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Updated: Jul 27, 2021
There are many definitions of chemistry, however this one covers it nicely,
"the branch of science concerned with the substances of which matter is composed, the investigation of their properties and reactions, and the use of such reactions to form new substances." (Oxford dictionary)
A map of chemistry could be thought of like this,
(image source: Flickr)
All high school chemistry courses (HSC, IB, GCSE, A-Levels) cover a selection of these topics on the map above, generally going from the left to the right.
Above all, it can be a very exciting journey no matter what topics you study and which path you take!
The relationships between physics chemistry and biology. | <urn:uuid:fc2999b9-13f4-4574-ad2a-ab372f2c0044> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physicschemistrymathstutor.com/post/what-is-chemistry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94972 | 155 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Since BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a fighting style of game you can expect fast paced, side view, player vs. player fighting action. Like Moral Kombat, Tekken, or Dead or Alive, most fighting games are in an arena with 3d style graphics and really rely on the players reflexes.
Forward Ports for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
When you are playing BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and frequently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.
Before You Forward a Port
Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:
- The IP address of your network router.
- Your gaming machine's IP address.
- A list of TCP and UDP ports to forward.
How to locate your router's IP Address
The easiest way to click the links to get to your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.
How To Forward Ports
A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.
The process for forwarding a port is generally:
- Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
- Find your routers port forwarding section.
- Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the proper box in your router.
- Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
- Frequently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.
Ports Required for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
The connection ports that need to be forwarded for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger are as follows:
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Xbox 360
- TCP: 3074
- UDP: 88, 3074
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Playstation 3
- TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
- UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - PC
- TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
- UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036
If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger simply follow one of these links:
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Xbox 360
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Playstation 3
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - PC
That should be all you have to do to forward your ports. Check our growing list of games and applications for more port forwarding guides. | <urn:uuid:dab1e4b1-703f-48f9-bf28-ed0880adbbf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://portforward.com/blazblue-calamity-trigger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.901787 | 645 | 1.65625 | 2 |
[On June 21, Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (NSK - the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association) created a new comprehensive code of ethics not only for journalists but also for everyone engaged in newspaper work]
Aware afresh of the important mission of newspapers on the threshold of the 21st century, and pledging their continued effort toward an affluent and peaceful future, members of the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association) have formulated this new Canon of Journalism.
The public's right to know is a universal principle that sustains a democratic society. That right cannot be ensured without the existence of media, operating with the guarantee of freedom of speech and expression, while being totally committed to a high moral standard and fully independent of all powers. Member newspapers resolve to retain their role as the fittest standard-bearers in this regard.
In a modern society flooded with a vast range of information, the public is constantly required to make correct and swift decisions on what is true and which information to select. It is the responsibility of member newspapers to respond to such requirements and fulfil their public and cultural mission through accurate and fair reporting, and through responsible commentaries.
All newspapermen and women engaged in duties including editing, production, advertising and circulation should uphold freedom of speech and expression. They should also conduct themselves with honour and decency in such a way as to ensure this responsibility is duly performed, and to strengthen the readers' confidence in the newspapers.
Freedom and Responsibility
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, and newspapers have that absolute freedom in both their news coverage and editorial comment. In exercising that freedom, however, member newspapers must be duly aware of their heavy responsibility and be constantly mindful not to impair public interests.
Accuracy and Fairness
Newspapers are the first chroniclers of history, and the mission of reporters lies in the constant pursuit of truth. Reporting must be accurate and fair, and should never be swayed by the reporter's personal conviction or bias. Editorial comment should be an honest expression of the writer's belief, not to court popularity.
Independence and Tolerance
Member newspapers uphold their independence in the interests of fair comment and free speech. They must reject interference by any outside forces, and resolve to remain vigilant against those who may wish to use the newspapers for their own purposes. On the other hand, they should willingly give space to opinions that differ from their own, provided such opinions are accurate, fair and responsible.
Respect for Human Rights
Member newspapers should pay utmost respect to the dignity of human beings, put a high value on individuals' honour and give serious consideration to their right to privacy. They should also acknowledge errors and correct them promptly, and in cases when an individual or a group has been unjustly maligned, adequate steps should be taken to rectify the situation, including the provision of an opportunity to reply.
Decency and Moderation
In the performance of their public and cultural mission, member newspapers must be available for anyone to read anytime, anywhere. They should maintain decency both editorially and in the area of advertising, and in their circulation practices they should at all times exercise moderation and good sense. | <urn:uuid:a2fbe9e3-293a-4a92-890a-7932269920b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/Japan-Canon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963917 | 653 | 2.515625 | 3 |
I remember reading Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov when I was in high school. If there were quotes like this in Dostoevsky’s books, I missed them entirely. Of course I was 18, and likely not looking in the same way. It is wonderful to read them now!
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. “
Love every leaf and every ray of light.
Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment.
If you love each separate fragment,
you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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The slowdown in technology scaling puts architectural features at the forefront of the innovation in modern processors. This article presents a Metric-Guided Method (MGM) that extends Top-Down analysis with carefully selected, dynamically adapted metrics in a structured approach. Using MGM, we conduct two evaluations at the microarchitecture and the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) levels. Our results show that simple optimizations, such as improved representation of CISC instructions, broadly improve performance, while changes in the Floating-Point execution units had mixed impact. Overall, we report 10 architectural insights—at the microarchitecture, ISA, and compiler fronts—while quantifying their impact on the SPEC CPU benchmarks.
|Journal||Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization|
|State||Published - Dec 2019|
Bibliographical notePublisher Copyright:
© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
- Compiler code generation
- Instruction set architecture
- Performance analysis
- Performance comparison
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
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By Dennis Jjuuko
Every society, community or group, as any person may categorise it, has values, norms and traditions that they hold dear because it is what defines them either collectively or as individuals, and this is what makes them unique. These values, norms and traditions provide the ethics and morality around the way they view life and whatever it presents for us as individuals that are part of a general society. It is important to acknowledge that there are unique processes and facts that persistently present themselves, and people must ensure they consistently find sustainable solutions to them. Among these societal dilemmas is maternal health.
The 2017 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey shows that girls engage in sexual intercourse at the age of 15.4 years on average. When many of us had our first sexual encounter, we did not consult our parents, neither did we confer with any respected people in society. Sex is kept secret and confidential and so it is in rare instances that we seek counsel before engaging in intercourse.
The number of adolescent girls in Uganda who get pregnant before attaining the age of consent has risen to 25 per cent in the last seven years. For young people, this implies unintended, unplanned and therefore unwanted pregnancies, and HIV/Aids, together with other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) .
Because teenage pregnancies are unwanted, it is not by coincidence that abortion has shot high to 14 per cent – or a rate of 39 per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 49 years, slightly higher than the East African average of 34 per 1,000 women according to the induced abortion study in Uganda. A study by the Ministry of Health estimated that eight per cent of maternal deaths were due to unsafe abortion that is done clandestinely, due to the ambiguous legal framework on abortion.
In return, Uganda spends $ 14 million on post-abortion care, yet it would spend far less if the law allowed for safe abortion services.
Ugandans, let us face it. Religious and Cultural sentiments have done less to uphold high standards of maternal health in Uganda. Whoever opposes the standards and guidelines for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality due to unsafe abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, and the adolescents health policy premises their arguments on religious and cultural beliefs.
Parents should guide their children by inculcating religious and cultural values, which responsibility many have chosen to ignore. They have abandoned this obligation to schools because it is where their children spend most of the time, yet schools also think this is not the contract they signed with parents.
Schools too are characterized with stigma because sexuality is treated as a no-go area, hitherto there is a lot of information that is needed for young people to face the reality and know what to do to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STIs.
Just like many years ago, media sets traits of thought and beliefs especially for the young people who are not able to discern information unless guided. There is a lot of sexual content both in print and broadcast media that children are exposed to. The government under the Ministry of Ethics and Integrity has not been able to effectively censor material aired on TV and radios, etc.
Government has also banned comprehensive sexuality education in schools, yet it would have done much in responding to the deficit created as a result of young people failing to discern the information they are exposed to on a daily basis.
Young people like experimenting, and exposure to sexual content inspires them to try out what they see on WhatsApp, Facebook, uncensored pornographic sites, TV and print media. This keeps them sexually active since the mind always commands the body to act.
Unwanted pregnancies are thus inevitable. They result in unsafe abortion since morality, inspired by religion and cultural values, has not done enough to arrest the situation, but instead stigmatizes the victims of circumstance.
Therefore, policy and legal decisions motivated by religious and cultural values are way out of sync with maternal health realities on the ground. There is need to bank on science and research to confront the public health phenomenon of unsafe abortion that continues to claim lives of young girls and women. Preventive measures of availing adequate and relevant information about sexual and reproductive health, and attempts to prevent unwanted pregnancies will help save the situation.
Without this, we shall continue being morally ‘unique’ with approximately 860 girls and young women carrying out unsafe abortion daily. It is immoral to lose 20 young girls and women daily to preventable causes like unsafe abortion.
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This an experimental mod of Sqlite with built-in online compression support. Design and implementation are discussed, limitation and benchmarks provided and source code as well as prebuilt DLL are included. Use the TOC to jump to the topic of interest.
Both Sqlite and MySql support compressed (and encrypted) databases. Well, more or less. Sqlite’s support is limited to read-only databases that are compressed offline, while MySql’s support is limited to compressing strings (as far as I can tell.)
While working on WikiDesk, a Wikipedia browser project, I knew the database could easily grow to 100s of gigabytes. The database of choice here is Sqlite because of it’s compactness and mobility. The English Wikipedia dump is already in the range of 100s to 1000s of gigs (depending on the dump type.) WikiDesk not only supports different Wikipedia languages, but also different projects, such as Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wiktionary, among many others in all available languages, all in the same database. Theoretically, one can import all possible Wiki content into a single database.
The opportunity of compressing this highly-redundant wiki-code mixed with Unicode text was pretty much obvious. So it was reasonable to assume others must have had a similar case and added compression support to Sqlite. My search only yielded the aforementioned cases.
A part of me was happy to have found no precedent project. I was more than happy to roll-up my sleeves and get to hacking.
There are many ways to go about designing a compressed database file. My main purpose, however, was to have fully-transparent, online and realtime compression support. So the design must accommodate updates and deletions as well as any other modify operation supported by Sqlite.
An obvious approach is the one used by MySql, namely to compress the fields independently. This is simple and relatively speaking straight forward. However it’d mean that
LIKE couldn’t be used on compressed string fields. Collation and sorting and other features would be absent as well. In fact the fields in question couldn’t be
TEXT at all. In addition, one had to explicitly compress fields, remember which is compressed and remember to uncompress before using them. Very limited I thought and probably wouldn’t be worth the effort. Another approach is to do this on a low level, such that it’d be transparent to the caller. Such an extension to Sqlite exists but this will not yield much gain on small fields. I suspect NTFS compression would give better results.
NTFS has built-in compression support. It was well worth the effort of testing it. On an English SimpleWiki dump I could compress the database file down to about 57% of its original size (see benchmarks below.) Pretty decent. However I couldn’t control it at all. I couldn’t set the chunk size, compression level or anything save for enabling and disabling it. In addition, the user could disable it and lose all the benefits. Database-level compression is more promising. A similar result can be achieved using FuseCompress or compFUSEd (on Linux), albeit, the user must install such a filesystem first.
A major problem with database files, as far as online compression is concerned, is that the database logical-structure typically stores pointers to file offsets, such that there is a one-to-one mapping between the physical and logical-structures. This is reasonable as the database is really a large and complex datastructure on disk (as opposed to memory.) The btree or rtree nodes are typically page indexes, where all pages have a predefined, database-wide fixed size. Disrupting this structure would render the file corrupted. The purpose of the fixed-size pages is to simplify the allocation and management of space. This scheme is also used by memory and disk-managers alike.
If we compress a page in the database, the page would now contain two regions: data and free-space. To utilize the free-space, we could write a portion of the next page in the free-space, and the remaining in the next page, and so on for all pages. But then we’d have to keep track of each page’s fragments somehow. To avoid that, we can leave the free-space unused, but then we’d get no net saved disk space, as the free-space would still be allocated on disk.
I could store the new indexes and offsets in some allocation table appended to the file. But I’d have to do a lot of data moving, reallocation, (de)fragmentation and whatnot just to keep track of the free ranges and so on. Obviously this approach was pretty complicated and would take much more involved design and coding. Also, Sqlite page-sizes are multiple of disk sector size for atomicity. I had to be thoroughly familiar with the Sqlite design and implementation to embark on such a largish project, if I wanted it finished and working.
The ‘be lazy’ motto seems to work well for programmers who are efficiency-oriented and hate repetitive and error-prone work. What would be the simplest approach that could work? Going back to NTFS one could learn a lesson or two on transparent compression. The secret is that NTFS can simply allocate any free inode on the disk, write the compressed data to it and update the index table. Inodes are linked lists, so it is very easy to insert/remove and modify the chain. Files, on the other hand, are arrays of bytes abstracted from the disk structure. Moving bits around in an array is much more complicated and time consuming than updating nodes in a linked-list.
What is needed is the advantage of a file-system applied on the level of files.
What if we could tell the file-system that these free-space regions of the file are really unused? NTFS supports sparse files in addition to compressed files. This could be used to our advantage. All we’d have to do is mark the free-space in each page as unused and the file-system will make them available to other files on the disk, reducing the net used disk space of the database.
Sqlite supports pages of 512-65535 bytes long. Since we can’t break a single page, the smallest compression unit must be at least 64 Kbyte long. In addition, the compression-unit of NTFS compression seems to be also 64 Kbytes. This means that a sparse range must be at least as large as a compression-unit to be deallocated from disk and marked as free. This puts a clear limitation on the amount of saving we can achieve using this design; Compression won’t save any disk space unless it reduces the size in multiples of 64 Kbytes. A multiple of 64 Kbytes is used as the compression unit, internally called a chunk. Indeed, a chunk size of 64 Kbytes would be totally useless as there could be no saving at all.
When data is written it’s first written into a memory buffer. This buffer is used to track changes to the chunk, it’s offset in the file and use to compress the data. When the chunk needs flushing the data is first compressed and the compressed data written to the chunk offset. The remainder of the chunk is marked as a sparse region. NTFS deallocates any naturally-aligned compression units that are completely sparse. Partially written units are physically allocated on disk and 0-valued bytes are written to disk.
When reading data, the complete chunk of the requested byte-offset is read, decompressed and from the buffered data the requested bytes copied back to the caller. The sparse bytes are transparently read-in as 0-valued bytes. This is done by NTFS and relieves us from tracking sparse regions.
Initially very fast compression libraries were used to avoid sacrificing too much performance. FastLz, Lz4 and MiniLzo were tested but the results weren’t very promising, compression-wise. As such the current build uses Zlib.
The compression mod is written as a VFS Shim. This has the advantage of avoiding any modifications to the Sqlite code base.
Enabling compression must be done before opening any database files. A single function is defined as follows:
int sqlite3_compress( int trace, int compressionLevel );
trace can be a value between 0 and 7. When 0 tracing is disabled, larger values enable tracing of increasingly lower-level operations. Trace logs are written to stderr. -1 for default.
compressionLevel can be a value between 1 and 9, where 1 gives the fastest performance at the expense of compression ratio and 9 gives the best compression at the expense of performance. -1 for default, which is typically level-6.
To enable compression this function is simply called before calling
sqlite3_open. Compression level may be changed between runs, however unless a chunk is modified, the data will not be recompressed with the new level.
Only the main database is compressed. The journal or any other temporary files aren’t compressed.
Besides the fact that the code is in an experimental state, there are some things unsupported or even unsupportable by this mod. First and foremost only this mod can read compressed databases. The original Sqlite will declare compressed databases corrupted. However, this mod can and should detect uncompressed databases and disables compression silently (but use at your own risk.)
Since NTFS sparse file support is the key to achieving compression, the mod is literally useless on non-NTFS systems.
Sqlite is known to be quite resilient in the face of file corruption. This can no longer be supported with the same level as it is with the official release. In addition, corruptions would destroy much more data than a single page. With the compression library and the new code also comes the increased risk of crashing or being unstable.
Of the untested and probably unsupported features of Sqlite are:
- Online database backup.
- Multiprocess read/write.
- Data recovery.
- Shell and 3rd-party tools.
Performance wise, there is virtually no caching implemented beyond the current chunk. This is bare-bone caching and there is a lot of room for performance improvements.
An import of an English SimpleWiki dump was used as benchmark. The main table holds an auto-increment index, timestamp, the page title and the page contents (both Unicode).
|NTFS Normal||204,438 (100%)||73,296 (35.85%)|
|NTFS Compressed||117,460 (57.45%)||57,431 (28.09%)|
|NTFS Normal||204,438 (100%)||67,712 (33.12%)|
|NTFS Compressed||117,460 (57.45%)||66,220 (32.39%)|
It’s quite obvious that the savings with the modified Sqlite are substantial as compared to NTFS compression on the original file. Interestingly, NTFS compression when applied on a compressed file still yields gains. This is because
of inefficiencies of the Zlib (deflate) compression (which is less so for level-6 than 9) and because NTFS can deallocate at the level of clusters, which are 4096 bytes, as opposed to the sparse method’s compression-unit of 64 Kbytes. Since the free-regions are written as zero-bytes and they aren’t deallocated unless a complete 64 Kbyte unit is completely zeroed out, it seems reasonable to assume NTFS compression is crunching these zero-padded regions and deallocating them as it’s unit is only 4096 bytes.
It should also be noted that while statistically we should get better compression with larger chunk sizes and higher compression levels, this isn’t linear. In fact, increasing the chunk size may lead to reduced net gains in file size due to the 64 Kbyte compression-unit of NTFS. That is, if two chunks could each save a single unit (64 Kbytes,) doubling the chunk size (such that both would be compressed together as one chunk) might not be able to save 128 Kbytes, in which case the savings would be reduced from two units to a single, resulting in a 64 Kbyte larger file than we had with the original chunk-size. This heavily depends on both the data and the compression, of course.
A synthetic test done using generated text from an alphabet consisting of alpha-numerical plus symbol with random lengths of <1MB were done. Zlib seems to perform slowly on this random data (although the number of possible codes is small.) Chunk size of 256 Kbytes and compression-level of 6 was used. 50 random rows are generated and inserted with incremental Ids (two-column table,) the 50 rows are selected using the Ids and the texts compared to the original, new texts are generated with new lengths, this time of length <2MB and the rows updated. Again the 50 rows are selected by Id and compared to the updated-originals. The resultant database file is 50,686 Kbytes.
The original Sqlite code run the test in 13.3 seconds, while using default compression and no tracing (to avoid any overheads) the same test finished in 64.7 seconds (4.86x slower) resulting in a 41,184 KByte file. Both tests ran on the same generated data. The file was on a RAMDisk to minimize disk overhead.
Considering that the data was random and synthetic and insert/update rate was equal to select rates, the results are reasonable. In practice, reads are typically more frequent than writes. With proper caching this should reduce the performance overhead significantly.
The code holds the same copyright claims as Sqlite, namely none. The code is experimental. Use it at your own risk.
Download the code and prebuilt DLL. This sqlite3.dll is version 22.214.171.124 amalgamation created with the default settings/flags from the amalgamation created from original sources by the original configure and make files. The compression code is added and it’s built using VS2010 Sp1 and statically liked to the runtime libraries, as such it has no dependencies.
Add the Zlib headers to the include path, copy the vfs_compress.c file next to sqlite sources and build. Next, build sqlite3.c amalgamation (or the original sources) and link the binaries of sqlite3, vfs_compress and Zlib to create the executable.
A good percentage of the official Sqlite tests pass successfully. But the corruption and format-validating tests unsurprisingly fail. Increasing the supported cases is a prime goal at this point. Getting the mod to “stable with known-limitation” status would be a major milestone. Improving performance is another goal that isn’t very difficult to attain. Having the ability to enable/disable compression on any database is also beneficial and will add more protection against misuse. It’d also be interesting to attempt supporting compression without NTFS sparse files support. This, while much more complicated, would work on any system and not on NTFS alone.
As a bonus, it’s almost trivial to add encryption on top of the compression subsystem.
Any comments, ideas, feedback and/or constructive criticism are more than welcome. | <urn:uuid:1da8265b-588a-4bf8-abe4-f6f3b8161cda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.ashodnakashian.com/tag/design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934985 | 3,344 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Tyne and Wear HER(1944): Lintzford, Lintzford Bridge - Details
Lintzford, Lintzford Bridge
Road Transport Site
A remarkable coursed squared sandstone-built road bridge with single, very wide flat segmental arch whose voussoirs noticeably increase in size from crown to springings. Projecting string course at tangent to crown, carries parapet. Wrought iron lampholders and dome-topped piers to parapets. Each spandrel pierced four times with diminishing circular holes in the style of Edward's 1756 bridge at Pontypridd. Bridge House of three storeys on east side. Late C18.
<< HER 1944 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 18; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 9/16; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Lintzford Conservation Area, pp 15-17 | <urn:uuid:adc9364b-5e6c-49d7-9ba0-49ef75fda239> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/1944 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.745688 | 268 | 1.757813 | 2 |
A brief history
Born in Mendoza, Antonio Mas is the first in his dynasty to forge a passion for oenology. He studied Agronomy at the National University of Cuyo, from where his graduates specialize in Enology and can practice the profession.
He graduated from his studies in 1968 and, since then, he visualized Patagonia Argentina as one of the great places to produce Argentine wines.
He came to the Alto Valle de Río Negro to produce his first wine, a seed from cold areas. This variety is the one with which he had taken his last subject of the faculty. He found a viticulture carried out by immigrants, with vineyards planted with varieties of white and red grapes in the same vineyard. So much so that they were even vinified together, something that greatly disturbed that young agronomist.
His obsession with ampelography and the genetic purification of vineyards led him to discover vine varieties that immigrants had brought and to implant and vinify them separately. Since then, Antonio dedicated his days to the study of the different clones of the varietals that he cultivated and vinified.
For a good part of the years to come, he had to transform that reality together with other men of the time, forming part of the generation that founded the foundations of the current Patagonian terroir. A search for the genuine expression of each region, which was just beginning. In that region he began to work actively with INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Technology) and did a postgraduate degree in Agricultural Programming at FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization).
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Health Sense, is a system of plug-and-play wellness monitoring, wearable components for children that are easy to build and program. Innovations in health informatics include the design of a new health sensing system that integrates seamlessly into a person’s life by unobtrusively monitoring and presenting health information – akin to a sixth, health sense. The proposed research extends work in wearable computing and associated interaction paradigms for children. This research comes at a critical time as childhood obesity rates continue to rise and put future generations at-risk for life threatening chronic conditions. Thus, providing children the ability to reflect on their health by crafting their own personalized, monitoring system, empowers them to consider preventative health measures (take the stairs to make a brooch light up) instead of specific treatments (walk for 30 minutes). The specific objectives of this research are:
- Design plug-and-play wellness monitoring Health Sense components. Design and develop modular components that are easy to interconnect and communicate health data intuitively to the user.
- Design a graphical programming environment to control the actions of the Health Sense systems. Extend current graphical programming environments to make Health Sense easy to program for children.
- Understand how children use Health Sense systems. In a lab and field setting, we will explore how people build, program, and use Health Sense systems to monitor and reflect on their health.
|Funding:||National Science Foundation (Award #IIS-1231645)|
- Swamy Ananthanarayan*, Katie Siek, and Michael Eisenberg (2016). A Craft Approach to Health Awareness in Children. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.
- Swamy Ananthanarayan* and Miranda Sheh# and Alice Chien# and Halley Profita* and Katie A. Siek (2014). Designing Wearable Interfaces for Knee Rehabilitation. In 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
- Swamy Ananthanarayan and Nathan Lapinski and Katie Siek and Mike Eisenberg (2014). Towards the Crafting of Personal Health Technologies. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.
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The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is being called upon to deploy strategies that would seek to enhance the distribution of food in the country. This means that in areas where there are certain food products in abundance, the Ministry would facilitate the transportation of the food to other places in the country where there are none.
This would help with the availability of food across the country and help stabilize the prices of those food products.
Emmanuel Wullingdool, an Agriculture Policy Advisor shared these sentiments when he spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show.
“It has been a challenge for many smallholder farmers. At some point in time, you will find a lot of tomatoes in Wa, but at the same time, this same tomato is needed in Bolga and probably, they are not getting it. You can say the same about watermelon. At a point in time in the year, you can find watermelon in large quantities in one place, you go to other places, there is a shortage”.
“We need to, as a country, put in place mechanisms and systems that where there is an abundance of food in one part of the country, we are able to have it in another part of the country,” he said.
Mr. Wullingdool explained that if cases of gluts are not properly managed and food adequately redistributed, farmers would continue to lose out on their investments to Post Harvest Losses (PHL) and middlemen.
To help address the pressing concerns of food re-distribution in the country, Mr. Wullingdool has asked the government to consider gathering adequate data on the number of specific food products in specific areas. This he said, would inform the Ministry on what is available where and where the said product is needed.
Also, Mr. Wullingdool asked the government through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to enhance the warehousing system and properly resource the National Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) to allow them, [NAFCO] to lead the charge in the redistribution of food.
The Agriculture Policy Consultant also implored the government to fix the roads leading to known farming communities.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wullingdool also called out the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto for suggesting that Ghana is food secure.
Dr. Afriyie Akoto in a recent interview with Accra based Asempa FM brushed off comments from players within the agricultural value chain that Ghana was food insecure. The Agric Minister then went on to claim that because of the extreme success of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme, the government earned some 100 million USD through the exportation of some 19 food items.
In a sharp response, Mr. Wullungdool reminded the Minister that the exportation of food from Ghana could not be used as a measure of food security in the country.
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Acquiring proficiency in a foreign language is a challenging endeavor for many of us. But what if we tell you that there is a promising solution that can supercharge your ability to master your desired language? Join us as we go under the hood of one of the top-rated educational apps in this extensive Babbel review.
Language pedagogies are massively changing due to the developments in technology. Gone are the days when language learners only have to rely on textbooks, CD-ROMs, or enroll in expensive language schools. Today, the internet has provided users a remarkable opportunity to take advantage of thousands of modern applications and downloadable resources in just a few clicks. However, not all of these offer high-quality content and are guaranteed to elevate your learning experience.
Officially released in 2008 by Babbel GmbH, Babbel quickly became one of the world's most loved online language learning solutions. Throughout the years, the company managed to consistently level up its features as a response to the dramatic shifts in the preferences and behaviors of its users. But how exactly does this stack up against its more versatile and cheaper competitors in the market today? Let's find out in the sections below!
Babbel is the best-selling subscription-based e-learning platform centered on helping users build a solid foundation in the new language they want to master. The language courses from the inside are rigorously reviewed, developed, and curated to guarantee that you'll gain enough information to help you speak confidently in as little as three weeks.
With a commitment to making learning through the language app as effective as possible, Babbel also made sure to include time-tested EFL methodologies that were all backed up by researchers from leading universities. These approaches made the app an empowering tool that paves the way for everyone to learn the language that can be used in real-life conversations.
To add to their success, they also partnered with legitimate learning companies like Cambridge English, intending to create low-cost language testing and certification programs. With this move in place, the language courses were further polished to meet the standards of the Common European Framework of Reference or CEFR.
Whether using the mobile app or the web version, you can have unlimited access to helpful content, including automatically-synced lessons, updated podcast episodes, interactive games, engaging stories, and more! So even if you are a newcomer or an advanced learner, Babbel has the right mix of tools and content for you!
What Is It for? A revolutionary exercise-based language-learning app with built-in gamified features and advanced short lessons to speed up learning progress and ensure retention of learned words, phrases, and grammar points.
Languages Offered: 14 languages
Level: Newcomer to Advanced
Who Is It For? For language enthusiasts and advanced learners looking for a more challenging supplementary learning tool for review.
|Superb learning content||Limited language course offering|
|Flexible and has an intuitive design||It May be expensive if learn multiple languages|
|It comes with useful supplementary podcasts||No set number of content per language|
With such a low price tag and near-perfect ratings on different app stores, Babbel stands as one of the best language learning apps for those on a tight budget and looking for variety. If you decide to try this out, you can sign up for a free account and start learning at your own pace at the most suitable lesson level.
Once you click on the app, you'll instantly be greeted by a two-part skills-related survey to help the app determine the appropriate lessons for you.
The questions will focus on your current level and your reason for choosing the desired language. If you are a beginner, you will most likely begin in the Newcomer category and slowly make your way up to Proficient. At this stage, you will go through three courses with 35 lessons inside.
For advanced language learners and those with background knowledge of the target language, you will be prompted to take a three-minute placement quiz to assess your language skills correctly.
The quiz will include a non-numerical scale partnered with an example statement to communicate how strong you are with the questions. Based on your responses, you can be categorized as the following:
From there, you can immediately start learning the introductory lesson, depending on your level. If you are a total beginner, the first lesson will touch on basic greetings and how to ask someone how they are. On the other hand, intermediate to advanced learners will start their language study with listening and speaking lessons.
Once you have finished your first lesson, you will realize that Babbel's courses are capitalizing on the idea of chunked learning. Such a learning strategy can be reflected in how the words and expressions are broken down into small manageable pieces to ensure that users will not be overwhelmed.
To ensure that all concepts are understood, the Babbel app uses the suitable, old-fashioned spaced repetition method where you will constantly face the learned info consistently throughout each session. At times, you will answer multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, spell, match words, arrange letters or words, and all the usual EFL testing approaches. Fortunately, it is not repetitive because it challenges you through different assessment methods.
It's also a perfect tool to remind you when to jump back into action, as you can tinker with the notification system. From there, you can seamlessly add your Babbel sessions into your day at a specific time and day that works for you.
If you are also keen on improving your skills in the quickest way possible, you can head over to Babbel Live, where you can join hundreds of classes with certified language teachers and native speakers. In that area, you can filter the instructors and join a lesson that you are most interested in. You will also be joined by five other participants making the whole experience fun and exciting.
Are you ready to jumpstart learning a new language? Currently, the Babbel app offers a language course for 14 languages (including English). Below is a list that shows 13 of the foreign languages you can learn from the app assuming that English is your preferred language of instruction.
At present, there is no news on whether its team of professional linguists is developing any other languages. If that changes soon, don't worry; we will keep you informed by updating this post.
Right off the bat, we can say that the user interface of Babbel is sleek and uncluttered. In fact, it looks very professional and may sit well with those who are tired of seeing language apps with lots of colors and kid-like mascots.
Whether you are using the Babbel app or the desktop version, you'll find that it banks on a cleverly intuitive, minimalist, and user-friendly design. It's so simple that you won't get distracted while learning, and you can easily find everything in just a few taps or clicks.
While going over the grammar lessons on Babbel Spanish, we also noticed a lot of white space, which somehow helps all the elements on the screen to breathe. The developers are also using a readable typeface with a size that easily adjusts to the screen size of your devices.
Similar language apps also use white or greyish tones for the background, but that is not true regarding Babbel. Depending on the color scheme you set on your device, the app will automatically adjust. While our team reviewed the app, it proved to be compatible with both light and dark modes. That's a major plus!
If you do decide to join the dark side, your eyes will be delighted with the muted aesthetics it carries since it significantly reduces glare and blue light. All the white-colored letters and buttons appear more readable due to striking contrast. We highly recommend this mode if you use the language learning app during nighttime or in low-light environments.
If you want to go light, the contrast is also spectacular. The UI will instantly look elegant and will undoubtedly be suitable for your daytime learning adventures.
Babbel does not have the usual lively animated mascots or odd transitions, unlike other language learning programs. In fact, it only has its magical plant icon, which symbolizes the learners' progress. Over time, you will see that the icon actually changes as you progress in your learning languages. From a simple two-leaf plant, it will have its own flower when the time comes.
As you take the beginner courses on Babbel, you will see three to four major tabs below. The tabs changes depending on the language you are learning because they do not offer live sessions for all 14 languages. Generally, you will see the Home, Review, Live, and Explore tab.
If you are using the free version, you will see a small clickable banner encouraging you to subscribe to a premium account to unlock all courses.
In the main app, you can also see your progress and the suggested podcast episode for you to learn on the go.
If you haven't added your goals yet, you can adjust it to set an active goal for the number of activities you can commit to per week and your most preferred days and time.
At the top, you will also see two tabs. One for "Today," which shows your progress, and another tab for the "Current Course." From the "Current Course," you can jump into the unlocked lesson contents you are interested in going through for the session.
On the flip side, you can also see the Review tab, which serves as your memory bank. Here, you can track how many words you have learned in every memory stage. If you are not in the mood for a lesson and would like to review, you can click on the "Play All" to quickly job your memory.
The next important tab is the Babbel Live, where an actual live interaction is involved. If you truly want to sound like a native speaker and practice your listening skills, you can book a class with language teachers and join other learners.
Lastly, the platform also has a dedicated Explore tab where you can access courses, audio materials, and games. At first, some of these may be locked, especially if you are just at the very beginning stage of the language. The more that you learn, the more games you can unlock.
At first glance, the Babbel website version is certainly not different from the mobile app interface. The only difference we noticed is that an activity section easily shows a calendar to track progress.
While the app has three to four tabs, the desktop version has six, including Home, Live, Prices, Help, Learning Language, and your profile. Once again, the Live feature only works with some languages.
Similar to the mobile app version, the desktop version is also very responsive and is usable no matter how much you minimize the browser. Everything will still be readable and clickable.
Want to get a basic understanding of the three best features of Babbel? Please take a closer look at these three things that we enjoyed while using the platform to learn multiple languages.
Learning a language is not that difficult due to the wide selection of approaches, techniques, and resources you can use. Many language apps today focus on gamification, but do they really live up to their main goal, which is to help people learn?
What we like about Babbel is that the content is not only gamified but is done in a way backed by science. While going over your lessons, you can practice spelling words, translating expressions, recording yourself as you repeat words, matching pictures with words, and filling in gaps in a sentence. All of these assessment types are actually used in schools, making them a credible resource.
On top of that, there are actual mini-games that double as an entertainment feature. While stuck in traffic or waiting in line, you can open the app to spell learned words to help a train stay on track or form correct sentences to save the professor!
The problem with traditional language learning apps and platforms is that they usually focus on teaching the students words and phrases alone. Even if you spend countless hours maintaining your steaks and maintaining your position on the leaderboard, you'll find yourself tongue-tied the moment you speak the language.
Babbel added the Live feature to prevent you from experiencing the fear and panic of speaking the language with others, which is meant to encourage you to use all the words and phrases you learned in real-life conversations. This can help you learn from seasoned instructors and pave the way for you to gain confidence and break through your fear of being judged.
If you regularly check the available classes on Live, you will also notice varied topics that may align with your interests. So whether you want to learn party conversations or how to ask someone out, there's something in Babbel for you.
Today's age is about releasing apps meant to squeeze money out of their users. Some applications are just going to bombard you with lots of ads, annoying pop-ups, and large banners, making the whole platform useless and unusable. Fortunately, that is not the case for Babbel.
The Babbel developers ensured that all aspects of the learning platform would work seamlessly for all users. Even if you do not decide to upgrade your account, you can use the features and learn from some of the free lessons. You also won't be notified all the time to subscribe to a paid version.
If you want to build genuine relationships and be understood clearly by native speakers, using a language learning app like Babbel is ideal for your needs. Babbel comes with enough language courses and in-depth lessons that will seriously aid you in a new language. Since it has a more challenging approach in terms of lesson delivery and content, it is highly recommended for total beginners.
We cannot deny that Babbel teaches learners in a way that might come off as dull, especially to those who already have prior experience using applications like Memrise or Duolingo. However, learning a new language is more straightforward with this app making it a great resource to use along with other language learning apps.
Babbel can be a tremendous self-directed language course if you want to learn English because it is more affordable and has credible lessons that are at par with Cambridge English standards. With this said, the app also doubles as a preparatory course for an official English language certification since the lessons inside already take on a holistic approach.
Whether you want to improve your conversational skills, create grammatical sentence structures, or learn a few words in English, Babbel is a great fit!
Ready to brush up on your language skills or start from scratch correctly? The next thing you should consider is pricing for the Babbel app. For such a robust application, we are confident that you are wondering how much it costs and whether it is worth buying at all. We will answer all that below!
Ready to experience the Babbel Method? Well, the good thing is that it is totally free of charge to sign up and take your first lesson in every course. However, you must pay for a subscription to access other lessons and courses.
Signing up for a Babbel subscription is the best way to take full advantage of all the lessons inside the platform. At present, there are two types of subscriptions that you can take: Standard and Babbel Live.
As seen in the picture above, the standard online course starts at $13.99 per month and will give you full access to all levels and courses in the language you purchased. You will also get additional lessons on topics like grammar and culture.
Be wary about one thing, though. You see, Babbel asks users to pay for every language course that they are interested in. So before you make a purchase, be sure to select the language you really want to learn.
Babbel Live is a separate subscription that you can opt-in for if you are more interested in practicing your speaking skills. Below is a breakdown of the pricing depending on the plan:
If you are unhappy with the features, you can also contact customer support and share your experience with them. They will also offer you a 20-day money-back guarantee.
Babbel is already priced competitively, which is why many are willing to pay for it. If you are wondering if there is a way to get it at a lower price, then you are in luck! At present, the company offers a student and military discount. At the same time, they usually send promo codes and set up sale events through your registered email.
Babbel's quality is definitely fresh and intriguing. As we were using that app, we realized that it somehow takes more time to use than other applications. Some language learning apps promise you that you'll learn for 20 minutes or less, but this one might take up a lot of your time.
Some might find this a downside, but we want to remind you that Babbel is great for those who are genuinely committed. And if you are one of them, then check out our three realizations about Babbel.
If you want to learn a language, Babbel may be a suitable choice for you. Below are some of the reasons why we think so.
The Babbel lessons are truly different from what other language learning apps have ever offered. One great point to highlight is that not all languages follow the same format and provide the same features. For instance, the Turkish language does not have the Babbel Live, which makes it entirely a world apart from languages like Spanish or French. The same can be said for the Indonesian and Danish courses. But to meet the needs of users, those without Babbel Live seem to have more exercises related to listening and speaking.
Another thing we noticed is that the number of lessons per course may vary depending on your target language. For example, Course 1 for the Newcomer level for Danish has 12 lessons while Italian has 7 and Swedish is left with 10.
By now, you are probably wondering why it is like that, right? Well, the answer is simple. Babbel follows a curriculum that is based on the proficiency standards per language. It seems that Babbel is working with real language experts and education professionals who truly understand the right way of chunking content. This makes the lessons digestible and easy to follow.
Since they first launched the application, there have been lots of modifications and added features making it a bang-for-the-buck type of subscription. Users can rest assured knowing that the lesson content is updated and that development for new features is on the way. In addition, the number of assessment types is increasing as they seamlessly add these as soon as their in-house team proves that it is an effective learning approach.
As a bonus feature, we also noticed that the app sometimes has a pop-up notification that contains little-known facts about the language you are learning. Now that's one way to keep the user engaged with the language, right?
When learning a language, we usually have moods and preferences about the topics to cover for the day. Some may want to challenge themselves and jump ahead of the last lesson, but there are also times when they want to go back and check out the previous lessons. If that experience rings true to you, then we are glad to say that Babbel is the perfect learning companion.
Once you are logged in, you can instantly work on any level and take on the lessons you feel you need more practice at. You can also swiftly move through each level. Say you are already an Intermediate, you can go back to Beginner to review some points. Even better, when you go back, the exercises might be different, giving you more chances to check your understanding of a concept.
The podcast from within the app may seem like a bonus feature but is actually quite useful for auditory learners. This can be a great way for busy people to immerse themselves in the language still while doing their work or driving to the office. In addition, the podcasts may serve as an example of how native speakers pronounce specific words.
While it may seem like a perfect platform to learn languages, we also have to point out some of the things we did not like about it.
While the low monthly fee is reasonable given the quality and quantity of lesson units, the service may not be for everyone. Since users are only paying for one particular language, they will not have the same full access to other foreign languages. This certainly limits the freedom of the users who are still thinking about what language to learn next.
As a paying customer who wants to get the best out of every penny, it is normal for one to wonder if they will have enough lessons to cover the whole language. In the case of Babbel, the app has a varying amount of content which means that certain topics might not be discussed in the same order as with other languages.
For instance, we used Portuguese for quite a long time, and we assumed it had the same number of lessons per content as Turkish. To our surprise, Portuguese has 13 lessons in one course, while Turkish only has 10.
While we do not think the lesson content was compromised in any way, it would still be great if the app had some consistency on what essential words or phrases should be covered in each course. For Polyglots, we understand how much they like to compare the words they learned with other languages right away. In the case of Babbel, some words are taught in the first lesson in one language, while the others will only be encountered in the third lesson.
We do not have a lot of negative things to say about the service that Babbel offers. However, it is disappointing that they only managed to release content for 14 languages. It would be better if they also give small language a chance to be discovered by their huge userbase.
Overall, we think that Babbel is worth trying out due to its course quality, assessment varieties, and flexibility. Undoubtedly, we understand its 5-star ratings and why legitimate companies recommend it.
The major thing that you should consider is the fact that the learning techniques utilized in the app are backed by research and are consistently developed by its team of professionals. Perhaps, this is also the reason why they are more focused on improving the quality than the quantity of the language courses in the app.
So if you want a reliable back pocket app, you should check out Babbel today!
While we can recommend many Babbel alternatives, we will cut to the chase and point you to the best language learning app today. The Ling App is a resource that comes complete with lessons for 60+ foreign languages (including minor languages!). By signing up for an account, you can instantly access lesson units that will touch on grammar points, speaking, reading, and vocabulary practice.
To ensure that you'll have a chance to practice as if you are speaking with a native speaker, we added a FREE AI chatbot to simulate real conversations. With this tool, you can get instant feedback on how to improve and boost further your skills in your target language.
And the best part? It is affordable and is guaranteed to live up to your expectations. So what are you waiting for? Discover a new way to language learning with Ling by downloading it on the PlayStore and the AppStore. | <urn:uuid:0a861343-aa99-4787-9c4a-3641787d6c0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ling-app.com/tips/babbel-review-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954122 | 4,806 | 1.65625 | 2 |
While releasing his National Security Presidential Memorandum on Strengthening the Policy of the United States Toward Cuba, President Trump’s June 16th remarks purported to scale back the historic rapprochement the Obama Administration had put in motion during the last two years of that presidency.
However, it may be too soon to tell if anything substantive will truly change in our dealings with the island nation.
What is remaining the same (for now):
- The US Embassy in Havana and the Cuban Embassy in DC will remain open.
- Flights between the two countries will carry on.
- Restrictions on dealing with Cuban companies controlled by the Cuban government remain in place.
- Cuban-Americans will be free to travel back and forth and to move money back and forth between the US and Cuba.
In fact, the most telling changes will probably involve the highly publicized policy of Americans visiting Cuba under the so-called “people-to-people” educational activity exception permitted by a Treasury Department general license.
Tourism in its purest sense is still prohibited, so an application for “educational travel” will have to be made through Treasury and booked through a licensed tour operation. Ironically, since they tend to be large groups, visitors may be compelled to stay at larger hotels, many of which are managed by an arm of the government-run Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., rather than at some of the smaller hotels or guesthouses that are typically run by “independent Cuban entrepreneurs.”
In addition, visitors might face scrutiny when they return to the US, as they may be expected to show the itinerary for their visit while in Cuba. And keep that record for five years – just like any other export record. Civil penalties for failure to follow Treasury rules could reach $65,000.
The Presidential directive gives the Secretaries of Treasury, Commerce, State, and Transportation 30 days to initiate processes to adjust the current regulations regarding transactions with Cuba, so we will have to wait to see what the departments come up with. What becomes of the deals that were made before any change in rules takes effect remains to be seen.
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The author of this post is an internationally known writer, but I was surprised to hear his name when I was searching for things to be scared of in life. I also thought that the author would live in a world of superheros, but as I read the article I am overwhelmed at his bravery and honesty.
Surya Kiran is an author of horror, thriller, and thriller-y stuff. He is best known for writing and illustrating the books and comics of the Indian born writer of the same name. He writes horror and thriller books and comics too, but his best known work is the horror and thriller-y works of Arundhati Roy.
These are the four levels of self-awareness we’ll need to go from. These are the two kinds of self-aware you can take away from your life and build an identity that makes your life truly worth living.
This blog post is written by r. surya kiran, the author. He’s written for a variety of online platforms, including the Huffington Post.
This is the first we’re speaking about the self-awareness. Its a very important thing to learn, and if you’ve got the wrong people around you, its the last thing you’ll ever have to worry about. These are the two kinds of self-awareness. Its not like you can just take away your ego and say “I am an artist” and then take a class on it.
Its easier than you think. Self-awareness is a mindset. Its not like you can just say I am a good person. Its a constant process of getting in touch with your inner self. Just as you cannot just take away the ego and say, I am a good person, you cannot just say I am an artist and then take a class on it.
That being said, the self-awareness that comes with being an artist is definitely something to be aware of. Not just being able to paint, but being able to take care of yourself. If you spend too much time thinking about what you can do with your art, you will never be able to practice what you want to do with it. And as a result you won’t be able to practice what you want to do with your life.
You should probably not create anything that doesn’t have a name. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t name it. You can name anything. You can name anything. But it still makes you think about what you do with your life, and how you do with it. And you can name anything if you have to.
The hardest part about creating art is thinking about how you want to use it. You can name it whatever you want. But it still makes you think about how you want to use your life, and how you use your life. And you can name anything if you have to.
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Big Data and Cloud Computing
Big Data is largely a buzzword in IT right now. It was coined by Forrester Research to put a wrapper around existing database mining, data management, and other extensions of existing technology to the current hardware. The goal is to use mixed tools with larger volumes of several different forms of data being brought together under one roof. Along with this approach to data, we are also concerned with cloud computing, which is a public or private Internet network that replaces the tradition hardwired landlines within a company.
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Basics Of Forex Currency Trading
Foreign currency trading is becoming essentially the most favorite ways to earn money from the internet nowadays. However, like every other business, it’s its downsides and experts. We will take a look at some of these to raised have an understanding of Foreign currency trading. I suggest you get started with some of the basic principles so you’re able to stay clear of any attainable stumbling blocks which can be connected with ebay ability. You may also find out more on Foreign exchange following you recruit a come to feel than me by means of online investigation.
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For those new to fx trading, the most crucial methods that you simply expert is margins. Essentially, border signifies the contrast between your cost of the currency exchange and the value you’re ready to commerce for in an effort to protect your expenditures even though using a buy and sell. In reality, your mark up is your safety net. If your place is open up, it’s called an empty publicity. The edge calls you if you find yourself in danger of paying losses in your deal.
The two main sorts of foreign exchange: sole elimination and multiple treatment. Inside solitary removing procedure, you are going to trade with a single currency match. Your transactions is going to be restricted to the bride and groom that you’ve got chosen to commerce. This can be the a lot easier of these two techniques to learn. You don’t need to pay attention to the backdrop comprehension of the couples where you will have business dealings with ever since the total course of action is conducted on the basis of current market information and facts.
Multiple removal fx trading, conversely, entails a substantially more substantial volume of trading pairs. Basically, you will deal the foreign exchange fees of as many frames as you desire. Your judgements are going to have extra issues with there being a lot more currency couples you may monitor. Needless to say, the prices are better for such a commerce.
The european is one of the values dealt with foreign exchange. The reason the dollar is exchanged so greatly is its family member muscle in comparison with other foreign exchange. Currently, the european has heightened in opposition to almost all of its key counterparts. That is predominantly automobile status like a main monetary strength in Europe. Individual investors and corporations often purchase this forex like a refuge, specially if you have a rather stable careers and substantial funds.
However, likely to inherent chance loss once you commerce foreign exchange utilizing influence. To know this concept superior, you might initially need to understand leverage by itself. Leverage pertains to the chance to obtain greater than you might find the money to invest in all at once. In foreign exchange, this referred to as the surplus border. The larger the unwanted amount is, the better the positioning of the individual. He will get the staying amount of money – without the presence of leveraging that she has utilized – known as his edge.
Place market and futures are various kinds of foreign exchange that while using the place current market or futures trading market his or her fundamental financial transaction software when the broker establishes to seal his position at the benefit. One of the primary advantages of fx trading within the classic currency markets is the fact no actual physical products initiate this process. Instead, experienced traders execute their transactions determined by estimations and statistical data on various currencies. The exchanging is rather the liquid because the location market is open up 20-four hours every day. The area publication rack international, whilst the commodity companies are limited by the nation in which the business takes area.
You will discover four fundamental styles of foreign exchange that you can choose from,. That is another benefit. Included in this are equity, gilt, connection and funds sector. You can pick one of those currency couples you need to investing in case you have satisfactory funds. Such as, if you have chosen to industry gilt with pound, you can easily open up a brand new consideration that has a agent in Japan and manage it after that. You may also go for the alternatives of stock trading with an firm or even a broker on the web should you not wish to deal like this. Display foreign exchange trading.
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Holistic child-led experiential learning
Our children are at the heart of everything that we do at Little Paddington.
Holistic – A balanced focus on our children’s well-being, social and emotional development
Child-led – Our curriculum encourages curiosity, exploration and creativity
Experiential – We focus on hands-on project work and reflection
Limitless Possibilities - A diverse and dynamic programme designed to encourage a depth of learning
Inspiring Outdoor Spaces
We believe that learning goes beyond the classroom. Our intentionally-designed spacious outdoors provide an enchanting, lush green setting, designed to spark curiosity, discovery and adventure.
Pirate-ship Play ground
Our specialist ateliers create a stimulating environment for hands-on learning opportunities across diverse fields. Our ateliers have specific age-appropriate curriculum and are integrated with each other to create cross-curricular connections.
Here our children transform into budding scientists, exploring robotics, coding and the different sciences. Children develop the skills to form opinions, solve problems and decipher the world around them.
We gather resources from around the world, so our children learn about varied countries and examine different cultures, arts, cuisines, languages, animals, monuments and educational items.
Our role-play room takes children’s imagination and self-expression to its peak. Encouraging creativity aids in the development of social, emotional, physical, lingual, and problem-solving skills in children.
Music & Movement
Research shows that exposing children to music and movement, helps them learn, memorise, express themselves and enhances cognitive development. We expose our children to different sounds and instruments too.
Our cookery sessions have our little Master Chefs exploring different ingredients and experimenting with cooking techniques. It also helps them learn about health, hygiene and even maths and science.
Art & Craft
Our little artists are presented with themes and ideas to express their creativity and develop fine-motor skills. Children also get a chance to appreciate famous artists throughout history and explore their unique techniques.
Mandarin Immersion Programme
We offer a Mandarin Immersion Programme, across all levels. Our Mandarin teachers communicate with children in Mandarin through interactive activities, to support children’s understanding of the Chinese language, culture and values.
Nutritious Meals Prepared In-house
Our very own in-house chef prepares fresh and well-balanced meals for our children every day. Our menu is nutritious, tasty and most importantly, enjoyed by our children.
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Our pre-school programme incorporates age-appropriate activities to holistically develop our children. We value each child as an individual and work hard to nurture his/her personal strengths and interests. Through creative and integrated learning experiences, we focus on building confidence, emotional learning, independence, language, creativity, physical and social competencies as well as cultivating a love of learning across a broad and balanced curriculum.
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Explore history, see the sights, drink the wine in picturesque German spa town Bad Kreuznach
Looking for a place where you can squeeze in a hike, enjoy a spa and do some sightseeing all in a day?
Bad Kreuznach, on the Nahe River, might be just the place.
First, a little history: The Celts lived in the area, and so did the Romans. Like many towns in Germany it changed hands many times over the centuries. For a long time it belonged to the counts of Sponheim, who did much of the medieval building here.
The Swedes occupied Bad Kreuz-nach during the Thirty Years War, and the French later sacked it. The U.S. Army had a long history in the city following World War II, with the 3rd Armored Division, 8th Infantry Division and 1st AD among the units stationed here before leaving in 2001.
The center of Bad Kreuznach has two distinct quarters, the old town and the spa district.
The heart of the old town and its most popular sight is the 700-year-old Alte Nahebruecke, the bridge over the river with houses standing on it, the so-called Brueckenhaeuser.
It actually spans the Muehlenteich, an arm of the Nahe. The north end was destroyed in World War II and replaced with a modern bridge.
From the bridge you see St. Paul’s Church, built in 1332, and its 18th-century baroque tower. It was once the only building on the island formed by the Nahe and the Muehlenteich. Today the island is the center of the spa district.
From here you also have a view of the Kauzenburg, today a hotel, but not a good example of a reconstruction of a medieval fortress.
While walking through Bad Kreuznach, be on the lookout for some of its fountains and sculptures. On the Kornmarkt, where a farmers’ market is held twice a week, stands the Corn Market Fountain that depicts well-known citizens of the town’s past topped by Marie Probeck, who alerted the townspeople with her horn when fires broke out. Next to St. Nicholas church is a sculpture that looks like a golf ball on a tee, but a closer look shows fish on the ball, marking the spot where a fish market was once held.
The town’s saline springs were first mentioned in the 15th century. Later, salt walls were built, and salt was won from the springs. In the early 19th century, the healing powers of the saline springs were discovered and Bad Kreuznach became an international spa town.
The Crucenia thermal spring baths, the center of today’s spa quarter, features three saltwater pools and one freshwater pool for rest and relaxation.
There are many marked walking trails in and around the city, but one — the Panoramaweg — takes you past the town’s sights, the Kauzenburg with a great view of the town, and through the vineyards with a view of the baths.
It was the Romans who brought viniculture to the Nahe valley, so if you get a chance, give a Nahe wine a try.
Another nice stroll is along the banks of the Nahe. Walk far enough and you come to Salinental, an area that features numerous brine graduation towers.
Originally these constructs were used to produce salt. Today they are used as inhalatoriums. Visitors inhale the saline vapors, which supposedly clear the respiratory system.
Below the castle is Schlosspark Gardens, which features three museums — the Schlosspark, the Roemerhalle with Roman artifacts, and a puppet museum.
But that’s for another Quick Trip.
DIRECTIONS: Bad Kreuznach is in west-central Germany. From the Kaiserslautern area, take autobahn A63 to A61 and exit at Bad Kreuznach. For a scenic drive, take A63 to Winnweiler, then highway B48 north to Rockenhausen and on to Bad Kreuznach. From the Wiesbaden area, take A60 toward Bingen, then A61 toward Ludwigshafen, exiting at Bad Kreuznach.
TIMES: The Crucenia Thermen is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. The farmer’s market on the Kornmarkt is Tuesday and Friday mornings.
COSTS: Parking in most of the city’s parking garages is 50 euro cents per half-hour. Four hours at the Crucenia Thermen costs 8.50 euros for adults and 4.80 euros for children 3 to 15 years of age.
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Verizon’s private mobile edge compute solution with AWS Outposts is available for enterprise customers in the U.S. Announced earlier this year, Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Outposts is a cloud computing platform that brings compute and storage services to the edge of the network on the customer premises.
It enables the massive bandwidth and low latency needed to support real-time enterprise applications like intelligent logistics, factory automation and robotics. With Verizon’s On Site 5G and private edge platform, enterprises also gain operational efficiencies, higher levels of security and reliability, and improved productivity.
“By bringing compute and storage services to the edge of the network on the customer premises, we’re providing enterprises with the low lag and high bandwidth needed to process information in near real time so they can gain actionable data-driven insights and optimize their operations,” said Tami Erwin, Verizon Business CEO. “Through our partnership with AWS, we are helping customers unlock the true potential of 5G and edge computing which together will enable innovative applications involving computer vision, augmented and virtual reality, and machine learning. We are just scraping the surface of the new experiences that will be enabled by having 5G and edge compute on site.”
On Site 5G and 5G Edge with AWS Outposts gives manufacturers the near real-time responsiveness that enables applications like predictive maintenance and robotics for improved productivity and quality. Corning Incorporated, a leading materials science and advanced manufacturing innovator, is using Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Outposts and On Site 5G to enhance innovation at one of the world’s largest fiber-optic cable plants. Corning and Verizon are currently experimenting with high-speed, high-volume data collection on the factory floor, quality assurance, and on-premises inference using machine learning.
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The Office of Faculty Development’s 2014 Teaching and Learning Symposium was held on Tuesday, April 15 at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center.
The 2014 Symposium featured:
- A poster session
- A keynote lecture, delivered by Dr. James M. Lang
- The 2014 Teaching Awards Ceremony and Reception
To see a PDF of the program for the 2014 Symposium, including a full schedule of events, please click here.
Keynote Address: Cheating Lessons: Learning From Academic Dishonesty
Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today’s students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang, cultural or sociological explanations like these are red herrings. His provocative new research indicates that students often cheat because their learning environments give them ample incentives to try—and that strategies which make cheating less worthwhile also improve student learning. Cheating Lessons is a practical guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots.
Drawing on an array of findings from cognitive theory, Lang analyzes the specific, often hidden features of course design and daily classroom practice that create opportunities for cheating. Courses that set the stakes of performance very high, that rely on single assessment mechanisms like multiple-choice tests, that have arbitrary grading criteria: these are the kinds of conditions that breed cheating. Lang seeks to empower teachers to create more effective learning environments that foster intrinsic motivation, promote mastery, and instill the sense of self-efficacy that students need for deep learning.
About Dr. James M. Lang
James M. Lang is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which are Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Harvard University Press, 2013), and On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (Harvard UP, 2008). A starred review in Library Journal describes Cheating Lessons as a “lively book” that “explains relevant cognitive theory, outlines factors that foster cheating, and presents fascinating examples of course structures and classroom activities that stimulate students to work toward mastering their subjects.” Lang writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education; his work has been appearing in The Chronicle since 1999. His book reviews and public scholarship on higher education have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Time, and America. He is a member of the Fulbright Senior Specialist roster in higher education. He has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in English from St. Louis University, and a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University.
2014 Teaching Awards Ceremony and Reception
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You’ve probably seen photos of the crazy highways of Tokyo, with loops of the Shuto Expressway criss-crossing with on-ramps, off-ramps, sideways-ramps and itself in multiple levels. (Not going through any buildings, though. The Gate Tower Building is in Osaka.) The Expressway turned out that way, at least in parts, because of the 1964 Olympic Games. The first bit of Shuto Expressway was opened in 1962, and for the Olympic Games Tokyo wanted to present an efficient, modern transport system. Building this way was the cheap and quick way to have the Expressway connect much of the city.
It’s obvious that there’s a game hidden in that story. Many designers could have done it, had they thought of it. Resource management, worker placement, a tight time limit, contract cards to connect certain neighborhoods… . But many designers didn’t think of it. Naotaka Shimamoto and Yoshiaki Tomioka did, and they made a very different game called Tokyo Highway.
The On-ramp – How to play Tokyo Highway
Tokyo Highway became a tactical dexterity game. Sounds weird, but that’s the best way to describe it. Players only have three kinds of components: Flat cylinders as support pillar segments, long popsicle sticks for the highways, and cars in player colors as marks of ownership.
Players start with an on-ramp in play, a street segment from the table up to a single pillar segment. A turn is quick and simple, at least in theory. First, you build a pillar of any number of segments, then you place a highway stick from that pillar to the previous pillar you built.
Always having to build a new pillar makes it impossible to build circles already. Beyond that there are only two restriction in how you build. One, your highway may not cross a pillar. It can and should cross other highway segments, but never a pillar. Two, the new pillar has to be exactly one segment higher or lower than the previous pillar. Straight is too boring.
That leaves the cars. One of them is on your on-ramp, marking where your highway begins. The goal is to be the first player to place all your cars, so how you get the remaining ones into play is somewhat relevant. You may place a car on your newly build highway for every opponent’s highway below yours that doesn’t have other highways above it, and for every opponent’s highway above yours that doesn’t have other highways below it. Or, in simpler terms, when your highway is the first to go above or below an opponent’s highway, you place a car. You can place any number of cars in one turn – if your opponents give you the opportunity.
One special case when building highways are the yellow intersection blocks. You start with two of them (three in a two-player game) and if you top your pillar with one of them you get two awesome benefits. The pillar may have any height, so you can build steeper highways or even straight highways. Even better, on a later turn you may start your new piece of highway from there instead of your last pillar, creating a three-way fork.
That’s almost all there is to say about the rules of Tokyo Highway. One last thing is how the game ends. One way, as mentioned above, is for a player to place their last car and win immediately. The other way is for all but one players to run out of pieces, then the only remaining player wins. The obvious way to run out of pieces before everyone else is to build higher pillars and run out of pillar segments. The more entertaining way it to pay penalties to other players because you knocked over their highway.
How to stop playing Tokyo Highway – Our Verdict
Short answer: You don’t stop playing Tokyo Highway. It’s too much fun, even if you’re not usually into dexterity games. It does a good way of easing you into the whole dexterity thing, anyway. Your first one or two moves are trivial, just going upwards from your on ramp. Then the highways start crossing, and suddenly putting a pillar in the middle of that knot already on the table is rather challenging, after all.
That is part of the tactics in “tactical dexterity game”, too. When you start playing you’re only looking for opportunities to score. Then you start planning ahead to deny your opponents scoring opportunities. The real fun starts in stage three, when you intentionally offer a chance to score big points but with a high risk of bringing the whole game down. And then watch them sweat. Planning ahead is a much bigger part of Tokyo Highway than it is of most dexterity games. Fortunately, the game is simple enough that even the worst overthinker can’t slow it down too much. Well, unless they knock everything over and now have to rebuild the whole highway as well as they can.
Finally, don’t be fooled by Tokyo Highway‘s minimalist components. Grey wood cylinders and popsicle sticks may not look like much, but the resulting tangle of highways with colorful cars in the middle is one of the prettiest game end results ever.
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How can i convert this (preferably using bash/Perl/python) into a WIF that can be imported into (preferably) Electrum?
OpenSSL .pem files contain base-64 encoding of the values encoded using DER. In case of private keys they use PKCS#8 explained in RFC5208. To extract the key itself, you first have to decode the base-64 string and get the key out by reading the DER encoding (the posted example is missing 1 byte since the sequence length is 0x74 but the remaining bytes that come after it is 0x73 bytes). If you want to use OpenSSL itself, try using this command:
openssl pkey -in priv.pem -out priv.key
This should give you the key bytes. Now you have to convert them to WIF (base-58 with checksum). Use your favorite bitcoin library (I don't have any python suggestion but there are many you could find on GitHub) that has byte-to-Wif functions.
What does this mean? Wallet import format does not say anything about typing
Your one private key gives you one public key that could be used in both compressed and uncompressed form in many different output scripts which then you will see as a different type of address (P2PKH script -> address starting with 1; P2WPKH script -> address starting with bc1; ...). So when the private key is imported in a wallet, the wallet either has to look for all the output script types (like what Bitcoin-Core does) or ask the user to explicitly include the script type (which is what Electrum does).
In other words when you import a private key in Electrum with
p2pkh:<key> the wallet only checks the address starting with 1 (legacy or base58) and when import it with
p2wpkh:<key> it only checks the address starting with bc1 (native SegWit or bech32) and so on.
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Georgian Period Whistles, British made whistles in the Pre Victorian times were a theme I was interested in for over a decade, New antique whistles surface here and there and throw light on the development of ‘Professional’ Round whistles, time line and makers, of which little is known about. *
But these certainly give a new perspective to the term IRONMONGERS in the 17th 18th 19th century who were making whistles, and which later became more Brass Founders I believe.
Before I put many of the thoughts, comments & observations on these,
I share some of mine and others, Needless to say all very rare.
Starting with a Trio of Military whistles from my own collection,
most possibly by J. Dixon of Sheffield very early 1800, These include few amazing features for the whistle student and scholars who have a keen eye.
The sound is of each one is outstanding, (I am tempted to say the best I heard ) Interestingly the trio forms the sound of a triad chord,
I will edit and add comments later.(There is a LOT to be said and learn)
A Round Pea Whistle, dating c. 18th century to early 19th century,
An outstanding example of a design using various geometrical elements
forming a uniquely sculpted design.
From the country were Stradivariusmade his violins in the 17th & 18th Cent.
Early ‘Bobbie Whistle’, Whale-Bone Pea Whistle Pre Metropolitan Police Constable Whistle from Hill’s Family.
1821 Early ‘Peeler’, ‘Bobbie Whistle’,Whale-Bone Pea Whistle Pre Metropolitan Police Constable Whistle from Hill’s Family. The next email and photos I quote word for word with some private lines omitted, is from Mr. John Hill Noted for his Great Articles about Historic Places and Cultures among others.
I received it with answers to my questions, I chose to put Some technical and Family history in Bold letters.
What a pleasant surprise it was to receive your friendly and interesting email. And what a treat it was to discover your fabulous website on whistles – it is absolutely wonderful – congratulations!
My father said it belonged to his great-great-grandfather who was a “Hill” who lived in London and was one of the early “Peelers” (also called “Bobbies” – after Robert or “Bobbie” Peel) or the specialist police set up on the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel in 1814 in Ireland and, in 1829, 1000 men were formed into the “Metropolitan Police Force” who were regularly referred to as “Peelers”. It apparently belonged to him and he carried it while at work. I was lucky enough to inherit it from my father.
We don’t know much about this distant ancestor as the family history seems to have been broken when my grandfather, Alfred Hodson Hill (1887-1977), moved c. 1910 to Montreal, Canada. Before that, his father (who was a silversmith and son of the “Peeler” who owned the whistle) and family moved to Sheffield from London at some unknown date in the 19th century.
That is about as far as the family stories go.
How lovely to hear back from you! I only wish my father was still alive – he would have been so excited to find someone so interested in his family heirloom.
It truly is a unique whistle – i have been very fond of it since childhood and always impressed with the fact that ti is undoubtedly unique.
The whistle is, as you know, carved in the shape of a whale in
(presumably) whale-bone – but maybe from sperm-whale teeth or walrus ivory – I wouldn’t know how to tell the difference – can you help with this? Also, would it be useful for me to gently rub it with mineral oil – or do you have another suggestion – or, should I just leave it alone ?
One blows through the mouth of the whale to make it whistle. It does have a dark brown “pea” (roughly 8 mm. in diameter) inside the whistle, and the hole (where the sound comes out) does not contain a reed or anything other than the original piece of whale bone – with a sharp-edged hole cut into it.
It is just about exactly 8 cm long, 3cm wide at the widest point, 2 cm high
at its highest point (on the top of the whale’s head),
and about 1.5 cm wide at the narrowest place.
It still has a good-sounding loud, piercing whistle –
I still use it occasionally to call guests from a little cabin we have about 80 metres from our home.
If I may add I believe the maker was a very fine skilled craftsman who hopefully made other whistles as well. It is also notable that it is a PEA WHISTLE.
Whistle Museum all rights reserved.
John. M. Westwood * whistle maker b.1856 – d. 1886
His family (James Westwood His Dad) seems to have come from New York with his other brothers, all in the brass foundry business (His brothers in the trade James, Robert, Alexander ) & a relative named Andrews who shows up later as working with him).
John opened his own business in 1872 as Tinsmith and Gas Fitter at 73 Cumberland St. Calton, Glasgow . Excerpt from 1973 Directory.Westwood made a whistle which later became the model identified with S. Auld whistles. Continue reading John Westwood The first Glasgow Whistle Maker & Samuel Auld Whistles Breaking News ! A. Strauss
Black & Co. ( David Black ) 81 North Frederick St. Glasgow –1885 (or 1883) to 1898 , Zin & Tin workers Packing-Case Makers were pioneers of Snail type whistle making and may well have been the first to use the title ‘ Thunderer ‘ for a whistle.
Little was known about the company’s History, a new whistle; the first one stamped with maker’s name found 2017 which proved to be a Key Whistle, triggered me to more research and findings .
Previously many whistles as these, none stamped whistles attributed to Black showed, All 5 piece London type snail ( Escargot ) whistles.
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Average commercial solar system prices stay steady at about $1.20 per watt for the month of October. The average price of a 100kW system comes in at about $1.10 per watt – or about $110,000 for a fully installed system (after STC incentive and GST are applied).
Commercial solar system prices (10kW-100kW)
All prices in the tables below include incentives available through the federal Renewable Energy Target as well as GST, but do not incorporate meter installation fees or additional costs, such as ground-mounting, grid protection or grid connection studies.
Table 1: Commercial solar PV system prices for October 2017 (median)
Table 2: $/W commercial solar PV system prices for October 2017 (median)
Historic pricing for popular commercial solar system sizes
Commercial system prices – All system sizes
(N.b. Please see note about ‘Solar Choice Discount’ in January 2016 edition of the PV Price Index.)
About this data
Tables and charts included in this article were compiled using data from Solar Choice’s installer network database, which contains regularly-updated pricing and product details from over 100 solar installation companies across Australia. Although all pricing calculations do account for federal incentives and GST, they do not incorporate meter installation fees or additional costs, such as ground-mounting or grid connection studies. ‘Premium’ installer offerings are not included in the calculations.
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Kiwi Author and creator of Fairytale Fraud conversation resources, Katie Pye looks at what we can do to help our children open up when they are going through tough times.
One of a parent’s hardest jobs is to know how to support our children through their disappointments, fears, griefs, and struggles. While some kids readily share, others are more reluctant. Here’s some ways you can help support your child into conversation.
Quality time with children helps draw out good quality conversation. While some parents find it hard to manage much time, being present isn’t just about being around. It’s about being attuned. Use the time you have to offer undistracted attention. Demonstrate that you know what is going on in their world with thoughtful questions or by saying ‘I love you’ in their favourite ways.
Getting The Setting Right
If children are distracted, low on energy, or in a disinterested mood, expect them to be less interested in chatting. Start experimenting to find out the times and places that your child is more likely to talk – whether it be bedtimes or immediately after school; on nature walks or hiding out in a play hut; with some privacy or even via Instagram. Some children may want to be wrapped up in a big hug, others might dislike touch or eye contact, and others might even prefer indirect conversation, while doing a task. Every child is unique, and so expect your conversation approach to also be unique.
Reeling Them In
Some kids simply want space, hugs or practical help when they struggle, but it’s sometimes hard to know. We can offer opportunities to talk, and let our children guide us. Pictures, bedtime stories, our personal stories, or even watching a pertinent movie can be a great help in kick starting a conversation. Memorising a few fantastic open-ended conversation starters can help too – for example: If you could swap out something from your day, what would it be? or What’s something you are looking forward to/worried about?
Being a Conversation Ninja
When children are ready to talk, our job isn’t to fix it. Let them speak freely, affirm their feelings, and reassure them that they are well loved. Where children are willing, ask them questions that give them insight or help them interpret their situation in a way that offers hope and learning. Guide them to notice their expectations and their ‘self talk’ – the messages they are saying to themselves. Help them create reassuring messages that will strengthen them e.g. I can choose how I respond to the situations I am faced with; Even though it is not what I wanted, I can accept this; I can get through this; I can find things to be thankful for; This feeling won’t last forever. Making your goal ‘connection’, as well as ‘conversation’, is key. Children will be more happy to share at a later date when they sense they are truly loved and listened to.
Let Life Do The Talking
Children often look to adults and learn from how we respond to our struggles. Making healthy choices; practicing gratitude; setting fair expectations of ourselves and others; reassuring and encouraging ourselves; and asking for help when we need it actually supports our child! Growing a village around our children also provides them more opportunities to talk to people, especially important for seasons where they are reluctant to talk with us.
Give yourself permission to not get it right all the time. Our children are constantly changing, and our approach to connecting with them will need to change also. But know that even seemingly unfruitful attempts at conversation signal that you want to connect. Showing interest and love is your best invitation into future conversations.
When It Comes To Ages and Stages…
Younger children: Validate their feelings and help them name them; offer undivided attention and extra hugs; use books or other materials to help them understand what is going on; create conversation with a little ‘crazy’, like talking to them using their favourite toy as a puppet.
Primary aged kids: This is the perfect age to warm up to conversation with FUN! Put on a persona, ‘interview’ them for ‘TV’, make up a story together, do an activity alongside them, or get out the tickle monster. Launch straight into conversation with an open-ended question or use books/resources, get them drawing, or pose scenarios or share personal stories that touch on their struggle.
Teenagers: Invite conversation through being available and thoughtful. Plan one-on-one time; buy them magazines with great messaging, drop them a note or a package; find articles or activities of interest; communicate using their medium – e.g. send them messages on instagram; offer them a massage; notice what they are doing right; and expand their supports by hosting their friends/village. | <urn:uuid:b2d89a3d-130b-4f95-8ee2-0ab608db84dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.totstoteens.co.nz/parenting/education/healthy-family-conversations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956796 | 1,022 | 3.140625 | 3 |
I'm an anthropology graduate student writing very unscientifically from "the field", Los Angeles, California. Please visit my blog at //donya-onlocation.blogspot.com/. I'm studying the use of Internet communications among Iranian Americans, mainly the second generation.
Please leave your thoughts, comments, and questions. Thanks!
I’ve been wondering for a while why certain YouTube clips go viral among Iranian Americans while others obviously don’t. Are there videos that go particularly viral among the second generation? An example that comes to mind is the “I love you America” video that I had sent to me by a second generation friend I met in LA.
Anyway, before I knew it, people were posting it all over Facebook and referencing it in conversations, jokes, face-to-face, on the phone, and of course our hero was “Iranian of the day” on Iranian.com. Seeing this, and the 87,000+ views it got on YouTube, I guess we could say it went viral. So, what's the appeal?
A friend to whom I showed the video said it was all about the genuineness of the singer - the fact that he represents his own, very particular, and very candid way of being both Iranian and American at the same. The more people I talked to the more I heard about the importance of being real and honest online. Why this emphasis when it comes to online communications? Is it because we must always be ware of fakes on the net? Or is it, rather, because the internet is a particularly effective medium for sharing in honest and open ways?
Marshall McLuhan talked about the ways in which changing technologies have always been shaping our social worlds. According to him, they do this by changing the way we communicate with one another and therefore how we think and organize ourselves into societies. His famous phrase "the medium is the message" might provide ways to understand the significance of some of these viral videos. McLuhan used the example of the railway, claiming that "the message of any medium of technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure." This, he argued, was the effect of the railway as a medium, completely independent of what it was being used to carry, the content.
So, what about the content of youtube video clips? I thought the content was the most important part! Especially given the emphasis placed by one discerning viewer on the issue of genuineness of this particular guy in this particular context engaged in this particular act. And also because of the fact that this video is very likely circulating among Iranian Americans and not Chinese Swiss for a reason: the content, right?
So why is McLuhan still important? In the BBC documentary, The Virtual Revolution (catchy/cliche/presumptuous title and all), Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Huffington Post and founder of BuzzFeed talks about how we can use McLuhan today (20 years after his death) to explain how inane videos of cats playing the piano are mega youtube-hits. We need only see that it's not at all about the content, but completely about the fluidity with which the video is shared with others, is adapted through the process, and ultimately ends up engaging people in a "viral culture" in which their interactivity is key. We can see a version of this in the way remixes and impersonations of the "I Love You, Amrika" guy have been added to the youtube library by other Iranians (lousy, as they might be in quality, but hey...).
Apparently, the mere fact that we're engaging with a new, interactive media is changing us. If this is the case, then while we're being shaped into so-called members of the "global village" (another of McLuhan's famous phrases), we're not just becoming more connected to as many other people as possible for the sake of it, regardless of what kind of content they share or produce (this leaves the question of why some vids go viral and others don't unanswered). What we do seem to be doing is trying to keep close track of those parts of what the Web offers which are especially close to us, those things with which we can identify, things that make us feel at home, things that touch a deeper "me" or "us" feeling. That's exactly the feeling I got when a friend from LA recently posted a simple close-up of a car number plate that read "ACHJOON" and tagged a bunch of us hyphenate Iranians in it. I Loved it. The comments that ensued covered the range of meaning that this phrase in Farsi (literally: oh baby/dear) has that can't fully be translated, and the fact that this object also somehow immediately conveyed a typical LA Iranian-ness was also obvious without explanation.
There's indeed something movingly sincere about these tiny snippits of web-aided Iranian American-ness that make them work for people, at least from where I'm looking. And together they seem to make up a bigger patchwork of other people's similar feelings. It's almost as though it's in those moments, when you feel this kind of closeness and immediacy when relating to others, that the role of the internet as media is most invisible. But perhaps it is in precisely these moments when its role is most significant - imperceptibly changing the ways we are being and becoming ourselves as Iranians and as people with mediated lives.
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By Kelsea Forward
AFBF has awarded grants of up to $5,000 each to five state Farm Bureaus for new programs and initiatives through its Strategic Action Fund. State Farm Bureaus with fewer than 25,000 members were eligible to apply for funding of up to $5,000 for projects that address AFBF’s board-adopted 2022 priority issues. The five states that have been awarded funding through the program are Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, New York and Vermont.
“The Strategic Action Fund Grant program is a great tool to help smaller state Farm Bureaus enhance advocacy efforts and increase engagement in the Farm Bureau’s strategic policy and economic priorities,” said Sam Kieffer, AFBF vice president of public policy.
Here are the summaries of each state’s program:
Colorado - Colorado Farm Bureau is using grant funding to offset the cost of polling and consumer research to help the organization better understand Colorado voters’ priorities and their opinions on key Farm Bureau issues. The research will also provide insight on voter attitudes, data points for influencing policymakers and a baseline for measuring industry impact on voter attitudes over the long term.
Delaware - Delaware Farm Bureau aims to educate Delawareans on various sustainability practices and the benefits of sustainable agriculture through a tabletop trivia game, which will be purchased from Exhibit Farm. The tabletop trivia game questions address sustainable farming practices to educate the community on how sustainable farming protects the environment and natural resources.
Maryland - Maryland Farm Bureau plans to add signage, banners and window decals to the Dairy Bar façade at the Maryland State Fair that provide ag facts and contain links via QR codes to educate consumers about agriculture's contributions to climate change solutions, clean renewable energy and improved water quality. The goal is to promote agriculture as a solution to environmental challenges.
New York - New York Farm Bureau is planning to create informational videos highlighting the important role farmers play in addressing climate change and sustainability. These videos, which will feature farmer members from across the state explaining how they address climate change and build climate resilience on their farms, will be part of a media campaign to educate urban policymakers on the positive impact agriculture has on climate initiatives.
Vermont – The goal of this project is to create print and digital collateral to share how Vermont Farm Bureau members can speak for their industry through policy creation. The materials will address the policy development process, current and forecasted strategic/legislative concerns, and actionable steps for how individuals can participate in the policy development process. With this project, Vermont Farm Bureau strives to ensure members have a clear understanding of policy development, to engage the public in understanding positive agricultural practices and to improve the overall perception of Vermont agriculture.
A special thanks to Idaho, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee Farm Bureaus, each of which contributed $1,000 to the Strategic Action Fund for this year’s selected projects.
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Magnetic solid-phase extraction based on the Carbonized cotton fabric/zeolite imidazolate framework-71/Fe3O4/polythionine followed by atomic absorption spectrometry for cadmium monitoring in water, tomato and cabbage samples
Volume 5, Issue 02, Pages 60-75, Jun 2022 *** Field: Analytical chemistry by nanoadsorbent
Carbonized cotton fabric/zeolite imidazolate framework-71/Fe3O4/polythionine (CCF/ZIF-71/Fe3O4/PTh) was fabricated, characterized, and applied as efficient magnetic sorbent in magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) of cadmium from water and food samples before determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). This modification of carbonized cotton fabric led to making a great surface area and porosity, increase extraction efficiency, and acceptable selectivity. The characterization of this proposed sorbent was performed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy analysis techniques. The impact of several analytical parameters including pH, sorbent dosage, time of extraction, desorption condition, chelating agent concentration, the amount of salt and effect of potentially interfering ions on the selectivity and extraction recoveries of cadmium, were evaluated and optimized. In this proposed methodology, the limit of detection (LOD), the limit of quantification (LOQ), and relative standard deviation (RSD, n = 3) were found to be 0.21 ng mL−1, 0.6 ng mL−1 and lower than 3.0%, respectively. The validation and accuracy of the new advanced procedure were confirmed by applying the proposed procedure for certified reference materials (SRM1570A). Eventually, CCF/ZIF-71/Fe3O4/PTh can be utilized as a selective sorbent, for the rapid, accurate and sensitive determination of Cd (II) in the samples.
M. Babazadeh, R. Hosseinzadeh-Khanmiri, J. Abolhasani, E. Ghorbani-Kalhor, A. Hassanpour, Solid phase extraction of heavy metal ions from agricultural samples with the aid of a novel functionalized magnetic metal–organic framework, RSC Adv., 5 (2015) 19884-19892. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA15532G
M. Cegłowski, G. Schroeder, Removal of heavy metal ions with the use of chelating polymers obtained by grafting pyridine–pyrazole ligands onto polymethylhydrosiloxane, Chem. Eng. J., 259 (2015) 885-893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2014.08.058
K. M. Dimpe, J. Ngila, P. N. Nomngongo, Preparation and application of a tyre-based activated carbon solid phase extraction of heavy metals in wastewater samples, Phy. Chem. Earth, Parts A/B/C, 105 (2018) 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.02.005
E. Y. Zeid A. Alothman, Mohamed Habila, Mustafa Soylak, Solid phase extraction of metal ions in environmental samples on 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol impregnated activated carbon cloth, Ecotoxicol. Environ. Safe., 112 (2015) 74-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.10.032
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LONDON (AP) — The British government came under fire Thursday for scrapping a long-planned high-speed rail line to the northern English city of Leeds as part of a package of revisions that potentially reduces costs by tens of billions of pounds.
Critics argue the scaling back of plans will leave many parts of north England, particularly those in eastern areas, at an economic disadvantage, and runs against Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson's stated ambition to “level-up” the country, by spreading prosperity away from London and other wealthy parts in the south.
In an announcement to lawmakers, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the planned northeastern extension of the new high-speed rail line, known as HS2, to Leeds has been scrapped and that the new high-speed trains will run on existing lines. He also said that a high-speed rail line linking Manchester with Leeds around 45 miles (72 kilometers) away, will now be a combination of new track and enhancements to existing infrastructure.
HS2 trains, which will have a top speed of around 250 m.p.h., are intended to slash journey times and increase capacity as well as link up cities outside London with the high-speed lines in Europe through the Channel Tunnel rail link, formally called HS1.
HS2 is being built in stages with the first one linking London with the central England city of Birmingham. It should be ready around the turn of the decade.
From Birmingham, the original intention was to build further lines, one northwest to Manchester, the other northeast to Leeds. The high-speed line to Manchester will still go ahead, reducing the journey to and from London by around an hour to a little more than one hour.
The decision to scale back HS2, which will make journeys between Leeds and London 32 minutes longer than previously planned, has been criticized across the political spectrum.
Robbie Moore, a Conservative lawmaker whose Keighley seat is near Leeds, said the changes “completely short-changed” his constituents.
“We are one of the most socially deprived parts of the U.K. and we must get better transport connectivity,” he said.
Shapps insisted that the 96 billion-pound ($130 billion) Integrated Rail Plan would slash journey times across northern and central parts of England with 110 miles (177 kilometers) of the new high-speed line, and said the benefits will come a “decade or more” sooner than previously estimated.
“This plan will bring the north and the Midlands closer together, it will fire up economies to rival London and the South East, it will rebalance our economic geography, it will spread opportunity, it will level up the country," he said.
For decades, a North-South wealth divide has been evident in England. Successive governments have sought to bridge that gap and the new high-speed rail links were promoted as a way of enticing investment into the north of England away from southern areas, notably in and around London.
The north of England, which used to be the economic powerhouse of the British economy, has suffered in recent decades as many of the old industries that facilitated its success, such as coal, cotton and shipbuilding, have all but disappeared.
Johnson won a hefty majority at the last general election in 2019 by promising to do something about this divide, winning scores of seats in what had historically been the heartland of the Labour Party.
The prime minister was travelling Thursday on trains stopping at locations affected by the plan and meeting with rail staff.
The main opposition Labour Party described the revised package as a “Great Train Robbery” in light of previous assurances, and a “betrayal” by Johnson of those who “loaned” him their votes in the last election.
Labour mayors across the north of England, even in those cities set to directly benefit from the construction of HS2, lambasted the government for selling the region short once again.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the North had been given a “distinctly second best” package.
“We’re fed up with that and our residents are too,” he said.
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Woodland Joint Unified School District is proud to offer our new Expanded Learning Program that includes the former After School Education and Safety (ASES) and YMCA. Expanded Learning programs will be offered at each of the elementary school sites: Beamer, Dingle, Freeman, Gibson, Maxwell, Plainfield, Springlake, Tafoya, Whitehead, Woodland Prairie, and Zamora. The Expanded Learning program is funded through a state grant and is open until 6:00 pm every school day. The program starts immediately after school and consists of homework support, intervention, enrichment, recreation and a nutritious snack. Our mission is to create an enriching, safe, academic and fun environment, conducive to learning, that will impact students’ education and lives in a positive manner. The program is open to students from transitional kindergarten (TK) to sixth grade.
All WJUSD elementary students are eligible to participate in this free program.
Students who are enrolled in the former ASES program, for the 2022-23 school year, will automatically be enrolled into the new Extended Learning program. If your child attends on of the following schools (Beamer, Dingle, Freeman, Gibson, Maxwell, Plainfield, Tafoya, Whitehead and Woodland Prairie) and you are interested in our program for a student not currently enrolled, please fill out our interest form below.
Zamora Elementary and Spring Lake Elementary:
YMCA is providing the expanded learning program for Zamora and Spring Lake students.
Science & Technology (Sci-Tech) Elementary Charter School:
The principal, Maria Maritinez, will be sending more information for Sci-Tech students soon as the charter school receives separate funding and manages its own program.
Keep in mind all new Expanded Learning after-school enrollment will be placed on a waitlist after registering your child. This is due to statewide staffing challenges, there may be delays in enrollment, as we do not have enough tutors to serve all interested students at this time. We are working on hiring additional staff based on interest/enrollment. As we acquire additional tutors, we will continue enrolling students off the waitlist. Your school's expanded learning site support specialist (formly ASES coordinator) will follow up as soon as possible to begin enrollment. We aim to provide after school programs to all students as soon as possible, and to minimize time on the waitlist.
For more information contact: Expanded Learning Coordinator, Tori Peterson at 530-530-406-3250 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Or contact the Expanded Learning Site Support Specialists at each school site:
- Beamer Elementary: Corina Cortez 530-681-7919 email@example.com
- Dingle Elementary: Ashlynn Gardner 530-867-1996 firstname.lastname@example.org
- Freeman Elementary: Laura Killion 530-867-2107 email@example.com
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- Maxwell Elementary: Alexandra Diaz 530-867-2147 email@example.com
- Plainfield Elementary: Eduardo Gonzalez 530-723-8425 firstname.lastname@example.org
- Tafoya Elementary: Katie Bruner 530-867-2150 email@example.com
- Whitehead Elementary: Monica Coronado 530-867-2182 firstname.lastname@example.org
- Woodland Prairie Elementary: Destiny Garcia 530-723-0872 email@example.com
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When migrating items using Excel, the following message is displayed:
The absolute URL '<URL>' was found in the 'DestinationPath' column of the Excel file. This column only accepts relative URLs.
The absolute URL '<URL>' was found in the 'SourcePath' column of the Excel file. This column only accepts relative URLs.
Any error code ending with: -271
When using Excel to migrate items, there is a column DestinationPath. The path entered in this column must be relative to the destination list. In previous versions of Sharegate, a single column, SourcePath, was used to represent the location of the item both at the source and the destination. For these older Excel files, the issue would be found inside the SourcePath column.
Here is an example that shows the difference between the types of paths.
Absolute path: https://yoursite.sharepoint.com/sites/home/Folder/document.docx
Relative path: Folder/document.docx
As you can see, the absolute path contains the full path to the document, but the relative path contains just the path starting from the root of the list or library. Here is another example.
1. The relative path for this folder would simply be Sharegate/. The trailing slash is important since it defines that this is a folder. Any documents contained in this folder would have a path like Sharegate/document.docx. Another folder in the Sharegate folder would look like this : Sharegate/Folder1/
2. The relative path for this document would simply be test.xlsx.
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Mayonnaise is one of the most versatile condiments around. It’s popular around the world for use on all sorts of cuisines and makes a great secret ingredient in many different dishes— but that’s for us humans.
What about our four-legged friends? Can dogs eat mayo?
Simply put, yes. Dogs can safely eat mayonnaise. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they should.
If your pup happens to snag a piece of your sandwich that’s been dressed with mayo, nothing terrible is going to happen. With an amount that small, there’ll be little to no adverse side effects. Well, maybe some extra potent gas if their belly doesn’t agree. But that’s about it.
You really only need to be concerned if they manage to eat an entire jar or if you’re feeding them mayo as a topper on their food — something we don’t recommend doing. We’ll walk you through the dos and don’ts of mayonnaise when it comes to giving it to your pooch.
What Makes Mayo Unhealthy for Dogs to Eat?
Mayonnaise is unhealthy for dogs in the same way that it’s not a health food for us. It’s super rich in fat.
Mayonnaise is essentially emulsification of egg yolks, salt, and oil. All of these ingredients can contribute to digestion issues all on their own. But when put together, they form a delicious gut-bomb ready to rip through your insides.
Dogs that eat an excessive amount of mayo are prone to indigestion, vomiting, and diarrhea.
How Much Fat Can Dogs Eat?
Some of us are still convinced that certain dog breeds are just walking garbage trucks eating everything that sits still for long enough. This most certainly leads to obesity and other accompanying health issues.
Many of these overeating ailments are a direct result of ingesting too much fat. However, fats are an important part of your dog’s health and well-being. The concept of “too much of a good thing” holds absolutely true. So, how much fat can dogs actually eat?
An adult dog should have approximately 14 grams of fat per day for roughly every 30 pounds of body weight. So, if we were to compare that to mayo, how much could they eat per day?
Well, on average, a single tablespoon of mayo contains 10 grams of fat. This means that a small dog would reach their daily fat limit with just a single spoonful! And this isn’t even including the fat that’s in their food.
So, even though Fido might like the taste, you should still refrain from feeding them any mayo-based on this information alone.
Hidden Killers in Mayo
Mayonnaise isn’t always just a simple sauce. At times, it can be rather complex, incorporating many different ingredients and flavors. And perhaps the most popular added flavor to mayo is garlic.
While regular mayo is relatively harmless to your pup in small quantities, adding garlic to the mix can start to make the mixture toxic. Garlic and other members of the onion family contain a chemical compound known as thiosulfate which is highly toxic dogs in larger amounts. So, be sure to keep your pooch away from mayo that has been seasoned with anything relating to garlic.
What to Do When Your Dog Has Eaten Too Much Fat
If you feel that your dog is starting to incorporate too much fat into their diet, it’s not too late to correct the issue. You can always swap over to a great low-fat dog food.
There are so many different great options to choose from. We recommend picking up something like Evanger’s Low Fat Vegetarian Dinner Canned Dog Food or Wellness CORE Grain-Free Reduced Fat Dry Dog Food as a kibble option. These are great, healthy choices if you’re looking to boost your pup’s health.
However, there may be times where an at-home switch just isn’t enough. If your dog is becoming overly obese, experiencing any signs of indigestion, vomiting, or is in perpetual lethargy, contact your vet. Your vet may recommend and prescribe a special veterinary diet in order to help your pooch get back to their fullest.
Just keep in mind that these special diets require a prescription to purchase and are often much more expensive than normal food. So, it’s best to try and maintain your dog’s diet as best you can without veterinary intervention.
Letting your dog have a quick taste of mayo isn’t going to do any real immediate damage. But letting them eat large quantities—especially over time—can definitely take a toll on them. It’s best just to avoid it altogether. Instead, you can offer you pup treats specially designed for canines while keeping all the special sauce to yourself.
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Having Clair senses means that you have more than your regular five senses. This is sometimes called a sixth sense.
Just like being able to feel, see, hear, smell and taste, in the spiritual world, you can have another gifting called the clair senses. These are your psychic giftings.
The eight clair gifts include:
- Clairvoyance which means to see clear.
- Claircognizance which means to know things clearly.
- Clairaudience which means to hear things clearly.
- Clairempathy which means to be able to understand emotions.
- Clairsentience which means feeling things.
- Clairtangency which means touching things clearly.
- Clairalience which means to smell things clearly
- Clairgustance which means to taste things clearly.
When someone is clairvoyant, they are able to see things clearly which means that they can have clear signs and symbols. They can use their third eye to help them to see things such as dreams and visions. These images can come to their mind and can help them to be aware of what is going on around them.
You might be able to see the aura of others or to feel the energies of plants, animals, and people. You will also be able to see ghosts.
There are things that you can do to increase these gifts such as to be more visual. Use visions and visuals to help you through hard situations. This gift can help you to have good directions and you should be good at things such as decorating or loading things such as in the car or the dishwasher.
Someone that is clairvoyant will be able to see things in the future and will be able to know what has happened in the past.
You might have clear knowing if you have this gift and this means that out of nowhere, you just seem to know something. You didn’t see this happen or hear about it, you just know out of nowhere and you process and interpret what is going on. Claircognizance can be a feeling that you have, or a thought and it can help you to be aware of people around you.
If you have this gift, you will know if someone is honest with you or someone lies to you. Some people think that claircognizance is the same as clairsentience but that is not true. This is knowing something without having strong emotions.
If you are clairaudient, you hear things in the spirit world. This can be sounds or voices. Some people will be able to know their inner voice and use it to hear what the voice is trying to tell them.
You might be driving, and you feel or hear that you need to get off the road. When you do this, something has happened, and you were saved by listening to the voice. You need to always pay attention.
With this gift, you will be more open to things around you such as music and sounds.
If you are a clairempath it means that you are able to know what someone is thinking and feeling. You are able to know what energies they have when you walk into a room. You might even be able to feel their actual pain. If you go into a crowd, you will have many emotions come to you.
Empaths have to care for themselves and set boundaries so that they stay healthy and strong. They need to make sure that they always take time for themselves and keep themselves grounded.
A person that has clairsentience is able to use their intuition to feel things. They have strong intuition, and their gut will tell them when they need to do something or not do something.
A person with this gift is able to feel things that other people are feeling, and they can also feel their emotional pain.
If someone is upset or gets sick, a person with this gift can feel these things.
If you are Clairtangent, you are able to get information from just touching someone or something. This is also called psychometry.
You can be someone that will be able to go into a room and get knowledge just by walking in. If you touch things such as antiques, you can know where they came from and who had them first.
A person that is clairsalient is someone that can smell things without anyone being in the room. This can be the perfume of someone that has passed away or a smell of smoke from someone that died.
Sometimes people with this gift can go into a place and know when a spirit has been in the room because they are able to smell things that the spirit used to do.
A person that is Clairgustance is someone that is able to taste things in the spirit world. It will feel like something is in their mouth such as a food or drink that was something they weren’t eating.
Some people will get this information when they are trying to help with crime solving. This can help them to know the taste of blood or of a chemical that was in a drug.
- Intuition: having a gut feeling or a feeling that something isn’t right.
- Intuitive coach: someone that helps to increase your giftings of intuition and helps you to understand your psychic giftings.
- ESP: extrasensory perception is being able to use the gifts and information to contact someone through things such as telepathy.
- Precognition: Being able to know when things are going to happen.
- Postcognition: Being able to figure out past events so that you can know what someone is doing in their life.
- Psychic: A person that is able to read into the future or someone that is able to know what someone is feeling based on their energies.
- Tarot and Oracle Cards: Cards that a psychic or a reader uses to tell of the past, present, and future.
- Astrology: using the stars and the planets to know the personality and life of people.
- Tea Leaf reading: when someone uses tea leaves and their patterns to tell the future.
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Remember These Four things before going on a business trip
Submit covid, journey has become a danger and positions a risk. Companies globally have adjusted themselves to the and also have eliminated computerized. Although the pandemic has additionally taught us the value of touring, man interactions, and partnerships in real life. It has rejuvenated the being thirsty for traveling and Business Travel getting together with new folks.
Running a business, vacation is expected, especially when you’re planning to increase your company across distinct nations or finding natural materials from resources across edges. 1 cannot overlook that it must be more difficult to state no to a person physically present rather than to a person we satisfy on the digital screen. For that reason, business travel is successful in lots of ways. Such problems, allow us to be aware of the basics for business travel.
Business Travel fundamentals
•Generally, Corporate travel is brief but is jam-loaded with sessions and meetings. As a result, routine your itinerary and check out travel and traffic problems at your vacation spot. Not considering this can have an impact on your schedule.
•It is far from a good idea and successful to check out a spot repeatedly until you have shut down the deal. So, when planning for a business travel, prepare properly and make the most out of it. Satisfy multiple people and potential customers on a single journey.
•On a trip on business flights, talk with your co-passengers or with someone you fulfilled at the bistro. You never know, you can wide open new ways for the company this way. Their ideas as well as the local expertise could be of use in your presentation.
•Continue in a accommodation that may be near to any or all your planned events. Stay away from travelling from one finish of the area to a different provided you can steer clear of it.
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A FARM VISIT with NEIL THROCKMORTON
When you farm at Woorarra East in the hills behind Toora with a 1200mm annual rainfall, the 625mm annual rainfall of Yarram over the last ten years is comparatively dry.
For the Throckmorton family they affectionately refer to their recently purchased 150ha outblock south of Yarram as the Gobi Desert.
“The fortnight before we purchased it we applied 2&1 fertiliser, and it just went brown. It was nothing to do with the fertiliser, it was just a very dry season” said dairy farmer Neil Throckmorton.
Purchased in September 2015, Mr Throckmorton said the property was “Totally unimproved, tussocks, stunted growth and low fertility”.
“Our focus was to improve the property so we could grow a lot of feed to supplement the dairy farms.”
Preparing the property to renovate in April, the Yarram property underwent significant drainage to prevent water from pooling, and tussocks regrowing again. They also planned a significant short term pasture program to maximise pasture yields.
“Working alongside Pete & Notman Seeds we decided to plant Bullet Annual Ryegrass mixed with Shaftal clover to give us flexibility for both grazing & silage.”
Planting of the Bullet & Shaftal at 40kg/ha began in April and the last paddocks were sown in the first week of June.
“We normally wouldn’t sow so late, but I’ve learnt a real lesson with the Bullet & Shaftal. As long as you can get on the ground and its not waterlogged I wouldn’t be afraid to sow so late.”
“The late sowing of was a real bonus, and although we got no winter grazing, the minute the pasture got heat on it the grass just took off.”
A wet winter in Yarram delayed the first silage cut, with some of the earlier sown paddocks grazed with young stock.
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During the 18th and 19th centuries, countries in Western Europe began expanding their horizons and colonizing much of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Dozens of cultures and millions of people fell under European rule. One country in Southwest Asia, however, remained unconquered due to its inhospitable geography, vast isolation, brutal warfare tactics, and insurmountable internal division. That country was Afghanistan, and its people endured invasion by the British, the Sikhs, and much later the Soviets. Years later, the United States stands on the brink of a similar fate for the same reasons.
In 1999, the United Nations condemned the Taliban, a radical Islamic movement in Afghanistan, as terrorists and initiated sanctions against them. The Taliban responded in 2001 by assassinating anti-terrorist politicians in Kabul and funding the 9/11 attacks in the United States, which directly led to the Western invasion of the country. By May of 2003, a new government, with Western ideals, was established by the United States to disempower the Taliban. Osama Bin Laden, one of the primary leaders of the terrorists, fled to neighboring Pakistan a few months prior and would be hunted down and killed several years later.
2021 U.S. Military Withdrawal
The government established in 2003, despite billions of dollars of aid from NATO and nearly two decades to build its military, still struggles to hold the country together. Ever since the military withdrawal by the Biden administration several months ago, the Western-backed government has lost nearly 85% of the country to a resurgence of the Taliban. Most notably, the Afghan government has been forced out of the major cities Kandahar, Mazar e Sharif, and Bagram. The Taliban has also taken the Presidential Palace and controls part of Kabul, the nation’s capital.
Why the Taliban Is Gaining Ground So Easily
The reasons behind the sudden collapse are simple: the rugged, mountainous terrain favors the terrorists and a general lack of will and ability of government forces to fight back the terrorists.
First, the Taliban are much more competent at fighting a war in rugged terrain than the government is. Afghanistan has very poor infrastructure, which makes it difficult for government forces to move their soldiers around. Many mountains in Afghanistan are unscalable by government vehicles and miles away from the nearest government stronghold. Knowing this, the Taliban build their headquarters there, which are relatively safe from government forces. They also construct opium labs atop mountains, which they use to produce large quantities of drugs they sell globally to provide themselves with a steady income stream. In addition, remote villages often isolated and too far from the government are forced to support the Taliban.
Second, Afghanistan simply does not have a spirit of national unity like Western countries do. Afghans often feel more loyalty to their family, tribe, or religious group than they do to a centralized government. As a result, when underpaid Afghan soldiers are asked to risk losing their lives by a government they feel little obligation to in a war they are very quickly losing, they are hesitant to do so. This is compounded by the fact that many Afghan soldiers are disillusioned with their generals and politicians, especially if those leaders come from a different ethnic or religious group because of rampant corruption in the government.
While the average Afghan soldier is paid poorly, if they are getting paid at all, the upper echelons of the Afghan government have increasingly started lining their own pockets. In several interviews of United States military personnel responsible for liaising with the Afghan government, the Americans accused generals of stealing the paychecks of tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers. The lack of national unity creates a lack of cohesion inside both the Afghan government and the Afghan military, which significantly inhibits their ability to get things done. It also leads to different groups advocating for different policies or strategies and causes miscommunication and tension amongst people who are supposed to be allies. For example, several high-ranking generals in the Afghan Army were fired just because they didn’t get along with other officials.
The Present & Grim Future
Several months ago, the Afghan military was 300,000 soldiers strong, and the Taliban were about 200,000 strong. However, time and time again, the government forces routed and retreated. Tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers have abandoned their posts and fled the country, mostly to neighboring Tajikistan. Many government officials, including the President of Afghanistan, have fled the country, as well. In the midst of the chaotic retreat of Afghan forces, the Taliban has captured weapons and supplies left behind. Most notably, the Taliban are now in possession of several UH-60 Blackhawks, one Bell MD-530F, two Mi-17 Hips helicopters, several unmanned drones, a large amount of Humvees, and other armored vehicles, and a “motherload” of American rifles.
The United States is desperately sending air support and several thousand soldiers to aid in the panicked evacuation of the last of the Western diplomats and officials. The future looks bleak for the encircled and alone Afghan government. Should the Taliban completely take power, Afghans fear that oppressive Sharia Law will be put in place, which would suspend freedom of speech and religion, the ability for women to become educated, and may lead to many other oppressive laws too.
The U.S. War in Afghanistan [CFR]
The Taliban in Afghanistan [CFR]
Afghanistan War [Britannica]
As U.S. Leaves Afghanistan, History Suggests It May Struggle to Stay Out [NYT]
The Afghanistan Collapse: Americans died for this? [Technofog]
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Tax Audit Lawyers in Waterloo
In Waterloo, Illinois, a "tax audit" is a procedure in which the IRS or local tax authorities conduct an investigation of a taxpayer's tax filings, looking at them in more detail than they ordinarily do. Usually, they do this because there is something suspicious in the tax return. State and federal tax authorities also do a certain number of random audits each year, without necessarily suspecting that an individual auditee has done anything wrong.
In Waterloo, Illinois the procedure of being audited is relatively simple. If you are chosen to be audited, you will receive a letter in the mail telling you as much. It's important to verify the authenticity of this letter, because sometimes con-artists will pose as tax authorities, and conduct fake audits of unsuspecting taxpayers, then claim that they owe the government more money. If the victim pays, the scammer takes the money and runs. To verify that a letter is authentic, you should contact the nearest branch of the relevant tax authority. Do not simply call the number provided to you in the letter, since it will probably lead to the scammer. Use a phonebook or the Internet to find the actual number you should call.
Once you have made sure that your audit is indeed real, you can do a few things to get ready for it. Most importantly, you should gather all of the documents that the auditor has asked for, as well as any additional documents and evidence that you think might help clear up any confusion about your tax return. You should bring these to the meeting with the auditor, and truthfully (to the best of your knowledge) answer all of the questions that the auditor asks.
Reasons For a Tax Audit in Waterloo, Illinois
There are many different reasons why the federal government, or the tax authorities of Illinois might decide that a tax audit is warranted in your case.
As mentioned earlier, you might get audited simply because you were chosen at random. If this is the case, and you know that your tax return was completely truthful, and have the documentation to back it up, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.
However if the IRS or other tax agency suspects actual wrongdoing by a Waterloo, Illinois taxpayer, that's a different matter. There are many different reasons why a government might decide to audit a taxpayer. The most common one is suspicion that they have underreported their income. If a taxpayer buys a large number of expensive luxury items, but reports little or no income on their tax returns, the government will definitely want to know where the money to buy all those things came from, and why it hasn't been declared as taxable income.
Claiming an unusually-high number of deductions is another common reason for tax audits in Waterloo, Illinois. A tax deduction is some expenditure that you can subtract from your taxable income, thereby reducing your tax liability. If you claim such a huge number of deductions that your tax liability has been reduced to almost nothing, the IRS will probably want to make sure that all of these deductions are valid.
How Can A Waterloo, Illinois Tax Lawyer Help?
If you experience an audit in Waterloo, Illinois, and believe that you have properly reported all of your income on your tax filings, it will probably go fine. And if there is anything wrong with your filings, it was likely the result of an honest mistake, and auditors are generally sensitive to this fact. In such cases, the penalty is usually light. It will probably be little more than a requirement that you pay back taxes and interest.
But, there are some tax audits that are far more difficult and serious than a tax return having a few more deductions than usual. If this is the situation you're in, you should contact a Waterloo, Illinois tax attorney as soon as possible, to help make sure that your tax audit goes smoothly. | <urn:uuid:b9d70eb0-88dd-4e73-8681-16bd268e4e0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxattorneys.legalmatch.com/IL/Waterloo/tax-audit-lawyers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972454 | 782 | 1.625 | 2 |
Tax Evasion Lawyers in Harlan
"Tax Evasion" refers to the crime of intentionally failing to pay one's taxes, as required by Iowa law.
There are a few strategies that tax evaders use in Harlan, Iowa. One of the most typical tactics is to make it appear that the taxpayer has less taxable income than they actually do. There are a wide variety of ways to harbor income for the purpose of evading one's tax liability, but all of them are illegal.
"Tax evasion" should not be confused with "tax avoidance." Tax evasion is the act of intentionally attempting to get out of one's tax liability through prohibited means. Tax avoidance is perfectly legal, and involves using legal strategies (such as taking advantage of deductions and tax credits) to reduce one's legal tax liability. However, someone engaging in tax avoidance typically intends to pay whatever they end up owing, even as they try to reduce the amount they owe.
Penalties for Tax Evasion in Harlan, Iowa
The laws of the federal government, as well as Iowa take tax evasion quite seriously, making it a crime.
The penalties for tax evasion in Harlan can range anywhere from small fines to huge fines, along with prison sentences of several years.
In the majority of tax evasion cases, however, the punishments are not so severe. This is especially likely in first offenses, when the amount of money involved is fairly small. Minor punishments for tax evasion normally mean a small fine, on top of an order to pay whatever taxes the taxpayer owes. A minor punishment is most likely when the government has trouble proving that fraud was involved, as opposed to an honest accounting error.
However, if it can be clearly proven that a person or corporation in Harlan, Iowa intentionally attempted to harbor income or assets for the purpose of getting out of taxes, a court will probably throw the book at them, so to speak. This can mean jail sentences measured in years, and fines in the six or seven figures.
A Harlan, Iowa Tax Evasion Lawyer Can Help
Attorneys in Harlan, Iowa who practice tax law can help you stay in compliance with your tax obligations. This is a good way to ensure that you won't be suspected of tax evasion in the first place.
In the unfortunate event that you're truly charged with tax evasion, it's essential that you hire a knowledgeable tax attorney in Harlan, Iowa. If you are actually innocent, your tax attorney can help make sure that you have the best chance you can of being found not guilty. | <urn:uuid:6bae0f59-e758-421d-aacd-8069b9d2d42c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxattorneys.legalmatch.com/IA/Harlan/tax-evasion-lawyers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974834 | 520 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Among pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphomas, one of the most frequent types is lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL). Specific chromosome abnormalities are associated with prognosis in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but have not been evaluated for prognostic value in pediatric LBL. For the Children's Cancer Group protocol CCG-E-08 Etiologic Study of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Childhood, 13 patients were enrolled with cytogenetic analysis of LBL and on treatment protocol CCG-502. Pathology material and karyotypes at initial diagnosis were given central review. The patients were aged 6-13 years (median 9 years), with a male-to-female ratio of 12:1. All patients had advanced disease. Disease relapsed in six patients (event-free survival 54% ± 14%, median 10.8 years). Chromosome abnormalities were identified in 11 (85%), and translocations at 14q11.2 likely involving the T-cell receptor α/δ locus (TCR A/D) occurred in 4 (31%). For patients with relapse, four had translocations t(1;14)(p32;q11.2), t(8;14)(q24.1;q11.2), t(11;14)(p13;q11.2), or t(9;17)(q34;q23), involving breakpoints in the regions of TAL1, MYC, LMO2, and NOTCH1, respectively. Pediatric advanced LBLs have a high frequency of chromosome abnormalities; in this limited study, these often involved translocations at 14q11.2, the site of TCR A/D. Translocations possibly involving TAL1, MYC, LMO2, or NOTCH1 may have contributed to poor outcome. Further studies are warranted in larger cohorts of children and adolescents with LBL to evaluate the prognostic significance.
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Associated Press (AP), one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent news gathering, reported “Israeli house strikes killed mostly civilians.” It reported 247 airstrikes (bombings) in Gaza during the summer of 2014, killing 840. Of that number, 508 (60%) were civilians, 96 (11%) were terrorists, and 240 (29%) remained uncharacterized. The failure to seek identification of the “uncharacterized” reveals a scheme to re-engineer the outcome, and a flawed count can only lead to a flawed conclusion.
AP professes a commitment to the highest standards of objective, accurate journalism over the past 165 years. It employs the latest technology to collect and distribute news and photos, with a 24-hour update process, and has one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Headquartered in New York, it operates in more than 180 locations worldwide, including every US statehouse, and has won 51 Pulitzer Prizes since the prize’s establishment in 1917.
Regrettably, the wire services, which include AP, Reuters, and similar sources of news for broadcast, print media, and on-line news, are responsible for the blatant lies peddled and truths compromised when the original story opposes the Arab Muslim narratives. A recent example was an international wire service report that accused Israel of releasing water to deliberately flood the Gaza Valley, destroying houses and causing hundreds of Gazans to flee. When caught in this lie, Daily Mail apologized and clarified that there are no dams in southern Israel, that the flooding was caused by unusually heavy rain and drainage issues. Al Jazeera retracted its statements and the photos of rushing waters. Similarly, Reuters had been found guilty of switching photos or cropping photo edges, such as when they excluded weapons held by activists aboard the Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid. This is serious treachery.
We have now learned that the 240 “uncharacterized” males were indeed terrorists (ages 16-59), changing the total from 96 to 336 terrorists (40%), not an unusual ratio of women and children to terrorists, as these poor victims are customarily used as human shields, whether alongside the rocket sites or within the buildings. Hamas often secretes rockets and explosives in residential homes, which certainly contributes to the civilian casualty count. AP never reports Israel’s warnings to civilians to evacuate residential areas, never cites Israel’s casualties, and never reveals that the strikes are always retaliatory for wars begun by the Arabs.
AP has repeatedly sought to discredit Israel by accusing her armed forces of conducting disproportional warfare against Palestinians, when no war or sport has ever been fought for an equal outcome. From 2001 to July 2014, Palestinians have conducted a war of terror, resulting in psychological trauma (PTSD) to more than 50% of the children and depression and miscarriages to adults, and using more sophisticated rockets (some containing white phosphorous) to reach larger cities. AP did not propose that Israel conduct a comparable rocket attack into Gaza for the sake of proportionality, or suggest Israel bomb Palestinian school buses, or advocate that Israel dig an equivalent number of terror tunnels leading to Palestinian children’s schools and dormitories when Hamas’s were discovered.
In an attempt to further paint Israel as the aggressor, AP incorporates “evidence” to accuse Israel of intentionally targeting civilians. Hence, it presented the fatality figures of 844 against the backdrop of 247 air strikes, an equation of 3.4 people per bombing when, in fact, Israel actually made 20,000 air strikes, thereby achieving a .04 fatality figure per bombing. These percentages verify that AP’s reporters script deceptive, damaging information and that Israel does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties. Israel’s record is in fact, unparalleled.
AP also failed to provide comparative analyses, such as how these numbers match up to other wars and air strikes conducted in urban areas. Withheld information is as dishonest and harmful as erroneous information. In fact, investigative journalist Richard Behar’s studies of conflicts since World War II show that the norm of fatalities is 85 to 90 percent civilian. We might well be reminded of Germans’ killing 28,000 civilians in the London Blitz; Allies’ killing 25,000 civilians when they bombed Dresden and destroyed the Nazi industrial center; our killing 130,000 civilians with our nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, which brought about Japan’s unconditional surrender and peace.
The United Nations’ figures cited at least 1,483 Gazan Palestinian civilians killed, with an overall death toll of 2,205, the balance being militants, with the source of information being Hamas-controlled Gazan Health Ministry. AP actually did have access to figures from a trustworthy, private research institute in Israel, Meir Amit Intelligence and Information Center, but chose not to avail itself of them – although they do sort through their information if they can contribute to a war crimes accusation against Israel.
Oddly, throughout the world, Imams spew hate and incite to kill from their mosque podiums. Muslims murder Jews and Christians because of their religion or, as with Charlie Hebdo, because of cartoons against their prophet. Muslims (Hamas) fire deadly rockets for (Israeli) territory. Muslims (ISIS) chop off people’s heads and burn others alive, and just kidnapped 90 Christians. Muslims (Boko Haram) kidnapped young girls for sexual slavery and buried some alive. Muslims (Chechens) beheaded Russian soldiers and attacked, kidnapped and killed children and school staff. Muslims appear to have reached the percentage at which they are now capable of conquest of the Nordic countries, and the natives are committing cultural suicide without a fight. And we know of this through AP. Yet AP continues its deception as well as its unparalleled accusations not against Muslims, but against Israel primarily.
Not only has Associated Press become known for its sloppy, dishonest and unreliable reporting, but it has also been accused of biased reporting on the Middle East by its own journalists. Indictments included story-lines showing Arabs and Palestinians to be entirely blameless and Israel fully culpable; refusing to print a 2008 Israeli peace proposal when it would have verified Israel’s desire for peace; and killing a story that would have shown Israel appropriately.
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Can you utilize the voltage generated by Tesla coils and or van de graaff equipment for hosue hold use, or to make use of on electrical units generally speaking?
Van de Graaf generators crank out static energy, not very practical, but Tesla coils had been originally produced with the wireless transmission of electric power. All you will need is two Tesla coils 1 to transmit and a person to acquire the Electrical power. I keep in mind reading a story of a lab that had two Tesla coils across the home from each other and they had been energizing a single and another had its terminals bonded. Soon after energizing the a person they noticed the other started to smoke they usually understood they ended up transmitting ability wirelessly.
So basically The solution is not any. Tesla coils create superior voltage AC (radio frequency), minimal present. Van De Graaf devices crank out higher voltage DC very low latest. Most electrical devices need Significantly decreased voltage and far higher current.
The Tesla coil is among Nikola Tesla's most famed innovations. It is essentially a large-frequency air-core transformer. It's going to take the output from a 120vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver circuit and steps it up to an incredibly substantial voltage. Voltages may get to become nicely earlier mentioned one,000,000 volts and so are discharged in the form of electrical arcs.
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A disorderly Greek debt default is likely to trigger severe financial market volatility and a broad repricing of other eurozone sovereign debt, rating agency Fitch said on Thursday.
In a twice-yearly report, Fitch sent a stark warning about the consequences of a Greek default, something financial markets still see as likely despite the fact the country is now poised to receive a second bailout.
?A disorderly Greek default would likely result in severe market volatility, pressures on sovereign and bank funding and a broader repricing of eurozone sovereign credit,? Fitch said.
?The risk of contagion to other distressed and vulnerable eurozone sovereigns and their banking systems is material. Resolution of the current Greek crisis is therefore essential – though not sufficient – to prevent a systemic threat to the eurozone.?
Fitch calculated that around 37 billion euros of Greek sovereign debt is held by 34 major European banks outside of Greece, adding up to roughly 4 percent of those banks? tier 1 capital.
Those figures alone are not significant enough to be of major concern, but the wider impact of the problems infecting other debt-strained parts the eurozone could be disastrous.
The European Central Bank also needs to keep bank support measures in place until the troubles subside.
Meanwhile, Greece?s government notes led gains by securities from the euro region?s most indebted countries on Thursday.
Greece?s two-year note yields dropped 58 basis points to 26.73 percent. The 4.6 percent security maturing in May 2013 advanced 0.62, or 6.20 euros per 1,000-euro face amount, to 71.24. Ten-year yields rose four basis points to 16.33 percent. | <urn:uuid:c364e5fa-e61e-4796-ab9f-0a0efddbcfd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/134424/fitch-debt-default-likely-to-be-severe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928642 | 343 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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THERAPIES & PRACTICES TO OVERCOME EATING DISORDERS
CBT is a highly effective therapy for mood disorders as it brings awareness to negative thought patterns and behaviors that keep us stuck in anxiety or depression. It helps clients create healthier mindsets, and offers practical strategies to overcome day-to-day challenges.
Therapy (RO DBT)
HERE’S SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THE MOOD DISORDERS I TYPICALLY TREAT:
Social Phobia is an intense fear of social situations that goes beyond normal shyness and has a severe negative impact on a person’s life. A person suffering from social phobia tends to be highly self-critical and afraid of being judged by others. They sometimes go to great lengths to avoid everyday human interactions such as going into a store, spending time with friends, dating, or working with other people. Social phobias often hinder an otherwise successful career or hold a person back from certain goals that require interaction with others. When thrust into a stressful situation, a person with social phobia may experience sweaty palms, heart-pounding or heart-palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath and nausea.
When left untreated, social anxiety tends to worsen over time and could lead to complete isolation, depression, and sometimes agoraphobia.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessive thoughts which are considered intrusive or unwanted, followed by compulsive actions in response to the thoughts. OCD thoughts and behaviors differ from person to person. A common example though is for a person to have obsessive thoughts about germs followed by compulsive hand-washing.
Those who suffer from OCD can feel like they are stuck in an endless cycle. This is an emotionally exhausting, not to mention time-consuming, mental disorder, which can interfere with a person’s normal day-to-day life. Fortunately, there are proven, evidence-based treatments available.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder brought on by experiencing or witnessing a traumatizing or terrifying event. Symptoms can include intrusive flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance behavior, changes in mood or personality, and severe anxiety. Symptoms of PTSD may change in intensity over time. A person whose PTSD symptoms have lessened may suddenly be caught off guard when a normal situation unexpectedly triggers a flashback or panic attack. Psychotherapy can help a person to process and integrate past traumatizing events so that they are no longer controlled by them.
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Jul 9, 2007 (From the CalCars-News archive)
CALCARS' OVERALL REACTION
This is a welcome and very important baby step. Ford's CEO action in travelling across the country to announce that the company thinks PHEVs are a direction worthy of "exploring" is significant.
BUT WHAT'S MISSING
Here's our summary, based on early reports from the press conference of Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Edison CEO John Bryson, plus the official text of the announcement (reproduced below), followed by our single paragraph of what we'd hoped to hear -- from our Saturday "dream announcement" http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/786.html.
WHAT AND WHEN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ford Motor Company and Southern California Edison Join Forces to Advance a New Transportation and Energy Vision
ROSEMEAD, Calif., July 9, 2007- The automaker that introduced the world's first hybrid sport-utility vehicle and the electric utility with the nation's largest and most advanced electric vehicle (EV) fleet are combining resources to explore ways to make plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles more accessible to consumers, reduce petroleum-related emissions and improve the cost-effectiveness of the nation's electricity grid.
Describing teamwork between their industries as essential to making progress on energy security and climate change, the heads of the Ford Motor Company and Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), today announced the nation's first collaboration to examine the future of PHEVs as part of a complete vehicle, home and grid energy system.
"The Ford Motor Company team is firmly focused on delivering products people really want. This unique partnership with Southern California Edison will allow us to explore new solutions for our customers' growing need for energy conservation," said Alan Mulally, president and chief executive officer of Ford. "By combining strengths, ours in hybrid technology, theirs in energy management, we can consider transportation as part of the broader energy system and work to unleash the potential of plug-in technology for consumers."
"The challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing our nation's energy security reach across industry boundaries and unite us in a common cause," said John E. Bryson, chairman and chief executive officer of Edison International. "Partnerships between automakers such as Ford and electric utilities such as Edison demonstrate the innovative leadership position that both companies hold in seeking and finding solutions to global and consumer problems."
Ford and Edison intend to explore many of the potential benefits of widespread PHEV use, which include enhanced energy security, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower fuel costs and more cost-effective use of the nation's electricity grid.
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries. Ford and SCE will explore whether these batteries have other uses that could reduce their cost to consumers. For example, a popular vision of plug-in hybrid automotive technology is the potential for owners to charge their vehicles in the evening when the cost to produce electricity is low, and then store and use that energy during peak hours of the day, when electricity costs are high. Advanced batteries also could store energy from rooftop solar panels more efficiently. The two companies will evaluate and model the potential economic value of such innovative uses.
Also, batteries currently have no residual value priced into the purchase cost. Ford and SCE believe it might be possible to develop a market for the untapped value present in used plug-in hybrid electric vehicle batteries at the end of their vehicle life.
And, Edison's nationally recognized Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona, Calif., is testing advanced battery technologies that could further enhance the emergence of future energy storage applications in the utility industry.
Ford-Edison Project to Evaluate Potential Values of PHEVs
- Fueling at the plug instead of the pump would be cheaper for consumers.
As a transportation fuel, electricity is 50 percent to 75 percent less expensive than the equivalent cost of a gallon of gasoline. The diverse mix of energy sources used to generate the nation's electricity supply is priced lower and is more stable than the cost of petroleum.
- The use of plug-in hybrid vehicles holds the promise of reduced greenhouse gases and enhanced energy security.
Plug-in hybrid technology offers the opportunity to use as transportation fuel the nation's growing renewable generation portfolio as well as surplus off-peak power.
Plug-in hybrids produce less carbon dioxide and pollutants than gasoline hybrids. Such environmental and financial benefits will increase as a larger percentage of the nation's transportation needs is fueled from the power grid.
- Using off-peak electricity to fuel transportation could increase grid productivity and help bring down the price of electricity for utility customers.
Each night, a large percentage of America's power generation infrastructure sits idle. A recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy1 estimated that if every light duty car and truck in America today used plug-in hybrid technology, 73 percent of them could be plugged in and fueled by excess capacity in the electricity grid without constructing a single new power plant. [DOE study on plug-in hybrids, released December 2006:
- Smart plug-in vehicles could become part of an integrated smart home and grid energy system of the future.
Untapped consumer benefits could be obtained by adding to the traditional utility system the energy storage and retrieval capacity of a large number of advanced batteries in plug-in hybrid vehicles. For the first time, excess power generated by home-based units such as rooftop solar generation could be stored and used when needed by the property owner.
Ford-Edison Project Components
- Ford and Edison intend to undertake a multi-million dollar, multi-year PHEV evaluation and demonstration program.
- Ford will provide SCE with a demonstration fleet of 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid SUVs that will be benchmarked for performance characteristics. The Escape hybrid platform will then be engineered by the Ford product development team, with a battery company partner yet to be named, to be fully PHEV capable.
- Some of the vehicles will be evaluated in typical customer settings in order to model overall home and grid values this technology could tap.
- Additional project funding may be sought from participants such as the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy, the California Energy Commission and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
- Ford will initially work exclusively with SCE to develop the testing procedures and define its initial demonstration fleet. As Ford's plug-in hybrid program grows, the automaker will look for broader participation as it develops a business model not just for Southern California, but potentially nationwide. SCE has worked for more than 20 years with all major automakers and will continue seeking alliances between the two industries that advance plug-in hybrid technology.
- Ford was the first American auto manufacturer to develop and produce a hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape Hybrid. This full hybrid is now in its fourth year of production.
- Ford is pursuing a portfolio of advanced technology solutions to address energy security and climate change concerns, including refinements in gasoline fueled engines and advanced transmissions, clean diesel, biofuels and flexible fuel vehicles, hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
- The electric grid is the only alternative fuel infrastructure accessible to every U.S. home.
- SCE's EV fleet has traveled more than 14 million miles since the mid-1990s. Since the inception of SCE's EV program, company vehicles have avoided the consumption of more than 700,000 gallons of gasoline and avoided 7,500 tons of global warming carbon dioxide emissions and more than 1,700 tons of air pollutants.
- SCE's Electric Vehicle Technical Center, founded in 1993, conducts extensive plug-in electric vehicle battery testing with major battery manufacturers and the DOE to evaluate system reliability in both mobile and stationary applications.
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Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 260,000 employees and about 100 plants worldwide, the company's core and affiliated automotive brands include Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo and Mazda. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit http://www.fordvehicles.com
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is one of the nation's largest electric utilities, serving a population of more than 13 million via 4.8 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within central, coastal and Southern California.
THE HEADLINE/STORY WE'D WELCOME
Ford/Edison Offer Cash-Back Hybrids to Fleets
Ford announces it will make available in the coming months hundreds of Ford Escape [or other model] PHEVs for testing in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) experiments and evaluation of everyday driving use, by SCE, the US National Labs, Pacific Gas & Electric, Austin Energy, King County, Google, and the other consortia and companies that want to prove out PHEV performance and begin integrating transportation and power generation. The company announces a fast-track timetable for mass-produced PHEVs. And it commits to support legislation now under consideration in the House and Senate to incentivize producers and buyers of PHEVs.
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Global Health Elective Sites
Residents have the opportunity to participate in a 1-month international or immigrant health elective during their 2nd or 3rd year of residency. Residents have completed international or immigrant health electives in the following areas:
- Haiti. Pediatric residents and faculty join the Project Medishare team from George Washington University School of Medicine to provide ambulatory healthcare in rural Haiti.
- Honduras. Residents participate in a clinical inpatient and/or outpatient elective in the Roatan Public Hospital and/or local community clinic (Clinica Esperanza or Roatan Volunteer Pediatric Clinic).
- Lesotho. In affiliation with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) and the Baylor Children’s Foundation – Lesotho, Children's National residents have completed clinical HIV electives at the Baylor Center of Excellence in Maseru, Lesotho and have contributed to educational research projects, “Assessment of nurses’ perceived training needs and knowledge gaps in general pediatrics in Lesotho” and “Cross-Cultural Global Medical Education: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Students and Providers in Lesotho.”
- Uganda. As part of the flagship Children's National GHI program in Rheumatic Heart Disease, residents have traveled to Gulu, Uganda to assist with clinical research studies, including “The Impact of Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease on Patient Quality of Life.”
- Laos. Prior residents have completed clinical electives in Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane with Health Frontiers and Lao Friends Hospital for Children.
- Thailand. Residents participate in an elective in Chiang Saen, Thailand which includes both a clinical experience at a local community hospital and volunteer work with an organization dedicated to survivors of child trafficking. In partnership with the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, residents have the opportunity to experience subspecialty electives abroad.
- Philippines. Residents rotate at the The Philippine General Hospital, a 102-year-old national tertiary referral center and teaching hospital of University of Philippines, Manila and participate in a rural elective on the island of Romblon.
- India. Residents contribute to pediatric simulation training for emergency physicians in India alongside our Pediatric Emergency Medicine faculty.
- Uruguay. In collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), our Children's National resident interned at its regional office in Montevideo, Uruguay completing clinical research at the Latin American Center for Perinatology and Women’s Health.
- Border Health. Children's National residents have been graciously hosted by the Community for Children to participate in a social advocacy and leadership development elective sponsored by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.
- Indian Health Service. Pediatric residents have completed clinical electives providing care for Navajo children.
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XXkor-mo-rant (shalakh; kataraktes; Latin Corvus marinus): A large sea-fowl belonging to the genus Phalacrocorax and well described by the Hebrew word used to designate it--which means a "plunging bird." The bird appears as large as a goose when in full feather, but plucked, the body is much smaller. The adult birds are glossy black with bronze tints, touched with white on the cheeks and sides as a festal dress at mating season, and adorned with filamentary feathers on the head, and bright yellow gape. These birds if taken young and carefully trained can be sent into the water from boats and bring to their masters large quantities of good-sized fish: commonly so used in China. The flesh is dark, tough and quite unfit to eat in the elders on account of their diet of fish. The nest is built mostly of seaweed. The eggs are small for the size of the birds, having a rough, thick, but rather soft shell of a bluish white which soon becomes soiled, as well as the nest and its immediate surroundings, from the habits of the birds. The young are leathery black, then covered with soft down of brownish black above and white beneath and taking on the full black of the grown bird at about three years. If taken in the squab state the young are said to be delicious food, resembling baked hare in flavor. The old birds are mentioned among the abominations for food (Lev 11:13-19; Dt 14:12-18). | <urn:uuid:4da11ac7-0bec-44ae-8b3d-92e6f75e8ce0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.taiwanbible.com/web/word/topicViewTranslate.jsp?Dic=ISBE&ID=2438 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968663 | 336 | 3.109375 | 3 |
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Do you feel at times as if your life is not nearly as fun as it could be?
With that thought in mind, it may be that you are not exploring all the different options out there.
From fun around your home with family and friends to traveling and more, you do have options.
Stop and think about how not having much or any fun in your life can be bad for you.
From physical and emotional issues to that feeling of loneliness, the problems mount.
So, is it time you came up with some reasons to have more fun?
Don’t Let All the Fun Pass You By
As you look for more ways to have fun in life, keep the reasons in mind to why to do it in the first place:
- Your well-being – Having a life void of fun can take its toll on your health over time. With this in mind, you need to find fun ways to enjoy life. Whether this means more time with family and friends, traveling, hobbies, the key is having fun. Many studies have shown over time that laughter and fun are good for one’s health. If you are too stressed and not laughing all that often, it can weigh you down over time. Instead of taking a pessimistic approach to life, get more fun out of it. When you do, chances are your body will thank you for it.
- You can only do so much at home – As cool as your home may be, there is only so much you can do there. That said getting out and having some fun is a break from the ordinary. So, whether this means a day trip, a longer getaway, going for a few hours to attractions near home, get out and enjoy. Along the way, you can use the Internet to help you come up with the right plans. Before the web most relied on word-of-mouth and their personal experiences to come up with fun. Now, you can go online and find stuff in a matter of minutes. So, whether you want to discover the best times to go to Disneyland or other places, go online and search.
- Time Goes by Quite Fast – Finally, you may think at times as if time drags on. This can be true when you are at work and the clock is going nowhere. That said time does go by rather fast in reality. If you have young kids, you may feel things went by in the blink of an eye between their birth and when they go off to college. By having as much fun as possible with your children while young, you will create a lifetime of memories. That will be memories for them now and down the road. Even if things get hard at times, find ways to make fun for your children. So, don’t let money get in the way of fun or any other barriers. Even if things are tight with your finances, find ways to get out and have some fun.
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Today, through our website, we present one of the most important topics that Internet users are looking for, whether home or commercial. Today, we discuss how to change and adjust the settings of the WE router, which acquired the famous company TI Data inside Egypt, which offers many offers on the landline for easy internet entry, as well as The many offers on the Internet for home and business companies.
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– Make sure that your router is connected to the electrical socket and make sure that the router is turned on by the power button and make sure that the LED of the power button is lit.
– Ensure that the landline telephone cable is connected directly to the router, or if the splitter is used, there is a wire for the landline phone and the other a wire for the router.
Press the WLAN button on the router and make sure that the WLAN lamp is lit in the event that the settings are set through the laptop or using the Ethernet cable to connect directly to the laptop without the need for wlan.
– Make sure to type the address http://:192.168.1.1 inside the Google Chrome browser or another browser and the following window will appear.
– Press Proceed to 192.168.1.1 unsafe and continue to enter the settings to solve the problem and enter the router directly.
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RightShip is using IBM’s predictive big data analytics platform to calculate the likelihood of compliance or mechanical troubles that an individual merchant ship will experience within the next year.It also leverages big data to analyse carbon emissions and vessel efficiency. RightShip has been successful in removing more than 1000 high risk vessels from customer supply chains in 2017. It achieves this by giving ratings to the ships which are determined by coupling big data and the knowledge of the superintendent. The rating system gives one star rating to ships that are likely to experience an incident in the next year and a five star rating to ships which are least likely to do so. The company analyzes data from more than 50 sources which include vessel operators, trade associations, and government agencies. This data gives RightShip a complete vessel history including casualties, inspections, incidents, and owners. The rating system can be customized for an individual company’s risk appetite.
(Source - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/RightShip-uses-big-data-to-find-reliable-vessels-12994358.php )
HDP hits its major milestone as it turns 3.0,a version that is completely based on 3.1 version of Apache Hadoop. Some key features that are included in HDP 3.0 are as follows -
Apart from HDP 3.0 release , Hortonworks has added another feather to its cap with three cloud-focused partnership announcements - IBM, Microsoft and Google.
(Source - https://www.zdnet.com/article/hortonworks-data-platform-turns-3-0-new-cloud-partnerships-announced/ )
According to a study by HBR, companies that leverage big data analytics on average earn profit gains and operational enhancements that are 5 to 6 percent higher than their competitors. The revenue generated by big data and business analytics is likely to cross the $200 billion mark by 2020.However, there is a huge gap(the big data activation gap) between having access to raw big data and the point at which the data can produce quantifiable value for the business. The first step towards bridging the big data activation gap is to identify the true value of big data for the business and when and how the teams need access to big data. Here are few important points to consider to cope up with the big data’s big costs and help the company activate it’s big data completely -
(Source - enterprisetech.com/2018/06/18/mind-the-gap-coping-with-big-datas-big-costs/ )
2017 will be remembered as an year to reckon in India for beginning its big data journey. The Modi government reached out to many data mining experts to sneak-peak into the data and derive insights from it which could help the government with relevant results to work upon.Economists in India have used data patterns to analyze GSTM so that they can understand how trade happens across the states.Big data analytics today in India is being considered as a cost-effective and easy way to get the work done for the government. Introduction of GST and demonetization are an outcome of the data driven policies which the Modi government has infused into the systems. Many actions take by the Indian government clearly reveal the use of big data analytics.The recent budget announcements and keen interest reveal the adoption of AI and other big data policies by the government.We can wait and watch , how big data will bring in social and economic change for the upcoming years.
(Source - https://www.analyticsinsight.net/how-indian-government-is-using-big-data-analytics-to-improve-economy-and-public-policy/
Cloud has enabled cash-constrained small and medium enterprises to make the best use of latest technologies like big data analytics whose benefits earlier could only be reaped by large enterprises. SMEs do not have enough cash flow to make huge investments in large technologies but the requirements and expectations they have are same as that of large enterprises. Companies like IBM and Oracle are making it possible for SMEs to make the most out of technology by providing their technological offerings on cloud, thus removing the biggest barrier between SMEs and large enterprises. Every product that Oracle has today is available on cloud that was earlier only available as an on-premise solution.Oracle has recently released an autonomous warehouse that make cloud based offering available to all clients making it easier for SMEs to leverage them for faster implementation of ideas with limited resources they have. Most of these cloud based tools are made accessible to the companies on freemium model basis so that they can experiment with them as desired.
Hadoop and Big Data Analytics Market is anticipated to reach $40 billion by end of 2022 with compound annual growth rate of 43% during 2018 -2022. A leading market research firm, QY reports has analyzed the hadoop market hierarchy by performing SWOT analysis of the major players in the big data analytics market.The research report provides in-depth analysis of revenue, market share and important market segments across various geographic regions and the big data trends.You can get a detailed copy of the report from qyreports.com.
(Source - //thefreenewsman.com/future-demands-of-hadoop-and-big-data-analytics-market-analysis-growth-application-trends-till-2023/219803/ )
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Summary: Much depends on the Left’s ability to resist Trump, making arguments that mobilize public opinion. Their actions since the election suggest that will not happen soon. Climate change is both the Left’s signature initiative and its greatest failure (failing to change the US public’s policy priorities). How (or if) the Left changes their climate advocacy will show if they can adapt to the Trump era.
Astronomer Phil Plait writes at Slate, one of the Left’s better-known climate propagandists. His recent columns at Slate show why the Left has failed to mobilize public opinion — and that they have learned nothing from the election.
There were no questions about climate change in the presidential debates. Clinton said little about climate change during the entire campaign. Accordingly, Gallup found that environmental issues were not in the top 12 issues people associate with Clinton. There are good reasons for this. Climate change has consistently ranked near the bottom of the US public’s major policy concerns. Gallup asks people “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?” In October only 3% listed an environmental or pollution-related issues (including climate); economic issues were #1, totaling 17%.
His November 28 column at Slate, Plait discussed Trump’s plan to get NASA out of climate change research. He played the same song climate activists have sung for a decade. He began by invoking the consensus of climate scientists, which he should state (but doesn’t). As expressed by the IPCC’s AR5 Working Group I…
“It is extremely likely (95 – 100% certain) that human activities caused more than half of the observed increase in global mean surface temperature from 1951 to 2010.”
This is important. But the relevant public policy question concerns future warming: what are the odds of various amounts of warming during different time horizons of the 21st century? There is no easy answer to this, let alone a consensus of climate scientists about it. So climate activists either ignore the research (such as the 4 scenarios described in AR5) or focus on the worst of these (the truly horrific RCP8.5), ignoring its unlikely assumptions.
Plait skips all these vital complexities, going from the consensus about past warming to boldly assert that “Climate change is already one of if not the biggest threat our species has faced.” He gives no evidence for this because there is so little. There is little evidence of a consensus of climate scientists about future warming. More broadly, has any scientist compared the various future warming scenarios to past threats, such as the Toba supereruption 75,000 years ago that might have almost exterminated humanity or WWIII starting during the Cold War?
Such a speculative assertion is an absurdly weak basis to justify spending trillions and imposing far-reaching regulations — let alone restructure our economic and political systems (as proposed by Naomi Klein and Pope Francis).
Plait often pulls this bait-and-switch. In his May 30 column about Trump’s ignorant statements denying California’s drought, Plait slides from discussion of the drought to implying it results from climate change. But centuries-long droughts are a natural part of the southwestern US climate. NOAA reported that “The current drought is not part of a long-term change in California precipitation, which exhibits no appreciable trend since 1895.” Many other peer-reviewed papers came to similar conclusions. See the research here.
Even more outrageous is Plait’s multi-year crusade to conceal from the public climate scientists’ research about the pause, the debate about its causes, and predictions of its duration — research that continues today. Plait ignores these scientists work, insisting that the “pause” (aka “hiatus”) is a lie by denialists.
The vast investment by the Left in its 28 year-long climate change campaign has had a trivial impact on the public policy priorities of the US public. It is one of the largest public relations failures in US history. See why the climate change debate broke and its lessons for the future. Plait’s behavior is typical of activists, and has helped poison the public debate. Trump’s denialism is just one of the sad results.
They earned their failure. Depending on how the climate changes, we might all pay for it. It might be difficult to restart the debate if evidence appears suggesting the worst-case scenarios are happening.
Looking ahead, will climate activists learn from their mistakes? Will they abandon their reliance on doomster forecasts, and again build on the work of climate science and the IPCC (once the “gold standard” of climate science, now “too conservative” for them)? If they cannot adapt, can the Left as a movement adapt to the Trump era?
The road back to reality will be long for climate activists
“You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy.”
— Part of a tirade by “Zach” to Donna Brazile, interim leader of the Democratic National Committee, at a staff meeting. Reported by the HuffPo.
“I can’t see humans existing within 10 years. We can do nothing to stop the planet becoming too hot to grow food and support life. It is already happening and we have less than a decade left.”
— Guy McPherson (Prof of Biology, U AZ, retired). Reported by the New Zealand Herald. His website is “Nature Bats Last – Our Days Are Numbered“.
For More Information
If you liked this post, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. For more information about this vital issue see the keys to understanding climate change and these posts about the politics of climate change…
- Important: climate scientists can restart the climate change debate – & win.
- How we broke the climate change debates. Lessons learned for the future.
- A story of the climate change debate. How it ran; why it failed.
- Science into agitprop: “Climate Change Is Strangling Our Oceans”.
- Ignoring science to convince the public that we’re doomed by climate change.
- A leaked memo about climate change explains why we’re unprepared.
- The 5 stages of grief for the failure of the climate change campaign.
To learn more about the state of climate change…
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Direct, Mature, Post Diploma, Graduate & Post Graduate Diploma courses Differences
Persons get confused with the various courses offered by the various universities in Ghana. This occurs mostly when individuals get the desire to climb the academic ladder. Many end up purchasing the wrong application voucher or form. This article mainly covers direct applicants, mature applicants, post-diploma applicants, graduate and post-graduate diploma applicants.
Direct application has to do with a person who wants to use his/her WASSCE/SSSCE certificate to gain entry into a tertiary institution.
This deals with persons who do not have the requirement to be admitted into a tertiary institution and will have to sit for a mature entrance exam which will qualify them for admission.
For example, a person having the requirement as a WASSCE applicant with D7 and above in his/her results and is above 25 years qualifies to apply as a mature applicant. Hence, a mature entrance exam needs to be written to enhance his/her chances of qualification into the institution.
Exams that are mostly written include General Aptitude test-GAT & Subject Area Test-SAT. Note that not only WASSCE Applicants can apply for mature but also Diploma and Higher National Diploma (HND) holders can also apply as Mature. Also, note that there is mature distance and mature direct as well.
POST DIPLOMA APPPLICATION
This course or programme is mainly designed for individuals who have diplomas in a specific field of discipline and want to further their studies in the same field.
For example, having a diploma in basic education and wanting to pursue it for 2 years (basic education) or 3 or 4 years (secondary education) will lead to you being awarded a Bachelor’s Degree Certificate.
Individuals with their first degrees in either basic or secondary education are qualified to apply. Individuals who want to apply for the second degree (masters) upwards, such as a Master’s Degree in Education (M.Ed.), Master of Arts (M.A), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA APPLICATION
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Why Partner with University College Dublin?
1 University College Dublin has an international reputation for being at the forefront of innovative research and creative discovery.
The university has four strategic themes:
- Creating a Sustainable Global Society
- Transforming through Digital Technology
- Building a Healthy World
- Empowering Humanity
2 Support Offered
The goal is to find targeted solutions to the pain points and gaps faced by industry. We will work with you in negotiating terms and conditions that allows researchers to develop specific solutions to your challenges.
3 Collaborative Research Funding opportunities
UCD works closely with the Irish State Agencies and EU funding bodies to develop collaborative industry linkages and can advise on the wide range of public funding mechanisms for research collaboration.
Examples of such funding include:
This funding is focused on small companies were €5,000 is available to assist a company to explore a business opportunity or problem with a designated knowledge provider.
This encourages Irish based companies to work with Irish colleges to access their expertise and resources to develop new and improved products, processes, services, and generate new knowledge and know-how. Enterprise Ireland provides grants of up to 80% towards eligible costs of the research project.
These centres link scientists and engineers in partnerships across academia and industry to address crucial research questions, foster the development of new and existing Irish-based technology companies, attract industry that could make an important contribution to Ireland and its economy, and expand educational and career opportunities in Ireland in science and engineering.
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4 Tax Incentives for R&D in Ireland
- R&D Tax Credits Qualifying R&D expenditure can receive a tax credit of 25% of the R&D costs incurred
- EU Grants Large-scale research projects supported through H2020, LIFE and CEF programs.
- IDA Ireland Feasibility and RD&I Grants Grant support for locating R&D projects in Ireland or substantially increasing R&D activities. Grant aid of up to 50% for feasibility projects. Grant aid of up to 25% for experimental development activities for large projects.
- KDB 6.25% corporation tax rate on profits arising from R&D projects relating to certain patents and copyrighted software carried out by an Irish company
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By Jorge Duenes, Daina Beth Solomon and Kristina Cooke
Hundreds of Ukrainians are camping in the Mexican border city of Tijuana hoping to seek U.S. asylum, a surge in arrivals just days after the Biden administration said the United States would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing from war.
Many of the Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasion of their home country have flown to the U.S.-Mexico border hoping officials will allow them in so they can reunite with U.S. relatives or friends.
People are spread out on blankets and lawn chairs alongside overstuffed suitcases on a patch of grass near the international port of entry. Some are sleeping in tents and under tarps.
U.S. volunteers in neon vests – some Ukrainian-Americans who traveled to Tijuana after hearing about the arriving refugees – are collecting names on a handwritten waitlist to keep track of arrivals.
While some 600 Ukrainians are camping near the border entry around 500 more are staying in hotels in the city, said Enrique Lucero, Tijuana’s migration affairs director, citing the list kept by volunteers. About 40% of the people are children, he added.
Lucero said around 100 Ukrainians are being allowed to cross into the United States daily. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said data on the number of Ukrainians who entered the U.S. in March would be available in coming weeks.
The number of people at the southwest border is still small compared to more than 3.8 million Ukrainians who have fled to nearby countries in Europe since the Feb. 24 invasion, which the Russian government calls a “special military operation.”
In response to the exodus — the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two — U.S. president Joe Biden pledged last week to accept some 100,000 Ukrainians into the United States through various legal pathways.Read full story
But some families desperate to leave have resorted to traveling through a string of countries to the southern border, after being denied U.S. visas, or told to wait, at U.S. embassies abroad.
While Ukrainians and Russians have been arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border since before the conflict erupted, now people are coming “very quickly,” said Julia Neusner, an attorney with the New York-based non-profit advocacy group Human Rights First. L2N2V61WR
On average, Ukrainians are waiting about one day from the time they are put on the list compiled by volunteers until they can cross into the United States, Neusner said.
Two weeks ago, according to a Reuters witness, around 15 Ukrainians per day were arriving at the Tijuana border and being immediately waved through. Read full story
RUSSIANS, OTHER MIGRANTS LEFT BEHIND
While Ukrainians are being ushered into the United States, U.S. border agents have told Russians, Mexicans, Central Americans and migrants from other countries to stay put, citing a pandemic-era border expulsion policy known as Title 42 that has closed the U.S.-Mexico border to most asylum seekers.
On Friday, the Biden administration announced it will end the expulsion policy in late May, as U.S. health officials said it was no longer needed to protect public health. Read full story
Inna Levien, 42 – originally from Belarus – said she and other Russian-speaking members of her moms’ group in Orange County, California, headed down to Tijuana earlier this week to help Ukrainian refugees, many of whom speak Russian.
She said there is no running water at a local bus stop where some women and children are sleeping and children are falling ill.
“Vomiting, diarrhea, they are so stressed out, they are dehydrated,” she said. “They have this unrest inside.”
One six-year old girl told Levien she was praying to protect her father who stayed behind to defend Ukraine because it was her “job” to be his “guardian angel.”
Valentina Shymanveska, a 56-year-old from war-torn Kharkiv in Ukraine, was grateful to be received in Tijuana after her city was pummeled by constant Russian bombardments.
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Corporate Tax Lawyers in Front Royal
In Front Royal, Virginia, a "corporation" is a legal entity formed under the law, which is treated (for some purposes) as a "person" with a legal identity distinct from that of its owner.
Corporations are subject to the rule of "corporate personhood." Simply put, this means that corporations, under the law in Virginia are treated as individual persons. This means they have most of the identical legal rights and obligations as actual human beings.
One of a corporation's primary legal commitments is its duty to pay income taxes, as an actual person would.
Corporate Tax Rate in Front Royal, Virginia
Every corporation in the U.S. which has taxable income must pay its share of the federal corporate income tax. The majority of states also have a corporate income tax, which Front Royal, Virginia corporations are required to pay.
Under the federal tax system, and the tax laws of several states, corporate income is taxed at a different rate from the income of individuals. For instance, the top federal income tax rate for corporations is 35%, compared with 33% for individuals. The highest tax rate applies to corporations making more than .3 million per year. The lowest corporate tax rate is 15%, applying to those corporations that make less than ,000 per year.
There's also a good chance that the tax rate applicable to corporations in Virginia differ from the individual tax rates. Some states feel that the best economic policy is to attract as many businesses as they can. So, in some states, the corporate tax rate is lower than the individual tax rate.
Whatever a company's legal tax rate is, all corporations in Front Royal, Virginia must pay the taxes assessed against them. If they don't, they can be made to pay very large fines - usually much larger than their original tax bill.
How Can a Front Royal, Virginia Corporate Tax Lawyer Help?
Many larger corporations have lawyers and accountants who guarantee that they are in complete compliance with both state and federal tax law.
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Mateja Dumbovic, Dario Del Moro, Evangelos Paouris
Solar wind transients, i.e. coronal mass ejections (CMEs), their associated interplanetary shocks and corotating interaction regions (CIRs) drive space weather throughout the heliosphere, causing various interplanetary as well as planetary disturbances. Therefore, the prediction of their arrival and impact is extremely important for the modern space-exploration and electronics-dependent society. Significant efforts have been made in the past decade to develop and improve the prediction capabilities, through both state-of-the art observations and modelling. Although significant progress has been made, many new challenges have been revealed. We are limited in obtaining reliable observation-based input for the models, tracking CMEs and CIRs throughout the heliosphere and reliably evaluating prediction models. These challenges can be tackled by exploiting and improving our existing capabilities, as well as using the out-of-the-box thinking and break from the traditional methods and data. This session is devoted to provide an overview of the current state of the space weather prediction of the arrival time and impact of solar wind transients and to introduce new and promising observational and modelling capabilities.
We solicit abstracts on observational and modelling efforts, as well as space weather prediction evaluation. Emphasis will be placed on the multi-spacecraft and multi-instrument observational approaches, data-driven modelling, and community established evaluation measures. With the overview of our current capabilities and possible future prospects we aim to highlight guidelines to the general direction of the future scientific efforts, as well as space-mission planning. | <urn:uuid:a086359d-7a14-437e-83a9-c8078a5293bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://solarnews.nso.edu/egu-session-st4-1-space-weather-prediction-of-solar-wind-transients-in-the-heliosphere/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.926593 | 339 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Water trails are boat routes suitable for canoes, kayaks and small motorized watercraft. Like conventional trails, water trails are recreational corridors between specific locations. Water trails are comprised of access points, boat launches, day use sites, and -- in some cases -- overnight camping areas. Each water trail is unique, a reflection of Pennsylvania's diverse geology, ecology and communities.
Pennsylvania Water Trails embrace the "Leave No Trace" code of outdoor ethics that promotes the responsible use & enjoyment of the outdoors.
TRAIL GUIDES & MAPS
Water trail guides show "trail heads" (boat launch and take-out points) and provide background about the scenic, historic and geologic points of interest along the way. Throw in a little fishing, wildlife watching, and camping and you can see how water works wonders in Pennsylvania.
WATER TRAIL DEVELOPMENT
ADOPT AN ACCESS PROGRAM
The Commission's Adopt an Access Program provides volunteers the opportunity to help keep Pennsylvania's public fishing and boating access areas clean and beautiful.
BOATING TIPS FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATER TRAILS
Boat Smart From the Start: Wear Your Life Jacket
One wearable, Coast Guard approved
Personal Flotation Devices (PFD or life jacket) in serviceable condition and of the appropriate size is required for each person in your boat.
PFD's must be worn by all children 12 years and younger on all boats 20 feet and less in length, while under way, and on all canoes and kayaks. All others are strongly encouraged to wear a PFD.
Beware of Hazards
Hazards on the water appear in many forms: dams, submerged objects, cold water, fast-changing weather, sun stroke and current. These hazards aren't always obvious. Boaters need to recognize these dangers and be ready to avoid them at all times. Developing a keen appreciation and understanding of the overall "boating environment" lets boaters avoid hazards on the water.
Be Legal to Launch
All motorboats must be registered; non-powered boats (such as canoes and kayaks) using PFBC properties must either be registered or display a valid launch permit.
Don't Drink and Boat
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Man is constantly subject to various risks. Danger is a part of everyday life.
Insurance companies were invented in order to compensate victims after they suffer damages. These victims earn compensations in exchange for a contribution that they make to an insurance company. This compensation depends on the amount of risk which is underwritten in the contract.
In the beginning, insurance was only meant for private salaried workers. Later, it spread to other fields such as home insurance.
The main risks that are covered by home insurance policies are fire, explosions and water damage. If you have insurance, in the event that one of the aforementioned situations presents itself, you will be entitled to an indemnity from your insurance company. There are several different packages covering different situations but the multi-risk package is the one that offers the broadest coverage.
With this type of contract, you can get compensation if your goods are damaged. This clause includes all the things that are related to the building and the furniture that are on your property. From this perspective, the company will compensate you in the case of a break-in, jewelry theft and electrical damage caused by electrical appliances. This compensation will depend on the different clauses that are included in the contract you have with your insurance company.
Basic home insurance packages don’t require extensive negotiations or talks with the insurance company. However, if you decide to pick a multi-risk home insurance package, you will have to specify within the contract any and all risks for which you are to be compensated.
In this section, we are referring to the civil liability of the person that causes the damage. This person must compensate the victim, as the victim enjoys legal protection. In this type of case, the insurance will substitute itself to the insured person, to pay the compensation. Companies protect the owner of the property, their spouse, their children and the maintenance staff. In other words, it covers those that live permanently on the premises.
However, insurance companies limit risks for which they offer third-party compensations to risks that are directly related to the residence. They do not cover intentional damage, damage caused by a dog or by motorized vehicles. The damage will not be covered if it is done to neighbours and their goods.
The individual has the right to effective legal protection for themselves and their goods. The owner’s civil liabilities are engaged as soon as any form of damage is caused to the neighbours and their goods. This legal protection is the reason why insurance companies limit their interventions against risks caused to neighbours.
The scope of intervention of the insurance companies is limited by the contract you have established with them. Anything that is not included in the contract will have to be covered by the person that is responsible for the damage.
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Are You Still Doing Your Own Website?
I recently celebrated my two-year anniversary of blogging. One issue that keeps surprising me is why so many established business owners think they need to be going the DIY route?
Most businesses are strapped for cash at the beginning and hiring out is not possible. WordPress fortunately makes establishing an online presence possible. Learning WordPress may take awhile, but if you have an ounce of tech knowledge, you can probably get a theme setup and populate it with some content with an off-the-shelf template.
However, once your business is more established and you have some moolah in the bank, it is time to revisit the DIY approach. And I would state this would be more than just your website (I include myself in the finger wagging). The more successful you become, the more expensive it is to lose time on tasks that are not your skill set; after all, how many of us can quickly do our own bookkeeping?
This is where WordPress and other accessible content management systems can be misleading. The ability to post and edit content on a website does not mean you are a professional designer and coder.
Advantages to Letting the Pros Design Your Website
- Website design and publishing is a fast-moving industry. It isn’t possible to keep up on all the trends (or trends you should give a pass). Web designers will steer you towards appropriate solutions.
- You are never done learning to code, staying up to date on latest standard techniques, and configuring for constantly-evolving devices websites are accessed from. However, your web designer probably knows HTML5 is the latest version for today’s technology.
- Web design is similar to graphic design for the web, except it isn’t static and you can’t think like print. Many web designers are former graphic designers that learned advanced HTML, CSS, and more. Their job is to make sure your design is not just decoration but communication!
- An effective web designer will take the time to learn your audience and translate that information into a design that is part of your marketing. A template does not know who your audience is or what is appropriate.
- Web design is an expertise. As fun as it is to do it yourself, an established business is better off hiring a professional to make sure its website is its most effective presence on the web.
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Assuming that the system supporting this career path works well, these will be the individuals with the most talent and interest in such an endeavor: young people well positioned to make the scientific breakthroughs that societies need to survive and thrive. But the current system squanders the creativity and energy of these exceptionally gifted young people through a funding process that forces them to avoid risk-taking and innovation.
The traditional peer review system on which scientists depend for federal grant support values biomedical research projects that are almost certain to "work," encouraging young scientists to pursue a narrow range of projects that closely follow the proven paths of their mentors. As a result, many scientists pursue identical research ideas, creating a competition to finish and publish that can value speed over quality. Worse, the innovation that is essential for keeping science exciting and productive is replaced by a great deal of "me-too" science: research that has little chance of producing the breakthroughs needed to improve human health.
Alberts adds one more dimension to the discussion: he criticizes the NIH's special innovator awards, designed to encourage less conventional projects, as being too little to have much effect on the culture of the biomedical sciences.
And he's right - why should bolder, higher-risk/higher payoff proposals be ghettoized to their own funding mechanism, one with a success rate that is 10 times lower than that of the R01 mechanism? As a new investigator, right now you have a choice: go with an unimaginative, conventional project that will, with a reasonably high probability, after a >1-year processes get you an R01, or put your grant-writing energy into an extremely creative idea that has only a 1% chance of getting funded. (Alberts writes that in a recent round, there were 2200 applications for 30 NIH Director's New Innovator Awards.)
Alberts suggests that we bump the number of these awards from 30-50 up to 500. I don't think that's enough. We need to overhaul the way bread-and-butter R01's get evaluated, so that near-certain feasibility is not the top criterion for funding.
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Stress is subjective to each individual; what can be considered a stressful event by one person may be less stressful to another. Therefore, stress is not caused by the event itself, but how an individual interprets the situation and deals with it. When people cannot cope with the demands placed on them and negativity sets in, this is considered a stress response.
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OECD Secretary-General Jose Ángel Gurría warmly accepted the Ben-Gurion Leadership Award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev President Prof. Rivka Carmi on Monday, praising BGU’s leading role in the development of the Negev.
“Shimon Peres would tell me about David Ben-Gurion’s vision to turn the Negev into a garden. I am much more impressed by the fact that the Negev is being planted with education, knowledge, ideas, innovation, and the seeds of the future by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. It is a pleasure to be here to receive this award and see how you have transformed the desert, the promised land, for the future of Israel and the future of the world,” Gurría declared in the presence of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz. Permanent Representative of Israel to the OECD
Ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen was also in attendance.
“I know that I am joining a small, and exceptionally distinguished circle, including President Shimon Peres, whom I have welcomed personally to the OECD in Paris. A giant of international diplomacy, a fighter for peace and prosperity. To be invited to follow in his footsteps, in his own country, is an honour that will stay with me for many years to come,” Gurría continued.
He said he considered Israel’s inclusion in the OECD as a major achievement of his first term as secretary-general.
“I am also touched because it is the year that we celebrate the fifth anniversary of Israel’s membership of the OECD. The accession of Israel to the OECD was a very important achievement of my first mandate. This award constitutes a symbol of our enduring friendship, and our shared commitment to a prosperous and inclusive Israel.
“In these short five years, Israel has become an important contributor to the OECD’s work. Its expertise on key areas of our economies, like water management, “clean tech”, innovation and entrepreneurship, has become a source of best practices. We have even worked together on “Clean-Tech Clustering” here in the Negev Region, underpinned by the research capacity and quality at Ben-Gurion University,” he noted.
Steinitz pointed to two “miracles” that Gurría had accomplished as OECD Secretary-General so far. The first was transforming the OECD into “one of the most appreciated and respected global organizations.” The second was Israel’s accession to the OECD, which had to garner support from at least 31 member countries some of which had strained relations with Israel in 2010.
The Ben-Gurion Leadership Award honors forward-looking visionaries who not only possess vision but work to make their vision a reality, Prof. Dan Blumberg, VP and Dean, R&D said at the opening of the ceremony in the W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall on the Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva.
“The local population is quite diverse and the University is taking that into account as it helps the Negev take the unavoidable leap into the global arena,” Blumberg said.
Prof. Carmi called Gurría a “role model” who “embodies the values of the award” especially his emphasis on green growth and gender issues.
On Sunday, Gurría presented two reports that would act as a “mirror” to the Israeli Cabinet showing the strengths and difficulties of Israel’s economy and society as an encouragement to make change.
Referring to those reports, Carmi added, “Development of the Negev has the potential to address the issues raised by the OECD.”
Turning to the nature of leadership, Gurría expounded, “Leadership is what this award recognises. I am deeply gratified and touched by this honour because I see it as an endorsement of [my] vision for a more global, more relevant, more far-reaching OECD; one that can learn the lessons of the crisis and redefine the growth narrative, reverse the growing inequality and put the well-being of people at the centre of our efforts.
“Leadership is also key to upholding one of the most precious assets that a country can have: trust. Trust is the cornerstone of effective governance, the main ingredient to promote economic growth and social progress. But like never before, our countries are running dry of this precious asset. Like never before, our citizens have doubts about their government’s capacities to make the right decisions, to address MY problems! And like never before, we need effective, tireless, committed leadership to recover that confidence. And to do that we also need our leaders to promote progress through more inclusive growth. Inequalities are undermining our economic systems and our social fabric,” he argued.
Gurría offered some numbers to bolster his argument.
“In OECD countries the average income of the richest 10% is now almost 10 times that of the poorest 10%. 25 years ago, it was 7 times: that’s a 40% increase in one generation. Here in Israel the latest figure stands at almost 15 times. And, here, like in my own country, Mexico, around 20% of the population was classified as ‘income poor’. This is not only a human tragedy, it’s also increasingly evident that it’s bad for economic growth. Armed with this insight, the OECD has been leading the way to understand, measure and promote better quality growth, more inclusive growth.
“Skills are the currency of the 21st Century,” he said highlighting the need to include the Arab-Israeli and haredi sectors in the workforce and to level the playing field to achieve social cohesion and well-being.
“This recognition from Ben-Gurion University gives me the encouragement and determination to continue taking the OECD in new directions, to continue growing our membership, to continue going beyond GDP, to continue empowering people with education and skills, to continue tackling inequality, to continue recovering the trust of our citizens. I accept this award on behalf of all my colleagues in the OECD who work day in and day out to drive this vision forward. We will keep working with Israel, to ensure that this aspiration for a more inclusive society can become a reality,” he concluded.
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I recently visited Providence, Rhode Island, which has been “weird since 1636,” according to my grandson’s T-shirt. Providence was founded in 1636 by renegade preacher Roger Williams, who was forced to flee Massachusetts because of religious persecution. Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and started a new settlement with a policy of religious and political freedom.
My favorite travel book, Atlas Obscura, includes one entry for Rhode Island. It seems Roger Williams was buried in an unmarked grave on the family farm, remaining there for 177 years. Then Providence community leader Zachariah Allen led the effort to locate and disinter Williams’s remains and move them to a more proper memorial.. When they dug up the grave and opened the coffin, they couldn’t find a trace of Williams’ bones. Instead, they found a vaguely man-like apple tree root. They assumed that the root had eaten Williams and then taken on his form. The tree root is on display at the John Brown House, Providence’s oldest mansion.
Most likely, though, the weirdness in Providence comes from the fact that Howard Phillips Lovecraft, known as H.P. Lovecraft, was born in Providence on August 20, 1890, and died there March 15, 1937. Lovecraft was a prolific writer of chilling horror stories, many of them inspiring such movies as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dagon, Necronomicon, His more famous short stories include
The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness,
He also inspired modern-day stories by such authors as Stephen King (The Shining), John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness), Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clive Barker (Hellraiser) and Anne Rice (interview with the Vampire).
The Vision Bleak, a German horror metal band, dedicated the album “Carpathia, A Dramatic Poem” (2005) to Lovecraft. They also made other references, such as a track called “Kutulu!”. Other rock bands have also paid musical tribute to HPL and the Mythos, most notably Metallica in “The Thing That Should Not Be” and the 1960’s American band H.P. Lovecraft.
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A simple introduction to Tailwind's Just-In-Time compiler.
No matter how hard some of us try and avoid it, as Software Engineers, we have all had to write and maintain CSS at some point in our careers.
With all of the specificity and inheritance issues, multiple stylesheets, bloated files, class naming conventions, and CSS preprocessor flavors, it can be a real nightmare, and on top of all of that mess, creating and maintaining a consistent design system is nearly impossible.
Well, what if I told you that you could create a consistent CSS design system framework in minutes that only compiles what you use out of the framework in any environment?
If you have ever had to juggle CSS, update CSS hoping you didn’t mess anything up, or purge unused CSS for Production, you should be extremely hype right now, and in this article, I'm going to briefly describe TailwindCSS and explain some of the feature updates you get by using its new, cutting-edge Just-in-Time compiler.
Putting it simply, Tailwind is a tool used to convert a customizable design system into a low-level, utility-first CSS framework.
tailwind.config.js file, you are able to specify the atoms of your design system, like colors, spacing, typography, border radius, and more, in code, and Tailwind will generate a CSS framework using them.
Tailwind is similar to other CSS frameworks in the way that it provides CSS classes to style your HTML, but Tailwind's utility classes act as low-level shortcuts to CSS properties instead of entirely styled components like you would get when using a higher-level CSS framework like Bootstrap or MaterializeCSS.
To further illustrate the difference, if you were going to make a button with Bootstrap, your HTML would look like this...
<button class="btn btn-primary">Button</button>
And if you were going to make a button with Tailwind, your HTML would look like this...
<button class="bg-blue-500 text-white py-2 px-4 rounded">Button</button>
See what I mean? Tailwind's CSS classes target individual CSS properties.
It doesn't have predefined chunks of CSS to quickly make things like buttons or navbars, but that is one of its major selling points.
Tailwind is meant to be used to create unique styles for your components, so you don't have to choose between
!important hacking a CSS framework to match your project's branding or letting the framework's opinionated styles influence your app's look.
Tailwind JIT is an experimental "Just-In-Time" compiler added to Tailwind v2.1 that dramatically improves the Developer Experience, unlocks new features, and removes some configuration from your
Remember how I said that you can specify the atoms of your design system in a
tailwind.config.js file and Tailwind will generate a CSS framework using them?
Well, if your design system has a lot of atoms, the CSS file Tailwind generates can be quite large, and once a CSS file gets to be many megabytes in size, build and browser developer tools begin to break down.
Before JIT, unused Tailwind CSS classes were only trimmed when going to Production, but now with JIT, Tailwind only generates the CSS your project is currently using, making every environment's CSS identical.
With that said, you still need to tell PurgeCSS where your templates are using the
purge option in your
tailwind.config.js file in order for everything to work properly.
Yes, one of the major benefits to using Tailwind is generating an entire CSS framework from a configurable design system, however, from time-to-time, there are super specific use-cases that you don't want to modify your
tailwind.config.js file to support.
A great example of this is when you need to style something to match another business' branding.
Tailwind JIT introduces a new way to generate one-off utility classes using a new square bracket based syntax to handle rare edge cases like this.
You simply pass an argument into the square bracket and Tailwind will generate the style for it on the fly.
So if you needed to make a link a specific shade of lime green and it wasn't a color in your design system, you could create an arbitrary utility class to handle it like this...
<a class="text-[#86bb1b]" href="https://shadowsmith.com">Link</a>
And if your use-case was super weird and you only wanted to make the link lime green on large devices, these handy utility classes also work with variants, so you would do this like...
<a class="lg:text-[#86bb1b]" href="https://shadowsmith.com">Link</a>
If you are ever working in a codebase that mixes Tailwind with some CSS that you can't easily modify, you can add a
! at the beginning of a utility's name, and it will increase the specificity of the CSS Tailwind applies to that element.
It is worth mentioning that the
! always goes at the beginning of the utility name after any variants like this...
<a class="lg:font-bold lg:!font-medium" href="https://shadowsmith.com">Link</a>
I would practice caution and only use this new feature on rare occasion as it could create a mess if abused.
Tailwind only supports a handful of variants like
disabled, etc. by default, and in addition to that, only some of the variants were available for specific utility classes out-of-the-box.
Of course, with Tailwind being super customizable, you can enable additional variants, but you have to be thoughtful about the order of your variants, and you also need to be careful not to balloon your CSS file's size in development.
With all of these constraints, variant configuration is one of the main areas of friction when using Tailwind for me, but now since JIT generates styles as your utility classes are used, we now have all variants available to use with no configuration at all!
And on top of all of that awesomeness, all variants can be combined together to target hard-to-reach styling situations like this...
I've been using Tailwind for years, and I am extremely excited about Tailwind's new JIT engine and what new features the Tailwind Labs team will create using it.
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WHAT IS A DUAL FUEL RANGE?
Dual fuel stoves are ranges that feature a gas cooktop and an electric oven, combining the strengths of both. Gas cooktops offer quick heating and ample temperature control. Electric oven elements cycle in patterns that allow for optimal management of temperatures, making them ideal for baking.
Many cooks will tell you that they prefer gas cooktops: in addition to their highly responsive temperature control, gas cooktops also allow you to use more cooking techniques, like roasting or charring peppers. In contrast, bakers are more likely to prefer electric ovens due to features on select models that offer a steam bread cycle, which releases steam at the beginning of the cycle, allowing bread to gain optimal rise. The steam then tapers off as the cycle progresses. Learn more about the differences of gas vs. electric ranges.
But what do you do if you’re a fan of both? That’s where dual fuel ranges (also called stoves) come in.
I’m Thinking of Buying a Dual Fuel Range. What are the Advantages?
A dual fuel stove can provide a number of advantages based on your cooking preferences.
BENEFITS OF AN ELECTRIC OVEN
- Fast pre-heating.
- Controlled heat, thanks to multiple elements that deliver and distribute heat throughout the oven cavity.
- Precise temperature management due to heat cycling.
- Ideal conditions for exceptional baked goods.
- More familiarity for most people (electric ovens are common in residential and professional kitchens).
BENEFITS OF A GAS COOKTOP
- Direct heat from gas flames.
- Highly responsive temperature control.
- Fast cooling burners.
- Potential cost savings (if natural gas is cheaper than electricity in your area).
- You can also employ more advanced cooking techniques like charring.
Are There Disadvantages to Owning a Dual Fuel Stove?
Generally speaking, the main downsides of a dual fuel range are their cost and installation. These types of stoves tend to be more expensive than their all-gas or all-electric counterparts, so it’s important to consider this and compare ranges before making a purchase. Also, keep in mind that a dual fuel range will require a gas hook-up – if you don’t have a gas line running to your home already, you’ll need to take this cost into account as well.
Is a Dual Fuel Range Right for Your Home?
As with any appliance, the decision to buy a dual fuel stove ultimately comes down to your personal preferences. If you have gas and electric hook-ups in your kitchen, are interested in investing in a dual fuel option and want a range that lets you maximize your cooking skills, a dual fuel range may be the right choice.
If you’re interested in the benefits of a dual fuel range but don’t know if your kitchen can accommodate one, there is another option. Consider installing a gas cooktop and an electric wall oven – that way, you’ll be able to enjoy both options and make the most of your favorite recipes.
Still can’t decide which range is the best fit for your kitchen? Check out our range buying guide to learn more about different options.
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Amaurosis fugax, or transient monocular blindness (TMB) from an embolic phenomenon, represents an ophthalmic form of a cerebrovascular transient ischaemic attack (TIA), and it has been associated with an increased risk of hemispheric stroke. In this issue of the BJO, Naylor R et al1 describe the changes in physician behaviour after instituting a streamlined referral system for TMB patients to a TIA clinic, where optimal medical and rapid surgical treatment (where appropriate) were provided. They did not attempt to measure improved outcomes, taking them as a given based on their assessment of the recent literature, and they recommend that ophthalmologists who diagnose TMB should start immediate antiplatelet and statin therapy in all cases, with referral within the week for medical treatment and surgical consultation for carotid endarterectomy (CEA). In their system, patients waited no longer than 7 days after referral for evaluation and were seen sooner if warranted by risk assessment. They found that ophthalmologists were willing to refer …
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Global Economy Prize
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Press release from the City of Wolverhampton Council, dated 11 March 2022
There has been an outpouring of support from residents in Wolverhampton who want to respond to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine following the invasion by Russian forces last month.
A number of local organisations are collecting physical donations to transport to Poland for onward distribution, but some are reporting difficulties in arranging transportation to get the items over to Eastern Europe quickly.
Therefore, people who wish to provide support to the Ukrainian people are being encouraged to make a financial donation via the Disasters Emergency Committee, via www.dec.org.uk.
It predicts 18 million people will be affected by the escalating conflict in Ukraine in one way or another, while four million will be displaced as the fighting continues. Already, at least two million refugees have fled their homes to escape the conflict.
Tim Johnson, the Chief Executive of the City of Wolverhampton Council, said:
“Our city stands with and expresses our support for the people of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian community in Wolverhampton, following the illegal invasion of their country.
"People will want to support, and are already supporting, the many appeals that are underway in response to a humanitarian crisis which, tragically, is only going to get worse in the weeks and months ahead.
"If you are looking to make a donation, the best way that you can do so is directly via the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. It is working on the ground in Eastern Europe and is well placed to make sure that any financial aid you give is utilised immediately on the frontlines.
"The charity Comic Relief has also said that a share of the money it raises this year will go towards funding organisations which are supporting people in Ukraine, so by supporting Red Nose Day on Friday 18 March, you will also be playing your part." | <urn:uuid:0d6f212b-443f-496f-be1f-109d52c95a5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wolverhamptonhomes.org.uk/news/community-news/how-you-can-support-ukraine-humanitarian-appeal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957296 | 379 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Bob Newbell's “Last Word” in this issue makes a point that may not need making to an audience of family physicians, but it's worth making anyway – if only for the benefit of any government functionaries who read FPM. Information technology can do wonderful things, but it is extremely complex. Even “simple” things, like the web-based spreadsheet described by Margolius and Ghaly in this issue and Epocrates, Newbell's example, rely on amazingly sophisticated technology. It's almost a miracle that they work so well.
When complex technology is applied to a complex task, like managing patients' medical records, chances are good that it just won't measure up to the demands of the task in every respect. This seems especially true today, when the marketplace is full of competing systems, most relatively new, each with its own shortcomings, and virtually all operating in their own little worlds, unable to connect with other systems except at great pain and expense.
Trouble arises when someone in a position of power who has only a 30,000-foot view of health IT identifies it as What Health Care Needs. That may well be the case. In fact, I'd bet that 10 years from now, or maybe 15, IT will be the circulatory system of health care and the information it carries will be the lifeblood of the whole health care system. That is, assuming that the whole thing doesn't implode between now and then.
But today's electronic health record systems (EHRs) are in many ways, awkward, ungainly, unsociable adolescents. They're moody, irritating and insatiable in their demands for money. They may do some chores for you, but only on their terms and often grudgingly. (By the way, if you'd like to tell your colleagues what life is like with your EHR, please take the brief at FPM user-satisfaction survey.)
All that said, the government is probably right to offer incentives for the meaningful use of EHRs. Implementing an EHR these days is expensive and troublesome, and while it will bring benefits – lots of benefits in the long term, I believe – the intrinsic gains in the short term might not be enough to entice the large majority of practices to bite the bullet and submit to the pain involved. | <urn:uuid:8c642140-0fd4-4bd2-b5ca-36dc6cb0b57d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/issues/2011/0300/p6.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965332 | 482 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Rainforest plants have unique adaptations that allow them to survive in wet and dark environments, protect themselves against predators and compete for light and nutrients.
Epiphytes and climbers: adaptations and survival strategies.
To survive, trees need nutrients, and to stay stable and strong.
Leaves rule! As long as you breathe, you should care about leaves.
Reproduction: flowers, seeds and dispersal. The key to the next generation.
Thorns, spikes, pheromones and more: Attract and defend. | <urn:uuid:24b543d9-70c2-4709-a2a5-a35ea777e2ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/science/rainforest-conservation-research/rainforest-in-australia/unique-features | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.916384 | 110 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Creator: Zygar-Hoffmann, Caroline; Hagemeyer, Birk; Pusch, Sebastian; Schönbrodt, Felix D.
Contributor: Zygar-Hoffmann, Caroline; Hagemeyer, Birk; Pusch, Sebastian; Schönbrodt, Felix D.
Funding: German Research Foundation, grant number SCHO1334/5-1 and HA 6884/2-1
Title: A large longitudinal study on motivation, behavior and satisfaction in couples: Research data from a four-week experience sampling study with a pre-, post-, and one-year follow-up assessment.
Year of Publication: 2020
Citation: Zygar-Hoffmann, C., Hagemeyer, B., Pusch, S., & Schönbrodt, F.D. (2020). A large longitudinal study on motivation, behavior and satisfaction in couples: Research data from a four-week experience sampling study with a pre-, post-, and one-year follow-up assessment. [Translated Title] (Version 2.0.0) [Data and Documentation]. Trier: Center for Research Data in Psychology: PsychData of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology ZPID. https://doi.org/10.5160/psychdata.zrce18mo99_v20000
576 individuals from 293 heterosexual couples completed an online preliminary questionnaire on dispositional implicit and explicit motives, global relationship satisfaction, personality, satisfaction with life, self-reflection and decision-making in intimate relationships. 510 of these individuals took part in an experience sampling study spanning four weeks, answering questions about their momentary motivation, affect, state relationship satisfaction, behaviors and experiences in their relationship five times a day. Afterwards, 508 individuals provided feedback, assessed again their global relationship satisfaction and the relationship satisfaction during the last four weeks . A year later, 390 of these individuals reported on their current relationship status, last year’s events, conflicts, their idiosyncratic behavioral implementations of agency and communion, and completed questionnaires on implicit and explicit motivational dispositions, life satisfaction and depending on their relationship status on global relationship satisfaction, or loneliness, and narcissism. The study was conducted to examine motivational dynamics in couples and its relevance for relationship satisfaction. Datasets of the preliminary questionnaire, the ESM-Study in long and wide format, the post questionnaire and the one-year follow-up as well as the corresponding codebooks are provided.
The following additional material can be found at https://osf.io/psqx8/:
– the “original” codebooks, including for example connecting passages between question texts or general instructions,
– R scripts documenting the preprocessing of the data,
– R scripts for further processing of the data,
– a file pointing to inconsistencies in the data,
– a link to the preregistration of hypotheses on the data.
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Research Questions/Hypotheses: Information about the preregistered hypotheses can be found at https://osf.io/psqx8/
Research Design: Mixed survey instrument (combination of hardly, partially and fully standardized parts); repeated measurements
The following standardized instruments were used:
1: Partner-Related Agency and Communion Test (PACT),
2: The ABC of Social Desires. 3: Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI),
4: Positive – Negative Relationship Quality (PN-RQ) Scale (own translation to German),
5: Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS),
6: Revised Blood & Wolfe (1960) scale for decision-making intimate relationships (own translation to German),
7: The Unified Motive Scales,
9: Self-reflection and insight scale (own translation to German),
10: Adapted Affect Grid (own translation to German),
11: UCLA Loneliness Scale,
12: Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ),
13: Experiences in Close Relationships Scale Revised,
14: Adapted IOS-Scale.
Data Collection Method:
Collection without the presence of the investigator
– other: Experience-Sampling with Smartphone (ESM)
Population: Persons in a partnership (German-speaking, heterosexual, predominantly childless)
Survey Time Period:
Experience Sampling for four weeks five times a day, four weeks between pre and post questionnaire, approx. one year between post questionnaire and follow-up
Sample: Convenience sample
51% female subjects
49% male subjects
Age Distribution: 18-68 years
Spatial Coverage (Country/Region/City):
Subject Recruitment: Recruition: Announcements, newsletter of the university, facebook-groups, homepage, flyer at couple therapists, personal contacts
Motivation: Up to 170 Euro per couple or course credits and for follow-up 10 Euro per person and a raffle of vouchers at a total value of 1000 Euro
Sample Size: 576 individuals
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An aide memoire generally refers to a document that is produced to summarise key findings and important recommendations of an evaluation. However, the term also refers to a document which outlines the key points of meetings during the planning process for an evaluation. Aide memoires are typically succinct, but contain a large amount of information that can be easily disseminated to and discussed with stakeholders.
(United Nations World Food Programme (n.d.). Monitoring & Evaluation Guidelines: How to manage an Evaluation and disseminate its Results., p. 11)
Monitoring & Evaluation Guidelines: How to manage an Evaluation and disseminate its Results: This document, produced by the United Nations World Food Programme's Office of Evaluation, contains a guide on how to create an aide memoire on pages 8-11, including an example of what an aide memoire could look like.
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Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into preexisting populations. His influential 1896 polemic discusses the political and historic rationales for a Jewish homeland. This excellent translation includes an Introduction by Louis Lipsky and a biography of the author.
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Data from: Population spatial synchrony enhanced by periodicity and low detuning with environmental forcing
Haynes, Kyle J.; Walter, Jonathan A.; Liebhold, Andrew M. (2019), Data from: Population spatial synchrony enhanced by periodicity and low detuning with environmental forcing, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.j6h230v
Explaining why fluctuations in abundances of spatially disjunct populations often are correlated through time is a major goal of population ecologists. We address two hypotheses receiving little to no testing in wild populations: a) that population cycling facilitates synchronization given weak coupling among populations, and b) that the ability of periodic external forces to synchronize oscillating populations is a function of the mismatch in timescales (detuning) between the force and the population. Here, we apply new analytical methods to field survey data on gypsy moth outbreaks. We report that at timescales associated with gypsy moth outbreaks, spatial synchrony increased with population periodicity via phase locking. The extent to which synchrony in temperature and precipitation influenced population synchrony was associated with the degree of mismatch in dominant timescales of oscillation. Our study provides new empirical methods and rare empirical evidence that population cycling and low detuning can promote population spatial synchrony.
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Glancing down near the intersection of 18th and Locust Streets near Rittenhouse Square, Carolyn Rogers can’t help but do a double-take.
“The space between this sign and the building is not dedicated to the public,” proclaims the brassy plaque inlaid in the sidewalk.
“I’m always like, ‘Am I reading this right?’” Rogers said. “Not dedicated? Should I not walk there?”
Rogers asked about the signs scattered around the city’s pavement through Curious Philly, a portal that allows readers to ask Inquirer and Daily News journalists their questions about the Philadelphia region.
Some of the metal inlays say “the space ... is not dedicated” while others proclaim “property behind this plaque not dedicated,” but in the end, they’re saying the same thing.
“Dedicated to the public,” in this case, is a legal phrase, defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as “an appropriation of land to some public use made by the owner, and accepted for such use by or no behalf of the public.”
The signage occurs when a building’s property line extends past the dimensions of the structure. In other words, the property owner owns more land than just the building.
So, “not dedicated to the public” means that the space of sidewalk between where that metal sign stops and the building begins technically isn’t public property.
Although the plaques are placed to protect the property owner’s rights, you’re welcome to walk in the “not dedicated” space, but technically, it’s private property, University of Pennsylvania Architect Charlie Newman said in a feature on the school’s website.
The plaques can be found throughout the city, from Penn’s campus in University City to the Federal Detention Center on Seventh and Arch.
It’s a safeguard in place to protect against a real estate legal loophole known as “prescriptive easements,” PlanPhilly’s Jim Saska wrote in a 2016 column about the curious corner pieces.
“Prescriptive easements” are another bit of legalese, meaning those who use an area for 21 years or more are extended rights to the land, as explained in the Pennsylvania Law Monitor.
So, in other words, if Philadelphians were to traipse down Arch Street on the 12 inches of pavement between the technical property line of the Federal Reserve and the building’s wall for 21 years straight with no “dedicated” plaque in sight, the property would become the public’s, too.
That’s where the plaques come in. With a little legal language bolted to the ground, the property owner is letting you know that you can walk there, but you don’t own it. | <urn:uuid:901e62f2-5c60-44e4-b396-97af4067683b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/sidewalk-not-dedicated-public-prescriptive-easement-20181224.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.936248 | 621 | 2.125 | 2 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
What are PFAS?
Why are PFAS dangerous?
What products are PFAS found in?
What caused PFAS contamination on my property?
Why are PFAS difficult to contain?
Does the ASTM E1527-21 require PFAS?
Is PFAS a recognized environmental condition (REC)?
When are PFAS going to become a hazardous substance by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Are you required to discuss PFAS in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA)?
Should I include PFAS in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA)?
How do I know if my property is contaminated with PFAS?
What happens if PFAS is found on a property?
Am I required to clean up PFAS contamination?
Will PFAS contamination significantly impact my property value?
How do I remove/mitigate/correct PFAS contamination?
Steps you can take to mitigate PFAS risks
PFAS, short for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, make up just a small part of the many thousands of man-made chemicals first created in the 1930s and 1940s to make fluoropolymer coatings and products. PFAS are designed to repel water and oil, have high and low temperature stability and are used to reduce friction.
PFAS are dangerous because:
- PFAS are referred to as ‘forever chemicals’ because of their longevity in the environment
- They are associated with serious health risks
- PFAS migrate easily and are difficult to contain
PFAS are ‘forever chemicals’
The unique chemical compositions of PFAS, their carbon-fluorine bonds, which are some of the strongest ever created by man, do not naturally breakdown. Because of this, they are referred to as ‘forever chemicals,’ as it is estimated that in nature, certain PFAS chemicals can take up to 1,000 years to break down.
PFAS are associated with serious health risks
The growing body of scientific health studies reveals that associations between human PFAS exposures and specific adverse human health outcomes is even more problematic. According to a 2018 Hearing on ‘The Federal Role in the Toxic PFAS Chemical Crisis’ health effects associated with human exposures to PFAS contributes to children’s cognitive and neurobehavioral development, immune system dysfunction, endocrine disruption, obesity, diabetes and lipid metabolism and cancer.
PFAS migrate easily
Human exposure to PFAS has been linked to various sources, including our drinking water supply. PFAS are also present in our food supply due to their leaching from food packaging, agricultural irrigation of food crops with PFAS impacted water, and the bioaccumulation of PFAS in produce, livestock and fish.
Furthermore, PFAS exposure isn’t limited to drinking the groundwater (ingestion); as PFAS can also be found in air emissions. Workers involved in making or processing PFAS and PFAS-containing materials may be exposed via inhalation or skin absorption.
PFAS were engineered to repel water and oil, have high and low temperature stability and reduce friction. These desirable chemical properties have led to PFAS incorporation in a wide range of consumer and industrial products.
From food packaging to personal care products to cookware to textiles, from medical to automotive to aerospace applications, firefighting foams and many more, PFAS chemicals have become ubiquitous in our daily lives.
Common Items with PFAS
- Food packaging – microwave popcorn bags, sandwich wrappers, takeout containers and fast-food wrappers
- Personal care products – cosmetics, nail polish, dental floss and shampoo
- Household products – non-stick cookware, stain resistant products such as carpets, rugs and furniture
- Outdoor gear –anything with a “durable water repellent” coating such as coats, jackets and tents
- Industrial uses – aviation hydraulic fluids, floor polishes, paints, firefighting foams, mining and oil well surfactants, mist suppressant in metal plating, photographic processes
- Agricultural uses – pesticides and herbicides
PFAS contamination sources
Certain industries and operations carry a much higher risk of PFAS chemical contamination than others. Examples of high-risk source properties associated with PFAS contamination include any property where aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) fire suppressants are used, such as military facilities with munitions and explosives, fire stations, public- and private-sector airports, refineries and petrochemical industries to name a few. If a fire occurred on-site and AFFF was applied, PFAS contamination is likely.
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), landfill operations and commercial and industrial properties with electroplating operations, open burning practices and manufacturing of PFAS have also been found to be source properties. Agricultural land that applies biosolids or WWTP sludge may also be considered a high-risk property.
Additional property types where commercial and industrial uses of PFAS include the production of electronics, plastics, rubber, coatings, paints and varnishes. Aircraft and heavy equipment manufacturing, car washes, laundry and dry cleaners are considered high to moderate risk properties.
PFAS contamination source resources
While the above provides examples of PFAS source properties, we encourage an in-depth review of all sources to reduce your liability. Past and present property uses that may have potentially included the handling and discharge of PFAS wastes are revealed via historical sources, agency records and their North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identification.
Click on the image to download AEI’s PFAS Potential Contamination Sources Checklist.
Although your property may not be a PFAS source property, you still need to consider the possibility of PFAS contamination on your property generated from an off-site source via surface water, groundwater, soil movement or particles dispersing in the air. Given the “right ride,” PFAS chemicals can travel far and wide.
PFAS chemicals and PFAS-containing products can move easily through the ground via soil leaching and make their way into groundwater that may supply drinking water to homes and communities. In the figure shown below, PFAS can be released during their use or application from homes and industries and then enter surface water directly or through a WWTP.
Because select PFAS can also become airborne, they can mix with rain or snow and end up in rivers and lakes; ultimately finding their way to your property.
Even if your property is not a source of PFAS, it may have been affected by PFAS contamination at levels that warrant further investigation, and if present remediation or mitigation can cause property devaluation.
The ASTM E1527-21, the latest standard for a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment considers PFAS as ‘emerging contaminates’ that are technically out of scope. Therefore, a discussion of PFAS is not required.
However, PFAS can still be discussed in the report as a “non-scope” item. For instance, asbestos-containing material and lead-based paint are typically “non-scope” items that are regularly discussed in Phase I Environmental Site Assessment reports.
Click on the image above to download AEI’s resource that illustrates how changes to the new ASTM E1527-21 standard may impact you.
As of 2022, PFAS are not currently a recognized environmental condition (REC) per the ASTM E1527-21 definition of a REC. This is due to the fact that PFAS are not currently considered a “hazardous substance” by the EPA.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PFAS Strategic Roadmap, select PFAS chemicals are scheduled to be classified as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in the summer of 2023. Once this happens, PFAS impact on a property will be considered as part of the ASTM E1527-21 scope.
Because PFAS are considered as ‘emerging contaminants’ as a ‘non-scope’ item, the ASTM E1527-21, you are not required to discuss PFAS in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA).
While a discussion about PFAS isn’t mandatory in your due diligence process, a recent sign of tightening regulations includes the EPA’s addition of five PFAS chemicals to the list of Regional Screening and Removal Management Levels to protect Human Health and the Environment, with more chemicals likely to be added in the future.
Therefore, what isn’t considered a REC by today’s (2022) standards, soon will be. Taking a proactive approach to assess potential impacts at the time of your current transaction is highly recommended to avoid negative surprises and potential setbacks at future property transaction junctures.
Given that regulations are fast approaching, it is in your best interest to assess and address the potential of PFAS contamination early in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA). By taking proactive measures, you facilitate the due diligence ease for the future refinance or sale of your property.
There are three steps to take to help determine if your property is contaminated with PFAS:
- Familiarize yourself with on- and off-site contamination sources and pathways. Download AEI’s Potential PFAS Contamination Sources Checklist.
- Include a discussion of potential PFAS contamination in your Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) report.
- Speak with an environmental professional. Contact AEI to help you get started.
Purchasing a property with known (or suspected) PFAS contamination may carry extreme legal and financial risks.
Legal risks associated with PFAS contamination
An example of the legal risks associated with PFAS contamination includes the carpet manufacturing industry. The application of stain-resistant coatings has made carpet manufacturing one of the many high-risk industrial operations that have been linked to PFAS contamination. Numerous lawsuits have been filed in an area of Georgia known as the “carpet capital of the world” against various carpet manufacturers who have allegedly contaminated drinking water. In the fall of 2021, a Georgia federal judge allowed many of the claims to proceed against carpet manufacturers. This ruling opens the door to a potential tsunami of future lawsuits against past and present facilities that are identifiable point sources of significant PFAS contamination.
Financial risks associated with PFAS contamination
A property’s value may be significantly impacted if PFAS contamination or perceived potential PFAS contamination is present. Several farms have been financially ruined when they found elevated concentrations of PFAS in their soil and groundwater. PFAS entered the soil and found their way into farm crops and dairy products produced on-site. Without the ability to grow crops, the value of contaminated farmland is significantly reduced.
Legal and financial risks underline the need for conducting detailed due diligence research. Identifying past and present operations that may have resulted in significant PFAS contamination is becoming increasingly critical. Since a discussion of PFAS is currently considered an optional non-scope item by ASTM in the E1527-21 standard, many environmental consultants have opted to omit any discussion of potential PFAS contamination. AEI recommends that you talk to your consultant and ensure that they are properly addressing potential PFAS contamination risks in your Phase I ESA reports. If potential PFAS contamination is identified, additional actions may be warranted.
That being said, it’s important to remember that if PFAS contamination is found at your site, it’s more likely that your property has been contaminated by an off-site source of contamination and not an on-site source. PFAS contamination plumes have been identified to extend for several miles.
Getting out ahead of potential PFAS contamination may help mitigate future costs.
Your legal and financial risks are greatly reduced if your environmental consultant has completed the appropriate research and your site is not a potentially responsible source of PFAS contamination. Subsurface Investigations may be more appropriate for potential on-site sources of contamination, while impacts originating from off-site sources may not always require additional actions.
In the past we have seen that companies who lag behind the coming trends and avoid investing in measures to address potential contamination proactively tend to pay double later on. What might seem like a cost-saving decision often results in a costly outcome.
For example, in the early 2010s, vapor intrusion cases—when chemical vapors migrate from contaminated groundwater through the soil into the basements or foundations of buildings—were a big concern.
Those who took a proactive approach to understanding potential vapor intrusion concern during a property transaction or actively installing a soil vapor barrier during the construction of a new building were in a much stronger financial position than their counterparts, with less susceptibility to more conservative regulatory changes. Property owners who were in the reactionary position or surprised during a transaction, incurred exponentially higher costs as a result of installing mitigation systems to fix vapor intrusion after construction.
Much like vapor intrusion, it is anticipated that companies who can properly identify potential PFAS contamination concerns proactively, will be able to better assess the financial viability of a potential real estate asset.
Whether or not you are required to clean up PFAS contamination depends on state regulations and historical or pending lawsuits.
Typically, cleanup abatement orders are issued against known polluters. A site would need to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to know the potential exposure to regulatory enforcement actions.
PFAS contamination can significantly impact your property value. The severity of exposure will depend on various factors that need to be explored such as:
- Is the contamination from an on- or off-site source?
- Is a viable responsible party actively cleaning up/addressing the contamination?
- What media have been impacted (soil, groundwater, and/or drinking water)?
- What are local and state regulations regarding PFAS and landowner protections?
PFAS devaluation example
In North Carolina, homeowners located in the massive (over 10-mile radius) contamination area of the GenX release from Chemours, are petitioning local tax assessors to reduce their tax burden given the expected reduction in home values.
Once a concern related to PFAS contamination has been identified at a site, a Phase II Subsurface Investigation is required.
Typical Phase II ESA investigations involve collecting soil and groundwater samples at various locations across the property, beginning at the potential source areas. Groundwater impacts must be sufficiently understood relative to separating on-site releases from larger regional sources. The data collected will be used to evaluate the necessity, scope and cost of PFAS risk mitigation or remediation. Every site will have its unique challenges.
PFAS Mitigation includes controlling the exposure to or further migration of PFAS in the environment. Direct exposure to PFAS contaminated soils can be done by capping of impacted soil to limit exposure to contaminated soils. Caps could include a specified thickness of soil, gravel asphalt or concrete.
PFAS Remediation can include the direct removal of PFAS contaminated soil and extraction and above ground treatment for PFAS contaminated groundwater. PFAS contaminated soils can be directly removed from the site through soils excavation and off-site disposal in a relatively short time period. Soils would be removed such that residual PFAS in soils would be limited to a calculated safe concentration. PFAS contaminated groundwater would be extracted from the groundwater treated with an appropriate remedial technology, thus controlling further migration, and removing impacted groundwater from the subsurface. Groundwater remediation of PFAS will usually require many years of remediation.
AEI’s team of geologists and engineers are experienced in the investigation and remediation of PFAS contaminated properties. Please review AEI’s Site Mitigation Services page for more details on our mitigation, remediation and risk management services and contact AEI to help with your mediation strategy and course of action.
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Barbershop: Facebook's Purported Pivot To Privacy
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Finally today, we're going to talk about some big news out of Silicon Valley. This week, Facebook said it is testing a feature to hide the number of likes on Instagram, which Facebook owns, and to ban content posted by people and groups it considers extremist. Both were described as an effort to deal with increasingly sharp criticism that these social media platforms are creating unhealthy social environments by allowing the spread of false, hateful propaganda, in the case of Facebook, or in the case of Instagram, stimulating negative mental health impacts such as depression and anxiety.
We were wondering if these changes will really make social media safer and healthier. Or will they just prevent influencers and bloggers from expressing themselves and making a living? We decided to take that to the Barbershop because that's where we talk to interesting people about what's in the news and what's on their minds. And before we begin, let's tell you that Facebook is a financial sponsor of NPR. with that being said, joining me are Alice Marwick. She is a Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Welcome. Thanks for joining us.
ALICE MARWICK: It's great to be here.
MARTIN: Taylor Lorenz is a staff writer for The Atlantic who often writes about social media. Nice to have you back with us.
TAYLOR LORENZ: Hi.
MARTIN: And Sara Li is a writer and social media strategist - a former influencer.
Sara Li, welcome to you.
SARA LI: Thank you so much.
MARTIN: So let me start with the Instagram news. They're testing this new feature, as we said, to hide the number of likes a post gets. And I just want to ask each of you briefly - as briefly as you can - is this a step in the right direction? And, professor Marwick, I'll start with you.
MARWICK: I think it's an interesting experiment. It's certainly going to remove the ability for people to compare individual posts to each other. And since the research seems to show that people who are prone to comparing themselves to others do feel badly when they use sites like Instagram, I think for people like that it could be a good thing. But the entirety of social media is built around gaining status and attention, so I'm not sure how much it's going to change how people participate online.
MARTIN: So, Taylor, I don't know if you feel comfortable hazarding your opinion, given that this is your beat. If you do...
LORENZ: Oh, sure.
MARTIN: I'll let you answer however you feel comfortable.
LORENZ: Yeah. No, definitely. I share - yeah, I mean, I like to talk about sort of the different things that Instagram tests frequently. I think it's actually sort of a positive step. But, you know, Instagram Stories, which is one of the most rapidly growing features on Instagram, actually does by default hide metrics from users. So you can't - you know, while you yourself can see how many views a story got, it's not outwardly facing. So I think this is just going to be sort of more in line with that. And I think users will get used to it much more quickly than they think.
MARTIN: And, Sara, you know, I'm fascinated by - you know, I'm fascinated by you, of course because you actually were an influencer. That means you were paid to post promoted content. You started that as a high school student, and you eventually left that world. So, you know, you have a foot in both sides of it. I mean, on the one hand, you've seen the way it can - what - how would you describe the negatives? Like, sort of create this pressure on you to kind of perform yourself or - but you also made money from it, so...
MARTIN: Tell me.
LI: Yeah, absolutely. I was 17 when I started, you know, doing influencer campaigns. And I think the thing that I realized about it is that it's such an empty goal because you're constantly chasing for that high engagement. You're constantly wanting new followers, more likes, etc. And after a certain point, like, I realized there's never going to be a number that's going to be satisfying. You know, you're never going to get enough followers. You're never going to get enough likes. So at that point, you just kind of have to ask yourself, is this worth it? Is it worth putting on this very highlighted persona on this online personality for the money, for the prestige - for the clout as, you know, the kids call it these days?
And it's not. Truly, I don't - I really don't think it's worth it because once - the second that you hit a milestone, you're going to want more, and you're going to be constantly, constantly chasing something that you're never going to be happy with.
MARTIN: And what about the idea of hiding the likes? What do you think? Is that a step in the right direction? Or you don't think it'll do any - make any difference.
LI: So I really hate to be the cynic here, but while I do you think it is a step in the right direction, I'm not entirely sure that's going to last because the idea that Instagram is hiding these likes to promote better mental health - which I, you know, completely agree is a huge issue, especially considering the influence of social media on our kids these days. However, I think it's kind of a Band-Aid solution.
I think the second that Instagram starts hiding their likes, there's going to be another social media app that comes out of the blue to kind of fill that gap, to fill that void because the issue isn't that people are getting their validation from Instagram. The issue is that people are looking at social media period for validation. So I think until the day that we address a solution for that bigger issue, I think Instagram hiding the likes - this is going to be a very temporary solution.
MARTIN: So, professor Marwick, can you just talk a little bit more about what the research shows? You know, your research focuses on what you call the attention economy. Could you just amplify our understanding? Is there anything else you think we should know about how this works?
MARWICK: Yeah. So in the attention economy, likes and followers function as currency. They're worth something. And obviously, they can be converted into actual money, as in an influencer being paid by a brand to put up a sponsored post, as we've talked about. But in other cases, they function as social currency. They give people feedback. They let them know people are watching and paying attention. And in some cases, I do think this is good. I think it allows people to feel socially supported, that they're part of a community and to maybe participate in a trend or a meme that's going around. And these things are good, I think, for our community building and sort of sense of each other.
But I think the problem is when this attention gets converted down to this metric, this single number, it provides this very easy point of comparison. And you can very easily compare yourself to your friends, to celebrities, to influencers. And Instagram also uses those like metrics in its product. It uses the like metrics to rank its feed of photos to recommend which photos it shows first to different users. So the likes are still going to matter to the site. They'll still be there under the hood. They just won't necessarily be as visible to the users.
MARTIN: Why wouldn't they just monetize that and just say, OK, you can pay extra to see people's likes, get access to that private information?
MARWICK: I mean, it remains to be seen, right? Like, this is a test. I think that they are going to have to implement something for people who are making a living off this platform simply because brands and influencers are so dependent on being able to judge the success of a sponsorship or a campaign through the number of likes and views a post gets. So, you know, I could see them down the line rolling out some kind of tools for business and - or for people who want to sort of interact with each other more professionally on the site.
MARTIN: That leads to a question I want to save for the end because now I want to - which is the whole question of whether these platforms have gotten to the point where really they should be treated like utilities, for whatever that means? But I'm going to save that for the end because I want to go to Taylor now on the story that you covered for the Atlantic about this move to Facebook and Instagram banning the profiles of public figures like Infowars founder Alex Jones and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Taylor, you covered this for The Atlantic. What exactly does this entail?
LORENZ: OK, so a couple things. First of all, I just want to loop back to something - the ways that you guys were just talking about Instagram previously and push back a little bit. That's really...
LORENZ: ...Not how people use Instagram on a broad scale. I mean, Facebook - I'm sorry, Instagram is over a billion users. It's a very - you know, people express themselves in very complex ways on the app. So while, you know, there's this stereotype that people are just posting photos and trying to get likes, like, it's really not like that, especially for younger users who use it - you know, they're very involved in commenting and group chats. And, you know, Stories, its fastest-growing product, is not at all about likes. It's far less performative.
So I think sort of in light of that, you see a lot of people using Instagram in, you know, all of these complex, interesting and sometimes very problematic ways. So, you know, Facebook and Instagram's move to ban these extremist accounts was because, you know, some of these extremist figures were using Instagram to actually, you know, spread misinformation, which is a problem that Facebook has had, too. So I think this is a - you know, a strong step for that. But they have a lot more ways to go. You know, Instagram is not just about photos. And there are also a lot of ways to spread misinformation on Facebook, too.
MARTIN: Could you talk a little bit more about that briefly? Like, give us another example of that.
LORENZ: Of Instagram.
MARTIN: Yeah, how it works.
LORENZ: Yeah. Well, so...
MARTIN: Because you've written extensively about that, too - not just the what but the how - how it works that way.
LORENZ: Yeah. So Instagram's this big, you know, messy social network. Obviously, you have the main feed of photos, which people less and less use to just post straight pictures, like the aspirational photos you were talking about earlier. Especially younger users engage in memes. They engage in video content from other platforms, things like that. There's also IGTV, which is essentially a YouTube competitor. There's Stories, which are the short-form video, and GIF and photo formats.
So - and then there's comments and group chats and all of these different things - live-streaming. And so, you know, extremist figures can kind of play in all of those different formats, you know, whether it's an Infowars video uploaded to a meme page on IGTV to reach, you know, Gen Z kids or, you know, problematic messages told in visual format through the feed or, you know, an extremist going live.
MARTIN: So to that end, though - and I also want to hear from the others on this - but, Taylor, do you - again, to the degree you feel comfortable because you cover this...
MARTIN: Is this focusing on these individuals who have very long track records, right, of public utterances that most people I think know - do you think that's the right approach?
LORENZ: Well, yeah. I mean, it's the right approach to crack down on extremism as we've seen, you know, the consequences of letting that kind of speech flourish. But, I mean, they're not going far enough. I mean, this is literally, like, four people or five people. So there's a really long way to go on both platforms.
MARTIN: Professor Marwick, what do you think about that because I know you study this as well?
LORENZ: Well, I think it's a difficult position for a platform like Facebook. I mean, Taylor is completely right. There are - these are enormous, multi-feature platforms with many different ways for people to engage. And, as a result, it's not just coming from the top, right? Like, it's not just coming from Alex Jones. It's coming in private Facebook groups. It's coming in WhatsApp chats. It's coming in all of these different ways that people engage with the platform. So I do think it's one head of the many-headed hydra that you can cut off.
But at some point, there - you're going to have to take some kind of stance on what type of content is acceptable and not on the platform. If they choose to do that, I think that's going to be very, very difficult for them because there's going to be an accusation of partisanship. And, as a result, I think they've tried to portray themselves as sort of this, like, neutral third-party because they want to be seen as a platform, right, on which people interact and on which people perform.
But when you are drawing a line in the sand and saying, you know, this is the type of content that isn't acceptable, that's going to encompass a range of people, some who are very fringy and some who are a little bit more mainstream. And I think that's a political battle that Facebook is going to have to face as it moves forward with some of these decisions.
MARTIN: So that's the question I wanted to sort of conclude with. Does this point to the idea that these platforms - that we should think about them as they're not kind of just neutral entities that are just there, and people just kind of do what - that they're so woven into the fabric of our lives that perhaps we should think about them in a different way. I know that there's a lot of resistance to that for all kinds of reasons. But, you know, are we at the point where they should be thought about like utilities, where the public gets to participate in how these entities interface with us?
There are public service commissions. You know, there are boards. There are - do you see my point? It's not just a private matter how they conduct themselves. What do you think about that, as briefly - I know it's a big question - as briefly as you can? So, Taylor, you want to start?
LORENZ: Yeah, sure. I mean, I think it's so hard. I mean, if you're going to talk about them becoming public utilities and regulation, you have to really understand how these platforms work and how people communicate on them. And I think that's evolving so rapidly that it's really hard for, you know, lawmakers to even regulate that type of stuff.
I'd point to some of the influencer regulations that the FTC has put in place. I mean, that really hasn't done anything to, you know, like, really rein in a lot of this bad spammy influencer marketing. So I think - yeah, I mean, I think it's worth noting, you know, the role that these people - or the role that these platforms play in our lives. But I don't know.
MARTIN: It's big.
LORENZ: It's so big and so complicated (laughter).
MARTIN: Yeah. Sara, what do you think?
LI: I'm just really thinking about how that would even work because, like Taylor said, Instagram really isn't just for the sole purpose of just posting a picture and getting likes anymore. We've seen it branch out so much bigger than that. Like I said, it's a method for communication. And now we're seeing media publications use it as a means to communicate with their audience.
So just the idea of it becoming kind of a public service - I can see that maybe going into effect if there was a more prominent health safety issue such as, like Taylor mentioned, the spammy influencer marketing where you have people promoting, like, these detox teas that truly are harmful for your body. So I can see that being part of that huge conversation.
MARTIN: Professor Marwick, I only gave you 30 seconds to answer this terribly big question, so you'll have to come back and tell us more. But what do you think?
MARWICK: It's a - these are global platforms, so even if the U.S. decided to implement regulations, we still have millions - hundreds of millions of users outside the U.S. who are under different regulatory regimes. And when you're talking about regulation, you are talking about something that gets extremely complicated and requires an intimate knowledge of the platform which lawmakers don't necessarily always have.
MARTIN: Well, thanks for at least getting us started in trying to understand it.
MARTIN: That's Alice Marwick, professor of communication at UNC Chapel Hill, author of "Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, And Branding In The Social Media Age," Sara Li, social media strategist, and Taylor Lorenz, staff writer for The Atlantic.
Thank you all so much for joining us.
LI: Thank you.
LORENZ: Thank you.
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PR Insight 8 minute read
The PR and communications business is undergoing it's biggest churn in the last two decades. With technology rapidly changing how various industries operate, the communication function cannot be removed from this overarching development taking place. Of the various technologies entering PR, AI is one that has the potential to alter how the very DNA of how we live and work. And the PR and communication profession, quite naturally, will be affected by these changes.
How does AI affect PR? AI is currently in the third cycle of evolution, where machines are now capable of taking decisions. This will give rise to the need for communicators who understand the stakeholder implications of the interaction between machine learning, AI and human beings.
In order to discuss this and various other issues of vital importance that intersect with PR, the first 'Chai Talk' roundtable series moderated by PRmoment India and supported by Weber Shandwick took place last week at the Uber India office.
Among the points raised by the audience and speakers included the impact of AI on managing reporters, on storytelling formats and on demands on PR professionals to acquire fresh skills.
Here are some of the key takeaways from the discussion:
A new breed of PR professionals will emerge: CRM based media relations, policy specialists and data scientists
AI is likely to have a significant impact on how PR functions. This change will cover a range of PR function, in the short term and long term. Immediately, what PR would end up grappling with is the need to have PR professionals who are policy experts and can communicate effectively with governments and stakeholders affected by the disruption that technology often brings.
Data scientists are also immediately needed in PR to help support deep analysis for policy communication.
Senior corporate communication professionals at the 'Chai Talk' discussion also pointed out with the rise of automation of media relations, PR pros would need to start looking at media relations as a CRM function and use bots and machine learning to manage some of the processes of media engagement.
Commenting on the long-term PR challenges, Deepa Dey, head communications and CSR for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Indian subcontinent said, "Communication has always been about “making things visible”. In the AI universe ‘anonymity” will be the biggest luxury – how will we support a change like that?"
Evolution of storytelling with AI
One of the biggest impacts of AI on PR will be on outcome-based storytelling. Rachana Panda, chief communication officer for GE India, said that in PR professionals will need to significantly upskill their storytelling techniques through innovative formats.
Panda says, " It will become important to actually show people what your message is, which means more video storytelling and helping customers to understand the impact of AI." Panda also said that PR professionals should spend some time in understanding coding to be able to contribute better to this transformation and this surely is an opportunity for the function.
Agreeing with Panda's views, Arpan Basu, general manager and head of communications of Coca-Cola, India and South West Asia said that experiential based communication will take precedence in the coming times. Seeing is believing and that tends to stick for a longer time in the minds of the consumer. Sharing examples of how innovation and technology are used in the making of the iconic beverage, Basu also cited examples of how innovation and technology can go hand in hand towards sustainable agriculture in making lives better.
Dey also said that we will no longer have the option of choosing to engage with AI and tech, it will impact how PR and communications play out. Dey said she looks at the developments in AI as opportunities rather than barriers to effective PR.
Adding further nuance to this view, Aman Dhall, head of corporate communications at Policy Bazaar group of companies, pointed out that finally human interface cannot be done away with where content is concerned and that is what will finally make the difference. He said that PR professionals need to understand that with AI coming in, high-quality professionals would be needed to work on content.
Dhall said that he has noticed a tendency among PR pros, even those who switch in from journalism, to not want to do content but focus more on strategy.
Commenting on AI and communication, Valerie Pinto, CEO, Weber Shandwick India said that it would be imperative to look at tools and analytics that can help understand where AI is intersecting with PR functions.
AI's Impact on journalism
Bringing in the media perspective on how AI might shape the future of journalism, Kiran Stacey, South Asia correspondent for Financial Times said that while AI can be used to write a basic story and even employ the basic who, what, why, when and where standards of report writing, it's real, human journalists who would be able to offer stories that have greater insights. Sharing one of the first stories written by a bot for LA Times on an earthquake measuring 4.7 on a Richter scale, Stacey said that if this was a bigger earthquake, then human reportage would have kicked in.
Commenting on the rise of 'commodity journalism', Stacey said that he believes that quality reporting is what defines the future of journalism and will enable journalism to survive the onslaught of social media journalism and AI. This means being able to charge for online content, and for publishers to invest in reporters.
With the rising use of AI, data security is a key communication challenge
Taking the discussion forward, Natasha Tandon, head of corporate communications and CSR, Phillips Lighting India, said that the potential of AI exists across a multiplicity of solutions from smart cities to smart homes. Tandon said that as compared to 'dumb devices', connected devices can significantly contribute to productivity and efficiency and ease of living. Sharing an example, Tandon said that smart lights can be switched on at a home from any part of the world so that the house doesn't appear empty, enhancing its security, Smart street lights can also be used on streets so that they are not wastefully on, a common sight on Indian roads, when not required.
However, Tandon also pointed out that the uptake of AI, Machine Learning ( ML) and IoT goes side by side with focusing on the safety of the data stream and ensuring the safety of the consumer. This requires using secure systems as well as sustained engagement with the customer to constantly communicate the changing environment.
Expanding on the need to exercise care as a communications professional, Prasidha Menon who heads PR for India and South Asia at Uber, said that while data and analytics can help inform business decisions or for that matter improve customer experience, when large-scale data is in use for anything from rideshare analytics to predictive models, it is the brand's ethics that serve as a guide to right action and responsible use of data. As the custodian of the brand's reputation, the role of the communications professional here is to bring all stakeholders - business, legal, compliance, marketing, together and ensure there is collaborative responsibility.
Future of AI
Voice is the future of AI
While AI is being applied in a range of solutions, Dr Amitesh Punhani, country marketing manager, Jabra India and SAARC, Jabra Products, said that voice is the future of AI. As human beings were born to prioritise speech for communication, it's only natural that talking to tech, rather than pushing buttons would become the natural way to interact with connected devices. Dr Punhani, who has a masters in AI from Ohio State University, also said that current headphone devices are increasingly being rolled out with built-in integration with voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa.
Why IoT's complexity is a PR challenge
One of the biggest points of discussion at ' Chai Talk' was that the use of data is a primary concern that brands need to be aware of. As the world enters the 'data economy', Dr Rishi Bhatnagar, president-Aeris Communications in India and chairman IET, IoT Panel, whose firm holds no less than 62 patents, explained the sheer scope of IoT. Currently, Aeris offers connectivity stacks that allow devices to hop from one network to the other to seamlessly remain connectivity. Aeris's solutions cover no less than 12 million devices. With such a massive scale, PR professionals would need to be prepared for the impact of such connectivity.
Digital poverty and the IoT, AI divide
Reminding the roundtable of the human impact of fast progressing tech, Ravi Guria, deputy program manager, Digital Empowerment Foundation, said that 70 % of the population in India does not have access to computer literacy, leave alone AI and IoT. Guria said in this scenario availability of data for less developed regions will become an important challenge.
The Chai Talk expert panel consisted of:
1) Amitesh Punhani, head of marketing, India and SAARC, Jabra Products.
2) Kiran Stacey, South Asia correspondent, Financial Times
3) Dr Rishi Bhatnagar, President-Aeris Communications, Chairman IET IoT Panel
4) Ravi Guria, deputy program manager. Digital India Empowerment Foundation
5) Natasha Tandon, head corporate communications and CSR, Phillips Lighting, South Asia.
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Pub. Date: 2014
Genre: Contemporary YA
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
About two months ago, I said something to my mom about wanting someone to write a YA book with a girl who either is in JROTC or at least wants to join the military. The universe answered, and I found Rites of Passage, by Joy N. Hensley, at the library a week later. I got around to reading it a few weeks after that, and I loved it.
Sam McKenna took the last dare that her brother gave her before he died: she joined the first class of girls at Denmark Military Academy. She expected the physical requirements, like push ups and mud crawls, and some hate for being one of the first female students at the school, but she didn’t expect how much some of the boys want her gone. When they start brutally hazing her, she realizes they aren’t acting alone. A secret society is alive and determined to force her out through any means necessary. Now Sam has to decide who she can trust because choosing wrong could cost her her life.
Sam has to live up to a dare and a family legacy, and she expects herself to succeed in this environment. She doesn’t fear that she would never succeed or thrive; she expects herself to achieve the highest she can. She learns where to place her trust, how to survive against extreme hate, and discovers a new purpose behind her enrollment at the DMA.
Other characters developed too. Kelly and Cross learn who they can trust and where their morals lie. All of the remaining recruits at the end of the year to learn how to work as a unit, which is what the first-year experience is all about.
Even though I accurately predicted characters’ assumptions about each other, Hensley kept up tension and frustration. Once I got about a third of the way through, I felt the building frustration with the system, and it was thrilling as a reader to feel what Sam felt. Some of the frustration was with the members of the secret society. Some of it was with certain recruits not helping the female cause.
There is some romance, but I am supremely happy that it was minor and didn’t take over the whole book. Although I thought this was good, the dating part was a little inconsistent. The female students are warned that all dating is forbidden this year and that the DMA will follow military guidelines about dating above rank. I would think the first rule would have more power than the latter, but then the school seems to run on the second rule only.
Since the novel is set in a military school, I expected several action scenes. Hensley wrote them well so that they were happening fast and so that there was an overall sense of what happened. The thing that bothered me was that sometimes it happened so fast that I wasn’t quite sure what Sam and her recruit buddies were doing. I suppose if I saw it live action, I would know immediately what happened, but it left me a little confused.
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There have been many developments in the Mekong Delta which goes hand in hand with Vietnamese legislation, policies, trade and more. The Netherlands are involved in some of the developments in the Mekong Delta which resulted in the strong collaboration between Dutch and Vietnamese parties today. On this page an overview is given on the trends and developments in the Mekong Delta.
In 2013, the Mekong Delta Plan concluded that a shift in policy planning from uncoordinated economic diversification towards agro-business focused specialization is vital for sustainable socio-economic development of the delta in the long run. This development scenario:
In this scenario, the Mekong Delta develops into a modern and commercially oriented regional hub for export and domestic markets, specialised in high value agriculture and agro-food products that meet international standards. Non-agro food industrial and tertiary sector activities - except for related services & industries such as logistics, machinery & equipment - are gradually directed outside the delta, enabling an economic development and GDP growth based on the region’s agricultural niche advantages.
Pursuing this scenario requires effective spatial planning and well-concerted investments in production systems, harvesting and processing, transport & logistics, marketing & branding as well as related business services.
The relevance of this development scenario became very clear directly after endorsement of the MDP principles by the government of Vietnam and key international partners: Lacking alignment and inconsistencies between parallel agricultural policies combined with emerging climate change trends polarizing the seasonal conditions of the delta have caused 'early crisis situations' such as the 2011 flood and the 2014 and 2016 droughts. These events resulted in a broad consensus amongst Vietnamese and foreign stakeholders that the delta's agricultural system has now arrived at a critical tipping point.
The vision in the MDP closely aligns with the Agriculture Restructuring Plan 2013 and the future outlook for the agricultural sector as presented in the Vietnam Development Report 2016. This report explains that over the coming 10-15 years the share of primary agriculture in gross domestic product (GDP) will decline, yet agro-industry development could double this share. During this period, Vietnamese agriculture is expected to continue along a path of structural transformation with the following characteristics:
The report concluded that Vietnam’s agricultural sector needs to generate “more from less”: it must generate more economic value using less natural and human capital and less harmful intermediate inputs. Future growth should rely primarily on increased efficiency, innovation and value addition and requires important changes in economy-wide and sector-specific policies.
New Law on Planning: In October 2017 the National Assembly has approved a new Law on Planning, which establishes a new system of national plans, regional plans, provincial plans, and urban and rural plans, and sets down a number of planning principles. The new law introduces several key changes of which the most relevant are that it abolishes master plans for specific industries and products; and an integrated and multi-sectoral approach is promoted to address cross-sectoral, interregional, and interprovincial issues.
Following the MDP and VNDR, several policy-planning initiatives relevant for the further development of the agricultural sector in the Mekong Delta have been implemented:
PM593 pilot on regional coordination: Through the PM593 pilot on regional coordination (2017-2019) the Ministry of Planning and Investment was tasked to formulate criteria for identifying linkage projects and programs with the purpose to maximize the potentials and strengths of the provinces and the Mekong Delta Region. The pilot areas for regional linkage projects were defined as:
Government Resolution 120 (2018) and PM Decision 324 (2020): Government Resolution 12010 is a key strategy document presenting a vision for 2100 for the Mekong Delta in which, similar to the MDP and the VNDR2016, the overall objective is to fully develop the key agricultural value chains including the processing industry, transport & logistics, marketing & branding towards domestic, Asian and global markets as well as the related business services sector. In practice however, several institutional complexities are hampering the implementation process of Government Resolution 120, of which the most important are:
The progress on 2-year implementation of Government Resolution 120 was reviewed during the Mekong Delta conference on 18 June 2019 in HCMC. All main ministries involved reported that multiple plans have been developed and approved already, and first results are being achieved. However, the representatives of the Mekong Delta provinces raised the question whether/when these strategies with longlists of investments can be implemented and emphasized the urgency to move forward and include the business sector. In his final conclusions, former PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc mentioned that many shortcomings still exist and emphasized the need for an innovative approach to turn challenges into opportunities. For this, he specifically referred to the NL Delta approach and successful VN-NL cooperation on the Mekong Delta Plan.
Following GR120, MARD has already prepared and approved the MARD masterplan for sustainable agriculture in the Mekong Delta (PM Decision 324) and a dedicated Action Plan (MARD Decision 2025) to implement PM Decision 324/QD-TTg, which includes a detailed description of tasks, responsible divisions within MARD as well as a results-planning for 2025 and 2030.
Mekong Delta Integrated Regional Plan: Under the new Law on Planning and Government Resolution 120 the Ministry of Planning and Investment has been assigned to coordinate with concerned ministries and agencies in developing the planning of the Mekong Delta region for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050. The resulting Mekong Delta Integrated Regional Plan (MD IRP) aims to: | <urn:uuid:f2ceeaa8-1d69-4b86-9381-ce5db515c1b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mekongdeltaplan.com/mekong-delta-business-platform/trends-and-developments-in-the-mekong-delta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.932147 | 1,129 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Located in the North East of England, Hartlepool serves as one of the primary Frontier Port operations on the River Tees, and is one of the UK’s closest ports to some of the world’s largest proposed and active offshore projects.
In 2021, Tees Valley was announced as one of the first places to receive Freeport status under the new Government policy to create Freeports across the country. Covering 4,500 acres, the Teesside Freeport is the largest in the UK, and Hartlepool Dock sits directly within this zone.
The Port is a hub for renewable energy, oil and gas activity, with a number of industry-leading businesses such as JDR Cables operating substantial manufacturing facilities directly on the estate. Such businesses can take advantage of the port’s excellent connectivity, extensive available land and like-minded business cluster.
This thriving energy hub also lies close to Teesport, unlocking powerful collaborative potential between energy providers, world-class manufacturers and industry-leading suppliers. In addition, the port is just one of a select few in the UK with the capability to offer pipe spooling up to 900m in length.
Hartlepool has lock-free access to the North Sea and is also home to businesses from the manufacturing, chemical and metals industries. Operated and owned by PD Ports, the site provides first-class stevedoring, operating to a safety-first philosophy, combined with comprehensive warehousing.
Working collaboratively, we build trusted partnerships with customers which allows us to act as a seamless extension of their business. This provides access to many of our services including transport, shunting, ships agency and freight forwarding; improving supply chains with one single point of contact.
We also hold a license to handle and store waste at Hartlepool, allowing us to manage a variety of bulk and waste cargo, including RDF and SRF waste, limestone, rutile sand, shot coke and talc.
For connectivity and onward distribution, Hartlepool offers rail access and excellent road connections, with travel north and south via the A19 and A1 (M), as well as west via the A66.
With a proven reputation of delivering new, private investment, attracting over £1 billion’s worth of projects to Teesside in the last decade as part of an ambitious vision to make the River Tees the UK’s most successful port region by 2050, PD Ports is also the Statutory Harbour Authority for the River Tees, responsible for safe use and maintenance of the river and wholly committed to ensuring that the river plays its full part in supporting the future growth of our region and the UK as a whole.
As part of this responsibility, in 2021, PD Ports launched a dedicated website to promote the River Tees and boost its international competitiveness.
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Each year, “The McLaughlin Group,” the longest-running panel show on national TV, which began in 1982, announces its awards for the winners and losers and the best and the worst of the year.
Rereading my list of 39 awardees suggests something about how our world is changing.
As “Person of the Year” and “Biggest Winner,” the choice was easy, Donald Trump. American Pharoah, Triple Crown winner of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, was my runner-up.
But three selections tell another side of the story of Trump’s triumph. My “Biggest Loser” was the Republican establishment. As “Most Overrated,” I chose Republican governors as presidential candidates. As “Worst Politician,” I chose Jeb Bush, son and brother of presidents, who began as the GOP front-runner with $100 million in the bank and is now hovering around 3 percent.
What happened to the GOP establishment? What has happened to the Republican elite? Why are they being treated with contempt?
In the run up to 2015, the GOP field was dominated by governors and ex-governors: Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Chris Christie, John Kasich. It was called “the strongest field since 1980,” when Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole competed.
And governors, with executive rather than legislative experience, were said to be the ideal choice for chief executive.
Yet, before year’s end, Walker, Perry, and George Pataki were gone and support for Bush, Kasich and Christie together did not come close to that of Trump. Trump’s main rival was Ted Cruz, the scourge of the Republican establishment in the Senate.
Why have Republicans and conservatives rallied to candidates who relish bashing the elites of their own party?
Establishment Republicans have lost what the Chinese used to call the mandate of heaven. Despite their blather, they never secured the border in 25 years. They talk populism at election time but haul water in Washington for corporate America by signing on to trade treaties, like NAFTA, GATT and TPP, that workers detest and that send U.S. jobs overseas and cause U.S. wages to sink.
And they have plunged us into unnecessary wars they knew not how to end or win. The Bush era in the Republican Party is over.
Americans could be at a watershed moment when Sen. Lindsey Graham, an articulate voice for deeper intervention in the Middle East, is forced to drop out with less than 1 percent in the polls.
A second issue that dominated the McLaughlin Group awards was, regrettably, the deepening racial divide.
“The Enough Already Award” I conferred on Black Lives Matter, a movement marked by confrontations, the invasion of stores, hassling of citizens, and blocking of streets to protest what BLM claims is rogue police misconduct against black people.
My “Worst Lie” was “Hands up, Don’t Shoot!”
That was said to be the plea for his life by Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Only it never happened. It was a lie, a concocted slander against Officer Darren Wilson who shot Brown only after a fight over Wilson’s gun and Brown had charged the cop when told to halt.
My choice for “Most Underreported Story” was “The Ferguson Effect.” This was most prominent in Baltimore, where cops, to avoid charges of racial harassment, stopped doing the preventive police work that produced a near-miraculous reduction in murders and violent crimes since the 1990s.
The “Most Underrated” for me was the revelation that, under Obama, guns sales have doubled to 18 million a year. For 2015, one estimate is 20 million guns sold, and 185,000 on Black Friday alone.
There are more guns now in the USA than there are people.
My choice for “Best Government Dollar Spent” was for first responders, especially the cops who risk their lives.
Taken together, these stories underscore the “Black vs. Blue” conflict in America, where some black folks believe the lives of their young are less valued, while other Americans look on cops as the first line of defense for their families in increasingly dangerous times.
The racial divide we thought had closed has returned to re-poison our politics. And with the crime rate not only higher in the African-American community, but rising, there are inevitably going to be more and more black vs. blue collisions on which Americans take sides.
My choice for “Most Defining Political Moment” — the Paris and San Bernardino massacres — and “Worst Political Theater” — the ISIS beheadings and executions — may also point to what is coming.
From Virginia Tech to Tucson, from Fort Hood to Sandy Hook, from Columbine to Aurora, and from the Washington Navy Yard to Charleston, we have seen the enormous coverage garnered by the premeditated atrocities of our homegrown mass murderers.
Others seeking that same publicity will almost surely follow their example. So, too, the international attention that Charlie Hebdo and San Bernardino reaped will likely prove to be irresistible magnets to new ISIS and al-Qaida suicide bombers and killers.
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2-Week-Old Baby Development Can anyone say “growth spurt”? At two weeks, many babies have their first major growth spurt, says Amy Verlsteffen, APRN, Senior Director of Clinical Transformation at TytoCare. This growth spurt can take parents by surprise and may make feeding more difficult for some time. Verlsteffen explains that breastfeeding parents, in particular, may find their baby’s growth spurt challenging. “[They] may feel overwhelmed at the increased frequency of wanting to eat,” she says. “My advice here is to make sure mom is drinking plenty of water and eating well also to keep up with the baby’s nutrition demands.”
At two weeks, your baby still has many of their newborn reflexes intact. These include the rooting reflex, where they will look for the breast or bottle when their cheek or mouth is stroked, and the startle reflex, where they will involuntarily startle if they hear a sudden sound.
Although your baby will still be sleeping much of the day, they will also have more periods of alertness, says Natasha Burgert, MD, pediatrician and Philips Avent spokesperson. With that, they may also have more periods of fussiness, she adds.
One of the most difficult aspects of parenting a baby of this age is when they cry, and you are not sure what the cries mean. Often, babies fuss and cry when they are hungry, but sometimes they cry for other reasons, such as when they are uncomfortable, tired, or overstimulated.
In time, and through trial and error, you will understand better what your baby’s cries mean, but keep in mind that your baby’s cries are their way of communicating. After investigating all the potential physical causes (hunger, needing a diaper change, or even having a strand of hair caught on a finger or toe), your best bet is to hold and console your baby. Rocking, shushing, singing, walking, swaddling, or wearing your baby in a baby carrier, all work great at this age.
Your baby will likely not do a lot of significant growth this week. Instead, they should be working their way back up to their birth weight. After losing weight after birth, most babies should be back to their birth weight by about two weeks, and then start to gain about one ounce per day.
However, with their two week growth spurt coming up, you should start seeing some weight gain very soon. Starting at about 1 month until about 3 months, your baby will gain 1 to 2 pounds a month and grow about 1 inch taller. Your baby’s head will grow about ½ inch each month as well.
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The third course in the Missing Child Investigations in Indian Country (MCI-IC) online training series is designed to help law enforcement officers perform nonfamily and stereotypical abduction assessments in a missing child investigation in Indian Country. The course will present the behavioral tools to assess whether the reported abduction is a nonfamily abduction, stereotypical abduction or possibly, a false allegation of child abduction. The behavioral aspects used in this assessment process will primarily focus on the victim’s age and location of disappearance as these relate to the offender’s behavior and motivation. Understanding the common characteristics, motivations, and behaviors of offenders who abduct children can play a significant role in the successful investigation of missing or abducted children.
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Keywords: Labor Force and Employment; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Panel Data Models; Economic Sociology.
The paper deals with changes in the work histories' patterns of two cohorts of young people living in the province of Trento (Italy) and aged 15-29 years, who got their first job in 1974/95 and 1999/2011, respectively. We build and use a database resulting from the deterministic matching and integration of two datasets: a multi-purpose panel survey carried out on a representative sample of households, and register data from the provincial section of the administrative archive of INPS − the Italian social security agency. From a methodological point of view, the integrated database gives clear evidence that register data provide much more detailed and reliable information on work histories than survey data. From a substantive perspective, we find sizeable changes across the two cohorts in (i) first job spells, (ii) number and length of work episodes in a time-window of eight years from entry in the first job, and (iii) the overall pattern of job participation and job mobility during the initial eight years of work histories. On the contrary, no variation across cohorts in career mobility patterns is observed. The evidence consistently points to a significant worsening of the working experience of the youth over less than two decades. With appropriate caveats, this evidence appears to be extensible to northern- central Italy. | <urn:uuid:037a8b9f-fbea-4cd0-9d30-d11e89d148d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1425/91626 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.926159 | 290 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Once the rime walk is complete, a short walk is also available to observe the canyon from within. That too is a wonderful contrast, after seeing it from above. Further, if you are privileged enough to experience a helicopter trip, more wonder awaits, as he sheer size and majesty of this canyon is clearly apparent from that perspective. | <urn:uuid:8bd633df-2fe5-490e-898b-1ea63c569666> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://red-maverick.com/2022/05/12/watarrka-national-park-kings-canyon-northern-territory-australia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.937111 | 187 | 1.554688 | 2 |
NASA has awarded a multi-billion-dollar contract to SpaceX to fly missions to Lunar Gateway, a proposed station in orbit around the moon. This contract is in pursuit of the NASA Artemis program which aims at returning humans to the moon before or after 2024. NASA has $7 billion stowed away to finance the program over 12-15 years, and a sizeable portion of this fund will go to SpaceX and another company that will be selected for the project.
Each of the two companies eventually contracted for the program will fly at least two missions to the Lunar Gateway over the period of the contract. It is also anticipated that the majority of the funding will not be released to the contracted companies before the first missions. While SpaceX is the first company selected for the program, the second will be selected soon enough.
SpaceX appears to be a favorite choice for NASA bearing in mind that it’s Falcon Heavy and Dragon cargo spacecraft have gone on several missions to space before. Also, SpaceX collaborated with NASA to construct cargo capability for space missions since 2006 when NASA started the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.
“Through our partnership with NASA, SpaceX has been delivering scientific research and critical supplies to the International Space Station since 2012, and we are honored to continue the work beyond Earth’s orbit and carry Artemis cargo to Gateway,” said Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer.
This time around, SpaceX is proposing to deploy its Dragon XL spacecraft for the lunar missions ahead. The spacecraft will need to stay up to one year at the Lunar Gateway and the scientific payloads in the cargo vessel will be operated remotely from Earth. SpaceX said its Dragon XL spacecraft can carry over 5 metric tons or 11,000 pounds of cargo to the Lunar Gateway.
“This contract award is another critical piece of our plan to return to the Moon sustainably,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stated. “The Gateway is the cornerstone of the long-term Artemis architecture, and this deep space commercial cargo capability integrates yet another American industry partner into our plans for human exploration at the Moon in preparation for a future mission to Mars.”
Doug Loverro, NASA’s head of human spaceflight since 2019, emphasized that the Lunar Gateway project is central to NASA’s Artemis Program which in turn centers on flying humans and cargo to the face of the Moon. Other countries – in Europe, Canada, Japan, and Russia – also support the Lunar Gateway project since SpaceX and other international spaceflight companies can be brought into the lunar mission program. | <urn:uuid:5fe8959f-c4b6-48d2-a19c-9b2165adeb68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stackward.com/spacex-wins-multi-billion-dollar-lunar-gateway-contract-nasas-artemis-program/34301 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.920406 | 532 | 2.484375 | 2 |
can u h there a remedy other than a philosophical lecture..
I'm so much depressed due to every reason..
can anybody give some remedy other than philosophical lecture..
I suffer too
know the remedy
the only remedy?
Wait it out
And I Friggin hate that
Trying a new hobby, a little exercise, and add a friend is a simple way to overcome depression... that's work for me...
I can be your friend if you like
what you should do is remember that there are a lot of people out there who's lives are a living hell in comparison to yours. also look at all the good things in your life and this world . tomorrow when you wake up, you can be really happy because you survived judgement day.
a lady gets on a bus with her baby. the bus driver says to her "lady, that's the ugliest baby i've ever saw" she stomps to the back of the bus and sits down beside a guy. she says to him " the bus driver was really rude to me" the guy says " that's terrible, you should go up there and give him a piece of your mind", she says " you know what, i think i will " , the guy says " go ahead and i'll hold your monkey for you"
I actually have a different opinion about depression.
I think occasionally depression is brought on by various factors like PTSD, but the vast majority of the time it results from nutrition and exercise, or rather the lack of.
First of all, the thing that nobody realizes, is that the food you eat on a daily basis effects your energy and mood throughout each day more than anything else. I have written so many examples of this if you look into my blog at midsectionfat.org.
Once you learn about which foods to avoid and which make you feel better, you will see and feel a change almost immediately.
Next is exercise. Exercise is actually your biggest weapon to fight stress and depression. I would even venture to say it is much more effective than any anti-deppressent. Exercise for a week straight see how you feel.
Hope this helps. Knowing this has helped me over the years.
Like Fitness Tom said, excercise is a good way to help fight it, but if you are so depressed that you can not do that. Try just going out in the sunshine for at least 20 minutes a day. Go places to talk to people even though they might not become friends
You might consider seeing a professional and get some medication. Medication works for a lot of people.
Depends on the type of depression you have so I would not presume to even recommend a treatment. If you are clinically depressed, treatments can include, psychotherapy, medication, required coping skills, and a solid support system. But you'll need to see a professional for definitive suggestions.
Some easy ways to help ease depression are getting plenty of exercise (it releases endorphins that will elevate your mood), getting some extra sun (the vitamin D is thought to help your brain "think positively"), eating well (if you don't feel good physically, you probably won't feel good emotionally) and finding an outlet such as journaling that will enable you to get your thoughts and emotions out. This will let you evaluate how you are really feeling without concern for consequences from a biased audience (such as if you talked issues through at length with a friend, partner or family member). Feel better!
If you are still depressed after you've eaten right and exercised a few weeks. See a Dr. I was angry and depressed for years and then I got on antidepressants. It made me feel normal. I wasn't crazy happy all the time, I just felt like I did before the weight of depression. Good luck. It Can get better.
Depression happens for many reason to give remedy i should know u first only then i can know the cause of it...go for a good psychologist with whom u can share and come up with solution..
Yoga is the best remedy for depression.Follow yoga regularly with two main Pranayams - 'Kapalbhati' and 'Anulom Vilom'.You will feel fresh.Do meditation and some easy aasans.All these work like a miracle and you will get rid of depression.
I hope you feel better later. I don't think anyone can really answer this question if they don't know you that well. I find that only good friends will know us really well and good friends are sometimes impossible to find because everyone is so busy doing stuff but if you ever find a person who is caring enough to listen to you without patronizing you but respecting you, then you are really lucky
While the causes and treatments for depression can vary widely, it is very important that you get the proper nutrition, especially Vitamin D. You won't feel well if your body is starved for nutrients. Having proper levels of vitamis like D in your blood will help you feel better. Make sure you get sunshine for Vitamin D or take a supplement. Also, breaking the humdrum of your life will help. Take a trip. Get out in the sun. Try to look at things differently.
If none of that helps, anti-depressants can help. Just keep in mind that bad times in your life do pass and better days are ahead.
Write your problems down in a story and it will make you feel better.
Also check your diet. In a lot of food products and drinks Aspartame is added. One of the side effects of Aspartame is depression. Check out my hub about this subject.
http://ladyfae.hubpages.com/hub/Side-an … -aspartame
May you and many others who suffer depression Heal.
Love and hugs
having a friend is very important. or even just someone you hang out with and talk to (even if you don't really like them).
before bed, think of 3 things about your day that you are thankful for. even if it's just the fact that your toilet flushed or that you clipped your finger nails.
realize you're in complete control of your emotions. you're responsible for how you feel.
i also have a hub on being happy here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Its-Easy-to-Be-Happy
Depends in what you mean by depression. If it is just one of your moods, divert your mind with what interests you most or take a half an hour walk or talk to an optimistic friend. If you are clinically depressed, which is obviously due to chemical imbalance in the brain, you may need to go to a psychiatrist and set it right with appropriate medicines. Good wishes to you.
I have been there before. I suffered from depression for 7 months before I sought professional help. If you have been depressed for longer than two weeks, I would advise seeing a doctor. My doctor put me on non-addictive sleeping medication and told me I had to change my diet. . . forever. After getting good sleep and good nutrition, I felt like a completely different person.
You are good, you are not alone; Life is always be like that, sometimes going good and sometimes just not at our side.I guess you have to let go your ego and forgive those around who had hurt you; you are doing just fine when you think you are a loser.Don't worry, you are going to be alright. (lol)
Many people suffer with depression. It would be a good idea to visit a psychologist to determine if the depression is caused by a medical or emotional reason. Depression can be treated with a good counselor or a psychologist. If medication is needed, then a psychiatrist would prescribe the medication you need to relieve the depression. I find that through my experience that keeping moderately busy with something I enjoy and talking with a good friend. Depression isn't something that can be cured but it can be managed by being aware of the symptoms and do something that can ease those symptoms. Depression can get quite severe if not being treated properly. So it's best to visit your doctor to determine what course of action you need to take.
What you need to do is go to a doctor and/or a mental health professional. The people below who mentioned excercise and diet are right that it is neccessary. But they are not the only treatment if your depression is serious. You may need medication and therapy. Let the professionals help you. They will tell you about excercise and diet too, but they need to evaluate you to see if other treatments are called for too. Good luck.
You should surround yourself with people. Go out with friends, family or any one who's willing to hang out with you. Don't seclude yourself in this time. You need people the most right now.
There are depressing aspects to life, so depression is not necessarily unusual! And so many anti-depressants seem to have side effects that are worse than the condition, so if it is not a so-called clinical depression, then it is a matter of figuring out the natural remedies that work for you.
I think that is one of the challenges in our lives: figuring out our specific expressions of joy and sorrow.
If you're a creative person, try to make it work for you. It doesn't matter if the artwork is dark or the music is gloomy if it purges the depression.
Or you could have opposites day: make yourself take a depressing thought and convert it into something happy.
If you consume too much sugar in your daily eating, then your system may be going through sugar rises and crashes, which are often expressed as depression. It may sound silly, but please make sure that you are drinking enough water. There are a lot of dehydrated people out there, and dehydration affects thinking and outlook.
Gentle exercise such as daily walks are good.
What about meditation? It doesn't have to be spiritual. Meditation is a clearing of the mind.
Search for ways to counter depression and you will find them.
There is an awesome book that I read when I was looking for answers for depression, to which I have a genetic predisposition. aka a bunch of diagnosed depressed people in my family.
Anyways a great book is called "The Depression Cure", witten by a psychiatrist that cites peer reviewed medical papers that show certain activities and foods have a stronger positive impact on the chemical imbalances that come with depression than antidepressants do.
The six steps from the book are...
1. Omega-3 Fatty Acids
2. Engaged Activity
3. Physical Exercise
4. Sunlight Exposure
5. Social Support
On a note from personal experience: the number one behavioral trait of depression is "dwelling" or thinking about something from your past that upsets you on a deep level. Try to avoid dwelling, "distract" yourself with a mentally engaging positive activity.
I should you should join classes, any classes which include learning new music instruments, which you are keen to learn and which interests you, make friendship with your colleagues in those classes, socialize with them and make new friends. A man is a social animal, if you are feeling lonely and feeling that you don't have any loved ones around you, you make new friends and try and make a bonding with them.
Our online encouragement here will help you get out of depression a little bit but you actually have to spend time out with people, learn new things, make good friends, don't stay at home, it will make you more depressed, try and stay as active as possible, join gym, or swimming classes, do yoga, do things which interests you most.
Walking! I find that walking when I am depressed helps. Even a walk down the block or if you can, a walk to a beautiful park or down a country road.
Watch an old movie that you know will make you laugh.
Spend time helping someone less fortunat than you are sometimes takes the focus off of your issues that are causing you to feel depressed.
Also spend time with more positive, truly happy, upbeat people or friends.
But the thing that helps me most when I'm depressed is listening to positive encouraging music even when i'm asleep, praying, and reading scriptures. Psalms are my favorite when I'm feeling low.
I have three little words for you. St. John's Wort. It takes a few months to kick in, (and I know that seems like a lifetime when you're depressed) but looking back on my depression levels, I can really feel the difference. Especially when I stopped taking it. It's not a cure by any means, and the advice I've seen for you is good sound advice. Exercise, eat well, stay away from alocohol, and in the mean time, try The Wort.
Hi Rishworld, I don't know your religion but I believe in god
and I pray everyday in a sacred place and he always help
and keep me clear and focused with life and it's challenging
when I come out I feel I can face anything in this world.
It's a suggestion people who I have told and helped they
say they feel much better. think about it
I started suffering from depression after my thyroid began overproducing hormones. Believe it or not, the tiniest problem with your body may throw everything else out of wack. If nothing physical is found to be wrong, I'd suggest some form of professional therapy.
In the meantime, try to involve yourself with something. A project, if you can, try joining a community service group, I know it sounds corny, but helping other people has always made me happy, even when I'm at my lowest. You just have to start making the first few steps (literal steps, get out of your house and walk somewhere!). You'll find what you need, I promise.
Don't give yourself so much time to think about. Immerse yourself in what life has to offer. Read a book, go horseback riding, try new foods, try to make something new, bake, cook, write, talk to people who are happy, get a dog. But find the solution in yourself. You have to be happy with yourself before you can be happy with other things. What aren't you happy about? Find it and fix it, then tell yourself every day that you've done something for yourself and that you're not giving up, ever, because you're worth more than that.
You need to go do some intense exercise. Really get your endorphin's flowing. Then, go out and soak up some sun and fresh air. The sun will increase your vitamin d and serotonin levels. You can also try to supplement with Saint John's Wart or some Valerian root.
I am sorry to hear that you are very depressed. I was a psychiatric nurse and I am also a person who suffers from clinical depression for many years now. If you are depressed for many reasons like you have stated, I highly recommend professional help. Talking to someone who is educated in the field of depression can ask the proper questions and have a good conversation with you and see by your replies and actions how badly depressed you are. There are so many different types of depression. Therefore the only way to really get down to what is causing it is talk with the proper person. I agree with what everyone has said because all of these things help but if you are quite depressed cognitive behavioral therapy is excellent and can quite often bring you out of the depression. If this alone does not work there is newer medications now where the side effects are not severe at all. I found myself with about four to five days of some nausea, headache and slight dizziness. Some people do not experience any. One thing to keep in mind if the Dr. or Psychiatrist feels you should be on these meds it is for a good reason. Remember the side effects if any are very short term. You may be in the position where you do not require meds at all. Talk therapy is amazing and having it on an ongoing basis until you feel better is a good thing to do for yourself. Usually there is a plan to help you understand once you are feeling better if you ever start to feel down again you look for the signs of what is making you feel this way before it gets ahead of you. Go see your Dr. and put your plan into action and nip this in the bud. I have seen many patients with depression and the various treatments for the different types of depression are so good now. Never feel you are along in this because there are many and it sometimes gives you a bit of a lift to know that you are not alone and just reach out and there will always be someone to take your hand. I promise there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You will feel happy again. Hugs and best wishes. You are never alone.
I see you've gotten a lot of good advice (other than the suggestion of an illegal drug which can actually worsens depression long term).
I would suggest 2 things that I have previously written about. (1) Avoid aspartame which is in many diet sodas. For some people it seems to cause depression. For me that is the case. But if you drink diet sodas or sugar-free foods you should eliminate them from your diet and see how you feel. There are conflicting studies on this, but no harm in trying. (2) Take a Vitamin B-Complex. There are several reasons the various B vitamins help combat depression and studies have shown this to be the case. Studies have also shown that vitamin B enhances the effects of anti-depressants making them more effective, especially for clinically depressed patients. I think the other suggestions of eating a healthy diet, getting proper sleep, and exercise are also key. But be sure to see a doctor if your feelings don't change soon.
just wipe out all the things from ur mind...and destract from that depressing thing...just chillout with friends and feel the beauty of this world....u will relaxed....
Philosophy involves thoughts and words. Negative thoughts caused depression. So, stop thinking. Be still and connect to your inner self. Let your inner being take control (not anymore your thoughts and emotions); let your essence/being watch and acknowledge what you are going through at the moment without any judgment and analysis. Then, let the feeling of depression melt away. If there are any trains of thought that come, just watch them, then let them quietly pass you by.
When you are truly rooted in your inner being, any negative thoughts and feelings like depression cannot survive. Light and darkness cannot coexist simultaneously. It is enough that you do this practice. But if any action is necessary (like talking with someone, doing physical activities, reading, commune with nature, etc.) to be taken to deal with your life situation, there is a greater chance that it will be revealed to you in stillness. It may come as a flash of insight.
You do not need to believe any of these because this is not a belief; this is a practice which I learned from Eckhart Tolle. Do it. This works fine with me; hope it works well for you, too.
Go out and Do something!
Pick up a hobby or something you've always wanted to do.
What ever you might have an interest in. Do it!
The first step is to get out of your rut and just do something. The more you procrastinate and think about how much your situation sucks, the worse it gets.
At the end of the road you also need to stop this self pity or whatever your issue may be and MAN UP.
When in doubt then action is always the answer.
Either you go up or down. Go up my friend.
It depends on what kind of depression,there are many kind of depression but if your depression is more than six month you need to seek psychiatric help however if your depression is less than six month, i suggest that you should face things that made you depress and try to solve it and if things wont work just accept it and leave it god it to god so you can have peaceful mind and wont be depressed by things that happened to your life
ya i think if its severe and really serious you need to consult a doc.. else if you are depressed about some things not happening as you want then to or any small reason it will fade away for sure, untill then occupy yourself with work, different hobbies and watch some good movies that will make you laugh and make you happy.
Try writing down the things you are grateful for. Doing this will take your focus off of the negatives in your life and shift them to the positives. Also, think of a small act of kindness you can do to make someone else happy, and do it.. Give happiness and it shall be given to you.
There will always be a battle of negative and positive---good and evil---inside of you. Choose to feed yourself with positives so the "good" will be victorious.
Here's a story I always keep in mind:
A Native American Boy is talking with his
grandfather, and it goes like this:
"What do you think about the world situation?" he asked. The grandfather replied, "I feel like
wolves are fighting in my heart. One is full of anger and hatred; the other is full of love, forgiveness and peace." "Which
one will win?" asked the boy. To which the grandfather replied, "The one I feed."
I'm not a doctor and I don't treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease or illness. That said, I would say hard work helps me feel better aka only by working to bring others joy can we really attain joy for ourselves. This was my goal when i chose two names for my upcoming social media sites. One is semisocialmedia because some are anti and some are butterfly while most are semi into it. The other and my favorite is friendlyplanet.mobi with the goal of building friendships up till everyone felt they had more friends that are quality friends than they could count on two hands and two feet.
You should seek medical expert like Dr. or a naturalpath MD. Some have success with SAMI at Walgreens and some find vitamin D and B help. Walk with someone, walk while on your cellphone, walk around your house, I find Reishi mushroom to boost my mood, I hope you find your joy and I'm happy to say you have me as a friend, let's connect and skype, I bet we have some cool things in common we could build on. Jah bless you and yours and one of the fastest ways out of a funk is 8 seconds of focusing on gratitude. As you count your blessings, you'll realize that the fact you have access to a computer gives you blessings over many who don't have this wonderful ability. I believe in your power to overcome your obstacle and you asking was the proper first step. Be well my brotha, your friend, Jon
I think you should start running in the mornings. exercise helps to overcome depression. Further,develop the habit of reading such literature which is motivating or is full of optimism like autobiographies of great men. Watch movies like romantic comedies, motivational movies or any good movie with a good message and happy ending. It will definitely uplift your mood. Apart from these, avoid sitting alone,thinking negative and getting depressed. Seek such friends who are happy go lucky and cheerful rather than ones who are fussy,crib all the time and negative personalities!
I understand that your problem is atypical depression but the solution to the problem, the method of successfully dealing with a problem or difficulty is to seek the most high physcial which is your Lord and Saviour which is Christ Jesus, He can fit any philosophical lecture because He instructional speech, because Jesus can speech in to your depression and you can be hearl forever my friend. the word of God tell us to speech those things though they be not but though they were. If any sick among you call for the elder of the church. God greater then asthma syrup of lichen islandicus, sage. God is all these things that man are because he is the creator.
exersize works great so dose having fun and listing to music writting is a good release there are many ways to release your feelings in a healthy way I hope you find one
I recommend you see a doctor to find out exactly what type of depression you are suffering from. He or she, as a professional, should be able to help you, or refer you to a doctor who can. Take care.
2-take multi-vitamin/mineral, with iron
3-have your thyroid checked
Are you chemically or situational depressd? Most of us lack votamin D. take 2000 mg daily. That helps with feeling bad.
Smile. Take a walk and smile. Smile at everyone you pass, not in scary serial killer way of course just a gentle upturn of the lips. It will soften your face, relax your frown and invites others to smile in return. It works, well it does for me.
Another thing is to start a gratitude journal listing one thing every day that you are grateful for even if it is just the air you breath, sit and think on it awhile and life will seem less hopeless.
There are things you can do to that help combat depression other than prescription drugs. I am not a doctor, so if you have a doctor you may want to ask them for help. You may also want to check out some natural, over the counter products that people use.
One is an herb called St. Johns Wort. This herb has been around a long time and there are various opinions on it results. Check with your doctor on its use.
Another product is SAM-e. This product seems to offer multiple benefits including easing depression. Check out this article in the New York Times: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/3 … epression/
Don't discount the power of your own mind in overcoming depression. Your mind very powerful. With practice, you can overcome the negative thoughts that often accompany depression.
I recently four the book "The Four Agreements" very helpful. It's a short book and you can read it quickly.
There may not be "one" solution for you, but by combining a number of things including supplements, physical activity, doctors advice, and taking charge of your own thoughts, you may find the relief you are looking for.
I wish you well on your journey.
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