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Spanish Eyes (film)
Spanish Eyes is a 1930 British musical film directed by G. B. Samuelson and starring Anthony Ireland, Donald Calthrop and Dennis Noble. It had a gypsy theme and was made at Twickenham Studios in West London. The film was made at night, to allow other more important productions to use the studio in the daytime - a common practice at Twickenham during the era.
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The film became known for the death of Nita Foy, a West End chorus girl who was working on the film, in what became known as "the Film Studio Horror". Foy was invited to Donald Calthrop's dressing room for a drink where her costume caught fire. Although the inquest exonerated him Calthrop's career never entirely recovered from the incident.
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(The Daily Dish) Dr. Liz Joy, Senior Medical Director, Wellness and Nutrition with Intermountain Healthcare joined Surae on The Daily Dish today to talk about the importance of The “pillars of lifestyle medicine” for kids and raising healthy children. She also reminded us about the importance of medical coverage and the options on how we can make sure we obtain it.
Below we have covered the “Pillars of lifestyle medicine:”
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommend that kids achieve 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity that includes aerobic activity, muscle strengthening, bone loading, and age-appropriate skills training.
Key nutritional recommendations are that kids are getting a variety of foods, with a focus on whole foods, and less processed foods. Dairy is an important source of calcium for bone health. Adolescence is a time of great bone mineral acquisition. In fact, by age 19, we have 95% of our adult bone density.
It’s recommended that kids of all ages avoid sugar-sweetened beverages. There is NO redeeming value to sugar-sweetened soda.
Sleep is an underrated lifestyle behavior! Kids who get insufficient sleep are more likely to experience unhealthy weight gain, are more likely to struggle with depression, and have poorer academic performance.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the following:
- Ages 4-12 months: 12-16 hours (including naps)
- Ages 1-2 years: 11-14 hours (including naps)
- Ages 3-5 years: 10-13 hours (including naps)
- Age 6-12 years: 9-12 hours.
- Age 13-18 years: 8-10 hours.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant stress for kids of all ages, and especially for adolescents who are biologically driven to seek friendship and companionship with peers – and couldn’t due to school closures, and lack of after-school activities and school sports.
Recognizing the signs and symptoms of depression and connecting kids with their primary care provider for assessment, treatment, and referral to mental health resources is important.
Substances: Thankfully, we are seeing an overall decline in substance use among youth in Utah
Environmental Health: In Utah, environmental concerns include our air pollution – largely particulate pollution in the winter months, and ozone and fire smoke in the summer – and sun/heat safety. Skin cancer rates in Utah are increasing, and much of that damage occurs in childhood! Sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses are a must for kids of all ages. The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends waiting until the baby is 6 months old before introducing sunscreen. The best ways to keep infant’s sun safe are with shade and clothing.
Social Connectedness: This would include not only peer-to-peer relationships but also remaining connected as a family. Family meals are an important time to connect with kids. Drive time to and from school is an opportunity to learn what’s going on in their daily life at school.
Kids these days are surgically connected to their phones, iPad, etc. Setting age-appropriate ground rules on screen time and access to content are both reasonable and important.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends:
- Age 2 and under: avoid media use (except video chatting).
- Preschoolers: No more than one hour of high-quality programming per day.
- Grade-schoolers/Teens: Don’t let media displace other important activities such as quality sleep, regular exercise, family meals, and “unplugged” downtime.
- All ages: Be a media mentor. Co-view media with your kids.
In addition, parents should be making sure they have medical coverage. Summer brings a lot of activities and recreation that kids enjoy. It’s important to have them be outside and active. Unfortunately, accidents and injuries are unpredictable, especially with children!
One thing to remember also is that when children have health insurance, parents can have peace of mind knowing that they have access to medical care when the unexpected happens. Medicaid and CHIP offer Free or low-cost health insurance for kids and teens. It is comforting to know that these programs are available to help those who find themselves in challenging situations or economic hardship.
For more information or to apply, you can call (888) 222-2542 or you can apply online.
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Regardless of whether you pay privately or use the NHS system when it comes to dentistry in the UK, there’s a cost involved; it’s just that through the NHS, the costs are on the whole less. In recent years, private dentistry has become more and more popular, with more people opting to pay a little bit extra for the service. Some people think this is just down to price, but there are lots of things that can contribute to a person turning to private care. So, what are the benefits of visiting a private dentist in Nottingham?
More treatments available
NHS dental appointments are much shorter than private ones, so the treatments that are available become far more limited. The NHS can only really provide restorative care like crowns, bridges, dentures or standard fillings to fix teeth. If you opt to go private, there are more user-friendly options available like white fillings and teeth whitening. If you want to improve the look of your teeth, then private dental care is likely the way to go.
We’ve all gone to ring the dentist to be greeted with a three-week waiting list for a checkup, which is really less than ideal. Our lives are constantly moving forward, and planning weeks or even months in advance can be a real pain. Choosing private practice often means that you will experience a far shorter waiting time for your next appointment; this is much more convenient to your lifestyle as private practices frequently offer better out-of-office hours too.
Like lots of things, the government has an impact on limiting the amount of NHS dental treatments a practice can perform a year, with more cost-effective equipment used as opposed to the best available on the market.
A private dental clinic is more likely to have technologically advanced equipment available to them, making both diagnosis and treatment better and more convenient for the patients. Not to mention, they have more time to focus on and accommodate nervous patients.
We have briefly touched upon this already, but it is a serious benefiting factor that persuades people to go private over the NHS. Feeling rushed when you visit the dentist can be a stressful and anxious time. Private care gives the patients the ability to spend a good amount of time with their dentist to discuss in depth their needs and what they are wanting to achieve through any dental procedure or cosmetic dentistry work.
It wouldn’t be a cause for shock if you are unable to find an NHS dentist local to you, in recent years as soon as a place becomes available for NHS patients it’s gone in no time. There is such a limited number of NHS patients allowed on a dentist’s books that sometimes going private is the only option; either that or you’ll be travelling miles for your next appointment. And when you break down the travel cost and time lost, the extra money spent is likely few and far between. | <urn:uuid:ba2919a8-8aa1-4dd8-94be-a2b7db2386a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patienteducationconnect.com/private-for-dental-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957795 | 605 | 1.625 | 2 |
Year 1 at Forden Church in Wales School Send Letters
The children in Year 1 at Forden Church in Wales School have been studying dinosaurs and prehistoric animals this term. The young scientists have been learning all about fossils and life in the past. A team member from Everything Dinosaur visited the school for a morning last month to show the children fossils and to teach them about dinosaurs. Our fossil expert challenged the children in Year 1 to write letters to Everything Dinosaur and sure enough, yesterday, we received a lovely set of dinosaur themed letters from the children.
Year 1 Children Send in Letters to Everything Dinosaur
Picture Credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Ellie, Evan, Faye and Logan)
Year 1 Learning about Technology
Mrs Davies, the enthusiastic teacher, explained that her class had written thank you letters after the fabulous morning of workshops with Everything Dinosaur. Year 1 have been learning how to take photographs on the iPad and import them into a different document, the children have also been showing off their typing skills too.
Learning About the Biggest Meat-Eating Dinosaurs
Picture Credit: Forden Church in Wales School (William)
William now knows that Spinosaurus was bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex. Hollie was amazed by all the fossils and she enjoyed playing the games.
Most Real Fossils Feel Cold When You Touch Them
Picture Credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Hollie)
Hollie chose to illustrate her thank you letter to Everything Dinosaur using a model of a Pteranodon (flying reptile). Jodie was amazed by all the fossils and she now knows that when you touch a fossil it feels cold! Jodie also chose to illustrate her letter with a Pteranodon. Jessica on the other hand, selected a wonderful model of a duck-billed dinosaur, a big plant-eater called Parasaurolophus for her letter. She liked having her picture taken with the fossils.
Jessica’s Letter and the Parasaurolophus Model
Picture Credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Jessica)
A big thank you to all the children in Year 1 who sent in letters to Everything Dinosaur (Chloe, Arthur, Jack, Jodie, Jessica, Hollie, William, Evan, Ellie, Logan and Faye). A special thank you to the teachers and staff at Forden Church in Wales School, for assisting the Year 1 children in their letter writing extension activity. | <urn:uuid:e9eac115-c970-4b28-86bd-395d62ab649d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2016/07/15/year-1-send-letters-to-everything-dinosaur.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938829 | 502 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Railway bridge being replaced in Whittlesey
- Credit: Archant
A railway bridge in Whittlesey is being replaced during the August bank holiday weekend while the river remains open to traffic as part of Network Rail’s upgrade plan.
The bridge over the Briggate River is on the line between Ely and Peterborough which is used by up to five passenger trains an hour and twelve freight trains a day.
Meliha Duymaz, Network Rail’s route managing director for Anglia, said: “We are replacing this well-used bridge with a much stronger one, which will mean fewer delays for passengers.
“The new bridge has the added bonus of being more economical to maintain, which means we can spend money on improving other parts of Anglia’s network as part of our Railway Upgrade Plan.
“The river will remain open while we work, but the railway will be closed between March and Peterborough.
“Passengers are advised to plan ahead of travelling this August bank holiday.”
Between Saturday August 26 and Monday August 28 the existing timber decked bridge will be replaced with a stronger steel decked bridge. Without the replacement, a speed restriction would need to be imposed to protect the bridge from heavy trains, resulting in delays to both passenger and freight services.
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The new bridge will last longer and is less expensive to maintain, say National Rail.
The work has been planned so that the river can be kept open during the replacement, with a team of lookouts being employed to stop work if river traffic needs to pass, without it impacting on the delivery of work.
As part of the work, the track will be replaced and the ballast, the stones that form the track bed, will be made deeper to improve drainage to increase reliability.
Passengers are advised to check before they travel as a rail replacement bus service will run from between March and Peterborough throughout the work. Details are available at www.nationalrail.co.uk
Network Rail owns, manages and develops 20,000 miles of track, 40,000 bridges and viaducts and thousands of signals, level crossings and stations.
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A recent government hearing on intellectual property theft has shown just how far real-world law is lagging behind internet activities. The US Congress, which recently discussed the protection of legitimate commerce and intellectual property online, failed to provide any in-depth answers to what the search engines could be doing to fight property theft.
This outcome provokes quite a few questions. Should the search engines be doing anything about property theft? Whose responsibility is it to chase culprits? And what is the role of the average site owner in the process?
Intellectual property theft is becoming an increasingly important issue for site owners due to search engine optimisation. One major task for all those in SEO careers is the provision and reassessment of content. Original content has taken an ever more important place in search engine rankings, and this year, with Google vowing to crack down on duplicate content, some site owners have felt the pinch.
While the search engines appear to be developing harsher policies for content theft, there has yet to emerge any system for site owners to defend their property rights. At present, the original site may suffer the consequences of duplicate content once the content has been stolen. Site owners do, however, have the opportunity to contact Google to argue individual cases.
Ideally, the search engines would present site owners with a forum to challenge alleged content thieves. When governments are still struggling to catch up with internet developments, it seems that the search engines are the only sheriffs in town. | <urn:uuid:946c59f4-448e-412a-92a5-73e38f1163c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.engageweb.co.uk/intellectual-property-laws-still-lagging-behind-internet-4043.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944183 | 297 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Even in the midst of a pandemic, Tesla continues to reach new heights.
The company, which began as a problem-plagued upstart a little over 15 years ago, has now become the world’s most valuable automaker – surpassing industry giants such as Toyota and Volkswagen.
This milestone comes after a year of steady growth, which only hit a speed bump earlier this year due to COVID-19’s negative impact on new car sales. Despite these headwinds, Tesla’s valuation has jumped by an impressive 375% since this time last year.
How does Tesla’s value continue to balloon, despite repeated cries that the company is overvalued? Will shortsellers declare a long-awaited victory, or is there still open road ahead?
By Nick Routley, via Visualcapitalist - full article here.
Discover how architects, artists and designers are responding today to some of the most urgent ecological issues of our times.
From climate change to species extinction and resource depletion, the damaging effects of modern life are more tangible than ever. Eco-Visionaries examines humankind’s impact on the planet and presents innovative approaches that reframe our relationship with nature. Through film, installation, architectural models and photography, the works in this exhibition interrogate how architecture, art and design are reacting to a rapidly changing world, beyond mainstream notions of sustainability.
This timely exhibition brings together international practitioners including Olafur Eliasson Hon RA, Ant Farm, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Andrés Jaque, Tue Greenfort, Unknown Fields, Rimini Protokoll, Virgil Abloh and WORKac, amongst others. Their provocative responses are a wake-up call, urging us to acknowledge and become conscious of our impact on our environment.
Eco-Visionaries is a project initiated by Fundação EDP/MAAT (Lisbon, Portugal), Bildmuseet (Umeå, Sweden), HeK (Basel, Switzerland) and LABoral (Gijón, Spain), in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK) and Matadero Madrid (Madrid, Spain).
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- 1850-1868 – Apostolic vicariate in Marysville
- 1868-1881 – Diocese of Grass Valley
- 1881-1895 – Bishop Manogue and the newly formed Diocese of Sacramento
- 1896-1921 – The Bishop Thomas Grace era bridges pioneer California and modern times
- 1922-1962 – A Growing Diocese
- 1962-2008 – A Period of challenge, vision and faith
- Third Diocesan Synod
- Today – Looking forward with joy and hope
1850-1868 Apostolic vicariate in Marysville
On August 10, 1850, Father Peter Augustine Anderson, O.P., celebrated the first Mass in Northern California in a private home on 5th and L streets in the city of Sacramento. Anderson was a Dominican priest and a missionary. He had been sent to California by his provincial, Father Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P., who later became the first American bishop in California.
Included in the congregation of that first Mass was the Honorable Peter Burnett, the first Governor of California. He was so convinced that Catholicism had come to Sacramento to stay that he gave Father Anderson a plot of land on 7th and K streets, which became the future site of the first of four churches named after Saint Rose of Lima, the patron saint of the seminary at which Augustine studied in Kentucky.
In 1850, the city of Sacramento was a mission of the church of Saint Francis, in San Francisco. Today, it is the See city of the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, comprising 42,000 square miles of territory.
The first of the four churches was a simple wooden frame structure that went up rapidly enough and came right down again with a strong wind. Unfortunately, Father Anderson didn't live long enough to see the church; he died of exhaustion and sickness while helping the sick during a cholera epidemic in Sacramento, just three months after he arrived. He was, in the full sense of the word, a martyr of charity — and recognized as such as early as 1850.
On September 27, 1860, after 10 years of sending missionaries into Northern California from San Francisco, the Marysville vicariate was established. It included all of Northern California and most of the State of Nevada. The first Vicar Apostolic was Bishop Eugene O'Connell who had previously been a professor at All Hallows Seminary in Dublin, Ireland. His reaction to being named Bishop was: “I am condemned to the mines!”
1868-1881 — Diocese of Grass Valley
By March 3, 1868, the vicariate of Marysville had sufficient priests and people that it would stand on its own as a diocese. Consequently, Pope Pius IX created the Grass Valley Diocese, with Bishop Eugene O’Connell as its first and founding Bishop, although he maintained his residence in Marysville. The fluctuations of the economy of that day defined the struggles of this new Diocese. From Virginia City, Nevada to Chico, constant change marked the horizon. Town populations would grow and decline as mining, agriculture and transportation industries made their mark on the frontier. Bishop O’Connell served from 1868 until March 17, 1884, when he resigned and Patrick Manogue was appointed as his replacement.
1881-1895 — Bishop Manogue First Bishop of the newly formed Diocese of Sacramento
There are more stories told about Patrick Manogue (1832-1895) than any other bishop or priest in California; and the reason for it is the man’s character and the life he led. He was born in Kilkenny County, Ireland in 1832 and lost both parents to sickness. In 1848 he came to United States where he found work and went to college. Under pressure of wanting to bring his brothers and sisters to United States, he interrupted his college life in 1853, and came across country to a place called Moore’s Flat, above Nevada city in California, where he started to dig for Gold — and was successful, in more ways than one — since he was six feet, three inches tall and powerfully built.
While making money, working all day smashing quartz and digging tunnels, he studied at night — he brought his college books with him. What he really wanted was to become a priest. There were many disputes in the mining camp. Manogue, though only in his early twenties, was the acclaimed judge of these disputes. Size, strength, and goodness have a way of convincing people!
In four years of mining, Manogue made enough money to afford an education in Paris at one of the best seminaries of the time, Saint Sulpice. During those years he not only studied but traveled throughout Europe — but he never forgot his family living in Moore’s Flat. He regularly wrote to them.
Manogue was ordained a priest in Paris and came back home to California and his first assignment: Virginia City, Nevada. A strong man was needed for Nevada. Manogue fit the bill. While there, not only did the city grow with the discovery of first gold, then silver — Manogue grew also in his ability to help others; nor was he afraid to use his strength. On one occasion he learned that one of his parishioners was dying. He got on his horse, at night, and started out to the lonely cabin. When he arrived, the lady’s husband came out of the cabin, a pistol trained on the priest. “No blankety-blank priest is going to touch my wife!” The pistol waved in the air. Manogue decked the man, took the pistol away, went into the cabin and prayed with the woman. When he returned, the astonished husband was sitting on the steps. Manogue gave back the pistol, got on his horse and rode back to Virginia City. The stories about the man are legend!
One of the men Manogue had mined with was John Mackay, an ordinary miner who later discovered the Comstock silver lode in Virginia City. He became the richest man in the world, but never lost his friendship with Manogue. He built both a hospital and a school for the parishioners. The hospital still stands and is a relic used by art groups during the summer.
John Mackay also contributed heavily for the building of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento. A cathedral is for a Bishop, which Manogue became in 1881. By 1886, he was moved to a newly created diocese, Sacramento. It needed a cathedral, right next to the Capitol. His long time miner friends helped him build and celebrate it—at the old Golden Eagle Hotel on K Street—people like Fair, Flood, Mackay & O’Brien—the big four in mining whose fortunes created San Francisco.
In 1895, Patrick Manogue died in the Cathedral he built. Stories about the man and his life filled the papers for days. He was loved because he lived his life for Christ.
1896-1921 — The Bishop Thomas Grace era bridges pioneer California and modern times
Father Thomas Grace served both Bishop O’Connell and Bishop Manogue as a devoted and gentle parish priest, and a trusted advisor, respectively. It made sense then that priests and bishops throughout California conveyed their wish to the Vatican that he be appointed as the next Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento. After some hesitation, he accepted, and he began a 25-year journey of leading the Diocese.
It was a period marked by growth and transition. Bishop Grace’s simple manner likely set a necessary tone as he navigated through financial woes, technology advancements and a population boom. The Diocese grew from 25,000 to 55,000 people and welcomed a number of immigrants. Irish priests, religious and lay people continued to adopt northern California as home, but so did German, Italian, Portuguese, and Croatian newcomers, each seeking their own communities and churches. The period also was marked with significant establishment and growth of Catholic fraternal organizations.
As time went on, Bishop Grace’s health weakened and the first auxiliary bishop was appointed in Sacramento — Father Patrick J. Keane who later went on to become the third Bishop of Sacramento in March of 1922.
1922-1962 — A Growing Diocese
The forty-year period from 1922 to 1962 saw three bishops in the Diocese of Sacramento, each leading it forward and witnessing a new growth — not just in population but also in jurisdictional boundaries, buildings, schools, hospitals and ideas.
Bishop Patrick Keane, D.D., served from 1922 to 1928 with Irish roots in County Kerry. His six-year episcopate focused on completing work that had been identified during Bishop Grace’s years. However, he also established many new parishes and responded to a Vatican directive for more local priests and vocations.
Bishop Robert Armstrong was an American-born bishop. He was born in San Francisco but later his family moved to Washington State, and he studied at Gonzaga University. He served from 1929 to 1957 and was admired for his casual and approachable style. As the country moved through the Great Depression and the world faced another war, Bishop Armstrong actively involved himself in government matters and legislative issues affecting the Catholic people. At the end of the war, Bishop Armstrong witnessed Sacramento’s population double in just 20 years — by 1957 there were 209,281 Catholics which was a 255 percent increase from 1940. Addressing needs for parishes, schools and faith formation became a new priority for Bishop Armstrong. Bishop Armstrong’s health deteriorated in 1954 and by January 1957 he passed away. His recently appointed auxiliary Bishop, Bishop Joseph Thomas McGucken, succeeded him.
Bishop McGucken’s episcopate began in 1957 and continued through 1962. In these five years, Bishop McGucken continued the much-needed building of churches, missions and schools. His leadership approach was serious and devoted in order to accomplish the matters at hand. He also made it his priority to develop and expand programs for religious education and sacrament preparation through the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD). He authorized, built or approved for development nine parishes, three high schools, 33 new church buildings and one minor seminary before his departure to replace Archbishop Mitty in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1962.
1962-2008 — A Period of challenge, vision and faith
The next four decades would see three Bishops usher in change as the rapidly changing world delivered new dynamics to the Sacramento scene. From the rural reaches to the urban core, the modern Diocese of Sacramento, tucked within a complex world, marched forward balancing secular realities with the spiritual truths. These forty plus years required steady leadership rooted in tradition but tempered with purpose, understanding and conviction.
Canadian-born Bishop Alden Bell came from Los Angeles, having served as an auxiliary bishop there. Almost immediately upon his installation in 1962, he addressed a range of pending matters, most specifically building projects and new sites to answer the needs of a still-growing Diocese — namely Catholic high school development. Solano County was annexed, adding to the population growth. Bishop Bell initiated a significant fund drive to alleviate costs, build schools, expand religious education and build a home for the aged.
At the same time, he was called to Rome as Vatican II commenced. Therefore, Bishop Bells’ term also became pivotal in the reception and implementation of liturgical changes and a more collegial approach to administration. This prompted the beginnings of many parish pastoral councils. Other world issues also added to the uneasy times as the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and legislative matters on abortion took hold.
These tremendous challenges over his 17-year term were marked by world and diocesan turbulence. Positive actions to facilitate Catholic education, foster relationships with the Hispanic community and renovate the aging interior Cathedral were undermined by divisions, school closures, and world tensions. The Holy See accepted his resignation at the age of 75 in 1979.
By December of 1979, Bishop Francis Quinn was selected as Bishop Bell’s successor. Having served only a short time as an auxiliary bishop in San Francisco, Bishop Quinn came to serve Sacramento as its seventh Bishop. Described as “naturally kind and good-hearted,” Bishop Quinn appeared to have a genuine connection with everyone. Noted for his approachable, simple and progressive style, he highlighted and responded to the growing diversity of the Sacramento Diocese, especially Asian, Filipino and Hispanic populations. The appointment of Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Gallegos in 1982 also facilitated positive relations with the Hispanic population.
Under Bishop Quinn’s guidance, a Diocesan-wide spiritual renewal program, called Renew, took root and flourished. Also, a Diocesan Pastoral Council was begun, a group of the laity from different parishes, priests and religious, who represented the life in the Diocese and acted as advisors to the Bishop in his pastoral responsibilities.
From 1980-1992, seven new parishes, several missions, two elementary schools and one high school were established. In that same year a group of consulters met to prepare the second Diocesan Pastoral Plan.
Bishop Quinn also reached out to women, and fostered lay ministry and involvement. As priestly vocations declined, Bishop Quinn’s era welcomed many men into the permanent diaconate. Bishop Quinn also spotlighted many social justice issues, elevating them to a level of heightened awareness among local Catholics. He particularly focused on aid and ministry to the poor. Bishop Quinn retired in January of 1994.
Bishop William K. Weigand came to Sacramento January 27, 1994 after having served as Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. His birthplace and early roots were in the Pacific Northwest, specifically Washington and Idaho. Upon his arrival to Sacramento, he soon became known as a genuinely faithful and committed leader and extremely intent on “refocusing” the faithful on the Church’s teachings. This theme continued throughout his episcopate to this present day.
Key activities during his tenure included ecumenical outreach, intensified efforts in vocations regarding the priesthood and the permanent diaconate, and continued response to cultural diversity. As he had done in Salt Lake City, Bishop Weigand recognized the importance of restoring the Cathedral and, indeed, this two-year undertaking transformed the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament into all that Bishop Patrick Manogue likely had ever envisioned. At the same time, he commenced plans for a Diocesan Synod, the third to take place in the history of the Diocese. See Third Diocesan Synod.
In the midst of ongoing growth, the Diocese of Sacramento with nearly 600,000 Catholics faced the nationwide sex abuse crisis. Bishop Weigand proceeded to respond with important measures and policies that would begin a local healing and offer hope for the future.
With grace and dignity, Bishop Weigand courageously battled a liver illness throughout his tenure. Some 25 years earlier, diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, Bishop Weigand was told he might live three to five years. Against all odds, he managed his health well but required a very serious liver transplant in 2005. Bishop Weigand retired November 2008 and today, monitors his health as he travels, and lends support to Bishop Soto as Bishop Emeritus.
Third Diocesan Synod
Bishop William K. Weigand convoked the Synod August 3, 2003 on the steps of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, opening the planning and preparation of this historic event while also formally closing the doors of the 117-year-old Cathedral for restoration.
- The third Diocesan Synod — Journeying Together in Christ— convened at St. Isidore parish in Yuba City, California, October 11-13, 2004: Historic Synod Book
- Synod Initiatives were promulgated on January 9, 2005: English | Spanish
- A subsequent Synod meeting of members convened January 16, 2006.
- Diocesan statutes were promulgated November 26, 2006: English | Spanish
Today—Looking forward with joy and hope
Bishop Jaime Soto became Sacramento’s ninth bishop in November 2008 after having served as Coadjutor Bishop to Bishop William Weigand in the previous year. Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Soto Coadjutor Bishop October 11, 2007. Prior to moving to Sacramento to assume his new position, Bishop Soto served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Orange since March 2000, also having been appointed by his Holiness, Pope John Paul II as Titular Bishop of Segia. His Episcopal Ordination occurred on the Feast of the Visitation, May 31, 2000.
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Between 1936 and 1937 the B&O rebuilt 1,290 of its aging M-15B box cars into M-15K box cars (370000-370989 & 371000-371249) and M-15L auto cars (379000-379049). These were new ‘Wagontop’ car bodies on top of the existing M-15 fishbelly center sill underframes.
From 1937-1938, the B&O also constructed 2,000 additional Wagontops, classed M-53, numbers 380000-381999. These cars were like the M-15K class except that they were built new from the rails up with Duryea underframes. In 1953 an additional 1,000 cars were built as class M-53A and numbered 385000-385999. Between 1941 and 1945, one hundred twenty-five cars were modified, reclassed as C-16, renumbered to 1875-1999 and assigned to express service. Starting in May 1947 they were returned to general service.
Starting in 1955, the M-15K box cars began to run afoul of the 40-year old underframe rule. Between 1955 and 1957 all but eighteen M-15Ks were rebuilt with entirely new underframes, thereby extending their service lives.
Both Sunshine and Central Hobby Supply (West Shore Line) offer resin kits to recreate these cars in HO scale.
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GCU is joining Science on The Sofa – Glasgow Science Online Festival.
Running from September 9 to November 9, the free Science on The Sofa digital programme will be full of hands-on activities, talks, shows, workshops and exhibitions including events presented by GCU staff.
Susan Grant, Community and Public Engagement Coordinator, and Engineering Lecturer Dr George Loumakis will join the People Behind the Festival strand and Dr Loumakis will also be presenting his findings on marine renewables. Our Common Good podcast series, which explores how GCU is helping people and communities locally, nationally and around the world, will feature in a section showcasing Glasgow’s COVID-19 response.
The Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research team – whose outreach activities in antimicrobial resistance and hand hygiene are now more relevant to the public than ever before – will be sharing a video created by the team in lockdown, and GCU Psychology’s SMYLE mental health project will present a fortune teller activity to help young people stay calm and feel better when they are, for example, experiencing feelings of sadness or anger. The activity was designed by GCU Psychology student, Murin Currie and will be available for families, schools and youth groups to download. And pioneering food chemist Mary Andross, of GCU founding institution Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science, will feature in Monumental.
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Visit our Beautiful Books page and find lovely books for kepler, photography lovers zbrudh more. Use Masking to limit the noise texture to parts of the face where skin pores are more prominent. Eric Keller CG artist Eric Keller has been working as a professional CG artist since creating animations and images for both the entertainment industry and for scientific visualization.
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I’m calling her “Grilka” after Quark’s ex-wife. His new tutorial will definitely be one I will watch over and over! Enter Quick Sketch Mode. Hollywood visual effects artist Eric Kelker simplifies this erid software and gets you quickly up and running to create your own work. Some screengrabs of my progress on the Firefly Video game in Unreal. Hold the Shift key and paint on the model to create a nice skin pore texture.
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Antanas Gudaitis triptych "M.K. Čiurlioniui" ( M. K. Čiurlionis Note, 1962)
The triptych M.K. Čiurlioniui (M.K. Čiurlionis [1875-1911] was a famous Lithuanian artist and composer) was created in December 1962, at exactly the same time that the leader of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev criticised the Second Exhibition of Modern Art in the Manezh Gallery in Moscow. Following this ideological campaign, the artist Antanas Gudaitis (1904-1989) was criticised in Soviet Lithuania. He was blamed for deviating from Socialist Realism. While no actual works by the painter were mentioned during this ideological campaign, Gudaitis himself believed that it was because of his triptych (see Lubytė, E. 1997, Tylusis modernizmas Lietuvoje [Quiet Modernism in Lithuania], Vilnius, p. 88).
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most unfortunate thing in the past year of 2020 but thanks to our medical experts, they have found a vaccine for the same which has to be given in two doses with one month difference between the two. However, the government is rolling out these vaccines in a very systematic and ethical manner.
The technology could be a really helpful tool in spreading correct information about the COVID-19, its vaccines, the after-effects of taking the vaccine and helping in booking appointments with the nearest COVID-19 vaccination centre. The largest social media conglomerate- Facebook Inc. has volunteered to take this forward and to get as many people in the United States as possible to get a successful vaccination.
Facebook Chief Executive Officer and founder, Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his plan to help more people in the U.S. to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Zuckerberg posted on Facebook early Monday that the social media conglomerate is launching a helpful tool in its COVID-19 Information Centre that will show where and when an individual can get the vaccine doze, according to a report by USA Today. This tool launched by Facebook will also open a link that will enable you to make an appointment for the same.
Boston Children’s Hospital is running a VaccineFinder.org website tool which will be integrating with Facebook’s COVID-19 Information Centre to enable every individual to identify and find the nearest COVID vaccination centre.
Furthermore, Mark Zuckerberg also included in his post that Facebook has already connected over 2 billion users to ‘authoritative’ information about the deadly virus. He also added that in many countries, the companies are working on tools to make the vaccination more effective and easier for individuals to book a slot and get vaccinated.
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Previously I wrote about the money saved by being healthy. One of the cheapest and best ways to improve overall health is to be properly hydrated. Adequate fluid intake is obtained from consumption of both liquids and from food, particularly water dense foods which include fruits and vegetables. Water is the main source of hydration which is readily available, cheap, and easily accessible to the population. There are water fountains, bottles of water, and most homes have running water. Water helps to maintain your body’s temperature, lubricate the joints throughout your body, rids wastes from the body through the excretion of urine, bowels, and perspiration, and adds cushioning to organs and vital tissues of the body. Other benefits may include weight loss through decreasing caloric intake. Water also increases exercise performance by delaying muscle fatigue during working out.
There are some out there who don’t like the taste of water or live in areas where the water is just horrific. Don’t give up, there is hope. There are several ways to create great tasting water with little effort and low cost. If you purchase water from the store, I recommend purchasing the largest size available. These tend to be less expensive per ounce and if your local store has a water fill up station, then you really save on money as the price for filtered water is quite reasonable for a gallon or five gallon. The water where we currently live is awful so we purchase drinking water. Water refills are .25￠ for per gallon. If it weren’t for the horrendous taste of the water I would use the tap water. For those that don’t like the taste of water in general there are ways to spruce up your water with quick and easy ingredients.
- Lemon or lime wedge
- If you are cooking with a lemon or lime, lightly score the rind and places in the water, it will add lemon or lime flavor without using the juice.
- Sprig of Rosemary or Lavender if you are cooking a dish that requires the herb.
- The herb is readily available and just place it in the cup allowing the flavors to infuse the water.
- Cucumbers ends can be used or even the skin that is left over from a salad.
- Muddle berries that aren’t going into your dish of choice. This releases the flavors and adds sweetness to the water.
Ingredients can be added from a variety of different sources and I would encourage you to get creative. Who knows what may happen and what new flavors you can create with what’s on hand. You also cut down on any excess food waste which may have been produced from cooking so win for waste reduction, win for taste, and a win for the budget.
So, how much water should you drink to be properly hydrated? The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine recommends healthy women consume 2.7 liters (11.4 cups) and healthy men consume 3.7 liters (15.6 cups) of water a day. Keep in mind that these are just averages and other factors may influence how much water you may need to consume. These can include age, physical activity levels, climate and altitude, sickness, women who breastfeed, and any number of influences not mentioned. It is also important to note that it is possible to drink too much water may become life threatening just as dehydration can become life threatening. So stay balanced when it comes to water. A good measure is to drink when you are thirsty and to listen to your body.
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No Harm in Looking, Right? Men’s Pornography Consumption, Body Image, and Well-Being
2015 in Psychology of Men & Masculinity, Vol. 16(1), pp. 97-107.
- Analyses revealed that men’s frequency of pornography use was positively linked to poor body image.
- This study found that pornography use was associated with poorer romantic attachment in couple relationships.
Many scholars have recognized and studied the links between various sources of appearance-related pressure (e.g., media and interpersonal pressures to be mesomorphic) and men’s body image and well-being. Pornography is another medium of appearance related pressure that is very rarely considered in this research. The present study incorporated pornography use into 2 models of men’s body image and 1 model of men’s interpersonal and emotional well-being. College men (N 359) rated how often they viewed pornography and... READ FULL ABSTRACT
- "Findings from the second model revealed that men’s pornography use is connected to another dimension of body image: body appreciation. Specifically, pornography use was inversely linked to body appreciation, both directly and indirectly through habitual body monitoring. This pattern of relationships indicates that men who view pornography are more likely to focus on how they look rather than what their body can do for them, and less likely to challenge cultural appearance ideals and engage in self care behaviors for their body. Therefore, pornography use may be associated with men being more open to engaging in deleterious body change strategies (e.g., fasting, cutting out certain food groups, anabolic steroid use, excessive bodybuilding, cosmetic surgery) to achieve the mesomorphic ideal rather than adaptive self-care strategies (e.g., moderate cardiovascular exercise and strength training, choosing nutritious foods) that emphasize the health and functioning of their body."
- "Extending beyond body image, the present study revealed that men’s pornography use was positively associated with romantic attachment avoidance and anxiety. Theoretical assertions as well as preliminary findings from qualitative research suggest that pornography scripts present gender-typed and sexualized working models of self and others, which could shape how men position themselves within their actual romantic relationships. As a socialization agent, pornography use may be linked to men’s (a) romantic attachment avoidance by legitimizing and encouraging sex without intimacy and (b) romantic attachment anxiety by heightening anxiety surrounding partner commitment. That is, by showing fleeting sexual encounters and noncommittal relationships, pornography may validate men’s fears that their real-life partners will cheat on, reject, and/or abandon them." | <urn:uuid:b9ef184f-6da9-4a95-9b63-2bc60e0dd6fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://truthaboutporn.org/study/no-harm-in-looking-right-mens-pornography-consumption-body-image-and-well-being/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943726 | 564 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Morse Creek Trail
UPDATE: 23 May 2009 - Sad news. The last bit of trail has been paved. The view of the sea is as pretty as ever, but the trail no longer offers a respite for tired feet and the footworn. It was nice while it lasted.
The Morse Creek Trail is just east of Port Angeles, so it is not as
wild as many of the national park trails. Still, it is easy to get to
and an easy wander along the Strait of San Juan de Fuca. Since it is so
close to town it has a coterie of regulars who come to enjoy the strait
and the views. You can see the Ediz Spit, Striped Peak, Victoria, and
on clear days, Mount Baker in the distance.
How to Get ThereThe parking lot at the trail head is visible on Route 101 a bit east of Port Angeles. The highway dips in a deep U where it crosses the creek. The parking lot is visible north of the road. Just pull in and cross the street to the restored railroad bridge and start the walk. (The bridge was rebuilt by volunteers and they've done a great job!)
The Kaleberg Hike
The trail starts with the railroad bridge and the trailhead is, if anything, well marked. This trail is part of the Olympic Discovery Trail and runs east, as well as west, from the parking lot. We always head west, up the ramp and over Morse Creek on the railroad bridge. You'll often see people fishing down by the river.
After the bridge, the trail descends for the better part of a mile. You will be in some people's back yards, so give them a break. The trail is lined with wild roses and popcorn plant, but the real payoff comes when you reach the strait. From here, you follow the rocky shore at the base of the bluffs and Port Angeles seems far away.
You can wander for several miles, even into town if you want. You can clamber around on the rocks, but do be careful. When the winds are high, the waves can knock you off the trail or the rocks and into the icy strait. Down there, the beach logs lurk, ready to kill. Ordinary common sense should be sufficient. | <urn:uuid:33e3c294-e481-4a1d-9f2f-4b6c0b7ada6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.kaleberg.com/ptangeles/morse.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958547 | 489 | 1.570313 | 2 |
“You have two minutes, start now.”
These six simple words kicked off a flurry of sticky notes, Sharpie pens and far-flung ideas that began our design thinking journey. Our goal? To create something, anything that could be useful to people in Baltimore. Over the course of a week, we presented a pop-up park for entrepreneurs, a futuristic e-waste machine and an app that functioned as “Tinder for art buyers.” For some, this exercise was the first time they had ever encountered design thinking. For others, it was a standard sprint. Either way, the beginning of the M.B.A./M.A. in Design Leadership program was unusual for us all.
Kat Ward ’19 (Design Leadership M.B.A./M.A.)
In the past, it wasn’t often that you would get both sides of the house in one room. With the advent of technology’s continuous and rapid ascent, combining business and design no longer seems so farfetched. This is where design thinking comes in. The problem-solving methodology was developed by IDEO as a means of codifying innovative design processes. At Johns Hopkins and MICA, the M.B.A./M.A. in Design Leadership (or MAMBA, as we call it) serves as a platform for promoting design thinking and its utilization in big business. The program is the first of its kind nationwide, which not only brings both sides of the house into one room — it marries them.
Over the last five months, our teams have tackled challenges many of us would have never considered possible before the program. Through both classwork and individual projects, we have collectively worked with clients such as Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Sodexo and Sagamore Ventures, among others. “Before I started the program the world was a lot smaller and what I could accomplish was a lot smaller. Now that I’ve started, everything is blowing up,” says Jesse Banwart. It’s safe to say that the rest of the cohort echo this sentiment. Ben Liongson states that the skills he’s developed as a MAMBA make him, “equipped to work my way through very wicked challenges...The solutions that I come up with here [are] going to be molded in a way that truly benefits users and the institutions that I’m working for.”
One of the program’s greatest strengths is its diversity. Interests among the cohort range from food justice and healthcare reform to chatbots and Eastern philosophy. Representing seven different states (and 2 countries, because we’re lucky enough to have a classmate from Chile), there’s no lack of geographic disparity. And don’t let the word “design” fool you. While several members of the cohort hail from fine arts backgrounds, there is no shortage of diversity in work history either. Agriculture, advertising, consulting and politics are all par for the course as a MAMBA.
When asked about the most valuable part of the program, Justin Rogers replied that, “Far and away the best part of the program is the cohort. That’s definitely been most valuable to me personally.” During our summer intensive we were told that we would become a “family.” Our
professor at the time balked at the statement, indicating that “families are fraught.” Despite her distaste for the term, there are few other ways to describe the sense of familiarity and encouragement that being in such a group provides. “The friendships, professional relationships, academic experience, collaborative efforts and facets of those relationships are priceless because we’re not in a disciplinary program,” emphasizes Christine Alix. Being a MAMBA means that nobody gets left behind — there is always a shoulder to lean on, an ear to hear you and someone to help explain what on earth the statistics professor was talking about. Though we may be traveling far and wide throughout the business world in the near future, that attitude still stands; once a MAMBA, always a MAMBA. | <urn:uuid:dbd90eda-f5d4-408d-aa71-9855ce33dde3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mica.dev.fastspot.com/art-articles/details/designing-new-leadership-starting-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965484 | 873 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will sponsor seven agribusiness trade missions in 2020 to grow and diversify export opportunities around the world for America’s farmers and ranchers, Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney announced today.
“I cannot overstate the immense value trade missions provide to the U.S. agriculture industry and to our customers,” McKinney said. “Trade missions help agribusinesses – both large and small – get their foot in the door to new markets, build strong relationships with existing and potential customers, and expand their global footprint and sales of U.S. farm and food products.
“I’ve had the pleasure of leading numerous trade missions at USDA and the results overwhelmingly speak for themselves. In 2019 alone, six USDA trade missions enabled more than 170 U.S. companies and organizations to engage in 3,200 one-on-one meetings with foreign buyers, generating more than $78 million in projected 12-month sales,” said McKinney.
Each year, the marketing and trade experts from USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) analyze and select a combination of new and growing markets that offer the best prospects for U.S. agricultural farm and food exports. For 2020, FAS has planned a record seven missions, four of which are first-time destinations for USDA trade missions.
While final dates are subject to confirmation, scheduled 2020 trade missions include:
- North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), March 16-19
- Philippines, April 20-23
- Spain and Portugal, June 8-11*
- United Kingdom, September 14-17*
- Australia and New Zealand, October 19-23*
- Peru, November 2-5
- United Arab Emirates, November 15-18*
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Perth primary schools collaborate on Nativity e-book in Noongar and English
30 November 2021
‘Catholic schools are called to be Christian prophetic communities, fostering the ‘new life in Christ’ and growth in Christian values, as proclaimed by the Catholic Church. This includes helping students to integrate faith and culture, to be encouraging of all that is good in society – as well as to challenge all that is contrary to Christ’s message.’ Bishops’ Mandate, #89
The bilingual project began with the two schools’ Leadership Teams looking to collaborate and utilise their different strengths: Infant Jesus School’s expertise in digital technology, and Santa Clara School’s Noongar Language Program.
Infant Jesus School Assistant Principal, Melissa Myles, said the two schools wanted to take up the opportunity to integrate faith and culture.
Santa Clara Noongar Language Teacher, Maddie Smith, working on a translation of the story with her Nan, before the project brought students together record the story in both languages, and create collages for the illustrations using native plants and textured materials.
Students used digital technology to animate an aspect of each page of the book.
“The activity allowed students to teach each other new skills as well as share pride in Noongar culture and Catholic faith,” Ms Myles said.
Infant Jesus School students, Lilly and Nate, said it was fun teaching and learning new skills with their Santa Clara School partners.
“I taught my partner how to use Keynote, and she taught me some painting skills,” Lilly said.
“My partner taught me how to say different words in Noongar,” said Nate.
“I never knew how to speak any Noongar before I met them,”
Mitchell, one of the Santa Clara School students, said:
“It was really cool to be in such a fun and collaborative project, and use different technology with other students to make an exciting e-book,”
Wayne, Bennell and Rose, three Aboriginal students at Santa Clara who were involved in the project said:
“It’s important to keep the culture alive by sharing it with others, and linking it to our Catholic faith,”
The project aimed to create a resource, which along with a proposed teaching guide, will provide Catholic schools on Noongar Country with opportunities to celebrate and promote a deeper understanding and appreciation of Noongar culture and people.
“Initially, I began the translation of the Infancy Story as an opportunity to expand the use of Noongar language at Santa Clara for myself and my students, using this topic as a curriculum focus for Term 4; I never thought that it would lead into what we have today,” Ms Smith said.
“For me personally, I feel like I have done something that is now going to help other schools and give students throughout the region the opportunity to experience what the students at Santa Clara have,
“On a cultural level, it was hard to manage as the Infancy Story isn’t a traditional Noongar story, so this project has been challenging but rewarding at the same time,
“To be able to learn more and make this happen has been a unique experience,” she said.
“This digital, bilingual book is a positive way to strengthen the relationship between schools and local Aboriginal communities, a key component of CEWA’s Transforming Lives Strategy, instilling in our students the role they play as instruments of Christ in our modern world,” said Santa Clara Primary School Principal, Clinton Payne. | <urn:uuid:c9b865b5-60cc-41e3-848f-3c3c8dea7ee3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stories.cewa.edu.au/perth-primary-schools-collaborate-on-nativity-ebook-in-noongar-and-english/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956177 | 763 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The collection of a lifetime from the prodigious novelist and poet, now available as a paperback.
By turns moving, playful, and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
Before she became one of the world’s most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly, her first collection in over a decade, brings together many of her most recognizable and celebrated themes, but distilled—from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy, and humour.
“Margaret Atwood has always been a poet; her poetry collections make visible the taproot of the wry, wise metaphysic that runs through her fiction and essays, and in a precarious time her new collection, Dearly, is a source of uncompromising elemental warmth.” —Ali Smith, Observer
About the author
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Other titles by Margaret Atwood
This Time, That Place
We Are Still Here
Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set
Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
2021 Women Who Rock Our World Wall Calendar
A Father & Son Discuss God, the Bible and Life
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AUTHORITY OF THE SUNNAH (The Key to Paradise)
- Publisher: Dar as-Sunnah Publishers
- Product Code: BK4827
- Availability: In Stock
- Book Binding: Paperback
- Book Author: Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
Allah Most High Said, "And whatever the Messenger has given you, take it; and what
he has forbidden you, refrain from it." [Al-Hashr (59):7]
The Prophet said, "I have not left out anything of which Allah, The Most High has
Commanded you with except I have apprised you of it. Likewise, I have not left out
anything of which Allah has Prohibited you from it, except I have apprised you of it..."
[Al Bayhaqi, 7/76 & others]
Together with the Qur'an, the Sunnah is the pivotal foundation and primary source of
the Islamic faith. Following both of them is mandated by Allah Himself and obligated
upon Muslims to adhere and live accordingly. Muslim theology is established upon
them and remains defective and incomplete should either be forsaken for they both
explain and interpret each other.
During his time, Imam al-Suyuṭi felt a genuine need to pen this compelling book
in confuting those who either rejected the Sunnah altogether or did not grant it
the status and respect it deserves in the religion. He primarily compiled from the
works of Imam Al-Bayhaqi elucidating the position of Imam Shafi'i, and firmly laid
out the arguments supporting the Sunnah of the Prophet by outlining its critical
importance, its authority and implication to one's life.
Salvation therefore lies in embracing the Sunnah fully, for indeed it is the key to
facilitating our worldly lives and thereafter, unlocking the doors of Paradise, as
Shadh ibn Yaḥya said perfectly, "There is no better way to Paradise than the way of
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Blood flow ratio with time. Time dependent increase in blood flow in normal and diabetic mice with and without VEGF. Each group at each time point contains 18–21 animals. The Normal VEGF is statistically significant by 1-week as compared to all other treatment arms. There is no statistically significant difference between all other treatment groups. | <urn:uuid:6d54124d-bf10-4f47-97eb-f78e8e28f3c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2840-2-18/figures/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956672 | 68 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Kuba Cloth is one of the more popular traditional African fabrics. It is still produced locally for traditional use, so can be obtained as new, but also as vintage cloth. The vintage cloth can be many decades old, is very sought after and in short supply. It’s this type of cloth that you will typically see in museums.
The Kuba have one of the largest textile repertoires in the whole of Africa using appliqué, embroidery, cut-pile and resist-dyeing techniques. Kuba people exclusively employ vegetable and mineral dyes: camwood for red, brimstone tree for yellow, mud, charcoal and various plants for black and brown, clay for white.
The Kuba (also called Bakuba) people based around the Kasai river in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo are recognized as some of Africa’s pre-eminent artists. They gave a tradition of manufacturing cloth woven from the split younger leaves of the raffia palm. To this day they have retained great skill in making raffia cloth, weaving dancing skirts, aprons and mats on a loom set at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground. The weaver sits in its shade and works with his hands above the head. The Kuba raffia looms can only be used for raffia and not for cotton or other yarn.
The making of Kuba Cloth or raffia cloth is a very time consuming process; Kuba men weave, while the women embroider and appliqué. Kuba men first gather the leaves of the raffia tree and then dye it by using mud and substances from the camwood tree. The men rub the raffia fibers in their hands to soften and make it easier for weaving. After the men have completed the cloth their women embroider the patterns with a few threads of raffia fibers.
There are several different groups of the Kuba people living in DR Congo. Each group has a different and unique way to make the fabric. Some of them make it thicker, longer, with different colors and patterns. Each pattern is symbolic and many times a piece has many different meanings. The original Kuba cloth did not have patches, but as the cloth is quite brittle it is likely that the patches were used to repair the cloth. Nowadays the Kuba people still use the cloth during ceremonial occasions and ritual dances.
Kuba are part of the people that came to the Great Lake areas via the great Bantu migration from West Africa. The original Kuba migrated during the 16th century from the north to reach their current location at the Sankuru river. When they arrived, however, they found that the Twa already lived there. The Twa were eventually absorbed into the Kuba Kingdom.
Apart from the Bushoong speaking principalities, other Kuba people includes the Kete, Coofa, Mbeengi, and the Cwa Pygmies. The Kuba people always refer to themselves as the Bakuba which translates to “people of the throwing knife”.
Kuba people speak Bushong (Bushoong, Bushongo, Busoong, Shongo, Ganga, Kuba, Mbale, Bamongo, Mongo) language which belongs to Bantu language group of the Kasai region of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The height of the Kingdom was during the mid-19th century.
Europeans first reached the area in 1884, but the Kuba, being relatively isolated, were not as affected by the slave trade as many of the other peoples in the area. The Nsapo invaded during the late 19th century, and the Kingdom was broken up to a large extent.
Nineteen different ethnic groups including the Bushoong, Ngeende, Kel, Pyaang, Bulaang, Bieeng, Ilebo, Idiing, Kaam, Ngoombe Kayuweeng, Shoowa, Bokila, Maluk, and Ngongo formed the Kingdom, which still exists and is presided over by the Nyim, or King. The King of Kuba is always Bushoong. Each of the ethnic groups has a representative in residence at the Bushoong court. The current reigning monarch, Kot-a-Mbweeky III, has been on the throne since 1969.
The first explorer to discover the existence of the Kuba people and enter their Kingdom was William Sheppard, a black American Presbyterian, in 1892. German explorers were the next to visit this Kingdom between 1907-1909; they have gathered the most complete ethnographic history to date. | <urn:uuid:80fa666a-5fe9-45e7-85e0-07f55000d10c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ignoti.nl/kuba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970093 | 957 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Mark C. Hunter, PhD
Mark C. Hunter is a naval/military historian of the Atlantic world. His specialization is the 19th- and early-20th centuries, with a focus on maritime economic history; non-state actors – like pirates, slave traders and smugglers; and maritime, military and naval education and employment. His work uses the broad strokes of economic theory to understand the behavior of non-state actors and their reaction to state intervention in their “illegal” marketplaces. In addition, Dr. Hunter has studied extensively the transition of youth to adulthood and their recruitment, retention, professionalization and education as US Navy officers. He has also written on similar efforts by the Royal Navy to recruit and train reservists and the role of naval reserve work in a person’s employment cycle. He has also studied how nations use navies as safety valves in international affairs and British, Canadian and Newfoundland relations while attempting to police rum-running during the prohibition era and uphold international obligations and agreements. | <urn:uuid:b8c2eb7c-f846-4cd2-a57d-5d54c93ee519> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mhunter.ca/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975639 | 204 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Applications which require the use of mobile industrial equipment often require operation in the same areas as pedestrians. The operator of the equipment must know the location of pedestrians at all times while remaining productive and accomplishing their job. Vision Plus™ can aid an operator in this most important task without the need for tags or devices on the pedestrians. How The Vision Plus™ System Works: 1. As pedestrians enter into the coverage area, an audible and visual alarm is provided to the operator. 2. Next, Vision Plus™ begins to track the pedestrians and predict their paths. 3. Vehicle and pedestrian tracking are combined to determine potential collisions. If a collision is predicted, alarm intensity increases and a Red In-Path alert is issued notifying the operator of this crucial information. (See FIGURE A) 4. Vision Plus™ continues to monitor pedestrians and their paths until the pedestrians are no longer within the coverage area. (See FIGURE B) 5. An internal warning system which combines vehicle speed, vehicle direction, and pedestrian location aims to reduce the number of alerts to the operator making the alerts more effective. 6. The Vision Plus™ system can distinguish pedestrians from all other objects, track the movement of pedestrians and give this functionality without the need for tags or transmitters to be worn by the pedestrians. (See FIGURE C) FIGURE C: Vision Plus Can Distinguish Pedestrians From All Other Objects FIGURE B: YELLOW Visual Alert With An Audible Alarm Notifying The Operator Of A Pedestrian In The Coverage Area SENSOR-LESS, TAG-LESS TECHNOLOGY Tracks multiple pedestrians at the same time and requires No Device or Tag to be worn by the pedestrian. | <urn:uuid:236d6092-a6ec-4993-be86-c7eb67522892> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taylorforklifts.com/brochures/interactive/visionplus-brochure_ver2108/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.907809 | 341 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Dandelions (2011) by David Hockney is an iPad drawing printed on paper, depicting a bouquet of flowers placed in a half-filled water glass. The artist discovered the iPad as a drawing tool when it was first released in 2010. His artistic output inspired by the medium has been prolific ever since, including 212 digital paintings produced in 2018.
Hockney’s signature use of a sharp black contour is abandoned here as he seeks to endow the image with a sense of softness. Blades of grass intertwined with the flowers lack a rigid contour and, thus, seem to dissolve playfully against the dark background. The flower petals appear sketched in gentle ink strokes and, thanks to Hockney’s delicate use of colour, attune smoothly to the green background. The series of digital flower paintings follows Hockney’s long-standing experimentations with traditional methods of painting, printmaking, and photocopying. As such, it demonstrates how the artist continues to prove his versatility after five decades of artistic career. Having discovered the iPad, Hockney used to email a new painting of flowers every morning to acquaintances, often a bouquet in a vase similar to that depicted in Dandelions. He said in this context: “I draw flowers every day and send them to friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. And my flowers last!” | <urn:uuid:f580f26e-88e4-48a3-ad30-7782b79494c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-david-hockney/collection-flowers-def61264/artwork-dandelions-signed-print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956989 | 289 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The development or selection of heritable traits (genes) in an insect population that allow individuals expressing the trait to survive in the presence of levels of an insecticide (biological or chemical control agent) that would otherwise debilitate or kill this species of insect. The presence of such resistant insects makes the insecticide less useful for managing pest populations.
- susceptibility to insecticides
- insecticide susceptibility
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Log Cabins and homes come untreated and need to be treated with a high quality wood preserver or wood stain within couple weeks after installation.
Log homes used to be treated with all natural materials – externally tar oil and pine oil and internally with different mixtures of beeswax, linseed oils and pine oils.
All these materials are also favourable today because they come from natural sources. However today’s timber treatments and different wood stains are made with all the necessary formulas to ensure the long life of the timber and have a long, low cost maintenance cycle.
The best timber treatments and wood stains are made especially for timber houses and some even for log houses to ensure the flexibility and viscosity of the layers yet letting the timber breathe. Also they consist of formulas that prevent the timber being exposed to fungi, mould, UV rays, rot, vermin and woodworm.
Log homes need to be treated or painted every few years, now, with all these new materials the re-staining or re-painting cycle can be up to 8 years. This is obviously subject to a location, weather conditions, climate and type of treatment or paint used.
Where the house is more exposed to weather you need to use more layers of protection and sometimes an alternative layer of special undercoat or special treatment resistant to extreme heat or salt water for example.
We have supplied our houses to Scandinavia, Spain, France, Denmark, Holland, Germany, UK and Ireland all having slightly different climate, weather conditions and therefore need for different type of timber treatments suitable for application and/or local requirements. | <urn:uuid:54ce7608-0508-4dff-aa8c-4b19240ca48e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.finestamlogcabins.co.uk/timber-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94229 | 338 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The Red Lake Environmental Response Program (RLERP) is proud to announce the launch of a new tool for community members to Submit Environmental Concern (SEC) to be investigated! The form may be set up to be accessed on your mobile device like an APP and it is quick and easy to use… It only takes a SEC! The RLERP will automatically receive your submission by email so that our staff can investigate your concern and begin assessment and mitigation as necessary. You have the option to include your name (can remain anonymous if you wish), a brief description of the area and type of concern and a photo of the threat. We require only a location so that we can find and address your concerns (must allow the form to access your location). This tool is easy and quick to use if you should discover something that is a potential threat to the environment. With your input, the RLERP will be better able to find and address problems that threaten the health and environment of Red Lake Nation. Please remember, it only takes a SEC!
CLICK HERE to Open RL SEC Form
To submit your concern, enter the following information: your name (optional), a brief description of the location/area of your concern, what type of trash you have found and a photo. Everything, including a camera, is right on the form. The most important information for the RLERP staff is the location, so that we can find the threat and begin the process of making an assessment. For this reason it is important to allow the form to access your location (a pop-up will ask for your permission).
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This article originally appeared on lynnipulse.org.
This semester, it really does pay to attend Lynn. The new iPad initiative makes one’s stay much more enjoyable both inside and outside of the classroom. The initiative was extended to all students as the university made the switch from text books to e-books.
These brand new, university-owned iPad Minis are expected to benefit both professors and students by enhancing the methods of teaching through the duration of a typical four year college program. Certain apps help engage students by allowing them to easily share a presentation with a professor or their classmates.
“This positive move for the institution has focused our university to think digitally and mobile first,” said Chief Information Officer of Information Technology, Chris Boniforti. “[We] are “helping students move from feeling comfortable in using technology for social and entertainment purposes to feeling comfortable within their academic setting and eventually into their career.” Apple has recognized Lynn University as an Apple distinguished school for the wide spread use of their products.
This typically occurs with new shifts in technology but has strayed away from this move. The most common issue seen with the new iPad Mini initiative is a user forgetting his or her Apple ID or password, which may simply be resolved with a reset of one’s account information.
Boniforti has also stated that the current iOS operating system is very stable and any issue may typically be resolved with a quick restart of one’s device.
The best and most popular features to aid a student and their learning in the classrooms at Lynn are the notes feature embedded into the iBooks app to jot down important points during a section of the textbook. Mobile printing is another pro to this move and is set to release shortly. The benefits of this technology save time and energy for both faculty and students.
Another popular feature with the new iPads is iTunes U. This educational app allows professors to share course materials with students, such as a textbook, and post assignment due dates too. Having this system enables students to quickly organize their classes and assignments digitally.
Boniforti believes that, “The way that technology is changing the classroom is that it allows students to further engage in new and more interactive fashions or ways.” The different approach taken at Lynn may make learning easier and more efficient.
Airplay, another popular feature used in classrooms daily enables a student or professor to mirror his or her screen to the project, allowing one to present to a class via Apple TV. Videos, presentations, notes, photos, textbooks or anything relevant to the class may be displayed to the class with the click of a button.
So, what about the news of no more books in the bookstore here at Lynn?
The switch from paper textbooks to digital e-books enable a student to gain knowledge much more quickly as videos and interactive media may be embedded directly into a chapter for one’s reference. Any required textbooks given to students are made available digitally in the free iBooks app. The search feature within the e-books make finding a particular quote or section a whole lot faster and easier.
Another valuable feature with the iPad is the capability to print wirelessly. “We are looking to introduce a similar way for students to print using their ID from any device,” said Boniforti. The rollout is expected to come during the coming fall semester.
A favorite app of Boniforti’s for productive use both inside and out of the classroom is Inspirational Maps. He loves the visual feature since it may help a student visually devise a plan for a research paper. “Inspirational Maps is one of my favorite apps because it allow me to arrange my ideas visually and then I quickly convert them into a well-organized outline,” he said.
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The application process under the Marine Reserves Act must be strictly followed. If the process is not followed, the application will become bogged down in bureaucratic red tape or legal challenge. This is the part of your project that all your work is building towards; the preparation of a statutory document on which the success or failure of your campaign will turn.
The guide that follows addresses the requirements of the Marine Reserves Act, which at the time of writing is the governing legislation. We also discuss strategies to prepare a proposal for a marine protection forum.
The Other Road: Preparing Proposals for a Marine Protection Forum
As we prepare this guide (2017), there is a change signaled by the current Marine Protected Areas Policy and Implementation Plan, which we stress is government policy and not legislation. For more than a ten year period, successive governments have tried to amend the Marine Reserves Act. Part of that effort has been to move the process to a more regional forum model, with emphasis on fuller participation of stakeholders making recommendations for the Government to action. If these changes are fully implemented in the future, individual groups may no longer have the ability to apply for marine reserves directly under the Marine Reserves Act. After more than a decade of talk in Wellington, the Marine Reserve Act has not been amended or replaced with new legislation. What's more, the Government's commitment to resourcing Region Marine Protection Forums is unclear.
An additional concern is the lack of direction or goals given to those forums which have taken place. Every group interested in marine protection must choose to:
either go through a process under the Marine Reserves Act and apply for a marine reserve(s)
or work to create a forum process in their region, or to participate in one when it eventually happens.
How long is this wait? No one knows. If you choose to participate in a regional forum process, you will need to develop a plan of how you will contribute your ideas or information. Because the forum process in New Zealand is still evolving, there is no set template for this. You may focus hard on making sure the principles of design are appreciated, or you may focus on preparing proposals, their justification and analysis to submit for consideration. However this works, a lot of the information currently required for a statutory Marine Reserve Application would still be useful in a forum process.
The Marine Reserve Application
At the beginning of this task, it cannot be stressed enough that reading and borrowing from previous applications will help you enormously. Do not be afraid to approach them both positively and critically. If your work to date has been thorough, the writing of the application should not be too difficult. We have prepared a download folder of Marine Reserve Applications and Proposals in our Library section.
The purpose of your formal application document is to satisfy the relevant Ministers that the criteria of the Marine Reserves legislation have been fulfilled. If you get confused about minor matters of style or structure, always keep that in mind.
A summary of the requirements for applicants under both the current and proposed Acts can be found here:
Keep referring to this page. If you are in doubt about including something, test it against the words of the Act.
A key point in preparing your justification sections, is to understand the concept regarding how the Ministers decides if an objection identifies an 'undue' effect created by the proposed marine reserve. In considering this decision, the Minister must balance the objection against the 'pubic interest'. In a landmark High Court case, Akaroa Marine Protection Society vs Department of Conservation the Akaroa group successfull challenged DoC in 'upholding' an objection. The judge, in his decision, clarifies the Minister's responsibility and gives examples of what constitutes the public interest argument balancing objections. When writing your proposal this is worth a careful study to help you define and describe benefits in the public interest and to marine biodiversity.
The Tawharanui Marine Reserve Discussion Document concerning the transition of the Tawharanui Marine Park to Marine Reserve Status focuses persuasively on legislative criteria. We recommend reading the sections below and keeping them in mind when writing the Introduction, Implications and Justification parts of your application:
- 3.1 Marine Reserves
- 3.4 Tawharanui Marine Park Meets the Test of Section 3(1) of the Marine Reserves Act
- 6.0 Minister of Conservation's Evaluation Criteria
The formal application template in the DoC Handbook for Applicants 2002 is based on the Marine Reserves Act 1971. It has 6 major sections.
2. The Application
3. Application Background
4. Implications for Existing and Future Users
6. Proposed Management
The Handbook is clear on DoC's suggested 'ideal structure' for a formal application. It is suggested to not substantively depart from the basic structure unless the change will help you to fulfill the requirements of the MRA 1971. The Handbook recommends drawing directly on the words and phrases of the Act, particularly when describing the values of the proposed reserve site.
The Handbook format has been used with only minor modifications in a number of past Applications. Look through these model applications and weigh up their apparent advantages and disadvantages. Some of the changes will be superficial, some will seem less efficient or attractive than the Handbook template, and some you may want to use in your own document.
This is the time of your campaign when specialization within the campaign group may be necessary. It may be best to have one or two people involved with the formal document itself: editing can become a nightmare in long and complex documents where no one is exactly sure what has been done and where it has been put. This does not mean that these people must handle all the writing and compilation work. However, it can help to keep rough drafts of various sections separate at first so that they can be slotted into a correctly formatted and prepared template.
Taking into account all that you have learned about your project and past marine reserve applications, it is time to create your Table of Contents and begin the job in writing each section.
To assist in this process we have prepared a Comparative Table of Contents from three past successful Marine Reserve Applications. In this table we make notes of how each application adapted the outline to meet the needs of their project. Word versions of the applications are listed in case there is any content you wish to copy and paste.
- Glenduan to Ataata Point (North Nelson) Marine Reserve (Forest and Bird, March 1999)
- Taputeranga Marine Reserve (South Coast Marine Reserve Coalition & Forest and Bird, October 2000) pdf version
- Taputeranga Marine Reserve word version
- Whangarei Harbour Marine Reserve Proposal (Kamo High School, March 2002) pdf version
- Whangarei Harbour Marine Reserve Proposal word version
It is important to present your proposal in the best light possible. Expand on and emphasise sections that support your proposal and show benefits of your proposed marine reserve. Do not leave out those which appear not so helpful. This is a document designed to persuade. As long as you are correctly representing the other side of an issue, it is fine to argue the merits of your own case.
Your Obligations in the Statutory Process
What should not be included in a marine reserve application
Section 4 of the Marine Reserve Act sets out restrictions on those areas able to be declared to be marine reserves, ensuring consistency with a range of legislation including the Public Works Act 1981, the Mining Act 1971 and the Continental Shelf Act 1964.
Section 5 of the Act sets out the procedure for applicants to follow, including the following key steps:
- Formal application to the Director-General of Conservation
- Publication (twice) in newspapers of the notice of intention to apply for an Order in Council, advising of opportunity to object.
- Notification of formal application to certain parties, including adjoining landowners and local authorities.
- Two-month (from date of first publication) period for objections to be made in writing.
- Three-month period (from date of first publication) for applicant to consider objections and send answer to Director-General (to be forwarded to Minister of Conservation).
Notably, the Act provides for limited engagement with the public and tangata whenua. The Marine Reserves bill intended to change this. It would have introduced clear requirements for consultation with the public and tangata whenua during the preparation of the proposal and consideration of the results of that process.
While there currently are no statutory requirements to undertake consultation prior to the formal application stage, the Marine Reserves bill is a strong indication that the government will expect applicants to have undertaken consultation prior to the formal application stage. The process in the Marine Reserves bill, while not binding in any way, is a helpful starting point.
Section 48. Consultation and consideration during preparation of proposal
In preparing a proposal under section 47, the Director-General or the proposer, as the case may be, must,—
(a) if practicable, consult—
(i) iwi or hapu who are tangata whenua of the marine area concerned; and
(ii) iwi or hapu who have customary access to the marine area concerned; and
(iii) interested persons; and
(b) keep a record of that consultation; and
(c) consider ways of avoiding or mitigating adverse effects on existing uses of the marine area concerned if those ways do not compromise the purpose of this Act and are consistent with its principles.
Section 49. Contents of proposal
(1) A proposal must—
(a) describe the location and boundaries of the marine area proposed as a marine reserve; and
(b) state how the proposed marine reserve will meet the purpose and principles of this Act; and
(c) contain the names and addresses of those who were consulted under section 48(a), and summarise the matters raised by them; and
(d) contain a statement of the extent (if any) to which the matters raised or considered during consultation under section 48 have been addressed in the proposal.
Minister of Conservation's decision
Section 5 provides for the Minister for Conservation to determine whether to declare approve an application for a marine reserve, with any necessary conditions.
Under the Act, the Minister is required take into account all submissions received and the applicant's answer to those submissions. The Minister is required to uphold any objection if he/she is satisfied that declaring the area a marine reserve would:
(a) interfere unduly with any estate or interest in land in or adjoining the proposed reserve:
(b) interfere unduly with any existing right of navigation:
(c) interfere unduly with commercial fishing:
(d) interfere unduly with or adversely affect any existing usage of the area for recreational purposes:
(e) otherwise be contrary to the public interest."
Under the Act, the Minister of Conservation is also required to take into account whether a marine reserve will "be in the best interests of scientific study and will be for the benefit of the public".
The Minister of Conservation is also required to obtain the agreement of the Minster for Transport and the Minister for Fisheries.
Section 5 of the Act provides helpful guidance for what potential applicants should have regard to in preparing their formal application document and answering submissions. These are the criteria against which the application will be tested.
The Marine Reserves bill provides a much more detailed list of matters the Minister must considerer. While the list may seem daunting, it provides a clearer indication of what matters applicants should strive to cover in their formal application.
The Bill takes important steps toward defining an undue adverse effect and the concept of the public interest.
The Bill also formally introduces consideration of the interests of tangata whenua. [LINK TO SECTION DISCUSSING TREATY ISSUES]
Section 65. Time limit for Minister's decision
The Minister must decide an application, and state the reasons for the decision, within 60 working days of receiving the final report of the Director-General under section 64.
Section 66. Matters Minister must consider
The Minister must have regard to the following matters in considering an application:
(a) the submissions received:
(b) any response to submissions:
(c) the matters raised in any meetings convened under section 59:
(d) any independent report obtained under section 62:
(e) the consultation carried out with consultation Ministers under section 63:
(f) the final report of the Director-General under section 64:
(g) relevant provisions of any management plan prepared under any other enactment:
(h) the matters referred to in section 67(2):
(i) any other relevant matters.
Section 67 Minister's decision
(2) The Minister may recommend the making of an Order in Council under section 71 only if the Minister is satisfied that the marine reserve proposed by the application as it may be amended under section 68, with any conditions that may be imposed under section 69,—
(a) meets the purpose and is consistent with the principles of this Act; and
(b) is in the public interest; and
(c) will have no undue adverse effect on any of the following:
(i) the relationship of iwi or hapu who are tangata whenua or who have customary access, and their culture and traditions, with the marine area concerned:
(ii) the ability of iwi or hapu who are tangata whenua, or who have customary access, to under-take customary food gathering to the extent authorised by any enactment:
(iii) commercial and recreational fishing:
(iv) recreational use:
(v) economic use and development:
(vi) any estate or interest in land in or adjoining the proposed marine reserve:
(vii) navigation rights:
(viii) education and research:
(ix) the use of the marine area by the New Zealand Defence Force:
(x) other matters considered relevant by the Minister.
(3) An adverse effect is not undue under subsection (2)(c) if the Minister is satisfied that the benefit to the public interest in establishing the marine reserve outweighs the adverse effect.
(4) In considering the public interest under subsection (3), the Minister must have regard to—
(a) the benefit of preserving and protecting marine communities and ecosystems to conserve indigenous marine biodiversity; and
(b) any benefits that may arise directly from the establishment of the marine reserve that the Minister considers relevant.
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Development of Multiparameter Mesoscale Eddy Products for Operational Use
Event: 2022 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting
Session: Science III: Mesoscale and sub-mesoscale oceanography
Presentation type: Type Oral
Mesoscale eddies play a major role in upper ocean circulation and dynamics and have a significant impact on biophysical and biogeochemical processes. In the California Current System, cross-shelf transport, nutrient cycling, and biological productivity are all heavily influenced by mesoscale eddy activity. Using near-real time (NRT) satellite observations from NOAA daily gridded sea level anomalies from the Radar Altimeter Database System (RADS), geostrophic currents, and eddy kinetic energy, NOAA Geo-Polar Blended Sea Surface Temperature Analysis, NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) version 5.0 sea surface salinity processed by JPL, and NOAA/CoastWatch NRT VIIRS multi-sensor chlorophyll DINEOF gap-filled analysis, these eddies can be operationally tracked and characterized in order to monitor related processes. Here multiparameter mesoscale eddy tracking is applied to the California Current System in order to analyze the impact of these eddies on nutrient pumping and biogeochemical processes in the region. An additional observational Multiparameter Eddy Significance Index (MESI) is introduced for biophysical and biogeochemical analysis and demonstrates how this multiparameter mesoscale eddy tracking methodology can be used to monitor upper ocean processes, primary productivity, and ocean acidification. The correlation between MESI and the observed variability in near-surface nutrients is shown to be in excess of 85% in the research area. This eddy tracking includes twenty observational and calculated tracked variables spanning 2018-2021 with features that allow for advanced monitoring and analysis of mesoscale eddies. Multiparameter mesoscale eddy tracking is a candidate product for CoastWatch with broad oceanographic applications for both operational and research fields. | <urn:uuid:39dfbb1c-023c-40de-a8cc-f3e435e6b937> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ostst.aviso.altimetry.fr/?id=95&no_cache=1&tx_ausyclsseminar_pi2%5BobjAbstracte%5D=3347 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.784008 | 433 | 1.90625 | 2 |
ASBESTOS TRUST FUNDS
Companies in the U.S. knowingly exposed their employees and consumers to asbestos. These companies have accepted liability for the use of asbestos and offer compensation to victims in the form of trust funds.
The increased legal liability caused by extensive asbestos exposure has forced many companies to create asbestos trust funds. Through these trust funds, companies offer compensation to victims of asbestos-related diseases, like mesothelioma, caused by exposure to their asbestos-containing products.
To learn more about accessing asbestos trust funds, contact us today.
Need to Know Facts on Trust Funds
Asbestos Companies Exposed Workers: The companies required to set up these trust funds were aware of the dangers of asbestos but exposed their employees to the substance anyways. The victims of this exposure are entitled to financial compensation.
Millions Are Getting Support: Since the creation of the first asbestos-related trust fund in 1988, about 3.3 million claims have been filed. Most of those who filed received financial compensation for treatment and supplemental income.
Billions Available in Compensation: The total amount of compensation paid out from these claims so far amounts to about $17.5 billion. There remains billions of dollars available for victims of asbestos exposure.
Bankruptcy and Trust Funds
Although asbestos use has declined in the U.S. over the past three decades, the number of people exposed to the mineral since its widespread use in the better part of the 20th century is staggering. An estimated 27 million to 100 million Americans have been exposed to products containing some form of asbestos since its use peaked in 1973.
There’s no question that a number of companies knowingly exposed their employees and customers to asbestos.
Since the 1980s, asbestos-related litigation has been a “mature tort,” a term signifying that most of the evidence against the asbestos companies has already been established in court. From the 1980s forward, the mounting number of asbestos-related lawsuits caused many companies to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Notable companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:
- 1982 – Johns-Manville
- 1989 – Raytech (Raybestos-Manhattan)
- 2000 – Owens Corning
- 2001 – W.R. Grace
Filing Chapter 11 allows companies to continue business operations while they restructure and pay their debts. One of the requirements to file for bankruptcy is the creation of a trust fund, which exists so that these companies can still afford to compensate people for illnesses caused by their negligence.
Since 1988, about 100 companies have filed bankruptcy due to asbestos-related lawsuits. Out of these 100 companies, 60 have established asbestos trust funds. The total amount of available assets in these 60 asbestos trust funds amounts to about $37 billion.
The largest six of these companies have each created asbestos trusts valued at more than $1 billion:
- W.R. Grace
- Owens Corning
- Kaiser Aluminum
- U.S. Gypsum Company (USG)
- Armstrong World Industries
- Federal-Mogul Corporation
Victims of exposure don’t necessarily have to worry about a conflict of interest preventing them from receiving compensation. Trust funds are not directly run by the negligible asbestos company. Rather, a board of trustees manages the claims process and pays out compensation to victims of asbestos exposure on behalf of the company.
Additionally, the trust fund itself is funded by the company according to guidelines set by the bankruptcy court. These guidelines also determine the amount of money the company has to set aside for the fund.
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Asbestos Trust Fund Amounts
Asbestos trusts must file an annual report that shows how many claims were submitted and how much compensation was paid out. According to a review published by the Government Accountability Office, as of 2011 the total amount of compensation asbestos trusts have paid out to claimants amounts to over $13.5 billion.
There is over $18 billion in available compensation that has not yet been paid out by asbestos trust funds.
The amount of asbestos-related compensation available through trust funds will actually rise in the near future by an estimated $12 billion. This increase is a result of more and more at-fault companies completing the bankruptcy process.
Filing an Asbestos Claim
During the first part of the claims process, the trust reviews a claimant’s work and medical histories to determine if their illness was caused by the company’s negligence. If the trust finds that the claimant is indeed a victim, it will pay out a predetermined amount of compensation.
Each trust fund follows a procedure called a TDP (Trust Distribution Procedure). Trust funds make payments to claimants based on certain guidelines set out by their TDP.
1. Submitting the Claim: When the a victim of exposure first submits a claim, he or she has the option of choosing an expedited review or an individual review. During an expedited review, the trust audits any supporting documentation and either approves or denies the claim. If the trust approves the claim, it makes makes a payment based on a predetermined ‘disease level.’
- Level 8 – Mesothelioma
- Level 7 – Lung Cancer 1
- Level 6 – Lung Cancer 2
- Level 5 – Other Cancer
- Level 4 – Severe Asbestosis
- Level 3 – Asbestosis/Pleural Disease
- Level 2 – Asbestosis/Pleural Disease
- Level 1 – Other Asbestos Disease
Each disease level corresponds to a certain amount of compensation that’s ultimately determined by each company’s trust. Asbestos trusts use disease levels to ensure that the limited pool of money in the trust is paid out fairly.
The most severe asbestos-related diseases usually receive the highest compensation. Asbestos-related diseases are rated from level 1 to level 8. Mesothelioma is rated the highest at level 8.
If the trust denies a claim for an expedited review, the claimant can file for an individual review. An individual review can actually be more beneficial than an expedited review because applicants can challenge the payout amount that the trust initially offered them. Claimants with mesothelioma can possibly receive more than the pre-determined amount assigned to their disease level by filing for an individual review.
2. Being Evaluated: Once a claim is submitted, it enters the trust’s processing line, which is first in, first out (FIFO). This means that claimants who file sooner are evaluated and compensated first.
The trust may request more information or check court records filed with other trusts while they review the claim. They also sometimes ask for additional documents to make sure that a false claim isn’t being filed. Taking steps to ensure that claims are legitimate helps keep money available for victims of asbestos diseases who truly deserve compensation.
3. Receiving Payment: If the claim is approved, the trust makes a payment offer, which is usually a percentage of the compensation amount allotted to each disease level. Trusts do this to ensure that they have enough money left to pay claimants in the future. Different trusts may use varying payment percentages.
If you’re a victim of occupational asbestos exposure, our team can help you understand how these percentages work and get you the compensation you deserve. Contact a member of our Patient Help Team for more information about asbestos trust funds.
Asbestos Injury Compensation: The Role and Administration of Asbestos Trusts. Retrieved on August 3, 2014 from http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/585380.pdf
Bankruptcy Trusts and Asbestos Litigation. Retrieved on August 3, 2014 from http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/products/articles/spring2012-bankruptcy-trusts-asbestos-litigation.html
20 U.S. Code § 4022 – Asbestos Trust Fund. Retrieved on August 4, 2014 from http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/4022
Congoleum Plan Trust: Instructions for Filing Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. Retrieved on August 4, 2014 from http://www.congoleumtrust.com/documents/docs/Congoleum_Filing_Instructions.pdf
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October 26, 2021-
Following a contract signed in August 2017, Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) and Thales have successfully completed the delivery of the Air Traffic Management system and radars, enhancing Tanzania’s air traffic safety and efficiency.
TCAA’s mission is to ensure safety, security and regularity of civil aviation in Tanzania through effective oversight, provision of efficient air navigation services and training while maintaining quality, protecting the environment and safeguarding the interest of stakeholders.
The modernization program involved the installation of ATC surveillance radars and TopSky - ATC at six different locations in Tanzania, including Songwe, Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza, Zanzibar and Arusha airports.
Integrated with existing sensors, Thales ‘ co-mounted STAR NG Primary approach radar with RSM970S Mode S en-route secondary radar together with TopSky - ATC enable the automation of en-route, approach and tower control centers, providing a highly accurate view of the air traffic.
Furthermore, the RSM 970S secondary radar Mode S downloads aircraft parameters that gives the controller early notice of aircraft evolution (speed, heading …) and the clearances (e.g. altitude selected by the pilot), as well as providing the ACAS Resolution Advisory Report. All of this real-time data enables the controller to have the correct information in order to make the best decision at the right moment in time.
Dar Es Salam Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) is also equipped with an ATC simulator to train TCAA air traffic controllers and engineers.
The TopSky-ATC EFS (Electronic Flight Strip) replaces paper strips, taking track of every flight, allows Tanzanian Air traffic controllers to monitor safely and efficiently from a touchscreen real-time data updates and contributes to data sharing for collaborative decision-making. It also makes it easier for controllers to handle fluctuations in traffic volume, changing weather, and all types of situations that can impact air traffic control decisions at any time.
Thales TopSky – ATC monitors and controls more than 80% of African airspace, including 5 out of 6 upper airspace East African community states. More than 80 ATC radars are in operation across Africa, amongst 900 surveillance radars in operation worldwide.
“Implementation of the Tanzania Radar Project with THALES has realized the intended surveillance objective of the Tanzanian airspace through enhanced safety, security and efficiency. The associated automation system has enabled more efficiency in managing revenue collection obtained from aircraft movements data base. Through this successful project TCAA is able to escalate ICAO standards to the highest level.” Hamza Johari, Director General, Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority.
"It is my pleasure to welcome TCAA as the newest member of the Thales TopSky user family. We take pride in working hand in hand with our customers to deliver top-of-the-line turnkey systems that address their specific needs. Together, we are shaping the future of air travel by making it more safe and more efficient for a better and greener tomorrow." Christophe Salomon, Executive Vice President Land & Air Systems, Thales
Source : Thales
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The UK has cemented its position as the world's biggest importer of wine and is set to see its consumption of all types of the drink climb to 151.5 million cases by 2014.
Meanwhile, total wine sales in the UK are also set to climb slightly to almost £9b by 2014. Despite that, the average retail price of a bottle has fallen slightly, to £5.23 in 2010.
Those are the findings of updated research from international wine show Vinexpo and International Wine and Spirits Research (IWSR).
The report also showed that 1.1% more wine was drunk in the UK in 2010 than in 2009, with the total amount consumed standing at 1.765 billion bottles in 2010.
White wine remains the most popular type of wine in UK, with 60.5 million cases consumed in 2009, compared with 58.7 million of red - a fall of around 8% since 2005. Red is forecast to decline by another 0.99% in 2014, while white will climb 2.67% to 62.4m cases. Rosé is expected to see the strongest growth (11.5%) but will still account for a relatively small share of the market at 21.3 million cases.
Australia and France are still the largest suppliers to the UK but they are losing share to Italy, the USA, Spain, South Africa and Chile. New Zealand also saw exports to the UK rise by 80% between 2005 and 2009.
High alcohol duty also partly helps explain why the UK is the second-largest consumer market worldwide for higher-priced wines of more than £6.15 per bottle, behind the USA but ahead of France.
Vodka is the UK's number one spirit, with consumption up nearly 20% in the past five years. It is set to grow by a further 6% in the next four years. Scotch whisky has fallen by 10% over the past five years but is expected to stabilise over the next four years. The UK is the third-largest consumer of Scotch whisky, behind the USA and France.
Worldwide, annual wine production is expected to hit over three billion cases by 2014, with consumption increasing 8.6%.
The figures come ahead of the Vinexpo show in Bordeaux, France, between 19 and 23 June this year, which will see 50,000 wine professionals attend from 140 countries.
By Neil Gerrard
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Pink Floyd Founder Roger Waters: BDS is One of “Most Admirable” Displays of Resistance in the World
Today’s show is an hour-long special interview with the world-famous British musician Roger Waters, founding member of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd. In recent years, he has become one of the most prominent musicians supporting BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Waters is scheduled to play Friday and Saturday in Long Island, despite attempts by Nassau County officials to shut down the concerts citing a local anti-BDS bill. Despite this, Roger Waters has continued to speak out. Last week, he wrote a piece in The New York Times titled “Congress Shouldn’t Silence Human Rights Advocates.” In the op-ed, he criticized a bill being considered in the Senate to silence supporters of BDS.
“The Occupation of the American Mind”: Documentary Looks at Israel’s PR War in the United States
Roger Waters, founding member of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd, is the narrator of a recent documentary titled “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.” We air clips from the film and speak to Roger Waters and Sut Jhally, professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation, which produced the documentary.
Roger Waters Criticizes Senate Bill Criminalizing BDS & Radiohead’s Recent Concert in Tel Aviv/a>
Last week, Roger Waters wrote a piece in The New York Times titled “Congress Shouldn’t Silence Human Rights Advocates.” In the op-ed, Waters criticized a bill being considered in the Senate to silence supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel. The bill seeks to criminalize individuals who participate in the BDS effort. Waters and Sut Jhally of the Media Education Foundation also discuss criticism of the BDS movement and ask Waters about his public spat with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, whose band has rejected calls to join BDS. | <urn:uuid:a3a323cb-7615-4fd8-9e72-9a7821277785> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://members.planetwaves.net/democracy-now-thursday-sept-14-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.929858 | 457 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Well, no-one knows who are the mastermind behind this ransomware. Recent research from security firm Flashpoint points a hint towards a Chinese connection. The security firm had described its linguistic analysis of the ransom notes.
WannaCry Ransomware Mastermind Is More Likely From China!
Earlier this year the hacking group ‘The Shadow Brokers’ chose to give away the hacking tools that were stolen from the NSA for free. Well, the tools can be utilized to hack machines running on Microsoft Windows.
The malicious software WanaCryptor 2.0 which is also known as WCry is now being used to carry out one of the biggest ransomware attacks of its kind. Well, it’s more than a week since this ransomware started causing distress among the internet users.
Well, no-one knows who are the mastermind behind this ransomware. However, it looks likes WannaCry Ransomware hackers are most likely from China.
Recent research from security firm Flashpoint points a hint towards a Chines connection. Well, the security firm had described its linguistic analysis of the ransom notes that were displayed to the victims.
The team analyzed the ransom notes individually for accuracy, style, and content. The firm after analyzing the notes found that whoever the author was they are likely to be good or fluent in Chinese.
Flashpoint also claimed that out of 28 different notes, only two Chinese and one English version appear to be written by a human. Other 25 notes appear to be translated from the English note using Google Translate.
Flashpoint also wrote “The two Chinese ransom notes differ substantially from other notes in content, format, and tone. Google Translate fails in both Chinese-English and English-Chinese tests, producing inaccurate results that suggest the Chinese text was likely not have been similarly generated by the English text.”
The research also revealed some unique characteristic that simply symbolizes that a Chinese expert had written it. The Chinese note also used proper punctuation, syntax, and grammar. Well, the firm also mentioned that such hints can also be intentionally included to mislead.
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Explore Sueni in Fiji
Sueni in the region of Northern is a place in Fiji - some 124 mi or ( 200 km ) North-East of Suva , the country's capital city .
Time in Sueni is now 02:02 AM (Saturday) . The local timezone is named " Pacific/Fiji " with a UTC offset of 13 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Yalava, Vunivau, Vuandomo, Vatulele, and Suva. Since you are here already, consider visiting Yalava . We saw some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Sueni ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.
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Interesting facts about this location
Wairikinggisi River is a river of Vanua Levu, Fiji.
Located at -16.55 179.37 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Wairikithake River is a river of Vanua Levu, Fiji.
Located at -16.53 179.40 (Lat./Long.); Less than 6 km away
Mount Nasorolevu is the highest mountain on the island of Vanua Levu in Fiji. Its height is 3,385 feet or 1,032 meters, making it the fourth highest peak of Fiji, Elevation: 3386. It is located at Latitude: -16.6167 and Longitude: 179.4.
Located at -16.62 179.40 (Lat./Long.); Less than 8 km away
Labasa Airport is an airport serving Labasa is a town located in Macuata Province, in the northeastern part of the island of Vanua Levu. It is operated by Airports Fiji Limited.
Located at -16.47 179.34 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
Cakaudrove is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji, and one of three based principally on the northern island of Vanua Levu, occupying the south-eastern third of the island and including the nearby islands of Taveuni, Rabi, Kioa, and numerous other islands in the Vanua Levu Group. It has a total land area of 2,816 square kilometers, with a population of 49,344 at the most recent census in 2007, making it the sixth most populous province.
Located at -16.67 179.42 (Lat./Long.); Less than 13 km away
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RIPENING OF BANANA CAN BE DELAYED
Bananas (also other fruits and vegetables) emits gas called “ethylene.” The presence of this gas inside the enclosed bags when transported for shipment coupled with high temperature hasten the fruit’s ripening process. A food expert devised a new, low-cost treatment for prolonging the storage life of bananas and other fruits and vegetables during transport.
A charcoal-like material was placed inside a plastic bag which absorbs the ethylene gas given off by the bananas. It measures 15 x 15 x 2 cm. and soaked in a concentrated solution of potassium permanganate. Two slices were placed in each plastic bag containing a bunch of banana and tied at both ends with tape.
They were cooled at a constant temperature of 20° C. Those packed in plastic bag without the charcoal-like absorbent ripened in just two weeks. The treated ones remained hard green, as if newly harvested and when the plastic bag was taken off, the fruits ripened normally.
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School meals off the menu for children in Sri Lanka as economic crisis bites
COLOMBO, 6 May 2022: All of the one million children receiving free school meals in Sri Lanka could go hungry after government funding was reduced as food prices skyrocketed, Save the Children warned today.
Sri Lanka is in the grip of an unprecedented economic crisis, which has seen the government’s 2022 State budget limit funding for school meals by two-thirds to 2 billion rupees from 6 billion rupees (about. USD6.1 mln from $18.5 mln) – enough to only keep children fed for one school term at most.
Many schools across the country have already stopped serving meals due to the surging cost of basic food items, leaving many families struggling to feed their children amidst a backdrop of food price hikes and nationwide rations on basic goods. The prices of food items such as rice and oil have risen by up to 195% over the past month.
Save the Children is working with the government of Sri Lanka to provide meals to students in 850 schools across the country by distributing food commodities to complement the school meal programme. However, more than half of the schools have stopped serving meals due to a lack of government funding amidst the economic crisis.
The school meal programme aims to guarantee a nutritionally balanced meal to vulnerable children across the country in an effort to combat stunting and malnutrition and boost school attendance and educational performance.
The schools that are still serving meals have had to significantly cut back on the size and protein density of the food. Before the crisis, a typical school meal consisted of a balanced diet of meat or eggs, rice, and fruit and vegetables. Now, children are receiving meals consisting mainly of carbohydrates.
“I really enjoy the meals they give us in the morning. They used to give us a whole egg, which reduced to half, and now we don’t even get that,” said 9 year-old Hansi* from Sri Lanka’s Ratnapura District.
Hansi’s mother, Sanju*, is also feeling the effects of the school meal cuts at home. Sanju explained that the free meals meant she could save money on the family’s grocery bill, which has increased by 50% since the start of the crisis.
“The school meal programme is very helpful for me and my children. I don’t prepare lunch at home usually, so my children eat this for breakfast and it helps them to last until an evening snack,” said Sanju. “I’m scared, how will my children eat or how can they learn now? My husband only has work for 2 months. What will happen after that?”
Almost half of all children in Sri Lanka (42%) were living in poverty before the economic crisis, according to the UN, and a third of children under four were underweight or stunted. Children who are not getting enough nutritious food are at risk of falling behind in their learning or even dropping out of school altogether, Save the Children warned.
R.M.S Ranasinghe is a school principal in Sri Lanka’s Ratnapura District who has seen the positive impact school meals can have on students.
“It was important for me to continue the school meal programme as I noticed that when the meals are provided, the children are learning better,” said Ranasinghe. “After the programme kicked off properly, I noticed more children passing the grade 5 scholarship programme. Now more than 10 (out of 35) kids are passing the scholarship, before we only had around 3-4 children who passed the scholarship exam.”
He continued: “The parents come and tell me, their children don’t eat at home, they come to school and eat. During assemblies, some of the children faint if they don’t have any food. I worry that children if the school meals programme is cut further down, children will slowly stop coming to school- it’s a big incentive for them to come.”
The Sri Lankan public sector officials are exploring options to continue the school meal programme, by requesting support from bilateral and multilateral donors, private sector and international organizations.
Julian Chellapah, Save the Children’s National Director in Sri Lanka, said:
“For many children from poor families, a school meal is much more than just a plate of food – it could be the only proper meal they eat in a day, a meal to get them nourished through the school day. This crisis has sent the price of goods through the roof, and many struggling families are finding it even harder to put food on the table.
“If we don’t keep the school meal programme going, we could soon see a situation where we aren’t just talking about hungry children but dangerously ill and malnourished children, which could have severe consequences on school attendance. We could see a situation where more and more children drop out of school. We’re at risk of taking a huge step backwards on child nutrition and education in Sri Lanka, which would be an absolute tragedy.”
Save the Children is distributing food to vulnerable families in seven districts of the country together with the Government of Sri Lanka to ensure children and their parents have access to nutritious meals despite the country’s economic crisis. Building on the take-home ration distribution programme in 2021, the organization supported over 200,000 children across the country. Save the Children appreciates the commitment made by the Government thus far toward the school meal programme in Sri Lanka, and hopes the programme will continue even during the current context.
Save the Children Notes to editor:
•In January, the Sri Lankan government announced its federal budget for 2022, which revealed reduced spending for school meals by two-thirds – from 6 billion rupees [approx. USD $18.5 mln] to 2 billion rupees [approx. USD $6.1 mln]
•More than 1,081,900 primary grade children are eligible for the free school meals this year. All of these students are at risk of missing out on the free meals this year.
•Sri Lanka as about 4.2 million students across the country, according to UNICEF: Situation Analysis on the effects of and Responses to COVID-19 on the Education Sector in Asia.pdf (unicef.org)
•195% inflation indicated via Government Statistics Website http://www.statistics.gov.lk/WebReleases/NCPI_March_2022
Multi-dimensional poverty Indicator report, 2020, UNDP
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An Army veteran who served in Iraq and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder was turned away from a Texas restaurant this week after the owner said he was not welcome inside with his service dog.
John Quinones told Jacqueline Ortiz, a reporter for San Antonio-based NBC affiliate WOAI-TV, that he was turned away despite the dog's clear identification as a service animal, but said he's not mad. He just wants people to understand that service animals are allowed in places of business.
Quinones brought his dog Diva to Winslow's Restaurant in Fredricksberg, Texas over the weekend, but after taking his seat a manager interrupted and told him to leave.
In a segment aired by NBC News on Tuesday, Quinones explained that after coming back from the war zone, he had an intense sensitivity to bright lights and crowds, and his service dog helps him cope with that. In other words, the restaurant's manager was lucky to have Quinones there on more levels than he could have realized, but still kicked him out anyway.
The police stopped by later to help the manager better understand what the Americans With Disabilities Act really means. The restaurant's owner subsequently told WOAI-TV that he's happy to comply.
This video is from NBC News, aired Wednesday, May 7, 2013.
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This volume continues Professor Roland Teske's translation of a series of important questions from Henry of Ghent's Summa of Ordinary Questions (Summa quaestionum ordinarium). It contains the Latin text of questions 25 through 30 (which treat of God's unity and simplicity), a close English translation, a philosophical introduction, and notes identifying all of Henry's sources. Moreover, there is a...
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In 2007, Changing Together, A Centre for Immigrant Women responded to a growing concern about human trafficking in the community by conducting an environmental scan entitled “Trafficking of Women and Girls to Canada.” Healthcare providers, social service agencies, law enforcement bodies, immigration and settlement agencies and faith-based groups were consulted in the environmental scan and nearly half of respondents stated that they knew of specific human trafficking cases in the community. Respondents indicated a need for training and education on how to identify victims of trafficking, what victims’ most pressing needs are, and the state of existing legislation on human trafficking in Canada.
The environmental scan demonstrated an urgent need for more training and awareness on the issue of human trafficking in Alberta. A fledgling organization, the Alberta Coalition Against Human Trafficking (ACAHT), was soon formed in response to this demonstrated need. The Action Coalition on Human Trafficking (ACT Alberta) was created out of ACAHT in 2010. Since this time, ACT Alberta has been critical in advocating for the rights of victims of human trafficking and creating a network of service providing agencies who are able to respond to the needs of victims. | <urn:uuid:d7c7a934-d7b8-4798-aed3-321d67336b62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.actalberta.org/about-act-alberta/our-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948908 | 230 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The aim of the development work was to design LCD-video projectors based on different design approaches. The design of the three products ranges from geometric and sober to sculptural and soft. The functions are largely controlled via the remote. Only the ON / OFF switch, lights for ON / OFF, warning and change lamp indicators are on the projector housing itself.
Video projector Wave
‘Wave’ is designed from a soft shape. The front side dips inwards towards the lens, while the main body curves outwards – and has a more pronounced curve around the lens. Functional fields for ventilation, port panel and mains connection are incised in the main body. Focusing and zoom are set via the remote control.
Video projector Stage
‘Stage’ consists of a flat body that is fully rounded on the sides, which has a recessed section at the front for the lens and at the rear for the port panel. This means the lens and connections are located in protected areas. Focusing and zoom are set via the remote control.
Video projector Brace
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Acne is a common skin problem that can (literally) break out at any time. It can be frustrating, but know you’re not alone––acne affects 40–50 million people in the United States (AAD, n.d.).
If you’re looking for a remedy for whiteheads, blackheads, or other acne blemishes, salicylic acid is one of the most widely used topical medications. It’s also a common ingredient used in chemical peels and wart remover. Read on to learn more about what salicylic acid does and how to use it.
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What is salicylic acid?
If you’re not familiar with salicylic acid, is an active ingredient in many topical (applied to the skin) medications for skin and foot care products like pimple-fighting face wash and wart remover.
What does salicylic acid do?
Salicylic acid works by unclogging pores, promoting exfoliation of dead skin cells, and decreasing skin oil (sebum) production.
It’s classified as a beta-hydroxy acid (BHA), which is oil-soluble––meaning it dissolves in oil as opposed to water. This characteristic allows BHAs to penetrate deep into oil-clogged skin pores, making salicylic acid a potentially powerful ingredient for fighting acne (Arif, 2015).
Additionally, salicylic acid is very similar to aspirin, an anti-inflammatory medicine used to treat pain and fever. Like aspirin, salicylic acid helps reduce inflammation (Tan, 2018; Arif, 2015).
What does salicylic acid treat?
Lower strengths of salicylic acid are mainly used to treat acne. Higher strengths are used to remove or loosen thick areas of skin. Here are the most common salicylic acid uses and strengths (Arif, 2015).
Does salicylic acid clear up acne breakouts?
Because of the limited evidence of this ingredient’s effectiveness, experts typically recommend other topical acne medications. Top choices for treating acne include (Tan, 2018):
But salicylic acid is a good choice for treating mild acne, especially for those who can’t tolerate retinoids like tretinoin (brand name Retin-A; see Important Safety Information). If you don’t see clearer skin within a few months of use or if your acne becomes more severe, see a healthcare provider or dermatologist for medical advice (Graber, 2022).
Side effects and safety
Common side effects of salicylic acid include skin irritation and stinging at application areas. It’s recommended to start out with a low concentration and only apply it every other day (MedlinePlus, 2016).
To prevent an allergic reaction, test new skincare products on a small area for the first few days. If you develop a rash, swelling, itching, or other signs of an allergic reaction, wash it off and seek medical attention right away.
While rare, salicylic acid toxicity (salicylism) can occur from swallowing or applying too much topical product containing the ingredient. Rare side effects include (Arif; 2015; MedlinePlus, 2016):
- Rapid breathing
- Ringing in the ears or trouble hearing
- Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
As always, consult a healthcare professional before using any new medications or supplements. This is especially important if you’re pregnant, breastfeeding, have very sensitive skin, or have any underlying medical conditions (MedlinePlus, 2016).
Prescription acne medication: what are your options?
How to use salicylic acid
There are different ways to use salicylic acid depending on the product. Some are available as a lotion or daily wash, while others are meant to be used on the skin for only a short time.
Be sure to read the instructions that come with the product. The label will give you step-by-step instructions on how to prepare your skin and apply it. If you have questions, consult a healthcare or dermatology professional. They can also recommend a skincare routine that’s best for your skin condition and skin type.
- American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). (n.d.). Skin conditions by the numbers. Retrieved from https://www.aad.org/media/stats-numbers
- Arif, T. (2015). Salicylic acid as a peeling agent: a comprehensive review. Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 8, 455–461. doi:10.2147/CCID.S84765. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4554394/
- Graber, E. (2022). Patient education: acne (beyond the basics). UpToDate. Retrieved from https://www.uptodate.com/contents/acne-beyond-the-basics
- MedlinePlus. (2016). Salicylic acid topical. Retrieved from https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a607072.html
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The tide was high at a Coney Island meeting on June 11, in which city officials presented their plans to examine the proposed landing locations of the Coney Island ferry, scheduled to set sail in 2021.
The NYC Economic Development Corporation — the quasi government agency overseeing the ferry system — has set its sights on two potential landing spots on Coney Island Creek, one on 31st Street and Bayview Avenue, and another on 29th Street and Neptune Avenue.
The ferry will stop at Bay Ridge, and Wall Street as well, shaving about 30 minutes off the Coney Island-Manhattan commute, according to the NYC Ferry website.
But many Coney Islanders voiced their concerns about the proposed landing locations the meeting. After city officials presented their plans to study the environmental impact of construction and dredging, community members pushed back, arguing that officials should choose a new landing site altogether.
“You need to put your shoes on and take a little walkie,” said Wanda Feliciano, a member of Community Board 13. Like many Coney Islanders, Feliciano is worried about the residential location of the proposed stops, arguing that the influx of riders will overwhelm the West End’s small, remote community.
Other locals claimed that the proposed landings are too far from public transportation, and fretted about safety in the area, given the neighborhood’s two schools. Attendees also raised concerns about the environmental impact of building the landings.
“This site qualifies as a Superfund site,” said Ida Sanoff, a local environmentalist.
The process of dredging, she argued, would resuspend the canal’s contaminated sediment — including unexploded ordinances — posing health risks to locals who swim or fish in the canal.
“Strange things happen when dredging happens around here,” she warned.
Ultimately, some residents questioned whether the ferry will benefit local Coney Islanders, arguing that tourists may dominate the service, taking advantage of tax payer dollars. After all, the ferry line carries a hefty price tag: according to the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, each ferry ticket will require a $24.75 subsidy from the city.
But most attendees remained excited about the new ferry route, and limited their criticisms to what they perceived as the NYCEDC’s aloofness.
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by Dr. William Epperly, Forum Health Bloomingdale
Around the holidays, the hustle and bustle can turn a season of peace and joy into a time of wanting to pull your hair out!
But over the years, I have accumulated a list of action steps a person can take to reduce the stress and the effects of stress in their lives, and this is a good time to remind people of some of them. So here’s my Top 40 list of the best stress reducers just in time for the holidays!
- Have a quiet time every day early in the morning to read, meditate, or pray.
- Take breaks more often than you do now.
- Go for a nice relaxing or a brisk walk.
- Take a deep breath before reacting negatively to someone or something.
- Listen to great music.
- Be sure to laugh as much as possible, including at yourself. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
- Decide to be cheerful.
- Wish good will to people you meet (even if you don’t feel like it).
- Exercise at least three times a week doing something you enjoy at least a little.
- Sleep seven to nine hours a night.
- Have a hobby. Do something you enjoy other than work.
- Seek the help and advice of others whom you trust.
- Make a conscious effort to think and act like the person you want to be.
- Thoughts and attitudes lead to actions, but also actions lead to thoughts and attitudes.
- Admit your anger or frustration. Take responsibility for your feelings and find a healthy way of releasing them.
- Establish and remind yourself of your priorities and the BIG PICTURE.
- Remind yourself that a year from now, most of the things upsetting you now will probably not matter.
- Spend time reading interesting or fun books, conversing, watching programs that lift your spirit.
- Allow extra time for the unexpected. Give yourself more freedom.
- Become aware of tense muscles and relax them. Better yet, go get a massage.
- Put regularity into your life; set time for meals, religious practices, and recreation.
- Make a realistic list of tasks to accomplish each day, and celebrate your successes when you accomplish them.
- Do not overload your schedule. Learn to say “no”.
- Listen quietly for people to finish their sentences.
- Talk to your friends and relatives. Keep in touch.
- Get up 15 minutes earlier than you think you need to.
- Prepare for the morning the night before.
- Don’t rely on your memory. Write it down in a planner.
- Simplify meal times.
- Remember you always have options/choices.
- Pet a friendly dog or cat.
- Look for the silver lining in the dark clouds.
- Know your limitations and don’t be afraid to let others know them, too.
- Write a note of love and encouragement to a far away friend.
- Remember that stress is an attitude.
- Quit trying to “fix’ other people. Instead focus on being the best person YOU can be.
- For perspective, remember that your whole life is just a blip on the screen of eternity.
- Take specific action steps to change or solve what you actually have control over.
- Let go of the things you DON’T have control over. Sometimes you just have to let go and let God.
Start practicing a few of these, make them habits, and you will be making serious progress in one of the biggest areas of Lifestyle Medicine – stress management.
We hope you have a blessed, and not a stressed, holiday season!
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Tihany (North shore of Lake Balaton)
Get your cameras ready! Tihany is a beautiful, historical village in a stunning setting on the north shore of Lake Balaton. It is situated on the Tihany Peninsula.
If you wish to have a guided tour of the area, book your professional tour guide with us, in German, English and Hungarian languages.
The centre of the district is the Benedictine Abbey, which was founded in 1055 AD by Andrew I, who is buried in the crypt.
The founding charter of this abbey is the first example of the Hungarian written language. The church itself was rebuilt in baroque style in 1754. The still functioning abbey is a popular tourist attraction due to its historical and artistic significance. It also has a fantastic view of Lake Balaton. The abbey also features as a footnote in Habsburg history - the last Habsburg Emperor of Austria, Charles I was briefly held prisoner here following his second attempt to regain the throne of Hungary.
Tihany is famous for the echo, existing since the 18th century. There were poems written for this echo, by Mihály Csokonai Vitéz and Mihály Vörösmarty, but the most famous is by János Garay, summing up the legend of the place. The echo has since abated, due to changes in the landscape.
The other part of the legend concerns with the "goats' nails", washed ashore from Balaton, which are in fact corners of prehistoric clams. According to the story, there was a princess with golden-haired goats, but she was too proud and hard of heart and was punished (cursed by the king of the lake): her goats were lost in Balaton, only their nails remained, and she was obliged to answer to every passer-by. A stone, remembering the Shouting Girl, is still to be seen near the village.
Lavender festival: One of the biggest open-air festivals in Tihany during summer. Many programs are provided throughout the village since lavender plays an important role here and it appears in every possible forms: jam, drink, honey, sweets, cosmetics, lavender as a motif on the clothes, textiles, on teapots, mugs and so on. Harvest on the lavender plantation, visit in the old Lavender field and the museum are the main attractions. Children programs and performances make the event a unique occasion.
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Published on 13 January 2013
The mausoleum in Sidi Bou Said, a prime Tunisian tourism destination, has been ravaged by fire in what is thought to have been an arson attack which the presidency on Sunday denounced as a criminal act.
"This crime against our culture and history must not go unpunished," a presidency statement said, urging police to "spare no efforts in arresting the criminals" who set alight the mausoleum on the outskirts of Tunis on Saturday.
Interior ministry spokesman Khaled Tarrouche told AFP that an investigation was under way to "determine whether it was an accident or an indictable offence."
Several shrines dedicated to Muslim saints have been torched or looted in recent months in Tunisia, in acts blamed on hardline Salafists whose radical version of Sunni Islam does not tolerate saints or shrines.
A group of Salafists was arrested in early December after a similar blaze at the Sufi shrine of Zaouia Saida Manoubia in Tunis. Salafists, whose numbers in Tunisia are estimated at between 3,000 and 10,000 people, are accused of organising a series of violent attacks since the revolution ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali two years ago.
They are suspected of masterminding September 14 attacks on the US embassy in Tunis to protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. Four assailants were killed in clashes with security forces.
The hilltop village of Sidi Bou Said, named after the mausoleum, on the outskirts of Tunis is a popular tourist destination known for its narrow streets and traditional houses with blue doors.
A picture taken on January 13, 2013 in Sidi Bou Said shows a mausoleum ravaged by fire in what is thought to have been an arson attack which the presidency denounced as a criminal act. Several shrines dedicated to Muslim saints have been torched or looted in recent months in Tunisia, in acts blamed on hardline Salafists whose radical version of Sunni Islam does not tolerate saints or shrines. AFP PHOTO /FETHI BELAID.
13 June 2013
Due to heavy workload
20 February 2013
We emptied Syria's museums
19 February 2013
The ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu are a door into Africa's golden age. We must not let this crisis threaten their survival
These manuscripts are our identity
Mosaics depicting scenes from Homer?s epic poem The Odyssey.
18 February 2013
Press, reigime and propaganda
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You’ve created the perfect food truck concept. Now you’re ready to make your concept a reality.
Understanding food truck expenses will help you plan financially to start your business. The truck itself is an obvious expense, but you might not think of the other little costs that add up quickly.
Check out these costs of starting a food truck.
Food Truck Vehicle
Buying a food truck is often the most expensive part of starting a food truck business. The size, features, and age of the truck affect how much you’ll spend.
If you can’t afford to buy your truck outright, you can look into the option of financing the truck. This will involve ongoing monthly payments.
You’ll also want to customize the truck inside and outside to reflect your business branding and cooking needs.
Before you can start running your food truck, you’ll need to pay for certain startup costs. This includes licensing, registration, and permits.
The requirements and associated fees will vary based on where you plan to operate. To calculate those expenses, check with the cities where you’ll be operating your food truck.
Your truck will need custom cooking equipment based on the type of food you plan to serve. That might include the following:
- Exhaust fan
- Warming lamp
You’ll need serving tools and cleaning equipment to keep your gear sanitized. Food trucks also need disposable products, such as utensils and napkins, for customers.
Some food truck owners also rent commercial kitchen space. They cook the bulk of the food in the commercial space and serve from the truck.
If this is your plan, research the commercial kitchen rental costs in your area to estimate this expense.
Your food costs depend largely on the menu. A simple menu with only a few choices and basic items allows for lower food costs. More complex dishes or lots of menu options increase your food costs.
A general guideline is to have food costs between 25% and 38% of your revenue.
Price out all of the ingredients for your menu items to estimate how much you’ll spend on food.
The operating costs are the ongoing maintenance and fees you have to pay to keep the truck running.
Food truck insurance is a crucial operating expense that protects your investment.
Other operating costs include:
- Truck maintenance
- Staff wages and benefits
- Internet or cell service
- POS system
Depending on where you park your truck, you might need to pay rental fees for the parking spots.
Estimate the average monthly operating costs to calculate how much business you need to do to make a profit.
You need a steady stream of customers to keep your food truck business afloat, so don’t forget marketing costs.
Using social media marketing is a cost-effective option, but you might choose to do paid ads and other paid marketing methods.
Many businesses outsource marketing to save time. If you wish to create a website for your truck, you’ll likely have a monthly or yearly payment for website hosting costs.
Calculate Food Truck Costs
Before you start your new business venture, calculate the total food truck expenses based on your business plan. Knowing all the costs helps you create a workable budget and get proper funding.
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On Saturday, December 4, 2021, The Gambia held its first presidential election since its democratic transition from authoritarian rule in 2017. To ensure the public was informed about election preparations and to build confidence in the election process, NDI supported the country’s first long term citizen election observation group, Peace Ambassadors - The Gambia (PAG), to systematically observe and report on the pre-election and election period. Ahead of the election, PAG deployed 59 trained observers across the seven administrative regions and 53 constituencies of The Gambia to observe the voter registration process as well as the candidate nomination and campaign periods. On election day, PAG, joined with two other youth-led organizations -- Activista and the Nation Youth Parliament -- to form the Elections Watch Committee (EWC). Together, EWC deployed 460 trained and accredited observers including 160 mobile observers and 300 polling station observers using a proportional distribution methodology. The EWC's reports have been well received by the IEC and other electoral stakeholders in the country.
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On the 28th October 2015, I travelled to the Victoria and Albert museum to observe the different styles of jewellery and to create a review on what I had found out and enjoyed from the experience. I visited the jewellery gallery, the metal-ware gallery, and the sacred silver and stained glass gallery, each of which were intriguing in their own way. I walked around observing the pieces on display whilst taking notes and drawing pictures. Unfortunately the galleries of my choice did not allow photography.
The galleries I visited showed many different uses of metals in jewellery, such as granulation techniques, used by the ancient Etruscan's, where small gold granules are attached to a surface with no soldering, leaving no visible attachment lines. I also learned how culture and religion affected the style of jewellery, as well as the latest trends. Personally, I found this fascinating, as I had not realised how many ways in which the time and culture could influence jewellery. For example, in the Victorian era, the large dresses worn by women had no pockets, and so a piece of jewellery called the 'Chatelaine' was created. It was a large elaborate silver piece hanging from the waist, with useful everyday objects dangling from a decorative pendant. Keys, penknives, tweezers, scissors and more hung from the Chatelaine, showing how beauty was used in harmony with necessities. I learnt that jewellery can express faith and belief, for example the French Signet Pendant shows how religion and design can be combined to create a unique piece - 3 parts unfolding on hinges to reveal scenes from the Bible.
For my own arts award, I plan on designing and creating my own pieces of jewellery with a theme of Ancient Greece and Egypt, which I was inspired to do when I saw how greatly culture influences styles.
When I begin designing my own pieces of jewellery, I now have an idea of how to go about it - researching the colours, styles, trends, and cultures of the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
The museum showed the types of jewellery through the ages, including the Romans, Egyptians and all the way to the present day. The way the jewellery styles were arranged in a timeline format around the room made it easy to see how different eras affected the types of jewellery, for example the pieces from the 1930's were generally diamond encrusted with silver outlines, showing their for the sparkling yet colourless effect.. The pieces are gorgeous and each tell a story of their history. I would definitely recommend visiting these galleries whether it be to study the evolution of jewellery or simply to admire the pieces. I have been to other galleries similar to this, however the Victoria and Albert holds the most informative one I have seen so far. | <urn:uuid:0c47e3ad-0528-49f2-b834-544d129619c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.voicemag.uk/review/1723/va-jewellery-galleries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966908 | 562 | 1.992188 | 2 |
21 March 2021
When we want to
pose for our own
‘selfies’ with Jesus
Sunday next 21 March 2021
The Fifth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday)
10 a.m.: the Parish Eucharist
The Readings: Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Psalm 51: 1-13; John 12: 20-33
There is a link to these readings HERE.
May I speak to you in the name of God, + Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen.
One Easter morning, when all the great Greek excitement of Easter was over – the processions, the parades, the late-night services, the bands and the street crowds – we enjoyed the calm and peace of the morning, and we walked the length of the seafront in Thessaloniki.
After all the solemnity and excitement is over, after the Lenten fasts have come to an end, no-one in Greece stirs outside their family home on Easter morning. It almost felt like we had the seafront to ourselves as we walked from the harbour to the landmark White Tower and on to the monumental sculpture of Alexander the Great.
The White Tower is a mixture of Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman work. It was a prison and a place of massacre, and it was once known as the Red Tower, because of the blood splattered on the walls of the countless victims of torture and execution. After Thessaloniki was incorporated into the modern Greek state, the tower was whitewashed in a symbolic gesture of cleansing.
As this morning’s psalm says, ‘Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow’ (Psalm 51: 10).
From there, we walked on to the Monument of Alexander the Great at Nea Paralia. This is a tall sculpture, six metres tall, by the artist Evangelos Moustakas, and shows Alexander the Great on his horse Voukefalas (Bucephalus).
Thessaloniki is proud that it is the city of both Aristotle and Alexander the Great. At one time, Alexander the Great was so powerful and his empire so expansive that to many Greeks he seemed to be the ruler of the world (see John 12: 31). And every Greek knows Alexander the Great was the son of Philip of Macedon.
In this morning’s Gospel reading, some Greeks are in Jerusalem for the Festival – the Festival of Passover, which begins next Saturday night (27 March) for this year, and which for Christians becomes Easter. These Greeks, we are told, wish to see Jesus; so, it is only natural that they should go to Philip and ask him to help them get through the crowds to see Jesus.
Every Greek would have expected that someone with the name Philip would speak Greek. Finding Philip in the crowd must have been like finding your local TD outside the Dáil and asking him to bring you into Leinster House to meet the Taoiseach.
Philip thinks about what to do. But instead of going to Jesus, he goes to Andrew, who is yet another disciple with a Greek name. Perhaps those Greek visitors, those Greek pilgrims or tourists, think they are in with the in-crowd. They have found not one, but two Greek-speakers among the disciples.
But the story is bewildering. We are not told whether they ever get to see Jesus.
Are they simply looking for the first century equivalent of a ‘selfie’ – wanting not so much to see Jesus but to be seen with Jesus, without listening to Jesus, still less without the commitment involved in following Jesus?
Do they hear his call, ‘follow me’ (John 12: 26)?
In this Gospel reading, we are in the days before Palm Sunday, and the days before Passover. The Sabbath immediately preceding Passover is known as Shabbat haGadol (שבת הגדול), the ‘Great Sabbath.’ This year, this Sabbath falls next Saturday (27 March 2021.) The haftarah or prophetic portion read on that Sabbath (Malachi 3: 4-24) speaks of the ‘great day’ of God on which the Messiah will appear.
Malachi is an anonymous prophet – the name Malachi simply means ‘my messenger.’ But in this passage, he also says:
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts? Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape’ (Malachi 3: 14-15).
Whether that portion had already become established as a reading by the time Saint John’s Gospel was written, the Sabbath before the Passover was already one that was imbued with expectations of the appearance of the Messiah, and the readers of this Gospel, at this stage, would expect to hear Jesus speaking about those who have turned away from serving God.
So Christ reminds those who are listening to him in this Gospel reading that those who love him must serve, and ‘whoever serves me must follow me’ (John 12: 26).
But then, on the other hand, are Philip and Andrew like power brokers? Do they take advantage of their positions to control access to Christ, instead of inviting others to follow Christ?
The mission of Israel was to be a light to the gentiles. But in questioning, doubting – perhaps even denying – that those Greeks should have access to Christ too, are Philip and Andrew denying the mission and purpose of their own people, the reason they are freed at Passover from slavery in Egypt?
Are they, perhaps, denying the mission and witness of Christ, the inclusivity of Christ?
Do they behave as if Christ is only for them, their culture, their people, and not for all, irrespective of cultural or ethnic origins, language, background or gender?
In the second part of this Gospel story, we are pointed not just to the Cross, but to the resurrection. This is not just a story for Lent, but a story filled with the Easter promise of the Resurrection.
In the long run, the conclusion to this story is found in the experience of Greeks visiting Jerusalem after the Resurrection, just 50 days later, at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit is poured out on devout people of every nation, and the disciples find they are heard by each one present in their own language.
It becomes a foundational experience for the Church.
Saint Paul finds it so transforming that he reminds his readers: ‘There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ’ (Galatians 3: 28).
Am I like Philip and Andrew, too comfortable with a Christ who fits my own cultural comforts, my own demands and expectations?
Do I all to easily lock Christ away in my own ‘churchiness,’ to the point that the stone might never have been rolled away from the tomb on Easter morning?
What prejudices from the past do I use to dress up my image of Christ today?
If Saint Paul is right …. then Christ reaches out too to those who are marginalised in our society because of their gender, sexuality, colour, language or religious background.
In Christ there is no Catholic nor Protestant, no male and female, no black and white, no gay and straight.
And every time I reduce Christ to my own comfortable categories I keep him behind that stone rolled across the tomb.
And so, may all we think, say and do be to the praise, honour and glory of God, + Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen.
John 12: 20-33 (NRSVA):
20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’ 22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour.
27 ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say — “Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ 29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’ 30 Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. 31 Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
Liturgical colour: Violet.
The canticle Gloria is omitted in Lent.
you sent your Son to reconcile us to yourself and to one another.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
you heal the wounds of sin and division.
Christ, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
through you we put to death the sins of the body – and live.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
The Collect of the Day (Lent V):
Most merciful God,
who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ
delivered and saved the world:
Grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross,
we may triumph in the power of his victory;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Lenten Collect:
Almighty and everlasting God,
you hate nothing that you have made
and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent:
Create and make in us new and contrite hearts
that we, worthily lamenting our sins
and acknowledging our wretchedness,
may receive from you, the God of all mercy,
perfect remission and forgiveness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Introduction to the Peace:
Now in union with Christ Jesus you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of Christ's blood; for he is our peace. (Ephesians 2: 17)
Through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
who, for the redemption of the world,
humbled himself to death on the cross;
that, being lifted up from the earth,
he might draw all people to himself:
Post Communion Prayer:
God of hope,
in this Eucharist we have tasted
the promise of your heavenly banquet
and the richness of eternal life.
May we who bear witness to the death of your Son,
also proclaim the glory of his resurrection,
for he is Lord for ever and ever.
Christ draw you to himself
and grant that you find in his cross a sure ground for faith,
a firm support for hope,
and the assurance of sins forgiven:
125, Hail to the Lord’s anointed (CD 8)
656, Nearer, my God, to thee (CD 38)
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition copyright © 1989, 1995, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. http://nrsvbibles.org
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Combined T1 Telephone and Internet
An Integrated T1 line shares bandwidth between digital phone lines
and broadband Internet service. Typically up to 12 phones lines
can be accommodated. If the T1 line is set up to be a dynamic
T1, then any bandwidth not used for telephone calls is automatically
available for Internet access.
Advantage of Colocation Bandwidth
Colocation is locating your servers in a colocation facility,
also known as a carrier hotel. Advantages of this approach include
ready availability of low cost bandwidth including T1, DS3, Carrier
Ethernet and SONET Fiber Optic options. These data centers also
offer backup power, environmental control and high levels of security.
Channelized T1 vs ISDN PRI
T1 lines can support two protocols of switched circuit telephony.
Channelized T1 lines offer 24 phone lines using in-band signaling.
ISDN PRI, or Primary Rate Interface, offers 23 phone lines and
common channel signaling that can include data such as ANI Automatic
Number Identification or Caller ID.
Fractional T1 Service as a
Not all businesses need the full 1.5 Mbps of a T1 line, but want
higher availability and the dedicated bandwidth offered by T-carrier
digital service. In many cases, fractional T1 services offers
a fraction of the bandwidth at a lowered monthly lease price.
Fractional T3 service may also be available for bandwidth needs
between 1.5 and 45 Mbps.
What is POTS mean?
POTS is a telecommunications industry acronym for "Plain
Old Telephone Service." POTS lines are the analog telephone
lines that have been trenched or dropped into nearly every business
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Each year, the Federal Reserve conducts their Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS). They target businesses with fewer than 500 employees, which account for more than 99% of all establishments in the United States. And their responses come from more than 8,000 business owners from across the country, with representation from all regions. The SBCS prompts respondents to report on their business performance, financing choices, and experiences with borrowing money. It gives a snapshot of what conditions were like in Q3 and Q4 of 2017, when the survey was administered, as well as forecasts for what small businesses see in their future. And, spoiler alert, the forecast is pretty darned good. First off, small businesses reported impressive growth. Profitability increased from 27% in 2016 to 31% last year. Similarly, revenue grew from 21% to 26% and employment growth inched up from 17% to 18%. In the language of the survey, this means that 29% of companies are growing (meaning the have increased revenues, increased employees, and plans to further increase employees). These consistently rising trends mean that business owners have a rosier outlook on things. When asked if they believe their revenue will grow in the next 12 months, 72% said yes. And nearly half of the respondents said they plan on hiring additional staff in that time period as well. When financial strain does arise, various financing methods enter the picture. Nearly 70% of business owners turned to their personal finances, while 39% took out additional debt and 33% reduced their staff or operations. Of those who sought financing, the survey revealed that 75% opted for amounts under $250,000. And 55% of the applications were for less than $100,000. The purposes for the requests were most often expansion (59% of applications), wages (43%), and refinancing (26%). So where do folks go when they need money? It appears there are still lots of traditionalists out there, as 48% of applications went to large banks and many others applied at smaller banks. Online lending was up, as 24% of respondents tried that route. And 18% went with “other” lenders, which includes government entities, nonprofits, private investors, family members, and other sources. Of those who didn’t seek funding in 2017, 50% said they didn’t need to because their financing was sufficient. About a quarter of respondents said they didn’t want the additional debt, and 13% said they simply figured they’d be turned down if they applied. For those who did apply, the results were better than in years past. Indeed, 46% got the full amount of financing they requested. In 2016, that number was only 40%. And for loan and line of credit applications, 58% got everything they asked for, versus 53% in 2016. Not everyone got the full meal deal, of course. Financing shortfalls mostly impacted micro firms (70% failed to get the full amount requested) and startups (61% didn’t get the full amount). For those businesses with high credit risk, it’s not surprising that 90% failed to get the full amount requested. Respondents mainly said their shortfalls were due to insufficient credit history or collateral. As noted in the SBCS, more business owners applied to online lenders than ever before. The majority of these applications were from medium/high credit risk businesses, as 40% took the online route. And this same group experienced a 71% success rate with online lending sources, compared to much lower rates from other sources (35% success at large banks, 47% at small banks, and 26% at credit unions). Respondents to the SBCS said they were attracted to online lending because of the speed of credit decisions, higher chances of success, and fewer requirements for collateral. Things weren’t always perfect, however, as they also reported higher interest rates and unfavorable repayment terms from some online lenders. For those who went the traditional route with banks, the commonly cited complaints were the longer wait times and overall difficulty with the application. If they were able to clear the numerous hoops and get approved, things seemed to progress better in the latter stages. The overarching news from this latest SBCS is that the economy is healthy and the outlook for businesses is bright. And with the rise of online lending and other alternative financing sources, business owners have more options than ever when it comes to securing the funding necessary to flourish. | <urn:uuid:e33264b5-3cb2-4454-ae30-f906eee288d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lendio.com/news/finance-economics/small-business-credit-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982427 | 909 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The great-great-grandniece of LGAQ inaugural president Robert Woods Thurlow, Cheryl Gray, reflects on her family tree and the legacy left.
Legacy is an incredible contribution that can flow from public life. The founders of the LGAQ would probably be surprised to know that not only has it survived for 125 years, but it continues to play a vital role in policy and public debate.
The legacy of Robert Woods Thurlow, the inaugural LGAQ president, and a former Mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, continues to be seen and felt—at least by some. These ‘feelings’, for me, are revealed in coincidence and familiarity. I am currently researching Queensland’s first female Protectress, who ran a home (of sorts) for Aboriginal Women and Girls, in West End. Her story draws me back to the year 1896, when RW Thurlow was Mayor and when, in April of that year, he and many of the key players that implemented possibly well-meaning but ultimately devasting policies for generations of Aboriginal people in Queensland, came together for the arrival of Lord Lamington as Governor.
Inaugural LGAQ President Robert Woods Thurlow. Photo courtesy State Library of Queensland
This was an occasion when two branches of my family tree collided.
RW Thurlow, my great, great grand-uncle, delivered the official welcome to Lord and Lady Lamington on behalf of the City. And Arthur Meston, later Protector of Aboriginals, coordinated a very colonial display of spear and boomerang throwing. This colourful exhibition brought to the highest government attention the “plight of the Aboriginal” and led to government policies that would see my paternal great, great grandmother along with thousands of Aboriginal men and women forced into ‘protection’.
It was a seminal time for pre-Federation Queensland. For his part, RW Thurlow was described as a prominent commercial figure, an elected alderman of West Ward elevated to the position of Mayor within a year. Thurlow’s Building, then on the corner of Adelaide and Wharf Streets (later the home of radio station 4BC) was a thriving enterprise known its fine imported foodstuffs, coffee, teas and on-site brewing of the famous Crescent Vinegar.
Newspaper reporting of council meetings during Thurlow’s time as Mayor signal many of the important developments in the city, such as the introduction of electric light and power supply.
Almost 100 years later, I found myself sitting through council debates as City Hall Reporter for The Courier-Mail. I fondly remember the smell of furniture polish and the heavy wooden doors to the press office, strategically positioned at the entrance to Council Chambers and providing easy access to nab talkative councillors as they passed by.
(I also recall a half-empty bottle of scotch whisky left in the bottom drawer of the writing desk—a trophy handed down from one City Hall Photos courtesy Debi Brett reporter to the next.)
This was also when I first met LGAQ CEO Greg Hallam, an incredibly effective operator, prepared to take a young journalist under his wing. Then, as now, the LGAQ bridged the divide between the tiers of government.
Like RW Thurlow, my time in local government circles was short, moving on to the State Political Round at the newspaper not long after the 1994 re-election of Jim Soorley as he emerged from ‘virtual unknown’ status, having wrested the Lord Mayoralty from Sally Anne Atkinson in 1991, going on to reshape the city during his 13-year term.
As Thurlow and many subsequent Mayors have shown, local government is the place where vision and drive can leave a legacy for a city and its people.
Cheryl Gray, photography by Debi Brett
Thurlow’s values most likely had a lot to do with his early childhood. He was one of six children of Henry and Ann Thurlow who left England in 1858. Anna was heavily pregnant at the time and gave birth during the voyage to Australia however the baby, Grantham, died on the ship.
The six surviving brothers including Robert, John, William, Charles, Edwin and my great, great grandfather Henry, each went on to success in business and public service. Robert started work in 1870, aged 15, for J&J Burns, in Brisbane. A hard and loyal worker, he rose to the position of manager by the time he was 23. He went on to buy the business and grew it substantially. As reported in his obituary in The Brisbane Courier in February 1913, RW Thurlow was also a president of the Union of Federated Traders’ Association, Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, and stood, unsuccessfully, for State Parliament on two occasions.
His brother John was also a local businesssuccess story, inventing the Chain Blind, featured on many colonial Brisbane homes, and establishing Thurlow’s Blinds at Albion. While Robert’s business grew and his political ambitions smouldered, his brother Henry moved to Wynnum, then just a small group of houses based around a fishing fleet at Wynnum Creek.
Henry’s son, Arthur (my great grandfather) and wife Amy later cared for William Woods Thurlow, who suffered severe ‘shell shock’ during the First World War. Soldier Bill, as he was known by locals, lent his old car to my father, Alan, and his older brother Robert (Bobbie) to learn to drive in.
It is worth mentioning that many of the Thurlow family, going back more than 300 years to Suffolk, England, were stone masons and sculptors. Some of their work still stands in the old town. Fittingly, one of the few relics honouring RW Thurlow’s time as Mayor is a sandstone and marble lion’s head drinking fountain, located in Hardgrave Park, Petrie Terrace. | <urn:uuid:f306261e-2a52-46a4-916c-3a6553ef2ddf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lgaq.asn.au/news/article/1212/remembering-robert-woods-thurlow-the-lgaq-s-inaugural-president | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977268 | 1,244 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Buying an investment property all-cash rather than getting a mortgage has definite perks. Paying cash can help you negotiate the best deal on an investment property or help you win a bidding war. If you want to buy a fixer-upper and are unable to arrange conventional mortgage financing, cash is your best friend.
However, if you want to get the best of both worlds, you might want to try out delayed financing. But how does delayed financing work and is it a good option for real estate investors?
What Is Delayed Financing?
Delayed financing is a conventional financing method that allows you to purchase a property all-cash and immediately do a cash-out refinance to mortgage the property. Unlike a standard cash-out refinance, you won’t have to wait for 6 months from the closing of an all-cash purchase before refinancing.
In a delayed financing transaction, your cash is only temporarily tied up in buying the property. Shortly thereafter, you’ll be able to recover a huge chunk of the purchase price and closing costs by refinancing. This allows you to enjoy the same benefits as cash buyers while enabling you to take a mortgage immediately after and avoid tying up all your saving in your investment property.
In most cases, delayed financing is used in buying multi-million dollar properties with investment loans that aren’t backed by Fannie Mae or the like. This means that they aren’t subject to their loan limits and rules. Nevertheless, there’s Fannie Mae delayed financing available for borrowers who want to buy modestly priced properties below the local loan limits. The loan limits vary with location.
However, it’s important to note that delayed financing for an investment property is a little different from delayed financing used on a primary residence. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio is usually lower for investment properties and second homes.
Delayed Financing Requirements
Many borrower qualification guidelines for delayed financing (such as debt to income ratio and credit score) are similar to those of a standard cash-out refinance. However, there is an additional set of requirements that you have to meet to qualify for delayed financing. Most of them actually relate to the initial property purchase and may vary depending on the lender and loan type. They include:
- The initial property purchase has to be an arm’s length transaction. This means that the buyer and the seller should be unrelated and the sale wasn’t influenced by any party. For instance, you should not purchase a property from a friend, relative, or colleague.
- To be eligible for a delayed financing mortgage, you also have to provide proof that the investment property was bought with cash and is not financed by any loans secured by the property. You’ll be required to provide closing documents such as a settlement statement and grant deed.
- You are required to provide documentation that verifies the source of funds used to purchase the property in cash.
- If you used a home equity loan or HELOC to purchase the property, the proceeds from the delayed financing mortgage must first be used to pay off or pay down those loans. Moreover, the cash you take out can’t be used to repay a gift used for the cash purchase.
- The investment property must be purchased free of any outstanding mortgages or liens.
Advantages of Delayed Financing for Real Estate Investors
Why would you choose delayed financing over other investment property financing options like getting one of the various investment property loans or doing a cash-out refinance after taking a mortgage loan? Here are some key reasons you should consider this financing option:
1. Property sellers favor cash buyers
When it comes to buying an investment property, cash is king. Cash buyers will often have an edge over other buyers. You’ll be able to get a better purchase price which translates into a better return on investment. If you are buying an investment property in a hot real estate market, paying cash can give you a competitive advantage.
2. Access equity in your investment property sooner
Unlike a standard cash-out refinance, you don’t have to wait for 6 months before title seasoning. This means that real estate investors will be able to access equity in the property sooner.
3. It can be used to buy a property that won’t qualify for mortgage financing
Sometimes it may be hard to qualify for mortgage financing if you are buying an investment property that’s in poor condition like a fixer-upper. You can use delayed financing to purchase and rehab such a property.
4. You regain financial liquidity
Disadvantages of Delayed Financing for Real Estate Investors
1. You need to gather a lot of cash upfront
The main downside of delayed financing is that you need lots of cash upfront to make the purchase. For this reason, it mostly works for people who have the financial muscle to purchase a property outright.
2. Higher mortgage rates
Another disadvantage of delayed financing programs is that they usually charge higher mortgage rates and fees relative to a standard cash-out refinance. This is due to the specialized nature of a delayed financing mortgage and not all lenders offer it. So it may take time to find a delayed financing lender.
The Bottom Line
Delayed financing enables you to do a cash-out refinance immediately after purchasing a property with cash. This gives real estate investors cash power while still being able to finance the mortgage over time. Investors should weigh the advantages of this financing option against the potential cost savings of waiting for a longer period and performing a standard cash–out refinance. If you decide to go for delayed financing, just make sure that you are meeting all the stipulations. You should also contact multiple lenders and compare proposals so that you find one that offers delayed financing at the best rates. | <urn:uuid:a8f91c78-1d1d-4da0-8c02-2d8fb80a5ebc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mashvisor.com/blog/delayed-financing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946424 | 1,195 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Guide To Wisdom Teeth Extractions in La Jolla
For the 65 percent of patients who detect wisdom teeth in their late teens or early twenties, Weston Spencer DDS – Conservative Comprehensive Dentistry generally recommends removal. Wisdom teeth can damage adjacent teeth and nerves. Their awkward positioning can increase the risk of cavities and gum disease. Moreover, they often come in crooked, crowding the other teeth and affecting the bite.
Reasons to have Wisdom Teeth Removed
Wisdom teeth are also difficult to clean, especially if they do not fully erupt, which is a common issue for many people. This can cause an infection, as bacteria can be trapped under the skin where brushing and flossing is difficult.
After wisdom teeth extractions in La Jolla, Weston Spencer DDS – Conservative Comprehensive Dentistry recommends patients carefully follow the instructions given by our team.
Bleeding is inevitable and should be expected to last up to three days. Rinsing is counter-productive, but firm pressure should be applied by biting down on the gauze pads to help stop the bleeding.
What to Expect after a Wisdom Tooth Extraction
Swelling following wisdom teeth extractions in La Jolla are a sign that the healing process is progressing normally. Swelling that recedes and then re-appears after a few weeks, however, is a sign of infection. If this happens, it is essential that you communicate with us as soon as possible. You will most likely need to come in immediately. Dr. Weston Spencer recommends an examination seven to ten days after the extraction to make sure the wounds are clean and there are no complications. An antibiotic wash can be applied if infection is present. Keep in mind that many problems can be avoided if the patient has his or her wisdom teeth removed when Dentist Spencer advises so. This is a case where a ‘let’s wait and see’ approach can cause problems. Along with wisdom teeth extractions, our practice also offers pediatric dentistry and root canal therapy.
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SMS Plan for Continuity of Business
If foot and mouth disease (FMD) is found in United States livestock, Regulatory Officials will limit the movement of animals and animal products to try and control the spread of this very contagious animal disease.
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is not a public health or food safety concern. Meat and milk are safe to eat and drink.
The Secure Milk Supply (SMS) Plan for Continuity of Business provides opportunities to voluntarily prepare before an outbreak. This will better position dairy premises with cattle that have no evidence of infection to:
- Limit exposure of their animals through enhanced biosecurity,
- Move raw milk to processing under a movement permit issued by Regulatory Officials, and
- Maintain business continuity for the dairy industry, including producers, haulers, and processors during an FMD outbreak. | <urn:uuid:53f5b104-55bf-48b0-9dbe-3844cc3f3c5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://securemilksupply.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.949631 | 174 | 2.625 | 3 |
Papyrus 90 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P90, is a small fragment from the Gospel of John 18:36-19:7 dating paleographically to early to middle 2nd century.
Papyrus 6 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P6 or by ε 021 (in von Soden's numbering), is a fragmentary early copy of the New Testament in Greek and Coptic (Akhmimic). It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John that has been dated paleographically to the early 4th century [300 - 350 C.E.].
Ezra Abbot (April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American biblical scholar.
Gregory was born in Philadelphia. After completing his bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1864, he studied theology at two Presbyterian seminaries: in 1865–1867 at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and in 1867–1873 at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1873, he decided to continue his studies at the University of Leipzig under Constantin von Tischendorf.
Initially, P5 was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt at the end of the 19th century in two separate portions at Oxyrhynchus. The first portion that was discovered contains John 1:23–31, 33–40 on one page (front and back), as well as John 20:11–17, 19–20, 22–25 on another page (front and back).
“The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method makes no textual decisions. It merely reveals an image of the tradition which emerges from a text-critical philological study of all the variants. The iterative process of the method helps the text-critical philological hypotheses to confirm their plausibility.” – Gerd Mink This is a difficult subject made far more easier by Dr. Don Wlkins, Senior Translator of the NASB.
The Goths were a group of loosely allied Germanic tribes, most likely beginning in Scandinavia. In the first few centuries after Jesus Christ's life and death, they migrated as far south as the Black Sea and the Danube River, to the very outposts of the Roman Empire. The Gothic Bible was the first literary work in any Germanic tongue. Ulfilas (c. 311–383 C.E.) - Bruce Metzger
With the manuscript support of א 33 1739 Maj, as well as TR WH NU, we have the reading εν τω ονοματι του κυριου (“in the name of the Lord”). All English versions have this reading. However, ...
Below is a short overview of the copying process of the Greek text of the New Testament. We will cover its transmission in the Greek of the time, as well as other languages that it has been translated into; not to mention the trustworthiness of the critical text that we have today. | <urn:uuid:e32538ed-9734-49f2-bdaa-b2a88a13316b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uasvbible.org/tag/new-testament-textual-studies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961978 | 651 | 2.890625 | 3 |
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Religious leaders are responsible for helping and supporting followers of their religion through spiritual and moral guidance.
Apprenticeship or traineeship
What does a Religious Leader do?
Religious leaders are responsible for helping and supporting members of their congregation through spiritual and moral guidance.
As a religious leader, you would:
- plan, conduct and lead regular religious ceremonies or services
- communicate and explain the teachings of your faith
- conduct special services for events such as births, marriages and deaths
- educate people who are converting to your faith
- provide support to people at difficult times in their lives
- represent your faith within the general community
- participate in inter-faith dialogue and worship
- do administrative work and keeping records required by civil or religious law.
Your exact duties would vary according to your religion, and the makeup of your congregation or group of followers.
Key skills and interests
To become a religious leader, you would need:
- a deep commitment to your particular religious calling
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- to enjoy working with and helping all types of people
- patience, trustworthiness and discretion
- to meet standards of behaviour expected by your community and your religion
- a willingness to be involved with your local community.
Working hours and conditions
Religious leaders work long and irregular hours. You would need to be available whenever you are called on, and you may need to conduct certain religious services at set times of the day or week.
You would need to travel regularly around your local community, and to places such as hospitals, school and aged care homes.
You would perform services and ceremonies at your place of your worship, and you would also have an office there or at your own home. Some religious leaders are based permanently in a prison, hospital or with the armed forces.
You may be paid a salary, or be a volunteer. You may rely on donations, or be given somewhere to live within your community. Being a religious leader can be emotionally and physically stressful.
How to become an Religious Leader?
Entry Level Education
The training and entry requirements to become a religious leader differ according to your chosen religion. You might need to gain formal theology qualifications, or join from a role as as a specialist in another field such as welfare, or you might learn through experience and on-the-job training.
If you want to train to become a leader in your faith, you should ask your own religious leader for advice and guidance.
Employment opportunities for religious leaders are expected to show slow growth.
Population growth and increasing multi-culturalism are being partly offset by decreasing participation in traditional religious gatherings and events, and the emergence of non-church practitioners such as wedding celebrants.
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Hello, and welcome to a new semester! We’re ETC project team Amuseum (Amuse+Museum, get it?) and this semester we will be working with the MuseumLab at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to create a Rube Goldberg inspired machine that incorporates AR into its processes to bring to life impossible elements from the cartoons that Rube Goldberg drew.
Our team is composed of Wizard Hsu, Adelyn Jin, Bella Lin, Hao Lu, and Jack McClain, and we’re all excited to get into it!
This week our primary focus was on getting ourselves grounded in the topic. In the early stages of the week we focused our efforts on collecting research materials about Rube Goldberg, his machines, what has been done in the space, applications of AR, and so on. Collecting all these resources helped to give us a shared sense of the problem space going forward and what it is that makes these machines unique: the engineering, the narrative, and the humor.
In order to set the stage for the project, we met with our contact at the Children’s Museum, Anne Fullenkamp, to get an understanding of what the most important elements of the project are for her moving forward. On the Children’s Museum side of the museum, the exhibit team has already developed a number of Rube Goldberg machines that are entirely physical. This portion of the museum is intended for their youngest audience, from 3-9. The MuseumLab, which we are working with, is intended to be the extension of interactive educational installations for an older audience of 10-15.
Anne described to us how the museum had pulled inspiration from Rube Goldberg’s original cartoons when designing their machines, and they felt that there was an opportunity for AR to be brought in to supplement the interactions. Specifically, the machines in Goldberg’s cartoons frequently feature animal or human elements that are responsible for triggering parts of the machine. While they would create very engaging machines, having a live animal in a museum machine would be a non-starter, but this is one place that AR can help.
The installation that we will be working on for the museum will potentially be placed in a pop-up space that CMP is opening at Southside Works in a former retail space this summer. They are still currently in talks to set this up, but we need to consider this when planning out our design. Because it will be in a pop-up temporarily, or potentially not at all and move straight into the actual museum, we need to think about how to keep the design of the machine not context sensitive, meaning it does not NEED to be in either the pop-up or MuseumLab.
Already the museum is accustomed to using ARCADE for AR experiences within the lab, and have undergone some talks to bring in a similar system, ARENA, as another AR toolkit for them to develop exhibits in. ARENA is developed by the Conix Research Center at CMU, and is a web-based mixed-reality development platform with robust networking capabilities. While it is still being developed by the team, we have potential to work relatively closely with their team and get direct feedback and answers if any questions arise. We will be looking at all the possibilities for AR development available to us and weighing their pros and cons against each other, but the ARENA platform is an early top contender because of these benefits.
Next week we’ll be working on brainstorming and pitching some initial concepts to Anne and Toby, one of the primary exhibit designers for the Museum. We’ll also be looking to invite Jennifer George, Rube Goldberg’s granddaughter and current head of Rube Goldberg Inc. to talk through how we can best represent his work in our own. | <urn:uuid:938c77e3-75bb-40b5-ae64-d7f3edf5d925> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://project-archives.etc.cmu.edu/2021/spring/amuseum/week-1-rubes-no-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958414 | 774 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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After the banishment of Archelaus Judea was annexed to Syria ; but whilst Herod was living, the president of Syria had not any proper authority in Judea. The president of Syria was always the most considerable officer in the eastern part of the empire. When the Romans had any wart in that part of the world, the neighbouring kings were obliged to follow bis directions; to furnish those sums of money, or those troops, which he required, and to scud these to the places he appointed. When any differences happened between these kings and tetrarchs, they were bound to refer them to bim, nor could they march any forces out of their territories without his consent: but he seems not, especially in a time of peace, to have had any proper authority within their dominions.
Nor do I think 1 here impute to Tertullian any very gross mistake. The state of dependent kingdoms and provinces in the Roman empire underwent frequent changes, and a person had need to have made history his peculiar study, and to have aimed at some uncommon accuracy, in order to understand the state of the Roman provinces for a couple of centuries.
I have now gone through all the difficulties which are of any moment in this point.
I have nothing farther to add to those evidences, which I have already produced, except these two observations : Ist, That it seems to me highly probable, from the manner in which Eusebius speaks of this matter in his Chronicle, that it was originally the common opinion of christians, that Cyrenius was sent into Judea on purpose to make this census; • In the thirty-third year of Herod, Cyrenius being * sent by the Roman senate, made a census (or enrolments) of goods and persons. This does very much confirm the opinion of those learned men, who think that Cyrenius was sent with extraordinary power: though why Eusebius mentions the senate instead of the emperor I know not.
Possibly some may be disposed to set aside Eusebius's authority, because in his Ecclesiastical History he bas confounded the two surveys. But I must confess I ascribe that, not to ignorance, but to somewhat a great deal worse. It is impossible, that a man of Eusebius's acuteness, who had the New Testament and Josephus before bim, should think
'Tum intellecto barbarorum irrisu, qui peterent quod eripuerant, consuluit inter primores civitatis Nero, bellum anceps an pax inhoneta placeret, nec dubitatum de bello-scribitur tetrarchis ac regibus præfectisque ac procuratoribus, -- jussis Corbulonis obsequi. Tacit. Ann. lib. xv. cap. 25.
Chron. p. 76.
a census made after Archelaus's banishment was the same with that made before Herod died; but Eusebius was resolved to have St. Luke's history contirmed by the express testimony of the Jewish historian, right or wrong. Here Eusebius was under a bias. In his Chronicle we have a simple unbiassed account of what was the opinion of christians, and others, at that time.
Secondly, It seems to me in the nature of the thing most probable, that some person was sent with extraordinary power to inake this enrolment. There is no evidence in Josephus, that Augustus had any intention to take away the kingdom from Herod, and make Judea a province. A census in his dominions was a very great disgrace: but to have ordered it to be performed by the president of Syria, would have been an additional ‘affront; it would have looked like making Herod subject to Syria. Since Judea was to continue a distinct kingdom as hitherto, and only to be reduced to a more strict dependence, the only method of making this census could be that of sending sone person of honour and dignity, like Cyrenius, to enrol the subjects of Herod, and value their estates; that, for the future, tribute might be paid according to this census. And this does admirably suit the nature of the oath mentioned in Josephus, the substance of which was, to be faithful to Cæsar and Herod.
I conclude therefore, that it is upon the whole most probable, that the first assessment, of which St. Luke here writes, was performed by Cyrenius, as well as the second. This appears to me a very natural meaning of St. Luke's words, and the external evidences for this supposition seemn to me to outweigh the objections.
We bave now got through the affair of the census. If I have not been so happy as to remove every difficulty attending this text of St. Luke, yet I hope the reader will allow, at least, that I have not concealed or dissembled any.
TWO OBJECTIONS TAKEN FROM THE SILENCE OF JOSEPHUS.
1. He has not mentioned the slaughter of the infants of
Bethlehem : II. Nor of the Galileans, whose blood Pi. late had mingled with their sacrifices.
ST. MATTHEW says, chap. ii. 16, " Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise mnen, was exceedingly wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he bad diligently inquired of the wise men.”
It is objected to this, that if there had been so cruel a slaughter made by Herod, of innocent infants at Bethlehem, a place not far from Jerusalem, it is very unlikely it should have been omitted by Josephus, who bas written the history of the Jews, and particularly of the reign of Herod.
To this I answer: 1. This appears to me to be at the best an objection of a very extraordinary nature. The most exact and diligent historians have omitted many events that happened within the compass of those times of which they undertook to write : nor does the reputation which any one historian has for exactness, invalidate the credit of another, who seems to be well informed of the facts he relates. Suetonius, Tacitus, and Dio Cassius, have all three written of the reign of Tiberius: but it is no objection against the veracity of any one of them, that he has mentioned some things of that emperor, which have been omitted by the rest. No more is it any objection against St. Matthew, that he has related an action of Herod not mentioned by Josephus.
2. There have been as great cruelties committed by many eastern princes; nor was there ever any man more likely than Herod to give the orders here mentioned by St. Matthew. When he had gained possession of Jerusalema by the assistance of the Romans, and his rival Antigonus was taken prisoner, and in the bands of the Roman general Sosius, and by him carried to Mark Antony, Herod by a large sum of money persuaded Antony to put him to death. Herod's great fear was, that Antigonus inight some time
• Joseph. Antiq. lib. xiv. cap. 16. sect. ult.
revive bis pretensions, as being of the Asmonean family. Aristobulus, brother of his wife Mariamne, was murdered by bis directions at eighteen years of age, because the people at Jerusalem had shown some affection for his person. In the seventh year of his reign from the death of Antigonus, he put to death Hyrcanus, grandfather of Mariamne, then eighty years of age, and who had saved Herod's life when he was prosecuted by the sanhedrim; a man, who in his youth and in the vigour of his life, and in all the revolutions of his fortune, had shown a mild and peaceable disposition. His beloved wife, the beautiful and virtuous Mariamne, had a public execution, and her inother Alexandra was put to death soon after. Alexander and Aristobulus, his two sons by Mariamne, were strangled in prison by his order,' upon groundless suspicions, as it seems, when they were at man's estate, were married, and had children. 1 say nothing of the death of his eldest son Antipater : if Josephus's character of bim be just, he was a miscreant, and deserved the worst death that could be inflicted.
In his last sickness, a little before he died, be sent orders throughout Judea, requiring the presence of all the chief men of the nation at Jericho. His orders were obeyed, for they were enforced with no less penalty than that of death. When these men were come to Jericho, he had them all shut up in the Circus, and calling for bis sister Salome, and her husband Alexas, he told them, ' My life is now but short: I know the dispositions of the Jewish people, and nothing will please them more than my death. 'You have • these men in your custody; as soon as my breath is out • of any body, and before my death can be known, do you • let in the soldiers upon them and kill them. All Judea • and every family will then, though unwillingly, mourn at
death Nay, Josephus says, " That with tears in his • eyes be conjured them, by their love to bim, and their
fidelity to God, not to fail of doing him this honour; and • they promised h they would not fail.' These orders indeed were not exed
kecuted ; but, as a modern historian of very good sense observes, “The i history of this • Antiq. I. xv. c. 3. sect. 3. De Bell. 1. i. c. 22.
c Ant. l. xv. c. 6. de Bell. ubi supra.
d Ant. xv. c. 7. sect. 5, 6. e Ibid. sect. 8. Ant. lxvi. c. 11. sect. 6. De Bell. I. i. c. 27. 8 Τους δε τους φρερεμενες ανδρας επειδαν εκπνευσω, ταχισα κτεινατε περιτησαντες τους στρατιωτας, ένα πασα Ιουδαια και πας οικος ακων επ' εμοι δακρυση. De Bell. 11. c. 33. sect. 6.
Β Και ο μεν μετα δακρυων ποτνιωμενος, και τα συγγενες την ευνοιαν και πισιν τα θεια προσκαλων, επεσκηπτε μη ητιμωσθαι αξιων κεκεινοι ωμολογουν B fapaßnocolau. Ant. lib. xvii. cap. 6. sect.
i Prideaux, Conn. Part. ii. p. 655.
• his most wicked design, takes off all objection against the • truth of murdering the innocents, which may be made • from the incredibility of so barbarous and horrid an act. • For this thoroughly shows, that there can nothing be • imagined so cruel, barbarous and horrid, which this man was not capable of doing.'
It may be also proper to observe, that almost all the executions, which I have instanced in, were sacrifices to bis state-jealousy and love of empire. And the slaughter, which St. Matthew has given an account of, was made upon the occasion of tidings brought to Jerusalem, of the birth of one who was “ King of the Jews.”
3. Josephus has given us an account of a terrible execution made in Herod's court, and at Jerusalem, about this very time, upon the occasion of some predictions, that God was about to take away the kingdom from Herod. I think it was made at the very same time with the slaughter of the infants. St. Matthew relates only what was done at Bethlehem, Josephus what happened at Jerusalem. The silence of Josephus about the former, and of St. Matthew about the latter, may be in a good measure accounted for by these two or three considerations.
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It was right after Pesach 1991. That day, the Rebbe spent many hours, as he often did, praying for the Jewish people at the tomb of his father-in-law and predecessor. After returning and davening Mincha and Maariv with the many Jews awaiting him in 770, the Rebbe spoke, explaining the special qualities of that date, the evening of the 28th Nissan.
Among other points, he emphasized that our Sages call Nissan the “month of Geulah” and that the number 28 (chof-ches) can be read as “ko’ach” (power), as the day gives us the power to bring the actual ultimate Geulah.
Suddenly, the Rebbe’s voice changed dramatically, and in a deeply pained tone, he declared:
According to what has been explained about emphasizing the Geulah particularly at this time, the greatest astonishment arises: How is it possible that…no one has accomplished the actual coming of Moshiach?! – it’s utterly incomprehensible!
Another reason for astonishment: That 10, and several times 10, Jews gather together in a time especially auspicious for the Geulah and nevertheless they aren’t agitating to accomplish the coming of Moshiach immediately, and it isn’t out of the question for them – may the Merciful One save us – that Moshiach won’t come tonight, or tomorrow, or even the day after…!
Even when they cry out, “Until when [will we have to wait for Moshiach]?” – they do so because of [my] command, etc. If they would have the sincere intent, and request and cry out truthfully, then Moshiach would most certainly have already come!!
What more can I do so that all Jews agitate and cry out sincerely and accomplish the actual coming of Moshiach, after everything done until now has not helped, and the proof is that we are still in exile and, even more fundamentally, in an inner exile in matters of serving Hashem?
The only thing I can do is to transfer the matter to you: Do everything in your capability – in a manner of illumination of Tohu [an exalted level of spiritual power] but in the vessels of Tikkun [i.e., in an orderly manner] – to bring in actuality our righteous Moshiach literally immediately!
May it be His will that 10 Jews will finally be found who will stubbornly insist that they are compelled to accomplish from G-d…to bring in actuality the true and complete Geulah literally immediately.
In order to speed and hurry even more through my deed, I will again give each of you a mitzvah-mission to give [a dollar] to charity, and “Great is charity, for it brings closer the Geulah.” I have done what I need to do, and from now on you should do everything in your capability.
May it be His will that there be found one, two, or three of you who will consult with each other about what to do and how to do it. Furthermore, and this is the main point: they should accomplish that the true and complete Geulah come about in literal actuality, literally immediately, and in joy and gladness of heart.”
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While we live in a nation that provides great opportunities and many people, minorities included have been able to achieve the so called “American Dream”, there are far too many instances where we are reminded people have hate embedded in their mind and push agendas that hurt us all from uniting as one true country, as one true people.
Since 1962, Concilio has combatted discrimination and lack of inclusion creating a place where all people Latinos and non-Latinos can come for resources and support. We cannot stand in silence as racial inequalities continue to plague systems that were built to protect but often times serve the opposite purpose. It is our duty to practice our 1st amendment rights, to voice our concerns when something is wrong, to stand in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters who’s very livelihood is threatened simply by the color of their skin.
Make your voices heard so that change can take place but be mindful of the destruction that is occurring in our own communities. Do not tear down businesses in our neighborhoods; some will not be able to recover and leave an empty void that will not be replaced. Let’s take care of each other, our neighborhood and focus our energy on making systems change.
Love, respect, and honor those who have been taken away by hate.
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The first task and overarching responsibility of a manager is comparable to the first task and
overarching responsibility of a student; that is, both students and managers must see,
understand, and make sense of what is currently going on, what might be happening in the
future, and the implications of both the present and the future. Effective managers and effective
students are similar in this fundamental way: Both are able and willing to take the time and put
forth the energy to see clearly, understand deeply, and make profound sense of themselves and
Effective students take the initiative to complete all course prerequisites, obtain an advance
copy of the syllabus, and procure all course materials before the start of class. Likewise,
effective managers prepare for success by grounding themselves in an understanding of the
organizational environment. Rather than simply relying on an understanding of self, they strive
to understand all the elements existing outside the boundaries of their organization—i.e., all the
environmental factors (competition, economy, regulations, technology, and sociopolitical and
sociocultural factors) that have the potential to affect and influence their managerial success
and the success of their organization.
Effective students pay attention to objectives and expectations, strive for deep meaning by
interacting actively with the course materials and concepts, and avoid the mistake of reading or
listening just for the facts. Likewise, effective managers make sense of their organizational
culture and environment in various ways and at various levels. On the surface level they are
aware of visible items such as structure and layout, physical symbols, and patterns of behavior.
Consider, for illustration, some of the surface-level artifacts cited in your text: “manner of dress,
patterns of behavior, physical symbols, organizational ceremonies, and office layout” (Daft &
Marcic, p. 76).
At a deeper level, effective managers are aware of unexpressed as well as expressed values
and beliefs—that is, values and beliefs that cannot necessarily be discerned from how people
express, explain, and justify what they do. The most effective managers use critical thinking to
distinguish the underlying assumptions and subconscious beliefs that influence managerial and
organizational success. For example, one of the virulent assumptions undergirding
management practices in many organizations is the notion that employees are essentially lazy
and desirous of doing as little as possible. As we will see in a later lesson, that assumption has
little basis in fact, but left unchecked, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, if
the assumption is not challenged, it will form the basis for organizational policies and
Effective students take personal responsibility for their success, recognize and prepare for life’s
possible emergencies, and define success in terms of learning, growth, and development (as
opposed to defining it simply in terms of course completion, grades, and GPA). Likewise,
effective managers welcome the turbulent and uncertain environment in which they operate.
They know that they cannot predict the future, and they understand that simple worst-case/best-
case plans are insufficient for success. Accordingly, they prepare for all possible scenarios and
they know, without hesitation, what they will do whenever or wherever they awaken to an
emergency. They measure their success in terms of meaningful long-term effect, not simply in
terms of this quarter’s profit/loss equation.
A frequently related example of environmental awareness comes from a particular group of
indigenous Chileans living in a region of the Andes where the potato is said to have originated.
The potato is an Andean dietary staple, and these people have cultivated or maintained ten or
more varieties of potato for centuries. When U.S agronomists happened upon that part of the
world, they immediately noted the seeming inefficiencies of growing and maintaining so many
different varieties of potato. They noted, moreover, that the Andean people often appeared to be
“lazy” (note the underlying assumption) in regard to harvesting their crops—that is, they often
overlooked some plants and allowed them to grow wild. The U.S. “experts” moved quickly to
teach the Andean people the importance of efficiency and productivity. They singled out one or
two of the seemingly most prodigious varieties and instructed the people to grow those high-
yield varieties. Likewise, they sought to teach the people to harvest their crops thoroughly. You
can probably imagine the Andeans listening politely, smiling, and nodding; but when the crazy
North Americans were gone, they went back to doing what they had always done. Why?
Because they understood their environment. They knew they had to be prepared for a wide
variety of issues: possible snow in late spring or early fall, various insects, mildew, and other
potential calamities. Different varieties of potatoes survived different calamities. Adopting the
monocropping efficiencies of the agronomists would have left them starving if that particular
variety was blighted by disease or consumed by plagues of insects. Their practices may appear
to be inefficient, but critical thinking reveals that the Chileans have diversified and that their
notions of diversity allow them to survive whatever misfortunes rain on the Andes.
Effective students recognize that today’s classroom, whether traditional or virtual, is culturally
diverse, and they act to truly value diversity. Likewise, effective managers are sensitive to
cultural subtleties and understand that the ways in which people plan, organize, lead, and
control vary in different cultures.
Pay attention to the similarities between effective students and managers as you work through
this lesson. A significant key to effectiveness, whether in a student or manager, is the ability and
willingness to truly see, understand, and make sense of what is going on currently and what
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By Seth Odongo
It often amazes how a man can miss it. In such moments, we are reminded that man’s intelligence can be the only stupid thing about man.
Charles Onyango Obbo, whom I like referring to as ‘learned journalist’, the other day wasted a whole column in Daily Nation creating an absurd  historical parallel between the murderous extremist Islamic militia Al Shabaab and the Teso rebels in North-Eastern Uganda in the 1980s.
The crux of Obbo’s argument is this: The Teso rebels were persuaded by an affable military general called Geoffrey Muhesi to put down their arms. In the same fashion, Kenya can have a ‘Muhesi moment’ with the Al Shabaab where a member in the security apparatus magically persuades the Shabaabs to surrender in ‘lorries packed at specific locations’ to be taken to kenyan jails and handled like ‘common prisoners’.
Obbo arrived at this conclusion by making several ‘deadly’ assumptions. Let’s look at some of these:
One, that a Muhesi exists in the current Kenyan military and police structure. The last time I saw a Muhesi-like character in the Kenyan security system was at the peak of the 2007 post-poll violence. A police officer, acting Senior Superintendent of Police Joseph Musyoka Nthenge wrestled down with rioting demonstrators using his persuasion skills. He succeeded four times, with one moment captured on national TV.
The United Nations in 2008 honoured him. Little is known of his current station. The mere fact that he is not the Inspector General of the Police nor any of his two deputies tells you something about the kind of ‘honour’ the police force accorded him. To cut the story short, the Kenyan police service inhibits the development of Muhesi-like officers. Here, the more ‘thorax’ you show, the less you use your brain, the better for the officer.
Two, Obbo failed to recognize our penchant to ‘own’ criminals. The culture of retreating to our ethnic cocoons when the country faces a national catastrophe makes it difficult to effectively confront security challenges. Kenya’s security organs cannot conduct an operation without injuring ethnic sensitivities, sensibilities and, at worse, political arithmetic.
The history of this dates back to decades ago. In the memorable past, the country still remembers the bungling of the 2007 post-poll violence police swaps when politics of ‘our people are targeted’ took centre-stage. The whole operation had to be suspended and as the Director of Public Prosecutions recently revealed, chances of revisiting the atrocities of that era are very slim.
With this historical context, an operation to weed out Al-shabaab from the midst of ‘peaceful somalis’ was never going to remain a purely security issue before politics took over. We’ve seen, as we expected, top somali politicians standing by ‘their people’. Like happens, these politicians also happen to be very high up in the government but are gifted with a scientific mastery of how and when to abandon the ‘government’ for their ‘people’.
In fact, one can argue that the biggest beneficiaries of this ownership of community criminals are the top two in government – President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. The Jubilee Alliance, at best, was borne out of the desire to protect ethnic criminals from facing justice from a murderous event in our past. One can argue.
Third, Onyango presumed that Al Shabaab, like the Teso rebels, are fighting the government. No, the Al shabaab are fighting a cause. They are fighting an ism. While part of the Teso persuasion strategy included warning the rebels that they would die if they didn’t surrender; and being lovers of life they wanted to cheat death, the Al shabaab welcome death as the final victory – an invitation to martyrdom.
Then there is the matter of justice in Kenyan courts, or Kenyan prisons. If the spectre of those images (of ‘suspected’ somalis under squalid conditions) Â seen at Kasarani is anything to go by, how badly will ‘justice’ be to confessed terrorists? In the Teso scenario, the rebels were made to believe that they would be treated like any other prisoner. In fact, the first rebels to heed to the call were treated that way. This played in the minds of those still at large. In Kenya, terrorists at large saw one Makaburi shot dead metres away from a court of law. How does such events play in their minds? Does any mention of ‘courts’, ‘justice’ and ‘law’ ring a bell to the terrorists at large?
Last, but not least, is what I call the ‘fundamental problem’ of the Kenyan society – silent hypocrisy.
I often give the ‘quail egg phenomenon’ to capture this sad situation. That we Kenyans elevated the quail egg above the hen egg continue to baffle me. I have often wondered, if all things added up on the quail egg, did its ‘size’ add up? We Kenyans believe in the spur of the moment. We want to solve a problem without giving it a context which will make us solve it. Sometimes, the context is utterly flawed that the solution becomes another problem.
A great majority of us are silently hypocritical. We only realize it when we become loud about it. Aden Duale said nothing not long ago when John Michuki was murdering innocent kikuyu youths in the name of fighting Mungiki. That’s because the Mungiki wasn’t a ‘somali problem’ even if it was a human rights problem. We are yet to satisfactorily bring to a close the 2007 post-poll violence. We are lying to ourselves we’ve moved on. Wait till it happens again.
What happened to TJRC? Gosh, for how long should we wait for the several necessary apologies that the head of our republic was required, as a step to ‘justice and reconcilliation’, to make?
So yes, one can argue, learned journalist Onyango Obbo erred.
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The theological library in Osijek is among the richest in Southeast Europe
A recent new shipment from Boston has made our library richer by 20,000 books. The library now owns 140,000 books, with this contributing collected and sent by Christian Book Distributors.
„Two years have passed since the last major donation. This pandemic has taught us that books are a source of knowledge, as opposed to the information we are bombard with, that they bring us joy when news are dim, and that they enrich us in every way. Therefore, we believe this step is worth the effort because it contributes to another positive event in our city, Osijek, as recognizable on the map of Europe as a city with one of the richest theological libraries!", said dr. Peter Kuzmič, dean of the Seminary.
Our Seminary is growing into a research center for theology and related fields, as shown by the numerous doctoral students who come from Central and Southeast Europe to our city every summer to work on their research. Thus, from 2016 until now, about seventy doctoral students from ten countries came to Osijek and spent two to four weeks in our city doing research. "In addition to the library, our Seminary has other options available to students, such as living accomodations in the newly renovated student dormitory, meals in the onsite cafeteria, and the use of classrooms and offices, while respecting all the measures demanded because of the global pandemic", said Maja Séguin, secretary of the Seminary.
The library is attractive to researchers because it contains titles in Croatian, but also in many other languages, such as English, German, French, Russian, from various fields such as theology, philosophy, sociology, psychology and other, which are often not available in different formats.
"In addition to this donation, our library managed to purchase theological titles in the field of biblical theology published in 2018 at a reduced price due to a cooperation with the large publishing house Baker. With a recent visit to Grand Rapids, we also reached an agreement with the publishing house Zondervan for a major discount on further book purchases, and similar agreements have been initiated with the Theological Book Network, a company that donated three boxes of books of our chosing. Among the books that arrived, I would like to emphasize the following authors - Craig Keener, Richard Bauckam, Jonathan Pennington, as well as three volumes of books called The Context of Scripture", said the Seminary's librarian Matej Sakač. | <urn:uuid:93b2de31-dc5e-4ccc-a8c6-41f56738d7c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.evtos.hr/en/home-en-gb/news/183-books-are-important-during-the-corona-pandemic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.967495 | 518 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Due to California’s diverse culture, and close proximity with Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, California continues to have one of the largest drug problems in the nation. However, what is most concerning is that the use of dangerous illegal drugs like Heroin and powerful prescription drugs like Oxycontin, have seen a huge uptake in recent years. Drug treatment specialists report that over the last 10 years, heroin use has increased almost 25% due to the large availability of Mexican black tar heroin and heroin from Asia. This increased availability of high purity heroin that can be ingested by snorting or smoking the drug, has attracted a new, younger population to use heroin without a syringe or needle.
Whether you live in large metropolitan areas like beautiful Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, or smaller communities such as Ventura, Palm Springs or Yuma, heroin and other opiate addiction is a major problem all across California. However, what many Californians may not realize about opiate addiction is that, like any addiction, it is a mental disease and needs to be treated as such. Without the proper treatment, many users can go on for years using heroin and other opiates and can devastate and destroy their lives, and countless lives around them.
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America3-year-old Colt Parris, from Missouri, had a brain stroke after testing positive for nCoV, suggesting that Covid-19 might affect the nervous system.
After surgery to remove the blood clot, baby Colt Parris recovered at the Hospital for Women and Children, University of Missouri, on 24/12. Doctors hope the baby will be completely healthy as before.
Neuroscientist, Camilo Gomez, said the experts were looking at whether Covid-19 and the neurological problems were interrelated.
During the onset of a pandemic, researchers looked at the link between nCoV and the formation of blood clots, including those affecting the patient’s brain.
A study of 214 patients earlier this year in Wuhan, China, found that more than one-third of infections exhibited symptoms of neuropathy, including loss of consciousness and stroke. American doctors also noted and studied the association between coagulation and stroke in Covid-19 patients.
Tests showed that Colt was positive for nCoV and after a few hours, he lost the ability to move his right limbs. Colt’s mother, Sara Parris, noticed the difference in the way she grabbed a stuffed animal.
“I gave the toy to the baby and found that he did not use his dominant arm to grasp it,” the mother said. “She leaned forward to grab the stuffed rabbit, the second time too, and I knew something was wrong.”
Dr. Paul Carney, a pediatric neurologist, said the stroke cut off blood supply to the baby’s left brain.
“This is a very special case,” Carney said. “If this happens in people over 40 or 60, the consequences will be very different.”
Colt’s parents hope their child’s rare case will raise public awareness about Covid-19.
His father, Tim Parris, said: “Everyone needs to wear a mask and follow safety rules, if they want their child not to experience similar situations.”
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Ten tips and ideas on how to spend quality family time with your kids
- Read to your children, and have them read to you. Every child loves a good story and once they have read a few books and received pleasure from them, they will turn to reading instead of the computer to play games or watch television. A good way to start is with an adventure story or a mystery. Make reading a regular thing. Let them discover the world of storytelling.
- Have dinner together. This not only anchors the family but allows everyone to talk about how their day was and what is going on in everyone’s lives. It also opens up a platform for serious discussion. Dinner time, however, should be enriching to the whole family and so avoid talking about discipline and other serious issues. Depending on the age of your child, you can also have one child decide on a topic they would like to discuss over the dinner table. Studies have shown that teenagers especially benefit from family meals. The more a family eats together, the less likely the children are to do drugs, smoke, develop eating disorders, get depressed or drink and the more likely they are to do well in school. Family dinners take practice, so be patient, and you will have a happier family for it.
- Have a family movie night with AWKNG TV, the popular Christian TV app, and let this become a family tradition. The trick is to keep it simple. Watching a movie with the family must also be relaxing for the single parent. Ensuring that all the children are happy with the movie choice can sometimes be impossible, so let every child get a turn to pick what movie to watch.
- Have a picnic in the park. Let the kids make the sandwiches and choose what they want to drink. Make sure you pack in some action toys such as best automatic Nerf guns or a Frisbee for the kids to play with.
- Buy materials for a kite. Let the children help put it together. Then take it with you to the park. Flying a kite is not as easy as it sounds. They’ll have a lot of fun trying to launch it and finally see it soar in the air.
- Go skating together. Read some bamboo longboard reviews online and buy the right one for you and your kid. This is a great sport during the long winter months. Take a flask of hot cocoa for afterwards.
- Make breakfast together in the mornings. There may not be much time during the week, but have a day on the weekend when you can make pancakes and waffles with the kids.
- Start a little herb or vegetable together – there is no better way than getting dirty and spending a nice warm Saturday together outside. Decide what it is you are going to plant and take turns watering the garden. The reward will come at the end when your kids eat their first self – planted tomato!
- Play games together. Play board games together in those cold winter months. Let every child have a turn picking which board game they would like to play. Or maybe build a fort out of sheets together in the living room and tell each other scary stories. As a parent, you can also de-stress and enjoy games like 스포츠토토.
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For immediate release
CONTACT: Rev. Dr. Anne Armstrong, Deaconess, The Healing Church in RI
Cannabis Row Widens at Basilica, as
Officials Caught Twice Hiding Biblical Cannabis Art
Last week’s Catholic controversy over contested cannabis prayers in the Washington DC National Basilica shrine to the Blessed Mother has taken a turn for the weirder, as Church officials stand accused of literally moving chairs in the Basilica shrine to hide Catholic Biblical cannabis art.
Event organizer Rev. Dr. Anne Armstrong, leader and Deaconess to The Healing Church in RI, says prominent Catholic cannabis art that can normally readily be seen at the National Basilica (just as it can be found in most pre-Prohibition churches’ narrative Bible story art) has been deliberately hidden by a series of chair re-arrangements by staff there.
Armstrong cites three recent highly suspicious chair movements by Basilica staff, each of which obscured what she says is cannabis art from public view. In the most recent example, the Basilica’s Byzantine-Ruthenian Crypt Chapel appears to depict a cannabis leaf in one of 3 Papal insignias inlaid into the floor.
NOTE: This is the same Chapel over which Armstrong and the Basilica tangled for eclipse Services, as it was selected for its depiction of the eclipse on the ceiling fresco.
Video link of eclipse ceiling painting in chapel with cannabis found hidden under chair
http://gph.is/2u5dPjy -- Moving Gif of cannabis hidden under chair
Cannabis on Papal insignia hidden under chair Close-up of cannabis art
“We know it is cannabis, and not a palm, due to close-up inspection of the leaves, a technique used to veil Biblical cannabis art around the world among palms, roses, lilies, figs and passionflower leaves,” says Alan Gordon, who serves The Healing Church as canon, or church law advisor.
“We cannot imagine a careless or legitimate placement of chairs over Papal insignias laid out where they are for a specific reason,” says Gordon.
An earlier example of suspicious chair movements related to cannabis art involves two incidents related to the special chair installed for the Sept 2015 visit by Pope Francis himself.
According to Armstrong, the new “nard” (perfume) flower on the Pope’s amended familial ancestral Coat-of-Arms (a design affixed to the Papal Chair) is neither spikenard nor nard lily, but another type of nard entirely -- cannabis -- but, she says, Basilica officials broke tradition for the Pope’s visit and hid the flower design on the back of the chair, despite all prior Popes’ Coats-of-Arm appearing on the front of such chairs.
“I thought it was just me, at first, but when the Basilica actually hid the chair in storage during teen sleepover nights like the March for Life, I knew they were deliberately hiding it, says Armstrong. Armstrong also is deeply troubled by the way the chair is currently arranged secondarily to the chair of Pope Benedict, when the current Pope’s chair should be the centrally-displayed, raised one. Gordon says some Vatican officials also have been caught trying to bury the nature of the Pope’s amended Coat-of Arms (ancient, ancestral family crest), and so suspects a wider conspiracy to shush the truth that Biblical anointing “nard” was the Exodus 30:23 anointing oil ingredient called “kaneh bosim” (KNH BSM) -- cannabis..
Detail of cannabis bud-and-leaf (“nard”) visible on Pope Francis’ chair,
with 2 other versions provided for visual clarity
Armstrong feels the clandestine chair movements are likely the work of a suspected rotten branch of the church who molests children with the help of a corrupted clergy/security/police interface documented in several major US cities, including the Baltimore Diocese where police and church officials stand accused of murdering and covering up the 1970 death of nun Catherine Sesnik.
“Because we caught Basilica and other Catholic Security, in several cities, attempting to deploy unlicensed volunteers to bully people, faking credentials, using fake names, obscuring their IDs, and fabricating criminal reports, any dishonesty in Church security or physical grounds-keeping should probably laid it their feet and not at the feet of honest Catholics,” says Gordon.
Rev. Armstrong takes a more festive, cheery Christian tone about events.
“We’re used to being ‘fake-news’d’ about Catholic Biblical cannabis art, like that time we found cannabis bud designs in the dress of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but all the news said we claimed background “stars” were cannabis, instead,” says Armstrong.
According to Gordon, the Catholic Church, too, has been getting fake-news’d about cannabis, for hundreds of years.
“Dozens of news articles wrongly and universally claim the first ban on cannabis was by 14th century Pope Innocent VIII in a witchcraft ban, but the Pope’s 1484 anti-witchcraft edict not only omits cannabis entirely, but was famously hung on a hemp cord and was called a litterae cum filo canapis, and so can hardly have banned cannabis. Still, the confusion over Papal ban documents (always hung on hemp cord) and a cannabis ban is re-printed by mainstream media, over and over, to this day. Likewise, a comment against State reliance of “sin” taxation of “soft drugs” by the current Pope Francis was said by news media to have targeted cannabis, and yet the Pope’s speech in Italian never mentioned cannabis at all, and instead was a philosophical comment about relying on sin money, not a claim that cannabis was in any way a sin. | <urn:uuid:e79696a6-5f25-498d-9ca0-1ccc19ff98a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thehealingchurchri.com/books/cannabis-row-widens-at-basilica-as-officials-caught-twice-hiding-biblical-cannabis-art | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94727 | 1,251 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Canada’s computer and electronic product manufacturing industry slips in 2012: Survey
April 3, 2013 by Manufacturing AUTOMATION
Profits in Canada’s computer and electronic product manufacturing industry slipped to a nine-year low in 2012. In 2013, the industry is counting on a revival in Blackberry’s fortunes for a rebound in its bottom line, according to the Winter 2013 outlook for the industry, part of the Canadian Industrial Profile.
“The largest company in the Canadian industry, Blackberry, has gone through a major restructuring and its future depends heavily on the success of its new generation of smartphones,” said Michael Burt, director, Industrial Economic Trends. “Early sales and response for the new Blackberry puts the industry on track to achieve our 2013 forecast. In the longer term, the performance of Blackberry will shape the industry as a whole.”
The computer and electronic product manufacturing industry suffered through a difficult 2012. Sales dropped sharply in the middle of 2011 and have yet to recover. Production declined by seven per cent last year. Industry employment fell by more than 8,000, on top of the 15,000 jobs lost in 2011.
These conditions showed up in the industry’s bottom line, in which profits fell from more than $2 billion in 2011 to just $264 million in 2012. In 2013, production and prices are forecast to increase modestly, while costs are expected to decline. As a result, industry profits are forecast to triple to $846 million.
Published by The Conference Board of Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada, the Canadian Industrial Profile-Winter 2013 provides an annual outlook for five Canadian industries: Chemicals, Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing, Non-Metallic Mineral Products, Pharmaceutical Products, and Plastic and Rubber Products.
“Despite only modest economic growth at home and in the U.S., companies in all sectors are choosing to invest in innovative ways to add new products and services to their offerings. They’ve recognized that the best way to stay afloat in this current economic environment it to look for new opportunities and tap into new markets,” said Pierre Cléroux, vice president and chief economist, Business Development Bank of Canada.
The industry is benefiting from an aging population and higher consumer expenditures on drugs – pharmaceuticals have become the second-largest component of health care expenditures in Canada. But there has been almost no price growth in the industry, due to provincial government demands for generic drugs and volume discounts, price controls on patented medications, and the end of patents on some blockbuster drugs. Industry profits have fluctuated substantially in the past few years, and are expected to climb 73 per cent this year to $665 million because of a decline in costs.
A weak price outlook means that industry profits are forecast to fall for the second consecutive year in 2013 to $4 billion. On the bright side, U.S. demand is rising, and the emerging economies—especially China with its large population and industrial base—represent new growth opportunities.
Non-Metallic Mineral Products Industry
Most products in this industry are a form of building material, so construction activity in Canada and the United States is crucial to the outlook. Spending on “institutional and government” construction has fallen for seven quarters in a row, and Canadian housing starts are easing. As a result, the industry is reducing employment and capital investment. U.S. demand, however, will help to boost production slightly and maintain industry profits at about $1.3 billion this year.
Plastic and Rubber Products
Industry profits surged by 63 per cent in 2012, thanks in part to lower crude oil and natural gas prices – key materials for plastic and rubber products. In addition to growth in U.S. demand, manufacturers are getting a boost from emerging markets. Profits are expected to rise by another 32 per cent in 2013 to more than $900 million, and employment is expected to increase for the first time since the recession. | <urn:uuid:81ba22df-61f0-474c-abd9-1889e4c914ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.automationmag.com/3412-canadas-computer-and-electronic-product-manufacturing-industry-slips-in-2012-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942627 | 824 | 1.53125 | 2 |
CWI is the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands and is an institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The institute was founded in 1946 and is located at Science Park Amsterdam. The institute has a strong international position and is renowned for its high quality research. CWI’s strength lies in the discovery and development of new ideas, and the transfer of knowledge to other scientific areas, society at large and trade and industry in particular. Research of CWI is applied for instance in payment systems, cryptography, telecommunications, public transport, smart energy networks and meteorology.
An international network
With 55 permanent research staff, 40 postdocs and 70 PhD students, CWI is a compact institute that lies at the heart of European research in mathematics and computer science. Much of its research is conducted as part of national and international programmes. CWI maintains close contacts with the industry and academic world, both in the Netherlands and abroad. More than half of its permanent research staff is also associated with universities as part-time professors. This research network strengthens CWI’s reputation, acting as a magnet in attracting academic talent. The postdocs and PhD students originate from more than 25 different countries.
A source of pride
CWI was the birthplace of the European internet and registered one of the first country domains in the world, the NL top level domain ‘.nl’. CWI helped developing of the wing for the Fokker Friendship aircraft and was home tot the invention of the popular programming language Python. CWI also applied its research in combinatorial algorithmics to improve the design of the Dutch train timetables. Recent highlights include breaking the MD5 internet security system and research into smart grids to secure our future energy supply. | <urn:uuid:05bc198e-14d5-4899-8fc2-c891da7ce289> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dtls.nl/community/partners/list/centrum-wiskunde-informatica/?src=category | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933651 | 361 | 1.726563 | 2 |
What Some Malls Are Doing To Survive
According to the mall tracking group Green Street Advisors, more than two dozen shopping malls have closed since 2010, and dozens more are on the brink of failing.
Robin Lewis, co-author of “The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World’s Toughest Marketplace,” says that some malls are doing interesting things to stay operating.
He says one example is the Plaza Fiesta mall in Atlanta, Georgia, which has remade itself into a destination for Latino families — offering family events and a Mexican flea market.
Lewis also mentions the South Coast Plaza mall in Costa Mesa, California, which has a wide range of restaurants and activities. He says it has been one of the most sought-after malls by his readers since he started his retail strategy website The Robin Report.
- Robin Lewis, co-author of “The New Rules of Retail” and CEO of The Robin Report. He tweets @robinreport.
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Question 1. Can you list 10 recombinant proteins which are used in medical practice? Find out where they are used as therapeutics (use the internet).
Human insulin – Diabetes
DNase I – Treatment of cystic fibrosis.
Chronic Gonadotropin – Treatment of infertility
Human growth hormone – Dwarfism cure
Calcitonin – Treatment of rickets
TPA (tissue plasminogen activator) – Heart attack/strokes
PDGF (platelet derived growth factor) – Stimulates wound healing.
Interferon (α, β and γ) – Treatment of viral infection and cancer.
Interlinkins – Enhances activity of immune reaction,
Reo Pro – Prevention of blood clots.
Question 2. Make a chart (with diagrammatic representation) showing a restriction enzyme, the substrate DNA on which it acts, the site at which it cuts DNA and the product it produces.
Name of the Restriction enzyme – Bam HI.
The substrate DNA on which it acts –
Question 3. From what you have learnt, can you tell whether enzymes are bigger or DNA is bigger in molecular size? How did you know?
Ans: Even though both DNA and enzymes are macromolecules, DNA is bigger in molecular size as compared to proteins. Because DNA is made up of sugar, phosphate and nitrogenous bases. An enzyme is made up of only proteins, so no complexity of molecules.
Question 4. What would be the molar concentration of human DNA in a human cell? Consult your teacher.
Ans: The molar concentration of DNA in human cell is 2.77 x 1023 moles of cell extract.
Question 5. Do eukaryotic cells have restriction endonucleases? Justify your answer.
Ans: Eukaryotic cells have no restriction enzymes as the DNA molecules of eukaryotes are heavily methylated. All the restriction endonucleases have been isolated from various strain of bacteria.
Question 6. Besides better aeration and mixing properties, what other advantages do stirred-tank bioreactors have over shake flasks?
Ans: Shake flasks are used for growing and mixing the desired materials on a small scale in the laboratory. A large-scale production of desired biotechnological product is done by using ‘bioreactors’. Besides better aeration and mixing properties, the bioreactors have following advantages;
Stirred-tank bioreactor facilitate temperature control system, pH control system, foam control system.
It has sampling ports to obtain small volumes of cultures periodically from die reactor for sampling.
Facilitates even mixing and oxygen availability throughout the bioreactor.
Question 7. Collect 5 examples of palindromic DNA sequences by consulting your teacher. Better try to create a palindromic sequence by following base-pair rules.
Palindrome nucleotide sequences in the DNA molecule are groups of bases that form the same sequence when read both forward and backward. Five examples of palindromic DNA sequences are as follows:
Question 8. Can you recall meiosis and indicate at what stage a recombinant DNA is made?
Ans: Recombinant DNA occurs during pachytene stage of prophase of meiosis I by between non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosome.
Question 9. Can you think and answer how a reporter enzyme can be used to monitor transformation of host cells by foreign DNA in addition to a selectable marker?
Ans: A reporter enzyme can be used to differentiate transformed cells by tracking down the activity of its co-responding genes (receptor gene). For e.g., (3-galactosidase (Lac Z) activity is not found in transformed cells so that they appear white in colour. The others, which appear blue in colour, indicate that cells do not carry foreign DNA.
Question 10. Describe briefly the followings:
a. Origin of replication
c. Downstream processing
a. Ori: This is a sequence from where replication starts and any piece of DNA when linked to this sequence can be made to replicate within the host cells. This sequence is also responsible for controlling the copy number of the linked DNA.
b. Bioreactors: Bioreactors are vessels of large volumes (100-1000 litres) in which raw materials are biologically converted into specific products.
It provides all the optimal conditions for achieving the desired product by providing optimal growth conditions like temperature, pH, substrate, salt, vitamins and oxygen.
Bioreactor has the following components: An agitator system, An oxygen delivery system, Foam control system, Temperature control system, pH control system, Sampling ports to withdraw cultures periodically.
c. Downstream processing: The product obtained is subjected to a series, of processes collectively called downstream processing before it is made into a finished product ready for marketing. The two main processes are separation and purification. The product is then formulated with suitable preservatives. Such formulations have to undergo clinical trials, in case of drugs.
Question 11. Explain briefly
b. Restriction enzymes and DNA
a. PCR: It stands for polymerase chain reaction, it’s a method of amplification of small segments of DNA.
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A 10-Point Plan for (Without Being Overwhelmed)
Dental Take Care Of Low-Income People
If you have a high-deductible health insurance strategy, you might get approved for Medicaid took care of care. This program gives clinical as well as dental benefits to low-income people. In many cases, people have to satisfy particular needs in order to be eligible for Medicaid. Many states cover only emergency oral solutions, but some also cover much more detailed treatment. Most individuals under 21 are eligible for Medicaid. If you are a kid, CHIP can aid you obtain oral look after your kid. The solutions you can obtain under CHIP will depend on your state’s CHIP eligibility requirements. Most dental plans cover preventative treatment. This type of treatment entails everyday actions such as cleaning, flossing, and also preserving a healthy diet regimen. Most insurance coverage strategies cover preventive oral services 100%. They require little out-of-pocket expense and do not count versus annual maximums. It is essential to know which sorts of solutions your strategy covers before you visit the dental practitioner. These solutions are important to your dental wellness. You must understand the kinds of services you’ll require. There are various levels of preventative treatment. Preventive treatment concentrates on excellent dental hygiene and also healthy behaviors. It also identifies oral health problems early, giving your dental expert adequate time to treat them. Standard dental care solutions, on the various other hand, primarily concentrate on removing teeth, aren’t covered by insurance policy. Rather, they are considered fundamental dental care. Yet, some kinds of precautionary care are still necessary to maintain a healthy and balanced smile. Dental treatment is an important part of overall wellness. In addition to impacting nourishment as well as food digestion, dental wellness influences your look, self-confidence, and everyday comfort. Taking the necessary steps to safeguard your teeth will certainly aid you live a longer, healthier life. And also there are numerous programs that can help you obtain your teeth looking their ideal. There’s no reason not to take the actions you require to maintain a stunning smile. You can take the correct steps to preserve your dental wellness. Your state wellness division may have programs to offer free or affordable oral care. Get in touch with your state and neighborhood health departments to get more information regarding these programs. You can likewise speak to the United Means chapter in your location to see if they have any programs in your location. These organizations are frequently able to direct you to a dental expert that can give the right solutions. It is necessary to get oral take care of your children at the appropriate age. Whether your child is young or old, you require to deal with your dental health and wellness. A dentist can also do preventative dental care solutions. These procedures are an integral part of overall wellness. Your oral wellness can affect your nourishment, digestion, and also appearance, as well as your self-confidence. You must visit a dental expert regularly to ensure you have a strong and healthy smile. This way, your dentist can stay clear of troubles that can result in toothaches as well as gum tissue disease. Even more, your oral health will certainly be boosted. There are many benefits to obtaining dental care. | <urn:uuid:ed44e118-11ed-4b89-bbbe-b1d9aae5dadf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://coldlasertherapy.us/a-10-point-plan-for-without-being-overwhelmed-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956664 | 660 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The other night, I was heavy in thought as I began pondering the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Gary Johnson and a number of his supporters say they support TPP because it advances “free trade.” So I began to think about this more from an economic and philosophical perspective.
To begin my thought process, I asked myself what trade was. Trade is the exchange of goods and services. Further more, I realized that trade is not free, and for an interaction to be considered trade, it must be voluntary. If I want to trade with Joe, but Bob lives between us, we have no right to pass through Bob’s property without his consent. However, Bob would have the incentive to set a fee for us to use his land to trade, so that he may profit.
So there is a cost for trade. But should Bob be coerced into letting Joe and I use his land to trade, it is no longer voluntary, therefore it is no longer trade. Coercing Bob into letting us trade also interferes with market forces. There would be an incentive for landowners to allow people to use their land to trade, knowing they would accrue a profit from doing so. Therefore, there is a marketable demand for allowing people to get together to trade.
The Microeconomic Impact of Trade Deals
If Bob does not want to let Joe and I pass through his land to trade, it now becomes profitable for our neighbor Jack to let us pass through his land for a small fee instead. When Bob sees the opportunity cost he gave up for initially telling us to trade elsewhere, Bob may eventually change his mind and undercut Jack’s prices. And our neighbor John may end up wanting to let us pass through his land for free, so long as he can pass through our land as well.
If the state had intervened and coerced Bob into letting us pass through his property to trade, none of this innovation would have happened, and our genuine consumer demand would have been destroyed. Because of this, resources are misallocated, Jack and John’s potential profits are destroyed, and economic bubbles are created. Additionally, Bob’s property rights would have been violated, since no one has the right to dictate what he must do with his land.
When the state steps in and steals land from people to use as a common means for transportation and trade, this heavily interferes with market indicators, and violates people’s rights. Trade is never free, and has a market of its own. But because of the government’s interventions, we fail to see this.
The Macroeconomic Impact of Trade Deals
Understanding trade from a microeconomic level is imperative, if we want to understand how trade deals will affect the economy on a macro level. If compelling a single landowner to allow two individuals to trade is damaging to the economy, what would happen if states were compelled to trade?
Let’s say that New Jersey and Ohio wanted to trade, but Pennsylvania didn’t want to let them. Should the Federal Government coerce Pennsylvania into allowing the two states to trade? Advocates of free trade deals would say yes, and would argue that Pennsylvania is harming the economy. But by coercing Pennsylvania into allowing trade, they would actually be the ones harming the national economy.
If Pennsylvania said no to trade, it would then become profitable for West Virginia and Maryland to let Ohio and New Jersey trade. Pennsylvania would see the opportunity cost it gave up, and would then be inclined to allow trade, and innovate its services so that New Jersey and Ohio choose to go through their state instead of West Virginia and Maryland.
To force Pennsylvania to allow Ohio and New Jersey to trade is to centrally plan the economy. And as we know, central planning does not work, since interfering with the signals people depend upon for accurate economic planning suppresses naturally arising prices, and supplants it with artificial ones.
The Impact of Trade Deals on the Global Economy
Let’s take this logic one step further, to see what effect a trade deal would have over the global economy. Gary Johnson says he supports TPP because it advances free trade. Meanwhile, Ron Paul warns us that it comes at the expense of an illegal transfer of power, which takes regulatory power away from the US Federal Government and passes it off to global governments and corporations. If the United Nations and WTO compel nations to trade against their will, how can this be a good thing?
If interfering with market indicators on the micro level damages the economy and violates people’s rights, how is this any different on the macro level? If central planning doesn’t work for a state, why will it work for a nation? If it doesn’t work for a nation, why will it work for the entire world?
Supporters of free trade deals say it will work, but the principles of economics tell us otherwise. Central planning has absolutely nothing to do with trade, and proponents of deals such as TPP should stop branding it as “free trade.”
Free trade deals are entirely oxymoronic. They are passed under the guise of boosting the global economy, but since they destroy market indicators, they will actually destroy the economy. Resources will be severely misallocated, and economic bubbles of colossal proportions will be inflated to the point of no return.
As long as governments exist, decision-making should be decentralized, and steer away from the trend of centralization, instead of towards it, as these trade deals do. Centralization takes power away from the individual, while decentralization restores it. The economy will prosper most when individuals are able to make decisions for themselves, free of coercion. Until we get to a free society, the economy will prosper most when nations are able to make decisions for themselves, free of coercion from the United Nations and WTO.
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Allergic Rhinitis, more commonly known as hay fever, is an allergic reaction that causes cold-like symptoms. If you have ever experienced hay fever, I’m sure you are no stranger to the runny nose, burning itching eyes, congestion, constant sneezing, and sinus pressure.
This can become incredibly irritating since the reaction comes from dust mites and pollen which are pretty hard to avoid.
Especially since they can easily cling to many other things like tiny flecks of skin, saliva, your pet’s hair, and your clothes.
So more often than not you’ll bring the offender back into your home and it can seem impossible to get a little relief.
And besides just generally making your day that little bit worse, it can also affect your performance with school, college, or work as well as just interfering with any plans that you might have.
But it doesn’t always have to be this way, in this article we will go over the symptoms and causes of seasonal allergies in hope that you can find the right treatment and get back to your day without the stress of hay fever.
Symptoms Of Hay Fever
- Nasal congestion and a runny nose
- Painful eyes which may be watery, itchy, or burning
- Itchy nose, throat, and mouth
- Swollen, blue-colored skin under the eyes
- Postnasal drip
As you will probably notice, hay fever often seems to get a lot worse once we hit Spring and move into Summer but it can be triggered all year round. There are many seasonal factors that cause this and these include:
- Tree pollen is more common during the beginning of Spring
- Grass pollen is very common during late spring and early summer
- Ragweed pollen is common during the fall.
- Dust mites, dander, and cockroaches can trigger your allergies all year round, but dander tends to be worse during the winter when the house is more closed.
- Spores from molds can be both seasonal and perennial and so can be triggering all year round, but they will be more profound during the summer.
When To See A Doctor?
Many people eventually learn to just live with hay fever symptoms, however, there are a few cases where you should seek medical attention.
- If you have constant symptoms and never seem to get any relief
- Allergy medications don’t offer any relief
- You have pre-existing conditions that worsen your symptoms such as asthma.
If you have hay fever, the way your immune system reacts to pollen and dust mites and such is not as it should. Basically, your immune system perceives these harmless substances as very harmful.
Your immune system then produces antibodies for this substance. Then every time you come into contact with these substances after this, these antibodies send signals to your immune system to produce chemicals such as histamine.
The histamine in your blood is what causes the reaction and creates hay fever symptoms.
There are a few factors that can increase your likelihood of developing hay fever these include:
- Having pre-existing allergies
- Having asthma
- If you have a blood relative who already suffers from allergies
- If you have a blood relative who already suffers from asthma
- Living/working in environments with constant allergen triggers such as animal dander and dust mites
- Having a mother who smoked during your first year of life
There are a few problems that you may encounter that are related to hay fever. These include:
- Reduced Quality Of Life – Hay fever symptoms can be very hard to ignore and can ruin enjoyable moments. It can even lead to absences from school or work if the symptoms are very severe.
- Poor Sleep – Hay fever can make it quite difficult to fall asleep at night, especially when symptoms can feel worse during the night. A lack of sleep can cause its own host of complications but mainly causes you to feel very fatigued and unwell.
- It Can Worsen Your Asthma – If you already suffer from asthma, hay fever can really agitate symptoms such as coughing and wheezing.
- You Can Develop Sinusitis – If you suffer from long-term sinus congestion from hay fever it can make you a lot more susceptible to sinusitis. This is an inflammation or infection in the membrane that lines your sinuses.
- Can Cause Ear Infections – This is more prevalent in young children. Hay fever can cause an ear infection known as otitis media.
Unfortunately, there is no real way to ensure that you can completely avoid hay fever. Trying to constantly avoid dust mites or pollen is near impossible but there are things you can do to lessen your symptoms.
Taking allergy medication, and avoiding possible triggers will help.
If the symptoms still persist, seek medical advice from a professional.
Hay fever can be really annoying for people who suffer from it. But knowing the triggers that cause it can be half the battle.
While pollen may not be avoidable, there are ways to try and reduce the amount you come into contact with.
Keep washing your hands to avoid spreading pollen or dust mites. Change your clothes too once you come home so that you’re away from pollen that may have collected on your clothes throughout the day.
Fresh bed sheets will also relieve symptoms at night.
It is important to not ignore persistent hay fever symptoms where there is absolutely no relief as this can develop into worse illnesses.
Seek medical attention from a medical professional if this is the case as they may be able to prescribe something to help you.
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Table of Contents
- Why Is MLS Vital?
- What Is The Purpose Of A Multiple Listing Service?
- The Six Benefits Of MLS In The Real Estate Industry
- The Bottom Line
Multiple listing services or MLS is a database established by a group of brokers meant to ease work in real estate. It can be seen as a great way to find clients, increase business, and reach out to every buyer in the market that may want your property. Today, almost every real estate agent uses MLSs.
Why Is MLS Vital?
An MLS stands for a Multiple Listing Service. The real estate MLS is excellent for sellers and buyers, as it provides a centralized place to list their properties, understand how many people are viewing the property, and track how many have called wanting to buy and rent.
What Is The Purpose Of A Multiple Listing Service?
A multiple listing service allows you to publish your properties on one single website. It helps you reach out to more potential clients because you can publish the same information on all websites, and it will look the same across all of them.
It also helps track who is viewing your properties and whether they have called or sent an email about looking at them. This article will go into more detail about why the MLS is beneficial and of high necessity for any real estate agent.
The Six Benefits Of MLS In The Real Estate Industry
1. Reach A Lot Of Clients At The Same Time
It is also a great way to track how many people view your properties, how many people have lined up to view them, and whether they have contacted the office. The MLS will also help you determine how many of your properties are on the market and their price ranges. It will offer valuable information that will make your job easier.
2. Keep Tabs On All Potential Buyers
It is also a great way to see who has been looking at your property, which is an excellent marketing strategy. It will tell you how many people have been interested in purchasing it at different times and days of the week. In addition, you will be able to monitor what is interesting about your proposal and what has to be changed.
3. Filter Through Your Competition
You can use this place to tell people what your properties are going for, if you have any promotions, if you are willing to negotiate, or if you will pay closing costs. It also allows buyers to search for homes by property type, price range, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and other criteria they will be looking for in a property. All this information will make you stand out as a real estate agent among your peers.
4. Save Costs On The Marketing Department
One of the most significant advantages of using an MLS is that it helps you reach out to more clients without investing a lot of money in online marketing such as Google Adwords or Facebook Ads. MLS is the new way to market your properties for a lot less cost with more results.
5. Easier For Prospective Buyers To Reach You
It is a great advantage because not only will you be able to reach out to more clients, but buyers will already have all the information they need about your property and all of the other properties you have for sale. They can even research the area and find out what their commute is like or their children’s schools` ranking.
6. A Time-Saving Service For You
The MLS also saves you time because all the information you need to provide to potential clients will already be available on one website. You will not have to spend time explaining everything about the property and what your properties are going for because all that information will already be available. It will allow you to spend time finding more potential clients and talking to them about purchasing your properties.
The Bottom Line
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ESU are the "Efficient Systems of Utility", or systems of production and power consumption which connect directly the producer and the final consumer. This is their main advantage.
This new capability is convenient for those who want to make photovoltaic systems without their own consumption (and of course without incentives, which ended in 2013).
Because ESU are convenient? Because are systems in which PV directly supplying companies, factories, energy-intensive facilities, etc ... "without obligation to connect third parties." That is, if the manufacturer first sold to the GSE (the Electricity Services Operator) and GSE selling purchased energy in the electricity market generally, now the producer can sell directly to the consumer (usually large companies), with the advantage of bypassing the network, intermediaries and some of their operating costs.
So: eliminating an intermediary, the ESU has agreed to the manufacturer, who sells power directly to its customers, both consumer who buys directly from the manufacturer at an affordable price.
ESU systems are designed to facilitate and encourage self-directed and self-consumption on-site energy produced from renewable sources. There is no mention here of domestic plants in home environments, on the roof of the house, but large ground-mounted systems whose production is conveyed directly to major users (factories, energy-intensive companies, etc ..) that can buy energy directly produced on site without going through the power grid. It 's a system designed to promote self-sufficiency and to facilitate local energy distributed generation.
Why should an ESU agreed manufacturer and end user
First to understand what and why should an ESU agreed both the producer and the final consumer of energy, let's see some data on the cost of electricity in Italy.
According to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance the Italian electricity costs an average of about 0.25 to 0.30 dollars per kwh.
The energy price that we pay in the bill, however, is not the actual price of electricity produced and sold in Italy. With the current electric bill, in fact, we pay essentially four main cost items. Not only the actual energy drawn from the grid, but also: network services, system costs and fee.
The former includes the prices of transport, distribution and measurement of electricity. The seconds are fixed or proportional costs to fuel consumption, required by law and to finance some incentives, reconstruction and upgrading of the overall energy system. The third ones, fee, including duty, VAT, etc ..
All of this produce a doubling of costs of electricity in the bill respect its actual market price.
In the traditional electricity bill 45% of the cost is related to the transmission, distribution, dispatching, taxes, fees, etc ....
Only 55% is actually represented by the cost of electricity
An ESU can be formed by the same entity that produces and consumes energy self-produced. Or it can be constituted by two different entities: one that produces and the other that consumes the energy produced on site.
In the first case the holder invests capital that will be amortize over time. In the second case, the producer is responsible for "making the investment" and then sell the energy produced to the end user.
What are the benefits for the producer
An ESU agrees to the manufacturer because it is able to sell the energy produced with solar directly to the end user and at a higher price than the wholesale market.
The economic value of the energy sold directly to the customer is in fact greater than what would be the price of withdrawal by a wholesaler.
In this case, the instantaneous consumption is convenience both for manufacturer and the end customer and, by entering into a long-term contract between producer and consumer, the owner of the plant has the ability to sell over the years all services related in some way to the electrical system (the technical term "cross-selling" and "integrated").
What are the benefits for the end user
An ESU agree to the end user because it can buy electricity at prices below the market prices: the gross cost of the energy is made between 0.25 and 0.28 euro per kWh. Constituting an ESU a business owner can lower your energy bill immediately and without any investment in terms of resources and time. | <urn:uuid:d4d335c2-cd63-413e-9ad4-8f94fc8acdbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sinergi.eu/moduli/news/site/news_dett.php?titolo=ESU-Efficient-Systems-of-Utility&idn=31&lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95682 | 867 | 2.859375 | 3 |
MAIN POINTS FOR GOOD SKINNING
-Correct Joint Placement
-Using A Range Of Motion
-Smooth Bind (options)
-Holding skin Weights (lock unlock)
THE BIND SKELETON
We teach a method that binds our model to the skeleton early and we build the rig separately. Often animators will build the skeleton and rig only bind at the last stage. This can cause problems while finally testing the mesh deformations only to find that something needs to be changed.
So instead our method goes like this…
1. Create the characters joint hierarchy
2. Bind The skin
3. Test the poses/deformation with keyframe animation
4. Build the rigs controls and constrain the skeleton last.
This method simplifies things and allows us to test our skin weights and deformations as early as possible. Also steps 3 and 4 can be made in parallell and by different people.
PREPARING THE SKELETON
Before the bind we must
1. Place pivots of joints placed in good locations.
2. make sure halfway joints are placed for twist
3. make sure joints have zeroed rotation values at the default pose.
4. check Local Rotation Axis for all joints.
These can be found in the joints section.
Range of Motion
We animate each part of the skeleton individually to test all the posing, this animation is called Range of Motion or ROM.
Create one long animation with all variations of each joint’s movements every 10 frames. Your animation might be roughly 1000 frames long depending on the number of joints.
BINDING THE MESH TO THE SKELETON
We usually “Smooth Bind” the model to joints. There’s lots of options in the “smooth bind” options box.
Animation menu > Skin > Bind skin > Smooth bind (options)
We can change a couple of the smooth bind settings. Good starting values are…
SMOOTH BIND OPTIONS
Bind to: Change to… Selected Joints (select the joints using a “quick select set” to save extra joints from being skinned)
Bind Method: Change to… Heat Map (a smart algorithm that does a great default job) ****note this doesn’t work on many meshes, if erros use “closest distance” buggy maya (sigh)
Skinning Method: Classic Linear (default is fine)
Normalise Weights: Change to… Interactive (skin weights will automatically add up to 1, never more or less. Post ignores this.
Rest can be defaults…
Allow multiple bind poses: yes
Max Influences: 5
Maintain max influences: Yes
Dropoff Rate: 4.0
Remove unused influences: Yes
Colorize Skeleton: Yes
Heat Map falloff: 0.00 (is fine) but .68 is a value recommended if you get the non manifold error and you are sure you don’t have non manifold geometry. Though I’ve still found lots of problems.
**Experiment with some of these values: Max influences, Dropoff rate and Heat Map falloff to see if different results work well.
**** Heat map only works when the bones are inside the mesh. Also if you ever experience a non manifold error and your mesh is fine, a Heat Map Falloff of setting of over might .5 fixe the problem, try .68 recommended by Autodesk guys. If still errors use closest distance.
ADJUSTING VERTEX SKIN WEIGHTS
It’s good to get a good skin bind on your mesh. Extra techniques are used later to get the mesh to deform properly. Corrective blend shapes, muscles and deformers etc. Corrective blend shapes is the method I prefer to teach.
95% of the deformation can be solved with good mesh topology and weighting. So get this right and the rest will be much less hassle.
Once a mesh is bound there’s 2 methods to adjust the weighting…
1. Component editor (numerical values)
2. Painting Weights
COMPONENT EDITOR NOTES
Window > General Editors > Component Editor > Smooth Skins (tab)
The numbers in each column are the weights.
If you’ve used interactive blend in the Smooth Bind Options…
Normalise Weights: Change to… Interactive
Then these numbers will always add to one.
The component editor is very good for numerically over riding joint weighting or manually assigning joints to 100% of a single joint.
To Show All Joints
In the editor go to the Options Menu at the top
Options > Hide Zero Columns (Off)
To Hide Unused Joints
Options > Hide Zero Columns (on)
See the Advanced section on this page for more notes on the Component Editor.
PAINT WEIGHT NOTES
Right Click (over the bound object) > Paint Skin Weights Tool
1. Select the mesh you wish to modify the weighting on.
2. (Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Paint Skin Weights Tool (options)
This will bring up all the tool options.
Right Click in 3d View
You can use a lot of functionality with the right click in the 3d view while over each joint.
To colorize the joint weights press
– Go to the Gradient section
– click use color ramp
It’s best to try and always add to the weights while painting for each joint.
Replacing by taking away values is prone to error because Maya is automatically reassigning the weights. See advanced section for more on this.
To paint weights
– Select a joint in the Influence section.
– Set Mode to “Paint”
– Set Paint Operation to Add
– Set your opacity to what you like
– Set your value to 1
holding Skin Weights
This is a very important step that I don’t have a video for yet. Use the lock and unlock joints functionality in the paint weights window.
By locking all the joints other than the 2-3 joints we are weighting we can be sure weights don’t get reassigned in unwanted places. In the component editor this is the “hold” attribute.
Here’s a page that clearly explains how this works with mayas weighting.
Set the Paint operation to “smooth”
Set the Paint operation to “replace”
Set the Value to 0
Paint on the mesh *Note this can cause unexpected results. Lock all the joints except for the 2-3 joints you’re working with otherwise random verts can be assigned to random joints.
Some advanced tools require selecting individual vertices
To Select Vertices
Mode: Select or Paint Select
MIRRORING SKIN WEIGHTING
Make sure you’re at the default bind pose, defaults will work well if copying character L to R
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Mirror Skin Weights (options)
Default Settings hardly ever work so switch to
Mirror Across: YZ
Surface Association: Raycast
Influence Association 1: One To One
TRANSFERRING/COPYING SKIN WEIGHTS
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Copy Skin Weights
1. Keep the old mesh bound to the joints
2. Bind the new mesh to the joints doesn’t matter what skinning, you’ll have two meshes the old and the new.
3. Select the old mesh (source), then select the new (destination).
4. Open the Copy Skin Weights Tool
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Copy Skin Weights (options)
Tweak the settings as desired.
SAVING SKIN WEIGHTS TO A FILE
To save the skin weights to a external file based on a UV map…
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Export Skin Weights Map (options)
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Import Skin Weights Map
There’s also what seems to be a nice free plugin for copying skin weights here. though I haven’t tested fully.
ADDING EXTRA JOINTS TO A SKINNED MESH
Select the joints you wish to add and the mesh then
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Add influence (options)
Geometry: Change to… Not ticked
Weight Locking: Change to… locked weights ticked on
All other values can be anything because we’re not assigning any default weights. We’ll paint them later.
To assign the weights…
1. Select the mesh only
2. Open the paint weights tool
(Animation Menu) > Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Paint Weights Skin Tool (options)
3. Unlock the joint
In the tool options window navigate to the joint/s you’ve just added. Click the unlock icon.
4. paint skin weights as you please.
TWEAKING JOINT PLACEMENT AFTER SKINNING
You can easily move joints placement after skinning. Simply use the Move Skinned Joints Tool.
Window > General Editors > Component Editor > Move Skinned Joints Tool (options box)
TWEAKING JOINT ORIENTATIONS/SCALE AFTER SKINNING
If after skinning you notice some joints have been badly oriented and you need to fix there’s a couple of ways to fix.
1. Unbind those joints, fix them and then rebind. Easy to do but will have to re weight the joints we’re fixing.
Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Detach the ear joints fix them and rebind them later with Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > add influence. Set the weights to zero when you do and do from scratch.
2. Export all your weight maps. Unbind, fix, rebind and then import all the weight maps back. Can be used with the method above and we must have our objects correctly UV’d.
Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > Export Skin Weight Maps. Unbind and fix the joints, rebind and Skin > Edit Smooth Skin > import skin weight maps. This will only work if UVs are correctly assigned to your mesh.
This section was created to supplement the above material.
The component editor is widely used by the pros in skinning but is mentioned rarely in tutorials mostly because it looks too technical. In practice the component editor is extremely helpful when it comes to skinning and riggers may find themselves 70% in the component editor and 30% in the paint weights tool. Used together both these methods can yield great results.
The component editor can look overwhelming but with a few tricks and workflow methods will see how powerful it can be.
How Maya Re-assigns Skin Weights
The “interactive” bind method under Smooth Bind Settings means vertex weights will always equal 1. If we take skinning value from our verts weights (replace with low values in the paint weights tool) Maya needs to reassign the values to other joints automatically.
Maya’s not smart when it does this. I’ve found the paint weights tool to give particularly surprising results when reassigning vertices, sometimes reassigning weights to joints that might be at the opposite end of the body.
See this page for more info about this.
The component editor clearly shows how maya automatically reassigns weighting.
Detaching Joints from the Skin Binding
While starting our characters it’s wise to remove any joints that aren’t needed. This often includes null joints that sit at the end of chains. Or in the case of a spine with too many segments we can unassign joints that may clutter up our workflow.
To give a visual representation of joints that have been removed from our binding we can make them very small in the attribute editor.
An alternative method is to select the joints you wish to bind leaving out all the joints that aren’t needed. Create a selection set and bind using “selected joints”
HANDY WEIGHTING TRICKS
Pro Tip No 1: Using “Hide Zero Columns” in the Component Editor
Pro Tip No 2: Unhide Hidden Columns
Pro Tip No 3: Using hold in the Component Editor
Pro Tip No 4: Use Edge Loop Select Techniques
Pro Tip No 5: Use Grow Selection For Difficult Areas.
Pro Tip No 6: Use Extreme Range Of Motion
Use extreme Range Of Motion animation to tweak verts more accurately using the paint weights tool
Pro Tip No 7: Isolate Select
Use Isolate Selection to weight hard to reach areas.
Here’s a practical example of using the component editor to weight the fingers.
VIDEOS TO DO
1. Locking and Unlocking Weights in the Paint Weights Editor
2. Using non = 1 (non interactive methods for skinning)
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Swimmer’s ear is a condition that can occur when water gets trapped in the ear canal. This can happen after swimming, showering, or any other activity that causes water to get in your ears. Swimmer’s ear is a common problem, and it can be treated easily with the help of an ENT specialist. In this blog post, we will explain everything you need to know about swimmer’s ear!
What is Swimmer’s Ear?
Swimmer’s ear (otitis externa) is caused by a bacterial or fungal infection in the outer ear canal. The outer ear canal is the part of the ear that extends from the outside of the head to the eardrum.
The condition is called swimmer’s ear because it often occurs in people who swim a lot. Swimmer’s ear can also occur in people who shower a lot, or any other person who gets water in their ears. Swimmer’s ear can occur when water becomes trapped within the outer ear canal. This also traps germs and can lead to infection and irritation of the outer ear canal.
The symptoms of swimmer’s ear include:
- pain (especially when touching the ear lobe)
- redness in the ear
- drainage from the ear (pus or something with a strong smell)
- muffled hearing or hearing loss
- swollen glands in the neck
- plugged-up feeling in the ear
If you think you might have swimmer’s ear, it is important to see an ENT specialist. ENT specialists can prescribe medication to treat swimmer’s ear. They can also provide tips on how to prevent swimmer’s ear in the future.
ENTs can diagnose swimmer’s ear by looking at the symptoms and asking about your recent activities. They may also do a hearing test or look at the drainage from the ear to check for infection. In some cases, they may perform an ear drainage culture. This is a test in which a small sample of pus is taken from the ear and sent to a laboratory for analysis. This helps to determine if the cause of the infection is bacterial or fungal, and it can affect they type of medication needed for treatment.
ENTs can also prescribe medication to treat swimmer’s ear. The most common type of medication is an antibiotic ear drop. These are used to kill the bacteria that are causing the infection. Antibiotic ear drops may need to be used for seven days or more. In some cases, a prescription oral antibiotic may be needed.
How to Alleviate Swimmer’s Ear Pain
If you have swimmer’s ear, there are a few things you can do at home to help relieve the symptoms:
- Keep your ears dry: This means that you should not swim until the infection has cleared up. You should also avoid showering or getting water in your ears. To help keep your ears dry, you can use a swimming cap or earplugs.
- You can try placing a warm, wet cloth on your ear or using over-the-counter pain medication to alleviate excess discomfort.
- Be sure to follow your ENTs directions regarding medications and ear drops.
In this blog post, we explained everything you need to know about swimmer’s ear. Swimmer’s ear is a common condition that can be treated easily by an ENT specialist. If you think you might have swimmer’s ear, or if home treatment is not working, it is important to see an ENT specialist. ENT specialists can prescribe medication to treat swimmer’s ear. They can also provide tips on how to prevent swimmer’s ear in the future.
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This page is designed to answer the following questions:
- 1.1 Critically review approaches to outcome-based practice (Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care, Facilitate Support Planning to Ensure Positive Outcomes for Individuals and to Support Well-Being)
NOTE: Although this page has been marked as complete, it has not yet been peer-reviewed or quality-assured, therefore it should be considered a ‘first draft‘ and any information should be fact-checked independently.
For this assessment criterion, you will be required to critically review approaches to outcome-based practice.
Outcome-based practice is used to ensure that care and support services result in outcomes that are important for the service user. For example, two individuals with Down’s Syndrome may, on the surface appear to have similar needs in terms of their care and support. However, by getting to know the individuals and having a genuine interest in their wishes, goals and aspirations, we will find that the outcomes that are important to them are different (e.g. one individual may wish to be supported to achieve a college qualification, whilst the other wishes to be able to cook their own meals).
By focusing on what is important to the individual, we can ensure that care and support services are tailored to the individual’s unique needs, wishes and preferences. Therefore, this ties in with the personalisation agenda and promotes person-centred values.
Some approaches to outcome-based practice are provided below:
On this page
Outcomes-based payment for mental healthcare
In 2015, the government proposed an outcome-based payment model for mental healthcare that incentivised service providers by offering additional payments on the achievement of outcomes that are meaningful to service users.
The logic model
A Logic Model is a graphical representation of the inputs, actions, outputs and outcomes of a project or workflow to show how the resources that are invested link with the required results. It is a useful planning tool and it helps to ensure that outcomes that are meaningful to the service user remain in focus.
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By Jeri Ballard —
Is eating the area where Christians have trouble with self-control? There are fellowship dinners and snacks at Bible studies. We may not go to the bar to drain alcoholic beverages, but we go to the restaurant and knock back the extra fries and milkshakes. It’s not a beer belly; it’s a potluck paunch.
Extra pounds around the waist or on the thighs are more often carried to church than Bibles. In fact, one pastor in Guatemala teased a slim colleague, Pastor sin panza no da confianza, which translated means: A pastor without a paunch doesn’t inspire confidence (it’s mirthful in Spanish because it rhymes).
But while there is a disturbing trend in Christianity toward obesity, there is a new generation of shepherds who are saying no to the second helping of shepherd’s pie.
Take Steve Reynolds for example. The way he sees it, he was “trashing” his temple of the Holy Spirit (his body), according to US News & World Report. The pastor of Capital Baptist Church in Annandale, Virginia weighed 340 pounds.
While Reynolds never pumped iron, he downed a tub of ice cream each night. While he circumvented cardio, he crammed carbs.
As a result, doctors ordered him to take eight separate medications to stave off diabetes and other disorders. At some point, Reynolds had an epiphany.
“I’m looking forward to heaven,” came the flash, “but I’m not ready to get there yet.”
Reynolds had to upend some bad habits. He started an exercise regime and began a diet inspired by the Bible. It turns out the Holy Writ has much to say about healthy living, but he hadn’t noticed previously. By searching the word “body” in his concordance, he found some inspired guidance.
Health Fitness Revolution unearthed stats to back up Reynolds’ claim: A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups, led by the Baptists with a 30% obesity rate. A 2011 Northwestern University study tracking 3,433 men and women for 18 years found that young adults who attend church or a bible study once a week are 50% likelier beobese.
Jesus “could walk 40 miles, not in Reeboks but in leather sandals,” Reynolds wrote in his book. “Yet His followers on this planet are unhealthy, overweight, sedentary couch potatoes.”
As a result of the regimen developed by Reynolds, he dropped 100 pounds and no longer needed the medications. His findings and testimony were published in his book Bod4God.
“We believe our bodies are very important to our faith,” says Scott Roberts, head of William Jessup University’s kinesiology department, where faith-based fitness courses are offered.
If 1 Timothy 4:7 says, “Bodily exercise profiteth little” to highlight spiritual health, nevertheless the verse does says that there is value in physical health. The purpose is not to counter pose bad/good, but to compare good/better.
In 2014, Health Fitness Revolution named the top 10 fittest pastors. Joel Osteen topped the list for his enviable six pack.
Scott Bennefield was also featured as the “Iron Man Pastor.” Prior to 1991, he never gave much thought to fitness. But then he decided he’d better start running for exercise. He progressed and amplified his goals: at age 43, the pastor of the New Covenant Church in New Mexico competed in his first Iron Man competition and completed six more by time of publication.
Chuck Bernal, pastor of the LifePointe Church in Crowley, Texas, also earned an honorable mention. Through diet and exercise, he slimmed down from 367 pounds to a fit 226.
Mega-church Pastor Rick Warren joined the list. His introduction to health came by way of baptizing 858 people. Two-thirds of the way through dunking disciples, his arms grew tired. And he noticed the excess water displacement by the obese — including himself. Consequently, he lost 30 pounds.
Today, there are Christian diet plans, apps, tapes, exercise routines — all of which motivate through the Word of God for the goal of fitness. Exercising has become as important to some as healthy eating.
Monsignor Rick Hillgartner hits the gym regularly. “If I take seriously being a good steward of the gift God has given me — the gift of myself, my body, who I am as an instrument for the Lord — then I need to take care of that,” he says.
Dr. Lawrence Czer, a Christian Los Angeles cardiologist who heads Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Heart transplant program, points out that the Old Testament custom of the priest cutting the fat off red meat made it leaner and healthier to eat. The Pentateuch knew it before modern science, a fact that should surprise no one.
There are healthier ways to prepare food, such as steaming food instead of frying. Avoiding processed foods — which alter God’s natural design with chemicals and factory processes — can also help.
Suzanne Leffler of Williamsburg, Virginia attends aerobics classes in her church. The group follows an international program called Body & Soul Fitness, which designs exercise routines to praise and worship music.
“My strength is renewed whenever I go to Body & Soul; I can listen to the lyrics and really focus on what they’re saying,” Suzanne says. “It’s more than just a workout for me – it’s a time of worship.”
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Artificial Knowledge Against Human being Intellect. Everlasting Confrontation.
As per Kelemen, Romportl, & Zackova (2012), man-made intellect is most likely the expertise showed by machinery and software program primarily computer systems (p. 198). The field of examine in artificial cleverness is growing enormously in the past. A great many scientific study has specialized their undertakings to the creation of more sophisticated laptops or computers and software program. This has generated the introduction of sophisticated devices and networks which have put together the earth an international town. For example, the online world, which is actually merchandise of artificial intelligence, has improved conversation considerably. The advancements in synthetic knowledge have generated a debate on expertise in pieces of equipment versus a persons mentality. Through this essay, the author argues that synthetic knowledge can not use the host to a persons thought process.
The human thought is in charge of the development of man-made intellect and not just the opposite way spherical. Consequently, the human mental faculties can be remarkable. Moreover, unnatural intellect continues improving upon, that is subjected to creative imagination and testing consistent with our mind. For instance, agencies turn out sophisticated computer units and equipment slowly, that is definitely an indication that our learning ability is limited in doing what it will probably do. Because of this, it has to make use of a persons thinking to start to be modern-day and fill alot more demands. Man-made learning ability does not have innovative power up.
The human neurological will usually stay preferable over unnatural knowledge for its ingenious strength (Lichtenstein Unique Press, 2010, p. 13). Despite the characteristics exhibited by man-made intellect equipment similar to ability to shop a lot of information and use facts, a persons human brain surpasses these possibilities from imaginations that that may possibly offer a single thing into lifestyle. A piece of equipment could not do about what it is developed to do. Although, the human your head can consider any difficulty and search for new procedures for dealing with it. That way, the characteristics associated with the our mindset typically are not reduced by nature. There is not any freedom in man made intelligence instruments.
More one-of-a-kind quality of the human mind is a chance to performance independently. researchpaperwriter.net In connection with this, a individual can workout free of charge will and do what s/he believes is ideal. On the contrary, devices and software application ought to be controlled, which can be an effects them to lack self-sufficiency. The majority of man made intelligence devices are instruction established applications that may possibly only get the job done with instructional materials. Because of this they depend on the human head to resolve ailments. Simply because the brand implies, man-made intellect tools are male-constructed.
A persons thoughts are purely natural with its evolution and improvement will not be completely fully understood. Because of this, this is way a good deal superior to perhaps even the most state-of-the-art unnatural intellect equipment. This depends upon the point that all man made intellect products are individual-produced and therefore not anything about them is exclusive or exclusive. The human beings on their own can not comprehend the dynamics of their total thought process due to its complexness plus the natural opportunity to multitask without any technical malfunctions. The power for this man head to detect and respond to our environment is a product manufactured intellect gizmos cannot afford you need to do even in the future.
A persons imagination can perform by environmentally friendly environments. When it comes to intensive factors, a persons mindset can operate the body to adjust the types of conditions towards perfect ranges. Meanwhile, systems is able to only do business placed under stipulated settings that has to be monitored pretty frequently. As a result the artificial cleverness technology weakened as opposed to human brain.
The human mental abilities are way quite a bit involved compared to the manufactured cleverness devices. This depends on the fact that a human being has no restricts to what s/they can use his/her physical body, which could be relying on your mind. Any computer incorporates a minimal total capacity of capabilities, making unnatural intelligence equipment less strong than the human intellect. | <urn:uuid:7c94d2ca-0808-4c5e-bcdb-95645629edd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.btccnec.org/uncategorized/artificial-knowledge-against-human-being-intellect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946431 | 858 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Our recent rescue of 752 battery hens is now one month on and when watching these girls at dusk, I cannot help but be taken back to my nautical days of navigating the ‘treacherous’ waters of the children’s beach at Long Jetty in NSW.
For a penny, one could hire a pedal boat, a Fred Flintstone type craft, where its courageous and fearless seamen would madly propel the vessel with foot pedals, holding tight to the seat with both hands and pedalling like there was no tomorrow. The force of this action rocked you from side to side – and in true Fred Flintstone fashion, despite our fervent efforts, we seemed to go up and down in the one spot. But it didn’t matter! It was grand and it was way too much fun for any nine year old to give up easily. So we wouldn’t!
When one’s allotted ten minutes had morphed into zero, the craft’s number would be called, beckoning the vessel back to shore. But this would prove fruitless and arms would be waved as the effort to reign in the intrepid navigators escalated. Never wanting the happiness to end, one would do what any red blooded creature would when attempting to preserve their new found freedom at all costs – feigning deafness, you obliviously looked the other way at an object that had suddenly become the most interesting thing in the world.
The same burning desire to hold onto bliss is just what I see in many of the rescued hens each day as dusk rolls around and it is time to safely lock the girls away in their fox proof barn. Having ventured far afield, many have set up camp in their new found jungle of a world and it takes the Inspector Clouseau in me to find them.
Favourite haunts include a virtual wilderness of old sticks, branches and leaves that doubles as our compost pit, others mischievously traverse the fence line to find sanctuary amidst a pile of discarded feed bags and a cursory look behind a neatly stacked pile of corrugated tin never fails to find a daring hen or three.
Such an ancient wisdom harks back to their ancestry feathers firmly planted in the Red Jungle Fowl. And proud he would indeed be! This just goes to show that while you can take the chicken out of the jungle, you can never take the jungle out of the chicken!
There can be no doubt that both this rescue and our earlier battery hen rescue, which stands as Australia’s largest rescue of farmed animals, has given us a most unique insight into the factory farming of laying hens.
While many people have purchased ex battery hens in a worthy and noble bid to give them a second chance at life, they have only ever been given a glimpse of the healthiest of the flock. Yet these rescues have come with the window wide open for us to see first-hand the totality of the shed and thereby to individually scrutinize the health of each chicken. And in doing so, a very sad and black chapter in man’s dominion over animals is revealed.
The health issues plaguing many of the hens is most damning, with very few escaping unscathed in some way. Cage Layer Fatigue manifests itself in many ways within the hens; the direct and debilitating result of producing around 300 eggs per year combined with lack of exercise and mineral deficiencies. Brittle bones, inability to stand, weakness and loss of condition so severe the hens lack the energy to eat – are all a heartbreaking and pitiful reminder of just what we have done to these innocent creatures.
These hens, at just 18 months of age, are considered ‘spent’ by an industry that cares more about profits than animal welfare. While their wild cousins enjoy a life expectancy of around 8-10 years, very few are the number of ex battery chickens who see their fifth birthday.
Respiratory problems are prevalent, which comes as no surprise as these creatures have been housed indoors, along with a build up of their excrement. Seared eyes and sore throats as a result are commonplace. Severe infections remain untreated, to the extent that some chickens live with painful and debilitating eye conditions. In many cases sight is compromised or lost completely. In some cases, the innocent hen pays with her life. Sadly too, cage injuries have resulted in the loss of vision in an eye of several hens.
However, the over-arching problem that plagues these hens are the reproductive issues they suffer -again due to the exorbitant number of eggs produced- far, far beyond what nature intended. One poor hen who arrived with our rescuees had such a huge solidified lump in her uterus, the ultimate conclusion of egg peritonitis; it could easily have been mistaken for a large rock. This mass made up the majority of her body weight and was larger than all of her internal organs combined. Our only course of humane action was euthanasia.
If we were to take the fact we are dealing with sentient beings out of the equation, it is easy, justifiable, logical and even prudent to see how factory farming came into being.
The enormous labour demands in just feeding, watering and health checking all the girls is daunting, the land space required to satisfy their natural behaviours is vast and the cost of providing them with quality, interesting and varied food is immense. So let’s cut down space, labour inputs and costs, reduce feed wastage, increase profits and voila – you have a factory farm.
But, and it is a pretty hefty but, these are not vegetables that are sown to remain dormant and stationary until cultivated for dinner. Chickens, for those fortunate enough to know them, have distinct and complex perceptual, cognitive, social and emotional worlds; all of which are severely compromised by factory farming. This is an inescapable fact no one should look away from.
I cannot help but wonder when or how exactly we as a society lost our moral compass and sailed off into such treacherous waters; where animals are seen simply as the sum of their parts or are valued only for their ‘productivity’. But if there is one thing I do know, it is that the human heart is inherently good and I hold great faith that we can and we will one day navigate back to a safer shore, one where kindness comes first.
And so, as dusk descends once more on Edgar’s Mission, my new found feathered friends continue to explore their outside world, feigning ignorance as to what the setting of the sun means for them. But there will be no waving of the arms or cursed words of discontent here – only a brief glance at my watch and another ten minutes of bliss granted as the ever so grateful girls navigate the good life. If only the pedal boat owners could have been so kind. | <urn:uuid:825536f5-de5f-4b56-a68a-43b704e11f5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edgarsmission.org.au/the-chicken-in-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96225 | 1,413 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Choosing a printer for your business will also depend on what features are offered. What will be printed? Will the printer be used for documents such as files and spreadsheets? Will you need one that prints high-quality photos? Everything printed and distributed by your business to other businesses or clients must be of the best quality as this is a direct reflection of your company.
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Budget is an important consideration as well. However, this is an investment that will be used on a daily basis so a high-quality printer will pay off in the long run. | <urn:uuid:da124d6b-86f7-4cba-8686-0bfe24e24eed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globaltechworld.com/choosing-quality-printer-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957185 | 419 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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