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Help students track their growth and set goals with this easy to use NWEA MAP Goal Setting Worksheet. Product is a PowerPoint document with an editable graph so you can change the RIT bands to fit your grade level. Two Pages - 1. Reading 2. MathEach page has a place for the teacher to write in their Previous Spring Score, Fall Score, Winter Score and Spring Goal. | <urn:uuid:38f4dec2-4c65-474f-8185-b60d2e76aa27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://co.pinterest.com/sdthomas1028/kindergarten-data-wall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.896792 | 97 | 2.375 | 2 |
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By Juan Calvillo
The “Cine Sin Fronteras” short-film festival at the Vincent Price Art Museum featured experimental filmography and opened dialogue with the local community Saturday. The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles held the event in hopes of bringing the cinematic arts of Latino-America to a community filled with the very people whose countries the art was created in.
“The museum strives to be a place that presents exciting programming that prompts new dialogues,” said VPAM’s Director Pilar Tompkins Rivas. “Film programming is an area we want to expand at the museum,and collaborations such as this help us realize that goal.”
Saturday’s event began with a live musical performance from a local Latin-American folk group El Rio which was introduced by Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz, the curator and director of programming at LACLA.
Despite the elevated temperatures, El Rio played a set that incorporated not only contemporary musical instruments, but also more traditional Latin-American ones. The mixture of both created a unique sound that was foreign, yet familiar. Most of the works they played had a running theme of both personal ties and a deep veneration for the earth itself.
This was accompanied by a slight breeze and almost pre produced shade from a large tree outside of VPAM. Following the musical set, the three films slated for the festival were shown.
The first of the three films shown was “Relató Familiar.” Sumie Garcia, the film’s director, created a very interesting and resonating film about not only immigration, but also assimilation. The film centers on Yukio Saeki and his travel to live in Mexico City after living through World War II.
Comparing his youth in Japan with the way he lives in Mexico gives the film a sense of change, and shows how immigrating to another place can fulfill a person.
Collectivo Los Ingrávidos directed “Coyolxauhqui,” and used this chance to address the femicide that has occurred in Mexico. The imagery started off simple enough, using the subtle comparison of a Nopal plant to the country of Mexico.
Yet, by the time the film had hit its peak, the images on screen seemed to reach out and grab the audience. They seemed to shake the shoulders of each person in an attempt to wake them from their complacency and bring the focus of the film firmly to the forefront of their minds.
Scenes of torn clothing and lost shoes made their message clear, but some later scenes may have become a bit heavy handed. Despite this, the film’s strength comes from the fearlessness the directors have when showing what truth there is to see.
The final film was “El Sonido Que Vemos: CDMX.” It was directed by the Echo Park Film Center and the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine. The art of experimental filmmaking is seen in full force throughout the movie. Paolo Davanza, one of the members of the Echo Park Film Center, was in attendance to answer questions and speak with the audience after the film.
Davanza spoke at length about the process of making the film and the struggles that came from shooting in Mexico City. Various filmmakers participated in the 24-hour shoot that created “El Sonido Que Vemos,” each putting their fingerprint on the movie.
“There was no budget for this film. The film was donated, about $300 worth of 16mm black and white film, everyone who worked (was a volunteer) and we slept on couches with friends in Mexico City,” said Davanza.
“El Sonido Que Vemos” is a film that was shot in the city-symphony-style that was popular decades ago. Davanza said this technique celebrates the physicality of a city, and by allowing locals to film, gives it a more powerful connection to the people. The footage shot was a mixture of people, places and things that populate Mexico City.
From more personal stories to those that celebrated the city itself, the movie had a sense of urgency and continuous movement. This seems to mirror what it’s like not only visiting this great city, but living there as well.
Bringing experimental films and exposing them to the community in East Los Angeles was one of the goals for “Cine Sin Fronteras.” “(This kind of filmmaking) can be a challenging and sometimes uncomfortable experience as the genre is meant to defy conventional filmmaking practices,” said Hicks-Alcaraz.
The films in the series all challenge the norm of what a latino movie should or could be. One goal of Hicks-Alcaraz and LACLA is to stimulate a dialogue about the artistic merits of Latin American cinema. “Cine Sin Fronteras” accomplished that goal. More information on LACLA can be found at https://www.lacla.org and more on Echo Park Film Center at http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org. | <urn:uuid:d4748686-4c05-46b1-9fe2-989c5216392c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elaccampusnews.com/2018/09/20/cine-sin-fronteras-showcases-latin-american-short-films/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966312 | 1,064 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The growth hormone releasing hormone receptor (GHRHR) was mapped in the pig for study as a potential candidate gene in controlling pig quantitative growth and carcass characteristics. Primers were designed from the pig GHRHR sequence to amplify a 1.65-kb intronic fragment between exons 6 and 7. By using a pig-rodent somatic cell hybrid panel, GHRHR was mapped to pig chromosome 18 (SSC18) with 100% concordance, and the regional assignment was SSC18q24 with 89% concordance. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphisms (PCR-RFLPs) with MseI and TaqI were developed to confirm this assignment with linkage analysis by using the European Pig Gene Mapping Project (PiGMaP) reference families. Pig GHRHR was mapped with strong linkage to SSC18 markers S0062 and S0120 (lod > 8). The GHRHR and IGFBP3 were found to map near to each other on human chromosome 7 (HSA7), and the pig IGFBP3 gene has been mapped to SSC18 by others. Our mapping of pig GHRHR increases the comparative information available on the SSC18 maps and further confirms the synteny conservation between HSA7 and SSC18.
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Northern Alaska Environmental Center Donlin Fact Sheet
Donlin Info Packet
Check out a number of documents compiled on Donlin. The Donlin Info Packet includes letters, resolutions, fact sheets, and a number of other documents telling the story of the fight against Donlin.
Mercury, Fish, and Public Health Concerns: The Proposed Donlin Gold Mine
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701 Talk to the Elephant: Design for Behavior Change
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Friday, November 18
Frequently, learning design is about showing people how to do the right things, but actually getting them to change their behavior can be another story. It’s particularly challenging to get people to change those intractable habits and behaviors that everyone struggles to avoid, despite the wealth of available information about better choices.
This session will explore how to design with behavior change in mind. You will examine behavior change from a number of different angles, using techniques from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral economics, behavioral psychology, persuasive technology, user experience, and even game design.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to identify and understand the barriers to behavior change
- Ways to design solutions that don’t just inform learners, but also inspire behavior change
- How to use specific models and techniques for designing a change effort
Intermediate and advanced designers, developers, and managers.
Julie Dirksen, a learning strategist with Usable Learning, is a consultant and instructional designer with more than 15 years’ experience creating highly interactive eLearning experiences for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to technology startups to grant-funded research initiatives. She’s interested in using neuroscience, change management, and persuasive technology to promote sustainable long-term learning and behavior change. Her MS degree in instructional systems technology is from Indiana University, and she’s been an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is the author of Design For How People Learn. | <urn:uuid:bb3d3396-7574-48a4-81bb-948c78eb61e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.learningguild.com/devlearn/sessions/session-details.cfm?event=498&fromselection=doc.4412&from=sessionslist&session=7879 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.916673 | 360 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Apperceive: v. to assimilate stored sensory data with inputted sensory data meaningfully by processing new information with old experiences
When you apperceive then you are processing new information with old experiences and trying to get meaning and/or make sense out of the results.
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In a recent post I wrote about how valuable it can be to to keep a personal cashflow statement. I described how it could identify places where money is leaking out of your wallet, your checkbook, etc.
I also wrote another article about balance sheets. What hasn’t been done ’til now is showing how cash flow statements affect a balance sheet. The idea was touched on in the article about cash flow statements when I talked about spending cash on a gold bar and how that’s still an expenditure or outflow of cash even though the gold bar was kept by the purchaser.
Don’t be afraid to go back to those articles and re-read them before you read this. This isn’t an in depth examination of cash flow statements and balance sheets, but a story about improving a property and how cash expenditures, or outflows, can increase the value of an asset on a balance sheet. This story is about improving a real property but the name of the property has been changed to protect the privacy of the property investor.
Welcome to Desertville
Imagine the money leaks that could develop in a rental property that has 84 units and has a worth of over five million dollars. That’s a lotta potential leaks.
For every one of those rental units in that property, there are expenses in the form of repairs, maintenance costs and utility bills. Some of those utility bills are paid through the property manager to the city, such as water, and others are paid by the tenant when the rental unit is occupied and by the property owner when the unit is empty, like electricity and heat in the winter. Another situation arises when the owner of a property offers a rental unit with utilities included.
When utilities are included some of the income from rent has to be shaved off and applied to the expense of the utilities of for that rental unit.
A cashflow statement offers a way to monitor income streams as they are created and grow. In rent alone there are 84 income streams that need to be applied correctly coming from the property mentioned above.
Property managers want people to live in a place they like. They also have a responsibility to people who invest in properties to make them profitable. In the big bad world we live in, if there isn’t a profit margin, no one will invest in properties and people won’t have a place to live. If the overall income of a property isn’t greater than the expenses there isn’t any profit.
Fixing The Leaks In The Money Pipeline
The 84 unit property is called Desertville. At one point in time Desertville had a hodgepodge of cashflow problems. Some of the units had utilities included and some not. It had a laundry that was an expense because taxes had to be paid on the structure. There were also electric, water and sewer expenses associated with the laundry and it wasn’t bringing enough money in to cover those expenses.
The first thing to do was to look at the cashflow statement and see where there was more going out then coming in.
When examined, the cashflow statement showed that the utility expenses for the units that had utilities included exceeded the the utility income for those units. More money going out than coming in is a money leak.
The money leak was fixed by putting the utilities in the tenants names and making them responsible for the bills. The tenants that used less paid less and those who used more paid more. In the end game the tenants got what they paid for and the owner of the property didn’t lose money. In this case the income and expenses for some utilities were both removed from the cashflow statement. It wasn’t the property manager or the property owner’s problem any longer.
Other money leaks were the Internet and cable television bills. These had been offered as part of the rent and there wasn’t any markup on them.
The manager of Desertville realized that he could do more than fix these money leaks. The manager acquired a commercial account for the internet and cable. Then, he resold that service to the tenants at a profit and created an income stream.
An exception to the pattern of tenants being responsible for their own bills are bills that, if neglected, would put the property owner in a tight spot because of a lien against the property. This can happen with city utilities. In this case the manager kept the water, sewer and garbage bills in Desertville’s name to prevent any potential liens.
To assure that the city utilities didn’t become an expense to Desertville, the manager billed separately for them. In this way he collected exactly what was used and didn’t have to worry about shaving off some of the rent income to apply it to the expense of city utilities. Because the income equalled the expense there was no loss in cashflow and the property owner didn’t lose.
Because Desertville’s manager monitored rental rates on comparable properties he recognized the demand for one bedroom and studio apartments was increasing and increased the rent on those units which increased income with no increase in associated expenses. That’s profit.
The manager of Desertville suggested investing capital in improvements on Desertville. He looked at the potential for higher rents and more rental units that would increase existing income and the value of Desertville as an asset.
If the improvements didn’t add enough income to the cashflow statement to exceed the expenses during the owner’s period of ownership, or the expenses weren’t returned to the owner in the increased value of Desertville as an asset by the time it was sold, the manager didn’t recommend them.
Desertville had some appearance problems and potentially some coming structural problems. It needed a roof and siding. It had a gravel parking lot and it needed some paint. While the parking lot was basically functional, tracking the dirt from it into the apartments wasn’t making the flooring surfaces last any longer. This lowered the profitability of Desertville because the flooring surfaces had to be replaced more often.
The Long Game
Because the owner of Desertville considers it a long term investment, he accepted the proposal to replace the roof. This was a large investment in Desertville but a bad roof can cause structural damage that would severely decrease the value of the property when sold.
Replacing the siding added value to Desertville as an asset because of aesthetics and by preserving the structure. The same could be said of paving the parking lot. Paving the lot made Desertville more attractive but it also preserved the flooring surfaces by keeping the gravel driveway from being tracked into the units.
While the siding and the driveway added to the value of Desertville as an asset on the owner’s balance sheet, neither of these capital improvements would fit with a flip strategy. These are high cost improvements and only work for a long term investor.
The immediate impact of the siding and paved lot was more consistent occupancy of rental units. If no one is renting a unit there isn’t any money coming in from it but the underlying expenses associated with it still exist. In addition there are cleaning and repair expenses every time a unit changes renters. Ugly rentals are unoccupied rentals and they cause negative cash flow.
A big win was converting the old laundry space into two rental units. This gained the property $9600 in annual income. This conversion also got rid of the expenses associated with the laundry room which operated at a loss.
The only reason the laundry conversion was a winner was because the owner wasn’t flipping Desertville. Building out two apartments wasn’t cheap but in the long term plan that the owner had he knew he had time to recoup and profit from his investment in the two rental units.
There was a gain on two fronts. The rental income could be directly applied to the expense of the remodel. In addition the remodels added to the value of Desertville as an asset on the owner’s balance sheet.
The End Game
Except for the increases in rents on single bedroom and studio apartments, all of the decisions made about Desertville were the result of consulting Desertville’s cash flow statement and how it would change Desertville’s balance sheet by increasing Desertville’s value as an asset.
These actions wouldn’t have been valid if the owner was trying to flip the property. It takes time to recoup the high cost of major investments unless the property is in a market with values that are increasing at a frightening pace. Major capital improvements in a property are the result of a long term strategy.
The increase in rents on studios and single bedroom units were the result of market knowledge. If the rents had been too high the units would’ve sat empty. If too low the maximum rents wouldn’t have been realized and potential income would’ve been lost.
All of these choices made Desertville an attractive investment property because it makes money and it’s increasing in value.
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Advantages Of Out of doors Recreation
As our inhabitants ages, there’s rising emphasis on instructing and learning lifelong recreational expertise. The exercise strategy has proven that quite a lot of activities are stereotyped based on gender, and that there have been differences in “alternatives, experiences, and a time for leisure.” For instance, as can be readily observed by anybody who goes to a sports activities occasion or visits museums, art galleries, and public lectures, as confirmed by the research, there’s a better participation by men in “sports activities and physical activities” and by women in “arts and cultural actions.” Then, too, there is a gendered nature to passive leisure, which impacts the books, magazines, and movie women and men read and view, in addition to the hobbies and crafts they participate in. Whereas Shaw notes that little research has examined these differences, these distinctions based mostly on gender can readily be seen in the way in which entrepreneurs goal certain forms of books, such as these on self-assist and relationships to women, and people on sports and business to men.
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Recreation Activities To Take pleasure in With Your Family
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Debbie Dingell – Congresswoman from a Political Dynasty
By most political analysis, Michigan’s 12th Congressional District should be a lock for Democrats. It’s a deeply blue region, anchored by strong liberal hubs in Ann Arbor and Dearborn. But incumbent Congresswoman Debbie Dingell says she doesn’t want to celebrate too soon.
“I’m Debbie Downer,” Dingell says. “I hate the word ‘blue wave.’ I think that puts the cart before the horse. It can potentially suppress votes where people don’t think their votes mater.”
Dingell, who ran unopposed in her Democratic primary, says she doesn’t want a repeat of the 2016 General Election.
“This country is better off when people engage and vote,” Dingell says. “Nothing’s on automatic pilot.”
Still, re-election of the 64-year-old former auto lobbyist isn’t a long shot. Dingell has raised and spent over a million dollars on her campaign, nearly 50 times more than the other three candidates in the race combined. She has the backing of major political institutions, unions and corporations. She’s received the most individual contributions in the race for the 12th.
And there’s the Dingell family name, which has established itself as a political dynasty on Capitol Hill. Michigan has voted a Dingell into Congress in every federal election since 1932. Her husband, John Dingell, holds the record for the longest-serving U.S. congressperson. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell says voters in Michigan’s 12th District should vote based on who she is, not on relatives who share her name.
“I started working on public policy issues when I was in college. I had my own career for 30 years. I want to be judged on who Debbie Dingell is.”
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell
John Dingell suffered a heart attack last month. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell says that event has given her a first-hand experience with the health care system, which she views as the number one priority facing the next Congress.
“I know I’m luckier than 99 and nine-tenths of the people in this country,” Dingell says. “I’m supposed to know how to navigate and do things, and there are days where I take my head and pound it against the wall.”
Dingell says she believes in healthcare-for-all, campaign finance reform, and more restrictive gun laws. She supports net-neutrality and a solution for DACA recipients. Dingell says those stances should give residents enough of a reason to vote for her.
“I think it’s time that women or any spouse be judged on who they are as a person,” Dingell says. “Not because they happen to marry someone who had a good last name.”
Jeff Jones – A Former Independent Candidate Runs on the GOP Ticket
But it’s the Dingell name and the congresswoman’s connections to the political and corporate establishment that has gained the ire of her challengers. Jeff Jones of Taylor is a 57-year-old businessman, minister and author running on the Republican ticket. As a life-long Michigander, Jones says voters in the 12th haven’t seen positive change under any Dingell leadership.
“They see a community for the last 50 years who has been slowly decaying and the same results over and over again,” Jones says. “I think we call that insanity, don’t we?”
Jones, who has never held public office nor faced an opponent in the Republican primary, calls himself a “constitutionalist.” In the past, Jones ran as an independent for the U.S. House and Senate. He says he’s not a “traditional Republican.”
“We do not have an immigration problem in America. The problem that’s been addressed is what’s referred to as illegal immigration or undocumented citizens, and that is a problem.”
Jeff Jones, Republican Candidate for Michigan’s 12th Congressional District
Jones believes in term limits for elected officials. For schools, Jones says he wants to introduce entrepreneurship classes and hands-on, professional experiences for students.
“We have problems with the funding of education,” Jones says. “What if we could tie children’s dreams and appetites with their tomorrows and corporate opportunity? What if we created a collaborative, integrated system?”
To cut pollution, Jones proposes using alternative fuel sources such as microwaving municipal solid waste and eliminating landfills.
“What if we can grow coconuts indoors, and I believe we could grow coconuts indoors,” Jones says. “The problem is the cost of energy.”
Gary Walkowicz – An Auto-Worker Looks to Inspire the “Working Class”
Jones opposes corporate influence in Washington. It’s a view also shared by Gary Walkowicz, who is running as the 12th Congressional District’s Working Class party candidate. The 69-year-old has worked at Ford’s Dearborn-Rouge plant for the last 40 years. He’s also served on the bargaining committee for the UAW. He says it’s time for workers across the country to decide how their taxes are spent.
“To me, that’s our money. We work for that, we produce the wealth of society and I think we have every right as a worker to say that we should get the benefit of our labor. That means taking money back from the corporations and the banks to use for public service, to use for jobs, to use for higher wages,” Walkowicz says. “We should have the right, and we should be fighting for that.”
Admittingly, Walkowicz doesn’t think he’d be able to enact any political change in Washington. He says his campaign is meant to inspire workers to form their own party and take their voices to the streets.
“I’m not here to promise that I can get in office and change anything. I don’t think any politician can change anything. Throughout history, we have not seen that. It has not been legislation, it has not been politicians who have made any basic changes. It has been struggles.”
Gary Walkowicz, Working Class Party Candidate for Michigan’s 12th Congressional District
Niles Niemuth – A Socialist Calling for Political Revolution
A working-class struggle against the powers-that-be is a platform also shared with candidate Niles Niemuth, who has his own vision to capture the means of production.
“Socialism means expanding democracy to encompass the entire economy,” Niemuth says.
Niemuth is the district’s Socialist Equality Party candidate. Born and educated in Wisconsin, the 30-year-old Hamtramck resident is the managing editor of the World Socialist Web Site. He previously ran as the party’s Vice Presidential candidate in the 2016 election. Niemuth is critical of the current two-party system and supports the revolutionary socialism of Leon Trotsky. He’s anti-war, anti-censorship and anti-capitalism. He says he wants to open borders, nationalize banks and seize the wealth of the billionaire elite. Niemuth says the fight for true socialism needs to be taken to the world stage.
“You can’t resolve the problems that workers and young people face in Wyandotte or in Ann Arbor or in Dearborn without addressing the root of those problems, which is the capitalist system and it’s an international economic system.”
Niles Niemuth, Socialist Equality Party Candidate for Michigan’s 12th Congressional District
Niemuth says Michigan’s 12th District represents many of the errors of capitalism.
“An area like Downriver, which has been devastated by de-industrialization,” Niemuth says. “Factories like McLouth Steel which was once one of the largest steel factories in the world and employed thousands of people now stands as a rusting hulk polluting the area.”
Niemuth says he’d use his position in Congress to advocate for socialist policies, such as forgiving student debt, establishing universal health care and a full withdrawal of U.S. military from abroad.
For all of the challenges, running against Congresswoman Dingell will likely prove to be difficult. She won two-out-of-three votes in her district in 2016. But for many of those opposing Dingell, running for Michigan’s 12th Congressional District isn’t just about getting elected; it’s about sending a message to the political establishment. | <urn:uuid:40329887-d48b-4f52-a9fd-f91653b5ac3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wdet.org/2018/10/25/The-Race-for-Michigans-12th-Congressional-District/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960184 | 1,880 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Huge DDoS attacks are becoming a regular occurrence with over 100 incidents breaching the psychological 100Gbps barrier that used to be seen as signifying trouble, new figures from Arbor Networks have confirmed.
Arbor's numbers drawn from its Atlas monitoring of traffic through 290 global ISPs show a consistent upward trend on such volumetric attacks at every point on the scale in the last year, with a doubling in the number of attacks over 20Gbps compared to 2013.
But super-massive 100Gbps attacks soared to 111 for the first half of 2014, mostly concentrated in Q1 which accounted for 72 on its own. As it happens, the largest attack in Q2 specifically was a 154Gbps NTP amplification assault on a Spanish data centre, which looks small compared to the 325Gbps monster that struck CloudFlare in February.
To put this into perspective, two to three years ago news of an attack exceeding 100Gbps would have been news in its own right but such events are now being detected around four times a week.
NTP (Network Time Protocol) attacks came out of nowhere late in 2013, following on from the fashion of using DNS amplification that started with the notorious assault on anti-spam organisation Spamhaus in March of that year.
In a spot of good news, the fashion for NTP seems to have abated slightly for now, presumably because defenders have woken up to the amplification vulnerability that made such attacks possible. NTP is still the protocol of choice for large attacks, accounting for almost half of the attacks of 100Gbps or higher.
Along with DNS and NTP, two other protocols that attackers have abused are SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), used to manage network devices, and Chargen (Character Generator Protocol), used for debugging. As with NTP, both have been around for donkey's years and their potential to be used in DDoS pretty much ignored.
SNMP accounted for only 0.1 percent of the DDoS attacks seen by Arbor in Q2 while Chargen represented 1.4 percent.
"Following on from the storm of NTP reflection attacks in Q1 volumetric DDoS attacks continued to be a problem well into the second quarter, with an unprecedented 100 attacks over 100GB/sec reported so far this year," commented Arbor's director of solutions architecture, Darren Anstee.
"The frequency of very large attacks continues to be an issue, and organisations should take an integrated, multi-layered approach to protection. Even organisations with significant amounts of Internet connectivity can now see that capacity exhausted relatively easily by the attacks that are going on out there."
Working out what DDoS statistic mean in concrete terms is like nailing a large jelly to a small wall. It's obvious perhaps that DDoS attacks are on an upward trajectory in average size, diversity, opportunism and frequency; that has been true for some years. But defences are also better which might be a root cause for the growth in very large attacks as DDoS criminals work that bit harder to cause the same trouble. | <urn:uuid:49b92225-2102-46a3-8919-0d0e8791212d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www2.cso.com.au/article/550295/wave_100gbps_mega_ddos_attacks_hits_record_level_2014/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964604 | 623 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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by Peter Schramm and Johannes Fiala
The case: Insurance broker M looked after his client until the broker’s contract was terminated. Since then he got no more brokerage from the insurer ? and lost its action before the BGH in a judgment dated January 13, 2005.
Commission and brokerage: Intermediaries are divided into two groups. On the one hand, the (multiple) agent, § 84 HGB. The latter receives a commission for mediation and support as a vicarious agent of the insurer.
On the other hand, there is the insurance broker, § 93 HGB. He receives an initial fee for the deal, i.e. the brokerage. In subsequent years, a subsequent fee may arise. This is usually a fee consisting of an agency fee (for the initial contract and/or the non-termination of the existing contract) and a management fee (for administration and portfolio maintenance). According to the prevailing view and (genuine) insurance brokers, and according to reputable commentators, first-courtage and subsequent-courtage are a single claim. Both derive from the successful mediation of the insurance contract (the conclusion).
The BGH now restricts this, however, doubts might be appropriate, because the BGH apparently uses the words ‘commission’ and ‘brokerage’ in its decision without differentiating exactly. Conceptually, a commission only exists for the agent. The insurance broker receives a brokerage fee, even if this is paid out in one go (as is sometimes the case with life and health insurance).
Presumably, another insurance broker will soon file a lawsuit against his insurer ? it will then also be crucial to work out the terminology and special features of the intermediary profession in a way that is comprehensible to the court. In the case decided by the BGH, an expert had not been able to establish a commercial practice in the first instance ? a deficit that continued into the last instance. Thus a repair of this individual case decision would be possible. This is good news for the broker who has the experience to successfully “dissect” an expert opinion, because “the plaintiff broker (or his lawyers) was not able to show reasons to doubt the correctness of the expert’s findings”.
Sale and inheritability of the agency: the agent knows that his insurer(s) have the last word ? an agency contract may be terminated at any time. This can be particularly bitter for heirs, as often the deceased agent’s holdings are passed on to someone else
? this is the end of the money from the stocks. For the insurance broker, this has been different until now. Most brokers have relied on the fact that no one could take away the subsequent commission (through the back door, for example) from the insurance broker and also his heirs.
Principle: In its judgements of 27.11.1985 and 13.06.1990 the BGH had clarified that for the subsequent fee it is sufficient if the insurance broker was involved in the cause. It is sufficient that the broker has a (tacit or indirect) mandate to also bring about the subsequent contracts (in the case of the agent, this is referred to as a ‘non-termination commission’). Contract interpretation and broker coverage:
On the interpretation of the contract it depends, means the BGH now: Above all if the customer gives notice to the broker ? and then another broker takes over, right ? like here
? an agent of the insurer. If you as a broker want to secure your follow-up fee, you have two options: 1. You need clear agreements that can hardly be interpreted in any other way (contract termination by individual agreements). 2. Alternatively, the broker can sue and hope that an expert opinion will establish a commercial practice that is favourable to him.
? because there are weighty voices in the brokerage community.
Doubtful findings on commercial practice: The expert was able to establish that in the case of multi-year insurance contracts in the property insurance sector, the brokerage fee is to be apportioned according to the remaining term ? the previous/old insurance broker therefore does not go away empty-handed.
However, if there is a one-year term with a renewal clause ? and this is likely to affect the vast majority of contracts ? the broker loses his full entitlement at the next renewal date of the insurance contract; until then he retains his remuneration in full. Consequential error of the BGH?
The BGH correctly recognizes that in the subsequent fee there are economically two components ? a (further) remuneration for the (original) brokerage and a remuneration for servicing the policyholder. The BGH then concludes that in the case of one-year contracts with a renewal option, in the property insurance sector, the broker completely loses his brokerage follow-up fee from the time of termination; in doing so, the BGH relies on an allegedly unascertainable commercial custom of a follow-up fee:
The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) means in a sweeping manner “as soon as the broker no longer provides his service, however, his entitlement to his subsequent commission ceases to exist in principle”. However, if one assumes that the insurance broker is legally entitled to a uniform brokerage fee, it is not at all a question of commercial practice:
Finally the support expenditure may be void, if the contracting party cancels the broker: Then the principle ?without work no wage? applies constantly. However this decision before the constitutional court might not have existence ? because the consequence switching brokerage fee would be ?expropriated? as it were by the BGH: The BGH justifies this with the fact that ?the switching of the conclusion of a contract by the broker with progressive time, steps as soon into the background? In the case of a uniform claim to brokerage fees, this would be a violation of the laws of reasoning and therefore also constitutionally contestable.
The BGH further argues that the follow-up fee is a remuneration for the maintenance of the insurance contract by the broker, a “non-termination commission”: The flaw in this argumentation already lies in the fact that brokers do not receive “commissions”.
The decision also makes clear how great the need for efficient lobbying is for many an association that has taken up the cause of brokerage law. But whether they want to do so is questionable. For sure, the insurer does not have to pay a double follow-up fee when changing brokers. If associations take the view that the broker taking over the business is not or only partially entitled to the subsequent fee, the latter will be at a disadvantage. If a brokers’ association is not in a position to take a clear position here and to represent it, then brokers should not be surprised if their own professional interests are not adequately represented in other respects either. The fact that this weakness of the brokers is then also exploited by insurers to their advantage is only one consequence to be expected.
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President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to bomb cultural sites in Iran on Sunday before going on to threaten Iraq in retaliation against a vote by the Iraqi parliament in favor of the withdrawal of American troops.
On Saturday, Trump warned Iran via Twitter that he has a list of “52 targets” the United States military would attack, including cultural and historic sites, in response to any attack of American interests by Iran.
Bombing cultural and historic sites is a war crime under international and United States law, which is why Trump’s threat resulted in severe backlash.
Even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to walk back Trump’s threat during an appearance on the Sunday news programs. But, as usual, Trump blew all that up while speaking to reporters on his way back to Washington DC from Mar-a-Lago.
“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way,” Trump reportedly said.
Except it does work that way, and has for many decades now. The sites Trump is threatening are World Heritage sites that are visited by tourists from around the world. Attacking them means innocent citizens from other nations could be killed alongside Iranian citizens, including men, women and children. This kind of attack could very well draw condemnation from those nations in response to the killing of their people. They could even declare war on the United States since killing their citizens would be an act of war.
But Trump was not done. He even threatened Iraq in the wake of a vote in favor of removing American troops from the country, which was taken in response to the killing of Iranian General Qasem Suleimani in Baghdad.
Trump seems to think Iraq should be forced to pay us to leave.
“We have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase that’s there,” Trump said. “It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it. If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.”
Trump literally just threatened an ally and refused to remove troops from their sovereign soil, all while threatening to slap worse economic sanctions against them than he has slapped against Iran. That’s not going to improve U.S.-Iraq relations. If anything, it will make things worse and rally more opposition against the United States. Also, it should be pointed out that the air base Trump is referring to was actually built by the Iraqis in the 1980s.
Trump didn’t specify here, but the air base he has previously talked about costing the US “a fortune” to build, Al Asad, was actually built by…Iraq, in the ‘80s. The US has invested in improvements. https://t.co/6Xo99b2LQ5
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 6, 2020
And in a further blow to Trump’s threats against Iran, even Pentagon officials are refuting his list of “52 targets” and there is no list that includes cultural and historic sites.
“There are different lists, depending on the nature of the possible targets — missile bases, nuclear facilities, naval bases, airfields, et cetera — but I don’t know of a list that adds up to that number or one that includes cultural or historic sites like Persepolis,” one official told TIME.
Furthermore, two more officials told CNN that attacking these sites would rally opposition against the United States, thus putting our troops in increased danger and our own shores at risk of attack, particularly our own cultural and historic sites.
“Nothing rallies people like the deliberate destruction of beloved cultural sites,” one official said. “Whether ISIS’s destruction of religious monuments or the burning of the Leuven Library in WWI, history shows targeting locations giving civilization meaning is not only immoral but self-defeating. The Persian people hold a deeply influential and beautiful history of poetry, logic, art and science. Iran’s leaders do not live up to that history. But America would be better served by leaders who embrace Persian culture, not threaten to destroy it.”
In short, Iranians who currently support us could easily turn on us for destroying their beloved cultural and historic sites.
Another official suggested that the military would refuse to carry out an ordered attack on a cultural site.
“Consistent with laws and norms of armed conflict, we would respect Iranian culture,” the official said.
Trump’s threats are putting a target on our country and are costing us allies. If he continues with this dangerous rhetoric, he will lead the United States toward disaster and we will deserve it.
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Health systems have been thrust into this position largely because of a global shortage of N95 masks. In the U.S., the Strategic National Stockpile was depleted during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic when 85 million respirators were distributed. Public health experts have lamented that the reserves were never replenished. For their part, health systems are trying to be diligent about the new solutions they are trying, but this is unfamiliar terrain.
Beaumont Health for instance is only allowing masks to be reused up to three times. Evidence supports that N95s can withstand ultraviolet light for more cycles without deteriorating in functionality, Flanders said, but the system is being cautious.
Furthermore, the system has gone the extra step of ensuring all caregivers get the same mask back from cleaning.
“We weren’t comfortable giving back a mask from a different person,” Flanders said. “The fit might be different and … in the unlikely event anything was left on there, the person knows it’s theirs.”
There are still risks with using ultraviolet light, though, said Karen Hoffmann, immediate past president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Because ultraviolet light is a precise beam of light, it runs the risk of missing some parts of the mask because it’s not a smooth straight shape.
Beaumont has tried to combat that concern by building eight walls in the OR space that reflect the UV light, hitting all parts of the mask, as well as putting the mask through a heating process afterward just to be sure.
“The ultraviolet light should be sufficient but we decided to add the heat as an extra measure,” Flanders said.
Another method backed by evidence that it can clean N95 masks is vaporized hydrogen peroxide, which is also recommended by the CDC.
OhioHealth struck up a partnership with the research and technology company Battelle to use its vaporized hydrogen peroxide process to reuse its N95 masks.
Battelle has been researching the use of vaporized hydrogen peroxide to decontaminate N95 respirator masks since 2015 when it received funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct tests after the SARS outbreak.
“We know that vaporized hydrogen peroxide works for N95 because of our three years of research on N95 masks,” said Matt Vaughan, president of contract research at Battelle. In late March, the FDA approved Battelle’s process for reusing N95 masks up to 20 times. Its process has since been deployed in New York City.
OhioHealth sends its used N95 masks to Battelle’s nearby facility where they are cleaned. The 12-hospital system is relying on Battelle to ensure the masks are decontaminated, said Chris Clinton, vice president of shared services at the system.
Battelle uses a multistep process that involves inspecting the masks before and after they are soaked. Any mask with blood or makeup isn’t eligible for reuse and is disposed of. The process takes 8 to 12 hours.
While Battelle has studied the use of vaporized hydrogen peroxide on N95 masks, Chu said there are areas of concern. For one, Battelle’s research didn’t involve the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, but bacteria that cause anthrax.
Vaughan said while that’s true, he argues the bacteria that causes anthrax is harder to remove than SARS-CoV-2.
“This is not the hardest of viruses and if you challenge it, it’s pretty easy to kill,” he said.
Battelle also tested for proper mask fit by using mannequins, which Chu criticized.
“Quantified fit testing on humans involves moving our heads left to right, up or down; these are things that people do in real life that determine if the mask passes or fails the fit test,” he said.
Similar uncertainties are present for the use of heat or ultraviolet light. In its recent guidance on N95 reuse, the CDC admits that it doesn’t evaluate how respirator filters are impacted as part of performance requirements.
Given the uncertainty around the data, it’s a risk health systems are taking when their clinicians use decontaminated N95 masks and it should be a last-resort decision only, said Dr. Marcus Schabacker, CEO of ECRI and an intensive-care specialist.
“It’s not a good situation and it’s very worrisome that the people at the front lines are not equipped properly,” he said. “It’s like if we sent our soldiers into a fight with bayonets instead of machine guns. That’s essentially what we are doing.”
And because wearing personal protective equipment including N95 respirators routinely is new territory for caregivers, it’s especially important health systems have protocols in place to monitor how the equipment is put on and removed, a process called donning and doffing, APIC’s Hoffmann said.
Infection-control specialists in health systems should be called on to help train and oversee staff to ensure equipment is properly handled, she said.
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A foreign friend wants to help me by transferring money to my savings account. I got an email from RBI telling me go for online procedure through a link. After completing 3 out of 2 steps, asking me for international transfer code. Then I reply to that mail. Another mail comes to me saying that to get international transfer code I should deposit 45000 INR that I can't pay. Pls help me. Thanks in advance.
This is a scam.
For someone to send money to you - you should get the money first. Even if the bank or Paypal charges fees, those fees are taken out by the broker while the money is in transit. The transferring bank or company would take their fee (usually 1-5%) when it passes through them to you.
This scam works by tricking you into paying money for a code up front. If you pay this code either won't work or will never appear. Your supposed friend will now have your 45000 rupees and will buy himself something nice. You will never be paid.
Another sign of a scam is that RBI is the Reserve Bank of India, https://www.rbi.org.in/ . The RESERVE Bank of India does not appear to handle retail banking, it is a bank run with the government to effect large-scale monetary policy.
In the highly unlikely event that this is not a scam and is really a friend helping you out by giving you money, ask them if they can pay the fee and take it out from the money they are sending you instead of having you pay it. For example if they are sending you 100000INR they would take the 45000INR off the top and you would get 55000INR. | <urn:uuid:b5d67374-b275-407d-bb11-429e20b5ee79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/98173/foreign-money-comes-to-my-account | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964969 | 356 | 1.640625 | 2 |
By Ivette Vera-Perez
Canada has declared a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) for the clean technology sector: to capture a sizable part of the global market for cleantech. This market is expected to exceed $2.5 trillion by 2022. The goal is to triple the value of Canada’s annual exports to $20 billion per year by 2025 from $7.8 billion in 2017.
Given the relatively small size of Canada’s domestic market, strong export growth is simply a necessity. For clean technology and environmental products and services to be in the top five exports by 2025, exports will have to grow by an average of 11.4 percent per year. There are a handful of examples that prove that it can be done; Canadian cleantech companies that are very well recognized internationally such as Ballard Power Systems, Ecobee, and MineSense. Notably, all of these success stories are small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) that are global leaders in their respective field.
But successful as they are, they are also few and far between. Cleantech startups face enormous challenges. In general, SMEs in cleantech often lack the critical access to public and private capital. Many clean technologies are capital intensive, but this capital also needs to be patient, as investments take time to reveal their true potential. Fortunately, we can see a progressive increase in size and sophistication of Canadian funds. This promises to play a role in preventing Canadian cleantech companies from migrating south of the border or being acquired by foreign firms.
A second challenge among cleantech start-ups and SMEs are barriers to accessing talent on the technical side and limited entrepreneurial, business and soft skills. Such start-ups are often founded by tech entrepreneurs with vision and expertise, but a lack of knowledge of the regulatory and policy environment results in some of these companies failing to become successful. Mitacs aims to fill a portion of this gap by helping companies bring in talent from post secondary institutions to help companies execute on their roadmaps.
With the right mix of human and financial capital and supportive institutions in place, Canada’s cleantech industry can become one of the most important areas of export growth and give our economy the boost in innovation and productivity that it needs.
Ivette Vera-Perez is the Team Lead for Mitacs’s Account Management group. She directs a multidisciplinary group of account managers across Canada, with the mandate of helping industry secure top talent to advance innovation. Ivette has over 15 years of experience in the cleantech and environmental technologies sector. Her expertise spans from business development to site engineering, operations, and financing. | <urn:uuid:c55e95bd-2a81-49a5-9a15-e784c27fe4a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchmoneyinc.com/articles/cleantechs-audacious-global-goals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953194 | 552 | 2.09375 | 2 |
In regards to money and fortune, sometimes artists just can’t seem to get it right. For example, in regards to Lil Wayne’s “Got Money,” he suggests that if you have money (and you know it), you should take it out of your pocket and show it, then throw it. But maybe, if you actually have money, you should probably keep it in your pocket, and use it to pay off your student loans. But I digress.
Because they have such a high influx of cash, rappers and pop artists don’t always understand the value of money, which reflects in their musical art. But here are a few times that artists actually got money right, in a way that’s, at least somewhat, relatable.
“Mo Money, Mo Problems” // Notorious B.I.G.
Who’s hot, who not? Big Poppa, one of the greats. In this certified bop, he suggests that the more money that you acquire, the more problems that tend to arise in your life, which is unfortunately, extremely accurate, and not only as far as taxes are involved.
I don’t know what they want from me
It’s like the more money we come across
The more problems we see
“Billionaire” // Bruno Mars, Travie McCoy
Bruno Mars and Travie McCoy want to be billionaires so bad. I think that we can all relate to this one on some level or another. After all, who doesn’t want to be on the cover of Forbes with Oprah and the Queen?
The good news is, Travie wants to use his money for good. In this one, he says that if he does indeed become a billionaire, he’ll “probably pull an Angelina and Brad Pitt” by adopting a lot of babies that are far less fortunate than his billionaire self.
“Glamorous” // Fergie
In this pop karaoke classic, not only do you get a spelling lesson on the word glamorous, but Fergie is super relatable in that she says no matter how much money she makes, she still hits up the Taco Bell drive through from time to time. This just tells us that even more fortunate people like Fergie enjoy a cheesy gordita every now and again.
“Thrift Shop” // Macklemore
Going shopping with Macklemore is not limited to places like Gucci, Louis, Fendi or Prada, but rather, thrift shops. If this song doesn’t make you want to visit your nearest Goodwill and “pop some tags” yourself, you’re lying. And truthfully, it seems as though Macklemore really doesn’t have a problem with only having $20 in his pocket. If only some of us could be as grateful.
I’ma take your grandpa’s style, I’ma take your grandpa’s style
No, for real, ask your grandpa, can I have his hand-me-downs?
“Just Got Paid” // N’SYNC
Thank God it’s Friday night, and I just got paid.
RELATABLE. This one doesn’t even need an explanation.
“Money Trees” // Kendrick Lamar
When it hit the charts back in 2012, people started to realize that this song is actually much deeper than it appears on the surface. This song talks about how poverty has symptoms, and having a lot of money changes attitudes, motives and ambitions.
But also, it’s a really cool song to count your cash to and vibe to in the car.
And I been hustlin’ all day, this a way, that a way
Through canals and alleyways, just to say
Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel
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2021 Year In Review: The Only Way Out Is Through
2021 reminds me of a riddle: What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm in your apple. What’s scarier than a year of pandemic? A second year of pandemic.
We’re on new terrain, but labor is finding its footing. This was the year of a sudden “labor shortage,” the year everyone learned the phrase “supply chain problems”—and also the year that many who had been called “essential” saw how quickly they went, in the words of Kellogg’s striker Trevor Bidelman, “from heroes to zeros.”
We saw especially private sector workers in various industries, both union and nonunion, animated by a fresh sense of confidence, defiance, and being just plain fed up. The results gave us genuine cause for optimism—including major turning points in union reform and a bumper crop of strikes.
While we celebrate this year’s strikes, though, we should be sober about how few they were. By the numbers, 2021 had nothing on any year from the 1930s through the 1980s. If some workers were buoyed with a new spirit, plenty more were beaten down and demoralized.
Still, compared with the lethargy labor has shown for decades, there was a definite twitch—perceptible maybe more in the feeling than in the hard numbers. Strikers were emboldened by the tight labor market, pushed to their limits by understaffing, and indignant at employers’ naked opportunism. And there was a surge in public sympathy for workplace militancy, even a hunger for it—just look how fast the “Striketober” hype caught on.
HIGHS AND LOWS
Teamsters at the Hunts Point produce market in the Bronx started the year with a bang: a six-day strike that doubled their raise. But the spring’s biggest labor story was a defeat—the union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
Aside from Amazon’s tampering with a ballot drop box—which was severe enough that the Labor Board has ordered a new election—its tactics were as appalling as they were typical. The company forced workers to sit through captive-audience meetings, bombarded them with text messages, and plastered the warehouse with Vote No signs, even in the urinals.
This intense battery of pressure has become the union-busting standard. That’s because, unless workers are very well organized and prepared, it works. Unusual and encouraging, though, was the national attention paid—reflecting Amazon’s major role in our economy, but also a public appetite for labor victories.
Amazon is likely to remain our movement’s white whale for years to come. But the two most promising signs are the shop floor network that Amazonians United is organizing based on direct action to win shop floor gains like access to drinking water, and the election of a tough-talking new Teamsters leadership (more on that later).
Meanwhile, the two longest strikes of the year kicked off in March and April, each featuring workers squaring off against soulless capitalist giants—St. Vincent nurses in Massachusetts vs. Tenet, one of the largest for-profit hospital chains, and Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama vs. a clique of hedge funds. Both strikes are still on.
April is also when a police officer in the Twin Cities killed a young man named Daunte Wright, sparking the latest round of protest against the wanton destruction of Black lives. When the National Guard set up shop in a labor federation hall, Twin Cities labor activists mobilized fast to kick them out. Later in the year a group of Black labor leaders in Chicago helped win police accountability legislation. But overall, as people flowed into the streets to rage against one killing after another, organized labor continued to play little role in a major social movement of our time.
‘THIS IS OUR CHANCE!’
The strikes really started heating up when members of the Bakery Workers (BCTGM) struck at Frito-Lay (July) and Nabisco. The Frito-Lay strike captured themes we were hearing everywhere: Meager pay. Soul-crushing overwork. And workers grabbing hold of their new power.
“Everybody can go and get a second job,” Frito-Lay worker Chantel Mendenhall said one of her co-workers kept saying. “You can’t walk 10 feet without seeing 20 hiring signs. This is the one and only chance we might have! And they can’t hire people, they can’t get anybody to come in the door, there’s no way they can replace us!”
The Nabisco strikers continued the revolt against 12-hour days, but also planted a flag against two-tier—another theme we saw popping up over and over. Two more BCTGM strikes followed, both still ongoing, by workers who make Kellogg’s cereal and the cakes for Baskin Robbins.
One of the boldest strikes this year was a self-organized August walkout by mental health workers, mainly immigrants from East Africa, at Cascade Behavioral Health near Seattle, fed up with dangerous understaffing (the last straw was a patient attack that sent a worker out on a stretcher).
Management charged their union with an illegal wildcat because they hadn’t given 10 days’ notice. But SEIU 1199NW leaders backed up their members—and so did the regional Labor Board director, who refused to issue a complaint against the union, perhaps the first time the agency has blessed a safety strike in health care.
September saw multiple strikes: Heaven Hill distillery workers in Kentucky, telecom workers at Frontier, and carpenters in Seattle, where a rank-and-file movement to reject a fourth tentative agreement finally pushed a reluctant leadership off the dime.
Headlining Striketober were 10,000 John Deere factory workers across the Midwest. They did the working class proud—raising the banner against two-tier and demonstrating picket-line militancy that worked. Mass pickets created a three-hour backup of traffic as salaried workers attempted to enter the plants. Deere responded by getting an injunction: only four picketers per gate, no burn barrels, no chairs. Picketing is legal so long as it isn’t effective!
Mercy Hospital workers in Buffalo struck for five weeks and won their top demand: staffing ratios. Taxi drivers in New York City went on hunger strike and won $100 million in debt relief. Columbia University graduate employees struck not once but twice.
Teachers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, walked out for 12 days, but they were unusual. K-12 teachers, the banner-carriers behind so many of the major strikes of the past decade, didn’t strike much this year—instead fighting on-the-job battles against exhaustion and stress.
‘WE ALL QUIT’
And then there were the almost-strikes: University of California lecturers, Kaiser Permanente health care workers, and film and TV crew members publicly came to the brink of strike and forced their bosses to sweeten the deal. The snack strikers of the summer could look back with pride. “It feels like we started a movement,” said Mendenhall of Frito-Lay.
Informal strikes caught the public imagination too. Photos (whether real or apocryphal) zipped around social media of “We all quit!” manifestos taped to restaurant doors. Who doesn’t love seeing an arrogant boss get his comeuppance?
A month and a half into the school year, the Labor Action Tracker at Cornell University had already documented 10 sickouts by school bus drivers, mostly nonunion and presumably self-organized. There must have been an element of contagion: four of these 10 walkouts were in adjoining counties in Maryland.
Strike fever wasn’t exactly sweeping the nation. But we got a hint of what could be.
The year drew to a close with two developments whose impacts will reverberate for years to come.
For the first time in 25 years, a slate backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) won in a November landslide to lead the country’s largest private sector union. Teamsters United coalition leaders have pledged to organize militant contract campaigns, end two-tier at UPS, strike when necessary, and organize in the union’s core sectors.
Barely two weeks later came the other big news: the yes vote in the Auto Workers (UAW) referendum on whether members should directly elect their top officers. As in the Teamsters in the 1980s, members had pushed the federal government to recognize democracy as an appropriate remedy for union corruption.
The opportunity for a real opposition in the UAW is a sea-change; the union has had one-party rule for generations. There is no longstanding caucus equivalent to TDU, but the group that organized for the referendum, Unite All Workers for Democracy, could be the seed of one.
And one more hopeful development in union reform comes from Mexico, where 6,000 General Motors workers at the Silao plant voted in August to reject their sham union, part of their fight for an independent union. They are bucking the corrupt federation that has long dominated Mexico’s labor scene.
If workers have begun to discover their latent collective power, it’s not a moment too soon—conditions are terrifyingly bad. More than 5 million people worldwide have died of Covid. With a new variant spreading, nurse unions from 28 countries are asking the United Nations to make a handful of rich countries stop blocking poor countries’ access to vaccines.
Workplace hazards are multiplying—not only Covid but also climate-fueled catastrophes. Farmworkers, construction workers, and letter carriers were among those who had to work outdoors through a hellish West Coast summer in record-breaking heat and clouds of wildfire smoke. On December 10, in one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history, six workers died in an Illinois Amazon warehouse and eight died in a Kentucky scented candle factory after supervisors threatened to fire them if they left.
Since the pandemic began, U.S. billionaires have increased their wealth a staggering 70 percent—while 89 million workers lost their jobs, 20 million aren’t getting enough to eat, and 12 million are behind on the rent. Desperation and stress intensified another workplace hazard: violence. A deadly shooting in a rail yard in San Jose was one example.
And employers have been seizing their own opportunities—forcing workers in many sectors to fight just to get back what they had before, never mind make gains.
Hotels, having laid everyone off, experimented with bringing back only some. Universities used the pandemic as cover to push long-desired cutbacks. The health care giant Kaiser Permanente proposed two-tier pay, just to see if it could get away with it. Transit agencies in the Bay Area dragged their heels on restoring jobs—even after the federal government sent money earmarked for exactly that.
Lest we forget: 2021 started with Trump still in the White House and serious concerns about a coup to keep him there. Biden is better, though he’s no Bernie—and the two turncoat Democrats in cahoots with the Republicans have stalled a lot of progress in the Senate.
We got the infrastructure bill, which will create millions of new jobs in construction, transit, and telecom, though it was shorn of investment in service sector jobs. We still don’t have a Green New Deal or a Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, two acts that could shake up the landscape in labor’s favor.
Labor’s overall level of activity and organization is still far from what’s needed—but there’s reason for hope. As workers try to claw back what’s been squeezed from them, they’re getting a taste of their own power.
This 2021 was only a shadow of the year we could have had. Many big contracts came and went with no strike, no mobilization, no campaign at all—look for our story next week on the chances that labor had better not miss next year.
And while employers struggled with supply chain problems that, in theory, gave workers greater leverage than ever, few workers took collective advantage of these favorable conditions. This enormous potential is still waiting to be unlocked.
The challenges, of course, remain enormous. Employers can (and do) get away with almost anything. They can threaten to permanently replace strikers, or to close the plant and move away—and they sometimes follow through on those threats. Workers and unions, meanwhile, are hemmed in by legal limits on when and how we can strike, and stiff penalties for breaking them. Not to mention all the other forces that hem us in, like fear, division, confusion, and hopelessness.
Only 11 percent of workers have the protection of a union, and that includes a lot of ho-hum unions. Only a handful have been through workplace collective action, which can crack open your sense of what’s possible.
Here’s hoping this year’s ripple of militancy is followed by a much bigger wave. We’re going to need all the power we can muster.
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What are the reactants and products of vinegar and baking soda?
The reaction of sodium bicarbonate ( baking soda ) and acetic acid ( vinegar ) produces carbon dioxide gas, water and sodium acetate (soluble in water). The carbon dioxide gas can originally be seen as bubbles in the solution, but will quickly be released from the solution.
What happens when baking soda is mixed with vinegar explain with the help of chemical equation?
Acetic acid present in vinegar will readily react with baking soda ( sodium bicarbonate ) to form sodium acetate with the effervescence of carbon dioxide. The equation for the reaction is: CH3COOH + NaHCO3 = CH3COONa + CO2 + H2O.
What ratio of vinegar and baking soda produces the best chemical reaction?
12 to 1 ratio
What is the conclusion of mixing baking soda and vinegar?
The experiment and result of it supported our hypothesis that the bubbles would float on top of the mixture of the baking soda and vinegar. It did this because when we combined the baking soda and vinegar it had a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas.
Can you mix baking soda and vinegar to clean?
Vinegar is a green way to clean and deodorize surfaces. * Equal parts vinegar and baking soda can be combined to scrub away tough stains from coffee mugs, travel mugs, or teacups.
Is it dangerous to mix vinegar and baking soda?
Nothing dangerous happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar , but basically they neutralize each other and you lose all the beneficial aspects of the two ingredients.
What happens if you mix vinegar and baking soda?
In our case, baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (a base) and vinegar is diluted acetic acid. When they react to release the OH and H to become water, they also release carbon dioxide. This makes the reaction bubble and expand, just like when you shake up a can of soda and open it!
How much baking soda and vinegar do I use?
Always keep the ratio one-part baking soda to two parts vinegar .
What questions Cannot be answered by chemistry?
The kind of questions that chemistry CANNOT answer is “why matter exists”.
Can you mix baking soda with dish soap?
Soft scrub — Mix ½ cup baking soda with enough Dawn dish detergent to make a paste. Use to clean sinks, tubs and counters. Rinse and dry. Deep-cleaning scrub — Great for soap scum and mildew.
Does baking soda neutralize acetic acid?
Sodium bicarbonate reacts with acetic acid (found in vinegar ), producing sodium acetate , water, and carbon dioxide: NaHCO3 + CH3COOH → CH3COONa + H2O + CO2(g) Sodium bicarbonate reacts with bases such as sodium hydroxide to form carbonates: NaHCO3 + NaOH → Na2CO3 + H2O.
How do vinegar and baking soda react to preschoolers?
A simple kids science activity that is also a chemical reaction ! When an acid and a base mix they form a gas called carbon dioxide. Here the vinegar is the acid and the baking soda is the base. An awesome and safe chemical reaction science experiment for kids to try!
Does the mass change when vinegar reacts with baking soda?
The mass remains the same before the reaction and after. A chemical reaction takes place when vinegar and baking soda are mixed. If the carbon dioxide gas is contained, the mass of the substances will stay the same according to the Law of Conservation of Mass . If the gas is allowed to escape, the mass will be less.
What causes a balloon to inflate with baking soda and vinegar?
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You’ve probably been hearing things about layoffs and job freezes, and while some companies are shedding staff, plenty more are hiring. Specialist staff such as developers and engineers are in high demand across the globe, and that’s driving up salaries.
In fact, according to a recent Job Seeker Nation Report, only 37% of us believe we are paid fairly, and nearly half believe we can earn more money by switching jobs. If you’ve been in your job for a while, you might even be paying what’s known as a loyalty tax for being such a good employee.
You're probably already familiar with the concept: you get a great offer from your TV or electricity company offering you a preferred rate on your package, but when you investigate, it turns out that it’s only available to new subscribers. You are effectively being rewarded for your loyalty by paying bigger premiums or monthly charges.
The same thing can happen at work; a new hire joins and they are making significantly more than you, for the same role. Things are being made worse by the current “battle for talent” where recruiters are offering ever increasing sums to in-demand employees. In companies where there are no formal salary scales – often true of tech start-up and scale-ups – this is leading to large disparities between what existing workers and new employees are being paid.
Here’s how you’ll know if you’re being underpaid – and what to do about it.
1 You’ve never had a raise
If you’re doing more work, or have taken on additional responsibilities – for example the tasks of someone who has left – then it’s time for a conversation about compensation. Don’t forget that the cost of living is rising too, and has been since 2021.
2 You make less than the industry average
Check in with colleagues or industry contacts and sense-check what the salary is for the same role at their company.
3 Visit review websites
Sites such as Glassdoor and Indeed’s Salary Calculator exist to allow you to check out real employee reviews and to discover compensation and salary information. By searching your job title and location you should be able to get a fairly accurate snapshot of what you could be earning.
If you discover you’re being paid under market rate, you should have a conversation with your manager about your expectations. If a new job seems more appealing to you, we have three to check out below.
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As a FP&A Manager for the global leader in online payments, you will provide financial guidance and insight to business leaders to help unlock value for the enterprise and customers. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business operations leadership and their teams to develop an in-depth knowledge of respective cost structure, key value drivers and strategic priorities. You will have solid problem-solving and financial modelling skills, be intellectually curious with a knack for connecting the dots, and a proven track record of helping to facilitate value creation through next level business partnership. You will need a Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or economics as well as four-plus years’ of professional finance experience in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Apply now.
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Cardiac imaging is a sub-specialty of radiology and covers a range of services which all capture images of your heart and heart valves. These images are captured using imaging techniques such as ultrasound, CT and nuclear medicine.
Your doctor may refer you for cardiac imaging for one or more of the following reasons:
Experience of chest pain
To diagnose heart disease or a heart condition
To examine the function and health of your heart and heart valves
To assess the effects of a heart attack or stroke.
X-Ray & Imaging provides a full range of cardiac imaging scans and tests. These include Holter Monitoring, Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring, Echocardiography and Myocardial Perfusion Studies.
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I need help with a Psychology question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.
Belief systems are fundamental in supporting development and aiding in resilience building. Human behavior workers encourage their use for providing healing and adjustment in times of trauma. They are also systems that can support children and adults through times of struggle or suffering.
Along with belief systems, understanding the self through cognitive therapy can provide a strong pillar of support in individuals and families as well as the community at large. Cognitions can be seen as positive elements that allow individuals to engage in hope-filled behaviors, while clarifying the meaning of personal beliefs and behaviors. Cognitive therapy support groups and role-playing workshops can be combined with preventive education for children to help them respond to future issues and deal with current ones. Cognitive and belief structures can offer a strong basis for evaluating behaviors and creating decision-making skills. Organizing and communicating beliefs and hopefulness will additionally strengthen approaches to deal with trauma and day-to-day risks (Walsh, 2016).
- What components of cognitive therapy are especially important to consider?
- How would cognitive theory need to be adjusted to support specific issues of diversity in the case of an immigrant child? Use some of the concepts Doctor Motti-Stefanidi highlighted in the Risk and Resilience in Immigrant Youth multimedia presentation from your studies for this unit to support your work.
Write a 250-word minimum initial post to this discussion. Include two scholarly resources. Be sure to include relevant, required information, adequate explanations, and alternative viewpoints.
Ecomaps and genograms are tools that help us examine the resources and obstacles that may be present in our life. The Correa, Bonilla, and Reyes-Macpherson article from your readings for this unit (linked in the Resources) provides an explanation of the benefits of development of an ecomap, and how it can help point out the positive aspects of life that an individual may experience. The ecomap also identifies the resources that have contributed to one’s developmental process.
Develop the ecomap for an individual from the diverse population you selected in the Unit 2 and Unit 4 assignments. Use the examples linked in the Resources, or search for examples and structure your own. The Correa, Bonilla, and Reyes-Macpherson article will provide details on constructing an ecomap, as well as guidance in interpreting its information. Be sure to read the article before constructing your own sample ecomap for your individual in the diverse population you chose.
For your initial discussion post, write a brief description of your ecomap and reference the theories that explain the relationships, risks, and protective factors illustrated in your ecomap. Post your ecomap in the discussion area by attaching it to the discussion.
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Partial match retrieval with field replication using gray code
Date of Publication
Master of Science in Computer Science
College of Computer Studies
Defense Panel Chair
Defense Panel Member
In this research, a study on using gray code to improve the performance of Partial Match Retrieval with Field Replication, PMRFR, a query processing technique in object-oriented databases system (OO-DBS) is explored. PMRFR as a retrieval technique is a combination of Field Replication (FR) and Partial Match Retrieval (PMR). FR allows individual instances variables to be selectively replicated throughout classes of a nested object and PMR is a multi attribute hashing technique to retrieve data efficiently, specifying one or more fields of the objects. The study is focused on enhancing the performance of PMRFR using gray code. A mathematical model was used to compare the performance of binary code and gray code. The study shows that gray code achieves better clustering of the directories, therefore, reduce access time needed to retrieve objects from database.
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
74 leaves; 28 cm.
Coding theory; Information retrieval
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Canadian superstar singer, Justin Bieber, has revealed that he suffers from the Ramsay Hunt syndrome which has caused him facial paralysis.
He made the announcement on Friday as he noted that he would take a break from performing because he is suffering from paralysis on one side of his face.
In a video posted on his verified Instagram account, the singer explained that he has Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which has left him unable to move half of his face and unable to take the stage.
Bieber said in a video, “It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis.
“As you can see this eye is not blinking. I can’t smile on this side of my face; this nostril will not move. So, there’s full paralysis on this side of my face.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, the Ramsay Hunt syndrome occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears. In addition to the painful shingles rash, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss in the affected ear.
Bieber, while addressing those who have been frustrated by the recent cancellations of his concerts said he is “physically, obviously, not capable of doing them.”
He said, “This is pretty serious, as you can see. I wish this wasn’t the case, but, obviously, my body’s telling me I’ve got to slow down. I hope you guys understand. I’ll be using this time to just rest and relax and get back to a hundred per cent so that I can do what I was born to do.”
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In Kenya, horticulture profits increased largely due to the increased demand for Kenyan produce on the global market.
How the youthful greenhouse farmer made millions by cutting establishment expenses
According to statistics, a square meter of tomato harvest might cost around KES 9,000. This means that a single harvest from a typical greenhouse may bring in over KES 1.2 million.
A youthful tomato farmer in Narok County earns almost three million shillings in a season using his homemade wooden greenhouses, decreasing his production costs by KES110,000.
Geoffrey Rono's four 16 x 40-meter greenhouses are composed of wood and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). He spent a total of KES250, 000 on a greenhouse instead of the KES360,000 he would have spent on a metallic greenhouse of the same size.
“I learnt this technique from a friend in my neighbourhood while I was selling fodder crops five years ago. The friend was practising tomato farming is simply wooden constructed greenhouses,” said Rono.
“I then embarked to construct my own and when complete I bought Anne F1 tomato variety seeds from Amiran Kenya Company at Sh11 per seed using up to Sh11, 000 to buy 1000 seeds for a start.”
Before planting he conducted a soil test to determine his soil condition at Sh2500 saving him some money as the test established the soil could be productive by applying manure rather than synthetic fertilizers.
"I've been utilizing manure in my tomato growing since I started following the advice I obtained from soil testing specialists, and it's saved me between KES1,500 and KES1,800 every planting season, which I could have spent on a 50kg bag of fertilizer," he added.
He is now collecting tomatoes from two of his greenhouses, with the remainder scheduled for later.
Returns on Investment
Rono, who offers a crate of tomatoes for KES2500, makes over KES500 from just one tomato plant, and with his large greenhouses, each of which can hold over 1500 seedlings, he can earn KES750, 000 from one greenhouse, equating to KES3 million from 4 greenhouses every year.
"I pick between one and six fruits every cluster of my tomato trousers each year, giving me roughly 800 tomatoes per plant," Rono explained.
He delivers his tomatoes directly to traders who visit his farm or occasionally supplies dealers in Narok Town to avoid dishonest brokers.
What is the best way to start a greenhouse business?
First, choose the crops that you wish to plant.
Secondly, learn what produce is popular in your region by conducting market research.
Thirdly, check out industry publications like Greenhouse Grower, Greenhouse Manager, and GrowerTalks for the most up-to-date information.
Finally, examine your competition to see if there are any market gaps that your company can fill.
From the foregoing, a 240 sqm greenhouse may provide a gross profit of KES 900,000 in a 55-week season. You will deduct KES 31,000 in total expenditures from the estimated sales income of KES 960, 000, as shown.
Subtract KES 105, 000 from additional expenditures such as insurance, field trips, transportation, and contingency losses to arrive at your net earnings. As a result, you'll get roughly KES 855,000. When compared to open field farming, greenhouse farming yields higher earnings.
For more information: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/the-standard/article/2001261197/vet-i-made-my-first-million-from-these-tomatoes;https://farmbizafrica.com/profit-boosters/219-star-farmer-narok-tomato-farmer-earns-sh3m-form-his-wooden-greenhouses
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Python for Data Science — List Operations and Methods
I covered creating, accessing, and slicing lists in my previous article. You can access the article here.
You haven’t gained an understanding of list methods yet, but it is essential to cover them now. You will be learning more about methods throughout this article and by the end, you will understand them quite well!
A Python list has several methods that you can call. Lists have default methods for manipulation with list elements.
Below are the methods you can use with a list:
- append(): append() method helps to append a single object to the end of the list. The element added using the append() method will always be positioned at -1 or ( length-1) position in the list. append() method is only used when we want to add an element at the last index.
- insert(): insert() method insert an element at the specified position where the append() method appends at the last index only.
- extend() : extend() method appends the elements from iterable to given list. insert() and append() method used to add a single element at a time. But extend() method helps to append multiple elements at a time.
- clear(): clear() is a list built-in method used to remove all the elements from the input list.
- copy(): Occasionally you will want to copy a list. One simple way to copy your list is to use the copy method:
- count() :count() method returns the number of elements with the specified value. Any type of object can be used as a parameter for the count method. count() method returns an integer number that shows the frequency of given elements if the element does not exist in a list it will return 0.
- index(): index() method returns the first index of searched element otherwise returns an exception named ValueError if the value is not present in the list.
- pop() : pop() method removes an element at a given index and returns that element. If the index is not provided the pop() method removes the last element from the list.
- remove(): remove() method takes input as an element and removes that element from the list. It raises an exception if that element does not exist in the list.
- reverse() :reverse() method returns an updated copy of the reversed list of the input list.
reverse() method applies to reverse the main list and modifies the indexes but when we need a temporary reverse of the list use reversed() python built-in function to return an object.
- sort() :sort() method will return an ascending order sorted list. When the reverse parameter is given as True return descending order list.
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when we smell and breath through nose it increases brain network and memory power, a new study says.
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The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s condition. Alzheimer’s currently affecting more than 50 million people throughout the world. At present Alzheimer’s disease cannot be reversed.
In past five – six years, coconut oil has gained lot of importance especially in the life elders who crossed 70 years.
A good makeup remover, moisturizer, aftershave, allergy control agent, good as toothpaste- this is today’s popularity of coconut oil!
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Sometimes my dear friend calls and says, “It’s sunny outside. Let’s take a loop.” She means we’ll walk around the block–the “loop” that takes only 10 minutes or so.
Sometimes, when my daughters and I have been sitting for too long with our tasks, whether their homework or my writing, I’ll stand and say, “Let’s take a loop.”
Let’s take a loop!
We take time to take a loop. It signals self-care, connection with others, and a moment of reflection. Taking a loop means a break to talk about whatever we need to say. And taking a loop finally offers a moment in nature to breathe in the fresh air, note the changing seasons, feel the grass under our feet, and touch the branches as we pass.
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Born in Acton, Nantwich, Cheshire on 13 July 1880, the eldest son of William Herriman and the late Emma Herriman.
Husband of Mary Herriman (nee Scragg) of Ravensmoor, Nantwich, Cheshire.
The 1911 Census shows him as a platelayer for London and North Western Railway.
Regiment : 2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
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Hello Year 5,
I wish we could be learning our Cycle 4 topics in class and I’m sure we will soon enough. We will continue with the BBC Bitesize lessons for English and Maths daily which I will be emailing to you weekly. If you have any trouble with the email then please just go BBC Bitesize Daily lessons for homeschooling and select Year 5.
Here is an overview of our Cycle 4 topics:
History- Ancient Greece
D&T- Ancient Greek Pottery
Science- Living Things and Habitats
Computing- Using and Applying Skills
Languages- Au Zoo
P.E.- Tennis and Gymnastics
R.E.- What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?
Music- Carima Burana
Related learning will be sent linked to these topics via email. Please do email if you have any questions with the work.
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What college mascot is Golden Bears?
Oski is the official name of Cal-Berkeley’s mascot. Cal-Berkeley’s athletics teams are called the Golden Bears, named after California’s state emblem.
What school does Cal go to?
|Former names||University of California (1868–1958)|
|Total staff||23,524 (2020)|
|Students||45,057 (fall 2021)|
|Undergraduates||31,814 (fall 2021)|
Is UC Berkeley a prestigious school?
Today, UC Berkeley is thought of as one of the most prestigious schools in both the UC System and the country. UC Berkeley consistently ranks in the top two public universities and the top 30 national universities.
Is Miles College a HBCU?
Miles College is a senior, private, liberal arts Historically Black College with roots in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church that motivates and prepares students, through committed faculty, to seek knowledge that leads to intellectual and civic empowerment.
Is Cal the same as Berkeley?
University of California–Berkeley. University of California—Berkeley is a public institution that was founded in 1868. … The University of California—Berkeley, often referred to as Cal, is situated overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Typically, 95 percent or more of incoming freshmen at Berkeley choose to live on campus.
Is Cal Berkeley a d1?
What Division Is UC Berkeley In? As a proud member of the Pacific-12 Conference conference, UC Berkeley contends with other NCAA Division I-FBS schools.
Why do they call Berkeley Cal?
Because UC Berkeley is the Flag Ship (mother ship) campus and the main headquarters of the entire UC system is located at Berkeley. Therefore, “they” think they are the University of California (period). Thus abbreviated to Cal, and everyone else is the UC at some other location: UCLA, UCSD, UCSB for example.
Are Golden Bears extinct?
The California golden bear or California grizzly (Ursus arctos californicus) is an extinct subspecies of the brown bear. The California golden bear disappeared from the state of California in 1922 when the last one was shot in Tulare County.
Is UCLA called Cal?
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California.
Is Cal the same as UCLA?
The UCLA campus is located in Los Angeles, CA and is characterized as City: Large (population of 250,000 or more). The Cal State LA campus is located in Los Angeles, CA and is characterized as City: Large (population of 250,000 or more). Check out all campus videos for UCLA here.
What is UCSB known for?
UC Santa Barbara ranks number 5 among all public universities in U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 “Best Colleges” Rankings, the most widely read college guide in the country. UCSB’s renowned faculty includes six winners of Nobel Prizes for landmark research in chemistry, physics and economics.
Is UCLA or UCB better?
Originally Answered: How is UCLA better than Berkeley? Academically, they’re almost identical, with Berkeley being a little better overall, through the years. But, in every other way, UCLA is far superior.
Are there any Ivy League schools in CA?
There are no Ivy League schools in California.
Is UCB Ivy League?
Is UC Berkeley an Ivy League School? Although UC Berkeley is considered a highly renowned university with outstanding opportunities for students, it is not an Ivy League school. The Ivy League is a collection of private colleges in the Northeast.
What kind of school is Miles College?
|Religious affiliation||CME Church UNCF|
|Academic affiliations||Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|
Is Cal a good school?
UC Berkeley retains its standing as the world’s No. 1 public and fourth-best university overall in U.S. News & World Report’s latest global rankings. Harvard, MIT and Stanford claimed the top three spots, with the UK’s University of Oxford trailing Berkeley in fifth place.
What is Stanford known for?
What is Stanford known for? Stanford has developed a reputation as one of the country’s great institutions of higher education, consistently ranking in the top 10 national universities. In addition to outstanding academics, Stanford is known for its great return on investment and entrepreneurial student body.
Which California State University is the best?
#1Cal Poly San Luis Obispo#2Cal Poly Pomona#3Cal State Long Beach#4Cal State Fullerton#7San José State
Is Cal good at sports?
Over the course of the school’s history, California has won team national titles in 13 men’s and 3 women’s sports and 107 team titles overall. … Cal finished the 2010–11 athletic season with 1,219.50 points, earning third place in the Director’s Cup standings, the Golden Bears’ highest finish ever.
What team is called Cal?
California Golden Bears football2021 California Golden Bears football teamFirst season1886Athletic directorJim Knowlton
Is Stanford a Division 1 school?
Stanford’s teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for college football) level as a member of the Pac-12 Conference, along with other schools from the western third of the United States.
What's the oldest University in the United States?
- Harvard University. Established: 1636 (chartered in 1650) …
- The College of William and Mary. Established: 1693. …
- St. John’s College. …
- Yale University. Established: 1701. …
- University of Pennsylvania. …
- Moravian College. …
- University of Delaware. …
- Princeton University.
What is the GPA to get into Berkeley?
With a GPA of 3.89, UC Berkeley requires you to be near the top of your class, and well above average. You’ll need mostly A’s, ideally with several AP or IB classes to help show your preparation at a college level. If you’re a junior or senior, your GPA is hard to change from this point on.
What is the oldest UC school?
MottoFiat lux (Latin)LocationOakland , California , United States
Do grizzlies live in California?
California still has habitat that can sustain about 500 grizzlies. In 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received and rejected a petition to reintroduce grizzly bears to California.
Who killed the last grizzly in California?
By the early 20th Century, the California Grizzly had been hunted to extinction. The last known California Grizzly roaming Southern California was shot and killed on October 26, 1916, by farmer Cornelius B. Johnson in the Sunland area of Los Angeles County.
Do grizzly bears still exist in California?
Many people will claim to have seen a “brown bear.” Generally, the term “brown bear” refers to Ursus arctos, the grizzly bear. California grizzly bears became extinct by the 1920s and only the one on our state flag remains.
Is UCLA an Ivy League school?
UCLA is not an Ivy League school but is often considered on par with the prestigious Ivies. The Ivy League was formed in the mid-1900s as a sports league of eight private universities in the Northeast. This elite group includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, and Dartmouth.
Can an Indian get into UCLA?
Students come from all over the world to attend UCLA. Indeed, part of what makes UCLA great is the wide variety of experiences and backgrounds our students bring to our campus community. Each year we admit students from nearly 90 countries.
What is the hardest college to get into?
SchoolLocationAcceptance Rate1. Columbia UniversityNew York City, NY3.9%2. Stanford UniversityStanford, CA3.9%3. Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA4.0%4. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA4.1%
What is the most difficult school in California to get into?
California Colleges that are Hardest to Get Into Leading the list is Stanford University which sent acceptance letters to only 4% of the 47,498 students who applied and rejected 96%.
Is Cal short for UC Berkeley?
Because it was the first school in the University of California system, before the UC system expanded to other California cities, the Berkeley campus was known simply as the University of California and often shortened to Cal.
What GPA do you need to get into UCLA?
UCLA GPA Requirements At a minimum, you must earn a 3.0 GPA or better (3.4 for nonresidents) in all college preparatory courses. No grades can be lower than a C.
What GPA do you need to get into UC Santa Barbara?
With a GPA of 4.12, UCSB requires you to be at the top of your class. You’ll need nearly straight A’s in all your classes to compete with other applicants. Furthermore, you should be taking hard classes – AP or IB courses – to show that college-level academics is a breeze.
What type of school is UCSB?
University of California—Santa Barbara is a public institution that was founded in 1909. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 23,196 (fall 2020), its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 989 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based academic calendar.
Is UCSB a top school?
UC Santa Barbara has performed exceptionally well in other national rankings. The campus placed No. 12 among public universities on the Forbes annual list of America’s Top Colleges , and landed among the top public universities on Washington Monthly’s 2021 National University Rankings .
Why is UCLA so famous?
It’s the best public undergraduate school in the world where the 75th percentile for admitted students is 4.3 gpa and 1520 SAT. The school sits scenically in the best part of Los Angeles on the famed west side with an Amazing campus, brilliant professors, a laid back attitude (unheard of for a top university).
Is UCLA a top 20 school?
UCLA was the only school among the top 20 national universities overall to be ranked highly in social mobility, which measures the number of Pell Grant recipients and the six-year graduation rate for these students. In addition, UCLA was named the No.
Is UCLA a top 10 school?
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THE DhammaPada is one of the fifteen important treatises that comprise
the Khuddaka Nikăya, the fifth Smaller Collection of the Sutta Pitaka,
the Basket of Discourses.
The DhammaPada consists of 423 melodious Păli verses, uttered by the
Buddha on about 300 occasions, to suit the temperaments of the listeners
in the course of his preaching tours during his ministry of forty-five
years. Circumstances that leed to these noble utterances are presented
in the form of short or long stories, together with traditional
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Water molecules are more attracted to each other than they are to other materials, so they generate a force to stay together called surface tension. If the force that the insect foot makes on the water, is less than the surface tension of the water, the bug will float.
Why does camphor float on water?
(3) The camphor molecules that remain under the float develop as a camphor layer on water due to motion. The camphor float decelerates due to viscous resistance and stops due to a lack of development of camphor molecules from the float.
Why does camphor not dissolve in water?
When impurities are dissolved in water, surface tension of water decreases. Hence, when camphor is dissolved in water, surface tension will decrease. Camphor being non-symmetrical, different amount of camphor is dissolved from different sides.
Why insect does not sink in water?
Why Insects Can Walk on Water Water molecules form bonds between other molecules – and the molecules which have air on one side will form a much stronger bond than the molecules without. Since insects are small and do not have enough force to break though, they can technically walk on water.
Why is adhesion cohesion important?
Why are cohesive and adhesive forces important for life? Cohesive and adhesive forces are important for the transport of water from the roots to the leaves in plants. These forces create a “pull” on the water column.
How does a pond skater work?
The Pond Skater or Water Strider uses surface tension to walk on water, and scientists have now worked out exactly how it moves
Can sonic run in water?
If the playable character is running fast enough however (starting from Sonic the Hedgehog 3), the player will be able to run across water surfaces, allowing them to reach new areas or bypass underwater obstacles.
Can the flash run on water?
12 RUN ON WATER One of the reasons The Flash deserves to be worshiped by his adoring fans is because his speed allows him to run on water. A normal human being would have to run almost 99 feet per second in order to keep from sinking. That’s three times as fast as the current fastest man on Earth, Usain Bolt.
Can you explain how pond skaters are able to walk on water?
Water striders are small insects that are adapted for life on top of still water, using surface tension to their advantage so they can “walk on water.” Water acts different at the surface. Water molecules are attracted to each other and like to stay together, especially on the surface where there is only air above.
Do paper towels absorb or adsorb?
It generally means that something is encompassed and integrated by something else. Plants absorb water and nutrients from soil. A paper towel absorbs spilled liquids.
Does activated charcoal absorb or adsorb?
Does activated charcoal use absorption or adsorption? Activated charcoal (also called active carbon) is so effective at filtering because it works through the process of adsorption. In other words, a wide range of impurities can chemically adhere to its surface.
Does adsorb absorb or desiccant?
Desiccants are commonly used to keep products dry and stable. Dry desiccants can absorb moisture from air either by physical adsorption or by chemical reaction, and thus reduce the humidity in the headspace of sealed containers.
Does time affect adsorption?
2.4 Effect of time As time of adsorption is changed from 20 to 120 minutes, efficiency first decreased from 72 to 69% and further increased to 72 % and afterwards no change is observed. As time progresses the surface coverage of the adsorbent is high and further no adsorption take place.
How can jesus walk on water?
The Bible provides many examples of faith, including the examples of Christ and Peter. In John 5:19 Jesus declared that He could do nothing by Himself, but only through God the Father. Jesus walked on water because of His faith in God.
How do insects such as pond skaters stay afloat on water because?
Pond skating insects reveal water-walking secrets as they effortlessly skip across the surface leaving nothing but a tiny ripple in their wake, according to a new study. … They stay afloat thanks to their small weight and the surface tension of water acting like a skin.
How do you conduct an adhesion test?
In this test, a coated specimen is biaxially stretched a given distance in an appropriate machine, adhesive tape is applied to the deformed area (dome) and then pulled off, and the amount of coating removed is compared with a photographic standard to determine the coating adhesion rating.
How do you identify montmorillonite?
|Unit cell||a = 5.19 Å, b = 9.02 Å, c = 12.4 Å; β = 94°; Z = 2|
|Color||White, pale pink, blue, yellow, red, green|
How do you use bentonite?
Mix bentonite clay powder with water to make a thick paste. Apply to the areas of skin that are prone to oil or acne. Leave the mask on for 20 minutes and rinse thoroughly. Repeat two or three times per week.
How do you walk on water in real life?
Technically speaking, walking over pure water isn’t possible. The only way it can be done is by converting it to a high density fluid or one with high viscosity. Also, if you think you can run at 108 km/hr (30 m/s), then you’ll have the ability to run across water.
How does adsorption happen?
Adsorption at an interface occurs when solute molecules establish interactions with the substrate without establishing covalent bonds. All the interactions described in Chapter 2 may come into play. Adsorption to a solid surface may occur from a gas phase or from a liquid phase.
How does adsorption occur?
Adsorption is a surface process that leads to transfer of a molecule from a fluid bulk to solid surface. This can occur because of physical forces or by chemical bonds.
How does adsorption take place?
Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface. This process creates a film of the adsorbate on the surface of the adsorbent. This process differs from absorption, in which a fluid (the absorbate) is dissolved by or permeates a liquid or solid (the absorbent).
How is adsorption calculated?
Thanks. I have calculated the adsorption capacity by using the equation, adsorption capacity ( mg/gm) = [( Co – Ce) /m] x V, Co – Initial conc in ppm, Ce – Conc at equilibrium, m – mass of the adsorbent , V is the volume of solution containing solute ( adsorb ate) .
How much can activated carbon adsorb?
Each pound of activated carbon will adsorb an average of 33 – 1/3% of its weight in these compounds. G – Good. Satisfactory capacity. Each pound of activated carbon will adsorb an average of 16.7% (1/6) of its weight in this compound.
Is a sponge adsorbent or absorbent?
2a: To suck up or take up such as: a sponge absorbs water, charcoal absorbs gas, and plant roots absorb water. “Adsorption.” Def. 1: The adhesion in an extremely thin layer of molecules (as of gases, solutes, or liquids to the surfaces of solid bodies or liquids with which they are in contact.
Is activated charcoal a good conductor of electricity?
No its, not a good conductor.
Is adsorption physical process?
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First off, you should probably use VBO all the time. For small and large objects.
Then, the second issue is "how to combine several separate objects into one large object?" - so to reduce the number of OpenGL calls that have to be made. Generally, objects that use the same texture(s), material settings and shaders can be combined. E.g. if you have tons of identical crates lying around, it might make sense to combine them into several larger "crate piles".
If an object is a triangle list, then combining is easy - just create a large triangle list out of the source lists. If an object is a triangle strip, then you have to use "degenerate triangles" to join the strips (this is a very useful optimization for a single object as well, if it can't be represented as a single strip).
A "degenerate triangle" is a triangle that has two or three identical vertex indices. Graphics hardware can recognize them and skip them very fast.
So if you have, e.g. two strips with one triangle each, for a total of six vertices.
The original triangle indices of the strips would be:
1) 0, 1, 2
2) 0, 1, 2
Now you join all vertices together, so you end up with 6 vertices.
1) 0, 1, 2 (unchanged)
2) 3, 4, 5
By now you have one vertex array, but still two separate strips. Have to join them by inserting degenerate triangles:
1) 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5
(I think the above is correct, but haven't actually verified)
The idea is this: with the above strip, the graphics card would draw triangles out of these vertices:
0, 1, 2
1, 2, 2 <- degenerate! won't be drawn
2, 2, 2 <- degenerate! won't be drawn
2, 2, 3 <- degenerate! won't be drawn
3, 4, 5
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Resilience to the worst of humanity
The average person is selfish, greedy, not very intelligent and an emotionally stunted illogical thinker. How can any economic system win the support of the majority if these things are true
Any system has to defend against human stupidity which is unlimited. Just look at society and what the average person watches on television.
Any system cannot rely on the best of humanity or values such as integrity, honesty, camaraderie, honour.
I am interested in ideas that are resilient.
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While being short comes with its pros and cons, it turns out that being short isn’t such a big deal in Hollywood. Some of the biggest names in the biz didn’t let their shortness affect their careers, and neither should you! So, who are the most famous yet short actors in Hollywood?
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Not all celebrities, actresses, and superstars are as tall. Some of Hollywood's most prominent celebrities are quite short. In addition, there are many short female celebrities who you thought were taller. In an industry known for emphasising appearance, you would think there would be a shortage of short actors. However, in the modern age of technology, there are ways to make actors look taller, whether through camera angles or after-effects.
Several short male actors in Hollywood fall far below the average height of men (around 5’ 8” to 6’0” in most regions). However, despite their short stature, they have succeeded in one of the most demanding industries.
Top 20 shortest actors in Hollywood
There are several short male celebrities in Hollywood. Below is a look at some of the shortest and most famous of them:
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1. Tony Cox - 3 feet 6 inches
Tony Cox is one of the shortest men in Hollywood. The American actor (who is of African-American ethnicity) stands at the height of 3'6" (1.07 m). However, as he has demonstrated repeatedly, being short is not a curse in the entertainment industry. He has an extensive acting portfolio, including appearances in films and TV shows such as:
- Bad Santa 2
- Epic Movie
- Rescue Me
- Return of the Jedi
- Space Invades
2. Peter Dinklage - 4 feet 5 inches
Ever wondered who is the shortest famous male actor? That honour falls on Peter Dinklage. He is an American actor best known for portraying the role of Tyrion Lannister in the TV show, Game of Thrones.
Dinklage height is 1.35 metres (or 4’ 5”). However, don't let his shortness fool you; he is one of the most talented Hollywood actors. He won four Emmy Awards in the supporting actor category for his role in Game of Thrones.
3. Danny DeVito - 4 feet 10 inches
Danny DeVito is an actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most prominent Hollywood celebrities, having appeared in several films and TV shows such as :
- Tin Men
- Space Jam
- Jumanji: The Next Level
However, DeVito is also known for his short stature. He is one of the shortest celebrities in Hollywood, with a height of 1.47 metres (4' 10").
4. David Faustino - 5 feet 2 inches
David Anthony Faustino is an American actor famous for his role in the sitcom Married with Children. Some of his other roles include the films RoboDoc, Not Another B Movie, Winx Club and Entourage. He has also featured in TV shows such as:
- The Zeta Project
- The Young and the Restless
- Working Class
Faustino is one of the top short actors in Hollywood, with a height of 5'2" (1.6 metres).
5. Kevin Hart - 5 feet 2 inches
There are not many short black actors in Hollywood, and Kevin Hart is one of them. While he is not exactly the shortest black actor, he is far below the average of many celebrities, with a height of 1.57 metres (5’ 2”).
However, Kevin Hart's short height has not derailed his career. Instead, the American celebrity made a name for himself as a stand-up comedian. He has since gone on to star in several films such as:
- Think Like a Man
- Central Intelligence
- Jumanji franchise
- Get Hard
6. Joe Pesci - 5 feet 3 inches
Joe Pesci is one of the shortest actors in Hollywood. The American actor is 5' 3" (1.63 m) tall. Despite this, he has been quite successful in his acting career. The actor is known for portraying tough and volatile characters in films such as Goodfellas, Casino, and Raging Bull.
7. Rob Schneider - 5 feet 3 inches
Rob Schneider is another American actor who started his career in stand-up comedy before moving to the screens. As a comedian, he used to appear on NBC's Saturday Night Live. After switching to acting, he appeared in several films such as Grown Ups, The Benchwarmers, The Hot Chi*k, etc. The actor and comedian are fairly short by Hollywood standards. He is 5' 3" (1.61 m) tall.
8. Michael J. Fox - 5 feet 3 inches
Michael J. Fox (real name Michael Andrew Fox) is a former Canadian-American actor. He is famous for playing the character of Alex P. Keaton in the TV show Family Ties. He has also acted in several films and TV shows.
Michael J. Fox is one of the several short men celebrities who have enjoyed a successful acting career despite their height. He is 5' 3" (1.63 m) tall. Sadly, he is no longer acting, having retired due to Parkinson's disease's effects.
9. Seth Green - 5 feet 4 inches
Seth Green is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is famous for appearing in films, and TV shows such as:
- Family Guy
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Guardians of the Galaxy
Green hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is 48 years old and stands at the height of 5' 4" (1.63 m).
10. Danielle Radcliffe - 5 feet 5 inches
Danielle Radcliffe is an English actor famous for playing the role of Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series. He has also appeared in several other films and TV series such as:
- Now You See Me 2
- Escape from Pretoria
- The Lost City
- Lost in London
The actor is also one of the shortest celebrities in Hollywood, with a height of 5' 5" (1.65 m).
11. Woody Allen - 5 feet 5 inches
Woody Allen (real name Heywood Allen) is another one of the shortest men in Hollywood. The American actor, film director, writer, and comedian stands at 5' 5" (1.65 m). However, despite this, he has one of the most successful careers, spanning over three decades. He has produced award-winning films such as Manhattan and Annie Hall.
12. Elijah Wood - 5 feet 5 inches
Elijah Wood is an American actor and producer from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He is a household name in Hollywood, best known for his role as Frodo in the Lord of the Rings film franchise.
Wood has also appeared in other films such as:
- Back to the Future II
- Forever Young
- Sin City
- The Last Witch Hunter
The actor is fairly short, standing at the height of 5' 5" (1.68 m).
13. Ken Jeong - 5 feet 5 inches
Ken Jeong (full name Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong) is an American actor, producer, writer, and stand-up comedian of Korean descent. He is famous for his role as Leslie Chow in The Hangover film franchise. Jeong is another one of the shortest actors in Hollywood, with a height of 5’5” (1.65m).
14. BD Wong - 5 feet 5 inches
Bradley Darryl Wong is an award-winning American actor, including a Tony Award for his Broadway role in M. Butterfly. He also has an extensive portfolio appearing in movies and TV shows such as:
- Law & Order: SVU, Gotham
- Jurassic Park
- Father of the Bride II
Wong is fairly short, with a height of 5' 5" (1.65 m).
15. Dustin Hoffman - 5 feet 5 inches
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American filmmaker and actor. He has played several roles in films and TV shows such as:
- The Graduate
- Little Big Man
- Runaway Jury
- Rain Man
- Last Chance Harvey
- American Buffalo
He is also an award-winning actor with multiple awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Oscars, four British Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and more. Hoffman is approximately 5'5" (165 m) tall.
16. Simon Helberg - 5 feet 6 inches
Simon Maxwell Helberg is an American actor and comedian famous for his role on The Big Bang Theory as Howard Wolowitz. He has appeared in other films and TV shows such as:
- Van Wilder
- A Cinderella Story
- Good Night and Good Luck
- Arrested Development
The actor is one of the shortest men in Hollywood, with a height of 5' 6" (1.66 m).
17. Martin Freeman - 5 feet 6 inches
Martin Freeman is a talented English actor who has won several awards, including a Screen Actros Guild Award, an Emmy, and a BAFTA Award. He is best known for his roles in Sherlock and The Office TV shows. The 50 actor is 5'6" (1.63m) tall.
18. Aziz Ansari - 5 feet 6 inches
Aziz Ansari is an American actor, writer, filmmaker, and comedian. He is another Hollywood celebrity who started as a stand-up comedian before moving to the silver screens. He is best known for portraying Tom Haverford in the TV show Parks and Recreation. He is also an award-winning actor, with two Emmys and a Golden Globe Award. The actor stands at the height of 5'6" (1.68 m).
19. Jack Black - 5 feet 6 inches
Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black is an American actor, musician, songwriter, and comedian. He is pretty short, standing at 5’ 6” (1.68 m) tall.
20. Tom Cruise - 5 feet 7 inches
Did you know that Tom Cruise is one of the shortest actors in Hollywood? Having starred in several action films, Cruise usually portrays characters who are tall and imposing. However, the height you see on camera is primarily a result of camera tricks and effects. The actor is also known for wearing elevator shoes and lifts to boost his stature. So, how tall is Tom Cruise without lifts? His real height is around 5’ 7” (1.71 m).
Many actors like Danny Devito, Peter Dinklage, Tony Cox, Seth Green and others are among the popular Hollywood short actors. But despite their shortness, they have enjoyed successful careers in Hollywood. However, for some of these actors, their shortness is why they are famous.
Yen.com.gh shared an interesting article about the top models in Ghana. In Ghana, modelling has not always been the go-to career for many people. However, the myth around it has been debunked. Models from Ghana are now walking runways with other big names in the industry.
The top 10 models in Ghana are the creme de la creme of the modelling in the industry. The names were not listed in any particular order as all of them are good at what they do. They are an inspiration to anyone who wants to get into the industry.
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Earlier this month, Food & Tech Connect brought together 120 people in-person and virtually to participate in a “hackathon” for the Farm Bill. During a 12-hour period, teams brainstormed new tools and visual aids to educate the public about the farm bill and related food issues.
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Facts shared from the presentation:
$72 billions dollars is spent every year on food-related illnesses (e.g. diabetes, obesity, cancer)
$33.1 billion spent on commodity crops (e.g. corn, soy, wheat)
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On 25 June 2013, George Orwell (1903–1950) would turn 110. He appears to have been the real prophet of totalitarianism, and far and away the most insightful writer in the West to get the very essence of the tragedy of Eastern Europe. With sound reason, then, the Russian poet, translator, and dissident Natalya Gorbanevskaya called George Orwell an honorary citizen of Eastern Europe.
A left-winger who was bound to examine his political views with his own life, Orwell was a maverick and dissenter among those who were inclined to think about themselves as mavericks and dissenters by vocation. Fiercely attacked by his fellow leftists in Great Britain as a traitor or, at best, as a fellow traveler, Orwell avoided ideological blindness and selective sensitivity so widespread among his brothers-in-arms. Like Ignazio Silone, described by Czeslaw Milosz as one of the most decent political figures in Europe, Orwell held humanity prior and superior to the doctrine, and not the other way around.
A passionate collision took place between Orwell and the left of Great Britain over the roots of a supposedly bourgeois and reactionary concept. Deracination was always favoured by the left as a sign of personal liberty and dignity, yet Orwell tried to reconcile natural patriotic feelings with other modern sensibilities, first and foremost with individual freedom, dignity, equality, and fellowship. He believed that our existential need for the roots and home, if neglected or, worse, despised, may make an awkward comeback in the form of symbolic compensation, such as a fierce attachment to the doctrine or ideology that becomes our symbolic home. Our homelessness calls for compensation which comes in the form of ideological substitutes. As Karl Marx would have had it himself, a genuine proletarian does not have home, for his home is socialism.
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In his essay “Notes on Nationalism,” Orwell drew a strict dividing line between patriotism, which he understood as identification with a way of life and all earthly forms of human attachment, and nationalism, which appeared to him as a belief that one’s group is superior and better than other groups. What results from such a divide, according to Orwell, is a carefully disguised propensity to classify human individuals as if they were communities of bees or ants. For him, patriotism is silent and defensive, nationalism is offensive and aggressive.
Far from several major forms of radical forms of nationalism and ideological zeal and fervour in general, nationalism may come in many faces. According to Orwell, the transferred or transposed forms of nationalism signify our willingness to find an object of worship which may vary from time to time. A pious Zionist may become an ardent Marxist, or the other way around, while it takes little effort to move from left-wing views to uncritical adoration of Russia, even failing to notice Russian imperialism and colonialism.
G. K. Chesterton’s love for Italy and France led him so far as to fail to notice the emergence of Mussolini and Italian fascism, whereas H. G. Wells was blinded by Russia to such an extent that he refused to see the crimes of Lenin and Stalin. That our propensity to fool and deceive ourselves is nearly limitless was closely observed with wit by a perceptive British journalist and writer who easily surpassed all British and European thinkers put together in his ability to foresee the tragedy of Europe. Orwell’s critical essays appear to have been even more original and groundbreaking than his famous satires and dystopias.
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Animal Farm has been widely celebrated in the world without paying much attention to the fact that it was the Ukrainian writer Nikolai (Mykola) Kostomarov (1817–1885) who preceded and anticipated Orwell’s vision becoming the first writer who depicted the future Russian revolution in the form of the allegory about the rebellion of animals against their masters. We would never know if Orwell knew Kostomarov’s fable, but we do know that he was perfectly aware of the Holodomor as well as the tragedy of Ukraine, since he wrote the Preface for the Ukrainian Reader in the Ukrainian edition of his celebrated social and political satire.
Neither was his masterpiece 1984 terribly original. Orwell owed much to Yevgeny Zamyatin whose novel We (1923) served as a great source of inspiration not only for his 1984 but for Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as well. Yet whereas there is not a single mention and word of credit to Zamyatin in Huxley’s work, Orwell acknowledged the genius of Zamyatin in the review he wrote for the British edition of We (incidentally, it saw the light of the day after a good deal of delay, compared to the American edition which came out much earlier).
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- Case report
- Open Access
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia with liver cirrhosis: a case report
BMC Gastroenterology volume 21, Article number: 343 (2021)
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is an autosomal dominant hereditary hemorrhagic disease. Its main feature is an abnormal structure of the blood vessel wall. Cirrhosis of the liver is a common chronic progressive disease with one or more causes in which diffuse liver damage occurs after long-term or repeated injury. Liver cirrhosis can cause dilation of gastrointestinal capillaries. Many patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia accompanied by gastrointestinal vascular malformations and liver cirrhosis may be diagnosed only with liver cirrhosis if the clinician does not pay attention to physical examination findings and family history. Moreover, general treatment measures, such as blood transfusion, iron supplementation, and application of hemostatic drugs, are less effective for bleeding in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia than in those with liver cirrhosis alone.
Here, we report the rare case of a 75-year-old Chinese man who was admitted to the hospital with repeated melena and epistaxis. He was diagnosed with unexplained liver cirrhosis, which was later confirmed as hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Subsequently, we implemented the treatment intervention of oral thalidomide combined with gastrointestinal argon plasma coagulation. A follow-up of more than 8 months showed that the treatment effect was excellent.
If patients with liver cirrhosis and gastrointestinal vascular malformations also have a family history of epistaxis, special attention should be paid to targeted physical examination results, and the possibility of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia should be considered. Moreover, for patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and both gastrointestinal bleeding caused by gastrointestinal capillaries and repeated epistaxis, when other general treatment measures are ineffective, thalidomide combined with gastrointestinal argon plasma coagulation may be an effective intervention.
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant hereditary hemorrhagic disease characterized by skin and/or mucosal telangiectasia and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), with a global prevalence of at least 1/5000 . The occurrence of HHT is closely related to gene mutations; of those with a pathogenic mutation, 61% have ENG mutations, 37% have ACVRL1 mutations, and 2% have MADH4 mutations . HHT can occur in childhood, and bleeding symptoms gradually increase with age.
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key mediator in the early stages of angiogenesis and contributes to the formation of primitive endothelial blood vessels. Studies have shown that HHT is an angiogenic disease, and the overexpression of VEGF is related to its occurrence . The deformed blood vessels are thin and fragile, lack smooth muscle cells, rupture easily, and often cause repeated and refractory bleeding from the involved blood vessels , with nose bleeding being the most common manifestation. Telangiectasias can occur in the gastrointestinal tract, liver, lungs, fundus of the eyes, brain, and other organs, which can cause hemorrhages in the corresponding part. In severe cases, cerebral hemorrhage can occur . Current international guidelines for HHT recommend annual measurement of hemoglobin and serum iron levels beginning when the patient is 35 years of age and suggest that endoscopic evaluation should be performed in the case of anemia that is disproportionate to the amount of epistaxis .
Currently, the diagnosis of HHT is based on mutant gene detection and the clinical diagnostic criteria established by the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International HHT Fund in 2000 : first, epistaxis, or spontaneous, recurrent nose bleeds; second, telangiectasias, including multiple telangiectasias in the lips, oral cavity, fingers, and nose; third, visceral lesions, including gastrointestinal telangiectasia (with or without bleeding), pulmonary AVM, hepatic AVM, cerebral AVM, and spinal AVM; fourth, family history, including a first-degree relative with HHT according to these criteria. Meeting three or more of the above four items is the diagnosis of the disease, having two of the above items is suspicious, and having less than two items can rule out HHT.
A 75-year-old man who had experienced melena and anemia for more than 20 years was admitted to the Gastroenterology Department of our hospital. Physical examination showed that the patient had mild spleen enlargement, and mild edema of both lower limbs. Ultrasonography revealed cirrhosis, mild spleen enlargement and a small amount of ascites and ruled out Budd-Chiari syndrome. The patient had no long-term history of heavy alcohol consumption. He had no history of hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, or hepatitis. No abnormalities were observed in autoimmune liver disease-related indicators. The patient was admitted to the hospital with a hemoglobin level of 41 g/L, mean corpuscular volume of 69.6 fl, and ferritin concentration of 10.00 ng/mL (normal range 13–150 ng/mL), low albumin level (32 g/L), and slightly elevated liver transaminase (ALT 60U/L). There were no esophageal/gastric varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy under gastroscopy. Ordinary endoscopy and capsule endoscopy revealed multiple telangiectasias in the stomach, duodenum, small intestine, and colon, with a predominance in the fundus of the stomach, the body of the stomach, the duodenum, and the proximal jejunum, totaling approximately 30 (Fig. 1). Cirrhosis of the liver can cause gastrointestinal vascular malformations, and he was diagnosed with unexplained liver cirrhosis. The patient was treated with hemostasis, blood transfusion, iron supplementation, liver protection, and other treatments after admission, but after repeated blood tests, his hemoglobin levels did not increase significantly. During hospitalization, the patient had recurrent melena and nosebleeds and said that he had experienced nosebleeds repeatedly since childhood. Several close relatives in the family also had epistaxis similar to that of the patient (Fig. 2). On physical examination, the patient’s nose, cheeks, tongue tip mucosa, and hands had multiple telangiectasias (Fig. 3). The patient refused to be tested for mutations, but according to the criteria of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International HHT Fund in 2000 , the diagnosis of HHT in this patient was clear. In this case, the condition affected the entire intestinal tract; thus, it was classified as Moore type III , which is relatively rare.
General treatment measures, such as blood transfusion and hemostasis, are ineffective in HHT. During hospitalization, the patient was administered oral thalidomide 50 mg twice a day, and argon plasma coagulation (APC) under double-balloon endoscopy was performed at the same time (Fig. 4). Eight months after being discharged from the hospital, the patient was taking oral thalidomide 50 mg twice a day as a maintenance dose, with no drug-related side effects. The patient’s fatigue symptoms were significantly reduced compared with before treatment, and a recheck of his hemoglobin showed that it was significantly higher than it was before treatment. He underwent regular review after discharge. At the latest review, the patient's weight increased by 3 kg compared to before the first admission. No abnormal liver function and no ascites occurred more than 8 months after discharge. Additionally, the patient had no more melena, nose bleeding, or bleeding from other organs. The patient is still being followed up.
Discussion and conclusions
In our case, the elderly man met at least three diagnostic criteria: (1) spontaneous, recurrent nose bleeds, (2) multiple telangiectasias of the skin and mucous membranes, and (3) gastrointestinal telangiectasia. Thus, the patient clearly had HHT. Moreover, he had a family history of epistaxis and was the first patient in his family to be diagnosed with HHT. The diagnosis of this patient may provide guidance for the treatment of nose bleeds in other members of his family.
APC has been widely used in the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding and vascular malformations and can be used in AVMs related to HHT. Studies have found that thalidomide is involved in reducing local concentrations of VEGF in malformed blood vessels [9, 10] and is known for its ability to inhibit the production of abnormal blood vessels, stimulate parietal cell coverage, repair vascular wall defects, and stimulate vessel maturation . Some randomized controlled trials have verified that thalidomide is an effective and relatively safe treatment for patients with refractory bleeding from gastrointestinal vascular malformations .
Teratogenicity is the most serious side effect of thalidomide , which is absolutely contraindicated in women who are or could become pregnant. Moreover, evaluation of prothrombotic conditions should be considered before treatment with thalidomide is started. Patients at high risk of thromboembolic events should be excluded from this treatment . The most commonly reported adverse effects of thalidomide are peripheral neuropathy, drowsiness, and dizziness . The symptoms can be improved after symptomatic treatment.
For patients with liver cirrhosis and gastrointestinal vascular malformations, physicians should also focus on other factors in addition to the history of liver cirrhosis. In particular, when a patient has a clear family history of epistaxis or severe anemia that cannot be explained by simple nose bleeds, physicians should pay close attention to targeted physical examination results and family history information and consider the possibility of HHT as a diagnosis. Intestinal and hepatic involvement can negatively affect the progression of the disease; therefore, we believe that in the near future, it will be important to screen all patients with HHT for gastrointestinal manifestations, especially those with severe anemia that is not proportional to the degree of nose bleeds.
Thalidomide has a low toxicity and safe preparation. For patients with HHT and gastrointestinal bleeding caused by gastrointestinal telangiectasia and repeated epistaxis, when other general treatment measures are ineffective, the treatment plan of thalidomide combined with APC may be effective.
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The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current case report are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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Gorilla tracking activity is carried out in only two national parks in south western Uganda namely; Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga National Park which is Uganda’s portion of the Virunga Massif. Gorilla tracking in Uganda is an excellent option for those looking for a remarkable wildlife encounter, there approximately close to 500 mountain gorillas in Uganda and the world’s population is now shooting to 1000 mountain gorillas, the parks named above are the only parks where you can track mountain gorillas in Uganda. Given the diversity of wildlife, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has an excellent opportunity for, hiking, community experiences and birding safaris.
Before going for the tracking activity, all travelers are required to attend a simple briefing about the rules and regulations while with the mountain gorillas. These rules have been put there to ensure the safety of gorillas and trackers in the jungle. These rules and regulation were established by the Uganda Wildlife Authority to protect the endangered mountain gorillas and travelers from the possibility of disease transmission from human to gorilla hence gorilla conservation.
Before departing on your gorilla tracking
- A maximum number of 8 visitors may visit a group of habituated mountain gorillas in a day. This minimizes behavioral disturbance to the gorillas and the risk of their exposure to human-borne diseases.
- Always wash your hands before you head out to the gorillas.
On the way to the gorillas
- Please always keep your voices low. You will also be able to observe the great bird life and other wildlife in the forest.
- DO NOT leave rubbish in the park. Whatever you bring into the forest should be carried back out with you.
- You will be taken to where the guides observed the gorillas the day before. From there you will follow the gorilla’s trail to find them. Look out for the gorilla’s nesting sites along the way.
- When you approach the mountain gorillas, the guides will inform you to get ready.
When with the gorillas
- A 7 meter (21 feet) distance is to be observed at all times from the gorillas. The further back you are, the more relaxed the group will be.
- You must stay in tight groups when you are near the gorillas.
- Keep your voices down at all times. However, it is okay to ask the guide questions.
- Do not smoke, drink or eat when you are near the gorillas. Eating or drinking inevitably will increase the risk of food/drink morsels/droplets falling, which could increase the risk of transmission of diseases.
- Sometimes the gorillas charge. Follow the guides example (crouch down slowly, do not look the gorillas directly in the eyes and wait for the animals to pass). Do not attempt to run away because that will increase the risk.
- Flash photography is not permitted, when taking pictures move slowly and carefully.
- Do not touch the gorillas. They are wild animals.
- The maximum time you can spend with the gorillas is one hour. However, if the gorillas become agitated or nervous, the guide will finish the visit early.
- After the visit keep your voices down until you are 200 meters away from the gorillas.
General health rules
Remember that mountain gorillas are very susceptible to human diseases. The following rules are ways to minimize the risk that your visit might pose to them:
- Respect the limits imposed on the number of visitors allowed with the gorillas each day. This minimizes the risk of disease transmission and stress to the group.
- If you are feeling ill, or you are carrying a contagious disease, volunteer to stay behind. An alternate visit will be arranged for you, or you will be refunded your money.
- If you feel the urge to cough or sneeze when you are near the gorillas, please turn your head away and cover your nose and mouth in order to minimize the spread of bacteria or viruses.
- Always stay 7 meters (21 feet) away from the gorillas. This is to protect them from catching human diseases.
- Do not leave any rubbish (e.g. food wrappers) in the park; foreign items can harbor diseases or other contaminants.
- If you need to go to the toilet while in the forest, please ask the guide to dig you a hole with his panga. Make sure the hole is 30 cm deep and fill it in when you are finished.
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- Put on ear plugs for those who feel uncomfortable with the jungle sounds.
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Kapilvastu is located around 25 kilometers to the southwest of Lumbini. The municipality lies at an altitude of 107 meters at the southern border from India’s Uttar Pradesh. Kapilvastu holds a lot of historical significance as Gautam Buddha spent his childhood.
This district is also rich in an abundant collection of washed away stupas and monasteries. The place is considered a religious destination for the followers of Buddha. In ancient times, Kapilvastu district was the ancient capital of the Shakya clan, ruler “Shuddhodhan” as the father of Buddha. At the age of 29, he left the palace of Kapilvastu for enlightenment. After 12 years he again revisited the palace after getting enlightenment. Kapilvastu is a prime archeological location and for this cause, it is one of the best touristic attractions of Nepal.
Here we had listed the best tourist attractions of Kapilvastu District which you should visit.
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Tilaurakot is the prime destination of Kapilvastu district. Till 29 years Siddhartha spent his life here. Siddhartha was married to a girl named Yashodhara and gave birth to a son named Rahula here. After he was unsatisfied with his life and other mysterious question he left the palace at the age of 29 for enlightenment. The Tilaurakot Palace is listed as a Tentative UNESCO site in 1996.
Tilaurakot was discovered in 1899 by PC Mukherji by tracing the journey of two monks from China. According to archaeologists, it was the civic center from the 9th to 3rd B.C century.
2. Tilaurakot Museum
This old museum has a collection of jewelry, ornaments, and coins which are dated back around 7th century BC. Some of the objects found during the excavation from Tilaurakot Palace are also kept in this museum
Gotihawa is a VDC located southeast of Kapilvastu and 4 kilometers far from there. In modern-day, it’s called Gotihawa but in ancient times it was called Khemavati. According to Theravada Buddhist Gotihawa is the place where Krakuchanda Buddha took birth. You can also see the pillar of Ashoka during his pilgrimage to the place in the 3rd century BC. From the excavation in 1994 people discovered relics from 900 BC. Archaeologists believed that the infrastructure in this site was developed in the sixth century. Gotihawa also preserved ancient things like bricks, pottery, and statues.
Another important Buddhist site, Nigrodharam is also known as Kudan. Nigrodharam is located 2.5 kilometers south of Taulihawa. This is the place where king Suddhodhan Shakya made a big vihara to meet his son the first time after achieved enlightenment. This is also the place where Buddha shares his discourse with his followers including his wife and son. Excavation is also going and they are finding the antique things from 8th century BC.
Araurakot is the birthplace of Kanakamuni Buddha which is located 1.4 km east of Niglihawa and 10 km northeast of Taulihawa. Araurakot is the place where Kanakamuni Buddha lived, grew up, and married. You can see ancient remains of moat and bricks fortifications here.
In ancient times Niglalihawa is also recognized as Sobhavati. According to Theravada Buddhist, Konagamana Buddha was born here in Niglalihawa. The biography of Konagamana Buddha was mentioned in chapter 23 of Buddhavamsa. Niglalihawa is located about 7 kilometers northeast of Taulihawa. Ashoka visited this place at 249 B.C and erected a pillar with an inscription which you can still see now.
7. Jagadishpur Lake
Besides archaeological sites, you will also discover a lake in Kapilvastu Municipality, Jagadishpur. This lake is located 11 kilometers north of Tailihawa. Jagadishpur Lake is spread over 157 hectares and you can see different species of birds here. This lake is the host of migrating birds from different countries like China, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. This lake provides shelter to about 22,000 birds. The birds start to migrate here in winter and stay here until February. Some common birds include Gadwall, Northern pintail, Ferruginous deck, Northern shoveler, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Pochard, and Cotton Pygmy Goose.
8. Buddhist Circuit Tour
Buddhist Circuit is the pilgrimage trip following the paths of Buddha covering major historical sites. This tour helps us to know his birthplace to where he meditates and where he attained enlightenment. There are about 62 archaeological sites spread around. Buddhist Circuit Tour passes through Tilaurakot, Kudan, Gothihawa, Niglihawa, Sagarhawa, Aurorakot, Devadaha, and Ramagrama.
It is believed that Queen Mayadevi took bath before the birth of Siddhartha Gautam. It was also this pond where Siddhartha Gautam took his first bath.
According to archaeologists, this was the capital of Kapilvastu in the past and here Siddhartha Gautam spent 29 years. Tilaurakot lies about 27 km west of Lumbini.
Bodhgaya is located in Bihar of India where Siddhartha Gautam found enlightenment where the bodhi tree. After the continuous meditation, he got enlightenment and he became Lord Buddha. Some major visiting spots for pilgrimage are the Bodhi tree, Animeshlochana Chaitya, Ratnachankramana, Ajapala Nigrodha Tree, Rajyatna Tree, and Muchhalinda Pond.
Kudan is located 4.5 kilometers far from the south of Tilaurakot. This is the place where Buddha and King Suddhodhan met hours and r the first time after enlightenment. Kudan is the place where the Kasaya (yellow robe worn by monks) was presented to Lord Buddha.
Sarnath is the place where he started to give the discourse to the followers after enlightenment. This place is 13 km north-east from the Varanasi. This was the place where he established his first disciples to promote new doctrine. The Dhaka Stupa at Sarnath was erected by Asoka as it is a famous lion capital pillar.
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Trauma knows no color, ethnicity, religion, economic status. Trauma does not discriminate. Bad things (trauma) happen to all people and varying degrees and frequencies and our biological response to trauma, the activation of the stress response system, is the same across color, gender and class. Still, people from communities of color endure trauma at higher rates and often lack the resources, supports and access to support healing and recovery. Additionally, communities of color have endured historical trauma in regards to the forced relocation, colonization, enslavement, exploitation, degradation and oppression, to include our indigenous peoples. Further, people of color must continually endure maneuvering racist ideology both systemically and individually as well as continuous microaggressions, which create a consistent activation of the stress response system.
The Institute for American Indian Education and All Faiths Children’s Advocacy Center will host a professional development session for Indigenous communities across the state of New Mexico on May 4th, 2022 and May 10th, 2022 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM (MT). A two-part virtual training sessions will focus on the overview of the impact of childhood trauma on brain development and function. School staff, counselors, and others will learn how to recognize and respond to children affected by trauma. Learn more about:
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The value proposition for lidar is increasingly becoming more varied as lidar becomes lighter, smaller, more cost effective, and easier to use. The democratization of lidar means that more people than ever are exploring how it can be used to realize efficiencies in their businesses. In this webinar we will explore how industry is using lidar and how to improve drone lidar data collection from start to finish to help you build a smooth end-to-end process.
Dan Hubert is a 25-year veteran of the drone and geospatial intelligence industry. He has a BS in EE from Pennsylvania State University and MS in Business from University of San Diego. He started as a tactical air imagery analyst managing a theater-level geo intelligence center. As a Naval Aviation TOP GUN Tactical Instructor, he authored and taught hundreds of tactical procedures for the latest sensors, aircraft, and emerging military drones. He took command of several special forces UAV combat units and was awarded the Joint Commendation Metal for operational innovations in co-use airspace and multi-sensor intelligence products. As General Atomics Program Manager, Dan oversaw MQ-9 Reaper special payload integration and hyperspectral, lidar, ISAR sensor exploitation training development. Today he owns MODUS, which provides enterprise level sUAS mapping solutions and services to government, education, and industry.
Director of American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Unmanned Autonomous System (UAS) Division. His division work on developing cutting edge drone mapping standards and building high accuracy mapping drone best practice drone training.
Today Dan is a world renown expert known for drone lidar and imagery mapping and consults with government and enterprise entities on remote sensing digital supply chains and drone program management development.
Ulrich Amberg is the CEO of SwissDrones, a globally expanding aviation company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and operation of long-range unmanned helicopter systems for commercial and public safety applications. He is an engineer by background and has more than 20 years of experience in corporate roles and professional services – thereof 8 years as a partner of a leading global consulting firm, where he built up and headed a consulting unit with 150 professionals. He combines his solid knowledge in technology with a practical understanding of strategy, governance, regulatory compliance and business development from his various roles and numerous projects with global corporates across industries. Aside of his consulting career, Ulrich co-founded multiple start-up companies who he supported as a board member for many years. He is a passionate people leader and team player and he loves to analyze and solve complex problems. Ulrich holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, an executive master’s degree in business administration and he graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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Registration open for 2021 STEM Expo exhibitors
STEM Expo, the nation’s largest youth STEM outreach and promotion event organized by Youth Science Canada, returns in 2021, virtually, May 19 to 21, as part of Canada-Wide Science Fair. Expected to draw more than 30,000 visitors, STEM Expo features exhibitors that wish to connect with curious and determined youth who have taken on a STEM project or are interested in learning about STEM-related topics, as well as families, students, and members of the education community across Canada. Companies wishing to exhibit on the virtual ‘show floor’, can do so as of today at events.eply.com/STEMExpo2021.
“We’re no longer restricted to capacity issues,” says Reni Barlow, executive director for Youth Science Canada. “In 2020, we saw that virtual fairs, conferences and other web-based programs can provide numerous advantages. We intend to use these to the benefit of all Canadians interested in STEM, coast to coast to coast. STEM Expo is the perfect opportunity for organizations both public and private, as well as government agencies and departments, to connect in an effective and inclusive way with the country’s students, teachers and anyone interested or working in STEM, education or any related industries.”
Exhibitors already booked include Cenovus Energy, Intact Financial Corporation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Carleton University, Canadian Museum of Nature and many other STEM-related associations and organizations. STEM Expo will be hosted on engineering.com‘s ProjectBoard platform.
Beyond real-life STEM showcases, leading-edge research and career opportunities, visitors can expect other activities including a scavenger hunt, escape room and daily prizes.
“Aside from being fun, exhibitors will be able to customize their booth and deliver a fun and personalized activity for visitors,” says Liette Philippe, STEM Expo manager at Youth Science Canada. “This is a great opportunity for exhibitors to gain national exposure to students and teachers from across Canada in an engaging, relatively low-cost platform.”
In 2019, as part of Canada-Wide Science Fair in Fredericton, STEM Expo welcomed more than 9,000 in-person visitors and featured more than 70 exhibitors. STEM Expo is free for all virtual visitors.
Deadline for exhibitor registration is April 15.
For additional inquires about exhibiting at CWSF 2021 STEM Expo please contact Liette Philippe, STEM Expo manager at [email protected] or 866-341-0040 x233.
During the virtual STEM EXPO, exhibits will feature STEM-related companies, post-secondary institutions, agencies, organizations and museums will be available to visitors at the exhibitor booth at the STEM Expo in the virtual lobby at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
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What is Hispaania Maja?
Is so much more than just a language school. We don’t only teach Spanish, but take you to a journey to unveil a whole world of Spanish culture, enabling you to experience the language in a completely new way. Over the years, we have built our centre for Spanish language and culture, turning it into a place so rich in diversity as the Spanish language itself. Hispaania Maja is a language school for adults and children, a bookstore, a private teacher, an arranger of intensive courses in Spain and Latin America, a direct importer of study materials, a teacher trainer, a Spanish food and wine promoter, a virtual teacher on your computer screen or just a place to meet friendly faces. Even this list does not cover everything, but one thing is for sure – our doors are always open to every Spanish language and culture enthusiast.
Three classrooms: one on the ground floor for up to ten students, a spacious attic classroom for up to 12 students and a porch full of light to give private lessons for up to five students. We also house the biggest bookshop in Estonia dedicated to Spanish language and culture, offering study books, grammar books, dictionaries, literature and cookbooks at the best prices. Our new centre, a 18th century manor house with a spacious veranda and even a fully equipped professional kitchen, is the perfect place to celebrate events and short courses. And as it is extremely important for us to bring Northern and Spanish cultures closer together, we also offer a wide range of translated literature: Spanish literature in Estonian; and Estonian, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish literature in Spanish.
The best location:
Hispaania Maja is situated in the 18th century Sprinckthal manor house in the heart of Tondi neighbourhood, being within easy reach from the city centre, but also the surrounding neighbourhoods. We are conveniently connected to public transport – it only takes 7 minutes from Tallinn’s train station (Balti jaam) to get here, and there are buses and trams to the city centre every other minute. Tondi train and tram stops are just a stone throw’s away, the closest bus stops are Tondi, Västriku and Nõmme tee. For car drivers, there are lots of parking spaces in our backyard and the surrounding streets – for free! But there’s even more: our activities reach far beyond our centre in Tondi, because we also arrange intensive language courses in Spain and Latin America and bring Spanish courses to your workplace.
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- Spanish is our teacher’s mother tongue. The teachers are experienced, ingenious and enthusiastic
- Hispaania Maja was the first centre in Estonia to offer Spanish courses based on the communicative language teaching approach
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By the end of this section, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast anatomy and physiology, including their specializations and methods of study
- Discuss the fundamental relationship between anatomy and physiology
Human anatomy is the scientific study of the body’s structures. Some of these structures are very small and can only be observed and analyzed with the assistance of a microscope. Other larger structures can readily be seen, manipulated, measured, and weighed. The word “anatomy” comes from a Greek root that means “to cut apart.” Human anatomy was first studied by observing the exterior of the body and observing the wounds of soldiers and other injuries. Later, physicians were allowed to dissect bodies of the dead to augment their knowledge. When a body is dissected, its structures are cut apart in order to observe their physical attributes and their relationships to one another. Dissection is still used in medical schools, anatomy courses, and in pathology labs. In order to observe structures in living people, however, a number of imaging techniques have been developed. These techniques allow clinicians to visualize structures inside the living body such as a cancerous tumor or a fractured bone.
Like most scientific disciplines, anatomy has areas of specialization. Gross anatomy is the study of the larger structures of the body, those visible without the aid of magnification (Figure 1.2 a). Macro- means “large,” thus, gross anatomy is also referred to as macroscopic anatomy. In contrast, micro- means “small,” and microscopic anatomy is the study of structures that can be observed only with the use of a microscope or other magnification devices (Figure 1.2 b). Microscopic anatomy includes cytology, the study of cells and histology, the study of tissues. As the technology of microscopes has advanced, anatomists have been able to observe smaller and smaller structures of the body, from slices of large structures like the heart, to the three-dimensional structures of large molecules in the body.
Anatomists take two general approaches to the study of the body’s structures: regional and systemic. Regional anatomy is the study of the interrelationships of all of the structures in a specific body region, such as the abdomen. Studying regional anatomy helps us appreciate the interrelationships of body structures, such as how muscles, nerves, blood vessels, and other structures work together to serve a particular body region. In contrast, systemic anatomy is the study of the structures that make up a discrete body system—that is, a group of structures that work together to perform a unique body function. For example, a systemic anatomical study of the muscular system would consider all of the skeletal muscles of the body.
Whereas anatomy is about structure, physiology is about function. Human physiology is the scientific study of the chemistry and physics of the structures of the body and the ways in which they work together to support the functions of life. Much of the study of physiology centers on the body’s tendency toward homeostasis. Homeostasis is the state of steady internal conditions maintained by living things. The study of physiology certainly includes observation, both with the naked eye and with microscopes, as well as manipulations and measurements. However, current advances in physiology usually depend on carefully designed laboratory experiments that reveal the functions of the many structures and chemical compounds that make up the human body.
Like anatomists, physiologists typically specialize in a particular branch of physiology. For example, neurophysiology is the study of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves and how these work together to perform functions as complex and diverse as vision, movement, and thinking. Physiologists may work from the organ level (exploring, for example, what different parts of the brain do) to the molecular level (such as exploring how an electrochemical signal travels along nerves).
Form is closely related to function in all living things. For example, the thin flap of your eyelid can snap down to clear away dust particles and almost instantaneously slide back up to allow you to see again. At the microscopic level, the arrangement and function of the nerves and muscles that serve the eyelid allow for its quick action and retreat. At a smaller level of analysis, the function of these nerves and muscles likewise relies on the interactions of specific molecules and ions. Even the three-dimensional structure of certain molecules is essential to their function.
Your study of anatomy and physiology will make more sense if you continually relate the form of the structures you are studying to their function. In fact, it can be somewhat frustrating to attempt to study anatomy without an understanding of the physiology that a body structure supports. Imagine, for example, trying to appreciate the unique arrangement of the bones of the human hand if you had no conception of the function of the hand. Fortunately, your understanding of how the human hand manipulates tools—from pens to cell phones—helps you appreciate the unique alignment of the thumb in opposition to the four fingers, making your hand a structure that allows you to pinch and grasp objects and type text messages. | <urn:uuid:a30c075e-879d-40c8-bf40-cd9babdb9dc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openstax.org/books/anatomy-and-physiology/pages/1-1-overview-of-anatomy-and-physiology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946668 | 1,031 | 3.875 | 4 |
Since the start of the financial crisis new trade restrictions have affected over 2% of world trade, according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In the past six months some of the big economies in the G20 have reduced import tariffs. But the risk of protectionism has increased with the worsening economic climate, which has led the WTO to revise its forecast for world-trade growth in 2011 from 6.5% to 5.8%. Although Brazil has initiated fewer anti-dumping investigations than it did last year, by one measure it is the least open to trade among the G20 economies: its exports and imports of goods add up to less than 20% of its GDP. The equivalent share for another giant economy, America, is not much bigger.
This article appeared in the Economic & financial indicators section of the print edition under the headline "Trade"
Economic & financial indicators October 29th 2011
From the October 29th 2011 edition
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here are many things you can do to be successful in any career path you choose, especially some of the most daunting ones. Starting a new business, picking up solo projects or even revamping existing business operations can be a formidable task for anyone to take on. However, these ten fool-proof tips will give you the momentum you need to succeed.
This article looks into some critical key factors to consider when building your business or freelance career:
Often, people jump into a business built around a product or service they think will be successful, rather than one that is already proven to have a market. For example, instead of designing new sports shoes with the latest and greatest design, you’d be better off focusing on a shoe category, and then more specifically on a niche of high performance, in-demand sports shoes. In short, it’s much better to have a small slice of a large category than a large slice of no market at all.
The same rule applies to freelancers who are competing in a big pool of independent writers, graphic designers, web developers and more. Ask yourself how could you be different from other contractors? Are you a better content creator? A better developer? Do you provide clients with more services for a more affordable price? Do you give clients more creative options than most freelancers? At the end of the day, it is important to recognize the value of your services and find ways to optimize that potential.
Cash is the lifeline and blood of your business, so you’ll need to find ways to grab that flow immediately. One way is to ask for deposits on work upfront, with balances due on delivery. In retail, offer products on layaway, especially for specialty items. You can also develop continuity programs where customers pay an upfront monthly fee to ensure the delivery or availability of items they will buy on a repeated basis.
Never pay retail. Instead, look for gently-used, preloved items to furnish your office or space. Pay vendors upfront to give leverage for negotiating better prices. This is also important to bear in mind if you live in economic environments where premium credit or discounted payment plans are accessible to favourable customers.
Expenses and revenues are concepts you learn early in business education. While it is good to be optimistic about the success of your business, it is also not a bad idea to be prepared for the opposite. It is common for many business start-ups to spend more than anticipated and to earn less than expected.
The same applies to freelancers. Job security is lower for contract workers than those working in full-time permanent positions, as clients can easily let go of services provided by a freelancer after the term is complete.
Overestimating your expenses and underestimating your revenues is a good mentality to have as an independent business owner or contractor. Adapting to this conservative way of thinking, however, does not automatically mean you will easily accept unfavourable outcomes. Instead, it means that you are providing yourself with information you can work with. You can gauge the levels of effort you’ll put into your business to bring results day after day. In the end, you are better prepared to face positive or negative outcomes than you were without this mentality.
A business is not a business without sales. But a high sales volume does not happen without marketing. Whether it is social media, digital marketing, business collaborations and more, be sure you have a strategy ready to go.
If you have a business concept in mind but don’t know where to start, review the 4 Ps of Marketing before delving deeper into your business model and strategy. Then, create a marketing and sales funnel system that can be worked, tested, measured and used by anyone in the company.
If online research does not make you confident enough to create effective business models and strategies, there are various short business and marketing programs that can better guide you in the right direction. If your business is exclusively online, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is another marketing tool you should be thinking about.
This would be the case for freelancers whom businesses primarily find online. Creating search engine optimized websites and content while having a strong social media presence are the marketing fundamentals you need to get valuable leads that will potentially turn into sales or long-term business partnerships.
Find ways to re-engage past buyers, website leads and social media followers to optimize your profits. Referral programs that offer benefits to current customers for referring you to other businesses is also a great way to expand your client network.
But remember, quality will always beat quantity. You may work with many clients and customers, but if you cannot prove that you are the best person to work with or business to buy from, you can just as easily lose them.
You can't change what you don't know, so make sure to test, measure and track all results. In other words, think like a doctor. Get baseline statistical data before identifying symptoms or recommending corrective courses of action. Why throw money away on an ad campaign that costs thousands of dollars, but doesn't bring any people through the door? Measure, test and track in order to get those leads!
You will never know everything as everything changes with time, whether that is technology, user behaviour, marketing and sales strategies. Constant innovation is necessary as the risk of going out of business increases without this adaptive mentality. You need to understand that learning always comes before "earning". Therefore, be committed to learning as much as possible. Identify key areas of growth (e.g. sales, marketing, leads) and study key concepts yourself, or hire an expert and learn as much as you can from that person. Keep learning and never settle because your business depends on it.
When you discount items or labour, you are taking money directly out of your pocket or business and directly from your profits. Instead, create added value. Whatever the industry is, try to keep your price points and increase your margins with extra products, features or services that come at low or no additional costs. This can also give you an added advantage against your competitors.
Talk to someone who is objective, and you can rely on for “real” business advice – someone who will hold you accountable and help you get the results you’re striving for. Often, we think we have all the answers, however, this is not the case when building a business. Another set of eyes and someone who is objective can work wonders for your business.
So, where do you go from here? Like we said, continue learning. There are many aspects you need to look into to become a successful business in the world of digital marketing. If you are a freelancer, there are other things you can do to be a successful contractor.
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19/08/2019 Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 815, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/5-8 S.
The well was drilled about 14 kilometres south of the Edvard Grieg field in the central part of the North Sea, 285 kilometres west of Stavanger.
The primary exploration target for well 16/5-8 S was to prove petroleum in fractured and weathered granitic basement rock and to verify pressure communication with the 16/1-12 (Rolvsnes) oil discovery.
The well encountered a potential oil column of about 20 metres in fractured, weathered basement rock, with poor reservoir quality. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 0.2 and 1.6 million Sm3 recoverable oil. Pressure data shows that the discovery is not in pressure communication with the 16/1-12 (Rolvsnes) oil discovery.
The licensees’ assessment is that there is an additional upside potential in the licence area, and they will consider further delineation of the discovery after implementing the planned long-term test of the 16/1-12 (Rolvsnes) oil discovery.
The well was not formation-tested, but extensive volumes of data have been collected and samples have been taken.
The well was drilled to a respective measured and vertical depth of 2443 metres and 2068 metres below the sea surface, and it was terminated in granitic basement rock.
This is the first exploration well in production licence 815. The licence was awarded in APA 2015. Water depth at the site is 104 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned.
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The story about the loss of indigeneity of the Kashmiri pandits is known to all. Little do we know that there are several other communities in India apart from the Kashmiri pandits who have lost their roots, home and identity in the fight and struggle for independence. The Sylhetis are one of such communities that belonged to Bengal, but their belonging fell as a controversy eventually during and after freedom fighting.
Also, we all know about the partition of Bengal in 1905. But the one that happened in 1874 was an unreported one. That was the partition of Bengal from Sylhet. Sylhet produced one of the best qualities of tea. Business through Bengal took longer time because of the distance and Shillong was closer to Sylhet comparatively. Hence, the Britishers appended Sylhet to Assam which made it easy for the Britishers to capture over this area through Assam. It was claimed by the Britishers that this decisionwas due to administrative purposes. Rather, it proved to be strongly and evidently economic. Neither Assam nor Sylhet supported this decision, hence it resulted in creating an immense disturbance in the socio, cultural and psychological factors. It was quite a blow for the Sylhetis because this was the first time the experienced being pulled out from the roots.
There were referendums in the year 1924, 1926, 1930 and 1940. In 1924, most Hindus and Muslims voted for reunification with Bengal. The result of the voting was overlooked and forcibly discarded by the Britishers. The same happened in the other following referendums until 1940.
In the time-being, Muslim league emerged and escalated. Jinnah had Assam in his plan and since his plan was all the time territorial. The partition, is looked at as a conflict between Bengalis and the Assamese, which in reality is quite the opposite. The Assamese also were in the apprehension and agonythat Assam might go to Bangladesh (Pakistan back then). Assam was predominantly a non-Muslim province; the district of Sylhet is Muslim. There had been a demand again pleading to merge Sylhet with Bengal in the event of partition of Bengal. The district of Sylhet consisted of 36% of Muslims and 60% of Hindus but there was no conflict between the Hindus and the Muslims.
Eventually, the pressure from the Muslim league intensified in Assam. Telegrams regarding the Sylhet issues were sent to the Chancellor by Liaquat Ali Khan and Jinnah. Their active attention on Assam was because of their intent to capture this region. The final referendum took place on July 6th, 1947. Knowing the weather conditions in Assam in the month of July, many people couldn’t cast their vote. Therefore, the result was reported as 56.56% of the Sylhetis voted for joining Sylhet with East Bengal in Pakistan, and 43.44% voted against. It was after the 1947 referendum that Nehru came into the picture after receiving many queries and complaints. After the involvement of the Indian leaders, people demanded for a second referendum, but it was disapproved.
Finally, when the partition happened the controversial status of Sylhet turned more grave. In order to make Assam more homogenous and stronger, the leaders of Assam believed that removing Sylhet would be appropriate as Assam was a Hindu majority region. Violence wasn’t witness right after the referendum. As and when Bangladesh formed, there were Muslim forces who tried to control and change the outlook of the localsand that is when violence started becoming prevalent in the district.
In 1971, when Bangladesh was formed, it was the biggest turning point for the Sylhetis. Acceptance from Bengal, Assam or NE were rejected and overruled. Yet, theSylhetis built up dreams and expectations of regaining their roots someday but in the bargain lost everything they had. Affluent families came to the roads having lost their properties and roots in Bangladesh and home in Bengal.
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Autodesk Revit is a type of BIM software; a tool that is for the architectural design professions, specifically architects, structural engineers, and building systems engineers (MEP- mechanical, electrical, plumbing). This is demonstrated via the three types of Revit: Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, and Revit MEP.
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Biologicals Assessor (Grade 7)
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and is responsible for ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of veterinary medicines in the UK.
There is a vacancy for a Grade 7 Biologicals Assessor in our Biologicals Team based in Addlestone, Surrey.
This exciting and interesting job put you at the heart of the important work of the VMD’s Biologicals Team and your primary role will be to authorise biological/immunological veterinary medicinal products in the UK. You will be responsible for the scientific evaluation of data packages against UK requirements for quality, safety and efficacy and making recommendations on the suitability of the product for use in animals. Your work will play a major role in availability and assuring quality, safety and efficacy of these products in the UK. You will also play an influential role in shaping the regulation and scientific assessment of novel products in the veterinary medicines’ arena.
You must have a higher degree obtained by research in a relevant biological scientific discipline together with the experience outlined in our online prospectus. You will have practical experience in the development and/or manufacturing processes of biological/immunological medicinal products and postgraduate experience which has given you a thorough working knowledge of biological medicinal product development and/or manufacturing processes, for example in the pharmaceutical industry.
You must make your application via the Civil Service Jobs website. To obtain the direct link to this, please contact VMD Business Support Team (bst [at] vmd [dot] gov [dot] uk).
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Equipped with the right applications, a computer can be of great help in virtually any domain of activity. When it comes to designing and precision, no other tool is as accurate as a computer. Moreover, specialized applications such as AutoCAD give you the possibility to design nearly anything ranging from art, to complex mechanical parts or even buildings.
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After a decent amount of time spent installing the application on your system, you are ready to fire it up. Thanks to the office suite like interface, all of its features are cleverly organized in categories. At a first look, it looks easy enough to use, but the abundance of features it comes equipped with leaves room for second thoughts.
Create 2D and 3D objects
You can make use of basic geometrical shapes to define your objects, as well as draw custom ones. Needless to say that you can take advantage of a multitude of tools that aim to enhance precision. A grid can be enabled so that you can easily snap elements, as well as adding anchor points to fully customize shapes.
With a little imagination and patience on your behalf, nearly anything can be achieved. Available tools allow you to create 3D objects from scratch and have them fully enhanced with high-quality textures. A powerful navigation pane is put at your disposal so that you can carefully position the camera to get a clearer view of the area of interest.
Various export possibilities
Similar to a modern web browser, each project is displayed in its own tab. This comes in handy, especially for comparison views. Moreover, layouts and layers also play important roles, as it makes objects handling a little easier.
Sine the application is not the easiest to carry around, requiring a slightly sophisticated machine to properly run, there are several export options put at your disposal so that the projects itself can be moved around.
Aside from the application specific format, you can save as an image file of multiple types, PDF, FBX and a few more. Additionally, it can be sent via email, directly printed out on a sheet of paper, or even sent to a 3D printing service, if available.
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All in all, AutoCAD remains one of the top applications used by professionals to achieve great precision with projects of nearly any type. It encourages usage with incredible offers for student licenses so you get acquainted with its abundance of features early on. A lot can be said about what it can and can't do, but the true surprise lies in discovering it step-by-step.
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AutoCAD Activation Code is a commercial CAD and drafting software application. Developed and marketed by Autodesk, AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers. Before AutoCAD was introduced, most commercial CAD programs ran on mainframe computers or minicomputers, with each CAD operator (user) working at a separate graphics terminal.
AutoCAD is also available as mobile and web apps. In September 2011, Autodesk made AutoCAD compatible with Apple’s iOS mobile devices, and announced AutoCAD LT for Windows tablets and Windows Phone 7 and 8 apps. Mobile apps are available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android-based devices. In addition, AutoCAD’s native Web App and AutoCAD Architecture Web App web apps now use WebGL for cross-platform rendering and mobile responsive CSS3 WebKit widgets for controls.
AutoCAD was developed by Autodesk from 1981 to 1993. After completing the first version of AutoCAD in 1981, the first release in December 1982 was an internal development project to convince Autodesk’s own staff to use the new software.
The 1981 release was an attempt to digitize the shop drawing system at Autodesk’s San Rafael, California headquarters. In 1982, Autodesk introduced the design software to the public in California, as the first CAD software designed for use on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers. In March 1984, Autodesk shipped the first production version of AutoCAD in California.
In January 1987, Autodesk brought CAD to the global market, launching AutoCAD in the UK, France, Germany and other European countries. The first version of AutoCAD to become a mass-market product was AutoCAD 1986 v1.1, released on 3 May 1986 in the USA and on 4 September 1986 in the UK.
In February 1988, AutoCAD for Windows became available as a stand-alone version. The following month, AutoCAD for Windows became available for MS-DOS and OS/2. In March 1989, AutoCAD for OS/2 was released for the IBM PC.
In 1990, Microsoft acquired Autodesk for $205 million. As part of this acquisition, Autodesk formed a new CAD division within the company. In February 1991, Autodesk shipped a product (AutoCAD Basic) designed for Windows 9x
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On Windows, AutoCAD Free Download can run Microsoft Windows applications written in Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual PYTHON, and Visual PERL. AutoCAD Full Crack can also run a number of Visual Studio.NET command-line and scripting languages, such as F#, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Visual J# Script, Visual C# Script, Visual PYTHON Script, and Visual PERL Script.
AutoCAD can also run Windows applications written in C++, C#, C/C++ COM, C++ Builder, and Visual C++. The C++ support is highly integrated with the architectural modeling applications. C++ is used to implement the application programming interfaces (APIs) required by AutoCAD (e.g. CreateWizard) and by AutoCAD LT (e.g. dynamic drawing commands). There is also a C++ interface to VBA in the AutoCAD environment.
In the next section, a discussion of these features will be given.
VBA, which stands for Visual Basic for Applications, is a Microsoft Visual Basic dialect that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform. AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT can run Microsoft Windows applications written in Visual Basic.
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT can also run C# applications, written with Visual Studio. The C# support in AutoCAD is called ObjectARX.
Other programming languages
AutoCAD can also run applications written in the.NET Framework. In this case, the language is the.NET Framework and the programming language is C#. The C# support in AutoCAD is called ObjectARX.
AutoCAD can also run applications written in Java, with the Java support built into the design environment.
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT can also run applications written in AppleScript.
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Navigate to the right folder and press on 3ds to open the rar file.
Click on Autocad-Autocad.exe and a log in screen should appear.
Log in with the same user name and password you used for your 3D print log in.
Create a new sheet and select “Autocad” on the “Load Work” drop-down.
When prompted, press Enter.
Accept the License Agreement.
Go to the left of the application and create a new drawing, name it something like “Desktop.”
Close the new drawing.
Open the new drawing and select “File -> Save As…”
Save the file as “Desktop.dwg.”
Close the drawing.
Navigate to the folder where you saved “Desktop.dwg.”
Right-click on the file and select “Save As..”
Navigate to the folder where your Autocad.exe resides, and then select “Save As..”
Enter “Desktop” and press Enter.
Close the file.
In Autocad, navigate to the folder where your “Desktop.dwg” file resides.
Select the file and then select “File -> Open.”
Right-click on the “Desktop.dwg” file and select “Save As..”
Navigate to the folder where you saved Autocad-Autocad.exe.
Select “Save As..”
Enter “Desktop-Autocad.exe” and press Enter.
Close the file.
Select “File -> Open” on Autocad.
Navigate to the folder where Autocad.exe resides, and then select “Open” and then select the file you just downloaded.
Close the drawing.
It should work for you.
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What’s New in the AutoCAD?
Save templates in 3D by default. In the global toolbar, choose Export and then Mesh. 3D mesh files provide a quick and easy way to create and manipulate 3D models in AutoCAD.
Full synchronization with Google Cloud Platform: When working on a shared Google Doc or spreadsheet, you can continue to create, modify, and edit drawings on your PC, while the changes appear on your mobile device or tablet instantly. And if you have multiple devices, you can access your drawings on any of them from any other device.
Export PDFs: Autodesk has built PDF support into AutoCAD for many years. You can now export PDF files directly from the drawing panel or Open Drawings.pdf. (video: 1:19 min.)
Data objects: New data objects for common elements provide an easy way to create custom forms, tables, notes, drawings, and other artifacts. You can create data objects for drawings, tables, and groups with the new drawing data object creation tool.
Use Zoom and Pan to navigate the 3D model viewport. To see the 3D view, click the 3D Shaded Wireframe button.
To move, pan, and zoom in a 3D viewport, use the “Set View” toolbar button. Select a viewport, and then use the scroll bars to zoom in or out.
Zoom in and out of a 3D viewport with the AutoCAD Viewport Shaded 3D tool window.
And much more
The addition of AutoCAD 2023 provides the following enhancements:
Bones and models for multilayer drawings. A new component called BONES enables you to use bones to organize your multilayer drawings.
ENVI for raster files. ENVI is an established, industry-standard image processing and visualization package for Windows. With its improved interface and integration with AutoCAD, ENVI for raster files is now available as a native raster driver.
Vista-style resizing with AutoCAD for Windows. AutoCAD offers new resizing options that let you scale drawings, which can help you better visualize the drawings and make sure your drawings are properly scaled to the display on which you are working.
Reset and blank command. Drawings with parts can be reset with the Reset tool, and you can also blank a part.
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If you are purchasing a property with a partner, friend, family member or anyone else, your solicitor is bound to ask you whether you intend to own it as joint tenants or tenants in common. A High Court case showed why that is likely to be one of the most important questions you ever have to answer.
The case concerned a wealthy unmarried couple who bought a country house for £1.5 million to serve as their holiday and weekend home. The man paid the entirety of the purchase price and all of the costs associated with the acquisition. The relationship, however, did not long survive the property's purchase.
The transaction was completed in some haste because the vendor was anxious to achieve a speedy sale. All the documentation that accompanied the purchase stated that the property was to be owned by the couple as joint tenants. That meant that they would own it jointly and equally, rather than in two separate parts as tenants in common. It also meant that, if one of them died, his or her share in the property would pass automatically to the survivor.
The man launched proceedings on the basis that the documentation did not reflect the true position. He asserted that it had been their intention from the outset that he would be the property's sole beneficial owner and that she would hold her half of it on trust for him. She asserted, however, that she was both the legal and beneficial owner of her share in the property.
In rejecting his claim, the Court found that the documentation accurately recorded their common understanding at the time of the purchase. Their solicitor had explained to them the difference between joint tenancies and tenancies in common, and there had been no declaration of trust in the man's favour.
The Court declared that they had purchased the property as joint tenants and that nothing had happened in the years since to change that position. It acknowledged that, in one sense, that represented a harsh outcome for the man. However, given their mutual understanding at the relevant time, considerations of fairness were irrelevant to the outcome of the case.
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Political Jurisprudence: International Law of Treaties and Diplomacy in Islam
Among the various topics of Islamic jurisprudence and law, perhaps the sections related to political jurisprudence have more than any other section of jurisprudence, the state of theorizing and the nature of generalization. Theoretical aspects of Islamic international law are more than other topics. Today, the developments after the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the events and consequences of the establishment of the Islamic system in Iran in the regional aspect and the Islamic world, as well as at the international level can be evidence of the need to apply Islamic jurisprudence. Making international relations contractual is one of the most fundamental solutions that Islam emphasizes in legal discussions. The emphasis is to the extent that, from the Qur’an’s point of view, if this principled method fails in international relations, there will be no solution other than armed conflict. The contents of the book are arranged into six chapters. The final part of the book includes an appendix entitled “People of Dhimma” rulings and sources. | <urn:uuid:1a3decb7-4624-4866-8d44-d1ec9d8261ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samt.ac.ir/en/book/4926/political-jurisprudence-international-law-of-treaties-and-diplomacy-in-islam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.922124 | 227 | 2.0625 | 2 |
House Elevation Belmar Beach New Jersey
House Elevation Austin that will help you to know the cause of House Leveling
Thinking of House Leveling? First, you must know all about the House Leveling. House elevation is the technique that lifts up the entire property or building just as it is from the foundation level. The house lifting is done due to the requirement of foundation repair. Depending on the size, extent and the architecture of the property, the house lifting price may vary. You can avail the house leveling if you are facing problems like the sinking of a single house portion or multiple house portions. We, at house elevation Belmar Beach New Jersey, will take care of the problem and correct it. Before this, you need to repair the foundation of the house after lifting up.
The causes of the shrinkage of the foundation or the settling of the floor are the excessive dampening and dirt. Austin area is infamous for its damp and swampy soil. On top of that, it is a flood-prone area. It not only causes the foundation to sink but also develops a crack on the walls and the tiles. We will help you in House elevation Belmar Beach New Jerseyby taking care of the house lifting and repairing the foundation.
The things to concern for
If your house is an old one, then the clay at the foundation will cause expansion. The expansion of the earth is considered harmless and natural phenomenon. But for a prolonged period, it will cause the base to move further and start to loosen. The clay foundation will absorb the water. The water will cause the foundation to shrink. And then when the dry weather comes the soil gets dry. This constant expansion and contraction will cause the ground to loosen. The loosen soil may also cause a crack in the field. Thus the foundation gets settles. The drainage also needs to be controlled. The leakage in the drain and proximity to the house also causes the exterior as well as interior damage. The inferior surface will cause the water to log in the particles of the foundations. The water pipe goes via the slab foundation. The excessive fowler bed in men the watering will also cause the house to shrink. The over saturated water needs to drain back into the graded drainage waterways and the patio. The over-saturated soil will cause the sewers to back up.
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There are a lot of ways that your property can end up sustaining significant water damage. It could be a burst pipe or a leak in your roof that has led to water causing damage to the surfaces of your property and personal property items such as furniture. It could also be a natural disaster such as a stream or river overflowing its banks and flooding your property with standing water. These are just a few of the common scenarios that can lead to water damage at a home or business.
When water damage does occur, you immediately find yourself in a time-sensitive situation. The timer immediately starts to tick once you have had water damage occur. You must take swift action. Quick action will help you to reduce the extent of your losses. The problem is the fact that you are probably not trained in how to handle water damage effectively. This is where the services of trained water damage restoration professionals can come to your rescue. These highly trained and experienced contractors can respond quickly so that the issue is dealt with effectively. Quick action is essential when water damage occurs, and qualified repair professionals are the best contractors to call to handle the situation.
The Problem With Water Damage and Time
The simple and unfortunate fact is that water damage can occur rapidly once surfaces of your property are exposed to water. There are three primary time frames that you need to be aware of. These are:
- The First 1 to 24 Hours
- 48 Hours to 7 Days of Exposure
- Water Damage That Is Left Unattended for More Than One Week
As short a time as a single hour can be enough to cause water damage. If the water is not removed quickly, the damage just continues to accumulate. Furniture can quickly begin to swell and then crack. Your property’s drywall can begin to bulge. All of this can take place within the first 24 hours of water exposure.
Once water damage goes unattended beyond the 48-hour mark and up to the first 7 days, the damage continues to become worse. It is common for mold and mildew to begin to grow across areas of your property. Flooring can start to warp and metal objects can begin to corrode. The risk of biohazard issues also grows during this time.
Once water damage had been left unaddressed for more than a week structural damage can begin to happen to your property and the risk of biohazard contamination grows to a level that can pose serious risks to your health.
All of these points demonstrate why rapid action is so important after water damage has occurred. The best solution is to hire a reliable team of water damage restoration pros that can quickly and effectively address the problem and get your property back to normal.
Key Benefits That Come From Hiring Qualified Water Damage Repair Pros
It is never an enviable position to find one’s self dealing with water damage from flooding or plumbing malfunctions. As has been discussed, acting quickly is essential when it does occur. Top repair contractors that deal with water damage can offer you a lot of key benefits. These benefits include:
Quick Repair Work
Water damage contractors can offer you rapid service that helps to minimize the damage that is done by water. The work that they do includes effectively removing all standing water and drying your entire property. These are some of the most essential steps in the process. They are key when it comes to stopping the damage from becoming worse. Once water is removed and everything is dry, they can perform restoration work to return your property to a normal state of affairs.
A Reduction in Your Financial Losses
Hiring professional repair experts for water damage will also help you to save money. These professionals can help you to save anything salvageable and they can do work that will minimize the structural damage that your property suffers. All of this will help you to reduce your overall financial losses.
Effective Mold Remediation Services
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Introducing a new way to speed up your cloud transformation from years to weeks
First, we should tackle some short definitions:
If you’re already comfortable with these terms, skip ahead to Getting your enterprise to cloud.
To dive into this, we need to first look into what the term “cloud” really means. There's one commonly used definition from Michael Dell, which is quite accurate in my opinion: “Cloud is not a destination – it's an operating model”.
To me, cloud is more about how and why. That makes creation of a cloud also much more difficult, when it's not a what, there's no clear end result defined – and no recipe to replicate.
The cloud was originally popularized by Amazon. They gave consumers access to computing resources in the same way as they could access traditional shopping items in the Amazon marketplace. Thus, it was not a new approach altogether, just selling something else online, but computing was more than a completely new type of item made available.
If we consider that the cloud is about getting what you want, when you want it, it becomes more of a frame of mind. Pay as you go, self-service, instant delivery – these are not characteristics of a cloud as such, but essentials for fulfilling basic human demands for satisfied delivery. I want everything, and I want it now. Having everything at the same time is obviously impossible, so the next best thing is the ability to browse through the full selection quickly until you make your selection. Again, it’s the same as shopping for a suit, a shirt or anything else.
Obviously, everybody doesn't want to browse through each option to find the absolute best choice, but most instead prefer to rely on common validated choices. Personal trust is given to an external authority, who doesn't actually know about your specific situation or isn’t even involved in the activity itself.
Solution building itself then is another activity that is also quite related to social interactions. As all documentation is now public and the technical base components are quite settled, finding solutions to your own specific problems is very easy. In other words, you can Google it.
The result of this approach is extremely rapid development, with incidents and issues being fixed through development – as long as the development happens. Once development stops, everything stops.
Alright, time to jump to the other end of the pool – not specifically about what enterprise infrastructure itself is, but more about its principles and how it’s driven. Above, I discussed fulfilling human personal needs – I want, I need. On a similar note, enterprise infrastructure and architecture are fulfilling the needs of the corporate business side.
To put it bluntly, enterprise architecture doesn't care what anyone personally wants. Individual desires are irrelevant for enterprise goals and targets, as depressing as that may sound. These requirements are of course mostly then also targeted towards solutions, not people – solutions must fulfil this or that requirement to be compliant.
The model is simple. Businesses have needs, so people must deliver and comply. This works extremely well in fairly static traditional environments, as requirements are exactly what operations need to deliver sustainable results. Innovation in operations can be catastrophic in the worst cases, so it’s safer to stick with if-A-then-B policies.
Getting your enterprise to the cloud
Based on these definitions, enterprise requirements and the cloud way of doing what you want seem like opposites. And combining them might sound difficult, which has been true in many cases. But opposites don't need to collide. Rather, you can change your perspective to not assess what each does, but instead consider what each is missing – then, the challenge becomes much simpler.
Enterprise architecture in the traditional world skilfully connects business demand to operational delivery, two aspects lacking from the people-driven cloud approach.
On the other side, the cloud model's innovation-driven approach delivers new features daily. This is exactly what a modern IT business needs to keep up with competitors. And in today’s world, every business is an IT business.
Fortunately, when positioned correctly, opposites attract by complementing each other. However, cloud approaches present a key difference from the traditional enterprise approach, where processes are the top layer of the delivery. Under cloud integration, control processes must be flipped to the background – from control to observation.
Now we get to the actual target state – a sustainable application delivery pipeline. The pipeline consists of three functions: build, run and observe. The observe and run functions are supported by the traditional enterprise architecture approach, while the build function naturally comes from the cloud approach.
The key to setting up the delivery pipeline is to maintain a native approach for all actors in the flow.
For developers, it’s vital to offer cloud capabilities in their native format, without creating processes or custom interfaces that might block their effectiveness. Giving them processes for how to offload deliverables, ready results, to operations – to the run function. Wait for goals and targets from the observe function; then decide what to develop next.
Traditionally known as operations, the run function requires stable and controlled processes, accepting new things only through validated flows. Processes and flows are governed according to enterprise architecture and controlled by the observe function.
The observe function includes business visibility of the cycle and control over targets, budgets and operational requirements. The key part to understand here is that the flow controls are not between the developers and cloud capabilities. Instead, the approach is to observe the results after they've been handed to operations and adjust development targets accordingly.
Now that we know how to integrate the enterprise and cloud, let's look at some ways to execute the application transformation effectively.
Traditionally, transforming the enterprise landscape into the cloud has been an extremely challenging task, initially looking easy but ultimately becoming a years-long project burdened by dependencies and missing low-level details. And what takes time, takes money, as both direct project costs and indirect costs in the form of lost potential business due to missing out on expect and promised target benefits.
The traditional process is to migrate applications to the cloud, do some level of transformation to each application along the way, and, only then start reaching the modern benefits.
In partnership with VMware, we've developed a new approach to this, one that doesn't take years and offers cloud benefits as soon as within one month. Sounds too good to be true? It's not. Indeed, the details speak quite clearly for themselves.
VMware is known as a solid building block for any private infrastructure, and a clear majority of private deployments run on it. For this reason, it's the most common source for cloud transformation.
With Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service on VMware, we approach cloud transformation from a different angle. Instead of moving your applications and servers to the cloud, which requires transformation, we're scoping the migration to the full data center level.
We've taken common building blocks from VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware solutions on Azure, AWS and Google and layered one common service on top – providing a harmonized cloud delivery approach across all cloud delivery locations. This starts from customer edge locations, through different highly secure TietoEVRY private cloud deployments, and to public clouds ultimately. And all this is available through one delivery via VMware Cloud Director.
Moving the full data center to the cloud has two key benefits in cloud transformation. One is that the applications or workloads require zero transformation. In other words, everything can go as-is, as long as we stay within the X86 context. Another benefit is that once the data center is transformed, we get modern cloud native capabilities from the private cloud delivery as well, including Kubernetes container as a service, which means that for core re-platforming transformation, we don't need to move into a public cloud anymore.
Of course, public clouds have vastly more services, and transforming onto them often remains the best approach. In this context, having the data center in the cloud offers much more flexibility in the transformation. When the data center is in the cloud, legacy workloads can physically run in the public cloud, right beside the cloud native hyperscaler capabilities.
This means we can execute transformations in a vastly more granular way, just selecting small pieces of the legacy solution and replacing them with cloud native services.
Want more information? Contact us or connect with me on LinkedIn.
For more insights about moving your applications to the cloud, check out the blog: Relocate, the new "R" to move your applications to the cloud faster
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Cameron Huddleston discusses her book, Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances. But first, we talk glide path: should you invest more aggressively through retirement? Which assets should you spend before you take Social Security? What should your portfolio withdrawal strategy be if you don’t plan to retire? And when asked how to pay taxes on a Roth conversion, Joe and Big Al make a suggestion rarely heard on YMYW.
- (00:52) Should I Start Investing More Aggressively Through Retirement?
- (08:39) Should We Spend Taxable or Tax-Deferred Money Before Social Security?
- (15:49) I Don’t Plan to Retire. When and How Should I Start Withdrawing Funds?
- (22:11) Should I Borrow from My Emergency Fund to Pay Taxes on a Roth Conversion?
- (32:58) Cameron Huddleston: Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances
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Today on Your Money, Your Wealth®, it’s time to have “the talk” with your parents about their money, and their wealth. And if you’re the parent, it’s time to get real with your kids. I’m producer Andi Last, and I’ll find out more about that family conversation later in this episode when award-winning personal finance journalist Cameron Huddleston tells us about her book, Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances. But first, Joe and Big Al answer your money questions: should you invest more aggressively through retirement? Which part of your portfolio should you spend before taking Social Security? When and how should you withdraw money from your portfolio when you don’t plan to retire? And, when asked how to pay taxes on a Roth conversion, the fellas make a suggestion I personally never thought I’d hear from them. Stick around to find out what it is. Here they are now, Joe Anderson, CFP® and Big Al Clopine, CPA.
00:52 – Should I Start Investing More Aggressively Through Retirement?
Joe: Dale. He writes in from Denver, Colorado.
Al: OK. Love Denver.
Joe: OK. “Thanks for your show. I really enjoy it”. Thank you, Dale. “I’ve been consistently saving for retirement for 25 years and have always stayed on the aggressive side of an equity bond allocation which has served me well. Currently, I’m 5 years from retirement, age 55. Lately, I’ve been learning more about starting retirement with a more conservative amount of equities with more bonds. And as you travel through retirement progressively increase your percentage of equities versus bonds. Since I’m 5 years from retirement currently 90% stocks and 10% bonds in my portfolio of $1,500,000, I have a couple of questions regarding this approach”. So he’s talking about a glide path there, Alan.
Al: Oh yes. Gotta explain that. It sounds, I don’t know, interesting.
Joe: So he’s 55 and wants to retire in 5 years. Is that accurate? Yes. “So since I’m 5 years-” so he’s going to retire at age 60.
Al: Yep that’s what I get out of that too.
Joe: And so some of the studies are saying once you approach retirement you want more conservative. But then as you age, now it’s kind of the reverse effect by having more equities than bonds. So it’s kind of an interesting way to look at things. Just because of longevity risk is really what this is all about. Like Kitces wrote a couple articles on it. I think Wade Pfau wrote something on it as well. And then they’re looking at he’s going to retire at age 60. And so he’s got a 40-year life expectancy, let’s just assume. And so if he keeps a conservative allocation given certain valuations is that the Monte Carlo of the likelihood of him running out of money is higher unless he adds more risk or tries to increase his expected rate of return over his life. So what he’s asking now is should I be transitioning toward a more conservative approach now assuming I still need another $1,000,000 to retire? So he needs $2,500,000. That’s his goal.
Al: So that means he’s got $1,500,000 currently if I do my math right.
Joe: He’s got $1,500,000. He wants another $2,500,000 with only a modest $50,000 contribution per year. So I don’t know what rate of return would he need to generate, Al. That’s pretty aggressive because he’s 90/10. And then you have to look, Dale, at how much money do you have in U.S. equities versus maybe international equities and emerging market equities? So as Al’s doing some calculations, you want to be more conservative now. You’re kind of in the red zone. But you have an aggressive goal. You need a $1,000,000 in 5 years by saving $50,000 a year.
Al: Right. It’s actually not as bad as you would think.
Joe: What, 7%? 7.5%?
Joe: OK so 8% you need on your money over the next 5 years. You got, I don’t know, pretty high market valuations. I’m not saying it’s overvalued, but we’ve had a pretty good run, 12 years in the U.S. markets. I don’t know, can it continue to go another 5? Sure. But do you want to take that risk if you truly want to retire in 5 years? This is where you probably have to save a little bit more money and try to get a lower expected rate of return to get to that $2,500,000 goal. Because the last thing you want to do, Dale, is all of a sudden you lose 30% of that $1,500,000. Now your savings goal is not going to be $50,000, it’s going to be a lot more or your target rate of return is going to be like 12%.
Al: I would agree. I think the fact that it’s a 90/10 equity allocation so that $2,500,000 could be achievable. You could make $3,000,000. You could be at $1,000,000. I mean it’s all over the place with that much allocation. So that’s why folks as they get close to retirement they take their foot off the gas a little bit and that is not necessarily a bad idea. But it actually is, I would say this is kind of the general advice you know to have more bonds as you get closer to retirement. And as a general rule that’s probably okay. But we also know general rules you can sort of throw them out the door because it depends upon everyone’s personal situation. It depends upon what you really need from income from this portfolio. What other income sources you have. When you’re going to retire which you already said age 60. How much you’re spending. What your fixed income is. How your health is, longevity. All these things factor into your allocation. And we’ve seen 60-year-olds with 20% equities and we’ve seen 60-year-olds with 100% equity. So it just depends on your own situation. But I will say when you read a lot of articles out there they’ll tell you to get more conservative as you get closer to retirement and that as a general statement that’s not necessarily a bad idea. But that may or may not be the right answer for you, Dale.
Joe: So he’s got 2 more questions here, Al. He goes “does one just go from let’s say 90/10 to 50/50 at retirement or should it be really earlier? I’m going to answer that in a second. And then three “if you agree with this approach, what would be your definition of conservative? And perhaps a yearly percentage to steer back towards equities?” All right so piggybacking on what Al is saying when it comes to your overall situation is that you’re retiring at 60 so you’ve got to bridge the gap to Social Security unless you have a pension which we don’t know, we don’t have that information. So his full retirement age is going to be age 67. He’s retiring at 60. So he needs 7 years of 100% of that portfolio to create the income for him. So then you look at how much money is he spending? So maybe it’s $100,000 a year. So if I’m looking at $100,000 a year spent from the portfolio and I have 7 years to bridge that gap that’s going to be $700,000 dollars plus tax plus the cost of living that needs to come from that overall portfolio. So you could do a simple present value calculation to say if I need $100,000 income and assume a discount rate of 3.5%, 5%, something like that, something fairly conservative. And then maybe you want to throw another 20% in for taxes and do a present value calculation that could be let’s say $900,000 or $800,000. And what I mean by that is just saying that $800,000 would be safe. So you could pull $100,000 over the next 7 years. That would encompass taxes and inflation for you. And it didn’t matter what happened to the overall market. Does that make sense?
Joe: And then when your fixed income Social Security comes in you would want to kind of recalculate that. So I would start getting more conservative now with a true plan to figure out what the portfolio is really meant to do and how much income you need. So just kind of going back to what Al said. It’s not as easy as going 90/10, 50/50 and then sliding back to more equities. It’s all about the demand of the portfolio. I mean what do you want the thing to do?
Al: We have talked to 80-year-olds that are 100% in equities because they don’t need a penny of it. It’s for their kids and grandkids. So it really depends upon your goals. But I would say with knowing what we know and I’ll just take this even one step further, 90/10 is a pretty aggressive portfolio for someone that’s going to retire in 5 years. So if it were me, I probably would take my foot off the gas a little bit. But in terms of an arbitrary 50/50 or whatever, I wouldn’t go there. I would do a little bit more planning. That’s something that you read when you haven’t done any planning. I don’t have anything else to go on like 120 minus your age is how much you should have in stocks right? Forget it, that doesn’t make any sense.
Joe: That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
08:39 – Should We Spend Taxable or Tax-Deferred Money Before Social Security?
Joe: So James. He writes and he goes “Hey Joe, Big Al, and Andi. I always look forward to your enjoyable and informative podcast. Keep up the good work”. Thank you, James. “Last week you replied to a question regarding whether to take the 401(k) money first like at age 62 or 65 or take Social Security first say it’s 65 then 401(k) later at 70. Your recommendation was to delay Social Security as long as you can, provided you had other funds to cover your expenses. My question is if my wife and I delay Social Security until age 70 from which funds should we draw from to cover our expenses until age 70? Taxable accounts or tax-deferred accounts? Or a combination of them both? I appreciate your discussion of all the factors to consider. Cheers”. All right. Very good James. Well, there are multiple strategies.
Al: Sure. I’ll start with one.
Joe: It depends on how much money James needs from the portfolio. How much money he has in non-qualified or brokerage accounts versus retirement accounts.
Al: So let’s start with, there’s plenty of money in both accounts.
Joe: Jim is rich.
Al: He’s loaded.
Joe: He’s just, yeah.
Al: So in that case, I would pull money out of your non-qualified accounts, live off of that, your taxable income will be super low. And so now you can do some nice Roth conversions with your qualified accounts and then by the time you hit 70 and a half, your required minimum distributions will be lower because you’ve converted a bunch. And of course, you’ll be receiving Social Security at that point. Then at age 70 and a half you’ve got a lot of tax diversification because you’ve got taxable accounts, you have not-taxable and Roth and qualified accounts.
Joe: So I guess here’s the real crux to this, Jim or James, most advice that you read and maybe that you hear, is going to say take from your non-qualified first, defer your401(k)s or your tax-deferred or qualified accounts as long as you possibly can.
Al: Yeah defer. Defer. Defer.
Joe: Defer. Defer. Defer.
Al: That’s what we hear all the time.
Joe: Pay taxes later. Al and I think that there’s a really good opportunity for a lot of individuals to pay taxes now. And so there’s a 2-step process. We’re telling you to take money from your non-qualified account, but not keep deferring your retirement accounts. So take from non-qualified to live off of. In conjunction we want you to convert the monies sitting in your IRA or retirement accounts into a Roth. So how much do you convert? I have no idea. I don’t know how much money you have. I don’t know if you have other, like a pension or real estate income or whatever. So when you look at it like that, it’s not just, take non-qualified, defer Social Security as long as you can, and defer your retirement accounts as long as you can. It’s not really deferring the retirement accounts. It’s converting the retirement accounts from now until age 70. You want to keep your income low enough to delay the Social Security benefit because you get a lot larger benefit plus no income shows up on the tax return.
Al: It’s a great strategy. And what some people do instead once they sort of understand managing taxes, is they just take it out of their qualified so that they’re managing their taxes that way and that’s okay. But what you’ve done basically is you’ve left money in a non-qualified which is subject to ordinary income or capital gains instead of putting money into a Roth IRA if you’d done it the way we’re doing. And essentially how much you convert is based upon your own situation and tax bracket. So let’s just say by the time you get to 70 and a half with your Social Security and your required minimum distributions you’re in the 12% bracket. That’s one of the lowest brackets right now. Then that’s what you should convert to the top of right now. And for a married couple that would be about $78,000, half of that for a single couple.
Joe: Single couple?
Al: Single person. Thank you. Yeah, I’m tired. And let’s say you’re in the 22% bracket when you do a low computation at age 70 and a half maybe then you convert up to that bracket. And for those of you that are in that bracket, you’ll actually probably be in the 25% bracket when the old tax rates come back in 2026. So you might even think about converting to the top of the 24% depending upon what your feelings are, what’s going to happen with taxes. I can tell you Joe and I believe taxes are about as low as they’re going to go and probably just going to go up from here. So we’re big believers in doing conversions. There’s no way to avoid the taxes on the money in your qualified accounts. But if you can choose when to pay the taxes and at what rates, at lower rates then that’s a good deal.
Joe: You could totally blow out of all of your non-retirement assets to live off of. But if you’re converting at the same time then you turn 70 and a half, now let’s say you have still money in a retirement account and a big Roth account. Well, now you’re golden. So then you take your Social Security at a lot larger rate then you pull a little bit more from your- Now you take your required distribution from a lot lower retirement balance because you converted most of it or some of it to a Roth and then any additional cash flow that you need, you pull from the Roth and it’s zero taxation. So it’s really controlling your taxes long term. So that’s what we would look at. If you don’t have a ton then it would probably be maybe a blend. You know just to try to keep yourself in the lowest bracket possible.
Al: And I was going to say if you don’t have a lot in terms of non-qualified, non-retirement accounts, save enough there so that you at least have emergency funds that you can easily grab and get at. But you may want to use the rest for either living. And of course, you also have to have set aside money to pay the taxes on the conversion. So you have to do a little bit more calculations here to figure out the amount. But if you have plenty of money in all of the above you do what we just said. If you’re limited in non-qualified assets you just have to be a little smarter in how you do it.
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15:49 – I Don’t Plan to Retire. When and How Should I Start Withdrawing Funds?
Joe: I’m gonna go to Arizona. We got David writing in. He goes, “Thank you for your podcast. I have benefited from it many ways”. Oh well, glad we could help David. “I’m 66”. Everyone is so formal when they write in. Well it’s like where’s Dave? Or D?
Al: It’s my generation. We’re now elders. We deserve respect.
Joe: James. David. So David says thanks for the podcast – he’s benefitted. He’s 66. “But I plan on working to at least 80. Or maybe 90.”
Andi: “Beyond 90.”
Joe: Geez. Man.
Al: Yeah. That’s great. Someone that loves his job.
Joe: Workaholic. “I have my own company that I started over two years ago and I love what I do and I make over $300,000 per year”.
Andi: I’d keep working past 90 too.
Joe: Let’s do this Dave. Are you hiring?
Al: Joe’s looking.
Joe: “My questions, when and how do I start withdrawing funds from my investments for living expenses? I realize if I work until I die, my plan, I may never withdraw funds. But what happens if due to health reasons I have to stop working someday. I’m very healthy now but you never know. This is my plan and I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this plan”. Here we go. This is David’s plan.
He’s going to “keep all my investment money in low-cost index funds as I’m working, earning and building my investment retirement accounts, Roth 401(k)s and regular account. Then about 5 to 7 years before I plan on taking withdrawals from my investments transfer about 10% of my stock index investments to a low-cost bond index fund. During that 5 to 7 year time period watch to do this when my stock index funds are higher not lower.” So high not low.
Al: Ok. I like the thinking.
Joe: “Then withdraw my quarterly living expenses when I need to from my bond index fund into my FDIC insured savings account because my bond index fund is much less volatile than my stock index fund. So this is greater protection from the expensive mistake of selling low. The amount I transfer should work out to be about 3.5% of my total investments or less annually. Then once per year rebalance my investments to maintain 10% of my total investments in my bond index fund. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated”.
Andi: This is a very thought out plan.
Joe: Yeah. So he’s going to transfer 10%. So do you think he’s got 100% stock portfolio?
Al: That’s what I’m reading into it.
Joe: And then he’s going to transfer 10% of his stock portfolio into a bond portfolio and then he’s going to take 3.5% out of the total portfolio or from the bond portfolio?
Al: He’s suggesting he’s going to take his distributions from the bond portfolio because it’s less volatile.
Joe: No I understand that. But “the amount I transfer should work out to be about 3.5% of my total investments”. Or is the 10% he’s moving into bonds 3.5% of his total investments?
Al: I don’t know.
Joe: Either way I like your strategy, Dave. I like it. But I need to get a little bit more information here. You’re making $300,000 a year, you’re going to work until you die, so you probably don’t need any money from the portfolio as he said. But just in case, the contingency plan- So I’m curious- and like all of sudden, he falls ill and then that’s when he’s gonna transfer the 10%?
Al: That’s what I was going to say is based upon your goals and if that really turns out this is a great plan. But things don’t always go according to plan. In fact, Voya did a study a few years ago about people retiring earlier than they were wanting to and it was something like 60% actually. And those were people retiring in their 60s, not 80s and 90s. So here’s what I would- I like the plan too, but I would amend it this way. I would say David if something happens to your health, it may be sudden and quick and you may not anticipate it. So I actually would have a little more safety right now just for those contingencies
Joe: You’re kind of a buzz kill here Al. I mean Dave you’re going to drop dead from a heart attack. And who cares anyway.
Al: Well then it doesn’t matter because he’s gone.
Joe: You’re going to fall ill and when you fall ill it’s going to be quick. It’s sudden.
Andi: Hey that’s much better than having it last and be horrible.
Joe: “Oh you don’t know what’s coming David, but I do. I’m Big Al.”
Al: What I meant to say is your health can take a turn rather quickly and you may be around for 10 years. But in other words, you may need the assets sooner than what you think. That’s what I’m saying. Especially 80s, when you’re in the 80s and 90s. And I could say that because my parents are 87 and 86 and they have health issues.
Joe: But they’re still strong and vibrant.
Al: Sort of.
Joe: But God bless you, David. I mean you’re killing it. You’re making a ton of money. You’re going to work. I would plan on it like this, just by having 100% stock portfolio, you got the stock index funds and then just kind of slowly shaving 10% off it kind of living off that I would plan like something is going to happen now, maybe have a little bit more conservative portfolio. You’re making $300,000 a year, you’re probably not spending that. Your savings could go into a more aggressive portfolio. You can still add that on the stock side. But I would have a little bit more cushion just because Al knows more than I guess most.
Al: And what one other thing I would say is when you actually do need the funds you don’t always take them from your bond fund. Sometimes you take them from your stock fund when they’re up. When the stocks are down, you take them from the bond fund. When the stocks are up, you take him from the stock fund.
Joe: But you’re also going to have to take required distributions too from your retirement account at 70 and a half. You may have your own business so pushing the RMD out, it doesn’t apply to you. So your plan is solid but there are some flaws. You just kind of maybe take a little bit deeper dive into it. But I like where your head’s at. It’s thought out. So congrats on your success.
22:11 – Should I Borrow from My Emergency Fund to Pay Taxes on a Roth Conversion?
Joe: We got Steve-n. Of course, he can’t just call himself Steve.
Al: That goes along with your theme of everyone being formal.
Joe: Yes. Stephen from Orange County, he writes in. “Hi, Joe and Al. I just discovered your podcast and really enjoy your financial and tax advice. I thought I was prepared for retirement but realized I miscalculated what my future tax burden is going to be.
Andi: Actually it said WRT. With Regard To.
Joe: And what did I say?
Al: I think that works. What my future tax burden is-
Andi: Yes. He said with regard to my future tax burden.
Joe: Well look at Stephen. Little fancy pants.
Al: Yeah, WRT.
Joe: OMG. WTF.
Al: I thought it was like “wrt.” I didn’t really know what that meant.
Joe: I don’t know, a little shorthand?
Al: WRT, yeah.
Andi: It goes along with BTW.
Joe: I thought it was just like a spelling error. I wasn’t gonna call him out on it.
Al: Because we do get spelling errors.
Joe: All the time.
Al: And we try to guess.
Joe: So I’m sorry. With regard to my future tax burden.
Al: That makes it more clear now.
Joe: Yes. Thank you very much, Stephen, from Orange County. “Here’s hoping you can help. My situation is this, I’m 66, wife 64, recently retired. My house will be paid off in 3 years, have long term care insurance and term life. Wife began Social Security this year. And I’m collecting via spouse benefit”. All right so he’s taking the spousal benefit. Wife claimed, he took a restricted application took the spousal benefit and he’s letting his grow until he turns probably 70. “Together receive $2200 per month. This will increase to $5200 per month when I start taking Social Security when I turn 70”. So then he also has 2 term pensions. So he receives $62,000 per year now through age 82. “Then just started receiving number 2 pension-
Al: Second pension.
Joe: Oh second – sorry. Second pension. WTF.
Al: What does that mean?
Joe: “at $10,000 per month which will end when I’m 76 and a half. I have $2,500,000 in a 401(k) and IRA of which only $200,000 is in Roth. Until I turn 77, do not need RMD funds and figured RMD money would be reinvested in brokerage account after paying taxes. Realized now that my tax burden will be larger than expected once RMDs begin and especially with tax rates reverting in 2026”. He’s got 2 questions for us Al. “Number 1, 2019 will be my lowest income year for the next 10 years. Was already planning on a Roth conversion of $80,000 this year, $50,000 already done. Should I bite the bullet this year and borrow from my emergency fund to pay the taxes and convert an extra $50,000 – $100,000 more this year? I would remain in the 24% tax bracket. (2) Other than increasing Roth conversion this year and possibly next 1 to 2 years, do you have any other suggestions to help with future tax burden? Thank you”. Well good news, bad news. Stephen. You have great pensions, fat fixed income and you are a really good saver.
Al: Yep which equals high future taxes.
Joe: Unfortunately is all the good savings was in a retirement account. You got it.
Al: And now you’re aware of that and that the best way to try to fix this is to do Roth conversions and you’re in a lower income tax bracket, I guess although you’re still in the 24% bracket so it’s not that low currently. But it sounds like you don’t have a lot of non-qualified funds to pay the tax and therein lies the challenge. Because when you do a Roth conversion you have to pay taxes as if you received the funds today which you have them, you just put him in a different kind of account, a Roth, and you got to keep those funds in the Roth because they grow tax-free. So it’s best if you have non-retirement funds to be able to pay those taxes.
Joe: I’m going to throw something way out in left field and of course this is not advice by any stretch of the imagination.
Al: Is this Wade Pfau’s suggestion?
Joe: No, I don’t know. Wade Pfau’s a lot smarter than me. But here’s what I’ve looked at, and Al and I’ve looked at in the past. For someone in your situation and we would only look at this, only look at this for individuals that have very large retirement accounts and fat fixed income. Is potentially look at if you have equity within your home. Because he said he’s going to pay off his house in 3 years or something like that. Maybe hold off on that. You hear me out. I know you’re like- everyone listening, “what the hell, you telling me to take money out of my house?” And the answer is maybe. What Stephen’s lacking is liquidity. Because everything’s in the shell of a retirement account and every dollar that comes out of that retirement account is taxed at ordinary income rates. So he’s going to pay off his mortgage in 3 years. How about if you paid it off let’s say in 10 years? Is that going to be the end of the world? You’ll still have the thing paid off and you can always cut a check and pay it off regardless. But hear me out. You might want to tap into some of that equity to create liquidity. And so let’s say you do this. You do a cash-out refinance and where does he live? Orange County. So his house is probably worth $1,000,000+ anyway.
Al: Probably a lot of equity.
Joe: So let’s say he pulls out a couple hundred thousand bucks. Or maybe $100,000. And now he’s got that liquidity, and say his interest rate on that is 4%. So $200,000, 4% over 10 years, the total of that would be-
Al: So $80,000 interest per year.
Joe: Yeah. $80,000. So that $80,000 is what’s going to be the cost of capital over that 10 year period hypothetically. But then he is gonna take a look at where am I going to come up the money to pay the tax? So let’s say he pulls more dollars out of his retirement account to pay the tax. So he’s paying 4% to carry a note versus paying 33% to pay the tax. If he’s pulling it out of a retirement account to pay the tax.
Andi: But he said he wanted to take it out of his emergency fund.
Joe: Right. And I wouldn’t necessarily want to do that either.
Al: I would not do that. I agree with that.
Joe: So you either look at maybe creating liquidity through home equity. And then now once he turns 70 and a half and those RMDs kick in it’s already kicking in more dollars that he needs. So he takes that extra cash flow and he just pays off the mortgage.
Al: And I agree with you. Let me sort of explain why. If you look at your income, Stephen, at age 70. So Social Security $5200 a month. So we’ll call that $60,000 for a year. Then you’ve got a pension you’re receiving $62,000 through age 82. So there’s another $60,000. So now you’re at $120,000. Then there’s a second pension $10,000 a month through age 76. So that’s $120,000 a year plus the other $120,000, so now you’re $240,000 of income. Then your required minimum distribution of $2,100,000 is probably gonna be $80,000 or more. So now you’re income is what $320,000 which I don’t know what you’re spending, but here’s the point. The point is your income is going to be higher in the future than it is now. So now is actually when you need the money to be able to pay the taxes. So it would, it could make sense to borrow money from your home. It could be a home loan. It could be a home equity loan. It could be a reverse mortgage, which is where I was going to go with that.
Joe: A HECM?
Al: Yeah, a HECM. And that way you’ve got no line-of-credit to pay the tax. Now we don’t normally recommend that you borrow money before retirement. Please understand that.
Joe: But your income is going to be $350,000. Let’s say you’re spending $100,000, so you get $250,000 extra per year.
Al: In this case, I’d feel comfortable borrowing knowing I could pay it off just within a few years at age 70 and a half. That’s why it could make sense in this case. I would not touch the emergency fund. Completely agree with you. And I don’t really like paying taxes out of the retirement account because then you’re paying taxes on taxes just like you said.
Joe: So, of course, he would want to run the numbers in then- like what Al and I talk about too is that well this could make sense, but again this is not advice at all. It’s just a couple of kids hanging out talking about Roth IRAs.
Al: And we have recommended this before. It’s rare. I mean there are only a few circumstances where we would do this, but this would be one them, potentially.
Joe: Potentially. Hypothetically. OK well, maybe we’ve lost a couple listeners there. “I can’t believe you would use debt!” What do you think businesses do? You’ve got to treat your finances, your wealth, your family wealth – it’s kind of like your business, right?
Al: Well I think you use all available assets that you have to get the best solution.
There are 3 ways a reverse mortgage can supercharge your retirement, and an expert on the topic, Dr. Wade Pfau, spilled the details about reverse mortgages for us on YMYW episodes #168 and 117. I’ve put both in the resources section of the podcast show notes – just click the link in the episode description in your podcast app to find it, along with the transcript of this podcast, the YMYW TV episode about real estate in retirement, and more home equity conversion reverse mortgage resources – or just click “listen to podcasts” at YourMoneyYourWealth.com and start bingeing. Now that we’ve gotten your finances in order, let’s find out how and why it’s important to talk about finances as a family. While at FinCon, a conference for money nerds in September, I had a chance to talk to award-winning journalist Cameron Huddleston, the Life & Money columnist for GoBankingRates. She’s got more than 18 years of experience writing about personal finance for the likes of Kiplinger, Business Insider, Money, the Huffington Post, and many others. Her recent book is called Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances.
32:58 – Cameron Huddleston: Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances
Andi: Cameron, thank you for joining me today.
Cameron: Thank you so much for having me on.
Andi: So explain to me why you wrote this book.
Cameron: I wrote the book because I did not have money conversations with my mother before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. And for all those people out there who think that these conversations can wait until they have to happen, until there’s a health care emergency, until your parents are having memory issues, it is too late at that point. It can be too late. Now, I actually was able to step in and get along with my mom just in time to get her to meet with an attorney, update her legal documents, name me power of attorney, which is so so important. Because if I had waited any longer then I would have had to go through a very lengthy expensive court process to be able to step in and make financial decisions for her and I just don’t think people realize what needs to be in place. If you have to step in and help your parents out with their finances because they need caregiving help or maybe because they didn’t prepare for retirement. And of course not everyone’s going to have to do that but everyone dies. And if your parents die without a will you have to deal with what’s left behind. And if there are no guidelines for you, then family is going to start fighting over who gets what. And even if you think everyone gets along, I’ve talked to enough estate planning attorneys who will tell you that when someone dies, those happy families they’re not so happy anymore. Fighting does happen. So personal experience drove me to write this book.
Andi: And who is the book geared towards? Obviously it’s going to be people whose parents are getting to an age where they’re going to need that assistance.
Cameron: Actually what I would really love is for young adults to read this so that they can have these conversations while their parents are still relatively young and healthy. You know if you say, “oh, my parents are in their 60s I can’t wait till they’re in their 70s. There’s no rush.” Well, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 65. My father died at 61, without a will, in a second marriage. So thinking that you have time you might not. The sooner you can have these conversations the better. Certainly, if you’re already in your 40’s, don’t wait. If you’re in your 50s have the conversation tomorrow. You cannot wait at all. But the sooner you can do it the better. Especially because it can take time to get your parents to feel comfortable enough sharing sensitive information with you.
Andi: And why is that? Why is it so difficult for us to have that conversation about our finances?
Cameron: Because money is a taboo topic. I mean most people don’t want to talk about money. Especially if your parents are part of an older generation, boomers, silent generation. It’s especially difficult for them because their parents told them you don’t talk about money. Even though you are family, they still might feel uncomfortable they think well it’s not really your business. And you know they might be ashamed if they haven’t managed their money well. Lots of different reasons why they might be reluctant to have the conversation. But don’t let that stop you. You can try a variety of approaches to get the conversation started. If it doesn’t work the first time don’t give up.
Andi: How much do we need to know about our parents’ finances?
Cameron: The more you know the better. Because if you do have to step in and get involved. You honestly have to know everything. But the most important things are those legal documents that I mentioned. You need to find out, do your parents have a will? Do they have power of attorney? Do they have a living will or advance health care directive? Because you have to be mentally competent to sign those documents. So if you wait until there is already a health issue and your parents are no longer competent they can’t sign them anymore. You have to go through very lengthy expensive court process to step in and help your parents out. That’s super important. Now you want to find out how are you paying your bills? Do you do it automatically? Do you write a check? And if something happens to you and I have to write checks for you, have you named me your power of attorney so that I can sign those checks? And then the more details you can get beyond that the better, the better you’ll be able to help them out if they need your help. And even if you never have to help them out, when they die if you don’t know what assets they have you’re going to have to play detective to figure it out so that the stock certificates that are in the lockbox of the bank that you don’t even know about and they’re left there, just rotting away. Or the will that’s left in a cardboard box in the garage that you tossed when you’re cleaning everything out. If you have an accounting of everything they have, it’s going to make it easier when they’re no longer here to sort through it. Easier for you and you are just letting your parents know, ‘Mom and Dad I want to have these conversations because I’m looking out for your best interest. I want to be able to help you. And if I don’t know what you have if we haven’t laid the groundwork, if I don’t know what you want, I’m not gonna be able to do a good job of helping you’.
Andi: There are other chapters in your book on other topics that you need to have the conversation with your parents, like long term care.
Cameron: Long term care is a big one. Because there is a very good chance, your parents if they live past the age of 65, there’s a very good chance they’re going to need long term care at some point in their life. So if your parents end up needing long term care and they don’t have a way to pay for it, most likely that means you are your parents’ long term care plan. You are the one who’s going to have to provide that care. I think a lot of people don’t realize Medicare does not pay for long term care. If you want insurance coverage it needs to be a long term care insurance or you could get life insurance with a long term care benefit. These things aren’t cheap though. But it’s important to realize that they’re a lot cheaper than the costs of long term care. We’re talking an average of $4000 a month for an assisted living facility or a home health aide. Skilled nursing care, that’s twice as much. So you want to find out if something happens to you, do you have a way to pay for this? If you don’t let’s start looking into the options that we might have and let’s talk about how you’re going to get the care you might need. Because if they’re counting on you, you might not be able to provide that care if you have your own family to support and they’re counting on your income. Because being a caregiver is a full-time job.
Andi: And as our parents are getting older they may become more susceptible to people calling them up on the phone and trying to sell them things or all sorts of other things like that.
Cameron: Scams. Yes. Unfortunately, older adults are a big target of scammers and this can be a great way to actually start the conversation with your parents. ‘Hey, Mom and Dad have you heard that IRS scam, people who are calling up and saying you owe money to the IRS if you don’t pay they’re going to come and arrest you. This is a scam’. And talking to them about the various scams that are out there and then letting it lead to other conversations. You’re making them aware, you’re opening a door to more conversations. ‘Hey, I can help you check your credit report to see if your identity has been stolen, to make sure there aren’t any accounts that have been opened in your name.’ But warning them about the scams that are out there. So important. But the important thing too is if you’re going to tell your parents to watch out for scams, most of these scams are still happening with phone calls. I mean there’s e-mail phishing and the text messaging and that sort of thing. But still, phone calls are the most prevalent way. And if you tell a parent who is in their 70s to just hang up they’re not going to do that. Because they think it’s rude or maybe it’s the doctor calling. Or maybe it’s a friend calling and so they’re not going to just let it ring and let it go to voicemail or whatever. You want to give them a script. Something that they can use to say to that caller who calls up and says ‘Hello can I speak to Mrs. so-and-so this is someone calling from the Social Security Administration’. Oh well you know ‘I’m heading out the door right now but let me call you back’. And tell your parents ‘don’t call the number they give you’ if it’s someone claiming to be from the Social Security Administration, from Medicare, from their health insurer, tell them to call that organization directly. ‘Hey were you trying to reach me?’ ‘Hey, I’m calling you’. You know my doctor, were you actually trying to reach me? Don’t call the number that the person is giving you but tell them give them something they can use to get off the phone politely so they don’t have to feel bad about it. Because just saying, “hang up, hang up!” They’re like, “no, I can’t. I’m not going to do that. That’s so rude.”
Andi: And also they may forget somebody that’s on the phone may sound so convincing that they think this one probably isn’t a scam.
Cameron: Yes and this especially if your parents are already having memory issues it’s really hard to protect them from these scammers. My mother was almost a victim of someone who called up and said hey you’ve won a sweepstakes. All you need to do is wire some money to get your prize. She called my uncle and said how do I wire money? He called me and said I think your mom is being scammed. So I went right over to her house and intercepted the calls. But she was so convinced that she had won. She had a wire this money and so I had to stay with her for the rest of the day. And when I had to leave and go get my kids I had to call a friend to come and stay with her just so that she wasn’t going to get sucked in because the guy who was calling was not giving up. Fortunately, I live close to my mom. I can do that. I realize not everyone can do it. You know it can be difficult. So certainly if your parent is having memory issues already there needs to be a caregiver there. There needs to be someone there who is looking out for that parent to make sure they’re not becoming victims of scammers or anyone else who’s trying to take advantage of them.
Andi: And you’ve got some free resources on your website for this very purpose don’t you?
Cameron: I do. I have a scam red flag sheet that you can download. Give it to your parents and say ‘hey hang this up on the refrigerator. Hang it up by the phone. If you get someone who is saying this to you it’s probably a scam’. I also have an ‘in case of emergency’ organizer that you can print out, give it to your parents. It has a long long list of information that they can provide for you about all their financial accounts. Even their final wishes, how they want to be buried, cremated. What do they want in their obituary? Sometimes it’s easier for your parents to write it down rather than tell you. They maintain control. You know they’re not having to expose their finances to you. Say ‘please fill this out, put it someplace safe and tell me how to access it and at what points I am allowed to access it’. And that lets them maintain control of this information and it actually helps you if you need that information. And so I have that on my site. It’s free.
Andi: And the website is CameronHuddleston.com. Correct?
Cameron: Yes it is.
Andi: And we have one final question. You have three children of your own. When they start growing up, what is your money conversation going to be like with them?
Cameron: I have been having money conversation with my kids since they could talk. We talk about money in my house all the time. And so I’m already telling my daughters, they are in their early teens, but I’ve already told them ‘look your dad and I are trying to take steps so that you’re never going to have to take care of us. If something happens and I have memory issues like my mom, I don’t expect you to be my caregiver. You know there will be the resources there to pay for that care if I need it. Now, if it’s just me and your dad’s not there I do hope that at least one of you will step up and at least make sure my bills are getting paid with the money that I have set aside’. But of course, as they get older once they are actually adults we’re going to have some more in-depth conversations certainly. But money is not a taboo topic in our house. We talk about it all the time and so we have the conversations and we will continue to have them.
Andi: That is Cameron Huddleston. She is the author of Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances. You can find out more at CameronHuddleston.com. Any more final thoughts?
Cameron: Don’t wait to have the conversation. Do it now.
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Author: Timothy Sandefur
The Supreme Court’s decision today in Dukes v. Wal-Mart is a major victory for Wal-Mart, for consumers, and for the many women who depend on Wal-Mart for jobs and a livelihood. PLF filed a friend of the court brief in the case (and this brief in the Ninth Circuit before that).
The case is about the rules for class action lawsuits alleging discrimination. The Ninth Circuit allowed the case to proceed as one lawsuit even though the class of women plaintiffs all allege very different injuries–and even though Wal-Mart doesn’t have any discriminatory employment policy. On the contrary, Wal-Mart doesn’t have any central employment policy at all. Yet the plaintiffs claim that this is itself a discriminatory policy! As we argue in the brief, there are perfectly good reasons for Wal-Mart to not have a single policy, but instead to rely on the decisions of local managers who know their stores, customers, and employees better. The Supreme Court agreed with that view today:
The only corporate policy that plaintiffs’ evidence convincingly establishes is Wal-Mart’s “policy” of allowing discretion by local managers over employment matters…. [I]t is a policy against having uniform employment practices. It is also a very common and presumptively reasonable way of doing business…. Because respondents provide no convincing proof of a companywide discriminatory pay and promotion policy, we conclude that they have not established the existence of any common question.
This is not just an important decision for Wal-Mart, of course. Businesses are frequently victims of abusive and predatory class-action lawsuits. Companies have to pay to defend themselves or settle, and the money and time they spend doing that could have gone to cutting prices, expanding, innovating. Abusive lawsuits therefore cost jobs, raise the cost of living, and dry up economic opportunity.
But there’s something much deeper at work in this case. The lawyers here were trying to transform the class-action lawsuit from a method for redressing large-scale legal injuries into a tool for enforcing “social justice” and requiring businesses to equalize outcomes. The idea that the absence of a policy is a policy–that, in effect, Wal-Mart was discriminating because it just ends up having fewer women employees, or fewer managers, or whatever, as the result of what the plaintiffs admit is an undesigned process of individual, local decisions,–would mean that any series of transactions that lead to unequal outcomes, without any discriminatory intent or policy, would be grounds for a lawsuit. In short, the law would introduce the “bed of Procrustes,” and any company that doesn’t use quotas to enforce equal outcomes would be dragged into court.
Fortunately, the Court decided not to let that happen. “Merely showing that Wal-Mart’s policy of discretion has produced an overall sex-based disparity does not suffice.” This decision is therefore a victory both for Wal-Mart and for basic common sense.
Update: Amazingly, Sen. Patrick Leahy has responded to the decision in a statement that “an activist majority of the Supreme Court is making it more and more difficult for any American to have their day in court.” In fact, the decision today went unanimously in favor of Wal-Mart and against the plaintiffs. Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan also agreed that the class certification decision was wrong, just for different reasons. It is therefore irresponsible and superficial to say that the decision is somehow proof of an “activist majority of the Supreme Court” being biased against women or in favor of evil greedy corporations. | <urn:uuid:d17b379c-fc96-422a-af0f-7144313acf9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pacificlegal.org/supreme-court-victory-for-wal-martand-the-women-who-work-there/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963719 | 765 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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INDIA: PRESIDENT GIVES GO-AHEAD FOR HANGING OF BHULLAR, DAS
May 27, 2011: After seven years, the go-ahead has been given in India for execution of two murder convicts that could start the process of clearing the long list of death row convicts awaiting punishment.
According to official sources, President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petitions of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar of Punjab and Mahendra Nath Das of Assam following the recommendations from the Union Home Ministry.
Bhullar was sentenced to death by a trial court on August 25, 2001, for plotting terror attacks on Punjab SSP Sumedh Singh Saini in 1991 and the then Youth Congress president M S Bitta in 1993 leading to several deaths in Delhi.
A couple of days ago, Bhullar's advocate K T S Tulsi had urged in the Supreme Court that either his mercy petition should be decided expeditiously or alternatively his death sentence be commuted.
The President has also rejected the mercy petition of Das who has been found guilty of murdering one Hara Kanta Das.
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The worrying Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey’s prime minister once promised big reforms to bring his country closer to the European Union. He seems no longer to be pushing them
WHEN Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his Justice and Development (AK) Party narrowly escaped banning by the constitutional court in July, the big question was which Erdogan would then come to the fore. Would it be the non-ideological pragmatist, whose bold reforms had helped Turkey to secure the start of membership talks with the European Union in 2005? Or would it be the dogmatic and erratic leader who had provoked Turkey's meddlesome generals, always anxious to undermine the AK Party because of its Islamist roots, by seeking soon after his election victory in July 2007 to ease the ban on the Islamic-style headscarf in universities?
The question of which version of Mr Erdogan is in charge has gained extra urgency because Turkey is grappling with mounting violence in the mainly Kurdish south-east. It also matters to the financial markets as the government tries to protect its fragile economy from the global financial typhoon. Worryingly, the answer seems to be: the second version. Mr Erdogan appears increasingly autocratic and out of touch. And because he lacks any credible political opponents, either within or beyond the AK Party, this is making Turkey look stagnant and adrift—and further away from EU membership than ever.
Mr Erdogan's odd behaviour was on display during his most recent trip to America. When asked in Washington for his view about Iran's nuclear ambitions he retorted that “those who possess nuclear weapons do not have the right to tell others to not acquire them too.” This comment did not go down well with American officials, whose memories are seared by Turkey's refusal in March 2003 to let America use its soil to launch a second front against Iraq. A recent gas deal struck by the Turks with Iran has not helped. For all of Turkey's assistance over Iraq since 2003 (some 70% of non-combat materiel for American troops goes through Turkey) and in Afghanistan (where Turkey has 1,200 troops), America is asking new questions about Turkish dependability as a Western ally.
Another thundercloud is gathering over demands by the Armenian diaspora in America, most of whom strongly supported Barack Obama's election as president, that he stick to the view he expressed as a senator that the massacre of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 should be seen as “genocide”. Turkey's recent efforts at reconciliation with Armenia, motivated in part by hopes of staving off a formal recognition of genocide by the Obama administration, seem to be making little progress. Some Western diplomats ascribe this to the pressure hawks in the diaspora have applied to the Armenian president, Serzh Sargsyan.
But it is at home that Mr Erdogan is causing the most concern. The hope was that, with his legal travails behind him, the prime minister would resume much-delayed political and economic reforms. Instead he has adopted an increasingly strident nationalist line. There is talk of his having struck a deal with Turkey's new, hardline chief of staff, Ilker Basbug, according to which Mr Erdogan has promised to freeze reforms that dilute the army's power in exchange for his party's not being attacked in court again.
Mr Erdogan's new approach was most evident in a speech he gave earlier this month in the predominantly Kurdish town of Hakkari. Responding to a wave of bloody protests that has racked the Kurdish region, he invited those who were not happy to “go wherever they please”. Ibrahim Guclu, an independent Kurdish politician, says that “in other words, he was telling the Kurds to get out.” This is a far cry from a ground-breaking speech Mr Erdogan made in Diyarbakir three years ago, when he admitted that the Turkish state had made mistakes with the Kurds.
Now he is giving the army much freer rein in its 34-year campaign against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). When Taraf, a liberal Turkish newspaper, exposed army negligence in a recent PKK attack that killed 17 soldiers at an outpost in Hakkari, he chose not to order an investigation and attacked the newspaper instead. His aides are reported to have blamed leaks of the intelligence reports cited by Taraf on Israel and the CIA.
Meanwhile EU-inspired work on drawing up a new constitution to replace the current one, drawn up by the generals after a military coup in 1980, has stalled. Reports of police torture and extra-judicial killings are on the rise. Turkey's liberal intelligentsia, long among Mr Erdogan's stalwart supporters, is grumbling, as is the European Commission. Mr Erdogan's response has been to rescind the press accreditation of several journalists who cover the prime ministry. All of this is giving more ammunition to those EU members that have never wanted Turkey to join their club.
Mr Erdogan owes much of his electoral success to the unprecedented economic stability of his time in office. By sticking firmly to IMF prescriptions Turkey helped foreign investment to soar, tamed inflation and narrowed the budget deficit. But the IMF standby arrangement expired in May. And although Mehmet Simsek, the economy minister, has repeatedly hinted that it should be extended, a deal remains elusive. Foreign investors, who hold as much as 70% of the Istanbul Stock Exchange, have been pulling out, and the lira has tumbled by more than a third against the dollar this year. Growth of GDP has dipped sharply, to below 2%. Turkey's huge current-account deficit makes it more vulnerable than many other emerging markets. Although it has so far been relatively unaffected by the world financial malady, it is only a matter of time “before it catches the bug”, says one Istanbul-based banker.
Mr Erdogan's supporters insist that the government's inertia is mainly to do with municipal elections being held next March. An IMF deal would preclude a pre-electoral spending spree. Being too nice to the Kurds might strengthen the nationalist opposition in the face of spiralling PKK terrorism. “Once the elections are over, you'll see the old AK,” promises Abdurrahman Kurt, an AK deputy from Diyarbakir.
But such promises are beginning to ring hollow. When Mr Erdogan won power a second time, with an even bigger share of the vote, in July 2007, he promised to reach out to all Turks “including those of you who didn't vote for me.” He seems now to be alienating such voters. And as corruption also starts to infect the AK's ranks, it is beginning to resemble many of the tired old parties that it buried at the polls.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "The worrying Tayyip Erdogan"
From the November 29th 2008 edition
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There are all sorts of errors that can creep into your credit reports – an account that isn’t even yours, a “late payment” that was actually made on time, a paid debt that’s still listed as in recoveries.
It can mean trouble. Your credit reports are used to calculate your all-important credit score, which determines your access to loans, credit cards, apartments, and even jobs.
According to an FTC study from last year, one in 20 people have significant errors in their credit report, enough to cause their credit score to increase by at least 25 points when corrected. It is not to be despised.
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Errors can appear on your report when lenders, banks, or credit bureaus get it wrong. However, it is your responsibility to have them repaired. “Credit reporting agencies have no obligation to correct anything on a credit report unless you tell them it’s wrong,” says John Ulzheimer, credit expert at CreditSesame.com.
The only way to find out about errors on your credit reports is to check them regularly. Go to annualcreditreport.com and request your three reports, one from each of the major credit reporting agencies: Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. This is the only place to get them for free, once a year.
As soon as you have your reports, carefully analyze the errors. A slightly misspelled address or variation of your name is minor; get it fixed but don’t worry too much. The most serious errors include accounts that don’t belong to you, collections that don’t belong to you, late payments that weren’t late, and loan applications that you didn’t authorize.
If you found something that you think is seriously inaccurate (rather than unfortunate), file a dispute. If the same error occurs in more than one report, you will need to file a dispute with each credit bureau. Fair? Nope. But the responsibility is on you.
Here are some best practices to keep in mind:
Consider postal mail. Filing your dispute online is the quickest option – and earlier this year the credit bureaus started allowing you to upload documents that help explain your dispute. It is an improvement. But experts say a letter sent by post might still be the best solution. The online form can be rigid (like a drop-down list of reasons for a dispute), says Ulzheimer, and you may find yourself accepting legal language you don’t want.
Fill out the right forms. The FTC has a letter model you can use to explain your dispute. Equifax and TransUnion also require you to submit their dispute form with your letter.
Explain yourself. “Be crystal clear” about what you’re challenging, Ulzheimer says. Don’t just say something is wrong, but state the facts of what is wrong and why. Include a detailed list if there are multiple issues. “You have to write it assuming the person reading it knows nothing about you,” he says.
Bring evidence. This is your chance to substantiate your claim however you can and prove you’re right about the error. Hunt down all the documents that could be useful: payment statements, court documents, identity documents, letters. For example, if a loan payment is listed as late on your report, but you have a monthly statement from the service agent showing it was made on time, include a copy (never the original) with your dispute. Circle or highlight relevant information.
Document everything. Before sending your dispute, make copies. Also record any conversations you have with credit bureaus, banks, or lenders. This creates a paper trail in case you decide to take legal action later.
Put it in the mail. Check the credit bureau’s site for further instructions and mailing addresses. Send disputes by certified mail and ask for a receipt to confirm delivery.
Give yourself enough time. The credit bureau must review your request and issue a response, but it may take up to 45 days to get back to you. While it’s likely to be a lot quicker, Ulzheimer says, you don’t want to wait until just before applying for a mortgage or car loan to sort things out.
When you receive a response from the credit bureau, the response will tell you whether the disputed item has been removed, corrected, or remains the same. It basically comes down to whether or not the bank or lender agrees with you – see, the credit bureau passes them everything you sent and asks them to accept or reject the requested change. What they say usually goes.
If you’re having trouble fixing something, it may be because:
Your dispute lacked sufficient evidence or explanations. If so, and you think you can make a stronger case, go ahead and file another dispute. There’s no limit to how many times you can file – but if you start bombarding them with the exact same dispute they’ve already refused, legally they may consider it ‘frivolous’ and start stalking you. ignore.
The bank or lender disagrees with you. Let’s say you dispute an account you don’t recognize. If the bank agrees that the account is not yours, they will ask the office to remove it from your report. But if the bank thinks the account is yours, it will likely stay on your report.
Your account has been confused with someone else’s. If you dispute accounts or debts that don’t belong to you, your record could be confused with someone else’s, perhaps because of a name and address or security number similar social. It’s a different ball game. The lender can’t clear things up because it’s usually the credit bureau’s fault, Ulzheimer says, noting that errors occur when their automated system tries to match millions of pieces of information with the correct credit records. Even if you get weird information deleted at some point, it can still show up. Alternatively, if you think the errors signal identity theft, contact the credit bureau immediately and ask them to put a fraud alert on your record to limit further damage.
See also: 5 Common Credit Score Myths That Could Be Costing You Money
Although you should always start with a dispute with the credit bureau (this is a prerequisite in case you decide to take legal action), there are other steps you can take. For example, you can send a dispute directly to the bank or lender that got the information wrong in the first place. Use this letter model and include all the same documentation. If they agree with your dispute, they should send a correction to the credit bureaus.
You can also file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This information is passed to the credit bureau, which must respond to both you and the CFPB. Since credit bureaus are regulated by the CFPB, they may have an incentive to resolve the issue quickly.
Worse is worse, if you don’t fix mistakes, hire a lawyer who specializes in the Fair Credit Reporting Act and sues the credit bureau and the lender. Since this can be costly, first consider the impact the mistakes have had on your financial life, such as your ability to get a job, mortgage, or credit. If you’re not applying for credit anytime soon, remember that bad information usually leaves your report after seven years. | <urn:uuid:bace99a9-60e6-4897-bdee-b33da2b9450a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://planetrelish.com/how-to-clean-your-credit-report-of-costly-mistakes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950747 | 1,559 | 1.875 | 2 |
Title: Tripadvisor rates Einstein: using the social web to unpack the public meanings of a cultural heritage site
Authors: Trevor Owens
Addresses: Centre for History and New Media, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN 1E7, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
Abstract: Near the US Capitol, in front of the National Academy of Sciences sits a gigantic bronze statue of Albert Einstein. The monument was created to celebrate Einstein and the sense of awe and wonder his work represents. However, while under construction, art critics and some scientists derided the idea of the memorial. They felt the scale of such a giant memorial did not fit the modesty of Einstein. This paper explores the extent to which perspectives of the monument|s public supporters and critics can be seen in how people interact with it as evidenced in reviews and images of the monument posted online. I analyse how individuals appropriate the monument on social websites, including Fickr, Yelp, Tripadvisor, and Yahoo Travel, as a means to explore how the broader public co-creates the meaning of this particular memorial. I argue this case-study can serve as an example for leveraging the social web as a means to understand cultural heritage sites.
Keywords: public history; history of science; public understanding of science; pop-cosmopolitanism; Flickr; Yelp; Tripadvisor; Yahoo Travel; cultural heritage sites; social web; monuments; memory; Albert Einstein; Robert Berks; Phillip Handler; USA; United States; public monuments; public memorials.
International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2012 Vol.8 No.1, pp.40 - 56
Received: 08 May 2021
Accepted: 12 May 2021
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Allston had a great impact on my childhood due to his works on Dungeons & Dragons (the BECMI edition), in particular the role he played in writing defining supplements and sourcebooks for the World of Mystara.
In an interview in the Tome of Mystara fanzine he is introduced in this way:
To Mystara fans, the mention of the name "Aaron Allston" brings to mind gaming on a grand scale, world-shattering events, empires of staggering power. As well it should: Austin, Texas-based Allston can be considered the "Father of Mystara." His contributions include:
Skarda's MirrorBruce Heard, who was Product Manager for the "Classic" D&D (And Mystara) line at the time worked closely with Allston. Bruce also writes about his friend Allston on his blog today.
Grand Duchy of Karameikos
The Dwarves of Rockhome
Dawn of the Emperors
The Hollow World
Wrath of the Immortals
Poor Wizard's Almanac (I)
Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure
Mark of Amber
D&D Rules Cyclopedia
Rest In Peace. And thank you so much for the work that has given me so much joy and inspiration!
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Rejection of democracy is a common thread running through jihadist groups. The Syrian group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which evolved out of former al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, is no exception. Indeed, rejection of democracy is among the key principles of HTS. It is worth, however, exploring HTS' rejection of democracy in more detail. The commentary below was published on the channel of Abu Abdullah al-Shami (Abd al-Rahim Atoun: a leading figure in HTS) and shared on other channels of HTS leaders (e.g. al-Zubeir al-Ghazi and Abu Mariya al-Qahtani). It is a commentary on the mentioning of democracy in a recent civil society initiative in Idlib city (which is controlled by HTS) that featured participation from many associations and bodies, including those from the Turkish-occupied north Aleppo countryside- an area whose dynamics differ considerably from Idlib and its environs.
The argument for rejecting democracy (namely, that it contradicts Islam because it entrusts rule to someone besides God) is a familiar one. However, the commentary also argues that when most Muslims advocate democracy, they do not do so knowing that it contradicts Islam but rather because they erroneously think it concords with Islam. For instance, they think the mechanisms of democracy are in accordance with the Islamic principle of Shura (consultation). In addition, many erroneously pose a dichotomy of democracy vs. dictatorship, and equate democracy with freedom, not opposed in spirit to Islam when contrasted with dictatorship.
As such, the commentary suggests that the way forward is not to be harsh with the Muslims who advocate democracy, but rather to educate them with mildness and gentleness. In other words, one can see this commentary as advocating a generous 'excuse in ignorance' approach towards Muslims who advocate democracy despite the fact that it contradicts Islam. Further, the commentary warns against thinking that the administration of society is like the administration of a battalion or group based around one ideology. Instead, the existing Islamic instinct as in the 'liberated' areas of northwest Syria must be cared for and nurtured over time.
Below is my translation of the commentary. Any parenthetical insertions in square brackets are my own.
Comment on an event-
The word democracy said by one of the people on the margin of a meeting that bears the slogan 'Hand in hand we support our revolution.'
Let us consider it within the given facts:
1. HTS- as is well-known from its statements, publications and manhaj [program] that it teaches to its soldiers and its general manhaj- does not consider democracy to be right, as it contravenes the sole reference of authority for HTS which is the Islamic Shari'a.
2. Democracy has a doctrine and has its means of implementation. Democracy in the doctrinal sense contravenes Islam, as Islam arises on making rule belong to God, whereas democracy arises on making rule belong to one besides God (whoever else it might be). As for the mechanisms of democracy, like elections for example, it has some aspects of resemblance to the mechanisms of the Islamic system in rule, and here the matter may be confusing to some as they think that democracy accords with Islam, and among them are those who have thought it is a form of applying the principle of Shura in Islam.
Likewise democracy is commended for freedoms as opposed to the totalitarian dictatorship systems, so some fall into the dichotomy of 'democracy vs. dictatorship,' so they think that democracy is the only alternative to dictatorship.
3. The one who uses the word democracy from the Muslim masses who are in the position of the masses and imitators in Shari'i knowledge, even if they are at a degree of cultured nature and knowledge in other aspects of fields of knowledge: that person does not mean for the most part the meaning that contradicts the Islamic Shari'a, as he does not know the extent to which democracy contradicts Islam. Therefore one must observe that person's meaning, and through the reality we know that most of those who use the word or term democracy from the Muslim masses mean by it the freedom of which they dream that does not conflict in its spirit with the religion of Islam, as opposed to the state of affairs under the authority of dictatorship.
This is the case with most of the Muslims. As such, the obligation of the mashayakh and the Ahl al-'Ilm and the preachers and the mujahideen towards them is to explain, clarify and educate, and take them by the hand to get them to know the prior meanings with all gentleness and mildness, far removed from censure, harshness, punishment and judicial proceeding.
4. The incident alluded to should not be used to attack any side or record points and positions, but rather it represents the extent of the shortcoming of all sides in disseminating the da'wa among the people after eight years of this revolution and this blessed jihad.
5. Even if the meeting were under the supervision of HTS or within the areas of its control or with its blessing, it is not allowed to hold it responsible for the prior error.
6. If the soldiers of jihad and guardians of the revolution from the sons of HTS and every mujahid and fighter on the land of al-Sham from any faction think that the administration of society and people will be like the administration of the military battalion, they are wrong, and this error of theirs will lead them to failure, and they will not be a help for their leadership in the administration of the stage after the responsibilities grow large and the burdens increase. Rather, they will be a burden so long as they do not understand the societal state and the means of administering it, as the administration of society in all its colours, sides, in addition to its intellectual and cultural colours and backgrounds and its million figures, differs fundamentally from the administration of a military battalion, or the administration of a group of a specific ideology. And let the generation of mujahideen youth know that the society present right now in the liberated areas is not on the same ideological conceptions that this faction or that bears, and the people do not know the details of the issues of manhaj of thought for every group, and the masses of the people are on general Islamic fitra [instinct/character] that has been the true mobilizer for the revolutions. And it should now be considered its reserve storage and strategic storage, so that must be well looked-after in the application aspect and before that in the psychological aspect. | <urn:uuid:c8457963-ead0-425d-b1d0-abee84b0138e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aymennjawad.org/2018/12/a-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-perspective-on-democracy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956819 | 1,363 | 1.554688 | 2 |
UPDATE: Mo’Ne Davis pitched the first three innings in a losing effort by her team yesterday, but the Taney Dragons have a second chance today against a Chicago team. If they win, they’ll play Las Vegas again, for the U.S. championship, on Saturday–and Davis would probably be the pitcher. You can tune in for today’s game at 4:30 p.m. PST on ESPN.
As we told you last week, there’s a great young 13-year-old baseball player named Mo’Ne Davis who has pitched her team, the Taney Dragons of Philadelphia, into the 2014 Little League World Series. Oh yeah, and she’s a girl, which wouldn’t be such a big deal except so few girls have played in the World Series (18, compared to about 9,000 boys)—and no one has made quite the worldwide splash that Davis has.
In fact, she’s made the cover of the venerable Sports Illustrated—the first Little Leaguer to ever be so honored. Said cover story writer Albert Chen,
She’s a lot of things to a lot of different people, all of them good things: a totem for inner-city baseball, a role model for your 10-year-old niece, a role model for your 10-year-old nephew.
Since we last wrote about her, Davis, her long braids flying, pitched the first shutout ever by a girl at the World Series, staying cool and collected before a large crowd in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. A couple of days later, Davis didn’t pitch (Little League has rules about how often young pitchers can throw), but played third, shortstop and first base, and singled in her team’s first run (the Dragons won in a comeback, 7-6).
Until 40 years ago, Little League was solely a boys’ club. Don’t I know: I was one of those girls in the ’50s and ’60s who played ball in the streets, with Eddie and Keith and Henry, but then could only eat pizza and watch while they played on their Little League teams. One time a foul ball flew over the backstop and I rushed over to retrieve it from the scrub brush and throw it over the screen and onto the field. “Put that girl in Little League!” the announcer said. Greatest moment of my young life.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 4:30 PST on ESPN, the Taney Dragons take on Las Vegas, with Davis on the pitching mound again. Even if the Dragons lose, they’ll get a second chance to win another game and get into the U.S. championship game. This coming Sunday, the top U.S. team will play the top international team for the Little League world title.
Around age 15, boys’ testosterone kicks in with enough force to create a strength gap between the sexes. So who knows if Davis will be able to stay even with boys in high school baseball, let alone in college. And she’s a baseball player, folks, not a softball player—don’t expect her to switch to the more-acceptable-for-girls sport.
But not to worry. Her real dream is to play basketball for the University of Connecticut women’s team, long one of the top squads in the nation.
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6 Cute Printable Memory Games for Kids
Printable Memory Games for Kids are perfect to help children learn and develop their brain power while having fun at the same time.
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Are you looking for a fun activity for your kids that is also educational?
Playing memory games with your kids is a great way to help them learn new skills. These games are not only fun, but they also help develop their mental capacity and sharpen their memory!
Kids love playing memory games. It’s a great way to keep them entertained and teach new things at the same time.
Benefits of playing memory games for kids
Memory games for kids are perfect way to keep kids entertained for hours. There are many benefits to printable memory games for kids. Such games:
- Can help improve their memory skills.
- Help improve their focus and concentration.
- Help increase their problem-solving skills.
- Are fun way to learn new information.
All of these benefits can help kids in school and beyond.
So, if you’re looking for a way to help your child improve their skills, try printable memory games!
Printable Memory Games
Printable Memory Games for kids are not only educational but great companion for outdoor activities.
If you are planning a road trip, taking a plane ride or dining out, take these memory games along. Kids will be busy and quiet while playing these games.
Thanks to such games, parents will be spared of a constant “Are we there yet?” repeats.
Make Memories with Kids
I created these fun printables to take along anywhere kids might feel bored. I am so excited to share these with you today, because of the variety of elements I was able to add to each game. This package includes:
These games are perfect for preschool kids up to first graders. If you find your kids interested in animals or ocean creatures, you can have them play with animals memory games, or oceans memory games. They will be able to recognize the images on these cards while having fun.
If they are interested in Farm Animals Puzzles, they can play this Farm Animal Word Search.
If you want your kids to get interested in eating fruits and veggies, have them play these fruits and veggies printable memory games for kids. You can educate them about healthy eating while entertaining them.
Have them count the numbers with number memory games. They can match and learn about different shapes with match the shapes game.
If your little ones love numbers and math, download and print these Math Worksheets for Kindergarten students.
How to download and print?
1. Download the pdf files (of all the games or the ones you like);
2. Open the PDF files in Adobe Reader (download it from here for free);
3. Using the Print command, print on thick card stock paper. I recommend heavy card stock paper so that it looks professionally done;
4. If you plan to use these over and over, I’d recommend laminating the cards for longer durability;
5. Cut them along the lines.
How to play these Memory Games?
1. To play these memory games for kids, print even number of copies of each game. 2 or 4, something like that to make sure that you have at least one match of each image.
2. Laminate them if you plan on using these over and over for longer durability.
3. Cut along the lines.
4. Mix up the small cards.
5. Lay them on the table or floor, face down.
6. Players take turn turning the two cards. If they match, player gets to keep them. If not, turn them back over.
7. Players need to remember what was on each card and where it was.
8. Once all the cards have been turned over and matched, the game is over.
9. To keep it going for long, print a few copies of each memory card.
These printable memory games for kids have been a life saver for parents like me, especially on the long road trips or at the restaurants. Make sure to download you copies today and make those trips memorable.
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Here is a report on how digital agriculture is enhancing output and incomes of African farmers. Agriculture has the potential to become a panacea to the unemployment syndrome in most African economies, that is if Africans would realize the prospects it offers
According to a new report by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Dalberg Advisors – Digitilisation of African Agriculture Report 2018-2019 – more than 90% of the market for digital services that support African smallholders remain untapped and could be worth more than €2bn (US$2.26bn).
The report found nearly 400 different digital agriculture solutions with 33 million registered farmers across sub-Saharan Africa.
However, the current digitalisation for agriculture (D4Ag) market is likely to be the tip of the iceberg, with a penetration of just 6%, and turnover of an estimated €127m (US$143m) in 2018 out of a total addressable market of €2.3bn (US$2.6bn).
The report found an annual growth of more than 40% for both the number of registered farmers and the number of digital solutions, suggesting the D4Ag market in Africa is likely to reach the majority of the region’s farmers by 2030.
Modernising Africa agriculture
“Digitalisation can be a game-changer in modernising and transforming Africa’s agriculture, attracting young people to farming and allowing farmers to optimise production while also making them more resilient to climate change,” said Michael Hailu, director of CTA.
“This report indicates that despite challenges, the economics are rapidly improving, with a handful of players beginning to develop viable, large-scale businesses. To reach its full potential, companies will now need to focus on converting customer reach to actual use in order for this type of model to yield returns.”
Among the digital solutions tracked and analysed in the report were farmer advisory services, which provided weather or planting information via SMS or smartphone applications, and financial services including loans and insurance for farmers.
Improving supply chain management
Other solutions linked farmers with markets for farm inputs and farm produce, or provided supply chain management to improve traceability and last-mile logistics.
Some services used satellite imagery, weather data, powerful big data analytics and machine learning techniques to deliver valuable real-time agricultural insights and forecasts at national and regional levels.
More than a third of participants in the study said they already used at least one form of advanced technology such as drones, field sensors, big data or machine learning, and almost 60 per cent of respondents said they expected to integrate these types of technologies into their operations in the next three years.
Early figures indicated that farmers saw improvements in yields ranging from 23 to 73%, and increases of 18 to 37% in incomes from using these solutions. Models that bundled more than one solution together—so-called “super platforms” which combine digital market linkages, digital finance, and digital advisory service—were associated with yet further improved yields of up to 168%.
Supporting agriculture transformation
“Digitalisation for agriculture has the potential not just to support agricultural transformation in Africa but to do so sustainably and inclusively for Africa’s 250 million smallholder farmers and pastoralists,” said Michael Tsan, partner at Dalberg Advisors and co-leader of the firm’s global Digital and Data Practice.
“While the opportunity is immense, the report is not naïve about the challenges that remain and the significant work required by agribusiness, governments, donors, and investors to maximise the transformative impacts of digital agriculture in years to come.”
The report highlighted several gaps in D4Ag uptake, particularly among women, who account for more than 40% of the agricultural labour force yet comprise only a quarter of the registered users of digital services. Such digital divides and other concerns such as the privacy and safety of farmer data remain potential risks, the authors said.
“The last decade has been the ‘ICT4Ag’ age, focused on developing and testing the potential for digital solutions in agriculture,” said Benjamin Addom, team leader, ICTs for agriculture, CTA.
“The next decade—the ‘D4Ag’ age—will be about translating this potential into reality and doing so equitably and sustainably.”
The report made several recommendations for harnessing the potential of digitalisation in African agriculture. These included:
• The creation of an alliance to promote partnerships and scale up solutions,
• More attention to farmer data privacy and security,
• Further focus on measuring D4Ag impacts,and
• Substantially scaled up investment for D4Ag infrastructures such as national agriculture data systems, weather/climate surveillance, and digitised field agronomy assets.
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Nazrana (Offerings): Early Age of Islam - Qurtubi (d. 1273) writes in Al Jami li-Ahkam al-Koran (13th vol., p. 132) that, “The Prophet of Islam and all the prophets accepted and encouraged the exchange of gifts on account of their beneficial effect on human relations.”
By Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali
Nazrana in Ismaili History
The legacy of the nazrana was prevalent in the Dawr-i Satr (concealment period) of the Ismaili history. When the animosity of the enemies reached to its extreme, the Imams had to hide themselves to elude discovery. Once, when the contact of the Ismaili dais was broken with Imam Wafi Ahmad (d. 828), dai Hurmuz and his son Mahdi, dai Surhaf bin Rustam and his son Imran came forward to institute a search of the Imam. They collected over four thousand dinars from the Ismailis as a nazrana for the Imam. After a struggle of one year, they succeeded to find the Imam in the district of Hims in Syria and presented the nazrana.
In the era of Fatimid Shi’a Dynasty
Qaid Jawhar (911-992), the Commander-in-Chief of the Fatimid forces conquered Egypt in 969. In 970, he sent a special gift (nazrana) to Imam Muizz in Maghrib. The gift, according to Idris Imad al-Din (d. 1468) in Uyun’l Akbar consisted of 21 domes loaded on she-camels, which included five domes and the camel covering decorated with gold, one studded with jewels and the rest were silk and brocade; 50 horses, saddled and bridled, 50 decorated she-camels and more than 50 camels. These she-camels and camels had wrapped loads, tied cages, rarities and birds. Jafar, the son of Qaid Jawhar set out with this gift to al-Mansuria in Maghrib accompanied with a galaxy of dignitaries.
In 973, Imam al-Muizz entered Cairo, which was placarded with Imam’s name and the praises of Ali. He was acclaimed by the people, who crowded to his first public audience. He was presented precious nazrana by the prominent noblemen, in which the nazrana of Jawhar was splendid. Stanley Lane Poole writes in History of Egypt (London, 1914, p. 98) that, “It includes 500 horses with saddles and bridles encrusted with gold, amber and precious stones; tents of silk and cloth of gold, borne on Bactrian camels; dromedaries, mules, and camels of burden; filigree coffers full of gold and silver vessels; gold-mounted swords; caskets of chased silver containing precious stones; a turban set with jewels, and 900 boxes filled with samples of all the goods that Egypt produced.”
According to Daim al-Islam (p. 330), “When people provide food (ma’ida, pl. mawa’id) or feasts for the progeny of the Prophet, the angels surround them and glorify the Lord and ask for the pardon of those that partake of the meal.”
We have many examples of the affluent class, who presented their choicest nazrana to the Imams through the Dais, Pirs or Vakils. Dr. Mustapha Ghaleb writes in Alam al-Ismailia (Beirut, 1964) that the Syrian Ismailis used to send their nuzur (nazrana) to the Imams from time to time during the Fatimid and Alamut periods.
During the post-Alamut period, the Pirs, vakils or any visitors when travelled in Iran from India, the followers gave them few items to be presented to the Imam, known as nazar (nazrana) or khidmati. The value of nazrana ranged from a coconut to that of precious jewels, established among the people of all walks of life. The food, fruits, grains, furniture, jewels, etc. were not possible to take away during the long tedious journey. It seems to have been decided to get them disposed off in the house of an elder person, and its proceeds were sent to the Imams as a nazrana of so and so members of the jamat.
Nazrana (Offerings) In Ginans - Pir Sadruddin exhorted that whatever is offered to the Imam, the giver (wahib) will get its rewards
Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali has authored several articles and books, including Encyclopedia of Ismailism, 101 Ismaili Heroes and Ismailis through History. For several decades, he has been involved with Ismaili Tarqiah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) in Pakistan as an Honorary Missionary and lecturer of religious education classes on history, ginans and other educational topics.
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Research Article | Open Access
Sarah Cuschieri, Johann Craus, Charles Savona-Ventura, "The Role of Untimed Blood Glucose in Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in a High Prevalent Diabetic Population", Scientifica, vol. 2016, Article ID 3984024, 6 pages, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/3984024
The Role of Untimed Blood Glucose in Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in a High Prevalent Diabetic Population
Global prevalence increase of diabetes type 2 and gestational diabetes (GDM) has led to increased awareness and screening of pregnant women for GDM. Ideally screening for GDM should be done by an oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT), which is laborious and time consuming. A randomized glucose test incorporated with anthropomorphic characteristics may be an appropriate cost-effective combined clinical and biochemical screening protocol for clinical practice as well as cutting down on oGTTs. A retrospective observational study was performed on a randomized sample of pregnant women who required an OGTT during their pregnancy. Biochemical and anthropomorphic data along with obstetric outcomes were statistically analyzed. Backward stepwise logistic regression and receiver operating characteristics curves were used to obtain a suitable predictor for GDM without an oGTT and formulate a screening protocol. Significant GDM predictive variables were fasting blood glucose () and random blood glucose (). Different RBG and FBG cutoff points with anthropomorphic characteristics were compared to carbohydrate metabolic status to diagnose GDM without oGTT, leading to a screening protocol. A screening protocol incorporating IADPSG diagnostic criteria, BMI, and different RBG and FBG criteria would help predict GDM among high-risk populations earlier and reduce the need for oGTT test.
In Europe, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) are on the increase, with 56 million individuals reportedly suffering from T2DM and 60.6 million having IGT [1, 2]. The apparent rising rates of T2DM/IGT and obesity are expected to contribute to a concomitant rise in GDM prevalence rates [3, 4]. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reported that, in 2013, an estimate of 10.9% of pregnancies in Europe suffered from gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) . Having a high prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) is a known risk factor for the development of GDM . The Mediterranean population is particularly susceptible to both T2DM and obesity and hence has a concomitant relatively high prevalence of GDM [5, 6]. Malta is a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, with high prevalence of obesity as well as type 2 diabetes mellitus. The GDM prevalence rate in this population has been estimated in 2010 to be 16.5% of the whole pregnant population using the newly proposed International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Group (IADPSG) diagnostic criteria [4, 5]. The high prevalence of obesity and diabetes mellitus in the Maltese population has been linked to intrauterine nutritional environment adverse effects and to genetic influences [6, 7].
Screening for gestational diabetes during pregnancy has become a common practice among obstetricians. Two screening options are possible, universal screening with an oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT) or screening based on the identification of clinical risk factors. Pregnant women should ideally be screened for GDM with a routine oGTT between 24and 28 weeks of gestational age, since this is the time where most hormonal changes occur and any possible insulin resistance would be detected . Due to lack of international GDM screening strategy, a recent review on the different screening practices across Europe found that there was lack of consistency in screening practices for GDM. In 2014, it was stated that 70% of the 42 European countries routinely offer universal screening for GDM to all pregnant women while the remaining follow a targeted risk criteria approach and screen only high-risk pregnant women . The choice of screening method in use by specific health providers often depends on risk-benefit and cost-effectiveness ratios. Diagnostic criteria also vary from one country to another, though there is increasing acceptance, including Malta, of the IADPSG criterion .
In Malta, GDM screening is primarily currently based on the identification of high-risk individuals based on their anthropomorphic and clinical characteristics, supplemented by a convenient venous blood glucose estimate. The aim of this present study was to investigate the role of a convenient untimed random venous blood glucose estimation in identifying the individuals at risk of GDM and thus propose a cost-effective combined clinical and biochemical screening protocol for clinical practice.
2. Materials and Methods
A retrospective observational study was done to evaluate the screening of pregnant women who had undergone an oGTT during their pregnancy and thus had a definite diagnosis of their carbohydrate metabolic status. All the pregnant women attending the first antenatal visit in the national hospital were invited to participate in the study and undergo a 75-gram oGTT at about 24–28 weeks of pregnancy. The national hospital in Malta caters for over 95% of all maternities in the Maltese Islands. The selection process may have contributed to an element of bias since individuals with high-risk characteristics including an elevated BMI were more likely to have been encouraged by the attending clinicians to participate than those with low risk characteristics. The study population however included a mix of high-risk and low risk individuals. Pregnant women who had a known history of any form of diabetes prior to becoming pregnant were excluded. A total of 401 pregnant women underwent an early third trimester 75-gram oGTT over a period of twelve months between June 2011 and June 2012 at Mater Dei General Hospital, Malta. This population sample accounts for about 10% of the obstetric population. Besides the blood glucose estimations including random blood glucoses (RBG), fasting blood glucose (FBG), and 1 hr and 2 hr oGTT, further biological data was collected including maternal age and anthropomorphic characteristics of the mother (including self-reported weight of the mother before becoming pregnant and the measured height of the mother). Venous blood for glucose estimation was collected in a fluoride tube and stored in a fridge. The samples were transported in a cooler to the hospital’s biochemistry laboratory as soon as the oGTT test was completed or at the end of the outpatient session [maximum period from venesection to assay was four hours]. Fluoride tubes were used in order to minimize glycolysis that would occur if blood was placed in nonfluoride containing tubes. Once at the laboratory, the fluoride tubes were centrifuged for 5 minutes followed by glucose oxidation by a hexokinase photometric analyzer. The rate of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) formation during the reaction is directly proportional to the glucose concentration and is measured photometrically.
The population under study was divided into two groups on the basis of the oGTT results: Group 1 included women () whose oGTT showed normal glycemic tolerance (NGT) and Group 2 included women () whose oGTT confirmed GDM according to the IADPSG criteria. Ethical approval was granted from the University of Malta Research and Ethics Committee. Informed consent was obtained from each mother prior to storage of any data.
The data was analyzed using SPSS version 21, using four levels of analysis.(1)The means and standard deviations for maternal age, prepregnancy BMI, and the biochemical values (RBG and FBG) for the two subgroups (NGT and GDM) were compared statistically using Student’s -test.(2)The range of biochemical values (RBG, FBG, and 2nd hour BG after OGTT) was statistically correlated to the range of maternal age and of prepregnancy BMI using Pearson’s correlation test.(3)Backward stepwise logistic regression analysis was performed on the population sample to establish a significant predictor for GDM without using an oGTT. The predictors under study were RBG, FBG, maternal age, and prepregnancy BMI.(4)Using a specific-designed excel spreadsheet programme, the specificity, sensitivity, and positive and negative predictor values for different RBG and FBG cutoff points were worked out. Statistical significance between NGT and GDM subgroups was assessed using the chi square test.
The GDM subgroup were shown to be statistically significantly older than their NGT counterparts (mean maternal age of 30.8 ± 5.33 range 17–44 years versus 29.2 ± 5.06 range 15–41 years: ). The mean prepregnancy BMI (where available) in the GDM group () was higher than for the NGT group () (28.3 + 7.0 versus 26.3 ± 6.4 kg/m2; ). The anthropomorphic characteristic of prepregnancy BMI and maternal age further showed statistically significant correlation to the different biochemical values (RBG, FBG, and 2 hr oGTT) (Table 1).
|: statistical probability; : Pearson’s coefficient; : number of observations.|
The GDM subgroup had significantly elevated mean RBG values compared to their NGT counterparts (5.4 ± 1.5 mmol/L versus 4.7 ± 0.9 mmol/L: ), as well as elevated mean FBG values (5.0 ± 1.1 mmol/L versus 4.3 ± 0.4 mmol/L: ). Both RBG () and FBG () were shown to have independent predictive significance using a backward stepwise logistic regression analysis. On the other hand, maternal age () and prepregnancy BMI () showed no significance. ROC curves were performed on the diagnosed GDM subgroup to identify the best screening predictor. RBG was an inferior predictor test when compared to FBG (sensitivity 69.2%; specificity 43.3%; AUC 0.598; SE 0.36; ; 95% CI 0.527–0.668) with an indicative predictor GDM cutoff point for FBG and RBG of 4.5 mmol/L.
The sample data was divided according to the glucose status (NGT and GDM) and to the RBG value obtained during the booking visit. Table 2 illustrates the sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictor and negative predictor values for variable RBG cutoff values. A RBG cutoff point of ≥6.0 mmol/L was found to have a sensitivity of 26.3% and a specificity of 90.1%. With this cutoff point, 15.4% of the pregnant women would require a follow-up oGTT. Using a lower cutoff point of ≥5.6 mmol/L would increase the sensitivity to 39.1% but decrease the specificity to 87.1%. About 21.7% of women would require follow-up with an oGTT.
The ROC curves analysis confirmed that FBG was a better screening tool with prediction capabilities using a cutoff point of 4.5 mmol/L (sensitivity 60%; specificity 70%; AUC 0.703; SE 0.035; ; 95% CI 0.634–0.771). The use of FBG for screening at the higher cutoff point of ≥5.1 mmol/L showed a sensitivity of 48.1% and a specificity of 100.0%. None of the women with a FBG ≥ 5.1 mmol/L would require an oGTT since this FBG level is considered diagnostic of GDM by the IADPSG criteria. Bringing the screening FBG value down to a cutoff point of ≥4.5 mmol/L increased the sensitivity to 60.2% but decreased the specificity to 63.5%. This cutoff point value would require 28.3% of the population to undergo an oGTT (Table 3).
The identification and management of women with GDM is desirable to achieve improvement in neonatal and maternal morbidities . The current study presents a population with an apparent GDM prevalence of 33.9%. This is far in excess of the previously reported prevalence rate of 16.5% in the Maltese pregnant population [4, 5]. However, this study relied on a convenient sample population and was not designed as an epidemiological study. This led to potential bias selection of high-risk individuals, thus accounting for the apparent excessive higher prevalence rate in this study when compared to previous epidemiologically based studies.
Biochemical screening with a conveniently timed RBG test, as identified in other studies and systemic reviews, was found to be statistically inferior when compared to a FBG test as a predictive tool for GDM . In fact the AUC value of the RBG falls out of the confidence interval of the AUC for the FBG. This study’s ideal predictive cutoff value for RBG was of ≥4.5 mmol/L, where women obtaining this value or above can be considered at risk of GDM. While associated with a sensitivity of 69.2%, this cutoff point however is associated with a specificity of only 43.3% so that about 57% of the pregnant population would be identified as being at risk of GDM. An oGTT would therefore be required in 60.9% of the population. When different RBG ranges were set up and compared to carbohydrate metabolic status as diagnosed by oGTT, the ideal cutoff RBG value was found to be ≥5.6 mmol/L, identifying 39.1% of the GDM population. This however would require an oGTT to be performed in 21.7% of the population. A study by Jowett et al. showed similar results where, at a threshold of 5.6 mmol/L, the RBG had a sensitivity varying between 25% (95% CI 18–27%) and 47% (95% CI 37–56%) with corresponding specificity between 97% (95% CI 91–99%) and 74% (95% CI 66–81%) . An alternative cutoff of ≥6.0 mmol/L would identify 26.3% of the GDM population but require an oGTT to be performed in only 15.4% of the pregnant population. A systemic review on the accuracy of RBG as a screening test found that sensitivities and specificities varied from a specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of 20–30% to 100% sensitivity with a specificity of 40%. This study concluded that performing just a RBG measure is inadequate to screen for GDM . The cutoff choice should be therefore made on a cost-benefit criterion by individual health providers, keeping cognizant of the costs and inconvenience of the oGTT to the health provider and the woman. It is important in the clinical setting that venous blood glucose estimation in order to be successful, to be delivered to the biochemistry laboratory as quick as possible. The transit time is crucial even in the presence of fluoride, since glucose decays quite rapidly at room temperature, so that in an hour a fasting sample with a true of 5.4 mmol/L would probably be reported as less than 5 mmol/L.
A FBG assessment used for screening would identify 48.1% of the GDM population using the IADPSG diagnostic cutoff value of ≥5.1 mmol/L . A lower screening cutoff FBG value of ≥4.5 mmol/L would identify a greater proportion (60.2%) of GDM women but would require about 28.3% of the pregnant population to undergo an oGTT. Interestingly, in this study, the ideal cutoff points for both the RBG and FBG were similar at ≥4.5 mmol/L. This could be that pregnant women while waiting for their booking visit consultation may end up unintentionally fasted by the time their blood sample is taken and checked.
A high self-reported prepregnancy BMI (>30 kg/m2) also showed a definite statistical correlation to the different blood glucose values, with a borderline nonstatistical significant correlation to carbohydrate metabolic status. The lack of statistical significance could be due to the fact that the prepregnancy body weight was self-reported possibly with a tendency to underrepresent actual body weight. Maternal age in this study failed to show a useful correlation, though GDM women tended to be older.
On the basis of this study, a management flowchart for a cost-effective screening programme can be proposed (Figure 1). All women should have their BMI at booking assessed, and any individual with a booking BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 should be considered high risk and a FBG assessment taken. The same BMI cutoff point was found to be statistically significant to prediction for GDM by Crete and Anasti . Those obese women with a FBG ≥ 5.1 mmol/L are diagnosed as suffering from GDM and lifestyle change intervention and metabolic profiling should be initiated. Hypoglycaemic medication should be introduced as necessary to maintain normoglycaemia. Those obese women with a FBG value of 4.5–5.0 mmol/L should have lifestyle change intervention instituted and should be referred for an oGTT at 24–28 weeks of gestation. Zhu et al. put a similar screening suggestion forward where women with FBG between 4.4 and 5.1 mmol/L required undergoing an oGTT to confirm or rule out GDM. In this study, this screening suggestion failed to identify about 12% of the GDM cases but reduced the number of oGTTs needed by 50.3% . In a Mediterranean population, a comparative screening protocol failed to identify 10.1% of the GDM population and required the performance of an OGTT in 31.1% of the pregnant population . Metabolic profiling would be introduced with a diagnosis of GDM on oGTT.
Women with a BMI < 30 kg/m2 should be initially referred for a RBG at booking. In accordance with the IADPSG criteria, those with a RBG ≥ 11.1 mmol/L would be immediately considered diabetic . A RBG value of 6.0–11.0 mmol/L should be followed up with a recall for a FBG. A FBG of ≥5.1 mmol/L would be considered diagnostic of GDM. Such a protocol would ensure a reasonable sensitivity and specificity, while keeping the proportion of patients referred for an oGTT to reasonable levels. If the healthcare facilities allow further testing, it would be reasonable to consider referring nonobese women with a FBG of 4.5–5.0 mmol/L for an oGTT at 24–28 weeks of gestation. This screening protocol incorporates the new IADPSG diagnostic criteria that has been accepted and adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and American Diabetes Association (ADA) [8, 19]. It incorporates the high-risk population predictor tool as identified in this study. Following such protocol would help predict GDM at an earlier onset and reduce the need for cumbersome oGTT test.
The study was performed on data obtained from a convenient sample population rather than a one representative for the whole pregnant population. This precludes actual calculation of screening costs with a national health center setting. There was some lack of data for the prepregnancy BMI which being dependent on self-reporting of prepregnancy weight was inherently unreliable and inaccurate. Also there was no distinction made between any differences in cultural ethnicity of the pregnant women under study. Furthermore, the study was performed on a small sample population of GDM women. A larger population sample study is suggested to evaluate further the proposed screening protocol. Further studies should be made to assess the outcomes of those neonates born to unidentified GDM mothers to better assess the cost-risk ratios.
A screening guideline at the first antenatal encounter should be followed to identify at an early stage those women who are at risk to develop GDM. A combination of BMI assessment and RBG and FBG testing appears to be a useful screening method to identify a good proportion of patients with GDM without the need for universal screening with an oGTT. All obese and relative hyperglycaemic patients should receive lifestyle intervention and dietary advice at the first antenatal visit. This advice should be reinforced at each subsequent antenatal visit by keeping a check on the weight gain in the preceding weeks. Anthropomorphic characteristics along with RBG and or FBG would predict GDM pregnant women and reduce the need for oGTT.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
The authors would like to acknowledge all pregnant women that gave their consent to take part in this study. The research work disclosed in this publication is partially funded by the Master it! Scholarship Scheme (Malta). This Scholarship is part-financed by the European Union-European Social Fund (ESF) under Operational Programme II-Cohesion Policy 2007–2013, “Empowering People for More Jobs and a Better Quality of Life.”
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RevOps (Revenue Operations) is a B2B (business-to-business) solution that helps organizations increase their revenue by aligning sales, post-sales, and marketing. It uses automation for better decision-making in business and ensures its better growth.
In this blog, you’ll learn how RevOps can help different teams within your organization
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Role of RevOps in Different Teams of an Organization
The main role of the RevOps is to maintain a smooth transition of information within all your departments. However, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a RevOps team.
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Moving on, from sales and marketing to customer service, RevOps is useful for various organizational teams.
RevOps helps marketing experts recognize any loopholes within an organization, such as inconsistent records or duplicate contacts. These things help maintain good revenue flow in an organization.
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The private is political: A journey via Palestinian exile
“ … In Palestinian dialect, ghurba is synonymous with the word “exile”, and as an idea it signifies points reminiscent of dislocation and expulsion from one’s house, household and group … And it does this not solely by way of a unique mode of being, a temporal and an existential circumstance, but in addition as a spatial geopolitical strategy of pressured removing during which the Palestinian topic, to borrow Edward Said’s terminology, is frequently put “out of place” within the current.”
Ihab Saloul, Catastrophe and Exile within the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories
I’m a Canadian-born citizen of Palestinian origin.
My household are Palestinian refugees of Lebanon, the place each my mother and father had been born and raised in refugee camps.
My grandparents had been ethnically cleansed from the village of Suhmata below Operation Hiram, an expulsion marketing campaign executed by the Golani Brigade on October 30, 1948.
My identification card issued by the Republic of Lebanon to maintain intergenerational data of Palestinians of Lebanon is the one doc in my possession that proves my stateless Palestinian identification.
Canada to the UAE: No place to return to
My mother and father turned residents of Canada after escaping in the course of the peak of the Lebanese Civil War within the early Eighties. My father had secured a scholarship to check in Canada. As for a lot of Palestinians, schooling was his solely avenue out.
When he first travelled to Manitoba he spent an evening in transit in New York, accompanied always by a US Marshal who stayed in the identical room and managed his journey paperwork till he boarded his onward flight. He was subjected to this heightened stage of safety in response to the 1983 bombings by Hezbollah of barracks in Beirut that killed greater than 200 US Marines.
Upon his arrival, he discovered that the anticipated funding for his Masters in Atomic Physics on the University of Manitoba was not obtainable. But the school funded his research in order that he was capable of keep in Canada and finally set up his refugee standing, stopping his return to a civil conflict in a rustic hostile in the direction of Palestinian refugees. My mom, nonetheless, was trapped in Beirut for an extra 5 months of intense and bloody battle, by curfews and closures of airports and roads. She later described to us how the streets had been abandoned however for the snipers who hid in all places.
Already traumatised by the civil conflict and the hardships of being Palestinian in Lebanon, my mother and father – like most refugees and new immigrants attempting to resettle in Canada – now confronted the just about not possible process of attempting to help our household with out social help. As well-educated and extremely expert as they had been, it was too laborious. I recall one story about how my father tried to search out work with NASA however was advised bluntly that he couldn’t be employed there due to his ethnic background.
So, after I was 5 years previous – after seven years in Canada – my father secured a place within the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We knew that as foreigners within the nation, each alternative was non permanent and that it was inevitably going to come back to an finish. But what makes the Palestinian expertise totally different to that of others is that there isn’t any place of belonging to return to. That thought all the time lingered behind our minds, together with the information that every transfer would take us farther from our group and prolonged household.
As we had been travelling to the UAE in August 1990, nearly half one million Palestinian refugees had been being expelled from Kuwait, in retaliation for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s invasion. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief Yasser Arafat’s stance of siding with Saddam Hussein in the course of the conflict led to the retaliation in opposition to Palestinians. On our arrival within the UAE, we had been confronted with an airport overcrowded with frightened and displaced Kuwaiti and Saudi nationals. I bear in mind feeling one thing that I might really feel repeatedly all through my life: the necessity to cover that I used to be Palestinian.
Lebanon: ‘Take the keffiyeh off your head’
Almost each summer time we might spend three months in or close to the Palestinian refugee camps in numerous components of Lebanon with members of my prolonged household.
My grandfather had some ways of commanding respect for his tradition and identification as a Palestinian and resisting erasure of who we’re as a individuals.
When I used to be about eight or 9 years previous, my grandfather, who was employed by the UN company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, to supervise infrastructure upkeep on the Rashidiya camp the place he lived, relayed an encounter he had had with a high-level European UNRWA worker.
“Take the keffiyeh off your head,” this particular person had advised him.
My grandfather answered with a query: “Are you someone who will wear the keffiyeh on your head?”
“No,” the UNRWA worker replied.
“The same way that you are unable to wear it, I am unable to remove it,” my grandfather responded.
I bear in mind how he would stroll via the orchards and groves close to the camp with me, sharing tales of Suhmata and educating me about land stewardship and its riches, recalling our lifestyle as falaheen (farming). It was in a type of moments that I realised what my genuine identification felt like. Indigenous peoples name this coronary heart and blood reminiscence; one thing felt though not tangibly current.
I bear in mind too the silence that crammed the gathering of prolonged household when my grandfather expressed his approval of my aptitude in English at such a younger age. He boasted about his personal fluency and went on to state, “F****** Arabs,” repeating what was mentioned to him in the course of the ethnic cleaning campaigns, with out understanding its significance, and reminding everybody of the Zionist-British colonial collusion.
Another clear reminiscence is of being on the UNRWA administrative workplace within the Rashidiya refugee camp after I was about 12 years previous with my late aunt who was combating most cancers and attempting to safe protection for chemotherapy-related medicine. She was advised that since she was “likely to die”, medical rationing was one thing they needed to do, given the fixed menace to the organisation’s finances.
Canada redirected its contributions (giving them to the safety challenge of then Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as an alternative of UNRWA) in 2010 below the Harper authorities within the identify of combating terrorism, and we see the Trump administration doing the identical. This contributes to a long-standing monetary disaster which cripples the organisation’s capacity to satisfy the essential wants of Palestinian refugees, with notably dire penalties for these in Lebanon, which has essentially the most troubled political circumstances of all of the host international locations.
This method illuminates the distinction between contributing to a coverage of exile and estrangement versus a coverage of solidarity. Supporting Palestinians in having fundamental social justice as stateless individuals in a hostile host nation is a present of solidarity versus utilizing it as a instrument to scapegoat and impose political stress below the guise of “fighting terrorism”.
Lebanon or Canada? A degrading predicament
After contributing 11 years of his life to the schooling sector within the UAE my father’s contract was ended and we got 10 days to depart the nation. It was the summer time of 2001 and I used to be 16 years previous.
There was no good selection about the place to ship our belongings given the predicament of placelessness and fixed consideration of potential political scapegoating that comes with being a Palestinian.
Initially, we travelled to Lebanon for the summer time, after which my mother and father’ two choices had been to stay near household in or close to the refugee camps, counting on UNRWA and incurring the excessive price of sending my siblings and me to Lebanese faculties or to journey to Canada, the place we may attend public faculties and college at a decrease price.
The predicament lies in selecting between having higher assets however additional geographical and communal exile or remaining geographically and communally nearer however with fewer assets. When I mirror on these choices, I realise that each are degrading in their very own manner – as a result of neither of them are our place of belonging.
We left for Canada in August 2001 and though we’re Canadian residents, we arrived again in Winnipeg like we had been new refugees. After being away for greater than a decade, it was like beginning over once more. We checked into the closest motel. It was a whole tradition shock. Having to construct a way of house once more from scratch felt like a present-day Nakba, an expertise that’s fixed within the lives of Palestinians because of the absence of a real place for us.
A post-9/11 world: Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism
One month after our arrival, the unlucky occasions of September 11 happened, simply as I used to be beginning grade 11.
My whole expertise post-9/11 has been affected by ongoing Islamophobia, on prime of the ever-present anti-Palestinian racism. This took many shapes and kinds from racial slurs and violence to being shut out from areas and having our experiences and existence denied; all of which and extra mixed to make sure the insult of estrangement and invisibility was added to the damage of extended exile.
Consequently, in highschool and for a number of years after, I lashed out – participating in fights and talking out in opposition to authority figures who operated or supported the politics of impunity. I used to be nearly expelled, was liable to not graduating and was labelled a delinquent.
I used to be seen by a lot of society as “criminalised”; somebody who wanted to be proven morals, values and ethics. In fact, I used to be and proceed to be a product of extended Zionist criminality that penetrates from the political all the way in which to the communal, societal, familial and private. I’ve been attempting to show this by criticising the state-sanctioned legal guidelines and insurance policies which are hostile and marginalising versus empowering, by attempting to construct alliances, pursuing larger schooling and interesting in elevating consciousness. Yet even these areas are uninviting as a result of they’re tainted with Zionist ideology.
Despite these experiences, the worth of schooling for me and all Palestinians is simple as a result of it equips us as a individuals to leverage our socioeconomic choices whereas concurrently having our trigger go from the invisible to the seen via engagement and elevating consciousness to a global viewers. Even in my darkest moments, I by no means let go of my real love for information and fact searching for.
Indigenous advocacy: A spot to belong
I studied political science and worldwide improvement research in my undergraduate years and started to study the historical past of Indigenous individuals in Canada. I felt a way of belonging in our joint wrestle as I realised Indigenous individuals had been experiencing the identical settler colonialism in Canada as we Palestinians. As Arafat defined in his speech on the UN General Assembly in 1974 (which led to the annual observance of the day of Solidarity on November 29), Palestinian indigeneity is below siege by the Zionists, a siege that seeks to erase it via perpetual estrangement and exile.
I started street-level advocacy work that fought for Indigenous prisoners to be freed via jail visitations and drafting bail plans that I might current to judges in courtroom, combating social welfare workplaces for denying individuals fundamental wants help associated to housing, employment or some other social justice points. Most importantly, via my work within the transitional justice course of often known as the Residential School Settlement Agreement, I guided them via a authorized course of created to compensate Indigenous individuals for the coverage of forcing Indigenous youngsters to attend residential faculties that sought to separate them from their households and communities and to strip them of their tradition, language and identification, with usually deeply traumatic and typically lethal penalties.
My advocacy work for prisoners, homeless individuals, addicts and others who’re affected by the traumatising political frameworks and penalties of previous and current processes of colonialism was the place I felt a way of belonging as a Palestinian, from each an ethical and authorized standpoint.
I used to be twice contacted by the Canada Security Intelligence Service and questioned in regards to the nature of my work on behalf of Indigenous prisoners – did I do know any radicals in jail, I used to be requested – and my views on issues such because the banning of the niqab.
Academia: Saturated with Zionism
I pursued a grasp’s diploma in improvement apply in Indigenous improvement on the University of Winnipeg, however felt my contributions had been silenced and suppressed as I introduced the Indigenous lens to our trigger and thus disturbed the Zionist ideology that saturated academia.
In 2012, I transitioned to a grasp of arts in worldwide jaw, human rights and Indigenous rights on the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. To my disbelief, the University has a show often known as the “Garden of Nations”, consisting of busts of heads of state thought-about function fashions for peace. Among them had been David Ben-Gurion, the architect of the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians, and Yitzhak Rabin, a participant within the ethnic cleaning as a member of the Palmach, a commando unit of the Haganah, who later devised the coverage of breaking Palestinians’ bones.
Nova Scotia: Walking the path
My subsequent transfer was to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, house to a well-established Lebanese Maronite Christian group, a lot of whom got here to the nation in the course of the Lebanese civil conflict. I discovered my familiarity with Lebanon welcome there; my Palestinian identification, nonetheless, was not. For me, it was a reminder of the Sabra and Shatila bloodbath in September 1982 when, over the course of two days, members of the right-wing Christian Phalange militia killed tons of, or presumably hundreds, of primarily Palestinian civilians within the camps as Israeli troops surrounded them to cease anybody from fleeing.
Another surprising discovery I made there was that David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, later president of Israel, had been members of the Jewish Legion, battalions of volunteers who fought for the British military in opposition to the Ottoman Empire throughout World War I, as soon as positioned at Fort Edward in Windsor, Nova Scotia. My relocation had, it appeared, taken me again to the purpose of origin of our Nakba story – to the place the pre-Nakba coaching for the ethnic cleaning of my grandparents occurred. I visited the location on Remembrance Day in Canada, which is noticed yearly on November 11, as I wished to interact in my very own type of remembrance.
It was a wierd expertise; one which each opened and closed wounds. What struck me was that it was clearly a really strategic web site, positioned on a hilltop overlooking the city of Windsor. I adopted the strolling path there, figuring out that these accountable for the crimes in opposition to my individuals had walked that very same path earlier than me.
Solidarity: Alleviating exile and estrangement
In all of this, the query stays: the place is my house or place of belonging as a Palestinian? I’m exiled in academia. I’m exiled traditionally and narratively. I’m exiled politically, socially and geographically. I’m exiled amongst different racialised and oppressed teams. There is not any house for me, actually and metaphysically. It is the fixed expertise of belonging in all places and nowhere. For Palestinians, the private is political.
One strategy to present solidarity with our trigger is to actively try and eradicate our private ‘ghurba’ (estrangement). People can do that by standing behind us or beside us, however not in entrance of us.
Solidarity is listening to our story and offering a real house for our narrative. Solidarity is levelling the taking part in subject for us. Solidarity is the societal permission to belong as a Palestinian and never attempt to “fit in” via different identifiers or classes. Solidarity is talking the language of compensation and restitution and supporting Palestinians in all places to stay of their origins within the historic land of Palestine, with their Indigenous rights totally revered. Most importantly, solidarity is actively assuaging exile and estrangement and making a spot for our placelessness. | <urn:uuid:99e60439-dbf0-4594-9c9a-a2c253eec8f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthnewspoint.com/2020/11/the-personal-is-political-a-journey-through-palestinian-exile/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966573 | 3,453 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Schema Architecture & Engineering has designed a single-family residence, called The Wedge House. Located on a steep site in Drafi, Pendeli, Greece, the 360-sqm (3,875-sqft) house was completed in 2017.
The concept takes advantage of the steep incline of the site, entering at a higher level from the ground. A wedge, which forms the entrance and the vertical circulation, connects the two distinct volumes of the main spaces. The façade completely opens up to the view of the pine trees. The slope of the roof allows natural light to enter the house.
— Schema Architecture & Engineering
Photographs by Nikos Alexopoulos, Marianna Athanasiadou
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Spinal cord injuries can be debilitating and costly. Typically a spinal cord injury is caused by an automobile accident, followed by a slip and fall, violent acts, and/or sports-related injuries.
No matter how you were injured, our team can investigate your situation and target any responsible parties. We will do what we can to pursue the people at fault and their affiliated insurance companies to achieve a satisfactory settlement or verdict. Our team is committed to client-centered representation. We want to produce results that can better your life.
Types of Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal cord injuries are separated into two categories: complete and incomplete. A complete spinal cord injury is one where the victim has no feeling or mobility below the injury site. An incomplete spinal cord injury allows for some feeling or mobility.
Some common spinal cord conditions include:
- Spinal contusions
- Anterior cord syndrome
- Brown-Sequard syndrome
- Central cord syndrome
- Spinal stenosis
Spinal cord damage can confine you to a wheelchair for the rest of your life. Many victims are unable to accomplish simple day-to-day tasks. This can take a toll on you emotionally. Our team may be able to help you seek general damages for the mental anguish you have experienced from this type of catastrophic injury. The state of Mississippi limits non-economic damages in personal injury cases to $1 million.
The Cost of a Spinal Cord Injury
Often, spinal cord injuries lead to astronomical expenses. You may need to fly to another state for medical care, face multiple surgeries, hire a caretaker, modify your home or vehicle to accommodate your injury, attend physical therapy, or continue seeing physicians and specialists far into the future. In addition, you may go without a paycheck while you recover. Some victims are never able to return to their jobs.
Don’t face the finances alone–our team is here to help you fight for the compensation that could cover these costs. Contact us today for a consultation regarding your case.
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Though accidents happen, it can be very frustrating if your adult dog is constantly peeing in the house. Inappropriate urination is a common issue in dogs that should be addressed as soon as possible.
The first step is to figure out why your dog is peeing in the house. There are a few different reasons dogs display inappropriate urinary behavior, and we're here to break down whether your puppy is simply still training, aging, or showing signs of a more serious urinary tract infection.
Why Do Dogs Pee in the House?
Often called "inappropriate urination" by vets, peeing in the house is a relatively common problem in dogs, but it's usually addressed during puppyhood. If your dog is a puppy, then house training might not be complete yet. House training can take a while, and you might need to review the steps as you go.
If your dog is definitely house trained and the inappropriate peeing started well after house training was complete, then there are other potential reasons for the behavior. It's essential to first rule out health problems before you investigate behavioral causes for inappropriate urination.
If your house-trained dog starts peeing in the house again, there are several potential causes for it.
Urinary Tract Issues
If your dog suddenly starts peeing in the house (or other unacceptable places), it could be caused by a urinary tract infection. This is one of the most common reasons for inappropriate urination and one of the most frequently seen health problems in dogs.
Before you get upset with your dog, go see your vet for an exam and consultation. Your vet will most likely want a urine sample from your dog in order to perform a urinalysis and possibly a urine culture. This test is done to look for bacteria and abnormal cells in the urine. If your vet diagnoses a urinary tract infection, the next step is a course of antibiotics.
Other possible urinary issues your vet might find include cystitis (inflammation of the bladder), crystals in the urine, bladder stones, structural abnormalities, and even tumors. Most urinary issues can be treated with medications, supplements, and/or diet changes. In more extreme cases, issues like bladder stones may require surgery.
If your vet doesn't find a urinary tract problem, the next step is to look for other potential health issues.
Incontinence and Health Problems
Urinary incontinence is often associated with senior dogs, but it's possible for a dog to develop incontinence as a young adult. If your dog is leaking or dribbling sporadically or leaving urine puddles in the bed or on the floor during naps, incontinence may be the culprit. If your dog is incontinent, it's important to know is that your dog doesn't realize it's happening and has no control over it. Fortunately, incontinence can sometimes be treated with medication.
On the other hand, if your dog consciously pees large quantities in inappropriate areas, it's probably not incontinence. Talk to your vet to learn more.
Certain health problems may lead to urinary issues, such as kidney disease, diabetes, and Cushing's disease. Your vet may recommend additional diagnostic testing to rule out one or more diseases depending on your dog's other symptoms (if any). Treatment will depend on the diagnosis.
Puppies may still have accidents when they're being house trained, but old age can bring on other causes of urinary accidents. Forms of dementia or senility can occur in aging dogs, leading to house soiling. These dogs may forget their house training or simply forget where they are.
Other health issues, such as kidney failure, tend to crop up in old age as well. This is another reason to get your veterinarian involved early and often. In some cases, dementia can be somewhat managed with medications and supplements. Many people living with senior dogs that have urinary issues also choose to use doggie diapers or line the dog's bedding and other frequented areas with absorbent pads.
Once your vet has ruled out all health issues, it is likely that you and your dog are facing a behavioral problem.
Some dogs, especially males, display marking behaviors. Marking is often driven by sex hormones, but it can become a habit and continue even after being altered.
Another possibility is that your dog might be exhibiting submissive or excitement urination. This may happen if your dog is intimidated by someone or something. It's common for some dogs to pee when someone is standing over them and looking down, especially if the dog is young or fearful. Dogs may also urinate inappropriately when anxious and stressed out.
Examine the situation in your home to determine if something in the environment could trigger this type of behavior in your dog. Have you recently added a new pet to the household? Has there been a human addition to the family, like a new baby? Has someone in the household recently left or passed away? Dogs are often very sensitive to these types of environmental changes.
Your dog may also be anxious about a situation outdoors that could lead to inappropriate urination. Perhaps your dog saw another dog, heard a loud construction project nearby, or saw something else is upsetting.
How to Stop Your Dog From Urinating in the House
Whatever you do, don't give up on your dog or give your dog away. You can work through this! Of course, you might need to get some additional help. In the meantime, be patient with your canine companion and try taking one or more simple steps to help the dog with its problem.
- Re-train your dog: Because your dog was probably once house trained, it can be helpful to revisit the training and repeat the steps.
- Increase potty breaks: Take your dog outside to pee right after drinking, eating, and waking from naps. Reward your dog for peeing outside in the appropriate places.
- Identify the trigger: Try to figure out if there's a trigger or stimulus in your dog's environment that prompts it to pee inside. Eliminate the trigger if possible, teach your dog to live with it, or change any elements you can to calm your dog's anxiety. For example, avoid sources of fear when taking walks, like the neighborhood's aggressive dog or the area where jackhammering is going on. Play music or use a white noise machine in the house if there are loud noises outside.
- Don't hit or yell: Avoid punishing or screaming at your dog for urinating in the house. This will likely backfire and instead of learning that urinating in the house is the incorrect behavior, your dog may learn that its people are unpredictable or unsafe to be around. Punishing your dog may make it afraid to urinate in front of you (even outdoors), which could lead to more indoor accidents.
- Clean up properly: Thoroughly clean up each accident as soon as possible with an enzymatic cleaner that eliminates the smell. You don't want your dog to recognize the urine smell and think that indoors is an acceptable place for it to urinate after all.
- Get professional help: If you've tried everything and are still unable to make any headway with your dog's problem, consider getting a dog trainer or behaviorist involved for a single consultation or frequent sessions as needed.
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KILKENNY Borough Council has been participating in the Urbacht Links project and is hoping to secure EU funding to help renovate St Mary’s Church in an eco-friendly manner as part of the project.
Senior council planner Denis Malone gave a presentation to the councillors at their meeting on Monday night outlining the goals of the project.
Kilkenny, along with eight other historical cities in Europe, is taking part in the links project.
“The cities involved in Links project aim to replace their historical cities into a dynamic of residential attractiveness while preserving the architectural identity cultural heritage and historical values. The challenge is to improve quality of life in old centres and to create a comfortable, affordable and sustainable housing seeking out a good balance between preservation requirement and evolution need,” according to the plans for the project.
Cllr Martin Brett (FG) asked if the project would allow Kilkenny to access EU money independently of the central government. Mr Malone said that funding streams would come online as a result of the project.
Cllr Malcolm Noonan (Green) said the council would have genuine funding opportunities as a result of this. Cllr Noonan called on the council to reconvene the St Mary’s redevelopment committee along the lines of the successful Kilkenny City Walls Steering Committee.
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2019 International Conference on Advances in Literature, Arts and Communication
A Probe into the Postmodernism in The French Lieutenant’s Women
The French Lieutenant’s Woman is generally regarded as one of the classic postmodernist novels. This paper attempts to analyze the postmodern writing techniques in The French Lieutenant’s Woman : the first is the narrator’s intervention, who dissects the characters, plots and so on; the second is alternative endings that complement and deconstruct one another; the third is self-revealed characteristics, which is reflected in the exposure of and mediation upon the creative process and fiction of the novel;the fourth is uncertainty of the character, particularly the characterization of the protagonist Sarah. The postmodern writing techniques in this novel helps reconstruct and deconstruct the Victorian society.
Postmodernism; The French Lieutenant’s Woman;Victorian Age
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Zhang Minglan. A Probe into the Postmodernism in The French Lieutenant’s Women. 2019 International Conference on Advances in Literature, Arts and Communication (ALAC 2019). 2019, Vol.1: 61-65. https://doi.org/10.35532/JAHS.V1.014 | <urn:uuid:190f421a-3177-447b-a995-a3025eb8cc52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aeescience.org/ppapers/2019093001/ALAC93014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.845117 | 282 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Former Scotland rugby forward Doddie Weir has become one of the most recognisable and respected campaigners for research into motor neurone disease since he was diagnosed with the incurable condition in 2017.
Speaking to i from his home on a farm in the Scottish Borders, the 51-year-old Weir was characteristically resolute and good-humoured on subjects including Scotland’s prospects of following up last Sunday’s 15-13 win over Australia with a repeat result against world champions South Africa at Murrayfield today, and a first Six Nations title since his team won the old Five Nations in 1999.
“Scotland will need the same level of performance from beating Australia, and half as much on top,” he says. “South Africa are a hard bunch, they are not world champions for nothing.”
Weir will be unable to watch in person, as his mobility is severely restricted and deteriorating – as he describes so touchingly, eruditely and without self-pity in his latest book, Doddie’s Diary, which covers the period from October 2018 to September this year.
First, though, we covered the progress of the ‘United to End MND’ campaign, which is asking the UK government for matched funding of £50 million to boost research.
“We didn’t manage to magic up the £50m quite yet,” Weir says. “There are a lot of people rattling tins right now, especially after the 18 months we’ve endured during the pandemic, so where monies go does take much consideration.
“That apart, I think the MND case is a compelling one, and one that does deserve an increased level of support. Public perception is miles ahead of where we were when I began this journey five years ago. However, so many who have given the MND fight a voice, a presence, are no longer here. That will continue to be the case until we see Government intervention.”
Weir admires the support given by former rugby league star Kevin Sinfield to another MND sufferer, Rob Burrow, but equally the tartan-loving Scot once memorably described by rugby commentator Bill McLaren as “a mad giraffe” urges us to remember the “tens of thousands” who have contributed to the fighting fund. “They are champions of the cause as well,” Weir says.
The book’s foreword was written by Scotland’s head coach – and Weir’s former team-mate – Gregor Townsend.
“Gregor is never off the phone looking for tactical tips and ideas,” says Weir. “Every day! No – like the good friend he is, there is never too long between calls or visits.
“Seriously, I think Scotland have the capacity to excite and have done for a few years now. I’d say any back division that includes Stuart Hogg and Finn Russell are likely to have folk – even neutrals – on the edge of their seats. It doesn’t always work, but when it comes off it makes Scotland a great side to watch.
“Up front, I think the plaudits [flanker] Hamish Watson receives are entirely justified, and so much of what he does gives Scotland a real attacking edge.
“It will take a monumental effort for Scotland to win another [Six Nations] championship. We won three out the five games last season and still finished fourth! That tells you how difficult it is these days. Of course, in my day it was different. Still undefeated Five Nations champions, don’t you know?”
In describing how he copes with MND, Weir stresses the benefits of positive thinking and an everyday tipple. “Of course, I hoped that there might be something that came along in terms of science, or medicine, or research that would overtake positive thought as a cure or some kind of remedy, but it hasn’t arrived yet,” he says, “So, we’ll just have to continue with the red wine and Guinness.”
Intriguingly, he theorises that an unexpected collision at a ruck during an exhibition match he played for his old club Newcastle, at the age of 45 in 2015, set off his MND. “I’m still of a mindset that if something like MND runs in your DNA, and remains inactive all those years, then something has to trigger it,” Weir says. “I have no evidence… other than other sufferers making reference to something traumatic or an event in their life when they think MND became an issue. I am aware of women who believe pregnancy and child birth appears to have sparked their issues. It may be no more than just trying to find something to blame, or a cause, but I don’t really have anyone telling me otherwise right now.”
So the battle against this awful foe continues, individually and worldwide. Weir has the superb support of his wife Kathy and their three sons – and the family’s black Labrador, Zena, who in the book was a puppy treating Weir as “a two-metre-long chew stick”. Weir says: “She is bigger now, and I’m not sure I’d survive the kind of attacks and the attention she once gave me. I was seriously worried I might lose some fingers or some toes, or even an ear. But she’s calmed down, thankfully. She’s lovely, really…” | <urn:uuid:dd97126d-665d-4b2f-ac41-c15c2b3ac9b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/doddie-weir-mnd-research-50m-government-help-lives-lost-1298106?ico=read_more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.978382 | 1,170 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The United States on Wednesday rolled out sweeping anti-graft sanctions against high-profile Bulgarian power brokers and more than 60 entities, while the EU fails to confront the Balkan country’s spiraling rule of law crisis.
America’s unusually wide-reaching step is an embarrassment for the EU as it exposes the bloc’s inability to police its own backyard over a welter of corruption scandals often tied to EU funds that end up in the hands of Bulgaria’s mafia and powerful oligarchs. The move constitutes America’s biggest-ever action in one day under the country’s Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which targets perpetrators of corruption and human rights abuses around the globe.
“The United States stands with all Bulgarians who strive to root out corruption by promoting accountability for corrupt officials who undermine the economic functions and democratic institutions of Bulgaria,” Office of Foreign Assets Control Director Andrea M. Gacki said.
By contrast, the EU has conspicuously chosen not to stand with Bulgarians fighting corruption.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have turned a blind eye to a rule-of-law meltdown in the EU’s poorest state in recent years. Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who dominated the country’s politics for the best part of a decade, was their close ally on the EU political stage in the center-right European People’s Party and was never challenged over his country’s judicial failings. Although the former firefighter and karate champion lost power in an indecisive election in April, his GERB party is still ahead in polls ahead of another election on July 11.
While corruption has long been identified as a problem in Bulgaria, the scale of unfolding graft scandals over the past year has laid bare how an oligarchic mafia has effectively captured the state by exercising control through institutions such as the judiciary, security services and media.
The most high-profile tycoon to be sanctioned is Delyan Peevski, a controversial media mogul and former member of parliament.
Peevski “regularly engaged in corruption, using influence peddling and bribes to protect himself from public scrutiny and exert control over key institutions and sectors in Bulgarian society,” the U.S. Department of the Treasury wrote in its sanctions decision.
Peevski, who is affiliated with the Movement for Rights and Freedom, a member of the liberal Renew Europe grouping, has emerged as one of the symbols of the country’s corruption woes. The U.S. said he “worked to negatively influence the Bulgarian political process” in elections in 2019.
The department has also sanctioned fugitive casino baron Vasil “the skull” Bozhkov, one of Bulgaria’s wealthiest citizens, and Ilko Zhelyazkov, who currently serves on the National Bureau for Control on Special Intelligence-Gathering Devices— as well as 64 entities connected to the men, cutting off their access to the American financial system.
In parallel, the U.S. Department of State announced entry bans on an even broader list of Bulgarian public figures and their families, including a former deputy minister.
“The big question is, who did they corrupt?” said Elena Yoncheva, a member of the European Parliament, who is a leading critic of Borissov and a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
Tip of the iceberg
In explaining its decision, the Treasury said that Bozhkov — who is currently a fugitive in Dubai but nonetheless registered a political party that won almost 3 percent of the votes in the April election — had “bribed government officials on several occasions,” including “a current political leader.”
It also said that the businessman “planned to provide a sum of money to a former Bulgarian official and a Bulgarian politician earlier this year” in order to help him “create a channel for Russian political leaders to influence Bulgarian government officials.”
The Treasury Department also accused Zhelyazkov of acting as a frontman for Peevski in corrupt dealings.
“Peevski used Zhelyazkov to conduct a bribery scheme involving Bulgarian residency documents for foreign persons, as well as to bribe government officials through various means in exchange for their information and loyalty,” according to the U.S. government.
Hristo Ivanov, head of the anti-corruption Yes Bulgaria party, welcomed the sanctions.
“Peevski and Bozhkov are participants in a grand corruption scheme which needs to come undone, while Borissov needs to leave the political scene,” he told reporters in Sofia.
Maya Manolova, a former ombudswoman and one of the leaders of Rise Up! Out With the Crooks!, an opposition party inspired by a wave of anti-corruption protests last year, said the sanctions highlighted a dire need for reforms.
“Bulgarians would like to see their institutions finally stepping up their fight against corruption,” she told online news platform Dnevnik.bg. The “Bulgarian state is the only one which has not realized the need for decisive anti-graft measures. ”
In a statement late Wednesday, the Bulgarian foreign ministry did not address any specific cases but said the country is committed to the fight against corruption and that it remained ready for dialogue with Washington. Bozhkov’s party declined to comment at the time of publication.
Peevski, meanwhile, rejected the U.S. move and vowed to challenge it.
In an open letter sent to Bulgarian media, he slammed the sanctions as “absolutely unacceptable, biased and violating the letter and the spirit” of the Magnitsky Act.
“I haven’t done anything to violate internationally recognized human rights, I’m not a state official, and I haven’t participated in acts of corruption,” he said.
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We do not know when we will be able to return to Zimbabwe to purchase more artwork from our Shona artists. The Covid-19 spread and shutdowns have made an already difficult food supply situation worse. We are doing what we can by arranging food donations to our artists. With the help of Charles Chare on the ground in Zim, we have been able to send five truckloads of food to communities in Zimbabwe. This will be an ongoing effort so please be in touch if you would like to get involved.
Hemingway Gallery regards antique African art as the best artistic expression of aesthetic beauty and storytelling throughout the known history of art. Aside from artistic taste, African art accrues value in different ways than other genres, including use in ceremonial settings as well as age. 50 years is regarded as old or antique when it comes to wood masks and totems. Hemingway Gallery provides both authoritative insight and context into each artifact in the collection, possessing and readily exhibiting direct, intimate knowledge of the source and pedigree. The goal is to preserve and curate one-of-a-kind artifacts of importance while creating a platform for the acquisition of spectacular unique pieces within financial reach.
Stone sculpture in Zimbabwe, dating from 1956 until today, is the best-known manifestation of African contemporary art. Northern Zimbabwe has uniquely large amounts of carvable stone. The stone was so important to the people that the name ‘Shona’ is derived from a word in their native language that means ‘house of stone.’ There is no technical artistic training in Shona sculpture. Sculpting skills are passed down through families and the large and hard stones are carved with only a hammer and chisel. Hemingway Gallery purchases this sculpture directly from the Shona artists in Zimbabwe and has imported the monumental stone artwork since the early 1980s. These fine modern sculptures are unparalleled in both carving skill and design. Hemingway holds long-standing relationships with artists like Bywell Sango, Sylvester Mubayi, Witness Bonjisi and many more.
Hemingway Gallery only purchases pieces from artists or owners that we approve of historically and aesthetically. These might include artworks that have been newly created and are currently being used in ceremonies. We place high value in these pieces, despite their lack of age and antiquity, regarding them as real even though they are not old. They are created for use by the people and not made for the tourist trade. Newly produced African art can be gorgeous and we value these pieces as well. This includes contemporary aesthetics from the continent that may not necessarily look traditionally ‘African’. Our goal is to represent design in Africa that goes beyond the idea of ‘tribal’ as the styles of emerging artists are ever evolving.
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The gallery works side by side with Hemingway Photographic Safaris doing amazing animal conservation work while collecting art in the field. Hemingway Safaris runs six trips a year to countries all over Africa. Travel with us. The safaris can change your life.
Brian Gaisford of Hemingway Gallery and Safaris has seen it all from Timbuktu to Cape Town. He has collected ancient art in the Bandigare Cliffs of Mali and sat with the Mountain Gorillas and Bonobos in the jungles of the Congo. Each piece in Hemingway Gallery represents one of these adventures.
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The International Maintenance Institute
What is The IMI?
In 1960, C. William Cleworth, publisher of the MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE, foresaw the need of an international organization to serve the needs of the maintenance profession. In December, the International Maintenance Institute was chartered as a non-profit corporation in the State of Connecticut. The philosophy of the organization was to professionalize the maintenance function by helping maintenance managers to work smarter through the exchange of ideas and education. The philosophy is still the same today.
The International Maintenance Institute (IMI) is a goal-driven organization, made up of decision making maintenance leaders as well as related sales and service professionals – all dedicated to keeping a nation’s infrastructure operating smoothly. | <urn:uuid:bdca1f03-67cf-45b9-92a1-4831e26905d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imionline.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933475 | 151 | 1.75 | 2 |
A BLENDER Addon
A BLENDER Addon
The Asset Management lets you add any kind of assets to your Libraries, You can add Single objects, multiple objects, rigged characters, lights setups, scenes, material, HDRI’s and much more!
The Addon generates Thumbnails of your assets with default scene.
You can configure the shaders in the preferences and create a custom render.
You can tweak everything, add an Ambient Occlusion(AO) shader, hide the floor, add a contour or use the shaders of your asset.
The thumbnail uses the OpenGL rendering with Matcaps, Ambient Occlusion(AO), DOF etc!
This is the fastest way to add an asset to your library with a custom camera angle.
You can use all the settings of the viewport, it’s simple and you will like it.
You can use a picture from your disk or use the Render Result.
You can link assets in your scene, characters, furnitures, materials etc.
If your asset has a group, you will be able to link it.
You can also add scripts in your asset to manage the animation.
You can place your asset on the selection :
Nothing Selected : Asset will be placed at center of the scene.
Object(s) selected: Asset will be placed at origin of selected object(s).
Face(s) selected: Asset will be placed on faces and will use normal orientations of those faces.
You can replace one or several assets by another, you can do this for linked assets too.
The addon jeeps the orientation of the previous asset.
You can Edit an asset directly from the preview.
That allows you to make a fast modification of your asset to have it exactly how it should be.
The addon will save your current scene, open the asset scene and when you will save it, the addon will open your scene and your asset will be updated.
With the Asset Management you can :
Choose to use existing materials or group to avoid .001, .002 etc
Delete unused data
Use active layer
The addon saves automatically your scene in the temp when you add an asset to your library
Popup to work in full Screen (CTRL + Double LMB)
You can choose to put the addon in the panel T or N
You can save complete scenes in the Asset Management.
You can create libraries, categories and add custom thumbnails.
This is really simple and fast.
You can save your own materials in the Asset Management.
You can create libraries, categories and manage your materials.
You can link materials too.
You can also add your own material render scene to customize your thumbnails.
You can save you own HDRIs maps in the Asset Management.
You can create libraries, categories and manage your maps.
You can add several maps at one time, you just have to select them and click ok!
You can also edit your map directly in the 3d view :
You can use Speedflow and Carver to make your assets and you can use those assets directly with Carver.
You can have the preview of the Asset Management directly in Hardops.
You just have to enable the addon in the preferences.
You will have it in the panel and the popup.
With the Asset Management, we offer you a free pack of assets.
Screws and Bolts
In this pack, you have 43 Screws and Bolts with nice thumbnails made with the Addon.
You can use this pack with HardOps or in your normal modeling workflow, it’s really efficient.
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Nobody likes mosquitoes. They are bloodsucking, disease-spreading pests. Not only are mosquito bites itchy and painful, but mosquitoes spread some of the world’s deadliest and most debilitating diseases including West Nile virus, malaria, chikungunya and dengue fever.
Mosquitoes are such a serious health threat and their control so vital that they have an official week devoted to their extermination.
Late June is National Mosquito Control Awareness Week by the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA). The goal of Mosquito Control Awareness Week is to educate the public about the dangers of mosquitoes and the importance of mosquito control in the prevention of disease.
According to mosquito expert Joe Conlon, Technical Advisor for the AMCA, it is impossible to live in a completely mosquito-free environment. Wherever there’s moisture there will be mosquitoes—even in times of drought. But you can reduce your chances of getting bitten by mosquito pests by being “mosquito smart” and reducing places where mosquitoes can breed.
Why Do Mosquitoes Bite?
A female mosquito will bite humans, mammals and birds in search of a blood meal so she can produce eggs. She can extract up to four times her weight in blood. Immediately after biting a person or an animal, a female mosquito lays her eggs in standing water—usually only yards from where the bite occurred.
To reduce the chances of getting mosquito bites, limit your outdoor activities during the times of day when mosquitoes are most active—an hour before and after dawn and an hour before and after dusk. Keep as much of your skin covered as possible by wearing long sleeves and long pants. But wear light-colored clothing, because mosquitoes are attracted to darker colors.
Using mosquito repellent is another good way to keep mosquitoes—and mosquito bites—at bay. Apply repellent directly to skin or clothing as recommended on the product label. Summit® Mosquito Repellent Coils can also be used on patios and in backyards to keep mosquitoes away.
Reduce Mosquito Breeding Sites
It doesn’t take much standing water to become a mosquito breeding site. “Some species of mosquitoes can breed in as little as a bottlecap full of water,” said Jonathan Cohen, mosquito control expert and President of Summit Responsible Solutions. “That’s why homeowners need to be vigilant in eliminating places where water can collect and stand in their yards and gardens.”
To reduce mosquito breeding grounds, dispose of cans, plastic containers, old tires and other items that can collect water. Turn over wheelbarrows and empty children’s wading pools. Clean clogged roof gutters, which can become prime mosquito-breeding pools. Periodically empty the saucers under ceramic pots to make sure they are not harboring mosquito larvae.
To prevent mosquitoes from breeding in places where water collects—including ponds, bird baths, animal watering troughs, gutters, tree holes and rain barrels—use a mosquito control product that contains BTI to kill mosquito larvae. BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) is a bacterium that naturally kills mosquito larvae before they can grow up to become flying, biting, disease-spreading adults. Even though BTI is deadly to mosquito larvae, it is harmless to people, pets, fish, wildlife and beneficial insects. BTI is the active ingredient in Mosquito Dunks, the number-one selling biological mosquito control product. When a donut-shaped Mosquito Dunk is placed in standing water, the BTI in the Dunk will kill mosquito larvae for up to 30 days.
In places where small amounts of water collect—such as tree holes, potted plant saucers and water reservoirs in self-watering planters, a BTI product called Mosquito Bits is a good way to kill mosquito larvae. Mosquito Bits granules can be sprinkled into virtually any place where water can collect. Mosquito Bits can also be used to kill mosquito larvae in swampy areas and other areas where water cannot be drained. In addition, Mosquito Bits are highly effective as a “shock treatment” in water where immediate larval control is needed due to an extremely dense population of mosquito larvae, because the Bits release all of their active ingredient, BTI, at once. The Mosquito Bits application can be immediately followed by the addition of the Mosquito Dunks® for long-term control.
To kill adult mosquitoes, use a permethrin-based insecticide such as Summit Mosquito and Gnat Barrier. The permethrin in Summit Mosquito and Gnat Barrier kills and repels mosquitoes and other insect pests for up to four weeks. Simply attach a garden hose to the hose-end sprayer bottle and spray the yard perimeter and fences, plus the lawn and vegetation where mosquitoes can hide and rest.
By reducing exposure to mosquitoes, limiting breeding sites and using the most effective types of mosquito control products, you can greatly reduce your chances of being bitten by disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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Uber can’t seem to shake its racist reputation. A top executive at the company resigned from her position after employees of color accused her of racial discrimination.
Technologies Inc’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey announced that she was stepping down in an email to staff Thursday, July 5. Hornsey — who had been in the role as one of the ride-hailing firm’s top spokespeople on diversity and discrimination issues for 18 months — had been the subject of an investigation into complaints that she discriminated against employees.
Hornsey was accused of having used “discriminatory language and [making] derogatory comments” about Uber Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion Bernard Coleman. She also allegedly threatened former Uber executive Bozoma Saint John, who left the company in June.
Several allegations were substantiated, Reuters reported. However, as the ish hit the fan, Hornsey gave no official reason for her resignation.
The Hornsey scandal is the latest to rock the embattled company, which has been named in several sexual harassment and gender discrimination complaints. The grievances were so widespread that former U.S Attorney General Eric Holder opened an investigation last year.
Uber also came under fire for its handling of the complaints. The company ignored a board-approved recommendation by Holder that its chief diversity officer report directly to the CEO or COO, employees said to Reuters. Also, complaints to Uber’s anonymous tip line went unaddressed or were flat out dismissed, especially if race was involved, employees also said.
Uber agreed to pay $10 million to settle a proposed class-action discrimination lawsuit involving more than 400 women and people of color filed by three female engineers in March. One of the women dropped out of the suit to sue the company on her own for gender and race discrimination. | <urn:uuid:6aa875b2-0b10-4967-a98f-c1c5fd4518ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsone.com/3816496/uber-liane-hornsey-racial-discrimination-resignation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.981413 | 375 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Life is timing. How do we live it? What choices do we make? Do we step into the unknown or play it safe and never leave our comfort zone? What is safe? What is courage? Do we stay true to ourselves or get sidetracked, detoured and spend time finding the way back. Where is back? Where are we supposed to be? If you have pondered any of these questions or similar ones, felt out of sorts, wondered if you are walking through life and something is missing, then THE WAYSHOWER is a film for you.
If the stars align John-Roger and Jsu Garcia's opus, THE WAYSHOWER will be the blockbuster movie it should be. When I found a shiny dime after a screening I knew the timing was perfect for me. Yes there are fine performances by a Henry Fonda'ish Eric Roberts and Hannibal Lecter like Peter Stormare alongside ATLAS SHRUGGED star, Everyman Jsu Garcia. Yes there are exotic locales both international like the Saharan desert and Machu Picchu and national like the wonders of the great state of Utah. The thrill of this film however is for those of us who have ever wrestled with guilt, wondered why we did or do certain things, or driven ourselves crazy trying to figure out exactly who we are. THE WAYSHOWER gives us answers as it follows Jsu Garcia's quest to rid himself of guilt, find his purpose, his meaning along with that of his mentor or 'wayshower' John-Roger.
What exactly is a 'wayshower'? Wayshower simply means: someone who shows you the way. What way? The right way, the way that counts that resonates in your heart not your bankbook or your scorecard, in other words, the Godly way when maybe you are not too sure which way that is. A favorite book of mine when I was a child was about Tootles, a train that couldn't stay on the track. A 'wayshower' shows you how to stay on track. It can be anybody.
When I met John-Roger, Peter Gabriel's SOLSBURY HILL lyrics reverberated in my mind: "turning water into wine", "my friends would think I was a nut"- I knew John-Roger long before we came together face to face in Hollywood. Spiritual, metaphysical experiences while common in my life, as I am sure they are in others, nonetheless always leave me freaked out and my meeting John-Roger was as freaked out as I thought it was going to get. Little did I know it was just the beginning.
I always had an inner voice, a conscience, a label it whatever you wish, inner knowing. That I ignored it is clear. Recognizing this voice in the flesh wasn't comforting. I was scared shitless. How could I, New York City born and bred, raised in The Bronx, have a connection with a man from the boondocks of Utah, but there it was. I devoured everything, anything John-Roger wrote, listened to seminars, read everything about him in my own search to explain this connection, burning through damning news articles, looking for a mansion in the hills he purportedly lived in, shocked it too was a lie, his house looks much like mine, no mansion for sure. When I read the introduction to one of his books, SPIRITUAL WARRIOR, his answer to the adversity, lies and challenges he faced it was a great example for me in my own writing. SPIRITUAL WARRIOR was dramatized in one of Jsu Garcia and John-Roger's first collaborations, the film SPIRITUAL WARRIORS.
The serendipity of Jsu Garcia and John-Roger's relationship, the actor, cum writer, producer, director and his 'wayshower' teaming up to enlighten and entertain, bring joy to the world in a message of love akin to that of Jesus Christ, an unconditional love for everyone, is especially heartwarming to me as Jsu Garcia became my friend over twenty years ago. No coincidence this seed would years later grow to fruition in the form of John-Roger.
So if life is a classroom and we are all here to learn, then John-Roger and Jsu Garcia's THE WAYSHOWER is a wonderful guide. I learned HOME with John-Roger is HOME with every living thing on this planet: people in faraway places, random faces at an airport, rats in my attic, dogs in the street, EVERYONE. I realized we are all ONE and in finding John-Roger, found myself much like Jsu Garcia's character in THE WAYSHOWER does. The phrase -- home is in your heart, epitomized by countless singers, writers, movies, I realized is truth. If some think maybe I have lost my mind so be it. Truth be told I have gained my heart. | <urn:uuid:d39d24a7-0435-425e-b1e9-d1884c5535e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-wayshower_b_832627 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969214 | 1,018 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Planet Aviary Waxbill Savannah Dry Season Seed Mixture
For Waxbill Finches.
What is it?
Our Waxbill Savannah Dry Season Seed Mixture has been formulated as a highly specialised seed mixture with the purpose of re-creating the nutritional requirements of Waxbills during the tough dry Summer months, when food becomes scarce. Over half of the seed mixture is made up of the highest quality cocksfoot (Knaulgras) grass seed, which is much lower in protein and fats when compared to that of millets and panicum’s. This makes this seed mixture ideal for use as an Austerity diet, to help your birds get trim and fit. This seed mixture has been specifically formulated to mimic the dry season in the wild.
When do I feed it?
Offer your Waxbill Savannah Dry-Season Seed Mixture daily during the resting season/phase of the bird’s life-cycle. The resting phase begins after the breeding and moulting stages of their life-cycle has been completed.
The seed mixture has been designed especially to mimic the dry season, therefore we recommend to limit offering additional supplements to your birds when being fed this seed mixture, and offer no live food during this time; this is to get the maximum benefit of trimming down the body fat on your birds and keeping them fit for the next breeding season.
We recommend that during the final 4- week period on the Savannah dry season seed mix and before you begin to condition your birds to breed, that no supplements are offered, this includes veg, greens, egg food, dry mix or other supplements. Only this seed mixture should be on offer to the waxbills during this time. Though probiotics may be offered in the drinking water 2-3 times a week and some grit provided.
Cocksfoot (Knaulgras), Yellow Panicum, Yellow Millet, Red Panicum, Canary Grass Seed, Japanese Millet & Aniseed.
This seed mixture is extremely voluminous and light-weight. So much so that we have to use 20kg sacks to pack our 12kg sack of this mix, this is because of the super light weight of cocksfoot grass seed.
Waxbill Savannah Dry Season Seed Mixture is available in 4kg bags or 12kg.
(Please click on the pictures for a closer look)
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Paper Is a Renewable Resource!
Paper has been an important part of communication and culture across the world for an impressively long time, and it’s still an indispensable resource in today’s society. “Paper is made from renewable resources, and responsibly produced and used paper has many advantages over other, nonrenewable alternative materials” (World Wildlife Fund).
In a recent whitepaper, TwoSides.com busted some of the biggest myths about print and print sustainability, saying in their article, “As awareness and interest in environmental issues have increased over the last couple of decades, so have misconceptions about the sustainability of print media.”
Superior Business Solutions has come along to help pass that news on and bust some of those misconceptions. Here are our 5 myths about print sustainability and the truths behind them:
Myth 1: Paper Is Wasteful
Print is actually highly sustainable with today’s recycling technologies and recycling itself is growing in popularity. Recycling is a closed loop against wastefulness, and as long as awareness continues to be increased and more people take the time to recycle, that sustainability will continue to thrive. As we continue to limit the elimination of print and paper products in landfills, paper will only continue to become more sustainable than ever.
Myth 2: Print Is Destroying Forests
The sad truth behind this myth is that there is still considerable deforestation in many regions of the world, but 90% of that is a result of unsustainable agriculture practices, not from using trees to make paper. Many countries including the U.S. and much of Western Europe are actively growing new trees to replace the resources they use for paper and other products. And the fact is that paper production actually supports sustainable forest management as forest management practices continue to develop.
Myth 3: Creating Paper Consumes Too Much Energy
This is a true statement, but it’s misleading because it’s not a complete statement. The fact is that making paper does consume energy. Of course it does. But the energy used is renewable. “Nearly two-thirds of the energy used by U.S. pulp and paper mills is self-generated using renewable carbon-neutral biomass,” says Two Sides’ “Print and Paper whitepaper. This is a much more environmentally friendly energy source than the burning of fossil fuels.
Myth 4: Paper has a High Carbon Footprint
This is the myth that tricks almost everyone. In an effort to be more environmentally aware, a few presuppositions have arisen that lead us to believe things that are just untrue. Paper doesn’t have such a high carbon footprint as you might think. According to this Two Sides article, the pulp, paper, and print is one of the lowest industrial emitters, production 1.0% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, the paper industry is the biggest user of renewable, low carbon energy. How’s that for a wildly far-fetched myth?
Myth 5: Electronic Communication is More Environmentally Stable
A lot of people don’t realize the impact that electricity or e-media has on the environment, and it’s not all that surprising given that the fad of the decade stems from the slogan, “Go paperless.” This slogan treads on the one virtue that everyone would agree on today: The best answer never focuses on one single characteristic of a problem. Don’t leave this page thinking that companies should only use paper. There’s a healthy combination to best meet economic needs, and researchers have been working to find it. The KTH Center for Sustainable Communications reported, “With a reading time of 30 minutes/day the environmental impact of the web based newspaper was in general in the same range as the printed newspaper environmental impact.”
Print is Sustainable and Here to Stay
Businesses that want to make responsible environmental developments should base their choices on factual and well-researched information. Don’t believe everything you hear. The print industry is good for marketing, it’s here to stay, and it is sustainable.
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Moving time is stressful. There’s no way getting around that. Planning and organizing everything. Packing and shipping all of your belongings. There is a lot to do and very little time to do it. Like adults, kids also feel the stress. Even more so in many instances. They are changing their school and leaving their friends. They have to learn how to cope with the new environment. If you want to help your kids cope with moving stress you need to be patient. You need to talk to them. Understand their side of the story. And try and make their new home as comfortable as possible. Moving is an interesting activity for them. And a great opportunity for you to help your children overcome the moving stress. Here are some tips on how to do just that.
Help your kids cope with moving stress by talking to them before you move
Communication is very important when dealing with children. But in the chaos of packing and moving parents often neglect their children. After all, you are feeling the same stress as they do. And you manage to keep it together. But kids are much more sensitive to moving. They still haven’t seen enough of the world to know that moving is part of life.
For kids, it might seem that making friends is easy. But from their perspective, they are losing all the social connections they worked so hard on building. So talk to them. Ask them about which friends they are going to miss the most. If you are not moving too far away, try and organize play dates after you move. That can help your kids cope with moving stress by changing things gradually.
The new school
School is the main social gathering place for your kids. They made lasting connections there. Not only with other children but also with teachers. Each school has its own way of doing certain things. Both on social and education level. To talk to your kids about the new school. Show them photos of with. Explain to them that it might be a bit hard at first. But eventually, the will be accepted at the new school and that they will make new friends.
Include your kids in planning the move
If you can get your kids excited about moving than you did half of the work. In order to help your kids cope with moving you need to make them a part of it. If you still haven’t decided on the new home ask them what they think. Ask them if they have any wishes or hopes. Local movers NJ will help you with your relocation. But there is still a lot of things left to do. So, try to do it with your kids. Pack their things together with them. Teach them how to make moving boxes and pack their things. That way a move will have a gradual transition period. If you pack everything for them and transport them to their new home they will see it as an overnight change. Packing everything together will help your kids cope with moving stress by making them care about it.
Talk about your new home
Show your kids some photos of the new home. Talk with them about how they would like their room to look. Just like for adults, the move can be a great way to start over. That’s why it’s important to show your kids that the move is for the better. By planning the layout of their room they will see that moving has its benefits. Maybe they wanted a different color for their walls or a larger desk. If it’s in your budget try and get them at least some of the things that they would like to have.
Make the move faster
While planning the move with your kids has its benefits, if you drag it out too long they will become tired of it. So hire residential movers NJ to help you move your things safely and quickly. Making a few round trips to pick up all your belongings that make the new home feel incomplete. But by hiring movers you will be able to transport all your cargo in one go. All that will be left to do is unpack everything and sort it out.
Don’t neglect them after you moved
If you managed to get them excited about the move you might feel that your work is done. They seem happy and have accepted their new home. But even after you moved into your new house or apartment you need to keep communicating. Answer their questions and show them what your new location has to offer. It will help your kids cope with moving stress by making them feel comfortable in the city. This is especially important if you moved across the country. The whole culture will be different and your kids will have trouble fitting in.
Show your kids the new neighborhood
You have been to many different parts of the city and the country. But your children probably didn’t. And their new environment can seem alien to them. To help your kids cope with moving stress make sure you talk a long walk or a drive with them. Show them everything that your new location has to offer. Find some stores that they might like and visit them together. By introducing them to their new surroundings you will help them understand it better.
Try and help them make friends
While most kids would be embarrassed by their parents who want to help them, they sometimes need the help. If you see that your kid made a new friend invite them over. Don’t be too pushy but give them the opportunity to spend more time with their friends.
Talk to a psychiatrist
If your kids still have problems adjusting consider visiting a psychiatrist. They are professionals that have a much better understanding of how your kid thinks. And they will have a much better chance to help your kids cope with moving stress. A psychiatrist can help them adjust and cope with the change. | <urn:uuid:aee47347-1c8e-45a8-9103-dbe9362bccf4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amplemoving.com/help-your-kids-cope-with-moving-stress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.981589 | 1,173 | 2.40625 | 2 |
When the luxury liner Oceanos started taking on water in rough seas during a voyage around the coast of South Africa in 1991, musician Moss Hills and his colleagues suddenly found themselves responsible for everyone on board.
It was during dinner that Moss Hills began to realise just how severe the storm was. The ship's waiters, normally completely adept at carrying drinks and food without spilling anything, were struggling. Moss, a guitarist from Zimbabwe working on board the cruise liner alongside his wife Tracy, a bass player, had never seen the waiters dropping trays before.
Earlier that day, gale-force winds and heavy rains had delayed sailing for the final leg of the cruise towards Durban several times. But with no sign of conditions improving, the captain eventually decided to lift anchor and the Oceanos, with 581 guests and crew on board, sailed off into 40-knot winds and 9m-high (30ft) waves.
Moss and Tracy, both in their 30s, would usually host parties up on the pool deck as the ship sailed away from port. But that day the party had been moved indoors, and Moss braced his body while he played his guitar, trying to keep his balance as the ship pitched and rolled.
"The storm just got worse and worse," Moss says.
At dinner, Tracy - who her husband describes as unflappable - decided to go to their cabin to organise an emergency bag, just in case.
"Off she went," Moss says, "and suddenly - boom - all the lights went out."
When none of the ship's officers appeared to issue instructions, Moss, who was not easily frightened, began to feel uneasy.
"You're on a ship in the middle of the ocean, in the dark of night, in a terrible storm," he says, "I felt this tightening in my stomach."
When small, dim emergency lights came on, Moss went up to the lounge to check on the musical instruments on stage. Microphone and cymbal stands were strewn about. Then he suddenly realised he couldn't hear the constant, throbbing, background noise of the engines. The ship had lost power and was slowing down.
Soon the 153m (502ft) Oceanos was drifting sideways onto the crashing waves.
The ship, says Moss, was getting hammered.
Anxious guests began pouring into the lounge. Pot plants, ashtrays, and chairs were sliding around, and people had to move from their seats to sit on the floor as the ship lurched wildly from one side to the other, port to starboard.
About an hour passed, and the mood in the lounge grew tense. Moss grabbed an acoustic guitar and began singing with some of the other entertainers to try to keep people calm. But as time stretched on, Moss noticed that the ship was heeling - no longer coming back to a level position when it was being thrown about in the storm.
"Something bad is happening," Moss said to Tracy, "I'm going to try and find out what's going on."
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Hanging on to the handrails, Moss and another entertainer, Julian, a magician from Yorkshire, made their way through the darkness below deck. They could hear excited voices speaking many different languages. Officers were running around, some were carrying bags, some had life jackets on, and some were wet.
"Everyone was pretty wild-eyed and panicked-looking," Moss says. "We were trying to ask, 'What's happening?' but it was like we didn't exist."
Julian and Moss continued down to the engine room - the lowest part of the ship.
"We were way below the waterline, in the dark, on our own, and there was no-one there," Moss says. "That would never, ever happen, even when you're docked."
The thick, metal doors which acted as a safety barrier by preventing water moving from one compartment of a ship to another in the event of flooding, were tightly closed.
"But it sounded like there was a large body of water sloshing about behind those watertight doors," Moss says.
The Oceanos was sinking.
Back up in the lounge, there had still not been any announcements about what was going on. Moss found the cruise director who said the captain had told her they were going to have to abandon the ship.
"Then we found out that one lifeboat had already gone with a lot of the crew and senior officers on it," he says.
Moss and the others had no idea how to evacuate a cruise ship, nor how to launch the lifeboats which hung high above the deck along each of the ship's sides, but there was nobody more qualified around to do it.
One by one, they began lowering the starboard side lifeboats down to the deck. They didn't know how to keep them steady as people got on, so Moss improvised by standing with one leg on the deck of the ship and the other on a lifeboat.
But each time the ship rolled to starboard, Moss would have to jump back onto the Oceanos before the lifeboat swung away, opening up a gap of a couple of metres, and then swung back, smashing with such force against the ship's hull that bits of it came splintering off.
Each heaving lifeboat, now with as many as 90 people in it, many screaming in fear, would then be lowered down to the sea on cables. But Moss had no idea how to start the engines or even where the keys were.
"We'd let them go, off into the night, and they would just drift away into the pounding waves," he says. "The people in the lifeboats had a torturous time - they were getting deluged in spray, it was cold and completely dark, but we just had to carry on until all of the starboard side lifeboats were launched."
By now the Oceanos was taking in more and more water and heeling markedly to its starboard side. Launching the remaining lifeboats on the port side safely was near impossible.
Instead of being lowered down to the water once loaded up with people, the lifeboats would cling to the side of the ship until the next big wave rolled in, tipping the ship enough to let them dangle freely.
"And then gravity would suddenly drop the lifeboat three or four metres (13 ft) in one go, almost tipping people out into the open water, it was horrific," Moss says.
Eventually, he realised it was too dangerous to continue.
"In the effort to try and rescue people we were possibly going to kill them," Moss says.
And time was running out.
Unable to launch any more lifeboats, but with hundreds of people still in need of rescue, Moss and others made their way up to the ship's bridge - where they assumed they would find the captain and the remaining senior officers - to ask what to do next.
"We looked inside, but there was no one there," Moss says. "That's when we realised - it's just us."
Orangey-red lights blinked in the darkness, but Moss had no idea what most of the equipment was for, never mind how it worked. They took turns trying to use the radio to send an SOS.
"I was calling, 'Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!' and just waiting for somebody to answer," Moss says.
A big, deep, rich voice eventually replied. "Yes, what is your Mayday?"
Relieved, Moss explained that he was on the cruise ship Oceanos and that it was sinking.
"OK. How long have you got left to float?"
"I don't know - we've got the starboard railings in the water, we're rolling around, we've taken on a huge amount of water," Moss said. "We still have at least 200 people on board."
"OK. What is your position?"
"We're probably about halfway between the port of East London and Durban."
"No, no, no, what are your coordinates?"
Moss had no idea what their coordinates were.
"What rank are you?"
"Well, I'm not a rank - I'm a guitarist."
A moment's silence.
"What are you doing on the bridge?"
"Well, there's nobody else here."
"Who's on the bridge with you?"
"So I said, 'It's me, my wife - the bass player, we've got a magician here…'"
Moss was put in contact with two small ships that were close to the Oceanos. They told Moss to find the captain and get him onto the bridge. But Moss had no idea where he was.
"I knew he wouldn't be down below because we were sinking," he says. "I was making regular checks to see where the water level was, and one deck below us was flooded."
Eventually, Moss found the captain, right at the back of the ship, smoking in the darkness. Moss explained that they needed his help - urgently.
"He was just looking at me, wide-eyed and vacant, saying, 'It's not necessary, it's not necessary,'" Moss says.
"I think he was in deep, deep shock."
The two ships close to the Oceanos had only one lifeboat each, so there was little they could do to help. They shared the sinking vessel's coordinates with the South African authorities who began to organise an air rescue mission.
As the storm continued to batter the ship, Moss and Tracy sat together in the near darkness, praying that help would arrive before it was too late.
"I think the ship is going to go down and it's very likely we're going to go down with it," Moss said to his wife.
He and Tracy had a 15-year-old daughter, Amber, who'd been on board the Oceanos for the holidays and disembarked just days earlier. Amber was now back at boarding school in South Africa.
"She can't lose both parents," Moss remembers saying. "Whatever we do, we've got to make sure at least one of us gets off."
More than three hours passed before the first rescue helicopter arrived and hovered above the ship.
Two navy divers were winched down to the Oceanos' deck. They said they needed help to get everyone off before the ship sank, and Moss was given a five-minute crash course on how to run a helicopter airlift.
"Remember, the harness needs to be quite tight under people's underarms," the navy diver told him. "Make sure you get it right because otherwise they'll tip upside down and fall out - you'll kill them on the deck. Do two at a time or else we're going to run out of time. OK? Go."
One navy diver went to organise the helicopter rescue at the rear of the ship and Tracy and Moss were to organise a second at the front. But as the ship sank ever lower beneath the waves, people began jumping off the steeply pitching deck in panic and a rigid inflatable had to be launched into the churning sea to rescue them.
Dangling in mid-air from the helicopter cable, people who Moss was trying to save were being blown against parts of the ship by the strong winds as they were winched into the sky. There was no way of knowing how badly hurt they were and Moss momentarily lost his nerve. But with so many people still on board, he realised he had no choice but to keep going.
In total, five helicopters joined the rescue mission, shuttling back and forth, carrying 12 people at a time to safety as dawn broke and the darkness lifted.
Drained and exhausted, Moss and Tracy were among the last to be strapped into harnesses.
"As we were hovering above the ship it really hit me," Moss says, "I could see the Oceanos was in a critical situation. We could see waves breaking over the bow where we had been rescuing people."
When the helicopter carrying Moss touched down on the grass, cruise passengers ran towards him singing and cheering, and reaching out to hug him.
"I started to choke up and sob," Moss says, "and then I collapsed."
On 4 August 1991, about 45 minutes after the last person on board had been airlifted to safety, the Oceanos slipped away below the water. Everyone who had been put into lifeboats was rescued by passing ships and remarkably no lives were lost.
Moss and Tracy, who now live in Liverpool, continued working as cruise ship entertainers for many years. Even now, three decades later, Tracy prefers not to talk about the sinking or dwell on how close they all came to losing their lives.
But Moss, who's been asked about the Oceanos many, many times, finds it cathartic to talk about. He looks back on what happened with great relief.
"I'm not invincible," Moss says, "but if I can get through that, I can get through anything."
There was an inquiry in Greece which found the captain of the Oceanos and four other senior officers negligent in the ship's sinking.
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