place, it offers unprecedented advertising opportunities: opportunities for an advertiser to forge links with individual consumers and engage in a dialogue with those consumers. This has a unique and quite remarkable potential. But there is a second point, and this strikes a jarring note. The internet, for all its advantages as an advertising medium, has grown at an extremely disappointing rate, and it is difficult to explain why.
The reason for this slow progress is that advertisers have repeatedly tried to make internet advertising work for the wrong types of product, and with the use of the wrong type of advertising. However, after ten or more years of very slow progress, advertisers are at last beginning to get it right.
The best available information on media advertising in the United States shows that television, the largest medium, accounts for 29% of total expenditure. For many advertisers, this medium reached its peak share in the early 1980s, after which other media notably magazines grew to compensate for the inadequacies of television’s coverage.
Television is viewed by 100% of homes in the United States, as many as 40% of them view very little of it. Spending more money on advertising in the medium does not get to these light viewers, but only provides wasteful duplication of heavy viewers.
Television’s share of all advertising has now stabilised. But the internet accounts for only 4% of all advertising, and is a relatively weak No 6 medium, after television, direct mail, newspapers, radio and magazines.
The best way to analyse American media trends is by drawing a distinction between advertising for low-involvement and high-involvement goods and services. At the moment, these two types of advertising split the total expenditure about 50:50.
Low involvement means that the process of buying a brand does not involve much rational decision making. The purchase price of the goods is normally low: most low involvement product categories are fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). The majority of consumers usually buy two or three different brands in a category over the course of a year, and most buying is a repetition of previous buying.
During the few days immediately preceding a purchase in the category, advertising can influence the choice of brand. Advertising does this by operating as a nudge or reminder, and does not embrace much rational weighing of the pros and cons. Such advertising normally appears on television and radio, media that are, in turn, viewed and listened to in a low involvement way, without full attention. Note the harmony between buying of low involvement goods and services, and the advertising in low involvement media.
Low-involvement buying represents the vast majority of goods that most people buy over the course of a year: may be 95% of the total. The categories of goods and services are competitive, and the advertising tries very hard to get people’s attention.
The process can simply be described as the media advertising seeking its audience, by offering a message that reflects that audience’s lifestyle. Until now, most internet advertisers have used their advertising in a low-involvement way, and have used banner advertisements. Not surprisingly these have not been effective, because they lack production values, the messages are stereotyped and dull, and they are only too easily avoided. They are in no way as good as magazine advertisements.
Low-involvement product categories have reached maturity in the United States and other developed countries. Growth began to slow twenty years ago and has now generally ceased. This situation does not yet apply to India, but it is a trend that will, before too long, begin to show itself in the buying habits of the substantial and growing proportion of the population that has disposable income, and is in the market for branded goods.
American consumer incomes continue to grow despite intermittent interruptions. This has meant that, because there is no growth in low-involvement purchasing, a larger share of income is being devoted to infrequently purchased, high priced goods and services: household durables, cars, vacations, various luxury goods. These are all high-involvement purchases. The decision making is essentially rational, and although the number of purchases per annum is relatively small, the average price is high.
For such goods and services, the role of advertising is quite different from what it is for FMCG. High involvement advertising is intended to help the search process. The audience is seeking the media advertising, which provides the information needed to lubricate a rational decision-making process.
It is not surprising that the proportion of all advertising devoted to high involvement has grown to its present figure of 50%, and is increasing fast. Much high-involvement media advertising is directly connected to generating leads which produce inquiries and sales. It can often, therefore, provide financial accountability, the most highly-prized objective of all contemporary advertising.
Looking at the different types of internet advertising, the proportion based on Keyword Searches grew from zero in 1998 to 40% in 2006. The Classified share has grown from zero to 18% (siphoning large amount of spending from newspapers, the traditional medium for classified advertising). The proportion accounted for by Banner advertisements fell from 56% in 1998 to 22% in 2006 and is still going down.
The trends are quite clear. A straightforward extrapolation indicates that the internet’s share of total advertising in the United States will double by 2012, to reach 8% of the total, making it the No 4 medium, after television, direct mail and (greatly weakened) newspapers. At last the internet’s potential will be on its way to fulfillment. | <urn:uuid:3381c25e-47c6-44b2-a0a3-6ecb9f148a02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.citeman.com/3620-advertising-must-keep-up-with-mediums-benefits.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965085 | 1,180 | 2.5 | 2 |
House of Representatives approves changes to Forest LawTonight (Tuesday, May 24) an extraordinary session of the Brazilian House of Representatives voted in favour of the latest version of the draft law presented by representative Aldo Rebelo (Communist Party of Brazil -PC do B , São Paulo) on May 11 and which profoundly alters the provisions of the Brazilian Forest law. 410 parliamentarians voted in favour, 63 against and there was one abstention.
The representatives are expected to continue into the night and vote on separate amendments known as 'destaques' (detachments) put forward by the various parties and proposing the alteration or the removal of certain points in the text that was just approved. That means that until that process has terminated it is impossible to analyse with certainty the real impact of the changes which may eventually be intensified.
After voting has been completed in the House of Representatives, the draft legislation will go on to the Senate where it may be subject to further modification. Once the process in the legislative branch has been finalised the text of the law will be submitted to the President of the Republic who is empowered to sanction it or veto it.
During the day, conservation militants from WWF-Brazil braved the chilly hours before dawn in the Federal Capital this morning to give voice to around 200 trees in the areas of the Ministries Esplanade and the annexes to the House of Representatives. Each tree received a poster with a text balloon on it with a reminder of how important forests are to the Brazilian economy, to the maintenance of ecological equilibrium and to agricultural and livestock production activities as well. The action was inspired by the SOS Forests movement which brings together a series of civil society entities with the common aim of protecting Brazil's natural heritage, now threatened once again by backward sectors of the agribusiness sector represented in parliament by the block of 'ruralista' parliamentarians.
Last Sunday, the mobilisation that took place in São Paulo against the Draft Legislation (PL-1876/1999) that proposes alterations to the Brazilian Forest Law attracted 1,500 people to the Ibirapuera Park. It was a demonstration of just how concerned the public is about the proposed alterations now before the House of Representatives.
Brazilian artistes repudiate proposed changes to Forest Law
Actors Victor Fasano and Christiane Torloni, with their long history of involvement in environmental issues, were present in the Brazilian House of Representatives this Tuesday (May 24) to declare their repudiation of the proposed amendment modifying the Forest Law. The actors are responsible for the campaign 'Amazon Forever' which collected 1.2 million signatures in 2008 for a petition that also addressed the risks involved in changing the current environmental legislation.
"We are here representing more than a million Brazilians that wish to have their forests protected. It is unthinkable to vote so hastily on something so important. Great danger lies in this urgency to vote," declared Christiane Torloni.
Victor Fasano also defended the idea of much more in-depth discussion. "We are in favour of producing a good text for the country with all sides giving and taking a little. The environment however has already given too much and cannot afford to lose any more," he remarked.
"The problem arises when you try to impose a text like the present one, that only defends the interests of big businessmen in the agribusiness sector", he declared.
On Monday (23), ten former Brazilian Ministers of the Environment who occupied the post at different times in the years from 1973 to 2010 expressed their extreme concern with the possibility that the amendment presented by representative Aldo Rebelo was voted. The former ministers were unanimous in underscoring the harmful nature of the text that is currently before the house and in defending the idea that the voting on the draft legislation should be put off to a later date to give Brazilian society more time for wider discussion of the issue. | <urn:uuid:f5506c2d-37bd-4c71-86d6-222bffa98448> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wwf.org.br/informacoes/english/brazilian_forest_law_reform/?28991/House-of-Representatives-approves-changes-to-Forest-Law | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96396 | 797 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Scottish space firm take on two new graduate placements
TWO STUDENTS have landed places in what is reckoned to be the most prized university placement programme in Scotland – working with space rocket firm Skyrora.
Bethany Taylor and David King, who were selected from more than 100 applicants, will be based at Skyrora’s production facility outside Edinburgh – supporting the company’s aim to help Scotland to become a key player in the UK’s space race programme.
David, an Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Sheffield and Bethany, a Mechanical Engineering student at University of Edinburgh, have joined Skyrora’s technical team – supporting manufacturing, vehicle launches and more Skyrora XL stage testing.
Both David and Bethany will play a part in assisting Skyrora to achieve its goals for 2021.
Bethany said: “I am really looking forward to learning about how the business is run and having the chance to work on different projects, using the knowledge that I have learnt at university, on real life projects within Skyrora.”
David added: “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the team at Skyrora, who are getting the UK back into space. It will be a great chance to push myself and learn from all the talented individuals who work here.”
The UK space industry now employs close to 42,000 people across the country and generates an income of nearly £15 billion every year. Scotland’s space industry is made up of 130+ companies, and it already employs more than 7,500 people.
Skyrora – through a range of important breakthroughs, including successful test launches and pioneering an eco liquid-fuel – has established itself as the UK’s leading private rocket company, supporting the burgeoning small satellite market. It aims to launch its first rocket – the Skyrora XL – from a UK site in 2023.
Skyrora’s Graduate Placement Programme is highly regarded by UK Universities as a vital pathway to help propel young engineering talent into the rapidly developing space sector.
Dr Jack James Marlow, Head of Engineering at Skyrora said: “2021 will be another important year for Skyrora as we move towards our first launch – an event that also will be of huge significance to the UK’s space industry ambitions.
“But to achieve our goal – and continue to support the focus on space as a growth sector in both Scotland and the UK – it’s vital we continue to engage with universities to forge and develop the new talent of the future.
“With 100+ applications, Skyrora’s placement programme has seen major interest from all over Europe.”
Skyrora offers technical positions for students at the start of each year, as well as summer internships. Students interested in participating in Skyrora’s student programme or are looking for further information, please see the website for further details: www.skyrora.com/career.
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A 2,000-year-old mikveh, a ritual bath, was recently uncovered in salvage archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), a significant discovery providing evidence for the first time of Jewish farmsteads in the Galilee in the Second Temple period.
Prior to the construction of a major interchange in the Lower Galilee, an archaeological salvage dig carried out by the IAA revealed the remains of a Jewish agricultural farmstead from the Second Temple period, some 2,000 years old, including a magnificent mikveh.
Abd Elghani Ibrahim and Dr. Walid Atrash, directors of the excavation on behalf of the IAA, said that the existence of the mikveh “unequivocally indicates that the residents of the ancient farm were Jewish, who led a religious and traditional way of life, and maintained purity as a Torah commandment.”
According to Ibrahim and Atrash, the discovery “changes what we knew about the lifestyle of the Jews in the Second Temple period.”
Until this discovery, Jewish farms in the Galilee have not been found, leading.to the idea that Jews living under the Roman occupation in Israel’s north did not live on farms outside the villages or towns.
The discovery of the farmstead at some distance from the village of the Shikhin and the large Jewish town of Zippori (Sepphoris), shows that Jews also settled in farmsteads, that perhaps functioned as the rural hinterland of Zippori, the two explained.
About 1,700 years have passed since the farm was destroyed in an earthquake, and about 1,400 years since the site was finally abandoned.
Wanting to preserve the mikveh and remove it from the construction site, it was decided to relocate it to the nearby Kibbutz Hannaton and place it near the existing modern mikveh.
The IAA, together with members of Kibbutz Hannaton who launched a crowd-funding campaign for the project, moved the ancient mikveh to its new site on Tuesday.
The mikveh, which weighs approximately 57 tons, was first sawed off on all sides, detached from the bedrock and surrounded by a steel cage to protect it and allow it to be hoisted.
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With fewer New Zealanders smoking Bridget Rowse from Northland District Health Board is challenging anyone who’s thinking about stopping smoking to join the trend.
“World Smokefree Day on May 31 is the perfect time to choose the smokefree lifestyle. We know it’s not easy to stop smoking, but with the right support it can be done.”
Increasing numbers of New Zealanders are living smokefree, with the most recent tobacco-use figures show 84 percent of New Zealanders do not smoke. “That’s 4 percent more than in 2008, so we are moving towards the Government’s goal of a smokefree Aotearoa in 2025,” Bridget said.
“More and more businesses are approaching us for help to support their employees to become smokefree. They’re offering free nicotine replacement therapy and stop smoking support during work time with the aim of creating a smokefree workforce.”
Bridget said stop smoking services like Toki Rau Stop Smoking Services have trained practitioners who are NZQA-qualified and follow a trialed and tested stop smoking methodology.
“Our Toki Rau Stop Smoking Services offer on-going, face-to-face, intensive support and supervision. We can create a plan to manage cravings, and strategies to deal with situations where they might usually smoke. We know what works long-term.”
“Being smokefree is normal in New Zealand, so I’m encouraging anyone who wants to give up smoking to take up the challenge this World Smokefree Day. Toki Rau Stop Smoking Services Northland has 8 sites across Northland and it is our job is to make it as easy as possible to stop smoking, and we are more than ready to help people choose to live smokefree.”
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What is a Target Zone?
Target Zones are neighborhood areas in Oswego that will be prioritized for funding in the first several years of ORA programs. There are 4 Target Zones in the City of Oswego. These target zones were chosen by an independent neighborhood revitalization consulting firm (CZB, llc), and are based upon a Neighborhood Revitalization Plan for Oswego. If you neighborhood is inside a Target Zone, your application will receive special consideration. For more information on what being inside or outside of a target zone means, see Target Zone FAQ.
Map of Oswego City Neighborhoods Targeted for Revitalization
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Human Appeal Australia is launching an emergency appeal to fight the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 in some of the most vulnerable regions around the world.
As the world experiences the global pandemic of the Corona Virus COVID-19 and with the ongoing panic that is occurring at an international level, we implore you to have patience.
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Waterkeepers Florida Caps First Year With A Slate Of Achievements, New Website, And Important Objectives For The 2020 Florida Legislative Session
Waterkeepers Florida is pleased to announce the launch of the Waterkeepers Florida website and to present its first annual report.
Waterkeepers Florida is a regional entity licensed by the international Waterkeeper Alliance, composed of all 13 Waterkeeper organizations working in the state of Florida. While Waterkeepers have been working to protect Florida’s waters individually for over 20 years, in December of 2018, Waterkeepers from across the state banded together to strengthen their efforts to ensure drinkable, fishable, swimmable water. Waterkeepers Florida works collaboratively to protect and restore water resources for over 15 million Floridians across 45,000 square miles of watershed in the state of Florida.
In their inaugural year as a regional entity, Waterkeepers Florida tackled issues ranging from harmful algal blooms, to pollution, to land conservation, starting in January of 2019 with a resolution against phosphate mines in Florida – spearheaded by Suwannee Riverkeeper. Waterkeepers Florida also engaged the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on their Triennial Review of Water Quality Standards with Calusa Waterkeeper taking the lead on cyanotoxin (blue-green algae) criteria and Miami Waterkeeper taking the lead on turbidity standards to protect coral reefs. Waterkeepers Florida also joined the fight to fully fund the Florida Forever program by drafting an amicus brief for the contentious Amendment 1 lawsuit and participating in Florida Forever Action Days around the state.
The nascent organization proved a powerful force for advocacy and change in its inaugural year. Water quality is poised to be a top issue in the 2020 legislative session and Waterkeepers Florida stands ready to fight for stronger protections for our water resources. “While we are encouraged that many of our elected officials have made water quality a top priority, none of the bills that we have seen are strong enough,” says Waterkeepers Florida Vice-Chair and Matanzas Riverkeeper, Jen Lomberk. “Florida Forever is still slated to be woefully underfunded and the legislation focused on water quality protection is only a small step in the right direction. The fact of the matter is that in order to repair the damage that has been done, we need regulatory changes and programs that can be implemented now.”
Whether due to unbridled growth, aging infrastructure, or sea-level rise, the past several years have presented some of the most complex and daunting challenges ever for waterways around the state of Florida. Answering the call to confront these water quality challenges, Waterkeepers Florida will serve as a powerful unified voice advocating for drinkable, fishable and swimmable water.
Waterkeepers Florida members include (in alphabetical order) Apalachicola Riverkeeper, Calusa Waterkeeper, Collier County Waterkeeper, Emerald Coastkeeper, Indian Riverkeeper, Kissimmee Waterkeeper, Lake Worth Waterkeeper, Matanzas Riverkeeper, Miami Waterkeeper, St. Johns Riverkeeper, St. Marys Riverkeeper, Suncoast Waterkeeper, and Suwanee Riverkeeper.
Waterkeepers Florida members elected St. Johns Riverkeeper, Lisa Rinaman to serve as its first Chair and Matanzas Riverkeeper, Jen Lomberk, Esq. to serve as its first Vice-Chair.
For more information, contact:
Lisa Rinaman, Chair of Waterkeepers Florida and St. Johns Riverkeeper; [email protected]; 904-509-3260
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The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com
Why do anti-gun Democrats and media members (BIRM) disregard data regarding gun control efficacy, yet attack those who challenge of climate change study results? It’s almost as if there’s a double standard here.
This sizable arsenal (of civilian-owned AR-15 rifles) usually brings up another problematic proposal: mandatory buybacks. Such a program — à la Australia’s National Firearms Agreement (NFA), circa 1996 — could potentially remove these weapons and reduce the risk of them being used to commit future acts of violence.
Yet again, the research suggests otherwise. Scholars increasingly refute any correlation between NFA and declines in violence. Overall violence was already in steady decline before the legislation took effect. One study found that while firearms deaths declined in the 20-year period following NFA’s enactment, there was an even larger drop in “non-firearm” deaths during the same period. The study concludes, “Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms.”
Steven Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago and co-author of Freakonomics, is even more dismissive. “Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented in the history of mankind,” he states. Buybacks might be great for optics — politicians making a public spectacle of destroying a big pile of guns — but not so great in reducing gun violence, because 1) most of the people participating didn’t want the guns in the first place and 2) most of the guns were inoperable.
Ironically, those demanding some of the aforementioned policies tend to be the very same cohort who label any moderate skepticism of climate change science as “denialism.” So then why the denial of the data surrounding guns?
Unfortunately, good-faith efforts to quantify the efficacy of gun-control proposals are often dismissed as “tone deaf” or “heartless.” However, if we continue appealing to our emotions on this issue, we will likely end up with the same results that we see in Congress.
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Lisa Halaby, better known as Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, has lived anything but a conventional life. An American of Syrian descent, she went on to wed Jordan’s late King Hussein bin Talal, and quickly left her unique mark on the role of queen. The Jordanian Royal family referred to her as “Moslem Miss Noor Halaby.” Because she was not an Arab, at best the country’s press had expected her to attain the rank of “princess,” like Princess Muna al-Hussein, the mother of the present King of Jordan, Abdallah II. But it was King Hussein, who called Lisa “Queen,” al-malika Noor. Of his previous three wives, King Hussein had only honored Alia with that title.
Elisabeth (Lisa) Najib Halaby was born in Washington, DC in 1951 to Najib Halaby – a Syrian-American airline executive who served as both chief of the Federal Aviation Agency and then as chairman of Pan American World Airways – and Doris Carlquist. She studied architecture at Princeton University and graduated in 1974. It was her work as an architect that allowed her to meet King Hussein bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The meeting took place in Amman, where Lisa was working on the development of Queen Alia International Airport.
She converted to Islam, taking on the name of Nur (meaning light in Arabic), before marrying King Hussein in 1978 in Amman. Thus, Lisa became Queen Noor and served as queen of Jordan from 1978 until her consort died on February 7, 1999. Noor had a challenging task from the very beginning. She succeeded Queen Alia – after whom, the airport project the young Lisa had been working on was named – in the second-oldest Arab dynasty.
Queen Alia was the daughter of a Jordanian diplomat of Palestinian descent. Like Noor, she too lived her youth in the United States, where her father was Jordan’s ambassador, then moved to Jordan at the age of 23. And, like Noor, she also met King Hussein in the context of civil aviation. During the five years she was queen, Alia played an active public role and supported projects to improve the condition of women and children in her country. She promoted women’s suffrage in Jordan – which would eventually be introduced in 1989 – but she was unable to see the results of her efforts as she was killed in a helicopter crash in 1977.
Queen Noor had a substantial legacy to follow. In the wake of Queen Alia’s untimely death, the next year, 1978, brought many more shake ups in the Arab world.
To be sure, Queen Noor had a substantial legacy to follow. In the wake of Queen Alia’s untimely death, the next year, 1978, brought many more shake ups in the Arab world. Israel invaded Lebanon in March of 1978 and shortly thereafter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt signed a unilateral peace agreement with Israel, which prompted the Arab League to expel Egypt.
When I was a student participating in an archaeological dig in Jordan in 1989, I had an opportunity to meet a few Jordanian royals – two of whom were Queen Noor and King Hussein – at the American Center of Oriental Research. I said an embarrassed “hello” after I heard a hearty laughter from a nearby hall, which turned out to be coming from the late King. Jordan faced considerable economic difficulties at the time, including an extreme devaluation of the Dinar and the theft of some US$100 million from the Central Bank of Jordan by one Ahmed Chalabi. Yet the Queen and her King seemed like two worlds that had come together in the midst of turmoil.
A year later, in 1990, I was about to start graduate studies, and the world was preparing for a massive war in the Middle East to oust an Iraqi occupying army from Kuwait. It was the first Gulf War, the one that Washington led, guiding an international coalition that even included the Syria of Hafez al-Asad. King Hussein, one of Washington’s closest allies in the Middle East, however, did not join that coalition.
Queen Noor is said to have protested the Vietnam war in her youth. As a queen, though she remained respectful of traditions, she was seen as a symbol of emancipation, even if she rarely spoke about politics during her husband’s reign. It was walking this fine line that allowed her to withstand periods of crisis in Jordan, presenting an image of strength and compassion.
I understood King Hussein’s reasons for not joining the war effort well. And I thought about that fleeting encounter in Amman: King Hussein and Queen Noor had seemed so united then, and the East and West so close. But, as US General Schwarzkopf started deploying his plans, I wondered what the American born Queen of Jordan was thinking. How she must have felt about her husband’s choice not to join the US-led coalition and I also sensed that she would have done the same. As the Eastern and Western worlds were about to collide, I considered Noor to be the best representation of that situation for Jordan—a country in which East and West have often clashed, but where they have also often come together in friendship.
Though she had been strategically quiet on political matters before, Queen Noor was not a mere “prop” in King Hussein’s diplomatic and public relations arsenal. By then, she had become known for her environmental advocacy and her anti-nuclear weapon stances – including a legacy of anti-war activities in her youth, and her support of conflict resolution.
She embraced her role as Queen of Jordan, doing her best to diffuse the tension by traveling to Western capitals to explain – in universities and even in the US Congress – Jordan’s precarious position, caught as it was between remaining loyal to the United States while also protecting important domestic realities.
These considerations included the fact that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was Jordan’s biggest trading partner and that Jordan had a very large percentage of Palestinian citizens and refugees, most of whom appreciated Saddam’s rhetoric in support of their self-determination. Indeed, Noor still visits the refugee camps to this day, sometimes driving a jeep – alone. And in doing so, unlike “quiet” royals, who isolate themselves to the pleasantries of the Court, Queen Noor exposed herself to criticisms from all side, domestic and American, always fully aware of the political and social significance of her actions.
Queen Noor had to face the conservative sectors of Jordanian society, who questioned the queen’s public role during the First Gulf War – and those who questioned her loyalty to the Kingdom.
By taking on causes that would have real risks, Queen Noor had to face the conservative sectors of Jordanian society, who questioned the queen’s public role during the First Gulf War – and those who questioned her loyalty to the Kingdom. She met the controversy head on, as the Hashemite monarchy came under unprecedented pressure.
Queen Noor navigated through the crisis not by criticizing but by understanding the Islamic movement and the factors that caused it to spread. She saw fundamentalism as the product of disillusionment with secular forces, and their failure to bring political and economic solutions to Middle Eastern societies’ problems.
In 1990-91, through her diplomatic work, Noor validated King Hussein’s decision to call her Queen from the very start. The girl who had grown up, living a life of privilege in the United States, went to live in Jordan, a country that is the closest to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even as it has maintained a diplomatic relationship with Israel (since 1994). And she was an American who genuinely criticized American military actions in the Middle East.
Queen Noor is a Director of Refugees International where she has focused on reminding the world of the thousands of Iraqis who were made homeless during the US-led war in Iraq in 2003.
Today, continuing this legacy of diplomacy and activism, Queen Noor is a Director of Refugees International where she has focused on reminding the world of the thousands of Iraqis who were made homeless during the US-led war in Iraq in 2003. She has also addressed the plight of Syrian refugees. Beyond the Middle East, she has advised the United Nations on implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Central Asia and in Colombia.
Noor is also a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, and Global Zero, which wants to ban nuclear weapons. Noor’s interest in peacebuilding has inspired her to serve as President of the United World Colleges, as a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and as an advisor to Search for Common Ground and Trust Women. Additionally, in her ongoing commitment to environmental causes, she is a Patron of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and the Founder and President of Bird Life International.
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Russia on Wednesday said that military drills in Crimea has ended and the troops there were returning to their permanent deployment points, reported Agence France-Presse.
The statement came a day after the Russian defence ministry announced that it was pulling back some of its troops from the Ukraine border, in what is being seen as a sign of deescalation.
Since early this year, Russia has amassed over 1 lakh troops at the Ukrainian border. The two countries have been engaged in a conflict since 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and backed separatist rebellions in the country’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
On Wednesday, the defence ministry posted video footage showing tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery units leaving the Crimean peninsula that Moscow had seized from Ukraine in 2014.
“Combat equipment and military personnel will be delivered by military trains to the units’ permanent deployment points,” the defence ministry said, reported Reuters. “Upon arrival, the equipment will be serviced and prepared for carrying out the next phase of combat training.”
Attack on Ukraine still very possible: Joe Biden
Hours after Russia’s announced it was pulling back troops on Tuesday, the United States expressed skepticism on the move.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that an attack on Ukraine by Russia was still very likely. “An invasion remains distinctly possible,” he said in a televised speech.
Biden said that reports of Russia pulling back troops were still unverified. “Our analysts indicate that they remain very much in a threatening position,” he said.
During Tuesday’s speech, Biden mentioned that Russia had more than 150,000 troops encircling Ukraine in Belarus and along Ukraine’s border.
“Invading Ukraine will prove to be a self-inflicted wound,” Biden said. “The United States and our Allies and partners will respond decisively. The West is united and galvanised.”
“World War II was a war of necessity. But if Russia attacks Ukraine, it would be a war of choice, or a war without cause or reason,” Biden added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin had said that Moscow did not want a war in Europe. He made the remarks while addressing a joint conference with Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“We are ready to work further together. We are ready to go down the negotiations track,” Putin said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov had also said that Russia always maintained that their troops will return. “This is the case this time as well,” Peskov had said.
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From credit scores to loan options, everything you need to know about buying a home in New York.
Purchasing a property is one of life’s biggest investments, and when you're a first-time homebuyer, it’s natural to be a bit overwhelmed by the process. Moving into that perfect home that has every feature you need and the extras you’ve dreamed about, along with enough space for your life, is possible — and it’s easier to get there with programs designed for first-time homeowners. In New York, federal- and state-level funding is designed to help make your dream home more affordable.
By qualifying for first-time homebuyer programs you could lower your home purchase price, receive mortgage assistance, and even get general cost assistance. If you are looking for a homebuyer dream program, a start with this guide will help you move into your first home.
Home Buying Basics
Before you get too deep into research, a basic understanding of what’s involved in the home buying process and what you’ll need to secure a mortgage can help take away some of the confusion and worry while buying your first home or a parcel of land to build a home on. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s extensive toolkit offers information to get started:
Credit scores and finances
Getting your financial health in order is a must on the first time homebuyer’s journey, and it’s the greatest hurdle for most people to overcome. It’s never too early to prepare to get a loan, and cover the down payment and monthly mortgage on your first home, by making choices that will set you up for success.
To see what to aim for, the requirements you’ll need for New York State’s Homeownership Assistance Fund is one place to begin:
What credit score is needed to buy a house in New York State?
There’s no hard and fast rule about the credit score that you need to secure a loan and land your first dream home. Of course, the higher your credit score the better, but there is a general baseline to reach to ensure that you meet eligibility requirements to secure a mortgage as a first time homebuyer.
While you can find mortgages to buy a home with a lower score, the magic number to aim for is 620 to submit a competitive application for a mortgage through any lender. If your credit score or income does hinder you from obtaining a mortgage through conventional means, Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans can be a solution. For example, you can typically acquire an FHA loan with a FICO credit score of 500, while a score of 580 can usually earn you the best rate.
How much is a downpayment on a house in New York City?
Your credit score and mortgage are only one part of the picture and you’ll also need the cash for a down payment on that dream home. Aside from leniency with credit score requirements, state- and government-supported home buying funding can also significantly reduce your upfront costs.
FHA loans will require a down payment of 3.5%, as compared to the average down payment in New York City of 20% of your purchase price, as of April 16, 2021. FHA loans are known for their flexibility and how they can pave the way for homeownership for people who might otherwise not have the savings to do so — an FHA loan is even accessible after bankruptcy.
Joining First-time Homebuyer Programs in New York
With a basic understanding of how a federal loan may help you pay for a mortgage and down payment, let’s take a closer look at the different pathways in the State of New York, and what they offer.
First-time homebuyer loan programs in New York
Because one of the most significant barriers for people to purchase their first home is down payment and closing costs, the State of New York Mortgage Agency’s Down Payment Assistance Loan (DPAL Plus), helps New York residents with loan assistance. With DPAL Plus, your down payment will be reduced, and your mortgage interest rate will be fixed and lower than with standard loans.
More specific benefits of the DPAL Plus down payment assistance loan for first-time homebuyers are zero percent interest rates, no monthly fees, and a maximum loan amount of three percent of the purchase price, or $3,000, whichever is higher. You will want to check in advance to see if your preferred lender offers a State of New York mortgage.
In addition to DPAL Plus, the State of New York Mortgage Agency has other mortgage assistance for homebuyers in New York with optional ad-on features. There are paths for down payment assistance and reduced purchase prices based on veteran status or other classifications.
For example, the Homes for Veterans Program offers fixed-rate mortgages with interest rates that are 0.375% below typical FHA loan payment assistance rates for first homes. The Native American Direct Loan is for veterans with Native American heritage or veterans married to those with Native American heritage who meet specific first homebuyer requirements.
New York first-time homebuyer down payment assistance
Along with special mortgage interest rates and loans to cover down payments, grants are also available. Often these grants are in the form of forgivable loans, with a portion of the loan forgiven each year that the buyer lives in the home, with timeline requirements such as occupancy for 10 consecutive years — that means the loan will never need to be repaid.
The Homebuyer Dream Program®, part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (an independent US Federal Agency), provides grants for down payments and closing costs, with grants up to $10,000. Other grants are found across New York State counties and cities, and generally require you to:
National First-Time Homebuyer Programs
Those FHA loans that are available with a FICO credit score as low as 500, are part of a nationwide program to help people buy their first home. Not only Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage lenders but also United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) loans are one way to secure lower mortgage rates. The program you apply for will depend on your homeownership goals and finances.
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
In 1934, The National Housing Act created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to increase home construction and provide loan insurance. When you are buying your first home, the FHA doesn’t provide the loan for your mortgage, but insures your loan so that your lender can give you a better rate. First time homebuyers across the United States can work with an FHA mortgage lender to benefit from low down payments, closing cost assistance, and lower credit qualifications needed to secure a loan. State and city programs may work with FHA lenders.
Important FHA terms
Partnering with a government agency means getting familiar with processes and terminology, like these:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): A department of the U.S. government, which administers federal housing and urban development laws.
FHA mortgage insurance: Protects lenders against losses. If a property owner defaults on their mortgage, the FHA will pay a claim to the lender for the unpaid principal balance. This allows lenders to take on less risk and offer mortgages at better rates for first-time homebuyers.
FHA mortgage limits: FHA's nationwide mortgage limits; the "floor" and "ceiling" for a one-unit property in Calendar Year 2022 are $420,680 and $970,800, respectively. However, these limits vary and you can look up the limit based on where you are planning to buy your first home.
FHA, or Title II Loan: A loan issued by a private lender which is approved by HUD and insured by FHA as part of FHA’s mortgages. From Title II of the National Housing Act of 1934 for single-family homes.
Basic Home Mortgage Loan 203(B): The most common first time homebuyer FHA Loan. It is covered by a lending institution, such as a mortgage company, bank, or savings and loan association, and insured by HUD.
Housing counseling and education courses: HUD partners with housing counseling agencies across the country to help first-time homebuyers walk through the homebuying process. Participating in counseling is a requirement to qualify for national and state homebuyer funding.
The United States Department of Agriculture provides loans for first-time homebuyers. To be eligible for many USDA loans, your income must be at a certain level and the home (or land) that you’d like to purchase must be in a USDA-defined rural area; you can search online to see which areas are covered.
The USDA’s Single Family Housing Guaranteed (Section 502) loan allows applicants to purchase, build, rehabilitate, improve, or relocate a dwelling in a rural area with 100% financing. New residential properties are also included and site preparation costs like grading, foundation plantings, and seeding or sod insulation may also be paid for with these loans.
Buying a Home in New York’s Major Cities and Counties
For first time homebuyers in New York’s major cities and counties there are local resources to make homeownership possible, through grants, loans, and educational programs.
If you are planning to purchase your first home in the City of Albany, the Home Acquisition Program (HAP), can be one pathway. HAP is supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and also follows HUD’s eligibility requirements. The money may be used to cover some closing costs, credit reports, lender title insurance, or recording fees and transfer tax.
Albany County Rural Housing Alliance (ACRHA) is a HUD-approved counseling agency, which also provides grants and loans. Its counseling services and online Homebuyer Education Course are available to all homebuyers, with no fees. Completing an approved homebuyer education course is one of the requirements for mortgage financing through the alliance.
To buy your first home in Westchester County, Westchester Residential Opportunities – a HUD-certified housing counseling agency, licensed real estate broker, and United Way Agency has programs to assist you. The First Home Club, offers a three-to-one match to help home buyers build up the savings needed for a down payment and closing costs. Participants who save consistently can qualify for matching funds of up to $5,000. Individual Development Accounts are another program through the agency for matching funds and its one-to-one homebuyer counseling can help you get started.
New York City
For New York City homebuyers, there are numerous ways to get assistance for that first home. The HomeFirst Down Payment Assistance Program provides qualified first time homebuyers with up to $100,000 in down payment or closing costs on a one- to four-bedroom family home, condominium, or cooperative in the five New York City boroughs. In addition to meeting income requirements and being a first-time homebuyer, to qualify you will need to:
Putnam County Housing Corporation offers online home buyer education courses and loans through the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York Homebuyer Dream Program. There are several financial institutions to work with through the program for up to $9,500 towards down payment or closing costs including Tompkins Mahopac National Bank, M&T Bank, PCSB Bank, and Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union.
Rochester and Monroe County
Monroe County's First-time homebuyer Program administered by The Housing Council provides one-time grants for down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time homebuyers in the suburban towns and villages of Monroe County. The council also offers credit repair, budgeting, mortgage products, savings advice, pre-purchase counseling, and post-closing assistance. The City of Rochester’s Home Purchase Assistance Program provides grants of up to $3,000 for closing costs.
With Yonkers’ American Dream Downpayment Initiative, the Bureau of Community Development offers low-interest loans to qualified first-time homebuyers for down payment and closing cost assistance up to $10,000.00 at 3.00% interest for 30 years.
It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning
With 30-year mortgages the norm, and many grant programs requiring you to live in your home for 10 years or more, purchasing a home is a long-term commitment, which takes planning. It’s never too early to get started, and the more you look ahead, the greater likelihood you can move into that house according to your preferred timeline.
Wherever you want to settle for your first home, loans and grants across the state can help you get there. Even before you delve into researching your dream home, you can familiarize yourself with the best resources in your targeted city. Keep in mind that buying a home doesn’t happen overnight, but there are ways to make the journey easier.
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In today’s cybercrime world almost all websites are prone to get attacked or hacked by any cybercriminal anytime and anywhere. And the main reason behind this is cybercriminals don’t have any specific website in their mind when they plan to execute any attack. They mainly use some programs that automatically detect the websites that contain vulnerabilities. And then they use these vulnerabilities as an entry point to execute their attack on that website. Your website’s vulnerabilities can be dangerous, about which you may don’t even have any knowledge. When your website has malware then your host will be able to inform you but in case of vulnerabilities, they may not inform you.
With the growth of more erudite cyber threats, website security started getting more importance, it is because, today all website owners strongly concentrate on shielding their websites and visitors from cyber-attack. Since, cybercrime is undoubtedly becoming a vast business and cybercriminals are continuously on the lookout for your website’s weaknesses. Cyber-attacks are typically instigated by malware that is able to:
Why a Website should be Secure Today?
Website security protects your website from all types of cyber-attacks which consequently protects your business’s or brand’s reputation and prevents you from any kind of financial loss or even your business website shutdown situation. With website security you will be capable of safeguarding your website reputation and retaining your customers/visitors. For you it is difficult to recognise malware and cyber-attacks. But cybercriminals has specialization in creating such malwares which slightly enters into a website and stay unseen, these malwares does not infects your website and you will never realize its presence too, but, these malwares includes crypto jacking, which silently mines the crypto currency of your websites without showing any indications, or backdoors. This malware variety permits cybercriminals to access any website without the knowledge of the website owner.
What are the basic Website Security needs for any Website?
– SSL Certificate
The first and foremost need of any website is an SSL certificate. This certificate protects those data that your website collects and transfers to a server. Though is a very basic website security measure, but it has great importance, today all popular search engines and web browsers are labelling “insecure” tag to all those websites which don’t have an SSL certificate. Also, this label may make your visitors suspect your website.
– Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A Web Application Firewall is another main element for website security because it stops automated attacks that generally targets lesser-known websites. This type of attacks are executed with the help of bad bots which has the capability of automatically finding vulnerabilities to exploit or cause DDoS attacks to slowdown or crash your website.
– Software Updates
The security issues or vulnerabilities that are detected in any third-party plugin or application make the website to be at a greater risk of compromise which is hosted on a content management system (CMS). This type of situations can be prevented by installing the updates to the plugins and core software on a regular basis, because these updates regularly include security patches.
– Website Scanner
If you lately discover a cyber-attack which is performed on your website, then your cost of recover from that attack will only increase. So, to prevent such condition, a good website scanner is the best option. Website scanners detect malware, vulnerabilities, and numerous other security issues. These scanners will not just remove the malware but will also search for threats frequently and immediately alert you when anything gets detected, consequently reducing the amount of damage it can cause to your website.
Regardless of these elements which can help you to get the best web security need, there are some simple, fast and complete software package that can help you to give all types of protection you website.
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April 20 – May 1, 2022
CoMotion Festival, curated by Alex Bulmer, celebrates new ideas and expressions by Deaf and disabled artists in a multidisciplinary program including visual arts, music, performances, digital art, workshops and panel discussions.
“Disability is political. Disability is community. Disability is identity.
Disability is an experience of living in a world with a ‘one size fits one’ design.
An international artistic and cultural movement is growing, and Deaf and disabled artists are shouting ‘we exist!’.” — Alex Bulmer
Through our inaugural International Deaf and disability Arts Festival, we deepen the commitment to inclusion and accessibility for all artists, staff, volunteers and visitors to our 10-acre waterfront site. Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) are foundational values in all that is on offer at our campus. For us, to be inclusive and accessible is to ensure everyone is imagined in the presentation of and engagement in cultural offerings. We will continue to listen and learn how we can better create a place of belonging and serve all of our communities needs. | <urn:uuid:f6aad877-06b5-4972-823d-82ec8eb95609> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://harbourfrontcentre.com/series/comotion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.92374 | 235 | 1.5 | 2 |
For nearly 30 years, Kathy Mix proudly supported neighbors outside Ithaca as an advanced emergency medical technician for Slaterville Ambulance.
But at the close of her shift at midnight on Dec. 31, 2015, Mix made the ambulance’s final call to local dispatchers: “Fifteen-Fifty-One signing off and will be indefinitely out of service,” she radioed.
Rising costs, difficulty recruiting volunteers and increasingly stringent certification requirements had led officials to disband the all-volunteer service – a scenario challenging rural communities across upstate New York and beyond, new Cornell research warns.
“What’s happening is really a slow-motion train wreck in terms of one of the basic functions of our society,” said Ben Carver, a Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) student and deputy mayor of the Village of Trumansburg, where he oversees EMS operations. “People generally expect that an ambulance will come if you call one.”
Carver led a student team from CIPA – part of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy – that analyzed rural EMS services on behalf of municipalities in Tompkins County.
Their report highlights “unsustainable” cost increases – up nearly 80% in Tompkins County since 2016 – growing call volumes and “alarming” trends in response times. Recommendations range from county action to strengthen the pipeline of EMTs and paramedics to, most importantly, state funding support.
The work is raising awareness among local and state policymakers about the strains on rural communities for whom limited ambulance service and half-hour response times could be a life-or-death matter.
“The report helped bring to more people’s attention the struggles that rural EMS is going through right now,” said Justin Vann, emergency services and fire coordinator for the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, which provided call data for the CIPA analysis.
Assemblymember Anna Kelles (D-125th Dist.), a former Tompkins County legislator, said the CIPA report had provided valuable data and informed her proposal to establish a state subsidy for rural EMS services, modeled after one that helps communities maintain roads.
“I like data, I like analysis, and I now have it,” Kelles said. “We need to think about EMS differently.”
Earlier, the research team had encouraged local leaders to pass resolutions supporting a proposal by state Sen. Michelle Hinchey ’09 that led to the creation of a state task force on rural ambulance services.
The new report updates and expands upon work CIPA students completed in 2018 for a local task force established after Slaterville Ambulance’s closure. The engagement took place through “Consulting for Government and Nonprofit Organizations,” a class taught by Dan Lamb, deputy supervisor for the Town of Dryden, which saw its EMS tax double in 2020.
“The research shows there’s a real disparity between the viability of ambulance services in heavily populated urban areas and in rural areas,” Lamb said. “The financial model does not work – and we’re not alone in Tompkins County.”
Moving forward, the study argues, EMS, long perceived as a transport function, must be reframed as a frontline health care service. Local EMS budgets have grown in lockstep with national health care costs, the report shows. Modern ambulances are extensions of emergency rooms – requiring equipment, training and certifications that are more expensive and time-consuming to acquire and maintain. That results in an “inequitable and regressive burden” on rural communities relying on volunteers or trying to pay competitive wages, according to the research.
The analysis also emphasizes the interdependence of highly fragmented local EMS agencies that back each other up through mutual aid agreements. After Slaterville Ambulance closed, Tompkins County’s network redistributed resources to support that area. But the average response time countywide increased by roughly a minute – and nearly 10 minutes in one community – as call volumes grew.
“The resilience of our EMS network is really happening on the backs of individual providers who are being asked to provide more and more and more,” Carver said in a presentation to the Tompkins County Council of Governments, which commissioned the research.
In addition to Carver, the CIPA team included Rebecca McDonald, Yiqun Song, Jiade Wang and Qiuyu Wu.
Before his expected graduation this spring, Carver is continuing to study EMS funding models outside New York state. He’s also trying to determine the population density at which for-profit commercial ambulance services are viable – or where state support could provide rural agencies a lifeline.
He said the issue has broad bipartisan support and is “uniquely solvable.”
Mix, the former volunteer critical care EMT, said she’s encouraged to see momentum building toward solutions that might keep more services like Slaterville Ambulance in business.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
The floor plan is the heart of constructional drawings. From the type of house to the size of the house, a floor plan reveals area, structure, stair location, door and window locations, room layout and so much more. Floor plans can be confusing at first glance, so here are a few pointers to help you understand what you’re seeing.
For starters, look at the floor plan as a whole. The floor plan is drawn from a perspective view, which means that it’s as if the roof has been lifted off and you’re looking down into the house from a bird’s eye view.
Next, locate the front entrance to the house. Visualize opening the front door and walking through the house. Follow the flow down the halls and walk spaces. Go to each room on the floor plan. The living area, kitchen, dining area, bathrooms and bedrooms are all marked, as well as any special rooms such as the utility room or office, like this example shown of the Manhattan Expanded floor plan. Below the room label is the room dimensions. It is listed in feet and inches with the width first and the length second.
Doors and windows are two of the most important elements shown on a floor plan. Each door and window is given a location and size. Windows are shown with three parallel lines in a wall and doors are typically shown as a straight line perpendicular to a wall and an arc that connects this line to the wall. The great thing about showing a door like this is that you’ll know which side has the hinges and which room the door opens into. This is good to keep in mind as you think about furniture placement.
The next thing to look for is ceiling height. Some plans will have the ceiling dimensions on the plan itself, underneath the room dimensions. Other plans will have symbols on them. For example, in the Cavanaugh II floor plan, the master bedroom has a double trey ceiling marked with two squares of dotted lines. Other plans, like the Monroe plan, have vaulted ceilings marked by crossed dotted lines.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Smart Buyers can save money in energy and maintenance costs by choosing newly constructed homes, even over homes that are just a few years old.
Today’s new can peform as much as 50% better than the average existing home, which means lower monthly utility bills. Energy Smart Ball Homes are better insulated, more tightly constructed, and more efficiently heated and cooled than older homes.
New Ball Homes include warranties that protect the buyer from unexpected maintenance bills. Existing homes can come with hidden costs, like a roof or furnace replacement in the first few years of ownership, or a major appliance replacement.
These days, good design is value-conscious. New Ball Homes offer better use of space, with more finished area over the garage, less empty second story space, and better overall value than designs from just a few years ago.
Buyers who choose a newly constructed Ball home get the advantage of the most popular floorplans and options on the market today, and a professionally selected décor. Buyers of existing homes get the colors and products chosen to suit the taste of the previous owners.
Newly constructed Ball Homes have a brand new, never-been-lived in kind of clean and freshness (especially in the tubs, showers, appliances, and carpet) that a home that has been lived for years can’t match.
Colors and design trends come and go, and newly constructed Ball Homes offer the benefits of today’s preferences in colors, textures, and design. Older homes often have dated color schemes, designs that have gone out of style, or a mismatch of styles from being updated over time.
The luxury options available in all price ranges of new homes far exceed what was being built even ten years ago, especially when it comes to kitchens and master baths.
Extra storage, flexible use rooms, and downstairs guest suite options are all on the list of preferred features these days. Kitchen islands and breakfast counters are popular, as are built-ins like bookcases, desks, and TV connections above fireplaces. Outdoor living spaces like covered porches and patios are in high demand. New Ball Homes have the advantage of these preferred features, which most older homes just can’t offer.
Buyers of new Ball Homes have the advantage of being able to move into a home that is just the way they want it. By contrast, buyers of existing homes often face a long process of updating an older home while trying to live in it, which can be time-consuming, inconvenient, and full of unknown expenses.
* Based on comparison of an actual 2586sf home built to 2012 Energy Smart standards with a HERS score of 83 and estimated annual energy costs of $1477. Compared to a simulated 2586sf home built to typical 2000 standards with a HERS score of 138, with an estimated annual energy cost of $2185. Annual savings of $708 over 5 years total $3,540. **Material and labor estimate for shingled roof replacement on a 2500sf home as estimated by area building professional. ***Based on estimate by area HVAC professional for a 2500sf home with two units, using existing ductwork and efficiency standards comparable to new homes.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
At Ball Homes, we are committed to increasing the energy performance of each of the homes we build. That is why we are one of the first builders in the nation to adopt the RESNET Energy Smart program. As a member of the program, each of our homes is individually inspected by a member of a national network of independent energy raters and given a score based on its energy efficiency. For more information on the program, read this previous blog post.
It is important for us to give our customers a quality, energy efficient home that is more affordable to maintain, more comfortable, and have a higher value than other homes. A more energy efficient home allows homeowners to have a lower cost of ownership and could allow them to get a higher resale price when it comes time to sell.
In order to pass important information onto our customers, we have to make sure our Ball Homes Specialists have up-to-date information on the construction processes of our homes. On Monday morning, Lexington Ball Homes Specialists met with Alex Carter, an independent Energy Rater, to go through one of our new construction homes and educate them on what a rater looks for in a home. Agents were able to ask questions and physically see what Ball Homes is doing to be a leader in the Energy Smart program. Alex was able to give great information to our Sales Team that we can pass on to our customers. For more information on the Energy Smart Program, contact a Ball Homes Specialist today!
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Monday, September 24, 2012
A cold front has moved into the area, just in time for the beginning of Fall. We’re just two days into the new season and already we’re starting to see the leaves fall and the temperatures drop. Kick off this new season by taking the time now to prepare your home for the cooler temperatures ahead. Taking the time to complete these tasks now will ensure that you and your home will have an easy transition into the coming months.
1. Inspect the roof, gutters and drainpipes. You may want to hold off until later in the fall (when most leaves have dropped) before cleaning the gutters, but doing a visual inspection now is a good idea. If any branches and leaves fell during summer storms, remove them so they don't cause blockages during autumn rains. Inspecting your roof now will leave ample time to have repairs or a replacement made before winter.
2. Have your chimney cleaned before you light the first fire. Check your fireplace for residual soot, blockage, or creosote. Schedule to have a professional come out and clean your fireplace before you strike up a match. If you have a wood-burning fireplace, move your firewood to a covered area for easy access. Make sure you inspect for insects before moving the wood, otherwise you’ll run the risk of bringing them into your home.
3. Tidy up the porch. Falling leaves means lots of yard debris to pick up. Sweep away any dead leaves or branches to create a warm and inviting area to welcome your guests to your home. Add some brightly colored flowers, like mums, to planters by the front stoop, or hang a seasonal wreath on your door.
4. Prepare your doorways with rugs and mud trays for dirty shoes. When the wet weather strikes, make sure your flooring is protected by large rugs and boot trays by entrances. Add a basket or small bins for papers and cold-weather accessories to help keep entrances organized and clutter-free.
5. Clean, repair, and put away all lawn furniture and equipment. Close down and drain all lawn fountains, sprinklers and hoses before the freezing weather hits. Clean and put away all lawn care tools. After the last use of the year, prep your lawn mower for the winter.
Do you have any other tips to prepare your house for colder weather?
Friday, September 7, 2012
New homes mean more options, newer designs, smarter energy usage, and that special brand-new, only-for-you feeling. They also mean lower maintenance, and fewer surprises.
Here are ten reasons that we believe that NEW is the way to go:
1. Choosing a new home means getting exactly what you want—not the finishes, colors, fixtures, and options chosen by the previous owners of an existing home. Everything’s brand new, from the tubs, showers, appliances, carpet, fixtures, and so forth, inside and out. It’s all new, fresh, and clean, and it’s never been lived in by anyone else.
2. Newly constructed homes offer the benefits of current preferences in colors, textures, and design, like warm earth tones, highly textured flooring finishes, and luxury surfaces like granite and wrought iron.
3. Building new means getting the benefit of choosing everything at once, resulting in a smooth and cohesive décor, rather than the mixture of styles and colors that can result from updating an older home over time.
4. Buyers of new homes get more modern conveniences without retrofitting an existing home. Phone and cable jacks in just the right places--including above the fireplace for that big TV— and options like home theater and even home automation systems that control lighting, security, entertainment systems, and more.
5. Its all ready when you turn the key in the front door for the first time. Sure, you can buy an older home and fix it up, but the time and hassle of arranging all that work, finding the right people and products, and working out budgets, schedules, and priorities can take all the joy out of owning a home— and take all your time and money. And that doesn’t even include living with the daily interruptions of life in a remodeling zone.
6. With a new home, you get exactly what you expect— no hidden repairs or surprises. Even better, new Ball Homes include warranties that protect the buyer from unexpected maintenance costs.
7. Today’s new homes are much more energy-efficient than even those built five or six years ago, which means you pay less for monthly utilities, and the environment benefits as well. Our Energy Smart Homes are better insulated, more tightly constructed, and more efficiently heated and cooled than older homes. In fact, they are independently rated to assure that they perform 15% better than the current building code requires.
8. Like everything else, evolutions in lifestyle and family mean that homebuyers need a home that keeps up with their needs. Flexible spaces are important features of new designs, like lofts and bonus rooms, and multi-purpose rooms like a downstairs study that can be configured as a guest suite with private bath. Even secondary bedrooms are much more comfortably sized, and storage and closet space are a priority in new floor plans. Check out our newest and most popular floor plans to see examples of what today's buyers are after.
9. Let’s face it, some days it’s tough out there, and we want our homes to be a place to relax, retreat, and recreate ourselves as individuals and as families. Covered decks and patios are in style, as more and more homeowners relax and entertain outdoors. Luxurious master baths with bigger and better fixtures, like 4 and 5 foot showers, and six foot tubs, are increasingly popular in new homes of all sizes and prices. Master suites are more spacious in modern designs, and often include a sitting area. Kitchens are made for serious cooking, with upscale cabinets, drop-in cooktop options, and even wine centers and butler’s pantries. The luxury options available in even a modestly priced new home far exceed what was being built even ten years ago.
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Abe Issa has spent plenty of time over the years solving problems, and one of the biggest he is seeing today involves solving the energy hunger problem of crypto mining. There’s no question that crypto mining produces revenue and opportunity. However, the process of that digital work comes with a price, a tremendous amount of energy demand. While that might have been fine 50 years ago, today that kind of energy demand is not ethically acceptable. This is where solutions provided by companies like EnviroSolar and other solar generators become a more viable solution. Technology Changes Over Time Produced A Fix Solar power took a long time to come into its own. Back in the 1980s when it was first introduced, the systems were clunky, expensive, and not reliable. Over time, however, a good amount of work was done to make solar systems more efficient. This need for efficiency introduced the rise of players like EnviroSolar. Now, the demand for energy has become a priority. And with the exponential attention being focused on crypto right now, energy solutions are definitely on the top five list of things needed. Good Timing for a New Industry Needing Help Solar power produced on a large scale by companies like EnviroSolar provides crypto farming the power block needed to run on a high scale without the traditional consumption issue that happens with a regular grid hookup. Normal grid connections rely on power that comes from dirty production methods. Coal-produced power has been an age-old problem in this regard. EnviroSolar avoids these compromises by providing a power source that is entirely natural, renewable, and powerful. Solar power, when connected correctly, not only helps offset the energy demand, but it provides a primary solution for alleviating crypto mining’s dirty energy problem. Regulation is Getting Started EnviroSolar and similar solutions couldn’t come faster. A number of jurisdictions are now looking at the possibility of trimming and restraining the amount of crypto mining performed on the traditional grid. New York, for example, is already looking to bar any new permitting of mining. Abe Issa sees a number of other regions following suit soon to do the same. However, solutions like those offered by EnviroSolar can sidestep the dirty energy problem directly. The results are a win-win; cleaner energy consumption that can be renewed and less reliance on the traditional grid. For Crypto Mining Solar is the Next Step There is no shortage of demand for crypto, and the mining aspect provides a huge opportunity for income for many who otherwise would not have such a chance. However, if growing controls cut off the very power support that mining needs to operate, even if digital, then mining will be shut down as well. For crypto, there really is no other option in Abe Issa’s mind than partnering with solar architecture support like EnviroSolar. The combination takes modern technology for power generation and matches it with modern technology for asset creation. | <urn:uuid:4ae848b5-ab9a-4ea0-91e8-a465fe0fd72c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://empirits.com/abe-issa-discusses-solving-the-crypto-energy-problem-solar-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954587 | 593 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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