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The first experiences with a multi-pipe borehole heat exchanger prototype
consisting of an insulated central pipe and twelve parallel peripheral pipes are described. Secondary fluid distributed temperature measurements along the borehole depth, being the only ones of its kind in this type of heat exchanger, are presented and discussed. The
measurements are carried out with fiber optic cables during heat injection into the ground, giving a detailed visualization of what happens both along the central and peripheral flow
channels. The heat exchange with the ground mainly occurs along the peripheral channels and an indication of almost no thermal short circuiting, even while having large temperature
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Bagaha city is governed by Municipal Corporation and is situated in Bihar State/UT.
As per provisional reports of Census India, population of Bagaha in 2011 is 112,634; of which male and female are 59,614 and 53,020 respectively.
Bagaha Literacy Rate 2011
In education section, total literates in Bagaha city are 55,400 of which 33,665 are males while 21,735 are females. Average literacy rate of Bagaha city is 59.84 percent of which male and female literacy was 68.25 and 50.26 percent.
Bagaha Sex Ratio 2011
The sex ratio of Bagaha city is 889 per 1000 males. Child sex ratio of girls is 950 per 1000 boys.
Bagaha Child Population 2011
Total children (0-6) in Bagaha city are 20,061 as per figure from Census India report on 2011. There were 10,289 boys while 9,772 are girls. The child forms 17.81 % of total population of Bagaha City.
Bagaha Slums 2011
There is no information on Slums located in Bagaha city or its Out Growth as per 2011 Census.
Bagaha Population 2022
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The Colorado Film Society (CFS) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage and celebrate the art of film by creating a dynamic forum for artistic, social and cultural awareness in the community.
Year-round programs of the Colorado Film Society include:
The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), offering audiences a unique opportunity to see films from all corners of the world and to learn from a diverse group of filmmakers.
The CFS Educational Outreach Program, encouraging positive teen development by involving, inspiring and enlightening youth with a diverse cultural film experience. This program involves our Youth Advisory Council in planning free film screenings at schools and at the BIFF Youth Pavilion during the Festival.
The CFS Senior Outreach Program, engaging area seniors by offering free admissions for low income seniors and senior centers to the Festival, and screening BIFF films at local senior centers throughout the year.
The Call 2 Action Program, promoting widespread community involvement by partnering with local nonprofit organizations to co-present a film in the Festival program, as well as providing audience members with the opportunity to translate energy into action on important issues.
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1964’s Goldfinger was turned around relatively quickly after the first two James Bond films, but its enormous popularity solidified the 007 formula.
This feature contains spoilers for Goldfinger (Wah-WAH wahhhhh) and Quantum Of Solace.
“Ejector seat? You’re joking!”
There can be absolutely no question about when the James Bond movies turned from spy thrillers to bonafide blockbuster adventures. Instantly iconic and massively popular from the very first day it was unleashed upon the world, 1964’s Goldfinger is the film that made 007 a global film phenomenon.
Following the financial success of the first two films, producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli set a September 1964 release date for the third Bond picture before filming even began. Ian Fleming’s seventh novel Goldfinger leapfrogged the intended adaptations of Thunderball and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (due to legal disputes and location-scouting difficulties respectively) in time for it to be teased in the closing “James Bond Will Return” of From Russia With Love.
Like the novel, the film finds Sean Connery’s 007 tracking bullion dealer and utter bastard Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) after messing up a routine surveillance assignment in Miami. Tasked with finding evidence of his smuggling by the Bank of England, Bond discovers the villain has a far more audacious plot to boost his wealth and flummox the West’s economy.
United Artists agreed to a $3 million budget, the cost of the first two films combined, but incoming director Guy Hamilton curbed the over-run and over-spending that characterised the previous productions, directed by Terence Young. Even so, it proved to be a tight deadline, but the quick turnaround between films was a big part of building the series’ momentum.
Filming began in January 1964 – with Connery joining the shoot in March after wrapping on Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie – and ended in July, just nine weeks before that release date. Goldfinger was completed on time though, and upon its UK release, it smashed all box-office records. What’s more, the third time was the charm for the series’ commercial appeal in America, and all told, the film grossed a colossal $125m worldwide.
There’s simply no overstating the film’s influence on the rest of the series, with its memorable characters, quotable exchanges, and more tongue-in-cheek tone. The added humour works in tandem with another touch Hamilton was keen to bring in, of making Bond more vulnerable to heighten the suspense around his interactions with the villains.
Some of the tropes minted by Goldfinger turned into bad habits in subsequent instalments and, with all the affection this absolute milestone deserves, some of them are even a bit dubious here. This is the film where the Bond franchise opened up a world of gadgets, started seeing a whole bunch of girls, and most importantly, found its groove.
“Now, pay attention, 007…”
For all of the changes that Goldfinger introduces, Bond’s bad attitude to Q Branch in these early films is fairly constant.
In Dr No, Bond sulks at swapping his Beretta for a standard-issue Walther PPK and has to send off for a Geiger counter while investigating radioactive experiments. Upon receiving a tricked-out attaché briefcase from Desmond Llewelyn’s equipment officer in From Russia With Love, he’s initially dismissive of the “nasty little Christmas present” but takes it on M’s insistence and winds up using it loads.
Here, there’s no love lost between him and Llewelyn’s Q as he makes another M-ordered equipment swap – his Bentley for a new Aston Martin DB5 with loads of optional extras. These include a smoke screen, an oil slick, a rear bullet-proof screen, front-wing machine guns, revolving number plates, and – yep – an ejector seat on the passenger side.
As mentioned, Hamilton wanted more humour and more suspense. On the former, he suggested the light-hearted antagonism between Bond and Q that has characterised most of their interactions throughout the series, building on 007’s obvious disregard for the hard work that’s gone into the gadgets. As for the latter, he makes sure the villains are well-equipped too.
The series’ regular screenwriter Richard Maibaum pitched the film, in contrast to the first two, as a pitched duel between the hero and the villain – Bond vs Goldfinger. The script, credited to Maibaum and Paul Dehn, gives Bond lots more face-time with his nemesis and sets Goldfinger up as a psychopath who puts winning above all else, and has the wealth and resources to get his way.
One cinematic flourish comes from a scene in Fleming’s text where Goldfinger captures Bond and threatens to cut him in half with a circular saw. Using an industrial laser to the same end sets the scene among the very best of the entire series to date – as written and performed by Connery and Fröbe, (TV actor Michael Collins dubbed his lines, including the classic “No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!”) it’s still unbeaten in the ranks of movie death-traps. It’s not an idle threat, nor an easily escapable predicament, and it’s only some urgent dialogue that gets Bond out of being untimely cleft from bollocks to scalp.
Would it be as good with a saw? Maybe, but all these years later, the uniqueness of it still stands out, even if we’re more accustomed to (big Dr Evil finger quotes) “lasers”. It’s no gimmick – heck, the other big villain in the film generates huge malice out of having a sharp hat – but together with the gadget-laden car, it’s the start of the movies making the most of technology in their stories, taking place, as Broccoli once said, “five minutes into the future”.
Over time, it’s spelled some great merchandising opportunities too. Over the years, Goldfinger tie-in products have ranged from the Corgi toy of Bond’s Aston Martin, which became the biggest selling toy of 1964, to Lock & Co’s replica of Oddjob’s bowler hat, which went on sale this week for a whopping $795.
We can’t speak to the popularity of kids chucking hats about and playing at being Harold Sakata in the playground, but the toy line is a sign of how gadgets really helped to open up these adventures of a hard-smoking, hard-drinking, murdering shagger for a younger audience too.
Girls and Galore
Speaking of shagging, this is the first film in the series to really pile the love interests in for 007. Frankly, the median representation of women in Bond films is indefensible and that starts in earnest here. I can tell some of you are already straight in the comments arguing that James Bond isn’t a murderer if the state says it’s alright, so let’s look at how Goldfinger’s female characters fare.
The first 10 minutes of the film doesn’t start well on this score, with Bonita (Nadja Regin) getting coshed in the pre-title sequence, or Dink (Margaret Nolan, also seen in the title sequence) being dismissed with a slapped bottom, but we’re picking our battles. After all, it’s not long before Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) forsakes Goldfinger for a tumble with Bond and gets one of the most memorable deaths in cinema history for her trouble.
It’s a funny old franchise that makes a naked corpse so central in its marketing, but there’s no denying the power of the scene in the story. It’s the first time one of Bond’s sexual partners has been killed off in the movies and it’s not taken lightly. And the bizarre method of gold paint suffocation (giving rise to an urban legend that Eaton really died during filming) is what makes it.
Like the titular villain and the Bond movies themselves, it’s a shiny but seedy touch, less lustrous than lurid – you can imagine Goldfinger making a big impression on a younger Donald Trump for all the wrong reasons. For better or worse, it’s the most iconic kill in the entire series, for many of the same reasons as a laser is so much more cinematic than a saw.
But in the same way as Quantum Of Solace’s homage with Gemma Arterton’s character proves stickily problematic later on in the series, it’s throwaway in the scheme of things. The following scene feints towards Bond being angry about Jill’s murder when he starts pursuing Goldfinger in earnest, but the film changes gears a lot from there. It’s just as easily forgotten when Jill’s more vengeful sister Tilly (Tania Mallet) takes a quite expensive and even more deadly hat in the chops a few scenes later. The film, like its title character, moves on from these shocking moments ruthlessly.
It’s directly after this that the first of Fleming’s ludicrously named Bond women makes it on screen. As we’ve discussed in a previous article, the producers had a battle to convince American censors to give the name “Pussy Galore” a pass when the film received its US release.
Fresh off a stint on The Avengers (not that one), Honor Blackman was looking for a high-profile film role when she was cast as Goldfinger’s personal pilot. Along with Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Monica Bellucci in Spectre, she’s the rare leading lady who’s older than the actor playing Bond, (three years older than Connery) and she plays a comparatively stronger role than her co-stars.
Frankly, there was infinite room for improvement from the source material’s backstory for Pussy, in which Fleming makes the kind of horrific off-hand assumptions about homosexuality and abuse survivors that he usually reserves for foreign people, mixed in with his usual rank misogyny. There’s a low, low bar for the adaptation, but it’s almost entirely down to Blackman’s no-nonsense performance that the film clears it.
Pussy’s sexual preferences are implicit at most in the film version, but in a separate improvement on the novel, Bond winning her over with his sexual prowess (to the good guys, not guys in general) has an actual purpose in the plot. After our hero spends much of this part of the film in captivity, it’s Pussy who foils Goldfinger’s assault on Fort Knox by alerting the American authorities.
Yes, Bond fettles Oddjob and avenges the Masterson sisters, but it’s only the timely arrival of a bomb specialist that stops the bomb with either three or seven seconds to spare (there’s a dodgy edit there between Bond’s dialogue and the insert shot of the “007” timer) and saves the day.
However, it’s no great victory for women so much as it’s a by-product of a film where Bond is relatively passive, always following the villains or being captured by them and taken somewhere. Like Honey Ryder before her and so many women after, Pussy Galore is last seen demurring to Bond and delaying rescue in favour of another lay with this bloody liability.
The Midas touch
In the end, the one woman who Goldfinger covers in glory is Shirley Bassey, whose belting-out of the classic theme song sets the tone for this right from the start. With music by composer John Barry and lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, “Goldfinger” the song is as big a part of defining the Bond formula as anything else in Goldfinger the film.
This marked the first time Barry had complete creative control over the music, and though he wound up scoring unfinished cuts and reportedly joked that the September 1964 premiere date was so soon that he’d have to do the music himself live from the orchestra pit, he played a blinder. Putting Bassey’s theme alongside Maurice Binder’s titles sets the gold standard for all subsequent openings. Heck, they even asked Bassey back a couple of times.
From this point up to the very end, Goldfinger operates at peak blockbuster capacity in the time that it was made – it’s one of the shortest of all the Bond films, but it moves apace through various locations and pioneers some of cinema’s most enduring iconography while it’s at it.
As mentioned, it has its shortcomings. For all that it propelled the film to new heights of popularity, this is the film where Connery first started to have misgivings about the franchise – mostly about his salary, but also about the character.
Notes from his conferences between Maibaum and the filmmakers during production show that the star felt Bond was overshadowed by the other characters in the script, not to mention the gadgets and the action setpieces. Some of these comments were addressed, others weren’t, and in any case, things were still moving a bit too quickly for reflection. Thunderball would be in cinemas just 15 months after Goldfinger, raising the stakes higher than ever, and Connery’s unwanted star profile with it.
You can still see why he was concerned – this is not Bond at his most proactive and for a change, he’s not even in the top three larger-than-life characters. Knowing what transpired, you might argue this was the beginning of the end (well, one of them anyway) for Connery, but handily, it also lays down the groundwork for a formula that’s returnable even with a different lead actor. Before long, James Bond is no longer just a spy franchise, it’s a genre of its own.
In retrospect, maybe all the best bits of Goldfinger don’t necessarily cohere into the very best Bond movie, but its powerful pop-cultural alchemy makes it an undeniable favourite.
Goldfinger is now streaming on Prime Video and will also screen in select VUE and Odeon cinemas nationwide from Friday 29th April.
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A Mexican-born mother of two U.S. citizens was deported Thursday, in what advocates are viewing as evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is already changing its deportation policies under President Donald Trump.
Dozens of supporters rallied late Wednesday night, crowding around the ICE van carrying Guadalupe “Lupita” García de Rayos. The protests, live-streamed on Facebook, lasted until the early hours of Thursday morning.
But ICE ultimately ignored them, deporting García across the southern Arizona border to Nogales, in the Mexican state of Sonora.
One of Trump’s first actions after taking office was to sign an executive order cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities, which adopt local policies of limiting how much they cooperate with ICE. Buried in that order was a statement defining whom the Trump administration would consider a priority for deportation.
The new priorities are so broad that they could potentially include virtually anyone living in the United States without legal residency ― a major break from the Obama administration’s use of prosecutorial discretion policies that were supposed to focus the agency’s limited deportation efforts on serious criminals. García’s case may offer a glimpse into how ICE’s actions will change under Trump, the most outspoken immigration hard-liner to occupy the White House in recent history.
García was swept up in a 2009 workplace raid. Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, was famous for carrying out such raids in the Phoenix area, where García lived. She was convicted of using a Social Security number that didn’t belong to her in order to work without documentation ― a felony under Arizona law.
Despite her arrest and conviction, she was able to fight the deportation for years. Like many undocumented immigrants, she was ordered to check in periodically with ICE while she appealed the decision. She received a final order of deportation in 2013, according to ICE, but for years, the agency declined to remove her ― likely following Obama-era policies that focused deportation efforts on people with more serious criminal records or more tenuous ties to the United States. (Obama did deport more people than any other U.S. president, including many immigrants with largely clean criminal records.)
García first arrived in the country two decades ago as a 14-year-old and has two children who are U.S. citizens. She was only a few months too old to qualify for the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields undocumented immigrants brought here as youths from deportation.
And on Wednesday, she was detained and deported within 24 hours.
“I think this is a direct result of the new executive orders that are being put into action,” García’s lawyer, Ray Ybarra Maldonado, said on a call with reporters.
Ybarra appears to have a point. García likely didn’t appear to qualify as a deportation priority under the Obama administration’s guidelines. The Obama administration considered those with felony convictions to be among the most urgent deportation cases, but felonies stemming directly from the person’s status as an unauthorized immigrant ― as was the case for García ― didn’t count.
With García’s case, ICE made clear that the agency will focus on deporting people with any felony conviction and an order of removal.
“Ms. Garcia’s immigration case underwent review at multiple levels of the immigration court system, including the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the judges held she did not have a legal basis to remain in the U.S.,” ICE spokesperson Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe wrote in a statement. “ICE will continue to focus on identifying and removing individuals with felony convictions who have final orders of removal issued by the nation’s immigration courts.”
The agency also posted a series of tweets emphasizing that it would deport people with criminal convictions and removal orders.
With the federal government poised to go after a broader group of undocumented immigrants than it did in the latter half of the Obama presidency, activists are looking to local officials to take a more confrontational stance with the Trump administration over deportations.
Carlos García, the director of Puente Arizona, a Phoenix-based grass-roots group that helped organize Wednesday night’s protests, repeated a longstanding demand for the city to remove ICE agents from the jail at 4th Avenue. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton (D) ran on a platform of adopting sanctuary policies, but has yet to implement them.
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ICPE research spotlight: Part III: Standard-setting research to advance the use of RWE
This year at ICPE All Access, Aetion’s scientific research is represented across 15 posters and presentations spanning novel applications of real-world evidence (RWE), regulatory uses of real-world data (RWD), and innovative methods for epidemiologic research. In our “ICPE research spotlight” series, we share what you need to know about each, including important takeaways, a breakdown of the study design, and how the work shines new light on the ways RWE can inform decision-making.
While industry awaits guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on RWE, stakeholders from across health care are collaborating on standard-setting initiatives to advance and inform the use of RWE by regulators and other decision-making bodies.
In the following four posters and presentations, all prepared by Aetion scientists for ICPE All Access, we share research projects aimed at setting standards for RWE generation and use.
Read on to learn more about how external control arms generated from RWD can support regulatory submissions, how visualizations can facilitate transparency in RWE studies, how following principled database epidemiology can support credible RWE research, and how a decision guide for data feasibility assessments can enhance an RWE generation framework.
For the full list of Aetion’s ICPE All Access research, see here.
Review of oncology real-world comparator arm submissions in support of effectiveness claims in 2019 FDA original approvals reveals label-grade real-world study best practices
Ilker Oztop, Ph.D.; Wesley Eddings, Ph.D.; Amanda Patrick, M.S.; Pattra Mattox, S.M., C.M.P.P.; Christina Purpura, M.P.H.; Nicolle Gatto, Ph.D.
As interest in using RWD to generate external control arms increases, and these external controls are used to support regulatory submissions for new drugs and biologics, there is much to learn from past examples of RWE used in FDA approvals. While industry awaits the FDA’s formal RWE guidance, publicly available FDA statistical review documents help shed light on when and why an external control arm submission met the regulatory evidence requirements and was deemed fit to support a regulatory decision—or when it was not.
This research shares a literature review of 2019 oncology new drug applications and biologics license applications that included an external control arm generated from RWD to support effectiveness or safety. Learn more about the FDA’s methodological critiques, learnings from an instance in which an external control arm was not deemed regulatory-grade, and best practices to help generate high quality RWD external controls.
Metabolic surgery and cardiovascular benefits: The consequence of information bias in an EHR-based real-world evidence study
William Murk, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Jeremy Rassen, Sc.D.; Sebastian Schneeweiss, M.D., Sc.D.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Aminian et al. reported that metabolic surgery is associated with a 39 percent reduction in risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) compared with non-surgery among obese patients with diabetes.
Drs. Murk, Rassen, and Schneeweiss hypothesized that the results of that study were spurious due to differential information bias—people preparing for surgery receive a pre-diagnostic workup that could identify potential complications, which those who don’t undergo surgery wouldn’t receive. In this research, they replicated the study and modified its design so that the comparison groups had similar levels of baseline information. In the replicated study, they compared the metabolic surgery group to a control group consisting of patients undergoing an unrelated surgery, and used high-dimensional propensity scoring to match patients. The goal of the study was to demonstrate that metabolic surgery itself is not protective against MACE.
This work shows the importance of following principled database epidemiology when working with nonrandomized health care data, including selecting the appropriate control group.
Developing a Structured Process to Identify a Fit-for-purpose Data (SPIFD) framework
Ulka B Campbell, M.P.H., Ph.D.; Robert F Reynolds, Sc.D.; Emily Rubinstein, M.P.H.; Nicolle Gatto, Ph.D.
The SPACE framework, which stands for A Structured Preapproval and Postapproval Comparative study design framework to generate valid and transparent real-world Evidence, established a process for designing valid and transparent real-world studies.
This study aimed to build on the SPACE framework to provide researchers with a decision guide for conducting feasibility assessments to identify regulatory grade, fit-for-purpose data. Using the FDA’s definitions of regulatory-grade and fit-for-purpose RWD, researchers developed SPIFD to operationalize the steps needed to conduct data feasibility assessments.
This structured process helps to ensure the systematic identification of candidate data sources that align with the criteria needed to address a research question. It offers an easy to digest graphical representation of the data to help communicate the rationale behind the selection of the data source.
Visual space: Using visualization in pharmacoepidemiology to design and disseminate valid real-world evidence in a structured framework
Jeremy Rassen, Sc.D.; Shirley Wang, Ph.D.; Nicolle Gatto, Ph.D.; Alan Brookhart, Ph.D.; William Murk, Ph.D., M.P.H.
In order to generate credible, trustworthy RWE, researchers must ensure transparency throughout all stages of the study. Using visualizations can help reduce the risk of implementing poor study designs or misinterpreting the results, but there is no specific guidance around how visualization can support transparency.
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Since ancient times no one has heard, no eye has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
Today, as we approach God in prayer, we should bind these words on our hearts. Our God, since ancient times, has a great design, a wonderful future which he has prepared for those who love him. No one has ever seen such a God as ours: such a God who waits to richly reward those who put their trust in him: a God who acts with such power on our behalf.
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Evaluation of the Relationship Among Dressing Conditions Using Prismatic Dresser, Dressing Resistance, and Grinding Characteristics
Gen Uchida*,, Takazo Yamada*, Kouichi Ichihara**, Makoto Harada**, and Tatsuya Kohara**
*College of Science and Technology, Nihon University
1-8-14 Kanda-surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
**Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Yokosuka, Japan
In the grinding process, the grinding wheel surface condition changes depending on the dressing conditions, which affects the ground surface roughness and grinding resistance. Several studies have been reported on the practical application of dressing using prismatic dressers in recent years. However, only a few studies that quantitatively evaluate the effects of differences in dressing conditions using prismatic dresser on the ground surface roughness and grinding resistance have been reported. Thus, this study aims to evaluate quantitatively the effect of the difference in dressing conditions using the prismatic dresser on the ground surface roughness and grinding resistance by focusing on the dressing resistance. In the experiment, dressing is performed by changing the dressing lead and the depth of dressing cut with a prismatic dresser, and the ground surface roughness and grinding resistance are measured. Consequently, by increasing the dressing lead and the depth of dressing cut, the ground surface roughness increased, and the grinding resistance decreased. This phenomenon was caused by the increase in dressing resistance when the dressing lead and the depth of dressing cut were increased, which caused a change in the grinding wheel surface condition. Furthermore, the influence of the difference in dressing conditions using the prismatic dresser on the ground surface roughness and grinding resistance can be quantitatively evaluated by using the dressing resistance.
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- B. Linke, “Dressing process model for vitrified bonded grinding wheels,” CIRP Annals, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 345-348, 2008.
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President of the Senate
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Senate last election
|4 March 2018|
Chamber of Deputies last election
|4 March 2018|
Senate next election
|25 September 2022|
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|25 September 2022|
|Chamber of Deputies: Palazzo Montecitorio (top)|
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The Italian Parliament (Italian: Parlamento italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic. It is the representative body of Italian citizens and is the successor to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1943), the transitional National Council (1945–1946) and the Constituent Assembly (1946–1948). It is a bicameral legislature with 945 elected members (this number will be reduced to 600 with the next and upcoming election) and a small number of unelected members (senatori a vita). The Italian Parliament is composed of the Chamber of Deputies (with 630 members or deputati elected on a national basis) and Senate of the Republic (with 315 members or senatori elected on a regional basis, plus a small number of senators for life or senatori a vita, either appointed or ex officio). The two Houses are independent from one another and never meet jointly except under circumstances specified by the Constitution. Following a referendum on 21 September 2020, the number of MPs in the Parliament will be reduced from 630 to 400 in the Chamber of Deputies and from 315 to 200 in the Senate starting with the next legislature.
By the Republican Constitution of 1948, the two houses of the Italian Parliament possess the same powers; perfect bicameralism has been coded in the current form since the adoption of the Albertine Statute, and resurged after the dismissal of the fascist dictatorship of the 1920s and 1930s. No distinction is made between deputies and senators, notwithstanding that a member of parliament cannot be at the same time both a senator and a deputy; regarding presidents and vice-presidents, the precedence is given to the older one.
Composition of the Parliament
The Chamber of Deputies has 630 elected members, while the Senate has 315 elected members. The number of deputies and senators was fixed by a constitutional amendment in 1963: in its original text, the Constitution provided for a variable number of Members of Parliament depending on the population. Following referendum on 21 September 2020, the number of MPs in the Parliament will be reduced from 630 to 400 in the Chamber of Deputies and from 315 to 200 in the Senate. The proposed changes were approved, with 69.96% voting in favour. The reduction of the number of MPs is expected to happen with the next Italian general election, which is scheduled to take place no later than 25 September 2022.
In addition to the 315 elected members, the Senate, as per article 59 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic, also comprise a small, variable number of senators for life. These can be differentiated into:
- former Presidents of the Republic (ex officio, unless renouncing), and
- Italian citizens who are appointed senators for life by the President of the Republic (no more than five) "for outstanding merits in the social, scientific, artistic or literary field".
The voting age mandated for both houses is the age of majority: any Italian citizen who is eighteen or older can vote. But the two houses have a different age of candidacy: deputies are required to be twenty-five or older, while elected senators must be forty or older. No explicit age limit is required to be appointed senator for life (but Presidents of the Republic must be 50 or older).
Functions of the Parliament
The main prerogative of Parliament is the exercise of the legislative power, that is the power to enact laws. For a bill to become law, it must receive the support of both houses independently in the same text. A bill is first introduced in one of the houses, amended, and then approved or rejected: if approved, it is passed to the other house, which can amend it before approving or rejecting it. If approved without amendments, the bill is then promulgated by the President of the Republic and becomes law. If approved with amendments, it goes back to the other house. The process continues until the bill is approved in the same text by both houses (in which case it becomes law after promulgation) or is rejected by one house.
The Council of Ministers, which is led by the President of the Council of Ministers and is the national executive of Italy, needs to have the confidence of both houses in order to exercise its power fully. It must receive a vote of confidence by both houses before being officially in power, and Parliament can cast a motion of no confidence at any moment, which forces the President of the Council of Ministers and his/her Cabinet to resign. If the President of the Republic is unable to find a new Prime Minister able to receive the support of both houses, he or she can dissolve one or both houses, and new elections are held.
The process by which the Italian Parliament makes ordinary laws, the iter legis ordinario, is as follows:
Proposals can be made by the Government, individual Members of Parliament (who must present their proposal to the Chamber that they are a member of), private citizens (who must present a proposal in the form of a draft law, approved by 50,000 voters), individual Regional Councils, and the National Council for Economics and Labour (CNEL).
Once a proposal is introduced in one of the two Houses, it is assigned to a parliamentary committee to carry out preliminary inspection of the proposal (taking advantage of advice of other committees, especially, the so-called "filter committees"). At this point, two different procedures can be taken.
In the "normal procedure", the committee holds a referral meeting, drafts a response and names a spokesperson to report this response, then leaves the responsibility for composing and approving the bill's text to the assembly. This must be completed in no more than four months for the Chamber of Deputies and two months for the Senate. Once the bill has come before one of the chambers, a general discussion takes place, followed by the review (with a vote) article by article, and finally a vote on the whole bill, which is normally an open ballot (secret ballots are possible for matters of individual conscience). If the bill passes the vote in one chamber then it passes to the other chamber of the parliament, where it must be voted through without any further changes. If the other chamber does make any modifications to the bill then the new version of the bill must be returned to the first chamber to approve these changes. If the bill repeats this process many times it is said to be "shuttling" or "dribbling." This procedure is obligatory for bills which concern constitutional and electoral matters, the delegation of legislative power, the authorisation of the ratification of international treaties, the approval of the budget.
In all other cases, the "special procedure" (also called the "decentralised legislative procedure") can be employed. In this case, the committee holds a drafting meeting (leaving only the final approval of the bill to the parliament), or a deliberative/legislative meeting (in which case the entire legislative process is carried out by the committee and the bill is not voted on by parliament at all). This procedure can be vetoed by the vote of one tenth of the members of the Chamber in which the bill was originally proposed, by a vote of one fifth of the members of the committee, or by the decision of the Government.
There are special procedures for the passage of laws granting emergency powers, the annual law incorporating EU law, annual financial laws (such as the budget), and the passage of laws under urgency.
Once the bill has been approved in the same form by both houses of Parliament, it is sent to the President of the Republic, who must promulgate it within one month or send it back to Parliament for renewed debate with a written justification. If after the renewed debate the bill is approved by Parliament again, the President of the Republic is constitutionally required to promulgate it. Once it has been promulgated, the law is published in the official gazette by the Ministry of Justice and enters into force after the vacatio legis (15 days unless otherwise specified).
Amendments to the Constitution and to constitutional laws
The rigidity of the Constitution is ensured by the special procedure required to amend it. With the same procedure, Parliament can adopt a constitutional law, which is a law with the same strength as the Constitution. This process is referred to as iter legis aggravato, that is, a strengthened legislative process ad hoc for the passing of a constitutional law.
Article 138 of the Constitution provides for the special procedure through which the Parliament can adopt constitutional laws (including laws to amend the Constitution), which is a variation of the ordinary legislative procedure. The ordinary procedure to adopt a law in Italy requires both Houses of Parliament to approve the bill in the same text, with a simple majority (i.e., the majority of votes cast). Constitutional laws start by following the same procedure; however, after having been approved for the first time, they need to be voted for by both Houses a second time, which can happen no sooner than three months after the first. In this second reading, no new amendments to the bill may be proposed: the bill must be either approved or rejected in its entirety.
The constitutional law needs to be approved by at least a majority of all MP's in each house (absolute majority) in its second reading. Depending on the results of this second vote, the constitutional law may then follow two different paths.
- If the bill is approved by a qualified majority of two-thirds of members in each house, it can be immediately promulgated by the President of the Republic and becomes law.
- If the bill is approved by a majority of members in each house, but not enough to reach the qualified majority of two-thirds, it does not immediately become law. Instead, it must first be published in the Official Gazette (the official journal where all Italian laws are published). Within three months after its publication, a constitutional referendum may be requested by either 500,000 voters, five regional councils, or one-fifth of the members of a house of parliament. If no constitutional referendum has been requested after the three months have elapsed, the bill can be promulgated and becomes law. If a referendum is held, the constitutional law will be confirmed and promulgated only provided a simple majority of the "Yes"'s is achieved (no structural quorum is needed); however, should there be more "No"'s than "Yes"'s, then the law will not be confirmed, and will consequently be abolished without entering into force at all.
Article 139 of the Constitution holds the "form of Republic" above amendment.
Reviewing and guiding the executive
In addition to its legislative functions, Parliament also reviews the actions of Government and provides it with political direction.
Parliament exercises its review function by means of questions and inquests. Questions consist of a written question directed to the Government, asking whether a certain claim is true, whether the Government is aware of it, and whether the Government is taking any action about it. The response can be given by the relevant Government minister, by the chairperson of the relevant ministry, or by an undersecretary. It may be given in writing or delivered to the parliament orally. The member who asked the question can respond to say whether or not the answer is satisfactory. In injunctions, a fact is noted with a request for the reasons for the conduct of the Government and its future intentions. The process is done by writing. If the member who filed the injunction is not satisfied with the response, they can present a motion to hold a debate in the Parliament.
The provision of political direction embodies the relationship of trust which is meant to exist between Parliament and the Government. It takes the form of confidence votes and votes of no confidence. These can be held concerning the entire Government or an individual minister. Other means of providing political direction include motions, resolutions, and day-orders giving instruction to the Government.
Under Article 82 of the Constitution, "each chamber can undertake inquests into matters of public interest. For this purpose, they should appoint a committee formed so that it conforms to the proportions of the various parliamentary groups." In order to fulfill its function as the ordinary organ through which popular sovereignty is exercised, Parliament can employ the same investigative and coercive instruments as the judiciary in these inquests.
The Parliament meets and votes in joint session (Italian: Parlamento in seduta comune) for a set of functions explicitly established by the Constitution. Article 55.2 specifies that these functions are entrenched and cannot be altered.
Joint sessions take place in the building of the Chamber of Deputies at Palazzo Montecitorio and are presided over by the President of the Chamber of Deputies ex officio. In this way, the drafters of the Constitution intended to establish an equilibrium with the power of the President of the Senate to exercise the functions of the President of the Republic when the latter is indisposed.
Joint sessions take place for the following matters explicitly established by the Constitution:
- to elect the President of the Republic (in this case, 58 regional delegates are added to the assembly). For the first three votes, a two-thirds majority is required to elect the president. If these fail, subsequent votes only require a simple majority.
- to receive the President of the Republic's oath of office on election.
- to vote on the impeachment of the President of the Republic (more than an actual impeachment, it is an accusation of "high treason or attack to the Constitution"; this has never happened). This only requires a simple majority.
- to elect one third of the elected members of the High Council of the Judiciary. For the first two votes, election requires a three-fifths majority of the delegates; subsequent votes require a three-fifths majority of voting members (i.e. excluding abstentions).
- to elect five of the fifteen judges of the Constitutional Court. The first three votes require a two-thirds majority; subsequent votes require only a three-fifths majority.
- to vote on the list of 45 citizens from which sixteen lay members of the Constitutional Court are to be drawn in case of impeachment against the President of the Republic. The same voting system is used as for the election of the judges of the Constitutional Court.
There is debate among legal scholars about whether the Parliament in joint session can make its own standing orders. Most scholars think it can, by analogy with the regulation of the Senate in article 65, which explicitly foresees such action.
The Chambers of the Italian Parliament enjoy special prerogatives to guarantee their autonomy with respect to other parts of Government:
- Regulatory autonomy: the chambers regulate and approve the regulations which govern their internal affairs autonomously.
- Financial autonomy: the chambers decide autonomously the amount of resources they require for carrying out their functions. The Court of Audit has no jurisdiction over this.
- Administrative autonomy: Each chamber is in charge of the organisation of its own administrative facilities and the employment of its own officials (exclusively through a national public competition).
- Inviolability of the site: law enforcement officials can enter the parliament buildings only with the permission of the members of the respective chambers and they may not be armed.
In some matters (e.g. employment disputes) the Italian Parliament acts as its own judicial authority (without using external courts), which is referred to as "autodichia" (self-judging). In order no. 137 of 2015 of the Italian Constitutional Court, which agreed to rehear the appeal in the Lorenzoni case, which had been dismissed the year before, it was stated that autodichia might be found in violation of the independence of the judiciary.
Article 67 ("Prohibition on imperative mandate) states that "every member of parliament represents the nation and performs their functions without limitation by a mandate." The members are considered to receive a general mandate from the whole electorate, which cannot be revoked by the initiative of the individual electoral district which elected them, nor by their political party. This general mandate is not subject to judicial review, only political review through constitutionally defined methods (mainly elections and referenda).
Article 68 lays down the principles of immunity (insindacabilità) and inviolability (inviolabilità), stating that "the members of parliament cannot be called to account for the opinions they express or the votes that they cast in the exercise of their functions" and that "without the permission of the chamber to which they belong, no member of parliament can be subjected to a body search or a search of their home, nor can they be arrested or otherwise stripped of their personal freedom, or imprisoned, except in the execution of a final court judgement or if caught in the act of a crime for which it is compulsory to arrest someone caught in the act. An analogous standard is required in order to put members of parliament under any form of surveillance." Neither immunity nor inviolability are prerogatives of individual parliamentarians; they are intended to protect the free exercise of Parliament's functions against judicial interference, which occurred in earlier regimes when the judiciary was under Government control and was not autonomous. There is controversy with respect to the principle of immunity about what statements are expressed in the member's parliamentary role and the Constitutional Court distinguishes between political activities and parliamentary activities, and even with respect to the latter, distinguishes between activities which are immune and activities which are not immune because they contradict other constitutional principles and rights. The principle of inviolability results from Constitutional Law #3 of 1993, which revoked the earlier system of "authorisation to proceed" (autorizzazione a procedere) for convictions in cases with defined sentences.
Finally, article 69 states that "members of parliament receive compensation set down by the law," thereby affirming that parliamentarians must receive compensation and cannot renounce that compensation. This reverses the principle laid down in the Albertine Statute, which was the opposite, and is linked to the principle of equality (article 3) and the prohibition on imperative mandate (article 67).
The national elections for the renewal of members of the Senate of the Republic and Chamber of Deputies are regulated by Law n. 165 of 3 November 2017. It introduces a mixed electoral system in the form of parallel voting (mixed-member majoritarian), with about one-third (37%) of the seats allocated using a majoritarian system (single-member districts; first-past-the-post), and the remaining about two-thirds (63%) of the seats allocated using a proportional system (multi-member districts; D'Hondt method), with one round of voting. This electoral law is colloquially known as the Rosatellum bis, or simply Rosatellum, after Ettore Rosato, member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Democratic Party, first signatory of the law upon proposal of the bill to Parliament.
Election of the Senate of the Republic
The Senate comprises 315 members elected by universal suffrage and by citizens who are 25 or older. Out of the total number, according to the Rosatellum bis,
- 116 are directly elected in single-member districts;
- 199 are elected by proportional representation on a regional basis (of whom 6 are elected in overseas constituencies).
In addition to the 315 elected members, the Senate, as per article 59 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic, also comprises senators for life as discussed above.
The Senate is elected on a single ballot. The ballot includes all candidates for a given single-member district (majoritarian component). For each candidate, the parties and party-lists that supported him/her are also listed, which is used to determine the proportional seats. These latter seats are allocated within each single regional constituency. A 3% minimum threshold for single party-lists is required for the proportional component (or 10% if within a coalition, so long at least one party within the coalition reached the required 3% threshold), and is calculated nationally. Notwithstanding this, a different threshold is needed for lists representing linguistic minorities, which is 20% and is calculated on a regional basis.
Election of the Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber comprises 630 members elected by universal suffrage and by citizens who are 18 or older. Out of the total number, according to the Rosatellum bis,
- 232 are directly elected in single-member districts.
- 398 are elected by proportional representation on a national basis (of whom 12 are elected in overseas constituencies).
As the Senate of the Republic, the Chamber of Deputies is elected on a single ballot, as indicated above for the Senate of the Republic. The only difference is that the proportional component is calculated based on the national average of the vote.
The Italian Parliament is one of the few legislatures in the world to reserve seats for those citizens residing abroad. There are twelve such seats in the Chamber of Deputies and six in the Senate of the Republic, in accordance with Law n. 459 of 27 December 2001 (as amending articles 48, 56, and 57 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic), also known as Legge Tremaglia.
|Chamber of Deputies||Senate of the Republic|
|Proportional representation||386||61%||Proportional representation||193||61%|
|Overseas constituencies||12||2%||Overseas constituencies||6||2%|
Senate of the Republic
The current membership of the Senate of the Republic, following the latest political elections of 4 March 2018:
|Centre-right coalition||League (Lega)||58||18.4|
|Forza Italia (FI)||58||18.4|
|Brothers of Italy (FdI)||16||5.1|
|Us with Italy (NcI)||5||1.6|
|Five Star Movement (M5S)||112||35.5|
|Centre-left coalition||Democratic Party (PD)||53||16.8|
|More Europe (+Eu)||1||0.3|
|Popular Civic List (CP)||1||0.3|
|Aosta Valley (VdA)||1||0.3|
|Free and Equal (LeU)||4||1.3|
|Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE)||1||0.3|
|South American Union Italian Emigrants (USEI)||1||0.3|
Chamber of Deputies
The current membership of the Chamber of Deputies, following the latest political elections of 4 March 2018:
|Centre-right coalition||League (Lega)||124||19.6|
|Forza Italia (FI)||106||16.8|
|Brothers of Italy (FdI)||32||4.9|
|Us with Italy (NcI)||4||0.6|
|Five Star Movement (M5S)||227||36.1|
|Centre-left coalition||Democratic Party (PD)||111||17.8|
|More Europe (+Eu)||3||0.5|
|Popular Civic List (CP)||2||0.3|
|Free and Equal (LeU)||14||2.2|
|Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE)||1||0.1|
|South American Union Italian Emigrants (USEI)||1||0.1|
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By Dr. Steve Heidenreich
2 Corinthians 8-9. I am not afraid of this topic and enjoy asking God’s people to be involved in it! It’s very dear to the heart of GOD! I’m speak to churches that have been involved in missions giving for years. If we are not careful we can easily lose interest in giving to missions each year!
Missions giving enables us to get personally involved with what God does in our heart. See the truth is that God wants everyone to participate whether it is praying, giving, or going! Missions giving gives you an opportunity to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all nations. Missions giving is the quickest way to help missionaries get support! Missions giving is the quickest way for you to get God’s blessings upon your life!
Last year we were able to help start 11 Churches and help print the New Testament in the Farsi language! Tens of thousands of people were saved and many were baptized. All of this was done because people gave to missions.
I want to point out some areas of giving to missions!
First, giving starts with the tithe! If you are not tithing, stop right here! You can’t honestly give to missions! You are robbing God and are giving stolen money to Missions. God can’t bless your missions giving! Missions giving begins with obedience in tithing! There is no way to give to missions without being obedient to tithing! What is tithing? It is giving 10% of all your income. If you have not tithed on all, you have not tithed at all!
Second, an offering is giving above your tithe! One example is seen in 1 Corinthian 16:1-2 when it says, “…As God hath prospered him…” Many people do not understand missions giving or don’t have the faith to trust God to supply a certain amount for missions; however, that should not stop you from giving to missions. There are many people who love God and He has prospered you! God has given you the talent and ability to prosper! Being God’s child and obedient in tithing opens the door for us to prosper.
Third, after the offering we then can give a sacrificial offering! (Philippians 4:14-19) Sacrificial giving is when I give to God the amount that I need and be willing to go without! Some will give up going out to eat a couple times a month and take money and give it to missions! There was one man who wanted to buy a new gun, but instead he gave me the money for Bibles to be printed in the Farsi language. He gave something he needed for something that needed to be done for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Fourth, the next level of giving is by faith promise! We see an example of this in 1 Kings 17:8-16. This is when you give the first offering, and by faith trust God for each offering after that. Faith promise is when you trust God’s promise of giving that offering, believing God has another one for you. This widow was told to “…FEAR NOT, go and do…” She was to give first and trust God’s promise for each offering after that. God promised her that she would eat many days. Verse15 shows that your faith opens the door to give many days!
Fifth, the next level of giving is when we give by the grace of God! Many people use 2 Corinthians 8:1 to teach faith promise giving. The main teaching is when the grace of God is bestowed upon you, you won’t let great trials of affliction and deep poverty stop you from going beyond your power to give an offering! What made it possible for these Macedonian churches to give in spite of their great trial of affliction and their deep poverty? It was the grace of God! Grace giving is when I have given to my power, and still have a great desire to do more! The grace of God enables me to go beyond my affliction and deep poverty to give what I don’t have! Tithing is to my power. Giving as God has prospered is to my power. Sacrificial giving is to my power! Grace giving is when you have tithed and done all that you can do and want to do more. This is where I go beyond my power! It’s giving out of what God has, and not what I have!
Giving beyond my power is giving to my power and wanting to do more and realizing that I must tap into God’s resources to accomplish it! Many people want to use afflictions or poverty as an excuse not to give to missions! The last offering is the most important and will cost you dearly!
Last, we give God a like offering! (John 3:16) This is when you share God’s heart and give part of yourself as an offering! Hannah saw that her nation was spiritually in trouble and looked at Eli’s two sons and knew they were not the answer. To save a nation she knew that she didn’t have a son to lead the nation, but she knew where she could get one! All she had to give was her body, and she gave it to God to use so she could give an offering to save her nation! It’s going to take more than our prayers, giving, and going, it’s going to take our children to save nations!
In 1 Samuel 1:11, by faith Hannah asked God for a son and promised to give him back to Him! I’m so amazed at how many parents are holding back their children from going into all the world! Many of you will give your prayers, money and even go yourselves and then hold back your children and grandchildren! Every year I go to the airport in Manila, Philippines and have my heart ripped out when I say goodbye to my son, Sam, his wife, Aileen, and my grandchildren! Last year I was all alone, and when you get older you are more emotional. I watched my son walk away and could hardly bare it! However, I would rather a million times have him in God’s will in the Philippines than in my will out of God’s will in America!
Everybody tithes; you don’t have to make that decision. The decision you have to make about missions giving is how you are going to give. Some need to give by how God has prospered them! Some of you will give sacrificially! Some of you will give by faith promise! Some of you will give by the grace of God! Some of you will give like God gave, but everybody should give something to get the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not had an opportunity to hear a clear presentation of the Gospel!
By Dr. Steve Heidenreich
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B. Central National Mohammadan Association
C. Urdu Defence Association
D. Muslim League
The Organization considered the first Muslim political body continued to represent the Muslim of subcontinent as a whole was “central National Mohammadan Association”.
The manifestation of Central National Mohammadan Association was that the Muslims should be on good terms with the British to avail the benefits granted by them as they were feeble in their economy, education and every other domain of life.
The Central National Mohammadan Association also emphasized on modernization of the Muslims of India instead being stuck to rigid norms. Syed Ameer Ali was also among the most influencers who emphasize the modernization of Muslims through modern education at that time which is considered a sin.
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What is Windrush?
The Windrush arrivals came in response to a shortage of labour forces following the Second World War, where thousands of people from the Caribbean were granted permission to live in the UK between 1948 and 1971.
At the time, the Caribbean was part of the Commonwealth, meaning all who arrived were legally British Citizens. As a result, many went on to live permanently in the country.
Together, they made an immeasurable contribution to rebuilding society in a post-war UK by taking up jobs in manual labour, cleaning, driving, as well as becoming nurses for the NHS.
The Home Office, however, kept no record of those who remained in the country and neglected issuing official paperwork to Windrush arrivals – leaving them without evidence of their legal status.
How did this affect the Windrush generation?
When immigration laws tightened due to a new policy in 2012, banks, employers, and the NHS were tasked with locating undocumented citizens by requesting to see their formal identification.
The Home Office then placed responsibility on those individuals to prove their right to remain in the UK, demanding ‘at least one official document from every year’ they resided here – a difficult task for anyone, even with today’s technology.
Many lived in fear that their lack of official citizenship (a fault of the government) could result in denial of healthcare, stripping of legal rights, homeownership, or worse – deportation.
For many, some or all of these possibilities became a reality.
Hundreds were separated from their families, sent to immigration detention centres and denied international travel or ‘threatened with forcible removal’ to the Caribbean, a place they hadn’t been to since they were children.
In 2018, the Home Secretary admitted that 83 British Citizens were wrongly deported during the Windrush scandal.
Children of the Windrush generation are also not considered British at birth due to their parents’ absence of documentation – despite being born, attending school, and securing jobs in the nation they’ve known as home all their lives.
Shared experiences of immigrant families
The Windrush generation and African community can unite seamlessly in protest due to their shared history of being ruthlessly exploited by the nation they now live in.
South London rapper, Dave, tells the story of growing up as the son of an immigrant parent on his latest album.
The track ‘Heart Attack’ starts out with audio clips of news reports on increasing youth violence in the most depraved boroughs of London.
It concludes with an emotional voice recording of his mother expressing her struggle, feelings of being unwelcome, and desperation for support after emigrating to the UK from Nigeria.
Dave reflects on how the political promise of a better life in Britain has only led to a new set of dilemmas for many newcomers – and their UK born children – who are met with discrimination, racism, and further marginalisation.
A story worth telling
Despite being some of the most hard-working members of British community, those invited to live and work in the country have historically been accepted on an ‘as needed’ basis.
In return for their economic, social, and cultural contributions to society, they are treated as outsiders, thrown out once their job is perceived to be done.
Arguably, this is just colonialism rebranded – which is why it should come as no surprise that there have been protests calling for reparatory justice since 2014.
The government’s lacklustre attempts to smooth over the mishandling of Windrush suggests that we could be waiting for a while to see any significant developments.
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by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo
When whites dispossessed an established Black community in Bethesda, Maryland, a half century ago, they “destroyed the life that we loved,” said Harvey Matthews, who grew up near a Black cemetery that has been paved over. The damage is more than psychological. “The whites destroyed our ability to pass on our land from one generation to the next. If the whites had not stolen our land, we would be millionaires now.”
Brother Harvey Matthews: “I’m Fighting for My Ancestors.” The Bethesda African Cemetery: Part II
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo
“All of the wealth that we accumulated was stolen from us and given to white people. How could I not fight?”
“Despite overwhelming community opposition, conditional approval was given to Equity One to move to the next phase of the process.”
Harvey Matthews, represents an African community that colonized Bethesda, Maryland, three years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This African land-owning community lived in the heart of one of the wealthiest settlements in America. Today, Montgomery County history books fail to impart that Bethesda was once a thriving African community that nourished artisans, masons, teachers, entrepreneurs, construction workers, parishioners and parents. The major thoroughfares in Bethesda, including River Road and Bradley Boulevard, were built by members of this African community. Members of the African River Road community were among the workers who built the White House bunkers that protect the president, his family and staff in the event of war.
The River Road African community thrived in Bethesda for nearly 60 years, until the 1950s when developers colluded with Montgomery County to disenfranchise and pillage this community. From circa 1955 to 1960 the Bethesda African community was under assault. The acre of land Harvey Matthews’s family owned would be worth over $20 million today. Whole Foods—that proudly displays its support of projects in underdeveloped countries—now thrives where the Matthews’s home and farm once stood.
“Members of the African River Road community were among the workers who built the White House bunkers that protect the president.”
The word "breathtaking" doesn't even approximate the scale of desecration visited upon those interred in the Bethesda African Cemetery. Once county officials allowed developers to displace the entire African population they set their sights on the African cemetery, building an apartment complex and parking lot on top of the graves. Some accounts describe construction crews, tired of the tedious and painstaking process of according African bones respect, carving a ditch in the hillside and pushing countless remains into it. Montgomery County officials now deny the presence of remains and contend that without proof the developer, NY Stock Exchange traded Equity One, be allowed to build a parking garage atop the African cemetery.
Harvey Matthews is the “face and primary spokesman” of the Bethesda Cemetery struggle. He rejects the notion that physical remains have to be discovered in order to legitimize the cemetery's existence. "Are they going to use radar on Lincoln's tomb? Or the Unknown Soldier? Or Kennedy's grave in Arlington to determine if those sites are still holy?" Matthews asks. "Of course not. Those people have historical significance. Well, I'm here to tell you that a final resting place for first generation free Africans in the United States is historically significant. We must honor that significance with a museum that consecrates what happened here."
“Matthews rejects the notion that physical remains have to be discovered in order to legitimize the cemetery's existence.”
Despite overwhelming community opposition at a recent Planning Hearing, conditional approval was given to Equity One to move to the next phase of the process. The “conditional” approval is predicated upon further testing to find remains in the burial ground. The following interview was conducted while walking the grounds over the Bethesda African Cemetery.
MCA: How was the community organized and what were the core values?
HM: My family, for exampled, struggled to make River Road a wonderful community in which everyone was taken care of. We survived off of each other. We shared a lot. What you had, your neighbor had. Every member of the community was lovingly a part of this community. If anyone needed anything, we made sure to take care of each other. If someone slaughtered a hog, everyone in our community had food.
My grandparents worked hard. My mother worked for a white family. Before my mother could fix our dinner, she first had to fix the dinner of the white family she worked for. Then, she would come home and fix our dinner.
MCA: I noticed that you came close to tears at the recent Hearing. Would you like to share your thoughts?
HM: I was really touched during the Hearing when a little white 8th grader testified that she did not know anything about Black people in Bethesda. She said she felt her education was lacking because she did not know that a strong Black community existed on River Road, that she was sad when she learned about how our homes were stolen and our graves desecrated. That little girl touched my heart. I'm an emotional man. It touched me that a white 8th grader was interested in learning about my history and my community. And then her little brother stood up and said the same thing. It wasn't all fancy, it was innocent. They meant it. That really touched my heart.
MCA: When you pass by the Whole Foods where your home used to be located, what do you feel or think about?
HM: Everyday, I think about my community and how the whites destroyed the life that we loved. There are trees that still stand in the front of the Whole Foods that my father used to measure how tall I was becoming. The whites destroyed our ability to pass on our land from one generation to the next. If the whites had not stolen our land, we would be millionaires now. If they hadn't played every dirty trick in the book against us, to steal our land, we'd be rich by now. In fact, it's not just our homes, but our church, Macedonia Baptist Church—the only remaining proof that Blacks owned land in Bethesda—is now worth over 3 million dollars. We were robbed and we are still demanding justice!
MCA: Mr. Matthews did you go to the Bethesda Colored School on River Road?
HM: Yes, I attended the River Road Colored School until integration in the 1950’s. We were told after that point that we had to go to white schools. I went from a school where we were loved and encouraged to a school where none of the teachers wanted to teach us. Everyday, it was like hand to hand combat. I know that our folks in Alabama and Mississippi were going through hell but I’m here to tell you that going to school in Bethesda was as difficult as going to school in the deep south.
MCA: Do you remember when your home was stolen and you were forced to move to a different location?
HM: Sure I do. It's like a daily itch. I was 14 years. We were the last two families to leave River Road. It was a bittersweet time for me. Although I loved my community, all of my friends had left and I wanted to be a part of a community again. I think about that every day. It's like an itch way up your back that you can't never scratch.
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WHAT DOES THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION COVER?
The GDPR covers personal data which is defined as information relating to a living individual who can be identified from those data, or from those data and other information which is in the possession of or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller. Personal data includes expression of opinion and indications of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual.
There is a subsection of personal data known as sensitive personal data, this includes information regarding racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, membership of trade unions, physical or mental health, sexual life, the commission or alleged commission of any offence, and any related proceedings.
WHAT DOES THE GDPR MEAN FOR THE STUDENTS' GUILD?
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) oversees the General Data Protection Regulation; the University is registered with the ICO and must annually renew this notification. The GDPR regulates how the Students' Guild can process personal information and sets out 8 principles which must be followed.
WHAT ARE THE 8 DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES?
The Data Protection Principles outline best practice with regards to processing Personal Data and must be complied with. The principles are:-
1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully.
2. Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
3. Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive.
4. Personal data shall be accurate and where necessary, kept up to date.
5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary.
6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under the Act.
7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
8. Personal data shall not be transferred to a country outside the European Economic Area unless that country ensures an adequate level of protection.
HOW DOES THE GDPR AFFECT HOW THE STUDENTS' GUILD USES PERSONAL DATA?
In addition to the Data Protection principles outlined above the DPA specifies conditions that must be met when processing personal data, the lists below are not exhaustive but contain the conditions that are likely to be relied upon by the Students' Guild.When processing Personal Data one of the following conditions must be met:
- The individual has given consent.
- The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract.
- The processing is necessary for a legal obligation.
- The processing is necessary for the protection of the data subject’s vital interests.
- The processing in necessary for the exercise of any other functions of a public nature exercised in the public interest.
- The processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the data controller.
When processing Sensitive Personal Data not only must one of the above apply, but there are additional conditions, at least one of which must be met:
- The data subject has given his explicit consent.
- The processing is necessary for compliance with legal obligations in connection with employment.
- The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another person where consent cannot be given by or on behalf of the data subject, and the data controller cannot reasonably be expected to obtain consent
- The processing in necessary to protect the vital interests of another person, in a case where consent of the data subject has been unreasonably withheld.
- The personal data has been made public as a result of steps deliberately taken by the data subject.
- The processing is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, any legal proceedings or for the purpose of obtaining legal advice.
- The processing is of sensitive personal data consisting of information as to racial or ethnic origin, is for the purpose of identifying or reviewing the existence or absence of equality of opportunity or treatment between persons of different racial or ethnic origins, with a view to enabling such equality to be promoted or maintained, and is carried out with appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of data subjects.
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE DPA IS BREACHED?
The Information Commissioner has the authority to carry out Assessments of any Data Controllers against whom he has received complaints, if they are found to be breaching the GDPR enforcement notices will be issued to force compliance. Breaches can also be tried in court.
The regulation provides for separate personal liability for any of the offences in the regulation. If a member of staff consents to an offence committed by the Students' Guild, or that offence is attributable to any neglect on his/her part, that member of staff can be proceeded against and fined accordingly. Additionally, a data subject has the right to sue for compensation if he/she has suffered damage and/or distress as a result of the Students' Guild's breach of the data protection regulations.
Offences under the act include:
- Processing without notification
- Failure to notify the commissioner of changes to notification register entry
- Failure to comply with an enforcement notice/information notice/special information notice
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Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
Biography of Louise Achey Kennedy, 1860-1945
By Emily Palombo, student, and Cassandra Pegg-Kirby, faculty sponsor, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Louise Achey was born on September 13, 1860, to John Jacob and Frances Louise Sherwood Achey in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. Louise Achey attended private schools and studied in Paris. On April 30, 1889, she married a lawyer from Dayton, Grafton Claggett Kennedy, and they had two children. The Kennedy family lived in the Duncarrick Mansion located in Dayton. The family had strong social standing and remained prominent in high society from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century. The Kennedys' wealth allowed them to travel together often around Europe and spend their summers in their home in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Louise Kennedy became a widow on January 9, 1909.
Though not much information is known about the scope of Louise Achey Kennedy's involvement in the suffrage movement, there is no doubt that she and the rest of her family played an essential role in support of women's rights. As a wealthy family in the nineteenth century, they had influence and power in the community. With the matron of the family supporting women's suffrage, they gave strength to others to support the movement without fear of being ostracized. Kennedy was likely an influential member of the movement as her daughter, Katherine Kennedy Brown, became a well-known Dayton suffragist.
The biggest piece of evidence of Kennedy's involvement in the movement came from pictures and cabinet cards of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found in her home. These memorabilia from the movement can be found in the Louise Achey Kennedy Collection at Wright State University.
In an unsigned document found of her collection, Louise Kennedy was described as having "straightforwardness, dependability, brusqueness, boldness, honesty, frankness, outspokenness and a truthful nature." Kennedy likely attended lectures and rallies with her daughter and her daughter's mother-in-law, Martha McCellan Brown. There are programs in Brown's collection to validate this idea.
Besides suffrage, Louise Kennedy was involved in other community organizations. She was a member of the Jonathan Dayton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her genealogical expertise was useful to the DAR, where Kennedy served as historian, and she was a member of several national genealogical associations. She was raised Presbyterian, but later in life, she became a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Louise Achey Kennedy died on December 18, 1945, at Duncarrick, at the age of 85. She was buried in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton.
Find a Grave. Louise Achey Kennedy. Added September 26, 2012 by Mary Rose. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97812480/louise-kennedy.
Finding Aid. Louise Kennedy Collection (MS281). Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Ohio Link Finding Aid Repository (http://ead.ohiolink.edu/).
Louise Kennedy Collection (MS281). Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
"Mrs. Edward Davies was elected...," Dayton (OH) Daily News, May 21, 1916. Newspapers.com.
"Mrs. Louise A. Kennedy, 85, G.O.P. Leader's Mother, Dies." Dayton (OH) Journal Herald, December 19, 1945. Newspapers.com.
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Promoting Environmental Awareness
We promote environmental awareness by serving teachers, natural resource managers, nature center staff and environmental program managers with training, conferences, publications, programs and other resources.
This support of Maryland's environmental educators enables students to explore, investigate and act to improve the health of their schools and surroundings. In addition, meaningful change is the goal of MAEOE's collaboration with other environmental organizations to produce educational programs and promote environmental literacy throughout Maryland.
Towards Justice and Change
Dear MAEOE community,
We are heartbroken and frustrated by the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, the racism experienced by Christian Cooper while he was birding in Central Park, and other racial injustices experienced by people of color whose incidences are less publicized. We recognize these recent events are just a small sample of what very often does not go viral. There cannot be inclusive environmental education in outdoor spaces until all people are heard and feel safe in their communities. The process to accomplish this may drive anxiety, conflict, and even pain but it is one of the keys to our success.
As an organization that promotes environmental awareness and supports our communities to improve the health of their schools and neighborhoods, we must work together to fight the systemic racism that underlies the very fabric for our nation.
We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of ensuring an environmentally sustainable future and are building it into the mission of our organizational structure. This will help us develop long term goals that will ensure MAEOE continues to be an inclusive space for all Marylanders.
Our students are our future and their voices matter. Guiding them through difficult conversations is an important practice that we must model. There is much work to be done and we must work together for lasting solutions that protect every single person of every single race to achieve our collective vision of a sustainable future.
We can only solve the environmental issues of today and tomorrow by including everyone in the discussion. We ask you to consider the following questions with the board, advisory council, and staff:
- How do we share relevant topics with our students in a virtual environment?
- How can we integrate topics of equity and inclusion into our discussions about the environment?
- How do we help our students to process their thoughts and feelings about current or future injustices in a virtual environment?
We invite the MAEOE community to let us know how we can help your organization, school, family, and children. The challenges we face are immense, and it will take every single one of us to commit to building an anti-racist world.
Our hearts go out to everyone feeling the pain of these recent incidents.
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Maryland Green Schools and Green Centers
A major focus for MAEOE is managing and operating the Maryland Green Schools and Green Centers Programs. This initiative involves training Green Centers and Green Leaders to support teachers and students to implement sustainable activities. These activities include planting and increasing riparian buffer zones, recycling and reducing school waste and identifying cost saving energy measures.
Currently, this program consists of 621 Green Schools, 42 Green Centers and over 200,000 involved students, teachers, parents
Another focus for MAEOE is our two prominent annual events:
- The MAEOE Conference is three days every February that brings together over 500 environmental educators from across the region for professional development and sharing of knowledge.
- The Maryland Green Schools Youth Summit is a celebration each May for schools that have successfully met the requirements to become a certified Green School.
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We were wondering about these two cacti given to us by friends. The tall one on the left seems to want to branch (we got a cutting off a 3-4 foot tall potted specimen). The short guy we think is a gymnocalyceum, and have always been a bit puzzled by its odd coloration (kind of dayglo yellow and pink). It was potted in fine sand and really suffering when we got it 2 years ago. Not sure what either of their specific needs are (minimum tolerated temp, sun exposure, etc).
Thanks for your help!
The tall one is a Cereus. The short one could be a Gymnocalycium, but I wouldn’t know for sure until it blooms. The coloration seems to be an effect of the sun and probably the soil too. It can handle less than full sun, and may need to be repotted into fresh fast draining cactus soil in the spring.
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Quang Ninh's efforts in gender-based violence fight pay off
Officials from the Division of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Uong Bi city provide consultation to a victim of gender-based violence. (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn)
In the 2016-2020 period, the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs launched 25 gender equality models in 13 districts, townships and city, while forming 56 families and gender equality, 76 trustful addresses and emergency shelters, and 28 hotlines at communal level.
In the first eight months of 2021, the Department launched 11 pilot models of gender-based violence prevention and control in 10 districts, townships and cities. The models have contributed to raising members’ awareness of gender equality, helping women sustain their role and encouraging men to give stronger support to their wives.
At the same time, the discovery and support of victims of violence has been made in a timely manner, making access to social services easier.
In particular, Quang Ninh has become the first locality of the country to be chosen to implement a project to build models of supporting the prevention and combat of violence against women and children through the establishment of an interference centre, or “Anh Duong” (Sunshine) House – a shelter of supporting essential services to survivors of violence against women and children that was built at a cost of 8.4 billion VND funded by the Republic of Korea Government.
The Anh Duong House, which has become operational since April 2020 under the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, provides round-the-clock and free necessary services to the victims and offers an emergency shelter to them, giving them health care services, equipping them with life skills and vocational training, and helping them seek jobs and integrate into the society.
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Listing images courtesy of Warburg Realty
In 2013, the New York Times described the William Lescaze townhouse at 32 East 74th Street—one of the first modernist residences built in NYC—as being “just at the edge of passing from worn to shabby, waiting for a new owner to bring it back to flawlessness.” After years of being on and off the market, a new owner came into the picture in 2015, when he bought the property for $14.5 million and transformed it into a three-unit investment property. Lescaze designed the house for Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer in 1934, one year after completing a modernist home for himself at 211 East 48th Street. Both feature his characteristic use of white stucco and glass bricks. The landmarked exteriors have remained intact, but as 6sqft previously noted, the interiors have long shed any trace of Lescaze’s interior design. The transformed property was most recently on the market in 2017 with a $20 million ask and is now back for a slightly reduced $19.5 million.
One of New York City’s earliest modern residences, designed by architect William Lescaze on the Upper East Side, is searching for a new owner after a gut renovation. Known as the Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House, after its first owners, it was built at 32 East 74th Street in 1934. Lescaze was a Swiss-born, American architect credited with pioneering modernism in America. He designed New York’s first modernist home for himself in Midtown East (pictured to the right) one year prior to this uptown commission (pictured to the left). At 32 East 74th, any remnants of his interior design have mostly disappeared after years on and off the market. The current owner paid $14.5 million for it in 2015, gutted it, and re-listed it as an investment property holding three duplex rental units. As Curbed points out, it’s now asking a cool $20 million.
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After five long years on the market, the William Lescaze-designed townhouse at 32 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side has found a buyer, according to Curbed. As 6sqft previously reported, Lescaze was a Swiss-born, American architect who is credited with pioneering modernism in America. His personal Midtown East townhouse (the William Lescaze House) is considered the first modernist residence in New York City, built just one year prior to this 1934 uptown commission. The Upper East Side house sold for $12 million in 2008. Starting two years later, it’s been on and off the market, ranging from $14 million to $19.5 million, but finally went into contract last week for $15.9 million.
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do it yourself! / media culture
Discover secret functions of software on the Internet, in the operating system, and on your mobile phone. Have fun – and happy Easter!
exhibition / guest post / media culture
January 2019, Viktor & Rolf presented their Haute Couture collection in Paris and created a social media frenzy. The memefied collection titled Fashion Statements proposed voluminous dresses stating: “I am my own muse”, “Is fashion overrated?”, “What is your position on climate change?”, “Give a damn”; ready for online circulation. The dresses went viral on social media, shared widely across every fashion and meme-raker’s Instagram accounts.
do it yourself! / for schools / media culture
You cannot operate your smartphone with gloves on? Update your gloves! With a small embroidery with conductive thread you can restore the connection between your finger and your phone.
do it yourself! / for schools
The beginning of every electronics project is an electric circuit. Scrappy Circuits are circuits made of simple materials out of your drawer and do not require special tools. Getting started with electronics is easy and fun!
Boris Magrini, co-curator of the exhibition “Lawrence Lek: Farsight Freeport”, discusses in his article the manifold connections between AI, automation of work, and e-sports.
The sound artist Svetlana Maraš talks about her love for analog synthesizers, her work as director of the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade and her performance at HeK. She explains her musical concept, what role non-musical materials play in her work and what she understands by “active composing”.
An introduction into participatory design methodology for AI by Christine Meinders and Jana Thompson (and inspired by the Feminist.AI community).
exhibition / guest post
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If there ever is going to be a tool-freaks anonymous I’ll probably be a founding member.
This started when I was very young, at the ripe old age of three I came in to the possession of a screwdriver (and a garbage found typewriter, which I both got from my dad for my 3rd birthday).
Pretty soon other tools followed, pliers, a small hammer and a universal wrench. By the time I turned five there wasn’t much that I couldn’t demolish!
That’s when I discovered electricity, and for a while I was totally absorbed by lamps, wires and switches, as well as a supply of batteries to power them. Wired connections were put in place with tape, and later, solder (a soldering iron, new tool!). When I was 10 electricity gave way to electronics after spending a month in Arnhem with my grandmother, where they had a second-hand bookstore around the corner that had all kinds of interesting stuff about electronics components. I built a little crystal set from a schematic in the book, and my toolbox grew accordingly, this time with more complicated stuff like a little meter.
My step-dad had a tool catalog laying around and for many years that was my favorite book in the house, I could look at all those tools, learn their names and maybe even use a few of them.
From analogue electronics to digital stuff when I was 15, then back to analogue building transmitters for pirate stations in Amsterdam, and in parallel to that computers. This time the tools were software, languages to learn (first BASIC, then assembler, then pascal (yuck), then C (yay!) and a variety less well known but no less interesting languages (such as forth)). Then I discovered algorithms, and they became tools as well, and I started to make my own, a text editor, an assembler and a whole pile of utility programs. Instead of just being a tool user I became a tool maker.
For many years this situation persisted until one day I did some work for a company that produced specialty machines. They wanted to produce a line of CNC mills and lathes and I wrote the software that powered the tools (they’re still in business today, 21 years later and they still use a derivative of the software I wrote back then). Because of the workplace I picked up a lots of knowledge about tools, most of them for the metal working trade. I learned how to weld, how to operate most of the heavy industrial tools.
My idea about programming for other people is that you first have to learn their job inside out, then you can write the software for them. Rinus de R. one of the people there spent a lot of time with me teaching me how to use the machinery and in return the software got better.
When we bought a run down (but nice) old house in IJmuiden, The Netherlands I figured we could do the renovation ourselves, and together with the help of a bunch of friends we restored the house to a really nice state. All that knowledge about tools really paid off!
In Canada, we built a house ourselves, powered by solar panels and a windmill of our own design and manufacture. The CNC milling rig/plasma cutter that was used to make the mill was homebrewn as well.
After helping out a farmer in the neighbourhood by fixing his baler that had broken down in the middle of the haying season someone jokingly said that if a helicopter were to break down on the island we’d be able to fix it. (funny enough, that same year a helicopter did in fact make a hard landing two farms over, but we didn’t have a hand in fixing it).
Moving back to the Netherlands in ‘05 we had an allowance of one metric tonne that we could take back with us, my portion of it was just tools, the ones light enough to bring back. The mill, the lathes and all the other gear got sold.
Even today, the tools are definitely not on par with the workshop we had in Canada, there isn’t a day that I don’t miss the way you could go from idea to finished piece in a couple of hours.
But who knows, maybe one day :)
Tools are the things that allow us to make stuff and other tools, it is toolmaking that sets us apart from most other creatures and that allows us (together with those very handy opposable thumbs) to progress as fast as we do. Whether the tools are physical tools or virtual ones doesn’t matter that much, time invested in learning how to use tools, their names and time spent on improving them is time spent well.
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Why study Mathematics and Computer Science?
Humans have been fascinated by mathematics for centuries, its study provides the foundation for a wide array of careers and advanced studies. As a liberal art fundamental to a true education, Mathematics, and its modern cousin Computer Science, trains students to think analytically and communicate clearly and logically.
The study of Mathematics and Computer Science prepares students for careers in actuarial science, banking and finance, cryptography, data science, software engineering, (higher-) education, work with non-profit organizations, and more. In addition to pursuing careers like these, recent graduates have also been admitted to competitive graduate programs in both Mathematics and Computer Science.
The Mathematics/Computer Science program at Saint Mary’s College prepares graduates to:
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5. Integrate technological tools and resources into their mathematical and computational writing, study, and investigations.
Why study at Saint Mary’s?
Saint Mary’s College of California is one of the oldest colleges in the Western U.S. It is situated in the peaceful, scenic, and secure foothills of the Moraga Valley. Classes at Saint Mary’s College are small and professors enjoy working closely with students. Our students have access to tutoring, employment, and summer research opportunities in the Department, and our graduates are active in an extraordinarily wide range of careers. | <urn:uuid:dd5301ce-1ffc-4f67-83cc-0f9ca390e215> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://math.stmarys-ca.edu/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.926725 | 361 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Grain prices remain strong, but heat and drought have taken a toll on Texas crop acres, which could impact supplies and prices in the short- and long-term, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Mark Welch, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension grain economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Bryan-College Station, said Texas appears to be facing much lower grain production in 2022 compared to the previous year. The likely outcomes coupled by high demand are putting a premium on grain prices despite recent dips in the market.
Wheat yields were abysmal for much of the state, he said. Corn and sorghum projections do not appear to be much better as producers in the southern half of the state continue harvesting.
Cash wheat, corn and sorghum grain prices are strong but not as strong as they had been in late May, Welch said. For instance, wheat prices were $3.86 per bushel in August 2020 before starting a steady climb to more than $8 per bushel prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Prices quickly jumped to more than $11 per bushel before peaking at $12.62 per bushel on May 26.
Cash wheat prices have fallen relatively quickly to $8.27 per bushel on July 14. Corn and sorghum grain prices took a similar path, though the post-invasion spike was less dramatic. Corn climbed from $3.41 per bushel in February to around $6.50 per bushel before the invasion. Corn prices peaked at $8.92 per bushel by June but fell back to $6.48 per bushel as of July 14.
“Cash prices for feed-grade grain in Texas are still at a premium,” he said. “We’re still living on supplies, and harvests in southern parts of the state are trickling in, but yields are below average.”
Heat, drought taking a toll
The Coastal Bend and South Texas corn and sorghum crop harvests are well underway, but the heat and drought have taken their toll on grain production. Many producers from those regions were reporting below-average to poor yields.
Harvests from those regions are some of the first to hit the market and begin to replenish supplies, Welch said.
Many producers in regions where corn and sorghum plants are still progressing were reporting poor to fair crop conditions with some reports of fields being salvaged as forage for cattle.
“It’s just going to be a tough year for producers to find a profit,” he said. “Grain prices are relatively high, but input costs for everything from fuel to fertilizer are high too. Producers need every penny.”
Welch said cattle on feed and the short-term feed demand spurred by drought-stricken rangelands and pastures were contributing to the tightening supplies and higher grain prices.
AgriLife Extension reports from around the state indicate cattle producers were moving calves earlier and culling herds deeper than usual. Sale barns around the state have been reporting higher sale volumes over the last few months, but high sale numbers are picking up in historically wetter parts of the state, particularly East Texas.
Welch said feed-use numbers have been strong this year for all livestock, but cattle producers around the state are experiencing below-average hay and grazing capacity.
“The question is how long that can continue before cattle producers work the numbers or run out of grazing and supplemental feed substitutes they can use to efficiently feed grain?” he said.
Uncertain future for crops, prices
The U.S. Department of Agriculture added around 400,000 acres of corn to its planted acre estimates in a recent report. Welch said growing conditions in the nation’s Corn Belt are much better than last year and good crop ratings were emerging as well.
But western parts of the Corn Belt are experiencing high temperatures as the crop progresses through stages sensitive to heat. How those acres fare will likely impact longer-term yields and ultimately grain prices.
Welch said the USDA made the harvest-area adjustment based on a June acreage survey but held the U.S. yield estimates for 2022 steady at 177 bushels per acre. Yield estimates remain unchanged since May.
“Further down the road is more uncertain,” he said. “We need every bushel and every acre. The umbrella over all the markets is the economic slowdown and what that could do to demand on everything from corn to crude oil and cattle. That is an overarching concern.”
AgriLife Extension district reporters compiled the following summaries:
Dry conditions continued. Soil moisture conditions were very short. Corn harvest was ongoing with below-average yields reported. Cotton continued to hang on despite high temperatures and low soil moisture. Some sesame was planted almost a month ago over wheat stubble but had yet to emerge. Pasture conditions were very poor and continued to decline with high temperatures and limited rainfall. Cattle body condition scores were fair and beginning to decrease with less-than-ideal grazing conditions. Producers were feeding hay and other supplemental feed sources but were beginning to cull cattle due to drought. Stock tanks remained low or dry. Some producers were testing forages for prussic acid and dealing with new problems, such as blue-green algae in water sources and other issues that can arise during drought.
Weather was very hot and dry. A storm did develop over some range country, and lightning started multiple wildfires. One fire burned around 750 acres. Dryland cotton was in very poor to poor condition with some reports of fields failing. Irrigated cotton was progressing with low insect pressure, though stink bugs were reported in fields with beneficial insects present in some fields. Heavy numbers of grasshoppers were reported in some counties. Some sorghum fields were heading out and were fair overall. Many failed or poor sorghum and corn fields were expected to be salvaged for forage. Pastures were dried up, and most producers were very short on hay. Producers reported very little hay for sale in the area. Cake and minerals were being fed to supplement cattle diets, and herds were being culled. No Sudan grass had been planted to date.
Scattered rain fell in parts of the reporting area, but dry conditions remained. The isolated showers halted some corn and sorghum harvest operations. Cotton was nearing maturity with most fields showing open bolls. Rice was headed out. Most rangeland and pastures remained in poor condition. Livestock auctions remained busy as many producers were culling and weaning early. Supplementation of livestock was still required. Ponds were dry or very low.
Producers continued to struggle. Subsoil and topsoil moisture conditions were very short. Excessive heat and very little to no rainfall has put many of them in a bind. Hay production had all but stopped, and yields have been 25%-50% the normal amount. Producers were cutting and baling pastures normally used for grazing due to reduced herd numbers. Crops and pastures were burning up. Stock ponds and creeks were very low. Pasture and rangeland conditions were very poor to poor. Sale barns were reporting record numbers of cattle coming through due to producers culling or liquidating. Grasshoppers and Bermuda grass stem maggots were causing a lot of damage in pastures.
Extreme drought conditions continued across the district. About 90% of the dryland cotton was a loss, and producers were filing insurance claims. About 50% of the irrigated cotton was not going to make a viable crop either. Irrigated corn seemed to be the only crop in fair condition. Cattle producers were out of grazing and relying on supplemental feed. Cucumbers were being planted and emerging according to some producers. Cattle were in good condition.
Soil moisture levels were very short to short. Scattered showers delivered trace amounts of rainfall up to half an inch. Temperatures were in the triple digits. Hot weather was drying soil. Irrigated cotton and corn were doing well with pivots running at full capacity. Corn was at stages ranging from silking to knee high. There appeared to be less cotton in the area, and fields were behind in growth stage. Producers hope sorghum hay and silage recently planted will make before the first freeze. Wheat harvest was complete with below average yields and 50% normal yields for many producers. Range grasses were dormant, and overall rangeland and pasture conditions were very poor to poor.
Topsoil moisture throughout the district was very short to short due to the lack of rain. Heat and drought were contributing to dormant grasses and poor pasture conditions, ponds getting low, and hay getting scarce. Cattle producers began to reduce their herds due to a lack of forage. Stockyards were accepting cattle on off days in preparation for the sale to avoid lines and blocking traffic. Some soybean fields looked good, but a large percentage were being harvested early for round bale forage. Corn, cotton and sunflowers were still doing well in some places with no reports of major insect or disease issues.
Temperatures were around 100 degrees daily with overnight lows around 75 degrees. Sporadic showers fell across the district ranging from no precipitation up to 2 inches reported. Weeds were blooming in several fields. Corn was basically finished and needed to dry down. The melon harvest continued. Small acreage producers reported struggling to keep corn and watermelon alive due to poor water quality and dryness. There were reports of rose rosette, Mozena obtusa and mesquite webworms. Livestock were being sold due to poor grazing conditions. Sheep and goats may stay a little longer.
Some areas received rainfall but not enough to make a difference in the drought. Temperatures were hot and dry with most days over 100 degrees. Pastures were brown with little to no green grass. The drought was beginning to impact trees. Some corn was being harvested for silage, but the quality and yields were down. Sorghum was drying down fast, and yields were expected to be low. Some irrigated cotton looked good, but the majority was struggling in the heat as irrigation failed to meet crop water demand. The pecan crop did not look promising. Livestock were in poor condition. The local cattle auction ran about 1,000 head with at least half of that being cows from ranchers culling herds.
Parts of the district received less than 1 inch of rain. High temperatures remained. Pasture and rangeland conditions remained poor. Corn and sorghum harvests were underway with poor yields reported. Pastures continued to decline, and supplemental feeding of livestock continued.
Conditions remained hot and dry with triple-digit temperatures. Soil moisture levels were very short to short across the district. Some spotty rain was reported with many areas catching zero rainfall and a few scattered areas receiving 1-2 inches. Some fields were saturated by rains. In drier areas, irrigation pivots were running most hours of the day to keep up with crop water demand. Peanuts were pegging, but some fields looked moisture stressed. Cotton was blooming, but some cotton fields were not expected to produce harvest-worthy yields. Some cotton fields were showing 50%-90% open bolls, and producers were applying boll openers and defoliating. Some whitefly pressure was reported along the river. Corn and sorghum harvests were underway and nearing completion in some areas. Irrigation canals continued to provide water to watermelon and cantaloupe fields. Irrigated Coastal Bermuda grass was producing good bales, and irrigated pecan orchards were in good shape as well. Citrus and sugarcane continued to receive irrigation. Rangeland and pasture conditions continued to decline but should improve in areas that received decent moisture. Hay fields were being prepared for the next cutting in some areas, but bale production was down dramatically overall, and supplies were tightening. Producers were feeding hay and supplements to cattle, and feed and hay prices continued to climb. Local beef producers were thinning herds or liquidating completely, and sale barns were reporting high volumes of cattle being marketed. Prices were steady, but early weaned calves weighing less than 300 pounds were lower. Food plots of sorghum and sunflowers were failing.
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Mrs. Itwari, currently Director General in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Cooperative and Rural Development in Eastern Equatoria, notes that the four; Protein, Vitamin A, zinc and iron, are the most notable nutrients whose deficiencies cause severe morbidity and mortality rates worldwide affecting learning and productivity.
According to her, hidden hunger is caused by lack of essential minerals and vitamins in the diets of people that feed mainly on starchy foods.
Zinc and iron have been identified as the most limiting nutrients in the diets of people who depend mainly on staple foods.
She says that prevalence of acute malnutrition in South Sudan is 14.5-22 percent higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) cut-off of 15 percent for nutrition emergencies.
These are the highest malnutrition rates ever reported in Africa and in the world at large; as such endemic malnutrition has necessitated severe malaria 61 percent, diarrhoea 45 percent and pneumonia 35 percent.
The Researcher has just sought support on adoption of bean growing.
She has noted that bean growing is not a common practice to indigenous farmers in the country.
She says that farmers in South Sudan practice mixed crop farming and harvests from such a cropping system are difficult to quantify and therefore, growing beans as sole crops, intercrops require precondition lessons.
Mrs. Itwari reveals that a viable bean research program is necessary.
The researcher has further concluded that most of the beans sold and consumed are imported from neighbouring countries in East Africa.
She narrates that generally, farmers are unable to access bean seeds and have limited management practices and information.
Mrs. Itwari elaborates bean growing is a source of income and bean is termed a woman’s crop, because it is very friendly to grow.
Returnees come with improved skills and knowledge in agro business and this will favour production of beans for marketing in South Sudan.
“Beans are concentrated protein foods that are storable, transportable and consumable in both rural and urban society. They contain dietary fiber (15.2 percent) and 4.8 percent crude fiber which aid in the control of renal, colon cancer and coronary heart diseases,” she says.
The carbohydrates in beans are of slow release and greatly reduce obesity by lowering blood cholesterol.
She further notes that one of the main specific objectives of her study is to determine the growth, performance and adaptation of bean genotypes in agro ecological zones in South Sudan; ironstone plateau, green belt and semi arid zones.
Mrs. Itwari says determining effect of intercropping different varieties of sorghum and beans on pest infestation in the three agro ecologies in the region remains her key goal including verifying effect of farmyard manure and inorganic fertilizers on selected sorghum and bean genotypes under an intercrop system in three zones.
Additionally, the researcher has recommended that determining nutrient contents of iron and zinc in the seeds and leaves of beans, will require offering training sites for bean integration and multiplication of farmers in South Sudan.
She also noted bean varieties are adaptable to agro ecological zones in South Sudan while selected Sorghum varieties are suitable for intercropping identified but a new scientific knowledge on agronomic performance of beans and sorghum in agro ecological zones across South Sudan is still being compiled and published.
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Ojai 3rd Public Talk 14th April 1973
This morning we will talk about, if we may, the question of order, a little bit about education and the very simple but complex problem of love, and on such a lovely morning we must also talk about death, because we are concerned with the whole of life, not one segment or one fragment but be totally aware of the whole movement of life - the movement of the clouds, the marvellous mountains, the friendly trees, and what the world about us is like with its pollution, brutality and the innumerable explanations that people give of what life is, and also to be aware without any choice of the inward movement, not only at the conscious level but also at the deeper layers of our own mind. We are going to concern ourselves with the whole structure of life, to be aware of it, not only the cause of it but also in that very awareness to act, because action is necessary, but action along a particular line, religious, social, moral, or economic, is only a fragmentary action. We are concerned with the total action of life in which is included death, love, discipline, order and the beauty not only outside of us but also the great sense of beauty inwardly.
You know it is such a lovely morning it seems rather a pity to sit down and talk about all these things, but I suppose one must. But in talking about life we are also talking about the beauty of nature, the clouds, the mountains, the hills, the shadows, and the dappled light among the leaves. First let us consider what is order. Because in our life there is very little order, we live in a state of contradiction, consciously or unconsciously, we are not aware of it. Or if we are aware of it we try to superimpose upon this disorder some kind of order, some kind of religious order, or impose upon this disorder of our life a conceptual order, order put together by thought, or suppress this disorder and conform. Conformity is the very denial of order. And most of us do conform to a pattern set by another, by a religious or legendary figure, or order imposed by some authority, specially the religious authority, or order induced by environment, which is also a form of compulsion.
As we said the other day, we are sharing these problems together, you are not merely listening to the speaker, agreeing or disagreeing, if you accept what you hear then it becomes merely a conclusion and therefore no reality, but if we share the problems together then it is your reality, the reality is neither yours nor mine, and we can share in that reality. And to share implies that quality of communication in which one is aware of each other and to be concerned with what is being shared. That is the whole movement of communication - the sharing intelligently and acting.
As we said, most of us conform. And to the speaker that is the very essence of disorder. And we conform because generally we want to succeed, success to us is the most important thing in life, success outwardly or success inwardly. Intelligence says, the outward success is really quite absurd because it leads to all kinds of destructive competition and so on. One sees that logically, objectively, quite clearly. But inwardly one conforms to a guru, one has conformed to the church, to the various religious legendary figures because inwardly we are quite uncertain, disturbed, not knowing where we are going, we want to be told by another, to do exactly what the guru or the priest or the philosopher, the analyst or the psychologist say because in ourselves we are confused and we want to be quite certain. And so out of disorder in ourselves we set up authority both outwardly and inwardly. And the acceptance of authority is conformity and therefore brings about disorder. Now when you see that, not only verbally, intellectually but actually be aware of this whole nature of conformity, both outwardly and inwardly, where it is necessary to conform, like keeping to the left side of the road or the right side of the road and so on, and where it is absolutely to be denied completely, to see this totally and to act on it is intelligence. To see what is false and that very perception is action. The seeing is the doing without the interval of time, and that is the very essence of intelligence.
So we live in disorder. I do not know if you are aware of your own life and see how disorderly it is. You may have perfect order outside, in your room, in your life and so on, but inwardly there is contradiction, conformity, desire pulling in different directions, ambition, and at the same time try to be kind, affectionate. So seeing disorder in oneself and that very perception of that disorder is order. If I see in my life, in my daily relationship and action and thought how disorderly, contradictory my life is, violent and at the same time wanting to lead a peaceful life, aggressive, assertive and humility. We are playing this kind of game all the time. And when I am aware of it and see why I am doing it, the cause, the effect and the very perception of that disorder is action which is orderly. Therefore order is not a blue print, order is not something laid down by society, or by your guru, or by somebody else. Order comes naturally, easily, without effort, when you see in yourself the disorder, and that perception is an awareness of this disorder in which there is no choice. Is this comparatively clear? I hope I am making myself clear.
Because you see without order there is no virtue. Order is virtue. Virtue isn't something you cultivate, morality isn't something that you practise day by day. Vanity can clothe itself in humility, but when you see what the implications of vanity, pride and arrogance are, when you are aware of it choicelessly, out of that comes naturally humility. And that is a living thing, not a thing put in a framework according to which you are conforming.
So order, virtue, comes out of the understanding of disorder. And that is one of the problems of our education. Why do we get educated at all? I wonder if you have ever asked that question. Here you have so many universities, colleges, schools, all the children going to them to be conditioned - what for? What does all this enormous knowledge mean? To bring about more disorder in the world? More wars? Make the mind conform to a particular structure of a society? And we accept and we never question why we are being educated. And in this peculiar education that one has, that one has been through, our minds acquire certain types of specialization: engineers, scientists, biologists, and you know all the rest of it, and we are never taught how to learn about the whole of life, not just one fragment of life, how to look at life as a whole, but only we are encouraged to be more and more self-centred, egotistic, pursuing our own pleasures. And all this, with other complications involved in it which we have no time to go into, is called education, cultivating that part of mind, the intellect, to store up knowledge. And so knowledge being always in the past our lives become more and more mechanical. We are encouraged to conform whether in the communist world or in the capitalist world. And when we revolt against this conformity, that revolt is merely a reaction, again to conform in another pattern or to another pattern - long hair, short hair, whatever that be. Right? So that is our education right throughout the world. So in this education we are never creative. Creation is something which comes into being when the self is not, when the `me' is not.
So that is part of our life, disorder in a life that is supposed to educated, civilized. And in this life that we live we talk a great deal about love. All right, may I go into it? Don't be angry with me, don't, if I may ask, accept what we are talking about, but just look at it all, just look as you would look at a map. You can't change a map, it is there, the towns, the villages, the bridges, the length of the road and so on and so on, it is there, you can't change it however much you may like to change it. So our life is that and to look at it, to observe it without any choice. And in the observation of it you will discover how you are looking at it, how your own prejudices, our own petty little movement of life, your own anxiety, your own conclusion, distorts the map, and so you never look at this enormous beauty, complexity of life as a whole.
Now we are going to look together and therefore share together at this thing called love. You know all religions have talked about it: love of god and love of human beings. Very few religions have talked about the love of nature, love of animals, don't kill animals. And unfortunately the Christians have accepted that to kill animals and all the rest of it is quite normal, and yet they talk about love of animals. And in investigating this problem, what love is, or what compassion is, there are several things we have to understand. I mean by understanding not intellectually, verbally, but actually in the very observation of this fact, action goes with the observation, that is intelligence.
What is love? Is love pleasure, is love desire, is love attachment, is love jealousy, possessiveness? Or love, compassion comes into being when we deny all that which is not love. You know most of us are so highly intellectual, or highly sentimental, emotional, that we can never face this problem, and we don't want to face it. And if we will, let us come to grips with it, let's look at it.
We have made love into pleasure, sexual or otherwise. And sex has become an enormous affair in this country, and it is spreading right throughout the world. I don't know why you have made sex such a colossal affair. You think that is the ultimate expression. In that you feel terribly frustrated, important, you know, all the nonsense that goes on. And when you observe it very closely in yourself you will see that you are pursuing pleasure and therefore attachment, and dependency. Where there is dependency there must be fear, and where there is dependency there must be jealousy, anxiety. Just listen to it, you can't do anything about it, just listen. And when you see it, act, don't keep on saying, `Why shouldn't I be attached, it gives me great pleasure? If I am not attached I will be terribly lonely', be lonely, find out what it means to be lonely, go through it, look at it. And mere analysis of the cause why you are attached, why you pursue pleasure endlessly, whether it is sexually or in the name of religion, in every way we pursue this everlasting thing called pleasure. And with it goes fear, anxiety, jealousy, loneliness, the sense of frustration, and from it the desire to fulfil, the whole movement of this thing called the `me', which is everlastingly trying to express itself. And that we call love. You may cover it up, you may subtly clothe it in a religious word or most intellectually, or sentimentally. And is all that love?
And can there be in love suffering? Therefore one has to understand what is suffering, why we suffer. And unfortunately we don't give so much importance to the understanding and transcending suffering, going beyond it, as we do to sex. We have accepted suffering, and because we are not able to go beyond it we personify it in a legend, and we think we have understood it, or find some excuse or rationality for suffering and think we have understood it. What is suffering? And we must solve this problem, as we must solve all other problems in our life, not just accept it. So what is suffering? Is it self pity? Is it the incapacity to face actually what is? Is it the image that we have built about ourselves that prevent the actual coming into contact with reality? The incapacity to face ourselves as we are and to go beyond it? Is it that we are so indolent? A polite word for laziness!
Because we have to understand this, what is suffering, if we are to go into this question of death, as we are going to this morning. Is suffering necessary? I am not talking about physical pain. One has physical pain often but to see that pain doesn't distort the mind in action, that pain doesn't make the mind neurotic. So one has to understand not only how to tolerate physical pain without distortion but also one has to understand the psychological pain, the hurts. And when we do suffer we escape, and there are a thousand means of escape - escapes, you know what they are for yourself and they have no value, whether you are a religious person who escapes into some fantasy of some extraordinary consciousness, of which you know absolutely nothing, or you escape through sex, through, you know, dozens of things. Now, not to escape because you yourself are aware totally that any form of escape doesn't solve this problem. So when you no longer escape you have the energy to meet, to look at this problem. How you look at the problem is immensely important. If you are an analyst you want to analyse the whole thing, like tearing a flower to pieces and seeing what there is behind it. Behind it, in this human suffering, it is fairly simple, the `me', the ego, all that structure which I have built carefully which is the `me'.
And when you don't escape, when you are completely motionless in front of this suffering then you will see out of this suffering comes compassion, and that's love. Compassion means passion for all human beings, for everything, not just for human beings, or for your little child, or become a social worker, passion for everything: for the hills, for the trees, for the animals, you know. And so from that, compassion is the very denial of the `me'.
Then there is this question of death. Do you want to talk about it on a lovely morning? You know, we are concerned with the whole movement of life, being aware of the totality of life. And death is part of life, as love is part of life, suffering, anxiety, technical knowledge and its place, all that is part of life. You can't choose one part and say, `I'll take that and nothing else, because that pleases me'. You are concerned with the whole movement of life, and being totally aware of all that. So death is part of life. It's a rather complex problem and one must go into it hesitantly, with great care, and with intelligence. I mean by that word `intelligence' not intellectual capacity, not a mind that is cunning, contriving, or a mind that is imaginative, because death is not imagination, is not something that you can contrive to escape. It is there to be faced and asking whether the mind, you, the mind, the human mind, can ever be free from death. Because man throughout the days and throughout the ages has tried to find immortality, to go beyond death and whether the mind can be free from the thing called death. The understanding and the freedom from that is as important as to bring order in life, it is as important as to have compassion - passion, integrity. And so it is a part of life and therefore to be gathered, to be understood, to be faced.
Are you all waiting for me to tell you what to do about it, how to go beyond it? And if you hear what is being said and draw a conclusion from it, and that very conclusion is bringing about a death of a different kind: a mind that is full of conclusions is already a dead mind, it is not a living mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding. In the same way we are investigating, therefore learning, never coming to any conclusion, and that is the beauty of this whole movement of life.
So what is death? And can the mind ever be free from it? And what is it that dies? The body, the organism, the way we live, this constant battle, struggle, conflict, inwardly and outwardly, the strain, the tension, will inevitably bring all kinds of disease and ailments to the body, to the organism, and it will soon wear out. You may prolong it, and the doctors are trying to prolong it, I don't know why. Because - I am asking myself why - because the way we live is not a way of compassion, beauty, a way of life in which relationship is non-existent, and yet we want to prolong it indefinitely, if we can. So apart from the organism, what is it that dies, what is it that we are so frightened of?
In understanding that, we must also enquire into what is time. Apart from the chronological time by the watch, yesterday, today and tomorrow, is there psychological time at all? Is there time to overcome death; or is death always in harmony with life, with love, with pain; or is death something to be put far away, one day we have to face it but not now? And therefore we accept time - please do listen to this - we accept time, the interval between now and that moment which we call death, that period, that lag of time, that interval, is the living. And that living is what we cling to. The living, which is this struggle, the battle, the little pleasures, the conformities, the conclusions, the tortures that we go through life, belonging to this sect or to that sect, dancing in the streets, shaving our head, you know all the absurdities that go on in our life, the interval between now and that moment. That moment when we have got to face this thing, either through disease, old age with all its travail, or to look at it without time so that there is no interval between now, the living, and that.
Because in that interval is fear, fear brought about by thought. Thought is the response of memory, experience, knowledge, the known, in the known is the `me', though consciously I may not know the `me' totally, the `me' lives in this interval. I wonder if you see. This `me' lives in this interval between now and that which we call death, in that interval is the whole movement of thought in the field of the known. And the known is the `me', the ego, with all its attachments, pain, loneliness, deceptions, deceits, all the religious nonsense that goes on. Now when there is no interval then death is the death of me. This demands an intensity, this demands a great deal of energy, not to escape but to face, be totally aware, and in that very awareness action, so that the interval doesn't exist at all, so that the living is the dying. I wonder if you get this. And because we cannot face this thing so intensely death becomes something to be frightened of, to be avoided; or if it cannot be avoided then this whole problem of what happens after death arises. The East believes in reincarnation, the `me', the ego, incarnating next life. Please listen to all this, it may be terribly boring but listen to it. You are doing the same in a different way but it comes to the same thing. The `me', the ego reincarnating next life. And what is the `me'? Is it permanent so that it can reincarnate in the next, after death, as the `me', the ego, identified-listen to it - identified with my country, with my house, with my family, with my furniture, with my bank account, you know, all that, that is the `me'. And that `me' will be born next life, and it will have a better opportunity next life depending on what kind of life you lead now. All that is implied in reincarnation. Therefore it matters immensely how you behave now, not next life. So what is important is not the next life but to incarnate now completely in behaviour. You understand all this? So their belief has very little meaning.
Then there is this problem that the vast majority of people, of human beings, never come to the freedom from death but are caught in a stream, the stream of human beings whose thoughts, whose anxieties, pain, suffering, the agony of everything that one has to go through, we are caught in that stream. And when a human being dies he is part of that stream. It is only the man who has understood, gone through the whole of this life totally, completely, fully aware of all the implications, he steps out of that stream. And the Psychical Research Societies and other societies, when they, through mediums and all the rest of it, when they call upon the dead, they are calling people out of that stream. You understand all this? It doesn't matter.
So that is our life from the beginning to the end. It's a total movement in which there is no fragmentation. But we have made life into fragments, and that fragmentation is corruption. And integrity is the whole, is the sane, is the rational.
What place has religion in all this? I am not talking - we are not talking about the organized religions, or the newly organized religions. What place has religion in life? That's also part of life, though some psychologists say that even the enquiry into such a thing is irrational, neurotic and so on. I do not know if we have time to go into this this morning, but we have to enquire into that too because that is part of life. Either there is a reality which is not put together by thought, or there is no reality but the only the movement of thought. Perhaps we can go into that tomorrow morning and also enquire what is meditation. You know one of the most important things in life is meditation, not the absurd things that are going on in the name of meditation but to really find out very deeply for ourselves what it means. We will do that tomorrow morning. I think that is enough for today. So perhaps you would ask some questions, or not, as you please.
Questioner: Krishnamurti, would you go into the question of belief and hope, and despair.
K: Won't you take a breath? Why do we have hope and belief? What is the place of hope in life? If you had no despair, would you have hope? If you had never felt the sense of utter futility, the meaninglessness of existence, never felt, never been wounded by this question of despair, would you have hope? Or is hope a reaction of despair and therefore hope is part of despair? Are you following all this? When there is despair, despair, caught in circumstances out of which I cannot escape, I want to get out of that particular circle, environment, from that particular structure, and I do not know how to get out of it, I am caught in it totally, and the desire, the urge to break through and being incapable brings about in different ways and different circumstances this thing called despair: I lost my son, the utter loneliness, the meaninglessness of life, and from that arises the sense of not having any purpose, any meaning, any creative thing in life. And from that there is despair. And that same movement creates hope.
Now is it possible to be free of despair? Is it possible never to come upon such a thing and therefore free from both despair and hope? You are following all this? Am I making myself clear? You see thought, by which we live, unfortunately, thought is never new, is never free, and thought has created this prison, not only in the field of knowledge but also this prison of the `me' and not being able to get out of that `me'. So thought which has made the `me' the centre of the universe sees the futility of itself and is incapable of going beyond. Which is, thought wants to go beyond it, beyond the thing which it has built. Please do see this. It is thought that has made the `me', the ego, which has become the prison, with all its turmoil, anxiety, fear, jealousy and so on, and thought says, `I must go beyond it'. And it can invent, contrive, suppose, imagine, but it knows basically the falseness of it. The more sensitive, the more alive, the more it has integrity, sees the falseness of it, and therefore out of that comes despair of another kind. So thought being incapable of escaping from what it has created then begins to have hope in something which it has projected. So thought is creating all this. So to see that, not verbally, not intellectually, but to see the totality of it, then thought becomes extraordinarily quiet, it has no movement either to go beyond the `me' or to support the `me'. You understand?
Then what place has belief in life? For me, none whatsoever. Why should you have a belief about anything? Which doesn't mean that you become callous, indifferent, brutal and all the rest of it, why should you have belief, about what? Belief about my neighbour? Belief about myself? Belief in the politicians - which is the last thing you can ever have? Belief in god? Belief in your guru, that he has attained enlightenment? How do you know he has attained enlightenment? Because he has got some peculiar feeling, or atmosphere about him, therefore you accept it? So why do you want belief? Look what belief has done in the world, for god's sake. You believe in your nationality, and look what it has done: wars. You believe in some kind of legendary god, and look what it has done: the religious wars, the sectarian conflicts, this group which believes in that and fights for it, wanting you to join it. You know the game that goes on. You fill you mind with belief because it has to be active about something. Whether that activity is concerned with drugs, drink, sex, or with enquiring into new consciousness and super consciousness, it is exactly the same. If you are occupied with your kitchen or with god it is exactly the same. Because what matters is occupation, restlessness. You cannot have a mind that is completely quiet, full. There is fullness only when there is complete emptiness. You won't understand that.
So what need there be for belief? Again thought plays its part. If you had no belief, no opinion, no judgement, what would you do? If you had no mental occupation, occupied, you know, going round and round with this or that, or something else, what would happen to your mind? This occupation with belief, with non-belief, is part of the movement of thought because thought is always moving, functioning within the field of the known. And in that there is no escape, the known is the prison, and from there to enquire into the unknown is the despair. But to know exactly the function of thought and the freedom from thought so that there is complete harmony, in that there is neither despair, hope nor belief.
Q: Sir, you said that this me, it takes tremendous energy for this me to die and what it is to be aware of this whole movement of why one has to face death. Well, how do you face something if you don't know what it is, and where is this energy to come from?
K: How can you face death if you don't know anything about it. How can you face death if you don't know anything about it. Face what you know, you can't face something you don't know. Face what you know, which is the `me', the `me' with all its activities, conscious, as well as the unconscious layers, which is the `me', that you can understand, that you can face, the `me' you can totally understand by watching, observing its movement in relationship, not by yourself on a hill top but in relationship you can observe the movement of the `me', and that `me' can be known totally. And when there is a complete understanding of the `me', the self, the ego, and therefore in that facing there is the death of me. Then that is death. The dying to the `me' is death, the unknown.
Q: Could you speak about discipline and how it relates to awareness and to choice. What is discipline?
K: All right, sir. Discipline, awareness and choice. We are sharing this together therefore you are working, not just listening. What is discipline? Is it conformity to the pattern set by somebody, or you have set a pattern for yourself, or conformity to the norm of society, or of a new group, or of the old group? The word `discipline' means to learn. You understand? The word, the dictionary meaning of that word is to learn, not to conform, not to obey your gurus, but to learn. Now what is learning? Learning to acquire knowledge or learning as a movement? For most of us learning is acquisition, having capacity to function technologically in a certain field. And we confine all learning to that, having more and more experience, more and more knowledge, always within the field of the known, and knowledge is always the past. Now learning of another kind is never to acquire, never to accumulate because the moment you accumulate, that accumulation becomes the `me' and therefore it is already in the past, therefore dead. There are two things, aren't there: the learning to acquire knowledge, and learning which thought uses for its `me' so as to acquire through knowledge status. I wonder if you follow all this.
And where you are learning what is there need for conformity? I need to learn a language because I have to go to that country or I like to learn different languages, therefore I learn, accumulate. But I am learning about myself in relationship with you. If I learn in that relationship, acquire knowledge, then according to that knowledge I react in that relationship therefore that is the past. Do you understand? Therefore the `me' operates in relationship, whereas there is a constant learning in relationship there is no `me', and therefore no need to discipline.
And the next question is choice: we think because we have freewill we can choose, choice is synonymous with freewill. Now I question altogether if there is freewill and what is the necessity of choice at all. If you see something clearly there is no choice; it is the man who does not see clearly, he says, `What am I to do?' But to see clearly you can be obstinate, you say, `Yes, I have seen clearly and it is so.' That's obstinacy. Lots of people are caught in this, they join different sects because they say, `I see very clearly, it is so', but they don't enquire what is perception, what is seeing. When there is division between the see-er and that thing which he sees then in that division there is confusion, but when the observer is the observed there is no confusion. I can't go into that all.
So a mind that is very clear sees without distortion, such a mind has no choice because it sees. What is there need for choice when you see things clearly?
Then the questioner asks, what is awareness. All this is awareness. The understanding of the word `discipline', the suppression, the conformity, the imitation, with all its conflicts, struggles, pains, and the reaction to that which is, I must express myself, I must be myself - and myself is still all that from which I have escaped. See all that very clearly, and to observe the nature of choice, what is clarity, perception, all that, the total awareness of all this is complete sense of attention in which there is no choice. Right, sirs.
Ojai 3rd Public Talk 14th April 1973
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May 25, 2022
Matt Lively is creating behind-the-scenes artworks of the Richmond Symphony
The VCU alum’s ongoing project is a case of ‘artist supporting artist’ and is giving him fresh insight into the intricacies of making beautiful music.
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Artist and Virginia Commonwealth University alum Matt Lively is spending as many days as possible capturing moments from Richmond Symphony rehearsals on canvas. Each painting is completed by the time members of the symphony finish their two-hour rehearsal.
Lively started the project in March and has finished eight paintings to date — most measure 10 inches by 10 inches. He hopes to continue painting through the summer.
“Our musicians are in awe of his presence, and similarly Matt is in awe of all of the musicians,” said Amy Buhrman, assistant director of marketing and sales for the symphony. “The musicians love it. When I introduced Matt, he received applause.”
Originally, the symphony asked Lively to paint a mural, but he suggested doing something that would tie the visual arts together with the symphony, pitching the idea of painting while the symphony rehearsed.
“I thought we could share the paintings and the process with social media. People could in turn share it and talk about it,” said Lively, who graduated from the VCU School of the Arts in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in sculpture. “I’m thinking about expanding on the idea and do something like bigger studio paintings and also sculpture.”
Lively normally paints objects, landscapes and concepts, not people. So painting symphony members has been a different experience, he said.
A new perspective
He has learned a lot about symphony music since he’s been attending rehearsals.
“I always thought of the conductor as waving a magic wand, but I have found it’s a collaborative process,” he said. “I’m amazed that the conductor could know which of the seven cellos was off based on the speed or sound of the wood. The more I sat in on rehearsals, the more I could hear some of that. I’m also starting to learn some of the language, how they refer to notes and instruments. It’s like learning a new language. When you are exposed to it, you pick up on it little by little.”
Watching rehearsals and seeing the musicians in street clothes rather than their usual black-and-white stage attire has given Lively a different insight, he said.
“This is the first time I have seen them as real people, people you could see out cutting the grass, be your neighbor,” he said. “I’ve also seen the work that goes into rehearsals and how important that is.”
Lively plans to have a show in October and auction off the originals from his painting project to raise money for the Richmond Symphony.
“Matt wants to donate part of the proceeds back to us,” Buhrman said. “What I love about this relationship is the fact that artists really suffered during COVID and this project is artist supporting artist without any clamoring to get to the top of that relationship.”
From ‘Star Wars’ to saving the environment
Lively was 7 years old when he knew he wanted to be an artist. He made the decision after seeing “Star Wars” in the theater and not being able to figure out the intricacies of art and moviemaking.
“I started drawing a lot because I was thinking about that visual (manmade) stuff. In the beginning, I started drawing things from the movie that I could remember. My mom would get me books on moviemaking and art, some written by artists Frank Frazetta and Francis Bacon. Both artists still have an influence on me.”
Lively discovered that moviemaking included painted backdrops, which were similar to matte paintings.
“I thought that would be a way into moviemaking. So I decided to get good at painting,” he said.
“The more I was painting and making things, the more opportunities I found.”
Lively continued with art through his years at Midlothian High School in Chesterfield County.
“My high school art teacher, Buddy Terrell, was an enormous influence. If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have been able to get into VCU,” Lively said. “I went to VCU because of the art school. It was the only place I wanted to go.”
Lively wanted to learn more about sculpture, especially the tools involved in the art form.
“All of my teachers at VCU were mentors to me, especially retired emeriti School of the Arts faculty Elizabeth King and Lester Van Winkle. I still talk to both of them,” he said. “Being in the sculpture department opened up so many options for me in ways of thinking and materials. I learned about two-dimensional and three-dimensional art as well as digital art.”
When Richmond-based sculpture artist Paul DiPasquale talked at one of Lively’s classes, it was a turning point, Lively said.
“I learned how to make a living as a sculptor. Before, I didn’t understand how I could get out of school and start doing gigantic sculptures. He offered clues and tricks of the trade to accomplish that,” Lively said. “I got out of school and started making a living as an artist right off the bat.”
One of his recent and most unique sculptures was a galvanized rain harvesting system for Binford Middle School in Richmond. Rainwater falls from the roof through a gutter into troughs resembling white clouds. The rainwater then falls through the clouds down onto a plant area. Previously, the water fell from the roof and sprayed onto the sidewalk and into a gutter.
“I did this sculpture with the Alliance for the [Chesapeake] Bay and Tim Harper. It got a reputation not only for the art but also because it was helping our environment. It decreased the amount of pollution going into the rivers by a measurable amount,” he said. “I liked it because it incorporates everything I do and what I wanted to do. From the road, you see facades of clouds. It makes me think of my original idea of painting backdrops for movies.”
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A Helicopter has given a much needed lift to work on a key section of one of Wales’ most popular paths.
Contractors working for the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley AONB have been busy repairing a key section of the Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail as it crosses Ruabon Moor.
As part of the project, over 250 tonnes of reclaimed stone flags were airlifted onto the moor.
A helicopter was used to lift in materials to this remote site as an alternative to vehicles, which would have had far more damaging impact upon the fragile habitats found at the moor.
Making Trax, specialist contractors with over 30 years of experience in undertaking high quality access works in remote, sensitive areas undertook the improvement works.
The AONB managed to secure funding for the work through Natural Resources Wales who oversee the management of the Welsh National Trails.
Small sections of the Trail have been upgraded each year since 2016, but with this additional funding over 850 metres of path has been resurfaced to complete the 1.4km of path across the moor.
Rhun Jones, a Countryside Ranger based in the Dee Valley, said: “In the early 1990’s, reclaimed railway sleepers were installed here to provide users with safe passage over this sensitive habitat. Being a remote Welsh moorland at around 1500 feet, the area gets plenty of rain. This, coupled with the peaty, boggy ground, made navigating the Trail quite a task.
“The sleepers which currently make up the majority of this section of the National Trail, have started to rot and have passed their sell-by date. By replacing them with stone flags, we will lay down a more sustainable and natural walking surface, which will benefit users of the Offa’s Dyke National Path for years to come.”
Cllr Tony Thomas, Lead Member for Housing and Communities and the Chair of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley AONB Joint Committee, added: “This is a fantastic project that will significantly benefit users of the Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail as it crosses this important moorland which is internationally renowned for its wildlife. It is home to over 70 percent of the Welsh Black grouse population and species such as curlew and red grouse thrive here too.
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By now many have heard of the scandal surrounding Cambodian humanitarian Somaly Mam and her self-named anti-sex-trafficking foundation. The story of degradation and then triumph that catapulted her to public attention has been found to have gaping holes in it after a Newsweek exposé came to light. On top of inventing her harrowing past of being sold into a brothel, she allegedly pushed young girls in her organization to spin similar tales. Mam has quietly stepped down as leader of the Somaly Mam Foundation and her journalistic crusader, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, is now saying he wished he had never written about her.
There is shared complicity here, among Mam, Kristof, others in the media and consumers of these heroic narratives. Mam was showered with countless accolades, from Time‘s 100 Most Influential People to CNN’s Heroes to Glamour‘s Women of the Year Award. No one fact-checked.
Mam, obviously quite a beautiful woman, filled a need for an important movement to have a face. But the problem with having one person be the face comes when that face is disgraced, casting a pall on the movement itself.
Mam may not have experienced a lot of the things she said she did, but many women in the world are caught in the pain of sex trafficking. One woman’s fallibility should not overshadow these truths:
- More than 80 percent of trafficking victims are women and girls.
- Fifty percent of trafficking victims are under the age of 18.
- Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative criminal endeavors, second only to drug trafficking and arms dealing.
- Eighty percent of trafficking involves sexual exploitation and 19 percent usually involves forced labor.
- Nearly 70 percent of female trafficking victims develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Though different organizations have different statistics, the U.S. government estimates that approximately 1,500,000 women are trafficked each year.
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Discrete-event process simulation now has a long and distinguished history of supporting the improvement of manufacturing processes. From those origins, it has expanded its applicability to supply chains, service industries, health care, and public transport. In manufacturing contexts, simulation modeling and analysis regularly helps fine-tune the trade-off between high inventory versus danger of stockout, improve and balance machine utilization, schedule workers more effectively, and improve performance metrics such as average and maximum times in queue and average and maximum length of queues. In the present work, the authors describe a successful application of simulation to the manufacture of footwear. The original manufacturing process was beset by problems including low throughput, high headcount, overly high or low machine utilization, unduly large rejection rates, and ergonomic concerns.
The simulation and analysis project described in this paper guided significant improvements, including doubling the output while reducing worker headcount to two-thirds of its initial value.
discrete-event process simulation, footwear manufacture, resource utilization, queueing system performance metrics
Historically, discrete-event process simulation was first and very extensively used to improve manufacturing operations; indeed, examples in the literature are numerous. A comprehensive review of progress and challenges in manufacturing simulation appears in (Mourtzis, Doukas, and Bernidaki 2014). There are many potential ways to improve a generic manufacturing operation; e.g., lower inventory while keeping stockouts very rare, improve queue performance metrics (especially average and maximum time in queues, and average and maximum length of queues), keep utilization of expensive equipment high while improving those queue performance metrics, use headcount more efficiently and less extravagantly, and increase throughput. Examples of such simulations abound; for example, (Mirzapourrezaei et al. 2011) applied simulation to improve an assembly process for manufacture of starters.
In the present work, simulation analysis was applied to a manufacturing plant in India which makes shoes. The global footwear market is, according to Allied Market Research, expected to garner $371.8B by 2020. This market is lively, expanding, and volatile, and includes both primary and secondary marketplaces (Weinswig 2016). Footwear manufacture has expanded globally; already prominent in the United States and China, it is rapidly entering India. In this paper, we present a successful simulation study of a shoe manufacturing plant in India. The factory management, already confronting the need to significantly increase production, and having accepted the necessity of payroll and equipment investments to do so, wanted guidance on the best way to proceed in this endeavor. This study has precedents: (Solomon, Jilcha, and Berhan 2014) used simulation to improve lead time prediction at a shoe manufacturer in Ethiopia; (Eryilmaz et al. 2012) analyzed production processes in a shoe manufacturing factory using simulation. The management of this plant presented significant concerns including relatively low throughput relative to high labor headcount, unbalanced utilization of equipment, long queues and waiting times therein, ergonomic concerns, and low throughput.
In the following sections, we (1) present an overview of the shoe-manufacturing operations, (2) describe the collection and analysis of input data, (3) discuss the building, verification, and validation of the simulation model, (4) highlight key results from this model obtained by output analysis, and (5) present conclusions, recommendations to the manufacturing plant’s management, and the directions in which likely future work may proceed.
2. OVERVIEW OF SHOE MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS
The overall process of manufacturing shoes comprises the following high-level steps:
- Procurement of raw materials
- Cutting materials into shapes specified by design
- Assembly of parts
- Quality verification
- Repair/rework or scrap as necessary 8. Packaging and shipping
Repair work may result in scrapping the shoe or selling it at a loss (“seconds”). In this model, manufacture of shoes in the four most common sizes (seven, eight, nine, and ten inches) is considered. Fundamentally, a shoe has four basic components, as shown in Figure 1 below:
Figure 1: Basic Components of a Shoe
As configured at the beginning of this simulation study, the manufacturing facility comprises 93 workers and 88 worker-run (e.g., manual or semi-automatic, not automatic) machines. Open nine hours per day (9:00am to 6:00pm), the plant produces approximately 225 pairs of shoes daily. Informal industry norms indicate a plant of this size and capitalization investment “ought” to produce approximately 350 pairs of shoes per day. Additionally, manual transfer of shoes from one task to the next is currently giving rise to ergonomic concerns – in particular, cervicobrachial (relating to the neck and arm) disorders, especially on the left side of the body; the importance and etiology of such disorders is documented in (Sällström and Schmidt 1984). Accordingly, the plant management wished to evaluate the feasibility of conveyors to move the shoes.
3. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Various essential input data was willingly and promptly provided to the analysts by plant supervisors and managers in Vellore, India. Arrival rates were 200 per hour during all but the fourth, eighth, and ninth hours of a standard nine-hour shift, with scheduled working time (i.e., less breaks and lunch) of eight hours. Average machine cycle times were provided as shown in Table 1 immediately below, all gathered from raw data.
After consultation with plant managers, the following assumptions were agreed to:
- No maintenance is performed during the production period (it is done as necessary off-shift, e.g. at night)
- At the start of a day’s production, sufficient raw material for the day is always available
- No power interruptions occur
- Downtimes at the cutting machines occur approximately monthly and take several hours to repair
- Transportation time is not included in machine cycle time, and is small relative thereto (the longest transport distance in the plant being only ten meters)
- All workers are assumed equally skilled, and hence produce the same quantity and quality in equal time
- 2% of production is unsatisfactory and hence sent to repair; of the production sent there, 90% can be repaired and sold as “seconds;” the remaining 10% must be scrappe
Raw data was examined with the Stat::Fit® software (Benneyan 1998). After doing so, and with the precaution of showing plant managers and supervisors the characteristic histogram of distributions, arrivals were modeled as exponential, whereas machine cycle times were modeled as uniform or triangular distributions. As often occurs in practical simulation work, the value added by using distribution-fitting software was not so much advice on the best distribution to use (if indeed there existed a single “best” distribution), but rather cautionary advice on conspicuously inappropriate distributions to avoid (in these cases, the normal, gamma, and lognormal distributions).
4. MODEL DEVELOPMENT, VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION
The very first model built was entirely conceptual – a flow chart of all paths taken from raw material to completed product: “Now, let put this shoe on your foot, and we’ll see if it fits.” Drawing and revising this model ensured that the analysts’ understanding of the process flows exactly matched the expert knowledge of the plant managers and supervisors. Members of the project team then concurred in the choice of the Simio® software [SIMulation with Intelligent Objects] (Prochaska and Thiesing 2017), (Smith, Sturrock, and Kelton 2018) to construct a model of the salon’s operations. Simio® provides constructs such as the Server (to model, for example, the cutting machines for the uppers, middle soles, and “outsoles”), the Worker (design checkers and quality checkers), a Combiner (e.g., gathering and sewing matched components together, and Conveyors (all but one proposed conveyor is to be non- accumulating). These Simio® constructs were used to model the key steps outlined in Table 1:
- Cutting: the raw materials are cut into both left and right shoes in various sizes. Since the different parts of a shoe are made of different materials, the model considers three different procurement centers for cutting each shoe component.
- Sewing: The cut components are sent to the assembly section of the manufacturing unit for further processing – all sewing is performed in this phase for all shoe sizes, and for both left and right shoes.
- Assembly: Unites all parts of the shoe.
- Inspection: A quality-checking worker examines each shoe for defects.
- Repair: Low-quality shoes may be sent to rework, if repairable, will be sent to rework. There, they will be repaired for sale at a discounted price. Shoes which cannot feasibly be repaired are scrapped (c.f. assumption 7 above).
The first iteration of the Simio® model deliberately contained only the Simio® default values for parameters such as interarrival times and cycle times. Only after verification of correct entity flow in the animation were the values obtained from data collection and analysis (previous section) inserted. A partial two-dimensional screen shot of this model, as completed, is shown in Figure 2, Appendix. From this screen, a three- dimensional animation is only two clicks away. Verification and validation of the model used the following traditional and time-tested techniques (Sturrock 2018):
- Structured walkthroughs among the analyst team
- Sending one entity (arriving raw material) through the model and tracking, on a time line, every step taken by that entity
- Temporary removal of all stochastic variation of the model, followed by arithmetic checks using Microsoft Excel®
- Ensuring that every routing path placed in the model has non-zero traffic
- Directional variation (e.g., do queue lengths and waiting times increase when the cycle time of a machine is increased — do they decrease when the capacity of a machine is increased?)
The usual errors were detected and corrected. Indeed, one error resulted in “pairs” of shoes comprising two left shoes or two right shoes! Another error, a routing logic error, was exposed by noticing that one of the routes in the model was never used. After correcting these errors was completed, comparison of model results, pertaining to the current system, with data actually observed during production yielded agreement of performance metrics within 4%, helping the model achieve credibility with the plant management.
5. EXPERIMENTATION AND RESULTS
In keeping with actual policy at the manufacturing plant (production started anew daily), the model was run as a terminating system, hence zero warm-up time. Each replication represented one day’s production. Since the facility typically works 25 days per calendar month, and after ensuring that 25 replications yielded sufficiently narrow confidence intervals for performance metrics, the three experimental scenarios were each run for 25 replications. The variance reduction technique (VRT) of common random numbers (CRNs) was used (Nakayama 2003). Simio® conveniently accommodates this technique by allowing the specification of different random number streams for interarrival times, cycle times, times to next failure, and repair times, as was done in this model. Confidence levels for estimation of performance metrics were taken at 95%, and similarly for the confidence level of testing the null hypothesis of equal performance of any two scenarios. Each of these scenarios substituted short conveyors for currently manual transfers. Since management was proposing adding machines as well as workers, the key scenarios addressing one of the major investment decisions to be taken were listed as follows in Table 2:
The “moderate” scenario proved the best in this simulation experiment, relative to the performance metrics of machine utilizations, average time in system of a shoe, and most importantly, shoes output per day. The parameters and performance of the current system versus the scenario of moderate investment showed, as summarized in Table 3 immediately below:
These results were summarized into direct answers of management’s initial questions as follows:
Question: Should an investment be made in an automatic cutting machine?
- Answer: Yes; this investment will permit the reduction of workers needed in the cutting line from 18 to 3, as shown in Table 3 above.
Question: Does throughput increase?
- Answer: Yes, even with fewer workers, it more than doubles, as shown in Table 3 above.
Question: Does the increased throughput from the cutting section affect other sections?
- Answer: Yes, more workers will be needed in both the assembly and the sewing sections; these workers can be redeployed from the cutting line workers no longer needed.
Question: With fewer quality checkers, can quality be maintained?
- Answer: Yes, because the automated cutting machine will greatly reduce the error rate. However, it is acknowledged that the utilization of the three remaining quality checker will increase – expected to be a plus since inspection workers with too little to do may become bored and complacent – then miss defects (Ramzan, et al 2019)
Management, being highly pleased with and reassured by these results, is now beginning the implementation of machine investments and addition of labor, with conversion of manual transfer to conveyors to follow shortly and largely concurrently.
6. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
Given the promising results of this simulation analysis, ideas for follow-up work are already being considered. These ideas include refinement of the conveyor specifications (lengths, speeds, capacities, and non- accumulating versus accumulating), expansion of the model to accommodate changes in demand mix (for example, one size may be more in demand than another), and adding analysis of different worker skill levels (hence payroll costs, pieces produced per hour, and reject rates).
The authors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and assistance of the manufacturing plant manager and workers in providing data, explaining details of the plant’s processes and operation, and specifying the performance metrics of primary concern. Additionally, suggestions and criticisms from two anonymous referees have provided us significant help in improving this paper.
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Mohan Mano Hassan is a graduate student in Business Analytics enrolled with the college of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He completed a dual degree program at VIT University while earning his MBA. He has gained extensive experience in data analytics and data visualization while doing his Capstone Experience Project and Internship in Italy. He has undertaken projects studying the Flint (Michigan) water crisis, a market research project which enhanced his experience on various tools and technology. He has been awarded “Student of the Year” for his technical skills, leadership skills and helping the society. He helped small-scale and medium-scale companies reduce losses and increase profit with his Data Analysis and Management skills. He also earned a Merit award for his managerial skills while earning his MBA. His mail address is [email protected]
Sai Priyanka Kalamraju is a graduate student in Business Analytics enrolled with the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Prior to this, she studied Information Technology engineering as her first graduate degree program at Osmania University, India and pursued an MBA in Marketing from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, India. She has extensive experience in data analytics and data visualization with a keen eye for improving processes for companies large and small. She is a Research Assistant with the iLabs, a center for innovative research at the University of Michigan- Dearborn, where she uses data analysis to advise clients on real-time data. She has also had the opportunity of working with some of India’s top companies, including Infosys and Kony Laboratories. At Kony Laboratories, she was instrumental in the automation process of weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly reporting and helped in deriving metrics, KPIs regarding the profitability of the performance of the services. Due to her excellence in work, she also received the Spot award from the Executive Vice President and the Gem Team Award from Vice President in Kony Laboratories. She is a student member of the Indian Graduate Student Association (IGSA), Student Representative for the Winter Orientation program, and has worked with non- profit organizations like Make a Difference, Shelter Homes, Children’s Education, Plant 3 Protection Alliance on the plantation, environmental awareness, and Let’s Vote on Voting awareness. She was also the recipient of the Non-Resident Graduate Tuition Differential Scholarship (NRTD) for Fall 2018. Her email address is [email protected]
Venkata Sandeep Dangeti is a graduate student in Business Analytics enrolled with the college of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He came through a dual degree program; the first degree is MBA from VIT University in India and he is currently pursuing a second degree. Prior to that he founded a cashback website in India, where he got start-up exposure and practical experience, and where he diversified his entrepreneurial skills, managerial skills, technical skills, and leadership skills. He also worked in a multinational company (Tata Consultancy Services) where he learned how to work in a fast-paced environment. He worked with various tools and technology which made him learn quickly in any given situation. He consistently was in touch with stakeholders to improve and enhance software. He was awarded for a value-added service which saved the company considerable time and money. Apart from having professional experience in simulation, analytics and development, he also has Business Administration skills. He prepared many business plans for start-ups where he forecasted revenue, sales, demand and analyzed market trends. As a part of academic trips, he visited various industries in India and observed how small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale industries perform. He collaborated with many professionals and his friends in wide variety of projects. His email address is [email protected]
Sirisha Pudipeddi is a graduate student pursuing her Master’s in Science with a major in Business Analytics. With a computer science and engineering background, she has founded two start-ups in India. Her forte is in delivering business solutions with the right blend of information systems. She received the “Edex 40 under 40” award from The New Indian Express from the Information Technology Minister of the state of Telangana, India. She volunteers for a student organization named She’s the First to help raise awareness and funds for educating girls in developing nations. Sirisha has an avid interest in the field of Analytics and Project Management and is interning at the Global Product Development Center – Ford Motor Company, Dearborn. Her email address is [email protected]
Edward J. Williams holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics (Michigan State University, 1967; University of Wisconsin, 1968). From 1969 to 1971, he did statistical programming and analysis of biomedical data at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C. He joined Ford Motor Company in 1972, where he worked until retirement in December 2001 as a computer software analyst supporting statistical and simulation software. After retirement from Ford, he joined PMC, Dearborn, Michigan, as a senior simulation analyst. Also, since 1980, he has taught classes at the University of Michigan, including both undergraduate and graduate simulation classes using GPSS/H, SLAM II, SIMAN, ProModel, SIMUL8, or Arena®. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers [IIE], the Society for Computer Simulation International [SCS], and the Michigan Simulation Users Group [MSUG]. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Industrial Engineering – Applications and Practice. During the last several years, he has given invited plenary addresses on simulation and statistics at conferences in Monterrey, México; İstanbul, Turkey; Genova, Italy; Rīga, Latvia; and Jyväskylä, Finland. He served as a co-editor of Proceedings of the International Workshop on Harbour, Maritime and Multimodal Logistics Modelling & Simulation 2003, a conference held in Rīga, Latvia. Likewise, he served the Summer Computer Simulation Conferences of 2004, 2005, and 2006 as Proceedings co- editor. He was the Simulation Applications track coordinator for the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference. A paper he co-authored with three of his simulation students won “best paper in track” award at the FifthInternational Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in March 2015. His email addresses are [email protected] and [email protected] | <urn:uuid:9cb33e7b-1733-444d-adb0-783bdc63ca55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pmcorp.com/white-papers/simulation-improves-efficiency-and-quality-in-shoe-manufacturing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934551 | 4,978 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Those who take their own health particularly seriously should cook for themselves regularly. Many people often think that cooking for oneself takes up a lot of time. So that in the end one prefers to get something quick on one’s hands. Especially for self-employed or full-time workers, cooking for themselves is usually less of a possibility. But there are a few reasons why you should cook your own meals regularly!
Cook for yourself and live longer
Researchers from Australia even found out that there is a connection between cooking by yourself and living longer. This connection refers above all to the fact that people who cook for themselves tend to eat healthier. In addition, cooked meals can be enjoyed in connection with family and friends. So that the togetherness is additionally promoted and one perceives the food more consciously. It can also have a positive effect on the mind if you cook a dish for your partner, family or generally for other people and enjoy it together.
Regularly try out new recipes
It is particularly healthy to eat a variety of foods. Especially when you have a lot to do, you should pay attention to your own self-efficacy. This also includes eating healthy food regularly. Trying out new recipes also promotes your creativity.
So trying out new recipes has quite a few advantages. For example, you can also try your hand at culinary or oriental cuisine.
It is particularly healthy to use a variety of spices. You can now also Gewürze kaufen online. This saves you time.
Spices, for example, can have an invigorating effect on your body. It is therefore worth integrating them into your diet.
Using healthy food
In addition, it is particularly worthwhile to cook a lot with vegetables and healthy long-chain carbohydrates. Potatoes, rice, wholemeal pasta and wholemeal bread are just some of the ingredients. So that these are not always prepared in the same way, you can look for inspiration in the oriental cuisine. Here the rice is usually served additionally with getrocknete Früchte. Also with Trockenobst it offers itself to buy this online.
Do you eat vegetarian? Then nuts provide the extra crunch for your side dish. Buying Nüsse onlineshop makes the most sense here. Because you save money and can even often get them in organic quality. For example, try a delicious peanut curry and top it off with delicious roasted peanuts.
For the variety of food it is worth taking a look to the left and right. What, for example, does Chinese cuisine use? What does traditional Persian/oriental cuisine use? What dishes does Greek cuisine offer?
Be inspired regularly and bring variety into your diet. For example, you also have the possibility to use more arabische Lebensmittel. Here too, special Gewürze are increasingly used, which give the dish a very special note. Furthermore you can get türkische Lebensmittel online. Because also the Turkish kitchen has your charm.
The self cooking has thus many positive characteristics like:
- Connection of health and pleasure
- Self-determination with more quality
- Sustainable food
- Cooking yourself saves money
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The House passed a bill Tuesday requiring carbon monoxide detectors in public housing, after more than a dozen tenants died from the gas in the last 16 years.
“It will prevent tragic and completely needless deaths,” said Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, D-Ill., the lead sponsor of the bill, which provides about $300 million over three years to install carbon monoxide detectors in federally subsidized housing for poor families.
"This is a bill that will save lives and help make us all safer,” Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, said.
A similar proposal has been introduced in the Senate.
The bill follows an NBC News investigation that exposed the lack of protections for millions of low-income families living in federally subsidized housing. Since 2003, at least 13 public housing residents have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, with four deaths this year alone, NBC News found. The gas is odorless, colorless and tasteless, so public health experts strongly recommend installing detectors to protect residents.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, however, does not require detectors in federally subsidized properties that it supervises for more than 4.6 million poor families, despite its mandate to ensure that all public housing is “decent, safe and sanitary.”
"It is unconscionable that the very people our government seeks to provide shelter for are dying in their homes," García said Tuesday on the House floor.
Following NBC News' reporting, HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced that the agency would propose a new rule to require CO detectors. But the rule-making process is time-consuming, and the department said it would be able to act more quickly if Congress passed a law requiring detectors. The bill also requires detectors in rural rental properties overseen by the Department of Agriculture.
The House bill has attracted support from industry groups that initially raised concerns about the cost of installing new detectors. The proposal takes a "thoughtful and evenhanded approach" to tackle preventable deaths, said Tess Hembree, director of congressional relations for the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, which represents public housing officials.
Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., have introduced a similar, bipartisan proposal in the Senate to require detectors. That has yet to advance, though aides said they were hopeful it would move forward soon. Scott, who worked closely with HUD staff on the bill, called the legislation “a top priority to ensure the safety of all families moving forward” in a statement on Tuesday.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who introduced an earlier bill requiring detectors, called on the Senate to act quickly. "Right now, too many vulnerable families across the country are living without carbon monoxide detectors in their homes, needlessly putting lives at risk," Harris said in a statement.
HUD has also been supportive of the legislative effort in Congress. "As the secretary has said many times, any death is one too many," a HUD spokesperson said in a statement. "We’ve got to get this done.” | <urn:uuid:bed5e1e3-7e91-4f48-b611-64cbe89957c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-300-million-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-detectors-public-n1051461?cid=par-aff-nbc-knbc_20190910 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964346 | 650 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Bathroom Electricity Safety First, Hurry To See
Bathroom Business School
In recent years, the bathroom bath electric shock accidents occur repeatedly. According to statistics, the number of casualties caused by electrocution accidents in bathrooms in China is no less than 1000 per year, which has given us a wake-up call. Bathroom electric shock safety accidents occur frequently, tragedy after tragedy staged, the basic reason is due to the lack of installation of equipotential devices. What is equipotential? Come with the editor today to understand.
Must be indispensable bathroom equipotential details
According to the survey, nearly 90% of households are not clear about the concept of equipotential, not to mention the importance of installing equipotential devices in the bathroom. In order to prevent problems before they occur, we need to take the initiative to learn why to install the bathroom equipotential device.
First, residential bathroom should be equipped with equipotential
According to the latest “Residential Design Code”, residential bathrooms should be equipotential linkage. However, the actual survey shows that 70% of the owners do not install equipotential devices at home. Despite the regulations, the market penetration rate of equipotential connection protection is very low, and many owners do not even know the concept of equipotential.
Second, the concept of safety bathroom equipotential
As the name suggests, equipotential is the potential is equal, if the potential is not equal, there is a potential difference that voltage, coupled with the bathroom humid environment, people can be very electrical equipment and exposed metal electric shock. Therefore, the bathroom electrical devices, metal objects and conductive parts of all conductors linked together to reduce the potential difference to eliminate harm, which is the role of the bathroom installation equipotential.
Third, equipotential can defend against lightning induction
Thunderstorm, the building suffered a lightning strike. All metal objects in the building will generate induction electricity, especially the bathroom downpipes, heating pipes. If you take a shower in the bathroom at this time, you will be struck by induction electricity if you touch a metal object. If there is equipotential, the probability of suffering an induction attack will be greatly reduced.
Fourth, equipotential needs to be installed by the owner
Equipotential devices are usually reserved by the developer, but the need for professional master installation, including ancillary facilities may need to be purchased separately by the owner. In the electrical equipment generally into the bathroom today, the installation of equipotential is a guarantee of life safety. New homeowners should take the initiative to consult with professional decorators.
Avoid misconceptions Common misconceptions of bathroom equipotential
The installation of equipotential construction is more professional and requires an experienced electrician to be in charge. If owners have prior knowledge of the relevant knowledge, they can minimize construction misconceptions and reduce the threat to home security.
Misconception 1: Any bathroom does not need to do local equipotential linkage
Many people believe that the bathroom electrical appliances have been grounded through the PE line, and leakage protector protection, so metal appliances do not need to do local equipotential linkage.
Solution: Local equipotential connection and leakage protector are two different safety protection measures, can not replace each other. The role of equipotential is to ensure that a potential is basically equal, so as not to produce a large voltage injury to the human body. And the role of the ground is to ensure that the resistance between the leakage part and the earth is relatively small, thus ensuring that the current flowing through the human body is small. One is to ensure that the voltage is smaller, one is to ensure that the current is smaller.
Misconception 2: As long as the bathroom will have to do local equipotential
The human body impedance will be lowered when bathing, in the bathroom is particularly easy to electrocution. If the bathroom is installed with an electric water heater, or configured with a number of electrical equipment, the bathroom must do local equipotential linkage. And for some traditional neither electric water heater, and no additional electrical appliances in the bathroom, according to the situation can decide whether to do local equipotential.
Misconception 3: Local equipotential can lead to electric shock accidents
Local equipotential will bring the external high voltage into the room, resulting in electric shock accidents. It is better to introduce the potential from the grounding line to the grounding device to be safe.
Solution: As long as the potential is equal and no potential difference is generated, no electric shock accident will occur and there is no need to introduce potential into the grounding device. Local equipotential requirements in the local area of contact resistance is not greater than 3Ω, as long as the bathroom penetration into an equipotential body. Even if there is a high voltage outside, people in the bathroom can not touch the external high voltage conductor, it is also safe.
Misconception 4: with other measuring instruments instead of equipotential tester
Because there are fewer equipotential testers on the market, measurement work often encountered with grounding resistance meter, multimeter, etc. instead.
Solution: It is wrong to use measuring instruments other than the special tester for equipotential. Although an insulation resistance tester can test its conductivity, it cannot measure the resistance of an equipotential below 3Ω. The measurement current of multimeter is usually small and does not meet the national requirement of testing current not less than 0.2A. In order to prevent safety hazards, a special tester must be used for testing or voltammetric measurement.
Pay attention to the details of equipotential construction and acceptance specifications
Understanding the importance of the bathroom equipotential and some misconceptions about equipotential, let’s take a look at the construction of the bathroom equipotential installation considerations.
First, bathroom equipotential construction requirements
Bathroom local equipotential linkage, must be metal drainage pipes, metal bath, metal heating pipes and ground reinforcement network through the circuit connected to the equipotential terminal block. When the wall is a concrete wall, the reinforcement network in the wall should also be connected to the equipotential connection line. Metal floor drains, handrails, towel racks, soap boxes and other isolated things can be made according to the situation whether to do equipotential.
Second, equipotential terminal box installation location
Equipotential terminal box installed in the bathroom interior, generally buried in the tile can be, the circuit in the wall underground laying wire must use plastic pipe for protection. If the bathroom to pick up the transformation to move the inner wall, the equipotential also need to be re-modeled.
Third, pay attention to whether the bathroom has PE lines
Note that if the original bathroom does not have PE lines, local equipotential linkage shall not be connected to the PE lines outside the bathroom. Because the PE line may be due to the fault elsewhere and the electric potential, but can introduce the potential elsewhere. On the contrary, if there is a PE line in the bathroom, the local equipotential connection in the bathroom must be connected to the PE line.
Fourth, local equipotential construction acceptance
If the resistance between the terminal board and the metal conductor within the equipotential connection is not greater than 3 ohms, the equipotential connection can be considered effective. If poor conduction is found, jumper cables should be made. In the whole bathroom construction process, should always ensure that the equipotential conduction. | <urn:uuid:7cdd53e4-c516-41d4-8b66-c1f0728f8c88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vigafaucet.com/bathroom-electricity-safety-first-hurry-to-see/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.848511 | 1,573 | 2.234375 | 2 |
All Power to the People, an exhibit celebrating the legacy of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, is on display at Carter G. Woodson Regional Library in the Harsh Research Collection gallery.
This exhibit documents the leaders within the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, their survival programs and Chicago partnerships, and examines how the organization was viewed by both the black and white press. While the exhibit briefly discusses the National Black Panther Party, its goal is to bring a greater visibility to the work of the local Illinois chapter.
The exhibit features archival materials from the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature and items on loan from individual members of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Many of these items have never before been available for public viewing. The exhibit includes a combination of photographs, newspapers, flyers, manuscripts, articles and artifacts.
Activism & Outreach: 50 Years of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party: 1 p.m. Saturday, February 16, 2019 at Woodson Regional Library. Join us for the exhibit's opening program, reception and tour.
50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton and Mark Clark: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at Woodson Regional Library. Hear from attorneys Jeffrey Haas and Flint Taylor, who represented the families of Hampton and Clark in the marathon civil rights case that followed their deaths in a 1969 police raid on a Panther residence on Chicago’s West Side.
All Power to the People: Exhibit Closing Ceremony: 2 p.m. Saturday, December 21, 2019 at Woodson Regional Library. This discussion and celebration of the history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party features former members as well as the archivists who curated the exhibit. | <urn:uuid:1603c7af-cc1b-47da-9c5b-c0b4884e1290> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chipublib.org/news/all-power-to-the-people-exhibit-at-woodson-regional-library/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.940968 | 367 | 1.898438 | 2 |
In only a few decades the business environment has changed in an extraordinary way. Only four decades ago businesses were basically doing business in almost the same way that things have been done for centuries. All of this has changed with the advent of the Internet, and everything associated with it. This was followed by social media and other communication advances which has forever changed the way in which business is conducted. Muay Thai is widely recognized as one of the most unique forms of martial arts. By now the weight loss and fitness benefits of this sport has become legendary. There are at least 200 Muay Thai training camps in Thailand alone with many more scattered all across the planet. And it is precisely because of Internet and other online technology such as business websites that an increasing number of people are now becoming aware of the unique attributes of Muay Thai. It is undeniable that digital marketing is one of the most effective strategies available to any business today. When it is used properly and correctly it has the ability to successfully distinguish any business from among the competition.
Functioning in the digital environment
With the currently available digital technologies there is a variety of ways in which a business can more effectively market and advertise their business and in this way become significantly more visible to the customer in the target audience. One of the most popular marketing and advertising strategies available today is without a doubt SEO marketing. When you are using keywords which is closely related to what you are doing in your business then this can help a business to successfully attract millions of people to the business website. As far as Muay Thai advertising is concerned keywords such as Muay Thai training camps, fitness, weight loss, art of eight limbs, high intensity works out, optimal health and many other Muay Thai unique keywords can be used to more effectively market that business. These keywords should be included in all of the content which is uploaded to the business website. This can really help to make a world of difference as far as the visibility of that business is concerned. SEO will help to ensure that as many people as possible become aware of your business.
Stick to the basics, keep it simple
The downfall of many businesses occurs because business owners wanted to do too much too soon which involves the unnecessary spending of large amounts of money in particular financial funds which was critical in order to carry the business through the startup process. This is why it is so important to do extensive research and to look at cost effective ways in which to market the new business and to ensure that spending is a restricted as much as possible until the business have reached stability. One of the best ways in which to accomplish this is to make use of SEO strategies. This is because SEO marketing is not only simple to incorporate but surprisingly it is also completely free and yet when used effectively it can really boost the visibility of your business and help to distinguish your business from among the competition. Then many Muay Thai camps such as www.suwit-gym.com use digital technology in today. Muay Thai camp is in Thailand, but the customer is from the worlds. | <urn:uuid:2d9adb75-3c96-4a99-ae0b-2aedbe58d9e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tecnosegura.net/thailand-and-muay-thai-with-highly-effective-digital-technology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.980236 | 613 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Studies show that 75% of all medication errors are due to distraction.1 And understandably so: healthcare workers are pulled in every direction from the minute they walk in the door. When juggling multiple patients, it can become challenging to keep track of prescription changes, distinguish between similar-sounding drug names, sort medications that look the same, and dispense the right doses to the right patient, all while staying on top of other administrative work.
So, how can we reduce error rates in hospitals when times get stressful?2 These medication dispensing machines in hospitals can help minimize medication errors and their associated costs.3
Types of medication dispensing machines in hospitals and care facilities
Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADC)
An ADC is a computerized medical filing cabinet that stores and dispenses medications. ADCs are commonly used in hospitals to control and monitor drug distribution.3 In cases of high-risk medications, hospitals can restrict access to specific cabinets or drawers through pass codes, biometric scans, physical lock-and-key mechanisms, and other security features.
- Pills are organized in compartments and ADCs can track which compartments each user accesses.
- Compared to traditional filing cabinets, ADCs offer more security features, such as password protection or biometric scans to access stored medications.
- All medications stored and dispensed in ADCs are logged in a centralized database.
- Some ADCs can alert pharmacies about medications that are low-in-stock or require them to review meds before nurses can administer them, helping to reduce medication errors.3,4,5
- ADCs’ security features are very beneficial to help control the distribution of narcotics and other controlled substances.
- ADCs are easy to use and have proven to be effective in reducing medication administration errors.4
- ADCs can make workflows more inefficient for nurses and emergency room staff, as they may need to run back and forth to retrieve various patients’ meds. When all patients’ meds are being stored in one ADC, hospital staff may also find themselves waiting in line to get the meds they need.
- ADCs require customization based on each facility’s requirements, requiring significant setup and maintenance time.
- ADCs can take up valuable floor space, which can potentially be cumbersome for smaller facilities.
- Because they are used for multiple patients’ meds, ADCs cannot be personalized for each patient’s needs or collect patient-specific data on medication administration errors.
- ADCs can lead to omission errors when there is insufficient stock due to miscommunication between providers and pharmacies.3,6
Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA)
Barcode medication administration (BCMA) is used by hospitals to scan barcodes on a patient’s ID tag and medications, helping to keep track of their data on a centralized database. They are often used in hospitals and nursing homes to help lower medication administration errors.3
- BCMA is simple to use, so it’s easier to train new staff members and quicker to adopt than more complex systems.
- When used correctly, BCMA works well to reduce medication and dosage errors by showing what meds were administered for each patient.3,7
- Scanning barcodes all day can add considerable time to nurses’ already demanding schedule.
- This type of system can be prone to human error, e.g. if hospital staff try workarounds like using one patient’s ID to scan multiple medications.
- Challenges can arise when a scanner malfunctions or barcodes are damaged or unreadable.
- Barcodes also do not offer insights into what meds a patient may have already taken.7,8
Smart medication dispensers with medication management apps and automatic refills
Automatic pill dispensers, like the one offered in Hero’s medication management service, can take the guesswork out of medication administration. These devices can sit on a countertop and hold varying amounts of pills, based on their storage capacity. When it’s time for a dose, they can dispense a patient’s medication at the push of a button. Some automatic pill dispensers are also connected to apps that can send alerts, notifications, and track pill counts.
- Smart medication dispensers can be pre-loaded with meds and personalized based on each patient’s prescription regimen.
- Smart dispensers can be programmed to dispense the right dose at the right time, taking the guesswork out of medication management.
- Hospitals can place automatic medication dispensers by a patient’s bed and busy nursing staff simply have to press a button or hold a cup under the dispenser to get the right pills at the right time.
- A connected app can display pill counts, and provide alerts and notifications.
- Healthcare providers can use the app to update prescriptions from a centralized location.
- Hero’s automatic medication dispenser is connected to AdhereRx, a pharmacy partner offering timely and free delivery of refills.
- Overall, using a smart dispenser can improve efficiency, adherence, reduce medication errors, and help enhance patient safety.
- Automatic medication dispensers like Hero cannot store and dispense meds for multiple patients at a time.
- For dispensers with connected apps, nursing staff must know how to use a smartphone and the app’s various features.
- Smart dispensers will have to be re-programmed with the right meds for each new patient. Fortunately, dispensers with connected apps make this process relatively frictionless.
The right medication dispensing machines in hospitals and care facilities can help reduce medication errors
Hero offers a new way to manage your meds. A Hero subscription includes access to our award-winning smart dispenser, medication management app, automatic refills with free delivery, and 24/7 live support.
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In the second quarter, total household debt rose by $312 billion (2%) to $16.15 trillion. That is $2 trillion higher than at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mortgages going to the safest bets
Debt levels are increasing across many sectors. While mortgage originations fell slightly in the quarter to stand at $758 billion, mortgage balances surged by $207 billion to stand at $11.39 trillion.
Of that $758 billion, 65% went to folks with credit scores north of 760, while only 3% flowed to subprime borrowers, down from 13% between 2003-2007. Non-housing balances grew by $103 billion, the most significant gain in six years.
While the median credit score of newly originated mortgages dropped from 788 to 773, it remains high and reflects more stringent standards, the New York Fed said. HELOC limits increased by $18 billion, the first notable increase in over a decade.
The median credit score of newly originated mortgages declined again to 773, down from a series high in 2022Q1 of 788. Yet, credit scores on newly originated mortgages remain very high and reflect continuing high lending standards.
Growing credit card balances, auto loans, contributing to household debt
Even after accounting for seasonal fluctuations, credit card balances rose $46 billion, or 13%, the highest increase in more than two decades. Aggregate limits on credit card accounts shot up by $100 billion to sit at $4.22 trillion. That’s the most significant increase in more than 10 years.
Loan sizes and their durations are both more significant as auto prices balloon. That leaves borrowers susceptible to a series of factors.
“It’s estimated that the average car payment is more than $650,” the Financial Health Network’s senior director Meghan Greene said. “The average length of a car loan has also been increasing, with many borrowers taking on loans of 73 months or more.
“This is coupled with the Fed’s finding in Feb 2022 that the CPI for used cars and trucks has increased more than 50% since December 2020, meaning used car borrowers could owe more than their car is worth if car prices normalize. The rising balances, term lengths, and monthly payments raise questions about the sustainability of the payments for many borrowers.”
Auto loan balances rose by $33 billion, with newly originated loans up to $199 billion. That continues a trend of high volumes in dollar teams that began in late 2020. The totals reflect higher average origination amounts, not an increase in the number of loans.
Low delinquencies hide problems underneath
While delinquencies are low, that does not mean all is well, Lending Club’s SVP and financial health officer Anuj Nayar said.
“Americans are desperate for a lifeline to help them stay afloat financially. Understandably, we’ve seen a recent surge in credit card spending as a means to cope with increased sticker prices due to inflation. As economic uncertainty persists, we’ll likely see more people use credit cards to help cover basic expenses as they try to manage their cash flow.”
More people are financially struggling, Nayar added. Lending Club’s newest Paycheck to Paycheck report indicated a six-point rise in the number of Americans living from check to check (the rate is now 61%).
“As Americans continue to spend more than they save, it is evident only a few consumers are planning financially,” Nayar added. “This means many are just beginning their financial battles, and both future expected and unexpected expenses will become harder to manage for the everyday American.”
The warning signs have been there for a while, Greene noted. Even when debt balances fell during the pandemic, 25% of Americans said they had more debt than they could manage.
“Our research suggests the ability to manage debt successfully is one pillar of financial health,” she said. “As we contend with a potential recession and an inflationary environment, it’s important to ensure that debt loads are manageable and offered at affordable rates. Particularly concerning is the Fed’s finding that delinquency rates are rising among low-income borrowers.
“Families are grappling with an uncertain economic environment. Forthcoming research by the Financial Health Network suggests that inflation may strain many families’ budgets. Some families may be turning to credit cards to make ends meet.”
Tony Zerucha is a long-time contributor in the fintech and alt-fi spaces. A two-time LendIt Journalist of the Year nominee and winner in 2018, Tony has written more than 2,000 original articles on the blockchain, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, and emerging technologies over the past seven years. He has hosted panels at LendIt, the CfPA Summit, and DECENT’s Unchained, a blockchain exposition in Hong Kong. | <urn:uuid:fc6acb2c-6139-4c6c-bfd8-4d2263e2c157> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.fintechnexus.com/rising-household-debt-has-more-americans-struggling-ny-fed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960357 | 1,032 | 2.015625 | 2 |
California Governor Jerry Brown gave the green light on Friday to parole transgender inmate (and convicted murderer) Michelle-Lael Norsworhty after she tried to get the state to be the first to pay for gender reassignment surgery. According to the Associated Press, in April, a federal judge ruled the state had to provide the surgery, and it was originally scheduled for July. The state, however, appealed. Ultimately, because the governor decided not to intervene, it's highly unlikely that the 51-year-old will get the surgery before her release.
Governor Brown says Michelle-Lael is no longer dangerous, despite being convicted of second-degree murder during a bar fight 30 years ago. At the time of her conviction, she identified as male and was sent to an all-male prison, Mule Creek. Michelle-Lael began transitioning in the 1990s, but all records at the prison are held under her former name, Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy. California has refused all of her requests for the surgery since 2012, and although they're paying for the sex reassignment surgery of another inmate, Governor Brown seems comfortable with the parole board's ruling. | <urn:uuid:a714183b-c902-4e0e-af43-d5bfe5cfeae5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2015/08/92035/transgender-california-inmate-paroled-gender-assignment-surgery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.98111 | 237 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Peace Now died last month, when Israel’s leftist anti-"settlement" group won the battle to expel children and families from their homes in Migron.
The High Court’s decision to evacuate the Jewish town was based on a Peace Now petition, arguing that the community had been built on “private Palestinian land” (despite the fact that up until this point every Arab who tried to prove ownership in court was thrown out in disgrace).
Peace Now represents a negligible minority in the marginal leftist fringe of the Israeli society.
But it’s winning the battle to dismantle Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
Cyclically, Peace Now has been pronounced dead.
Its ideological gospel over the years had been simple: the Arabs are totally committed to reconciliation with the Jews, all that prevents this wonderful agreement is Israel’s refusal to withdraw from the territories, including east Jerusalem, and to demolish the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
The group invented Israel’s most successful political slogan: “Peace Now”.
Under its pressure, Israel signed the disastrous Oslo Accords.
Under the continuing pressure of the same people and slogan, Ehud Barak went to Camp David (ordinary Israelis know what has followed since then and understand clearly how dangerous the entire concept of “Peace Now” has been since the late 1970s).
Peace Now then tried to create a Brit Yonit, a “Dovish Covenant” which would include the entire Left, both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary. They failed.
Then after two decades of advocating “a negotiated settlement with the 'Palestinians'”, the group changed strategy and began demanding a unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, which means the eviction of over 400.000 Jews and the destruction of entire cities and towns.
The ocean of Jewish blood and tears of the Second Intifada buried Peace Now’s illusion along with those of other extreme leftist groups such as Meretz, Gush Shalom, haKibbutz haArtzi, Netivot Shalom, Forum of Bereaved Parents, Democratic Choice and Students Draw a Border.
But after the collapse of the Oslo process, Peace Now had to find itself a new holy vessel - or cease to exist: that is when it invented “the land owners’ myth”.
It is part of their primitive view of history, a world divided between the good guys - the Arabs - and the bad guys – the "settlers". The “real thing” for them is not implementing “the rule of law”, neither is it the issue of Arab land rights.
Rather, they just want to see Israeli soldiers and policemen bashing Israeli mothers and children with batons, a repeat of what happened in Amona. Young children and babies thrown out of their beds at 2 a.m., in the freezing cold while expelling families from their homes. Brave mothers treated criminally.
A legal pogrom of Jews against Jews.
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Yet not, numerous so-called counter-instances have been shown hence throw question on the transitivity. (Lewis 2004a gift suggestions an initial catalogue of these counterexamples.) We have found an example regarding one or two counterexamples.
Basic, a keen unpublished however, much-chatted about example because of Ned Hallway. Good hiker is actually taking walks along a mountain walk, whenever an effective boulder large a lot more than are dislodged and appear careering off the fresh slope mountains. The fresh new hiker sees the new boulder and ducks in the suitable go out. The fresh new careering boulder causes the fresh new hiker in order to duck which, in turn, factors his continued stride. (That it 2nd causal hook up pertains to double cures: the new duck prevents the fresh collision anywhere between hiker and boulder hence, got they taken place, will have avoided new hikers continued stride.) not, the latest careering boulder ‘s the particular issue who does generally speaking avoid the hikers proceeded stride and so it appears to be counterintuitive so you can declare that they explanations this new stride.
The first example can not be addressed in the sense
2nd, a good example due to Douglas Ehring (1987). Jones sets specific potassium salts with the an attractive flames. As potassium substances create a red-colored flames when hot, the newest flames transform to help you a red colour, even in the event everything else remains the exact same. The fresh new reddish fire ignites certain combustible thing regional. Here i judge that getting the brand new potassium salts throughout the flames was the cause of red-colored fire, which in turn was the cause of flammable situation so you can spark. Nonetheless it seems far-fetched to evaluate one to placing the potassium salts about fire caused the combustible issue to help you ignite.
Certain responses were made to those counterexamples. L.An effective. Paul (2004) has the benefit of a reaction to the following example that requires conceiving off the relata away from causation since the enjoy issue: she argues that there surely is mismatch between the skills element you to definitely ‘s the effect of the first causal hook up (new fire are a red-colored along with) and skills aspect this is the factor in the second causal https://datingranking.net/asian-hookup-apps/ link (the fire pressing the new combustible topic). Thus, when you find yourself its true that the fresh new red fire didn’t cause the ignition, there is absolutely no inability from transitivity anyway. Maslen (2004) solves the challenge by the attractive to good contrastivist membership out of causation (find §cuatro lower than): the fresh new contrast situation in the impression-stop of first causal declaration cannot match up having the newest evaluate state at end in-end of the second causal statement. Ergo, the initial causal statement are going to be translated as saying that Joness getting potassium salts regarding fire instead not this brought about the flames to make red as opposed to reddish; nevertheless the 2nd causal statement would be translated while the proclaiming that brand new red fireplaces going on in place of maybe not going on caused the combustible issue in order to spark alternatively to not ever spark. In which there was a good mismatch of this kind, we really do not possess a genuine counterexample in order to transitivity.
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Phone Stickers : Hostile to radiation’ telephone stickers actually sold on Amazon. Stickers that case to ensure clients against electromagnetic fields (EMF) from telephones stay available to be purchased on Amazon.
The postings stay eight months after researchers told the BBC the smartDOT stickers had “no impact”.
This week the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) likewise censured the cases on the creators’ site.
The firm has told the BBC it is changing its site, item depictions, publicizing and showcasing – remembering for Amazon.
On Wednesday, the ASA tracked down that Global EMF Solutions Ltd had made unconfirmed cases on the Energydots site that EMF were unsafe and that its Phone Stickers advertised “assurance”.
It told the organization it should presently don’t utilize expressions, for example, “SmartDOT shielded clients from EMF transmitted from remote gadgets and assisted clients with feeling empowered, more engaged and less pushed.”
It should likewise not propose that EMF from remote gadgets were destructive to wellbeing, the ASA dominated.
In January, as a feature of the BBC’s examination, the University of Surrey tried 4G cell phones and wi-fi passages with and without the smartDOT stickers applied to them.
The specialists discovered no proof of any impact, despite the fact that Energydots said that estimating the “orchestrating” impact of the stickers would require “organic testing”.
At the hour of the examination, SmartDOT was ready to move on Amazon and the firm told the BBC it would explore.
After eight months, the Energydot store on Amazon was all the while selling smartDOT Phone Stickers , even after the ASA administering.
Be that as it may, after the BBC reached the two firms the smartDOT item posting was taken out from the Energydot Amazon store, albeit the stickers stay available to be purchased somewhere else on Amazon.
The item portrayal says the Phone Stickers gave “ordinary assurance from EMF”. The posting said the stickers “can be adhered on all gadgets to decrease ordinary unsafe attractive radiation”.
Energydot told the BBC that it was changing its site, advertising materials, item depictions and adverts in accordance with the ASA administering.
It said its new postings with Amazon were presently “under survey” and that changes would be finished by Monday 13 September.
At the point when gotten some information about smartDOT, considering that it can presently don’t guarantee it “secures” against EMF, the organization said its advertising materials would be “legitimately agreeable”. | <urn:uuid:f8a39cb7-96f1-4243-9ba4-f888743c6eb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://toahtech.com/phone-stickers-actually-sold-on-amazon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953559 | 557 | 1.65625 | 2 |
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Australia has joined the Minerals Security Partnership in its quest to develop and secure global supply chains for critical minerals that are crucial to clean energy technology and the global transition to clean energy.
Australia joins the US, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, the UK and the European Commission on this mission.
“The US has taken a strong lead on the new partnership, which will help member countries build links with key markets in our region and globally, and help embed Australia in international critical mineral supply chains and technologies crucial to the global economy,” Minister for Trade and Tourism Don Farrell said.
“The partnership seeks to catalyse public and private investment for mining, processing and recycling projects that adhere to the highest environmental, social and governance standards.”
For the rest of this article: https://www.miningweekly.com/article/australia-joins-global-critical-minerals-partnership-2022-07-13/rep_id:3650
How to accurately determine the impact of lithium mining on water sources – by Staff (Mining.com – July 13, 2022)
In a first-of-its-kind study on the hydrological impact of lithium mining, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Alaska Anchorage say that accounting for the age and source of the water where lithium is found is key to determining whether the resource is being extracted in a responsible manner or not.
In a paper published in the journal Earth’s Future, the scientists point out that those previous studies have not addressed these two important factors, which has led to misguided estimations and assumptions.
As an example, they mention that their methodology shows that total water usage in Chile’s Atacama salt flat is exceeding its resupply but the impact of lithium mining itself is comparatively small, as the extraction of the battery metal accounts for less than 10% of freshwater usage and its brine extraction does not correlate with changes in either surface-water features or basin-water storage.
“To understand the environmental effect of lithium mining, we need to understand the hydrology in the region the lithium is found.
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What purposes is it to be given for?
- Ideal for dogs suffering skin conditions such as irritation, itchy, scaly and or dry skin.
- Dull coat and colour.
- Lacking vitality.
- Skin Detox acts as a blood purifier and conditioner.
- Aids as an immune boost.
- Supports liver and kidney function.
- General pep me up: Dogs can also benefit from a course of skin detox if recovering from illness, over use of medication or simply as an internal spring clean.
What is its general action?
- Blood purifier
- Immune boost
- Supporting liver function
- Supporting kidney function
- Rich in natural vitamin and minerals
How long should I continue to give this to my dog?
Best to set out a plan: give for up to 12 weeks. Do not be guided if symptoms cease as we need to move further forward to enhance a stronger immune defence and cleaner system. Skin Detox is designed to stimulate the existing detoxification mechanisms of the liver, containing herbs and nutrients which assist healthy liver and digestive function.
nettle leaf, milk thistle seed, burdock root, echinacea, chamomile flower, calendula, liquorice root
How do I give this to my dog?
All Phuds herbal supporters are to be mixed in with food. Best to be given with wet food such as Phud’s food and meat, minced meat, fish, yoghurt etc. Add in smaller doses for the first few days to allow your dog to get used to some thing new. I would suggest give this in a dry form as well. For best results after the first few days, add a small amount of boiling water to the blend, let sit (infuse) for 5 minutes, then add water and herbs to the food.
*Contraindication: not to be given to pregnant pets or felines.
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(Shared by Matthew’s parents, Kelly and Chris Benestad)
The more that we reflect back on our experience, the more we have come to understand the vital importance of early detection.
Our son, Matthew, complained of some pain and discomfort in his groin area. Now that we look back on it, the fact that he was complaining at all should have been an immediate red flag for us because Matthew is stoic and very rarely complains. When he first came to us with his groin pain, we assumed that he had pulled a muscle. His eighth grade basketball season had just started.
Matthew didn’t have consistent pain. There were days that he had discomfort, but there were days that he had no pain at all. In fact, he didn’t have any pain while actually playing basketball. Instead, he reported being more uncomfortable when he was lying down or inactive. After about two weeks of inconsistent pain, we made an appointment with our primary care physician. We scheduled an appointment for him to have his groin looked at, and to get his annual flu shot.
The appointment was scheduled for a Tuesday in November. On the day before his appointment, Matthew told us that the pain was gone, and we almost cancelled his doctor’s appointment. The only reason we didn’t cancel was that he still needed a flu shot. When we look back on it now, it is amazing how important that flu shot appointment was for our family.
While we weren’t aware of it when it happened, we learned later that Matthew had vomited at school. He hadn’t been feeling nauseous before he got sick. He had no fever and no other symptoms of a stomach bug. So that was unusual. At the time, we didn’t think too much about it, but after his surgery, the doctor told us that the vomiting could have been a side effect of the presence of the tumor in his testicle.
When Chris took Matthew in for his appointment, he had his flu shot and the doctor did a groin check. Following the exam, the doctor recommended that Matthew go to radiology for imaging. While we didn’t think anything would come of it, and even worried it was a waste of time, we took him, and it was during that exam that Chris noticed the resident and attending physician were taking a long time looking at the screen. They left the room and came back in with the head of radiology, who said she also wanted to take a look.
The doctor performed an ultrasound and then in a very serious manner told Chris that our primary care doctor would be calling us shortly to speak to both of us. Chris immediately knew there was a tumor. He didn’t need a doctor to tell him. The look on her face said it all.
When we spoke with the PCP, we learned that there was a tumor in Matthew’s right testicle, and that they would operate the next day. What we had initially thought was a groin pull was the deferred pain from the presence of the tumor.
By that Friday, Matthew had surgery. He recovered quickly, and returned to school and his normal activities. Unfortunately, the follow up scan in December showed that the cancer had spread to his lower abdomen, and that chemotherapy was needed. He had three months of chemotherapy.
Matthew did not look sick, which is honestly one of the scariest things about cancer. His cancer could have gone undiagnosed if he didn’t tell us about his groin pain, and if we didn’t keep that doctor’s appointment, and if our doctor didn’t immediately recommend an ultrasound. Paying attention to the intermittent pain and discomfort he was feeling and speaking up about it is what caused Matthew to be diagnosed.
Early detection was so important for Matthew; it enabled his oncology team to take immediate action before the cancer spread even further in his body. We are so thankful that our PCP recognized the possible severity of the issue and sent Matthew in immediately for an ultrasound.
After months of treatment, made more stressful by COVID-19, Matthew is thriving again. On his 14th birthday in June, he joined his Dad and aunt for a 13.1 mile run. We are grateful for the care and expertise of Matthew’s doctors, nurses, and treatment team.
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For people who want to make a huge lifestyle change and move to someplace new, Vancouver is likely to be at the top of their lists. Ranked worldwide in the Mercer Survey as the Top 5 Best City to Live in, this bustling and progressive metropolis is home to more than 600,000 denizens.
In the City of Glass, there are around 24 community centres that are being managed by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. This elected body is committed not only to preserving the green spaces like parks and trails in the city, but also to connect members of the community by giving opportunities for growth and development.
Benefits for the Little Ones
The youngest members of the Vancouver population can find something exciting to look forward to whenever they visit their local community centres. Daycare programs are facilitated by certified personnel, and they provide tons of activities with songs and games to stimulate the minds of curious tots.
Perks for Kids of All Ages
School-aged children and teens truly discover exciting ways to stay active, meet friends, and have fun in these community centres. Tennis courts, swimming pools, basketball courts, ice skating rinks, and more are available for use, and they can sign up for lessons if they want to. Other community-offered classes that can spark the creativity of these youngsters include arts and crafts, cooking, and more.
Developing and Improving Adults’ Lives
Even the adult population of Vancouver and its numerous neighbourhoods can reap the benefits offered by their local community centres. Seminars on starting a new business are often held for budding entrepreneurs. Workshops for pottery, paper making, and the like are also ideal sessions to try. For seniors, they can stay active with mild forms of exercise like yoga or qigong.
A Vancouver community centre not only has facilities for sports and games, but they also have libraries that students and adults can visit whenever they want to. Rooms can also be rented out for parties, conferences, and other special events. The great thing about these centres is that they are very near the residential areas, and getting to them can be a short walk or a quick bus ride away.
Vancouver and other Canadian cities fare well in Mercer survey of quality of living, CBC.ca
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Print a bitmap from allegro or a bmp, png or jpg file from console
Good morning, I have allegro 5.x from windows 10 and I would like to send an image from a bitmap to the printer. In case that is not possible, a windows or third-party application would also help me to print bmp, png or jpg from the console.
If you can help me I would really appreciate it. Greetings and thank you.
Hello, thanks for your answer, the idea of mspaint is very good, the only bad thing is that it only allows you as a parameter to choose the printer, but not the size, cut, etc. Even so, I will have to do it this way if I can't find another simple way.
Cheers and thank you again.
Thread #618506. Printed from Allegro.cc
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Competing National Privacy Bills Introduced
On November 26, 2019, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), along with other Democratic senators across four key Senate committees, introduced the Consumer Online Privacy Right Act (“COPRA”), which would expand the rights of people when it comes to how personal data is collected, shared and used. The move comes after a series of efforts to enact national privacy legislation have failed to gain traction. In November, two Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a national privacy law that calls for the formation of a new federal agency to enforce the privacy rights of individuals. In October, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the “Mind Your Own Business Act” that proposed to expand the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) authority to regulate data collection.
COPRA proposes the following rights and obligations:
- Grants consumers the right to ask what data is collected about them, who that information is shared with, and the reason for sharing it;
- Grants consumers the right to control the movement of their data, including the ability to delete or correct it;
- Grants consumers “the right to be free from deceptive and harmful data practices”;
- Requires companies to get consent before collecting users’ sensitive information, including biometric and location data;
- Creates a new bureau within the Federal Trade Commission to handle digital privacy enforcement, requiring that the bureau would be fully staffed and operational within two years of its enactment;
- Gives individuals the right to sue companies if their privacy is violated;
- Establishes a data security fund to be run by the Treasury Department;
- Allows state attorneys general to bring privacy lawsuits under federal law; and
- Requires companies to audit their algorithms for bias — especially with regard to financial discrimination and housing.
The bill also places greater responsibility on company executives to ensure their adherence to digital privacy protections. Beginning one year after the law’s enactment, CEOs of companies that hold large amounts of data would have to certify to the FTC on a yearly basis that they have “adequate internal controls” and reporting structures to comply with the law. Finally, COPRA would not completely preempt state laws that afford individuals a greater level of protection than provided under COPRA.
On the Republican side, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) has circulated his own “discussion draft” of a consumer privacy bill, currently known as the “United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019.” While Senator Wicker’s draft bill aligns in large part with COPRA, it would preempt all state laws related to data privacy and security and would not provide for a private right of action. However, Senator Wicker said he would consider including a private right of action if it was sufficiently narrow.
Senators Cantwell and Wicker are aiming to resolve differences on their respective bills before the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA includes a narrowly focused private right of action for data breach violations, allowing consumers to seek statutory or actual damages, injunctive relief, or declaratory relief.
Grayson J. Derrick
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Any movement that affects a society's education and arts cannot escape affecting the religious aspects of that culture. The world of the middle Ages was spiritual, setting the rules for politics, ethics, and the economy. The relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and people in a region's secular power structure was tenuous at best. As Humanism gained popularity, it wasn't excommunicated or outlawed as heresy. Some Popes relished the opportunity to take use of it. The Humanist religious artwork that brought the saint and the Lord to life and stirred the spirit and heart to respond was quickly embraced by the Church. These representations were intended to comfort those in distress, get nearer to the Holy Mother, or illustrate a narrative.
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Eggs are bad for you! Eating too many eggs will increase your blood cholesterol!!! Really?
A few years ago if anyone had to have a conversation with me on the topic of cholesterol and fat, I would have agreed on most of these claims. However, the truth is different. Time to bust some myths and tell you about the “Big FAT Lies”
The claims I make through my blog are based on extensive research and firsthand experience. I will not recommend or encourage anything that is popular. My objective is to make you aware of the nuances of science based nutrition and exercise facts related to the sport of bodybuilding. The pros and cons will be established and we can plan our health goals accordingly.
Now back to the “Big FAT Lies”. Let’s be honest, most of us have limited knowledge on fats and cholesterol and go by what older folks in the family have been saying. Eggs will heat you up, eggs will spoil your gut, you can’t digest more than 2 eggs and so on and so forth. Before we start discussing about whole egg benefits, lets understand fat and cholesterol.
What is cholesterol? Both fat and cholesterol belong to a larger family of chemical compounds called lipids. Cholesterol is a wax like substance found in our body. It is used to build cell membranes and brain and nerve tissues. Cholesterol is necessary for the production of bile, a fluid made by the liver that aids in the digestion of fat in the intestine. A large part(around 85%) of it already exists within us and our liver manufactures the same.The remaining is dietary, which means it is obtained from food. Common sources of dietary cholesterol are meat, poultry, seafood, dairy etc.
Now, to break this down further,
- We have LDL cholesterol, which is the bad cholesterol. Higher levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood can lead to a harmful buildup of cholesterol in blood vessels.
- And we have the HDL, the good cholesterol. Higher levels of HDL cholesterol in the blood can help prevent cholesterol buildup in blood vessels, decreasing your risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Without complicating this any further, saturated fats and trans fat increase your LDL cholesterol which is bad cholesterol. Now why is LDL bad for you? To reiterate, it is the buildup of plaques that blocks your blood vessels which leads to difficulty in circulation of blood in the arteries. The heart in this case tries to work harder to push blood through stiff arteries which increases your blood pressure leading to heart problems.
Sources of saturated fats- beef, beef fat, veal, lamb, pork, lard, poultry fat, butter, cream, milk, cheeses, and other dairy products made from whole milk.
Sources of trans fat-Baked goods, snack foods, fried foods, margarines, and shortenings etc.
How do you reverse this? The short answer is, physical activity! Simple! when you increase physical exercise, you reduce your LDL and raise your HDL cholesterol which improves your blood circulation leading to better cardiovascular health.
Foods like nuts, olive oil, coconut oil, whole eggs, fatty fish, flaxseed etc, help to build your HDL which is the good cholesterol. That’s ’cause these foods are high in Mono and poly unsaturated fats which is good for you.
Now, a low fat high protein diet will technically do the same thing. It will reduce your LDL. However, it will not provide you with the essential fatty acids or so called good fats required to lead a healthy life and build muscle and stimulate your fat loss goals. Let me explain…. Fats are not bad. Consumption of a lot of saturated fat is bad as it increases your LDL cholesterol which can lead to cardiovascular problems. You must look to consume good fats in more quantity than the bad saturated fats to keep the HDL:LDL ratio in check and smash your health and life goals. Now, as established, essential fats are important. Eggs are considered as one of the super foods and is a great soure of Mono and poly unsaturated fats(good fats).It has health benefits galore. Let’s get down to brass tacks…..
One whole egg contains 5 gms of fat. 1.6 gms is the bad fat and the rest is good. That is the monounsaturated fats. These fats protect your heart by keeping your cholesterol levels within normal range. The other critical fact is… eggs are natural testosterone boosters (as they are high in cholesterol). What is testosterone? The hormone which helps you build muscle, procreate. You see the benefits! Your ability to produce testosterone reduces as you get older and super foods like this can help to compensate the loss. Eggs also contain essential vitamins like:
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin B2
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B5
and minerals including calcium, iron, potassium, zinc, manganese, folate and many more.
One whole egg has roughly 76-77 calories and 6 grams of protein. Now, looking at these benefits, you must include eggs in your daily macros. For vegetarians, there are alternative options which we will discuss in my next article.
Now, before you get your sunny side up. There is a limit to how many eggs you can eat because of its cholesterol content. The Dietary Guidelines globally recommend keeping the intake of dietary cholesterol to around 300 mg per day. One whole egg has around 187 mg, so the answer is 2 whole eggs a day. Disappointed? Well, if you’re a non-active homosapien, you should be. The good news is, if you’re someone who frequents the iron bar and lifts weights 3-4 days a week, you can eat between 4-5 whole eggs and as many egg whites without worrying about the cholesterol limit. Yes, you read that right. As many egg whites you can gobble in one sitting. They have zero cholesterol and are perfectly safe. Now the catch….. Protein builds muscle and is critical in your diet. However, your body can digest only a certain quantity of protein in one sitting. Around 30-35 gms for someone who works out with weights 3-4 days a week. If you eat more than that, the chances of it getting wasted through your back passage is quite high. For some who lift heavy and have been in the sport for a long time, they can digest more in one sitting. Again, you will need to eat first and judge what is the quantity you can digest. It’s something you need to test and experience. We fit in the former category. So, if you do the math, 4-5 whites with 2 yolks is a legendary egg meal and can be eaten first thing in the morning. I personally eat egg whites all the time. The purest and cheapest protein source. Plus, I can digest a little more protein than the average Joe as I push weights 5-6 days a week. My usual intake in a day is between 25-30 whites with 4 -5 yolks. This is paced out nicely between 5-6 meals.
So, fats from eggs are not bad. If you’re into lifting weights or any other form of sport which involves good amount of energy expenditure, eating eggs can be beneficial. Unless you have a precondition related to cholesterol or diabetes. Then you must check with your doc on the right quantity of cholesterol intake.
Few guidelines in general when it comes to eating fats.
- Choose lean cuts of meat and poultry.
- Trim the fat from meat before or after cooking
- Get rid of the poultry skin. High in fat.
- Make sure you have plenty of vegetables with less of fats which will make up for calories.
- Keep your fat intake between 20-30% of your macros. For a 2000 calorie diet it is around 50 to 60 grams.
- Choose low fat dairy products.
- Chuck the sauce and replace it with vinegar.
- Cook in a non-stick pan and use cooking spray instead of cooking oil.
- Read labels and make informed choices.
Make sure to whip up a storm the next time you hit the kitchen.
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I’m getting ready to teach a session at the Superior Court Judges’ Conference about searches of computers and other electronic devices, so I’ve been reading all the computer search cases I can get my hands on. Recently, I stumbled on United States v. Crespo-Rios, __ F. Supp. 2d __, 2009 WL 1595463 (D. Puerto Rico June 5, 2009), which I found pretty remarkable.
The defendant engaged in sexually explicit online chats with a police officer posing as a 12-year-old, and sent her “obscene material” via webcam. Based on that, a judge issued a search warrant authorizing a search of the defendant’s computers for “any and all chat logs, child pornography, child erotica, information pertaining to sexual interest in children, [and] images depicting sexual contact between adults and minors.” The police executed the warrant and found child pornography, leading to federal charges against the defendant.
The defendant moved to suppress, admitting that there was probable cause to search for evidence of solicitation of a minor and for evidence of distributing obscene materials to a minor, but arguing that there was no probable cause to search for child pornography, and that the warrant was therefore overbroad. The court agreed, finding no “nexus” between solicitation of a minor and the possession of child pornography. Furthermore, although the judge determined that the warrant would have been valid without the child pornography language, and that a search under such a warrant would still have revealed the child pornography, the court nonetheless declined to apply the inevitable discovery doctrine. And finally, the court ruled that warrant was so lacking in probable cause that the good faith exception that exists under federal law did not apply.
So let me see if I have this straight: a person who has a sexual interest in children; who is actively soliciting children for sex; who is doing so via computer; who has adult pornography on his computer; and who is distributing the adult pornography to children is not reasonably likely to have child pornography on his computer? The court relied heavily on United States v. Hodson, 543 F.3d 286 (6th Cir. 2006), a case that involved slightly less jaw-dropping facts but that still reached what, to my mind, is a difficult conclusion to swallow: that there is no “link” or “nexus” between a pedophile who solicits children via computer and the possession of child pornography on that computer.
Of course, the one doesn’t follow inevitably from the other, but probable cause doesn’t mean conclusive proof. It is supposed to be a “practical, common-sense” standard, designed to assess whether there is a “fair probability” that evidence of a crime will be present. Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983). And it strikes me as perfectly “common sense” to conclude that a person who is using a computer for one illegal sexual purpose might well be using it for another, closely-related illegal sexual purpose.
As always, I welcome comments and criticisms. But I also have a specific request today. As I’ve been preparing my presentation for the judges, one thing that has jumped out at me is how few appellate cases we have in North Carolina involving searches of computers and other electronic devices. I’d appreciate your thoughts on why that’s the case, and whether there is a similar paucity of such cases in the trial courts. | <urn:uuid:6f60b675-5dd4-4812-83ea-741dc1911660> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/pedophilia-and-probable-cause/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955856 | 728 | 1.515625 | 2 |
1st and 2nd Year Medical Students
For first and second year medical students, it can be hard to know what specialty you will eventually pursue. Urology has a satisfying combination of medicine and surgery, with a large variety of procedures and sub-specialties (oncology, endourology, laparoscopy, robotics, infertility, female urology, sexual medicine, reconstruction, pediatrics, neurourology, etc.). We have the opportunity to follow patients for life for many of the diagnoses we treat. The best way to know if you want to go into urology is to see it for yourself. If you are interested in shadowing as a first or second year BUSM student please contact our medical student advisor, Dr. Shaun Wason (email@example.com). Getting involved in research (even if you end up choosing another specialty) is another good way to explore various fields of medicine. You may also find the links below helpful.
- BUSM Urology Interest Group
- Why Urology?
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Paper No. 40
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
GEOCHEMISTRY AND ISOTOPES OF GLACIER ICE CORES FROM MEXICAN MOUNTAINS
During the last decades continental and mountain glaciers are retreating all over the earth at an alarming rate. Mexico has three high mountains with altitudes above 5,000 m.a.s.l. (Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl and Pico de Orizaba) with small glaciers at their top. Popocatepetl is an active volcano and has lost all its glacier cap during the last 15 years. Glaciers on Iztaccihualt (5,286 m), and Pico de Orizaba (5,712 m), still exist with estimated thickness between 10 to 40 m, but retreating very rapidly. Physical glaciology studies have been done on these three mountains in Mexico (size of glaciers, movement of ice, accumulation vs. ablation zones, so on), but very little chemical and isotopic glaciology have been done in these Mexican glaciers. There is no other mountain glacier within 15º and 25º latitude north, but glaciers in Mexico. The closeness of a large metropolitan area (Mexico City) offers a good opportunity to analyze the anthropogenic impact in the atmospheric precipitation on the glaciers. Iztaccihuatl mountain (the closest to Mexico city) has two glaciers, one at 5,000 m altitute, and other at 5,280 m altitude. Pico de Orizaba has only one glacier from 5,712 to 5,000 m altitude. In this work we present preliminary geochemical and isotopic data from the first ice cores drilled in Iztaccihualt and Pico de Orizaba, and compare data between the two Mexican mountains and other mountain glaciers in the world. This project is currently under work and we propose to obtain more ice cores form these mountains and to compare the data with geochemical and isotopic data from glaciers all over the world. The geochemical analyzes is focussed on heavy metal content, delta-Deuterium and delta-18 Oxigen data from the ice cores. | <urn:uuid:db4945b2-24db-40d9-b15d-7f1ca8310859> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/webprogram/Paper131465.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.909059 | 446 | 2.59375 | 3 |
New Zealand will get its biggest and brightest moon sighting this year as a 'super pink moon' lights up the sky on Wednesday night.
It will mark New Zealand's second super moon of 2020, having already had one in February - but it will be our last for over a year, with the next not due until April 2021.
The moon will be at perigee-syzygy (its closest point to Earth) at 2:35pm on Wednesday (NZ time), when it'll be just 356,907 kilometres away. However the best time to view it will be from about 6:27pm, when it first rises in the sky to the east.
The lunar phenomenon will be most visible to those in the North Island, as rain over the island is anticipated to clear by evening. In the South Island, however, those in coastal areas will have their view blocked by clouds.
But the good news for South Islanders is that while a 'super pink moon' sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you won't actually be missing a magenta-coloured moon.
The lunar event's flashy name is just a reflection of the time of year it's appearing in our skies. April is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which brings the first blooms of the year for the fuschia-hued wild ground phlox in North America.
However an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History promises it will be "bright and brilliant and absolutely gorgeous" despite the absence of a pink colour.
Jackie Faherty also told Space.com that this latest super moon presents a good opportunity to teach your children a thing or two about the phases of the moon.
"This is an invitation for everybody to become that moon expert, be the person in that small group that can differentiate when the moon is just a little bit brighter," she said.
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Wondering how stablecoins are taxed?
In recent years, stablecoins have become a more and prominent part of the crypto ecosystem. In Q2 of 2021, it was estimated that stablecoins had a stunning
of transaction volume $1.7 trillion.
Right now, you may be using stablecoins such as USDC, Tether, or DAI in your transactions. In this article, we’ll break down how you can report these transactions on your tax return.
What is a stablecoin?
Many crypto investors are hesitant to use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in everyday transactions. Many consider these assets to be long-term investments and do not want to spend them, incur capital gains, and miss out on future price appreciation.
Stablecoins were designed to solve this problem and give cryptocurrency users a currency they could use on a daily basis.
Stablecoins are not intended to increase in value over time — instead, they are designed to track the costs of external commodities or currencies. There are currently stablecoins that track gold, oil, and the South Korean Won. However, most popular stablecoins track the price of the U.S. dollar.
How is stablecoin activity taxed?
Despite the fact that stablecoins were designed to be used in everyday transactions, they are not treated differently than any other cryptocurrency from a tax perspective.
Buying a good or service with stablecoin/ trading stablecoin for another cryptocurrency
Using a stablecoin to pay for a good or service or trading it for another cryptocurrency is considered a taxable event.
You will incur capital gains based on how the price of your stablecoins has fluctuated. Since most popular stablecoins are designed to track the price of the U.S. dollar, it’s likely that your capital gain will be close to 0. However, you should report all of these transactions on your tax return.
Trading cryptocurrency for stablecoin
Trading cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or Ethereum for stablecoin is considered a disposal event. You will incur capital gains or capital losses depending on how the price of your assets has changed since you originally received them.
Receiving stablecoin as a payment
If you receive stablecoin as payment for your goods and services, you’ll be required to report it as ordinary income. Your
on these earnings will vary depending on what tax bracket you fall into for the year. tax rate What if I’m transferring stablecoin between wallets? is not considered a taxable event and should not be reported on your tax return. Transferring stablecoins between wallets How is stablecoin interest taxed?
Many popular crypto applications like
BlockFi and allow users to earn interest in stablecoin. In this case, Celsius will be considered ordinary income and will be taxed accordingly. your rewards How to make filing your crypto taxes stress-free
Whether you’re doing transactions in stablecoins, making trades in Bitcoin, or buying NFTs with Ethereum, one thing remains true: doing your
is incredibly complicated. crypto taxes
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There are 10 repositories under parse topic.
ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.
Parse and stringify URL query strings
Markdown parser, done right. Commonmark support, extensions, syntax plugins, high speed - all in one. Gulp and metalsmith plugins available. Used by Facebook, Docusaurus and many others! Use https://github.com/breakdance/breakdance for HTML-to-markdown conversion. Use https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc to generate a table of contents.
SwiftSoup: Pure Swift HTML Parser, with best of DOM, CSS, and jquery (Supports Linux, iOS, Mac, tvOS, watchOS)
Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.
Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
Html Agility Pack (HAP) is a free and open-source HTML parser written in C# to read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT. It is a .NET code library that allows you to parse "out of the web" HTML files.
The Android SDK for the Parse Platform
Blazing fast and Comprehensive CSV Parser for Node.JS / Browser / Command Line.
Get unified metadata from websites using Open Graph, Microdata, RDFa, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD, HTML, and more.
Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better.
:memo: HTML to React parser.
the smallest commonmark (optionally gfm) compliant markdown parser that exists; new foundation for @unifiedjs (hundreds of projects w/ billions of downloads for dealing w/ content)
Tika-Python is a Python binding to the Apache Tika™ REST services allowing Tika to be called natively in the Python community.
💬 Python scripts to parse Messenger, Hangouts, WhatsApp and Telegram chat logs into DataFrames.
Parse and output TODOs and FIXMEs from comments in your files
Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations.
A lightweight and fast parsing library for C#.
Yet Another UserAgent Analyzer
a simple syntax for complex argumentation
New open-source cross-platform symbolic algebra library for C# and F#. Can be used for both production and research purposes.
A Kotlin-based testing/scraping/parsing library providing the ability to analyze and extract data from HTML (server & client-side rendered). It places particular emphasis on ease of use and a high level of readability by providing an intuitive DSL. It aims to be a testing lib, but can also be used to scrape websites in a convenient fashion.
A relatively up-to-date fork of ParsePy, the Python wrapper for the Parse.com API. Originally maintained by @dgrtwo
:family: a python library for parsing unstructured western names into name components.
The Dart/Flutter SDK for Parse Platform
Parses the Graphviz DOT language in golang
Natural Language Processing Pipeline - Sentence Splitting, Tokenization, Lemmatization, Part-of-speech Tagging and Dependency Parsing
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A group of Conservation degree students have constructed an otter holt next to the River Can on the Writtle College estate.
Otters are present at the site but their natural holts are in tree root systems close to the river edge. With the recent flooding, these natural holts are unavailable so the students have created an artificial holt above the level of the water to offer them more habitats.
The six second year students created the artificial holt yesterday (19 March) out of timber from the College’s own plantations, after the trees were cut down as part of felling practice, so the project could be as sustainable as possible.
The design and construction was led by Will Dexter and Katy Froud with fellow students Tom Phillips, Matthew King, Darren Bonner and Jenny Cox, as well as Conservation Lecturer Alan Roscoe, part of the working group.
Will, from Chelmsford, said: “This has given us valuable insight into how to design and build an artificial otter holt as well as project management experience, including completing risk assessments and coordinating volunteers. We intend to set up a remote field camera so we can capture the movement of the animals in and out of the holt – we’re hoping a family of otters will be attracted to the site.”
Katy, from Witham, added: “We have designed the structure so it has two entrances in case of predation, so they can escape through one, and to prevent a draft going through. We have used stakes to create three chambers and then covered the structure in mud and brash. Everything is made of natural materials so it will blend into the surroundings.”
Conservation lecturer Alan Roscoe said: “This is being managed by Katy and Will so it is entirely student-led. Tasks like this give students the opportunity to put conservation measures in place on the College estate as well as experience of a conservation project and of leading work groups, which is vital for their CVs.”
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- (Kalyanam et al., 2015) ⇒ Janani Kalyanam, Amin Mantrach, Diego Saez-Trumper, Hossein Vahabi, and Gert Lanckriet. (2015). “Leveraging Social Context for Modeling Topic Evolution.” In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2015). ISBN:978-1-4503-3664-2 doi:10.1145/2783258.2783319
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Topic discovery and evolution (TDE) has been a problem which has gained long standing interest in the research community. The goal in topic discovery is to identify groups of keywords from large corpora so that the information in those corpora are summarized succinctly. The nature of text corpora has changed dramatically in the past few years with the advent of social media. Social media services allow users to constantly share, follow and comment on posts from other users. Hence, such services have given a new dimension to the traditional text corpus. The new dimension being that today's corpora have a social context embedded in them in terms of the community of users interested in a particular post, their profiles etc. We wish to harness this social context that comes along with the textual content for TDE. In particular, our goal is to both qualitatively and quantitatively analyze when social context actually helps with TDE. Methodologically, we approach the problem of TDE by a proposing non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) based model that incorporates both the textual information and social context information. We perform experiments on large scale real world dataset of news articles, and use Twitter as the platform providing information about the social context of these news articles. We compare with and outperform several state-of-the-art baselines. Our conclusion is that using the social context information is most useful when faced with topics that are particularly difficult to detect.
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Achieving happiness is truly easier said than done. But the good news is that you can make great strides in attaining that goal by doing these five things.
If there’s one thing that you need to learn about happiness, it’s this:
Being happy is a choice you can make.
The truth is that happiness is a state of being that you can control. You can take steps to either become happy or stay unsatisfied with how things currently are in your life.
And as a life coach, you need to accept this idea as something you can practice. Because at the end of the day, one of your key roles is to help your clients choose to be happy.
That means if you can become happy, so can your clients.
In this article, you’ll discover five things you can do to start creating happiness in your life. And the best part is…
They’re absolutely easy to do.
The 5 Things
#1. Fake It Until You Feel It
Research showed that people who practice being outgoing and confident by smiling are less likely to suffer from sadness. What’s more, psychological studies have proven that even a fake smile is better than wearing a frown.
The great thing is that you can control all of this.
Now, faking happiness until you feel it doesn’t mean that you’ll suppress negative emotions. It also doesn’t mean that you’ll pretend to be okay when there are real problems that you need to address.
It just means that you’ll learn to see the brighter side of a situation.
So, come up with strategies that will trigger more positive thoughts and feelings in you. That way, you can bring yourself back to a calmer state when things feel overwhelming and stressful.
One way to do this is by asking questions that’ll instantly make you feel better, such as:
“Who loves me?”
“How have I contributed today?”
“What’s great in my life right now?”
This small action can leave a bigger impact on your life down the line.
#2. Know Yourself Better
A key component of being happy is to understand who you are. And one way to do that is to find your passion.
See, when you identify your passions, it’ll be easy for you to feel excited. After all, you can quickly make yourself feel happy just by doing the things that you know you’re passionate about.
That said, here’s a tip: find multiple things that you’re passionate about. Anywhere between four to six things should be the minimum for you to live a passionate life.
So, take time to really know who you are. Ask yourself what motivates you. What are the things that keep you going even during tough times?
Additionally, when you know who you are, you need to learn to be comfortable with it.
That’s because people who are self-confident and comfortable in their own skin are more likely to be successful. And by successful, I’m talking about having a life full of passion and vibrancy.
Remember that you are the only version of you that is here. So, embrace it fully.
#3. Focus On the Things You Can Control
Happiness isn’t possible if you’re constantly affected by things that are outside your control.
Take for example other people’s behaviour.
No matter how much you try to make someone like you, you can’t control how they’ll react to you. And if their reaction isn’t what you were expecting and you dwell on the fact, you’ll likely feel frustrated. And over time, you may even feel angry.
So, learn to let go of those things you can’t control. Free yourself from negativity by focusing on the things that you can control directly, such as expressing your gratitude.
See, when you’re in a state of gratitude, you’ll make your worries disappear. It’s because you recognise how fortunate you are to be where you are. And that there are so many more opportunities waiting for you.
Choosing to focus on things you can control, like expressing gratitude, is a big step towards happiness.
#4. Take Care of Your Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Health and happiness go hand in hand.
Because if you think about it, how can you feel good if your mind and body aren’t?
So, learn to care for yourself. For a start, you can incorporate these three key things into your life: meditation, exercise, and enough sleep.
Meditating is a powerful way to clear your thoughts. So, take a few minutes to just be quiet and turn down the noise in your mind.
Recognise that the path to happiness can be challenging enough with all the chaos that we create. That’s why you need to take some time for yourself every day to just let your thoughts wander into a quiet place.
Now, when it comes to exercise, it’s important that you do what best suits your current abilities. So, your exercise can be as simple as going for a 20-minute run, to start with. Then, run longer as you progress.
After exercising, of course, you need to rest your body. Let it recover by eating better and especially by getting enough sleep. It’s so much easier to keep a positive attitude throughout the day after having a restful night.
#5. Ground Yourself in the World Around You
It’s true that happiness is something you create individually. But sustaining and even increasing that happiness isn’t possible if you don’t connect with those around you.
So spend time with your loved ones. Surround yourself with people who share your values and purpose. Connect with nature. Help the people in your community.
All of these actions will help you nurture the happiness that you have within yourself. Best of all, you’ll also get the chance to spread that happiness to those around you as well.
Happiness is a Personal Journey
It’s true that happiness is something that everyone wants. But the journey towards reaching that state can be different for everyone.
The five things you can do to achieve happiness that are discussed in this article are only guidelines you can follow. How you decide to implement them into your life all depends on you. And this is also true in terms of how you help your clients achieve a state of happiness.
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Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ (1985) is recognised as one of the most influential plays to come out of the AIDS/HIV crisis. Its influence is obvious both on that epic of the 1990s, ‘Angels in America’, but also more recently on Matthew Lopez’s ‘The Inheritance.’ Yet it has not received a performance here for many years, and this new production at the National offers us a fresh chance to appraise its dramatic staying-power and relevance to our own times.
From the rapid-fire sequence of hard-hitting opening scenes, it is clear that its power to shock, challenge and move audiences is undiminished. While it is a heavily autobiographical piece, younger theatregoers don’t need to know anything of Kramer’s life to pick up the play’s message and essence. The play also bears additional contemporary resonances that echo across the decades from one pandemic to another.
First of all, it stands as a record of the panic, fear, and incomprehension of the early years of AIDS/HIV in New York City, when no one knew what ‘the plague’ was, what could be done to treat or prevent it, and where gay men seemed to be overwhelmingly the victims, both of the disease and panicked social vilification. But over and above this documentary quality there is a debate going on over the nature of activism: is it the mouthy, tiresome, difficult people who make a difference or the quiet backroom organisers? How does radical change happen, and is the human price attached to it worth paying? None of this is easy, then or now.
The play stands or falls on the quality of the performance of the turbulent activist, Ben Weeks, who stands in for Kramer himself. Here Ben Daniels delivers a truly magnificent, richly layered performance, depicting the courage and eloquence of protest against government indifference and community apathy, but also not afraid to reveal the monomaniacal and obsessional qualities that clearly made Kramer so hard to work with.
But the reason the play still works so well is that the playwright rather than the activist ensures that other views are represented. First of all, Weeks is made more vulnerable and appealing through a beautifully modulated love story that burns slowly through to an affecting tragic end – here the gentle, ironic contribution of Dino Fetscher softens the edges of many scenes and adds contrasting comic touches. Another emotional perspective is provided by Weeks’ brother, a successful corporate lawyer, who loves his sibling but is uneasy around his sexuality. The trajectory of their well-intentioned collisions and reconciliations is a nuanced iteration of family discomfort with homosexuality that is still relevant today.
Seeing the play again makes this reviewer realise how operatic it is, in that all while there are plenty of scenes of collective conflict and conviviality each lead character is assigned an eloquent monologue, like an aria, to get their viewpoint across. All the players seize their opportunities with gusto, and no more so than the physically diminutive but hugely forceful Liz Carr, as the polio-afflicted pioneering doctor who excoriates both the medical establishment and the gay community for their lethargy in responding to the crisis.
We also receive a diverse interplay of views from the other members of the gay health and welfare group that Weeks founds: Luke Norris embodies the closeted establishment figure, Bruce, who prefers to work within rather than confront the system; Daniel Monks finds brittle energy for the disabled government worker, Mickey, who refuses to accept that the onset of a pandemic should replace liberation with fear and caution; and Danny Lee Wynter offers a scene-stealing portrait of a warm-hearted Southerner, who seeks the best in all points of view while never missing a chance to inject humour into desperate situations. He is also one of the most convincing lilting Southern accents I have heard on the English stage for many a year.
Vicki Mortimer’s stripped-down in-the-round set design offers a nod to the elegant simplicity of the set in ‘The Inheritance’. Both these plays are very wordy, and the neutral austerity of the physical setting allows the actors to focus on the text without distraction and play to all sides of the auditorium. Again, the lighting design, a couple of simple halos of strip lighting with additional effects as needed lets the many short scenes flow onwards without effort.
The production demonstrates that, unlike many plays that have become monuments, this one still speaks to our own time with undiminished power and uneasy complexity.
- By Larry Kramer
- Director: Dominic Cooke
- Leading Performers: Robert Bowman, Liz Carr, Ben Daniels, Dino Fetscher, Daniel Monks, Luke Norris, Danny Lee Wynter
- National Theatre
- Until: 6th November, 2021
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Q. What's the story with tax cuts? Taxes were cut again and again during the Bush II years. The U.S. was supposed to prosper because as taxes were being cut, people would have a lot more money in their pockets. What happened?
A. The tax cuts didn't do much of anything for most people.
Q. Why not?
A. Well, ten percent of the population has seventy-one percent of liquid assets (stocks, bonds and cash holdings). The other ninety percent of the population owns the other twenty-nine percent. But to make it even clearer, assets owned by the lower fifty percent of the population amount to only 2.5 percent of the nation's total. So if you have a general tax cut across the board, the extra money the lower income half of the population gains or loses does not have much of an impact at all.
Q. So what's the message?
A. It does not make sense to tax that lower fifty percent of the population with 2.5 percent of the the total wealth, because practically all of their income is money already in circulation. You need to take the money from the top ten percent.
A. Although there are investors in the top ten percent whose money is invested in solid companies that produce much needed goods and services, there are also speculators who use other people's hard earned cash to gamble in derivatives.
Q. Do you have any evidence that lowering taxes on the wealthy is bad for the general public's living standards while raising taxes on the rich benefits the whole country?
A. Yes. In the Roaring Twenties (1918-1929) the top marginal income tax rate (that's the rate paid by the rich) went from 60% on incomes over 100,000 in 1920 down to 25% in 1929. A major part of the money not paid in taxes now went, instead of going to the government, into the hands of speculators who had only one interest: to make more and more money. High risk speculators are gamblers who use the stock market as their casino.
Q. Can you explain?
A. Like gambling, high risk trading in the financial markets becomes an addiction. A gambler at a roulette table experiences the thrill of a winning bet. As the thrill lasts only a short time, a player will put his winnings back on the table, hoping to recapture the exhilaration again and again by doubling and then quadrupling his money etc. This goes on until the player's luck changes and he loses all he has won the last time he doubles his bet.
Q. So the big market crash in 1929 came as thousands of gamblers lost their shirts in the stock market?
A. Yes, and as the gamblers lost everything, they could no longer pay debts owed on houses, businesses and other loans. This set off a domino effect. Banks who had lent money to people who had been able to repay their loans before the crash now had to write off the loans because their borrowers no longer had an income. For so many of the banks and their customers bankruptcy was the only option. People became desperate for money to keep farms producing, to keep businesses going and to get food on the table.
Q. Isn't that an oversimplification? Weren't there those among the wealthy who managed to hang on to their money and property because they were simply better at financial management? Why should they care about reckless gamblers who lost everything? Would there be a risk that the disciplined and wise who have survived the economic collapse might experience losses of their own?
A. Perhaps not at first. But if not stopped, economic decay brings social collapse. Without recovery, cities eventually turn into ghost towns, people die of starvation, communicable diseases begin to ravage the country, and eventually even the wealthiest of the wealthy would be unable to escape ravaging pandemics.
Q. So ultimately, it is to the interest of the wealthy to have a prosperous country with healthy people?
A. Without a doubt.
Q. So how did the country pull out of depression?
A. When businesses, factories and farms no longer had any cash to stay operational, they looked to the government for a rescue. The government, in order to bring society back on its feet, created jobs through public works projects and other means.
Q. So how did the government get the money?
A. In 1932 the government raised the marginal tax rate on $100,000 that had been lowered to 25% back up to 56% and this made it possible to finance a recovery. People got back to work as dams, roads and public buildings were built, and after the end of World War II, ordinary people managed to find prosperity as the government educated returning soldiers through the G.I. bill.
Q. How was it possible to get the money to educate millions of returning soldiers?
A. It was possible because the government imposed a marginal tax rate of 92% on $100,000 in 1945. A rate of 89% in 1946 stayed in place until 1954. Then the rate was lowered gradually until it hovered around 75% through the early 1960s. It was a time during which the U.S. became the greatest industrial power of the world, with the result that not just the rich, but everyone got richer.
---Tax data based on figures provided by the Tax Foundation.
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TO KNOW AND BE KNOWN
When was the last time you had a song stuck in your head that you couldn’t quit singing?
No matter what you did, you couldn’t change the channel. This happened to me recently, so I turned to the internet to search for a home remedy. One article guaranteed that chewing gum would make the song miraculously disappear. I was so excited when I read this that I grabbed my purse and pulled out not one, but two pieces of gum to increase my odds for success. Unfortunately, the only thing I increased was my ability to annoy everyone within earshot. I promise, smacking on gum while repeatedly screeching out a jingle will not win friends or influence others—and it didn’t even make the song go away!
Since the song was here to stay, I decided to think about the lyrics:
“Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came…”[i]
“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” was the theme song from the 1980s television sitcom Cheers. To highlight the truth of the title, every time one of the characters walked through the doors of the neighborhood pub, he was happily greeted with a unanimous, “Norm!”
Everybody knew his name.
If you want to see someone’s eyes light up, just call them by their name—especially when they don’t expect it. It’s like music to their ears! I make an effort to thank the checker at the grocery store by name and they always seem surprised and happy that I took the time to acknowledge them. I even found a verse in the Bible to back this up: 3 John 1:15 says, “ …Greet the friends by name.”
People love hearing their name because we all desire to know and be known.
With the advent of social media, the need for relationship, validation, and approval from others has never been so visually apparent. Unfortunately, many people make the mistake of calculating their value and worth as a human being on their online reputation—how many friends, followers, likes, retweets, and comments (the list goes on!) they can collect. The sense of self-fulfillment they seek never arrives, so they chase higher and higher numbers. I’ve read far too many news pieces of people falling to their deaths just to get the perfect Instagram shot to post online. People are dying to be seen.
Social media is a powerful tool. Like the name suggests, it’s a social activity–and we are social creatures. We want others to know us and approve of us. I recently heard about a 104-year-old woman who was asked the best thing about being her age. She replied, “No peer pressure!”
We’re created in God’s image and He is relational, so we too are relational to the core. We were created to need both Him and each other to be happy and thrive. Doubt and insecurity occur when we get the order backwards. Our first priority should be to know God and be known by God. If we look to Him first, our relationships with others have ample space to flourish because we no longer need our peers’ validation. To have lasting peace, confidence, and joy, we need to look to God alone. No amount of worldly success or social media popularity can come close to the indescribable gift of knowing God and being known by Him.
POINT TO PONDER:
Knowing of someone is different than knowing them personally. You can have hundreds of social media “friends” that you know of, but your true friends are the ones you know on a personal—and more honest—level. The more time and attention we give to one another, the closer our relationship will be. This applies to our relationship with Jesus as well: when we seek Him first, everything else falls into place.
[i]Songwriters: / Judy Hart
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From the Tom Woods Letter:
Well, he’s gone and done it now.
Yesterday I reported on the roundtable I attended in West Palm Beach, where Governor Ron DeSantis hosted a group of medical experts who have fought against the failed virus mitigation policies from the beginning.
The event closed with the announcement that Florida would be the first state to come out in opposition to COVID vaccination for healthy children.
Well, today the Florida Department of Health, under the direction of the heroic Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, released its guidance regarding COVID vaccination and children:
Florida recognizes that parents should always be empowered to make the best health decisions for their children. It is essential that health care practitioners review all data to evaluate risks and benefits unique to each patient when determining what health care services to provide, including the administration of COVID-19 vaccines. These decisions should be made on an individual basis. As the risks of administering a COVID-19 vaccine to healthy children may outweigh the benefits, the Florida Department of Health has issued the following guidance:
Based on currently available data, healthy children aged 5 to 17 may not benefit from receiving the currently available COVID-19 vaccine. The Department recommends that children with underlying conditions are the best candidates for the COVID-19 vaccine.
At the present time, there are certain risks to consider that may outweigh benefits among healthy children with no underlying conditions:
• Limited risk of severe illness due to COVID-19
• High prevalence of existing immunity among children
• Absence of data informing benefit of COVID-19 vaccination among children with existing immunity.
• In clinical trials, higher than anticipated serious adverse events occurred among those receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
• Reduced COVID-19 vaccine efficacy among children 5-17
• Risk of myocarditis due to the COVID-19 vaccine
For children with underlying health conditions or comorbidities, COVID-19 vaccines should be considered in consultation with your health care practitioner. Parents are encouraged to discuss the risks and benefits with their children’s health care practitioner when evaluating whether their child should receive a COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for children with underlying health conditions or comorbidities.
In general, healthy children with no significant underlying health conditions under 16 years old are at little to no risk of severe illness complications from COVID-19. For adolescents 16 to 17 years of age, the risk of myocarditis due to the COVID-19 vaccines may outweigh the benefits.
Healthy Children Ages 5 to 11
In a clinical trial, there were no cases of severe illness among children ages 5 to 11 among any placebo recipients or COVID-19 vaccine recipients. A study conducted out of New York determined that COVID-19 vaccine efficacy declined 84%, from 68% to 12%, over a span of two months for children aged 5 to 11.
Healthy Adolescents Ages 12 to 17
The same study determined that COVID-19 vaccine efficacy declined 40%, from 85% to 51%, over a span of two months for adolescents ages 12 to 17. There is also concern for the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in children, especially among adolescent boys. One study found the highest rates of myocarditis among males ages 12 to 15, followed by adolescent males ages 16 to 17 years old.
The usual hysterics are losing their minds over this, but not one word of it is untrue.
I figured you would enjoy reading it.
Here’s something else that a chunk of you will enjoy, particularly my budding capitalists.
I used to give access to this speech — the best speech I have ever given, on any subject — as a bonus when people bought expensive products from me. I never gave it away for free.
But now I am. It will help people, so why not?
It’s based on my personal experience running several online businesses.
It’s the speech I gave at Commission Expo in Orlando, where I explained to a room full of experienced marketers why I was kicking the crap out of them in sales despite having a much smaller email list.
If you’re an entrepreneurship nerd like me, you will love this speech. It’s full of things you can also do, and that I can assure you work like a charm.
If you’re not, no problem.
But if you are, you’re going to be really, really happy you watched this. At the very least, you’ll be solidly entertained. That much I can guarantee. But if you actually implement what I teach here, you can expect to see results — possibly very big results.
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Discover the Internet of Things and How To Enter the Smart Factory Revolution
Connect an everyday object that has an on/off switch—a watch, a coffeepot, a thermostat—to the Internet, and you have the Internet of Things. These things can be many. Small and large items are game, from individual tools to large helicopter engine parts.
Sensors and integration code (APIs) allow objects to share data about the way they are used and the environment around them. Objects that are tagged, marked, or labeled relate to connections with surrounding objects and database information. Sensor and wireless technologies, including RFID, IUID, and QR codes are examples of tech that blossomed with the birth of IoT.
Think of a world where almost any physical object is connected via the internet to create one expansive information network, and you have the definition of IoT in a nutshell.
There are numerous devices available today that connect devices, appliances, and more for consumer use using modern Internet of Things (IoT) technology.
How Can the Internet of Things Benefit Business?
Track and locate parts, equipment, tools, assets, work orders, vehicles, and more simply by viewing them on a software map of your facility. Find items for audits quickly, avoiding wasting valuable hours in search for them.
Determine when tracked items leave your building, car lot, or shipyard. Monitor temperature and movement thresholds for environmentally sensitive chemicals in storage.
Follow a work order throughout your factory floor from initial creation through completion. Monitor where it gets hung-up to improve processes at each step.
Foresee when potential problems will happen. Step in to perform preventative maintenance instead of expensive and time-consuming after-the-fact repairs.
Learn from the information generated from IoT systems to improve productivity. With compatible IoT software, disparate data collected from different sources is readily analyzed.
Wherever you can take the internet, you can oversee your operations. Receive alarms for unauthorized movement and environmental thresholds, and chart historical data, to make critical decisions from your smartphone, tablet, and laptop.
This IoT technology is young, and businesses are coming up with innovative ways to solve workflow headaches to fit their specific needs:
✓ Update your business model to create new revenue
Add on new services, without overhauling your present operations, according to real-time sensor data findings.
✓ Automate processes to conserve resources while optimizing supply chains
Put your business and manufacturing operations on “remote control.”
✓ Develop a more productive workforce using the latest technology
Increase job satisfaction by automating the most routine tasks. Place communications on the fast track. Improve decision-making capabilities with better analytical tools.
✓ Improve customer satisfaction with state-of-the-art automation
Create a better experience for your valued customers with on-time delivery of personalized, enhanced products.
The Internet of Things is the spark that ignited the development of Industry 4.0 and the advent of the Smart Factory.
Join the Smart Factory Revolution
Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, takes manufacturing automation to an amazing new level of elevated production efficiency. Affix objects with sensors, such as RFID tags. Computers and networks closely monitor specific data from these tags to give you the freedom to make better decisions, improve processes, boost productivity, and elevate profits.
The blend of computational and physical systems is at the heart of Smart Factory processes, With the advent of Industry 4.0, adapt processes for customized optimization, effectively running the way you envision your business for optimum performance.
Here at ID Integration, our IoT experts remain at the forefront of smart factory development. Our key components of cloud computing get you started
The Brady® CenSys RFID Reader is the first IoT RFID reader introduced for business use. Mount it on a wall, plug it into a standard outlet, and you’re connected with easy-to-use cloud-based software. Configure alerts and messaging to sound the alarm and send along a text message whenever a tagged asset is moved. You set the thresholds, add asset characteristics and photos, and even review past asset locations. The CenSys RFID Reader is our most cost-effective way to realize the benefits of IoT efficiency, priced under $1000. Tag assets with paper RFID tags, at the low cost $.10 – $.15 each for paper and $.50 to $2.00 for metal and liquid parts, and efficiently track items and equipment for manufacturing operations, hospital equipment/devices, construction operations, museum operations, and more.
Xemelgo X-Track Location Tracking Software App works seamlessly with the Brady® CenSys Reader to display on a software map on your mobile device when and where assets last appeared. Monitor work orders, parts, and production equipment parts as they move throughout your factory floor. Built-in analytic tools allow you the freedom of assigning user access to specific personnel to monitor the organization of tagged items between departments and plants. Xemelgo software links cloud computing with the Internet of Things to help you manage order backlogs, expedited orders, delayed orders, and completed orders.
Transform your business into a Smart Factory. Improve your bottom line by overseeing your physical systems of operation using the Internet of Things. Collect critical data for optimal decision-making. Create a cyber-physical system to create communication between you and your “things” in real-time via the wireless web.
The limits of IoT technology are endless. Check out our V-Tag™ Active RFID tags that actually “talk” to each other to give you a fix on asset locations. Discover V-Tag™ GPS RFID tags, perfect for tracking assets outdoors. Download our guide to “Leveraging IoT and Cloud Manufacturing to Revolutionize Asset Tracking & Audit Prep” to dig deep into the world of IoT. Visit our catalog of RFID Starter Kits to run a successful concept test of your unique asset tracking vision for your business.
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ACLU, others sue over Ohio’s early voting rules
COLUMBUS – The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Ohio’s elections chief about limits to when voters can cast an early ballot in the perennial battleground state.
Ohioans can vote early by casting an absentee ballot by mail or in person before Election Day without giving any reason. About 33 percent of those who voted in the 2012 presidential election cast absentee ballots.
The lawsuit filed in Columbus federal court claims that recent cuts to when early voting can take place will make it difficult for tens of thousands of residents to vote and will unfairly affect black voters, who the groups say are more likely to use weekend and evening hours to vote early in elections.
Freda Levenson, managing attorney for the ACLU of Ohio, told reporters at a news conference that voting should be designed for the convenience of voters and not a strategy piece for politicians.
“The cuts that we’re challenging in this lawsuit eliminated hours that were disproportionately used by lower-income voters, by African American voters, by single parents, by working voters,” Levenson said. “So these were not across-the-board cuts. These were cuts that had disproportionate impact on certain classes of voters.”
Secretary of State Jon Husted and his fellow Republicans who dominate the Legislature have stressed that residents still have plenty of time to vote. They argue the changes help achieve fairness and consistency across the state’s 88 counties and benefit boards of elections.
Local boards of elections previously set early voting hours, creating a patchwork of times across the state. Without a directive from Husted, they would be free to set their own hours.
Husted spokesman Matt McClellan said voting in Ohio is easy, and opponents should instead sue states with no early voting hours.
“It’s ironic that Secretary Husted is being sued for treating all voters equally and for supporting a bipartisan voting schedule that gives Ohioans an entire month to cast ballots,” McClellan said in a written statement.
The fall early voting schedule set by Husted includes two Saturdays, but no Sundays or evening hours.
Several predominantly black churches and the Ohio chapters of the League of Women Voters and the NAACP have joined the ACLU in its lawsuit challenging Husted’s directive on early voting hours.
The churches in the lawsuit have offered their parishioners a ride to the polls on the Sunday before Election Day. They contend that such “Souls to the Polls” programs have special meaning within their communities and are being destroyed by the new voting schedule.
Husted has defended the hours as a bipartisan solution, because they were proposed by an association of Republican and Democratic county elections officials. He has pressed state lawmakers for the past three years to put the hours and days for early voting into law, but the Legislature has not adopted any plan.
The groups also want to overturn a Republican-backed law that eliminated the so-called golden week, a period when residents could both register to vote and cast an early ballot at the same time. Without those days, early voting typically starts 29 days before Election Day.
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One of the most common and important uses of technical communication is writing instructions that provide directions for carrying out
One of the most common and important uses of technical is writing instructions that provide directions for carrying out a procedure or performing a task. Effective instructions commonly include multimedia elements (such as pictures, diagrams, and flowcharts) that illustrate and clarify the text. Writing effective instructions informs the audience of a process in an unambiguous, understandable, complete, consistent, and efficient fashion.
In any kind of communication, it is important to understand your audience and their needs. Often, the same information or set of instructions can be tailored to meet the needs of different audiences. Performing an audience analysis helps you create documents that communicate clearly and effectively to the specific audience you are trying to reach. Audience analyses vary widely in depth and complexity. The complexity of your analysis will depend on the information you seek and the way you plan to apply it.
For this task, you will be presented with a scenario that requires audience analyses in order to write procedural instructions.
Your team at work is implementing a new . This process is based on the implementation of software source control for your organization’s development teams. This process will guide a developer in creating a new repository on a code hosting platform. In turn, this enables your company to significantly increase the quantity of products produced while still maintaining a high level of product quality.
You will present this process to three different audiences:
You and your team are presenting the new IT process at an international conference overseas in English. Attendees are professionals with varying levels of technical proficiency in your field and are excited to understand the process so that they can consider it for implementation in their respective organizations.
An associate of yours teaches information technology at an online university. You have discussed your new process with her, and she has asked you to develop a webinar for her students to share the details of your process. Your presentation will expand a lesson the class recently covered.
Your manager has asked you to present the new process to your department. Several process changes in the past were unsuccessful, and key members of the department are resistant to adopting the new process.
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Describe the target audience in each of the three examples by addressing each of the following attributes:
• familiarity with the topic
• cultural background
B. Describe how you would modify a presentation used for the audience from Audience 1 to present to the audience in Audience 2. Include each of the following points in your description:
• level of detail
• use of professional jargon
• vocabulary level
• use of visuals
• use of humor
1. Justify how each modification you made in part B meets the needs of the audience in Audience 2.
C. Write step-by-step instructions to help your colleagues in Audience 3 implement a specific subset of the process. Include eachof the following components:
• prerequisite steps
• key steps
• multimedia elements to help the audience complete the task (e.g., screen shots, workflow diagrams, pictures)
D. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
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Hangovers 101: The Hair of the Dog that Bites You
May 10, 2018
The Dog Who Bites Back
Let’s start with a hangover cure that’s literally been around for centuries, Hair of the Dog. The term is a shortened version of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” It refers to countering your drunken evening with an ever-so-slightly drunken morning.
Or at least, the theory posits that having a drink or several the morning after a binge will cure your hangover.
I’m a sucker for origins and etymology, so I have to admit that I chose this Hangover Cure first because I really wanted to research where this saying comes from.
The internet did not disappoint. In medieval Europe, as in many cultures that were not so hip to the ways of science, it was believed that to cure an ailment, one should use the cause of the ailment. The Latin term is “similia similibus curentur” or “like cures like.” It is actually still used today in homeopathy (to some degrees of success, depending on who you talk to)[i]. The folk remedy referenced quite literally means that if you are bit by a rabid dog, you should treat yourself with a medicinal brew that includes some hair from that selfsame rabid dog. Solid logic from the folks who attempted to ward off the plague by farting into jars (yep)[ii].
Since immoderation in consuming alcoholic spirits is as much a part of the collective human experience as, say, breathing, it isn’t surprising that at some point in history we humans tried the Hair of the Dog that Bit You in order to recover from the effects of our overindulgence.
Today, there are two schools of thought when it comes to the realistic capabilities of fighting hangovers with more alcohol.
One: the short-term effects of alcohol consumption can mask the hangover symptoms. It’s the reason many people overindulge in the first place– it feels good. A spike in blood sugar gives us a quick energy boost. Acting as a sedative, alcohol can also dull the unpleasant physical symptoms, like a throbbing headache[iii]. Problem solved, right?
Two: a nip in the morning will actually slow the withdrawal process down. Hangovers occur when your body returns to normal. It stands to reason that the faster it happens, the more uncomfortable you’ll be during the process. It hurts more to jump out of a second story window than it does to walk down a flight of stairs. While it may take longer to get sober, there’s less of a shock to the system[iv].
But Does Hair of the Dog Work?
The short answer is: Not really. Or at least, not very well. Yeah sure, you may feel better washing down a sick stomach with a mimosa or five. But you are just delaying the inevitable. Your body will clean itself out and you’re left to wallow your way through the ramifications of your actions. Good luck!
Here’s how it went down at our house…
6:32AM: small child crawls into our bed and demands breakfast for herself and her stuffed unicorn. Husband declares that he has a headache and his mouth is very dry, but otherwise not terrible. Hangover rating C+.
6:39AM: Urine is a very dark yellow, “like a sunrise.”
6:53AM: Husband makes a Bloody Mary and a bowl of Cheerios. It does not sit well. He eats a few tums.
The rest of the day is spent popping ibuprofen and drinking water. He is functional, but not at his best.
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being “works like a charm” and 1 being “I feel worse now than ever”, I’d say that the Hair of the Dog will still bite you in the ass with a solid 3. Better luck next time.
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Every time an employer provides a student with the opportunity to gain work-related knowledge, skills, and experience, they make an incalculable positive contribution to the quality of a young person’s life and career prospects.
The CEL established the Experiential Learning Employer Excellence Award in 2010 to recognize the many exemplary employers engaging with students across Ontario.
“At Seneca, we are proud to host hundreds of high school students at our campuses throughout the year. These initiatives are an excellent opportunity for students to get an early experience of what higher education is all about, from our many learning opportunities to student life to the exciting career opportunities that open up with a post-secondary education.”
— David Agnew, President, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Recipients of the Experiential Learning Employer Excellence Award are publicly acknowledged by the Council for Experiential Learning for their important contributions. They also enjoy the right to use the award emblem in their corporate, marketing and communications materials.
The deadline for 2018 applications is June 30, 2019.
A review committee of CEL members considers all applications.
The following types of school-work opportunities are covered by the award:
- Cooperative Education
- School-Work Transition Programs
- Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
- Specialist High Skills Major Program
- Job Shadowing/Mentoring
- Volunteer Placements
- Career Fair Participation
- Classroom Visits/Career Talks
- Workplace Tours
Applications are assessed using a simple point system. A minimum total of 50 points is required to earn the designation. One point is awarded for every school-work opportunity, either student placement or outreach activity, provided by an employer in the applicable academic year.
Note: Student placements are awarded one point for every participating student.
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“When we think about a cryptoasset as being a security what we’re doing is we’re saying it’s being sold as part of an investment contract.”
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, also known as “crypto mom”, has said the ongoing lawsuit opposing the Securities and Exchange Commission and blockchain company Ripple Labs could add to regulatory clarity.
Ms. Peirce told Bloomberg TV what is the SEC’s intention when filing a complaint against a firm for an unregistered securities offering.
“When we think about a cryptoasset as being a security what we’re doing is we’re saying it’s being sold as part of an investment contract. It doesn’t mean that the asset itself necessarily has to be a security. It means that it was being sold as a security.”
The SEC complaint, filed on 22 December 2021, doesn’t seem to mention that broader view. This is how the first paragraph goes:
“The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives, who are also significant security holders, alleging that they raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, ongoing digital asset securities offering.”
Throughout the lawsuit, the regulator has claimed that Ripple’s XRP is a security due to its centralized nature and so, it falls under its regulatory scope.
Ripple says it never held an ICO nor its digital asset can be defined as a security since its utility is proven every day across the globe as it is used for cross-border payments.
In April, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that is meant to set up a digital asset working group to provide regulatory clarity in the crypto industry.
The “Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act” mandates the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to work together as the “SEC and CFTC Working Group on Digital Assets. A report would be submitted within a year. The bill was introduced in March by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-North Carolina).
This past week, the House Committee on Financial Services has launched a Digital Assets Working Group of Democratic Members, said Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the Chairwoman of the committee at the first hearing held by the Task Force on Financial Technology.
“As cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies and other digital assets enter the mainstream, the Committee will look at how digital assets have begun to enter many aspects of our lives – from payments to investments to remittances – and consider how to devise legislation to support responsible innovation that protects consumers and investors while promoting greater financial inclusion”, Ms. Waters stated.
Being composed only by Democrats, the working group might only be able to go so far in its assertions and proposals. Still, it seems that the United States Congress is finally moving forward and taking initiative.
The anxiety-ridden SEC v. Ripple has recently seen the fact discovery deadline being extended by 60 days. This alters the predictions regarding the end of the lawsuit (updated agenda).
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Toro is a well-known manufacturer of mowing and gardening equipment. Among their products are lawnmowers for both small and big yards, golf courses. They also produce parts and accessories for their machines. Many homeowners who own a Toro lawnmower enjoy mowing their lawn and are quite happy and satisfied with their performance. For people who just started to use a Toro mower, starting it correctly can be a concern. Toro produces both push and riding mowers, which follow almost similar starting procedures.
How to Start a Toro Lawnmower:
- Starting a Toro Push Mower:
First of all, press the primer three times. This will draw fuel into the engine for ignition. After that, pull and hold the safety bar near the handle. Then pull the starter rope with a quick movement. Your engine will start in one or two tries with the rope.
- Starting a Toro Riding Mower:
In the case of a Toro riding mower, put the ignition key in and turn off the ‘PTO’ switch. Engage the parking brake and turn the choke lever to ‘full’ position. After that, turn the ignition key for not more than 10 seconds. Once the engine starts, let it warm for around half a minute with the choke lever at the ‘half’ position. Once the engine is warm, turn the choke lever to the ‘off’ position.
Reasons why a Toro Lawnmower fails to start:
Sometimes your engine fails to start even when you are following the correct procedure. Failure to start the engine can be caused by one of the following problems:
- Bad gas
- Faulty carburetor
- Dirty/blocked air filter
- Low/incomplete compression
- Faulty coil
- Issues with flywheel timing
Whether you own a Toro push mower or riding mower, it’s recommended that you follow the correct starting procedure to keep your mower’s engine healthy. The proper starting procedure will ensure that the mower keeps running after you start it. Another issue to address is the failure to start a Toro mower even after several tries following the correct procedure. As just shown, multiple problems could cause that.
This article will teach you the correct procedure for starting a Toro lawnmower and guiding you on possible fixes to the problems mentioned earlier. After going through this article, you’ll have a much better understanding of the starting procedure and factors involved in starting a Toro lawnmower.
- 1 Detailed Starting Procedure for Toro Lawnmowers:
- 1.1 ● Toro Push Mower:
- 1.2 ● Toro Riding Mower:
- 2 Problems that don’t let the Engine Start:
- 3 Regular Maintenance:
- 4 Final Remarks:
Detailed Starting Procedure for Toro Lawnmowers:
Whether you own a Toro push mower or a Toro riding mower, the starting procedure is fairly simple to understand and follow. Failure to follow the correct starting procedure can cause the engine to either not start at all or stop after running for some moments. So, make sure to follow the correct starting procedure mentioned below.
● Toro Push Mower:
Follow these steps to correctly start your Toro push mower in a couple of attempts at max.
– Step 1. Pressing the primer bulb:
The first step is to press the primer bulb three times. Remember to hold the bulb for one or two seconds before releasing it each time you press it. What this does is that it draws the fuel into the engine for the ignition to happen.
– Step 2. Safety bar:
There is a safety bar located near the handle. Pull and hold this bar, and don’t release it, or the engine will shut off.
– Step 3. Pull the starter rope:
After performing the first two-step mentioned above, pull the starter rope. Remember two important things as far as pulling the rope is concerned: Pull from the handle at the end of the rope, and the pulling movement should be quick. If the pull is too slow, the engine will not start. You might have to pull the rope a couple of times before the engine starts. If the engine does not start after pulling the rope several times, it means that the engine did not receive enough fuel. In this case, press the primer bulb a couple of times, then try the rope again.
● Toro Riding Mower:
Starting a Toro riding mower is not difficult either. Follow these simple steps to start your riding mower from Toro.
– Step 1. Key:
Put the ignition key in the keyhole, but don’t turn it yet.
– Step 2. PTO switch:
A PTO switch on the riding mower basically acts as a security device and prevents the blades from turning when the mower is turned on. Switch off the PTO switch.
– Step 3. Parking brake:
The parking brake should be engaged while trying to start the Toro riding mower. This will ensure that your mower does not start rolling while you are still trying to start it.
– Step 4. Choke lever:
You can skip this step if the engine is already warm. But if you are trying to start a cold engine, turn the choke lever to the ‘full’ position before proceeding to the next step.
– Step 5. Ignition:
With the choke lever in full position, turn the ignition key. Don’t turn the key for more than 10 seconds, or else your engine might get harmed. You might have to turn the key a couple of times before the engine starts.
– Step 6. Warm-up:
After ignition, turn the choke lever to the ‘half’ position and let the engine run for half a minute so that it gets warm. Once the engine is all warmed up, turn the choke lever to the ‘off’ position. Your riding mower is ready to mow.
Sometimes, the engine’s internal issues won’t let the engine start even when the user follows the correct starting procedure. The most common issue that prevents the engine from starting normally is problems with the carburetor, ignition system, gas, air filter, etc. Checking your engine to search for the root cause of these problems is not difficult. You can consult the manufacturer’s manual or internet tutorials to carry out a diagnosis on your Toro mower that won’t start.
Problems that don’t let the Engine Start:
Here’s a list of common problems that don’t let the engine start and their possible fixes are discussed too.
● Bad Gas:
Your Toro mower engine won’t start on bad gas. Gas is bad when it is not fresh and clean or when its composition does not match the requirements.
Always use fresh gas in your Toro mower. Don’t let gas sit in the tank when you store the mower. If there is old gas in the tank, drain it out and put fresh gas before starting the mower.
Toro recommends gas with an octane rating of 87 and an ethanol blend of not greater than 10% ethanol. Adding a good quality fuel stabilizer in the gas is also recommended.
● Faulty Carburetor:
A faulty carburetor will fail to provide the correct fuel-air mixture to the combustion chamber, preventing the engine from starting or running smoothly. Carburetor usually gets dirty with its ports blocked over a long period of use. If ethanol-blended gas sits in the tank for a long time, it can produce a sticky material that can block the carburetor ports.
Examine the carburetor by following the manual’s instructions or an online tutorial and clean it with carburetor cleaner, brush, and water. If the carburetor is in such bad condition that it cannot be restored, replace it with a new one.
● Blocked Air Filter:
A blocked air filter can prevent the correct amount of air from reaching the combustion chamber, which results in incomplete combustion. Incomplete combustion means that less than the required amount of power is produced, which is not enough for starting the engine and keep it running.
If your Toro mower is not starting, remove and examine the air filter. Cleaning an air filter that is not too dirty is easy. Use a brush, soap, and water for cleaning the air filter and install it back. If the air filter is too dirty and blocked, better replace it with a new one.
Any compression related problem won’t let the engine start because an incompletely compressed air-fuel mixture will not ignite correctly.
To ensure complete compression in your Toro mower engine, ensure that the cylinder head gasket, piston rings, and valves are free from faults.
● Faulty Coil:
Your Toro mower with a faulty coil won’t normally start too. Testing the coil and getting it fixed is another possible solution to a Toro mower that is not starting.
The flywheel plays an important role in starting the engine. A broken flywheel or issues with its timing prevent the engine from starting.
If your Toro engine is not starting, check the flywheel. If the flywheel is broken, replace it with a new one that is compliant with your engine.
A well maintained Toro mower will never have starting problems. Regular servicing and tune-up will keep your mower in good shape and ensure that it starts on the first attempt.
You can find guidelines about maintaining your Toro mower in the manufacturer’s manual or through online guides and tutorials.
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Are you new to the church or the area? If so, you are very welcome! Please do check out our New to Church page to get all the information about what goes and when.
Let us tell you a little of the background of our church.
New Park St Baptist Chapel was established in the mid nineteeth century. A group of workers with their families arrived at Holyhead to help construct the Holyhead Harbour Breakwater. When they first arrived they worshipped at Bethel Baptist Chapel on Edmund St but this posed something of a problem. The men and their families could not understand Welsh, so they began to plan the building of an English Baptist Chapel. The congregation at Bethel were a great help in raising money and in assisting in the building of New Park St English Baptist Chapel.
The famous Victorian preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, laid the foundation stone at the chapel site in 1860. To the confusion of many, New Park St Chapel is not named for the street on which it stands but after the Spurgeon's chapel in London where he was resident Minister. The chapel has maintained a Christian witness and ministry since that time and God being willing, will continue to do so into the future. | <urn:uuid:2bc7369b-3276-423d-b039-c2d13c33be50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://holyheadbaptist.co.uk/Groups/291781/About_Us.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969705 | 247 | 1.609375 | 2 |
= This is the description of 2013-2014. An updated version will follow soon. =
In modern contexts, Buddhist theory and doctrine preferably are interpreted and explained in psychological terms, both in and outside Asia. When and how did this hermeneutical practice arise? Yet, this is not a seminar on psychology, what we are rather interested to explore is the framing of Buddhism as a form of psychology, be it a non-modern one (a contradiction in terms, if there ever was one…), i.e., Buddhism as some kind of ‘science of the mind’. Students of psychology and the social sciences who are interested in this hermeneutical interface are more than welcome to attend.
The practice of translating, interpreting and framing Buddhism in psychological terms and concepts has a long and demonstrable history that—perhaps not surprisingly—is approximately as old as is the discipline of psychology itself. These hermeneutical proclivities may in fact reveal more about our own intellectual history than about Buddhism in non-modern Asian contexts: viz. our specific history with religion, as exemplified in the transition through the age of enlightenment and the rise of modern disciplines of science, secularisation, processes of individuation, interiorisation of the ‘self’ and the increasing, at times sheer dazzling self-reflexivity of modernity, and, of course, the concomitant history of reception of Buddhism in the ‘West’.
In the course of this seminar we will have opportunity to reflect on the reception history and psychological interpretation of Buddhism, as outlined above. Bravely conquering our neophyte trepidations, we will leap into the deepest waters from the very outset. Our main sources of information on Buddhism will be original texts in translation, rather than second- or third-hand information and digests. We will first study several typical examples of Buddhist texts and genres; ‘typical’ in the sense that they have contributed to the widely entertained assumption that Buddhism, au fond, is some non-modern form of psychology. Don’t let the technical nature and at times hermetical appearance of the Buddhist reading materials discourage you; many of these texts indeed appear a far cry from the Buddhist literature that is specifically produced for ‘Western’ audiences and which many of those interested in Buddhism in this ‘New Age’ may be familiar with. This is a different cup of tea altogether, not rarely steeped by the sharpest minds, greatest philosophers and most erudite scholars of pre-modern Asia. Some of these were also reputed to be accomplished yogins; but that is not as self-evident as it may seem. In fact, the very problems we experience whenreading, understanding and contextualising the materials are what fuel the subsequent discourse and our discussions in this seminar.
We will thus be reading, in transla¬tion, complicated and knowledge-intensive materials that often are difficult to penetrate without extensive commentary. We shall see late-tantric schematic representations of the mental domain, referring to visualizations and other imaginings & conceptualizations of so-called disturbing emotions, transcendent wisdoms, and various other mental categories, pertaining to both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, cyclic existence and its extinction: i.e., final release of the same. We will familiarize ourselves with Buddhist theories of perception and, more in general, with an abundance of Buddhist scholastic classifications pertaining to the mental domain. Struggling with these, at times, gnomic texts, we will also learn a thing or two about Buddhist views and theories of mind and on Buddhist perspectives on our ordinary and extraordinary human potential, thoughts and feelings.
Participants will be encouraged to critically examine everything—including the framing of this seminar itself (and if needs be to blast their way out of this provisional framing)—and to question or underpin the received wisdom of current modernist assumptions regarding the relationship between Buddhism and psychology highlighted in the course, or fundamentally to revise them or establish anew their framings, in brilliant academic discourse. The ample attention, during this seminar, for critical reflection and discussion, its informal format, with the opportunity for tailor-made individual contributions, and the main mode of course assessment, through individual essays that are research-oriented, all contribute to an exciting and probably also somewhat demanding and challenging (if not occasionally frustrating) journey of discovery.
Being able to demonstrate, in oral presentation and written form, detailed knowledge of the main Buddhist theories and doctrines that have invited the hermeneutical rapprochement between Buddhism and psychology.
To demonstrate analytical insight into the history of the framing Buddhism in psychological terms and ideas.
To demonstrate familiarity with the complex relationships of psychological readings of Buddhism against the backdrop of Buddhist modernisation movements in Asia and the reception of Buddhism outside Asia.
To demonstrate analytical insight into “how things appear in the eye of the beholder”: i.e., appreciation of the reflection of our own history of religious ideas in the rapprochement between Buddhism and psychology, and recognition of our tendencies to ‘psychologise’ the sacred and to ‘sacralise’ psychology.
To demonstrate understanding of the problematic nature of categories such as ‘immediate experience’ in Buddhism and the implied epistemic paradoxes.
To demonstrate the ability to engage the problematic of first and third person approaches in academia.
To develop and demonstrate the required skill of selective reading in voluminous and varied primary and secondary sources; for instance, the ability to extract relevant data from chapters and articles that are written from a variety of perspectives and theoretical framings.
To acquire and demonstrate, in essay and presentation, basic academic skills, such as asking properly academic questions, critically appraising information, and effectively presenting data and academic arguments, both in writing and verbally, and demonstrating awareness of the target audience while doing so.
Mode of instruction
5 EC (140 hours/SBU), level 500:
Attendance at seminar: 26h
Oral presentation: 10h (is also preparation for essay)
Readings and weekly summaries: 70 h (readings partly used for presentation and essay)
Essay 1.500 – 2.500 words: 34h
10 EC (280 h/SBU), level 500:
Attendance at seminar: 26h
Presentation: 10h (is also preparation for essay)
Readings and weekly summaries: 70 h (readings partly used for presentation and essay)
Additional readings at higher level: 76h
Essay: 4.000 – 6.000 words: 98h
5.0 ECTS, level 500
Weekly summaries of the reading materials and participation in discussion: 20% of grade
Oral presentation: 20% of grade
Essay: 60% of grade
10.0 ECTS, level 500
Weekly summaries of the reading materials and participation in discussion: 10% of grade
Oral presentation: 10% of grade
Essay: 80% of grade
In order to pass the course, students must obtain an an overall mark of “6” (=5.45) or higher. No re-sits are possible.
The course is an integrated whole. The final examination and the assignments must be completed in the same academic year. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
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Aranow, P.Th. (1988), Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self from a Buddhist Perspective, two volumes, UMI Ph.D.-Thesis, Harvard University, 1988.
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Batchelor, S. (1997), Buddhism Without Beliefs, A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, New York 1997.
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Registration via uSis
MA seminar, offered in the first semester;
5.0 (or 10.0) ECTS, level 500, language English, Dutch is an option;
Weekly summaries, active participation, and concluding essay (5.0/10.0 EC).
Recommended: Introduction to Buddhism (Silk, 5.0 ECTS, 100).
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Was a slow week after Xmas with low crew levels, but TK’s brother decided he wanted to learn how to drive … on his way to earning another badge for cub scouts … wait … cub scout badge for driving a J30?
Faced with the relatively confusing left is right and right is left tiller training mantra of the past … we decided to use a technique we’ve been experimenting with on visually handicapped drivers.
We have them hold the smooth steel handle and just follow along as we drive the boat … slowly driving less and less as the new driver burns those synapses and neural pathways into his brain. This photo sort of summarizes the program, starting with the “no fear because the skipper has control with two fingers on the stick.”
Interestingly at some point the new driver realizes that he, and he alone, is driving the boat … not in the least concerned that left is right and right is left.
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Rapping Teacher – level 2
A teacher at a Chilean high school knows how to engage his students! To reward his students and to bring the coursework to life, the young teacher busts a rhyme.
The teacher used to rap on city buses to earn some money. His students found out, and that’s how it all started. The 26-year-old teacher is a big hit at the school. So what do you think? Will this be a popular teaching method?
You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.
Can you rap?
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Fascinating cuttlefish • Despite their common name, cuttlefish are not fish but mollusks. • The eye of the cuttlefish, like that of the squid, has a very similar design to our own. • Cuttlefish blood looks blue-green because it uses the pigment hemocyanin to carry oxygen. • Cuttlefish fish have the remarkable ability to rapidly alter their skin color at will. • Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, crabs, shrimp, fish and other cuttlefish. • The cuttlefish has tentacles along with a mantle that had a calcium based ‘cuttlebone’ which forms the shape of the body. • They have eight arms and two tentacles, which consist of denticulated suckers. Between the tentacles, one can find a beak-like mouth. The eye of the cuttlefish
Distinguishingfeatures • The cuttlefish is so called because they have a bone in the middle of their bodies, known as a cuttlebone, filled with gas, which is used as a buoyancy control device. • Averaging about 30cm in length (giant cuttlefish can grow up to 100cm), they have eight arms and two prehensile (capable of grasping) tentacles around their parrot-like beak. • Their eyes are remarkably similar in construction to human eyes and there is an unmistakable feeling that you are dealing with a creature of intelligence when you find yourself in a staring contest with a cuttlefish • Mating cuttlefish align their bodies head to head so the male can transfer a sealed package of sperm into a pouch beneath the female's mouth. The female then scurries off to a quiet place where she draws eggs from her cavity and passes them over the sperm, thereby fertilizing them.
Diving with cuttlefish • Unlike their squid and octopus cousins, baby cuttlefish are already highly developed and independent straight hatching. • The main predators of cuttlefish are sharks, fish and other cuttlefish. Dolphins also attack cuttlefish but strangely eat only the heads. • Cuttlefish are widely distributed according to species. For example the European common cuttlefish is found all along the eastern Atlantic from Scandinavia to South Africa and the Mediterranean. Most other species, such as the flamboyant cuttlefish, are found in Asian waters and in Australasia. They are not found in American waters.
Cuttlefish reproduction • Adult cuttlefish are hard to sex and the only 100% reliable way to sex a live one is to see it mating or laying eggs. • However, a male cuttlefish might aggressively display to a reflection of itself in a mirror. The aggressive display of cuttlefish consists of a vivid zebra stripped pattern, bulging eyes, and often lining up parallel to its reflection. • Since sexing techniques are far from reliable, the best way to get mated cuttlefish is to raise a group together in a large aquarium. They can tell each others sex by sight and will mate readily when they are old enough to do so. | <urn:uuid:e7f62c3d-f3b1-4e00-a452-be975e12ee38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fr.slideserve.com/adamdaniel/cuttlefish-powerpoint-ppt-presentation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960642 | 640 | 3.46875 | 3 |
A NEW CULTURE OF LEARNING
Shaping a positive, inspiring, engaging, inclusive and supportive culture of learning is essential. Without it, any curriculum becomes either irrelevant or misused. When schools create such a powerful culture, learning becomes easier, fluid, authentic, meaningful, personalized and collaborative.
Explore the key principles of ICA's Culture of Learning
1. LEARNER-DRIVEN AND PERSONALIZED
Our approach is learner-driven and based on students’ interests. Students and educators are agents of their own growth.
Every learner comes with a unique combination of identity, personality, passions, experience, needs, culture, mindset, toolset and skillset that has to be noticed, valued and taken into account to personalize learning.
THE IC LEARNING FRAMEWORK
The central focus of the International Comprehensive learning framework is the lifelong growth of every learner to pursue their aspiration accomplished through inquiry learning and integrating overarching forces of environment, languages, time, relationships and external factors.
This approach has been designed so that schools can create an inspiring, inclusive, meaningful, student-centred and competency-driven learning environment.
The learner is at the heart of the framework because our approach is learner-centred and emphasizes that learning is an ongoing and holistic process made of many struggles and achievements. As Brené Brown says in her Manifesto of the Brave and Brokenhearted :
"We are the authors of our lives"
Indeed, the learning process does not start nor end in a predetermined place and time. Through powerful learning experiences and regular reflections, students will activate and develop a set of useful competencies. The term competency embodies skills, knowledge and personal attributes. Skills can be directly taught and are usually specific to a task. For example, being able to use video editing software is a technical skill. According to the Cambridge dictionary, Knowledge relates to the understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study. Finally, personal attributes or dispositions refer to the habits of mind or character traits of a person. Competency is a broad term that can be defined as the ability to use a combination of knowledge, skills and personal attributes in various situations.
These competencies are empowering them to grow as active, adaptable, socially aware and self-motivated learners all along their life both personally and professionally so that they can contribute to the rapidly evolving world in a meaningful and purposeful way.
The first of the four core competencies is named Communication and Creativity. It helps us confidently share our projects, ideas, questions and understandings with others in many different ways and contexts. Communication is organically linked to technology, language and collaboration and can therefore positively impact our social and emotional well-being and contribute to building more genuine and trusting relationships. Creativity and Digital competency are critical in a changing world where automated tasks have become the norm. The added value of individuals comes from their capacity to create original artifacts and use technology in a purposeful and responsible way.
The second one is Personal and Social Competency, which is defined in the British Columbia's curriculum as:
“the set of abilities that relate to students' identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society. Personal and social competency encompasses what students need to thrive as individuals, to understand and care about themselves and others, and to find and achieve their purposes in the world.”
All human beings take advantage at any age of being able to implement healthy habits, being aware of all our senses, developing our motor and physical skills and being attentive to our mental health.
The third core competency is Thinking & Inquiring. There are many different thinking skills that one can use depending on the learning experience. It is important to acknowledge that Thinking is complex, multidimensional and requires time. As the Harvard Project Zero team and particularly Professor Ron Ritchhart explain in their remarkable work, thinking is a critical component of understanding. Moreover, for students to develop thinking competency, they need to be able to identify, understand and have an opportunity to use the different thinking kinds in various situations, be inquisitive and ask questions.
Finally, some competencies are subject-specific and will be developed through curricular projects and formative assessments.
We owe every learner to empower them to develop the lifelong competencies they need to thrive in their present and future life.
Learning experiences and Portfolio
Learning is a process and it happens through powerful inquiry-based learning experiences alongside ongoing reflection and purposeful documentation of the process with the use of a portfolio.
Creating rich and powerful learning experiences to have learners DO, UNDERSTAND and KNOW requires deep thinking and preparation, but also the capacity for the educator to make adjustments, be responsive, release control, observe, facilitate and reflect. Powerful learning experiences allow students to have some agency and choice, ask questions, explore, generate ideas, try new things, make mistakes, investigate to authentic contexts, collaborate, create, go deep, feel curious, challenged and joyful, organically apply technological skills, share and reflect.
Most of all, they are designed to amplify and personalize learning and foster core and curricular competencies and different types of literacy which altogether highly contribute to the learner’s growth and well-being.
OVERARCHING FORCES (cultural factors)
Time, Environment, Relationships, Languages and External forces
The outer layer of the framework represents the overarching forces which operate in every community, school and classroom. They are important cultural markers which shape safe, effective, inspiring and engaging conditions for learning to thrive. Time, Environment, Languages, Relationships and External factors are important cultural markers which can shape safe, effective, inspiring and engaging conditions for learning to thrive. These five forces also highly contribute to our well-being and social emotional development. In order for them not to become obstacles or constraints, we need to be fully aware of their influence and think deeply about how we might be able to monitor, adapt and tailor them to build an impactful culture of learning. | <urn:uuid:17b061f5-7ed3-4b72-90c0-8e788f56547a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icanadianacademy.com/culture-of-learning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945751 | 1,266 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Make the Most of Your CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Exam Study Time
Posted by Julia Baby on April 13th, 2022
The CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Guidebook is a comprehensive exam that tests your knowledge of networking concepts and practices. We\'ve put together a list of tips to help you make the most of your study time to help get the most out of your prep time.
1. Know the exam content. The first step in preparing for any exam is understanding what material will be covered. The CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Guidebook covers a wide range of topics, so be sure to review the exam content outline to understand what will be tested.
2. Use study aids. There are several excellent study aids available for the CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Dumps. We recommend using both CompTIA\'s official study guide and exam prep course and third-party study guides and practice exams.
3. Create a study schedule. Once you know what material you need to cover, it\'s time to create a study schedule. It\'s essential to be realistic about how much time you can devote to studying each day and break up the material into manageable chunks.
4. Stick to your schedule. It\'s easy to let studying fall by the wayside, but it\'s essential to stick to your study schedule. If you find yourself struggling to stay on track, try setting daily or weekly goals to help you stay on track.
5. Take practice exams. One of the best ways to prepare for an exam is to take practice exams. It will help you get a feel for the types of questions you\'ll see on the actual exam, but it will also help you identify any areas where you need additional study.
6. Get plenty of rest. It\'s essential to get enough sleep before your exam to be well-rested and able to focus. Make sure to schedule some downtime in the days leading up to your exam so that you\'re not trying to cram everything in at the last minute.
7. Eat a healthy breakfast. Eating a healthy breakfast on the day of your exam will help you stay focused and alert during the test. Avoid sugary foods or drinks that can give you a quick energy boost followed by a crash.
8. Stay calm. It\'s normal to feel some nerves on exam day, but staying calm and focused is essential. If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a few deep breaths and remind yourself that you\'ve prepared as best.
9. Take your time. Don\'t rush through the exam. If you don\'t know the answer to a question, take a moment to process the inquiry and eliminate any wrong answers.
10. Skip questions you don\'t know. There\'s no penalty for guessing on the CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Guidebook, so if you come across a question that you don\'t know the answer to, it\'s better to think than to waste time trying to figure it out.
11. Mark questions you want to come back to. If you\'re unsure about an answer, you can mark the query and return to it later. It can help you save time if you\'re running out of time on the exam.
12. Review your answers before you submit them. Before you click the \"submit\" button, take a moment to review your answers. Make sure you haven\'t accidentally marked the wrong answer and that you\'re confident in your choices.
13. Relax after the exam. Once you\'ve submitted your exam, it\'s essential to relax and not dwell on the questions you got wrong. You\'ve done the best you can, and now it\'s time to move on.
14. Get feedback from your instructor. If you\'re taking a class or working with a tutor, get feedback on your performance. They can help you identify areas where you need to focus your studies.
15. Use online resources. Several excellent online resources can help you prepare for the CompTIA Network+ N10-008 exam. Be sure to take advantage of these resources to get the most out of your study time.
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Today in Feminist History is our daily recap of the major milestones and minor advancements that shaped women’s history in the U.S.—from suffrage to Shirley Chisholm and beyond. These posts were written by, and are presented in homage to, our late staff historian and archivist, David Dismore.
September 25, 1932: A new weapon in what’s becoming a war on women in the workforce was denounced tonight by Civil Service Commissioner Jessie Dell at a meeting sponsored by the National Woman’s Party at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
Section 213 of the Economy Act of 1932 was allegedly passed in an effort to spread Civil Service jobs around to as many families as possible during the current economic crisis. It states that if cutbacks are needed, those who have spouses working for the Federal Government or the District of Columbia must be dismissed first, and if new positions become available, priority must go to those who do not have Government employed spouses.
Dell noted that the original bill called for the dismissal of wives only, but at the last minute, due to “fear, on the part of legislators, of the political effect, if discrimination against women were otherwise so clearly and forcibly shown,” the text was changed to make it neutral in regard to gender. But the change was purely cosmetic. Since men are generally promoted higher and faster than women, virtually all husbands earn more than their wives, so if cutbacks require a family to live on just one salary, it’s invariably the lower-paid wife who will resign to protect the higher-paid husband’s job, not vice versa.
Dell also noted that if keeping a family from having too many Government jobs is the aim, why not prohibit fathers and sons from being simultaneously employed, or any two family members living in the same household ? She said that the real purpose of the law was “to strike at the employment of women generally” and that “this strange freak of legislation is merely a reaction against the employment of women on the part of men who, after all the remarkable work women have done, still cannot push aside their biased opinions and honestly consider the real good of the service.”
Prejudice against married women in the workforce is nothing new, of course, and strict bans on women teachers marrying, which were widespread decades before the current Depression hit, are not totally extinct even today. Some private companies are also implementing such policies. In a typical example, last September 28th, the Norfolk and Western Railroad announced that after October 1st it would not employ married women, and that any single woman who was presently employed there would automatically be fired is she married. Hostility toward the employment of married women has skyrocketed with the unemployment rate, and now has been formally (if covertly) enshrined in Federal law. The new law states:
“In any reduction of personnel in any branch or service of the United States Government or the District of Columbia, married persons (living with husband or wife) employed in the class to be reduced, shall be dismissed before any other persons employed in such class are dismissed, if such husband and wife is also in the service of the United States or the District of Columbia. In the appointment of persons to the classified civil service, preference shall be given to persons other than married persons living with husband or wife, such husband or wife being in the service of the United States or the District of Columbia.”
Section 213 clearly violates the principle of Civil Service employment being based solely on merit, and is anti-marriage as well. Already there are reports of working couples living together instead of marrying, and secret marriages, as well as separations and divorces among those already married, so that both partners can evade dismissal.
Civil Service Commissioner Dell urged women to “get busy and set in operation forces which will hasten the repeal movement.” She said that the law could be repealed, but only if there was “enlightened sentiment and crystallized public disapproval.” The National Woman’s Party intends to be at the forefront of the battle, and expects to succeed. | <urn:uuid:0ab4b461-22db-4eb4-bb64-6f204283e277> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msmagazine.com/2020/09/25/feminist-history-september-25/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977223 | 849 | 2.859375 | 3 |
We often say: "The spleen is the source of phlegm, and the lung is the site of sputum storage." If the patient coughs and has phlegm, we must pay special attention to protecting the spleen and lungs, avoid unsuitable foods in the daily diet, and reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach, because once the spleen and stomach are unable to digest food, the food will become toxic thereby producing phlegm, dampness and heat in the body.
1. Eat less sweets
Sweetness enters the spleen, and a little sweet taste is very nourishing for the spleen and stomach. What is classified as sweet taste? For example, the taste of Chinese cabbage in winter and the taste of grains are both sweet and light. To many people the sweets commonly eaten by children are artificially flavored.
Too much sweetness can damage the spleen and easily produce phlegm to help dampness. Therefore, pay attention to avoiding sweets during coughing or down with Flu.
2. Stay away from Dairy products (milk, cheese, yogurt)
Why didn't the rich and wealthy Chinese people in ancient times have the habit of drinking milk on a daily basis? Because in TCM, we treat milk as a monolithic medicine, and many medical books have clearly stated the taboos. For example, in the "Diet Therapy Materia Medica" of the Tang Dynasty, it was written: "Milk is cooling, and people who suffer from heat and wind should take it. People suffering from wind chills (Cold and Flu) should not take it."
*Note: Ginger can be used to balance any food's chillness.
Milk is not easy to digest. Even if you have a wind-heat cough, if you encounter a child with weak digestion, it is recommended to stop milk for 2-3 days and substitute with an alternative source of nutrients.
3. Eat less snacks that are prone to phlegm
If snacks contain butter, cream, cheese, chocolate, etc., it is best not to eat them, because although these things taste good, when they enter the body and these nutrients are difficult to digest, and easy to produce phlegm. For example, during a cough, you can experiment by eating some cakes, most coughs will get worse after 30 minutes.
Heaty snacks such as potato chips should be avoided if you have a hot and dry cough.
4. Avoid cold drinks.
The lungs hate cold. When you see a sudden cold wind blows over, the lungs will react immediately and expel the cold through sneezing. When we drink cold drinks, we directly invite the cold air into the body. The spleen, stomach and lungs will produce more phlegm, and the child's cough will naturally become worse.
5.Avoid fruits due to high sugar contents.
Fruits are high in sugar contents and are easy to help dampness, not to mention that most fruits are cooling in nature. Even heaty fruits such as durian and jackfruit etc. They will attract dampness and prone to produce phlegm. Therefore, if you encounter wind-chill type of cough, phlegmy cough, you try to avoid fruits for 2-3 days while your cold and flu symptoms persist, and children with cold constitution and weak digestion ability should not eat fruits.
What other foods can't be eaten during a cold and fever?
Food such as honey should be avoided. When a person suffers from a cold and fever, their diet should be light and easy for the body to digest. Food such as light porridge, clear soup with vegetables are recommended.
Nourishing food should be avoided at this time, so as not to aggravate the condition.
If you drink honey during a cold, the heat in the patient's body will not be purged, and the cold and flu symptoms will continue to worsen.
Try to avoid persimmon which is a kind of fruit with its own cold and astringent properties and has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness. For people suffering from wind-cold type of cold, taking persimmon will cause the Flu to get worse, thereby delaying the recovery of the cold and may aggravate the disease.
Strong tea during a cold should also be avoided. Strong tea will keep the brain excited, and will increase the pulse rate and blood pressure. This effect will cause the patient's body temperature to rise, which will aggravate the condition.
Try to avoid spicy food when you have a cold. Spicy foods can easily hurt the qi and cause the heaty body to produce phlegm, and make the phlegm difficult to be expelled, which also affects the recovery progress of the person’s illness.
In addition, people should pay attention to controlling salt intake after suffering from a cold. Excessive salt consumption will also affect the recovery of cold and flu.
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Minor flooding expected by Sunday in Des Moines
UPDATE: The National Weather Service has revised its flood warnings.
The warnings cover the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in Polk County. Also covered in a watch is the North Raccoon River in Dallas and Greene counties.
While the flood warning for the Raccoon River at Fleur Drive or from Walnut Creek to the Des Moines River continues until Sunday afternoon, the National Weather Service says only minor flooding is forecast.
"A lot of the rivers over the metro are just brushing up against flood stage," said Jim Lee, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines.
The Des Moines River at Southeast 6th Street was measured at over 18 feet on Friday morning, but it's expected to rise to 25 feet, a foot over flood stage by Sunday, and go back down by Wednesday. As of 9 a.m., it's 5.2 feet below flood stage.
At 2:45 a.m. Friday, the Raccoon River was at 7.7 feet, 4.3 feet below flood stage. No flooding was occurring, however, by Sunday, the river is expected to reach flood stage at 12 feet.
With the flooding, George Flagg Parkway could close over the weekend as there are concerns with water going over the road.
The flood warning for the Des Moines River at Southeast Sixth Street or from below the Center Street dam to Runnells was extended until Wednesday morning.
The Bill Riley Trail in Des Moines near Water Works Parks is closed by the bridge due to high waters.
Across the state, heavy rainfall and thunderstorms smothered the southern portion of the state, causing closures in several areas, including 300th and 317th streets between Montana and Orange Avenues in Bedford in Taylor County.
In the same county, quarter to golf ball sized hail was found in Gravity on Thursday evening.
"Even though there was a lot of heavy rain, we were doing pretty good going in," Lee said. "We were able to take a lot of water in a lot of areas."
In eastern Iowa, Cedar Rapids received over 4 inches of rain during flash flooding in the evening, Lee said. Bedford in Taylor County received nearly 5 inches.
For Friday, more thunderstorms are expected to cover the southern and central portions of the state, but they will not be severe.
"It's a wet time of year, unfortunately," Lee said.
Below is an earlier version of the story.
Iowans braced for downpours and flooding as storms moved across the state Thursday.
Meteorologists forecast widespread rainfall amounts of two to four inches of rain through Friday morning. At 10 p.m. Thursday, rainfall measured at the Des Moines International Airport was .98 inches. The National Weather Service reported 1.21 inches of rainfall at its office in Johnston.
The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Des Moines River at Southeast Sixth Street or from below the Center Street dam to Runnells.
The Des Moines River was forecast to rise to flood stage by Friday morning, continuing to rise to 26.5 feet — 2.5 feet above flood stage — by Friday evening. At 26.3 feet, water covers Arthur Street east of Carlisle.
At 10 p.m. Thursday, the stage was 18.28 feet. No flooding was occurring, and moderate flooding was forecast.
The National Weather Service also issued a flood warning for the Raccoon River at Fleur Drive or from Walnut Creek to the Des Moines River.
The river was expected to rise to flood stage, 12 feet, by Friday morning and continue to rise to 15.4 feet by Friday evening. At 15.5 feet, water approaches Fleur Drive and affects trails at Gray's Lake, according to the National Weather Service.
The stage was 7.13 feet at 10 p.m. Thursday. No flooding was occurring and minor flooding was forecast.
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Set up your own course and see how well you understand orienteering
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These days, we can get pretty much everything we need on our phones, including GPS and compasses to help us arrive at our next destination. Sometimes though, your phone may not get the service you need to get this invaluable guidance and, suddenly, you will find yourself needing a new set of skills. Welcome to the analog age!
Maps are items that have been around for millennia in one form of another. There are so many different kinds of maps that it can get a little confusing to understand what it is you are looking at. Many people have the most amount of trouble with the topographical map. Here’s an example of a topographical map:
Even though this looks like a cool new art piece, you can learn a lot by looking at it. For example, each circle denotes elevation. Based on the map key you would be able to find out what each ring equals. Usually though, darker lines will be an interval like 5 or 10, and the lighter lines would add up to that interval. That saves you, the navigator, the time of having to count each ring by hand. Another feature of a topographical map is the distance between lines. The closer the lines are, the steeper the elevation. Also, even if not connected, all lines that are the same interval apart are the same elevation.
This is all-important because it can help you to do an activity called orienteering. Orienteering is the sport of navigation. During the event, you are given a map and a compass, and you have to find markers based off of clues. Each marker directs you to the next. Knowing how to read a map and a compass are essential to succeeding in this sport. That being said, orienteering can also be a smaller activity that you can do the next time you go on an adventure through the woods.
In this activity, we will help you try to create your own orienteering course as you learn to read a map.
- Compass (get online or you can make one)
- Map of your area
- Some form of marker (cone, string, ribbon, etc.)
1. The first part of using a map is to look at the legend and figure out what all the markers mean. Below is an example of a map legend:
Usually colors are a big indicator of what is on your map. Blue will typically show water, green typically means forests or wooded areas and roads may be shown in black or red. In the legend, you usually find a scale, a compass rose, boundary marker symbols and the names of important landmarks.
2. Next, find where you are on the map and where you are going.
3. Figure out the distance to your destination using the scale at the bottom of your map and a ruler.
4. If you are setting up your own course, you want to figure out multiple points on the path to your destination that you can navigate to. At those spots you can leave some form of marker.
5. Write down the directions you took to get there and the approximate steps it took to get there.
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(HealthDay News) — Online physician reviews tend to be skewed positively, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Timothy Daskivich, MD, from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and colleagues sought to assess whether distributions of consumer ratings differ across specialties and to provide specialty-specific data to assist consumers and clinicians in interpreting ratings. In total, 212,933 health care providers rated on the Healthgrades consumer ratings website were sampled, including 29 medical specialties (128,678 providers), 15 surgical specialties (72,531 providers), and 6 allied health (non-medical, non-nursing) professions (11,724 providers) throughout the United States.
The researchers found that allied health providers had higher median overall satisfaction scores (4.5) versus physicians in medical specialties (4.0) and surgical specialties (4.2; P<0.001). For all specialties, overall satisfaction scores were highly left skewed (normal between −0.5 and 0.5). Due to the skewness, the percentages of overall satisfaction scores <4 were 23% for allied health, 37% for surgical specialties, and 50% for medical specialties.
“Online consumer ratings of health care providers are highly left skewed, fall within narrow ranges, and differ by specialty, which precludes meaningful interpretation by health care consumers,” the authors write. “Specialty-specific percentile ranks may help consumers to more meaningfully assess online physician ratings.”
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Hard drive failures are a common occurrence that should be prepared for. This guide will walk you through how to recover your data if you’ve lost it due to a hard drive failure.
If you’re using Windows 10, you can use the built-in troubleshooting tools to back up your files before the crash. The steps below will show you how to back up the system files, including all user data and login information. If these files are backed up and your computer is still in good shape, this guide will walk you through recovering from a hard drive failure.
What is a Disk Crash and How Does it Affect My PC?
A hard drive is a part of your computer that stores data. When it becomes physically damaged, it can stop working, leading to a disk crash.
A disk crash can cause the following:
– Computer crashes repeatedly when you try to log in.
– Computer restarts itself and not offering options for logging back in.
– Computer freezes or restarts without warning.
The Process of Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure
This chapter will provide you with some troubleshooting steps to take when your hard drive has failed.
It is important for you to be able to fix the issue yourself in order to avoid any external costs. If you have any backups or other options available, make sure that you are taking those into consideration before putting any money into a professional recovery service.
Recovering from a hard drive failure can be a difficult and challenging process. The following guide is meant as a starting point for those who are looking for help recovering data they lost due to hardware failure of their computer/laptop.
Recommended Recovery Tools & Steps
Windows has some built-in tools that are helpful in recovering a frozen PC. These tools allow users to recover their computer from a blue screen of death or complete system failure.
The article recommends some steps to take when your computer freezes and you want to recover it.
1) Press the power button and hold for 30 seconds.
2) Press Shift+F8 at boot screen.
3) Click on Windows start menu and follow the instructions on screen.
4) In case of file recovery, use the System Recovery Options window, which is located in Administrative Tools folder inside C:\Windows\System32 folder
Outline of the Windows Features that can protect you from Disk Crashes
A disk crash can be very frustrating and stressful. Disk crashes often result in the loss of all your data and can even render your computer unusable.
There are a number of features in Windows that are designed to help prevent hard drive failures by optimizing system performance and tracking system health. This Outline will cover the most common features you should use.
Disk defragmentation: One of the main causes of hard drive failures is fragmentation, which occurs when files are moved or deleted without being reorganized properly on the disk’s surface. By default, Windows 8 uses a new feature called Defragmenting File System that helps to avoid fragmentation by organizing files so they’re contiguous. | <urn:uuid:ddc36dc1-6c95-40ae-a273-664e3d48f234> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kinfolksquarterly.com/the-disk-check-could-not-be-performed-because-windows-cannot-access-the-disk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924185 | 626 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Application strategies by selective medium treated with entomopathogenic bacteria Serratia marcescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa as potential biocontrol against Coptotermes curvignathus
Chin, Kit Ling et al. (2021), Application strategies by selective medium treated with entomopathogenic bacteria Serratia marcescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa as potential biocontrol against Coptotermes curvignathus, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.66t1g1k07
The success of microbial termiticides in controlling termites depends on the ability of microbes to grow in different medium and the functionality of the microbes as a resistant barrier or toxic bait. This study was conducted to understand the mortality rate and behaviour changes of subterranean termite (Coptotermes curvignathus Holmgren) introduced with different concentrations of Serratia marcescens strain LGMS 1 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain LGMS 3 using wood and soil as bacterial transfer medium. In general, higher concentration of bacteria in soil caused reduction in tunnelling activity, wood consumption and an increased in mortality. However, application on wood revealed a different outcome. Wood treated with S. marcescens of 106 CFU/mL concentration proved to be more efficient as bait than higher concentration applications as it caused high mortality rate while still highly palatable for termites. Wood or soil treated with S. marcescens concentration higher than 109 CFU/mL creates a high toxicity and repellent barrier for termites. P. aeruginosa of 109 CFU/mL concentrations applied on wood served as a slow-acting toxic bait. However, the ability for S. marcescens and P. aeruginosa to survive on wood are low which caused the bait unable to retain a useful level of toxicity for a long period of time and frequent reapplication is needed.
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What is happening in the present time is that there are a lot of conch shells of educated people. Due to lack of jobs, people are focusing on business and start-up. Everyone is becoming a businessman after starting a business. But starting a business and continuously running a business for a long time are two different things. That’s why we have brought for you such an article that helped you, how does a businessman become a businessman.
Way to become a Businessman
There are many ups and downs in life and business. But there comes a moment in the life of every person which encourages him to do his work. You think of such a happy moment related to your life that encourages you to do any work. If you don’t have any experience of Happy moment. So you create that moment by yourself and be happy and keep doing your work fast.
The human mind works in such a way that when a person praises another person. So then that person also works for that person for free. Appreciation is also like this, when a person praises a person for his work, then that person does that work with more encouragement.
Praise works because there is an organ in the human brain called dopamine. How dopamine works is that the more we think about something, the more dopamine is released. And the more dopamine is released, the more pleasure is there in doing those work.
Therefore, do not do any work with hard work, but with pleasure. I hope you become a good businessman.
We do any work in a smart way when we learn that work well. But there are very few people who learn any work in a unique way. And do that work smartly.
Most of the people do this search to learn any work (How to start this and that). But even in research gathering, there are people of two categories 1st 99% & 2nd 1%.
99% people; These are the people who spend more than half their time in research gathering. It overflows after gathering more knowledge. Which they get confused and are not able to learn anything well and do not know how to do any work well. This is not the identity of a good businessman.
1% people; These people gather less knowledge and consider the basics or fundamentals of that knowledge to be in-depth. That’s why people with 1% do any work in a smart way and they become very good businessmen in the future.
Focus in Future
When a child goes to college, he knows that it took me 2 to 3 years to finish college. But in today’s time, if you do YouTube or any startup, then you leave that work within a few months. But unless you give 100% of your hard work in your work for some 4 to 5 years. Till then you could not become a businessman.
Keep upgrading yourself and your work like Sandeep Maheshwari.
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Dermatol Surg. 2022 Aug 1;48(8):843-848. doi: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000003490. Epub 2022 Jun 17.
BACKGROUND: Facial hyperhidrosis (HH), a common problem with both cosmetic and psychological impact, interferes with quality of life. Wide range of treatment options is available for HH. Finding the most effective and yet a safe, tolerable option is the main target.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare clinical efficacy, safety, and tolerability of topical 2% glycopyrrolate versus intradermal Botulinum toxin A injection in facial HH treatment.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-four patients with primary facial HH were randomly divided into 2 equal groups: Group A included patients treated by intradermal Botulinum toxin A injection and Group B included patients treated by topical glycopyrrolate gel 2%. Starch iodine test was performed before and after treatment to assess response, along with Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale, Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), and patient satisfaction.
RESULTS: Both modalities showed complete response in 75% of cases with a longer duration of action in botulinum toxin group up to 6 months. Side effects were minor and temporary. Both Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale and DLQI showed statistically significant improvement after treatment.
CONCLUSION: Topical glycopyrrolate 2% showed comparable results to Botulinum toxin A in facial HH treatment with faster onset but shorter duration of action. | <urn:uuid:435d801d-5def-4055-b527-a2b7fef0da0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nevinmanimala.com/2022/08/03/intradermal-botulinum-toxin-a-injection-versus-topical-2-glycopyrrolate-for-the-treatment-of-primary-facial-hyperhidrosis-a-pilot-study-and-review-of-literature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.906137 | 331 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Ajmer gets its name from "Ajay meru" which can be translated to "invincible hills." Ajmer in Rajasthan is a bustling, chaotic city, situated about 130 km southwest of Jaipur and merely 13km from Pushkar. It surrounds the Ana Sagar Lake and is ringed by the Aravalli Hills. In terms of Islamic history and heritage, it is undoubtedly Rajasthan's most famous site. Ajmer stands as a symbol of unity, history, and beauty that discerning tourists cannot afford to miss.
It's home to some of the essential Muslim pilgrimage centres in the country like the shrine of Khwaja Muin-ud-din Chishti. Visit Ajmer during Ramadan and witness a combination of high-voltage crowds and traffic. Ajmer is a significant centre for the Jain religion too.
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Damping forces - a friend or a foe in explaining mechanical motion?
|Year of publication||2006|
|Type||Article in Periodical|
|Magazine / Source||European Journal of Physics|
|MU Faculty or unit|
|Keywords||damping; force; oscillator; drag; Newton; Stokes; experiment|
|Description||The paper presents simle, cheap, easily accessible and for students impressive demonstration experiments for three typical examples of physical systems for which damping forces ought to be involved in the equations of motion: a body falling in air, a damped mechanical oscillator, and Foucault currents. Various models of such forces are studied within an elementary physical and mathematical approach. It appears, maybe as a slightly suprising result that a commonly used model of damping forces in mechanics - the air drag force linearly depending on velocity - is not realistic in many typical situations. Equations of motion are solved numerically with standard software packages even in cases where an analytical solution exists. Thus, the explanation of solved problems is on a level corresponding to an undergraduate university course of general physics. The results of these demonstration experiments are compared with graphical outputs of numerical solutions.| | <urn:uuid:590af6f5-1d95-4ba9-9021-dfc53da373c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/622646 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.858968 | 292 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Are you wondering when you should adjust your baby's sleeping schedule down to two naps? Read on to find out how get started!
It seems like just as you master the latest stage of parenthood your baby is ready to make the next transition!
Remember all babies are unique and it is important to follow whatever set up is working for you and your family. I'm here to guide you in making changes to your routines if/when you decide it is no longer the best suited routine for your family, for whatever reason.
Around 6-9 months babies are usually ready to transition from 3 naps down to 2. How will you know it's time? Let's find out...
How long is the afternoon nap?
A good sign it may be time to drop the 3rd nap is if the afternoon nap becomes longer, leaving no time for the third nap. The longer later second nap pushes the 3rd 'bonus' nap into bedtime territory.
Is your baby resisting the 3rd nap?
If your baby is resisting the nap, either through taking significantly longer to fall asleep or being content to continue playing without showing tired signs, this would be a sign they are coping well with extended wake windows.
Wake windows for a baby between 6-8 months should be between 2 - 2.5 hours.
Ok so it's time, now what?
First things first cap the 3rd nap! The third nap is a "bonus" nap, used as a bridge between the afternoon and bedtime. It should only be between 20 and 40 minutes long to ensure no impact on night sleep. Transitioning from any number of naps should be a gradual process and always take into account the individual day and your child's tired signs.
Prepare for an earlier bedtime
Your baby may be ready for bed a little earlier than before, during the transition. Be prepared for an earlier bedtime to avoid an overtired baby, resulting in fighting sleep or more frequent night wakings.
The most vital part of achieving healthy sleep habits is to prioritise sleep. It is important that during times of transition or when making moves to teach self settling or solving habitual waking that sleep routines are prioritised. I know that can be tough as many of us love to get out of the house with baby and being stuck in can feel overwhelming. Just make sure you get baby down to sleep within the age appropriate wake windows and ideally BEFORE they show signs of tiredness. The morning wake window is shorter. The first nap of the day should be within 2 hours and once your baby is between 8 - 10 months they may be able to stretch to 3.5 hours between sleeps later in the day. Watch out for your babies unique tired behaviours and if you see them try get your baby down 15 minutes earlier the next day until you find their unique wake window.
Now you've mastered the timing transitioning down to 2 naps a day will be much smoother
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“A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing a machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough.”
This might seem so abstract in length but simple in its message if read correctly. It’s open for your interpretation and application.
I do feel that their is an individual rhythm and harmony that allows us to function at our best whether it is on a personal stage or one shared in front of others.
Again you weren’t put here on this world to cure cancer or solve world hunger (nice if you could) nor were you to solve the problems of everyone around you (that belongs individually to the bearer of those problems). That’s too large a weight to carry and there is so many simple and dramatic things you can do that added up just might alter the small portion of the world you own.
The minimum that is expected? Be kind to yourself and to others – not just the main characters of your performance but the extras not identified in the credits. We’ve led ourselves to believe that conversations and meaningful discussions occur with the entry of letters on our phone or computer and hitting the “send” button. That’s fine when there is little alternative but remember the greater the issues of the topic, the greater the need for direct physical and emotional interaction because more meaning is transferred through such exchanges. Jason, remember when our neighbor would need to talk to you when her family was having problems – I’m guessing more meaningful to cry on your shoulder than cry through a text.
I was talking to J and he shared that he can’t engage people like I do these days (who can since I’m nuts) and I get it. When you’re young, there is that hesitancy due to fear of rejection or uncertainty about the response in return. Your still trying to juggle between acceptance, appreciation, and the perception of others’ expectations. DONT THINK SO MUCH!
Be at peace with yourself first and then maybe you’ll be more comfortable sharing that peace. You all know those days when you “feel good about yourself” and that is the harmony you should strive for because it’s not a consistent rhythm. If it’s not there for whatever reason, challenge yourself to give meaning to the small gestures that we use robotically each day to see if it takes you closer to that harmony. I’ve talked to Christian about certain automatic responses we engage in and altering them to see what difference they might make.
When asked “how are you”, maybe respond with something like “good and I really hope you are too!” If you sneeze and someone says “God bless you”, how about “I am blessed (because you have been) and hope you are blessed as well!” After getting a surprised initial look, you’ll find it invites additional questions or information and maybe (heaven forbid) an actual conversation where that exchange is given new life and newly created rhythm and harmony. As a lawyer, I found that the best questions were never asked because I didn’t listen to a person’s response to an earlier question or didn’t react accordingly because I wouldn’t stray from the script entrenched in my head. I became a better lawyer by not only listening to people but being aware of their facial expressions and body language and it serves me well now in my growth as a better person. My harmony is based on not only how I view myself but how I have relearned to view other people by taking the risk of improving not only on my expected encounters but those that occur out of pure chance. This all a part of my belief offers us a daily “simple, basic elegance” that is magical in its simplicity and a launching point for improvement of each day.
Just read this quote and I’ll end with it because it invites self-evaluation. “How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!” | <urn:uuid:4f5a9d82-9661-47a6-9a5e-c37d605e0583> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joedicospeaks.com/2015/01/18/meaningful-kindness/?like_comment=140&_wpnonce=a20ac192da | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964812 | 926 | 2.015625 | 2 |
“Script” is the most general of the three terms, and is not reserved for any specific type of media. “Screenplay” specifically refers to the script of a film or television program. “Teleplay” is even more specific, and is only used when referencing television scripts.
So a teleplay is a type of screenplay which is a type of a script.
Since “script” is such a general term, script formatting can vary wildly. All screenplays share a general universal format, but there can be slight variations based on type or other factors. Multicamera teleplays, for instance, have double-spaced dialogue, while single-camera teleplays and film screenplays do not. | <urn:uuid:3fc63bf4-ef42-4300-91a0-0ab876d9e04c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://screenwriting.io/what-is-the-difference-between-a-script-a-screenplay-and-a-teleplay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.940246 | 151 | 2.625 | 3 |
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The clear, easy-to-follow reference is designed for a young audience with large pictures and minimal text highlighting the most interesting things to notice about the most common birds in North America--ones that kids would easily spot in their own backyard or local park.
The book also highlights features and behaviors children can look for when they observe birds up-close (with the binoculars that come in the kit). In addition, the guide suggests fun, educational activities such as making a hummingbird feeder, or homemade bird treats to attract feathered friends.
A portable checklist is included to help children identify common birds when they're out birding, and there is a colorful, interactive poster as well.
An engaging resource for budding naturalists, this kit will also get kids exciting about experiencing nature up-close.
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It's been an eventful year, to say the least. We've had forest fires, tested the brinksmanship of the Middle East and witnessed the most catastrophic pandemic in recent years. The economy has fallen into recession, people have been losing their jobs, schools and universities have shut down... in short, the entire world is in a state of paralysis right now. It seems unlikely that a vaccine will be available for several months or even years (especially with countries undermining each other's research efforts and the USA working on a US-exclusive vaccine), but I'm also wary of Boris Johnson's possible plan to re-open schools and work too early and too quickly. I understand the strain that the UK is under thanks to the virus, but I presume that there's a way to freeze organisations' assets to prevent them from going bankrupt, through legislation or otherwise.
In the meantime, university life has also frozen to a standstill. Well, sort of. We still have work (more on that later), but I've had much more opportunity to reflect on my student life with somewhat less pressure than I would normally have.
Cambridge has confirmed that the vast majority of us will have exams which no longer matter and that we'll all pass onto the next year. (The poor lawyers still have graded exams, so I've heard...) Despite this, the workload has continued as normal and it has really taken its toll on all of us. All lecture videos and supervisions are provided online, and they are usually put up earlier than they usually would be, although this also makes it easier to fall behind on lectures because we no longer need to wake up to walk to lectures.
We have four courses this term: Mathematical Methods III (from the Natural Sciences Tripos), Introduction to Probability, Software and Security Engineering, and Interaction Design. Of these, SSE is by far the most interesting course: it covers security engineering (so stuff like security protocols and the basics of cryptography) and software engineering (including various methodologies and case studies of when software has gone disastrously wrong). I love security engineering: anything to do with building software with the intention of protecting information or functionality from threats is hugely fascinating due to having to consider an attacker's motives, their resources, and the vulnerabilities they could find. In addition, Ross Anderson is a genuinely amazing lecturer, and our supervisor is amazing and has performed superbly and is super helpful. On the other hand, Interaction Design has been a nightmare for us. There are very few people in our year who actually like it (it's a bit like basic HCI but it wasn't a well-designed course in my opinion), so I decided to take one for the team and write a full set of lecture notes to summarise all the content for everyone else. NST Maths involves linear algebra, in the form of matrices and partial differential equations. So much of it feels like we're being told solutions to the PDEs and forced to accept them, and I have no way of convincing myself that much of what works, works. That said, I'm absolutely ecstatic that I'll never be formally examined on NST Maths.
One of the biggest problems of being in Cambridge is that it is incredibly easy to lose track of time. Everyone is so focused on their work that many social constructs lose their meaning. In particular, people don't remember what day of the week it is or how long they've been in Cambridge, but just which week they're in: there are only 8 weeks in a term so it's an easy way to track progress through the term. This becomes impossible during lockdown: there are no milestones like lectures to track when a new week is starting. Every day is exactly like the previous, and there's nothing to be expected on any given date.
I've started to become disillusioned with the rest of the Computer Science Tripos, at least after Part II. In Part II there's a huge variety of courses which I want to take, most of them being relevant to either industry practice or security engineering (eg. quantum or cryptography). The Part III courses no longer seem as fun as they did before I came here, especially on the quantum side of things (the Departments of Physics, Engineering and Applied Mathematics are all much better-equipped to teach quantum mechanics). If I wanted to learn how to build a quantum computer, I wouldn't be able to do it here in the Computer Laboratory. For that reason, I'm not entirely sure if I want to stay in Cambridge for a Master's degree. I might, but I'm considering heading elsewhere. It'd give a nice change of scenery as well. Top choices include MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and ETH Zurich. I still have a few years to think about it, however, so I only need to worry about crossing that bridge at the end of Part II.
I haven't left the house at all since the lockdown started, and the only company I've had has been my family's presence. Much of my time is still spent doing work, although every now and again I've found the time to give myself some me time.
One of my favourite pastimes has been watching Spooks, which I've finally finished watching. I felt that it tried to be two different things at different times: it was half-thriller, and half actually a realistic portrayal of MI5. That said, it has some of the best character development I've ever seen, and some of the characters really attracted my empathy (while others felt wasted). I've also been trying to get my non-academic skills up: I've been getting acquainted with PyTorch while continuing to learn Japanese (人は日本語を話す?) – I'm familiar with the elementary rules of grammar, I know a few kanji and I can begin to form simple sentences so I'm really happy with my progress!
I've been trying to keep up with as many of my friends as possible but, in all honesty, it's been a bit hard. I've been under a huge amount of pressure lately, and not being there in person makes it more difficult for me to talk to people (and I'm always too scared to suggest video calling). I've promised hugs, cakes, and video games to people when we get back, because some people are really going it tough, and I genuinely care about them.
It was such a relief to hear that my internship is still going ahead as normal. We had a Q&A session recently explaining how the internship's going to work. In short, it's going to be work-from-home, and we'll be able to use a web-based virtual machine (which really surprised me) to access our computers. We'll also be able to connect to Arm's VPN to access content on the company intranet. This means that we won't have to install anything onto our computers, which I should've seen coming but is still astonishing.
That said, at least I've got an internship this summer. A huge number of my friends have had their internships cancelled completely, which is heartbreaking: some people in Cambridge and Imperial have won some amazing competitions and had some absolutely incredibly accomplishments: some of them had internships designed for people several years above them. While it shouldn't put them at any disadvantage (because everyone's been affected by this), it's still hugely disappointing for everyone involved, and I don't know if they'll need to re-apply or otherwise.
Honestly, I can't see things returning to normal by October next year. Social distancing measures will not grant herd immunity in a few weeks, and we'll probably rely on buying time until a vaccine becomes available. Allowing people to come back together will simply cause a second peak soon after lectures begin. In any case, I'm not sure I would want to attend lectures at all if Cambridge starts as normal.
I'm feeling optimistic, however, and maybe one of these days all will be back to normal. Cambridge will restart for me just like everyone will be able to return to their normal lives, and I'll be able to go back to complaining to my friends about how hard the Tripos is.
We're through another term at Cambridge. Most of it was business as usual, despite an obviously increasing response to the COVID-19 outbreak, further strike action, and a massively increased amount of practical work. I'm seriously hoping my Arm internship won't be cancelled, but so far it's not looking good for either our exams or getting to see friends during Easter term. On a different note, it could result in the resurrection of video calls, and, if our exams really are cancelled, we may universally be deemed to have received honours, and that'd be an interesting thing to have on our transcripts.
Assassins was the way I met new people and bonded with them this term. Essentially, it's a term-long game where you have to kill people (who you receive as targets) while not being killed yourself. Weapons you can use include mock knives, swords, Nerf guns, water guns, and boulders. If you break any of the rules or kill someone who you weren't supposed to, you'll get put on the wanted list; and if you become inactive for too long (usually a week), you'll fall on the incompetent list. Both of these list people who are valid targets for all players in the game (in fact, making attempts on incompetent players is a great way to maintain competence).
Of course, the greatest thrill of the game is the sheer paranoia when you play. People will do anything to stay alive: I've seen people wear wigs, enter and leave lecture halls extremely early or late, camp it out in other colleges' libraries, and so on. You can never truly underestimate your assassins: everyone has an uncanny ability to recognise each other and find out their lecture/lab timetables, which paths they take, and more. Or so my paranoia tells me... for the most part, nothing happened to me. Someone did knock on my door on the first day and then about three weeks in, the latter of which occurred when I was not at home. (There's a reason I point my gun at any door I'm opening...) More pragmatically, however, most of my time was spent helping my friends assassinate people: I would give them enough information about their whereabouts to help them locate their targets, then provide real-time information to help them stab their targets. In all, I think I directly witnessed two or three kills this way, all of them in the Computer Lab within the span of a week. A friend and I also raided Homerton at one point, acquiring two kills. (Sadly I wasn't very good at staying alive this game...)
My death came after I was attempting on one of my targets. I was in Chapel Court, and saw someone very suspicious standing around. I made it known pretty quickly that I was suspicious, taking a very convoluted path and dashing past him... until I head back out and can't spot him, then get stopped and sprayed with a water gun. Oops! It was fun playing, though! He made it to the duel but didn't win.
To be fair, my death occurred before all the real, urm... stuff... hit the fan. You see, early on in the game my alliance set up a ridiculous plot to kill a perceived threat. But he got very annoyed at us, and leaked information that resulted in numerous people getting killed by their own targets. We hated it, the umpires hated it, and it completely and utterly broke the game. To be fair, we did have an amazing moment later when two of my friends anticipated they would be ambushed after a lecture this way, and went to the lecture 15 minutes before it was due to end. Sure enough, some attackers came along, and they called me to serve as a distraction. (That was an amusing battle report...) Most of the rest of the game was fairly quiet, although I did harbour several assassins in my room after I died. The duel was roughly as expected, with the obvious caveat of someone shooting someone else after the duel was over, and everyone pulling out weapons and shooting each other.
On the social side of the guild, there are quite a few socials where people get to know each other. I quickly found out who took the game very seriously, and made quite a few friends this way. It's quite something to hear about everyone's feats in Assassins, and, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but making friends with the person who killed you is quite something. | <urn:uuid:b36fac06-8a2a-432b-a08b-f7426232ba93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.caushi.eu/blog/archives/03-2020 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.983998 | 2,613 | 1.625 | 2 |
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