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Elias Bunting has been able to gain valuable research experiences as an undergraduate student at the University of Missouri through the McNair Scholars Program. Bunting, who will earn his natural resource science and management degree in May, has spent nearly three years taking part in various research projects across the Mizzou campus.
Those hands-on research opportunities have opened multiple doors for Bunting, including setting him up for a graduate school opportunity at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) later this year.
“My research opportunities at MU have been invaluable,” Bunting said. “I know I have been fortunate to get into some great labs that have really supported me in multiple ways, especially through helping me find funding. The McNair Scholars Program also was phenomenal in setting me up for success. The graduate school application process wouldn’t have been as smooth without their help. One of the main focuses of the program is to provide students who want to go to graduate school the means to do so, and they definitely carry that out.”
Bunting, who is from Liberty, Mo., said it took a little bit of time for him to settle on the natural resource science and management degree program. But once he did, he knew it was the perfect choice for his interests.
“I did bounce around a little bit,” Bunting said. “I knew I wanted to work with living things, and after talking with Dr. (Sarah) Humfeld (assistant director of the Office of Undergraduate Research), she suggested natural resource science and management. Once I got going in the program, I knew it was going to be a great fit.”
Bunting was involved briefly in the Missouri Coronavirus Sewershed Surveillance Project, a collaboration between the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and MU. Bunting served in a couple of different roles, including sample collection and getting those samples ready for testing.
Bunting followed that research opportunity with a project centered on black walnuts, where he worked with Ronald Revord, an assistant research professor in the School of Natural Resources. Bunting wore multiple hats during that project as well.
“We have a black walnut germplasm, which includes genotypic data, that was compiled over a 15-year period,” Bunting said. “I spent time studying that germplasm to see if there are any variations in the dataset that we can leverage for selecting black walnut parents that we can breed together to produce an offspring that brings high economic value to Missouri. Along with combing through the germplasm, I also did a lot of black walnut evaluation and evaluations of individual trees.”
To go along with his research, Bunting said he served as a CAFNR Ambassador for a short period of time and was part of the Forestry Club for about a year. He was also part of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), an NSF-sponsored program designed to broaden participation in science, technology, engineering and technology (STEM) disciplines and increase the number of students receiving bachelor’s degree and ultimately graduate degrees in STEM disciplines.
Bunting also had a full-time job at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park.
“The hands-on opportunities have been the best part of my time at Mizzou,” Bunting said. “My work at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, for example, was a great interpretive experience, where I was not only able to lead cave tours and work with plants, but also gain an understanding of implementing long-term plans for a park.”
Bunting will begin his graduate studies at UC Davis this fall. He will work in the lab of Neil McRoberts, a professor of plant pathology. Bunting said McRoberts’ lab is focused on citrus greening, a serious citrus plant disease.
“I’m excited to study in another part of the country; I think it’s really going to add to the knowledge I’ve already gained here at MU,” Bunting said. “I’m very familiar with Midwestern ecology, and I’m excited see what I can learn on the west coast. The research is going to be very interesting as well, as citrus greening causes an infection that is hard to detect and it multiples rapidly. The lab I’ll be joining is looking at creating solutions to combat that disease.”
Bunting said that he would encourage students who are interested in research to get involved as soon as possible. He added that he was thankful for the McNair Scholars Program for helping guide him through his research opportunities.
“If you’re interested in research, even just a little bit, go and do it,” Bunting said. “There were some activities where I didn’t think it would be for me, but I went anyway. Sometimes I was right, and it didn’t connect, but there were times where I was surprised and found something I really enjoyed. There are so many opportunities at Mizzou. As I made connection and saw all of the resources early on, I really fell in love with MU and realized how lucky I was to be where I was.” | <urn:uuid:642de586-b084-4734-898b-062e89c702df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cafnr.missouri.edu/2022/05/senior-spotlight-elias-bunting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.981261 | 1,113 | 1.75 | 2 |
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Kemtron have developed new grades of soft silicone material to fulfil a need that meets the performance of our sponge materials but with improved environmental sealing qualities. We have achieved this by using a very soft solid silicone with a reduced wire count of 100 wires per cm². The advantages of these materials over silicone sponge are that we can manufacture sheet widths of 225mm with a minimum thickness of 0.8mm. The material consistency of soft solid silicone is much better than silicone sponge as there is no uneven cell structure that may affect moisture ingress and closure force.
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Wisconsin weather: Wet, slushy snow, blowing and drifting making commute tricky
Take your time this morning as you head out to work or school, Wisconsinites.
A light wet snow has been falling throughout the state since early morning. Although the accumulation is only minor, the roads are still slick.
As of 2:51 a.m. Friday the National Weather Service in Green Bay has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for 10 northeast Wisconsin counties.
According to the advisory, a band of light snow will continue to shift slowly eastward across the state Friday morning, making for slippery travel.
In addition, lake-effect snow will arrive across north-central Wisconsin and eastern Wisconsin as gusty north winds flow through the state, the advisory said.
Anywhere between 1 and 3 inches of snow can be expected across the state with gusty winds up to 30 mph in some parts, creating some blowing and drifting, according to the advisory.
"A Winter Weather Advisory for snow means snow will cause travel difficulties," the weather service said. "Expect snow-covered roads and limited visibilities, and use caution while driving."
If you head south toward Milwaukee or west toward central Wisconsin, the storm is expected to be a bit calmer.
The National Weather Service in Milwaukee said in a special weather statement Friday morning that steady light snow will interfere with the morning commute. A wet slushy snow of 1 to 3 inches is expected in the Milwaukee area.
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By: Suzanne Potter, Public News Service
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A new report shows the share of federal spending on children was at an all-time low in the fiscal year 2019. The 13th annual Children’s Budget Book, released today, finds the share of spending on children – at 7.21% – is down 10% in the past four years.
Bruce Lesley is president of First Focus on Children, the nonprofit behind the report. He said the country needs to fund what’s most important: our kids’ future.
“The federal budget is a moral document and it really shows what your priorities are as a nation,” Lesley said. “And our nation is failing to invest in our kids’ future, and failing them.”
For the first time ever, the share we spend on things such as education and child-abuse prevention is less than what we spend on interest on the national debt. The president’s 2020 budget calls for even deeper cuts to kids’ programs and would direct billions of dollars to the border wall.
Lesley noted the federal deficit shot up sharply after the 2018 massive tax cut, which primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations. Now, he said, that debt is becoming a double-edged sword for the nation’s children.
“Interest on the national debt is squeezing the ability for Congress to make investments in kids,” he said. “But second, we’re leaving that debt for them to pay off.”
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National Susan Day is celebrated annually on February 27. Susan is a feminine forename derived from the Persian name, which means “lily flower.” There are variations in Coptic ‘Shoshen,’ which means “lotus flower,” in Hebrew ‘Shoshana’ ‘means lily’ (modern Hebrew translations could mean ‘rose’ or ‘flower’ in general), in Greek there’s ‘Sousanna,’ in Latin there’s ‘Susanna,’ and in Old French, there’s ‘Susanne.’ Susan’s life expectancy in the United States fluctuated between 1963 and 2004, with the lowest point in 1988 and the highest recorded in 1971. The average life expectancy for Susans was 70 in 1963 and 68 in 2004.
History of National Susan Day
Susanna or Shoshana, Susan’s cousin, was first popularized as a protagonist from the ‘Book of Daniel’ in the Hebrew “Bible,” a story that is also known to Christians. She is, in essence, a Jewish woman falsely convicted of adultery by two dissatisfied Jewish elders whose sexual advances she turned down. Susanna was about to be put to death when divine intervention sent Daniel to her rescue. Daniel isolated the two elders and confronted them separately. The men gave contradicting statements, revealing their deception. Susanna got to live while the elders were sentenced to death in her place.
The name Susan has had an unusual journey in the female popularity ratings in the United States. Susan was a very popular name during the turn of the 1900s, frequently ranking between 100 and 150 on popularity charts. Susan appeared to be losing her shine by the 1920s, as she began to drop. The name, however, enjoyed a ‘lily’ moment in the 1940s when she reversed direction and went straight to the top. In fact, from the mid-1940s to the 1960s, Susan was among the top 10 popular names for girls in the United States.
Susan was the most popular female name in the United States from 1957 to 1960. The name’s popularity remained relatively fair until the 1980s, but it eventually began to decline. Susan’s prime seems to have passed in modern-day America, and she is no longer a popular female name. In 1960, nearly 40,000 newborn girls were given the name Susan.
Sue, Sukie, Susie, Zuzu, and Suzy are just a few of Susan’s nicknames, many of which have been immortalized in song. Susan’s famous namesakes include activist Susan B. Anthony, author Susan Sontag, and actress Susan Sarandon.
National Susan Day timeline
Susan B. Anthony is born on February 15 in Adams, Massachusetts.
Susan Alice Bennett is born on July 31 in Vermont, United States.
Susan peaks as the second most popular name for females in America.
Close to 40,000 newborn girls are named Susan.
National Susan Day FAQs
Is the name Susan mentioned in the “Bible?”
Susan doesn’t appear in the “Bible,” but there is a story about a Jewish woman called Susanna who shows up in the New Testament.
What is the personality of people named Susan?
Susan is a name that conjures up images of a fiery personality. Susans are diplomatic, polite, insightful, and cooperative, with the potential to be psychic.
Who is Susan in Romeo and Juliet?
Susan was the name of the daughter of Juliet’s attendant — the Nurse — in Shakespeare’s play.
National Susan Day Activities
Use the name
Using a now old-fashioned name like Susan for your beautiful little flower child gives a more subtle homage to nature and gives the baby a vintage flair. It’s a classic.
Play dress up
This is an excellent opportunity to dress up in a way that reflects your name. You could even dress up like one of your famous ancestors.
Celebrate a Susan
Do you know any Susan? Make today a special day for them by taking them to lunch or giving them a gift.
5 Interesting Facts About Susan
Susan is Siri
Susan Alice Bennett is best known as the voice of Siri, the popular voice assistant for Apple devices.
No credit was given
Apple never acknowledged using Bennett’s voice despite CNN hiring audio-forensics specialists who claimed that her voice was used.
YouTube named a Susan as C.E.O.
Polish American Susan Diane Wojcicki became YouTube’s C.E.O. in late 2014.
Wojcicki worked for Google before YouTube
She played a role in Google’s founding and served as its first marketing manager.
For her work on “Under His Very Windows,” Susan Zuccotti won the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize of the German Studies Association.
Why We Love National Susan Day
It helps discover your true self
Our names tie into our personalities and identities. By understanding the roots of your name, you can discover your true self.
You can meet your namesake
Name days present a great chance for you to meet new people who bear the same name as you. You can make new friends and celebrate your unique name together.
It raises awareness
In a world where naming trends are shifting towards naming children after things like cities and cardinal points, traditional name days help preserve classic names.
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1Ti 6:1-21. EXHORTATIONS AS TO DISTINCTIONS OF CIVIL RANK; THE DUTY OF SLAVES, IN OPPOSITION TO THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF GAIN-SEEKERS; TIMOTHY'S PURSUIT IS TO BE GODLINESS, WHICH IS AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION: SOLEMN ADJURATION TO DO SO AGAINST CHRIST'S COMING; CHARGE TO BE GIVEN TO THE RICH. CONCLUDING EXHORTATION.
1. servants--to be taken as predicated thus, "Let as many as are
under the yoke (as) slaves"
The exhortation is natural as there was a danger of Christian slaves
inwardly feeling above their heathen masters.
their own masters--The phrase "their own," is an argument for submissiveness; it is not strangers, but their own masters whom they are required to respect.
all honour--all possible and fitting honor; not merely outward subjection, but that inward honor from which will flow spontaneously right outward conduct (see on Eph 5:22).
that the name of God--by which Christians are called.
blasphemed--Heathen masters would say, What kind of a God must be the God of the Christians, when such are the fruits of His worship (Ro 2:24; Tit 2:5, 10)?
2. And--rather, "But." The opposition is between those Christian
slaves under the yoke of heathen, and
those that have believing masters (he does not use the phrase
"under the yoke" in the latter case, for service under believers is not
a yoke). Connect the following words thus, "Let them
(the slaves) not, because they
(the masters) are brethren
(and so equals, masters and slaves alike being Christians),
despise them (the masters)."
but rather, &c.--"but all the more (so much the more: with the greater good will) do them service because they (the masters) are faithful (that is, believers) and beloved who receive (in the mutual interchange of relative duties between master and servant; so the Greek) the benefit" (English Version violates Greek grammar). This latter clause is parallel to, "because they are brethren"; which proves that "they" refers to the masters, not the servants, as TITTMANN takes it, explaining the verb in the common sense (Lu 1:54; Ac 20:35), "who sedulously labor for their (masters') benefit." The very term "benefit" delicately implies service done with the right motive, Christian "good will" (Eph 6:7). If the common sense of the Greek verb be urged, the sense must be, "Because they (the masters) are faithful and beloved who are sedulously intent on the benefiting" of their servants. But PORPHYRY [On Abstinence, 1.46] justifies the sense of the Greek verb given above, which also better accords with the context; for otherwise, the article "the," will have nothing in the preceding words to explain it, whereas in my explanation above "the benefit" will be that of the slaves' service.
These things teach-- (1Ti 4:11; Tit 2:15).
3. teach otherwise--than I desire thee to "teach"
The Greek indicative implies, he puts not a merely supposed
case, but one actually existing,
"Every one who teaches otherwise," that is, who teaches
consent not--Greek, "accede not to."
wholesome--"sound" (1Ti 1:10): opposed to the false teachers' words, unsound through profitless science and immorality.
words of our Lord Jesus Christ--Paul's inspired words are not merely his own, but are also Christ's words.
4. He is proud--literally, "wrapt in smoke"; filled with the fumes
while "knowing nothing," namely, of the doctrine which is according to
though arrogating pre-eminent knowledge
doting about--literally, "sick about"; the opposite of "wholesome" (1Ti 6:3). Truth is not the center about which his investigations move, but mere word-strifes.
strifes of words--rather than about realities (2Ti 2:14). These stand with them instead of "godliness" and "wholesome words" (1Ti 6:3; 1Ti 1:4; Tit 3:9).
evil surmisings--as to those who are of a different party from themselves.
5. Perverse disputings--useless disputings. The oldest manuscripts
read, "lasting contests" [WIESINGER]; "incessant collisions"
"Strifes of words" had already been mentioned so that he would not be
likely to repeat the same idea (as in the English Version reading)
corrupt minds--Greek, "of men corrupted (depraved) in mind." The inmost source of the evil is in the perverted mind (1Ti 6:4; 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:15).
destitute of the truth-- (Tit 1:14). They had had the truth, but through want of moral integrity and of love of the truth, they were misled by a pretended deeper gnosis (knowledge) and higher ascetical holiness, of which they made a trade [WIESINGER].
supposing, &c.--The Greek requires, "supposing (regarding the matter in this point of view) that piety (so translated for 'godliness') is a means of gain (that is, a way of advancing one's worldly interests: a different Greek form, poriswa, expresses the thing gained, gain)"; not "that gain is godliness," as English Version.
from such withdraw thyself--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. The connection with 1Ti 6:6 favors the omission of these words, which interrupt the connection.
6. But--Though they err in this, there is a sense in which "piety is" not merely gain, but "great means of gain": not the gaining which they pursue, and which makes men to be discontented with their present possessions, and to use religion as "a cloak of covetousness" (1Th 2:5) and means of earthly gain, but the present and eternal gain which piety, whose accompaniment is contentment, secures to the soul. WIESINGER remarks that Paul observed in Timothy a tendency to indolence and shrinking from the conflict, whence he felt (1Ti 6:11) that Timothy needed cautioning against such temptation; compare also the second Epistle. Not merely contentment is great gain (a sentiment of the heathen CICERO [Paradox 6], "the greatest and surest riches"), but "piety with contentment"; for piety not only feels no need of what it has not, but also has that which exalts it above what it has not [WIESINGER]. The Greek for contentment is translated "sufficiency" (2Co 9:8). But the adjective (Php 4:11) "content"; literally, "having a sufficiency in one's self" independent of others. "The Lord always supplies His people with what is necessary for them. True happiness lies in piety, but this sufficiency [supplied by God, with which moreover His people are content] is thrown into the scale as a kind of overweight" [CALVIN] (1Ki 17:1-16; Ps 37:19; Isa 33:6, 16; Jer 37:21).
7. For--confirming the reasonableness of "contentment."
and it is certain--Vulgate and other old versions support this reading. The oldest manuscripts, however, omit "and it is certain"; then the translation will be, "We brought nothing into the world (to teach us to remember) that neither can we carry anything out" (Job 1:21; Ec 5:15). Therefore, we should have no gain-seeking anxiety, the breeder of discontent (Mt 6:25).
8. And--Greek, "But." In contrast to the greedy gain-seekers
having--so long as we have food. (The Greek expresses "food sufficient in each case for our continually recurring wants" [ALFORD]). It is implied that we, as believers, shall have this (Isa 23:16).
raiment--Greek, "covering"; according to some including a roof to cover us, that is, a dwelling, as well as clothing.
let us be therewith content--literally, "we shall be sufficiently provided"; "we shall be sufficed" [ALFORD].
9. will be rich--have more than "food and raiment."
Greek, "wish to be rich"; not merely are willing,
but are resolved, and earnestly desire to have riches at any
(Pr 28:20, 22).
This wishing (not the riches themselves) is fatal to
Rich men are not told to cast away their riches, but not to "trust" in
them, and to "do good" with them
(1Ti 6:17, 18;
fall into temptation--not merely "are exposed to temptation," but actually "fall into" it. The falling into it is what we are to pray against, "Lead us not into temptation" (Jas 1:14); such a one is already in a sinful state, even before any overt act of sin. The Greek for "temptation" and "gain" contains a play on sounds--porasmus, peirasmus.
snare--a further step downwards (1Ti 3:7). He falls into "the snare of the devil."
hurtful--to those who fall into the snare. Compare Eph 4:22, "deceitful lusts" which deceive to one's deadly hurt.
lusts--With the one evil lust ("wish to be rich") many others join themselves: the one is the "root of all evils" (1Ti 6:10).
which--Greek, "whatever (lusts)."
drown--an awful descending climax from "fall into"; this is the last step in the terrible descent (Jas 1:15); translated "sink," Lu 5:7.
destruction . . . perdition--destruction in general (temporal or eternal), and perdition in particular, namely, that of body and soul in hell.
10. the love of money--not the money itself, but the love of
it--the wishing to be rich
--"is a root (ELLICOTT and MIDDLETON: not as English Version, 'the
root') of all evils." (So the Greek plural). The
wealthiest may be rich not in a bad sense; the poorest may covet to be
Love of money is not the sole root of evils, but it is a leading
"root of bitterness"
for "it destroys faith, the root of all that is good"
[BENGEL]; its offshoots are "temptation, a snare,
lusts, destruction, perdition."
coveted after--lusted after.
erred from--literally, "have been made to err from the faith" (1Ti 1:19; 4:1).
pierced-- (Lu 2:35).
with . . . sorrows--"pains": "thorns" of the parable (Mt 13:22) which choke the word of "faith." "The prosperity of fools destroys them" (Pr 1:32). BENGEL and WIESINGER make them the gnawings of conscience, producing remorse for wealth badly acquired; the harbingers of the future "perdition" (1Ti 6:9).
11. But thou--in contrast to the "some"
man of God--who hast God as thy true riches (Ge 15:1; Ps 16:5; La 3:24). Applying primarily to Timothy as a minister (compare 2Pe 1:21), just as the term was used of Moses (De 33:1), Samuel (1Sa 9:6), Elijah, and Elisha; but, as the exhortation is as to duties incumbent also on all Christians, the term applies secondarily to him (so 2Ti 3:17) as a Christian man born of God (Jas 1:18; 1Jo 5:1), no longer a man of the world raised above earthly things; therefore, God's property, not his own, bought with a price, and so having parted with all right in himself: Christ's work is to be his great work: he is to be Christ's living representative.
flee these things--namely, "the love of money" with its evil results (1Ti 6:9, 10).
follow after righteousness-- (2Ti 2:22).
godliness--"piety." Righteousness is more in relation to our fellow man; piety ("godliness") to God"; faith is the root of both (see on Tit 2:12).
love--by which "faith worketh."
patience--enduring perseverance amidst trials.
meekness--The oldest manuscripts read, "meek-spiritedness," namely, towards the opponents of the Gospel.
12. Fight the good fight--BIRKS thinks this
Epistle was written from Corinth, where contests in the national games
recurred at stated seasons, which will account for the allusion here as
Contrast "strifes of words"
The "good profession" is connected with the good fight
lay hold on eternal life--the crown, or garland, the prize of victory, laid hold of by the winner in the "good fight" (2Ti 4:7, 8; Php 3:12-14). "Fight (literally, 'strive') with such striving earnestness as to lay hold on the prize, eternal life."
also--not in the oldest manuscripts.
professed a good profession--Greek, "didst confess THE good confession," namely, the Christian confession (as the Greek word is the same in this verse as that for "confession" in 1Ti 6:13, probably the profession here is the confession that Christ's kingdom is the kingdom of the truth, Joh 18:36, 37), at thy being set apart to thy ministerial function (whether in general, or as overseer at Ephesus): the same occasion as is referred to in 1Ti 1:18; 4:14; 2Ti 1:4.
before many witnesses--who would testify against thee if thou shouldest fall away [BENGEL].
13. quickeneth all things--that is, "maketh alive." But the oldest
manuscripts read, "preserveth alive"; as the same Greek means in
He urges Timothy to faithfulness here by the present manifestation of
God's power in preserving all things, as in
by the future manifestation of God's power at the appearing of Christ.
The assurance that "eternal life,"
will be the result of "fighting the good fight," rests on the fulness
and power of Him who is the God of all life, present and to come.
witnessed--It was the Lord's part to witness, Timothy's part to confess (or "profess," 1Ti 6:12) "the good confession" [BENGEL]. The confession was His testimony that He was King, and His kingdom that of the truth (see on 2Ti 6:12; 1Ti 6:15; Mt 27:11). Christ, in attesting, or bearing witness to this truth, attested the truth of the whole of Christianity. Timothy's profession, or confession, included therefore the whole of the Christian truth.
14. keep this commandment--Greek, "the commandment," that is, the
Gospel rule of life
2Pe 2:21; 3:2).
without spot, unrebukeable--agreeing with "thou." Keep the commandment and so be without spot," &c. "Pure" (1Ti 5:22; Eph 5:27; Jas 1:27; 2Pe 3:14).
until the appearing of . . . Christ--His coming in person (2Th 2:8; Tit 2:13). Believers then used in their practice to set before themselves the day of Christ as near at hand; we, the hour of death [BENGEL]. The fact has in all ages of the Church been certain, the time as uncertain to Paul, as it is to us; hence, 1Ti 6:15, he says, "in HIS times": the Church's true attitude is that of continual expectation of her Lord's return (1Co 1:8; Php 1:6, 10).
15. in his times--Greek, "His own [fitting] times"
The plural implies successive stages in the manifestation of the
kingdom of God, each having its own appropriate time, the regulating
principle and knowledge of which rests with the Father
he shall show--"display": an expression appropriate in reference to His "APPEARING," which is stronger than His "coming," and implies its visibility; "manifest": make visible (compare Ac 3:20): "He" is the Father (1Ti 6:16).
blessed--in Himself: so about to be the source of blessing to His people at Christ appearing, whence flows their "blessed hope" (1Ti 1:11; Tit 2:13).
only-- (Joh 17:3; Ro 16:27; Re 15:4).
King of kings--elsewhere applied also to Jesus (Re 1:5; 17:14; 19:16).
16. Who only hath immortality--in His own essence, not merely at
the will of another, as all other immortal beings
Quæst. ad Orthod., 61]. As He hath immortality, so
will He give it to us who believe; to be out of Him is death. It is
mere heathen philosophy that attributes to the soul indestructibility
in itself, which is to be attributed solely to God's gift. As He hath
life in Himself, so hath He given to the Son to have life in
The term used in the New Testament for "immortal," which does not
occur, is "incorruptible." "Immortality" is found in
1Co 15:53, 54.
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto--After life comes mention of light, as in Joh 1:4. That light is unapproachable to creatures, except in so far as they are admitted by Him, and as He goes forth to them [BENGEL]. It is unapproachable on account of its exceeding brightness [THEOPHYLACT]. If one cannot gaze steadfastly at the sun, which is but a small part of creation, by reason of its exceeding heat and power, how much less can mortal man gaze at the inexpressible glory of God [THEOPHYLACT, To Autolycus] (Ps 104:2; 1Jo 1:5).
no man hath seen-- (Ex 23:20; Joh 1:18; Col 1:15; Heb 11:27; 1Jo 4:12). Perhaps even in the perfect state no creature shall fully see God. Still the saints shall, in some sense, have the blessedness of seeing Him, which is denied to mere man (Mt 5:8; 1Co 13:12; 1Jo 3:2; Re 22:4).
17. Resuming the subject from above,
1Ti 6:5, 10.
The immortality of God, alone rich in glory, and of His people through
Him, is opposed to the lust of money (compare
From speaking of the desire to be rich, he here passes to those
who are rich: (1) What ought to be their disposition; (2) What
use they ought to make of their riches, and, (3) The consequences of
their so using them.
rich in this world--contrasted with the riches of the future kingdom to be the portion of believers at Christ's "appearing," 1Ti 6:14.
high-minded--often the character of the rich (see Ro 12:16).
trust--Greek, "to have their trust resting."
in . . . in--rather, "upon . . . upon," as the oldest manuscripts.
uncertain riches--rather as Greek, "the uncertainty of riches." They who rest their trust on riches, rest trust on uncertainty itself (Pr 23:5). Now they belong to one person, now to another, and that which has many masters is possessed by none [THEODORET].
living God--The best manuscripts and versions omit "living." He who trusts in riches transfers to them the duty he owes to God [CALVIN].
who giveth--Greek, "affordeth."
all things richly--temporal and eternal, for the body and for the soul. In order to be truly rich, seek to be blessed of, and in, God (Pr 10:22; 2Pe 1:3).
to enjoy--Greek, "for enjoyment." Not that the heart may cleave to them as its idol and trust (1Ti 4:3). Enjoyment consists in giving, not in holding fast. Non-employment should be far removed, as from man, so from his resources (Jas 5:2, 3) [BENGEL].
18. do good--like God Himself
TITTMANN translates, "to do," or "act well"; as
the Greek for "to be beneficent" is a distinct word,
rich in good works--so "rich in faith," which produces good works (Jas 2:5). Contrasted with "rich in this world," 1Ti 6:17. Literally, it is "rich in honorable (right) works." Greek, "kalois," "ergois," are works good or right in themselves: "agathois," good to another.
ready to distribute--free givers [ALFORD]; the heart not cleaving to possessions, but ready to impart to others.
willing to communicate--ready contributors [ALFORD]: liberal in admitting others to share our goods in common with ourselves (Ga 6:6; Heb 13:16).
19. Laying up in store--"therefrom (that is, by this means
[ALFORD]; but BENGEL makes
the Greek "apo" mean laying apart against a future
time), laying up for themselves as a treasure"
(Mt 6:19, 20).
This is a treasure which we act wisely in laying up in store,
whereas the wisest thing we can do with earthly treasures is "to
distribute" them and give others a share of them
good foundation--(See on 2Ti 3:13; Lu 6:48; 1Co 3:11). The sure reversion of the future heavenly inheritance: earthly riches scattered in faith lay up in store a sure increase of heavenly riches. We gather by scattering (Pr 11:24; 13:7; Lu 16:9).
that . . . eternal life--The oldest manuscripts and versions read, "that which is really life," its joys being solid and enduring (Ps 16:11). The life that now is cannot be called so, its goods being unsubstantial, and itself a vapor (Jas 4:14). "In order that ('with their feet so to speak on this foundation' [DE WETTE]) they may lay hold on that which is life indeed."
20, 21. Recapitulatory conclusion: the main aim of the whole Epistle
being here summarily stated.
O Timothy--a personal appeal, marking at once his affection for Timothy, and his prescience of the coming heresies.
keep--from spiritual thieves, and from enemies who will, while men sleep, sow tares amidst the good seed sown by the Son of man.
that which is committed to thy trust--Greek, "the deposit" (1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 1:12, 14; 2:2). "The true" or "sound doctrine" to be taught, as opposed to "the science falsely so called," which leads to "error concerning the faith" (1Ti 6:21). "It is not thine: it is another's property with which thou hast been entrusted: Diminish it not at all" [CHRYSOSTOM]. "That which was entrusted to thee, not found by thee; which thou hast received, not invented; a matter not of genius, but of teaching; not of private usurpation, but of public tradition; a matter brought to thee, not put forth by thee, in which thou oughtest to be not an enlarger, but a guardian; not an originator, but a disciple; not leading, but following. 'Keep,' saith he, 'the deposit,'; preserve intact and inviolate the talent of the catholic faith. What has been entrusted to thee, let that same remain with thee; let that same be handed down by thee. Gold thou hast received, gold return. I should be sorry thou shouldest substitute aught else. I should be sorry that for gold thou shouldest substitute lead impudently, or brass fraudulently. I do not want the mere appearance of gold, but its actual reality. Not that there is to be no progress in religion in Christ's Church. Let there be so by all means, and the greatest progress; but then let it be real progress, not a change of the faith. Let the intelligence of the whole Church and its individual members increase exceedingly, provided it be only in its own kind, the doctrine being still the same. Let the religion of the soul resemble the growth of the body,which, though it develops its several parts in the progress of years, yet remains the same as it was essentially" [VINCENTIUS LIRINENSIS, A.D. 434].
avoiding--"turning away from" (compare 2Ti 3:4). Even as they have "turned away from the truth" (1Ti 1:6; 5:15; 2Ti 4:4).
profane-- (1Ti 4:7; 2Ti 2:16).
vain--Greek, "empty": mere "strifes of words," 1Ti 6:4, producing no moral fruit.
oppositions--dialectic antithesis of the false teachers [ALFORD]. WIESINGER, not so probably, "oppositions to the sound doctrine." I think it likely germs existed already of the heresy of dualistic oppositions, namely, between the good and evil principle, afterwards fully developed in Gnosticism. Contrast Paul's just antithesis (1Ti 3:16; 6:5, 6; 2Ti 2:15-23).
science falsely so called--where there is not faith, there is not knowledge [CHRYSOSTOM]. There was true "knowledge," a special gift of the Spirit, which was abused by some (1Co 8:1; 12:8; 14:6). This gift was soon counterfeited by false teachers arrogating to themselves pre-eminently the gift (Col 2:8, 18, 23). Hence arose the creeds of the Church, called symbols, that is, in Greek, "watchwords," or a test whereby the orthodox might distinguish one another in opposition to the heretical. Perhaps here, 1Ti 6:20, and 2Ti 1:13, 14, imply the existence of some such brief formula of doctrine then existing in the Church; if so, we see a good reason for its not being written in Scripture, which is designed not to give dogmatic formularies, but to be the fountain whence all such formularies are to be drawn according to the exigencies of the several churches and ages. Probably thus a portion of the so-called apostle's creed may have had their sanction, and been preserved solely by tradition on this account. "The creed, handed down from the apostles, is not written on paper and with ink, but on fleshy tables of the heart" JEROME [Against John of Jerusalem, 9]. Thus, in the creed, contrary to the "oppositions" (the germs of which probably existed in the Church in Paul's latter days) whereby the aeons were set off in pairs, God is stated to be "the Father Almighty," or all-governing "maker of heaven and earth" [BISHOP HINDS].
21. Which some professing--namely, professing these
oppositions of science falsely so called.
erred--(See on 2Ti 1:6; 2Ti 2:11) --literally, "missed the mark" (2Ti 3:7, 8). True sagacity is inseparable from faith.
Grace--Greek, "the grace," namely, of God, for which we Christians look, and in which we stand [ALFORD].
be with thee--He restricts the salutation to Timothy, as the Epistle was not to be read in public [BENGEL]. But the oldest manuscripts read, "be with you"; and the "thee" may be a transcriber's alteration to harmonize with 2Ti 4:22; Tit 3:15.
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This one confused me for a while:
- 1985: unlisted
- 1984: unlisted
- 1983: 6 baby girls name Jeopardy [debut]
- 1982: unlisted
- 1981: unlisted
The name Jeopardy was a one-hit wonder in the SSA’s baby name data in 1983.
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Mind Fields – Working with all Senses was about creating a personal ‘field’ or series of reactions, inspired by the island of Lanzarote. Using our senses as a guide we aimed to develop our artistic responses and learned to associate particular artworks to a thought, feeling, sound, movement, or phenomenon. By this method we were able to form a distinction between the non-personal media images we found ourselves encountering in our daily life and the individual and unique work we created during the course.
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Ever been involved in a work situation where conflict escalated out of control? Probably. How did the people involved in this scenario diffuse the drama? Were they calm, clear-headed, optimistic, and mutually respectful?
Those are good examples of people who respond well under crisis. The other example is someone who has a bad reaction, throws a temper tantrum, and goes on the warpath of blaming and finger-pointing. This is clearly a toxic person that could easily set people off and ruin team morale.
What’s the proper way to handle such toxic people? It’s to put into practice one smart principle of emotional intelligence: Self-control.
The leadership strength of self-control
In emotional intelligence studies, this is a term that is often called self-management, which most toxic people haven’t adapted. Why does self-control matter?
When conflicts happen, the question behind self-control is whether one is able to manage their emotions and behavior to a positive outcome. According to emotional intelligence guru Daniel Goleman, “drama is very low and productivity is very high” in work settings under the guidance of such leaders.
If leaders have no capacity for self-control, the outcome is not good. One of the major obstacles stemming from a lack of self-control is unfiltered anger. Anger is a normal, human emotion. But it needs to be expressed in a healthy way. There’s a place and time for appropriate anger, and we all have to learn how to manage it, or it will manage us. Self-control takes care of that.
Self-control is a skill that can help leaders to be present, calm, and focused during times of high stress. It can also be a learned trait with long-term payoff. Here are 3 ways a leader can improve self-control:
1. Identify your underlying emotions
Is there a strong emotion you are feeling on a gut level attached to a recent negative event? A good starting point is always to exercise self-awareness before you act on your emotions.
2. Be aware of your triggers
Think of the last time you may have gone over the edge. What triggered you to just lose it? It’s likely a reaction to something much deeper, perhaps something that still needs closure. Whatever is at the bottom of the pile needs to be taken care of first–that’s the primary emotion causing unwanted secondary emotions like rage, fear, sadness, or guilt.
3. Take action
Once you nail the root cause of your trigger, determine how best to break the cycle that keeps you stuck. Does a proactive conversation need to happen, and with whom? Are you being more intentional about closing the gaps between how you’re feeling now and how you ultimately want to feel? Maybe your next course of action is to not act at all, but to listen to various trusted voices and process your emotions before making another rash decision.
Self-control is crucial for leaders because no employee wants to work for someone who is not in control of themselves and their emotions, especially during difficult times. Leading by fear, yelling, and bullying is an obsolete custom that has no place in the current social economy, which values relationships, collaboration, and authenticity.
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endeavoured to express myself with the most perfect freedom and plainness; yet with the decorum and respect due to the solemn and interesting subjects which have come before me, to the author of the book which I have had so much occasion to notice, and to those fellow christians, who may dissent from the opinions and views which I have expressed.
For the declaration made with emphasis by Dr. Woods at the close of his book, " that in his honest and serious apprehension, the Unitarian system is indeed another Gospel,” I was not wholly prepared; though it is one which we have before been accustomed to hear in different forms from other sources, for which we have less reason to feel respect. We are consoled, however, with the thought, that an excommunication, though pronounced ex cathedra, carries not with it now the terror, which it once did. Christians will venture to judge between the rival systems, and will take the liberty to decide, each one for himself, whether the gospel, as it is held by Unitarians, or as it is held by Trinitarians and Calvinists, be the Gospel of Christ. | <urn:uuid:c368f7ce-1185-4c8c-9331-71321f47c3f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.fr/books?id=DWE3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT4&focus=viewport&dq=editions:BLA0023181230&hl=fr&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.983426 | 247 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Being a 4-H member is a family affair for Ann Supa of Maine Town.
Supa, her father and her four now adult children were all members of 4-H, she said.
“It’s like a family tradition,” she says.
For the past 25 years, Supa has volunteered with 4-H, Cornell Cooperative Extension’s youth development program. She started volunteering in Tioga County and now volunteers with the Broome County program.
“It keeps me young,” she said of volunteering with her 4-H clubs. “I learn with them.”
She grew up on a dairy farm in Nichols and was active in 4-H there. She has fond memories of showing cows at the fair, baking and sewing.
“I wanted my kids to have the same 4-H experience I did,” she said.
So she became a 4-H leader in Tioga County and later moved to Broome County. She is a 4-H leader for two groups: Mild Duds for young people raising dairy cows; and Leaps and Peeps, for those interested in raising poultry and rabbits. She also works with Broome County Dairy Promotion to promote agriculture and milk in schools and other county locations, and coaches the 4-H dairy bowl team. The dairy bowl is similar to a college quiz bowl, but all questions are about the dairy industry, she said.
“They learn to work as a team,” she said of the dairy bowl team. “It just builds those friendships.”
Supa goes beyond what a 4-H leader is supposed to do, said Linnea Matson, 4-H program manager for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County. She will drive the kids to the Broome County Fair so they can show off their animals there. She will help club members load cows, chickens and other animals into trailers for the trip to the fair.
“She’s really there for our kids,” Matson said of Supa. “She loves working with children. She teaches them everything she knows.
Members of her club can’t wait to see her, Matson said.
“All of his kids love our program,” she said of Supa. “She brings so much fun and so much fun. It’s her passion. She really gives it her all.”
Supa said she enjoys helping her young proteges, she said.
“I consider all of my 4-H kids to be part of my family,” she said.
She has known some of her club members since they were in kindergarten. She has seen former club members graduate from high school and college, she said.
She enjoys helping her 4-H club members engage in hands-on learning, she says.
“When I taught cheese, I made mozzarella cheese with them,” she said. “They have a better understanding. They did it. They know what it is. I think children learn better if they experience it.
For Supa, volunteering is something passed down to her from her family members.
“It was part of my growing up – volunteering,” she said. “You are part of a community. It’s not just you.
She encouraged others to get involved in volunteering.
“A lot of people are hesitant to volunteer,” she said. “They just have to share their passion.”
House: Town in Maine.
Family: Husband, Steve; four adult children, six grandchildren.
Career: Nutrition Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County. Her work with the 4-H program, which is separate from the nutrition program, is completely voluntary.
How to help: If you have a skill you can teach or are interested in becoming a 4-H leader or volunteering in some other way, contact Linnea Mattson by email: [email protected] or by phone at 607-772-8953.
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Career Coaching – What it means?
When we look at the career of an individual from a development perspective, it’s extremely important to look at their alignment to the roles they undertake. Each individual has a unique set of values, strengths, personalities as well as preferences that have come from their past personal and professional experiences.
The Role Of A Career Coach
A Career Coach is a professional Coach who is experienced in supporting clients through their life processes by designing interventions for a smooth transition from one role to another or re-entering the workforce after a long period of absence. A career coach works with individuals to tackle their toughest career challenges so that they achieve their highest career aspirations.
Career Coaching Process – What Does It Look Like?
Career Coaching being a niche for Professional Coaches, it does not work very differently than any other Coaching process for individuals. The skills you acquire as a Professional Coach catalyses the thought process of the client to create awareness as well as being able to facilitate the process of accountability.
As an Expat Career Coach and Cultural Expert, I support my client who is searching for or transitioning into a new role while integrating into a cultural setting. Specifically for Career Coaching, there are other elements that must be considered when working with individual clients such as understanding their underlying values, needs and strengths, motivations and key drivers as well as how those attributes match to their target career progression they are gearing towards.
When Career Coaching Clients obtain clarity in terms of ‘who’ they are versus ‘what’ they want to be, their professional branding is reflected through their Profiles. I also work with my clients to come up with their development plan jointly through a reflective process as that will allow them to reach influencers in organisations as well as be able to share their vision and smart goals as they move forward.
Career Coaching Process – Emotions Can Be High
Getting the clients to work towards creating their professional profile is one thing. What is extremely crucial and not usually visible on the surface in my Career Coaching clients is the emotional part of their career transition. For instance, many job seekers are insecure about how to start applying for jobs depending on the norms of the country in which they reside, others maybe even devastated from the layoff during the pandemic or may find themselves struggling to get a job in a new culture due to their spouse who received an international assignment.
After being out of work, it is always hard to “get back into it”. Apart from the fact that you really might need to find work, being laid off can leave you feeling depressed, anxious, and doubting yourself and your ability to secure another job. That is why, before jumping into your next round of job hunting, it is important to prepare.
When clients come to me for support after being laid off, we take some time to really acknowledge and accept the difficult situation they are in. Through coaching, people move from helplessness to a state of real understanding, compassion, and ultimately empowerment that propels them to move forward.
Results From Career Coaching
Many of my clients come in looking for quick answers and solutions to their job situations. Most of them have walked away with more than a transaction. They describe this process as a journey and not just a task to be finalised as soon as possible. Coaching really enables reflections so most of them walk away learning more about who they are and are mostly more aligned towards who they want to be.
Getting clarity is what most clients walk away with after our sessions because they have a better understanding of who they are and what directions they need to take in order to achieve their goals.
Clients get their self-confidence boosted through their ability to identify what really matters to them and what defines them as an individual. Also, by having a clear understanding of what is truly important and meaningful for them, they feel more confident and empowered to take action as well setting the right priorities that they know will work for them. This overall confidence enhanced their self-esteem which in turn improved their presentation as a professional.
Some Reflective questions to become more motivated in your Career.
Consider answering some of the categorised questions below to identify some areas where your motivation in your Career needs a boost:
- What’s most important now?
- Who do I want to become?
- What resources do I have?
- What kind of support do I need to achieve my goal?
- What time of the day is the most energising for me?
Area Of Development
- What is your job search area where you would like to be more successful than you currently are? (e.g. interview / compensation negotiation / networking)
- What could I do to expect more success in that area?
- What could I do to enrich my job search environment?
- What could I do to better something that I do not enjoy doing? (e.g., if you don’t enjoy networking, what could you do to improve the environment when having to do this activity? E.g., reading a book, listening to music).
- Who do I trust to hold me accountable for the best version of myself?
- On a scale from 0-10, how motivated are you at the moment to tailor your resume in a way that is aligned to the job description?
- (When you are >5, meet your basic needs (e.g., sleep, relax, etc.) Reserve your power for the things that matter first!
Career Coaching – The Conclusion
Coaching is extremely powerful no matter what you specialise in. Career Coaching in particular enables our clients to identify their passion in what they do and allows them to move forward in that direction. The focus and attention the clients get from a Career Coach are very valuable and the process becomes more like a journey to self-discovery with respect to what they want to do for their living and beyond.
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Controversial artist Banksy’s work Vote to Love has been put up for auction, set to take place on the 11th of February in London. The piece, made famous in 2018, is a commentary on Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The work features an altered Vote To Leave placard under a heart-shaped balloon which has been spray-painted to turn the word ‘leave’ to ‘love.’
Originally the piece was rejected after Banksy submitted it under an anagram which was disassociated with the artist.
The artwork first came to the attention of both the art world and the public after it was originally rejected for The Royal Academy’s 2018 annual summer exhibition; one of Britain’s most popular art shows since 1769. Submitted under a fake name, the piece was not considered for the exhibition until the curator Grayson Perry contacted Banksy directly – who re-submitted the same work but as himself.
It featured in the exhibition that year at an estimated worth of around 350 million pounds.
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Meet Online Guardians
The Online Guardians are an eSafety accredited business who are experts in the field of social networks and adolescent development. We have presented to over 300,000 students in the past decade and have a wealth of hands-on experience working with schools and young people in this ever-changing online space. Our accredited business has a core focus to provide targeted and effective education to students, parents, educators, and school bodies. We educate on a variety of topics including cyber, social networks and adolescent development leading to awareness and positive change. Our presenters have extensive experience working and educating in school settings.
The Online Guardians have presented many sessions of professional development for educators in public and private schools around New South Wales in person and via webinar. This includes both primary and secondary school settings. We combine packages of education engaging all stakeholders to allow collaboration and best practice. We personalise content and ensure our intervention is effective leading to positive change.
We utilise data, statistics and evaluations to highlight the most accurate picture for individual schools. This is not offered anywhere else in New South Wales. After our intervention, we obtain data clarifying the impact and positive changes following our work. We are proud to share that in our last 10 schools of intervention (Primary), we average removing 20% of students from social network accounts and having 40% of our audience update their current social network settings. An incredible average per school. This is evidence our work and age-appropriate education leads to positive change all around that state.
The business focus is to build a platform of support for children struggling in this space. The ideology of our work is to provide realistic and tangible strategies to main stakeholders which strengthens the foundation of support inevitably protecting our children. We provide parents and carers tangible and realistic strategies. They are given a clear snapshot of their school’s trends and cultures, and then given tools to assist guide their children through their digital journey. We allow our audience to provide feedback after every session. Our feedback is overwhelmingly positive.
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• Breakfast Burrito – scrambled eggs with some salsa, a little cheese, and chicken or beans in a tortilla Diabetes There are such a lot of variables affecting our meals funds, such because the variety of members in our families and their ages, their meals preferences, special diets and nutritional needs, their each day schedules, and where we dwell — some places have higher dwelling expenses.
A sensible shopper would know that the entire calorie rely is a very powerful thing to notice. Some protein bars labeled high in energy are meant for athletes or bodybuilders who continue exercising for lengthy hours and so they require sustenance. All the opposite purchasers must know the worth of a calorie. In case you are in search of a weight reduction snack or meal replacement, keep away from these bars that learn four hundred calories or more.
How Protein Helps Athletes of All Levels
Of course you’re going to get hungry after exercise. That is the time to feed your physique some lean protein, NATURAL carbs and fiber. Change the water and electrolytes you’ve misplaced in your sweat. It is advisable drink 1.5 litres of water for every kg of body weight you misplaced throughout the race. Be sure to add a little pinch of salt into the water so your physique absorbs it.
three. Copper Consume at the very least eight glasses of water per day. In Canada, the Food Guide recommends the number of servings for every age group and offers the nutrients in each of those teams. For those who live in a different country, name your local Well being Division department to obtain a current copy of the recommended tips and use it as your basic supply.
How Protein Helps Athletes of All Ranges
There are lots of completely different companies that a Sydney nutritionist can provide. They include completely different nutrition plans which may also help you to lose weight, improving athletic efficiency, bettering the well being of kids, enhancing fertility, lowering hypertension and many others. These nutritionists are professionals with loads of expertise and in addition cooperate with medical patients to make sure that they get the right amount of nutrition required by their physique. Whether or not you’re an athlete or a patient preventing some dysfunction, consultation with a nutritionist can undoubtedly bring loads of improvement to your health and athletic skills.
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Blog note: And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11). Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. This verse from Luke is one of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor pains that occur in greater severity, frequency, size and duration prior to giving birth. End of note.
Uganda begins Ebola vaccinations amid Congo transmission fears
By Elias Biryabarema. Reuters. November 2, 2018
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda says it will start to vaccinate some of its health workers against Ebola on Monday, amid fears that the viral haemorrhagic fever could spread from Democratic Republic of Congo which is battling an outbreak.
The East African country has suffered regular outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg over the years, both high-fatality viral haemorrhagic fevers. Parts of Uganda’s western border are about 100 km (62 miles)from sites of an Ebola outbreak taking place in Congo.
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said authorities would administer about 2,100 vaccinations covering so called frontline health personnel working in districts near the border. Tens of thousands cross the border in both directions weekly for trade and family visits and other purposes, Aceng said.
Because of this the “risk of cross border transmission was assessed to be very high … hence the need to protect our health workers with this vaccine,” she told a news conference.
Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola on Aug. 1 and there have been at least 139 deaths.
Because of the short distance from the outbreaks in Congo, Uganda has been on high alert, with heightened screenings of arriving travelers and training of health personnel in border areas. Aceng said widespread insecurity in eastern Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces added to Uganda’s vulnerability to cross border transmission. “The security situation in North Kivu and Ituri is hindering effective implementation of response activities,” Aceng said.
Uganda’s worst Ebola outbreak was in 2000 when 425 people were infected, more than half of whom died.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by George Obulutsa, William Maclean)
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Lots of occupations are decreasing in need, even at the apparently untouchable healthcare business, but house healthcare isn't among them. On the contrary: the requirement for home health care professionals is growing. It appears that anybody moving into the healthcare field at the moment should think about if a house healthcare career is ideal for them.
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Drivers peeing into a bottle because they can’t afford toilet stops and migrant workers sleeping in depots: The trucking industry is in a race to the bottom, a new study says.
It took AUT researcher Dr Clare Tedestedt George several days to recover from her 15-hour interview with a truck driver.
The conversation lasted that long because she was riding with him as he did his overnight run delivering bread to supermarkets, and had no way of leaving. “So I stayed with him for the whole route. And it was excellent, because I heard everything.”
Aside from getting out of the truck to load and unload 100kg pallets of bread the driver did not stop from 10.30pm, when George met him at the truck depot, until 9.30 the next morning – not to eat or drink, nor go to the bathroom. “They don’t drink anything because they don’t have time to stop and go to the toilet,” she says.
“I was feeling really nauseous and unwell, because I can’t go that long without water and without stopping.”
When the driver finally finished at 2pm he was going home to complete paperwork and prepare to do it all again that night.
The shift left George exhausted and ill from the vibration of the truck, yet this was a typical day in an industry where drivers regularly work 70 to 90-hour weeks.
George’s recently completed PhD thesis on the occupational safety, health and well-being of truck drivers paints a grim picture of a sector in a race for the bottom. Despite New Zealand’s heavy reliance on road freight and the Road Transport Forum’s estimate that we are short 4000 skilled drivers, the industry is moving inexorably towards using contract owner-drivers competing for low hourly pay. In a parallel trend, many believe an exploited migrant workforce is further driving down rates.
George interviewed 45 industry participants, including 20 drivers. They told her that speeding to keep up with tight schedules, driving longer than their legal limit and falsifying log books are standard practice, with drivers often pressured to break the law to get the job done. Surviving on roadside ‘pie and a can’ deals and peeing into a bottle because they can’t afford to stop takes a heavy toll on their health, while owner-drivers are burdened with crushing debt and contract arrangements that bind them as de facto employees without any of the benefits.
Meanwhile the numbers of deaths and injuries from crashes involving heavy vehicles remain stubbornly high. After reaching a low of 47 fatalities and 744 people injured in 2013 the statistics are on the rise again, with 75 deaths and 850 injury victims in 2016.
George quotes the drivers throughout her thesis. “I’ve been working all night,” one says. “Currently 25 and a half hours and counting with only 15 to 20 minutes sleep. By the time I knock off today and get to bed, it will be the second time this week going 30-plus hours with next to no sleep.”
She heard about owner-drivers at risk of losing everything. “We picked him up on the side of the road; he was on the verge of committing suicide, half a million dollars in debt, his parent’s property on the line. Four months with (an unidentified company) where he is instructed to break the law twice, refuses twice and gets terminated,” an industry participant told her.
At least two prominent transport companies are known for housing migrant workers behind high fences and locked gates, she learned. “Mostly they are Fijian Indians and they are given accommodation on the yards, though they pay rent. They keep them for two years and nine months and then send them back,” one driver said.
George’s study is the first to look at the structural factors underlying these poor practices. One of the challenges is that the trucking industry crosses disciplines from employment relations to road safety, and no one agency oversees the complex sector, she says.
“Why are truck drivers so fatigued, why are they speeding?” she asks. “No logical person would drive when they’re that exhausted, so what’s the decision-making process behind these dangerous acts?”
What she found was a highly competitive industry where tight margins and low pay place intense time pressure on drivers. Managers who attempt to prioritise health and safety are conflicted by the need to ensure the survival of the firm. While it’s difficult to get accurate figures, George says anecdotally the indication is that 70 per cent of the sector are now owner-drivers who do what they can to stay afloat. On top of it all bad practices are tolerated, with a prevailing attitude that it’s part of the job and those who can’t stand the heat should get out of the cab.
The conundrum is, if it’s so competitive why is there a driver shortage? The industry avoids paying drivers more by bringing in migrant workers, her informants said.
“You get migrants that are coming from countries where the pay rates are really low so to work for $18 an hour is like hitting the jackpot for them and of course they will work for as many hours as they can,” one interviewee said.
The industry was described as “cutthroat”. “The current thing among the corporates is they’ll say to the existing contract (driver), ‘we expect you to take 10 to 20 per cent off it or we’ll put it out to tender,” another said.
Despite a recent crackdown on rogue trucking firms announced by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), lack of enforcement is a significant problem, George says. Some drivers have one log book to record their actual driving hours, which is what they’re paid on, and a second to show law enforcement agencies. The chances of getting caught out are “practically zero”, interviewees told her.
They described managers regularly asking drivers to break the law in order to get the job done. “I was forced to take a load and was then caught by the cops for being overweight. I was fined $1100 and had to pay it myself because ultimately it was my responsibility,” one owner-driver said.
There is little difference between being a contractor and an employee, with owner-drivers even having to paint their trucks at their own expense in the colours of the company they’re working for, George says.
There were cameras in the cab of her 15-hour driver’s truck and his movements were monitored. “Just prior to us meeting the company had analysed his GPS data and realised that he’d made the route more efficient, and they rewrote his cost model based on this new information.
“As a contractor you would think he would have the ability to negotiate… But there was no way he could say no to this.”
Peter Gallagher runs Prodrive, New Zealand’s only advocacy body for contract drivers. Clare George’s research is right on point, he says. “It’s the dirty little secret of the New Zealand transport game.”
He is representing half a dozen drivers right now who are enduring the conditions she describes, he says. One contractor who operates four vehicles in Wellington had a driver write him a resignation note on the back of a bread packet after a month of doing 16-hour days, and he’s on the verge of losing another. The contractor himself is working up to 20 hours a day. “This is what they have to do… to not run the risk of termination, because they are in what can only be called contracts for servitude.”
Migrant workers are not necessarily willing to work for lower rates, but they aren’t familiar with New Zealand law and believe the rosy picture that’s put to them, he says. In the last 10 years he’s brought over 50 cases against companies with the assistance of a senior partner at law firm Simpson Grierson. Nothing will change until the regulators ensure adequate protections for people now known as ‘dependent contractors’, Gallagher says.
Nick Leggett, chief executive of the Road Transport Forum which represents road freight operators, says there were “elements of surprise” in George’s research. “We’re obviously going to be keen to look at some of the detail.”
Safety and compliance have always been paramount for the forum, he says.
“If you look at the enforcement issues that NZTA are currently grappling with you’d have to say there isn’t uniform enforcement across different aspects of the industry. Probably we are in for a period of catch up there.”
Coming technologies such as the digitisation of log books will help, he says.
George spent months establishing a rapport with the drivers she interviewed for her thesis. “Their trucks are like their homes, I had to do a lot of groundwork before being let into their space,” she says.
Despite striving to maintain academic neutrality some of the interviews brought her to tears.
On one occasion she was due to talk to a 54-year-old driver when his wife turned up. He had lost consciousness behind the wheel and died just before the interview. “She acknowledged the fact his lifestyle meant he wasn’t able to eat properly, he never got enough exercise. She’s very angry about it.
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Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was one of the most prominent members of the Frankfurt School or The Institute for Social Research (Institute für Sozialforschung) in Frankfurt am Main. The Frankfurt School was formed in 1922 but went into exile in the United States in the early 1930s during the reign of the Third Reich. Although most of his colleagues returned to Germany after the World War Two, Marcuse remained in the United States.
The Frankfurt School has had an enormous impact on philosophy as well as social and political theory in the United States and around the world. In the 1960s Marcuse ascended to prominence and became one of the best known philosophers and social theorist in the world. He was often referred to as the Guru of the New Left (a title which he rejected). During the late 1970s through the 1990s Marcuse's popularity began to wane as he was eclipsed by second and third generation critical theorists, postmodernism, Rawlsian liberalism, and his former colleagues Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. In recent years there has been a new surge of interest in Marcuse.
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- 5. One-Dimensional Thinking and the Democratic Rejection of Democracy
- 6. The Dialectic of Technology
- 7. The Specter of Liberation: The Great Refusal and the New Sensibility
- 8. Marcuse and Feminism
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Herbert Marcuse was born on July 19, 1898 in Berlin. His mother was born Gertrud Kreslawsky and his father was a well-off businessman, Carl Marcuse. According to Marcuse, his childhood was that of a typical German upper-middle class youth whose Jewish family was well integrated into German society (Kellner 1984: 13). Marcuse's formal education began at the Mommsen Gymnasium and continued at the Kaiserin-Augusta Gymnasium in Charlottenburg from 1911–1916. In 1916 Marcuse was called to military duty. It was in the military where his political education began, although during this period his political involvement was brief. The experience of war and the German Revolution led Marcuse to a study of Marxism as he tried to understand “the dynamics of capitalism and imperialism, as well as the failure of the German Revolution” (Kellner 1984: 17). Marcuse also wanted to learn more about socialism and the Marxian theory of revolution so that he may understand his own inability to identify with any of the major Left parties at that time (Kellner 1984: 17). However, this study of Marxism would be brief. In 1918 Marcuse was released from military service.
In 1919 he entered Humbolt University in Berlin and took courses for four semesters. In 1920 he transferred to Freiburg to concentrate on German literature and to take courses in philosophy, politics, and economics. This period of study culminated in a doctoral dissertation entitled Der deutsche Künstlerroman (The German Artist-Novel), which was accepted in 1922 (Kellner 1984: 18). This work would be the first in a life-long engagement with aesthetics for Marcuse.
After the acceptance of his dissertation Marcuse returned to Berlin where “his father provided him with an apartment and a share in a publishing and antiquarian book business” (Wiggershaus 1994: 96). Marcuse worked mainly as a catalogue researcher and bibliographer, and published a Schiller bibliography in 1925 (Kellner 1984: 32–33). In 1924 Marcuse married his first wife, Sophie.
While in Berlin Marcuse began reading Martin Heidegger's newly published Being and Time with a friend in 1927. Although Marcuse was already a student of philosophy, his interest in philosophy had remained second to his interest in German literature up to this point. The excitement caused by Being and Time would lead Marcuse to a life-long serious engagement with philosophy. According to Douglas Kellner, this move from a primary concern with art to a deeper engagement with philosophy suggests that Marcuse was a bit skeptical about the power of art as a “cognitive source of knowledge and as an instrument of personal liberation and social change” (Kellner 1984: 36–37). The impact of Heidegger was so great that Marcuse returned to Freiburg in 1928 to study philosophy with Heidegger and Edmund Husserl. While in Freiburg Marcuse worked as Heidegger's assistant and began work on his second dissertation, Hegel's Ontologie und die Grundlegung einer Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit (Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity) (1932 ). Although this dissertation was never approved by Heidegger (and according to Marcuse, perhaps not read) it was published in 1932.
In 1932 Marcuse and Heidegger parted ways due to the latter's involvement with the Nazi Party. As the Nazis soared to power and anti-Semitism began to spread it became clear to Marcuse that he “would never be able to qualify for a professorship under the Nazi regime” (Kellner 1984: 92). Given his situation, Marcuse began to inquire about employment with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. After an interview, a letter of support from Edmund Husserl, and a word of support from a member of the Institute (Leo Lowenthal) Marcuse was hired (Wiggershaus 1994: 104; Kellner 1984: 92)
Due to Nazi activity, Marcuse never actually worked in Frankfurt. Anticipating the fascist takeover, the Institute deposited their endowment in Holland. A branch office was established in Geneva where Marcuse began his work with the Institute. He would go to Paris for a short time and then finally in July 1934 to New York. From 1934–1942 Marcuse worked at the Institute's branch at Columbia University. In 1942 he moved to Washington D.C. to work first with the Office of War Information and then with the Office of Strategic Services. Later Marcuse would teach at Brandeis University and then the University of California, San Diego. He became a United States citizen in 1940 and remained in the United States until his death in 1979.
The bookends of Marcuse's literary, philosophical, and political life are both works on aesthetics. In 1922 he completed a doctoral dissertation entitled Der deutsche Künstlerroman (The German Artist-Novel). In 1978, one year before his death he published The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics. Between these two works are several small works on aesthetics. However, even the works that do not deal directly with aesthetics still contain (we might say) an aesthetic dimension. It is not possible to discuss the role of aesthetics in all of Marcuse's works. Therefore, the role of aesthetics in Marcuse's critical theory in general will be discussed. There are three key works on aesthetics which were written at different times that reveal the overall point of Marcuse's aesthetic theory.
Even in his youth, Marcuse had a love for the classics of German and world literature (Marcuse 2007a: 4). After serving military duty and after his brief period of political engagement Marcuse returned to his literary studies. However, in the aftermath of his reading of Marxism, Marcuse's literary studies had a decisive political orientation. He was interested in the revolutionary and transformative function of art.
This turn to art and literature was a return to an earlier love with a new mission. This new mission was of course inspired by his encounter with Marxism and its crisis. The turn toward literature was also a quest for revolutionary subjectivity. Put another way, from the beginning to the end of his literary career Marcuse looked for spaces of a critical consciousness that had not been completely whittled down by the oppressive and repressive forces of capitalism. Revolution and social change demands a space for thought and action that make resistance to the status quo possible. Well before he began to use the term “the Great Refusal”, he was in search of such.
In his dissertation of 1922, The German Artist-Novel, the artist represents a form of radical subjectivity. In this work Marcuse makes a distinction between epic poetry and the novel. Epic poetry deals with the origin and development of a people and culture while the novel does not focus on the form of life of a people and their development, but rather, on a sense of longing and striving (Marcuse 2007a: 72). The novel indicates alienation from social life. The details of Marcuse's argument will not be addressed here. The point is to show that there is a certain orientation of thought in Marcuse's 1922 dissertation that is motivated by his encounter with Marxism and will stay with him as his project becomes more philosophical. In short, the artist experiences a gap between the ideal and the real. This ability to entertain, at least theoretically, an ideal form of existence for humanity, while at the same time living in far less than ideal conditions produces a sense of alienation in the artist. This alienation becomes the catalyst for social change. This function of art stays with Marcuse and will be developed further as he engages psychoanalysis and philosophy.
As a dialectical thinker, Marcuse was also able to see both sides of the coin. That is, while art embodied revolutionary potential, it was also produced, interpreted, and distributed in a repressive society. In an oppressive/repressive society the forces of liberation and the forces of domination do not develop in isolation from each other. Instead, they develop in a dialectical relationship where one produces the conditions for the other. This can be seen throughout almost all of Marcuse's writings and will be pointed out at different points in this essay. The task here is to take a look at how this dialectic of liberation and domination occurs within the context of Marcuse's aesthetic theory. This should not be taken to mean that there will never be a point in time when human beings are liberated from the forces of domination. This simply means that if an individual group seeks liberation, their analysis or critique of society must come to terms with how things actually work at that moment in that society if any form of liberation is possible. As Marcuse saw it, there is a form of ideology that serves domination and creates the conditions for liberation at the same time. This will be discussed later. Also, there is a form of liberation that lends itself to be co-opted by the forces of domination.
Just as art embodied the potential for liberation and the formation of radical subjectivity, it was also capable of being taken up by systems of domination and used to further or maintain domination. This is the theme of Marcuse's 1937 essay “The Affirmative Character of Culture”. Culture, which is the domain of art, develops in tension with the overall structure of a given society. The values and ideal produced by culture calls for the transcending of oppressive social reality. Culture separates itself from the social order. That is, the social realm or civilization is characterized by labor, the working day, the realm of necessity, operational thought, etc (Marcuse 1965: 16). This is the realm of real material and social relations as well as the struggle for existence. The social realm or civilization is characterized by intellectual work, leisure, non-operational thought, freedom, (Marcuse 1965: 16). The freedom to think and reflect that is made possible at the level of culture makes it possible to construct value and ideals that pose a challenge to the social order. This is the emancipatory function of art. However, art itself does not bring about liberation it must be translated into political activity. Nevertheless, art is important here because it opens up the space for thinking that may then produce revolution.
The separation between culture and society does not suggest a flight from social reality. Instead, it represents an alien or critical space within social reality. The ideals produced by culture must work within society as transformative ideas. In “The Affirmative Character of Culture” Marcuse, in good dialectical fashion, shows how culture separates itself from society or civilization and creates the space for critical thought and social change but then succumbs to the oppressive demands of bourgeois society. It does this by “separating ‘culture’ from the everyday world” (Marcuse 2007a: 23). In affirmative culture art becomes the object of spiritual contemplation. The demand for happiness in the real world is abandoned for an internal form of happiness, the happiness of the soul. Hence, bourgeois culture creates an interior of the human being where the highest ideals of culture can be realized. This inner transformation does not demand an external transformation of the real world and its material conditions.
In such a society the cultivation of the soul becomes an important part of one's education. The belief that the soul is more important than the body and material needs leads to political resignation insofar as freedom becomes internal. “The soul takes flight at the hard truth of theory, which points up the necessity of changing as impoverished form of existence” (Marcuse 2007b: 222). Hence, the soul accepts the facts of its material existence without fighting to change these facts. Affirmative culture with its idea of the soul has used art to put radical subjectivity under erasure.
In his last book The Aesthetic Dimension (1978) Marcuse continues his attempt to rescue the radical transformative nature of art. In this text he takes a polemical stance against the problematic interpretation of the function of art by orthodox Marxists. These Marxists claimed that only proletarian art could be revolutionary. Marcuse attempts to establish the revolutionary potential of all art by establishing the autonomy of authentic art. Marcuse states: “It seems that art as art expresses a truth, an experience, a necessity which, although not in the domain of radical praxis, are nevertheless essential components of revolution” (Marcuse 1978: 1). It is the experience that art tries to express that Marcuse will focus on and it is this which separates him from orthodox Marxist.
It must be remembered that for Marcuse and the Frankfurt School there was no evidence that the proletariat would rise up against their oppressors. In addition to developing theories that disclosed the social and psychological mechanisms at work in society that made the proletariat complicit in their own domination, Marcuse saw possibilities for revolution in multiple places. Some of this will be discussed later. The student revolts of the 1960s confirmed much of the direction of Marcuse's critical theory form early on. That is, the need for social change includes class struggle but cannot be reduced to class struggle. There is a multiplicity of social groups in our society that seek social change for various reasons. There are multiple forms of oppression and repression that make revolution desirable. Hence, the form of art produced, and its revolutionary vision may be determined by a multiplicity of oppressed/repressed subject positions.
Orthodox Marxism focused on the proletariat by excluding all other possible sites for revolution. For this reason, Orthodox Marxism itself becomes a form of ideology and produces a reified state of affairs. In orthodox Marxist aesthetics
The subjectivity of individuals, their own consciousness and unconscious tends to be dissolved into class consciousness. Thereby, a major prerequisite of revolution is minimized, namely, the fact that the need for radical change must be rooted in the subjectivity of individuals themselves, in their intelligence, and their passions, their drives and their goals. (Marcuse 1978: 3–4)
In orthodox Marxism, radical subjectivity was reduced to one social group, the proletariat. Marcuse greatly expands the space where radical subjectivity can emerge. Marcuse argues that “liberating subjectivity constitutes itself in the inner history of the individuals” (Marcuse 1978: 5). Each subject as distinct from other subjects represents a particular subject position. For example; white female, working class, mother of two, born in the mid-west, etc. However, with each distinct feature of the individual subject corresponds a structural position. That is, in a given society gender, race, class, level of education etc, are interpreted in certain ways. Experiences and the opportunities provided by them are often affected by subject and structural position and produce what Marcuse calls “the inner history of the individual” (Marcuse 1978: 5).
Given that there are many subject positions that are positions of repression and dehumanization, radical subjectivity and art may come from any of these positions. Economic class is just one structural position among many. Hence, it is not only the proletariat who may have an interest in social change.
Inspired by his reading of Heidegger's Being and Time, and having already been influenced by Marxism during his military days, Marcuse goes to Freiberg to study with Heidegger in 1928. Between 1928 and 1932 he attempts to develop what has been called Heideggerian or phenomenological Marxism. This project was Marcuse response to what has been called the “crisis of Marxism.”
By the early 20th century it appeared to be the case that the proletarian revolution predicted by Marx was not going to happen. Europe had witnessed several failed attempts at a revolution. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was not lead by the proletariat and it simply produced a different form of totalitarianism.
Marcuse undoubtedly accepted Rosa Luxemburg's trenchant critique of the authoritarian implications of Lenin's vanguardism. In fact, most European socialists viewed Lenin's voluntarism as inappropriate for Western and Central Europe, where a more advanced and experienced proletariat existed. (Marcuse 2005: xiv)
This situation produced the political crisis of Marxism.
The political crisis of Marxism is entangled with its epistemological crisis (Marcuse 2005: xiv). The epistemological crisis is the result of the scientific reductionism of Marxism which was encouraged by Engels and Karl Kautsky (Marcuse 2005: xiv). So-called scientific Marxism is a non-philosophical, mechanistic form of Marxist theory that teaches the inevitable, automatic collapse of capitalism. This form of theory ends up being non-revolutionary to the extent that the “subjective factor of working class consciousness is down played” (Marcuse 2005: xiv). The Second International produced a form of positivism that eliminated the dialectical approach of Marxism and put the role of human subjectivity under erasure. That is, if the collapse of capitalism was inevitable because of the effects of certain natural laws and not due to the conscious, intentional efforts of the proletariat then there is no need to work toward the development of revolutionary consciousness.
Marcuse's entire project can be seen as an attempt to rescue radical, socially transformative subjectivity. He gravitates toward Marxism because Marxism is an attempt to rescue subjectivity or humanity from the reifying, oppressive forces of capitalism. Unfortunately, the Marxism of the Second International also put human subjectivity under erasure as this form of Marxism becomes mechanistic in nature. It is in this context, where subjectivity, human agency, is being whittled down that Marcuse turns to Heidegger for a possible solution. Marcuse saw in Marx and Heidegger “a demand for radical action” (Wolin 2001: 146).
For Marx, it took the form of “praxis,” “revolutionary, practical-critical activity.” On the basis of authentic temporality, Dasein, too, demanded a radical response to the realities of alienated social existence. (Wolin 2001: 147)
For Marcuse, radical action was needed to overcome the oppressive, repressive, reified structure of advanced industrial society. He saw common ground between Marx and Heidegger regarding this problem. At this point in his career, Marcuse read the oppressive structure of advanced industrial society through three lenses, the Marxian lenses of alienation, The Lukácsian lenses of reification, and the Heideggerian lenses of inauthenticity. Although Marx's 1844 Manuscripts where there is a discussion of alienation were not yet available to Marcuse when he went to Freiburg, Marx's theory of alienation is implicit in various places in volume one of Capital where he discusses the reduction of social relations between persons to the relations between things while the relations between things are treated as social relations. [example]
“Thus, Marcuse believed that Heidegger's Being and Time represented a potentially valuable ally in the struggle against the reified social continuum of advanced industrial society. He conjectured that Heidegger's philosophy of existence possessed the conceptual means required to counteract an inverted social world in which, according to Marx, ”social relations between men assume… the fantastic form of a relation between things.“ In part, Marcuse read Heidegger's philosophy as an ontologically veiled critique of reification: an indictment of the way in which oppressive social circumstances militate against the possibility of human self-realization. It seemed that, like the critical Marxists Lukács and Korch, Heidegger strove to surmount the fetishization of appearances that characterized the shadow-world of bourgeois immediacy. Like Lukács and Korch, in Being and Time Heidegger strove concertedly to break with the deterministic worldview of bourgeois science, in which human being or Dasein was degraded to the status of a ”thing among things.“ After all, this was the main point behind Heidegger's critique of Vorhandenheit or being present-at-hand as a mode of inauthenticity” (Marcuse 2005: xiv–xv).
Marcuse's reading of Marx, Heidegger, Lukács, Korch and even Max Weber is based on his quest for radical or revolutionary subjectivity. Like Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse saw western society as moving in the direction of a totally administered society. His later notion of one-dimensionality is developed via his critique of such a society. However, he eventually became disillusioned with Heidegger.
Even while under Heidegger's influence Marcuse was never a mere Heideggerian. He recognized early on that Heidegger's philosophy had certain limitations. He would eventually discover that Heidegger's philosophy was not all that concrete. While Heidegger's philosophy explicated the ontological structure of Dasein in its everydayness, it never dwelled at the ontic level. At the ontological level Heidegger merely examined the fundamental structures of Dasein. That is, Dasein in general carries out its life within a certain universal structure which is constituted by modes of existence such as fallenness, idle talk, boredom, care, being toward death, etc. What has been disclosed here are mere universal conditions or modes of existence in which Dasein happens and experiences happenings. However, these modes of existence are experienced in different ways, at different times, and with different levels of intensity by different individuals.
At the end of the day, Marcuse sees that Heidegger avoids the type of analyses that would reveal systems of oppression and domination from which many human beings suffer. The modes of existence for Dasein have a social, historical, and political context that shape the way that they are experienced. For example, Dasein has a race, gender, class, etc. These particular features come with specific social interpretations which affect Dasein's life's prospects. According to Marcuse, Heidegger's Dasein is a sociologically and biologically neutral category (Marcuse 2005: 167). Heidegger gives no account of the multiple forms of oppression and domination present in advanced industrial societies nor the way that individuals respond to these forms of oppression and domination. In a 1977 interview conducted by Frederick A. Olafson Marcuse raises the following criticism of Heidegger:
How does the individual situate himself and see himself in capitalism—at a certain stage of capitalism, under socialism, as a member of this or that class, and so on? This entire dimension is absent. To be sure, Dasein is constituted in historicity, but Heidegger focuses on individuals purged of the hidden and not so hidden injuries of their class, their work, their recreation, purged of the injuries they suffer from their society. There is no trace of the daily rebellion, of the striving for liberation. The Man (the anonymous anyone) is no substitute for the social reality (Marcuse 2005: 169)
Hence, Heidegger's concrete philosophy is not so concrete as he defines human beings and their historicity in such a way that omits the real, concrete, struggles in which social actors find themselves. In the same interview quoted above, Marcuse claims that he and others realized that “Heidegger's concreteness was to a great extent a phony, false concreteness,” removed from reality (Marcuse 2005: 166)
We can see now that the very thing that drew Marcuse to Heidegger's philosophy is missing. Heidegger's philosophy failed to provide Marcuse with a concrete philosophical foundation for Marxism as well as a theory of the radical act or radical subjectivity. Heidegger's brief affiliation with the Nazi party made it easy for Marcuse to leave Heidegger in 1932. This move was also made easy by the publication of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts first published in 1932.
Although Marcuse breaks with Heidegger in 1932, for some scholars the break is not all that clear. Martin Jay claims that when Marcuse joined the Institute the influence of Horkheimer was so great that Marcuse “abandoned Heidegger's vocabulary, as the impact of phenomenology on his thinking began to recede” (Jay 1973: 76). However, in a letter to Horkheimer on May 13, 1935 Adorno strongly suggests that Marcuse was still a Heideggerian (Marcuse/Kellner 1998: 16 n.22). One must, however, maintain some level of suspicion of Adorno's claim since he and Marcuse were engaged in competition for Horkheimer's favor. Nevertheless, the question of Marcuse's Heideggerianism is still of interests for Marcuse scholars. For example; Richard Wolin writes: “In Marcuse's postwar writings, the Heideggerian dimension is muted but nevertheless traceable” (Wolin 2001: 167).
Does Marcuse continue to employ Heideggerian ideas in a new language? For example; is Marcuse's critique of one-dimensionality nothing more than a Heideggerian critique of inauthenticity? Both terms refer to “a mass society of blind conformity” (Wolin 2001: 168). Wolin also raises the question of parallels between Heidegger's ontological elitism and Marcuse's notion of an “educational dictatorship” (Wolin 2001: 172). The issue of an educational dictatorship occurs in Eros and Civilization (1955) as well as in “Repressive Tolerance” (1965) and reflects Marcuse's pessimism about the development of radical consciousness in the working class. However, the problem of some form of intellectual elitism is not only found in Heidegger but in Marxism itself. One need only think about Lenin's notion of the Vanguard. However, whether the source be Heidegger or certain Marxists, the wave toward elitism, in one form or another, remains a problem in Marcuse's work.
In 1932 Marcuse published one of the first reviews of the newly published 1844 Manuscripts entitled “Neue Quellen zur Grundlegung des historischen Materialismus” (New Sources on the Foundation of Historical Materialism), According to Marcuse, the 1844 Manuscripts would accomplish two things.
These manuscripts could put the discussion about the origins and original meaning of historical materialism, and the entire theory of “scientific socialism,” on a new footing. They also make it possible to pose the question of the actual connections between Marx and Hegel in a more fruitful way. (Wolin 2005: 86)
However, these manuscripts also provided Marcuse with the necessary theoretical tools needed for developing a critical, philosophical anthropology that would aid him in the development of his own brand of critical theory.
In this context “anthropology” does not refer to the study of past cultures etc, as it often does in the United States. Instead, it refers to the German idea of anthropology which is more of a philosophical and social scientific examination of human nature. The 1844 Manuscripts are important for Marcuse because in them Marx provides a philosophical foundation for his later critique of political economy as well as an action-theoretic, philosophical anthropology. Philosophical categories such as labor, objectification, alienation, sublation, property, etc, all explored in Hegel's philosophy was scrutinized dialectically by Marx (Kellner 1984: 79).
In a nutshell, what Marcuse sees in the 1844 Manuscripts is an analysis of the social conditions for a communist revolution. The revolution itself requires the development of radical subjectivity. Radical subjectivity refers to the development of a form of self-consciousness that finds present social and economic conditions intolerable. The radical act is a refusal of these conditions and an orientation toward social transformation. To make sense of Marcuse's position we must ask what are these intolerable conditions and how are they produced? Philosophical anthropology and radical subjectivity are connected here insofar as the intolerable conditions that must be overcome by revolution or the radical act represent social distortions of the human essence. It is Marx and Hegel who provided Marcuse with a philosophical anthropology that discloses human essence and the social mechanisms by which it is distorted. The key category here is that of “alienation” which cannot be understood without examining the role of labor and objectification.
According to Marcuse, Hegel, and Marx, human beings develop through a self-formative process wherein the external world (nature) is appropriated and transformed according to human needs. Labor is one of the main areas for this self-formative activity. The idea that labor is an essential part of a self-formative process is what distinguishes Marx from the classical economists such as Smith, Ricardo, etc. In classical economics, labor is simply the means by which individuals make provisions for themselves and their families. In these theories labor is not viewed as that activity by which the human subject is constituted. The Marxian view of labor as a self-formative process is what makes possible the Marxian theory of alienation and revolution.
Marcuse argues that in the 1844 Manuscripts Marx shows how the role of labor as a self-realization or self-formative process gets inverted. Instead of having his or her subjectivity affirmed the individual becomes an object that is now shaped by external, alien forces. Hence, Marx's theory makes a transition from an examination of the self-formative process of labor to a critique of the forms of alienation caused by the historical facticity of capitalism. Within the historical facticity of capitalism
this fact appears as the total inversion and concealment of what critique had defined as the essence of man and human labor. Labor is not “free activity” or the universal and free self-realization of man, but his enslavement and loss of reality. The worker is not man in the totality of his life-expression, but something unessential [ein Unwesen], the purely physical subject of “abstract” activity. The objects of labor are not expressions and confirmations of the human reality of the worker, but alien things, belonging to someone other than the worker—“commodities.” (Marcuse 2005: 104)
Marcuse will spend the rest of his life carrying out the investigations began in these early works. What distinguishes his project from Marx's is the way in which each will deal with the problem of concealment mentioned in the above quote. Marx will develop two different but related approaches. His critique of political economy is an attempt to disclose the inner logic of capitalism (how it works) as well as the contradictions that will lead to the collapse of capitalism. The second approach is to work out a theory of revolution which presupposes the awakening of self-consciousness in the working class. In both approaches concealment will give way to disclosure and social transformation. We saw earlier that Marx's predictions did not come true on either account. This failure in part led to what has been called the crisis of Marxism to which the birth of the Frankfurt School was a response. Marcuse's work will go through many phases as he tries to unlock the key to revolutionary action. The next key move for him is to engage in a deeper study of Hegel as a source for critical social theory.
In 1941 Marcuse's studies of Marx and Hegel culminated in a book entitled Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (1941 ). This book accomplished several things. First, it disclosed the role of Hegel's most critical, revolutionary, and emancipatory concepts in the development of Marx's critical philosophy. Secondly, it rescued Hegel from the charge that his social and political philosophy was conservative and legitimated the oppressive Prussian state. The third great accomplishment, or at least goal, embodies the first two accomplishments and is perhaps the most important for the formation of Marcuse's form of critical theory. The Hegelian/Marxian notion of dialectic or what Marcuse will call negative thinking becomes a central element in Marcuse's critical theory. In part, Reason and Revolution is not an attempt to rescue Hegel, but rather, it is an attempt to rescue dialectical or negative thinking. Marcuse makes this clear in a new preface to the 1960 edition of the book. The new preface entitled “A Note on Dialectic” can actually stand on its own as a guide to reading and understanding Marcuse. Marcuse begins with the claim that this book is an attempt to rescue a form of thinking or a mental faculty which is in danger of being obliterated (Marcuse 1960: vii).
The purpose of dialectical or negative thinking is to expose and then overcome by revolutionary action the contradictions by which advanced industrial societies are constituted. The problem of concealment occurs here because not only does society produce contradictions and the forms of domination that come with them, it also produces the social and psychological mechanisms that conceal these contradictions. An example of a social contradiction is the co-existence of the growth of national wealth and poverty at the same time. Those who own, control, and influence the means of production (the minority) grow richer while the workers (the minority) grow poorer. The idea that the unbridled attempt by the rich to become richer will somehow allow their wealth to trickle down so that all will benefit has been proven false as the gap between the rich and poor continues to grow. However, the trickle down ideology is still very effective. The capitalist belief that unbridled competition is good for everyone conceals the goal of purging society of competition by allowing large corporations to buy out their competition.
In this situation, the worker, through her labor does not become a free and rational subject, but rather, an object to be used by the economic system, a system that is a human creation, but over which the worker has no control. In the capitalist system, the worker is used as an object for the sake of production while not reaping the full benefits of production. In such a situation the worker is not able to actualize his or her potential as a free and rational human being but is instead reduced to a life of toil for the sake of survival. The existence of the worker puts under erasure his or her essence. The task of dialectical thinking is to bring this situation to consciousness. Once this situation is brought to consciousness it can be resolved through revolutionary practice. Thus, Douglas Kellner writes:
The central concepts presented are precisely those of the book's title, “reason” and “revolution”. Reason distinguishes between existence and essence through conceptualizing unrealized potentialities, norms and ideals that are to be realized in social practice. If social conditions prevent their realization, reason calls for revolution. (Kellner 1984: 131)
Marcuse's concept of essence is not transcendental but historical. That is, there is no human essence apart from historical context. Within the context of historical happening, within material existence, what the human being could potentially be is already present. For example, it seems logical to assert that no human being would want to spend his or her entire life engaged in alienating labor just to remain in poverty. Nevertheless, this is precisely the situation in which many human beings find themselves. However, essence is embedded in this historical appearance insofar as the potential for the worker to be free from exploitation and alienating toil is present as a real possibility that need only be actualized. In the society wherein the worker works there is enough wealth (produced by the worker) to free the worker of endless toil. In an essay entitled “The Concept of Essence” Marcuse writes: “Materialist theory thus transcends the given state of fact and moves toward a different potentiality, proceeding from immediate appearance to the essence that appears in it. But here appearance and essence become members of a real antithesis arising from the particular historical structure of the social process of life” (Marcuse 1968b: 67).
The above passage is crucial for understanding the theme of Reason and Revolution and Marcuse's famous later work One-Dimensional Man (1964) (which will be discussed later). His concept of essence is not static or transcendental. Essence presents itself as the possibility of a free non-alienating, non-repressive form of life within a particular historical, social/political structure. Appearance (the present order of things) is in contradiction to the very possibilities that are produced by the present social reality. For example, the capitalist mode of production has made it possible for all members of our society to live non-alienating and fruitful lives. However, many are still in poverty. Dialectical or negative thinking sees this contradiction and attempts to negate such circumstances.
The concept of negation is best understood by distinguishing between two levels of negation in capitalist societies. The concept of negation employed by Marcuse is actually a critical response to a prior form of negation. This prior form of negation will be referred to as negation1 and the response to it as negation2. Negation1 is the negation of human essence or freedom by an oppressive, repressive socio/economic system. Here the potential for liberation, self-development, self-determination, the good life, etc are all put under erasure by various forms of domination. Hence, the human individual is negated. Negation2 refers to the development of critical, revolutionary consciousness that seeks to negate these oppressive social structures. The goal of negation2 is liberation (Farr 2009: 85–86).
There are many other features of Reason and Revolution that are worth discussing here, especially Marcuse's critique of positivism. However, these issues will come up again in other works that will be discussed later. Suffice it to say that at this point Marcuse presents negative thinking as an alternative to what he will later call one-dimensional thinking. It is through negative thinking and revolution that liberation becomes possible. In the next section we will examine another possibility for liberation.
Psychoanalysis was an essential theoretical tool for the Frankfurt School from the beginning. When Max Horkheimer took over as director in 1931 he had already been influenced by psychoanalysis (Abromeit 2011: 192–195). Soon after becoming director he would bring Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm on board. The initial goal was to use psychoanalytic theory to understand the psyche of the working class. That is, the goal was to understand why those who would benefit most from a revolution of social change seemed to resist it. Marcuse does not engage psychoanalysis until later. Although he will make the same use of psychoanalysis as his colleagues, Marcuse also develops his own unique approach to and interpretation of psychoanalytic theory. While Eros and Civilization is a work on Freud and is replete with the language of psychoanalysis, it is as Marxian as it is Freudian. The name Marx will not be mentioned in the text, and rarely will Marxian categories be introduced. Nevertheless, the Freudian categories are bent toward a Marxist/Marxian type of analysis of advanced industrial societies.
Although Marcuse had read Freud in the 1920s and 1930s, his serious engagement did not begin until the 1950s. Marcuse was invited to give a series of lectures in 1950–51 by the Washington School of Psychiatry. The result of this engagement was one of Marcuse's most famous books, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Marcuse's book is a response to the pessimism of Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930 ). Freud's book paints a bleak picture of the evolution of civilization as the evolution of greater and greater repression from which there seems to be no escape. The death and life instincts are engaged in a battle for dominance with no clear winner in sight. According to Marcuse, Freud fails to develop the emancipatory possibility of his own theory. Marcuse's task is two-fold. First, he must show that human instincts or drives are not merely biological and fixed, but rather, are social, historical, and malleable. Secondly, he must show that the repressive society also produces the possibility of the abolition of repression (Marcuse 1955: 5).
That the instincts can be repressed already suggest that society and its form of organization plays a role in shaping the instincts. If this is the case, the instincts cannot be fixed. As society and its mechanisms of repression change so does the instincts. Marcuse claims that:
The vicissitudes of the instincts are the vicissitudes of the mental apparatus in civilization. The animal drive become human instincts under the influence of the external reality. (Marcuse 1955: 11–12)
In this transformation of the animal drives into human instincts there is a transformation of the pleasure principle into the reality principle (Marcuse 1955: 12). In Civilization and its Discontents Freud claimed the it was the program of the pleasure principle that decided the purpose of life (Freud 1961 : 25). However, the external world does not conform to the dictates of the pleasure principle and is even hostile toward it. Hence, the pleasure principle reverts, turns inward, is repressed.
For Marcuse, liberation means a freeing up of the pleasure principle. However, he realizes that if human beings are to co-exist some degree of repression is necessary. That is, if one acted simply according to the demands of the pleasure principle this would lead to an infringement on the freedom of others. Hence, there has to be a mutual limiting of freedom and happiness if we are to co-exist. It is with regards to this problem that Marcuse comes up with one of his most creative modifications of Freud's theory.
Marcuse introduces two new terms to distinguish between the biological vicissitudes of the instincts and the social. Basic repression refers to the type of repression or modification of the instincts that is necessary “for the perpetuation of the human race in civilization” (Marcuse 1955: 35). At this level repression does not lend itself to domination or oppression. Surplus repression, on the other hand, refers to “the restrictions necessitated by social domination” (Marcuse 1955: 35). The purpose of surplus repression is to shape the instincts in accordance with the present “performance principle” which is “the prevailing form of the reality principle” (Marcuse 1955: 35).
It is in this idea of the performance principle where Marx and Freud meet.
The performance principle, which is that of an acquisitive and antagonistic society in the process of constant expansion, presupposes a long development during which domination has been increasingly rationalized: control over social labor now reproduces society on a large scale and under improving conditions. For a long way, the interests of domination and the interests of the whole coincide: the profitable utilization of the productive apparatus fulfills the needs and faculties of individuals. For the vast majority of the population, the scope and mode of satisfaction are determined by their own labor; but their labor is work for an apparatus which they do not control, which operates as an independent power to which individuals must submit if they want to live. And it becomes the more alien the more specialized the division of labor becomes. Men do not live their own lives but perform pre-established functions. While they work, they do not fulfill their own needs and faculties but work in alienation. (Marcuse 1955: 45)
Marcuse's point here is that while work is necessary for the maintenance of life, in our society there has been a transition from the basic amount of work needed to maintain life to what we might call surplus work. There is a distinction here between the work that is needed for one's satisfaction and work that is needed for the apparatus. The worker has no control insofar as he has no say in what his wages will be and cannot determine the amount of work that is needed to meet his needs. Work in a capitalist society extends itself beyond what is required for the satisfaction of the worker to what will maximize profit for the capitalist. The “pre-established function” of the worker is to produce commodities and maximize profit for the capitalist. The worker must work to live but the conditions under which she works is determined by the apparatus.
Being used by the apparatus requires conformity with the apparatus. This is what Marcuse means by the performance principle. Members of society must perform according to the dictates of their pre-established function. This performance requires the restriction of the libido. The worker must be manipulated in such a way so that these restrictions seem to function as rational, external objective laws which are then internalized by the individual. The desires of the individual must conform to the desires of the apparatus. The individual must define himself as the apparatus defines all humanity. As Marcuse puts it, “he desires what he is supposed to desire” (Marcuse 1955: 46).
Although Marcuse's theory of repression and the recognition of two forms of repression is a useful theoretical tool for understanding why we have not entered a revolutionary period, it falls short of explaining how desires are manipulated in such a way that one-dimensional identities are formed. One of the most interesting and fruitful criticisms of what is now called the “repression hypothesis” (Foucault 1976 : 17–49). For Foucault, forms of subjectivity or identity are not a result of the repression of some primordial desire. Rather, identities are formed through power and certain discursive practices. Further, in the process of identity-formation knowledge is not repressed but rather, called forth or produced. In his critique of Marcuse, Foucault writes:
I would also distinguish myself from para-Marxist like Marcuse who give the notion of repression an exaggerated role—because power would be a fragile thing if its only function were to repress, if it worked only through the mode of censorship, exclusion, blockage and repression, in the manner of a great Superego, exercising itself only in a negative way. If, on the contrary, power is strong this is because, as we are beginning to realize, it produces effects at the level of desire—and also at the level of knowledge. Far from preventing knowledge, power produces it. (Foucault 1980: 59)
Chapter Five of Eros and Civilization entitled “Philosophical Interlude” occurs as a bit of a rupture in the text. After discussion the Freudian theory of the instincts for four chapters, Marcuse takes a break from Freud and engages philosophy instead. However, this break is consistent with the purpose of the book. One of Marcuse's main concerns in all of his work is the rationalization of domination. This will be a major theme in One-Dimensional Man. This chapter also gives us a clue as to why Freud is so important for critical theory. Freud is put in opposition to the entire western philosophical tradition. The problem with the western philosophical tradition is that it constructs a view of rationality that is in compliance with the oppressive function of rationality or the form of rationality that supports domination. For example, the Kantian notion of moral duty for the sake of duty subordinates happiness to duty. Although Kant provides good reasons for this, he does not adequately address the need for happiness. According to Kant following the moral law makes one worthy of happiness perhaps in the afterlife, but there is no real concern for happiness in the present world.
Marcuse's criticism of western philosophy is very similar to recent criticisms by feminists and Africana philosophers. That is, philosophy tends to treat human beings as pure, abstract consciousness. The body and the passions are to be subdued by reason or Logos. Marcuse does not intend to subjugate Logos (reason) to Eros (desire). He simply wants to return Eros to its proper place as equal to Logos. It is Freud who recognizes the central role of Eros as a motivating factor in human action.
One of the most important features of Marcuse's work is his dialectical analysis of western society. In his work he tries to bring attention to the co-existence of possibilities for liberation and the further development of mechanisms of domination. Our society produces the necessary conditions for freedom while at the same time producing greater oppression.
The very progress of civilization under the performance principle has attained a level of productivity at which the social demands upon instinctual energy to be spent in alienated labor could be considerably reduced (Marcuse 1955: 129)
The capitalist performance principle (the maximization of production and profit) has actually created the preconditions for a qualitatively different and non-repressive form of life. However, we have not entered into this new form of life as more repression is demanded.
Individual workers continue to engage in alienating labor although their labor has produced enough wealth to sustain them without ongoing toil. The problem is that the capitalist system is structured in such a way that all of the wealth goes to the minority who own or control the means of production. Although wealth is socially produced, its ownership and use is restricted to a few individuals. Hence the concept of scarcity has become obsolete and is used in an ideological sense to control the worker. The inhibitions and forms of repression that the worker must impose on himself so that he may direct his libidinal energy toward work goes beyond producing the goods that he or she needs for survival and instead produces extreme wealth for the capitalist. It is here where Marcuse, relying on his distinction between basic and surplus repression goes beyond Freud. Regarding Freud's metapsychology Marcuse says:
For his metapsychology, it is not decisive whether the inhibitions are imposed by scarcity or by the hierarchical distribution of scarcity, by the struggle for existence or by the interest in domination. (Marcuse 1955: 134)
Marcuse's point is that in advanced industrial societies there is no longer a problem with acquiring the resources need for existence or even the optimum life for members of those societies. The problem is with the fair and just distribution of resources. The very existence of the concept of scarcity in this age functions ideologically and supports the domination of the worker by the capitalist.
While the first half of Eros and Civilization does not sound any more optimistic than the conclusion of Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, it does move from diagnosis to prognosis or from critique to hope. At the diagnostic level Marcuse examines the form of social pathology that permeates advanced industrial societies. The conclusion is that capitalism demands a level of surplus repression that supports the development of the death instinct and social domination. However, repression is never complete. Even Freud was aware of the incompleteness of repression in a 1915 essay simply entitled “Repression”. Both Freud and Marcuse recognize that repressed instincts never go away, but continue to assert themselves in one way or another. The erotic drive, which is the builder of culture, continues to assert itself in its conflict with the death instinct. According to Marcuse, the erotic drive for happiness and pleasure lives on in fantasies, art, and utopian visions.
The second half of Eros and Civilization is devoted to the work of fantasy and the imagination. Marcuse builds a case for the emancipatory function of the imagination with the support of his reconstruction of Freud, Kant, Schiller and others. His main point is that through the imagination we can envision a better world. This is not a blind utopian vision insofar as the resources for creating a qualitatively better form of life already exists. At the prognostic level, Marcuse argues for a fusion of Logos and Eros. This fusion he refers to as the “rationality of gratification” (Marcuse 1955: 224). Here, the struggle for existence is based on co-operation and the free development and fulfillment of needs.
Although Eros and Civilization is one of Marcuse's more optimistic works and it offered a new and radical interpretation of Freud as well, it is not without controversy. Marcuse's attempt to make Freud's drive theory central to an emancipatory critical theory drew criticisms from several sources. I will discuss the response by some feminists in a later section.
In an Epilogue to Eros and Civilization entitled “Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism” Marcuse accuses several prominent psychoanalysts of revising Freud's work in such a way that it is purged of its critical implications. These revisionists use psychoanalysis to develop a conformist psychology rather than a critical one. This led to an open debate between Marcuse and a former member of the Institute Erich Fromm. The debate took place in the mid 1950s in journal Dissent. Marcuse believed that Fromm and others had rejected some of Freud's key insights such as his libidinal theory, the death instinct, the Oedipus complex, the primal horde of patricides, etc.
The essential problem for Marcuse, was that as the years went by, Fromm moved further and further away from the instinctual basis of human personality. He had instead embraced “positive thinking which leaves the negative where it is—predominant over human existence” (Friedman 2013: 195).
Fromm's approach differed from Marcuse's insofar as he was more concerned with the role that society played in shaping one's character. This different approach does not mean that Fromm has become less critical. Fromm is perhaps correct in his claim that Marcuse misread him. Given Fromm's continued commitment to Marxism it is not likely that he would reduce psychoanalysis to a conformist psychology. What appears to be positive thinking in Fromm's work is really not far from what Marcuse was after himself in Eros and Civilization. That is, Fromm, in a way that differed from Marcuse, was attempting to rescue Eros the builder of culture from the oppressive forces of capitalism. The Fromm/Marcuse debate represents an unfortunate moment in the history of critical theory where two major thinkers spoke right past each other.
The first chapter of One-Dimensional Man begins with the following sentence:
A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. (Marcuse 1964: 1)
One-Dimensional Man is a further analysis of the worry at the center of Reason and Revolution, the whittling down of critical or negative thinking. As we saw earlier, negative thinking is two-dimensional as it sees the contradictions by which society is constituted and it is aware of forces of domination. The person who thinks critically demands social change. One-dimensional thinking does not demand change nor does it recognize the degree to which the individual is a victim of forces of domination in society.
The idea of a democratic unfreedom refers to the free acceptance of oppression and surplus repression. In One-Dimensional Man and in Eros and Civilization Marcuse makes a decisive move beyond Marx and Freud in his explanation of the containment of social change. He uses Freud to go beyond Marx insofar as Freud helps us understand the psychological mechanisms at work in individuals who accept surplus repression. However, he goes beyond Freud insofar as Freud's theory of the super ego is obsolete. That is, in Freud's theory the super ego develops through the internalization of the values of some authority figure. According to Marcuse, the authority figure is no longer needed. The super ego has become depersonalized and is no longer fed by authority figures such as the father, ministers, teachers, the principle etc. He writes:
But these personal father-images have gradually disappeared behind the institutions. With the rationalization of the productive apparatus, with the multiplication of functions, all domination assumes the form of administration. (Marcuse 1955: 98)
Marcuse's point is that domination no longer requires force or the presence of an authority figure. The function of one-dimensional thinking is to produce a one-dimensional society by whittling down critical, two-dimensional consciousness. This is accomplished in several ways which will simply be listed here.
- The system must make the citizens think that they are freer than they really are.
- The system must provide the citizens with enough goods to keep them pacified.
- The citizens must identify with their oppressors.
- Political discourse must be put under erasure.
There is not enough space here to examine each of these. One example should suffice. It was shown earlier that the purpose of dialectical or negative thinking was to reveal social contradictions and demand the overcoming of those contradictions through social change. One-dimensional thinking smoothes over these contradictions, makes them invisible. A form of ideology is put in place where the oppressed identifies with the oppressor. People feel a sense of unity simply because they watch the same TV programs, or support the same sport teams. etc. In politics, vague terms are used such as the American people or the American way of life to hide the very different ways that people in America actually experience America. The American way of life differs greatly between the rich and those Americans who suffer from poverty.
Another example of one-dimensional thinking is the subject of Marcuse famous and controversial essay “Repressive Tolerance”. Here Marcuse shows how terms, ideas, or concepts that have their origin in struggles for liberation can be co-opted and used to legitimate oppression. The concept of tolerance was once used as a critical concept by marginalized social groups. According to Marcuse, the term is now used by the Establishment to legitimate its own oppressive views and policies. It is the idea of pure tolerance or tolerance for the sake of tolerance that puts under erasure the real concrete social conflict out of which the concept emerged. Rather than pure tolerance, Marcuse calls for “discriminating tolerance” (Marcuse 1968a: 123).
In their famous book Dialectic of Enlightenment Marcuse's colleagues Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno attempted to demonstrate the Enlightenment embodied a tension between its own project of liberation and its own new mechanisms of oppression and domination. For Marcuse, modern technology (a product of the Enlightenment) embodies a similar tension. The question for him was “what role does technology play in the project of human emancipation?” The technological boom has been supported by the idea that there is some fundamental connection between technological development and the human quest for liberation and a better life. However, we were disabused of this idea by Freud and many others. The question now is “does technological advance lead to more repression and domination?”
Marcuse's critical theory is always dialectical, as he examines forms of oppression and domination he also sees at the same time the potential for liberation. In an essay entitled “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology” written in 1941, Marcuse makes an important distinction between technology and technics. He would continue to employ some version of this distinction for the rest of his life when writing about technology. In this essay he says:
In this article, technology is taken as a social process in which technics proper (that is, the technical apparatus of industry, transportation, communication) is but a partial factor. We do not ask for the influence or effect of technology on human individuals. For they are themselves an integral part and factor of technology, not only as the men who invent or attend to machinery but also as the social groups which direct its application and utilization. Technology, as a mode of production, as the totality of instruments, devices and contrivances which characterize the machine age is thus at the same time a mode of organization and perpetuating (or changing) social relationships, a manifestation of prevalent thought and behavior patterns, an instrument for control and domination. Technics by itself can promote authoritarianism as well as liberty, scarcity as well as abundance, the extension as well as the abolition of toil. (Marcuse 1998)
On the basis of the above passage it may sound as if technics is neutral as it can promote either oppression or liberation. However, this is not the case. Marcuse makes this clear in another essay entitled “The Problem of Social Change in the Technological Society” written twenty years later. Also, in a 1960 essay entitled “From Ontology to Technology”, using the term “technicity” instead of “technics” he again rejects the neutrality of technics or technicity. By “technics”, Marcuse means the devices or instruments that are used to transform nature in the service of human beings.
Technics is the methodological negation of nature by human thought and action. In this negation, natural conditions and relations become instrumentalities for the preservation, enlargement, and refinement of human society. (Marcuse 2011: 45)
By “Technology”, Marcuse means the mode of production or the totality of instruments, devices, etc.
If technology refers to a mode of production or totality of instruments, then as such it is situated within a certain ideological structure, indeed, it is a form of ideology which determines the form of machinery for a particular form of production as well as that form of production itself. Here, “ideology” simply refers to a belief system or a way of thinking which would include the telos or purpose of all social thought and action.
At the level of technics, a machine can be considered neutral only as pure matter, but in a technological society no such machine exists, hence, technics is not neutral. Every machine is constituted within a web of social, political, economic meaning, an ensemble of social relations. Technics exists within a certain mode of production as well as in certain relations of production. Every technical item is given a mission and is to further the goals of the present reality principle or capitalist performance principle. There is a dialectic involved here insofar as even if modern technology has its origin in a repressive, oppressive, capitalist reality principle, this same technology carries with in itself other possibilities.
Marcuse believed that it was possible to conceive of technology under an entirely new reality principle. In the capitalist system, technics and its governing technological ideology is based on the performance principle of competition and production and must serve the goals set by this performance principle. Even if scarcity is no longer a real problem, the idea and fear of scarcity are taken up and put to work for the ideology of production for the sake of production and competition for the sake of competition. We are never told that at this moment we have the necessary resources to end world hunger. Instead, we are told that more and more technological progress will end the problem of scarcity.
According to Marcuse, the use that is made of technology is ideologically shaped by the present reality principle. It is this oppressive/repressive reality principle that shapes the telos of technological development. Hence, neither technology nor technics can be neutral because the entire meaning and purpose of such has its birth within a reality and performance principle that as Marcuse has reminded us, does not have the liberation and happiness of all human beings as its goal. The entire technological and technical apparatus is given its form and mission by the ruling class.
According to Marcuse, a new sensibility, that is, a reshaping of human relationships with each other as well as with nature would usher in a new reality principle. With this new reality principle would come a new mission or telos for technology. Under this new reality principle it would be unthinkable to associate technological progress with the building of bombs and more sophisticated instruments of death.
Although the form of critique in some of Marcuse's works and the use of concepts such as one-dimensionality may cause one to read a bit of pessimism into Marcuse's texts, nothing could be more problematic than such a reading. The social reality in advanced industrial societies is that very sophisticated systems of domination are in place and they are capable of transforming themselves to meet the challenge of any movement for liberation. However, as Marx and Engels warned in The Communist Manifesto, “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism” (Marx and Engels 1848 : 55). For Marcuse, the specter of liberation haunted advanced industrial societies. One might even say that Marcuse's own critical theory was haunted by the specter of liberation. That is, at one level Marcuse engaged in a critique of oppressive social structures so that the door for revolution and liberation could be opened. At another level, Marcuse would modify his theory to make room for various form of resistance that he saw developing in oppressive societies. Marcuse was at once a teacher of revolutionary consciousness and a student.
Although he was called the guru of the student movements in the 1960s, he rejected this title because he was also learning from these movements. The hope for revolution lay within individuals who in there very being have grown weary with their own repression. The student movements of the 60s was not based on class struggle, but rather, a rejection of their own repression as well as a growing lack of tolerance for war and waste. In the Preface to An Essay on Liberation while reflecting on the student revolt of 1968 Marcuse says:
In proclaiming the “permanent challenge,” (la contestation permanente), the “permanent education,” the Great Refusal, they recognized the mark of social repression, even in the most sublime manifestations of traditional culture, even in the most spectacular manifestations of technical progress. They have again raised a specter (and this time a specter which haunts not only the bourgeoisie but all exploitative bureaucracies): the specter of a revolution which subordinates the development of productive forces and higher standards of living to the requirements of creating solidarity for the human species, for abolishing poverty and misery beyond all national frontiers and spheres of interest, for the attainment of peace. (Marcuse 1969: ix–x)
The student protests of the 1960s were a form of Great Refusal, a saying “NO” to multiple forms of repression and domination. This Great Refusal demands a new/liberated society. This new society requires what Marcuse calls the new sensibility which is an ascension of the life instincts over the aggressive instincts (Marcuse 1969: 23). This idea of a new sensibility is yet another move beyond Marxism insofar as it requires much more than new power relations. It requires the cultivation of new forms of subjectivity. Human subjectivity in its present form is the product of systems of domination. We rid society of its systems of domination by ridding it of the forms of subjectivity formed by those systems and replacing them with new forms of subjectivity. This is why Marcuse was so interested in the feminist movement. He saw in this movement the potential for radical social change. The process of rethinking femininity and masculinity could be the beginning of redefining male subjectivity so that it develops in a way that males become less aggressive.
The cultivation of a new sensibility would transform the relationship between human beings and nature as well as the relationships between human beings. The new sensibility is the medium of social change that mediates between the political practice of changing the world and one's own drive for personal liberation (Marcuse 2007: 234).
Marcuse's search for a form radical subjectivity that could serve as an impetus for revolution or social transformation led him down a path not traveled by his Frankfurt School colleagues. Indeed, one of the criticisms of Marcuse is that he gave in to pessimism and gave up on the working class as revolutionary subject. For Marcuse, we must look to “the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, etc,” for any social change (MacIntyre 1970: 87).
One of the social movements that Marcuse turns to is the feminist movement. On March 7, 1974 Marcuse gave a paper at Stanford University entitled, “Marxism and Feminism”. In it he states:
I believe the women's liberation movement today is, perhaps the most important and potentially the most radical political movement that we have. (Marcuse 2005: 165)
For Marcuse, the women's liberation movement was important not only for the liberation of women, but also for the liberation of all oppressed people in our society. His hope was that the struggle for the liberation of women would create a new type of performance principle and aid in the cultivation of a new sensibility. In short, certain feminine qualities would replace brutish, violent, masculine qualities. Marcuse actually advocated a form of androgyny.
One of the main criticisms of Marcuse's attitude toward feminism is that he simply reinforces gendered stereotypes as falls back into essentialism. Nina Power has recently defended Marcuse against this charge. Her argument is similar to the one that Marcuse made in an interview with Brian Magee in 1978. Power and Marcuse both argues that although so-called feminine categories are social constructs, they still can be universalized in such a way that all human beings develop a new sensibility. Power states that:
Feminist socialism would universalize these so-called feminine characteristics so that they were no longer specifically “feminine” at all but would characterize all culture, culminating in androgyny. Residual aggression would be channeled into “the destruction of the ugly destructiveness of capitalism,” in Marcuse's rather neat phrase. “Feminism is a revolt against decaying capitalism” and will ultimately have to develop its “own morality”. (Power 2013: 79)
Feminists such as Jessica Benjamin and Nancy Chodorow have pointed out a particular weakness in Marcuse's critical theory that was never addressed by Marcuse himself. For both thinkers, Marcuse's reliance on Freud's drive theory as that which might produce the need for social change is inadequate because he fails to account for the intersubjective development of the individual.
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In recent years, light, rapid-reaction forces have become a staple of U.S. military strategy and planning. Instead of defending predetermined regions with large, prepositioned forces, current U.S. plans call for quick and decisive deployments of lightly armed forces into locations of potential or actual hostilities. Equipping these forces with new or expected-to-be-developed hunter/killer capabilities — a combination of standoff weapons, sophisticated reconnaissance and targeting systems, and efficient counterbattery weapons — would greatly increase their lethality and survivability. Such an arsenal would be more effective than these forces' current firepower, which relies heavily on direct-fire, line-of-sight technologies, and would allow light forces to carry out the wider range of missions that military strategists have envisioned for them. These conclusions are supported by recent RAND research on the Rapid-Force Projection Initiative (RFPI), one of the Pentagon's new advanced-concept technology demonstrations. Using computer simulations, RAND analysts examined, compared, and contrasted new technologies and systems that would allow light forces to better withstand and overcome attacks from larger, more heavily armed forces in varying terrain. This annotated briefing presents results from a "quick look" analysis that was requested by the RFPI sponsoring office. The intention of the analysis is to provide decisionmakers with an assessment of the effectiveness of differing advanced indirect fire weapon alternatives to the light airborne forces. This briefing is a companion document to DB-168-A/OSD, Rapid Force Projection: Exploring New Technology Concepts for Light Airborne Forces, R. Steeb, J. Matsumura, et al., 1996. | <urn:uuid:9fb97f2e-ed81-46b6-be7b-bbb9d87c2f15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB169.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.923566 | 342 | 2.390625 | 2 |
A brief outline of the history of Motorbike Drag Racing
What is Motorbike Drag Racing?
Going for a straight dash of more than 1/4 of a mile from any going starting point in the shortest time gap is Drag Racing. What has become a new and intriguing form of racing in the United States has become a massive rage.
How did it start?
Although it is not as old as it may seem, drag racing has emerged from the initial illegal racing matches post the 1940s. During those times, these bike racing games were common in rural areas. These races would take place on the dirt roads. Most of the participants of these races were high school children. Teenagers would routine “soup up” their rebuilt bikes and use them to show off their racing and biking skills.
There is supposed to be a reason behind that 1/4-mile distance that Motorbike Drag Racing follows. Apparently, this distance is easily measured across a single stretch of rural road. Another reason for this particular distance is that anything longer could be dangerous. Even the worn out cars are able to reach the 100 mph milestone in this quarter of a distance.
No one would have missed the picture-perfect scenes of two bikes standing parallel to each other with a plummet in the distance. Some popular novels also revolved around motorbike drag racing such as “Hot Rod.” This novel popularized the concept of ‘hot rodding’ and converted it into a phenomenon.
What is the status today?
Today, drag racing is not as popular with young students as it was for that generation. The bikers these days are fond of bigger and better machines. This way, drag biking is closer to being a mechanical form of racing than a driver’s form.
Drag bike racing is definitely a lot about bikes now than the skill of the driver. So don’t go by what you see in “Rebel Without a Cause.” That won’t give you the right explanation. Drag biking is about amazing machines that know how to behave in environments ranging from muddy to slushy.Drag racing also has some boundaries now, which helps to keep the users safe. Using equipment such as fiberglass bodies, roll cages, and fire suppression are mandatory.
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42 Defence-Related Air Accidents In 3 Years
As many as 42 defence and paramilitary personnel have died in 42 air accidents over the last three years in India, according to government data.
That toll may go up, with an Indian Coast Guard Dornier surveillance aircraft, along with three crew members, missing off the coast of Chennai.
Search operations have been intensified according to Ministry of Defence.
#ICGDornier Search intensified for the missing a/c. Survey ship INS Sandhayak wid portable equipment rushed 2 last known position of a/c.-1— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) June 10, 2015
This is the second incident this year involving a Dornier.
An Indian Navy Dornier (IN 240) crashed about 25 nautical miles off the coast of Goa on 24th March 2015, killing two crew members.
Over the past three years, 42 air crashes have been reported: 28 fixed-wing aircraft and 14 helicopters.
*Figures for 2014-15 upto 25.02.2015
Of 28 aircraft crashes, 14 have been of MiG aircrafts - dubbed “flying coffins” by pilots.
As many as 198 MiG aircraft of different variants have crashed over the last 20 years; 151 IAF pilots and co-pilots have lost their lives in various air crashes over the last two decades, as IndiaSpend previously reported.
The government has lost aircraft and related property valued at an estimated Rs 1,127.37 crore ($ 177 million) with respect to 26 of 42 accidents assessed.
Coastal patrols are carried out daily, with up to eight aircrafts and 19 to 22 Coast Guard vessels.
Surveillance on the west coast has increased substantially post the 26/11 terror attack, with between four and six aircraft and nine to 12 ships deployed every day.
The first Dornier squadron was commissioned as 750 SQN (ICG) at Daman in January 1987.
The role of these squadrons include search, rescue, reconnaissance and shadow and security patrols of offshore installations and oil rigs.
(Mallapur is a policy analyst with IndiaSpend.)
Image Credit: Indian Coast Guard
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Purpose: Measuring professional behavior is problematic not least because the concept of professionalism is difficult to define. The authors describe a measurement tool that does not rely on qualitative judgments from respondents but, nonetheless, clearly correlates with individuals' subjective views about what constitutes professional behavior.
Method: The authors devised the Conscientiousness Index (CI) of medical students' performance in years 1 (n = 116) and 2 (n = 108) in 2006-2007. The CI scores were based on a range of objective measures of conscientiousness, including attendance and submission of required information (such as immunization status or summative assessments) by a deadline. The validity of this instrument was tested against (1) staff views of the professional behavior of individual students and (2) critical incident reports.
Results: The trait of conscientiousness, as measured by the CI, showed good correlation with the construct of professionalism as perceived by staff views of individual students' professional behavior. There was also a relationship with the frequency of critical incident reporting. Together, these observations support the validity of the approach. Reliability and practicality were also acceptable.
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A day of play: National Heritage Week celebrates Wild Child Day
Wild Child Day will take place on Wednesday, 18th August and the Heritage Council is encouraging children and families to drop the devices, and get outdoors to explore heritage in their locality.
Heritage project organisers have embraced this message and in preparation for National Heritage Week, have been working to create projects showcasing ‘heritage for all ages’.
To help get those younger heritage enthusiasts started, here are a selection of activities taking place this year during Wild Child Day.
Online children’s crafts: Build a Viking longship with Kim Jenkinson (Co. Dublin – South Dublin, online)
This Zoom craft workshop will explore how the Vikings built their famous longships and children will learn how to design and create their own miniature models. Material packs will be available for collection at the Clondalkin Library one week prior to the event. More…
In Search of Otter Poo: Otter ID on Mulkear River (Co. Limerick, in-person)
Become a nature detective at this family friendly event in Limerick. Ruairí Ó Conchúir of the Local Authority Waters Programme will explain the amazing world of the European Otter and the biodiversity of the Mulkear River at Annacotty. Ruairí will outline the role of otter poo in otter identification and discuss otter habitat, diet, instream and riparian biodiversity and the importance of good water quality. More…
Become a Donegal museum detective (Co. Donegal, in-person)
Families are welcome to borrow a free educational backpack to transform young ones into museum detectives as they explore the exhibitions. After completing the activities, have your Donegal Museum Detectives Passport stamped and collect a prize. More…
Burrenbeo Wild Child event (Co. Clare, in-person)
Spend a fun-filled morning investigating the bugs and blooms of the Burren in one of Clare’s most stunning and fascinating areas. More… | <urn:uuid:8d67d3d0-8133-484f-9f5e-7b154cf87ce1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heritageweek.ie/news/a-day-of-play-national-heritage-week-celebrates-wild-child-day | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.854498 | 442 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Arne Soderlund, Glencairn
While there is no doubt we face tough times, it is pointless to panic while important to give the public accurate information.
I would thus suggest that all the preparations proposed be for “if Day Zero comes” rather than “when Day Zero
comes” or, as in the report “for and when Day Zero hits”.
More importantly, the final paragraph is misleading and can cause frustration (to report water leaks and water theft, call 107 or
from a landline call 0860 103 089) as 107 is a landline number – the City’s emergency help line.
To call 107 from a cellphone, you call 021 480 7700, which the City has been trying to get across to residents for some years. | <urn:uuid:25d12afd-be38-4087-937e-93cb7972f466> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.falsebayecho.co.za/news/if-day-zero-comes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.934254 | 168 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Pratt & Whitney Division
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Middle East and Africa (Covered in Chapter 11)
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Base Year: 2019
Estimated Year: 2020
Forecast Period: 2020-2025
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Global Aviation Gas Turbine Market 2021 by Company, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2026
Chapter 1 Market Overview
Chapter 2 Manufacturers Profiles
Chapter 3 Aviation Gas Turbine Sales by Manufacturer
Chapter 4 Market Analysis by Region
Chapter 5 Market Segment by Type
Chapter 6 Market Segment by Application
Chapter 7 North America by Country, by Type, and by Application
Chapter 8 Europe by Country, by Type, and by Application
Chapter 9 Asia-Pacific by Country, by Type, and by Application
Chapter 10 South America by Country, by Type, and by Application
Chapter 11 Middle East & Africa by Country, by Type, and by Application
Chapter 12 Sales Channel, Distributors, Traders and Dealers
Chapter 13 Research Findings and Conclusion
Chapter 14 Appendix
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The Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery Market Report 2022-2032: This report will prove invaluable to leading firms striving for new revenue pockets if they wish to better understand the industry and its underlying dynamics. It will be useful for companies that would like to expand into different industries or to expand their existing operations in a new region.
Nanoparticles are Gaining Tractions in the Global Market for Drug Deliveries
Nanomedicine is a relatively recent field in which nanotechnology knowledge & technology are used for disease prevention and treatment. It comprises the diagnostic, transport, and sensing functions of nanostructured materials including nano robots, nano sensors, and also the activation of nanomaterials in living cells. For example, a nanomaterials cancer diagnostic approach has been developed that incorporates both medicine and imaging modalities. Lipid systems such like lipid nanoparticles and micelles, which are both now FDA-approved, were used in the first generation of nanoparticle-based treatment. These liposomes and micelles include inorganic nanomaterials such like gold or magnetic nanoparticles. Due to these characteristics, inorganic nanoparticles are increasingly being used for delivery of drug, imaging, and therapeutic applications.
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- Other Application
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The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree programme enables each student to develop his or her own interests in business and related subjects. Students are able to create individualised courses using a range of papers offered across teaching departments in the School of Business and University as a whole. Students have the flexibility within the BCom degree to combine two specialisations and graduate with a double major.
Almost everyone practises accounting in one form or another on a daily basis.
Accounting is part of measuring, communicating, and interpreting financial activity. Whether you are preparing a household budget, balancing your cheque book, preparing your income tax return, or running a large corporation you are working with accounting concepts and accounting information.
The government, cities, boards of trustees and businesses all use accounting as a basis for controlling their resources and measuring their accomplishments. Everyone needs some knowledge of accounting if they are to act intelligently in meeting the challenges of our society.
Several distinct subject areas are taught within the Department of Accountancy and Finance: financial accounting, management accounting, financial management, business law, taxation and auditing. All levels of study include coverage of financial accounting and management accounting.
There is a growing recognition of the value of higher qualifications. More able students are therefore encouraged to do an Honours degree. Students are invited to join the competitive entry Honours programme on the basis of first year results, or in some cases after their second or third year, and follow three further years of concentrated study. Many other Accounting students continue past a Bachelor of Commerce degree to a Postgraduate Diploma or a Master's degree.
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International: 24,530NZ$. National:4,963.00NZ$Start date 2016 Credits 360
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- BSNS 102 Quantitative Analysis for Business
- BSNS 107 Understanding Accounting
- BSNS 108 Business Finance
- ACCT 102 Principles of Accounting
Grades of at least C+ are normally needed in order to proceed to 200-level ACCT and ACFI papers.
BSNS 103 Marketing and Consumption, BSNS 104 Principles of Economics 1, BSNS 105 Management and Organisations, BSNS 106 Information and Communication in Organisations, must normally be taken before enrolling in 300-level Commerce papers
- ACCT 211 Financial Accounting and Reporting
- ACCT 222 Cost and Management Accounting
- ACFI 201 Corporate Financial Decisions
- ACCT 302 Accounting Performance Management, or ACCT 307 Management Accounting
- ACCT 310 Issues in Financial Reporting, or ACCT 315 Advanced Financial Accounting
- One further 300-level ACCT paper
- One further 300-level ACCT, ACFI or FINC paper
- 90 further points; must include 54 points at 200-level or above.
- May be taken from outside Commerce
Every BCom programme must include BSNS 102-108. 100-level BSNS papers need not all be taken in the first year of study; all 100-level BSNS papers must normally be passed before enrolling in 300-level Commerce papers.
STAT 110 or STAT 115 will be accepted as an alternative to BSNS 102 as a required paper or as part of the major subject requirements or as a prerequisite when:
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Total 360 points
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NCEA National Certificate in Educational Achievement
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CIE Cambridge International Examinations
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TOEFL (paper based) Test of English as a Foreign Language
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TOEFL (internet based) Test of English as a Foreign Language
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CPE Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
- Minimum of 50
CAE Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English
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APIEL Advanced Placement International English Language Examination
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Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic
- Overall score of 58 with no communicative skills score below 50
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"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."
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While the United States Congress is still working out whether climate change is real, leaders from Norway's four main political parties have reached a tentative agreement to end the country's dependency on gasoline-powered cars.
According to Time, Norway is readying a bill that will effectively ban the sale of non-electric vehicles by 2025: meaning, so long to filling up at the pump.
Instead, Norway will likely invest in making its roadways and parking lots electric-car compatible. The country already has the largest percentage of electric vehicles on the road at 24%, the energy blog Elektrek reported.
Though the bill is still in the works, one idealist and entrepreneur is hailing the move toward electric cars as a giant step forward for humanity — though he, admittedly, has a stake in all of this.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised Norway on Twitter Friday, writing, "Just heard that Norway will ban new sales of fuel cars in 2025. What an amazingly awesome country. You guys rock!!"
Musk's elated support for the bill is likely in part due to his Tesla Model S reportedly being the No. 1 selling car in Norway, among other things like environmental concerns and what not.
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When you live in a city as old as Boston (established in 1630, thank you very much), there’s bound to be a bunch of old laws on the books that don’t make much sense to modern people. The Puritans who founded Boston were well known for their view about fun — no singing or dancing, for starters — and there are loads of blue laws on the books that remind us of their legacy. Ever try to grab a Dunkin’s coffee on Thanksgiving morning? Those are blue laws at work keeping everything closed on Thanksgiving Day.
While most outdated blue laws are ignored, there are some unique-to-Boston regulations that are still enforced.
Enter the Shadow Law
The Shadow Law is actually a state law from the 1990s that limits the amount of shadows that can fall across Boston Common and the Public Garden during the day. It’s up to the city to follow the law by approving construction up to a certain point. They have a “bank” of shadow time to divide among all future development, but once the hours of time in the shade are used up, that’s the end of any new development that could cast a shadow on the Common.
The Winthrop Square Proposal
Though the Winthrop Square neighborhood is several blocks away from the Common, the proposed 775-foot tower would be tall enough to throw some shade into the park. Millennium Partners, the developer behind the proposal, has offered the city $153 million to sweeten the deal, so Mayor Marty Walsh is seeking a home rule exemption with the state to alter the Shadow Law. He plans to use the money to improve city parks and public housing, arguing that’s it’s simply too good a deal to walk away from — especially since the shadows last for less than an hour and are gone by mid-morning.
Not everyone is convinced. Parks advocates are concerned that the proposed one-time exception will set a precedent for eroding regulations meant to protect open space in across the city. Former Governor Michael Dukakis is a strong opponent, as is Councilor Tito Jackson, who’s running against Walsh for mayor in the fall. This promises to be a major political fight, and the issue has to go to the State House for approval as well.
What the Shadow Law Question Means for Developers
On the surface, it appears that this fight over a one-time change in the Shadow Law affects only the Winthrop Square project, especially since Mayor Walsh is planning to give away further “shadow bank” rights elsewhere in the city in exchange for the big payout on this project. Still, local green space advocates are worried, and they have a point. If elected officials are willing to make an exception in exchange for cash, it sets a precedent that might allow builders and developers to get creative about other proposals that face regulatory challenges. If you have the cash — or some other valuable return for local government — you might be able to encourage some cooperation and creative deal-making in the future if this goes through. Things are unsettled at the moment, but this is a story that developers should be watching closely as it continues to unfold. | <urn:uuid:9fd6608d-182a-4d9a-beff-10b3b44bf668> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nebldgsupply.com/the-boston-shadow-law-what-changes-mean-for-developers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960144 | 651 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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While some teenagers find their fortunes online, they only look around to find a way to their own financial independence: Peter Fotti of the United States recently started a company that builds and repairs computers.
Now, his monthly income is more than $ 2,500. He works part-time on his project. When asked about his success at such a young age, his comments were, "I've always been interested in starting my own business because I love the idea of being my own boss." Like most successful teens, Peter has never let age get in the way of his dreams.
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At age 12, another teenager, Brian, was trained as a freelance web designer for a company. After someone gave him a small cash gift online to build his website, Brian began offering his technical services to others.
He did research on making personal computers and built his own, then his parents. His advice to young, inexperienced entrepreneurs is to start small and never give up.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ST. JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER
HEART CART PROGRAM
The pandemic has burdened hospital workers and patients alike with new challenges and stresses. To help deal with those challenges, the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, in Towson, created an unusual program.
The Heart Cart program is based on the healing power of recreational art. Volunteers visit patients daily to explain the program and offer a variety of options for creating works of art.
Those options, also available to visitors, include coloring, painting, painting with a tutorial and others. Volunteers are used so the paid hospital workers are not over-burdened.
Patients have the option of taking the artwork home when they leave or leaving it with the hospital. Eventually, said Victoria Chahanovich, a patient experience analyst at the hospital, St. Joseph hopes to display the art permanently on its walls.
The program’s goal, hospital officials said, was to create an enjoyable resource for patients and visitors alike – an opportunity to engage in an activity that provided relief and joy – and indications are it has worked. A patient survey found that 100% of those surveyed would participate again, all of them would recommend the program to others and said it had improved their experience at the hospital.
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The U.S. abortion rate is the lowest it s been since 1973, according to a report from The Guttmacher Institute, a private research group that supports abortion rights. The rate is now at about 17 abortions per 1000 women ages 15 to 44, representing a 13 percent decline since 2008. A decline was also seen in pregnancy rates. This decline in pregnancy and abortion shows the return to the downward trend which had stalled between 2005 and 2008. However, with these declines, researchers observed an increase in medication abortions in which drugs are used to induce abortion within the first nine weeks of pregnancy. Medication abortions do not include LARC [long acting reversible contraception] or plan B type pills.
Using questionnaires, researchers collected data from all known clinics, hospitals, and independent physicians performing abortions. Although the report did not specifically look into the reasons for this downward trend, study authors Rachel K. Jones and Jenna Jerman believe that the decline is due to the use of long-term contraceptives such as intrauterine devices and hormonal injections and implants by younger women. They also state that this decline may be due to the economy, citing the fact that economic uncertainty may result in lower rates of pregnancy, birth and abortion. They add, With abortion rates falling in almost all states, our study did not find evidence that the national decline in abortions during this period was the result of new state abortion restrictions. We also found no evidence that the decline was linked to a drop in the number of abortion providers during this period.
Along the same lines they added that abortion rates remained higher among black and Hispanic women and the poor compared to white women, which may be because long-term, reliable contraception methods have high up-front costs. The authors say that more needs to be done to ensure that low-income women are provided with insurance that covers these costs.
ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross adds, It s encouraging to see more young people taking control of their reproductive health by using these long-term, reliable contraception methods which help to reduce abortion rates. However, it s important that all women have access to these forms of contraception and that they are provided with the educational tools necessary to be able to make informed decisions with regards to reproductive health. While abstinence is surely the most effective birth control method, demanding ideal behavior among young people is a self-defeating policy, and abstinence-only sex education is a sure path to resurgent teen pregnancy, prematurity, and abortion rates. | <urn:uuid:7a6d138a-ad6a-4b1f-9500-a40036bcce7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acsh.org/news/2014/02/03/u-s-abortion-rate-decline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962039 | 501 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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It is common knowledge among rabbit owners that a house rabbit’s diet should mainly be composed of fresh hay and water. Vegetables and greens are an important addition, providing vitamins and minerals that might otherwise be missed out on. But what place do fruits have in your rabbit’s diet?
In this article, we will cover everything you need to know about whether you should include peaches in your rabbit’s diet. After looking at their nutritional values and toxicity, we will also share the best way to start feeding peaches to your rabbit – and what parts of a peach are safe for your rabbit to eat. By the time you are finished reading, you’ll have a clear picture of how peaches can affect your rabbit’s health and well-being
Yes! Rabbits Can Eat Peaches
We are happy to report that peaches a safe food to feed your rabbit! The skins and flesh of these sweet fruits are highly prized across the world, and a favorite food of spoiled rabbits everywhere.
Peaches Nutrition and Fun Facts
Originating in Northwest China, the venerable peach has found its way across the entire world. Able to grow within a wide variety of climatic conditions, they are a popular fruit crop. Relatives of the peach include nectarines, plums, cherries, and apricots.
Peaches’ nutritional value is skewed towards just one thing: Sugar! According to Nutritionvalue.org, peaches contain nearly 9 grams of pure sugar per 100 grams of fruit. This makes them one of the sweetest naturally occurring foods that you could choose to feed your rabbit.
Health Benefits of Peaches for Rabbits
Being scant in vitamins and minerals, peaches have no true physical health benefits for your rabbit. However, their value as a comfort food should not be underestimated! Especially for rabbits that are having a hard time adjusting to a new home or living situation, judicious servings of sweets can help them feel more comfortable and at ease in their new surroundings.
Can Peaches Be Bad for Rabbits?
As with any highly sugary food, peaches will be detrimental to your rabbit’s health in large doses. This comes mainly as a result of their negative effect on your rabbit’s delicate balance on gut bacteria. Feeding them too much sugar can prevent proper digestion, leading to potentially dangerous or fatal consequences.
How to Feed Peaches to Your Rabbits
While the skins and flesh of peaches are perfectly safe for rabbits to consume, peach pits contain a small amount of cyanide and should never be fed to your rabbit. For this reason, you should always remove peach pits before serving the flesh and skin to your rabbit.
How Much Peach Should I Feed My Rabbit?
Because peaches contain no nutrients essential to a rabbit’s nutrition and health, they should be kept as an occasional treat. Feed them to your rabbit no more than once per week. Aim to provide only a few mouthfuls, as any more than this can quickly cause gastrointestinal distress.
Types of Peaches to Feed Your Rabbit
For all produce that you’re selecting to feed your rabbit, look only for those that are organically grown. This will avoid the waxes and pesticides found on non-organic produce that can seriously harm your rabbit’s immune and digestive health.
In addition, you should only feed fresh foods to your rabbit. Their digestive systems are not capable of safely handling processed foods. This means avoiding canned, stewed, and frozen peaches.
Final Thoughts on Feeding Peaches to Your Rabbit
Peaches are completely safe to feed to your rabbit, even though they may not provide any definite health benefit. Because of their high sugar content, we recommend feeding them to your rabbit only on special occasions. Always remove the pits, as these can be harmful or fatal to your rabbit if eaten.
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Product and Industrial Design
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While a lot of images look great in highly saturated colour, there’s no mistaking that some could benefit from a black and white conversion. Why? Well stripping the image back and washing away the colour rids the frame from any distractions caused by the various hues. With the colour gone, viewers can concentrate on the shape, form, and textures within your image so, in a way, the contents of the photo become even more important.
Software such as Photoshop and Lightroom offer various ways of converting to mono. There’s presets and options to use third-party plug-ins, such as Nik Collection’s Silver Efex Pro, and there’s no doubt these quick options save you time and can yield some great results. However, photographers usually like to keep control of how the image looks, so if you would like to know a more professional, manual approach to converting your image to black and white, so we’re going to show you how take control of your mono conversions.
Don’t worry, you won’t be sat in front of the screen for hours, all you need is three basic steps from start to finish – and you can choose whether to use Photoshop or Lightroom. Let’s get ready to go back to black….
Convert to mono in Lightroom
Step 1: Open your image in Lightroom and then select the Develop module. On the right side of the interface are all your adjustment panels. First up, let’s get rid of all the colour, so in the Basic tab, locate the Saturation slider and drag it all the way to the left as this will make all the colour disappear.
Step 2: Now that the image has been desaturated, it’s time to make any global adjustments to balance the exposure. Alter the Shadows/Highlights and Whites/Blacks sliders until you are happy with their levels. Next, we want to add some punch to the frame, so increase both the Contrast and Clarity sliders can dragging them to the right Again, the amounts needed will vary between images so adjust them to your liking.
Step 3: Black and white images often benefit from a vignette to help focus attention towards the centre of the frame. Scroll down to the Effects tab and, under Post-Crop Vignetting, drag the Amount slider to the left until you’re happy with the vignette. You may also want to add a touch of Dehaze to add further punch to the image. You can now export your image by selecting File>Export…
Convert to mono in Photoshop
Step 1: There’s loads of ways to convert to mono in Photoshop, but here’s a non-destructive route that makes it easier to start-over should you not like the results. Open your image and head over to the Layers panel. Click on the ‘Create new fill or adjustment layer’ icon, which is identified by a half-black/half-white circle. A drop down menu will appear, so select ‘Black and White’.
Step 2: A new adjustment layer will have been created and automatically selected, ready for you to work with. An adjustments panel should have appeared too, if it didn’t, just head up to Window and select Adjustments. This panel lists a number of colours, with sliders so you can adjust their intensity. Work through the colours, dragging the sliders to balance the shades in the frame. This step is down to personal taste, but I like to create contrast between the different shades in the frame by darkening skies and brightening foreground interest.
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- Posted by Kim Beechner
- On April 1, 2021
Do you need an air conditioning repair in the Round Rock Texas area? This blog will explain the main differences in low and high efficiency air conditioners. We’re approaching the warmer months and you want to make sure your AC is properly working, that way you stay cool and comfortable.
There are many options of AC units out there and some people may not know which AC is best for their needs.
Efficiency in AC systems measured
SEER stands for Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio. This is the cooling efficiency of AC units. The higher the SEER rating the more efficient the unit. In 2015 the Department of Energy raised the minimum SEER to 14. There are some cooling systems that have a rating of 26 SEER. The Department of Energy determined that an increase in the minimum SEER would conserve energy.
As your AC ages the less efficient it becomes. Most importantly technology is constantly improving and in result high efficiency AC units are always developing.
For great quality AC unit options, visit Carrier’s website here.
Maintenance is key for your Air Conditioning
Ultimately, keeping up with your AC systems regularly will benefit you. If you have your system inspected and maintained, then your unit will work much more efficient than if you disregard it. Ultimately lower efficiency systems will cost more to maintain and have running on a daily basis. All central systems should be looked at and inspected as often as needed.
How you can make your current AC more efficient
Here are some things you can do to make sure your AC is working efficiently.
- Airflow in an outdoor unit: Make sure nothing is blocking the unit. Keep outdoor units clear of plants and overgrown weeds. When the radiator is blocked the unit works harder to produce cool air, as a result the AC unit performs unsuccessfully.
- Maintenance: Get it checked out regularly. You should be getting your AC serviced at least once a year. AC systems get dirty and can affect the air you breathe in your home. You will need fewer air conditioning repairs with proper upkeep.
- Changing your filter: Your central unit will get less air flow if you don’t change out the filters. This will cause your AC to work harder and that pressure will cause the evaporator coil to freeze.
- Replace parts when they start failing: Hire a pro to replace parts that aren’t working properly ASAP. Consequently if you wait then other parts can start to fail and your repair costs will be expensive.
What makes high efficiency AC’s better?
It’s worth considering investing in a more efficient air conditioner for your home. Here are some benefits of newer/high efficiency AC units:
- Cost less to operate than lower efficiency systems: High efficiency AC’s turn hot air into cold and consume less energy this way, in result you will save on monthly energy bills.
- Better performance. High efficiency air conditioners come with features like variable speed handlers and two stage compressors which allow them to consume less energy. Ultimately they make your home more comfortable, by allowing more even cooling and less temperature swings in your home.
- Optimal humidity: They provide better dehumidification and cooling.
- Sound reduction
Expense of high efficiency AC units
Investing in an improved AC system is important and will create a pleasant space for you and your family. You’ll spend a little more on a greater quality model upfront, in other words you will save money long term with lower energy bills.
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A trial of President Desi Bouterse in the killings of 15 political opponents in 1982 must resume despite an amnesty law, the high court in the South American country has ruled.
The Court of Justice agreed with a challenge to the applicability of the amnesty law filed by relatives of the slain opponents and it directed the attorney general to resume proceedings. The plaintiffs announced the verdict late Tuesday. The ruling was issued Nov. 27 but not publicly released.
"Our belief in the rule of law in Suriname has been restored," said Hugo Essed, a lawyer for several of the relatives who filed the challenge. "We expect the attorney general to accurately follow the instructions he now has been given by the Court of Justice."
Bouterse and 25 allies from his time as a military dictator in the 1980s avoided trial until November 2007 on charges stemming from the abduction and summary execution of 15 prominent political opponents, an event known locally as the "December killings" that stunned the lightly populated nation on the northern tip of South America.
The former strongman returned to power in 2010 when he was elected president by parliament. Two years later, lawmakers passed an amnesty law and proceedings were put on hold in a decision that outraged human rights activists.
Bouterse, who was re-elected by parliament earlier this year, has accepted what he called "political responsibility" for the killing by the military of the well-known journalists, lawyers and union leaders but said he was not present when the executions took place. Witnesses in the trial have disputed that claim.
Prosecutors argued that they could not resume the trial without a ruling from a Constitutional Court on whether the amnesty law amounted to a breach of the constitution. But the country has not had an active Constitutional Court since gaining independence from the Netherlandsin 1975.
The Court of Justice said in its Nov. 27 ruling that it has the authority to instruct the attorney general to carry on with the case without a ruling from the Constitutional Court, and did so. The acting attorney general, who is appointed by the president, has not said how he will respond to the court order.
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by Linda Straker
Delma Thomas, Social Development Minister, wants persons using social media to be more sensitive and compassionate about the photos they upload, especially photos showing personal injury incidents that can ignite negative emotions.
“Social media is a powerful tool that could be used for a lot of good, and so I beg all of us let’s keep it this way, let us not post negative pictures,” said Thomas at the conclusion of her ministerial statement to the Parliament on Wednesday,
“Sometimes when it’s not our family, we post and we feel happy because we are the first one to post; but when it falls into your own pot then you feel the pain and suffering,” said Thomas who described the posting of graphic photos as ‘naked exploitation of a painful situation.’
Urging that persons become more sensitive to people’s hurt feelings about the things posted on social media. “This is not a race to the bottom to see who can post the most graphically disturbing thing. When there is an urge to do that, we must put ourselves in the other people’s position and ask ourselves would we have loved that, if anyone was our family,” she told the sitting of Parliament.
“No law can legislate compassion; it comes from the heart, and therefore I want us to think before we post.” Thomas opined that posting graphic pictures online doesn’t add to the story of the incident which has occurred, nor heal the pain the affected family is experiencing.
Thomas at the time was expressing her sympathy to the family of the 2 men who died in a motorcycle accident on 2 July 2017. Photos, as well as cellphone videos of the accident, were posted online parading the scene of the accident.
This is not the first time that Thomas — who has been the Social Development Minister since 2013 — has expressed her concern about the posting of photos online. At present, the Electronic Crimes Law to combat this growing problem is unable to deal with these matters, because the section of the law to successfully challenge it in a court of law was repealed as a result of concern from the public that section would stifle freedom of expression, as well as the media.
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The Northeast District Department of Health inspects restaurants and other food service establishments, homes, schools, convalescent homes and other institutions working to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. Review, test and approve new septic systems as well as a review and approval of system repairs and/or expansion. Test drinking water, paint samples for lead. Investigates complaints in regard to public health hazards.
Representative: Nathan Swift Alternate Representative: Vacancy
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R ecently, the Conference Board of Canada launched its vision for the future of the country’s food system – the Canadian Food Strategy.
The 61-page report was officially released during the Third Canadian Food Summit, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in mid-March, and examined five key elements – industry prosperity, healthy food, food safety, household food security and environmental sustainability.
“The strategy’s broad scope is essential,” explained Michael Bloom, vice-president of industry and business strategy with the Conference Board of Canada. “It reflects the widely held view of Canadians that our food system encompasses more than the food industries. It also includes multiple economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This is a blueprint for change.”
The strategy sets out eight goals:
- The food sector is viable and prosperous
- The food sector is innovative, competitive and growing
- Up-to-date policies, laws, and regulations address food industry and household interests
- Canadians eat healthier and have balanced diets
- Canadians have low rates of diet-related chronic diseases
- Canada is the world leader in food safety
- All Canadians have access to safe, nutritious and affordable food
- The food sector is an excellent environmental performer that increases food production sustainability
“Canadians want food that is safe, nutritious, available to everyone and produced in ways that are environmentally sustainable,” said Bloom. “We can achieve these goals and, at the same time, capitalize on abundant opportunities to export food to the rest of the world.”
It also contains more than 60 desired outcomes and provides 110 action strategies that can be used to achieve them.
The report represents four years of research and dialogue through the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for Food in Canada. It was developed through a process involving 20 major research studies and consultation with experts, stakeholders and the public.
Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, discussed the need for a “Canadian Food Strategy” during the Conference Board of Canada’s 2012 Food Summit.
“I want Canada to be part of the food solution – for Canadians and the world,” he said at the time. “I want Canadians feeding Canadians, and I want Canadians helping to solve global food shortages. That is what we have always done – feed the world. I think we can do it.”
So why did the Conference Board decide to tackle this project? According to the report, it was observed a shared national vision for food was lacking in Canada, especially one that promotes collaboration.
“The strategy focuses on how collectively, as well as individually, we can make substantial progress in addressing the wide range of challenges facing us and make the most of our plentiful opportunities in the food sector,” the report stated.
So now that it’s out in the public eye, what is next for the Canadian Food Strategy? The report itself even stresses that following the strategy is voluntary.
To encourage implementation and track progress, the Conference Board of Canada has announced three initiatives it intends to use to promote the strategy. These include:
- Establishing the Canadian Food Observatory, which will monitor progress in the food sector and measure the sector’s progress toward implementing the strategy.
- Producing an annual report card summarizing the progress made in the previous year
- Undertaking additional research on new and emerging issues within the food industry.
With this report, the Conference Board of Canada is urging all Canadians across all spectrums of society to become involved in making this country’s food system the envy of the world while also helping to educate and assist other countries. It’s a noble goal and it will be interesting to see if the strategy will achieve the broad engagement it requires from both the government, the private sector and the community as a whole.
To view the food strategy report, visit www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library.
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Data Acquisition from HD Vehicles Using J1939 CAN Bus
- ISBN 978-0-7680-8308-8
Published July 14, 2016 by SAE International in United States
- 124 pages
Modern vehicles have electronic control units (ECUs) to control various subsystems such as the engine, brakes, steering, air conditioning, and infotainment. These ECUs (or simply ‘controllers’) are networked together to share information, and output directly measured and calculated data to each other. This in-vehicle network is a data goldmine for improved maintenance, measuring vehicle performance and its subsystems, fleet management, warranty and legal issues, reliability, durability, and accident reconstruction. The focus of Data Acquisition from HD Vehicles Using J1939 CAN Bus is to guide the reader on how to acquire and correctly interpret data from the in-vehicle network of heavy-duty (HD) vehicles. The reader will learn how to convert messages to scaled engineering parameters, and how to determine the available parameters on HD vehicles, along with their accuracy and update rate. Written by two specialists in this field, Richard (Rick) P. Walter and Eric P. Walter, principals at HEM Data, located in the United States, the book provides a unique road map for the data acquisition user. The authors give a clear and concise description of the CAN protocol plus a review of all 19 parts of the SAE International J1939 standard family. Pertinent standards are illuminated with tables, graphs and examples. Practical applications covered are calculating fuel economy, duty cycle analysis, and capturing intermittent faults. A comparison is made of various diagnostic approaches including OBD-II, HD-OBD and World Wide Harmonized (WWH) OBD. Data Acquisition from HD Vehicles Using J1939 CAN Bus is a must-have reference for those interested to acquire data effectively from the SAE J1939 equipped vehicles. | <urn:uuid:16310b03-b50d-4a26-85c6-77e8cc2719fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/R-446/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.893214 | 439 | 1.804688 | 2 |
EXTENDED NUTRITIONAL LABELING
Consumers demand Nutri-Score for extended nutritional labeling | 08/20/20
From November 2020 at the latest, consumers should be able to see at a glance at the packaging of a food whether the food is a healthy diet compared to others. Labeling with the Nutri-Score is and remains voluntary, but companies are expected to implement it across the board.
The Nutri-Score is a five-point scale from A to E that shows the total value for the nutritional value of a product. This is the most helpful and easiest to understand for consumers. The Nutri-Score enables the consumer to better compare foods from the same category. France and Belgium have already introduced the Nutri-Score on the front of the food packaging - in many other countries the introduction is under discussion.
What does the Nutri-Score say?
The Nutri-Score provides the consumer with a real additional benefit and supports him in the healthy choice of food.
The Nutri-Score is a five-point scale from A to E, which shows the nutritional value of a product. The colors (green to red) of the steps help with orientation. To classify a product, the number of calories and nutritionally favorable and unfavorable nutrients are offset against each other.
The Nutri-Score gives the consumer an orientation in the daily choice of food. It makes it possible to compare foods of a product group or the same category with one another with regard to their nutritional value easily and at a glance. The Nutri-Score says nothing about whether a food is healthy or unhealthy. In general, only food that is harmless to health may be placed on the market.
Will the Nutri-Score be introduced as a mandatory label?
In Germany and the entire EU, there has been mandatory nutrition labeling for prepackaged foods since 2016. A further development of nutrition labeling and a procedure for this is provided for in the coalition agreement. The aim of the Federal Food Ministers is to introduce a nutritional labeling system that will help the consumer to choose healthy foods at a glance. The legislative process for the extended nutrition labeling should be completed by autumn 2020 at the latest.
The labeling will be voluntary based on the requirements of European law. However, consumers demand labeling with the Nutri-Score. Many companies have already spoken out in favor of it. So if you have a customer-oriented product and packaging design and want to keep up with the competition, you will not be able to avoid labeling with the Nutri-Score.
Why is advanced nutrition labeling needed?
If consumers can easily identify the procurement of a food in terms of nutrients, orientation and healthy choices are easier. An understandable and clearly visible representation on the front of the food packaging can have a positive effect on product selection and nutrition. The Nutri-Score is understandable for consumers at a glance.
Which nutrition labeling models are used in other countries?
There are various nutritional labeling models around the world with different objectives and target groups. In addition to the introduction of the Nutri-Score, there are three other labeling models up for debate in Germany, which, however, performed worse in the consumer survey compared to the Nutri-Score. The following models were tested: Nutri-Score, BLL model with pie charts, MRI model with honeycomb and keyhole. Each model has different advantages and disadvantages.
An excerpt from the labeling models of other countries:
Nutritional labeling model
British traffic light
Salt warning notice
Health Star Rating
How can companies implement labeling with the Nutri-Scores?
The Nutri-Score should be clearly visible on the front of the food packaging (front-of-pack). For this reason, it is suitable to apply the Nutri-Score to the product with the front label. B + b Automations- und Steuerungstechnik GmbH offers you different solutions and possibilities for the implementation of the extended nutritional labeling with the Nutri-Score:
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Many are familiar with this: Here is a picture of like, a Tweet, discontinuation, and, Oh Yes, the Mails you want to be checked just once. The work focuses mostly in the Background. Why? We are distracted.
Currently, scientists around the world for the use of smartphones and the brain. You want to know, which traces the constant presence of Smartphones in the heads, leaves, and whether there are deformed, Twitter – and Facebook-brains at all.
Social networks have in the lives of many young people is of great importance. Some of you even take your sleep. In the UK, the health organization, Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) published a Report on social networks and the health of young people. According to the study, one out of five young people controlled at night its networks.
In addition, the Smartphone affect the performance, such as the American psychologist Adrian F. Ward found out. Alone in the vicinity of the own Smartphones enough in experiments, people sections in test questions poor. The device was in another room, able to answer the subjects more questions correctly. Ward concludes that a nearby mobile phone is increasing, especially the working memory in the hardware that it provides less in other fields.
Eyes react to the noise
“Basically, we know little about how digital media are changing the brain and its activity,” says Nicole Wetzel, a Professor at the Leibniz-Institute for neurobiology in Magdeburg. She and her team of researchers investigate how children respond to the ringing of a smartphone.
In the focus brains and eyes of children. Because the pupils react not only to light, but also on cognitive processes. “When we hear something Surprising, dilate our pupils,” explains the researcher. Ringing in between a cell phone that can detect the researchers with your Eye-trackers that someone is distracted from their actual goal.
Hoods with electrodes on the head to draw in the tests at the same time, which areas of the brain that respond when a stimulus arrives. Certain patterns allow to draw the researchers to draw conclusions on how distracted someone is. The result: “If a noise is played, the children usually slower or make more mistakes.”
For Ulrike Cress, Director of the Leibniz-Institute in Tübingen, the use of digital media is neither good nor evil. At the Institute scientists, such as computers, Tablets, and Internet explore can the Learning and Teaching improve. Be read, other than to See and Speak, not biologically innate but must be learned. Fully people bring maximum benefits.
Reading stress instead of pleasure reading
In trials, the test subjects, Wikipedia should use similar texts, the Links included for more click to Learn. For comparison, the test, people were offered then texts without links. The result: on the left is distracting. “If you look at the same word, if it is marked as a Link, is the pupil measurably greater”, summarises the working group leader Peter Gerjets the result.
The Exciting: from steering to the left even if they are not clicked on, more reported the Jets. Also, if the test subjects concentrated instead on your learning target, the performance is worse. The explanation: The Link can trigger a pulse in the head to jump to the request on the new page. The brain to suppress must. This is a burden on the working memory.
However, Twitter – or Facebook-for-brains?
According to Mayranne Wolf “flits” to read on the screen rather than the Text to find key words. The Rest of the flight plan. This superficial scanning was created for speed. Correctly in the Text, they could immerse themselves more on paper, the cognitive and literary scholar from Los Angeles, specializes in the differences when reading on paper and screen.
Wolf warns that the brain could get used to the new digital reading habits overall, to think flat and impatient. She sees the danger that people lose part of their ability for the analysis of complex issues.
Nevertheless, it is not advisable to allow children with learning Apps. “Overwork and Distractions are no arguments against a Medium in and of itself, but against the uncontrolled use”, my Jets and Cress. The researchers are all in agreement: The effect of technology on the brain needs to be further investigated.
The Braunschweig Professor Martin Korte speaks of a “transition state”. Phones and Tablets have made our young people are not dumber than their parents. “We have not a Twitter-brain, and we also have no Facebook-brain,” he says. The brain had its origin still in the stone age. While the man will lose in the course of its development, some skills, he will, according to Korte, the new learning.
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Neither would millions of people until Lee Lantz came along. A seafood merchant, he found a mild and flaky fish that tasted great. Its name, Patgonian Toothfish, was as unappetizing as its looks. He couldn’t change its appearance, so he made up a new name. He called it Chilean Sea Bass, and it became a sought-after and high-priced catch.
Same thing, new label, just like Artificial Intelligence
AI is to computer programming as sanitation engineers are to janitors, marketing is to sales, and HR’s admin assistants are to secretaries in the Personnel Department. When AI was called computer programming, only scientists used the term. Most of the people who use it now don’t know what it means.
History credits Charles Babbage’s “difference engine” as the first mechanical computer.
It was the mathematical equivalent of an 11-foot long, five-ton manual typewriter. The first fully-electronic computer was ENIAC. It was 50 feet long, weighed 30 tons, and had 17,468 vacuum tubes. Digital Trends tell us it was programmed through a physical system of adjusting switches and cables by hand. Debugging a program meant climbing inside the ENIAC in search of faulty connections.
The Founding Mothers of computer programming
The first programmers were called Computers, meaning those who determine by calculation. All six were women specially chosen because they were gifted mathematicians and brilliant problem-solvers. There were no programming manuals, languages, or tools, so these six had to figure it all out on their own by studying engineering diagrams. Everything had to be designed and implemented with extreme precision. Setting up a single calculation could take days and a single program could take weeks. The three-year project was completed in 1946. When ENIAC was unveiled to the press and the public, the world’s first computer programmers were never even introduced. Righting old wrongs, the ENIAC Programmers Project produced a 20-minute documentary film called The Computers
And then along came UNIVAC
The first supercomputer correctly predicted a 1952 presidential election landslide for Eisenhower after sampling just one percent of the voting population. Computer power has never stopped growing. The statistical programs that run the computers are able to churn ever-larger mountains of raw data.
For decades computers and software were the domain of scientists. Now that statistical programs are automated, just about everyone sees themselves able to analyze data as well as scientists do. The problem is that non-experts don’t know automated analysis mostly just zooms around looking for relationships between variables. These automated processes lack the ability to determine if the links they find make any sense at all because they do not understand conditions, circumstances, or extraneous factors, the things we call context.
When you have huge data sets, it is inescapable that you will find thousands of correlations that are statistically significant but absolutely meaningless. Errors like this are inevitable even in data sets that crow about their 95% confidence intervals. In their New York Times article, Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data, Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis say what is important for people to understand is that AI is very good at detecting connections between things but cannot tell us which are meaningful and which are only flukey happenstances. A favorite example is Christie Aschwanden’s article You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition. In it she examined the correlations found among 1,000 variables. With too many combinations for us to grasp (1,000 x 999 x 998…), inevitably false positives popped up like thousands of weeds. Among the “findings,” people who trim fat from their steaks are more likely to be atheists, cabbage eaters have innie bellybuttons, and egg rolls lead to dog ownership. It’s that same “science” that produces the claims we regularly hear about, including these ridiculous claims.
- Lose 20 Pounds Eating Grapefruit!
- Blueberries Prevent Memory Loss!
- Pistachios Cure Erectile Dysfunction!
It is no exaggeration to say that every nutrient you can think of has been linked to some health outcome
This explains why we get so many back-and-forth headlines about things like how nuts, coffee, and chocolate are good for us, then bad for us, then good again.
What actually is this thing we call AI?
- Writing in the MIT Technology Review, Stanford computer scientist Jerry Kaplan calls AI “a fable cobbled together from a grab bag of disparate tools and techniques.”
- Geert Verstraeten, writing on LinkedIn, says “In general, there is quite some confusion about what AI really means and covers.”
- AI is also machine learning. In Forbes, Tikhon Jelvis says the ideal system for solving a lot of hard problems has to be a hybrid: some machine learning based on data, some explicit modeling, and some interactive ways to take advantage of experts.
Generally speaking, people think AI, machine learning, and algorithms are mostly the same thing, computer programs designed to calculate complex statistics on huge data sets. The term AI has also become synonymous with Big Data. A better way to look at it is this: Big Data is the large batches of stuff we collect and AI is one way to look at them. Think of BD as the fuel and AI as the tool. Too many people see machine learning as a magic potion. This has real consequences because AI is just a computer program. It is not intelligent – the intelligent ones are the scientists who write the programs. Many companies benefit from consumer confusion by re-labeling old tools as “AI.”
Most who use AI solutions ignore the fact that it really isn’t intelligence at all.
As kids we were taught to wish for things we wanted. Some would write to Santa, others would pray, and most would wish before they blew out the candles on their birthday cakes. When most people look at data and information, they are wishing for a particular outcome, so they see what they want and ignore the rest. Think about the people who claim to see faces on the side of an abandoned refrigerator or the back of a turtle. These faces are typically religious figures. Popular culture merchants saw an opportunity and jumped in with the Grilled Cheesus Sandwich Maker and the Holy Toast Bread Stamper.
Instagrammable images aside, people see what they’re looking for.
When you bought that new car, you all of a sudden noticed ones like it everywhere, didn’t you? You noticed because you started actively looking for cars like yours. They were there all along but you didn’t see them in the rivers of cars going by you every day because you weren’t looking for them. If you want to trade your cow for a handful of magic AI beans, that’s your business.
BD and AI are like mules.
They can do only what someone tells them to do and no more. They lack cognitive abilities that human brains take for granted. They are hardware made by people, running software made by other people. The result is artificial idiot savants that can excel at tasks with well-defined boundaries, but get things very wrong when conditions change. Or have you forgotten how stores with AI-managed inventories ran out of toilet paper?
AI needs humans to tell it what to do.
For many years those humans were actual scientists, but the constant pressure for faster and cheaper created a market for off-the-shelf, plug-and-play tools. The business world’s infatuation with ever-faster and ever-cheaper solutions reminds me of the first marketing joke I ever heard. An executive, when told it would take one woman nine months to produce a baby, said to put nine women on it and finish it in a month.
Open the pod bay door, Hal.
The amateurs who have taken over from the pros believe the processes are infallible because they’re automated – even when the answer is “I’m sorry, Dave.” With the popularity of AI, amateurs can now set complex and mysterious mechanisms in motion by pushing a button. People without a glimmer of understanding of the deep math and science governing algorithms and data are put in charge. It is like choosing as captain of your ship someone who knows zero about radar, sonar, navigation, or currents. The doctors are no longer running the asylum.
Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction isn’t happy about people’s willingness to blindly trust black boxes and murky algorithms. She says we should ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.
Nearly 200 years ago, Charles Babbage introduced his mechanical calculator.
At the unveiling, attending dignitaries asked “If you put wrong figures into your machine, will the right answers come out?” The answer was no, and in 1963 putting the wrong figures into machines was happening so often that the term GIGO came into use. World Wide Words says the first known use of the acronym appeared in reference to what happened when the Internal Revenue Service switched over to computerized records.
Garbage In, Garbage Out is the notion that when faulty data are fed into a computer, the information produced from those data are also faulty. When the data lack integrity, so does the output. One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.
What AI claims as “signal” is often statistical “noise”
Noise is the annoying static and interference you hear when your cellphone connection is bad. It interferes with your ability to hear and understand what’s being said. The more interference, the worse the quality of the signal. In the case of BD and AI, the worse the quality of the information.
Results are limited by the data and by how we analyze them.
Even with good data, poor analysis ruins things. Keeping with our barnyard theme, you can’t make an analytical silk purse out of a data sow’s ear. Like those mules, AI uses only what it is fed. It would seem essential to start with good information instead of bad – and have a scientist at the wheel.
Like most shiny new things, AI is overrated.
Many who have climbed aboard the AI bandwagon did so because it’s new and popular. Recent studies find artificial intelligence to be the most over-hyped term in marketing today. Duke University’s Center on Science & Society says with clever marketing, AI became a fashionable trend because it was an easy way to get answers. Some executives have gone so far as to turn over determining corporate strategy to machines. FOMO is at play, too, just like the hysterical reactions to the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it forecasts of Y2K. For those who don’t remember, a mere 2-digit coding error was projected to bring the world’s computers crashing down.The reality underwhelmed us when on January 1, 2000, nothing much happened. There was much talk about solution sellers using scare tactics to make money.
Nonsense, you say, what about self-driving cars? Isn’t that AI?
Yes, it is. In 1925 the New York Times said the world’s first radio-controlled car was guided “as if a phantom hand were at the wheel.” Since then, many have worked on this grand idea.
- In 2002, DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency offered $1 million to the team whose car was able to navigate a 140 mile course. The farthest team took 2 hours to go 8 miles before catching fire.
- In 2004, MIT and Harvard economists said a computer would never be able to drive a car because of the enormous complexity of information involved.
- In 2014, Nissan promised to deliver a car with “autonomous drive technology” by 2020.
- In 2015, Elon Musk predicted his Teslas would be capable of “complete autonomy” by 2017.
What will our future vehicles look like? Take a look at what was predicted in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s at Retro Future Transportation .
Robocars are still will-o-the wisps.
In an article I wrote three years ago, I said nearly everyone is confident driverless vehicles are right around the corner. One big reason they haven’t got to that corner, much less turned it, is the staggeringly incomprehensible amount of data that needs to be managed flawlessly by Big Data and AI. The system will probably be operated by a federal bureaucracy like the Federal Aviation Administration but oh, so much bigger and mind-bendingly more complicated. The FAA’s computers manage 225 million airline routes. That’s a lot of data – until we compare it to the new agency’s need to monitor, manage, and coordinate 24 quadrillion possible routes for cars and trucks alone. The math on that is nuts. When will robocars arrive? Published reports continue to assure investors fully autonomous cars are just around the corner, but those with a deeper understanding of the issues and the challenges say we shouldn’t hold our breath because it’s likelier to be another 10 or 20 years before we get to that corner.
The Economist tells us this is not the first wave of AI-related excitement. In the mid-1950s we were told it would take only a few years to build human-level intelligence. A second wave began in the 1980s and once again the field’s grandest promises went unmet. Like Florida land booms every few decades, here we go again.
Much modern AI technology has been quite successful. Billions of people use the AI inside their smartphones every day, mostly without noticing. Despite accomplishments like this, the fact remains that many of the bombastic claims made about AI have once again failed to become reality, and confidence is eroding as scientists start to wonder whether the technology has hit a wall. AI continues to butt up against new-found limits and has failed to deliver on some of its proponents’ more grandiose promises. Doubts are creeping in about whether today’s AI is really the magic solution we are being told.
I’m not against every use of Artificial Intelligence
Just the ones that matter. For example, I am opposed to allowing bad AI to fly the airliner without licensed pilots on board who have the ability to exercise good judgement when a crisis occurs. US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger made a courageous decision about the welfare of all 155 people on board when A.I. would never have landed an airliner in a river, because it’s not in the program.
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LONDON/BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters) – A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting key South African ports.
Events have conspired to drive global supply chains towards breaking point, threatening the fragile flow of raw materials, parts and consumer goods, according to companies, economists and shipping specialists.
The Delta variant of the coronavirus has devastated parts of Asia and prompted many nations to cut off land access for sailors. That’s left captains unable to rotate weary crews and about 100,000 seafarers stranded at sea beyond their stints in a flashback to 2020 and the height of lockdowns.
“We’re no longer on the cusp of a second crew change crisis, we’re in one,” Guy Platten, secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping, told Reuters.
“This is a perilous moment for global supply chains.”
Given ships transport around 90% of the world’s trade, the crew crisis is disrupting the supply of everything from oil and iron ore to food and electronics.
German container line Hapag Lloyd (HLAG.DE) described the situation as “extremely challenging”.
“Vessel capacity is very tight, empty containers are scarce and the operational situation at certain ports and terminals is not really improving,” it said. “We expect this to last probably into the fourth quarter – but it is very difficult to predict.”
Meanwhile, deadly floods in economic giants China and Germany have further ruptured global supply lines that had yet to recover from the first wave of the pandemic, compromising trillions of dollars of economic activity that rely on them.
The Chinese flooding is curtailing the transport of coal from mining regions such as Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, the state planner says, just as power plants need fuel to meet peak summer demand.
In Germany, road transportation of goods has slowed significantly. In the week of July 11, as the disaster unfolded, the volume of late shipments rose by 15% from the week before, according to data from supply-chain tracking platform FourKites.
Nick Klein, VP for sales and marketing in the Midwest with Taiwan freight and logistics company OEC Group, said companies were scrambling to free goods stacked up in Asia and in U.S. ports due to a confluence of crises.
“It’s not going to clear up until March,” Klein said.
MORE PAIN FOR AUTOMAKERS
Manufacturing industries are reeling.
Automakers, for example, are again being forced to stop production because of disruptions caused by COVID-19 outbreaks. Toyota Motor Corp said this week it had to halt operations at plants in Thailand and Japan because they couldn’t get parts.
Stellantis temporarily suspended production at a factory in the U.K. because a large number of workers had to isolate to halt the spread of the virus.
The industry has already been hit hard by a global shortage of semiconductors this year, mainly from Asian suppliers. Earlier this year, the auto industry consensus was that the chip supply crunch would ease in the second half of 2021 – but now some senior executives say it will continue into 2022.
An executive at a South Korea auto parts maker, which supplies Ford, Chrysler and Rivian, said raw materials costs for steel which was used in all their products had surged partly due to higher freight costs.
“When factoring in rising steel and shipping prices, it is costing about 10% more for us to make our products,” the executive told Reuters, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
“Although we are trying to keep our costs low, it has been very challenging. It’s just not rising raw materials costs, but also container shipping prices have skyrocketed.”
Europe’s biggest home appliances maker, Electrolux (ELUXb.ST), warned this week of worsening component supply problems, which have hampered production. Domino’s Pizza (DPZ.N) said the supply-chain disruptions were affecting the delivery of equipment needed to build stores.
U.S. AND CHINA STRUGGLE
Buckling supply chains are hitting the United States and China, the world’s economic motors that together account for more 40% of global economic output. This could lead to a slowdown in the global economy, along with rising prices for all manner of goods and raw materials.
U.S. data out Friday dovetailed with a growing view that growth will slow in the last half of the year after a booming second quarter fueled by early success in vaccination efforts.
“Short-term capacity issues remain a concern, constraining output in many manufacturing and service sector companies while simultaneously pushing prices higher as demand exceeds supply,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit.
The firm’s “flash” reading of U.S. activity slid to a four-month low this month as businesses battle shortages of raw materials and labor, which are fanning inflation. read more
It’s an unwelcome conundrum for the U.S. Federal Reserve, which meets next week just six weeks after dropping its reference to the coronavirus as a weight on the economy. read more
The Delta variant, already forcing other central banks to consider retooling their policies, is fanning a new rise in U.S. cases, and inflation is running well above expectations.
‘WE NEED TO SUPPLY STORES’
Ports across the globe are suffering the kinds of logjams not seen in decades, according to industry players.
The China Port and Harbour Association said on Wednesday that freight capacity continued to be tight.
“Southeast Asia, India and other regions’ manufacturing industry are impacted by a rebound of the epidemic, prompting some orders to flow to China,” it added.
Union Pacific (UNP.N), one of two major railroad operators that carry freight from U.S. West Coast ports inland, imposed a seven-day suspension of cargo shipments last weekend, including consumer goods, to a Chicago hub where trucks pick up the goods.
The effort, which aims to ease “significant congestion” in Chicago, will put pressure on ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland and Tacoma, specialists said.
A cyber attack hit South African container ports in Cape Town and Durban this week, adding further disruptions at the terminals. read more
If all that were not enough, in Britain the official health app has told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate following contact with someone with COVID-19 – leading to supermarkets warning of a short supply and some petrol stations closing.
Richard Walker, managing director of supermarket group Iceland Foods, turned to Twitter to urge people not to panic buy.
“We need to be able to supply stores, stock shelves and deliver food,” he wrote.
Additional reporting by Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm, Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles, Hilary Russ in New York, Joe White in Detroit, Lucia Mutikani and Howard Schneider in Washington and Heekyong Yang in Seoul;
Editing by Simon Webb, Dan Burns and Pravin Char
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Gary Sinise Reflects on Lieutenant Dan Role 20 Years After ‘Forrest Gump’
By Jessica Battaglia
It’s been 20 years since “Forrest Gump” debuted on the silver screen and nearly a generation later, its characters still resonate with today’s service members.
In the Academy Award-winning film, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, played by Gary Sinise, loses his legs in an ambush while serving in Vietnam. Convinced he was destined to die in battle like his relatives, Lt. Dan blames title character Forrest Gump for saving his life. Living without legs creates a feeling of uselessness for the character. In a pivotal moment, Lt. Dan refers to himself as a “legless freak,” yelling at Gump that he’ll never achieve his full potential, and wonders out loud, “What am I going to do now?”
Lieutenant Dan’s Story of hope
Reflecting on his role in the film, Sinise said Lieutenant Dan’s story offers hope in an otherwise bleak situation.
“That particular story hadn’t really been seen. So when you see the story of Lt. Dan, that’s a hopeful story for our … wounded veterans, because he’s a wounded combat veteran and he is also able to be successful in life,” Sinise said. “He’s married at the end and he’s standing up on new legs. You never thought you’d see him out of the wheelchair.”
At the end of the movie, Gump is elated to see Lieutenant Dan—walking on his new prosthetic legs—and his fiancé attend his wedding. And Lt. Dan is happy, despite his long journey to recovery.
A Vietnam veteran’s experience
Sinise pointed out that Lt. Dan’s uplifting story of perseverance wasn’t common in movies before “Forrest Gump.”
“That’s the interesting thing about that particular story. Prior to ‘Gump,’ you always had that question as to whether the Vietnam veteran was going to be able to move beyond his … combat experience,” he said. “I’ve met a lot of Vietnam veterans over the years, and generally, they thought the depiction of the Vietnam War sequences in the movie were well-done, and they appreciated the story of Lt. Dan.”
Sinise, whose brother-in-law served two tours in Vietnam, saw firsthand how troops coming back struggled to adapt to life at home. In many ways, Vietnam veterans and the nation’s newest generation of veterans have similar reintegration experiences, and he wants all veterans to know they are valued.
“I just want them to know that they are appreciated and not forgotten,” Sinise said.
The Vietnam veterans in his family, and what happened to them when they got caught in the political battle, are big motivators for him, Sinise said.
Appreciating service members
Gary Sinise has made it his life’s work to make sure service members know they are appreciated. This became especially important to him after the September 11 attacks. He’s been on several handshake tours with the USO, where he learned that most members just want someone to listen to them.
“My first military hospital visit was actually at Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany. It was my third overseas USO tour in late August of 2003.”
He said he was a little apprehensive during that first hospital visit, but those concerns quickly faded once he started talking with the troops.
“I could just tell it was nice to have somebody show up. In fact, there was one guy I saw in a hospital bed in Landstuhl and two weeks later I saw him in a wheelchair going down the hallway at Walter Reed (in Washington, D.C.),” he said, adding it was great to see how quickly the injured service members had progressed in their recovery.
“You’ll see somebody in a bed. Then you go back three months later, and they are up on their prosthetic legs. It’s a hopeful thing to see them getting better.”
The Lt. Dan Band
Finding an enduring connection between those he met on USO tours and his Lieutenant Dan character—with which he has become synonymous in the military community—he formed the Lt. Dan Band in 2004. The band now performs nearly 50 shows a year for military audiences.
“I could not have foreseen that the Lt. Dan character would be a character that has a life of its own beyond the movie,” he said. “I think part of that is because, when I started working with the USO and visiting our hospitals and meeting this entire new generation of amputees, the character and its relation to me became sort of a conversation piece with our wounded in the hospitals.”
“It’s been a blessing and a benefit to be able to have this association with wounded in our military community.”
He’s also amazed at the resolve of the families of wounded service members and those who have lost loved ones.
“We have 12 years’ worth of a new generation of Lt. Dans out there and thousands of gold star families that are suffering,” he said. “It’s amazing to me … the resiliency that those people display. [They] may be off the front pages, but the military is 24/7, 365 days a year. They’re always out there defending us … and their families are going through difficult times through these deployments.”
He had the opportunity to speak with a military widow who lost her husband on his eighth deployment. “She was just talking about how it almost became eerily commonplace to just say goodbye to him for six months knowing that the worst could happen.”
The Gary Sinise Foundation
To broaden his efforts on behalf of the military, the actor created the Gary Sinise Foundation to honor our nation’s defenders, veterans, first responders and their families. Its purpose is to offer supportive programming. One of the foundation’s programs—Building For America’s Bravest—provides custom smart homes for severely wounded veterans.
Sinise has been busy since his role as Lt. Dan, but he’s currently focused on his work with the military community.
“Now I have a mission and it’s felt like it was a calling for me to be able to support our veteran community. That’s why I started my foundation and that’s why I spend full time on it now,” he said. “It requires a lot of attention, and thankfully there are a lot of people that are out there doing it. I’m just one of them.”
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People across the United States struggle with mood disorders. At least half of people struggling with addiction also have co-occurring disorders like depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder may be more common than people think. Understanding the symptoms, signs, and treatment options for bipolar disorder can help people find the right program for their mental health here in Texas and across the country.
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What Is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder classified by two extremes in mental health. As the name “bipolar” suggests, those living with bipolar disorder experience episodes of opposite moods and energy levels.
Bipolar disorder is an oscillation between low-energy depression and high-energy mania. Depressive episodes involve low mood, lack of motivation, and hopelessness, and often cause people to withdraw and isolate themselves. Manic episodes involve high energy and productivity. People may become more social, less anxious, and feel more confident.
Spotting Signs of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder exists in extremes. For those living with bipolar disorder, and their loved ones, daily life can feel triggering. People with bipolar disorder may feel they have no control over their emotions, mental health, and daily life. There are multiple types of bipolar disorder, often classified by how many manic and depression episodes someone has in a certain period.
During a manic, high-energy episode, people may experience the following symptoms:
- Euphoria or happiness
- Feeling extreme optimism
- Inflated self-esteem
- Heightened socializing
- Impulsive decision-making
- Risky behaviors
- Racing thoughts
- Increased physical activity
- Increased motivation
- Less sleep
- Easily distracted
- Sudden energy
- Trouble concentrating
Depressive episodes take someone to the other mental and emotional extreme. This can include:
- Unexplained crying
- Disinterest in others
- Changes in weight and eating habits
- Unexplained guilt and shame
- Feeling worthless
- Trouble sleeping or sleeping more than usual
- Lack of interest in favorite activities
- Unexplained fatigue
- Trouble concentrating
- Suicidal ideation
Bipolar disorder can be overwhelming, exhausting, and frightening for those living with it and for their loved ones. For many, bipolar disorder can lead to self-mediating and unhealthy forms of self-soothing as a coping mechanism. Unfortunately, this can lead to addiction. It’s important to seek professional diagnosis and treatment to prevent self-harm and substance abuse, as well as improve someone’s mental and physical health.
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7 Skills to Future-Proof Your Career
Guest contributor Jennifer, uses her entrepreneurial and business experience to offer helpful tips on how to future-proof your career in these ever-changing times. Whether you’re currently working or on a job hunting mission, these are all skills worth working on now.
Rapid advances in technology, the onset of digital transformation, as well as demographic changes have all changed how people work, businesses operate, and consumers shop. From flight attendants to news reporters, jobs have never evolved so fast before. Every day, there are new professions listed on employment-oriented social networks such as LinkedIn. Whatever your job currently is, there’s a pretty good chance it won’t look the same in the future. Here are some simple ways to ensure that you won’t get left behind, to help future-proof your career:
1. Adopt a ‘change is unavoidable’ mindset
The technology used in the work environment is going to keep evolving – there’s no doubt about that. A great example of this is conversational AI platforms. Today, a lot of companies rely on these extremely convenient tools when it comes to customer interactions. It’s important to have an open mind about what these kinds of (unavoidable) changes may bring, and be capable of taking them head-on.
2. Be tech-savvy not tech-averse
When they’re struggling with new technology, some people just throw their hands up in defeat and give up. Instead, just take all the time you need to become familiar with tools that are (or will become) vitally important in your industry.
Keep in mind that the automation tools (like the one mentioned above) still have to be set up and managed by humans in one way or another. The capability of working with Artificial Intelligence is considered by many experts to be essential to future-proof your career.
3. Expand & hone your skills
Having a degree is of course a great head start, but to stay ahead of the game, one simply has no other choice but to keep learning. Fortunately, acquiring and honing new skills has never been so easy – there are thousands of easily accessible and very affordable online courses you can enrol in which are relevant to your career. Keep in mind that this is something you can do even if you’re currently unemployed.
4. Work on your soft skills too
Being able to train an AI to automate the more technical aspects of your job is great. But only humans can perform the soft skills that are so essential to most businesses, such as time management, collaboration, communication, and leadership.
With AI platforms not possessing human-like emotional intelligence, soft skills are guaranteed to remain in high demand. And, just as in the case of hard skills, you can participate in online classes and training to hone your soft skills and stay one step ahead of the competition.
5. Grow your network
Building relationships with other people in your industry will be helpful throughout your career. And with lots of people still working from home due to the global pandemic, staying connected is now more important than ever.
Join discussions, ask questions and post useful content on LinkedIn groups – this will help you to build healthy professional relationships and grow your network more naturally. You’ll be connected to people that may open opportunities, in case your position ever starts looking uncertain or you want to progress your career elsewhere.
6. Keep up with the trends
If you genuinely want to future-proof your career, you’ll need to keep up with industry trends. Jobs that are likely to end up completely automated in a couple of years are at the highest risk. Roles that involve repetitive tasks every day are more easily and likely to be replaced by AI.
Think about the following questions:
- Compared to this time last year, has your industry grown or become smaller?
- Is technology becoming more and more important in your work life?
- Is your industry outsourcing more and more tasks each year?
Finding answers to these questions will help you stay up to date and make it easier to determine whether you should work on expanding your skills or maybe even make a career change.
7. Consider your digital footprint
Most people do not Google themselves on a regular basis. However, it’s a good idea to get in the habit of doing this from time to time, in order to determine the quality of your digital footprint. If a quick Google search reveals unfavourable links, work on building a stronger digital portfolio that will push these unfavourable links further down the list to pages two and three.
Besides contributing on sites that are popular in your niche (as well as on social networks such as LinkedIn or Twitter), aim to publish content that demonstrates how skilful you are – showing off your expertise is rarely a bad decision.
By dedicating some time on a regular basis to learn valuable skills, you’re bound to end up with something to fall back on in these ever-changing times we live in.
About Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer is a writer at Qeedle.com. She is well-versed in business processes and operations management. As she understands the challenges of running a small business firsthand, it’s her mission to tackle the topics that are most relevant to entrepreneurs and offer viable solutions.
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Few drinks have come to symbolize a particular day like the Margarita on Cinco de Mayo. In truth the two have very little to do with each other. The day represents a victory by Mexican troops in an obscure battle with French troops in the 1800s.
The drink, on the other hand, was developed in the 20th century—nobody knows for sure but people generally agree in the 1930s-1950s timeframe—and may have been created in Mexico or just along the border with the United States (there are about 3-4 different origin stories).
However, the two have become synonymous with the early May fiestas that people throughout the US and Mexico throw. In the next few days every bar or liquor-serving restaurant will feature Cinco de Mayo specials that include some sweet/sour cocktail with a bit of tequila in it. They’ll call it a Margarita, but it’s far from it.Add a comment
With the reopening of Las Vegas' legendary Atomic Liquors, a new cocktail menu has been created to commemorate the legendary bar, its guests and the notorious city. In honor of the eccentric Hunter S. Thompson (author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") Rose Signor has created the Henry S. Mash. A Lynchburg Lemonade style cocktail that can be, for the right price, made with 30 year old Old Crow found during the bars recent renovation. Below is the recipe for making this outstanding cocktail.Add a comment | <urn:uuid:0827566b-c21c-4430-98c5-4b5f205163a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bucketlistbars.com/illinois?id=11:simon-s-tavern&catid=26:illinois | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964437 | 310 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Many OEMs must comply with the new requirements set forth by the European Union regarding the Restriction of Hazardous Substance in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (ROHS). This directive, known as ROHS, aims to protect the environment by restricting the use of certain hazardous substances (including lead) in new equipment. ROHS requires that from 1 July 2006 new electrical and electronic equipment will not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, etc.
In compliance with ROHS, and in an effort for our customers to accommodate their ROHS requirements, AAC has begun supplying lead free surface mount chip resistors as of September 2004. The resistor series, CR,CJ, CRN, CT, CTL, and CRL meet the requirement of current ROHS directive 2011/65/EU. During the interim, you will be able to differentiate the tin/lead from the lead free by the lot number. All our parts are still compatible with 260 degree C soldering, and can be ordered using the lead-free termination code. Those parts which are lead free will have a lot number ending in the letter “L.” AAC has chose to supply parts in this manner to reduce the cumbersome task of creating all new part numbers for lead free products.
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As October comes to an end, our minds have shifted towards the Halloween holiday, raking endless fall leaves and turning our clocks back for Daylight Savings Time. But October holds another important purpose-and not just for pink ribbons-but for Bullying Prevention. October is now recognized as National Bullying Prevention Month, an effort that was begun by the PACER National Bullying Prevention Institute to encourage everyone to take an active role in the bullying prevention movement.
We love their campaign theme: The End of Bullying Begins with Me, that reminds us all not to stand by and let bullying happen in our homes, classrooms, playgrounds, and especially not camps. In our minds, The End of Bullying Begins with Camp.
Camps across the US have joined together with the American Camp Association (ACA) to take a stand against bullying. Camp directors are taking bullying more seriously than ever, with increased staff training and parent education on this topic.
The bullying prevention web page on ACA’s site has a number of resources for both camp professionals and parents on this important subject, including a couple of statistics that take your breath away, such as:
“Bullying is the most common form of violence in our society. Between 15 percent and 30 percent of students are bullies or victims.”
According to an article available on the ACA site, there are 3 types of bullying: physical, verbal and relational.
Falling into this last category is cyberbullying: bullying that occurs via text, email, social media, or other electronic format.
In a recent article by Anna Maria Chavez, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, in the Huffington Post about bullying, she notes: “In our digital age, cyberbullying — harassment by peers, even total strangers via unwanted texts, Facebook posts, tweets and other social media communications — has become a particular problem for young girls, often with tragic consequences. And unlike traditional school-yard bullying, cyberbullies can attack their victims at any time, robbing them not only of their sense of self-worth, but of the feeling of security that comes with having a “safe space.”
Dr. Joel Haber, a clinical psychologist, consultant for the American Camp Association, and a nationally recognized bullying expert, offers additional tips and advice on bullying on his website.
Summer camps, and certainly our Maine Camp Experience camps, are committed to making camps a safe place for all children, and a bully-free experience. In fact, there is a zero tolerance bullying policy at MCE camps. We suggest that you ask your camp director about their camp’s bullying policy, its staff training in this area, and what they suggest you speak to your child about regarding bullying prior to the camp season.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A wide-ranging Missouri bill banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy was just one step away from going to a supportive Republican governor after the state Senate passed the measure Thursday.
The legislation needs only a final vote in the House, which already passed an earlier version, for Missouri to join a growing group of Midwestern and Southern states attempting to sharply limit abortions.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson is likely to sign the bill. He rallied with supporters of it Wednesday, declaring: "It's a God-given right to live ... and that's why it's important for this legislation to get done."
Missouri's anti-abortion bill includes exceptions for medical emergencies but not for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Doctors would face five to 15 years in prison for violating the eight-week cutoff. Women who receive abortions wouldn't be prosecuted.
Republican bill handler Sen. Andrew Koenig described it on Thursday as "one of the strongest" abortion bills yet passed in the U.S.
Outnumbered Senate Democratic lawmakers had launched into an attack on the bill before Republican supporters even brought it up for debate.
"So much of this bill is just shaming women into some kind of complacency that says we are vessels of pregnancy rather than understanding that women's lives all hold different stories," St. Louis-area Democratic Sen. Jill Schupp said.
The Missouri legislation comes after Alabama's governor signed a bill Wednesday making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases.
Supporters say the Alabama bill is intentionally designed to conflict with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationally in hopes of sparking a court case that might prompt the justices to revisit abortion rights.
Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Georgia also have approved bans on abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which can occur in about the sixth week of pregnancy. Some of those laws already have been challenged in court, and similar restrictions in North Dakota and Iowa previously were struck down by judges.
Missouri's bill also includes an outright ban on abortions except in cases of medical emergencies. But unlike Alabama's, it would kick in only if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
If courts don't allow Missouri's proposed eight-week ban to take effect, the bill includes a ladder of less-restrictive time limits that would prohibit abortions at 14, 18 or 20 weeks or pregnancy.
In its Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court noted that viability typically was 24 to 28 weeks. Studies since then have found that some babies born as soon as 22 weeks have survived.
"This is not a piece of legislation that is designed for a challenge," Missouri's Republican House Speaker Elijah Haahr said. "This is the type of legislation that is designed to withstand a challenge and to actually save lives in our state."
A total of 3,903 abortions occurred in Missouri in 2017, the last full year for which the state Department of Health and Senior Services has statistics online. Of those, 1,673 occurred at under 9 weeks and 119 occurred at 20 weeks or later in a pregnancy.
Republicans and Democrats worked for hours to try to reach a compromise on the bill, which included an expansion of tax credits for donations to pregnancy resource centers.
The approved version of the wide-ranging bill bans abortions based solely on race, sex or a diagnosis indicating the potential of Down Syndrome.
It also requires a parent or guardian giving written consent for a minor to get an abortion to first notify the other parent, except if the other parent has been convicted of a violent or sexual crime, is subject to a protection order or is "habitually in an intoxicated or drugged condition." A change was made after hours of late-night negotiations to also remove the requirement when the other parent lacks legal or physical custody.
Still, some lawmakers on both sides of the debate walked away unhappy.
Democrat Schupp said even after changes, it's "an extreme and egregious piece of legislation that puts women's health at risk."
"It is outrageous that it has no exemptions for victims of human trafficking, rape or incest," she said.
Republican Sen. Bob Onder said negotiators went too far to compromise, leaving the bill "a shadow of what it once was."
"This should be entitled not the 'Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act,'" Onder told colleagues on the Senate floor, "but the 'Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, sort of kind of only after the minority party and the strongest Planned Parenthood lawyers in the country were done with the bill.'"
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Woodworking plans are step-by-step guidelines that can help woodworkers to finish their tasks with less job and also more quality.
These plans can be for anything from furniture to playthings, as well as they will certainly provide the woodworker everything they need to know in order to start their woodworking job.
This article goes over Woodworking Diy Plans For Full Size Loft Bed and Ted’s woodworking, exactly how the strategies can make your woodworking experience much easier.
Ted Mcgrath’s woodworking plan is a very effective and a flexible woodworking plan.
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What Is Woodworking Plan?
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With the correct directions drafted in easy to understand language, you would certainly feel it’s similar to having a woodworker master besides you, guiding you through the entire project.
Who Is Exactly Ted Mcgrath
Ted Mcgrath is a Licensed Master Woodworker. He has actually mastered his enthusiasm for Woodworking as well as came to be a teacher, instructor, as well as author in instructing the right skills of Woodworking to the mate.
With Ted’s Woodworking, he has actually put together the globe’s most extensive collection of woodworking strategies you may ever before experience.
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This data source of woodworking tasks is implied to aid you in developing specialist and also spectacular woodworking tasks easily, rapidly, and also in an easy way.
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- Settler Defends Killing of Palestinian: They Almost Lynched Me
- IDF: Settler Shoots Stone-throwers, Palestinian Hurt
Israeli soldiers were at the scene at the time of the shooting. According to the army, 200 Palestinians were protesting near the village of Hawara, south of Nablus, in support of the hunger-striking security prisoners in Israel. Some of them were throwing stones. The army said the Israeli who shot at the protesters may have been hit by the stones. The army and local settlers claim the man first shot in the air.
An eyewitness told Haaretz that a number of Palestinian youths blocked the road near Hawara. He claimed that a settler who had been driving by pulled out a gun and fired at them.
Israeli forces are at the scene and are using riot dispersal means to break up the protest.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victim as Moataz Hussein Taya, 23, from the village of Bita. They confirmed that one of the wounded was an Associated Press photographer who suffered moderate wounds after being shot in the arm.
A settler regional council in the northern West Bank confirmed the shooter was a settler, a social worker and a father of eight who was running errands. They said that he first fired in the air.
The shooter, a resident of the nearby settlement of Itamar, has filed a complaint with the police.
On Wednesday, an Israeli settler opened fire at Palestinians who were throwing stones at passing Israeli vehicles on the West Bank's main thoroughfare. According to Israel Defense Forces reports, a Palestinian, Rasem Khamed 19, sustained moderate wounds. The shooter in question claimed to have acted in self-defense and was later released. | <urn:uuid:f10000e0-da53-49fc-89bc-d64938584b14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-05-18/ty-article/settler-hit-by-stone-throwers-shoots-palestinian-dead-in-west-bank/0000017f-def2-d856-a37f-fff26fa20000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.982416 | 355 | 1.585938 | 2 |
IS IT POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN SHORT CYCLE COMMON BEAN (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) LINES WITH GRAIN YIELD SIMILAR TO NORMAL CYCLE LINES?
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Leviticus 4:2 – Sinning thru ignorance. Centuries earlier Job was concerned about his children sinning in Job’s ignorance (Job 1:5).
Leviticus 5:3 – A “clean” person became “unclean” by touching an “unclean” person. The person did not become “clean” by being touched by a “clean” person. Except when one man did so 1,400 years later (Matthew 8:3).
Mark 2:13 – I had the opportunity to travel with Jimmy DeYoung to Israel and we stayed by the sea side of Galilee.
Mark 2:17 – I’m glad that Jesus came to call me to repentance!
Psalm 36:7 – Lovingkindness – again we see the root word Hesed. Discover the Word points out how this word is exemplified in Ruth 3:10, she chose to stay loyal to Naomi, an act of kindness, a choice of love. John MacArthur discusses hesed as well.
…the Hebrew word chesed which basically is translated loving kindness. That is the attribute of God that we want to focus on. God is possessed by an innate good will toward sinners, an innate kindness. God is by nature merciful, tender-hearted, compassionate. God withholds judgment. God grants benevolent favors because it is His nature. It is a reason to praise Him. It is a reason to honor Him. It is a reason to worship Him….
Proverbs 10:1 – We have moved from the introductory contrasts, to the pithy saying section. 26 of the 32 verses in this chapter use “but” as a contrast as a feature of antithetical Hebrew poetry.
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+23 How Do You Change The Background Color Of An Instagram Story Post References. Tap a with the stars in the top left corner and select a background color. You will notice that the color doesn’t cover the shared post.
Now you need to follow steps 4 and 5 of method 5. Choose a color you would like to set as the background for the story. Then tap a in the top left corner and select a background color.
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Here Is The First Method On How To Change Instagram Story Background Color.
Tap (press and hold) the pen or eraser tool. There are three main ways to change the background of your instagram story: Tap anywhere on the background and hold your finger on the screen until the background has the color you’ve selected.
If You Tap A Again, The Background Becomes Transparent.
From the options on the left side of the screen, tap on create. Tap on the doodle icon and choose a background color for the post from the list below. Similarly, select the classic font style when creating a story.
There Is A New Way To Change The Background Color On Instagram Stories.you Can Do This To Create A Solid Color Background And Add Images And Text On Top Of I.
Changing the default color to a different solid background; Change background color of classic font. The second part of the menu gives you save options and sharing options.
When You Take The Photo, Tap The “Pen.
You can easily change background color in instagram story to more than 10 colors currently available. If you’ve shared a feed post to stories, the background will fill with your chosen color behind the post. Then tap a in the top left corner and select a background color.
But, Instagram Doesn’t Provide Simple Methods For Yous To Even Change The Background Color Of The Instagram Story.
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With an increasing number of countries being added to the UK’s ‘green list’ by the government, LloydsPharmacy has announced the launch of a 15-minute lateral flow testing service for those travelling or attending large events.
The company said the test would “help in providing the individual with the results and certificate in just 15 minutes straight”.
Evidence from internet search data showed a 1,500 per cent increase for people looking for lateral flow test (LFT) certificates.
With the start of Wimbledon Tennis Championships, searches for “Wimbledon lateral flow tests” too soared by 500 per cent, the pharmacy chain said in a press release issued today (June 29).
Pharmacist at the chain Anshu Kaura added: “We still encourage regular testing at home with the free NHS lateral flow kits but for those travelling or attending large events may need something more suitable; which includes evidence of a negative test result. Hence, an in-store Covid-19 testing service that can help in providing a named and dated certificate to customers.
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For 10 years, unlike other areas of cyber security, no progress has been observed in the field of prevention. More strategic than responding to an attack, prevention combines many advantages and is essential.
The cybersecurity market has seen the emergence of new EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) offerings. They rely on agents installed on endpoints that collect behavioral data and send it to a central database for analysis. They can then identify trends and detect anomalies; this can then be automated to send alerts for corrective action or further investigation.
An EDR type solution will generate alerts that need to be dealt with quickly. Some correspond to actual malicious behavior, while others will not be so obvious and will require research. This is where the SOC (Security Operations Center) comes in. It is managed by security experts responsible for continuous security monitoring.
EDR solutions have become essential to detect and remediate many of the cybersecurity threats that organizations face on a daily basis. The latter, a real research tool, has become a pillar of modern security devices. However, attacks exploded in frequency and severity, undermining the effectiveness and protection capabilities of EDRs.
The threat landscape is also getting much more dangerous. An 800% increase in ransomware* attacks was observed between 2019 and 2020, and Ponemon Research reports that 80% of vulnerabilities come from previously unknown malware and zero-day attacks. The tools that many organizations use do not provide adequate protection against increasingly sophisticated attacks.
While these solutions have improved in recent years, it is still common for teams to receive too little contextual information (false positives) that prevents them from prioritizing their responses appropriately. Also, EDR is not a suitable tool for all organizations as it requires having a designated or managed SOC.
Rethinking Cyber Defense
EDR is based on the “hypothetical breach” mentality, that is, the traditional belief that no cyber defense can truly prevent cybercriminals from entering an environment. Detection and response solutions such as EDR, MDR, NDR, and XDR all have one thing in common: they all rely on post-execution remediation. As the name suggests, EDR is only valid after the attack has taken place. This ultimately means that attackers are already inside the corporate network when detection and response solutions escalate.
Post-execution is too late to prevent a breach and remediation is costly and time-consuming – a point highlighted by a recent study that tested the effectiveness of 11 best-known EDR tools and highlighted their inherent shortcomings. The professionalization of modern threats and the large number of successful breaches have proven that EDR is not sufficient to stop today’s increasingly advanced threats.
It’s time to redefine what threat prevention really is and explore new deep learning-based technologies that enable malware detection, classification, and prevention.
Better to prevent than to respond
Companies realize that they cannot protect against today’s most advanced threats and are actively investing in better protection. Gartner has estimated that global spending on security and risk management will exceed $150 billion in 2021. Probably over that figure.
A prevention-oriented approach to stopping threats replaces or supplements the traditional view to reduce or even eliminate risks. Pre-execution anti-malware and reduced false positives improve operations, reduce costs, and stop known, unknown, and zero-day threats, including ransomware, before they strike. It has the ability to influence the environment of the organization.
Machine learning-based prevention solutions also often rely on data streams from antivirus tools, EDRs, and other security tools. This means that they can only react to threats rather than anticipate them. Attackers are increasingly taking advantage of these flaws with attacks designed to deal their damage before it’s detected.
While Machine Learning-based solutions have proven essential to deal with the avalanche of warnings, they are limited by their reactive nature. In fact, this approach is fundamentally inefficient at preventing attacks up the chain. Attacks have time to execute before systems manage to identify their malicious nature, which can take several minutes or more.
Go even further than Machine Learning
Deep Learning is the most advanced subset of Artificial Intelligence. This technology represents the next step in smart security, as its foundations are inspired by the workings of the human brain. The more raw data the machine receives, the more intuitively it understands the meaning of the new data.
Deep Learning technology enables companies to completely block cyber attacks. It can detect and respond to them, but also anticipate and prevent them, stopping over 99% of threats and significantly reducing false alarms to <0.
Therefore, a new perspective on EDR tools is required.
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Greater Copenhagen is a smart city frontrunner. Lighting Metropolis will make the region the world’s most advanced one-stop hub for smart urban lighting research and development.
Lighting Metropolis is a ground-breaking partnership between Danish and Swedish regions, municipalities and universities, inviting international and local companies to create a world leading region for smart urban lighting.
The aim is to strengthen the significant role lighting can play in supporting safety, accessibility, identity, health and education for people in cities.
The cities in Greater Copenhagen will develop and display pioneering urban lighting and related smart city solutions, taken off the drawing board and into the streets.
Raising the bar for innovation
Covering Eastern Denmark and Southern Sweden, Greater Copenhagen is home to 3.8 million people.
With a budget of 7.3 million euros, Lighting Metropolis aims to set new standards for innovation, uniting public and private sector partners, including incubator pods, start-ups and scientists, and making city spaces and buildings available to development, test and demonstration.
Lighting living labs in Copenhagen
Lighting Metropolis is the first decisive step in realising a vision for Greater Copenhagen as the world’s leading living lab for smart urban lighting.
It will be a one-stop hub for intelligent urban lighting test, research and development.
Greater Copenhagen is home to a number of well-established living labs, encompassing municipalities, companies and universities.
DOLL – Europe’s largest test-field for intelligent lighting
The Danish Outdoor Living Lab, DOLL, is Europe’s largest showroom and test-field for intelligent lighting and smart urban services.
DOLL consists of three laboratories:
- Living Lab offers a 1:1 experience of outdoor lighting products on pathways, streets, passages, parks and squares.
- Quality Lab, located at the Photonics Department of the Technical University of Denmark, offers manufacturers and buyers test and documentation of all aspects of artificial lighting.
- Virtual Lab, located at the Photonics Department of the Technical University of Denmark, offers the technology to recreate spaces in 3D computer models to visualise the effect, distribution, reflection and glare of illuminates and sockets early in the development process.
Gate 21 – driving green transition
Gate 21 is a partnership between municipalities, companies and knowledge institutions, working to accelerate the green transition.
Gate 21 aims at creating a sustainable society and green growth through strategic partnerships between the public sector, private enterprises and the research community. Gate 21 and its partners work to develop, test, demonstrate and implement new solutions within:
- Cities and construction
- Energy and resources
The municipal market is an increasingly important driver of green growth, and Gate 21 brings the industry closer to the local authorities.
The partnering municipalities are used as a real-life laboratory, enabling business and knowledge institutions to develop and test new technology in full scale.
Data transmission world record
Using a new kind of optical fiber, researchers in DTU Photonics' High-Speed Optical Communications Group have set a new world record for single-transmitter data transfer.
Future smart lighting demonstration projects in Copenhagen
Around 20 new lighting demonstration projects in Greater Copenhagen will be carried out in real-life test environments such as schools, parks and hospitals.
The projects will be focusing on:
- Outdoor lighting: design, safety, identity, attractiveness.
- Indoor lighting: biological light, learning, health, work environments.
- Smart urban lighting: intelligent control systems, sensor networks, Internet of Things, intelligent traffic systems (ITS) and WiFi.
- Climate and environment: energy efficiency, environmental impact, life cycles and sustainability.
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Frankfurt airport ground to a halt for a second time in a week on Thursday, as an approaching storm front forced authorities to suspend all flights.
All take-offs and landings were briefly suspended on Thursday afternoon due to storms sweeping over Germany from the West.
Some planes stayed in the air until the storm had passed, a spokesperson for airport authorities said, adding that this was normal procedure in such weather conditions.
Activity on the ground was suspended due to the danger of lightning strikes on the airfield.
With the threat of flight cancellations looming over many passengers, Lufthansa moved swiftly to book up 3,000 hotel rooms. The airline estimated that around 40 flights and 6,000 passengers could be affected by the storms.
The Frankfurt fire service have also warned of severe winds in forest and parkland near and in the city.
The storm front which has been building over northern France could build into a hurricane which would reach Germany by Friday morning, Bild reported, with some models predicting winds of up to 150 km/h.
Meteorologist Dominik Jung from wetter.net told Bild that, even under more moderate predictions, the North Sea coast could see winds of 120 or 130 km/h, which would be classified as a hurricane on the Beaufort scale.
Storms are also set to hit the rest of the country, with the German Weather Service issuing warnings for North-Rhine Westphalia on Thursday.
“Streets could become flooded”, a DWD spokesperson said in Essen, and also warned of falling trees, hail and heavy rains.
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Last weekend, around the globe, supporters of the people of Hong Kong took to the streets. Millions joined the protest against the accelerating influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). And, as some rallies turned violent, two things have become clear.
The first: the warnings about the insidious influence of the CCP in other countries by academics, journalists and others who have studied the Chinese government — but who have often been dismissed as fear-mongers — are proving to be fact.
Australia has been used as something of a dress rehearsal for a program of so-called sharp power now being rolled out around the West by the CCP. The Australian government is, at last, sitting up and taking notice. This has been helped along in no small way by the aggressive statements of China’s Australian envoy Cheng Jingye.
“The recent demonstrations in Hong Kong have turned into radical, violent and illegal behaviours, which have gone far beyond freedom of assembly, demonstration and protest,” he said. “The intention of certain extreme radicals is to mess up Hong Kong and undermine ‘One Country, Two Systems’ under the cover of so-called ‘pro-democracy’ movement. Their behaviors have grossly trampled on the rule of law and social order in Hong Kong, seriously threatened the local residents’ life and safety, severely jeopardised Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability. No responsible government would sit idly by.”
This was part of a script being parroted by his colleagues in other capitals of the West.
Canberra has, on face value anyhow, increasingly little to lose in standing up against this. Australia is on Beijing’s radar in a major way following the sensational banning of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from any of Australia’s 5G mobile networks in 2018. Canberra has been making increasingly bold critiques of Beijing for its military adventurism in the South China Sea and calling for calm in Hong Kong (which was seen as interference in domestic affairs by Beijing). Perhaps even worse in Beijing’s eyes: the recent love-fest between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Scott Morrison, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds.
And if there was any doubt about just how far and deep the influence of the CCP goes: look to the increasingly powerful United Front Work Department (UFWD). Through myriad “associations” generally using benign names such as “friendship” and “promotion” groups, the UFWD co-opts its citizens and Australian residents to help the motherland in the shadows of their adopted country.
The spectre of the UFWD was writ large last Saturday in Melbourne and Adelaide when pro-Beijing groups upended significant marches in favour of Hong Kong (although a major rally in Sydney proceeded with relatively little trouble).
The influence of the UFWD has been on display in recent weeks in a growing number of Australian universities. Pro-Beijing students have formed counter-protests in a range of institutions including University of Queensland, Monash and University of Tasmania. Earlier this month the University of Technology Sydney posted two security guards at the “Lennon Wall” — officially re-branded by UTS as a “poster wall” — after the pro-democracy and pro-One China protesters were found vandalising each other’s posters.
The violence that is being fomented by pro-Beijing campus groups is presenting Australia’s universities with a dilemma: do they report the students to police and/or expel or suspend them?
This would surely risk reprisals from Beijing, which has already issued safety warnings to students about Australia. Further action in advising or even blocking the way for Chinese students to study in Australia would hit the Australian tertiary sector particular hard — and for certain universities over-reliant on Chinese student fees even harder.
China has already shown it is willing to play ducks and drakes with Australian trade; coal tankers have been put in the slow lane for unloading at a range of northern Chinese ports, and there’s been a cut-back on Australian barley imports. China has good reason to be hysterical about the snowballing international opprobrium over the situation in Hong Kong. And blaming the peaceful street protests by not just disaffected students but a wide cross-section of regular Hong Kong society on the “black hand” of the United States and other undesirable democratic element is certainly that.
And this is the second thing that has emerged from the mess in Hong Kong: the power of the people of Hong Kong. They have achieved what human rights groups and journalists have previously failed to do. Through their protests, the Hongkongese have opened the eyes of regular people around the world to the dark underbelly of the Chinese regime. Most importantly, they’ve garnered popular interest and international support against it.
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On Patrol With The Greek Coast Guard, On The Lookout For Migrants
Just past 9 every night, six crew members from the Leros division of the Greek coast guard board a bright orange search-and-rescue vessel and depart from the tiny Aegean island of Leros.
They patrol until dawn, looking out for boats in distress, packed with migrants trying to reach Europe.
"We see people almost every day, at least 40 people at a time, just in our area," says Captain Leonidas Papadakis. "Most say they're from Syria. Others say Afghanistan, Iraq." There are also Ghanians, Ugandans, even the occasional Dominican.
The number of migrants crossing from Turkey to Greece has tripled since last year. The Greek coast guard, with the help of the police, must fingerprint and register all new migrants. Most migrants can only stay in Greece for a month legally. Syrians, due to the protracted war, can stay for six months.
The vessel takes about 90 minutes to reach the sea border between Greece and Turkey. Crew member Kostas Vrastaminos, standing on the deck, points to glittering lights on a shoreline. It's the Turkish resort town of Didim, just 5 miles away.
"From there you can reach Greek waters by speedboat in 10 minutes," he says.
But more often, the journey is made on small inflatable rafts with puny motors. Migrants pay smugglers $1,000 apiece for a place on those rafts.
The rafts appear on a radar monitored by Papadakis, a boyish officer with a buzz cut. He sometimes sees three or four at once.
"We can't reach them all, so we have to make choices," he says. "We rescue those in distress; we escort those that are not. Some reach our shores alone."
The closest shore is on the islet of Farmakonissi, which is uninhabited except for a military base. The voyage there can be treacherous.
"Especially when the sea is rough and (there are) bad weather conditions, the search and rescue operation must be done in five to 10 minutes," Papadakis says.
The Aegean Sea crossing from Turkey to Greece isn't as deadly as the Central Mediterranean Sea route from North Africa to Italy. The International Organization for Migration says 1,829 people have died so far in 2015 in the Mediterranean, but only 31 of those deaths have been recorded in the Aegean, or the eastern Mediterranean, and most in Turkish waters.
But the Leros coast guard is still haunted by the drowning deaths of 11 Afghans early last year near Farmakonissi.
"Only women and children died in this accident," Papadakis says. "It was very bad."
Human rights groups accused the Greek coast guard of overturning the migrants' wooden boat while trying to tow it back to Turkish waters. But the coast guard says the boat capsized when the men on deck ran to one side. The women and children were all inside the boat's cabin.
Papadakis suddenly notices something strange on the radar. He orders the crew to chart a course for it.
Vrastaminos explains that it's a small boat moving at high speed. "It doesn't have lights; that's suspicious," he says. "There's likely a smuggler on board They're trying to outrace us — they don't want to be rescued."
Smugglers face long prison terms in Greece if they're arrested and convicted.
Another crew member stands on the deck holding a machine gun.
"Sometimes the smugglers have weapons," Vrastaminos says. "We have to be prepared."
There are likely migrants on that boat, too, he says. Smugglers try to evade arrest by leaving migrants on Greek islands and speeding back to Turkey.
Tonight the coast guard pursues the suspicious boat for an hour before it heads back to Turkish waters. A few hours later, the coast guard crew returns to Leros alone.
The next night, another crew rescues 46 Afghans, including three toddlers in tiny orange life vests. Their inflatable raft was so overloaded it was starting to sink.
The Afghans say a smuggler, fearing arrest, had told them to head out to sea alone. "He said, look for lights," says one of the Afghans, 20-year-old Amir Baktash. "We didn't know what we were doing. We cannot swim."
Under international law, the Greek coast guard is obliged to rescue them. The crew threw a rope to the migrants, then gently pulled their listing raft close.
"They helped us onto their boat one by one," Baktash says.
They arrive on Leros just as dawn is breaking.
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Three decades ago, A. streptococcus was a bacteria that could cause a bit of strep throat, but not much else. Today, it can eat your flesh.
How worried should we be about these terrifying-sounding bacteria, and what can we do about them?
"May lead to a flesh-eating genital infection." Now that's a warning that may get some attention during a drug commercial.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning about a rare but highly disconcerting condition that may occur with the use of a class of type 2 diabetes medications called sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. The condition is known as necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum or Fournier’s gangrene or "oh $%#&%*." In this condition, your genitals essentially get eaten, in a bad way.
The usual suspects for NF infection are Group A Strep, E. Coli, Staph, and Vibrio (a particularly virulent strain found in saltwater). These bacteria are all around us all the time. Staph, for example, is commonly carried on the skin of otherwise healthy people. It’s only when a puncture on the skin allows it to get inside your body does it make you sick. The bacteria attack the fascia, completely killing it while moving on rapidly. Kraft says that the bacteria tries to push its way out as it kills soft tissue and continues to multiply, and because it is sandwiched between the skin and muscle it quickly spreads in the fascia “superhighway,” often unnoticed.
Global warming is expanding the territory of some terrifying microbes.
Twenty-eight-year-old Kate was one of the lucky ones. In an interview with the Cut, she recounted the horrific two-month period in 2009, when she had just started college, that she was fighting off the infection. Though her body was strong enough to defeat the flesh-eating bacteria, she still has phantom pains to this day.
Bacteria can multiply under the skin and cause a life-threatening illness commonly known as flesh-eating disease, or necrotizing fasciitis, which can appear suddenly and spread quickly. The infections typically cause a fever and cause the skin to become, red, swollen and painful at the site of infection. The bacteria do not actually “eat” the flesh, but this is what the disease can look like.
A freak accident on a sunny spring day may have disrupted her life, but with grit, determination, and some high-tech hardware, Aimee is resuming the adventure.
In a few weeks Alex Lewis went from being the owner of a pub, to becoming critically ill and a quadruple amputee. Yet he still describes the past year as the best he's ever had.
The key concept here is the body structures that are affected. Those infections that affect the skin and superficial tissues, termed “cellulitis”, are generally mild.
But when they affect the deeper fascia and muscles (“myositis”), they can spread very quickly and cause severe illness. Because the action is occurring at a deeper level, there may be few or no changes to see on the surface.
For starters, there isn’t just one flesh-eating bacteria to avoid.
The serious infection can be caused by numerous strains of bugs — almost 30 — that can be found in all kinds of environments, including saltwater (Vibrio vulnificus), freshwater (Aeromonas hydrophila) and simply on your skin (group A Streptococcus).
While the flesh-eating bacteria is relatively rare in comparison to the incidence rates of other diseases and disorders, the ratio of deaths -- at best, 2,000 out of the 10,000 to 15,000 cases diagnosed each year -- is high enough to warrant the call for earlier diagnosis.
"Flesh-eating" bacteria can cause serious infections that can result in loss of limbs and even death. Now, a new study reveals just how the bacteria thrive deep in muscle tissue and cause such severe disease.
The bacteria GAS went rogue in the 1980s, ultimately evolving into a human killer. It now causes up to 500,000 deaths a year, with victims reporting symptoms ranging from a sore throat to the flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis.
While they may seem unlikely or like something out of a science-fiction novel, flesh-eating bacteria are very real, serious, and potentially fatal and, as illustrated above, puzzling in the way they attack.
BACTERIA AREN’T KIND enough to leave behind a fossil record (save for cyanobacteria), but they're evolving fast. Really fast. Their short life cycles mean that generations come rapid-fire, adapting through natural selection into the monster pathogens that are currently shrugging off our finest antibiotics.
It’s all the more troubling when we’re dealing with the flesh-eating variety.
Treatment for necrotizing fasciitis typically has three essential components: proper treatment of the wound, antibiotics for infection, and, if the infection advances, aggressive surgery to remove all affected tissue.
Flesh-eating and genitals are words that you don't want to go together.
Actually flesh-eating and many words are bad together, such as flesh-eating pancakes. But a so-called "flesh eating" sexually transmitted infection (STI) has been making the news rounds recently.
IV Antibiotics Broad beta-lactam or Carbapenem + clindamycin + vancomycin, NB: check local policy...
Unfortunately, with even the best treatment available, sometimes doctors cannot stop the disease. Fortunately, necrotizing fasciitis is rare. So don't freak out and chug antibiotics the next time you get a scratch or a cut.
In case necrotizing fasciitis – the flesh-eating disease recently making headlines – hasn't got you freaked out enough, here are four other scary diseases you might not know about.
The bacteria aren't actually eating your flesh. The various species—including some that cause strep and staph—enter a wound, scrape, or bug bite and unleash a flood of toxic chemicals that kill surrounding tissue cells.
The mission of The Lee Spark Necrotising Fasciitis (NF) Foundation is to help those whose lives have been affected by necrotising fasciitis and other severe streptococcal infections and medical staff who are involved with investigating, diagnosing and treating NF.
Led by Aimee Copeland, a licensed master social worker with a background in eco-psychology, a quadruple amputee and a necrotizing fasciitis survivor, ACF inspires hope through action, builds community through inclusivity, provides healing through relationships, fights stigma through education, and breaks down barriers through compassion and humor.
The Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation was created by survivors as a way to provide support and resources for NF victims and their families, and to raise awareness by educating the general public and the medical community.
On May 9, 1998, while playing indoor soccer, I was kicked in the ankle and that injury set off a chain of events that resulted in necrotizing fasciitis and forever changed our lives.
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CODE OF ETHICS AND GOOD CONDUCT
OUR COMMITMENT AND EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
Make-A-Wish aims to be a high performance organization.
In order to reach this goal, three important building blocks are needed:
Excellent boards of directors
Highly effective and efficient CEOs
Highly effective management teams (recognizing that for our smaller affiliates this may be a combination of staff and volunteers)
They should connect in a collaborative manner to assure effective communication and to complement each other in their specific roles, tasks and responsibilities.
We categorize the specific responsibilities as:
Management Team: Implementation
Many thanks to Markos Tambakeras for his contribution to this section on good governance.
Legally our governance is structured within our Affiliation & Licensing Agreement, Policies and Bylaws.
We do not tolerate fraud, theft or unethical behavior.
I agree that it is our responsibility to implement and maintain sound financial controls, accounting procedures, and asset management policies that promote good stewardship and help ensure fiscal viability.
Just as we aim to build resilience in our wish children, our responsibility is to build sustainable organizations for the long term.
Sustainability is the focus of all our operations, from fundraising to wish granting.
Good governance includes measurement metrics and strategy, sound policies, good financial planning, and identifying and managing risks.
Our actions must reflect the global community’s best interests and best practices, and therefore we agree and comply with our International and affiliate’s policies.
Leadership is strategic in its management and driven by our vision. Good management includes setting SMART* goals, performance indicators, and targets.
Essentially, the board’s role is governing, not managing.
Selects and supervises the CEO, sets the CEO compensation, and conducts annual performance evaluations
Approves annual and long-term strategies and performance goals
Approves resource allocation to support implementation of the vision
Approves annual budget and ensures financial monitoring and practices
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Maintains a current succession plan and conducts annual self-performance assessment
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Within each Make-A-Wish organization, we shall implement sound human resource practices to ensure recruitment of high quality volunteers and professional staff, proper management, training and recognition of our staff and volunteers.
We believe long term investment in our staff is essential as we seek to achieve professionalism in our operations. Our human resource management contains elements like fair pay, performance reviews, transparency, work/life balance, clear job descriptions and clear SMART* goals.
We are mindful of how we portray ourselves as representatives of Make-A-Wish, on social media and in all public arenas.
Our boards make decisions collectively, and represent the diversity of the local and greater international community.
We believe that it is beneficial for the organization to be continually on the lookout for new board members from different facets of the community.
We recruit independent board members who are capable of neutral and independent thinking.
Our board members evaluate their performance both individually and as a team, knowing that as the organization develops, the need for certain profiles changes.
We acknowledge that each affiliate is in its own developmental phase, and that structural change may at times be necessary.
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Today, the Federal Government announced it’s plan to support small and medium sized businesses as they work to fight climate change: The Climate Action Incentive Fund.
Under the Federal Government’s carbon tax, businesses and consumers are both required to pay the cost of polluting the atmosphere. The plan eases the cost burden of carbon pricing for consumers by delivering 90% of the revenue it collects from the price back to households. The Government earmarked the remaining 10% to help small and medium sized businesses make those same adjustments fairly, but up until today, it was unclear how the government would deliver on that promise.
Under the Climate Action Incentive Fund, small and medium-sized businesses such as restaurant owners, farmers, truck drivers, convenience and small grocery store owners in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick – the four provinces where the federal price on pollution applies — are able to apply to receive funds between 25% and 50% for energy-saving equipment and 25% for energy retrofits. These investments will help make small and medium-sized businesses across the economy more productive and competitive as they reduce their energy costs and transition to more environmentally friendly practices.
“We are glad to see the Government take this action as it treats small and medium sized business owners fairly and, like the rebate that goes back to households, helps them adjust to the costs of fighting climate change,” said Michael Bernstein, Executive Director of Canadians for Clean Prosperity. “It’s important that we all do our part, as consumers and businesses of all sizes, to combat the climate crisis, and it’s equally important that the solution to this problem, carbon pricing, be delivered fairly. We would still like to see the revenue from carbon pricing returned directly to businesses through grants or tax cuts, as we believe it would be more efficient and effective than picking specific technologies or projects.” | <urn:uuid:1039d9b4-aa0b-47ec-a78c-9f238b75590a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cleanprosperity.ca/statement-canada-announces-new-climate-action-incentive-fund-to-support-small-medium-sized-businesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959936 | 387 | 2.53125 | 3 |
With technology careers in high demand, coding bootcamps have become an increasingly popular method for recent college grads to gain the additional skills needed to jump start a career in technology. Coding bootcamps are short, intense, training programs focused on teaching students the latest, in-demand technical skills.
The average traditional coding bootcamp costs anywhere between $12,000 and $24,000. For many recent grads this cost is not a realistic option, given they may already be facing undergrad student loans. The University of Maryland University College has partnered with a leading talent development company, Revature, to offer UMUC graduates – and soon-to-be-graduates – a no cost option that not only provides hands on coding training, but also launches IT careers.
Revature is at the forefront of innovation and talent development. They provide training to recent college grads – and soon-to-be grads – in enterprise-level, next-gen and niche technology through a world class 12-week immersive, industry aligned coding bootcamp. Revature’s talent development model is among the most inclusive and accessible in the nation. Graduates of the program become Revature professionals and work on innovative, challenging and rewarding software development projects for Revature corporate partners, including leading Fortune 500 companies, government organizations, and top systems integrator.
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The APS Council approved three statements on energy-related issues at its meeting in May. The first statement expressed concern over proposed large budget cuts for the DOE's Office of Energy Research for FY 1998 and beyond. The second urged sustained support for plasma and fusion science, which is faced a one-third cut in its budget for FY 1996. The third statement called for continued and diversified investments in energy research and development, and policies. The complete text of the three statements follows.
COUNCIL STATEMENT ON THE OFFICE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
The Council of The American Physical Society is gravely concerned that some policy documents and budget scenarios for FY 1998 and beyond plan large cuts to the DOE's Office of Energy Research, one of the primary sponsors of science in the United States. The cuts being considered would seriously damage a major component of the nation's outstanding basic research activities, in universities as well as national laboratories. They would threaten our nation's quality of life, future economic competitiveness and military security. The Council urges planners to rectify this situation and make budgetary adjustments accordingly.
For more than half a century, every Congress and every President has recognized the unique role of science in sustaining the nation's world-power status. They have consistently given federal investment in basic research strong bipartisan backing. In spite of extraordinary budgetary pressures, leaders in both political parties continue to maintain this bipartisan commitment. They have properly identified the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as key sponsors of scientific research. However, they have overlooked the prominent roles played by some programs in the mission agencies. This is now particularly true of the Office of Energy Research (OER).
More generally, among federal agencies, the DOE through OER is the leading supporter of basic research in the physical sciences, accounting for almost as much federal spending as NASA, the Department of Defense and the NSF, combined. In support of basic research as a whole, the DOE ranks third among federal agencies. With its progenitors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Research and Development Administration, DOE-funded research has led to more than sixty Nobel prizes, attesting to the high quality and impact of the work it supports.
The science base built through OER support over the past several decades has generated a wealth of technological advances that have dramatically improved the energy security of our nation. Research supported by OER has also made major contributions to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and medical isotopes; composite materials used in military hardware and motor vehicles; and x-ray diagnostics of computer chips and other high-tech materials. The OER has provided a vital complement to the support of basic research carried out by NSF and NIH and programs in other mission agencies. The OER, for example, as part of its radiation health and safety mission, initiated the human genome project and currently provides approximately one-third of all of its federal funding.
The Council of The American Physical Society strongly urges policy planners not to make short-term decisions which reduce DOE's crucial basic research activities. Proposed cuts would diminish our quality of life and our nation's future economic competitiveness and military security.
COUNCIL STATEMENT ON PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION SCIENCE
The American Physical Society stresses the scientific importance of plasma physics and fusion research, and the need for a research environment that encourages fundamental, long-term investigation. The one-third reduction in support of programs in plasma and fusion research in FY 1996 endangers this area of scientific research. Further cuts to these programs would seriously damage this important field. Once dismantled, these research programs may take decades to rebuild. The Council of the American Physical Society urges sustained support for plasma and fusion science by the U.S. government.
COUNCIL STATEMENT ON "ENERGY: THE FORGOTTEN CRISIS"
Our nation's complacency about the energy problem is dangerous. While the understandable result of currently abundant supplies of energy at low prices, such complacency is short-sighted and risky. Low-cost oil resources outside the Persian Gulf region are rapidly being depleted, increasing the likelihood of sudden disruptions in supply. Energy-related urban air pollution has become a world-wide threat to human health. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases and aerosols are climbing; this will cause changes in temperature, precipitation, sea level, and weather patterns that may damage both human and natural systems.
The introduction of non-fossil-fuel energy sources, new ways of producing and using fossil fuels, and a myriad of energy-efficient technologies have helped to improve our energy security and to reduce environmental stress. In an era of growing global energy demand, such innovations must continue.
The Council of The American Physical Society urges continued and diversified investments in energy research and development, as well as policies that promote efficiency and innovation throughout the energy system. Such investments and policies are essential to ensure an adequate range of options in the decades ahead. Our national security, our environmental well-being, and our standard of living are at stake.
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UN experts deplore South Carolina killings, urge measures against racially motivated crimes in US
19 June 2015 – In the wake of the 'appalling' attack that left nine African Americans dead at church in South Carolina, a group of UN human rights experts today called for prompt action by authorities in the United States to investigate the hate crimes and urged measures to prevent gun violence affecting the security of African-Americans, their communities and wider society as well.
Issuing a statement on behalf of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, the current Chairperson, Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France, denouncedwhat the experts flagged as racially motivated 17 June killings.
“We utterly condemn the appalling attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina, this week and the killing of nine African Americans,” the experts said, welcoming the “prompt action by the authorities” to investigate the hate crime, underscoring that “every effort must be made to ensure the person guilty of this act is prosecuted and punished accordingly.”
The statement continued: “Urgent measures must be taken to prevent gun violence and racist crimes motivated by prejudice that affect the security of Afro-Americans, their communities and society as a whole.”
The Group's heartfelt condolences were offered to the people of the United States, “especially the families and friends of those who were murdered while in worship at Church.”
The Working Group, established on 25 April 2002 by the Commission on Human Rights, is composed of five independent experts serving in their personal capacities.
The experts' comments echo UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's strong condemnation of the killings in a statement issued yesterday by his spokesperson in New York. The UN chief also expressed the hope that those responsible for such a “hateful act of violence” will be brought to justice extended his deep condolences to the loved ones of the victims and his solidarity to the survivors.
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By: Sayyid Saabiq
Ghusl means to wash the entire body with water. Says Allah in the Qur’an, “If you are sexually impure, purify yourselves”. (AL-Ma’idah 5:6) And, “They question you concerning menstruation. Say: It is an illness, so let women alone at such times and do not have sex with them until they are cleansed” (Al-Baqarah 2:222)
When Ghusl Is Obligatory
1- Discharge of al-Mani owing to stimulation while asleep or awake The opinion of the jurists in general is that ghusl is a must should one have a discharge of al-mani (sperm) owing to stimulation while asleep or awake.
Abu Sa`eed reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say, “Water (washing) is (needed) after (ejaculation of) sperm.” (Muslim)
Um Salamah reported that Um Sulaim said, “O Messenger of Allah, Allah is not ashamed of the truth. Does a woman have to perform ghusl if she has a wet dream?” He said, “Yes, if she sees the liquid.” (Al-Bukhari, Muslim and others)
There are some other points of importance that need to be noted:
– If the sperm is discharged without any type of stimulation (owing to illness or extreme cold)
In this case, ghusl is not obligatory. ‘Ali reported that the Prophet, upon whom be peace, said to him, “If sperm is ejaculated, perform ghusl.” (Abu Dawud)
Said Mujahid, “We were in a meeting in the mosque with the companions of Ibn `Abbas (Tawus, Sa`eed ibn Jubayr and `Ikrimah). When he stood to pray, a man came in and said, ‘Is there one who can give a legal verdict?’ We said, ‘Ask your question.’ He said, ‘Whenever I urinate, a liquid always follows it.’ We asked, ‘Is it the type of liquid that gives birth to children?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ We said, ‘Then you have to perform ghusl.’ The man went away. Ibn `Abbas hurried to finish his prayer, after which he told `Ikrimah to bring the man back. He turned to us and said, ‘Is your verdict found in the Book of Allah?’
We said, ‘No.’ He asked, ‘Is it based on the sayings of the Prophet, upon whom be peace?’ We said, ‘No.’ ‘Then from what?’ We said, ‘From our opinion.’ He said, ‘That is why the Messenger of Allah said that one learned man is more difficult for Satan than a thousand worshippers.’ The man came and faced Ibn `Abbas, who said to him, ‘When that happens, is it owing to any stimulation?’ He answered, ‘No’. Ibn `Abbas asked, ‘Do you feel any numbness in your body?’ He answered, ‘No.’ Said Ibn `Abbas, ‘That is from the cold. Ablution is sufficient.’”
– If one has a wet dream but does not find any traces of ejaculation
There is no need for ghusl in this instance either. Ibn Al-Munzhir said, “All of the knowledgeable people known to me agree on this point.”’ The hadith of Um Salamah mentioned earlier supports this proposition.
– If one wakes from sleep and finds some moistness, but does not recall any wet dream, though he is sure it is sperm, what should he do? To be safe, he should perform ghusl. Said Mujahid and Qatadah:
“There is no need for ghusl until he is sure that it is sperm, for his prior condition of purity is not ended by an uncertainty.
– If a man squeezes his penis to prevent ejaculation
This also makes ghusl unnecessary. This is based on the hadith which states that ghusl is required if the sperm can be seen. But, if the person walks and cannot control his ejaculation. he must perform ghusl.
2- Sperm on the clothes during prayer
If a man does not know how the sperm got on his clothes, and he has already prayed, should he perform ghusl and repeat all of his prayers since the last time he slept?
If he thinks that it happened before his most recent sleep, he should repeat all of his prayers since the supposed time of his ejaculation .
3- Touching the two circumcised parts
This refers to the penis and the vagina. If one’s penis has entered his wife’s vagina, ghusl is obligatory even if there was no ejaculation. Says Allah, “If you are sexually impure, purify yourselves.” (AL-Ma’idah 5:6)
Commenting on the subject, Ash-Shaifi says, “In the Arabic language, sexual impurity refers to any type of sexual intercourse, regardless of whether sperm was ejaculated or not. If someone says, ‘So and so is sexually impure due to so and so,’ it refers to any type of sexual intercourse between them, even if there was no ejaculation. No one disagrees that the fornication which requires the prescribed punishment is sexual intercourse, even if there is no ejaculation.”
Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him)said, “When anyone sits between the four parts of her body and exerts himself (has intercourse), bathing becomes obligatory (for both).” (Ahmad and Muslim)
Sa`eed ibn Al-Musayyab reported that Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari said to `A’ishah, “I would like to ask you something, but I am embarrassed.” She said, “Ask and don’t be shy, for I am your mother.” He asked about a man who had intercourse but did not ejaculate. She said, on the authority of the Prophet, “If the two circumcised parts encountered each other, ghusl is obligatory.” (Ahmad and Malik).
There is no doubt that there must be insertion; if there is only touching, ghusl is not obligatory for either. All scholars agree on this point.
4- Women and their period
Concerning menstruation and childbirth bleeding, Allah says in the Qur’an, “Do not approach them until they become pure. When they are pure, go to them in the manner that Allah has prescribed for you.” (Al-Baqarah 2:222)
The Messenger of Allah said to Fatimah bint Abu Habish, “Do not pray during your period. After it has ended, perform ghusl and pray.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Post-childbirth bleeding is treated in a similar manner, according to the consensus of the companions. If a woman gives birth and has no flow of blood afterwards, some scholars say that she must perform ghusl, while others say that it would not be necessary. There is no textual authority on this latter point.
When a Muslim dies, it is obligatory to wash his or her body, according to the consensus of the Muslims.
6- A non-Muslim upon embracing Islam
New converts to Islam must perform ghusl. Abu Hurairah reported that Thumamah Al-Hanafi was captured. The Prophet, upon whom be peace, passed by him and said, “What do you have to say for yourself, O Thumamah?” He said, “If you kill me, you would be killing a relative. If you give me a bounty (set me free), I would be thankful. If you want wealth (as a ransom), we can give you what you wish.” The companions of the Prophet preferred the ransom and said, “What would we get if we killed him?” One time when the Prophet passed by him, he finally embraced Islam. The Prophet (peace be upon him) untied him and told him to go to the garden of Abu Talhah and perform ghusl. He performed ghusl and prayed two rak`ah. The Prophet said, “Indeed, your brother became a fine Muslim.” (Ahmad)
There is also a source for the story in reports by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
8- Circumambulating the Ka`bah
The reasoning behind this can be found in What actions require the ablution as a prerequisite.
9- Touching or carrying the Qur’an
The companions were all agreed that it is forbidden to touch or carry the Qur’an while one is in a state of impurity. There are some jurists, such as Dawud ibn Hazm, who allow the physically unclean person, whether because of sex or menstruation, to touch or carry the Qur’an, and they see nothing wrong with this. He derives his support from a hadith in the two Sahihs in which it is stated that the Prophet sent a letter to Heraclius saying, “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful…O people of the book, come to a statement that is common between us and you, that we should worship none but Allah, and that we shall ascribe no partner unto Him, and that none of us shall take others for lords besides Allah. If they turn away, then say ‘Bear witness that we are they who have surrendered (unto Him).” (Aal `Imran 3:64)
Ibn Hazm concludes, “This is the letter the Messenger of Allah wrote, containing this verse, to the Christians, and of course they touched it.” The majority of scholars answer him by stating that one is allowed to touch parts of the Qur’an that are used in letters, books, tafsir, and so on, as such things are not copies of the Qur’an, nor is it confirmed that such an action is forbidden.
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Rolls-Royce and Hyundai are collaborating to create an advanced air mobility fuel-cell electric propulsion system.
The partnership, announced at the Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, will combine Rolls-aviation Royce’s expertise with Hyundai’s hydrogen fuel cell technology. The automakers hope to complete a joint fuel-cell electric aircraft demonstration by 2025.
Aerospace could be the next frontier for automakers looking to apply electric and hydrogen propulsion technology to modes of transportation other than cars. Hyundai has set aside $1.4 billion for flying taxis in South Korea by 2025, while Honda plans to build a hybrid eVTOL aircraft. Toyota and General Motors are also developing technology in order to gain a foothold in the burgeoning market.
Rolls-Royce, a long-time manufacturer of aircraft engines, is also no slouch in the skies. The ultra-luxury British and mass-market Korean brands will collaborate to develop hydrogen fuel cells, storage systems, and aerospace infrastructure for use in their own electrified vehicles.
“The Advanced Air Mobility Market offers tremendous commercial potential, and this collaboration supports our shared ambitions to lead the way in the Advanced Air Mobility Market,” said Rob Watson, president of Rolls-Royce Electrical.
Air mobility is one of four core areas in which Hyundai intends to invest $10 billion in U.S. operations by 2025. At the air show, the automaker also unveiled a five-passenger eVTOL vehicle cabin concept developed with its urban air mobility subsidiary, Washington, DC-based Supernal. | <urn:uuid:9a42d6c7-2656-47cf-b917-0611cad70afd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slashbeats.com/rolls-royce-and-hyundai-partner-on-air-taxi-hydrogen-fuel-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.914898 | 324 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Kakheti, the eastern region of Georgia, is famous for winemaking, ancient churches, local cuisine and hospitable people.
Telavi is the main city of the region, which used to be the capital of Kingdom of Kakheti. The royal castle still remains in the center of it, where you can stroll around and visit the museum to learn more about its past.
Alaverdi Cathedral, founded by an Assyrian monk Joseph Alaverdi, who came to Georgia to spread the Christianity. He lived in a small village and founded the monastery there. The present cathedral was built in the 11th century and is the second tallest religious cathedral after the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi.
Tsinandali is a small village near Telavi which belonged to the 19th-century Georgian poet Alexander Chavchavadze. This summer mansion in Tsinandali became a museum after his death. Visitors can see various memorabilia belonging to the royal family, his wine cellar, and a beautiful garden.
Shuamta monastery is another beautiful place to visit in Kakheti. There are two Shuamta monasteries - new and old (Akhali and Dzveli in Georgian) and both of them are nested between the mountains making the scenery absolutely stunning.
Sighnaghi, or the town of love as it's often referred to, is a charming small town overlooking beautiful Alazani valley. With its red rooftops, wooden curved balconies, and narrow cobblestone streets, Sighnaghi is a romantic place to be.
St. Nino-Bodbe Monastery is an important religious site for many Georgians. Located only two km from Sighnaghi, Bodbe monastery was built in the 9th century, however, it significantly repaired in the 17th century. St. Nino, an evangelist who brought Christianity to Georgia is buried here.
The town of Gremi used to be another capital of Kakheti Kingdom back in the days. It is home to Gremi Church, a 16th-century religious building located on the top of the mountain offering panoramic views of the surrounding nature.
David Gareji Monastery Complex is 60-70 km from Tbilisi and serves another cave town of the country. Curved on the slope of Gareja mountain, the complex includes churches, chapels, and refectories.
Ikalto Monastery had an educational purpose and served as an academy where students learned science, winemaking, history, and many other subjects.
Sagarejo Municipality is home to Ninotsminda Cathedral, one of the best examples of ancient architecture.
Kvareli Lake Resort is a great getaway destination for many locals and travelers coming to Georgia. Surrounded by beautiful forest with the lake in the middle, the resort is a perfect relaxation spot after a long adventurous trip.
Nekresi Monastery complex, situated on the top of a steep hill overlooking the Alazani valley, was founded by one of 13 Syrian monks Abibos Nekreseli. It’s one of the most unique and gorgeous sites in Georgia.
Just like Kvareli Lake Resort, Lopota Lake Resort is another popular relaxation spot for many. Located only two hours drive from Tbilisi, Lopota is a great option to unwind from a busy city.
Lagodekhi National Park offers wide possibilities for hiking lovers. Established in 1912, it’s one of the oldest national parks of the country occupying around 19,749 hectares of land. One of the highlight trails of the park is to trek the Black Rock Lake while enjoying unique beautiful flora and fauna of the area.
Place to go
Bordered by Russian republics of Dagestan and Chechnya on the north and east, Tusheti is a gem of the Caucasus Mountain Range. On Georgian side, it’s located near provinces of Kakheti and Pshav-Khevsureti. The population of Tusheti is sheep breeders, known for their heart-warming hospitality.
Omalo is the central town of Tusheti, however, administratively it is part of Akhmeta municipality of Kakheti region. Omalo is one of the most mountainous part making it isolated from the rest of the country for most of the year. Nested below the mountains, Omalo offers breathtaking views of the surrounding nature.
Dartlo is an almost depopulated village of Tusheti located 2,000 meters above the sea level. With its medieval defense towers, a typical architectural style of the region, Dartlo is a picture-perfect location to visit.
Parsma is another depopulated village of Tusheti, located around 40 km far from Omalo and not far from Dartlo.
Located in the eastern part of Georgia, this mountainous region is a fascinating place to explore. Bordered by Caucasus Mountain Range, the region covers approximately 1,050 square kilometers. The Range divides Khevsureti into two parts - northern and southern parts.
Shatili is the major village of Upper Khevsureti and is one of the unique villages of Georgia, distinguished by its architecture. Located at 1,400 meters above the sea level, Shatili offers fascinating views and a time-travel experience in the medieval period. Since 2007 Shatili has been enlisted in UNESCO tentative list.
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Product Packaging: The Silent Salesman
People don’t often make first-time buying decisions based on the product itself – unless they’ve been convinced from a previous experience. Perhaps the product was recommended to them by a friend, or a nice demo lady (or man) was at the supermarket handing out free samples. Otherwise, people simply gaze over their choices on the shelf, pick up a product or two, and then ultimately decide on one product to try out for the first time.
You may think we’re all simply “drawn” to our product of choice, but here’s another thought: being drawn to a product is accomplished by product packaging, and it’s called the “silent salesman” for this reason. Here’s why:
Packaging communicates your product
On a fundamental level, good packaging design communicates what’s inside the packaging, which helps the consumer understand the product they’ll be purchasing. While this may sound like a no-brainer to some, it’s important to remember that packaging can be deceiving. People don’t like to be deceived, and they won’t buy a product they don’t trust. Creating a false expectation of your product greatly reduces customer satisfaction, which makes you lose a greater number of customers in the long run.
Your product’s packaging should communicate your product, as well as its quality, origins, health benefits, and any other information in an honest and straightforward way. This helps build trust with your customer.
Packaging communicates your brand
Now that we’ve discussed the basics, we’ve come to the fun part: making your packaging communicate your brand. While branding and brand strategy is an entire area of its own, product packaging reflects the ideas that your brand as a whole wants to represent.
Simon Sinek, famous author and organisational consultant, had this to say about why some companies are more successful than others: “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
This same adage applies to products on the shelf. Your product packaging should reflect why your brand exists in the first place, and what it wants to accomplish. Does your packaging design evoke a sense of innovation and quality? Is it sustainable? Does it represent your brand’s sense of professionalism or playfulness through the use of different fonts, colours and imagery? Why does your product exist in the first place?
Product labels and designs should reinforce the quality and message of your brand as a whole to create strong connections with consumers who believe in the same principles that you do.
Selling your product to the consumer
Packaging, in its most practical sense, is designed to preserve the product inside it. Convenience packaging in particular makes handling and storing your product easier throughout its journey. But because there’s no actual salesman stationed near the shelves to talk about why your product is great, mere convenience doesn’t communicate what’s inside the packaging itself, while good packaging design does.
Good packaging design is sales-driven and shouldn’t make people think. Because the complexity of a design should fit its medium, you only have a small amount of space and a short timeframe to impress people enough to make a purchase. Packaging design that incorporates the right images, style, colours, and even typeface, all help to create a mood that a consumer is attracted to, triggering the ultimate decision to put your product in their basket.
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PROFILE: Psychologist who fled Lukashenko’s Belarus tells of escape and new life in Poland
Albina Stroganova was an award-winning psychologist, who was teaching at the prestigious A.S. Pushkin Brest State University, when Belarus’s 2020 elections were held.
But after speaking out about the results and the behaviour of President Aleksander Lukashenko, Stroganova was hauled in by state police and interrogated.
Upon returning home to her four-year-old son Adrian, she realised that her house was under surveillance.
Shaken by the interrogation, Stoganova was highly concerned for her own wellbeing and that of her son.
So she decided she needed to escape before the van parked outside her house wasn’t just observing her but was being used to abduct her.
She packed quickly and headed to the border.
Stroganova’s parents had already been living in Warsaw for four years and were residents, both in successful careers, her mother also a psychologist.
The three hour car ride from Brest to the Polish capital was familiar to Stroganova, who had made the journey a number of times without incident.
She was relieved that the familiar journey would not only reunite her with her parents and Adrian with his grandparents, but would also ensure they were free to live a normal life.
That feeling of joy was slowly extinguished over an exhausting 10 hour delay at the border. This was on a summer’s day where the temperature exceeded 30 degrees and everyone on the road had the same nervous energy.
The Polish border guards explained that while Albina’s visa was ok and she was free to enter, her son had to remain in Belarus.
Heartbroken, exhausted and still in fear of her life, Stoganova was forced to return home where the observers outside her house, and the threat they represented remained.
The next day she set off on a 400 km detour and headed to the border crossing at Grodno, in northern Belarus.
This time the Polish border control were more understanding with both Albina and Adrian permitted them to cross into Poland. Later that day the family reunion in Warsaw took place and they haven’t looked back since.
Appearing as a speaker at the Belarusian Business Forum held at the Warsaw Stock Exchange last month, Albina Stroganova told TFN: “I would first of all like to thank Poland, its people and its government for giving us a safe place to work and live freely.
“I would like to thank them for offering an education system where my son can go and learn in peace, and will be free to achieve his goals based on his efforts.
“I urge the Belarusian people to come together and support each other like the Ukrainians do when they move to other countries.”
The psychologist said that she treats many patients from her home country who are struggling to adjust and a common root of that problem is a lack of a strong Belarusian community.
Although there are many Belarusians spread across Poland, Stroganova says adults find it hard to adjust and thinks they need to break the habits of the old country, where they were trained to be suspicious of those they didn’t know and embrace living in a free society.
WHY PEOPLE ARE LEAVING BELARUS:
The Lukashenko regime has been labelled by many as the last dictatorship in Europe. While there are systematic elections, the results have been questioned by international observers and the oppressive nature of how the country has been run condemned.
The largest protests in the history of the country exploded following Lukashenko’s 2020 election ‘victory’ which saw him take up his sixth term in office. The day after his inauguration the EU published a statement rejecting the legitimacy of the elections and calling for new elections to be held.
In August 2020 Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declared: “In a situation where the stakes are life, health, security, there is no time to lose. We therefore propose a detailed package promising freedom from visa charges, and in certain cases also freedom from the obligation to possess documents, and facilitated entry to the job market.”
Scores of students were given safe haven in Poland, their studies paid for and scholarships offered to help them survive while they studied through the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). As well as the ‘Solidary with Students,’ programme there were funds made available for academics through the ‘Solidary with Scientists’ and ‘Solidary with Teachers' programmes.
Workers streamed across the border, many highly skilled professionals who would add value to the Polish economy that remained robust despite the impact of COVID.
On September 1st the United Nations Human Rights Office cited over 450 abuses of detainees following protests, some of the claims included incidents of sexual abuse and rape as well as torture. A report published at the end of the year by Viasna Human Rights Centre saw the number of documented cases of torture rise to over 1,000. | <urn:uuid:083339b2-303d-4fdc-a37c-4eb353d73639> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/profile-psychologist-who-fled-lukashenkos-belarus-tells-of-escape-and-new-life-in-poland-25852 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.980863 | 1,047 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Municipal Budgets and Tax Levies
Mississippi law requires municipalities to adopt a formal budget. Generally, a budget is a plan of action for a fiscal year representing the choices of the governing authorities as to how the municipality will allocate its limited resources among various competing demands. The budget also serves to justify the need to levy taxes for the support of municipal operations.
All Mississippi municipalities are required to follow very specific budgetary procedures. These laws attach a wide range of conditions to the preparation and use of the municipality’s budget. The following law overview should help the reader to achieve a general understanding of legal requirements. For specific information on legal requirements, references to the related Mississippi Code Sections are provided. Chapter 35 of Title 21 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated (MCA) contains the statutory requirements that municipalities must follow.
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The Simple Cell and Autonomous Analytics Software: Scientists have discovered that the “simple cell” really isn’t that simple at all.
A post from catholicstrength.com entitled, “Cellular Theology: The Mysticism of the Life-giving Cell,” states this:
“…we have the amazing discoveries of microbiology that even a simple cell (since it contains information encoding DNA) is a staggering compendium of directions and instructions. If you go on the internet, your research will show that a simple cell is an amazingly complex molecular machine.” Cells function, or perhaps better stated, perform their function autonomously. Today, companies like Modern Analytics are developing and distributing software that performs analytics, namely those of the predictive and prescriptive variety, autonomously. This enables a single data scientist to do the work of dozens of data scientists. The idea isn’t to replace their role, but to allow them to do more creative things and to flourish relative to working with leadership and domain experts. This changes everything.
Just as the simple cell has that staggering compendium of directions and instructions, so does autonomous analytics software. The grueling, tedious work of the data scientist can be learned by a machine (hence the term “machine learning”). Within the link to Wikipedia you can read that machine learning is a “field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.” Just think about how this alone changes things so much. Let me take you down a road of ideas, thoughts, insights, and concepts that will enlighten you by creating a picture, an array of opportunities that autonomous analytics can generate.
The amount of information that’s being created is elevating exponentially. It’s almost impossible to wrap your head around it. Rapid advancement in data storage and data processing technology is enabling massive collection and archiving of information.
To show you how steep the curve is I’ve captured this slide from an Amazon Web Services webinar series.
Big Data Disappointments and the Data Analytics Roadmap
The “Big Data” phenomenon is creating the opportunity to acquire nearly unlimited insights. Analytics or “data science” can be used to predict what will happen and explain why it will. But many challenges to reaping benefits from analytics yet remain. One main issue: Data is siloed, disjointed, or disparate. Databases are not aggregated. Lots of bureaucracy and a lack of foresight can prevent different parts or divisions of organizations from sharing information. Not only has the volume of data skyrocketed, but the places where it’s stored and the methods of collecting it have also expanded profoundly. A great blog post entitled, “Siloed Data is Killing Your Business Analytics,” states that small companies have on average “14.3 applications” and at the enterprise level “just under 500.” So the question of the day is this:
Are business leaders getting value out of all this data?
This depends on what company you’re running. An article from Forbes stated this harsh reality, “Just 27% of C-level executives think their company makes ‘highly effective’ use of data, while about a third (32%) say access to mountains of information has actually ‘made things worse.'” One of the benefits of partnering with a software and services organization like the aforementioned Modern Analytics is the fact that they’ll work with you to build a data analytics roadmap. Expert consultants work with your staff, covering the breadth of your business, to put together an approach that bridges data to measurable results.
When I worked at General Electric I learned that if something is important, you measure it. And if you can’t measure it how can you tell if you’re improving? Measuring how you’re benefiting from data analytics becomes more and more important as each day passes. This requires a well-coordinated effort. Taking the journey of completing the analytics roadmap process includes setting up a plan to measure the value of analytics, one of its many benefits.
Once you are all on the same page, once you have a robust strategy in place, a roadmap to your data analytics success, great things can start happening. It’s as simple as having a way to get from point A to point B. To get from having no strategy (or a poorly devised strategy) to possessing a robust strategy that will drive sustained success.
The competitors are fierce. They’ll be doing all they can to be more effective at acquiring and disseminating actionable data. Whether you consider it creating distance between you and your competition or just keeping pace, you must figure out how to make your approach to data and analytics an asset as opposed to a liability.
In a previous post, Predictive Analytics Brings Much-Needed Precision, I discussed how data holds the answers relative to buying propensity. Imagine being able to see what prospects have the highest likelihood to buy your products or services. Companies I talk with tell me that they’re wanting to be more targeted in the way they sell and market.
Predictive analytics gives you powerful information that will increase your precision. This impacts sales velocity, the time it takes for a new lead to become a closed deal. It will keep you away from the customers that will say “no” or worse yet, the ones who will string your salespeople along, sitting idle, with no movement whatsoever within your sales pipeline. Salespeople have a tendency to hang on too long to potential deals. The key is to use analytics to point them to the deals that they’ll close in a reasonable amount of time. Think of the costs and time lost when you bark up the “wrong customer” tree.
Autonomous Analytics, the “Great Enabler”
Even though we’re living in the heart of the information or digital age, companies are still wasting time reaching out to people who will never buy. Sure, on the surface, they look like great prospects with huge sales revenue upside, nice opportunities to enlarge your customer footprint, and a logo to add to your customer list that will really impress. That means nothing if your odds of selling to them are slim to none and leaning more towards none. Autonomous analytics changes that. With this capability you can prioritize and channel your sales and marketing energy to the prospects that are thirty, forty, or fifty times more likely to become one of your customers.
However, it’s the autonomous nature that really makes this capability revolutionary. Instead of data scientists producing a handful of predictive models per year, autonomous analytics enables you to perform analytics on practically everything. One company, a multinational technology and consulting company, used the power of autonomous analytics and were able to produce close to 1,000 predictive models in a year’s time and perform advanced analytics with only a single data scientist managing the program. To accomplish the same work without the software you’d need to hire a staggering 200 data scientists! Exponentially more models and significantly lower costs. Autonomous analytics changes everything by allowing you to ask hundreds of more questions. The amount of information and insights gained was eye popping. It would be like comparing the information you can get from a $100 telescope to the Hubble Telescope (and getting the Hubble for a dollar).
This means more and more business-critical answers over time. Answers to things that fundamentally change the balance sheet, that profoundly impact your performance results. Just think how exciting it will be to deliver the great news with your fellow leaders and to the board, your investors, and your shareholders…
Now… Let’s talk about some concepts that will really pique your curiosity and leave you completely intrigued, determined to pursue autonomous analytics. First, I’ll explain how analytics is used (done autonomously of course) to predict cross sell opportunities. Let’s use a product of my past to illustrate… patient monitoring equipment. A large company that sells medical capital equipment wants to predict cross sell opportunities. They want to see what customers have a significantly higher probability to buy their blood pressure cuffs in addition to their vital signs monitors. With the data they already have (imagine their analytics road map helped them get organized and get their data in shape), once the data modeling process is complete, the analytics can provide many strategically important insights and answers. In this case, it’s how (e.g. what white paper will work) and to whom they’re marketing and selling (the best prospects). This is incremental business, not the business they would have won anyway on the unaltered course. The true value created through analytics for this hypothetical scenario could be, for example, $45M in new sales for the company’s disposable and semi-disposable blood pressure cuff business. But if it weren’t for autonomous analytics this may have never been discovered because data science resources are commonly used for only bigger ticket items or the business problems that involve the most money on the table.
It should be stated that there’s another value proposition associated with this scenario. It’s “pull-through sales.” In our hypothetical scenario it would be predicting the amount of blood pressure cuffs they needed to sell in order to increase capital equipment sales. This ability would put anyone in a pretty strong position. It is yet another powerful tool in your autonomous analytics tool belt.
Next, I’ll share a scenario to show how autonomous analytics changes everything relative to upsell opportunities. Let’s use a company and a product that everyone and their mother has heard about, Apple and the iPhone. With predictive analytics you could predict what customers would have a higher likelihood to be upsold. An example might be the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 7 Plus. Perhaps you even go further and do prescriptive analytics which reveals what do about the fact that the next-generation A10 processors is what will compel many people to buy the new smartphone. The prescription, or the right thing to do, is to market the new iPhone to these specific customers, and market to them in a certain, particular, and successful way. Without autonomous analytics Apple or any other company might skip the predictive and prescriptive model. Businesses have to choose their analytics battles (I submit to you this probably isn’t one that Apple would skip). But with autonomous analytics every product, every market, every customer type, every account type, every SKU, every product development opportunity, and a whole lot more can be in scope, all the time.
Check out techradar’s article, “iPhone 7 release date, news and rumors.”
The key: Autonomous analytics frees up a company to do analytics on anything and practically everything. The software automatically, autonomously builds a semi-exhaustive list of models that could impact your business significantly. No more do you have to say something like, “We have a finite number of resources,” or “We only have 5 data scientists and there’s only so much they can do.” With autonomous analytics you can gain better insights and understanding of every aspect or component of your business. Use it to know to whom you should sell, what products to produce, what customers will be successfully retained, what projects will yield the most contribution margin, and so much more. You’ll be able to honestly say that autonomous analytics changes everything.
Connectors, IoT, and Super Intelligence
A deep, but all-important concept to understand is that taking the journey of developing an analytics roadmap and diving into autonomous analytics will result in an intersection with where all technology is headed. The types or phases of analytics are descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. Descriptive statistics simply tells you about or summarizes your data. Predictive analytics tells you what might happen if things continue on the current course and speed. Prescriptive analytics tells you what to do about it. With autonomous analytics software connectors are built between it and some or all of your databases. Because of this you’re able to see how changes to all the variables (the data) are affecting the predictions and the prescriptions. It’s the constant, continual updating of information and the analytics being performed against it that will help you to run your business smarter. Today, data scientists take a lot of time to build predictive models. But don’t just take my word for it… See what a data scientist has to say about this himself…
Abe Burnett, Data Scientist: “In my experience, building robust predictive models takes more time then the business would like–always. The struggle is that most people think of data science as basically modern magic. You hire a couple data scientists (or Credit Risk Analysts/Modelers–as we call them in finance) and they wave their magic wands over a pile of data for a little while and voilà, a highly predictive model. Nothing could be further from the truth. In our space, with the data we have available, building a decent model seems to require at least 4 months. And even that much time means that we don’t get to consider some options, try some things, optimize some things, etc. There’s just a lot that can be done to get better results, but you’ll often have stakeholders tell you that they’d rather have a less predictive model faster, than a more predictive model slower.”
Read Abe’s comment and others here.
With autonomous analytics you can have your cake and eat it too… Incredibly predictive models (any and all helpful models, you decide what to take action on and when based on the needs of your business) built in a matter of a few days, not months.
Whether it’s talking to futurists, analytics software CEOs, or just reading what other authors or bloggers like myself are writing, it’s evident that the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is just slightly less certain than the sun coming up tomorrow. This will mean massive amounts of new data that can be used to solve all kinds of problems. It will be critical to have data feeding into an analytics engine(s) that delivers actionable insights leading to mission-critical course corrections. Here’s an analogy: Think of how much analytical power it would take to travel safely at light speed across the universe. There are revolutionary, life-altering consequences that will impact the entire spectrum of scientific disciplines and industries; medicine, mining, and meteorology just to name a few.
Image source: tellit2market.com
We can summarize the impact of having autonomous, well-coordinated data collection, modeling, analytics, and archival like this: It’s the condition required to rapidly acquire super intelligence that businesses need to get ahead or to even stay in the game. With the rate at which technology is advancing you cannot afford to put off discovery of these ideas and concepts. The innovators and early adopters are going to have such a competitive edge over others that it may be impossible for the latter to close the divide. I’ve made it clear that autonomous analytics changes everything. Now you must decide if or how you’ll be part of these inevitable changes.
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Everything you need to know about Digital Transformation
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A Wi-Fi router is a device that converts your wired broadband internet connection to a wireless internet connection. It helps you connect multiple devices that can access the internet from a single connection. However, it is often observed that the range of a Wi-Fi router is fairly limited. The Wi-Fi signal weakens as we start moving away from the router, and the connection after that is unstable. Here is where Wi-Fi extenders come into the picture. In simple terms, a Wi-Fi extender extends the range of your Wi-Fi signal.
What is Wi-Fi Extender and How Does It Work?
A Wi-Fi extender is a device used to extend the coverage of your Wi-Fi network. It attaches to your Wi-Fi router and helps expand your internet signal into areas that the Wi-Fi router is unable to reach due to disruptions in the signal like walls, furniture or general spacing. When you connect your device to your Wi-Fi router, a link is established. A Wi-Fi Extender will grab the original signal and rebroadcast it on a different channel. It acts as a middleman between your Wi-Fi router and your device with the sole purpose of establishing a stable and fast connection.
Just like how the location of a Wi-Fi Router is of prime importance as it determines the kind of connection you will receive; similarly, the location for a Wi-Fi extender should also be given due consideration. The ideal location for your Wi-Fi extender is right in the middle of your Wi-Fi Router and the place where you need more powerful Wi-Fi signals.
Wi-Fi Extender is Different from Wi-Fi Repeater
There are other accessory devices that go along with Wi-Fi routers and provide different features to the end consumers. One such product is a Wi-Fi Repeater. The end purpose of a Wi-Fi Repeater is similar to that of a Wi-Fi Extender, which is to improve and extend the range of a wireless signal. However, the two devices differ in the way they operate.
A Wi-Fi Extender operates by capturing and rebroadcasting an existing wireless signal on a different channel. Such a connection has less risk of interference as the device can link to your modem and router via coaxial cable or Ethernet Cord. A Wi-Fi Repeater links wirelessly to your router, which providers only half of the usable bandwidth resulting in high latency. Lastly, Wi-Fi Extenders and Wi-Fi Repeaters both are also referred to as Wi-Fi Boosters. | <urn:uuid:cbdff021-028d-48d5-91c8-b8f5f004f077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://telecomtalk.info/everything-you-should-know-about-wifi-extenders/369664/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.94295 | 528 | 3.171875 | 3 |
About Speech Difficulties
Is your child's speech difficult to understand? Are you concerned about the way your child makes particular sounds when they talk? Would you like an assessment to find out if your child's use of speech sounds is developing as expected for their age? Speech difficulties relate to a child's ability to make sounds in words when talking. Children would benefit from an assessment of their speech sounds if:
- they are difficult for familiar people to understand by the age of two years
- they are difficult for strangers to understand by the age of three years
- they leave many sounds off the beginnings, middles or ends of words after two years of age
- their speech sounds "slushy" or "nasally".
Children who have difficulties in developing their use of these sounds by the ages provided often go on to have difficulties with reading and spelling unless they receive assistance from a speech pathologist early. Speech therapy is an effective way to help children's skills develop. With early help children have the best chance of 'catching up' and doing well with their learning. To read more articles about speech see the 'speech' category on our blog.
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Today, businesses require several computers to perform various tasks. So it’s a standard practice on the list of present day organizations to link and network multiple systems to facilitate advice and data sharing. In the event you are residing in Detroit and researching alternatives to develop a lifetime career INSIDE, you will get money-making work in constructing and maintaining computer networks.
Additionally, it is possible to generate some added remuneration by keeping the computer networks of small and startup businesses. Nevertheless, you must consider some crucial elements to develop an effective career in the area of computer networking.
In the event you are aspiring to get a rewarding job in computer networking, you must concentrate on the degrees needed for being a computer systems administrator. The majority of the firms require their computer network administrators to have a GED or high school diploma. While pursuing the B. Sc class, you must refer to various on-line and offline sources to upgrade your knowledge on various issues in computer networking.
After you get your B. Sc degree in computer networking, you can improve your career prospects by getting certification in special kind of computer networking. For example, you’ll be able to avail some additional training to meet the requirements for the testing and certification programs made available from popular suppliers like Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. You must invest some time in learning specially designed class content to clear the professional assessment conducted from these popular businesses. The professional accreditation will further add to your own basic training in computer training and help in getting a few of the money-making IT Work in Detroit.
Combined with the school degree and professional accreditation, in addition, you need to investigate various alternatives to get some on the job learning computer networking. You may also approach a few of the computer networking as well as care companies to hire you as an apprentice. In the first phases, you might not be bringing in a massive salary.
Nevertheless, the practical experience obtained by you are going to be helpful in joining the big and multinational firms as a computer network administrator. After finishing the necessary training and getting the practical expertise, you can begin applying for the existing job openings in a variety of organizations. | <urn:uuid:27a013e0-5305-439c-ba15-45205197be89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.medienforum.org/career-in-computer-networking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957584 | 439 | 2.25 | 2 |
During the reproductive years -between puberty and menopause- the bacterial communities colonizing the vagina show a remarkable lack of biodiversity. In contrast to the microbiota of the mouth, the skin or the gut, most vaginal environments have a dominant presence of one of four different closely related lactic acid bacteria: Lactobacillus crispatus, iners, jensenii or gasseri. Another distinctive aspect of the human vagina is its acidity. Lactic acid, commonly assumed to be produced by these bacteria , lower the human vaginal pH to levels of around 4, considerably lower than that of some apes and monkeys that are our closest relatives. A subset of women have reduced levels of Lactobacillus and a higher pH. Women with this dysbiosis, called “Bacterial Vaginosis” often have no symptoms, but in some cases it leads to abnormal odor and secretions. There are more serious health effects : lower levels of acidity and Lactobacillus are associated with an increased risk of acquiring or spreading sexually transmitted disease. Pregnant women with bacterial vaginosis are at increased risk of preterm birth, possibly due to infection by vaginal bacteria.
We understand very little about the bacterial composition of the human vagina. For instance, it is unclear why humans are the only apes with this high acidity and dominance of Lactobacillus whereas these characteristics are absent in other primates. Why is the human vagina such a good host for these specific bacteria? Furthermore, we don’t know how these lactobacilli acidify the environment, what (food) sources do they use? And what can cause the microbiota to switch to this Bacterial Vaginosis state?
The answer might be found in another characteristic that is distinctive of the human vagina and that is the prevalence of glycogen. Glycogen is a long polymer (chain) of single glucose units that is normally used to store energy for instance in the liver. The human vaginal epithelial layers during a woman’s reproductive years are also rich in glycogen. Its accumulation is regulated by estrogen and it can be used as an energy and carbon source for bacteria to grow and metabolize, but only if they have the enzymes to cut it up in smaller polymers or its single sugars.
Can vaginal bacteria utilize glycogen to colonize the vagina and to acidify the environment? That is one of the main question I aim to answer.
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The world’s increasing need for energy, along with the alarming consequences of burning fossil fuels (such as oil, coal, or natural gas) in power plants and vehicles, make the search for alternative energy sources vital for the future of the planet. Solar-driven splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen is a potential source of clean and renewable fuel. In this article, I describe and explain how this can be accomplished by a process called photocatalysis, and how we were able to obtain an efficient conversion of light into hydrogen using a unique miniature system.
The Energy Problem
Shalev just turned 9 years old. When he was born, in December of 2010, there were 6.9 billion (1 billion = 1,000,000,000) people in our world. Now there are 7.8 billion. It is projected that, by the time Shalev becomes a dad, his kids will share the world with over 9.6 billion people. As the world population is growing, so is our need for energy.
Have you ever stopped to consider how much energy you are using every day? We use energy while watching TV, cooking dinner, lighting our rooms at night, warming our homes during the cold winter, and even driving our cars.
So, how much energy are we using? The total energy used by all of human civilization increased from about one terawatt in 1890 to 19.4 terawatts last year . To be clear, 1 terawatt (TW) is one trillion (1012) watts, and is equivalent to 5 billion barrels of oil, or 1 billion tons of coal! It is anticipated that, by 2040, the world’s energy consumption will increase by another 48%. This will result in a 10 TW gap between the amount of energy we are currently capable of producing each year and what we expect to use 20–30 years from now. How will we ever bridge that gap? This problem gets even more challenging because most of our energy comes from resources that are being used up, such as oil (which contributes 33% of the world’s energy), coal (30%), and natural gas (24%), which are often referred to as fossil fuels. We are depleting these resources because they are produced by nature much more slowly than we are using them up. For example, most of the oil deposits existing today were formed about 250 million years ago, from tiny plants and animals called algae and plankton. Dead plankton and algae sank to the bottom of an ancient ocean and mixed with sand and other sediment, in an environment without oxygen. This created an organic-rich mud that was buried and covered by more sediment over the course of many years. Due to increased pressure and temperature, this mud eventually transformed into oil.
We must prepare for the inevitable depletion of fossil fuel supplies, because without these energy sources our entire way of life will change. In addition, the pollution from burning fossil fuels is disastrous, causing global warming, and other climate changes due to the greenhouse effect. Pollution also directly kills many people. In China, it is estimated that 1.6 million people die each year from breathing polluted air. So, in order to meet the increasing global demand for energy and to protect our environment, alternative “clean” energy sources must be developed.
Solar Energy as a Solution
While we contemplate on these glooming prospects, let us look at the bright side—up toward the sky. Every day, the sun sends out an enormous amount of energy. The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of our planet is so vast that in 1 year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth’s non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium (for nuclear energy) combined. The sun provides more energy in about an hour than the world uses in one year! Furthermore, the sun is free and does not belong to any one country. It is a local, inexhaustible resource that is clean and sustainable.
Tremendous effort is going into the development of means to capture the sun’s energy, with focus on various types of solar cells. The disadvantage of solar cells is that they provide energy in the form of electricity, which cannot satisfy all of our society’s energy needs. We also do not want to depend on an energy source that is only available on sunny days, which is the only time solar cells can work well. Not surprisingly, nature found a solution with an alternative way to use solar energy: plants use it in the process of photosynthesis, converting light into fuel for the plant. It is much easier to store fuel in comparison to storing electricity or heat. Nature may serve as our inspiration for the development of an artificial photosynthetic system, in which solar energy is converted directly into a fuel that can be easily stored and transported, based on a process called photocatalysis.
Photocatalytic systems are typically made of materials called semiconductors. Semiconductors are employed in solar cells, and are also the foundation of modern electronics. A semiconductor is a substance that can conduct electricity under some conditions but not others. When a semiconductor absorbs light, the energy stored in the light is converted to the generation of negative and positive charges within the material, as illustrated in Figure 1 (step 1). In solar cells these charges are being utilized directly as current (electricity). In photocatalysis however, these charges are used for the promotion of a type of chemical reactions, called oxidation-reduction, that involve transfer of charges between species. In addition, photocatalytic systems often include small metallic particles (illustrated in purple in Figure 1) that help improve the rate of the reaction. Briefly, a photocatalytic system absorbs light, and converts the solar energy into positive and negative electric charges which are then used to promote chemical reactions of interest.
Converting Solar Energy Into Fuel With Photocatalytic Systems
We would like to use the electric charges generated by a photocatalytic system to assist chemical reactions that would result in the formation of fuel. We define fuel as a chemical substance that provides energy when burned (combined with oxygen). Some reactions require energy to proceed, while others release energy. Our goal is to find a chemical reaction that requires energy, and use the sun’s power to promote that reaction. In the course of that reaction chemical bonds are broken, other bonds are formed, and new molecules are created. Then, the reverse reaction could release the energy, which is stored in the chemical bonds of the product molecules, upon demand, whenever we wanted it to.
Next, we need to determine what type of fuel to make, and which molecule to break down with the sun’s energy for the production of the fuel. Think of something that we have a lot of on earth, something simple and renewable. If you guessed water, you guessed correctly. In fact, the idea of using water and light for energy production has existed for quite some time. “Water will be the coal of the future,” wrote Jules Verne, in The Mysterious Island, back in 1874. Both sunlight and water are easy to acquire and found almost everywhere on earth. We decided to use sunlight to split water for the production of oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Hydrogen can then be used as fuel. Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen is a pollution-free source of energy. When hydrogen is burned, meaning when it reacts with oxygen, only water and energy are produced. Hydrogen also serves chemists for production of ammonia, an important fertilizer that is vital for agriculture.
Despite the great potential, after four decades of global research, stable and efficient photocatalytic systems have still not been developed, because the process is complicated and there are many challenges still to be faced. For example, if the positive and negative charges, which are attracted to one another, manage to recombine, they cancel each other and the energy is lost. To make progress, our research group and others have been studying simpler forms of photocatalytic reactions, focusing only on reactions that involve one type of charges, hoping that these simpler forms will eventually help us to understand the full process and produce efficient photocatalytic systems. This is carried out through the use of chemical additives that cancel the unwanted charges.
Our Success and the Next Challenges
Recently, our research group achieved nearly perfect conversion of light into hydrogen molecules . This means that all of the light that shined upon the photocatalyst successfully produced hydrogen from water. This impressive efficiency was accomplished by using a unique miniature photocatalysts, with dimensions on the nanometer range. One nanometer (nm) is 10−9 m. To put this size into perspective, the diameter of a human hair is about 50,000 nm. A fascinating and powerful outcome of working with nanoscale particles is the size-dependent tunability of their properties. By changing the size of the particle, a scientist can fine-tune a property of interest, such as what color of light will be absorbed by the semiconductor, and possibly make it a better photocatalyst.
The system we developed is illustrated in Figure 2. It consists of two semiconductors, a tiny spherical nano-sized particle made of a material called cadmium selenide, embedded within a second material that is rod-shaped (cadmium sulfide), with a platinum metallic particle at its tip. The spherical particle attracts positive charges, while negative charges accumulate on the platinum tip. The good separation between these charges is the key to the success of the system . It prevents the negative charges, which are responsible for the reaction that produces hydrogen from water, from being canceled by the positive charges. Because our system is so efficient, a single photocatalyst nanoparticle can produce 360,000 molecules of hydrogen per hour! This is the highest efficiency ever reported for this kind of system.
While our nanoscale photocatalyst was found to be efficient for hydrogen production, it is not suitable for overall water splitting, because it is not stable enough. Prolonged exposure to light leads to breakdown of the materials that make up the photocatalyst. Because we would have to continuously add some additional chemicals to prevent this breakdown, we would not truly be producing energy with this system.
Our achievement is a significant milestone, yet the road toward direct and genuine conversion of solar energy into fuel is still long. Perhaps one day YOU will be the one who will develop a system that works.
The Greenhouse Effect: ↑ The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth’s surface (and the air above it), due to trapping of sun’s energy by gases in the atmosphere. When the sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by greenhouse gases. These heat trapping gases act like the walls and roof of an agricultural greenhouse. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth would be too cold for life to exist. Yet, industrial production of greenhouse gases is now casing a raise in temperature.
Photosynthesis: ↑ A process used by plants and other organisms to convert light into the type of fuel needed by the organism, such as sugars. Using light, sugars are made from carbon dioxide and water.
Photocatalysis: ↑ The word is composed of two parts. The prefix “photo” means light. “Catalysis” refers to a process in which a substance (called a catalyst) speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction without being altered or used up. In a photocatalytic reaction, the catalyst is activated by light.
Conflict of Interest
The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
This research was carried out in the framework of the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) and the Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP).
↑ According to the U.S Energy Information Administration.
↑ Kalisman, P., Nakibli, Y., and Amirav, L. 2016. Perfect photon-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency. Nano Lett. 16:1776–81. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04813
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The kibaran tin and columbite-tantalite provinces in eastern D.R. Congo: Structural control, SnO2- SHRIMP vs muscovite K-Ar geochronology and implications to Rodinia and Gondwana tectonics
|Location||International Geological Congress,oslo 2008|
|Author||Kokonyangi, Joseph۱; Dunkley, Dan۲; Itaya, Tetsumaru۳; Arima, Makoto۴; Yoshida, Masaru۱|
|Holding Date||06 October 2008|
The Mesoproterozoic Kibaran Orogenic System of central Africa developed between 1.4 and 0.95 Ga (from rifting to post collisional stage). It hosts one of the world’s largest and valuable quartz and pegmatite veins mined for cassiterite, tungsten, columbite-tantalite, monazite, ilmenite, gold and REE since the 19s. The origin and time of emplacement of the mineralization is poorly constrained partly because, attempts to date the mineralization through their host rock and/or associated silicates accessory minerals such as micas and feldspar have been hampered by uncertainties and disturbances of isotopic systems. An alternative approach is to date the ore themselves directly.
In this paper, Pb-Pb SHRIMP geochronology was directly applied for the first time on the cassiterite occurring within quartz and pegmatite veins and those disseminated in associated peraluminous, two micas granitoids in the Kalima and Mitwaba areas of eastern DRC. K-Ar ages obtained on muscovite occurring together with the dated cassiterite in greisen are matched to the Pb/Pb SHRIMP data and the significances of individual dates are interpreted in the frame of the metallogeny of central Africa.
Finally, the implication of these geochronological data to the understanding the blocking temperature of cassiterite is assessed. Geochronological data coupled with structural observations are finally used to discuss the Rodinia and Gondwana tectonics between 1000 and 550 Ma in central Africa. | <urn:uuid:16c42a9d-9273-4ad3-bb6c-083900f7216a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsi.ir/en/articles/9710/the-kibaran-tin-and-columbite-tantalite-provinces-in-eastern-d.r.-congo-structural-control-sno2-shrimp-vs-muscovite-k-ar-geochronology-and-implications-to-rodinia-and-gondwana-tectonics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.867094 | 488 | 2.109375 | 2 |
What starts as a broad concept soon breaks up into thousands of distinctive pieces that will have you wanting more. Which is great, because once you’ve been to Africa once you’ll be eager to return, eager to see another side to the continent.
There are only a few constants applicable to the whole continent. One of them is the concept of time: this is a continent that’s mostly without the time pressures of the west.
Another is hospitality: you’ll be hard pressed to find people as friendly, welcoming and helpful. Finally it’s the wilderness. This is the continent where the roots of mankind is still found in earth and soil, not glass and concrete.
East, South, North, West? What is Best for Safari?
The traditional safari areas are found in East and Southern Africa. Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara and there isn’t much that can thrive in the desert.
Central Africa has thick rainforest that remains mostly inaccessible.
West Africa can be beautiful and friendly but its landscapes aren’t able to support the famous abundance of animals.
Uganda and Rwanda are developing as safari destinations and they’re the only places you can go gorilla trekking. After the safari you can head to the beach, either on the Kenyan coast or Zanzibar island.
Southern Africa isn’t as fertile as East Africa but the interior is mostly one big, untouched wilderness. It’s here that you’ll safari through bushland, savannah and desert, and come across icons like Victoria Falls, the Okavango Delta, the Kruger and the Kalahari.
The safari is dictated by the impact of water on this environment and there are some incredible concentrations of animals. After the safari there’s a lot more to discover, such as Cape Town, South Africa’s coastline and even white shark cage diving. | <urn:uuid:f64691a7-23ec-4131-b59d-f7242e7a027a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://africafreak.com/where/an-overview-of-africa-and-its-regions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944712 | 408 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Andrew Black, a fisherman, doesn’t go fishing. In order to gauge his level of control over the kids he mentors, he takes them fishing. There is such a sense of freedom, one of the kids said.
“To be here is incredibly special. He started taking the youngsters fishing more than 10 years ago. The first child he took fishing was a neighbor’s child whose father wasn’t there.
The small boy discovered a fish for the first time in his life, and Andrew remarked on how amazing it was to see.
The 8-year-old boy was coming and going from his house when Andrew struck up a discussion with him. I decided to question him one day since I was interested in what was going on in his life, said Andrew.
I believed I may be able to help him when he told me he didn’t have a father. When Andrew thinks back on his time spent fishing with his father, he recalls how it helped him to find serenity and develop patience.
He got permission from the boy’s mother to take him fishing, and he had no idea that this would open the door for a business that would introduce countless children to the sport. | <urn:uuid:b13d707c-49b2-41c8-9556-3ccf1e519a8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifeblogs.am/2022/08/02/a-guy-establishes-a-charity-organization-and-takes-hundreds-of-kids-fishing-to-teach-them-life-skills-he-becomes-the-kind-of-father-figure-they-needed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.99309 | 252 | 1.804688 | 2 |
JAKARTA: The sound of tambourines has returned to the narrow alleys of southern Jakarta after a long pandemic hiatus, marking the month of Ramadan with distinctive Islamic devotional music native to the Indonesian capital.
Locally known as rebana biang, tambourines have been used by the Betawi community of Jakarta for the past two centuries. Bigger than those used elsewhere in Southeast Asia and with no metal jingles, the handheld drums are also played during other religious celebrations, but it is especially Ramadan that has traditionally been associated with their sound.
Today, the tradition is being kept alive by the last remaining rebana biang ensemble, Sanggar Lestari Budaya.
For decades, the group consisted only of family members, with the techniques of playing and producing the rebana handed down from generation to generation. It was only in the 2000s that the great-grandson of its founder, Mohamad Natsir, started to teach the music to those who were not his kin.
“He was the one who opened space for those who aren’t family to learn rebana and form their own groups,” said David Rahman, 30, who is not a family member but took over the ensemble this year, after Natsir’s death.
The group now has seven members, all between the ages of 25 and 30.
While they have been experimenting by adding other instruments to their performances, rebana remains the core of their art and to perform with them, a musician needs to master it the way their great-grandfathers did and learn 12 traditional rebana strokes.
“Collaborations are meant to attract people to join us,” Rahman said.
“I will keep the original strokes unchanged.”
To keep the original form, however, the young musicians will find it increasingly difficult to maintain their instruments.
There is only one master artisan left in Jakarta who can make the rebana: Abdul Rahman, a member of the extended family of Sanggar Lestari Budaya.
Already 80 years old, he admits that his eyesight is not good anymore.
It takes Rahman two weeks to produce the three different sized drums that form part of the rebana. Sometimes it takes longer, as materials are sourced from other parts of Indonesia and can be expensive. It costs about $350 to make one instrument.
“The raw materials, such as wood and sheepskin, I take from Loning village in Kebumen, Central Java,” he told Arab News.
Rahman says his son has learnt some of the craft, but his skills still require polishing.
For now, the musicians are not trying to borrow tomorrow’s sorrow and are all focused on practice during the fasting month.
“Practicing during Ramadan is a joyful experience,” the group’s leader said.
“We’ll surely gain a (spiritual) reward as it is a good and blessed month.”
They have already earned a warm welcome from members of the Betawi community, after their performances were suspended for two years by coronavirus lockdowns.
Catur Widarsono, a watchman who lives next to the group’s practice room in Ciganjur, said the neighborhood felt desolate without the sound of rebana biang during the pandemic and everyone was happy to hear it again.
“(For us) residents, when there are activities such as rebana during Ramadan, it becomes serene, the atmosphere in the neighborhood becomes serene,” he added.
Mohammad Alwi, whose family also lives nearby, told Arab News he was glad the sound of music was back.
“Because of the pandemic, their routine was less,” he said.
“I’m glad to hear them (again), especially during the month of Ramadan. It reduces the anxiety the pandemic had brought.” | <urn:uuid:b911cb2e-eeb7-4200-948b-f99e26841413> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arabnews.com/node/2060046/world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.980078 | 826 | 2.203125 | 2 |
In 1998, astronomers planned to discover whether the universe would expand forever or eventually collapse under its own gravity. What they found instead shattered every expectation: something was overpowering the pull of gravity and pushing the universe apart. They called it dark energy. But what is this invisible substance that makes up 70% of our universe? Find out in this episode of What the Physics?!
By Greg Kestin | <urn:uuid:7fbf0e73-5abc-471b-9de8-d069dbd74027> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/what-does-dark-energy-look-like/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942667 | 80 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Political relations between Germany and Saint Lucia are amicable and untroubled. The two countries cooperate mainly through development cooperation and cultural projects and within the framework of the United Nations.
Bilateral economic relations between Saint Lucia and Germany are modest, with only a small volume of trade in both directions. Considerable revenue from Germany is generated by German tourists.
A bilateral investment protection and promotion agreement has been in place since 1987. Other cooperation and trade accords exist within the framework of the agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states, as well as between the EU and CARIFORUM (CARICOM member states plus the Dominican Republic). The further development of trade relations with the EU is being followed closely in Saint Lucia and in the entire region against the background of the imminent signing of the EU’s new partnership agreement with the states of Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean (Post‑Cotonou Agreement)..
In the area of development cooperation, Saint Lucia has indirect links with Germany through agreements between Germany and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). These agreements aim to foster cooperation in sustainable economic development, renewable energy promotion and climate change adaptation. In addition, Germany is supporting microprojects in the region.
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has its headquarters in Saint Lucia. | <urn:uuid:8d8aeaab-fbe1-4fd2-bcd1-26b3ef0e6686> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aussenpolitik/st-lucia/235546 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958312 | 273 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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