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In the 1880's, after his "peon" father dies from a whipping ordered by a greedy Spanish landowner, Pancho Villa stabs and kills the executioner and then flees into the hills of Chihuahua, Mexico. Many years later, the now grown Pancho enjoys a reputation as "The Cucaracha," a notorious bandit who robs and kills the wealthy and befriends the poor. One day, Pancho's army of avenging bandits is joined by American reporter Johnny Sykes, whom Pancho commandeers to write flattering, exciting reports about the bandits' exploits. As the term of Mexican president Porfirio Diaz reaches its height of bloody injustice, Pancho is called by Don Felipe, an aristocratic revolutionary, to see Francisco Madero, a gentle rebel known as "The Christ-Fool." Moved by Madero's patriotic words, Pancho agrees to help lead a revolutionary army and orders his men to become "soldiers of liberty." After Don Felipe, an aristocratic revolutionary, introduces notorious womanizer Pancho to his beautiful sister Teresa, Pancho rounds up the nation's poor and leads them into many battles. Although successful in combat, Pancho is reprimanded by Madero for killing the wounded enemy and is sent to take orders from General Pascal, who is about to attack government stronghold Santa Rosalia. When, however, Johnny mistakenly reports to his newspaper that the revolutionary army has already taken Santa Rosalia, Villa promises the journalist that his story will not be refuted and refuses to obey Pascal's orders to wait several weeks to attack. Villa's subsequent success at Santa Rosalia and at Juarez eventually leads to the abdication of Diaz and the naming of Madero as president. In spite of his victories, Villa is advised by Madero to return to the country and give up soldiering. Although suspicious of Pascal, who is accompanying Madero to Mexico City, Villa agrees to return to Chihuahua and disbands his army. Later, while Madero struggles to pass land reform legislation, Villa is arrested after his murderous henchman, Sierra, kills a bank clerk who had refused to give Pancho his savings after closing time. The day before Pancho is to be executed for the crime, Pascal, who is overseeing the killing, receives a telegram from Madero, which stipulates that Pancho is to be exiled. Crushed by the apparent betrayal of his beloved Madero, Pancho goes to El Paso, Texas, and becomes a drunk. In Mexico City, before his land reform measure is passed, Madero is assassinated by Pascal and his co-conspirators. Johnny eventually tracks Pancho to El Paso and inspires him to return to Mexico and oust Pascal. Although Pancho leads his "peon" army to a new series of victories, his brutal combat tactics outrage Don Felipe and Teresa. Desperate to possess Teresa, Pancho tries to force himself on her, and when she resists his advances, Sierra shoots and kills her. Later, following a long siege of Pascal's fortress, Pancho overthrows his enemy and condemns him to a slow, torturous death. As the new leader of Mexico, Pancho is overwhelmed with mounting economic problems and, once Madero's land reform is instituted, gladly relinquishes his authority. Back in Chihuahua, as he chats with Johnny outside a butcher shop, Pancho is shot to death by the revenge-crazy Don Felipe.
Henry B. Walthall
Katherine De Mille
George E. Stone
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Carlos De Valdez
Nigel De Brulier
Clarence Hummel Wilson
William Von Brincken
Chris Pin Martin
Nick De Ruiz
Charles G. Clarke
Clyde De Vinna
James Wong Howe
Robert J. Kern
James K. Mcguinness
Maurice De Packh
Howard Emmett Rogers
David O. Selznick
Edwin B. Willis
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Historical accuracy was seldom a priority with this type of film, but producer David O. Selznick (who called Viva Villa! one of his favorite pictures) tried to balance out the theatrics with at least partial authenticity. The movie was shot mostly in Mexico, adding thousands of dollars to its budget. Some alterations to the original screenplay were also made after it was negatively assessed by both the Mexican government and Villa's widow. Still, Wallace Beery's performance as Villa is so extravagant, it nearly overwhelms any sense of reality.
Screenwriter Ben Hecht attempts to lay some emotional groundwork for Villa's future rampaging: when young Pancho (Phillip Cooper) sees his father whipped to death by a soldier, the boy kills the officer, grows up to become Wallace Beery, and rounds up a group of bandits who pillage the Mexican countryside, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Pancho encounters Johnny Sykes (Stuart Erwin), an American newspaper reporter who helps spread the bandit's legend in print.
On his crime spree, Villa meets a wealthy landowner (Donald Cook) and his beautiful sister (Fay Wray), who approve of their charismatic friend's Robin Hood philosophy. Through them, Villa joins forces with Madero (Henry B. Walthall), the scholarly leader of the quickly escalating peasant revolt. Pancho's unbridled enthusiasm gets the best of him, however, when he starts robbing banks and shooting innocent people. Soon, he's out of control, making enemies and then corpses of the very folks who originally supported him. Sykes, of course, prints the Villa myth, rather than the reality, every step of the way.
Major hit or not, Viva Villa!'s troubled production was a studio-era predecessor to what Francis Ford Coppola and his crew endured while filming Apocalypse Now (1979). If anything could go wrong, it did, up to and including the loss of both the original director and one of the lead actors. Louis B. Mayer even got punched in the mouth at one point.
Howard Hawks was Viva Villa!'s first director, and he did a lot more than make a few casting decisions. To this day, it's unclear how much of the finished picture is his, but Hawks understood the theoretical prestige of working for MGM, not that it suited his personality. In later years he wrote, "Metro was the best place in the world for getting a script and handing it to a director with it all cast and the sets all built - they had the best set designers, and they had good writers - but I don't think an independent worked well over there."
During the location shoot, real soldiers and peasants were used as extras, and some of them were quite a bit wilder than MGM expected. Hawks claimed that he was once interrupted by a man who poked a rifle in his ribs and, in Spanish, shouted "this is for the revolution." The director decked him without shouting anything at all.
Shootings often took place near the set, and one man inexplicably turned a pistol on himself after speeding by and crashing his car through a fence. MGM's crew was housed in old railroad cars, and they were regularly served nearly inedible food (Hawks said he survived mostly on brandy and oranges). As a special bonus, the film became the subject of angry debate among Mexican citizens and government leaders who were leery of romanticizing Villa. Several reels of footage were also destroyed when a plane that was carrying them crashed on the way to California.
But that, believe it or not, isn't the worst of it. Lee Tracy was known as one of the more enthusiastic drinkers in the film industry; his name was often mentioned in the same breath as such famous imbibers as John Barrymore and W.C. Fields. Tracy's fast-talking persona was perfect for the character Johnny Sykes, and he filmed several key scenes with Hawks behind the camera. One Sunday, during a national holiday, the cast and crew were celebrating in the streets with the locals...except for Tracy, who was standing buck-naked on a balcony, shouting obscenities at the crowd. Eventually, he urinated on a group of Mexican military cadets and had to be rushed out of the country lest he be strung up for his anti-social behavior.
This all led to the firing of Tracy, as well as Selznick having to send a letter of apology to the Mexican government. The firing, in turn, led to an argument between Mayer and Hawks, who wanted Tracy to stay on the picture regardless of the actor's bad reputation. Hawks belted Mayer, another pink slip was written up, and much of the picture had to be re-shot with Conway directing. Ah, the glamour of Hollywood!
Producer: David O. Selznick
Director: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks (uncredited)
Screenplay: Ben Hecht
Cinematography: James Wong Howe
Editing: Robert J. Kern
Music: Herbert Stothart Art Design: Harry Oliver
Set Design: Edwin B. Willis
Costumes: Dolly Tree
Principal Cast: Wallace Beery (Pancho Villa), Fay Wray (Teresa), Stuart Irwin (Johnny Sykes), Donald Cook (Don Felipe), George E. Stone (Chavito), Leo Carrillo (Sierra), Henry B. Walthall (Madero).
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Fay Wray (1907-2004)
She was born Vina Fay Wray, in Cardston, Alberta, Canada on September 15, 1907. Her family relocated to Arizona when she was still a toddler so her father could find employment. When her parents divorced, her mother sent her to Hollywood when Fay's eldest sister died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. The reasoning was that Southern California offered a healthier climate for the young, frail Wray.
She attended Hollywood High School, where she took some classes in drama. After she graduated, she applied to the Hal Roach studio and was given a six-month contract where she appeared in two-reel Westerns (25 minutes in length), and played opposite Stan Laurel in his pre-Oliver Hardy days.
She landed her first big role, as Mitzi Schrammell, in Erich von Stroheim's beautifully mounted silent The Wedding March (1928). It made Wray a star. She then starred in some excellent films: The Four Feathers (1929), the early Gary Cooper Western The Texan (1930), and one of Ronald Coleman's first starring roles The Unholy Garden (1931), all of which were big hits of the day.
For whatever reason, Wray soon found herself in a string of thrillers that made her one of the great screamers in Hollywood history. The titles say it all: Doctor X, The Most Dangerous Game (both 1932), Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Vampire Bat (both 1933) and, of course her most famous role, that of Ann Darrow, who tempts cinema's most famous ape in the unforgettable King Kong (also 1933).
Wray did prove herself quite capable in genre outside of the horror game, the best of which were Shanghai Madness with Spencer Tracy; The Bowery (both 1933), a tough pre-Hays Code drama opposite George Raft; and the brutal Viva Villa (1934), with Wallace Beery about the famed Mexican bandit. Yet curiously, the quality of her scripts began to tank, and she eventually found herself acting in such mediocre fare as Come Out of the Pantry (1935), and They Met in a Taxi (1936).
With her roles becoming increasingly routine, the last of which was the forgettable comedy Not a Ladies Man (1942), she decided to trade acting for domesticity and married Robert Riskin, who won two Best Screenplay Oscars® for the Frank Capra comedies It Happened One Night (1934) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). When Riskin died in 1955, Wray found herself working to keep busy and support her three children. She landed supporting parts for films like The Cobweb (1955), Hell on Frisco Bay (1956) and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957). She also found work in television on such popular programs as Perry Mason and Wagon Train before she retired from acting all together in the mid-'60s.
To her credit, Wray did remain reasonably active after her retirement. She published her autobiography, On The Other Hand in 1989 and was attending many film festivals that honored her contribution to film, most notably in January 2003, when, at 95 years of age, she accepted in person her "Legend in Film" Award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival. Wray is survived by a son, Robert Riskin Jr.; two daughters, Susan and Victoria; and two grandchildren.
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Fay Wray (1907-2004)
On 19 November 1933, during location filming in Mexico, Lee Tracy, originally cast as Johnny Sykes, urinated from his hotel balcony onto a military parade, was arrested, fired from the film, and replaced by Stuart Erwin. Original director Howard Hawks was also fired for refusing to testify against Tracy, and replaced by Jack Conway (I).
Much of the footage originally shot by Howard Hawks is said to have been lost in a plane crash. However, Hawks claimed that most of the location footage (except battle scenes) was his.
In an onscreen foreword, the producers describe this film as "fiction woven out of truth." According to biographical sources, sixteen-year-old Doroteo Arango killed a man for molesting his younger sister and took refuge in the mountains, eventually changing his name to Francisco "Pancho" Villa. In 1910, while he was working as a bandit and part-time laborer, Villa was persuaded to participate in the Madero revolution against President Porfirio Diaz. After Madero became president, Villa, still a member of the irregular army, was condemned to death for insubordination by General Victoriano Huerta. Although the execution was stayed by Madero, Villa remained in prison until escaping to the United States in November 1912. After Madero was assassinated, Villa returned to Mexico and joined forces with Venustiano Carranza to defeat Huerta. Mutual distrust divided Villa and Carranza, who took over as president in 1914, and the civil war continued until late 1915. In early 1916, as a show of power, Villa executed sixteen U.S. citizens in Santa Isabel in northern Mexico and attacked Columbus, NM. Woodrow Wilson then ordered General John J. Pershing to lead an expedition into Mexico to capture Villa, but Pershing's efforts were unsuccessful. By 1920, after years of continued armed insurgency, Villa agreed to "retire" from politics and was given a ranch in Durango. Villa was assassinated on July 20, 1923 in Parral, Chihuahua. The Hollywood Reporter review notes that the character of General Pascal was "more than a little suggestive" of Huerta.
Contemporary news items and studio memoranda, some of them unidentified, note the following information about the production: A May 1933 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that Wallace Smith was returning from Mexico after receiving approval from the government there to proceed with a script for Viva Villa written by Oliver H. P. Garrett. It is not known if any portion of Garrett's script was used in the final film. Jack Conway was announced as director at that time, and John W. Considine, Jr. as supervisor. Considine's participation in the production is doubtful. According to a September 6, 1933 memorandum from producer David Selznick to studio head Louis B. Mayer, Selznick paid writer Ben Hecht $10,000 to write a final script of Viva Villa. Selznick offered Hecht an additional $5,000 if he finished the script to the producer's satisfaction in two weeks. It has not been determined if Hecht met Selznick's deadline, but by the middle of September 1933, director Howard Hawks, a frequent collaborator with Hecht who is credited in modern sources as a contributor to the script, was already in Mexico City shooting preliminary scenes. Hawks and his crew were soon joined by Wallace Beery and other members of the cast. A October 27, 1933 Daily Variety news item announced that scenes were to be shot in "many towns in Mexico." After first rejecting the part, Lee Tracy agreed to play the role of Johnny Sykes in early November 1933 and went to Mexico for filming. According to Variety, the role was based on John W. Roberts, a correspondent for the Hearst newspapers, who followed Villa around Mexico and reported on his exploits. By the end of the month, Tracy was fired from the production because of an alleged insult he made to a cadet in the Mexican Cadet Corps while standing on a hotel balcony during a Revolution Day parade. Contemporary sources do not specify the exact nature of the insult, and modern sources give conflicting reports of the incident. In addition to his firing, Tracy had his five-year contract at M-G-M terminated. M-G-M then replaced Hawks with Jack Conway, who supposedly had been the studio's first choice as director. Studio press releases assert that the replacement was made at Hawks's own request. (Modern sources note that, according to M-G-M contract writer John Mahin, Hawks was fired because of Mayer's dissatisfaction with Hawks's shooting pace. Modern sources claim that Hawks and Mayer fought physically over the matter.)
Because of tensions between M-G-M and the Mexican government over the Tracy incident, the production left Mexico in late November 1933 and, except for second unit shooting, completed filming around Hollywood and at the studio. Some of Hawks's footage was destroyed when an airplane carrying the negatives from Mexico to El Paso, TX, crashed and caught fire. It is not known how much of Hawks's footage actually ended up in the finished film. Although Tracy claimed that reports of his behavior were greatly exaggerated, Mayer issued a formal apology to Mexican president Abelardo Rodríguez. The incident supposedly provoked attacks against American films in the Mexican press, which demanded that the second-unit company also be expelled from the country, and that all M-G-M films be banned from exhibition in Mexico. A November 20, 1933 Daily Variety news item reported that two Mexican newspapers were campaigning for the confiscation of all footage shot in that country and for the cancellation of the studio's permit to shoot there because they believed that M-G-M was guilty of bribery, "malnutrition of extras and degradation of Mexican characters." The Mexican press also complained about the casting of Beery, a comedian, in the title role and condemned the way in which Mexican history was being presented by American filmmakers. According to a February 22, 1934 Daily Variety news item, M-G-M executive Joseph M. Schenck went to Mexico City on a "secret" trip to confer with President Rodríguez about the revised script. When Schenck screened the film for Mexican government officials in late February 1934, only two scenes were found objectionable. The officials complained that the scene in which Villa makes his first entrance into Mexico City needed more soldiers and arranged for the sequence to be re-shot with the entire Mexican army. They also disapproved of a scene in which Beery drinks after a victory. According to the officials, Villa neither drank nor smoked. This scene was not eliminated from the final film, however. (According to a 1951 Time article, the then Mexican government censor objected to the scenes in which Villa disobeys General Pascal and raids Santa Rosalia to please the American reporter and banned the film's revival in Mexico.)
Second unit location shooting was completed in Mexico City and Juarez in mid-December 1933, and approximately seventy-two reels of battle footage were shipped to M-G-M at that time. William Wellman took over directing for one week after Conway came down with the flu in late December 1933. Hecht was called in to write new sequences in mid-February 1934. In late Feb, before re-shooting began, Selznick also assigned Howard Emmett Rogers and James K. McGuinness to do additional script work. The exact nature of their contribution is not known. Retakes were shot in either late February or March 1934. A March 9, 1934 Daily Variety news item announced that M-G-M was sending cinematographer Clyde De Vinna to Mexico to shoot added background shots. According to advertisements for the film, Carlos Navarro, who is credited in the film as technical advisor, was "Mexico's Official Censor for pictures regarding Mexican themes" and acted as a liaison between the studio and the Mexican government. In that advertisement, Herbert Stothart thanks George Schneider for his help on the production. The exact nature of his contribution is not known. The same advertisement credits Slavko Vorkapich with the montage of "Villa's call to arms" sequence. A December 1933 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that the editor was to handle the "direction of transitional effects." In addition to Tracy, who was replaced by Stuart Erwin, all the principal actors in Hawks's cast except Joseph Schildkraut and Beery were replaced, including Mona Maris, Donald Reed and Irving Pichel. After Maris' departure, several actresses, including Myrna Loy, Carmel Myers, Lila Lee and Dorothy Burgess, were tested for the role of Teresa. Before signing Erwin, M-G-M considered Roscoe Karns as a replacement for Tracy. Donald Cook replaced Donald Reed in the role of Don Felipe, and Leo Carrillo replaced Irving Pichel in part of Sierra. In early December 1933, Richard Bennett was tested for the role of Madero but lost the part to Henry B. Walthall. Prior to production, M-G-M negotiated with Gregory Ratoff for a part in the film, but the actor was not hired. Pancho Augustin Villa, Jr., the son of Pancho Villa, was announced in late September 1933 to play his father as a youth in the film. That part was played by Phillip Cooper, however. Early Hollywood Reporter production charts include Pancho Lucas, Noah Beery, Jr. (Wallace Beery's nephew) and Raymond Borzage in the cast. It is not known if they were replaced, or if they appear in the final film. Later Hollywood Reporter production charts include Leo White in the cast, but his participation in the final film has not been determined. A September 1933 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that Selznick was bringing actor Joseph Schildkraut back to the screen after a two-year absence.
Top tickets for the New York showing cost $2.20. Assistant director John Waters won an Academy Award for his work on the production. The film was nominated as Best Picture but lost to Columbia's It Happened One Night. Ben Hecht was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation, but lost to Robert Riskin, who adapted It Happened One Night. Douglas Shearer was nominated for Best Sound Recording, but lost to Paul Neal and One Night of Love. Viva Villa was selected as one of the ten best pictures of 1934 by the Film Daily Poll of Critics. On March 8, 1934, a scene from the film script was performed on the NBC radio network. Al Jolson portrayed Johnny Sykes in the radio broadcast, which was repeated on 5 April 1934.
Other films dealing with the life of Pancho Villa include a 1914 Mutual documentary, The Life of General Villa, directed by Christy Cabanne, and the 1916 Tropical Film documentary, Following the Flag in Mexico (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20; F1.1405 and F1.2468); two 1954 Mexican-made features, El secreto de Pancho Villa and La tesoro de Pancho Villa, both directed by Rafael Baledón; and Villa, a 1958 Fox production, directed by James B. Clark and starring Brian Keith and Cesar Romero. | <urn:uuid:61e5738c-e023-495a-9d65-710e6476a141> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prod-www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1626/viva-villa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969818 | 5,422 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Jun 10, · High CPU Usage by the “System” Process – posted in Windows 7: After running my PC for a few hours, I often run into problems with CPU Usage. Estimated Reading Time: 16 mins. Apr 30, · Process Explorer shows constant high CPU utilization by the “System” process. Disabling the antivirus does not solve the problem. Process Explorer shows multiple !KeInsertQueueDPC+0x threads using massive amounts of CPU time. After disabling the Atheros LAN network card the CPU usage immediately drops to normal level. Apr 28, · CPU Usage is a simple processor and memory indicator. Program is designed to occupy minimal desktop work space (you don’t have to close it just because you need your work space).Operating System: Windows.
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Jun 29, · Canadian Tech. In Task Manager, click on the Processes tab. Click on the Show processes from all users button at the bottom. You may be surprised at how big the list is. If you click on the CPU column heading, it will sort the processes in CPU usage order. It will be dynamic, so watch it. Nov 12, · Hi,Just done a clean install of Windows 7 home premium and system interupts is useing 50% of cpu usage when pc (desktop) is idle.I also installed it on a separate drive with no progs installed and still shows 50% of cpu usage when idle. Any idea how to fix this problem,i,ve run out of eliminations.I have 1gb of ram. Apr 28, · CPU Usage is a simple processor and memory indicator. Program is designed to occupy minimal desktop work space (you don’t have to close it just because you need your work space).Operating System: Windows.
This information is normally gathered by Microsoft in the background mode to form the list of logs, habits, bugs, and other things, which may be valuable for working on future improvements.
Originally, this service was brought into the mix for Windows 7 and 8. Unfortunately, despite CompatTelRunner. As a result of this, most systems start lagging and crashing due to high CPU and Disk usage. In order to fix this, you can disable the service without consequences. There is no real sense in trying to delete it forever as it is more likely to reinstall itself at the of the day. Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry was created solely for informational purposes, which is why you can disable it quickly.
Below, we have introduced a full guide to show you how:. There are special repair utilities for Windows, that can solve problems related to registry corruption, file system malfunction, Windows drivers instability. Before disabling the Telemetry service itself, it is worth installing fresh updates first. There is a chance that Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry is currently corrupted or malfunctioned.
If you have not updated your system for a long time, new updates may resolve the issue. To check whether you have pending updates, do the following:. Less likely, but Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry may end up working incorrectly due to missing or damaged files. Such files are usually inherently linked between many Windows services that ensure proper communication. If some of these files are out of their native environment, then it may be causing service-related issues.
Here is how:. If this does not work, get down to the other steps listed below. The next portion of steps will be dedicated to tweaking or disabling settings related to Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry. Sometimes your settings may be set to sending broader logs of data including apps and features, enhanced error reporting, and other things that may cause higher resource consumption.
Therefore, changing this option to a basic plan of data collection may alleviate your system. This might not help you resolve the issue completely, yet it will buy you some extra performance. This is it. You can now close the Windows and enjoy the result. If nothing has changed to may you forget about the problem, move on to disabling the CompatTelRunner. Once all the above steps have been tested, you are now able to go nuclear and disable the problematic service itself.
You can choose either of them down below. If you are unsure whether the Telemetry service has been turned off, perform all three solutions. No matter what option has been chosen by you, CompatTelRunner. The penultimate step on our list is a mixture of both disabling Connected Users Experiences and Telemetry Service at the same time. In fact, this is the name of one service meant to execute exactly the same purpose — sending usage data to Microsoft servers.
Since Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service is launched each time your system starts up, we are going to change this value in Services settings. In case previous steps failed to resolve the issue, you can try this one as well.
Although deleting the Telemetry service is useless in most cases, we are still going to show you for educational purposes. Of course, this should help you avoid extremely high CPU usage, but only for a limited period of time. Windows has a list of basic services that should be installed on each operating system. If there is something missing, Windows is more likely to spot it and download the missing detail after some time of absence.
Therefore, the High CPU and Disk Usage will be temporarily solved, yet come back as soon as Windows returns the problematic service unless the Telemetry service ends up surprisingly fixed. Whatever the case, it is usually pointless to delete CompatTelRunnder. At first, it is important to acquire Administrator rights as you will not be allowed to delete CompatTelRunnder.
Also, if you have two accounts set up on your PC, make sure to log into one that has Administrator Privileges. As soon as you are ready, follow the steps below:. This set of instructions has helped us change the file owner. Next, we should grant the necessary permissions to remove the file:. High CPU usage can be caused by some other Windows services. SysMain has been another such service leading to high resource consumption. For unknown reasons, but these problems tend to arise for regular users.
We hope you are no longer dealing with unbearable temperatures and downgraded performance due to exhaustingly high consumption of resources. In case you end up dealing with other problems someday in the future, do not hesitate to use other articles published on our blog daily as new issues pop in. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Below, we have introduced a full guide to show you how: Download Windows Repair Tool Download Windows Repair Tool There are special repair utilities for Windows, that can solve problems related to registry corruption, file system malfunction, Windows drivers instability.
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TASHKENT, May 12./TASS/. Magnitude 6 earthquake has rocked Uzbekistan’s south, it was felt across the republic, the Center of Seismic Forecasting Monitoring at the Uzbek Ministry for Emergency Situation told TASS on Thursday.
"A quake occurred in Uzbekistan at 15:27 Tashkent time (13:27 Moscow time) on May 12, 2022. The magnitude was 6 in the epicenter, the Bousun district of the Surkhandarya region, while the depth was 15 kilometers," the center said. "The distance from the epicenter to Tashkent is 411 kilometer in the southwestern direction," the report said.
The power of earthquake shocks in the Surkhandarya, Kashkadarya and Samarkand regions was 4-5, 4 and 3-4 points accordingly. In the Dzhizak, Navoi, Bukhara, Syrdarya, Tashkent and Fergana regions as well as in the city of Tashkent, their magnitude was two to three points.
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As students and teachers prepare for back to school, we share some grantee projects that focus on engaging youth.
California Documentary Project NextGen School-Based Projects
With the new school year comes the launch of several recently supported California Documentary Project NextGen projects. CDP NextGen is designed to nurture emerging California media makers ages 18 and under, and we are pleased to see so many school-based projects in this most current round of grants.
In San Diego, Pacific Arts Movement’s Reel Voices is a year-round high school documentary filmmaking program serving area students. In addition to learning how to produce their own films, students also develop critical thinking and storytelling skills and have the opportunity to premiere their films at the San Diego Asian Film Festival to an international audience.
The Pasadena Unified School District has partnered with Pasadena Media to conduct the Youth Voices Podcast Project. This project will engage predominantly low-income high school youth in developing a series of podcasts on local issues of importance to their communities over the 2021-22 school year.
Additionally, a collaboration between the Mt. Diablo Unified School District and the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Changemaker project will lead students at two Bay Area high schools to produce podcasts focused on one of the most significant challenges facing youth in California today, the ability to build sustainable community across difference.
We look forward to sharing these projects when they are complete. More information about this year’s CDP NextGen grant projects is available here.
School-Based and Youth Projects Supported by Humanities for All Quick Grants
Youspeak Radio is a Los Angeles-based program with the mission to create a safe space that encourages life-affirming narratives and resilience to combat LGBTQ youth’s alienation and erasure in mainstream media and teen culture. The students who participated in this program produced audio stories told through their voices and viewpoints to address their past, present, and future concerns. For four months, youth participating in this program acquired knowledge in storytelling, audio documentary, and oral history, in addition to researching archival collections at the partner institution, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
On July 21, LGBTQ youth hosted a Youspeak Radio Listening Party, a culminating public celebration for this project’s sound-based exploration of intergenerational dialogs. It featured snippets of the students’ audio stories, reflections on their experience, and special guests.
The “Koreatown Storytelling Program” organized by the Koreatown Youth & Community Center based in the Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood is an intergenerational, multilingual, and multiethnic oral history and digital media program designed to promote greater understanding and respect between generations. With a focus on engaging high school students, these intergenerational workshops have given participants the space to investigate the racial, economic, and health inequities in Koreatown.
Participant reflections were recently collected in an anthology of youth and elder oral histories. Other programming outputs include a zine workshop, presented in collaboration with LAPL’s Baldwin Hills Branch Zine Librarian Ziba Perez, and a succulent workshop. In this workshop, youth interviewed community elders on topics that included the pandemic and the rise of violent hate crimes against Asian elders.
Experiential Course for High Schoolers Supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant
This fall, Humanities In the City presents an experiential course for public high school students called “The Poetics of Place.” As part of the Humanities in Los Angeles Project, high school students will participate in an 8-week afterschool program of coursework and field experiences designed to excite learners about humanities study and prepare students for college. With instructors, students will study the humanities as a wellspring of fresh ideas, creativity, intellectual inquiry, protest, advocacy, and energized dialogue, and build skills and confidence as critical and imaginative thinkers ready to succeed in college classrooms. The course includes field trips, guests, and learning from scholars, artists, activists, and community leaders. All the experiential learning is grounded in interdisciplinary humanities study that includes literature, philosophy, history, arts, critical theory, and praxis.
The class is free and runs from October 12 – November 30. The course will end with a public celebration and presentation of student work on December 4, 2021, at Edendale Branch of LA Public Library in the Echo Park neighborhood. | <urn:uuid:af9309fa-18b2-47f1-9d2b-20668852a4f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://calhum.org/2021-youth-based-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937937 | 897 | 2.40625 | 2 |
If you are one of the nearly 90 million U.S. adults who owns a smart speaker, you probably love it for the convenience it provides. You might use it to create shopping lists, check the weather, set timers and reminders, or even chat with family and friends. But could your inconspicuous little device be eavesdropping on private conversations in your own home?
Careful, Alexa Is Listening
Researchers at Northeastern University and Imperial College London set out to determine if, when, why, and how smart speakers (including Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft devices) record audio unexpectedly from their environment. They experimented using 134 hours of Netflix content, including TV shows with different accents and voices, and repeated the tests multiple times. To capture the speakers lighting up, which shows they are in “listening” mode, researchers set up video cameras.
The newly-released study revealed concerning data. All 12 of the popular shows used caused at least one device to wake up at least one time, and almost every show triggered multiple devices to “wake up.” On average, the speakers logged one mistaken activation for every five hours. The study results noted that in some cases, however, researchers observed almost one misactivation per hour.
Additionally, non-English speech triggered misactivations, which means that households in which English is a second language could experience a higher possibility of privacy invasion. Garbled speech also triggered mistaken wake-ups, implying that people speaking at a distance might turn these speakers on.
There’s Some Positive News, Too
Typically, the devices mistook similar spoken words or phrases for their “wake words.” For example, someone saying, “Okay … to go” triggered a Google Home Mini as it is similar to the wake words, “Hey, Google.” When an actor said, “I messed up,” an Amazon device heard the word “Alexa.” However, there were several instances when the trigger sounded nothing like the device’s wake word.
But some of the devices showed evidence of learning from their mistakes. They were not activated a second time by the same phrasing. Additionally, the devices don’t record continuously or even for lengthy periods.
“People are always asking ‘Are the devices constantly recording?'” study co-author David Choffnes, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University told Consumer Reports. “And we have no evidence to support that. When the devices do wake up, they don’t record for minutes or hours. It tends to be on the order of single-digit or tens of seconds.”
What You Can Do
Should you just ignore this information? Maybe not. Robert Fredrick, a former manager at Amazon Web Services, told Frontline that he turns off his Alexa devices when having conversations that he would not want to be shared.
If you want to keep your little AI assistant, you can take steps to better protect your privacy. Most smart speakers allow you to monitor what they record in their apps.
Look for a history section in your device’s settings. If you use an Apple device, you can opt out of voice recordings and delete your history. Amazon and Google speakers also enable you to remove your activity and prevent the companies from using your data. Microsoft provides ways to protect your privacy if you use Cortana, as well.
Past reports have confirmed that people are in fact listening to the recordings made by smart devices in an attempt to make the products more useful. So taking a few extra minutes to change your settings sounds like a good idea here! | <urn:uuid:0df0cbd9-2c3c-4043-b3c8-e7f16b6bac56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wcpo.com/this-study-confirms-that-your-smart-speaker-is-listening/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951531 | 762 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A pilot unit for a concentrated solar thermal reactor with solar tracking was constructed. A 70 cm diameter concentrator dish could provide temperatures around 800 degrees C at a fairly steady rate. In the search for a redox pair that can work at such temperatures, studies were conducted on the feasibility of the Pb/PbO cycle for the splitting of H2O for H-2 production. Thermodynamics accounting for the vapor pressures of Pb and PbO indicated favorable water splitting until approximately 900 degrees C, at atmospheric steam pressures. After 1000 degrees C, the vapor pressure of PbO becomes greater than that of Pb, as a result, thermodynamic favorability in the gas phase begins to be suppressed. The thermodynamic estimations were tested experimentally both in lab scale, and in bench scale molten bed reactors. The process went through similar maxima in the hydrogen production rates. The field tests in solar concentrator using a Pb coated mullite system did not reveal much due to evaporative loss of Pb and PbO under high solar flux. In this paper, it was demonstrated that the relatively high vapor pressure of Pb and PbO can be exploited for designing efficient water splitting cycles at temperatures <1000 degrees C using a PbO vapor recovery and circulation system. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. | <urn:uuid:332b0d26-9c9c-4028-95f7-01264dad0fdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/yayin/57c66ca1-9ec4-4f12-bf60-c6fef4b8292f/finding-the-optimum-between-volatility-and-cycle-temperatures-in-solar-thermochemical-hydrogen-production-pb-pbo-pair | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932636 | 280 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Rest In Peace (RIP) is an acronym most often seen on tombstones at cemeteries. The truth is we don’t have to wait until we are physically dead to rest in peace, we can have rest for our souls in God’s peace ‘Today’! Jesus Christ said:
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”(Matthew 11:28)
Rest is defined, “to cause or permit one to cease from any movement or labour in order to recover and collect his strength; calm, refresh”
If we come to Jesus Christ and walk and learn from Him, we will find rest for our souls! Jesus uses the word picture example of yoking ourselves to Him. A yoke is “wooden beam used between pair of oxen to enable them to pull together on a load when working in a pair.” Jesus says;
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:29-30)
This rest for our souls is not laziness or stagnation or free from burdens, but rather resting in the finish work of Jesus Christ.
We join Jesus in lovingly plowing and preparing the hearts of others to receive the seed (God’s Word) and working alongside Jesus in the plentiful harvest.
If your souls are not resting in peace there are many possible reasons; here are a few:
- You have not turned from your ways and to God’s ways and rested in Him (Isaiah 30:15)
- You are not waiting on the Lord, asking for His path and walking in it (Jeremiah 6:16)
- You have hardened your heart to the voice of God going astray in your heart and do not know God’s ways (Hebrews 3:7-11)
- You are being disobedient and unbelieving (Hebrews 3:18-19)
- You are not being diligent to enter into the Sabbath rest for the people of God; For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath (Hebrews 4:9-11; Matthew 12:8)
- You are not connected to Jesus Christ the One True Vine that brings the fruit of the Spirit (John 15:5 Galatians 5:22-23)
- You have a proud heart, haughty eyes, are involved with great matters, or things too difficult for you, and have misplaced your hope–you have placed your hope in yourself, other things or people and not in The Lord (Psalm 131)
I can share these Scriptures because these are the ones God has used to slice me open to show me the thoughts and intentions of my heart, to show me when and why I am not resting in the ‘Guardian of my soul’. I am praying we rest in God’s perfect peace on the finished work of the Cross; Not what we do but what’s been done! I rejoice my name is written in the book of life, love has been poured into my heart and I can’t help but mourn for those that do not yet personally know the One True God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent.
By God’s grace I get to join my Savior in step with His Holy Spirit to be a worker in the harvest ~ that is a worker empowered by His Spirit knowing it is God who works in and through me for His pleasure for He also does not wish that any should perish but that all would come to repentance and enter into His rest.
Yoke yourself to the Lord of Sabbath and you will feel His presence inside and “By Your Side”.
“…the LORD longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.” Isaiah 30:18
“Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end.” Hebrews 3:12-14
“So Jesus said to them, ‘Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you’. And when He had said this He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” John 20:21-22 | <urn:uuid:4215ad40-b1b7-4ee2-86f9-fc6b0477505b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://altarofheaven.org/tag/rip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.954574 | 1,020 | 2.125 | 2 |
Have a go at punting on the River Cam. Stand sideways on the flat part of the punt, feet apart to help you balance. Lift the pole fully out of the water, then drop it to the bottom of the river, pushing against it. To change direction, use the pole as a rudder, letting it trail in the water behind you. To stop, drop the pole to the side, slightly in front of you, and push your weight against it. | <urn:uuid:7b5451c9-e7d9-486d-adcd-bfee90b854a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/gb/en/cambridge/cbgdk/hoteldetail/local-guide-whats-nearby | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94489 | 95 | 1.601563 | 2 |
GREAT BARRINGTON — The new and unfinished Main Street roundabout is the star of community Facebook chatter as well as lighthearted ribbing of those who express fear of it.
Now, Police Chief Paul Storti is weighing in with rules of the road. Storti has released instructions from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles for navigating rotaries and roundabouts.
It explains that the rules for moving through roundabouts are the same as for rotaries, which are larger.
- Always yield the right-of-way to vehicles already in the rotary (unless told differently by signs or police officers) and to pedestrians;
- Use your turn signals in the same way as any other intersection;
- Travel through the rotary and, when you are ready to exit, use your right turn signal.
- Roundabouts are used on busy streets and their small size requires vehicles to reduce speed to 25 miles per hour or less. Roundabouts reduce the need to change lanes. Look for signs as you get near a roundabout to determine which lane you should be in.
"The key safety element to remember is that the vehicle within the rotary/roundabout has the right of way and the vehicle entering must yield to vehicles within the rotary/roundabout," the instructions say.
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Sep 24, 2021
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The story of America’s largest estuary, its vibrant ecosystem and the people who rely on its health. Season 1 explores how climate change is already reshaping the landscape, communities and attitudes.
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What Exactly is Blockchain?
Despite its obvious intricacy, a blockchain is merely another type of database for recording transactions – one that is copied to all machines on a participating network. The data within the blockchain is saved in constant structured which are named ‘blocks’. The major components of a specific block are:
-The header, which contains metadata such as the reference number of block, time the block was generated, and a link back to the previous block.
-The content, usually a confirmed list of digital assets and instruction records, such as transactions that have been made, their respective amounts, and the addresses of the individuals to those transactions.
-From the most recent block, you can possibly access all previous blocks which are linked together in the chain, so a blockchain database holds the entire history of all assets and instructions which were performed since the 1st one which makes the data valid and independently auditable.
-Because the number of members increases every single day, it becomes harder for malicious individuals to overcome the verification activities of the majority.
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|Earliest signs of growth in late April |
US native fern with an upright growth habit. Our first one lived in our shade garden many years ago, but failed to come back one year. When I reacquired it, I placed it in our back-yard-island woodland garden, at the base of a redbud tree. It has done nicely there, even without much in the way of supplemental watering during dry spells.
We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston.
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- Final drone policy to be ready by the year end, after two months of public consultation.
- Each drone needs to be registered before they can fly and must complete the listed operational procedures before each time they fly.
- Drones are not allowed to fly over clearly defined areas which will be categorised as ‘No Drone Zone’.
India is putting in place an ambitious regulatory framework that will encourage the commercial use of drones in areas as diverse as construction to agriculture, industrial monitoring to photography, disaster management to physical deliveries — potentially giving rise to a new industry that could generate millions of dollars in revenues and thousands of jobs.
The draft of the “drone policy” – to be ready after two months of public consultation and codifying rules – was released by the central government in New Delhi on Wednesday. In doing so, India is seen ahead of countries such as the United States where President Donald Trump last week directed the department of transportation to create a plan to allow drones for commercial use.
“Not having a regulation was amounting to total ban of any activity and that doesn’t make sense. A lot of people were enquiring about it and wondered why we delayed it,” Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Minister of Civil Aviation, told reporters.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs last March estimated the global spending on drones to be $100 billion in five years led by applications in mapping and construction, where drones can cut down surveying time by as much as 98%.
Once made official, the new regulations in India will allow ecommerce companies like Amazon to use drones to deliver goods to the customer doorsteps. The company has already filed a patent application in India for exclusive rights on multi-scale fiducials, which are essentially black and white marks or scales for drones to identify objects or places from a distance.
To put that in perspective, all ecommerce companies put together do more than three lakh orders every day. Even a fraction of those to be delivered by drones would open up a lot of opportunities for drone companies.
A logistics CEO said companies like his could be among the first to start using drones. “At a time where people are paying more for quicker delivery, drones can change the game… But the government will have to define the air routes, and that will have to be integrated with our delivery software,” said the CEO of one of India’s largest ecommerce logistics companies asking both he and his company not be named because the regulations are not final.
Apart from ecommerce, drones will see a use by real estate companies, in wildlife photography, by insurance companies and oil and gas companies for inspection, and for a large number of courier and delivery companies. Already companies such as Reliance Industries, oil PSUs Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum, and Coromandel Fertilisers are said to have deployed drones for inspection of their equipment and facilities.
Jayant Sinha, minister of state for civil aviation, said drones are currently used for weddings and ad films and could similarly be used to deliver medicines and medical supplies. “The idea is to allow unfettered and unrestricted use of these drones so that we can develop new and unique applications.”
He added that bigger drones could even be used to transport people from one place to another (remember the animation series, Jetsons). “If anyone wants to drive passenger drones, something like the air rickshaw — the regulatory framework allows you to operate passenger drones and air rickshaws. These innovations need to happen. We have given the framework to do these innovations by the drone manufacturers and designers,” Sinha said, adding the aim was to have the regulations “future ready”.
Continuity of an earlier fiat
In April 2016, the government had put out a circular, which in many ways resembles the new draft policy, but the new one is better and makes way for drones to take flight.
“There might be changes in category and other specifications but (I am) very happy with the new draft. There are no unnecessary complications. Looks like (the policymakers’) heart is in the right place,” said Ankit Mehta, CEO and cofounder of Mumbai drone maker Ideaforge.
The aviation ministry said each drone needs to be registered before they can fly and listed operational procedures that drone owners will have to complete each time a drone takes off. Drones have been categorised in five different categories based on weight – starting at less than 250 gms and the largest ones weighing more than 150 kgs – and their end use.
A one-time clearance will be required for registering the drone, civil aviation secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey told FactorDaily at the sidelines of Wednesday’s press conference. “The permissions you need to take while operating it each time will come separately. As far as the operations is concerned – flight plan, filing the clearance of air defence number, and information to local police – every time when the drone goes into the sky, these have to be furnished.”
Even in the case of filling for the flight plan and clearances, the ministry said that doing ot manually on paper will take very long and hence is working on a web-based digital template for the operator to file it on the website or app, without any manual intervention.
The draft regulation has also clearly defined areas which will be categorised as ‘No Drone Zone’, like an area covering five-km radius from Vijay Chowk in New Delhi among others. The area has top government offices and housing, including the Rashtrapati Bhavan. No drone or UAS will be permitted to operate in these marked areas but operators can request for permission to operate in the no drone zones in exceptional cases.
The ministry also said that in future if the drone space gets too crowded, there are also plans to deploy an air traffic control (ATC) for drones which should help ease out drone congestion in the skies.
Industry experts echo the government’s concerns. “There should also be ATC for drones. Earlier, in case of autonomous delivery one couldn’t have gone beyond the line-of-sight. For delivery, you need an autonomous vehicle not a manually operated one,” said Nimish Sharma, Senior Director at logistics company Delhivery. He leads the company’s drone R&D operations.
The regulatory framework covers use, operations, and maintenance of drones but there is a need to ease up norms for manufacturing them, Sharma added. “If you can’t import parts, how will you manufacture drones? The ecosystem will take a while to develop. There are very strict norms from the DIPP on who can manufacture,” he said. DIPP is short for the government’s department of industrial promotion and policy.
The real outcome of the new regulations will be when large scale drone manufacturing takes off in India. That will also open up markets for international companies such as DJI Drones and GoPro to start retailing in India. Their products are largely available in the grey market today with no warranty and often double the price to elsewhere in the world.
Nixing terrorist attacks
But before that, there is a lot of work that the government needs to do, like fix the routes, which will allow the drones to fly. The government also said that it is separately working on technologies that permits the approvals are loaded on the drone itself and not be allowed to deviate from a pre-fixed route even if the operator wants it to do so.
Then there are issues of safety to avoid, say, terrorist attacks using drones. Choubey said that the ministry is also developing a way to tackle rogue drones that may pose a threat. “We are working on technologies on neutralising all rogue drones — whether it is a drone which has taken permission and is deviating from its area of work or it is drone, which has not taken permissions.”
Choubey has already have had one round of meetings and the next meeting is on Nov 8 to put a framework to track down these drones. Also, he is worried about the congestion in the skies. “They should not collide with each other or fall down on people and hurt them. We will keep watch of the situations and carry out amendments to the policy,” he added.
Once these are sorted, a large number of companies are expected to experiment with drones. “Pilot projects for drone use cases won’t be held back any more. More pilots and business cases for drones will emerge and can be tested,” said Mehta, whose company Ideaforge has been developing drones for the defence sector and for monitoring critical infrastructure for private companies.
Meanwhile drone racing in India has picked up as a hobby with it being a mainstay event across tech festivals in India. The enterprise drone space in India has also gained the attention of venture capitalists giving rise to a handful of funded startups that offer drone as a service across India.
Defence forces and other local law and order authorities have been partnering or developing drones with Indian startups for activities like monitoring our borders, keeping a check on unmanned areas like forests, maintaining law and order during civilian events like festival and events. The railways have also use been using drones to monitor tracks across various parts of India.
Earlier this year Professor KPJ Reddy along with two other scientists at the Department of Aerodynamics, Bangalore, Dr H N Science Centre, and the Department of Forest, conducted India’s first ever drone-seeding trial on the banks of river Pinakini in the Gauribidanur area in Karnataka’s Kolar district. The project plans to at least seed 10,000 acres, and will be doing this every year, for three consecutive years in a hope to to make the whole area green and turn inaccessible areas into forests.
It is just a matter of time that drones might fly into your balcony to deliver your Amazon order, instead of the delivery boy rigging the door bell.
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At a deteriorating overpass at Western and Belmont avenues in Chicago, members of Transportation for America Illinois coalition will call for smart investments in maintenance to improve economy and keep drivers safe
WHAT: A new report from Transportation for America shows that drivers in Illinois regularly cross heavily traveled bridges and overpasses that have earned “poor” ratings from the government: One out of every 12 bridges in Illinois is likely to be deteriorating to some degree, and 8.5 percent of bridges statewide are rated “structurally deficient.” More than 60 percent of all bridges will be past their useful life in 2030, according to the report.
At the site of a 50-year-old overpass at Chicago’s Western and Belmont avenues that is overdue for repair, Chicago-area transportation advocates will discuss the report’s findings and urge federal decision makers to address our transportation network’s vital maintenance needs through a new surface transportation funding authorization. Without a change in both spending levels and overall priorities, Illinois will need hundreds of dollars from each driver to fix all of its structurally deficient bridges.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 10 a.m.
WHERE: Overpass at Belmont and Western avenues. The event will set up at the southeast corner of Melrose Street and Western Avenue, just south of the Bluelight Bar, at 3251 N. Western Ave., Chicago.
Peter Skosey, Vice President, Metropolitan Planning Council
Brian Imus, State Director, Illinois PIRG
Kevin Brubaker, Deputy Director, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Gideon Bluestein, Executive Director, Infrastructure Council, Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Stefanie Shull, Policy Analyst, Center for Neighborhood Technology
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EHR Adoption Lags Despite Success Stories
A recent Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) study comparing health information technology (IT) in the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to norms in the private sector concludes that the VA spent proportionately more on IT than the private health care sector spent between 1997 and 2007, but it achieved higher levels of IT adoption and quality of care.
According to the study, entitled The Value From Investments in Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, “The potential value of the VA’s health IT investments is estimated at $3.09 billion in cumulative benefits net of investment costs.”
“This study,” the authors write, “serves as a framework to inform efforts to measure and calculate the benefits of federal health IT stimulus programs.”
Some say, however, that the study is based on conjecture and immaterial.
“Naturally, there remains a core logic to the contention that HIT is going to help the healthcare sector save money,” writes Healthcare IT News editor Jeff Rowe. “But policymakers need to develop more concrete and realistic projections of those savings in order to maintain public support for the significant amount of taxpayer dollars that are currently being spent on encouraging the sector’s IT transition.”
Even the authors of the CITL study, published in the current issue of Health Affairs, admit the VA outcome is uncommon.
“In contrast [to the VA success story], adoption of electronic health records and other health IT applications has remained persistently low in private-sector hospitals and provider practices across the United States,” the authors of the study note.
The article Accelerating the Use of Electronic Health Records in Physician Practices, published Jan. 21 in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), concludes that even with large hospital systems offering incentives above and beyond that being offered by the government for meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR) “obstacles persist.”
“EHR products remain expensive to install and maintain—cost issues that should not be underestimated,” the authors write.
And then there’s the security issue. “The capability of providing a secure electronic environment for patient data—like the capability of providing reliable data storage—is beyond the reach of most individual physician practices,” the authors affirm. “Truly secure and reliable EHRs are currently feasible only for larger organizations with centrally supported technological capabilities.”
To overcome these hurdles and promote EHR adoption, North Shore Hospital System recently announced that it will pay an incentive of up to $40,000 to each physician in its network who adopts its EHR. Additionally, the Long Island, N.Y. hospital will reportedly pay 50 percent of the installation costs to physicians who install an EHR that communicates with the hospital or 85 percent of the installation costs to physicians who also share de-identified data on the quality of care.
Note: Support for adopting information technology systems is exempt from the Stark law, which prohibits hospitals from offering physicians incentives for promoting referrals on admission.
In addition to private funding (such as North Shore’s) and federal incentive payments (as provided in the stimulus bill), other factors encourage private practices to adopt EHR.
According to the NEJM article, “The prices of EHRs have come down as the volume of software licenses being sold has increased.” As systems improve, time-consuming data entry concerns are also being relieved, the authors say. Other factors promoting EHR adoption include: system usability improvements; EHR capability improvements; and an increased emphasis on quality of care in EHR system software.
The authors speculate that once widespread EHR adoption by physicians is achieved other technology will be advanced, such as cell phone technology for messaging, the capability of moving data from home monitory devices to cell phones and upstream to EHRs, yet-to-be-developed software capabilities that will allow data streams within clinical workflows, and the effective provision of out-of-office care. | <urn:uuid:f6b8848d-b816-4f1d-b453-643414e0f81c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aapc.com/blog/5627-ehr-adoption-lags-despite-success-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942463 | 859 | 1.515625 | 2 |
OverviewNutrition and Health TQUK Level 2 Certificate (Distance Learning)
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- The principles of weight management
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From The Onset Of The Covid-19 Pandemic Illinois' Response Has Been Guided By Data, Science, And Public Health experts
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Fibroepithelial Lesions Revisited: Implications for Diagnosis and Management
June 05, 2020 | Histopathology
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To tuck in a shirt, you must know the appropriate method.
- Pinch each of the shirt’s side seams between your thumb and fingers to make them more secure. Pull the cloth taut by pulling it all the way down. In order to create a pleat, fold the seams backwards toward your rear end, ensuring that any slack fabric in the sides is folded over. Apply enough pressure to the shirtfront to ensure that it is smooth and taut over the front of your chest.
- 1 Do you have to tuck in a dress shirt?
- 2 Can I wear a dress shirt untucked?
- 3 Does tucking your shirt in make you look fatter?
- 4 How do you tuck in a dress shirt without billing?
- 5 How do you tell if a shirt is meant to be tucked in?
- 6 How should my dress shirt fit?
- 7 Is it unprofessional to not tuck in your shirt?
Do you have to tuck in a dress shirt?
In a casual setting, it is always OK to keep your short-sleeved shirt, polo shirt or t-shirt out of your shirt pocket or untucked. Tuck your shirt in at all times, whether you are wearing a jacket, a sweater, or simply a plain white shirt in business casual attire.
Can I wear a dress shirt untucked?
Tucking Procedures In general, it’s a good idea to keep your dress shirt untucked when you’re out and about. This means you’ll need to pay attention to the length of your shirt; if it’s too long, it’ll appear as though you’re wearing a dress, which, if I had to guess, isn’t the look most of you are looking for.
Does tucking your shirt in make you look fatter?
Yes, it is correct. Although it may seem counterintuitive, a small front tuck of your shirt stops the garment from overpowering your body and also helps to define your waistline. And revealing your waist is always more appealing and helps you appear thinner than hiding it. The third reason to half tuck is because it gives the appearance of completing your ensemble – provided you do it correctly.
How do you tuck in a dress shirt without billing?
The statement is correct. Although it may seem counterintuitive, a small front tuck of your shirt stops the garment from overpowering your body and helps to define your waist. And revealing your waist is always more appealing and helps you appear thinner than hiding your waist. For the third reason, half-tucking your shirt helps to complete your look – provided that it is done properly.
How do you tell if a shirt is meant to be tucked in?
Here are a few pointers to keep in mind: Shirts with a flat bottom hem are intended to be worn untucked, and so have a longer length. The shirt should always be tucked in if it has visible “tails,” that is, if the hem is not uniformly long all the way around, rather than being even all the way around.
How should my dress shirt fit?
The most comfortable dress shirts are those that fit nicely over the chest, under the armpits, and across the upper back, allowing you to move freely. When worn properly, a fitting shirt will feel snug, but not too snug. Ideally, your chest should “fill out” the shirt in such a way that your body can be seen underneath the cloth.
Is it unprofessional to not tuck in your shirt?
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While you are living in Copenhagen, you’re not going to be in the classroom every moment, which is why it’s important to learn about the city and what to do in your free time. Take a look at just a few of our top picks!
1. Experience colorful Christiania
Freetown Christiania is a neighborhood in Copenhagen that is car-free and the perfect idea of a “green” district. It was set up in 1971 by hippies living in abandoned military barracks, who made their own rules, completely independent of the laws of Copenhagen.
2. The Little Mermaid
One of Copenhagen’s most famous tourist attractions can be found at Langelinie Pier. The sculpture of The Little Mermaid is over 100 years old, depicting the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s legendary tale.
3. Canal Tour
While most people in Copenhagen walk or ride a bike, it’s quite fun to explore what the city has to offer on a canal tour. You can see things from a completely different vantage point when you’re out on the water, and maybe even learn a bit about the city’s history.
4. Tivoli Gardens
Tivoli Gardens is one of the main reasons that a lot of tourists come to Copenhagen to visit, but it’s also still popular with the locals. It’s the world’s oldest amusement park, with attractions for people of all ages. You can also dine on some really good authentic food at Tivoli Gardens, even though it might be a little pricey.
5. Christiansborg Palace
Christiansborg Palace is nestled on the Islet of Slotsholmen, and it houses Denmark’s Supreme Court, the Danish Parliament and the Prime Minister’s office. The Danish royal family and prime minister often utilize the palace’s luxurious rooms, just perfect for lavish events and receptions for the heads of state or international leaders. The Great Hall is 40 metres long, with space to formally seat 400 guests.
Considered to be one of the most welcoming bars, with a great ambiance, complete with leather armchairs, this place can make you forget all about the rainy weather outside. The cocktail menu offers seasonal options, and their mainstays are some of the best in all of Copenhagen.
Jazzhouse is one of the oldest Jazz bars in Copenhagen, and after a brief closure, it came back better than ever. With a respected reputation, Jazzhouse welcomes well-known artists from all across the globe. The stage is located in the basement, with the cocktail bar and restaurant on the floor above. It’s also a favorite hangout of local or visiting musicians.
Lidkoeb is nestled in a quiet backyard in Vesterbro, sometimes making it a little difficult to stumble across. The interior is unique, decorated in wood, fur and leather. There’s a lengthy bar, private booths and a cozy fireplace, along with a stage for live music. You can also find a whiskey bar upstairs.
Vinhanen is fairly new, boasting a wine bar and a shop. They offer quality wines at low prices, making it really popular with students. Most wines are tapped straight into the glass from large tanks just behind the bar. You can also purchase a reusable bottle to take your favorite home.
If you’re thinking about something a bit more casual for a night out with friends, then Ølsnedkeren is a great option. Its interior has made the bar famous, made from recycled wood and filled with eclectic second-hand store finds. Ølsnedkeren also has a wide selection of beers, including its very own brews. | <urn:uuid:0a03e65d-658b-4f84-a79a-9ca813056497> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://housinganywhere.com/Copenhagen--Denmark/things-to-do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947798 | 803 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Tobacco Use causes Cancers & Diseases
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. It causes many different cancers as well as chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema and bronchitis, and heart disease.
- Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 443,000 deaths each year, including approximately 49,000 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.
- Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women in the United States, and 90 percent of lung cancer deaths among men and approximately 80 percent of lung cancer deaths among women are due to smoking.
- Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, and acute myeloid leukemia.
- People who smoke are up to six times more likely to suffer a heart attack than nonsmokers, and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked. Smoking also causes most cases of chronic lung disease.
- In 2011, an estimated 19 percent of U.S. adults were cigarette smokers.
- Nearly 16 percent of high school students smoke cigarettes.
Key Points of Cigar Smoking and Cancer
- Cigar smoke, like cigarette smoke, contains toxic and cancer-causing chemicals that are harmful to both smokers and nonsmokers.
- There is no safe tobacco product, and there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke.
- The more you smoke, the greater your risk of disease.
- Cigar smoking causes oral cavity cancers (cancers of the lip, tongue, mouth, and throat) and cancers of the larynx (voice box), esophagus, and lung.
- All cigar and cigarette smokers, whether or not they inhale, directly expose their lips, mouth, tongue, throat, and larynx to tobacco smoke and its toxic and cancer-causing chemicals.
1. How are cigars different from cigarettes?
Cigarettes usually differ from cigars in size and in the type of tobacco used. Moreover, in contrast with cigarette smoke, cigar smoke is often not inhaled.
The main features of these tobacco products are:
Cigarettes: Cigarettes are uniform in size and contain less than 1 gram of tobacco each. U.S. cigarettes are made from different blends of tobaccos, which are never fermented, and they are wrapped with paper. Most U.S. cigarettes take less than 10 minutes to smoke.
Cigars: Most cigars are composed primarily of a single type of tobacco (air-cured and fermented), and they have a tobacco wrapper. They can vary in size and shape and contain between 1 gram and 20 grams of tobacco. Three cigar sizes are sold in the United States:
Large cigars can measure more than 7 inches in length, and they typically contain between 5 and 20 grams of tobacco. Some premium cigars contain the tobacco equivalent of an entire pack of cigarettes. Large cigars can take between 1 and 2 hours to smoke.
Cigarillos are a type of smaller cigar. They are a little bigger than little cigars and cigarettes and contain about 3 grams of tobacco.
Little cigars are the same size and shape as cigarettes, are often packaged like cigarettes (20 little cigars in a package), and contain about 1 gram of tobacco. Also, unlike large cigars, some little cigars have a filter, which makes it seem they are designed to be smoked like cigarettes (that is, for the smoke to be inhaled).
2. Are there harmful chemicals in cigar smoke?
Yes. Cigar smoke, like cigarette smoke, contains toxic and cancer-causing chemicals that are harmful to both smokers and nonsmokers. Cigar smoke is possibly more toxic than cigarette smoke. Cigar smoke has:
A higher level of cancer-causing substances: During the fermentation process for cigar tobacco, high concentrations of cancer-causing nitrosamines are produced. These compounds are released when a cigar is smoked. Nitrosamines are found at higher levels in cigar smoke than in cigarette smoke.
More tar: For every gram of tobacco smoked, there is more cancer-causing tar in cigars than in cigarettes.
A higher level of toxins: Cigar wrappers are less porous than cigarette wrappers. The nonporous cigar wrapper makes the burning of cigar tobacco less complete than the burning of cigarette tobacco. As a result, cigar smoke has higher concentrations of toxins than cigarette smoke.
Furthermore, the larger size of most cigars (more tobacco) and longer smoking time result in higher exposure to many toxic substances (including carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, ammonia, cadmium, and other substances).
Cigar smoke can be a major source of indoor air pollution (1). There is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke. If you want to reduce the health risk to yourself and others, stop smoking.
3.Do cigars cause cancer and other diseases?
Yes. Cigar smoking causes cancer of the oral cavity, larynx, esophagus, and lung. It may also cause cancer of the pancreas. Moreover, daily cigar smokers, particularly those who inhale, are at increased risk for developing heart disease and other types of lung disease. Regular cigar smokers and cigarette smokers have similar levels of risk for oral cavity and esophageal cancers. The more you smoke, the greater the risk of disease.
4.What if I don’t inhale the cigar smoke?
Unlike nearly all cigarette smokers, most cigar smokers do not inhale. Although cigar smokers have lower rates of lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and lung disease than cigarette smokers, they have higher rates of these diseases than those who do not smoke cigars.
All cigar and cigarette smokers, whether or not they inhale, directly expose their lips, mouth, tongue, throat, and larynx to smoke and its toxic and cancer-causing chemicals. In addition, when saliva containing the chemicals in tobacco smoke is swallowed, the esophagus is exposed to carcinogens. These exposures probably account for the similar oral and esophageal cancer risks seen among cigar smokers and cigarette smokers.
5. Are cigars addictive?
Yes. Even if the smoke is not inhaled, high levels of nicotine (the chemical that causes addiction) can still be absorbed into the body. A cigar smoker can get nicotine by two routes: by inhalation into the lungs and by absorption through the lining of the mouth. Either way, the smoker becomes addicted to the nicotine that gets into the body.
A single cigar can potentially provide as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes.
6.Are cigars less hazardous than cigarettes?
Because all tobacco products are harmful and cause cancer, the use of these products is strongly discouraged. There is no safe level of tobacco use. People who use any type of tobacco product should be encouraged to quit. For help with quitting, see the National Cancer Institute (NCI) fact sheet Where To Get Help When You Decide To Quit Smoking at https://cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/tobacco/help-quitting on the Internet.
7. Do nicotine replacement products help cigar smokers to quit?
Nicotine replacement products, or nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), deliver measured doses of nicotine into the body, which helps to relieve the cravings and withdrawal symptoms often felt by people trying to quit smoking. Strong and consistent evidence shows that NRT can help people quit smoking cigarettes (4). Limited research has been completed to determine the usefulness of NRT for people who smoke cigars. For help with quitting cigar smoking, ask your doctor or pharmacist about NRT, as well as about individual or group counseling, telephone quit lines, or other methods.
8. How can I get help quitting smoking?
NCI and other agencies and organizations can help smokers quit:
Go online to Smokefree.gov https://smokefree.gov), a Web site created by NCI’s Tobacco Control Research Branch, and use the Step-by-Step Quit Guide.
Call NCI’s Smoking Quitline at 1–877–448–7848 (1–877–44U–QUIT) for individualized counseling, printed information, and referrals to other sources.
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Superfoods offer extra nutrients to help with a variety of health issues and overall wellness—including helping your body fight cancer, aiding with heart health or just giving you that that extra energy boost. The East End is lucky to have access to an abundance of locally grown and harvested superfoods, and you don’t have to look very far to find them. At your local farm stand, you’ll find a variety of fruits and vegetables filled with antioxidants and health benefits.
Blueberries, high in potassium and vitamin C, can reportedly lower risk of heart disease and cancer and also act as an anti-inflammatory. Strawberries are also loaded with antioxidants, said to be good for heart health and blood sugar control. But when it comes to berries, the most antioxidants are found in blackberries, filled with vitamin C, vitamin K, fiber and manganese—just a few of this berry’s health benefits may include reduced cholesterol, managing blood sugar and even boosted brain health, according to reports.
Grab yourself a juicy heirloom tomato—it’s filled with the antioxidant lycopene, linked to reducing heart disease and cancer. Beets have many nutrients that may help with blood pressure. Brussels sprouts are rich in vitamin K, high in fiber and may help fight against cancer. Sweet potatoes offer a dose of vitamin A—great for the immune system. Carrots boost eye health and green peppers are filled with vitamin C.
And let’s not forget our leafy greens. Spinach is very high in vitamin K, great for bone health. Kale, also high in vitamin K, is said to help reduce cholesterol, among many other health benefits.
Farm fresh eggs are filled with protein. They are also filled with essential amino acids and many vitamins. It’s one of the most nutritious foods around.
It’s well documented that salmon is filled with omega-3 fatty acids, offering a heart-healthy meal option. Locally, bluefish is also high in omega-3s.
Heading into the fall, apple season offers a food option that is chock-full of antioxidants, and said to help with heart health, weight loss and good gut bacteria. Pumpkin offers alpha and beta-carotene, known for fighting cancer.
Local honey can offer antioxidants and anti-bacterial properties. Bee pollen can help reduce stress and strengthen the immune system.
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Bentley House was established around 1972 as a government-run hostel for Aboriginal high school students. It was one of Anglican Social Services' welfare facilities. After 2006 it is likely to have been used as a government-run residential group home, also known as Bentley House.
Bentley House was opened around 1972 or 1973.
Government reports (Signposts 2004) show that it was to be run by the Anglican Church from its south-west administration centre, however the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury has confirmed (2014) that this was not the case. Entries in the WA Telephone Directory indicate that Bentley House was a facility of Anglican Social Services.
In keeping with the policy at the time, it is likely that 'house parents' were introduced to Bentley House by 1975 so it could operate like a group home or 'scatter cottage' rather than as hostel.
The first admission figures that are available for Bentley House date from 1 October 1994, when there were 8 girls aged 15-17 years from a total of 11 admissions for the year. Some girls stayed from as little as one week, others more than 6 months. This suggests that Bentley House was used for temporary accommodation as well as longer-term accommodation.
Between around 2003-2006, children were placed at Bentley House through the Department for Community Development's Aboriginal Student Accommodation Service program. Possibly after 2006, Bentley House became a departmental residential group home.
1972? - 2006? Bentley House
2007? - Bentley House
Sources used to compile this entry: Information Services, Department for Community Development, Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, Government of Western Australia, 2004, http://signposts.cpfs.wa.gov.au/pdf/pdf.aspx; State Solicitor's Office of Western Australia, 'p. 20', Guide to Institutions Attended by Aboriginal People in Western Australia, Government of Western Australia, 2005, http://web.archive.org/web/20140126131607/http://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/lantu/MediaPublications/Documents/Guide-to-Institutions-attended-by-Aboriginal-people-in-WA-2005.pdf; Western Australia. Department for Community Welfare, Annual Report: Department for Community Welfare, Dept. For Community Welfare, [Perth], 1973-1984, http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1410539~S7. p.57.; Email from Anglican Diocese of Bunbury 13 August 2014; Telephone Directory Western Australia Perth, (1972-73, p.47; 1974-75, p.47; 1975-76, p.47).
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From New Scientist:
NASA is investigating sabotage of a non-critical computer due to be flown to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, which was cleared to lift off on 7 August, the space agency said on Thursday.
NASA revealed the sabotage a day ahead of releasing two studies that the publication Aviation Week says found astronauts were allowed to fly on at least two occasions despite warnings they were so drunk they posed a flight risk.
The damage to wiring in an electronics box was intentional and obvious, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, told reporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US.
NASA found cut cables inside the electronics box, which was being prepared to be loaded into Endeavour’s crew cabin for transport to the $100 billion space station.
Sabotage of a non-critical computer? What’s up with that? I would think any destruction, especially willful destruction of any and all space hardware should be a criminal offence. And then allowing drunk astronauts to board the shuttle, knowingly allowing these individuals to enter a spacecraft that has a dubious safety record at best and fly!
Billions of dollars have been spend on the shuttle missions over the past twenty-seven years, tax-payer dollars. The space shuttle was touted as a cheaper alternative to expendable rockets and save money over the long haul. Well, it hasn’t saved a penny and it’s proved to be more costly to operate than the old Saturn V moon rockets. As far as the safety record is concerned, I suppose the loss of two shuttles and fourteen (or fifteen?) astronauts over the past thirty some odd years would be considered acceptable, given that you’re going into orbit on top of what amounts to a gigantic Roman candle filled with nitro-clycerin strapped to your ass. I guess that could explain the getting shit-faced before getting on board such a monstrosity. But still, these people are supposed to be professionals who knowingly accept the risks involved. And most people believe progress comes at a high price, most of Columbus’s sailors didn’t expect to return from their trip. Unfortunately for the Native Americans, Columbus and Co. did. But that’s another story.
Plus add these sorry tales on top of what already happened this year to NASA concerning the “astronaut diaper” jokes:
Nowak, 43, told police she drove from Houston, Texas, to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman, whom Nowak considered a rival for the attentions of fellow astronaut Bill Oefelein the police affidavit said. The astronaut had disguised herself in a dark wig, glasses and a trench coat.
Nowak, a married flight engineer with three children, was awaiting her next flight assignment after travelling aboard the shuttle Discovery in July 2006.
Obviously, NASA needs to clean up its act here. Not only taxpayer dollars are being wasted but the integrity of the whole manned space program is in jeopardy. Probably one can make the argument that money for oversight of the program is diverted to Bu$hco’s 1984 themed Perpetual Wars, so blame could be passed along in that direction. And that could very well be the reason. But I believe the problem is deeper than that because NASA as a government agency has always had its budget cut and still always pushed to perform the way it has always had. Even when Bu$hco announced that the United States as a nation is returning to Lunar exploration, no additional monies were forthcoming, NASA had to make do with what it had and thusly had to cut some of it’s scientific space probe program, angering many scientists who thought their programs were already “sacred cows”.
So what is NASA to do? One logical move would be to revamp the astronaut screening process. I realize psychology is an art at best, not a precise science. One solution would be to require astronauts to undergo screening every six months instead of yearly. Another is surprise urinalysis screening for drugs and alcohol. Yes, I know that goes against the individual’s privacy and rights of personage I’m always preaching about, but when you sign a contract to operate billions of dollars worth of technology, one should be held responsible. Either that, or just abolish the whole shootin’ match and privatize the space program, let entrenpeneurs take the risk. If a drunk pilot or one that is f*ckin’ nuts pilots a ship with tourists on it crashes or gets arrested on doing something stupid, let their corporate bosses pay out huge insurance claims or fire their asses if they live. At least it’s their money, not ours.
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Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences
Understanding The Influence of Social Media on Individual’s Quality of Life Perceptions
Biljana Marković, Eva Brlek, Jelena Škoda and Darijo Čerepinko
Social networks are an integral part of our everyday lives, becoming an indispensable medium for communication in personal and business environment. New forms and ways of communication change the general mindset and significantly affect the quality of life of individuals. Quality of life is perceived as an abstract term, but often people are not aware that they directly affect the quality of their own lives, making minor but significant everyday choices and decisions. Quality of life can be defined broadly but in the widest sense it involves a subjective sense of satisfaction with one’s life. Scientific knowledge about the impact of social networks on self-assessment of the quality of life of individuals is only just beginning to be researched. Available research indicates potential benefits as well as a number of disadvantages. In the context of the previous claims, the focus of the study conducted by the authors of this paper focuses on analyzing the impact of social networks on individual’s self-assessment of quality of life and the correlation between time spent on social networks, and the choice of content that individuals choose choose to share to present themselves. Moreover, it is aimed to explain how much and in what ways they critically judge the lives of others online. The research aspires to show the positive as well as negative aspects that social networks, primarily Facebook and Instagram, have on creating a picture of individuals and how they compare themselves with others.The topic of this paper is based on quantitative research conducted on a representative sample. An analysis of the results of the survey conducted online has elaborated a hypothesis which claims that content shared by individuals on social networks influences the image they create about themselves.A comparative analysis of the results obtained with the results of similar research has led to the conclusion about the synergistic influence of social networks on the feeling of the quality of life of respondents. The originality of this work is reflected in the approach of conducting research by examining attitudes about an individual’s life satisfaction, the way he or she creates a picture of himself/herself through social networks, the extent to which he/she compares herself/himself with others, and what social media applications he/she uses. At the cognitive level, scientific contributions were made through the development of information concepts on quality of life, and at the methodological level through the development of an original methodology for qualitative alignment of respondents’ attitudes using statistical analysis. Furthermore, at the practical level through the application of concepts in assessing the creation of self image and the image of others through social networks.
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The World Trade Center Twin Towers frame the Manhattan Bridge over the East River, NYC 1988.
The Manhattan Bridge (near) and the Brooklyn Bridge (behind) span the East River, and frame the Statue of Liberty in the distance, NYC 1988.
The New York upper west side of Manhattan skyline from under the George Washington Bridge, taken from the New Jersey Palisades, 10-9-11.
The New York upper west side of Manhattan skyline over the Hudson River, 10-9-11.
A storm moving in over Manhattan's upper west side, 1984.
Winter trees in Manhattan's Central Park, NYC 1989.
Looking down Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan, NYC 1994.
Looking down Sixth Avenue in lower-midtown (Chelsea) Manhattan, NYC 1995.
Heavy traffic looking up 7th Avenue from Times Square, New York, 8/18/95
Winter street scene, downtown Manhattan, 1992.
Looking south on 7th Avenue from between 59th and 58th Street, New York, 1984.
Crosswalk street scene, New York 1983.
NYC street scene, 1983.
On 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan, summer 1978.
At the jazz club "Top of the Gate", 4/17/91.
After the lunch hour in a midtown Manhattan restaurant, NYC,1988
"John D. Rockefeller 3d Dies in Crash" - Daily News, midtown Manhattan, July 11, 1978.
"I'm blind - please buy a pencil", midtown Manhattan, summer 1978.
"Husband Lib", midtown Manhattan, summer 1978.
"We Will Be Heard" - labor protest in midtown Manhattan, 1988.
Sightseeing on 7th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, NYC 1983.
Street scene in midtown Manhattan, early fall 1983.
"Fur Storage" on 54th Street and 6th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, NYC 1990.
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John Suler's The Psychology of Cyberspace
This article dated Jan 00 (v1.0)
Extending a Work Group
Anyone who has participated often in a work group in business, education, or a volunteer organization has experienced the hassles of scheduling meetings, as well as the sometimes frustrating complexities in how small groups function. Extending the group into cyberspace can eliminate the discontinuity due to scheduling problems. In groups where people need to speak with each other more often or maintain contact during vacation, holiday, or summer breaks, an e-mail list can be the perfect solution. The "asynchronous" communication of e-mail allows members to participate in the ongoing virtual meeting at their own convenience and at their own pace. Some of the unique features of asynchronous, typed-text communication also may alter the interpersonal dynamics of the group, which offers the opportunity to better understand and improve how the group functions.
A group as well may use "message board" formats to meet online. Much of what I discuss in this article applies to that environment also. However, because people are more familiar with e-mail - and it's easier to set up an e-mail list than a message board - I'll focus on that style of communicating.
When creating an e-mail list, obviously it's important to make sure that everyone has an e-mail account. Extending the group into cyberspace when some people don't use e-mail is a bad idea. It will encourage subgrouping, miscommunication, and perhaps conflict. Doing so may even be a symptom of preexisting conflict and an acting out of hostility against subgroups or individual scapegoats. It's equally important to assess how much people know about using e-mail in general and an e-mail list in particular. Some people may say that they use e-mail "a lot" (since it's fashionable) when in reality they may only be casual users who barely understand the basics. As a result, setting up the list may be a slow, sometimes frustrating process. On the positive side, that process can serve as an opportunity for people to familiarize themselves with e-mail lists before the actual online meeting begins.
It's a good idea to have a facilitator or "host" for the list - someone who can set up the list and has some technical understanding of how lists work, as well as some experience in the customs and social dynamics of a list. Here are some guidelines for that facilitator:
- Select list software that's easy to use: for example OneList (onelist.com) or "listserv"software that's available on many university servers.
- Expect problems in gathering and entering the members' e-mail addresses. It's very easy to make one small typing error resulting in mail that will bounce back.
- If people have more than one e-mail address, enter all of them into the list. This will maximize the possibility of mail reaching them. Some people may want to receive mail at home as well as at work. Others may not like this invasion on their personal territory. Check with people first.
- To maximize communication within the group, set the "reply" feature in the list software so that replies go to the whole list, rather than privately to the person who sent the previous message. This will build group cohesion, rather than encourage private ("backchannel") communication and subgrouping.
- Once the list is set up, send a short "Hello/Role Call" message to welcome everyone to the list. In that message, ask everyone to reply, indicating that they have received that first "hello" message. In turn, reply to their first message so they know for sure their mail is getting through (most list software distributes mail to everyone on the list, including the sender - which is another verification that one's mail is getting through). don't start any formal discussions until you verify that everyone can send and is receiving mail. You may have to prompt some people several times before they reply to the "role call." It may even be necessary to prompt some people via phone or face-to-face contact. If so, you already have advanced notification that such people may not be attending to their e-mail from the list. Not a good start for the e-mail group.
Once it is clear everyone is on board, send an introductory message containing some suggestions about how to use the list. don't assume that everyone understands the technical and social aspects of an e-mail group. Some experienced onliners may see the suggestions as old hat, but it's a good idea to make sure everyone is starting on the same page. That introductory message might look something like this:
Hello everyone! I think we're all on board now, so welcome to the list! I'm looking forward to our discussions and hope this ongoing virtual meeting will be enjoyable and productive for all of us. Here are some suggestions that I think could make this experience run more smoothly for us: - Remember that hitting "reply" will send your message to the whole group. So avoid the embarrassing mistake of hitting "reply" on a person's e-mail to the group and thinking that your message is a private communication to that person! - Reply to people, even if it's just a simple one-liner or an "I agree." On big lists with lots of traffic, some people get annoyed by such short messages, but it's good for our purposes. When people post to a list and don't get ANY reply, they tend to be reluctant about posting again. No one likes to be ignored! - Let us know when you're going to be away from your computer. That way we will know why you seem to be "quiet." - Because there are no face-to-face cues (voice, body language), it's easy to misread the tone and therefore the meaning of someone's message. So when in doubt, ask for clarification. - Remember that people use e-mail at different paces and that servers on the internet may deliver some mail late. Expect some delays in people responding and messages that arrive out of order. If you have any questions about how this list works - or other ideas and suggestions - why don't we discuss that now on the list.E-mail can be a fascinating, subtle tool for communicating - different, in many respects, from talking. Some even consider it an art form. It might be a good idea to recommend some reading about e-mail to the group. For example, here's an article about e-mail communication and relationships that might be useful.
There are many practical uses for the list. On the most basic level, it can be used for announcements, scheduling in-person meetings, and generally serve as a substitute for hardcopy memos. However, limiting the list to this function alone - a kind of "memo mentality" - falls short of utilizing its full potential. Memo mentality ignores how the list can be a group MEETING with many other possible applications. It can be used in a collaborative effort to edit, revise, and approve a document. The group can prepare for and afterwards discuss an in-person meeting. Under ideal conditions, the list can be an effective alternative for in-person meetings by encouraging open discussions of issues and decision-making. To do this efficiently, some structure will be necessary. Adapting Roberts Rules is one possibility. I' ve also proposed a fairly simple discussion/voting procedure for e-mail lists.
Extending the group into cyberspace can have a double-edged effect. On the one hand, the exchange of messages via the list may draw out or highlight the preexisting interpersonal dynamics of the group. Typed text has a way of making things stand out in bold relief, sometimes "demonstrating the obvious" in a very eye-catching, rubbing-one's-nose-in-it fashion. On the other hand, an online meeting also may alter the dynamics of the group because it entails a change in the boundaries of time, place, and communication style. For example:
Pacing: Because e-mail involves asynchronous communication, people can speak to the group whenever they want and as frequently as they want. Avid e-mail users may have more input into the discussion than casual or inexperienced users, possibly altering in a dramatic way the usual in-person pattern of participation.
Writing, not talking: Typed-text usually forces people to be more concise and to-the-point, resulting in a filtering out of extraneous conversation that typically pads a face-to-face meeting. The e-mail discussion may feel more efficient to some people, or blunt to others. Some members may be frustrated by the tedium of having to type everything they want to say, feeling a f2f dialogue is easier and more thorough. Because e-mail involves writing and not speaking, those with superior writing skills will have a communicative advantage. They may not be the same people who have the verbal advantage in an in-person meeting. Those who are ignored, interrupted, or talked-over during a f2f meeting may have a stronger voice in cyberspace. Those who dominate an in-person meeting may lose some of their influence online.
Disinhibition: People can' t see you or hear your voice in an e-mail discussion, which results in a "masking" effect and psychological disinhibition. People may be more willing to express thoughts and feelings that they otherwise would keep to themselves during an in-person meeting. As a result, new ideas may pop up. Surprising opinions are expressed. Conflicts that were previously warded off now rise to the surface. In an ideal situation, this disinhibiting effect can jostle a group into new and productive lines of discussion. In unfortunate circumstances, the uncovering of hidden problems may destabilize the group, reducing it's ability to communicate and work effectively. In-person meetings will be needed to remedy that situation.
Permanent Record: Any member easily can save all the group's message to an archive. Everything that was said online can be preserved indefinitely. This permanent record can come in handy in reviewing who said what and when, how decisions were made, and for attaining a bird' s eye view of the course of a discussion. Without visual and verbal cues, it's sometimes easy to misread the meaning or emotion within someone's message - particularly if you happen to be having a bad day. Going back to read a message at a later date can help you see it in a fresh light, with a new mental set and a bit more objectivity.
Because e-mail meetings are very different than being in-person, some people may show resistance to participating. That resistance may manifest itself in several ways: infrequent messages sent to the list; brief or unsubstantial discussions; frequent pleas for in-person meetings; habitual private (backchannel) e-mail or private in-person discussions (rather than bringing issues to the list); critical comments about using a list; and other assorted direct and indirect expressions of hostility. In rare circumstances some people may staunchly refuse to participate, which can create considerable uneasiness and distrust in the group. There are a variety of possible reasons for resistance. Some change easily, others don' t:
- Being unfamiliar or uncomfortable with using computers, e-mail, or e-mail lists. Some people may need time and experience to adapt; a little bit of training could be helpful. Chronic "memo mentality" may be a stubborn mental set in its own right, or a symptom of some of the other reasons for resistance listed below.
- A fear of displaying one's writing abilities. It's very helpful to establish a norm where all writing styles are accepted - including being casual and making errors in spelling and grammar. Schoolmarm standards about "correct" writing will not be productive.
- A fear of "going public." People may worry that someone might save their messages and later use them as "ammunition" against them. This anxiety may coincide with the worry that people outside the group may have access to the list or may be given e-mail by a group member. Such concerns may be a low-level symptom of preexisting distrust within the group. From the get-go, emphasizing the importance of list confidentiality can help alleviate some of these worries.
- Angry withdrawal, indifference. These barriers are most likely a symptom of preexisting interpersonal dynamics within the group. The disinhibiting effect of e-mail communication may help people discuss and resolve these issues, but don't count on it.
There's no doubt in my mind that an e-mail list can enhance a work group. The determining factor is the group's motivation to use the list effectively. Strong resistance may indicate that the group is not ready to be extended into cyberspace.
Because an e-mail list is a very different style of communicating than being in-person, the two channels may become disconnected or "dissociated" from each other. What is said in one domain may not be said in the other. In particular, the disinhibiting effect of e-mail could lead people to state things that they refrain from bringing to the in-person meeting. Sometimes the list discussions may even evolve into a kind of "subconscious" voicing of issues that are actively avoided in-person. It is possible to work through these issues on the list, allowing the beneficial effects to seep into the f2f meetings without openly discussing them in those meetings. However, the best approach is to head off the dissociation before it becomes too deeply embedded. Make an attempt to discuss important issues in both domains - and, if possible, try to understand the psychological barriers that might prevent people from doing that. Understanding those barriers will lead to valuable insights into the interpersonal dynamics of the group.
Under ideal conditions, in-person and e-mail discussions will complement and enrich each other. The group will come to recognize the pros and cons of each realm. It will learn to maximize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages of each. The degree of success is the degree to which the group can effectively integrate the two. When the group moves fluidly from one realm to the other, when both realms give expression to all important group functions - brainstorming, decision-making, problem-solving, socializing, conflict resolution - then the group has fully succeeded in extending itself into cyberspace.
See also in The Psychology of Cyberspace:
E-mail Communication and Relationships
The Basic Psychological Features of Cyberspace
A Simple Decision-making Method for E-mail Groups
The Final Showdown Between In-Person and Cyberspace Relationships
How Many Mail List Subscribers Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? (author unknown)
Hypotheses about online text relationships
Conflict in Cyberspace: How to resolve conflict online
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A framework for economic growth
The events of 2020 – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic – created shockwaves across the global economy. Minnesota experienced significant economic impacts amidst these circumstances, with employment and output declining at unprecedented rates in March and April before beginning a steep climb toward recovery in subsequent months. Minnesota also found itself at the center of a national reckoning with the killing of George Floyd and ensuing civil unrest.
Taken together, these events not only produced short-term challenges to overcome, but raised longer-term questions that must be thoughtfully addressed by businesses, policymakers and civil society. Some of these issues – such as remote working, talent mobility, commercial real estate activity in urban centers, and large-scale diversity and inclusion efforts – could signal deeper shifts in Minnesota’s economy. As addressed later in this report, Minnesota must carefully assess changing trends and respond effectively if the state is to achieve its full potential this decade.
2020 economic performance and impact
Minnesota reported its first case of the novel coronavirus on March 6th. Within weeks, Minnesota went into a statewide lockdown, and by the end of April – a mere seven weeks after the first reported case – Minnesota had lost over 13 percent of its total employment and nearly 614,000 Minnesotans had filed claims for unemployment insurance, marking the steepest economic downturn in over 70 years.
Minnesota’s diverse economy and labor force strengths likely helped buffer some of the worst impacts of the downturn.
Unemployment peaked at 9.9 percent in May and fell to 4.4 percent by December, remaining well below national unemployment levels throughout the year.
Overall, Minnesota’s changes in employment and GDP reflect national trends. The state’s total employment declined slightly less than the U.S. in April, falling to 86.8 percent of pre-covid (January 2020) levels. However, after six consecutive months of job recovery, Minnesota’s employment ticked down in November and December, leaving the state at 91.5 percent of full strength and trailing the U.S. recovery. By the end of 2020, Minnesota still needed to add 246,100 jobs to recover to 2019 levels.
Uneven impact, uneven recovery
The COVID-19 recession impacted Minnesota’s economy broadly. However, losses were concentrated in certain industries and demographic groups. Local services, travel-oriented industries, young people and employees of color all experienced disproportionate impacts. Leisure and hospitality lost over half of its total jobs, with industries like full-service restaurants declining nearly 75 percent. Regions with greater shares of activity in these hard-hit industries were impacted significantly, such as Northeast Minnesota where unemployment peaked at nearly double the rate of the state’s Southwest region.
By the end of December, some of the impacts across sectors, regions, and demographics began to lessen. Regional unemployment levels, for instance, converged modestly by the end of the year with the gaps closing to less than two percentage points between the highest and lowest unemployment rates. Gaps in unemployment by race and ethnicity also closed considerably between May and December of 2020.
Other trends point in a more troubling direction. While the unemployment rate shrank for communities of color, some of that change is attributed to disproportionate declines in labor force participation. The number of women leaving the workforce over the last year is a particularly troubling trend. Additionally, though some hard-hit industries like retail, and health care and social assistance saw strong recovery in the second half of 2020, others like arts, entertainment, accommodation, and food service ended the year 40 to 60 percent below 2019 levels. | <urn:uuid:d7c819c8-8188-4ba5-97be-1f06a0706775> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mnchamber.com/minnesota-chamber-foundation/2020-impacts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951922 | 746 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Classes Under Construction
At Franklin Art Glass Studios we offer fundamental classes on stained glass. Our class teaches the beginning techniques and fundamentals of stained glass construction. When the class is finished students will have knowledge of both copper foil and lead techniques. This is a fundamental’s class open for all skill levels.
We are currently working on restructuring the way our classes are taught. We are hoping to schedule new classes by the end of 2021. Thank you for your patience as we continue to refine our classes for you. NO CLASSES ARE CURRENTLY BEING SCHEDULED. To be notified when classes are scheduled, pre-register for classes or join our mailing list.
- Introduction and Tour
- Discussion of Materials and Tools
- Introduction to Glass Cutting
- Lead Technique
- “Owl” Project
- Introduction to Foil Technique
- Copper Foil Technique
- “Fan Light” Project
- Discussion of measuring an opening and reinforcement of stained glass
- Lead Technique Project – Leaded Panel approximately 8″x10″ with engraved beveled center
- Course schedule is subject to change with Instructor
- Class Fee: $60.00 (non-refundable)
- Meets FOUR Tuesday EVENINGS
- Class Time: 6-8 p.m. (No guests please)
- Showroom Open (for class only): 5:30-6:00 & 8:00-8:30.
- Minimum age for enrollment in this class is 16 years old.
- Each student must have their own tools. A specially discounted tool package will be available for $165.00 (this kit is not required if you have your own tools). The contents of the kit will be discussed the first class evening. Orders for kits and tools will be taken subsequent to the first class.
- Additional materials will also be needed to complete the three class projects (approximately $85.00).
"I took the stained-glass fundamentals class at Franklin Art Glass, and it was a wonderful experience. The staff was friendly and the class was fun. I learned a valuable new skill and met some lovely people in the process! My pieces are displayed proudly in my home. I’ve even used the techniques I learned to make projects of my own. Definitely worth the value!"
"I took the beginners in stained glass class over 30 years ago! When I took this class it was on a whim and because I found stained glass interesting. But what I found was a longtime hobby and love for stained glass. This class taught me the necessary skills to continue working in stained glass long after the class and even some of the basic skills I needed to work in glass fusing. It was a wonderful experience that impacted me much more than I’d expected."
"First and foremost, I want to say thank you for providing such a great class that helped establish a good foundation from which to grow and expand. I very much enjoyed the class, and thought the information being shared was at an appropriate level for everyone to take away added knowledge. From introduction of the tools & equipment to the progressive projects which provided introduction to the different types of applications/projects, it was great. I found that I was able to absorb everything and have been able to continue to improve my knowledge and skill set with the foundation provided." | <urn:uuid:d5715861-a6b9-4aa0-aae9-533fb5aa5d58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.franklinartglass.com/classes/class-schedule/?doing_wp_cron=1660084493.9033389091491699218750 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951317 | 734 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Sh. Maytham Al Salman has participated in the Catholics & Shiites Dialogue conference that was held on the 24th of March 2015 in Roma, Italy. He presented the following paper which explains, from an Islamic perspective, the guidelines towards managing, enhancing and promoting religious diversity among societies.
Catholics & Shiites Dialogue Conference: Guidelines towards Managing Religious Diversity from an Islamic Context
By Sh. Maytham Al Salman
Religious hostilities are sweeping the globe due to limited efforts exerted by governments, religious groups and non-governmental organizations to hold them back.
According to the Pew Research Center, religious hostilities reached a six-year high in 2012, with a third (33%) of countries in the high category, up from 20% just six years earlier. In another research, Religious Hostility has grown by 72% in 2014. Although religious hostilities affect countries throughout the entire world, countries in the Middle East consistently have higher levels of a range of religious hostilities than other countries and by wide margins. This has been a result of the out-reach and constant growth of extreme ideologies that form the ideological depth of terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda.
The typical government response to religious hostilities is to tighten restrictions on religion. But, contrary to common perceptions, a solid body of empirical and historical research shows that piling on additional restrictions does not ensure peace and stability, but rather can fuel additional grievances. Indeed, research shows that the price of denying religious freedoms is far higher than protecting them. Specifically, as social hostilities involving religion rise, government restrictions on religion rise, leading to more violence, setting up a religious violence cycle that becomes difficult to break, with direct adverse effects on social stability, interfaith acceptance, tolerance levels and economies. Thus, it is essential for Governments and social powers including religious leaders to play a positive role in ensuring religious freedoms are preserved, respected and celebrated as a symbol of strength in Nations.
Although governments in principle should reach to a level of neutrality in civil, political, social and economic rights, it is essential for for religious leaders to convey clear outspoken messages to influential players in politics including Governments, CSO’s, Parties, and multi-cultural components of society on their views towards celebrating religious and cultural diversity.
The following perspective represents an Islamic framework of the guidelines towards maturing tolerance from theory into action.
God Almighty said: “Allah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who did not fought against you because of (your) religion and did not drive you out of your homes. Verily, Allah loves those who deal with equity.“ (Quran: Chapter 60, Verse 8).
He also said: ”O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, so that you may know one another. Verily, the most honorable of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.” (Quran: Chapter 49, Verse 13)
The first verse establishes the principle of tolerance between all humanity regardless of their belief system, as it calls for righteousness, non-violence, peace, and to deal justly and kindly with the followers of different religions and beliefs as long as they are not intentionally harming you (which is overwhelmingly the case). God Almighty likes such behavior and likes those adopting such behavior.
The second verse establishes the principle of co-existence and inclusivity between people and nations from multi-faith and multi-cultural backgrounds. The verse clearly calls for promoting dialogue, acceptance and understanding of one another. It considers this celebrating diversity and plurality among human beings as a sacred goal.
The contents of the two verses is suitable to be a general framework for a code of honor among the followers of different faiths, and members of different communities to live together in peace, harmony and tolerance through establishing positive relationship embraced by justice and equity.
From this point of view, we truly believe that the following guidelines could surely play a positive role at a political, social and religious level to promote tolerance between religions and coexistence between multi-cultural communities. We truly call upon religious leaders to support immediate initiatives focusing on establishing peace, tolerance and equity amongst people regardless of their social, religious or racial backgrounds. We also believe that the teachings of hatred, belligerence and enmity need to not only be condemned but tackled at a political and legislative level by governments and politicians.
We truly believe that Muslim Religious Leaders should ensure that the following principles are adapted by governments to avoid the continuation of Governmental-Religious-Restrictions (GRR) and Social Hostilities affecting the situation of religious freedoms within the world especially in the Middle East.
1. Respect all human beings and treat them with dignity and mercy regardless of their backgrounds. It is essential to deal with each and every human being with equity, avoiding any abuse or violation of his universal human rights committed on the basis of his religious, ethnic or sectarian affiliation. It is also crucial to avoid insulting or abusing their sanctities, beliefs or convictions.
2. Dealing with followers of other religions or creeds with tolerance and justice is not incompatible with one’s pride of belonging to a particular religion. So while every party may retain its religious or doctrinal peculiarities and adhere to their specific teachings and edicts, dealing with others shall be within a framework of mercy, respect, morality, and social equity.
3. Dialogue is a civilized way of resolving differences between the followers of different religions and sects. It is also one of the means for mutual understanding and rapprochement between the followers of different religions or belief systems.
4. The built-in conscience in humanity, the appeals of the prophets and messengers (peace be upon them) and the efforts of reformers, represent the true depth of the ideal human society; so it is necessary to be conversant with such ideals and approaches and to benefit from them in formulating the perfect human society.
5. The need to recognize and accept the general human ideals and values that are taught by all the religions and are consistent with human conscience, like justice, peace and compassion, and to reject injustice, tyranny, terrorism and hatred, and to work together to consolidate these values, and to implement them throughout human societies.
6. Good morals, being a basic component in all religions, represent a valuable asset and a fertile ground for the scheme of tolerance between religions and of the coexistence among various communities.
7. Human dignity, human freedom and legitimate universal rights are common elements in human life, and are supported by all religions.
8. Males and females constitute the human species together and both of them get their due rights arising from such affiliation to the human kind.
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Fazle Abed's work led him to win the 2014 Trust Women Hero Award, chosen from 150 nominations
By Belinda Goldsmith
LONDON, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Fazle Abed, giving the rural poor in developing nations the chance of a better life is not just a dream but an obsession that has become his life's work.
Founder of Bangladesh-based BRAC, the world's largest non-governmental development organisation, Abed has spent nearly 45 years helping the landless poor by educating children, teaching women about healthcare and funding small businesses.
His work has made him the recipient of the 2014 Trust Women Hero Award, chosen from 150 nominations for the prize given annually by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to recognise bold thinking and high-impact work that has helped women.
Abed, 78, said BRAC may have started small in 1972, focused on helping just one village in Bangladesh, but he always knew the organisation had to grow to make a real difference.
"I always had the view that small and beautiful would not be very helpful for Bangladesh. You need to grow to have impact," Abed told the Thomson Reuters Foundation ahead of an award ceremony at the Trust Women Conference in London on Tuesday.
Abed said dealing with poverty was a stark contrast with his upbringing in a wealthy family in what was then British India.
Educated in Dhaka and then at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, Abed trained as an accountant before returning to East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, to join the Shell oil company.
He rose quickly through the ranks and a successful corporate career stretched before him, but in 1970 everything changed.
A devastating cyclone hit the south of the country, killing 300,000 people, and upsetting Abed so much that he quit corporate life to set up the organisation HELP to provide relief and rehabilitation to victims of the disaster.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
Then came East Pakistan's nine-month fight for independence from Pakistan in 1971, which left the new nation in ruins.
Some 10 million refugees flooded back into Bangladesh and a further 30 million people were displaced.
"The death and devastation that I saw happening in my country made my life as an executive in an oil company seem very inconsequential and meaningless. From then on I was committed to helping change lives," Abed said.
Selling his flat in London, Abed founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, then the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, with the aim of improving the lives of the landless poor, particularly women.
"People thought I was crazy," he laughed.
At first BRAC focused on improving the lives of the poor in just one remote village in Bangladesh but it quickly grew as it saw the need to address crucial problems in Bangladesh, like infant mortality and illiteracy, that no one else was tackling.
BRAC staff started going from door to door, teaching mothers in 16 million homes how to cope with dehydration caused by diarrhoea, a major cause of child mortality.
BRAC also ran a four-year programme to encourage child immunisation, during which the immunisation rate rose to 70 percent of all youngsters from four percent.
"We were different from other organisations as we went from house to house to get the message across, largely to women," Abed said.
"I observed in villages that young girls looked after children, cared for household animals and collected twigs for cooking. The management of poverty was done by women in rural Bangladesh, so why not the management of development?"
The organisation also developed sustainable business models that can be replicated, creating networks of self-employed micro-entrepreneurs using microfinance to build business.
For 30 years BRAC focused its efforts on Bangladesh but in 2001, as millions of refugees started to stream back into Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, Abed realised his experiences in his home country could help other nations too.
"We found programmes that worked in Bangladesh worked well in Afghanistan too, so we then went to Africa with our same strategies but with some cultural adaptations," Abed said.
After more than four decades, BRAC has grown to become the world's largest development organisation, in both its breadth - serving an estimated 135 million people - and its workforce of 100,000, of whom about 70 percent are women.
BRAC operates across Bangladesh and has expanded to 11 countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean - Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, South Sudan and Uganda.
Abed's work has earned him a string of awards, a knighthood in 2010, and this year he was ranked 32nd in Fortune's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders.
Looking back, he said the achievement he is most proud of is BRAC's education programmes which have given seven million children the chance of schooling.
"My only regret is that I should have gone faster and maybe I should have gone abroad earlier because it took us 30 years to come out of Bangladesh," Abed said. (Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Tim Pearce)
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An essay, "Opmerking in Betrekking tot de Landverhuizing naar Noor-amerika [Comments in Relation to the Emigration to North America], published in De Reformatie, Tijdchrift ter Bevordering van Gods Koningrijk in Nederland, 3de Serie, IIde Deel, Amsterdam: Hoogkamer & Compe, 1846, pp. 296-299. The Rev. Hendrik P. Scholte is the author. He writes about financial aspects to consider if persons plan to emigrate to America and gives some ideas about the establishment of Christian colonies in America.
The original documents are held in The Joint Archives of Holland.
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Scholte, Hendrik P. and ten Hoor, Henry, "Essay "Opmerking in Betrekking Tot De Landverhuizing Naar Noor-Amerika [Comments in Relation to the Emigration to North America]"" (1846). Van Raalte Papers: 1840-1849. 77. | <urn:uuid:79d58192-9991-401a-bcb2-dacc5686e96d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/77/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.719371 | 318 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Heard that on a podcast this morning, not sure who first said it. But it’s true, in business.
Now before any artists reading this get upset: I’m not slating anything about art or artists. In fact, art is an important and valuable part of history and society and culture – and thank you all for making it.
That said, when you create marketing materials – emails, videos, presentations, social updates – and you don’t end with a call to action, what you’ve done is a public service…
… without serving your business – like art, it’s good for people and society.
It’s useful, good, gratefully received, builds goodwill and trust and rapport – but it doesn’t serve your business.
Because a business needs customers, and – oddly – you’ll get more of them when you ask.
That doesn’t mean you need to go all ‘buy now’ in everything you put out there, mind you.
You can invite your audience to take any kind of action – so long as you ask them for some kind of action you suggest they take.
“Check out the course…”
“Buy it if it’s right for you”
“Share this with a friend?”
“Tell me, what’s your view?”
“You’ve learned the exercise, now I highly recommend you take some time for it.”
“Now that you know the cost of sloppy thinking, is it time to start thinking better and making better decisions?”
“Think about it…”
You see, there’s a million actions your reader or viewer can take.
The best one for business is one that leads to a sale, of course.
But on days when you’re not driving for a sale, or your intention is to serve or inform or train or entertain, you’re missing out if you don’t also invite the person to take some sort of action.
You’ve just done something intended to change or better their life.
What better thing to do, than to ask them to action it?
Think about it… see how you can work CTA’s into your own materials.
Or, you can talk to me if you’re ready to level up your marketing and sales in a big way.
Either way: I highly recommend you always use a CTA.
P.s. Here’s an example of another fun CTA you can use:
If you’ve considered contacting me about my work but haven’t yet… what’s the thing you want the most for your business… the thing you want so much, that you’ll click this link and schedule a short conversation, so I can learn what you want and you can learn if I’m the right one to help you get it…? | <urn:uuid:bd996070-054e-41ea-a475-a05064272794> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://martinstellar.com/blog/if-theres-no-cta-all-youve-done-is-make-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.905149 | 649 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Oriental Botanicals Calcium Excel 60Tabs
Readily absorbed calcium with vitamin D3 to maintain strong, healthy bones and healthy bone mass.
Features and benefits
- Oriental Botanicals Calcium Excel contains calcium and vitamin D3, which support healthy:
- Bones and teeth
- Bone mass and mineralisation
- Bone development and growth in children and teenagers
- Muscle contraction and immune system function
- Combines calcium glycinate and calcium citrate, which are more readily absorbed and used by the body than other forms of calcium (like calcium carbonate)
- May help prevent osteoporosis in post-menopausal women who aren’t consuming sufficient amounts of calcium from their diet
- Includes vitamin D3, which is needed for both calcium uptake and absorption into the bones
How it works
According to research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, many people in Australia don’t get the daily recommended amount of calcium in their diet, including:
- Nine out of every 10 females (aged 12-18 years and 51 years and older)
- 60% males (aged 12-18 years and 51 years and older)1
Post-menopause and osteoporosis
Teenaged females aged 12-18 years and women 51 years and older have higher requirements for calcium than other age groups.1
Calcium is an important mineral because it can help to prevent a condition called osteoporosis (thin, fragile bones) in post-menopausal women who aren’t consuming sufficient amounts of calcium from their daily diets.
Readily absorbed forms of calcium
Oriental Botanicals Calcium Excel is specially formulated to include calcium glycinate and calcium citrate, which are forms of calcium that are more readily absorbed and used by the body than certain other forms of calcium, such as calcium carbonate.
Calcium for strong, healthy bones and teeth
Oriental Botanicals Calcium Excel contains calcium which supports:
- Strong, healthy bones and healthy teeth
- Healthy muscle contraction
Alongside vitamin D3, calcium also supports healthy bone mass and mineralisation (the amount of bone mineral in bone tissue), as well as healthy bone development and growth in children and teenagers.
Vitamin D for calcium absorption
Vitamin D3 is included in Oriental Botanicals Calcium Excel to aid the uptake of calcium in the body, including its absorption into the bones. Vitamin D3 also supports a healthy immune system.
- Adults: Take 1 tablet two times a day, or as professionally prescribed.
- Children 6-8 years: Give 1 tablet once a day.
- Children 9-17 years: Give 1 tablet two times a day.
- For children unable to swallow tablets, crush the tablet and combine with a small amount of food or liquid and consume promptly.
- Always read the label. Follow the directions for use. If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional. Vitamins and minerals can only be of assistance if dietary intake is inadequate.
Each tablet contains:
|Calcium glycinate (Calcium glycinate)||704.2 mg|
|equiv. to calcium||150mg|
|Calcium citrate tetrahydrate (Calcium citrate tetrahydrate)||721.5mg|
|equiv. to calcium||150mg|
|Colecalciferol (Vitamin D3 500IU)||12.5mcg|
No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives, yeast, wheat, gluten, nuts or dairy products.
During pregnancy, always consult with a qualified healthcare practitioner before taking herbal medicines and nutritional supplements. Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet.
Always read the label. Use only as directed. If symptoms persist consult your healthcare practitioner.
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we have ambitious goals for education and that means we have ambitious goals for fundraising!
We are building this school from scratch.
From the ground up!
So far, we have run on volunteered time, community cheerleading, hard work, kindness,
and an unwavering dedication to create a high quality school.
If you feel a kinship to the values of our school + environmentalism philosophies, please consider donating in one of our membership levels below!
a gift to support our many goals includes: school development, curriculum development, equipment and facility needs, field station establishment, and most of all tuition assistance for future students in need.
If you're interested in becoming a benefactor of our school or making a donation (big or small!) please email us at email@example.com for more information on how to get involved!
$1,000 yearly donation
Spring Season Club
Spring does not exist to prepare for summer. Spring flowers wake up slowly. Soaking in the dew drops and luxuriating in the gentle warm sun as it grows to life. Not to be rushed. This is what we are working towards defending. Children in the spring of their lives who do not need the pressures of summer. Spring undeniably exists just to be spring.
“The best way to equip a child to solve the complex problems she will encounter as an adult is to give her a protected time in childhood to develop the muscles of imagination, the beams and rafters of optimism and hope, and the bricks and mortar of confidence that will enable her to tackle those problems later on.” Edward M. Hallowell “Protecting Childhood” for Parents League Review
This donor level helps us tackle the direct lineage of livable wages of faculty and teachers to the tuition rate for the students and families. How can we systematically support both the children and the adults of our school and why has historically it always been a game of one or the other? If the school is economically priced, then there is a revolving door of minimum-wage teachers since no one can afford to work there and survive. If the tuition rate is high enough that the adults of the school can be paid fairly, then enrollment risks becoming so elitist that only the wealthiest families can receive this education. This is a deep rooted and systematic problem in the world of education and our best chance to have it all is through private donors who can help us see this through. Once we have our start-up funds achieved, donated and fundraised money will go towards the goal to develop our scholarship program and ultimately a more financial need-blind admission process (enrollment based solely on merit not on the ability to afford full tuition).
Spring Season Club members will be invited to exclusive members-only gatherings, open houses, and events. Members will be recognized at events, in our annual newsletter, and in social media with a member spotlight!
6th Generation Society
School Founder Abbie Frank is the 5th generation to live and work on the Bluestem Hall Nature School property. Her child, Clementine is the 6th generation and a member of the first class of students to grace our hallowed hall. We invite all students to symbolically and literally feel at home as members of our 6th generation.
This donor level is a look at the long term effects of what an exceptional nature-based education can do for the next generation. What that might do for our community and environmental stewardship and the level of systematic structure that can make our program thrive. This donation level helps us meet not just immediate demand, but long term planning to grow, develop, add grades, and meet licensing and accreditation requirements.
6th Generation Society Members will be invited to exclusive members-only gatherings, open houses, and events. Members will be recognized at events, in our annual newsletter, and in social media with a member spotlight! This also includes our donor-only “school house dinner” where members can host their own private event on site with 10 friends. This dinner includes the option to be picked up at your home by a working school bus, coming on site for a luxury dinner, relaxing by the fire and enjoying a wonderful evening at our state of the art building. | <urn:uuid:67fb9821-2b1a-434b-9d59-835a5ecf96e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bluestemhall.com/donate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955054 | 870 | 1.53125 | 2 |
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – Pope Francis has designated Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, Archbishop of Cotabato, as his Special Envoy to the celebration of the 150th Rediscovery of the “Hidden Christians” in Nagasaki, Japan on March 16 and 17 this year.
Quevedo told MindaNews the Papal Nuncio “officially confirmed it to me after the Luneta mass” (on January 18) although he was informed about the assignment three months ago.
The Vatican Information Service on January 17 listed as among “Other Pontifical Acts” that day the appointment of Quevedo “as the special envoy of Pope Francis to the special event.”
Christianity in Japan began when three Catholic missionaries – St. Francis Xavier, one of the founders of the Society of Jesus to which the Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Cardinal of Argentina, belongs — and two other missionaries Cosme de Torres and John Fernandes — arrived in Kagoshima, Japan in 1549, intent on spreading the word of God.
Their efforts paid off, the number of Christians rose to about 300,000 including members of the aristocracy, but by the beginning of the next century, Christianity was banned there in 1612, they were forced into practicing their beliefs in hiding.
The “hidden Christians” are locally known as Kakure Kirishitan.
In mid-January last year, Vatican Radio quoted Pope Francis as saying of the Japanese Christians: “That community suffered a severe persecution in the early seventeenth century. There were many martyrs, members of the clergy were expelled and thousands of people were killed. Not a single priest was left in Japan: they were all expelled. The community then went underground, keeping the faith and prayer in hiding.”
The Pope added that when a child was born, “the father or the mother baptized him, because we can all baptize. When, after about two and a half centuries – 250 years later – the missionaries returned to Japan, thousands of Christians came out of hiding and the church could flourish. It had survived by the grace of their Baptism.” (Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews) | <urn:uuid:f227b93c-49bf-4c9e-9cdf-9e910f5b0410> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2015/01/pope-names-cardinal-quevedo-special-envoy-to-japan-event-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.979381 | 465 | 2.109375 | 2 |
To hide its myriad of other crimes, the Syrian government is determined to prevent news of its atrocities against its own citizens from getting out.
Journalists claim that this week they were deliberately targeted by troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and they have released videos pleading for help. On Wednesday, Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik died in the besieged city of Homs when artillery shells and rockets rained down on their makeshift media center. British photographer Paul Conroy, who works for The Sunday Times, was wounded in the artillery strike and is shown in a video lying on a makeshift bed of blankets in a windowless room.
Covering the news in the Middle East is a very high-risk endeavor. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 19 died last year while covering the Arab uprisings.
Syria has for decades been among the most closed of the Middle East autocracies and has a history of repressing any information about internal massacres of its own people. In 1982, the Syrian government brutally quashed an uprising in the town of Hama, Syria’s fourth-largest city and this year again a scene of protests against the government. Entire sections of the city were reduced to rubble, and at least 10,000 people (some estimates are as high was 25,000) were brutally murdered. It was the greatest carnage inflicted by the Syrian government on its own population in modern times. At the time, very little news of the massacre reached the international community, and international reporters struggled to cover the event from the distance of Beirut, with little more than hearsay to go by.
Thousands of Syrians have lost their lives over the 11 months of the Syrian uprising. Yet thanks in part to the courage of journalists determined tell the story, and in part to new technology, Syrians have been able to connect with the rest of the world and plead their case. Syrians are using innovative ways of logging onto the Internet in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game, even when the Syrian government shuts down its servers.
But activists who work to get video and information out via the Internet are extremely vulnerable. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Syrians using Facebook to smuggle video footage to reporters across the world were consequently tracked by the Syrian Electronic Army, a government-sponsored hacking group, and tortured by government authorities.
The Syrian government has turned the Internet into another battleground—and it has learned from the experience of other Middle Eastern regimes. Sophisticated Web surveillance of the anti-government movement has led to arrests, while pro-government hackers use the Internet to attack activists and their causes. An army of young, tech-savvy Syrians is waging a more sophisticated pro-regime effort, flooding Facebook, news sites, and Web pages. The Internet has become almost as dangerous as protesting on the street, according to Syrian activists. After being arrested and often tortured, activists are forced to stay online for intelligence gathering by the Syrian Security Service.
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- 1 Where did the Cowboys play before AT&T stadium?
- 2 How many AT&T stadium’s are there?
- 3 How many times has the roof been open at AT&T stadium?
- 4 What’s the most expensive stadium in the world?
- 5 How much did taxpayers pay for AT&T stadium?
- 6 Who owns the AT&T Stadium?
- 7 What NFL stadium cost most?
- 8 What football stadium holds the most fans?
- 9 How long does it take to close the roof at AT&T stadium?
Where did the Cowboys play before AT&T stadium?
History. The Cowboys had played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas since their inception in 1960.
How many AT&T stadium’s are there?
The telecommunications conglomerate currently has three U.S. sports venues that bear its name: AT&T Stadium in Dallas, AT&T Center in San Antonio and AT&T Park in San Francisco.
How many times has the roof been open at AT&T stadium?
Retractable doors, roof will likely be open to increase airflow. There have been 92 Cowboys games played at AT&T Stadium, including postseason. Only 16 times have the doors and roof been open simultaneously.
What’s the most expensive stadium in the world?
- SoFi Stadium – $5.5bn.
- Allegiant Stadium – $1.9bn.
- Mercedes-Benz Stadium – $1.5bn.
- Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – $1.33bn.
- Singapore National Stadium – $1.31bn.
- Levi’s Stadium – $1.3bn.
- Globe Life Field – $1.2bn.
- Krestovsky Stadium – $1.1bn.
How much did taxpayers pay for AT&T stadium?
That’s why they approved $135 million of taxpayer contributions for the venue formerly known as the Ballpark in Arlington more than two decades ago. That’s why they voted to give billionaire Jerry Jones $325 million for that 73-acre glass-and-steel boil known as AT&T Stadium.
Who owns the AT&T Stadium?
What NFL stadium cost most?
Metlife Stadium – Construction Costs: $1.6 Billion Home of the New York Giants and the New York Jets, Metlife Stadium tops off the list of most expensive NFL stadiums ever built.
What football stadium holds the most fans?
The Michigan football Stadium is the largest American football stadium by seating capacity.
How long does it take to close the roof at AT&T stadium?
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Foxconn is examining an expansion into India to both skirt a potential US-imposed tariff, as well as to help Apple comply with Indian requirements to manufacture locally.
Apple's major iPhone assembler, Foxconn, is looking to produce the phones in India to lessen the company's dependence on China. This corroborates reports in India's The Economic Times which claimed in December 2018 that Foxconn was about to invest approximately $214 million in a local plant.
"Senior [Foxconn] executives, possibly including Chairman Terry Gou, plan to visit India after next months' Lunar New Year to discuss plans," writes the Wall Street Journal, quoting sources familiar with the plans.
The report says that Foxconn's plan is to produce higher-end iPhones in India. Currently Apple partner Wistron makes the lower-end iPhone SE and iPhone 6s in India. Details on the Taiwan Stock Exchange this month confirmed that Wistron is investing $340 million in expansion, though this is unlikely to be all for iPhones as the company assembles for other firms.
Foxconn also assembles devices for different companies, and some of that work uses existing plants in India. If plans to expand into iPhone production are correct, then the move would ease Foxconn's reliance on China — and potentially also reduce the impact of any US-China trade war on Apple. For similar reasons, Foxconn has also been reportedly considering moving production to Vietnam.
Unlike Vietnam, however, a move to India would also help another issue facing Apple. India imposes stiff taxes on imports, to encourage manufacturers selling phones in that country to also make them there. Apple has already looked to producing refurb iPhones to fulfil this obligation.
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Rep. John Lewis to lie in state next week at the US Capitol
WASHINGTON – Rep. John Lewis will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol next week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have announced.
Lewis, a civil rights icon and longtime member of Congress, died July 17 at after a months-long battle with cancer. He was 80.
An invitation-only ceremony will be held Monday afternoon while Lewis lies in state at the Capitol Rotunda. The general public will be allowed to visit the Capitol and pay their respects later Monday and on Tuesday.
Lewis will lie in state outdoors for the public visitation on the east front steps of the Capitol because of COVID-19 precautions.
In accordance with Washington's coronavirus guidelines, all visitors will be required to wear a mask, and social distancing will be enforced.
The Capitol is still closed to public tours because of the pandemic, and lawmakers have been asked to follow social distancing protocols inside the building.
Lewis' family asked that people not travel from across the country to Washington, D.C., because of the pandemic. They instead asked for virtual tributes online with the hashtags #BelovedCommunity or #HumanDignity.
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The proceedings in Washington are part of six days of ceremonies to celebrate Lewis' life. A military guard will accompany his casket through all the events, and social distancing and face masks will be required at all of the events. The events will also be livestreamed.
Before the honors in Washington, two days of observances will be held in Alabama. Lewis will lie in repose at Troy University, in Troy, Alabama, and at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama.
On Sunday morning, the procession will cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, , which Lewis crossed with civil rights marchers in 1965 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday" after marchers were beaten by state troopers. Lewis was to lie in state at the Alabama State Capitol on Sunday evening.
After two days of observances in Washington, the procession will travel to Georgia on Wednesday morning. Lewis will lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol on Wednesday; a celebration of life will be held Thursday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. | <urn:uuid:0d0cae8a-0885-4c5b-bf1c-32dcbd99fd1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/23/rep-john-lewis-lie-state-u-s-capitol/5497289002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950984 | 528 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Being thankful is a daily practice for most people, but when November comes, we in the US think about Thanksgiving. This by default makes us think about things we are thankful for and not just the feast on Thanksgiving Day.
Here are a few things I came up with for myself. Maybe it will encourage you to come up with a list of your own to share with others. I am thankful that…
- I still have function of my five essential senses. I do not take them for granted.
- I still have people who talk to and with me.
- I have something I don’t find in all people I interact with, empathy for others.
- I am still able to function reasonably well, even though some disappointments threaten to cripple me.
- I am able to be encouraging to others even when others don’t encourage me.
- I still have hope in this very confusing world.
- I sometimes complain about my life, but I am still able to help others who have a greater need than myself.
- I have the ability to unselfishly pray for the welfare of others.
- I find inspiration in the simple things.
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How to Quill Paper: 40+ Free Paper Quilling Patterns
Learn how to quill paper into all sorts of useful and beautiful designs.
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The art of paper quilling or paper filigree is a timeless craft that can be used for almost any project. From decorative items like wall hangings or coasters to DIY embellishments for scrapbook pages and cards, free paper quilling patterns are as versatile as they are beautiful.
While the finished works are so beautiful that they might seem daunting, don't let this stop you! Once you learn how to quill paper, a gate will be opened to a world of paper crafting possibility. Embellish all of your upcoming paper crafts with quilled spirals, DIY paper flowers, snowflakes, and more when you explore these 40+ Free Paper Quilling Patterns.
In the categories below, you will find Homemade Card Ideas, How to Make Paper Jewelry, and More Free Quilling Patterns. There are varying degrees of skill level in each category, so take a look and see what you want to try next. We are always adding more incredible quilling ideas and quilling designs on AllFreePaperCrafts, too.
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How to Quill Paper
Here are some quick tips for learning how to quill paper. Quilling for beginners means getting the basics down and choosing simple shapes. Paper quilling is a fun craft to learn but does take practice and patience. Follow these steps to become familiar with this paper craft skill and, before you know it, you'll be making your own unbelievable paper quilling designs.
1. Familiarize yourself with the tools and strips of paper. Some quilling projects can be made with homemade tools and hand cut paper strips but if you're beginning, it's best to buy a quilling needle or slotted tool and precut quilling strips.
2. Learn the basic paper quilling shapes. There are only a few basic shapes you need to learn in order to start quilling. Getting these fundamental paper quilling shapes will become the foundation for your paper projects.
3. Practice. Use worksheets to practice your quilling shapes before creating a new project.
4. Start with beginner projects. It can be tempting to choose a more complicated quilling piece, but you should start with simple designs, such as coils, flowers, hearts, or feathers.
Below, you will also find several helpful articles and video tutorials to look over and help you learn everything there is to know about paper quilling.
Quilling Greeting Cards
Homemade cards always look more thoughtful when they have added embellishments, and quilled flowers are a fabulous way to embellish any handmade card. From roses to daisies to grasses and more, these homemade card ideas have the loveliest decorations. Thanks to these quilling greeting cards, you'll never buy a card from the store again!
Ask your niece what her favorite color is, grab a pattern for your friend's favorite flower, and start quilling gorgeous embellishments for handmade cards today!
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Want to learn how to make paper jewelry that will dazzle? Turn your paper quilling into wearable paper crafts! These earrings and necklaces will be a hit when you wear them to family gatherings or give them as gifts to your loved ones. Quilling paper jewelry will instantly add a professional finish to any jewelry project.
Use beautiful metallic quilling paper to give your jewelry projects a lustrous sheen. Quilled hearts and flowers make gorgeous pendants. Accessorize with paper and amaze everyone you see.
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Decorate your home, Christmas tree, handmade cards, or scrapbook layouts with any of these remaining tutorials. String together several paper snowflakes to create a lovely garland for the winter season, and learn how to make paper flowers with various quilled coils. These quilling designs are quite remarkable.
No matter what occasion you want to commemorate, you will find a beautiful paper quilling tutorial to suit your interests.
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Space Tourism: Is it a fad or here to stay?
This month has been historic for space-faring billionaires.
On July 11, British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson’s Unity “rocket-plane” took him and five other passengers up to 85 kilometers above the Earth. Earlier this week, Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard capsule reached a height of 106 kilometers with him, his brother, and the oldest and youngest people ever to reach such a height. On both flights, passengers experienced weightlessness for several minutes while taking in breathtaking views of our beautiful and fragile Earth.
Growing up, many of us longed to become the next Neil Armstrong. Space travel seemed like an impossible dream, one that only astronauts could fulfill. The idea of space tourism was seen as nothing more than science fiction. That was, until 2021 — when two of the world’s wealthiest billionaires (now space tycoons) took off into space and unleashed a new era of space tourism. But will the idea of space tourism really become anything more than just an overpriced thrill ride for the rich?
The space realm has historically been a domain of military and government-sponsored space agencies like NASA and Roscosmos. Nevertheless, there has been a paradigm shift in recent years, with more and more companies making a name for themselves by putting hardware in space. Just take a look at Elon Musk’s private space firm SpaceX, for example.
A reality for the rich, not the masses
SpaceX’s cutting-edge technology is what allowed them to significantly reduce the cost of a ticket on the Falcon 9. The newer, more accurate technology for steering and re-orienting the second stage of their rockets allows them to use less fuel and still hit their target with precision.
From the beginning, Elon Musk has claimed his goal for SpaceX was to make space travel affordable. But is it truly affordable? Long story short: no. Not for us commoners anyway — he probably meant that just for NASA.
At the moment, a seat on the Crew Dragon capsule (a spacecraft by SpaceX) costs NASA an estimated $55m, compared to the $90m NASA paid Roscosmos for a ride on the Soyuz. In the long run, SpaceX is effectively saving NASA millions of dollars. This could be the reason why it won the bid for a multibillion-dollar contract to build NASA’s next human landing system to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface.
Some new space tourism companies are promoting these joy rides as “bringing space to the masses.” For years, if you wanted to fly as a space tourist, you had to broker with the Russians to pay for a seat on the Soviet-era Soyuz class spacecraft for a cool $25m, as seven people did between 2001 and 2009.
The race to space
Other major players like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are also fighting to be the biggest fish in the pond of space tourism, which has already seen hundreds of people pay multimillion-dollar deposits just to get a ticket.
Virgin Galactic has already sold tickets to around 600 passengers at a price between $200,000 and $250,000 each, although the company plans to substantially raise the price for its first few commercial flights. In addition to celebrity passengers like Tom Hanks and Lady Gaga, Elon Musk will also be aboard the rocket.
It is unclear when Blue Origin will determine its ticket prices, but Bezos expects his company to price flights on its more traditional rocket, New Shepard, on par with its rivals.
Seeing earth’s curvature is certainly a life-changing experience, but what are we aiming for here? Spending thousands of dollars to float weightlessly in space? Snapping a quick photo of the view of Earth from space for your Instagram? The answer to any of these questions does not seem reasonable for anyone to spend thousands of dollars to go into outer space. So, why are we calling space tourism the next big thing?
Let’s call it out for what it is
The excitement of having space tourism as a real-life concept wears off once you get into the nitty-gritty details. Space vehicles from Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin travel in suborbital space. These rockets do not yet fly high enough to orbit the earth. Therefore they are in a completely different category to – say, NASA or SpaceX – founded by fellow billionaire Elon Musk – which has been NASA’s preferred launch vehicle for resupplying the International Space Station and deploying new satellites.
Thus, whether a passenger reaches suborbital and orbital space is the primary difference in the destinations of the human spaceflight offerings in development. Thanks to that difference, there are notable differences in the experience, cost, and risk of what it means to be a space tourist.
Even though these new space rockets are more energy efficient compared to older spacecrafts, they still consume tons of fuel going through the atmosphere – not aiding in the fight against climate change. In fact, the repercussions of flying into space has scientists worried. A study revealed that rockets emit 100 times more CO2 per passenger than flights. So, imagine a whole industry.
The bottom line is: space tourism is a reality only for those who can afford it. But, it will have repercussions for everyone on Earth.
The brighter side
Space tourism is a hot topic, especially as Virgin Galactic prepares to launch its first suborbital flights. But just how popular will space travel become? The truth, is we have no idea what the future holds – but it’s an exciting area to study. Space tourism is quickly becoming a realistic dream. But like everything else in this world, it has its pros and cons.
You’ve seen the headlines. The fantasy of space tourism is closer than ever to reality. Virgin Galactic even believes this will be a multi-billion-dollar industry by 2030. Normalizing space travel could create numerous opportunities. By providing near-daily flights in the future, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital journeys will open up a world of science, including the possibility of conducting tests in microgravity environments.
It may appear to be a fad, like remote work once was. But one thing is clear: the space tourism market will evolve in various ways. Because space travel can provide an invaluable service in advancing science: it can help unlock the secrets that are located in space. And those secrets don’t have a price. | <urn:uuid:4e5cf993-a21b-409c-bd01-85e06c0c3e32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dev.vacationtracker.io/blog/space-tourism-is-it-a-fad-or-here-to-stay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950906 | 1,322 | 2.578125 | 3 |
David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
Every day, Isidoro Flores Contreras stands at the edge of a parking lot in Sand City selling $15 bouquets of flowers. And every evening, he returns to a small apartment that he shares with four other people.
Flores Contreras, who makes about $300 a week, is highly vulnerable to the coronavirus — both at work, which he had to stop until Monterey County’s health order was eased, and at home.
He lives in the most crowded ZIP code in Monterey County, sleeping in the living room of a two-bedroom apartment. His housing conditions put him at high risk: The millions of Californians who live in overcrowded houses are more likely to be infected with the coronavirus, according to an analysis of health data by The California Divide, a statewide media collaboration.
The hardest-hit neighborhoods have three times the rate of overcrowding and twice the rate of poverty as the neighborhoods that have largely escaped the virus. And the neighborhoods with the most infections are disproportionately populated by people of color.
About 6.3 million Californians, or 16%, live in overcrowded housing. A third of those, 2.1 million, inhabit severely overcrowded housing. California has the second-highest rate of crowded households in the nation, about 2.5 times higher than the nationwide rate.
About two-thirds of the people who live in these crowded homes — some 4 million people — are essential workers or live with at least one essential worker. Health experts say this creates a perfect storm for the coronavirus: people crowded together in homes at night and spending days working on the front lines, exposed to a lot of people both at work and at home.
Hot spots for overcrowded homes are spread throughout California, including the Salinas Valley, Oakland, Los Angeles and desert towns near the US-Mexico border.
Monterey County, home to many farmworkers, leads the state in overcrowding with one in every seven households crowded. In Monterey and San Benito counties, nearly one in 10 households, the highest rate in the state, are both overcrowded and include an essential worker.
During a pandemic, this can be deadly.
Crowded communities hit hardest
Flores Contreras lives in the Alisal, a Mexican and Mexican-American community in Salinas where 61,000 people are squeezed onto a parcel of land less than three square miles.
The Alisal, where 22% live in poverty, is the center of the coronavirus outbreak. About 31% of patients in Monterey County diagnosed with COVID-19 live in the 93905 ZIP code, even though just 14% of the county’s population lives there.
Many, like Flores Contreras, live doubled or tripled up, which heightens the risk of transmission. In the 93905 ZIP code, where the Alisal lies, 31% of homes are crowded. An average of 4.5 people live in each household.
The Census Bureau defines overcrowding as a home with more people than rooms, while a home with more than 1.5 people per room is severely crowded. California’s overcrowded homes are due, in part, to the sky-high cost of housing. Nearly a third of California renter households spend more than half their income on rent.
In Monterey County’s eleven ZIP codes, the five areas most heavily burdened by the virus had 2.5 times more crowded housing than areas with the fewest people diagnosed, as of June 8.
Drive 22 miles west from the Alisal, and you’ll arrive in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a wealthy hamlet of fewer than 4,000 people on the edge of the Pacific. Here, the median income is almost $91,000 and just 3.9% of homes are crowded. Fewer than five people (the county’s reporting cutoff) have been diagnosed with COVID-19, compared with 233 in the Alisal’s ZIP code as of June 9.
Oakland is another area with wide disparities, based on which neighborhood people live in. In the ZIP code that contains the affluent Montclair neighborhood and Piedmont city, just 1% of homes are overcrowded. Fewer than one in every 1,000 residents tested positive for the coronavirus there. But across town, in majority Latino neighborhoods like Fruitvale, the infection rate was six times higher as of late May and 21% of homes are overcrowded.
An April analysis of New York City emergency department data found neighborhoods with more residential overcrowding tended to have more emergency department visits for influenza-like illness in March compared with the previous four years.
“What we’ve been generally seeing is very high transmission rates within a household. … You can imagine if there’s less space, if people have to share room, it’s going to be really hard to isolate people,” said Justin Feldman, an NYU social epidemiologist who conducted the research.
Neighborhoods with more foreign-born residents, poverty and Latino residents had the biggest increases.
“And who do we know is living in crowded housing?” asked Feldman. “People who are lower income, they’re more likely to be immigrants, more likely to have to go to work.”
Essential workers stuffed into homes
Social distancing is especially hard for essential workers, who must leave their homes regularly to keep the rest of the United States fed and sheltered.
According to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California, essential workers are more likely than nonessential workers to live in overcrowded housing — 16% versus 12%. More than a third of California’s labor force works in essential jobs that mean they must be physically present, such as farming, fishing or forestry. Nearly a third of farmworkers and people who work in restaurants live in overcrowded homes.
Crowded housing also puts Latinos at higher risk. Latino households are nearly eight times as likely as white households to be crowded.
At the low-income health clinic where Dr. Efrain Talamantes works in Los Angeles, most patients arriving with coronavirus symptoms are essential or service workers, Latino, low-income and live in crowded housing.
“Patients who live in places where there’s no privacy … when you tell someone to get in a room and stay away from their loved ones, it’s almost nonsense to them,” said Talamantes.
He said patients are often just as worried about staying housed as they are about the virus, and fear being evicted if their landlord finds out they’ve contracted COVID-19.
“What we’re most concerned about is how this virus is going to exacerbate inequalities in communities where we’ve made so much progress since the last recession. It really takes a toll on the communities they’re in,” Talamantes said.
In Los Angeles, as many as two in every five households are overcrowded in some neighborhoods. The areas most heavily burdened by COVID-19 had twice the rate of crowded housing as the areas least hard hit.
Ricardo Hernandez and his family of five live in West Adams, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles where 83% of residents are Latino or black, in a two-bedroom home his parents purchased years ago. In West Adams, about 17% of households are overcrowded, and there were about seven coronavirus cases for every 1,000 residents in late May, almost three times the statewide rate of 2.6 per 1,000.
For months, Hernandez, his wife and two sons shared one bedroom, while his mother, a diabetic, and his brother, a kidney transplant survivor, shared the other. Because of their health problems, they are both highly vulnerable to severe effects if they are infected with the virus.
“We remove our shoes before entering the house, we disinfect door knobs often and we wash our hands as much as we can,” said Hernandez.
Although it was hard, Hernandez said it had been beneficial to stay at home together during the pandemic.
“I feel this is a mental, moral cure and a peace of mind because we know how we are doing when we see each other,” he said.
‘I can’t fly to the moon’
For California’s farmworkers, crowded housing is the norm, whether it’s a rental unit, a farmworker shelter, or employer-provided, barracks-style housing.
On the northern edge of the Salton Sea in Riverside County, Gloria Gomez runs the Galilee Center, a boarding house for farmworkers who stay in Mecca for just months at a time.
The pandemic has completely changed their operations. The center expanded its hours to 24 hours a day, provides three full meals a day instead of two and stopped charging farmworkers the usual $7 a day for room and board. Staff moved the beds six feet apart, reduced residents and cleans the dorms every two hours.
Gomez said many of the farmworkers have caught the coronavirus from another relative in the home, unable to properly quarantine themselves in too-small housing. In recent weeks, Mecca had three farmworkers die from COVID-19, according to the Desert Sun.
Enrique Reyes, a farmworker in Mecca, has one of the coveted 34 farmworker beds at Galilee Center.
Before the pandemic began, he fought with his wife and moved out of the two-bedroom Salton City trailer they share with their two kids and two grandchildren. But now, he said, he doesn’t want to move back for fear of bringing the virus into their home, and he can’t miss work.
“Nada es cien por ciento,” said Reyes. “¿Qué más puedo hacer? No me puedo ir a la luna ni llevar mi familia a la luna. Tengo que seguir las reglas como todas las personas.” In English, “Nothing is certain, but what else can I do? I can’t fly to the moon or take my family to the moon with me. I have to just follow the rules like everybody else.”
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Decades of consumerism, fueled by the concept of short-term convenience, has left our planet drowning in plastic waste. Much of it is used just once and then thrown away, polluting oceans and contaminating our bodies. At the center of this problem lies the effectiveness of eliminating plastic while its production remains high and there are fewer places that process it. As a result, a few corporations and communities are being forced to deal with waste in other ways rather than recycling — the main form of plastic disposal many people have relied on over the years.
“The public opinion about [recycling] is very naive,” says Rowland Geyer, a Professor of Industrial Ecology at University of California Santa Barbara, who specializes in green supply chain management. Geyer wants to make one thing clear: recycling by itself is a ‘pseudo solution’ to eliminating plastic waste. “[People] recycle because they believe in it, but it is not a real part of the solution,” he adds.
In fact, eliminating plastic becomes almost a surreal idea when considering the staggering amount of plastic discarded each year. In its June 2018 edition ‘Planet or Plastic’, National Geographic’s Laura Parker’s bombshell article uncovered that 44% of all plastic that has ever been manufactured globally has been made since 2000. Additionally, 448 million tons of plastic was produced in 2015 alone, with 40 percent of that — some 161 million tons — for single-use packaging that never gets recycled or incinerated. In fact, until 2018, less than a fifth of all plastics was ever recycled, and only 12% was incinerated globally: As a result, an estimated 8 million tons of plastic bottles. A 2016 study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has projected that if considerable reduction in production is not implemented, oceans could have more plastic than fish by 2050.
Besides the ugly aesthetic of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for example, plastic pollution has other dire consequences. Scientists at the Medical University of Vienna found the presence of microplastics in human excrement just last Summer. The tiny fragments of plastic originated from waste accumulated in the sea was ingested by sea animals, and then integrated into the food chain.
While the health effects of microplastics on the human body are still being investigated, the impact of plastics on climate change are now better understood by scientists. In addition to plastic being a direct product of the greenhouse-gas emitting fossil-fuel industry, researchers at the University of Hawaii found that when plastics degrade, they produce two greenhouse gases, methane and ethylene. When exposed to solar radiation these contribute to global warming. “[The] results show that plastics represent a heretofore unrecognized source of climate-relevant trace gases that are expected to increase as more plastic is produced and accumulated in the environment,” wrote the study‘s authors.
Despite all the data, the plastic industry is not slowing down production. In fact, the petrochemical-plastic sector is expected to expand in the next decades. According to the World Economic Forum about 8 percent of world oil production is used to make plastic today. By 2050, it is forecast to rise to 20 percent worldwide. Meanwhile in the United States, with President Donald Trump having withdrawn from the 2015 Paris Agreement and the Environmental Protection Agency actively deregulating pollution controls, the petrochemical industry announced more than $200 billion in new investment last September. This astounding figure will contribute to the expansion of factories, pipelines and other infrastructure along the Gulf Coast’s corridor in order to establish a new plastics and petrochemical belt across Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York. These projects are designed to cut costs of plastic and chemicals produced in the U.S. by using raw materials from the region’s fracked gas.
Recycling is a not a solution because it is finite, does not contribute to significantly reduce plastic waste, and recently, has become more expensive.
A plastic submarket also slated for expansion is synthetic-based products. According to Grand View Research — a chemicals, materials, and energy research firm — the global market for PVC (polyvinyl chloride, used to make credit cards, pipes and synthetic leather, for example) and PET (polyethylene terephthalate, used to make plastic bottles, food jars and clothing) was valued at $3.52 billion in 2016. By 2025, it is estimated to grow by 4.3%. And, a higher global demand for synthetic fibers — polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex — used for clothing, home furnishing and automotive applications — is expected to grow by 6.3% reaching $88.5 billion by 2025. These market expansions in turn are likely to fuel even greater plastic pollution.
Recycling: a pseudo solution
In response to the myriad problems that plastic use has created over the years, we have repeatedly turned to and relied on recycling. However, it is a not a solution because it is finite, it does not contribute to significantly reduce plastic waste, and recently, it has become more expensive. As a result, the recycling industry has been left with lower revenues and fewer options to rid of its recyclable materials.
Recycling has its limitations because plastic materials cannot be recycled forever. Plastic consists of a long chain of polymers, and each time it is recycled the chain gets shorter, resulting in a lower quality plastic. Geyer explains that, “[in] each cycle you have some yield losses, [and] you have to deal with contamination, and reduction in quality of materials.” “Eventually you’ll have to dispose it again,” he adds.
This is the case of companies that upcycle plastic into their production lines, for example. The clothing industry has been proactively incorporating recycled synthetic fibers from plastic bottles into their puffer jackets, fleece pullovers, parkas and even swimwear over the years. Everlane, for example, has used some 3 million bottles to make its first batch of clothing products in 2018, andFair Harbor Clothing has repurposed recycled plastic bottles into its swimwear line. The apparel, footwear, and home goods companyUnifi has recycled more than 10 billion plastic bottles into fibers. By 2020, it plans to use 20 billion more bottles, and by 2022, 30 billion. At the end of their life cycle, these products will ultimately end up either in a landfill or an incineration center, both of which contribute to the warming of the planet.
Repurposing plastic into clothing or everyday items alone hasn’t been able to put a dent into the vast amounts of plastic waste created. According to the Euromonitor International and Container Recycling Institute, “nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute around the world. In 2015, Americans purchased about 346 bottles per person – totaling 111 billion plastic beverage bottles in all.” And,Nestlé recently admitted that recycling its water bottles is not enough to deal with the enormous plastic waste pollution. It announced plans to make all of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, and will incorporate single-use paper and other alternatives in its product line.
Recycling programs have also become more expensive. That’s because since January 2018, China started implementing a broader anti-pollution campaign banning various types of plastic and tightening the standards for materials it accepts. With that, the U.S.’s recycling industry has suffered with higher costs. According to theNational Waste and Recycling Association China’s new policies have forced recyclers to slow down the lines and add more sorters, which has increased processing costs. Also, other markets are not “economically viable” to absorb the costs of recycling, so the materials are either stockpiling in recycling plants or have ended up at one of the 2,000 landfills across the U.S.
These regulations have also put more pressure in communities. Since 2018, hundreds of U.S. cities have discontinued or curtailed their curb-side recycling programs because the costs became higher than officials and residents were willing or able to pay. New York, San Diego, Pittsburg, Seattle, Philadelphia and Deltona, in Florida are a few. Deltona, for example, used to receive $39,000 in rebates for sale of its recyclables, but since China’s ‘green fence’ policy, the cost of recycling nearly doubled and the rebates disappeared.
As a result, the plastic recycling industry has experienced lower revenues “due to depressed commodity prices.” Plastic waste used to be America’s sixth largest export to China. In 2015, it was valued at more than $300 million, but in the first quarter of 2018, revenue dropped to $7.6 million. With China’s new restrictions, recyclers have to rid of some materials at much lower prices, forcing the industry to sell at a loss, and those changes have left the industry scrambling to find new markets to buy U.S.’s 1.42 million tons of scrap plastics. The markets left to absorb part of this waste are Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.
In an attempt to mitigate global plastic pollution, a group of nearly 30 multi-national companies — all with ties to the plastics-industry chain — recently announced a $1.5 billion commitment over five years to promote recycling technologies, to train communities on waste prevention, and to invest in waste management infrastructure, specifically in Southeast Asia. David Taylor, CEO of Procter & Gamble, and the chairman of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), said in a press release that the campaign is a “comprehensive effort to date to end plastic waste in the environment.”
However, environmental groups believe the effort is mere ‘greenwashing.’ Greenpeace’s Global Plastics Project Leader Graham Forbes believes AEPW’s campaign is a desperate move by the industry to maintain the status quo and continue production of plastics. “Make no mistake about it: plastics are a lifeline for the dying fossil fuel industry, and [this] announcement goes to show how far companies will go to preserve it,” Forbes said in a statement. He continued, “[t]he same companies that rely on cheap plastics to profit off of countries in the Global South are now looking to build up some infrastructure so they can claim they tried to tackle the plastics problem, while ensuring their profits keep rolling in. The truth is we will never escape this plastic pollution crisis through better recycling and waste management efforts.”
Alternatives to Recycling: Reduce and Reuse
So how does one solve the problem of plastic pollution? It is unlikely that real change will come from within the plastic industry any time soon. But given its complexity and scope, some businesses, organizations, communities and even consumers are making more responsible decisions, and putting pressure on the industry to find alternatives to plastic — small steps towards mitigating this ever-growing problem.
Although recycling has taken a more prominent role than it deserves to reduce plastic waste, Geyer says “there’s not enough talk about reducing and reusing, which are more powerful solutions than recycling.” One simple concept, he points out, is the waste hierarchy, which is represented diagrammatically by a pyramid where reduction and reuse are higher than recycling.
“I’m very much focusing on the source reduction and the reuse pieces,” Geyer says. “Source reduction typically means just using less.” As examples of source reduction for consumers, he lists: buying unpackaged or less-packaged goods, rather than packed ones; buying reusable items and using them a lot; and simply buying longer-lasting and durable products. At the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB where Geyer teaches, for example, every student, staff and faculty member gets a metal cup. “If you want a drink at our parties, you better bring your reusable cup, so everyone does,” he quips.
From a business perspective, however, what about making corporations responsible for the disposal of their products? — what’s known as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Geyer says this concept is still challenging. “When you say, let’s recycle, you’re talking about creating a whole new industry,” he explains. “As soon as you say ‘less [production of something]’, you’re talking from an economic point of view, you make everyone unhappy, unless, you say, let’s figure out a business model [that] is most effective environmentally.” In other words, if we truly want to tackle plastic pollution, you cannot link it to a growth-based economic model, he explains.
But, not all companies are running away from EPR. One example is Patagonia, which has established the Worn Wear program a few years ago. The company is not only helping reduce the use of virgin materials but is also giving its customers the opportunity to repair, reuse, and recycle their gear. “I think the leadership in Patagonia knows at this point that selling more fleeces, recycled polyester, is not really the end goal,” Geyer says. “Ideally, you’d at some point make sure the product lasts as long as it can. [And] mending and repairing things can do that, [so] we’re back to doing things the way our grandparents did.”
In other countries, businesses are also embracing the reduce and reuse concept. In Denmark and the UK, parents are leasing baby and children’s clothing, instead of buying them, in order to reduce their footprint. “The idea is, we know that we buy nice baby clothes, and at 9 months the baby has outgrown it,” he points out. “So, [leasing] it sort of has a limited life folded into it.”
Other industries are creating biopolymers, green chemistry and fiber engineering, as well as, chemical recycling of end-of-life plastic into virgin materials. Biome Bioplastics in the UK, for example, has developed from natural materials a “fully compostable and recyclable cup using potato starch, corn starch and cellulose.” These, plus the adoption of novel materials, reusable and multi-use alternatives, are all positive steps towards the goal of zero plastic waste.
While these alternatives to recycling plastic waste have been getting more traction, a group of about 1,400 organizations from around the world launched the Break Free From Plastic campaign recently, which focuses on stopping plastic pollution by reducing single-use plastic and focusing on zero waste.
“[In] the end, it all comes down to implementing something that should truly reduce impact. And, it kind of bring us all back to reduction,” Geyer concludes.
Many communities in the U.S. are adopting such reduction campaign. A growing number of cities and states started banning single-use plastics, for example. Some that have discontinued their recycling programs are using the money saved from the program to educate its residents about recyclable materials and reduction of plastic consumption. This is the case of Deltona in Florida.
In the end, what is needed is a comprehensive plan by governments, industry, businesses and scientists to reduce plastic production while curtailing all the plastic waste generated in the last 80 years. Without attacking this problem head-on, plastic waste will continue to exponentially grow, and contribute to global warming. In the absence of such a proposal, consumers will have to start making better decisions about how much plastic they buy and dispose.
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Cryptocurrency—it seems that these days, everyone is talking about it. Some fear it, others think it will improve life as we know it. However, no one can doubt the fact that it’s here to stay.
No matter if you’re investing in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum, (ETH), or another alternative crypto, you’re going to need to become familiar with Bitcoin ATMs. This article will walk you through all you need to know about taking out your bitcoin so you can use it.
What is a Bitcoin ATM?
A Bitcoin ATM is a type of kiosk that’s rapidly increasing in popularity around the United States. They allow someone to use cash or a debit card to purchase Bitcoin (or another currency). If you haven’t seen one pop up yet, keep your eyes out; they’re rapidly growing in popularity.
Bitcoin ATM’s will take our world into the crypto-driven world into the future. And it doesn’t just stop at Bitcoin either; Dogecoin is now available in 1,800 ATMs worldwide—that’s a long way for a currency named after a popular internet meme.
Transaction fees are yet to be standardized. They’re usually set up by the company that owns the ATM. People use bitcoin ATMs for any number of reasons: sometimes it’s because they get paid in cash, other times it’s just because they enjoy interacting with an in-person machine.
You can find bitcoin ATMs at a variety of places, but for the most part, they’re pretty low-key. They’ve been found in cigar shops, smoke shops, 7-elevens, and convenience stores.
Bitcoin ATMs are currently in every state except for Alaska. To find one near you, get info on bitcoin ATMs today.
Did Covid Impact Bitcoin?
The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic handicapped many businesses, but it seems that bitcoin ATMs have remained unimpaired. Reports say that stimulus checks coming in inspired people to invest in digital currency, and therefore use the ATMs more.
Could Bitcoin ATMs Improve Our Society?
There’s a strong case to be made that bitcoin ATMs add a level of convenience, speed, and opportunity to the process of investing in digital currency. This could help out disadvantaged people—or just people who don’t have a lot of time to spend.
The whole world is going digital, with Amazon dominating the world of gift-shopping, and uber-eats taking over the world of food delivery. Why shouldn’t banking get a digital overhaul as well? Bitcoin ATMs are the next step in the incorporation of bitcoin into our everyday lives.
Cryptocurrency ATMs Grant Access
If you’re looking to access your cryptocurrency all across the country, look no further than the surface of bitcoin ATMs. They’re rapidly growing in popularity, and by the time the year is out, you’ll most likely have a bitcoin ATM near you that you can visit. As Bob Dylan says, the times they are a-changing; it’s best to get on board before they pass you by.
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The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, but you’re still feeling blah? Steven Gundry, MD, explains why: As we age, our ‘cellular energy engines’ get tired. “The reason you feel you ‘don’t have it in you’ is because you literally don’t,” he says. In his new book, The Energy Paradox, Dr. Gundry reveals his all-day energy strategies to end tiredness.
Savor a ‘Super Seed’
To keep tiredness at bay, Dr. Gundry recommends foods rich in prebiotic fiber. This spurs the creation of beneficial fats that generate energy in cells, boosting pep by 55 percent for three hours. His top pick: mild-tasting, edible basil seeds, which have twice as much prebiotic fiber as chia seeds and which he likes in smoothies and puddings. “It puts chia pudding to shame!” he raves. Find basil seeds in Asian markets or online (Buy on Amazon, $7.99).
Try a Booster
Everyday environmental toxins, like BPAs in household plastics, tinker with the DNA inside our cells, making us tired. Luckily, an antioxidant known as CoQ10 repairs damage they cause. Plus, “CoQ10 is crucial to cellular energy production,” Dr. Gundry notes. Try: Life Extension Super Ubiquinol CoQ10 with BioPQQ (Buy at Walmart, $29.74), a blend that boosts energy by 38 percent. Note: Talk to a doctor before supplementing.
Soak Up the Sun
“I recommend exposing your skin to the sun for an hour every day,” Dr. Gundry says, ideally between 10 am and 2 pm. “It helps your body produce vitamin D, which is intimately connected with energy. I tell my patients that they should think of sunlight as one of the most inexpensive and effective supplements out there.” Just 20 minutes of sun daily ups your stamina by 25 percent, report British scientists, by triggering a chain reaction that fires up cellular energy.
Breathe Before Meals
Taking a few deep breaths before eating reins in the production of the stress hormone cortisol, which allows cells to convert 18 percent more food into energy. Dr. Gundry’s favorite technique to end tiredness: Breathe in through your nose for a count of three, then out through your mouth with pursed lips (like blowing out a candle) for a count of six. Repeat until your breathing feels deep and your chest relaxes.
This article originally appeared in our print magazine, Woman’s World.
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How to Update Web Browsers for Safe Browsing
As cybercriminals seek innovative techniques to target vulnerable systems in an evolving digital space, securing web browsers has become more critical than ever. Outdated browsers provide an array of opportunities for hackers to exploit users’ devices and compromise their personal information. It could also pose a serious threat to users’ corporate data by exposing sensitive data to major security vulnerabilities.
By Rudra Srinivassenior editor, CISO MAG
Updating browsers regularly can not only prevent security threats but also quickly load web pages with all updated features. Some modern web browsers automatically update to the latest versions, while several others require manual input for download and installation.
Read on to learn how to update some popular web browsers.
Google Chrome automatically updates to the latest available version. To check the same or to update it manually, follow the steps below.
- Open the Google Chrome browser
- Click on on the control button in the upper right corner of the screen
- Go to Settings and click on About Chromium
- Chrome automatically check for updates and displays the current version.
- If the updates are not installed, click the Relaunch button to restart the browser
To check if Firefox is automatically updated to the latest version or to update it manually:
- Open the Mozilla Firefox browser
- Click it Open menu button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Select the To help options at the bottom
- Select About Firefox
- Click it Restart button to update Firefox on popup window appeared to update new features
To check if Microsoft Edge is automatically updated to the latest version or to update it manually:
- Open Microsoft Edge browser
- Click the icon in the upper right corner of the browser window
- Select the Help and feedback option and click About Microsoft Edge from the side menu
- Edge updates automatically if it’s not the recent version
- Click on the To restart ability to refresh the browser
Microsoft automatically updates the Internet Explorer browser (to the IE11 version) with its Windows Update characteristic. Usually, Windows Update is automatically enabled in Windows 10 and cannot be disabled for users except enterprise users. To manually check or update the browser:
- press the windows key in the lower left corner of the screen
- Type Check for updates and Walk in
- Under the Windows Update section, click Check for updates
Microsoft stopped sending security updates to Internet Explorer last year. Internet Explorer 11 is the latest updated version available. Microsoft Now recommended using Microsoft Edge as the default browser and supports Internet Explorer 11 for backward compatibility.
The Safari browser updates automatically if Apple updates are enabled. To check if Safari is on the latest version or to update it manually:
- Open the Apple menu by clicking the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the home screen
- Select AppStore Option
- Click it Update selector button at the bottom of the navigation panel on the left
- To find Safari and click Update
How to update the browser on mobile phones
Most web browsers automatically update to current versions on mobile devices running on android, iOSand the Windows platforms. If automatic updates are not working, open play store/ App store/Windows Apps to check the updated version of the browser and install it.
About the Author
Rudra Srinivas is a senior writer and part of the CISO MAG editorial team. He writing news and features on cybersecurity trends.
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When it comes to places to visit in Africa, few can match the popularity of Trip to Ghawiyah. It is one of the most popular attractions in Saudi Arabia and the world. Many people travel to the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) just to experience this desert land. It’s a destination where tourists can experience both the sand dunes and the rich culture of Saudi Arabia. But what exactly is it? And what makes it so popular with tourists?
The name ‘trip to Ghawiyah’ is derived from two Arabic words, ‘ta’ifah (meaning journey) and ‘haba (meaning thirst or hunger). Travelers can begin their journey at the Badr el Ghubarah, or the Desert Department, located south of Jeddah. It is here that visitors will see a white sand beach and other interesting geological formations. This dessert can actually be a good location for sightseeing as it is often home to oases and natural springs that provide water and sustenance to the people of the area.
Another way to travel in the vicinity of Badr el Ghubarah is Badr el Jaish, or the Old City in Jeddah. This old city has seen many civilizations come and go. One of its most famous structures is the Al-Karaouine Mosque, also known as the Cairo Temple. This mosque is considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World and was built during the twelfth century. Tourists can take part in the religious activities during this trip to Ghawiyah or visit the Cairo Museum and the House of the Grandparents.
Then, there is the Al-Fouq Mosque in Jeddah. The Al-Fouq Mosque, or mosque of the Cross, is one of the largest in Jeddah and is one of the oldest continuously operating mosques in the world. Built in 1931, it is noted for its century-old design and exquisite stained glass artwork. It is also home to the tombs of several prominent figures in Jiddah, including the Fatima Mufti, Ahmed Bahri Al-Rabtawi, and Ahmed Al-Rabiey.
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born on 12/5/1842 in Saint-Étienne, Rhône-Alpes, France
died on 13/8/1912 in Parigi, France
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French: [ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music.
While still a schoolboy, Massenet was admitted to France's principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired. After winning the country's top musical prize, the Prix de Rome, in 1863, he composed prolifically in many genres, but quickly became best known for his operas. Between 1867 and his death forty-five years later he wrote more than forty stage works in a wide variety of styles, from opéra-comique to grand-scale depictions of classical myths, romantic comedies, lyric dramas, as well as oratorios, cantatas and ballets. Massenet had a good sense of the theatre and of what would succeed with the Parisian public. Despite some miscalculations, he produced a series of successes that made him the leading composer of opera in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Like many prominent French composers of the period, Massenet became a professor at the Conservatoire. He taught composition there from 1878 until 1896, when he resigned after the death of the director, Ambroise Thomas. Among his students were Gustave Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn and Gabriel Pierné.
By the time of his death, Massenet was regarded by many critics as old-fashioned and unadventurous although his two best-known operas remained popular in France and abroad. After a few decades of neglect, his works began to be favourably reassessed during the mid-20th century, and many of them have since been staged and recorded. Although critics do not rank him among the handful of outstanding operatic geniuses such as Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, his operas are now widely accepted as well-crafted and intelligent products of the Belle Époque.
Massenet was born at Montaud, then an outlying hamlet and now a part of the city of Saint-Étienne, in the Loire. He was the youngest of the four children of Alexis Massenet (1788–1863) and his second wife Eléonore-Adelaïde née Royer de Marancour (1809–1875); the elder children were Julie, Léon and Edmond.[n 1] Massenet senior was a prosperous ironmonger; his wife was a talented amateur musician who gave Jules his first piano lessons. By early 1848 the family had moved to Paris, where they settled in a flat in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Massenet was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis and, from either 1851 or 1853, the Paris Conservatoire. According to his colourful but unreliable memoirs, Massenet auditioned in October 1851, when he was nine, before a judging panel comprising Daniel Auber, Fromental Halévy, Ambroise Thomas and Michele Carafa, and was admitted at once. His biographer Demar Irvine dates the audition and admission as January 1853. Both sources agree that Massenet continued his general education at the lycée in tandem with his musical studies.
At the Conservatoire Massenet studied solfège with Augustin Savard and the piano with François Laurent. He pursued his studies, with modest distinction, until the beginning of 1855, when family concerns disrupted his education. Alexis Massenet's health was poor, and on medical advice he moved from Paris to Chambéry in the south of France; the family, including Massenet, moved with him. Again, Massenet's own memoirs and the researches of his biographers are at variance: the composer recalled his exile in Chambéry as lasting for two years; Henry Finck and Irvine record that the young man returned to Paris and the Conservatoire in October 1855. On his return he lodged with relations in Montmartre and resumed his studies; by 1859 he had progressed so far as to win the Conservatoire's top prize for pianists. The family's finances were no longer comfortable, and to support himself Massenet took private piano students and played as a percussionist in theatre orchestras. His work in the orchestra pit gave him a good working knowledge of the operas of Gounod and other composers, classic and contemporary. Traditionally, many students at the Conservatoire went on to substantial careers as church organists; with that in mind Massenet enrolled for organ classes, but they were not a success and he quickly abandoned the instrument. He gained some work as a piano accompanist, in the course of which he met Wagner who, along with Berlioz, was one of his two musical heroes.[n 2]
In 1861 Massenet's music was published for the first time, the Grande Fantasie de Concert sur le Pardon de Ploërmel de Meyerbeer , a virtuoso piano work in nine sections. Having graduated to the composition class under Ambroise Thomas, Massenet was entered for the Conservatoire's top musical honour, the Prix de Rome, previous winners of which included Berlioz, Thomas, Gounod and Bizet. The first two of these were on the judging panel for the 1863 competition.[n 3] All the competitors had to set the same text by Gustave Chouquet, a cantata about David Rizzio; after all the settings had been performed Massenet came face to face with the judges. He recalled:
Ambroise Thomas, my beloved master, came towards me and said, "Embrace Berlioz, you owe him a great deal for your prize." "The prize," I cried, bewildered, my face shining with joy. "I have the prize!!!" I was deeply moved and I embraced Berlioz, then my master, and finally Monsieur Auber. Monsieur Auber comforted me. Did I need comforting? Then he said to Berlioz pointing to me, "He'll go far, the young rascal, when he's had less experience!"[n 4]
The prize brought a well-subsidised three-year period of study, two-thirds of which was spent at the French Academy in Rome, based at the Villa Medici. At that time the academy was dominated by painters rather than musicians; Massenet enjoyed his time there, and made lifelong friendships with, among others, the sculptor Alexandre Falguière and the painter Carolus-Duran, but the musical benefit he derived was largely self-taught. He absorbed the music at St Peter's, and closely studied the works of the great German masters, from Handel and Bach to contemporary composers. During his time in Rome, Massenet met Franz Liszt, at whose request he gave piano lessons to Louise-Constance "Ninon" de Gressy, the daughter of one of Liszt's rich patrons. Massenet and Ninon fell in love, but marriage was out of the question while he was a student with modest means.
Massenet returned to Paris in 1866. He made a living by teaching the piano and publishing songs, piano pieces and orchestral suites, all in the popular style of the day. Prix de Rome winners were sometimes invited by the Opéra-Comique in Paris to compose a work for performance there. At Thomas's instigation, Massenet was commissioned to write a one-act opéra comique, La grand'tante, presented in April 1867. At around the same time he composed a Requiem, which has not survived. In 1868 he met Georges Hartmann, who became his publisher and was his mentor for twenty-five years; Hartmann's journalistic contacts did much to promote his protégé's reputation.[n 5]
In October 1866 Massenet and Ninon were married; their only child, Juliette, was born in 1868. Massenet's musical career was briefly interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, during which he served as a volunteer in the National Guard alongside his friend Bizet. He found the war so "utterly terrible" that he refused to write about it in his memoirs. He and his family were trapped in the Siege of Paris but managed to get out before the horrors of the Paris Commune began; the family stayed for some months in Bayonne, in southwestern France.
After order was restored, Massenet returned to Paris where he completed his first large-scale stage work, an opéra comique in four acts, Don César de Bazan (Paris, 1872). It was a failure, but in 1873 he succeeded with his incidental music to Leconte de Lisle's tragedy Les Érinnyes and with the dramatic oratorio, Marie-Magdeleine, both of which were performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon. His reputation as a composer was growing, but at this stage he earned most of his income from teaching, giving lessons for six hours a day.
Massenet was a prolific composer; he put this down to his way of working, rising early and composing from four o'clock in the morning until midday, a practice he maintained all his life. In general he worked fluently, seldom revising, although Le roi de Lahore, his nearest approach to a traditional grand opera, took him several years to complete to his own satisfaction. It was finished in 1877 and was one of the first new works to be staged at the Palais Garnier, opened two years previously. The opera, with a story taken from the Mahabharata, was an immense success and was quickly taken up by the opera houses of eight Italian cities. It was also performed at the Hungarian State Opera House, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper, Dresden, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. After the first Covent Garden performance, The Times summed the piece up in a way that was frequently to be applied to the composer's operas: "M. Massenet's opera, although not a work of genius proper, is one of more than common merit, and contains all the elements of at least temporary success."
This period was an early high point in Massenet's career. He had been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1876, and in 1878 he was appointed professor of counterpoint, fugue and composition at the Conservatoire under Thomas, who was now the director.[n 6] In the same year he was elected to the Institut de France, a prestigious honour, rare for a man in his thirties. Camille Saint-Saëns, whom Massenet beat in the election for the vacancy, was resentful at being passed over for a younger composer. When the result of the election was announced, Massenet sent Saint-Saëns a courteous telegram: "My dear colleague: the Institut has just committed a great injustice". Saint-Saëns cabled back, "I quite agree." He was elected three years later, but his relations with Massenet remained cool.
Massenet was a popular and respected teacher at the Conservatoire. His pupils included Bruneau, Charpentier, Chausson, Hahn, Leroux, Pierné, Rabaud and Vidal. He was known for the care he took in drawing out his pupils' ideas, never trying to impose his own.[n 7] One of his last students, Charles Koechlin, recalled Massenet as a voluble professor, dispensing "a teaching active, living, vibrant, and moreover comprehensive". According to some writers, Massenet's influence extended beyond his own students. In the view of the critic Rodney Milnes, "In word-setting alone, all French musicians profited from the freedom he won from earlier restrictions." Romain Rolland and Francis Poulenc have both considered Massenet an influence on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande; Debussy was a student at the Conservatoire during Massenet's professorship but did not study under him.[n 8]
Operatic successes and failures, 1879–96
Massenet's growing reputation did not prevent a contretemps with the Paris Opéra in 1879. Auguste Vaucorbeil, director of the Opéra, refused to stage the composer's new piece, Hérodiade, judging the libretto either improper or inadequate.[n 9] Édouard-Fortuné Calabresi, joint director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, immediately offered to present the work, and its première, lavishly staged, was given in December 1881. It ran for fifty-five performances in Brussels, and had its Italian premiere two months later at La Scala. The work finally reached Paris in February 1884, by which time Massenet had established himself as the leading French opera composer of his generation.
Manon, first given at the Opéra-Comique in January 1884, was a prodigious success and was followed by productions at major opera houses in Europe and the United States. Together with Gounod's Faust and Bizet's Carmen it became, and has remained, one of the cornerstones of the French operatic repertoire. After the intimate drama of Manon, Massenet once more turned to opera on the grand scale with Le Cid in 1885, which marked his return to the Opéra. The Paris correspondent of The New York Times wrote that with this new work Massenet "has resolutely declared himself a melodist of undoubted consistency and of remarkable inspiration." After these two triumphs, Massenet entered a period of mixed fortunes. He worked on Werther intermittently for several years, but it was rejected by the Opéra-Comique as too gloomy.[n 10] In 1887 he met the American soprano Sibyl Sanderson. He developed passionate feelings for her, which remained platonic, although it was widely believed in Paris that she was his mistress, as caricatures in the journals hinted with varying degrees of subtlety. For her, the composer revised Manon and wrote Esclarmonde (1889). The latter was a success, but it was followed by Le mage (1891), which failed. Massenet did not complete his next project, Amadis, and it was not until 1892 that he recovered his earlier successful form. Werther finally received its first performance in February 1892, when the Vienna Hofoper asked for a new piece, following the enthusiastic reception of the Austrian premiere of Manon.
Though in the view of some writers Werther is the composer's masterpiece, it was not immediately taken up with the same keenness as Manon. The first performance in Paris was in January 1893 by the Opéra-Comique company at the Théâtre Lyrique, and there were performances in the United States, Italy and Britain, but it met with a muted response. The New York Times said of it, "If M. Massenet's opera does not have lasting success it will be because it has no genuine depth. Perhaps M. Massenet is not capable of achieving profound depths of tragic passion; but certainly he will never do so in a work like Werther". It was not until a revival by the Opéra-Comique in 1903 that the work became an established favourite.
Thaïs (1894), composed for Sanderson, was moderately received. Like Werther, it did not gain widespread popularity among French opera-goers until its first revival, which was four years after the premiere, by when the composer's association with Sanderson was over. In the same year he had a modest success in Paris with the one-act Le portrait de Manon at the Opéra-Comique, and a much greater one in London with La Navarraise at Covent Garden. The Times commented that in this piece Massenet had adopted the verismo style of such works as Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana to great effect. The audience clamoured for the composer to acknowledge the applause, but Massenet, always a shy man, declined to take even a single curtain call.
Later years, 1896–1912
The death of Ambroise Thomas in February 1896 made vacant the post of director of the Conservatoire. The French government announced on 6 May that Massenet had been offered the position and had refused it. The following day it was announced that another faculty member, Théodore Dubois, had been appointed director, and Massenet had resigned as professor of composition. Two explanations have been advanced for this sequence of events. Massenet wrote in 1910 that he had remained in post as professor out of loyalty to Thomas, and was eager to abandon all academic work in favour of composing, a statement repeated by his biographers Hugh Macdonald and Demar Irvine. Other writers on French music have written that Massenet was intensely ambitious to succeed Thomas, but resigned in pique after three months of manoeuvring, once the authorities finally rejected his insistence on being appointed director for life, as Thomas had been. He was succeeded as professor by Gabriel Fauré, who was doubtful of Massenet's credentials, considering his popular style to be "based on a generally cynical view of art".
With Grisélidis and Cendrillon complete, though still awaiting performance, Massenet began work on Sapho, based on a novel by Daudet about the love of an innocent young man from the country for a worldly-wise Parisienne. It was given at the Opéra-Comique in November 1897, with great success, though it has been neglected since the composer's death. His next work staged there was Cendrillon, his version of the Cinderella story, which was well received in May 1899.
Macdonald comments that at the start of the 20th century Massenet was in the enviable position of having his works included in every season of the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique, and in opera houses around the world. From 1900 to his death he led a life of steady work and, generally, success. According to his memoirs, he declined a second offer of the directorship of the Conservatoire in 1905.[n 11] Apart from composition, his main concern was his home life in the rue de Vaugirard, Paris, and at his country house in Égreville. He was uninterested in Parisian society, and so shunned the limelight that in later life he preferred not to attend his own first nights. He described himself as "a fireside man, a bourgeois artist". The main biographical detail of note of his latter years was his second amitié amoureuse with one of his leading ladies, Lucy Arbell, who created roles in his last operas.[n 12] Milnes describes Arbell as "gold-digging": her blatant exploitation of the composer's honourable affections caused his wife considerable distress and even strained Massenet's devotion (or infatuation as Milnes characterises it). After the composer's death Arbell pursued his widow and publishers through the law courts, seeking to secure herself a monopoly of the leading roles in several of his late operas.
A rare excursion from the opera house came in 1903 with Massenet's only piano concerto, on which he had begun work while still a student. The work was performed by Louis Diémer at the Conservatoire, but made little impression compared with his operas. In 1905 Massenet composed Chérubin, a light comedy about the later career of the sex-mad pageboy Cherubino from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Then came two serious operas, Ariane, on the Greek legend of Theseus and Ariadne, and Thérèse, a terse drama set in the French Revolution. His last major success was Don Quichotte (1910), which L'Etoile called "a very Parisian evening and, naturally, a very Parisian triumph".[n 13] Even with his creative powers seemingly in decline he wrote four other operas in his later years – Bacchus, Roma, Panurge and Cléopâtre. The last two, like Amadis, which he had been unable to finish in the 1890s, were premiered after the composer's death and then lapsed into oblivion.
In August 1912 Massenet went to Paris from his house at Égreville to see his doctor. The composer had been suffering from abdominal cancer for some months, but his symptoms did not seem imminently life-threatening. Within a few days his condition deteriorated sharply. His wife and family hastened to Paris, and were with him when he died, aged seventy. By his own wish his funeral, with no music, was held privately at Égreville, where he is buried in the churchyard.
"On l'appelle Manon"
From Manon, performed by Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in 1912
"Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux"
From Le Cid, performed by Marguerita Sylva in 1910
From Hérodiade, performed by Charles W. Clark in 1914
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In the view of his biographer Hugh Macdonald, Massenet's main influences were Gounod and Thomas, with Meyerbeer and Berlioz also important to his style. From beyond France he absorbed some traits from Verdi, and possibly Mascagni, and above all Wagner. Unlike some other French composers of the period, Massenet never fell fully under Wagner's spell, but he took from the earlier composer a richness of orchestration and a fluency in treatment of musical themes.
Although when he chose Massenet could write noisy and dissonant scenes – in 1885 Bernard Shaw called him "one of the loudest of modern composers" – much of his music is soft and delicate. Hostile critics have seized on this characteristic, but the article on Massenet in the 2001 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians observes that in the best of his operas this sensual side "is balanced by strong dramatic tension (as in Werther), theatrical action (as in Thérèse), scenic diversion (as in Esclarmonde), or humour (as in Le portrait de Manon)."
Massenet's Parisian audiences were greatly attracted by the exotic in music, and Massenet willingly obliged, with musical evocations of far-flung places or times long past. Macdonald lists a great number of locales depicted in the operas, from ancient Egypt, mythical Greece and biblical Galilee to Renaissance Spain, India and Revolutionary Paris. Massenet's practical experience in orchestra pits as a young man and his careful training at the Conservatoire equipped him to make such effects without much recourse to unusual instruments. He understood the capabilities of his singers, and composed with close, detailed regard for their voices.
Massenet wrote more than thirty operas. Authorities differ on the exact total because some of the works, particularly from his early years, are lost and others were left incomplete. Still others, such as Don César de Bazan and Le roi de Lahore, were substantially recomposed after their first productions and exist in two or more versions. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians lists forty Massenet operas in all, of which nine are shown as lost or destroyed. The "OperaGlass" website of Stanford University shows revised versions as premieres, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, does not: their totals are forty-four and thirty-six respectively.
Having honed his personal style as a young man, and sticking broadly with it for the rest of his career, Massenet does not, as some other composers do, lend himself to classification into clearly defined early, middle and late periods. Moreover, his versatility means that there is no plot or locale that can be regarded as typical Massenet. Another respect in which he differed from many opera composers is that he did not work regularly with the same librettists: Grove lists more than thirty writers who provided him with librettos.
The 1954 (fifth) edition of Grove said of Massenet, "to have heard Manon is to have heard the whole of him". In 1994 Andrew Porter called this view preposterous. He countered, "Who knows Manon, Werther and Don Quichotte knows the best of Massenet, but not his range from heroic romance to steamy verismo." Massenet's output covered most of the different subgenres of opera, from opérette (L'adorable Bel'-Boul and L'écureuil du déshonneur – both early, lost pieces) and opéra-comique such as Manon, to grand opera – Grove categorises Le roi de Lahore as "the last grand opera to have a great and widespread success". Many of the elements of traditional grand opera are written into later large-scale works such as Le mage and Hérodiade. Massenet's operas consist of anything from one to five acts, and although many of them are described on the title pages of their scores as "opéra" or "opéra comique", others have carefully nuanced descriptions such as "comédie chantée", "comédie lyrique", "comédie-héroïque", "conte de fées", "drame passionnel", "haulte farce musicale", "opéra légendaire", "opéra romanesque" and "opéra tragique".
Meditation from Thaïs
Performed by Wasei Dúo
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In some of his operas, such as Esclarmonde and Le mage, Massenet moved away from the traditional French pattern of free-standing arias and duets. Solos meld from declamatory passages into more melodic form, in a way that many contemporary critics thought Wagnerian. Shaw was not among them: in 1885 he wrote of Manon:
Of Wagnerism there is not the faintest suggestion. A phrase which occurs in the first love duet breaks out once or twice in subsequent amorous episodes, and has been seized on by a few unwary critics as a Wagnerian leit motif. But if Wagner had never existed, Manon would have been composed much as it stands now, whereas if Meyerbeer and Gounod had not made a path for M. Massenet, it is impossible to say whither he might have wandered, or how far he could have pushed his way.
The 21st-century critic Anne Feeney comments, "Massenet rarely repeated musical phrases, let alone used recurrent themes, so the resemblance [to Wagner] lies solely in the declamatory lyricism and enthusiastic use of the brass and percussion." Massenet enjoyed introducing comedy into his serious works, and writing some mainly comic operas. In Macdonald's view of the comic works, Cendrillon and Don Quichotte succeed, but Don César de Bazan and Panurge are less satisfying than "the more delicately tuned operas such as Manon, Le portrait de Manon and Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, where comedy serves a more complex purpose."
According to Operabase, analysis of productions around the world in 2012–13 shows Massenet as the twentieth most popular of all opera composers, and the fourth most popular French one, after Bizet, Offenbach and Gounod. The most often performed of his operas in the period are shown as Werther (63 productions in all countries), followed by Manon (47), Don Quichotte (22), Thaïs (21), Cendrillon (17), La Navarraise (4), Cléopâtre (3), Thérèse (2), Le Cid (2), Hérodiade (2), Esclarmonde (2), Chérubin (2) and Le mage (1).
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Between 1862 and 1900 Massenet composed eight oratorios and cantatas, mostly on religious subjects. There is a degree of overlap between his operatic style and his choral works for church or concert hall performance. Vincent d'Indy wrote that there was "a discreet and semi-religious eroticism" in Massenet's music.[n 14] The religious element was a regular theme in his secular as well as sacred works: this derived not from any strong personal faith, but from his response to the dramatic aspects of Roman Catholic ritual. The mingling of operatic and religious elements in his works was such that one of his oratorios, Marie-Magdeleine, was staged as an opera during the composer's lifetime. Elements of the erotic and some implicit sympathy for sinners were controversial, and may have prevented his church works establishing themselves more securely. Arthur Hervey, a contemporary critic not unsympathetic to Massenet, commented that Marie-Magdeleine and the later oratorio Ève (1875) were "the Bible doctored up in a manner suitable to the taste of impressionable Parisian ladies – utterly inadequate for the theme, at the same time very charming and effective." Of the four works categorised by Irvine and Grove as oratorios, only one, La terre promise (1900), was written for church performance. Massenet used the term "oratorio" for that work, but he called Marie-Magdeleine a "drame sacré", Ève a "mystère", and La Vierge (1880) a "légende sacrée".
Massenet composed many other smaller-scale choral works, and more than two hundred songs. His early collections of songs were particularly popular and helped establish his reputation. His choice of lyrics ranged widely. Most were verses by poets such as Musset, Maupassant, Hugo, Gautier and many lesser-known French writers, with occasional poems from overseas, including Tennyson in English and Shelley in French translation. Grove comments that Massenet's songs, though pleasing and impeccable in craftsmanship, are less inventive than those of Bizet and less distinctive than those of Duparc and Fauré.
Orchestral and chamber music
Massenet was a fluent and skilful orchestrator, and willingly provided ballet episodes for his operas, incidental music for plays, and a one-act stand-alone ballet for Vienna (Le carillon, 1892). Macdonald remarks that Massenet's orchestral style resembled that of Delibes, "with its graceful movement and bewitching colour", which was highly suited to classical French ballet. The Méditation for solo violin and orchestra, from Thaïs, is possibly the best known non-vocal piece by Massenet, and appears on many recordings. Another popular stand-alone orchestral piece from the operas is Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge from La Vierge, which has featured on numerous discs since the middle of the 20th century.
A Parisian critic, after seeing La grand' tante, declared that Massenet was a symphonist rather than a theatre composer. At the time of the British premiere of Manon in 1885, the critic in The Manchester Guardian, reviewing the work enthusiastically, nevertheless echoed his French confrère's view that the composer was really a symphonist, whose music was at its best when purely orchestral. Massenet took a wholly opposite view of his talents. He was temperamentally unsuited to writing symphonically: the constraints of sonata form bored him. He wrote, in the early 1870s, "What I have to say, musically, I have to say rapidly, forcefully, concisely; my discourse is tight and nervous, and if I wanted to express myself otherwise I would not be myself." His efforts in the concertante field made little mark, but his orchestral suites, colourful and picturesque according to Grove, have survived on the fringes of the repertoire. Other works for orchestra are a symphonic poem, Visions (1891), an Ouverture de Concert (1863) and Ouverture de Phèdre (1873). After early attempts at chamber music as a student, he wrote little more in the genre. Most of his early chamber pieces are now lost; three pieces for cello and piano survive.
The only known recording made by Massenet is an excerpt from Sapho, "Pendant un an je fus ta femme", in which he plays a piano accompaniment for the soprano Georgette Leblanc. It was recorded in 1903, and was not intended for publication. It has been released on compact disc (2008), together with contemporary recordings by Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Debussy and others.
In Massenet's later years, and in the decade after his death, many of his songs and opera extracts were recorded. Some of the performers were the original creators of the roles, such as Ernest van Dyck (Werther), Emma Calvé (Sapho), Hector Dufranne (Grisélidis), and Vanni Marcoux (Panurge). Complete French recordings of Manon and Werther, conducted by Élie Cohen, were issued in 1932 and 1933 and have been republished on CD. The critic Alan Blyth comments that they embody the original, intimate Opéra-Comique style of performing Massenet.
Of Massenet's operas, the two best known, Manon and Werther, have been recorded many times, and studio or live recordings have been issued of many of the others, including Cendrillon, Le Cid, Don Quichotte, Esclarmonde, Hérodiade, Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, Le mage, La Navarraise and Thaïs. Conductors on these discs include Sir Thomas Beecham, Richard Bonynge, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Patrick Fournillier, Sir Charles Mackerras, Pierre Monteux, Sir Antonio Pappano and Michel Plasson. Among the sopranos and mezzos are Dame Janet Baker, Victoria de los Ángeles, Natalie Dessay, Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu and Dame Joan Sutherland. Leading men in recordings of Massenet operas include Roberto Alagna, Gabriel Bacquier, Plácido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann, José van Dam, Alain Vanzo and Rolando Villazón.
In addition to the operas, recordings have been issued of several orchestral works, including the ballet Le carillon, the piano concerto in E♭, the Fantaisie for cello and orchestra, and orchestral suites. Many individual mélodies by Massenet were included in mixed recitals on record during the 20th century, and more have been committed to disc since then, including, for the first time, a CD in 2012, exclusively devoted to his songs for soprano and piano.
By the time of the composer's death in 1912 his reputation had declined, especially outside his native country. In the second edition (1907) of Grove, J A Fuller Maitland accused the composer of pandering to the fashionable Parisian taste of the moment, and disguising a uniformly "weak and sugary" style with superficial effects. Fuller Maitland contended that to discerning music lovers such as himself the operas of Massenet were "inexpressibly monotonous", and he predicted that they would all be forgotten after the composer's death.[n 15] Similar views were expressed in an obituary in The Musical Times
His early scores are, for the greater part, his best ... Later, and for the plain reason that he never attempted to renovate his style, he sank into sheer mannerism. Indeed, one can but marvel that so gifted a musician, who lacked neither individuality nor skill, should have so utterly succeeded in throwing away his gifts. Success spoiled him ... the actual progress of musical art during the past forty years left Massenet unmoved ... he has taken no part in the evolution of modern music.
Massenet was never entirely without supporters. In the 1930s Sir Thomas Beecham told the critic Neville Cardus, "I would give the whole of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos for Massenet's Manon, and would think I had vastly profited by the exchange." By the 1950s critics were reappraising Massenet's works. In 1951 Martin Cooper of The Daily Telegraph wrote that Massenet's detractors, including some fellow composers, were on the whole idealistic, even puritanical, "but few of them have in practice achieved anything so near perfection in any genre, however humble, as Massenet achieved in his best works." In 1955 Edward Sackville-West and Desmond Shawe-Taylor commented in The Record Guide that, although usually dismissed as an inferior Gounod, Massenet wrote music with a distinct flavour of its own. "He had a gift for melody of a suave, voluptuous and eminently singable kind, and the intelligence and dramatic sense to make the most of it." The writers called for revivals of Grisélidis, Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, Don Quichotte and Cendrillon, all then neglected. By the 1990s, Massenet's reputation had been considerably rehabilitated. In The Penguin Opera Guide (1993), Hugh Macdonald wrote that though Massenet's operas never equalled the grandeur of Berlioz's Les Troyens, the genius of Bizet's Carmen or the profundity of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, from the 1860s until the years before the First World War, the composer gave the French lyric stage a remarkable series of works, two of which – Manon and Werther – are "masterpieces that will always grace the repertoire". In Macdonald's view, Massenet "embodies many enduring aspects of the belle époque, one of the richest cultural periods in history". In France, Massenet's 20th-century eclipse was less complete than elsewhere, but his oeuvre has been revalued in recent years. In 2003 Piotr Kaminsky wrote in Mille et un opéras of Massenet's skill in translating French text into flexible melodic phrases, his exceptional orchestral virtuosity, combining sparkle and clarity, and his unerring theatrical instinct.
Rodney Milnes, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), agrees that Manon and Werther have a secure place in the international repertoire; he counts three others as "re-establishing a toehold" (Cendrillon, Thaïs and Don Quichotte), with many more due for re-evaluation or rediscovery. He concludes that comparing Massenet with the handful of composers of great genius, "It would be absurd to claim that he was anything more than a second-rate composer; he nevertheless deserves to be seen, like Richard Strauss, at least as a first-class second-rate one."
- Officer in the Order of Leopold, 1894.
- Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour.
- Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, 1902.
Notes, references and sources
- Massenet's biographer Demar Irvine notes that, according to French usage of the time, the four children had the right to bear the more aristocratic surname Massenet de Marancour or Massenet Royer de Marancour. The elder brothers did so, but Jules preferred the plain single name.
- Massenet was employed as accompanist to the leading tenor Gustave-Hippolyte Roger, at whose house at Villiers-sur-Marne Wagner spent ten days in early 1860. Massenet was impressed by Wagner's piano playing, "like a musician, not at all like a pianist". It is not clear whether Wagner heard Massenet play during his stay.
- This was Massenet's second attempt at the Prix; he gained a mention honorable for his cantata Louise de Mézières in 1862.
- A similar remark was made about Saint-Saëns in 1864: "Il sait tout, mais il manque d'inexpérience" – "He knows everything but lacks inexperience". Saint-Saëns, many years later, attributed it to Gounod. It is more generally believed that the remark was made by Berlioz.
- Massenet recalled in his memoirs that Hartmann's premises in the Boulevard de la Madeleine became an unofficial centre of Parisian musical life, with Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Lalo and Franck all "part of the inner circle".
- Massenet succeeded François Bazin, a teacher whose pedantic methods had so repelled him when a student that he left Bazin's classes after a month. Bazin is one of the few people about whom Massenet wrote a hard word in his memoirs.
- Massenet's detractors put a different interpretation on his encouragement of his students' originality: Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi wrote in 1912, "He can hardly be said to have exercised a wholesome influence as a teacher, and generally speaking, such of his pupils as have displayed more than ordinary merits as composers did not follow his example."
- Debussy's professor of composition was Ernest Guiraud.
- According to Macdonald it was "the biblical-amorous subject" to which Vaucorbeil took exception – an objection that also applied to Saint-Saëns's Samson et Delila, which was banned from the Opéra for many years. Massenet's recollection was that Vaucorbeil considered the librettist, Paul Milliet, incompetent.
- This judgment was still shared by some well into the 20th century. The authors of The Record Guide (1955) observed that although Werther was popular in France it had never caught on elsewhere, "largely no doubt because of the monotonously self-pitying character of the hero (this is Goethe's fault rather than Massenet's)."
- Irvine reiterates Massenet's claim, but cites no other authority for it. The post was offered to and accepted by Fauré, whose biographers Duchen, Jones and Nectoux make no mention of any prior offer of the post to Massenet in 1905; nor is it mentioned in Woldu and Queuniet's 1996 study of the crisis that led to the handover from Dubois to Fauré.
- These were Perséphone in Ariane, the title role in Thérèse, Queen Amahelli in Bacchus and Dulcinée in Don Quichotte. She appeared after the composer's death as Postumia in Roma and Colombe in Panurge.
- "Une soirée bien parisienne et, naturellement, triomphe bien parisien aussi."
- "Un érotisme discret et quasi-réligieux"
- Fuller Maitland was equally antipathetic to many contemporary composers, being similarly hostile to Sullivan, Elgar, Debussy and Richard Strauss.
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- Extensive biography with list of references and compositions (in French)
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Foreign Bodies is a newsletter and online community centering immigrant and refugee experiences with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness and encourage personal storytelling. It was born from founder Fiza Pirani’s reporting fellowship with The Carter Center Mental Health Program.
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Our main monthly issues, which are free for all to read, feature a personal essay on a particular immigrant experience, followed by research on its connection to mental health and well-being. You’ll get relevant resources and insight, a compilation of additional #relatable stories, plus expert Q&As and dog pics of Fiza’s sassy pointer bulldog rescue, Lady.
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Becoming a subscriber means you’re noticing our hard work, you find value in this newsletter and believe in our mission.
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Immigrants and members of oft discriminated minority groups have long been conditioned to keep our innermost troubles to ourselves. We’re expected to appear resilient and submissive and we know we’ll have to work twice as hard to get half as far. For those of us with diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illnesses or disabilities, for anyone who might be grieving or feeling misunderstood, our experiences may even be keeping us from getting the help we deserve and need.
Here at Foreign Bodies, we believe shedding generations of internalized stigmas and stereotypes starts with dialogue—dialogue within our homes, at the dinner table, at our respective houses of worship and, perhaps most importantly, dialogue we offer our reflections in the mirror.
Through the stories we share in this newsletter and on our site foreignbodies.net, through the discussions we host and the community we build together, we hope to make you feel understood. We want to reassure you that you’re not alone and help is available. Let’s normalize the bearing of our untold narratives, one experience at a time.
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What’s in the free monthly issue?
The monthly newsletter issue is topped off with a personal essay on a particular immigrant experience, followed by research on its connection to mental health and well-being. You’ll get resources and insights, a compilation of additional #relatable stories, plus fun lil add-ons, such as expert Q&As and dog pics of Fiza’s sassy pointer bulldog rescue, Lady. Our weekly roundups, giveaways and selected community discussions are exclusive to subscribers or gift recipients.
So, like, do I have to be an immigrant to read this?
Lol, what! No. Foreign Bodies may be geared toward immigrant experiences, but we’re sure non-immigrants will connect to the diverse subject matter, too. Check out the archive first if you’re still on the fence! ;-)
What’s in a name?
This is a great question. Dictionary.com defines a “foreign body” as an object or entity in the physical body that’s been introduced from outside. The medical dictionary defines it as a mass of material that is not normal to the place where it is found. Our name considers this physical capsule or place in a much more figurative sense.
We are entities (never objects!) And the physical capsules we’re being introduced to, willingly or not, might represent a variety of masses of matter distinct from other masses: a different country or region, a new colonizing culture, a new socioeconomic standard, a new industry.
At the core of migration and assimilation is a desire to belong, to feel at home again. This loose definition of “foreign bodies” allows us to include anyone from any background—migrant, indigenous or not—who may be struggling to feel acknowledged and understood.
As we iterated in the previous point, Foreign Bodies was certainly created to address the unique experiences of immigrants or refugees living with mental illness, but if you’ve ever felt like an outsider within your community, we hope this newsletter will connect with you, too.
We also want to address the potentially offensive nature of being called a “foreigner” or “alien,” both terms we tend to use often here. Considering context, being called a foreigner or alien by natives in everyday life would probably rub some of us the wrong way—especially if you’re, um, a native yourself! This is (obviously) not our intention. In a sense, we’re reclaiming the labels as a sense of pride. Yeah, we might look different from you. Or we might sound different, wear different clothing and eat different cuisines. So what?
Who’s behind all this?
Hey there! I’m Fiza Pirani, founder of Foreign Bodies.
This all started out as a way for me to try and make sense of my own sh*t. I was diagnosed with clinical depression in 2017 after months of lingering too long in a darkness I convinced myself would go away on its own.
Since then, I've realized there's a lot to say, share, learn and unlearn about my relationship with mental health and how my foggy identity as a South Asian Muslim immigrant living in the American South might play a role.
My fellowship with The Carter Center (more on that here) + talking to fellow immigrant friends made me highly aware of our shared experiences.
There's something unique about growing physically and emotionally disconnected from your homeland. And having to prove to a new country that you're worth keeping around. Something about wanting to assimilate enough to seem relatable, but not so much as to alienate your parents and their plight.
I've been craving a digital space to dig into it all.
In this newsletter, I hope to share stories about how foreign bodies cope or struggle to cope with their mental health, whether that's related to a diagnosed illness, stigmas or larger issues of sexuality, globalization, identity, colorism, discrimination, faith and so on.
Depression really amplified my underlying issues with identity and belonging. I struggled to find stories I could relate to. And there's nothing more painful than feeling alone or misunderstood while fighting a war with your own brain.
Maybe this'll help someone like me out, make them feel less alone and better understood. Maybe it'll just become another newsletter to lose in your inbox.
Hanaa' Tameez is one of our two lovely copy editors and fact-checkers! She’s a multimedia journalist from New Jersey and holds an M.A. from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism with a concentration in bilingual journalism. Give her a follow on Twitter: @HTameez!
New to our team in December 2019, Farahnaz Mohammed is a traveling journalist and editor who happens to be a mega mental health advocate, too. She’s our second copy editor and fact-checking guru <3 Find her on Twitter @FarahColette or at farahmohammed.com. (Also, you can call her Farah).
Marissa Evans is a freelance illustrator and social issues reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. She joined us in February 2020 after creating art for Issues 13 and 14. Want to work with her? Shoot her an email and check out her portfolio at themarissastudio.com.
See that fun, animated logo on our site? That’s the work of Carter Fellow and friend, Rory Linnane! She doesn’t work with us on a monthly capacity, but is totally deserving of a shout. Rory’s a gem of a human and talented journalist for USA Today. Find her on Twitter as @RoryLinnane <3
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How can I contribute my story and get featured?
For anyone interested in sharing their own personal story for a future issue, fill out the share form on our website!
How soon will I hear back?
Remember, Fiza is the only one handling any Foreign Bodies communication, so responding to every request just isn’t feasible. Instead, we’ll respond to you once we have finalized plans for a Foreign Bodies issue that addresses the personal experiences you mentioned in your form submission.
What happens next?
Once we connect and you’ve confirmed you’re still interested, we’ll give you a better understanding of the timeline and what to expect from your issue. We’ll also send along a long list of personal questions that allow us to really get to know you and your story.
So we don’t answer questions over the phone?
It’s actually quite rare for us to call you unless there’s an urgent issue. As media professionals, not holding phone or in-person interviews does feel a little…problematic. But this is a decision Fiza’s made after noticing a few patterns as a writer who’s published both reported features and personal essays.
While both mediums are powerful in their own ways, this newsletter is dedicated to personal storytelling. The questions we send you are incredibly intimate, and for many of you, this is likely your first time revealing parts of your truth. In order to help you tell your story effectively, we want it to come from your own voice.
More importantly, we want you to make the time to sit in your quiet and really reflect on your experiences without distractions or the fear of being or sounding vulnerable.
Do I have to send you an essay?
Nope! We actually prefer that you spend your time answering our written questions as honestly as you can without worrying about what the final product will look like.
Two ways to answer the questions:
💻 You can type up your answers and send them to us via email or Google doc by the given deadline. There’s absolutely no word limit on any of the questions—but there is a word limit on our issues! Not everything you send us will make it to the final product.
🔊 If you’re not as comfortable writing or just don’t feel like typing things out, record your answers on your phone or computer and just send us the audio files! You might feel awkward in the beginning, but think of the process as a conversation with yourself. As you do this kind of introspective reflection, you open yourself up to vulnerability and may hear your voice crack or feel a lump in your throat; this is totally normal and you should not be embarrassed. Know that Fiza will be listening or reading your answers from a place of sincere empathy and zero judgment.
What do you do with my answers?
After reading, listening to and annotating your answers, Fiza will morph your words into a personal essay that remains true to your voice (example). Sometimes, if you’re speaking about and from professional experience, we’ll create a Q&A instead (example). Farah will then edit and fact-check the work. Both Fiza and Farah have extensive backgrounds in writing and editing.
Do I get to see the issue before it’s live?
We don’t send you the full issue, but we do send you a draft of your featured portion a few days before the publish date in case you need to address any glaring issues.
What if I want to send you my own personal essay?
The main reason we don’t recommend you send us a prewritten essay in hopes of it being published is because we, as writers, know how volatile the market is right now. We believe you should be paid for the work you do, and we just don’t feel comfortable taking something you’ve crafted without the means to pay you.
That being said, if you feel a desire to craft your own essay using the questions we provide, you are absolutely welcome to send it to us knowing it will be edited with care.
Do I get paid to share my story?
No, you do not. This is, again, why we prefer not to take fully crafted essays. Your role is to be true to yourself as you reflect on your experiences; let us do the word work.
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The functional possibilities of bricks are almost inexhaustible and are not limited to reliable exterior walls. In today's review - examples of its use in decorative partitions and facades in modern practice. Most often these solutions are simple and organic, and therefore quite easily transferable to other objects. For those who are looking for an original solution to decorate their own country house - an excellent source of ideas.
The Little Brick Studio, created by the designers of MAKE Architecture (Melbourne, Australia), embodies the concept of minimalism and at the same time is very organic in the center of the metropolis. The embossed brick wall simultaneously acts as a boundary of the inner territory.
The Brick weave house in the United States by Studio Gang Architects has an openwork wall enclosing the garden, also made of brick. Three transparent walls (without a roof or floor) protect the interior of the yard from wind and frost.
The Harold Street Residence (Victoria, Australia) was designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects. The use of red brick allowed the modern building to fit into the Victorian context of the surrounding single-story town houses. A decorative wall forms an air- and light-permeable enclosure over the entrance to the house.
We've already talked about the unusual openwork wall made of brick built by Anagram architects to escape the bright sunlight in New Delhi, India, but it deserves another mention, because it's not expensive, but it looks very original. In addition, the creators make no secret of the masonry method.
The Brick Pattern House (arch. Alireza Mashhadmirza) is located in one of the poor neighborhoods of Tehran, Iran, and the designers had to develop an easy and simple way to lay the brick facade. They called this technique the "23 method," as 23 bricks are stacked in all dimensions. The translucent wall, which resembles a traditional woven carpet in structure, eliminates the need to hang curtains on the windows, sufficiently protecting against the scorching sun.
The CVA House in Mexico City by Materia Arquitectonica offers another option for original window design on a brick facade. The brick elements are the main architectural device, creating a complex play of light and shadow and an unusual form of recognition, while the concrete and glass provide reliability and functionality of the structure.
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Since 2006, Wintermantel has been head of the”Hochschulrektorenkonferenz”, a group representing the interests ofGerman universities. In 2009, she was also elected into the boardof the European University Association (EUA), an internationaluniversity lobby.
She made her first public speech in her new function in Berlinlast week. Wintermantel emphasized that the “Deutscher AkademischerAustauschdienst” (DAAD) wants more German students to go abroad.Right now, only 1 out of 3 students spends at least part of theirstudies at a foreign university. “Compared to other countries, thisnumber is quite high. But considering globalization, we should beable to increase this share to 50%.”
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I recently listened to the silliness a childhood song my kid played for me. Memories can come back again. Maybe you can go home.
“I know an old lady who swallowed a fly … But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she’ll die.”Rose Bonne
With a quick Wikipedia search, I realized the old lady song has many versions and lyrical variations. In some renditions, it’s perhaps vs guess. And when she swallows the horse, Of course, she died. Over time, this changes too. The song was first published in the 1950s and political correctness runs in spurts. Language has meaning. It runs through our fiber. What we wear. How we think. Current events. It all impacts the written words and ultimately what we read.
These are just small and incremental changes to a short song. That might be the beauty and silliness of the song. It can grow too! I don’t know why she swallowed an elephant … a tuba … a Volkswagen Beetle (with a diesel engine). As the song gets longer, it becomes more complicated. Did she swallow a trumpet or flute? Oh, it was a tuba.
In writing, I keep track of the number of drafts. Mostly, I do it for novels and short stories but occasionally I do take a glance at the WordPress version count on a short post. I don’t know why I track the drafts, I just do. Call it a badge of honor. It is a little maddening to track thousands of words. Was the horse white or black? And does it matter if the old lady swallowed it?
Just like the song, my children’s tale is starting to have a life of its own. It’s growing. After the first four drafts, I felt like I was getting down to the small, incremental changes. I was starting to contemplate guess vs perhaps vs of course.
When you start splitting the painful hairs of minor changes, it’s time to take your masterpiece to an editor for review. And when I got it back, it was marked up to pieces. I was prepared for this. I’ve been here before (see post).
Still, it blows my mind what I missed. When you’re so close to a project, down in the weeds, it amazes what can be overlooked. You think a choice between perhaps and guess is monumental. But it’s not. Sometimes you have bigger problems. Every fairy tale has to have a monster of some sorts. Hansel and Gretel had the witch. Cinderella had the ugly step-mother (see apology below). And my monsters, well, I can’t tell you what they are/do just yet. But they were creating problems. Monsters do this.
My monsters developed powers they weren’t supposed to have. This happened in those Jurassic Park movies too. The velociraptor weren’t supposed to breed. But they did. Chaos Theory always comes calling.
I don’t want to spoil the end of my tale. I want to take you there slowly, carefully. The point was that I had reedited the book multiple times on my own. I was four drafts in. If you take the length of the book times the revision count and multiply by Pi, that’s a 100K+ words edited, revised, and adjusted.
It’s a lot of words. After all this work, how could my monsters break the third law of thermodynamics? When you setup rules that govern the universe, the monsters aren’t supposed to develop a mind of their own. Mine did. Now, they have to be stopped. And so, I’m going to stop them.
And that’s the power of someone looking over your work. If it’s a painting, your softball swing, an email to your boss, or the next great children’s work, it’s invaluable to get feedback from time to time. It just is.
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4 Fantastic Chapter Books for Animal Lovers
You would be hard pressed to find a kid who doesn’t like animals. Take your kiddo to the zoo, a farm, or even a pet store, and you’ll likely have a very excited little person on your hands.
There are some kids though, who really love animals. They’re the ones who live for the smallest details and facts about every single species in the animal kingdom, practice their veterinarian skills on the family dog, and spend countless hours doodling and coloring pictures of their favorite type of creature. They dream about growing up to have an exotic or glamorous career focused on animals, such as taming wild horses, or training dolphins and whales to perform.
We’ve rounded up a handful of exceptional chapter books that center around particular birds and beasts. While most children will enjoy these engaging stories, your animal lover will especially appreciate these gripping titles:
by Kate DiCamillo
Rob Horton is 12 years old and lives at the Kentucky Star Motel in Florida with his dad following the recent death of his mother. What seemed to be a normal day – normal for the past six months anyway – turns out to be anything but for Rob.
Not only does Rob – who is lonely, bullied, and suspended from school because of an embarrassing rash on his legs – meet girl, Sistine Bailey, who is a newcomer just like him; he also discovers a real, live tiger locked up in a cage in the woods behind the motel.
Much like the tiger confined to its cage, Rob keeps his emotions and concerns stashed away in an imaginary suitcase, which he invented after his dad told him that there was no point in crying because it wouldn’t bring his mother back.
As Rob and Sistine begin to build a friendship, she helps him realize that keeping things hidden away is not good. Together they devise a plan to free the tiger as well, although when tigers and feelings have been locked up for too long, the consequences can be alarming.
You may wish to read this book on your own before sharing with your child, as it does include some tragic subject matter, which may be overwhelming for an especially sensitive child. At the very least, you can discuss the story together and help your child work out any thoughts or questions that arise.
by Jean Craighead George
In a story that spans two centuries and encompasses both the past and the future, this engrossing book is written from several characters’ perspectives. Toozak, a young Yupik Eskimo boy, witnesses the birth of a bowhead whale in 1848. The whale, which he names Siku, has a distinctive mark that enables Toozak to recognize the whale throughout his life.
Years later, Toozak inadvertently leads a group of American hunters to the whales, resulting in the slaughter of many. Believing he has brought on a curse, Toozak vows to protect Siku. This promise takes him from his home on the Russian island of St. Lawrence to Alaska, where he marries and has children.
The story continues through the eyes of Toozak’s offspring, along with an American family named Boyd, and Siku the whale, who lives to be 200 years old when the curse is broken. Kids will learn about nature conservation and interactions between people of different cultures.
by Jack London
Rounding out our collection, this book is one you or even your parents (or grandparents!) may have read as a child. First published way back in 1903, the novel is considered a classic by many.
Buck, a young Saint Bernard and Scottish Shepherd mix, is stolen by one of his master’s servants, who sells the large dog to a ring of thieves. He ends up pulling a sled with a team of other dogs in the cold north; hungry, tired, and in pain much of the time.
After excessive hardship and brutality at the hands of several different masters, Buck finally finds a human he can trust again. However, tragedy strikes once more and the dog suffers yet another great loss. In the end, Buck heeds the call of the wild and joins a pack of wild wolves.
This is another book that you may wish to read first so that you can gauge whether it is appropriate for your child. It teaches many lessons and life skills they can apply to their own lives, from creative problem solving, to the importance of kindness, to overcoming adversity.
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Animal lovers who are also book lovers will be happy to discover that this title is part of the Vet Volunteers series by the author.
Brenna is so excited to join Dr. Mac, the veterinarian for whom she volunteers, on a trip to Florida. Dr. Mac’s friend Gretchen runs a manatee rescue that is in dire need of funding. Brenna has been fascinated by the gentle sea giants ever since she did a school project on them, and she desperately wants to find a way to help Gretchen save the rescue. With a little creativity and a lot of hard work, she just might be able to help.
Ideal for wannabe marine biologists, this story may inspire kids to find volunteer opportunities. It will also show them that even kids can make a difference when they use their imaginations and make a concentrated effort.
Encourage your child’s affection for the animal kingdom by presenting a new favorite book. Reading together is a great way to bond, even (perhaps especially) if your little one’s not so little anymore.
What are some of your favorite chapter books about animals to read with the kids? Share with us!
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It is necessary to have the following information in order to make an overseas bank transfer: Europe: IBAN and SWIFT Numbers for Transferring Money Using SWIFT and Transit Codes to Send Money to Canada Sending money to Australia through SWIFT or BSB code is straightforward.
What information do I need to complete a swift international transfer?
For a SWIFT international transfer to be completed successfully, you’ll need to submit the following exact information.The name and location of the financial institution that will be receiving your gift.Your recipient’s name, address, and the type of account they have with their financial institution (checking, current, savings, money market, etc.).The account number, often known as the IBAN, of your receiver.
What information do I need to credit an international bank account?
In addition to a SWIFT code or BIC, you’ll need the International bank account number (IBAN) of the account you wish to credit in order to complete the transaction. Learn more about SWIFT codes and IBANs by reading this article.
Do I need to know my bank details to transfer money?
Still, you’ll likely need to know specific bank data in order for your payment to go through securely, and they may vary depending on where the money is being transferred. Making international money transfers is a simple process. When compared to your bank, Wise might save you up to 8x. Before we get started, a word of caution.
What information do you need for an international bank transfer?
When transferring money overseas, you will require the payee’s information, which includes the following:
- Beneficiary’s Full Name The name of the individual or firm to which you are making the money
- Account number, often known as IBAN.
- BIC/SWIFT Code (Bank Identification Code)
- Code de déclassification national.
- Name of the financial institution.
- Address of the financial institution.
- Message to the intended recipient
What all details are required for bank transfer?
In addition to the person’s name, sort code, and account number, your bank may additionally want the following information from you: The location of their office. In order to pay bills, it is frequently necessary to have a reference phrase or number. The name and location of the financial institution to whom you are transferring funds.
Do you need IBAN for international transfer?
You will need to provide your IBAN in order to receive international transfers; however, it is not required in order to initiate transactions or withdraw funds. The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is largely used in European and European Union nations.
What bank details are needed to transfer money from UK to USA?
What bank information is required in order to send money to the United States? To send money from the United Kingdom to the United States, you will need your personal information as well as the payee’s name, account number, and verifiable contact information. The receiving account in the United States may be owned by you or by another individual.
Do I need IBAN and SWIFT?
Is it necessary to have IBAN if I already have SWIFT? It is possible that you will be required to supply both an IBAN and a SWIFT in order to assist a bank in determining where the money should be routed. Because not all nations use the IBAN system, if you’re transferring money to a country that doesn’t use it, you’ll just need the SWIFT code to complete the international money transfer.
Do you need BIC and IBAN to transfer money?
In order to transfer money from one bank account to another in Ireland or Europe, you will need the IBAN and BIC of the account to which you are transferring the money. According to the mode of transfer, you may also be required to provide your own IBAN and BIC numbers.
What does an IBAN number look like?
An IBAN number is made up of up to 34 alphanumeric characters in length. 13 Before it is entered, there is a two-character country code, two check digits, and a Basic Bank Account Number (BBAN), which provides information about the individual bank and account.
How do I transfer money from bank to USA from UK?
If you want to send money to the United States, you may do it through a bank or a money transfer expert. It takes between 1-3 business days. Make use of a money transfer service to avoid paying exorbitant transaction costs. In addition, certain money transfer professionals can assist you in obtaining the best exchange rate possible.
How do I do an international money transfer?
The first option is to make an international bank transfer using the internet.
- Locate the wire transfer area on the website of your financial institution.
- Check your internet transfer limit to make sure it is not exceeded.
- Input the bank account information for the recipient.
- Enter the amount and select the currency you wish for the receiving bank from the drop-down menu.
- Pay the cost for the transfer processing
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With our transfer estimator, you’ll be able to predict your GBP/USD exchange rates as well as your transfer expenses ahead of time. In order to send money from the United Kingdom to the United States, you must first supply your recipient’s account number, American Banking Association (ABA) routing number, mailing address, and telephone number. | <urn:uuid:3da5a461-a896-4a76-8ee8-71359fff780d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sendmoneyasia.org/bank/what-details-do-i-need-for-an-international-bank-transfer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.907906 | 1,518 | 2.359375 | 2 |
by Sasha Alyson
April 2021; updated June 2022
I recently tweeted the following:
1. The richest 1% of the globe owns half the wealth.
2. They want the rest of us to believe this is the best system.
3. The UN wants all children to attend schools where they learn not to ask questions, but only to memorize the “right answer.”
It was an unusually popular tweet, but some readers challenged point #3. After all, the U.N. says it wants “quality” education.
But U.N. words are different from what it causes to happen. Here are the facts:
1. The U.N. has nurtured the assumption that enrollment in school is the same as education. For the Millennium Development Goals (the MDGs; 2000-2015), the U.N. measured its Education Goal strictly in terms of enrollment.
Within a few years many people could see that globally, school enrollment was up but quality was down. The World Bank’s Global Monitoring Report pointed it out in 2007.(1) It states that the two largest challenges include “ensuring that primary completion means completion with adequate learning.” But neither the Bank nor the U.N. followed up on that thought. The Bank claimed “early evidence” that aid-industry efforts were effective. The evidence? Nothing at all about actual learning, it was all about inputs and money: enrollment, repetition rates, budget levels, spending on textbooks, maintenance, donor harmonization, reporting arrangements, and aid efficiency. Everything except the actual impact of all this activity.
In 2015 the U.N. announced great success for the MDGs. Because enrollments had increased in developing regions, it declared that education was improving. This report was essentially an advertising brochure, to win approval for the next plan: 15 years of U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
In short, the U.N. told leaders in developing countries: You’re doing a great job getting more children to enroll in school, and that means better education for them. Keep up the good work. We’re proud of you.(2)
The new SDG targets (recently rebranded as the Global Goals) refer to “quality education.” But they have 169 targets. This offers carte blanche for NGOs and the U.N. to address whichever targets they want to, as a “U.N. mandate,” while ignoring the rest. They do not know how to improve quality. They do know how to push for higher enrollment, spend donor money, compile data, have “partnership” meetings, and publish reports. That’s what they continue to do.
UNICEF’s 2019 Annual Report claimed five “notable [education] successes in 2019.” Four have nothing to do with whether children are learning more. The fifth says, “48 per cent of countries had effective systems to improve learning outcomes, compared with 35 per cent in 2018.” That’s just more talk. UNICEF doesn’t even say whether it believes that learning outcomes did improve, nor offer any evidence that these systems are actually “effective.” It seems likely that many of these “systems” were standardized tests, which can easily stifle efforts at well-rounded education, and often just result in a lot of cheating.
A few years later, it is clear this was all talk. The U.N. agencies now admit that learning levels have stagnated or dropped since 2015, with 70% of 10-year-olds in middle- and lower-income countries unable to read and understand a simple sentence. This is what three decades of U.N. policies have brought us.
2. The evidence strongly indicates that even as enrollments go up under U.N. goals, school quality in developing regions is getting worse. I’d like to back that up with comprehensive data… but I can’t find comprehensive data about it. The people running the show – that includes the U.N. agencies, other NGOs, and each country’s education officials – aren’t collecting data that would allow us to see broad trends in school quality. Why not? If education was improving on their watch, wouldn’t they want us to know? I’ve presented strong evidence of a worsening trend in this story.
Furthermore, what limited data we have is usually about reading scores, sometimes about math. These are the focus in most schools, because failure in reading or math is so glaring. But that’s only a small portion of the dimensions in which we want children to develop. We also want them to enjoy reading, as opposed to merely having the capability to do it; to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills; to be able to envision goals and work toward them; to develop interpersonal skills; to have opportunities to explore something (playing guitar, dance, writing, …) that fascinates them; and much more. Where schools and teachers are pressured to improve reading and math scores, but the infrastructure and resources and approach are all wrong, those two subjects consume more and more time, and others get crowded out
3. The U.N. does not tell schools to use rote methods, but that is the impact of U.N. actions. The U.N. talks about “child-centered education.” Then it pushes to require all children, especially girls, to attend school, in countries where few people have any concept of what education could be other than a teacher and a blackboard, telling children what to memorize for the test. The inevitable result is that learning gets forgotten; those in charge are busy figuring out where to put 22 more desks. Learning actually declines, because to the extent they’ve accepted the U.N.’s message, many people have come to believe that as long as children trudge off to school every day, the education box can be checked off. The U.N. and other aid agencies continue to feed this belief.
“More in School, but Not Learning,” as a New York Times story put it,(3) was the predictable result of the U.N.’s policy. It is equally predictable that adding the word “quality” to the 169 U.N. targets isn’t going to fix this.
4. The U.N. refuses to ask the essential questions. In the past few years, U.N. agencies and others have repeatedly warned of a “crisis” in education.(4) They’re the ones who, for more than a quarter-century, have increasingly shaped these school systems. Yet they take it as a given that improvements will happen only if they figure out what to do, and take charge. They don’t address the question, “Is education quality declining?” because that would lead to the awkward question, Why? And they refuse to address the big question: Is the U.N.’s top-down, one-size-fits-all approach, focused on expanding a colonial-era style of schooling that was set up to benefit the colonial powers, entirely the wrong way to improve education?
I think the answer is obvious: Yes, it’s the wrong approach. Others may disagree. But the question must be asked?
If you think education means that children enjoy their childhood as they challenge their brains and bodies and prepare for adulthood, then there is simply no evidence that the U.N.’s “we know best” approach is anything but a complete failure. Again and again, to prove “success,” the U.N. and global agencies pull out enrollment numbers, gender ratios, training workshop attendance figures, textbook budgets, new-construction budgets, and teacher-certification numbers – all the things that don’t matter, unless they actually lead to the result we want.
I could end the story here had I written that the UN “pushes” for children to attend rote-based schools. But I said that it “wants” them to do so, and that word merits a closer look. Want is a tricky word. I want to finish off that extra-large bag of potato chips. On the other hand, I know it’s not good for me, so I don’t want to. Or, in any case, I want to not want to.
In this case, crunch, crunch. The bag is empty. Did I want to eat them? My instincts were crying out for the salt, the fat, the crunch. Yes, Frito-Lay knew how to manipulate my instincts, but at the same time, while my intellect urged restraint, I did want to eat them.
By the same token, the U.N. says all the right things about quality education. But just as my instincts want the salt, the fat, and the crunch, the United Nations is driven by powerful forces which want education in developing countries to remain weak. Here are three of those forces:
Donor interests. U.N. activities are largely funded by Western money. The donors either like the status quo, or wish to shape it to their benefit. A generation from now they do not want their own children to compete on a level playing field with well-educated Pakistanis and Ugandans who are seeking jobs, starting businesses, and controlling their own governments.
Staff self-interest. U.N. staff members are not trying to work themselves out of a well-paying job. Even someone who will retire next month, with a nice pension, is surrounded by friends and colleagues who depend on U.N. jobs continuing indefinitely. That creates powerful peer pressure to go through the right motions, but never fix the underlying problems.
Institutional self-interest. The instincts of every large institution push for self-preservation. That’s why whistle-blowers at big institutions – whether the U.N., or the Catholic Church — face fierce resistance.(5) Institutions are driven to grow, to broaden their fiefdoms. The U.N. had 8 development goals and 21 targets for 2000-2015. For 2015-2030, that grew to 17 goals and 169 targets. The U.N. does not want children in the former colonies to develop a habit of asking awkward questions and thinking for themselves. It does not want them to develop the initiative and self-confidence to become adults who one day say, “You’ve worn out your welcome. Go home.”
Notes and Sources
Top photo: Students in India taking an exam. Throughout much of the world, richer and poorer countries alike, education has come to mean teaching for the test. © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA.
- World Bank Global Monitoring Report 2007
- Not only is enrollment the wrong way to measure learning, it doesn’t even tell us much about attendance. Many reports suggest that enrollment figures are inflated, because that offers an easy way to look successful. In other cases, the numbers are correct. Children do enroll. But they rarely attend.
- “More in School, but Not Learning,” by Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, 12 May 2015.
- A UNICEF report in January 2020, before school closings caused by the pandemic, announced a “learning crisis” and stated: “An estimated 53% of children in low- and middle-income countries cannot read proficiently by age 10. Even so, solid progress on getting children into school has been made. The near universalization of primary schooling is one of the great global achievements of the past 50 years.” If they’re not learning, why is this a great achievement? Well, because the U.N. needs to claim an achievement, and that’s the best it can do. The focus of this report is to plead for more money so that UNICEF can address the crisis. And in 2022, UNICEF raised this estimate from 53% to 57%.
- Rasna Warah, herself a U.N. whistleblower, documents this in her book Unsilenced. Also see: “Dodging Accountability at the United Nations,” by the Editorial Board, The New York Times, 22 Aug., 2016. | <urn:uuid:ef6bde70-6494-4586-ac27-39ae70738118> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://karmacolonialism.org/does-the-u-n-want-rote-education-in-the-global-south/?replytocom=283 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966857 | 2,611 | 2.5 | 2 |
Dear All: I know this plant as dawrf / miniature Jade plant..
NOT RELATED BOTANICALLY to the "real" jade plant...
Both make nice Bonsai habits, there in lies the rub... confusion...
but look closely and the differential diagnosis is not so difficult...
the bark is distinctly different and internodes etc etc...
And if you the flowers once will never forget them...
Crassula ovata puts on a spectacular show of masses of white flowers
on green peduncles
Portulacaria afra gets sparse small pink flowers on pink peduncles .
Univ of Hawaii has nice pictures
SO dawrf jade plant is : ** Portulacaria afra , Family:
and the "real" Jade plant is : ** Crassula ovata , Family:
Thanks for showing this plant..
On Jul 6, 11:13 am, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com
> *Portulacaria afra *
> Native of South Africa. In nature can grow tall to 10-12 feet.
> Family : Portulacaceae.
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There are seven physical places that Prophet ﷺ loved and spoke about on several occasions. As Muslims, we should all make sure we stay connected to these places in the hope to grow our love for the Prophet ﷺ and become closer to him.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born in Makkah and his prophethood journey began from there. He taught us to make Makkah our Qibla (Direction for Prayer) and a single prayer performed in Al-Masjid Al-Haram is equivalent to a hundred thousand performed in any other mosque. Sahih-Ibn MujahIt is a sanctuary where shedding blood (i.e killing) is prohibited. Saheeh-At-TirmidhiThe Prophet ﷺ openly announced his love of Makkah and its significance in the sight of Allah when he ﷺ said, addressing it: “I swear by Allah! You are the best of the lands of Allah and you are the most beloved land to Allah.” [Saheeh-At-Tirmidhi and Ahmad]
Our Beloved Messenger’s ﷺ loved Madinah so much that he made a prayer for it,
“O Allah! Make us love Madinah as much as we love Makkah or even more.” BukhariIt was narrated that when the Prophet ﷺ would return from a trip and see the walls of Al-Madinah, he would speed up his riding camel, and if he was upon a beast, he would agitate it, out of his love for Al-Madinah. (At-Tirmidhi)
Jerusalem (Al-Quds) is considered a sacred site in Islamic tradition, along with Mecca and Medina. Part of Jerusalem’s significance and holiness to Muslims derives from its strong association with Abraham, David, Solomon, and Jesus. They are all regarded as Prophets of Islam and their stories are mentioned in the Qur’an. Due to such significance, it was the first Qibla (direction of prayer) for Muslims before it was changed to Makkah. The Prophet ﷺ took a miraculous night journey to Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
“Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing” (17:1)The Prophet ﷺ led all the Prophets in prayer in Masjid Al-Aqsa (Jerusalem) (Muslim)
Masjid Quba’ (Quba’ Mosque)
Quba is the place on the outskirts of Madinah where the Prophet ﷺarrived and first stayed after emigrating from Makkah. A masjid was established there by the Prophetﷺ, and it was the first mosque to be built in Islam.
A verse in the Quran shows the greatness of this mosque: “…A mosque founded on righteousness from the first day is more worthy for you to stand in.” (Quran 9:108)
The Prophet ﷺ said: “The Salat in Masjid Quba is like Umrah.” (At-Tirmidhi)
Mount Uhud is the largest mountain in Madinah. It is located in the north of Madeenah with a length of seven kilometers. It is at a distance of five kilometers from the mosque of the Prophet ﷺ.The famous historic Battle of Uhud took place near this mountain. During this battle, the polytheists were victorious due to the mistake that was committed by the Muslim archers, who disobeyed the orders of the Prophetﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ ordered the archers to stay on the mountain to protect the backs of the fighters, but they descended when they thought that the battle was over. The fighters were therefore exposed from behind, and the polytheists killed many Muslims.
The Prophet ﷺ however made sure that the Muslims stay connected to the mountain despite this tragic event and he said: “This mountain loves us and we love it. O Allah! Indeed Ibrahim made Makkah sacred, and I make sacred whatever is between its (i.e. Al-Madinah) two lava tracts.”(At-Tirmidhi)
Al-Baqi’ (Burial Grounds in Madinah)
The Burial grounds of most of the Prophet’s companions, uncles, and aunties. Also, the Prophet’s son Ibrahim was buried there as well as his daughters, Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and Fatima. There are an estimated 10,000 companions of the Prophet buried in Al-Baqi’. It is called Jannatul Baqi’ because it’s like a piece of Paradise on earth since the Prophet ﷺ used to make dua’ for the people buried there.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to go to the Baqi’ (graveyard in Al-Madinah) at the last part of night and say, “May you be safe, O abode of the believing people. What you have been promised has come to you. You are tarried till tomorrow and certainly we shall follow you if Allah wills. O Allah, forgive the inmates of the Baqi’-al-Gharqad.”(Muslim)
Located inside the Prophet’s ﷺ mosque between the house of Aisha and the Prophet’s pulpit.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Between my house and my pulpit there is a garden of the gardens of Paradise, and my pulpit is on my fountain tank (i.e. Al-Kauthar).”(Bukhari)
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Seeking less costly, more efficient means of particle acceleration, physicists are developing new types of machines that zip particles to high energies in short distances. One promising method harnesses the power of plasma, accelerating electron bunches on the crest of plasma waves. Physicists recently discovered a way to measure the focus of such a beam, despite the fact that the plasma would melt traditional diagnostic tools.
It’s clear that plasma acceleration works. One such test accelerator, developed by the Laser and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies (LOASIS) program at Berkeley Lab, first accelerated electrons to 1 billion electronvolts in 2006. But it turns out that some characteristics of the accelerated beam are difficult to test.
The beam’s emittance, or how well the beam can be focused, has proven especially challenging. Emittance is an important parameter in particle physics because smaller emittance means higher luminosity—more particle collisions and therefore more data.
Yet the typical method of measuring emittance—placing measuring devices directly in the accelerator beam—aren’t possible for plasma accelerators: The plasma would quite simply destroy the device.
To gaze into their plasma, the Berkeley Lab team needed X-ray vision. Fortunately, the electron bunches themselves generate X-rays as they swing back and forth on the crest of the plasma wave. This oscillation emits a short pulse of bright X-rays that the researchers could detect with an advanced CCD camera, allowing them to count each X-ray photon and its exact energy.
These measurements showed that the team could produce an electron beam with a radius of one-tenth of a millionth of a meter: smaller than any other experiment has resolved. From there, the team estimated the emittance across the beam to be as small as a tenth of a millimeter per thousandth of a radian.
“This transverse emittance is as good as state-of-the-art conventional accelerators for free electron lasers and gamma-ray sources, if not yet high enough for a high-energy collider,” LOASIS physicist Cameron Geddes said in a recent Berkeley Lab news feature. “Our numerical simulations show us that emittance depends on specific ways in which the electrons are trapped in the wave, which opens the door to further reducing emittance.”
In the coming years, the LOASIS team seeks to further develop their accelerator to produce a 10 billion electronvolt beam over a distance of about a foot, with a high enough emittance to be used in a particle collider.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has been recruiting thousands of Afghan refugees to fight in Syria, offering $500 a month and Iranian residency.
The Wall Street Journal cites a Guards member, Afghans, and Western officials to make the claim.
The office of Grand Ayatollah Mohaghegh Kabuli, an Afghan religious leader in the Iranian holy city of Qom, said: A member of the IRGC also confirmed the details.
(The IRGC) find a connection to the refugee community and work on convincing our youth to go and fight in Syria. They give them everything from salary to residency.
The office said many Afghan young men had written to Ayatollah Kabuli to ask whether fighting in Syria was religiously sanctioned. It distanced the cleric from the Iranian effort, saying that that he had responded only if they were defending Shiite shrines and that recently he has been silent and not even attended funerals of Afghans killed in Syria.
Iranian authorities are also offering the refugees school registration for their children and charity cards.
On Thursday, a large funeral procession for four Afghan refugees killed in Syria was attended by local and religious officials was held in Mashhad in northeastern Iran, near the Afghan border.
A spokesman for Iran’s mission at the United Nations denied that Tehran was sending Afghan refugees to fight: “Iranian presence in the country is solely advisory in nature in order to help counter the extremist…Al Qa’eda groups from committing more massacres and bloodshed.”
Revolutionary Guards officers and former Guards members, coming out of retirement, have tried Syrian militia and led them in small-scale operations in the field.
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vorschlag:hammer – DIE LEIDEN DER JUNGEN WÖRTER
“Wilhelm, what is the world without love in our hearts! What a magic lantern is without light! No sooner do you bring the little lamp in than the most colourful pictures shine on your white wall! And if it were nothing but that, as temporary phantoms, it always makes our happiness, when we stand before it like fresh boys and delight in the miraculous phenomena.”
In Goethe’s Sturm und Drang epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther, the protagonist always tells only about himself and his experiences. Roland Barthes announces his book Fragments of a Language of Love with the following promise: “The discourse has got back its main character, the I.” His most frequent example: Werther. The intimacy of the letter lays the foundation for the expression of maximum subjectivity and self-centredness.
Between R’n’B, light play and immediate, performative speech, vorschschlag:hammer dissects the sufferings of the young Werther, explores figures of possible expression of emotion and an extension through theater beyond the literary text. We search for the differences between speaking about feelings and immediate expression of feelings. What, then, is a possible expression of modern subjectivity and feeling? In which languages possible for theatre can feelings and passions be negotiated and how?
A production by vorschlag:hammer in co-production with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost
Supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, the Lower Saxony Foundation, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Eberhard Foundation.
Thursday, 2. February 2017, 20:00
Friday, 3. February 2017, 20:00
created and performed by
Stephan Stock, Gesine Hohmann, Kristofer Gudmundsson, Frieder Hepting
Andreas Greiner & Raul Walch
Juliane Hahn & Bernhard la Dous
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The bottom unexpectedly fell out of the US coal industry in 2015 and 2016, as mining companies accounting for nearly half the country’s production declared bankruptcy one after another.
The industry’s major players have since rebuilt their finances, but the shake-up left lingering concerns for the future of these mines’ environmental clean-up.
Despite Donald Trump’s vocal support for coal, the industry is shrinking and more mines face closure in the coming decades. So what guarantees are there to secure a clean and healthy future for coal mining regions?
More than six months ago, Climate Home News began investigating this question. In the first nationwide survey of its kind, we scraped, compiled and analysed data on the industry’s provisions for cleaning up after itself. From Wyoming in the west to Virginia in the east, we visited mine sites and interviewed industry representatives, state regulators, environmental activists and neighbours of mines to better understand the industry’s impacts.
The true scale of the industry’s earth-altering digging and the massive swathes of land in need of reclamation can only be properly grasped from the air. CHN took flights as well as commissioned drones to fly along the length of Wyoming’s Powder River Basin and over southern West Virginia’s mountaintop removal mines. From this vantage point, the mines that once provided the majority of the country’s power gouged grasslands and mountains, and reclaimed areas often stood out in stark contrast from the surrounding, untouched ground.
Governance of reclamation and closure falls under the umbrella of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which is implemented by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE).
Beneath that, nearly every coal-producing state has its own regulations governing the system, a uniquely-structured environment or mining department to enforce the law and individual methods of collecting data. As a result, the system has remained opaque and defied countrywide analysis.
To make sense of it, we submitted about three dozen records requests to every state that held its own data, as well as to OSMRE.
The data we received after months of discussions with government employees was not standardised, easily accessible or even clean.
We worked with Illinois’ permit coordinator, for example, for weeks to organise a database that was a conglomeration of past coordinators’ various methods of record-keeping. Similar efforts were needed to collect and merge scattered data in Ohio, North Dakota and elsewhere.
Other states pushed back on our records requests. Kentucky refused to provide the requested level of detail in their data. At the time of publication, we have an appeal outstanding with the state’s attorney general.
While states with large coal industries have departments dedicated to regulating the industry and often keep somewhat useable data, states with only a few mines in their borders have haphazard records. Louisiana only has three mines but was unable to fully identify the third-party guarantors backing their mines’ bonds.
After months of discussions with CHN, OSMRE – which holds the data for bonds covering Tennessee, Washington and tribal territories – did not provide that information. Every other state that is actively producing coal and manages its own programme – 23 in all – did.
Finally, we managed to unlock nearly all the data the system had to offer and put it in a standardised table.
We had initially been spurred to investigate the bonding system because of previous reporting on the widespread use of self-bonds – a dangerous practice of companies insuring their own clean up. We expected to be able to show which companies were still using them. But when the data came in, we realised there was a new problem: pools of bonds used to reduce mines up front costs. This changed the focus of the investigation and led us to Appalachia, where these pools are in heavy use.
To see why funding for mine clean-up matters, we also examined the fate of previously closed mines.
This was a slightly easier task, as all the information was held by a single agency: OSMRE. Even so, to show national trends in post-mining land use, we had to scrape data from a decade’s worth of reports.
CHN has reported on the key findings and published these datasets in full for anyone to search and analyse.
This series was supported by grants from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (IJNR) and the European Climate Foundation.
All photos unless otherwise credited: Mark Olalde
Video production: Jill Russo
Research assistant: Frank Matt
Graphics: Skye Moret
Editing: Megan Darby and Karl Mathiesen
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Privacy win for directors
Directors will soon be able to remove their home addresses from the Companies Register.
While companies are working hard to better protect New Zealanders’ personal details following the introduction of the Privacy Act 2020, the directors of those same companies are left feeling exposed as their home addresses continue to be made freely available on the Companies Register.
It is not only the increased risk of the director and their families being confronted by disgruntled staff, customers or others that is concerning.
Directors’ communications with the company’s board are put at greater risk of industrial espionage or cybercrime, as directors’ homes are typically less secure than work offices.
Some directors may be working in particularly sensitive areas and have an even greater need to keep their residential details confidential, yet there is currently no effective mechanism for doing so. This is despite provisions within the Electoral Act for individuals who feel threatened to be registered on an unpublished electoral roll to keep their details private.
Directors do not want to hide, just to be safe. Being accountable is part of their role, but sometimes the risk to directors can overshadow this. Indeed, occasionally grievances against a company are for something it has little or no control over.
Organisations can find themselves and their reputations swept up in the swirl of a misplaced or unfounded notion which, while theoretical, has real implications on the ground.
The 5G conspiracy theory for example, in which people believe the 5G wireless network helps spread the Covid-19 virus (among other things), gave rise to 16 individual cases of arson to cellphone towers last year.
The Companies Register, available online, needs to maintain its integrity and that means being transparent, accountable and accurate. The Institute of Directors (IoD) absolutely supports this. The register is, after all, our country’s central record about companies and their directors and plays an important role in supporting businesses and the economy.
Companies need to be transparent in their ownership and activities to foster the trust and certainty required for long-term investment, financial stability and business integrity. Where their directors live is irrelevant.
We, and others, have been calling for change for some time. And there are few strenuous objections. A 2017 Stuff poll found 67 per cent of the public supported making directors’ home addresses private. Because it makes sense.
And the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has itself proposed allowing directors to use a service address instead of their private residence on the register – music to the IoD’s ears.
Providing a service address means directors could still be contacted and interact with shareholders, customers or government agencies as needed, but without jeopardising their and their families’ home life.
Despite this, nothing has changed. If anything, progress seems further away than ever. The issue reared its head again recently with MBIE’s proposal to introduce director identification numbers (DINs) – a unique number attributed to each director.
These numbers would make it easier to navigate the Companies Register by clearly delineating which director is which. Director names can be recorded differently throughout the register, making it hard to tell whether M Bloggs, director of Company A, is the same person as Mike Bloggs, director of Company B, or Michael Bloggs, director of company C, without having a residential address to match them against.
Once DINs come into play, there will be even less justification for directors’ residential addresses to be public. Yet, despite first being proposed in 2016, director identification numbers remain just that – a proposal.
The administrative burden of rolling out DINs is admittedly huge. But bundling this and the question of director residential addresses together means we’re no closer to a solution. It could be years away.
Meanwhile, directors and their families remain exposed.
The risk is real. In early 2018, Lyttelton residents received a leaflet containing the home addresses of Lyttelton Port Company directors.
In our time of high online connectivity, social media means information like this can spread even more rapidly than a door-to-door leaflet drop, and anyone could turn up on a director’s doorstep without warning.
Anecdotally, we are aware of a large business now dealing with this privacy concern as a matter of health and safety. The company has deemed it a high enough risk that it has put security measures in place, installing CCTV and monitoring the doors and windows of directors’ houses – some of which are also home to young children.
Shareholders, directors and the public must all be able to have confidence in the Companies Register. However, we do not believe directors’ home addresses are necessary to achieve this.
They certainly agree with us in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore, where directors can use a service address instead.
It is time we did the same here. Privacy and security should be available to everyone – including company directors.
Republished with permission from Stuff: Company directors deserve privacy and security too
Kirsten (KP) Patterson KP is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors. She is a qualified lawyer and a Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand, Co-deputy Chair of the Global Network of Directors Institutes (GNDI), Chair of the Brian Picot Ethical Leadership advisory board and was previously Chair of the Wellington Homeless Women’s Trust. | <urn:uuid:a12ee15b-3b58-49f7-93c0-7da10d7dd60b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iod.org.nz/news/articles/company-directors-deserve-privacy-and-security-too/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959723 | 1,123 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Italy records two week low in COVID-19 deaths
Italy has recorded its lowest daily death toll from the coronavirus in more than two weeks, while the number of critical care patients declined for the second day.
The 525 fatalities reported by the civil protection service was the lowest number since the 427 deaths recorded on March 19.
Elizabeth: ‘we will succeed’ against coronavirus
Queen Elizabeth has expressed appreciation to healthcare workers on the frontline and urged a united effort to overcome the crisis, vowing “we will succeed”.
In what was only the fifth televised address of her 68-year reign, the 93-year-old monarch drew on her experience in World War II and called upon Britons to demonstrate they were as strong as past generations.
“Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it,” she said in the address from her Windsor Castle home.
Ethiopia records first two deaths
Ethiopia has reported the first two deaths of patients infected with coronavirus, as officials ramped up testing.
The first victim was a 60-year-old Ethiopian woman who had spent six days in intensive care, a health ministry statement said.
The second victim was a 56-year-old Ethiopian man diagnosed with COVID-19 last Thursday.
France reports lowest daily death toll in a week
France recorded 357 coronavirus deaths in hospital in 24 hours, the lowest daily increase in a week, bringing the total death toll to 8,078.
The tally included 5,889 patients who died in hospital, and 2,189 people in old age homes and other medical facilities, a government statement said.
There are now 28,891 people infected with coronavirus in hospital, an increase of 748 from the day before.
UK death figures rise by 621
The United Kingdom’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 621 to 4,934 on April 4, the health ministry said.
A total of 195,524 people have been tested of which 47,806 tested positive, the ministry said.
Man shot dead in Philippines for flouting coronavirus rules
A 63-year-old man was shot dead in the Philippines after threatening village officials and police with a scythe at a coronavirus checkpoint, police said on Saturday.
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Background: The effectiveness of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) after vaginal delivery has been shown. After cesarean births, SSC is not done for practical and medical safety reasons because it is believed that infants may suffer mild hypothermia.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare mothers' and newborns' temperatures after cesarean delivery when SSC was practiced (naked baby except for a small diaper, covered with a blanket, prone on the mother's chest) with those when routine care was practiced (dressed, in the bassinet or in the mother's bed) in the 2 hours beginning when the mother returned from the operating room.
Methods: An experimental, noninferiority adaptive trial was designed with four levels of analysis: 34 pairs of mothers and newborns, after elective cesarean delivery, were randomized to SSC (n = 17) or routine care (n = 17). Temporal artery temperature was taken with an infrared ray thermometer at half-hour intervals.
Results: Compared with newborns who received routine care, SSC cesarean-delivered newborns were not at risk for hypothermia. The mean temperatures of both groups were almost identical: after 30 min, 36.1 degrees C for both groups (+/-0.4 degrees C for SSCs and +/-0.5 degrees C for the controls), and after 120 min, 36.2 degrees C +/- 0.3 degrees C for SSCs versus 36.4 degrees C +/- 0.7 degrees C for the controls (no significant differences). Time from delivery to the mothers' return to their room was 51 +/- 10 min. The SSC newborns attached to the breast earlier (nine SSC newborns and four controls after 30 min) were breast-fed (exclusively or prevalently) at discharge (13 SSCs and 11 controls) and at 3 months (11 SSCs and 8 controls), and the SSC mothers expressed high levels of satisfaction with the intervention.
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From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant new historical crime novella for fans of Antonia Hodgson and CJ Sansom.
‘To Mr Thomas Combe my sword.’ These six words in Shakespeare’s will tell us that Shakespeare had a sword. Did he wear it? Did he use it? What sort was it? When and why did he get it? What happened to it? Might it – does it – still exist?
These questions plague Simon Gold, an antiques dealer. He believes he has identified the sword as belonging to a customer, an unworthy owner indifferent to cultural icons and uninterested in history. Simon is desperate to acquire the sword, but how? How far is he prepared to go to get it? In alliance with Charlotte, his customer’s attractive and disaffected wife, Simon finds himself going farther than he had intended – and finds, too, that Charlotte is rather more than she appears. | <urn:uuid:241f540c-9401-4033-a1ef-40a4b2b6e18d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.davidhigham.co.uk/books-dh/shakespeares-sword/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977042 | 200 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Taller Height May Increase Risk for Colorectal Cancer
Overall, tallest individuals appear to have a higher risk of developing colorectal cancer versus the shortest
WEDNESDAY, March 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Taller height should be considered a risk factor for colorectal cancer or adenoma, according to a study published online March 11 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Elinor Zhou, M.D., from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis to identify studies examining whether adult-attained height is associated with the risk of colorectal cancer or adenoma.
The researchers identified 47 observational studies (280,644 colorectal cancer and 14,139 colorectal adenoma cases). Overall, 19 studies yielded a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.14 for colorectal cancer incidence per 10-cm increase in height, and 14 studies generated an odds ratio (OR) of 1.09. When examining colorectal cancer incidence between individuals within the highest versus the lowest height percentile, 19 studies had a combined HR of 1.24, and seven studies resulted in an OR of 1.07. Among the four studies with data assessing colorectal adenoma incidence per 10-cm increase in height, there was a trend toward increased risk (OR, 1.06).
"One possible reason for this link is that adult height correlates with body organ size," Zhou said in a statement. "More active proliferation in organs of taller people could increase the possibility of mutations leading to malignant transformation." | <urn:uuid:3e2b7e62-f74c-4a37-bfa5-7a803a9700af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://consumer.healthday.com/taller-height-may-up-risk-for-colorectal-cancer-2656854721.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.893063 | 343 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Social websites, often called SMM, is really an progressively more crucial marketing tool for organizations. Facebook marketing means the using social media web sites and programs to develop an item or support a website. Although the terminology electric and e-promotion are significantly identified in academia, social websites happens to be extra well known for advertisers and lecturers the same. One of the leading concerns of marketing experts is the place where they utilize the have an effect on of social media sites and the way this might influence their brand’s name management. This article examines a few of the challenges to be considered when working with web 2 . 0 advertising goods.
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The United States Department of Education is making bold moves toward cleaning house and we shall talk about some of these that affect you as a parent of a soon-to-be college bound child directly. We do not wish to leave out the an incredible number of Americans that are time for school and would be the students themselves-but the greatest percentage of school bound individuals are still beneath the dependent financial care of the parents. We titled this posting debt consolidation breaking news for a good reason. That reason is once we proceed towards Halloween in the month of October it’s time for you to start laying the groundwork for the upcoming winter school session in many parts of the United States.
Reformation in America
As debt consolidation is being reformed in America today and with President Obama taken the reins on so many financial concerns it’s essential that you Naira know something about the debt relief situation going on the country. While you could consider yourself well-versed in the essential modality of what debt relief happens to be you’ll need to know the way that relates to the student loan obtainment for your incoming freshman. You can find literally an incredible number of freshmen that enter colleges and universities and technical schools all across this great country of ours and it is very important that the parents of the soon-to-be college educated children know where to show to for advice and information about that all-important student loan issue.
Department of Education Enactments
The absolute most breaking news that involves debt consolidation includes what of President Obama’s administration in addition to the Department of Education directly. The administration has mandated through acts of legislation and other such legalities that the middlemen are actually cut-out of the equation for several concerns about student loans.
What this does straight away is to truly save you, the American taxpayer, at the very least $500-$1000 per year in monies that has been going toward the pavement of the third-party providers for student loans. Now that there is a direct-line of communication between you, the parent of the college-bound child, and the Federal government, that will be the Department of Education, the streamlining with this type of financing of a college education is clearing up.
We wanted to offer some earth-shattering in addition to fundamentally groundbreaking news but the truth is the debt consolidation world has so much going on it is very important that people concentrate on the present and future and not so much be concerned about things of the past. If you are a parent of students who is presently in senior school you appreciate this and you recognize that the near future belongs to our children. With debt consolidation clearing your family and freeing up cash that would have been used on bank card revolving debt and other unsecured debt loan accounts you will undoubtedly be very much closer to financing the dream of your youngster and of yourself of completing a college education in America in the 21st century. | <urn:uuid:c0a2a35a-add3-4001-9653-be37e240c8d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://agakagakinitiative.com/debt-consolidation-reduction-breaking-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963639 | 598 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Healthy Building Networks
What’s a healthy building network?
A healthy building network
Ensures your data moves seamlessly from edge-to-cloud or edge-to-server, uncompromised and on time. Robust connectivity of smart devices is the basis for your building functioning efficiently and dependably. User-focused management allows users to configure and manage the network from a single pane of glass. Network analytics work in real time to keep building managers informed of network changes so they are the first to know when data is compromised or delayed. Finally, security of the entire solution ensures tenants and their data are safe at all times.
Why are Healthy Building Networks important?
Because people want to live, work, and play in buildings that are secure, comfortable, and sustainable.
Healthy networks eliminate weak points in IT and OT systems, keeping digital assets and people secure.
A proactively self-managed network means it will work 24/7 to keep the building’s occupants comfortable and happy.
A healthy building network can lower operational costs and conserve energy; all while self-managing to minimize maintenance time as the network grows.
Challenges of a Healthy Building Network
The Maintenance Perspective: How easy will it be to add more devices across a physically large network in the future, and maintain them?
The Networking Perspective: Can the physical OT network handle so many devices?
Physical Safety: What if security breaches threaten physical safety, or give access to IT data?
Data Privacy and Security: Will the digital assets and confidential IT data be safe?
Service Interruptions: Will service interruptions result in frustration, fines, harm or injury?
Hackers: Will hacked machines and other outside threats have physical safety impacts?
Longevity: If it’s working, let’s not touch it. If it’s not working, I need to call in a few vendors and schedule maintenance during off hours.
Updates: How will we deal with updates and patches so we are up to date?
Working with IT/OT
IT Doesn’t Understand OT: IT seems to care more about upgrading to bigger and faster than about longevity.
OT Doesn’t Understand IT: OT often does not follow standard IT best practices such as audit trails and regular updates.
Vendor Management: Many contractors are responsible for maintaining and upgrading the system, and they need to be managed.
In-House Team: An in-house IT team or a single dedicated vendor work on the network full-time.
Leverage Consumer Trends
Deliver the cutting-edge technology your customers want, like analytics, cybersecurity and a high-performance building managed from a single pane of glass.
Increase Profit Margins
Quickly diagnose problems remotely instead of always going on site.
Reduce Installation Headaches
Monitor your network health as you install devices, so you don’t have to go back and fix them.
Optigo Quote Healthy Building Networks
ATS, an industry-leading systems integrator with offices across the United States, has a clear vision for supporting customers. They want to be their clients’ trusted partner, through installation and beyond. With Visual BACnet, they found a way to serve more clients faster and deliver exceptional value.
Chris Goodman, the Senior BMS Technician at Coventry University, had broadcast storms that were happening more and more frequently.
Ongoing construction due to Coventry’s campus expansion meant lots of new activity, with technicians installing new devices and making network changes. Already juggling these constant additions and alterations, Goodman and his small team then had to deal with the subsequent broadcast storms. As the broadcast storms became more frequent, Goodman and his team needed a solution.
Find out how Visual BACnet helped Chris solve the broadcast storms and improve Network Health in our free case study!
Stack Infrastructure is a portfolio of hyperscale computing data centers. OTI completed work on Phases I and II, and returned for the Phase III build-out of a 4-megawatt data hall and brand new central plant. The Optigo Connect network put in place in Phases I and II was expanded on this project. The team achieved quick roll-out of a large, multi-service redundant network using the Optigo OneView management interface. Going forward, the facility management team can use OneView to remotely monitor equipment, manage power usage, and meet up-time goals.
The Landmark is a sophisticated mixed-use high-rise in Mexico. The owners wanted to integrate all OT systems in the skyscraper, while maintaining separate networks for each application. The Landmark is the fourth joint project between Optigo Networks and MR Soluciones. Together, these companies provide robust services to meet any challenge.
Delta Building Automation (Australia) had a big job renovating the Headquarters for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) at 45 Benjamin Way. The building owner wanted to improve the building’s energy use and increase their National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) score to more than 4.5 stars, out of a possible total of six. Securing the network both internally and externally was a big priority, as well.
When Tom Walker looked at Penn State University’s Navy Yard network, he saw huge issues. The system was busy and loud, to the point where the overrun network was bringing down the entire building. Because this was happening on the MS/TP network, pinpointing the problem would mean boots on the ground to segment and test the chain, piece by piece.
When Tom Walker first started working at Penn State University four years ago, there were a lot of network issues. Buildings were dropping offline. Broadcast traffic was pushing 90,000 packets per hour. Walker was on the phone almost every single night because devices were down or had to be reset.
When MR Soluciones began work on Torre Manacar, they knew they needed a flexible and scalable network infrastructure to support a wide array of integrated systems. Optigo Networks was a natural fit for the massive project, designing a robust network at a competitive cost.
Short Pump Town Center, an upscale retail center, underwent a complete renovation in 2014. The flexibility of Optigo Networks’ solution meant the retail center’s unknown final design was not a barrier to placing IP surveillance equipment in the field.
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Kangaroo Island offers food as it was meant to taste. And it’s at its freshest and most authentic at the source, where producers grow, forage, make and package – with an eye for quality and sustainability.
The island’s remote and untamed natural environment has always demanded a self-sufficient lifestyle. The early mixed farms of cattle, sheep and grain, plus kitchen garden, have diversified to a rich array of marron, free-range eggs, heritage free-range pork, figs, lentils, sheep’s milk yoghurt and cheese, freshwater barramundi, olive oil, condiments, and much more. A sample from the clear, clean ocean includes King George Whiting, oysters, abalone, snapper and garfish.
Early settlers learnt about the seasons, making the most of each one, surviving year round. This legacy of ingenuity and seclusion has influenced island food producers to deliver quality and flavour – whether they are fourth generation islanders or newly arrived and inspired.
Kangaroo Island wines, spirits, ciders and ales have a purity and restraint that perfectly matches the region’s artisan food. Each cellar door is a ‘one-off’ and many offer regional food to complement wine tastings and sales. Make sure you seek out the newly released vintages.
The dining is fine, casual or pop-up. Eateries dot the island from Cape Willoughby to Rocky River, Kingscote to Snellings Beach. In all corners of the Island you can savour its delights with private catering, eating in the wild or at restaurants, cafes and cellar doors! Discovering Kangaroo Island’s culinary secrets is an odyssey for lovers of fine food, wine, beer and spirits. | <urn:uuid:ca4e78e9-7444-42f7-be7b-eda044df6100> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eatdrinkki.com.au/category/seasonality-guides/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928206 | 373 | 1.554688 | 2 |
IBM is refreshing its historic server lineup with the z15 designed for hybrid environments requiring high performance in a secure environment. Overall, the z15 represents an evolutionary change compared to its predecessor, the z14. However, there are many improvements in all areas.
At the system level, IBM continues to use CPC drawers (Central Process Complex) that integrate processor, memory, and I / O interconnects. IBM uses the term Central Process Complex to refer to the physical collection of hardware that includes the main storage, one or more central processors, timers and channels.
In newer models of IBM mainframe, the OEM has physically built the “system box” in a modular way with a number of drawers that slide into a grid and are connected to each other by a sort of channel communication (the exact implementation varies by model, but this is a high-level overview), so that the CPC drawer (s) contain processor chips, RAM memory, and other infrastructure. basis of the overall system.
A drawer on the z15 includes two logical CP clusters and one SC. The split cluster design is intended to improve memory traffic. It’s the same design as the z14. However, the similarities stop there. On the z14, only one drawer has six central processors and one system controller chip. In a drawer, everything is fully connected via the X-Bus.
On the z15, IBM has reduced the number of central processors. There are now four processors and one SC chip per drawer. This strategic choice can be understood. In a drawer, everything is still fully connected via the X-Bus. Each processor is connected to the other processor within a cluster as well as to the SC chip.
Other changes highlighted by IBM :
– Encryption everywhere: Based on ubiquitous encryption, IBM has unveiled the new Data Privacy Passports technology, which customers can use to control storage and data sharing – which helps protect and provision data, as well as to revoke access to this data at any time, not just in the z15 environment, but in a company’s hybrid multilayer environment. z15 can also encrypt data anywhere – in hybrid multilayer environments – to help organizations secure their data wherever they go.
– Native Cloud Development: Can give customers a competitive edge by changing the way they modernize existing applications, developing new native cloud applications, and securely integrating their largest workloads into the cloud. Customers are already using IBM Z for their critical workloads to design, deploy, and manage next-generation applications and protect data through advanced security.
– Instant Recovery: An industry first approach to minimize costs and the impact of planned and unplanned downtime, allowing users to access the full capacity of the system for a period of time to accelerate shutdown and restart IBM Z services and provide a temporary increase in capacity for fast recovery. lost time. | <urn:uuid:2e99acc5-e26e-4e1d-8a31-c40f03cd2fa3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hawassib.com/ibm-launches-next-generation-z15-mainframe-for-hybrid-environments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940014 | 589 | 1.828125 | 2 |
I don't have the box or directions that came with my Brownie automatic camera. Do you know the history of my Brownie camera?
E.S., BUFFALO, N.Y.
The Eastman Kodak Brownie camera was an extremely popular line from 1900 to 1970. The name was derived from the popular cartoon characters known as The Brownies, created by illustrator/author Palmer Cox (1840-1924). The No. 1 Brownie Camera sold for $1 when it was introduced in 1900 for the children's market. Kodak produced about 125 Brownie models. Your c. 1910 example is the No. 3A Kodak Folding Brownie Camera and was sold for $10. It was capable of shooting 10 exposures. Having the box and directions doesn't affect value. Your camera appears to be in good condition.
Valued at: $75
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CHAPLAIN. A clergyman appointed to say prayers and perform divine service. Each house of congress usually appoints it own chaplain.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856. | <urn:uuid:c500b272-7467-494b-899b-ae729c49d968> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Chaplin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.88625 | 84 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Apple Watch Series 8 will be unveiled in a couple of months and one rumoured feature will be a new body temperature sensor that can tell if you’re running a fever.
According to Bloomberg, the Apple Watch Series 8 will alert you if you have an elevated body temperature, but it won’t give you an exact temperature reading – instead it will provide a notification that you’re warmer than usual and advise you to use a thermometer or see a doctor.
A normal body temperature is 36-37 degrees Celsius.
The most common causers for an elevated body temperature could be viral respiratory infections like colds, flu and COVID, an ear infection or gastroenteritis.
This new body temperature feature is reportedly going through the final stages of internal testing and will be included on Apple Watch Series 8 and possibly on a rumoured new rugged edition of Apple Watch for serious and extreme athletes.
But the cheaper Apple Watch SE will probably not include this new feature.
There are already several health features on the Apple Watch including an ECG, blood oxygen monitoring and 24/7 heart rate monitoring and notifications for abnormally high or low heart rates.
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Machinery and process safety rules to change in world of mechatronics
A new integrated industrial safety program covering all aspects of industrial automation has been unveiled by Siemens Canada.Calling it "the most comprehensive program available from any source today,...
A new integrated industrial safety program covering all aspects of industrial automation has been unveiled by Siemens Canada.
Calling it “the most comprehensive program available from any source today,” senior vice-president Guenter Brecheis noted that the initiative is in response to what he described as a paradigm shift in industrial technology that will benefit from the company’s leadership in integrated safety.
“In the area of safety, we are at a paradigm shift. In the machinery and process worlds, we are moving away from mechanical to electronic devices. Our customers understand the benefits of the dramatic shift to mechatronics, as the merger of mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic with electronics is called. The result is new devices that are more electronic than mechanical. Safety products must work in this new mechatronic world.”
Combining Siemens safety devices and technology products, many of which can be embedded in standard automation devices, will provide the market with an economical alternative to stand-alone safety systems or access to leading technology that can be used on its own, the company reports.
Technology, Brecheis says, has reached a level of sophistication that now supports an integrated approach in what he termed “the realization of the digital enterprise …. The result of this is that … Siemens is able to provide an integrated, scalable and open safety solution across all industries and across all applications.
“One of our key objectives is to create intelligent, system-related, integrated safety involving our whole range of automation and drive products, our process control systems and all related aspects of our business.”
Brecheis commented on today’s changing regulatory environment. “The rules of industry are changing. In safety today, the threshold is zero tolerance. Canadian workers should expect to be able to work in safe environments and changing government regulations ensure that there is no other option.
“The same technologies that have produced impressive productivity gains, and opened the door to mechatronics, can be ‘safety integrated’ through the employment of what we are calling revolutionary technologies, such as our Safety PLCs and open safety fieldbuses.”
The Siemens integrated safety program product offering is a comprehensive collection of control devices, PLCs, fieldBus systems, CNC controls and drives.
Brecheis identified factors that are driving change in safety technology:
The rise of leading edge safety technology: Safety PLC and Open Safety Fieldbuses
Greater intelligence from safety products
Open architecture fieldbuses, e.g. ProfiSafe and/or AS-I Safety at Work
Single-source supplier for products, services and solutions — one company to take full responsibility
A requirement by the market for complete solutions, and
Compliance with machine functional safety standards.
LONG-TIME FAG EXECUTIVE SUCCUMBS TO CANCER
A memorial service was held May 3, 2002, at the Angus Glen Golf & Country Club in Markham, Ont., for Dan Thrussell, 63, a former executive with FAG Bearings Ltd., Mississauga, Ont. Mr. Thrussell died April 22, 2002, after a six-month struggle with cancer.
His career at FAG spanned 38 years. He held various management positions and contributed greatly to the success of FAG, said Bob Marshall, vice-president and general manager of FAG’s national sales division in Canada.
“Dan was a great friend and colleague to many of us at FAG. He has touched many of our lives and he will be deeply missed,” Mr. Marshall said.
Mr. Thrussell transferred in January 1999 to the U.S. to serve as vice-president of sales and marketing of FAG Bearings Corporation, Danbury, Conn. He retired from active service with the company in February this year.
MOTION ENHANCES INTERNET-BASED PROCUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MRO INVENTORY
Motion Industries Inc. of Mississauga, Ont., has introduced a new, upgraded version of MotionMRO.com, its comprehensive Internet-based procurement system. The website provides Motion customers with real-time access to parts and MRO inventory.
Motion Canada president Jim Clark introduced the changes to the online program in a demonstration for Machinery & Equipment MRO recently.
MotionMRO.com version 3.0 provides an expanded and more efficient online service, said Clark. One of the goals of the upgrade, he said, was to allow users to navigate the site using fewer mouse clicks to drill down into product details. All major functions are now found on the home page.
Users can search for product price and availability, request quotes, check stock, enter orders, receive e-mail order confirmation, track order status and view account balance information.
Also new are specifications, pictures and engineering drawings of core products, a product search filtered by manufacturer name, a list of the user’s recently purchased items, express ordering and order templates.
Products listed on the site include bearings, mechanical power transmission, electrical power transmission and fluid power transmission replacement parts, and hose products. Motion Industries has more than 500 operations including several branches in Canada and nine distribution centres throughout North America.
Motion also operates a separate website for its suppliers called InMotion. “The web is a tool to help us do business more efficiently,” said Clark.
Motion has acquired several Canadian distributors over the past few years which are now among its branches. They include BGS, CHV, Lou’s Bearings, the MBS Group and Premier. More acquisitions are possible, Clark said. “We do want to have a strong presence in Canada.” Motion Canada is a subsidiary of Motion Industries of Birmingham, Ala., which is in turn owned by Genuine Parts Company.
MEMAC LEARNS ABOUT HEALTH AND SAFETY CRACKDOWN
Close to 50 people turned out for a recent meeting of the MEMAC Council of CME (Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters) at the Ford Motor Company of Canada truck plant in Oakville, Ont., reports Council chairman Larry Barrett of Emerson Electric Canada. (The group was formerly the Machinery & Equipment Manufacturers Association of Canada.)
Barrett commented that the plant tour was very appropriate as the equipment seen “is what MEMAC members produce to a large extent. Industrial automation and conveying equipment is a large part of the MEMAC membership.”
Following the tour, two presentations were given, one on Directors and Officers Liability, by Kevin Coon of Baker & McKenzie, and a second on The New Employment Standards Act, by Jeff Goodman of Heenan Blaikie. Both are Toronto-based legal firms.
Coon, an expert in the area of health and safety, told the members that fines had been increasing in this area of the law. “It is not uncommon to find fines of between $25,000 and $40,000, plus a 25 per cent surcharge for first offences. If it happens to be a critical injury or fatality, the fine could be $75,000 for a first offence.”
The government has undertaken an aggressive prosecution agenda, he said. “Supervisors have been targeted. In some cases jail terms are being sought. This is a relatively new approach for the ministry. In the past, ‘deals’ were struck to stay charges and put that money into the plant to make safety improvements there. This is not the case any more; significant fines are now being sought and such deals are not being pursued.”
Current targets for the ministry include machine guarding, fall hazards, lifting devices and health hazards.
The MEMAC meeting concluded with a business conditions roundtable discussion that focused on the issues and tough economic situations that were being faced by members. MRO
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AC DRIVES TO SEE HUGE IMPACT FROM NEW TECHNOLOGY
After suffering a double-digit decline in 2001, the North American AC drives market is expected to resume growth in 2002, according to a market research and technology forecast report by Drives Research Corp. of San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
The company predicts nearly 3% growth for AC drives in North Ameri
ca in 2002, with stronger growth following over the next few years of between 4% and 7%.
“We expect the billion-dollar-plus North American AC drives market to post nearly a 6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the next five years through 2006, compared to the 8% achieved from 1995 to 2000,” said Tom Kaporch, president of Drives Research. He is the principal author of the market research and technology forecast report AC Drives Outlook for North America 2002-2006.
Growth in North America will be driven by the need for energy conservation, higher productivity, neglected infrastructure needs and new emerging applications, the report states. It will be led by the process industries and utilities market segments, with building HVAC, material-handling, semiconductor fabrication and packaging machinery also showing significant improvements.
Industrial manufacturing growth, however, will lag slightly, according to Kaporch, but this will be offset by emerging applications such as marine propulsion, non-auto traction, commercial and household appliances and products.
Price erosion, consolidation and globalization will continue to have an impact on the industry, Kaporch noted, even as integrated power electronics packaging solutions, power ICs, and dedicated DSP and microprocessor motor control solutions continue to lower the barriers to entry in the fragmented industry.
With more than 32 AC drive suppliers currently serving the North American market and the majority of low- and medium-power AC drives viewed as commodity products, the effort to deliver value differentiation by price, application-specific solutions, system integration, and distribution channel is expected to intensify, he said.
The study identifies increased intelligence, sensorless control, multilevel converter topologies, active front-ends, and new advanced control schemes as key trends that will have an impact on AC drive design in the future, while new high-voltage power semiconductors will reduce the cost of medium-voltage AC drives, greatly expanding their application opportunities.
In the longer run, Kaporch notes, high-temperature silicon-carbide power semiconductors, bi-directional current capability, matrix converter topologies, and neural/fuzzy logic-based control schemes promise to revolutionize the industry, propelling it into a new level of explosive growth.
NRC HELPS TIMKEN WITH DEVELOPMENT OF LASER GAUGING SYSTEM FOR STEEL TUBING
The Timken Company of Canton, Ohio, plans to make laser ultrasonic technology commercially available to steel manufacturers. The technology, a gauging system that enables more efficient manufacturing of seamless steel tubing, successfully completed a rigorous testing period at the company’s Gambrinus Steel Plant.
Timken, in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, began development of the system in March of 1999.
The laser-based measuring system helps ensure that steel tubes are produced with a more uniform wall, reducing the need for removing excess material from the tube wall. “The capabilities of this laser ultrasonic system extend far beyond those of previous radiation gauging techniques,” said Raymond V. Fryan, director, process improvement – alloy steel. “Most importantly, measuring the full- length of the tube during manufacturing not only verifies quality of the entire tube, it also reduces mill downtime by significantly reducing the need for sampling.” | <urn:uuid:c60c22a0-5852-4e61-862f-170a9e620a72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mromagazine.com/features/machinery-and-process-safety-rules-to-change-in-world-of-mechatronics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94147 | 2,456 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Pioneer, Tanner, Shoemaker, Farmer, Hotel Keeper, War of 1812 Veteran
From History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. Williams & Bros., 1882), Volume 2, p. 457:
Joseph Rogers was born on Long Island in 1788, came to Trumbull county in 1812 and settled in Vienna township. He was drafted from Vienna in the War of 1812 and served in that war. He carried on a tannery in Vienna, also shoemaking in connection with farming. Later in his life he conducted a hotel at Vienna. After the War of 1812 he married Lydia Lowry and raised a family of two daughters and six sons all of whom are living. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-three, dying in 1881.
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning. … (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893), pp. 340-41:
JOSEPH ROGERS, deceased, was one of the early settlers of Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio. He was born on Long Island, and learned the trade of tanner and shoemaker there, serving an apprenticeship of seven years. As soon as he had completed his trade he started afoot to Ohio, and upon reaching this State located in Vienna. Here he established a tannery and also engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, conducting a successful business here for many years, and employing a force of from eight to ten men. This was the first tannery in Trumbull county. He also owns [sic] and cleared up a fine farm near Vienna. In the various public affairs of the county he took a prominent and active part, his political views being those advocated by the Whigs. He was also one of the prominent Masons in Ohio at that early day. He and wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Lowry, had six sons and three daughters, a brief record of whom is as follows: Loren, the oldest, ...; Royal, a resident of Warren, Ohio; Minerva, wife of John Levitt, is deceased; Austin, also deceased; Dr. Gilbert Rogers, deceased; Addison, a resident of Warren, Ohio; Charles, who died in Bowling Green, Ohio; Lucy, wife of G. Andrews, is deceased; and Lucy, died in infancy. | <urn:uuid:50af1487-3086-4a68-be99-6a57aad6c7b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.viennapedia.org/people/rogers-joseph | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.984658 | 534 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Alzheimer's Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories
Ask family members of someone with Alzheimer's or another dementia: Trying to talk with a loved one who doesn't even remember exactly who they are can be very frustrating.
But here at a senior center in Seattle, things are different.
On one recent day, 15 elderly people were forming a circle. The room is typical — linoleum floors, cellophane flowers on the windows, canes and wheelchairs, and walkers lined up against the wall.
Linda White is leading a session based on a program called TimeSlips. The idea is to show photos to people with memory loss, and get them to imagine what's going on — not to try to remember anything, but to make up a story.
Storytelling is one of the most ancient forms of communication — it's how we learn about the world. It turns out that for people with dementia, storytelling can be therapeutic. It gives people who don't communicate well a chance to communicate. And you don't need any training to run a session.
White walks around the circle holding up a stock photo of a fit elderly man. He's wearing a banana-yellow wet-suit vest and is water-skiing.
The man is smiling broadly at the camera, perfectly framed by a big arc of water.
"He's experienced and he's cool; he's happy," says White. "Look at the grin on his face."
Many of the people in this group don't talk much on their own. But they're enthusiastic about making up a life story for the water-skier — he's a retired guy who's been divorced several times. He's got four children and a wife onshore, waiting to be taken out to dinner.
Most people with dementia live at home and don't have the opportunity for this kind of session, run by someone who's been trained to do it. But storytelling can be done at home, according to the founder of the program, Anne Basting.
"Anybody can do this," says Basting.
She directs the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She started work on storytelling as a way to give people with dementia a low-stress way to communicate, one that did not rely on their memories. She sees it as giving caregivers a chance to reconnect with their loved ones.
"People with dementia start to forget their social role; they might not remember they're a spouse ... a parent," says Basting. "They need a social role through which they can express who they are, and the role of storyteller really supplies that."
One study co-authored by Basting in The Gerontologist, a journal, found that storytelling made people more engaged and alert, and that staff members at residential facilities had more positive views of their patients. An independent study published in Nursing Research showed participants were happier and better able to communicate in general.
Basting says one of the biggest hurdles to getting the program going has been skeptical family members.
"Resistance comes when people say, 'My dad would never do that; he's a very distinguished man. It's beneath him; it's childish,' " says Basting.
And then Dad hops right in.
Basting tells of one man who came to her in tears of thanks. For the past three years, he had been driving his wife crazy, trying to get her to talk about shared memories. He tried her on storytelling so they could talk about the story and play with the plot line. And eventually, he was able to communicate with her again.
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Supporting the health of Pacific communities through leading research programmes and the training of Pacific health professionals
Talofa lava, Kia orana, Ni sa bula vinaka, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Halo olaketa, Taloha ni, Namaste, Malo ni, Mauri, Fakatalofa atu.
Warm Pacific greetings and welcome to Pacific at Otago Medical School.
Here at the University of Otago we have a vibrant Pacific community. Otago Medical School contributes to this community by training the next generation of health professionals, and conducting research to inform Pasifika health policy and programmes.
We proudly celebrate the great people, partners and research which contribute to the goal of good health for Pacific communities.
The Otago Medical School supports learning in Pacific health to develop a medical workforce that meets the particular health needs of this key group of the New Zealand population. Its importance in the curriculum is recognised by its development as one of the domains used to organise the medical degree. The Pacific health curriculum within the MB ChB is coordinated by the Centre for Pacific Health, within the Division of Health Sciences, and the Pacific community is actively involved in curriculum development and delivery.
The Pacific curriculum in Otago's health professional programmes is devised to build foundational knowledge about Pacific communities and applied skills that will help students better serve Pacific patients, their families and the wider community. Pacific teaching is taught in-context, and the methods for teaching includes community immersion experiences ensuring the authentic voice of the Pacific community is incorporated in the teaching.
The medical programme's Pacific content aligns with the Divison's Pacific curriculum learning outcomes.
Curriculum and educational innovation
The Pacific Immersion component of the medical programme involves students learning from Pacific communities within their own cultural context and environment, about their worldview and the important things that influence their health and wellbeing.
The Centre for Pacific Health has developed contacts and protocols around Trainee Intern electives in the Pacific. As Pacific Islands are popular elective locations, this coordination ensures that both students and destinations are best served by the experience. Information is available to students through Moodle.
Volunteer work - for students interested in volunteer or research work either in the Pacific region or in New Zealand amongst Pacific communities.
Contact Frances Brebner, Pacific Regional Coordinator firstname.lastname@example.org
Pacific students are encouraged to connect with the Pacific Islands Research & Student Support Unit (PIRSSU) to access targeted programmes for their specific cultural or other learning needs.
OMS uses research as an important tool in creating change to support health systems to better meet the needs of Pacific communities by placing Pacific voices and perspectives at the centre of research and acknowledging the strength and innovation that exist in communities. Research interests also include healthcare education research.
Pacific medical students have opportunities to apply for Summer Research Scholarships, both through the Schools and the Health Research Council Pacific Health Research scholarships.
Pacific developments in the Division of Health Sciences are guided by committees including local Pacific community representatives.
Pacific workforce development and the mirror of society
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This report presents the findings from a detailed investigation into what data and information on cancer rehabilitation services exists across London.
Our report, Cancer rehabilitation: a scoping report for London, highlighted that there is a lack of data on these services.
This presents a challenge for commissioners when it comes to developing and improving rehabilitation services for patients affected by cancer. Commissioners are having to make decisions without adequate data on what services are available locally, who is using them and how often, what the impact and benefits of those services are, and what services are needed to fulfil unmet needs.
Cancer rehabilitation services – data recommendation report finds there is no existing database of cancer rehabilitation metrics that can support the needs of commissioners in London and help inform their decision making.
Working in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, our Transforming Cancer Services Team has now designed a minimum dataset to collect and collate information at a London-wide level to help support commissioners to improve services. This data will include patient demographics, provider information, information about the cancer and information about the treatment. It will be piloted in a number of London sites and published in 2018 alongside the commissioning guidance on cancer rehabilitation services which we are also developing. | <urn:uuid:a076ee0c-7fe3-41ce-98c0-165b733cc185> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthylondon.org/resource/cancer-rehabilitation-services-data-recommendation-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928446 | 247 | 2.03125 | 2 |
In one sense, the church year begins with Advent. In another, it begins with Easter. How can the church year have more than one beginning? Well, it depends upon how we recon time. If we figure it chronologically, there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. If we figure it kairosically–yes, I probably just invented an adverb–then not only are both Advent and Easter beginnings of the year, but so are each and every moment as well.
Chronos is the Greek word for chronological time. We use it to figure how long things take and when to meet people for appointments and the like. We even use it to figure out when we are going to celebrate Advent, Christmas and Easter. But there is also another Greek word for time, kairos. Kairos expresses the fullness of time. In the fullness of time God sent Jesus to be our savior. In the fullness of time Christ rose from the dead. It is the time we talk about when we want to express the presence of God’s actions in our everyday lives.
We call the time before Christmas, Advent. Advent means beginning, it also means coming. And in this Advent time of the church year, we seem to be playing fast and loose with time, all the time, because we talk about Jesus coming in all three tenses, past, present and future. We can make such jumps in time, because we are not talking in chronological terms, but in kairos terms. We talk about the humble birth, nativity, of his first coming, his second coming, parousia, to reign and his daily presence with us, coming through word and sacrament.
The great paradox of Advent is that Christ has already come and yet at the same time Christ has not yet come. Another trick of kairos time. The presence of Christ is more than just a vague feeling that somehow God is present with us. We are supplied with the means of grace, word and sacrament, to assure us that God is present in our lives. At the same time we anticipate the fulfillment of God’s coming to us in the parousia, when Christ returns to the earth a second time. All the while, we look back with historical wonder at Christ’s Coming at Bethlehem over two millennia ago. This moment is made real for us as we conflate time once again at the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service as we sing Franz Gruber’s cradle hymn “Silent Night” bathed in the gentle candlelight of the Christ child.
Has all this speculation about time made your head spin? I hope not. Rather, I hope that talking about Christ’s coming in kiaros, the fullness of time, has provided a way to live in each moment of God’s grace. For God in Christ does truly come to us, as we live at the Advent juncture of time. Each moment of every day, God’s love provides openings to shine into our lives and brings the grace of Christ’s comings and goings in all their fullness, to our days. Greetings favored ones, the Lord is with you. Luke 1:28
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“We must accept finite DISAPOINTMENT but never lose infinite hope”
Martin Luther King shares a tough unavoidable Emotional Fitness workout for us all.
DISAPPOINTMENT is a heavy weight to lift in life and one of the most important workouts for our heart to master.
We need to become willing to pick up and pump DISAPPOINTMENT like a weight in a gym to build our hearts strength and belief that we are worthy of living our dreams.
If we seek success in claiming our dreams we will most definitely be given DISAPPOINTMENT workouts regularly. If dreams were easy to live, everyone would be doing it.
Realising dreams takes persistence, great patience but most of all a robust belief in love and the commitment to not give up on love, this is life’s most demanding and consistent lesson for us all throughout the decades.
DISAPPOINTMENT in my experience has proven to be the Universe’s way of saying to me and clients I work with …
“Please be patient, not this person, not this place, not this situation, not right now, because I’ve got something even better in store just tailor made for you.”
Yep DISAPPOINTMENT means it is faith homework time!
Faith in what you might ask?
Faith in the most magnetic but challenging assignment we get in our lifetime. Faith in believing in love, love for ourselves and our dreams, and in beautiful lasting relationships. And I’ll be honest, when I left my second marriage aged 40 I had just about given up on a long held dream that I could ever live happily ever after with a man.
I am a child of the 60’s; I adore monogamy, married life!
I actually enjoy cooking for my man, yep even packing him a love lunch to take to work some days. However, I also require my man to understand I choose to be financially self supporting, treated with respect as an independent, autonomous woman requiring a broad emotional wing span to fly solo, hunt down and capture my personal and business dreams.
“Maybe I’m just too much hard work, a walking, talking contradiction,” I had concluded.
I still take comfort in Walt Whitman’s wise words whenever I notice I may be contradicting myself …
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes”
But nonetheless, deep in my heart rumbled like thunder often the dream of a romantic, intelligent yet lighthearted, successful, sexy, brave and loyal man.
I could feel his presence energetically in the two years from age 40 to 42 long before I physically met him. This particular big dream of mine dream did battle daily with my DISAPPOINTMENTS in myself, love and life. However, in the November of my second single year, entered the man I once believed was too good to be true for a woman like me.
“That’s him, now that’s a King” I though to myself as soon as I laid eyes on this stranger from afar. He ticked everything on my list, and way more than I ever dared dream.
Since that November in 2003 I have been living a big and beautiful life with him still.
I was given relentless emotional homework before Mr. Delicious walked into my life on holding onto my dream.
After every dud date, and two years of living alone my fear relentlessly tried to convince me I was not worthy of such a relationship. I almost believed a man like that (if he even existed) wouldn’t want someone so scarred like me with such a confronting emotional history. I personally needed those two years alone to grow up a little more, so I could mature into a woman confident enough to match him and not give my power away. So far, so, so good!
So let’s remember if something is not happening for us here and now it doesn’t mean it wont. It just means we’re not quite ready for it just yet, usually because what’s still required is a little more growth in our belief in ourselves, love and our worthiness. When DISAPPOINTMENT bruises my heart my comforting mantra to self has always been …
“This door closed for me because what I wanted, was not good for me long term and the best is yet to come”.
It has proven to be true, every single time; the secret is not giving up before the miracle has time to blossom. DISAPPOINTMENT is a demanding workout for us all. You are not alone. Every DISAPPOINTMENT provides us with the opportunity for more growth, and time and space to prepare. So if we don’t let our fears squash our heartfelt dreams, and remember our best successes come after our biggest DISAPPOINTMENTS …
The best is still yet to come!
Lotsa love Cynthia xxx
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Recognizing and welcoming what is here in front of us, instead of always waiting for things to be “better” than the situation we are actually in:
The mind and external conditions are just as they are (“such”).
The gate of liberation is open.
Dogen, 1200-1253, founder of the Soto branch of Zen Buddhism, Commentary on the Precepts
The more I remove myself from nature and the more I increase my availability to the modern world, the more restless I become. I am no scientist and realize that I may be mistaken, but my experience is that feelings of insecurity, loneliness and depression to a large extent stem from the flattening of the world that occurs when we are alienated from nature. There is, of course, a lot to be said in favour of man-made environments and new technology, but our eyes, nose, ears, tongue, skin, brain, hands and feet were not created for choosing the road of least resistance.
Mother Nature is 4.54 billion years old, so it seems to me arrogant when we don’t listen to nature and instead blindly place our trust in human invention.
Erlinge Kagge, Philosophy for Polar Explorers
Everything has to do with loving and not loving
What do I do with all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down?
The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is a possibility of beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek?
Annie Dilliard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Most of life only lasts a moment. Then our life becomes a memory, a dream. We are only alive a millisecond at a time. This moment! Or as one teacher put it, holding his thumb and forefinger about a quarter-inch apart, “All of life is only just this much – just a moment in time.” When we open to this very instant in which awareness produces consciousness, we are fully alive. Completely present. Big-minded. To the degree we are present for “just this much”, this living moment, we are alive.
Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Embracing the Beloved
To me, this is what bearing witness is; just relaxing and settling down, and learning to be in, as Carl Jung would say “the time of your life”…
Life becomes alive only when we are expansive, and we can expand only when we learn to relax: into our seat, into our feet on the floor, into our breath and our belly. From this place of relaxation we can bear witness to anything.
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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - The Department of Agriculture in Central Luzon is continuously providing sustainable livelihood assistance to indigenous peoples (IPs) in Pampanga.
Various fruit-bearing trees and vegetable seeds were distributed to the indigenous peoples cooperative, Ugnayan sa Pag-unlad ng Tarik Inc. (UPTI), in Barangay Villa Maria, Porac town.
This is under the DA's "Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran Para sa Kababayang Katutubo" (4Ks) program that could help turn the IPs' ancestral agricultural lands into productive and resilient agricultural enterprises.
Regional 4Ks focal person Memito Luyun III said on Wednesday the program is the agency's direct intervention that aims to address the needs of the IP communities through livelihood and food production programs.
Last June 13, the UPTI cooperative members also received 450 chickens for the livestock-raising component of the 4Ks.
Aside from tree and vegetable planting and livestock raising and production, Luyun said the IPs are also set to receive other 4Ks project components this year such as farm tools and equipment and the corresponding capacity-building training.
Other IP cooperatives and organizations in the province that received livelihood provision are the Mt. Ginilan Agricultural Cooperative in Barangay Mawakat, Floridablanca; Samasama sa Kaunlaran Para sa Pagsulong ng Barangay Ayta Inararo, Inc. in Barangay Inararo, Porac; and the Usbong Katutubo Indigenous Peoples Agriculture Cooperative in Barangay Camias, also in Porac.
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New Bill to Boost Fight Against Medicare Fraud
New legislation would give payers more time to reimburse providers for Medicare claims when waste, fraud, and/or abuse are suspected.
Senator Chuck Grassley introduced the Fighting Medicare Payment Fraud Act of 2009 on Nov. 16.
“As Medicare spending continues to skyrocket, everything possible must be done to protect Medicare dollars from being lost to fraud, waste, and abuse,” Grassley said in a press release.
If passed, the bill would give the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) authority to extend the time period in which Medicare Part A/B claims must be paid under the prompt payment rule when waste, fraud, or abuse is suspected. The Secretary would have up to one year to conduct more detailed reviews of questionable claims submitted by suppliers or providers in a particular geographic area or however long was necessary for individual providers.
The Grassley bill also requires the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to recommend to the HHS Secretary, on at least an annual basis, categories of providers or suppliers where additional scrutiny is needed; and includes a provision that requires the Secretary to respond to all OIG recommendations of this nature.
“We’ve seen in reports revealed this fall how the Department of Health and Human Services turned a blind eye for many years to alerts from the Inspector General about Medicare fraud,” Grassley said. “This provision in the bill is intended to make sure the Department of Health and Human Services can’t get away with ignoring those kinds of alarms.”
Any way you look at it, “It is one more layer of regulations,” said Deborah Grider, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-H, CPC-P, CEMC, COBGC, CPCD, CCS-P, AAPC vice president of strategic development. “It validates even more the need for certified coders and, even more so, certified auditors.” | <urn:uuid:06c862af-a277-433f-a3bf-b2d898dd7b07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aapc.com/blog/3003-new-bill-incites-a-fight-against-medicare-fraud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.922547 | 402 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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