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For hundreds of thousands of years human beings inhabited the Earth without private property, classes, states, or any of the other elements that make up class society as we know it. And yet we are taught that class division is a natural and universal condition of human existence. As Josh Holroyd and Laurie O’Connel explain in this article first published in the IMT’s theoretical journal, In Defence of Marxism, modern archaeology has produced a plethora of evidence attesting to the fact that the division of society into classes is a relatively recent development in human history. And just as it came into existence, Marxists understand it must eventually go out of existence. Click here to subscribe and get the latest issue of In Defence of Marxism magazine.
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Client: The Public Collection
Location: Indianapolis, IN, United States
Completion date: 2015
Artwork budget: $85,000
Mindy Taylor Ross
The Public Collection is a public art and literacy project consisting of artist-designed book share stations in Indianapolis. The initiative’s goals are to improve literacy, foster a deeper appreciation of the arts, and raise awareness for education and social justice in the community. “Monument” is 80 ft long and 14 ft high and is made of steel, aluminum, polyester resin and fiberglass, polycarbonate and paint.
"Monument" makes formal reference to civic monument archetypes, with the twist of being modernized by color, material, and separation from a building. The lending library supports an 1894 Mark Twain quote that was written during the same time period as the construction of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument which the sculpture faces. The quote suggests that books and libraries offer a more durable monument to society and culture than does the stone edifice, and this implication strongly correlates to the free exchange of literature and ideas made possible by the Public Collection project. I chose this site for two reasons: it is the least trafficked area on Monument Circle, so this project helps to bring foot traffic to it. Additionally, the view of the project from the top of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument connects the project visually to the Capitol building in the background; it is my optimistic belief that our democracy supports and encourages equality in the access and distribution of ideas, and the Public Collection installation fosters that access.
The Public Collection is a public art and literacy project developed by Rachel M. Simon to improve literacy, foster a deeper appreciation of the arts, and raise awareness for education and social justice in our community. Through a curated process, Indiana-based artists were commissioned to design unique book share stations or lending libraries that are installed in public spaces around Indianapolis. Each book share station holds a varied selection of books for diverse audiences and age groups. The Public Collection stations are free and available to everyone. Passersby can borrow and return books at their leisure. Books are supplied and stocked by the Indianapolis Public Library. The Public Collection was developed with support from the Herbert Simon Family Foundation and is managed in partnership with the Central Indiana Community Foundation and Mindy Taylor Ross of Art Strategies LLC.
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. –Mark Twain | <urn:uuid:6cb1e197-287b-4063-bdf7-3b8d383207a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.codaworx.com/projects/monument-the-public-collection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.924927 | 560 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Sony recently released a revised version of the PlayStation 5 (both disc and digital editions), and while we knew it’s 300 grams lighter than the launch model, it’s still unclear why.
Tech YouTuber Austin Evans got his hands on the updated PS5 digital edition (CFI-1100B 01) and found that it has a smaller heat sink and a new fan. Due to the new heatsink, the internal board of the console weighs 1368 grams. The original plate weighs 1639 grams. The revised console’s fan is manufactured by Delta Electronics and has 17 longer blades. The original fan has 23 blades.
According to Evans’ thermal tests, the new PS5 will run 5.4°F to 9°F hotter than the original. He thinks the “lighter” PS5 is a bit of a downgrade, but this theory has not yet been extensively tested.
“A few people mentioning higher exhaust temperatures MAY mean the cooler dissipates heat better,” Evans wrote in response to some commentators. “The point is that Sony has removed a LARGE amount of heatsink from this new model. With fewer fins and smaller heatpipes, it’s simply not as efficient at removing the heat from the console. Think about it as if it were a PC. If I remove a large CPU heatsink instead of a smaller one, the exhaust coming off my system would be hotter because the overall system temperatures are higher, as the weaker cooler can’t handle it. That’s exactly what’s going on here IMO.”
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For many investors, the biggest obstacle to investing in stocks is fear of the unknown.
What if the market crashes? What if the company's earnings miss expectations? What if the economy implodes?
But one aspect of investing is actually quite predictable: dividends.
If you own a solid dividend-paying company, regardless of what happens to the share price you can be virtually certain you'll get paid a chunk of cash every quarter (or every month in some cases). Watching that money roll in makes it easier to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of the market.
But it gets better. Some companies are so predictable that it's possible to know, not only when the next payment will arrive, but when the company will raise its dividend.
For me, a dividend that grows steadily – along with the company's revenue and earnings – is the hallmark of a great investment.
With that in mind, I put together a list of six companies that, based on historical patterns, will almost certainly raise their dividends in the next four months. They'd better, because I own all of these stocks personally (and all but Brookfield Infrastructure and Wal-Mart are in my Strategy Lab model dividend portfolio).
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN-TSX)
Yield: 4.3 per cent
Brookfield owns a global portfolio of long-life infrastructure assets – utilities, toll roads, pipelines, railways and ports – whose growing cash flows have supported double-digit distribution increases in recent years. Brookfield, which typically raises its distribution in February, said in its third-quarter results that its payout ratio of 59 per cent is "conservative versus its long-term target range of 60 to 70 per cent" – a strong hint that another increase is coming. Keep in mind that, as a limited partnership, Brookfield's distributions are taxed differently than dividends.
Coca-Cola Co. (KO-NYSE)
Yield: 2.8 per cent
Last February, Coca-Cola increased its dividend by 10 per cent – marking the soft drink giant's 51st consecutive year of increases. That's longer than I've been alive (not much longer, mind you). Coke is a company that knows how to share the wealth: It returned $9.1-billion to shareholders in 2012, comprising $4.6-billion (U.S.) in dividends and $4.5-billion in share buybacks. And there's more where that came from: The company is expected to hike its dividend by about 7 per cent in February, according to Bloomberg.
Enbridge Inc. (ENB-TSX)
Yield: 2.8 per cent
Few companies are as specific about their dividend growth plans as Enbridge. In October, the pipeline giant said it expects to increase its dividend by 10 to 12 per cent annually from 2013 to 2017 – in line with growth in earnings per share. With about $26-billion of commercially secured capital projects – and another $10-billion in unsecured investments – there's no shortage of growth ahead. Enbridge usually announces a dividend hike in early December, and Bloomberg estimates the coming increase will be about 10 per cent.
Fortis Inc. (FTS-TSX)
Yield: 3.9 per cent
Fortis is Canada's largest investor-owned utility, with about 2.4 million gas and electricity customers. Regulated operations account for 90 per cent of its assets, providing stable returns, with non-utilities – including real estate and hydro generation – making up the rest. Fortis typically raises its dividend in early December, and while the recent increases have been small – averaging about 3 per cent annually over the past three years – some analysts predict growth will accelerate thanks to $6-billion in new capital investments.
Canadian Utilities Ltd. (CU-TSX)
Yield: 2.6 per cent
Don't let Canadian Utilities' modest yield fool you: The company has been a dividend growth machine, raising its payment at an annual rate of about 8 per cent over the past five years. And it's expected to boost the dividend by a similar amount in January. Regulated utilities account for the bulk of earnings, which are poised to grow on the strength of a capital spending plan that includes $6-billion in electricity transmission investments in Alberta. I wouldn't be shocked – get it? – to see the dividend grow for years to come.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT-NYSE)
Yield: 2.4 per cent
Wal-Mart is another company that, despite having a modest yield, has delivered solid returns for shareholders. Over the past 10 years – even as people wondered if the world's biggest retailer was running out of room to grow – its dividend rose more than fivefold. That included an increase of 18 per cent last year – one of the biggest in the company's history. Look for another increase in February, right around the time you're paying off those holiday shopping bills.
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For example, at the end of 2017, 17% of the population was over the age of 60 – more than 241 million people – a proportion set to rise to around 25% by 2030.
“For many Chinese, mobile payment has become an essential part of their everyday lives,” according to Zhang Jianjun, an economist based in Gansu. “It not only changes the lives of young people, but also provides convenience for the elderly,” he told China Daily.
That’s only true, however, if they are able to keep up with rapidly changing technology. A recent viral video highlighted the difficulties as an older man wanting to pay cash for some grapes became involved in an altercation with shop staff who would only accept payment by app.
WeChat Pay and Alipay have driven the trend for mobile payment which has become normalised, with developed cities increasingly cashless.
Millennials and young professionals in particular, have embraced it due to its convenience, but it has permeated all aspects of life, changing everyday habits, from shopping for clothes to paying for utilities.
Rui Zhong, a program assistant at the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, has written that “Mobile payments are carving out lines between young and old, and between the prosperous urban middle class and those left behind by the boom times.”
While there are classes in many urban areas to help older consumers learn about things like online shopping and online banking, Quartz also noted that rural China is in danger of being left behind.
It quoted Michael Phillips, a Canadian psychologist based in Shanghai, who has spent some years working in the country’s northwest. “Less than 10% of the people I deal with have ever used a computer,” he said, adding, “It will be quite a while before the cashless economy penetrates rural China.”
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Cast your mind back to 1998, in particular, the 1998 Umno-Baru general assembly.
Former PM, Mahathir Mohamad and his erstwhile deputy, Anwar Ibrahim had clashed.
One of Anwar’s ally was the erstwhile Umno-Baru Youth Chief, Zahid Hamidi, whom it is alleged, was persuaded to bring up the issue of corruption.
In his speech as the Umno-Baru Youth leader, Zahid then raised the issues of nepotism and cronyism, and how Sime Bank almost folded because various people had received loans of RM50 million, RM100 million and RM300 million, without providing any collateral. Zahid wanted Umno-Baru to be rid of this practice.
When pressed by reporters, Zahid declined to name the people who had received these loans and said he had to consult his lawyers first.
Actions, not words
After Zahid’s speech, the Raub Umno-Baru division chief, Suhaimi Ibrahim, who was also the Chairman of the Malaysian Youth Council (MBM), requested that Zahid prove he was not involved in nepotism and cronyism.
Instead, Zahid replied that he was an entrepreneur and said, ‘My property is not stolen property, nor was it obtained by deception. I have declared my assets to the Prime Minister.”
Zahid stressed that he was a successful businessman, and his wealth was not due to privatisation projects, government contracts or his position as the Chairman of Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN).
He claimed that the assets were purchased when the economy was booming. He then claimed as the economy had slowed down, he was not aware of their value.
A savvy businessman would NOT have bought assets when the economy was at its peak. Smart businessmen would normally “Buy low, sell high”.
In 1996, the 43-year-old Zahid had amassed RM230 million in his bank account. He said that he had voluntarily declared his assets to Mahathir, a month after he became the Umno-Baru Youth leader that year.
Today, Mahathir reminded us of the conversation he had with Zahid then, and alleged that the Umno-Baru Youth leader, had failed to provide a satisfactory account of the source of the RM230 million.
Mahathir said, “When I asked where he (Zahid) obtained the RM230 million in his bank account, his answer was unclear.
“If he can remember, he should explain where such large amount of money came from.” (sic.)
Naturally, Mahathir should have pursued the source of Zahid’s wealth, but today, Zahid and Umno-baru are our biggest and immediate problems.
So, we repeat the question to Zahid, “Where had the RM230 million in his bank account come from?”
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Amar Breckenridge, Senior Associate, was invited to speak as a panellist at a Wilton Park Dialogue on the future of the international trade system.
The discussion focused heavily on the role of trade policy in promoting sustainability objectives. The dialogue was organised in partnership with the UK Department for International Trade, and was opened by the Hon. Greg Hands, Minister of State for Trade Policy.
Amar spoke specifically on the contribution of liberalisation of services, that perform environmental functions, in promoting good outcomes in key areas such as climate change, pollution and biodiversity. A very wide range of services perform such functions, which presents both a case for broad-based liberalisation, but also highlights some of the challenges of liberalisation given political economy sensitivities around services trade.
One way of dealing with these sensitivities is to foster a collaborative agenda between countries, particularly developing ones, on good regulatory practice. This is a reflection of the fact that regulation both drives demand for environmental services and goods, by correcting market failures, and is also the main source of barriers to international trade.
Such an agenda would need to extend beyond the trade negotiating sphere, and follow processes that differ from the largely adversarial context of trade negotiations. Given how complex cost-benefit analysis of regulation is, helping countries develop their analytical capability in support of good regulation is an important stepping stone to a more transparent and liberal regime for trade, including trade in environmental services and goods.
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>>BY TAZRA MITCHELL, POLICY ANALYST AT THE NC BUDGET AND TAX CENTER Fairness is one of the most basic principles of a sound tax system. A fair tax system asks taxpayers to contribute based on their ability to pay and does not exacerbate income inequality by favoring some taxpayers over others. If a fair tax policy is good for economic and moral reasons, as many scholars believe, it is clear that state lawmakers’ recent changes to the tax code are out-of-step with this standard. The new tax plan represents nothing more than a tax shift, giving enormous tax cuts to wealthy taxpayers and profitable corporations while everyone else pays the tab. Women are among the biggest losers of the plan.
Lawmakers handed us a tax plan that, while facially gender neutral, will likely disadvantage women. The tax plan provides a windfall to the wealthy: nearly >>two-thirds of the net tax cut will flow to the top 1 percent of taxpayers with incomes above $393,000. Women generally hold substantially less income than their male counterparts, especially at the top of the income ladder, as federal >>income tax data show. Assuming state-level taxpayer data for North Carolina resembles national data for the gender income gap, men earn the lion’s share of income at the top level in North Carolina too. This rough, back-of-the-envelope analysis suggests that men will likely take home a majority of the tax breaks.
The cut for the wealthy largely stems from switching the state personal income tax from a progressive rate structure—which has been a bedrock feature of this tax since it was enacted in 1921—to a flat tax. This means that the income tax is no longer based on the ability-to-pay principle. Women ended up further on the losing side of the tax plan due to the elimination of the Child Care and Dependent Tax Credit, a credit for long-term care insurance, and a deduction for contributions to North Carolina 529 college savings plans. Notably, the tax plan further diminishes tax fairness by choosing to let the state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expire at the end of last year. The EITC goes to families that work but struggle to get by on low wages, partially offsetting the higher share of their income paid in total state and local taxes compared to high-income families. It helps families pay for basic necessities, fights child poverty, and improves children’s chances of success as adults.
At a time when good-paying jobs are still hard to come by, the expiration of the state EITC equates to a huge loss for Tar Heel women—especially single mothers. The EITC, which encourages and rewards work, >>significantly increases attachment to the labor force among single mothers. Furthermore, by increasing women’s employment and earnings, the EITC >>boosts the size of the Social Security retirement benefit amount they eventually receive. We already know that women face greater financial insecurity than men during their retirement years; the loss of the state EITC does nothing to help reverse this trend. Come next tax year, its absence will be noticeable to more than 900,000 taxpayers.
And of course, we can’t overlook the huge revenue losses associated with the tax plan. Over the next five years, $1.2 billion fewer dollars will be available for early childhood services, public education, health care, and the other building blocks of a strong economy as a result of the tax plan. Cuts to public investments tend to hit women harder, as the impact is felt both as recipients of services and as providers of state-funded services. North Carolinians got a glimpse of what’s to come with the current state budget, which falls far short of what’s needed, especially in public education. The revenue losses will only accumulate and grow overtime.
We also can’t ignore the absence of women at the state legislative policy tables. Of the dozen-plus leadership positions on the state House and Senate Finance Committees that develop tax policy, only one slot was held by a woman. Perhaps having more women at the table during the tax negotiations would have resulted in a less lopsided-tax plan. No one knows for sure. What we do know is that women deserve to have equal input during policy discussions.
The bottom line is that the new tax system impedes economic empowerment and security for far too many women and their families. Rather than putting a premium on fairness, state legislators handed us a tax system that shifts taxes away from the wealthy and towards the bottom 80 percent of taxpayers, on average.
Tazra Mitchell is a Policy Analyst at the NC Budget and Tax Center and is the Second Vice President of NC Women United.
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One of the oldest wine grape-producing regions in the state
Madera County is….WINE COUNTRY – Madera Wine Trail
Madera County is California’s true wine country, as it is one of the oldest wine grape-producing areas in the state. As early as the late 1800’s settlers homesteaded small farms and planted grapes to produce wine, bringing their traditions from Armenia, France and Italy. Eight small, family-owned wineries in Madera County make up the Madera Wine Trail, located from the central valley floor to the Sierra Nevada foothills. You can make a day of exploring and sampling the varieties of fine wine produced locally. 800-613-0709 www.MaderaWineTrail.com
Madera County is….WILD – Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County, Chowchilla.
Start your journey 700,000 years ago at the discovery site of more than 15,000 fossils. See Mammoths, Saber Toothed Cats, Camels, Giant Sloths, Miniature Antelopes, Horses and more. These fossils are scientific treasures that help us understand the natural history of the Central Valley. 559-665-7107 www.maderamammoths.org 19450 Ave 21½ Chowchilla (Exit 164 off Hwy 99)
Madera County is…AGRICULTURE – Home Grown Cellars, Madera
Located in the Heart of Pomegranate Country…tour, taste, shop and learn about Pomegranates on a working farm. Ask about their special events.
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Wind your way up to the foothill town of Coarsegold.
Madera County is….FUN – Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, Coarsegold. Stop by for some gaming fun, delicious restaurants, and amazing shows with big name headliners, not to mention the spa, shops, and more. 1-866-7-WIN-WIN http://www.coarsegoldchamber.com/ 711 Lucky Lane
Madera County is…..HISTORIC
Take a trip through time to the early days of Madera County and relive the Gold Rush and Logging eras. Visit the Coarsegold Historic Museum, housing a collection of artifacts dating back to the 1800’s. Move on to Coarsegold Historic Village. Gold was discovered here in 1852. You’ll find food and diversion while you shop for one-of-a-kind gifts. The semi-annual Peddlers’ Fair is held here on Memorial & Labor Day weekends www.CoarsegoldChamber.org
RAYMOND – If you’ve got the time, take a detour to check out the tiny town of Raymond. Study Raymond’s past at the Charles Miller Museum, have a meal or a drink at the classic Raymond General Store. Hike and boat at Eastman Lake. www.southernyosemitemuseums.org
Drive over Deadwood Pass via Highway 41 and be greeted on the other side by the sight of Oakhurst in the valley below.
OAKHURST – Originally named Fresno Flats, the community of Oakhurst dates from 1873. Visit the museums which explore the area’s past: Fresno Flats, Little Church on the Hill, King Vintage Museum, as well as a Children’s Museum designed just for the little ones. www.southernyosemitemuseums.org
Madera County is…FINE FOOD
Oakhurst also boasts the area’s only five-star dining experience at Erna’s Elderberry House. 559-683-6800 www.ElderberryHouse.com Highway 41 Oakhurst
Madera County is……ARTISTIC
The beauty of nearby Yosemite and the Sierra National Forest has made this region home to numerous artists seeking inspiration from nature. Add to your collection from one of the many art galleries and experiencexperience the annual Sierra Art Trails, as well as the antique stores throughout the community.
Madera County is….CALIFORNIA’S SOUTHERN GATEWAY to Yosemite National Park
Meet the star of Mariposa Grove—the Grizzly Giant—the largest giant sequoia in the grove, with a diameter of 31 feet and a circumference of nearly 100 feet. Mariposa Grove has 470 of these behemoths, many of which are nearly 2,000 years old. Several trees stand nearly 300 feet tall with a diameter of 15 feet or more. Marvel at these masterpieces of nature by walking a short distance, or take a five-mile tram tour that provides excellent access for viewing and photography.
Walk to the edge for one of the most spectacular overlooks on earth. From this perch, 3,214 feet above the Valley floor, is an eagle’s view of many popular landmarks of Yosemite. The turn-off is at Chinquapin, between Mariposa Grove and the Wawona Tunnel.
Rising nearly 4,000 feet from the base to the summit, El Capitan is the largest single granite rock on earth. Rock climbers from around the world converge to face the challenge of this massive monolith. From spring to fall, they can be seen inching their way up the sheer wall. Be sure to bring binoculars!
At the far end of the Valley is one of the most photographed scenes in Yosemite, the world-famous Half Dome. Those of hardy stock can take a long and strenuous hike to the base of Half Dome (summer only) and climb the cables to its breathtaking summit.
Feast your eyes on the highest waterfall in North America. It is among the top 10 highest waterfalls in the world (Sentinel Falls is also in that group). A spectacular view awaits you from a short footpath to Yosemite Falls, which plunges 2,425 fee
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Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology has deployed 86 new supercomputing nodes to complete its two-part, $2.6 million ‘Green II’ machine.
The new deployment, dubbed swinSTAR, comprises a total of 64 NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPUs and 1376 Intel Sandy Bridge CPU cores in various configurations.
SwinSTAR was funded entirely by the Swinburne University and sits beside the 130-TFLOP gSTAR. The latter was deployed last year and funded by a $1.04 million Federal Government grant.
The two-part Green II replaces a $1 million ‘Green Machine’, which comprised 145 CPU-based nodes and was deployed in May 2007.
GSTAR alone delivered more than ten times the processing power of the Green Machine. SwinSTAR pushes Green II’s capacity beyond 400 TFLOPS, within the range of the top 100 supercomputers worldwide.
Swinburne supercomputer manager Jarrod Hurley said the university deliberately delayed its purchase of swinSTAR so it could include NVIDIA’s K10 GPUs, released this year.
SwinSTAR’s final nodes were installed in late August and made available to researchers early this month.
The machine was designed in partnership with gSTAR suppliers SGI, NVIDIA and Intel, so the two Green II components were fully integrated.
An SGI spokesman described swinSTAR as Australia’s first K10 deployment.
“It was always made clear that there was an option for phase two to be an extension of the phase one process,” Hurley noted.
Green II was housed in Swinburne’s new on-premise data centre, with gSTAR, swinSTAR and 1.7 petabytes of rapid-access disk storage connected via QDR infiniband.
Under terms of the Government grant, gSTAR was dedicated to astronomy research. SwinSTAR has a wider remit, targeting all Swinburne staff, students and collaborators.
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Heroes of the Lance – Copy Protection Codes
This game by SSI used a manual lookup code at the start as it’s form of copy protection.
Here is a quick sheet I made in case you do not have the original manual:
OCEAN RANGER – Log in Codes
A naval simulation game. The Ocean Ranger is the first of a new class of frigate sized missile ships. You are able to track and destroy targets on the sea surface, beneath the sea, and in the air. Missions occur in one of four locations (from easiest to most difficult), the Bering Sea, Southeast Asia, Central America, and the Persian Gulf. While in port you can choose to equip your ship with a variety of weapons, then take off to rid an area of hostile enemies. In battle the view is from the deck of the boat, allowing enemies to be targeted and destroyed.
Battle Chess by Interplay used a manual look up for it’s copy protection.
Here is the Off Disk Copy Protection sheet: Battle_Chess.txt
Grave Yard is a different kind of football game.
For the disk copy protection you are asked for a STAT out of the manual.
Double Dribble disk did not contain any on disk copy protection.
BUT instead uses a manual/code book look-up. (SEE Below for the photos)
When you boot the game you immediate get this black screen below.
You need the RED Code sheet to enter the 4 digit Password to start the game.
In this case for C07 you would enter 8467, then the game would start.
Here is the Original RED code sheet – RED because it was hard to Photocopy back in the day. I just purchase an original one so I could re-scan this page:
Then I convert to B/W in Photoshop. Download and print this out:
Jack Nicklaus Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
But now, it’s easy to fix with Photoshop.
I wanted a better scan of this than what was already online, so I recently purchased this game only for this Course Sheet. I have scanned it and converted it to Black & White and put in the PDF file below – ENJOY
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The King's Curse
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(Simon & Schuster)
Once again, Philippa Gregory mines the rich vein of the English Tudor court and the long-running enmity between the Yorks and Lancasters. This time she focuses on Margaret of York, cousin of the ruling King Henry VII and married to Sir Richard Pole, to enable her to fade into comparative obscurity away from the court. The King's Curse takes up her story in 1499, when she is pregnant with their fourth child, and from then on we are engrossed in Margaret Pole's roller-coaster life as her fortunes change with the whim of the King - first Henry VII then Henry VIII.
This is not the Henry we read about in history classes; this is a man whose bad luck in finding an heir causes him to become a paranoid who kills indiscriminately, ruling a kingdom living in fear. The King's Curse is a gripping read, although slowed by the enormous cast list.
• Review by Christchurch author Felicity Price whose latest novel is A Jolt To The Heart (Blackjack Press)
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Compiled by Shaun Usher (Canongate)
Most of us keep lists of things we have to do and remember. But who would have thought of creating an entire book of them? British author Shaun Usher has spent years burrowing about in archives, museums and libraries seeking out intriguing, historic and curious lists and compiling them in this odd but fascinating volume. From musician Johnny Cash's to-do list ("Not smoke, kiss June, not kiss anyone else"), to Gene Autry's cowboy code, Chrissie Hynde's advice to chick rockers and a list of suspects written by president John F. Kennedy's secretary hours after his assassination, the book is a trove of things you never imagined you'd want to read but suddenly find entirely fascinating.
Here you can discover what a 10th-century monk or the inventor Galileo had on their shopping lists, the Sicilian Mafia's solemn rules, satirist Thomas Nashe's eight kinds of drunkenness, a list of predictions for the year 2000 from sci-fi novelist Robert Heinlein and much, much more. There are 125 lists in all and they span thousands of years. Some provide advice that is still worth taking, others give a snapshot of lives gone by, are informative or simply fun to read. It's a book to dip in and out of whenever there's a spare moment to fill with entertainment. In my opinion there should be a copy in every doctor's waiting room.
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Combining stunning New Zealand landscapes with recipes for wild food makes for a cookbook that will more than satisfy those it's aimed at - hunters and fishermen. Tony Smith is a chef and outdoorsman who is keen on fishing and game hunting but since he's also travelled and developed a love of French, Italian and Asian food he transforms what he catches into sophisticated dishes. Smith takes us to the Canterbury High Country and shares recipes for Thai venison salad, Nepalese-style tahr meatballs and wild goat curry. From Tongariro there are trout dishes and from Whanganui wild pork and eel. There's lots of fish with an Asian feel, suggestions for vegetable side dishes and a section on jellies and sauces.
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Tess Hardy's violent former husband, Luke, calls her - sounding scared - from Cambodia where he is working as a mine clearer. Two weeks later Luke is dead and a mysterious package in the mail sends Tess to Cambodia to uncover what happened. From there the story moves from one bloody incident to another, all blamed on the White Crocodile, a mythical bringer of death. This is a fast-paced ride, given extra grit by Tess' fish-out-of-water perspective and the often brutal environment.
• Review by Auckland freelance journalist Kerri Jackson
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A strongly relevant novel from acclaimed New Zealand writer Philip Temple, MiStory seems even more chilling in light of this year's spying claims.
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• Review by Ngaire Atmore Pattison who blogs about books at bookiemonster.co.nz
Apple And Rain
By Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury)
Apple's mother reappears after an 11-year absence and brings with her a half-sister named Rain.
Thirteen-year-old Apple's life is turned upside down when she is taken from her sheltered existence (under the wing of her God-fearing Nana) to one where her mother leaves her in charge of her younger sister for days on end. Apple eventually sees through her mother's ways, accepts her best friend's betrayal, and finds love in unlikely places.
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In a move seen by some as the latest fallout from Wednesday morning’s US attack on South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has ordered that supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan be immediately severed for an indefinite period of time.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik later denied the report, insisting that the interruption was not retaliatory but only a temporary response to security reports, and that the link had already been restored. Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, however, said the move was intended to show how serious Pakistan was about its territorial integrity, saying “we have stopped the supply of oil and this will tell how serious we are”.
The move comes as thousands of protesters marched through South Waziristan’s capital of Wana chanting “death to America”. Pakistani media cited unnamed sources who said the move came as the government feared retaliation from South Waziristan tribesmen for the US attack.
The strike, which was the first confirmed use of US ground forces in Pakistan since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, killed 20 civilians and received widespread condemnation in Pakistan’s government. American officials have suggested that the attack is just the first of many cross-border missions to be expected in the coming months, as the US has expressed growing discontent with Pakistan’s inability to control its long and mountainous border with Afghanistan. The Defense Minister of key NATO ally Germany was also critical of the US attack during his visit to Pakistan, and warned that “Pakistan’s territorial integrity has to be respected”.
With Pakistan’s sole ground link to Afghanistan closed to them, NATO would be more reliant than ever on Russia for the transportation of non-military supplies to the war-torn country at a time when US-Russian relations are at a post-Cold War low. And while Russia has promised not to block NATO’s overland transport, President Bush’s threat to “punish” Moscow over the recent war with Georgia may put the route in further jeopardy. | <urn:uuid:1f8a0139-f944-4366-8854-f124700a994c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.antiwar.com/2008/09/05/pakistan-cuts-supply-lines-to-nato-troops-in-afghanistan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970168 | 434 | 1.835938 | 2 |
2010 Annual Science Report
VPL at University of Washington Reporting | SEP 2009 – AUG 2010
The Astrobiology Graduate Student conference is a conference organized by astrobiology graduate students for astrobiology grad students. It provides a comfortable peer forum in which to communicate and discuss research progress and ideas.
The Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference is a meeting for graduate students that distinguishes itself from similar meetings by being organized principally by graduate students. An emphasis is placed on providing a comfortable peer environment in which to talk about research, and network with other astrobiology graduate students from around the world.
The NAI, through the VPL team, has provided support for the last two AbGradCons. Last year, the meeting was held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and two publications describing that meeting were presented at other conferences (Som et al., 2009a; Som et al., 2009b).
This year NAI/VPL also supported AbSciCon, which was held in Talinn, Sweden in July 2010. The funding provided allowed 33 US students to attend the conference. UW students Rika Anderson (Oceanography) and Eva Stüeken (Earth and Space Sciences) represented US students on the international organizing committee for this conference.
PROJECT INVESTIGATORS:Rika Anderson
PROJECT MEMBERS:Victoria Meadows
RELATED OBJECTIVES:Objective 1.1
Formation and evolution of habitable planets.
Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets.
Outer Solar System exploration
Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules
Origins of energy transduction
Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
Earth's early biosphere.
Production of complex life.
Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere
Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
Co-evolution of microbial communities
Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
Effects of environmental changes on microbial ecosystems
Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth
Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials
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Development Career - Tips and Tricks
Oliver Sarfas • February 12, 2019career
Developers, by nature, are very logical. Due to this, a few of us struggle with some of the more "intricate" details of our career, interactions, and elements of our role / responsibilities that are less "code-y".
Over my years, ranging from a Data Manager, IT Support Technician, Developer and a IT & Development Manager - I've learned a few little handy tricks that help me out. Hopefully some of these can help you out.
I get at least 3 people a week contact me asking; "How do I get into web development? Where can I learn to do what you do".
And to those people, I always say the same thing, build something. Anything. It can be the worst program / website in the world. Just build it.
My first "project" that I ever built in PHP, was a currency convertor. It took a users input, and sent it to the fixer.io API. It then dumped, yes DUMPED, the response on screen for the user to somehow figure out. It was messy, hacky, accepted raw
$_POST parameters, and had NO validation. But it was something.
If you're worried about breaking stuff, or somebody seeing your code, don't worry. GitHub now has unlimited free private repositories for everyone. You can also use boxes such as Homestead, or The Scotch Box so that all your work stays local.
This is IT. We can do "anything". Due to this, there's a lot of "Yes Man" attitude in the industry. Personally, I despise this. There's many ways of telling a client, or your senior, that something either cannot, or will not happen - without explicitly saying the word "No".
- "These changes will need reviewing, and your scope adjusting. This will impact project delivery, and budget."
- Client will generally review the change as unnecessary, out of budget, or allow you more time!
- "If these changes are required urgently, then [Project X] will have to be delayed - is that an acceptable change of priority for you?"
- Project X will either get moved, or the new changes / project will be pushed back
- "The project / change, has a larger cascading impact on other areas that could have unforeseen issues. To accommodate this, we need to extend the project dates, and budget, to allow for more testing time(s)"
- Clients, for the most part, hate paying for testing. This will either get you more time on the change/project, or the request pushed back to a later date
Your MD, CTO, Scrum Master, office dog, whoever - it doesn't really matter - wants an estimation of when the latest project "Alpha" will be ready.
How do you estimate this?
In your head, you rattle through the minor changes that ultimately make the project / amendments. A day here, two more there, couple of hours for this, half-day on the other. You total up 10 days.
Tell your superior / client, at least 1.5x that. Why? Am I just squeezing budget out of someone? Not at all - I'm protecting myself, and my work.
Here's a breakdown of why I'll always add at least 50% to any estimation;
Make time for tests. Don't tell your client you're doing it - make it part of your development flow. If you've got the time, and resource to do it, try Test Driven Development.
"We wanted this, but now we want that". Happens all the time. You can say no, if you really want to. Some changes however can be beneficial as they make things easier - always weigh up your options
Ah, the dreaded creep. Something will get "thumbed in" - this button now does this, styling has slightly changed.
You can always go back, and refuse these changes. Just use one of my "Saying No" statements if you need to.
Feedback / Amendments
After your first round of development, things will need changing. You can add time for this early, so you know that you have space to do it. Or, list this as a new task, and bill accordingly - it's up to you.
Unforeseen integration issues
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Expect stuff to go wrong, and you're going to have to sort it. You're a human, you're going to make mistakes
Note: Naturally, if you deliver early, you have a decision to make. You can either notify the client, and refund / credit note them for the work. Or, you can do more tests. Always do the latter. It's far less hassle, and you can be more confident in what you're delivering.
Person X doesn't like Person Y. They want to know your opinion of them. Just stay out of it as best you can. Office politics is a deadly spiral, and the last thing you ever want to get involved in.
I've been taken into other people's disciplinary hearings before, to give a statement on a situation, simply because of politics. Not something I want to ever do again.
Getting involved in office politics is something that can easily see you out of a job. You can be the best person for a role - a perfect fit - but if you get involved in the wrong discussions, you'll soon be looking at job boards again.
The way that I stay out of office politics is very simple, choose every word you say, very precisely. In meetings, say the bare minimum required, and even then make sure you're very exact in what you say. To begin with, this will prove difficult. However, over time you'll become fluent in saying nothing. | <urn:uuid:4b1c8957-8f29-4def-a615-30d105f8767c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sarfas.codes/blog/development-career-tips-and-tricks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955833 | 1,242 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Today I will have the honor of addressing the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association in Chicago. I will be speaking at 2:30 pm on the Supreme Court’s history and current issues. I will be flying in this morning from Houston and look forward to seeing my home town. I will be in Chicago for the first two games of the National League Championship so I do not want any former classmates or childhood friends to hesitate to unload that extra ticket to Wrigley.
The Supreme Court has started the new term with only eight members due to the passing of Justice Scalia and the refusal of the Senate to take up the confirmation of Judge Merrick Garland. I have long argued that the Supreme Court is manifestly too small even with the full nine justice court. Over ten years ago, I proposed a reform of the supreme court that would expand it to 19 members.
The constitution itself does not specify the number of justices, and that number has actually fluctuated through the years. The nine-member court is a product not of some profound debate or study, but of pure happenstance. In fact, when the court first convened in 1790 in New York, at the Royal Exchange Building, it had six members. After that time, the size of the court expanded and shrank – largely with the number of federal circuits. Since justices once “rode circuit” and actually sat as judges in lower courts, Congress would add a justice when it added a circuit – or reduce the court with the elimination of a circuit. Thus, when a 10th circuit was added in 1863, a 10th justice was added at the same time. In 1869, the court happened to have nine members for the nine circuits. That is how we ended up with this size of a court.
Ever since the supreme court rested at nine members, we have repeatedly had problems of 5-4 splits, with one or two swing justices dictating the outcome of cases. With the increasing longevity of justices, such divisions have become stagnant and bitter. We often find ourselves captive to the idiosyncratic views of a couple of justices’ views on privacy, or federalism, or free speech. We also have had repeated conflicts over replacing justices because the importance of each jurist is so overwhelming on such a small court. | <urn:uuid:17728fd1-ce18-44d3-adc0-8d268322e5dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jonathanturley.org/2016/10/14/turley-to-speak-to-the-seventh-circuit-bar-in-chicago/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965572 | 469 | 2.140625 | 2 |
More specific details on each panel talk…
Graphics Keynote: Delivering the New Generation of Gaming Graphics
New consoles and graphics cards usher in a new wave of more immersive video games. In this session, we will cover the latest innovations to our graphics platform, making it easier for game developers to push the limits of graphics on both PC and Xbox with DirectX, HLSL, PIX, HDR, and more.
Accelerating DirectX Innovation
The DirectX team has been working on a way to change the game for developers who want to be on the bleeding edge of graphics. We’re finally ready to show the world how we’re pushing the envelope with an exciting new update.
Tier 2 Variable Rate Shading in Gears
This talk will discuss the usage of Variable Rate Shading in Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. Our implementation targets zero perceptual drop in visual quality, works seamlessly with dynamic resolution, and runs across Xbox Series X|S and PC. Performance improvements will be discussed as well as how VRS was tuned to work across different rendering passes. We will also discuss some challenges and integration tips that can be applied to any game engine.
Denoising Raytraced Soft Shadows on Xbox Series X|S and Windows with FidelityFX (Presented by AMD)
With raytraced visuals bumping rendering quality even higher than ever before, a significant amount of fine tuning is required to maintain real-time performance. A typical way to achieve this is to trace fewer rays, and to make sense of the noisier output that method delivers. This presentation will explain how the AMD FidelityFX Denoiser allows for high-quality raytracing results without increasing rays per pixel, and deep dives into specific RDNA2-based optimizations that benefit both Scarlett and PC.
Introduction to Real-time Ray Tracing with Minecraft (Presented by Nvidia)
This talk is aimed at graphics engineers that have little or no experience with ray tracing. It serves as a gentle introduction to many topics, including “What is ray tracing?”, “How many rays do you need to make an image?”, “The importance of [importance] sampling. (And more importantly, what is importance sampling?)”, “Denoising”, “The problem with small bright things”. Along the way, you will learn about specific implementation details from Minecraft.
Xbox Velocity Architecture: Faster Game Asset Streaming and Minimal Load Times for Games of Any Size
The new Xbox Velocity Architecture in the Xbox Series X|S consoles enables developers to re-imagine how to build their games. By combining a super-fast SSD, hardware decompression, and the new DirectStorage functionality, game developers have tools to develop immersive experiences with a minimal load time for users. This session will review the benefits of the Velocity Architecture and show a real-world example.
DirectStorage for Windows
Microsoft is excited to bring DirectStorage, an API in the DirectX family originally designed for the Velocity Architecture to Windows PCs! DirectStorage will bring best-in-class IO tech to both PC and console just as DirectX 12 Ultimate does with rendering tech. With a DirectStorage capable PC and a DirectStorage enabled game, you can look forward to vastly reduced load times and virtual worlds that are more expansive and detailed than ever. In this session, we will be discussing the details of this technology will help you build your next-generation PC games. | <urn:uuid:1de5d162-a2e9-424c-af4b-fedccc9649eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.xboxera.com/t/game-stack-live-is-returning-in-april-2021/6199 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.902646 | 708 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Hluboká is a monumental Romantic chateau; originally a Gothic castle, it was remodelled in the Baroque style during the first half of the 18th century. It underwent a significant transformation in the 19th century when it was remodelled in the English Windsor-style Gothic and became the official seat of the Schwarzenberg dynasty. The complex Hluboká includes a glassed-in winter garden, a riding hall, an English-style park (190 hectares) and a chapel. Sumptuously furnished period interiors feature unique woodcarvings and valuable collections.
It is possible to get three tours here, all of which are in English. Tour 1 (250/160 CZK) is a tour mainly of the public areas, while Tour 2 (230/160 CZK) shows you around the apartments. Tour 3 (170/80 CZK) is a tour of the kitchens. Tour 1 is by far the most popular and gives the best introduction to the castle.
Unless the castle is busy, tours do not operate between 12:30 pm and 1:00 pm, and the price is 100 CZK cheaper if you take the tour in Czech. For a cheap add-on to the day out, the surrounding gardens are free to visit. It is open 9am-5pm Tue-Sun May-Jun, to 6pm Jul & Aug, to 4.30pm Apr, Sep & Oct, 10am-4pm Nov- Feb, closed Mar.
Every summer, there is also a music festival held on the castle’s grounds, encompassing a whole range of different musical styles. The South Bohemian Aleš Gallery next to the castle houses a stunning collection of Czech religious art from the 14th to 16th centuries, plus a collection of exhibits from 17th-century Dutch masters. Adult admission 80 CZK. Open: 9am-6pm, Apr-Oct. www.ajg.cz
Tourist Information Centre
Provides maps and can arrange accommodation. Address: Masarykovo 35. Open 9am-6pm; www.hluboka.cz.
Hluboká Chateau (www.zamek-hluboka.eu) is a great day trip out from České Budějovice or Prague. By bus or train from Prague. There is several bus companies serving Hluboká nad Vltavou via stop in České Budějovice. The journey takes about 3,5 hours.
Tip: If you wish to stay overnight, the Hotel Bakalář (www.hotel-bakalar.cz; Address: Masarykova 69; double room from 750 CZK per night) is centrally located, and has good rooms and a decent restaurant on site, and rents out bikes.
Prague to Hluboká Transport. Alternative to train or bus. Book cheap door to door private minibus. | <urn:uuid:78d2edd2-dad5-48b8-b15a-faa5c644c943> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prague.fm/14962/hluboka-castle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.902186 | 636 | 1.539063 | 2 |
I’ll tell you why Siamese cats are called Siamese. In Southest Asia there are pointed cats (cats with dark extremeties). Nearly all of these cats are not bred by cat breeders. By the standards of the West they are random bred cats. But they probably have purer genetics that purebred Siamese cats in the West such as in America.
You’ll find these Siamese cats in Thailand. Before 11 May 1949 Thailand was called Siam.
When you add ‘ese’ to the end of a place name is describes the inhabitats of the place where they live. So we have Chinese, Maltese, Japanese et cetera. The added ‘ese’ is called a suffix.
When you add ‘ese’ to Siam you have Siamese. This means the cats or people who inhabit Siam (now Thailand). So Siamese cats are domestic, stray and feral cats who live in Siam. They also live in many other countries nowadays. In the West they are nearly always purebred, pedigree cats.
Why don’t we call Siamese cats ‘Thailandese cats’. Well, the reason is because the first Siamese cats brought to the West, specifically England, took place in 1886. At that time they came from Siam. As it happens these cats were rather sickly. They had worms. | <urn:uuid:45d02c4b-1de5-4b83-ab2d-f34d370d7550> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pictures-of-cats.org/why-are-siamese-cats-called-siamese.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962877 | 299 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Opel is launching the Ampera-e first in the countries that already have some form of EV infrastructure in place or countries that have shown ambition to become EV leaders. The Ampera-e is on sale now in Norway, the most mature electric vehicle market in Europe. Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland will follow this year.
With the Ampera-e and its driving range of up to 520 kilometers in the New European Driving Cycle, Opel is introducing the first electric car that will enable the majority of car buyers to become electrically mobile; a new way of driving that opens the next chapter in the history of the automobile. Closer to real driving behavior as road characteristics, weather conditions, driving style or additional load influence, the engineers estimate the combined WLTP range at 380 kilometers. Naturally, the range in everyday use will vary and depends on personal driving behavior and on external factors. However, the biggest obstacle to buying electric vehicles – range anxiety – is thus a thing of the past; and despite its future-potential, plus the advantages of pro-environmental electric mobility, the Ampera-e offers the acceleration of a powerful, traditional sports car.
The focus on efficiency and performance is reflected in the Ampera-e’s purposeful packaging. Outwardly compact, with a vehicle footprint similar to that of the Opel Corsa, the interior of the Ampera-e is more spacious than the larger Astra. With the passenger compartment located above the battery pack, which is mounted under the floor, the resultant higher seating positions create a “SUV-feeling” that is increasingly popular among new car buyers.
But the Ampera-e has even more to offer: the revolutionary electric car allows relaxed and almost silent cruising while also being able to recharge the batteries when in motion. To do so, the driver just needs to ease off the accelerator in the normal “Drive” mode. The Ampera-e recuperates automatically in overrun and wins back energy from the electric motor that doubles as a generator. The motor’s braking effect is increased when the driver switches to “Low” mode, thus also increasing recuperation. Furthermore, the driver can switch to “Regeneration on Demand” for maximum energy recuperation via a paddle behind the steering wheel. The drag torque of the motor is so high in “Low/Regen on Demand” modes that the brake pedal does not need to be applied to reduce speed to a full stop in normal traffic. The Ampera-e can thus be controlled via the accelerator (One Pedal Driving). Obviously, the brake pedal still needs to be applied in case of emergency. Initial vehicle simulation models show that drivers can increase the range by up to five percent compared to “Drive” mode, when applying “One Pedal Driving” with the corresponding full recuperation in dense stop-and-go traffic.
The maximum torque of 360 Nm is responsible for the electrifying temperament of the new Opel. The power output of the electric motor is 150 kW/204 hp. Standing starts at traffic lights and entering the motorway belong to the Opel Ampera-e’s favorite disciplines. The compact car sprints from zero to 50 km/h in only 3.2 seconds, mid-range acceleration from 80 to 120 km/h, especially important for overtaking, is accomplished in just 4.5 seconds (provisional figures). Top speed is electronically limited to 150 km/h for the benefit for the overall range.
However, the 4.16 meter long Ampera-e not only impresses with its acceleration. It also offers space for up to five people and a trunk volume of 381 liters, which is more than usual for cars of a similar size. This generous spaciousness is made possible by the clever integration of the ten battery modules. The entire package is located in the underbody and is tailored to the contours of the vehicle. This means that no space is wasted. The battery consists of 288 lithium-ion cells and has a capacity of 60 kWh. It was developed in cooperation with LG Chem.
With the battery located under the floor, the Ampera-e engineers have developed a new kind of body structure that protects the battery pack while minimizing weight. They used various grades of high-strength steel and aluminum to lower mass without negatively affecting safety or durability. About 81.5 percent of the Ampera-e’s body structure consists of high-strength or advanced high-strength steels. To reduce weight still further, the engineers selected aluminum for the enclosures, such as the hood, doors and tailgate, saving an additional six percent in weight compared with using conventional steel. Even so, the Ampera-e is a heavyweight with a total weight of about 1,616 kg.
Driving pleasure for the passengers over long distances is also provided. In typical Opel fashion, the excellent feeling of spaciousness is complemented with the best in digital connectivity. The unique personal connectivity and service assistant Opel OnStar is combined with an infotainment system exclusive to the Ampera-e. The IntelliLink-e infotainment system is compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which allows users to make calls, navigate to a destination, exchange messages and listen to music via Spotify via touchscreen control or voice recognition. The Ampera-e also features a new Bose sound system with seven high-performance speakers.
And there is another important detail: a beep in the vehicle warns pedestrians that an electric car is approaching, completely silent. When the car detects the presence of pedestrians nearby, a specific sound is activated as alert ... up to 30 km / h. | <urn:uuid:45366d37-7b9b-4866-84b4-d81b838ecb01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prestigeelectriccar.com/en/news/2157/Vauxhall_Ampera-e_best_range_in_a_mid-size_electric_car | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938692 | 1,194 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Dividend Paying Whole Life Insurance - Understanding What Sets it Apart
Whole Life Insurance, Universal Life, Variable Life
, Term...with such an array of life insurance options available, it's easy to get lost in the confusion of what type of insurance is best for your life circumstances. Let's start by looking at the pros and cons of each type of life insurance policy.
Term Life Insurance
The biggest upside of term insurance is that you get life insurance at very inexpensive rates, at least in the beginning. Term life insurance is very cheap if you buy it young. And for the first years of your policy it will remain inexpensive. But as you age, and as your actuarial factors change, your premiums will increase--sometimes dramatically.
Most people either drop or convert their policy to permanent life insurance when this happens. In fact, a 1993 Penn State University study found that only 1% of all term life policies were ever paid out. In truth, term life insurance is really designed for one benefit--to provide a cash settlement for your family in the event of your death. This is why term life insurance is often referred to as renting life insurance versus owning. It can be a great buffer against unforeseen tragedies, and can, in the short term, provide necessary, inexpensive coverage. But as a long-term solution, it doesn't hold up.
Universal Life and Variable Universal Life
Universal life coverages combine the benefits of whole life insurance with some other flexible features. Like whole life policies, universal life allows you to accumulate cash on a tax-deferred basis. The cash you contribute will be invested by your insurance company and the profit from those investments are applied to the cash values of your policy tax-free. Investments are handled by the insurance company and are usually in bonds and money market funds. Investment profits can sometimes be applied toward premiums; the flipside of that being that in years of poor investment performance, your premiums could increase.
Variable Universal Life is universal life but it allows you to invest your cash values in the stock market. Essentially it puts you in control; you'll choose where your cash values are invested and all earnings within the policy are tax free. Because the stock market historically outperforms other investments, the potential for greater returns is significant.
But the stock market is volatile and cash values within this type of policy can fluctuate up or down depending on how the markets are performing. Many of these policies are sold using illustrated returns that are truly not indicative of what actually happens. In 2008, when markets were at all-time lows, sales of both universal life and variable universal life insurance dropped off considerably while people sought safer investments and either the guarantees of whole life or the cheap cost of term life insurance.
Additionally, the cost of these types of insurance is expensive and they do not offer the best protection or guarantees in the long term. The internal cost of the life insurance within these policies is often very steep and can offset the investment gains.
Whole Life Insurance and the Dividend-Paying Difference
Whole life insurance is also called permanent life insurance. You can also say it's, "What you see is what you get." That is, what's illustrated in the contract is guaranteed to happen. You pay a set premium for the duration of the policy and upon your death, your beneficiaries will receive the exact amount of your policy's stated death benefits. Like other cash accumulating life policies, the cash values within your whole life policy grow tax free.
But even whole life policies can vary in what they offer. Dividend-paying whole life insurance, for instance, provides the safety and security of whole life, while also providing performance-based dividends. A dividend paying whole life policy will pay dividends to its policyholders based on the company's annual profits. Like universal life policies, the company makes investments for policyholders, using the paid premiums. But there are some important differences.
With dividend paying whole life policies, investments are made in very safe financial instruments such as bonds, and they also diversify by industry, maturity & geography. This keeps costs and risks very low, and profits very steady.
As the cash values of a dividend paying whole life policy accumulate, policyholders are able, and even encouraged, to borrow money from the account for personal financing. This is often called self-banking or the Infinite Banking System. The Infinite Banking system's whole life policy is structured to maximize liquid cash values instead of concentrating on the death benefit. Which means you can enjoy your money now and still leave a financial legacy for your heirs.
What the Infinite Banking System does is make you the bank. You will save with your bank (premiums), you will borrow from your bank (tax free), and when you pay interest on your personal loans, you'll be paying yourself. So instead of paying out interest to a bank or other financial institution, you make money on yourself. The dividend-paying whole life insurance policy provides the financial structure to make this concept possible.
There are numerous other benefits associated with dividend-paying whole life and the Infinite Banking Concept. Cash values within your policy accumulate free of tax. Distributions from your cash value via personal loans are also tax free. Withdrawals from the policy can be made tax-free up to your basis, or the amount you have contributed to the policy. Additionally, the death benefit proceeds pass to your heirs income tax-free.
The Company You Keep...
With these types of insurance policies, it is wisest to choose a mutual company as opposed to a company traded on the stock market. In a mutual company, the policyholders are the owners. So, the policyholders will be the first in line to benefit from strong company performance.
A stock company, on the other hand, is owned by its stockholders. It will be run by a board of directors who are trying to get the best return on investment for their stockholders, not their policy owners. This can make a huge difference in investment profits and dividend earnings.
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Dividend Paying Whole Life Insurance - Understanding What Sets it Apart
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About the Project
PARKS VISION 2030
The Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of developing the Strategic Systems Master Plan: Parks Vision 2030. The purpose is to update the 2009 Strategic System Master Plan. This plan will include an assessment of the entire park system, including the county regional parks and trails as well as looking beyond park borders. The plan will identify opportunities to leverage success through partnerships to protect priority areas and enhance regional connectivity for people and wildlife.
The Strategic Systems Master Plan: Parks Vision 2030 will reflect the current park system, identify current community needs and concerns, review system-wide best practices, forecast future needs, and identify recreational trends that will continue to elevate the park system.
The main elements of the plan include:
- Community Health and Well-Being
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- Exceptional Visitor Experiences
- Preserving Regional Natural Heritage
- Sustaining and Maintaining Park Resources
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Apple invents a new 'Edge-Swipe' Touch Event that could one day eliminate Physical Volume Buttons & more
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to proximity sensing. More particularly, the present embodiments relate to proximity and/or touch sensing of edges of an electronic device. Although the patent application focuses the patent figures on Apple Watch, the invention can apply to other devices including future iPhone, iPad, Macs or future wearables.
Apple wants to add a new kind of swipe action that distinguishes a standard swipe action from one side of the device to the other and one that specifically starts at the very edge of the display that could pull up a secondary menu.
The edge swipe could also trigger new actions. For instance, when listening to your favorite tunes, a quick edge-swipe up or down will control your volume without ever fumbling for a button. That would allow a future iPhone to drop physical volume buttons and be more waterproof.
Apple's patent FIG. 3 shows a combination of sensing touch on a display and proximity or touch to an edge of the electronic device; FIG. 4 shows sensing movement of proximity or touch on an edge of the electronic device.
Apple's patent FIG. 11 shows a flow chart illustrating an example method for performing actions using combined touch screen and proximity or edge touch input; FIG. 12 shows a flow chart illustrating an example method for performing actions using moving edge proximity or touch input.
Combination of Sense Touch on a Display and Proximity or Touch to an Edge
More specifically, Apple's patent FIG. 3 illustrates a combination of sensing touch on a display and proximity or touch to an edge of the Apple Watch (electronic device 100).
As shown, a user's finger touches the edge #103 of the Apple Watch touch display and then slides across the touch display in the direction of left (#307). The watch may utilize one or more combined proximity and force sensors and/or other proximity/touch sensors to detect the touch of the user's finger to the edge and the touch screen to detect the following slide in the direction of left.
The watch may then perform one or more actions based on that action. For example, the watch may display a first menu when a sliding touch in the direction left starting on the touch display is detected but may display a second menu when a sliding touch in the direction of left starting on at the edge #103 is detected.
In Apple's patent FIG. 4 they illustrate sensing movement of proximity or touch on an edge of the Apple Watch. As shown, a user's finger is moved in an up direction (#408) along an edge of the Apple Watch (proximate to and/or touching) and adjacent to the edge #103 of the touch display. The Apple Watch may utilize one or more combined proximity and force sensors and/or other proximity/touch sensors to detect the movement of the user's finger in the up direction and perform one or more specific actions.
For example, the watch may increase a volume setting when movement of the user's finger in the up direction (or decrease when movement of the user's finger in an opposite direction) is detected.
In another example, movement of the user's finger in the up or down direction may be used to scroll through a graphical menu in a corresponding direction.
Apple's patent application 20170322660 was filed back a few months ago in July. Some of the groundwork was done in the summer of 2015. Considering that this is a patent application, the timing of such a product to market is unknown at this time.
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Sound lessons make this rhyming explanation of the concept of gravity a useful tool.
A Beginner’s Guide to Gravity by C. D. Paoletti presents easy-to-understand information about gravity. Starting with Newton and his famous apple, the author explains gravity in terms that children ages three to seven can understand.
The book provides a remarkably simple explanation for an intangible and potentially difficult concept. Paoletti describes how Newton developed the law of gravity, what the force of attraction is, how gravity works between very large objects like the sun and the planets, and how gravity can be understood through everyday occurrences like that famous apple falling from a tree.
The accompanying full-page color illustrations are very basic, without a great deal of detail or character. Though unremarkable, they do an excellent job supporting the text, demonstrating the force of gravity by depicting activities that children can relate to, like going down a slide, throwing a football, and jumping in a pile of leaves.
The text is presented as a series of rhymes, an entertaining format that also limits access to clear explanations, particularly where rhymes feel forced—as with “Newton’s law states that / between any two objects with mass there exists / a force of attraction called gravity they both can’t resist.” Such awkward rhythms distract from the interesting lessons that the book is trying to teach.
The intention of A Beginner’s Guide to Gravity is to educate young children about the concept of gravity, and its lessons are sound. Parents who are looking for help explaining gravity to curious children will find it useful. This is the first book in the author’s “Science Piction” series, and both parents and children interested in exploring the world around them will be eager for the next installment.
Disclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book and paid a small fee to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Foreword Reviews and Clarion Reviews make no guarantee that the publisher will receive a positive review. Foreword Magazine, Inc. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255. | <urn:uuid:73c6ecb1-7226-48ca-8410-075fcd4615e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/a-beginners-guide-to-gravity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943887 | 465 | 3.5 | 4 |
A book full of Jigsaw Samurai Sudoku puzzles. 100 of them. Nothing else!These puzzles are also known as irregular sudoku or twisted sudoku. In this book, they are arranged in Sudoku Samurai format, meaning there are 5 Jigsaw puzzles in each one. Altogether, it's like 500 Jigsaw Sudokus!Enjoy!...
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The government is considering banning controversial loot boxes in video games as ministers seek to crack down on problem gambling among younger generations.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is today launching a consultation on the video game features, which gamers can purchase for the chance of receiving randomised virtual items.
Ministers have faced mounting pressure to legally classify loot boxes as “games of chance”, and thus bring them under the 2005 Gambling Act, which bans the sale of gambling products to people under the age of 18.
A DCMS Committee report on immersive and addictive technologies last year found that their use by game developers was likely to “facilitate profiting from problem gamblers”.
The video games industry makes an estimated £23bn a year from loot boxes, according to market research firm Juniper. Major video game companies such as EA have long argued that they should not be considered gambling as they have “no monetary value”.
However, last year’s DCMS committee report found evidence that loot box winnings can be exchanged for money, and that in-game features are “designed to exploit potent psychological mechanisms associated with […] gambling-like behaviours”.
Launching the consultation today, digital minister Caroline Dinenage said: “Our valued video game industry is making good progress developing safer environments for our children to play in, such as parental controls that can be set to schedule and limit playtime.
“But, we’ve listened to parents’ concerns about loot boxes and it’s right that we fully examine and understand any evidence of the harm, or links to problem gambling they can cause, so we can decide if action is needed.”
It comes as Downing Street prepares to launch a full-scale review of current gambling legislation amid growing concerns from both the House of Lords and the House of Commons that it is not fit for purpose in the digital age.
In June, a cross-party group of more than 50 MPs amped up pressure for the government to tighten curbs on the sector, and called for restrictions including a total ban on gambling adverts, independent affordability checks and controls on gambling game design.
A Lords Select Committee report on gambling in July echoed MPs’ findings, and called for tight restrictions on the industry such as a crackdown on loot boxes and the creation of a gambling ombudsman.
“If a product looks like gambling and feels like gambling, it should be regulated as gambling,” their report said. “The government must act immediately to bring loot boxes within the remit of gambling legislation and regulation.”
The last major gambling review in the UK was conducted in 2001 by Alan Budd, an economist and member of the Bank of England’s policy review. The 2005 Gambling Act was based on Budd’s report, but does not cover online and smartphone gambling.
Matt Zarb-Cousin, director of the Clean Up Gambling charity, told City A.M: “Loot boxes have blurred the line between gaming and gambling. We need a wholesale redefinition of what gambling in the digital age actually is.”
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December 2012: Three talks focused on communal heating were presented at the recent National Housing Federation ‘London Development Conference. The series of ‘go on, go green’ slides – downloadable here – contain some useful information:
- Sam Hunt of BSSEC sets out some really clear slides on the design approach for heat mapping, as well as issues that need to be considered when implementing district heating and CHP. Worth a look.
- Robert Greene of a2dominion housing association states that they have a 6,000 home development pipeline over the next 5 years, of which 70% will use communal heating systems
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First report of field evolved resistance to agrochemicals in dengue mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), from Pakistan
Parasites & Vectors volume 4, Article number: 146 (2011)
Agrochemicals have been widely used in Pakistan for several years. This exposes mosquito populations, particularly those present around agricultural settings, to an intense selection pressure for insecticide resistance. The aim of the present study was to investigate the toxicity of representative agrochemicals against various populations of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) collected from three different regions from 2008-2010.
For organophosphates and pyrethroids, the resistance ratios compared with susceptible Lab-PK were in the range of 157-266 fold for chlorpyrifos, 24-52 fold for profenofos, 41-71 fold for triazofos, and 15-26 fold for cypermethrin, 15-53 fold for deltamethrin and 21-58 fold for lambdacyhalothrin. The resistance ratios for carbamates and new insecticides were in the range of 13-22 fold for methomyl, 24-30 fold for thiodicarb, and 41-101 fold for indoxacarb, 14-27 fold for emamectin benzoate and 23-50 fold for spinosad. Pair wise comparisons of the log LC50s of insecticides revealed correlation among several insecticides, suggesting a possible cross resistance mechanism. Moreover, resistance remained stable across 3 years, suggesting field selection for general fitness had also taken place for various populations of Ae. albopictus.
Moderate to high level of resistance to agrochemicals in Pakistani field populations of Ae. albopictus is reported here first time. The geographic extent of resistance is unknown but, if widespread, may lead to problems in future vector control.
Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) are vector borne diseases of public health concerns in tropical and subtropical parts of the world , affecting millions of people annually . The incidence of DF and DHF has increased cyclically in Pakistan since the first recognized outbreak in 1994 with Ae. albopictus (Skuse) as the core mosquito vector in this respect . Currently, controlling this vector with insecticidal habitat spraying remains an important option to minimize the incidence of dengue fever , resulting in resurgence and development of insecticidal resistance.
Insecticide resistance has become a limiting factor in the use of these compounds in chemical control of many insect pests. The exploration of more efficient toxic chemicals and other control tactics are necessary with the increasing world population and preservation of species diversity . Frequent use of chemicals, such as pesticides, coupled with monoculture crops on a large scale, has generated pesticide resistance in insect pests, resurgence and difficulties in pest management . By 2007, intensive use of pesticides had resulted in at least 553 arthropod species resistant to one or more classes of insecticides (organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamates and pyrethroids) . Of these, 60 percent are agricultural pests and the remaining 40 percent are pests of medical importance . Resistance in medical pests or disease vectors is a serious threat to the control of vector-borne diseases, owing to the fact of insecticide-based strategies such as insecticide treated nets, indoor residual spraying, insecticide treatment of breeding habitats and also because of agricultural practices .
Various disease vectors are present in agro-ecozones and are therefore likely to be exposed to chemicals used to control agricultural pests. Despite the lack of concrete evidence, the massive use of agrochemicals has been considered as a key factor contributing to the emergence of vector resistance to insecticides . Insecticide resistance in disease vectors due to the selection pressure from agrochemicals has been reported from different parts of the world [9, 11–15], however, no such reports have so far been reported from Pakistan.
Crop losses caused by insect pest in Pakistan are upto 56%, and 20-40% of these losses are in cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. . As a result, agrochemicals with broad toxicity to target pests and non target organisms are being widely used in cotton insect pest management. The overuse of chemicals can lead to the phenomenon of insecticide resistance both in target and non target organisms. In the current study, we were interested to establish whether Ae. albopictus, present in cotton cultivated fields, had developed resistance to agrochemicals (organophosphates, carbamates, pyrethroids and newer compounds). These chemicals are commonly used for the control of cotton insect pests in Punjab province, Pakistan . We were also interested in investigating whether resistance to different insecticides was increasing or remained the same from 2008-2010. The present paper reports the first known occurrence of high level resistance to agrochemicals in Ae. albopictus. The data from such studies are expected to help in future management strategies so that the development of resistance is delayed to a maximum in Ae. albopictus under field conditions of Pakistan.
Materials and methods
We collected natural populations of Ae. albopictus from upper Punjab, Pakistan (Lahore, Sargodha and Faisalabad districts) from 2008-2010. The growers usually undertake more insecticides on cotton than any other crop . We therefore collected Ae. albopictus populations from cotton fields as there were higher chances of evolution of resistance on cotton than other crops. The collection sites within the districts were kept constant across three years. Moreover, a group of Ae. Albopictus collected in a date from a determinate place was considered as a population. The samples of larvae and pupae from each district were colonized under laboratory conditions at 27 ± 1°C and 65 - 70% RH. Larvae were fed on fish food (TetraMin®). Adults were kept in plastic cages (30 × 40 × 40) where males were provided cotton wicks soaked with 20% sucrose solution and females were fed on blood of white rats thrice a week . Fourth instar larvae of the F1 progeny were reared for bioassays. However, some bioassays were performed on the F2 generation due to insufficient numbers of F1 progeny. The laboratory susceptible strain of Ae. albopictus was collected in 2005 from mountainous areas of Islamabad with zero or very low chemical use and it was designated as Lab-PK. This population was reared in the laboratory for >40 generations without exposure to insecticides. The Lab-PK population showed lowest LC50 values for all the tested insecticides, and hence was used as a reference strain to calculate resistance ratios.
Commercial formulations of different insecticides used for bioassays consisted of chlorpyrifos (Lorsban 40 EC, Dow Agro Sciences, United Kingdom), profenofos (Curacron 50 EC, Syngenta Crop Protection, Switzerland), triazofos (Hostathion 40 EC, Bayer Crop Science), cypermethrin (Arrivo 10 EC, FMC, Philadelphia; PA), deltamethrin (Decis Super 10.5 EC, Bayer Crop Science, Multan, Pakistan), lambdacyhalothrin (Karate EC Syngenta Crop Protection Switzerland ), methomyl (Lannate LV 239 g [AI]/liter, DuPont, Pakistan), thiodicarb (Larvin SC 375 g [AI]/liter, Bayer Crop Science, Multan, Pakistan), indoxacarb (Steward 15SC, DuPont, Pakistan), spinosad (Tracer 24SC, Dow Agro Sciences, UK) and emamectin benzoate (Proclaim 1.9 EC, Syngenta, UK)
Bioassays were performed as described previously using acetone solution of insecticides. One milliliter of appropriate insecticide solution was dispensed with a pipette above the water surface in each glass beaker containing 99 ml of distilled water. Each insecticide was tested within a range of seven to eight concentrations to determine LC50 value, including controls, and each concentration was replicated at least four times. Ten 4th instar larvae were placed in the glass beaker in each replication and the total number of larvae tested per concentration was 40. The bioassays were kept at a temperature of 27 ± 1°C, 65% RH and a photoperiod of 14L: 10D hours. Mortality was recorded after 24 hours , except for spinosad, which was assayed after 48 hours due to the slower acting nature of this insecticide. Larvae were considered dead if they could not be induced to move when probed with a probe.
Stability of resistance
A decline or increase in resistance to the tested insecticides in field populations from 1 year to the next was measured by calculating R values i.e., respond per month. The R values were estimated as below:
Where 'n' is the number of months (6 months) after which a second population was collected from the same field. Decline or increase in resistance is presented in - and/or + values of R.
Mortality data, where necessary, were corrected by Abbott's formula . Data were analyzed using probit analysis based on Finney (1971) to determine the LC50 values and their 95% fiducial limits (FLs) using MINITAB 15 statistical software . Due to the inherent variability of bioassays, pair wise comparisons of LC50 values were made, and if 95% FLs of two treatments did not overlap at 1% level of significance, they were considered significant . Resistance ratios (RRs) were calculated by dividing the LC50 values of field populations with LC50 of susceptible Lab-PK. To determine cross resistance among the tested insecticides, pair wise correlation coefficients (r) of log LC50 values of the field populations were also calculated. The slopes of regression lines were compared using t-test in Statistix 8.1 .
To determine insecticide resistance, the level of insecticide resistance was scaled by using resistance ratios (RRs) in terms of widely accepted values as follows: susceptibility (RR = 1), low resistance (RR = 2-10), moderate resistance (RR = 11-30), high resistance (RR = 31-100) and a very high resistance (RR > 100) .
Toxicity of insecticides to susceptible population
The results obtained from the bioassays with the Lab-PK population (Table 1, 2) revealed that chlorpyrifos was significantly more toxic (non overlapping of 95% FL; P < 0.01) than the insecticides tested viz., profenofos, triazofos, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, lambdacyhalothrin, methomyl, thiodicarb, indoxacarb, emamectin benzoate and spinosad. Emamectin benzoate was the least effective compound than the other insecticides tested. The slopes of regression lines of all the insecticides were similar (P > 0.05).
Toxicity of insecticides to field population
The levels of resistance to chlorpyrifos in samples from all the three districts of Punjab were generally very high, with resistance ratios 157-266 fold. All the field populations tested with chlorpyrifos in 3 consecutive years showed very high levels of resistance (RR > 100). The highest level of resistance (266 fold) was observed in March 2009 from Faisalabad, whereas the lowest (157 fold) was from Lahore in March 2009 (Table 1). The slopes of regression lines of all the populations were significantly shallower than Lab-PK population (P < 0.05).
Among 15 populations tested for profenofos, five populations had moderate levels of resistance (24-26 fold) than the Lab-PK population, and the remaining 10 populations had high levels of resistance (34-52 fold). The highest level of resistance was found in population from Faisalabad in March 2010, whereas the lowest level was found in population from Sargodha in September 2008 (Table 1). The slopes of regression lines of all the populations were significantly shallower than the Lab-PK population (P < 0.05).
All the 15 populations tested for triazofos had high levels of resistance (41-71 fold). The highest level of resistance was seen in populations from Sargodha in September 2009, whereas the lowest level was observed in populations from Lahore in September 2009 (Table 1).
Moderate levels of resistance was found in all the populations tested against cypermethrin (15-26 fold, Table 1) compared with the lab-PK population. The lowest level of resistance was observed in populations from Sargodha in March 2010. The slopes of regression lines of all the populations were significantly shallower than Lab-PK population (P < 0.05).
Moderate to high levels of resistance were observed in populations tested for deltamethrin (15- to 53 fold, Table 1). One population from Lahore and four populations from Sargodha had moderate levels of resistance (15-25 fold) while the remaining populations were highly resistant (31-53 fold). Of 15 populations tested against lambdacyhalothrin, only three populations from Sargodha had moderate levels of resistance with resistance ratios ranging from 21-30 fold compared with Lab-PK population (Table 1). The slopes of regression lines of all the field populations were similar (P > 0.05).
Methomyl was significantly less toxic to field populations (P < 0.01) compared to Lab-PK. All the field populations tested for methomyl had moderate levels of resistance (13-22 fold) compared with Lab-PK (Table 2). The lowest level was observed in populations from Sargodha in September 2009. The slopes of regression lines of all the field populations were similar (P > 0.05) but shallower than the Lab-PK (P < 0.05).
Out of 15 populations tested for thiodicarb, three populations from Lahore, two from Faisalabad and three from Sargodha were moderately resistant with resistance ratios ranging from 24-30 fold compared with Lab-PK (Table 2). The remaining 7 populations were highly resistant to this chemical (31-37 fold).
Among the 15 populations tested with indoxacarb, only one population from Faisalabad in September 2010 showed very high resistance (101 fold) while the remaining populations were highly resistant with resistance ratios ranging from 41-89 fold compared with Lab-PK (Table 2). The lowest level of resistance was found in populations from Lahore in September 2008. All the populations tested for emamectin benzoate were moderately resistant (14-27 fold) compared with Lab-PK (Table 2). The lowest level was found in populations from Sargodha in March 2009. Moderate to high levels of resistance were observed in populations tested for spinosad (23-50 fold, Table 2) compared with Lab-PK. One population from Lahore, three populations from Faisalabad and two from Sargodha had high levels of resistance while the remaining populations were moderately resistant (Table 2). The slopes of regression lines of all the field populations were similar (P > 0.05).
Pair wise correlations between log LC50s of different insecticides
Correlation between emamectin benzoate and spinosad in the new chemicals group was non- significant (P > 0.05); however, resistance to emamectin benzoate was significantly (P < 0.05) correlated with profenofos and lambdacyhalothrin, but no significant correlation was found between emamectin benzoate and chlorpyrifos, triazofos, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, methomyl, thiodicarb and indoxacarb (Table 3). In contrast, spinosad had significant correlation with thiodicarb and indoxacarb but no correlation with the remaining insecticides. Indoxacarb had significant correlation with chlorpyrifos only. The LC50 values of the insecticides of carbamate group had highly significant (P < 0.01) correlation within the group. However, thiodicarb had also a significant correlation with deltamethrin, and methomyl with cypermethrin and deltamethrin. Within the pyrethriod group, deltamethrin and cypermethrin had significant correlation (P < 0.05). All the pyrethroids had a significant correlation with profenofos. Moreover, insecticides in organophosphate group had non significant (P > 0.05) correlation with each other (Table 3).
Stability of resistance across 3 years
From 2008 to 2010, resistance of Ae. albopictus to all tested insecticides remained the same. There was no indication of significant change (P > 0.05) in the rate of increase or decrease in resistance to the insecticides tested (Table 1,2).
Pakistan has a long history of insecticide resistance problems in cotton pests like Helicoverpa armigera, Bemisia tabaci, Aphis gosypii, Spodoptera litura and even in the generalist predator, the green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea. Here we have shown a strong indication of resistance in Ae. albopictus collected from areas of high agrochemical use compared to the Lab-PK population with zero agrochemicals exposure. The present experiments were carried out to evaluate the resistance of three insecticides from each of organophosphate, pyrethroid, new chemicals and two from carbamates. These insecticides have intensively been used to combat various cotton pests in Pakistan for the last two decades . The experiments were conducted for 3 consecutive years (2008-2010), and the results of bioassays showed varying degrees of resistance in field populations. Resistance in Ae. albopictus to chlorpyrifos was generally very high while moderate to high levels of resistance were found with remaining insecticides. Insect populations should be considered susceptible if a resistance ratio of 10 is exhibited , however, none of the field populations was found to have resistance ratio 10 or below 10. The present studies suggest that Ae. albopictus might have evolved resistance to agrochemicals due to possible cross resistance mechanisms among various agrochemicals.
Pair wise correlation coefficient comparisons of log LC50 values of insecticides for field populations showed positive correlations among most of the insecticides (Table 3), suggesting a cross resistance mechanism. The presence of two divergent patterns of correlation within agrochemicals indicates that more than one mechanism of resistance exists for imparting resistance to agrochemicals in Ae. albopictus. High levels of resistance to most of the insecticides might be due to multiple resistance mechanism . The mixing of new chemicals with conventional insecticides could be responsible for creating multiple resistance problems, which has been reported in Spodoptera sp. from other parts of the world . Owing to the common practice of mixing new compounds with conventional insecticides to control cotton pests in Pakistan it would be untimely to conclude that cross resistance exists in Ae. albopictus against these agrochemicals. However further studies are required to confirm whether the cross resistance between insecticides exists by selecting Ae. albopictus population in the laboratory with representative insecticides.
In the present investigations Ae. albopictus larvae were found resistant to all classes of tested chemicals which could be due to one or more than one resistance mechanisms involved. The resistance of Aedes larvae to pyrethroids and organophosphates has also been reported from other parts of the world . Insecticide resistance mechanism in mosquitoes has extensively been studied in the past . The resistance to pyrethroids in mosquitoes is mainly conferred by two mechanisms: (a) mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel or (b) by elevated levels of monooxygenases [30, 31]. In contrast, over expression of esterases by gene amplification or mutation provides considerable organophosphate (and to some extent carbamate) resistance in mosquitoes, and has been considered an evolutionary response to selection by organophosphates and carbamates . Monooxygenases play a minor role in organophosphate resistance, and little, if any, in resistance to carbamates .
In the current study, rate of increase or decrease of resistance to insecticides in the field population of Ae. albopictus was minimal, suggesting that resistance was stable in the populations collected from various locations. The stability of resistance in field collected samples conferred at least one justification. The resistance might have been near fixation, leading to a very slow increase in heterozygosity owing to combination of ecological, biological and/or biochemical (reduced detoxification capacity) factors [16, 33].
Though the Aedes larvae have not been directly exposed to agrochemicals applied for the cotton pest management, the results of present study clearly showed the field evolved resistance to agrochemicals. The use of insecticides in agricultural crop protection could indeed affects resistance development in disease vectors [13, 34, 35]. The cotton crop in Pakistan is usually sprayed with more than 34 insecticides of different chemical classes, including premix and tank mix products . These chemicals are mainly organophosphates, carbamates, pyrethroids, neonicotinoids and new chemistries and are used either as a single formulation or in combinations of two or three insecticides of different classes, the final aim being to generate a synergistic effect of insecticides for a better pest management. After pesticide treatments in agricultural crops, insecticides residues drift into mosquito breeding sites . These residues have lethal effects on larvae of some populations of mosquitoes whereas they exercise a selective pressure on other populations, leading to the emergence of resistant populations . Moreover, considerable agrochemical-insect contact could occur during mosquito flights between breeding habitats and blood sources and resting places, potentially increasing selection pressure to insecticides . Moreover insecticides used in public health programs against disease vectors are similar to those used for years in agriculture . Several hypotheses concerning the resistance in disease vectors have emerged e.g. some researchers incriminate pesticide use in cotton and rice fields as the main source of resistance selection in several species of mosquitoes in rural environments [35–39]. One important threat that may compromise future control efforts is the potential for cross resistance between organophosphates and pyrethroids. Resistance to pyrethroids has generally been associated with cross resistance to DDT , however, an esterase-based resistance mechanism in An. albimanus conferred cross resistance between pyrethroid (deltamethrin) and organophosphate (fenithrothion) . In areas where organophosphate has extensively been used for agricultural pest control, such cross resistance may pose a potential threat to future control of the dengue vector.
We now plan to look for pesticide residues in mosquito breeding sites to confirm the actual involvement of agrochemicals in the selection of resistance in Ae. albopictus. In conclusion, it is recommended that regular resistance surveillance should first be focused in areas where dengue fever transmission and intensive chemical agricultural pest control coincide, because these areas are more prone to develop insecticide resistance in Ae. albopictus. Continuous resistance monitoring will also result to identify the efficacy of compounds for dengue control and to facilitate selection of compounds with the greatest promise to minimize dengue infections. Moreover, public awareness about dengue, cooperation with public health campaigns to eliminate larval Aedes breeding habitats and Insecticide Resistance Management in combination with Integrated Pest and Vector Management are recommended strategies for controlling dengue vectors and to reduce risks to humans as well as environmental health.
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We are greatly thankful to Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan for providing funds to carry out this experiment.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
HAAK conceived, designed, performed the study, analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. WA supervised the study and helped draft the manuscript. KS helped in mosquito collections and bioassays and EASS helped draft the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Khan, H.A.A., Akram, W., Shehzad, K. et al. First report of field evolved resistance to agrochemicals in dengue mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), from Pakistan. Parasites Vectors 4, 146 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-146
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by Kat Armas
Story is the heartbeat of the human experience.
Narratives motivate and inspire but more than that, they connect us with each other. Listening to someone else’s story has the ability to transform us, open up our minds and our eyes to perspectives that we otherwise may not be aware of or familiar with. Stories also shape identity and culture.
Growing up as a daughter of immigrants in a city made up primarily of immigrants, meant that storytelling was a central part of my upbringing. It was common for us to sit around la mesa, or the table, and listen to my abuela, my grandmother tell stories of her life in Cuba.
Weekends were spent in the garden with our fingers in the dirt. During these times, Abuela shared sacred stories of her island: how its white sands and blue skies nourished her. As we strolled passed the mango and avocado trees in her yard, I’d listen to how she found solace within the stained-glass windows in St. Dominic’s church those lonely and uncertain months as a single mom in a new country.
Abuela loved to tell stories of God’s people in movement: like the story of Israel headed out of Egypt to the Promised Land, or Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem. Mary’s story was her favorite, and it soon became mine. Sure, the detail of a virgin birth was interesting, but what captivated me was the narrative of a young woman on the move, pregnant, in search of safety. It offered us a source of comfort and solidarity—the fear and uncertainty Mary must have felt for herself and her family felt familiar to me, to us.
I love the Bible because it’s full of narratives like Mary’s. However, the older I got and the more I began to learn about the Bible from those with degrees and formal ordinations, the more I noticed that it was the miraculous, the grandiose stories that were often told, retold, and investigated both in church and in seminary. We didn’t so much learn about God from the narratives of poor women than we did from the narratives of powerful men who kill giants with single stones (1 Samuel 17) or lead armies around city walls (Joshua 6).
And while these stories are important to the narrative arch of Scripture, there are many stories that often go unnoticed—equally powerful stories in which the powerless struggle for survival. The more I paid attention to the stories of unnamed women in the Bible, the more I began to understand the meaning behind the parable of the mustard seed, and how it speaks to a majority of the marginalized world.
One of my favorite examples is that of the bleeding woman in Mark 5. In this story, we learn of a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years who came to Jesus in a crowd and touched his clothes at the thought that this might heal her. After he felt someone touch him, Jesus asked “who touched my clothes?” The woman, came forward, terrified, to which Jesus replied, “your faith has healed you” (Mark 5:34). What makes this exchange so powerful is the fact that just a chapter before this scene, Jesus is found rebuking his disciples for being of little faith while on the boat during the storm (Mark 4:40).
Another example can be found in Peter’s mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-31). In this short narrative, Mark tells us that Peter’s mother-in-law is sick in bed. Jesus goes to her, heals her, and immediately after, she gets up and starts serving them. This is significant because just a few chapters later, in Mark 10, the disciples argue over who will sit at Jesus’ right hand in glory, to which he responds, “whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant” (Mark 10:43).
Similar to the bleeding woman, Peter’s mother-in-law does the very thing the disciples refuse to do, and exactly what Jesus kept calling them to as they continued calling greatness unto themselves.
If you look closely, this is a common pattern in Scripture.
There is a lot to learn from stories of God working within and through faithful people in our midst. But just like the narratives in the Bible, we often miss the stories of unnamed and overlooked people, particularly women, who have the greatest things to teach us about the kingdom of God.
These stories taught me that while God can certainly work through those with power: kings and leaders and miracles thereof, the most powerful aspect of the kingdom of God is that—like the mustard seed—it comes from small, unassuming things.
Abuela didn’t lead an army to victory nor did she defeat a giant with a stone. Instead, like Peter’s mother-in-law, the bleeding woman, and so many other women in the Bible, it was her struggle for survival lived out through her faith in God that makes her story so powerful. Learning to look for these narratives in Scripture and beyond has proved to be my greatest teacher and perhaps it can be yours, too.
Kat Armas is a Cuban-American writer and podcaster from Miami, FL who holds a dual MDiv and MAT from Fuller Theological Seminary. She is currently working on her first book, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us About Wisdom, Persistence and Strength, (forthcoming Summer 2021 with Brazos Press) where she writes at the intersection of women, Scripture, and Cuban identity. She also explores these topics on her podcast, "The Protagonistas", which centers the voices of Black, Indigenous, and other women of color in church leadership and theology. You can check out more of her work at www.katarmas.com. | <urn:uuid:0d9d14f9-8c72-4062-8040-cbb5928263a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.propelwomen.org/content/the-secret-strength-of-overlooked-women/gjebin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9721 | 1,218 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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Health has always been considered as the greatest wealth that anyone could ever have. If you have perfect health, then you could do anything that you could possibly can to improve your life. You could work and be productive. You could have the chance to enjoy the fruits of your long, hard labor with your loved ones and friends. But there are some diversions that prevent you from having all these—vices.
Although gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common condition and well known among the public, not only the recognition of its signs and symptoms should be emphasized, but also the pathophysiology – how it occurs – its treatment, and also the complications that can possibly bring about if GERD is not being managed properly. Continue reading
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a condition in relation to the digestive system, where the content from not only the stomach, but also from the gall bladder and pancreas, back-flow up into the esophagus. This disease causes various symptoms that people might miss out and with time as the disease progresses, the symptoms might become bothersome or severe. It is indeed a very common phenomenon among the public. Words like “heart burn†or “acid reflux†are well known complaints that we often use. But what is really going on? Continue reading | <urn:uuid:e587fcdf-fac8-4e45-a21e-43d3238ef02c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webdicine.com/category/acid-reflux | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962665 | 828 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Equipment Plates from U-190
These plastic plates identifying equipment in U-190 were kept as souvenirs of the surrendered U-Boat.
Surrendered U-Boats and their crews were the subject of considerable curiosity for Canadian sailors, many of whom sought souvenirs of their encounters. Equipment nameplates like these - small, portable, and easily removable - were good candidates. Kenneth George Tryon, one of U-190's commanding officers when the submarine was in Canadian service between 1945 and 1947, kept these plates as souvenirs. Other Canadians also acquired similar examples from the surrendered U-Boat.
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The problem with buy-and-hold investing, says our income specialist Zach Scheidt, is that it requires “a lot of work, a lot of luck and a lot of timing” if you want to pull down really big gains.
At our Baltimore editorial meeting, Zach told his colleagues about a one-of-a-kind strategy he’s developing. It’s as easy as buy-and-hold… but with better results and an extra kick.
“Imagine for a second,” he said, “that you could set up a portfolio where you don’t have to do anything. You simply put it into place, sit back and collect cash for quite literally the rest of your life.
“Frankly, it’s just as good as burying gold in your backyard… only it’s like burying gold in your backyard that electronically deposits cash in your bank account every month like clockwork. And best of all, you never need to dig it up. At maturity dates of your choosing, this ‘gold’ rises from the ground — and fills your bank account with even more cash.”
Again, this is an early-stage concept. Much research remains to be done. Ditto for our trend follower Michael Covel — who recently dug up an old audiotape revealing a new and intriguing twist on the strategy that’s already proven so profitable for his readers since he joined our team at the start of this year. We’ll keep you up to date on all of it here in The 5 in the final four months of 2016.
To the markets, where the volatility of late is taking a breather — but not for long.
Let’s see… Friday, the Dow dropped 395 points. Monday, it rose 240. Yesterday, it fell 259. This morning, it looks positively placid, in the green by 57 points as we write, at 18,123.
What was it Jim Rickards was telling us only a week ago today after nearly 40 days of small seesaw movements? Oh, yeah, “It’s when markets are most complacent that they are most vulnerable to shocks.”
And these weren’t even “real” shocks. They were just traders reacting to the latest speech by one or another pooh-bah on the Federal Reserve, as if the Fed would really raise rates at its September meeting a week from today. (Jim is certain it won’t.)
Today’s lull notwithstanding, the volatility might soon feed on itself, according to today’s Wall Street Journal — which says all these ups and downs “could force sales by a breed of hedge funds that use borrowed money to boost returns.”
Leverage — it’ll get you every time. Anyway, you read it here first.
By the way, Jim’s presentation to the Agora Financial editors this week was the most time-sensitive. He’s seeing rumblings from Russia that could deliver a significant market shock. The timing is urgent enough that he’s convinced our logistical team to arrange an online briefing before the end of the month. Again, you’ll hear about it first here in The 5.
Um… About that “surging household income”…
That was one of the big financial stories yesterday afternoon. The Census Bureau said median household income rose 5.2% in 2015, to $56,516. It was the biggest annual gain in records going back to 1967.
The media reaction was best encapsulated in the Financial Times’ lead, which said the numbers suggested “American middle-class fortunes are improving in defiance of the dark rhetoric that has dominated the presidential election campaign.”
The part about “Why are all these rubes up in arms?” was merely implied.
The answer to that question lies in the figures going back more than just one year. Adjust for inflation and median household income in 2015 was still 1.6% below pre-Panic of 2008 levels. Heck, it’s 2.4% below the all-time high in 1999. So it’s been a long, hard 16-year grind.
There’s less than meets the eye to other parts of the Census report as well. The poverty rate is down, but it’s still higher than 2008 and 2000 levels. And yes, more people have health insurance… but that says nothing about how much people are paying, or what they’re getting for their money.
Which brings us to a record level of credit card debt — $34.4 billion racked up by Americans during the second quarter.
That’s the highest level in the second quarter of any year since records began in 1986. The website WalletHub tells us Americans’ outstanding credit-card balances will top $1 trillion for the first time by the end of this year. Among households carrying balances, the average will run $8,500.
Even more concerning are the parallels during the run-up to the “Great Recession”…
“It is not a question of whether consumers are weakening financially,” WalletHub concludes, “but rather how long this trend toward pre-recession habits will last and just how bad it will get.”
Memo to Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf: The “It’s not my fault” defense won’t restore your market cap to its previously lofty levels.
“There was no incentive to do bad things,” he tells The Wall Street Journal — a few days after his firm forked over one of those cost-of-doing-business fines for “bad things,” in this case $185 million. WF employees did “bad things” like opening accounts for customers without their permission.
For the sake of appearances, the firm is putting an end to sales goals that pushed employees to cross-sell products — i.e., plying a CD holder with a home equity loan.
Heh… Deep in The 5’s voluminous archives we find this photo snapped by Laissez Faire Today editor Chris Campbell at a Wells Fargo branch on a sleepy summer day in 2013…
We likened this to a Zen koan, defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as “a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices… intended to exhaust the analytic intellect and the egoistic will.”
We mused whether Wells Fargo was commenting on the dollar’s constant devaluation under Federal Reserve “leadership” the last 100 years. Or whether it meant that if you invest the dollar unwisely, it will have less value in the future.
In the end, we suspected the intent was to “exhaust the analytic intellect” and induce you to buy, buy!, BUY! whatever packaged products WF was peddling at the time.
And we thought we were making a joke…
“Did the stock market rise in accordance with inflation in the 1970s?” a reader writes after we recently anticipated the dollar’s endgame, “or was the value of money invested reduced by the same 70% loss in the dollar’s purchasing power?
“Thanks. Love The 5.”
The 5: We don’t have the figures in front of us, and deadline is fast approaching… but the stock market was a terrible place to be in the ’70s unless you were lucky enough to buy at the bottom in 1974. And even if you’d held off buying until 1982, you didn’t miss much.
“What Warren Buffett says and what he does are probably two different things,” a reader writes after we noted the Oracle’s routine dissing of gold.
“Obviously, there is no way of knowing, but I would guess he has his own personal stash — just in case.”
The 5: Perhaps. Some years ago, Jim Rickards pointed out Buffett does have a liking for hard assets, if not necessarily gold. The Burlington Northern Railroad, which Buffett bought in 2009, is a collection of hard assets like track and land that moves around other hard assets like grain and oil. That’s wealth preservation for you.
“I was heading out for the Labor Day weekend and stopped by the bank (U.S. Bank in Kirkland, Washington) to get some cash,” a reader writes.
“When I told the teller I needed some cash, she looked at me at said, ‘Sorry, we are all out.’ Being speechless for a few seconds, I finally spit out that this is a bit like Starbucks being out of coffee. I told her I only needed $300, and she said she could ‘handle’ that amount.
“Is this just mismanagement, or is this indicative of the cash(less) environment we are heading into? I am not sure, but it sure scared the heck out of me. Just imagine if there really were a need for multiple people to draw out cash from their accounts. Methinks we are heading for a major catastrophe.”
“Can’t wait to see how ‘autonomous’ vehicles perform on black ice, snow-covered and ice-patched roads,” a reader writes.
“My bet is that there will be some great car curling bonspiels when autonomous cars meet winter driving.”
“Many times,” adds a reader from Wisconsin, “I have driven and the road was white or snowdrifts were across the road. You need to drive very carefully in this stuff, guessing where the road is, determining whether you can safely run through the drift or find another way home. Maybe you need to drive on the wrong side of the road, nearly going in the ditch to get around a snowdrift.
“What about after an ice storm? How fast can you accelerate? What do you do when going into a skid: How long will it take you to stop, what is a safe speed? We train our kids about driving in ice and snow by driving on the lakes in January when they are frozen over and you can’t hit anything!
“Driverless cars are great in warm climes, but in frozen tundra, it is a real challenge. Come up sometime and try it, and don’t let minus-10 weather scare you!”
“Being a sports car/muscle car enthusiast,” writes another, “much like the NRA supporters, they’ll have to pry the stick shift from my cold, dead hands.”
And our final correspondent wonders, “So how are people going to hitch hike, then?”
The 5: People still do that?
The 5 Min. Forecast
P.S. After 72 years of dominating the world financial markets… that wrinkled green money in your pocket… and your bank account… is on track to “retire.”
Exactly what do I mean by that?
In short… You’ve got just days left before a brand-new form of dollar “replacement” currency goes live. When it does, every dollar-denominated account in America could plunge in value.
It’s not just me saying that — I have this on good authority, from a high-level former adviser to the CIA and the Pentagon. I also know how you can protect yourself.
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How To Find A Lost Baby Squirrel
If you have found a baby squirrel, the first thing you should do is check it out carefully for injuries. If it’s an injured animal, it may be crying, covered in fly eggs, or otherwise injured. If it’s injured, contact a Wildlife Rehabilitator immediately. If the squirrel has an active tail, it’s old enough to live alone. Normally, a squirrel is able to live on its own from around 10 weeks of age.
If the squirrel is already nursing, there are ways to alert it to the danger. The first thing you should do is put a box outside in a high traffic area. Place a sign near the box indicating that it’s safe to feed the baby. You can place the box 4-5 feet off the ground and cover it with cardboard if it’s rained lightly. If it rains a lot, you should put it inside the house.
If you notice any signs of injury, you should try to rescue the baby squirrel immediately. If the squirrel is hurt, you should take it to a wildlife emergency center. They have expert animal care providers available. If the squirrel is healthy, it should be able to survive without mom, but if it is not, it will be in danger. When the baby squirrel is injured, it is essential to get it back to the mother as soon as possible.
If you have successfully located a baby squirrel, you can then bring it inside. Once the baby has left the nest, it will start to call for its mother. Once it is no longer a baby, the mother will no longer be around to protect the baby, and it might even be dead or injured. If you can’t find the mother, you can try to rescue the baby and bring it inside. If you can’t rescue the animal yourself, you can take it to a licensed rehabilitator or a licensed wildlife keeper.
If you find a baby squirrel that looks healthy, you can leave it alone. If you see a baby squirrel that is injured, take it to a wildlife rehabilitator or wildlife veterinarian immediately. If it doesn’t look well, it’s most likely dehydrated or is crying nonstop. If it’s ill, you should seek the help of a vet immediately. Keeping a baby squirrel as a pet is not only illegal but also harmful for the animal’s health. It deprives it of a natural life.
Read More: Where DO Squirrel Monkeys Live?
The first thing you should do is to try to find the baby squirrel. If you can’t find one, you can call the Wildlife Helpline and request a rescuer to help you. If the mother has left the young squirrel alone, the mother will be more likely to return and retrieve it. In this case, you can try to leave the infant in a nest of soft material and a hot water bottle to keep it warm.
Once you find a baby squirrel, it’s best to leave it alone until the mother returns. After the mother finds the baby squirrel, you can place it in a box near the tree trunk and keep it warm until it is able to find its own mom. After that, you should keep it in a box for a while until the mother can come and collect it. If the mother doesn’t return, call a wildlife rehabilitator or a wildlife control company. The baby’s survival is most important. Don’t let it suffer because you mistreated it. Afterward, you can move it to another location.
How do you know if a baby squirrel is lost?
If the baby squirrel is crying and alone it is likely lost.
What should you do if you find a lost baby squirrel?
The best thing to do is to leave it where you found it and observe from a distance to see if the mother returns.
If the mother does not return within a few hours the baby squirrel may be orphaned and will need to be taken to a wildlife rehabilitator.
How can you tell if a baby squirrel is orphaned?
If the baby squirrel is crying and alone and the mother does not return within a few hours the baby squirrel may be orphaned.
Where can I take a orphaned baby squirrel?
You will need to take the orphaned baby squirrel to a wildlife rehabilitator.
How do I find a wildlife rehabilitator?
You can find a wildlife rehabilitator through your local humane society SPCA or animal control.
You can also search online for wildlife rehabilitators in your area.
What will the wildlife rehabilitator do with the baby squirrel?
The wildlife rehabilitator will care for the baby squirrel until it is ready to be released back into the wild.
How do I know if the baby squirrel is ready to be released back into the wild?
The rehabilitator will release the squirrel when it is old enough to fend for itself and has been determined to be healthy.
Can I release the baby squirrel myself?
No you should not release the baby squirrel yourself.
The squirrel should be released by a wildlife rehabilitator.
How long will the baby squirrel stay with the wildlife rehabilitator?
The length of time the baby squirrel stays with the rehabilitator will depend on the age of the squirrel and its health.
Can I visit the baby squirrel while it is in rehabilitation?
Some wildlife rehabilitators allow visitors while others do not.
You will need to contact the rehabilitator to inquire about their policies.
What should I do if I find an injured baby squirrel?
If you find an injured baby squirrel the best thing to do is to contact a wildlife rehabilitator.
What should I do if I find a dead baby squirrel?
If you find a dead baby squirrel you should dispose of the carcass in a garbage bag.
What should I do if I see a mother squirrel with her babies?
If you see a mother squirrel with her babies you should observe from a distance and not disturb them.
What should I do if I see a squirrel nest?
If you see a squirrel nest you should observe from a distance and not disturb the squirrels.
What should I do if I find a sick or injured adult squirrel?
If you find a sick or injured adult squirrel you should contact a wildlife rehabilitator.
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This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created through British migration and colonial settlement. It also challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity. Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their own accounts of migration and settlement.
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Please read the full chapter before giving us your feedback
What are the key issues we need to think about?
The natural character of the Waitaki landscape has changed in recent years as a result of development pressures, plantation forestry, carbon forestry and intensive farming.
Irrigation activities in the mid-upper Waitaki Valley have changed the look of the landscape, reducing the natural character of these areas.
Regional policy identifies large areas and different parts of the Waitaki landscape that should be identified and included as Outstanding Natural Landscape.
What are we suggesting in the Draft District Plan?
To provide clarity around the importance of the district’s landscapes and features, parts of the district have been classified as:
- Outstanding Natural Landscapes and Outstanding Natural Features, the protection of which is a matter of national importance under the RMA; and
- Rural Scenic Landscapes and Significant Natural Features, which are of local importance to the district and are sometimes termed ‘amenity landscapes’.
The following areas are mapped as overlays:
- Outstanding Natural Landscapes (ONL)
- Outstanding Natural Features (ONF)
- Significant Natural Features (SNF)
- Rural Scenic Landscapes (RSL)
The draft overlays can be viewed at our Web map page.
The key objective of the chapter is to protect these areas from inappropriate subdivision, use and development.
ONLs and ONFs are provided with the most protection. Buildings and structures typically require a resource consent. Earthworks are permitted for the maintenance of a range of farm tracks and structures, but all other earthworks will require a resource consent. Plantation forestry, carbon forestry, intensive farming and planting of wilding conifer species are prohibited activities within the ONL and ONF. SNFs and RSLs have fewer restrictions than ONLs/ONFs, however resource consent may still be required for some land uses.
Key changes from the current rules
- Earthworks for activities, other than the repair or maintenance of tracks etc, would require a resource consent in RSLs.
- Fences, other than post and wire or post and rail, or that are more than 2.0m high, would require a resource consent in the ONL/ONF/ SNF.
- Agricultural intensification and quarrying within an ONL/ONF/SNF/RSL would require a resource consent.
- Plantation forestry, carbon forestry, intensive farming and planting of wilding conifer species would be prohibited activities in the ONL and ONF.
What does it mean for me?
Any lawfully established existing businesses or activities would have what is referred to as ‘existing use rights’ and could continue to operate unchanged.
If your property has been identified as being located within an ONL/ONF/SNF/RSL this would generally not affect you unless you were proposing to undertake new activities that could damage the values of the area. This could include large new buildings, some types of farming activities, exotic tree planting, earthworks, mining or quarrying. For these activities, a resource consent may be needed. | <urn:uuid:b6d48e7a-e215-4abe-9fd4-b62d4633ddc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Council/Consultation/district-plan-review/Chapters-and-Summaries/Natural-Environment-Values | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942607 | 656 | 2.25 | 2 |
By Steven Parton, FromCuriousApes.com
Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours combines itself in a way that suddenly causes the cerebral clockwork to click into place, and in this fluid flow of thought we find an epiphany rising to the surface.
One such point for me came in my junior year at University. It changed the way I viewed the world forever as it catapulted me out of the last of my angsty, melancholic youth and onto a path of ever-increasing bliss. Sounds like I’m verging on feeding you some new-agey, mumbo-jumbo, doesn’t it? Well, bear with me, because I assure you the point here is to add some logical evidence to the ol’ cliches, to give you what I would consider my Science of Happiness.
At the time of this personal discovery, I was pursuing a double-major in Computer Science and Psychology. Aside from these declared interest, I also had an affinity for (Eastern) Philosophy and Neuroscience. This led to semester course load comprising of two 300-level psychology courses, one 300-level philosophy course, and a graduate-level artificial intelligence course for both biology and computer science majors. This amalgamation of studies quickly tore my brain into a dozen directions, and when I put the pieces back together, I found myself resolute with rational reasons for optimism and for removing from my life the people who liked to complain.
1. “Synapses that fire together wire together.”
This was the first phrase my AI professor told the classroom, and to this day it is still one of the most profound bits of logic I hold onto in order to dictate the decisions of my life. The principle is simple: Throughout your brain there is a collection of synapses separated by empty space called the synaptic cleft. Whenever you have a thought, one synapse shoots a chemical across the cleft to another synapse, thus building a bridge over which an electric signal can cross, carrying along its charge the relevant information you’re thinking about. It’s very similar to how nerves carry electric from the sensation in your toe all the way up to your brain where it’s actually “felt”.
Here’s the kicker: Every time this electrical charge is triggered, the synapses grow closer together in order to decrease the distance the electrical charge has to cross. This is a microcosmic example of evolution, of adaptation. The brain is rewiring its own circuitry, physically changing itself, to make it easier and more likely that the proper synapses will share the chemical link and thus spark together–in essence, making it easier for the thought to trigger. Therefore, your first mystical scientific evidence: your thoughts reshape your brain, and thus are changing a physical construct of reality. Let that sink in for a moment before you continue, because that’s a seriously profound logic-bomb right there.
Your thoughts reshape your brain, and thus are changing a physical construct of reality.
2. Shortest Path Wins the Race.
Beyond the absolutely incredible fact that your brain is always doing this, consistently shifting and morphing with every thought, even more exciting is the fact that the synapses you’ve most strongly bonded together (by thinking about more frequently) come to represent your default personality: your intelligence, skills, aptitudes, and most easily accessible thoughts(which are more-or-less the source of your conversation skills).
Let’s dig deeper into the logic behind that. Consider you have two pairs of people throwing a ball back and forth. One pair stands ten feet apart, the other at a distance of 100 feet. One partner from each team throws their ball to their respective partners at the exact same moment with the exact same speed. The first team that catches the ball gets to dictate your personal decision and mental state of mind.
So which team will get the ball first? Basic physics of distance, time, velocity tell us that it will always be the pair standing 10 feet apart. Well this is basically how your thoughts work. Through repetition of thought, you’ve brought the pair of synapses that represent your proclivities closer and closer together, and when the moment arises for you to form a thought ( and thus throw our metaphorical ball of electric energy), the thought that wins is the one that has less distance to travel, the one that will create a bridge between synapses fastest.
3. Acceptance vs Regret, Drift vs Desire, Love Vs Fear.
In the time of my scholastic renaissance, this is where Eastern Philosophy came in and handed me a sort of Occam’s Razor of simplicity that I could use to strengthen my forming ideology.
It was simple, every time a moment came my way and brought with it a chance for reactive thought, my two choices were simple, regardless of the flavor you put on them: Love or Fear; Acceptance or Regret; Drift or Desire; Optimism or Pessimism.
And now, my friends, we have our two pairs playing catch.
Naturally, for my own well-being, I realized that all I wanted to do was move the pair of lovers closer together so they would always beat the fearful, pessimistic pair.And so I began to implement a practice into my life of loving everything that came my way, accepting it while relinquishing the need for control. The Buddhists say that the universe is suffering, and I believe this is because the universe is chaos, and thus by its very nature out of our control. When we try to force desires, we are bound to find innumerable occasions where the universe will not comply. And so I decided to stop desiring to the point of attachment. I started to practice the acceptance that Buddhists speak upon, to Drift in the Tao, to accept the natural flow with an optimistic love, to say to every moment that came my way, good or bad, “thank you for the experience and the lesson, and now bring on the next moment so I can give it the same love.” Over and over I did this, moving those synapses closer and closer together, to the point where any synapses in my brain associated with sadness, regret, pessimism, fear, desire, melancholy, depression, etc had a smaller and smaller chance of triggering before the synapses of love gave me my reaction, my thoughts, my personality. And so my default state become one of optimism and appreciation, and the illusory burdens I attached to this existence lessened.
Now, as I pointed out, nature appreciates chaos, and our brain is no different. And so it’s important that I point out that this obviously is not a fool proof practice that will completely eradicate negativity from your consciousness; sometimes emotion weighs too heavy and sometimes the pair that catches the chemical charge will be the negative one; but, like any muscle, if you exercise those loving synapses enough, you will find yourself in possession of a new innate strength that will make the world shine more beautifully far more frequently. You will also find yourself being far more happy because of better health–which I’ll get to in just a moment, but hold on, because we’ve got one more point to discuss beforehand.
So if your mind hadn’t already exploded when you learned you could alter reality with your thoughts, you may want to get ready for it. Because guess what? It’s not just your thoughts that can alter your brain and shift those synapses; the thoughts of those around you can do it as well.
If there’s any ability that truly separates us from our primate ancestors, it’s that of imagination. It’s the root of all art and architecture, of the (fictional) stories that formed religions that now control the lives of billions—even to the point of war over which fairytale is the “right one.”
That human failing aside, imagination lets us live in the past and in the future, and by escaping the present moment we can use our memories of the past to predict what will happen in the future; ie: I know from past experience that fire burns skin, so I know inside my minds-eye that if I stick my hand into a fire I will lose my flesh. This is so instinctual we don’t even recognize it’s constantly happening with every symbol that we’re perceiving in our day-to-day moments. But it is this ability that allows us to navigate the complexity of our society. Even more exciting is the fact that this skill also works with emotions, not just situations.
The premise, again, is quite simple: When we see someone experiencing an emotion ( be it anger, sadness, happiness, etc), our brain “tries out” that same emotion to imagine what the other person is going through. And it does this by attempting to fire the same synapses in your own brain so that you can attempt to relate to the emotion you’re observing. This is basically empathy. It is how we get the mob mentality, where a calm person can suddenly find themselves picking up a pitchfork against a common enemy once they’re influenced by dozens of angry minds. It is our shared bliss at music festivals, or our solidarity in sadness during tragedies.
But it is also your night at the bar with your friends who love love love to constantly bitch, whether it’s about their job, the man, the government, or about their other so-called friend’s short-comings, or whatever little thing they can pick apart in order to lift themselves up and give themselves some holier-than-thou sense of validation when you nod your head in acquiescence, agreeing like a robot afraid of free-thought : “Totally, man. It’s bullshit.”
But it’s not bullshit. It’s life, it’s chaos, and as you continually surround yourself with this attitude, you are continually trying out this attitude by firing the synapses in your brain. And as I explained above, every time you fire these synapses, you’re reshaping your brain. This is why it is so important to spend time with people who lift you up, because your friends are moving those fearful, cynical, pessimistic synapses closer together, making your default, short-path-personality as jaded and bitter as your peers. Want to be happy? Surround yourself with happy people who rewire your brain towards love, not towards fear of being invalidated. [[EDIT 11/8/15 : I’m NOT saying don’t be there for friends who are having a hard time and need an ear or who need to work through a difficult situation. Nor am I saying you can’t be critical about the failings and injustices in the world. Positive change usually requires critical thought.]]
5. Stress will kill you.
You see, the thing about all this negativity, of regretting, of attachment to desires, of pointless complaining about impermanent things that will always continue to pass in an existence where time moves forward—the thing is: it all causes stress. When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you’re weakening your immune system; you’re raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments–as psychologytoday points out below.
The stress hormone, cortisol, is public health enemy number one. Scientists have known for years that elevated cortisol levels: interfere with learning and memory, lower immune function and bone density, increase weight gain, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease… The list goes on and on.Chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels also increase risk for depression, mental illness, and lower life expectancy. This week, two separate studies were published inScience linking elevated cortisol levels as a potential trigger for mental illness and decreased resilience—especially in adolescence.Cortisol is released in response to fear or stress by the adrenal glands as part of the fight-or-flight mechanism. — psychologytoday
And if you need more evidence for the damaging effects of stress, there are innumerable more studies that show the negative impacts of pessimism, bitterness, and regret on your health. Here’s one from the MayoClinic and another from APA.
The bottom line is this:
The universe is chaotic, from unpreventable superstorms of wind and rain, to unpredictable car accidents or to the capricious whims of our peers whose personal truths even have the ability to emotionally damage or physically hurt others. And every moment holds the potential to bring you any one of these things, any shade along the gradient of spirit-soaring bliss and soul-crushing grief.
But regardless of what it brings your way, your choice is simple: Love or Fear. And yes, I understand it’s hard to find happiness on those nights when you feel like you’re all alone in the world, when a loved one passes, when you fail that test or get fired from that job; But when these moments come, you do not have to live in regret of them, you don’t have to give them constant negative attention and allow them to reshape your brain to the point that you become a bitter, jaded, cynical old curmudgeon that no longer notices that the very fact that they’re alive means they get to play blissfully in this cosmic playground where you get the godlike power of choice.
What you can do is say; “Yes, this sucks. But what’s the lesson? What can I take away from this to make me a better person? How can I take strength from this and use it to bring me closer to happiness in my next moment?” You see, a failed relationship or a bad day doesn’t have to be a pinion to your wings, it can be an updraft that showcases to you what things you like and don’t like, it can show you the red flags so that you can avoid them. If there was a personality your ex-partner had that drove you insane, then you now have the gift of knowing you don’t want to waste your time with another partner who acts the same way.
If you are mindful to the lessons of the failures, there is no reason that you can’t make the default of every day better than the one before it. Do something new everyday, learn its lesson, choose love over fear, and make every day better than the last. The more you do this, the more you will see and appreciate the beauty of this existence, and the happier you’ll be. | <urn:uuid:c911f6c4-6416-4b6e-9728-5073cbac6aef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oneradionetwork.com/health-articles/the-science-of-happiness-why-complaining-is-literally-killing-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934623 | 3,079 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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The collection of funeral servants (chaouabtis, ouchebtis) of the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre Museum includes more than 4,200 statuettes.
This first volume is devoted to figurines of pharaohs and members of the royal family.Object very representative of Egyptian civilization, the funeral servant is linked to a belief that the dead,
whether of royal descent or not, must participate the production of food essential for its survival in the hereafter. By taking the place of its owner, the chaouabti quickly faces the drawbacks of exhausting ... and eternal labor.
This magical role of chaouabti determined the typology of the object, whose allure remains almost constant throughout the two millennia during which its existence is attested.
The royal and princely chaouabtis do not escape this uniformity, the apparent monotony of which is however broken by numerous and precious variations of detail.
The Louvre collection has 167 copies, complete or fragmentary, belonging to the most illustrious pharaohs - Amnophis III, Sthi I, Ramss III and Ramss IV - and others less known, such as Senkamanisken, Pinedjem I and Npherits I.
The royal family is not left out, since the Louvre also retains the only known complete servant of Queen Tiy, and a sampling of statuettes belonging to royal wives and daughters of the Third Intermediate Period: Henouttaouy, Matkar, Karomama, Amnardis ...
The museum can also be proud of having the most complete series of chaouabtis of the famous son of Ramss II , Prince Khemouaset.
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SEATTLE -- The men form a small circle around their instructor inside a Seattle classroom -- bodies slouched in black school chairs, arms tightly crossed, eyebrows furrowed, legs spread wide.
Their instructor Peter Qualliotine pulls out a sheet of paper from his pocket and begins to read the woman's poem aloud.
While I was pleasuring you, life passed me by.
I should have been searching for a partner in life -- someone to raise a family with.
Instead, I was erasing your stress away -- nurturing your soul, providing you with an exotic escape minutes from your home, helping you cheat, bandaging your hurt ego.
They're just words on paper, written by a former prostitute these six men will likely never meet. But in this moment, the woman's words become a face on a pillow, instead of the stranger's body these men intended to use for pleasure. This is the first time some of them have ever contemplated the human toll of their actions -- at least that was Qualliotine's plan when he first designed the ten-week "Stopping Sexual Exploitation" course in 2013.
The unique class is the final and most unconventional part of the punishment for many of the men caught patronizing prostitutes in King County, where local prosecutors and many police agencies have recently shifted their focus to reducing the demand for sex instead of targeting the people who sell it.
In two months time, the men in this room have been forced to contemplate how and why they ended up in hotel parking lots to buy sex before officers met them with handcuffs. They've discovered their motivations for sex buying, talked about their place in patriarchy and thought deeply about how society's "toxic" definition of masculinity has shaped their own sexual identity. And they've been asked to consider the possibility that the prostitutes they paid for could have been sex trafficking victims or people who fell into the sex trade as a means of survival.
"It's called a 'trick' for a reason. It's called a trick because (the men) are actually paying for the illusion of consent, the illusion of mutuality, the illusion that this person wants to be with them," said Qualliotine, co-founder of the Organization for Prostitution Survivors.
"Quite honestly," he added. "In the majority of cases, if they knew the real facts about this person's experiences, it would be highly unlikely that they would choose to buy sex with them."
But can you teach a sex buyer to never buy sex again?
Not Like Other 'John Schools'
Unlike other court-mandated intervention programs for sex buyers, which range from a 15-minute video to an eight-hour lecture, the King County course spans weeks. Qualliotine and his co-instructors engage the men in deep conversations that are meant to change the way they think about their personal relationships and prostitution at its core.
"Is it possible that a video would be helpful to some folks? Yeah, it's possible. But it's extremely unlikely that it's going to unwrap the layers of socialization and mental health and all the things associated with sex buying," said Valiant Richey, senior deputy prosecuting attorney at the King County Prosecutor's Office. "To my knowledge, there is no other class in the country that is even multiple days, let alone ten sessions."
The class starts with two weeks of individual sessions before the group joins together for eight weeks. In the private meetings, the instructors work to build relationships with the men that sometimes form into friendships.
"It's not like these men (who take the class) are these well-adjusted, emotionally healthy people who engaged in this practice because they're mean or something. It's because they are desperate and because they are shut down," Qualliotine said. "One of the men said last week -- he said 'I feel like I'm just a shell of a person walking around. It's like I'm empty inside.'
There are eight men trained to help Qualliotine teach the class, and they each bring their own unique experiences to the table. Three of the class instructors are former sex buyers, who Qualliotine trained after they graduated from his course. Another instructor, Joseph Sigala, is a former gang member who said he can relate to the men because he grew up in a toxic masculine culture where he glorified exploiting women. Other instructors have worked professionally in the domestic violence realm.
Lessons about sexual violence, power and the harm of prostitution are built into the course, but most of the lessons do not directly address prostitution. The instructors teach the men about mutuality, love, vulnerability and how gender stereotypes have influenced the way they act and think.
"There's this belief, I think, among many of these men that this is some just sort of biological or genetically programmed thing -- that they are men so they are horny so they buy sex because they need to have sex," Qualliotine said. "And what we know is that these things are largely socially and culturally constructed.":
Why These Men Paid For Sex
The men who take Qualliotine's Stopping Sexual Exploitation class span all ages -- from 18 to 75-years-old. Some are single. Others are married with children. And many are working professionals.
For the last few years, the King County Prosecutor's Office has been tracking the occupations of the people charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor. The list includes a high school teacher, a Naval architect, an accountant, a firefighter medic and a librarian. The majority of the 174 men on the list are white.
In this class, the six buyers are white, Asian, Middle Eastern and African American. Two men said they are engineers. One said he's an IT professional who works for a nonprofit. Another man said he works in the construction industry, and another said he is unemployed.
"What is most shocking to people is to learn that the buyers are their dentists. The buyers are their neighbors. The buyers are the guy who their mother tried to set them up with at her place of work," said Mar Brettmann, Executive Director of Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking. "People think that buyers are these kind of pedophiles who are kind of weird and gross but that's not who's being caught."
Men choose to buy sex for a variety of reasons, but Qualliotine said it's often a tool to escape stressors in everyday life.
"For many, (buying sex has) become kind of a pattern of behavior and a way they deal with stuff -- a coping mechanism that's pretty self-destructive and pretty destructive of other people," he said. "They are doing it to prove their manhood to themselves and others. They are doing it because it feels good....They are doing this because they don't have the social, emotional, learning to really deal with stuff that comes up in life."
One 41-year-old video game software engineer said the "rush" of buying sex helped him fill a void after he gave up drugs and alcohol nearly 20 years ago.
"I feel like in my recovery from my (Alcoholics Anonymous), I kind of transferred certain needs from drugs and alcohol to something else -- kind of like trying to get out of myself. It's been a hard couple of years," said the man, who self-referred to the class after he was busted in a prostitution sting at a Seattle massage parlor in June.
He asked to not be identified because he hasn't told his employer or some of his family members about his arrest. That was a common request among the sex buyers asked to share their stories. Unlike many prostitution survivors who are eager to publicly break free of shame, the men who buy sex from them often mask their identities or don't talk at all because they're embarrassed.
The software engineer said he's been married to his wife for four years. But as a bisexual man, he said he purchased sex for a chance to be with men and transgender prostitutes, in addition to women. He said he usually met his "dates" at massage parlors instead of hotels.
"I like the risk. It was just kind of a thrill to tell you the truth. Sometimes, I would go to a different place just to see if (prostitution) was there," he said. "I kind of lost control in terms of impulse control."
Another man, who graduated from Qualliotine's class in August, said buying sex is his way of coping with years of rejection from women and rejection in other parts of his life -- from sports teams to fraternities to college majors. He's a 25-year-old IT professional, who also asked KING 5 not to identify him because he hasn't told his employer that he was busted in an undercover prostitution sting.
WATCH: A sex buyer's story
"If I can't get anyone who is interested in me, then I will at least pay for someone who at least acts interested in me," he said, adding that years of therapy didn't help to pull him out of his deep depression.
"(Therapy) left me feeling more depressed because I was actually thinking about the things that had gone wrong and all the times I had been rejected," the 25-year-old said. "But if you can get away from that and you get to spend time with a beautiful woman that you otherwise wouldn't ever have a shot at, that leaves you feeling pretty damn good."
Humanizing The Sex Buyers
It's true that some of the 200 plus men who've graduated from this course have beaten and raped prostitutes. Some have purchased sex from children and teens, and they've been forced to register as sex offenders as a result. But their individual crimes don't follow them into Qualliotine's classroom.
"We do call them to account for the harm they've caused and don't excuse their behavior, but (we) work hard to separate what they have done from who they are," he said.
He and his co-instructor Sigala said they make a point not to judge the men. Instead, they humanize them -- just like like they humanized that former prostitute by reading her words.
"When men are able to be vulnerable and talk to you and get to know you, I think they can open up and kind of start dealing with things," Sigala said. "That's never going to happen in a one day class or any class that comes with judgment or saying 'you're wrong.'"
The instructors focus on unpacking the complex reasons why the men behave the way they do, and they offer hope that a positive future can lie ahead if the men are willing to change.
"I don't believe there are any horrible people in this room," Sigala said to the six men in his August class. "Even when there's something you are struggling with, you all deserve rich, beautiful relationships. Everybody in here deserves that."
Qualliotine knows compassion is crucial to the success of this class, but he admits it's not always easy to show it -- especially after spending time in his Capitol Hill office, where he's surrounded by prostitution survivors all day long.
"Sometimes, it feels like there is a real razor's edge that I walk between having compassion for these buyers and feeling myself 100 percent accountable to this population -- primarily women -- whose lives have been destroyed (from prostitution). It's those stories I bring with me. I carry them into this class with me. That's who I'm working for," he said.
It's why he reads that poem.
While I was pleasuring you, the hurt inside of me grew up like a rotten secret garden -- overgrown and untamed.
I thought the money would make me happy -- my beauty and youth fading.
I would eventually be discarded. Childless, isolated and alone I stand.
Does The Class Work?
There have been no third-party studies that measure whether the King County class is effective. However, Qualliotine points to a stack of course evaluations and other internal data to prove that it is.
"Yes, it's working. One of the ways I know it's working is the number of men who have come back through voluntarily after they have successfully completed the class -- close to five percent," he said, adding that about 20 percent of the men agree to stay in touch with the instructors after the course ends.
He said the Organization For Prostitution Survivors recently partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop additional ways to effectively measure the class in the future.
The 41-year-old software engineer, who graduated from the class in October, said he's planning to go through the course again because it changed his life.
"I came to some really, really good realizations in there. It made me think about a lot of the abuse I had gone through as a kid and as a young adult. I had talks with my family because I had done some pretty shameful things," he said, adding that he does not plan to buy sex again. "I realized I need to start working on my relationship with my wife and really getting back into my old habits of when we were even dating and first married. I have to get back to being me."
His "ah ha" moment, he said, came during Qualliotine's lesson about who holds the power in prostitution. He said it helped him understand that he was enabling a "cycle of abuse" by giving money to prostitutes who may have been forced to work for a pimp or work to support a drug habit.
"At the end of the lesson, you would realize, 'Holy Crap! The person selling sex has no power. And me, the person buying sex, it was like 'I have power,'" he said. "My thinking (before the class) was that (prostitutes) have the power over me because they are like a store -- like a seller, and I'm the customer."
"I didn't do anything they didn't want me to do," he added. "I thought that made me better than other people who went and bought sex. But I learned that I am no better than anyone else."
A 45-year-old construction worker who completed the class in August declined an interview but responded in a text message that the class changed his perspective about prostitution and inspired him to influence other men not to contribute to it. On the last day of the class, he signed up to volunteer with the Organization of Prostitution Survivors, and he shared with the group that he plans to open up to his kids about his experience.
"Before the class, I thought that the majority of women in the industry were working alone and doing that work because they wanted to," he wrote in the text. "After the last class, I understand that most women in that industry were abused and from broken, unstable homes. Many of them have a low feeling of self-worth, and are in a situation they want out of, but don't see a way out. If more people knew the true facts, I don't think this industry would be anything like it is today."
But not every man completes the course with a new outlook. The 25-year-old IT professional, who also graduated from the class in August, said he gained nothing from the ten-week experience.
"Do I feel bad about my actions? No," he said. "I don't regret it because I didn't hurt anyone. I didn't physically harm anyone. I didn't rob anyone."
This IT professional said he plans to buy sex again because he said he believes the prostitutes he paid made a choice to be with him and were not forced to work against their will. He argues that prostitution should be legalized in Washington state.
"None of the women I have seen are sex trafficking victims at all. I can say that will clear heart and honesty," he said. "The women that I have seen naked, there's no signs of abuse what-so-ever, all right? The other thing is how many people do you know who have been abused drive a brand new BMW I series or whatever?"
It's no secret to Qualliotine that there are other course graduates who are likely to buy sex again, too. But he's more focused on the culture he's changing, and how many of his students return to significant others, children and jobs sharing his immodest goal to end sexual exploitation and gender violence.
"I hope that none of these men buy sex again. I really do. But how many men do we have in this room (right now)? There are six men. In a 24-hour period in King County, there are over 6,000 men who contact ads on just one of over 100 websites," Qualliotine said.
"It's a much bigger problem, and this class is not going to solve it," he added. "But these men have sons. They have brothers. They can talk to other people."
Some of the men in that circle begin to uncross their arms and listen intently as Qualliotine reads the prostitution survivor's final words.
While I was pleasuring you, I learned not to sleep.
Wide awake, overwhelmed by my thoughts, sobbing uncontrollably, unable to fill the room you tore open inside of me.
"How does that poem make you feel?" Qualliotine asks the class.
One by one, the men look down at their feet -- responding with uncomfortable silence.
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Before the Freedom Industries chemical leak in January, the Charleston Area Alliance concentrated on water resources and innovation as part of its 20-year economic development plan, Vision 2030.
Along with key industries in our region, such as chemical, energy and tourism, Vision 2030 focuses on water as an economic commodity and a job creator, spurred by the research and commercialization of clean water technologies.
The January chemical leak accelerated Vision 2030’s focus on the state’s water resources.
West Virginia is one of the most water-abundant states in the country. It’s a key natural resource that’s centric to the state’s economy.
That’s why the Alliance, along with several strategic partners, formed the Water Sustainability Institute (WSI).
The mission of WSI is to develop and commercialize innovative technologies to maintain, improve and protect water supplies throughout the state. Located at the West Virginia Regional Technology Park, it will be a center of innovation for water cleanliness and sustainability.
One key education partner in the WSI, West Virginia State University (WVSU), is working to educate our area’s schoolchildren on the importance of water as a critical natural resource.
Earlier this month, WVSU was awarded a $400 grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS), which will help educate elementary school students in the Kanawha Valley about the importance of water. The grant will provide resources and materials needed for the construction of science boxes that will include a variety of experiments.
These kits are designed to encourage elementary school students to learn more about the properties of water, including surface tension, density and solubility of various compounds. The science boxes, which will include nonhazardous materials, will be placed in all of the schools that were affected by the January chemical spill.
“The West Virginia State University student members of the American Chemical Society have and will continue to work to build professional skills and community outreach work on the topics that they are passionate about. This grant will allow them the opportunity to share their knowledge of chemistry with elementary schools throughout the Kanawha Valley region,” said Dr. Micheal Fultz, WVSU Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Activated carbon, sand, fine gravel, filter paper and funnels will be purchased for water purification labs. Pipets, pennies and soap will be used to demonstrate the surface tension of water. Soap, magnesium and sodium salts will be incorporated into the boxes to illustrate hard water and soap scum.
WVSU alumni have also offered to help pay the costs of extra materials needed beyond what the grant covers.
“Providing this experience to students is immensely important to the future of the area’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics education (STEM),” said Matthew Ballard, President and CEO of the Charleston Area Alliance.
“These are the students that will be the area’s future engineers and scientists. They are the future employees of our water utilities and our natural resource extraction companies that require water testing and innovative solutions. It’s important to expose them to this type of hands-on experience early on.”
Other partners in WSI are the Charleston Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Chemical Alliance Zone, the West Virginia Regional Technology Park, Marshall University, Marshall University Research Corporation and the Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research & Innovation Center (MATRIC).
Examples of the Institute’s work include:
- Commercializing technologies that reduce hazards to fresh water sources
- Commercializing technologies for rapid identification of water contamination
- Developing custom solutions to water quality and quantity issues
- Testing and evaluating technologies that maintain the integrity of the entire water distribution system
- Providing independent assessments and reviews of potential hazards, technologies, contingency plans, and related water quality issues
Currently, WSI partners are completing market research and defining roles relative to the Institute. Many of the existing partners are currently engaged in work that meets the goals of the Institute.
MATRIC spin-off companies are now working in the space and higher education institutions are conducting research on several ongoing activities.
With our recent challenges in West Virginia, droughts in California and China’s mounting water insecurity, water-related challenges are pervasive. Pairing this with the critical nature of water to both life and business increases the complexity of these issues.
Access to clean water will become the defining challenge of this century.
The WSI brings new life to West Virginia’s natural resource economy. It addresses global challenges and utilizes the principles of the triple bottom line, which is balancing the impact to people, profit and planet.
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as a chemical engineer, you are well placed to deal with my article and my response — I would welcome that, though I am equally surprised that you fail to recognise the problems we face.
first, look around where you are right now, mentally remove everything that has been put there by an input of coal oil or gas. Be honest — and ruthless.
That exercise will leave you sitting naked on bare earth, starving/freezing to death — -literally
Now, mentally replace everything that can be replaced using electrical power alone — ie the product of windfarms, nuclear and so on. Nothing else.
No other inputs allowed, and you must use existing technology, not theoretical physics that could, given time, deliver all that our civilisation needs for BAU. (reconfiguring carbon molecules out of the atmosphere isn’t going to cut it. Even though the known laws of physics say it can be done.)
Bear in mind that ALL the technology we currently have at our disposal is derived from the products/usage of fossil fuels, developed over the last 200 years or so. That doesn’t work in reverse I’m afraid.
Then you fall into the ‘transport trap’ — -in which pit you are far from alone. Greater minds than yours and mine are in there too. Heinberg et al are typical. Hawking and Musk are in there too.
We will have electric cars, buses trains, planes, ships. And then all will be well. Modern man has come to equate wheels with wealth. Few grasp that it is not the journey that produces wages, it’s what we do at either end of the journey that produces wages.
We produce wages by converting one form of energy into another, for which we get paid in energy tokens. We take those tokens and buy the results of someone else’s energy conversion, — the butcher, the baker — even the candlestick maker. — again — no exceptions.
The conversion process can only work if the energy input constantly increases. That increase compensates for the laws of thermodynamics.
If it doesn’t the system collapses beneath our feet.
That is how ‘civilisation’ exists. And has always existed. We cannot step outside it into some theory of ‘negative energy’ — ie always running on batteries. Having formulae that ‘prove’ that energy is infinitely recyclable does not make it happen in real terms.
Transportation consumes, it doesn’t produce.
No electric vehicle can function outside a fossil fuel based environment, unless the hoverboard figures in your calculations. A powered vehicle is constructed of metal, glass, plastics and rubber (plus other odds and ends.) And there’s some way of constructing a hard surface using electrical power alone.
No doubt the formulae for doing so can be proven.
The ‘alternative vehicle’ is made of wood and needs a horse to pull it.
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The process of identifying, analyzing, classifying, and remediating vulnerabilities depending on the risk they constitute to an organization is known as vulnerability management (VM). A vulnerability scanner is the key technical component of this procedure since it detects resources connected to a company’s network and assesses them for vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability scanner scans a computer system for known vulnerabilities such as unsecured software setups, open ports and malware infection susceptibility. A zero-day vulnerability is one that is unknown or brand new. For cyber attacks and security breaches, exploiting flaws in operating systems, devices, browsers, and third-party applications to infect end-user devices is the first step. Identifying and repairing these vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can exploit them is a preventive security technique that should be included in any security program.
The Elements of Vulnerability Management are –
Plan: Initiate by specifying the scope of the vulnerability management system, including what will be scanned and how it will be scanned. Security teams need to decide the frequency of scanning. Security teams must decide which resources are the most important and who has authority over them.
Scan: An organization’s entire network is scanned for vulnerabilities, insecure devices and software setups, compliance with security regulations. Internal scanning evaluates the cybersecurity of an organization’s network inside the firewall, whereas external scanning is done from the outside. Scanning both internally and externally provides a complete picture of risks.
Remediate: Remediation priorities are set based on the severity of the threat and importance of the resource for an organization, and then it is assigned to an employee who will be remediating the vulnerability. Low-level vulnerabilities are resolved after high or critical vulnerabilities.
Track Progress: Company needs to check the success of its vulnerability management programme. To do this companies, need to define a baseline, set success indicators, and track progress towards their goals. Companies need to improve their vulnerability management system, so they need to add the latest or newly discovered zero-day vulnerabilities to their database.
Proof of Concept
This proof-of-concept helps to understand the technical and financial implications of the vulnerabilities. It also helps in remediating vulnerability.
Thousands of vulnerabilities are discovered in an organization. They need an advanced risk rating algorithm to figure out which systems to patch first for effective prioritization. To automate the prioritising of vulnerabilities, the risk score should include threat parameters such as exposure to exploits and viruses, duration of vulnerability.
As a company grows, so should its vulnerability management solution’s capacity. Companies should be able to increase capacity at small expenses by adding scan engines to their current solution. The solution vendor should have expertise with similar-sized installations in larger environments.
Report Customization and Consolidation
Security teams can centrally manage prioritisation and remediation across the firm’s entire network, as well as monitor security risk and compliance trends, by combining data reports collected from each scan engine. On a single dashboard or user interface, the VM solution displays vulnerabilities, customizations, policy compliance, and other asset information like installed software.
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Official vulnerability disclosure programs and policies define parameters for security researchers, obligate businesses to avoid legal action if others follow their rules and provide instructions on how to report vulnerabilities discovered. Some organizations offer monetary or other initiatives to promote responsible security researchers to work in good conscience. The incentives are commonly referred to as the “bug bounty” program. Several specialized organizations that are well-known in the security researcher community provide bug bounty program management and support services. Following the discovery of a vulnerability, companies generally issue a software patch or other fix.
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A lot of women out there love to look good. Daily skincare is an essential part of maintaining your youth and beauty. Following the advent of chemicals, the market has become flooded with products that use synthetic fragrance to cover up artificial odors, win over customers, and bolster brand image. Most of these synthetic fragrances are manmade. The American Academy of Dermatology Association has stated that artificial fragrances easily trigger allergic reactions. If you have eczema, sensitive skin or are easily allergic, there’s a possibility that the artificial fragrance in your skin care products is the culprit.
So you’re saying that when I buy skin care products, I should only get things that are fragrance-free?
We all know that smells do more than just smell good, they also can soothe emotional stress and discomfort. Our skin care products can act as an excellent aromatherapy if their scents come from the essential oils of all-natural plant extracts. In addition, if your skin care products don’t contain chemical ingredients, they become suitable for people with sensitive skin and dramatically reduce the risk of allergy issues. However, the fragrance in most products out there today aren’t labeled clearly. Most get away with just writing “fragrance” on the label, which makes it hard for consumers to discern what’s good and bad for them.
How to say no to chemical ingredients. It might just be the answer to your skin problems.
Buying natural and organic skin care products can keep us away from chemical ingredients. By following the three points listed below, you can stave off irritants to sensitive skin.
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It is important to understand the main technological trends that allow us to build the services we have today and that profoundly change our daily lives. We will detail some applications and uses in Chapter 6, as they often combine several of these technologies.
The explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT) gave a special importance to the technology of embedded systems, which are autonomous electronic and computer systems dedicated to a specific task, often in real time, with a limited size and low energy consumption. They are called embedded systems because they are generally not seen. It is therefore not a traditional computer that can be used for many applications.
It is often a component of a larger system. It interacts with the external environment by retrieving information via sensors and acting on this environment via actuators to produce an action. We are in a scheme of “information ↔ reaction”. Embedded systems are numerous in transportation (automotive, aviation, etc.), electrical and electronic products (digital watches, telephony, television, washing machines, home automation, etc.), telecommunications, medical equipment, process control (production lines, etc.), smart cards, consumer toys, etc.
The characteristics of an embedded system can be summarized as follows:
The importance of these criteria varies from one area of use to another.
Like any computer system, an embedded system is organized into three levels as described at the beginning of Chapter 3: hardware, operating system and application.
The hardware level consists, in most cases, of one or more microprocessor(s) and microcontroller(s), integrated on a chip with memory, and input–output ports often with converters to switch from the analog to the digital world and vice versa. A simple system can be satisfied with an 8- or 16-bit microcontroller, but processors can be very complex in some systems, to the point of having massively parallel architectures. More than 90% of the processors manufactured worldwide are for embedded systems, so this is a huge market.
The operating system should be as small as possible and highly reliable. Several examples of operating systems are given in Chapter 3.
The application must obey the same constraints: efficiency, reliability and compactness. Its development is closely linked to these constraints, the hardware and the operating system.
The design of an embedded system often uses co-design techniques, enabling the hardware and software to be designed for a functionality to be implemented. The steps are the specification (list of system functionalities in an abstract way), hardware and software modeling, partitioning (hardware/software), synthesis of hardware and software (leading to a system-on-chip), and testing.
Training courses exist to strengthen expertise in engineering connected objects, critical embedded real-time systems, security, joint software/hardware design and modeling of complex systems.
The impressive growth in the number of connected objects (more than 80 billion in 2020, according to various sources) shows that the embedded systems industry is constantly producing new techniques and opportunities. They can be found in transportation, homes and offices, health, communicating objects (starting with our telephones), the industry, etc. Here is an overview of their place in a few areas; they will be found in Chapter 6.
All means of transport use embedded systems: planes, cars, trains, subways and even electric scooters. We will talk about cars in Chapter 6 and will simply mention avionics here.
Avionics covers techniques related to the electrical equipment, electronics and computer equipment used to fly an aircraft. Embedded systems have radically changed the way an aircraft is piloted: the pilot no longer directly controls the separate elements of the aircraft (engines, ailerons, flaps), but controls the aircraft at a higher level of abstraction. According to its function, each of these computers interacts with a certain number of sensors and actuators, by means of electronic circuits for acquisition and specific commands.
The latest generation of aircraft, recently represented by the Airbus A350, has led to an accelerated increase in the number of application functions to be embedded: flight management, fuel management, anti-collision system, ground proximity warning, equipment monitoring to improve maintenance, cabin environment management, etc. There are now more than 100 computers and software representing tens of millions of lines of code in a modern aircraft.
The importance of software and sensors in airliners may raise questions. The two Boeing 737 MAX crashes in October 2018 and March 2019 involved the MCAS stall protection system and highlighted shortcomings in the development and verification of MCAS software. Humans, in this case the pilot, must be able to regain control of the machine.
Household appliances have long been equipped with embedded systems: washing machines, induction hobs, refrigerators, etc. Home automation increasingly integrates connected objects, most often using wireless protocols such as ZigBee, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. In the kitchen, appliances are able to make the different elements (hob and hood, for example) talk to each other. We can imagine a refrigerator knowing what it contains and alerting us that there is no more milk!
The living room is the preferred space for multimedia: TV, connected speakers, games consoles, wall-mounted video projectors, voice assistants, etc. Automatic openings and closings (gate, garage door, shutters, blinds) are increasingly manageable remotely. We can control security cameras and receive images from our phone.
With connected lighting, the dream of controlling all your light bulbs by voice or from your smartphone and tablet becomes a reality. Light bulb Wi-Fi or Bluetooth: there is nothing like it to create a lighting ambience adapted to everyday life.
Energy management is also an interesting sector, especially if several energy sources are used (photovoltaic, heat pump, gas, etc.). We can optimize our consumption and energy needs for heating, air-conditioning, domestic hot water and lighting.
And there are, and will be, many other applications, especially with the objects we wear: phones with their multiple services, watches that record our heartbeat, etc.
The maintenance of infrastructure such as large networks or engineering structures such as bridges and dams requires regular monitoring work, the cost of which represents a high fraction of the maintenance budget. It is a matter of coping with wear and aging and planning maintenance in the best possible conditions. Bridges are subject to vehicle traffic and climatic actions (frost, heat, wind, etc.). They are monitored, in particular thanks to sensor networks, according to precise procedures to ensure their maintenance, prevent and diagnose possible problems, as well as ensure their maintenance and the necessary repairs.
The monitoring and maintenance of offshore infrastructures involves the use of numerous sensors (pressure, vibration, corrosion, etc.) necessary to monitor their operating condition and wear and tear.
The French rail network SNCF deploys sensors on infrastructures, catenaries and rails: data are collected in real time and processed to warn maintenance departments and even anticipate possible operations to be carried out on the network, which does not prevent us from experiencing delays due to various causes.
The industry makes massive use of embedded systems for process control, through production robotics, as well as to monitor possible anomalies and to secure the working environment of the personnel, for energy management, security (intrusion alert), etc. Industrial sites with major accident risks, known as Seveso sites, are of course particularly concerned.
What is called artificial intelligence has an increasingly important role in various applications. In recent years, it has been of interest to many scientific and economic players and has made the headlines.
This is a subject that has long interested me since I was one of the first students to complete a PhD in this field. It was in 1969 at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. I was interested in the automatic demonstration of mathematical theorems, while others focused on games such as chess. The idea was to show that it was possible to design algorithms and write software that would allow a computer to find solutions in activities considered to be specific to human intelligence.
At that time, it was a real challenge to show that a computer could play chess correctly, that is, by respecting its rules. Since then, the performance of computers and the progress of research, especially in learning, have reached such a level that a computer can beat the best players.
The Larousse encyclopedia defines AI as “a set of theories and techniques implemented to create machines capable of simulating human intelligence.” We will see that this definition is too restrictive. The notion of AI was born in the 1950s thanks to the mathematician Alan Turing, already quoted in Chapter 1 of this book. In his book Computing Machinery and Intelligence, he raises the question of bringing a form of intelligence to machines. But this raises another question: is there a quantifiable definition of intelligence? Creativity and consciousness are part of intelligence! For John McCarthy1, “all intellectual activity can be described with sufficient precision to be simulated by a machine,” which restricts the notion of intelligence. This discipline is therefore at the crossroads of computer science, electronics and cognitive science.
Until the mid-1970s, work on AI was plentiful (research on machine translation, robotics, vision, etc.) and produced some results. But AI was soon to fall victim to its original promises that were not kept despite significant funding, from the American agency DARPA in particular. AI survived its first winter in the mid-1970s.
With the advent of expert systems (programs that answer questions in a given field of knowledge, using logical rules derived from the knowledge of human experts in that field) and the approach of machine learning algorithms that allow computers to train on data sets and use statistical analysis to produce values, AI got a second wind until the end of the 1990s when, once again, everything came to a standstill, for much the same reasons: the results did not live up to expectations. This was the second winter.
It was in the mid-1990s that AI regained an important place thanks to the Internet, the massive amount of data it provides, and the increasing performance of computers. In 1997, the victory of IBM’s Deep Blue computer against Gary Kasparov, world chess champion, popularized the idea that a computer can be smart even though the Deep Blue program was just a set of rules, having a huge memory capacity where thousands of chess games were stored along with the different paths to victory.
We then witnessed a commercial recovery of AI, which became a marketing argument. There are many examples: “a robot vacuum cleaner that is able to clean a room by itself” (course material from a French school); “intelligent washing machine: this intelligent technology detects the laundry load and automatically adjusts the washing settings, to guarantee you perfect results” (advertisement from a major brand). Where is the intelligence? In September 2019, a Google AI manager described an example: a computer is given 2,000 images of clouds associated with the cloud type (cirrus, cumulus, etc.), and then presented with a new image to find the cloud type; the answer is not linked to any intelligence, but to algorithms that compare two images and calculate a similarity rate.
If I use the recipe as an example of the algorithm mentioned in Chapter 1, everything goes well if I have all the ingredients indicated in the recipe. But it turns out that my grocer does not have the chervil that is part of this list. What should I replace it with? My idea is to replace the chervil with flat parsley. I think this is the best solution; it is a “heuristic” because it is not an absolute guarantee and another person may make another choice.
In chess, I have the choice between several moves; for each of them my opponent has several choices of reply, and so on. I cannot imagine all the possible moves when I continue this analysis, which results in a tree structure that very quickly becomes extremely complex. At some point, I will have to make a choice that I feel is the best possible based on my experience. It may not be the best choice, but I base my choice on “heuristics”, which is different from chance because my choice is based on experience gained from many games. As such, we are in the field of statistics.
The example of the recipe is simple; the second example is less simple because it requires planning. And some tasks, such as translating a text or conducting dialogue, are much more complicated because they require a lot of knowledge, experience and common sense.
Can we develop algorithms that allow machines to solve these types of problems? What is called AI today is the realization of algorithms enabling the extraction of a property or a piece of information from successive experiments on large quantities of data (Big Data). AI has come out of its second winter thanks to the progress made in learning that is associated with intelligence.
AI is based on an ambitious goal: to understand how human cognition works and to reproduce it; to create cognitive processes comparable to those of humans. Our knowledge is the result of complex learning processes that take place throughout our lives. Can computers learn? The answer is yes. Can they invent, like humans? The answer is no.
This is a far cry from the general approach of AI capable of solving a wide variety of problems, adapting and learning; but AI specialized for a specific class of problems is much more promising and therefore focuses the bulk of research efforts.
It is the progress of machine learning methods that has allowed AI to develop and find an important place in many fields. This is because we have more and more data and more and more powerful computers. We can distinguish two levels of learning that we are going to summarize: machine learning and deep learning.
Machine learning has been used for many years. Summarizing one example, it has consisted of providing the machine with thousands of different images of an object (an animal, a car, etc.) and telling it each time that it is a dog or a giraffe or a car, etc. The machine gradually adapts its parameters to be able to distinguish which type of object is on an image. This is a bit like the trial-and-error method (we learn little by little from our mistakes as well as from our successes). This applies to words, sounds, etc. This method is also called supervised learning.
The machine will then be able to correctly classify images of cars or dogs that it has never seen during the learning phase. But can we really talk about intelligence? A system has to analyze tens of thousands of images of dogs in order to recognize a dog in a collection of images with good precision, whereas a very young child can distinguish a cat from a dog.
In the 1990s, work on deep learning, using neural networks (highly simplified models of neurons in the human brain), gave a new perspective to AI research.
This learning and classification system, based on networks of artificial digital neurons, is composed of thousands of units (neurons) that each performs small simple calculations. Each neural network is composed of tens or even hundreds of layers of neurons, each receiving and interpreting the information from the previous layer. The results of the first layer of neurons will be used as input for the calculation of the others. For example, the system will learn to recognize letters before attacking words in a text. This layered operation is what makes this type of learning “deep”.
It is this functioning that allowed the AlphaGo program, developed by Google, to beat the world champion of the game of Go, Ke Jie, on May 27, 2017. This victory was obtained after many training sessions with humans, with other computers and especially with itself.
From the beginning of the 2010s, we have witnessed an explosion of work that has led to very diverse applications.
These so-called intelligent systems allow us to talk to our smartphones relatively naturally (Google Assistant or Siri, for example), ask them questions and listen to answers (more or less relevant) with increasingly realistic voices.
Image recognition is already widely used in many fields such as security, (semi-) autonomous cars, medical image analysis, automatic text translation (even if it is doubtful that an IT system can translate a poem by Louis Aragon better than professional translators), health (with predictive medicine, access to “virtual doctors” in remote areas) and automatic moderation of social networks. AI is being introduced into connected objects, whether they are intelligent vehicles, smart homes, smart cities, surveillance systems or drones and robots. There are many uses: characterization (gender, age, attributes) or identification of users in real time, and behavior analysis (emotion, fatigue, attention). For mass distribution, it can provide a tool for analyzing consumer behavior. On the stock market, algorithms become the first buyers of bonds, stocks and commodities. Is this really intelligence?
A big question is usually overlooked: can we trust the decision made by an AI-based system? It cannot be formally proven that AI provides safe results. This shows that trusting it blindly when the decision may have serious consequences (as in the case of autonomous cars, for example) is a gamble. But humans themselves do not always make the right decision!
In addition, we should not underestimate the ethical issues that AI can raise, especially because of the accumulation of data stored on individuals. The use of so-called predictive technologies in the field of law enforcement or justice raises the problem of individual liberties. My health insurance company could change the amount of my contribution based on predictions from an analysis of my profile. We must therefore be careful that the use of algorithms does not transform our choices of society.
The opportunities are such that AI, especially deep learning, is seen as one of the strategic technologies of the future. The few examples of applications mentioned above show this.
All the major Internet groups (Google, Facebook, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) have launched research programs with funding in the billions of euros, and have created start-ups targeting specific applications.
Several countries, including the United States, China, South Korea and Russia, have embarked on ambitious programs in this area.
The European Union strongly supports activities in the field of AI, with three priorities:
In France, on November 28, 2018, the government presented a national strategy for research in AI based on the report presented in the spring of 2018 by MP and mathematician Cédric Villani. Funded by the State to the tune of 665 million euros between now and 2022, this strategy aims to establish France sustainably in the top five countries that are experts in AI worldwide. Utopia? In any case, this strategy must be part of a European framework if we want to achieve critical mass in the face of the Americans and the Chinese.
Although much studied scientifically, there is no clear definition of intelligence, and many questions remain unanswered. But intelligence cannot be reduced to the ability to solve a specific problem, for example, beating the world chess champion. Real life requires making many more choices than playing chess. Goals are often vague and evaluation difficult. We must take into account the sensitive experience of the world and reject the idea of knowledge reduced to mind and reason.
AI has become much more efficient thanks to the development of learning theories and the tremendous growth in computer performance. Today’s systems, no matter how powerful they are, are specialized: they can only do what they were created to do. They lack the ability to acquire new skills in any field, which is a characteristic of human intelligence. Our learning is unsupervised because it allows us to uncover and understand the world in all its dimensions.
The field of computer science inspired by the human brain is still in its infancy. Although deep learning has become a buzzword in less than three years, there is still much work to be done in this exciting field. Yann LeCun2, one of the pioneers of deep learning, is pragmatic and reminds us that the AI field has often suffered from disproportionate expectations.
This notion of AI is the subject of many debates. Personalities such as Bill Gates, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed their concerns in 2015 about the progress made in the field of AI, which they considered potentially dangerous. But Bill Gates has since reportedly revised his position.
In reality, it is a set of technologies that become essential: they assist us in many tasks. They rely on increasingly sophisticated algorithms to provide an environment for developing services and applications to help us in decision-making. Luc Julia (2019) prefers to talk about “augmented intelligence” in his book L’intelligence artificielle n’existe pas, rejecting the idea that machines will be able to take power over humans.
Will the virtual human brain, the goal of projects such as the Brain Initiative in the United States or the Human Brain Project in Europe, be intelligent?
Chapter 2 gave a brief presentation of the Internet, its history, the protocols used, etc. But the Internet has and will increasingly mark our personal environments and society as a whole. It is therefore an essential technological base.
The evolution of the Internet can be summarized in five phases. The first was the connection of two and then several computers. Then the Web allowed access to shared services. The possibility of connecting mobile devices marked a new stage, the mobile Internet. The arrival of social networks and the communication of groups of people was the fourth phase. Finally, the Internet of Things is the stage we are currently experiencing.
Mobile Internet is the set of technologies designed to access the Internet using mobile networks, in particular the networks accessible by our phones. Its very rapid development has been possible thanks to the development of networks, on the one hand (3G, 4G and soon 5G), and terminal equipment, on the other hand.
Tablets, and especially smartphones, with high-definition screens, are repositioning computers to navigate the Web. Arcep (Autorité de regulation des communications électroniques et des postes, the French regulatory authority for electronic communications and postal services) indicated, in its 2018 edition of the “Baromètre du numérique”, that 46% of French people over the age of 12 years use their smartphone to access the Internet.
After 3G networks, 4G networks (introduced in 2013) allowed mobile data to increase loading speed considerably. 4G allows web pages to be displayed almost instantaneously, to stream HD videos without any difficulty, etc.
We must not forget Wi-Fi technology, which makes it possible to avoid using the services of an operator. When American or Brazilian friends arrive at my house, they ask me for the password to my Wi-Fi box, which allows them to communicate with their country for free from their phone! In addition, Wi-Fi access points are multiplying in all public places. Websites are developing interfaces adapted to telephones, particularly in e-commerce.
The Internet has witnessed the rise of social networks, some of which have become real social media, allowing Internet users and professionals to create a profile page and share information, photos and videos with their network. The mobile is omnipresent: more than five out of six users use their mobile phone to access social networks.
We can distinguish several categories of social networks: generalist networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), professional networks (LinkedIn, Viadeo, etc.), video networks (YouTube, Periscope, etc.), visual networks (Instagram, Pinterest, etc.), and community networks of all kinds. Facebook is the most active network with 2.3 billion users per month worldwide (35 million alone in France).
Online conversations allow us to understand the new democratic balances, as well as the consumption trends of millions of individuals. This is why specialized companies offer services that allow companies to take advantage of the power of social media. However, we can have the feeling that these platforms are useless when delirious emotional flows are pouring out where vulgarity, manipulation and aggressiveness between members can reign supreme. This being the case, they have been unavoidable platforms for several years, even if some countries, such as China, are trying to turn them around.
Dangers associated with social networks exist, such as:
This is the world in which objects are able to exchange information and communicate with each other, as well as to communicate and interact with their users using the Internet and also other less known but still efficient communication networks (see Chapter 2).
Also explained in Chapter 2, the Cloud allows us to store and access our data (such as our photos) on any computer or smartphone connected to the Internet, anywhere on the planet! But the protection and use of our data remains questionable.
Blockchain is a technology created in 2008 by an individual known as Satoshi Nakamoto, whom no one has ever seen, with Bitcoin (the much-talked about cryptocurrency) as its first application. Simply put, blockchain is a distributed database system that makes it possible to render forgery-proof transaction history. Blockchain is “a technology for storing and transmitting information that is transparent, secure and operates without a central control body” (definition of Blockchain France).
Blockchain allows a transfer of value (money or other) without an intermediary (bank or other). It allows data to be recorded that are authenticated, certified and cannot be repudiated.
There are public blockchains, open to all, and private blockchains, whose access and use are limited to a certain number of actors. The decentralized nature of the blockchain, coupled with its security and transparency, promises much broader applications than the monetary domain.
The Internet has a very important role in the implementation of this technology. One of the problems encountered is energy consumption because the “miners”, who are responsible for validating transactions, use complex algorithms that involve many computers.
We have discussed security in the different areas of IT technologies and applications, and will continue to do so in the remainder of this book. Vulnerability can have an impact that is not very serious, for example, in connected objects (although the impact could be serious if a hacker took control of your car!).
More generally, what would be the consequences of a coordinated attack on global banking networks or on government networks or those used by airlines? The military are of course very concerned and also use specific networks that are not connected to the Internet, while at the same time developing very advanced research in the field of security (DGA Maîtrise de l’information, located near Rennes, in France, is a very important research center in this field).
Image processing is a discipline of computer science and applied mathematics that studies digital images and their transformations, with the aim of improving their quality or extracting information from them. It began long before the appearance of digital photography, which we all know, since it gradually took the place of analog photography, born at the beginning of the 19th century, with electronic sensors (CCD or CMOS) replacing film.
It is a technology that we will find in a large number of applications.
Image processing began to be studied in the 1920s for the transmission of images via the submarine cable linking New York and London. The first image digitization with data compression reduced the transfer time from more than a week to less than three hours, but the first computers powerful enough to carry out image processing appeared in the 1960s.
Since the beginning of the conquest of space, more than 60 years ago, space imagery has changed our representations of the planet. Its instruments provide a multitude of useful information to meet the major scientific and socio-economic challenges of our time, including climate change.
While the image made its appearance in medicine with the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1896, the computer processing of medical images developed from the end of the 1960s.
Since the 1970s, there has been a diversification in the use of images: geography, biology, astronomy, medicine, agronomy, nuclear, robotics, surveillance and security, industrial control, television, satellite, microscopy, multimedia, etc. This development is closely linked to the progress made by research in the fields of mathematics, computer science and electronics.
We are used to images that represent visible scenes; these are the images of everyday life. But there are many sources of images, associated with physical phenomena and adapted sensors.
X-rays are one of the oldest sources of electromagnetic radiation used in imaging. They are used to locate pathologies (infections, tumors) using radiography or CT scans. They are also used in industry and astronomy. Ultraviolet, which is not visible, is used in the analysis of minerals, gems or for the identification of all kinds of things such as banknotes. Infrared is particularly used in remote sensing (geology, cartography, weather forecasting), microscopy, photography, etc. Radars use microwaves. Radio waves are used in medicine for magnetic resonance imaging or in astronomy. Ultrasound is used in the exploration of oil deposits, or to monitor a pregnancy (obstetrics).
Devices can combine several types of spectra, for example on Earth observation satellites that differentiate between soils, vegetation, snow and clouds, areas with different temperatures, etc.
The computer representation of an image is necessarily discrete (made up of separate distinct values), whereas the image itself is continuous in nature (“smooth” variations); the digital image is represented by a set of numbers. It is thus necessary to digitize the analogical image in order to visualize it, print it, process it, store it on a data processing medium and transmit it on a network.
Digitization requires at the same time a discretization of space (sampling) and a discretization of intensities and colors (quantification).
Sampling (Figure 5.3) defines the spatial resolution of the image. A digital image is composed of a finite set of elements, called picture elements or pixels (in 3D, voxels). The more dots per inch (dpi), the better the resolution and therefore the quality of the image.
Each pixel is located by two x and y coordinates in the image frame. A 2D image is therefore an object represented by a two-dimensional array of elementary surfaces (the pixels).
A digital grayscale image is an array of integers between 0 and 255 (the value 0 corresponds to black, and the value 255 corresponds to white), which are therefore encoded on 8 bits (1 byte).
A color image is composed of three independent images to represent the three primary colors (red, green and blue). Each pixel of the color image thus contains three numbers (r, v, b), each being an integer between 0 and 255. We will thus have 24 bits per pixel.
Figure 5.4 shows three examples of displaying an image with different resolutions and therefore different qualities: 1,159 x 298 pixels, 800 x 206 pixels, 320 x 82 pixels.
A video sequence (2D) is a dynamic scene with moving 2D objects. 2D video sequences are a juxtaposition of 2D images, where time is seen as a third dimension.
A volume image (3D) is an object represented by a three-dimensional array of elementary volumes (voxels). A volume can be seen as a stack of 2D images (e.g. scanner sections for 3D reconstruction). A 3D sequence is a dynamic scene with moving 3D objects.
We store the images as files. The information that will be stored is the width, height and pixel values. We will also be able to save the name of the author, date, acquisition conditions, etc.
The volume of these files is very large, which poses serious problems, especially when it comes to transmitting them. For example, a color image with dimensions (pixels) 800 x 600 will occupy 1.4 million bytes. The images will be compressed to reduce the amount of information needed to represent them, while minimizing the loss of information as much as possible. Several compression formats exist, and we encounter them in our common use of image-manipulating applications.
The main uncompressed image formats are BITMAP (no loss of quality, but large files) and TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, a format recognized by all operating systems, with large files).
The main lossy compressed image formats are JPEG (with several possible quality levels depending on the compression ratio) whose successor (JPEG 2000) provides a better quality image and GIF (Graphic Interchange Format).
The images in Figure 5.5 show the degradation of quality as a function of the JPEG compression rate, with the volume occupied by this image decreasing from 2.88 MB for the actual size to 38.66 KB (the degradation is particularly visible on the clown’s nose).
In addition, certain standards have been defined for specific areas. This is the case of DICOM, an international standard for the computerized management of medical imaging data.
Computers allow us, on the one hand, to process images (i.e. to act on the components of the image), and, on the other hand, to analyze the images (i.e. to extract information from them). All of this calls upon various scientific fields: signal processing, computer science, statistics, optics, electronics, information theory, etc.
This is all about getting a new image with different characteristics. We can quote:
The purpose of image analysis is to extract information from the image. Among the tools used are filtering, segmentation and contour extraction.
The final step is the semantic analysis of the image in order to give meaning to it. It uses techniques, such as AI algorithms, to interpret the image by locating, characterizing and recognizing objects and other elements in the scene.
Image processing is used in many applications. Here are some of them (some of them will be detailed in Chapter 6):
Algorithms and software are the basis of these technologies, which are found in many applications that we will see in Chapter 6 and that we use daily or that are hidden from us for various reasons (industrial competition, surveillance, defense secrecy, etc.).
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An inlaid painted pottery jar Majiayao culture, Machang phase, c. 2200-2000 B.C. 馬家窰文化 馬廠類型 嵌寶彩陶罐
Property from the Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
An inlaid painted pottery jar
Majiayao culture, Machang phase, c. 2200-2000 B.C.
Ronald W. Longsdorf 收藏
馬家窰文化 馬廠類型 嵌寶彩陶罐
h. 10.6 cm
Losses to some inlays and some retouching to the paint, possibly to conceal rim and body breaks, as expected of its type.
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The present jar is a perfect testament demonstrating how Neolithic potters adroitly drew inspiration from their daily routine, as well as their innovation in using materials readily available to them to ornate utilitarian wares.
The bulbous body of the jar is painted with cross-hatched pattern resembling what one would imagine as a fishing cage. The design is further enhanced by irregular white bosses each set on a black lacquer-like adhesive. On careful examination with their rugged topography, these inlays appear to be shell bosses. The decoration on the present piece draws strong allusions to the fishing culture, one of the common lifestyles in contemporary society.
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This project started during some research into 3D powder printing, but there are other applications which require full/more flexible control over print head than can easily be obtained with hacking an existing printer:
- Ping pong ball printer
- Wooden nickel printer
- Direct to garment printing
- Turtle bot printers
- Ticker tape printers
It was discovered that there is a lack of DIY inkjet kits available. Parallax made a kit which is no longer available and the book “Inkjet Applications” by Matt Gilliland is now out of print.
I was able to borrow a copy of this book which became the primary resource used in developing this project. It contains information about directly controlling the HP 51604 cartridge with a microcontroller and Darlington arrays. The problem with this head is that the cartridge holder is not available. Some research was done into these small 12 nozzle cartridges and the HP C6602 was found. This head has a carriage holder that is available to purchase. Initial tests were done with just Darlington arrays and required 12 output pins on the Arduino. They were also done using 32v power supplies regulated down to 21v vs 12v boosted up.
Below is the development history of this shield. It started as an Arduino only shield which was designed to be as small as possible (v0.1). I then decided to make the shield more versatile and started the KickStarter to see if there was enough interest to make a production run. This lead to the 3 iterations of the v1.0 board. These should probably have been different version numbers but I failed to change that for the boards I produced.
- Compatible with Arduino
- Uses pins 2-6
- On-board 18.5V boost converter for Inkjet head
- Accepts 9-12V input via barrel jack connector or from the Vin of the Arduino
- Power switch
- Auxiliary output header supports an extension cable to the inkjet head (not room to install header, see below)
- Power and Pulse activity LEDs
- ISCP header and Reset button
- All through-hole components
- P1 – Rear hole too small for my specific barrel jack. Others fit fine.
- SW1 – Hole pattern wrong, required bending the switch legs slightly.
- R4 – Both holes too small, required fix as shown below.
- D1 – Both holes too small, required fix as shown below.
- P3 – Too close to C1 and header pins, this was an optional aux header anyway.
- Shield holes only fit stackable headers.
- Compatible Arduino Mega
- Uses 5 user selectable pins
- Stackable (up to 11 Inkshields on Ardunio, 15 on Mega)
- Auxiliary input header offers support for other microcontrollers
- Auxiliary output header has more room
- Fixed all the Issues from above
- Barrel jack takes up a lot of space
- Power switch is unnecessary
- Auxilliary input is close to other components
- On-board 20.5V boost converter for Inkjet head
- Accepts 9-12V input via optional JST connector, 0.1″ header, or from the Vin of the Arduino
- Replaced small inductor (250mA) with larger one (1.08A)
- No way to isolate the Vin on the shield from the Arduino Vin
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This four-week program is designed by calisthenics expert and author Al Kavadlo. Three workouts are posted each week and cover a total of twelve bodyweight exercise progressions and tutorials, including everything from pull ups, to pistols, to the infamous human flag. If you’re joining late in the game, feel free to jump right in!
Week 4, Day 3: The One Arm Push-up
Single limb exercises are a great way to add a challenge to your calisthenics regimen. Along with the pistol squat and the one arm pull-up, the one arm push-up rounds out the trifecta of isolateral bodyweight exercises.
While a certain amount of asymmetry might be unavoidable (a right-handed person is almost always going to be right dominant), training movements like the one arm push-up can go a long way towards building a strong, balanced body.
It’s important to note that the form of a one arm push-up is a bit different than the standard two arm variation. Your legs will likely need to be a bit wider than a regular push-up position and your hand should be directly under your body, rather than off to the side. The three points of contact with the ground (foot, foot, hand) will make a triangular formation. Very strong individuals may be able to keep their feet a bit closer together.
Incline One Arm Push-up
Like any other difficult bodyweight exercise, a great way to work towards a full one arm push-up is to practice using a position where you will have better leverage, thus making the movement a bit easier. The best way to do this with the one arm push-up is by practicing on an inclined surface, such as a rail or bench.
Self-Assisted One Arm Push-up
Using your secondary arm to spot your primary pushing arm is another tried and true method for perfecting the one arm push-up. This can be done by resting your opposite arm on a brick, medicine ball, or other nearby, slightly elevated object.
L7 Diamond Push-up
Another type of self-assisted one arm push-up is what I call the “L7″push-up. This variation is similar to a diamond push-up, except one arm will push off the back of the hand instead of the palm (when done with the right hand turned over, your fingers will look like the letter “L” and the number “7″). Since having a lot of weight on the backs of the hands can be uncomfortable, this variation forces you to push more with the opposite side.
Negative One Arm Push-up
Slow, controlled negatives are another excellent technique for building to a full one arm push-up. With your feet spread apart, perform a diamond push-up, then take one hand off the floor and lower your chest to the ground as slowly as possible. Bring the second hand back in when you reach the bottom, perform another diamond push-up, then do a negative on the other side.
Pistol Position One Arm Push-up
This move isn’t much easier than a standard one arm push-up, but if you’re real close it could help put you over the top. Get into the bottom position of a pistol squat, and then place the hand opposite your squatting leg flat on the ground. Lean over towards that hand, bringing your nose right to the floor and then press yourself back up. For a full body workout, try doing a pistol squat in between each push-up.
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Place the mat right beside the front door. Follow these steps and pay no attention to any barking or unwanted behaviours – they will dissipate with practice.
- Knock on the door (you will be indoors with your dog and yes, your dog will see you knock).
- Immediately happy-talk, grab 3-4 small pieces of high value, place the food on the mat.
- Your dog may or may not react to the knocking but hopefully will see and eat the treats.
Do not react to any barking – simply follow the steps. Do not ask for any behaviour, like “sit” – just place the food on the mat after you have knocked. There are no contingencies here – we want to pair knocking with food on the mat. Everything else is “static”. It’s common for us humans to knock and hesitate so that we can see what the dog does and if they “deserve” the food reward. Spoiler alert: your dog will likely bark. No need to knock and hesitate to see what happens. Just knock and follow it with food on the mat. 🙂
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hypnotherapy and regression treatments
eye movement desensitisation + reprocessing (EMDR)
Traumatic or stressful memories are often stored in a different place in the mind to other less distressing memories. These isolated memories become “locked” and continue to affect us negatively because they haven’t been properly ‘processed’ due to the stress at the time they occurred. During EMDR we release and let them go, so that they no longer limit us and we can move forward positively. EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) was initially developed to treat post-traumatic stress but is also very effective for treating deeper-seated anxiety, fears, trauma and stress.
a powerful and empowering therapeutic tool, which makes use of and develops the positive power of the mind and belief. It is the conscious use of “the placebo response” – our natural ability to heal and create positive change through belief and expectation. It is safe, effective and wonderfully relaxing.
Some of the conditions treated by hypnotherapy are: stress, anxiety and panic attacks, phobias, smoking cessation, weight loss, performance improvement and painless childbirth.
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)
offers you an effective way to get fast results through addressing the root cause, and then looking at the role, purpose, function of the issue playing out. Through RTT, you can learn to change your belief system and take charge of your life, giving yourself new eyes to see and experience the world differently. Making it possible to rewrite your life story.it combines the most beneficial principles of Hypnotherapy, Regression, NLP, Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (and other healing modalities) to address the root cause of your issue.
RTT can help with anger, anxiety, birth, fear, low self-esteem/confidence, relationships and more.
solution focused hypnotherapy (SFH)
Solution focused hypnotherapy (SFH) combines the use of psychotherapy with hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy also referred to as ‘trance’ is a very natural, relaxing state, encouraged by using guided relaxation and visualisation, where the mind can relax and then focus on thoughts and suggestions that might be useful for you.As a modern psychotherapeutic approach, SFH uses practical, structured, and well-researched strategies to help people make significant, positive changes in their lives in a relatively short period of time..
Through working with the client in a collaborative way, SFH can help with: stress and anxiety, depression, confidence and self-esteem, fears and phobias, smoking cessation.
counselling and psychotherapy
offer you the space to be heard, listened to by a caring supportive professional. an integration of mindfulness, relational, transaction analysis, Gestalt, NLP, dream work and emotional literacy. In these mysterious times, we can get lost in our heads and benefit from a relational, embodied approach. What better time to train our minds to cope with these everyday challenges and be open to opportunities.
counseling and coaching
neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) explores how we interpret our world, how we think and feel, the power of our communication both verbal and non-verbal and how we create our patterns for living and our habits and ultimately the results we get. Using these powerful and highly effective techniques in a conversational coaching session, you can understand why you experience life the way you do and you can, therefore, change the things that aren’t working for you.
You are may be here because you are struggling in your relationship, feeling disconnected from your partner and wondering where the love has gone or perhaps you are stuck in a cycle of resentment, hurt and blame or are feeling shut down and numb.Whatever relationship challenges you face, one on one relationship coaching can effectively guide you towards taking steps that can radically transform your relationship.
solution oriented therapy
It is likely that you know a lot about your problem, but less about what might help you figure it out. The solution-orientated approach has ways of melting these problems away and creating a sense of spaciousness so that you feel free to take your next step forward. It is useful for all sorts of issues including those that are connected to: how you feel, who you are in a relationship with (friends/family/partner) and how you spend your time (working/having a family/pursuing a passion). The focus of the solution-orientated approach is probably most different to a psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy as SOT doesn’t focus on the therapist-client relationship but instead focuses on how you can be resourced to make the movements in your life that you really wish for. Solution-oriented therapy is a flexible enough process to both meet an immediate short-term need (one appointment) or to work with an issue that you have had for a bit longer (several appointments).
for those diagnosed with cancer, recovering from or wanting to reduce their risk of cancer. The programme guides on what foods to include, which ones to avoid and lifestyle changes that support recovery. The information is not biased but based on credible current research. The complete program consists of 6 x 90 minute consultations or a one off consultation (90 minutes). Benefits are improving client’s nutrition and an effective lifestyle program by designing environments to enhance a physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. Cancer coaching allows our clients to take charge of their health by making informed decisions and works alongside conventional treatments (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation). The treatment options should be discussed with client’s medical team to support a successful recovery.
systemic / family constellation
Systemic coaching, sometimes referred to as systemic constellations or family constellations, brings a wider view to coaching and therapeutic work. By exploring the relationships and dynamics in a system – whether a family, a team, an organisation, a body, or even a group of concepts – we unlock deep insights of where stagnation or conflict exist. The process allows stagnation to begin to move and conflicts to alleviate. The client, and also the system, can then begin movement towards peace and acceptance of what is, feeling less burdened as a result.
healing and energy work
a ‘modern meridian therapy’ which has its roots in Acupressure and Shiatsu. Fingertips are used to tap on meridian points whilst focusing on the problem (emotional or physical), releasing negative feelings + emotions + re balancing the energy system of the body.
Soul Evolution sessions. – Soul Reclamation, Distant Healing, bell jar technique
A co-creative alchemical session. The process combines; therapy, coaching, mentoring, dowsing with a pendulum to clear blockages, affirmations, mantra and meditations specific to your needs, vibration healing and essences blended in a bottle for you to take which will be your Elixir. The session concludes with and is summarised by drawing from Shamanic wisdom cards.
energy healing and re balancing
“Everything is made up of energy. Energy Healing relates to the understanding that we are not just physical beings but that we are also made up of energy. That which we see in our physical form and that which we cannot see but more feel/sense. Our subtle energy body, often referred to as energy centres, the Aura, Chakra’s or energy pathways through the body (for example, in Traditional Chinese Medicine these are known as Meridians)
a method of assisted self discovery which uses the client’s present-moment experience. Bodily sensations, the mind-body connection, and mindfulness are used to explore client experience with the goal of greater ease and freedom of choice — it’s suitable for those wishing to explore emotion held in the body, as well as thoughts, beliefs, and patterns hovering outside conscious awareness. Hakomi emphasises loving presence on the part of the practitioner, an attitude of experimentation, and acceptance of all parts of the human experience.
spiritual guidance and readings
Spiritual guidance and healing
is offered so as to promote soul purpose and spiritual growth. Blocks to wellbeing, purposeful living and spiritual gifts are explored and released with the support of channeled instructions (from your Higher Self, angels, guides and ancestors) accompanied by divine energy transmissions.
healing and clearing the problems in ones life as well as clearing the aura and client’s environment. During the session therapist will use a pendulum and connects with the higher self and angels to do the healing and clearing.
Originally derived from a mid-15th century Italian divination game, tarot uses a series of universal pictorial archetypes as a way of accessing information that may be outside your conscious awareness. People who come for a tarot reading are often seeking clarity or additional information about life issues.
for the soul readings are high frequency energy messages from the Archangels received by Dawn, specifically for the client. Current life circumstances and questions around decisions and choices that have to be made are answered in the context of the clients soul’s progression, enabling the client to move forward with their lives. After an initial session, the client often understands the origin of repetitive patterns in their life as a result of receiving the appropriate healing message, which can include information from past life times.Angelic healing uses gentle but high frequency angelic rays to work with etheric energy and auric fields to harmonise, rebalance, re-engerise and de-stress the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the client. Dawn is guided by the Angels, who send the energy through the body at a pace corresponding to the client’s need and will go to the level where the energy is blocked, charging it with loving angelic energy and raising the vibrational frequency. The effects of treatment are cumulative and a course of 4-6 treatments is generally recommended at regular intervals for the full restorative benefit.
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The cross-sector availability of customer data is among the recommendations put forward following the review into the implementation of open banking in Australia, initially commissioned on 20 July 2017.
Following the report’s release last week, Treasurer Scott Morrison claimed that open banking would transform the sector by simplifying and enhancing customer choice, with the report noting that it would “significantly ease” the process of applying for a new product.
“Open banking will revolutionise the financial services sector, transforming the way Australians interact with the banking system by giving consumers the right to safely share their data with other banks, other institutions and innovative fintechs and get themselves a better deal,” Mr Morrison said.
“Granting third-party access to a customer’s data will allow rival providers to offer competitive deals, products that are tailored to individual needs and enhanced services that simplify the choices customers face when accessing banking services.
“It should simplify the process of switching between banks and help to overcome the ‘hassle factor’ that sees customers stay with their current bank even in the presence of more competitive deals elsewhere.”
Under an open banking system, financial service providers will be given access to:
- Transaction data: data that is generated as a result of transactions made on a customer’s account or service.
- Value-added customer data: data that results from effort by a data holder to gain insights about a customer.
- Aggregated data sets: created when banks use multiple customers’ data to produce de-identified, collective or averaged data across customer groups or subsets.
Further, Mr Morrison claimed that open banking would incentivise better service for customers by strengthening competition in the market.
“Having access to potential new customers’ banking data — with their consent — should enhance the ability of providers of banking services to compete more strongly for new business, delivering cheaper and better tailored products for customers,” the Treasurer added.
“The ability to instruct that their data be shared with competing banks could also usher in a new era of competition in banking for small business customers.”
Mr Morrison added he believes that open banking would place customers in the “driving seat” when seeking financial products.
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In camera flying, the learning never stops. There are always problems to solve.
Types of cameras include:
1) 8mm and VHS. These are low end camera and are good for playing around. The video is not salable.
2) Hi8 and S-VHS are better in quality. You can sell your material in this format.
3) Digital is the best quality and there is no generation loss as long as you are copying from digital to digital or other analog format.
8mm tape moves slower through the video heads and thus drop out can be more noticeable than in S-VHS. The tape moves through the heads faster in the S-VHS format.
Set the shutter speed to your personal taste. Some people like the effect of stopping the props on the planes whereas others don't like the strobe effect the higher shutter speeds produce.
On your video camera, use manual focus and set the focus to infinity. Bright light especially with a wide angle lens will give you a good depth of field.
A wide angle lens makes camera shake less noticeable. Causes of camera shake include:
1) A helmet that is not snug fitting.
2) You are tense in freefall--When you see your ring sight moving about, this should be your cue to relax.
3) Your jumpsuit has a lot of flap and vibration.
Your still camera should be a wider angle than your video camera. If you crop the subject a little on the video, viewers tend to automatically fill in what's missing because the video shows movement. However, viewers do not have this perception for still photos. In other words, if a part of the subject is cropped, it looks bad.
For a custom fit helmet, it's best to build your own. A custom fit helmet will have less drag. Don't have things sticking out to catch risers and your gear. Consider the mount angle of your camera. It should be mounted level for freeflying or mounted with an upward angle if you are flying belly down. With the upward angle, you will not have to raise your head too much for filming your subjects. Raising your head up causes you to arch more and to fall faster. If your helmet has a secure firm fit, you need only a reference to function as your ring sight. Quick release helmets create an unnecessary risk of losing your camera.
Sighting your camera. Sight it on something at the same distance at which your subject(s) will be during the skydive.
Track with your arms completely at your sides and look directly forward so your camera will not act as a rudder.
Deployment. Deploy while laying completely flat. Holding your head doesn't always work because the force of a hard opening can jerk your hands from doing their job. During opening, hold your spine rigidly straight and keep your head straight with your spine. Do hold your head. A long snivelly opening is not necessarily good as it causes a continuous jerkiness and places stress on the neck.
Jumpsuits. The wings are for maneuverability. You can save yourself from the burble of someone flying under you by reacting quick and putting the wings out more. However, don't try to film straight down on a formation. It is okay to film steep enough that rotating pieces briefly pass under you. If it's a zoo dive, go and play with your suit and your flying. Give people a chance to geek you as you capture faces.--They love the camera!
Wing size depends on your weight and their configuration. Wings attached to the legs pull the jumpsuit legs when the camera flyer pulls the wings tight. Position the arms straight out from the shoulders in order to achieve the maximum wing extension. Putting the arms overhead reduces again the surface area of exposed wing area. Wings can add a challenge to reaching for your toggles (hence you can unclip their anchor points).
A fast falling position is one in which one foot is placed on the knee of the opposite leg with both knees pointing downward. Keep your head back. Don't bring it forward to follow the dive action. Follow the dive action with your head back--This is counter intuitive at times. You can use your lower knee (moving it outward or inward) to make turns.
Camera flying for Formation Skydiving. Determine the filming distance based on your lens type. Too close is better than too far. With a .5 wide angle lens you'll want to film from one body length or so. Frame a cat formation diagonally in the frame. Just tilt your head to accommodate it in your frame.
Big Ways. Don't spiral down to it as this could cut off traffic. A floating exit is the best. If you are diving out after the formation, flip over and use the head-down position from freeflying to reach your slot and then flip back onto your belly. Stay out of the burble. Remember, it's not necessary to film from a steep angle.
Aim your shooting to the center of mass. When your subject is farther away, aim to a point above the subject. As you move closer to the subject adjust your aim to be closer to the subject's center of mass. The reason for this difference is that the location of your eye is actually below the lens of your camera and the difference in parallax is more significant for up close filming. Novice camera flyers do not know their camera frame.
Cleaning up your video. That little extra is what makes the difference between a good camera flyer and a professional. On climbout, think about what you're framing. Don't just look everywhere. Don't start recording too early on jumprun.
Be easy to work with. Give good customer service. Present yourself as a professional. Use your judgment to determine if you are being walked on. Concentrate on quality. Choose your idols.
Ways to get your work published. Shoot photos in addition to your video. They should be newsworthy (a current event or boogie), or be timeless and can stand on their own at anytime. Be sure to use correct focus, exposure, and composition. | <urn:uuid:6076c0aa-aaf0-4054-ae0e-c297a562a5a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koyn.com/CloudDancer/articles/cfWFFC97.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942184 | 1,256 | 1.96875 | 2 |
For the first 250 years of the European invasion, colonists from France, Britain, Holland, and Spain settled along the ocean shores and various rivers from the moment they landed, with little consideration for the Indigenous people already living there. While the First Nations people initially helped the settlers and even had reasonable trading relationships with them, conflicts soon developed over competition for land. In 1763, after the end of the Seven Years War, the French were out of North America and Britain was in control of all lands east of the Mississippi and as far north as Hudson's Bay. To try and end the murderous conflict between settlers and First Nations, the British king, George III, issued a proclamation that set aside land for the Indians. A line was drawn along the Appalachian Mountains that forbid any settlement to the west which was delineated Indian Territory, and it went all the way to the Mississippi River which formed the eastern border of the Spanish territory.
The next group of treaties to be signed were the Lake Superior and Lake Huron Robinson Treaties in 1850. Beginning in the 1840's various mining companies had sent prospectors and surveyors into unceded territory to identify potential mineral deposits. They then acquired licenses from the colonial government to mine the region in spite of not having a treaty that surrendered the lands. The Abishnawbe protested and demanded compensation and, after a violent clash erupted between miners and First Nation warriors, William Robinson was dispatched to negotiate a treaty and buy up land. One time payments and annual annuities were agreed to and huge tracts of land were surrendered. First Nations were also granted the right to hunt and fish in the treaty territory as long as there weren't any settlements or mining operations in place and land for reserves was also set aside. Despite the fact the annual annuity payments were never were adjusted over the next 200 years and are now the subject of a lawsuit, Indigenous land claims once again were confirmed.
After confederation, in 1867, the newly formed Confederation of Canada looked to expand its borders from sea to sea. Even though the government had acquired the former Rupert’s Land (the entire Hudson Bay drainage system that had been granted to the HBC 200 years earlier) they failed to have full control and use of the land as this transfer only provided sovereignty over the area. Title had reverted to the First Nations living there. One of the conditions to ensure British Columbia would join Confederation at the time was the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway which would connect it to the rest of the nation. In order to satisfy British Columbia's request and the growing need for land by eastern settlers and new immigrants, treaties would have to be created with the First Nation people in the interior of the newly acquired land, which was all First Nation territory.
The Numbered Treaties are a series of eleven treaties signed between the First Nations and Canada from 1871 to 1921. These treaty agreements were created to allow the Government of Canada to pursue settlement and resource extraction in the affected regions, which include modern-day Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and parts of Ontario, B.C. and the Northwest Territories.
These treaties came in two waves—Numbers 1 through 7 from 1871 to 1877 and Numbers 8 through 11 from 1899 to 1921. In the first wave, the treaties were key in advancing European settlement across the Prairie regions as well as the development of the CPR. In the second wave, resource extraction was the main motive for government officials.
In these treaties, the First Nations were coerced and tricked into giving up aboriginal title to vast amounts of land, in exchange for small reserves for their exclusive use and various promises of schools, food, and farming assistance as well as other entitlements such as hunting and fishing rights. Unfortunately none of these treaty terms were ever completely adhered to but the fiction of recognizing First Nations ownership was maintained.
When the Colony of British Columbia joined Confederation, in 1871, it did not recognize Indigenous title so it felt there was no need for treaties and, other than the Douglas Treaties and Treaty 8 signed by the Federal government to resolve problems related to the Klondike Gold Rush, treaties were not signed with any First Nations for the rest of British Columbia. With most of B.C. now considered unceded land, this was clearly both a mistake and a shorted sighted strategy. In 2000, the historic Nisga'a Treaty went into effect and set a precedent in forcing the issue of unrecognized Aboriginal title. This has resulted in over 50 other Indigenous nations in B.C. now negotiating agreements at various stages of the treaty making process. | <urn:uuid:336f847f-2994-432e-82e5-6338d82464a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.swimswithseals.com/2022/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.981973 | 928 | 4.53125 | 5 |
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials said two astronauts completed a fourth spacewalk Sunday, finishing another repair project on the Hubble telescope.
STS-125 mission specialists Mike Massimino and Mike Good replaced a low-voltage power supply board, which contained a failed power converter. Because of the power supply problem, NASA said the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph system had been in "safe mode" since August 2004.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the latest spacewalk lasted 8 hours and 2 minutes.
The mission specialists are making repairs and improvements to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph system that will extend the Hubble's service into the next decade.
The fifth and final STS-125 spacewalk is set for Monday at 9:16 a.m. EDT. | <urn:uuid:098310c3-f28a-4044-b8d8-82b367ba6368> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/05/17/Fourth-spacewalk-completed-Sunday/13221242600412/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.917777 | 173 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Textual Surveillance, Social Codes, and Sublime Voices: The Tyranny of Narrative in Caleb Williams and Wieland
by David S. Hogsette, PhD
A lecture delivered at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies National Conference
I. Introduction: Transatlantic Gothic Dialog
Many scholars William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1794) and Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland (1798) by establishing Godwin as the literary and conventional center within which Brown’s novel operates. For example, Pamela Clemit argues that Brown translates Godwin’s social idealism expressed in Political Justice (1793) and Caleb Williams into a post-revolutionary American skepticism that reacted against the violent turn of the French Revolution (Clemit 107-121). From this perspective, Brown appears to be a derivative writer delimited by Godwin’s literary example. However, taking a cue from Robert Miles, I would like to characterize the relationship between these two authors in terms of cultural dialog and artistic revision. Miles defines Gothic literature as a series culturally and historically synchronous forms that “‘revise’ one another, here opening up ‘ideologically’ charged issues, there enforcing a closure” (3). The Gothic, as with any literary genre or form, is a linguistic matrix with intertwining cultural nodes that are constantly shifting and being revised as authors engage the literature, their audiences, and their communities. Though Brown was indeed deeply influenced by Godwin’s philosophical, political, and literary work, I don’t see him writing a Godwinian novel. Rather, they develop, transform, and enhance the Gothic by exploring the terrors of linguistic power and textual imprisonment, thus emphatically infusing popular Gothicism with explicit moral and political significance.
II. Caleb Williams and the Tyranny of Aristocratic Codes
At its heart Caleb Williams is a political novel concerned with power in its various abusive forms. As many commentators have noted, this novel is partly a fictional expression of Godwin’s social and political views outlined in Political Justice. By casting his political idealism in Gothic melodrama, Godwin hoped to reach those readers who would not necessarily encounter his longer political treatise. In the preface to the novel he writes, “It is now known to philosophers, that the spirit and character of the government intrudes itself into every rank of society. But this is a truth highly worthy to be communicated to persons whom books of philosophy and science are never likely to reach” (3). The politically charged purpose of his novel was not lost on its early readers who were struggling with the volatile debates over revolution and reform in England which was, at the time, at war with revolutionary France. A reviewer for the British Critic, which was then supportive of the Pitt government, condemned the novel as a political allegory that inaccurately and dangerously protested the governmental oppression of 18th-century reformers (Kelley 193). Godwin later responded to this critic, explaining that the purpose the novel had been “to expose the evils which arise out of the present system of civilized society, to disengage the minds of men from presupposition and launch them upon the sea of moral and political enquiry” (Hindle xi). Godwin identified himself as a political radical and positioned his novel as a fiery political tract engineered to move readers toward social critique.
Godwin claimed that institutional government intrudes upon the private lives of its citizens (especially political radicals), erasing true freedom through invasive surveillance. This concern over governmental espionage, as Hindle rightly notes (xx-xxiv), becomes one of the novel’s central political themes. James Thompson extends this discussion by invoking Michel Foucault’s analysis of Benthamite Panopticon in which the authoritative gaze isolates and alienates its subject, inducing feelings of terror and paranoia (181-83). Much of the terror in Caleb Williams indeed stems from a realization that Falkland’s authoritative gaze ultimately isolates Caleb from all human community and leads him to despise himself, resulting in self-alienation. However, true terror in this novel is self-imposed surveillance and imprisonment. Godwin reveals that an individual can victimize himself by stubbornly upholding external social codes and allowing himself to be completely defined and (over)determined by these social narratives.
In Godwin’s Gothic drama about political radicalism, true freedom is found within the mind and an individual’s control over his own will. Terror results when the individual loses cognitive sovereignty. This principle is first introduced in the narrative depicting Tyrell’s patriarchal tyranny over his cousin Emily. When Tyrell threatens to lock Emily up in her room if she does not marry Grimes, she rebelliously charges, “You may imprison my body, but you cannot conquer my mind” (60). Godwin locates true freedom in the independent will and the mind of the rational individual. This level of freedom, idealized in the characters of Emily, Hawkins, and Mr. Raymond, eludes Falkland and Caleb, for their minds are ultimately imprisoned by the imaginary, by narrative codes of honor and chivalry. Falkland assembles these behavioral codes from an imagination fueled by a fancy for antiquarian literature and culture, especially Italian epic poetry and heroic tales of medieval chivalry and romance (12). Falkland is not a Godwinian free thinker. Though Godwin encouraged active reading as a way to shape the rational mind, to encourage moral development, and to engage political enquiry, the dangers of reading is the loss of the reader’s individualism to that of the author. Falkland’s fancy impresses upon his mind the fictitious codes of chivalry and honor, overshadowing the purging power of philosophy and overdetermining his identity and his actions in society. Caleb is equally possessed by the imaginary, particularly the narrative dictates of romance. In his boyhood, Caleb was possessed by an intellectual curiosity and a lust for literary adventure and romance (6). For these two characters, reading excites their imaginations and enslaves them to ancient aristocratic codes. Instead of developing a rational individuality based upon an elevated reason, Caleb and Falkland construct fictitious identities based upon romance quests and tales of chivalry. Their independent wills become dominated by imaginary dictates of an internalized ancient literature.
Godwin’s Gothicism is so disturbing here precisely because it manipulates literary conventions to reveal the hegemonic dangers of the imaginary. Falkland and, later, Caleb are not subject to the state, though abuse of institutional power and juridical authority is a major subject of this novel; rather, they are victims of a self-imposed imaginary tyranny. They become imprisoned by their blind devotion to fictitious codes. Ironically and significantly, the poet Mr. Clare recognizes this character flaw in Falkland: “You have an impetuosity and an impatience of imagined dishonour, that, if once set wrong, may make you as eminently mischievous as you will otherwise be useful” (37; italics added). Falkland’s sense of honor and personal injury resides in the realm of the imaginary, the narrative, the literary. As a poet and practitioner of the imaginary, Mr. Clare knew that just as Falkland’s sense of self was based on the imaginary, an imagined offense could tear down this narrative identity. Falkland imagines his public humility (being physically abused by Tyrell in front of the town council) to be far greater a dishonor than it really was, and the irrational response to this dishonor initiates an internal conflict that the aristocratic codes could not resolve, even in the literature: the barbarous desire for revenge versus the honor code of civility. In a fit of rage that shatters his civilized façade, Falkland murders Tyrell in cold blood, and he further betrays the aristocratic codes by covering up his deed and framing the Hawkins family. He created a new fiction to hide the truth and to maintain his honorable image in the eyes and minds of the community. He walls himself up behind a series of fictions and becomes a prisoner of and slave to his imaginary identity.
Though his identity is an imaginary construct, his isolation is tangibly real, and he feels the pangs of anguish associated with his subjugation to a hegemony he now desires to eradicate. In one of many manipulative conversations orchestrated by Caleb to uncover the truth concerning Falkland’s actions, Falkland becomes enraged and suddenly “drew back with trepidation, and exclaimed, ‘Detested be the universe, and the laws that govern it! Honour, justice, virtue are all the juggle of knaves! If it were in my power I would instantly crush the whole system into nothing!’” (122). This once aristocratic ideologue now views himself a miserable victim of culture and a dupe of social codes. He has become a lonely, isolated prisoner to a hegemonic value system that he fully supported and perpetuated but now wishes could be obliterated. Though seemingly trapped, he has three options. He can confess his crimes and suffer the legal and social consequences as supported by the hegemonic codes, but his selfish pride, bolstered by these codes, is too great to allow such a confession and social disgrace. Or, he can become a radical and destroy the system that imprisons him, but it is too powerful for one man to annihilate, and this reality fills his body with rage and poisons his mind with madness. Last, he can maintain the fiction, uphold the codes of the hegemony, and suffer through personal guilt, emotional isolation, and physical decay. Falkland chooses the later and becomes the poster child for tortured Gothic villains that would populate hundreds of later Gothic tales and novels in England and America.
Falkland’s slavish devotion to his public image and the antiquarian codes of honor alienates him from others and transforms him into a desecrated ruin. Here, the self serves as Gothic prison and the body becomes the site of ruinous decay. For Emily, as well as Caleb upon first being imprisoned, the mind is a vehicle for true freedom, allowing them to celebrate a transcendent liberty of thought. Yet for Falkland, and Caleb by the end of his narrative, the mind is already entrapped by a fanciful devotion to codes of honor, allowing for no kind of cognitive freedom or mental transcendence. He internalizes the guilt of his crimes, translating it into an emotional disease that fragments his mind and cripples his body. When he confesses his crime to Caleb he says that ever since the day of the murder, “I have not had an hour’s peace; I became changed from the happiest to the most miserable think that lives; sleep has fled from my eyes; joy has been a stranger to my thoughts; and annihilation I should prefer a thousand times to the being that I am” (125). The full extent of his Gothic transformation is revealed after Caleb is freed from all the false charges and brought before Falkland who reveals that he had been watching, hounding, and perversely protecting Caleb all along:
But now he [Falkland] appeared like nothing that had ever been visible in human shape. His visage was haggard, emaciated, and fleshless. His complexion was a dun and tarnished red, the colour uniform through every region of the face, and suggested the idea of its being burnt and parched by eternal fire that burned within him. His eyes were red, quick, wandering, full of suspicion and rage. His hair was neglected, ragged, and floating. His whole figure was thin, to a degree that suggested the idea rather of a skeleton than a person actually alive. Life seemed hardly to be the capable inhabitant of so woe-begone and ghost-like a figure. The taper of wholesome life was expired; but passion and fierceness and frenzy were able for the present to supply its place. (291)
Though never actually imprisoned, Falkland here has taken on the ghastly shape of a tormented Bastille prisoner or a demonic figure whose body is decayed and his soul filled with a hellish rage. This melodramatic Gothicism provides a self-indulgent narrative thrill and is easy to dismiss from a modern aesthetic and critical perspective. However, transforming Falkland’s decaying body into a ruinous Gothic architecture underscores the dehumanizing ramifications of social hegemonies. By manipulating basic Gothic conventions, Godwin expresses his own political concerns for not only the physical horrors of overt political oppression but also the spiritual and psychological terrors of a slavish devotion to social prescriptions for personal identity.
The main purpose of Caleb’s own narrative confessional—the novel he writes—is to escape the prison of Falkland’s narrative legacy and to redeem himself in the eyes of the public. From the moment Caleb left Falkland’s service, Falkland imprisoned him through surveillance and narrative entrapment. He brought false charges against him that resulted in isolation through incarceration, and after he escaped from prison and tried to make a life for himself as a writer, Falkland ruined his reputation and alienated him from those he loved by circulating disparaging tracts detailing Caleb’s criminal activity. Caleb writes this confessional tale to regain narrative control over his life, to achieve freedom by clearing his name, and to expose Falkland as the “true” criminal. Readers like Maggie Kilgour claim that Caleb is successful in achieving his narrative goals: “The creation of Caleb Williams becomes itself a model for an ideal literary society in which the free individual is able to encounter the ideas of others without losing his individuality: seeing how others think helps rather than impedes thinking for oneself. Literary relations produce not the conformity of sterile copying, but the individuality of new and original creations” (56). However, Caleb’s narrative does not achieve this Godwinian ideal of narrative production. Caleb starts off with the radical spirit of intellectual and political individualism, but by the end of the confession he succumbs to the very same social codes that originally imprisoned Falkland. Godwin expresses his literary ideals and political views on the tyrannical power of narrative not through positive example but through bitter ironic failure.
Some readers argue that the narrative is, ultimately, not a failure. For example, Hindle suggests that unlike other 18th-century first-person narrators, “Godwin’s first-person narrator spends time ruminating upon his experiences, analyzing his thoughts and motives, and learning from them” (xviii; Hindle’s italics). However, Caleb merely learns self-loathing. Like Coleridge’s Mariner who entraps listeners in his Gothically seductive tale, draining them of Reason and joy, leaving them “sadder and wiser,” and further alienating himself from human community, Caleb likewise fails to learn the truth of his tale—the imprisoning power of social codes—and tragically enslaves himself to the very same chivalric and aristocratic codes that entombed and destroyed Falkland. Kilgour also makes this implicit connection between Caleb and the Mariner, yet she reads the Mariner and Caleb as narrators in control of their tale (70-74). She suggests that Caleb is not a failed revolutionary figure who has merely switched places with his oppressor, the victim becoming the victimizer. Rather, she locates his final accomplishment and eventual freedom in the guilt and compassion he feels for the destroyed Falkland: “As a result, in the final moments of the confrontation the system of domination and vicious circle of victimisation appear not futilely inverted but totally transcended through the power of sympathy and the emergence of mutual love” (71). This mutual love, according to Kilgour, allows them to “exert their powers as free agents to move beyond their determined positions” (70). The cycle of oppressing and revenge may be averted here, but processes of victimization are not transcended. These characters indeed come to recognize and love each other for who they are, but the process of Falkland’s Gothic transformation into a ruined edifice is complete and unreversed. Moreover, Caleb simply embraces the aristocratic honor codes that oppressed Falkland from the beginning, thus learning nothing from his experiences nor from his own confessional tale. There is no true conversion of character here.
Godwin gives us a self-reflective narrative in which narrative itself is the Gothic prison. Instead of freeing himself from social scrutiny or emotional bondage, Caleb reinscribes his body and mind within the very same social codes he is writing/fighting against. As he writes the narrative, Caleb realizes that his confessional act does not rid him of guilt. Rather, it reveals the truth of his social reinscription: “But these motives [that the truth concerning political abuse be exposed and justice ultimately be served through the telling of this tale] have diminished in their influence. I have contracted a disgust for life and all its appendages. Writing, which was at first a pleasure, is changed into a burthen” (314). The guilt associated with his continued public humiliation of Falkland, who he has deified now in his mind, burdens him. Once Caleb saw the wasted and skeletal remains of a once great aristocrat, he shuddered at the realization that he was responsible for Falkland’s public destruction by breaking the chivalric code of allegiance and the honor of one’s word: he revealed Falkland as Tyrell’s murderer after promising Falkland that he would never tell (330). Caleb berates himself for succumbing to selfish indignation and breaking his promise.
He abandons his radical quest for truth and justice and adopts the social concerns of the establishment. In his mind, Falkland is no longer a tyrant but a god: “A nobler spirit lived not among the sons of men. Thy intellectual powers were truly sublime, and thy bosom burned with a godlike ambition” (336). Caleb reveres Falkland as an aristocratic gentleman of the highest sort, a nobleman whom he betrayed. Caleb leaves himself victim to his own guilt: “It would have been merciful in comparison if I had planted a dagger in his heart. He would have thanked me for my kindness. But, atrocious, execrable wretch that I have been! I wantonly inflicted on him an anguish a thousand times worse than death. Meanwhile I endure the penalty of my crime. His figure is ever in imagination before me. Waking or sleeping, I still behold him” (336). His guilt does not grow out of a humanistic sympathy but is rooted in the precepts of the very aristocratic social codes he attempted to expose from the very beginning of his tale. Sympathy here offers no social or political transcendence. No alternative hegemony is offered, and Caleb victimizes himself under the authority of aristocratic social expectation just as cruelly as Falkland imprisoned himself.
III. Oppressive Gothic Ventriloquism in Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland is unmistakably a Gothic novel, and readers either love or hate its machinations. For example, early 19th-century English reviews leveled savage criticism against Brown’s use of Gothic parlor tricks—spontaneous combustion and ventriloquism—suggesting that locating a solution to the mystery in such a simplistic idea as a parlor trick gone wrong is largely disappointing and insulting. Indeed, if we view ventriloquism here only in terms of a rational explanation of the mystery as in a Radcliffe novel, then Wieland surely disappoints. However, as Bernard Rosenthal notes, Brown’s use of sublime voices “had purposes having little to do with the solving of mysteries. Brown had a polemic message, the dangers of morality based on revealed religion” (104). This argument is similar to those early critics who valued the novel, pointing out that the voices spoke of the dangers of being mislead by a superstitious belief in supernatural agencies. Edwin Sill Fussell argues that we should shift our focus away from the Gothic totally, claiming that reading this novel from a generic perspective ultimately reduces the work to a catalog of infantile tropes. He suggests we read the novel as an important historical document that represents writers and their function in revolution and social disruption (185). My attempt here is not to remove the novel from history but to understand better how an American writer can drew from European Gothic conventions to achieve his literary and political goals and thus how Gothic literature functions historically and culturally.
As a writer and political thinker, Brown was aware of Godwin’s political views, social ideals, and Gothic appropriations, and he was well versed in the sensational fiction and Gothic novels that were popular in his day. Yet he understood the absurdity of transplanting continental Gothic machinery onto a new landscape that lacked the medieval history to support it, and in the preface to his Edgar Huntly (1799) he called for an Americanization of the European Gothic literary tradition. True terror, he explained in the “Advertisement” to Sky Walk (1798), could be found in his readers’ contemporary American life, and he therefore grounded his Gothic tale and literary craft in the realities of 18th-century American life (Sheldon 17-18). Brown’s American Gothicism in Wieland reveals language and narrative to be potentially imprisoning devices that entrap the will, control the body, and eventually disease the soul. This form of Gothic terror is especially frightening due to its political ramifications for a young republic whose democratic system was built upon a belief in the authority, purity, and efficacy of the people’s will and voice.
Rhetoric and voice are acknowledged in this novel for their persuasive powers, and as such they become mechanisms of oppression and Gothic tyranny. Jay Fliegelman notes that in the second half of the eighteenth century rhetoric in American academies of learning and in politics was a purified Ciceronian notion of persuasion, an active art of moving or influencing individuals to action (xxviii). Brown realized that power and authority in the young American republic hinged upon the ability to excite the mind, animate the soul, and control the will. He transformed the traditional Gothic by characterizing voice and narrative as rhetorical prisons that entrap the will and tyrannize the individual. Early in the novel, Clara identifies the will as the key faculty of understanding and notes its dependence upon the senses: “The will is the tool of the understanding, which must fashion its conclusions on the notices of sense. If the senses be depraved, it is impossible to calculate the evils that may flow from the consequent deductions of the understanding” (39). The voice becomes a rhetorical machination through which the senses are deceived and the will is controlled. As we saw in Caleb Williams, the mind is capable of freeing the individual from physical imprisonment; however, as Brown explores in Wieland the mind also is the weak link in the chain of independence and self-determination: “So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it!” (61).
Brown recognized storytelling or the author’s rhetorical use of voice as a Gothic mechanism for influencing the human mind and thus controlling the will of readers. The Advertisement to Wieland is clearly an attempt to enlist the favor of his audience and to justify his use of the Gothic and the marvelous. However, it also introduces the theme of narrative influence and textual enticement at the heart of Brown’s Gothicism. His purpose for writing this novel is to instruct the moral constitution of man, and he attempts this goal by ventriloquizing his message and text through the epistolary voice of Clara. He creates a series of textual chambers and deliberately masquerades as a woman, revealing authorship as a form of ventriloquism. He manipulates fictitious voices to create “memorable forms” (4) or impressions on the mind and soul. Brown articulates this concept of the affective author in the Rhapsodist, claiming that the role of the writer is “to enchain the attention and ravish the souls of those who study and reflect” (Fliegelman xx). Note the Gothic terminology here and how he characterizes the author as a disembodied voice that imprisons the reader’s mind and ravishes the soul. Through his narrator Clara, Brown repeats this notion of textual enticement and submission to excited emotions: “How will your wonder, and that of your companions, be exicted [sic] by my story! Every sentiment will yield to your amazement” (6). Brown presents himself as a rhetorical storyteller who manipulates voices in order to influence the will his audience, foreshadowing Carwin’s tyrannical abuse of language and characterizing narrative as a Gothic form of imprisonment.
The novel begins with a genealogy detailing the Wieland family’s association with affective language and literature that ultimately leads to textual indoctrination and imprisonment. Clara’s grandfather devoted his short life to literature, music, and drama and was supposedly the founder of German Theater. Furthermore the “modern poet of the same name is sprung from the same family” (7). These ancestors were crafters of affective art, which entertained through impressing the images and creative visions of their creators upon the minds and souls of audiences and readers. Clara’s devoutly religious father, ironically, “entertained no relish for books, and was wholly unconscious of any power they possessed to delight or instruct” (8). By rejecting the trade of his ancestors, Clare’s father is unaware of the manipulative power of literature and books, and he becomes an intellectual and spiritual prisoner of a book written by a French Protestant (8-10). This book is so powerfully seductive that it completely engages his soul and entraps his mind. It details the religious doctrine of the Camissards, a Protestant sect, and it eventually frames his will and structures his study of the Bible. Instead of freely and reflectively studying the Bible in open prayer with God, he is indoctrinated by the sect’s discourse, and his thinking, feelings, and meditations are determined by this single text. The result of this narrow textual indoctrination is horrific. The Wieland family has an interesting and tragic historical connection to affective narrative and textual imprisonment, yet the knowledge of this history and genealogy—a narrative in its own right—does not free Clara and her brother from their own tragic encounters with manipulative rhetoric.
Clara and her brother seem predetermined to be tyrannized by Gothically affected narrative. Carwin’s emotional melodrama enraptures Clara. For example, when he masquerades as the peasant stranger and visits the house, Clara remarks, “The voice was not only mellifluent and clear, but the emphasis was so just, and the modulation so impassioned, that it seemed as if an heart of stone could not fail of being moved by it. When he uttered the words ‘for charity’s sweet sake,’ I dropped the cloth that I held in my hand, my heart overflowed with sympathy, and my eyes with unbidden tears” (59). Carwin is a master of the Gothic voice who manipulates the will by affecting emotionalism and influencing the listener’s senses. His “magical and thrilling power” (79) also enslaves the empirical intelligence of Wieland and Henry. The earliest and clearest example is when Carwin mimics Catherine’s voice and provides false information concerning the death of Theresa, Henry’s mistress (50-51). This shadowy voice raises questions of identity and authenticity, but it also reveals the power of voice to affect the soul and influence the will of the listener. By deceiving the senses, Carwin manipulates their rational, empirical minds, thus directly controlling their wills. Carwin’s sublime voice becomes a Gothic machination of emotional tyranny and intellectual imprisonment.
Though Carwin’s sublime voice is the most obvious form of Gothic narrative tyranny in this novel, it really could not succeed as such without the dominance of empiricism in this Age of Enlightenment. As Carwin suggests during his confession, he is not solely responsible for Henry’s and Wieland’s transformations and tragic actions. Arguably, his narrative trappings only work because his victims are already imprisoned by empiricism, a scientific grand narrative. They trust their senses too much as a positive source of empirical data, and because they value this data as scientifically and logically sound, they are ultimately and ironically deceived into false conclusions that lead to irrational behavior. A key problem with empirical reasoning is that it cannot account for convincingly forged or mimicked sensory input. Carwin’s ventriloquism demonstrates the limits of empirical thought and reveals how individuals can become prisoners to logic. Conclusions based on forged empirical data are logically sound, but they can be, as in Wieland’s and Henry’s case, tragically flawed.
Because the disembodied voice of Catherine is so convincing and the information it communicated concerning Henry’s mistress so extraordinary, the group concludes that this empirical evidence proves the existence of a supernatural force or presence (51-52). Yet shortly after Carwin enters this social circle, he provides them a rational explanation for all the supernatural elements and voices they’ve experienced: mimicry and ventriloquism (86-87). Carwin actually gives himself away, but they fail to realize the truth. They are so taken by empiricism that they cannot think beyond it. Carwin’s ventriloquism is merely the precipitating factor revealing the extent to which they have already imprisoned themselves to an over-reliance on empirical evidence and rational thought. They follow the dictates of empiricism to the point of absurdity, and their Reason drives them toward the irrational. This imprisonment to empiricism is illustrated again in the later descriptions of Wieland’s religious enthusiasm (188-90). His spiritual knowledge and faith are not truly spiritual so much as empirical. He submits to what he thinks is God’s will not out of true faith (a belief in that which cannot be substantiated) but out of an earthly knowledge and human understanding rooted in empirical, verifiable evidence—Carwin’s voice and parlor tricks. The source of authority and meaning is dislocated from the divine and placed back onto the receiver of language. The final irony is that as in Caleb’s and Falkland’s case, Wieland and Henry imprison themselves by limiting their perspective to the precepts of empiricism, allowing their wills to be contained by the precepts of a scientific grand narrative.
IV. Melodramatic Tragedy and Gothic Political Tracts: A Working Conclusion
Though Godwin and Brown were to some extent skeptical of sensationalist fiction and the popular Gothic tradition, both writers nonetheless appropriated key Gothic mechanisms to motivate their plots and to express their political commentary. Indeed, the specifics of their political content differ: Godwin, responding to the reactionary policies of the Pitt government that were oppressive to English civil liberties, writes a fictional representation of the social idealism expressed in Political Justice; Brown, on the other hand, is himself reacting against the horrors of the French revolution and is pleading, as Jane Tompkins observes, “for the restoration of civic authority in a post-Revolutionary age” (61). Godwin works toward an idealized progressive liberalization in which ultimate authority is located within the rational and sympathetic individual, and Brown, based upon his uniquely American experience, expresses a Federalist skepticism in egalitarian liberalism and speculates on the chaotic horror resulting from the disillusion of centralized power and authority.
Interestingly, both writers base the efficacy of their Gothic political tracts in melodramatic tragedy as did the founding father of this Gothic tradition, Horace Walpole. In The Castle of Otranto (1764) Walpole does offer a pseudo-comic resolution: the ancient prophecy is fulfilled, providence wins, nobility of birth is upheld and maintained, and the divine right of kings and primogeniture are validated. However, the surviving characters are not joyous. Walpole infuses the comic resolution with (melodramatic) pain and emotional suffering, thus leveling social criticism against the aristocratic ideals that are narratively sustained. Similarly, tragedy underscores the political messages of Caleb Williams and Wieland. Caleb ends his confessional tale a sadder and wiser man, suffering the melancholy of his guilt and reinscribing his identity within aristocratic social codes. Clara, physically palsied and emotionally shaken by her own retelling of the tale, ends her narrative with a tragic epilogue that simply duplicates the horrific tragedy of her own narrative life. Through Gothic tragedy and negative example, Godwin and Brown express their respective political sentiments.
Brown was first acquainted with Godwin’s work when selected chapters of Political Justice were published in the New-York Magazine in July 1793. Furthermore, Caleb Williams was reprinted in Philadelphia in 1795, and Brown’s own Monthly Magazine published reviews of Godwin’s The Enquirer (1797) and St. Leon (1799).
We will examine this same principle in the Gothic horror of Brown’s Wieland, where real terror is located in the tragic loss of rational thought and the subjugation of one’s will to the power of an external voice and scientific ideal.
For a full discussion of Godwin’s views on reading, see Maggie Kilgour 53-55.
Godwin does satisfy the more traditional Gothic demand for actual prisons and dungeons with the laborious scenes of Caleb’s incarceration. More than just providing Gothic atmosphere, Godwin uses these scenes rather heavy-handedly to comment on the condition of prisons and the cruelty of the justice system during his day. For example, when Caleb is first placed in jail, Godwin clearly intrudes upon Caleb’s narrative exclaiming, “visit the scenes of our prisons! Witness their unwholesomeness, their filth, the tyranny of their governors, the misery of their inmates! After that, show me the man shameless enough to triumph, and say, England has no Bastille!” (188). And later when Caleb is visited by Thomas, Godwin speaks through the later who says, “Lord, what fools we be! Things are done under our very noses, and we know nothing of the matter; and a parcel of fellows with grave faces swear to us that such things never happen but in France, and other countries the like of that” (210).
Here we see Godwin inserting a (pre-)Romantic idealism. When Caleb is first imprisoned, he falls into himself and exercises his mind, exploring the far reaches of his reason and imagination. His physical isolation gives way to an internal transcendence, and he narratively achieves freedom of mind and thought (192-94).
See the reviews of Wieland published in The Ladies’ Monthly Museum 9 (December 1810): 338-339 and Gentleman’s Magazine 81 (April 1811): 364.
See the review of Wieland published in Critical Review s. 3, 22 (February 1811) 144-63.
Brown, Charles Brockden. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Ed. Jay Fliegelman. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Clemit, Pamela. The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1993.
Fliegelman, Jay. Introduction. Brown vii-xlii.
Fussell, Edwin Sill. “Wieland: A Literary and Historical Reading.” Early American Literature 18.1 (1983): 171-86.
Godwin, William. Things as They Are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams. Ed. Maurice Hindle. New York: Penguin, 1988.
Hindle, Maurice. Introduction. Godwin ix-xxxix.
Kelley, Gary. The English Jacobin Novel, 1780-1805. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1976.
Kilgour, Maggie. The Rise of the Gothic Novel. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Miles, Robert. Gothic Writing, 1750-1820: A Genealogy. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Rosenthal, Bernard. “The Voices of Wieland.” Critical Essays on Charles Brockden Brown. Ed. Bernard Rosenthal. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981. 104-125.
Sheldon, Pamela J. “The Shock of Ambiguity: Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Gothic Tradition.” The DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 10.4 (1977): 17-26.
Thompson, James. “Surveillance in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression. Ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS P, 1989.
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1) Stephen and Tom don’t seem to like the term “digital citizenship”. Stephen wrote an important article “The Digital Nation” almost exactly 10 years ago, I remember reading it, and it’s still relevant today. Tom states that he doesn’t believe what we are talking about (literacy, safety, etiquette, networking, learning strategies) equates to digital citizenship.
a) Stephen, I never said I particularly like the term either. I am using the framework I have been given through the conversation of others. Ironically, had I not used the term, I doubt if the post would have received the same attention. People have an idea of what to expect when they hear the term, it is useful in that way.
And maybe this is an error of bias on my behalf, but when I hear the term citizenship, “nation-state” citizenship is the last thing on my mind. You yourself argue for the post-national nature of digital citizens.
I think, digital citizens are post-national. Increasingly they view the restrictions imposed by nationhood and nationality as fetters inherited from an archaic age, when borders were constructed to keep both people and ideas apart from each other.
There are other unified forces that can help define citizenship in the non-traditional sense. Isin & Wood (1999) identify a number of alternate citizenship types that extend beyond nation state identities.
b) Tom writes,
I’ve probably said this before, but “literacy” + “safety ” + “etiquette” + “learning strategies” + “networking” does not equal “citizenship.” It may equal something, but “citizenship” isn’t a good word for it.
I agree. In fact, if you read my post carefully, I was saying much of the same thing, In my argument, I was advocating especially for social responsibility, social and individual action and learning.
2) Tom writes, “Citizenship is a Political Role“. I agree, but I don’t agree with his analysis of citizenship defined by the limits of political (esp. American) political history. And I will repeat the quote from my first post re: the polis and the very origin of the term political.
The obligations of citizenship were deeply connected into one’s everyday life in the polis. To be truly human, one had to be an active citizen to the community, which Aristotle famously expressed: “To take no part in the running of the community’s affairs is to be either a beast or a god!” This form of citizenship was based on obligations of citizens towards the community, rather than rights given to the citizens of the community. This was not a problem because they all had a strong affinity with the polis; their own destiny and the destiny of the community were strongly linked. Also, citizens of the polis saw obligations to the community as an opportunity to be virtuous, it was a source of honour and respect.
This is what it means to be political to me. To be engaged, active, concerned, critical, ethical and influential in the affairs of the community, whether the community is temporal or online, at the hockey rink or on Youtube.
Alec Couros’ post on digital citizenship makes some valid points, but I’m not convinced that a few examples of really vile content and lazy practice are reasons to think that the concept of citizenship is in some way fundamentally shifting.
I never said it was fundamentally shifting or changing. I just don’t think it has ever been defined in way that really expresses the idea of citizenship. Thus, as it has been defined, the term is ripe for attack.
But I also believe that citizenship suggests more than critical thinking. It requires participation and action. It requires contribution. And the ways in which even our kids can contribute in this environment and the global scale those contributions now have do change the equation.
And this is really what I stressed in the original post. After each of my “bad examples” I posed the question “what are our responsibilities?”, “What should we do about it?” This is the type of response I was looking for.
I doesn’t matter whether you define all of this digital citizenship, critical media literacy or something totally different. What does matter is that this conversation is happening. It matters that there are passionate educators out there who will inspire their students to think critically about the messages and content they receive. It matters that those educators will empower youth to becomes socially responsible by encouraging, creating and sustaining all that is good in the world. | <urn:uuid:d77a8f8f-219d-49a8-8d4f-f87a7bbc9c34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://educationaltechnology.ca/723/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966187 | 980 | 2.25 | 2 |
Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have determined that microbes in the mouth and guts are responsible for causing some types of migraines.
These microbes, which reduce nitrates in their environment, were present in higher levels in people that suffered from migraines compared to those who do not. The study was published in the American Society for Microbiology journal. It was introduced as a precedent for examining exactly which microbes could be linked to migraines and what were the effects caused by their host.
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Migraines are strong headaches that may last for hours, often forcing the patient to resort to pain medication. At least 38 million Americans suffer from migraines, and although doctors do not know exactly why migraines occur, now they know why the episodes can be triggered by certain behaviors, foods, and drinks.
The research team took the bacteria present in 172 oral samples and 1,996 fecal samples from healthy individuals. The samples were analyzed to determine which genes were predominant in each case. Both sets of samples contained genes linked to nitrates. But these same genes were present in higher levels in the case of oral samples. Researchers already knew that the vocal cavity contains microbes that act upon nitrates.
“There is this idea out there that certain foods trigger migraines–chocolate, wine, and especially foods containing nitrates. We thought that perhaps there was a connection between someone’s microbiome and what they were eating,” stated Antonio Gonzalez, lead author of the study.
Eight out of every ten patients that take medicine containing nitrate for cardiovascular health suffer migraines as a side effect. The study suggests that there is a link between migraine episodes and an abundance of nitrate-reducing microbes in the vocal cavity.
Gonzalez commented that if migraines were determined to be caused by the overpopulation of these microbes, a specialized probiotic mouthwash could be developed which could result beneficial for cardiovascular health.
Nitrate is known to dilate the heart’s arteries, improving blood flow, reducing chest pain, and reducing the heart’s workload by dilating the body’s arteries and allowing additional blood to pass freely.
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Each logged-in user has a default custom dictionary called RoamingCustom.dic. in addition, you can create and use many more custom dictionaries. Over time, your custom dictionaries may become a very useful resource, especially since any custom dictionary loaded is used by all the Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Let us assume that you have added several words to the custom dictionaries over the last 4 or 5 years, and now you need to move to a new computer. Or probably you have a colleague who is going to help you with some documentation, and you obviously want him or her to use your custom dictionary. To share the actual dictionary files (.dic), you first need to find out where they are stored on your computer.
Where is my Custom Dictionary for Microsoft Office?
The RoamingCustom.dic is typically stored in a separate folder for each local user/signed-in Microsoft account. If you are running Windows 10, 8, or 7, you can find the custom dictionaries within:
We already know the path of your RoamingCustom.dic file, as already mentioned above. Unlike RoamingCustom.dic, other custom dictionaries could be stored anywhere else on your system! Therefore, it is a good idea to find out the path where your custom dictionary is located. This process will enable you to find out the location of any other dictionary which is loaded within PowerPoint 2013 for Windows:
- Launch PowerPoint 2013 if it is not already open, and choose File | Options, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Options within the File menu
- This opens the PowerPoint Options dialog box, click the Proofing option within the sidebar to view the interface that you see in Figure 2, below.
Figure 2: Proofing section of PowerPoint Options dialog box includes the Custom Dictionaries button
- Now, click the Custom Dictionaries button (highlighted in red within Figure 2, above). This summons the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, as shown in Figure 3. Select any of the dictionaries under the Dictionary List. You will notice the File path box which displays the selected dictionary's location (highlighted in red within Figure 3).
Figure 3: File path displaying the selected dictionary’s location
- Now, select the location in the File path box (highlighted in red within Figure 3, above) and right-click the selection. From the resultant menu, select the Copy option, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 4.
Figure 4: Location of the custom dictionary copied
- Open Windows Explorer and paste (Ctrl+V) the copied location within the Address Bar (highlighted in red within Figure 5). And click the Go to button (highlighted in blue within Figure 5) or press the Enter key on the keyboard.
Figure 5: Copied location pasted within the Address Bar
- This will open the folder where the custom dictionary is stored, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Custom dictionary location accessed
- Now, select the dictionary file you want to copy. Thereafter, you can easily copy this file to a thumb drive, or external hard disk, or even send the dictionary file (.dic) via email. Once the dictionary file is thus shared, it can be easily loaded onto another system using the process explained in our Load Custom Dictionaries in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows tutorial.
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Is The Habit Of Delaying Killing Your Reputation?
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done", said Rita Mae Brown. Relate to this? We bet you do!
Most tasks, workout schedules, resolutions and goals, etc. are left to the mercy of the last minute motivation. In many cases, the last minute adrenaline rush kick-starts your creative side and you come out with excellent results, within no time.
But you can't deny those dreadful times when the habit of delaying, termed as ‘procrastination', starts to kill you with added stress and unnecessary fear of missing deadlines or important dates, pulling your repute down to dirt. Been through that yet?
It is not for long you can put up with the habit of procrastination, and sooner than later, you have to rid yourself of it. So if procrastination is killing you, here are 5 effective ways to weed it out of your system.
Change The Setting
At times, it's not an inner demon, but the surrounding that hinders your productivity. Is the desk you're working on cluttered with mess? Is it too dark around? Or is it just too comfortable to rather go to sleep? In any of the above cases, try changing the setting of your workplace. Move to an open environment with fresh air. Try shifting close to the window where you get a refreshing outside view. Trust us, it makes a lot of difference.
Setting Priorities Right
The very first step is to set your priorities right. Many times, we have a list of things to be done and not knowing the order to finish them befuddles the best of minds. To stop this from happening, list down everything on a piece of paper in the order each has to be done and then begin with the tasks.
Are You Emotionally Crippled?
Most times we do not even know if we are feeling low emotionally. Psychologists suggest that there are three main emotions that render us crippled - anger, fear and sadness; and these emotions play a significant role in prolonging procrastination. Had a bad phase? Take your time, but get over it. Don't let the phase turn you into a procrastination king.
Breaking It Up
Tasks that seem impossible to be done pave a way for procrastination. This is a very common reason why most of us want to push things for later. But is that really the solution? When a task seems too large or overwhelming to be handled, break it down into different parts. And then finish one task at a time. You'll see just how simple it gets!
Wipe-Out The Pit-Stops
When there is an urgent job to be done but you feel you'd rather be doing something else that would only waste your time, identify that as a pit-stop. Are you spending way too much time on Facebook? Tweeting away to glory when piles of files are left unattended? Or busy ‘liking' images on Instagram? If this comes between you and the task at hand, stop them right now!
Time To Get The Ball Rolling
No matter what we say, it's you who has to get things going in the end. All planning and praying can't help if you do not get the ball rolling. So get back the nerve, and just do it. It looks good when you have accomplished something, it's all the more awful when you are terribly late and haven't even started.
Lastly, Reward Yourself
Treat yourself like a kid. Promise yourself a reward when the task is completed. Lure the baby in you to something of his liking and see how easily the work gets done. Sometimes, going the rough way of forcing yourself doesn't help. This trick is for all those times when your stubborn heart just won't budge!
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New Forest based, Septic Tank and Sewage Treatment Plant Installers, Surveyors and Services.
We offer a Free quote for all installations and replacements. As well as a range of survey and maintenance options. Please get in contact on 0800 3101092 or contact us here
New Forest News:
Policy DM7: Restrictions on new soakaways
Barton on Sea: A soakaway restriction zone is defined at Barton on Sea. Within this zone, the development of a soakaway will only be permitted if there is capacity to connect directly to an available surface water system, or highway drainage system via a controlled connection, which may require the use of storage. Alternatively, it may be appropriate to construct a new surface water system or a rainwater harvesting system.
About Us & Our Services
Homeseptic performs maintenance, repairs, and installation on all makes and kinds of Septic Tanks and Sewage Treatment Plants in the New Forest. We also carry out all types of, private drainage, Soakaway and drainage field replacements for storm water, rain water, and effluent. All of us grew up in the Forest and love the area. We have all worked in the drainage industry for the last couple of decades but have grown frustrated at how other companies operate. This is why we formed Homeseptic. We want to do a good job at a sensible price and leave a job feeling good about the work we have done. We don’t want to over charge, we don’t want to be rushed and we don’t want to install a system we know will fail.
You will find we will always endeavour to find an efficient solution to all your drainage requirements. Removing and treating foul waste from a property is crucial for safety, hygiene, your ability to sell your property in the future and to ensure you are complying with legislation. Therefore it is sensible to call in trained professionals for the installation of a treatment plant or septic tank or in fact any drainage work.
What does a waste treatment plant do?
A treatment plant processes waste to a far higher standard than a septic tank installation. It effectively combines the process of both an old Septic Tank and its drainage field. Effluence is typically clear between 96% and 98% pure water and can be offloaded into a ditch or watercourse. From the 1st of January 2020, no Septic Tank system can be discharged directly to a ditch or watercourse. Given the challenge with soil type, the water table and access many New Forest Properties currently discharge to a ditch or watercourse. If you are unsure give us a call and we will check your existing system.
Although standard treatment plants use gravity to operate some will require an additional pumping system. Again this is very common because of the unique challenges the New Forest offers particularly in areas with a high water table or clay type soils. The new regulation requires all owners of Septic tanks and Sewage Treatment plants to have annual services and effluent checks, this can prove crucial when coming to sell your property. Again get in contact if you have any questions.
Environmentally friendly Graf products:
Coming from the Forest we are keen environmentalists, which is why conditions allow we offer Graf Tank products. These German engineered systems are ultra-environmentally friendly.
The Graf tanks are single-chambered injection moulded systems set up to be ultra environmentally conscious from production through to the output. They are also designed with no moving parts or mechanical elements making them reliable, less costly and easier to maintain. See the Graf page here.
- Sustainability starts with the manufacturing, this type of tank tech normally requires 2.7 kWh per kg of plastic to produce, Graf has it down to between 0.38 and 0.5 kWh. Further, all heat generated by the process is recovered and used to heat the companies logistics buildings. All the materials used are 100% recyclable.
- Electric usage is kept to a minimum, 46kWh per person per year for the One2Clean and 43kWh for the advanced, a 9w energy saving bulb uses 78kWh, normal sludge activated systems use 217kWh.
- Both of the Graf systems only require one pumping process compared to three in normal systems, extending the life of the core air compressor and delivering the energy savings.
- The unique way the system treats the waste minimises the level of sludge produced and generates market-leading odourless effluent quality. Graf claims this leads to a carbon footprint of 25% compared to conventional wastewater treatment systems.
Where on your property can the treatment plant be installed?
This depends largely on the layout of the property and Building Regulations from the Environment Agency. We will assess your site and work with you to find the best solution for your installation. Ultimately a site and system which you are happy with.
The New Forest District Council offers the following advice. To be honest it’s pretty unhelpful but gives you a starting place for further research.
If you are really geeky and want to get into the detail of the geology and drainage of the Forest then this is a great read. The Streams of the New Forest: A study in Drainage Evolution.
Our Core Septic Tank services and Information
Septic Tank Installation uk:
We are based in the New Forest, Hampshire but operate throughout Hants, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset and Berkshire. We will venture further a field, just give us a call for the best value quote you will receive delivered by our expert engineers. Please go to our in depth Installation page.
Septic Tank Problems:
Give us a call we may be able to help you over the phone. Failing that for more complicated issues we can dispatch an engineer to investigate. Please check out our Problems page.
Legally you have to have your tank serviced annually and emptied to avoid any pollution. We can help you here and offer a no fuss annual servicing plan. Our Servicing & Maintenance page.
Towns in the area that we cover:
We cover the whole of the New Forest and surrounding towns. Due to the rural nature of the area many towns and villages are not connected to mains sewerage. Here is a quick guide to some of our favourite towns and villages. Beaulieu and Exbury and Hythe home of Beaulieu National Motor Museum, and Exbury Gardens a must in spring time. Nearby is Hythe with the world’s oldest pier train. There are views across to Southampton Docks to see all the cruise large liners. Drainage conditions as with all the Forest vary markedly from property to property.
Brockenhurst has a main line station to London Waterloo and thus contains many second home owners and London commuters. It is a pleasant village in the New Forest, with a ford running through the main high street. Ponies and Donkeys wander freely. It also has the Forests biggest College which several of us attended in our youth and I until recently sat as a governor. Many of the properties here use ditches and watercourses to discharge effluent. If you live here and are unsure, it is worth getting your system checked to avoid falling foul of the upcoming legislation changes. A sewage treatment plant is a must.
Burley is a central stop for holiday makers. With its Witch themed high street, cream teas and the home of New Forest Cider. As well as the annual fairy festival. There are a couple of nice pubs to while away the day. It is also a key stop on the New Forest open top bus. Nearby is the village of Bransgore with its lovely Public Houses and former world darts champion. These two areas have a large variety of drainage solutions largely due to the varying height of landscape.
Cadnam is a small forest edge hamlet on the entrance to the New Forest as you come off the M27. Once famous for an oak tree which was reputed to come into leaf on Christmas Day.
Christchurch: Close to Bournemouth with its award winning beaches, and exciting night life. The town is home to Christchurch Priory, the neighbouring town of Highcliffe with its dramatic coastline is also worth a visit.
Avon Valley: Fordingbridge to Ringwood
Ringwood, Fordingbridge,Sandleheath,Woodgreen, Breamore, Ibsley, Bickton, Harbridge, Alderholt, Ellingham and Blashford follow the course of the Avon at the Northern edge of the park. The river and large surrounding gravel basin cause a headache for the installation of Septic Tanks and Sewage Treatment Plants. This is due to the high water table making Drainage fields almost an impossibility to install. Another knock on affect is that it is very difficult to excavate a deep enough hole to accommodate a tank and keep the tank in the hole. As such the majority of off drainage solutions discharge directly to a ditch or watercourse.
Lymington is a famous Yachting town with Marinas and Cobbled Quay, Saturday Market, lots of restaurants, a branch line station and the ferry to the Isle of Wight. This also Includes the villages of Everton, Hordle, Pennington and nearby Sway. Lymington as a bigger town has large elements of mains drainage with the outlying unconnected properties which vary in nature and solution.
Lyndhurst the gateway to the New Forest and home of the with New Forest Museum. The Verderers Court which oversees the forest’s Commoners is located here. Close by is Minstead, one of many delightful forest villages, the resting place of Sir Arthur Canon Doyle the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels. Lyndhurst itself is big enough to benefit from areas of mains drain but many of the properties on the outskirts are off drainage.
Milford and Keyhaven are situated 3 miles from Lymington. Milford has a stony beach, which is safe for swimming, with lovely views to the Isle of Wight. Keyhaven is part of the Solent Way and has a lovely pub and a sailing club. From here you can walk out along the spit to visit Hurst Castle.
New Milton and Barton are uniquely situated, sandwiched between the New Forest and the sea. With Ashley, Bashley and Barton-on-Sea right on its door step. These areas have a hotchpotch of geological features making each treatment plant installation unique.
Totton and Eling. Totton used to be known as the largest village in England. Located on the edge of the New Forest but close to Southampton and the M271. Eling is a very pretty village with the Toll Bridge, Eling Tide Mill and a lovely Creek full of yachts and small boats. These areas due to their proximity to Southampton have access to mains but again because of the rural origins have several pockets of off drainage requirements.
Geology, overview of the area:
The central core of the New Forest extends across an elevated plateau. Sloping gently from north to south towards the Solent Coast. Rivers and streams cutting through the plateau have formed gently sloping valleys. These are between low flat-topped hills and created much of the rolling landscape towards the centre of the Forest.
Towards the north the valleys are deeper, whilst near the coast the land is flatter and more open. The whole area is contained within a downfold of the surrounding chalk, forming part of the Hampshire Basin. The New Forest National Park sits in the Hampshire ‘Basin’ – a shallow dip surrounded by the chalk downlands of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset with the prominent ridge of the Isle of Wight to the south.
Soil types of the area:
Gravel, sand and clay predominate, dating from the time when the entire New Forest area was a shallow sea or large river estuary. The landscape is punctuated by a number of sand and gravel pits, both disused and active. On the surface, the New Forest National Park is a mixture of poor soils in flat, gravelly areas; richer clay and loam that is well-drained; and water-logged, marshy bogs or mires. The bed of clay a metre or less below the surface is a hard, impervious layer and creates the saturated, spongy earth that is characteristic of large parts of the National Park. Forest soils are generally derived from soft clays and sands, overlain in many areas by deposits of flint, gravels and windblown brickearth.
As you can imagine the soil conditions provide tremendous challenges for drainage systems both foul and water. This again is another example of why you should get a professional company into at least quote for a sewage treatment installation. I feel that once you at least talk to a properly qualified installer you will be able to pick out the cowboys who will leave you with an expensive non-working system.
A number of sites within the New Forest National Park are of recognised geological importance. This along with the national park status creates a unique set of planning requirements. We are used to dealing with these, please get in touch.
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Our senior writer ponders the “taboo” of buying a passenger car model that also does duty as a taxi.
DURING a recent work trip to Germany, I noticed that most of the taxis plying the roads happened to be MPVs. Many of them were Volkswagen Tourans.
These cabs were convenient, because there were five of us in the group. Instead of taking two regular saloon cabs, we could fit in a single Touran.
As we passed several privately owned Tourans, it occurred to me that this was a sight that we probably wouldn’t witness back home.
In Singapore, any car model that’s utilised as a taxi – with the exception of Mercedes’ E-Class – is repulsive to car buyers.
For instance, when ComfortDelGro began replacing its Toyota Crowns with Hyundai Sonatas in 2007, buyers immediately lost interest in the model.
In fact, this episode was probably why the succeeding Sonata model, launched in 2009, was instead marketed as the i45 here.
More recently, sales of the last-gen Toyota Prius reportedly dipped when SMRT began utilising them as taxis.
The concepts of “giving face” and “having face” aren’t strange to me. But I remain puzzled as to why they come into play when cars are involved.
To me, the only reasons to feel ashamed of your car are if it has been modified in a ghastly manner, is filthy, falling apart, or all of the above.
Otherwise, I don’t see anything humiliating about driving the same make and model that’s used as a taxi, unless it’s painted in Comfort blue, CityCab yellow, SMRT maroon or Trans-Cab red.
You wouldn’t want random people trying to hail your car, and screaming at you for driving past them.
Interestingly, there’s no backlash against the numerous makes and models used by Uber and Grab drivers. Could it be because these cars aren’t liveried?
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Skill: Understanding different conditional sentences
Course: Business English
Target Level: Intermediate - Upper Advanced
A. What is a conditional sentence?
A phrase is a group of words that do not have meaning.
Example: My name.
A sentence is a group of words that can stand alone and make sense.
Example: My name is Han Qin.
A conditional sentence is a sentence in which one action depends on another action.
Or two sentences that are connected by if to form one sentence.
Example: I will go to school if my father has money.
First action: My father has money
Second condition: I will go to school
Explanation: My going to school depends on my father having money.
There are three conditional sentences in English language. These are called the
first, second, and third conditional sentences. What are these conditional
sentences? In what situations do we use each of them?
Differences between the conditional sentences
B. First conditional sentence
Example: I will get the job if I pass the interview
Meaning: I sent my application for a job. I am preparing for the interview. I am
collecting the necessary information about the Company. I have the qualification. I
am confident I will pass the interview.
First action: I pass the interview
Second action: I will get the job
Condition: My getting the job depends on passing the interview. There is a
possibility that I will pass the interview.
Observing the verbs of the two actions: the verb in the first action = pass
the modal verb in the second action = will
What is the form of the verbs in the first and second actions?
The verbs are in the present simple form.
C. Second conditional sentences
Example: I would get the job if I passed the interview
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Every now and then I encounter an article that changes everything for me–a perspective that makes me rethink my entire understanding of the work I do and the direction in which our schools are headed. This is one of those articles.
There is an undeniable struggle right now for teachers to re-establish themselves as the experts in education; as knowledgable, competent professionals who are worthy of respect because we contribute something of great value to the community even in these times of rapid change. Discussions of our value center primarily on students’ academic achievement. And most of the time, we buy in. After all, helping students master grade level expectations and standards is a concrete, quantifiable, and worthwhile outcome.
Here’s the problem: defining our value and success in relation to measurable learning outcomes will eventually render us obsolete.
Will Richardson points out the painful truth: if all we care about is student achievement, then computers will soon be able to do the job better than us. Computers can differentiate learning better than we can, tracking progress in real time and automatically adjusting the level and type of practice accordingly. Pretty much everything that standardized tests measure are things that technology will soon be able to teach and assess better than an individual human being can.
So why are teachers necessary in the 21st century? This is the question WE need to answer in a very obvious way through our daily practice. We need to articulate and demonstrate the things that teachers can do for kids that technology alone cannot:
- Teach students to be open-minded as they collaborate and negotiate
- Foster empathy, compassion, and an urgent sense of social justice
- Model and show the value of hope, optimism, and risk-taking
- Instill a strong work ethic so children learn to take initiative and show perseverance and diligence
- Provide opportunities for creativity and ingenuity
- Guide students to use their imagination, invent, and find new solutions to real problems
- Help kids discover and follow their interests and passions
These are just a few of the practices that make teachers invaluable and indispensable. So the question becomes: are we doing them well? Are these “21st century skills” something we’re fostering every day in our kids? Do our teaching methods take students beyond rote learning into higher-level thinking and deep, critical reflection on real issues? And just as importantly…are we conveying the value of these practices to parents and the community, or are we allowing them to think the skills measured by standardized tests are more significant?
I don’t think we’re ever going to get overwhelming support for these “uniquely human dispositions” (as Will puts it) from those who make the big decisions in education. There are too many arguments against the human connection. The naysayers will insist that the traits are not quantifiable and testable, or not important. They’ll argue that these areas are the sole responsibility of parents. They might even contend that technology WILL be able to do these things better than people. We have to anticipate this push back from leaders who want to cut funds and replace teachers with technology. Anyone who sees dollar signs as the bottom line will find a reason to frame the discussion as if students are themselves machines which can be programmed by other machines for uniform success.
The media and public backlash against teachers comes from a sense that teachers are not worth the money that taxpayers are kicking out for our salaries. We need to show the world what we’re really capable of doing for kids. We need to redefine our role so that it’s obvious how much we are needed, and demonstrate how teachers (not technology, not tests) are the essential force in a school’s ability to inspire children and help them connect to their world.
Will states that the need for this shift is urgent. We can’t wait until technology has already forced us out of jobs and left our students to fend for themselves with their machines. We have to make our teaching about more than facts and rote learning and connect to something bigger than standardized tests. There’s no time to wait for someone to mandate and regulate and fund this change…the transformation has to begin with each of us, and it has to start now.
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The CDC released data yesterday showing that last year the birth rate in the U.S. for women aged 15 to 19 declined to a record low of 40.4 births per 1,000, down from 41.1 in 2004 (a 2% decrease). For some perspective, the rate back in 1991 was 68.1 births per 1,000 women. The decline was most pronounced among 15-17 year-olds, for whom the birth rate fell 3%, to 21.4 births per 1,000. The rate for this age group has dropped fully 45 percent since 1991.
Now, folks at the the National Abstinence Clearinghouse will laud these results as directly stemming from their abstinence-only education efforts, though there is no evidence that such education works, and plenty that the curricula is false and misleading. (Still abstinence-only ed shops have received a billion dollars in federal funding since Bush came to office.)
Choicers will be equally proud of the low rate, which they’ll point out is an outgrowth of proper access to birth control and, thus, fewer unwanted pregnancies. Still, while we’ll be hearing about the record low, coverage likely won’t focus on the flip side, that there were nearly half a million (421,123) children born to girls under 20 last year.
There is more work to be done for sure to protect women’s right to choose — whether they want to have an abortion, or take a pill, or have sex before marriage — and though there was lots of good news out of this month’s election, repro rights are still in jeopardy. The Nation’s Katha Pollitt points out that of the 22 pro-choice Dems who ran for Congress only two won, and every anti-choice woman incumbent prevailed. | <urn:uuid:5f5d3f64-2e82-4b21-9943-1badb2cd3219> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/11/teen-birth-rate-record-low/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965011 | 372 | 2.234375 | 2 |
There Are Numbers of Them…
But only going to talk about one at the moment. However, just like myths, writers have many, many delusions that hold them back.
Delusion: A fiction writer knows for a fact they can write good sales copy.
Reason for the Delusion: After all, they are fiction writers and it is their story.
Fact: I know of maybe a handful of fiction writers who know how to write good sales copy. And not one New York fiction editor.
But most writers have the delusion that they can write sales copy, the second most important element in sales after the cover. And then wonder why their books are not selling as well as they like.
— There are many forms of sales copy for novels or stories, but fiction writers don’t know the forms, or even want to learn them.
— Fiction writers do not use hype because it makes them feel uncomfortable.
— Fiction writers often don’t bother to tell the reader in the sales copy what genre their story fits in.
— Fiction writers use passive verbs to tell the readers their stories are dull and boring, and to make it active fiction writers hide the passive verb in a contraction which is worse. Most fiction writers can’t even see passive verbs.
— Fiction writers will often give away the entire story in a plot-filled blurb instead of giving the reader the chance to read the story and discover the plot.
— Fiction writers often never bother to mention their character’s names in the blurbs, not understanding that all fiction is about character.
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We’re hearing some more good news about residential solar costs. Experts expect a home solar system to cost a whopping 40% less within the next three years. Combined with the continuation of major solar rebates and tax credits, this makes 2015 a very opportune time to invest in the owner-friendliest option—and the easiest to install—of all the active renewable technologies.
The hardware costs of solar are no longer driving price reductions, as the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pointed out in its 1998-2013 analysis. We felt those big hardware savings in the past as the industry zoomed forward with cell technology breakthroughs, new panel arrays, and advances in inverter systems. However, recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory survey found that soft residential solar costs are now responsible for over half (64%) of the cost of home-scale photovoltaic systems.
According to the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, we can break these soft residential solar costs down into customer acquisition at the company (marketing, site assessments, etc.), financing (interest or third-party developer markup), installation labor, and permitting and inspection (including unanticipated delays).
The department aims to bring residential solar costs down to 6 cents per kilowatt-hour by the year 2020. (You can see detailed analysis by Jim Kennerly, Policy and Regulatory Analyst at NC Sustainable Energy Association and coauthor of the new SunShot-funded Going Solar in America report, in a slideshow here.)
The more the soft costs fall, the less expensive home solar installations will become. We’re still in the shakedown period for utilities and regulators to work out the rules. As solar continues its explosive growth, experts expect a push from local governments to aid in the process through measures like streamlining and clearing up regulations, outreach, and lender interaction. The bang from utilities will come in the form of providing net metering (check out the map of state policies!), arranging community solar, and coordinating better with customers and municipal officials. Kennerly’s analysis shows that in most areas (46 of 50 cities studied), solar energy investments are becoming even more profitable than stock market buys.
You may also find useful this Energy Department analysis of cities where solar (both financed and purchased upfront) is at parity with utility electric rates. These are pre-2014 numbers; updating the chart would likely put many other locations onto it.
Statistics published this year by the International Renewable Energy Agency, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s ACWE power company, and analysts from Deutsche Bank all see soft costs dropping significantly over the next two years. The investment bank makes the following points about the solar trend.
Panels will fall in price to 50 cents/watt.
The total cost reduction will not come from polysilicon price reductions, because silicon costs have already dropped to become one of the smaller elements of solar panel manufacture.
Inverter and racking costs are declining through component cost reduction, next-generation improvements, and production efficiencies (on the manufacturing side), and ongoing price competition among companies new to the field.
Installation costs will fall by one-third in the US because so many installations are occurring that the price comes down by volume alone. Also, every year brings more experienced installers using better tools and techniques.
Sales and customer acquisition costs will also drop from more financing opportunities and power purchase agreements becoming available and increased use of automated online systems, Cloud technology, and smartphone GPS, camera, and Internet links.
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For Alice Clanachan, driving a car is a luxury she – and the planet – can do without.
- A home battery subsidy scheme has been abandoned in SA because of low uptake
- Green-minded critics say the option should be retained, especially at a time of rising energy prices
- One environmentally conscious resident says she has put her battery plans on hold
Nine years ago, the art curator moved to Adelaide from Melbourne and committed to living as car-free as she could, relinquishing the idea of owning a vehicle.
She uses public transport to travel to work, to the shops and to the CBD, and she keeps her occasional use of ride-sharing services to a minimum.
"I've tried to employ different strategies in my life to really support clean transport options," Ms Clanachan said.
"I catch the train to Bedford Park – to Flinders Uni – every day, I catch the tram regularly into the city, I catch the bus quite a lot, I also ride my bike.
"I have modified my lifestyle to suit my transport habits."
Ms Clanachan has also taken steps to reduce her carbon footprint in other ways, including subscribing to a "zero-waste" lifestyle through rigorous recycling, and recently investing in rooftop solar and a heat-pump hot water system.
A home battery was on her wishlist, but a decision by the South Australian government to scrap a subsidy scheme has dented that ambition.
Subsidy axed as prices rise
As part of last week's state budget, the new government revealed it would be discontinuing its predecessor's Home Battery Scheme – which offered $2,000 incentives to home owners willing to invest – because of poor uptake.
"The [previous] government had promised 40,000 batteries by now — they got less than 20,000," Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said last week.
"We're focusing on renewable grid-scale projects so we can get power prices down for everyone."
Ms Clanachan accepted that the battery scheme was "not as popular as it could have been".
But she says it is worth persisting with at a time of high cost of living pressures and rising gas prices, which will be the subject of a meeting today between federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen and his state counterparts.
"Perhaps it's almost been axed at the point in time in which it would have been a bit more popular," Ms Clanachan said.
"Batteries are expensive, even with subsidies, and so it probably takes a while [for consumers] to think about how much … they might get out of such a big financial decision.
"The general kind of consensus has been do the solar first, batteries might get cheaper, think about that a bit later.
"For me, that's exactly what I did.
"I got rooftop solar last year, paid that off now and was thinking a battery might be good for the future, because I am generating a lot of electricity during the day that I'm not using at home."
Greens MP Robert Simms subscribes to that logic, telling ABC Radio Adelaide's Stacey Lee and Nikolai Beilharz that discontinuing the subsidy is "really short-sighted".
"We're in the middle of a climate emergency and … the cost of living is spiralling at the moment, skyrocketing out of control," he said.
"We've got huge electricity prices and home battery storage is a really good way for people to be able to reduce some of those cost-of-living pressures.
"If people aren't taking up the program and it makes sense from a public policy perspective, wouldn't you then say, 'What can we do to increase the uptake?'"
Retaining scheme 'reckless': Premier
Premier Peter Malinauskas hit back at suggestions the scrapping of the battery scheme and other green initiatives, including an electric vehicle charging subsidy, showed a lack of environmental concern.
"They were dismal failures," he told ABC Radio Adelaide earlier this week.
"Don't take my word for it — look at the market, look at the lack of take-up.
"Why would we be using state government or South Australian taxpayers' money investing in a policy that's been a proven failure?
"Why would anyone do that? That would be reckless."
Instead, Mr Malinauskas spruiked the government's plan for a $593-million hydrogen power plant, electrolyser and storage facility in the Upper Spencer Gulf region.
"We've got a very substantial policy to increase local generation, with our clean, green hydrogen production facility which is world-leading," he said.
But a hydrogen hub that is not yet under construction and is four years from completion is not going to help Ms Clanachan's home-grown environmental battle.
"I would love the option of using an [electrical vehicle] on the weekends, but I think for now that's not an option for me," she said.
"With no incentives to buy an EV or take up a battery, I'll have to be waiting a really long time." | <urn:uuid:011a3a52-a58c-43df-b43b-040c49c42d64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/scrapping-of-home-battery-subsidy-hits-eco-conscious-home-owners/101131602 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972306 | 1,063 | 1.945313 | 2 |
“A foolish consistency,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” I have, it seems, a very little mind.
I adore consistency. And documentation, especially documentation surrounding expectations, enables a consistent approach, not only in training design, but also in working with training teams. If team members know the expectations, they also know what they need to achieve.
We use several documents to help us be consistent. They have a variety of names, but all go to the same ends.
Examples may include:
- “testing scripts” (a series of procedures for quality assurance staff to run down and check against);
- “definitions of done” (statements that must be fulfilled before a project is considered to be finished);
- or “technical specifications” (criteria that developers build to).
Combined, all work to ensure that the training product—be it an elearning course, website, instructor presentation, or participant manual, is consistent with the expectations of other team members, management, and stakeholders.
The idea is to widely share these documents. When designers and developers have the testing script that quality assurance staff will be using, they can make sure that the training materials follow testing standards as they are building it. This is good for everyone and helps avoid a common refrain: if I knew that the course needed to do that in that way, I would have built it that way from the beginning!
Consistency is good. Expectations are great. If I had to, I might say that you can build in places where variation would be allowed. For example, I might let a developer know they can’t change the font, but if absolutely necessary, they can add an extra page to manage the text. I might check with the stakeholders and see if it would be okay to update the script, should a voice-over artist use contractions, or whether the voice-over must be re-recorded.
This is a heavy burden, no doubt. It requires thinking through as much as possible before a project begins. Yet the upside is significant. By documenting expectations for training materials, and sticking to them as much as possible, you help everyone know what to expect, reduce surprises, and avoid re-work.
This often also has the very nice side effect of creating space and patience to deal with those seemingly inevitable deviations that appear in all training projects, no matter how carefully expectations are set.
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Chief of Staff: Quentin England
Student Body Chief of Staff shall report directly to the Student Body President. This individual will manage and lead the Executive Office of the President’s staff, represent the Student Body President to external university and governmental entities, represent the Student Body President to internal Student Government entities, and coordinate and work on behalf of the Student Body President on executive projects. Furthermore, the Chief of Staff will be tasked with interviewing and recommending applicants for the appointed positions with the Student Government Association. They may assign an individual to assist in the approval process, under the discretion of the Student Body President.
Deputy Chief of Staff • Daylyn Randolph
The Deputy Chief of Staff will report directly to the Chief of Staff for strategic tasking to fulfill and assist in projects. Additionally, the Deputy Chief of Staff will serve as the primary aide to the Student Body Vice President and shall assist and advise them as necessary.
Deputy Treasurer • Adam Bowling
The Deputy Student Body Treasurer shall report directly to the Student Body Treasurer. This official will advise, assist, and follow the Student Body Treasurer on financial actions surrounding the Executive Branch. They shall also support the roles and responsibilities of the Student Body Treasurer in their absence.
Attorney General • Khamisi H. J. Thorpe
The Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the Student Body President. The Attorney General is tasked with several statutory duties but also may execute other responsibilities of the Executive Branch as ordered by the Student Body President. Per Student Body Statutes the Attorney General’s duties include:
- Conduct Statutory Revision - §100.1
- Review Forms changed by the Senate Internal Affairs Committee - §307.3 - C
- Review Proposed Constitutional Amendments – §402.1 - B
- Review bills passed by the Senate – §402.2 - A
- Represent the Student Body Supervisor of Election – §708.3
- Ensure compliance with the Election Code – §§711.2 & 711.4 – D
Attorney General Goals:
- Form a taskforce to review the Student Body Election Code (§700).
- Create and maintain a written manual for executing the duties of the Attorney General’s Office.
- Establish a permanent taskforce consisting of law students, and the Attorney General to review legislation in progress and advise the Senate on ways to ensure enforceability.
Seal of the Student Body Attorney General
The Seal of the Student Body Attorney General was created by Execuitve Order # which stated: "The Seal of the Student Body Attorney General was created by Executive Order 2 which stated: "That all books, papers, documents, and records in the Student Body Attorney General's Office, may be copied and certified under seal and the said Attorney General shall cause a seal to be made and provided for their office, with such device as the President of the Student Body shall approve.""
The Seal was designed to include Lady Justice, a blindfolded woman carrying a sword and a set of scales. This is a common symbol on courthouses in America and inside some court rooms. She symbolizes fair and equal administration of the law, without corruption, favor, greed, or prejudice. Lady Justice originates from the personification of Justice in Ancient Roman art known as Iustitia or Justitia after Latin: Iustitia, who is equivalent to the Greek goddesses Themis and Dike.
- The blindfold represents objectivity and impartiality, that justice should be meted out without fear or favor, regardless of money, wealth, or power.
- She holds scales to represent the weighing of evidence, evidence must be weighed on its own merit.
- The sword represents punishment, signifying that justice can be swift and final.
- She holds the sword below the scales to show that evidence, weighted on its merit in a court of law, comes before punishment.
Press Secretary • Khamare Garner
The Press Secretary shall report directly to the Chief of Staff. This individual will represent the Executive Branch to all media outlets such as, but not limited to, local and campus newspapers and social media outlets. The Press Secretary will be responsible to post on the Student Government Association social media outlets on behalf of the Executive Branch. The will also coordinate the implementation of the Executive Branch’s communication and interactive engagement through a variety of platforms.
Director of Appointments • Katie Russell
The Director of Appointments shall report directly to the Chief of Staff. This individual will assist the Chief of Staff in their responsibility to approve students who applied for appointed positions within the Student Government Association. They will aid the Chief of Staff with the interviews and administrative procedures.
Executive Advisor • Maggie Gahan
The Executive Advisor shall report directly to the Student Body President. The primary role shall be to assist and improve cohesion throughout the Executive Branch and the entire association. The Executive Advisor will handle logistical pieces in various meetings and act as a liaison between different entities for the Executive Branch. This individual will work closely with the Student Body President, Vice President, Treasurer, Chief of Staff, and Director of Cabinet Affairs. | <urn:uuid:394f8afb-9478-47d6-9f00-df72f6233d48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sga.fsu.edu/office-of-the-student-body-president.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.931905 | 1,116 | 1.515625 | 2 |
If you plan to start out a business in the UK and want to import goods into the country then you must ensure you pay proper customs vat on imported goods so that your costs satisfy your predictions. You possibly can surely ensure improved profit margins if your purchase and sale price are in tune
with all your calculations.
The hm revenue and customs department or hmrc vat department handles duties on imported goods and services in the UK, and also handles vat returns filed by vat registered traders in the country. As soon as your taxable sales cross 70,000 pounds in 12 months then you may have to get vat registration. This in turn allows you to get a vat number and generate a vat invoice for each sale made in the local market. You’ll now ought to file a vat return in the designated period and pay vat in line with the current vat rate based upon your sales.
However, before you start selling your services or goods, you may want to import them to the UK. Your goods will most probably fall under one of the 14,000 hm customs vat classifications and you’ll have to pay the appropriate duties on those goods. In the event you want to import tobacco or alcohol products then you’ll have to pay excise duties on the same. It really is thus extremely important to check on the appropriate classification of your goods so you end up making payment on the exact amount of duties specified on it instead of paying more and increasing your costs or paying less and having into trouble at a later date.
Once you have paid all the relevant import vat, or customs, or excise duties then you’ll also need to charge the appropriate vat rates while selling those goods locally. Your merchandise might attract the standard vat rate of 17.5% or a lower rate of 5% or maybe be vat exempt depending on its classification. This rate will certainly vary in other EU countries and thus you ought to have up-to-date knowledge on uk vat and eu vat rates while importing or exporting your goods as well as selling them locally.
Since it might be very difficult for you to keep updating your knowledge on changes happening in customs and vat rates, you should appoint a good customs and vat agent to handle all your import and sales duties. Your agent would take care of all paperwork in connection with customs duties, check on whether your goods are classified correctly, calculate all vat figures and also file your vat returns on time. Your agent would also be able to assist you in vat registration and offer other vat services in case your business recently been established.
If you are planning to import goods to the UK or in another EU country then a detailed knowledge on all vat rules, customs and excise duties, and procedures on vat returns is critical for healthy business growth. One mistake could result in earning the wrath of the customs and excise vat department and put a spanner on future vat refunds. While importing goods into your country you should certainly make sure you pay proper customs vat on imported goods in order to retain complete control over your costs. | <urn:uuid:9893b991-80c2-41b1-b15b-3837d988e32f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vodka-yeast.com/2019/01/23/make-sure-you-pay-proper-customs-vat-on-imported-goods-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933274 | 652 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The buildings department just might be Mayor Michael Bloomberg's brooding, dark shadow -- he can't seem to escape the destruction that plagues it.
Already in the first six months of 2008 the city has seen more fatalities at construction sites, 15 to be exact, than it did in all of 2007, Bloomberg said at a press conference last week. Just two days after that press conference, the city's top crane inspector was accused of taking bribes to allow cranes to pass inspection.
Although the mayor is credited with reworking the Department of Buildings -- within the past six years the number of inspectors has climbed 66 percent -- the fatalities have brought the department's alleged dysfunction back to the fore.
Even industry professionals, some of whom balked at additional reforms to the department after an exhaustive review of the building code earlier in the Bloomberg administration, have come around, saying that two crane accidents in three months calls for serious change.
Last week Bloomberg, with members of the City Council and the acting buildings commissioner, Robert D. LiMandri, tried again. A package of more than a dozen legislative proposals -- some of which were introduced at the City Council following the first accident in March -- was announced in an attempt to promote safety as the city continues to experience a building boom.
Industry professionals and observers have already debated those proposals, which range from crane safety to the qualifications of the buildings commissioner. But more dialogue is sure to come.
Since the city's first crane accident this year, there have been eight bills introduced at the City Council regarding construction site safety. Some of them were included in the package the mayor revealed last week.
The legislation intends to enhance safety at construction sites, but not halt construction, said Bloomberg. While safety is the city's first priority, the city will continue constructing skyscrapers and transit hubs.
"Our priority is not to balance two competing forces: economic development and safety," the mayor said. "It is, it has to be, safety -- safety of construction workers, safety of the public. No compromises and no excuses."
A key part of that effort, city officials said, is a revision of how the city tracks general contractors. In addition to the building permits contractors must obtain for each site, the city would now require every contractor to register for a safety control number, which would allow the department to track contractors across sites, including by who their principals are. That way, if one developer is an officer at several general contractors, the city can determine, the safety records of all of them. This step, officials said, will force contractors to embrace safety practices, instead of treating city violations and fines as a cost of doing business.
The city could also require contractors to keep concrete safety managers on site to ensure compliance with city regulations. The city's new building code mandates a similar position for demolition and high-rise construction. Bloomberg said 60 percent of all construction incidents involving falling debris in 2007 occurred during concrete operations.
One bill included in the mayor's proposal (Intro 763), which was introduced by Councilmember Annabel Palma in April, would classify "housekeeping" violations at construction sites, like tripping hazards or inadequate safety netting, immediately hazardous violations -- a type of violation which can carry fines as high as $25,000.
This package would also assign independent safety monitors to sites that have poor safety records. The monitors would be hired under contract by the city, and a general contractor would have to reimburse the department for the monitor's cost before the building received a certificate of occupancy. This proposal was adapted from a bill (Intro 760) introduced by Councilmember Jessica Lappin, whose district includes both crane accident sites, in April .
For crane safety, the city will require a safety meeting before any jumping, erecting or dismantling of equipment with the site safety manager, the crane engineer and any other responsible parties. The city will also require more intensive training for crane operators and restrict the use of nylon slings, which were a cause of the March accident. Bloomberg also said the city would roll out more proposals specifically pertaining to the operation of cranes in the coming weeks and months.
In addition to these proposals, the city would also mandate the following:
Moving Forward and Building Up
These are not the first steps the Bloomberg administration has taken following the fatalities in March .
Since the first accident on March 15, when a crane collapsed into a townhouse and killed seven people, the city has provided the Department of Buildings with $4 million to equip 20 specialized engineers for a citywide analysis of construction site safety.
Bloomberg also required crane inspectors to oversee sites whenever a crane jumped -- that requirement was scaled back a day before the city's second crane accident in May.
Despite these efforts, the city still has received some criticism. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer expressed support for the mayor's proposals last week but also warned that the department did not have enough resources, employees or know-how to see them through.
"We need to know when it's going to happen, who is doing the work, how is it going to get done and we need to get it done now," said Stringer in a prepared statement. "We are piling all of this onto one agency. We must involve multiple agencies or I fear we will not be able to accomplish these goals."
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, whose district includes parts of Queens and Manhattan, called for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to inspect all of the city's construction sites. The mayor balked at that idea.
As some of the latest proposals were introduced at the City Council last month, some industry professionals suggested the city would be better off doing away with the buildings department and remaking it into a public corporation to oversee construction sites. But since the latest fatalities on May 30, several of the city's most powerful groups have reversed that position.
"It's no secret that we raised some issues, but working over the past two weeks we have resolved just about all those issues," said Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York. "This is a package that will generate additional training, it will require accountability by us in the private sector and, when necessary, it will add additional professional oversight by the proper people." Â | <urn:uuid:5588cdfc-f6aa-4eae-941a-8df88bb87848> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gothamgazette.com/criminal-justice/3995-safety-on-site-or-in-sight | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970615 | 1,286 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Explore the words cloud of the mTORmorS project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "mTORmorS" about.
The following table provides information about the project.
|Coordinator Country||Switzerland [CH]|
|Total cost||187˙419 €|
|EC max contribution||187˙419 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2019-04-15 to 2021-04-14|
Take a look of project's partnership.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the predominant form of liver cancer and a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Inactivation of different tumor suppressors, whose cooperation forms tumor suppressor networks, has been linked to HCC development, but the genetic events involved in HCC are still poorly understood. Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling is essential for cell growth and metabolism, and its hyper-activation plays an important role in pathogenesis and prognosis of HCC. However, the relationship between mTOR signaling dysregulation and the tumor suppressor networks in HCC, and whether mTOR inhibition could be a therapeutic strategy in some types of HCC remain largely unknown. Here I propose to use a genome-wide CRISPR knockout library to screen potential tumor suppressors in implanted mouse HCC models. The mouse hepatocytes depleted of different mTOR pathway components, with differential mTOR activities, will be separately infected with the CRISPR knockout library and implanted into immunocompromised mice to induce tumor. The goal of the proposed project is to understand the role of mTOR signaling dysregulation in the tumor suppressor networks in HCC. The specific objectives are: 1) to understand the tumor suppressor networks in HCC with differential mTOR activities in a genome-wide scale, 2) to examine how mTOR dysregulation controls the landscape of tumor suppressors, and 3) to explore whether mTOR inhibition could be developed as a treatment for specific subclasses of HCC. Using a combination of state-of-the-art CRISPR screening, molecular and cell biology, mouse models, next-generation sequencing, and bioinformatics tools, this project will link the mTOR signaling to tumor suppressor networks. This study will also unravel fundamental mechanisms underlying liver cancer development and contribute to potential targeted therapy.
Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "MTORMORS" project.
For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.
Send me an email (email@example.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.
Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.
The information about "MTORMORS" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.
How other minds are represented in the human brain: Neural computations underlying Theory of MindRead More
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New treatments and novel diagnostic tests for neonatal seizures based on purinergic signaling.Read More | <urn:uuid:d9c0004e-873f-4094-a462-c59d4c257fc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fabiodisconzi.com/open-h2020/projects/216292/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.868894 | 828 | 1.75 | 2 |
Don’t leave Canada without travel insurance!
Recent events occurring outside Canada’s borders emphasize the need for all travellers to have adequate travel Insurance. And when you purchase the travel insurance policy ensure that it meets all of your needs and that your application form is correctly completed.Read More
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August 30, 2013
When the BC Liberals entered of!ce in 2001 motorists were led to believe that they would get a smoother ride with automobile insurance despite the reality that ICBC was entering a sixth year with no rate increases on basic or optional insurance, and had just repaid BC motorists with a Road Safety Dividend of $100 per policyholder. In reality, motorists were blindfolded, gagged and locked in the trunk of the Liberal vehicle – all the while paying more than they should for their ride.
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Consumers Abandoned by Government in Alberta's Topsy Turvy World of Auto Insurance
(February 27, 2008)
The Consumers' Association of Canada deplores the actions taken by the Government of Alberta to protect the profits of Private Auto Insurance Companies. Within hours of the $4,000 injury cap being struck down by the courts, the Alberta government was structuring an appeal to prevent thousands of Albertans injured in auto accidents from being compensated for their pain and suffering.Read More
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Consumers’ Association of Canada Calls On Canadian Governments to Protect Consumers From Secret Commissions Paid By Insurance Companies
Ottawa, October 25, 2004 - The Consumers’ Association today called on insurance regulators across Canada to protect consumers by taking action on secret commissions paid to brokers to steer business to particular insurance companies. “Consumers suffered huge increases in auto and property insurance rates over the last year and now we know one of the reasons why,” said Mr. Cran, President of the Consumers’ Association of Canada.
CAC Applauds Proposed NB Public Auto Insurance Plan
(April 2, 2004) On April 2, 2004 the New Brunswick Select Committee on Public Auto Insurance unveiled its final report, recommending that the province implement a public insurance system to protect its drivers against soaring premiums. | <urn:uuid:c5cf83eb-bbf5-4f30-82e4-3ed36ce9b98b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.consumer.ca/en/issues-and-activities/category/insurance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938445 | 472 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Supreme Court of Norway Upholds Religious Rights
WHAT circumstances could render a parent unfit to raise a child? This question is fiercely debated in custody cases around the world. Many factors are considered, including each parent’s health, living conditions, and rapport with the child.
But what about religion? Can a parent be declared unfit simply because of his or her faith? This question became the focus of a custody battle in Norway involving one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. More than two years elapsed and three hearings took place before the issue was settled in Norway’s Supreme Court.
It began in 1988. The parents had completely separated by March of 1989, and the mother retained custody of their daughter. The father took the matter to court, claiming that he should be given full parental responsibility for the girl. He asserted that the mother was incapable of providing a normal, healthy upbringing for the child and therefore should be given visitation rights only. The reason for his claim? She was associating with Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Soliciting the “expert” testimony of opposers of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the father set out to convince the court that the teachings and life-style of Jehovah’s Witnesses conflict with the attitudes and values necessary for responsible parenting. The county court ruled 2 to 1 that the child should remain with her mother for daily care, awarding the father visitation rights. The father appealed the case to the high court. Again, a 2-to-1 ruling upheld the mother’s daily care of the child. However, this time the father was granted extended visitation rights. Furthermore, even the judges who ruled in favor of the mother seemed beset by doubts about the child’s future. With this reinforced foothold, the father appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Norway.
Once again, the father sought to discredit the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It would be damaging, he claimed, for his daughter to grow up under such an influence.
The Supreme Court, however, viewed the matter differently. In support of a decision handed down on August 26, 1994, the court’s first judge declared: “The mother’s membership of Jehovah’s Witnesses is no hindrance to awarding her the daily care for the child.” He also said: “I find that the child is functioning well and is a happy girl. She seems to have handled in a fair manner the problems that must arise because her father and her mother have very different views of life.” His conclusion was unanimously supported by the other four judges.
Lovers of truth in Norway greatly appreciate that the Supreme Court judges saw through the false accusations made against Jehovah’s Witnesses. With this decision the court confirmed each individual’s freedom to worship God and to give his or her children a warm upbringing fostered by Bible principles.* | <urn:uuid:d26febf1-d1d2-47da-8f07-ed851e83da8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101995844 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977092 | 596 | 2.171875 | 2 |
ACES - Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success
The Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES) Program is a collaboration among Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Montgomery College (MC), and Universities at Shady Grove (USG). ACES serves targeted students in select Montgomery County Public High Schools (MCPS) with Montgomery College Academic Coaches. The academic coaches provide both academic and student support using a case management approach. They meet with students providing test preparation, tutoring, college visits, and assistance with college, financial aid and scholarship applications. The ACES Academic Coaches encourage student success by identifying and neutralizing barriers that may prevent an at-promise student from graduating with a bachelor’s degree. ACES students who choose to attend Montgomery College are assisted by an on- campus academic coach who provides academic support and guidance to help facilitate their degree completion and transfer to a four-year college or university. Students who choose to continue their education at the Universities at Shady Grove are provided with ongoing support to ensure bachelor’s degree completion.
For more information, visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/aces/.
ATPA - Achieving the Promise Academy
The Achieving the Promise Academy is a college-wide academic program that provides students with weekly one-on-one coaching and highly structured academic support. Each student develops and adheres to a personalized academic success plan each semester with an academic success coach. Program requirements include weekly coaching, workshops, academic, transfer, and career advising, targeted academic support, participation in a Learning Success Cohort Community, and faculty feedback to track and improve students’ academic progress and timely completion of their program of study. Students work with the same academic success coach from entry until graduation and/or transfer. Students benefit from continuous assessment of their academic progress and monitoring of their financial aid status and registration. They also have access to financial and other resources to help overcome any obstacles to their academic success and timely degree completion.
For more information, visit the website at http://montgomerycollege.edu/atpa.
The Arts Institute promotes, enhances, and supports the broad range of arts programs at the College, including graphic design, dance, film, fine arts, illustration, music, photography, and theatre. With support from the Montgomery College Foundation and the College’s donors, the Arts Institute brings distinguished guest artists and arts activities to all three campuses for the benefit of students, faculty, staff, and the community.
Through its Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, the Willpower! Festival, the World Arts Festival, Gateway to the Arts, Artist Residencies and other programs that bring visiting artists to the College, students are given exceptional opportunities to work with and learn from distinguished professionals and scholars.
The Arts Institute enables internships at museums and art organizations so that students can discover additional career options in the arts and blend learning in the classroom with on-the-job experience. The Arts Institute Study Abroad program has taken arts students to study in Italy, China, and Cuba.
Working with the arts faculty and staff, the Arts Institute also develops collaborative projects with area arts organizations to enhance College and community programs in the arts.
For more information on the Arts Institute, visit artsinstitute.montgomerycollege.edu or e-mail email@example.com.
Cooperative Education & Internship Program
The Collegewide Cooperative Education (Co-op) & Internship Program is an academic course that places eligible students in full- or part-time jobs in their major. Students can earn up to three academic credits each semester (a maximum of six at the College) while participating in work experiences related to their major. Students can be paid by their employer or opt to work in volunteer positions. For both co-op and internship students, the program offers an opportunity to blend classroom learning with on-the-job experience.
To be eligible for co-op and internships, students must be enrolled at the College, must have completed 12 college credits (including two courses in the student’s major), and must have a minimum 2.0 grade point average. The Co-op & Internship Office is located on the Takoma Park/Silver Campus, but students from all campuses are encouraged to participate in the program. The director regularly visits the Germantown and Rockville campuses for orientation sessions and student meetings. For more information and applications, please call 240-567-1360 or visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/coop.
Developmental courses are offered for students who need to strengthen their academic foundations in English, reading, and mathematics in order to be successful in college-level courses. Students may be required to enroll in one or more developmental courses, based on their academic records, the results of assessment testing, or individual needs.
Depending on the placement of the student and the number of developmental courses taken, a student may enroll in additional courses for credit, if the assessment level for each course has been met. See the course descriptions in this catalog for assessment levels associated with each course. Students may enroll in developmental courses on either a part-time or full-time basis and are strongly advised to begin their developmental courses in their first semester. All developmental coursework must be completed before a student earns 24 credit hours. See Assessment Testing (Appropriate Course Placement) in the Admissions and Registration section of this catalog for more information.
English as a Second Language
English Language for Academic Purposes (ELAP)
The English Language for Academic Purposes (ELAP) program offers courses designed to increase the English language proficiency of non-native speakers of English so that they can succeed in their college work. The program includes two courses that focus on Writing and Grammar (ELAW 970 and ELAW 980 ), two courses that focus on Reading (ELAR 970 and ELAR 980 ), two courses that focus on Oral/Aural skills (ELAS 970 and ELAS 980 ), and one capstone Integrated Skills course (ELAI 990 ). It also offers an advanced Speaking and Listening course (ELAS 990 ), which is optional. Students placed in this program must pass or test out of ELAI 990 in order to take many of the courses that count towards a degree at Montgomery College.
Following admission to the College, students are tested to determine their current level of English proficiency, as required by College regulations. Non-native speakers may test out of one or more sequences or the entire program if their scores are sufficiently high. If they test out entirely, they will be eligible for ENGL 101 /ENGL 101A and will be able to enroll in transferable credit-level college courses. Students whose language test scores indicate that they are not ready for the College’s entry-level ELAP courses are referred to the Workforce Development & Continuing Education Division for classes in pre-academic English.
Students may enroll in the ELAP on a .fulltime or part-time basis on all three campuses. For assistance or additional information, contact the Office of the Dean of Student Services or the ELAP coordinator at the Germantown, Rockville, or Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus
Global Humanities Institute
The Global Humanities Institute is a global education project of Montgomery College, funded in part through a six-year “Bridging Cultures” challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities has identified global awareness and literacy as essential skills for the work and thinking our students will have to perform in the near future, thanks to the unprecedented interconnectedness of nations and cultures in the world today. The GHI answers this call by supporting the systematic integration of global perspectives and knowledge to humanities courses. We accomplish this through:
- Faculty training to enable revision of existing courses and creation of new learning communities.
- The creation of a new General Education course, “Introduction to Global Humanities,” offered on every campus. A faculty-created scholarship, ‘The Global Justice Fund,’ supports the study of global humanities for three students each year.
- College-wide community engagement and public education events delivered in collaboration. • With other programs within and entities beyond the College.
- Support of faculty summer research projects.
- Scholarly exchanges, webinar conferences, virtual expert speakers, sabbatical leave options, and grant-funded travel to our university partners in China, India, and El Salvador.
- The GHI supports interdisciplinary work among STEM and Humanities faculty and students through an annual STEAM event that examines teaching an issue of global concern, such as food and water.
- We bring the world into our classrooms through our Global Classrooms program that enables direct experiential learning through the virtual combination of classes at MC and at our international academic partners.
The GHI supports the global education efforts of other institutions through informal and formal mentorship, by sharing our work, resources and products through presentations at academic conferences, publication, and our comprehensive website, www.montgomerycollege.edu/globalhumanities. Join us as we work to meet the imperative goal of preparing students for a global future.
Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education
To meet the technical education and training needs of the workforce and the community, the Homer S. Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education (GITE) provides instructional programs in four primary areas: automotive technology; building and construction technology; electronic publishing; and workforce technologies, which includes computer repair, welding, lock-smithing, and machining. GITE offers both credit and noncredit courses taught via classroom and lab training, onsite or off-site customized contract training, apprenticeship training, and long or short-term training. For more information, please visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/departments/giterv.
Health Sciences Institute
The Health Sciences Institute was designed to meet the needs of health care providers in the metropolitan Washington area. It offers both noncredit and credit courses and programs of study in various health care careers. These courses and programs will provide individuals with workforce skills, certification in specific disciplines, and associate’s degrees in an array of health sciences. Customized courses and programs, training courses, seminars, and specialty workshops are available. Experienced faculty, from the College or from the local community of health care providers, participate to develop the workforce for the health care community. For more information, visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/healthsciences.
Hillman Entrepreneurs Program
The Hillman Entrepreneurs Program is a scholarship and educational program that supports, develops, and graduates ethical leaders who want to energize and give back to their local communities. The Hillman Program is open to all transferable majors starting at Montgomery College and finishing at the University of Maryland, College Park. Students receive a scholarship covering 66% of tuition plus books, mentoring, internships, and 3-credit courses that culminate in a minor in technology entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland and also participate in a strong cohort experience with other aspiring entrepreneurs.
Minimum requirements to apply include a base GPA of 2.5 or higher, completion of one transferable math course, and a total of 30 transferable credits by the enrollment date. Applicants must be pursuing their first bachelor’s degree that is available at the University of Maryland, College Park. Finally, they must be 1) Maryland residents and 2) U.S. citizens, students with permanent resident status, or students covered by the DREAM Act. To apply, students complete an online application form and submit one letter of recommendation. Selected students are then invited to an interview to determine their suitability for the program. A total of 30 students are accepted each year into this program. Applications are due May 1 for the following fall semester.
More information about this program and the application form can be found at http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/hillmanprogram.
Collegewide Honors Program
The College is committed to providing high-ability, motivated students with stimulating and challenging opportunities both inside and outside the classroom. Honors course offerings are varied and differ on each campus based on faculty interests and the number of students participating in the program. Honors offerings are listed in the class schedule by academic department and in the campus Honors Program section. Honors classes, indicated with an HC suffix, are honors sections of standard classes. Honors modules, indicated with an HM suffix, allow students to have an enriched honors experience while taking a standard class.
The Honors Program is collegewide and designed for the high-achieving student. The program requires that participating students complete a minimum of 15 honors credits distributed among at least three different disciplines (such as the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences) in a minimum of two semesters. In order to receive the Honors Program designation on their transcripts, students must maintain a minimum 3.2 grade point average (GPA) until they either graduate from the College or transfer to another institution.
Honors Program students receive special advising opportunities, including information about scholarships and transfer counseling. They can also participate in activities set up for honors students such as clubs, honors conferences, lectures and other events. A limited number of Honors Internships are available. These have a competitive application and may require GPA above the Honors Program minimum of 3.2.
Applicants must meet one of the following entry requirements: (1) SAT scores of 600 on each section and a minimum high school GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted), (2) eligibility for ENGL 102 as determined by the Montgomery College placement process and a minimum high school GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted), (3) completion of a minimum of 12 credits in transfer-level classes at Montgomery College with a minimum 3.2 GPA, including a grade of A or B in ENGL 101 or ENGL 101A .
Admission to the Honors Program requires a separate application process. Applications are available online at www.montgomerycollege.edu/advantage/honors and through the Admissions and Records Office and the honors coordinators at each campus. For more information, contact Dr. Lucy Laufe, Collegewide Honors Director and Chair, at firstname.lastname@example.org; Dr. Christina Devlin, Germantown Campus Honors Coordinator at email@example.com; or Professor Effie Siegel, Rockville Campus Honors Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Students who do not enroll in the Honors Program, but wish to take honors classes, must have a minimum 3.2 GPA and must have completed at least 12 credit hours of college-level coursework, including ENGL 101 or ENGL 101A with a grade of A or B. Exceptions to these requirements may be made on a case-by-case basis by the campus honors coordinator. Recent high school graduates may be admitted to honors courses based on evaluation of high school grade reports.
Students who have completed 12 credit hours of honors work by the end of the fall semester in at least two different disciplines, and who have maintained a 3.4 GPA or better, are eligible to be recognized as honors scholars at campus academic awards ceremonies in the spring semester. For more information about the Honors Scholars award, contact the campus honors coordinators.
Macklin Business Institute Scholars Program
The Gordon and Marilyn Macklin Business Institute Scholars Program is a competitive college-wide program offering business students an opportunity to participate in experiential learning initiatives, weekly seminars, and to pursue honors coursework in accounting, business administration, and economics. Students admitted to the midyear program or two-year program are offered a scholarship benefit that covers the in-county full-time cost of tuition and fees (up to 30 credit hours at the in-county rate per academic year, or 15 per semester).
To apply for the two-year program, students must be enrolled in their final year of high school and be on schedule to completed high school graduation requirements by the end of June, or must be returning Montgomery College students who will have fewer than 12 credits. MBI students are chosen on the basis of high school records, SAT scores, recommendations, essays, and interviews. The application process for the two-year program begins each year in September, with applications due in early January. Students are notified of their acceptance in March.
To apply for the mid-year program, students should be in the equivalent of their first semester (12 to 24 transferable credits) and be following an AA in Business degree program in preparation for transfer to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor’s degree. The application period for the mid-year program begins each year in October, with applications due in early December. Students are notified in early January of their acceptance for the spring semester.
Students are required to maintain 12 or more credits per semester during their participation in the program. For more information, please e-mail email@example.com, or visit the website at www.macklin.org.
Montgomery Scholars Program
The Montgomery Scholars Program, which opened on the Rockville Campus in fall 1999, is a selective-admissions program designed for high school graduates who plan to transfer to a four-year institution at the end of two years. Scholars are chosen on the basis of high school records, SAT scores, intellectual interests, extracurricular activities, recommendations, essays, and other indicators of academic excellence.
Montgomery Scholars participate in an academically rigorous curriculum of honors courses, including team-taught, interdisciplinary classes especially designed for the program. During the summer between their freshman and sophomore years, students have the opportunity to participate in a summer study travel experience. The capstone experience of the program is an honors colloquium. Students study and research an important issue related to their major and area of academic interest and present their research in a public colloquium. The Montgomery Scholars Program emphasizes the importance of expert counseling in helping students to plan their course of study and prepare their portfolios for transfer.
ENGL 202 HA & HB - Introduction to World Literature II (3)
HIST 117 HA & HB - World History: A Comparative Survey from A.D.1500 to the Present (3)
MUSC 117 HA & HB - World Music (3)
ENGL 102 HC - Critical Reading, Writing, and Research (3)
ANTH 201 HC - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (3)
PLUS COURSES FOR YOUR MAJOR
COMM 108 HC - Foundations of Human Communication (3)
HONR 280 HA & HB - Capstone: Research in Disciplines (3)
POLI 203 HA & HB - HC International Relations (3)
PLUS COURSES FOR YOUR MAJOR
For more information, contact Dr. Mary Furgol at firstname.lastname@example.org or visit the website www.montgomerycollege.edu/admissions/MCScholars.
Renaissance Scholars Honors Program at Germantown and Takoma Park/Silver Spring
The Renaissance Scholars Program is designed to accommodate the needs of both part-time and full-time high-achieving students interested in a challenging curriculum while they acquire courses needed for their associate’s degree and beyond. The core of the program consists of team-taught, interdisciplinary pairs of courses that are offered in the late afternoons, evenings, and on weekends.
In addition to stimulating coursework, students have the opportunity to participate in numerous social, cultural, and academic experiences outside of the classroom that help foster a learning community and enrich the students’ educational experiences. Students in this honors program receive scholarship support, special advising, and the opportunity to receive College credit for a study/travel
experience during the summer. Admission to this honors program is selective and requires a separate application process. Students are selected on the basis of a portfolio that includes an essay, a personal or professional résumé, and letters of recommendation.
For more information, contact Professor Joan Naake at the Germantown Campus at email@example.com, or Dr. Carole Wolin at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus at firstname.lastname@example.org, or visit the website www.montgomerycollege.edu/renscholars.
Information Technology Institute
In response to the need for skilled information technology workers, the College established the Information Technology Institute (ITI). ITI offers technology courses at all three College campuses as well as at off-campus centers in Gaithersburg and Wheaton. ITI also provides customized training at business sites throughout the region.
ITI is designed to prepare new workers and retrain existing workers to fill positions in Montgomery County’s high-technology market. Noncredit courses are available to meet a wide range of student needs and career goals. Courses are taught by knowledgeable practitioners in the field who bring their on-the-job expertise to the classroom.
The College is a member of the Microsoft IT Academy, through which ITI offers courses in the Microsoft Official Curriculum. The College is also a member of the Oracle Academic Initiative, the Oracle Workforce Development Program, and the Cisco Systems Networking Academy. Courses in these programs offer students the opportunity to prepare for industry certification examinations.
For more information on ITI, please e-mail email@example.com, or visit the website at www.montgomerycollege.edu/iti.
Study Abroad and International Education Program
The Study Abroad (STBR) and International Education Program (IEP) has been developed to bring a greater awareness of world cultures and global perspectives, as well as to augment academics and workforce development to the student body, college employees, and the community through study abroad, professional development, and service learning activities. These approaches cover three interrelated areas: culture, curriculum, and programs.
Culture: The international richness of Montgomery College’s enrollment enhances students understanding and appreciation of one another through daily contact. STBR and IEP further enrich the College and community population through special programs that include exhibitions, student scholars’ presentations, performances, lectures, films, discussions, and college employee professional development presentations.
Curriculum: The international studies concentration of the liberal arts and sciences curriculum was developed by the College’s faculty to allow students to explore careers in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), foreign service and international business, to name a few areas. In addition, many courses have an international focus that reflects the College’s emphasis on global issues. A study abroad component also accompanies various course offerings. Faculty who incorporate study abroad in existing courses are compensated for the additional component.
Programs: STBR and IEP offer long- and short-term study abroad opportunities. Students may select from a consortium of institutions in more than 26 countries to study abroad for a semester, a summer, or a year. These accredited academic institutions provide programs, courses, and room and board for students. To participate, students must have a 2.5 grade point average and at least 12 college-level credits. A semester of advance planning through the Office of Study Abroad and International Education is required before going abroad. In addition, to enhance student knowledge of the world, faculty members offer short-term study abroad related to the study areas of selected credit courses. Study groups have gone to Russia, China, England, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Senegal, Peru, India, Cuba, and Iceland, to name a few locations. Typically, two destinations are offered each academic year, and yearly brochures highlight courses with a study abroad component. Students who do not wish to take a 15-week credit course but who want to participate in the travel experience may do so through pre-departure classes in partnership with Workforce Development.
For more information, visit www.montgomerycollege.edu/studyabroad or contact Dr. Gregory Malveaux, coordinator, Study Abroad, at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Internships - See Cooperative Education & Internship Program
Information about internship opportunities is also available from Student Employment Services, the Career/Transfer Centers, academic departments, counselors, and advisers.
Montgomery County Public Schools
There are currently 31 academic initiatives in the MC and MCPS partnership designed to help prepare students for a smooth transition to postsecondary education. The Office of Concurrent Enrollment was created to better serve the full spectrum of student needs.
For more information, visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/departments/mcps.
Dual Enrollment is an Academic Initiative offered to advanced high school students admitted to Montgomery College (MC). Select students are enrolled in college credit courses while still attending high school, providing an educational experience beyond what is available at the secondary level. High school juniors and seniors who meet the College’s dual enrollment criteria may enhance their schedule with college course work and experience the independence of college-level study while also earning college credit. Financial incentives are available for qualifying students. For more information on the program visit www.montgomerycollege.edu/dep.
Middle College Program
The Middle College Program (MC2) is a Montgomery College (MC) and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) partnership program that provides high school students with the opportunity to earn credits toward an associate degree from MC, while simultaneously earning a high school diploma. Students are able to expand their course selections beyond the high school curriculum by taking college courses. Students who complete the program will earn an associate degree from MC. For some students, this may be the final step in their education, but for many, it will serve as a stepping stone to continue on to a four-year college degree, a full two years earlier than is traditional.
Career Programs of Study
Career Programs of Study are pre-college academic programs that focus on specific career pathways. Students in select programs who earn at least a “B” in college-level coursework at their high schools may earn college credits when they enroll at Montgomery College in a related program of study. This gives students a head start on college, and saves money because the credits earned in high school are free; there is no tuition charged, no book or lab costs, and no registration fees. Students in this program also gain hands-on skills that will allow them to make informed decisions about college majors and career choices. The following programs are available:
|Automotive Technology/Automotive Dealership
||Building Trades Technology
|Computer Science/and Technologies/Information Technology/Multimedia and Interactive Technologies
||Computer Science/Information Systems/Computer/Programming/Gaming/Web Development
||Architecture and Construction Technology
|Early Child Development
||Early Childhood Education Technology
|Justice, Law, and Society
|Network Operations/Computer Maintenance
||Network and Wireless Technologies
|Professional Restaurant Management
At Montgomery College, the career programs of study are facilitated through the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. For more information, visit www.montgomerycollege.edu/cte.
Universities at Shady Grove
A unique partnership with USG allows College students to earn bachelor’s degrees from University System of Maryland four-year institutions offering programs in Montgomery County. Students should complete an associate’s degree at the College and then complete the final two years of study of a bachelor’s degree at USG, conveniently located in Rockville.
The following institutions are currently involved in this partnership: Bowie State University (graduate level only); Salisbury University; Towson University; University of Baltimore; University of Maryland, Baltimore; UMBC; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; and University of Maryland University College.
Institutions in this partnership offer courses at USG that can be applied toward undergraduate degrees in the following areas:
- biological sciences,
- communication studies,
- computer and information science,
- computer networks and security,
- construction management technology,
- criminology and criminal justice,
- digital media and web technology,
- exercise science,
- health systems management
- hotel and restaurant management,
- human resources,
- investigative forensics,
- information systems management,
- laboratory management,
- management with a specialization in entrepreneurship,
- political science,
- public health science,
- public safety administration,
- simulation and digital entertainment, and
- social work.
Additional programs will be added in future semesters. Please consult USG’s website (www.shadygrove.umd.edu) for more information. The student’s diploma will be from the specific institution offering the degree program.
USG also offers graduate-level programs in a variety of areas, including biotechnology, business administration, cybersecurity, information technology, education, engineering, health care administration, industrial organizational psychology, management, nursing pharmacy, public administration, publications design, social work, and technology management. A variety of certificate programs are also available.
Due to the nature of the specialized programs and courses, students interested in transferring to USG must carefully plan their academic program at the College. For more information about degree programs and admission, contact an MC advisor; call USG at 301-738-6023; or visit www.shadygrove.umd.edu.
Montgomery County Collaboration Board
The MC Board of Trustees and the Montgomery County Board of Education seek the advice and counsel of residents of the community, employers, and educational representatives through the establishment of cluster advisory committees. Operating under the Montgomery County Collaboration Board (MCCB), these advisory committee members serve to advise, counsel, and assist in the planning, development, and evaluation of the MCPS and MC systems’ efforts in creating and maintaining a well-prepared, educated, and adaptable workforce to meet the current and future needs of employers through articulated programs in Montgomery County. The MCCB serves as a forum for critical stakeholders to engage in dialogue on the ways and means of providing cutting-edge education and training programs to the county’s secondary and postsecondary students.
While the MCCB is advisory in nature and is not charged with administrative, policy-making, or legislative responsibility, the members’ recommendations influence actions in providing rigorous and realistic preparation for students. The operations of the MCCB are divided among 11 Career Cluster Advisory Boards, each with its own workforce specialization.
Cluster Advisory Board specializations include the following areas:
- Arts, Humanities, Media, and Communication
- Biosciences, Health, and Medicine
- Business Management and Finance
- Construction and Development
- Education, Training, and Child Studies
- Engineering, Research, and Manufacturing
- Environmental, Agricultural, and National Resources
- Human and Consumer Services, Hospitality, and Tourism
- Information Technologies
- Law, Government, Public Safety, and Administration
- Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
The regular voting members of the overarching MCCB consist of an MCCB president, 11 Career Cluster Advisory Board presidents, and a student representative from both MCPS and MC.
At Montgomery College, the MCCB is facilitated through the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Paul Peck Humanities Institute
The Paul Peck Humanities Institute enriches the learning and teaching experiences of Montgomery College students and faculty, from all disciplines, through the humanities. The Institute reaches students in three ways: by offering humanities events that enable students on all three campuses to interact with speakers engaged in a wide variety of topics; by generating the Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program, in support of Montgomery College faculty who utilize the Smithsonian as a teaching resource; and by providing internship programs that diversify the learning opportunities of high-achieving students. The Paul Peck Humanities Institute generates various additional programs and collaborations designed to enrich the experience of learners at Montgomery College and in our wider communities. For more information, please visit the website www.montgomery college.edu/humanities, or contact email@example.com.
PPHI Humanities Internships - The Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Internship Programs: HONR 275PA, HONR 275PB, and HONR 275PG
The Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Internship Programs provide unique opportunities for Montgomery College students to experience the professional environment of world-class museum and library research activities. Samples of activities an intern may participate in include: assisting with new or ongoing research programs, performing collection analysis and organization, digitizing documents, abstracting and archiving academic materials, and planning new educational programs. Eligible students have completed 15 credit hours of coursework at Montgomery College, have earned a 3.4 overall grade point average, and will have completed ENGL 102 or ENGL 103 with grades of B or better prior to applying for the internship. Interested students should prepare themselves for this opportunity by taking General Education courses and earning high grades.
Students serve 240 hours at the internship site (typically 16 hours/week during fall or spring, and 20 hours per week during summer I and II). Students receive a scholarship of $1250 to cover the cost of the HONR275 course.
Potomac Review Internships HONR 275PF
Internships with the Potomac Review offer Montgomery College students the opportunity to be involved in all facets of magazine production, including decision making about layout, design, and the selection of submissions. Interns participate in local writing conferences and community events. Eligible Montgomery College students have completed one of the following creative writing courses with a grade of B or better: ENGL 264 , ENGL 265 , ENGL 272 , ENGL 273 , and HONR 251 CJ (Writing Your Novel). Other courses may be considered for eligibility.
Internship awards cover the cost of three in-county credit hours and are awarded pending available funding.
For more information, please visit www.montgomerycollege.edu/humanities, or contact Professor John Wang at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society
Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society for students at community colleges. The Beta Kappa Omega (Germantown), Beta Lambda Alpha (Rockville), and Kappa Omega (Takoma Park/Silver Spring) chapters were chartered at the College in 1960. To be considered for invitation to Phi Theta Kappa, a student must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5 for at least 15 credit hours of college-level coursework (excluding AELP/ELAP courses) at the College. A cumulative grade point average of 3.4 is required to maintain membership. Invitation to Phi Theta Kappa represents one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a student at the College.
For more information, please contact Michelle Prendergast (email@example.com) or Lucy Laufe (firstname.lastname@example.org) at the Germantown Campus, Sue Adler (email@example.com) or Brian Baick (firstname.lastname@example.org) at the Rockville Campus, and Satarupa Das (email@example.com) at the Takoma Park/ Silver Spring Campus.
School of Art + Design at Montgomery College
The School of Art + Design (SA+D) at Montgomery College provides students a portfolio-intensive, art school experience designed to prepare them for transfer to premier art colleges. This studio-intensive program is located at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus in The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center.
In the SA+D program, students can earn an associate of fine arts degree (AFA) with major concentrations in either studio art or graphic design . The AFA degree is designed as the first half of a four-year bachelor of fine arts (BFA) degree. Two-thirds of the required coursework is in studio art or graphic design and one-third is in general education courses. Coursework is designed to facilitate transfer to baccalaureate institutions and the application process for scholarships at those same institutions.
Prospective students must submit a portfolio of previous artwork, an SA+D application, official transcripts (high school or college) that reflect a 2.3 or better grade point average, and a letter of recommendation. Students must be accepted into the SA+D program prior to course registration. All students in SA+D are assigned a faculty mentor. Faculty mentors work individually with students to prepare them for the two required comprehensive portfolio reviews and the SA+D graduating student exhibition.
The studio-intensive curriculum, with a comprehensive program of co-curricular activities, continues the artists’ community environment that has been a tradition for over 50 years. For more information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org or visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/schoolofartanddesign.
Continuing Education/Workforce Development Program
The SA+D Continuing Education/Workforce Development Program provides quality noncredit courses in fine arts and visual communications for youth and adults in studio art, photography, and graphic design for print and web. The program provides opportunities for portfolio building, lifelong learning, personal enrichment, and professional skill development. Highly qualified instructors, well-equipped facilities, small class sizes, and convenient course schedules provide a creative, supportive environment for students at all levels.
SA+D is committed to collaborating with other community organizations and educational centers to provide learning venues outside the College campuses to meet art education and training needs throughout Montgomery County. For more information, e-mail email@example.com or visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/schoolofartanddesign.
SA+D Pre-College Portfolio Institute
Throughout the year, SA+D provides precollege portfolio development courses, including an intensive summer Pre-College Portfolio Institute. These programs are offered to high school juniors and seniors (sophomores accepted on a space-available basis) and adults to build artistic skills and develop a well-rounded portfolio for potential college admission and scholarship reviews. For more information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org or visit the website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/schoolofartanddesign.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program (WGSP) offers courses about women and gender for all students. The program is designed to explore the experiences and cultural contributions of women and those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community as well as examine the societal implications of gender. Informed by feminist, gender, and sexuality theory, the courses in the WGSP challenge false assumptions and theories about women, gender, sexuality, race, and class; encourage rigorous critical thinking; raise issues of gender bias and the subjective nature of knowledge; support students’ development as individuals and as participating members of their larger communities; and expand options for all beyond traditional gender roles. These writing-intensive courses help students consider the differences gender and sexuality make-in family relationships, friendships, education, and work. These classes are comfortable settings for delving into scholarship and theory.
In addition to the interdisciplinary introductory courses on women’s, gender, and LGBT studies, courses in the program include women’s history, philosophy, literature, sociology, psychology, physical education, and health. Honors modules are available for some classes. Opportunities to pursue independent study projects are also available. Service learning and Honors internships opportunities are frequently offered. Most courses fulfill General Education requirements in the humanities or behavioral and social sciences distribution areas as well as the College’s multicultural requirement.
A certificate in women’s studies can be earned by students who complete 18 or more credits in courses approved by the WGSP. These courses must include WMST 101 , Introduction to Women’s Studies. The WGSP also features speakers, seminars, and other programs, including active women’s studies student clubs. Student awards and scholarships are presented annually.
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Here’s the most creative smart-ish thing I’ve seen.
Security drones that are launched to investigate and document intrusions.
My favorite in this category is the Naran Prota Push microbot. As the company says, it’s a tiny robot finger. All it does is push a button on command. (Or pull one up if you stick Velcro on both parts.) but it’s a way of adding smarts to older devices without having to do any rewiring.
I have one on a small blender which has a button which is particularly hard to press for me (I’m quadriparetic) and another on the eject button on my very old DVD player, which didn’t have an automatic eject button at all.
They’re popular for people who have a fancy coffee maker that they just love that which needs a physical push to start.
They’re not cheap: about $240 for the starter set (bridge and three microbots), but they’re engineered well, have their own IFTTT service/channel, and solve a problem that can be very difficult to solve another Ways.
You might also take a look at the “impress your friends” project reports list in the community – created wiki. There’s a lot of very cool stuff there.
Prota went out of business for a while and was then acquired by a different small company and is trying to get started again. But at the present time, I no longer recommend that particular brand. There is an alternative, switchbot, which has an official smartthings integration and can do most of the same things, although it’s not quite as well engineered. But much cheaper, and can be bought on Amazon in both the US and the UK. Here’s my review on them:
I’ve been making that argument to the boss for years. No go, still doing it by hand.
I was joking with a friend about asking Alexa to wipe my butt. Just curious which bidet do you have?I think I have to have this capability.
There’s a block of wood that you can connect to the internet now.
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12.10.2020 Press release
Improved pre-disposal treatment of radioactive waste – an overarching EU project with high innovation targets
As society places higher emphasis on environmental stewardship and reduction of waste streams, it is also important that the nuclear community takes efficient management of waste streams as a top priority. In addition, as more legacy waste sites are being cleaned and the nuclear power plant fleet of Europe moves towards decommissioning, there are greater volumes of radioactive wastes to process prior to permanent geological disposal.
The project “PREDIS: Pre-Disposal Management of Radioactive Waste” develops and improves safer treatment and conditioning methodologies and processes for wastes, for which no adequate or industrially mature solutions are currently available. The project addresses innovation and break-through technologies for better handling of low-level and intermediate level radioactive wastes, with a focus on treatment of metallic materials, liquid organic waste and solid organic waste which can result from nuclear power plant operation, decommissioning and other industrial processes. The project also addresses digitalization solutions for improved safety and efficiency in handling and assessing cemented-waste packages in extended interim surface storage. An example of this is digital twins and the use of artificial intelligence for big data mining from non-destructive evaluation methods. Through all of these pre-disposal treatment activities, waste acceptance criteria are a critical parameter for optimizing the safe and efficient handling and minimisation of wastes over the whole life cycle, from cradle to grave.
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“This project aims at achieving what individual companies and countries cannot do alone, and bringing these solutions to a wider, pan-European audience”, says project Coordinator Maria Oksa of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. With 47 partners from 17 countries across Europe, the 4-year, 24 million euro project, which started 1 September 2020, should make great strides in the best practices and new technologies ready for global markets. Erika Holt, co-coordinator at VTT adds that “We strive to gather inputs from a wide range of actors who have needs for these technologies, are ready to be involved in our project demonstrations, and can later rapidly deploy the results.”
The PREDIS project will hold a public session open to all interested stakeholders on 21 October 2020 from 13-17.30 CET. Participation is free of charge and registration can be done via the project’s web page. Interested parties are also encouraged to sign-up via the project’s web page https://predis-h2020.eu/ for future event invites, including the periodic newsletter and upcoming free webinars on innovation in waste treatment.
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Overcoming the barriers
13 April 2022
If you’re in charge of public involvement, co production, or service user participation, hopefully you’ll be keen to make sure you talk to a wide range of people, including those who are from diverse communities.
Involving people from seldom heard and marginalised groups has never been easy, and whether you want to consult, involve, engage or co-produce with service users, recognising the barriers standing in the way, and being committed to tackling them, will help you to both engage more people and make the experience more positive for them, increasing the possibility of their participation in the future.
In this blog you’ll find some of the barriers and recommendations for overcoming them, taken from our user-led research in 2021 resulting in the report Tickboxes and Tokenism. At the end of this blog you’ll be able to download infographics and text only documents with the barriers and recommendations to use as a quick reference.
Barriers to involvement
Over half of our survey respondents said that they have had difficulty getting their access and support needs met. It’s important for organisations to be aware of the barriers experienced by the disabled community so that they can create fair, safe and supportive environments in which involvement, co-production and participation can take place.
A high number of people said they needed reasonable notice of events and opportunities, papers being provided in advance, an accessible venue, the event to be held remotely or remote attendance an option, transport expenses paid, and payments made for participation.
The timing of meetings was also important. Early morning meetings are inaccessible for some; daytime meetings can be inaccessible for those who work.
Our respondents commonly highlighted the following support needs which often go overlooked:
Providing accessible information
Captions/subtitles in presentations, easy to read colour in presentations, appropriate text size in documents using microphones, braille and audio assistance.
Facilitating physical attendance
Accessible venues, transport arrangements, realistic allowance of time spent including overnight stays and recovery time, rest and bathroom breaks and assistance with those, dietary requirements, negative impacts of sensory environment.
Understanding of other support needs
Recognition of neuro-diversity and hidden disabilities, time to prepare, time to express experiences without pressure, recognition of needs changing over time, understanding complex needs and multiple types of disability, awareness of disabilities that are not commonly recognised such as the inability to sit, psychological support (sharing stories and hearing those of others has an impact), non-judgement when hearing strong and informed views, recognition that people are further ‘disabled’ by social, economic, communication systems, consideration for carers.
Prompt payment of costs incurred, cost provision for carers and assistance, fair payment in exchange for expertise.
Many people report that complex and less obvious needs remain ‘unseen’ by some organisers, making involvement feel stressful and sometimes impossible. There were also reports of organisers having little awareness of how much planning, time, and energy it takes for people to attend involvement activities. Many people have experienced having to wait for expenses to be paid. The true costs of participation are also frequently underestimated. Organisers need to be aware that this causes financial hardship and can leave people unacceptably out of pocket.
One common response to what participants needed was hearing from the organisers the purpose of the work and how they will use the feedback. Many people said they needed to know that their involvement would make a difference. They want organisers to feed back to them the changes implemented as a result of the work.
When asked in the survey what might help people to take part in involvement activities many clear recommendations were made, including:
- Better advertisement of opportunities
- Realistic assessment of and payment of costs, expenses to be paid in advance or at least on time
- Flexibility by offering different formats, physical, online, phone, written, personal one to one interviews etc establishing what works for individuals
- Flexibility of meeting times
- Time for advanced planning
- Clarity about activities
- Clear and concise instructions
- Supporting and encouraging diversity
- Taking seriously the information shared so it doesn’t have to keep being repeated
- Make opportunities varied and interactive for participants
- Increased awareness of individual needs on the part of organisers
- Trust (knowing that the organisation is genuine and cares)
- Making time for personal stories in different formats (poetry, art, storytelling)
- Meaningful experiences, not tokenistic
- Acknowledging expertise by experience
- Open and welcoming entryways
- Don’t patronise or infantilize
- Recognising and supporting inconsistent levels of ability.
- Following up involvement with evidence that it has been taken seriously and implemented
- Feedback used for safeguarding rather than treated as ‘complaints’
- Relationship building between organisation and expert by experience
Download our infographic with these barriers as a handy reminder
Download a text only version of the barriers listed in the infographic as a quick reference – Word doc
Download our infographic with recommendations to make your involvement activities inclusive
Download a text only version of the recommendations as a quick reference – Word doc
For more information:
To read the full report, visit: Tickboxes and Tokenism? Service User Involvement Report 2022 – Shaping Our Lives
You may also find these resources useful:
Beyond the Usual Suspects Electronic Guide 2 Making Activities Accessible – Shaping Our Lives
Beyond the Usual Suspects Guide – Shaping Our Lives
Improving Understanding of Service User Involvement and Identity – A Guide for Service Providers and Practitioners
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Reprinted with permission from Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts.
The Shema proper is surrounded by three extended berakhot (blessings). (As a unit within the prayerbook, the whole structure of the Shema plus its blessings is itself called the Shema.) The three berakhot deal respectively with the themes of creation, revelation, and redemption; the Shema proper comes between the second and the third blessing.
To read the full text of the Shema and its blessings in English, click here.
Berakhah One: Creation
Berakhah Two: Revelation
Berakhah Three: Redemption
The sequence creation-revelation-redemption forms the essential theological drama of Judaism. There is a clear recapitulation here of the movement of sacred history as enacted in the Bible and interpreted by the rabbis: the formation of the world in Genesis, the giving of the Torah at Sinai in Exodus, and the messianic age-to-come as prefigured by the liberation from Egypt.
Yet history is only one level at which these prayers speak. Creation-revelation-redemption are presented not just as events located in the mythic past or the future, but also as processes ongoing within the life of the individual and the people. The first berakhah, for example, forcefully underscores this dimension when it declares that God “through His goodness daily renews the work of creation.” Lest we lapse into an alienated conception of an Aristotelian prime mover, the text insists that the God of Israel continues in His moment-to-moment authorship of our reality.
The berakhah on Creation is the longest, encompassing fragments of ancient poetic litanies and a depiction of the acclamations of the angelic choruses. It is also one of the places where the hand of the rabbis in shaping the liturgy out of biblical materials is most conspicuous. Take the opening statement of the berakhah:
“Praised be You, O Lord our God, King of the universe, Who forms light and creates darkness, Who makes peace and creates all things.”
Now take its source in Isaiah 45.7; God is the speaker:
“I form light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil.”
The rabbis have changed the Isaiah verse from the first person to the third and absorbed it into the berakhah formula. But they have gone further; they have done nothing less than tamper with the biblical text by emending evil into the euphemized all things. In truth, this is not a gross violation. By setting up a series of antitheses (light/darkness, peace/evil), Scripture intends to convey the sense that God is the source of all phenomena, from A toZ, so to speak. The rabbis’ “all things,” then, is not far off the mark. The change, however, is more than a helpful gloss. While they too believed that God was the author of bad things as well as good, after the catastrophes that had befallen the Jewish people, the rabbis felt that in the context of prayer it was appropriate to underscore God’s merciful nature. The berakhah on Creation was supposed to inspire awe of the glory and plenitude of the world. For the rabbis, “all things” told the truth, yet did not sound the minor chord of the original.
The shaping hand of the rabbis is also evident in the second berakhah of the Shema cycle, which begins, “With abounding love You have loved us, O Lord our God; with unshifting tenderness You have graced us,” and concludes, “Praised be You, O Lord our God, who chooses His people Israel in love” (p. 75). The choice in love is the covenant at Sinai described in Exodus 19-23: the singling out of Israel of all the nations to enjoy the intimate protection of God in exchange for adherence to the regime of divine commandments and obligations. Of the covenantal transaction, what the rabbis select for emphasis is neither the transcendent awesomeness of the event nor the difficulty of keeping its terms, but its basis in love: love expressed both in the choosing of Israel and in the granting of commandments, understood as opportunities for fulfilling His will.
If the primordial choosing of Israel is the historical event recalled in this prayer, the everyday experience described is the life of the Law, the living with and through the Torah. It is only through God’s continuous love in the present, acknowledges the one who prays, that a Jew succeeds in keeping this discipline, and in keeping it with passionate devotion. God grants enlightenment, understanding, and learning: He is also the source of the will to take the further crucial step, to break through from cognition to practice. And through practice to love: God’s love bestows the power to unify man’s heart so that one can “cleave to the commandments” and offer back to God the love one has received.
With the sounding of the theme of reciprocal love between man and God, the Shema proper is now recited. Why the Shema is lodged here between the second and third berakhot can now be understood. Again, the reason relates to the dual levels of event and process at which the service operates. In the succession of theological moments from creation to revelation to redemption, the Shema belongs to the second because it itself is the content of revelation. It is Torah: biblical text and not rabbinic prayer.
In their interpretation of the revelatory event at Sinai, the rabbis went a step further. They asserted that the assent given by the Israelites at that moment obligated all future generations, inasmuch as we were all present through our progenitors. Though we were pledged by that fateful “Yea!” we must nevertheless reconfirm the choice and make it our own. By reciting the Shema with passionate commitment, we make true the rabbinic doctrine: We stand again at Sinai and take upon ourselves the “yoke of the commandments.”
God is imaged as the creator of life and as the endower of life with meaning through the Torah. Now, in the third and final berakhah, God is presented as the protector of the community that keeps faith with the Torah (pp. 79-81). The immediate background is the recapitulation of the Covenant embodied in the second paragraph of the Shema proper. If Israel remains loyal to the oneness of God and to the way of life set down in the Torah, the Covenant stipulates, it will enjoy a special relationship to history. A small and vulnerable people, Israel cannot long survive within the power contests of the nations without the active protectorship of God. Whereas the previous berakhot stressed the divine attributes of mercy and love, the present context underscores power and force as the qualities displayed in the exercise of God’s faithfulness to Israel.
The great archetypal instance of divine intervention is the liberation from Egypt, and it is the recollection of that event that is the main subject of the prayer, “From Egypt You redeemed us, O Lord our God, and from the house of bondage you delivered us. Their first-born You slew, and Your first-born You redeemed. You split the Red Sea so that the beloved would pass through and the oppressors would drown; the waters engulfed them and not one was left.” Now the miracle at the sea was only one half of the Exodus event described in the Bible; it is completed by the great song of praise sung by Moses and the Israelites, which begins, “I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously” (Exod. 15). The liturgical evocation of the Exodus is similarly divided. Yet while the miracle at the sea is narrated like an event from the past, the Song at the Sea is not only narrated but, in part, sung as if it were taking place in the present. The worshiping congregation momentarily merges with the ancient chorus, acclaiming together the words of Exodus 15: “Who is like You, O Lord, among the mighty?” and “The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.”
This collapsing of past and present into a timeless moment of acclamation functions as a bridge to the final section of the prayer, which pushes the idea of timelessness into another dimension. The awareness of past redemption must of necessity coexist with the awareness of present redemption. The liberation from Egypt in rabbinic thought is a prefiguration of a deliverance to come at the end of history, when the subjugation to the nations will be broken and the exiles gathered into the land through the agency of the Messiah. This is no fantasy, but God’s recorded promise.By recalling the ancient redemption and resinging its hymn of praise, the pray-er reaffirms a belief not only in the future redemption but in the right to implore God to make good His pledge.
Pronounced: shuh-MAH or SHMAH, Alternate Spellings: Sh’ma, Shma, Origin: Hebrew, the central prayer of Judaism, proclaiming God is one.
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In a world where physical beauty matters, it s not surprising that more and more people look for products that would maintain or even enhance their beauty. One of the worst physical flaws people especially women consider is the occurrence of wrinkles and other visible signs of aging. And since they are more concerned about their physical appearances, women are more enthusiastic in trying different sorts anti-aging skin care treatments and products.
Although having oily skin will lessen the possibility of developing wrinkles and lines early in life, one will compensate by being prone to acne, pimples and all sorts of blemishes. This is because over-activity of the sebaceous glands make it more likely for the pores in the skin to get clogged. Clogging of pores with grime, dead skin cells and bacteria trapped inside, can result to swelling and red bumps.
Tips On Taking Care Of The Face What makes a beautiful face? Besides the almond eyes or doe eyes that most women salivate for; the luscious lips or the patrician nose, one should have flawless skin. This however is easier said than done. Although there are people who are gifted with the perfect skin, there are some, the majority in fact, who have to struggle everyday just to take care of their skin.
However often you cringe at hearing this advice will not change the fact that these two are the primary things that can help you save those skins from sagging. Eating fruits and vegetables especially those that are rich in Vitamin C and D will help in keeping the skin supple and moisturized. Foods with anti-oxidants are also helpful as this directly prevents oxidation. | <urn:uuid:55df2757-7d5a-4490-810f-fe36957fa3f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bizelion.net/skin_care_video/teenage_skincare_routine_okaysage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945682 | 499 | 2.234375 | 2 |
December 16, 2021, DALLAS – Uplift Education was granted $4 million over five years from the US Department of Education through the Education Innovation and Research competitive grant process. Uplift’s award is one of only ten, Early Phase Social Emotional Learning (SEL) awards made nationally and the only award in Dallas-Fort Worth. Uplift’s receipt of this award recognizes its innovative and industry-leading approaches to SEL and student well-being. Dr. Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, shared the importance of focusing on the social-emotional needs of our children, especially in K-12 education. "These grants will help to offer rich opportunities to accelerate students' learning and nurture their development,” said Secretary Cardona. “I look forward to seeing how Education Innovation and Research Grants help take promising practices to scale." The US Department of Education grant announcement comes on the heels of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s advisory calling for swift action to respond to a growing mental health crisis among youth that has worsened due to stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Uplift is currently the only public school system (traditional or charter) in the US to establish an Office of Well-Being and to elevate its head to the role of Chief. This department also encompasses Senior Directors of Well-Being; Directors of Counseling Services, Restorative Practices, Social Emotional Learning, School Nurses, School Counselors, Family Therapists, Well-Being Coaches, school SEL leads, Athletic Directors and Coaches, and Physical Education teachers. Across the country, schools are implementing various types of SEL programs to support students’ well-being. Uplift’s Path to Purpose project is designed to evaluate the efficacy of varying dosage levels of SEL, health, and mental health programming on student well-being, resiliency, and relationships in K-8 grades, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement and attainment in high-needs communities. The effects of this programming on students will be carefully monitored and evaluated through a gold-standard, random-control trial study. Dr. John Gasko, Chief Well-Being Officer at Uplift Education, will lead this project. “Uplift’s Path to Purpose project seeks to support students to find purpose and meaning amidst extreme uncertainty in their lives,” said Dr. Gasko. According to the American Psychological Association, by 2030 it is estimated that the greatest public health epidemic in America will be depression. The challenge will be especially acute for youth. Currently, the American Medical Association cites that, 70% of all primary care visits are stress-related. The pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues for school children and the adults that support those students in schools across the country. Cara Pennington, Manager of Social Counseling at Uplift Education, shares that the caseload of social counselors in Uplift’s network of 22,000 students are full of more extreme cases of depression and other mental health issues. Pennington personally supported a senior at an Uplift school who had to shift during the pandemic from being a full-time student to helping provide income for her family. Already struggling with depression, this student had to bear additional responsibilities at the height of COVID-19. Upon returning to school this year, she has struggled to shift back to her responsibilities of being a student and preparing for college applications. With the dedicated support of social counselors and teachers at her school, she has been rewarded with her first acceptance to college and can see her path forward. “For more than 25 years, we responded to a deep call to transform the lives of young people through academic excellence across one of America’s largest and neediest urban centers, “said Uplift CEO, Yasmin Bhatia. “Our service to a demographic whose complexion is fraught with risk and disadvantages has resulted in a commitment to achieve something uncommon on their behalf: the empowerment of rising generations who take their place in the world and transform it for the good. The need to serve them has not changed and Uplift continues to stay the course in pursuit of our vision and values.” Video Here: https://youtu.be/U8WQbGzGBdo Dr. John Gasko Bio: In the Fall of 2019, Dr. John Gasko was appointed Chief Well-Being Officer at Uplift Education. Under the umbrella of “The Well-Being Team,” he currently leads staff and student-facing work encompassing well-being, counseling services and prevention, health services, social and emotional learning, restorative practices, and physical education and athletics. In 2016, he was appointed Professor and Dean of Education at the University of North Texas at Dallas and eventually Special Advisor to the President. Earlier in his career, Dr. Gasko served as the Director of Research and Public Policy for the Children’s Defense Fund, worked alongside physicians, neuroscientists, and psychologists as Associate Division Chief of Developmental Pediatrics at the UT Health Science Center in Houston, and CEO and managing director of the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute.
Uplift Education is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the lives of teachers, families, and, most importantly, students. With a network of 45 college preparatory, public charter schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Uplift offers students of any background the powerful chance to study within a multidisciplinary curriculum and prepare for the college career they deserve. Uplift is the largest International Baccalaureate district in Texas and the #2 IB district in the nation because of the number of holistic extracurricular and educational programs. The incredible educators in the Uplift network guide and teach over 21,000 students in Pre-K- 12th grades, with the majority being low-income and minority students who will be the first in their family to attend college. For more information Uplift’s mission and their blind lottery selection system, visit uplifteducation.org or facebook.com/uplifteducation. | <urn:uuid:653faeba-e5e8-4dcc-a7b3-7a74e959d17d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.k12dive.com/press-release/20211216-uplift-education-has-earned-a-5-year-4-million-grant-from-the-us-departme/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956544 | 1,281 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Leni Kuhn, 5, leaps from her art table, races into the kitchen and presents a drawing to her mother, Hannah. The Crayola artist has drawn two stick figures — one tall, one small. Both have blonde hair, blue eyes and big smiles. Leni doesn’t title her piece. She doesn’t need to.
Last fall Leni, a kindergartner, was matched with Caroline Monchamp, an eighth-grader, as part of a buddy program at Carondolet Catholic School in Minneapolis. Throughout the year, poised and polite Caroline has joined spirited Leni for school activities, including concerts, sporting events, even the building of gingerbread houses.
Twice a month, Caroline sits with Leni at mass, to demonstrate how to behave. The two girls clicked immediately, and not just because they look like sisters.
“To be together,” Leni says, when asked what she likes best about Caroline. “To do whatever we do.”
Caroline feels like the lucky one.
“It’s amazing and so fun to learn about [kids] and be with them,” said Caroline. “Being with Leni not only taught me great responsibility, but how to react, how to help kids.”
Principal Sue Kerr likes to hear it. The kindergarten-8th-grade buddy program began “to keep those eighth-graders innocent, being the oldest kids in the school,” Kerr said. “For the little ones, it builds confidence.”
Many buddies keep in touch long after the school year ends. Some, like Leni and Caroline, find that school hours aren’t nearly enough to be together. Caroline now baby-sits for Leni and her two younger sisters, Polly and Addie.
On Halloween, Caroline waited for “Super Girl” to arrive to trick-or-treat before heading out with her own friends. At Christmas, the two exchanged Christmas gifts.
On a recent afternoon, Caroline has dropped by Leni’s house in St. Louis Park to color and play dress-up. Leni resembles more a spinning top than a child, so happy is she with her buddy’s arrival.
“She does not stop,” Caroline confirms. “One thing after another. My mom tells me that Leni reminds her of what I was like in kindergarten.”
Upstairs in a spacious playroom, Leni strokes Caroline’s long blonde hair, then runs off to gather an armful of books.
“Do you know I used to have these exact books?” Caroline says.
They read briefly before Leni decides to try her own hand at fiction-writing.
“There was a witch,” Leni dictates as Caroline writes. “She wanted to get through.”
“What did she want to get through?” Caroline asks.
“The gate!” Leni shouts.
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Meanwhile, the smaller varieties suppress weeds, providing a display of white flowers in early summer, followed by berries. To keep it tidy, prune bushes in late winter and trim hedges in late summer, using secateurs not a hedge trimmer, and dispose of the clippings, as laurel are poisonous.
Among the best types for tall hedges is the common laurel, P. laurocerasus, which will reach 4.5m (15ft) or more if left unchecked. Small white flowers appear in April followed by red berries in September which later turn to black. Other good varieties include P. lusitanica ‘Variegata’, which is a better choice for alkaline soil. | <urn:uuid:d20c9316-6324-46ab-b4a1-e95bffcc62e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/best-of-the-bunch-laurel-prunus-2314563 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.930039 | 150 | 2.203125 | 2 |
For the purpose of improving the defects of conventional friction welding method, new friction welding technology has been examined. That is, conventional friction welding can make only joint with round and relatively small cross section, and further it cannot obtain the joint of many combinations of dissimilar materials. New method has intermediate material for translational friction between joint specimens. After the intermediate material generates the friction heat, it is removed instantaneously and upset process begins to weld the specimens for joint. In this study, the experimental results for principal certification for this technology are reported. Several materials were examined for intermediate specimen and joints, in addition factors on the friction heat such as friction pressure and motion of the intermediate material were investigated.
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The Wooden Underground
I have a project coming up: a medicine cabinet for the “boys’ bathroom” in my 1940s era home. I sketched it up and refined the drawing, all the while thinking: “I should never have given away my stash of vertical grain Douglas fir — it would be perfect for this cabinet!”
Alas, when I moved from my huge woodshop a few years ago, getting rid of my extensive supply of lumber was a big task. At one point, I sent an email to my woodworking buddies and said, “At 10 a.m. Saturday morning, it’s first come first served — cool wood free for the taking!” I got rid of a lot of cool stuff … including Doug fir.
So, a week ago I went to work looking for some quartersawn fir and, in the middle of the search, much to my surprise and relief, one of my buddies who had picked up part of my stash told me to come over and just take what I needed.
Full circle in the underground world of cool-looking wood.
Rob Johnstone, Woodworker’s Journal
Dave Bossert has written a book about the specialty animation furniture 20th century designer Kem Weber created for Disney Studios.
New soft-cover book offers techniques, advice and plans for turning raw logs into rustic furniture, home accessories and more.
Rockler now offers even more ways to keep drawer contents organized and accessible using the Lock-Align component system.
The taped joints on my sanding belts seem to age and fail prematurely. Is there a special glue or tape that can fix them again?
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